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The Cairo
Evening Citizen,
Tuesday, 2 Jan 1912:
John White, an aged
negro employed by Dr.
Cary for about twelve years, died Monday. It is
thought his death was the result of a wound he received
several days ago by being kicked by a horse.
The Cairo
Evening Citizen,
Wednesday, 3 Jan 1912:
DEATH CLAIMED E. J. AYRES
TUESDAY
Former Resident of Villa
Ridge Passed Away in California
News came today
of the death of Mr. E. J.
Ayers, formerly a
prominent fruit grower of Villa Ridge. He passed away
at Artesia, Cal., where he and Mrs.
Ayres were living
with their daughter.
Mr. Ayres
leaves besides his widow, a son and two daughters, Dr.
Phillip Ayres and
Mrs. Ruth Phillips
and Mrs. Jenning
Mannington.
Since Mr.
Ayres left southern Illinois for California, he has been
in extremely poor health.
(Henry N.
Mannington, 27, of Stewart, Iowa, banker, born in
Genesco, Ill., son of John
Mannington and
Mary Nourse,
married Jennie Y.
Ayers, daughter of Elias
Ayers and Ardelia
Wheelock, on 6 Sep 1894,
in Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Grace D. Barnard
was taken to St. Mary's Infirmary Tuesday afternoon, where
she underwent a surgical operation this morning. She
appeared to stand the operation well, but her recovery is
doubtful.
The Cairo
Evening Citizen,
Thursday, 4 Jan 1912:
SOL FARNBAKER STRICK BY DEATH
Passed Away Wednesday Night
after Long Illness
The sudden death
of Solomon Farnbaker,
who died at 10:30 o'clock last night at his home at 422
Seventh Street, was a great shock to his relatives and
friends. He died while sitting in a chair, conversing
with his physician, and appeared to be in good health.
The deceased has been ill since October 26, with
complication of heart and lung trouble. For sixty-four
days and nights he has been unable to lie in bed and was
compelled to sit up in a chair. The last ten days he
improved and was able to be out.
The deceased was 61 years of age and was born August
31, 1850, at Natchez, Miss. He received his education
in the clothing business in New York, Paducah, and
Evansville. He came to Cairo from Evansville in 1873
and engaged in the clothing business in connection with his
father. In 1887, he engaged in the newspaper business
and published the
Cairo People. Recently he engaged in the wholesale
mail order business and for the last eighteen months prior
to his illness was traveling salesman for the Cairo Brewing
Company.
The surviving members are a wife, three brothers,
John, of California; Joseph, of Memphis; and Maurice J., of
420 Seventh Street, of this city.
The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon.
Services will be held at the house by Rev. James
Downey of St.
Patrick's Church, and a special train will leave the foot of
Fourteenth Street for Villa Ridge cemetery.
Mrs. W. A. Spann Dead
Word was received
here (Vienna) Wednesday of last week that Mrs. W. A.
Spann had died at
her home in Marion. Her former name was Mrs. Mollie
Goodall, and she had been married to Mr.
Spann some two months or more. Mrs. L. J.
Smith and Mrs. R.
E. Gillespie,
daughters of Mr.
Spann, left here Monday afternoon for Marion, in
response to the information that their stepmother was very
low.
(Levi J. Smith
married Lula Spann on 29 Apr 1895, in Johnson Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
OMISSIONS MADE IN
CITIZEN'S REVEW OF
THE YEAR 1911
In the necrology
of the year, published in
The Citizen, the
name of Mrs. Anna M.
Parks, who died in St. Louis, on Feb. 15, was
unintentionally omitted. Mrs.
Parks was one of
the old residents of Cairo.
FUNERAL NOTICE
FARNBAKER—Died, Wednesday evening, Jan. 3, Solomon
Farnbaker.
Funeral services will be held at the family
residence, No. 422 Seventh Street, Friday, at 1:45 o'clock,
conducted by Rev. James
Downey.
Remains will be taken by special Illinois Central train
leaving Second Street at 2:45 p.m. for Villa Ridge cemetery,
where interment will be made in Calvary Cemetery.
Friends of the family are invited.
Mr. and Mrs. S. O. Bowles
left this week for Madisonville, Ky., where they attended
the funeral of the latter's mother. (Mound City)
The Cairo
Evening Citizen,
Friday, 5 Jan 1912:
FARNBAKER FUNERAL WAS HELD
TODAY
The funeral of
Solomon Farnbaker
was held this afternoon. Services were held at 1:30
o'clock at the residence at 422 Seventh Street, conducted by
Rev. James Downey. A special train left the Illinois Central station at 3
o'clock for Villa Ridge cemetery, where interment was made.
The pallbearers were: Guy
Eichenberg, N.
Sandler, M. J.
Howley, James
Barrow, F. Teichman, and
John Sanders.
Seymore Hutchison left
Thursday for Des Moines, Iowa, after attending the funeral
of his mother, Mrs. B.
Hutchison.
(Mound City)
The Cairo
Evening Citizen,
Saturday, 6 Jan 1912:
GRAND JURY PROBES WICKLIFFE
HOMICIDE
Frank Turner in Jail for
Murder of John Clay
The Ballard
County grand jury today began investigation of the shooting
Friday afternoon of John
Clay, aged 24, by
Frank Turner,
which resulted in the death of the young man.
Turner is in jail
awaiting the action of the grand jury.
The homicide, which was prompted by jealousy,
occurred on the street.
Turner called
Clay from his home and shot him as they were walking along the
street. As Clay
started to run,
Turner followed him firing. In all it is said five
bullets were lodged in
Clay’s body.
It is stated that Mrs.
Turner appealed
to Clay for money
to buy a pair of shoes. This angered
Turner and he
planned the murder of
Clay. Clay
is a laborer, but
Turner does little to make a living for his family.
The Cairo
Evening Citizen,
Monday, 8 Jan 1912:
FUNERAL NOTICE
Smith—Died Sunday, January 7, 1912, Mrs. Mary E.
Smith, aged 73 years.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday morning at
St. Joseph's Church, at 8:30 o'clock. Remains will be
taken to Villa Ridge cemetery for interment. Funeral
train will leave foot of Fourteenth Street at 9:45 a.m.
Friends of the family are invited to attend.
FUNERAL NOTICE
Brackey—Died this morning, of pneumonia, the infant child of Mr. and Mrs.
Ed. Brackey.
Funeral services will be held at the family residence
No. 727 Thirty-fifth Street, Tuesday afternoon at 1 o'clock,
conducted by Rev. James
Gillen.
Remains will be taken to Beech Grove Cemetery for interment
by special interurban car, leaving Thirty-fourth and
Highland. Friends of the family are invited.
INFANT SON OF ED BRACKEY
FOUND DEAD THIS MORNING
Edward
Brackey, the
four-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward J.
Brackey, of No.
727 Thirty-seventh Street, was found dead in bed at 6
o'clock this morning. Coroner
McManus was
notified and held the inquest at the residence. The
verdict of the jury was that the child had come to its death
from natural causes. The remains were taken in charge
by Mrs. M. E. Feith,
and the funeral will probably be held tomorrow. The
body will probably be taken to Beech Grove on an Interurban
car.
MRS. IDA PRUITT PASSED AWAY
TODAY
Mrs. Ida
Pruitt died this
morning at her home No. 324 ½ Thirty-Second Street.
The remains were taken in charge by E. A.
Burke.
Services will be held tomorrow at noon at the residence
conducted by Rev. L. G.
Graham.
Special interurban car will leave at 1:30 o'clock for Beech
Grove Cemetery.
OLD RESIDENT DIED SUNDAY
Mrs. Mary Smith, Aged 63
Years, Passed Away after Brief Illness
Mrs. Mary
Smith, aged 63
years, died at 10:20 o'clock last night at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. F. O.
Johnson, No. 2702 Sycamore Street. She was an old
resident of Cairo and resided here nearly all of her life.
Death was caused by a complication of diseases of which she
had been suffering the past week.
The deceased was born in Ireland and came to this
country and direct to Cairo when she was 10 years of age.
She is the widow of John
Smith and before her marriage, she was Miss Mary
Hughes.
John Smith was a prominent merchant of Cairo and an old resident.
The deceased was a member of St. Joseph's Church and the
Catholic Knights. For some time she has been making
her home with her daughter, Mrs.
Johnson.
Surviving members are two children, Mrs. F. O.
Johnson, of this
city, and son, Martin, of St. Louis, a sister, Mrs. E. C.
Smith, of East
Prairie, Mo. The out-of-town relatives have
already survived. Mrs. James
Sullivan, a
sister-in-law of East St. Louis is expected to arrive today.
The funeral arrangements have not been completed.
(John Smith
married Mary Hughes on 3 Feb 1870, in Alexander Co., Ill.
James C.
Sullivan married Hannah
Smith on 11 Sep
1883, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
Notice is hereby
given that I, Sadie
Hardin, who was tried and convicted in the Circuit Court
of Alexander County on May 23rd A.D. 1906 for the
alleged murder of Albert
Brown, will at
the January session A.D. 1912 of the Board of Pardons of the
State of Illinois make application to the Board to be
pardoned and liberated from the Illinois State penitentiary
at Joliet, Illinois.
Sadie Hardin
The Cairo
Evening Citizen,
Wednesday, 10 Jan 1912:
FUNERAL OF MRS. SMITH HELD
THIS MORNING
The funeral of
Mrs. Mary Smith,
who died Sunday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. F. O.
Johnson, of No. 2702 Sycamore Street, was held today. Services
were held at St. Joseph's Church and mass at 8:30 o'clock
this morning and a special train on the Illinois Central
departed from the foot of Fourteenth Street for Villa Ridge,
where interment was made. The pallbearers were:
Louis Zanon, Tom
Galvin, David
Barry, S.
Chapman, Arthur Magner,
Frank Thomas, A.
F. DeBaun, P. T.
Langan, P. J. Purcell,
Patrick Mahoney,
James Galligan,
and W. P. Greaney.
CARD OF THANKS
We desire to
extend our sincere thanks to our friends and neighbors for
their kindness at the death of our baby, Edward T.
Brackey.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward J.
Brackey
The infant baby of Mr. and Mrs. Will
Britt died on last Sunday afternoon after a long illness.
(Pulaski)
A. M. Crawford, an old
man of about ¾ Cherokee Indian, and who lived alone and was
quite feeble, was found dead in his home here (Pulaski)
early Monday morning. He had evidently frozen to
death, as he was found lying on the floor very thinly clad.
Esq. J. B. Kennedy
empaneled a jury and held an inquest which rendered a
verdict of dead from cold and exposure.
NEGRO CAUGHT IN MACHINERY AND
SERIOUSLY INJURED
Henry
Lewis, colored,
an employee of the Roberts Cotton Oil Mill, was seriously
injured last night by being caught in the machinery while
working on the night shift. He is confined at St.
Mary's Infirmary and is in a very critical condition.
Lewis was
caught in a pulley of the rapid moving machinery and was
carried around several times before he could be rescued.
He was rushed to the office of Drs.
Gorden and McNeimer and
given immediate attention. Both legs and his right arm
were broken. His left leg was badly lacerated and the
arm was broken at the shoulder. He also has a number
of bruises about the body.
The Cairo
Evening Citizen,
Thursday, 11 Jan 1912:
Charles Miller has been
called to Iowa to answer questions relating to a will that
he was remembered in by his father. We are informed
that the property left him is very valuable. (Tamms)
Cyrus (Bud) Miller was
called to Mill Creek Saturday to the bedside of his father,
Paul Miller, who
is very sick. Mr. Paul
Miller is one of
Union County's prominent farmers. (Tamms)
Died, January 8, Guy Cruse,
aged about 19. He had suffered from scarlet fever for
about 6 weeks and fought hard for life until Monday morning,
when it became too much for him, when he had to give up.
The sympathy of all is with the parents and brother, which
survive him. (Mill Creek)
The baby of Scott Warren,
living in the country east of town (Thebes), is dead.
The Italian farmer in the hills, who lost two children by
diphtheria a short time ago, lost another child the first of
the week and one more is very low. (McClure)
The Cairo
Evening Citizen,
Friday, 12 Jan 1912:
OBITUARY
Ida, the beloved
wife of Alonzo Pruitt,
departed this life Jan. 8th after a long illness
of tuberculosis. She was 34 years of age. She
lived a sweet, patient Christian life, although she was a
great sufferer, yet she never murmured on account of her
affliction. She leaves besides her husband, one
sister, Mrs. Roger
Barbee, four aunts and a host of friends to mourn her
death. Her funeral was preached by Rev. L. G.
Graham, pastor of
the Calvary Baptist Church, of which she was a member, and
the body was laid to rest in Beech Grove Cemetery.
The Cairo
Evening Citizen,
Saturday, 13 Jan 1912:
SECTION FOREMAN FROZEN TO
DEATH
Henry Hacke, Aged 35 Years,
Succumbs to Cold Weather near Olive Branch
REMAINS FOUND BY FRIENDS LAST
NIGHT
On Railroad Track between
Olive Branch and Fayville—Deceased Unmarried—Has Sister in
Iowa.
The first
fatality, as a result of the cold weather, reported in this
section, is that of Henry
Hacke, section
foreman for the C. & E. I. Railroad.
Mr. Hacke
left Olive Branch Thursday morning for Fayville, where he
was going to clean out some switches. He was on his
way back to Olive Branch, when he succumbed to the cold and
his remains were picked up by friends Friday evening about 6
o'clock.
The deceased is said to be unmarried and made his
headquarters at Olive Branch. He has a sister residing
at Muscatine, Iowa, and another in New York. The
sister at Muscatine has been notified of her brother's
death, but the exact location of the other sister had not
yet been learned. The deceased was about 35 years of
age.
Coroner
McManus left this morning for Olive Branch to hold an
inquest over the remains.
Judge J. B. Collins was
called to Belknap by the death of his sister, Mrs. Fannie
Adams.
Henry Lewis, the negro
who was injured Tuesday night at the Roberts Cotton Seed Oil
Mill, died this morning at St. Mary's Infirmary. The
remains were taken in charge of E. A.
Burke.
Lewis was suffering from two broken legs, a broken arm and badly
lacerated limbs. He was working on the night shift and
was caught in a pulley. He was pulled around a number
of times before the machinery could be stopped.
The Cairo
Evening Citizen,
Monday, 15 Jan 1912:
OLD RESIDENT OF CAIRO PASSED
AWAY SUNDAY
John A.
Nickles, one of
the oldest residents of Cairo, aged 84 years, died Sunday
morning at 3:35 o'clock at his home, No. 2814 Commercial.
Death was caused by a paralytic stroke, of which the
deceased had been suffering for some time.
The deceased was born in Clinnenburg, Germany,
October 1, 1827. He came to this country in 1848 and
in 1877 came to Cairo. Immediately after his arrival
here, he opened a shoe shop on Ohio Street above Eighth and
has been in the shoe repairing business ever since.
From Ohio Levee he moved his shop to No. 1109 Washington
Avenue and later to a store next to his residence at No.
2814 Commercial Avenue.
The surviving members are a wife and three sons,
John, Joseph, and Theodore, the latter of Paducah, Ky.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at
the residence, conducted by Rev. M. H.
Loar of the First
Methodist Church. Interment will be held at Villa
Ridge cemetery.
The deceased was a member of Cairo Lodge No. 237 A.
F. & A.M., who will have charge of the funeral.
FUNERAL NOTICE
Nickels—Died Sunday morning, January 14, John A.
Nickles, aged 84 years.
Funeral service will be held at the family residence,
2814 Commercial Avenue, Tuesday, January 16, at 1:30 p.m.
Remains will be taken by special train leaving Fourteenth
Street at 2:45 o'clock for Villa Ridge cemetery.
Friends of the family invited.
MASONIC NOTICE
All members of
Cairo Lodge No. 237 A. F. & A.M. and all visiting brothers
are requested to meet at the Masonic Hall at 1 p.m. Tuesday,
January 16th, 1912, for the purpose of attending
the funeral of our late brother, John A.
Nickles.
C. S. Bourque, Worthy
Master
The Cairo
Evening Citizen,
Tuesday, 16 Jan 1912:
COTTON BELT OFFICIAL KILLED
Guy L. Stewart, Industrial
Agent, Burned to Death in His Car
ACCIDENT OCCURRED NEAR THEBES
BRIDGE
Cotton Belt and C. & E. I.
Trains Collided and Crashed into Iron Mountain Freight
Kelso, Mo., Jan.
16.—Guy L. Stewart,
of St. Louis, agricultural and industrial agent for the
Cotton Belt, was burned to death today in a wreck near here.
The Cotton Belt passenger train and a Chicago & Eastern
Illinois passenger collided and both of them crushed into an
Iron Mountain freight train in the railroad yards.
Stewart was in his private car which took fire. It was
telescoped and rescuers were unable to reach him. One
Pullman car was also telescoped, but the passengers escaped
injury. Three trainmen were injured. The C & E.
I. train was running late when the collision occurred.
REPORT THAT MAN DROWNED
BELIEVED TO BE HOAX
The report that a
man was drowned in the Mississippi River, while walking over
on the ice, alarmed the relatives of Albert
Norris, operator
for the Cotton Belt at Bird's Point. He could not be
located at the Point, but it was learned later that he went
over on the transfer, which was late. It is believed
the story was a hoax.
Friends of Rev. and Mrs. A. S.
Buchanan, of Indianapolis, formerly of Cairo, will be sorry to hear
of the serious illness of their son, Milo, who has been
suffering for the last ten days with an attack of typhoid
fever. His condition is considered critical.
PATRICK CARMODAY PASSED AWAY
TODAY AT INFIRMARY
Patrick
Carmoday, aged 36
years, passed away early this morning at St. Mary's
Infirmary, of pneumonia. The deceased is survived by a
brother, Thomas
Carmody, two aunts, Mrs. Ellen
Levitt, and Mrs.
Mary Driscoll,
and two uncles, Peter
Doud and Patrick
Carmody.
The funeral services will be held tomorrow morning at
St. Patrick's Church and interment made at Villa Ridge
cemetery.
The deceased was formerly employed at the Andrew
Lohr Bottling
Company.
(Michael
Driscoll married Mary
Doud on 22 Sep
1887, in Alexander Co., Ill.
Martin Carmody married Bridget Doud
on 31 Jan 1869, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
FUNERAL NOTICE
Carmoday—Died, Monday, January 16th, 1912, aged 36 years.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday morning at 8:30
o'clock at St. Patrick’s Church. Cortege will leave
the residence of Mrs. Ellen
Levitt, No. 410
Cross Street, at 8 o'clock. Interment will be made at
Villa Ridge. Friends of the family are invited to
attend.
Died, in Anna, on last Monday night, Mrs. M. M.
Veach, at the age
of 72 years. She leaves only one child, Mrs. Eugene
Leonard, at whose
home she died. The remains were brought to Vienna on
the 10 o'clock train Thursday morning for interment,
accompanied by relatives and friends. The funeral
services were held Thursday afternoon at the home of Miss
Emma Rebman, who
is a niece of the deceased, conducted by Eld. I. A. J.
Parker, followed
by interment in the Masonic Cemetery.
The Cairo
Evening Citizen,
Wednesday, 17 Jan 1912:
FORMER CAIRO BOY AT DEATH'S
DOOR
The condition of
Milo Buchanan,
son of Rev. and Mrs. A. S.
Buchanan, of
Indianapolis, formerly of Cairo, is more serious today.
M. Easterday
received a message this morning from Rev.
Buchanan.
The message stated that Milo was very low with an attack of
typhoid. He has been ill since before Christmas.
Two nurses are attending him. The patient is delirious
and has a temperature of 104 and pulse 108.
The funeral of John Nickles,
who died early Sunday morning at his residence at 2814
Commercial Avenue, was held Tuesday afternoon.
Services were held at the residence by Rev. M. H.
Loar and a
special train left Fourteenth Street for Villa Ridge
cemetery where interment was made.
Patrick Carmoday, who
died early Tuesday morning at St. Mary's Infirmary, was
buried this morning. Services were held at St.
Patrick’s Church at 8:30 o'clock conducted by Rev. James
Downey. A
special train left Fourteenth Street for Villa Ridge
cemetery, where interment was made.
Mrs. Harmon, of Des
Moines, Ia., who has been visiting at the home of B.
Hutchison and family since the death of her sister, returned to her
home Tuesday. (Mound City)
Little Hallie Upchurch,
son of Mrs. John
Upchurch, of this place (Olmsted), died Sunday afternoon
at his home at 4:25, the cause of death being pneumonia in
both lungs. Hallie was a bright little fellow of three
years and loved by all who knew him. Mr. and Mrs.
Upchurch have the
heartfelt sympathy of the community in their sad
bereavement.
Died, at his home in Ullin, Jan. 11, 1912, Charles H.
Kruse, son of G.
B. Kruse, of this
place (Olmsted). Death was caused from catarrh of the
stomach, which had given him considerable trouble for about
two years. He was brought to Olmsted Friday afternoon,
where the funeral was preached Saturday afternoon at 2
o'clock by Brother J. L.
Martin, at the
home of John Johnson.
Burial at Masonic Cemetery. Besides his many friends,
he leaves a wife and three children, an aged father and
sisters to mourn his death. An abundance of beautiful
carnations with lilies and hyacinths were presented by C. G.
Willard, of Mound City.
The pallbearers were Hiram
Calvin, J. W.
Cook, George
Lilly, Charles Kratz, Dan
McDaniels, and
Rudolph Dick.
(His marker in the Masonic Cemetery at Olmsted reads:
Charles H.
Kruse Died Jan. 11, 1912 Aged 31 Years.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mr. and Mrs. Farnbrough
from the south were here Saturday to attend the funeral of
Charles Kruse,
brother of Mrs.
Farnbrough.
If it had not been for the timely assistance of Lige and
Fred Goines,
Friday night of last week, Uncle George
Kruse, who is
quite aged and dead, would have probably perished in the
snow and blizzard that was raging at the time. Mr.
Kruse had fallen the second time in the snow, but the boys happened
along in time to get him up and into a neighbor's where he
was revived.
The Cairo
Evening Citizen,
Thursday, 18 Jan 1912:
CAIRO MAN KILLS SELF AT
SIKESTON
George Cleige Took Dose of
Carbolic Acid Wednesday with Fatal Effect
TRIED TO SLAY WIFE WITH A
KNIFE
Deceased Member of Knights
Pythias Lodge of This City—Worked at Singer
Sikeston, Mo.,
Jan. 18—George Cleige,
of Cairo, Ill., killed himself here last night by taking
carbolic acid. In the early part of the evening, he
went to the home of his wife from whom he was separated and
tried to slay her with a knife. Later, he took his own life.
He was dead when found this morning.
Cleige is said to
have been a member of the K. of P. Lodge at Cairo.
The deceased is a cousin of Henry
Etz, engineer at
the Halliday Mill and of Mrs. Rosena
Elias. He
was about 40 years of age and was formerly employed at the
Singer. Deceased went to Sikeston only a few days ago
with the intention of bringing his wife back to Cairo, but
it is said she refused to accompany him, which resulted in
his rash act.
(The 19 Jan 1912, issue reported his name was George
Kruge.
Harry
Elias married Rosina
Ward on 15 May
1900, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Cairo
Evening Citizen,
Friday, 19 Jan 1912:
FUNERAL OF CAIRO MAN WAS HELD
AT SIKESTON TODAY
The funeral of
George Kruge, who
ended his life at Sikeston, Mo., Wednesday night by taking
carbolic acid, was held this afternoon and the remains
interred at Sikeston.
Cairo Lodge No. 173 Knights of Pythias of which the
deceased was a member, made arrangements with the Sikeston
Lodge to take charge of the remains. Fred
Dauksch,
chancellor commander of the local lodge, made arrangements
last evening and several of the members from Cairo went to
Sikeston today to attend the funeral.
The name of the deceased was not George
Cleige, as has
been stated. The name was misspelled in the dispatch
received from Sikeston. The deceased and his wife
formerly resided at No. 215 Thirty-fourth Street in this
city. He had been married about a year and until
recently was employed by the Singer Manufacturing Company.
NEGRO CONFESSES TO ULLIN
MURDER
Otis Meals, Arrested at New
Orleans, Confesses to Shooting of Marshal Chastine on August
19th
Otis
Meals, a negro
arrested at New Orleans, has confessed to the killing of
Marshal Robert Chastine of Ullin on August 19th. Sheriff
Wehrenberg, of
Mound City, received a message today from the Chief of
Police at New Orleans, starting that the negro had been
captured there and that he had confessed to the crime.
An officer has been sent after him and he will be brought
here in a few days as he does not demand a requisition.
The father and brother of
Meals were
arrested after the shooting and were sentenced to the
penitentiary. They were implicated, but Otis was the
one who did the shooting. He has been tracked by an
officer for some time and was finally located at New
Orleans.
Immediately after his arrest, he confessed to the
killing and was willing to return.
THREE KILLED IN WRECK
North and South Bound Frisco
Freight Trains Crash Together near Wittenberg, Mo.
Cape Girardeau,
Mo., Jan. 19.—Three trainmen were killed and one injured
fatally in a head-on collision between two freight trains on
the Cape Girardeau division of the Frisco Railroad near
Wittenberg.
The dead are: Engineer Charles
Baird, Fireman W.
Clark, and
Brakeman G. Sutton,
all of the northbound train.
Brakeman H.
Hilthouse of the southbound train probably will die.
The Cairo
Evening Citizen,
Saturday, 20 Jan 1912:
OLD RESIDENT OF CAIRO PASSED
AWAY FRIDAY
Mrs. Catherine
Cooper, an old
Cairoite, died Friday afternoon at 4:40 o'clock at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. Fred
Strautz, of No.
2003 Washington. Death was caused by old age.
The deceased has been ill for the past six months, but only
last week did her condition become serious.
She was born at Buffalo, N.Y., and came to Cairo with
her parents, while she was very young. She has resided
here all of her life and is very well known among the old
Cairoites. The deceased was a member of St. Joseph’s
Church and the Catholic Knights of America. She is
survived by two daughters, Mrs. Fred
Strautz, of
Cairo, and Mrs. John
Hook, of East St. Louis. Charles
Strautz, of
Cairo, and Mrs. John
Hook, of East St. Louis, Charles
Strautz, of St.
Louis, a nephew, arrived last night to attend the funeral.
(Frederick W.
Strautz married Katie
Cooper on 16 Nov
1882, in Alexander Co., Ill.
John Hook married Susan L. Cooper
on 14 Aug 1888, in Johnson Co., Ill.
Her marker in Calvary Cemetery at Villa Ridge reads:
Catherine Cooper Died Jan 19, 1912.—Darrel
Dexter)
FUNERAL NOTICE
Cooper—Died Friday afternoon, January 19, Mrs. Catherine
Cooper.
Funeral will leave the residence, 2003 Washington, at
1:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon for St. Joseph's Church where
services will be conducted by Rev. James
Gillen.
Cortege will leave Fourteenth Street on a special train for
Villa Ridge cemetery where interment will be made.
Friends of the family are invited to attend.
Died, at his home about 3 ½ miles south of Vienna, on Tuesday
morning, Asa C.
Atherton, at the age of 79 years. Death was caused
from senility and a breaking down of the system. Mr.
Atherton was a
good man and well respected by his neighbors and friends.
His daughter, Mrs. E. E.
Mathis, lived
with him and kept house for him—his last wife having died
some years ago. The remains were shipped to Hodges
Park in Alexander County for burial Tuesday evening,
accompanied by his daughter, Mrs.
Mathis, his
son-in-law Charles A.
Parker, and perhaps others.
Dr. F. A. Snell, a
well-known physician of Columbus, Ky., died at the home of
his daughter, Mrs. A. M.
Wilson, in
Columbus Monday afternoon of meningitis. He had been
in ill health since last fall when he had a stroke of
apoplexy.
The deceased is survived by two daughters, Mrs. A. M.
Wilson and Miss
Laverne Snell.
Wesley Webb, an aged
citizen of Oscar, Ballard County, Ky., died last Sunday
afternoon of the infirmities of old age. He was a
former resident of Carlisle County.
Mrs. Noonon, wife of
Jailer Noonan, of
Hickman, Ky., died Tuesday morning at her home in Hickman,
from injuries received a few days ago from a fall on the
ice.
The Cairo
Evening Citizen,
Monday, 22 Jan 1912:
NEGRO BOY WAS FATALLY BURNED
Died Sunday from Injuries
Sustained in Fire Late Saturday Night
FIRE WAGON COLLIDES WITH
TELEPHONE POLE
In Running to Fire This
Morning—Firemen Kept Busy During Past Few Days
Fred
Robinson, the
negro boy who was burned Saturday night in the fire at
Thirty-first and Commercial Avenue, died Sunday morning, and
an inquest was held this afternoon by Coroner
McManus.
The fire is said to have started from an overturned
lamp. The boy was asleep when the fire started and he
was seriously burned when his father rescued him. The
fire occurred about 9 o'clock.
Companies No. 2 and 3 answered to the alarm.
No. 3 had a line of hose damaged by a street car, the
motorman running over the hose before he saw it in time to
stop his car.
ANOTHER OLD CAIROITE GONE
J. S. Metcalf Passed Away at
Tampa, Fla.
J. S. Metcalf,
an old resident of Cairo, passed away at his home in Tampa,
Fla., last week. A Tampa newspaper just received gives
the following notice of his death.
Following a period of ten days illness, James H.
Metcalf, for the past thirty years a resident of Hillsboro County,
succumbed yesterday to a stroke of apoplexy, at the
residence of his daughter, Mrs. W. W.
Nowotny, 702 East
Frances Avenue.
The deceased born in Calloway County, Kentucky, March
4, 1826, but while still a youth moved with his parents to
Southern Illinois. At the age of twenty years he
enlisted in the United States Army and served during the
entire period of the Mexican War following which he returned
to Cairo Ill., where he engaged in the mercantile business
and continued to make his home there until he moved to
Florida in 1881.
Upon his arrival in this state, Mr.
Metcalf located
nine miles north of Tampa and set to work to raise an orange
grove, no small undertaking for a man who had already passed
the half century make in his life’s span. Here he
continued to reside, doing his share of the work on the
farm, until about six years ago, when he moved with the
family of Mr. and Mrs.
Nowotny to their
present residence in this city.
Of splendid stature and powerful physique, as may be
gathered from this sketch of his life, Mr.
Metcalf was
essentially a man in every sense of the word. Always
considerate of the feelings of others, he spent his
declining years passing a kindly word to all he met, trying
to make the sun shine a little brighter and smooth out the
troubles of everyone who came his way.
(William W.
Nowotny married E. Monte
Metcalf on 29 Sep
1886, in Alexander Co., Ill.
James H.
Metcalf was a
private in Company B, 2nd Illinois Infantry
during the Mexican War.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Cairo
Evening Citizen,
Tuesday, 23 Jan 1912:
Sheriff Wehrenberg is
expected home tonight from New Orleans with the prisoner
Otis Meals who
was recently arrested in that city on the charge of
murdering the marshal at Ullin some time ago.
The Cairo
Evening Citizen,
Wednesday, 24 Jan 1912:
A Former Resident of Mound
City Dies in Chicago
Word was received
this morning of the death of H. M.
Perks, formerly of Mounds, who was run over by a street car in
Chicago about a week ago. From the time of the
accident, there were only faint hopes of his recovery and he
has remained in a comatose condition until the end came
early this morning. He was a brother of L. C.
Perks, of Mound
City.
DOUBLE KILLING AT MARION LAST
NIGHT
Marion, Ill.,
Jan. 24.—Authorities today are making a searching
investigation of the double killing at Carterville near here
last night. When the wife of Sam
Pulliner refused
to leave a dance and go home with him,
Pulliner procured
a shotgun and killed her. Within a few minutes a
general battle was in progress outside the house and this
morning Pulliner
was found dead.
C. H. Kruse died at his
home in Ullin Jan. 11, from acute indigestion and heart
failure, from which he was a sufferer for about three
months. Besides his many friends he leaves a wife and
three children, an aged father and sister.
Mrs. Catherine Guild
died at her home four miles northwest of Ullin Jan. 17.
She was born in Cary County, Ireland, in 1852 and was
married to James Guild in 1870, coming to Alexander County about 30 years ago.
From that time until her death she resided in the community
of Beech Grove. She was a good neighbor, loving wife, and
mother. She was the mother of ten children, seven of
whom are left to mourn her loss. Those living are
Maude Short,
Millie, Nellie, Mary, John, Dan, and Will. Millie,
living in Wyoming, could not be present. John is in
Wisconsin. Miss
Nellie teaches school at Mounds. The remains were laid
to rest at Mt. Pisgah Cemetery. Jan. 20. Rev.
Bumpas, pastor of
the M. E. Church, conducted the funeral.
(Ed Short
married Maude Guild
on 8 Sep 1895, in Alexander Co., Ill.
Her marker in Mt. Pisgah Cemetery near Wetaug reads:
Catharine
Guild 1852-1912.—Darrel
Dexter)
Card of Thanks
Please allow us
as members of her family to extend our sincere and heartfelt
thanks for the help and kindness shown us by our friends and
neighbors in the sad hours of the death of our wife and
mother.
James Guild and Children
Mrs. Mary A. Burris,
administrator of the estate of her son, Arthur B.
Burris, deceased, who sued the Murphysboro Telephone Company for
damages for the death of A. Bert
Burris, who was
electrocuted on a pole while he was working as a lineman for
the company in that city, has been settled and plaintiff
took a non-suit. The sum agreed upon was $1,250, which
includes plaintiff's attorney's fees.
Thomas B. Powell, who
has been confined to his home with a severe spell of
lagrippe, and who has for some years been suffering from an attack
of paralysis took a change for the worse Monday morning and
it was thought for a while that he could not recover.
He is now suffering from heart failure. (Vienna)
The Cairo
Evening Citizen,
Thursday, 25 Jan 1912:
The remains of little Walter
Moyer were brought here (Grand Chain) last Saturday to
the home of his grandfather, Mr.
Aliff.
Funeral services were held at the home Sunday after which
the body was laid to rest in the Grand Chain Cemetery.
Little Walter was six years old and lived in Poplar Bluff,
Mo. He died Jan. 19, of pneumonia.
CARD OF THANKS
We desire to
extend our very deep gratitude to the friends and neighbors
who were so attentive during the illness and at the death of
our son and brother, Charles
Michamp.
E. F. Michamp and family
Grandma Martha Elwood
has been affected with a goiter for more than fifty years.
It has assumed enormous proportions and the doctors can do
nothing to relieve her. She suffers intensely with no
hope of relief, but death from the pain.
The funeral of the late Mrs. Del.
Gaines was held Wednesday afternoon in the Baptist church, services
being conducted by Rev.
Ferrill and
interment at Beech Grove Cemetery. (Mound City)
The Cairo
Evening Citizen,
Friday, 26 Jan 1912:
OBITUARY
Asa C. Atherton
Asa C.
Atherton was born
in what is now Pulaski County, Nov. 21, 1832. He was
the second of six children and the son of Aaron and
Elizabeth Atherton,
both natives of Kentucky, who immigrated to this state in
1816 and settled where the subject of this sketch was born.
His father was a soldier in the Mexican War and was killed
in the Battle of Buena Vista, Feb. 27, 1847, thereby
limiting the opportunities for an education for this son, as
he resumed the responsibilities of the home and conducted
the farm for his mother until he was eighteen years old.
Entered the mercantile business in what was known as Valley
Forge, Pulaski County, and acted as postmaster six years, at
which is now Villa Ridge, before the Illinois Central
Railroad was built. Then he returned to the home farm
where he lived about twenty years, farming and sawmilling.
He also put in a flour mill, which he ran in connection with
the saw mill about one year, when it was destroyed by fire,
losing the mill and its contents as he had no insurance in
1879. Soon after
Hodges Park was started, he put up a saw mill and store at
that place in which he remained engaged as long as he stayed
in Alexander County and some six or seven years after coming
to Johnson County. After closing out the milling
business he settled down on his farm three miles south of
Vienna and spent his declining years peacefully and
apparently perfectly contented, enjoying the reward for his
score years of usefulness.
He married Elizabeth
Kelly Dec. 16,
1856, and to this union nine children were born: John
H., Ellen Mathis,
Edward J., Hannah C., Grace T.
Parker, George
C., Anna A., Fanny M. and Violet E. His daughter,
Ellen E. Mathis,
has lived with him since the death of his last wife and has
been untiring in her devotion to his every need.
His second marriage was to Emily A.
Brown, June 29,
1883. In 1891 he married to Mary E.
Norton, Nov. 15, and was again married Dec. 17, 1899, to Mary J.
Parker, formerly
a well-known resident of Vienna, who died May 16, 1904.
He united with the Shiloh Baptist Church near Villa
Ridge Aug. 12, 1852. He was very faithful to his
church and was a tireless Bible reader. He enjoyed
good health up to within a few days before his death, when
he contracted a cold which he was unable to throw off on
account of his old age. He passed away Jan. 16, 1912.
He was a good father, a generous friend and will be
greatly missed by those who knew him best.
Funeral services were held at Shiloh Baptist Church,
a mile and a half west of Villa Ridge and near his old home,
Jan. 17th, conducted by Rev. W. A.
Ridge, of
Dongola, a personal friend and once pastor of Shiloh Church.
The services were very touching as he recalled many
incidents of the past, showing the generosity and interest
taken by the deceased in the up building and maintenance of
Shiloh Church.
(Asa Coleman
Atherton, 50, miller, from Hodges Park, Ill., born in
Pulaski Co., Ill., son of Aaron
Atherton and Elizabeth
Atherton,
married Mrs. Emily Alvina
Brown, 43, born
in St. Louis, Mo., daughter of Samuel
Music and
Elizabeth Walker,
on 27 Jun 1883, in Union Co., Ill.
Asa C. Atherton married Mrs. Mary E.
Morton on 15 Nov 1891, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
Asa Atherton
married Mary J.
Parker on 17 Dec 1899, in Johnson Co., Ill.
James P. Mathis married Ellen E.
Atherton on 6 Jul 1878, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
Charles A.
Parker married Grace T.
Atherton on 19
May 1889, in Alexander Co., Ill.
His marker in Shiloh Cemetery near Villa Ridge reads:
Asa C.
Atherton Born Nov. 21, 1832 Died Jan. 16, 1912 Baptized
Aug. 12, 1852.
Mary E. wife of A. C.
Atherton Born Dec. 23, 1842 Died Feb. 28, 1899 Aged 56
Ys., 2 Ms., & 5 D.
Violette A. daughter of A. C. & Elizabeth
Atherton Died
Oct. 4, 1880 Aged 8 Ys., 6 Ms., & 14 Ds—Darrel
Dexter)
Card of Thanks
To the friends
and neighbors who so kindly assisted us during the sickness
and death of our father, we express our sincere thanks.
John H. Atherton
Ellen E. Mathis
Edward J. Atherton
Charles A. Parker
"POOR" RECLUSE DIES RICH
Mrs. Rosa Tyler, of Near
Centralia, Ill., Leaves $20,000 Property
Centralia, Ill.,
January 26.—Although she lived alone for years in a little
one-room log cabin in a clump of woods near the Bowman
Schoolhouse, several miles from Centralia, and was thought
exceedingly poor, Mrs. Rosa
Tyler, aged 75, died Wednesday, worth $20,000.
It was discovered after her death that she owned
property and had wealth, and two nieces, who lived in Kansas
City, Mo., were not aware of the fact. In the bedding
was found considerable money and certificates of deposit
worth $10,000.
Mr. and Mrs. Brown, of
Olive Branch, and Miss
Keeler, of Cairo,
all attended the funeral here (Mound City) of the late Harry
Perks.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank
our many friends who so kindly attended us during the
illness and death of our little daughter, niece, and
granddaughter. We pray heaven's choicest blessings on
each and every one.
Respectfully,
Mr. and Mrs. Sol. Hicks
Miss Georgia Bugg
John Bugg
The Cairo
Evening Citizen,
Saturday, 27 Jan 1912:
The funeral of the late Harry M.
Perks was held today at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Higgins at 1
o'clock conducted by Rev. Joseph
Buie.
Interment at Cairo City Cemetery at Villa Ridge.
(His marker in Cairo City Cemetery at Villa Ridge
reads: Harry M.
Perks Born Feb.
22, 1869 in Petersburg Died Jan. 23, 1912, in
Chicago.—Darrel Dexter)
The Cairo
Evening Citizen,
Monday, 29 Jan 1912:
Mrs. J. B. Collins, left
this morning for Murray, Ky., called by the death of her
sister-in-law, Mrs. A. B.
Spencer, who died
Sunday afternoon.
OLDEST RESIDENT OF CAIRO DIES
Bernard Smith, Aged 79 Years,
Passed Away at Home of Daughter
J. Bernard
Smith, an old
resident of this city, passed away at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. George
Fischer, at No. 529 Center Street at 7:50 o'clock this morning.
The deceased took sick with an attack of pneumonia Saturday
and this, with infirmities of old age, hastened death.
He was 79 years of age.
The deceased was
born in County Connaugh, Ireland, and came to America when a
lad of twelve years and to Cairo during the Civil War.
For over fifteen years, he was employed as section foreman
for the Illinois Central Railroad. His wife died
seventeen years ago this month.
He is survived by a sister, Mrs. Margaret
Kennedy, of No.
2036 Pine Street, besides three sons and four daughters, as
follows: Jerry
Smith, of Cairo, John
Smith, of
Slayton, Texas, James
Smith, of Omaha, and Mesdames George
Fischer, of Cairo
and G. E. Baldwin,
of Boston, and Misses Mary
Smith, of Boston
and Miss Anna Moren,
of Chicago.
He is also survived by relatives in St. Louis and
four grandsons in this city.
The funeral services will be held Wednesday morning
at St. Joseph's Church. Mrs. M. E.
Feith the funeral
director having charge.
NEGRO OFFICER KILLS BAD MAN
Napoleon Lipe, Young Negro
Desperado, Shot by Officer Gus Johnson
CREATED DISTURBANCE IN UPTOWN
SALOON
And Ran Occupants Out with
Winchester Rifle—Later Made Gun Play at Police
Napoleon
Lipe, a young
negro desperado, aged about 25 years, was fatally shot by
Officer Gus Johnson, about midnight Saturday and died from his wounds Sunday
evening at 6:30 o’clock at St. Mary’s Infirmary.
Lipe was a
son of former Officer Green
Lipe, colored.
The young negro is said to have been intoxicated and went
into the saloon at Thirty-second and Commercial and engaged
in a quarrel with another negro. Later he left the
saloon and, going to the home of his father, not far
distant, he seized a Winchester rifle and went back to the
saloon, where he made the negroes step lively. The
bartender managed to get
Lipe out of the
saloon and called the police.
Officers
Johnson and Griffin, colored, responded to the call. They encountered
Lipe and another
negro at the corner of Twenty-seventh and Commercial.
Seeing the officers,
Lipe is said to have made a gun play, trying to shoot the officers,
who dodged behind a telephone pole. The negro
Patterson, who was with Lipe,
managed to get the rifle away from him, whereupon
Lipe started on a run up Commercial with the police in pursuit.
Lipe made a
motion towards his back pocket as if to pull a gun and
Johnson was too
quick for him and shot at him. He was then arrested
and taken to police headquarters. It was not known that the
shot had taken effect until sometime later. He was
then taken to the infirmary, where he died Sunday evening
about 6:30 o'clock.
Officer
Johnson has always been a fearless officer and killed a
"bad negro" named Frank
Conners several years ago for which he was exonerated.
Johnson
was placed under arrest after
Lipe's death and
is being held pending the result of the coroner’s jury this
afternoon.
Lipe had
had trouble with a number of officers in the past, including
former Officer Jim
Casey and Special Officer Ed
Moore.
The coroner’s inquest was held this afternoon in the
council chamber.
The jury was composed of Samuel
Green, Charles
DeBaun, James
Barrow, Gus Osterloh, Joe
Berbling, and Ed
Halliday.
Mrs. Elmer Clymore, who
has been in bad health for several months and finally her
mind became effected so much that it was deemed best to take
her to the hospital for treatment. Accordingly she was
adjudged insane before Judge
Hight on last Monday morning and her husband and Ike L.
Morgan took her
to the Southern Hospital at Anna. This is a sad affair
indeed. The little son, Bradley, only child, has gone
to stay at his grandfather's, Dan
Clymore, in the country, and Elmer still remains here (Vienna) as
clerk in Boyd’s
store. Another sad thing is that Mrs.
Clymore's mother,
Mrs. Bradley Farmer,
is slowly dying with cancer. They are all good people.
(Elmer
Clymore married Daisy M.
Farmer on 6 Aug 1899, in Johnson Co., Ill.
Daniel H.
Clymore married Louella
Albriton on 13
Jan 1878, in Johnson Co., Ill.
Bradley Farmer
married Nancy C.
Moor on 7 Apr 1871, in Johnson Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Cairo
Evening Citizen,
Tuesday, 30 Jan 1912:
CAPT. WILLIAM McCLATCHEY DIES
Veteran Riverman's Last Trip
Was with Taft Flotilla
Cape Girardeau,
Mo., Jan. 30.—Capt. William
McClatchey, 67
years old, died here Monday. He had followed river
life fifty-four years. He lived in St. Louis thirty
years, being captain of the old Anchor line, and had charge
of some of the best boats between St. Louis and New Orleans.
He was in charge of the
City of Cairo,
which was in the St. Louis harbor during the cyclone and for
two days was mourned as dead.
His last trip on the river was on the steamer
Cape Girardeau,
during the Taft flotilla to New Orleans in October 1908.
For two years he made his home in Cape Girardeau with his
son, Sam F. McClatchey.
VETERAN OF MEXICAN WAR PASSES
AWAY
Edward
Smith, aged 91
years, died Monday afternoon about 4:30 o'clock of old age
at St. Mary's Infirmary, where he had lived the last
eighteen years. He came to Cairo at that time and
having no place to go he was taken in as a charity patient
and worked around the infirmary until, his eyesight failing
him, he became totally blind. He had been practically
helpless the past fifteen years and had to be led around the
place.
The old gentleman was a reticent frame of mind and
would talk little of his affairs. It is not known
whether or not he has any surviving relatives. He was
born in New York and spent a time in Canada. He was a
veteran of the Mexican War and often told of several battles
in which he participated.
The funeral will be held Wednesday morning at St.
Patrick's Church, services being conducted by Rev. J.
Downey and
interment will be at Villa Ridge in Calvary Cemetery.
CORONER'S JURY EXONERATED
JOHNSON
Officer Gus
Johnson was
exonerated by the coroner's jury Monday evening for killing
Napoleon Lipe, the young negro whom the officer shot Saturday night.
About fifteen witnesses were examined and their testimony
was to the effect that
Johnson was
justified in the shooting.
Claude Winter went to
Clinton, Ky., today to attend the funeral of Mr.
Bussey, which occurred there today. Mr.
Bussey was with the late Claude
Winter, Sr., at the time of his fatal accident over a year ago.
Harry Becker went to
Clinton, Ky., today to attend the funeral of Mr.
Bussey.
DOUBLE TRAGEDY OCCURRED AT
GALATIA
Husband Kills Wife and Then
Ends His Own Life
The little town
of Galatia, in Saline County was highly wrought up on
Saturday about noon by a double tragedy, which was enacted
there in the local telephone central office. James
Goodman, slipping
up behind his wife while she was answering calls at the
switchboard, fired a bullet through her brain. He then
turned the weapon on himself and blew out his own brains.
His body fell across that of his victim.
Family troubles combined with ill health is said to have been the
cause of the tragedy. The couple were not living
together. They separated recently and on Sunday last
when together to talk over their differences had a violent
quarrel. This is believed to have been directly
responsible for the act.
Goodman
had been in ill health for some time, being a victim of
tuberculosis and this was caused him to be very unhappy.
The murdered woman was formerly Miss Etta
Rieter. She had
been married twice, the first time to Joe
Pemberton from whom she was separated. She leaves one child by
Pemberton.
She later married
Goodman and at the time of the double deed, was
separated from him. Since being separated from him she
had been working as central girl at the village telephone
office. She is said to have come from a good family.—Marion
Post
(Joseph T.
Pemberton married Etta
Ritter on 4 Oct
1899, in Saline Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
James R. Thornton, son
of Mr. and Mrs. C. W.
Thornton, died at their home Jan. 23, age 21 years.
The deceased has been a sufferer of curvature of the spine
since a child. He was bedfast three weeks. He
leaves a father, mother, one brother and two sisters,
besides a host of friends and relatives. The funeral
was held at the house and the remains were laid to rest near
Anna. (Ullin)
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank
our many friends in Ullin and Pulaski for their helping hand
and sympathy shown us in the sad hours of the sickness and
death of our son and brother, James.
Yours with thanks,
C. W. Thornton and
family
The Cairo
Evening Citizen,
Wednesday, 31 Jan 1912:
FUNERAL OF OLD RESIDENT HELD
THIS MORNING
The funeral of J.
Bernard Smith,
who died Monday morning at the home of his daughter, Mrs.
George Fischer,
on Center Street, was held this morning at St. Joseph’s
Church, Rev. James Gillen officiating. The cortege left the foot of Fourteenth Street
on a special I. C. train for Villa Ridge, the burial being
held at Calvary Cemetery.
The following were the pallbearers: Thomas
Galvin, Peter
Doud, Thomas
Fuller, David
Barry, Thomas Keefe,
James Barrow,
Daniel Kelly, Sr., M. J. Howley,
P. T. Langan, H.
Walbaum, Patrick
Egan.
Funeral of Edward Smith
The funeral of
Edward Smith, who
had been a patient at St. Mary's Infirmary for nineteen
years and who died at that institution Monday afternoon, was
held Tuesday morning at St. Patrick’s Church, the burial
being at Calvary Cemetery at Villa Ridge. Rev. J. J.
Downey was the officiating priest.
James E. Cunningham, in
response to word that his mother was seriously ill at her
home in Detroit, Mich., left for that place last Saturday
afternoon. Mr.
Cunningham on Monday sent a telegram to his wife that
his mother was dead and she and son, Charley, left for
Danville, Ill., Monday afternoon to attend the funeral.
The mother was rather old and had been living with her
daughter in Detroit, Mich., for some time. (Vienna)
Joseph
Depress, a well-known river engineer, died at the Marine Hospital in
Memphis last Wednesday of spinal meningitis. He was
employed on the transfer boat
Charles Merriam
that was recently sent to Memphis from Belmont, Mo., in the
service of the Iron Mountain. He leaves a wife and
four children.
(Henry B.
Cartner married Ailsy S.
Davault on 11 Apr 1867, in Union Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
William P.
Rouse, of Mound City, died Friday at his home after a lingering
illness of dropsy. Deceased was 50 years of age.
He leaves two sisters, Mrs. Kate
Scott, of
Decatur, and Mrs. Eva
Bowling, of Mound City, besides two brothers, James
Rouse, of
Memphis, and Thomas
Rouse, of Brazil, Ind.
The funeral
services will be held Sunday at 1:30 o'clock at the house,
the Rev. Mr. Anderson
of the Episcopal Church officiating. Interment will be
made at Beech Grove Cemetery.
(William P.
Rouse married Josie Cragitt
on 29 Nov 1884, in Jackson Co., Ill.
Jesse L.
Bowling married Eva M.
Rouse on 23 Apr
1873, in Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
A reward of $50
will be paid for the recovery of the body of Henry
Decker, who is
supposed to have been drowned Saturday night off wharf boat
at Cairo. He was 6 ft. 1 inch in height, wore brown
corduroy trousers, dark brown woolen shirt and blue jumper,
had on heavy shoes which appeared black because of grease.
(Henry
Decker, 24, married Sidney
Butler, 24, married on 8 Aug 1875, in Union Co.,
Ill.—Darrel Dexter)
H. T.
Gerould, formerly
connected with the gas works here, died at his home in
Centralia last Thursday. The
Centralia Democrat
says of his death:
H. T.
Gerould, one of
Centralia’s most highly respected citizens, passed away at
his home on North Poplar Street, Thursday night at 10:30
o'clock.
Mr.
Gerould was born
in Gilson N.H., May 14, 1837, and spent his youth in the
east. He came west at the age of thirty years and soon
attained his success as manager of various gas companies.
