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Newspaper
Geneseo Republic
Location
Geneseo, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1902
Page
6
A frostbound December journey brings Hugh Carrington back to Deer Hill and Chinquapin plantations. He confronts debt, family legacy, and a long-cherished romance with Nannie Tazewell, ending with a reconciliation and a promise to stay.
The Pan Management has quietly acquired 25 000 acres of rich coal lands in Putnam La Salle Bureau and Hennepin counties near La Salle in the La Salle coal district. The group spent about 2 000 000 dollars for the holdings and holds options on more. The aim is to supply fuel for the St Paul western permanently with no plan to enter the coal business.
The State Board of Equalization reports a state total assessment of 921,752,800 dollars with a net rise of 229,816,271 from 1901. Cook County adds 23,830,033. Kankakee 1,418,844. Perry 467,540. Lake 407,040. Seventy-three counties rise while twenty-nine fall. Will sees a drop of 782,360 and La Salle declines 378,181.
A Joliet to Morris and De Kalb line and another Joliet to Morris Aurora Sandwich Plano Newark route are proposed. The Joliet and Western Railway Company files a $10,000,000 trust deed with Royal Trust Company to secure fifty year 5 percent gold bonds. Directors include W R K Newton E H Young Yorkville J Young Bristol 8 E Overhiser and J J Reagan. Office in Chicago.
At the first convocation of the year University of Minos President Draper announced that total registration climbed to 8 300 a gain of over 25 percent. Trustees seek an assembly hall from the Legislature as the current one cannot hold the student body. The university farm will move to a site one mile south of the south campus prompting a campus transformation. Attendance at the convocation was very large.
Ward East aged 13 receives a telegraph operator competency certificate from Illinois Central officials in Carbondale. He is the youngest operator on the Illinois Central system and assists his father J Leonard East at Coulterville in handling messages while attending high school.
Wakkegan woman Hux Charlinda Decker sues in El Paso District Court claiming to be a child of Thomas H. Burnham by a former marriage and heir to his estate. Defendants include Franklin J Burnham of Florissant Colorado Frederick R Burnham of San Diego and Evelyn F Burnham of Franklin Falls NH. Judge William C Robinson administrator is named as a party. He died in 1896. Other heirs deny knowledge of the plaintiff. Sensational developments are expected.
Grand jury in Carbondale indicts Walter W. Cowger drainage commissioner for Mountain Bluff district as accomplice in the August 7 murder of William H. Riley. Cowger arrested after preliminary hearing. prosecution says damaging evidence supports the charge.
Peoria Circuit Court Judge Puterbaugh instructed the jury to find Dr J W Parker not guilty of murder in the trial over the death of Miss Nelson Cattierham of Tremont. Dr Parker and Dr R G Allen faced charges, but Parker was acquitted on a defense motion alleging insufficient state proof.
Three prisoners escaped Murphysboro county jail led by William Perkins alias Little Shank James and Harry Green. Perkins and Hagar were captured after a lively chase. Green remains at large. Also reports list injuries to a candidate and a Aurora labor dispute as unrelated items.
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