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Illinois Old Civil War Claims Settled In Full
Illinois will receive 22,005,000 from the U.S. in full settlement of old Civil War claims. The Kunkle farm in Richland township was sold at master's sale to Conrad Held for 390.50. A jail and public notices mention a hospital appointment, a deputy coroner in Marshall county, and local politics and crime, including jury bribery trials in Chicago and a dynamited parochial residence in Spring Valley.
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Lorenzo D. Vandusen
Bacon
Illinois
United States
Kunkle
Suscres
Richland
Conrad Held
Absolom Jones
Chillicothe
Marshall Ceputy Board of Review
Lacon
E. P. Harney
Momence
Kankakee County
IK. P
Big Broad
Yatea
W.E. Taylor
Hospital For
Watertown
Bartonville
George Zeller
Philipspires
Illiois
Streator Free Press
Geneseo News
Henry L. Kiner
Ti Tor
Avent
Kiner
Post Office Department
Bradford
Stark County
Isaac C. Edwards
Republican State Central Committee
Peoria
Marshall County
Court House
Wenona
Timothy
Hunt
Frank P. Hunt
George Strawn
Wagoner
Indian Territory
Lewiston
Tovai
Henry City
Kaemir Abrosaltis
St Ann’s Catholic Church
Spring Valley
Altho
Hawes Judd
Ashley Judd
Travis Davis
R. H. Maxwell
Colby University
W W. Stetson
Dr Stetson
Roc Island
Joliet
Board of Education
The
la Salle High School
Margaret Duncan
Charles Wells
OP. Carroll
Putnam
Hennepin
L. F. Boyle