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Tuesday, 1 Jan 1907:
Mrs. Christina
Etz, an old resident of this city, died at her home No. 329
Seventeenth Street, last evening at 6:40 o'clock after an
illness of three days. The deceased was 70 years of age and
was born in Saxony, Germany, coming to this country with her
brother, when fifteen years old.
She is survived by a son and three daughters, Henry
Etz, Mrs. Emma
Richardson, Mrs.
Harry Elias, and
Mrs. Edith Rushing. She
also leaves nine grandchildren.
Mrs. Etz was married at Paducah, Ky., went to Memphis, coming to Cairo a
few years later, where she has resided ever since.
She was a devoted church member and belonged to the
Ladies Negh Verin of the Immanuel Lutheran Church.
The funeral will be held Thursday afternoon with
interment at Villa Ridge.
(Thomas L. Richinson married Emma C. Etz
on 18 Jun 1890, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
In his residence of 53
years in Cairo, Justice Daniel
McCarthy says he
never saw so cold a night as New Year’s Eve in 1863,
forty-three years ago. It was so cold that a number of
soldiers were frozen to death at Fort Holt, across the river
in Kentucky, and at Bird's Point.
Death claimed a number of
prominent men in Cairo and Alexander County during the past
year. The following were taken away during the year:
Died—Mrs. Christine
Etz, Monday, Dec.
31, 1906. Funeral will be held tomorrow (Thursday)
afternoon at 2 o'clock at the residence on Seventeenth
Street. Train will leave foot of Fourteenth Street at 2:45
p.m. for Villa Ridge cemetery. Friends of family invited to
attend.
SUDDEN DEATH OF OVERTON GOOSE
Found Dead in Bed This
Morning at Memphis, Tenn.
Mrs.
Overton Goose, of
Memphis, Tenn., who has been visiting her mother, Mrs.
Strophlet, of
Thirty-fourth Street, received the shocking news this
morning of the death of her husband, which occurred at
Memphis. Mr.
Goose appeared in
good health yesterday, but was found dead in his bed this
morning. Heart
failure was the cause of death. Mrs.
Goose,
accompanied by her mother, left for Memphis this afternoon.
Funeral of Michael Clancy—The
funeral of the late Michael
Clancy was held yesterday afternoon. The remains were taken to Villa
Ridge cemetery for interment.
The funeral was largely attended.
FUNERAL POSTPONED
The funeral
of Mrs. Christina Etz, which was to have been held this afternoon, was postponed until
tomorrow on account of inclement weather.
The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2:30
o’clock at the residence on Seventeenth Street.
Interment will take place at Villa Ridge cemetery.
Friday, 4 Jan 1907:
Insane Negro Dies—Henry Mathis, the negro who
was adjudged insane several days ago and taken to the
hospital for the insane at Anna, Ill., from this city, died
yesterday. His
remains were brought to Cairo today and will be prepared for
burial by Mrs. Feith,
the undertaker.
The deceased carried a life insurance policy for $500 in the
Metropolitan Company.
Death of a Brother.—Mrs. C. L. Barr, of No. 2614
Walnut Street, received the sad news yesterday of the death
of her brother, John Clayton
McConnell, who
died suddenly Wednesday at Tulsa, I. T.
The deceased was 26 years old and is survived by a
wife and two children.
Mr. and Mrs. Barr and sons Dick and Meade left last night for St. Louis, where
they will join the funeral party
en route to Ohio
and will accompany the remains there for interment. Mr.
Uriah Buster
has gone to the hospital connected with the soldiers’ home
at Chattanooga.
He has been an invalid for many years (Villa Ridge) Died,
Wednesday, Dec. 26, at his home three and one half miles
north of Dongola, Mr. John C.
Corzine, age 80
years. Interment
at Chapel Cemetery.
(John C.
Corzine married Louisa Priscilla
Sams on 6 Feb
1849, in Union Co., Ill.
He married Bethena
Sams on 22 Dec
1852, in Union Co., Ill.
He married Mrs. Nancy
Lence on 4 Feb
1873, in Union Co., Ill.
His marker in Christian Chapel Cemetery near Dongola
reads: John C.
Corzine Born Nov.
17, 1827.—Darrel
Dexter)
MURDERER CAPTURED IN FUTUTRE
CITY
Constables King and Watkins
Arrest Man Wanted at Hickman
Will
Neal, a negro
wanted for murder at Hickman, was arrested last night in
Future City by Constables Dee
King and W. H.
Watkins.
Neal is
charged with shooting Charley
Blacksmith and
Mary Johnson last
Monday night.
The sheriff of that county has been notified and will
come after the prisoner.
Neal is 6
feet 6 inches in height and very thin.
In fact, he was so tall, that he was compelled to
lean over to escape bumping his head against the top of his
cell. When he
lies down, the cell is so small that he has to curl up like
a snake or stick his bony legs out of the holes between the
bars of the cell.
He is about the thinnest man ever seen in Cairo for
his height.
Monday, 7 Jan 1907:
Died at East Cairo—Chalmers Kiser, son of J. M.
Kiser, died at
the home of his father at East Cairo Sunday morning of
pneumonia. He
came home from Texas about ten days ago to spend the
holiday. The
friends of his father in Cairo, who is well known here, will
regret to learn of his son’s sudden death.
He was about 25 years of age.
He was buried at Wickliffe today.
Marshall Shoots Negro
City
Marshal A. B. Sexton, of Ullin, shot and instantly killed a negro in that village
last Sunday.
Sexton had arrested the negro for fighting and was taking him to
jail when the latter attempted to take the marshal’s club
away from him.
Fearing that the negro would do him harm or escape, the
marshal pulled his revolver and shot him.
The county coroner was called and held an inquest
exonerating the marshal. Mrs. F.
W. Stophlet
returned from Louisville yesterday where she attended the
funeral of her son-in-law, Overton
Goose, who died
at Memphis of heart failure. Mr. and
Mrs. James Gentry
are the proud parents of a son, who arrived Saturday.
Mrs. Gentry
was formerly Miss Hannah
Hacker. C. L.
Barr has returned from St. Louis, where he accompanied Mrs.
Barr and sons who
were en route to
Marietta, Ohio, to attend the funeral of Mrs.
Barr’s brother.
Insurance Claim Settled—The
Supreme Council of the Catholic Knights and Ladies of
America have forwarded to the officers of the local branch,
the voucher for $1,000 due on the life of Mrs. Helen
Kelly.
The prompt payment of this claim dispels any doubt as
to the stability of this fraternal society.
Tuesday, 8 Jan 1907:
Death of an Aged Judge
Nashville,
Ill., Jan. 8—Leonard
Merker, for ten years associate county judge in Washington County in
the ‘70s, for seventy-five years a resident of Illinois, is
dead at the age of 87 years.
He was the oldest citizen of Nashville
Wednesday, 9 Jan 1907:
Infant Child Dies—The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. James
Gentry, died yesterday morning at 10 o’clock, aged four days.
The remains were taken to Wickliffe, Ky., yesterday
for interment in the family burial plot.
(James Holland
Gentry married Mrs. Hannah “Anna”
Hacker
Crosslan in
September 1903 in Cairo, Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Taken Back to Hickman—Deputy
Sheriff Johnson,
of Hickman Ky., came after Thomas
Neal, the negro
who is wanted there for murder.
He refused to go without requisition papers.
Thursday, 10 Jan 1907:
FORMER CAIRO RESIDENT DEAD
J. W. Dusson, Agent for
Illinois Central During War, Dies in Rochester, N.Y.
Rochester,
N.Y., Jan. 10.—J. W.
Dusson, a prominent resident of this city, and formerly agent for
the Illinois Central at Cairo, Ill., died at his home here
today in his 76th year.
Mr. Dusson
went to Cairo just before the outbreak of the Civil War and
was agent for the Central when it was an important factor in
handling supplies for federal troops.
ANOTHER OLD CITIZEN HAS
PASSED AWAY
Patrick Magner Died Last
Night at Home on Fourth Street
Patrick
Magner, one of
Cairo’s oldest residents, passed away at his home on Fourth
Street last evening about 5:30 o’clock.
The deceased was about 85 years old.
He had suffered from gastritis and suffered a stroke
of paralysis last June from which he never recovered.
The deceased was born in Cork County, Ireland, and
came to his country when a young man and settled at
Pittsfield, Mass.
He came to Cairo a few years later and has resided
here ever since.
He has been a resident of this city for nearly fifty years.
For many years he was employed by the Illinois
Central Railroad Company and also by Charles
Galigher.
He is survived by three daughters, Mrs. William
Curran, Mrs.
Jerry McCarthy, and Mrs. Thomas
Ryan. His
wife died in 1878.
The deceased was an uncle of Alderman William
Magner and Arthur
Magner, and a grandfather of the late John P.
Mockler.
The funeral will be held tomorrow morning at St.
Patrick’s Church and the remains will be taken to Villa
Ridge cemetery for interment.
(William
Curran married Hannah
Magner on 19 Sep
1893, in Alexander Co., Ill.
Thomas Ryan
married Nellie Magner
on 29 Apr 1890, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter) Died,
Saturday evening, January 5, this home three miles west of
here (Dongola), Mr. O. F.
Stoner, age about
51 years.
Interment in the Mt. Pisgah Cemetery Monday, January 7th.
(Obadiah F.
Stoner, son of Henry
Stoner, married
Diannah Knupp on
17 Jun 1875, in Union Co., Ill.
His marker in Mt Pisgah Cemetery near Wetaug reads:
Obadiah F.
Stoner Born July 13, 1855 ied Jan. 5, 1907.
Dianah Stoner His Wife Born Aug.
25, 1888 Died March 11, 1928.—Darrel
Dexter) Mr.
Uriah Burter,
who went to Johnson City for his health, had to come home as
quick as steam could bring him.
He heard that Johnston City had a climate so lovely
that medicines were not needed to restore health or renew
youth. But he
found the climate so much worse than Villa Ridge that they
could not be counted in the same class.
He is still quite ill. The
infant baby of Mr. and Mrs. J.
Robinson, of
Thirty-sixth Street and Highland Avenue, died yesterday
morning.
Friday, 11 Jan 1907:
EARL GHOLSON AT POINT OF
DEATH
Roy P. Gholson Leaves for
Mexico Today to Be at His Bedside.
Roy P.
Gholson received
a message today that his brother, Earl
Gholson, was at the point of death at Oaxaca, Mexico and he left
this afternoon to go to his bedside.
He wired to have his brother taken to Mexico City and
he will meet him there.
He went to Mexico some time ago in the hope that the
change of climate would benefit him, but it seems not to
have done so.
Funeral of Patrick Magner—The
funeral of Patrick Magner was held this morning at St. Patrick’s Church and the remains
taken to Villa Ridge cemetery for interment.
Despite the bad weather the funeral was well
attended. The
pallbearers were as follows:
Active—D. Barry, James Barrow,
Patrick Mahoney,
T. J. Keefe, T.
Darmody, Patrick Doud, J.
Hogan and James
Cowell.
Honorary—Louis
Hasenjaeger, James
Quinn, William
McHale, P.
Cahill, P. Egan, James
Carroll, Thomas
Meehan, Daniel Callahan,
William Casey,
Michael Driscoll,
T. A. Fuller, Timothy Gorman,
Patrick Malondy,
D. F. McCarthy,
B. McManus. C. L.
Barr has gone to Cincinnati to meet his wife and little sons, who
are returning from Marietta, Ohio, where they attended the
funeral of Mrs. Barr’s
brother.
Tuesday, 15 Jan 1907:
ULLIN MURDERERS ARE SENTENCED
Negroes Who Killed Homer
Harris Pleaded Guilty Today
Ullin Murderers Plead Guilty
The two
negroes who were charged with the murder of Homer
Harris, at the
merry-go-round at Ullin, pleaded guilty and were sentenced.
Traverse
received a sentence of twenty years in the penitentiary for
murder and McDonald was sentenced to the state reformatory for manslaughter.
PASSED AWAY AT RIPE OLD AGE
Mrs. Mary A. Miller Passed
Away Last Evening after Brief Illness
Mrs. Mary
A. Miller died at
the home of her daughter, Mrs. Henry
Whitaker, No. 740 Thirty-fourth Street, at 5:12 o’clock last evening
after an illness of about a week.
She would have been 84 years of age and had she lived
until today.
The deceased is survived by six children.
Those beside her daughter named above are Postmaster
Sidney B. Miller,
Mrs. J. S. McRaven,
of Creal Springs, County Clerk Jesse E.
Miller, C. E.
Miller, of
Willard, and Mrs. William
Brown, of Creal
Springs.
All of her children were present at her bedside when
the end came.
Mrs. Miller
also leaves a stepson, George
Miller, of
Diswood.
Mrs. Miller
was born near Salisbury, North Carolina, on January 15,
1823. She was
married to Milford G.
Miller there in 1848 and together in 1857 they removed
to Illinois, where they located at Elco in Alexander County.
Mr. Miller died fourteen years ago, the 28th day of last
November.
After the death of her husband, Mrs.
Miller made her
home with her children, living first with one and then
another.
Mrs. Miller
joined the Lutheran Church at an early age, and during her
whole life was a conscientious and a devout Christian.
When she removed to Elco there was no Lutheran Church
there, and she joined the Methodist Church.
She was always an active church worker.
Mrs. Miller
was very devoted to her children and they showed that same
deep devotion to her.
She was of a friendly disposition and was highly
esteemed by her neighbors.
While arrangements for the funeral have not been
completed, services will probably be held at the home of her
daughter on Thirty-fourth Street and the remains taken to
Elco to be laid at rest beside the body of her husband.
The pall bearers have been selected as follows:
Honorary—W. N.
Butler, Ira
Hastings, W. L.
Bristol, T. J. Pryor, N. B. Thistlewood,
P. C. Barclay,
John A. Sammons,
Dr. J. J. Jennelle, W. F. Simpson,
W. J. Johnston,
and John C. Fisher.
Active—Walter
Warder, W. S.
Dewey, T. C.
Clendenen, W. H.
Wood, James Milne, Frank
Spencer, T. L.
Pulley, John Snyder.
The funeral will be held tomorrow forenoon at 11
o’clock at the residence of Henry
Whitaker, No. 740
Thirty-fourth Street, conducted by Rev. W. T.
Morris, pastor of the Methodist Church.
(Milford Green
Miller married Anna
Cauble on 18 Jul
1841, in Rowan Co., N.C.
He married Mary Adaline
Ketchey on 29 Feb
1848, in Rowan Co., N.C.
J. S. McRaven
married Suise I.
Miller on 19 Nov 1882, in Alexander Co., Ill.
William Brown married Mary J. Miller
on 29 Jun 1890, in Alexander Co., Ill.
Henry Whitaker
married Margaret S.
Miller on 31 May 1866, in Alexander Co., Ill.
George Miller
Born October 1846, son of Green
Miller, died 29
Dec 1917, in Clank, Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
BROTHER OF DR. E. J. GAUSE
DEAD
Dr. A. W. Gause, Formerly of
This County, Has Passed Away
Centralia,
Ill., Jan. 15—Dr. A. W.
Gause, a
well-known local physician, died suddenly of heart failure
at his residence, 121 North Sycamore Street, Sunday morning
after an illness of three days’ duration, aged 55.
The deceased was a native of Indiana.
He was educated an Indianapolis, Ind., and Nashville,
Tenn., and was considered an unusually bright man and
possessed of great ability.
He came to this county some nine years ago and
enjoyed a good practice.
Besides his widow, he leaves a son, Prof. Frank
Gause, principal
of the Salem (Ind.) High School and a brother, Dr. E. J.
Gause, of Unity.
Dr. A. W.
Gause came to Alexander County and located at Unity with
his brother Dr. E. J.
Gause. Later
he moved to Centralia.
(This may be the same person as Amos W.
Gause, who married Lula E. Waggener
on 22 Jun 1890, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Wednesday, 16 Jan 1907:
LAST SAD RITES
ARE HELD.
Followed by her children and grandchildren, for whom she had
devoted a kind and useful life, all that was mortal of the
late Mrs. Mary A.
Miller was taken to Elco this afternoon to be laid at
rest in the cemetery there beside the grave of her husband.
Funeral services were held at 11 o'clock this forenoon at the
residence of Mrs. Mary
Whitaker,
daughter of the deceased, at No. 740 Thirty-fourth Street.
Rev. W. T. Morris
pastor of the Methodist Church, officiated, paying a high
tribute to the earnest Christian life of the deceased. The
Methodist choir sang some of the hymns that she had loved so
well during her lifetime and friends sent a profusion of
beautiful floral offerings to lay upon the grave.
Owing to the condition of the street, the remains and the funeral
party were taken in special cars on the street car line to
the station, where the Mobile & Ohio train was taken for
Elco.
The regular train was four hours late and an effort was made to
secure a special train to take the family and friends to
Elco.
There were thirty relatives present at the funeral, including sons
and daughters and grandchildren of the deceased.
Mr. B. C.
Campbell,
formerly a resident of this place (Villa Ridge), died last
Friday in St. Louis at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Lee
Howe. Mr.
Campbell was born
April 15, 1815, and had he lived until next April would have
been ninety-two years old. He was well and favorably known
in Villa Ridge and was an active member of the M. E. Church.
The funeral was held last Sunday at Villa Ridge. Services
conducted by Rev.
Campbell, pastor of the M. E. Church.
(B. C. Campbell married Mrs. Hellen
Johnson on 26 Mar 1876, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
Charles Lee
Howe, 20, married Frances A. Campbell,
20, on 17 Aug 1897, in Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
(Eli H. Basse, 27, born in Olmsted, son of H. H.
Basse and Miss Shumaker,
married May H. Lilley 26, born in Clinton Co., Ill., daughter of G. W.
Lilley and Miss
Buckuster, on 23 Jul 1896, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
Henry H. Basse
married Sarah C.
Shoemaker on 2 Jan 1862, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
His marker in Concord Cemetery near Olmsted reads:
Eli H. Basse
Born Sept. 12, 1868 Died Jan. 31, 1907.
Mary H. Basse
Born July 23, 1869 Died Nov. 15, 1946.—Darrel
Dexter)
John Murray, who built a
number of Cairo's large building, died at his home in
Paducah Tuesday night. He was 63 years of age. He had been a
sufferer for several months from stomach trouble.
John Murray was born in
the northern part of Scotland and came to America when 25
years old. Eleven years ago with Alderman
Chamblin, Mr.
Murray came to
Paducah from Moberly, Mo., and entered the brick making
business and construction business. The firm was known as
Chamblin and
Murray and has
built many houses in Paducah and Cairo and many houses in
Western Kentucky and Sothern Illinois and Missouri.
Mr. Murray was an active
member of the Paducah lodge of Maccabees and a devoted
member of the First Presbyterian Church.
He is survived by a wife and five children, Miss Effie
Murray and John,
James Arthur and Robert
Murray, all of
Paducah.
The funeral of Mr. Murray
was held this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from the family
residence.
Tuesday, 22 Jan 1907:
Miss Clara May
Wise passed away yesterday afternoon at her home, No. 2811
Commercial Avenue, of consumption after a lingering illness.
The deceased was
16 years of age and came to Cairo with her mother and family
in November 1905.
The funeral
services were held this morning at the family residence and
the remains taken to Anna, Ill., for interment.
Another respected
citizen of Pulaski County has passed away.
Dr. B. F.
Brown died at his home in Pulaski, Ill., January 15, 1907, at the
age of 70 years, 11 months and 14 days. He was born at
Penyan, Yates County, New York. Came to Homer, Mich., with
his father's family in 1859. He entered the United States
service August 1, 1862. After serving two years, 10 months
and 7 days, he secured an honorable discharge. He was
graduated from Rush Medical College of Chicago, Ill., in
1867, and came to Pulaski in 1868, was married to Miss Ruth
Moore, sister of
the late S. J. Moore,
in Carbondale, Ill., September 7, 1873. To this union one
child, Mary Ruth, was born March 18, 1878, who at the age of
2 ½ years passed away. The family consisted of three
brothers and six sisters. Two brothers and four sisters are
now living, George P.
Brown, of Beaver, Okla., James M.
Brown, of
Dunnigan, Mo., Mrs. Mary E.
Groesback, of
Homer, Mich., Mrs. Sarah E.
Findley, of Homer
Mich., Mrs. Anna Byer,
of Homer, Mich., Mrs. Emily Jane
Tiffany,
Columbus, Neb. Mrs.
Dyer being the only one of his sisters or brothers who
could be present at the funeral.
He was an earnest
believer in religion and although he never united with any
church, yet they all had his sympathy and good will. He was
a praying man and an earnest student of the Bible. He
studied the Sunday school lessons regularly at home. He
will be greatly missed by his neighbors and friends and
relations, but most of all in the home he loved so well.
Mrs.
Brown, who is
well and favorably known as a teacher and W. C. T. U.
worker, has the warmest sympathy of a host of friends.
He was laid to
rest in Rose Hill Cemetery near Pulaski.
Rest on they
sheaves; thy harvest work done.
Soldier go home,
with thee the fight is won.
The funeral was
at Rose Hill Church, conducted by Rev. A. R.
Bosworth, of
Villa Ridge, assisted by Rev.
Ballasby, of
Pulaski.
(Benjamin F.
Brown married Ruth M. Moore
on 7 Sep 1873, in Jackson Co., Ill.
His marker in Rose Hill Cemetery near Pulaski reads:
B. F. Brown
Co. A, 25 Mich. Inf.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mr. John
Achenbach, for some time steward oat the United States Marine
Hospital in Cairo, died at Port Townsend, Wash., on January
12th, of heart disease. He had been confined to
the hospital there for several months.
The information
comes in a letter from Dr. J. H.
Oakley, who is
still stationed at Port Townsend, in charge of the
government quarantine station there.
Dr.
Oakley says that
all of the northwest is suffering from a scarcity of fuel,
and that wood is selling at $10 a cord in Seattle.
Capt. George
Spence will leave tonight for Nashville, Tenn., to be a witness in
the Mangrum
case. It will be remembered that in February of last year
the body of a woman was recovered from the river by Capt.
Spence of the tug
Theseus. A few
days later it developed that the body was that of Mrs.
Mangrum, of Nashville, Tenn., and that she had evidently been foully
dealt with. Subsequently, a doctor at Nashville was
arrested on the charge of murdering Mrs.
Mangrum, and the
trial will open tomorrow morning.
Miss Anna
Lattner, an old resident of this city, died at 4 o'clock this
morning at St. Mary's Infirmary, after an illness of several
weeks. The deceased was 75 years old and a devout member of
St. Joseph’s Church.
She was born in
Germany, September 29, 1832, and came to this county in
1852. In 1864 Miss
Lattner came to Cairo and has resided here ever
since. Her home was at No. 1603 Locust Street.
The deceased is
survived by three brothers, Jacob, Frank and George
Lattner. And she
is an aunt of George J.
Lattner, of
Eleventh Street, and John
Lattner, the
well-known baker.
Miss
Lattner was a
kind and pleasant lady and was dearly beloved by all who
knew her and her death will be deeply regretted by her many
friends.
The funeral will
be held tomorrow afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at St. Joseph's
Church. Interment will take place at Villa Ridge cemetery.
Died—Thursday,
January 24th, at 4 a.m. Miss Anine
Lattner, aged 75
years, 4 months. Requiem high mass will be held at 8
o'clock at St. Joseph's Church. Funeral party will leave
residence of George J.
Lattner, No. 427
Eleventh Street, at 1:30 o'clock for St. Joseph's Church
where services will be held. Funeral train will leave foot
of Fourteenth Street at 2:30 p.m. for Villa Ridge
cemetery. Friends will please omit flowers.
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Word has reached
Cairo that Nick W.
Keefe, brother of T. J.
Keefe, of this
city, passed away last night at his home in Thebes, Ill.,
after an illness of several weeks.
The deceased was
51 years of age and is survived by his wife, besides three
brothers and one sister.
Mr. and Mrs.
Keefe of this city have gone to Thebes to attend the funeral.
Earl C.
Gholson, brother of Roy P.
Gholson, of the
Denison-Gholson Dry Goods Company, and a nephew of John C.
Gholson,
proprietor of the Star Clothing Store, of No. 707 Commercial
Avenue, passed away yesterday afternoon of tuberculosis, at
3:30 o'clock at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. T.
Gholson, of No.
319 Seventh Street. The deceased was 23 years of age.
The deceased had
been in poor health for several years and frequently went to
Mexico for the benefit of his health. He became worse and
his brother went to Mexico and accompanied him home. The
trip made him worse and he gradually became weaker until he
was called away by the Silent Messenger.
The young man was
born at Lovelaceville, Ky. He is survived by five
brothers. They are Roy P.
Gholson, of
Cairo, Paul and John
Gholson, of Cairo, Harry
Gholson, of
Scottsville, Kan., and Hardin
Gholson, and a
sister, Mabel Gholson,
the latter two being students at the college at Jackson,
Tenn.
The funeral
services were private and were held this afternoon at 2:45
o'clock at the family residence on Seventh Street. The
remains were taken to Beech Grove Cemetery for
interment. Members of Company K, I. N. G., of which
deceased was a member, served as pallbearers and honorary
escort of the remains. A firing squad of eight members
acted as escort and observed the military custom over the
grave of their comrade. There were ten pall bearers from
the company.
The deceased was
also a member of the Alexander Club and was well known and
highly esteemed by his many friends.
He was employed
in the clothing store of his uncle prior to his illness and
was also employed as bookkeeper for the
Parham-Matthews Hat Company.
(Payton
Johnson married Sallie Barker
on 20 Jun 1882, in Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The dreaded
disease, appendicitis, has claimed Little Miss Gladys
Walker for its
own, she having died this afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at St.
Mary’s Infirmary. The deceased was the 10-year-old daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. George B.
Walker, of No.
1813 Washington Avenue. She was a sweet and affectionate
child and her death is a severe shock to her parents and
friends. She first complained of being ill last Thursday.
The child was
taken to St. Mary's Infirmary, where she underwent an
operation for the disease Sunday afternoon, Drs.
Rendleman and
Cary being the attending physicians. In less than twenty-four hours
the patient, who was unable to rally from the effects of the
operation, yielded to the Grim Reaper and passed away.
She had only been
ill for a few days and as soon as it was ascertained that
she had the appendicitis, she was removed to the
infirmary. Being a delicate child, she was unable to
withstand the operation.
The funeral
arrangements had not been completed this afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs.
Walker have the sympathy of their many friends during their
bereavement.
The funeral of
little Miss Gladys
Walker, the ten-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George
B. Walker, No.
1813 Washington Avenue, who died yesterday afternoon at St.
Mary's Infirmary of appendicitis, was held this afternoon at
1 o'clock at the family residence. The remains were taken
to St. Charles, Mo., this afternoon, where the services will
be held at the Borromeo Church tomorrow.
Mrs. Henry
Kemper, of St. Charles, grandmother of the little girl, and Mrs.
Peter P. Manion,
of St. Louis, her aunt, arrived last night, having been
summoned here by news of the illness of the child and her
death was a great shock to them.
The services were
conducted by Father James
Gillen, of St.
Joseph's Church.
The pallbearers
were Joseph Day,
Willie Gillespie, James Cowell,
and Will Magner.
Harrisburg, Ill.,
Jan. 29.—O'Gara Mine No. 1 was badly wrecked here by a gas
explosion. D. A.
Draper, mine inspector, whose day it was to go into the
mine to examine it before the miners were permitted to go
down, lost his life, together with a number of mules which
were in the mine.
The tipple and
fan house were badly damaged and the interior of the mine
considerably wrecked by the force of the explosion. Draper's
body was not found until late in the evening after heroic
work by miners and friends of the city. He was a young man
and had just recently been married. The light from
Draper's lamp is
believed to have ignited the gas.
(Charles O.
Patier married Mary Toony
on 27 Jan 1873, in Cook Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
At an explosion
in the West Side mines at Johnston City Tuesday morning, one
man, Robert Farnbaker, was killed, six fatally injured and seven other men badly
hurt.
The explosion
occurred by the accidental firing of thirty-two kegs of
giant powder and the mine is reported badly wrecked.
Mrs. J. M.
Lansden died at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon after an illness of just
three weeks.
Dongola, Ill.,
Jan. 31.—Warren Hunt's
house and contents were destroyed by fire early last
Saturday morning, and one of his children, a little girl of
three years of age, perished in the flames.
Mr.
Hunt and his
brother were burned about the face and hands in trying to
rescue the child from the burning building, but could not
get into the house where it was. That was a very
heartrending affair.
(Warren T.
Hunt, 28, married Mary E.
Peeler, 24, on 6 Mar 1895, in Union Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Effie W.
Lansden, wife of Judge John M.
Lansden, passed
away yesterday afternoon at 3:25 o'clock. Death was the
result of paralysis with which she was stricken three weeks
ago yesterday.
Although at no time during this period of illness did her
physicians hold out any hope of her recovery, her death was
a great shock to the community, as probably no woman in
Cairo had a wider acquaintance and was endeared to so many
people as Mrs.
Lansden.
For a number of
days death appeared to be near, as each day those who
watched at her bedside noted her slowly losing her hold upon
life. Those of her children whose homes are away from Cairo
were early called here and the family were all present when
the end came.
The funeral will
be held Sunday afternoon at the Presbyterian Church,
conducted by Rev. Ben. Y.
George of Elmwood, Ill., formerly pastor of the church, assisted by
Rev. A. S. Buchanan,
the present pastor. The burial will be private.
Mrs.
Lansden is
survived by her husband, Judge
Lansden, and her
children, David S., Mrs. Mary G.
Bates, of
Chicago, Misses Effie A. and Emma L.
Lansden, John M.
Lansden, Jr., of
Newark, N.J., and Miss Margaret
Lansden.
Besides her
immediate family, Mrs.
Lansden leaves a
brother and two sisters, Mr. Hugh B.
Smith, of
Jacksonville, Ill., Mrs. James E.
Monroe, of
Chicago, and Mrs. Laura
Kellogg, of
Jackonville. Mrs.
Kellogg, was called here soon after Mrs.
Lansden was
stricken.
Probably no woman
in Cairo ever left her impress so thoroughly upon this
community as did Mrs.
Lansden. Coming here soon after her marriage, she found a field
here for her wonderful musical talent. In her case, the
talent was not hid in a napkin, but was put to use and
brought returns a thousand fold. Her remarkably pure, clear
and full voice was heard often in public entertainments and
in the Presbyterian Church; it was Mrs.
Lansden who led
the choir. But more than this, she spent her time in
training the young people of Cairo to sing and to sing
correctly. Up to within a few years ago, it could be
truthfully said that every singer in Cairo had at one time
received instruction from Mrs.
Lansden. And
while she trained their voices, she educated their musical
taste as well. Nothing but the best would do with her. She
would not tolerate poor music. She had high ideals in this
respect and she not only lived up to them, but she trained
her pupils up to them. She made Cairo a musical center that
is the remark of everyone who comes here from other
places. They notice, if they are able to judge at all, that
good music is known and appreciated in Cairo. And this is
due to a very great extent to the persistent work and
example of Mrs.
Lansden.
She was
especially particular about church music. To her, the hymns
were as important a part of worship as the sermon or the
prayer—they were not to be sung listlessly, but with the
proper understanding and expression. And she was just as
particular about the personnel of her choir. To her mind,
the singer must live up to the words he sang. To live
carelessly during the week and then to sing hymns of deep
consecration and devotion on the Sabbath was not her idea of
the proper fitness of things.
But Mrs.
Lansden did not confine her interest nor her activity to music; in
all branches of church work she was prominent, but the work
of missions seemed to lie nearest her heart. For seventeen
years continuously she was secretary of the Presbyterian
Woman’s Missionary Society. Her interest was constant. It
never seemed to wane. Year after year she was unchanged in
her enthusiasm for this great work of missions.
Mrs.
Lansden was one
of the leaders in the Cairo Woman's Club, and so it seems
very fitting that her years of service should be crowned
with her elevation to its presidency. She was foremost in
all of its activities as she was in every good cause.
With all of her
interest in the life of the community, Mrs.
Lansden never
neglected her home. Her home life was ideal. She was the
center of the household and a model of what a wife and
mother could be. While devoted to her family, this devotion
did not prevent her from making her home a welcome place for
her friends and for the stranger who came under her
roof. She was unselfish in her hospitality.
The following
sketch appeared in the
Bulletin this morning:
Mrs.
Lansden was born
in Jacksonville, Ill., December 25th, 1842. Her
maiden name was Effie Wyeth
Smith. She was a
daughter of David A.
Smith, one of the most prominent lawyers of Central
Illinois, and the sixth of a family of eleven children. Her
father had left Alabama, his native state, before locating
in Illinois because of his pronounced opposition to
slavery. So vigorous an abolitionist was he that in 1830 he
freed his slaves and deported some of them to Liberia.
From this parent,
whose study principles were his strong characteristic, the
daughter inherited the virile personality that made her a
leader in everything in which she participated.
The deceased
graduated in 1861 from the Jacksonville Female Academy and
in the same year John M.
Lansden, to whom she was married later, graduated from the Illinois
College at Jacksonville. Mr.
Lansden came to
Cairo in 1865 and located here in the practice of law. They
were married September 25th, 1867, and their home
has been here ever since.
(John M.
Lansden married Effie W.
Smith on 25 Sep 1867, in Morgan Co., Ill.
James H.
Kellogg married Laura A.
Smith on 8 Jan
1884, in Morgan Co., Ill.
James E.
Munroe married Katherine B.
Smith on 26 Oct
1876, in Morgan Co., Ill.
Her marker in Cairo City Cemetery at Villa Ridge
reads: Effie W.
Lansden
1842-1907.—Darrel
Dexter)
(Her marker in
Grand Chain Masonic Cemetery reads:
Eddie Goines
Born Jan. 24, 1882 Died Jan. 29, 1907.—Darrel
Dexter)
A report was
current here this afternoon that the plant of the Miami
Powder Company at Santa Fe had blown up and that a lake of
water was all that was left to mark the spot where the plant
stood.
The earthquake
shock this morning was thought to have been caused by this
explosion.
Confirmation of
the story could not be secured early this afternoon.
When
Bryan’s train
arrived at 3 o'clock the passengers and crew had heard
nothing of the story. People from Thebes knew nothing of
any explosion and the operator at Olive Branch had heard
nothing.
Lansden—Died,
Thursday afternoon, January 31st, 1907, at 3:30
o'clock, Effie W.
Lansden, wife of John M.
Lansden.
Funeral services
will be held at the First Presbyterian Church Sunday,
February 3rd, at 1:30 o'clock p.m., to which the
friends of the family are invited. Burial at Villa Ridge
private.
Suit has been
filed against the Illinois Central Railroad by Mrs. Harriet
Thistlewood,
widow of the late P. J.
Thistlewood, who
lost his life in an attempt to get off an Illinois passenger
train early one morning last September. The railroad is
sued for $10,000 damages.
Buried under a
huge mound of flowers, the beautiful tributes of friends to
the life of the departed, all that was mortal of the late
Mrs. John M. Lansden,
was laid at rest in Villa Ridge cemetery Sunday afternoon.
Funeral services
were held at the Presbyterian church. The edifice was
filled to overflowing with the friends of the
deceased. Rev. Benjamin Y.
George, of
Elmwood, Ill., former pastor of the church, and a very dear
friend of the family and of Mrs.
Lansden,
conducted the funeral, assisted by Rev. A. S.
Buchanan, pastor of the church. The older members of the choir,
those who had served under Mrs.
Lansden's
leadership before she relinquished the active management of
the choir, sang two of her favorite hymns, “Jesus Still Lead
On," and "It Is not Death to Die."
Triumph rather
than sorrow was the thought expressed by Mr.
George in his
remarks. From scripture he showed that this earthly body is
but the tent or covering of the real self and that the
spirit in the Christian triumphs in death over the material
and ascends to its marker, while the material body is
returned to the earth from whence it came. His thoughts
were most beautifully expressed and were full of comfort and
inspiration.
From the church
the remains were followed to Fourteenth Street, where a
special train was taken for Villa Ridge cemetery. The
funeral was private and only the family and a very few
intimate friends attended the services at the grave.
The pallbearers
were Messrs. Charles
Cunningham, T. J.
Kerth, M. J. Howely,
James H. Galligan,
Walter H. Wood,
H. S. Candee, H. E. Halliday,
P. C. Barclay,
John T. Brown, W.
J. Johnston, Wood Rittenhouse,
and John C. Fisher.
Out-of-town
relatives in attendance at the funeral were Mrs. Laura A.
Kellogg, of
Jacksonville, and Mrs. James E.
Munroe, of
Chicago, sisters of Mrs.
Lansden, and her
brother, Mr. Hugh B.
Smith, of Jacksonville, her niece, Mrs. Arthur
Orr, of
Evansville, her nephew, Mr. Thomas S.
Noyes, of
Chicago, and her cousin, Mr. Andrew
Russell, of
Jacksonville.
John A.
Wilbourn, a well-known and highly respected citizens of this city,
passed away Sunday afternoon at his home on Twenty-seventh
Street, after several weeks illness. The deceased was 55
years of age.
The deceased
suffered with rheumatism which affected his spine and
brain. He underwent an operation at St. Mary's Infirmary a
few weeks ago, but received little relief.
He was born at
Commerce, Mo., in 1852 and came to this city when 25 years
of age. For nearly thirty years
Wilbourn was
employed by the
Halliday Milling Company as a cooper.
The deceased is
survived by his wife and six children, who are Mrs. Amos
Twente, of Olive
Branch; Misses Gertrude and Melisa
Wilbourn, Harry, John and George
Wilbourn. His mother, Mrs. Frances W.
Wilbourn, of
Olive Branch, also survives him besides two brothers and two
sisters, Messrs. B. F.
Wilbourn, of San Antonio, Tex., and W. W.
Wilbourn, of Olive Branch, and Mesdames Josephine
Gideau, and Laura
Hobbs, of St. Louis.
He was a member
of Cairo Lodge No. 173 Knights of Pythias which organization
will have charge of the funeral, which will be held tomorrow
afternoon at the residence with interment at Beech Grove
Cemetery.
Mrs. Mary
Allen passed away at 5:25 o'clock this morning at the home of her
sister, Mrs. Frank
Gunsher, of No. 1609 Locust Street. The deceased was 47
years of age and had been ill for several months.
The deceased was
a widow, her husband having died eleven years ago. No
children survive her.
(Her marker in
Cairo City Cemetery at Villa Ridge reads:
Mary Allen
Died Feb. 4, 1909.—Darrel
Dexter)
George B. Walker
returned Sunday from St. Charles, Mo., where he accompanied
the remains of his little daughter Gladys, who died from the
effects of an operation for appendicitis. Mrs.
Walker and
children remained for a longer visit.
Tuesday, 5 Feb 1907:
(Hubert H.
Howe married Lillie Tippett
on 16 Sep 1880, in Jackson Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Allen—Died,
Monday, Feb. 4, at 5:25 a.m., Mrs. Mary
Allen, aged 47
years.
Funeral services
will be held at the residence of Mrs. Frank
Gunsher, No. 1609
Locust Street, Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 6, at 1:00 o'clock,
Rev. C. H. Armstrong
officiating. Special train will leave foot of Fourteenth
Street at 2:45 p.m. for Villa Ridge cemetery. Friends of
the family are invited to attend.
Wednesday, 6 Feb 1907:
Concerning the
death of Capt.
Grammer, who was well known in Cairo, the
Chicago Tribune
says:
Capt. George
Jackson Grammer, vice president in charge of freight traffic, New York
Central lines, died Monday afternoon at the Presbyterian
Hospital, Congress and Wood streets, at 3:15 o'clock.
He was 63 years old. His death was directly the result
of an operation made necessary by a severe attack of
jaundice.
Capt.
Grammer had been
ill for several weeks and had well nigh recovered, but met
with two relapses the latest of which he rallied from Sunday
morning. He was believed temporarily out of danger,
but his weakened system was not equal to the continued
disease. He was surrounded at his death by his wife
and the members of his family, together with a number of
friends.
Capt.
Grammer was born
in Zanesville, O., Nov. 11, 1843. He received his
education in the public schools of what was then regarded a
frontier town. He went south and was identified with
the river traffic on the Ohio River from 1857 to 1881.
The last eight years of which he was manager of the
Evansville, Cairo and Memphis packet company with
headquarters at Evansville.
He commenced his
railroad career in 1881 as general freight and passenger
agent of the Evansville and Terre Haute Railroad. He
was made traffic manager in 1883, the Evansville and
Indianapolis having been added to the system. In 1886
he became general traffic manager of a combination of lines,
comprising the Evansville and Terre Haute, Evansville and
Indianapolis, and the Peoria, Decatur and Springfield roads.
In 1890 he was placed in charge of the traffic of the
Chicago and Eastern Illinois and two years later was added
the Louisville, Evansville and St. Louis, making a system of
1,934 miles.
It was during
this time that Capt.
Grammer developed his ability as a traffic official and
attracted the attention of President
Caldwell of the Lake Shore, who in 1894 induced him to take charge
of the traffic department of that line, and it was in the
capacity of general freight agent of the Lake Shore that he
showed himself to be one of the most far sighted traffic
director in the railroad world and with the consolidation of
the Vanderbilt lines west of Buffalo was made vice president
in charge of freight traffic.
Capt.
Grammer was one
of the unique figures in the railroad world besides being
early the foremost traffic director in the country. He
was an advocate of the protection of American industries and
favored the abolition of all import rates that would allow
the European manufacturer to compete with the American,
because of lower freight rates, and he convinced his
competitors that he was right, and all such rates were
withdrawn. He favored the young man in the railroad
service, arguing there was always room for youthful energy.
He was married in
1878 at Evansville, Ind., to Miss Sarah
Hisbet, who
survives him. There are also three sons, Nisbit
Grammer, Buffalo, N.Y.; George J.
Grammer, Jr., a student at Yale, and W. B.
Grammer, 17 years old, who is attending the University high school.
Peter A.
DeGelder, one of the well-known citizens of Alexander County, died
at his home at Beech Ridge late yesterday afternoon.
He had been ill
for a long time of consumption of the throat, and for the
past two months was confined to his bed.
He leaves his
aged mother and two sisters, Miss Minnie
DeGelder, and
Mrs. Van Vark, of
Tella, Iowa.
The funeral will
probably be held tomorrow.
At the prayer
meeting service at the Presbyterian Church tonight the hour
will be spent in a memorial to the life and work in the
church of Mrs.
Lansden.
(Eli H.
Basse, 27, born in Olmsted, Pulaski Co., Ill., son of H. H.
Basse and Miss
Shumaker, married May H.
Lilley, 26, born in Clinton Co., Ill., daughter of G. W
Lilley and Miss Buckuster,
on 23 Jul 1896, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
Henry H. Basse
married Sarah C.
Shoemaker on 2 Jan 1862, in Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The funeral of
the late Peter A.
DeGelder, who died at Beech Ridge Tuesday afternoon,
will be held tomorrow afternoon. As will be seen by a
notice elsewhere today, a special train will leave Cairo
over the Illinois Central at 12:50 sharp tomorrow and will
run to Cache, where the remains will be taken and then the
train will return to Beech Grove Cemetery where the
interment will be made.
Mrs. M. J.
Hargrove passed away at St. Mary’s Infirmary at 2:30 o'clock this
morning. The deceased was 60 years of age and has been
in poor health for nearly a year.
She underwent an
operation at the infirmary a few weeks ago, which for a time
seemed to benefit her. She left the hospital only to
return a few days ago. She underwent a second
operation from which she was unable to rally.
The deceased was
a member of the Presbyterian Church. She was born at
Owensville, Ind. She is survived by her husband, three
sisters and one brother.
The remains will
be taken to Owensville for interment.
The meeting of
the Cairo Woman's Club yesterday afternoon was in the nature
of a memorial to the club's late president, Mrs. John M.
Lansden.
For the first time in the history of this organization the
club mourns the loss of its president by death.
Out of respect
for the departed, her chair was garlanded with white
flowers, tied with lavender ribbons. Beautiful
tributes were paid to the memory of the life of this noble
woman, who was greatly beloved by all the members of the
club.
The literature
department had charge of the program which followed the
memorial exercises.
Mrs. John S.
Hacker, the secretary, read a paper written by Mrs. Miles Frederick
Gilbert on
Emerson as a man of letters and also an analysis of
Tennyson's poem
“Locksley Hall” written by Mrs. W. S.
Dewey.
At the prayer
meeting service at the Presbyterian Church last evening, the
hour was spent in a memorial service to Mrs. J. M.
Lansden.
Various members of the church spoke, paying tribute to her
life and activity in the various departments of the church
work, her faithfulness at the services, her zeal in the
cause of missions, her devotion to the work of the choir
during a period of over thirty years, her enthusiasm in
everything that pertained to the church. At the
conclusion of the remarks, the session and the Woman's
Missionary Society presented resolutions on her death, which
will be entered upon the records of these organizations.
The news reached
J. B. and R. A.
Warner this morning that their father, Mr. Carlton H.
Warner, died at
Godfrey, Ill., at 8:40 o'clock last evening.
He had been a
sufferer from stomach trouble for nearly two years and for
ten days his death was momentarily expected.
Mr.
Warner was a
resident of Cairo in the early eighties, coming here in
February 1882, to assume the managership of the Central
Union Telephone Company. He remained here until May
1885, when he was transferred to Alton. He left the
telephone business about ten years ago and for the past two
years has been unable to engage in any active pursuit.
Mr.
Warner was a
native of Vermont. He was born in Northfield, that
state, on January 25, 1836. He married there about
1858 and came west early in his married life. He
leaves a widow and five children, three sons and two
daughters. The sons are J. B.
Warner,
proprietor of the boat store, and R. A.
Warner, of the
carrier force of the Cairo post office; Frank
Warner of Baltimore, Mrs. W. J.
Donnelly, of Alton, Ill., and Mrs. H. H.
Saatgast, of Godfrey, Ill., It was with this last married
daughter that Mr. and Mrs.
Warner made their
home. This is the first death in the family.
Messrs. J. B. and
R. A. Warner will
go to Godfrey to attend the funeral, which will be held
tomorrow afternoon.
(William J.
Donnelly married Mary N.
Warner on 24 Dec 1876, in Adams Co., Ill. Henry H.
Saatgast married Addie C.
Warner on 18 Oct 1894, in Madison Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
J. C.
Bryden, one of
the best known citizens of Carbondale, died from a stroke of
apoplexy, at his home on West Main Street, in this city
about 3 o'clock this morning. Mr.
Bryden had just
reached his home from the Illinois Central depot where he
had gone to meet relatives from the east, who arrived on the
No. 3 at 2:30 a.m. After reaching his home, he was
talking with the members of his family and their guest when
he was stricken with apoplexy, dying almost immediately.
Mr. Bryden was 66
years old and leaves a wife and three children, J. Rockwell
Bryden and Miss
Eva Bryden, of
this city, and Osborne
Bryden, of
Danville.
Died, Tuesday
evening, Feb. 5, Peter A.
DeGelder.
Funeral train
will leave Central Union station at 12:50 o'clock sharp.
Friday, February 8, for Cache and from there to Beech Grove
Cemetery, where interment will be made.
Friends of the
family are invited to attend.
Anna Talk:
At a meeting of the late directors of Union Academy held on
Thursday afternoon of last week, D. W.
Karraker reported
a gift of $5,000 from Mrs. Susan I.
Benton, of
Dongola, to the school on condition that the new building be
named Benton Hall. This gift was made in memory of the
donor’s husband, the late J. D.
Benton, well
known to the citizens of this county, who at the time of his
death was one of the Board of Commissioners. Following the
presentation of the proposition on the part of Mrs.
Benton to pay the
sum of $5,000 to the Academy on the above mentioned
condition, the directors unanimously adopted the following
resolution:
Whereas Jacob D.
Benton, was in his lifetime a representative and honorable citizen
of this county and a prominent businessman and at the time
of his death an officer of the county and highly regarded by
the citizens of Union County, therefore be it
Resolved:
That the offer of Mrs. Susan I.
Benton be and the
same is hereby accepted and that in consideration of the
gift aforesaid and in memory of our late friend and citizen
the name of the new academy building is hereby named Benton
Hall and by which name it shall forever hereafter be called,
which name shall be carved in stone and be attached to said
building in a conspicuous place and his picture with a
picture of his wife shall be hung in a suitable place in
Benton Hall and that a brief biography of Jacob D.
Benton shall be recorded in the records of the Union Academy of
Southern Illinois.
An additional
gift of $500 was also reported from Mrs. Louise C.
Peeler, of
Toledo, Ohio, wife of Thomas
Peeler, for the
purpose of furnishing the assembly room in the new building.
In appreciation of this gift the directors took action
naming the room "The Peeler Auditorium." The committee
on endorsement reported subscriptions and cash amounting to
$2,172. The report of the building committee showed
nearly all of the $10,000 subscribed to the new building by
citizens of the county, to have been paid.
An additional sum
of $2,500 will yet be needed to complete the building and
put the grounds in good shape and this the directors are
resolved to do. Benton Hall will probably be dedicated
during commencement week.
Mrs. Henry
Ross died at her home in Mound City this morning at 9 o'clock after
a long illness. She leaves a husband and one daughter
and a sister, Mrs. Joseph
Fullerton.
The funeral will be held from the First Methodist Church
Monday.
We desire to
express our heartfelt thanks to the many friends who so
kindly assisted us in the illness and death of our late
sister, Mrs. Mary
Allen. Especially do we thank Mrs. M. J.
Farnbaker, Mrs.
Weldeon and
Joseph Raeth, for
their kindness.
Arthur
Lawfield, of East Prairie, Mo., who was taken to St. Mary's
Infirmary about two months ago suffering from a bullet
wound, died last evening of blood poisoning.
The deceased was
playing with a rifle, which was accidentally discharged, the
bullet striking him in the leg about the knee. He was
brought to St. Mary's Infirmary and was getting along nicely
until the last few days when blood poisoning set in.
His father was notified, but on account of the high water,
no reply has yet been received.
Because Henry
Tice, a negro, said to be half witted, had stolen his lunch, Oscar
Moore,
alias "Hog" and "Lion" and perhaps other animals, shot and seriously
wounded Tice in
the sandhouse near the Mobile & Ohio roundhouse Sunday
night. The shooting occurred about 11 o'clock.
Moore
was employed at the roundhouse and
Tice, who
recently came here from Mound City, had been loafing around
the premises for several days. He had been arrested
and given days to leave town, but it seems he failed to
comply with the instructions of the Court.
He slept in the
sandhouse at night and last night he went to
Moore's dinner
bucket and proceeded to satisfy his hunger. When
Moore discovered Tice
helping himself to his (Moore's)
midnight lunch, Moore
shot him.
Tice
ran down the railroad track and out Douglas Street to Cedar,
where he fell. He was taken to police headquarters,
where it was found he was shot through the kidneys.
Later he was removed to St. Mary's Infirmary. He was
reported to be in serious condition this afternoon.
Moore
went to his home after the shooting and when the officers
went after him, he attempted to escape by jumping into the
sipe water, but it felt too cold and he was glad to wade out
and surrender himself to Sergeant
Cowell.
Christopher M.
Osterloh, an old and highly respected citizen of this city, passed
away at 3:30 o'clock this morning at his home, No. 1814
Commercial Avenue. The deceased was nearly 84 years of
age, and had been ill for several weeks suffering with the
infirmities brought on by old age.
Mr.
Osterloh was born
in April 27, 1823, in Brunswick, Germany, and was the third
child of a family of six. He came to America in 1850,
at age of 27 years. He located at Yazoo City, Miss.,
where he opened a barbershop, having learned the barber's
trade in his "Fatherland." He was later employed as a
barber on the steamboats and two years later, 1852, came to
Cairo, where he has resided ever since.
The deceased
continued to follow his trade here, opening a tonsorial
parlor on Ohio Street, which he conducted until 1864, when
he sold his business and engaged himself in the feed
business, which has been looked after by his sons, for the
past several years.
Mr.
Osterloh was
married on October 3, 1858, in Cairo to Miss Catherine
Wagner, who came to this country from Germany. Eight children
resulted from this union, of whom six are living.
These are Charles and Gus
Osterloh, of this
city, Frank Osterloh,
of St. Louis, and three daughters, Mrs. Will
Neff, and Miss
Louisa Osterloh,
of this city, and Mrs.
Kesham, of St.
Louis.
The deceased was
an active Republican and was a member of Alexander Lodge No.
324, I. O. O. F., which order will have charge of the
remains.
If he had lived
for several weeks longer, Mr.
Osterloh would
have served fifty years as a member of the order. The
order had planned to present him with a veteran’s jewel, for
long and faithful service on that occasion, but
unfortunately his life was not spared until that time.
Mr.
Osterloh served
in the city council, being an alderman for a number of
years.
The funeral will
be held tomorrow afternoon at 2:30.
(His marker in
Cairo City Cemetery at Villa Ridge reads:
Chrostopher M.
Osterloh 1825-1907.
Father.—Darrel
Dexter)
All members of
Alexander Lodge No 224, I. O. O. F. are requested to attend
a meeting tonight at 7:30 o'clock to make arrangements for
the funeral of our late brother, C. M.
Osterloh.
Albert F.
Withe, of Chicago, a representative of C. H.
Thompson Agency for the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, was
found dead in his bed at the Illinois Hotel this noon.
Dr. James
McManus, coroner, was summoned and had the remains removed to Mrs.
Feith's
undertaking establishment, where they will be prepared for
burial. Heart trouble is thought to be the cause of
his death.
The deceased was
about 42 years of age and resided at No. 1261 N. Sawyer St.,
Chicago.
Relatives have
been notified of his death and are expected to arrive in the
city tonight or tomorrow to take charge of the remains.
An inquest will
be held tomorrow morning.
The funeral of
the late C. M.
Osterloh was held this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the
family residence, No. 1814 Commercial Avenue, and was very
largely attended.
The remains were
in charge of Alexander Lodge No. 224, I. O. O. F., of which
deceased was a member. This order held services over
the remains at the grave.
There were many
very beautiful floral pieces, three pieces being especially
beautiful given by Alexander Lodge, City of Cairo and the
Alexander County National Bank.
The pall bearers
were selected from the lodge.
The deceased was
a member of first city council of Cairo, half of a century
ago, and was the last surviving member of that body.
A number of the
aldermen and city officials attended the funeral.
Wednesday, 13 Feb 1907:
Mrs. P. H.
Laurent, aged 76 years, passed away at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. Louis Kaha,
on Cross Street, this afternoon about 1:30 o'clock.
The deceased had been ill for two weeks with severe cold,
but had been an invalid for nearly sixteen years.
She was born in
Germany in April 1830 and came to this city in 1863.
She was married in 1846 to P.
Laurant and six
children resulted from this union. They are Mrs. Louis
Kaha, Mrs. R.
Hebsacker, of St.
Mary's Place West, L. P.
Laurant, of
Greenville, Miss., Rudy
Laurant, of
Center Street, Albert
Laurent, of this city, and Mrs.
Munson, of
Denver, Colo. Her husband died about twenty-three
years ago.
The funeral
arrangements have been completed.
(Louis H.
Kaha married Josephine
Laurant on 15 Jul 1875, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
We desire to
express our thanks for the kindness and sympathy shown us
during the illness and death of the late C. M.
Osterloh.
We also desire to thank those who sent the beautiful floral
pieces.
(Thomas H.
Hammons married Mary Ann
Workman on 26 Aug 1875, in Johnon Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Albert Withe, of
Chicago, arrived this morning to take charge of the remains
of her husband, the late Albert F.
Withe, who was
found dead in his bed at the Illinois Hotel.
Becoming
despondent over financial matters, J. M.
Griggs, a barber
residing upstairs at No. 1109 Washington Avenue, ended his
own life this morning when he shot himself through the right
temple with a 28-caliber revolver. The tragedy
occurred a few minutes after 11 o'clock.
Griggs
is said to have been worried about financial matters for
some time and this morning put an end to all his worldly
troubles by taking his own life.
Before her turned
the barrel of the revolver on himself,
Griggs shot his
pet dog, "Shep," which had been his idol and a great
companion. The dog was an intelligent animal and its
owner had taught it many tricks. Why
Griggs shot the
dog is not known, unless he desired that they should both
die together.
After firing the
fatal shot at "Shep," which passed through the dog's body,
Griggs pressed the point of the weapon against his right temple and
fired one shot. The report attracted persons in the
neighborhood and a large crowd soon gathered.
Griggs was
carried upstairs and Dr.
McManus summoned.
He lingered for a short time and then passed away.
The deceased
conducted a barbershop on Washington Avenue near Twentieth
Street, to which place he moved only recently from
Washington Avenue next to
Fahr's grocery
store. He was employed for a short time by Ben
Alba, before engaging in business for himself.
He came to Cairo
last December from Mayfield, Ky., and is about 45 years old.
Griggs
died about 3:45 this afternoon.
The inquest will
be held tomorrow morning.
Walter S.
Sutherland, a well-known express messenger, was found dead in his
room at the Blue Front Annex, No. 305 Ohio Street, late
yesterday afternoon.
The discovery was
made by some waiters in the restaurant, who happened to
glance up toward the windows in the Annex and had seen
Sutherland
sitting in a chair by the window in a strange position.
They called Mr. G. P.
Eichenberger's attention to the man and Mr.
Eichenberger went
over the Annex to investigate. On entering the room,
in company with Mr.
Heath, another roomer, he found that
Sutherland was
dead.
Mr.
Sutherland whose
run was on the Illinois Central railroad from Cairo to
Chicago, arrived here at 1:20 p.m. and it is supposed went
at once to his room, as was his custom. He did not
awaken Mr. Heath
who was asleep in the room and was evidently preparing to go
to bed himself when stricken by death as he had removed one
shoe.
Coroner
McManus held an inquest over the remains last evening and the jury
found that death was due to natural causes.
The deceased was
middle aged and leaves a wife and five children, who reside
at the family home at Maywood, a suburb of Chicago. He
was one of the American Express Company's most trusted and
valued messengers and had been in the company's employ for
about twenty-five year. For a number of years Mr.
Sutherland had a
run out of Cairo to New Orleans and at that time his family
resided in this city at Twenty-eighth and Sycamore streets.
Later he was transferred to the Chicago division and his
family removed to that city.
The deceased was
well known in Cairo and his death is deeply regretted by his
many friends.
The remains were
removed last night to the undertaking establishment of
Burke &
Blaine, where the
body will be prepared for burial. Relatives are
expected to arrive to take charge of them.
The funeral of
Mrs. P. H. Laurent,
mother of Messrs. Rudy and Albert
Laurent and
Mesdames R. Hebsacker
and Louis Kaha,
was held this morning at the home of Mrs.
