Narrow Escape as Freight Train Skims Cass Street Crossing
A late night collision near Cass Street involved a heavy freight engine from the Chicago and Alton railroad narrowly missing an eastbound car. Police blame neglect by the crossing towerman for failing to operate gates or warn the crew, though railroad officials cleared both crew and flagmen of blame.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dellwood
Cass Street
Chicago & Alton Railroad
Lie
Police Department
Alton
William Huen
Chicago & Joliet Railway
Motorneer Berry
Conducor Axtell
Informahad
Huen
Jefferson Street
Lamert’s GOP bid tangled with gas trust tactics
Kane county Democrats accuse Lambert’s Fourteenth district candidacy of Democratic voting history and Gas Trust influence. They claim key meetings in Lambert’s circle shaped campaigns with Copsey, McCormick, and Copley financing Mayor Price’s ascent, while Snapp faces fierce opposition from the anti-Snapp trio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lambert Gas and Sanitary District
Cleveland
Blaine
Kane County
George Alschuler
Gas Trust
Congress
Lambert
Wheatland Men
Herkimer Street
McHenry County
Price
Snapp
Clow
Copsey
McCormick
Monty Civil War Veterans Attend Annual Picnic
Bartleson Post G A R members from Aurora attended the county veterans annual picnic. They left at 10 this morning aboard the Joliet and Southern track for Aurora.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bartleson Post
Aurora
Mornthe Joliet & Southern Trac
Peter Cuttie Dies After Sunstroke at Illinois Steel Plant
Peter Cuttie 43 longtime Joliet resident and coke oven foreman died from heat convulsions after being overheated at work and then collapsing at home. Survived by wife six children. funeral from 106 South Joliet to St Marys Church with interment Mt Olivet. Ongoing heat and mill conditions blamed for prostrations.
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Peter Cuttie
Illinois Steel
Joliet
John Cuttie
Cuttie
South Joliet Street
Mills
Raymond
Horace
Harold
Joseph
Mary
Margaret
Aerie of Eagles
St. Mary's Church
Mt. Olivet Cemetery
June brides set record for licenses issued in Joliet area
County Clerk Mottinger reports ten marriage licenses issued from 8 AM to 4 PM, nearing a historic single day high. Couples listed include Edward Bagnell and Sadie Reilly of Joliet, Edmund Burrill and Emily Stafford of Joliet, and others from Joliet, DuPage, Green Garden, Wilmington, Moline, and Frankfort.
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Mottinger
Edward J. Bagnell
Sadie Reilly
Joliet
Edmund Francis Burrill
Emily M. Stafford
George Mahoney
Alice McDonald
Joseph Schumacher
Mary F. Jungies
DuPage
Wm. Englemann
Frankfort
Mary Bettenhausen
Green Garden
Francis A. Krause
Wilmington
Anna Hapft
Moline
Ill
Albert Futterer
Loretta Reilly
Fred A. Fongerousse
Gertrude D. Ludden
Chi
Absteagters Elect Officers At First Convention
Springfield hosts the Illinois Abstractors association annual convention where John J. Pitts of Bloomington is named president. Other officers include Warren R. Hickox secretary A J Worman treasurer Walter Ayres and an executive committee with members from Champaign Springfield Chicago Joliet Flora and Jacksonville.
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Springfield
Republican—Thellinois Abstracters’ Association
Warren R. Hickox
Kankakee
A. J. Worman
Effing
William W. Johnson
Champaign
Jesse K. Payton
B. R. Marriott
Chicago
Charles F. Goodspeed
Joliet
Sol F. Finch
Flora
Five Wheatland Farmers Arrested for Seining in DuPage River
Five prominent Wheatland and DuPage farmers were arrested by Deputy Wardens Mather and Norton for using seine nets in the DuPage river near the DuPage Valley creamery. The Trout Fishing club of Plainfield aided in the operation, with a sixty-foot dragnet and bucket net employed. The miners were identified as John Williams, George Firestein, Frank Firestein, George Grabow, and an unnamed associate.
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DuPage River
DuPage Valley
Guy Mather
Frank Norton
John Williams
DuPage
George
Frank Firestein
George Grabow
Wheatland
Trout Fishing Club of
Plainfield
Mather
Norton
Joliet
Isaak Walton
Trout Club
John Trout
The
Relub
Mystery in Childs Death Cleared by Doctors
An investigation by Drs McRoberts McGann and Struzynski found that Anna Verbich died of scarlet fever, not poisoning from ice cream. The Austrian family contested the cause, a red neck mark traced to petroleum after a cloth was placed on swollen glands, and no coroner was summoned. The child was buried in St. Josephs cemetery. another sister aged four has scarlet fever.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. A. McRoberts
M. E. McGann
J. Struzynski
Anna Verbich
Joseph Verbich
Noel
St. Joseph's Cemetery
Old People's Home Dedicated by Swedish Lutheran Church
The Old People's Home of the Swedish Lutheran church was formally dedicated this afternoon with a dedication program in English and Swedish. Built at 27000 dollars, the facility has already welcomed twenty residents since opening in January, with 6000 to 7000 more needed to complete payments as a special campaign funded the project. Delegations from Rockford DeKalb Aurora Batavia Geneva St Charles Elgin and Chicago joined in the ceremony led by Rev A A Jacobson and Dr M C Ton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gas Trust
Aurora
Colonel Copley
Price
Rockford
DeKalb
Cialears
Chicago Traction
Chicago
Delegatio
Batayueva
St. Charles
Elgin
Moline
National Synod of the Church
Swi
E. T. Stark
S ‘Anston
Plan to try Mildred Rudd on assault charge in Wilmington case
Mildred Rudd wife of Fi Rudd faces a new trial in court on an assault with a deadly weapon charge involving her stepdaughter Margaret Rudd who is cared for in Chicago Heights. Information indicates Mia Rudd left her husband’s home and may be in Washington state while the first trial ended with a hung jury.
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Wilmington
Chai
Ip State
Washington
Margaret Rudd
Chicago Heights
Mia
Rudd
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Milla Hades
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Alton B. Parker
Absteagters
Chas. F. Goodspeed
John J. Pitts
Blooomington
Bloom
Ington
Ham
Walter “Ayres
Jack
Sonville
Springfield, Ill
Leining
Old People’s
Swedish Lutheran Church
S. A. Linder
Geneva
A. A Jacobson
This
Mildred Rudd
Iriadim
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