Subways May Suit Joliet Eighty-Five Typhoid Cases On Track
Hillsboro Illinois November 24 fifteen Montgomery county citizens indicted by the grand jury for delivering false property schedules to evade assessments causing a sensation given their prominence. Joliet council received railroad union depot and subway plan in place of track elevation, to be studied by committee as courts push track elevation suits with daily fines and Mayor Crolius pursuing a final agreement.
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Hillsboro, Ill
Montgomery County
Board of Review
Joliet
Crolius
Board of Supervisors
County of
Rock Island
Llinois
Moline
Port Byron
Said County
Said City
Twin City Ice Co
Illinois
Il!nois
J A. Godelin
Alton Report Tracks Fugitive Strube Across River
Fred Strube wanted for the murder of Alice Henninger near Havana has been traced to Alton. Dr W R Smith saw a unique buggy matching Strube's description. authorities were notified and he vanished. Deputy Barry reports a ferry crew carried a man in a single buggy across the river and identified him as Strube, now in St Charles County, with capture expected in days.
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Alton, Hl
Fred Strube
Alice Henninger
Havana
W R Smith
Strube
Barry
Altonian
St Charles County
Graft Charges Probe Hits Illinois Police Leaders
In Elgin on November 24 Chief Younger ordered an inquiry into graft accusations against Sergeant Gahan, head of the Illinois State Police association and a civil service act framer, and Sergeant Linkfield. Linkfield is charged with aiding Detective Romaine of the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul railway scam to seize $100 against Andrew Colford, indicted by the grand jury for alleged butter theft from a railway car. Gahan faces fees collected for impounding thirty cattle.
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Elgin
Ill
Younger
Gahan
Illinois State Police Association
General Assembly
Linkfield
Romaine
Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul Railway
Andrew Colford
Grand
Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul
Adams Hollinsworth Family Arrested for Larceny Charge
On November 24, Sheriff William Powers of Jersey county and Constable Alexander Shaw of Fieldon arrested the Adams Hollinsworth family father mother and eleven children on larceny charges. The 10 by 14 tent was found in Richwoods township. The father escaped into the woods as officers transported the group to town. Constable Shaw and Deputy Cosmos Keller pursued. The mother and children were jailed. The warrant for larceny was sworn.
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Aurora
Adams Hollinsworth
William Powers
Jersey County
Alexander Shaw
Fieldon
Richwoods
Shaw
Cosmos Keller
Neighbors Clash Over Missing Hog and Family's Schooling
George Harmon and James Develing accuse neighbors of entering his piglot last Thursday killing and skinning a hog and stealing the carcass. Develing claims the family’s washing was taken from the line last Friday. Arrests yield clothing and tent articles claimed as property. mother notes none of the children could read or write, having never attended school.
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George Harmon
James Develing
Harmon
Develing
Typhoid Fever Strikes Canton Illinois Workers
In Canton Illinois on November 24 eighty five cases of typhoid fever are reported with four deaths. Many patients are seriously ill and fifteen visiting nurses from Chicago and Peoria aid at the Parlin and Orendorff Plow Works. Water from a factory well is found unfit for drinking.
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Canton
Chicago
Peoria
Parlin & Orendorff Plow
Market Quotations and Trading Totals from Chicago and New York
Chicago and New York stock exchanges show mixed wheat and corn quotes with tomorrow estimates. Receipts and closing ranges for hogs cattle sheep reveal steady to strong movements while listed railroads and major companies appear in the market wraparound.
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Chicago
New York
Minneapolis
Duluth
Kansas City
Omaha
Smooth swindler nets fortunes in ad racket across cities
A clever con artist posing as a Denver & Rio Grande ad agent swindled victims in multiple central western cities. He solicited display ads for a magazine titled The West, using fake introductions and bogus references. About $10,000 was taken as ads were promised but never delivered, with prices ranging from one to one hundred dollars and even occasional personal loans taken from victims.
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Denver & Rio Grande Railroad
Denver
Rio Grande Road
Cincinnati
J Allen
J Marks
West
Allen
Marks
Jay
International physical culture exhibition to award top form
New York plans an international physical culture exhibition next month featuring a contest for the most perfect man and woman. A $1000 prize will go to each winner chosen by spectator votes after preliminary European contests and New York city selections amid a grand final with American and British representatives.
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New York
Europe
Great Britain
Right Arm Broken in Overturning of Buggy
John Dewrose, a mail carrier, was seriously injured when his buggy overturned at the corner of 0 Eighteenth street and Twenty-fourth avenue. His horse bolted and collapsed the cart, leaving Mr Dewrose entangled and suffering a fracture above the elbow and scrapes from being dragged.
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John Dewrose
Eighteenth Street
Twenty-fourth Avenue
Mr. Dewrose
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18Th Ave
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15Th St
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McKinnie Block
Eead
24Th St
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Child's Add
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Chase
16Th St
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J. D. Metszgar
Stewartville
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Jam F. Murphy
Oore & Co
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Okerberg
Witter
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Finaancia IL
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