Kaha on Cross
Street. The funeral was largely attended. The remains were
taken to Beech Grove Cemetery for interment. The
pallbearers were P. G.
Schuh, George Becker, P.
T. Langan, Peter
Day, John
Lattner, A. Mings, Peter
Zimmerman, and
Jacob Kline.
Conductor J. J.
Miller, of the Mobile & Ohio Railroad, died at St. Mary's Infirmary
at 3 o'clock this morning after a long illness. His
wife who was a faithful attendant at his bedside,
accompanied the remains to St. Louis this afternoon, where
they will be buried.
The deceased was
56 years old and leaves a wife besides his mother, a sister
and a brother residing in Washington, D.C.
He was taken to
the infirmary a short time ago, where he underwent an
operation for gall stones, but his death was due to a
paralytic stroke.
His home was at
St. Louis. He has been running between that city and
Cairo for the past five years and has many friends in this
city.
Col. John Pope
Baker, brother of the late Judge David J.
Baker, and the last survivor of that illustrious family, passed away
at his home in St. Louis, Thursday from an attack of grip.
Concerning him
the Springfield Journal says:
The deceased was
born July 24, 1838, at Kaskaskia, Ill. He graduated in
1856 at Shurtleff College, Upper Alton, Ill. For three
years he read law in the office of his father, Hon. David J.
Baker, and was
then admitted to the bar. In March 1861, he was
appointed second lieutenant in the First United States
Dragoons by President
Lincoln and placed on duty in Washington, D.C.
He was in the
Battle of Bull Run on July 21, 1861. He served on
staff duty at the headquarters of the Sixth Army Corps in
the Army of the Potomac, and also on staff duty as inspector
general of Savanah, Ga., in the early part of 1865.
Lieutenant Baker was promoted on July 17, 1862 to captain in the First United
States Cavalry and was breveted April 9, 1864, major in the
regular army for gallantry and meritorious service at
Pleasant Hill, La., and was again brevetted lieutenant
colonel for gallant and meritorious service during the war.
After the
suppression of the rebellion, he served with his regiment at
the headquarters of General
Sheridan in Louisiana and in 1865 was ordered from there to the
Pacific Coast, spending three years in Nevada and Oregon,
campaigning against the Indians.
Colonel
Baker returned to Springfield and resigned his commission in July
1868. He then became one of the proprietors and
associate editor with his brother, E. L.
Baker, of the
Illinois State Journal.
He held the rank
of major, acting in the same capacity from the time of his
reappointment in 1883 until he was retired on account of
age, four years ago. Since that time he had made his
home in St. Louis.
(John P.
Baker married Mary J. Wallace
on 15 Nov 1865, in Sangamon Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Peter
Christensen, a
former resident of Cairo, died Thursday night in Chicago.
The deceased was about 50 years old and is survived by his
wife and five children. His home was in Sleepy Eye,
Minn.
During his
residence in Cairo, the deceased resided at Seventeenth and
Walnut streets. His oldest daughter, Miss Lillian
Christensen, is
well known here, being very popular in Cairo society during
her residence in Cairo.
Cyrus
Grace, of Elco,
was shot one day last week while out fox hunting with two
companions, Harry Lee
and Fred Cauble. Grace was
separated from his companion and was ahead of them with the
hounds, who were chasing a fox. He wore a reddish
colored shirt and Lee catching a glimpse of the shirt and mistaking it for the fox,
fired. The shoot took effect in
Grace's left
side, making probably a fatal wound.—Anna
Democrat.
(John C.
Lefler, 22, son of William
Lefler and Margaret
Miller,
married Generva C. E.
Brown, 16, born
in Union Co., Ill., daughter of Alson
Brown and Mary
Corban, on 26 Sep
1888, in Union Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
John
Gillam, aged 35
years, was asphyxiated at Murphysboro Monday in a room at
the Commercial Hotel. He was a night waiter at a
restaurant. The gas jet was wide open when the door
was broken open and the dead body of the man found.
Thursday, 21 Feb 1907:
(Jacob
Hilliard married Minnie
Gales on 22 Aug
1895, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Saturday, 23 Feb 1907:
Vienna, Ill.,
Feb. 23.—James W.
Gore, formerly circuit clerk and later county clerk of
Johnson County died at Buncombe, Tuesday morning at the age
of 56 years. Death came suddenly as the result of an
unexpected attack of sickness. The deceased was a
native of this county. He was born at Goreville in
1851. After serving in the sheriff's office in 1876 he
was elected circuit clerk, serving four years. In 1884
he was elected county clerk serving until 1890. He was
cashier of the Drover's Bank for a number of years,
resigning a few months ago. Then he became bookkeeper of the
Buncombe Mill and Elevator Company. The funeral was
held Wednesday and was very largely attended.
(James W.
Gore married Ella Ridenhower
on 20 Dec 1876, in Johnson Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Robert S.
Hook, one of the best known citizens of Ballard County, Kentucky,
died at his home, near Kevil, Monday night from the effects
of pneumonia. The deceased was a prominent farmer and
was highly esteemed by all who knew him. He is
survived by his wife, a daughter, Mrs. J. M.
Skinner, of
Hinkleville, Ky., and J. M.
Skinner, of
Kinkleville, Ky., and a son, Edward
Cook, the
well-known express messenger running between Cairo and New
Orleans. The funeral was held yesterday afternoon.
(He was actually
buried near Makanda in Stearns Cemetery.—Darrel
Dexter)
The deceased was
a member of the Cotner School, where he will be greatly
missed.
The five-week-old son of Mr. and Mrs. S.
O'Daniels died Monday and was buried at Makanda Tuesday.
(Pulaski)
(His marker in
Stearns Cemetery reads:
Kenneth S. O’Daniel Born Jan. 13, 1907 Died Feb. 25, 1907.
He is buried next to Sylvester
O’Daniel
1862-1937 and Emma J.
O’Daniel 1869-1947, who were probably his
parents.—Darrel
Dexter)
John
Madden, an old
Cairo citizen, passed away at his home No. 819 Twenty-second
Street, this morning, shortly after 2 o'clock. The
deceased was 71 years old. He was well known
throughout the city and highly esteemed by his many friends.
He was born in
Nova Scotia in 1836. Later he came to Newport, R. I.,
where he was married. He then came to Cairo where he
has lived for the past 48 years.
The deceased was
a member of the Catholic Church. He was the builder of
some of the oldest buildings in this city, being a
contractor and builder by trade.
He leaves a wife
and four children, three boys and one girl, all of whom,
reside in this city. They are Thomas, Arthur, John and
Miss Rose Madden.
The funeral
arrangements have not been completed.
Woodstock, Ill.,
Feb. 28.—Deputy Game Warden Earl
Eldredge, aged
30, a trapper of McHenry County, was found dead at 3 a.m. in
the woods, six miles northeast of Woodstock. There was
a bullet through his heart. Foul play is suspected.
Eldredge left his
home early Sunday morning. There was no anxiety
concerning his absence until Monday noon. An alarm was
set out and fifty men searched the woods all night.
The body was
found in a kneeling position near a fence. The
warden's revolver was on the ground near the body with one
shell empty. The bullet through the heart must have
caused instant death. His overcoat was buttoned over
the wound, with no bullet hole through the garment.
The authorities think someone buttoned the warden's coat
after the shot was fired.
Eldredge was
recognized as a vigilant official, who prosecuted game law
violators without prejudice and made enemies by upholding
the law.
Madden—Died
Thursday morning, February 28, at his late residence, 817
Twenty-second Street, John
Madden, age 71 years.
Funeral services
will be held at St. Joseph's Church, Saturday morning,
cortege leaving residence at 8 o'clock. Train will
leave foot of Fourteenth Street. Friends are invited.
While engaged in
digging a trench in which to lay a water pipe from the
street main to the building of the National Woodenware
Company, some workmen dug up the remains of two men
yesterday who were lying a short distance apart.
There were no
marks of identification, but two canteens were found close
by, which leads one to believe that the skeletons were those
of soldiers buried there many years.
The remains were
moved and buried in another place.
Dempsey B.
Haynes, who for 10 years has been a patient in the Anna hospital,
died there today. He was about 50 years of age.
His nephew, Louis
C. Caffall, who was notified by the hospital officials of the death,
has arranged for the burial at Villa Ridge cemetery
tomorrow.
The deceased left
a sister, Mrs. Mattie
Manning, in Denver, Colo.
(David
Manning married Mattie Haynes
on 14 May 1886, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
dexter)
Mrs. Sarah J.
Hollaway, an old resident of this city, passed away about 7 o'clock
Monday morning at her home at Forty-second and Commercial.
The deceased had been ill for several weeks with pneumonia,
which devolved into typhoid fever. She was 57 years of
age.
The deceased is
survived by her husband, Fred C.
Holloway; her
mother, Mrs. A. A.
Smith; a son, George
Baker; a brother,
Charles Smith;
and three orphan children whom she adopted, two boys and a
girl, whose ages range from two to fourteen years. She
also left a daughter, Mrs. Minnie
Koonce, of Horse Shoe Lake.
Mrs.
Holloway recently
moved to Horse Shoe Lake and was here visiting when she was
taken ill.
(Her marker in
Cairo City Cemetery at Villa Ridge reads:
Sarah J.
Hollaway Born Feb. 1, 1850 Died March 4, 1907.—Darrel
Dexter)
Sterling, Ill.,
March 7—Mrs. Eliza
Wilson, aged 96 years, is dead. She was an
intimate friend of Abraham
Lincoln, and once
loaned him her saddle horse to make a campaign tour of
Sangamon County. Her husband was Colonel Robert L.
Wilson. When Lincoln
was elected president he wrote
Wilson telling
him he could have any office he wanted. He was made
paymaster of the Potomac. Mrs.
Wilson suffered a
fracture of the neck in 1856 and was confined to her bed for
eleven months. Her recovery was thought miraculous.
(Ira Otis
McCommons married Arminda Jane
Mowery on 19 Feb
1902, in Alexander Co., Ill.
Paul Mowery
married Mary Catharine
Cruse on 22 Apr
1867, in Union Co., Ill.
Her marker in Mission Chapel Cemetery near Mill Creek
reads: Arminda
J. McCommons Born
Jan. 28, 1874 Died March 2, 1907.—Darrel
Dexter)
(Her name was
Arminda McCommons instead of Hamblin.—Darrel
Dexter)
George
Waldschmidt passed away at 5:15 this morning at his home, No. 815
Cedar Street, after an illness of two weeks, with Bright's
disease.
The deceased was
31 years old and is a native Cairoite. He leaves a
wife and three children, also two brothers and one sister.
He was a member of the Lutheran Church and was employed by
the Weber Dry Goods Company for the past two years.
The funeral
arrangements have not been made.
(A marker in Alto
Pass Cemetery reads:
Louis E. Holcomb Born & Died 1907.
Sarah A.
Holcomb Born & Died 1911.
Children of Louis & Marie
Holcomb.—Darrel
Dexter)
Funeral services
over the late John Mercer
Walker, who died
Friday afternoon at Savannah, Ga., were held Sunday
afternoon from the home of his sister, Mrs. J. H.
Woodward, at No.
1101 Walnut Street. Rev. S. C.
Ohrum, the pastor
of the Cairo Baptist Church, officiated, and the remains
were taken to Columbus, Ky., for interment.
The deceased was
54 years of age and unmarried. He was the son of the late
Mr. and Mrs. Pembrook
Walker former residents of Columbus, Ky. Mr.
Walker resided in
Savannah, Ga., fourteen years and held a responsible
position with the Central of Georgia railroad. He was a
Mystic Shriner and Knight Templar.
Mrs.
Woodward arrived
home at 2:17 o'clock Sunday morning with the remains of her
brother.
The deceased was
a member of Palestine Commandery No. 7 Knight Templar of
Savannah. The Cairo Commandery gave a beautiful floral
piece, a large Maltese cross, as a token of their fraternal
esteem.
Mr.
Walker was a
resident of Cairo for a number of years.
Another victim of
Bright's disease was Henry
O'Donley, who
runs the saloon at 1301 Commercial Avenue.
Mr.
O'Donley, who has
been ill for the past two months, passed away last night at
9 o'clock, at his residence over the saloon.
The deceased was
about 50 years old and had been in the saloon business for
the past ten years. He first came here from Ballard County,
Ky., and started in the hotel business, which he ran for a
short time, and then sold out and went back to his farm in
Kentucky. After remaining on the farm for a while he moved
back to Cairo and started in the saloon business at his
present location. He is survived by a wife, a son and two
daughters. The remains will be taken to Bardwell Wednesday
for burial.
(This probably
refers to a grandchild of Benjamin and S. Matilda
Caudle, who are
buried in Concord Cemetery near Olmsted.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Katherine
Fitzgerald, widow of the late Patrick
Fitzgerald, passed away at 2 o'clock this afternoon. She had been
an invalid for some time and had just returned from St.
Louis last Sunday, where a successful operation by Dr.
Lamphier had been
performed. It was hoped that this would bring her improved
health, and the family were buoyed up with this hope, but
she was taken suddenly ill this morning at 10 o'clock, and
steadily failed until the end came this afternoon.
Mrs.
Fitzgerald was 68
years of age and was a native of Ireland. She leaves three
children, Edward and Frank
Fitzgerald and
Mrs. Mamie Walsh.
Funeral
arrangements had not been made this afternoon.
(Moses
Casper married Anna Hoffner
on 27 Sep 1863, in Union Co., Ill.
William H.
McMullin, 40, born in Manchester, England, son of Earon
McMullin and
Catherine Shaw,
married Mrs. Anna
Casper, 51, born in Union County, daughter of Levi
Hoffner and Mary
Dillow, on 23 Jan
1896, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
John B. Sydenstricker married Laura Casper on
7 Jul 1895, in Union Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
(Her marker in
Sims Cemetery reads:
Opal P. Bass
Born May 22, 1905 Died March 4, 1907.—Darrel
Dexter)
(William
McRaven, 18, 5’4”, dark hair, hazel eyes, light complexion, single,
farmer, born in Illinois, enlisted as a private in Co. H, 18th
Illinois Infantry on 19 Aug 1862.—Darrel
Dexter)
Died—Mrs.
Catherine Fitzgerald, March 14, 1907. Funeral will be held Saturday
(tomorrow) morning. Funeral cortege will leave residence on
Fourteenth Street at 8 o'clock for St. Patrick's
Church. Funeral train will leave foot of Fourteenth Street
at 9:45 a.m. for Villa Ridge Cemetery, where interment will
take place. Friends of family are invited to
attend. Father
Downey will be assisted in conducting the funeral
services by Father
Eschman of Prairie De Rocher, Ill.
(A marker in
Calvary Cemetery at Villa Ridge Cemetery reads:
Patrick K.
Fitzgerald Born Aug. 15, 1839 Died May 14, 1896.
Katherine Fitzgerald Born Aug. 15, 1839 Died March 14, 1907.—Darrel
Dexter)
Friends of Mrs.
W. H. Goe will be pained to learn that she died in Pasadena, Cal., on Feb.
26th, as the result of kidney trouble. She was
in Villa Ridge a year or more ago for California, and since
that time she has been gradually failing. Her son, R. B.
Goe, was called to California by her serious illness, but did not
arrive before her death. He is expected home tomorrow
night.
Mrs.
Goe is survived
by her husband, her son and one daughter Mrs. D. S.
Winans. Her
remains were buried at Pasadena.
Patrick
Maloney, an old resident of Cairo, died at St. Mary's Infirmary
Friday evening at 5:55 o'clock after an illness of about
three weeks. His ailment was Bright's disease.
The deceased was
a native of Ireland, and came to Cairo forty years ago,
since which time he has resided here continuously, following
the trade of boiler maker. He was 70 years of age. Seven
years ago his wife died. She was a sister of Chief
Desmond, of the
St. Louis detective force. Two sons, John
Maloney, of
Maloney &
Bucher, and
William Maloney,
and one daughter, Mrs. William
Meehan, the last
two of St. Louis, survive him. They have been at his
bedside for some time. A brother, Michael
Maloney, and a
sister, Mrs. Maggie
McCauley, both of New York, are also left, and they have
been notified of their bereavement. The funeral will
probably be held Monday.
The funeral of
the late Mrs. Catherine
Fitzgerald was
held this morning at St. Patrick's Church. The funeral was
largely attended. Father James
Downey was
assisted in conducting the services by Father C. J.
Eschman, of Prairie de Rocher, Ill., formerly of this city.
The remains were
interred in Villa Ridge Cemetery. The pallbearers were as
follows:
Active—W. R.
Halliday, Peter Lind,
James Meehan,
Claude Winter, M.
S. Egan, Samuel West, J. D.
Ladd, Joseph
Goodman, John Sanders,
Casper Sanders,
J. H. Galligan,
E. P. Ehs.
The grand jury,
which is in session at Mayfield, Ky., returned a verdict
yesterday against Ben
Parker, a Mayfield hotel keeper, charging him with the murder of an
unknown man and of setting fire to his home and hotel, all
of which happened about a month ago.
The case has
created considerable excitement at Mayfield.
AGED WOMAN IS STRUCK BY TRAIN
Mrs. Lizzie
Scheller, of No. 620 Douglas Street, was seriously injured this
morning by being struck by the Fulton passenger train on the
Illinois Central Railroad.
Mrs.
Scheller was
returning from the cottonwoods where she went to gather wood
at 9:10 this morning, and was crossing the track on the
Mississippi levee, at Tenth Street, when the train, which
was entering the city, struck her. The woman is said to be
hard of hearing, and as the trains run very rapidly upon the
levee track, she did not hear the sound of the whistle or
the noise of the approach of the train, and it slipped upon
her before she was aware of its approach. She had crossed
the track when her hat blew off and turning back to pick up
her hat, she was struck by the engine. The engine struck
her upon her hip and her body was hurled to the bottom of
the embankment. The train stopped as soon as possible and
she was picked up by the train crew and taken to the depot,
and from there taken to her home. She was conscious when
picked up and complained of pain in her back and head.
The shock of the
accident evidently dazed her, for she seemed unable to
remember that she had been out to the cottonwoods.
It is not
believed that the accident will prove fatal, although Mrs.
Scheller's age is
against her.
Mrs.
Scheller lived
with her son, Fred
Scheller, who is employed by the Vehicle Supply Company.
POLICEMAN DOUD STABBED TO
DEATH BY MARVIN BOREN
The crime was
committed on Thirteenth Street, where
Boren in company
with Sam Perce,
had created a disturbance.
Officer
Doud had been summoned and was in the discharge of his duty when he
met his death.
The officer had attempted to arrest
Boren, who
resisted and drawing his knife, stabbed
Doud several
times in the abdomen.
Boren and
Perce then fled.
Perce gave
himself up at the police station a short time after and
Boren was
captured at Fulton, Ky., this morning, where he was taken
off Illinois Central passenger No. 203, which he boarded at
Cairo Junction, and was brought back to this city and placed
in the city jail.
The deceased officer was a new man on the force, having been
appointed only a few months ago by Mayor
Parsons.
He was very popular among his friends of whom he had
a large number.
He possessed a quiet disposition and was a conscientious
man, loyal to his relatives and friends and always faithful
in the discharge of his duties, being an exemplary officer.
Mr. Doud
was 32 years of age and was born in Ireland.
He was a cousin of P. A.
Doud, the
well-known grocer of Twelfth and Walnut, and a brother of
Mrs. William Ryan,
of Fourth Street.
He was unmarried.
Prior to his appointment on the police force, the
deceased was employed as a driver for the Armour Packing
Company.
After he was cut, the officer fell to the sidewalk,
the blood gushing from the wounds, which
Boren had
inflicted. He
was carried into one of the houses on the street, here he
was attended by Dr.
Fields, whose office is only a block away.
Dr. McManus
was notified and arrangements were made at once to convey
the wounded man to the infirmary and Dr.
Grinstead also
notified to be in attendance.
Upon examination
at the infirmary, it was found that two ugly cuts had been
made in the abdomen, from which the intestines protruded,
and these in some places had been badly lacerated.
The physicians realized that there was no hope for
the officer to recover.
He sank rapidly and passed away at 11:46 p.m. about
an hour and three quarters after the crime had been
committed.
The deceased was
conscious almost to the last moment and was able to answer
some questions put to him by those at his bedside.
He gave a perfect description of
Boren and his
companion, Sam Perce,
although he did not know them.
Marvin
Boren has been employed as a switchman for the Illinois Central for
several years. He is a young man about 27 years old and has
a wife and a little child about a year and a half old.
His wife was formerly Miss Inez
Winter, daughter
of William Winter
and a niece of Ex-Mayor Claude
Winter.
Boren has
always borne a good reputation and was highly esteemed by
all who knew him, but he is said to be quick tempered and
quite quarrelsome when under the influence of liquor.
Sam
Perce, who was in
company with Boren,
has also been in the employ of the Illinois Central as a
switchmen, the two men working together on the day transfer
between Cairo and Mounds.
Perce is a
young man about 26 or 27 years of age and is unmarried.
He is a brother of Misses Anna and Nellie
Perce and Mrs. J.
W. Gholson.
The coroner’s
inquest was held this afternoon in the council chamber.
The jury was
composed of the following:
John Snyder, George Spence, W.
F. Smith, Hal
Sullivan, Patrick
Purcell and Otto Fahr.
The first witness
to be examined was Alice
Pharam, landlady
at No. 235 Thirteenth Street.
She stated that
Boren had visited
her house and was under the influence of liquor.
She stated that
Boren had
quarreled with one of the girls and had told her (Alice)
that if she called a policeman he (Boren)
would beat the officer to death and then beat her.
She stated that
Officer Doud had
asked Boren to come away.
Boren refused and
struck Officer Doud
in the face, when the latter attempted to take hold of
Boren.
A fight ensued in which several blows were passed.
The witness stated that
Boren struck at
the officer’s abdomen.
She said she did not see
Boren have a
knife in his possession.
Witness stated that Officer
Doud used his
club after Boren
assaulted him and said she heard
Boren call to
Perce and ask if he wasn’t going to help him (Boren).
Perce then jumped onto the officer.
She stated that the officer finally fell upon the
sidewalk and Boren
and Perce then fled.
Pearl
Spencer, an
inmate in Alice
Pharom’s house, was the next witness to be examined. She
stated that Boren and Perce resisted
arrest and that Boren
had said to the officer:
“Cut that out, Mr. Policeman, before I kill you.”
She stated that they came to blows and she heard the
policeman say:
“I don’t want to kill you,” after which he reeled and fell.
Witness stated that
Boren had been
quarrelsome in the house before the trouble with the
officer.
The next witness
to testify as Wanda
Lambert. She
stated that Boren had commenced quarreling the minute he entered the house.
He pushed one of the girls out of his way and asked
her if she wanted to fight.
The landlady interfered and witness stated
Boren told the landlady to call a policeman if she wanted to, that
he would whip any policeman that tried to take him.
Witness stated that after
Boren had struck
the officer, the latter said:
“Stop that boys, I don’t want to shoot you.”
Roxie
Summers, an
inmate of No. 233 Thirteenth Street, then testified.
She stated that
Boren had forced his way into No. 233 and commenced to swear and
fuss. Witness
stated she saw a knife in
Boren’s hand.
The rest of her testimony corroborated with that of
the preceding witness.
Daisy
Parks was then
examined. She
stated she did not witness the trouble.
She was then excused.
Marie
Holland was the
next witness.
Her testimony was about the same as that of the others.
Dr.
Fields was next
to testify. He
stated that he had received a hurry call from No. 235
Thirteenth Street to attend Officer
Doud who had been
cut. He said
that Doud had been stabbed in both the right and left sides of his
abdominal region and that the wounds were very serious.
The doctor stated that the officer had said that he
could have shot the men, but that he didn’t want to.
The deceased was
a member of St. Patrick’s Church, of the Knights of Columbus
and the Ancient Order of Hibernians.
Sam
Perce was then
examined.
Perce stated that he did not care to make a statement.
Marvin
Boren, the defendant, was then brought before the jury.
Boren
stated that all the statement he had to make was the wound
upon his head.
Boren stated that
the officer struck him three times before he (Boren) struck the officer.
Boren
stated in answer to a question by Juror
Snyder, that he
did not accompany the officer, because he knew of no reason
why he should go with him
The case then
went to the jury at 3:45 o’clock.
After the
tragedy, Boren hurried to Cairo Junction, where he boarded No. 203.
It is said that Operator
Tooley in the tower at the junction flagged the train to enable
Boren to get
aboard, as the train usually passes the junction at too
great a speed to allow anyone to get on or off.
Sergeant Cowell and Officer Thooman
visited the junction and asked the operator if he had seen
Boren. He stated that he
had not.
Mrs.
Boren is nearly
prostrated over the terrible affair and is said to be in a
serious condition.
Late last evening
the coroner's jury appointed to inquire into the death of
Police Officer P. J.
Doud, returned a verdict finding Marvin
Boren guilty of
the death of Doud
and Sam Perce, an accessory. The young men were accordingly taken to the
county jail and locked up.
The verdict of
the jury is as follows:
"We the
undersigned jurors, sworn to inquire into the death of
Patrick J. Doud,
on oath do find that he came to his death by stab wounds in
the right and left sides of the abdomen, by some sharp
instrument held in the hands of Marvin
Boren, while
resisting arrest by Police Office Patrick J.
Doud., deceased.
"We further
believe to the best of our knowledge from the evidence given
that one Sam Perce is an accessory.
"We further find
that the aforesaid Marvin
Boren and Sam
Perce were not
justified in the act and we therefore recommend that the
aforesaid Marvin Boren and Sam Perce be
held until discharged by due process of law.
"We further find
that this act was done on the south side of Thirteenth
Street near Poplar in the City of Cairo, County of Alexander
and State of Illinois, about 10 o'clock p.m., March 21st,
A. D. 1907."
The coroner’s
inquest was held Friday afternoon in the council chamber.
The funeral of
the late officer will be held Sunday afternoon at St.
Patrick's Church. Funeral cortege will leave residence of
Mrs. William Ryan,
sister of deceased, of No. 320 Fourth Street, at 1:30
o'clock for the church. Interment will take place at Villa
Ridge cemetery.
The deceased was
a devoted member of St. Patrick’s Church. He was also a
member of the Knights of Columbus and the ancient Order of
Hibernians.
Mr.
Doud was born in
Donegal County, Ireland, in December 1862, and was 35 years
of age at the time of his death. He came to America when16
years of age, about 22 years ago, and had been a resident of
Cairo most of this time.
The deceased was
a brother of Mrs. William
Ryan and Miss
Katie Doud, the
latter a saleslady at
Gazzola's confectionery store. He was a cousin of P. A.
Doud, the
groceryman. He also had other relatives in this city.
The members of
the city council, the police force, and other city officials
will attend the funeral in a body, and the city hall has
been ordered draped with mourning for thirty days, in
respect of the deceased.
Officer
Doud is the second Cairo police officer to have been murdered, the
other being Officer
Dunker, who was killed on Thirteenth Street about
fifteen or sixteen years ago.
(William P.
Ryan married Ellen Dowd
on 11 Jan 1893, in Alexander Co., Ill.
His marker in Calvary Cemetery at Villa Ridge reads:
Patrick J. Doud Died March 22, 1907, Aged 37 Years.
Catherine Doud.—Darrel Dexter)
The funeral of
the late P. J. Doud,
who died from wounds inflicted by Marvin
Boren, was held
Sunday afternoon and was very largely attended, a long
procession of the relatives and friends of the deceased,
following the remains to the grave.
The services were
held at St. Patrick’s Church, which was crowded with friends
of the deceased to do honor for the last time on earth of
this noble man and officer.
Father
Downey conducted the services and paid a high tribute to the life of
the deceased.
The remains were
interred in Villa Ridge cemetery.
The floral
offerings were very profuse and were very beautiful. There
were several large pieces from the orders of which deceased
was a member and from the city.
It required five
coaches and a baggage car to accommodate the crowd.
The funeral was
under the direction of the Knights of Columbus and Ancient
Order of Hibernians, of which deceased had been a member and
these orders turned out in a body. The police force of the
city in uniform, headed by Chief
Egan, were active
pallbearers, and guards of honor, and his Honor Mayor
Parsons and the
aldermen in carriages headed the cortege. Many hundreds of
citizens not members of these bodies followed the hearse.
Wednesday, 27 Mar 1907:
Ullin, Ill.,
March 27.—A body found floating in Cache on the Illinois
Central right of way near this place has been identified as
that of Walter
Claypool, who had been peddling a patented article
here. It is thought he formerly lived in Bowling Green,
Ky., and several persons heard him speak of having two
daughters in Butler County, Mo., and two sons living in
Kansas City.
The authorities
here have been unable to reach any of his relatives
regarding the disposition of the body.
(She was buried
beside her husband, John
Hurston, in Hazlewood Cemetery near Elco. Her marker reads:
Malinda
Hurston Born July 16, 1821 Died March 22, 1907.
Mother at Rest.—Darrel
Dexter)
(George S.
Bride married Ida S.
Britton on 25 Mar
1890, in Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Died, Mrs. D. M.
Hart, of Evansville, Ind., aged 56 years. Interment at Villa Ridge
cemetery Monday afternoon. Funeral services will be held at
the residence of Mrs. Eva
Kohler, No. 1707
Commercial Avenue at 1:30 o'clock. Friends of the family
are invited to attend.
Bulletin
please copy.
One of Cairo's
old residents, Mrs. David M.
Hart, died
yesterday at her home in Evansville, Ind., after an illness
of three weeks.
The deceased was
53 years old and born in Germany, coming to the United
States when quite young. She resided in Cairo several
years, but moved away recently. She is survived by a
husband and two sisters, Mrs. Kate
Eichoff and Mrs.
Eva Kohler, both
of this city. The former received a message that she was
critically ill and went to her bedside.
The remains will
be brought to Cairo and will be buried at Villa Ridge
Monday. Notice of funeral will be found elsewhere in this
issue.
(Henry
Eichoff married Katie Foehr
on 19 Mar 1871, in Union Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Paducah, Ky.,
April 1.—Capt. James
Carroll, aged 73 years, who for over 50 years was one of
the most widely known ship carpenters in Paducah, died at
Memphis, Tenn., late Friday afternoon of general
debility. Capt.
Carroll a year ago moved to Memphis and enjoyed good
health until a few weeks ago.
He always made his home on the south side of Paducah
and was well known to the pioneer citizens of that section.
There is not a
boat builder in the city who had any more friends than Capt.
Carroll and
dozens of them today attended the funeral.
Captain
Carroll is survived by a daughter, Miss Zella
Carroll, and several relatives in Paducah. His daughter lived with
him in Memphis.
Mrs. Lizzie
Sheeler died last night at St. Mary's Infirmary at 9 o’clock from
injuries sustained several days ago by being struck by the
Fulton passenger train on the Illinois Contrail Railroad
Thursday, March 21st.
Mrs.
Sheeler was 65
years of age. Her husband, Frederick
Sheeler, died 16 years ago.
Two children
survive her, Mrs. N. A.
DeVore, of
Vicksburg, formerly Miss Lucy
Sheeler, and Fred
Sheeler, who is
employed at the Vehicle Supply Company.
Funeral services
will be held tomorrow afternoon at Mrs.
Falconer's
establishment at 1:30 p.m. Remains will be taken to Beech
Grove.
Rev.
Armstrong will
officiate at the funeral.
Harrisburg, Ill.,
April 2.—On recommendation of the coroner’s jury, Oscar
Rude Jr., Levy Sunson,
Charles Rice, and
Jesse Summers,
were arrested and placed in jail without bail charged with
being implicated with Oscar
Rude, Sr., marshal of Gaskins City in the murder of John W.
Clary, a merchant
of this city, who was beaten to death Saturday
night. Before Mr. Clary died, he gave the above names of the parties as his
assailants, which were made known at the inquest. Mr.
Clary was buried
today.
Metropolis, Ill.,
April 2.—Capt. Millard
McCawley was shot
and killed at Brookport, Ill., yesterday afternoon. McCawley had been off on a trip and coming home yesterday had
trouble with his wife, gave her a whipping and threatened to
kill Daily Crouch,
her stepson. This afternoon he went to
Crouch's house
and broke in the door, when he was shot to death. McCawley
was for years pilot on the steamer
Cowling and a
prominent river man.
(Millard
McCawley married Annie Tucker
Couch on 15 Jul 1898, in Massac Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Metropolis, Ill.,
April 2.—Frank McCabe,
a young man about 22 years old and a resident of Paducah,
was found in the Ohio opposite this city by Scott
Murphy, a
fisherman. He was identified by pictures found in his
pockets of people residing here, also by a ring on his
finger belonging to a young woman of Paducah. McCabe had been missing since March 24, having gone on the excursion
to Cairo to see the gunboat
Wasp. One eye was
knocked out and foul play is suspected. The body was taken
to Paducah on the steamer
Dick Fowler
tonight.
The people of
Cairo were shocked to learn today of the death of Mrs. John
C. Gholson, which
occurred at her home on Park Avenue at 7:30 o'clock this
morning.
She had only been
ill a few days and her death was the result of an attack of
pneumonia, which developed a weakness of her heart.
Mrs. Gholson had
just returned from Chicago where she had been visiting her
daughter, Mrs. Glendale
Morgan, who is a patient in a hospital there. Saturday night she
was taken ill. Her end was peaceful.
Mrs.
Sarber was 42
years of age and was a native of LaPorte, Ind. Her
first husband, with whom she came to this city, died on May
19, 1899. He was superintendent of the Singer factory
here. She later married John C.
Gholson, who
survives her with three children by her first husband, Mrs.
Glendale Morgan,
Mrs. Louis
Waldschmidt, and John
Sarber.
Mrs.
Gholson was an
active church worker, a valuable member of the choir, and
her absence from the Cairo Baptist Church will be greatly
missed.
The arrangements
for the funeral had not been made this afternoon.
(John C.
Gholson married Mary F.
Sarber on 3 Sep 1900, in Alexander Co., Ill.
A marker in Cairo City Cemetery at Villa Ridge read:
Joseph L. Sarber Born July 1, 1851 Died May 19, 1899.—Darrel
Dexter)
We desire to
express our heartfelt thanks to the friends who so kindly
ministered to us in our affliction on the death of our wife
and sister, Mrs. D. M.
Hart, and for the
expressions of sympathy which were.
Mrs. W. E.
Edmunds, who was strick with paralysis last Thursday evening, died
this morning at 1:35 at her home on Third Street. Mrs.
Edmunds was born
in New York in 1844 and was 62 years of age. Her husband
and two sons, Fred H. and W. T.
Edmunds, survive
her. Mrs. Edmunds
was married in Centralia, after which they came to Cairo and
have lived here twenty years.
Funeral services
will be held at the house Thursday evening. Rev.
Armstrong will
officiate and the remains will be taken Friday morning to
Centralia for burial.
(William E.
Edmunds married Elizabeth
Taylor on 29 Aug 1866, in Marion Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
(John T.
Benton married Mrs. Frona
Hoffner, daughter of Anthony
George and Louisa
Augustine, on 26
Feb 1899, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
Her marker in Mt. Pisgah Cemetery near Wetaug reads:
Louesa George
Born Feb. 2, 1820 Died March 29, 1907 Aged 87 Years, 1
Month, & 27 Days
We cannot tell who next may fall, Beneath thy chastening
rod. One must be
first, but let us all, Prepare to meet our God.—Darrel
Dexter)
The funeral
services of Mrs. John C.
Gholson will be
held at her late residence, 2515 Park Avenue, at 1:30
o'clock Thursday afternoon. Friends desirous of viewing the
remains may do so until 12 o'clock.
Cape Girardeau,
Mo., April 4.—Captain John L.
Anglois, for many
years prominently connected with the river traffic on the
Mississippi and Ohio rivers, died here late Tuesday night of
paralysis, aged 70 years.
During the war he
ran an independent packet between St. Louis and Memphis and
later went with the Anchor line, with which he remained
until 1899. His last service was on the
City of New Orleans,
which ran between St. Louis and New Orleans. He was purser
on the Gold Dust, which blew up in the early eighties, just north of
Hickman, Ky., and received injuries from which he was a long
time recovering.
Funeral services
over all that was mortal of the late Mrs. J. C.
Gholson were held
this afternoon at the family residence and the remains were
taken to Villa Ridge cemetery for interment. The funeral
was largely attended and the flowers were most
beautiful. The pallbearers were T. H.
Haynes, John
Parham, Robert Stapleton,
James Cox, A. F.
Staehle, and C.
H. Thompson.
FIREMAN
KEMP KILLED IN WRECK
Passenger train
No. 3, which left Cairo at 7:15 o’clock last evening, was
wrecked in the yards at DuQuoin last night at 10 o’clock and
Fireman Walter Kemp
was instantly killed, while several of the passengers and
train crew were injured.
It was a rear-end collision and occurred at the south
yards of the Illinois Central there.
Owing to a misunderstanding of signals, the Chicago
passenger crashed into a coal train, which was switching on
the main tack.
Engineer Hill
leaped when the trains collided and escaped with a few
bruises, which will not result seriously.
Amos Carter,
of Omro, Wis., a passenger sustained a severe gash in the
forehead.
Several passengers in the Pullman were badly shaken up,
though none received serious injuries.
The passenger
engine rolled over an embankment, carrying Fireman
Kemp, who was not
found until sometime later, pinioned beneath the tender.
He was terribly scalded and bruised and, no doubt,
was killed outright.
He was married and resided at Centralia.
Several cars of coal in the rear of the freight were
sent to the bottom of the embankment, a total loss.
The mail car, next to the engine, was crossing on the
main track, though fortunately none of the mail clerks
suffered serious injury.
The Olmsted
correspondent of the
Mound City Enterprise says:
Uncle John
Hogan, of Cairo, came up this morning and walked up to his boyhood
home some two miles north of town to take measurements of
the graves of his father and mother, preparatory to erecting
a nice iron fence around the graves. The fence posts to be
set in concrete. Uncle John and his brother, Col. Dan
Hogan, formerly
of Mound City, are having the work done jointly. We were
glad to meet Uncle John, as he is an old landmark of this
vicinity and it carries us back to boyhood days when Uncle
and Aunt Hogan lived on the little farm where now lies their forms mouldering
in silent dust. The two subjects of this sketch were two
loveable old people. How well the writer remembers what a
treat it used to be to visit them. They tried to make
everyone happy while in their home and especially the little
boys and girls.
Mrs. Katherine
Sutter died yesterday afternoon at the home of her niece, Mrs.
Thomas Bechdel,
of Center and Cedar streets, after a week's illness.
She was born in
Germany, May 11th, 1840. Her husband died twenty
years ago and her children are dead, her nearest surviving
relatives are several nieces. They are Mrs. Thomas
Bechdel, Mrs. W.
A. Steagala, Miss
Lou Kaderil, of Cairo, and Mrs. William
Edmunds, of Mt. Carmel, Mrs. Catherine
Bryan, of Carey, Miss., and Mrs. C.
Nooman, of St. Louis.
The deceased was
a member of the Lutheran Church.
The funeral
services will be held Saturday afternoon at the residence of
her niece, Mrs. Thomas
Bechdel, at 1:30. Interment at Villa Ridge.
(Thomas
Bechdel married Katie Kaderle
on 15 Apr 1891, in Alexander Co., Ill.
W. A Steagala
married Rosa
Smith on 20 Nov 1884, in Johnson Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
(Monroe G. W.
Lingle married Amy Beaver
on 24 Aug 1852, in Union Co., Ill.
Her marker in Mt. Zion Cemetery near Dongola reads:
Amy wife of Monroe
Lingle Born May
6, 1835 Died March 30, 1907 Aged 71 Ys., 10 Ms., & 24 Ds.
As a wife, devoted.
As a mother, affectionate.
As a friend, ever kind and true.—Darrel
Dexter)
Miss Anatasia
Darmody, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Darmody, of 2214 Washington Avenue, passed away at 7:20 this morning
after an illness off several months. She had been ill for
months and had visited St. Louis, where she remained for
nine weeks. A short time ago her mother went to St. Louis
to bring her home and has been better at times and worse at
others.
The deceased is
survived by her father and mother, two sisters, Mrs. Frank
Rush and Miss
Mary Darmody, and
six brothers, George, Edward, Thomas, Jr., William, Richard,
and Robert, all of whom reside in Cairo.
Miss
Darmody was a
member of St. Joseph's Church. The funeral will be held
Monday morning at 8:30 with high mass and the interment will
be at Villa Ridge.
(George
Hoopaw, 26, bon in Pulaski Co., Ill., son of Thomas
Hoopaw and Amelia
Jobs, married Mrs. Irma Price,
25, born in Boyed Co., Ky., daughter of John L.
Staten and Malica Beck,
on 30 Nov 1899, in Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
(His marker in Jonesboro Cemetery reads:
Robert P. Owen
Born Dec. 5, 1848 Died April 3, 1907.
Sarah I. Owen Born Sept. 4, 1854 Died Sept. 18, 1895.—Darrel
Dexter)
Hickman, Ky.,
April 12.—While arresting Harrison
Bolling, 19 years
old, a bootlegger, in the bottoms several miles from this
city, Wednesday night, Wade
Brown, deputy
United States marshal, shot
Bolling through
the back of the head, killing him instantly. Marshal
Brown is on his way back to Paducah with the sheriff of this
county. Several bootleggers have been operating in the
vicinity of Blue Pond and Marshal
Brown has been
rounding them up. That night he captured
Bolling. The lad
broke away as the marshal was handcuffing him and
Brown drew his pistol, intending to fire over the head of the
fugitive. As he did so the marshal stumbled and dropped his
pistol. It was discharged, the ball entering the back of
Bolling's head,
killing him instantly.
John
Stoltz, aged 35
years, died at St. Mary's Infirmary at 4:30 o'clock this
morning after a lingering illness of nearly two years. His
death was due to a complication of diseases. The deceased
was formerly engaged in the livery and transfer business in
Cairo with the firm of
Stoltz and Walters. He
formerly lived in Mound City, where he leaves a sister, Mrs.
Frank Handley. He
is also survived by a brother, who resides at Hannibal, Mo.,
and two other sisters, who reside in Chicago and Louisville,
Ky.
The funeral will
be held at the home of Mrs.
Handley,
Wednesday afternoon. Services will be conducted by Rev.
Juny of the Mound City Episcopal Church. The interment will be made
at Beech Grove Cemetery. The deceased after his retirement
from the livery business was employed as a bartender for a
number of local saloons. He was a member of the Cairo
Bartenders’ Union. He was well known and had hosts of
friends in Cairo and Mound City, who will be deeply grieved
to learn of his death.
Mother Augusta of
the Order of the Holy Cross, is at the point of death at
Notre Dame, Ind. She is suffering from an attack of
pneumonia, and as she is advanced in years, having reached
75, it is feared that she cannot recover.
She was once
Sister Superior of St. Mary's Infirmary in this city and was
afterward Mother General of the order.
Judge Horace S.
Clark, of Mattoon, well known in Cairo, died last Thursday night and
the remains were buried Sunday with fitting honors.
Horace S.
Clark was born in Huntsburg, Ohio, Aug. 12, 1840, and received his
early education in the schools of that state. In 1856 he
moved to Kane County, Illinois, and a few years later
immigrated to Iowa, where he taught school some time.
Later he returned
to Ohio and studied law. In 1861 he enlisted in Company E,
73rd Volunteers and served throughout the Civil
War, gaining the commission of 1st lieutenant.
He came to
Mattoon in 1865 and was admitted to the bar 1868, having
practiced in that city until his death.
Judge
Clark was a
candidate for the Republican nomination for governor in 1896
and came to Cairo in the interest of his candidacy.
A dispatch to the
Memphis Commercial Appeal from Bardwell, Ky., dated Saturday says:
Ed
Stockton, aged
about 17 years, shot and mortally wounded his uncle, Barlow
Stockton, at the
latter's home and then assaulted Mrs.
Stockton, who
came to her husband’s rescue, knocking her down with his
rifle and covering his unconscious body with kerosene he set
fire to the clothing. The flames revived her, and she was
enabled in some unaccountable manner to extinguish them, but
not until she had been frightfully burned. She lies at the
home of a neighbor near here in a dying condition and her
husband at the home of another with a like fate staring him
in the face. Young
Stockton was arrested and placed in jail here today. He
will be released on bail and his preliminary trial held in a
few days.
It was known that
Barlow Stockton
kept a lot of money at his house and it is supposed that the
nephew went there with the intention of murdering his
relatives and securing what sums he could find. He did get
$80 and the officers took $69.75 away from him.
The lad went to
the home of his uncle about midnight and knocked for
admission. Supposing that he came here to spend the night,
as he was in the habit of doing, he was shown a room in the
second story of the house. Later on in the night, hearing a
noise in the room, the uncle went up to make inquiry. As he
opened the door he was confronted by the boy, who threw his
Marlin rifle down on him and shot him though the right lung.
Mrs.
Stockton rushed
to the assistance of her husband and tried to take the gun
from the boy, but he was too strong for her and succeeded in
beating her into unconsciousness. They fought and struggled
through the house and out into the yard, where she dropped
from exhaustion and the merciless beating he had
administered. The boy then dragged her body into the house,
poured kerosene on it and set it on fire, his intention
evidently being to burn the house and inmates to cover up
his crime.
Reviving she put
out the flames and then made her way as best she could to a
neighbors, where she told the story of the assault and
robbery. Her husband, meanwhile had gone to another
neighbor’s house where he was put to bed and given surgical
attention.
The boy's father
William Stockton
and Barlow Stockton
are brothers, sons of Gilford
Stockton, who
resides near Bardwell and the family have borne the best of
reputation.
Taylor
Lacy, a negro lamp cleaner employed by the Mobile and Ohio railroad,
was run down and killed by a special engine drawing the M. &
O. pay car at 7:50 this morning between Cairo and Davis
Junction. The accident occurred near the point where the
tracks cross the county road.
Lacy
was on a three-wheeled car on his way to Davis to remove and
clean the lamps in use on the interlocking switch
plant. The pay train was going in the same direction and in
some manner Lacy
did not hear it approaching. The engineer did not see
Lacy's car in time to stop his engine.
The engine
crashed into the light car with terrific force and hurled it
several feet from the track, completely wrecking it. Lacy
was instantly killed.
The body was
brought to Cairo and taken to the establishment of Mrs. M.
E. Feith. Coroner
McManus will
conduct an inquest tomorrow morning.
Lacey
was 45 years old and was married. He resided with his
family at 1408 Walnut Street. For a number of years he was
employed by the Big Four Railroad.
The coroner’s
jury yesterday afternoon returned a verdict finding that the
death of Taylor Lacy, the negro run down by an Illinois Central pay train between
Cairo Junction and Davis Tuesday morning, was accidental and
held no one responsible.
The testimony
introduced at the inquest showed that
Lacy was riding
north on a three-wheeled car on his way to Davis to clean
the lamps on the interlocking switch systems and that he did
not hear the pay train approaching from behind, owing
probably to the high wind and the noise made by his own car.
(Adam
Bourland married
Victorine Walters
on 11 Nov 1880, in Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Deter)
Was P. H.
Strawhun, a general organizer for the American Federation of Labor,
the victim of foul play? Did he commit suicide,
or is he still alive? These are the questions that the
entire Cairo police force has been trying to solve since
early this morning when
Strawhun's coat and vest were found on the trestle near the Barrett
coal fleet below the Halliday Hotel by the watchman. He
immediately reported his find to police headquarters.
In the pockets of
the coat were found a purse containing an Illinois Central
railroad ticket from Cairo to Carbondale, which had been
purchased today. No money, but several papers, cards,
receipts, etc. all bearing
Strawhun's name
were also found in the purse. In another pocket was found a
bank book, showing that on yesterday, the 19th,
he had deposited $352.20 in the Murphysboro National Bank.
None of the union
men upon whom
Strawhun usually called when visiting the city saw him
yesterday and were surprised to learn that he had been
here. The fact that the ticket bore yesterday's date and
that the bank book showed a deposit made yesterday is proof
that he evidently transacted business in Murphysboro in the
morning and arrived here on an afternoon train and
then purchased the ticket to Carbondale.
Chief of Police
Egan is of the opinion that
Strawhun committed suicide. Had he met with foul play
his coat and vest would not have been removed and placed on
the trestle. The fact, however, that
Strawhun is known
to have always carried a large sum of money on his person,
but that he had made a deposit yesterday also tends to
discredit the theory that he was slain for his money.
Strawhun
is well known to the union men of Cairo and all southern
Illinois. He came here several weeks ago and assisted R. L.
Finney, president
of the Central Labor body in organizing several new
unions. He left on Saturday, April 13, for Murphysboro,
where he made his headquarters. Strawhun
was also secretary of the Seventh Illinois District of
United Mine Workers of Murphysboro.
Strawhun
made a most favorable impression on the Cairo people he met
while here. He was quite intimate with Mr.
Finney and told
him that he did not have any living relatives. He was
unmarried. He was a member of the Odd Fellows and Red Men
orders and wore emblems of both organizations on the lapel
of his coat.
Chief
Egan in hopes of
finding some clue that
Strawhun might
have returned to Murphysboro last night, after possibly
having been robbed of his coat and vest, wired the chief of
police there to know if he had returned. Late this
afternoon no answer had been received.
Late this
afternoon Chief Egan
received a message from Murphysboro stating that
Strawhun was to
have been at Champaign, Ill., today, but a message from
union officials there announced that he had not arrived.
(A photograph of
Strawhun is published with the article.—Darrel
Dexter)
Monday, 22 Apr 1907:
Albert
Dexter, son of Dr. and Mrs. A. H.
Dexter, who for a number of months made Cairo his home, being
located at the Planters Hotel, died this morning at St.
Mary's Infirmary following an operation for
appendicitis. The deceased was about 24 years old and was
well known here. Prior to his illness he operated a stand
in front of the Planter's Hotel, making metal watch fobs,
checks, etc. Dr.
Dexter is in St. Louis, but is expected to arrive
tonight to take charge of the body. Arrangements for the
funeral will be announced later.
According to a
long distance telephone message to
The Citizen from
Wickliffe at noon today the jury in the case or Robert
Dunn for the
murder of Jeff Evans
has not reached a decision after having been out since
Saturday noon.
It is feared that
a hung jury will result and that a second trial will be
necessary.
Dunn
killed Evans, his uncle, several months ago. The murder created intense
excitement, owing to the prominence of both parties. The
town was divided on its opinion regarding the case some
contending the murder was a cold blooded one while others
claimed that it was justified.
Evans,
it was shown at the trial, had been frequent threats against
Dunn and had on
several occasions attacked him. Evans was shot and killed as he was driving past
Dunn's barn. The
nephew was concealed in the barn until
Evans approached
and then stepped out of the door with a double barreled
shotgun and challenged
Evans. Some
words followed and
Dunn fired.
The trial was
hotly contested and was the subject of much interest. Evans
was paroled convict, having been convicted for the murder of
a youth named Bradley
several years ago in a blacksmith shop at Wickliffe.
Four children
were burned to death at Fulton, Ky., early this morning when
the home of their parents, Sabil
Haddid and wife
burned. The eldest child was ten and the youngest one years
old.
News of the
horrible accident first reached Cairo in a special dispatch
from Fulton to the Citizen but later George
Zegeer, of the Alhambra confectionary on Eighth Street
received a message from
Haddid.
Zegeer
and Haddid came
from the same town in Syria and are warm personal friends. Zegeer
who was greatly shocked by the news of the sad affair left
this afternoon for Fulton.
Other Syrian
merchants in Cairo were also notified of the affair and
several from here will attend the funeral.
The dispatch from
Fulton says:
“Four children of
Sabil Haddid and
wife were burned to death this morning and the parents
barely escaped a like fate when fire destroyed the
Haddid home. The
origin of the fire is not known. The alarm was given
shortly after midnight when the whole house was
afire. Neighbors rushed to assistance of the
Haddids but were
able only to save the parents, the room in which the
children were sleeping being a sheet of flames before
assistance arrived.
“The bodies of
the four children were burned to a crisp and were
identified only by the sizes of the corpses.
“Clasped tightly
in the arms of the oldest child was the body of the year-old
baby. The boy evidently had tried to save the child, but
had fallen near the door. The bodies of the other two
children were found where their bed had stood.
“The tragic death
of the four children is one of the saddest affair in the
history of Fulton and the whole town is deeply grieved as a
result. Both Haddid
and his wife are overcome by the shock and Mrs.
Haddid is in a serious condition.”
Mrs. Zerelda
Smith, of Tenth Street, received a message from her son, Joseph
Smith, at
Champaign, Ill., announcing the death of his wife in that
city Saturday.
Miss Zuleima Smith,
sister of Mr. Smith,
attended the funeral.
Miss Zuleima Smith, of
Tenth Street, has returned from Champaign, Ill., where she
attended the funeral of her sister-in-law.
The many friends
of William J. Lawler,
alderman of the Fourth ward, were shocked today to learn of
his death, which occurred this morning at 10:55 at San
Angelo, Texas, where Mr.
Lawler has been
sojourning for the benefit of his health for the past four
or five weeks.
The news came in
a message received this morning by State's Attorney
Alexander Wilson,
a stepbrother of the deceased.
Mr.
Lawler had been
in poor health for a number of years and last July went to
Chicago, where he underwent an operation at the Monroe
Street hospital for gallstones and a second operation for
appendicitis. He returned home early in October, apparently
in the best of health, but he suffered a relapse and was
compelled to return to Chicago in January for treatment. He
also visited West Baden on this trip.
He returned home
in February and after arranging business matter went south
for his health. Mr.
Lawler spent a few weeks at Hot Springs, after which he went to
Texas.
The deceased was
born in Corry, Pa., about 38 years ago and has resided in
Cairo for nearly 20 years.
The deceased
prior to his illness was a large property holder, but
recently disposed of the greater part of his property
interests.
Alderman
Lawler is survived by his aged father, Mr. M.
Lawler, and his sister, Miss Lizzie
Lawler, who are nearly prostrated over the sad news of his death.
Mr.
Lawler has been
connected with his father in the grocery business for a
number of years and conducted a store at No. 530 Fifteenth
Street until last fall when their property was purchased by
the Cairo and Thebes railroad. Mr.
Lawler then
bought the property at Fifteenth and Poplar Street, where he
erected a fine two-story brick building where the grocery
was moved.
The deceased was
a progressive man and loyal to his friends of whom he had a
large number.
His remains will
probably arrive here Friday, when funeral arrangements will
be made.
(His marker in
Calvary Cemetery at Villa Ridge reads:
William J.
Lawler 1869-1907.—Darrel
Dexter)
The
Murphysboro
Independent says:
Mr.
Strawhun's son,
Henry Bernstein
Strawhun, went to Centralia Saturday to visit his
mother, Mrs. Shrugue, who was remarried after being divorced. Mr.
Strawhun's other
relatives live at Newburg, Mo. He came here fifteen years
ago and worked in the mines. Though not possessing a
polished education, he was a pretty shrewd fellow, and when
the miners organized here in 1898, Pat at once became one of
the leaders and has been sub district secretary treasurer
since the organization was perfect. He has attended all of
the sub district state and national conventions of the
miners since 1898. He has been general organizer for the
American Federation of Labor for several years and has
worked all over Illinois, Iowa, Indiana and Missouri. Two
weeks ago he organized three or four unions in Cairo. He
was not the sort of man to commit suicide.
As to the theory
that he drew out $1,500 with the notion of skidooing,
President John G.
Hardy of the City National Bank says he might just as
well have dawn $3,000 and he has often taken out $1,000 to
$1,200 when going away for two or three weeks.
Pat was not what
could be called a spender. That he lost much money at poker
is not likely. He had a much larger income than he needed
to keep himself and little son and it is not a strong
probability that he committed suicide because of money
matters, or any other thing. If he flashed a roll in Cairo
he stood a mighty good chance to get his head cracked at the
first opportunity. If he escaped foul play he has purposely
disappeared.
TWO KILLED AND FOUR INJUIRED
Dwight, Ill.,
April 24.—In a collision of a coal train and a light engine
on the Chicago & Alton this morning, Engineer George
Goodman and
Fireman George Brown
were killed and Fireman
Taylor had both
legs torn off. Another trainman and two tramps were badly
injured. A misunderstanding of signals let the engine in on
the main track from a siding.
To Brother
Keller for his true remarks and to the people for their aid and
kindness and sympathy when the world seemed so dark to us,
when love and friendship was needed more than at any other
time; to the good people we owe a debt of everlasting
gratitude and we sincerely hope that such sadness as is our
portion now may never be gone through with by any other
family. Thanks for the beautiful floral offerings by kind
friends.
A special meeting
of the city council will be held tonight to take appropriate
action on the death of Alderman William J.
Lawler. A
memorial will be prepared and arrangements made for the
council to attend the funeral in a body.
A message was
received yesterday by Hon. Reed
Green and his
cousin, Mrs. T. B.
Farrin, Jr., announcing the sudden death of their
cousin, Miss Maidelyn
Green, youngest daughter of the late Dr. W. Duff
Green, which
occurred in Mt. Vernon, Ill., yesterday morning. The news
came as a great shock as a recent letter indicated that she
was in fairly good health. The deceased is survived by two
brothers and three sisters. The funeral will be held Friday
afternoon at 2 o'clock. Mrs.
Farrin left this afternoon for Mt. Vernon and Mr.
Green and Mrs. J.
U. Gridley of
Wyoming, who is here visiting, will go tomorrow.
The new city
council started out with a sad mission to perform—taking
official recognition of the death of Alderman William J.
Lawler and last
evening with the new aldermen, John A.
Bourgois and
Daniel Kelly, in
their seats for the first time, a special meeting was held
at which a committee was appointed to draft a suitable
memorial to the deceased member.
The mayor was
also instructed to procure a floral emblem to lay upon the
coffin of the alderman and the council voted to attend the
funeral in a body.
The committee to
draft the memorial is composed of Aldermen
Snyder,
Koehler, and
Bourgoise.
The remains of
Alderman W. J. Lawler
arrived over the Cotton Belt this afternoon and were met at
the station by the mayor and city council and other friends
of the dead alderman.
The remains were
taken to Feith's
undertaking establishment where they were prepared for
burial, and tonight they will be taken to the residence of
the deceased at Fifteenth and Poplar streets. The funeral
will probably be held Sunday afternoon.
Yesterday State's
Attorney Alex Wilson,
stepbrother of the deceased, received a letter from W. D.
Holcomb, of San
Angelo, Tex., written the day before Alderman
Lawler died, in which he told how suddenly he was stricken. On
Monday of last week Alderman
Lawler took supper with Mr.
Holcomb and family and appeared to be feeling very
well. It was only last Friday that he began complaining of
suffering from rheumatism. He steadily grew worse, but on
last Monday, when the letter was written, there was no fear
of his approaching death. Mr.