He spent 10 years in Cairo, seven years in Mendota and about
fifteen years in Centralia in that capacity.
Mr.
Gerould retired
from active business five years ago. Three years ago
he suffered a paralytic stroke from which he recovered only
to succumb to chronic heart trouble. He leaves a
widow, Mary S.
Gerould, and two sons, Dr. T. F.
Gerould, of this
city, and L. Ernest
Gerould, of St. Louis.
Mr.
Gerould was a
member of the St. John's Episcopal Church.
Sam
Anderson, a negro
barber, dropped dead on the corner of Twenty-sixth Street
and Commercial, Sunday night about 7 o'clock. His
death is attributed to heart trouble. He leaves his
mother and two brothers. The funeral will be held
tomorrow, William
Hughes, the undertaker, having charge.
Paducah, Ky.,
Feb. 6—Sterling
Lovelace, 25 years old, a young farmer of Cunningham, in
Carlisle County, and his horse were found frozen to death
early Sunday morning. They were found near the farm of
Tom Carroll, who
resides between Cunningham and Bardwell. When found,
Lovelace was
under his buggy and his head was frozen to the ground.
While the deaths
of Lovelace and his horse were due to the excessive cold weather, a
runaway was indirectly the cause.
Lovelace was in
Bardwell Saturday on business and started to return to his
home Saturday night. It is believed that the horse ran
away and ran into a tree. The horse was badly injured
and was unable to move.
Lovelace was in the buggy alone and it is believed that he was
stunned from the buggy and never regained consciousness.
When found, he
was under his buggy. The lines were looped around his
neck, while both hands were clutched tightly to the lines.
It is believed by friends that he placed the reins over his
head and was dozing while driving home. Mr.
Carroll heard a noise early Saturday night and went to his front
porch. He heard no more noise and retired. Early
Sunday morning he discovered the overturned buggy, the horse
and dead master on the road near his house.
Mr.
Lovelace was a
well-known young farmer of Carlisle County. His father
also survives. Two sisters, Mrs. Florence
Bennett, of
Graves County, and Mrs. A. C.
Lynn, of Carlisle
County, and three brothers, Lute
Lovelace, Will Lovelace,
and Virgil Lovelace,
all of Carlisle County, survive.
The funeral and
burial took place Monday at Zoar Baptist Church.
Stephen
Bird, an old resident of Cairo and Bird's Point, Mo., died at St.
Mary's Infirmary this morning after a brief illness due to
the infirmities of old age. The deceased was 75 years
old. He was brought over from Bird's Point last Monday
and placed in the hospital.
Mr.
Bird was born in
Louisiana in 1837. He came to Bird’s Point with his
parents when he was a boy and has practically resided there
ever since. His father conducted a sawmill at Bird's
Point and during the war it was removed to where Bird's Mill
is now and the deceased had charge of it ever since the
death of his father. His uncle, William
Bird, was one of
the early settlers at Bird's Point and who afterwards
settled in Cairo.
Although the
deceased kept his residence in Cairo, he spent most of his
time in Missouri, where his sawmill interests and farm are
located.
He was educated
by private tutors, as was the common practice with families
of means at that time. He did not enlist in the war,
although the soldiers were encamped at Bird's Point.
He belonged to no lodge or church.
The deceased is
survived by his wife and two sons, Abraham, of Bird's Mill,
and City Attorney Hunter
Bird, of this
city. He also has a brother, Andrew
Bird, residing at
Tampa, Fla., besides two sisters, Mrs. Clara
Edwards, of Union City, Tenn., and Mrs. Nannie
Hunter, of Marion, Ky.
The relatives
have been notified of his death and are expected to arrive
and attend the funeral.
The funeral will
be held at the family residence at Twenty-fifth and Sycamore
streets tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. The remains will be
interred in the family burying grounds at Bird's Point, Mo.
Died—Stephen A.
Bird, age 75 years. Funeral services will be held at the
family residence on Twenty-fifth and Sycamore streets,
Thursday, February 8th at 12:30 o'clock,
conducted by Father James
Gillen, pastor of St. Joseph's Church. The remains will leave
the residence at 1:00 p.m. for the Iron Mountain wharf boat
at Eighth and Ohio streets. Interment will be held in
the family burying grounds at Birds Mill, Mo. Friends
of the family are invited to attend.
The funeral of
the late Stephen A.
Bird, who died Wednesday morning at St. Mary's
Infirmary, took place this afternoon from the family
residence on Twenty-fifth Street.
Interment was
held at Birds Point in the family burying ground and the
remains were taken over on the Cotton Belt at 2 o'clock.
The following
were the pallbearers: Active—Alex
Wilson, Ross C.
Bates, M. J.
O'Shea, Q. E. Beckwith,
and Fred Lihd.
Honorary—William
White, John C. Gholson, Joseph Wenger,
John M. Lansden,
Al Lewis, M. H.
Howley, Reed Green, M. F.
Gilbert, E. A.
Smith W. F.
Grinstead, and H. S. Antrim.
Frank
Blotkin, son of
Mrs. Theresa Blotkin,
of No. 826 Twenty-third Street, died Wednesday at Chicago
after a two-week illness of typhoid fever. Mrs.
Blotkin had been
at her son's bedside the past two weeks having been called
to Chicago on account of his serious condition.
The deceased had
lived in Cairo nearly all his life, receiving his education
in the Cairo public schools. He was an exceptionally
bright young man and graduated from Cairo High School in
1908, being regarded as one of the most apt students ever
finishing at that institution. His zeal and energy led
him to enter the University of Chicago upon his own
resources, his ambition being to fit himself for the U. S.
Consular Service. To accomplish this, he received his
B. S. degree and at the time of his death was striving for
the Master of Arts title. He received several
scholarships which none other but a bright person could
achieve.
He was just
entering upon the zenith of his career, and it seems one of
the peculiar ironies of fate that he should be stricken down
at this time. The burden of his untimely end will rest
heavily upon his mother, to whom he was deeply devoted and
who went through many sacrifices that her son might have the
educational advantages he deserved. He also leaves a
sister, Miss Minnie, and a brother, Abe, who is assistant
manager of the Kress Store in this city.
(The 9 Feb 1912,
issue reported her name as Mrs. Nellie
Tippet.—Darrel
Dexter)
The remains of
Frank Blotkin, who died Wednesday in Chicago, were brought to Cairo this
morning, accompanied by his mother, who was at his bedside
at the time of his death.
The funeral will
be held Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at the family
residence on Twenty-third Street conducted by Rabbi Meyer
Lovitch, of
Paducah.
Mrs. Honora
Cain, wife of John Cain,
an old and respected resident of Cairo, died at 2:40 o'clock
this morning at her home, No. 421 Fourteenth Street.
The deceased suffered a paralytic stroke three days ago and
this coupled with the old age of the sufferer prevented her
recovery. This was the third stroke of its kind that
Mrs. Cain
experienced in as many years.
The deceased was
born in County Cork, Ireland, in 1844, and was at the time
of her death 68 years of age. Her maiden name was
Honora O'Neil and
she came to this country with her parents when quite a young
girl. During the Civil War in 1862, she came to Cairo
and resided here ever since. She was married to Mr.
Cain in this city
in 1865.
Although of a
quiet and unassuming nature, she had a wide circle of
acquaintances. She leaves besides her husband, four
daughters, Mrs. Frank
Jaeckle, of East St. Louis, Mrs. Kate
Shea, and Misses
Mayme and Ida Cain,
of this city, and one son, Alex
Cain, of
Murphysboro, and five grandchildren.
Mr.
Cain is the
venerable watchman at the First Bank and Trust Company.
He has been ill for some time and the sudden death of his
wife and subsequent shock makes his recovery doubtful.
The funeral will
be held Sunday afternoon from St. Patrick’s Church, of which
the deceased was a member. Interment will be at Villa
Ridge in Calvary Cemetery.
(John
Cain married
Hanora O’Neal on
16 Dec 1863, in Alexander Co., Ill.
Frank Jaeckle
married Margaret E.
Cain on 30 Jun
1891, in Alexander Co., Ill.
Francis F. Shea married Catherine Cain
on 13 Nov 1889, in Alexander Co., Ill.
Her marker in Calvary Cemetery at Villa Ridge reads:
Hanora Cain
1847-1912.—Darrel
Dexter)
(James
Cotner married Mary Hinson
on 14 Jul 1884, in Alexander Co., Ill.
The 8 Feb 1912, issue reported her name as Nellie
Kibbels.—Darrel Dexter)
Glascow, Ky.,
Feb. 10—Mary Troxel,
6-year-old daughter of John
Troxel, was
burned to death here this morning, her clothing catching
fire while she was playing in the yard.
J. Edward
Jenkins, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. S.
Jenkins, died at the home of his parents this morning at 1:15
o'clock of pneumonia. He had only been ill a week and
death ended much suffering.
The deceased had
been in the Pullman service about twelve years and it was on
his regular run from New Orleans to Chicago last Monday that
he took sick. His wife was accompanying him at the
time and, on account of Mr.
Jenkins' illness,
they stopped here Monday to spend a few days with the
parents of the deceased.
Mr.
Jenkins was born
March 17, 1861, at Fort Dodge, Iowa, and came to Cairo with
his parents when quite a young man. He was 51 years of
age. Besides his wife, he is survived by his parents
and one brother, W. A.
Jenkins, of Chicago, and one sister, Mrs. Mary
Slone, of Huron, South Dakota.
W. A.
Jenkins and Mrs.
Slone will arrive
for the funeral which will probably occur Monday.
Blotkin—Died
Wednesday in Chicago, Frank
Blotkin.
Funeral services
will be held at the family residence, No. 826 Twenty-third
Street, Sunday afternoon at 1:03 p.m. Remains will be
taken by special train leaving Fourteenth Street at 2:45 for
Villa Ridge cemetery.
J. H.
Morehead received
a long distance message this morning advising him that his
brother, William
Morehead, had passed away in Memphis at 7:30 this
morning. The deceased, who left Cairo twenty years
ago, will be remembered by residents of that date. He
was two years the senior of his brother. Mr.
Morehead and his
sister, Mrs. Phil
Irby and Mrs. Arthur
Thistlewood,
leave for Memphis tonight to attend the funeral.
The deceased left
a widow and one son.
J. M.
Stille, editor of
the Charleston
Republican, who was in town today, says that last
Thursday, George Willard, foreman of the B. F.
Marshall Investment Co., of Blodgett, Mo., was fatally
injured in the explosion of a dynamite cap and died from
loss of blood in two hours. He had some caps in
his pocket and in moving a wagon the caps exploded, tearing
out the right side of his body and shattering his leg.
He leaves a widow and four children.
Funeral services
over the remains of Frank
Blotkin, who died
Wednesday in Chicago, were held Sunday at the family
residence on Twenty-third Street, being conducted by Rabbi
Meyer Lovitch, of
Paducah. The funeral was largely attended and the
floral pieces were very profuse. The class of 1908 of
Cairo High School, of which the deceased was a member,
attended in a body.
The following
served as pallbearers:
S. J.
Michaelson, N.
Sandler, M.
Goodman, D. Rosenberg, J.
Sullivan, S.
Gruskin, Lee J. May, and
N. Goldsmith.
FUNERAL OF MRS. CAIN
HELD SUNDAY
The funeral of
Mrs. Hanora Cain,
wife of John Cain,
who died Friday, was held Sunday, services being conducted
at St. Patrick’s Church by Rev. J. J.
Downey.
Interment was made at Villa Ridge in Calvary Cemetery.
Many friends of the deceased attended and the floral
tributes were numerous.
Jenkins Funeral Tuesday—The
funeral of J. Edward
Jenkins, who died Saturday, will be held tomorrow
morning. Mrs. Clyde
Slone, a sister
of the deceased, and William
Jenkins, a
brother, have arrived to attend the funeral.
UNKNOWN MAN DROWNED TODAY
Fell Off
Georgia Lee at
Wharf This Forenoon—Inquest Held
An unknown white
man was drowned off the steamer
Georgia Lee this morning about 10:30 at the Halliday-Phillips wharf
boat. He went on the boat in an intoxicated condition
and inquired of one of the roustabouts the fare to Dorona,
Mo., which is a landing opposite Hickman, Ky. In
coming off the boat, he stumbled across the gang plank and
fell into the river.
He fell on his face and floated about 30 feet, in
between the Lee boat and the wharf boat. The body did not sink and was picked up
by one of the rousters with a grappling hook. He was
taken aboard the boat and his body rolled on a barrel in the
hopes of resuscitation, but the man was already dead.
Coroner
McManus was called and he summoned a jury composed of
Capt. Elmer Emery,
Capt. George Clark,
Jesse Fitch, Sam
Wessinger, John Foley and
John Wichert.
They found that the man met death by accidental drowning.
Coroner McManus
explained that the reason the body did not sink was because
falling as the man did on his face his lungs filled rapidly
with water and stopped the action of his heart. The
cold water may also have had something to do with it as the
man was very drunk.
The man has been seen around the wharf boat for
several days and it is presumed that he either lived at
Dorena or was going there to work. He was about 60
years of age. Nothing to identify him in the way of
papers or letters were found upon his person and no one
seemed to know who he was.
FORMER CAIRO BOY DIES IN THE
WEST
Frank
Thornton, aged 25
years, a former resident of Cairo, died in California last
week after an illness of several months' duration.
Deceased was well known here. The remains were shipped
to Jackson, Tenn., for interment. He was survived by
his father and two sisters, Mrs. Mattie Belle
Clark and Mrs. J.
E. Melton.
The latter was Miss Lutie
Thornton, who was
only recently married. She resides at Chattanooga.
FUNERAL NOTICE
Died—J. Edward Jenkins, aged
51 years. Funeral services will be held at home of his
parents, No. 2502 Sycamore Street, Tuesday morning at 8:30
o'clock, conducted by Rev. A. M.
Eeles, pastor of
the Presbyterian Church. The Knights of Pythias will have
charge of the services at the grave. Funeral train
will leave Fourteenth Street at 9:45 o'clock for Villa Ridge
cemetery. Friends of the family are invited to attend.
(A marker in Cairo City Cemetery near Villa Ridge
reads: J. Edgar
Jenkins Born
March 27, 1861 Died Feb. 10, 1912. Charles E.
Jenkins Born Aug.
28, 1863 Died March 11, 1888.
John S.
Jenkins Born Sept. 22, 1836 Died Jan. 26, 1924.
Sarah J.
Jenkins Born May 22, 1840 Died Jan. 6, 1926.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Cairo
Evening Citizen,
Tuesday, 13 Feb 1912:
INVESTIGATING KILLING OF LIPE
It is said that
the grand jury will investigate the killing of Napoleon
Lipe, a young
negro, by Officer Gus
Johnson, of the Cairo police force, on Saturday night,
January 27th. Relatives and friends of
Lipe contend that
the killing was not justifiable despite the fact that the
colored officer was exonerated by the coroner’s jury.
The contention is that
Lipe was not
armed when he was shot by
Johnson and was
running from the officer at the time.
Witnesses have been called to testify before the
grand jury and an attempt will be made to secure an
indictment against
Johnson from the grand jury now in session.
IDENTITY OF DROWNED MAN MADE
KNOWN
The identity of
the unknown white man, who was drowned off the steamer
Georgia Lee Monday
morning, was made known this noon when advices were received
by Mrs. L. C. Falconer, the undertaker, from relatives at Madisonville, Ky.
The telegram received did not state who the dead man's
relatives were in that city, but that the expenses incurred
in preparing the remains for burial would be taken care of
by the bank there.
The man's name was J.
Dunkerson, this
information being furnished by Edward
Maley, who saw
the man several days before the accident and who was in
conversation with the deceased at his restaurant on Ohio
Street. The man told
Maley his name
and that he had relatives in Madisonville, Ky.
The remains will be sent to Madisonville this evening
via the I. C.
COLLEGE PAPER PAYS TRIBUTE TO
LATE FRANK BLOTKIN
The following
tribute to the memory of the late Frank
Blotkin appeared in the "Maroon," a college paper published by the
University of Chicago.
Frank E.
Blotkin, who was graduated from the university at the
last convocation, died Wednesday night at St. Luke's
Hospital.
Blotkin’s death came four hours after an operation made
necessary by typhoid fever, contracted six weeks ago.
While at the university,
Blotkin
specialized in the study of economics. He lived at
5628 Jackson Avenue.
"Mr. Blotkin
was a promising student in the political economy department
and we expected a great deal of his work," said Assistant
Professor J. A. Field.
"He was working with great success toward his master’s
degree, despite hardships against which he has had to
struggle while in the university. We will feel his
loss deeply."
The remains of Lon Randle
(col.) were shipped here (Wetaug) from Chicago Friday and
buried in Pea Ridge Cemetery, Saturday.
The remains of Mrs. Elizabeth
Hahl, who died at
Mill Creek Feb. 8th, were brought here (Wetaug)
to Mt. Pisgah on Friday for interment. Funeral
services were conducted by Rev.
Weigel of the
Congregational church.
The Cairo
Evening Citizen,
Wednesday, 14 Feb 1912:
GRAND JURY HELD POLICE
OFFICER
Gus Johnson, Who Killed
Napoleon Lipe, Held for Manslaughter
CHARLES M’CANN HELD FOR
MURDER
Jury Discharged This Morning
after Making Final Report for Term
Police
Officer Gus Johnson, colored, was held by the grand jury on a charge of
manslaughter, for the killing of Napoleon
Lipe, on the
night of January 27th, the details of which were
published in The
Citizen at the time.
As exclusively stated in
The Citizen, relatives and friends of the young negro
Lipe were much
incensed over the fact that the coroner’s jury exonerated
Johnson from all
blame. They took
the matter before the grand jury and after examining
witnesses, an indictment was returned against the police
officer as above stated.
Gus Johnson
has been released on $2,000 bail.
His bondsmen are B.
McManus, Jr., E.
Bucher, and Mike
Egan.
Charles S.
McCann was held on a charge of murder for the killing of
B. H. Hollingshead on the evening of January 24th.
Other indictments were returned as follows: Albert
Johnson, alias "Sonny,”
murder.
The Cairo
Evening Citizen,
Thursday, 15 Feb 1912: The
eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Lewis died
Saturday night of scarlet fever, it is reported.
(Olive Branch) The
infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Glen
Lewis died last
Thursday night and was buried Friday.
The Cairo
Evening Citizen,
Friday, 16 Feb 1912:
FATAL FALL DOWN AN ELEVATOR
SHAFT
Edward Howard, Cashier of
Jackson, Mo., Bank Met Sudden Death
ACCIDENT OCCURRED IN ST.
LOUIS
Fell from 7th
Floor to Basement in National Bank of Commerce Building
St. Louis, Feb. 16.—Edward
Howard, 42, cashier of the Cape County Savings Bank of Jackson, Mo.,
was instantly killed here when he fell from the seventh
floor to the basement of the National Bank of Commerce
building today.
Howard attempted
to leave the elevator while it was in motion and fell down
the shaft.
JESSE SPIES, JR., DIED THIS
MORNING
Jesse W. Spies,
Jr., eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
Spies, died at 3
o’clock this morning of paresis. Deceased
was 34 years of age and is survived by his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. W. Spies, of No. 316 Twenty-seventh Street, besides three sisters, Mrs.
F. R. Place, of
Caledonia, N. Y., Mrs. J. L.
Wray, of Denver,
Colo., and Miss Blanche
Spies, of this
city. Two
brothers, George and Albert, also survive him. The
deceased had been associated with his father in the lumber
business at Sikeston, Mo., until four months ago, when he
was stricken with illness.
He was a native of this city.
He was a member of St. Joseph’s Parish and the
funeral services will be announced later.
Interment will be made at Villa Ridge.
(Jesse W.
Spies married Mollie
Mugge on 13 Jan
1875, in Gallatin Co., Ill.
A marker in Calvary Cemetery at Olive Branch reads:
Jessie W.
Spies Jr. 1878-1912.—Darrel
Dexter)
FORMER CAIROITE COMMITS
SUICIDE
Louis Wilmot,
a former Cairoite, committed suicide in St. Louis Wednesday
morning.
Domestic trouble, followed by his wife’s refusal to live
with him, caused the man to commit the rash deed.
He leaves, besides his wife, two children and two
brothers, John “Peg”
Wilmot, of Obar, N.M.
Wilmot resided in Cairo about ten years ago and was employed by
Henry Hasenjaeger.
OLD SOLDIER DIED THURSDAY
Rufus
Hutchinson, a white man and an old soldier, who has been
living in a shack near the Farmer’s Hand Wagon Company,
opposite the bridge, died Thursday morning and was buried at
the expense of the county.
His wife survives him. Mr. and
Mrs. G. C. Evans
and children, who were called to Cairo recently by the death
of Mrs. Evans’
uncle, the late J. E.
Jenkins, returned to their home in Waynesville, Ill.,
today. Mrs.
Furlow, an old lady 80 years of age, living with her son, E. J.
Furlow, on Dr. A.
E. McKenzie’s
farm west of town (Vienna), died of old age Sunday and was
buried in the Fraternal Cemetery north of town on Monday
afternoon. Benjamin
F. Cagle, 80
years of age, living with his son, J. H.
Cagle, on a farm
five miles northwest of Goreville, committed suicide by
drowning or strangulation in spring on the farm last
Saturday. It is
said that there was only some two or three feet of water in
the spring and was a small one.
He had been missing about thirty minutes when a small
boy found him with his head and shoulder submerged in the
icy waters.
Coroner Hood was
called to the scene and held an inquest over the body.
The jury, of course, returned a verdict of
suicide by drowning.
Mr. Cagle
for some time had been in feeble health and it is thought
his mind had become deranged.
He had on several occasions threatened to take his
life. He leaves
several grown children to mourn his departure. Mrs.
Emeline Acorn,
aged 84 years, accidentally fell Monday morning, receiving
injuries making her recovery doubtful.
She lives with her brother, Pence, near Fayville.
(Thebes) Cletus,
the infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn
Lewis, died
Thursday morning at 9 o’clock after a few days’ illness.
Little Cletus was nearly two months old and the only
child. The
mother also has been very low with pneumonia.
(Thebes) On
Sunday morning, Feb. 11, Little Oma, the three-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Lewis, passed
away. Death
caused by scarlet fever.
Little Oma was laid to rest in the Twente Cemetery
Monday at 11 o’clock.
The parents have the sympathy of their many friends
in their sad bereavement.
(Thebes)
(Her marker in Twente Crossing Cemetery reads:
Oma Mattie Lewis Born Oct. 3, 1909 Died Feb. 11, 1912.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Cairo
Evening Citizen,
Saturday, 17 Feb 1912:
FUNERAL NOTICE
Spies—Died,
Friday, Feb. 16, Jesse W.
Spies, Jr.
Funeral will be held Sunday afternoon, Feb. 18.
Cortege will leave family residence No. 316 Twenty-
seventh Street, at 1:30 p.m. for St. Joseph’s Church, where
services will be held.
Remains will be taken by special train from
Fourteenth Street at 2:45 o’clock to Villa Ridge cemetery,
where interment will be made.
Friends of the family are invited.
The Cairo
Evening Citizen,
Monday, 19 Feb 1912:
RESIDENT OF VILLA RIDGE DIED
SUNDAY
Mrs. Elizabeth
Sherrick, widow of the late E. M.
Sherrick, died
Sunday night at Villa Ridge, after a brief illness of
apoplexy.
Deceased was 78 years old and had resided near Villa Ridge
for nearly fifty years.
She was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and
her maiden name was Elizabeth
Metzger.
She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Martin
McBride, of Villa
Ridge, and Mrs. Mary
Helman, of Fort Worth Texas.
Two sons also survive her, W. H.
Sherrick, of Pine
Bluff, Ark., and Andrew
Sherrick, of
Villa Ridge.
The funeral will be held tomorrow.
(M. J. McBride
married Lizzie A.
Sherrick on 16 Jan 1884, in Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
MRS. G. M. PALMER DIED SUNDAY
AT ST. LOUIS
Mrs. G. M.
Palmer died very suddenly Sunday at the home of her
sister, Miss Eliza
Beardsley, at St. Louis, Mo.
The deceased went to St. Louis last Thursday morning
on a visit and was taken suddenly ill Sunday morning and
died a few hours later.
The deceased was the wife of G. M.
Palmer, of Eleventh Street, and mother of W. B.
Huette, Sr.
She was 69 years old.
The funeral will be held at St. Louis tomorrow
afternoon.
Relatives of deceased in this city will leave for that city
tonight to attend.
She is survived by her husband, one son, W. B.
Huette, and one
daughter, Miss Rosalie
Huette, of St.
Louis, besides two sisters, Mrs. Amy
Coleman and Miss
Beardsley, of St.
Louis and one brother, Robert
Beardsley.
The Cairo
Evening Citizen,
Tuesday, 20 Feb 1912:
MURDERER SAFE IN PADUCAH JAIL
White Man Who Murdered
Milburn, Ky., Farmer Was Threatened
THREE JAILS IN THREE DAYS
Killed Man Who Accidentally
Jostled Him and Apologized
Paducah, Ky., Feb. 20—Confined in the county prison
under extra guard, where he was hurriedly delivered Monday
evening from Wickliffe, is Will
Richardson, 30
years old, an alleged “bad man” and gunfighter of Carlisle
County, who is accused of the alleged cowardly murder of
John B. Violet, 45 years old, a prosperous planter of Milburn, Carlisle
County.
Violet was shot and instantly killed by
Richardson late Saturday evening at Milburn and the Paducah jail is
the third prison in which the alleged murderer has been an
inmate since that time to keep him safe from the hands of a
mob.
According to reports that reached Sheriff Jim
Burnely and
Deputy Sheriff Wright,
who made a record run to Paducah Monday evening, planters of
Carlisle County have sworn to avenge the death of their
friend and neighbor.
According to the officers’ version of the killing,
Will Richardson
went to Milburn Saturday afternoon with the avowed purpose
of “getting him a man,” as the alleged slayer is said to
have expressed it.
Violet, who is credited with having been a peaceful and inoffensive farmer, in
leaving a store entrance is said to have accidently brushed
against Richardson.
The latter, according to reports, cursed and
upbraided Violet
in a rough manner.
Violet is said to have turned and humbly apologized, ending with the
words “excuse me.”
“By God, I’ll excuse you,”
Richardson is said to have growled and making a quick draw of his
pistol, fired at
Violet. In
his rage his aim was bad and he came near hitting a woman
who was across the street.
Once more
Richardson worked the trigger.
The flame flashed against
Violet’s breast,
as his body was almost in reaching distance.
He toppled to the ground a corpse.
Before
Richardson could shoot again,
Violet’s son, a
youth of 20 years, had grappled with
Richardson and
held him until other men came to his aid.
Richardson
was turned over to Deputy Sheriff
Wright who
hurried him to the Bardwell jail.
Before dawn Sunday, the prisoner was transferred to
the Wickliffe jail.
Even then the officers were uneasy that he was not
out of reach of the rumored mob, and
Richardson was brought to Paducah by order of Judge
Sanderson, who
convened court at Bardwell Monday morning in the absence of
Judge Bugg.
CARD OF THANKS
This token of heartfelt gratitude to the many kind
and helpful friends for their sympathy and kindness during
the illness and sad bereavement of their eldest son and
brother is extended by Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
Spies, sisters
and brothers.
May the Good Father in heaven, give you strength to bear up
when like affliction comes upon you. Parents,
sisters and brothers.
The Cairo
Evening Citizen,
Wednesday, 21 Feb 1912:
OFFICER BRADLEY NOW ON TRIAL
Police Officer under
Indictment for Murder Facing Trial
JURY COMPLETED THIS AFTERNOON
All But One from Cairo and
Eleven of the Twelve Are White Men
The trial of former police officer Ben
Bradley for
murder opened in circuit court this morning, and when the
noon adjournment was taken, eight jurors had been secured.
The remaining four jurors were secured shortly after
court convened this afternoon.
Three of the number are from Cairo, and all are white
men.
The men chosen for duty follow: Isaac
Cohn, Cairo E. W.
Jones, Cairo Charles
Wunderlich, Cairo James M.
Ice, Willard J. H.
Woodward, Cairo Ralph
Minton, Cairo P. J.
Howischer, Cairo Rivers
White, Future City J.
Harvel, Delta F. C.
Holloway, Cairo Joseph
Bucher, Cairo H. C.
Mulcahy, Cairo
White is
the only negro on the jury.
State’s Attorney
Wilson made the
opening statement for the People and M. J.
O’Shea for the defendant. Mr. and
Mrs. E. A. Burke
have returned from St. Louis, where they attended the
funeral of the late Mrs. G. M.
Palmer.
The Cairo
Evening Citizen,
Thursday, 22 Feb 1912:
McCANN PLEADS GUILTY
C. S. McCann
pleaded guilty to manslaughter this afternoon and was
sentenced to the penitentiary for an indeterminate sentence.
BEN BRADLEY IS ACQUITTED
Arguments Completed Before
Dinner and Case Went to the Jury
DEFENDANT TELLS OF THE CRIME
Claiming that He Mistook
Negro He Killed for a Chicken Thief
Bradley
was acquitted at 3:30 this afternoon, when the jury returned
a verdict of “not guilty” after having been out for three
hours.
Albert Johnson,
alias “Sonny”
pleaded guilty to manslaughter this afternoon and was
sentenced to fourteen years in the penitentiary at hard
labor. Johnson
killed another negro on the steamer
John A. Wood last November.
The fate of Ben
Bradley, negro
and former police officer, rests in the hands of the jury.
The attorneys completed their arguments at noon
today, at which time the case went to the jury.
The evidence in the trial of Ben
Bradley, former police officer, was presented to the jury Wednesday
afternoon, but the closing arguments of the attorney were
not made until this morning, after which the instructions
were given to the jury.
Seven witnesses were examined by the prosecution and
four for the defense, among the latter being
Bradley himself, who took the stand in his own behalf.
Ben Bradley
then took the stand.
He testified that he was awakened on the night of
Sept. 8, 1911, as he thought, about 10 o’clock, and heard
someone enter the gate to his yard.
He had been missing many chickens from his hen house
and thinking this probably was the thief, went out to
apprehend him.
When he came out, the man started to run and
Bradley followed,
catching up with him just outside the gate.
A scuffle ensued, the man holding to him with a tight
grip, kicking him and biting his hands.
He managed to free his right hand in which he held
his pistol and struck the man over the head with the gun.
This seemed to have no effect on the aggressor and in
attempting to strike a second time the man grabbed the gun
and in the struggle it went off and the man fell to the
ground a corpse.
Bradley testified
that the man was unknown to him, that he had never seen him
before, and that it was after the shooting that he first
learned the identity of the deceased.
That he didn’t seem to have his senses was his
declaration to the jury and he didn’t remember the
questioning by Chief
Egan shortly after the killing.
PIONEER CITIZEN HAS PASSED
AWAY
F. D. Rexford, One of Early
Settlers of Illinois, Died Tuesday Night
F. D. Rexford,
a former Cairoite, died Tuesday night at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. Laura
Hartman, at Centralia, Ill., at the age of 83 years.
The deceased had been in poor health for over a year. Until a
few months ago Mr.
Rexford and his wife made their home in Cairo with their
daughter, the late Mrs. W. R.
Halliday.
About thirty-five years ago, they resided in Cairo
and Mr. Rexford
during that time was proprietor of the Planters House and
also of the old St. Charles Hotel and was one of the best
known hotel men in this part of the state.
Leaving Cairo, he went to Centralia, where, up to the
last few years, he was proprietor of the Illinois Central
Depot Hotel in that city.
He had not been actively engaged in business for over
a year.
Mr. Rexford
was one of the earliest settlers of Chicago, going there at
the time when the only building was the old Fort Dearborn.
Because of the swampy conditions of that place, he
settled at a place called Blue Island, a few miles north of
the Fort Dearborn site, and probably knew more about the
early history of Chicago than any man living up to this
death and having a remarkable memory, he could picture the
sights and happenings at that time, with much interest to
his hearers. He
was also one of the pioneers that crossed the prairies in
1849, when the gold rush to California occurred and told of
many stirring events in the encounter with the Indians.
He is survived by his daughter, Mrs.
Hartman, and one
son, Norman Rexford,
of Chicago.
Funeral services were held in Chicago today and interment
made in the Blue Island Cemetery.
(William R.
Halliday married Frances A.
Rexford on 21 Sep
1882, in Marion Co., Ill.
Edwin Hartman
married Mrs. Laura R.
Rexford Pink on 22 Nov 1894, in Marion Co., Ill.
Charles Pink married Laura Rexford
on 22 Feb 1876, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Cairo
Evening Citizen,
Friday, 23 Feb 1912:
ONE ACQUITTED; TWO PLEAD
GUILTY
Three Murder Cases Disposed
of in Short Order Thursday
CASE OF GUS JOHNSON IS
CONTINUED
Outcome of McCann Case a
Surprise—Petit Jury Discharged for the Term Criminal
business was completed in circuit court Thursday when Judge
Butler discharged
the petit jury, thanking them for their prompt and efficient
service. Today
the court listened to several appeal cases and disposed of
other minor cases. Three
murder cases were disposed of in the court Thursday
afternoon all within a half hour.
All morning and part of the afternoon was given over
to the trial of Ben Bradley, charged with killing another negro named Henry
Smith.
The case went to the jury at 1:30 o’clock and after
being out about two hours, a verdict exonerating the
defendant was returned. Shortly
after this came the plea of guilty on the part of Albert
Johnson alias “Sonny”
Johnson, for
manslaughter and he was sentenced to the Chester
penitentiary for an indefinite term from one to fourteen
years. In less
than fifteen minutes after this Charles
McCann, indicted
for murder of Bennie
Hollinshead, pleaded guilty and was given a like
sentence.
McCann shot and killed a river man by the name of
Hollinshead in the saloon conducted by
Myers Bros. Sixth and Commercial Avenue on the evening of January 27th,
the particulars of which are doubtless still fresh in the
minds of the people.
According to the eye witness the crime was a cold blooded
affair. It is
alleged the police were forewarned that
McCann was out
looking for
Hollinshead, but they failed to arrest
McCann until
after he had fulfilled his mission by killing the man who
eloped with his wife a number of years ago.
McCann’s action came as a complete surprise, as it was generally believed that
he would fight the case.
McCann is
said to have been without sufficient funds to engage
competent attorneys to defend him.
Gus Johnson Case Continued
The case of police officer Gus
Johnson, indicted for the killing of Napoleon
Lipe by the grand jury, was continued until the next term of the
circuit court which convened in May
The Cairo
Evening Citizen,
Saturday, 24 Feb 1912:
DEATH SENTENCE FOR RICHARDSON
Will Be Electrocuted at
Eddyville on April 19th
A long
distance message from Bardwell this afternoon stated that
Richardson was sentenced to death in the electric chair.
His pleas of guilty failed to save his life.
All Quiet at Bardwell
Bardwell, Ky., Feb. 24.—Willis
Richardson,
slayer of John Violet,
the Milburn farmer, today threw himself upon the mercy of
the court in the hopes that it would save his life.
The court sentenced him to the electric chair.
Richardson’s
electrocution will occur at Eddyville on April 19th.
He will be taken to Eddyville tonight. All was
quiet in Bardwell today.
The militia was on duty to prevent any outbreak. Will
Scherrick of Pine Bluff, Ark., was here (Villa Ridge) Tuesday,
attending the funeral of his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth
Scherrick.
(Her marker in Cairo City Cemetery at Villa Ridge
reads: Elizabeth
Scheirich 1834-1912.—Darrel
Dexter) John
Cheniae came in today from Los Angeles Calif., where he has been
since last fall.
He was called home by the serious illness of his sister,
Inez. (Villa
Ridge)
The Cairo
Evening Citizen,
Monday, 26 Feb 1912:
PROMINENT CITIZEN OF BALLARD
COUNTY DIED SUNDAY John
Cocke, one of the
most prominent citizens of Ballard County, Ky., died Sunday
morning at 1 o’clock at the home of his brother-in-law, John
R. Harkless, at
Wickliffe, of apoplexy.
He was taken suddenly ill while attending to some
matters at the courthouse Friday afternoon and grew worse
until death ended his suffering Sunday morning. He was
interested in the banking business at Wickliffe and also had
extensive farming interest in Ballard County.
He was well known in Cairo, making frequent business
trips here. The
members of his family, who are also well known here, are his
wife, two daughters, Misses Gussie and Fannie, and two sons,
John and Richard. The
funeral was held this afternoon conducted from the
Harkless residence, interment being made in the Wickliffe Cemetery.
E. A. Burke of this city had charge of the funeral.
FORMER CAIRO LADY DIED
SATURDAY Mrs. H.
W. Popejoy,
formerly Miss Kate
Atcher, of Cairo, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. E.
Atcher, died at
her home in Chicago Saturday after an illness of three
months. The funeral will be held Wednesday at Lexington,
Ill. She leaves
a husband and two little boys. Mrs.
Popejoy was here
at the time of her father’s death last November, but was in
very poor health at the time. (Herbert
Popejoy married
Catherine Atcher
on 12 Oct 1904, in St. Clair Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
STORY OF TRIAL AT BARDWELL
In Which Willard Richardson,
Desperado, Was Sentenced to Death
CONFESSED TO TWO OTHER
MURDERS
To a Fellow Prisoner and
Bragged about His Deeds—Weakened at Trial The
following account of the trial of Willard
Richardson, who
was sentenced to be electrocuted on April 19th,
by a jury in the circuit court of Bardwell, Ky., Saturday
(as stated in The Citizen Saturday evening) is taken from the
Paducah News-Democrat
of Sunday. In the
presence of about two hundred spectators who crowded the
dingy court room until almost every passage was blocked,
Willard Richardson, indicted for murdering John
Violett, a prosperous farmer of near Milburn, took the stand in his
own defense and threw himself on the mercy of the jury,
which had been empaneled after a venire of one hundred and
fifty men had almost been exhausted.
Less than two hours later, the jury marched up the
aisle before Special Judge
Sandridge and passed to the clerk their verdict, which sends the
slayer to death in the electric chair.
The Trial At 10:15
o’clock, after one hour and a quarter of hard labor, a jury
finally was chosen from the venire of 150 men.
But two witnesses took the stand for the prosecution.
Each told how
Richardson ran against
Violett, cursed the dead man and then emptied the
contents of a revolver into his body.
Throughout all testimony, the crowd sat quietly. At 10:30
o’clock, with head bowed, and almost too weak to reach the
witness stand,
Richardson told his story of the murder.
Contrary to the general opinion,
Richardson did
not put up a plea of insanity.
Instead, he acknowledged the crime in anything but a
steady voice. “I
was drunk,” he said “and didn’t know what I was doing.
I didn’t know what I was doing and wouldn’t have shot
Violett.
I was not at myself.” In
defense of Richardson,
Attorney Shelbourne
made a powerful appeal for the murderer on the plea that he
was drunk and did not realize the enormity of the crime he
committed.
Following this, Commonwealth’s Attorney Robert L.
Smith, of
Clinton, in a slow but impressive argument, told the jury
the prosecution’s side of the case.
He said the crime was one of the worst committed in
Carlisle and that the death sentence must be imposed on such
a character as that which
Richardson had
proven himself to be.
After the Trial
Following the pronouncing of the sentence, Richardson asked
that he be allowed to speak with Judge
Sandridge.
With tears in his eyes, the judge listened to the
man’s story at the conclusion of which he thanked the court.
After a handshake he left the courtroom. When he
arrived at the jail for the second time he played several
games of cards. Shortly
after news of
Richardson’s conviction had been received at the county
jail, County Jailer Henry
Houser and Deputy
Jailer Charles B.
Whittemore were called to the door which opens in the
iron cage, wherein white male prisoners are kept.
After ascertaining that
Richardson had confessed to the murder of John
Violett and that he had been sentenced to the electric chair, Jerry
Moran, an aged
man in jail for an alleged petty theft, told the jailers of
the murderer’s confession, in which he (Richardson)
had killed Violett
because of an old grudge he had held against
Violett for
several years. “I
killed two men down in Texas ten years ago.”
Richardson is said to have remarked “and if I could have got
something to kill a nigger with, I’d got away from Bardwell.
The nigger was guarding me by himself.” The
murderer also told
Moran why he had killed
Violett.
“It’s like this,”
Richardson said. “Some
time ago Violett
and me had some trouble about a trade about a sow and some
pigs. I made up
my minds I was going to get him.
Saturday afternoon I was full of whiskey and drunk.
When I saw Violett coming down the street, I thought I just might as well kill
him then as any other time, and I pulled my gun and fired. “I don’t
care about dying for it.
I got my man and I’m satisfied.
The ___ ___ ___ ought to have died long time ago.”
Following this,
Richardson, according to
Moran, asked him
to write his mother, who is blind, and tell her “that I died
game. Tell her
not to worry about me.
Tell her I was in the big ring to the last.”
Richardson
also confessed he was a dope fiend and that he used morphine
excessively. He
claims to escape conviction for one of his Texas murders by
an insanity plea and the second by establishing an alibi.
Another man, innocent, is serving a term for the
second crime. A
full confession from
Richardson probably will be forwarded to Governor
Colquitt, of
Texas.
FORMER VIENNA CITIZEN DEAD William
C. Simpson,
formerly of Vienna, Ill., but late of Evanston, Ill., died
Saturday afternoon at Asheville, N.C., of pneumonia.
He went to Asheville in January following a nervous
breakdown and was steadily recuperating when he took down
with a severe cold and died suddenly. Mr.
Simpson married a
niece of Mrs. Walter
Warder, of this city, and was well known here.
He was a son of the late F. M.
Simpson and was
one of the best known citizens of Johnson County, where he
spent most of his life.
He was mayor of Vienna for several years and was also
a member of the board of education.
He was prominent in pharmaceutical affairs of the
state and was at one time resident of the state board of
pharmacy. He was
one of the chief promoters of the Johnson County fairs and
was quite an amateur turfman. He has
been located in Evanston for about 18 months where he
conducted the Northwestern Pharmacy, having removed there
from Vienna. He
leaves a wife and four children, three girls, Janet,
Frances, Florence, and one son, William, all of them being
under age. He
also leaves his mother, Mrs. Margaret
Simpson, of Vienna, and Marion
Simpson, a
brother, who is an instructor at the University of Illinois
at Champaign. Mr.
Simpson was a
member of the Cairo Commandery No. 13 Knights Templar, who
will probably have charge of the funeral, which will be
announced on the arrival of the body. The
remains will pass through Cairo in the morning and funeral
will be held at Vienna tomorrow afternoon, in charge of the
Masonic lodge of Vienna.
Cairo Commandery No. 13, K. T. will act as an escort
of honor.
Friends will go to Vienna on the morning train to attend the
funeral. (Francis
M. Simpson
married Maggie A.
Copeland on 24 Oct 1871, in Massac Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter) Mrs.
Elizabeth Tinsely
died at her home here (Unity) Monday night and was buried at
the Richwood Cemetery.
Funeral services were conducted by Rev.
Flick of Olive
Branch.
The Cairo
Evening Citizen,
Tuesday, 27 Feb 1912:
SIMPSON FUNERAL HELD
WEDNESDAY
Failure of Relatives to
Arrive Caused Postponement Owing to
the failure of Mrs. Fannie
Jackson and
daughter to arrive from Gulfport, Miss., in time to catch
the Big Four train this morning, which would take them to
Vienna, the funeral of William C.
Simpson was
postponed until Wednesday.
Mrs. Jackson and daughters arrived at noon today from Gulfport.
Here to meet them were Mrs. William C.
Simpson, widow of
the deceased, Mrs. A.
Jackson and son, A. C.
Jackson, of Fort
Worth, Texas, and John B.
Jackson, of Anna.
The entire party went to Vienna this afternoon. Others
who joined the party here were Mrs. E. J.
Kneip, Miss Laura
Nichols, James N.
Nichols, of
Naperville, Ill., and F. M.
Simpson, of
Champaign. Funeral
services will be under the auspices of the blue lodge of
Vienna. Cairo
Commandery K. T. had intended to form an escort, but the
change in the arrangements for the funeral made this
impossible, as the Templars could not attend tomorrow.
Friends of the dead man will go to Vienna tomorrow to
attend the obsequies.
YOUNG NEGRO WAS KILLED AT
MOUNDS
Monroe Harris Accidentally
Shot by James Bailey In a
scuffle between two negroes at Mounds this morning, Monroe
Harris, 19, of
Trenton, Miss., was shot in the temple and killed by James
Bailey, brother
of Claud Bailey,
in front of whose restaurant the homicide occurred.
Harris had been in Bailey’s
restaurant making trouble.
He had used bad language and flourished a gun and was
said to be intoxicated.
They put him out of the place and when outside, James
Bailey struck at
Harris with his
gun. In some
way, according to rather conflicting evidence before the
coroner’s jury, the gun was discharged and the ball entered
Harris’ temple. Deputy
Coroner Cicero
Thompson empaneled a jury, and after examining seven
witnesses they returned a verdict exonerating
Bailey.
DEATH RELIEVES LONG SUFFERING
OF MRS. WILSON Mrs.
Nina O. Wilson,
wife of George Wilson,
custodian at the courthouse, died at St. Mary’s Infirmary
this morning about 1:30 o’clock, after a lingering illness,
having been confined at the hospital the past eight months. The
deceased was born June 10, 1855, at Innes, Miss., and moved
to Cobden, Ill., with her parents in 1865, thence to Cairo
in 1870. She was
married to Mr. Wilson in 1875. She
leaves besides her husband, two sisters, Mrs. W. P.
Green, of Cobden and Mrs. Harvey
Woolridge, of this city. Mrs.
Wilson was a
devout Christian woman and for the past twenty-five years
was a member of the Presbyterian church of this city.
She was also a member of the tribe of Ben Hur. Funeral
services are announced elsewhere in these columns. (George
Wilson married
Nina O. Burton on
25 Aug 1875, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
FUNERAL NOTICE
Entered into rest—at
St. Mary’s Infirmary, Mrs. Nina O.
Wilson, beloved
wife of George Wilson.
Funeral cortege will leave family residence 513
Center Street at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, February 28th.
Services will be conducted by Rev. A. M.
Eells, at Presbyterian church at 2:00 p.m.
Special funeral train will leave Fourteenth Street at
2:45 p.m.
Interment at Villa Ridge.
Friends of family invited.
No flowers.
VETERAN RIVER MAN DIED MONDAY Capt. Ed
Gray, a
well-known river man of Graysboro, Mo., and father of Ed
Gray, chief
engineer of the transfer
Marquand, died
Monday at his home.
Mr. Gray
was at the bedside of his father when the end came, and Mrs.
Gray left this
morning. For many
years Captain Gray
ran on boats on the Mississippi, Ohio and Tennessee rivers
and until recent years he was employed on the transfer boat
between Thebes and Graysboro.
He was 80 years old. Mrs. A.
L. Sanderson and
daughter have returned from Ashley, Ill., where they
attended the funeral of Mrs.
Sanderson’s mother, Mrs.
Murray. Miss
Inez Cheniar died
at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William
Cheniar here
(Villa Ridge) Sunday afternoon.
The funeral services will be held at the Shiloh
Baptist Church Wednesday at eleven o’clock. Rev.
Thomas D. Latimer,
D. D., died at his home in Charleston, Mo., at one o’clock
Sunday afternoon, February 25, aged 67 years. Funeral
services Monday morning conducted by the Masonic Lodge,
interment at Reeves, Tenn. Dr.
Latimer had been pastor of the Presbyterian Church for two years in
August 1911, at which time ill health caused him to resign.
He had held several important pastorates in Tennessee
and was one of the leading preachers of Southeast Missouri.
The Cairo
Evening Citizen,
Wednesday, 28 Feb 1912:
MRS. WILSON’S FUNERAL HELD
THIS AFTERNOON The
funeral of Mrs. Nina O.
Wilson, wife of
George Wilson,
who died at St. Mary’s Infirmary Tuesday morning, was held
this afternoon, the cortege leaving the family residence on
Center Street at 1:30 for the Presbyterian church, where
services were conducted by the pastor, Rev. A. M.
Eels. The interment was
made at the Villa Ridge cemetery. The
pallbearers were:
G. W. Buchanan,
S. B. Ward, F. M. Harrell, John
Dewey, Rollo
Spann, Joseph
LeMay, William White and
M. Easterday. Word was
received here (Mound City) Tuesday from Chicago of the death
of the six-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Vail Hendricks
Fall.
Mrs. Fall
was formerly Miss Mona
Connell of this
city. Mr. and
Mrs. R. C. Connell
and Mrs. Irving
Connell, all of Mounds, left Tuesday afternoon for
Chicago to attend the funeral.
The Cairo
Evening Citizen,
Thursday, 29 Feb 1912:
FORMER CAIROITE KILLED BY
FREIGHT TRAIN MONDAY William
Gibney, a former
resident of Cairo, and a freight conductor on the southern
division of the Mobile & Ohio, was killed last Monday near
Humboldt, Tenn. The man was caught under the wheels of one
of the freight cars and both his lower limbs were cut off.
He died before the train reached Jackson, where he
was being taken for medical attention. Ex-Mayor
W. C. Simpson,
formerly of Vienna, but late of Evanston, Ill., died
Saturday at Ashville, N.C., of pneumonia.
Mr. Simpson’s
body arrived at the old home (Vienna) Tuesday morning,
accompanied by relatives and friends.
It was carried to the home of his mother-in-law,
Fannie Jackson,
on West Main Street and lay in state until Wednesday
afternoon, at 2:00 o’clock.
Funeral services were held at the residence,
conducted under the auspices of the Masonic Lodge and
Knights Templar, followed by interment in the Fraternal
Cemetery north of town, where he was laid to rest by the
side of his first wife, who had departed this life some
eight years ago.
He was married first to Miss Cora
Jackson, and to
this woman four children were born, one boy and three girls,
who still survive him, and one half-brother, Marion
Simpson, now of
Champaign, Ill.
Mr. Simpson was
married again last summer to Mrs.
Nicholas, of
Evanston, Ill.
While Mr. Simpson was mayor of Vienna, he fathered the work of putting in our
concrete walks, which still stand as a monument to his
memory, for many years to come.
He was several times alderman and mayor and president
of the school board and was prominent in pharmaceutical
affairs of the state and was at one time secretary and also
president of the State Board of Pharmacy.
Most of his life was spent in Vienna, where he was
one of the most prominent and useful citizens.
A large crowd of sorrowing relatives and friends
followed his remains to its last resting apple.
Truly a good and useful man has gone from our mist.
Peace to his ashes. (W. C.
Simpson married
Cora Jackson on 3
Oct 1889, in Johnson Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter) Attorney
George B. Gillespie
was down from Springfield, Ill., Wednesday, attending the
funeral of his old friend, W. C.
Simpson, and
meeting old home friends. Mrs. Ada
Taylor, daughter of Mrs. Rilda
Smith, living in
the south side of town (Vienna), died Wednesday afternoon at
4:00 o’clock. It
is thought she died from poisoning, but as yet it is not
known whether it was taken with suicide intent or
accidental. She
leaves a little baby eleven months old, a mother and four
brothers to mourn her death.
The Cairo
Evening Citizen,
Friday, 1 Mar 1912:
AGED LADY DIES AT NOON TODAY Mrs.
Ella Hogan died
at 12:45 today at the home of her daughter, Mrs. John
Barry, of 2803
Sycamore, after an illness of four months.
Death was due to infirmities of old age.
She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. John
Barry, Mrs. Kate
Moore, of this
city, Mrs. James
Kavanaugh, of Chicago; one son, T. J.
Hogan, of New
Orleans. (John
Barry married
Mary Hogan on 5
Jun 1878, in Alexander Co., Ill.
James M. Moore married Catherine Hogan
on 19 Jan 1888, in Alexander Co., Ill.
James
Kavanaugh married Maggie
Hogan on 8 Jun
1893, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Obituary Inez
Cheniae was born
April 24, 1896.
Died February 15, 1912, aged 15 years, 10 months and 1 day.
Some few weeks ago she was stricken with blood
poisoning, which resulted in her death.
All through her suffering she was patient, kind, and
loving; constantly talking of her school work and eager to
again be at her desk in the school room.
Inez was just blooming into beautiful womanhood,
which makes the parting from her loved ones very sad indeed.
