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Want the Strike Settled*iThe directory of the Peoria board of trade appointed, a committee to wait on the mine owners and jgoanufacturers and see if some arrangement can not be entered into whereby the miners’ strike can be settled. The business of the city, and especially the grain business, is seriously interfered with bythe shutting* down of a number of fac-/tories, and the throwing out of employment of hundreds of operatives..Oratorical Contest.The annual contest in declamation in the Illinois Female college, Jacksonville, occurred the other evening.,, There, were nine contestants , for what are known as the Whitlock prizes, and all the speakers did admirably. The first prize was captured by Miss Gladys Sigler, of Knightsville* Ind., and the second by Miss Flora Purviance,of Savannah, Mo. The contest was witnessed by a large audience.Burial of Jude© Ballou. ^• • Martin Ballou, the first judge of the Bureau judicial circuit, was buried at Princeton the(other day. He was 73 years of age and resided there fifty-seven years. He was one of the abolition guards in ante-bellum days. Ho leaves a large estate.. . m Oil the Way to the Poorhouae.4, Mrs. Lucy Craig, aged 76, and who had been paralyzed several months, was being taken to the Macon county poorhouse, when the team ran away, and Mrs. Craig was thrown out and fa* tally injured. v, •.* 3. •/ i H •“4Said to be a MeiturWreck •« . . ■ • ■ • • , , • . * ■ ‘Julius Schwabacher, son of a Peoria distiller, has been declared a mental wreck and sent to an asylum. The young man was arrested some time ago on the charge of burglary. •Forman Not1 a Candidate.
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Troy Star
Troy, Illinois, US
Thu, May 24, 1894
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