Holcomb at that time advised that someone from here go to San Angelo
as Alderman Lawler
needed constant attention. The next morning he died.
Mrs. Maria
McGinnis died at her home, 1015 Commercial Avenue, yesterday morning
at 3 o'clock, aged about seventy-five years.
The deceased
leaves no relatives, her only child, Fred
McGinnis, having
died about seven years ago. She was a spiritualist for a
number of years, but in her last hours she summoned a
Catholic priest to administer the last rites of the church.
The funeral was
held this afternoon with services at the residence of Mrs.
McDermott at
Sixth and Jefferson streets, Rev. Father James
Downey officiating and interment was made at Villa Ridge cemetery.
Friends of Mr.
George W. Strode
were shocked to learn of his death, which occurred at
Trenton, Tenn., yesterday afternoon, after a few days
illness from grip.
The funeral was
held there this afternoon and was attended by a number of
his old Cairo friends. Messrs. C. B. S.
Pennebaker and
George F. Ort
went down to pay their last respects to their old friend and
associate.
Mr.
Strode was born
at Galena, Ill., Oct. 31, 1834. His father, Col. J. M.
Strode, was an
officer in the Black Hawk War and afterwards was a prominent
attorney of Galena.
In 1865 Mr.
Strode was married to Miss Mary
Stuart, of Alabama, who died not many years afterwards. His second
wife also passed away in her young days and Mr.
Strode again
married in 1897 a well-known lady of Columbus, Ky., who
survives him. The only child of Mr.
Strode died when
quite young.
Mr.
Strode for about
twenty-five years was employed by
Halliday Bros. in this city in a responsible position and for years
was one of their most valuable assistants, being capable,
energetic and highly trustworthy.
In 1887 he went
to Denver, where he remained for some months and returning
to Cairo resided here until 1890. Since that time Columbus,
Ky., and Trenton, Tenn., had been his abiding places.
William R.
Crain, one of the most prominent citizens of Pulaski County, died
last night at his home midway between Mounds and Villa
Ridge.
He has been ill
for some time, Mr.
Crain was 73 years of age. He leaves a widow and
several children, all grown. He was a very extensive fruit
grower and his displays at the Villa Ridge Grange were among
the largest of any of the horticulturists of that vicinity.
The deceased was
a brother of Postmaster L. F.
Crain of Villa
Ridge.
He was an old
soldier having served in the Civil War, but has remained in
private life ever since.
Mt. Carmel, Ill.,
April 27.—A Big Four freight was wrecked at Eldorado this
morning, killing Fireman
Kerns and badly
inuring two other trainmen.
The wreck
occurred at Eldorado. The engine and two cars turned over
on freight train No. 96.
Fireman Curran
and Brakeman Charles
Weston, of Tunnel Hill, were killed. The noon passenger
train did not arrive this afternoon until 4:20. It went
down an hour late.
Lawler—Died,
Tuesday morning, April 23, 1907, William J.
Lawler, at San
Angelo, Tex., Funeral services will be held
Sunday afternoon at the residence at 1:30 o'clock. Train
will leave Fourteenth Street at 2:45 o'clock from Villa
Ridge Cemetery.
Friends are
invited.
Mrs. William F.
Dunning, of Willard, died suddenly last night at her home
there. She had been to church during the evening and
returning home had retired. The mosquitoes were so bad that
the family could not sleep and Mr. and Mrs.
Dunning got up
and sat out on the porch. It was while sitting there that
Mrs. Dunning
died. Coroner
McManus was notified and went out to hold an inquest.
Mrs.
Dunning was twice
married, her first husband being a man named
Timmons. She was married to Mr.
Dunning in this city on Feb. 18th last.
(George W.
Timmons married Ava Minton
on 22 Dec 1895, in Alexander Co., Ill.
Her marker in Baumgard Cemetery reads:
Come Ye Blessed.
Gone But Not Forgotten.
Ava M. Timmons Dunning Born July 19, 1878 Died April 28, 1907.
Daughter of A. J. & Isabella
Minton.—Darrel
Dexter)
The remains of
Alderman William J.
Lawler were laid at rest in the Catholic cemetery at
Villa Ridge Sunday afternoon.
A large number of
friends followed the remains to their last earthly resting
place under the evergreens upon one of the beautiful hills
of Villa Ridge.
The ceremony was
conducted by Rev. Father
Downey, of St.
Patrick's Church, and the mayor and city officials and
Culver's band
followed the remains as a last mark of respect. The
pallbearers were W. H.
Wood, Thomas
Cotter, N. V.
Lewis, E. G. Pink, Frank
Fitzgerald, Jr.
James McManus, W.
P. Greaney, Richard Powers,
J. H. Morehead,
and John C. Fisher.
Another terrible
disaster occurred on the Cairo division of the Big Four
shortly before midnight Friday, resulting in the death of
two men and the injury of a third.
Freight train No.
96, Conductor Ben
Dills and Engineer
Perry, was the train involved. While moving at the rate of ten
miles per hour, a couple of miles south of Eldorado, the
pony trucks of the engine left the track, putting the engine
and eight cars of coal into the ditch. The accident
occurred at the flag, where the new main track is cut in,
and appears to have resulted from some defect
there. Although the train was not moving at a high rate of
speed, the track was torn up for a distance of five rail
lengths and the smashup was a very nasty one. The engine
did not turn over, but stood almost on end down the side of
the embankment, while the coal cars were piled up in the
greatest confusion. On the engine at the time of the wreck
were Engineer Petty,
Fireman C. A. Curran
and Head Brakeman Charles
Weston. Engineer
Petty escaped
with a few cuts and bruises about the face, none of them
serious, but Curran and Weston were
not so fortunate. They evidently jumped when the engine
left the track, and both were caught beneath the wreck where
the life was crushed out of them instantly. Both bodies
were recovered from the wreck in a badly mangled condition.
The death of
Fireman Curran was a peculiarly sad one. On last Sunday he was united in
marriage to Miss Lillie
Stoltz, of this
city, and after a few days' visit with his parents near
Sumner they returned to Mt. Carmel to make their home. The
trip on which he came to his tragic end was the first of
which he had been called since his wedding day. The awful
death of her husband is a terrible blow to his young wife,
who will have the deepest sympathy of everyone. The
deceased was about 24 years. He was born in Lick Prairie
Precinct, being a grandson of "Uncle Johnny"
Curran, who is
well known in the county, but removed with his parents to
Lawrence County near Sumner some years since. He was a
young man of good character and was well thought of by his
acquaintances.
Brakeman
Weston came to Mt. Carmel a short time ago from Sanburn, Ill., but
his parents live in Faxon, Okla. He was 23 years of age and
unmarried.
The disposition
will be made of the bodies of the unfortunate fireman and
brakeman is not known at this time.
W. R.
Crain was born in
Miami County, Ohio, Sept. 29, 1834, where he spent his
boyhood days and came to Pulaski County about 1858. On Feb.
2, 1862 he was married to Miss Mary A.
Spence, of
Pulaski County. She and his son James L. and his daughter,
Mrs. Joseph Bour,
died a few years ago. There are five children, Warren, 6,
Miss Alma, Lewis F., Mrs. R. B.
Goe, and William
R. Crain, Jr.,
living now near the old homestead. Mr.
Crain was a
charter member of Villa Ridge Lodge No. 526 A. F. and A. M.,
which was transferred to Mound City, where he was still an
active member. Politically Mr.
Crain was a
lifelong Republican, having been county commissioner and for
twelve years was justice of the peace. Mr.
Crain leaves a
wife, five children, one brother and many other relatives
and friends to mourn his loss.
The funeral occurred at the family residence at 2
p.m. Monday, April 29, 1907, conducted by Rev. C. W.
Campbell, of the
Villa Ridge Methodist Church and interment was at Villa
Ridge cemetery, according to the rites of the Masonic order.
(William R.
Crain married Mary A. Spence
on 2 Mar 1862, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
Joseph Bour
married Emma
Crain on 17 Dec 1890, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
Reeder B. Goe married Mary Crain on
30 Jun 1896, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
His marker in Cairo City Cemetery at Villa Ridge
reads: William
R. Crain 1834-1907.—Darrel
Dexter)
Word was received
yesterday by Stephen
Leverone saying that his nephew, William
Leverone, had
died in Cincinnati. The deceased lived in Cairo for several
years, conducting a fruit and confectionary establishment
where Frank Gazzola
now is.
Tuesday, 30 Apr 1907:
Members of Cairo
lodge A. F. and A. M., of which he was a member, received
notice today of the death of Samuel
Rosenwater, in
New York last Saturday.
Samuel
Rosenwater was born in Hungary on May 13, 1840. His parents were
natives of Germany.
Mr. Rosenwater
was one of seven children. He was educated in his native
place and came to Cairo when he was 20 years old, starting
in business as a peddler at Cleveland, Ohio. In 1863 he
removed to Cairo and the following embarked in the dry goods
business with J. A.
Goldstine, establishing the well-known firm
Goldstine &
Rosenwater. They
were one of the leading dry goods firms in this end of the
state and the business which they built up still keeps its
place in this community, though the business is now
conducted in the name of Samuel
White.
Mr.
Rosenwater was
married in Cairo in 1868 to Miss Fannie
Black, daughter of Adolph
Black. He leaves a widow and four or five children. He
left Cairo about the year 1886.
(Samuel
Rosawater married Fanny Black
on 30 Aug 1868, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
We desire to
express our heartfelt thanks to our kind friends and to all
those who were so kind to us and lent their assistance
during the death of our late son and brother. Especially do
we wish to thank
Culver's Egyptian Band for their assistance.
A letter from her
son, Irwin Levi,
brings the news that Mrs. Leo
Levi, formerly of
Cairo, died at her home in Anniston, Ala., about a week
ago. She had been a long sufferer from cancer and her death
was the result of the ravages of that disease. Her son is
attending a medical college in Philadelphia. Mr.
Levi was in the
retail liquor business in Cairo, a number of years ago, and
since his removal from this city has been in business in
Anniston.
T. J.
Wilkinson died
Wednesday morning at his home in Minneapolis, Minn., of
dropsy. He was about 64 years of age. He leaves a
wife. His other relatives live in Maine.
"Tom"
Wilkinson came to Murphysboro about 1870, when the St. Louis and
Cairo or narrow gauge road was being built and worked as
boss of a crew constructing bridges and trestles. Later he
became bridge foreman for this division of the road and when
the Mobile and Ohio took over the narrow gauge, Mr.
Wilkinson became
roadmaster, a position which h held until two years ago,
when failing health made it necessary for him to retire.
He and Mrs.
Wilkinson then left Murphysboro, residing here 35 years, and located
at Minneapolis.
His health has been bad since that time, and a few months
ago dropsy developed.
Mr.
Wilkinson was
married to Miss Eva
Shaw, of Sparta, shortly after coming to this city 37
years ago.—Murphysboro Independent
Springfield,
Ill., May 2.—Annie
O'Daniels, sentenced to the penitentiary for murder from
Pulaski County in 1897, was recommended for pardon by the
state board of pardons, according to the statement of the
state's attorney of the county.
The woman took no part in the crime for which she was
convicted, in spite of the fact that she persisted in
entering a plea of guilty. It appears that her husband shot
and killed a man, and that she was a witness to the crime.
Streater, Ill.,
May 2.—Charles
Lephard, a Chicago newsboy, one of the five riding the
"blind baggage" on the Santa Fe train which arrived this
morning, was shot and fatally injured by the police, who
were advised that robbers had intended to hold up the
train. The men declared that they were simply beating their
way. They wore masks.
Paducah, Ky., May
3.—Frustrated in an apparently insane desire to end the
existence of himself and his wife at the same time, Pat
Wyatt, 45 years
old, a respected farmer of Kevil, Ballard County, tore his
own heart out with the charge from both barrels of a
double-barrel shotgun. The tragedy took place at the family
residence where his mother, Mrs. Richard
Wyatt, lies
critically ill.
Wyatt,
who before had been in good health and spirit, never
manifesting the least symptoms of insanity, suddenly became
a raving maniac and drove his wife through the house with a
hatchet, threatening her life at every step. She took
refuge upstairs and barred the door against which his futile
blows were rained for several minutes. Finally he desisted
and when Mrs. Wyatt
thought his fury had subsided, and she was preparing to go
out, the report of the shotgun rang though the house and
then all was still again.
She went
downstairs and found her husband lying dead in the middle of
the dining room floor in a pool of blood, the empty shotgun
by his side.
Evidence showed
that he had placed the butt of the gun on the floor with
both hammers cocked, and leaning forward until his left
breast was over the muzzle, he had jammed down both triggers
at once with an iron stove poker, the loads literally
tearing out his heart.
Besides his wife
and mother, Wyatt
who was a well-to-do farmer, leaves two sisters, Miss Eva
Wyatt and Mrs.
Nannie Whipple,
and three brothers, Messrs. Hilery, Charles and Edward
Wyatt.
The mother of the
unfortunate man is in a serious condition, rendered more so
by the shock of the tragedy.
East St. Louis,
Ill., April 29.—After twice being pronounced dead, George
Militis startled
his mourning family by sitting up in bed. The undertaker's
wagon, which had been called, was used as an ambulance to
convey Militis to
a hospital. Militis
fell downstairs and when picked up was apparently lifeless.
He recovered
after a short time, but an hour later fell to the floor
unconscious. A doctor who was called said he was
dead. Efforts to revive him failing. A half hour later, he
suddenly became conscious. Mrs.
Militis fainted when her husband spoke to her.
Tuesday, 7 May 1907:
MRS. HARRY OGG DEAD
Mrs. Harry
Ogg passed away about 6 o'clock this morning at the home of her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. E.
Petty, of No.
2207 Pine Street, after a long illness of consumption. The
deceased was 20 years of age and is survived by her husband,
Harry Ogg, who is
a son of John Ogg,
the custodian of St. Mary's Park.
The funeral will
be held Saturday, conducted by
Burke &
Blaine, the
undertakers.
Mrs. Charles
Galigher was stricken with apoplexy this morning and is not expected
to recover.
The many friends
of Richard Jones,
the well-known saloonkeeper were shocked today to learn of
Mr. Jones' death,
which occurred at 10:45 o'clock this morning. The deceased
died very suddenly, having only been ill since Sunday
evening. His death resulted from a severe attack of
pneumonia.
The deceased was
born and reared in this city. He was 32 years of age last
August and is survived by his wife and two children, a boy
and a girl. The deceased also leaves two sisters, Mesdames
O'Rourke and
McCormick, and a
brother, Harry Jones.
He was a member
of the K. M. K. C. Lodge and also of the Bartenders Union
No. 627.
The funeral will
be held Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at the family
residence, No. 1703 Commercial Avenue, conducted by Mrs. M.
E. Feith. The
remains will be interred in Beech Grove Cemetery.
Mr.
Jones was for
many years a bartender for John
Grimes, who
formerly conducted a saloon at Eighth and Commercial. Later
he was employed by John
Ashley, but for
the past several years he has conducted a saloon of his own
at Nineteenth and Commercial.
He was well known
and was quite popular among his friends.
Died—Richard
Jones, Thursday, May 9th, 1907. Funeral will be held
Sunday afternoon at 1:30 p.m. Services at the house, No.
1703 Commercial Avenue. Train will leave foot of Fourteenth
Street at 2:45 o'clock for Beech Grove Cemetery. Friends of
the family are invited to attend.
The prayer
meeting services at the Cairo Baptist Church last evening
were in the nature of a memorial of the work of the late Mr.
George W. Strode,
one of the founders of the church. Mr. C. B. S.
Pennebaker, a former clerk of the church, read the minutes of the
Council of Recognition October 26, 1880, and extracts from
other records back in the '80s with explanatory comments
showing the work of the small band at the beginning and
their gradual increase from year to year. Also how Mr.
Strode and his
associates had secured the money with which to purchase the
old Turner Hall property at the corner of Tenth and Poplar
streets, the site upon which the present building is
located. This account included the names of members and
friends with the amounts contributed. Mr.
Strode, through
his wide acquaintance, had obtained contributions from
correspondents in New York, New Orleans, St. Louis, Chicago,
Cincinnati and other points, but most of the money came from
members and friends here in Cairo.
During the
evening, Mrs. Clarence
Smith sang, "The
Time Has Come to Say Good Bye," the words of which were
written by Mr. Strode, who a few months before his death had them set to music and
published by the George
Juberg Music Co.,
of Cincinnati, Ohio.
Henry Atherton, who
lived with his father four miles southwest of Olmsted, died
very suddenly last Saturday of rheumatism of the heart. He
had almost recovered from a severe case of the grip when he
was again laid up with rheumatism and malaria. When a
physician was summoned, he at once began to leave his bed
in day or two. On raising up in the bed to take his
medicine, the rheumatism in all its pains seem to stroke the
heart with full force and death came almost
instantly. Henry was a young man, just entering manhood,
something like 20 or 21 years old and had been sick less
than a week. It seems sad to be called from life so young,
but death is no respecter of age or person and He who gives
life knows best and His will not ours must be done.
(Olmsted)
(James H.
Atherton, 37, of Pulaski, Pulaski Co., Ill., born in Davis Co., Ky.,
son of J. W. Atherton
and Elizabeth
Morgan, married 2nd Margaret “Maggie”
Casper, 27, born
in Rowan Co., N.C., daughter of David
Casper and Amelia
Troutman.
His marker in Liberty Cemetry reads:
James H. son of J. H. & H.
Atherton Born
April 6, 1887 Died May 3, 1907.—Darrel
Dexter)
(His marker in
Ullin Cemetery has a Masonic emblem and reads:
Manzo A.
Rhodes Born Dec. 1, 1867 Died May 5, 1907.
Gone but not forgotten.—Darrel
Dexter)
Died, Thursday,
May 9, Mrs. Kate Ogg,
aged 20 years.
Funeral services
will be held at the family residence No. 2207 Pine Street,
Saturday afternoon, May 11, at 1:15 o'clock, conducted by
Rev. Charles H.
Armstrong.
Special train
will leave foot of Fourteenth Street at 2:45 p.m. for Villa
Ridge cemetery.
Friends of the
family are invited to attend.
Died—Richard
Jones, Thursday, May 9th, 1907. Funeral will be held
Sunday afternoon at 1:30 p.m. Services at the house, No.
1703 Commercial Avenue. Train will leave foot of Fourteenth
Street at 2:45 o'clock for Beech Grove Cemetery. Friends of
the family are invited to attend.
Saturday, 11 May 1907:
Members of Cairo
Aerie 513 F. O. E. are hereby notified to meet at hour hall
at 1:00 p.m. Sunday, May 12th, to attend the
funeral of our late brother, Richard
Jones.
Henry
Jones, the
Sikeston, Mo., man, who was struck by a Mobile & Ohio
passenger train late yesterday afternoon, died at St. Mary's
Infirmary at 5 o'clock this morning from his injuries. His
remains were taken to Mrs.
Feith's
undertaking establishment awaiting orders for burial.
Jones
was sitting on the end of a tie on the track on the
Mississippi levee near Tenth Street, when the Mobile & Ohio
passenger train No. 2, which was over two hours late,
approached. The whistle failed to arouse him and the brakes
were applied, but the train could not be stopped in time to
avoid striking him.
The man had been
wandering around in the railroad yards in the west side of
the city during the afternoon and switching crews had some
trouble keeping him out of the way of their engines.
Hickman, Ky., May
11.—Capt. Wade Brown,
United States deputy marshal, was exonerated for the killing
of Harrison Bolling
at Hickman, Ky., several weeks ago.
Capt.
Brown went to
Hickman Monday to appear before the grand jury, but the
investigation into
Bolling's death was not taken up until Thursday.
The testimony of
all the witnesses showed that Capt.
Brown had placed
Bolling under
arrest on the charge of bootlegging. When Capt.
Brown undertook
to put the handcuffs on
Bolling, the
latter tried to make his escape. The deputy revolver in
hand, started in pursuit. He tripped over an obstacle in
his path and the weapon was discharged. The ball went clear
through Bolling's head and he fell dead.
The evidence was
so conclusive that the grand jury exonerated Capt.
Brown from all
blame.
Members are
notified to meet at the hall at 1 o'clock sharp on Sunday
afternoon to attend the funeral of our late bother, Richard
Jones.
(Samuel
McNichols married Maggie
Burkstaller on 8 Oct 1896, in Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Died—Richard
Jones, Thursday, May 9th, 1907. Funeral will be
held Sunday afternoon at 1:30 p.m. Services at the house,
No. 1703 Commercial Avenue. Train will leave foot of
Fourteenth Street at 2:45 o'clock for Beech Grove
Cemetery. Friends of the family are invited to attend.
Members of the
Bartenders' Union are requested to meet Sunday afternoon at
1 o'clock sharp at Union Hall to attend the funeral of the
late Richard Jones. By
order of
DuQuoin, Ill.,
May 13.—A wealthy man, believed to be Joe
Mangol, who said
he was the owner of a large farm near St. Louis, was killed
by robbers south of here. The body, with the throat cut and
bearing other marks of violence, was found lying across the
Illinois Central Railroad tracks late in the afternoon. The
man had been shaved to prevent identification and his
trouser pockets had been turned inside out.
A razor and a
revolver containing six empty shells were found near the
body. Mangol carried much money during his several days' stay in
DuQuoin. A note was found in his pocket addressed to Joe
Mangol, 2012 Main
Street, Kansas City, Mo. He left here with the intention of
walking to Murphysboro.
Sterling
Beasley, aged 22, who was injured in a sawmill at Morehouse, Mo.,
and brought over to Cairo Friday, died at St. Mary's
Infirmary at 5 o'clock this morning, of peritonitis. Beasley
was injured by being hit in the abdomen by a timber. The
bowels were ruptured and emptied themselves into the
abdominal cavity before the patient reached Cairo. The
abdomen was opened and cleaned out and the rupture stitched
up, but peritonitis had already developed. Beasley's
wife and mother came over with him. The remains were taken
to Mrs. Feith's undertaking establishment and prepared for burial.
The remains were
taken to Omaha, Ill., on the Big Four this afternoon for
interment.
He was a member
of the Ben Hur Order and a delegation arrived from Morehouse
this morning to take charge of the remains and accompany
them to Omaha.
We express our
sincere thanks to the many friends who so kindly assisted us
in the sickness and death of our loved one, the late Richard
Jones.
Richard
LaMonte, an old steamboat man, died at the Marine Hospital at 10:45
last night of peritonitis. He was forty-nine years of age,
was a marine engineer and resided at Alton, Ill.
The remains were
taken to Mrs. Feith's
undertaking establishment and prepared for burial. His
brother arrived from Nashville, Tenn., to take charge of
them.
(Samuel
Roundtree married Amy Hogan
on 6 May 1868, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Died—Mrs.
Margaret Gillette, Monday, May 13th, 1907. Funeral will be held
tomorrow afternoon at 1:30 p.m. Services at the house, 422
Thirty-fourth Street by Rev. S. C.
Ohrum, of Cairo
Baptist Church. Train will leave foot of Fourteenth Street
at 2:45 o'clock for Beech Grove Cemetery. Friends of the
family are invited to attend.
Mill Employee Met with Fatal
Accident Last Evening about 5:30 O'clock
Henry
Runner, an
employee of the Chicago Mill and Lumber Company, met with a
fatal accident last evening about 5:30 o'clock, when engaged
in tying up a barge which the
Wash Honshell had
in tow.
After the
accident, members of the crew and fellow workman rushed to
his assistance, but death resulted within a few minutes.
An inquest was
held this morning in Mrs.
Feith's
undertaking parlors by Coroner James
McManus. The
jury's verdict was to the effect that
Runner came to
his death by an accident which was unavoidable.
The deceased was
a man about 50 years of age and had been in the employ of
the Chicago Mill for several years. He is survived by his
wife and daughter, the latter being about 13 years of
age. He resided with his family at No. 616 Thirty-fourth
Street.
Mr.
Runner was an
industrious workman, a faithful husband and father and his
sudden death is a great shock to his family and his many
friends.
The funeral
arrangements have not been completed at this time.
Mrs. Mary E.
Clark, eighty years of age, died at St. Mary's Infirmary this
morning about 11 o'clock.
The funeral will
be held from Mrs.
Falconer's undertaking establishment
tomorrow. Interment will be made at Villa Ridge cemetery,
beside her husband.
Her only living
relatives are a brother in Seattle, Washington, a niece in
Michigan and a nephew in Kansas City. They will be unable
to attend the funeral.
Cape Girardeau,
Mo., May 16.—The case of the finding of a dead man in a nude
condition in this city last Thursday has been brought up
again by the discovery that the identification made at the
time was incorrect. When the details of the case were
published, citizens who viewed the body were positive the
man was Joe Leist, a wealthy farmer of Scott County. The identification proved
incorrect, as Leist
telephoned and inquired what sort of a burial had been
accorded his body. The man found last Thursday at daybreak
between the ties of an abandoned railroad was a man about 40
years old, with one leg bandaged at the knee. The coroner
decided that he came to his death from exhaustion.
The body was
buried for the time in the potter's field, with the
expectation that the farmer’s children would claim the body
and take it to Scott County for burial.
The little
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. R.
Dodge, of 3509
Elm Street, died at 1:30 this afternoon. She was about one
year old and had been ill with the measles but a few days.
The remains will
be taken to Charleston, Mo., tomorrow for burial.
George
Wooden, former police officer and a prominent colored man of this
city, was shot and killed about 3:45 o'clock this afternoon
in his store at Twenty-sixth and Poplar streets.
His assailant was
a white man named Joe
Cousey, section boss for the Cairo Electric and Traction
Company.
The trouble
started over a boy named Ernest
Jackson, who was
hopping on the cars of the Poplar Street line. Cousey
chased the boy into the store of
Wooden, and
quarrel followed, as a result of which
Cousey drew a 41
derringer and fired twice, killing
Wooden.
Cousey
was apprehended by Henry
Christmas who
turned him over the Officer Green
Lipe and he was
taken to the courthouse and lodged in the county jail.
The fatal shot
took effect in Wooten's
abdomen. He lived only a few minutes after the shooting.
After the
shooting, Cousey attempted to escape when he was detained.
The inquest will
be held tomorrow.
Hickman, Ky., May
16.—Thomas H. Strong,
father of Miss Winnie
Strong, who was killed several days ago at Ruthville,
Tenn., by Will Sawyer,
has instituted suit against
Sawyer for $5,000
and levied an attachment on the latter's property. Will
Sawyer, while
insanely jealous, attempted to kill his sweetheart and by
mistake shot and killed her sister. There is still no trace
of the fugitive Sawyer and he has disappeared completely, although many efforts were
made to catch him and efforts are still being made.
Paducah, Ky., May
16—Moving a coal flat at the Ayer-Lord Tie fleet at Owen's
Island caused the body of a woman to come into view. Though
not positively identified, it is supposed to be the body of
Miss Robbie Woodruff,
steward on the towboat
Henrietta. Miss
Woodruff was missed Wednesday, May 8, while the boat was
near the railroad bridge over the Tennessee River 20 miles
above Paducah.
Friends of Mr.
Charles R. Symons,
formerly of this city, will be pained to learn of his death
yesterday morning at Bristol, Va. Mr.
Symons was a
resident of Cairo about twelve or fifteen years ago, and was
bookkeeper for the Cairo Trust Property. He was quite
active in religious work here and was an elder in the
Prebysterian Church. Yesterday's Jackson, Tenn.,
Sun gives a sketch of him as follows:
Mrs. C. R.
Symons, 425 East Baltimore Street, received a telegram this morning
from Bristol, Va., stating that her husband, Mr. Charles R.
Symons had died
suddenly at 8 o'clock this morning from a hemorrhage of the
brain.
Mr.
Symons has been,
as far as his family knew, in perfect health, and the news
of his death came as a terrible shock to his wife, who was
preparing to join him as soon as her daughter and son were
out of school. She had a letter from him a few days since,
saying that his health was fine and that he had completed
work on the road he had been with for several years and was
then in Bristol, Va. A second letter from his came after
the telegram that announced his death, and in this too, he
spoke of being unusually well.
Deceased was born
in Columbus, Miss., and has a brother and sister still
living at that place. He was married to Miss Elizabeth
Campbell,
daughter of Mr. F. W.
Campbell, of our city, eighteen years ago who with a
daughter, Elizabeth, and son, Campbell, survives him. He
was a civil engineer by profession and has been employed
building a railroad through Virginia and the adjoining
states, and on account of the education of their children
his wife has made her home during the school terms with her
father, Mr. F. W.
Campbell, on East Baltimore Street.
He was a
Presbyterian in faith and was an elder in his church. His
body will be brought here for interment, but the funeral
arrangements have not yet been made.
The inquest over
the remains of Thomas
McDermott, the Cairo & Thebes contractor, who met
violent death last night, was held at
Burke & Blaine's
undertaking establishment today by Coroner
McManus.
McDermott,
who has a sub contract for grading for the embankment of the
railroad above Kilgore's was returning to his camp from this
city last night about 8:30 o'clock and was riding on top of
a load of hay that he had purchased for the stock. When in
front of Kuhn’s
store in Future City, they got off the road enough to cause
the pile of baled hay to topple over, and
McDermott was
thrown violently to the ground. Dr.
McNemer was
hastily summoned, but on his arrival found that the man had
suffered a broken neck and was dead. Coroner
McManus was
notified and he took charge of the body and it was taken to
Burke &
Blaine's undertaking establishment.
McDermott
was about 45 years of age and unmarried. He has a sister,
Miss Bettie McDermott, living at the Illinois Hotel, and two brothers, William
McDermott, of
Butte, Mont., and John
McDermott, of St.
Louis, who were immediately notified of the accident.
The jury found it
to be a case of accidental death, due to the fall which
broke his neck.
The jury was
composed of E. A.
Burke, J. A. Bourgois, R. A. Hewitt,
J. H. Lee, B. N.
Hamilton, and R.
D. Gannon.
The coroner’s
jury rendered a verdict finding that
Causey was not
justified in the act, and recommended that he be held until
discharged by due process of law.
Coroner James
McManus, today took up the investigation of the causes which led up
to the killing of George
Wooden by Joseph
Causey, track
foreman for the Cairo Electric and Traction Company,
yesterday afternoon. He summoned a jury, composed of Prof.
John Snyder, W.
H. Sullivan,
William Miller,
Clyde Leslie, Jacob Young, and
Rufus Gardner,
and they began the examination of witnesses in the council
chamber shortly after 10 o'clock this forenoon.
A large number of
witnesses were summoned to appear before the court and eight
or ten had been examined when the noon hour arrived, and an
adjournment was taken until 1:30 o'clock.
From the
testimony of the witnesses examined at the forenoon session
it would appear that
Causey, the foreman, was going north with a gang of men and the
cinder car attached to a Twenty-eighth street car. At
Twenty-sixth Street a negro boy, Ernest
Jackson, was on
the crossing as the car passed. Causey
reached out and grabbed the boy. The boy pulled loose and
started to pick up his hat which had fallen off and a clod
of dirt. Causey
started after him and the boy ran toward
Wooden's store,
did not enter, but turned and crossed the street with the
man after him, and then ran back toward the store and this
time entered with Causey following him. It would appear that when the two first
started toward the store
Wooden warned
them not to enter, as he did not want to have any fuss in
there. After the two entered the store there seems to have
been some words and blows exchanged, just how and by whom
the evidence is conflicting. One version is that
Wooden took hold of Causey
and shoved him out of the store, and that when he got
outside he turned on the sidewalk, faced around toward
Wooden and fired,
the shot missing
Wooden. Then
Wooden advanced toward him and
Causey fired
again, and Wooden
exclaimed that he was shot. Wooden
then appears to have wrested the gun out of
Causey's hand and
feeling the effects of his mortal wound, sat down on the
step at the store door. At this time Henry
Christmas had
gotten hold of Causey
and was struggling with him to arrest him. Wooden's grandson, Henry
Wooden, attacked the man, striking and kicking him. He
was told to desist and with help.
Christmas started
down Poplar with
Causey and later put him on a street car and started
down to Twentieth Street with him and took him over to the
county jail.
Sam
Beard, motorman
on the car, saw
Causey and the boy on the car, with their arms around
each other, saw them leave the car and strike at each other,
and saw the boy run into the store with
Causey after
him. He says that
Wooden struck at
Causey as he entered and knocked him against a window;
heard Wooden say
"Wait till I get my gun and I will fix you;" saw a blue
steel gun in Wooden's
hand as he fell; got away when he heard the gun talk; did
not see gun in the hands of anyone but
Wooden; heard
Wooden say, "Don’t do (something, he did not catch what), you have
already killed me;" saw
Wooden walk
toward the store,
Causey was in the gutter; two men, negroes, kicked
Causey before he
got up. He said that after the scuffle on the car step, the
boy ran his hand into his pocket and said, "What did you
mean?" and that he then struck at
Causey.
J. J.
Kelly, of the
fire department, heard the two shots and saw
Wooden and Causey
scuffling; Wooden
had a gun in his hand; the white man fell back and a colored
man was kicking him in the head; he called to the man to
stop as Causey
was then under arrest; the men were clinched when he saw
them, and Henry
Christmas and another colored man were pulling them
apart; Wooden
stepped back and sat down on the step.
Henry
Christmas, who
arrested Causey,
said that he was going to
Wooden's store to
telephone and saw
Causey jump off the car and the kid run from him;
Causey had a
revolver in his hand;
Wooden warned them not to enter his store but they both
ran in; Wooden said, "I don't want you to come in here and have any fuss;"
the white man came out, and then shot at
Wooden; Wooden ran toward
him and the man shot again;
Wooden twisted
the pistol out of the white man's hands;
Christmas then had a tussle with the man and Henry
Wooden came out
and kicked Causey;
witness was at the chicken coop when the last shot was
fired; witness didn't see any blows passed; didn't know how
Causey came out
of the store; Causey
was standing when he fired the first shot, but was half down
when he fired the second, trying to cock the pistol; Wooden
was trying to get the pistol out of his hand;
Wooten said, "You
have shot me now;" when the men came out of the store he
turned around and shot;
Wooden was behind
him as he came out; there was some time between shots.
Rev. M. C.
Cox, a negro preacher of Clarksville, Mo., who was stopping with a
colored man named
Rogers on Poplar Street, between Twenty-fifth and
Twenty-sixth was standing at the gate when the affair
occurred. He saw the boy running toward the store and a
white man after him, and seemingly they ran into the
store. He saw the white man come out, whirl around and
shoot, and then fire again. The white man came out with his
face foremost, walking and turned around and shot; witness
could not see who he was shooting at and did not see thee
gun.
Oscar
Davis, of
Sandusky, working for the traction company and staying at
Twenty-second and Poplar, was on the cinder car when the
trouble started. He saw
Causey chase the
boy toward the store, they ran across the street and back to
the store; Wooden grabbed Causey by
the arm and slung him out of the store; the man fired; the
boy was standing by the track when the car passed the
crossing and Causey caught the boy by the head and pulled him on the car; the boy
got loose and went back after his hat and picked up a
cinder; when Causey
started toward the store, the second time he drew his gun
from his pocket; there was fighting in the store; witness
was standing within six feet when
Causey did the
shooting; was on his knees when he fired the first shot, and
just as quick as he could cock his gun he fired again; he
was then in about the same position;
Wooden grabbed
him and they were scuffling and
Wooden took the
gun away from him.
Ernest
Jackson the boy about whom the trouble started, lives at 312
Thirty-second Street. He said that he came out of
Wooden's store and had stared across the street and the car started
down Poplar Street. "I thought the car was going down and
it stopped and I started across the track, and when it
started, I stepped back and the car stopped by me, and this
fellow grabbed me by the coat collar and pulled me on the
car. I snatched loose from him and my hat fell off and I
went back and got my hat and asked him what he pulled me off
the car for. He jumped off and run from me and I run
towards the store door and he hit at me, but he hit over me,
didn't touch me and I hit him in the face and got loose and
run out in the street. Henry
Wooden called me and I made for the store and went in the store. He
run after me and Mr.
Wooden told him not to come in the store. He had his
pistol in his hand and he knocked Mr.
Wooden down and
Mr. Wooden fell
against the wall. Mr.
Wooden got up and
shoved him outside and then he shot over Mr.
Wooten's head and
then Mr. Wooten
grabbed him and he shoved him down and he got up
shooting. He shot him in the stomach and then Mr.
Wooden fell on
his hands.
On cross
examination he said: Q. You were attempting
to cross the street? A.
Yes sir. Q. He pulled you on the
car? A.
Yes, sir.
Pulled me on the car. Q. Was the car moving? A.
Moving slow.
Gradually moving along. Q.
What kind of car was it? A.
I don’t know, sir.
I think it was a work car. Q. The car he pulled you
on, was it a regular street car? A. Yes sir, closed car. Q. He pulled you on the
step? A. Yes, sir. Q. What did you do then? A. Snatched loose from
him. Q. What did you do then? A. Went and picked up my
hat and a clod of dirt and asked him what he pulled me on
the car for. I
said, “What did you pull me on the car for?”
He jumped down and didn’t say a word and started for
me and I run and he grabbed for my coat collar. Q. Did you put your hand
in your pocket? A. No, sir. Q. When you said
something to him, did you make an effort to put your hand in
your pocket? A. No, sir. Q. You said that you hit
him? A. I hit him when he hit
at me. Q. When near the car,
did you hit him? Q. No, sir. Q. Strike at him? A. No, sir. Q. Throw dirt at him? A. No sir. Q. Didn’t strike at him? A. No, sir. Q. And you run into
Wooden’s store? A. Run into the store
for the first time then got loose and run out and run in the
store the next time. Q. When he passed you in
the store did you strike at him? A. Yes Q. Did he hit you? A. He never hit him.
Hit over me. Q. Did you hit him? A. Hit him somewhere in
the face. Then
he run me out in the street and Mr.
Wooden run
between us and told him not to come in the store and he had
his pistol in his hand. Q. What kind of a
looking pistol was it? A. Two barreled
derringer, blue steel. Q. Would you know the
pistol? A. (Pointing.) That’s
the pistol. Q. Pistol like that? A. Yes, sir. Q. Was any other pistol
displayed there? A. No, sir. Q. When the shots were
fired, where was Mr.
Wooden and where was this man that ran you from the car? A. Mr.
Wooden was
standing at the edge of the door the first shot and again at
the edge of the sidewalk the second shot. Q. What position was the
man doing the shooting when he fired the last shot? A. Rising to his feet. Q. Where was he when he
fired the first shot? A. That was when Mr.
Wooden gave him a
shove and he was standing up then. Q. Standing up? A. Yes, sir. Q. And when he fired the
second shot he was rising to his feet? A. Yes, sir, rising to
his feet. Q. What took place
between the first and second shot? A.
Mr.
Wooden shoved
him. Q.
After he fired the first
shot? A. Yes, sir. Q. Where was that, at
the edge of the sidewalk or out in the street? A. Edge of the sidewalk
(Witness then described the position he was in when he fired
the first shot.) Q. What caused him to
fall down? A. Mr.
Wooden shoved
him. Q. You were crossing
Poplar Street? A. Yes, sir. Q. Coming from
Wooden’s store? A. Yes, sir. Q. Going across to the
west side? A. Yes, sir. Q. Where was this car? A. Coming down Poplar
Street. It was
coming south and when he got little below crossing it backed
up. Q. Did they have a
cinder car? A. Yes, sir. Q. On which end of the
car was the cinder car? A. On the north end. Q. Going south? A. Yes, sir. Q. And this man caught
you when the car backed north? A. Yes, sir. Q. Did you know the man? A. No, sir. Q. Have any words with
him? A. No, sir. Q. What do you think
made him pick you up, just for fun? A. I don’t know. Q. Where did you go from
there? A. He pulled me on the
car and I snatched loose and got my hat after it fell and
picked up a clod of dirt and asked him what he picked me up
on the car for. Q. What side of the car
did your hat fall on? A. East side, next to
Mr. Wooden’s. Q. Where did you pick up
the clod? A. Right side of my hat. Q. Round on the side of
the car? A. Yes, sir. Q. Any time between the
shots, could you have counted ten or any number? A. I don’t know what
time it was. He
didn’t shoot them right after each other. Q. Did he run you out of
the store? Did
the white man run you out of the store? A. No, sir. Q. Why didn’t you go in
the store the first time? A. I couldn’t get in.
He beat me to the door. Q. Where was
Wooden then? A. They were on the
inside coming to the door. Q. Did he say anything
to the white man? A. Did not say anything. Q. Nothing at all? A. No, sir. Q. What conversation did
you hear between Wooden and this white man that run after you? A. Didn’t hear anything.
Only Mr.
Wooden told him not to come in the store. Q. What else did you
hear? A. That’s all. Q. What reply did he
make to him? A. Never made any. Q. Did you see
Wooden hit this
white man? A. No sir, never seen
him hit him. Q. Did you see the white
man hit Wooden? A. Yes, sir.
The principal
witness of the afternoon was Henry
Wooden’s son.
Saw Jackson,
the negro boy, chased into his father's grocery store. His
father refused to let
Causey enter and pushed him aside. Causey
is said to have had a gun in his hand at the time. Causey
managed to gain an entrance into the store and a scuffle
ensued between him and the deceased. The latter threw
Causey out of the
store and he fell upon his hands and knees. He then drew
his pistol and fired two shots. The first took effect in
the ceiling of the store, the second in
Wooden's
abdomen. Wooden
grabbed Causey
and wrenched the gun from his hand. Henry
Christmas, a
negro then rushed up and grabbed
Causey. Wooden
released his hold and went and sat down. He sank rapidly
and died a few minutes later. The witness said that he
rushed up to Causey and knocked him down and admitted that he kicked him in the
face and head. (Causey's
nose is badly bruised and his head is in bandages.)
After this,
Christmas and a negro named Tom
Smith started with Causey
down to the county jail. Officer Green
Lipe said he would take him down, but the negroes refused to give
Causey up. Lipe
followed them and saw that
Causey was placed
in jail without being molested further.
Several negro
women were examined and told conflicting stories.
Coroner
McManus was considerably annoyed by each of the witnesses refusing
to sign their statement until their testimony had been read
to them. This caused the inquest stenographer much trouble.
Dr.
McManus finally
accused Elder T. A.
Head with interfering with his (the coroner’s) business
and ordered him out of the room, declaring that
Head was
responsible for the trouble the witnesses were making him. Head
went out.
The defendant was
then brought before the jury and on the advice of his
attorney, Angus Leek, refused to make a statement.
The case then
went to the jury.
WILLIAMS PLEADED GUILTY
In the circuit
court today, Richard
Williams, indicted for murder pleaded guilty and was
sentenced to 18 years in the penitentiary.
The funeral of
the late Thomas
McDermott was held from St. Patrick’s Church this
morning, Father
Downey officiating.
The remains were
taken to St. Louis on the 11:15 train where interment will
be made. John McDermott, brother, and three sisters of the deceased, Misses
Bridget and Cecil
McDermott and Mrs.
Hunt, of St.
Louis, accompanying the remains. Burke
& Blaine had
charge of the funeral.
Deep mystery
overhangs the finding of a white man by the name of Al
Abbott, in the
lumber yard on the west side of the city, near Tenth Street,
yesterday afternoon about 4 o'clock with his skull crushed
to a pulp and his face and head covered with blood. The
Cairo police are at a loss to account for the stranger's
injuries.
Abbott
was found by some men working in the lumber yard. When
found he was in an unconscious condition and from
appearances must have met with the accident several hours
before he was found.
There are two
theories given in connection with the case. One is that the
man was struck by an Illinois Central or Mobile and Ohio
train, and knocked down the steep embankment into the
lumberyard. The other is that the man met with foul play
and was robbed. The police are inclined to believe the
first theory because about 90 cents in change was found in
the stranger's pockets.
Abbott
is described as a man about 35 years of age, was fairly well
dressed, his clothes, however, appear to be those of a
farmer. He wore a striped overall jacket, white shirt, and
red flannel undershirt.
Rev. Wallace S.
Faris, formerly of Anna, who went to China to devote his life to the
cause of Christian missions, died in that far-off land,
according to advices received by relatives in this
country. The Anna
Democrat says:
Mrs. C. W.
Wiley, of this city, received a telegram Wednesday from Rev. John T.
Faris, of
Philadelphia, that their brother, Rev. Wallace S.
Faris, had died
in China, where he was in the missionary service, Saturday,
May 13, after a short illness. Rev.
Faris had been
attending conference at Shanghai when taken ill. The
deceased has been in China for ten years. He was the eldest
son of Dr. and Mrs. W. W.
Faris and was
educated at McCormick Theological Seminary at Chicago,
Illinois. Rev. Faris'
parents arrived here last week, Mrs.
Faris being now
at her daughter's, Mrs.
Wiley, while Dr.
Faris is
attending the general assembly at Columbus, Ohio. No
particulars have been received concerning Mr.
Faris'
illness. The telegram announcing his death gave no further
information.
The remains will
very probably be interred in the land of his chosen
work. Much sympathy is expressed for the bereaved
relatives.
Anna Marie, the
little daughter of Mrs. Robert
White, of 328
Twenty-eighth Street, died last night of pneumonia, at 7:30
o'clock. The little girl was three and a half
years old and was a beautiful little golden haired child. Burke
and Blaine took
charge of the remains.
Paducah, Ky., May
20.—Jordan West,
a negro coal passer, 51 years old, fell from the steamer
Dick
Fowler Sunday and
was drowned. West
was cakewalking down the gang plank when he made as misstep
and fell.
Died—Adelia
A. Galigher, wife of Charles
Galigher, Sunday, May 9th.
Services will be
held at Church of the Redeemer, Tuesday, May 21, at 2
o'clock p.m. Friends of family are invited. Burial at
Zanesville, Ohio.
A beautiful and
noble life came to a close yesterday morning about 9:30 in
the death of Mrs. Charles
Galigher, one of Cairo's most dearly beloved women.
Ten days ago
while preparing to go to the early communion service in
commemoration of Ascension Day at the Church of the
Redeemer, she was stricken with paralysis and since then
there has been little or no hope for her recovery. Sunday
morning the struggle ended, leaving family and friends to
mourn deeply the loss that all will feel keenly, for her
gentle influence and companionship was greatly sought by all
who knew her.
Mrs.
Galigher was born
in Zanesville, Ohio, March 3rd, 1828. Her maiden
name was Adelia
Lippett and she was a daughter of Arnold
Lippitt, Esq. On
September 16th, 1851, she was united in marriage
to Charles Galigher
and their wedded life proved a happy one, extending over a
period of fifty-six years.
Four children
were born to them, one of whom died in infancy. The
surviving members of the family are the bereaved husband and
three sons, Frank
Galigher, of Denver, Colo., Albert S.
Galigher, and C.
Frederick Galigher,
of Cairo, all of whom were present at the death bed of their
loved one. A sister of the deceased, Mrs. Reese
Dugan, of Denver,
Colo., and two brothers, Arnold C.
Lippitt, and Capt. W. D.
Lippitt, also survive her.
Mrs.
Galigher was a
devout and influential member of the Church of the Redeemer
and she will be sorely missed as she was always present at
the services into which she entered with the fervor of one
whose faith is all-abiding. Her religion was manifest in
her daily life and she was an example to all as a true
Christian.
In social life
her gentle and gracious nature made her beloved of all and
there are few who have passed from this life that will be
more greatly mourned and missed.
The funeral
services will be held at the Church of the Redeemer Tuesday
and the remains will be taken to Zanesville, Ohio, for
interment.
The stricken
husband and family have the sympathy of the entire community
in their great sorrow.
The funeral of
Mrs. Caroline
Sackberger will be held tomorrow afternoon in St.
Joseph's Church at 1:30 o'clock. The funeral train will
leave the foot of Fourteenth Street for Villa Ridge cemetery
at 2:45,
Mrs.
Sackberger died
at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Rudolph
Brown, of 2314 Walnut Street yesterday morning, aged seventy-one
years, two months, eleven days.
She is survived
by her four children, Herman and L. E.
Sackberger, Mrs.
J. D. Phillips,
of Charleston, Miss., and Mrs. Rudolph
Brown, and a
sister, Mrs.
Ruebenacker, of Dahlgren, Ill. Her husband was the late
John Sackberger, who kept a German restaurant and hotel on Ohio Street
for many years and was one of Cairo's most highly esteemed
German citizens.
(Rudolph
Brown married Mary A.
Sackberger 10 Aug 1886, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Cairo friends
will be deeply grieved to learn of the death of Albert
Osgood, of
Chicago, which occurred last Sunday at the home of his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert
Osgood, in that
city.
About four years
ago the deceased had charge of the local office of the
Osgood Lumber
Company and resided in this city for a number of months,
making many friends during his stay here. About a year and
a half ago he went to Louisiana to take charge of a sawmill
there and became ill. He returned to Chicago about the
beginning of the winter and has been confined to his bed
ever since. The funeral was held last Tuesday with
interment at Rose Hill Cemetery.
He was about 36
years of age and was unmarried. Mrs. George B.
Osgood, formerly
Miss Pearl Lancaster,
of this city, was a sister-in-law of the deceased.
Murphysboro,
Ill., May 20.—Peter A.
McPeake, veteran
printer, known in practically every printing office of any
size in the country, and in many of the smaller ones, is
dead here from injuries received when he fell beneath the
wheels of a train. "Shorty"
McPeake, as he
was generally known, has been a roving printer for more than
fifteen years.
What caused Al
Abbott's injuries is still unknown, and the police are still at a
loss to account for the calamity which befell him.
As stated
exclusively in Saturday's
Citizen,
Abbott is the white man who was discovered in the lumber yard on the
west side of the city, Friday afternoon, and who was removed
to St. Mary's Infirmary with the back of his skull crushed
in and in unconscious condition.
It has been
learned that Abbott
has a mother and brother residing at Ridgeway, Ill. A bill
head was found in his pockets of a firm at Ray's Ridge, Mo.,
named McColgan &
Henson, on which
Abbott's name was
written in lead pencil, with instructions to someone to show
him 160 acres of land.
The vicinity
where Abbott was found has been examined and no trace of blood has been
found other than where
Abbott was picked
up, which appears that he must have met with foul play
instead of being struck by a train. His hat has two cuts in
the side, but there are no stains of blood upon it, all of
which deepens the mystery.
Abbott
showed some signs of rallying today and muttered a few words
and his physicians are hopeful that he may regain
consciousness and be able to give an account of himself. He
is being carefully watched and an effort will be made to
learn, if possible, the cause of the accident which befell
him.
The funeral of
the late Mrs. Charles
Galigher was held this afternoon from the Church of the
Redeemer.
The remains were
taken to the church as 12 o'clock where they lay in state
until the funeral service at 2 o'clock, the Daughters of the
King acting as Guard of Honor.
The beautiful and
impressive burial service of the Episcopal Church was read
and two hymns, "Thou Art Coming, O My Savior," and "There is
a Blessed Home," favorites of the deceased, were sung by the
choir.
The remains were
taken at 4 o'clock to the Big Four to be conveyed to
Zanesville, Ohio, where interment will be made.
The floral
offerings were many and beautiful, especially a pall which
was given by the family.
Al
Abbott, who was
found in the lumber yard last Friday afternoon with his
skull crushed, is still in a critical condition at the
infirmary. He is unconscious most of the time and is
subject to epileptic attacks during which he tears off the
bandages on his head and groans and shouts at the top of his
voice in a most pitiful manner.
Abbott
has made a few wandering and disconnected statements,
something about being in a fight and being struck over the
head, as stated in The
Citizen last evening, but he has not rallied
sufficiently as yet to give a reliable account of how he
received his injuries. His chances for recovery are very
remote but there is no doubt but that he met with foul play.
We desire to
extend to the neighbors and friends who were so kind to us
during the illness and at the death of our mother, Mrs. L.
E. Sackberger,
our heartfelt thanks.
Lexington, Ky.,
May 23.—Judge James
Hargis, leader of the famous
Hargis clan of
the Breathitt County feud, was today acquitted of the charge
of conspiracy to cause the murder of Town Marshal James
Cockrill who was
killed in the streets of Jackson. James
Smith, an alleged conspirator, confessed and later repeated his
confession on the stand, that the murder was conspired by
Judge Hargis, Alex Hargis and
Sheriff Calahan.
The acquittal
comes at the end of a hard fought legal battle.
Al
Abbott, the white
man who was found in the lumberyard last Friday afternoon
with his skull crushed to a pulp, still lives and was
slightly better today. He will not tell how he received his
injuries and seems to have a kind of fear that by telling he
will be arrested or not be doing right. This leads one to
believe that he is not perfectly rational as yet. Dr.
McManus is in
communication with
Abbott's mother this morning, who resides at Ridgeway,
Ill. She was notified of her son's condition. She was
unable to go the central office there and the message was
taken to her.
Michael
Kennedy died at the home of his mother at Center and Pine streets,
at noon today. He had been sick for some time and came home
from his run, which is out of New Orleans, yesterday. This
morning he was seen to be near the end, and the last sad
rites of the Catholic Church were administered.
(His marker in
Calvary Cemetery at Villa Ridge reads:
Michael S.
Kennedy May 23, 1907.—Darrel
Dexter)
The many Cairo
friends of W. E.
Smith, formerly of this city, were shocked yesterday to
learn of his death, which occurred at his old home in Eau
Claire, Wis. The sad news was received late yesterday
afternoon in a message to C. C.
Terrell.
The deceased was
known to his many friends as "Billy”
Smith. He was a
resident of Cairo for many years during which time he was
the manager of the Three States Lumber Company and later
president and manager of the W. E.
Smith Lumber
Company.
He was a
successful businessman and very popular among his friends of
whom he had a large number. He was a prominent Elk and
served as Exalted Ruler several years ago.
Mr.
Smith has been a
sufferer of paresis for about a year and a half.
The deceased
carried a policy in the Massachusetts Mutual Life insurance
Company for $9,000 and one in the Northwestern Life
insurance Company for $1,000.
Saturday, 25 May 1907:
Mrs. Olga
Kelley, sister of County Jailer
Abernathie, died in the St. Francis Hospital in Cape Girardeau
Thursday.
She has been
suffering for about four months with cold and pneumonia and
was treated for that complaint. She had a chance of
recovery until the measles broke out Wednesday, when they
proved too much for the weakened woman to withstand.
Mrs.
Kelly was
formerly Miss Olga
Abernathie. Besides her husband, she leaves two
brothers, W. D. and E. W.
Abernathie.
The funeral was
held today at the home of W. D.
Abernathie near
McClure.
(Ulysses G.
Kelly married Olga A.
Abernathie on 5 Apr 1891, in Alexander Co., Ill.
Her marker in Lindsey Cemetery near McClure reads:
Olga A. wife of U. G.
Kelly Born Aug. 26, 1874 Died May 23, 1907.—Darrel
Dexter)
Golden
Hall, a negro about 21 years of age, was drowned Sunday afternoon in
a pit just west of the Illinois Central bridge approach.
Hall
was in swimming with some other boys. He told them he knew
how to swim and they were daring each other to swim across
the pit. When Hall attempted to do the trick, he suddenly sank to the bottom and
before assistance could be lent him, he was dead.
Coroner
McManus held an inquest this morning and the jury found that he met
death by accidental drowning.
Hall
has a mother residing in Future City, where he lived.
The body was
recovered by C. C.
Beird, who dragged the river.
Mrs.
Greene, of Villa
Ridge, who has been seriously ill at St. Mary’s Infirmary
for several days, died yesterday morning. She was taken to
her home in Villa Ridge yesterday afternoon accompanied by
her son, George Prince, a conductor on one of the Cairo Electric and Traction
Company’s car.
Mrs. P. C.
Barclay and Robert Hinkle
today received the sad news of the death of their father,
Maj. Hinkle, in
California. He had been in poor health all winter, but was
recovering, and it was believed that he was on the road to
health. He lived in Portville and his widow and one child
constituted his family there.
Maj.
Hinkle will be
remembered by the older Cairoites. He came here from
Ballard County and owned a tobacco warehouse here.
Springfield,
Ill., May 30.—It now appears certain that Cora
Leaderbrand, aged
17, killed her sister, Carrie, aged 7, and committed
suicide. The bodies were found with bullets in their heads
Wednesday and it was thought that they were
murdered. Carrie was a cripple and it is understood that
Cora was tired of caring for her.
(A marker in
Cache Chapel Cemetery near Ullin reads:
J. F. Snell Born Sept. 21, 1839 Died May 25, 1907.
Martha J Snell
Born April 19, 1843 Died May 25, 1881.—Darrel
Dexter)
With the back of
her head crushed and her arm and right foot broken, a negro
woman was found at 3:30 this morning lying beside the Big
Four track near the Wisconsin Chair Factory in Mound
City. She was taken to the station, where she died at 8
o'clock. Her name could not be learned, but she is reported
to have come to Decoration yesterday with another colored
woman, who is reported to have come on down to Cairo. It is
said that her father, a man named Arthur
Morris, lives at
Carbondale. She was about middle age, and is said to be a
married woman.
Morris
Sullivan, an old resident of Cairo, died at his home, No. 410 Sixth
Street, yesterday morning at 10 o'clock, after a long
illness. He had been a resident of Cairo since the Civil
War. He was about 65 years of age and leaves a widow and
one son, John
Sullivan, and a stepson, William
Ryan.
Funeral services
will be held tomorrow as can be seen from a notice elsewhere
in today's paper.
Last evening
about half past eleven Miss Frances Irene
Cushman, the
second daughter of Mr. Harry
Cushman, passed
into the Great Beyond. The transition from life to death
was so peaceful and gradual that it was with difficulty that
relatives and friends at her bedside noted when dissolution
came.
She had been ill
for several weeks, but it was not until about three weeks
ago that she gave up and consented to go to the infirmary.
Several times in the last ten days her life had been
despaired of, but each time she rallied and some hope was
entertained that she might recover. Much anxiety was felt
for her in the community, for she was generally admired and
loved for her high qualities of mind and heart. A week ago
last Sunday when the end was thought to be near, she
received the last rites of the Episcopal Church of which she
was a member.
Her strong
constitution, however, and the hope that she would be able
to receive her diploma with the other members of the
graduating class of the Cairo High School, kept her in good
spirits during her siege and made her hopeful to the end.
Miss
Cushman was born
and reared in Cairo and was eighteen years of age. She was
a member of the present graduating class of the Cairo High
School and all preparations had been made for this happy
event in her life.
She leaves to
mourn her loss, besides a large circle of friends,
classmates and other relatives, her father, Mr. Harry
Cushman; two
sisters, Misses Mayme and Katherine; and two brothers, Tom
and Ralph; who will have the deep sympathy of the entire
community in their great bereavement.
