Illinois State News highlights county crimes and accidents
A broad bulletin from various counties reports arrests in Quincy and Uniontown, a fatal assault at a singing school, drownings, fires, and accidental injuries. Notable items include McGinley and Borger’s deadly confrontation, a hog-knife incident at Stock Yards, a cheese factory fire near Oneida, gas striking near Champaign, and public notices from Paris and Danville jails set ablaze.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William
Turner
Stad
Ferink
Mala
Atreet
Quincy
Ferinkavs
Peters
Gray
Uniontown
Robert McGinley
New’ Neck
Cyrus
Borger
Woodville
Mount Vernon
Miss McGinley
McGlorey
Bonet
Woone
Charles Parent
George Allen
Champaign County
Champaign
C. M. Sherry
Chicago
Illinois Anti-Secret Society Association
J. B. Walker
J. B. Allen
J. W. Bain
F. B. Bascom
A. D. Freeman
E. D. Burch
J. R. Arnold
H. L. Kellogg
Cook County
Edgar Couunty
Paris
Ford County
Frank Hollister
Paxton
Glenthorpe area inmates and local incidents reported
Fragmented clipping reports unpaid wages for inmates, a fatal self harm case at Wallace House, and multiple local notes. It mentions Rockford dog dispute ending in injury, a Joliet gas tragedy suicide attempt, and a fortuitous but recent bigamy arrest. The piece references Winnebago and Linn counties with scattered names and places.
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Wui
Inssie Fonds Penitentiary
Tsylor
Joliet
Winnebago County
Rockford
Fred Richardson
Supposed Corpse Comes to Life After Three Days on Ice
A seven year old child of a Yonkers machinist lay ill when a physician presumed death after a severe illness. The body rested in an ice coffin for three days, but upon transfer to a casket signs of life appeared. Doctors found color change in nails and lack of rigor mortis, and restoratives were given. The child survived the freezing ordeal, though fate remains uncertain.
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Macoupin County
Hoxey & Spark
Aldd
Shaw
Carlinville
Bran Foyer
Mikdison County
Henry
Sterling
Weeny
B. Robbins
Jacksonville
Alhambra
Hoericht
frit’Linsly & Hoerfert
Alton
McHenry
Trowbridge
Syracuse
N. Y
West Point
Algonquin
MacLean
O. C. Sabru
Bloomington
Peter Margery
Weston
A. L. Bushnell
J. Luckins
John Shook
Normal
Allen
Morgan County
Jacob Yaples
Peoria
Huber
Platt County
Monticello
Pike County
Ben. Rieder
Randolph County
Chester
Jacob Brooker
Yonkers
Westchester County
Miller
Riverdale Avenue
New York Herald
Educational statistics in 1873 annual report highlights progress and state funding
The 1873 annual report by the United States Commissioner of Education notes overall progress in education, detailing varied fiscal and enrollment challenges across Alabama Arkansas Louisiana Florida Georgia South Carolina North Carolina Kentucky Virginia and other states with mentions of new superintendents and expanded school systems.
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Nemo
Delaware
Herstwo
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Reh Oiahyysi
New York
s + ee
Connecticut
Lictéense
DOC Buc
Talad
Rhode Island
Massachusetts
Maine
New Hampshire
Ermont
Ohble
Michigan
Ndiana
Allinos
Wisconsin
Citiea
Purpon
Minnesota
Iowa
Missouri
Kaneas
Hda
Schoo
SF Anddd
Nebraska
Nevada
Oregon
California
Alaska
District of Columbia
Utah
Colorado
New Mexico
Amasachusetts
Mfaseathusetts
Bor
Coloradoz
Montana
Iths
Libra
Thiem
Weboolk
Librarica
Endowrrontes
Paricienis
Collegas
New Jerusalem
Union
Sap Thoro
United States
Eillaren
Tee Ee
Reform Schools
United States Commissioner of Education
Alabama
Board of Education
Rec
Arkansas
Louisiana
Florida
Georgia
South Carolina
North Carolina
Kentucky
OSSCO
Virginia
Grindstone improvements and a Nathan Weston monument
An 19th century note explains a simple cog wheel modification to grindstones to keep them truly round by altering pressure distribution as the tool moves. It also describes a brick monument about ten feet tall built by the father of the late Trongershom Weston, with a tablet quoting a line about parts of one whole and the noble horse Noble Dick, born 1817, and commemorating its burial site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Comston
Allan Weston
Dixbury Maas
Tron
Gershom Weston
Posvder Pojat
Fragmented kitchen note on frying bacon with peppers
A garbled excerpt describes frying bacon with honey and peppered toppings, instructing to render fat, mix honey, fry slowly, then plate and cover with pickled peppers. The text is incomplete and hard to parse but centers on cooking steps and garnishes.
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Bureau ‘County
Lamoilletown
Cavs County
Richard Matthews
Arenzville
Franklin County
Greene County
Fair Board
Kane County
D. W. Scott
Charles Clark
Thos. Jordan
Aurora
Chas. Grougberg
Ile
Kankakee County
Kankakee
Bourbonnais
Knox County
A. J. Miller
Oneida
LaSalle County
la Balle
Board of
Haye
Basset
Ottawal
Ottawa
Patrick Cavanaugh
Chicago, Rock Island P Pacific
Logan County
Pekin, Lincoln & Decatur
Lincoln
John Smith
Hartsburg
Bock Indand
C. J. Westerdahl
Moline
Westerdahl
Sangamon County
Morris
Mechanicsburg
Polk
Auburn
J. N. Squier & Co
Pekin
Illinois River
Ito
James Tgia
Mosayank
Strick
Skeese
Rand
Jamon White
Lowell
Maya
Educational Statistics
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