Father O'Brien to New Parish in Carthage
Father William O'Brien, longtime rector of the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Carthage, will assume leadership of the Penfield Catholic Church in Champaign County, Illinois, leaving Carthage around November 1. Father Landreth of Ivesdale succeeds him in Carthage, while community members express regret at the change.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Father Landreth of
Iversdale
Father O’brien
Carthage
William O'Brien
Penfield
Champaign County
Llinois
Father Landreth
Ivesdale
Re- Bekah Lodge
Linsey Kelley
Mattie Murphy
Annie Dale
Maggie Hardy
Flower Mission
Lewis Allen
Lara Porter
Clara Jackson
Escaped convict robs saloon in Peoria
Two men, possibly Louis Moury and Martin Brophy, escaped from county jail Wednesday night and robbed a Peoria saloon at midnight. They overpowered the turnkey and backed the saloon gates against the wall. One victim was shot while attempting to flee. the pair escaped.
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Peoria
Louis Moury
Martin Brophy
Clayton brake man off regular run Saturday
Walter Bertholf of Clayton, brake man on the Wabash, was off his regular run Saturday. August Heidbreder, the Eighth and State street druggist, continues to improve in Blessing hospital. Miss Lillian Madison Jacobi of Dodge City, Kansas, is visiting her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Lafayette Vance at 500 North Seventh Street.
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Bertha Vetter
Ella” McVay
James W. Westfall
Rock Island
Samuelson
Young
State Board of Equalization
S. D. Weiser
Alton
State Charities Conference
St. Loui
Kirksville
J. H. Tyler
Democratic
Wilson and Marshall Workingmen’s Club
J. W. Williams
Roswell O’harra
Edison
Democratic County Central Committee
Edwin Ruthven Dow
Carthage
Lilamilt
I. M. Smith
F. M
Kamrick
C. A. James
J W. Porter
Ethel Lovitt
J. & Horney
John Fleming
Phoebe Listmann
Beardstown
Carl Sundberg
Linerson Rose
Irene
Dixon
Samuel Llnston
Kester Watson
Fairfield
Liverington
Mesdames Kobt
Baird
W. PB. Fraizer
J. Ross Dwigert
Tirmer Green
Keokuk
Ale Green
Angeline Woodrourn
Colchester
Aldene Churchill
Kinderhook
Coyne Wheelock
Hull
Lil
Kila Aaron
R. D. Denton
Alva Williams
Dan Moore
Washington, D. C
Wallace
Hamilton
Moore
Mr. Walliams
Washington
Dorothy MenNiell
Wm. Dellart
Evanston
Cornelia Tyner
Augusta
Thos. F. Dunn
S. I. Ferris
Dunn
W. D. Lewis
M. Frane Harris
A. W. O'Harra
Mendota
Wash
Ralph McKee
New York City
Anna Glenn
Monmouth
B. H. Johnstone
Dame Pennock
E. McClure
Clara Johnstone
Warsaw
Missour
Centralis
Chellis Carlton
Huston
Texas
Ed. Carlton
Will Carlton
New York
Texas and Southern
B. A. Crawford
J. W. Rhea
Samuel Curry
Dexter
John Elder
A. J. McMahan
Oklahoma City
Walter Bertholf
Clayton
August Heidbreder
Blessing Hospital
Lillian Madison Jacobi
Dodge City, Kans
Mrs
Lafayette Vance
North Seventh Street
Holland Aims to Annex Sea Land and Reclaim Basins
The Hague reports a bold plan to convert the Zuyder Zee into a freshwater lake by building a 25 mile dike across the bay and creating four drained polders. The project would reclaim about 529,575 acres, supply water to Friesland and North Holland, and include locks and sluices to sustain shipping, with an estimated 88 million dollars cost and a 15 year timeline for the initial phase.
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Hague
Netherlands
Holland
Zuyder Zee
Bight
den Helder
Province of
North Holland
Amsteldiep
Wieringen
Piaam
Frisian
Amsterdam
Frisian Sea
Harlingen
Terschelting
Viseland
North Sea
Friesland
Local Personalities Return From Short Visits Across States
Albert Curless of Clovis New Mexico returns home after visiting C. H. Gurm and A. Swink. J. M. Fisher and Arthur Schneider of Nauvoo Illinois depart after a brief visit with W. J. Singleton and wife. Leaton Irwin of the Irwin Overland group attends Overland day in Missouri with M. E. Lusk and others at a company banquet for dealers.
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Albert Curless
Cloves
New Mexico
C. H. Gurm
A. Swink
Curless
Clovis
J. M. Fisher
Arthur Schneider
Nauvoo, Til
W. J. Singleton
Leaton Irwin
Irwin- Overland Company
Overland-Irwin Company
Hannibal
Missouri City
M. E. Lusk
Overland
Gilker Inquest Concludes After Fire Death At Jersey Street
The coroner's inquest into the death of Angus Gilker, suffocated by smoke in a second story room at a rear Jersey street building, returned a verdict. Witnesses including Assistant Chief Ed Schell and Fireman Henry Finkenhoefer described finding the body near a cook stove. Kern the painter and John Bakers gave background on Gilker, known as Gus, born about 1865 in Quin cy, a rough laborer reportedly about 70, unmarried. The proceedings were led by Judge Ben Heckl due to the illness of Coroner Haley.
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Jersey Street
Angus Gilker
Freiburg
Ben Heckl
Haley
H. C. Colling
J. J. Linton
Bell
Theodore Heckle
Jacob Wible
Louis C. LaCroix
Ed Schell
Fir Department
Mr. Gilkes
Henry Finkenhoefer
Schell
Kern
Gilber
Gus
John J. Bakers
North Seventh Street
Wolf Manufacturing
Compan
August Gilker
Quincy
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Father O'Brien
Mary Perry
Eleanor Kimmell
Rolla Babcock
State Bank
Til
Parker & Johnson Tailors For Gentlemen
Maine St
Weilers
N. Fifth ST
Brinkman’s
A. L. Brinkman Ice Cream Co
Fifth St
A. L. Brinkman
Gilker Inquest
Condugtes
Kespohl- ‘Mohrenstechers
Louis XIV
Louis XV
Louis XVI
Pompeii
France
Benjamin Franklin
John Paul Jones
Marie Antoinette
Jacquard
Alice Thomas
Bedford
OE Puere
Peter Thompson
Kespohl
Mohrenstecher
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