Notable Topics From The Illinois Gazettes Of The Era
A survey of miscellaneous items notes that women’s speech and intellect draw derisive commentary, a desperado works in Albany prison, a Nebraska boy’s suicide tests execution pain, New York mandates free baths, and funeral customs in San Francisco draw protest. It also covers literary plans, printing progress, a Kentucky theft case, Marlborough’s marital alliance, a Cleveland murder suicide, a California court ruling on church prayers, Gen. McCook’s retirement, a capital investment fable, Canadian stamp counterfeits in Chicago, and Canadian-U S friendship via a Montgomery tablet. The era’s social norms, finance quirks, and market shifts are sketched through short anecdotes and curiosities.
Treasury and grain stocks report and city notices of deadly fires
The week’s overview lists U S grain stocks by item, treasury receipts and expenditures for April, public debt, and currency totals. Incendiary fire in Milford leaves two dead Emil Furrer and Jacob Katt. Sloop Spray voyage around the world begins Captain Slocum. Insomnia drives W T Loper to suicide. Panama Railroad president Gen John Newton dies aged 72. Providence workers strike affects 8000 cotton mill employees. William Ward dies at 67. Essex hat firms organize capital. McCall Brothers fail for 239000. Acton powder mills explosion kills five. Charles Lyman resigns from civil service commission.
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Milford
Conn
Emil Furrer
Jacob Katt
Spray
Slocum
Gloucester
Mass
W.T. Loper
United Press
New York City
John Newton
Panama Railroad Company
New York
Providence
R. 1
William Henry Ward
Ward Brothers
Sing Sing
N. Y
Arrus?t
Essex County
N. J
McCall Brothers
West Orange
Turer Powder Mills
South Acton
Charles Lyman
Connecticut
United States Civil Service Commission
Riots and crimes span towns from Jacksonville to Kan.
A series of violent events and legal cases fill the region: a mob lynches John Coleman near Jacksonville Pa. a Milwaukee trust forms from six flour plants to cut costs. Massillon miners strike for a year-long scale. Aquilla Cheney leaves 200000 to Mercer University for education of poor boys. a Santee reserve school burns again. James Young murders his wife in Brazil, then commits suicide. crops are good in the Northwest. Appalachian bank closes in Big Stone Gap. express robbers are shot. Eau Claire and Green banks officials face embezzlement and theft charges. Lorimer Iowa loses twenty buildings. Chicago furniture firm destroyed in a 100000 loss. Burlington train robbery leads to fatalities. a Patterson Kansas cyclone yields dead and injured. heavy rains aid crops across multiple states. Le Porte fire destroys sixty buildings. Kan twin children perish. Newton cyclone death toll rising. outlaw Borter Creek Slaughter Kid killed by officers. Grant Poor shoots a key witness during trial in Virginia.
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John Coleman
Jacksonville
Pla
Milwaukee
Ohio
Massillon
Aquilla J. Cheney
Atlanta
Mercer University of Georgia
Santee
St. Louis
Chicago Express
Alton Road
Carlinville
Frank Holmes
Harry B. McMastin
National Bank of
Eau Claire
Wis
Charles M. Greene
Lorimer
Wilkins, Ketcham & Rothschild
Chicago
Burlington
St. Joseph
Patterson
Kan
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Iowa
Missouri
Texas
le Porte
Mid
South Bend
Ind
George Lewskowski
Newton
Birter Creek
Slaughter Kid
Dover
Grant Poor
Maye
Tazewell
Venn
Benjamin Carroll
Notable 19th Century Deaths and Disasters Read in One List
A compilation of deaths, executions, and natural disasters reported across American towns. Capt John Brown dies at Put-in-Bay aged old. W G Mewinnier, 57, commits suicide in Omaha. Mrs Zoe Lark kills stepdaughter in Stillwater. Dr Jered Ansersk found dead of apoplexy in St Louis. Mrs Dean Mix and son Larry killed by lightning in Nashville. Tornado wrecks St Joseph. Tennessee elects Turney governor by 13 vote margin. Sioux County cyclone kills many. storm damages farms from Sioux Center to Perkins. Ed Westbrook executed in Americus for dog dispute. Wisconsin lightning deaths listed. George Mills hanged in Raleigh for cr der last June. Mrs Joanna Ryan’s barn in Delmar struck by lightning killing cattle and sheep.
