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Newspaper
Galena Tribune
Location
Galena, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1906
Page
6
Oil flows at Sand Prairie near Hanover after two months of drilling. Promoters endured doubts as water hindered earlier, but a strong flow began Saturday night. An east expert will test the oil to gauge quantity and quality, with prospects of new drilling and possible regional oil industry growth.
Elizabeth correspondent reports the Skene mine is not closing. New machinery is in place and drillers are at work locating jack veins as deeper tapping of zinc bodies is planned.
Reports say a Friday night strike on the DeSoto Lead and Zinc Mining property yielded lead ore better than any prior find. Baptists from northern Illinois attend Dixon Baptist Association meetings in Savanna at the First Baptist Church auditorium with strong local interest.
Harry Light, who bought a horse, caused the arrest of man named Dunbar last week on fraud charges in selling a horse. Light alleges the horse was shot to hide heaves as part of a selling scheme. Dunbar bound over $300 bail. Platteville Witness.
A man, unnamed, was seriously injured when he leapt from a moving freight train in Illinois Central yards near the depot Sunday night. He recovered after treatment for head and shoulder injuries and said he traveled from Chicago to work at the local iron works. He was not a fare paying passenger, but a hitchhiker beating his way on the train.
The paving contract for Franklin street was let Saturday night by the mayor and street committee to John Bastian for $1.60 per yard to be finished in twenty days after signing. A curb contract was awarded to Walter Slattery at 20 cents per foot where a concrete sidewalk exists and 30 cents per foot where none is laid.
Mr and Mrs A Dockstader, famed aerial artists formerly of this city, traveled via Illinois Central and Northwestern to Cuba City where Mrs Dockstader conducted a balloon ascent on the Fourth. She once lived here and is noted for prior ascensions at the county fair and other local attractions.
Fred Harding, arrested in Dubuque on burglary charges and moved to the county jail, is denied bail. The 60 plus year old man is described as despondent with a long criminal record and alleged thefts in multiple places including a gold ablution cup from Sisters of St. Mary’s school and a suit of clothes from a boarding house on Eighteenth Street. authorities expect a term after a pending November grand jury.
A Harlem manuscript recounts a Bible penned by Peter Bules, a chancery clerk, in such a small book that it could fit inside an English walnut shell. The piece ties this feat to ancient marvels like a fly sized chariot and a nutshell Homeric text.
A New York Presa note recounts a woman requesting slippers of flowered satin and the clerk explaining glove use. Workmen making light colored slippers wear white gloves, changing them up to three times daily to keep material clean and protect costs.
In New York a club plots a staged love match using forged portraits by Edwin Larned. Hyland and Prindle craft a scheme with the artist to pair their children Lucy Prindle and Henry Hyland, feeding living images to resemble the dead lovers. The plan succeeds and the couple wed, with the fathers rewarding Larned with $10,000 each.
A man bent on self-destruction by the river cannot compose a final message to his wife and instead mentions butter from a grocery. The incident illustrates how in supreme moments trivial thoughts surface, a paradox realists note in human psychology.
Chicago based Chamberlain Co. photographers supplies manufacturers seek a new location after a Chicago fire destroyed their plant on June 27. employing 100 to 200 workers with annual payroll around 50000. city sights Hubbard furniture factory as a suitable site and awaits a definite decision within hours.
The Joplin Separator company near the city maintains a full crew around the clock and handles a large amount of ore. A good ore yield is reported nationwide and the separator is kept operating steadily. Officials foresee a possible increase in the workforce soon.
H. 8 Snow, a noted ore buyer from Mineral Point, Wisconsin, will relocate his family to Galena in August and reside in the A. W. Glessner home on the east side as Mr. Glessner moves to Chicago. In Berreman on June 20, 1906, Harriet Bima Robinson wed Charles W. Wybourn of Lena. Wilbur Virtue is ill. Dr. Godfrey of Galena was summoned for treatment.
Public notice of a chancery sale by Master in Chancery David B. Blewett following a 1906 decree. The sale on August 1 at 10 a.m. at the Ga lena court front door covers a described tract in Jo Daviess County to satisfy the decree. The case involves Alice Ennor versus Adam J Heckelsmiller and Elizabeth Heckelsmiller.
Properties described by detailed chain measurements and compass bearings totaling 48.391 acres in Jo Daviess County Illinois are offered for sale cash in hand. The sale is conducted by Master in Chancery David B. Blewett with Hodson and Campbell as solicitors. The process is dated July 2 1906 in Galena Illinois.
Public notice of a Master in Chancery sale in Jo Daviess County Illinois to satisfy a 1906 decree. The west half of the southeast quarter of section 15 and parts of section 22 totaling about 104.69 acres plus a spring easement are offered at public vendue at the Galena court house on August 1 1906. Terms are cash in hand.
John Cabot born in Italy and Sebastian Cabot his son were early English explorers. They sailed from Bristol in 1497 reaching a coast they thought Chinese. Sebastian carried on in search of the northwest passage and made key discoveries in Newfoundland before serving Spain and dying in England at about 80.
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