Illinois News Happenings and Local Changes
The Illinois Traction system train men strike ends with service resuming after a week. Mundelein renamed from Area to honor Cardinal Mundelein. A surge of license reassignment requests overwhelms Springfield clerks. An eagle injured in fog near Villa Grove. shot after struggle. John Novi ski, 44, surrenders to Chicago police after escaping Joliet honor farm. Springfield mayor names John Morris police chief. salary to be set. Galva Electric appeals a verdict in Cambridge court for 22000 to Charles Freed, 14, who lost an arm from a high tension wire incident.
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John Bozloch
Villa Grove
Samuel A. Bullard
Springfield
John Morris
John H. George
George
Morris
Galva Electric Light Company
Cambridge
Charles Freed
Train crash kills and burns two railroad workers in Austin
Thomas Dalbirie thirty of Maywood a Chicago and Northwestern conductor was killed and Cornelius McQueen fireman was burned and cut when a stock train crashed into a poultry train at Kinzie and Pine. One poultry car demolished many birds killed and a second car derailed with fire.
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Thomas Dalbirie
Maywood
Chicago & Northwestern
Cornelius McQueen
Kinzie and
Pine Streets
Austin
Milk war wounds two farmers near Belvidere
Two farmers were wounded in the milk price dispute around Belvidere tied to Gifford Milk Products offer of $2 per hundred pounds with 8.5 percent butterfat. Richard Saunders is in critical condition with a bullet in his abdomen and Charles Carlson of Herbert was shot.
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Belvidere
Gifford Milk Products Company
Richard Saunders
Charles Carlson
Herbert
New Liberty Peace Silver Dollars Enter Circulation
Chicago begins circulating the new liberty peace silver dollars through local banks. Secretary Mellon estimates the change will save about 1.7 million dollars yearly in printing. The government prints 48 million dollar bills monthly at a cost of 17.1 cents each with an average life of seven to eight months.
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Chicago
Treasury
Mellon
Illinois labor survey notes surplus. coal and meatpacking up
A federal labor department survey from Springfield finds Illinois still has excess labor despite factory hiring. Coal mining and meatpacking show gains while bricklayers are in short supply despite broad building activity. Rhode scholar and limestone bill are also mentioned.
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Illinois
Springfield
Employment Service
United States Department of Labor
War Bonus Deadline Urges Immediate Applications
Many veterans in Illinois must apply before December 31 to receive the bonus. Pal mer D. Edmunds, chief clerk of the service recognition board at Springfield, says the office will stay open until midnight to accept all filings. Applicants will be numbered that night and cards mailed. those with no card or incomplete forms should act now.
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Ilinois
Illinois
Palmer D. Edmunds
Service Recognition Board
Springfield
Edmund
Aurora Calls Special Election on Bond for Bridge
A January 6 vote in Aurora seeks approval of a $150000 bond to fund the city's share of a new Fox river bridge. Glenn Young, once tied to a Ku Klux Klan liquor raid, left Herrin for Golconda to surrender on an assault to murder indictment returned by a Pope county grand jury.
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Aurora
Fox River
Glenn Young
Ku Klux Klan
Herrin
Golconda
Pope County
Inheritance Notice to Galva Man Farthing
L. Farthing a machinist of Galva to receive a $60 000 inheritance from aunt Mrs Mary Daugherty Elk Park North Carolina who died leaving estate valued at $250 000.
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L. ©. Farthing
Galva
Mary Daugherty
Elk Park
N. C
Wolves Bounties Reported in Mercer County Records
County records in Aledo show 310 paid in bounties for 16 old wolves and 50 young wolves' scalps in the year. The prior year log recorded 10 old wolves and 22 young wolves.
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Mercer County
Aledo
Vogel resigns as Illinois Gideons president
Ernest L. Vogel of Wheaton announced his resignation as president of the Illinois Gideons, the Christian Commercial Travelers, after years in the post. He said he could no longer dedicate the time and money and must focus more on his traveling salesman business.
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Ernest L. Vogel
Wheaton
The
Illinois Gideons
Christian Commercial Travelers
Typhoid from Oysters Rises in Chicago Area to Seven Deaths
Deaths from typhoid fever linked to infected oysters in Chicago and suburbs have reached seven with a total of 34 cases. Health Commissioner Bunden reports inspectors found many raw oysters on the market were contaminated.
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Chicago
Office of Health Commissioner
Bundesen
Lincoln City Faces Ongoing Electric Railway Deficit
Lincoln's city council grapples with a growing deficit in the electric railway system as October costs reached 1148 while fares brought in 1068. November showed an even larger shortfall with no improvement forecast, as public reliance on cars reduces trolley ridership.
