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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1897
Page
2
A Troy election on February 27 asks citizens to vote yes for electric lights. The piece urges all voters to participate to spur growth, boost business, and provide work for idle men, arguing turnout benefits Troy’s future welfare and prosperity.
The note highlights February as the birth month for Washington and Lincoln. Nevada opposes trusts but defends a prize ring legally. Fred Li Blome, longtime Staunton Times editor, dies in Maryville California. Ezra Perry of Attleboro Massachusetts fathers ten daughters. An exchange cage remark hints editors’ experience. Decatur Republicans profited about $800 from photo sales. Banker W P St John of New York, former Democratic treasurer, dies. A Douglas World editor Alsoput seeks postmastership. electric plant planned, with more improvements likely to follow.
A Kansas man proposes a bill to end county officer elections and award offices to the lowest bidder, with applicants required to submit bids. A Missouri House bill would make matrimonial infidelity by a married man a felony punishable by five years in prison. Post mortem reveals Duestrow’s brain showed insanity, though one physician disagreed. The Highland Journal lauds local business leaders and farmers and urges continued efforts to boost mutual markets between country and city.
Representative Bellamy S Sutton of Indiana proposes hotels print menus in English if the relief and protection bill is favored by the legislature. When the bill reached the floor Sutton offered his amendment and supported it with a quip about goose liver and Patty Day in a light remark.
The Alton Telegraph reports Squire Nathan ruled that saloon drinks taken on Sunday are illegal and saloonkeepers cannot collect for Sunday credits. Three similar cases are in Justice Nathan's court, with defendants seeking rebates for Sunday drinks. Plaintiffs face a quandary and the decision may halt further Sunday credit.
Gen Joseph Orville Shelby died at his home near Adrian Missouri last Saturday from pneumonia. Born in Lexington Kentucky he moved with his parents to Lafayette county Missouri at 19 and later owned a rope works and plantation. He raised a Confederate cavalry company and led Shelby’s Brigade in battles across Missouri Arkansas Louisiana and Texas. At his death he served as United States Marshal for the Western District of Missouri.
A correspondent recalls 1876 style horrors in plague and famine stricken India. Starving adults weigh under fifty pounds and children are emaciated. Government relief along rail lines gangs up crowds, with people crushed under wheels as grain trains pass. No relief seen before September.
Missouri criminals face the gallows in Clayton and Union. Cottonhead Schmidt and Sam Foster executed for the Atwater murder in Clayton after a January 23, 1896 crime tied to robbery. Arthur Duestrow hanged in Union after killing his wife and child during a drunken spree.
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