Only Seventy-Nine Bills Before Gov Deneen for Signature
After three months and a half of the legislative session Illinois has 79 bills laid before Gov Deneen for signature and possible laws. In the final three weeks the assembly must complete work, with only three general measures of importance passed so far two appropriations totaling 150000 for continued Central investigation and a raise in circuit court judge salaries.
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Gov. Deneen
Springfield
Gov
Deneen
General Assembly
Illinois -Central
Assembly
William O. Wilson
Legislative Voters’ League
Illinois ex-officials ordered to repay 321000
A Supreme Court ruling holds Illinois ex-treasurers and auditors liable for 321000 unlawfully taken from the treasury since 1872. Test case involved Henry Wulff and bondsman Floyd Whittemore. amounts due include 33886 from James McCullough and 43344 from Charles Swigert. Whittemore’s estate may bear heavy liability. banks with bonds may pay if officials cannot.
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Supreme Court
Ilinois
Treasury
Stead
Hamlin
Henry Wulff
Floyd K. Whittemore
Springfield
Wulff
James S. McCullough
McCullough
Charles C. Swigert
Lippincott
Swigert
Rutz
Ridgeway
Tanner
Rufus Ramsey
Direct Primary Fight Moves in House Suspension Lifeline
The house treated the direct primary law as a special order as John P. McGoorty moved to suspend the rules and advance the bill to second reading without committee referral. He called the county feature a standing joke for candidates seeking nomination yet delegates pick a man not on the primary ballot. The motion was referred to next Wednesday by Chairman Lindly and the steering committee.
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John P. McGoorty
McGoorty
Lindly
Inheritance Tax Bill Killed In Senate Vote
Senator Humphrey's measure to require Cook County treasurer to pay two per mille inheritance tax into the county treasury failed in the Senate by a 24 to 20 vote. The bill had previously been retained by the county treasurer in past sessions.
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Humphrey
Cook ‘County
Bill Aims to Nullify State Audit Fee Forfeitures
A bill will be introduced in the legislature to nullify the supreme court ruling ordering mer state auditors and state treasurers to return 321 001 65 dollars in fees collected with register bonds. Legislators say many bondholders face bankruptcy as principals are dead, citing old cases like Auditor C E Lippincott 1875 76 and bondsman Dr William Jayne of Springfield 80, who has little estate. They argue that office holders expected such fees as part of emoluments.
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Supreme Court
Conte Gecibiuel
C. E. Lippincott
William Jayne
Springfield
State loses bid against Illinois Central in back tax suit
The supreme court dismissed the state's suit for accounting and recovery of back tax shares from Illinois Central after a divided ruling on whether revenue falls under constitutional meaning. The attorney general may refile in Sangamon or Cook counties, delaying final action for a year or two before the case reaches the supreme court again.
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Illinois Central Railroad
Supreme Court
Circuit Court
Superior Court
Sangamon
Cook County
Scott
Dempsey
Sangamon County
Appropriation Bills Advance in State Normal Funding
The house opened the omnibus appropriation bills with two measures for normal institutions. Ordinary expenses total 559000 for two years through 1909, with allocations for Northern DeKalb 66000 Eastern Charleston 55000 Normal University Normal 70000 Western Macomb 60000 Southern Carbondale 48500 equal to 299500 yearly. The special bill lists Northern DeKalb 8000 Western Charleston 17000 Normal Normal Normal 110000 including 100000 for a manual arts building, Western Macomb 19000 Southern Carbondale 7000.
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House
Shanahan
Committee On Appropriations
State Normal
Northern State Normal
DeKalb
Eastern State Normal
Charleston
State Normal University
Normal
Western State Normal
Macomb
Southern State University
Carbondale
Normal Universities
College and Seminary
Wastern State Normal
Southern Normal University
Senate substitutes two cent railway rate plan in place of house bill
Senator Hurburgh proposed a senate substitute for the two cent maximum railroad fare bill. The plan, drawn from a senate subcommittee classification bill, originally split railroads into three rate classes but the two and one half cent rate was dropped. The amended measure sets two rates and requires annual reclassification by the railroad and warehouse commission with fines from one thousand to five thousand dollars for violations.
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Hurburgh
Senate
House
Senate Railroad Committee
Railroad and Warehouse Commission
Committee kills bill to end party circle on ballot
The elections committee reported the bill by Mr. Schaefer unfavorably, killing the effort to eliminate the party circle at the head of the ballot.