The entire community feels deeply with the family and
relatives the loss of their dear one, and we trust that by
her death, which seems so untimely, she has brought us all
in closer touch with God, who does all things well.
The parents have lost a loving daughter, the school a
faithful obedient pupil, the classmates a very dear friend
and the community a pure young lady.
The funeral services were conducted by Rev.
Ferrell, of Mound
City, at the Shiloh Baptist Church Wednesday, February 28.
Interment in Shiloh cemetery.
The offerings of the class were beautiful and showed
the high esteem in which they held their departed friends. Mr. and
Mrs. Cheniae wish
to extend their thanks to their many friends who so kindly
assisted them during the illness and death of their
daughter. Andrew
Scherrick, who was called here a few days ago by the death of his
mother, departed for Brinkley, Ark., the latter part of the
week to resume his work.
The Cairo
Evening Citizen,
Saturday, 2 March 1912:
ANOTHER MURDER IN WILLIAMSON
COUNTY Marion,
Ill., Mar. 2—Frank
Morris, was shot and killed and Robert
Sanders probably
fatally cut during a fight in an alleged blind tiger at
White Ash last night.
John and Clyde
Spiller, aged 20 and 18 years, were arrested.
Officers who investigated say that
Morris and
Sanders were fighting when the
Spiller boys came
to Morris’ aid.
A bullet intended for
Sanders killed Morris.
FUNERAL NOTICE
Hogan—Died, Friday, March 1st, Mrs. Ellen
Hogan Funeral
services will be held Sunday, March 3rd, at 1:30
p.m. at St. Joseph’s Church.
Remains will be taken by special train from
Fourteenth Street at 2:45 p.m. for Villa Ridge cemetery. Friends
of the family are invited.
The Cairo
Evening Citizen,
Monday, 4 Mar 1912:
RICHARDSON
APPARENTLY LIED IN CONFESSION
Sheriff James Burnley,
of Carlisle County, is in receipt of a communication from Ed
Smith, of
Augustine, Tex., in which the Texan inquires as to the
confession made by Willard
Richardson recently sentenced to death for the murder of John
Violet at
Milburn, says the
Paducah News-Democrat.
Smith intimates
that he is familiar with every crime which has been
committed at St. Augustine, for years, but that he knows
nothing of such a murder as
Richardson
described.
The condemned man in his confession at the county jail here, said
he killed two men, one of which was a negro. However,
officials now are doubting if
Richardson really
is guilty of the murders he claims.
The funeral of the late Mrs. Ella
Hogan was held Sunday afternoon at St. Joseph's Church, Rev. Father
James Gillen,
being the officiating priest. The pall bearers were as
follows: Arthur Magner, Patrick Greaney,
Will Carroll,
Thomas Caraher,
P. T. Langan, David Barry,
Martin Donahue,
and Patrick Egan.
A.B. Howland, formerly a
resident of Sandusky, passed away in Bay City, Mich.,
February 18th, according to a letter received by
Sandusky friends from his widow.
Mr. Howland and wife
left Sandusky in September last for Bay City to visit their
daughter, expecting possibly to return when Mr.
Howland got well,
as he had been in bad health for some time, but he failed to
regain his health and passed away on the 18th.
Mr. Howland had been a
resident of Sandusky and vicinity for many years. He was one
of the old citizens and his demise will be a matter of
general sorrow in that community. He was 67 years of age and
was an old soldier and his funeral was conducted by the
Grand Army men.
Georgetown, Tex., Mar. 6—Rev. J. T.
Snead, father of A. J. Snead,
who was recently tried for the murder of Capt.
Boyce, was shot and killed here today by R. O.
Hilliard. He then turned
the revolver on himself and committed suicide.
Hilliard was a
tenant on one of the
Snead farms.
He left a note declaring he killed
Snead because of
trouble he had had with him. It is declared the killing has
no connection with the feud.
A telegram to friends in Cairo today brought the information that
David Sheets, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel
Sheets, of
Pulaski, was dead at Poplar Bluff, Mo., and that the remains
would be brought through Cairo tomorrow morning. No details
are given.
(Samuel Sheets married
Mrs. Elizabeth
Thurtell on 4 Feb 1879, in Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Memorial cards announcing the death of Mrs. Charles
Bishop, of
Coppersville, Mich. which occurred Sunday, Feb. 25, at that
place, have even received by friends in this city. The
family lived here continuously for 18 years until a year
ago, when they moved to Michigan. Mr.
Bishop was
employed as lumberman by the Vehicle Supply Company. The
family resided at Thirty-fifth and Washington. Mrs.
Bishop is
survived by her husband and a son fourteen years of age.
As a mark of respect to the late vice-president of the Singer
Manufacturing Company, E. H.
Bennett, who died
in Berlin, Germany, on Feb. 21, all of the plants of the
company will shut down Friday afternoon during the funeral,
which will occur at Bayoone, N. J. The Cairo plant will
resume again Saturday morning.
Herrin, Ill., Mar. 8—Thomas S.
Lotlar, aged 72, president of the State Savings Bank, died Thursday
of paralysis. He was of a pioneer family in this county and
was a veteran of the Civil War.
(This may refer to Thomas
Stotlar, of Herrin, who enlisted as a private in Co. G,
9th Illinois Infantry, at the age of 21.
He lived in Williamson Co., Ill., was a native of
Highland Co., Ohio, 5’9”, brown hair, black eyes, light
complexion, single and a farmer.
Thomas Stotlar
married Louisa
Cox on 14 Jul 1869, in Williamson Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Mary B. Waldo,
widow of the late Dr. Roswell
Waldo, stationed
in Cairo during the yellow fever epidemic of 1878, when he
was in charge of the U.S. Marine Hospital passed away in
Washington, D.C., on February 24th.
Dr. Waldo remained at
his post during the yellow fever and lost his life in that
struggle against the scourge. His action was remembered by
the people here and they erected a monument to his memory in
the national cemetery at Mound City.
Upon his death, Mrs. Waldo
removed to Washington, where she has resided since. She held
a position in one of the departments for many years.
Mrs. Ruth
Crouch
Buchanan, daughter of Bourland
Crouch, died last
week at her father’s home. After funeral services at the
residence, her remains were laid to rest in O'Donnelly grave
yard. (La Center, Ky.)
A tramp was
killed by a Mobile & Ohio freight train near Wickliffe
Sunday. The only thing that would lead to his identity was
the word "Bennett" tattooed on his arm.
John Shepherd, a former
resident of this city, was accidentally killed at Bardwell,
Ky., Saturday, when he dropped a revolver that he was
handling, the same being discharged and the bullet entering
his heart.
Shepherd
was a farmer and resided near Bardwell. He is survived by
his wife and three children.
The funeral services were conducted at Mississippi Church Wednesday
morning, with burial in the Mississippi Cemetery.—Courier
(Arlington, Ky.)
The Cairo
Evening Citizen,
Tuesday, 12 Mar 1912:
County Judge Alban W.
Barkley has telegraphed Governor
McCreary urging
him to offer a reward of $500 for the arrest and conviction
of the two men who held up and killed Ollie F.
Dugger last
Thursday night, says the
Paducah Sun.
Nothing has been received from the governor in regard to
whether he will offer a reward on behalf of the state. R. A.
Karr, of Herrin,
Ill., brother-in-law of
Dugger, has
offered a reward of $100 for the capture of each man. It is
probable that the city may add to the reward and the two
lodges may also contribute to a reward.
The body of Dugger was
taken to Unionville, Ill., Saturday where the funeral and
burial took place at 3 o'clock. The Rev. G. D.
Wyatt, pastor of
the Tenth Street Christian Church, and a large delegation of
Eagles and Woodmen of the World accompanied the body besides
member of the family.
(O. F. Dugger married
Lucy Karr on 3
Dec 1899, in Massac Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Margaret Mooney, an
old resident of Cairo, died at St. Mary's Infirmary Monday
evening at 7:15 o'clock, where she had been confined for
about two weeks with a severe attack of grip. This, together
with old age, brought about her demise. Mrs.
Mooney who was 85
years of age, was born in Ireland and came to this country
when quite a young girl. She had lived in Cairo for the past
eighteen years, coming here from Ullin, Ill. She leaves
three grandchildren, Leonard, Michael, and Edwin
Shanahan, all of this city.
The funeral will be held at St. Joseph’s Church, of which the
deceased was a member, Wednesday morning, conducted by Rev.
Father James Gillen.
(John Shanahan married
Mary Mooney on 6
Oct 1885, in Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
G. E. Anglen, aged 85
years, passed away at 2:15 o'clock this morning at the
residence of Mr. and Mrs. George
Carnes, No. 700
Commercial Avenue, after an illness of but a week's
duration. Death was due to the infirmities of old age.
The deceased has been making his home with Mr. and Mrs.
Carnes for the
past eight years. He was Mrs.
Carnes'
stepfather. He is also survived by a daughter residing in
Chicago and a son in Walnut Ridge, Ark.
He was a native of
North Carolina.
No funeral services will be held here, but the remains will be
taken to Ashley, Ill., Wednesday morning at 5 o'clock, the
former home of the deceased for interment.
(This may be the same person as George E.
Anglin, who married Priscilla L. Short on 24 Sep 1854, in Jefferson Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
J. B. Collins died at
his home, No. 228 Twenty-seventh Street, at 4:30 o'clock
this morning, after an illness of nine days with brain
fever.
The deceased is survived by his wife, two sons and a daughter. His
sons are Harry K.
Collins, of Milwaukee, and Frank, of this city. His
daughter is Mrs. C. J.
Henley, of
Dongola, Ill.
The deceased was well known in Cairo and southern Illinois. He
served as police magistrate and justice of the peace and has
been active in politics.
The deceased was born at Metropolis, Ill., in 1853 and was 54 years
of age. He was a
member of the Congregational church at Mound City, where he
formerly resided.
He was a Republican in politics and served as a deputy sheriff
under Sheriff Roche.
The funeral services will be held tomorrow at the family residence
on Twenty-seventh Street. The remains will be taken to Beech
Grove Cemetery for interment
via an interurban
car.
Charleston Courier:—Word
was received here Sunday morning that F. M.
Stotts, who has
been spending the winter in Mineral Wells, Texas, had died
suddenly at that place Sunday morning. The remains will be
brought here for burial.
Mr. Stotts had been
prominent in Charleston business, social and political
circles, and his death comes as a shock to the community.
He was in business for a number of years in this city
and held the important office of county collector for some
years. A few years ago he retired to his farm near town and
has been a farmer for the past several years.
Sunday night another death message came to Charleston, announcing
to relatives the death, at Haskell, Okla., of D. D.
Mitchell, another old and respected citizen. Mr.
Mitchell came to
this city several years ago and founded the Mitchell hotel,
now conducted by his son and daughter. He had been in poor
health, but was advised not to attempt an operation at this
time, and the shock of the operation was too much for his
physical strength, it is supposed, causing his death.
John Kelly, an old time
Cairoite and a former employee of the Cairo Trust Property
Company, died last week at his home in Cape Girardeau, Mo.
He was well advanced in years and this was the main
cause of his death. He had worked in the Drainage District
for the Trust Property Company for over twenty-five years
and lived in North Cairo with his wife and an adopted son
who survive him. They moved to Cape Girardeau several months
ago. The old man was quite a character and was well known.
The funeral of Mrs. Margaret
Mooney, who died Monday evening at St. Mary's Infirmary,
was held this morning, from St. Joseph's Church, Father
Gillen
officiating. Interment was made at Calvary Cemetery in Villa
Ridge. The pallbearers were Joseph
More, Stephen
O'Laughlin, W. E.
Walker, B.
McManus, Roy Hill, David
Barry, and Gus
Swoboda.
Died—Collins,
J. B., Wednesday, March 13th, 1912. Aged 54
years. Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at
the family residence on Twenty-seventh street, conducted by
Rev. Mr. Garrett,
pastor of the Cairo Baptist Church. The remains will leave
Twenty-seventh and Commercial at 2:30 o'clock for Beech
Grove Cemetery via an interurban car. Friends of the family
are invited to attend.
Paducah, Ky., March 13.—Dawn is breaking in the Ollie F.
Dugger murder.
H. W. Mosher, assistant
superintendent of
Pinkerton's National Detective Agency, of St. Louis, who
has taken personal charge of the solution of the crime, gave
out a statement as follows:
"We know Dugger's
murderers and also the man at Riverside Hospital who calls
himself Fred Ross.
It is only to be a question of time when we get them. The
two men are professional yeggs and the larger one owes 40
years in Nebraska and time in Missouri. I am expecting
photographs from St. Louis today."
A reward of $700 is out for the murders and Detective
Mosher says he
knows of $500 each for both men who are badly wanted
elsewhere. County Judge Alben W.
Barkley received
a letter from Governor
McCreary, of
Kentucky, today, offering a reward of $500 for the men.
Since R. A. Karr, father-in-law of Dugger,
has offered a reward of $100 for each man, this makes a
total of $1,200 reward out for the men and possibly more.
Detective Mosher has
conferred with eye-witnesses to the murder and those who
knew the men. He also visited the man at Riverside Hospital
yesterday and today, and after his investigation he
announced that the murderers are known. Fingerprints of
Ross, whose real
name is said to be Andrew
Brown, were taken
Monday and sent to the St. Louis agency. Photographs of the
men and other information are expected at any time and if
Detective Mosher
has not made a mistake, all that remains is to locate the
murderers. Detective
Mosher is of the opinion that the men crossed the river
following the murder and says they will steer clear of
cities and the larger towns where they are known.
"These men are not highwaymen," he said, "but yeggman and went to
rob Dugger's
safe" added Mosher.
Brown, who is
said to have been a member of a gang, became sick and
Detective Mosher believes the partners, who killed
Dugger, were restless and would not wait.
Brown is said to have been used as a lookout for them.
Mosher says the
men had no idea of killing
Dugger, as that
was not in their line. When
Dugger reached
for his gun, it meant death for one or the other and one of
the pair shot Dugger
down.
Eli Bobo, a negro
formerly employed as porter at The Halliday Hotel, was shot
last night in a barbershop conducted by John
Durrah on lower
Commercial Avenue.
According to Bobo, who
was seen this morning at St. Mary's Infirmary, by a
Citizen reporter, he was engaged with other negroes in shooting
craps in the rear of the barbershop. Two of the negroes
became engaged in a quarrel over a nickel and one pulled a
gun and shot at the other, missing him and wounding
Bobo.
The negro who did the shooting is said to be Cal
Nichols, who made
his escape and up to this time, the police have failed to
arrest him.
In a crap game only a few nights ago, in this locality, two negroes
engaged in a quarrel over some "phony" dice which one had
used in getting rich quick. When the loser "got wise" he
jerked out a big knife and proceeded to stick it into his
antagonist, after which he made his escape.
The blade was broken off in the negro's nose and was extracted
several days later.
Eli Bobo, the negro who
was shot in a crap game in the rear of the barbershop at 411
Commercial Avenue, Tuesday night, died this morning from his
injuries. The coroner’s inquest will be held tomorrow
morning. His assailant is still at large.
Bobo
was seen by a Citizen reporter yesterday at St. Mary's Infirmary and told the
story of the quarrel over a nickel which led to the
shooting, the particulars of which were published in last
evening's issue.
The funeral of the late J. B.
Collins was held
this afternoon from the family residence on Twenty-seventh
Street. The remains were taken to Beech Grove Cemetery
via an interurban
car. The services were conducted by Rev. Mr.
Garrett, pastor of the Cairo Baptist Church.
Paducah, Ky., Mar. 14.—The fact that the murderers of Ollie F.
Dugger are known
was substantiated by a witness, who positively recognized
photographs received from St. Louis by Detective H. S.
Mosher, of the
Pinkerton
National Detective Agency.
Photograph No. 7213 was recognized as the man who fired the fatal
shot and photo No. 7212 was identified as that of his pal,
who held up the saloon. There is said to be some doubt about
the identification of photo No. 7255, which the witness says
is an exact likeness of Andrew
Brown, who has
been under treatment at Riverside Hospital. Photo No. 7211
is that of a pal of the three and the witness says he saw
him in Paducah at the time he saw the murderers.
The identification of the men is now said to be complete. Dr. Frank
Boyd, of the
police and fire commissioners, expressed the opinion this
afternoon that the murderers would be captured within four
months at the longest.
A 21-year-old boy was killed, a woman passenger had her leg broken
and a number of other passengers were severely shaken up
last evening when a heavy coal train on the Illinois Central
crashed into the local freight at Clinton, Ky.
The dead and injured were in the caboose which was literally
demolished.
The caboose had stopped at Clinton to unload some ties. Calling in
the flagman, the train had gotten under way when the coal
train ran into it. It is claimed that the heavy rain
prevented the engineer on the coal train from seeing the
block signal.
The coal train was drawn by one of the company’s big engines and
four men were in the cab. Engineer
Herman was at the
throttle and with him was a man who he was teaching the run.
The dead boy's name was John
Benedict. The woman injured was a negro.
Virgil Lawson, a
prominent farmer of East Cairo, died at his home this
morning at 10 o'clock after a few days illness. The deceased
is well known here, coming to this city often to buy from
Cairo merchants. E. A.
Burke has charge
of the funeral which will be held Saturday.
The coroner’s jury summoned this morning to inquire into the
shooting at the barbershop of John
Durrah, No. 411
Commercial Avenue, last Tuesday night found through the
evidence of the witnesses examined, that the negro Eli
Bobo, who died
Thursday morning from the wounds he received in the gun
play, was an innocent bystander and recommended that the
negro who did the shooting, Cal
Nickerson, be
apprehended and held to await the action of the grand jury.
From the testimony presented by the various witnesses, a crap game
was going on in the back of the barbershop, between 7:30 and
8 o'clock. Three negroes,
Nickerson,
Jones and an
unknown negro, were shooting the dice, when a dispute came
up between the first two men over a nickel.
Nickerson grabbed
the money off the table, reaching to his back pocket for his
gun, whereupon Jones,
seeing this move, drew his weapon and pointing it at the
former pulled the trigger, but the gun did not go off.
Nickerson ran out
the door and turning around, fired several times. The negro
Bobo was trying to get out the back door at this time and received a
shot in the back, which later caused his death. The other
shot took effect in the right hand of a negro named
Jackson, a barber
in the place, who was standing near
Bobo. The negro Jones
returned the fire from his revolver after
Nickerson had
stopped shooting, but his shots went wild.
The jury was composed of Roy
Clark, Clemens
Blom, Guy Morse,
William Miller, Wayne Ross, and
Dixie Fox, the
last three named being colored.
Some fifteen witnesses were examined and after giving their
evidence they were each taken before Magistrate
Whitcamp and fined $15.00 and cost for gambling. Only one was able
to pay this fine and the rest were given jail sentences.
We wish to thank the dear friends who so kindly assisted us during
the illness and death of our dear baby. Mr. and Mrs. H. E.
Jones.
The police are still searching for the unknown man who shot and
seriously injured a riverman, John
Beauchamp, in
Webster's Saloon
Tuesday night. Chief
Egan believes that the man was drowned in the chase
after the shooting. The police officers followed the man on
through the cottonwoods to the Big Four incline, where it is
presumed he waded into the Ohio River there, thinking it to
be one of the small ponds near there and because of his
intoxicated condition was drowned. Sergeant
Cowell and
Officer Harry Jones
claim to have heard cries for help, as though from a
drowning person. A search was made of the barges and cradles
in the vicinity of the incline, but the man was not found.
Either he was drowned or he is being harbored as a fugitive
from justice by some of the fishermen who live near the
incline and Cairo Point is the opinion of the police.
Frankfort, Ky., Mar. 16.—Unless an action of executive intervenes,
the electric chair in the state prison at Eddyville will
receive its first white victim next week. The man who is
awaiting execution is Cal
Miracle, the
Breathitt County murderer. On August 26 last
Miracle shot and
killed Mathew Jones
at his home near Pineville. The screams of the wife and
children of the victim attracted Mrs. Delsie
Gibson, a
neighbor, to the scene. On her way she met
Miracle, who shot
and killed her. The double murderer fled to the mountains
and for several months all efforts to capture him were
without avail. Several months later he was found in
Birmingham, Ala., where he was arrested and returned to
Pineville for trial.
Mrs. J. C. Talbot died
Monday afternoon at 1 o'clock at the residence of her
daughter, Mrs. Louise
Gibbons, No. 300 Twenty-eighth Street. She was the widow
of the late John
Talbot, who died several years ago and had resided in
Cairo for about 50 years. The cause of Mrs.
Talbot's death
was pneumonia, which she contracted several weeks ago during
the cold weather.
The deceased is survived by three sons, Lindsay and Fred
Talbot, of this
city, and Charles
Talbot, of St. Louis, and one daughter, Mrs.
Gibbons, of this
city. The burial will take place in DuQuoin Wednesday.
(John A. Gibbons married
Louisa J. Talbott
on 11 Jun 1884, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Phillip W. Harlan, aged
75 years, occupies a cell in the city jail charged with
murder.
The crime to which the old man must answer, is that of stabbing S.
F. George, a
Syrian, who died from his injuries at 1:30 o'clock this
morning.
Harlan,
who claims Bearley, Neb., as his home, is said to have
arrived in Cairo Monday from McClure, Ill., where he had
been visiting. He went to the Green Tree House, conducted by
George at 418 Commercial Avenue, and secured a room for the night.
Believing that George,
from whom he had rented the room, was trying to enter his
apartments to kill and rob him,
Harlan attacked
the Syrian with a knife, stabbing him in the throat and
severing the jugular vein.
The trouble occurred about 9:30 o'clock, the Syrian dying from his
injuries about four hours later at St. Mary’s Infirmary.
Mrs. George, wife of the
dead man, says that
Harlan came to the place about 7 o'clock in the evening
and registered for a room. He went upstairs and about two
hours later she and her husband, who were sitting in front
of the place with two young white men, heard noises and loud
cries. Her husband went up to the old man's room and entered
to ascertain the trouble, while the two other men stood just
outside the door. When
George entered, according to his wife, the old man stabbed him. Mrs.
George and the
two young men entered the room and found the two men
scuffling. George finally weakened and fell away from his assailant and the two
young men then wrested the knife from
Harlan.
After taking the weapon from
Harlan, the two young men, with Mrs.
George's
assistance, carried her husband downstairs and later he was
taken to the hospital.
When the police arrived, they found the old man in his room and
they had some trouble in entering as he has pushed his bed
against the door.
When seen at police headquarters this morning, the old man bore
evidence of having been in a fight, as his head and face are
badly bruised and in some places cut. He said he thought he
was to be the victim of robbery, worse when
George entered.
George,
with his family, conducted the hotel and also a grocery and
fruit store in the building. He has always been regarded as
a quiet respectful citizen and has been in Cairo for about
five years.
The coroner’s inquest was held this afternoon and the following
were summoned to serve on the jury: Arthur
Mattingly, H. S.
Antrim, James
Johnson, Newton
Riddle, J. W. Whitlock,
and D. H. Mulcahy.
Witnesses were examined and a verdict is expected late this
afternoon.
After deliberating for one hour, the coroner’s jury returned a
verdict exonerating Philip W.
Harlan, the aged
white man, for the killing of S. F.
George, a Syrian.
The verdict was reached shortly after 6 o'clock Tuesday evening.
The jury was composed of Arthur
Mattingly, H. S.
Antrim, Newton
Riddle, J. H.
Mulcahy, James Johnson,
and J. W. Whitlock,
all businessmen.
The verdict was not a surprise to the community, as the actions of
the old man, at his advanced age, led many to suspect that
he must have acted in self-defense.
In testifying relative to the killing, the old gentleman told a
straight forward story. He said that he went to the place to
get a room and that he retired shortly after.
Before going to sleep, he pushed his bed partly
against the door to keep anyone from entering, as the
landlord had not given him a key to lock the door. He was
awakened later, by someone entering the room and thinking
that they were coming in to rob and kill him, he drew his
pocket knife and struck at the person nearest him. He
claimed that he was forced to draw his knife, because one of
the persons who entered had struck him in the face. He did
not know that his knife had any effect and did not know the
man was dead until told of the fact at the headquarters the
next morning. He stated that he was 75 years of age and that
he had never been in any trouble before and that he deeply
regretted the entire affair. He gave his home as Furnas
County, Nebraska. He gave his reason for being in Cairo,
stating that he had been visiting his sister, Mrs. J.
Cox, at Diswood,
and his nephew, James
Hill, at McClure, and not having been in Cairo since
1860, he decided to come down and look over the city. As an
evidence of the scuffle that ensued when the parties entered
his room in the hotel, the aged man bears several scars and
wounds on his face.
The case was really a pitiful one, and the age of the man and his
evident worry and grief over the affair were the strong
points in favor of his exoneration.
When asked concerning the noise that witnesses said he made before
the Syrian entered his room,
Harlan said as he
often talked and walked in his sleep; that might be
explanation. He
said that he had about $21 on his person and that about an
hour before going to the hotel, he had drank and small
portion of sherry wine, that being his favorite beverage. He
denied being intoxicated and said that he had his right
mind.
Mrs. George, wife of the
dead man, testified that she heard loud cries in the room
upstairs and that her husband went up to investigate. She
heard her husband knock on the door and ask what was the
matter and also heard him enter the room. She went upstairs
when she heard the scuffle and heard her husband exclaim,
"He's killed me." Clarence
Lynn and William
Taylor
corroborated Mrs.
George's testimony, they being in the house at the time.
They testified that they heard the old man making noise in
the room and when they entered they found the men scuffling.
Separating them, they took the knife away from
Harlan and after
assisting George
downstairs, called the police.
Several other witnesses said they heard the old man calling out of
the window for help after
George had
entered the room.
SUDDEN DEATH OF
J. A. BEEBER
T. W. Gannon,
superintendent of the Cairo Water Company, received a
message this morning announcing the death of J. A.
Beeber, president
of the company, which occurred at his home in Williamsport,
Pa., very suddenly this morning. No particulars were given
in the message.
(A marker in Grand Chain Masonic Cemetery reads:
Jacob
Fallenstein 1860-1912.—Darrel
Dexter)
J. F. Roberts, a
prominent citizen and businessman of this city, died at the
family residence, No. 2404 Washington Avenue, this morning
at 11:20 o'clock, Bright's disease being the cause of death.
The deceased was taken seriously ill on December 24th,
and since that time his life has frequently been despaired
of.
Mr. Roberts and his
family have resided in Cairo for the past six years. The
deceased was vice president of the
Denison-Gholson
Dry Goods Company and one of its largest stockholders. He
has been the traveling representative of the company in
southern Illinois up to the time of his death, although he
had not been out on the road in that capacity for several
months. His thorough business ability and pleasing
personality won him many friends, and he ranked among the
highest of the company’s salesmen.
He was born Jan. 9, 1869, on a farm near Marion, Ill., and was at
his death 43 years of age. He came from a prominent southern
Illinois family and was educated at Ewing College and also
at a business school in Chicago. He was married 22 years ago
to Miss Effie Link,
of Ewing, Ill., and is survived by his wife and two
daughters, Mrs. Homer J.
Elkins, of
Vienna, Ill., who before her recent marriage was Miss
Rosalind Roberts,
and Miss Roberta
Roberts. He also leaves one sister, Mrs. G. C.
Patterson, of
Makanda, and Edgar
Roberts, of St. Louis.
The deceased was a deacon in the Cairo Baptist Church and the
funeral will be held there Sunday afternoon, being conducted
by the pastor, and the remains taken to Makanda for
interment. He was a member of the Masonic order and they
will attend the funeral in a body.
Mr. Roberts was
conscious to the end and recognized the members of his
family shortly before death. He was strick in the prime of
his life and his demise is a distinct loss to the community.
(John Frank Roberts
married Effie Link
on 15 May 1890, in Franklin Co., Ill.
His marker in Evergreen Cemetery at Makanda reads:
J. F. Roberts
Born Jan. 9, 1869 Died March 22, 1912.—Darrel
Dexter)
In the death of James A.
Beeber, president of the Cairo Water Company, mention of
which was made in The
Citizen last evening, Cairo has lost a true admirer and
a great friend. He had been coming to this city off and on
for about twenty years.
He was interested in the growth of the city and made improvements
in the water plant to keep pace with the progress of Cairo.
He was well known personally to many citizens, especially
among businessmen.
He was a successful businessman, as well as a prominent attorney.
He was associated in the practice of law with his son,
William Beeber,
and at one time was Attorney General of the State of
Pennsylvania. He was president of the First National Bank of
Williamsport, besides having public utilities and lumber
interests in different parts of the country. The deceased
died of apoplexy and is survived by his wife and son.
Thomas W. Gannon,
manager of the Cairo Water Company, left last night on the
Seminole and will attend the funeral which will probably be held at
Williamsport, tomorrow.
Whereas it has pleased Almighty God in His divine Providence to
call from our midst our beloved brother, Ivo
Pettit, and whereas in the death of Brother
Pettit, our council has lost a loyal and sympathetic member, his
wife, a noble and devoted husband and his other relatives a
true friend, his employers a worthy and conscientious
employee and our holy church a devoted member.
Therefore, the Cairo Council 1027 Knights of Columbus in meeting
assembled bow to the will of divine Providence, who does all
things for the best, and be it
Resolved That a copy of these resolutions be spread upon the
minutes of our meeting, and be it further resolved that a
copy be ordered printed in the Cairo daily papers and that a
copy be furnished to his wife and relatives.
The funeral of S. F. George,
the Syrian who was killed several nights ago by Phillip W.
Harlan, the aged white man, was held Friday. The remains were
interred in Beech Grove Cemetery.
The funeral of the late J. F.
Roberts, who died
at his home on upper Washington Avenue, Friday morning, will
be held Sunday afternoon at the Cairo Baptist Church. The
cortege will leave the family residence at 2:30 o'clock.
The remains will be taken to Makanda, Ill., for interment at 5
o'clock Monday morning. The Masonic order will have charge
of the funeral services at the grave.
Murphysboro, Ill., Mar. 23.—W. H.
Walker, shot at a hawk flying about his place early today. His
8-year-old son jumped in the way and received the full
charge from the shot gun. The boy died within a half hour.
Roberts—Died,
Friday, March 22, J. F.
Roberts, aged 43
years.
Funeral cortege will leave the family residence, No. 3400
Washington Avenue, Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock for the
Cairo Baptist Church where service will be held by the
pastor, Rev. Mr. Garrett.
Friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral services.
Officers and brethren of Cairo Lodge No. 237 A. F. & A. M. and
visiting brethren will assemble at our lodge room at 1:15
p.m. Sunday, March 24th, to attend the funeral of
our late brother, J. F.
Roberts.
Zion Bishop, the
well-known feedman, received a letter from his sister this
morning announcing the death of his brother-in-law, Morrison
Smith, who passed
away near Pennington Gap, Lee County, Virginia, last Sunday.
The deceased was about 72 years old.
(Zion Bishop married
Annie Himes on 19
Sep 1883, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Out of respect for the deceased president of the Cairo Water
Company, J. A. Beeder,
the waterworks were shut down for ten minutes in Cairo
Sunday afternoon, while the funeral services were being
conducted at Williamsport, Pa.
Thomas W. Gannon, the
local manager, attended the funeral.
Claude Smith, a resident
of Sikeston, Mo., died at St. Mary's Infirmary, Sunday
night, about 12:30. He was brought to the hospital several
days ago. He leaves a family who reside at Sikeston. The
remains were prepared for burial by Mrs. M. E.
Feith, the
funeral director, and sent to Sikeston on the afternoon Iron
Mountain train.
George Telle, an old
resident of Alexander County, died at his home in Beech
Ridge this morning. He had lived in and around Cairo for the
past 40 years and was quite a character. For many years he
was associated in business with Attress
Horrel, his son-in-law, they being well known residents of the Beech
Ridge community. In the old steamboat days he was a cook on
many of the boats and will be remembered by the older river
men.
The remains of the late J. F.
Roberts, who died
Saturday, were taken to Makanda, Ill., at 5 o'clock this
morning, where interment was made in the family lot there.
The funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at the Cairo
Baptist Church, conducted by the Rev. Mr.
Garrett. The
pallbearers were Frank
Spencer, C. L.
Keaton, H. S.
Antrim, J. C.
Steinel, R. P. Flack,
Fred Gaunt, Dr.
H. A. Davis, and
Al Staehle.
Joseph Kelly
alias "Goldie"
died Saturday evening at St Mary's Infirmary from an
overdose of cocaine in company with another white man named
Harry Fee. They
were arrested Saturday afternoon by the police and given a
stay to leave town by Magistrate
Whitcamp.
According to Fee,
they went to the upper end of town and stopped in a saloon
near the bridge approach and bought several drinks of
whiskey. After leaving the saloon, they sought shelter from
the rain in a box car in a lumber yard near the approach,
where they both took a dose of cocaine from a bottle they
carried with them, Kelly took too much and became unconscious, whereupon
Fee summoned help
and the man was taken to the hospital, where he died shortly
afterwards. Coroner McManus empaneled a jury and they rendered a verdict in accordance
with the above facts.
In the man's pockets were papers indicating that he has relatives
in Minneapolis and Coroner
McManus
communicated with them regarding the disposition of the
body.
The family and relatives of the late J. F.
Roberts desire to thank their many friends for all the kindness and
sympathy extended unto them in their recent bereavement and
great loss.
Especially do they wish to thank the Masonic order for their
splendid help that relieved the family of so many cares. To
the pastor and members of the Cairo Baptist Church, who came
with their Christian sympathy to strengthen faith in the
Unseen One. To the quartette, who sang so beautifully at the
funeral, and to the many friends and business associates of
Mr. Roberts, who
contributed flowers, which always speak their message of
another life.
TWO MINERS FELL
TO DEATH TODAY
Lebanon, Ill., Mar. 28.—Dick
Leslie and Virgil
Dougan, miners, were crushed to death today when they
fell 200 feet down the shaft of the
Bennett mine
here. They thought the cage was at the top of the entrance
and attempted to push an empty car onto the cage to be
lowered. The cage was at the bottom and the car plunged down
the shaft carrying the men with it.
A.J. Bunch, old resident
of McClure, died last night. He had been in failing health
for a long time and his death was not unexpected.
The deceased was born on January 31, 1837, and was therefore 75
years of age. He was a native of Alexander County, his
birthplace being near where Elco now stands. His parents
died during his infancy and he was reared at Jonesboro,
where, when he was old enough, he learned the blacksmith
trade. He ran a shop for himself for several years and then
removed to Clear Creek, where he conducted a blacksmith shop
for several years. Then he turned his attention to farming,
which occupied his attention until in his declining years he
turned over active pursuits to his sons.
Mr. Bunch was married
March 12, 1862, to Miss Minerva I.
Sams, daughter of
Nathan Sams, and
six children were born to them, Joseph, Herman, and Rodney,
and Misses Minnie, Norma and Eunice.
(Cader Bunch married
Maria Landers on
6 Jan 1831, in Union Co., Ill.
Andrew J.
Bunch married Minnervia I.
Sams on 12 Feb
1862, in Alexander Co., Ill.
His marker in Lindsey Cemetery near McClure reads:
A. J. Bunch
Born Jan. 31, 1837 Died March 29, 1912.—Darrel
Dexter)
"Billy Bryan," an old
resident of southern Illinois and formerly a veteran
conductor on the Illinois Central, died Saturday at his home
in Murphysboro, where he had made his home since his
retirement from railroad service several years ago.
Mr. Bryan was quite a
character, a typical representative of the type of the older
school of railroad men. His railroad career was an eventful
one, having risen from the ranks. When the old Texas and
Pacific road chartered its line through this part of the
state, Bryan
began employment as a water boy, and was later one of the
first conductors to have charge of a train for that
corporation. When the Illinois Central purchased the line,
Bryan remained
with the new company and continued with same until about two
years ago. The branch was extended over a larger territory
and Bryan gained
much popularity in his runs, not only with the natives along
the line, but with the traveling men and others. His train
was known as "Bryan's train" and as such it was listed on the company timetables
and bulletin boards, here in Cairo and all intermediate
stations along the route.
The following from the
DuQuoin Herald will be of interest to the many friends
of Rev. W. T. Morris,
who was formerly pastor of the First Methodist Church here:
Rev. W. T. Morris,
pastor of the First M. E. Church, received a sad message
this morning, apprising him of the sudden death of his son,
J. M. Morris, who expired on the train while
en route from Ogden, Utah, to Los Angeles, Cal., where he was going
for the benefit of his health.
Mr. Morris had been in
the hospital at Ogden for about two weeks and upon the
advice of his physicians started for California, hoping that
the climate would prove beneficial. He had been in the
employ of a railroad freight office at Ogden and the close
confinement is thought to have caused a general breakdown of
health. Many DuQuoin people will remember Mr.
Morris as he
visited his parents last December.
The bereaved parents have the sympathy of the people of this city
in their hour of sorrow. The remains will be shipped to
Fairfield, Ill., for interment.
Alice Spencer, the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Spencer, was born
in Pulaski, Pulaski County, Ill., June 17, 1893, and died at
Bird's Point, Mo., March 28, 1912, aged 18 years, 9 months
and 11 days. The house in which the deceased passed away was
surrounded by water and the remains were brought to Cairo,
Ill., in a skiff. She was a member of a family of ten
children and hers was the first death in the family. She was
a sister-in-law of our fellow townsman, Henry
Hudson. Funeral
services were held in Beechwood Cemetery last Saturday,
conducted by the Rev. J. H.
Runalls, pastor
of the First Congregational Church of Mounds, and a goodly
number of friends of the family were present at the
graveside. Some beautiful floral offerings rested on the
casket and at the close of the services the bereaved family
returned to their home at Birds' Point, Mo. (Mounds)
The levee at Bird's Mill broke today and the water rushed in so
rapidly that Lee
Foggy, a negro, was drowned before he could get to a
place of safety. He was at breakfast when the break
occurred.
Mrs. Thomas B. Echols,
of Grand Chain, died suddenly this morning. Her daughter,
Mrs. J. E. Woelfle,
was at her bedside, and Dr.
Woelfle went to
Grand Chain today, securing a launch to take him there as
the Big Four train could not take him there.
(Thomas B. Echols
married Ammon Brown
on 1 Dec 1863, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
James E.
Woelfle, 28, physician, born in Anna, son of John M
Woelfle and Anna
L. Clark, married
Hortense Hannon
Echols, 20, born in Grand Chain, daughter of Thomas B.
Echols and Annie
Brown, on 10 Oct
1900, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
Her marker in Grand Chain Masonic Cemetery reads:
Amine B.
Echols 1845-1912.—Darrel
Dexter)
Odin, Ill., April 2.—George
Winger, deputized by City Marshall George
Finn early today
to help suppress a crowd of drunken men who were quarrelling
and fighting, shot three of the men, killing two and
seriously wounding another, within five minutes after he had
been sworn in. In interfering, he was thrown to the ground
in a rough and tumble fight and opened fire. Charles
Drod, aged 20,
was killed and Charles
Day, 25, and
Henry Gross, 24, wounded, Gross
dying soon after. Odin is a dry town, but the men had
secured the liquor in a neighboring city.
Willard Holmes, aged 26,
was killed by Mobile & Ohio train No. 2 northbound at Mill
Creek, Saturday. He had jumped on the train to ride a short
distance and when he jumped off he lost his balance and the
train ran over him, cutting him in two at the hips. He lived
only 15 minutes after the accident. He was a son of Mr. and
Mrs. Oliver Holmes.
The coroner’s verdict was in accordance with the above facts
and laid no blame upon the railroad company. Funeral
services were held at the Congregational church Sunday and
the remains were buried in St. John's Cemetery.
(His marker in St. John’s Cemetery near Mill Creek reads:
Willard son of O. P. & Etta
Holmes Born June
14, 1885 Died March 30, 1912.—Darrel
Dexter)
Julius Zerfass, second
son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Zerfass, died
Wednesday night at 12:45 o'clock at the family residence,
232 Twelfth Street, of brain fever. The illness was only of
three days duration. Deceased was 15 years old. Besides his
parents, two brothers, Edward and Alfred, and one sister,
Miss Bertha, survive him.
The young man was in his first year at the high school, was
exceptionally bright and well-liked by his fellow students
and teachers. His brother Edward, a student at Culver
Military Academy, will arrive tonight.
The funeral arrangements have not been made.
(His marker in Calvary Cemetery at Olive Branch reads:
Julius H. Zerfass 1897-1912.—Darrel
Dexter)
William Lynn, his wife,
and three children are reported drowned near Bird's Point.
They were overtaken by the rising waters while attempting to
reach higher ground. Two farmers are also reported drowned.
At the age of 13 he united with the Methodist Church at
Springville.
Although the grim reaper of death came and cut him down, we
have the hope of meeting him on the other shore.
We desire to thank the many kind friends for the assistance and
sympathy extended us at the time of our sad loss of our dead
son and brother, Willard.
Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Holmes
and family
In loving memory of my dear father, Moses B.
Harrell, who died in Chicago, April 9, 1909, in the eighty-first
year of his age.
When a rowboat, in which they were trying to make their way to
Wickliffe, Ky., capsized near Twelfth and Ohio streets,
Tuesday, two Greek laborers employed by the Illinois Central
fell into the river and one was drowned. The other narrowly
missed a similar fate, but was rescued before he was swept
down by the current to a watery grave.
The men took the skiff from its moorings in front of the stone
depot at Fourteenth Street and started down the river. They
had no oars, but used a board as a paddle. When near Twelfth
Street, the board dropped from the hand of the oarsman into
the river and when he attempted to reach over the side of
the boat to get the paddle, the boat turned over and both
men fell into the river. One sank several times when he
attracted attention by his cries.
Several men on the bank threw a plank to him, but it
was too late, and he sank out of sight for the third time.
The other managed to hold on overturned boat and floated down to
Tenth Street, where he was rescued by Travis
Kimmel in his launch.
The boat in which the laborers tried to make the trip was the
property of Freight Agent
Ladd, of the
Illinois Central. By a strange coincidence, a son of Mr.
Ladd was drowned
by the capsizing of the same boat about thirteen years ago
and the skiff has never been used since. The laborers had
taken the boat without permission of Mr.
Ladd.
Several days ago the Illinois Central sent about 400 foreign
laborers to Wickliffe, Ky., to be transported from there to
Chicago by the way of Paducah and it is presumed that the
two men desired to go to Wickliffe for this purpose. The man
who was saved cannot speak English, so the identity of his
unfortunate companion could not be learned.
(The drowned man was identified as Anthony
Cosnarearki in the 20 Apr 1912, issue.—Darrel
Dexter)
Injured Man Dies
from Injuries.
John O'Dies, the man who
was injured at Cairo Junction Monday night, while at work on
the pile driver there, died at St. Mary’s Infirmary late
Tuesday afternoon, where he had been confined since the
accident. He leaves a wife and several children. The remains
were shipped today to his home at Calvert City, Ky., by Mrs.
M. E. Feith, the
undertaker.
The funeral of the late Cyrus
Smith, whose
death occurred Saturday evening, was held this morning at
7:30 o'clock at Burke's
undertaking establishment. The service of the Episcopal
Church was read by Rev. Dr. F. A.
Derosset and only
the relatives and the employees of
Smith Brothers
Store were present. The remains in a double metallic casket
weighing 700 pounds were taken on the tug
Theseus to Mound
City, from there to Mounds in a skiff and from Mounds in a
wagon to Villa Ridge, where interment was made. The
deceased's brother, E. A.
Smith, and Rev. Dr. De
Rosset were
present at the burial.
James Milne, former
Cairoite, passed away at Los Angeles, Cal., Wednesday
afternoon of paralysis.
Mr. Milne left Cairo
several years ago for the coast, to make his home there with
his children. He was for years head miller of the
Halliday mills
and was of the respected citizens of Cairo
He leaves a widow and a number of children, all grown.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Zerfass
and family hereby express their thanks to friends and
neighbors who so kindly and willingly expressed sympathy and
rendered aid during the illness and obsequies of their late
son and brother, Julius.
Thomas O'Loughlin, aged
22, died at the home of his father, Patrick
O'Laughlin, No. 228 Twenty-first Street, at 4:55 this morning of
tuberculosis. He had been ill for about two years and a year
ago went to San Antonio in search of health.
He leaves, besides his father, one sister, Mrs. Margaret
Piersol and three
brothers, Joseph, Stephen and John
O'Laughlin.
Funeral arrangements have not yet been concluded, but burial will
probably be Monday at Villa Ridge.
(Charles M. Farris, 28,
born in Johnson County, a teacher, son of Thomas G.
Farris, married Mary Viola
Perhamous, 22, born in Williamson County, daughter of
Thomas J. Perhamous and Miss Sanders,
on 7 Sep 1896, in Union Co., Ill.
Thomas G.
Farris married Catharine
Gillispie on 13
Sep 1854, in Johnson Co., Ill.
Thomas G. Farris married Mandy
Gillespie on 17 Jan 1859, in Johnson Co., Ill.
Thomas J.
Perhamous married Mary L.
Sanders on 27 Sep
1868, in Williamson Co, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
After an illness of two years, John T.
Jones died Friday night at the family residence, 1701 Poplar Street.
His condition became serious about three weeks ago and since
that time he failed rapidly. He was in his 59th
year, having been born in Springgreen, Wisconsin, August 17,
1853.
Mr. Jones was one of
Cairo's respected citizens and was well known, having been
in the employ of the Illinois Central for 22 years, being
foreman of the shops both here and at Mounds. At the
latter place he resigned his position about eight years ago
and embarked in the general store business there.
Several years ago he disposed of these interests there and
returned to Cairo again to reside.
The members of his family are, besides his wife, two daughters,
Misses Catherine and Helen, and four sons, Harry, William
and Thomas, of this city, and John, of Birmingham, Alabama,
and also a sister-in-law, Miss Margaret
Chauncey, of this
city. He also has other relatives in Wisconsin.
Deceased was a member of the Cairo Commandery Knights Templar.
The funeral arrangements will be announced later.
Edward Galligan, aged 41
years, died last evening at St. Mary's Infirmary, after an
illness of three weeks of Bright's disease. The
deceased was an engineer on the Mobile & Ohio railroad up to
three months ago. The remains were taken to the home
of his mother, Mrs. Anna
Galligan, No. 420
Twentieth Street, where the funeral services will be held
tonight at 8 o'clock. Owing to the conditions of the
river, the funeral will be private. The remains will
be taken to Villa Ridge
via Mound City, Sunday morning at 6 o'clock for interment leaving on
the tug Frances.
Died—Ed Galligan, aged
41 years. Services will be held at the residence, No.
420 Twentieth Street, at 8 o'clock tonight, conducted by
Father James Gillen. The remains will be taken to Villa Ridge cemetery (via
Mound City) for interment, leaving the wharf at Sixth
Street, Sunday morning at 6 o'clock on the tug
Frances.
Funeral private. Omit flowers.
(A marker in Calvary Cemetery at Villa Ridge reads:
Edward
Gallegan.—Darrel
Dexter)
Rudy Davis, a resident
of Joppa, Ill., was drowned in the overturning of a launch
Sunday afternoon back of Bird's Point. In company with
Otto Laird and Samuel Tucker,
they were going to Charleston to look after a half-brother
of Davis named
Walter Davis. In crossing the Iron Mountain track, which was
submerged, their launch was overturned, and they were thrown
out. Laird
and Tucker were able to get out, but
Davis was swept away by the swift current and his body was not
recovered. The two survivors were brought over in a
skiff by C. C.
Hendricks. The accident occurred at 5:30 Sunday
afternoon.
Davis
was 20 years of age, unmarried and has a father living at
Joppa. He was dressed in a blue suit. He was a
man 5 feet six or eight inches in height. According to
Laird, the launch they were in was properly equipped and they were
depending upon Davis,
who said he knew the country there, to take them through to
Charleston safely.
Elmer Stevers was shot
and instantly killed in
Parker's Saloon
at Mounds Saturday night. H. M.
Webb, an employee of the Illinois Central, did the shooting.
Stevers, who is
known as "Little Pistol," gave
Webb a very
severe beating a few days prior to the shooting, according
to the story given to
The Citizen.
Stevers had been
running a crap game in another saloon. He was in
Parker’s Saloon
and had his knife out when
Webb entered.
Seeing Webb,
Stevers is said
to have threatened to fix him, when
Webb pulled a big
gun and fired several shots, killing
Stevers
instantly. After the shooting
Webb gave himself
up to the marshal.
The funeral of the late John T.
Jones, who died Friday night, after a prolonged illness, was held
this morning at the family residence, 4701 Poplar Street,
interment being made at Calvary Cemetery at Villa Ridge.
The pallbearers were Phil C.
Barclay, B.
McManus, Jr., Frank Gibson,
Peter Day, M. S.
Egan, and E. W.
Walker. A special Illinois Central train conveyed the remains to
the cemetery.
The funeral of the late Thomas
O'Loughlin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick
O'Laughlin, of 228 Twenty-first Street, who died Saturday morning,
was held this morning at St. Joseph's Church and interment
made at Calvary Cemetery in Villa Ridge.
Rev. Fr. James Gillen,
pastor of St. Joseph's Parish, was the officiating priest at
both funerals.
(A marker in Calvary Cemetery at Villa Ridge reads:
John T. Jones
1849-1912.—Darrel
Dexter)
Vienna, Ill., April 15—The case of State's Attorney Thomas H.
Sheridan, of
Johnson County, accused of the murder of Harry
Thacker here on
September 16, 1910, was called in court today for trial.
The killing of
Thacker was the result of a bitter arraignment of
Thacker's father,
Frank Thacker by
Sheridan in his
newspaper.
Sheridan claims he acted in self-defense.
(Francis B. Thacker
married Nancy C.
Peterson on 25 Oct 1866, in Johnson Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The body of Thomas Gardner,
a colored man, who was drowned a week ago Saturday night,
was recovered this morning. It was found at Eighteenth and
Ohio Levee by militiamen patrolling the levee there.
Gardner, who was
a member of the Cairo police force in
Woodward
administration, leaves a wife and five children.
Mrs. Anna Robertson,
widow of the late R. F.
Robertson, died
suddenly at noon today at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J.
N. Moxley, at
Little Rock, Ark. News came in a telephone message to
Mrs. H. O. Farrow,
stating that she had died of ptomaine poisoning.
Mrs. Robertson for the
past several years had made her home here with her
daughters, Mrs. H. O.
Farrow and Mrs. A. F.
Staehle.
For the past year she has been on an extended visit with her
daughter, Mrs. Moxley in Little Rock.
The Robertson family
have been highly respected residents of Cairo for over 20
years, when they moved to this city from Virginia. Mr.
Robertson, who died several years since, was a public official in
various city administrations.
Mrs. Robertson was 65
years of age and a native of Virginia. She was a
charter member of the Christian Science Church of this city.
The following children survive her: Mrs. H. O.
Farrow and Mrs.
A. F. Staehle, of
this city, Mrs. W. B.
Hays, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., Mrs. John
Parham, of
Memphis, Tenn., and Mrs. J. N.
Moxley, of Little
Rock, Ark.
Funeral arrangements have not been made, but it is probable that
the remains will be interred in the cemetery at Little Rock.
Mrs. Farrow and
Mrs. Staehle will leave tonight for Little Rock, Ark., to attend the
funeral.
(Albert Ferdinand Staehle
married Daisy Edna
Robertson on 2
Jan 1901, in Alexander Co., Ill.
William B.
Hays married Lizzie L.
Robertson on 23
Dec 1884, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Tony Overton, a former
Cairoite, died at 10 o'clock last night at the home of his
mother at Knob Lick, Mo. The deceased was a member of
Egypt Camp No. 18, Woodmen of the World, of this city.
He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Mary J.
Overton, and two
brothers, J. B. and R. S.
Overton.
The body of a white man found floating in the Ohio River late
yesterday afternoon by Wiley
Hale and A. F.
Nellius, was
found to be that of the Greek, who was drowned near
Fourteenth Street on April 9th.
The man wore a pair of corduroy pants and white sweater, and these
correspond with those worn by the Greek.
He was identified by other Greek laborers as being the man who was
drowned.
The body was taken to Burke's
undertaking parlors, where Coroner
McManus held an
inquest.
In company with another Greek, the drowned man fell out of a skiff
near the stone depot. One was rescued and the other
was drowned and his body was not recovered at the time.