The funeral will
start from the house at 8:45 Sunday morning, for the Church
of the Redeemer, where services will be conducted by Rev.
Anderson, at 9
o'clock. Interment will be made in Beech Grove Cemetery.
Died—Maurice J.
Sullivan, Thursday, Mary 30, 1907, aged 65 years. Funeral cortege
will leave residence of William
Ryan on Fourth
Street tomorrow morning at 8:15 for St. Patrick’s
Church. Funeral train will leave foot of Fourteenth Street
at 9:45 o'clock for Villa Ridge cemetery. Friends of family
are invited to attend.
Officer D.
Johnson, who served his first day on the Cairo police force
yesterday, proved that he is a good marksman last night,
when he shot a negro named Frank
James, who had
been arrested for stealing grain and who broke loose from
the officer and escaped.
Officers
Johnson and Hagey were
walking out Tenth Street when they met a negro with a
wheelbarrow containing two sacks of oats. They halted him
and while Hagey went to call the patrol wagon, the negro was left with
Johnson.
Watching his
chance and evidently thinking
Johnson could not
shoot, the negro broke loose and made his getaway.
The officer fired
several shots into the air to frighten the darky and cause
him to halt, but James kept on hot-footing it and got away.
Later it was
learned at police headquarters that a negro named Frank
James had been
shot and it was found that
Johnson had hit
the "bull’s eye."
The bullet
entered the negro's back and was taken out in the front part
of the body. James ran to the home of his sister on Twenty-fourth Street, where
he was given attention. His wound is not a serious one and
he will probably be arrested and charged with larceny as
soon as he is able to be out.
The grain was
stolen from Hastings
and was taken from some cars in the Mobile and Ohio yards.
This firm has suffered great loss of late by parties
breaking into the cars and stealing the grain. Two sacks of
oats were stolen last night.
Frank
James the negro
shot by Officer D.
Johnson Thursday evening, when he was escaping after
being arrested for stealing oats, died at 1 o'clock this
morning from the bullet wound.
Officer
Johnson was today exonerated by the coroner's jury.
The inquest was
held this morning. Coroner
McManus summoned
W. H. Sullivan,
Oscar Gaskin, W. M. Sullivan,
Frank Ireland, W.
P. Fraser, and T.
F. Cahill.
Dr. W. H.
Fields, who attended James
after he was shot, and Officers Frank
Hagey and Dora
Green Johnson,
who arrested him, were the only witnesses before the jury.
Officer
Johnson's statement was as follows:
"Mr.
Hagey and I went out on Walnut Street and found the negro with two
sacks of oats in a wheelbarrow. We found him first on Ninth
Street. Mr. Hagey
began to question him where he got the oats. He said from
Mr. Hastings. Hagey
said, 'You better come and go along with us.' He said, 'All
right.' We brought him out Tenth Street and when almost
halfway between Walnut and Washington he stopped and said he
wasn’t going any farther and if we wanted the oats at police
headquarters we would have to take them ourselves. He
wouldn't push them down. Mr.
Hagey said,
'Watch him, John. I'll
call the wagon,' so he went to call the wagon. So when he
went to call the wagon, he (the negro) threw his hand back
in his hip pocket and made an attempt to draw something. He
jerked his hand the second time and then wheeled and started
to run. I hollered halt to him three times. He didn't
stop. I fired two shots in the air and then I shot to hit
him in the leg. He ran across to Tenth and Walnut after I
had shot and that was the last I saw him excepting when he
ran up Walnut from Tenth to Eleventh, out Eleventh to
Washington, down Washington to Tenth and then east to
Poplar. I fully identified him today at the undertaking
establishment of John
Hughes as the same individual. I fired all three shots
with a 32 special revolver."
Dr.
Fields testified
that he was called to attend
James and found
that the bullet had entered the left side under the scapula
and he found the bullet on the left side of the abdomen. He
extracted it, and found that it was a 32 special. He stated
that James would
not tell how or where he was shot. Dr.
Fields saw the
man at 219 Twenty-fourth Street and was called there the
first time on May 30th at 10 p.m.
Officer
Hagey's testimony corroborated that of Officer
Johnson.
The verdict of
the coroner's jury after reciting the circumstances under
which the shooting occurred reads:
"We find Dora
Green Johnson was
justified and we further recommend that he be exonerated
from all blame."
(William Martin
Seymour married Eloise V. T.
Jorgensen on 2 Dec 1896, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Cushman—Died,
at 11:40 p.m. Thursday, May 30, 1907, after brief illness,
Fannie Irene Cushman,
daughter of Harry
Cushman, aged 18 years.
Funeral service
will be held at the Church of the Redeemer, Sunday, June 2d,
at 8:30 a.m. Interment at Beech Grove Cemetery. Friends of
the family are invited.
At the Church of
the Redeemer yesterday morning at 8:30 o'clock funeral
services were held over the remains of Miss Frances
Cushman, second
daughter of Mr. Harry
Cushman.
The beautiful and
impressive burial service of the Episcopal Church was
conducted by Rev. A. H.
Anderson, the
church being well filled with the sorrowing friends of the
young girl. The graduating class attended the funeral in a
body. Two songs, favorites of the deceased, "Jesus Tender
Shepherd, Hear Me," and "Now the Day Is Over," were sung by
the entire vested choir.
The many
beautiful floral emblems were symbolic of her short, sweet
life and showed how dearly she was loved by all who knew
her.
The four young
men of the graduating class of which she was a member and a
number of her other young friends were the pall
bearers. They were: Leslie
Roche, Hisey Woodward,
Roy Lower, Fred
McDougal, Kenneth Wenger,
Oris Hastings,
Norman Halliday,
Pester Lind, Elmer Brown,
Clemens Blom,
Lonnie Bondurant,
Bernie Dawes, Ray Abell, John
Ladd, Fred
Bradley, Henry Steinel,
Leo Kleb, Daniel
Williamson, Byron
Herbert, Harry Parks,
Herbert Marshall,
and Horton Crehan.
Interment was
made in Beech Grove Cemetery beside her mother and brother.
The following
memorial to Miss Frances
Cushman, member
of the high school graduating class, whose death occurred
last week, was adopted by the class.
With sorrowful
hearts, we the Graduating Class of 1907, of the Cairo High
School, bow in submission to the will of our Father who has
called from our midst to graduate in a higher life our loved
class mate Frances I.
Cushman.
Resolved, that in
her death we feel that we have lost one of our most faithful
and honored members, who in sickness and in health, at home
and abroad had the interest of her class at heart.
Resolved, that
while we realize that our loss is great and that her place
cannot be filled yet we will earnestly strive to take up the
work she has laid down and follow the beautiful example of
her noble life.
Resolved, that we
extend to the bereaved loved ones of our departed classmate,
our heartfelt sympathy, and may the thought of the pure life
that has gone from among them, comfort, inspire, and lead
them upwards until they meet in the home she has gained in
heaven.
Resolved, that a
copy of these resolutions be sent to the family and that
they be made a part of our class record.
Frank
Conners, who was
arrested for holding up a white man employed at Singer
factory, and taken into justice
Head's court on a
change of venue from Will
Walker’s made his
escape Tuesday. While the trial was in progress, a
disturbance occurred outside the court which attracted the
attention of the police and
Connors seeing
his opportunity, made a sneak out of the back way and
escaped. Someone had given him a gun, but he did not
attempt to use it in getting away.
Mt. Carmel, June
6.—Captain Frank W.
Havill died at his home at noon yesterday. He was for
many years the editor of the
Mt. Carmel Register
and was a newspaper man of wide reputation. He was an old
soldier and was clerk of both the Supreme Court and
appellate court, the Southern Illinois district, for several
years.
(Frank W.
Havill, 18, of Mt. Carmel, Wabash Co., Ill., 5’8”, brown hair, gray
eyes, dark complexion, born in Roscoe, Ohio, teacher,
enlisted 5 Aug 1861, at Xenia, Ill., as a sergeant in Co. I,
40th Illinois Infantry.
He re-enlisted on 21 Feb 1864, at Scottboro, Ala., as
a veteran private, promoted on 1 Apr 1864, to 1st
lieutenant, promoted to captain on 29 Mar 1865 at Rouse
Plantation, N.C.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Kittie
Lingle, wife of Attorney James
Lingle, and
sister of Mrs. N. D.
Finch, of Cairo,
died at her home in Jonesboro, of consumption. The funeral
was held there today. Mrs.
Finch was at her
bedside when she died. Mrs.
Lingle frequently visited Cairo and will be remembered by many
people here.
(James
Lingle married Kittie Burke
on 8 Aug 1894, in Alexander Co., Ill.
Nathan B.
Finch married Isie
Burke on 26 Feb
1890, in Alexander Co., Ill.
Her marker in Jonesboro Cemetery reads:
Kittie wife of James
Lingle Born Nov.
13, 1875 Died June 5, 1907.—Darrel
Dexter)
A telegram was
received this morning by Herbert
Marshall of the
Big Four, announcing the death of his uncle, Wallace
Hawkins, which
occurred in Memphis yesterday. He had been ill with the
grip and was seized with a hemorrhage of the lungs from
which he died very suddenly.
He was a son of
Mrs. Mary C. Hawkins
of West Twenty-second Street and one of twelve children.
Ashland, Ky.,
June 11—John Weber,
a farmer, was killed during the storm last night. The wires
were blown down and buildings were unroofed and much stock
killed.
(His marker in
Cairo City Cemetery at Villa Ridge reads:
Henry Block
1843-1907 Father.—Darrel
Dexter)
Bernie
Tolbert, a little four-year-old boy at the Children's Home died this
morning about 8 o'clock. He and his two brothers were
brought here from Olive Branch.
He had been ill
for about two weeks, first with the measles, then whooping
cough and finally pneumonia.
The funeral
services were held this afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Home
by Rev. Buchanan,
pastor of the Presbyterian Church, and interment was made in
Beech Grove Cemetery.
Mrs. Walter
Warder last night received a message from Chicago announcing the
death of Mrs. Mary
Jackson, wife of William G.
Jackson, of
Vienna. Her death was the result of an operation for throat
trouble from which she had suffered for some time.
Mrs.
Jackson was the
adopted daughter of Mr. Webb
Whitenburg, of
Vienna, and had taught in the public schools in that city,
where she has a large circle of friends. She was a bride of
less than a year.
This noon about
12 o'clock, Hezekiah
Hastings, died at the home of his son, Ira
Hastings, of
Eleventh Street.
He was born in
Virginia and moved from there to Ohio with his
parents. Later he came to Illinois and has been residing in
this state for about fifty-four years. Until his wife died,
which was about eighteen years ago, they resided in
Ingraham, Ill. Since then he has been residing with his
children.
He came to Cairo
on the twentieth day of last August and has been with his
son, Ira Hastings,
since that time. He has been in feeble health for a number
of years. Last fall he was ill with the grip and has not
been well since then. He was eighty-two years of age and
was a member of the Methodist Church.
The remains will
be taken to his old home in Ingraham, Ill., tomorrow morning
on the 5 o'clock Illinois Central train, where interment
will be made. The services will be held there.
O. E.
Bleiler, the
blind man who was seriously wounded about the head last
Saturday night, when he was struck by Commercial Avenue car,
No. 1010, succumbed to his injuries last evening at St.
Mary's Infirmary. Death occurred about 6:30 o'clock.
The deceased
never regained consciousness after the accident, although
every possible effort was made to relive his suffering and
bring about his recovery.
Papers found upon
his person were the means of identifying the deceased and it
was found he had a brother residing in Denver, Colo., who
was wired of his brother's death.
W. P.
Halliday,
president of the Traction Company, and Supt.
Skinner did all in their power for the welfare of the deceased.
The remains were
taken to Burke &
Blaine's undertaking establishment where they will be prepared for
burial and held until word is received from the brother in
Denver.
There is no blame
attached to the Traction Company or Motorman
Martin for the
accident, which was wholly unavoidable and no one feels more
grieved over the sad affair than Motorman
Martin himself.
The handsome
Newfoundland dog which led the blind man is being taken care
of at the infirmary.
Was O. E.
Bleiler, the alleged blind man, who was struck by an electric car
last Saturday night, and who died from his injuries, really
blind?
This is the
question which now arises as a result of an examination of
the deceased’s personal property which were found in three
grips which were in his room.
Among the things
found were several kinds of novelties, including beaded
rings, hat pins, and other fancy articles of showy
nature. These were all very delicately made and showed much
skill in their making. Papers were found which had been
figured upon and a letter was found written to a Texas firm,
ordering a supply of materials with which to make the
articles mentioned.
Numerous other
articles were found which leads Coroner
McManus and those
who saw the contents of the grips to believe that
Bleiler was not totally blind and that during bad weather he
remained in his room and made these articles. A slip of
paper was also found on which was outlined a route or list
of cities which the deceased had intended to visit,
including Morehouse, Cairo, Mound City, Metropolis, and
other towns.
No blind man
could have made the articles which were found in
Bleiler's
possession and the man must have been able to see pretty
well with at least one eye to make the delicate little
articles.
No word has been
received from any relatives of the deceased and his remains
will be held until Saturday and if no word is receive by
that time they will be buried as a pauper.
The inquest held
over the remains of O. E.
Bleiler, the
blind man struck by the electric car Saturday evening, June
8th, and who died at St. Mary's Infirmary
Tuesday, June 11th, after hearing the testimony
of six witnesses returned the following verdict.
We, the
undersigned jurors, sworn to inquire of the death of O. E.
Bleiler, on oath
did find that he came to his death by being struck by Cairo
Electric and Traction Company’s car No. 101 at Fourth and
Halliday Avenue or Railroad Street, about 8:15 p.m., June 8th,
1907. The deceased was conveyed to St. Mary's where he died
Tuesday, June 11, 1907.
We further find
from the evidence that the deceased came to his death
through the carelessness of the motorman of said car, D. E.
Martin, in not
having control of his car.
The jury returned
the foregoing verdict about 6:45 p.m.
The following
served on the jury:
Mrs. George
Clark the first witness, testified as follows:
That it was about
8 o'clock and dark, and that she remembered no gong being
sounded. Also that the car after striking the man stopped
and backed up.
The next witness,
William Peterson,
stated that the car was running at no unusual rate of speed,
that the headlight was burning and that he did not notice
whether gong was sounded or not. He stated that when the
car backed up the man was found on the left or east side of
the track, on the south side of the crossing, about six or
eight feet from the track.
Elmer H.
Taylor, news agent for the Van Noys News Company, stated that the
car was running 12 or 14, but could not see if it was a man
or not. He said he heard no bell and that the car was
running 12 or 14 miles an hour and that it ran half way
around the curve at Second Street before coming to a
stop. He said the car had a fender on the front end.
William A.
Blackman, office agent for the Van Noys News Company at Fourth and
Railroad Street, said the car after striking the man, ran
the full length of the two blocks and half way around the
curve at Second Street before it backed up. He declared the
car was running too fast for him to catch, probably 11 miles
an hour. He said he did not notice gong, headlight or
fender, and that it did not stop on or forty-feet previous
to crossing.
Motorman D. E.
Martin, who was in charge of the cart at the time of the accident,
stated he was sounding his gong all the time. He said he
noticed the dog, but did not see he was tied until too
late. He stated that when they struck the hill at Fourth
Street, that the car was running about 6 or 7 miles an hour,
but about 4 miles when the man was hit. He stated he threw
the power off and put on the brakes, but in throwing the
circuit back in he lost control of the brakes and the car
ran on down the hill even with the rear of the Blue Front
restaurant. He said he did not throw fender and that the
headlight was burning.
J. R.
Heron, the
conductor on No. 1010, stated the car was running 3or 4
miles an hour. He said the motorman made an effort to stop
the car and that it ran about a block beyond Fourth Street
crossing, but not to the curve. He said the gong was
sounded and that the headlight was burning as he had put new
globes in it that evening. He stated that the motorman had
run past several stops and that when he had asked him about
them, that he had complained of the brake being in bad
condition.
The witnesses
were dismissed and the jury took the case. They desired to
question the conductor and motorman further and they were
sent for. The jury adjourned until the two witnesses
arrived at 6:15 o'clock.
Upon questioning
Motorman Martin
he stated that the brake was all right and that he lost
control of it through his own excitement. He stated he had
not complained of brake. He said the man lay on the east
side of track with his head about five feet away and his
feet about one and a half feet.
Conductor
Heron testified about as he had before.
Friday, 14 Jun 1907:
Big Four freight
No. 96 in charge of Conductor
Dills, Engineer
Pat Gannon and
Fireman Bufheim, was wrecked on the Cairo division of the road near
Grayville Junction early Friday morning. No. 96 left Cairo
at 5:15 Thursday afternoon. The engine, No. 6185, was
thrown from the track in addition to five cars. The dead
body of Brakeman
Williams was found under an overturned car, while
Brakeman Harris
was thrown from a box car and seriously injured.
Investigation
into the cause of the wreck will be made which could not be
learned at the time. The wreck was cleared up by the
wrecking train from Mt. Carmel.
After many months
of illness with consumption, Tim
Moran, died
yesterday at St. Mary’s Infirmary. He had been at the
infirmary for several months past, being sent there by the
Bartenders' Union of which he was a member. He was probably
thirty-five years of age, being born and raised in
Cairo. For some years he was with G. H.
Jackson and Company and for the last two years he had tended bar at
Smith Bros. He
won local fame some years back as a ball player, being a
member of the old Cairo club and of the Raggios. He has a
mother and sister residing at Springfield, Mo., who were
wired the news of his death. The latter, Mrs.
Harris, will be
here to attend his funeral.
Mrs.
Feith has charge
of the remains. The Bartenders Union will meet tonight to
arrange for the funeral.
Mrs. Lucy Pauline
Styles, a well-known resident of McClure, Ill., died very suddenly
at her home last Saturday. The deceased was 48 years of age
and leaves two grown sons who reside with her. She had been
separated from her husband for several months.
Coroner
McManus was summoned to McClure and held an inquest over the
remains. The jury gave a verdict that deceased died from
natural causes.
Mrs.
Styles had been
to the grocery Saturday afternoon purchasing things for
Sunday dinner. She returned to her home seemingly in good
health and spirits. A few minutes later a neighbor was
attracted by Mrs. Sytles heavy breathing and going into the house found Mrs.
Styles
sinking. Doctors were summoned, but she died before they
could render any aid. The doctors refused to issue death
certificates, preferring that an inquest be held.
William
Neadstine, an old resident of Mound City, passed away at 1:15
o'clock this morning, at his home in that city, of
pneumonia. He was taken ill only last Thursday.
The deceased was
55 years of age and had lived in Mound City for about thirty
years. He formerly conducted the National Hotel there and
retained the saloon in the same building when he gave up the
hotel business. He was also engaged in the manufacture of
the cement blocks for several years up to his death.
He leaves a
widow, one daughter, Miss Jessie, and two sons, Harry and
George.
Funeral
arrangements had not been completed today.
Chester, Ill.,
June 19.—Sebia
Watkins, a negro sentenced for life to the Southern
Illinois Penitentiary, escaped from the prison and was shot
in Lower Chester by Frank
Oakes and
recaptured a few minutes later. Oakes
and Charles Faverty,
in pursuit, were wounded.
Watkins
was a "trusty" employed in the large corridor of the
warden’s house. Last night he entered the room of Assistant
Master Mechanic
Strickland, forced the lock from the wall and secured
the officer's revolver.
Awaiting a
favorable opportunity he approached Turnkey Frank
Howard and
placing the revolver to
Howard's breast,
forced him to open the gate. Still keeping the turnkey
covered with his gun, he backed out of the hall and fled.
Frank
Oates, William
Born, and Charles
Faverty, in a
carriage overtook the convict. Watkins
fired six times at them. Born
was struck in the hand, a bullet grazed
Faverty's head
and another went through the carriage top. Oakes then shot the convict through the left lung. He may recover.
Watkins
was sentenced to the penitentiary in 1896 for killing a
merchant at Cairo while endeavoring to rob his store.
The many friends
of Robert Carkuff,
a former Cairo boy, will be sorry to hear of his death,
which occurred Monday night, at his home in Clarksville,
Tenn. For a number of years he was in the employ of the P.
T. Langan Lumber
Company.
E. A.
Carkuff, of the
Denison-Gholson Dry Goods Company, was a brother of the deceased. He was a
son-in-law of Mrs. J.
Stewart, of No. 2610 Sycamore Street, who went to Clarksville to
attend the funeral.
David
Bharan, the
well-known negro baggage man, was shot and killed at Central
Union station this morning at 10:30 by Fred
Corn, a lumber
inspector, of 312 Twenty-seventh Street.
While a number of
people were in the near vicinity of the shooting, there
seems to have been but few eyes witnesses of the whole
affair, and a number of conflicting stories are told. The
most plausible is that told by Ben
Wise, of Charles,
Mo., who is in the employ of the railroad at Mounds and who
tells his story as follows:
"I was standing
near the door of the men's waiting room when I saw this
white man come up to the negro and say something to him. I
judge he asked to be directed to the toilet room, as the
negro pointed in toward the waiting room. The white man
went in there, but came out in a minute and going up to the
negro said, "You told me a ---- lie." The darky said,
"Don’t you call me a liar." After some words they began
scuffling and I saw the white man reach for his gun. I saw
he was going to shoot and being in line with the gun, I got
out of the way as quick as I could. I heard him shoot and
the negro cried, "Catch that man." The white man was
running out Second Street and ran around behind the Halliday
Hotel, where he was caught and disarmed by Henry
Thompson and John
Watson, a negro
baggage men, and taken in a wagon to police headquarters.
Bharam
was carried into the men's waiting room, where he died in
about fifteen minutes. The bullet entered his left chest
near or above the collar bone and probably severed the
jugular vein.
Another story has
it that Corn
complained to Barham charging him with having charged him too much drayage, and
that Barham
struck him whereupon
Corn drew his gun and shot him.
It is stated that
Corn was slightly under the influence of liquor at the time of the
quarrel. Bharam
has never been a troublesome negro.
The coroner's
jury sat on the case at 3 o’clock this afternoon.
The coroner’s
inquest on the remains of David
Bharam, the negro
who was shot and killed by Fred
Korn Wednesday
morning at the Illinois Central depot, was held Wednesday
afternoon in the council chamber.
Patrick
Gorman was the first witness to testify. He stated he was on the
platform near the baggage room when he heard a shot
fired. He did not see the scuffle between the men.
Ben
Wise, of
Charleston, Mo., testified that
Korn had asked
Bharam to tell
him where a water closet was, that there must have been some
misunderstanding for
Korn came out of the station he accused the darky of
telling him a lie. The two men exchanged oaths and sprang
at each other. Witness stated that the white man (Korn)
then pulled his gun and fired. After he had shot, he
started down the street.
Bharam ran
after him shouting, "Stop that man! Stop that man! He shot
me."
Charlie
Meschew stated that he saw
Korn pull a gun and saw the darky grab it. They
scuffled and Korn
managed to get the gun against the negro's neck and then
fired one shot. Witness stated that after the shooting
Korn walked down
towards the Halliday Hotel. Witness stated that
Korn appeared to be intoxicated to him.
Henry
Thompson knew
nothing of the shooting. He heard one shot fired and saw
Korn walk away
and put the gun in his pocket. He stated that John
Hamilton and
himself grabbed Korn
and asked him what was the matter. He stated that the darky
had hit him. He said they took
Korn in a wagon
and started up to headquarters. They met Chief
Egan near Seventh
Street and turned the prisoner over to him.
John
Watson stated he
saw nothing of the shooting. All he knew about the matter
was what he had heard. Watson
stated that Korn
asked if the darky was dead and said that he did not want to
kill him.
Sid
Barnes stated he
did not see the shooting. He heard
Bharam say that the white man shot him for nothing.
Robert
Wilson, a negro from Caruthersville, Mo., said he was employed at
the Halliday Hotel. He saw the scuffle from a window. He
said he saw the shot fired by
Korn. He saw no
weapon of any kind in the negro's hand.
A.
Harrison, a negro
from Jackson, Tenn., testified about the same as the other
witnesses, but he differed somewhat in his details of the
affair.
The jury was
composed of John
Coleman (foreman), Oscar
Gaskins, William
Susanka, Frank Gossman,
J. P. O'Donnell,
and A. Glauber.
The jury after
hearing the evidence brought in a verdict holding
Kohn without bail
to the grand jury at the July term of circuit court.
Korn
has been for some years in the employ of the O. P.
Hurd Lumber
Company until 60 days ago when he went with the
Ashley Bros.
Lumber Company. He has a family of a wife and two children.
Oscar J.
Buettner, in charge of the circulation of the
Chicago Tribune among the news dealers of Illinois, died on the
steamer Cape Girardeau
at 6:30 o'clock this morning.
Mr.
Buettner was
taken ill about 4 o'clock. He was given all the attention
that could be summoned at that hour, but medical aid was
unavailing in the attempt to save his life.
Mrs.
Buettner, wife of
the deceased, and Miss Ollie
Buettner, his
sister, were with him on the boat and Mayor
Parsons had them taken up to his residence this morning.
Oscar
Buettner was one
of the best newspaper circulators in the state, according to
J. W. Locrene,
the veteran agent of the
St. Louis Globe
Democrat. Mr.
Buettner served on the
Globe-Democrat for
four years and then went on the
Tribune. His
headquarters were at Danville.
The deceased was
reared at Red Bud, Ill., his father and mother now reside in
St. Louis, where his brother, Julius
Buettner, is in
the house furnishing business.
Coroner
McManus will hold an inquest to inquire into the cause of his death.
President
Dekker received word from Julius
Buettner of St. Louis that he would be here at 6 o'clock this
evening to take charge of his brother's remains.
Mr.
Buettner spent
the evening on the boat, playing cards until 2 o'clock when
he retired. At 4 o'clock he was taken ill and a doctor was
summoned. After he had treated the patient, Mrs.
Buettner got her
pocket book and paid him. Then she threw it down, and when
later she searched for it, it was missing. It contained
$70. This gave rise to the story that Mr.
Buettner had been robbed. The Hustlers are arranging to take up a
collection to reimburse Mrs.
Buettner.
Robert
Adams, head miller for the Halliday mill in the early eighties,
committed suicide at his home in Batavia, N.Y., last
Sunday. This is the information James
Millne learned at
Sparta, where Mr.
Adams' brother lives. The deceased owned a mill at
Batavia, and was apparently in the best of health and
prospering. Why he ended his life is not known. Mr.
Milne saw him recently at Niagara Falls, and they had a pleasant
time going over old times in Cairo. Mr.
Adams will be remembered by many old residents.
Guy
Bridges, an
employee of one of the Cairo and Thebes construction gang,
was struck and killed by the southbound Mobile and Ohio
passenger train early this morning. Coroner
McManus went out
to Klondike this morning where the inquest was held. Bridges with a crowd of men came into the city yesterday in a wagon
and returned last night. It developed that
Bridges got off the wagon at the crossing near the camp and was
probably walking down the track when killed. His body was
horribly mangled, parts being picked up from Klondike to
Davis Junction. The remains were brought to
Feith's
undertaking establishment this noon.
The funeral of
Oscar J. Buettner,
the man whose death threw a shadow of sadness over the
gayety of the Egyptian Hustlers' meeting in Cairo, Ill.,
last week, was held Sunday afternoon from the undertaking
rooms of M. H.
Alexander, 2835 Olive Street at 2 o'clock. The body was
buried in St. Matthew's Cemetery.
He was a member
of a prominent St. Louis family. He was connected with the
circulation department of the
Chicago Tribune. Mr. Buettner was 30 years old and had been connected with the
Tribune for over 3
years, being in charge of the circulation of the
Tribune in
Illinois and Indiana. Prior to that he was with the
Globe-Democrat in
a similar capacity.
The cause of Mr.
Buettner's death was congestion of the lungs. The coroner’s jury
which held an inquest pronounced his demise due to apoplexy,
but physicians say that so young a man as Mr.
Buettner could
not succumb to that ailment.
Thursday
afternoon Mr.
Buettner had marched in the Hustler parade and became
overheated, though he was not affected at the time. He went
on board the steamer Cape Girardeau, where he and Mrs.
Buettner and their little daughter, Bonnie Fostile, occupied a
stateroom. Thursday night he seemed in the best of health,
remaining up until nearly midnight, dancing and playing
cards.
About 4 o'clock
Mrs. Buettner heard her husband gasping for breath. She called
assistance, but Mr.
Buettner was beyond the reach of aid. A brother, J. H.
Buettner, president of the Union House Furnishing Company in St.
Louis, went to Cairo Friday afternoon and brought his
brother's body to St. Louis Friday night.
He was born
August 14, 1876, in Red Bud, Ill., and was married in that
city, June 6, 1901, to Miss Eva B.
Gaines. Mrs.
Buettner and a
little daughter, 4 years old, survive him. His father and
mother, Mr. and Mrs. Henry B.
Buettner, reside
in St. Louis at 3131 Washington Avenue. He has a brother,
Otto, who is a student at Washington University, and a
sister, Ella, living with their parents in this city, and
another brother, J. H.
Buettner, who
lives at 3638 Connecticut Street. While in St. Louis, Mr.
Buettner lived at
327 Beaumont Street.
The pallbearers
for the funeral were from the circulation department of the
Globe Democrat. The
Chicago Tribune
sent a beautiful and costly floral tribute to the bereaved
family, and Mr. Adair
of that paper sent offers of aid and condolence to the widow
of Mr. Buettner, whose death he regards as a loss irreparable.
(Benjamin
Woodbury Riley, 38, born in Sutton, Mass., son of Philip Henry
Riley nand
Marietta Woodbury,
married Gertrude St. John
Bell, 26, born in
Cobden, Ill., daughter of James
Bell and Eliza
Jane Mesler on 20
Nov 1895, in Union Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
A little
four-month-old baby died at the Children's Home this morning
at 4 o'clock from whooping cough.
About a month ago
the child was brought to the Home by its mother. She said
that she wanted to leave it there a little while and would
be back after it. She has not been seen since.
Funeral services
were held this afternoon by Rev.
Buchanan, pastor
of the Presbyterian Church and interment was made in Beech
Grove Cemetery.
Mildred the
four-month-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. M.
Howard, of No.
208 Thirty-eighth Street, died about 12:30 o'clock
today. The funeral will be held tomorrow morning at 9
o'clock, interment to be made at Mounds. The funeral is in
charge of undertakers
Burke and Blaine. Mr.
Howard is an
electrician for the Cairo Electric and Traction Company.
Murphysboro,
Ill., June 27.—Thomas M.
Logan, 80 years
old, dropped dead at his home here last evening at 5:05
o'clock. He was a brother of General John A.
Logan and a son
of Dr. John Logan,
a pioneer, who donated the site for the founding of
Murphysboro. Thomas M.
Logan was
instrumental in the upbuidling of Murphysboro. He owned a
great deal of property here and was associated with Vice
President Clark
of the Missouri Pacific Railroad in the real estate business
in Murphysboro years ago.
Until word has
been heard from his sister-in-law, Mrs. John A.
Logan, no
definite funeral arrangements will be made, but it will
probably be held Sunday.
Jefferson City,
Mo., June 27.—Convicts Harry
Vaughn, George
Ryan and Edward
Raymond, were hanged together this morning for the murder of two
guards in the state penitentiary during the mutiny of 1905.
William Hanks, a
well-known citizen of Ullin, died Thursday evening after a
long and lingering spell of consumption. The remains were
laid to rest in Cache Chapel Cemetery. He provided well for
his wife and two children by leaving them a farm, some
property, and life insurance. The funeral services were
conducted by Rev.
Kirkman Saturday morning to a very large congregation.
(William Hanks
married Mrs. Florance Belle
Swygart on 16 Jan
1887, in Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Anna Talk: Charles
Colwell, aged 24,
a patient at the hospital, gave to the Anna, Jonesboro and
Hospital electric line its first record of a fatal
happening, Saturday morning.
Colwell,
with several other patients and their attendants were
picking blackberries in a field, not more than a hundred
yards from the street car tracks. As the car returning from
the hospital to Anna approached,
Colwell ran out
from the field and stood on an embankment. The motorman, D.
D. Hacker, one of
the most careful men in the employ of the company thought
the man wanted to get on. He applied the brakes and slowed
down until near the place.
When it became apparent that the man was not waiting
for the car, Hacker
released the brakes and the car going down grade, gained
speed rapidly. When almost opposite the spot,
Colwell lunged forward down the slight embankment and threw himself
in front of the car. His body was doubled up and rolled
only a short distance showing that
Hacker had
stopped with almost incredible promptness. The patients'
back bone was broken in two, his ribs were crushed and the
body was badly bruised. Death resulted before he could be
removed from under the car, which had to be jacked up before
the body could be released. Colwell's
home was at Herrin. His relatives had been down to see him
only a few days before and had hoped his improvement would
be such as to enable them to remove him from the hospital
and take him to West Virginia soon.
Mrs. James
Chamberlain, wife of the general manager of the street car lines and
her niece Florence
Montgomery, were on the car when the suicide occurred.
Coroner Dr. J. J.
Lence, of Jonesboro, held and inquest and the evidence entirely
exonerated the street car company from blame and developed
almost beyond question that
Colwell had
deliberately laid his plans for self-destruction.
W. H.
Harris died at
his home last evening at 5:15 o'clock from cancer. He had
been quite feeble for some time. The deceased, was
fifty-one years of age and a devout Catholic. His greatest
desire was to be able to receive the last rites of the
church. These were administered last evening and a few
moments later he passed away. He leaves a wife and three
daughters, May, Jessie, and Lucy.
He was a member
of the order of Catholic Knights and that organization will
have charge of the funeral. Services will be conducted at
the house tomorrow at 12:30 o'clock by Father
Downey. The
funeral will leave the house at 1 o'clock. The remains will
be taken to Arlington, Ky., on the 1:40 train where they
will be laid to rest in the family lot in Arlington
Cemetery.
Albion, Ill.,
June 29.—David Kellam
and his father, Albert
Kellam, were
today found guilty of murdering Sheriff
Compton and both
were given life sentences.
Spring Valley,
Ill., June 29.—In a fit of insanity, Mrs. Lucy D.
Drews, gave her
son, aged two years, a box of strychnine pills to eat. The
mother was laughing while the baby was eating the poison,
from the effects of which it died. The mother will be
returned to the asylum.
Postmaster Sidney
B. Miller, Judge W. N. Butler,
and Capt. W. M.
Williams, attended the funeral Sunday of Thomas M.
Logan, brother of
Gen. John A. Logan,
at Murphysboro, whose death was announced in
The Citizen last
week. The funeral was largely attended by distinguished
citizens from all parts of the state. Mrs.
Logan, widow of
the late general, was present.
The body of "Big
Eyed Jim" Robinson,
a negro coal passer, was found in the Ohio River near the
point yesterday morning by men engaged in work on the fleet
of barges near that point. Coroner
McManus held an inquest and the jury returned a verdict that death
was due to accidental drowning. The remains were interred
at the county cemetery yesterday afternoon. Robinson was last employed on the towboat
Pacific.
Tuesday, 2 Jul 1907:
NEWS OF FATHER'S DEATH
Thomas J.
Pryor and family left last night for Ford City, Mo., in response to
a message telling of the death of the former's father which
occurred at his home in that place yesterday. The deceased
was 72 years old and has been in ill health for a number of
months. Several years ago he received injuries by being
thrown from a horse from which he never fully recovered.
Edwardsville,
Ill., July 2.—Charles M.
Travous, general
solicitor for the Wabash Railroad, was found dead in his bed
at his home here this morning.
Kennett, Mo.,
July 3.—News is received here of a shooting affray at the
farm house of Robert A.
Pelty, seven miles south of here, in which William
Ford probably
mortally wounded Harrison
Balls, and then
committed suicide. Ford
was desperately in love with Mrs. Nettie
Prince, a widow,
who is the sister of
Balls. Balls
opposed Ford’s attentions. Ford
shot Balls twice,
probably fatally, as the latter was sitting at a window of
the Pelty home smoking. Ford
then killed himself.
The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C.
Ford died Monday evening of congestion of the brain. The funeral
was held from the family residence Tuesday afternoon, Rev.
B. F. Utley
officiating. The remains were taken to Tamaroa for
burial. (Mound City)
A long race
against death, in which a special train and a specially
chartered river tug were used as a last resort, was won
early this morning, when Mrs.
Naugle, wife of
J. A. Naugle,
general superintendent of the Mexican Central Railroad,
arrived in Cairo after a fast trip from Mexico City, to be
at the bedside of her father, P.
Barclay, before
he succumbed to illness, which has confined him to his home
on Seventh Street for several days.
Mrs.
Naugle left
Mexico City at 9 p.m. Monday upon receipt of news of the
serious sickness of Mr.
Barclay. She
arrived at Poplar Bluff, Ark., yesterday at 1:30 p.m., too
late to take the regular Iron Mountain train, due here early
last evening. The next train for Cairo was not due until
7:30 o'clock this morning, which would have arrived shortly
after noon. Mrs. Naugle, after communication with her
brother, P. C.
Barclay, of Cairo, chartered a special Iron Mountain
train and arrived on it at Bird's Point at 2:30 o'clock this
morning.
Arrangements had
already been made and the tugboat
Theseus was
waiting to bring her to Cairo. She reached here shortly
before 4 o'clock.
Mr.
Barclay, who has
been eagerly awaiting the arrival of his daughter is much
more cheerful today as a result of her arrival and aside an
increasing weakness is thought to be slightly improved.
Physicians had
given up hope for his recovery several days ago, but have
done everything possible to keep aglow the spark of life
until his daughter could reach his bedside.
Mr.
Barclay is one of
the most highly respected and best known citizens in
Cairo. He is known to Masons throughout the country, having
been presiding officer of the Illinois Grand Lodge at one
time and having the honor of being a Thirty-third degree
Mason.
Jesse
Hutchison, a
negro, yesterday afternoon shot and instantly killed
Ianoe Waters,
also a negro, and formerly marshal of Pulaski at which
place, following a quarrel, which started when
Hutchison slapped
the face of Waters'
daughter. Pulaski is on the Illinois Central road several
miles above Cairo.
The slayer was
arrested by Marshal Decatur
Lackey and
confined until Sheriff
Bankston arrived
from Mound City and took him to the county jail. Fearing
that the negro would attempt to escape the marshal
handcuffed him, but upon his arrival at Mound City, it was
found that he had no keys to fit the wrist irons and it was
necessary this morning to take the prisoner to a blacksmith
shop and have the cuffs filed from his wrists.
(The 6 Jul 1907,
issue refers to the deceased as Hank
Waters.—Darrel
Dexter)
Information has
reached the city of the death of Captain Frank M.
Dougherty, for
several years a resident of Paducah. He was then a
steamboat man and served in several positions with credit.
The
Louisville
Courier-Journal thus announces Capt.
Dougherty's
death:
"The body of
Capt. Frank M.
Dougherty, who died at Wildwood, N.J., Tuesday
afternoon, will be brought to Louisville for burial. Capt.
Dougherty was
well known in Louisville as a steamboat man and was also
well known along the river from Pittsburg to New
Orleans. Shortly after the close of the Civil War, Mr.
Dougherty moved
to Clarksville, Tenn., and started in the steamboat
business. Later he removed to Louisville and had lived here
most of the time since.
Mr. P. W.
Barclay passed away at 1:40 o'clock this afternoon.
After an illness
with which he was stricken on June 25th, and
which did not cause his family any alarm until several days
later, he passed away this afternoon, surrounded by his
family, his son, Mr. P. C.
Barclay, with
whom he makes his home in Cairo, and his daughter, Mrs. J.
A. Naugle, who
arrived from Mexico City, Mexico, only yesterday morning to
spend the last moments with him.
Mr.
Barclay was born
in Russellville, Ky., on Dec. 30, 1832. He was one of a
family of nine children, six sons and three daughters.
Surviving him are three brothers, John F., of Atlanta, Ga.;
J. C. and W. F., of Louisville, Ky.; and two sisters, Mrs.
I. W. Caldwell,
of Wake Forrest, N.C., and Mrs. W. G.
Hines, of
Trinidad, Colo.
Learning the drug
business in Philadelphia, he followed that calling in
Bowling Green, Ky., during the war, coming to Cairo in 1867.
Mr.
Barclay was one
of the old and respected citizens of Cairo and a number of
years ago was one of the most active businessmen. Coming to
Cairo with his brother, Mr. James S.
Barclay, at the
close of the Civil War, they engaged in the drug business on
a large scale. They conducted a wholesale business on Ohio
levee, which was under the management of Mr. P. W.
Barclay, while
Mr. J. S. Barclay
conducted the retail store where Mr. H. C.
Schuh's drug
store now is located, at Eighth and Washington Avenue.
The name
Barclay Brothers was linked with all that made up the
commercial history of Cairo for a long period of years.
When they
retired, from the drug business, Mr. P. W.
Barclay became
general agent in this territory for the Massachusetts Mutual
Life Insurance Company, and he has continued that business
in company with his son, Mr. P. C.
Barclay, until
the present time.
Mr.
Barclay was
prominent in Masonic circles of Illinois. He was a member
of the Blue Lodge, of the Chapter and of the Commandery, and
was a Thirty-third degree Mason. He was Past Grand
Commander of the Grand Commandery of Illinois, Knights
Templar, and Past Grand High Priest of the Grand Chapter of
Illinois.
Funeral services
will be held at the Methodist church after a short prayer at
the residence on Seventh Street, and the body will be taken
to Chicago to be laid at rest beside his wife, who died in
May 1896 and his son Hugh in Rose Hill Cemetery. The time
of the funeral had not been decided upon this afternoon.
(John A.
Naugle married Fannie Lou
Barclay on 16 Oct 1884, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
THREE MISSING
Friends and
relatives of three missing men went to Brewers Lake, near
Charleston, Mo., today to try and identify the body of a man
found there yesterday, who evidently had committed suicide.
OTIS
FREEMAN, a
cooper, formerly employed at the Halliday Milling Company
HERMAN
MICHAELS, secretary of the Cairo Cigar Makers Union
HENRY
SEABERS, a
carpenter
The description
of the body found in the lake tallies to a certain extent
with that of all of the men who are missing. The
description however, more closely fits that of Ottis
Freeman than any
of the others.
Mrs.
Freeman who
resides on Division Street left this morning for
Charleston. Freeman
had been drinking for several weeks and when he left home
Monday night was in an extremely ugly humor. He had been
out of work for a long time and was discouraged, but his
family had no thought that he would suicide. In the pockets
of the dead man were found 13 collar buttons and a
carpenter’s lead pencil. Mrs.
Freeman before
leaving for Charleston this morning said that she remembered
seeing her husband have several collar buttons in his
possession the day he left home.
Herman
Michaels, the cigar maker, disappeared Tuesday night after going to
his room at the
Taylor boarding house on Sixth Street and changing his
clothes. All of his papers, cards, letters, etc., were left
in a light suit. He replaced this with a dark suit similar
to the one worn by the dead man. A month or so ago
Michaels’ father
was brutally murdered, robbed and his body burned in a small
Ohio town and since then
Michaels has not
been the same man. His friends fear that his father's
tragic death so bore upon his mind that he lost his reason
and fear that he wandered to Birds Point and from there to
the lake and ended his life.
Henry
Seabers, the
carpenter, has also been missing several days. He was
connected with Charles
McNulty in the
contracting and carpenter jobbing business and Mr.
McNulty thinking that perhaps he might have taken his own life went
to Brewer's Lake today in an effort to identify the body. Seavers
boarded at Mrs. Stite's
place on Seventh Street and was well known.
The body found
yesterday was that of a middle-aged man, probably between 30
and 45 years old. The coroner’s jury returned a verdict of
suicide, as on the man's arm and breast were found deep
burns, evidently made by carbolic acid, a half empty bottle
of which was found on the banks nearby. An autopsy also
disclosed the fact that sufficient quantities of the acid
has been taken to cause death. It was therefore supposed
that the man had taken poison and had either fallen or
jumped into the lake.
The body was that
of a man of 45 years, medium height, of stock build, light
complexion. He wore dark trousers and shirt, light
underwear. A piece of carpenter's pencil and thirteen
collar buttons were found in the pockets.
Letters received
from Mrs. Wallace S.
Faris, by relatives of Rev. Mr.
Faris here, give
the particulars of his death, which were not obtainable at
the time of his demise about the middle of May, says the
Anna Talk.
He had been away
from home, assisting in famine relief work for about four
weeks, returning home only once or twice during that
time. On Saturday, May 11, which was the day distribution
was made to the sufferers, Mr.
Faris had been
helping to keep the crowds in line. Saturday evening he
started for his home at Yihsien, which place he reached
after suffering great agony at about 7 o'clock p.m. His
suffering was caused by impaction of the bowels, and only
temporary relief could be given until death came about noon,
May 13. He was attended constantly after reaching home, by
two physicians. He was perfectly resigned.
The funeral was
conducted Thursday afternoon, May 16, by Rev. William
Chalfant, whom
readers of this paper will remember from Rev. Mr.
Faris' letters, was intimately associated with him in the missionary
work. A service in English was held at his home and one in
Chinese in the chapel nearby.
The remains were interred in the garden of the
mission in a compound casket made of cedar, which weighed
1,500 pounds. It was carried to the grave on a specially
arranged framework borne by 24 persons. The vault in which
the body rests is of solid brick masonry dug into the ground
six feet with an arch extending above ground two or three
feet.
Rev. Mr.
Faris is a son of Dr. and Mrs. W. W.
Faris, of Miami, Florida. He was for many years a resident of Anna.
In fact, he grew to manhood here and was married here
to Miss Ellen Asper,
the wife who survived him in China. Mrs. Charles H.
Wiley, of this
city, is his sister, and he has one brother, Paul, and a
sister, who are now in China.
Mrs.
Faris, who is a
daughter of Mrs. M.
Babcock, formerly of Anna, now of St. Louis, will return
to America and to her mother's home in St. Louis.
Rev. Mr.
Faris had been a Presbyterian missionary in China 10 years. At the
end of 8 years he came home, as is customary with foreign
missionaries and sailed from San Francisco for China in
February 1906, for his second term of 8 years. He was 38
years of age and was full of energy and thoroughly
consecrated to the work. This loss will be felt keenly by
the missionaries with whom he has labored so faithfully and
harmoniously.
(Wallace
Somerville Faris, 27, of Pittsburg, Alleghany Co., Pa., clergymn, born in
Chicago, Ill., son of William W.
Faris and
Isabella Thomson,
married Ellen McGill
Asper, 24, of Anna, born in Mercer, Pa., daughter of
John M. Asper and
Agnes M. McKean,
on 2 Sep 1896, in Union Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The identity of
the suicide found in Brewer's Lake, near Charleston, Mo.,
last Friday remains unknown and while identification is now
beyond question, it is thought that the dead man may either
be Otis Freeman,
a cooper, or Henry
Seabers, both of whom have been mysteriously missing
from Cairo for several days. Herman
Michaels, who also was missing Saturday, and who, it was feared by
friends had possibly taken his life is in Memphis, according
to a message received from him last night.
As was stated in
Saturday's Citizen,
the body of the suicide in many ways tallies with the
description of the missing men. Mrs.
Freeman went to
Charleston Saturday to investigate. The body had been
buried in a crude box without embalming and officers there
told her it would be useless to exhume the remains as
identification was then believed to be impossible.
The description
in many respects, even to the collar buttons found in
his pockets tally with the description of
Freeman, but the
foreman of the coroner's jury stated to Mrs.
Freeman that the
dead man had a light mustache. When
Freeman left here a week ago Friday he was smooth shaven.
Charles
McNulty, connected with
Seavers in the carpenter jobbing business, went to
Brewer's Lake to also make an investigation and is inclined
to think that the dead man may be the missing carpenter. In
the pockets of the dead man were found, besides the 13
collar buttons, a large door key, similar to the one carried
by Seabers, and a
carpenter's lead pencil. The description also tallies in a
number of other respects.
Mrs.
Freeman said
today that her husband had left home four different times in
the last few years and had remained away for months at a
time. Previous to his disappearance he told a fellow
employee of the Halliday flour mill that he intended going
to Milwaukee to work.
The family is
said to be in destitute and needy circumstances. He was the
sole support of his wife and three children and of his
wife's mother. Seabers was not married.
Charles J.
Bradbury, an aged and well known river engineer, died at the United
States Marine Hospital yesterday afternoon as a result of
injuries he sustained several days ago by falling down the
steps from his apartments over Charles
Lancaster's
building at Sixteenth Street and Commercial Avenue. Two
ribs were broken and he was badly bruised and cut by the
fall. Owing to his advanced age he never recovered from the
shock.
The deceased was
72 years old and resided in Cairo for the past 25 years. He
is survived by a daughter and two sons, all of whom reside
in Rising Sun, Ind.
The deceased was
for many years employed on the Cairo Coal Company’s tugs and
was also engaged as engineer at the Tenth Street pump.
Local rivermen
are interesting themselves in his funeral and will probably
have charge of the burial. The remains are at the
establishment of Mrs. M. E.
Feith, pending arrangements.
The public
library was closed today from 12 to 7:30 o’clock, the flag
floated at half mast, honoring Mr. P. C.
Barclay, who died
Saturday afternoon.
Sorrowing Cairo
friends and members of the Cairo Commandery, No. 13, Knights
Templar this afternoon attended funeral services over the
body of the late Philander W.
Barclay. Private
services were conducted by the Knights Templar at the family
residence on Seventh Street at 4 o'clock, which were
attended only by the members of the organization, the
family, and a few friends. At 4:45 o'clock services were
held at the First Methodist Church, of which the deceased
was a devout member.
Rev. J. A.
Scarritt, of Alton, a lifelong friend of the deceased and former
pastor of the Methodist Church conducted the service, which
was beautiful but very simple and brief.
A number of
Knights Templar acted as pallbearers from the residence to
the church and will act in the same capacity this evening
when the remains will be taken to the Central Union Station
and placed aboard a special car which will be attached to
Illinois Central train No. 8, due to leave at 7:15 o’clock
for Chicago, where interment will be made Tuesday afternoon.
Messrs. Frank
Spencer and Joseph W. Wenger,
members of the Cairo Commandery, will accompany the funeral
party to Chicago and assist in the services there tomorrow.
Burial will be
made at Rose Hill Cemetery and the body of the deceased
placed to rest by the side of his wife and son, Hugh
Barclay, who
preceded him to the Great Beyond several years ago. Members
of the Apollo Commandery, Knight Templar, of Chicago, will
conduct the services at the cemetery.
(Philander W.
Barclay married Mary E. Crews
on 27 Feb 1856, in Cook Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Owing to the fact
that only 10 of the 24 petit jurors summoned for the July
term of circuit court, which was convened at the courthouse
by Judge William N.
Butler this morning, qualified for service, the case of
Marvin Boren, charged with the murder of Policeman Patrick
Doud, was not
commenced this afternoon as was expected.
A special venire
calling for 24 additional jurors was issued returnable at 9
o'clock Tuesday morning, when the examination of talesmen to
secure a jury of 12 to try
Boren will be
started.
After the grand
jury had been impanelled this morning, court adjourned until
1:30 o'clock this afternoon and the session was occupied
with small civil cases.
Owing to the
publicity given the
Doud murder and the great interest it caused, it is
considered doubtful whether or not a jury can be secured
this week.
The
Boren case will
be bitterly contested by both the State and the
defense. The former will make a determined effort to
convict the prisoner of murder in the first degree. The
defense probably will be self-defense, although the nature
of the plea that will be set up has not been announced.
State's Attorney
Wilson will be assisted in the prosecution by State's Attorney
Lingle, of Union
County, and M. J.
O'Shea, of this city. The attorneys for the defense are
Lansden &
Leek and Reed
Green.
Sam
Perce, who was
with Boren at the
time he killed Doud
and who was indicted for assisting the prisoner to escape
and who was later released on bond, will be represented by
Attorney W. A. Spann
of Johnson County.
His case has been
continued to the October term.
Doud
was stabbed to death by
Boren on the
night of March 21st, when the former attempted to
arrest him for creating a disturbance in a house on
Thirteenth Street. The killing took place in front of 223
Thirteenth Street after
Boren and
Perce had left
the house adjoining 235.
Eddie
Boon, a
15-year-old negro boy, was the first victim to be claimed by
the Ohio River at this point this summer. Boon,
who resided with his parents on Fifteenth Street, was
swimming Sunday afternoon with some other boys near the
Halliday elevator on lower Ohio Street. In some way he lost
control of himself and sank before his companions could
render any assistance. R. W.
Lamb, of New Orleans, a switchman here on a visit, saw the lad sink,
but was unable to do anything but recover the body. Coroner
McManus held an
inquest, the verdict being in accordance with the facts.
Ridgway, Ill.,
July 9.—Oliver Abbott,
40 years old, died from a wound received several months ago
at Cairo, Ill.
Mr.
Abbott was
assaulted and robbed by several unidentified persons.
The body of the
man found in Brewer's Lake, near Charleston, Mo., last
Friday has been identified as that of George
Seavers, a
carpenter, formerly connected with John
McNulty, in the
jobbing and contracting business, with a shop on Tenth
Street.
Late last evening
Mr. McNulty returned from Charleston, fully convinced that his partner
was the man found in the lake and who according to the
Mississippi County coroner’s jury had died by his own
hand. Several articles, including a watch and a door key
found in the dead man's pockets, have been identified as
belonging to Seabers.
Seavers,
who was 68 years old, disappeared Tuesday afternoon of last
week. When seen by Mr.
McNulty at that
time he had in his possession about $100, and is said to
have played cards after that time. At 4 o'clock he crossed
the river in a Mississippi River ferry skiff and so far as
can be learned was not seen alive after that except by a man
name Perce, who
said that he met him in the vicinity of Brewer's Lake that
night about 8 o'clock.
No reason can be
attached to Seaber’s
leaving Cairo and his subsequent suicide. He was in good
spirits when last seen and so far as is known had no
troubles. That he suicided was evidenced by the deep acid
burns on his face and breast and by a half empty bottle of
carbolic acid found on the bank of the lake near the spot
where his body was found.
When found, no
money was in his pockets and some of his friends are of the
belief that he lost his savings in a card game and growing
despondent ended his life.
Coffeen, Ill.,
July 9.—Art Hamilton,
35 years old, was killed by a Clover Leaf freight train in
the yards here at a late hour last night. The body was
found early this morning. Hamilton
was a farmer and was walking home.
Herrin, Ill.,
July 9.—In an accident here on the Burlington Route Sunday
evening, D. S. Ford, an engineer of this city, Engine Foreman E. H.
Hutton, whose
homes are in Centralia, were instantly killed. The engine
was running at a high rate of speed over raised tracks,
which gave way, throwing the engine down an
embankment. Foreman
Barnhill escaped injury by jumping.
The engine was on
its way to Cambon with workmen, who were riding on the
tank. All of them escaped injury.
After returning
indictments against Joseph
Causey, who shot
and killed George
Wooden, colored, and Fred
Korn, who killed
David Bharman,
also colored, for manslaughter, and finding true bill on
less serious charges against a number of prisoners in the
county jail, the grand jury was discharged at 3 o'clock this
afternoon by Judge William N.
Butler in the
circuit court.
The grand jury
also investigated charges made by Mrs. Mary
Bettis, colored,
whose house was partially wrecked Sunday night by a number
of self-styled "White Caps," but found no evidence
sufficient to indict.
The work of
securing jurors to try Marvin
Boren, slayer of
Patrolman Patrick
Doud, was commenced late this afternoon. The case was
set for trial yesterday, but it was soon found that a
special venire was necessary. Most of those summoned on the
panel live in the country and could not reach the city until
3 o'clock. Owing to the publicity given the case and the
interest it caused all over the county, it will be difficult
to secure a jury and counsel for both sides do not expect to
commence the real trial until the first of next week.
Word has been
received by Cairo friends of the death of Mrs. C. W.
Oldrieve, wife of
Capt. Oldrieve,
known from Cincinnati to New Orleans as "The Water
Walker." Her death occurred at Greenwood, Miss., last
Saturday and she was buried yesterday at the Kings
Daughters' Cemetery at that place. Mrs.
Oldrieve was injured on the night of July 4. Her injuries were not
regarded as serious and consequently her death was
unexpected. Her husband left Greenwood Friday morning for
Paducah to fill an engagement and so far all efforts to
reach him by wire have proved unavailing.
Mrs.
Oldrieve and her
husband gave an exhibition on the river at Greenwood last
Thursday night and while she was engaged in exploding some
fireworks on a flatboat, a lighted fuse set fire to a
package of powder and ignited her clothing. She jumped from
the boat, but on the wrong side, and did not get into the
water. When rescued and the flames smothered, it was
discovered that she was burned about the face, side and
limbs, much of her clothing being burned off. She was
immediately taken to the hospital and given every attention.
Mrs.
Oldrieve was in
Cairo with her husband during the week of the Hustlers and
also accompanied him on his trip down the river. Mrs.
Oldrieve was a most pleasant woman and made a number of friends
while here.
James B.
Stewart, a well-known river engineer, who formerly made his home in
Cairo and a father of Miss Clyde
Stewart, of this
city, died early this morning in Cincinnati as a result of
injuries sustained last night as a result of falling into an
open sewer manhole.
The body will be
shipped here for interment. No arrangements for the funeral
have as yet been made, but will be announced tomorrow.
The deceased was
on his way to the towboat
W. W. O'Neill, on
which he was engaged, and which has been tied up at
Cincinnati, undergoing repairs as a result of running afoul
of a rock near that point a week ago.
Mr.
Stewart was 48
years old and is survived by Miss Clyde
Stewart, and a son, James
Stewart, who resides in St. Louis. He has been notified
and will arrive probably today. Miss
Stewart makes her
home here with her cousin, Miss Reka
Stewart, on Twenty-third Street near Holbrook Avenue. She is
employed as stenographer in the lumber office of O. L.
Peabody.
The deceased, up
to a few years ago, made his headquarters in Cairo and was
well and most favorably known, especially among river
men. He was a member of the A. O. U. W. of this city.
After a delay
since Monday, due to the inability to secure talesmen from
which to secure a jury to try Marvin
Boren upon the
charge of murdering Patrolman Patrick
Doud, the real
work of getting a jury was started at 1 o'clock this
afternoon, but at 3 o'clock not a single man was in the jury
row, although 18 of the first panel of 24 had been examined.
This morning the
counsel for the defense made a motion to continue the case
until the October term of court and Judge
Butler asked that
the motion together with affidavits be presented to the
court at the afternoon session. This was not done. Prior
to that motion the defense had asked that the first panel of
24 men be quashed claiming that six of the men summoned on
the first special venire, issued Monday, had been notified
by mail and had not responded. The defense asked that the
case be postponed until these six men had been notified by
an officer of the court. Judge
Butler, however,
held that as the panel had been filled, making 24 men ready
to be called for examination, that the objection was not
sustainable.
