Around a Big State: Brief compilation of Illinois News
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- Local News, 9 Apr 1910, p. 3
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- Indict twelve at Cairo for attack on jail: Frank Gorman, James Davidge, C. O. Foster, Lee Watsosn, Samuel Wessinger, W. H. Simpson, James Casey, J. B. Scott, William C. Charles, George B. Walker, O. P. Hard, John Mahoney
"Dan" Johnson, Yorkville baliff, succumbs at 95
Law on employers' liability under discussion
Mrs. Victor Williams, aged 45, hanged herself in Moline. Christian Horat, age 23, also committed suicide
Jail for ex-judge, bootlegger, J. D. Norris
Three-year-old daughter of Frank Dinwiddle of Liderberry died
Fire destroyed buildings at Ogara No. 1 mine in Harvinburg
The Rev. A. Legrand of Pella, Iowa, accepted a call to a church in Quincy
Miner killed by falling slate: John Walker, age 40
Miss Alice Dunbar, age 19 [unclear], burned to death at Fielden [unclear], her clothes having caught from a [unclear]
Whole family goes mad in Belleville: John Goetz, his brother, his wife, Kunegunda, and his daughter Hilda
Fire destroyed every building on William Storm's farm, eighteen miles north of Sterling
Rev. H. G. Swope of Springfield has accepted a call to Grace M. E. Church in Quincy
Florence Gash, 15, and James Butler, 15, were married in Sterling the other day, parents giving consent
Judge Creighton of Springfield issued a mandamus taking the liquor question off the ballot
Streator citizens will vote on the proposition of whether the city ire and police departments will be put on a civil service basis
Mrs. John Spless, 54, dropped dead of apoplexy in Freeport while on her way to the hospital where her husband had been taken for an operation
J. C. Lyons of Oregon was fined $1,070 for violation of the anti-saloon law
Thophile Kamp, 30, was sent to an insane asylum because of his mania for destroying tombstones
Miss Annie McAmboy, aged 24, swallowed strychnine and died
The grand jury at Cairo submitted its final report and blamed Mayor Parsons, the police department and Sheriff Nellis [unclear] for the attack on the county jail last February, alleging lack of vigilance
Dr. G. S. Bolt of Pana will drill for oil on a large farm near Herrick
Cairo narrowly escaped riots when James Solomin, 45 years old, was arrested on a charge of attempting to attack a 5-year-old girl, Lola May Nation.
Fire destroyed the entire business section of Ashley including Corson's jewelry store, Gelger Bros' furniture store, H. L. Pitichford's cigar factory, Steve Jeroske's bakery, M. Kerstein's merchandise store, W. H. Seibert's [unclear] drug store and T. W. Brown's grocery store.
Waterway victor in Senate. The Senate Committee on Commerce in Washington has agreed to the conditional appropriation of $1,000,000 for the Illinois stretch of the lakes to the gulf deep waterway
State Auditor McCullough has issued a permit to S. M. Mahood, George H. Reed and William B. Hosler to organize the Farmers' Bank of Buckingham of Buckingham, Kankakee County with a capital of $25,000
Hopkins' niece a suicide. Former Senator's kin found at bottom of a cistern. Melancholia caused Miss Ella Bessie Hopkins, niece of former United States Senator Hopkins, to commit suicide at the latter's home inAurora, by drowning herself in a cistern.
County fair dates
Elgin Pastor given new charge. Rev. O. N. Olson, pastor of the Swedish Lutheran Church at Moreland, a suburb of Chicago, was elected to the pastorate of the Evangelical Lutheran Bethlehem Church of Elgin, Rev. J. T. Kraft, who has resigned to become pastor of a church at Wakefield, Nebraska
The Oil & Coal Belt Railway Company secured an option on the uncompleted Galatia, Harrisburg & Southeastern Railway
Asylum Head gets new job. Dr. George A. Zeller, superintendent of the South Bartonville insane asylum, has been appointed one of the enumerators of the census bureau
Cairo gets riot guns
Announcement is made that the government dam across Rock river at Sterling is to be hydroelectrically equipped immediately
Springfield pastor, Rev. H. G. Swops, has accepted a call to Grace Methodist Episcopal Church at Quincy - Date of Publication
- 9 Apr 1910
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- Wilmette.News.299691
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