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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1891
Page
3
Averit Konze, 16, Milwaukee, was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing Annie Kodatz. Other reports note a Dartmouth tax academy, a bank burglary in Caledonia Minnesota, a fatal train wreck near Reading Pennsylvania, a Lookout Mountain fire, and various political and economic incidents across the nation.
Ex Governor Gregorr Saar of Vermont dies at St Albans aged 73. Fenton R. McCreery named secretary of the legation at Santiago Chile. Huey Gibcunnut dies at 97 in Missouri. his death triggers father’s demise. Marriages, deaths, politics, and global events ripple through a busy notices page.
Reports note a cyclone in the Andaman Islands causing over 200 deaths. Various items follow: Samve Cuipaan dies at Cornwall aged 101. Miss Marti Henderson, 60, burned in New Castle Indiana. Frederick Mativenis, piano inventor, dies in New York at 77. Z P Brannon and wife die in Orangeville California from arsenical poisoning used mistakenly in biscuits. The sultan of Morocco sends emissaries to Touat. natives decapitate five. A warehouse blast at Unyward Wisconsin injures eight. J K Cumberland pleads guilty to murder in Harlan Iowa. Arion, a 2-year-old colt, sets a 2:10 1/2 mile at Stockton California. Diamond dealer R A Krawsia loses $20,000 in diamonds in Dayton Ohio. George A Wrany of Montagu Michigan dies after sleeping since May 1 weighing 50 pounds. A Boston money-lender heist yields $1,000. At Chelabinsk a woman kills her three children then hangs herself. U S Supreme Court arbitration over Behring sea fisheries. Eleventh National Farmers Congress meets in Sedalia Missouri. Washington reports corn yield peak in November with 26 bushels per acre.
Ann Delasire McClenahan Worley aged 76? born Pendleton Kentucky in 1808 lived in Ohio and Stark, Henry, and Clifton areas. She and husband Stephen Worley were longtime Christian church members with deep family ties. Survived by son William and daughter Rachel, multiple grandchildren. funeral held at home with local clergy.
William Fountain born July 26 1807 in New Jersey died last week at Whitefield Corners aged 84. He moved with his family from Ohio to Peoria County and shifted from shoemaking to farming becoming a prosperous local figure with wife Jane McGinness by his side for nearly 60 years. The obit notes his early life, marriage in 1833, and rise from modest beginnings to affluence as a farmer.
The obituary details Fountain’s 40 year harvest on a South Whitefield farm, his ascent from early labor to wealth, his religious devotion, and a family of seven. his death followed a long illness, with burial at Sugar Grove cemetery and funeral led by Steve B Dille, pastor.
The Veach family recounts turmoil over an open will found by the brother in Putnam. Mrs Veach faced neglect by her mother, then moved with her husband to Pasadena seeking peace and healing. A homecoming night in Pasadena turned tender as the family reunited, with the narrator describing a long, emotional wake and a farewell poem kept in a desk.
Obituary notes Nellie Urie Widmer oldest daughter of Major J R Widmer dies after an extended illness. Born April 3 1807 in Henry Illinois she endured grippe throat trouble and lung disease with grace. Funeral Tuesday at 2 pm Rev W F Day pastor. Ottawa Avenue Cemetery memory pieces from Henry Galesburg Pontiac Chicago etc. Also a Southern ad note praising Salvation Oil ends with a quoted line.
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