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Toluca notes and Illinois news items in brief
A Toluca merchant decamps with many bills. a new Toluca Catholic church to cost 12000 includes steam heat. Chester penitentiary reports 776 inmates, the largest ever. Lincoln and Metamora mentions. Lewistown hints at Cuba as county seat. Weir Plow works fire at Monmouth. Wenona lights ideas expand to churches. Beards town cooperative store closes after theft. Illinois hospital for insane to be at Watertown Rock Island. Chicago post office vast. football at Hedding College denounced by President Evan. Bloomington Leader praises Central Illinois newspapers for strong local coverage.
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Toluca
Ilinois
Southern Illinois Penitentiary
Chester
Timothy Helcomb
Baylis
Anthony Burch
Lewistown
Cuba
Canton
Lewiston
Chicago
Chicago & Alton Road
F. Scott Alias
Curtis
Iowa
Mae Smith
Lacon
Allen
Joliet
Beardstown
Watertown
Rock Island
Wenona
Presbyterian
Methodist
Weir Plow Company
Monmouth
Kingman & Co
Rushville Republican
Warsaw Bulletin
George O. Barnes
Lacon Democrat
Jerseyville Democrat
Altgeld
Industrial School For Girls
Evanston
Judge Carter
Bunker Hill
Abraham Lincoln
Marshall County
Bro Taylor
Woodford County
Metamora
Lincoln
Douglas
Streator Monitor
New York
United States
Evan
Hedding College
Abingdon
England
Hennepin
Bureau County
Chicago & Illinois Bridge Co
Bureau
Pike
Princeton News
Bloomington Leader
Central Illinois
Leader
Eivery County