They were among the laborers brought down from Chicago by
the Illinois Central to work on the levees here during the
flood.
He is said to have been in America only five months and came from
the island of Crete.
Eddyville, Ky., April 20—Walking jauntily between the death watch
and preceded by the chaplain of the penitentiary, Willard
Richardson convicted of the murder of John
Violett, stepped to the electric chair and without a tremor took his
seat in the place of death and awaited the adjusting of the
apparatus that would take his life.
Turning to the small group of newspaper men and prison officials,
he remarked, "It takes a brave man to do this, boys, doesn't
it." As the chaplain prayed, the straps were tightened
around Richardson’s
body. The doomed man took no interest in either the
prayers or the preparations, but as the hood was about to be
placed over his face, he asked in a jocular tone:
"I've got my false teeth in; do you think the shock will jar
them out?" He had no desire to make a statement or
receive any religious ministration, but with an air of
bravado settled himself to await the end.
The current was turned on and in a very few minutes
Richardson was
pronounced dead. Only the slightest movement of one
finger outstretched on the arm of the death chair indicated
that the strong current was passing through his body.
The electrocution was considered successful in every way. The
body was in no way disfigured and death was instant.
The officials at Eddyville assert that a more apparently depraved
man than Richardson
was never known at the penitentiary. He has carried
himself with a "daredevil" air ever since his incarceration
and has never expressed any contrition for his crime.
He ate heartily and slept well on the days and nights preceding his
electrocution. His aged father entreated him to seek
pardon in prayer, and to his solicitations
Richardson
replied, "Quit bellyaching around, you bother me."
Richardson's
murder of Violett at Milburn, in Carlisle, County, on February 17, was
absolutely unprovoked and mob violence was threatened at the
time. He was twice taken to Paducah for safekeeping
and before his trial feigned insanity, reverting to a
confession when placed on the stand.
Timothy Mahoney, son of
Timothy C. and Ellen
Mahoney, was born in Cairo, Ill., Jan. 28, 1876, and
died at Mounds, Ill., April 16, 1912, aged 36 years, 2
months and 18 days. He was united by marriage on April
15, 1906, at Pulaski, Pulaski County, Ill., to Miss Ida
Bird. To this union four
children were born, two of whom have preceded their father
to that land from which no traveler returns. Both he
and his wife were baptized into the Christian faith on April
14, 1912. He leaves a widow and two children, his
father and mother, three brothers and one sister to mourn
his early departure from this lower world. Funeral
services were held in the Congregational church last
Thursday afternoon, conducted by the pastor, Rev. J. H.
Runalls. A quartet consisting of Mrs. J. B.
Healy, Mrs. J. C.
Mench, Messrs. J. C. Mench
and Will Gallion
with Miss Nellie
Runalls at the organ, furnished the music appropriate to
the occasion. The church was filled with relatives and
sympathizing friends and a good many beautiful floral pieces
were borne to the church and grave by six ladies who kindly
officiated in that capacity. The interment took place
in Beechwood Cemetery, where many friends awaited the
funeral procession. The beautiful flowers were placed
on the grave and the minister having returned the thanks of
the family to the friends, who had shown their sympathy with
them in this hour of trial, they were dismissed.
(Timothy Mahoney married
Ellen Armstrong
on 31 Oct 1862, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Murphysboro, Ill., April 22.—Many lives were lost and much property
was destroyed by a cyclone which swept a number of towns and
villages north and west of this city about 6 o'clock last
evening.
The damage to Murphysboro was slight. One man, a farm hand
named Naude, was
killed just north of this city by being hurled against a
tree.
At Willisville, 20 miles north of Murphysboro, 5 were killed and 25
injured.
At Bush, 10 are reported killed and 48 injured.
At Herrin, 6 were killed northeast of the city and several hurt.
It is reported that Bush was almost swept off the map.
Oraville and a settlement known as Niggerwood also suffered
severely from the storm.
John Farrell, a resident
of this city for many years, died about 8 o'clock Sunday
evening at St. Mary's Infirmary, of abscess of the brain
caused by a stroke of paralysis several weeks ago.
He was quite well known, being at one time a member of the city
fire department and recently an engineer on the transfer
steamer Henry Marquand.
He was 59 years of age and was a member of the Tribe of Ben
Hur. He leaves a wife and three children, who reside
at 317 Division Street. He also leaves a brother,
Frank Farrell,
who resides in Cincinnati and who arrived in the city
Sunday.
The funeral will probably be held Tuesday.
Mrs. Ollie Lollis, wife
of James Lollis,
of 309 ½ Fourth Street, died at 6:30 o'clock this morning at
St. Mary’s Infirmary of tuberculosis. She had been ill
for about three years. They were married nine years.
Surviving are two brothers living at Gold Dust, Tenn., and a
cousin residing at Harrisburg.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon and the remains
will be taken to Beech Grove Cemetery, E. A.
Burke having charge of the funeral.
John Farrell died Sunday
night at 8 o'clock at St. Mary’s Infirmary. Funeral
services will be held Tuesday afternoon at the residence,
317 Division Street, conducted by Rev. Father James J.
Gillen.
Train will leave Fourteenth Street at 2:45 for Villa Ridge,
where interment will be made.
Mariah Moore, an aged
negro woman, and an old resident of Cairo, was fatally
injured Saturday evening about 5:30, when she was struck by
a moving freight car in the I. C. yards just above
Fourteenth Street, and died a few hours later at St. Mary's
Infirmary, where she was removed after the accident.
The old woman has been a familiar figure around the freight
platforms and grain sheds in the various railroad guards of
the city for many years. It is presumed she was
picking up grain Saturday evening along the tracks north of
the stone depot, when a freight car being switched by one of
the crew struck her. Her body was crushed between the
track and the platform there. She was found by a passerby in
the yards and died at the hospital without regaining
consciousness.
She had lived on Twenty-first Street between Sycamore and Poplar
and was about 90 years of age. She had no surviving
relative.
St. Louis, April 22.—Thirty-two persons are known to be dead, half
a score are so severely injured they may die and 150 others
hurt in two tornadoes which swept over southern Illinois, in
one instance, and across northern Illinois into Indiana in
the other, just before sunset last night.
Fifteen were killed at Bush, Ill., five at Willisville, names not
obtainable, three at Reddick, Ill., and nine at Morocco,
Ind.
Others may be found beneath the wreckage of what was Bush, every
building being demolished. Forty injured from this
town alone were brought into Murphysboro, where the storm
severely injured three late last night.
Some of the dead are:
Those injured so seriously they may die are:
(Nelson Hulse may be the
same person as Nelson W.
Hulse, who
married Abba M. Smith
on 8 May 1900, in Kankakee Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The St. Louis Iron Mountain and Southern round house and shops were
demolished and the general store of the Western Coal and
Mining Company, the post office, Joe
Berras' pool room
and a row of company houses would be brought to Murphysboro.
A special train brought forty-one injured to the Murphysboro
hospital. Two children died on the train and one
Italian woman died on the way to the hospital. Members
of the train crew state that but half of the wrecked
district had been searched when the train was filled and
fifteen bodies were found.
The body of Rudy Davis,
who lost his life near Bird's Point, Mo., on Sunday, April
14, was recovered today. It was found within 100 yards
of where the launch capsized when it struck the Iron
Mountain embankment. C. C.
Hendricks found the young man's body. It will be sent to his
home in Joppa tomorrow for burial.
J. V. Conran, a
prominent citizen of New Madrid, Mo., and well known in
Cairo, died at his home at 11 o'clock Tuesday night from the
effects of a gunshot wound in the abdomen accidentally
self-inflicted. Mr.
Conran had been out hunting and returned in the evening.
He had a shot gun in his hands and it dropped to the floor
and was accidentally discharged, inflicting the wound which
caused instant death.
James G. Forgey, a
Bird’s Point farmer, was shot and instantly killed this
morning about 8 o'clock by Oscar
Parsons, a white
man in his employ. The cause of the shooting could not
be learned, as there were no witnesses and
Parsons, who
later gave himself up to the sheriff of Mississippi County,
would not make a statement.
Forgey is an old
resident of Bird's Point and is about sixty years of age.
Parsons is a middle aged man. Both have families and are well
known in Cairo. The remains of the deceased were
brought to Cairo this afternoon to be prepared for burial by
E. A. Burke.
The remains of the late James G.
Forgey, who was shot and killed at Bird's Point Wednesday morning by
Oscar Parsons,
will be interred at the cemetery at Wickliffe, Friday
afternoon, the funeral party going over in a gasoline
launch.
Harrisburg, Ill., April 25.—Jeff
Murphy was today convicted by a jury of the murder of Hiram
Robertson and
sentenced to fourteen years in the penitentiary. The
killing occurred at Eldorado where
Murphy was one of
the leading citizens.
Word has been received in Cairo of the death of Isaac N.
Bradley, which
occurred at his home in Madison, Wisconsin, recently
following an operation by the famous
Mayo brothers for goiter. Dr.
Bradley was a pioneer settler of Madison and had held the position
of librarian at the State Historical Library in that city
since 1892. He had also been assistant librarian since
1875. In 1879 he married Miss Clara
Dietrich, of
Cairo, at her home here. The
Dietrich family
were residents of Cairo some years ago and will be
remembered by a number of old friends here.
Mrs. Phoebe P. Lewis,
aged 45 years, died at St. Andrew’s Hospital in Murphysboro
Wednesday afternoon after illness of a week’s duration from
pneumonia. Deceased was wife of John A.
Lewis, a veteran
engineer on the north end of the Mobile & Ohio Railroad and
was a daughter of the late Capt. H. F.
Potter, of Cairo.
Mrs. Lewis was a
graduate of the Cairo High School with the class of 1884 and
resided in Cairo several years after her marriage. The
family removed to Murphysboro about twenty years ago.
Mrs. Lewis is
survived by her husband, three daughters and two sons.
She was a member of the First Methodist Church of this city.
The funeral will be held Saturday afternoon.
(John A. Lewis married
Phoebe Potter on
12 Feb 1888, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Harriet Warwick,
mother of Mrs. C. A.
Marchildon, of Thebes, passed to the higher life
Saturday, April 20th, aged 88 years, 8 months and
21 days. Mrs.
Warwick was born in Montgomery, Ohio, July 30th,
1823. Her parents were Levi and Eliza
Bell
Buckingham.
On the 24th of October 1843, she was married to
I. M. Warwick, of
Hamilton, Ohio, whose death occurred twenty-seven years ago.
Eleven children were born to them, five of whom survive,
namely Mrs. Martha I.
Marchildon, of Thebes; J. B.
Warwick, of
Lockland, Ohio; and Virginia, Maude L. and Adah A.
Warwick, of
Hamilton. Of the third and fourth generations, there
are three grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
From infancy Mrs. Warwick was trained to see the beauty and simplicity of the faith
that cheered and comforted her throughout her life.
She united with the Universalist Church when a girl in her
home village. During the greater part of her life, she
enjoyed good health, was optimistic in her views and genial
in disposition. In her passing, the last of her
generation in her family and connections, have gone from
earth.
Her funeral took place at the residence and First Universalist
Church at 2:30 o'clock Monday afternoon, the Rev. A. B.
Beresford, pastor of the First Universalist Church, Cincinnati,
conducting the service. She was laid to rest in
Greenwood Cemetery.
Some time ago the news of the death of Dr. Horace Wardner
Eggleston was
received here. The following from a Birmingham paper
gives a sketch of his life.
Dr. Eggleston was born
on July 16, 1869, at Cairo, Ill., the son of George Cary
Eggleston, the late author, and Marion
Gregg Eggleston.
While in his infancy his parents moved to New York City.
He was educated in the private schools of the metropolis
during his early life and was also a student in the Brooklyn
Polytechnic School and the Wune College of Virginia.
He took a scientific course at Princeton University and a medical
course in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York
City. He thereupon entered private practice in New
York City and 14 years ago he engaged in the state medical
service.
For some time previous to a year ago, he was first assistant
physician at the Binghamton State Hospital. He had
been engaged in private practice in this city since leaving
that institution, his home and office being at No. 129
Hawley Street.
Dr. Eggleston was a
scientific man, but his manner did not reveal the profound
studious and analytical mind he possessed. On the
contrary, he was the most friendly and unassuming individual
imaginable, and just because of this characteristic alone he
had many score friends. He made many discoveries for
the advancement of medical science.
Early in his life Dr.
Eggleston engaged in the newspaper business and was one
of the star men of the
New York Sun staff for quite a period, a distinction
that newspaper men will most readily appreciate.
On September 8, 1904, he was married to Miss Mabel
Dunn, the
daughter of Colonel and Mrs. George W.
Dunn.
Dr. Eggleston was a
Mason in high degree and a prominent club man.
He is survived by his wife, Ms. Mabel
Dunn Eggleston, and by
one son, George Dunn
Eggelston, aged six years.
(George C. Eggleston
married Marion Wardner
Craggs on 9 Sep
1868, in Alexander Co., Ill.
George Cary
Eggleston was a well-known author, his best known works
being Dorothy South,
History of the
Confederate War and
A Rebel’s
Recollections.—Darrel
Dexter)
J. W. Buford, a renter
on the farm of J. M.
Blakemore, near Humboldt, and who has been a poor man
and a renter all his life, has just received information
that he has come into an inheritance of between $20,000 and
$30,000 by reason of the death of a great uncle, which
occurred in Louisville, Ky. It appears that the uncle
had been in the insane asylum for twenty-five years and that
he had no nearer relatives than Mr.
Buford.
According to present day standards, he is now known as Mr.
Buford, instead
of plain "John."—Hickman
Courier.
One of the most important criminal cases is that of the People vs.
Gus Johnson, for
the killing of Napoleon
Lipe. The
shooting happened several months ago, when
Johnson, who is a
colored officer, was performing his duties, having arrested
Lipe for
flourishing a deadly weapon. When
Lipe attempted to
escape, Johnson
shot at him. At the time, the negro was apparently not
injured by the officer’s fire, but some hours later after
the arrest he complained of a wound, was taken to St. Mary's
Infirmary, where he died.
Johnson was
exonerated by the coroner’s jury, but was held by the grand
jury of the last term of court, through the efforts of Green
Lipe, the negro's father.
Charles Louis Kistner
died Sunday afternoon at St. Mary's Infirmary at 2:45
o'clock after an illness of several weeks, aged 63 years.
On Thursday, April 18th, he became ill and last
week he was removed to the hospital. He remained there
several days, returning to his boarding place feeling much
improved. However on Thursday, he was stricken with
paralysis, his whole left side being affected, and he lapsed
into unconsciousness from which he never recovered.
The deceased was born in Baden Baden, Germany, Jan. 1, 1849, and
came to America when but a boy of six years, locating with
his parents at Hickman, Ky. He was in business there
when a young man and later went to Union City, Tenn., where
he was engaged in the saloon business for twenty three
years. He has been a resident of Cairo for the past
eight years, during which time he conducted several saloons
here. Lately he has been connected with the
Fitzgerald &
O'Rourke's place
on lower Ohio Street.
Charles L. Kistner, Jr.,
a son, of Little Rock, Ark.; John
Kistner, a
brother, of Hickman, Ky.; and Mrs. L. M.
Kayser, of
Jackson, Tenn.; survive him besides other relatives.
The funeral was held this afternoon from the residence of John T.
Watkins, 1015
Walnut Street, interment being at Villa Ridge. Rev.
Father James Downey,
of St. Patrick's Church, officiated.
Word has been received in Cairo of the death of B. F.
Woodford, a
former resident of this city, which occurred near Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, on April 25th. The deceased
was found dead in his bed, at a farmhouse six miles out in
the country from Cedar Rapids, where he had been employed.
The deceased was at one time connected with E.
Bucher in the
packing business here, the firm being known as the
Bucher
Woodford Company.
For many years he was manager of Armour Company’s plant
here. He also conducted a dairy farm in the Drainage
District at one time.
He is survived by a brother in Burlington, Kansas, a son, in
Oregon, daughter in Rock Falls, Ill., and his wife, in
Jackson, Tenn.
Frank H. Lusk, formerly
a resident of Cairo, and engaged in the lumber business here
with William Ryan,
died suddenly at his home in Stanly, Wis., a few days ago of
heart failure. He was 37 years of age.
The Cairo
Evening Citizen,
Wednesday, 1 May 1912:
T. C. Baxter, a
well-known liquor man, died at 12:30 last night at this
residence, 220 Seventh Street, after an illness of six
months with a complication of diseases. He only became
seriously ill Monday and rapidly declined.
He was 49 years of age and was born in Bethel Springs, Tenn.
He came to Cairo in 1907 from Jackson, Tenn., to engage in
the liquor business here. He was a member of the firm
of Kendrick &
Baxter and they
conducted a saloon on Ohio Street. Later this
connection was severed and Mr.
Baxter has been
in business for himself at Sixth and Ohio streets.
Besides his wife, he leaves one sister, Mrs. O. L.
Jennings, of
Maleseus, Tenn.; and two brothers, J. F.
Baxter, and C. F.
Baxter, of
Idabelle, Oklahoma.
He was a member of the Jackson Elks Lodge and of the Eagles.
He was also a member of the Methodist church and attended in
this city. The funeral will be held Thursday at
Jackson and the Elks will have charge. A delegation of
the local lodge will accompany the remains.
Arthur W. Danforth,
husband of Mrs. Lulu
Hacker Danforth
of this city, died Wednesday, May 1st, at his
home in Lowell, Mass. Mr.
Danforth had only been ill a short time and his death was
unexpected. He had been confined in a hospital in that
city only a few days when the end came.
He leaves, besides his wife, three children, Albert, Grace, and
Fred; a sister, Mrs. Mary
Fletcher, of
Lowell; and other relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Danforth
were married in China fourteen years ago, where the latter
was on a visit with her aunt, who was a missionary there.
Mr. Danforth spent twenty years in the East, being an engineer in charge
of various large cotton industries there. In that
capacity he was also in the employ of the U. S. government
there for some time.
He was 60 years of age and was a native of New England. Mrs.
Danforth left
today to attend the funeral.
(Albert Whitney Danforth
married Loulou Fayetta
Hacker on 5 Nov
1898, at Holy Trinity Cathedral in Shanghai, China.—Darrel
Dexter)
Amos Davis was born in
Makanda, Jackson County, on the 21st of December
1857. Died April 27th 1912, age 55 years, 4
months and 6 days. He was married to Mahala
Deason, of
Carbondale, December 26th 1876. To this
union five children were born, namely, Hattie (now Mrs.
Thomas McClellan),
Lena, Lon, Allie, and Marie, all of whom survive. He
had been afflicted with heart trouble for some time, but on
the day of his death worked all day, being section foreman,
ate a hearty supper and was in the best of spirits. He
came uptown for a shave, but found the shop full and did not
wait. On the way home he met his wife, who had started
uptown, and told her he would wait till morning to get
shaved. She came on to town and on returning found him
in great pain. A physician was called and all that
could be was done to allay his suffering, but he only lived
a few minutes after the physician arrived. He leaves a
wife, five children, three grandchildren and a host of
relatives and friends to mourn his loss. He united
with the First Baptist Church in Makanda when 15 years old
and continued a member of that church till death. The
remains were taken to Makanda on train No. 2 Monday and
interred in Makanda Cemetery.
Mrs. A. Davis and family
wish to extend their thanks to the many friends who so
willingly assisted them during their sad hours of need.
(Amos Davis married
Mahala O. Deason
on 26 Dec 1876, in Jackson Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
George C. Kinslow died
at his home on Union Street this morning after a several
months’ illness. He is survived by his wife and three
children, two girls and a boy. He was a former
employee of the Singer Manufacturing Company and the family
have lived here about seven years. The deceased was a
member of the Southern Methodist Church and of the Woodmen
of the World. The funeral arrangements have not been
made.
Kenneth, the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter H.
Wood, died at San
Diego, Cal., at 2 o'clock this morning. The little
fellow has had a fight for existence during his entire
fifteen months of life and his demise was not unexpected.
His twin brother died about six months ago. Mrs.
Wood went to
California a number of weeks ago in the hope that the
child's life might be prolonged and Mr.
Wood expected to
start this afternoon to join them when the dispatch came
advising him of the child's death.
Funeral services over the remains of George C.
Kinslow, of Union
Street, who died Friday, will be held Sunday afternoon at
Calvary Baptist Church and the remains will be taken to
Beech Grove Cemetery for interment. Pallbearers will
be O. B. Archibald,
C. O. Webster, F.
E. Fensterer, Harry Stout,
William D. Butts,
Otis McDaniels,
Joseph Kindred, H. M. Goldsmith,
J. L. Williams,
J. W. Hodge, C.
A. Petit, and J. M. Sutton.
The pallbearers are selected from his associates in the
Calvary Baptist Church, the Modern Brotherhood of America
and the Knights of Honor. E. A.
Burke will have
charge of the remains.
Kinslow—George
C. died Friday May 3, at 9 a.m.
Funeral services will be held at the Calvary Baptist Church, Sunday
at 1 o'clock p.m. and remains will be taken by special
funeral train leaving Fourteenth Street at 2:45 p.m. for
Beech Grove Cemetery.
Friends of the family are invited.
Harlan C. Boyd, of 3305
Elm Street, died at 6:30 this morning at St. Mary’s
Infirmary, after almost a year's illness of tuberculosis.
He was well known to uptown residents and worked in several
of the mills. He was a young man, 27 years of age.
He leaves three brothers, George, of this city; Lee, of
Caruthersville, Mo.; and King, of Ft. Wayne, Ind., formerly
of this city; and two sisters, Mrs.
Kabler, of Ft.
Wayne, Ind., and Miss Lucy
Boyd, of this
city. E.A.
Burke has charge of the remains and the funeral
arrangements will be announced later.
The remains of Kenneth Wood,
the infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Walter H.
Wood, were
interred at Villa Ridge cemetery this afternoon. Mr.
Wood met the body
at St. Louis and brought it down to Villa Ridge this
afternoon and a special train from Cairo leaving here at 12
o'clock took about forty friends up to attend the funeral
services at the grave.
(A marker in Cairo City Cemetery at Villa Ridge reads:
Emily W. Wood
Born Oct. 23, 1902 Died Dec. 8, 1902.
Walter W. Wood
Born Feb. 10, 1911 Died Oct. 29, 1911.
Kenneth H.
Wood Born Feb. 10, 1911 Died May 3, 1912.—Darrel
Dexter)
The following from the Mayfield, Ky.,
Messenger tells of the death of Mrs. C. H.
McNutt, sister of J. D. Ladd,
of this city.
Mrs. C. H. McNutt, wife
of Chief of Police
McNutt, died Monday night at the family home on North
Fifth Street, near Broadway. Mrs.
McNutt's death
came during the early morning hours and was unexpected,
having come while the family slept and with no warning,
though for some time past she has been in ill health with
heart trouble.
The funeral was held at the family residence Tuesday morning at ten
o'clock. Rev.
Castelberry, pastor of the Christian Church, of which
she was a member, conducted the service.
Mrs. McNutt before her
marriage on Sept. 22, 1868, was Miss
Ladd, her parents
being Esq. W. H. Ladd
and Sarah Elder
Ladd. She was born on January 27, 1851, at Grayville, Ill.,
but has been a resident of Mayfield the greater part of her
life.
Besides a husband, she leaves two children, Thomas L.
McNutt, and Mrs.
Andrew Gilbert,
both of this city. She also leaves a sister, Mrs.
Sallie Coles, at
the McNutt home,
and a brother, John
Ladd, agent for the Illinois Central at Cairo.
The funeral of the late Harlan C.
Boyd, who died Monday at St. Mary’s Infirmary after a lingering
illness of tuberculosis, was held this afternoon at the
residence, 3305 Elm Street, services being conducted by Rev.
H. M. Loar, of
the First Methodist Church. The remains were interred
at Beech Grove Cemetery, a special I. C. train leaving from
14th Street at 2:30 o'clock.
The pallbearers were: Michael
Egan, Will French, H.
Brackey, Tom
Gardiner, Will Sheehan,
Hunter Huff, John
Gerholdt, W. T.
McGee, and Reuben McCrite.
In a shooting that occurred about 6 o'clock Wednesday evening at
Fortieth and Sycamore streets, near the Big Four crossing,
Albert Lipe, a
negro, was almost instantly killed by another of his race
named John Mason.
A quarrel earlier in the day is said to have led to the
shooting.
Lipe
was on his way to the Drainage District where he is employed
by one of the concerns, and meeting
Mason near the Big Four crossing, some words were exchanged,
whereupon Mason
drew his gun and shot
Lipe four times in the back.
Mason disappeared
after the shooting and has not as yet been apprehended,
although the police of all nearby towns have been notified
to be on the lookout for the fugitive.
Lipe,
who was 20 years of age, was the son of Fred
Lipe and lived at
3013 Commercial Avenue. He was a nephew of Green
Lipe, a
well-known negro.
The coroner’s jury held an inquest this afternoon.
The coroner’s jury was composed of R. A.
Hatcher, foreman, and Ennis
Morgan, Sam Forse,
John Smith, and "Scoop" Hofheinz.
CORONER'S JURY
FIND NEGRO NOT JUSTIFIED IN ACT
The coroner’s jury, summoned Thursday afternoon to inquire into the
killing of Albert
Lipe by another negro named John
Mason, found from
the evidence given by about fifteen witnesses that
Mason was not
justifiable in the act and that he be apprehended and held
to a higher court until discharged by due process of law.
(His marker in Twente Crossing Cemetery reads:
Phebe Hibbert
Born Sept. 8, 1862 Died April 27, 1912.—Darrel
Dexter)
Vincennes, Ind., May 11.—Two persons were killed, one fatally
injured and six others hurt near here today when the Chicago
& Eastern Illinois railroad's Dixie Flyer, northbound,
sideswiped a freight engine on a siding. The dead are W. L.
Miller,
Vicksburg, Ind., and F. M.
Hyatt, Shelburn,
Ind.
George H. Wood, the
Mounds druggist, died at 1:15 this morning at St. Mary’s
Infirmary, where he was taken a few days ago for treatment.
An operation had been decided upon in the attempt to prolong his
life, but he grew worse so rapidly that he was not able to
undergo the ordeal.
The deceased is survived by his wife and by his mother, and two
brothers and sisters living in California.
Death was the result of an attack of appendicitis. Mr.
Wood was 42 years
of age.
No funeral arrangements have yet been made.
(His marker in Cairo City Cemetery at Villa Ridge reads:
Samuel E. Wilson Born Aug. 14, 1847 Died May 13, 1912.
Emma A. Wilson
Born July 15 1858 Died July 25, 1903.—Darrel
Dexter)
Charles W. Henderson,
one of Cairo's oldest and mostly highly respected citizens,
died Sunday afternoon about 12:30 o'clock at the family
residence, 1206 Washington Avenue, after a prolonged
illness. Mr.
Henderson was born in Vevay, Indiana, in 1832 and was 80
years of age.
He came to Cairo during the Civil War and in 1865 he married Miss
Anna Garrack, of
Vevay, Ind., who survives him. For over thirty-five years,
he has been engaged in the hardware business, and before he
removed to his late location at 612 Commercial Avenue, he
was located for many years at the corner of Twelfth and
Commercial.
Mr. Henderson was a
member of the Masonic Order and also of the Presbyterian
Church. The funeral was held this afternoon at the
residence at 4 o'clock, Rev. A. M.
Eells, pastor of
the Presbyterian Church, officiating. The remains will be
taken to Vevay this evening where the burial will take place
tomorrow. The Masons will take charge and two
representatives of that order, Rev.
Eells and Jacob Held,
will accompany the remains.
Mrs. Henderson will not
accompany the funeral party, having been quite ill for some
time. Her nieces, Mrs. G. W.
Smith, and Mrs.
M. G. Beasley, of
Chicago, will return the latter part of this week,
accompanied by Mrs. Henderson, who will make her home with Mrs.
Smith.
Tired of life, made miserable by being a cripple, Mel R.
English, 32 years
of age, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert
English,
committed suicide Sunday afternoon in his father's
store. Holding a mirror before him,
English placed a
32-calibre revolver to his forehead and fired, the bullet
piercing his brain and causing immediate death. The mirror
was clasped tightly in the left hand of the dead man when
found, his father rushing in from the rear of the store when
he heard the shot.
Before committing the fatal deed,
English left two letters explaining his reason, one to Dr. James
McManus and one
to his brother, John. The letter to Coroner
McManus directed
that his body be turned over to E. A.
Burke, the
undertaker, for burial and declared that he was tired of
life. The contents of the letter to his brother was not
made public.
English
had been a cripple for many years and often became
melancholy over his condition. For the past several weeks
he had been especially so, and this is the reason given for
the manner in which he took his own life.
He leaves, besides his parents, three brothers, John, Will and
Robert, of this city; and three sisters, Mrs. Minnie
Murphy, of Bertrand, Mo., Mr. Sue
Patrum, of Sardis, Miss., and Mrs. Laura
Oliver, of this city.
Funeral services will be held at the residence of his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Robert F.
English, No. 340 Twenty-second Street, tomorrow
afternoon, and the remains will be taken to Beech Grove
Cemetery for interment. E. A.
Burke will have charge of the funeral.
The pallbearers will be Bob
Davis, Mark
Penman, Joe Blyer,
Sid Marshall, Jeff Trent, and
Will French.
Does anyone know anything about Seth
Newcomb or any member of his family, who formerly lived in Cairo?
Attorney J. N. Phillips,
of Syracuse, N.Y., is making inquiry through
The Citizen.
He writes as follows:
Christopher Columbus Newcomb,
very old, recently died leaving no children, nor will.
At the time of his death, he owned some real estate. His brother,
Cyrus Newcomb, a
ship carpenter, was last heard from in 1838 and was then
living 20 miles north of Pensacola, Florida. It is not
known whether Cyrus left family.
Another brother, Orson
Newcomb, of Clement County, Ohio, died and left a son,
James, Grand View, Spencer County, Indiana.
Another brother, Moses W.
Newcomb, Onondaga County, New York, left four children,
Sarah, Wilton, Eliza, and Daniel.
Another brother, Seth C.
Newcomb, of Cairo, Ill., left Seth C. and Jessie May.
Perhaps the brothers named may have descendants now living. If so,
they should write, giving full family history so far as they
can, to Attorney J. H.
Phillips, 76
Wieting Block , Syracuse, N.Y.
(Seth Crowell Newcomb
was born 5 Jul 1810, in New York and died 2 Jan 1851, in
Cairo, Alexander Co., Ill.
He married Julia Ann
Whitman.
His son, Seth C.
Newcomb, was born about 1843 in New York and served in Co. B, 1st
New York Light Artillery during the Civil War.
He filed for a pension in Iowa in 1892 and died in
1904 in North Dakota.—Darrel
Dexter)
English—Died,
Malachi English, at residence of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert F.
English, 340
Twenty-second Street.
Funeral cortege will leave residence Tuesday, May 14, at 2 o'clock
p.m. Special funeral train will leave Fourteenth Street at
2:45 p.m. for Beech Grove Cemetery for interment friends of
the family are invited.
(John F. Ireland, 19, of
Santa Fe, Alexander Co., Ill., native of Santa Fe, Ill.,
5’6”, auburn hair, hazel eyes, fair complexion, farmer,
enlisted on 10 Aug 1861, at Cape Girardeau, Mo., as a
private in Co. A, 15th Illinois Cavalry, and was
mustered out Aug. 25, 1864, at Springfield, Ill.
John F.
Ireland married
Malinda A. Hurston
on 21 Sep 1878, in Alexander Co., Ill.
William B.
Anderson married Sarah E.
Ireland on 3 May
1865, in Alexander Co., Ill.
His marker in Hazlewood Cemetery near Elco reads:
J. F. Ireland
Died May 5, 1912 Aged 70 Ys., 2 Ms. & 20 Ds.—Darrel
Dexter)
Word has been received by relatives in this city of the death of
Will Gaffney, in
Chicago, which occurred at Mercy Hospital in that city,
Sunday evening.
Mr. Gaffney was a member
of a family of one of Cairo's oldest settlers. He spent the
early years of his life in this city, until the family moved
to Kansas City, Mo. From there he located in Chicago, where
he married and was a prominent politician and businessman of
that city.
Mr. Gaffney is a brother
of Miss Belle Gaffney,
the actress, and is also survived by another sister, Mrs.
Thomas Brock, of
Kansas City, Mo., both sisters attending him during his last
illness. His wife also died several weeks ago of typhoid
fever.
The funeral will be held Thursday morning in Kansas City, Mo., from
the residence of Mrs. Thomas
Brock.
(William B. Gaffney
married Ollie K.
Beckwith on 20 Apr 1885, in Cook Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Wilson—Died
Monday, May 13, at St. Louis, Mo., Samuel E.
Wilson, aged 65
years.
Funeral services will be at Villa Ridge cemetery. Special train
will leave Fourteenth Street Wednesday, May 15, at 2 o'clock
for Villa Ridge and will meet train from St. Louis, bringing
the remains for burial there.
Friends of the family are invited to attend the burial.
The remains of Samuel E.
Wilson, son of the late Samuel
Wilson, one of
Cairo's pioneer residents, who died in St. Louis Monday,
will be brought down to Villa Ridge cemetery for interment
tomorrow afternoon. A special train will take friends from
Cairo to the funeral, notice of the time being given
elsewhere today.
Mr. Wilson was born in
Smithland, Ky., on August 14, 1847. He came to Cairo with
his parents in 1854 and was for many years engaged in the
general commission business on the Ohio levee. In 1884 he
removed to St. Louis and since that time has held a
responsible position with the
St. Louis Globe Democrat.
Two sisters, Mrs. Clara E.
Kyle and Mrs. Lucie D.
Milburn, of
Cairo, survive him.
Mr. Wilson's son,
Charles, will accompany the remains from St. Louis.
(Charles R. Kyle married
Clara Wilson on 1
Apr 1873, in Alexander Co., Ill.
Henry H.
Milburn married Lucy D.
Wilson on 5 Jun
1879, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
At the meeting of the city council last night, $250 was
appropriated with which to employ special counsel to defend
Officer Gus Johnson,
colored, who is charged with manslaughter.
Johnson,
while in the act of arresting a young negro by the name of
Napoleon Lipe,
several months ago, shot the negro when the latter made an
attempt to resist arrest. The officer was exonerated by the
coroner's jury, when the evidence showed that
Lipe was armed
and is said to have threatened
Johnson. At the
last term of circuit court,
Johnson was
indicted by the grand jury on the charge of
manslaughter. The boy's father, Green
Lipe, and several
others being influential in securing the indictment.
When the officer was called into court yesterday, he was
reprimanded by Judge
Butler for not being ready for trial. The judge gave
the officer twenty-four hours in which to secure legal
talent.
The city council believed that inasmuch as
Johnson was in the act of discharging his duties and owing to the
fact that he had been exonerated by the coroner’s jury, that
the council should take such steps as would be necessary to
provide the officer with competent legal talent in order
that he might have a fair and impartial trial.
A resolution was therefore presented by Alderman
Neff,
recommending that the council appropriate $250 with which to
employ counsel to defend
Johnson and thus go on record as standing behind the officers in the
discharge of their duties.
Attorney M. J. O'Shea
had consented to take the case for this amount and the
resolution was so worded that Mr.
O'Shea should be
paid $250 provided he had not already been appointed by the
court to defend
Johnson. In case that Mr.
O'Shea had been
appointed by the court to defend the officer, the city
council would only allow him $100.
Alderman Saup thought
that $250 was an exorbitant amount to pay for special
counsel, when the city had two attorneys, and the question
was raised whether or not City Attorney
Bird or Special
Attorney Leek
(who receives $200 per) could not defend
Johnson in this
case.
It was not stated that the city attorney could not defend the case
and that Special Attorney
Leek had received
a retainer’s fee from the "other side" but had refused to
participate either way.
The resolution as offered by Alderman
Neff was therefore adopted by the council.
Charleston, Ill., May 14.—The trial of Dr. Granville M.
Walker, 74 years
old, charged with the murder of Miss Aylea
Burch, of
Ashmore, by a criminal operation, was begun here in the
circuit court before Judge
Kimbrough, of
Danville.
Dr. Walker was indicted
jointly with Wesley
Dallas, whom she charged in a dying statement with being
responsible for her ruin. Dallas
departed immediately after the girl's death on April 25, and
all efforts to find him have been in vain.
Because train connection was missed, the remains of William C.
Wise, who died at
Asheville, N.C., Monday, did not arrive this afternoon, but
will reach here tonight at 1:45 and funeral services which
were to be held tonight at the Elm Street church will be
held at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning at the home of his niece,
Mrs. E. E. Harrell,
No. 625 Thirty-sixth Street.
Rev. Mr. Kennedy will
conduct the funeral and the remains will be taken at 11:15
tomorrow forenoon to Anna for burial. E. A.
Burke will have
charge of the remains.
The deceased was 54 years of age, and resided in Cairo for several
years. He was employed at the Singer factory. He was a
member of the Southern Methodist Church and also of the Odd
Fellows Lodge at Anna. He is survived by his wife and three
daughters, Hazel, Pansy, and Hallie, and one son,
Elmer. Five sisters are also left, one of whom, Mrs. James
Stewart, lives in
Cairo.
Mr. Wise was the victim
of tuberculosis and went to Asheville two weeks ago.
(William C. Wise, 32, a
school teacher, born in Illinois, son of William J.
Wise and Miss Thomas,
married Emma
Penninger, 23, born in Union County, daughter of G. W.
Penninger and
Miss Cook, on 21
Dec 1890, in Union Co., Ill.
W. J. P. Wise
married L. F. Thomas on 7 Oct 1849, in Johnson Co., Ill.
George W. Penninger married Lutisha
Cook on 26 Jul 1855, in Union Co., Ill.
James Stewart,
28, born in Howard Co., Ind., son of H. W.
Stewart and Jane
Pollic, married Sarah A. Wise,
25, born in Linn Co., Iowa, daughter of William Joseph
Wise and Louisa Thomas,
on 16 Mar 1880, in Union Co., Ill.
His marker in Anna City Cemetery reads:
William C. Wise Born Dec. 13, 1857 Died May 20, 1912.—Darrel
Dexter)
In the circuit court this morning, Judge
Butler set the trial of Police Officer Gus
Johnson, indicted for manslaughter, for next Monday morning, May
20. Up until today,
Johnson had secured no counsel, but this morning he
secured M. J. O'Shea to defend him and the attorney asked that he be given until
next Monday to prepare the defense.
Resolved: That we as fellow members with him in Mill Creek Camp
No. 5446 M. W. of A., do adopt this means of expressing our
feeling of sadness and loss caused by his departure.
Resolved: That we realize that God is just and doeth all things
well, we desire therefore to humbly bow to his ruling and
submit to his will. We extend our sympathy to the bereaved
ones and commend the interest of this our brother to him who
is able to keep them to the end.
Be it resolved: That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the
relatives and that it be spread upon the minutes of the
camp.
(Jacob Levi Holshouser’s
marker in St. John’s Cemetery near Mill Creek reads:
J. L.
Holshouser Born Dec 22 1869, Died May 5, 1912—Darrel
Dexter)
Word was received today of the death of Moses
Foss, which occurred in Chito, California, Thursday night. The
deceased was one of the old residents of Cairo, having left
here about twenty-four years ago for Chito, where he made
his home with his son, Walter. He was 83 years old at the
time of his death and has been ailing for some time. He
leaves surviving him five children, Mrs. Charles
Bethel, and Mrs.
F. D. Kelley, of
Cairo, Mrs. Louis
Lohr, of Dudley, Ariz., Mrs.
McEwen, of Mound
City and Frank Foss,
of Wickliffe.
(Louis H. Lohr married
Henrietta Foss on
12 Sep 1882, in Alexander Co., Ill.
J. L. McCuen
married Anna Foss
on 15 Jun 1882, in Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
(A marker in Ohio Chapel Cemetery at Grand Chain reads:
Truman Metcalf
Born March 5, 1912 Died May 16, 1912.—Darrel
Dexter)
James, the six-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Meehan, of 3015
Park Avenue, died about 10:30 last evening, of locked
bowels, having taken seriously ill Wednesday. The funeral
will be held Sunday. Mrs. M. E.
Feith has charge
of the remains.
One of the largest funeral congregations ever seen in Mounds was
that which met yesterday morning to show their respect for
George H. Wood, a
man who had proven himself to be worthy of any and every
honor his fellow citizens had bestowed upon him and who had
been called suddenly from their midst when on the threshold
of another term of valuable service to the city in which he
had made his home. He was born in Mound Valley, Kan.,
October 1st, 1870, and died at St. Mary's
Infirmary, Cairo, Ill., May 11th, 1912, aged 41
years, 7 months and 10 days. His widow, mother, two sisters
and four brothers survive him. About 22 years ago he came
to Illinois and about 6 years later he moved to Mounds and
took possession of the only drug store in the town at that
time, and by close attention to business and honorable and
courteous treatment to his customers, he built up one of the
largest and most lucrative drug stores in this part of the
state. He was a progressive citizen, a manly man and a
friend to be depended upon.
Funeral services were held in St. Raphael's Church on Friday
morning at 9 o'clock and the building was not large enough
to hold more than one half of the friends who were present
to show their respect for the deceased, as well as their
sympathy for the widow and other members of the bereaved
family. After the services in the church, the long
procession in which was seen Mayor
Fletcher and
members of the city council, the officers of Mounds State
Bank, Rev. B. A. Hoar
and Rev. J. H.
Runalls, the two resident pastors of the town, Doctors
Boswell,
Faris and
Andrew, the Knights of Columbus, of which he was a member, and
representatives of nearly every business in town, besides a
larger number of other citizens of Mounds and Pulaski and
Alexander counties.
The interment took place in St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery just north
of the city. The floral offerings were magnificent, some of
them being the finest specimens of the florists’ skill and
taste in color effect and arrangement. The tradesmen of
Mounds presented the mortar of pink rose buds with the
pestle of white buds, a fitting emblem of his profession,
and the Mounds Bank presented another beautiful set piece.
The crosses and wreathes and other emblems were exquisite in their
makeup and a quiet evidence of the great respect in which
the departed one was held by all classes and conditions of
people in our city, and truly it can be said that when they
buried him our city had seldom seen a costlier funeral.
(His marker in St. Mary’s Catholic Cemetery at Mounds reads:
George H. Wood 1869-1912.—Darrel Dexter)
James H. Tucker, aged 51
years, died Saturday afternoon at his home, No. 209
Thirty-fourth Street, of apoplexy, after a short
illness. He was an employee of the Rhodes-Burford Furniture
Company.
He leaves a wife and several children, the eldest, Elisha B.
Tucker and a
daughter, Miss Alice
Tucker. The
funeral was held this morning at the residence, conducted by
Rev. Fr. A. DeRossett,
of the Episcopal Church and the funeral party went to the
cemetery at Beech Grove on the 11:15 Illinois Central train,
where interment was made.
The Gus Johnson case
came up for trial in the circuit court this morning and the
work of selecting a jury was begun. Out of the eight
talismen examined this morning, none were chosen.
The case is arousing much interest and a large crowd was present in
the court room all day.
Johnson
is the negro police officer, who several months ago shot and
killed Napoleon Lipe,
son of Green Lipe,
when he resisted arrest. Johnson
was exonerated by a coroner’s jury, but was held for the
killing by the grand jury of a previous term of court,
through the efforts of the dead man's father.
State’s Attorney
Alexander Wilson
is being assisted in the prosecution by Attorney Reed
Green and
Attorney M. J. O'Shea
is defending Johnson.
The case is proceeding very slowly. This afternoon twenty-four
talismen had been examined without a single one being
selected as a juror by either the defense or the
prosecution. That a hard fight will be made by both sides
is quite evident.
The case was originally set for last week, but
Johnson had
obtained no attorney. At a meeting of the city council, in
the meantime, that body appropriated $250 for the defense of
Johnson and
Attorney M. J. O'Shea
took charge of the case in
Johnson's
behalf. The council took such action because it was deemed
that inasmuch as
Johnson was in the discharge of his duties when the
shooting took place, and as he was exonerated by the
coroner’s jury, the city should go on record as standing
behind the police department in such cases.
Saturday afternoon, Charles
Rice, a negro attorney, of Mound City, filed an
injunction for Green
Lipe against the mayor and city council to prohibit the
payment of the $250 to M. J.
O'Shea or any other attorney in the defense of
Johnson on the grounds that that body had no legal right for such
action. Judge
Butler has set the hearing for Wednesday.
We wish to express our sincere thanks to our many friends and
relatives who so kindly assisted us during the illness and
death of our son and brother, James, and for the many
beautiful floral tokens.
Chief of Police Egan
received a message this morning from the chief of detectives
of Chicago saying that they had arrested and are holding a
negro named Carroll Johnson, wanted here for murder. Johnson is the negro who engaged in a quarrel in John
Darrah's barber
shop on lower Commercial Avenue with another negro over a
crap game and who drew his gun and fired at his partner
during the game. Eli
Bobo, another negro, who was in the place at the time, was hit by
the several bullets, was fatally wounded and died at St.
Mary’s Infirmary the next day.
The coroner’s jury recommended that Carroll be apprehended and held
for the killing and since that time Chief
Egan has been using every effort to locate the shootist.
Chief
Egan will send
after Johnson
immediately.
LaRose, Ill., May 20—Margaret
Kamp, 16, died
near here early today from burns received in an explosion of
the gasoline lighting plant in the
Kamp home. The
girl's father and John
Tontz were badly burned extinguishing flames, which resulted from
the explosion. The house was badly damaged.
FUNERAL OF LATE W. H. STROUSE
WAS HELD TODAY
The funeral of
the late W. H.
Strouse, who died at Willard Sunday morning was held
today, the remains being brought from that place
via the Iron
Mountain and taken to Villa Ridge on the Illinois Central
regular train at 2:35, where interment was made. He
leaves a wife and two children and a sister. He was a
son-in-law of Peter
Hoover and was well known in Cairo, having been a
resident of the Drainage District for many years.
Dr. E. S.
Dickerson left this morning for Hamilton, Ohio, where he was called
by the expected death of his father, Rev. John
Dickerson. Rev.
Dickerson will be remembered by a number of the colored
people having visited here several times.
(Alexander
Jordan married Mary Angeline
Gossett on 27 Sep 1867, in Alexander Co., Ill.
Her marker in Sims Cemetery near Elco reads:
Mary A. Wife of Alexander
Jordan Died May
5, 1912 Aged 58 Yrs., 7 Mos., & 27 Dys.—Darrel
Dexter)
The four
remaining jurors in the Gus
Johnson trial
were secured Tuesday afternoon and the trial opened with the
opening statements of the attorneys of both sides. The
jurors secured yesterday were George
Gilbert, Guy Carter,
William Herrin
and John Oberts,
all from Thebes.
This morning the
examination of witnesses was started and Drs. Samuel
Dodds and James
McManus, were the
first called. They told of being called in attendance
upon Napoleon Lipe,
the man who was shot by
Johnson, and Dr.
Dodds took down on paper a statement made by the dying man, telling
facts regarding the shooting. This was read to the
jury.
James
Patterson,
probably the most important of any witness who will be
called, told of Lipe
forcing him to accompany him down Commercial Avenue, the
morning of the shooting and told of the meeting of the
police officers
Johnson and
Griffin at Twenty-seventh and Commercial, in front of a
saloon there. Johnson stepped up to speak to
Lipe, who
immediately used an oath and drew back, trying to fire his
Winchester rifle at the officer, but the weapon refused to
work. Patterson said he remonstrated with
Lipe not to have any trouble, and after a struggle in which the
officers gave aid, he succeeded in wresting the gun from
Lipe.
Witness said
Lipe then ran up Commercial with the officers in pursuit, shouting
"halt" to the fugitive. In the chase,
Johnson drew his gun and fired at
Lipe and later they succeeded in catching
Lipe and taking him into custody. Several other witnesses
testified among them, Green
Lipe, father of
the dead man.
The following is
the jury: Dennis
O'Callahan, Max
Kaufman, N. J. Casey, F.
M. Baker and Gus
Muthig, all of
Cairo, and Charles
Simpkins, C. C. Penefield, James Sowders,
George Gilbert,
Guy Cartner,
William Herrin and John Oberts,
all of Thebes.
It is expected
that the case will not be completed until tomorrow morning,
at which time it will go to the jury.
The injunction
against the City of Cairo, which was filed Saturday at the
instance of Green Lipe, to restrain the city from employing an attorney to defend
Johnson, has been
reset for tomorrow.
Havana, Ill., May
22.—William Brown,
22, a telegraph operator, shot and killed his sweetheart,
Jennie Kelly, 17,
when he met her on the street here today, and then killed
himself with the same revolver. The shooting was the
result of a quarrel over the attentions of other suitors to
the young woman.
The body of a
young negro named Andrew
Gray was found
this morning in a clump of bushes in the water just north of
the Traction Company's powerhouse on upper Sycamore Street.
A negro, who was fishing for crawfish near the spot, noticed
the body and Coroner
McManus was summoned and held an inquest.
Gray
was last seen Saturday night. It is supposed that in
returning to his home on Fortieth Street that night, on
account of the darkness, he fell into the water and because
of the deep mud was mired and drowned before he could
extricate himself.
The coroner's
jury examined the body, but could find no bruises or marks
to indicate foul play, so a verdict of accidental drowning
was returned.
Gray was employed by several of the uptown factories
recently and is survived by relatives.
Chris
Burkhardt, a
brother of Phillip
Burkhardt, of 531 Fifteenth Street, this city, died
early this morning at his home in Red Bud, Ill., following a
surgical operation in St. Louis. The deceased leaves a
wife and five children, two girls and three boys, besides a
sister in Germany. Mr.
Burkhardt has
been at the bedside of his brother for several days and his
family went up to Redbud this afternoon to attend the
funeral, which will probably be held Thursday.
(This may be the
same person as Philip
Burkhardt, who married Mary
Koch on 22 Nov
1887, in Monroe Co., Ill., or Philip
Burkhart, who
married Mary Mikkin
on 26 Mar 1895, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
After
deliberating on their verdict for 45 minutes, the jury at
3:45 this afternoon returned their verdict finding Police
Officer Gus Johnson
not guilty of the murder of Napoleon
Lipe.
The Gus
Johnson case went to the jury at 3 o'clock this afternoon.
The testimony of
the witnesses was completed this morning, when
Johnson took the
stand.
Prosecuting
Attorney Wilson opened for the State, followed by Attorney
O'Shea, for the
defense. This afternoon, Attorney Reed
Green made the
closing speech for the prosecution, after which the court
read his instructions to the jury.
Gus
Johnson took the
stand in his own defense about 10:15 this morning and stood
examination about a half hour. During the time, he
recited the incidents leading up to the shooting of Napoleon
Lipe. He
said Officer Griffin
and himself were called to
Arey's saloon at
Twenty-ninth and Poplar about 4 o'clock in the morning,
where Lipe had
previously made a disturbance, running everyone away from
the place at the point of his Winchester rifle.
Lipe
was not to be found when the officers arrived and they
proceeded down Poplar to Twenty-seventh Street, and thence
to Commercial, where they came upon
Lipe and his
companion, James
Patterson. Johnson
started to speak to
Lipe, whereupon the young negro called the officer a
vile name, backed up, raised the rifle to his shoulder and
tried to fire the weapon.
When the weapon
failed to discharge,
Patterson, with the aid of the officers, scuffled with
Lipe, and after
they secured possession of the rifle,
Lipe broke and
ran up Commercial, followed by the officers.
Johnson said that
the ordered Lipe
to "halt" several times and fired one shot. The
officer said that when
Lipe reached the southwest corner of Twenty-eighth Street, he turned
and made a motion as if to draw a weapon from his inside
pocket. Johnson,
believing the man was intent upon shooting him, said that he
(Johnson) fired
three more shots.
Later, Officer
Griffin overtook Lipe and
the patrol wagon was called and the fugitive taken to police
headquarters.
Lipe was placed in one of the holdover cells.
Several previous witnesses said that when the officer
arrested the man at Twenty-ninth Street, he claimed to be
shot and told the officers of his suffering.
Johnson said the
only intimation that the man gave of suffering was that he
complained of having the cramps.
He said that
after Lipe was locked up at the jail that he went to his home and did not
know that Lipe
was taken to the hospital or that he was dead until notified
by the coroner to appear at the inquest.
