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Illinois State News Roundup of County Incidents
Adams County reports a man offered postage stamps at low value to a Quincy postmaster and was arrested. Urbana finds a youth shot dead in timber north of town, with White arrested on suspicion. Vandalia watchman murder confessed by Nathan Burgess. Jerseyville saw a worker maimed by a saw. County notes include an agricultural implement factory plan in Kankakee and a body found near Center Point with no identification. Several local crimes, accidents, and fires interrupt Illinois towns from Champaign to Vermilion.
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Adams County
George E. Gray
Quincy
Champaign County
Urbana
Fayette County
Nathan
Burgess
Hias
Jersey
Cartwright
Peering
Jerseyville
Kankakee County
Kankakee
Knox County
Center Point
Barney Ryan
Galenburg
Jafalle County
Common Council of
la Salle
Ancle Quinlan
Logan County
Nora Hawley
J. Hawley
Lincoln
Rosa Hawley
Jacob Bruder
Macoupin County
Carlinville Enquirer
Bunker Hill
Charles Howell
Menard County
Martin B. Leonard
Tealding
Athens
Springfield & Northeastern
Monroe County
Barney McMahon
Waterloo
McMahon
McMullen
Morgan County
John Blatterly
Waverly
Jacksonville
Chapin
Converse
Springfield
Illinois ‘State Farmers’ Association
Farmers’ Clubs
Stephenson County
Razin Bayalager
Lena
Taxowell County
Hope Mines
Samuel Healer
Richards & Gill
Pekin