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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1897
Page
3
A condensed wire service style digest lists numerous incidents and notes from 1898 including disasters, political moves, and military topics. It mentions fires destroying business districts in various towns, deaths and suicides in Minnesota and Missouri, rail and coast defense expenditures, court cases, and immigration controls affecting Italians and Yaqui Indians.
Buffalo to New York special No.46 derailed near Garrisons New York due to washed out track bed and a collapsing embankment. Engine and two cars sank in the Hudson with engineer Foyle and fireman Tompkins lost. total dead listed at nineteen with several identified victims and two unidentified women.
Funeral services for George M. Pullman were held at 1729 Prairie Avenue with interment at Graceland Cemetery. Elder P. M. Murphy, 78, was murdered near Garab Missouri after a dispute over depredations. The White Squadron of battleships and cruisers visited New York after eastern service. Thomas Gold Alvord, former speaker and lieutenant governor, died aged 70. A northern storm devastated coast towns, and multiple killings occurred in Gorham New Hampshire. A game warden’s party clashed with Utes on the Snake River region, resulting in seven deaths.
The report cites Madrid banning demonstrations on Weyler’s Cuba departure, Abyssinian actions in Somaliland, Somali tribal massacres, a British note on US monetary bi metal proposals, and a WCTU convention in Toronto with Miss Francis E. Willard reelected. Also notes arrest of William B Foster Jr in Paris for a 1883 theft from a New York gratuity fund.
The article traces historic wheat prices from the 1880s through McKinley era with cents per bushel figures and notes a sharp drop to 49 cents. It also reports a staff shift at the Lacon Journal Willis B. Powell retiring and Charles F. Hacker succeeding as general editor, praising Powell and welcoming Hacker.
An old advertisement offers one hundred dollars reward for an incurable case of catarrh and promotes Hall’s Catarrh Cure. It includes testimonials from West and Truax, Walpina, Kinnan & Marvin, and asserts the remedy acts on blood and mucous surfaces.
The Florid heyday features Rev Breeze visiting Wisconsin for preaching and a plan to fill the Florid pulpit with Chicago students. Uncle Henry's cider mill, Marion Allen's molasses mill, and Henderson’s butcher shop keep the town busy. Women's Home Missionary Society dinner drew a large crowd, then volunteers sewed carpet rags at J. B. Albert's home while discussing enduring hardships for Christ's sake.
Community snippets report travel by Hunt and Pratt to Ottawa and visits by Mills and Hogue relatives. A fire in Hope township burned a house with $800 insurance. Mail carrier Had a runaway near Lostant. Railroad agents Wildman and Deane discuss timberland trips to Arkansas. Worm remedy advertised and a list of uncalled letters in Henry Illinois dated Nov 13 1897.
Putnam County Circuit Court sits in Hennepin this week with Judge Worthington presiding. The docket lists assumpsits, foreclosures, trespass actions, injunctions, partitions, and wills in a long sequence involving Otto Halbleib, George Resmire, Ed ward C Hillabrand, the Swan Lake Club, Hennepin Shooting Club, Putnam Co Agricultural Society, Lena Martin, Catherine Lehman, Anton Lowenberg, John Gallaher, Mary Wheeler, Clara Shipman, Richardson, Heinzerling, Jacob Kart, Etscheid, Cofoid, Nelson Cofoid, and many others across multiple cases and settlements.
A local editor, laid low by a severe cold, reports rapid relief after using Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. The note hails the medicine as highly effective and recommends it to others with coughs or colds. The piece also lists recent library book orders received by the Women’s Club Library.
The Ottawa Republican Times reports Prof Holden analyzed beets raised by Lorenzo Lelend ead M Danaway. Results show land patch beets at 13.6 percent sugar and Dunaway’s at 11 percent, with factories demanding about 12 percent for best quality.
Washington telegrams report Justice Stephen J. Field oldest Supreme Court member tendering resignation to take effect December 1. McKinley accepts. Field, appointed 1863 by Lincoln, will retire after 34 years 7 months, longest tenure on the bench. He notes his career spans over forty years of judicial life. He asserts his opinions reflect deliberate convictions and professional duties, not mere remedies from unknown sources.
A grand military tournament is announced for Monday November 15 in Peoria. Ten to twelve militia companies four or five military bands and an artillery detail will take part. Fortifications at Lake View will host a sham battle with stormed captured and burned fort and a magazine explosion. A daylong program includes a grand parade, hoping to attract over 5000 spectators, with further ads next week.
A historical advertisement touts Grain-O as a coffee substitute for children. It claims Grain-O is made from pure grains and, when prepared properly, tastes like coffee but costs about 14 times less. The ad urges giving Grain-O to children for better health and notes it is sold by grocers at 165 and 250.
The Great Horse Show opens at the Coliseum in Chicago on November 2, 1897. Tickets are available via the Great Rock Island Route with a City Depot at the Elevated Loop station, offering a five cent fare to the Coliseum. A city map from a local representative highlights travel details.
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