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Illinois News Roundup of County Updates and Incidents
A sweeping Illinois brief reports diverse items from St. Clair to Peoria. It notes a rival belt line threat, a new East St. Louis Belt Railway incorporation, a massive Great Western distillery rebuild, Belleville budget changes, new postmasters, and bond retirements. It covers school bond issues, a mill safe move, miner layoffs risk, an iron bridge plan, a newspaper sale, church and civic projects, a fatal gun discharge, company incorporations, election nominees, and local crop weather including oats, broom corn and bay crop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Clair
Madison & St. Louis
Alton Bridge
East St. Louis
Belleville
Finance Committee
C. H. Kinneman
Namcoki
Chas. Forcade
H. R. Dorr
Worden
Wm. Bond
Huey
Clinton County
A. J. Nichola
James Matsler
Champaign
J. M. Gregory
University of the State
Carlyle Mill & Grain Co
Ramsey Bank
Virden
Clinton
Washington
Cox’s Ferry
New Memphis