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Newspaper
Geneseo Republic
Location
Geneseo, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1902
Page
7
The Denver News urges readers to tell a brother or friend kind words for a departed sister, noting praise may comfort the living and honor the soul. It emphasizes heartfelt, timely compliments and reflections on mercy and spirit.
The story follows Jim Mitchell's secret marriage to Alice Morris, opposed by Abel, Jim's father, who writes a will and plans to disinherit. Alice confronts Abel with courage, exposing pride and reminding him of love and duty as tensions resolve and a reunion is planned.
Reports from R G Dan Co indicate continued favorable corn progress and good winter wheat yields, with Nebraska spring wheat being cut. Texas floods threaten cotton, Southwest yields look strong. Atlantic states need rain, hay is delayed, oats show promise, New York blight affects potatoes, apples poor, hops poor. Tobacco smoke may help prevent some diseases per J Damon study.
Census Bureau report shows $3,071,741 invested in fifty five establishments producing pens and pencils in the United States for 1900. Product value reached $4,222,149 with wages $1,102,405 and materials, mill supplies, freight and fuel $1,852, including other costs. A separate item notes Joseph L. Baker, 45, of Central City, died after falling rock in a costume at Centralia, Illinois.
The Illinois River surges higher than ever for the season flooding thousands of acres of corn wheat and oats. Levees on the Sangamon and Illinois rivers above Beardstown fail under pressure while Christie and Lowe levees hold. Losses mount for renters as stock and crops drown and families flee to hills amid dammed flows blamed on state and federal structures.
Geological survey data show Illinois remains the second largest coal producer in the United States for last year with 27,291,831 long tons mined valued at $28,359,205. Sangamon County led Illinois with 3,333,469 tons. other counties follow. National totals show 292,240,738 short tons, with Pennsylvania first and West Virginia a close runner up.
Illinois topped world broom corn output in 1899, furnishing 66.7 percent of U.S. supplies and nearly doubling 1889 national production. The state grew 95,187 acres and yielded 60,665,520 pounds valued at 60, or about four cents per pound. Coles county led with 24,000 acres and 23,948,030 pounds.
In a Des Plaines camp meeting incident 16 year old David Lundgren drowned while bathing in full view of returning worshippers. Albert Anderson, who had been with him, barely escaped drowning as the two were swept apart and disappeared. A large rescue effort the next day failed to recover the body. Across Lake in an Open Boat to New York Two Chicago youths make a 1200 mile voyage in a 13 foot canoe weighing 35 pounds. Earl Parsons and James Wallace plan to paddle to New York via the Fawn and Maumee Rivers Lake Erie Erie Canal and the Hudson River averaging twenty miles daily.
De Kalb files a petition with over 4 400 signatures asking the county court to order an election on moving the courthouse from Sycamore to De Kalb. Only 3 250 signatures were needed, and Sycamore residents have 40 days to pull 1 200 to 1 300 names from the petition to prevent the vote. If insufficient withdrawal occurs, the county seat dispute goes to a vote.
Edward and William Knickerbocker aged 77, oldest twins in Aurora, celebrated with their brother Hiram 86. The three brothers total 240 years, with Hiram mowing, the twins digging potatoes, all in good health at their Aurora home.
State Treasurer Williamson reports as of July 1 the treasury held 2,920,596 dollars with 2,237,793 in the revenue fund and 682,893 in the school fund. June receipts totaled 1,098,104 with allocations to revenue, school, and local bond funds and expenditures of 239,831.89 across funds. Jasper Abbott killed Samuel Faughn at Metropolis during a street fair after Faughn confronted him about remarks to women.
About twelve hundred people, mostly from Chicago, join the fourteenth annual pilgrimage to the shrine of St. Anne in the village of St. Anne. The relic bone from the Virgin Anne, brought from Rome by Monsignor Marquis, is the focal point of veneration believed to ease temporal and spiritual ills.
During an electrical storm near Plainfield, twenty eight head of cattle owned by the George brothers were killed by lightning. The animals were in a wooded pasture one and a half miles south of town near a wire fence. A nearby walnut tree showed evidence of a heavy strike.
State board of health amends rules for transporting the dead. Dead from yellow fever may be shipped between December and April if embalmed by a State certified embalmer. Transportation of contagious corpses now requires thorough disinfection before shipment. Henry Bargman dies after contacting a live wire at Chester Light, Water and Ice Co. Journeymen barbers in Springfield form Illinois State Barbers Association seeking a state board of examiners and mandatory licensing. Robert Bubley and John Brown fight in Riverton, Bubley stabs Brown twice.
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