Illinois News Roundup from Cairo to Warren Counties
A wide range of Illinois items: Charles Schoenmeyer, Cairo saloon keeper, shot self after wife’s illness. youths Newkirk and Parker jailed for counterfeit coins. Edinburg to Chicago St Louis electric railroad work advancing. Sheriff’s prisoner Pred Lewis escapes after stop. Redmond Carr crushed by threshing machine. Lizzie Struber found alive in Richview. Rockford buys riverbank tract for a summer resort. Ernest Jennings dies after cart accident. barn fire near Bloomington. infant Johnnie Perdue found dead. unidentified man found near Wenona. Owen Cosley shot by Richard Dunaway. editor John Bb. Klegg declared insane. G A R post musters at Freeport. world fair dedicatory crowds forecast. Willie Boone dies after horse incident. Edward Cody killed by train near Cairo. Alfred Nieman hangs himself. Mrs Merritt Beecher killed by cars. Mascoutah toll roads push. Eva Stokes dies from gasoline burns. Warren Henderson settlers reunion at Kirkwood. Charles Phillips shoots self. George Price kills John Hay. Rufus McCubbins dies from turpentine firework accident. Caspar Hoeffner seeks divorce from first cousin. W R Johns markets knitting machine. Newton burglars steal jewelry. Julius Gutterson dies by self-inflicted wound. miner Brown killed and six injured in Lebanon coal mine cave-in. J 8 Parker’s son killed by derrick at Harlem.
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Rockford
Ernest D. Jennings
Jesse D. Jennings
Payette County
Vandalia
Waller Farm
Bloomington
Rank Peck
Johnnie
H. Perdue
Lincoln
Illinois Central
Wenona
Owen Cosley
Cowden
Richard Dunaway
John Bb. Kleg
Eva Stokes
Carthage
Warren
Henderson
Kirkwood
Charles S. Phillips
Upper Alton
George Price
John Hay
Rufus McCubbins
Ashland
Caspar Hoeffner
Mascoutah
Missouri
W. R. Johns
J. 8. Parker
Harlem
Rock Cut
Wales Colliery Explosion Traps 150 Miners
A devastating explosion at Park Slip coal pit near Bridge End Glamorganshire traps the day shift of 150 miners. Rescue efforts rush to the mouth as fires burn and two rescued men lie burned and unconscious. Officials fear heavy loss of life as flames destroy structures and hope fades.
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Lonporn
Park Slip
Bridge End
Glamorganshire
Wales
Strikers No Longer Buffalo Switchmen Resume Work
Buffalo area rail strike activity ends as switchmen return to duty. Miles Barrett of Chicago failed to revive the strike against railroads. Erie and Lehigh regions resume workers. New York Central maintains nonrecognition policy. Police protection briefly required after an Erie train attack. Barrett’s reorganization efforts collapse amid troop withdrawal.
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Burrano
N. Y
Miles Barrett
Chicago
Sweeney
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
Erie
Lehigh
New York Central
Barrett
L. PP. Banks Ice Company
Braun
John Quinn
From Mike to Mr Michael The Strange Mutations of Fortune
A Helena Irishman’s mineral fever leads to a million dollar claim sale then a transformation. An English widow educates him in etiquette and letters, turning a rough laborer into a polished gentleman with a classical education and travel, as observed by a St. Louis Republic reader.
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Fortune
Montana Mining Corp
Monte Cristo
Montana
Helena
Ile
Mike
Sor
London
St. Louis Republic
After Dinner Botany and Nightshade Family Wonders
A curious essay from Lippincott's Magazine on tomatoes, potatoes, and eggplants as berries within the nightshade family. It links culinary uses, plant biology, and common misperceptions, noting the shared blossoms and similarities while humorously contrasting public perception and curiosity. It ends with brief notes from Puck and a Vera Cruz firefly anecdote.
