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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1905
Page
9
Court records list dispostas of cases in circuit and chancery divisions. Transactions include divorce decree, injunction continuance, foreclosures, partitions, and numerous mineral interests conveyed in Edwardsville and neighboring towns with amounts ranging from $175 to $8,000.
A series of real estate transfers lists numerous parcels in Highland Maryville Collinsville and Saline with buyers and sellers including Ida Widmer Gottlieb Escheer Laura Leriche John Bardill Chas Grill Clara Surflub J L R Wadsworth Fred Bana C A Hartmann Sr J B Vigna Jr Charlotte Jarret Red Grefend Village of Maryville Henry Wedemeyer Frank Gayer John Schlaeppi Wilhelmina Schlaeppi Levi Malan Ernest Malan Chris Opel Maria Rothe C A Ambrosius Donk Bros Coal and Coke Co and Edward Thorp. The transfers include various lot and block descriptions with price totals ranging from 100 to 6450.
A listing of individuals including William Bunte Lena Ueinmann Gustav Stobbe Lulu Eisenberg Homer Lamb and others with ages and towns such as Edwardsville Worden Madison Alton and Jerseyville. The fragment ends with an old adage It pays to tell what you have to sell.
Kansas City Mo July 21 The City National Bank closed after holding over 100000 of C J Devlin of Topeka paper linked to the recent Topeka First National failure. Bank examiner E E Ames acted under the comptroller of the currency. The run on deposits and a 200000 urgent bad paper rescue preceded the shutdown. No panic, but nearby banks felt effects and directors indicated no further failures expected.
Mrs Emmatilda Zeigler widow of a baking powder maker sues to break her late husband will claiming insanity. The estate valued at 30 million largely goes to his adopted son William Zeigler who turns 14 this Friday. Also notes a golden wedding anniversary in Panaca Illinois and a grant of pork reserves in Washington state.
Washington reports from American consul Samuel L. Gracy in Fuchau describe a May 6 Shanghai gathering by the Jen Ching Literary Society where over 200 attendees resolved to boycott American goods. They urged higher wages for natives dealing with Americans and called for withdrawal of Helsing railway privileges, with a pledge to investigate American goods and appeal for impartial press and missionary support to repeal exclusion laws.
The will of John Hay, late secretary of state, has been filed in Washington for probate. Beneficiaries include his widow Clara Stone Hay and his siblings Leosward Hay, Mary Hay Woolfolk, and Charles Edward Hay with specified sums and bequests. Executors named are Payne Whitney and James Walcot Wadsworth Jr.
Mrs Amanda E Stechtenoth of Cincinnati files in the United States circuit court to recover 11000 claiming losses from bucketshop speculation. She seeks a receiver for the Central Stock and Grain Exchange of Chicago and related entities. The court appoints a receiver for the Chicago exchange which ceased to exist three years ago.
Bar Harbor July 21 Commander Perry bids farewell to Morris K Jesup whose help built and equipped the Roosevelt the Arctic steamer bound from New York for northern waters Perry promises to send a message from Labrador upon return Berlin July 21 German scientists announce Allypime a new anesthetic with cocaine like effects without secondary poison reactions
Lancaster Missouri July 21 Alonzo Jackson who killed his 17 year old wife was found hanging to a limb with a skull fracture in the brain officials believe he was lynched The couple were buried in the same grave Jackson was in a waning jeopardy
Resolutions honor Neighbor James S Collina and Napoleon Gouiby for deaths in 1905. Drape charter in mourning thirty days and extend sympathy to families. Epworth League notes loss and seeks comfort, urging reverent remembrance and support for bereaved relatives.
A local organization orders mourning for thirty days and to publish the resolutions in the paper. The notice names Mrs A Vandaveer Miss Clara Boston Com Miss Ruth Davis and references the Robert Browning and Goose clubs. The goose club reports a record turnout with 3030 members last year and near this year.
Passengers aboard the steamer Coptic include seven officers from the Russian hospital ship Ore and Mrs Olga Yourlieff, widow of a Russian captain killed at sea, all heading back to Russia. In Duluth to Buffalo plans for Baron Komura’s lake trip were dropped due to haste to reach the east. Official notes indicate Washington appoints figures to the General Stat. A kerosene fire incident injures a girl named Gardner. Senator Chauncey M. Depew plans to return from Europe before month’s end. Bernard C. Rede penning, a wealthy Chicago jeweler, drowned while swimming at the Chicago Athletic Association pool.
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