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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1906
Page
7
Circuit court reports various divorces and dower damages, cruelty findings, and adultery lazily noted. It also records personal injury damages, desertion and drunkenness charges, and guardianship details. Probate docket lists multiple estates with emphasized wills, inventories, appraisements, sales, conservators, and executors including names like George Hirsch and Magdalina Goehringer.
List of cases includes Morriss Glassi v Romarist appeal Frank Hartman v Hartman trespass City of Troy v Highland Brewing appeal Franke Hartmann v Hendricks trespass Richard W Stevens v Oreile V Lowe trespass Alton Savings Bank v Squires assumpsit A A Rosenbush & Co v J Z Reeds & Co assumpsit Dabney Taylor v Supreme Tribe of Ben Hur assumpsit Thomas Wheat v Thomas S Waldtrand et al foreclosure Hanson Van Winkle Co v Daniel J Toothill attachment T Rabbermann v Highway Commissioners 5 6 ejectment George E Camp trustee Henry Camp foreclosure M T Schmidt trustee v Alex Flannigan et al foreclosure H R Heimberger administrator v Charles Hill assumpsit Peter Gerardo v Donk Bros Coal & Coke Co 20000 damages for personal injuries Steve Shatanik v East St Louis &
Executors named without bond or with bond in August sessions. John Wansing and Henry Seebode deal via probate evidence. Real estate transfers include L E Wittenfeld to A C Esterlein for Lot 11 Block 20 Gidding’s addition Collinsville and multiple other property deeds in Collinsville Highland Worden and Edwardsville with prices listed. Also notices of will contests in Buffalo over Adie M Vogel estate and a $1,500 automobile bequest amid a $20,000 total estate valuation.
A fragment notes a photograph mounting board for sale at the CALL office. The line references a man in a trance and his consolation by another trance, unclear context, but hints at a prisoner involved in a sale or display.
Chicago reporting that American Lumberman states the 1905 lumber output for Michigan Wisconsin and Minnesota reached 5 820 909 000 feet across all kinds Pine production fell 14 percent from 1904 and hemlock stock dropped 38 percent Hardwood was the second heaviest cut on record Shingle output was the lightest in 15 years The report notes the west of Chicago district dominates northern pine production and accounts for about six sevenths of total pine output
Dr Hasselbach supports the Finsen ray as effective for heat diseases and nervous heart ailments. He tested on two doctors and twenty patients awaiting treatment, noting skin temperature rise and progress toward resuming practice. A 40 bed hospital for light ray treatment is planned to open in four years.
In Munfordville Kentucky Mrs. Isaac Welborn found forty two rattlesnakes, from six inches to five feet, beneath a hearth at the Welborn farmhouse. She scalded and displayed them, lifting the reptiles with tongs. The event followed weeks of haunted house rumors, drawing curious neighbors before war weather drove them away.
New York reports a forecast by National Institute of Immigration president Broughton Brandenberg predicting a drop of about 90,000 in U S immigration for 1906 from the prior year. Open winter kept 200,000 laborers at work and many would not return, while a coal strike could further deter emigration.
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