Pelly’s Feat Visit to Riyadh in Uniform
Gen Sir Lewis Pelly, who died aged sixty seven in England, earned renown for a 1865 journey to Riyadh the Wahabi capital in central Arabia. As British resident at Buchire he sought to understand Wahabi power, entering Riyadh in uniform with a small escort. Treated as a prisoner, he escaped outside the city, while his party endured poisoned water and thirst on the return march. The venture is praised as exceptionally bold.
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Arabia
Sir Lewis Pelly
England
Riyadh
Persian Gulf
Pelly
Buchire
Wahabi
Welly
Great Britain
Palgrave
Central Arabia
N. Y
The Monon Route to Cincinnati Exposition Rates
A clipped 1800s style notice from the Pharmaceutical Era and the Cheateake and Ohio route advertising official travel to Washington via the Monon Route with special trains, excursion rates, and battlefields circuit. It lists dates September 17 18 and 20, 180%, mentions Washington Richmond and Appomattox, and cites contact details F J Ruep and Chantus L Stoxe.
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G. A
Washington
DD. C
Monon
Cincinnati
Department of State of Linois
Dearborn Station
Virginia
Gordonsville
Richmond
Lynchburg
Appomattox
Potomac River
Old Point Comfort
F. J. Ruep
C. P
Clark St
Chicago
Harvest Excursions Half Fare Tickets Offered
The Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railway plans four Harvest Excursions at half fare with dates August 30 September 27 and October 2. Tickets available via nearest agent or Jue Sebastian GT & P A Chicago IL. Includes notes on Northwest cheap excursions and routes to Minnesota North Dakota and Montana.
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Chicago
Rock Island & Pacific Rail Way
Sebastian
Chicago, Il
Northwest
Northern Pacific
Minnesota
North Dakota
Montana
Chas
St. Paul
Minn
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Eleo
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Chicago & St. Louis Electric Railroad
St. Louis
Cochran
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Pred Lewis
Chester
Redmond Carr
Berwick
Warren County
John Anderson
Alexis
Lizzie Struber
Farrington
Richview
Washington County
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Camp Shaw
Knights of Pythias
Kansas City
Abbott
Mass
David Puller
Galaxy
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Cap
van Winkler
Joan Barr Glenn
Eau Cliire
Wis
John Beisang
Indiana
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Ed G. Stott
Springfield
J. BE. Cockrell
Excelsior
H. C. Castor
Indiana Regiment
Provost Division
Supreme Lodge
Lodge
Homestead
TlomesrgeaAp
Aaron Walker
Tacoma
Wash
Roger I’. Green
Seattle
A. E. Dickinson
Walla Walla
E. P. Newberry
Island County
Congress
Bunnington
New York
United States
Canada
Dominion of Canada
Louisiana
MR. Michael
Grant Allen
Delmonico’s
Inquirer
Ptate
Lippincott’s Magazine
Alexander the Great
Alexander
Diogenes
Puck
Vera Cruz
Gen. Pelly
Wade
Tie
Edward
Detroit Tribune
Talmage
Ladies’ Home Journal
Detroit
Free Presa
Chicago & Eastern
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Price
Binghamton Republican
Galveston News
California Fig Syrup Co
Jagoon
Elmira Gazette
Julia Marlowe
McVicker’s Theater
Binghamton
Antone
Beecham
Western
Beeves
Omaha
Dr. Pierce
Baltimore American
Hoxsies
Obert Stevenson & Co
Morrison, Plummer & Co
Glenn
Hill
A. Johnson
Medina
N.Y
Picayune
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J. E. Barr
Aurora
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Franz X. Gorlz
W. J. Douglas
Juis
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Lee
Fevelen
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Olglas
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Ers
Pagpor
Brockton
Chicago Medical and Surgical Institute
van Buren St
Col. Wabash Ave
Shicago Medical and Surgical Institute
van Buren Street
L’ Art de la Mode
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Wo Morse
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Ontario Street
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