Daily Sun notices and local briefs from the district
The Daily Sun notes various items: Militia members of Co B are urged to assemble at the Armory this evening. Mrs. Chas. Claffin visits relatives on Eastern Avenue. Sheriff Piepenbrink reports twenty four prisoners at the jail. Wm. Werner lands a $ Chicago order for three hundred car loads of rubble stone. Ellen Leavy, daughter of Dr. J R Leavy, dies of consumption. Tim OBrien, prison keeper, furnished 526 meals this past month.
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Co. B, 12Th Infantry
Wm. Werner
Chicago
Mr. Werner
Tim O’brien
Bridewell Keeper
Tim
Filth of Chicago sparks Joliet canal clash plan
Joliet canal committee to meet with Canal Commissioners in Lockport to press a plan. They propose diverting water to purify pollution from Chicago and possibly damming Lane's Lake to aid navigation. They seek a $3000 funding and threaten to appeal to the Governor and State Board of Health if blocked. Article also notes remarks by James Redpath on Irish issues and a Bloomington woman’s death.
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Canal Committee
Joliet Board of Trade
Canal Commissioners
Lockport
Jenne
State Board of Health
Chicago
Harrison
Citizen's Association of Chicago
Joliet
Lane's Lake
Bridgeport
God
James Redpath
Ireland
America
New Irish Land League
Newark
N.J
Lord Leitrim
Froude
Chicago rail payroll tops 479 thousand in October
The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad paid 12,000 Chicago employees $479,468.01 in wages for October. Local news notes include social events at Munroe's Hall, a Universalist sociable and a First Presbyterian Missionary Society meeting.
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Chicago
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
Lynched and reprieved murders in a chaotic dispatch
A Tennessee colored man Don Smith was lynched for rape in Putasxtr. Gov Foster of Ohio reprieved murderer John Walsh until Feb 25, while John Callaghan was hanged in Worcester for a brutal October 2 murder. Reports from Cleveland and New York cover related trials, arson, bankruptcy talk, and a major counterfeit case.
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John’ Wheeler
Frank Wheeler
James Saunders
Joseph Shirk
Florence
Mills
Paugh
Young Saunders
Wheelers
Mr. Brown
New York
Tug Son
Don Smith
Mattie Hendricks
Tazhun Treamont
Gov. Foster
John Walsh
Wooster
Tug Sun
Cleveland
Ohio
John Callahan
Worcester
Larmie
Callahan
Coulter
Ireland Land Commissioners report near completion
Special Dispatch to Taxicum reports the Land Commissioners of Ireland will finish their report within two weeks after collecting testimony from every county. Parnell says the League will not accept any Land Bill that includes a coercion clause.
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Lonpoys
Land Commissioners of Ireland
Ireland
Parnell
League
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St. Louis
Eastern Avenue
Piepenbrink
Juliet
Sil
Ellen Leavy
J. R. Leavy
the Canal Commissioners
Illinois
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Jacksonville
AY Telegraph
Tennessee Fellows
J. Walsh
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Tennessee
Jamaica
Long Island
U. 8
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A. Drummond
Secret Service Bureau
Brockway
Toronto
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Wm. Crawford
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Sheridan Spook
Palmer
Caroline D. Berry
Brooklyn
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Tax Sun
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Jefferson Street
Will County
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FOX
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Dolman’s and Furs
Live
Yours Truly
O. Fox
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Vance’s
Jalen
Tod Cotman
G. L. Vance
Opera House
Joliet, Tis
J R. Hobbs
Chicago Street
Simonds’ Old Stand
Dunham
Baker’s Chocolates & Cocoa
J. FR. Blobbs
Cash Grocery House
Ladies’ Furs
Richard III
Alaska
Misses & Children’s Furs
Wolf
Plush
Buffalo
Opera Shades
Wolf’s
Alexandre
Jefferson St
L. Strauss, Prop
A. Jandorf, Man
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