Last evening,
Judge Butler, realizing the difficulty that would be experienced in
getting a jury in the case, issued another additional
special venire of 24 men, each who will report
tomorrow. Court officials are having difficulty in securing
talesmen. They report that there is a great amount of
sickness in the county and that a majority of the farmers
are now busier than at any other time of the year.
Then too the
interest aroused in the case at the time the killing
occurred and the publicity given it through the papers makes
a majority of the men unqualified to serve.
It is not
expected that the jury will be secured before the first or
probably the latter part of next week.
The funeral of
Mrs. Arthur Glass,
who died at Anna Saturday, was held at Villa Ridge
yesterday, interment being made at Beech Grove
Cemetery. Services were conducted by the Ven. A. H. W.
Anderson, rector
of the Church of the Redeemer. The deceased, who was
formerly Miss Anna
Parker, was a sister of Mrs. Phillip
Preetorious, of
this city, but who is spending the summer with her husband
at Joppa, Ill. Mrs.
Preetorius was so overcome by the shock of her sister's
death that she was unable to attend the funeral. A number
of Cairo friends and relatives attended the services.
(Arthur Ulysses
Glass married Mollie Parker
on 9 Jun 1897, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Died, Tuesday,
July 9, at Cincinnati, Ohio, James
Stewart, aged 48
years.
Funeral services
will be held at the undertaking parlors of Mrs.
Falconer, No. 215
Sixth Street, at 8:30 o'clock tomorrow morning, conducted by
Rev. A. S. Buchanan. Remains
will be taken by special train leaving foot of Second Street
at 9:30 a.m. to Villa Ridge cemetery, where interment will
be made.
(His marker in
Cairo City Cemetery at Villa Ridge reads:
James G.
Stewart Died July
9, 1907.—Darrel
Dexter)
A brief item in
yesterday's Citizen
told of the death of Oliver
Abbott, a farmer
from near Ridgeway, Ill., as a result of injuries he
received in Cairo several months ago. Abbott,
it will be remembered, was the man who was found with his
head crushed in the lumber yards at the foot of Tenth Street
and who remained in an unconscious condition for weeks at
St. Mary’s Infirmary.
After an
operation, he regained consciousness, but was unable to tell
how he was injured. An inquiry pushed at the time developed
little although it was said that
Abbott was the
victim of a negro highwayman.
The local
authorities will look into
Abbott's death
and if it is found that he died as a result of injuries
received here, probably will continue their investigation.
For several days
after Abbott was
taken to the hospital, his life was despaired of. Dr.
McManus and
others took a deep interest in the case and did everything
possible to save him. He rallied wonderfully after the
operation and was believed to have entirely recovered when
he left the hospital.
James
Quinn, ex-city
treasurer, has received from New York the sad news of his
brother's death, Capt. Charles
Quinn, which
occurred in that city. Capt.
Quinn was seventy
years of age and a veteran of the Civil War, serving in the
renowned Irish brigade, as captain of the Sixty-third New
York Infantry, which saw much service opposing
Lee's army. This
famous company was with General
McClellan in the seven days' fight in the battles of the Wilderness
at Spotsylvania and followed
Lee until his
final surrender.
Capt. Quinn was a
decorative painter by trade. He visited Cairo when a young
man, fifty years ago. For some years before his death,
Capt. Quinn had been in poor health. He leaves a family.
News was received
yesterday from Decatur, Ill., of the death of Mrs. J. M.
Sutton, which
occurred at a hospital in that city at 5 o'clock yesterday
morning. The deceased, up to some months past, resided in
this city with her family at Seventeenth and Poplar
streets. While in Decatur she conducted a hotel. Mr.
Sutton, who
formerly conducted a butcher shop at No. 1312 Washington
Avenue, son Roy, a Big Four engineer, and Mrs. M. E.
Bradbury went to
Decatur yesterday in response to the message.
Friends and
associates of the late James
Stewart joined
the sorrowing family this morning in paying a last tribute
to the departed. Services were held at undertaking parlors
of Mrs. Falconer,
on Sixth Street, conducted by Rev. A. S.
Buchanan, and
attended by the organizations of which he was a
member. Profuse and beautiful were the flowers sent to be
laid upon his grave. The funeral party were taken by
special train to Villa Ridge cemetery, where the Eagles had
charge of the exercises. The pall bearers were taken from
the marine engineers and the Eagles.
Mrs. John Schuler went
to St. Louis this morning, called by the death of her little
grandson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Richards, who
died there Tuesday.
Prof. C. W.
Oldrieve, the water walker, was stopped at Fulton on his way to
Paducah by the Greenville, Miss., authorities, who wished to
notify him of his wife's unexpected death from burns she
received there last week. Prof.
Oldrieve turned
back to Greenville and reached there in time to attend the
funeral. It is not known what his future plans are.
Walter Harry
Belasco, the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel
Belasco, of 418 Commercial Avenue, died at St. Mary’s Infirmary this
morning after an illness of three weeks. A rising in the
lad's head was followed by brain fever, which caused his
death. The deceased was 14 years old and was an unusually
bright and animated youth and greatly beloved by his
playmates and companions. The funeral will be held Saturday
afternoon at the undertaking establishment of Mrs. M. E.
Feith, at 2
o'clock. Interment will be made at Villa Ridge.
Timothy
Gorman, one of Cairo's oldest and most highly respected citizens,
died at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon after an illness of
several weeks. Mr.
Gorman was stricken with paralysis on May 1st
and has since been in a sinking condition, although his
death was not expected until yesterday, when he grew
suddenly weak.
The deceased was
70 years old. He is survived by his wife and a son,
Alderman Frank Gorman and a daughter, Miss Reta
Gorman.
For many years
Mr. Gorman has conducted a grocery store on Washington Avenue near
Twentieth Street. He resided with his family over his
store. No arrangements have been made for the funeral. The
deceased was a devout member of the St. Joseph's Church.
We desire to
express our heartfelt thanks to the kind friends who
assisted us in the hour of our bereavement at the death of
our father James G.
Stewart.
Jasper
Reeder, aged 38 years, was crushed to death under a freight car he
was repairing on the Illinois Central side track, just north
of Twentieth Street at 9:20 o'clock this morning, when an
engine pushed two coal cars on the repair track against the
one he was under causing it to run over him.
Reeder
was adjusting some bolts under the car and had nearly
finished with them when switch engine No. 600 shoved in the
cars on the track.
Reeder
was lying alongside the track and the wheels did not pass
over his body, but he was crushed to death by the forward
trucks, which dragged him about 254 feet. Part of his body
was shoved over next to the rail and pinched by the wheels,
but not enough to dismember or mutilate him.
He was
immediately rendered unconscious. Dr.
McManus was
summoned by the railroad officials, but when he arrived at
the scene, he took charge of Twenty-third Street and
Holbrook Avenue. They had no children. He has been
employed as car repairer for the Illinois Central for a
number of years and was formerly employed on the street cars
as motorman and conductor. The body was removed to the
undertaking establishment of Mrs. M. C.
Feith, where an
inquest will be held tonight at 8 o'clock.
(Jasper M.
Reeder married Martha
Loveless on 12 Dec 1894, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Word has been
received by Cairo friends of Dr. W. Sanford
Gee, announcing
the death of his daughter, Miss Stella
Gee, which
occurred at nine o'clock Monday evening in Tarkio, Mo.
Miss
Gee was 24 years
of age and had been an invalid for several years. She was
buried at Chillicothe, Mo., Wednesday.
Grief over the
tragic death of his wife drove Capt. C. W.
Oldrieve to
commit suicide at Memphis yesterday afternoon by drinking
several ounces of chloroform. The news of
Oldrieve's
suicide reached this city today and caused much grief among
the many friends and acquaintances he had made here during
his trip down the river by which he won a wager of $5,000
and during his exhibitions here at the Hustlers convention.
Oldrieve,
who was known from Pittsburg to New Orleans as "The Water
Walker," returned to Memphis after attending her funeral at
Greenwood, Miss.
After a spree of
several days, during which he spent most of his money and
often gave away to expressions of grief over his wife's
death, purchased the deadly poison at a drug store and went
to his room and drank it. He was found dead several hours
later.
His wife was
fatally burned on the night of July 4 at Greenwood, Miss.,
where they were giving an exhibition on Yazoo River, by the
premature explosion of fireworks and died Sunday morning
while her husband was
en route to Paducah to give an exhibition. When he left
her, she was thought to be out of danger.
Oldrieve,
since his notable experience, has been giving exhibitions up
and down the Mississippi River and its
tributaries. Whenever he went on the water in his big cedar
shoes his wife followed him in a rowboat, being an expert
oarsman, and having, it is said, rowed many thousand miles
in recent years.
Oldrieve
has been in tough luck for months. Following his experience
of walking down the river he was victimized out of nearly
all the proceeds of his trip by a dishonest manager. Capt.
Oldrieve was a
most pleasant and agreeable man and with his wife made many
friends during their two brief stays in Cairo.
George W.
Hileman, living two miles west of Mill Creek, son of Jacob M.
Hileman, has
disappeared from his home and although his relatives and
neighbors to the number of 25 have scoured the entire
surrounding country for miles, no trace of him can be found.
It is feared that
Hileman has committed suicide. He was previously shown signs of
mental derangement and had told some of his friends that if
he ever disappeared they need not look for him. He is
married and has a wife and one child, a little girl. His
relatives are much worried over his disappearance and offer
a reward of $50 for any information that will lead to
finding him, dead or alive.
(George W.
Hileman, 27, born near Jonesboro, Ill., son of Jacob M.
Hileman and Mary
Kimmell, married Loretta V. “Louettie”
Misenhimer, 18, born near Springville, Ill., daughter of Jacob
Meisenheimer and
Margarett J. Verble,
on 24 Dec 1893, in Union Co., Ill.
His marker in Mission Chapel Cemetery near Dongola
reads: George W.
Hileman Born
Sept. 1, 1866 Died July 16, 1907.
Luetta V. Hileman Born Nov 3, 1875 Died Aug. 3, 1952.—Darrel
Dexter)
Was "Dad"
Seavers, whose body was found in Brewers' Lake, Mo.,
murdered? This is the question that is puzzling this
Mississippi County authorities and they are making every
effort to locate the men with whom he was last seen alive.
Although the
coroner’s jury returned a verdict of suicide, the suspicion
that he met with foul play has grown in the minds of the
county officers since the body was identified by
Seavers' former
partner, John McNulty,
of this city.
In speaking of
the case the
Charleston Courier of Friday says:
"Mr.
Seavers had been a resident of Cairo for the past eight years,
according to his partner and during that time he had never
seen him drink to excess. He did gamble, but only for small
sums, and never long at a time.
"The firm was
doing a good business and making money, and the deceased had
given no hint of contemplating suicide, and nothing of the
kind seemed further from his thoughts. He was unmarried and
a hard worker, and a man who had few enemies, if any, as he
minded his own business and was not inclined to make new
friends easily. He left Cairo on the Fourth, without
telling anyone where he was going or when he would return,
which was an unusual thing for him to do. He was seen near
Bird's Point Wednesday morning between 9 and 10 in company
with two men, who are not known at this time, and was seen
to have a bottle of some kind in his hip pocket.
"Mr.
McNulty is of the opinion that his partner was drugged and thrown
into the lake and that he did not kill himself. The
identity of the two men who were with
Seavers will be
discovered if possible, as they may be able to give some
clue to the matter. Seavers
had on his person about $100 in gold and bills when he left
Cairo which he carried in a leather pocket book, all of
which is missing, and which might have led to this murder.
"The fact that
the body was burned about the mouth, arms and breast
indicates a struggle, and it is
McNulty's theory
that Seavers was
forced to drink the acid and in his struggles it was spilled
on his arms and breast and he was thrown into the lake to
conceal the crime."
Marvin
Boren, slayer of Patrolman Patrick
Doud, began the real fight for his life this morning when the jury,
which was completed last Saturday evening commenced hearing
evidence in the case.
Court convened at
9:40 o'clock and State's Attorney
Wilson opened for
the State by reading the indictment and stating the case and
by reading the law upon the subject. Attorney Reed
Green followed by
stating the case of the defense. The final witness was
Alice Parham,
keeper of a house at 235 Thirteenth Street, where the
quarrel changed to the killing ___ place, and who was a
witness to the tragedy.
From the opening
statements made by the attorneys, it became evident that the
point around which the case will revolve is whether or not
Boren killed
Doud with malice
aforethought, either stated or implied, or whether he
stabbed the officer to death to protect himself from great
bodily harm.
The State will
attempt to prove to the jury that
Boren's crime was
committed with malice, both stated and implied, while the
contention of the defense will be that
Boren stabbed the
officer to save himself from injury and to escape a clubbing
which the officer was giving him.
State's Attorney
Wilson read at length from the Illinois statutes, showing that the
law held an officer justified in using force on a prisoner
after he had sued all available means to effect his capture
unsuccessfully. The defense, however, contended that the
law did not give an officer the right to use force in making
an arrest for a misdemeanor and that he had the right to use
force only in arresting persons for felonies. The defense
stated that the arrest to
Boren, who had
been creating a disturbance on Thirteenth Street, was not a
felony and that therefore officer
Doud had no right
to club him.
Therefore the
case revolves around the questions of whether or not
Boren was struck
by the officer or whether
Doud attempted to
beat him with his club before he was himself struck.
Alice
Parham proved a
good witness for the State. She testified that
Boren created a
disturbance in her house and that when she asked him to
desist, said:
"What are you
going to do? Call a policeman?"
She said she
replied that she was not and that
Boren then said:
"If you do, I'll
kill him and then beat you."
The witness
testified that he then left her place and in company with
Sam Perce went to
a house adjoining and commenced talking in a loud voice;
that Patrolman Doud
who was standing on the opposite side of the street crossed
and told Boren to come with him. She said that
Boren said:
"I'll not go any
place with you” and that he then struck him, after he had
called to Perce to help him. She said following the arrival of a physician
said that he did not want to hurt
Boren.
Judging from
progress made this morning, the case of Marvin
Boren for slaying
Police Officer Patrick J.
Doud, probably
will go to the jury late tomorrow evening or Thursday. It
is expected that the state will complete its case this
evening and that the defense will occupy not more than a
day.
The principal
witnesses for the state were on the stand at the opening of
the trial although much damaging testimony was given
today. Among the witnesses were Mable
Knapp, an inmate of a house in front of which the killing occurred,
and who was a witness to the affray; Coroner
McManus, M. J. Howely,
Police Sergeant
Cowell, County Jailer
Abernathie, and
Marshall McDade,
of Fulton, Ky., who captured
Boren at that
place the morning following the killing.
Mr.
McDade told of a
conversation with
Boren in which the prisoner did not claim that he killed
Doud in self-defense; said that he regretted that it was a white man
he had killed and that he would not have cared so much if it
had been a negro officer and that all he was sorry for was
his wife and baby.
From this the
state has taken its cue and it is said that several
witnesses who were to have been called by the prosecution
will not be put on the stand unless they are called by the
defense. Some of these witnesses, it is understood, told
straight forward stories on the night of the killing and
also before the coroner’s jury, but have since been known
to have stated the factors differently.
Hints of perjury
charges are being made by friends of the deceased if these
witnesses are called by the State and contradict their first
story.
The defense is
building up its case on the fact that after
Boren had been
struck by Officer
Doud, when the former had hit him in in the face with
his fist, according to some witnesses only once and by
others three times, cried out, "Cut that out officet or I'll
kill you." Boren
according to all the witnesses who have yet testified struck
the officer with his fist when the latter laid hold of his
left arm and said, "Come on down the street with me; I want
to talk to you."
The defense will
attempt to show that after
Boren had made
this cry to the officer and the latter did not stop clubbing
him, he stabbed him in order to escape possible death or
great bodily harm.
The State,
however, will attempt to show that
Boren killed
Doud with both
implied and stated malice as evidenced by his statement in
the house of Alice Parham, when he said, "Call the police, I’ll kill them and you too
and be here after it’s all over."
Joseph
Causey and Fred Korn,
indicted by the last grand jury for manslaughter, have been
released on bond in the sum of $2,500 each. Causey
shot and killed George
Wooden, a negro,
and formerly police constable, and
Korn shot and
killed David Barham,
a negro baggageman.
Ed
Garner, a
painter, is lying at St. Mary's Infirmary at death's door,
with a crushed skull and in unconscious condition, while the
police are making a diligent effort to determine whether he
is the victim of an accident or foul play.
Garner
was found early Sunday morning by the side of the Mobile &
Ohio Railroad track, near Thirty-sixth Street with a huge
hole in the top of his head. He was removed to St. Mary's
Infirmary, where Drs.
Grinstead and
Dodds attended him. He has been unconscious all the
time and therefore unable to throw any light on the subject.
It was thought at
first that he had been struck by a passing train, but
railroad men declare that a train could not have produced
such an injury and that the position in which his body was
found also indicates that he was not struck by a train. The
wound is an ugly one and looks as though it might have been
produced by some blunt instrument.
An investigation
has shown that Garner,
in company with several other men, had gone to the
Mississippi Levee, near the foot of Thirty-sixth Street,
Saturday afternoon and had intended going across the river
on a fishing trip early Sunday morning. It is stated that
all the members of the party were drinking and that at three
o'clock Sunday morning
Garner and one of the other members of the party woke a couple of
fishermen, living on a shanty boat near there, and asked to
be allowed to put out some lines, saying they would return
later and take them in.
So far as is
known, that was the last seen of him until he was found in a
pool of blood near the tracks. It is supposed that he
wandered off from his companions and was waylaid. The
affair is a puzzling one. Doctors this afternoon say that
Garner cannot
survive and Cairo will have another mysterious murder case
unless it is proven that he was struck by a train, which, at
present does not seem probable.
The death of Mrs.
Ellen Sutton, of
this city, at Decatur, Ill., a few days ago has brought to
light a domestic tragedy in which she figured with Nicholas
Koen, formerly a
street supervisor of Cairo. Mrs.
Sutton left her husband, James M.
Sutton, a butcher of this city, and went to Decatur with
Koen, whom it is
alleged forced his attentions upon her by means of threats
to kill her. It is understood that a will in which she left
Koen all her
property and even made over to him the life insurance for
$1,000 was secured by the same means.
The
Decatur Review
says that Koen
and Sutton
reached an agreement whereby the life insurance policy was
turned over to the latter while the former kept possession
of all the dead woman's property.
By 6 o'clock the
fate of Marvin Boren,
slayer of Police Officer Patrick
Doud, will be in
the hands of the jury. Boren
was the last witness to be examined completing his testimony
at 11:30 o'clock this morning. Attorney
Lingle for the
State cross questioned the prisoner until noon and for an
hour this afternoon. Then State's Attorney
Wilson summed up. He was followed by Attorney's
Green and
Leek for the defense and Attorney
Lingle will make the final address to the jury for the state.
It is expected
that the case will go to the jury by 8 o'clock.
This morning
Boren took the stand in his own behalf and made a sweeping denial of
all that the State's witnesses had charged; that he created
a disturbance in houses on Thirteenth Street; that he had
said he would kill the police if they were called; that he
struck the officer before the latter had hit him over the
head with his club; that he ran in making his escape and
that he had told Marshall
McDade of Fulton,
that he was sorry he had killed a white man and that he
would not have cared so much of it had been a negro officer.
Boren's
story was told in a straight forward, clear and concise
manner. His denials were made in no uncertain tones and
never once did he falter. Led by the careful questioning of
Attorney Leek of
his counsel, Boren
told a story that to the effect that he was creating no
disturbance, that Officer
Doud rushed across the street, grabbed hold of him and said, "Come
on down the street; I want you." That he pulled back and
that Doud then
commenced beating him over the head with his club. Boren said that he warned him twice to cease the punishment and that
in self-defense he stabbed him with a pocket knife, the only
weapon he had in his possession.
He also denied
that he had called upon his companion, Sam
Perce, to help
him and said that he saw
Perce only once
during the difficulty and that was when he tried to separate
them.
Previous to
Boren’s testimony the defense introduced three other witnesses, a
negro named Williams,
who claimed to have witnessed the difficulty from the
northwest corner of Thirteenth and Poplar streets, and a man
named Cherry who
said that he was passing out Thirteenth Street with another
man and saw the fight. While both in a small degree
substantiated the story of
Boren and
Perce upon cross questioning, it developed that they really knew but
little of the affair and their testimony is expected to have
little real effect on the jury.
Dr. W. C.
Clarke also testified as a witness for the defense. He said that he
had been called to the jail to examine the wounds upon
Boren's head
after his arrest and described three cuts and bruised places
but said that he did not dress them as to his opinion they
were healing themselves and were not serious.
Yesterday
afternoon, Sam Perce,
who was with Boren
at the time Officer
Doud was stabbed, was on the stand as the leading
witness for the defense. His testimony did more to
substantiate the plea of self-defense than any of the other
witnesses who have yet been called. He contradicted the
evidence of Alice Parham and the women inmates of her house at 235 Thirteenth Street,
who swore that Boren
created a disturbance in the house and when remonstrated
with by the former said, "Call the police. I'll kill them
and you, too and be here when it’s all over." Perce
said that Boren
said in a laughing, joking manner, "I can lick all the
police around here." He said that there had been no quarrel
no disturbance and that
Boren said
nothing about killing the police.
Perce
also denied the story told by the State's witnesses of the
arrest of Boren
and himself by Officer
Doud. These
witnesses swore that
Boren struck the officer first and that the two men had
been creating a disturbance, at any rate using loud talk in
front of No. 233, adjoining the house of Alice
Parham. Perce swore that there had been no unusually loud talking and that
Doud came across
the street, shoved him out of the gate and went into the
yard and said to Boren: "Come here, I want you," and grabbed hold of him. Perce
swore that Boren
said, "Hold on," in a questioning manner and that Officer
Doud then pulled him to the gate where
Boren jerked loose and that
Doud then struck him with his club, making it very plain
that Boren did not hit the officer until he had been struck himself.
Attorney
Green requested that Perce
take hold of him as
Boren had the officer, showing the jury the position in
which the men struggled the officer having hold of
Boren's coat
lapel with his left hand and using his club with the right.
Perce
also contradicted the statement that
Boren had cried
to him for help. He said that he did not stake the officer
as other witnesses had sworn, but merely attempted to
separate them. He said that he picked up
Boren's hat, and
said, "Quit this fighting; let's go down to headquarters,"
and that Boren
had replied, "all right." and as he was placing his hat upon
his head, the officer again struck him and that
Boren had said,
"By God don't hit me any more with that club."
Perce
said that he stood a few feet away from the two men and that
there was more fighting and that
Boren said, "By God, that's got to stop." Perce
according to his statement, again went to the men and
entreated them to stop fighting and that the policeman said,
"Don't make me use a gun," and at the same time dropped his
hand to his side. Perce
fearing that there would be some shooting stepped back and
that Boren and the officer struggled back and forth and that in a few
moments the officer fell. Perce
then told of Boren's
escape out Douglas Street and how he went down Poplar to
Twelfth Street and to police headquarters where he
surrendered.
Cross examination
by Attorney M. J.
O'Shea for the state developed the fact that
Boren had
exhibited a spring bladed knife in a downtown saloon earlier
in the evening.
Joseph
Causey and Fred Korn,
indicted by the last grand jury for manslaughter, have been
released on bond in the sum of $2,500 each. Causey
shot and killed George
Wooden, a negro,
and formerly police constable, and
Korn shot and
killed David Barham,
a negro baggage man.
Ed
Garner, a
painter, is lying at St. Mary’s Infirmary at death's door,
with a crushed skull and in an unconscious condition, while
the police are making a diligent effort to determine whether
he is the victim of an accident or foul play.
Garner
was found early Sunday morning by the side of the Mobile &
Ohio Railroad track, near Thirty-sixth Street with a huge
hole in the top of his head. He was removed to St. Mary's
Infirmary where Drs.
Grinstead and
Dodds attended him. He has been unconscious all the
time and therefore unable to throw any light on the subject.
It was thought at
first that he had been struck by a passing train, but
railroad men declare that a train could not have produced
such an injury and that the position in which his body was
found also indicated that he was not struck by a train. The
wound is an ugly one and looks as though it might have been
produced by some blunt instrument.
An investigation
has shown that Garner,
in company with several other men, had gone to the
Mississippi levee, near the foot of Thirty-sixth Street,
Saturday afternoon and had intended going across the river
on a fishing trip early Sunday morning. It is stated that
all the members of the party were drinking and that at three
o’clock Sunday morning
Garner and one of the other members of the party woke a couple of
fishermen, living on a shanty boat near there and asked to
be allowed to put out some lines, saying they would return
later and take them in.
So far as is
known, that was the last seen of him until he was found in a
pool of blood near the tracks. It is supposed that he
wandered off from his companion and was waylaid. The affair
is a puzzling one. Doctors Tuesday said that
Garner cannot
survive and Cairo will have another mysterious murder case
unless it is proven that he was stuck by a train, which at
present does not seem probable.
Marvin
Boren, slayer of Police Officer Patrick
Doud, was freed at eight o’clock by the jury, which since Monday has
been hearing the evidence in the case.
Only one ballot was taken.
Every one of the twelve men voted him not guilty.
One juror during the night stated that he did not
favor acquittal, but at 5:30 o’clock when the ballot was
taken, a change had come over him and he joined the others
in exonerating Boren
of all blame for killing
Doud.
Boren,
who retained his composure throughout the trial, and the
tedious work of securing a jury, was visibly affected by the
verdict He and
his brother (Boren),
who has been at his side almost every minute of the trial,
both wept and were profuse in their thanks to the jury.
Boren
was led into court at 7:30 o’clock.
The jury had already filed in and was seated.
Boren cast a swift, inquiring glance at the jury box as he took his
seat, and then stared straight ahead.
He did not move when Judge
Butler asked the
members of the jury if they had reached a verdict; when an
affirmative answer was given or when he took the verdict and
commenced reading it.
“We, the jury,
find the defendant not guilty.”
As Judge
Butler completed the brief sentence which meant so much to
Boren, he half
arose from his chair, stood in a bending position for
several seconds, then sank back into his seat,
For the space of
a couple of seconds
Boren seemed dazed.
Then, as he seemed to fully comprehend the words that
made him a free man, shockingly said, “My God!”
Then with tears welling from his eyes made his way to
the jury box and shook each by the hand.
Boren’s
first thoughts, after thanking the jury and dozens of
friends who crowded about him, when the verdict was read,
were of his wife and child and aged father.
Mrs. Boren
has been seriously ill for some time and was unable to be at
the trial. His
father, who has been faithful in attendance, was not in
court this morning to hear the verdict, but awaited the news
at home with Boren’s
wife and baby.
After the
congratulations and while awaiting the formality of
dismissing the jury,
Boren stood by the rail dividing the court room with his
head buried in his arms, learning against the rail, silently
sobbing.
The scene was
impressive and many of the spectators were moved to tears.
The
Boren case went
to the jury at 9:15 o’clock last night at the conclusion of
one of the most eloquent and convincing arguments ever
presented in the county.
Prosecutor Lingle, of Union County, engaged to assist State’s Attorney
Wilson, made the
closing arguments for the State.
It was a powerful arraignment of the defendant and
the methods he charged his counsel with using.
Mr. Lingle
said the attorneys for the defense had tried in every way
possible to mislead the jury and misconstrue the law in the
case.
State’s Attorney
Wilson yesterday afternoon made the opening address to the jury,
declaring that Officer
Doud was killed
in the discharge of his duties’ that he not only had a right
to arrest Boren,
but that it was his sworn duty to do so; that
Boren had not,
according to a witness for the State, said that he killed in
self-defense, but had said he regretted that it was a white
officer, instead of a negro, and also that he said that all
he was sorry for was his wife and baby.
Attorney
Wilson made particularly strong efforts to impress this upon the
minds of the four negro jurors.
Charges Police Conspiracy
Mr.
Wilson was
followed by the Hon Reed
Green, whose
argument was the most sensational of all the attorneys.
He accused the Cairo police force of bringing undue
influences on the witnesses for the State.
He charged that the women from Thirteenth Street who
testified had no other course left open to them, that they
were in the power of the police and that they were allowed
to remain in Cairo under police protection.
The most sensational charge, however, was that the
local officers had induced Marshall
McDade of Fulton
to swear that Boren
had told him he regretted that he had not killed a negro
officer, instead of a white man.
Mr. Green
said that the scheme had been hatched merely to poison and
prejudice the minds of the negro jurors and hoped that they
would be intelligent enough to see through the plot and to
render a verdict for the defendant.
Following Mr.
Green, Attorney O’Shea
spoke for the defense for fifty minutes, bringing out the
inconsistencies in the testimony of the witnesses for the
defense against that given by the witnesses for the State,
urging the jury to strike a balance in favor of the
prosecution.
Attorney Leek
followed for the defense and bitterly assailed the arguments
of the state’s attorney in which he had said that he would
have forfeited his duty to prosecute the dead officer for
neglect of duty
had he not attempted to arrest Marvin
Boren.
Mr. Leek
asked why the state’s attorney don’t prosecute the chief of
police and all the officers of the city for permitting these
women to engage in the unlawful business on Thirteenth
Street; why not prosecute them for not doing their sworn
duty? They not
only permitted those houses to exist in open violation of
the law, but patrolled the street and protected their
inmates by arresting young men who committed trivial offense
against them.
Mr. Leek reviewed
the evidence in the case and read law applicable thereto
from numerous books.
Attorney
Lingle’s arguments were listened to last night by a crowded court
room. He spoke
in feeling terms of the abuse heaped upon the unfortunate
women witnesses in the case and reviewed the evidence and
read the jurors laws covering the case.
Following his
talk, Judge Butler
delivered his instructions to the jury and ordered that they
be locked up until a verdict was reached.
History of Doud Killing
The crime for which
Boren was placed
on trial occurred on the night of March 21, on the south
side of Thirteenth Street, between Poplar Street and
Washington Avenue, in front of a disorderly house, at No.
333.
Boren, it was charged by the State, had created a disturbance in two
of the houses, and when Officer ________ struck him and that
he later drew a knife and stabbed him, from the effects of
which he died an hour or so later at the St. Mary’s
Infirmary. The
state contended that the crime was committed with malice,
both implied and direct, claiming that
Boren had shown a
lawless spirit by creating a disturbance and that by telling
the women that if they called the police he would kill them.
The defense made one of the strongest fights in the
history of Alexander County criminal court.
The case was fought throughout on the plea of
self-defense, the claim, which was supported by a number of
witnesses, being that
Doud attacked
Boren and beat him over the head with his club and that
after Boren had
asked him to stop his punishment and had agreed to accompany
him, the officer, to police headquarters, the officer had
continued to use his club, when
Boren drew a
knife and stabbed him.
The trial aroused
more interest in Cairo than any criminal case that has been
heard here for many years.
Boren has
a number of relatives and influential friends who engaged
the best legal talent in his behalf.
The dead officer was well liked and has a large
circle of friends, who, naturally are sorely disappointed at
the verdict, claiming that it was a rank miscarriage of
justice.
George Hall, a negro
fireman, engaged at the plant of the Cairo Water Company,
who received terrible injuries last Sunday morning while
endeavoring to unload a car of coal, died as a result of his
hurts this morning at St. Mary’s Infirmary.
Hall
crawled under the car to unfasten a bolt so that the car of
coal could be dumped.
The machinery of the car worked sooner than was
expected and the floor dropped on his body, pinioning him
against the trucks of the car.
One eye was forced from its socket, his jaw bone
broken, several teeth knocked out and his head, neck and
body horribly bruised and cut.
He is survived by a wife and resided near the Bucher
Packing Company’s plant.
The body has been removed to
Burke &
Blaine’s undertaking establishment.
Almost at exactly
the same moment as the twelve jurors were voting to free
Marvin Boren of
the charge of murder and bring happiness to himself and
family, the death angel visited his home and brought sorrow
and grief. At 5:30 o'clock this morning the jury voted him
not guilty and a few moments before that time his wife gave
birth to a stillborn child. The joy of
Boren and his
brothers and other relatives was overcome by the news of the
bereavement when they reached home. Boren's
first thought after hearing the verdict and thanking the
jurors were of his wife. He is said to have given away to
grief and entirely collapsed.
General
dissatisfaction among the members of the Cairo police force
over the verdict in the Marvin
Boren case may, it is rumored, this afternoon, result in two
officers tendering their resignation to Mayor
Parsons tonight and possibly two more will take similar
action. Police officers feel that the verdict will set a
precedent and that
Boren’s acquittal will be taken advantage of by a
majority of the offenders. "It's a case of kill or be
killed" said one policeman today "and I don't want either
one in mine." Chief
Egan could not verify the report neither could Mayor
Parsons, but the general understanding is that at least two
resignations will result at once.
A special to
The Citizen from Mill Creek, Union County, tells of the awful fate
that overtook a well-known farmer of that place last
week. The special follows:
Unbalanced in
mind and wandering about for six days, in an effort to find
his home, George W. Hileman, aged 40 years, died on July 16th, as the result
of exposure. The affair has stirred the entire neighborhood
from the time he was first reported missing on July 10th
until he was found six days later. On July 10th
he arose at three o'clock in the morning and took his gun
and left the home, two miles west of here.
When he failed to
return, his wife gave the alarm, and the whole neighborhood
took up the hunt for him. They searched for days without
finding any trace of him and his father, Jacob
Hileman, offered
a reward of $50 for his recovery. In the forenoon of July
15th, Frank
Mowery, was
hoeing potatoes on the adjoining farm when he heard groans
from the woods nearby. He at first thought it was boys
trying to scare him and paid no attention to the sounds,
until they were repeated a number of times, when he went to
investigate. He called H. F.
Chrisenbery and
they decided at once that they were the cries of the missing
man and organizing a searching party they found him lying
near the fence in an unconscious condition, but yet
alive. He was without his hat, coat or gun, which he took
with him. It seems that he had traveled and wandered around
for six days without food or water and was trying to get
home when his strength gave way and he could get no farther.
He was taken home
at once and Dr.
Pickels was called and later Dr.
Hale, of Anna,
but to no avail. Being so greatly exhausted death soon
came. The deceased leaves a widow and one child, an aged
father and a number of brothers and sister. He was a good
citizen and an industrious farmer. Burial will take place
tomorrow at the chapel.
(George
Sichling, 23, born in Union Co., Ill., son of George D.
Sichling ad
Catherine Branstom,
married Stella May
Trexler, 18, born in Pulaski Co., Ill., daughter of
Antna J. Trexler
and Annie Billingsly,
on Aug. 6, 1899, in Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Andrew
Jackson, a negro, died at St. Mary's Infirmary early this morning as
a result of knife wounds he received Tuesday night in a
fight with Albert
Jeans, an aged negro. Jackson
was about 25 years old and
Jeans is about 60
years of age.
The fight took
place on Wild Cat Chute as a result of some trivial
quarrel. The younger negro is said to have first attacked
the old man who drew a knife and stabbed and cut
Jackson
repeatedly. He was arrested by Chief of Police
Egan and Jailer
Lutz and was
Wednesday taken to the county jail.
Jeans was removed
to the infirmary, but steadily grew worse.
The body was
removed this morning to the undertaking establishment of
Mrs. M. E. Feith,
where Coroner McManus
is conducting an inquest this afternoon. There were nine
witnesses to the fight.
(The 20 Jul 1907,
issue reports his name as Albert
Jeems.—Darrel
Dexter)
Edward
Garner, the painter, who with his skull crushed was found lying
beside the Mobile and Ohio Railroad tracks car Fortieth
Street and Mississippi Levee last Sunday morning, is still
in an unconscious condition at St. Mary’s Infirmary. At
times he appears to be regaining his senses, but before any
information that would tend to clear up the mystery
surrounding his injuries can be secured, he again lapsed
into unconsciousness. It is not believed that he can
survive. Garner
was either assaulted or was struck by a train.
Is the Cairo
police department piqued by the scoring it received at the
hands of the attorneys for the defense in the
Boren trial,
planning a moral reform move?
According to
reports in circulation, such a move is being earnestly
considered and has been the topic of more than one
conference between Chief of Police
Egan and Mayor
Parsons.
According to the
reports a move like the one instituted by M. C.
Wright when he
was last mayor is being contemplated and all disorderly
houses closed and the keepers and the inmates ordered from
the city.
Mayor
Parsons said
today that he knew nothing of any contemplated moral reform
wave.
Attorneys
Green and Leek in their
addresses to the jury bitterly scored the sixty as well as
the county administration for allowing the disorderly houses
on Thirteenth and other streets to remain open and said that
instead of arresting young men for violating minor city
ordinances the police should devote their time in striving
at the root of the evil and abolish all such places.
Edward
Garner, a painter, who with a huge hole in his skull was found early
Sunday morning alongside the Mobile an Ohio railroad, tracks
near Forty-sixth Street died at 8:30 o'clock this morning at
St. Mary's Infirmary from injuries he is thought to have
received while trying to board a train.
Foul play was at
first hinted at but since then
Garner has been
conscious at short intervals and stated that he had been hit
by a train and that he intended going to Tamms. Under the
circumstances Coroner
McManus did not intend to hold an inquest, but relatives demanded
that one be held. It will take place probably
tomorrow. The deceased was 38 years old and is survived by
two brothers and seven sisters, all of whom reside here with
the exception of James
Garner, who is
serving in the United States army at Manila.
Garner,
with a party of other men. had started across the river on a
fishing trip Saturday night, intending to cross the river
early the next morning. All are said to have been drinking
heavily and the members of the party became separated before
daylight and Garner
was not seen until he was found lying in a pool of blood
near the tracks.
The Mississippi
River yesterday gave up two of its dead in this county. The
body of a white man, thought to have been about 50 years old
was found on Devil's Island chute near McClure by men
engaged there in government work. An inquest was held by
Deputy Coroner F. M.
Culley and a verdict that the deceased had met death in
a manner unknown to the jury was found. It is not known as
yet whether he was drowned or was killed and thrown in the
river.
Contractor W. R.
Hartsook yesterday afternoon found the body of a man in the
Mississippi River at the foot of Thirty-sixth Street. The
body was so badly decomposed that it could not be recognized
and nothing was found in the clothing to disclose its
identity.
Late yesterday
afternoon Coroner
McManus conducted an inquest over the remains of Andrew
Johnson, who was
slain by Albert Jeems,
an aged negro in a fight at Wild Cat Chute Tuesday
night. The testimony showed that the aged negro acted
purely in self-defense and he was exonerated.
(The 18 Jul 1907,
issue reports his name as Albert
Jeans.—Darrel
Dexter)
Dissatisfied with
the verdict in the
Boren trial, Officers James
Casey and Edward
Fitzgerald, have resigned from the Cairo police force, claiming that
Boren's acquittal
has set a precedent which gives the police no protection
other than that of any individual.
Boren
resisted arrest on a charge of disorderly conduct and in the
fight which followed killed Officer Patrick
Doud. On a plea
of self-defense he was released by a jury Thursday morning.
A number of other
officers threatened to resign immediately after the verdict
was rendered, but so far these are the only two who have
done so. Officers Casey and Fitzgerald were
two of the best and most capable men on the force and their
resignation is sure to prove a detriment to the
department. Mayor
Parsons has received several applications for positions
on the force, but has made no decision. He has requested
all applicants to make written applications and will
investigate them and make appointments later.
Word was received today that the infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
P. Ayer died at
Wetaug this morning. Mrs.
Ayer has been
visiting there for several days. Mrs.
Lohr and Mr. Terrell left
this afternoon for Wetaug.
Thomas J.
Walder, aged 67 years, died at 6 o'clock this morning at his home on
Jefferson Avenue near Fifth Street after an illness of four
months. His death was due to a complication of
diseases and a general decline. The deceased was a
well-known resident of Cairo, having resided here for 45
years. He is survived by his wife and five daughters,
Mrs. P. Thomman,
Mrs. Jean Meecham, Mrs. Jate Payne
and the Misses Nellie and Mabel
Walder and seven
grandchildren. The funeral will be held Wednesday
afternoon at St. Patrick's Church, of which the deceased was
a member. Services will be conducted at 2:30 o'clock
and the interment will be made at Villa Ridge cemetery.
The many Cairo
friends of Dr. David R.
Sanders, first
assistant superintendent of the Illinois Hospital for the
Insane, will be pained to learn of his death, which occurred
at the annex of the institution at 1:30 Monday morning.
Death was due to stomach trouble and heart failure, after an
illness of a few days. He was prominent member of the
G. A. R. and chaplain of Anna Post No. 553 of this city, a
prominent member of the Masonic fraternity and Egyptian
Chapter No. 45 and was a licensed minister of the Missionary
Baptist Church. He was chairman of the Republican
county central committee in 1896 and a candidate for
minority representative in the lower house of the Illinois
legislature that year. Dr.
Sanders was the
father of six children, all of whom, with a widow, survive.
Macomb, Ill.,
July 24.—Nicholas
Barnum, aged 18, is dead in a coal car in Bushnell,
while beating his way from St. Louis in company with Val
Wood, of
Carthage, Ill. He had typhoid a month ago, but the
heat in the car caused a relapse and ended his life.
His mother resides in Allegheny City, Pa. He ran away
from home four years ago.
(David R.
Sanders, 18, of Marion, Williamson Co., Ill., 5’ 8 ½”, blue eyes,
auburn hair, light complexion, farmer, native of Tennessee,
enlisted as 2nd lieutenant in Co. E, 81st
Illinois Infantry on 10 Feb 1863, at Memphis, Tenn.,
promoted to 1st lieutenant, and was mustered out
5 Aug 1865, at Vicksburg, Miss.
David R.
Sanders married Delphina E.
Gallagley on 25
Oct 1866, in Union Co., Ill.
David R. Sanders, 31, of Grassy Precinct, Williamson Co., Ill., married Lydia
E. Rauch on 25
Jun 1876, in Union Co., Ill.
His marker in Jonesboro Cemetery reads:
Dr. David
Sanders 1st Lt., Co. E, 81 Ill. Vol. Born
July 26, 1844 Died July 22, 1907.
Lydia E
Sanders Born June 9, 1858 Died June 2, 1927.—Darrel
Dexter)
Rivermen and old
residents of Cairo will be interested in the following from
today's St. Louis
Globe-Democrat regarding the death of Capt. James
Good, who a
number of years ago was a familiar person on the local levee
front and who still had a large acquaintance here:
"Capt. James
Good, the man who made possible
Grant's Vicksburg campaign by running provision boats down the
Mississippi River under the fire of the Confederate
batteries, and who was personally commended for his
services, died at the Alexian Brothers Hospital Tuesday
night after an illness extending over twenty years.
"Capt.
Good was a few months over 87 years of age and had been in St. Louis
forty-two years. He had been master of some of the
largest boats on the river and few steamboat men were as
well-known along the Mississippi River. Out of respect
to his memory all the boats in the harbor and the public
landings floated their flags at half-mast yesterday.
"The funeral will
take place this morning at 8 o'clock from the Alexian
Brothers' Hospital. The interment will be in Calvary
Cemetery.
"Capt.
Good was born in Cincinnati, May 9, 1820. As soon as he was
old enough, he began steamboating. In 1844 he was
master of a small steamer plying between Cincinnati and
Cairo. Ten years later he had become a deep sea
mariner and for several years acted as mate on several
Atlantic liners. Just before the Civil War he returned
to his home and at the outbreak of the Rebellion he was
commissioned a quartermaster and placed in charge of the
provision boats which were to follow up
Grant's Army down the Mississippi. After the war he entered
the service of the Mississippi Valley Transportation Company
and stayed with it ten years. Later he was
superintendent of the Anchor Steamboat Line and later was a
member of the City Water Commission."
Died—Mrs. Patrick
McNamara, Thursday, July 25, 1907. Funeral at St. Joseph's
Church 8 o'clock Saturday morning. Special train will
leave foot of Fourteenth Street at 9:45 a.m. for Villa Ridge
cemetery. Friends of family are invited to attend.
After an illness
of over a year, during which time she was forced to undergo
six different operations, the sufferings of Mrs.
McNamara, aged 32
years and wife of Special Illinois Central Officer Patrick
McNamara, were ended at 1:30 o'clock this morning at St. Mary's
Infirmary.
Death was due to
general weakness and from the effects of an internal cancer,
which has harassed her for months. Mrs.
McNamara bore her
suffering with remarkable patience and fortitude. She
was formerly a Miss
Linehan of this city and is survived by one brother,
Cornelius Linehan,
an employee of the
Halliday elevator and her husband.
The deceased had
been confined to the infirmary for the past four weeks and
has been steadily growing worse. The funeral will be
held Saturday morning at 7:30 o'clock at St. Joseph's
Catholic Church, of which the deceased was a devout member.
Interment will be made at Villa Ridge cemetery, a special
train leaving for there at about 8:30 o'clock from
Fourteenth Street.
(Patrick
McNamara married Catherine
Linehan on 8 Sep 1885, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Thomas W.
Leahigh, once known as the "walnut king," from the fact that he did
such an extensive business in walnut lumber, died at 8
o'clock last evening from rheumatism, from which he had been
a sufferer for 35 years. His serious illness only
lasted three days.
Mr.
Leahigh was born
in Vernon, Jennings County, Ind., on Jan. 10, 1841. In
March 1870 he came to Cairo and engaged in the lumber
business, which he followed actively until rheumatism
compelled him to retire. Since that time he has been a
patient sufferer and during all of the years rarely left his
home on Twelfth Street.
In February,
1867, Mr. Leahigh
was married at Vincennes, Ind., to Catherine
Weisert
Rollinger and
five children resulted from this union—one boy, William T.,
deceased, and four daughters, Mrs. C.
Leahigh-Duncan, Mrs. E. C. Steinhouse,
Mrs. F. M. Reinsel,
of Washington Ind., and Miss Agnes
Leahigh.
There were also two step-daughters, Mrs. W. T.
Short and Mrs. F. C. Dalton,
of New Orleans. P. T.
Langan is also a
nephew of the deceased.
Funeral services
will probably be held Monday morning from St. Patrick's
Church, of which Mr.
Leahigh was a member, and the remains will be interred at Villa
Ridge cemetery.
(Edward O.
Steinhouse married Mary
Leahigh on 4 Nov 1896, in Alexander Co., Ill.
William Short
married Emma
Rollinger on 4 Apr 1883, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
C. G.
Miller returned
today from St. Louis, where he went to attend the funeral
services held over the body of his cousin, Allen Melville
Holliday, who died suddenly Wednesday. Mr.
Holliday, who was
55 years old and was one of the best known insurance men in
St. Louis, died in the office of a physician on the second
floor of the Odd Fellows' Building of heart failure,
superinduced by the heat. He had evidently wandered
from his own office, several doors away, on the same floor,
to the physician’s office to seek relief. He had
suffered a slight attack from the heat about two hours
before, for which the same physician was called, and had,
after treatment, appeared to have entirely recovered.
He had been troubled with a weak heart for a long time. He
is survived by a widow and three brothers and one sister,
who lives in Aberdeen, Miss., his former home.
One year lacking
one day after his wife died, Frank
Capoot, of Mound
City, passed away very suddenly at Memphis at 7:30 o'clock
this morning. The cause of his sudden demise was not
learned. His half-brother, W. T.
Jaccard, left for
Memphis this morning after the body. Three children
are left, two of them now in St. Louis and the other living
with its grandparents in Mound City.
(James
Capoot married Mrs. Henrietta
Jaccard on 11 Jun 1872, in Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Grand Tower,
Ill., July 29.—J. J.
Blechle, owner of the Grand Tower and Wittenberg ferry,
was drowned in the Mississippi River here today while
attempting to row around the head of a coal barge lying
alongside of the steamer
Eagle.
Blechle,
Robert Thompson, his negro helper, the Reverend G. H.
Heartling, of Neunert, and Mrs. Lillie
Tarbett, of West Pine Street, Murphysboro, Ill., were in a skiff
crossing ahead of the barge when he lost control of the
skiff which was drawn under the barge by the current.
Thompson caught
hold of a line and crawled upon the barge. The two
passengers were drawn under a ninety-foot barge and came up
below. The Rev. Mr.
Heartline was
caught and pulled out of the water onto another barge.
Mrs. Tarbett was
rescued by a skiff a quarter of a mile below where the
accident occurred.
Cecelia, the
seven-month-old daughter of Alderman and Mrs. William A.
Magner, died
Saturday night after an illness of only two days.
Death was due to cholera infantum. The baby's death
was a severe blow to its parents, who have the heartfelt
sympathy of their many friends. Private funeral
services were held Sunday morning at the family residence,
215 Twenty-seventh Street. The funeral party was
conveyed to Villa Ridge, where interment was made, in
carriages.
Henry
Stace, a negro,
was struck by Illinois Central train No. 2 at Mounds Monday
afternoon at 12 o'clock and received injuries from which he
died an hour later.
Stace, who was
employed as a fireman at the Mound Ice Company’s plant was
standing on the tracks. He saw train No. 5 approaching
from the north and in getting out of its way stepped
directly in front of No. 2, which was about 90 minutes late.
Probably fatally
injured, Herbert
Whitney, a fireman on the towboat
Castalia, is lying
at his home, 817 South Sixth Street. The chances of
his recovery are against him, says the
Paducah News-Democrat.
Dr. J. D.
Robertson was called and gave him medical attention after which the
injured man was taken to his home. The accident
happened about 2 p.m.
Whitney
has been running on the river for several years and has many
friends in river circles. He is single and made
Paducah his home. The
Castalia is owned
by Ayer-Lord Tie Company and this city is her headquarters.
Mrs. Mary
Smith, of 1914 Poplar Street, received the sad news yesterday
afternoon of the death of her sister, Mrs. J. W.
Stokes, who passed away yesterday at her home in Los Angeles, Cal.
Mrs. Stokes
formerly was a resident of Cairo.
The funeral of
the late T. W.
Leahigh, an old resident of Cairo, and for many years
one of the most prominent lumbermen in the city, was held
Monday afternoon. Services were conducted at St.
Patrick's Catholic Church and interment was made at Villa
Ridge cemetery. The funeral was largely attended by
sorrowing friends of the deceased and his family.
Fireman
Williams was instantly killed, Engineer
Wilde was fatally injured and many passengers slightly injured at
1:30 o'clock this afternoon at Whitehouse, a water station
between Mill Creek and Jonesboro, when Mobile and Ohio fast
passenger train No. 2 turned over while running at a fast
rate of speed.
Engine 307 turned
completely over followed by the tender, the express baggage
and mail cars and all the coaches following except the
sleeper and dining cars.
Immediately the
wreckage caught fire and one passenger coach was consumed,
but the flames were extinguished before further damage was
done from this source.
The accident was
due to the tender of the engine jumping the track on a sharp
curve, causing the engine and the cars following to also
jump.
Had the
embankment at that point been steep, the wreck would have
been far more disastrous. All the passengers and those
in the mail and baggage and express cars were badly shaken
up, but according to the best information received here this
afternoon, no one was seriously injured.
It was necessary
for Mobile & Ohio passenger train No. 2, which left here for
St. Louis at 2:10 o'clock to go over the Illinois Central
tracks to Murphysboro.
The engine turned
over on the left side crushing Fireman
Williams to death
instantly, while the engineer was badly hurt and is not
expected to live.
Thirteen rails
were torn up and traffic over that point will be delayed
probably the rest of the night.
The bodies of two
railroad employees killed in wrecks, one at Sitka, Tenn.,
and the other at Waterhouse, Ill., passed through Cairo last
night en route to
their homes where the funerals will be held. Fireman
Edward Williams,
of Memphis, Tenn., was killed at 1 o'clock yesterday
afternoon when the Mobile and Ohio fast passenger train No.
2 turned over between Jonesboro and Mill Creek. His
body was taken to Jonesboro and prepared for burial and
shipped to Jackson on a later M. & O. train last night.
The death of both
men is particularly sad.
Williams was only
23 years old and was soon to have been examined for an
engineer's position. Before starting out from
Murphysboro Wednesday morning,
Williams had told his friends: "Boys this is going to be my
last trip. I'm going to Jackson to lay off and then
I'll go home to Memphis for a while." In less than an
hour his remarks about it being his last trip came true when
he was crushed under the tons of coal that fell on him from
the tender when the engine overturned and his body was
literally cooked by the escaping steam which blew over him
from the broken steam pipes.
Williams'
body was horribly mutilated and disfigured and was bloated
twice its normal size by the steam. His widowed
mother, who had been looking forward to receiving a visit
from him, is said to have been prostrated by his death.
Malone,
the Illinois Central engineer, who was instantly killed at
Sitka, lived in Chicago and had been "loaned" to the south
end to assist in handling a big rush of business there. It
is said that it was his last trip and that he intended going
back to Chicago as soon as he completed his run to Mounds.
Engineer
Deeslie, of Mounds, who was reported to have been killed in the
wreck had one of the narrowest escapes from death ever
experienced by a railroad man, according to his own story
and to statements of other trainmen.
In plain sight of
dozens of his fellow passengers and members of the boat
crew, Sam Henderson, a negro youth, was drowned Wednesday afternoon at 4
o'clock in attempting to jump from the deck of the
Stacker Lee to that of the wharf boat as the former was landing.
Henderson's
haste to get ashore cost him his life. The boat was
within three or four feet of the wharf when he jumped.
He did not reach the deck and fell into the river. His
body did not come to the surface. The deceased lived
in Memphis. He was a deck passenger on the
Stacker Lee en route
to St. Louis.
Within ten
minutes after he had been strick with rheumatism of the
heart, T. F. Myers,
postmaster of Ullin, died at 9 o'clock last night at his
home in that town. The deceased has been a sufferer
from rheumatism for the past ten years, but not until last
night did the disease affect his heart. He was
suddenly stricken with a pain in his left breast and
immediately retired. Physicians were summoned, but by
the time they arrived he was dead.
The deceased was
one of the best known residents of Pulaski County and has
been postmaster at that place for the past 25 years.
The deceased was
55 years old and is survived by a wife and two brothers, who
reside in Cairo. Mrs.
Myers has been
ill for several days and the sudden death of her husband was
a great blow to her. The funeral will be held Sunday
afternoon at Ullin.
(His marker in
Ullin Cemetery reads:
Thomas F. Myers Died Aug. 1, 1907 Aged 55 Ys., 5 Ms., & 5 Ds.
Julia R. Myers
Born Dec. 13, 1847 Died March 9, 1938.—Darrel
Dexter)
In memory of
Minnie Alba, who died August 3rd, 1906, at 6:25 p. m.
Coroner
McManus today conducted inquests over the bodies of two negro youths
who lost their lives in the Ohio River. That of Willie
Fisher, who
drowned Friday afternoon at 6 o'clock while swimming in the
river opposite the Sager Company’s plants, was recovered at
10 o'clock last night.
Later the body of
Ben Henderson, the deck passenger on the
Stacker Lee, who was drowned Thursday afternoon while attempting to
jump from the boat to the wharf, was found near the Barrett
fleet. The verdict in both cases was accidental
drowning.
Joe
Redman and
sisters have received word of the death of their nephew, A.
Redman, at
Phoenix, Ariz., which occurred July 17. Deceased was
about 40 years old and leaves a wife and four children.
He was a harness maker and had been in business in Phoenix
some years, going there from Golconda, Ill., where he was
raised. His death is said to have resulted from the
effects of chloroform administered for the purpose of
performing an operation to prevent blood poisoning from a
wounded hand.
The funeral of
the three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. William
Bond, of 219
Twelfth Street, who died Saturday after an extended illness,
was held Sunday. The services were largely attended.
The bereaved parents have the heartfelt sympathy of their
many friends. Interment was made at Beech Grove
Cemetery.
We take this
means of thanking our many friends who aided us and extended
their sympathy during the illness and after the death of our
son and to assure them that their services and sympathy were
greatly appreciated.
Paducah, Ky.,
August 7.—W. D.
Felton, aged 50 years, of Bandana, Ballard County, Ky.,
died at Riverside Hospital here last night as a result of
injuries he sustained in getting off a Broadway car
backwards. Felton
wanted to leave the car at Seventh and Broadway and, when
the car went past that street, rushed to the rear platform
and leaped off. He was thrown several feet and
alighted on his head, sustaining a severe fracture and cuts
and bruises. He was removed at once to the hospital,
but died without regaining consciousness half an hour later.
The Citizen
is in receipt of a letter from L.
Littlepage, of
Cresap Avenue, Station A, Cincinnati, Ohio, stating that
Robert E. Pierson,
who is supposed to have relatives in Cairo, Ill., is dead in
Cincinnati and that the remains are being held at an
undertaker’s until some instructions regarding their
disposition can be had. The city directory shows that
several persons named
Pierson reside in Cairo.
Curtis
Meador, the little son of Mr. and Mrs. S. Y.
Meador, of 209 Third Street, died early Tuesday morning at
Paragould, Ark., while there with his parents visiting
relatives. The child had been sick for several days
and its death was not altogether unexpected. News of
the death was received in a message from the bereaved
parents to Mrs. William
McHale, of this
city. Mr. Meador
is in charge of the manufacturing department of the Cairo
Cider and Vinegar Company.
Herman
Levy, a former resident of Cairo, but of late years a resident of
St. Louis, died in that city a few days ago. The
deceased for many years conducted a hide and fur business in
Cairo and is no doubt well remembered by the older residents
of the city.
Local Masons will
be interested in learning of the death of Capt. J. H. C.
Dill, who for 13
years was grand secretary of the grand lodge of Masons in
Illinois and one of the best known men of the order in the
Middle West. He died suddenly at his home in
Bloomington Monday. Death came with scarcely any warning,
for his fatal illness was of but a few minutes duration.
It was pronounced to be neuralgia of the heart. So
entirely unexpected was the coming of the Last Messenger to
Capt. Dill that
he had been up in the business part of the city only a few
minutes before he died.
Members of
Cairo's Syrian colony have just received mail advices of the
death of Said Berkat,
at Merdgaeen, Syria.
Said
Berkat was one of
the most influential natives of that section of Syria.
It was during the massacre of the natives by the Mohammedans
in the early sixties that his influence saved thousands of
lives. Through Keleel Boy
Assad, the
Mohammedan governor, Said
Berkat succeeded
in saving his countrymen from death by the sword. This
act was characteristic of this whole life, and at his death
half of the population of that entire section turned out to
pay last tribute to his memory.
A son of the dead
man lives in Hickman, Ky., where he is postmaster.
George
Zegeer, who formerly ran the fruit stand on Eighth Street, received
the word of his death.
Mrs. Margaret
Easterday, mother of Mr. M.
