Illinois Rival Standard Oil plans stock increase and sale
Illinois news reports Standard Oil of Illinois boosting capital stock to 1 million dollars and arranging to offer competition to the trust. Maywood Maxon, long tied to the oil trust, leads the company as it seeks franchises and faces opposition from eastern capitalists and Rockefeller interests.
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Concer
Il Company of
Illinois
Standard 0
Prann
Qi Trust
Latimw
Conuntry
Maywood Maxon
Opporation
Oll Trust
Hlinais
Sgetbods
Ktockefeller
Consel
Garfield
Stamdard Oile
Kentucky
Rokefeller
Ailthree Ciliex
Owen Fattsevme Montis
Dixon Cone
Orerat
Mayesoma
Peris Hank of Itlook Dark Details of Failure and Depositors’ Hopes
Disputed bank collapse raises questions as depositors demand action.Justice Rapp bound over Pekin partners Conrad Lappen and Henry Blok Hoe Velde to grand jury with $25,000 bond. Creditors claim $60,000 deficit and threaten further warrants if assets or bonds do not resolve the shortfall.
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Perm
Pasar
Soraf Oe
Mos
Pekin
Conrad Lappen
Smith
Henry Blok
Henry Blok Hoe Velde
Bof Unland
Grand
Justice Rapp
Pek
Peking
Galesburg Council Probes Gas Franchise Validity
The Galesburg city council forms a committee to determine if the McKinley syndicate’s old gas company still holds a street franchise dating from 1861. The panel will assess whether pipes traverse streets beyond an alleged 1886 expiry as part of cheaper gas advocacy.
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Galesburg ‘Hy Council
Tor
McKinley Syndicate
Gaa Smpan
Jerseyville Girl Elopes to Oklahoma
A quiet elopement reported from Jerseyville involved Odis Adams and Miss Polly Trotter who married in Oklahoma City. Adams, son of Mrs. Ollie G. Adams, had left town a month earlier to seek work in the railroad industry, causing surprise among local residents.
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Jerseyville
Oklahoma
Okis
Eheyville
Odis Adams
Ollie G. Adams
Jerville
Sinesa
Oklahoma City
Okla
Polly ‘Trotter
D. Q. Trotter
Seyville
Arrest of Wild Man Valerio After Lasso Capture
George Valerio, a 30 year old saloonkeeper, terrorized a 100 strong posse by brandishing six knives. He raced to his brother Charles’s Torino home, climbed a water pipe, and broke in via a second story window. Wounding his brother, he fled but was later captured when a cowboy used a lasso to drag him to the ground and disarm him. He now lies bound and suffering in mud awaiting sanity. Valerio, previously naked and filthy, had two children and is likely to recover.
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George Valerio
Valerio
Charles
Torino
Jad
Oracher
Hag Vob
Tornado Rips St Jacob German Lutheran Church
A tornado struck St Jacob in Madison County during Palm Sunday services, tearing the brick German Lutheran church from its foundation. Pastor P Myers halted worship as the storm neared. none of the congregation was harmed though many women fainted. Geo riger’s barn was lifted, and two freight cars were blown into a creek.
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Madison County
St. Jacob
St Jacob
P. Myers
Aricken
Georiger
Trustees at Kankakee Insane Hospital Abolish Attendant Service
The Kankakee Insane Hospital trustees voted to abolish the special attendant service. Ten men and five women were affected as attendants are replaced by relatives who board and wash for patients. Several medical staff and clerical members were discharged.
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Chicago
Kankakee Insane Hospital
Bo B. Soony
Jo MM Jones
Milford
Leche
Francs Walls
Chicago Heights
Edward Joinberg
Aged Wan Heir to Half of Miss Murdock Estate
Benjamin F. Ellis of Peoria aged 80 is declared heir to one half of the $600,000 estate of Miss Susan Ellis Murdock of Carver Massachusetts after a three year contest. The other heir is Mrs Louisa Jane Ellis Pratt of Sharon Massachusetts. Miss Murdock died in 1902 at age 90 leaving stocks and bonds found in her effects. An old envelope bearing his name led to the discovery that Ellis is her first cousin and the sole other heir. The case ended in the Massachusetts courts with Ellis and Pratt as co heirs.
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Reever
FF Berry
Iie National Bank
Frvin Schenehly
Noe Dougierson
Bseharg
Mamera
Bank of Bet Oi
Funk
Drews
Poynar
Makkelson
Cape Mikkel
PJ Daley
Indiana Avenue
Wabash Avenue
Adams Street
Chicago
Wooelles
Pullman Company
J KE. Taimagno
Daley
William Murphy
Lillian Houck
Bishop Street
Washington Boulevard
Murphy
Sullivan
Lake Street
Justice Dooley
Vespasian Warner
United States Commissioner of Pensions
Asult
de Witt
Isabella Warner
John Warner
Warner
le Witt
Beach Comber
Compton
Sarah Hornthel
Lake Front
Benjamin F. Ellis
Peoria
Massachusetts
Susan Ellis Murdock
Carver
Mass
Ellis
Louisa Jane Ellis Pratt
Sharon
Miss Murdock
Misa Murdock
Ill
North Avenue
High School Raid Over Ice Cream Banquet
In Jacksonville, fifteen senior boys raided Superintendent Furrs home stealing refreshments for the junior banquet. Three were captured after a chase. a warrant followed, but the culprits were released after one pleaded for mercy. The junior event continued.
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Jacksonville
Jacksonville High School
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Predia
Rene
Iminoin
Conference of Charities and Correction
Deneen
National Conference of Charities and Corrections
Philadelphia
W. W. Carnes
Charles ‘I’. Giarrard
Julia C. Lathrop
Jane Addams
W. C. Graves
Daniel R. Brower
K. P. Bicknell
Harriet Fulmer
Emil G. Hivech
C. R. Wenderson
George W. Webster
S. (. Kingsley
Harles P. Gillett
J H. Freeman
H. B. Carrier
Frank P. Norbury
J. C. Corbus
Kankakee
W. L. Alton
Rona
W. E. Taylor
Watertown
George A. Zeller
Bartonville
W. B. Onger
Chester
J. T. McAnally
Aorbandale
E. J. James
Urbana
BOS
John Patterson
Flarrison Street
Edward Phickart
Patterson
Roth
Ban Croer
Eta Doy
Gatesburg
Rts
Faomieli
Danvers
National Association of
ER Dyer
Aurora
St Viateur’s College
Ageregaling
Bourhonnais Grove
Ety
Illivots
Peris
Galesburg
Serseyville
Miss Trotter
Nsane Hospital
Wan
Geneseo
Cot Price Clothing Company
Blackiston Block
Geneseo, Ill
Eneseu
Cut Price Clothing Co
Cul Price Clothing Company
Geneseo Savings Bank
Tliinois
Crene
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