The strength of
the prosecution centered about the law covering manslaughter
cases. Attorneys
Wilson and Green did not
attempt to show that it was a willful deed on the part of
Officer Johnson
in killing Lipe, but rather that he did it unlawfully. Attorney
Wilson said in
the closing statements that
Johnson was
unfortunate, that he was not guilty of a deliberate taking
of life, but the statute concerning manslaughter cases
demanded that a man be punished for such an offense and that
Johnson was
guilty in that respect according to the penalty as so
indicated.
The defense tried
to show that Lipe
had attempted to kill
Johnson when the officer started to arrest him for
flourishing a deadly weapon and that
Lipe had a reputation as a bad negro. Attorney
O'Shea told of
Johnson’s exoneration by the coroner’s jury after similar evidence
as introduced at the present trial by the same witnesses.
He also told of
Johnson's good record as a citizen and policeman and in
the discharge of his duties as an officer he had used his
gun to effect the capture of
Lipe, who
attempted to escape after committing an unlawful offense.
He asked the jurors to place themselves in
Johnson’s place
as an officer of the law and consider the trying
circumstances and jeopardy of life that such an official
must undergo in handling such characters.
Attorney
Green laid stress upon the fact that
Lipe had been persecuted by the officers after his arrest, was not
given the proper treatments and that the officers knew
according to the attorney that
Lipe had been
shot and was in need of surgical attention, which was not
given him as soon as necessary.
Wenona, Ill., May
24—William
Worthington, 36, a wealthy land owner living near
Pontiac, committed suicide today by hanging himself on his
farm here. His mind had been unbalanced.
Tom
Smith, a white
man, who was taken to the county jail last night and
believed to be insane, died during the night in one of the
cells and was found this morning. Coroner
McManus summoned
a jury and it was found that the man's death was caused from
natural causes.
Smith was a middle-aged man and had been employed at
Baxter’s saloon
on the corner of Sixth and Ohio streets as porter. He
had been acting strangely for several days and yesterday was
taken into custody and was to have been examined today
relative to his sanity.
(Levi A.
Dillow married Lavina Poole
on 21 Mar 1862, in Union Co., Ill.
Alfred Jefferson
Lingle, son of
Alfred Lingle and
Eliza Poole, married Clara Belle Miller
on 12 Apr 1888, in Union Co., Ill.
A marker in St. John’s Cemetery near Mill Creek
reads: Levi A.
Dillow Born Oct.
11, 1843 Died July 20, 1894.
Lavina N.
Dillow His Wife Born Dec. 3, 1849 Died March 20,
1912.—Darrel Dexter)
This morning
about 11 o'clock, John
Cooper, a young
negro, about 21 years of age, while trying to board a fastly
moving southbound Illinois Central freight train on the
bridge approach was thrown beneath the wheels and met death
in a horrible manner.
Several witnesses
testified at the inquest held by Coroner
McManus after the
accident to the effect that they had seen
Cooper on the
approach as the train was coming up and he stated to them
that he was going to board it and make his way to his home
in Jackson, Miss.
They proceeded
down the track and not seeing
Cooper on the
train as it passed, went back to look for him.
The sight that
greeted them was indeed a gruesome one. Bits of the
negro's body were found strewn along the track for quite a
distance. His head was found in one place, in another was an
arm and several fingers and in still another were the man's
legs.
The various parts
of the form were picked up and put in a large clothes basket
and later placed in a casket and turned over to Mrs. L. C.
Falconer,
undertaker, for immediate burial.
He had only been
in Cairo for a few days and had been employed by the Upham &
Agler Lumber Company.
Charles
White, a middle-aged negro, for many years employed at
Smith Brothers
saloon at Thirteenth and Poplar streets as porter and a
familiar character, was found dead at his home No. 231
Thirtieth Street this morning. Coroner
McManus summoned a jury and found that death was due to natural
causes. Smith's
wife died about a year ago under similar circumstances.
Judge
Browning, of
Charleston, was notified and went to the scene of the
accident and held an inquest. The jury returned a
verdict of accidental death.
Yates was in the
employ of the railroad company, was about 35 years of age
and leaves a wife and one son. (Charleston, Mo.)
The body of a man
whose name could not be learned today, was recovered from
Cache River near Mounds at 10 o'clock this morning when the
explosion of charges of dynamite brought it to the surface.
(The 1 Jun 1912,
issue identified the man as Nelson
Clapp.—Darrel
Dexter)
After four months
since the time he was drowned, the body of Henry
Decker, who fell
off the Halliday-Phillips
wharf boat last January, was found Monday, at Belmont, Mo.,
just opposite Columbus, Ky. The body was found in a
cornfield and had probably floated there during the high
water, where it was left when the water receded. It
was very badly decomposed.
Decker's
family was notified of the finding by a farmer, who was in
the city Wednesday, and in a conversation with John R.
Ford, related the
finding of a floater last Monday. He stated that they
had started plowing the land and, in passing over the ground
that had been overflowed, they dug up the remains.
Misses Alice and
Ora Decker, sisters of the deceased, went to Belmont early this morning
and in a telephone message stated that the body was badly
decomposed and the only means of identification was certain
marks in the clothing, parts of which were still intact on
the body.
The remains,
which had been buried at Belmont, were taken up and brought
to Cairo this afternoon on the M. & O. train.
The fact that the
weather was very cold at the time
Decker was
drowned is probably the reason his remains were not more
badly decomposed.
The last seen of
Decker was on the night of Saturday, January 27th.
Capt. Hank Clark
was one of the last persons to see
Decker and was
with him during the early part of the evening.
Decker was last seen sitting on the edge of the wharf boat smoking
his pipe.
Later, the negro
watchman heard someone calling and going out to where he had
seen Decker sitting, he found
Decker's cap and pipe, but no trace of
Decker could be
found.
Several days of
search failed to find the missing man and he was given up as
drowned. The river was dragged, but without success.
The river was
full of floating ice at the time and tougher with the swift
current; his body was probably caught and carried
downstream.
A filled tooth
and one that had been missing from his lower jaw were also
means of identification.
The funeral of
the late Henry Decker,
who was drowned last January and whose body was found last
Monday at Belmont, Mo., was held this morning, Rev. C.
Robert Dunlap, of
the Lutheran Church, holding services at the grave in the
cemetery at Villa Ridge.
The funeral party went up on the Illinois Central
train at 5:15 this morning and came back on No. 21 at 10:30.
The pallbearers
were John Haggerty,
James Gilmore, Dr. Clancy, Ed
Mahoney, Joseph
Steger, and Capt. Harry Clark.
William
Weisker, a German merchant of Mound City, ended his life about 6
o'clock this morning by swallowing the tops of matches.
No reason is given for his rash act.
Weisker,
who runs a grocery and meat market in the upper part of
Mound City, leaves a widow, and two sons and three
daughters, the children being all grown. He was an old
resident of Mound City.
This morning
about 10 o'clock, as an old land owner by the name of Henry
Will, of
Porterville, Ind., was standing under the porch roof of
Bandy's saloon, on the corner of Oak and First streets, the whole
roof collapsed and fell on Mr.
Will, crushing
his skull and killing him instantly. A little girl had
just passed from under the dangerous structure. The
deceased owned 740 acres of land south of Mounds on which
the crops were destroyed by the high water and two of his
tenants had quit their farms, and it was for the purpose of
renting the land that he was there from Indiana. The
coroner was immediately notified of his death.
(The 4 Jun 1912,
issue reported his name as James
Willis.—Darrel
Dexter)
Judge I. N.
Taylor, acting as coroner last Wednesday, inquired into the cause of
the death of Nelson
Clapp, of Brocton, a man weighing about 180 pounds.
It was known that the man came to Mounds in search of work
with the Illinois Central here and a letter of
recommendation found in his pocket led to his
identification. Further evidence of his identity was a
tattoo mark on his arm. He is reported to have
inquired last Sunday at the Y. M. C. A. for a swimming hole
and was told of the Cache and warned of its danger.
The marks where he went into the water were seen as a search
for the body was begun at once and continued until Wednesday
morning, when it was found with the face and chest exposed
to the air. It was evidence that he was taken with
cramps after entering the water, thus causing his death. The
jury returned a verdict to the effect that he was accidently
drowned while in bathing. The body was turned over to
Will Montgomery,
the Mounds undertaker, who prepared and shipped it to his
former home, Brockton, Ill.
(The 1 Jun 1912,
issue reported his name as Henry
Will.—Darrel
Dexter)
Edinburg, Ill.,
June 6.—Levi Harrod
died today from injuries received when his automobile
skidded over an embankment.
Harrod lost control of the machine when a neighbor's dog ran in
front of the car and he attempted to save the animal's life.
Evansville, Ind.,
June 6.—Capt. John H.
Moore, 75, appointed United States inspector of
steamboats by President
Cleveland, and
who served until a year ago, died here yesterday.
(Her marker in
Rose Hill Cemetery near Pulaski reads:
Julia wife of E.
Oakley Died June
1, 1912 Aged 60 Yrs., 1 Mo. & 1 Day.—Darrel
Dexter)
(The surname is
Shanklin. George
Shanklin married
Mary Mageline Taylor
on 9 Feb 1893, in Johnson Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
(John W.
Hileman married Rachel S.
Reed on 3 Nov 1867, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
John W.
Hileman, 34, born in Union Co., Ill., son of John
Hileman and
Polley Sowers,
married Martha E.
Heater, 20, born in Alexander Co., Ill., daughter of
John Heater and
Syntha Morris, on
9 Feb 1888, in Mill Creek, Union Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The remains of
Mrs. J. H. Norton,
who passed away in Oklahoma, will arrive from Oklahoma City
this evening over the Illinois Central and will be taken to
Beech Grove Cemetery for burial at 10 o'clock Sunday
morning. An interurban car will leave the station at 9
a.m. to take friends to the cemetery.
Mrs.
Norton was the
widow of the late A. O.
Phelps, for many
years a prominent photographer of Cairo and left Cairo ten
years ago.
Her son, A. O.
Phelps, Jr., still resides here.
Norton—Died
in Oklahoma City, Mrs. J. H.
Norton.
Funeral services
will be held at Beech Grove Cemetery at 10 o'clock Sunday
morning, June 9. Special interurban car will leave
interurban station at 9 a.m. for Beech Grove. Friends
of the family are invited.
Mrs. Frank
Lemay, formerly Miss Carrie
Ervin, of Mound City, died at Hamilton, Ohio, last
Friday night, according to word received in Mound City
today. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Will
Ervin, her father
having been connected with the old pump factory. They
left Mound City about 15 years ago. Besides her
husband and parents, she leaves two brothers. She was
31 years of age.
Lloyd C.
Turner, a former resident of Cairo, and the eldest son of J. S.
Turner, formerly
of Cairo, died Saturday evening at his home in Waldron,
Ill., after an illness of several months. He was a brother
of Mrs. Jean M. Allen,
of Fulton, N.Y., formerly Miss Bessie
Turner, of this
city. Mrs. E. E.
Ellis, of this
city, another sister, left Sunday for Chicago to attend the
funeral.
(Eugene E.
Ellis married Minnie Maud
Turner on 10 Aug 1898, in Cook Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Lafayette
Deal, wife of William Deal,
of Mound City, and a sister of Mrs. D. D.
Harris, died at
midnight Saturday night and the funeral will be held
tomorrow with Rev. Mr.
Ferrell
officiating. The burial will be at Beech Grove
Cemetery.
The deceased
leaves her husband and a daughter.
Lafayette
Collins, aged 73 years, passed away at his home in Mound City
Saturday morning.
Services were
held at the residence this afternoon and the remains were
buried in the National Cemetery, Rev. Joseph
Buey, pastor of
the Congregational Church, officiating.
Mr.
Collins leaves a
widow and one son.
(Lafayette
Collins died 7 Jun 1912, and was buried in Mound City National
Cemetery in Section E grave 3694J.—Darrel
Dexter)
Whereas, the all
wise Father has seen fit to call our beloved sister from
earth to heaven,
Resolved, that we
the members of the Ladies Aid express to the family our
deepest sympathy in their sad bereavement and to all those
who mourn her loss
Resolved, that we
express our sympathy to the Ladies Aid as we have lost one
of our most useful workers
Resolved, that a
copy of these resolutions be put on record, one given to the
family and one sent to the
Cairo Citizen to
be printed.
(Her marker in
Baumgard Cemetery reads:
Effie M. Ryal Born April 3, 1880 Died May 19, 1912.
Come Ye Blessed.—Darrel
Dexter)
Miss Grace
Hills, daughter of Mr. W. J.
Hills, of Paducah, died at her home Monday morning of
acute gastritis. Miss
Hills was one of
the most popular young women in Paducah society and is well
known in Cairo. She visited this city last week, being
in the party that came down from Paducah on the
Rapids.
Capt. C. H.
Brackett dropped dead last evening about 6 o'clock in front of his
office at Twenty-second and Commercial front of stroke of
apoplexy. The deceased was 80 years old.
Capt.
Brackett had just
left his office and was in the act of getting into his buggy
to drive home when he noticed something the matter with the
vehicle and attempted to fix it. As he did so, he fell
forward and died a few minutes later.
His body was
taken to the undertaking parlors of E. A.
Burke, where an
inquest was held. The jury found that he had come to
his death from causes stated above.
The deceased was
born in New Orleans in 1832. He came to this city
about twenty years ago and engaged in the hotel business.
Later he engaged in the real estate business, having
accumulated considerable property.
He is survived by
his wife, Mrs. Kitty
Brackett, who conducted the millinery store in the Opera
House block.
The funeral
arrangements have not yet been completed.
(They were
half-sisters, having the same mother, but different fathers.
Franklin
Costly married Catharine
Davault on 28 Nov
1841, in Union Co., Ill.
Frederic Albright married Mrs. Catharine
Costly on 11 Sep 1851, in Union Co., Ill.
William Junius
Mowery married Mary C. Costly
on 22 Nov 1866, in Union Co., Ill.
Michael Pickel,
26, married Melinda
Albright, 21, on 3 Oct 1876, in Union Co., Ill.
A marker in St. John’s Cemetery near Mill Creek
reads: Michael
Pickle Born May
1, 1850 Died Oct 9, 1899.
Mary J. Pickle
Born Nov 10, 1879 Died April 5, 1889.
Frederick Pickle Born Aug. 1, 1890 Died April 6, 1910.
Malinda Pickle
Born Jan 15, 1856 Died June 8, 1912.
Joseph D.
Pickle Born Jan. 31, 1881 Died Feb. 20, 1899.—Darrel
Dexter)
(Peter N.
Brimmer married Mary C.
Penrod on 15 Jun 1876, in Jackson Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Helen
Rothenberger, wife of H. R.
Rothenberger, formerly of this city, died at her home in
Portland, Ore., Thursday afternoon, according to a message
received by friends in this city. The
Rothenberger
family were well-known uptown residents. Mrs.
Rothenberger
having conducted a shoe store at the corner of Twenty-eighth
and Commercial for many years. The family removed to
the Pacific Coast only several months ago.
Died—Capt.
C. H. Brackett, age 80 years.
Funeral cortege
will leave E. A.
Burke's undertaking parlors at 8:45 a.m. Funeral
services will be conducted by Rev.
DeRossett at the Church of the Redeemer at 9 a.m. Saturday, June 15th.
Ascalon Lodge No. 51 K. of P. will hold services at the
grave.
Special train
will leave Fourteenth Street at 9:45 a.m. Interment at
Villa Ridge cemetery, friends of family invited.
(His marker in
Cairo City Cemetery at Villa Ridge reads:
C. H. Brackett
1835-1912.—Darrel
Dexter)
The funeral of
the late Capt. C. H.
Brackett, who died Wednesday evening from a stroke of
apoplexy, was held this morning, the services being
conducted at the Church of the Redeemer by Rev. Fr. A.
DeRosset. The church choir sang several anthems, the favorites
of the deceased.
Ascalon Lodge
Knights of Pythias, of which the deceased was a member,
attended the funeral in a body and conducted the services at
the grave. Interment was at Villa Ridge.
The following
were pallbearers: James
Galligan, W. A.
McKnight, Frank
E. Davis, Dr. Morris, C. C.
Terrell, R. E.
Wiley, C. S. Bourque, E.
A. Buder, Sr., A.
H. Newman, and F.
H. Atwood.
Thomas D.
Wilson, city marshal at Tamms, shot and killed Jim
Hopkins Sunday
evening about 6 o'clock in the Tamms saloon in the presence
of Oscar Tamm, Lee B. Davis and
others. Wilson
fired two shots, both taking effect, and
Hopkins died
within half an hour.
The killing was
the outcome of trouble that had existed between Officer
Wilson and
Hopkins for about
a year. On June 20, 1911,
Wilson attempted
to arrest Hopkins
for beating a man by the name of Jim
Crain.
Hopkins resisted
the arrest and pulled a knife and cut the officer across the
face, leaving a deep gash, whereupon
Wilson drew his
gun and shot Hopkins.
It is said the wound badly crippled
Hopkins.
On April 6 last,
the trouble was further renewed between the two men, when,
according to the information available,
Hopkins entered
the Tamms saloon and seeing
Wilson seated at
a table playing cards, deliberately pulled his pistol and
shot Wilson, the wounds taking effect in the officer's shoulder.
Wilson got up
from the table and shot at
Hopkins, who ran
through the door of the saloon and was not injured by
Wilson's shot.
Hopkins
was later arrested and put under bond and
Wilson was
suspended from duty as marshal by the city council until
after an investigation, at which time he was reinstated in
the office.
After the
shooting Sunday,
Wilson gave himself up and was brought to Cairo by
Sheriff Fraser,
who with Deputy W.P.
Greaney and Chief of Police
Egan, went over
to Tamms in an automobile when notified of the shooting.
When seen at the
police headquarters, this morning, Mr.
Wilson made a
statement saying that he acted in self-defense. He
said he was in the saloon talking when
Hopkins entered.
He declared that
Hopkins made a motion towards his back pocket whereupon
he (Wilson)
pulled his gun and fired.
Wilson said that
Hopkins had
threatened to kill him for some time and that Saturday he
learned of further danger in this respect from his friends,
several of whom it is said,
Hopkins told saying he would "get"
Wilson. No gun was found upon
Hopkins' person after the shooting.
Wilson
was a police officer in Cairo during the administration of
Mayor Claude Winter
and afterwards removed to Tamms to take the position of town
marshal, which he has held for a number of years. He
has quite a large family.
Hopkins
is said to have been hard-working fellow and had a large
following of friends.
He was a married man, but had been separated from
sometime from his wife. Lately he had been employed at a
place called Reynoldsville, in Union County, and came down
to Tamms Friday night.
Coroner
McManus who was up in the central part of the state, Sunday, was
notified and arrived in Tamms this afternoon to hold an
inquest. Wilson
went up to Tamms this afternoon to be present at the
hearing.
The inquest will
be held at the courthouse tomorrow afternoon in Cairo. The
coroner’s jury empaneled by Coroner
McManus is as
follows: L. E.
Denison, Thomas McFarland, C. G. Miller,
of Cairo, and Oscar
Taylor, A. W.
Parker and W. E.
Vick, from the county. The inquest was to have been held at
Tamms, but has been changed to Cairo.
Gus
Johnson, colored
police officer who recently was tried for killing Napoleon
Lipe in the circuit court and was found not guilty, was
reinstated by Mayor Parsons last night, his nomination being unanimously confirmed.
Thomas D.
Wilson, city marshal of Tamms, who shot and killed Jim
Hopkins, in the
Tamms saloon last Sunday evening, was exonerated by the
coroner’s jury at the inquest held Tuesday afternoon at the
courthouse in this city. The inquest began at 3
o'clock and it was about 6:30 before a verdict was given
out, the jury deliberating sometime.
About fifteen
witnesses were examined. Included among them were Oscar T.
Tamm and Lee B.
Davis and the
testimony of all except those who actually saw the shooting
was to the effect that they had heard
Hopkins threaten
to take the life of
Wilson at various times. Several had seen him on the day
previous to the shooting and heard him say he would "get"
Wilson.
Wilson
himself took the stand and told of the beginning of the
trouble between the deceased and himself, which began in
June 1911, he having shot
Hopkins one time
for resisting arrest. The trouble was renewed again
during April last, when
Hopkins entered
the saloon at Tamms and shot
Wilson.
From that time on,
Wilson was apprehensive of losing his life at the hands
of Hopkins, who
had made threats and he (Wilson)
was always on his guard.
On last Sunday
evening, as previously stated in
The Citizen,
Wilson entered
the Tamms saloon and saw
Hopkins at the
end of the bar. After a few minutes
Wilson was about
to leave the place, when
Hopkins walked
towards him and made a motion towards his back pocket as if
to draw a gun when
Wilson shot him. The testimony of several
witnesses in the saloon at the time was substantially to
this effect.
Mortuary
Mary Amanda
Aldridge was born
January 10, 1843, near Makanda, Jackson County, Illinois,
and departed this life, June 12, 1912, at her home in
Thebes, Ill., aged 69 years, five months and two days.
The maiden name of the deceased was
Wallace, being a daughter of Dr.
Wallace, of Makanda. In 1860 she was married to John
Gregory and to
this union two children were born, one daughter, Mrs. Alice
Walker, survives
her and lives in Thebes. Mr.
Gregory met death by accident and she was united in marriage in 1868
to John G. Penrod.
One daughter was born to them—now Mrs. Annie
Oberts, wife of
William Oberts,
of Thebes. After the death of Mr.
Penrod, she was
married to James
Aldridge and two sons were born to them, Charles, of
Cape Girardeau, and Thomas, of Thebes. Mr.
Aldridge died
several years ago. She leaves eight grandchildren and
one great-grandchild to mourn her departure. The
deceased had been a member of the Baptist Church nearly
forty years. She was a devoted Christian. She was a
kind and loving mother and was loved by all who knew her.
Short funeral services were held at the Baptist church,
followed by interment in Thebes Cemetery. The deepest
sympathy of the community is with the bereaved family. The
children of the deceased desire to express their thanks for
all of their kindness during the sickness of their dear
mother and also for the many beautiful floral offerings.
(John C.
Gregory married Mary A.
Wallace on 16 Dec 1860, in Jackson Co., Ill.
John G. Penrod
married Mrs. Mary A.
Gregory on 22 Nov
1867, in Jackson Co., Ill.
James Aldridge,
26, married Mrs. Mary Ann
Penrod, 47, on 20 Jun 1875, in Union Co., Ill.
William M.
Oberts, 20, son of John
Oberts and Nancy
Hancock, married
Anna Penrod, 17,
daughter of John G.
Penrod and Amanda
Wallace, on 18 Dec 1887, in Union Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
While on their
way to the Ohio River at Cairo Point to ply their daily toil
as fishermen, two white men, Thomas
Berrie and
his son, Irvine Barre,
were carried down to their death, when their small flat boat
capsized in the swift eddies of the Mississippi River just
opposite the Mobile & Ohio flag station at Thirtieth Street
and the Mississippi levee this morning about 9:30.
The drowning was
witnessed by a number of fishermen, who have their
houseboats moored to the bank there. The cries of the
men in the water attracted their attention, but before a
skiff could be rowed to their assistance, the two
unfortunate men sank below the surface of the swift current
of the Mississippi.
As was their
daily custom, Barre
and his son set out from their tent in the cottonwoods just
above Fortieth Street to fish in the Ohio River just above
Cairo Point, favorite spot with many who make their living
that way. Their conveyance was what is familiarly
known as a “johnboat” and it was a rather small affair.
The Mississippi in that vicinity is full of swift eddies and
suck holes and is known to be dangerous.
The accident must
have happened so quickly that the occupants were taken
completely unawares and had little chance to cling to the
boat in an effort to save themselves. According to a
fisherman, who was a witness, they had barely gotten a skiff
in readiness to aid the drowning men when the cries for help
suddenly ceased as the men went under.
Barre
had a family, including his son, with whom he met his death,
his wife, a daughter about 21 years old, and a young baby.
He was 44 years of age and his son was a lad of 15 years.
Up until a month
ago the father had been employed at the
Harris Saddlery
Company and was laid off at that time because of the quiet
business. Since that time they had been living in a
tent just above Fortieth Street on the Mississippi Levee.
The father and son supported the family by fishing. The
family came to Cairo last September from Quincy, Ill., and
it was here that a married daughter resides.
Coroner
McManus was notified of the accident and had several men working
with drag hooks and lines in an effort to locate the bodies.
(Samuel W.
Shoemaker married Annie W.
Ford on 20 Nov 1883, in Alexander Co., Ill—Darrel
Dexter)
Thomas
Barre and his son Irvine
Barre, the two fishermen who were drowned in the
Mississippi River Friday morning, have left destitute a
sorrowing wife and mother with two small children, a girl
eleven years of age and a baby girl about two years of age.
As stated in last
evening’s Citizen,
the father and son supported the family by fishing and
selling the article in the city. Up until a month ago, the
father was an employee of the
Harris Sadlery
Company, but was laid off on account of slack business and
since that time he and his son had engaged in fishing as a
livelihood. The father and son were of the
hard-working sort and supported the family well considering
the adverse conditions.
Since their
death, the mother and the remainder of her family have lost
their means of support and, being without money and with but
few acquaintances, they are in a sad plight and their case
is indeed a pitiful one.
At present the
family is being cared for at the home of Mrs. Mary
Simmons, 413
Union Street, who, with the help of kind neighbors, will
endeavor to shelter the family until they can be looked
after by charitable authorities. Mrs.
Barre desires to
remain in Cairo until the bodies of her husband and son can
be found.
Mrs.
Simmons has
requested The Citizen
to state that, since the family is without money and very
few clothes, any donations of this kind sent to her address
will be properly appreciated.
Coroner
McManus had the river dragged in the vicinity of the drowning, but
without avail. On account of the swift current at the
place, it is probable that the bodies floated on down the
river and their finding will be an uncertainty for some time
at least.
Tom
Mitchell,
colored, was drowned about 3 o'clock this afternoon at the
Barrett fleet when a yawl in which he and his companion,
Henry Howe, were
taking a boat load of ice, to the steamer
Pacific No. 2 of the Barret line capsized in the heavy waves of the
steamer Henry Marquand.
The yawl was
loaded to its utmost with the ice and sat low in the water.
The heavy swells of the passing steamer easily swamped the
boat and the two men were thrown into the river. The
accident happened near a fleet of barges and
Mitchell, before
he could realize his dangerous position, was sucked under
one of these barges.
Howe was more
fortunate, however, and managed to swim ashore, although his
clothing was a serious handicap.
Mitchell
lived on Fourth Street and is married. Both men are
well known.
WOODMEN OF THE
WORLD HELD MEMORIAL SERVICES SUNDAY
The Woodmen of the World, Egypt Camp, held their annual memorial
service at the Villa Ridge and Beech Grove cemeteries Sunday
afternoon, going up on a special Illinois Central train at 1
o'clock.
Several monuments to departed members were unveiled and the graves
decorated.
About 200 members and their families attended the services. At
Villa Ridge are the graves of Earnest
Atherton, James
E. Sproat, Walter
Watts, Edward
Galligan, Harry Decker
and Oscar Bell.
At Beech Grove are the graves of Cass
Peeler and G. C.
Overton.
This morning about 10:30 o’clock Capt. A. A.
Peck, who runs a launch ferry between Cairo and the Missouri side on
the Mississippi River opposite Thirty-sixth Street, found
the body of a floater lodged in a pile of drift wood a few
feet from the Missouri shore. He towed the body to the Cairo
side and Coroner McManus was notified.
Upon examination by the coroner's jury, the body was recognized as
that of a young body, probably about 16 years of age. The
body had on a blue blouse waist, black knickerbocker
trousers, held up with suspenders and a leather belt, a grey
coat, black stockings and shoes. Decomposition had set in
the face and on the other parts of the body, which has been
in the water at least several days.
This description may reach some upriver point, the identity of the
person learned and some disposition made of the body.
Guiseppi Triello did not
meet his wife and children last Sunday when they arrived
from sunny Italy, as they had expected, for he had been
foully murdered the week before at White Ash by the
dastardly Black Hand.
He had been here several months and sent money home in order that
they might come to him. It was very sad to see her
countenance change from the expectancy of seeing her husband
to hear her friends tell of his cruel murder. –Marion
Post
The body of Thomas Barre,
the fisherman, who with his son, Irvine
Barre, was
drowned Saturday in the Mississippi River opposite the cross
levee at Thirty-sixth Street, was found late yesterday
afternoon near Tenth Street by several fishermen. The body
was taken to the undertaking parlors of Mrs. M. E.
Feith and
prepared for burial at the expense of the county. The body
of the son has not as yet been found.
(J. Marshal Mozley
married Norma E. Gore
on 26 May 1889, in Johnson Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The prisoner who escaped were all negroes: Carroll
Johnson, charged
with the murder of Eli
Bobo, another
negro, several months ago in a crap game at a negro barber
shop on lower Commercial and who was recently captured in
Chicago; Henry
Gholson, attempt to commit murder, Henry
Orange, Will
Webb, Will
Perry, Will Cunningham
alias "Frog,"
charged with an attempt to kill his wife.
Henry Smith,
a negro charged with larceny, got out with the rest of the
men, but instead of escaping, immediately went to Jailer
Peter Fraser, who
was upstairs in the sheriff’s office and notified him of the
delivery.
Mrs. Laura White, wife
of James A. White,
an employee of the Big Four, died early this morning at her
home at 2211 Sycamore Street.
The deceased leaves a family.
E. A. Burke
has charge of the remains and the funeral will probably be
held Friday with interment at Beech Grove Cemetery.
Alto Pass, Ill., June 27.—In a rear-end collision between two
freight trains on the Mobile & Ohio railroad just north of
Jonesboro this morning, Engineer
Parker of the
rear train was killed and Fireman
Wilson injured,
while John Gurley,
of Murphysboro, one of the crew of the first train, was also
hurt. The accident occurred about 9 o'clock and was between
the first and second sections of No. 39. Eight cars were
ditched and a passenger trains are detouring over the
Illinois Central this afternoon.
Engineer Parker jumped
when he saw the collision was about to occur and he struck
his head on the step. This is believed to have caused his
death. His engine left the track and went into a creek.
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat
today says:
William Preetorius, a
wealthy lumberman of Pine Bluff, Ark., and known in St.
Louis, where he has relatives, shot and killed himself
yesterday in his room in the Acme Hotel, Evansville, and,
according to dispatches last night, recent heavy losses in
the Chicago wheat pit coupled with ill health, are the
causes assigned.
Preetorious
was 64 years old and made his home at Pine Bluff, though his
lumber business called him to Chicago a great deal. For
several years he was president of the Cairo Lumber Company,
which did a large business over the South and West. Two
years ago he suffered a stroke of paralysis and since then
had brooded considerably though he never gave any intimation
of taking his life, it is said.
Edward L. Preetorious,
president and general manager of the German American Press
Association, a cousin of the man, was notified of the
suicide over the long distance telephone yesterday
afternoon. The dead man also has a sister in St. Louis, Mrs.
Marie Miller. He
also has a brother in Joppa, Ill., a sister who is abroad,
and a son, Carl Preetorius, in Chicago. Edward L.
Preetorious last night said ill health was the only cause he could
assign, as he never had heard of the alleged losses in
wheat. He said his cousin was known to lumbermen here and
had visited in St. Louis several times.
The funeral arrangements will be made by his son. The burial
probably will be at Pine Bluff.
Preetorius had
been in Evansville about two weeks, going there from
Memphis.
The funeral of Mrs. Laura
Wright, who died Wednesday, was held this afternoon from
the residence at 2211 Sycamore Street, conducted by Rev. M.
H. Loar, of the
First Methodist Church. Interment was held at Beech Grove,
the funeral party going up on a special interurban train.
The deceased is survived by her husband, James
Wright, an
employee of the Big Four, and eight daughters, Mrs. F. W.
Finely, Mrs.
Charles A. Wright,
and Mrs. James Wright,
of Cairo, Mrs. John
Johnson, of Milwaukee, Wis., Mrs. John
Wilson, of
Murphysboro, Ill., Mrs. John E.
Wright, of
Willard, Mrs. Thomas
Johnson, of East St. Louis, and Mrs. C.
McDonald, of
Murphysboro.
(James A. Wright married
Laurie E. Parker
on 24 Mar 1870, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
T. W. Finley,
28, house carpenter, born in Mound City, son of James W.
Finley and D. E.
Braden, married
Lillie M. Wright,
24, born in Villa Ridge, daughter of James
Wright and Laura
Parker, on 2 Dec
1896, in Pulaski Co,. Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
D. C. Phillips, aged
about 75 years, and a former resident of this city, died at
his home in New Madrid, Mo., last Sunday.
His death was sudden and is attributed to old age.
The deceased is survived by his wife, three daughters and a son.
The funeral was held Monday. The family formerly resided in
Cairo and Miss Louise
Phillips, who is a well-known here, is a daughter.
(G. W. Merchant, 24,
married Mrs. Callie
Yocum, 29, on 14 Aug 1896, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
W. J. Yoakum
married Callie
Guy on 22 Dec 1885, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
His marker in Grand Chain Masonic Cemetery reads:
George W.
Merchant Born May 3, 1872 Died June 28, 1912.—Darrel
Dexter)
Rudolph Leonard, the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. John Henry
Serbian, died in
Mound City at 3 o'clock this morning. The child was aged 2
months and 18 days. The funeral will occur at 1:30 Tuesday
afternoon, services to be conducted by Rev. C. Robert
Dunlap, pastor of
the Lutheran Church in Cairo. Burial at Beech Grove.
Saturday night at about 9:30 John
Freeman shot and killed Lewis
Jackson. Both were colored. The boy died at 1:30 that
night. Freeman had torn up a watch belonging to
Jackson and when he demanded pay for it, the
Freeman boy shot him. The coroner and sheriff were in town Sunday,
but no trace has yet been found of
Freeman. It is
thought he is in hiding somewhere near Grand Chain.
After a lingering illness of over three years, Miss Mary
Harvey died this
morning at the residence of her sister, Mrs. T. B
Farrin, at 722
Twenty-third Street, with whom she has resided for the past
ten years. The deceased was born in Madison County,
Mississippi, and was 69 years of age. She spent all of her
life with the exception of the past ten years, in Cairo, at
her home in Mississippi. Her sister, Mrs.
Farrin, is the only survivor. She was a member of the Methodist
Church.
The funeral will be held tomorrow morning at 8:30 from the
residence on Twenty-third Street, conducted by Rev. A. H.
Loar and a special train will leave the foot of Fourteenth Street at
9:30 for Villa Ridge, where the burial will take place.
Died—Miss Mary Jane Harvey,
age 69, at residence, 722 Twenty-third Street.
Funeral services will be conducted by Rev. A. H.
Loar, at the residence, Saturday, July 6th, at 8:30 a.m.
Special train will leave Fourteen Street at 9:30 a.m.
Interment at Villa Ridge. Friends of family invited.
Mrs. C. T. Barnum died
this morning after an illness of over a month at the
residence of Miss Virginia
Rennie, 607
Washington Avenue.
Mr. Barnum is in the
employ of the government forestry service and has been
conducting a series of experiments and research work at the
plant of the Pioneer Pole and Shaft Company in the Drainage
District.
Mr. and Mrs. Barnum came
to Cairo in February from Madison, Wis., first residing at
the Wenger, latterly with Miss
Rennie. During
her short residence here, they have become favorably known
by many friends.
The remains of the deceased will be shipped tonight to Pottsville,
Pa., her former home.
Mrs. Barnum became ill
June 4th and was removed to St. Mary’s Infirmary,
where an operation was performed. At that immediate time,
her life was despaired of, but after several weeks, she was
greatly improved and about a week ago was removed to her
apartments at the
Rennie residence. The past several days blood poisoning
and complications set in and she gradually grew worse, the
end coming at 7:20 o'clock this morning.
Miss Fannie Haverty, of
Pottsville, Pa., a sister of Mrs.
Barnum and who is
a trained nurse, has been in constant attendance since the
deceased first became ill and was taken to the hospital.
A young man was found floating in the river at Echols Landing near
Grand Chain Tuesday by Jesse
Culbertson and
Will Crippen, who
were working along the river.
It is thought his name was Ben
Walraven, of Canton, Ill.
He had two letters in his pocket, one from his mother
and one from his sweetheart at Granville, Ill. The mother's
letter was dated July 1; it is thought he may have been
drowned July 4. Telegrams have been sent to Canton and a
coroner's inquest was held Tuesday night and he was buried
near the bank of the river, but will be taken up and sent to
his friends and relatives if they wish him to be.
In the circuit court Carrol
Johnson, alias
"Cal Nicholson," pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced to the
penitentiary for 14 years by Judge
Butler.
Johnson is the
negro who shot another negro named Eli
Bobo in a crap
game episode, in a negro barbershop on lower Commercial last
January.
Johnson
shot at another negro, but his aim was wild and
Bobo, who was
standing near the rear door of the place, received two
bullet wounds in the back, which caused his death several
days afterward at St. Mary's Infirmary. Johnson was one of
the negroes who participated in the jail delivery a number
of weeks ago and he was caught at Sikeston, Mo., by Deputy
Sheriff Robert
Greaney and brought back by Deputy W. P.
Greaney.
Harrisburg Chronicle—Harris
Berry, the well-known athlete of the Harrisburg Township High
School, met with a tragic death last week while bathing in
Saline Creek, seven miles southeast of Harrisburg and a mile
and a half from his home in Cottage Grove Township.
Berry
was one of a party of picnickers who were enjoying the
Fourth on the banks of Saline Creek. He and several of his
friends decided to go in bathing and left the other members
and walked a half mile or so up the creek. After the boys
had been in the water for some time,
Berry decided to
try and swim across the stream, which was sixteen or twenty
feet deep. He
was only a fair swimmer and he was cautioned by his
associates to not attempt to cross. He persisted, however,
and while in the middle of the stream apparently became
frightened at the swift current. He was seen to cease his
efforts to swim and began to sink. Other members of the
party were scattered up and down the stream and hastened to
him with all possible speed. Just as the nearest associate
was in the act of grabbing him, he sank out of sight for the
third time. Assistance was at once summoned, including Dr.
Butler, of this
city. The body was recovered with grab hooks in about an
hour, but all efforts to resuscitate the dead were of no
avail.
The sudden and tragic death of Harris
Berry cast a gloom over Harrisburg, Saline County, and Southern
Illinois. He was the star athlete of the high school track
team and only a few weeks ago did he capture the individual
cup and other medals at the athlete meet in Carbondale. He
also won the jumping events at the Harrisburg meet. He was
the son of Mr. and Mrs. Alvis
Berry, of Cottage
Grove Township, and was one of the most popular young men in
Saline County.
Berry
will be remembered by many Cairo young people who attended
the track meet at Carbondale several months ago and saw him
win the contest for Harrisburg, besides the many individual
honors.
The funeral of Arthur Lynn
Rogers, the 15-month old child of Mr. and Mrs. O. E.
Rogers, of 412 Union Street, who died Thursday morning, was held
this afternoon, interment was at Beech Grove Cemetery. Mr.
Rogers is an employee at the Singer plant. E. A.
Burke had charge
of the funeral.
John Norman, formerly a
prominent citizen of Thebes, died suddenly at his home in
Illmo, Mo., at 2 o'clock this morning, following a sudden
attack of illness about midnight.
Mr. Norman came to
Thebes during the period of the building of the bridge and
with W. K. Murphy,
founded the Bank of Thebes.
He also had a lumber yard there.
Brown Tyas, a negro
about 19 years of age, died this morning as a result of
serious injuries received Sunday night, when he was struck
by a Mobile & Ohio freight train on the bridge approach.
Tyas,
in company with two other negroes, were waiting in the
approach about 11 p.m. for a southbound train, to beat their
way to Tennessee, and had laid down on a pile of bridge
timbers opposite the track to sleep until the train was due.
They heard the train coming and started to get up.
Just emerging from the sleeping state, they were
somewhat confused and the electric headlight on the engine
dazzled them to such an extent that
Tyas not knowing
his direct position, stumbled over the track just in time to
be struck by the engine, the impact crushing his skull and
the entire train passed over this right leg, severing that
member from his body.
He was conscious when taken to the hospital and died
there two hours later. His two companions rolled down the
embankment in the confusion.
Tyas
had worked at various places in Cairo and had been here
about a month. His companions were Dave
Robinson and Will Meyer,
both Cairo negroes, and they were all bound for the south to
do harvest work. Coroner
McManus is making
an effort to locate the dead man's relatives in Brownsville,
Tenn., that being his former home.
Cape Girardeau, Mo., July 16.—The death of Maj. W. W.
Ward here July
11, the death of H. P.
Pierronet in
Mullanphy Hospital Sunday and the death at Ocean, Md.,
Sunday of Leon J. Albert left three vacancies in the directorate of the Southeast
Trust Company of this city. Maj.
Ward had been a
farmer and financier of Cape and Scott counties for forty
years. H. P.
Pierreonet, a merchant of the Cape for thirty years, and
L. J. Albert had
been either cashier or president of the Sturdevant Bank
about forty years and for twenty-three years had been a
regent of the State Normal School of Cape Girardeau.
Robert Forbes and Henry
Aden, two white
men, were the victims in a boxcar accident at the Mobile &
Ohio Railroad "Y" between Cairo junction and Davis early
this morning in which the former lost his life and the
latter was seriously injured.
The men had boarded the cart at Union City and had beaten their way
to Cairo. They had stood in one end of the car in a vacant
space left by the uneven piling of lumber. When they reached
Cairo (Davis Junction) they started to get out. Before they
could do so, a switch engine backing into the train of cars
struck the train with such force that the lumber slipped
forward, pinning the men to the bulk head of the car. The
impact killed Forbes
instantly and Aden
was painfully injured.
Aden's cries for
help attracted the attention of switchman Louis
Caffall, who
seeing the position of the two men had the engine bump the
car sufficiently to slip the lumber back, this relieving
Aden.
The injured man was taken to St. Mary’s Infirmary and the body of
Forbes was
brought to Tenth Street where Coroner
McManus held an
inquest and the body was moved to the undertaking
establishment of E. A.
Burke. Upon
examination of the dead man's clothing a note book was found
in his pocket and the following being written on two of its
pages: "In case of death notify my sister, Mrs. R. C.
Moseley, 1032
Hattie Street, Fort Worth, Texas. My name is Robert
Forbes."
Aden
told of meeting Forbes at Union City several days ago and that they came to Cairo
together saying that they had expected to go down the river
on a fishing trip. He said
Forbes had told
him that he had a wife and several children residing at
Memphis, but that he was separated from them.
Aden will
recover, according to adding physicians.
Undertaker Burke
communicated with
Forbes' sister in Fort Worth, Texas, as instructed in
the memorandum book in the deceased's pocket, and he
received instructions to ship the body to that place this
afternoon.
Undertaker Burke
telephoned to Brownsville, Tenn., this morning and located
the parents of Ed.
Tyas, the young negro who was killed on the bridge
approach Sunday night, having been struck by a southbound
Mobile & Ohio freight train. The deceased's father will
arrive tonight to take charge of the remains.
The Cairo
Evening Citizen,
Wednesday, 17 Jul 1912:
Mt. Vernon, Ill., July 17—State and
county officials today started an investigation of the
"death farm" mystery here which has thus far cost the lives
of nine persons. John
Ackerman, the
last of the nine to die, showed the same symptoms as the
others and all doctors who examined him during his short
illness admitted that they were baffled. All of the victims
became ill shortly after making their home on the farm. In
the case of each victim the malady that caused death came
upon them gradually. At the first the victim found himself
wasting away. He grew thin but doctors could find no reason
for the growing weakness. Then a sudden paralysis seized
the sick person. Following death the body became
spotted. The cases are believed to be without precedent.
He leaves a wife, one child and three
sisters to mourn his loss.
Dropsy and consumption being case of
death.
Frank
Joslin, a young man 24 years of age, died Friday evening at St.
Mary’s Infirmary of typhoid fever. The remains were taken
charge of by Undertaker E. A.
Burke and shipped
to the deceased's home in DuQuoin this afternoon.
DuQuoin, Ill., July 20—The bodies of
William Forrester
and Henry Lavell,
two residents of Hallidaysboro, eight miles south of here,
were found near the tracks of the Illinois Central Railroad
at Elkville early Friday morning by the crew of a passing
freight train.
Forrester showed signs of life and was hurried to a physician at
Elkville where he died shortly after noon. Before he
expired he muttered in response to questions that he had
been thrown from a train. Lavell
had been dead some time and apparently had been murdered, as
two ugly bullet wounds were found in his body, besides
numerous bruises and contusions.
The two men were here Thursday and it
is supposed that they boarded a freight train to ride home
and were attacked by tramps.
Forrester,
superintendent of the Halliday estate at Halliday, and of
John Forrester, general manager of the Paradise Coal Company of this
city.
(Theodore
Newton, 22, of Beechwood, machinist, born in Hinkleville, Ky., son
of Henry Newton
and Mary Elliott,
married Frances E.
Welton, 18, of Beechwood, born in Pope Co., Ill.,
daughter of Mark
Welton and Lencey
Farris, on 28 Feb 1897, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
John Mahoney,
28, of Beechwood, carpenter, son of Timothy
Mahoney, married
Corda Welton, 23,
of Beechwood, daughter of Squire
Welton, on 6 Feb
1898, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
Eugene Gatton
married Cynthia
Welton on 24 Dec 1890, in Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Richard M.
Sayers took our letters of administration Saturday on the estate of
his father, Henry
Sayers, of 50 Kingsbury Place, who died July 16 last in
London, England.
His estate is valued at $390,000,
mostly personal property. He left no will.
The property will go to his widow, Mrs.
Pauline H. Sayers,
who is now at Flint, Mich., and his children, Mrs. Alice
Bloomfield, of Verbena, Ill., Mrs. Blanche
Palester, of St. Louis, and Richard and A. H.
Sayers. Mr. Sayers was a
grain merchant and president of Shaare Emeth Congregation.
Mr.
Sayers was a resident of Cairo about 30 years ago and was engaged in
business with the late Charles
Gilhofer.
Mrs. Margaret
Mason, a resident of Mound City for the past fifty years, died at
the home of her daughter, Mrs. Sarah
Schoenfeld this
morning at the advanced age of 89 years.
The deceased is survived by two
daughters, the other being Miss Henrietta
Mason, of Mound
City. One sister also survives her in Iowa.
The funeral will be held Thursday
afternoon at Grace M. E. Church, the Rev. M. D.
Baker officiating. The interment will be held at Beech Grove
Cemetery. Interurban car will leave station at 2:30 p.m.
Mrs. Elizabeth
Gholson, 80 years old, one of Ballard County's oldest and most
prominent women, died suddenly at 8:30 o'clock Monday
morning at her home near Lovelaceville, following a short
illness of heart trouble. Mrs.
Gholson was born
in Trigg County, but came to this end of the state when only
five years of age. She was a faithful member of the
Methodist Church and had many friends all over Ballard
County. She is survived by four sons and three
daughters. Her husband died several years ago.—Paducah News Democrat
Mrs. Sarah
O'Shea, an old resident of Cairo, died this morning about 8 o'clock
at her home, 2514 Sycamore Street, after an illness of about
a year. Mrs. O'Shea
had been ill for some time, but only recently was considered
in a serious condition. The deceased was 70 years of age.
Mrs.
O'Shea was born in Canada and came to Illinois, her family locating
in Pulaski County, where she spent her childhood. Later the
family removed to Cairo and it was here, sometime before the
war, that she married Mr.
O'Shea. Mr.
O'Shea was an old
settler of Cairo and died in 1892. Nine children were born
to the union and seven survive: Thomas E.
O'Shea, John J.
O'Shea, Joseph
O'Shea, Julia D.
O'Shea, Katherine O'Shea,
and Frank O'Shea,
of Charleston, Miss., and Mrs. Cecelia
Billingsly, of
Newport, Ark. The oldest child, Mrs. Minnie
Aldred, died several months ago at Kansas City, Mo. Attorney, M. J.
O'Shea, of this
city, is a nephew. Mrs. Abe
Weence, of Levings, Ill., is a surviving sister and there are many
grandchildren.
The funeral will be held Saturday
morning at St. Joseph's Church of which the deceased was a
member, Father J. J.
Gillen officiating. Interment will be at Calvary
Cemetery at Villa Ridge, Mrs. M. E.
Feith having
charge of the funeral.
Mrs. James B.
Pierson, formerly of this city, died very suddenly at her home in
Memphis about 9 o’clock this morning. Mrs.
Piersol was formerly Miss Margaret
O'Laughlin, of Cairo, and is survived by her husband and two small
children, Margaret and James, her father, Patrick
O'Laughlin, and
three brothers, Joseph, Steve and John, of this city, and
her aunt, Miss Kate
Leveett and her uncle, Tim
Donovan, of this
city.
Mr.
Piersol is a contractor and the family, who formerly resided at 626
Thirty-fourth Street, this city, removed to Memphis some
time ago. The deceased was 25 years of age. The remains
will be brought to Cairo tonight and the funeral
arrangements will be announced later.
Funeral services over the remains of
Mrs. Sarah O'Shea
were held this morning at St. Joseph's Church and the body
was taken to Villa Ridge for interment in Calvary
Cemetery. The pallbearers were Patrick
Egan, Martin Donahue,
John Barry, P. T,
Langan, Jacob
Klein, and T. J. Kerth.
Mrs.
O'Shea was one of
the oldest residents of Cairo.
Chester, Ill., July 26.—Convict, John
Owens, 58 years
old, who was received at the penitentiary from Vermillion
County last month on a charge of burglary and larceny, was
caught in the cable hoist at the rock crusher and killed. Owens
would never divulge the names of any relatives.
The body of Gus
Smith, aged 20, who was drowned while in swimming in the Ohio River,
at Twentieth Street Friday evening, was recovered shortly
before noon today and taken in charge by Mrs. M. E.
Feith.
The young man with several companions
was in swimming and was diving off a barge. After one of
these dives he came to the surface, but appeared to be in
distress and sank before aid could reach him.
He resided with his sister, Mrs.
Earnest Grace, at
408 Twentieth Street, and was employed by the Halliday
Milling Company. He came to Cairo several months ago from
near Belleville.
The body was discovered by a lad named
Raymond Powers
near where it went down. Coroner
McManus held an
inquest and a verdict of accidental drowning was returned.
Smith—Died Friday, July 26, Gus
Smith, aged 20 years, Funeral cortege leave the residence, 410
Twentieth Street, at 1:30 Sunday afternoon for St. Joseph's
Church where services will be held. Remains will be taken
by special train from Fourteenth Street to Villa Ridge,
where interment will be made.
Friends of the family invited to attend.
(Ben
Rucker is the head of a household in Mound City Precinct in the 1880
census. He was
listed as a mulatto, 35, born in Kentucky, and his parents
were born in Virginia.
Also in the household was his wife, Louise
Rucker, 26, born
in Virginia, and his two children, Josephine
Rucker, 8, born
in Illinois, and Nancy E.
Rucker, 8 months,
born in Illinois.
Benjamin F.
Rucker, 55, of Mound City, farmer, married 2nd
Mrs. Anna Lightfoot,
50, of Mound City, on 18 Jul 1899, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.—Darrel Dexter)
Companions of Gus
Smith, who was drowned while in swimming in the Ohio River Friday
evening, made strenuous efforts to recover the
body. Several of the boys, among them Louis
Zanone, Jr., Joe
Johnson, Richard
Ehs and George Wilbourn,
dived again and again in search of the body and they thought
they touched it several times, but the water so deep there
that it was impossible for them to locate it. The body was
found Saturday near the place where the boys were diving.
The funeral survives of the late Gus
Smith, who was
drowned Friday, occurred at St. Joseph's Church Sunday
afternoon, the services being conducted by Rev. Father James
J. Gillen. The
funeral cortege was carried on a special train to Villa
Ridge where interment was made at Calvary Cemetery. The
pallbearers were active: Messrs. Thomas and Will
Darmody, George
Kobler, Ed
Flagler, Richard
Ehs, Mike Galvin;
honorary: Albert
Fischer, George Walter, Louis Zanone, and
Tom Dwyer.
Vienna, Ill., July 29—Miss Kate
Thacker, sister
of the victim, Thomas H.
