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District notes and town happenings in Illinois
A digest of local items from Illinois towns. G.A.R. encampment dates in Quincy. Peoria baseball prospects. Burgess Bros import 28 Shire horses. Elgin gasoline dealer Hammel missing. Knox County to build a fireproof insane department at the alms house costing 25000. Mining and farming notes. jail escape recaptured. deaths and obituaries. bank directors and stockholders. rail traffic and fires. medical notices and health remedies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quincy
Peoria
Burgess Bros
England
Charles Hammel
Elgin
Knox County
Alms House
Fifer
Elisha Beadle
Kewanee
Sth
Taylor
Farmers Institute
State Board of Agriculture
el Paso
Henry McCormick
Hennepin
Illinoia
Andreas
Samuel H. Taggart
Lacon
Bradford
Bro Blaisdell
Phim
Nancy Dever
Fred Odell
LaPrairie
Wesley Odell
Dunkard
E. T. Gillette
Chicago
Springfield
B. W. Rokker
Springfeld
Gillett
Eureka College
A. R. of
H. J. DePue
Wm O'Leary
Horace Burlingame
Vanduezen
E H. Gale Q. M
Henry Rowley
Geo Zimmerman
Jas Basfield
O. G. Mary Katus
Coe
Marshall County
LaSalle Dem
A. J. Pichereau
Lawn Ridge Grange
W.M
Owen Hurd
Morris Perkins
Joe Stowell
Clara Locke
Treas
J. W. Green
Armstrong
Grange
Miner I. Ames
Bright
Hoe
Minoak
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company