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John Brown
Put-in-Bay
Harper's Ferry
W. G. Mewinnier
First National Bank
Omaha
Stillwater
O.T
Zoe Lark
McHenry
Jered S. B. Ansersk
St. Louis
White
Nashville
Mich
Dean Mix
Larry
St. Joseph
Tennessee
Turney
Sioux County
Sioux Center
Coombs
Perkins
Ed Westbrook
Americus
Wisconsin
Joseph Anderla
Kellnerville
Jasper Chiap
Lodi
John Mitchenmeister
Seymour
Joseph Sutherland
York
Raleigh
N. C
George Mills
Jane Wimberley
Jonanna Ryan
Delmar
Fourteen Die In Interoceanic Wreck In Mexico And Other World News
A long dispatch records fourteen killed and many injured in a wreck on the Interoceanic railroad at Temematla Mexico. The piece also notes multiple international developments including Japan’s stance against Russian dictates, China’s treaty ratifications, and unrest in European capitals. It reports on a raft of incidents from weather, fires, drownings and assassinations to labor strikes and finance, with a brief note on baseball standings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Temematla
Mexico
England
Japan
Russia
Tur
Oscar Wilde
London
Parliament Square
Vienna
Brazil
Italy
Adviets
China
Canada
Dominion
United States
Peking
Alaska
George K. White
Seattle
Lived Over a Century in Illinois Friend Dies at 106
Christina Bordner aged nearly 106, reportedly central Illinois’ oldest woman, died at her home near Lewiston. Born in 1780 in Pennsylvania with the maiden name Lesh, she married Peter Bordner in 1810. they lived 71 years together. Peter died in 1881 at age 100, and they had 13 children, eight of whom survive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christina Bordner
Ilinois
Lewiston
Pennsylvania
Lesh
Peter Bordner
Illinois Senate Moves On Legislation In Springfield
Illinois Senate action includes bids for convict built canal sections to the Mississippi and a speedy trial election contest bill. Other measures advance to third reading, with talks on Lincoln monument state control, hospital for the insane, normal schools funding, and elevated railway regulation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Springfield
House
Committee On Penal and Reformaory
Mississippi
Lockport
la Salle
Humphrey
Duniap
Fisher
Ilinois Normal School
State Board of Agriculture
Illinois
Natural History
Kingsbury
Berry
Senate Committee On Judiciary
Frank H. Cooper
Siezel, Cooper & Co
Cooper
Aspinwall
Bogardus
Ilinois
Siegel, Cooper & Co
Chicago
Ill
Crawford
Mahoney
James Marquette
Elijah P. Lovejoy
Schweinfurth
Rockford
God
Jesus Christ
Holy Ghost
Muir
Eastern Illinois State Normal School
Wallace
Ingersoll
Meyer
Gill
C. C. Brown
Callahan
Cook County
Snedeker
Gerry
Committee On Rules
General Assembly
Evans
White
Whiteside
Northern Illinois Normal School
Aikens
Franklin
Committee On Appropriations
Leeper
County Civil Service Law
Wells
Bhorse Shoers
Personal Paragraphs From An Old Paper
Marisnan Canrobert left property in England valued at £9,000 and seeks probate of his will. Cover Clarence of the Mosquito reservation remains at Kingston Jamaica under British protection with $22 daily living allowance. Darwin was a heavy cigarette smoker despite anti cigarette writings, often holding one. E Claix Jr after resigning as general freight agent of the New York Central railroad had served 47 years. Kate Freyn’s health forces suspension of Kate Field’s Washington until recovery. Admirers express sympathy for the bright columnist. A teacher’s question on Magna Charta yields the cheeky answer where was signed at the bottom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence
Mosquito Reservation
Kingston
Jamaica
Darwin
E. Claix, JR
New York Central Railroad
Kate Freyn
Kate Field
Washington
Harper’s Young People Defines Twins and Philopena
A brief quotation from Harper’s Young People distinguishes twins as two children of the same age born to the same parents, while jokingly noting that the term philopena was not what they expected. The exchange reflects playful dictionary-like curiosity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Para
Philopena
Harper's Young People
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Father Calendolid
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Egthorne
STING
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J. H. Bruno
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Carsrude
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Orion, Sr
Indiana
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Edward Moriarity
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Illinois State News
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G. W. Cowdrey
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Marshall
Thompson
John O'Carrow
O'Tarrow
Florin Patrich
Johnson Township
Mr. Patrich
Thomas Hoover
Jewett
Ilis
Emanuel Swedish Lutheran Church
Samuel M. Shroeder
Oakland Township
Haase
Peru
John Chambers
William White
A. E. Shinn
Flora
Clay County
County Board of Supervisors
George Driell
Frank Howard
Hulse Hardware Company
Roechford
Louis A. Hilliard
Chicago Tribune Company
Chester
Altgeld
Hilliard
Europe
W. R. Smith
Allendale
Brakeman Counselman
Milwaukee Road
Kirkland
John Smith
Joseph Hoffman
Seminary Township
Fayette County
Hoffman
Smith
Kehler Milling Company
East St. Louis
Comptroller of the Treasury
First National Bank of
Vandalia
Edna A. Forman
W. 8. Forman
Baptist Sanitarium
Samuel I. Schroeder
Schuyler County
Marisnan Canrobert
Hood
Insey Woolsey
McVicker’s Theater
Sutton Vane
Hooley
Mrs. Kendal
Goethe
Lioup B. Cuask
Swansea
Ilood
St Coe
Baker
Vo Western Dairy
Tock
Kansas Texas
Orkilmers
Nghamton
Beecham
B. F. Allen Co
Canal Street
Yeeras
John Carle & Sons
Kennedy
Donald Kennedy
Roxbury
W. L.douglas
Ceree Brockton Mas
W. L. Douglas
Ely
W. J. Hitchcock
U. S
A. A. Gen
Buffalo
ELY Brothers
Warren Street
Scott
Scott & Bowne
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