Sheridan's
bullet, was the first and principal witness in the trial now
in progress in the Johnson County circuit court to determine
whether Thomas H. Sheridan was guilty of murder in killing Harry
Thacker in September of last year. She told her story of the tragic
events of that day, of which she was a witness and broke
down and cried when they were again brought vividly to her
mind.
Court was a little late in opening this
morning. Judge
Duncan came over from Marion in an automobile which
broke down on the way over and occasioned some
delay. Shortly after 8 o'clock, however, the trial was
resumed with Miss
Thacker on the stand. The adjournment from Saturday
gave everyone a chance to rest and the attorneys and jurors
all appeared refreshed.
At the time of the tragedy which ended
her brother’s life, Miss
Thacker was
employed in the circuit clerk's office. She was on the
street talking with some other ladies just before the
trouble and saw her father meet
Sheridan and get
the cut of himself that had caused all the trouble. This
was a newspaper cut that
Sheridan had run
in his paper, in connection with the article reflecting on
Thacker. The
witness said that
Sheridan spoke to her father as he gave him the cut and
his manner was very gruff and he seemed very angry. Witness
then started up the street and the next thing she saw her
brother, Harry and
Sheridan in a scuffle on the stairway leading up to
Sheridan's
office. She said that
Sheridan had her
brother's head down, under his arm, while her brother was
trying to hold
Sheridan's right arm in which
Sheridan held a
gun. She said she screamed and then she heard the shot
fired and saw her brother fall. Here she broke down and
cried.
The cross examination was conducted by
Attorney White of
Marion, in which the attorney for the defense tried to bring
out the fact that Harry
Thacker had come
to Vienna on that day with the intention of giving
Sheridan a
whipping. The witness denied positively that her brother
had come to Vienna with any such intention. She was asked
if she did not say that she hoped her brother would make a
good job of it, or that if she was a man she would whip
Sheridan, but
entered denials of both conversations. She did admit that
her feeling toward
Sheridan prior to the day of the murder was bad.
Following Miss
Thacker, William Moore,
Sheriff John Mathis,
Deputy Sheriff Veatch,
Dr. McCall and Earl Veatch
testified during the forenoon. Sheriff
Mathis arrested Sheridan
in his office shortly after shooting and he was spirited out
of Vienna and brought to Cairo by Deputy Sheriff
Veatch.
A strict control is kept of the crowd
attending the trial. The opera house does not hold many
persons and only as many as can obtain seats are allowed to
attend the proceedings.
Thomas
Meehan, old resident of Cairo and contractor for much of the street
work in the early days, passed away at St. Mary’s Infirmary
at 11:35 o'clock last night, at the ripe age of 88 years.
He had only been ailing a few days and death was due
to the failure of his heart to act.
Mr.
Meehan was a native of County Tipperary, Ireland, and after a few
years' residence in America came to Cairo in 1857. He has
resided here ever since.
In the early days he was actively
engaged in contracting and among his jobs were the filling
of Railroad Street and Walnut Street. Among his associated
in this contracting were David
Thistlewood and
Patrick Fitzgerald.
His wife died about fifteen years ago,
but his is survived by five sons and a sister who resides in
Philadelphia. The sons are William
Meehan, of Birmingham, Ala., David and James
Meehan, of Cairo, John Meehan,
of Fort Stanton, N.M., and Thomas
Meehan of
Charleston, Miss. All of these sons will attend the funeral
except John Meehan,
who cannot reach Cairo from New Mexico in time.
Services will be held at St. Patrick’s
Church Wednesday morning and the remains will be taken to
Calvary Cemetery, Villa Ridge, for interment.
Meehan—Died, Monday, July 29, Thomas
Meehan, aged 88 years.
Funeral cortege will leave residence of
James Meehan, No.
401 Washington Avenue, at 7:45 a.m. Wednesday, July 31, for
St. Patrick’s Church, where services will be held at 8
o'clock.
Remains will be taken on special
Illinois Central train from Fourteenth St., at 9:15 for
Calvary Cemetery, where interment will be made.
Please omit flowers.
Funeral services over the remains of
Thomas Meehan
were held at St. Patrick's Church this morning conducted by
Father J. J. Downey and the remains were taken by special train to Calvary
Cemetery for interment.
James
Carroll, old resident of Cairo, passed away shortly after 11 o'clock
today, aged 80 years.
In 1859 he removed to Carondelet, Mo.,
where he was employed by the government and from the area
sent to Mound City, where the government ship yards were
located during the war. From there he came to Cairo.
He retired from active business fifteen
years ago.
During his long citizenship here he
served in the city council under the administrations of John
H. Oberly, Col.
S. Staats Taylor,
Col. John Wood, Col. C. O. Patier,
and Thomas W.
Halliday.
Fifty years ago on May 16th,
1862, he married Miss Margaret
Deneen at Chicago
and eight children were born to them. James E., of Buffalo,
William B. Carroll,
and Mrs. W. P.
Greaney, of Cairo, Mrs. Charles
McCormick, of St.
Louis, and Miss Lucy E.
Carroll, of
Cairo, with their mother surviving.
There are also six grandchildren.
Mr. and Mrs.
Carroll celebrated their golden wedding anniversary on May 16th
last, the occasion being an especially happy one.
Vienna, Ill., July 31—Thomas H.
Sheridan, the
defendant, took the stand in his own behalf shortly before
10 this morning. His defense and cross examination occupied
the remainder of the morning. He told of having been
repeatedly warned by friends of threats made against him by
Harry Thacker, as
a result of articles that had appeared in
Sheridan's
paper. Defendant told of being accosted by Harry
Thacker in his
stairway a few weeks prior to the difficulty. On this
occasion Thacker threatened to whip
Sheridan and he walked away to avoid trouble. Sheridan had found cards placed under his door at his office on
several occasions on which were written threats against
him. One of these occasions he heard the door open and on
going to see who was there saw Harry
Thacker going
down the stairs.
Thacker looked
back and warned
Sheridan to get his head in the door. Then he told him
his meeting with Frank
Thacker and the
circumstance concerning the cut. Witness told of getting
the cut and handing it to Frank
Thacker, when he
turned to go up the stairs, when Harry
Thacker grabbed
him. Sheridan
pulled away and again started up the stairs, when
Thacker grabbed him and began striking him in the face and on the
head, as he is so, bearing down and pressing his arm around
defendant's head. He stated that he was in a weak physical
condition as a result of chills and fever and believing
Thacker had a
gun, and was going to kill him, defendant pulled his gun out
of his coat pocket and fired one shot. Had been assaulted
several times previously and carried the gun for the purpose
of self-defense, as he was not physically able to defend
himself.
Tuesday night's session was devoted to
the testimony of witnesses regarding the threats said to
have been made by Harry
Thacker against
Sheridan. John Slack
testified Tuesday afternoon of having sold cartridges to
Harry Thacker a
few days before the killing and the following night had seen
Thacker hiding
behind a rose bush in Jean
Beal's yard, with
revolver drawn. This place is on the street leading to
Sheridan’s home.
The testimony will likely be conducted
today after which the argument will be begun.
The court at noon today gave his
decision in the matter of the introduction of copies of
Sheridan's paper containing the articles attacking
Thacker,
sustaining the objection of the defense against their
introduction.
Funeral services over the remains of
the late James
Carroll will be held Friday morning. The cortege will
leave the family residence on Twenty-eighth Street at 7:45
for St. Joseph's Church, where services will be held at 8
o'clock. The remains will be taken to Calvary Cemetery for
interment.
Pall bearers have been chosen as
follows:
Honorary—Capt. W. M.
Williams, A.
Comings, J. M. Lansden,
William Kluge,
William Oehler,
B. McManus, M. J. Howley, P.
Cahill, P.
Egan, A. T. DeBaun, Dan
Kelly, Patrick
Greaney, J. W. Spies,
James Quinn,
Peter Saup, Frank
Gazzola, A. Botto.
Active—George
Shaw, M. P. Cullinan,
John Barry, P. T.
Langan, William
Magner, M. S. Egan, Frank
Thomas, C. A.
Pettit, Emmett
Tibbs, Louis Zanone.
(His marker in Calvary Cemetery at
Villa Ridge reads:
Father Carroll
1832-1912.—Darrel
Dexter)
Vienna, Ill., Aug. 1—A death like
silence hung over the court room today while the attorneys
for the opposing sides in the
Sheridan case
deliver their arguments to the jury. The building was
packed from the stage to the stairway leading to the street,
and the public square was a mass of vehicles, the entire
population of the county having come to town to attend the
most dramatic trial in the history of Johnson County made so
by the fact that the state's attorney, the public
prosecutor, was on trial for his life.
Attorney
Cowan for the state laid much stress on the point that
Sheridan had not
sought to avoid trouble, but had rather forced it upon
himself by his repeated articles regarding the
Thacker family,
which he continued to publish after he had been warned to
the contrary. The attorney endeavored to show that
Sheridan, owing
to his position in life, having been a school teacher and a
lawyer, was all the more dangerous to society, judging by
his acts.
Attorney
Hartwell for the defense sought to prove that
Sheridan had endeavored to avoid trouble with
Thacker on numerous occasions by going out of his way to keep from
meeting Thacker. The
attorney reviewed each article written by
Sheridan and
raised the point, if a newspaper man did not have the right
to expose the public acts of officials, if in his judgment
he believed them to be contrary to law and the welfare of
the people of whom he was a public servant.
The attorney contended that the fight
being made against
Sheridan was the result to these articles, exposing true
conditions as Sheridan believed them, and a desire to get
Sheridan out of the way before he might expose too much. Attorney
Hartwell became
very dramatic and when he closed someone started to
applaud. He was followed by Attorney
English for the
state who delivered a strong speech for the
state. Attorneys
White and Green for the defense spoke immediately following the noon recess
and Attorney Lingle
will close for the state late this afternoon.
Vienna, Ill., Aug. 1—The court house
was crowded to its fullest capacity this morning with the
relatives and friends of the defense and prosecution when
the arguments were begun in the case of Thomas H.
Sheridan, charged
with the murder of Harry
Thacker.
There is probably not a man, woman or
child in Johnson County who is not lined up either with one
side or the other. There is no middle ground. The feeling
is intense.
Special State’s Attorney
Cowan made the
opening speech for the state this morning speaking an hour
and a half. He was followed by Attorney
Hartwell for the
defense. Attorney
English spoke for the state just before noon. This
afternoon Attorneys
White and Reed
Green will follow for the defense and Attorney
Lingle will close
for the prosecution.
The instructions to the jury will
probably be delivered by the court Friday morning.
The afternoon and evening session of
court Wednesday were spent in hearing testimony in
rebuttal. A large number of witnesses were called by the
state for the purpose of impeaching the testimony of John
Slack, the
witness for the defense who testified that he saw Harry
Thacker hiding behind a rose bush in the yard of Jean
Beal on the
Wednesday night, Sept. 7, 1910. The state endeavored to
prove by the testimony of these witnesses that on the night
in question, Harry Thacker was sitting up with a corpse at the home of Tom
Burris, a mile
and a half west of Vienna, and that the weather on that
night was cloudy and it had been raining and on the
following night, Sept. 8, 1910, Harry
Thacker was a the home of his aunt, Mrs. Mary
Thacker, about five miles east of Vienna until nearly 10 p.m.
Witnesses who gave this testimony were Tom
Burris, Ward
Burris, Mrs. Looney, Tom
Coleman, Mabel
Burris, Joe Crice, Mrs.
Cates, I. T.
Cummings, Ed Simpson and
Dr. and Mrs. Brown. These
testified that Harry
Thacker on Wednesday night, Sept. 7, 1910, sat up with
the corpse as above stated. Those who testified that Harry
Thacker was at
the home of his aunt, Mrs. Mary
Thacker, on the
following night were Mrs. Mary
Thacker, Arthur
Thacker, Americus
Thacker, Nora
Thacker, Samuel Gourley,
and others.
On cross examination the defense
endeavored to break down this testimony as to the witnesses
actually knowing where
Thacker was
during the entire evening and attempted to make the
witnesses admit that he could have left sometime during the
evening without their knowledge. They also endeavored to
entangle the witnesses regarding the weather on that
evening.
The feeling is most tense. The
attorney are fighting every inch of the way and the
excitement is running so high that the very air is
surcharged with feeling. One senses it the minute he steps
into the court room.
During his examination and in fact
throughout the trial,
Sheridan has appeared cool and self-possessed.
LITTLE HOPE FOR RECOVERY OF ROY L. HARTER
Roy L.
Harter, an employee of P. T.
Langan's planing mill was probably fatally injured
Wednesday afternoon as a result of falling on a revolving
circular saw.
There were no witnesses to the
accident, but the man’s cries attracted the attention of the
other employees who saw him walk a few feet from the machine
before he fell to the floor unconscious. He was taken to
St. Mary’s Infirmary where it was found that his skull had
been penetrated by the saw which made a gash about five
inches in length and penetrated the brain.
Harter has been employed at
Langan's for the past six months and is 19 years of age. He is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. William L.
Harter, of 417
Twenty-seventh Street. The young man was in a critical
condition this afternoon and his recovery is doubtful.
THOMAS H. SHERIDAN "NOT GUILTY" SAYS JURY
Vienna, Ill., Aug. 2—“Not guilty” is
the verdict of the jury in the case of Thomas H.
Sheridan charged with the killing of Harry
Thacker at Vienna, Ill., on Sept. 20, 1910.
Decision
was reached at 11:30 o’clock, less than two hours after the
jury took the case and the state’s attorney and editor is
now a free man.
Shortly after 8 o’clock this morning,
the court read the instructions to the jury and the case
passed into their hands at 9:45.
Only a small crowd gathered in the
court room this morning to listen to the reading of the
instructions, that part of the trial not being of much
interest to the citizens and farmers of Johnson County, who
had thronged the court room to suffocation during the two
weeks of the trial.
The jury repaired to the Masonic Hall
after receiving the case, where they reviewed the evidence
before reaching their decision.
The opera house, where the case was held on account
of repairs being made to the court house, was without a
proper place for the jury to discuss the case away from all
outsiders.
Summary of the Case
The effect of the verdict on the people
of Johnson County only tended to widen the breach existing
between the two factions—the friends of the
Thackers and the
friends of the
Sheridans.
But there is one especially happy woman in Johnson County
and that is Mrs.
Sheridan, wife of the defendant, who has been in
constant attendance at the trial, but who displayed no
emotion whatsoever, having wonderful control of her
feelings, which nevertheless were deep-seated.
The attorneys who scored the victory in
this case are Attorneys Reed
Green and Angus
Leek, of Cairo,
and White and
Hartwell of Marion.
Those who assisted in the prosecution were
Cowan, of Peoria,
Attorney James Lingle,
of Jonesboro, and Attorney
English, of
Vienna.
The jury was composed of J. R.
Tyler, H. A.
Cox and Guy Osborne, of
Ozark; Sam Firley,
Will Litaker and
M. J. Bost, of Cache Township; R. L.
Ross of Simpson;
Joe Jenkins,
Daniel Hudspeth,
J. A. Hettig and Van Denison,
of Goreville and Joe
Miller, of Cypress.
The case, which has been continued on
several occasions, came to trial on Monday morning, July 26th.
The jury was not secured until the following Friday
and over a hundred venire men were examined.
The case was hard fought by the attorneys on the
opposing sides every inch of the way and nearly a hundred
witnesses were examined.
Summary of the State Evidence
The State endeavored to prove that
Sheridan had made
frequent and vicious attacks upon the character of the
Thacker family,
even after he had been warned to cease the publication of
these articles in his paper, the
Vienna News.
That he had continued to abuse the good name of the
Thacker family
and had told several persons that if the
Thackers didn’t
like it, they would have to stand the consequences of words
to that effect.
That on the day of the killing,
Sheridan wore a
coat, which was unusual for hi and that he was armed.
That his manner was vicious and in his encounter with
Harry Thacker in the stairway leading to his office, he had been the
aggressor.
Summing Up the Defense Evidence
The defense endeavored to prove that
Sheridan had
endeavored at all times to avoid trouble and had repeatedly
gone out of his way, so as not to meet any of the
Thackers.
That in so far as the newspaper articles were
concerned, they had no bearing on the case, according to the
law and the ruling of the court in the case.
That he had a perfect right, as an editor to publish
articles about the conduct of public officials, if in his
judgment, their acts were contrary to the law an the welfare
of the community.
That Sheridan
had been threatened repeatedly by Harry
Thacker and that
on the day of the trouble, Harry
Thacker had come
to Vienna for the sole purpose of giving
Sheridan a whipping.
That Harry Thacker
had attacked the defendant in the latter’s stairway and was
the aggressor and was beating and choking
Sheridan, when
the defendant pulled out his revolver and killed
Thacker in
self-defense having armed himself because of several
previous attacks having been made upon him by others and the
warning received that day that Harry
Thacker was going
to kill him. And
that the attack upon
Sheridan was a conspiracy by the
Thacker family to “get even” and endeavor to put him out of the way
for fear that he might cause further embarrassment by
showing up conditions in the court house.
An Intermingling of Emotions
Vienna, Ill., Aug. 2—The tense felling the pent-up
emotions and the physical and mental strain under which the
defendant, the plaintiff, the attorneys, the jury, witnesses
and the large crowd of spectators, have labored during the
two weeks of the trial of Thomas
Sheridan, have
characterized it as one of the most dramatic cases that has
ever come to trial in Johnson County and probably no case
here has ever created such wide interest or aroused a
greater amount of feeling and animosity between the relative
and friends of the opposing factions.
What a marked contrast there was in the human
emotions intermingling in this case.
On the one hand was the craving for a verdict of
punishment, on the other a desire for freedom.
On one side of the room sat an old man, father of the
deceased, bent with age, feeble in voice and limb, his hair
snowy white, suggesting the ripe old age which he has now
reached in the downward journey of life.
There he sat surrounded by his family, whose blanched
and worn faces depicted the ordeal through which they have
been passing, and whose heart aches stained their cheeks
with tears, their souls hungering for the conviction of the
man who took the life of their son and brother.
On the other side of the room sat another man, now no
longer young. He
too is somewhat stooped.
No longer has his stride that elastic spring of
youth. His head
is also sprinkled with the gray hairs of advanced years.
What was the expression mirrored on his face?
It was the desire for freedom, the expectant and
appealing look that his plea of self-defense would be
vindicated. This
is the picture of Thomas H.
Sheridan—hopeful
cheerful courageous, surrounded by his family, on whose lips
was the prayer that their husband and father should be
exonerated for the crime of which he was charged.
An the jury, twelve patient men, whose faces have
withheld all expression of their feelings in the case with
wonderful, self-control, endeavoring to keep the oath to
which they were sworn to fulfill their duty to the state and
mete out justice as they saw it to their fellow man.
Such a marked contrast it was that pervaded the old
building—the opera house—where laughter and merriment gave
place to grave faces and a deep silence, with one faction
picturing justice behind the bars; the other, the
restoration of a happy home and fireside.
Attroenys
Green and Leek returned to Cairo at noon today.
(Thomas F.
Sheridan married
Fannie Throgmorton
on 24 Nov 1891, in Johnson Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Roy L.
Harter, employee of Langan’s
planing mill, died at midnight last night at St. Mary’s
Infirmary, as a result of injuries received Wednesday
evening, when he fell upon a revolving saw, sustaining
injuries to his head, the saw penetrating his brain.
The deceased, who was 19 years old, was
a son of Mr. and Mrs. William L.
Harter, of 417
Twenty-second Street.
There were no witnesses to the
accident, but the man’s cries attracted the attention of the
other employees who saw him walk a few feet from the machine
before he fell to the floor unconscious.
He was taken to St Mary’s Infirmary, where it was
found that his skull had been penetrated by the saw, which
made a gash about five inches in length and penetrated the
brain.
Funeral services over the remains of
the late James
Carroll were held this morning. The cortege left the
family residence on Twenty-eighth Street at 7:45 for St.
Joseph's Church, where services were held at 8 o'clock. The
remains were taken to Calvary Cemetery for interment.
The funeral was attended by a large
number of the old citizens of Cairo, who had known the
deceased for years. The floral offerings were very profuse
and beautiful and consisted of cut flowers and several large
pieces.
Pallbearers were chosen as follows:
Honorary—Capt. W. M.
Williams, A.
Comings, J. M. Lansden,
William Kluge,
William Oehler,
B. McManus, Sr., M. J. Howley,
P. Cahill, P.
Egan, A. T. DeBaun, Dan
Kelly, Patrick
Greaney, J. W. Spies,
James Quinn,
Peter Saup, Frank
Gazzola, A. Botto.
Active—George
Shaw, M. P. Cullinan,
John Barry, P. T.
Langan, William
Manger, M. S. Egan, Frank
Thomas, C. A.
Pettit, Emmett
Tibbs, Louis Zanone.
Walter
Earl, youngest son of William
Earl, of Mounds, fell from a tree Friday evening and
fractured his skull when he struck on a cement walk. He
died within a few minutes. The accident occurred near his
home. The lad, who was about 9 years old, was the son of
Engineer William Earl of the Illinois Central.
The funeral will be held Sunday
afternoon at the Methodist church.
Mrs. Mary
McElany died Friday night at 11:30 at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
H. L. Brackey,
732 Thirty-fourth Street. The remains will be taken to
Metropolis for burial, leaving Cairo at 6 o'clock Sunday
morning. The deceased was 56 years of age.
(The 7 Aug 1912, issue reported her
name as Mattie
McElhaney.—Darrel
Dexter)
Miss Mary Jane
Harvey was born in Madison County, near Canton, Miss. She joined
the church when about 18 years of age and has been a member
of the Methodist Church for over 50 years. She was a
successful school teacher for a number of years in her
native state. She came to Cairo about 10 years ago, making
her home with her sister, Mrs. T. B.
Farrin. In this
home she is missed because of her sweet disposition, calm
and serene and uncomplaining, she always was, although for
the last three years her suffering has been intense. She
bore it all in the spirit of her Master, because His spirit
dwelt within her and actuated her life. She was a member of
the Logan Bible Class, in 1909, where her faithful
attendance, her gentle attentive, inspiring manner is
lovingly remembered. She was always present and glad to be,
unless detained by illness. She was an intelligent student
of the Bible, as proven by the fact that she practiced its
teachings, in church by her attendance at home by her
patience and unselfishness.
In Memory of Mrs. Minnie
Alba, who entered
into eternal rest, August 3, 1906, 6 years ago today.
According to information received this
morning by Charles
Desimoni, his brother, Will
Desimoni, of this
city, who has been in Chicago for several months, is very
low and his life is a question of but a short time. Mr.
Desimoni left at once for his brother's bedside.
Will
Desimoni has been a victim of tuberculosis for several years and
repeatedly had made trips to health resorts in search of
cure. Lately he has been in Chicago, being promoter of an
amusement concession at Riverview Park and was doing well.
John
McAuliff, a former resident of Cairo, died August 3 at Brookport,
Ill., of acute indigestion. He was an old river man, having
been employed for many years on transfer steamers in the
Cairo harbor and also at Columbus, Ky. He was 54 years of
age and leaves a married son, John
McAuliff, Jr., of
Columbus, Ky., a married daughter, Mrs. Miles
Pulley, of
Mounds, and a sister, Mrs. M. E.
Smith, also of
Mounds. Funeral services will be held at Mounds Tuesday
morning at 10 o'clock at St. Raphael’s Church, with
interment being at Villa Ridge cemetery. A special funeral
train will leave the foot of Fourteenth Street at 8:30 in
the morning for the benefit of Cairo friends who wish to
attend.
Mr. and Mrs. F. L.
Moore have
returned from Galatia, Ill., where they were called by the
sudden death of Mrs.
Moore's brother, J. M.
Johnson, who was agent for the Illinois Central railroad
at that place.
His body was brought to New Burnside
for interment. A brother, P. A.
Johnson, of this
city, and Claude A.
Hornbuckel, a nephew, attended the funeral also. Mr.
Johnson at one time was employed by the Big Four here as telegraph
operator, later having several different stations along that
line.
He came to his death, while seated at
his desk when a lamp exploded near him throwing oil over his
clothing. The office was soon filled with the flames. He
sustained serious burns before he could tear his clothing
from his body, but still had presence of mind and got the
fire extinguisher and put out the flames in the office
saving the building.
He lived about a week and died Friday,
Aug. 2.
He leaves a wife and two little girls,
age 9 and 6 years.
Chicago, Ill., August 5—Charles L.
Ewing, for over a
quarter of a century a prominent railroad man in Illinois,
died last evening at his home here. Ewing
has been in ill health for nine months.
He was 54 years old. For about fifteen
years he was superintendent of the St. Louis Division of the
Illinois Central Railroad with headquarters at Carbondale,
Ill. When I. T.
Harahan succeeded Stuyvesant
Fish as
president, Ewing came to Chicago as superintendent of the Chicago division.
Previous to his engagement with the
Illinois central he had been prominent in the Rock Island
and Southern Railroad systems. He retired about two years
ago.
We desire to thank our friends and
neighbors for their kindness and sympathy to us during the
illness and death of our mother, the late Mrs. Mattie
McElhaney
Grand Chain, Ill., Aug. 9—Walter
Woods shot and
killed his father Thursday afternoon at their farm about
five miles from town. Mr.
Woods had been
drinking too much and had let the stock all out in the
corn. The young man says while he was trying to get them
up, his father attacked him with a knife. He states that he
had to shoot in self-defense. He then came to town and gave
himself up to the officers, but they did not arrest him
then.
The body was brought to their home in
town late last night. Mr.
Woods was an
ex-cowboy and their former home was in Oklahoma. It is
thought his remains will be sent there. He leaves a wife
and three little girls and one son, the boy who did the
shooting.
Undertaker
Montgomery and Coroner Steele,
of Mound City, arrived shortly after the killing.
A report reached Cairo today that the
father had been drinking and had threatened the whole
family.
The elder
Woods just recently opened a small grocery store in Grand Chain.
Young
Wood had not been brought down to Mound City at noon today. Sheriff
Wehrenberg sent
for the boy, but he was held at Grand Chain, pending a
hearing of his case.
The homicide occurred in the country
about four miles from Grand Chain.
(His marker in Grand Chain Masonic
Cemetery reads:
Wesley M. Wood
Born Oct, 9, 1858 Died Aug. 8, 1912.—Darrel
Dexter)
R. E.
Cavender, 77 years of age and an old resident of Willard, died at 10
o'clock Friday evening at the home of his daughter, Mrs.
John Gosset, with
whom he has made his residence for several years. Mr.
Cavender had been ill for a year or more and the direct cause of his
death was a stroke of paralysis. He was a large land owner
in Alexander County.
The following children survive
him: Mrs. S. H.
Yates, Walter S.
Cavender, Mrs. Julia
Gosset, of
Willard; Mrs. Minnie
Thompson, of Eugene, Oregon, and Mrs. Blanche
Brewer, of Cache,
Ill.
The funeral will be held Sunday
afternoon at 2 o'clock at the residence of Mrs.
Gosset, at Willard, conducted by Rev.
Lippett, of the Methodist Church. Interment will be at the family
burying ground there. E. A.
Burke, the undertaker has charge of the remains.
(John
Gossett married Laura D
Cavender on 20 Sep 1885, in Alexander Co., Ill.
Spirus H.
Yates married Julia B.
Cavender on 3 Dec
1879, in Alexander Co., Ill.
His marker in Cavender & Schindler Cemetery reads:
R. E. Cavender
Born March 25, 1836 Died Aug. 9, 1912.
Next to this marker is one which reads:
L. A. wife of R. E.
Cavender Born
July 17, 1836 Died June 17, 1896.
Maggie E. daughter of R. E. & L. A.
Cavender Born
Sept. 17, 1879 Died April 18 1893.—Darrel
Dexter)
William
Desimoni, brother of Charles and Joseph
Desimoni, of this city, died at Chicago Sunday evening, after an
illness of several months of tuberculosis, the past three
months having been spent in Chicago, where he has been
engaged in the show business at one of the amusement
parks. He became seriously ill about a week ago and rapidly
declined. Prior to going to Chicago, the deceased spent
several months in Florida, but met with slight improvement.
The remains will be brought in Cairo
for burial, arriving at 5 o'clock Tuesday morning. The
deceased was 33 years of age and was reared in Cairo. He
leaves besides his two brothers, one sister, Mrs. Charles
Jordon, of
Cincinnati.
The funeral will probably be held
Wednesday morning.
Mrs. Elizabeth
Collins, one of the oldest residents of this city, passed away at
St. Mary’s Infirmary early this morning at the age of 85
years. Death was due to the infirmities of old age.
For the past several years the deceased
had made her home at the infirmary. She has been a resident
of Cairo for seventy years, coming here from Ireland, when
she was fifteen years old. She was born at Dunmanway,
County Cork, Ireland.
She is survived by two sons, Jack
Collins, the
well-known fireman, and Joseph
Collins. One
sister also survives her, Mrs. Catherine
Callahan, of
Kansas City. Mrs.
Callahan will be unable to attend the funeral.
The funeral will be held tomorrow
afternoon at St. Joseph's Church, Rev. James
Gillen
officiating.
Desimoni—Died, William
Desimoni, aged 33 years. Funeral services will be held
at St. Patrick’s Church Wednesday morning, cortege leaving
residence, No. 514 Commercial Avenue at 8 o'clock. Burial
will take place at Villa Ridge, conducted by Rev. J. J.
Downey. Special
train will leave foot of Fourteenth Street at 9:30
a.m. Friends of the family invited to attend.
Collins—Died Tuesday, August 13, Mrs. Elizabeth
Collins, aged 85
years.
Funeral cortege will leave Mrs.
Feith's
undertaking parlors, Eleventh and Washington, Wednesday at
1:30 p.m. for St. Joseph's Church, where services will be
held at 2 o'clock.
Remains will be taken on special train
from Fourteenth Street to Villa Ridge cemetery where
interment will be made.
Friends of the family are invited.
The funeral services over the remains
of the late William
Desimoni were held this morning at 8 o'clock at St.
Patrick’s Church, Rev. Father James
Downey being the
officiating priest. A special train leaving Fourteenth
Street at 9:30 conveyed the funeral party to Villa Ridge
where the interment was made.
The pallbearers were Dr. Blake
Hannon, John
Sanders, William Williams,
Louis Oehler,
Jr., William
Fitzgerald, John
Largamarcino, and John Raggio.
The funeral of T. B.
Woods was held Sunday afternoon. Several relatives from the west
were here for the funeral. (Grand Chain)
Lee
Baker, the three-month-old son of Mrs. and Mrs. R. L.
Baker, of 2814
Sycamore Street, died late Tuesday afternoon at the family
residence after a short illness. The funeral was held this
afternoon. Interment being at Beech Grove Cemetery, the
cortege going up on a special interurban car. E. A.
Burke had charge
of the funeral.
Chief of Police
Egan received a message from an undertaking firm at Gary, Ind.,
asking him to locate Joseph
alias "Dump"
Gibson who is
supposed to be in Cairo and inform him that his brother,
Arthur, is dead. Gibson
could not be located last night. His name does not appear
in the directory.
The message did not state whether he is
white or colored.
The remains of Herbert
Boughter, of this
city, who died Saturday at a hospital in New Orleans, were
interred in the cemetery at Kuttawa, Ky., Monday. The
deceased formerly lived in Cairo being employed at the store
at James Meehan
at Fourth and Washington. He was 35 years of age and is
survived by a wife and children, who have been residing at
Fulton, Ky. Mrs. T. J.
Bayard, of 314
Washington Avenue, is a sister, as is also Mrs. Arch
Purdy, of
Chicago, formerly of this city.
DuQuoin, Ill., Aug. 15—George
Engel, the
recently convicted wife murderer has been sentenced to die
on the gallows Friday, October 18th, between the
hours of 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.
Judge B. W.
Pope pronounced the sentence and the prisoner maintained the same
stolid countenance that has characterized his attitude since
he was arrested for the crime.
Freda May, the 18-month-old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Ray
McKinney, of Stoy, Ill., died Sunday at the home of her
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
Walker, at Horse
Shoe Lake. The
McKinney family had been visiting at the
Walker home and
the child took suddenly ill with meningitis, death soon
resulting. The remains will be taken to Stoy for
interment. E. A.
Burke had charge.
That Wadeah
Wehbie, a young Syrian who has been missing since Friday morning,
met with foul play, which resulted in his drowning in the
Mississippi River, is the belief of the police and also
Wehbie's
relatives, who have been searching for him since his
disappearance.
Wehbie, who with his brother Thomas conducts a grocery store at
the corner of Fourth and Washington left the place early
Friday morning as was his daily custom to go to the upper
part of town to meet the farmers and buy vegetables for the
store. He was seen at Twentieth and Washington about 7
o'clock. When he did not return later in the day, his
relatives became alarmed and started a search. They scoured
the entire city and all the roads leading into Cairo, but to
no avail.
Sunday morning Thomas
Wehbie searched
along the Mississippi levee in the vicinity of Twenty-eighth
Street and learned from a fisherwoman that she has seen the
young man in company with two negroes, Friday. She was
entirely sure about the matter as she had known the young
Syrian personally.
She said the three passed her shanty going south
towards the Greenfield Landing. Later, the two negroes came
back, unaccompanied by
Wehbie and inquired for a ferryman to take them across the
river. They seemed very anxious to get across and told her
they would pay double fare if they could get the skiff
immediately. She directed them to a ferryman who took them
to the opposite side where they caught the steamer
Kentucky which was
going up river at the time.
Sunday morning, John
Dewey found a
bundle of clothes under a pile of driftwood on the bank near
the Greenfield Landing. He called the attention of a
fisherman to them who gave the clothing to E. A.
Smith who chanced
to be passing in his automobile and who took them to police
headquarters. Mrs. Mary
Wehbie, mother of
the young man, was notified and she identified the effects
as belonging to her son. In the clothing was found $1.30 in
money.
After the clothing was found, Thomas
Wehbie, assisted
by other local Syrians, dragged the river near the ferry
landing in an effort to locate the body, but were
unsuccessful.
The fact that the bundle of clothing
was found buried beneath a pile of driftwood, and that the
two negroes acted suspiciously when they were over desirous
to be taken across the river seem to indicate that they
might have assaulted
Wehbie, stripped him of his clothing when they robbed him, threw his
body into the river and then hurriedly made their getaway. Wehbie
had quite a sum of money on his person when he left home
Friday morning and the fact that his clothing only contained
$1.30 when found makes the robbery motive stronger.
The suicide theory is not plausible
because had the man wished to take his life, he could have
found other means before he left his place of business and
then again it is hardly possible that he would have taken
off his clothes in order to drown himself. It is not
thought that he went in swimming, since he had lived here
practically all his life, and knew the danger of the
Mississippi at that point, where many persons had lost their
lives in late years.
The police are in hopes that the body
may be found, as marks of foul play, if such is the case can
probably be found. Meanwhile efforts are being made to
locate the two suspicious negroes, in whose company
Wehbie was seen
by the fisher woman.
Wehbie is well known, having resided in Cairo since he was a
lad. He attended the public schools and was well
educated. He is survived by his mother and three brothers
and several other relatives in the Syrian colony.
After a long illness of Bright's
disease, George
Abbott died Sunday morning at the residence of his
brother-in-law, W. T.
Hallerfield, 229 Thirty-fourth street. The body was taken to Grand
Chain by the parents of the deceased and the funeral was
held there today. E. A.
Burke, the
undertaker had charge of the funeral.
Abbott was formerly an employee of the Illinois Central road
here and was well known.
An unknown negro lost his life Sunday
morning near Cache bridge it is presumed by one of the night
trains of the Illinois Central. The body, which was badly
mangled, was found lying on the west side of the southbound
track by the train crew of train No. 24. There was no means
of identification as nothing except a pair of dice was found
on the dead man's person. Coroner
McManus held an
inquest shortly afterward the notification by the train
crew.
The immediate vicinity of the Illinois
Central round house and yards at Eighteenth and Ohio levee
was terrorized this afternoon about 1:45 by an unknown
drunken negro, who angered because he was put of the
Illinois Central train, No. 2 north, vented his spleen on
the neighborhood by shooting at a small negro boy and
turning his gun on Yardmaster Harry
Stout. After the
gun flourishing, he jumped over the stone wall there, ran
down into the river, swam around for about 10 minutes and
disappeared beneath the water. A search is now being made
for his body.
Presumably because he was drunk the
negro was put off the I. C. train near Twentieth
Street. However, he boarded the last car again when the
train started and was again put off by the train
officials. Coming through the yards he met two small negro
boys and began cursing them and knocked one of them, Albert
Hicks, down with
his fist. The boy jumped up and ran and his aggressor
pulled a 32 caliber "bulldog" pistol and shot twice at the
fleeing lad, who was about 20 feet distant. That the boy
was not killed is strange.
Proceeding further down through the
yards, the negro met Yardmaster
Stout and
demanded at the point of his pistol that he institute a
search for the negro boy, who had by this time gotten out of
harm's way. Stout
replied that he had no knowledge of the lad's whereabouts
whereat the drunken man snapped the revolver several times,
but it failed to go off to which the yardmaster incidentally
owes his life.
Chief of Police
Egan immediately employed several men to search for the body and
efforts were made all afternoon with drag hooks to find the
remains.
The man was unknown and the fact that
he was intoxicated in such terribly hot weather made it
appear that he was crazy.
Arrangements for the funeral of Willis
Leonard Clanahan,
poet and humorist, who died yesterday, will not be made
until his sister, Miss Belle
Clanahan, of
Louisville, Ky., arrives in St. Louis, says today's
St. Louis Republic.
Arrangements will be in charge of Mrs.
Leonora Thiel
Clanahan, the writer’s former wife, who lives at 4024 Lindell
Boulevard.
His death occurred at the Christian
hospital after a four days’ illness of uremic poisoning. He
was 45 years old and was born at Metropolis, Ill., where his
father was a clergyman. He entered the newspaper field when
a young man.
Mr.
Clanahan gained most of his recognition as a writer in St. Louis
where he was employed for several years on
The Post-Dispatch.
The deceased was well known in Cairo,
having been engaged in newspaper work in Cairo several years
ago.
He was a cousin of Milo
Clanahan, who was
engaged in the insurance business here for several years.
Was Wadeah
Wehbie the young Syrian who disappeared Friday morning and whose
clothing was found under a pile of driftwood on the banks of
the Mississippi River Sunday morning, a suicide? After
threshing over the various other theories of death by foul
play, accidental drowning, and willful disappearance from
the city, Chief of Police
Egan is of the opinion that the young man actually took his own life
by drowning himself in the Mississippi River near the
Greenfield Ferry Landing.
Chief
Egan bases his belief on the fact that
Wehbie is said to have been in ill health for some time and for
several weeks past had been despondent. That the clothes of
the missing boy were found neatly folded under the pile of
driftwood leads the police official to think that
Wehbie, before
plunging into the river, carefully arranged his personal
effects to give the appearance that he had been robbed and
murdered that the suicide theory might be scouted and save
his family the disgrace.
That
Wehbie was not robbed and murdered by the unknown negroes who were
said to be in that vicinity is the chief's belief. In the
first place, what would
Wehbie be doing
in company with two negroes and in that part of the city
asks the chief, when he supposedly went, as was his custom
to the upper part of town to buy produce from the incoming
farmers? Why would the negroes make an attempt at robbery,
when according to available information,
Wehbie had only several dollars on his person, was only ordinarily
dressed and neither wore diamonds nor jewelry?
Accidental drowning, too, is out of the
question, for Wehbie
was not a swimming enthusiast and as a novice he would not
have chosen such a place knowing full well as nearly
everyone here does, about the danger.
Another idea advanced is that
Wehbie had
planned for some time a trip to the east, where it is said
he would locate and that he took such an opportunity to
disappear because of the mystery attached and the consequent
freedom from annoyance in another locality. However his
relatives assert that he had no surplus money, so for the
time being such a theory is put to rout.
Monday afternoon the river was again
dragged in hopes of bringing the body to the surface and
several charges of dynamite were exploded but to no avail.
The body of the unknown negro, who,
after being put off Illinois Central train No. 2 northbound,
terrorized persons in the I. C. yards in the vicinity of the
roundhouse at Eighteenth and Ohio Levee, and was drowned
when he ran madly into the river has not as yet been
recovered.
The identity of the negro has not as
yet been learned. He was either drunk or a "dope fiend" and
he proceeded to "whoop things up" in one of the passenger
coaches of the train, soon after it pulled out of the
station here. When Conductor
McKee
remonstrated with him, he knocked that official down. When
the train reached Twentieth Street, it was topped and the
bad actor was ejected. He tried to get on a second time,
but suffered the same experience at the hands of the
trainmen. It was then that he ran amuck in the yards,
flourished his pistol, with probable intent to kill and met
his fate by drowning.
The body of Wadeah
Wehbie, the young
Syrian, who in some unaccountable manner lost his life in
the Mississippi River, presumably last Friday was found
Sunday at Hickman and buried there after an inquest. This
information was received by relatives here who sent to
Hickman early this morning to claim the body.
It was learned through a communication
over long distance phone with the city marshal at Hickman,
that there were no marks on the body that would indicate
murder. One bruise on the body is supposed to have been
caused by the body striking an obstruction on its downward
course in the river. It must have traveled the 409 miles
distance in quick time.
It is said the relatives of the dead
body still socur the theory that the case was
suicidal. They don't believe that
Wehbie had reason
to take his life, since some of them assert that he was not
given to melancholy, neither was he despondent nor in ill
health. On the other hand, others of the Syrian colony
assert that the young man was of peculiar temperament from
constant despondency and that he suddenly became deranged
and in such a passion he made away with himself.
Peter
Wehbie, one of the brothers, says he thinks it was a case of
murder. He believes that his brother was first robbed then
assaulted and denuded and thrown into the river. Then the
clothing was piled up in a neat way to give the impression
that the young man had gone in swimming and had been
accidentally drowned. That $1.30 was found in the clothing
was also a ruse of the murderers, according to the dead
man's brother, to carry out the accidental drowning idea,
because his brother had at least $5 in possession when he
left home Friday morning.
Chief of Police
Egan does not believe the murder theory probable, because there
surely would have been a tussle between
Wehbie and the
unknown parties, and the clothing would have born evidence
of this. Then again, the chief says, traces of blood would
have been found, had there been a killing.
The body of
Wehbie will be brought back to Cairo one on of the night trains.
The floater found in the Mississippi
River Sunday morning at Hickman, Ky., was identified as the
body of Wadeah Wehbie,
the young Syrian, who had been missing from his home here
almost a week. Relatives from here went down to Hickman,
recognized their kinsman, but on account of the badly
decomposed state of the remains, interment was made at the
cemetery there.
The body was found by four boys who
were in swimming and they pulled it to the shore.
Decomposition had set in and immediate burial was
deemed advisable but the authorities there. When the
relatives from here arrived, the situation was explained to
them. The body was taken up for identification by the
Syrians and then it was buried a second time.
The body will be brought here later on
and buried in the family lot at Villa Ridge cemetery.
Thomas
Wehbie, one of the brothers of the deceased, says he was told by
those who saw the body when it was first found that there
were several marks and bruises on the body that would
indicate foul play. He strongly believes that theory, and
says had his brother met death by accidental drowning at the
spot near where his clothes were found, the corpse would
have been lodged in the underbrush that exists in great
quantities in that locality and not have floated down the
river so quickly.
Deputy Sheriff
Harris, of Jackson, Tenn., was in the city today to take back to
that place a negro named Henry
Hunt, who is
wanted there for assault to kill. The negro was captured
several days ago by Chief
Egan, who had his
description from the Jackson authorities.
The body of the unknown negro who ran
amuck in the Illinois Central freight yards at Eighteenth
and Ohio streets Tuesday afternoon were found late Thursday
afternoon by two East Cairo men at almost the exact spot
where he was drowned.
The Kentuckians were coming over in
their skiff and were nearing the bank at Eighteenth Street,
when suddenly the body shot up from the depths just in front
of their boat. They secured a rope and pulled the body to
the shore and then notified Coroner
McManus.
A jury was empaneled on the scene and a
verdict of drowning with suicidal intent was returned. A
number of witnesses were examined, including several who
were on the train when the negro raised a disturbance and
was put off by Conductor
McKee and special agent Maxey.
He was in the day coach using profane
language among a crowd of ladies. The train officials
testified that the man was intoxicated and his actions
indicate those of a crazed person.
Nothing that would lead to
identification was found on the body. The negro looked to
be about 18or 20 years of age. He was buried today at the
expense of the county by Mrs. L. C.
Falconer, the
undertaker.
Miss Halley Elizabeth
Gaunt died at her
home in East Cairo this morning. Interment will be made at
Cain Creek Cemetery Tuesday. The deceased was a young woman
and her people are farmers across the river. E. A.
Burke, the
undertaker, has charge of the remains.
Mrs. Charles
Holly, of Fayville, mother of Mrs. J. P.
Gardner, of Cairo, died Sunday morning of Bright's disease and
dropsy. She was 40 years of age. Funeral services were
held this morning at Olive Branch and the remains were
buried in the cemetery there. The deceased left four
children besides her husband.
Friends in Cairo of H. B.
Graden, of
Paducah, Ky., formerly a resident of this city, were shocked
to learn of his death, which occurred very suddenly Sunday
afternoon at Paducah, as the result of pneumonia. He was
only ill three days.
The deceased until a few months ago,
was employed at the jewelry store of Charles F.
Miller, 806 Commercial Avenue. He was an optometrist and went to
Paducah to take a similar position with a jewelry store
there. He had been a resident of Cairo for several years,
coming to this city from Cape Girardeau, Mo. He was about
32 years of age.
The remains will arrive in Cairo this
evening at 8 o'clock from Paducah over the I. C. and will be
met by members of the local lodge of Elks and escorted to
the parlors of E. A.
Burke undertaking establishment, where they will lie in
state until 3:30 Tuesday morning. At 4:15 they will be
taken on Bryan's
train to Thebes and thence to Cape Girardeau. From there
they will be taken to the home of the deceased at Jackson,
Mo., where the interment will be made.
Exalted Ruler Parsons of the Elks has
named the following as pallbearers: A. L.
DeMontcourt, Gilbert Casey,
Hunter Bird, Fred
Lind, Albert
Nelson, F. E. Buder, Dr.
M. W. Cox, Karl
Miller, Dan Woods, Will
Winter. All
others of the Elks who can are requested to meet the remains
at the station tonight and form the escort to the
undertaking parlors.
Messenger—Passed from this life on into the life more abundant, E.
Grace Messenger,
on August 24, 1912, at the residence of her sister, Mrs.
Mary Hill, 756
Bittersweet Place, Chicago, Ill. She was a resident of St.
Louis for twenty-seven years.
Burial at Warsaw, Ill., Monday, August
26, 1912.
Cairo (Ill.) papers please copy.
Alleging that their father's death was
indirectly due to liquor sold to him by Carl
Noll, a saloonkeeper, John
Neale, Jr., Joseph and Ernest
Neale, have filed
suit for $10,000 damages in the circuit court.
The complainants allege that it was
while under the influence of liquor procured in the
Noll Saloon at 1302 East Reservoir Street, on April 13, last that
their father strolled upon the Wabash tracks at Tenth Street
and Phillips Avenue and was hit by a train and killed.
DuQuoin, Ill., August 27—The death of
William E. Brookings,
former mayor of DuQuoin, whose lifeless body was found in
his apartments in the Brookings block, marks the passing of
one of the oldest citizens and businessmen of this city. He
has been slowly declining in health several months and
recently spent few weeks in St. Louis hospital with the hope
of improving his condition.
The deceased was born at New Haven,
Pa., February 12, 1849, and at his death was 63 years
old. He became a resident of DuQuoin in 1857 and had since
resided here. The funeral services were conducted Monday
morning at the First Methodist Episcopal Church, Rev. Marion
Teague and Rev.
W. T. Morris,
officiating.
Edward
Westerman, aged 12 years, was drowned Monday afternoon about 4:30
o'clock while swimming in the Ohio River at Mound City. The
deceased is a son of Mr. and Mrs. William
Westerman.
The lad with several companions were in
swimming a short distance south of the Marine Ways.
Westerman
ventured out in deep water and became frightened and before
help could be summoned he was swept away by the strong
current and drowned.
The funeral will be held Wednesday
morning at 9 o'clock services at St. Mary’s Catholic Church.
Special interurban cars convey the funeral party to
Mounds where interment will be made in St. Mary's Cemetery.
(His marker in St. Mary Catholic
Cemetery at Mounds reads:
Edward
Westerman 1899-1912.—Darrel
Dexter)
The remains of the late H. B.
Graden, who died
Sunday at Paducah, arrived in Cairo last night and after
lying in state at Burke's undertaking parlors, were taken this morning on
Bryan's train to
Thebes and from there to Jackson, Mo. Interment will be
made at the latter place Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. George
Koehler, Miss Fay
Koehler, Mr. and Mrs. Charles F.
Miller, and a brother of the deceased, accompanied the remains to
Cairo from Paducah and they were met by a delegation from
the local Elks lodge. The above party also accompanied the
remains to Jackson, Mo., this morning and Karl
Miller and Albert
Nelson went along
being delegated to attend the funeral as representatives of
the Cairo lodge of Elks.
Mr.
Graden had been employed at the
Wolfe jewelry store in Paducah as optometrist for several
months. For several years previous he held a similar
position with Charles F.
Miller, the
jeweler here.
We desire to extend our heartfelt
thanks to the friends and neighbors who showed us so many
acts of kindness during the illness and on the death of our
wife and mother, Mrs. John T.
Woods, and also
for the beautiful flowers they sent.
A cutting scrape occurred on the
Halliday-Phillips wharf boat this afternoon about 1:30 o'clock between two
negro roustabouts of the steamer
Rees Lee. Henry
Davis was the
cutist and he badly wounded the other negro, whose name is
Alexander Smith. The injured man was removed to the Marine hospital and while
the case is very serious, there is a slight chance for
recovery.
(Her marker in Ullin Cemetery reads:
Genevieve Allen Born Nov. 12, 1911 Died July 9, 1912.—Darrel
Dexter)
Patrick
McCann, of Herrin, died this morning at 8 o’clock at St. Mary’s
Infirmary of heart disease and Bright's disease. Mr.
McCann had been
ill for some time and came here about a week ago in enter
the hospital. He was a member of the firm of
McCann Bros.,
railroad contractors, and had a wide acquaintance in
southern Illinois. He was 47 years of age and leaves a
family. A brother of the deceased arrived in Cairo this
afternoon to take charge of the remains.
Little 8-year-old Daisy
Fuller died at
the home of her parents at Sixteenth and Commercial Tuesday
morning of scarlet fever. The funeral was held this morning
interment being at Hodges Park Cemetery.
Mrs. L. C. Falconer had charge of the remains.
After a short illness of acute
peritonitis, Mrs. Julia
Yates, wife of
Spirus H. Yates,
of Miller City, died Thursday night at the Bondurant
Hospital at 11:40 o'clock. She had been confined at the
hospital with the illness since last Sunday.
The deceased was born 53 years ago in
Indiana, but had resided in this county nearly all of her
lifetime. Before her marriage to Mr.
Yates, she was Miss Julia
Cavender. Her husband is a prominent farmer near Miller
City and was well known in Cairo and throughout Alexander
County.
The survivors of the family are three
daughters, Mrs. Maude
Moore and Winifred and Vivian
Yates, and two
sons, Wayne and Haron
Yates, all of whom were at the bedside of their mother
at her death. She also leaves three sisters, Mrs. Blanch
Brewer, of Cache,
Mrs. Dee Gossett,
of Miller City, and Mrs. Minnie
Thompson, of
Portland, Ore., and one brother, Walter
Cavender, of
Miller City.
The funeral will be held Sunday from
the undertaking parlors of E. A.
Burke in this
city and a special interurban train will convey the party to
Beech Grove Cemetery where the interment will occur.
(Spirus H.
Yates married Julia B.
Cavender on 3 Dec 1879, in Alexander Co., Ill.
John Gossett
married Laura D.
Cavender on 20 Sep 1885, in Alexander Co., Ill.
—Darrel Dexter)
Died—Mrs. S. H. Yates,
of Miller City.
Funeral cortege will leave E. A.
