Vision Case Dismissed Amid Police Protest at City Court
In a contested city court session, S W Hesse dismissed the Vision case after opposition from Chief McMasters and the state's attorney. Defendants John Kent and Har Riley were later re-arrested for burglary, with warrants served for breaking into a land boarding car and theft of rings.
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Cohn
W. D. Heise
Dan
John Kent
Har Riley
Vision
Trachman
North Chicago
Charles Ell
Otion
South Desplaines Street
Goodspeed
McMasters
Mr. Ell
Heise
Lnst
Virion
Dibell
Ralum
Magate
Wiston
Hennessey
Desplaines
Old Kent
Wallace Street
Joliet City Wheel Tax Plan Faces Revenue Debate
A Joliet measure, backed by Deneen, proposes a wheel tax on all street vehicles to fund city revenue. The plan aims to empower the municipality to tax every vehicle using Joliet streets, with rates varying by vehicle size and importance. Estimated yields range from 500,000 to 1,000,000, depending on enforcement and persistence.
Lockport Man Released on Writ of Habeas Corpus
John McDonald of Lockport became the first man in a long time to be freed from the county jail on a writ of habeas corpus. He secured liberty on the last day of last year and was promptly taken to Dwight. His divorce suit, filed by wife Susie, was dismissed after she accepted his promise of reform. McDonald was released on his own bond of 100 dollars after earlier vagrancy charges. He sought to purge himself of liquor and regain stability in his home.
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John McDonald
Lockport
Dwight
Susie
Marhall
Louis
Lagger
McDonald
McKinley urges action to close Des Plaines bear trap dam
Congressman McKinley asks the war department to request the Chicago drainage district close the bear trap dam at Lockport for ten days to halt rising floodwaters in the Illinois river. Mayor O Connor and Peoria dispatches note the move aims to keep construction on a large municipal bridge in Dresden Heights moving after high water delays.
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Sanitary District
Bear Trap
Economy Light and Power Company
Dresden Heights
Peoria
Til
W. B. McKinley
Champaign
war_ department
Chicago
Desplaines
Lockport
Illinois River
War Department
W. W. Bixby
O'Connor
Chicago Tribune
Draindigs
C@igres Kinley
Bear Tronean
Tor
Poison Dinner Sickness Strikes Flexer Family in Chicago
A New Year dinner at the Flexer home in Chicago sickened most guests with ptomaine poisoning. Mr. Flexer and Ruth Hasse remained well. Paregoric use spiked overnight as doctors were not summoned and the cause remains unexplained.
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A.W. Flexer
Chicago
Mr. Flexer
Ruth Hasse
Feas
Frankfort After Electric Lines Seek Suburban Connection
A Jan 2 meeting in Frankfort pledged to raise 30 000 to 35 000 in bonds for Joliet and Southern Traction to extend from New Lenox to Frankfort Hope to spur a race with Mokena for the new line The plan would connect Chicago Heights and eastern Will County tapping traffic not served by Michigan Central or E J B E lines President Fisher spoke on the effort.
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Mokena
Chicago
New Lenox
Will County
Peotone
Monee
Crete
Steger, Beecher
Joliet
New Leper
Matteson
Michigan Central
Bresident Fisher
Assessing Takes Against Towns Review of Spring Tax Levy
The county clerk completes the spring tax totals from last year except Crete and Joliet due to complex village and school taxes in Cook County. Joliet’s rate rises 44 cents, totaling 9.14 this year from 8.70 in 1906, while the overall levy is slightly lower by ten cents. The table lists money to be collected and the bond the collector must provide, twice the amount to be collected.
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Crete
Joliety
Cook County
Gevat
Joliet
Ction
Joliet Cars May Be Stopped by Aurora Ruling
Judge Ruth of Kane County signs the final decree dissolving the injunction that blocked Joliet & Southern Traction from entering Aurora using Wolf lines. Aurora seeks $8,003 in municipal costs after losing before the Supreme Court. The Wolf company admits defeat over outside cars but contests full cost liability.
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Ruth
Kane County
Supreme Court
Aurora
Joliet & Southern Traction Company
Wolf Lines
Wolf Company
Joliet
E City
Waterway Boon Campaign Planned in Illinois
A bi partisan drive launches a $20 million deep waterway to Joliet Utica with speeches and literature. Leaders like H M Snapp and H T Rainey promote state revenue from canal power and urge rural education to win bonds without tax increases.
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Illinois
Isham Randolph
L. E. Cooley
Lindley
Joliet
Utica
Ilinois
Middle West
Gulf Waterway
Lake Michigan
Feil Claims Daughter Telling Truth in Pell Case
Feil asserts his daughter spoke truth as Pell faces four similar charges. details refer to a decade-old case.
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Feil
Daugh
Pell
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S. W
HESSE
Kohn
Cunningham
Julia Weighbrodt
Will-Peotone
Chas.Bettenhausen
Frankfort
Herman Munsterman
Will- Peotone
Adam Skeldon
Wilming
Geo. Peterson
Wilmington
Lockport Man
Mkinley
Flexer
Paregoric
Little
H. A. Fisher
F. E. Fisher
Selves
Joliet and
South
Ern Traction Company
Kena
Chicago Heights
Eastern
Kanka
Kee
Channahon
Florence
Green Garden
Homer
Jackson Lockport
Manhattan
Plainfield
Reed Ver
Wilmington Wilton
H. M. Snapp
William Lorimer
Henry T. Rainey
J. W. Graff
C. J. Lindley
To Farmers Institute
Barrett Hardware Co
Joliet, Illinois
Barber
Henry EB. Feil
Cass Street
Badlth
Selma
Tat
Her
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