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Lincoln
William L Sackett Dies in Chicago From Embolus
William L Sackett state superintendent of waterways died at St. Luke's hospital in Chicago after a long illness. He had been head of the harbor division since 1917 under Governor Lowden and was a familiar Illinois political figure for 35 years. Born in 1863 at Holyoke Massachusetts, his home was Morris Illinois.
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William L. Sackett
Chicago
St. Luke’s Hospital
Sackett
Morris
Lowden
Small
Illinois
Holyoke
Mass
Peoria Grain Market Rebounds After Prohibition
After the Volstead act closed the Peoria and Pekin distilleries the grain trade shrank. Distilleries closed elevators and gloom hung over the trade. Food products were later made at the plants and corn ground again as other grains entered use. Peoria again leads in the nation’s cereal markets with about 900 workers and a payroll around $1,000,000 annually.
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Peoria
Pekin
Kane County bank robber bounty plan and highway funding push
Elgin hosts Kane County Bankers Federation meeting as delegates approve a 500 bounty per bank robber killed from a 10000 fund. State Rep Otto C Sonne man of Carlinville outlines a gasoline tax and license fee hikes to finance hard roads, saying someone must pay the fiddler.
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Kane County
Otto C. Sonneman
Carlinville
Fiddler
Thousands Attend Rites for Gompers at Elks Club
Funeral services for Samuel Gompers were held at the Elks Club in New York with thousands inside and radio listeners across the street. Rabbi Stephen Wise delivered a tribute praising the labor leader as a frontierist, fighter for workers, and staunch supporter of international peace and American democratic ideals. The body proceeded to Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Tarrytown after the service.
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New York
Samuel Gompers
Elks’ Club
Tarrytown
Sleepy Hollow
Assembly Hall
Missouri mob lynches Roosevelt Grigsby near sheriff
In Charleston Missouri a mob of over 200 men overpowered Sheriff B B Jackson and hanged Roosevelt Grigsby 20 after he was identified as alleged attacker of a white girl. His body was shot, dragged through the streets, burned on a bonfire, and displayed near a grocery before the mob dispersed.
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Charleston
B. B. Jackson
Roosevelt Grigsby
Plague outbreak prompts $275000 request from Treasury
Washington report says the Treasury Department forwarded a request for an immediate appropriation of 275000 to combat a bubonic plague outbreak in New Orleans and surrounding areas.
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Washington
New Orleans
Treasury Department
Champion Bull Brings $10,000 at Manning Auction
Black Marshall I, champion bull from Escher and Ryan stock farm, sold for $10,000 to H. O. Harrison of California at Manning Iowa auction. This sale highlights a strong demand for prize bulls among cattle breeders and buyers.
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Manning
Marshall I
Escher and
Ryan
H. O. Harrison
California
Senate stalls on vetoed postal pay rise vote
Washington report on a failed Senate bid to override President Coolidge's veto of the postal salary increase bill. Senator Ashurst pressed for immediate consideration but blocked the measure by objecting to the second reading, leaving the issue at a stalemate as Muscle Shoals and Isle of Pines actions take precedence.
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Washington
Senate
Coolidge
Ashurst
Dem
Arizona
Sterling
Post Office Committee
New
Muscle Shoals
Isle of Pines
Treasury relieves heavy financing with December bond issue
Washington reports the treasury has been relieved of excessively heavy financing for March. Secretary Mellon says the December bond issue totals about 750 million dollars, with over 220 million in cash raised. Funds from the sale and December payments cover all requirements until March when another operation is planned.
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Washington
Treasury
Mellon
Third Liberty Loan
Cold wave grips Midwest and Plains on December 19
The Southwest woke to its coldest winter day as temperatures fell below zero in Kansas, Missouri, and across Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Texas. Snow threatened Arkansas and Texas while Miles Montana reported 34 degrees below zero. St Louis faced severe isolation with crippled trains, dead telephone lines, and cut telegraph links.
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Kansas City
Kansas
Missouri
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Texas
Miles, Mont
St. Louis
Texan Deputy Wounded Near Rio Grande Border
Deputy Sheriff Joe Fierros was seriously wounded when shots were fired from the Mexican side as he tried to arrest a Mexican smuggler landing illicit liquor on the American side of the Rio Grande near Laredo Texas.
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Laredo
Tex
Joe Fierros
Rio Grande
Three Thaw Indictments Dropped in New York Case
Judge McIntyre dismissed three indictments against Harry K. Thaw of Pittsburgh. The charges were assault in the second degree kidnapping and conspiracy stemming from the Thaw case in New York.