Burke's
undertaking parlors, 906 Commercial Avenue on special
interurban car at 1 o'clock p.m., Sunday, Sept. 8. Services
at Beech Grove Cemetery conducted by Rev. J. A.
Bell, of Opdyke, Ill.
Friends of the family invited.
(Warren
Aldridge, 25, born in Union Co., Ill., son of James
Aldridge and
Huldah Welch,
married Melissa C.
Miller, 21, born in Union Co., Ill., daughter of Thomas
F. Miller and
Sarah Holmes, on
21 Aug 1894, in Union Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Died—Mrs. S. H. Yates,
of Miller City.
Funeral cortege will leave E. A.
Burke's
undertaking parlors, 906 Commercial Avenue on special
interurban car at 1 o'clock p.m., Sunday, Sept. 8. Services
at Beech Grove Cemetery conducted by Rev. J. A.
Bell, of Opdyke, Ill.
Friends of the family invited.
After resisting arrest at the hands of
Officer Edward Powers,
an unknown negro, when pursued by the officer, in the
vicinity of Sixth and Ohio streets, near the
Halliday-Phillips wharf boat jumped into the river and was
drowned. Efforts towards finding the body by dragging the
river at that point Sunday and today have failed thus far to
recover the negro's remains.
The incident occurred about 4:30 Sunday
afternoon and several hundred people including excursionists
on the steamers Rapids
and Robinson from
Paducah and local citizens who had gathered to watch the
boats depart on their return trips were witnesses.
Officer
Powers made an attempt to arrest the negro at Sixth and Railroad
streets on a charge of drunkenness and disorderly
conduct. The negro was in company with a white man and they
had been making a disturbance that prompted the officer to
tell them to move on or be taken to jail. The white man
went his way, but the negro persisted in ugly talk and the
officer took him by the coat collar and started to march to
headquarters.
The negro, however, angered at this
move, broke away from the policeman and ran down to Sixth
and Commercial. Powers
followed and again took him into custody. They had only
gone a few steps when the negro again broke loose and ran up
the levee with the officer in close pursuit. After catching
him again at Railroad and Sixth streets, Officer
Powers had quite
a tussle with the negro, who broke away for the third time
and ran towards the levee front.
He gained considerable headway on the
officer in the run and when he refused to halt at the
officer’s command,
Powers fired his gun at the ground, thinking the negro
would stop. This seemed to increase his intentions to get
away and after gaining the top of the levee, he ran down the
slope through the crowd of people. Some of the bystanders
seeing the trouble started after the negro, but he gained
the water’s edge and jumped in and was drowned.
The negro's identity is unknown, but
some say he was from Missouri. He was apparently between 25
and 30 years of age.
The death of Mrs. Mary
Conley, who
passed away Sunday morning at 12:45 o'clock, Mound City lost
an old resident. She had been ill about three months when
death came. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 9 a.m.
conducted by Rev. Father
Jumbour, of the
Catholic Church, and the remains will be taken by special
interurban car to St. Mary's Cemetery at Mounds for
interment. Surviving her are two daughters and six sons.
(Her marker in St. Mary Cemetery at
Mounds reads:
Mary Conley 1848-1912.—Darrel
Dexter)
(The grandparents may be the same
people as August F.
Ronnebeck and Caroline D. J.
Hoffman, who were
married on 9 June
1867, in Madison Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Following a quarrel over a game of
cards in the saloon of D. W.
McPherson, at
3301 Commercial Avenue, Louis
Oliver was shot
and killed by another negro named Richardson
Anderson. The men had been playing a game of "pitch" and following
an argument, Anderson became enraged at
Oliver, and drew his gun and fired a bullet into
Oliver's breast
which caused almost instant death.
Officer John
Wade was near the scene at the time and arrested
Anderson. The
shootist is known as a "bad man" and is well known in police
circles. On numerous other occasions he has tried to kill
several other men it is said, for petty grievance.
Oliver had been regarded as a peaceful hardworking negro and had
resided at 208 Thirty-third Street, the house just in the
rear of the place in which he was killed.
The body of the unknown negro, who ran
into the Ohio River Sunday afternoon to evade arrest and who
was drowned, was found this morning near the ferry dock of
the steamer Three States. The body arose to the surface and was seen by the
ferry boat watchman, who with others pulled the corpse out
of the water.
Coroner James
McManus empaneled a jury and after investigating the case they
conclude that the negro was drowned of his own accords and
exonerated Officer
Powers from any blame in the matter. No means of
identification were found upon the body.
The unknown negro, who had the trouble
with Officer Edward
Powers after which he drowned himself in the Ohio River,
is said to have been a bad character and hailed from
Charleston, Mo.
According to a deputy sheriff from Charleston, the negro was
known either as "Cocaine Jimmy" and had been a well-known
police character and the officers of that town had
experienced considerable trouble with him.
Joseph
Mulvey, an old resident of Mound City, died Monday afternoon at the
Bondurant Hospital, after an illness of several weeks of
typhoid fever. He was 62 years of age at his death.
He was a widower and leaves one
brother, John Mulvey,
of Stonefort, Ill., and a nephew, Joseph
Mulvey, of St.
Louis. The body was taken from Mound City this afternoon to
Stonefort, Ill., under the auspices of the Vienna lodge of
Odd Fellows of which the deceased was a member.
(Joseph
Mulvey married S. J. Bohn
on 13 Nov 1877, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Lot
Thomas, the negro who was shot Sunday evening by another negro named
Bird Hunt, on a
farm a mile inland from the Greenfield ferry landing on the
Missouri side of the Mississippi River, died Monday
afternoon at St. Mary's Infirmary. The trouble, according
to a dying statement of
Thomas, occurred
when Thomas
became acquainted with a young negro girl, with whom
Hunt was
infatuated. Several quarrels ensured between the two men,
which finally led to the shooting. Coroner
McManus held an inquest this afternoon for the coroner of
Mississippi County, the expense of same being charged to
that official.
SUDDEN DEATH OF MRS. ALMA WATSON
Following an illness of several months, Mrs. Alma
Watson, mother of
Mrs. W. F. Smith,
died at the residence of her daughter, No. 322 Seventh
Street, Tuesday evening. The death was sudden, since
Mrs. Watson had
shown signs of improvement several days past. While
taking nourishment, she fell prostrate on the bed, and
expired before a physician could be summoned.
Mrs. Watson
was the widow of the late John
Watson, of
Milwaukee, and came to Cairo several months ago from that
city to reside with her daughter. The only other
survivor of the family is a son, Herbert
Watson, of Tuscaloosa, Ala. He was immediately notified of his
mother's death and will arrive today to accompany the
remains to Milwaukee where the interment will be made.
Private funeral services were held at the
Smith residence
this afternoon at 5 o'clock and the remains taken to
Milwaukee via
Chicago on the Seminole at 10 o'clock. Mr. and Mrs.
Smith also accompanied the remains.
The pallbearers will be Edward
Pink, A. S.
Staehle, P. H.
Schuh, Herman C.
Schuh, Dr. J. H. Davis,
George G. Koehler
and John Meyer.
News reached here today of the death of Mrs. Walter
Funk, which occurred in St. Louis this morning. Mrs.
Funk was a former
resident here about eight years ago, when Mr.
Funk was
superintendent of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company’s
local branch. She was well known, having been a member of
the First Methodist Church here and had many friends.
Since removing to St. Louis, Mrs.
Funk had visited here on several occasions.
W. A. Hall,
an ex-sheriff of Ballard County, died suddenly at his home
in Wickliffe this morning at 10 o'clock. He was a
well-known resident of West Kentucky and also in Cairo,
being a frequent visitor to this city. He was a member
of the K. M. K. C. lodge here besides holding membership in
the Masons, Elks and a number of other orders. The
survivors are two brothers and one sister. The funeral
will be held Sunday afternoon, interment being at the
Wickliffe cemetery. E. A.
Burke has charge
of the remains.
(Anthony J.
Trexler married Mary E.
Stephens on 4 Mar
1869, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
Anthony J. Trexler married Angiline
Billingsly on 31 Oct 1880, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
Anthony J.
Trexler married Minnie
Hemsker on 12 Oct
1886, in Pulaski Co., Ill. George
Sichling, 23, of
Ullin, born in Union Co., Ill., son of George D.
Sichling and Catherine
Branstom, married Stella May
Trexler, 18, of
Ullin, born in Pulaski Co., Ill., daughter of Anthony J.
Trexler and Annie Billingsly,
on 6 Aug 1899, in Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
An application to the State Board of Pardons will be
presented by Mrs. Florence E. Wood of 3014
Sycamore Street, asking that body to commute the sentence or
pardon her son, William
Hackney, who was
convicted for the murder of John __ldron,
in the Alexander County circuit court at the May term of
court in 1911.
Hackney received a life term at the Chester
penitentiary.
Mrs. Wood
for the past several months has been busy securing
signatures to a petition to be presented to the board.
Her list is a large one and includes many of the
businessmen. The next meeting of the board will be
held on October 14th.
Eugenia Josephine
Foster, the
14-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. O.
Foster, died this
morning at 5:45 o'clock at St. Mary’s Infirmary of
appendicitis, following an operation. She had been
confined at the hospital since last Friday, having taken ill
several days previous to that time.
The deceased was born in Willard, this county.
She had a host of friends who knew her as a classmate.
When school opened on Monday, Sept. 9th, she
entered the first year of the Cairo High School and that day
she was taken ill. Her father is well known in Cairo
and also throughout the county, having been a former deputy
circuit clerk and at present is a candidate for circuit
clerk on the Democratic ticket. Besides her parents,
the deceased is survived by two younger brothers.
The funeral will be held Thursday afternoon at the
residence services being conducted by Rev. Mr.
Clark of the
Calvary Baptist church at 12:30 and a special interurban
train will leave in front of the residence at 1911
Washington Avenue for Beech Grove where the interment will
be made.
Died—Miss Eugenia
Foster,
Wednesday, Sept. 18, age 14 years.
Funeral services at the family residence, 1911
Washington Avenue, Thursday, Sept. 19th, at 12:30 conducted
by Rev. Mr. Clark,
special interurban car will leave Twentieth and Washington
at 1 p.m. for Beech Grove Cemetery. Friends of family
invited.
Harrisburg, Ill., Sept. 19—Leon
Wells, the Peoria
race horse man, was shot by Ed
McEwen, of
Paducah, at the Harrisburg ground. Sheriff
Mooneyhan received a telegram today from Tiptonville, Tenn., that
McEwen was under
arrest there and the sheriff left for Tiptonville after him.
(Henry Metcalf,
the husband of Edith
Dunn, is buried in Williamson and Strader Cemetery near
Olive Branch, but there is no marker.—Darrel
Dexter)
Martin V.
Norris was born in Vigo Co., Ind., Oct. 24, 1854, and
died at his home near Beech Grove Church in Alexander
County, Ill., Sept. 15th, 1912.
He was united in marriage to Lucinda
Hicks, March 10th,
1885. To this union six children were born, five
survive, viz.: Charlie, Jesse and James, of Thebes;
Mrs. Nellie Babbs,
of Freeport; and Mrs. Phenia
Griswold, of
Edgewood; and Harry, who died in his infancy.
Mr. Norris
united with the Beech Grove Baptist Church in April 1911.
He leaves a wife, five children and several grandchildren to
mourn their loss.
Mr. Norris
had resided in this community only a few years and was a
hardworking man and is said to always pay his debts, which
credit is due him.
Their friends extend sympathy in their bereavement.
Interment took place Monday at Mt. Zion Cemetery.
We wish to extend our heartfelt thanks to our
neighbors and friends who were so kind to us during the
death and burial of our dear husband and father.
Ira W.
Williams, former Cairoite, died in St. Louis Thursday
night, where he had resided since leaving Cairo in 1895.
While here, he was employed as switchman in the M. and O.
yards. He was a member of Safford Lodge No. 67 Odd
Fellows.
Richard Taylor,
an old and well-known colored resident of Cairo, died
Tuesday morning at his home, 2110 Sycamore Street, of
tuberculosis, having been ill for the past year or so.
He leaves a wife and two daughters and one son. He was
66 years of age and came to Cairo when a young man.
During his life was in a number of business enterprises,
having had a saloon on lower Commercial Avenue for many
years. The place became notorious as a negro resort
and Taylor was
forced to close the place, when the council refused to renew
his license. Before his death he accumulated
considerable property and means. The funeral was held
this afternoon, interment being made at the National
Cemetery at Mound City, the deceased having been a soldier
in the Civil War.
(Richard
Taylor served in Company C,
2nd Tennessee Colored Heavy Artillery and
filed for a pension in 1890.
His widow filed in 1912.
Richard Taylor
married Annie
Archer on 21 Oct 1870, in Alexander Co., Ill.
Richard Taylor, private, U.S. Army, died 18 Sep 1912, and was buried in
Section E, grave 3850A, in Mound City National
Cemetery.—Darrel
Dexter)
We desire to publicly express our heartfelt gratitude
and appreciation to the many friends and acquaintances who
were so kind and sympathetic during our hour of bereavement
and for the many acts of kindness before, during and after
the funeral of our beloved daughter and sister Eugenie
Foster, and for the many beautiful floral tributes and especially
desire to thank the good sisters and nurses for their
attention to our dear one.
Vienna, Ill., Sept. 23—News reached Vienna Saturday
evening that the barn of J. A.
Robertson, near
Gauntown, in this county, had burned at 2:00 o'clock p.m.
and that his aged father, G. W.
Robertson, was
burned with it. Sheriff
Veach, Coroner
Dr. H. J. Elkins,
and State's Attorney
Sheridan and several of our citizens went out to hold
the inquest and Saturday afternoon and all day Sunday great
crowds gathered there. There seems to be some foul
play.
The particulars are as follows: The
Robertson family
moved to Gauntown from Danville, Ill., some time ago and
bought land in this county and were considered quite
wealthy. He and his son-in-law, W. S.
Wamsley, were in
the barn on his son's place to get some sheep. The
son-in-law, Wamsley, who is strongly suspicioned of foul play, tells the
following story. He was at the farm of his
brother-in-law cutting corn, which was the home of the
deceased's son. The elder
Robertson had bought some sheep from the son and went to get
Wamsley to help
him drive them home. The
Robertson family
were away from home and there was no one present but
Robertson and son-in-law
Wamsley.
Wamsley says that
Robertson went into the barn and climbed in the hay loft
to throw down some hay and called to him to come to him.
As he was climbing the loft something struck him on the head
and he fell to the floor, unconscious, and when he came to
himself, the barn was on fire, he ran out in a dazed
condition. Ed Carlton, Jr., who was hunting some distance away heard a gun fire
and as he reached the top of a hill, he saw smoke issuing
from the barn. He ran over there in time to see
Wamsly running
out of the barn. He first whistled to him and then
called him; he stopped and said he believed the old man
Robertson was in
the barn burning up. At this time the fire had gained
such headway, neither of them could enter and all was
consumed by fire.
The body of
Robertson was all burned but the trunk of the body, also
about 40 head of hogs. There was two shot guns burned
in the barn and one gun with both shells snapped by the
plunger, were also found in the ruins. The body
was burned so bad that it could not be ascertained whether
he had been shot or not.
Wamsley had
several bruises on his head and face and is still sticking
to his story he first told.
Robertson was at
the barn of his son, J. W.
Robertson.
His home had burned some six weeks ago. The coroner's
jury is still investigating and no arrests have yet been
made. Some of the elder
Robertson’s children arrived from the north at noon yesterday and
went out to the scene of the tragedy to take the remains
back to the old home near Danville, Ill. for burial.
The general opinion of our citizens is that this is one of
the worst crimes in the history of the county and whether
the son-in-law or some unknown party did this deed, is yet
to be learned. We learn that the family have secured
the services of a detective who will soon be put to work on
the case. Our county officials are doing all they can
to solve the mystery.
Vienna, Ill., Sept. 24—The coroner’s jury and county
officials after investigating the death of G. W.
Robertson, who
was burned in his son's barn on last Saturday afternoon in
Johnson County near Ganntown, after a thorough search and
taking testimony, returned a verdict late Monday afternoon
to the effect that the deceased had been murdered and death
was caused from shotgun wounds. On examining the trunk
of the body they found numerous shots with four in the
heart.
The son-in-law, J. E.
Wamsley, who was
with Robertson at
the time of the murder, and was the only one person known to
be about the premises at that time until the arrival of
Deputy Sheriff Ed
Carlton's son, who was hunting nearby, was held without
bond to await the action of the grand jury, which convenes
next Monday. He is now in jail and declares he is
innocent. It is said his wife, mother-in-law, and
brother-in-law, all believe him to be innocent.
The remains of G. W.
Robertson were
taken to the old home near Danville, Ill., for burial Monday
afternoon accompanied by his wife, son and daughter.
The accused man seemed terribly disappointed that he
did not get to go and help bury "Dad," as he put it.
He had just bought a new black suit of clothes from J. H.
Carter & Company,
his mother-in-law, Mrs.
Robertson,
standing good for them to go with the funeral party.
There is considerable mystery surrounding this murder
and much talk and excitement among the citizens all over
this section of the county. This family of people just
lately bought land in the southeast part of the county and
moved there from Danville, Ill., and not much is known of
them. They seemed to be people of wealth and to be
good, desirable citizens. Most of our people think
Wamsley guilty
and some seem to think him innocent. He is putting on
a good front.
Some think there is still a deeper mystery yet
surrounding this murder, as the deceased's residence was
burned very mysteriously some six weeks ago.
Wamsley was held
only on circumstantial evidence and unless some new evidence
appears, it is not likely he will be convicted.
The funeral of the little Leila May
Franklin, the
six-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H.
Franklin, who died Monday morning at the home of her parents in
Mound City, was held this morning conducted by Rev. Father
Mumbar, of the Catholic Church. Interment was made in the
Catholic cemetery at Mounds. E. A.
Burke of this
city had charge of the funeral.
Sedalia, Mo., Sept. 24—The third daughter of Frank
Dunthon, who
tried to kill herself because of unrequited love, died here
Monday from poison taken Sunday. She was Minnie, aged
16.
When her sister, aged 17, ended her life in 1903, the
father killed her admirer and is now serving a 28 years'
sentence in the penitentiary.
(James T.
Moreland married Minnie
Gray on 11 May
1879, in Johnson Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The police here and in other cities are on the
lookout for Alfred
Shackleford, formerly of Cairo, who is wanted in Dallas,
Tex., on a charge of murder, said to have been committed by
him at that place on Sept. 9th. Police
Chief Egan
received a message from Dallas some time ago, giving the
above information, but no particulars of the tragedy were
given.
Shackelford,
who is a young fellow, just a few years past his majority,
was employed by Swoboda Brothers as bartender in their saloon at Eighteenth and
Poplar streets. During the high water period last
spring, he gained much notoriety by creating a disturbance
in a Thirteenth Street resort and also in several downtown
saloons. He was a member of Company K and following
the trouble which was committed while he wore his uniform he
was dismissed from the company by Lieutenant Charles
Woods, who was in
command.
There is a rumor current that
Shackleford was
killed a few days ago at Memphis while resisting arrest at
the hands of an officer there, who knew of the Dallas
killing and who recognized
Shackleford by
the description sent out by the Texas authorities.
Lawrence
Creighton, the 7-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Martin
Creighton, of
Thirty-fourth Street, died this afternoon from the effects
of the burns he received Friday while playing with matches.
The accident occurred at his grandmother’s home on
Commercial near Twenty-seventh Street, with whom he was
staying and his death occurred there today.
(Martin
Creighton married Mary
Cullinan on 6 Feb
1870, in Alexander Co., Ill.
His marker in Calvary Cemetery at Villa Ridge reads:
Lawrence J.
Creighton 1905-1912.—Darrel
Dexter)
Dennis
O'Callaghan, an old resident of Cairo, died Thursday
night at 11:20 o'clock at the home of his sister, Mrs.
Margaret Dezonia,
331 Eighth Street, of a complication of diseases. He
had been a sufferer from several diseases for a number of
years and for the past two weeks he had been confined to his
bed. Thursday afternoon an operation was performed upon him
by Drs. Bondurant
and Rendleman, in hopes of prolonging his life.
He was 55 years of age and was born in Chicago.
He came to Cairo in his boyhood days and remained here most
of the time up until about fifteen years ago, when he went
to the southwest where he was a railway conductor in Old
Mexico, New Mexico and Arizona. He had been previously
employed as a switchman on roads in Cairo. About ten
years ago, while employed as a conductor on the Frisco, he
was badly injured in a wreck and was confined in hospitals
at Springfield, Mo., and Memphis, and for months afterwards
he came to Cairo. He never recovered from these injuries and
he suffered greatly at times. On account of his poor
health, he occupied a number of light positions where no
manual labor was required and his latest was night watchman
at the First Bank and Trust Company of Ohio Street.
The only survivors are his sister, Mrs.
Dezonia, and a
number of nephews and nieces.
He was a member of the Order of Railway Conductors.
The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel
Comings died
early this morning at the family residence, 811 Twenty-third
Street. Interment was made at Beech Grove, the funeral
party driving up. E. A.
Burke was in
charge of the funeral.
O'Callaghan—Died
Thursday night, Sept. 25, Dennis
O'Callaghan, aged
55 years.
Funeral cortege will leave the residence of Mrs.
Margaret Dezonia, 331 Eighth Street, Sunday at 1:30 p.m. for St. Patrick’s
Church, where services will be held, conducted by Rev.
Father James Downey.
Remains will be taken by special train from
Fourteenth Street to Calvary Cemetery at Villa Ridge for
interment.
Friends of the family are invited.
Creighton—Died
Friday, Sept. 27, Lawrence James
Creighton, son of
Mr. and Mrs. M. E.
Creighton, of 505 Thirty-fourth Street.
Funeral services will be held at the residence of the
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Martin
Creighton, No.
2706 Commercial Avenue, Sunday at 1:30 p.m. conducted by
Rev. James Gillen, of St. Joseph’s Church. Remains will be taken by
special train from Fourteenth Street to Villa Ridge cemetery
for interment.
Friends of the family are invited.
John R. Wegener,
a former resident of Cairo and more recently farmer in the
Cairo Drainage District, was found dead sometime last
Saturday night after 9 o'clock. The belief is that he
was murdered by unknown parties while on his way to his home
with his team of horses and wagon. His body was found
at a point about 150 yards west of what is known as the
halfway house road, on a spur of that highway, which leads
to the Wegener
farm. The discovery was made by the dead man's wife
and Ury Sayers, a
neighbor.
Wegener
had come to Cairo earlier in the evening to make some
purchases as had been his custom on Saturday nights.
When he did not arrive home at his accustomed hour of 8:30
or 9 o'clock, his wife became worried. Time dragged on
and when her husband had not returned she began to be
alarmed regarding his safety. It was about 10 o'clock
when she heard the rumbling of a wagon on the road.
She went to the door, noticed the team and the wagon but the
driver was absent.
Mrs. Wegener,
suspecting something was wrong, notified several of the
neighbors and a search for the missing man was instituted.
Sayers
accompanied Mrs.
Wegener down the road in a wagon and when about a half
mile from the Wegener
place, the horses shied at something in their path.
When the occupants of the wagons got out and investigated,
the object proved to be
Wegener's lifeless form, stretched across the roadway.
At first the searchers were inclined to think that
there must have been a runaway and that
Wegener met his
death by being thrown out of the wagon and trampled by the
horses or run over, by the wheels of the wagon, however, no
bruises were found on the body.
In the meantime the authorities here were notified of
the affair and Sheriff
Fraser, in
company with Deputy W. P.
Greaney, Coroner
McManus and others, went out to the scene. The coroner
empaneled a jury on the scene and a thorough investigation
was conducted, but nothing that would lead to the
perpetrators of the deed was discovered.
Blood stains were found on the seat of the wagon and
also at the place in the road where the body was found.
Two bullet wounds, one in the back and one in the wrist of
the dead man, were evidences of murder. One shot was
fired from the rear and the bullet entered the back about 3
inches below the shoulder blade and ranged diagonally though
the body, emerging from the opposite side several inches
higher. It cut through a branch of the aorta or main
artery leading to the heart. The other shot was fired
from close range as powder marks on the flesh indicate and
the powder set fire to the lining of the coat sleeves and
shirt.
When Sheriff
Frazer searched the dead man's clothing he found only 36
cents in the pockets.
Wegener's gold watch was missing.
The officials returned to Cairo about 6 o'clock
Sunday morning, bringing
Wegener's body
with them and placing it in the undertaking parlors of Mrs.
M. E. Feith.
Death at the hands of highway men is theory advanced
by both the city and county officials who are engaged in
ferreting out the mystery. They believe that
Wegener was
waylaid a short distance from where his body was found, that
men evidently held Wegener at bay with a gun, one of them standing at the side of his
seat in the wagon, weapon in hand, commanding him to get
down out of the wagon probably to be searched by the other
or any valuables that
Wegener offered some resistance and his assailant in the wagon fired
the gun at close range, the bullet entering the victims
wrist and that at his juncture,
Wegener probably
jumped out of the wagon and the man in the wagon shot at him
when he ran. Both such probabilities are strengthened
by the existence of the wrist wound and the powder burns and
the wound in the back fired from the rear. Whether the
highwayman relieved
Wegener of his watch before or after they shot him is a
matter of conjecture.
The officers scout the theory of death at the hands
of an enemy. Wegener
was known to have a few, but it is not believed there were
any of the nature to incite a desire to kill.
Many highway robberies have been committed in the
Drainage District lately and the actions of the perpetrators
in the cases that have come to the attention of the
authorities leads them to believe that Saturday night's
crime was an addition to the list of depredations by the
same persons.
Sheriff A. S.
Fraser has authorized a reward of $100 for information
that will lead to the arrest and conviction of the party or
parties who murdered
Wegener.
John Wegener
was the son of Mrs. Minnie C.
Wegener, of 412
Nineteenth Street. He was 30 years of age. He is
survived by his wife and two small children, his mother, a
sister, Miss Pauline
Wegener, of Benton, Ill., and a brother, Charles
Wegener, who
resides in Montana.
Previous to the time that the deceased had lived in
the Drainage District he was an insurance agent, having been
connected with several companies in Cairo. He was
known to be a quite unissued, hardworking young man.
He recently went to farming after a period of ill health,
thinking to benefit his health. He had leased 80 acres
in the Drainage District from the Cairo Trust Property and
had been doing fairly well until the flood came. He
sustained heavy losses during the high water.
The remains were removed from Mrs.
Feith's
undertaking parlors to the
Wegener home on
Nineteenth Street. The funeral will be held Wednesday.
The authorities spent all Sunday and today scouring
the scene of the crime for some clue. That might lead to the
identity or apprehension of the murderers. Nothing has
been forthcoming that would give officers something to start
on.
Wegener
was last seen in Cairo Saturday night at Otto
Schuh's pharmacy
at Thirty-third and Sycamore streets about 9:10 o'clock.
He purchased some medicine there. Shortly before that
he bought a barrel of salt at
Ehs &
Greaney's store at 2017 Washington Avenue.
Ury Sayer,
the neighbor who with Mrs.
Wegener found the
body of the dead man, is being held by the authorities,
pending further developments in the case.
Sayer has not
been accused of participation in the crime, but the
officials are taking no chances in trying to throw some
light on the mystery.
The coroner’s jury is waiting for more definite
information before rendering a verdict.
Saturday night about 9 o'clock a negro named
Meade, a Villa
Ridge farmer, was held up on the county road by two white
men at the point of a gun. He was searched by the two
men and besides a small amount of money they took his watch
and ordered him to drive on. It is thought that these
two men attacked
Wegener.
Albert Kasee,
a man residing near Mound City, was held up about 8:30 by
two white men, each of whom leveled a gun at his head.
They secured about $2.50 for their trouble.
Several weeks ago, Albert
Hurst, a
well-known Drainage District farmer, was held up by two
white men as he was on his way home on the Beech Ridge road
near Cairo Junction. He had only a small amount of
money and he hid it beneath the cushion of his seat.
The robbers searched him but as he had no valuables on his
person, their job was fruitless. Last Saturday night,
he too had been to Cairo and while driving home he noticed a
man on the road a short distance ahead of him. He
could see very plainly as the moon was bright. When he
neared the man, the stranger disappeared in a clump of
bushes along the road and gave no ear to
Hurst’s commands
to come out on the road.
Hurst thinks
probably this person might have been one of the two who held
up Wegener.
Died—John
Wegener, aged 30 years. Funeral services will be held Tuesday,
October 1, 1912. Funeral cortege will leave residence
on Nineteenth Street at 1:30 o'clock for Immanuel Lutheran
Church, where services will be held at 2 o'clock.
Interurban car will convey remains to Beech Grove Cemetery
where interment will be made, leaving Douglas and
Washington. Friends of the family are invited to
attend.
A reward of $100 is hereby offered for information
that will lead to the arrest and conviction of the party or
parties who are responsible for the murder of John R.
Wegener, which
was committed Saturday, Sept. 28, 1912, sometime after the
hour of 9 p.m. on what is known as the Half Way House Road,
a spur of the main county road leading westward.
The body of Jim
Fexton, the old
sailor who fell off the steamer
Rapids Saturday
and was drowned, has not yet been recovered.
Fexton was not
blown off the boat by the explosion of an exhaust pipe as
was first reported.
(The 2 Oct 1912, issue records his name as James
Sexton.—Darrel Dexter)
The funeral of Dennis
O’Callaghan was
held Sunday at the
Dezonia residence on Eighth Street. The services
were conducted by Father James
Downey, pastor of
St. Patrick’s Church. The remains were interred in
Calvary Cemetery at Villa Ridge. The funeral was
largely attended, the deceased being a well-known and highly
respected citizen of this city.
The funeral of Lawrence
Creighton, the
little son of Mr. and Mrs. Martin
Creighton, of
Thirty-fourth Street, was held Sunday at the home of his
grandmother, Mrs.
Creighton, at 2706 Commercial Avenue. Father James
Gillen, pastor of
St. Joseph's Church, conducted the services which were
largely attended. The remains were interred in Calvary
Cemetery at Villa Ridge.
The Cairo Evening Citizen,
Tuesday, 1 Oct 1912:
No further development have come to the attention of the
authorities that would tend to solve the mystery connected
with the murder of John A.
Wegener, the young Drainage District farmer, whose lifeless form was
found lying in the road a she short distances from his home
last Saturday night with two bullet wounds in the body.
Every effort is being made by the officials to find the
murderer or murderers and no stone is being left unturned
that would tend to unravel the mystery of the murder.
One official is inclined to discredit the theory of the
death of Wegener at the hands of highwaymen because of the isolated vicinity.
Highwaymen, he thinks would have chosen a more frequented
spot for a hold up than where the crime was committed. Had
the object been robbery all the money in the dead man's
pockets would have been taken. He is certain that the
deed was accompanied by an enemy.
Others contend that the disappearance of
Wegner's watch is
conclusive proof of robbery and the previous hold up that
same evening also warrants the holdup idea.
Mrs. Robert Blattler,
of 415 Eleventh Street, died at the Bondurant Hospital at 8
o'clock this morning following a very serious operation
performed a few days ago.
The deceased was a daughter of Jacob
Lehning, of 601
Commercial Avenue. She is survived by her husband, who
she married just 18 years ago today, and two brothers,
Theodore Lehning, of Cairo, and Jacob
Lehning, of Des Moines, Ia.
Funeral arrangements will be announced later, but will
probably be held Thursday.
(Robert Blattler
married Bertha
Lehning on 1 Oct 1894, in Alexander Co., Ill.
Her marker in Cairo City Cemetery at Villa Ridge has
no dates, but reads:
Bertha
Blattler.—Darrel
Dexter)
OLD RESIDENT OF GRAND CHAIN DEAD
Mrs. Angy Calvin,
age 82, one of the oldest residents of Pulaski County, died
Sunday evening at the home of her daughter, Mrs. John
Lewis, at Grand
Chain. She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. John
Lewis, of Grand Chain, Mrs. James
Barber, whose residence is at the old homestead, and Mrs. Norman
Keller, of Pine
Bluff; one son, Hiram
Calvin, of Olmsted.
The funeral will be held Wednesday afternoon, services at
the Congregational Church at Grand Chain. Interment
will be at the old family burial grounds at Levings.
(John Lewis
married Lina Calvin on 14 Oct 1891, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
James A.
Barber married Elizabeth
Calvin on 3 Jul
1881, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
N. A. Keller
married Mattie B.
Calvin on 20 Jan 1886, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
Her marker in Calvin-Barber Cemetery, east of
Olmsted, reads:
Angeline wife of R. T.
Calvin Born Dec.
5, 1828 Died Sept. 30, 1912.—Darrel
Dexter)
We wish to thank all the kind friends who by their many acts
of kindness and expression of sympathy assisted us in our
bereavement in the death of our dear son and grandson,
Lawrence, especially the Rev. Father
Gillen and
Downey and the
Sisters and pupils of St. Joseph's Catholic School, who so
lovingly displayed their love for their little classmate by
guarding his casket on its way to his eternal home, also
those who sent the beautiful floral pieces.
Signed
Fred W. Salzner,
aged 26, son of Mr. and Mrs. William
Salzner, of 26
Sixteenth Street, died last night at the Bondurant Hospital
as the result of injuries sustained by being struck by an
Iron Mountain train. An operation was performed upon
the injured man from which he did not recover.
The funeral services will be held Thursday morning at the
home of the parents on Sixteenth Street, conducted by Rev.
Clarke of the
Calvary Baptist Church. The remains will be taken on
the Illinois Central train at 11:15 a.m. for Anna, Ill.,
where interment will be made.
(His marker in Anna City Cemetery reads:
Fred W.
Salzner Born Dec. 6, 1885 Died Oct. 1, 1912.—Darrel
Dexter)
Died—Fred
W. Salzner, at
Bondurant Hospital, Oct. 1st, 1912.
Funeral services at residence, No. 26 Sixteenth Street, at
10:00 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 3rd. Burial at
Anna Cemetery. Train will leave Illinois Central depot
at 11:15 o'clock.
Died—Mrs.
Bertha Blattler,
wife of Robert
Blattler, No. 415 Eleventh Street.
Funeral services will be held at the residence at 1:45 p.m.
Thursday, Oct. 3rd, conducted by Rev. E. Robert
Dunlap of the
Emmanuel Lutheran Church. Train leaves at 2:45 at
Fourteenth Street for Villa Ridge cemetery.
Friends of the family are invited.
We desire to express our thanks and appreciation of the many
acts of kindness shown us during our terrible affliction in
the death of our husband, son and brother, John A.
Wegner.
The body of James
Sexton, the white man who was drowned off the steamer
Rapids while the
boat was en route
to Cairo last Saturday, was found this morning floating down
the river at a point opposite the Weis-Peterson box factory
at North Cairo.
Sexton was engaged in doing work as a deckhand on one side of the
boat on the bottom deck and in some manner fell into the
river. Before assistance could reach him he
disappeared beneath the waters and was drowned.
Sexton
was 51 years of age and lived in Paducah. It is said
he has no relatives. He was well known in Cairo among
the river men, having been employed on various boats.
The remains were removed to the undertaking parlors of E. A.
Burke.
Will the murder of John
Wegener, the
young farmer who was shot and killed while driving to his
home in the Drainage District last Saturday night prove to
be one of the unsolved mysteries that have enshrouded
similar occurrences in that region of North Cairo in late
years? The failure of the authorities to find a single
clue that would aid in establishing the identity of the
party or parties responsible for the crime or lead to their
whereabouts causes many to think that such will be the case.
The sheriff's office, as well as the police department, have
exhausted every source from whence a clue or trace of the
murderer or murderers might appear, but the efforts have
been devoid of results.
Ury Salyers, the
neighbor who with Mrs.
Wegener found
Wegener's body on the road a short distance from their home on the
night of the murder, and who was held for several days
pending a thorough investigation of the affair was Wednesday
released from custody. The authorities are convinced
that Salyers had
no hand in the killing of
Wegener as was
first suspected.
Sheriff Frazer
has sent postcards to the officials of adjacent cities and
counties offering the reward of $100 for information that
will lead to the arrest and conviction of the guilty
parties.
The funeral of Mrs. Bertha
Blattler, wife of
Robert Blattler,
of 415 Eleventh Street, who died at the Bondurant Hospital
Tuesday morning, was held this afternoon at the family
residence, conducted by Rev. C. Robert
Dunlap, pastor of the Lutheran Church of which the deceased was a
member. Interment was at the Villa Ridge cemetery, a
special train conveying the party to that place.
The pallbearers were Peter
Day, William
Brinkmeyer,
Patrick Doud,
Peter Saup, Frank Davis, F. W.
Gibson, Peter
Lind, and John Ogg.
Mrs. L. C. Falconer,
the undertaker, had charge of the funeral.
Mrs. W. T. Friganza,
wife of Willis T.
Friganza, formerly manager of the Bell Telephone
Company, of Cairo, died in a hospital in St. Louis at 10:20
last night of tuberculosis.
She was born and reared in Mound City and was in her 32nd
year.
Her husband and one son, Filbert, aged 3 or 4 years, and two
brothers Albert and Joseph
Mertz, of St.
Louis, besides her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Mertz, of Mound
City, survive.
The remains were brought down from St. Louis this evening.
After leaving Cairo, Mr. and Mrs.
Friganza sought
various places in the southwest in the hope of benefitting
her health, but without benefit. Only recently Mr.
Friganza became
manager of the Bell Company at Hannibal, Mo., and Mrs.
Friganza had just
gone there, when she was taken so much worse that she was
removed to St. Louis.
(Charles W. Mertz
married Alice Belle
Streeter on 1 May 1873, in Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The funeral of Fred W.
Salzner, son of
Mr. and Mrs. William
Salzner, of 226 Sixteenth Street, who died at the
Bondurant Hospital following injuries received by being
struck by an Iron Mountain train, was held this morning.
The remains were taken to Anna, Ill., for interment,
accompanied by members of the family and a delegation of
Woodmen of the World, the deceased being a member of that
lodge.
We desire to express our thanks and appreciation of the many
acts of kindness shown us here and at Anna, Ill., during our
bereavement in the death of our beloved son and brother,
Fred W. Salzner.
Bloomington, Ill., Oct. 4—Isaac Newton
Phillips, 67
years old, former reporter of the Illinois Supreme Court,
died suddenly here last night. He studied law with
Robert G. Ingersoll and ranked among the leading lawyers of Illinois.
He was chairman of the Board of Railway and Warehouse
Commissioners four years and reporter of the Supreme Court
for eighteen years, recently resigning. He was an
authority on Abraham
Lincoln and his book upon the emancipation attracted
wide attention. He was one of the leading Republicans
of Illinois. He was prominent as a Mason and a member
of the Grand Army of the Republic.
Centralia, Ill., Oct. 4—Carl
Phelps, a
well-known citizen, of Hickory, near here, was shot and
killed by his brother-in-law, Sant
Martin, today.
Phelps was
driving with his wife when they met
Martin. The
trouble started over a wire fence which
Phelps accused
Martin of cutting
a few nights ago. Following the shooting,
Martin dashed
away on horseback and officers have not yet located him.
Arrested at Mound City, Thursday night, Dal
Harper, a white
man, is being held at the county jail under suspicion of
being one of two highwaymen who held up and robbed several
persons on the county road last Saturday night and whom it
is thought murdered John
Wegener, the young farmer near his home on the same night.
Harper’s
arrested was effected by Sheriff Charles
Wehrenberg, Jr.,
of Pulaski County and that official brought the prisoner to
Cairo Friday afternoon.
Albert Kesee, a
young man of Mound City and Moses
Meeks, a negro of
Villa Ridge, both of whom were held up last Saturday night,
have identified
Harper as one of the holdup men who detained them on the
road and took their valuables.
Harper
is rather reticent about giving any information concerning
himself and his answers to questions put him by the
authorities have been misleading. This and what is
believed to be a bloodstain found on his hat leads the
authorities to believe that the man is part of the crime and
he will be held pending further developments in the case.
We wish to thank our friends for their kindness and sympathy
to us during the illness and death of our late beloved, Mrs.
Bertha Blattler,
and particular do we thank the members of the Mannerchoir
for the beautiful music rendered by them at the funeral
services.
(She was identified as Angy
Calvin in the 1
Oct 1912, issue.—Darrel
Dexter)
Died—William
Dick, aged 64, at
residence No. 425 Union Street. Funeral services will
be conducted at the residence by Rev.
Dunlap of the
Lutheran Church at 1 p.m. Wednesday. Special interurban car
will leave Union Street and Sycamore at 1:30 p.m.
Interment at Beech Grove Cemetery. Friends of family
are invited.
Mrs. Maggie Johnson,
wife of P. A. Johnson,
foreman of the Farmer's Handy Wagon Company’s plant in the
Drainage District, died last night at 12:15 o'clock at the
family residence, at 714 Twenty-eighth Street. Her
death was caused from sciatic rheumatism, having been a
sufferer from this disease for a number of years. She
had been confined to her bed since last Saturday.
The deceased was 46 years of age and is survived by her
husband and two daughters, Mrs. Daisy
Combs, of San
Antonio, Texas, and Mrs. Annie
Unruh, of St.
Louis. The former will not arrive until Wednesday,
when it is expected the funeral will be held.
E. A. Burke has
charge of the remains.
The funeral service over the remains will be held at the
residence Wednesday afternoon by Rev. Allen R.
Wallace, pastor
of the First Christian Church.
William Dick,
aged 64 years, a former employee of the Chicago Mill, died
at 12:30 o'clock last night at his home, 425 Union Street,
his death being caused by heart failure. He is survived by
his wife and family. The funeral will probably be held
Wednesday with interment at Beech Grove. E. A.
Burke has charge
of the remains.
James Sharington,
a well-known railroad engineer, running into Cairo for many
years, was killed last Thursday in a wreck on the Illinois
Central near Swanwick, Ill., and the funeral took place
Tuesday afternoon at East St. Louis. The deceased was
known in a wide circle of acquaintances here.
News was received here today announcing the sudden death of
Mrs. Mary Donahue, which occurred in St. Louis at 5 o'clock this morning.
Mrs. Donahue was
born and reared in Cairo, her maiden name being Mary
McCarthy. Her husband, who was a railroad engineer, died about
a year ago and their eldest son, John, died about six months
ago. The family left Cairo about 20 years ago and have
resided in St. Louis ever since.
Mrs. Donahue was
about 50 years of age and had been in previous good health.
She is survived by two daughters and two sons and also an
adopted daughter, Miss Alice
Sagafia, who is a sister of Mrs. M. J.
O'Shea, of this city. The deceased was a cousin of William
Curran, of 209
Fourth Street, this city.
(Joseph W. Essex
married Mamie Winsted
on 8 Mar 1885, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
A marker in Rose Hill Cemetery at Pulaski reads:
Joseph W.
Essex 1861-1929 Mary E.
Essex
1866-1912.—Darrel
Dexter)
MRS. JOHNSON'S REMAINS SHIPPED TO NEW BURNSIDE
The remains of the late Mrs. Margaret
Johnson, who died
Tuesday, were shipped this morning to New Burnside, Ill., by
E. A. Burke, the undertaker, where the interment will be today.
A.L.
Smith, 49 years of age, a well-known uptown resident, died suddenly
this morning following a short illness. He had been
employed for many years as machinist at both the Chicago
Mill and the Stuger plant. He leaves his wife and two
daughters, Misses Nettie and Myra
Smith, of 620
Thirty-sixth Street.
The remains will be taken Friday to Paducah, the
former home of the deceased, where the interment will be
made. E. A. Burke
has charge of the remains.
DEATH FOLLOWS ILLNESS OF DIPHTHERIA
Agatha
Wilson, the 5-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. L.
Wilson, of 419
Union Street, died this morning as the after result of an
attack of diphtheria. She has been sick for the past five
weeks. Mr. Wilson is an employee of the Singer Manufacturing Company. The
funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at the family
resident at 1:30 conducted by Rev. D. R.
Kennedy of the Southern Methodist Church and interment will be made
at Beech Grove.
E. A. Burke has
charge of the remains.
(A marker in Thebes Cemetery reads:
Gerty
Underwood
1868-1912
Mother—Darrel Dexter)
The funeral of little 5-year-old Agatha
Wilson, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. C. L.
Wilson, of 419 Union Street, who died Thursday morning
following an illness of diphtheria was held this morning,
conducted by Rev. R. E.
Kennedy, of the
Southern Methodist Church. The funeral party drove to Beech
Grove in carriages where the interment was made.
We are very grateful to the many
friends of our beloved wife and mother, Mrs. Margaret
Johnson, and wish to express our earnest appreciation for the
kindnesses shown during her illness and death. May each be
so comforted when such bereavement comes to them.
(William A.
Unruh married Anna E. Johnson
on 6 Oct 1895, in Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Capt. Sam
Tanner, of Sikeston, capitalist, land owner and public administrator
of Scott County, who was struck by an Iron Mountain train
and fatally hurt so that he died in St. Anthony's Hospital
in St. Louis last Saturday, was buried Thursday. The
funeral was delayed until the arrival of his son, Frank
Tanner, from San
Bernardino to his farm near Poplar Bluff, when a fast train
struck his team. Both mules were killed and Capt.
Tanner was thrown against the engine and his skull crushed.
We desire to express our gratitude to
the friends who showed so many acts of kindness at the death
of our husband and brother, William
Dick. We are
especially grateful, for the beautiful flowers which were
given so generously.
Frances Elizabeth
Moss, a six-month-old child, died at the home of her parents, at 308
Sixteenth Street, last night. The remains were taken to Mt.
Vernon, Ill., this morning for interment. Mr.
Moss is a millwright employed at the Halliday Milling Company. Mrs.
L. C. Falconer,
the undertaker, had charge of the remains.
John C.
Gholson, one of Cairo's most prominent merchants, and an old
resident of this city, died shortly before 2 o'clock this
morning, at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Louis
Waldschmidt, 2515
Walnut Street, of tuberculosis-laryngitis. He had been a
sufferer for the past year and his death, while not
unexpected, was sudden. He was 51 years of age.
Mr.
Gholson was the son of John and Rebecca
Gholson, and was born in Ballard County, Ky., and attended the
country schools there. When quite a young man, he came to
Cairo and took a business education, fitting himself for a
position in mercantile lines. For many years he was
associated in business here with his brother, the late W. E.
Gholson. Severing
that connection, Mr.
Gholson went in business for himself about 15 years ago,
opening a clothing store at 707 Commercial Avenue. The
venture was a highly successful one, and several years ago
he took into partnership one of his salesmen, A. F.
Staehle, the
firm, now being known as
Gholson &
Staehle.
The deceased was a straightforward,
steady businessman and a devout Christian, an active member
of the Cairo Baptist Church, and contributing much to its
welfare. He was kindly disposed to all and of genial
temperament.
Mr.
Gholson was married Sept. 3, 1900, to Mrs. Mary Francis
Sarber, who died
six years ago, and he is survived by her three children,
Mrs. Glendale Morgan, Mrs. Louis
Waldschmidt, and John
Sarber, to whom
he was devoted. He also leaves three brothers, Fred F.
Gholson, of McCracken County, Ky., and Lloyd T. and R. L.
Gholson, of
Ballard County, Ky.
Upon becoming ill about a year ago, he
practically retired from business pursuits and spent a month
in Colorado seeking to benefit his health. He returned from
that climate several months ago and since that time had been
steadily failing.
The deceased was also a member of the
Masonic fraternity.
The funeral will be held Thursday
afternoon at 1:30 at the residence, Rev.
Garrett, of the
Cairo Baptist Church, conducting the services. Interment
will be at Villa Ridge cemetery.
(John C.
Gholson married Mary F.
Sarber on 3 Sep 1900, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Mary
Quinn, aged 80 years, died this morning at 10:20 o'clock at the home
of her niece, Mrs. A. S.
Magner, of
Twenty-eighth and Poplar streets. The deceased was an old
resident of Cairo having come here when a young girl from
County Ketty, Ireland. She married some years later, Mr.
Kane Mahoney and after his death was married to the late Patrick
Quinn, who died
about fifteen years ago.
Mrs.
Quinn leaves surviving her, a sister Mrs. Cornelius
Shanahan, and
three nephews in Ireland, and two nieces, Mrs. A. S.
Magner and Mrs.
Mary Linehan.
The funeral will be held Friday morning
at St. Joseph's Church of which the deceased was a member.
Rev. Father J. J.
Gillen, pastor of the church, will officiate. Interment will be
made at Calvary Cemetery at Villa Ridge.
(Cain
Mahoney married Mary Florr
on 30 Dec 1865, in Alexander Co., Ill.
Patrick Quinn
married Mrs. Mary
Mahoney on 15 Jul 1876, in Alexander Co., Ill.
Cornelius
Linehan married Mary
Shanahan on 5 Dec
1889, in Alexander Co., Ill.
A marker in Calvary Cemetery at Villa Ridge reads:
Patrick Quinn
Died Nov. 19, 1897 Aged 52 Years.
Cain Mahoney Died Aug. 15, 1866 Aged 37 Years.
Mary Quinn
1840-1912.—Darrel
Dexter)
John C.
Gholson, age 51 years, at residence 2515 Park Avenue. Funeral
services will be conducted at residence by Rev. A. P.
Garrett, of Cairo
Baptist Church, Thursday, Oct. 17th, at 1:30
p.m. Cairo Lodge 237 A. F. and A. M. will have charge of
services at the grave. Interment at Villa Ridge
cemetery. Special train will leave 14th Street
at 2:45 p.m. Friends of the family invited.
Active pallbearers: A. F.
Staehle, Frank
Spencer, C. L. Keaten, R.
P. Flack, H. C.
Steinel, P. C. Barclay,
Dr. J. W. Dunn
and C. C. Terrell.
Special meeting is hereby called at
12:45 p.m. Thursday, October 17th, to attend the
funeral of our late brother, John C.
Gholson.
Special car will leave Eighth and
Washington Avenue at 1:15 p.m. for residence, 2515 Park
Avenue.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence
Mowery attended the funeral of Mrs.
Mowery’s father, Moses
Barringer, near Wetaug, Friday. (Ullin)
(Moses A.
Barringer, 21, born near Dongola, Ill., son of Aaron
Barringer and
Melvina Hileman,
married Manda Jane
Brown, 18, born near Dongola, Ill., daughter of Sandy
Brown and
Clementine Miller,
on 5 Nov 1882, in Union Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The funeral of the late John C.
Gholson, who died
Tuesday morning after a year's illness of tuberculosis, was
held this afternoon from the residence of the deceased's
daughter, Mrs. Louis
Waldschmidt, 2515 Park Avenue. Rev.
Garrett, of the
Cairo Baptist Church, conducted the services at the
residence and the Masonic fraternity had charge at the
grave. A special train conveyed the funeral party to Villa
Ridge, where the remains were laid beside those of his wife,
who died a number of years ago.
Several of the commercial organizations
of which Mr. Gholson
was a member attended the funeral in a body, as did also his
former Sunday school class, composed of young men. The
Baptist Church choir sang favorite hymns of the deceased.
The pallbearers were A. F.
Staehle, Frank
Spencer, C. L. Keaton, R.
P. Flack, H. C.
Steinel, Phil C.
Barclay, Dr. J. W. Dunn,
and C. C. Terrell.
The deceased was a member of the
Gholson family,
one of the largest and most prominent in West Kentucky and
many of his kinsmen were here to attend the funeral this
afternoon.
The floral tributes were profuse and
beautiful.
(Eugene
Sullivan married Ellen
Fitzgerald on 25 Apr 1899, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
As the result of an automobile
accident, last Sunday evening, in which he was seriously
injured, Fred T.
Angell, of Alto Pass, died last evening at the Bondurant
hospital where he has been confined since the accident. His
skull was partly crushed and he remained in an unconscious
condition up until the time of his death. An operation was
performed in an effort to save his life.
Mr.
Angell and his wife, in company with their neighbors, Mr. and Mrs.
F. E. James, had
driven to Cairo Sunday in the latter's touring car and after
spending a portion of the day here, started on the return
trip late in the evening. When on the Beech Ridge Road,
near the county farm, Mr.
James who was driving the car, turned his attention to something in
a nearby field, and the car, in a diverted course struck a
hill at the side of the road and was overturned. Mr.
