Illinois Rural News Recap of Crime, Trials, and Local Industry
Illinois brief reports include a Pecatonica farmer and his son robbed by highwaymen leaving one man dying from a concussion, a Shelbyville farmer driven mad with seven year gaps between attacks, a Rockford man faces eye injury from an explosion, and a Durand youth loses an arm after a hunting accident. Other items note a Can ada land dispute worth a potential million, a murder conviction reversal and a confession in a family tragedy, harsh winter hits game and wheat, a Lincoln conservatorship, a large pension fraud case, and local creamery and bank prison tales along with legal reform debate in Decatur.
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Matthew Reedy
Winnebago County
Reedy
Thomas Hardy
Shelbyville
Anna
Mr. Hardy
J. E. Ginders
Rockford
Charles Gulbrandson
Durand
Winnepago County
Mary E. Hicks
Chicago
Canada
Ayres
Henry Digby
John Sinkler
McLeansboro
Hamilton County
Supreme Court
Sinkler
Eliza Digby
Henry
Dick Sinkler
John
Illinois
C. C. Fitts
J. Osman
United States
Springfield
Lotha Moore
Decatur
Madison County
Lemuel *Puller
Argyle
Peter Critz
Lincoln
Logan County
Oglesby
Michael Harry
Cook County
Ellen Fortesque
Sir William Fortesque
England
Ellen C. Williams
Lawrenceville
Lawrence County
Sumner
Chauncey
Bird’s Station
Tanner
H. Durham
Durham
Anen
Illinois Legislature Journal Recap of January Sessions
The record outlines joint sessions of the Illinois Legislature with ballots for United States Senator. It notes appointments, bills introduced and debated, and resolutions of respect. Major items include a Kane County appointment to a state hospital, bills on taxation, highways, and jail reform, and adjournments with vote tallies.
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Seaxarz
House
Sanate
Davin F. Barclay
Kane County
Northern Hospital
Houser
Ilinois Central Road
U. S
Morrison
Sxnateze
Senate
Coultersville
Ill
W. St. Morrison
United States
Smaror
Illinois Charitable Eye
Zar Infirmary
Chicago
Hinois
Richard Bishop
Joint Assembly Therm
Ilino Deaf and Dumb Institution
Illinois
Secretary of State
Furnister
Walker
Heyles
Logan
Senath-Gon Thaith
Tiwahanen
Association of Persons
Thoddy
Joint Assembly
Sanaton
John Black
Wichard Mishop
Prison Escape Sparks manhunt after tunnel route found
Six convicts fled from the Michigan State Prison as guards fired. They channeled a forty foot two foot tunnel under an old blacksmith shop where roustabouts worked for months. Talbot and Murray, held for burglary and murder, were among those who fled before guards recaptured some.
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Mich
Ste
George Murray
Shiawessee County
George Wilson
Detroit
Frank Deacon
Lenawee County
James Lawson
John A. Ryan
Richard Talbot
Muskegon
Talbot
Tewarden
Seymour
Murray
Dairy farming guidance and statistics from the Rural World excerpt
The article notes Iowa 650 creameries Illinois 470 Wisconsin 430 Minnesota 189 totaling 1689 in four states. It covers dairy practices such as teat washing before milking to speed milking, praises dairywomen, outlines farm economics, and discusses cow lactation patterns and calving intervals for sustained milk production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Prof
Arnold
Watering Milk to Improve Butter Rises Debated
The Ohio Farmer reports on a practice of adding cold water to freshly drawn milk to aid cream rise. Experiments show dilution offers no real butter yield advantage, with creamery cooling preferred. Dairymen urged to avoid water addition and maintain honest practices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Emsly
Ohio
F. Curtis
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