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Illinois News Briefs Highlight Mining Deals and Public Works
Illinois reports include Levi Leiter & Co buying 7000 acres of coal land in southern Illinois with $250,000+ from Central Trust to Benton. a Burlington train robbery case expanded with four suspects jailed in Marcus, Indiana. Carnegie offer to fund a Tremont library building in Litchfield. and a large Green River bottom drainage project near Harrisburg completing 200,000 acres of reclaimed land.
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Illinois News
Mason
Mills
Adame
Foua
Levi
Laiter
Chicago
Leiter & bin
Wheat Cover Fame
Illiois
Central Truat Co
Benton
Franklin County
Toud
Fair Play
Alx
Marcus
Inl
Burlington
Lane
Abingdon Bank
Quincy
Saurday
Litchfield
James Bertini
Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie
Murphysboro Township
John A. Logan
Logan
Murphysboro
Highteenth Street
Harrisburg
SN. W
Ferguson
Illinois
Saline County
United States
Green River Bottom
Lee, Whiteside
Bureau ‘Sr
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