Detectives to Probe Illinoin Canal Breach Near Channahon
Sheriff Williams and Supt McDonald authorize Pinkerton detectives to investigate the cutting of the Illinois and Michigan Canal west bank between Channahon and Jackson Street locks. Officials plan immediate repairs, restore the stream, and pursue possible culprits as bridge issues fuel local tensions.
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Purce
Pinkerton
Ilinois
West Bank
The
Illi
Leon McDonald
China
H. O. Williams
John Notman
Channahon
Jackson’ Street
Troy
Supreme Court
Everett V Jenks Fatal Duck Hunt Accident
Everett V Jenks died from a shotgun wound during a dawn duck hunt on the Saginaw river. His friend Walter Teall found the body in Jenks’s boat four hours after they started and the cause is listed as an accidental discharge. Jenks’s twin brother Charles drowned in the same river years earlier. The Jenks family prepared to transport the body from Bay City to Chicago.
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Bay City
Michigan
Jenks
Walter Teall
Saginaw River
Ater
Teall
Charles Jenks
Everett
Tealls
Residents urged to speak as unrest grips district
Authorities appeal to residents of the disturbed district amid tense conditions and a reluctance to talk. Further developments are anxiously awaited as the situation remains unsettled.
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Ness
Supervisors Set Annual Meeting Next Week
The Board of Supervisors will hold the regular annual session at the courthouse beginning Tuesday afternoon next week.
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Board of Supervisors
Court House
Township Booths Draw Big Interest at Will County Fair
The Homer and New Lenox township booths drew peak interest at the Will County Fair with broad exhibitor participation. Farmers and wives entered diverse goods, poultry and thoroughbred stock, hinting at stronger local displays and plans to compete at Springfield.
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New Lenox
Homer
Springfield
Will County Fair Association
Will County
High Pressure Water System Still a Live Subject
The effort to secure frontage for a high pressure water system in the business district for fire protection remains active. Delays by those in charge have slowed progress, but the committee will meet next week to plan ways to complete frontage and prepare to submit the matter to the Board of Local Improvements soon.
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Board of Local Improvements
Oscar Kammerman to Teach at University
Oscar Kammerman and his wife will leave Bluff Street this Sunday for Philadelphia where he has accepted an engineering instructor post at the University of Pennsylvania after a thorough qualification review. The appointment pleases many friends. He is a local high school graduate from the class of 1 arene Comte in Bier Epgncerig.
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Oscar Kammerman
Mr. Kammerman
Bluff Street
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Kammerman
University of Pennsylvania
Comte
Bier
Epgncerig
Convicts Escape Manhunt Ends With Indian Boat Theft
Chicago detectives pursue Burnett a Pottawattamie Indian who stole the motor boat The Alice. He escaped on the canal toward Lockport where a gunfight occurred before he surrendered and was brought back to Chicago. Burnett planned to sell the boat in St Louis.
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Chicago
Sanitary Canal
Chicago Detective Bureau
W. C. Wilcox
Reeves Pulley
Comjund
Burnett
Villian
Central
Wilcox
Alice
Columbia Yacht Club
Folsom and Johnson
Lockport
Elf
St. Louis
Fugitives Surrounded Near Marley As Statewide Hunt Goes On
James Kaiser and Clarence Wise escapees from the penitentiary are surrounded in a corn field four miles southwest of a village with reports they are heavily armed. Police in Chicago and across the state circulate descriptions and warn guards and keepers to pursue the convicts, who fled in prison uniforms after a noon escape.
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Orland
James Kaiser
Clarence Wise
Chicago
Murphy
Marley
Orleans
Kaiser
Wise
Inter-State Telephone stockholders oust Evans Conklin faction
At Jersey City August 31 stockholders of the Inter-State Telephone & Telegraph Co. elected a board largely opposed to the Evans Conklin administration. John O. Barrett Joliet and others named for three years, with two-year vacancies filled by Joliet and nearby officials. Cheadle Joliet slated to succeed Conklin as manager, with Cheadle to head a foreign trip to dispose of bonds.
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Inter-State Telephone & Telegraph Co
Jersey City
N. J
Evans-Conklin
Will County
John O. Barrett
Joliet
W. S Bogle
Chicago
C. B. Cheadle
Adam S. Clow
Wheatland
Alfred Stromberg
J.H. Blissoffen
A. T. Mathewson
E+ burn
Iloeery
H. D. Beers Hinckley
Nase Gri Mateos
iVan
E.R. Conklin
Aurora Beacon
Cheadle
Wagner-Dolph-Sillsbee
Putnam-Harral
E R. Conklin
Inter-States
Evans
Wasne
Conklin
Conkin Cie Cheadle
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Paneaton Detectives
Canal Base
Ison Guard
Sheriff Williams
McDonald
Nois & Michigan Canal
Majestic Hotel
Supt. McDonald
Locksport
Madestic Hotel
Chicago Journal
Jackson Street
Channahon Way
Everett V. Jerks
River
Everett V. Jenks
Mr. Jenks
Jay
Wall-Street
Oxte
Will
Wilt County
Reginald DeLancey
Sanitary District
Long Ruan—Dam
Bost
Stone
Mar
Ley
Collins Street
Woman's Department
Ce Ae Eeway Co
Anti-Conklin-Evans
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