Decatur News Highlights Tragic Accidents and Local Orders
The report details multiple deaths and injuries including Miss Marian Ridden and Miss Lucy Beers in a crash near Springfield, a train kill near Murrayville of a deranged man from Jacksonville, and other fatal incidents in Danville Oakford and McLean County. It also notes Governor Cullom’s general order limiting Illinois National Guard encampments due to funding, and assorted local calamities from a Blue Island school janitor’s house fire to hog pen infant tragedy and a Cairo water works proposal.
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Artarmer
D. I D. Drue
Nashville
Murrayville
Jacksonville
Frederick Forstmeyer
Decatur
Goslin
Oakford
Clara McDougall
Petersburg
Sangamon
Michael Glynn
Alexander Shoemaker
Martin Forstmeyer
Springfield
Robert G. Scarborough
Chicago
Cincinnati
Yale
Woolsey
Cairo
Randolph Township
McLean County
Jerémiah Burnsworth
Burnsworth
Danville
Cullom
Hansqeastene
Idl Noi
Springyield
Ill
Uinois
Chioef
Uiinois National Guard
Snd
M. Cuno
J. Ml. Buwarori
George Taylor
Mason
Truatos
Gagopi
Sharman
Hugh NecLoughliin
Jonas
Blue Island
Exeter
Scott County
Clark
Main Street
Galena
Fitzpatrick
Matt Ramage
Posse Comitatus
Ramage
Peters
Basim
Selina Lentz
Unnumbered Illinois Fires and Suicides Toll Report
A long column reports barn losses from decaying hay and grain fires, deaths by arsenic and accidental causes, train wreck attempts, farm accidents, and battlefield police actions. Notable names include Willa and Orville Cameron, George Haworth, and Captain Lefevre.
Notorious Bigamist and Swindler Captured in Lynn
A famed con artist known as Marvin or Morton, a serial bigamist and forger, was arrested in Lynn, Massachusetts, by Pinkerton detectives and extradition to Virginia prepared. He married multiple women across states, forged notes, and used numerous aliases to extract funds from victims, with authorities tracing his moves from Richmond to New Haven, Albany, Rochester, and Lakewood among others.
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Boston
Richmond
Missouri
Kanes
Marvin
Aforten
Adama
Lynn
Mass
Pinkerton
Virginia
Bob” Pinkerton
New York
Hartford
Conn
Thomas A. Marvin
Miss Turpin
Turpin
New Haven
Blohmond
Cowan
Germantown
W. A. Taylor
Camden
N. J
John Danforth
Media
Mr. Marvin
W. A. Sue
Mrs. Taylor
A. M. Brownell
First National Bank of
Madison
Fint National Bank of Chicago
Baird & Bradley
Merchants’ National Bank of New York
Shipman
Thiu City
Albany
Henry C. Black
Mr. Kenney
Rochester
Albion
Tate
Teesl
Harrisburg
Billie
Dents
Newearn
Ch Marvin
Morton
Black
David Lindsay
Washington
Chicago
Martin
A & Private
Eufaula
Ala
Joplin
J. A. Marvin
St. Louis
Sis
Damen
Sunss
Owensboro
McDolough
Howevr
Misa Turpin
B. A. Martin
Webster
Kenney
General Ae
Sagamore Ae
Adams
Brownell
Havens
Quondam
Governor Long
Massachusetts
Lakewood
Nellie de Hart
G. L. Hovey
Mr. Hovey
Jott
Marvin de Hart
Thant
Frederickeburg
Miles Turpin
Baltimore
Washington Depot
Little Rock
Ark
Arthur Merritt
J. Y. Ttenes
Railroad Accidents Report for July with Still Higher Toll
The Ratroid Gazette notes 102 railroad accidents last July causing 38 deaths and 122 injuries. Twenty incidents killed or injured non fatally, while 568 accidents, or 66.9 percent, had no serious injuries. Compared with July 1800, there were 24 more accidents and increases of 17 deaths and 23 injuries. For the year ending July, the record is listed.
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Ratroid Gazette
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