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Thaw
New York
Harry K. Thaw
Pittsburgh
McIntyre
Finland Signs Peace Protocol to League of Nations
Geneva report states Finland signed the arbitration and disarmament protocol, becoming the seventeenth member to attach its signature to date. The move underscores Finland's commitment within the League of Nations framework and signals ongoing efforts toward collective security.
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Finland
Geneva
Trooper Slain on Route Near Bound Brook
State Trooper Robert Coyle was shot and killed after delivering a $2000 payroll to Bound Brook Stone Co. at Chimney Rock. He had picked up a suspicious man on the road who rode in the back seat of the police car before the shooting occurred.
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Boundbrook
N. J
Robert Coyle
Boundbrook Stone Co
Chimney Rock
Air force planes collide over Kasumigaura base
In the Kasumigaura region near Tokio three officers of the Japanese Aviation Service were killed when two planes collided in midair.
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Tokio
Kasumigaura
Japan declines U S Navy plan despite Pacific maneuvers
Premier Takihaka Kato said Japan declined the U S offer to send the fleet to Yokohama after 1925 maneuvers to ease misgivings at home. He condemned Singapore plans and urged cooperation with the U S and Britain on China finances.
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Washington
Kato
Tokio
United States
Yokohama
Hawaiian
Takihaka Kato
Seiuyuki Party
China
Japan
America
Great Britain
Navy appropriation bill passed by House with large naval expansion
The House approved the navy appropriation bill totaling nearly 300 million dollars. It defeated an amendment to cap new funds for Key West submarine base construction and set plans for added naval construction including four scout cruisers, a floating dry dock, and higher costs for aircraft carriers Lexington and Saratoga. The measure also would elevate turret guns on several battleships at an estimated six and a half million dollars. Senator King’s inquiry resolution was postponed and data from the Navy Department was to be gathered for hearings.
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Washington
Navy
House
Senate
Key West
Fla
Britten
Illinois
House Naval Committee
Lexington
Saratoga
Florida
Utah
Arkansas
Wyoming
Pennsylvania
Arizona
Texas
Mississippi
Idaho
New Mexico
Great Britain
King
Senate Naval Committee
Hale
Navy Department
Radio Station Planned for Philippines by RCA
Rear Admiral W H G Bullard announces that the Radio Corporation of America plans to construct a radio distribution station in the Philippines. Bullard, a retired US Navy officer and executive at Federal Telegraph Co in Delaware, outlined the project.
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Manila
Radio Corporation # America
Philippines
W. H. G. Bullard
Federal Telegraph Co
Delaware
Bankers Plan $10 Million Loan to Krupp Works
United States bankers reached an agreement to loan the Krupp Works of Germany ten million dollars. The loan will be issued as five year notes and placed on the market soon.
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Krupp
New York
United States
Krupp Works
Germany
Train plunge kills eight in Chippewa Falls Wisconsin
A Soo Line eastbound observation car fell 60 feet into the Chippewa River after a broken switch bolt at Chippewa Falls. Eight people died, seven were injured and three remained missing as the train crossed the trestle. Notables identified include Mrs. Harry Jones and Charles Pardoe among others.
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Chippewa Falls
Wis
Minneapolis, St. Paul
Sante Ste. Marie
Chippewa River
Harry Jones
Sioux City
Charles M. Pardoe
Mineapolis
Barbara Spencer
M. L. Spencer
Seattle
Keneth J. Henderson
Moose Jaw
Sask
Florence Higgs
Minneapolis
Richard W. Sharp
Toronto
St. Joseph's Hospital
John T. Dunne
New York City
Marion Lawson
Menasha
James Harry
Alma Blixt
Fond du Lac
Soo Line
Spencer
School of Journalism
University of Washington
Curtis
Minnesota
May Morressey
Stevenspoint
Man and daughter die in auto train crash near Landingville
George Morris Beitzler, 42, and his 12 year old daughter Mildred were killed when their car plunged through a guard rail 50 feet into Pennsylvania Railroad tracks below Landingville Schuylkill Haven. The Pennsylvania Express from Reading and Heltsville struck the wreckage shortly after the car landed. both victims likely died before impact.
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Schuylkill
Haven
George Morris Beitzler
Mildred
Pennsylvania Railroad
Landingville
Pennsylvania Express
Reading
Heltsville
Firemen Hurt in Chicago Fires
One woman was killed a fireman seriously injured and five negroes hurt in a series of fires in Chicago. Twenty four families were driven to the street by two blazes as part of more than a hundred fires in the city.
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Chicago
Ill
Elks Club Fire Ruins Stuttgart Business District
A blaze in Stuttgart Arkansas leveled the building housing the Elks Club and threatened the business district. Investigators estimate total damage at about 145000 dollars.
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Elks Club
Stuttgart
Ark
Elks’ Club
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