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Schaefer
Illinois Charter for Trolley Line Proposed
An electric railroad to cross Illinois from Terre Haute to Quincy with a Shelbyville to Venice branch is proposed by the St. Louis Terre Haute and Quincy Traction Co. The Springfield office lists capital stock at 25000 dollars. The route would pass through Clark Cumberland Coles Shelby Montgomery Sangamon Macoupin Greene Pike and Adams counties and extend a Shelbyville line toward Venice in Madison county near St. Louis.
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Springfield
Illinois
Terre Haute
Quincy
Shelbyville
Venice
Madison County
St. Louis, Terre Haute and Quincy Traction Co
Tihany
Clark, Cumberland
Coles
Shelby
Montgomery
Sangamon
Macoupin, Greene, Pike and Adams
Shelby County
Shelby, Fayette
Bond
Madison
Requisition for John Meyers in burglary case
Carlinville Governor Deneen issued a requisition on Missouri’s governor to return John Meyers to Carlinville. Meyers is charged with burglary and attempt to kill linked to the March 9 post office burglary where Officer Vanmeter was shot. He was located days later in St. Louis with a broken arm, claiming a fight injury. Local officers have visited him in St. Louis city hospital where he remains under care.
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Carlinville
Deneen
Missouri
John Meyers
Vanmeter
Meyers
St. Louis
Snake Hunters Kill 450 Snakes in Farrington Den
A party of snake hunters attacked the Farrington township den in Mount Vernon, Illinois, using dynamite to rout the snakes. They killed about 450 reptiles including rattlers, with many still alive after the blast a mass of snakes was tossed into the air and a fight ensued.
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Mount Vernon
Farrington Township
Illinois
Dinner to Newspaper Men
Rockford reports a municipal election with a total vote 1400 higher than two years ago and fraud allegations. An investigation will be conducted as three defeated alderman candidates seek a recount. Claims say in one ward nearly 50 foreigners, many without naturalization papers, were voted.
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Rockford
Edwardsville Woman On Trial For Murder Of Husband Near Marysville
Mrs Lucy Shannon stood trial for first degree murder Monday alleging she shot and killed her husband Leonard Shannon at their home near Marysville Dee. He died days later at St Marys Hospital in East St Louis.
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Edwardsville
Lucy Shannon
Leonard Shannon
Marysville
Dee
St. Mary’s Hospital
East St.Louis
Waukegan Man Seeks Peace Bond For Wife
Louis Seeger of Zion City requests Justice Weiss to place his wife under a peace bond claiming life is unbearable. After testimony the judge set a $500 bond, which she could not post, sending her to jail.
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Waukegan
Louis Seeger
Zion City
Justice Weiss
Blind Chicago man dies after fall from third story window
Margaret Smalley is jailed on a murder charge after allegedly hurling her husband, 40 year old Joseph Smalley, a blind newsman, from a window of their residence. The fatal incident occurred in Chicago as authorities investigate motive and timeline.
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Chicago
Joseph Smalley
Margaret Smalley
Dixon-Charles Ticks Dies After Night at Neighbor’s
Farmer Dixon-Charles Ticks, who lived near Shaw Station, was found dead in bed Thursday morning at neighbor Earl Clink’s home. He had been en route home when his buggy struck a telephone pole and chose to stay the night with Clink.
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Razor
Chicago
John Alling
Chicago Stock Exchange
South Clark Street
Dixon
Charles Ticks
Shaw Station
Earl Clink
Mr. Dicks
Mr. Clink
Obituary notices from various towns
Recon Deathe at Paris Jakes 5 Reese aged 84 at Trenton Mary Seltor aged 86 at McLeansboro James M Blades aged 31 funeral notices from multiple locations listing names and ages.
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Paris
Janes
Reese
Trenton
Mary Seltor
McLeansboro
James M. Blades
Saltcoats Letter Promotes Canadian West Farming Potential
A Saltcoats resident recounts four and a half years of farming in the Canadian West, detailing yields of 39 bushels per acre on 90 acres in 1904, 24 bushels wheat and 35 bushels oats per acre on 160 acres in 1905, and 25 bushels wheat plus 45 bushels oats on 175 acres in 1906. He urges others to move, work hard, and not grumble at trifles, endorsing government literature for more details.