Easterday, of this city, died Wednesday at the home of
her daughter in Nokomis, Ill., at the age of 86
years. She left a family of ten children living, seven
sons and three daughters. They are Melanchthon
Easterday, Cairo, Ill.; Luther, Vandalia, Ill.; John, Sidney, Neb.;
Elias, Albuquerque, N.M.; Dr. George, Walsonville, Cal.; Dr.
J. S., Albuquerque, N.M.; Sidney, Greeley, Colo.; Mrs.
Boost,
Irving, Ill; and Misses Jennie and Frances
Easterday,
Nokomis, Ill.
At the funeral,
which was held Friday, four grandsons and two nephews acted
as pallbearers. Mrs.
Easterday had
been a resident of Nokomis for 54 years. Mr.
Easterday
returned home today. He has been away for three weeks,
having been called to Nokomis, by his mother’s fatal
illness.
(Monroe
Bost married Elizabeth
Easterday on 24 Apr 1882, in Montgomery Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Wearen
Stack, four years old, fell from a ladder while playing in the yard
of the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Stack, on Thirty-seventh Street this afternoon and received injuries
which may prove fatal. The lad received several severe
cuts on the head and spasms set in immediately after he was
hurt. Mrs.
Mason, mother of Mrs.
Stack, who is
visiting relatives in New York, has been telegraphed for.
Tragic Death of Assistant
Postmaster Shocks Whole City
Edward L.
Reno, for the past ten years assistant postmaster, ended his life in
the cotton woods, about 100 yards from the Tenth Street
crossing, sometime Friday by shooting himself through the
head with a 32 caliber revolver, after he had taken a
quantity of rough-on-rats. A long dagger was also
found beside the body, but whether he had used it in his
self-destruction is not known, owing to the bloated
condition of the body, resulting from the effects of the
poison. The remains were discovered Sunday.
Mr.
Reno mysteriously
disappeared Thursday about noon. He did not, however,
end his life that day as witnesses have been found who state
that they saw him that night and next afternoon, when he was
seen by John Cline, cashier at the Mobile and Ohio freight office, going in the
direction of the cottonwoods. James
DePriest, bartender at Dunn
and Burgoise's
saloon also stated that Mr.
Reno was in the
place Thursday night. His movements during the time he
left the office until Friday afternoon are still unknown.
Mr.
Reno had planned
his death the day before he left the post office, having
bought a revolver from A.
Halley Wednesday
afternoon.
The cause of Mr.
Reno's tragic death is unknown. He left no letters or words of
explanation. Several different causes are ascribed by
rumors, but none have been verified. Not until the
post office officials complete their investigation can it be
learned whether or not Mr.
Reno's suicide might have been due to worry over financial
difficulties.
That something
was preying upon the mind of the deceased, for some time is
the testimony of his fellow workers in the post office.
Mr. Reno had
stated more than once that he believed he would end his
life. No special significance was attached to the
remarks at the time they were uttered, as it was believed
that they were but idle talk.
However, John
Hogan, uncle of the deceased, when told of Mr.
Reno's disappearance, is said to have remarked:
"There is no use
looking for him. When you next see him, he will be
dead."
Mrs.
Reno, who is in
Pulaski County visiting relatives and who arrived home
Saturday in response to messages from Postmaster
Miller, is
alleged to have cried:
"Poor Ed. I know
he is in the river."
Post office
employees made similar statements when it was learned that
he had disappeared. It is taken from these remarks
that he had frequently made threats to end his life.
Thursday noon Mr.
Reno went to the bank as usual with $1,100 of money order funds to
deposit. He failed to return to the office at 1:30
o'clock, but Mr.
Miller did not attach very much importance to the fact
owing to the heavy rain storm that came up just at that
hour. When Mr.
Reno did not return later in the afternoon, he began to
make inquiries. He found that he had not been to his
room in the Episcopal rectory nor at his boarding house for
dinner. In the afternoon the draft for $1,000 from the
bank came in through the mail. Mr.
Reno had placed
it in the envelope, addressed to the postmaster, Cairo,
Ill., and dropped it unsealed into a mailbox.
Inquiry developed
the fact that Thursday afternoon he had stopped into the
Brewery Saloon, Ninth and Poplar, and borrowed an umbrella
from Gilbert, the
proprietor.
Thursday morning
United States Post Office Inspector W. D.
Holloway arrived
to inspect the Cairo post office. He is a new man in
their territory and told Mr.
Reno and Mr.
Miller that he thought he would start in here. Although there
had been an inspection just a few months ago, Postmaster
Miller told him that he would be glad to have him go over the books,
as he always welcomed inspectors.
In order to fully
protect himself and make a thorough investigation after Mr.
Reno's
disappearance, Post Master
Miller asked that
another inspector be sent here and he arrived Saturday night
and the two are going over the books of the office.
As soon as the
body was identified as that of Mr.
Reno, the news
spread over the city with remarkable rapidity. His
tragic death gave the city one of the most severe shocks
Cairo has ever known. The expressions of sorrow and
regret were heard on all sides.
The deceased,
although of an unusually quiet and reserved and possibly
melancholy nature, was well known and liked.
Mr.
Reno was about 45
years old and is survived by a wife and a son, Lee
Reno, aged 17
years. Mrs.
Reno was away from home for the past two weeks.
When news of his father's disappearance reached his son, he
declared that his father must have been called to the
country and expressed the fear that his mother was sick.
The first intimation she had that Mr.
Reno was missing
was when she received a letter from her son. A message
from Mr. Miller followed.
The funeral of
the deceased was held this afternoon. The services
were private, being attended only by a few friends and
relatives of the deceased. Interment was made at Beech
Grove Cemetery, the cortege going from here in carriages.
Brief services were conducted by Ven.
Anderson of the
Church of the Redeemer.
The body was
found Sunday morning by two negro women, who reported the
matter to two negro men, who in turn notified the police
department. Coroner
McManus, Chief
Egan and Jailer
Lutz immediately
went to investigate. The body was in a badly
decomposed state. It was lying upon a pile of refuse.
The right hand was lying across the left thigh and a few
feet away was the revolver with one empty chamber. A
gaping wound in the right temple told the story. An
umbrella, with the point stuck in the ground was on one side
while upon the other lay a half burned cigar.
The body was not
recognized as that of Mr.
Reno until a
search in the pockets revealed a grocery bill bearing his
name. Dr. J. H.
Davis also identified the body as that of Mr.
Reno from certain dental work he had done for him.
The body was at
once removed to the undertaking establishment of Mrs. M. E.
Feith, where
Coroner McManus
this morning held an inquest.
(Edward
Reno married Anna H. Roberson
on 17 May 1887, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
We the
undersigned jurors sworn to inquire of the death of Edward
L. Reno, on oath
do find that he came to his death by a bullet wound in the
right temple, caused by a bullet fired from an American
Bulldog pistol, held in his own hand with suicidal intent.
The deceased was found on outside of the Mississippi levee
at Tenth Street crossing in Cairo, Alexander County,
Illinois, on August 11, 1907. (Signed) G. H. D.
Griffiths, foreman; M. Lutz,
Harry Jones, H.
M. Sullivan
Patrick
Dougherty, a white man who arrived in Cairo Saturday from Ballard
County, Kentucky, on his way to Buffalo, N.Y., to visit
relatives who are said to be wealthy and influential
citizens of that place, was killed about 10 o'clock Saturday
night at the corner of Seventeenth Street and Commercial
Avenue by Louis James,
a negro laborer, who drove a pick point through his brain,
killing him instantly.
Dougherty met his
death as a result of resenting an insult the negro is
alleged to have made to a couple of white women on a corner
below. Corner
McManus is holding an inquest this afternoon.
Murphysboro,
Ill., Aug. 12.—George
Kennedy, Sr., who died Friday night, was the only
surviving charter member of Amity Lodge I. O. O. F., of this
city. With six others he organized the lodge in a
dense thicket, where the Rudolph
Stecher brewery
now stands. He was born in County Armagh, Ireland, February
24, 1822. He came to Murphysboro in 1851. He
engaged in the building trade and conducted a cabinet shop.
He also engaged in the hardware and furniture business for
many years and later worked as a casket maker.
From 1856 to 1893
Mr. Kennedy was justice of the peace, during which time he performed 856
marriage ceremonies. At the time of his death he owned
much property in Murphysboro, but for several years had been
making caskets for local undertakers. He was the
father of City Engineer George
Kennedy, Jr.,
Mrs. Amelia K. Smith,
Mrs. Lizzie Martin, wife of Judge James H.
Martin, Miss Anna
and John C. Kennedy,
special officer for the Mobile and Ohio Railroad.
Mr.
Kennedy was a
charter member of the First Lutheran Church of Murphysboro
and served as trustee until his death. He brought to
Murphysboro the first car load of wagons ever brought to
Jackson County, also the first consignment of buggies and
farm implements. He came to this city, then a village,
ten years old, by way of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers in
1851, and the first work he did here was to build a house
for Dr. John Logan,
founder of Murphysboro and father of the late Gen. John A.
Logan. Mr. Kennedy
also built the first store in Carbondale. Five days ago,
while walking about town, Mr.
Kennedy fell on a
sidewalk at Tenth and Locust streets and fractured one of
his hips. The injury did not appear to be serious, but
his 86 years made it impossible for him to recover from the
shock and effect of confinement to bed in such hot weather.
Overcome by heat,
William Dean, a
cooper, who fell in a faint on Washington Avenue near Sixth
Street Sunday afternoon shortly before 2 o'clock, died a few
minutes later in the rectory of the Church of the Redeemer.
His death is believed to have been due to an attack of heart
disease produced by overheating.
The deceased was
walking up Washington Avenue and when in front of the
rectory was seen to stumble and fall. The Ven. A. H.
W. Anderson ran
to his assistance, realizing that the man was in a serious
condition had him taken into his residence. Dr. James
McManus was
summoned but before he arrived the deceased had breathed his
last in spite of the heroic efforts made by Mrs.
Anderson and
others to revive him.
The deceased was
45 years old and is survived by his four sons and two
daughters. His eldest son, Peter
Dean, is employed
by John Raggio at
Twentieth and Poplar streets. The death of Mr.
Dean's wife about
a year ago after a long illness compelled him to temporarily
place his two daughters aged 11 and 3 years in the
Children’s Home. He was a loving father and was a
frequent and always welcomed visitor at the Home. The
deceased was employed in the cooperage department of the
Halliday Milling Company.
The funeral of
the late Mrs. Elizabeth
Frazer, whose
death occurred at 4 o'clock Sunday morning, was held this
afternoon at the home of Ex-Alderman Alexander S.
Fraser at 1009
Walnut Street. The services were largely attended and
were conducted by the Ven. A. H. W.
Anderson, rector
of the Church of the Redeemer, of which the deceased was a
devout member.
Death came to
Mrs. Fraser after a lingering illness. She was removed from her
home on Eleventh Street to that of her son two weeks ago.
Besides A. S. Fraser,
she is survived only by one son, W. P.
Fraser. The
late Mrs. Herman C.
Schuh, was a daughter of the deceased.
Mrs.
Fraser was born
at Medison, Ind., October 4, 1829, and was married in that
city in 1853 to Alexander
Fraser. In
1854 Mr. and Mrs.
Fraser removed to Mound City, coming to Cairo a few
months later. Six children were born to the couple.
The funeral was
largely attended by the many sorrowing friends of the
deceased.
Miss Katherine
Kennedy, daughter of Mrs. Virginia
Kennedy, of Twenty-first and Poplar streets, died Sunday afternoon
from consumption after an extended illness. The
deceased was 15 years old and was a niece of Mr. and Mrs.
Alexander Raggio.
She was formerly a student at St. Patrick's Parochial School
and was a popular and well beloved young girl.
The funeral will
be held Tuesday morning at 8 o'clock at St. Patrick's
Catholic Church. Interment will be made at Calvary
Cemetery at Villa Ridge. A special Illinois Central
train will leave Eighth and Ohio streets at 8:45 o'clock.
The funeral of
Mrs. Margaret
Easterday, mother of M.
Easterday, of
this city, occurred Saturday at Nokomis, Ill., she having
died at her home there Wednesday. Mr.
Easterday who was
with her in her last illness returned home Sunday. The
deceased was 86 years old and was survived by a family of
seven sons and three daughters. Four grandsons and two
nephews of the deceased acted as pallbearers.
Dean—Died
Sunday afternoon, August 11, 1907, William
Dean, aged 45
years.
Funeral will
leave the residence of William
Whitecamp, No.
212 Twentieth Street, at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday for St. Joseph's
Church, corner Walnut and Cross streets. Funeral train
will leave foot of Fourteenth Street at 2:45 p.m. for Villa
Ridge cemetery.
Friends of the
family are invited.
Chivalry on the
part of James
Dougherty, a Kentuckian, who used his revolver to
frighten away Louis
James, a negro, who had insulted a white woman, cost him
his life a few minutes later, according to the testimony
that was brought out in the coroner’s inquest Monday
afternoon and which resulted in
James being held
for murder without bail.
Dougherty
arrived in Cairo Saturday and was said to have been on his
way to points in New York, his former home, to visit
relatives after absence of several years. Saturday
night Dougherty had deposited $47 with bartender at
Webster's saloon on Twelfth Street and Commercial Avenue.
Later in the evening, while walking up Commercial,
Dougherty saw a white women having some words with a negro on the
corner of Sixteenth Street. He immediately took the
part of the woman and after some words fired a short at
James from a 32
caliber derringer. The negro ran off up Commercial
Avenue.
Dougherty after a few minutes conversation with the
woman walked leisurely up the street. At Seventeenth
Street, James was
seen by Oliver Hall,
a negro watchman, who called to him.
James thinking
the white man was pursuing him, picked up a brick and struck
Hall over the
head. He then ran out Seventeenth Street and around
the block returning to explain to
Hall's wife why
he had struck him.
Dougherty in the
meantime had gone up Commercial as far as fire station No.
1, where he asked to be directed to
Webster's saloon.
As he was returning down Commercial Avenue,
James who was sitting on a tool box talking to
Hall's wife, suddenly ceased his conversation and jumping from the
box ran behind it. He picked up a heavy rock and
suddenly changed his mind for he dropped this and picked up
a pick. Following
Dougherty a few
feet down the sidewalk,
James raised the
pick over his head and struck at
Dougherty.
The blow went wide of its mark and was delivered with such
force that it partly threw
James from his
feet. He recovered quickly, however and just as
Dougherty alarmed
by the sound, turned partly around,
James delivered the second blow. The point of the pick was
buried several inches in
Dougherty's head
and he was instantly killed.
The story of the
killing as related above was told by
Hall and his wife
and was substantiated by other witnesses.
James himself became rattled on the stand and his evidence has much
to do with the jury holding him.
When first
arrested, he claimed that after
Dougherty had
shot at him he met him again and that
Dougherty started
to draw his revolver when he stuck him with the pick.
Coroner James
McManus has been aiming a determined effort to locate relatives of
Dougherty who are
said to be wealthy and influential citizens in eastern
cities. A brother, J. F.
Dougherty, is
said to reside in Parksburg, W.Va. A sister is also
said to reside in Alleghany, N.Y. The body has been
prepared for burial and will be held until some word is
received from his brother.
Word was received
here today of the death of Louis
Harris, father of
Julius Harris,
who is at the head of the new
Harris Saddlery
Company, which is having a large factory erected here.
His death occurred at the former's home in Paducah Monday
morning. Mr.
Harris, who was one of the best known men in Paducah,
had been confined to his bed since May. Sunday morning
he beamed worse and his sons, Marcus and Lee
Harris, were
summoned from Cincinnati, arriving before their father died.
Mr.
Harris was born
in London and was 77 years of age. He lived there
until 1848 when he came to America. He went to Paducah
in 1857. He was engaged in the tailoring business
until a few years ago, when he retired.
He is survived by
his wife and six children. His sons are Marcus and Lee
Harris, of Cincinnati, and Julius
Harris, of this city. His daughters are Mrs. Mikle
Michael, Mrs.
Eugene Kahn, and
Miss Flora Harris,
of Paducah.
Mr.
Harris was a man
of retiring disposition, but was devoted to his family and
friends and they were equally fond of him.
The funeral took
place from the residence Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock.
The services were conducted by the Rev. William
Fineschriber.
The burial will be at the Jewish Cemetery.
Taylorville,
Ill., Aug. 13.—Laura
Hart, an invalid, who made her home with the family of
Pearl Hill, near
Morrisonville, shot and killed herself. She was
despondent on account of ill health.
Sterling, Aug.
13.—The body of William B.
Collins, 7249
Stewart Avenue, Chicago, was found floating in the
Mississippi River at Albany, twenty miles from here.
An autopsy disclosed the fact that the man's skull had been
crushed before he was thrown into the river. It is
supposed that he was killed near Clinton, Iowa, and that the
body which had been in the water about three days, had
floated down to Albany. Identification was made
possible by a tag on the clothing.
T. A.
Lindsey died
today at St. Mary's Infirmary following an operation Sunday
for appendicitis. The deceased was 45 years old and
resided at 407 Thirty-Fourth Street. He was formerly
employed at the Chicago Mill and Lumber Company.
Bert
Blackford, a
well-known young barber, who formerly resided in Cairo, is
in jail at Union City, Tenn., awaiting a hearing on the
charge of having killed Charles
Martin, another
barber.
Blackford claims self-defense and according to stories
of the affair told by Fulton residents who have since been
in Cairo, will probably be exonerated by the coroner’s jury.
After the killing, he surrendered himself to Chief of Police
Baker.
The two men, it
is alleged, have had slight difficulty Monday, but the real
cause of the shooting is said to have been over another
Cairo barber who was engaged by
Martin to work for him, but who was later induced by
Blackford to take
a chair in the shop where he was employed.
The
Fulton Leader of
yesterday says:
"Martin
seemed to be in fighting manner and followed
Blackford about the city making threats that he was going to whip
him before he quit. A report states that
Martin went to the Bynum House in East Fulton, where
Blackford boarded
and on the front veranda with a drawn razor threatened to
kill him when he emerged from the house. Later, while
some friends were keeping the two apart,
Martin made the
remark, 'I'll have him before I go to sleep tonight.'
"The tragedy
occurred in a saloon known as the 'Quo Place.'
Martin followed
Blackford into
the place and put his hand in his shirt bosom and
Blackford,
thinking he was drawing a weapon, quickly drew his revolver
and fired straight at the other's body, the bullet entering
his right side and passing through the entire body.
Two more shots were fired which did not take effect.
"Martin
fell, arose and staggering out the back door he succeeded in
staggering around the building to the right and throwing a
32-caliber revolver against a coal house.
Blackford calmly
replaced his gun in his pocket and disappeared towards East
Fulton. Later he gave himself up to Chief of Police
Eaker at
Felts' hardware
store."
Blackford,
familiarly known as Bert, was well known in Cairo, having
been employed for years at the shop of Gip
Downey at Sixth
and Ohio streets. He was of a quiet and good natured
disposition and has many friends.
Young
Martin is
survived by a wife and a daughter.
The sudden death
in St. Louis Saturday of John J.
Lane, for many
years political writer on the
Chicago Inter-Ocean,
was a shock to thousands of men in Illinois and to many in
this city. Mr. Lane
had as wide an acquaintance in Illinois among politicians
and public officials as any newspaper man in the history of
the state. For many years he had attended all the
conventions and meetings of the general assembly.
Prior to that time he had done newspaper work of that
character which brought him into contact with the great men
of this country and of the world. Mr.
Lane was in
Springfield Wednesday and was a caller at the office of the
governor. It was there while waiting to enter the
governor’s private office that he talked with friends about
his experience and his work.
Noble
Anderson, a
prominent resident of Memphis, Tenn., who was in Cairo last
week en route to
St. Louis in a gasoline yacht, is believed to have been
drowned in the harbor just below the city. Mr.
Anderson left his
home two weeks ago and has not been heard from since.
His parents in Memphis started an inquiry with the result
that a watchman on a steamboat lying just below St. Louis
reported Thursday to the authorities there that he had seen
a launch go down last Thursday. He had made no
previous report of the matter. An effort is now being
made to raise the sunken launch in hopes of recovering the
body of the owner. Relatives of the missing man passed
through here last night
en route to St.
Louis.
Murphysboro,
Ill., Aug. 16.—The body of a stranger supposed to be Charles
Ripley, of
Waterloo, Ill., was found on the Illinois Central tracks ten
miles north of Murphysboro. The man was about 28 years
old and wore a blue serge suit, which was in good condition.
As Mr. and Mrs.
Hardin Kinslow
and John English and other relatives were returning from the funeral of
Herbert, the two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs.
Kinslow, Friday afternoon, they were met by a messenger who informed
Mr. English that
the two-year-old son of his cousin, Mark
Pearman, had just
died. This was the fifth death that has been sustained
by relatives or employees of Mr.
English on his
farm in the drainage district just north of Cairo during the
past 10 days.
Mr.
English has been
called upon to enact the part of the Good Samaritan
frequently within the past two weeks, as well as to sustain
bereavement in the death of infant relatives.
There has been a
remarkable fatality among the babies of that locality, the
five deaths having occurred in quick succession. On
Sunday, Willie
English, the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. R. T.
English, died and
was buried at Beech Grove Cemetery on Monday.
The funeral party
had scarcely reached their homes after the funeral when they
learned of the death of Lorena, the 18-month-old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Sam
Dalton, whose remains were interred at the same cemetery
on Tuesday.
The day following
another infant, whose name cannot be learned, died and it
too was buried at Beech Grove.
Arrangements for
these three funerals were made by Mr. John
English, either
relatives or employees on his farm.
On Thursday,
Herbert, the two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs.
Kinslow, died and
was buried at Beech Ridge also, and as the friends were
returning home they were met by a messenger telling Mr.
English that his
cousin, Mr. Pearman,
had just sustained the loss of his little boy.
All these deaths
coming in such quick succession has been a source of deep
grief to the little community, as well as care and anxiety
to Mr. English,
who has spared himself neither trouble or expense in caring
for the dead and comforting the living. These deaths
were all due to diseases incident to babyhood. The religious
services at nearly all these funerals were conducted by Rev.
Tracey of the
Southern Methodist Church.
William H.
Armstrong, one of the leading citizens of Metropolis, died on August
9. In commenting on his life, the
Journal-Republican says that no man was more highly thought of.
His early days in
the county were spent on the farm and later on he taught
school, until he was elected county superintendent of
schools. After giving this position up, he went into
the First National Bank, where he worked up to the position
of cashier. This position he had to give up on account
his health. At the time of his death, he was master in
chancery of Massac County, which place he filled with the
conscientiousness characteristic of him.
Mr.
Armstrong was
born in this county, December 12, 1859. He is survived
by his wife, one daughter, Miss Vern; one son, Earl; two
brothers, Thomas B., of Springfield, and Foster A., of
Metropolis. Two sisters are also left, Mrs. E. W.
Roberts, of
Metropolis, and Mrs. A. K.
Vickers, of East
St. Louis.
He was a member
of the Odd Fellows Lodge, which organization had charge of
the services at the grave. The funeral was held Sunday
afternoon at the home, Rev. J. M.
Adams and W. A. Spence,
having charge. The large attendance at the funeral
showed the high esteem in which Mr.
Armstrong was
held.
(Alonzo K.
Vickers married Leora E.
Armstrong on 18 Nov 1880, in Massac Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Bert
Blackford, a
Cairo barber, who shot and killed Charles
Martin, also a barber at Fulton, Ky., Sunday night, was exonerated
from all blame by the coroner’s jury.
Blackford, who for many years resided in Cairo and who has many
friends here, shot
Martin in self-defense, it being proven that he made a
motion as if to draw a revolver. It was also shown
that Martin had
followed Blackford
around all day and had made reported threats to kill him,
even going to Blackford's boarding house and waiting for him, telling the landlady
that he would "get him before night." The quarrel
between the two men started when
Blackford induced
another Cairo barber to work in the same shop in which he
was employed instead of for
Martin.
News of the death
of Mrs. Elizabeth
Murphy, mother of Mrs. Frank
Steagala, was
received here yesterday. Mr. and Mrs.
Steagala were at
the bedside of Mrs.
Murphy when she died at her home in Chicago. The
deceased was a widow of Capt. John E.
Murphy, of Paris,
Ill., and was 81 years old. Besides Mrs.
Steagala, she is
survived by two other daughters, Misses Angine and Mary
Murphy, of
Chicago, and two sons, John E., of Terre Haute, Ind., and
Harry E., of New Mexico. Funeral services were held at
the residence of the deceased in Chicago this afternoon.
The remains of
James Hayden, formerly night bartender at the
Halliday Hotel, arrived here this morning from West Baden, Ind.,
where he died Friday night. The body was removed to
Mrs. Feith's
undertaking establishment, from which place funeral services
will be conducted. The funeral will be under the
direction of the Cairo Bartenders' Union of which the
deceased was a member. Mr.
Hayden, whose
home was formerly in Blodgett, Mo., where a sister survives
him, has been in Cairo for the past five years and was well
and favorably known.
Fireman
Scranton was killed and Engineer
Hall and Fireman Hines
and Engineer Nelson
slightly injured when engines 6214 and 6536 drawing Big Four
freight train No. 96, which left Cairo at 5 o'clock Saturday
afternoon, turned over a trestle near Leadford, 60 miles
north of here at 11:30 o'clock that night. The derailment
was caused by the forward engine striking a cow. Both
engines and 15 freight cars loaded with perishable freight
were wrecked.
Fireman
Scranton, who was on the forward engine, was instantly killed.
The wreck was not
cleared until late yesterday afternoon. The wrecking
crew was above Danville and did not reach the scene of the
wreck until 8 o'clock Sunday morning. Passenger trains
in and out of Cairo Sunday were forced to exchange
passengers, mail, baggage, and express at Leadfort
and double back.
Another Big Four
wreck occurred at Deadford Sunday morning when two
freight trains crashed head on, resulting in the partial
destruction of both trains and injuring several members of
the crew.
(Henry
Eastwood, 24, born in Olmsted, Ill., son of Ab and Josephine
Eastwood, married
Charlotte “Lottie”
Ledbetter, 18, born in Olmsted, Ill., daughter of S. W.
and Sarey Ledbetter,
on 24 Dec 1897, in Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
(Walter
Jamison married Carrie Ross
on 3 Mar 1898, in Jasper Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Sterling, Ill.,
Aug. 21.—Believing that his neighbors did not like him,
which drove him to insanity, Henry
Van Buskirk, of
Carroll County, blew his brains out with a revolver.
A.Gus
Glasco, of Mound
City, died Wednesday in St. Louis from the effects of an
operation for appendicitis. He was taken sick very
suddenly in Anna early in the week and went to St. Louis for
the operation which was performed Wednesday. Mr.
Glasco leaves a
wife and baby who are now at Anna.
The funeral will be held in Anna Friday.
The moving
picture show has been closed on account of his death and
will not reopen until further notice.
Claiming that
Nannie Willard, the 19-year-old girl who last night shot and killed
Benjamin Watley
at Charleston, Mo., while he was trying to kill his wife,
had a right to shoot him in protecting her mother, the
coroner's jury at the inquest today exonerated her from all
blame.
Miss
Willard is in
fact being congratulated by persons in Charleston for her
prompt and fearless action. She is still in a weakened
condition, as a result of the shock, having suffered
hysteria immediately following the tragedy.
Watley,
it is alleged, had been drinking for several days and had
made several threats to kill the whole family. Last
night after making more threats he attempted to break into
the house where his wife and stepdaughter were attending to
some chores. The girl seized a double-barreled shotgun
and fired just as he forced his way into the house. He
was instantly killed. His head was almost completely blown
from his shoulders by the heavy charge of shot.
Ground to bits
under the wheels of a rapidly moving train was the horrible
fate that overtook an unknown negro youth early this morning
on the Illinois Central bridge over Cache River, four miles
above Cairo. The body was the most terribly mutilated
local railroad men say, that they have ever seen.
It is supposed
that the negro was either asleep on the tracks or fell from
a train, because it is not believed possible that he would
have been so badly mutilated if he had merely been struck
while walking along the track.
The body was
severed across the chest. The head was entirely missing and
was not found until several hours search for it had been
made. It had been cut entirely off and had rolled between
the tires of the trestle and fallen upon the ground at the
edge of the stream below. Both the arms and the legs
had been torn apart and even these were cut and ground to
bits.
So complete was
the mutilation of the body by the train that not until the
head was found was it possible to determine whether the
victim had been a negro or a white man. The head was
not badly disfigured.
The body was
first discovered by a negro coal passer employed at a coal
shed just north of the bridge. He went to investigate
and almost fainted at the ghastly sight that met his eyes.
He at once notified the railroad officials at Mounds and the
news was communicated to Cairo. The crew of the
suburban train was given orders to pick the body up and
convey it to Cairo but found it would be impossible.
The remains of
the man were scattered on both sides of the bridge and for a
while it was a question whether to notify the coroner of
Alexander or Pulaski County, the Cache River being the
dividing line. The man was killed apparently almost
exactly in the center of the bridge. Coroner
McManus is out of
the city and Deputy
Coleman was notified. Coroner
Steel of Pulaski
County was first on the scene however and took charge of the
remains. This afternoon an inquest was held at the
undertaking establishment of William
Montgomery at
Mound City.
Cal
Watley, of this
city, son of Benjamin
Watley, of Charleston, Mo., who was shot and killed
Thursday night by his stepdaughter, Miss Nannie
Willard, at
Charleston, while he was said to be attempting to take the
life of his wife, Miss
Willard’s mother,
went to that place Saturday and caused the girl’s arrest on
a charge of murder. She was immediately released on
bond. Young
Watley, it is understood, will make every effort to
prosecute his half-sister for the death of his father
alleging that the tragedy was planned and that ill feeling
had long existed between the two.
Charles
Rachael, the negro roustabout who shot and killed Mate Ed
Lennon, of
Nashville, on the Joe
Fowler at New Liberty, Ill., and escaped January 18,
1906, was captured at Marion, Ill., by an Illinois Central
conductor Friday and was taken to Golconda. A reward
of $400 has been offered for his capture.
Mrs. Mattie M.
Tinsley, mother of Mrs. Daniel
Whelen, wife of
the well-known Mobile &Ohio passenger conductor, died at
9:30 o'clock this morning in her 73rd year.
She passed away at the home of her daughter at Twenty-ninth
and Sycamore streets. The remains were taken in charge
by Burke &
Blaine and
prepared for burial and will be taken to Moberly, Mo., where
they will be laid at rest in Oakland Cemetery there.
Besides Mrs. Whelen,
the deceased left two other daughters, Mrs. Effie
Hariman, of Kansas City, Mo., and Mrs. Georgia
Johnson, of St. Joseph, Mo. They were notified and will meet
the body at Moberly. Mr.
Whelen was out on
his run today and until he can be consulted, arrangement for
the funeral cannot be definitely arranged.
The Cairo police
are on the lookout for Lewis
alias "Frog" and
"Shorty" Boyd,
who shot and killed Dan
Bridges, both
negroes, near Bird’s Point Sunday night. The killing
resulted in a quarrel over 10 cents lost in a crap game at
Lee's levee construction camp.
Boyd escaped
immediately and is believed to have crossed the river to
Cairo. He is described as being 5 feet 5 inches tall,
weighs about 165 pounds, and has a long scar on the back of
his head. He is said to have a reputation as a bad man
and carries several notches on his ever-ready gun.
(Joseph
Essex married Mrs. Elizabeth J.
Parker on 31 Jul 1867, in Pulaski Co., Ill. Her marker in Shiloh
Cemetery near Villa Ridge reads:
E. Jane wife of Joseph
Essex Born March
25, 1841 Died Aug. 25, 1907.—Darrel
Dexter)
The remains of
the late T. J.
Stanley, who died Tuesday morning at 11 o'clock at his
home, 2808 Commercial Avenue, were taken to Morley, Mo. this
morning via the
Iron Mountain for interment. The funeral arrangements
were in charge of
Burke & Blaine.
The body of a
young negro lad who was cut and ground to bits by Illinois
Central trains on Cache bridge last Monday morning has been
identified as that of Jesse
Crouch by his
aged mother, who when her son failed to return from a visit
to Cairo grew anxious and started an investigation.
Learning that a negro youth had been killed by the trains
she had Undertaker Montgomery, of Mound City, exhume the body and identified it as her
son.
The remains were
taken to Wickliffe, Ky., Thursday for interment.
After an illness
of 10 days, which was considered critical almost from the
very first, Harry Boynton
Ellis, aged 24
years, died at St. Mary’s Infirmary at 5 o'clock this
morning. His death was due to an acute attack of
appendicitis followed by blood poisoning. The deceased
was taken suddenly ill a week ago last Tuesday and was
removed from his home at 1014 Walnut Street to the
infirmary.
Owing to the
weakened condition of the patient and complications which
set in almost immediately, it was deemed inadvisable to
perform an operation. The patient, however, displayed
wonderful vitality and courage although little hope for his
recovery was held out. Mrs. H. B.
Ellis, mother of
the deceased, who was visiting her daughter, Mrs. Charles E.
Weyand, at Brooklyn N.Y., was notified of her son’s critical illness
and accompanied by Mrs.
Weyman
left there immediately. They arrived Thursday
afternoon.
The deceased was
a well-known young businessman of Cairo. For the past
three years he has been engaged with his brother, Byron L.
Ellis in the real
estate business and had been highly successful.
Formerly he was connected with the same brother in the
ownership and management of The Fair, which was started by
Clarence Ellis,
who later sold out his interest to Harry and Byron
Ellis.
The deceased was
married on October 3, 1906, to Miss Lulu
Young, of this
city, and six weeks ago a baby daughter was born to them.
Besides his wife and child, the deceased is survived by his
mother and four brothers Eugene, Bert, Clarence and Byron
Ellis, all of
this city, and two sisters, Mrs.
Weyand of
Brooklyn and Mrs. L. S.
Taylor, of St.
Louis. The latter has been in attendance at her
brother's bedside for several days.
The deceased was
born and reared in Cairo and was a graduate of the Cairo
High School. The deceased was held in the highest
regard and his untimely death will be keenly regretted by
his business associates and among a large circle of intimate
friends.
(Luther S.
Taylor married Daisy M. Ellis
on 15 Apr 1891, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Albert
Hamilton, after hours of awful suffering, died at 11:40 o'clock last
night as a result of injuries he sustained Friday while at
work at a mill at Huntsville, Mo., owned by W. W.
Nordman, of this
city. The deceased was fatally crushed about the hips
and body under a tram car while in motion. The injured
man was brought to Cairo last night on the Iron Mountain
train.
Mrs. J. H.
Blythe, a well-known and highly esteemed young woman of Mound City,
died at her home Friday evening. She leaves a husband
and two children, a little girl, of three years of age and a
baby twelve days old. Mr.
Blythe is the
Mound City agent for the Illinois Central. Funeral
services will be held at the residence in Mound City
tomorrow afternoon. Interment will be made in
Shelbine, Mo., where her parents reside. Her death is
especially sad because her parents were unable to be at her
bedside owing to the serious illness of a younger sister in
Shelbine.
The funeral of
the late John Abda
Purcell, aged 27 years, a civil engineer for the Cairo &
Thebes Railroad, who died at St. Mary’s Infirmary at 6:45
o'clock last night, will be held at Columbia, Ga., his
former home. The body will be taken there Monday
morning, accompanied by the wife of the deceased and Mrs.
Walter Huette,
Jr. and Mr. Pomeroy,
of the Cairo & Thebes.
The death of Mr.
Purcell, while not unexpected, was an especially sad one and was a
great shock to the many friends of the deceased and his
young wife.
The deceased was
taken ill with typhoid malarial three weeks ago and was
removed to St. Mary’s Infirmary. As soon afterward as
her condition would permit, Mrs.
Purcell has been in almost constant attendance upon her husband and
was prostrated with grief. Her condition is somewhat
improved today, although she is still in a very weakened
condition. Fortunately her mother, Mrs.
Partridge, who
came here at the time of the birth of their son is here to
comfort her daughter in her hours of deepest grief. It
is expected that Mrs.
Purcell will be able to travel by Monday morning.
The remains of
the deceased were taken to the undertaking office of
Burke &
Blaine last night
and will be removed this evening to the residence of Dr. J.
E. Strong on Washington Avenue, below Eighth Street. Mr. and Mrs.
Purcell made
their home over the office of Dr.
Strong at 709
Washington Avenue.
Mr.
Purcell was born
in Columbia, Ga., where his parents still reside.
Monday, 2 Sep 1907:
A young man, 24
years old, wearing a white checkered shirt, blue overalls, a
black greasy coat, with black hair and eyes and weighing
about 155 pounds and who claimed that his home was in Cairo
was killed by unknown robbers at Dyersburg, Tenn., Thursday
night. A letter from the chief of police of that city to
Chief Egan was received yesterday seeking to identify the slain man, who
the day previous to his death had said that his home was in
Cairo. So far Chief
Egan has not been able to get any trace of the man
bearing that description who is missing from here.
Mrs. J. H.
Blythe, a well-known and highly esteemed young woman, of Mound City,
died at her home Friday evening. She leaves a husband and
two children, a little girl of three years of age, and a
baby twelve days old. Mr.
Blythe is the
Mound City agent for the Illinois Central. Funeral services
will be held at the residence in Mound City tomorrow
afternoon. Interment will be made in Shelbine, Mo., where
her parents reside. Her death is especially sad because her
parents were unable to be at her bedside owing to the
serious illness of a younger sister in Shelbine.
The last day of
the Anna, Ill., fair was marred by the murder of Fred
Holland, a
well-known young man of Anna, Ill., who was struck down by a
stranger and so fatally injured that he died that night as a
result. His slayer, after he had been arrested said that he
thought Holland
was another man and that he was sorry he had killed him.
The stranger said
that he had a grievance against the man he thought he was
striking but in the dark had mistaken him for
Holland.
Holland
is said to have been a popular young fellow and was known by
several Cairo people.
Word was received
today of the death in Los Angeles of Mrs.
Crooks, wife of
Charles Crooks,
the painter, who left here with his wife two months ago in
the hope that the change in climate would stay the ravages
of consumption. Mrs.
Crooks was a sister of Mrs. Frank
Ferguson, who went out with her. They will return to Anna, Ill.,
with the body leaving there Wednesday. Mrs.
Crooks' mother
and two sisters lived in Los Angeles. Mr.
Crooks worked for
J. C. Fischer,
the painter, when he lived in Cairo.
(Frank W.
Capoot, 20, born in Mound City, Ill., son of James
Capoot and
Henrietta Stophlet,
married Mary Carter,
20, born in Vienna, Ill., daughter of Mack
Carter and Mattie
Cheek, on 8 May
1894, in Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Tuesday, 3 Sep 1907:
Paris, Ill.,
Sept. 3.—The dead body of
Hicks, who last
Tuesday murdered his wife, has been found in the woods near
the scene of the crime. He had cut his throat with the same
knife he used to kill his wife. Hicks'
body had been mangled by dogs.
Mrs. J. D.
Ladd left this morning for Paducah to attend the funeral of Mrs.
Samuel Quisenberry,
daughter-in-law of Mrs. Bettie
Bristol, a
relative and frequent visitor of Mrs.
Ladd. Regarding
the death of Mrs.
Quisenberry, Monday's
Paducah Sun says:
"Mrs. Mary
Quisenberry, 33 years old, wife of S. G.
Quisenberry, died this morning at 1:30 o'clock of consumption at her
home, 1116 Broadway, after a lingering illness. Besides her
husband, she is survived by three children, her mother, Mrs.
F. W. Thomas, and
her brother, J. V.
Thomas. Mrs.
Quisenberry, who
was a devout Christian woman and a loving wife and mother,
was a native of Dyersburg, where she was born November 16,
1875, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. W.
Thomas. She was
married to Mr.
Quisenberry at that place December 15, 1896. The
funeral will take place tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock at
the residence, the Rev. W. E.
Cave, officiating. The burial will be at Dyersburg.
Mattoon, Ill.,
Sept. 3.—William
Switz, an interurban wreck victim is in a critical
condition at the hospital and his death is expected
today. S. F. Emos
and wife and James C.
Stevens died Monday. The fatalities now number
seventeen. The city court grand jury today began an
investigation of the accident.
Friends of Mrs.
Leon R. Denison
will be saddened to learn of the death of her mother, Mrs.
R. F. Bennett,
which occurred at Litchfield Tuesday night. Mrs.
Bennett resided
in Anna for several years, during which time her husband,
Dr. Bennett, was
superintendent of the Southern Illinois Hospital for the
Insane.
Mrs.
Bennett was a
devout Methodist and an ideal Christian woman and scores of
Cairo friends will deeply mourn her death. Mr. and Mrs.
Denison are in Litchfield.
Walter H.
Wood received a dispatch from his brother, John H.
Wood, of Chicago,
this afternoon regarding the condition of Dr. Harry
Rittenhouse,
which said: "Harry no better. After consultation with
doctors I have scarcely any hope."
Dr.
Rittenhouse was
getting along nicely until yesterday when the startling news
came that he was again in a critical condition with scarcely
any hope of his recovery. As a result of this news, Wood
Rittenhouse left yesterday for Chicago. A dispatch last night
stated that a pus cavity had been found to be the
cause. Previously it was thought he had a perforation of
the intestines.
Sam
Martin, a
well-known Union County farmer, has been sentenced to an
indeterminate sentence in the Illinois penitentiary for the
killing of his neighbor, Lem
Stokes, which
occurred several months ago on a section of
Martin’s farm,
just over the line in Johnson County.
The story of the
killing is an unusual one, there being no eye witness save
Martin to tell
the tale. Martin
and Stokes were
neighbors and had had trouble about fencing each other away
from a road. The story of
Martin conflicts
somewhat with circumstances of the occurrence, but it is
agreed that Stokes was in his field digging sprouts with a grubbing hoe by which
Martin had to
pass in going from his home to the village of
Goreville. The parties quarreled and fought, the weapons
used being the hoe belonging to
Stokes and a lap ring. Though the larger of the two,
Stokes was left
at the scene of the conflict in a dazed and unconscious
state, his skull fractured in a number of places, a cut on
his shoulder and a badly bruised side. Martin
went on to Goreville and told of the fight and appeared not
to realize how bad Stokes was hurt. Stokes
was conveyed from the bloody scene to his home, where he
lingered a few days and died, never regaining
consciousness. Martin was arrested and placed in jail where he remained until his
trial last week.
(His marker in
Ebenezer Hall Cemetery near Lick Creek reads:
Lemma husband of Ida
Stokes Born Jan.
17, 1877 Died June 7, 1907.—Darrel
Dexter)
Gus
Heim, died
Friday, September 6. Services at residence, 3006 Elm
Street, will be conducted at 1:30 o'clock by Rev.
Ohrum, Sunday,
September 8. Special train will leave foot of Fourteenth
Street at 2:45 o'clock for Villa Ridge.
Switchmen Gus
Heim, of 3003 Elm Street, was instantly killed and James
Sproat, of 218
Twentieth Street, so badly injured that there is no hope for
his recovery, Friday afternoon at 4:50 o'clock when Illinois
Central switch engine No. 88 on which they were riding
jumped the track and crashed into a string of loaded freight
cars.
The accident
occurred at a point about 200 feet west of the Big Four
crossing almost under the bridge.
Sproat
has been in an unconscious condition since the accident. At
3 o'clock this afternoon he was still alive, but it is
understood that surgeons hold out but little hope for his
recovery.
Both men were
standing on the forward footboard. The engine was running
about eight miles an hour, according to trainmen, and was
making for North Cairo, going west on the main
track. Forty-five feet from where the engine stopped the
forward trucks left the rails and ran for a distance of 10
feet with the flange of the wheels on top of the
rails. Then they left the track entirely. A moment later
the forward running board had been torn loose and hurled
with terrific force against the side of a box car. The
crash came so suddenly that neither
Heim nor Sproat had time
to jump. They clung to the running board and were hurled
though the air in a half circle.
Sproat
was on the right side of the running board and was thrown a
shorter distance and fell under the freight car, against
which his companion was crushed.
The heavy forward
part of the engine almost mashed
Heim's body in
two when it caught him against the side of the car. Both
legs and both arms were broken, his hips dislocated and his
head horribly crushed.
Sproat
was at first believed to be dead. He was lying in an
unconscious condition, his skull fractured on the left side
and pressing against the brain. His left arm was crushed
below the shoulder and his body horribly cut and bruised.
The injured man
was removed immediately to St. Mary's Infirmary and the body
of Heim taken to
the undertaking establishment of Mrs. M. E.
Feith and prepared for burial. Dr. W. F.
Grinstead,
Illinois Central surgeon and his surgical staff immediately
performed a trephining operation, opening the scalp and
lifting the depressed portion of the skull from the brain.
Engineer Edward
Young had an escape from death that is nothing short of miraculous.
When he felt the wheels leave the rails he sprang from his
seat on the right side of the engine cab and closed the
throttle and applied the air. While he was still handling
the levers, the engine, careening to the right, crashed into
the freight cars. The splintered timbers and broken glass
from the cab and the windows together with heavy pieces from
the smashed box car, flew in every direction. The right
side of the cab was almost completely torn away. Yet
Young stuck to his post and when the engine finally stopped had not
even a scratch to show for his experience.
"I can't
understand it," said
Young. "I expected every second to be struck. I
realized that there would be no use to dodge, in fact I
could not dodge. The timbers flew on each side of me and
over my head and not a one struck me."
Fireman George
Nance on the opposite side of the engine felt the jar when the wheel
left the tracks and left his seat and prepared to jump.
Before he could swing himself clear, the engine had come to
a stop. One glance at the two prostrated bodies of his
companions satisfied him that they were both beyond his
aid. He called to Engineer
Young, who was extracting himself from the debris of the cab and was
surprised to find him uninjured. Nance then ran a half mile up the main track to flag any approaching
trains and to notify the road officials of the wreck.
Engine 88 had
been out of the shops only 5 days and was considered the
best engine in the local yards.
It was built for switching service and had no pony
trucks, causing it to run less steadily at a rapid rate than
others.
Heim
is survived by a wife and two children. He was a son of
Mrs. Zion Bishop and his father was at one time a police officer here. The
deceased was well known and had a large circle of friends
and acquaintances. Mr.
Sproat is a
brother of William
Pink and is equally popular with his fellow workmen and
is a well-known and estimable young man.
Funeral services
over the deceased will be held at the family residence at
1:30 o'clock. A special train will leave the foot of
Fourteenth Street at 2:45 o'clock. William
Heim, a brother
of the deceased, arrived today from St. Louis to attend the
funeral.
(Gus
Heim married Anne
Helfrick on 26
Dec 1871, in Alexander Co., Ill.
Zion Bishop
married Mrs. Annie
Himes 19 Sep 1883, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Thomas
Meehan and Mrs. William
Magner received the sad news Sunday of the death of
their mother, Mrs. James
Meehan, formerly
of Cairo, who passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Charles Hewitt, in East St. Louis Saturday at the age of 73 years.
Mrs.
Meehan was born
in County Waterford, Ireland in 1834 and came to America
when she was sixteen years of age. Since that time she has
made her home with Mrs.
Hewitt.
The deceased has
been gradually failing in health since the death of her
husband and her infirmities finally culminated in a stroke
of paralysis last Monday which resulted in her death
Saturday.
The remains were
taken to Calvary Cemetery at Villa Ridge for interment this
morning. Cairo relatives and friends assembled at the
residence of Alderman William
Magner at 215 Twenty-seventh Street at 9 o'clock this morning, where
carriages conveyed them to Calvary Cemetery at Villa
ridge. Services were conducted at the grave by Rev. Father
James Gillen, of
St. Joseph's Church, of which the deceased was a devout
member for fifty years.
(William M.
Magner married Mary A. Meehan
on 13 Nov 1889, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The jury
empaneled by Coroner
McManus to inquire into the death of Gus
Heim, who was
crushed to death against the side of a box car when Illinois
Central switch engine No. 88 jumped the track near the Big
Four crossing Friday evening at 4:50 o'clock, returned a
verdict Saturday evening in accordance with the facts,
holding no one responsible for the accident.
James
Sproat, who was
injured in the same wreck died at 2:30 o'clock this morning
at St. Mary’s Infirmary, without regaining consciousness. No
second inquest will be held, the verdict reached in the case
of Heim covering
the case of Sproat.
The coroner’s
jury was composed of the following: T. L.
Pulley, foreman;
James Quinn, D.
A. Connell, O.
Boughner, J. O. Gaskin,
and August Bode. The
jurors accompanied by the coroner made a visit to the scene
of the wreck and examined into the cause of the accident as
fully as possible. Among the witnesses examined were the
following: Engineer Edward
Young and Fireman
George Nance, of
Engine No. 68; Scott
Rainey, bridge foreman; W. D.
Chambers,
conductor of work train on bridge; H. J.
Fletcher,
fireman; Porter
Sweringer, flagman; Lloyd
Sisney, yard
clerk; C. A. Clements,
assistant trainmaster; James
Clifford, road
master; and James
Davids, road foreman.
James
Sproat was 38
years old and is survived by a wife and a mother and three
sisters, Mrs. F. E.
Cox, Mrs. William
Pink, and Mrs. E. J.
Loeb, the latter
of Jonesboro, Ark. His death, like that of
Heim's is deeply
mourned by a large circle of friends and
acquaintances. Their death is particularly deplored by the
railroad men in whose esteem they were held especially high.
The funeral of
the late Gus Heim,
was held Sunday afternoon and as largely attended. The
services were conducted at the family residence, 3003 Elm
Street, by the Rev. M.
Ohrum, of the
Cairo Baptist Church, which the deceased attended. A
quartette composed of Mrs. Roxie
Gibson, Mrs. W.
L. Holt, John C.
Gholson and C. E.
Gregory, sang several beautiful sections. The floral tributes sent
by grieving friends were profuse. At Mounds the funeral
party was joined by the members of the Order of Railway
Trainmen of Mounds, who attended the services at the
cemetery in a body. The deceased was a member of the
organization at Mounds.
The body of J. C.
Kendrick, who died suddenly at 11 o'clock Saturday night in his
apartments over his saloon on lower Commercial Avenue, was
taken to Jackson, Tenn., early this morning, where the
funeral will be held, probably this afternoon. The deceased
was an esteemed member of the Elks lodge of that city and a
delegation composed of James
Gasewell, exalted
ruler, Frank Reaves,
R. S. Hurst, Mace
Phillips, Willis Taylor,
and F. C. Baxter,
came here upon notification by the local lodge, to take
charge of the body and accompany it to its final resting
place.
The deceased was
42 years old and has been in Cairo for several
months. During that time he had made many warm friends. He
was not married, but is survived by a brother and a sister,
both of whom reside in Jackson, his former home.
The deceased had
been slightly ill for several days, but Saturday was able to
be up attending to business, but retired early. A few hours
later he was found dead by a housekeeper. Coroner
McManus impaneled
a jury and held an inquest. The verdict was that the
deceased had come to his death through natural means. Death
is believed to have been due to an attack of heart disease.
Relatives in
Cairo received the sad news today of the death this morning
of George E. Kischner, of Murphysboro. The deceased, who was 45 years old,
formerly lived in this city, where he learned the barber
trade. He was a brother of Mrs. J. M.
Cotter, of Cairo. The funeral will be held Wednesday and a number
of Cairoites will attend.
(John M.
Cotter married Nellie M.
Kirchner on 15 May 1884, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
All members of
the Woodmen of the World are requested to meet Monday night
at Union Hall, No. 602 Commercial Avenue, at 7:30 p.m. and
at Safford Hall Tuesday, Sept. 10, at 12:30 to arrange for
and attend the funeral of our deceased Sovereign James E.
Sproat.
The funeral of
the late James Sproat,
who died at St. Mary’s Infirmary Monday morning as a result
of injuries received in a wreck Friday night on the Illinois
Central near the bridge, was held this afternoon. Services
were conducted at the residence by Rev.
Ohrum. A large
number of grief stricken relatives and sorrowing friends
accompanied the remains to their final resting place.
In order to give
his father time to arrive from Colorado Springs, the funeral
of George W. Kirchner, of Murphysboro, which was announced for Wednesday, will be
held on Thursday. A number of Cairo friends and relatives
will attend.
R. Don
Billings, 45 years old, mate on the
Mary Michael, moored at the foot of Elizabeth Street, was found dead
Sunday morning in tall weeds, his body being still
warm. Death resulted from heart failure, says the
Paducah Sun.
Billings
was sent from the boat up on the levee for a cake of
ice. He was last seen by Capt. Emery
Voight as he went
down the hill towards the boat bearing the ice on his
shoulder. This was 7:30 o'clock in the morning. Nothing
was seen of him after he plunged into the weeds and,
becoming alarmed, members of the boat's crew started a
search. They found him lying in the tall weeds, still warm,
the melting ice lying near him.
Acting Coroner
Fred Roth held an investigation, determining death resulted from heart
trouble. The body was prepared for burial and shipped this
morning to Covington, Tenn., where the deceased leaves a
family.
Al C.
Church, a
well-known conductor on the Big Four Railroad, has received
the news of the death of his sister, Miss Mayme
Church, which
occurred in Paris at the family residence in East Wood
Street, Friday evening. She had been ill for some time with
a complication of diseases and for the past ten days has
been suffering with appendicitis, but was believed to be
recovering. She was the oldest daughter and a second child
of a family of three boys and three girls. Funeral services
were held at the residence and the remains were laid to rest
beside her father, who was a pioneer blacksmith of Paris.
(Her marker in Anna City Cemetery reads:
C. V. Crooks
Born 1853 Died Sept. 8, 1909.
Jennie Crooks his wife Born Sept. 7, 1866 Died Sept. 1, 1907.—Darrel
Dexter)
(A marker in
Cairo City Cemetery at Villa Ridge reads:
George Minnich 1862-1907.—Darrel
Dexter)
The funeral of
Alvin Collier, who died suddenly in a room over Gus
Bourgoise's saloon at Fourth and Ohio streets last night, was held
this afternoon. The deceased was taken suddenly ill while
in the saloon last evening and was put to bed in one of the
rooms. An ambulance from the Marine Hospital was summoned,
but before it reached the place, he was dead. Coroner James
McManus held an inquest and found that his death was due to natural
causes. The deceased was a well-known river pilot, but had
not been employed for several months. He was 45 years old
and is survived by a wife, with whom he resided on Ninth
Street.
(Alvin T.
Collier married L. F. Ryan
on 7 Jan 1895, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Soon after
returning from a journey of 13,000 miles, which he made
without incident, Peter
Saup met with what would have been a fatal accident yesterday
afternoon while repairing a broken weight in a window at his
home on Washington Avenue near Eighth Street.
Mr.
Saup was on a
ladder when it suddenly slipped from under him,
precipitating him with great violence against the
window. Mr. Saup naturally threw out his right hand to protect himself. The
fall was so violent that the window broke, horribly cutting
his hand and forearm.
A large artery
was severed as were several tendons leading to his
fingers. But for the prompt arrival of Drs.
Bondurant and
Carey, who were immediately summoned, and the strenuous efforts of
his wife and neighbors to stop the flow of blood, Mr.
Saup would have bled to death.
It required 13
stitches to close the gaping wounds in his palm and on his
finger and arm. Mr.
Saup is resting as well as could be expected today,
although still weak from the loss of blood.
Mrs. L. E.
Jones, of 528 Thirty-fourth Street, received the sad news this
morning of the sudden, but not unexpected, death of her
father, Jefferson
King, which occurred in Batesville, Ark., Saturday. The
deceased had lived in Missouri for many years and a short
time ago he moved to Batesville. Old age was the cause of
his death, he being 98 years of age. He had been blind for
the past ten years He leaves a wife, 78 years of age and
several children.
The body of
Robert Schneider, aged about 25 years, a native of Helerichau, Germany, who
was found dead on the bridge approach late yesterday
afternoon, having been killed by an extra southbound
Illinois Central freight train, has been embalmed upon order
of Coroner McManus
and will be held until an effort to locate some of his
relatives or immediate friends can be made.
Schneider,
who it is thought was killed in attempting to board the
train, was an expert electrician, as was shown by numerous
letters of recommendation from both American and German
electrical concerns, which were found on his person.
Several letters
written in German, which were translated last night by Peter
Day, of this
city, stated that the deceased was a young man of excellent
character and high ability in his profession. Among the
papers were his passport to this country, showing that he
had a perfectly legal right to leave the fatherland to seek
employment and possibly fame and fortune in this country
Letters from electrical firms in Freeport, Rockford, and
Milwaukee, all pronounced him an electrician of much
ability.
The body of
Schneider was found by Section Foreman T. B.
Farrell, of the Illinois Central, shortly after 4 o'clock, a few
minutes after the freight had passed over the bridge. Mr.
Farrell had
noticed the man in the vicinity of the approach several
times yesterday and stated that he acted as if slightly
demented. Others, however, said that the man had appeared to
be half dazed as if ill.
When found he was
lying almost alongside the rails, the left side of his head
and face were crushed and his left shoulder and breast were
also mashed and bruised. It is thought that the train stuck
him as he was attempting to board it.
The deceased was
tall and well built, with dark hair and blue eyes. He wore
a black coat and vest and checked trousers, covered by blue
overalls and typically had been working at his trade. He
wore a small dark cap and in his pockets was found a
screwdriver. A small carpenter's hammer was found near the
man's body, it having fallen from his pocket.
The deceased was
a member of Electrical Workers' Union, No. 484 of Milwaukee
and Coroner McManus has wired Hans S.
Stolen, financial secretary of that organization, as
well as the firms for which
Schneider
formerly worked, asking what disposition should be made with
the body. Peter Day has written to the burgermeister of Heinrichau stating the
particulars of the young man's death.
Coroner
McManus held an inquest last night and the jury found a verdict that
the "deceased came to his death by injuries received by
being struck by or in attempting to board an extra
southbound Illinois Central freight train, drawn by engine
No. 939."
The tragic death
of young Schneider
is particularly sad. He evidently was out of employment and
was trying to get south in order to seek work when he met
his untimely end.
Friends and the
family of Albert
Crockett, a negro, aged 63 years, fear that he has been
drowned in the Ohio River. He has been employed as watchman
on a fleet of barges at the foot of Twenty-eighth Street for
several years. When he failed to return home this morning
an investigation was started. So far as could be learned,
he had not been seen since 1 o'clock this morning, when he
was observed by the mate of the
Fred Hartweg. Crockett
lived at 3004 Commercial Avenue with his wife and two
children.
