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Far and Near News Roundup From the Region
A collection of notes reports Perrin selling his Lebanon home and moving to Belleville, a Bank of Oneida robbery yielding 8000 dollars, the Litchfield pickle factory proposal, and the Bluff Line sale to English holders for 650000 likely linking with Chicago Peoria and St. Louis railways. It also notes a Rock Island court house completion, a Belleville county recorder filing 443 records in March, a large Alexander county catamount shot while attacking a boy, and railway safety upgrades at a despot crossing with electric alarms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Nick Perrin
Lebanon
Belleville
Bank of Oneida Sa
Galesburg
St. Clair County
Litchfield
Chicago, Peo and St. Louis
Litchfield Mining and Power Company
Rock Island County
G.O. Stuntz
Alexander County
Richard Hartmann
Holm’s