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Saltcoats
Baldwin
Craix
Wisconsin
Zeal Without Common Sense and Reform Sparks
A Presbyterian clergyman praises the late Rev Henry Martin Field of Stockbridge editor of the Evangelist for 44 years noting Field warned reformers to keep common sense. An anecdote shows a teashop owner narrowly escaping a reformer’s nerve cure ploy, illustrating zeal clashing with practicality.
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Henry Martin Field
Stockbridge
Field
Faddist
An Animal Lover’s Ambition Mentioned
The quote from Country Life expresses a genuine love for animals and a wish to improve favored breeds, suggesting that achieving this would bring lasting enjoyment and fulfillment. It frames animal breeding as a meaningful life pursuit.
Appendicitis and Diet Cures Highlight Grape-Nuts Story
A posted read like a testimonial describing appendicitis linked to starch heaviness in the bowels. AN H. geirl credits milk and Grape-Nuts with recovery, noting prior constipation and indigestion after school. The note claims weight gain, improved digestion, and promotes Postum’s advertising book The Road to Wellville.
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AN. H. Geirl
Postum, Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Missouri Woman Praises Dean's Kidney Pills
A Columbia Missouri woman Mrs J D Johnson at 603 West Hickman Street says after two years of dropsy pain and a swollen side caused by kidney issues she found relief using Dean's Kidney Pills. She reports no recurrence after two boxes and notes the medicine’s cost as 50 cents per box. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY markets the pills.
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J. D. Johnson
West Hickman St
Columbia, Mo
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
German dairyman boasts hens never lay anything but fresh eggs
A German dairyman near Philadelphia proclaims the superiority of his dairy products and pressures a Germantown housekeeper to switch her loyalty. He asserts with pride that his hens never lay anything but fresh eggs, challenging her to transfer her patronage.
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Philadelphia
Germantown
Blood Cleaning Tonic Promised to Restore Red Blood Counts
An advertisement claims a home-made mixture with Fluid Extract Dandelion Compound Karyon and Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla will restore kidney function, filter uric acid, expel poisons, and raise red blood cell counts to 95 percent, promising relief from facial eruptions, rheumatism, nervous issues, stomach troubles, backache, and urinary problems.
City Man Is Worst Bors. A City Man’s Dull Talk
A London Globe quote favors the city man as the dullest conversational topic. It notes debates on golf shop chatter and approach shots can bore outsiders, but argues the habitual discourses of the genuine city man surpass all for dullness.
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London Globe
Deafness Cured Only by Constitutional Remedies
Deafness cannot be cured by local applications. It results from inflammation of the mucous membrane of the Eustachian tube. When the tube is inflamed you have imperfect hearing. when it closes deafness follows. Nine of ten cases are caused by catarrh, an inflamed mucous surface. One hundred dollars reward for any case of deafness caused by catarrh that Hal's Catarrh Cure cannot cure. Bend for circulars free. F J Cheney & Co Toledo OH. Sold by druggists 75c. Take Halas Family Pills for constipation.
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F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Druguista
Hala
Mount Vesuvius ascent cited by old friend Smith
A dialogue recalls meeting Smith last month as he climbed Mount Vesuvius with a young woman. The exchange hints at his familiar weakness, kissing, though no kiss is explicitly witnessed, proposing an attempt to reach “the mouth of the crater.”
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Pat
Smith
Mount Vesuvius
Temperance Plan in Navy Spurs Rum Ration Trade
The British admiralty offers sailors 30 cents a month to abstain from rum. In practice sailors avoid drinking by drawing rations and selling them to merchants at up to 80 cents a month, undermining the temperance effort.
Pink Pills Credited With Health Restoration for Women
In Utica case a woman reports six months of postnatal illness with headaches dizziness swelling and weight loss. After taking Williams Pink Pills her headaches eased appetite returned and weight rose to over 130 pounds. The ad claims the pills create new blood and boost entire body function and urges readers to purchase by mail from Dr Williams Medicine Co.
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William Manley
93 Court Street
Utica
Williams
Dr. Williams Medicine Co
Schenectady
N. Y
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Dr. Williams
Standard Oil Company
Carters
Little Iver Pills
Pour Gegier
Seurity Remedy CO
Defiance
Starch
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