(Albert
Crockett married Georgia Ann
Martin on 24 May 1872, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Jacob
Blum, one of the
most successful and well known merchants in Southern
Illinois, died at his home in Mound City Sunday morning at 8
o'clock after an illness of several months. The end came
peacefully and he passed away in a quiet childlike
sleep. The deceased has been engaged in business at Mound
City for the past 37 years, during which time he established
an enviable record for business enterprise and
integrity. He was highly successful and owned, besides
three stores, a considerable amount of real estate and
personal property in Pulaski County.
Previous to
locating in Mound City, the deceased was in business for a
number of years in Cairo. He was born in Aufhauser,
Waustemberg, Germany, on August 28, 1835. He came to this
country 45 years ago at the age of 19 years. He is survived
by four children, Mrs. George
Eichorn, and
Samuel, Jacob and Benjamin
Blum, all of
Mound City. Brief funeral services were conducted sat his
residence in Mound City this morning by Rabbi B.
Sadler, of this city. The bereaved relatives accompanied by friends
left for St. Louis where interment will be made tomorrow at
11 o'clock in the morning.
Within a hundred
yards of the scene of the tragic death of Robert
Schneider, the
young German electrician, who was killed by a freight train
Friday afternoon, the horribly mutilated body of an unknown
negro was found last night on the bridge approach at 9:30 by
Jack Hayden,
operator at Cairo Junction.
The body had been
cut in two across the chest and the shoulders with the head
crushed almost as flat as a board, lying in the center of
the tracks. The dismembered lower limbs were on the outside
of the rails. Both arms had been cut off and were lying on
the other side of the track.
Coroner James
McManus was noticed and left immediately for the scene with an
undertaker. The mutilated remains were removed to the
undertaking establishment of M. E.
Feith and
prepared for burial. In the pockets of the man's clothes
were found a silver dollar and a half dollar. Both were
bent almost double. A blood soaked Illinois Central ticket
stamped at East St. Louis on September 15, at the relay
station and bearing two punches, showing that he had left
that city Sunday morning was also found. It is supposed
that the conductor from Centralia to Cairo failed to take up
the ticket or that the negro for some unknown reason was
beating his way from that point. It is thought more likely
that he left the train at Bridge Junction and was attempting
to board an Illinois Central train to south when killed,
although his body was found on the northbound track.
Up till noon
Coroner McManus who is aiming strenuous efforts to locate the relatives of
young Schneider
had not heard from the several telegrams he has sent to
different parties.
As a result of a
pistol duel brought about by a quarrel in a crap game, on
the streamer J. B. Richardson, near Mound City, Sunday morning, Henry
Boyd is dead and
Ed Trixley is a
fugitive from justice. Trixley
escaped from the boat at Mound City and has not as yet been
captured. Boyd
was brought to Cairo and upon the request of his brother in
Paducah was sent back to that city on the Illinois Central
train last evening, but died a short while before the train
reached there.
The pistol duel
occurred on the lower deck of the boat and it is considered
miraculous that more persons were not killed or wounded. Trixley
fired twice at Boyd,
both bullets taking effect. Boyd
fired twice at
Trixley but both shots went wild. Witnesses differ as
to who shot first.
The duel was only
one of the many fights that occurred on the boat and the
excursion was by far the goriest affair of the kind ever
pulled off. It is said that practically all the negroes
were armed and numerous gun and knife plays took place, to
say nothing of fist fights and hair pulling matches.
Two negro women
engaged in a contest of the latter kind after the boat
arrived in Cairo and were promptly arrested by Chief
Egan and Officers
Casey and
Thooman. Jim Washington
cut Ed Robinson
after the boat landed here and he too was arrested.
William
Davidson, the florist, received the sad news Monday of the death of
his sister, Mrs. Rowena
Davidson, which
occurred at the home of her brother, Thomas
Davidson, of Joliet, Ill., Saturday, of heart disease following a
severe attack of rheumatism.
Mrs.
Davidson, whose
home was in Berkeley, Cal., came here in the early part of
the summer to visit relatives and a pleasant reunion was
held during that time.
The remains were
cremated at Joliet this morning. Mr.
Davidson and his
brother, Charles
Davidson left last evening for that place to attend the
last rites. The ashes will be sent to Berkeley.
The deceased is
survived by two daughters, one of whom resides at Berkeley,
Cal., the other at Bakersfield, Cal., and a son, who lives
at Los Angeles. The other immediate surviving relatives are
four brothers, Thomas and Clarence
Davidson, of Joliet, William
Davidson, of Cairo, Charles
Davidson, of
Villa Ridge, and a sister, Mrs. James W.
Dille, of Villa
Ridge.
Albert
Crockett, the aged negro watchman of a fleet of barges at the foot
of Twenty-eighth Street, who disappeared sometime between 1
o'clock and daylight Saturday morning, slipped and fell into
the Ohio River and was drowned. Late Tuesday afternoon his
body came to the surface a short distance below the barges
where he had been employed. The body was brought to the
shore and Coroner
McManus immediately had it removed and prepared for
burial. Dr. McManus
held an inquest, finding that death was due to accidental
drowning. The finding of blood stains in one of the barges
Tuesday led some of the aged man's friends and relatives to
suspect that he had met with foul play, but an examination
of his body showed no marks of violence. Crockett
lived on Commercial Avenue near Twenty-eighth Street and is
survived by a wife and several children.
After a long
illness from blood poisoning, Ralph, the 11-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Britton, died at the home of his parents
near Mounds Monday night.
Cocaine, used in
extracting a tooth, is said to be responsible for the lad's
death.
The deceased is a
nephew of C. S. and B. I.
Britton, of
Mounds. His father is a dairyman living a few miles from
Mounds.
The funeral will
be held at 1:30 o'clock at the Methodist church at Villa
Ridge, conducted by Rev. M. Z.
Moses, assisted
by Rev. C. S.
Campbell. Interment will be at the Villa Ridge
cemetery.
(Edward G.
Britton married Alla A. Gould
on 22 Apr 1890, in Edwards Co., Ill.
His marker in Cairo City Cemetery at Villa Ridge
reads: Ralph H.
son of E. G. and A. A.
Britton Died
Sept. 16, 1907 Aged 11 Yrs., 4 Mos. & 19 Ds.—Darrel
Dexter)
The body of
Robert Schneider, the young German electrician who was killed on the bridge
approach last Friday afternoon, has been shipped to
Milwaukee, Wis., where the funeral will be held under the
direction of the Electrical Workers Union of which the
deceased was a member. The cost of embalming the body,
etc., was defrayed by the union. No information has been
received to show whether the deceased had any relatives in
that city.
Sterling, Ill.,
Sept. 21.—Fate seems to be pursuing Mrs. Fred
Smith, of this
place, whose fourth husband, a railroad man, was killed
beneath the wheels of an engine. Smith
was the woman's fourth husband and also the fourth to meet a
tragic death. Mrs.
Smith's first husband was drowned at sea several years
ago. Her next husband ended his own life by
hanging. Husband No. 3 was killed by a train. Yesterday’s
accident marks the fourth strange freak of fate.
Mrs. Caroline
Hogan died this afternoon at 2:20 o'clock at the home of her sister,
Mrs. Henry Baird,
of Ninth and Walnut streets. The deceased was 67 years of
age and had lived in Cairo all her life. For the past
several months she has been ill with the dropsy. She
leaves, besides her sister, one son Frank
Hogan.
The funeral will
be held tomorrow afternoon at the residence, corner of Ninth
and Walnut Street, at 1:30 o'clock. Friends of the family
are invited to the house. The cortege will go to Villa
Ridge cemetery in carriages and will be private. Rev.
Father Downing of
St. Patrick’s Church will conduct the services.
Engineer
Grogan and Fireman Robertson
were instantly killed at 11:30 o'clock last night when the
engine pulling the fast Illinois Central passenger train No.
104 from Memphis to Louisville turned turtle just as it was
rounding a curve entering Fulton, Ky. Two cars were also
derailed. The wreck was not learned until 7 o'clock this
morning. Mail Clerk
Robinson who was in the mail car was badly injured and
is not expected to live.
Capt. James
Rouse died at his home in Mound City Sunday night at 10 o'clock
after a long illness. He was 82 years of age, having been
born in Baltimore, Md., April 19, 1825. In 1851 he married
Mrs. Rachel Lindsay
who survives him and in 1857 they came to Mound City, where
he was employed at shipyards as carpenter during the war and
later enlisted on one of the gunboats. Later he was man in
charge of a fleet of snag boats for several years and went
with them to Bushburg, Ill., where he remained for about 17
years. He returned to Mound City about 15 years ago where
he has been ever since and was one of the strongest
Democrats in Pulaski County. He leaves, besides a wife,
five children, James W.
Rouse, Jr., of
Memphis, Tenn., William P.
Rouse, of Mound
City, Thomas S. Rouse,
Brazil, Ind., Mrs. Kate M.
Scott,
Assumption, Ill., and Mrs. Eva
Bowling, of Mound
City. The funeral will be held at the residence on
Wednesday afternoon, services conducted by Rev.
Juny of the Episcopal Church.
(Jesse L.
Bowling married Eva M. Rouse
on 23 Apr 1873, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
William P.
Scott married Martha
Rouse on 22 Sep
1892, in Pope Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Edward
Williams, of Faringburg, Mo., died at St. Mary's Infirmary Sunday
morning at 8 o'clock after an illness of a couple of
weeks. His remains will be shipped home.
Engineer John Marvin of
the Paducah run on the Illinois Central, laid off to attend
the funeral of Engineer
Grogan, who was
killed in the wreck below Fulton. Engineer
Rafferty took his place.
Secretary Joseph
Ezell, of the Banner Camp of the Woodmen of the World, today
received notice from the main office at Omaha that the death
claim of the late James
Sproat had been
allowed and that the check for the amount would be sent
immediately. It is expected here tomorrow. The proofs of
death were not sent away until last Friday night and Mr.
Ezell and other
members of the organization are well pleased with the prompt
manner in which the matter was disposed of.
Mrs. Clementine
McLean, formerly of this city, died at her home in Sandusky at 4
o'clock this morning. She had been in failing health for
some time, but was not seriously ill at any time prior to
her death. She had reached an advanced age of probably 75
years.
Mrs.
McLean was the
mother of the late Quincy
McGee, who
represented this district in the legislature, and who died
about eight years ago. When she lived in Cairo, she
conducted a millinery store, but failing eyesight compelled
her to give up the business, and she moved out upon her farm
near Sandusky. She had two nephews, Nathan and George
Stancil, one of
whom lived with her.
James O.
Reed, of this city, lived with her until she removed to her
farm. When he was 11 years old, she took him to raise, and
he remained with her until he was grown. She was also an
aunt of Mrs. J. M.
Guion, of Cairo, and had a sister, a Mrs.
Thompson, living
in Chicago.
Funeral
arrangements had not been completed this afternoon.
Elgin, Ill.,
Sept. 26.—Mrs. Silas
Baldwin, 83 years old, wife of a rich, retired farmer,
was found murdered, her skull being crushed in her home at
Hampshire. The family is one of the oldest near
Elgin. Mrs. Baldwin
was found with her head crushed, like an eggshell. A bloody
hammer was lying near her side. The murder is a mystery.
Word Received Here Announcing
Death of Mrs. James B. Scoville, Which Occurred in Chicago
Word has been
received here announcing the death of Mrs. Victoria C.
Scoville at her
home, 4935 Indiana Avenue, on Thursday morning. She is
survived by her husband, James B.
Scoville; a
daughter, Miss Stella, who was with her at the time of her
death; and a son, Arthur, who is engaged in the lumber
business in the south. The deceased was a member of the
Lake View Chapter, Order Eastern Star, International Lodge
of Rebekahs, and Columbia Council Vesta Circle.
Mr. and Mrs.
Scoville and family formerly resided in Cairo in Center Street, but
Mrs. Scoville and
daughter removed to Chicago several years ago for the
benefit of the former's health.
Mr.
Scoville has been
employed by the Illinois Central here for many years. Both
he and Mrs. Scoville
have scores of friends in the city who will be deeply
grieved to hear of her death. Arrangements for the funeral
are not known. It is thought however that the service and
interment will be held in Chicago.
The funeral of
Mrs. C. McLean
will be held tomorrow from the home of the deceased at
Sandusky and the remains will be taken to Villa Ridge for
interment. Mrs.
Thompson, mother of Mrs. J. M.
Guion, arrived
from Chicago this morning to attend the funeral. She is a
sister of the deceased.
(Her marker in
Cairo City Cemetery at Villa Ridge reads:
Clementine
McLean 1832-1907.—Darrel
Dexter)
Word has been
received by Cairo friends that Rev. F. P.
Davenport,
formerly rector of the Church of the Redeemer here, is at
the point of death at Metropolis.
Tuesday, 1 Oct 1907:
Waterloo, Ill.,
Sept. 28.—Because he tarried for half an hour to follow and
kill a snake which bit him, Fred
Shroder an aged
farmer, will probably lose his life. Shroeder
was bitten in the thumb by a snake while loading corn fodder
on a wagon. By the time he reached a physician after his
delay to kill the reptile,
Shroder's thumb
was swollen and he was in great pain. The physician is
doubtful of Shroeder's
recovery.
East St. Louis,
Ill., Sept. 28.—The body of J. B.
Plot, of this
city, was left all day in an open grave here awaiting the
arrival of his daughter, Mrs. Josephine
Boisseau, of
Minneta, La. When the funeral procession was ready to start
for the church, a delayed message from the daughter
announced that she was on her way north and asked that the
funeral be postponed until her arrival.
It was decided to
go on with the funeral, but to leave the grave open, so that
the daughter could see her father before he was covered with
earth. A volunteer guard remained with the body until late
at night, when Mrs.
Boisseiu arrived and was taken to the cemetery. After
the casket had been opened and she had seen her father’s
face, the burial was completed.
(Her marker in
Hargis Cemetery reads:
Polesa E. wife of John W.
Akins Born March
14, 1861 Died Sept. 29, 1907.—Darrel
Dexter)
Paducah Sun: John
Gilbert, 54 years
old, died in Golconda, Ill., Wednesday afternoon suddenly of
a complication of diseases after a six months' illness. His
death came suddenly and was caused more directly by heart
disease, of which he had suffered for years. News of his
death reached Paducah when the steamer
John S. Hopkins
reached Paducah. In command of the boat was Capt. Henry
Gilbert, of Evansville, a brother of the deceased, who was apprised
of his brother's sudden death when the boat landed with 82
Evansville businessmen
en route to Memphis aboard.
The deceased was
born and raised in Pope County and in his early life went
into the river business, managing the Golconda wharf
boat. He accumulated wealth rapidly and 26 years ago
married Miss Monie
Kidd, of this city. His wife died 16 years later and
after a year he married Miss Lucy
Moore, of
Golconda, but leaves no children by the second
marriage. After leaving the river service, he went into the
mercantile business and later assumed control of the Pope
County Bank after his father's death. He served one term as
mayor of Golconda and was always prominently connected with
all church and temperance moves.
While bereft of
his reasons, Martin
Carmody, one of the oldest citizens of Cairo, wandered
from the city Saturday and sometime before daylight Sunday
was struck and killed by an Illinois Central train on a
small trestle near Cache, a railroad station in Alexander
County, seven miles north of Cairo. The body was found
Sunday morning by two boys. They immediately notified
officials at Cache, who sent word to Coroner James
McManus, who was
at Thebes. He had the remains removed to Cairo last night
and an inquest was held.
The jury returned
a verdict in accordance with the facts.
The deceased has
long been subject to fits and was stricken with one Saturday
evening at the corner of Nineteenth Street and Washington
Avenue. He was revived by Officers
Hofheinz and
Hagey and later was seen walking in a northerly direction.
The deceased was
64 years old and had resided in Cairo 51 years. For 38
years he was employed as a yard workman by the Illinois
Central railroad, having been put on the retired list with a
pension two years ago. For the past year he has made his
home at the boarding house of Miss Mary
Strauss, Twenty-first
Street and Commercial. The body has been removed to the
home of the deceased's brother, Patrick
Carmody, at 1910
Poplar Street. The funeral will be held Tuesday at St.
Patrick's Church.
The deceased was
born in County Clare, Ireland, and removed to this country
when a youth. Besides his brother he is survived by two
sons, Thomas, a Big Four switchman of this city; and Patrick
Carmody, of Cape
Girardeau, Mo. He was well known and highly respected, and
the news of his tragic death was received with deep sorrow
by a large circle of friends and acquaintances.
The suit of Mrs.
Mary Josephine
Whiteaker, administratrix of the estate of the late
James Whiteaker,
who was killed at the Fortieth Street crossing of the Big
Four on the night of April 20, 1905, against the railroad
company for $10,000 was commenced in the United States
circuit court this afternoon, Judge Francis M.
Wright presiding.
The deceased
accompanied by Edward
Latham, a negro employee, were returning to Willard,
where Mr. Whiteaker
resided, when the buggy in which they were riding was run
down by a Big Four freight car, pushed by a switch
engine. The plaintiff alleges that there was no light on
the car and that the engine did not blow for the crossing.
Many court
officials and attorneys are in the city, including: U. S.
Marshal C. P. Hitch, Clerk Daniel Hogan,
Assistant District Attorney George A.
Crowe, of East
St. Louis, Chief Deputy U. S. Marshal John L.
Watts, Deputy Clerk A. G.
Davis, Miss A. F.
Hamilton, Clerk in United States district attorney's
office, Bailiff Chester
Lycon, Court Crier Edward
Bacon.
The session of
the federal court is expected to be an unusually long one as
the dockets are lengthy and there remains much unfinished
business.
Tuesday, 8 Oct 1907:
The funeral of
Martin Carmody who was struck and killed by an Illinois Central train near
Cache, Ill., sometime early Sunday morning was held this
afternoon from the home of the deceased's brother, Patrick
Carmody, at 1910
Poplar Street. Services were conducted by Rev. Father
Downey at St.
Patrick’s Catholic Church. Interment was made at Villa
Ridge cemetery. The funeral was largely attended by the
many friends of the deceased.
(Martin
Carmody married Bridget Dowd
on 31 Jan 1869, in Alexander Co., Ill.
His marker in Calvary Cemetery at Villa Ridge reads:
Martin Carmody
Died Oct. 5, 1907 Aged 67 Years.
Bridget wife of Martin
Carmody Died Dec.
2, 1901, Aged 54 Years.
John son of M. & B.
Carmody Died
March 2, 1878, Aged 5 Years.
Timothy son of M. & B.
Carmody Died Feb.
18, 1891 Aged 3 Years.—Darrel
Dexter)
The attention of
the federal district court in session at the federal
building has been occupied since yesterday with the case of
Mrs. Mary Whiteaker
against the Big Four Railroad company for $10,000 damages as
a result of the death of her husband, the late James
Whiteaker, who
was run over and killed by a freight car pushed by a Big
Four switch engine at the Fortieth Street crossing on the
night of April 20, 1905. The plaintiff is represented by
Attorney Angus Leek,
of this city, and the railroad company’s case is in charge
of Judge W. S. Dewey,
of this city.
The suit is based
on the charge that the deceased came to his death because of
the negligence on the part of the railroad employees
alleging that proper signals were not displayed and that no
warning was sounded for the crossing. The deceased was
returning to his home in Willard, this county, when the
buggy in which he was driving was stuck by the train.
The plaintiff
completed its case this morning and this afternoon evidence
is being heard for the railroad. The case probably will be
completed tomorrow.
The deceased was
a well-known farmer and lumberman of this county and was a
relative of Postmaster Sidney B.
Miller and County
Clerk Jesse E. Miller.
Mrs. Mary
Elizabeth Whiteaker, widow of James Milford
Whiteaker, was this morning awarded $5,000 damages against the Big
Four Railroad in the federal court as a result of a suit for
damages for the death of her husband. The suit was brought
for $10,000. Mr.
Whiteaker was struck and killed by a Big Four freight
train on Fortieth and Sycamore Street crossing two years
ago. The accident occurred while the deceased was driving
to his home at Willard.
(William T.
Cullum married Ellis A.
Chancy on 26 Oct 1865, in Saline Co., Ill.
His marker in St. John’s Cemetery near Mill Creek
reads: W. T.
Cullum Born Feb.
17, 1844 Died Oct. 2, 1907.
Ellis A.
Cullum Born Nov. 23, 1848 Died April 22, 1905.—Darrel
Dexter)
(Charles A.
Heilig, 23, born in Union Co., Ill., son of Michael N.
Heilig and Sarah
Eddleman, married Cora Brown,
19, born in Mt. Pleasant, Ill., daughter of John
Brown and Manerva Corzine,
on 18 Jan 1891, in Union Co., Ill.
His marker in St. John’s Cemetery near Mill Creek
reads: Charles
A. Heilig Born Feb. 8, 1866 Died Oct. 7, 1907.
Cora Heilig
Born Sept. 8, 1871 Died July 25, 1933.—Darrel
Dexter)
Saturday, 12 Oct 1907:
(Jesse O.
Hunt married E. Grace Hewitt
on 28 Sep 1897, in Union Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
After twenty-four
hours of awful suffering, Mrs. Mary
Arnold, wife of
Lee Arnold, of
Cairo, died at their home in Mound City at 7 o'clock this
morning as a result of frightful burns she received Friday
morning while attempting to start a fire in the kitchen
stove with coal oil. The heat from the stove caused the oil
can which she was holding to explode.
Mrs.
Arnold's tragic
death has cast a gloom over Mound City, where she was well
and favorably known. She had resided there with her family
for several years. Recently Mr.
Arnold has been
employed as a sawyer at the Chicago Mill and Lumber Company
of this city.
The accident
occurred at an early hour yesterday morning when Mrs.
Arnold was
arranging to prepare the morning meal for herself and baby
girl. The child was still asleep and was awakened by the
explosion. She leaped from the bed and ran to the kitchen
to find her mother a human torch. The oil had covered Mrs.
Arnold's clothing and she was a mass or flames from head to
foot. The child screaming with terror ran from the room to
summon help. Neighbors startled by the noise were already
on their way to the house. When they entered they saw Mrs.
Arnold on the floor, rolling about in a vain effort to extinguish
the flames, which were literally cooking her to
death. Grasping rugs and blankets they wrapped her in them
and in this manner put out the fire.
Physicians were
hastily summoned and did everything possible to relieve her
sufferings. But is was feared from the first that she would
not be able to survive the awful burns and the shock. The
flames had burned the hair from her head and had been so
intense that she was injured internally. The flesh all over
her body was burned and that she lived until this morning is
considered remarkable.
The deceased was
25 years old and is survived only by her husband and
child. Funeral services were conducted this afternoon at
the residence on Diamond and Railroad streets by Rev. I. A.
Humberd. The
body was taken to Paducah where the interment will be held
tomorrow afternoon.
The death of J.
B. Miller at his home south of Anna last week removes one of the most
progressive horticulturists in Illinois, says the Anna,
Ill., Talk. He
was 80 years of age, lacking two days, and died in the house
in which he was born. He had, however, been away from the
homeplace two or three times for periods of varying
length. In the 40s he was associated with the late John
Greer in the
jewelry business in Jonesboro, also along about that time he
was for a short period editor of the
Jonesboro Gazette.
With Capt. Hugh
Andrews and others he went to California during the gold
fever. During the past 40 years he has devoted himself
exclusively to farming, especially to the propagation of new
varieties of strawberries. He was the originator of the
occasion. The people of Cairo extremely profitable to
growers 20 years ago. Mr.
Miller was a
close observer and no better entomologist ever lived in
Illinois. He was a frequent contributor to farm journals
and was an intimate friend and correspondent of the widely
known entomologist E. V.
Riley. He knew
more about the habits of insects than any man in this state
with the possible exception of Professor
French of
Carbondale.
His will has been
probated and after paying all debts and setting aside 40
acres of land for his nephew, John R.
Miller, with whom
he lived, the residue of the estate, something like $2,000
is left to Union Academy and the proceeds to be used for the
education of boys and girls from the Hess District in which
he has always lived and in whose welfare he was generally
interested.
Mr. and Mrs.
Jesse Orra Hunt
were in Ullin, Pulaski County yesterday to attend the
funeral of the latter's niece, Mrs. Jessie
Johnson
Freshette, who died at her home there Friday after a week's
illness. The funeral services were held at the home of the
deceased's parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. W.
Johnson. The
deceased was a well-known and most estimable young woman,
whose untimely death was a great shock to her relatives and
scores of friends and acquaintances.
(Lew W.
Johnston married Kate L.
Hewitt on 6 May1 884, in Alexander Co., Ill.
Her marker in Ullin Cemetery reads:
Jessie
Johnston
Frechette 1885-1907.—Darrel
Dexter)
The following
people from Cairo attended the funeral of Mrs. Jessie
Frechette Sunday
afternoon; Mr. and Mrs. J. O.
Hunt, Mrs. Elmer
Smith, Mrs. L. E.
Williamson, Mrs.
A. H. Halley,
Miss Lizzie Livings,
Miss Virginia
Falconer, Mr. Robert
Hewitt, and
Daniel Hartman.
To the friends
who ministered to my wife during the terrible ordeal through
which she passed and which ended in her death last Saturday,
I wish to publicly extend my most heartfelt thanks.
Chester, Ill,
Oct. 19—Lincoln A.
Johnson, usher at the Southern Illinois Penitentiary,
shot and instantly killed Roscoe
Morse, station agent for the Wabash Railroad at Chester, as he stood
in the door of the depot, just outside the prison
gates. Five shots were fired in rapid succession, two of
which took effect. Johnson
and Morse had a dispute over the receipt of some freight that was
delivered to Johnson,
but which he claimed he had not received. A fight ensued in
which Johnson was
beaten. Morse
walked away and
Johnson fired the fatal shots at a distance of a few
feet.
Fred
Korn, slayer of
David Barham, a
negro, will tomorrow morning answer the charge of
manslaughter in the October term of circuit
court. Attorneys
Lansden & Leek
and Hon. Reed Green
have been engaged to defend
Korn. State’s
Attorney Wilson
will prosecute.
Korn,
it will be remembered, shot and killed
Barham during a
quarrel in the Central Union Station several months ago.
The case of
William Causey, who shot and killed George
Wooden, a negro, has been postponed to the next term of
court. Today the attention of the court was occupied with
motions and arguments.
The suit against
the Illinois Central Railroad Company brought by Mrs.
Harriet Thistlewood
as a result of the accidental death of her husband, the late
P. J. Thistlewood,
near the Cairo Water Company's plant, has been settled out
of court, the plaintiff receiving the sum of $5,000. Hon.
Reed Green
represented Mrs.
Thistlewood.
Upon motion of
the attorneys for Fred
Korn his trial on
the charge of manslaughter, growing out of the killing of
David Barham, a
negro baggageman at the Central Union station, some months
ago, was continued until the next term of the circuit court
by Judge W. N. Butler this morning. The continuance was asked because of a
difficulty in locating certain witnesses for the defense.
By the head-on
collision of two freight trains on the Illinois Central at
Elkville shortly before 2 o'clock this morning, one man was
killed and four were so badly injured that they had to be
taken to their homes.
A freight was
pulling out of the mine there and was trying to get out of
the way of passenger train No. 3 southbound, when a
northbound freight approached. The freight made an attempt
to reach a siding in order to avoid a collision, but failed
to do so, and the trains met head-on. The engines were torn
all to pieces. One of the brakemen was killed and both
engineers and fireman were badly hurt. Two of them were
taken to Carbondale and two to Centralia. Elkville is 13
miles north of Carbondale.
Cairo friends
have received the news of the death in Chicago last Saturday
of Mrs. Lucretia Walbridge Robertson,
formerly of Cairo. She died very suddenly from the bursting
of a blood vessel. The funeral occurred Monday. She left a
husband and three children, two daughters and a son.
Charles
Pancier, night engineer, at the Bucher Packing Company Plant, on
upper Commercial Avenue, is at St. Mary's Infirmary probably
fatally injured as a result of a fall early this morning
from a high ladder in the yard adjoining the engine
room. It is believed that Mr.
Pancier's back was broken by the fall and that he is internally
injured. His body was also cut and bruised by the fall.
Mr.
Pancier is 48
years old and resided with his wife and two children on
Thirty-fifth Street.
Brakeman W. R.
Aldrich was instantly killed and Conductor
Sessler and Engineer Randle
were injured in the wreck below Elkville Wednesday night,
when two Illinois Central freight trains met in collision.
Neither engine
was seriously damaged but five freight cars were wrecked and
totally destroyed, together with part of the contents. The
wreckage completely blocked both tracks for several hours
and passenger train No. 23 was detoured
via Pinckneyville
and Murphysboro as were several freights.
Brakeman
Aldrich was instantly killed. Conductor
Sessler was hurt
in the back and Engineer
Randle had his
ankle sprained. The dead man lived at Centralia, where he
has a wife and four children. He was 35 years old. The
injured men also live at Centralia.
House Manager
Morris May of the Elks Club received a telegram this afternoon from the
Elks Lodge at Canon City, Colo., stating that Frank
Gossman of this city, who went west a month ago for the benefit of
his health, is in a critical condition and not expected to
live through the day. The news of Mr.
Gossman's
condition will cause a deep gloom among his many friends and
acquaintances in Cairo. Mr.
Gossman has been
suffering from tuberculosis for the past few years and only
a few months ago returned from an extended stay in
Arizona. He was for a number of years connected with the
Alexander County National Bank and is a member of the Elks
Lodge and the Alexander Club of Cairo and was until he left
for Arizona second lieutenant in Company K. He is a
universal favorite among all who know him and the news of
his condition will be received with the deepest regret and
sorrow. Oberly
Gossman, of this city, is at his bedside, having
accompanied him.
F. W.
Cox, of the
Illinois Central, received a message today from Jonesboro,
Ill., stating that William
Harrell, father
of Dr. S. M. Harrell,
of Chicago, but formerly of this city, was critically ill
and that there was little hope for his recovery. Mr.
Harrell came to
Cairo a few days ago to negotiate for the sale of the Horse
Shoe Lake property in Alexander County. Dr.
Harrell is there
looking after the matter and could not be found today. Mr.
Harrell is one of
the oldest setters in Southern Illinois and up to a few
years ago made his home in Cairo with his son.
Frank
Gossman, whose
serious illness at Canon City, Colo., was mentioned in
The Citizen, died
Sunday afternoon at 1 o'clock. The remains will be brought
to Cairo for interment and the funeral will be held from the
residence of Mrs. Wilhelmina
Frank, No. 910 Walnut Street. No word has been received when the
remains will arrive.
(Charles
Frank married Mina Sharp
on 9 Feb 1858 in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
In the circuit
court Saturday evening, suit was filed by Attorneys
Ingleheart,
Taylor and
Highland, of Evansville, Ind., on behalf of Bernard J.
Herbert.
It will be
remembered that Mr.
Herbert cut off his son in his will, leaving him only
one dollar. The suit is field for the February term of
court.
J. D.
Hurd, formerly of
Cairo, died at the home of his father in Urbana, Saturday
morning, after an illness of about eighteen months. His
death was the result of a tumor which formed on his
brain. For three months he was a patient in St. Mary's
Infirmary here and went to Urbana only about a week ago.
The remains of
the late Frank
Gossman will arrive from Canon City, Colo., tomorrow at
1:30 o'clock over the Illinois Central, accompanied by V. G.
Smith of
Champaign, an old friend of the deceased. The Elks will
meet the body at the train and escort it to the home of Mrs.
Frank at 910
Walnut Street. The funeral will probably be held Thursday,
but arrangements have not yet been perfected. Burial will
be at Villa Ridge.
Mrs. H. M.
Smith, of No. 720 Thirty-fifth Street, died at 3:15 this
afternoon. Her husband is a lumber inspector and five
children are left motherless. The remains will be taken to
Elvira, Ind. on the Big Four train tomorrow morning for
interment.
A body of Elks,
friends of the late Frank
Gossman, met the
remains on their arrival from Colorado over the Illinois
Central at 1:20 this afternoon and accompanied them to the
home of Mrs. Frank,
aunt of the deceased, No. 910 Walnut Street. The remains
were accompanied from Canon City to Cairo by V. G.
Smith, of
Champaign, a friend of the deceased. The funeral will be
held at the Lutheran Church tomorrow afternoon as may be
seen from the funeral notice published elsewhere in today’s
paper.
Mrs. Annie
Garner died of congestion this morning at her home above Future City
on the Sycamore road. The decrease was thirty-nine years of
age. The funeral arrangements are in charge of
Burke &
Blaine.
(George C.
Vick married Sarah C. Newcome
on 26 Mar 1882, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
Her marker in Ullin Cemetery reads:
Sarah C. wife of Geore C.
Vick Died Oct.
26, 1907 Aged 51 Yrs., 11 Mos. & 26 Dys.—Darrel
Dexter)
Died, Sunday,
Oct. 27, 1907, Frank L.
Gossman, aged 27
years.
Funeral services
will be held in the Lutheran church Thursday afternoon, Oct.
31, at 2 o'clock conducted by Rev. Charles H.
Armstrong. Funeral
train will leave foot of Fourteenth Street at 2:45 p.m. for
Villa Ridge cemetery.
Friends of the
family are invited.
All members are
requested to meet at lodge rooms Thursday at 1 o'clock to
attend the funeral of Brother Frank
Gossman.
The funeral
services over the late Frank
Gossman were held
this afternoon from Immanuel Lutheran Church, Rev. Charles
H. Armstrong
officiating. Two beautiful hymns, "Asleep in Jesus," and
"Nearer My God to Thee," favorites of the deceased, were
sung by a quartette composed of Jesse
Gross, Harry
Stark, Leo
Kleb, and Joe Raeth.
The services at
the cemetery were conducted by the Elks, who attended in a
body. The firing squad and the trumpeter of Co. K, attended
and a salute of twenty-four guns was fired over the grave.
The pallbearers
were Edward Lewis,
Charles Greagory, Alexander Wilson,
E. B. Cochran,
Hunter Bird,
Henry Gilhofer, H. N. Calhoun,
and E. P. Fitzgerald.
There were many
beautiful floral emblems in token of the high esteem in
which he was held by his many friends and classmates.
At 2 o'clock this
afternoon Coroner James
McManus empaneled
a jury to inquire into the death of
Lewis.
The jury was
composed of E. C.
Halliday, L. C. Herbert, H. A. Ellsworth,
B. R. Thistlewood,
Charles F. Arter,
and E. J. Walder.
The first witness
examined was Walter
Pettis. He said that he saw the two men enter (Kimmons
and Lewis) and
heard them say that they must go home. They went into the
back room and in not more than five minutes
Ford came
strolling in. Witness said that he did not pay much
attention to Ford;
saw him go back behind the swinging doors; then he heard the
shot and went back to see and saw
Lewis come
out. Saw Ford
follow him. Witness said to
Ford when he saw
him follow Lewis
with a gun in hand, "I wouldn't do that." Saw
Lewis after he
fell under the swinging doors. Witness said
Ford went out
there and heard him say, "I wonder if he is hurt." Pettis replied, "Yes, I guess you killed him." Ford
then went over and laid his gun down on the safe and tried
to call up the coroner over the telephone but could not get
him.
The next witness
was Joe Kimmons. He
said that they were down in
Beckwith's
saloon, Lewis and
himself, and that
Lewis and Ford got into a quarrel. It came up so quick that he did not know
how it started. He saw
Ford leave the
side entrance and
Kimmons said to
Lewis, "Let's go and get Jack and go home. Jack was
another man who came over with them in the skiff. They went
out the front door and up Commercial. Witness said that he
thought they stopped at
Botto's on the
way up. They went to
Riddle's saloon and entered the back room and sat down
by the stove. They had been there two or three minutes when
Ford came in. Ford
said, "Aren't you the fellow I had the quarrel with back at
Beckwith's?"
Lewis replied, "I
think that I am." Lewis
was sitting down and
Ford pulled his gun and struck at him three times with
the barrel, holding the handle in his hand. Witness did not
know whether Ford
hit Lewis.
Lewis
started to get up and run, and as he did,
Ford shot him. Lewis
had his side turned toward
Ford and he was
on the side Ford
shot, and he kept going. Kimmons
stayed there two or three minutes and then went out the back
door and went to the skiff and went home. Witness stated
that both had been drinking. Witness was asked whether he
knew whether Lewis
had a knife. He said that he thought he did. Witness did
not know whether it was open or note, but thought it was
like the knife that the coroner showed him. He was also
asked if Lewis
had made any threats and he said
Lewis wanted to
go back to Beckwith's
but witness told him not to.
Lee
Hanauer and
Staats Halliday
were the next witnesses. They were standing at the bar
drinking and paid little attention to the men,
Lewis and
Kimmons and
Ford, as they entered the saloon. They heard the shot and both ran
out of the saloon. Hanauer
returned in a few minutes and saw
Ford standing at
the front of the saloon with a gun in his hand and heard him
say that Lewis
had tried to cut him with a knife. Lewis'
body was lying there and
Hanauer went out
and notified the police.
A number of other
witnesses were also examined.
John W.
Lewis, who ran a ferry between Cairo and East Cairo, Ky., was shot
and killed in Riddle's
Saloon at Eighth Street and Commercial at 10 o'clock last
night by John R. Ford, who runs a saloon on lower Ohio Street.
After the
shooting, Lewis ran to the front of the saloon where he fell and expired,
while Ford came
out of the back room where the shooting occurred and after
summoning Coroner James
McManus, remained
near the body of his victim until Officers
Cowell,
Thooman and
Casey came and took him in custody.
The only witness
to the shooting was Joe
Kimmons, a friend
of the dead man, who was with him when he entered the saloon
and who was present in the back room when
Ford fired the
fatal shot.
The shooting was
done with a 44 Colts revolver.
When the shooting
occurred Kimmons
hastily left the saloon and going to this skiff which
brought them over, returned to Kentucky. Not until he
returned today was it learned who he was.
In the saloon at
the time of the shooting were Walter
Pettis, the
bartender, and Staats
Halliday and Lee
Hanauer. None of them saw the affair and not a word was
heard from the rear room after
Ford entered. He
appeared to have just gone in and shot his man. Ford entered the saloon after
Lewis and Kimmons
did and the shooting occurred immediately after
Ford entered the
room. Only one shot was fired.
No weapon of any
kind was found upon
Lewis, except the pocket knife mentioned above. He had
a bottle of whiskey in his pocket apparently untouched and
nearly $150 in money.
After the
shooting Ford stood there cursing his victim in front of the saloon and as
the crowd collected he told him that he had done the deed
and gave his version of how it happened.
Before this
tragedy occurred, Officer
Casey was hunting
for Ford for
another affair in which he had beat a man over the head with
a billiard cue. Ford quarreled with a man named
Brown and the latter swore out a warrant against
Ford, before
Judge Ross about
9 o'clock and it was given to Officer
Casey to serve.
Ford
states that the trouble between
Lewis and himself
started at Lee
Beckwith's saloon at Fourth and Commercial and that
Lewis threatened
him as he entered and invited the crowd to a drink.
Lewis
had been running the ferry for the past two years and half
and during that time he had acquired a reputation that
appeared to be entirely in his favor. He was very
accommodating and frequently delivered things in Cairo for
the people across the river who could not take the time to
come over. He was a man about 48 years of age and leaves a
son, Charles, about 12 years of age. His wife has been dead
a number of years, and he leaves a mother and sister in Mt.
Vernon, Ind. He visited them only a couple months ago, and
is known to have frequently sent them money. Those who know
him well say that they never knew him to carry a knife, and
didn’t believe he had one.
(His marker in
Mt. Zion Cemetery near Dongola reads:
Monroe G. W.
Lingle Born April 13, 1831 Died Oct. 25, 1907 Aged 76
yrs., 6 Mos., & 12 Ds.—Darrel
Dexter)
Friday, 1 Nov 1907:
Died—Mrs. John J.
Groh, Friday morning, November 1st, 1907, aged 29
years. Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at
1:30 o'clock from family residence, No. 2215 Sycamore
Street. Funeral train will leave foot of Fourteenth Street
at 2:45 p.m. Immediate friends of the family invited to
attend. (St. Louis papers please copy.)
Mrs. Minnie
Groh, wife of John J. Groh,
bookkeeper for the
Wood & Bennett
Company, died at 4:45 this morning at St. Mary's Infirmary
after an illness of fifteen days with typhoid fever and
spinal meningitis.
The deceased was
29 years of age and is survived by her husband and three
children. She was a native of Cairo, and was a cousin of
Mrs. Frank Schoembs. Her
parents reside at Olmsted., Ill.
Mrs. John
Miller, who conducted a small grocery on North Main Street in Mound
City, attempted to end her life this morning. She cut her
throat and severed an artery in her wrist in the attempt to
bleed to death. Dr.
Whiteaker was summoned, but he says that there is little
hope of her recovery.
Mr.
Miller is an
employee of the
Williamson & Kuny
Mill. They quarreled this morning and instead of going to
work, Mr. Miller went downtown and tried to drown his troubles in drink. His
wife went upstairs, telling the girl that worked for her
that she would make the beds. After a lapse of time, when
she did not return, the girl went upstairs to
investigate. Through the keyhole of the door she saw the
body lying in a pool of blood. She called for help and the
door was broken open and the physician summoned.
Mrs.
Miller has three
boys. The awful attempt at self-destruction occurred
shortly after 10 o'clock.
We, the
undersigned jurors, sworn to inquire into the death of John
W. Lewis, on oath
do find that he came to his death by a bullet wound caused
by a bullet fired from a revolver held in the hands of John
R. Ford. We further find that the said John R.
Ford was not
justified in the act and we therefore recommend that he be
held until discharged by due process of law. The said
shooting took place in Newton
Riddle’s Saloon, corner of Eighth and Commercial Avenue, about 10:15
p.m., October 30th, A.D. 1907, Cairo, Alexander
County, Illinois.
Signed E. C.
Halliday, L. C. Herbert,
H. A. Ellsworth,
B. R. Thistlewood,
Charles F. Arter,
E. J. Walder.
This was the
verdict of the coroner’s jury reached late Thursday
afternoon.
Ford
was lodged in jail last night and put in the steel
cage. When seen by
The Citizen representative this morning, he said that he
had nothing to say about the tragedy. In the cell with him
were three negroes who were amusing him by dancing and
singing.
Sheriff Frank E.
Davis yesterday cancelled the commission as deputy sheriff of Edward
Maley. Ford
had been placed in
Maley's custody after the shooting, but instead of
guarding him, Maley
allowed him his liberty.
There remains of
the dead man, John W.
Lewis, were shipped to Mt. Vernon, Ind., on an early
train this morning.
The body of
Dennis Brusher, a negro aged about 60 years, was found in a shed in the
rear of Gardner &
Egan's saloon at
Thirty-third and Commercial early this morning. The negro
was employed as porter at the saloon and slept in the
shed. Coroner
McManus held an inquest this morning and found that the
man came to his death by natural causes. He left a bank
balance of $25 and had a policy in the Metropolitan Life
which is sufficient to bury him. His son at Vincennes,
Ind., was notified.
Died—Mrs. John J.
Groh, Friday morning, November 1st, 1907, aged 29
years. Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at
1:30 o'clock from family residence, No. 2215 Sycamroe
Street. Funeral train will leave foot of Fourteenth Street
at 2:45 p.m. Immediate friends of the family invited to
attend. (St. Louis papers please copy)
William French
Axley, aged 60 years, an old resident of Cairo, died at 3:45 o'clock
this morning at his home, 710 Walnut Street, of dropsy. The
deceased had been afflicted with that disease for the past
three years, but has up to the last three weeks been able to
be out.
He has resided in
Cairo for 44 years, having come here in 1863. The deceased,
who was commonly known by his middle name, served in the
city police department and was city clerk. He was employed
as clerk in the store of V.
Resh and was well
and favorably known. He is survived by a wife, a son, Niles
Axley, and two
sisters, Mrs. Mary
Sears and Mrs. Laura
Martin, of
Belknap, Ill. No funeral arrangements have been made.
(William French
Axley married Mary Ann Parker
on 8 Oct 1871, in Alexander Co., Ill.
Robert A.
Martin married Laura
Axley on 17 Nov
1872, in Union Co., Ill.
His marker in Cairo City Cemetery at Villa Ridge
reads: W. F.
Axley 1847-1907
Mary Axley
1850-1932.—Darrel
Dexter)
George Robert
Feltz, the four-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. George T.
Feltz, died at
the home of his parents over
The Citizen
office, 222 Eighth Street, at 7:45 o'clock Saturday night
after an illness of several days. The child has been ill
with diphtheria since Tuesday, but death was due to a
weakness of the heart, brought on by a relapse.
It was thought
Saturday that he was out of danger. Anti-toxin had been
administered with what seemed to be the desired results and
up to 5 o'clock that afternoon he showed every sign of
recovery. Then, however, the little sufferer grew worse and
sank rapidly.
Mr. and Mrs.
Feltz have two other children, both girls, aged 12 and 10 years, who
have been inoculated with anti-toxin and who have not showed
any symptoms of the disease. The child was unusually bright
and attractive lad and was a great favorite among all who
knew him. The family formerly resided on Seventeenth
Street. Mr. Feltz
is a well-known switchman employed by the Big Four and with
his wife has the universal sympathy of the community in
their hour of affliction.
Private funeral
services were held this morning at the residence and
interment was made at the Beech Grove Cemetery.
P. T.
Powell, the aged
father of P. E.
Powell, former city comptroller of this city, died at
his home in Williamsburg, Va., Sunday afternoon at the
advanced age of 87 years. The sad news reached here in a
telegram to Mr.
Powell last night. The deceased was prominent for many
years in Virginia and his death will be the cause of much
heartfelt regret. The interment will be made in Burton
Parish Church yard, one of the oldest Episcopalian
cemeteries in the country.
(Lorenzo B.
Wilcox married Mrs. America A.
Wood on 28 Mar
1859, in Union Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
To the many kind
friends and neighbors who were so thoughtful and attentive
during the illness and at the death of my wife, I desire to
express my heartfelt gratitude. Especially do I desire to
thank the employees of the
Wood &
Bennett Company
for their assistance.
Axley—Died,
Nov. 4, 1907, after prolonged illness, William French
Axley, aged 60
years.
We desire to
express our sincere and heartfelt thanks to our neighbors
and friends who so kindly assisted us during the illness and
death of our loved one, George Robert
Feltes; also for the beautiful floral offerings.
U. G.
Kelly, a
prominent resident of McClure, died this morning of typhoid
fever. He was a brother-in-law of County Jailer Ed
Abernathie. Last
spring his wife died, leaving five small children.
(Ulysses G.
Kelly married Olga A.
Abernathie on 5 Apr 1891, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Warren
Craig, of McClure, well known over Alexander County, was stricken
with apoplexy Saturday night. Dr. P. H.
McRaven, who was down Wednesday, said that he was in a comatose
condition and seems to be rallying.
Coroner James
McManus yesterday began an investigation of the discovery of the
body of a white babe which was found by workmen on the new
outlet sewer at Tenth Street.
The body was that
of a child about a day old. It was found wrapped up in rags
and a newspaper and was in a shoebox. It had evidently been
thrown over the wall by someone who wanted to get rid of it
and hide a crime, but it failed to land in the water or in
the mouth of the sewer, where it would have been caught in
the flow of sewerage and carried into the river.
The discovery was
made by a workman named Antonio
Zrakannobo. It
is claimed that the box containing the body was seen last
Saturday, but some do not believe that this could be so, as
they think the body could not have been thrown there earlier
than the night previous.
(Benjamin T.
Bishop married Mrs. Celia J.
Bridges on 3 Oct 1875, in Johnson Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Dan Latty, the negro
from Grand Chain charged with murder, pleaded guilty to
manslaughter in circuit court. The case of Jesse
Hutchison of
Pulaski, charged with murder, has been continued for the
term. (Mound City)
Capt. John E.
English, citizen of Cairo since the early days of the Civil War,
passed away Thursday night after a long illness at his home,
408 Fifth Street. Death, which came at 11:20 o'clock,
was the result of paralysis.
Capt.
English was a
native of St. Johns, Newfoundland, where he was born in
March 3, 1844. He came to the United States at the age
of 13, but it was not until 1862 that he settled in Cairo.
He served in the Civil War, enlisting at Camp Jackson.
After the war, he followed the business here of contractor
and builder, but took a keen interest in all that went on in
the life of this community. He was prominent in the
organization of the military company known as the
Halliday Guards,
but which was a company of the Ninth Illinois Regiment.
During the high water of 1882 and 1883, this company gave
splendid service in guarding the levees.
Capt.
English was
married in 1872 to Miss Barbara E.
Kelley, who survives him with four children, Mrs. J. W.
White, of
Memphis; Anna, Will and John
English.
She also leaves five sisters and two brothers.
Funeral services
will be held tomorrow afternoon at St. Patrick's Church, and
the remains will be taken to Villa Ridge for burial.
Capt.
English was
stricken with paralysis over a year ago and since that time
has been unable to attend to business and for the most part
confined to his home.
(John E.
English married Barbara
Kelley on 27 Jul 1873, in Jackson Co., Ill.
English—Died,
Thursday, Nov. 7, 1907, John E.
English.
Funeral cortege
will leave the family residence, No. 408 Fifth Street, at
1:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 9, for St. Patrick's Church, where
funeral services will be held. Remains will be taken
by special train leaving foot of Fourteenth Street for Villa
Ridge cemetery.
Friends of the
family are invited to attend.
A fatal accident
occurred on the farm of County Commissioner Samuel F.
Davie, of Union
County, near Anna, last Sunday afternoon, which resulted in
the death of his son, James Norris
Davie, aged about
16 years, Monday morning at 11:45 o'clock. The boy's
death was caused by the accidental discharge of a shot gun
in the hands of Robert
Mangold, of
Jonesboro, 18 years of age.
In company with
Mangold, he went hunting for ducks in a cornfield and while crawling
through a cornfield
Mangold's gun was discharged, the full charge taking
effect in Davie's body, entering the rectal cavity and ranging up, lacerating
the bowels, bladder, and other vital organs in the abdominal
cavity in a terrible manner.
(His marker in
Anna City Cemetery reads:
James Norris Davie 1892-1907.—Darrel
Dexter)
Georgetown, Ky.,
Nov. 11.—The fourth trial of Caleb
Powers charged
with complicity in the murder of William
Goebel was
commenced this morning before Judge J. S.
Morris. The trial does not seem to be attracting as much
attention as former ones.
The old
Seven-mile Cemetery, seven miles from Cairo on the Beech
Ridge Road, is said to be in need of attention.
According to Henry
Sisk, Melvin
Merritt, and Hardline
Swinny, of
Thirty-second Street, who were out there recently, the
graveyard, long since abandoned, presents a sight more
gruesome and weird than most cemeteries. Coffins,
which have either been dug up by morbidly curious persons or
which have been uncovered by heavy rains are lying exposed
to view. One coffin, a heavy copper one, and evidently
quite expensive and quite old, was particularly noticed.
The skeleton in the coffin was, as far as could be seen,
still intact. The coffin was lying with a heavy tree
blown down in some storm lying across the top of it.
There is some
mystery attached to the present condition of the graveyard,
for when it was abandoned several years ago, it was said to
have been left in good condition. It has been
suggested that the place might have been visited by persons
desiring to get skeletons of human bones and that this may
account for the torn up conditions. Most of the
persons buried there were paupers although in the earlier
days it was the cemetery used exclusively. Later when
other cemeteries were established several of the bodies were
removed by relatives or friends.
Mr. W. E.
Cover accompanied by several friends left this afternoon for Makanda
where the stillborn child of Mr. and Mrs.
Cover is to be
buried. The bereaved couple reside at 4011 Sycamore
Street.
(Willis E.
Cover, 33, born in Caledonia, Ill,, son of Ephraim
Cover and Lydia
Webb, married Mary A. Hartley,
19, born in Benton, Ill., daughter of John F.
Hartley and Elizabeth
Whittington, on 20 Sep 1891, in Union Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mr. and Mrs. S.
B. Allison, of 1709 Washington Avenue, left this afternoon for
Piedmont, Mo., in response to a message received this
morning announcing the death of the latter's mother, Mrs.
Mary Nichols,
which occurred there at 7 o'clock last night. The
funeral will be held at Oran, Mo., tomorrow. Mr.
Allison is
soliciting freight agent for the Iron Mountain Railroad,
with headquarters in the city.
We wish to extend
our heartfelt thanks to all our kind friends and neighbors
who so kindly assisted us during the illness of our dearly
beloved husband and father and especially in the sad hour of
our bereavement.
(Edwin J.
Gause married Alice J. Riggle
on 9 May 1886, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Friends of Mrs.
H. Millis, of Mounds, will be grieved to learn of her death, which
occurred in that city at 8:30 o'clock this morning.
The deceased had been ill with a complication of disease for
some time, but had only been confined to her bed for the
past two weeks.
She was forty-one
years of age and had been a resident of Mounds for the past
fifteen years. She was very prominent in all
charitable work and her presence will be greatly missed by
all.
She leaves a
husband, who is a switchman in the Illinois Central yards
and five children, four boys and one girl, besides her
mother and several sisters. Her daughter, Mrs.
Blake, of
Chicago, her sisters, Mrs. Mary
Smith, of this
city, and Mrs. L. T.
Spanagel, of St. Louis, and her mother, Mrs. L. M.
King, were with
her at the time of her death.
The funeral
arrangements have not been completed.
John
O'Brien, aged 54,
was struck by the Big Four passenger train No. 3 just before
noon today. He was sitting on the track near the
Grear-Wilkinson's plant,
when the train came along at a 40-mile gait. When the
engineer saw the man he slowed up his engine, but could not
stop in time, and he was knocked down the embankment.
He was brought in on the train and taken to St. Mary's
Infirmary, where it was discovered that he had suffered a
fractured right arm, a dislocation of his left hip and
bruises about the head. It is supposed that he was
intoxicated at the time. His home is in St. Louis and
he worked for the government. He has no relatives.
It is believed that his injuries will prove fatal.
Sam
Dodds, a negro,
was probably fatally injured in an accident on the towboat
Beaver, which is
aground on a bar in the Mississippi a few miles above Cairo.
They were trying to push the boat off the bar when a chain
broke, striking Dodds
full in the face and crushed it badly. He was brought
down to Cairo in a launch and taken to the marine hospital.
Mr. Van Brocklen—Died
at St. Mary's Infirmary at 10:30 o'clock last night.
Services will be held Sunday afternoon. Funeral
cortege will leave Feith's undertaking establishment at 1:30 o'clock for St. Joseph’s
church. Funeral train will leave foot of Fourteenth
Street at 2:45 o'clock for Villa Ridge cemetery.
Murphysboro,
Ill., Nov. 6.—Dr. W. W.
Essick was killed
here last night by a switch engine. He was a faculty
member of the St. Louis College of Physicians and Surgeons
and had been surgeon here for the Mobile & Ohio for fifteen
years. The track is near the building in which he has
his office and residence.
An impressive
ceremony at the grave of the late James
Sproat will take
place tomorrow afternoon when the members of the Banner Camp
Woodmen of the World will unveil a monument erected in his
memory at the Villa Ridge cemetery. The Woodmen and
their friends will leave in a special train from the foot of
Fourteenth Street at 1:40 o'clock. The train will make a
stop at Twenty-eighth Street. The public is invited to
attend the service.
This is the first
unveiling in the history of the local camps of the Woodmen
although the members here have participated in the ceremony
at neighboring cities. It is a custom of the order to
erect a handsome monument at the grave of each departed
member.
Without gaining
consciousness, Edward
Barnes, the man who was brought up from Boonville,
Miss., on the Mobile & Ohio train late Saturday evening,
died from his injuries Sunday morning at 10 o'clock.
His remains were shipped to Boonville early this morning.
It is now
believed that Barnes
was struck by a train. He was found on the right of
way with a fracture at the base of his skull.
Barnes
was well dressed and the singular thing is that he had
neither watch nor money on his person when he was found.
The funeral of
Dr. W. W. Essick,
of Murphysboro, whose tragic death Friday night was told in
The Citizen
Saturday, was held Sunday afternoon and was largely
attended.
Dr.
Essick was run
over and killed by a switch engine on the Illinois Central
railroad directly in the rear of his office. The
railroad track is being lowered at that point and all trains
pass over it at a very slow speed. Dr.
Essick was seen
sitting on the track and the engine crew shouted to him and
believed that he would get out of the way of the approaching
engine, but he did not and he was run over and killed.
The engine wheels passed over his right leg at the knee and
the left leg below the hip and the left foot was cut off.
The victim died before medical aid could reach him. He
had been seen standing near the railroad crossing and seemed
to be dejected. A friend spoke to him, but he made no
reply. It is believed that he was temporarily out of
his mind.
Dr.
Essick was born
in Pennsylvania in 1854, but was reared in Richland County,
Illinois. He entered the Southern Illinois Normal at
Carbondale and later took up the study of medicine. He
first engaged in practice at Pomona and in 1885 moved to
Murphysboro. He was surgeon for the Mobile & Ohio
Railroad and for the Gastside Coal Company at his death.
He was also a member of the Knights of Pythias. Dr.
Essick was twice married and leaves a widow and two children who
were born to his first wife.
Dr. I. W.
Ellis has been appointed to fill the vacancy as surgeon for the
Mobile & Ohio.
(Wesley Wilson
Essick married Mattie E.
Reeves on 5 Jun 1884, in Jackson Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Casey, Ill., Nov.
19.—Engineer Joseph
McClellan was killed when passenger train No. 2 on the
Vandalia collided head on with passenger train No. 19 at
Vavay Park early today. One passenger, a mail clerk
and an express messenger were injured. The combination
car was burned in the fire, which broke out after the
collision, and the engines were both demolished.
An extra freight
which was standing on a siding pulled the trains from the
burning wreckage and probably saved a number of lives.
Three showmen
were killed in the vicinity of Cairo Monday when the
Forepaugh-Sells
show passed through Cairo on its way to winter quarters.
Only one of these
men met his death in Cairo. His name was Mark
Hardin, and he
was run down by a train near the Halliday Mill last evening.
He was taken to the infirmary, where it was found that his
right hand was cut off and his left leg taken off above the
knee. He died about midnight. He regained
consciousness before he died and was able to give his name
and the address of his brother in Baltimore. The
inquest was held by Coroner
McManus this
afternoon.
It is said that
one showman was killed at Belknap and another at Tunnel Hill
last night.
The police
arrested a number of the showmen for being drunk. All
of them had plenty of money as they had just been paid off.
A good many of them bought winter clothing here, and several
hundred dollars was put into circulation during the day.
Coroner
McManus last evening held an inquest over the body of Mark
Hardin, the show
man who was struck by a train in the Illinois Central yards
and fatally injured. The jury found that the man was
drunk and lay down on the track, when the train came along
and struck him. No one was blamed for the homicide
except the man himself. Coroner
McManus has not
heard from the brother of the dead man, who lives in
Baltimore, but he ordered the body embalmed and held
awaiting an answer to his dispatch.
