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Illinois News and Local Notices From Surrounding Towns
Milk sickness prevalent at Ram ey. The 108th Illinois reunion held in Peoria. Annual meeting of the C. K. of I at Belleville. Bluff Line Railroad passes into receivership. Lewiston forms a Business Mens Association. Monticello Seminary opens its flat year. Carlinville National Bank case reversed and remanded. Sugar beet factory in Peoria with $400 000 capital. A Carlyle man loses $113 in a waist paper fire. Bushnell faces a $5 000 damage suit from Mrs. Walling over a defective sidewalk. Farmers cutting second hay crop. Meadows yield well. August Beckett injures his daughter while shooting in Greenville. Hillsboro fines total $178.90 at street fair. Normal cannery to output 50 000 cans corn and 18 000 tomatoes, about 250 workers. Charles W. Garrison found guilty, sent to penitentiary. New Baden coal mine sinking slowed by water. shaft to 180 feet. Squirrels numerous near Carlyle. seen at court house. Springfield State Fair attendance over 18 000 on opening day. Chandlerville detectives watch for crooks and counterfeiters. Moonshining intercepts tied to campaigns. Sorento miners’ strike ends with labor victory. Chicago scale paid, workers to return. Two Bluff Line wrecks near Oldenburg and Hettick. no injuries. Strange man in Moline dies by pistol, after 18 years of wandering and failed perpetual motion machine. Light-hearted ad copy ends with moral quips about manners and society.