St. Louis, Mo.,
November 20.—The funeral of Capt. John H.
Long, 69 years
old, who died at his home, 3883 Hartford Street, yesterday
morning, will be held from the family residence Thursday
afternoon. The funeral will be conducted by the
Masonic lodge of which he had been a member for many years.
Rev. Alvin W. Claxton,
pastor of the Grand Avenue Baptist Church, will officiate.
Interment will be in St. Matthews Cemetery.
Deceased was one
of the oldest retired captains on the Mississippi River,
having been in service over forty years. Capt.
Long was born in
Owen County, Kentucky, and had been a resident of St. Louis
about forty-five years. He was in the employ of the
Mississippi Valley Transportation Company for several years.
About four years ago he entered the service of the United
States government engineering service on the barge line
between the inlet of the Missouri River and Cairo, Ill.
Capt.
Long was forced
to retire about eight months ago on account of ill health.
His condition gradually grew worse, and for the past five
months he was confined to his bed. Death was due to
heart trouble. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Jennie
Long, and three
children—Mrs. M. A.
Winchester, and John and Alex
Long.
Dick
Lindsey shot and
killed Percy Glass
last night at Mounds. The shooting occurred in front
of Welsh & Price saloon.
Lindsey is a car
repairer. He is in jail at Mound City.
Salem, Ill., Nov.
21.—Gen. James Stewart
Martin, veteran
of both Mexican and Civil wars, former Congressman, banker,
former chairman of the Republican State Central Committee,
former commander of the Illinois Grand Army of the Republic
and commander of the Southern Illinois Soldiers’ and
Sailors' Association, died at his home yesterday morning
aged 82.
James S.
Martin was born in Estillville, now Gale City, Va., August 19, 1826,
and removed with his father John S.
Martin to Marion
County in 1844, settling near Salem. He received his
education in the Emery and Henry College, Washington County,
Virginia.
In 1847 Gen.
Martin enlisted in Company E, First Regiment, Illinois Volunteers
and served through the Mexican War. At the opening of
the Civil War, receiving a commission from Gov.
Yates, he
organized the One Hundred and Eleventh Illinois Volunteers,
composed of seven companies from Marion County, one from
Clinton and one from Clay. He was elected colonel, and
held his post through the entire war. Serving in the
Atlantic Campaign, he was chosen to succeed Gen. Giles A.
Smith to the command of the First Brigade, Second Division,
Fifteenth Army Corps. He led his regiment in
Sherman’s March to the Sea and in campaign through the Carolinas.
He was brevetted brigadier general February, 28, 1865, and
was mustered out of the volunteer service after the
surrender of Gen.
Johnston.
Since the war,
Gen. Martin has been engaged in the banking business and has held many
offices of public trust. He was county judge and in
1869 was appointed pension agent by Gen.
Grant. In
1872, as Republican candidate, he defeated Judge Silas L.
Bryan, for
Congressman. He served only one term in Congress.
In 1879 he was named commissioner of the Southern Illinois
Penitentiary. He was very active in Republican
politics, being chairman of the state central committee for
several terms. He was a candidate for the nomination
for governor in 1896 being defeated by John R.
Tanner.
Gen.
Martin, by his
first wife, is survived by three children, and his second
wife, who was Miss Margaret
Savage, of
Ashland, Ky., and one daughter. Funeral services will
be held Saturday. An address will be delivered by
Judge W. G. Cochran
of Sullivan, a comrade in the Civil War.
(James S.
Martin was a sergeant of Company C, 1st Illinois Foot
Infantry during the Mexican War.
James S.
Martin, 36, lawyer, born in Estillville, Va., was
colonel of the 111th Illinois Infantry, organized
20 Aug 1862, at Camp Marshall and mustered out 7 Jun 1865,
at Washington, D.C.
James S.
Martin married Emma J.
Elston on 19 Oct
1850, in Marion Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
John
Ward was the name
of the showman who was killed at Belknap Monday night.
His home was in Columbus, Ohio.
(His marker in
Thebes Cemetery reads:
Abraham Brown
Born Aug. 15, 1842 Died July 2, 1906.—Darrel
Dexter)
The body of Mark
Hardin, the man who was killed in the Illinois Central yards a few
evenings ago, has been shipped to his brother, John
Hardin, in Baltimore, Md.
A negro brakeman
on the Illinois Central at Mounds yesterday morning shot a
white man, who was trying to beat his way on the train.
The brakeman tried to put the white man off, and when he
resisted the negro shot him.
The coroner’s
jury this afternoon reached a verdict on the death of the
man found on the Big Four crossing last night. No one
was held to blame for the death. Engineer James
Law, of the
switch engine, stated that he met the man up at the bridge
at 7:30 last evening and that the man asked how to get on
the bridge, saying that he wanted to get across the river.
Law stated that
the man's breath smelled of liquor at the time.
Law also said
that he thought that he saw a coat lying on the track about
1 o'clock when they passed. No. 90 was behind them so
they could not stop. No. 93 had already passed
previous to that. The switch crew and the crew of
extra 65635 were summoned as witnesses. The only mark
of identification on the man was the third finger of the
right hand and the second finger of the left were missing.
Three trains on
the Big Four road passed over the body of the man found near
the deadly Sycamore Street crossing last night. The
man, a young German, believed to have been J. W.
House, was found
in the middle of the track at 2:15 a.m. by the crew of
switch engine 7325. Three freight train, Nos. 90, 93
and the switch engine passed over the body. The right
arm was cut off at the shoulder, the left hand was cut off
the right foot was cut off, the left foot nearly severed,
and there was a big gash in his head and the face and body
was badly bruised.
The named "J. W.
House" was found on a book on his person.
Coroner
McManus has the case under investigation.
Mrs. Minnie Bell
Harris died at the home of her mother, Mrs. J. J.
Morrow, in
Mounds, this morning. She was the divorced wife of N.
M. Harris, the
Mound City jeweler, and leaves a little girl of seven years.
She also leaves, besides her mother, five sisters, Mrs.
Ellis Clark, of Little Rock, Ark., Mrs. Grace
Houston, of Cincinnati, and Mrs. Lily
Darley, Rosella Morrow
and Ollie Cunningham,
of Mounds.
(Robert
Cunningham married Ollie
Morrow on 24 Oct 1893, in Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Cairo friends
today received the sad news of the sudden death of Mrs. S.
R. Green, of
Cobden, which occurred at 10 o'clock last night. She
was the wife of one of the leading merchants of that place
and was known to a number of Cairo people.
(Silas R.
Green married Isabel M.
Crowell, daughter of Charles
Crowell,
on 1 Jan 1862, in Union Co., Ill.
Her marker in Cobden Cemetery reads:
Isabel M. Green Born Feb. 2, 1846 Died Nov. 23, 1907.
Silas R. Green
Born Jan. 29, 1838 Died Nov. 27, 1919.—Darrel
Dexter)
Walter
Moreland, son of James T.
Moreland, of The
Citizen force, died at the home of his father on Ninth
Street a few minutes after 3 o'clock this afternoon, after a
long illness.
The deceased was
about 28 years of age, and leaves a wife, who was Miss Edith
Kaha, to whom he
was married in April of last year.
A peculiarly sad
circumstance is the fact that his wife has also been very
ill for a long time and her husband's condition has been
kept from her knowledge.
Mrs. James
Minton, of Caruthersville, died this morning at the home of her
brother-in-law, A.
Minton, near Villa Ridge after a lingering illness with
cancer of the stomach.
The deceased is
survived by her husband and two grown children, a son and a
daughter, who were with her at the time of her death.
She was a sister-in-law of Mrs. Charles
Nugent, of Mound City.
The funeral
services will be held at Shiloh Church tomorrow afternoon at
1 o'clock and interment will be made in Villa Ridge
cemetery.
(Charles H.
Nugent, 23, born in Mound City, son of William
Nugent and Mary A. Rouse,
married Alice Adela
Minton, 18, born in Villa Ridge, daughter of Bird
Minton and Julia
Graddy, on 1 Mar
1895, in Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The funeral of T.
L. Dowell, who died in Marion at 6 o'clock Sunday morning, was held
Monday afternoon in the Christian church.
Mr.
Dowell had been
sick for some time. He had one leg amputated a few
years ago while serving as Untied States deputy marshal, a
position which he held for several years. He was
sheriff of Williamson County one term and at that time was
the youngest sheriff in southern Illinois.
Mr.
Dowell leaves a
family. He was a brother to Conductor Mon
Dowell of the Illinois Central and to Warden
Dowell of the Chester penitentiary.
Report reached
Cairo this afternoon that Thomas B.
Echols, Jr., was
drowned at Olmsted this afternoon.
No particulars
could be obtained at the hour of going to press.
At 10:30 Tuesday
night death came to end the suffering of Miss Emma
Redman, who has
been ill since August. Her end came peacefully while
her brother and sister watched at her bedside, and as though
she fell into a gentle sleep.
The deceased was
a native of Shawneetown, Ill., where she was born on
September 9, 1852. She came to Cairo in 1864 and has
lived there with her brother and sister since that time.
For many years they have occupied the brick cottage at 310
Eighth Street which they built.
Miss
Redman was many
years ago employed in the newspaper offices of Cairo, having
learned to set type in the early days of
The Citizen she
was employed as compositor. At that time she was known
as a very accurate worker.
During the
pastorate of Rev. Mr.
Thayer, Miss Redman joined the Presbyterian Church, at a time when there was a
great revival and half a hundred additions were made.
She has continued her membership in the church ever since.
About four years
ago, with her sister, Miss Mary
Redman, and her
brother, Joseph
Redman, she went to visit her other sister, Mrs. Martha
Coulter, in
Seattle, Wash. They remained in the west for about six
months, but were not contented away from Cairo and returned
to this city.
Funeral services
will be held at the residence on Eighth Street Friday
afternoon at 1:30 o'clock and the remains will be taken to
Beech Grove Cemetery for burial in the family lot.
Rev. A. S. Buchanan,
pastor of the Presbyterian Church will have charge of the
funeral.
(William W.
Coulter married Martha A.
Redman on 27 Oct 1857, in Gallatin Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Walter Nathaniel
Moreland, whose death occurred Tuesday afternoon, was a native of
Metropolis, where he was born Jan. 1, 1881. He
attended Union Academy at Anna and also the Cairo High
School and upon the completion of his education engaged in
the photograph business. Ill health compelled him to give it
up and he went to the southwest, where he gained strength.
Returning to Cairo for a time he was employed by the
Illinois Central at Mounds, but failing health again made
him relinquish his work and for the past three months he has
been confined to his bed at the home of his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. T. Moreland,
on Ninth Street.
He was a member
of Ascalon Lodge Knights of Pythias and they will hold
services at the grave at Anna, where the burial will be
made. The Anna lodge will meet the body at the train.
Funeral services
will be held at the family evidence Thursday morning at 10
o'clock and the remains will be taken to Anna on the
Illinois Central train at 11:15 o'clock. Rev. Mr.
Moran, assistant rector of the Church of the Redeemer, will have
charge of the services.
W. H.
Moreland, of
Metropolis, uncle of the deceased, and Mrs. W. R.
Cooper, of Moswell Forks, N.Y., an aunt, and Mrs. H. L.
Harper, of St.
Louis will be here to attend the funeral.
Mr.
Moreland was the
only son of Mr. and Mrs. J. T.
Moreland.
He leaves a widow, who was Miss Edith
Kaha, who has
been sick for a long time.
Mrs.
Moreland, wife of
the deceased, is very low and has not been told of her great
bereavement. It is feared that she cannot survive
long.
(William R.
Cooper married Clara M.
Moreland on 11 Nov 1889, in Massac Co., Ill.
James T.
Moreland married Minnie
Gray on 11 May
1879, in Johnson Co., Ill.
His marker in Anna City Cemetery reads:
Walter
Moreland 1881-1907.—Darrel
Dexter)
F. C.
Balentine,
janitor of the Wickliffe court house, died on Nov. 17th,
of what was pronounced hydrophobia. He was bitten by a
dog on September 19, but the wound healed and nothing more
was thought of until symptoms of hydrophobia developed two
days before the old man's death and he died in great agony.
Died, Tuesday
night, Nov. 26, Miss Emma
Redman, aged 55
years.
Funeral services
will be held at the family residence, No. 310 Eighth Street,
Friday afternoon, Nov. 29, at 1:30 o'clock. Funeral
train will leave foot of Fourteenth Street at 2:45 p.m. for
Beech Grove Cemetery, where interment will be made.
Friends of the
family are invited.
All members of
Ascalon Lodge No. 51, K. of P. are requested to meet at the
Castle Hall tonight (Wednesday) promptly at 7:30 o'clock to
arrange for the funeral of our late brother, Walter N.
Moreland.
By order of
(Henry
Holshouser married Amanda Jordan on 11 Mar 1877, in Union Co., Ill.
His marker in Holshouser Cemetery near Mill Creek
reads: William
O. son of Henry & Amanda
Holshouser Born
June 12, 1881 Died Nov. 19, 1907 Aged 26 Yrs, 5 Mos.,
& 11 Ds.—Darrel
Dexter)
Thomas B.
Echols, Jr., whose untimely death Wednesday has cast a gloom upon
this Thanksgiving Day for all of his friends, was
superintending the loading of ties on the Ohio River
opposite Caledonia when he was drowned. He went up on
the towboat Nellie
Tuesday night.
At noon Wednesday
he complained of not feeling well, and he left the rest of
the men. When he did not return after a while they began
searching for him. They looked around in the woods
there in search of him and finally found his hat on the
upper deck of the towboat. This led them to believe
that he may have fallen into the river, and they began
dragging the stream. After dragging unsuccessfully two
or three times they brought the body to the surface.
Even then it required considerable work to get it, and they
finally got it ashore. It is believed that he either
fainted and fell overboard or stumbled and fell into the
river.
The body was
taken across to Olmsted, which is one mile back from the
river landing at Caledonia and from there was taken to Grand
Chain, where his parents live.
Thomas B.
Echols, Jr., was a son of Squire B.
Echols, of Grand Chain, one of the prominent men of Pulaski County.
He was 31 years of age and leaves a widow, who was Miss
Dollie Conant.
They lived with Mr. G. F.
Ort on Washington
Avenue and he was employed by the W. H.
White & Sons
Lumber Company. For a number of years he was
associated with his father in business at Grand Chain.
He was always an extremely pleasant person to meet and made
a large circle of friends who will be shocked over his
untimely death.
A message by
telephone to The
Citizen from Olmsted states that it was believed that
Mr. Echols lost
his balance and fell from the boat. Being sick to his
stomach at dinner, it is believed that he was leaning over
the side of the boat vomiting when he fell overboard.
His false teeth were found on top of the boat, showing that
he had removed them from his mouth and laid them down.
When his body was
recovered it was found that there was a bruise on the back
of the head as if he had struck the side of the barge as he
fell. It is believed that this stunned him so that he
was unable to swim or cry for help.
When the others
missed him, probably half an hour after it happened, they
began the search.
Mrs.
Echols went up on
the morning passenger train to Grand Chain this morning, and
at Olmsted the body of her husband was placed on the train.
Mrs. Thomas Echols,
Sr., who was here visiting his daughter, Mrs.
Woelfle, wife of
Dr. Woelfle,
accompanied her, as did E. T.
Conant, of
Noblesville, Ind., father of the young Mrs.
Echols.
(Thomas B.
Echols married Ammon Brown
on 1 Dec 1863, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
Thomas E.
Echols married Dollie G.
Conant on 4 Oct
1899, in Randolph Co., Ill.
James E.
Woelfle, 28, born in Anna, son of John M.
Woelfle and Anna
L. Clark, married
Hortense Hannon
Echols, 20, born in Grand Chain, daughter of Thoas B.
Echols and Annie
Brown, on 10 Oct
1900, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
His marker in Grand Chain Masonc Cemetery reads:
Thomas E.
Echols 1874-1907.—Darrel
Dexter)
Accompanied by a
delegation from Ascalon Lodge, Knights of Pythias, the
remains of Walter N.
Moreland were taken to Anna this noon, where they will be buried in
the family lot there. The train was forty minutes late
in leaving Cairo. Besides the bereaved relatives, the
members of the lodge who accompanied the remains were S. G.
Richardson, J. H.
Jackson, George
G. Koehler, R. R.
Lott, Arthur Twente, R.
E. Wiley, C. H.
Chase, Ed D. Carey, and
Foree W. Bain. At
Anna members of the Anna lodge were to meet the train and
form an escort to the grave. The party will return
tonight.
The funeral
services, which were held at the
Moreland family
residence on Ninth Street this morning, were conducted by
Rev. Mr. Moran, assistant rector of the Church of the Redeemer.
The floral gifts of friends were beautiful and very
profuse.
The bereaved
widow is very low at the home of her parents on Cross
Street.
A frightful
accident was reported from Anna Tuesday. Cornelius
Pelly, overseer
or foreman at the stone quarry of the Union Stone & Lime
Co., located a short ways east of Anna, being almost
instantly killed. The accident happened about 7:30
a.m. shortly after the day's work was begun. In some
way Pelly was
caught in the machinery of the large stone crusher. Both
arms were severed from his body, one arm at the shoulder
socket and the other at the elbow and his back was broken
also. The injured man was hurried to the Hale
Sanitarium, but died just as he reached there about thirty
minutes after the accident.
The Union Stone &
Lime Co. is a well-known concern at Anna, the company
furnishing large quantities of crushed rock to the Illinois
Central, as well as to other corporations in this section.
(Cornelius
Pelley, 26, born in Anna, son of Joseph
Pelley and Maggie Andrew,
married Miza Anna
Crowell, 27, born in Anna, daughter of George
Corwell and Mary
O’Neal, on 4 Apr
1893, in Union Co., Ill.
His marker in Anna City Cemetery reads:
Cornelius
Pelley 1868-1907 Father.
Miza Pelley
1864-1914 Mother.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mr. W. H.
Sutherland, received the sad news last evening of the death of Mr.
William Caligan,
which occurred in St. Louis Tuesday evening following an
operation for appendicitis.
Mr.
Calgan, during
his residence here, was secretary and treasurer of the Cairo
Milling Company and resided with his family on Twenty-fourth
Street near Walnut Street. He left last August for St.
Louis where he took a position with a milling company there.
He leaves a wife
and four small children to mourn his loss, besides a large
number of friends.
Died, Tuesday
night, Nov. 26, Miss Emma
Redman, aged 55
years.
Funeral services
will be held at the family residence, No. 310 Eighth Street,
Friday afternoon Nov. 29, at 1:30 o'clock. Funeral train
will leave foot of Fourteenth Street at 2:45 p.m. for Beech
Grove Cemetery, where interment will be made.
Friends of the
family are invited.
The funeral
services over the remains of Miss Emma
Redman were held
at the family residence, No. 310 Eighth Street, conducted by
Rev. A. S. Buchanan,
pastor of the Presbyterian Church, of which she was a
member. The Presbyterian choir sang the favorite hymns
of the deceased, and the pastor in his remarks spoke words
of comfort for the brother and sister who are left.
The remains were taken to Beech Grove Cemetery where they
were interred in the family lot beside the mother of the
deceased.
Died, at Olmsted,
Ill., Wednesday, November 27th, Thomas E.
Echols, Jr.
Funeral services
will be held in the Christian Church at Grand Chain, Ill.,
Saturday, November 30th, at 10:30 a.m.
Friends of the
family are invited to attend.
Charlene, the
little three-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lee
Bradley, died at
1:10 this afternoon after a brief illness with diphtheria.
Mr. and Mrs. Bradley
resided upstairs over Mr. John T.
Rennie's grocery
store. The remains are in charge of
Burke &
Blaine.
Congressman
George W. Smith was at the point of death at Murphysboro today and his
physicians and even his devoted wife gave up all hope of his
surviving the day.
He was suddenly
taken worse yesterday noon, when he had a congestive chill.
Dr. W. F. Grinstead, of Cairo, went up to see him last evening.
Today word to
The Citizen over the long distance telephone stated that he was
suffering from both hemorrhage of the lung and of the bowels
and that his condition was absolutely without hope. He
was expected to pass away at any moment.
Postmaster Sidney
B. Miller left at noon over the Illinois Central for Murphysboro to be
at his bedside and render what aid he could to the dying man
and to his wife.
Congressman
George W. Smith was born in Putnam County, Ohio, August 18, 1846. His father
removed to Wayne County, Illinois, in 1850 and there he
learned the blacksmith trade. He received his
education at McKendree College and Bloomington, Ind.,
University, graduating in 1870. He was admitted to the bar
the same year and since that time has lived in Murphysboro,
where he practiced law until he was elected to Congress.
He was a Republican elector in 1880 and was first elected to
Congress in 1888 and at every election since that time. He
is serving his ninth term in Congress.
(A two-column
photograph of Congressman George W.
Smith appears on
the front page.—Darrel
Dexter)
Monday, 2 Dec 1907:
FUNERAL WILL BE HELD
WEDNESDAY
Congressman
George W. Smith will be laid away in the city cemetery at Murphysboro
Wednesday at 2 o’clock. The funeral will be held from the
Logan House and will be conducted by Rev. J. S.
Flint. It
will be held under the auspices of Murphysboro Lodge No.
498, A. F. & A. M.
It was at first
believed that the funeral would be held tomorrow, but a
committee from Congress will come on to attend the funeral
and they will not have time to arrive before Wednesday.
There are a great
many Cairo people who would like to attend the funeral and
many will probably do so, both among Congressman
Smith's white
friends and also among the colored people. If the
Illinois Central train at 11:15 Wednesday forenoon is on
time it will reach Murphysboro in time for the funeral and
the return trip can be made reaching Cairo at 6:30 in the
evening.
The end came to a
useful life at 11:40 Saturday night, when Congressman George
W. Smith passed
away at the Logan House at Murphysboro of typhoid fever,
after an illness lasting about three weeks.
All day Saturday,
the Logan House at Murphysboro was thronged with people who
wanted to see Congressman
Smith. The news of his extreme illness had flown like wild
fire all over the district. People from all over
Jackson County came to the county seat just to see him.
Of course, all were denied admission. His life was
hanging by a thread, although at 4 o'clock in the afternoon
he rallied just a little and the smallest of hope was
entertained that if he could survive the night he had a
chance for life.
Congressman
Smith had not entered upon the term for which he was elected in 1906
when death ended his career. His tenth successive term
in Congress would have begun today.
The deceased
members of Cairo Lodge of Elks are as follows:
We desire to
extend to the neighbors and friends who were so kind to us
during the illness and at the death of our sister, Miss Emma
Redman, our
heartfelt thanks.
Surviving her
husband by just six days, Mrs. Edith
Kaha
Moreland, widow of the later Walter N.
Moreland, passed away at noon today at the home of her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Louis Kaha,
at No. 513 Cross Street.
Death came after
an illness of fifteen months, which gave promise to the
sufferer of no hope for the future. Her ailment was
tuberculosis of the bones.
The deceased was
a native of Cairo and would have been 28 years of age next
January. In April of last year she was married to
Moreland and in a
short time after their marriage she was marked as an
invalid. She was a member of the Cairo High School
class of 1900 and of the Church of the Redeemer.
Surviving members of her family, besides her parents, three
sisters, Mrs. John M.
Dewey, and Misses Emma and Jeannette
Kaha, and two
brothers, Louis Kaha,
Jr., and Arthur Kaha.
Funeral services
will probably be held Wednesday.
(Louis
Kaha married Josephine
Laurent on 15 Jul 1875, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
FUNERAL OF MRS. MORELAND
The funeral of
Mrs. Walter Moreland
will be held tomorrow afternoon at the Church of the
Redeemer, at 1:45 o'clock and the remains will be taken to
Beech Grove Cemetery.
A peculiarly sad
circumstance is that she died in ignorance of the fact that
her husband had preceded her. Because she was so low, her
family and physician feared to break the news to her of her
husband's death.
Mrs. George W.
Smith, wife of the late Congressman
Smith, today received a message notifying her of the critical
illness of her father, in Winona, Mo.
Mr.
Daly has suffered
a severe stroke of paralysis and is not expected to live.—Murphysboro
Republican Era
Carmi, Ill., Dec.
3.—In a fight at the ferrying landing at Mannie, Ill., a few
miles west of Mount Vernon, Ind., Tom
Goodman, aged 25,
struck his younger brother, Eugene, aged 22, over the head
with a skiff oar from the effects of which Eugene died
several hours later from concussion of the brain. Eugene
Goodman was
intoxicated and had struck his brother the first blow.
Tom retaliated
with the blow which caused his brother's death. The father
who was standing near, was also intoxicated and did not know
anything about the affair at the coroner's inquest. The
Goodmans are
farmers.
Died, Dec. 2,
1907, Edith Kaha
Moreland, aged 28 years.
Funeral services
will be held Wednesday afternoon, Dec. 4th. The
remains will be taken from the family residence, No. 513
Cross Street, at 1:15 p.m. to the Church of the Redeemer,
where services will be held. Funeral train will leave
Central station at 2:45 p.m. for Beech Grove Cemetery, where
interment will be made.
Friends of the
family are invited.
The last sad
rites over the remains of Mrs. Walter
Moreland were
held this afternoon at the Church of the Redeemer. The
remains were taken to Beech Grove Cemetery for
interment. The funeral was largely attended and the floral
offerings were many and beautiful.
(His marker in
Mt. Pisgah Cemetery near Wetaug reads:
Oscar Eddleman Born Feb. 18, 1861 Died Nov. 28, 1907.—Darrel
Dexter)
(This refers to
Richard Bentley
Sowers whose obituary appeared in the 18 Dec 1907,
issue.—Darrel Dexter)
Doubly bereft is
the widow of Congressman George W.
Smith. Her
father died in Winona, Mo., Tuesday and at the same time
that the funeral of her husband was held at Murphysboro, her
father was laid away at his Missouri home.
The
Murphysboro
Independent says:
Andrew
Dailey, father of Mrs. George W.
Smith, died Tuesday morning at his home in Winona, Mo., within three
days after the death of his daughter's husband, Congressman
Smith, in this
city. Mr. Dailey
will be buried at Winona Wednesday. Mr.
Smith's funeral
occurs in Murphysboro the same day.
Mr.
Dailey formerly
lived here and was well known to the older citizens. He
became seriously sick three weeks ago and Mrs.
Smith started to Winona on receiving the news, but Mr.
Smith became very
ill on the way and they had to come back.
Mr.
Daley's death was
due to a stroke of paralysis.
Mrs.
Smith's friends
and the community at large sympathize with her in the hour
of her double bereavement.
(George W.
Smith married Mary Alice
Dailey on 29 Dec 1884, in Jackson Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
News has been
received here of the death of James
McGrew, little
son of Mr. and Mrs.
McGrew, of Lexington, Mo., which occurred Wednesday
morning at seven o'clock.
Both of the
parents are confined to their beds with measles of a
virulent form and threatened with diphtheria, a combination
of which disease caused the child's death.
Mrs. J. W.
Jones of this city, was called to Lexington several days ago by the
serious illness of the family. Mr.
Jones and daughter, Miss Quindara, left this morning to attend the
funeral.
The millinery
store of Jones &
Bristol was closed today on account of the funeral.
(A marker in
Thebes Cemetery reads:
Daniel Webster
Sammons Born Feb. 10, 1848 Died March 21, 1918.—Darrel
Dexter)
(Abner
McBride married Lucinda Moody
on 6 Jan 1865, in Alexander Co., Ill.
Francis M.
McBride married Adeline
Cauble on 27 Jul
1890, in Alexander Co., Ill.
His marker in Thebes Cemetery reads:
Frank M.
McBride Born Dec. 3, 1865 Died Nov. 28, 1907.—Darrel
Dexter)
Friday, 6 Dec 1907:
Arthur Patrick
Madden, son of the late John
Madden, died early this morning at the home of his
mother at 817 Twenty-second Street.
The deceased had
been ill for several years with Bright's disease, but for
the past two years he has been confined to his home most of
the time. Sunday there was a change for the worse and about
10 o'clock this morning he peacefully died. His death,
although expected, was very sudden.
Mr.
Madden was born
and reared in Cairo and was thirty-eight years of age on
Dec. 4. He was a plumber and until a few weeks ago he
attended to his work whenever it was possible.
The funeral
arrangements have not been completed.
Robert D.
Stapleton, of the firm of
Reiss & Stapleton,
passed away at the Alexander Brothers Hospital in St. Louis
at 11:50 o'clock this forenoon, where he was taken three
weeks ago in the hope that an operation would save his life.
His remains will
be brought back to Cairo at 2 o'clock a.m. accompanied by
his mother, his wife, and little daughter, and his brother,
Dennis Stapleton,
who were called to St. Louis last night by the news his
death was imminent.
Robert D.
Stapleton was born in Cairo, Sept. 22, 1865. He spent his whole
life in this city. He received his education in the Cairo
schools and when he left them followed mercantile pursuits,
starting as a clerk in
Burger's store,
when he was 15 years old. At one time he was engaged in the
shoe business with B.
McManus, Jr. Later he was employed in the store of
Samuel White,
until he became a partner in the dry goods business of
Reiss & Stapleton.
He was married
twelve years ago to Miss Bertha
Steinhouse and
leaves, besides his widow, one daughter, Miss Margaret.
He was taken ill
about the last of October.
Funeral
arrangements have not yet been perfected.
(Robert D.
Stapleton married Bertha
Steinhouse on 2 Oct 1895, in Alexander Co., Ill.
His marker in Calvary Cemetery at Villa Ridge reads:
Robert
Stapleton 1865-1907.—Darrel
Dexter)
(John
Sams married Ida
Williams,
“col’d,” on 31 Dec 1885, in Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Arthur Patrick
Madden. Died December 6. Funeral services will be held
Sunday. Cortege will leave house at 1:30 p.m. for St.
Joseph's. Funeral train will leave foot of Fourteenth
Street at 2:45 p.m. for Villa Ridge Cemetery.
Steps have been
taken by some of the heirs of the late Louis
Blum, of Mound
City, to contest his will, which was recently admitted for
probate in Pulaski County by Judge W. S.
Dewey of
Alexander County, in the absence of Judge Lyman G.
Caster. Mr. Blum left
his property to his four children, Mrs. Clara
Eichorn, and Ben, Jacob and Samuel
Blum. It is the last two that are contesting the will. They have
retained Attorneys George E.
Martin, of Mound City, and L. O.
Whitnel, of East St. Louis. Attorney L. M.
Bradley of
Carbondale and Judge William A.
Wall are the
attorneys for the other heirs, who wish the provisions of
the will carried out.
Edward
Sells, of 424 Thirty-second Street, dropped dead at noon today at
Thirty-fourth and Sycamore streets. He was coming from work
at the Singer, where he is foreman of a dry room, in company
with his son, Harry, and at Thirty-fourth Street complained
of feeling badly. Sitting down on the walk in front of
Hebsacker's drug
store to rest a minute, he called for a drink of water. It
was brought him, and then he fell over and expired.
The remains were
taken to his home, where the inquest was held by Coroner
McManus this
afternoon.
Mr.
Sells had an
attack a year ago, and since then has feared heart trouble,
believing that it would eventually carry him off.
He leaves a widow
and six children, Mrs. Michael
Egan, Harry,
Grace, Rex, Winnie and Dorris
Sells, the
youngest a baby. He has been a resident of Cairo for
fifteen years, coming here from Union City, Tenn., and had
been continuously in the employ of the Singer Company. He
was a Woodman.
William
Easley, until recently of this city, was killed in San Francisco,
according to news which reached his mother, Mrs. T.
Easley, of No. 739 Twenty-first Street, Saturday. He was foreman of
a lumber concern which had labor troubles and in going home
from his work was waylaid and assaulted with a blow on his
head, which resulted in his death. Formerly he was in the
grocery business at 2106 Poplar Street in this city.
The remains of
Robert D. Stapleton
were brought back from St. Louis Sunday morning and the
funeral will be held at St. Patrick’s Church tomorrow
morning, the funeral cortege leaving the family residence,
No. 417 Tenth Street, at 8:30 o'clock. The remains will be
taken by special train to Villa Ridge cemetery for
interment.
The infant child
of Mr. and Mrs.
Bethel, of Center Street, died Sunday morning about 10
o'clock, and was buried at Beech Grove Sunday
afternoon. Mrs.
Bethel is in a very serious condition.
G. Thompson
Hendricks, son of Mrs. George T.
Hendricks, died at his home, No. 219 Eighteenth Street, at 2 o'clock
this morning of catarrh of the stomach. He had been in poor
health for a year past. The deceased was 22 years old. He
worked as rate clerk for the Illinois Central until ill
health compelled him to give up his position. For many
years he has been employed as a railroad clerk here and at
Bird's Point.
Funeral services
will be held Thursday and the remains will be taken to
Paducah for burial beside his father.
Besides his
mother, he leaves one sister, Mrs. E. D.
Morrow. He was a
member of the Alexander Club.
Sorrowing friends
this morning followed to the grave the mortal remains of the
late Robert D. Stapleton. Under somber skies and with a chilling wind sweeping
through the City of the Dead, the body was laid at rest in
the Catholic burying ground at Villa Ridge, while flowers
were heaped upon the fresh mound of earth, beautiful tokens
of the esteem his friends held for him. Funeral services
were held at St. Patrick's Church at 9 o'clock and were very
largely attended. The pallbearers, selected from the Knights
of Columbus, were Richard E.
Gannon, John
Maloney, Stephen O'Laughlin,
J. P. O'Donnell,
Richard Barrow,
Louis Oehler, William Ryan and
Thomas A. Fuller.
Ethel Todd, the
12-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
Wilkerson, died
at 1:30 this morning of ulcerated sore throat from which she
has been suffering about two weeks. She was a pupil in the
sixth grade at Lincoln School.
Funeral services
will be held tomorrow afternoon at 1:30 at the residence,
No. 3212 Elm Street, by Rev.
Tracy, of the
Southern Methodist Church. Burial will be at Beech Grove
Cemetery.
To the friends,
far and near, of my dear departed husband, I desire to offer
my sincere and heartfelt thanks for all the kindness and
loving sympathy extended me in the time of this my greatest
sorrow.
Hess
Rogers, of the
crew of the government light house tender
Lily, was arrested today by Deputy Sheriff Patrick
Mahoney and
lodged in the county jail.
At the last term
of circuit court,
Rogers was wanted as a witness in the trial of David
Bharam murder
case. He refused to answer summons and a bench warrant was
issued for his arrest on the charge of contempt of court.
Capt. Ed
Fulkerson, pilot on the government steamer
Mississippi, is at the point of death at his home at St. Charles,
Mo. He is well known in river circles.
Funeral services
were held over the remains of Edward
Sells at 8:30
this morning, at the residence No. 424 Thirty-second
Street. The Modern Woodmen, of which the deceased was a
member, followed the remains to the grave where they
conducted their service. Interment was held at the new
cemetery at Beech Ridge.
Mrs. A. H.
Steele died last evening about 10:30 o'clock at her home on
Twenty-seventh and Poplar streets, after a two weeks'
illness with pneumonia.
The deceased was
sixty-five years of age and the last of her family to
die. She had resided in Cairo for the pasty thirty
years. Her husband was at one time a photographer in this
city. About fourteen months ago he died and since that time
Mrs. Steele has
lived alone at their home.
She was a member
of the Church of the Redeemer and also of Parthenia Rebekah
Lodge. Safford and Parthenia lodges will have charge of the
funeral.
Fulton, Ky., Dec.
11.—E. B. Eddings,
one of the pioneer citizens of Fulton, is dead from the
effects of a self-inflicted pistol wound. Brooding over the
unfortunate experience of his younger days and continued ill
health is the cause assigned for the rash deed.
Mr.
Eddings has been
a resident of Fulton for the past thirty-five years. At one
time he was one of the town's wealthiest citizens, but in
his declining years he was overtaken by business reverses
and his capital was rudely swept away. No citizen of the
town was more highly respected than he, and a profound gloom
has been cast over the city by his rash deed.
(Everet G.
Fristoe married Charlotte
Carter on 3 Sep 1893, in Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
If the late Mrs.
A. H. Steele left
any thirty-second cousins they should come in now and claim
property which she left, valued at from $4,000 to
$5,000. She left no relatives that can be found at her
death, and her property will be held by the county until
someone comes and proves relationship and establishes his
claim, otherwise the property will revert to the county.
Public
administrator Miles S.
Gilbert is in
charge of the property, which was left by will to Mrs.
Steele by her
husband. As she left no will herself, the public
administrator took charge. This is the first case of this
kind in Alexander County in years.
The funeral of
Mrs. A. H. Steele
was held this afternoon from the home of the deceased at
Twenty-seventh and Poplar streets and the remains were taken
to Beech Grove Cemetery for interment. Rev. A. H. W.
Anderson, of the
Church of the Redeemer, officiated and Parthenia Rebekah
Lodge conducted the service at the grave. The pall bearers
were U. S. A. Gadbois, J. J. Kuykendall,
W. H. Geisenhoff,
Walter Priddy, F.
E. Thurman, Charles Walker
and J. E. Neff.
Jesse
Chamesse, of
Barlow, Ky., died last night of neuralgia of the
stomach. He was 42 years of age and has been a resident of
that community for fifteen years. Burial will be tomorrow
at Wickliffe. Burke
& Blaine will have charge of the funeral.
Carbondale, Ill.,
Dec. 13.—Judge F. M.
Youngblood, one of Carbondale's most prominent citizens,
passed away at his home in this city Wednesday
night. Monday noon he complained of great distress in the
stomach and went to his home. In the afternoon he took to
his bed, and a physician was called, but it was not until
Wednesday that it was thought he was seriously ill. Late in
the afternoon he suffered a sinking spell and for several
hours before his death he was unconscious. He breathed his
last shortly after midnight. His illness was diagnosed as
paralysis of the bowels.
Francis Martin
Youngblood was born on a farm near Sunfield, north of DuQuoin, in
Perry County, March 15, 1835, his age at the time of his
death being 72 years. Here he grew to young manhood, his
only schooling being such as was afforded in the country
schools of that early day. While a young man he learned the
trade of blacksmith and for a while conducted a shop at
Tamaroa. He also taught school for a number of terms.
He was married to
Narciss E. Eaton,
December 23, 1858, the
Eaton family also
being residents of the neighborhood north of DuQuoin. Their
first residence was at DuQuoin where Judge
Youngblood fitted
himself for the practice of law, which has been his life
work. His first partnership was with Daugherty
Hoge, at DuQuoin. The latter afterwards removed to the west, where
he became federal judge in the Territory of Utah and where
he is still living.
In 1862 the
Youngbloods moved to Benton, where they made their home for more
than twenty years. In the early seventies they lived for a
year at Shawneetown, but with this exception from 1862 until
their removal to Carbondale in August 1887, their home was
at Benton. Since the latter date their home has been in
Carbondale.
Besides his wife,
five children survive as follows: Ransom A.
Youngblood, of
Benton; D. V.
Youngblood, of Carbondale; Joe
Youngblood, of
St. Louis; Mrs. Luther
Baird, of Eureka
Springs, Ark.; Mrs. Laura A.
Bailey, of
Bisbee, Arizona. Also one brother, William J.
Youngblood, of
Murphysboro, and one sister, Mrs. Rachel
Robertson. Another
brother, Judge E. D.
Youngblood, died at Mount Vernon about one year ago.
The funeral
arrangements have not been definitely completed, but it is
understood the funeral will be held at Benton Sunday
afternoon at 1 o'clock. Burial at the Benton Cemetery.
(Francis M.
Youngblood married Narcissa E.
Eaton on 23 Dec
1858, in Perry Co., Ill.
Luther E.
Baird married Louisa R.
Youngblood on 22
Oct 1893, in Jackson Co., Ill.
William W
Robinson married Rachel C.
Youngblood on 25
Oct 1860, in Franklin Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The arrangements
for the funeral of the late Judge
Youngblood have
been completed and the burial will take place at Benton, the
home of the Youngblood family for a quarter of a century, on Sunday afternoon,
says the Carbondale
Free Press.
The funeral
services will be held Sunday morning at 8:30 o'clock at the
Youngblood home
on West Oak Street. The services will be in charge of Rev.
R. M. Dillin,
pastor of the Presbyterian Church, assisted by Revs.
McCammon and
Kerns. The
members of the Masonic Lodge will attend the services in a
body.
At 10 a.m.
Sunday, a special train will leave Carbondale conveying the
funeral party to Benton. On this train will go the members
of the Shekinah Masonic Lodge, of this city, and the Knights
of Honor Lodge of Murphysboro, of both of which orders
deceased was a member. On arrival of the train at Benton,
about noon, the body will lie in state at the Franklin
County Courthouse until the hour of 1:30 when the remains
will be again placed on the I. C. train and the funeral
party taken to the Benton Cemetery
via the C. & E. I.
railway, where the interment will be made. The only
services at Benton will be those of the Masonic fraternity,
Judge Crawford, of Jonesboro, conducting.
The funeral
services of the late George W.
Fox will be held
Tuesday afternoon at the residence, 312 Eighteenth
Street. K. of P. lodge No 173, of which the deceased was a
member, will have charge of the services.
Mr.
Fox died at his
home Sunday morning after a brief illness. He had resided
in Cairo many years, having come here as a boy in 1861. He
had been for some time in the employ of the Consolidated
Coal Company. He leaves a widow and three sons, George,
Richard and Walter.
FOX—Died,
at 8 a.m. Sunday, December 15th, 1907, George
Fox, aged 51
years.
Funeral services
will be held at the residence, 312 Eighteenth Street,
Tuesday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock. Special train will leave
foot of Fourteenth Street for Beech Grove Cemetery. Friends
are invited to attend.
William
Abernathie, little son of Jailer Edward
Abernathie, was painfully burned Sunday morning, while playing in
front of the furnace in the basement of the courthouse. In
some manner his clothing caught fire. His screams attracted
his mother’s attention and she went to his rescue and was
also quite badly burned about the hands. Albert
Frost, Jr.,
assisted Mrs.
Abernathie in tearing the burning clothing from the
body.
Mrs. Jerry
Pecord, of Willard, died at St. Mary’s Infirmary, this
afternoon. She was just brought in from Willard this
morning and taken to the hospital.
The funeral of
the late George Fox
was held this afternoon from the family residence on
Eighteenth Street. The K. of P. Lodge were in charge and
interment was made at Beech Grove Cemetery.
Capt. William
Parker, postmaster and leading citizen of Rock Falls, Ill., died on
Sunday morning, Dec. 8th, at his home in that
city. He was a brother of Mrs. Louisa
Fishback, of
Cairo.
The
Sterling Standard
gives an extended notice of his life, stating that he was
born in Maysville, Ky., on Nov. 6, 1835, his father also
being Capt. William
Parker. He entered a printing office at Ripley, Ohio,
when he was 15, becoming a reporter for the
Ripley Bee. At 18
he went to Cincinnati and worked for the
Enquirer job
office. When he was 20 he came to Illinois and took charge
of the Salem
Republican, as editor and manager, advocating the
election of John C. Fremont in 1856. He was married the next year to Miss Ella Bartlett
Bond, and three
children were born to them, being survived now by only one
of the four, Mrs. C. L.
Mentzer, of Rock
Falls. In 1898 Capt.
Parker married again, his widow being Mrs. Edna
Mason
Parker, whom
Capt. Parker met in Chicago.
With the
exception of three years, which he spent in the army during
his whole life Capt.
Parker was in the newspaper business, his most recent paper having
been the Rock Falls
News, which failing health alone compelled him to give
up three years ago.
He was a man who
stood for something in his community and his influence there
was felt for good.
(William
Parker married Ella B. Bond
on 18 Jun 1857, in Marion Co., Ill.
William Parker
married Mrs. Edna E.
Mason on 8 Jun 1898, in Cook Co., Ill.
Charles L.
Mentzer married Anna L.
Parker on 7 Apr
1886, in Whiteside Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Mary
Lufkin, wife of Joseph Lufkin,
of Mounds, died at 4 o'clock this morning of pneumonia,
after an illness of a week. She was in her 84th
year and would have reached that age in three weeks.
Funeral services
will be held Friday at 2 o'clock and the remains will be
taken to Villa Ridge cemetery for interment.
(Jesse H.
Beaver, 22, born in Union Co., Ill., son of Moses
Beaver and Anna Seemore, married Malinda
Casper, 16, born in Union Co., Ill., daughter of Moses
Casper and Anna Hoffner,
on 27 Mar 1881, in Union Co., Ill.
His marker in Mt. Zion Cemetery near Dongola reads:
Jesse Henry
Beaver 1858-1907.
Malinda Beaver
1864-1938.—Carrel
Dexter)
(The 4 Dec 1907,
issue referred to him as Bentley
Sowers. Richard B.
Sowers married
Catharine M.
Randleman on 22 Jul 1852, in Union Co., Ill.
Richard B. Sowers, 32, from Wetaug, Pulaski Co., Ill., 5’ 8”, brown hair, black
eyes, fair complexion, married, born in North Carolina,
enlisted as a private in Co. I, 81st Illinois
Infantry, on 11 Aug 1862, mustered out on 14 Jul 1865.
His marker in Mt. Pisgah Cemetery near Wetaug reads:
Richard B.
Sowers Born Nov. 14, 1830 Died Dec. 2, 1907 Aged 77 Yrs,
18 Ds. Catharine
Sowers his wife
Born Oct. 8, 1833 Died Nov. 13, 1903.—Darrel
Dexter)
The remains of
Mrs. Jerry Pecord,
Jr., whose death occurred at St. Mary's Infirmary Tuesday
were buried at the Baumguard Cemetery at Willard today. The
funeral was held from the Methodist church of which the
deceased was a member. She was but fifteen years old. It
was hoped that an operation could be performed to save her
life, and for that reason she was brought to Cairo Monday
and taken to the infirmary, but she was in too weak a
condition and it was not attempted. She was a daughter of
James Rutledge, a
prominent resident of Willard.
Chief
Egan and Officers
Casey and
Eade went to
Columbus in Billy
Fitzgerald's launch yesterday, ostensibly on a hunting
trip, in reality went in search of counterfeiters, of whom
W. E. Sommerset
is believed to have been a member. When they reached
Columbus, they found that the fellows had left Tuesday in
their houseboat. Sommerset is believed to have walked to Cairo, where he was arrested
at Seventeenth and Commercial by Officer
Hagey, for being a suspicious character. When he was searched, the
counterfeit money was found on him. The people of Columbus
said that the men are believed to have murdered
Ferrell, the
Paducah man whose body was found in a skiff several nights
ago. News came to Columbus of a shooting affray up the
river and the sheriff and deputies kept watch, and when the
men arrived on the houseboat, an attempt was made to take
them. They got away, however, under an interchange of shots
and made their escape. It is believed that
Sommerset then
came back to Cairo, as fast as he could go, in order to get
as far away from the scene as possible.
Word was received
today of the death of Jesse
Clark, which
occurred in Little Rock, Ark., this morning. Mrs.
Clark resides in
Mounds. She was formerly Miss Alice
Morrow and is a sister of the late Mrs.
Harris.
The deceased was
a member of B. R. T. Charley
Garely, a member
of that organization, went to Little Rock to take charge of
the remains.
The funeral of
Mrs. Joseph Lufkin
will be held at the family residence in Mounds tomorrow
afternoon at 2 o'clock. Friends in Cairo are invited to go
up on a special train, leaving Fourteenth Street at 2
p.m. They will be unable to attend the services, but the
funeral party will join the train at Mounds and go on to
Villa Ridge where interment will be made.
(Her marker in
Cairo City Cemetery at Villa ridge reads:
M. J. Lufkin
1825-1907.—Darrel
Dexter)
George W.
Hatter, whose death occurred in Chicago Monday, was buried in
Centralia today. Mr.
Hatter was fuel agent for the Illinois Central and
formerly lived in Centralia.
A sensational
report of poisoning in Future City was laid at rest today by
the statement that Mrs.
Webb, a colored
woman, died of neuralgia and apoplexy of the brain and not
as the result of drinking poisoned coffee. The woman was
under the care of Dr. W. H.
Fields for three
days prior to her death. The fact that her ailment caused
her to vomit, spread the report that she had been
poisoned. No inquest was held by the coroner.
Michael
Laughery, an employee of the government at Thebes, slipped from a
barge and was drowned a week ago tonight. His body was
found the next day and the deputy coroner held an inquest
and the body was buried there.
Today the body
was disinterred and was shipped to New Britain, Conn., where
his relatives live.
Colie W.
White, a resident of Keystone, Okla., died last evening at 6 o'clock
at St. Mary’s Infirmary of consumption.
He became
afflicted with the disease about a year ago and traveled
extensively in Arizona and New Mexico in quest of
health. About three weeks ago he came to Cairo, was taken
ill and removed to St. Mary’s Infirmary. He was a brother
of James W. White,
of 1213 Washington Avenue.
The remains were
taken to the undertaking parlors of
Burke &
Blaine to be
prepared for shipment to Martin, Tenn., where they will be
interred in the family burying ground.
The deceased was
a member of the Order of Eagles, Eyrie No. 219, of Sherman,
Tex.
Mrs. Mary
Keeler, wife of O. S. Keeler,
of Mound City, died Friday noon after an illness of some
time. She was 77 years old. She leaves two sons, Will and
Lou, and one daughter, Mrs.
Kennedy. The
funeral will occur Sunday afternoon at 1 o'clock from the
Catholic Church and the remains will be taken to Villa Ridge
cemetery for interment.
(Thomas James
Kinney, 32, born in Philadelphia, Pa., son of Hugh
Kinney and Sara
M. Cline, married Cora F. Keeler,
24, born in North McGregor, Iowa, daughter of Oscar J.
Keeler and Mary Mooney,
on 14 Sep 1897, in Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
A certified copy
of the will of Rev. Wallace S.
Faris, probated
in the United States court for China at Shanghai, over which
Judge L. R. Wilfley
of St. Louis presides, was filed with the probate court says
the St. Louis Globe
Democrat. It was made April 24, 1901, about the time of
the Boxer uprising in China. All his property, which
consisted of money in bank and three insurance policies for
$1,000 each in the Presbyterian Ministers' Fund of
Philadelphia, is left to the widow, who is made
executrix. The will was probated in Shanghai November 1,
1907.
Rev. Wallace S.
Faris was a missionary to China for eleven years and died May 4,
1907, at Yihsien, China. His death was directly due to
overwork on behalf of the famine sufferers in China. Mrs.
Faris, who is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M.
Babcock, of 4333 Cook Avenue, has returned in the last month to St.
Louis to reside.
Carmi, Ill., Dec.
24.—Jack Drew,
negro, who killed two Italians and possibly a negro, in a
quarrel over a game of craps at Zeigler, a year ago, has
been convicted of murder in Franklin County, and he has been
sentenced to forty years' imprisonment.
Mystery
surrounding the finding of the body of a white man on the
switch track leading from the Big Four into the
Weis-Peterson plant. The body was run over by freight train
No. 6545 extra, which passed there northbound about 9
o'clock last night. The freight train was going slow at the
time, and the body jarred the engine up as it passed over
the dead man. The head was cut clean off as with a knife
and the body was literally cut in two and was only hanging
together by the skin, while the right arm was just hanging
in shreds and the chest was caved in. Only the lower limbs
escaped being crushed to pieces.
That the man was
not a regular physician was judged from the fact that upon
his person were found prescriptions for various diseases,
all written in English instead of in Latin. There was also
$3.90 found on him. His watch was smashed flat and a watch
charm with the name
Mayberry on it.
When the engine
struck the body, the train was immediately stopped, and only
the engine and the first car had passed over it. The train
men made an examination to see what the obstruction was that
they had hit and found that the body was cold, indicating
that the man had been killed before their train had struck
him.
The body was
brought down to Feith's
undertaking establishment and Dr. McManus was summoned.
We desire to
thank the numerous friends for the many favors and kind
attention bestowed upon us on account of the sudden death of
our beloved husband and father, and to those who came to his
aid when first stricken down. Also for the floral
offerings.
We cannot express
our thanks in words, but trust that our Heavenly Father will
bless each and every one as we feel that they deserve.
H. C.
Mayberry, son of
G. B. Mayberry,
the man killed by the Big Four Monday night, was here today
to look after his father’s body, and after making
arrangements for its temporary burial here, left this
afternoon for his home in Mt. Vernon, Ill. From the fact
that Mayberry's
baggage was found in the coach of Big Four passenger train
No. 9 by the car cleaner that night, it is now known that
the dead man was coming to Cairo on that train. It is
believed that when he heard Cairo called, he stepped out on
the platform and as the train suddenly rounded a curve he
was thrown off. Coroner
McManus believes
that he struck against box cars in a side track and was
thrown back under the wheels of the passenger train and that
later he was run over by the freight train. The inquest has
not yet been held.
Mother M.
Augusta, once Sister Superior of St. Mary’s Infirmary, in
Cairo, and nurse here during the Civil War, died at the
Mother House at Notre Dame, Ind., on Dec. 24th. Sister
Augusta came to Cairo in December 1861 and was in charge of
the military hospitals until 1867, when she returned to
Notre Dame. But she was soon called back and in October of
that year a private hospital was opened through the
assistance of Dr. H.
Wardner, which afterward grew into the present St.
Mary’s Infirmary. Starting with a rented house on Eleventh
Street, later moving to the Pilot building on Washington
Avenue, where the Armory now stands, when Sister Augusta was
called back to Notre Dame in 1870, she saw the institution
housed in a building of its own, upon the present site of
the institution, which had been donated by the late Col. S.
S. Taylor.
A negro man named
Robinson dropped dead on Twenty-sixth Street between Poplar and
Sycamore streets yesterday.
The jury called
to inquire into the death of Dr. G. B.
Mayberry, who was
found dead near the Big Four crossing at the Illinois
Central bridge Monday night, last night returned a verdict
finding that his death was due to falling off the passenger
train and being run over by it. The body will be buried
here temporarily, and later will be taken to Mt. Vernon for
burial.
Paducah, Ky.,
Dec. 28.—Thrown from a skiff in which he was riding from
Paducah to the winter quarters of the Leyhe fleet, in the
Tennessee River Christmas night, Bob
Lane, of St. Louis, blacksmith, with the fleet, went down and never
reappeared. The river has been dragged without avail. Lane,
who was 58 years old, leaves a wife and six children in Cass
Avenue, St. Louis.
Bob
Lane was employed
by the Eagle packet company two years ago. He had
previously been in the government snag boat
Wright.
John Chandler
Bancroft Davis,
reporter for the United States Supreme Court, whose death
occurred in Washington at the age of 85 years, was formerly
a resident of Cairo and held a large amount of property
here. Abstractor of Titles M.
Easterday, in
looking over his records today, found an entry showing that
on April 10, 1855, Thomas S.
Taylor and
Charles Davis,
the first trustees of the Cairo City Property conveyed to
Mr. Davis 196
lots in Cairo, comprising the blocks between Tenth and
Twelfth streets from the Ohio River front back across the
city. The property afterward was conveyed to the
Holbrooks.
A nephew of the
dead man was a supervising engineer of the Illinois Central
Bridge when it was under construction and at the time
boarded with Mr.
Easterday. He related many stories of his uncle and of
the early days in Cairo.
Patrick
McCartin, an inmate of St. Mary's Infirmary, for the past seven
years, died Sunday morning about 8 o’clock. A son living in
Wisconsin has been notified and was expected to arrive this
afternoon to take charge of the remains. Mrs.
Feith took charge
of the remains.
R. M.
Potts, aged 60,
of Wickliffe, Ky., died this morning at 4 o'clock at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. Bettie
Bray, of 211
Fourteenth Street, after an illness of two years of
consumption.
The deceased was
born January 18, 1847, and had lived in Wickliffe about five
years, during which he was engaged in buying livestock. The
surviving members of the family are his wife and five
children, all grown. The latter are Mrs. Bettie
Bray and Jesse
Potts, of Cairo, Mrs. Emma
Wyatt, of Bird's Point, Mo., and James Albert
Potts, of Poplar
Bluff, Mo.
The remains will
be taken to Wickliffe tomorrow for burial by
Burke &
Blaine, the
undertakers.
Ed
Boyd, the negro
shot by Officer
Wilson at Tamms, and who was brought down to St. Mary’s
Infirmary, is in a bad way. His leg was broken and it had
to be put in a plaster cast.
An unknown white
man, apparently an electrician, is lying in St. Mary's
Infirmary today with injuries which may prove fatal. He
fell off of Illinois Central freight train No. 52 at Bridge
Junction at 10 o'clock this morning.
A switch crew
went up after the man on being notified by telephone, and
the patrol wagon met them at Eighteenth Street and took the
man to the hospital. His head was almost crushed to a pulp,
and there were cuts and bruises on his body. Dr.
Gordon waited on
the man and had to remove a quantity of broken pieces of
skull from his head. Only once did he appear to be at all
conscious, but his effort to talk failed. In one of his
pockets was found a Rock Island time card with the names
"Charles J. Vance"
and "James F.
Thinsley," and the address "909 Brennan Avenue, St.
Louis, Mo." written upon it. No other names or writing
could be found on him. He also had a spool of thread, a
piece of tape and a pair of pliers which led to the belief
that he was an electrician.
He was about 25
years of age, of medium size and his clothing showed
evidences of wear.
Dr.
Gordon used his
best efforts to save the man's life, and if the man lives he
can thank the county physician for his efforts.
It is unknown
whether the man fell off the train or fell in an effort to
get off. The train was coming up from the south.
Charles J.
Vance, an employee of the Peters Shoe Company, Twelfth and Market
streets, St. Louis, is the man who fell from a train at
Cairo Junction yesterday. He regained consciousness today
sufficient to tell his name. It is supposed that he roomed
with James Thinsley, at 909 Brennan Avenue, St. Louis. The man was so bad
today that he had to be tied to his bed at St. Mary’s
Infirmary. There is only the slightest chance of his
recovery.
Ed
Boyd, the negro
in the hospital with a broken leg, who was shot by Officer
T. D. Wilson, at
Tamms, is believed to be wanted near Brownsville, Tenn.,
where he shot another negro, Freeland
McCabe.
Officer
Wilson's
brother-in-law, of Ripley, Tenn., tells him that
Boyd is one of four brothers who were implicated in the killing of a
negro at Nut Brush Church, about twelve miles from
Brownsville. When the officers tried to arrest, they shot
one and the others escaped, but a deputy sheriff was killed
by the escaping negroes. Two are said to have been captured
in Kansas City and
Boyd is believed to be the fourth of the quartet. This
would account for the promptness of
Boyd in pulling
out his gun and attempting to fire when Officer
Wilson and Mayor Rouse of
Tamms approached him.
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