Angell was pinned beneath the body of the car and was injured about
the head. The other occupants were thrown out of the auto
and only slightly injured. The victims of the accident were
brought to Cairo and Mr.
Angell was at
once placed in the hospital. Relatives were here in
attendance upon the injured man until his death.
Undertaker
Montgomery, of Mound City, took charge of the remains and prepared
them for burial and they were shipped on the M. & O. train
this afternoon for Alto Pass where the funeral will be held
Saturday.
The deceased was a prominent farmer and
well known resident of Alto Pass. He leaves beside his
wife, three daughters and a son, a brother, George
Angell, of Sandusky, this county, and three sisters, Mrs. Mary
Tusker, of
Alto Pass, and Mrs. Charlotte
Ferrill and Mrs.
Sarah Ferrell,
the latter two wives of farmers near Cobden.
(Fred F.
Angell married Fannie
Landreth on 17 Jan 1894, in Pulaski Co., Ill. Thomas W.
Ferrell, 24, married
Charlotte S. Angell,
41, on 30 Sep 1877, in Union Co., Ill.
George A.
Tucker, 35, born in Powhatan Co., Va., son of George
Tucker and Miss
Swan, married Mary J. Angell,
33, born in Lawrenceville, Ill., daughter of Edwin
Angell and Miss
Casany, on 25 Dec
1898, in Union Co., Ill.
Varner G. Ferrell, 20, married
Sarah E. Ferrell,
21, on 23 Jan
1877, in Union Co., Ill.
His marker in Alto Pass Cemetery reads:
Fred Angell 1868-1912.—Darrel
Dexter)
C.
W. Hood, father
of Attorney Harry
Hood, of Cairo, and State's Attorney Fred
Hood, of Mound
City, died at home at Olmstead Thursday morning age 73
years. His death was caused primarily from a paralytic
stroke suffered last winter from which he never fully
recovered. He was an old and prominent citizen of Pulaski
County. He leaves besides his wife, and two sons, one
daughter, Mrs. John
Martin, of Olmsted.
The funeral will be held Saturday with
services at the residence and interment in the Masonic
Cemetery near Olmsted.
(John L.
Martin married Jennie F. Hood,
27, on 25 Feb 1895, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
A marker in Masonic Cemetery at Olmsted reads:
J. W. Hood
1841-1912. V. E.
Hood 1865-1928. Barney
son of J. W. & V. E.
Hood Born March 2, 1887 Died April 9, 1909, Aged 22
Yrs., 1 Mo., & 7 Ds.—Darrel
Dexter)
Pinckneyville, Ill., Oct. 19—George
Engle was hanged
in the county jail yard Friday. He was dead twelve minutes
after the trap was sprung.
Engle was sentenced to die for killing his wife and his
sister-in-law in DuQuoin, May 20. Engle kept his nerve to the last and walked to the gallows smiling.
Engle said he was not afraid to die, expressed regret that he
could not pay a small debt to a DuQuoin merchant and asked
Father Eschmann
to care for his four little children. He told the witnesses
goodbye and went to his death.
Roy
Belford, a former Cairoite, was killed in an accident in a lead mine
Thursday near Joplin, Mo., where he was employed. He leaves
a wife, two brothers, and two sisters, one of whom is Mrs.
Ida M. Clay, of
Thirty-sixth Street, this city. Belford,
while living in Cairo, was employed at the plant of the
Halliday Milling Company on Twentieth Street.
Mrs. Charles E.
Deck, mother of J. E. Byrne,
of this city, died at her home at New Burnside, Ill., at
2:30 o'clock Friday afternoon, aged 79 years. Her death was
the result of injuries sustained in a fall several weeks ago
and from which she never recovered. She is survived by
three sons, one of whom is J. E.
Byrne, of this
city, an employee of the Woodward Hardware Company and also
one brother, Joseph Dupoyster, of Wickliffe, Ky. Mr.
Byrne accompanied by his daughter, Miss Alice
Byrne, and his sister-in-law, Mrs. C. T.
Abell, left this morning for New Burnside to attend the funeral.
(Charles
Deck married Mrs. Margaret
Byrne on 15 Mar 1875, in Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Daniel
Hogan, clerk of the United States District Court for the eastern
district of Illinois, passed away at 2 o'clock this morning
at the home of his daughter, Mrs. J. J.
Elliott, at Park
Ridge, a suburb of Chicago.
Mr.
Hogan had been ill for some time of stomach trouble, but was getting
along well until his heart failed him.
It is announced that funeral services
will be held Saturday at Danville, Ill.
Daniel
Hogan was born in County Kilkenny, Ireland, July 4, 1849, and was
therefore in his 64th year when he died. In 1852, when but
an infant, he was brought to America by his parents who
settled in Pulaski County. He spent his early days on a
farm and took a course in the Cairo High School, studying
telegraphy at night. This knowledge served him well during
the Civil War and while he was too young to enlist, he was
smuggled into the camp of the Thirty-first Illinois
Volunteers, Col. John A.
Logan's regiment,
and some months later was regularly enrolled in the
telegraph corps of the United States army, serving under
Gen. U. S. Grant
as confidential cipher clerk with the rank of lieutenant and
afterward captain. His work led him into many very
dangerous positions with narrow escapes from capture and his
services were in great demand. At the close of the war he
was mustered out for "faithful and important military
services."
In 1869 he returned to Mound City to be
with his aged parents and in 1873 was elected city
clerk. He was re-elected until 1882, when he was elected to
the Illinois Senate from this senatorial district. He was a
member of the deadlocked session which finally elected Gov.
Shelby M. Cullom
to the United States Senator.
Following his service in the
legislature, he served in many public positions. He was
county clerk of Pulaski County, collector of internal
revenue for this district under President Benjamin
Harrison, served
in the state grain office in Chicago as registrar under Gov.
Tanner, was sheriff of Pulaski County, and in the Spanish-America
War, was a major in the quartermaster's department stationed
at Puerto Rico. For several years he has served as clerk of
the federal court.
Maj.
Hogan was married in1876 to the daughter of the late G. W.
Carter, one of
the founders of Mound City. He leaves a widow, a son,
Daniel Hogan, Jr., and two daughters, both married.
Maj.
Hogan was one of the most prominent Republicans in this end of the
state and during the active years of his life exercised a
great influence in the counsels of the party.
(Daniel
Hogan married Dora W. Carter
on 25 May 1876, in Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The body of George
Millett, a former
Cairoite, was found in the Platte River near Denver, a few
days ago. The information was received by Mrs. M. C.
McCarthy, of
lower Washington Avenue, mother of Mrs.
Millett, who was
formerly Miss Jessie
McCarthy. No particulars have been received.
The deceased is about 36 years of age
and was proprietor of the Blue White laundry of this city
for several years and one at time house manager at the Elks
Club. His wife and two children survive him.
(Valentine
Tackett married Cloa Ann
Friley on 10 Aug 1859, in Greenup Co., Ky.—Darrel
Dexter)
Whereas: It has pleased God in His
infinite wisdom to remove from our midst our dear sister and
whereas in her death we are again remained of the
uncertainty of life, therefore;
Be it resolved that by her untimely
death his lodge has lost a tried and true member, the father
a faithful and devoted wife, the children a loving an ender
mother, and that we, as member of Thebes Lodge No. 1793 M.
B. A. extend our deepest sincere and heartfelt sympathy to
the bereaved family in their great sorrow and reverently
commend them to our Heavenly Father for comfort.
Be it further resolved, the that
charter of our lodge be draped in mourning for a period of
thirty days in token of our sorrow and that a copy of these
resolutions be spread upon the minutes of our lodge and that
a copy be sent to the family of the deceased and a copy sent
to one of our county papers for publication.
Mrs. George
Eschmann, wife of George
Eschmann, ship carpenter at the coal dump and a brother
of Rev. C. J.
Eschmann, died at St. Mary’s Infirmary at 8 o'clock this
morning after a long illness of stomach trouble.
The deceased lives at 411 Thirty-third
Street and is survived by her husband and one little
daughter.
Died—Mrs. Mary Eschmann,
Cortege will leave family residence, No. 411 Thirty-third
Street for St. Joseph's Church, where funeral services will
be held at 1:30 p.m. conducted by the Rev. James
Gillen. Special
train will leave foot of Fourteenth Street at 2:45 p.m. for
Villa Ridge cemetery, where interment will be made. Morning
paper please copy.
(Her marker in Calvary Cemetery in
Villa Ridge reads:
Mary A.
Eschman Born Jan. 25, 1864 Died Oct. 25, 1912.—Darrel
Dexter)
Judge W. T.
Marshall, one of the prominent citizens of Charleston, Mo., and
candidate on the Democratic ticket for representative, died
in St. Louis Sunday.
Mrs. Lottie
Crain, the widow of the late William R.
Crain, died this morning at 7:30 at the home of her brother, Police
Magistrate Albert
Spence, as the result of injuries received in Mound City
on the 1st of August, by being run down by an I.
C. engine that was switching in the yards. Her injuries
were so severe that a very few people at that time thought
it possible for her to recover. Doctors
Whitaker and
Hardin paid attention to her injuries and she was brought to the
home of her sister, Mrs.
Carson, on
Delaware Avenue, at Mounds, where she received the most
careful nursing and attention. A week ago she was removed
to the home of her brother, Albert
Spence, on Front
Street, where she gradually became weaker until, this
morning, death put an end to her suffering. She was a woman
well known and had a host of friends in this county. She
was born at Olmsted, Pulaski County, Feb. 23rd,
1850, and died at Mounds in the same county, Oct. 28, 1912,
aged 62 years, 8 months and 5 days. She was married to
William R. Craine,
Feb. 21st, 1894. She has been a member of the
Congregational Church for several years in which she was an
active worker. She was also a member of the Eastern Star
and also the Mounds Rebekah Lodge. She leaves one brother,
Albert Spence,
and three sisters, Mrs. Matilda
Clanton, Mrs. H.
C. Clanton, and
Mrs. J. J. Carson,
to mourn her loss.
The funeral announcement will be made
in tomorrow's issue of
The Citizen.
(William R.
Crain married Mary A. Spence
on 2 Mar 1862, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
William R.
Crain, 59, farmer, born in Springfield, Ohio, son of
Joseph M. Crain and D. A. Donovan,
married 2nd Charlotta
Spence, 44, born
in Pulaski Co., Ill., daughter of William J.
Spence and C. Aubert, on
21 Feb 1894, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
Lewis L.
Clanton married Matilda
Spence on 2 May
1867, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
Jesse J. Carson married Georgia A.
Spence on 1 Sep 1886, in Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Hugh
Conley, formerly a resident of Cairo and also of Mound City, died in
a hospital at Chicago Saturday of typhoid fever. The
deceased was 31 years of age and is survived by a wife, who
resides at St. Louis; his mother, Mrs. Mary
Conley, of Mound
City; besides a sister, Catherine
Conley; a
half-sister, Miss Mollie
Campbell; five
half-brothers, Edward, Andrew, Frank and Thomas
Campbell, all of Mound City, and Lee
Campbell, of St. Louis.
The remains will be shipped to St.
Louis, where the funeral will be held tomorrow.
The funeral services for Mrs. Lottie
Crane will be held in the Congregational church (Mounds) tomorrow,
Wednesday, at 1:30 p.m., the Rev. J. H.
Runalls, the
pastor, officiating.
Flowers in profusion marked the funeral
of Major Daniel Hogan
held from the residence, 221 West North Street, at 11
o'clock Saturday forenoon. Members of the Elks order,
lawyers of Vermillion County Bar Association, and persons
holding membership in the Spanish War Veterans Camp were in
attendance and rooms of the dwelling were filled with
neighbors and friends of the bereaved family.
There were ritualistic services of the
Episcopal Church by Rector Johannes
Rockstroh, of
Holy Trinity, and two hymns, "Nearer My God to Thee" and "He
Leaded Me," sung by a quartet, Miss Jennie
Tuttle, Mrs. Edna Dale,
G. Haven Stephens,
W. H. Pundt.
The pallbearers were Walter
Grant, John
Watts, A. G. Davis, O. P.
Mann, E. K.
Wolgamot, and Dr. Robert
Clements. Burial was in Springhill Cemetery.—Danville
Commercial News.
The Cairo Evening Citizen, Friday, 1 Nov 1912:
Horace W.
Clarke, formerly superintendent of the Mobile & Ohio Railroad, and
later with the I. & N. G. and Denver and Rio Grande, died at
Fredericktown, Md., at 3:15 this morning in a sanitarium
where he had been for several months.
Marion, Ill., Nov. 2—Brooding over the
fact that his aged mother could not divide the estate as he
wished, Walter C.
Rogers, aged 30, today shot himself three times. Though
he fired point blank at his heart each time, not a bullet
touched the organ. He is dying from one bullet which lodged
in his spinal column. After shooting himself he walked a
mile to his home and fell in a faint before his mother.
J. G. "Grundy"
Sullinger, a
prominent merchant of Arlington, Ky., and well known in
Cairo, was killed by a train on the Illinois Central at
Arlington Thursday night.
Charles
Woodruff, one of the early settlers of Mounds, died at 12:50 o'clock
today, as the result of a paralytic stroke, which he
received Wednesday.
The deceased was the first postmaster
of Mounds, having charge of the office when the receipts
were only $17.35 from the quarter. He was also agent for
the Illinois Central railroad there. He afterward went into
the mercantile business, which he followed for many years.
He leaves a widow, but no other
relatives in this vicinity.
The funeral of Joseph
Speth, who died
Thursday, was held Saturday afternoon. Services were
conducted at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church by Rev. Father
Gillen. Interment
was made at Calvary Cemetery, Villa Ridge. The pallbearers
were old time friends of the deceased: Jacob
Klein, William Kessler,
Pester Day, Ed
Bucher, Otto Tauber, John
Ogg, John
Lattner, William Oehler,
Sr., and Rudolph
Brown.
Cletus Frederick, the infant son of Mr.
and Mrs. John
Ronnebeck, of Beech Ridge, died at their home at 4:45
o'clock Friday afternoon. The child was only five days
old. The funeral will be held at Diswood at 9 o'clock
Sunday morning. Mrs.
Ronnebeck is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William
Childers, of
Beech Ridge.
We wish to thank our friends and
neighbors for their many acts of kindness during the illness
and after the death of our beloved father, Joseph
Speth. We also
wish to thank those who send the many beautiful floral
offerings.
Charles S.
Price, of 1206 Lorimer Street, Denver, Colo., an engineer in the
employ of the Colorado & Southern Railway, has just received
word which he declares establishes his identity as an heir
to the famous $400,000,000 Price estate in Baltimore, over
which litigation has been pending for half a century. The
estate consists of three hundred acres of land in the heart
of the city, Mrs. Lucy Ashton
Box, of Cairo,
expects to fall heir to a portion of this rich estate as she
is also a relative.
Through his brother, Francis S.
Price, of
Chicago, who arrived in Denver recently in the interest of
the vast fortune, he learned that the original title to the
land conveyed from Lord Baltimore to Mordecai
Price, his
great-great-grandfather, in the year 1750, had been found.
Francis
Price is visiting heirs throughout the country in an endeavor to
gather further data with which he hopes to establish their
claim to the property.
Litigation has been carried on at
intervals for five years by the descendants of Mordecai
Price. But the actual proof was waiting until the important
document was unearthed lately at New Philadelphia, Ohio, the
home of a branch of the
Price family for
100 years.
Charles
Price, of Baltimore, is the son of the late Joshua C.
Price, of New
Philadelphia, Ohio, and his grandfather was Thomas
Price, a pioneer
of Ohio and the founder of the towns of York, Leesville,
Harlem Springs and Summerville in Ohio.
Francis
Price declared that as soon as he had succeeded in locating all
their heirs to the estate, suit will be filed at once
against the City of Baltimore to recover the property.
The land was what was formerly known as
Pleasant Valley and comprised approximately 300 acres, now
the very center of the business section of Baltimore. It was
conveyed according to
Price, by the agents of Lord Baltimore to Mordecai
Price near the
year 1750 for the sum of 11 pounds. Late
Price gave a
ninety-nine-year lease on the land to the City of
Baltimore. This lease, forgotten and lost, until recently,
expired several years ago.
Charles
Price said that if he won the fortune he would continue to live in
Denver and would probably continue his work as engineer.
(Harrison
Box married Lucy A. Stevens
on 30 Jul 1895, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Charles
Woodruff was born near Cincinnati, Ohio, May 21st, 1850,
and was stricken with paralysis, October 30th,
and died in the City of Mounds, Pulaski County, Ill., Nov. 2nd,
1912, aged 61 years, 5 months and 12 days. On May 18, 1881,
he was united by marriage to Miss Rachael
Worthington on a
farm near Mound City, Pulaski County, Ill., whom he now
leaves to mourn his loss together with an only sister in Los
Angeles, California, an uncle in Ohio and two aunts in
Pennsylvania, all of whom are too feeble to attend the
funeral.
He was the first postmaster for what is
now the City of Mounds. He built the first double house in
Pinch, now known as South Mounds, from which he was taken by
boat in the high water of 1882. He was also depot agent for
the I. C. R. R. when it was a single track road. He was an
enterprising and energetic merchant in his early days and
with his wife had been the Good Samaritan to those in need.
Funeral services were held in the
Congregational church on Sunday, Nov. 3rd, 1912,
at 5 o'clock p.m. The procession formed at his late
residence, headed by the members of Members of Trinity Lodge
of Freemasons from Mound City of which he had been a member
of many years. The church was nearly filled with friends
and acquaintances who had gathered at short notice to pay
their last tribute of respect to a good fellow citizen. The
Rev. J. H. Runalls,
the pastor of the church, delivered the sermon and Mrs. J.
B. Healey, Mrs.
A. Anderson and
Messrs. W. Gallion
and J. C. Mench with Miss Nellie
Runalls, the church organist at the instrument furnished
appropriate music for the sad occasion. The casket was
covered with a profusion of the choicest flowers, fit
emblems of the golden deeds performed without ostentation
and shown by the departed one. At the close of the service
at the church, the procession marched to the I. C. R. R.
depot in time for No. 8 and the body was shipped to
Cincinnati, Ohio, where the interment will take place today
in Spring Grove Cemetery in that city. Mr. and Mrs. Will
Montgomery
accompanied Mrs.
Woodruff on her sad journey and Clyde
Harding also went
along as the representative of Trinity Lodge of Freemasons
of Mound City.
Only the seed that on earth we have
sown,
Only remembered by what we have done.
(Charles
Woodruff married Rachel
Worthington on 18 May 1881, in Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
To the many kind friends who so kindly
helped and sympathized with me during the illness and death
of my loving husband, Charles
Woodruff, I
desire to tender my sincerest and heartfelt thanks for their
kind efforts to alleviate my sorrow and ease my burden.
George
Rice, alias George
Rimer, wanted at
Webster City, Iowa, for manslaughter, was arrested at the
American Express Company’s office this morning by Chief
Egan, when
Rimer appeared
and asked for some property which he had shipped to Cairo by
express.
The police have been on a lookout for
Rimer for several
weeks, having received word from the Iowa authorities that
he was headed this way. This morning when
Rimer arrived in
town and called at the express office, Chief
Egan was notified and went to the office, where he made the arrest.
Rimer has agreed to return to Webster City without requisition
papers.
(The 9 Nov 1912, issue reports his name
as William Rice.—Darrel
Dexter)
Phillip LeRoy
Casey, the 4-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. T. J.
Casey, of 321
Twenty-seventh Street, died Monday night at 11:30 o’clock
after a brief illness. The deceased is a brother of Gilbert
Casey.
Died—Mrs. Sadie Gray
Farrin, Tuesday,
November 5, 1912, Funeral services will be held Thursday,
November 7, 1912, at 1:30 p.m. at the residence of Reed
Green, 603 Walnut
Street. Services conducted by Rev. Mr.
Garrett, pastor
of the Cairo Baptist Church. Remains will be interred in
Beech Grove Cemetery and special interurban car will leave
Sixth Street and Washington Avenue at 2 p.m.
Friends of family are invited to attend.
After an illness of about two years and
intense suffering during the last three weeks of her life,
Mrs. Sadie Gray
Farrin passed away at St. Mary's Infirmary Tuesday about midnight.
The deceased was well known in Cairo,
having been connected with the Cairo public schools for many
years as assistant principal and teacher of Latin in the
Cairo High School, where she was dearly beloved by her
coworkers and pupils.
She was born at Mt. Vernon, Ill., in
the year of 1870 and was educated and graduated at the
Illinois State Normal University at Normal, Ill. She taught
school at Mt. Vernon before coming to Cairo.
Mrs. Farrin
was out of school life for two years and resided with her
sister in North Dakota. She was again employed as teacher
in the Cairo public school and was on her way to Cairo when
she was stricken with apoplexy at St. Louis, where she
remained for three months for treatment.
She was then brought to Cairo and had
been a patient at St. Mary’s Infirmary ever since. For the
past three weeks she had been in a critical condition and
her death at his time was not unexpected.
Surviving relatives are her sister,
Mrs. G. U. Fridley,
formerly Miss Lucy
Gray, of San Gabriel, Cal., and Attorney Reed
Green, of Cairo,
a cousin. She also has a number of cousins residing at Mt.
Vernon.
(Her marker in Liberty Cemetery reads:
Nellie M. Nelson Born Oct. 14, 1911 Died Oct. 31, 1912.—Darrel
Dexter)
(Her marker in Thebes Cemetery reads:
Jannie V. Tinsley Born Oct. 29, 1911
Died Nov. 1, 1912.—Darrel
Dexter)
MAN WANTED FOR MANSLAUGHTER IN IOWA TAKEN BACK
William Rice,
wanted for manslaughter in Webster City, Iowa, was taken
back Friday afternoon by Sheriff
Brown, who
arrived in the city Friday morning. Rice
was arrested at the express office here on Election Day,
when he appeared for his grips, which he had sent in
advance.
(The 5 Nov 191, issue reported his name
as George Rice.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. J. E.
Keith passed away Friday afternoon at St. Mary’s Infirmary after an
illness of several months. The deceased was about 35 years
of age and is survived by her husband. The remains were
taken to Charleston, Mo., this afternoon accompanied by Mrs.
J. A. Anderson, of this city.
It is thought that in a moment of insanity she swallowed
enough carbolic acid to kill her. She was a little over 18
years of age and well-loved in the community in which she
lived. She leaves a father and mother, two brothers and
three sisters to mourn her loss, besides a host of other
relatives and friends.
Peter
Hoover, an old resident of Cairo and one of the pioneer truck
gardeners of this section, passed away Sunday at the
residence of John
English, north of this city. He was 79 years of age.
Mr.
Hoover was a native of Germany. He served in the Union Army during
the Civil War and before the close of that conflict came to
Cairo and engaged in truck gardening. He continued in the
market gardening business in the Cairo drainage district and
recently removed to Miller City. He was taken sick a few
weeks ago and three weeks ago was brought down to John
English's where
he was cared for by his daughter, Lizzie.
Three daughters survive, Mrs. Rosie
Sprouse, of
Cairo, Mrs. Kate
Strainer, of East St. Louis, and Miss Lizzie
Hoover.
(Peter
Hoover married Mary Stager
on 12 Feb 1870, in Alexander Co., Ill.
William H.
Sprous married Rosa
Hoover on 15 Oct
1901, in Alexander Co., Ill.
A marker in Calvary Cemetery at Villa Ridge reads:
Peter Hoover
1833-1912 Mary A.
Hoover 1844-1909 William H
Sprous
1865-1912.—Darrel
Dexter)
Wesley
Williams, an old resident of Unity, passed away Saturday at the age
of 57 years. He was a prosperous farmer of that section and
is survived by a widow and several children.
J. W.
Glatz, late yard foreman for the Iron Mountain Railroad, died early
this morning at the Bondurant Hospital as a result of
injuries he received last Monday in a railroad accident in
the Iron Mountain yards.
The deceased was about 40 years of age
and was a brother-in-law of E. A.
Burke, the
undertaker.
His remains were conveyed to Mr.
Burke's undertaking parlors this morning, where an inquest was
held. The body was taken to Jackson, Tenn., at 12:45 p.m.
on the Mobile & Ohio, where the funeral will be held.
Deceased was born at Atlanta, Ga.,
where two brothers and a sister reside. Mr.
Glatz came to Cairo about four years ago from Shawnee, Okla., to
superintend the constructing of the Cairo & Thebes
railroad. He was conductor on the first train that pulled
out of the Fifteenth Street station and became yard foreman
when the Iron Mountain assumed control. He was a member of
the W. O. W. and recently had his membership transferred
from the Shawnee Lodge to the lodge here.
The accident in which Mr.
Glatz was injured
occurred last Monday evening. He sustained a broken ankle
and collar bone and received internal injuries which proved
fatal.
Herman
Sander, aged 88 years, one of Cairo's oldest and well known
citizens, was killed Sunday evening about 5:30 o'clock, when
he was run over by a southbound Commercial Avenue car at
Tenth and Washington.
Mr.
Sander was on his way home at the time the accident occurred. He
had just left Peter Day's saloon at Twelfth and Washington, where he had spent the
afternoon playing euchre with a number of his German
friends, as was usually his custom on Sunday afternoons.
On leaving the saloon, he walked down
Washington Avenue to Tenth Street, where he started
diagonally across the street. A north bound car was
approaching and Mr.
Sander, in his efforts to dodge this car, jumped in the
way of the south bound Commercial car, No. 41, which he
evidently did not see or hear.
According to Rogers
Martinelli, the
motorman, the car was running at a slow rate of speed, as he
had a bell to let a passenger off at the next block. He
said he did not see Mr.
Sander until he dodged past the north bound car. He began ringing
his gong and applied the brakes with all his
power. Realizing that Mr.
Sander did not
hear the approaching car,
Martinelli
reversed the current in his efforts to bring it to
an immediate stop. In doing so nearly every passenger on
the car was given a severe lunge forward and all declare
that the motorman did all in his power to prevent the
accident. He was arrested but was later released and
allowed to go to his home.
Mr.
Sander died about ten minutes after the car struck him. He did not
regain consciousness.
There were several witnesses to the accident, who were
passing along the street at the time. They rushed to Mr.
Sander's
assistance, but found him dying.
The remains were taken to the
undertaking parlors of Mrs. M. E.
Feith, at
Eleventh and Washington, where the remains were viewed by
the coroner and later prepared for burial.
Mr.
Sander was injured about the head and body and one leg and arm were
badly crushed. His entire body was horribly mutilated.
The deceased is survived by two sons,
John D. Sander
and Casper Sander,
and one daughter Mrs. Elizabeth
Knowles, of St.
Louis.
His son, Casper, is house manager of
the Alexander Club.
He was engaged in the grocery business
at 614 Commercial Avenue with his son, John, the firm name
being H. Sander &
Son. Mr. Sander
was quite active for a man of his age and attended to his
business daily. His sight and hearing were said to be
somewhat defective, which probably accounts for his failure
to see or hear the car.
The deceased was born in Hanover,
Germany, on February 19, 1825, and would have been 88 years
old on his next birthday. He came to America when about 19
years of age and located in Cairo about forty-five years
ago. He was employed by William
Kluge in the
grocery business for a number of years and later embarked in
business for himself, purchasing the grocery store of Joe
Bross, at 915
Washington Avenue. He later removed to his present location
at 614 Commercial Avenue, where he purchased the stock of L.
H. Myers.
Mr.
Sander was a member of St. Patrick’s Church and of the Trail
Merchants Association.
The funeral will be held Tuesday
morning at St. Patrick's Church where services will be held
at 8 a.m., conducted by the pastor, Rev. J. J.
Downey. The
remains will be interred in Calvary Cemetery at Villa Ridge.
The last sad rites over the remains of
Herman Sander,
who was run down and killed by a street car at Tenth and
Washington, Sunday evening about 5:30 o'clock, were held
this morning at St. Patrick's Church. The services were
conducted by the pastor, Rev. James
Downey.
The funeral was largely attended by the
many friends of the deceased and by the Trail Merchants
Association, the members of which attended in a body. The
floral offerings were very profuse.
The pallbearers were as follows:
Honorary: Paul G.
Schuh, A.
Comings, Capt. W. M. Williams,
P. T. Langan, H.
Bloms, George T.
Carnes, Peter Saup, J. C.
Crowley, William
Kluge, William
Oehler, Philip Lehning,
M. J. Howely, E.
Bucher, P. C.
Scullin, John W. C. Fry.
Active: Patrick
Purcell, C. C.
Terrell, R. W. Aydt, W.
P. Greaney, John
Lattern, Rufus P.
Flack, James Meehan.
The remains were taken to Villa Ridge
cemetery where they were laid to rest in Calvary Cemetery.
The funeral was in charge of Mrs. M. E.
Feith.
The funeral of Peter
Hoover, the
well-known truck gardener, was held this morning at 9
o'clock at the residence of John
English. The
remains were taken to Villa Ridge in carriages and a large
number of the friends of the deceased accompanied them to
their last resting place. E. A.
Burke had charge
of the funeral.
John M.
Hutchason, aged forty-seven years, died at 2 o'clock this afternoon
at his home, 428 Cross Street, after a long illness. The
deceased was a well-known electrician having been employed
formerly by the Chicago Mill and Lumber Co. He leaves a
wife and two children. The funeral arrangements will be
made later.
The deceased for many years was
employed by the Cairo Electric & Traction Company. He was a
member of Cairo lodge, No. 173, Knights of Pythias and is
survived by a wife and several children.
He had been ill for some time with
tuberculosis. The funeral will be held Friday and conducted
by Rev. Mr. Clark,
pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church. The lodge will have
charge of the service at the grave.
The coroner’s inquest held to inquire
into the death of J. W.
Glatz, the Iron
Mountain yard foreman, who died from injuries received in an
accident on Monday, November 4th, was completed
this afternoon, when the following verdict was tendered:
"We, the undersigned jurors, sworn to
inquire of the death of J. W.
Glatz, on oath do
find that he came to his death by injuries received by being
crushed by the cab of Iron Mountain switch engine No. 873,
falling on the deceased after being brushed or sideswiped by
a freight car which had just been kicked by said switch
engine allowing six or seven cars attached to said switch
engine to pass, but evidently rolled back which did not
leave a clearance for the engine and cab to pass. We
further find that after making a careful inquiry and due
examination of witnesses that there was no criminal
negligence on the part of anyone for the said accident.
Signed, Thomas A.
Fuller, foreman; Patrick J.
Purcell, W. F.
Simon, Rufus P.
Flack, P. T. Langan, and J. M. Guion.
Hutchason—Died in this city, at 2 p.m., Wednesday, at his residence,
428 Cross Street, John M.
Hutchason, age 46
years.
Funeral services will be conducted at
the residence by Rev.
Clark, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church at 10 o'clock
Friday Morning, Nov. 15. Knights of Pythias services will
be conducted at the grave.
Cars will leave Cross and Walnut
streets at 10:30 a.m. for Beech Grove Cemetery, where
interment will be made.
Friends of the family are invited.
Members of Cairo Lodge No. 173 Ascalon
Lodge No. 51 and transient Pythians are requested to meet at
the residence No. 428 Cross Street, Friday morning, November
15th, at 10 o'clock sharp to attend the funeral
of our late brother, John M.
Richason.
William H. Boyer,
Chancellor Commander
Col. J. D. Clark,
formerly superintendent of the Mobile & Ohio railroad
between St. Louis and Mobile and for a number of years a
resident of Cairo, died in Greenville, S.C., Saturday,
according to a message received by Capt. W. M.
Williams, from H.
L. Hungerford,
his son-in-law. Mr.
Hungerford is now superintendent of the Southern
railroad with headquarters at Greenville.
Heart failure is given in the message
as the cause of his death. Mr.
Clark will be
remembered by a great many Cairoites.
(Leon C.
Read married Ella May
Dishenger on 23 Dec 1890, in Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
S.
Malouf, the young Syrian who was engaged in the grocery business
with his father, N.
Mallouf, at Twelfth and Washington, died this morning at
St. Mary’s Infirmary, as the result of injuries received
Tuesday night, when he was shot by one of three negroes, who
entered the store about 9 o'clock for the purpose of
robbery.
The attempted robbery was one of the
boldest that has been perpetrated in Cairo for some
time. The three negroes upon entering the store commanded
the Syrians to hold up their hands. This the Syrians
refused to do and rushed at the negro who held the gun,
in an attempt to overpower him.
As they did so, the negro fired at the
younger Mallouf,
the bullet entering his face and ranged upward. Before the
elder Mallouf could reach the negro, one of the others dealt him a blow
over the head with a piece of wood, and was shot in the back
when he turned to evade the blow. The father still showed
fight and again rushed at the negro, who by this time, with
his companions, had run to the door to make their escape.
On leaving the building, the negroes
started on a run out Twelfth Street towards Walnut and as
they did so, fired a shot to frighten anyone whom they
thought might give them chase. Quite a crowd had been
attracted to the scene on hearing the first shots fired, but
no one volunteered to give chase, fearing that they would
meet with the same fate as did the Syrians.
The injured men were taken to St.
Mary's Infirmary, where the wounds were dressed by Dr.
McManus. Owing to the young man's injuries, it was very difficult
and painful for him to speak and the elder man could hardly
be understood, and for this reason, only meager description
could be secured by the police of the negroes. The best
that could be learned was that the negroes were short and of
stocky build.
All night and throughout today, the
police and sheriff and special officers have been busy on
the case arresting every suspicious looking negro, but it is
believed that the guilty parties have not yet been captured.
Supt.
Crossley, of the Traction Company, volunteered his services this
morning, and accompanied by Officer
Mills, Sam
Abell and a
representative of The
Citizen, made a trip to Mounds in a special interurban
car, to bring back three negroes who were arrested there
last night and answered the description of the three
wanted. The negroes claimed to be on their way from
Centralia to Mississippi and said they had been working for
the Illinois Central there. As one of them had an
identification check in his pocket, and judging from their
conversations and actions it is believed that they were
innocent of the crime.
The
Malloufs came to America about fifteen years ago. For a number of
years, they conducted a fruit stand on Sixth Street, in the
building now occupied by John R.
Ford's wholesale
whiskey house. Later they purchased a store at Tenth and
Washington and the one at Twelfth and Washington, next to
Brewer's drug store, where the shooting took place. The elder
Mallouf is about
60 years of age, while his son was about 22.
Coroner
McManus summoned a jury this afternoon. They viewed the remains of
S. Mallouf, after
which the inquest was continued until more evidence is
secured.
A dozen or more gun toters were
arrested by the police last night and today, besides a large
number of suspects, who were arrested at various places in
the city, where they were found loafing and unable to give a
good account of themselves. These were taken before Judge
Ross today and
those guilty of carrying concealed weapons were fined $25
and costs, while the others were released for want of
evidence.
The police are running down every clue,
but have very little real evidence on which to work.
W. L.
Bristol received a message this morning from Berkley, Calif.,
announcing the death of his brother, E. C.
Bristol. The
deceased was 75 years of age and went to Berkeley only
recently for the benefit of his heath. His home was in
Seattle, Wash.
A reward of $200 will be paid by the
city of Cairo for evidence leading to the arrest and
condition of the party or parties who made the assault which
resulted in the death of S.
Mallouf, about 9
o'clock Tuesday night, Nov. 19, 1912, near the southeast
corner of Twelfth Street and Commercial Avenue in the City
of Cairo, Ill.
A reward of $200 will be paid by the
County of Alexander for evidence leading to the arrest and
conviction of the party or parties who made the assault
which resulted in the death of S.
Mallouf, about 9
o'clock Tuesday night, Nov. 19, 1912, near the southeast
corner of Twelfth Street and Commercial Avenue in the City
of Cairo, Ill.
Daniel T.
Reeves died at this home, No. 731 Thirty-sixth Street, Wednesday of
paralysis of the brain. The remains were taken to
Lovelaceville, Ky., for burial.
Though a large number of arrests have
been made, and all suspicious looking negroes—especially
those of short and stocky build—“run in" by the police, the
three negroes who entered the grocery store of S.
Mallouf and son,
at Twelfth and Washington Tuesday night, and who robbed and
fatally shot Nagib
Mallouf, the son, have not yet been captured.
The funeral of Nagib
Mallouf will be
held Friday morning at St. Patrick’s Church, of which the
deceased was a member. His initial being N.
Mallouf, instead
of S. Mallouf, as
heretofore printed, this being his father's initial.
The cortege will leave the residence,
No. 915 Washington Avenue, at 7:50 o'clock for St. Patrick's
Church, where services will be conducted by Father James
Downey. The
remains will be taken to Beech Grove Cemetery on a special
interurban car, leaving Ninth and Washington at 9 o'clock.
The pallbearers will be Alexander
Lewis, George
Moses, Peter A. Saliba,
Nagib Koury,
Charlie Mike, A.
Sabbak, A. Fissell, and
Abraham Sabbak.
The three negroes who entered the
grocery store of S.
Mallouf and son, Tuesday night, and who fatally shot
Nagib Mallouf,
secured sack containing over $200. It is said that
the exact amount was $203 in silver, a five dollars gold
piece and a check on the First Bank & Trust Company for
$76.30.
It has been the practice of the
Malloufs to count
their money every night, standing by a light opposite one of
the front windows while doing so. It is believed that the
negroes who committed the robbery and murder were familiar
with this practice and had planned to rob the Syrians when a
suitable time presented itself. There being but a few
people on the street in that vicinity Tuesday night, the
negroes proceeded to carry out their plans.
Otto
Fahr, the well-known grocer at Tenth and Washington, has reported to
the police that three negroes came to his store shortly
before 9 o'clock on Tuesday night. He was just closing up
and had locked the door. The negroes rattled the door and
Mr. Fahr without unlocking it, asked them what they wanted. One replied
that he wanted a nickel's worth of ginger snaps, whereupon
Mr. Fahr turned
around and reached for a snack. He was going to fill it
with the ginger snaps and then unlock the door and hand it
to the negroes, but they evidently thought that Mr.
Fahr was reaching
for a gun and did not wait for the ginger snaps. It is
believed that the negroes then went to
Mallouf's grocery
where they found the Syrians counting their money and
commanded them to "hold up their hands," resulting in the
robbery and shooting.
Nagib
Mallouf, who died from effects of his wounds, was saving his money
for the purpose of sending for his sweetheart in the old
country. When she arrived they were to have been married.
The young man was highly respected by
all who knew him. He was very polite, quite of manner and
attended strictly to his own business. That he should meet
such an untimely death and at the hands of three brutes is
deeply regretted.
It is reported that a negro entered a
store in the Drainage District near the Grear-Wilkerson
plant a few days ago, and finding a woman alone in the
store, proceeded to walk behind the counter and help himself
to a loaf of bread and other edibles. On turning to walk
out, the woman told the negro the amount he owed, whereupon
the negro replied that he knew what he was doing and gave
the woman a "cussing."
She called for assistance, but the negro made his escape.
Lovelaceville, Ky., Nov. 1—After her
body had been burned almost to a crisp, Mrs. Lon
Armstrong, 22 years old, lingered for several hours at her home at
Lovelaceville, and then died. She was sweeping when her
clothing caught fire from a stove. She started to run;
before aid could arrive her clothes were burned off.
Died—Nagib Mallouf,
Wednesday, November 20, 1912, Aged 23 years. Funeral
services will be held at St. Patrick’s Church, Friday
morning. Cortege will leave family residence, 915
Washington Avenue, at 7:50 a.m. and special interurban car
will convey the remains to Beech Grove Cemetery at 9
o'clock. Friends of the family are invited to attend.
Death relieved the suffering of Mrs.
Pleas Buchanan,
Thursday at midnight after an illness of five weeks. The
deceased was about 26 years old and is survived by her
husband and a son only a few weeks old. She was the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Thornberry, the
father being a well-known motorman for the Cairo Traction
Company and commonly known as "Dad." Three brothers and two
sisters also survive her.
The deceased was married to Mr.
Buchanan in April
1911 and until her illness resided over the boat store at
619 Ohio Street. She was later removed to the home of Mr.
Buchanan's
parents on Center Street.
The funeral will be held at 2 o'clock
Saturday afternoon at the Presbyterian church, conducted by
the pastor, Rev. A. M.
Eels. There
remains will be conveyed on a special interurban car to
Beech Grove Cemetery, where they will be interred.
Clyde E.
King, age six years, son of J. E.
King, of Thebes,
died at the Bondurant Hospital of appendicitis at 11 o'clock
last night. The child was brought here several days
ago. The body was prepared for burial at
Burke's
undertaking rooms and taken on the early morning train to
Thebes by Mr. King.
(The 27 Nov 1912, issue identified the parents as
Jesse E. and Mary
King. Jesse
E. King married
Mary A. Buster on
28 Jul 1895, in Alexander Co., Ill.
They are buried in Rose Hill Cemetery near Thebes,
but there is no marker there for Clyde E.
King.—Darrel
Dexter)
Died—Mrs. J. P. Buchanan,
Thursday, November 21, 1912. Funeral services will be held
at the Presbyterian church at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon,
conducted by the pastor, Rev. A. M.
Eels. Cortege
will leave residence of G. W.
Buchanan, No. 526
Center Street at 1:30 p.m. for the church. Special
interurban cars will leave Eighteenth and Washington at 2:30
p.m. for Beech Grove Cemetery, where the remains will be
interred. Friends of the family are invited to attend.
The funeral of Nagib
Mallouf, the
young Syrian who was murdered by three negroes, who entered
his store and fatally shot him last Tuesday night, was held
this morning at St. Patrick’s Church, conducted by Rev.
James Gillen,
pastor of St. Joseph's Church, who officiated in the absence
of Father James Downey, who is out of the city.
The funeral was largely attended by the
many friends of the deceased and the floral offerings were
abundant. The remains were taken to Beech Grove Cemetery in
a special interurban car for interment.
The pallbearers were Alexander
Lewis, George
Moses, Peter A.
Saliba, Nagib Koury,
Charlie Mike, A.
Sabbak, A.
Fissel, and Abraham Sabbak.
B. F.
Wilbourn, aged 66 years, brother of W. W.
Wilbourn, of Olive Branch, died at his home in Olive Branch this
morning. He is survived by one daughter and two sisters,
besides his brother.
(Benjamin F.
Wilbourn filed for a military pension in 1883.
A marker in Olive Branch Cemetery reads:
B. F. Wilbourn
Co. D, 50 Mo. Inf.—Darrel
Dexter)
Andrew
Davidson, aged 14, son of C. C.
Davidson, of Villa Ridge, was accidentally shot and killed Sunday
afternoon while out hunting.
He was climbing over a fence when his gun was
discharged and he received the load in his own body. Two
companions were with him when the accident happened.
The family resides three miles east of
Villa Ridge and besides the father, who was a brother of the
late W. M. Davidson,
of Cairo, and a sister, Miss Minnie, another sister, Mrs.
John A. Royce, of
Villa Ridge, survive.
(Charles C.
Davidson married Maggie M.
Sherrick on 16 Oct 1878, in Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
I desire to express my very deep thanks
to the friends and neighbors who were so kind during the
illness and the death of my wife, Mrs. Myrtle
Buchanan.
The funeral of B. F.
Wilbourn, a
prominent citizen of Olive Branch, who died Saturday, was
held Sunday and largely attended. The deceased was a member
of the G. A. R. having served in the Civil War and was a
member of the Odd Fellows.
He is survived by a daughter, Mrs. M.
Clegg, a brother,
W. W. Wilbourn,
both of Olive Branch, two sisters, Mrs. Josephine
Gibeaux and Mrs.
Laura Hobbs, of
St. Louis.
Funeral services were held Sunday at 11
a.m. and interment made at the Olive Branch cemetery.
In attendance at the funeral were the
following from Cairo:
Mrs. S.
Wilbourn and daughters, Misses Gertrude and Dea, and
three son, Harry, John and George; Ed and John
Coakley and Mrs.
Stapleton. In addition to Mesdames
Gibeaux and Hobbs, of St.
Louis, and C.
Raspberry, of Commerce, Mo.
The remains of Ernest
Sutherland, who
died at Denver, Colo., last Friday will reach Cairo Tuesday
and the funeral will be conducted at Beech Grove Cemetery
where a special interurban train will carry the friends and
relatives of the deceased from Seventeenth Street and
Commercial Avenue at 12:30 p.m. He was a nephew of Mr. and
Mrs. C. E. Miller
and Mr. and Mrs. T. J.
Hoewischer, of
Cairo.
DID BERNIE DAWES COMMIT SUICIDE?
Did Bernie Dawes,
a former Cairoite and society leader, commit suicide at San
Pedro, California?
"Bernie
Dawes—Wire us. We can not give you up. We are ready to right the
wrong with the company the moment we can get you back. I
have written you in care of general delivery at Los Angeles
and San Pedro. Go get them and see what we have done for
you and will do anything for you in the world.
The young man is well known in Cairo,
having been employed as clerk at the Halliday Hotel for a
number of years, and was a leading factor in local club and
social circles.
GUILTY NEGROES WHO KILLED SYRIAN NOT YET CAPTURED
The three negroes who robbed and
fatally shot Nagib
Mallouf, the young Syrian, on the night of Tuesday,
November, 19th, are still at large though every
effort has been made by the city and county authorities to
find them.
Over a hundred arrests have been made
during the past week, every suspicious looking character
having been arrested and every available clue run down but
without success.
Of the total number of arrests, a large
number were gun toters who were either heavily filled or
given "stays" to leave town. Sixteen arrests were made
Saturday and eight Sunday.
Cards are being mailed out to the
sheriff of every county in this section in hopes of
capturing the guilty parties.
Mrs. Kate Murphy,
an old resident of McClure, died at the Anna hospital
Sunday. The remains were brought here Monday and buried in
the Lindsay Cemetery beside her husband, who died several
years ago and where she wished to be buried. She was 70
years of age and was one of the interesting characters
here. Of late her health had failed and she had to be sent
to Anna, as she was very feeble. She was well known in
other places as she was a frequent visitor to the soldier
reunions, having many friends among them.
Marissa, Ill., Nov. 29—While attempting
to start a coal elevator at the Crystal mine at Tilden,
Ill., early today, William
Stevenson,
representative from the Forty-fourth legislative district
and president of the Bessamer Coal Mining Company, of St.
Louis, was probably fatally injured. Stevenson
was caught in a fly wheel and his chest badly
crushed. While not actively engaged in legislative duties
or in the St. Louis office of the company,
Stevenson spends
much time at the mines.
Paducah, Ky., Nov. 29—Emmet S.
Bagby, 34 years
old, assistant cashier of the City National Bank, Friday
morning about 10 o’clock shot and killed himself in a vault
in the basement of the bank building. The only cause that
can be assigned for the deed by the bank officials and the
bank inspectors is that Mr.
Bagby could not
face the humiliation of being confronted with a shortage of
$700.
The bank inspectors following the
suicide made a rapid examination of the books and the
shortage will not exceed $700. This check it is said to
have carried the signature of M.
Marks and was
discovered Friday morning by the bank inspectors when the
account did not balance. While the investigation was being
made, Mr. Bagby
walked to the basement and fired a bullet into his brain,
the ball entering just behind the right ear.
Mr.
Bagby was 34 years old, the eldest son of Judge E. W.
Bagby and resided
with his father at 812 Broadway. He was born and reared in
Paducah. When a young man he entered the City National Bank
and for fourteen years had been a highly valued
employee. For several years he had been the assistant
cashier. He was a close personal friend of Mr. James C.
Utterback, the
cashier.
Besides his father, Mr.
Bagby is survived
by three sisters, Mrs. Henry
Grace, of
Needles, Calif., Mrs. B. A.
Ray, of Kettle
Falls, Wash., and Miss Marjorie
Bagby, of
Paducah, and two brothers, Mrs. Douglas
Bagby, of
Paducah, and Mrs. Reuben
Farby, of Kettle
Falls, Wash.
His father, Judge E. W.
Bagby, referee in
bankruptcy was prostrated with grief. He was at his office
when the news was broken to him. He rushed to the City
National Bank and a short time later it was necessary to
take him to his home. As Judge
Bagby is a
sufferer from nervous trouble, it is said that his condition
is serious.
(James Harrison
Anderson married Rosannah
Worley on 28 Nov 1858, in Union Co., Ill.
George E.
Peeler, 25, born in Union Co., Ill., son of Pleasant
Peeler and Nancy
Misenhimer,
married Olive
Anderson, 22, born in Union Co., Ill., daughter of
Harrison Anderson
and Rozana Worley,
on 8 Feb 1892, in Union Co., Ill.
William H.
Goddard, 21, born in Anna, Ill., son of Timothy H.
Goddard and Susan Summers,
married Alice L.
Anderson, 21, born in Anna, Ill., daughter of James H.
Anderson and Rosa
Worley, on 20 May
1883, in Union Co., Ill.
Her marker in I. O. O. F. Cemetery in Dongola reads:
Mother
Anderson Born March 31, 1841Died Nov. 23, 1912.—Darrel
Dexter)
Peter O.
Johns, senior member of the firm of P. O.
Johns & Brother, died at Phoenix, Arizona, Saturday evening, Nov. 23rd,
of tuberculosis of the lungs after an illness of more than a
year. Because of his illness, Mr.
Johns spent the past winter in the coast towns of the Mexican Gulf,
returning home with the advent of warm weather. He seemed
improved and resumed his attention to his commercial and
farming interests, not, however, with his former energy. As
the season wore on, Mr.
Johns became so
much worse that it was deemed advisable to take him to the
dry climate of Arizona and himself and wife accordingly left
here on Wednesday, Nov. 13th, for Phoenix. They
arrived there on Saturday, Nov. 16th. Mr.
Johns was much
exhausted by the long railroad ride but seemed to rally
temporarily, however, death came on the following Saturday
evening.
(Peter O.
Johns married Alice C.
Gillette on 28 Jan 1889, in Massac Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Patrick J.
Purcell, since 1858 a resident of Cairo and one if its most highly
respected citizens and businessmen, died Sunday evening at
8:30 o'clock at St. Mary's Infirmary, of pneumonia, after an
illness of little more than a week.
On Friday, Nov. 22, he went to the
hospital for treatment for a severe cold, which rapidly grew
worse. Last Saturday his condition was so alarming that it
was feared he would not survive and relatives were summoned.
Mr.
Purcell was born in Bradford County, Pa., on April 5, 1851. With
his parents he came to Cairo when he was a young boy, and
they died soon afterward and he was reared by his uncle, the
late John Howley. He
completed the course in the public schools here and attended
St. Vincent's College at Cape Girardeau, Mo., and for twenty
years he was manager of the Halliday warehouse. Late he
engaged in the insurance business with Charles
Cunningham,
afterward acquiring the business. Two years ago he sold the
business to Feuchter
& Galligan.
Surviving the deceased are a sister,
Mrs. Kate Wentworth,
and two cousins, M. J.
Howley and John
C. Crowley.
Mr.
Purcell was a member of St. Patrick’s Church.
Cortege will leave residence of M. J.
Howley and
services will be held at St. Patrick’s Church and the
remains interred at Calvary Cemetery, Villa Ridge.
(Thomas J.
Wentworth married Kate
Purcell on 3 Jun 1889, in Alexander Co., Ill.
A marker in Calvary Cemetery at Villa Ridge reads:
Patrick
Purcell Died Dec. 1, 1912 Aged 61 Years.—Darrel
Dexter)
Word is said to have been received by
friends of Bernie
Dawes, at Paducah, Ky., denying the report that he had
committed suicide as was stated in a dispatch sent out from
Los Angeles, Cal.
It is said that the report of his death
had its origin in a recent illness from which he has now
recovered. Mr.
Dawes was
recently married and went to Los Angeles in search of
employment, where he was taken ill.
Mrs. E. J.
Link, mother of Mrs. J. F.
Roberts, of this city, died at her home in Ewing,
Illinois, Sunday, after a long illness. The funeral
occurred this afternoon. Mrs.
Roberts has been
with her mother for several weeks and will return to Cairo
Tuesday.
(John Franklin
Roberts married Effie Link
on 15 May 1890, in Franklin Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Friends of Mrs. Birdie
Moss, wife of E.
C. Moss, of Mound
City, were shocked to learn of her death, which occurred
very suddenly Sunday morning at her home in that city.
Mrs.
Moss was preparing dinner when she was taken suddenly ill and died
as the result of cerebral hemorrhage. She had as her
guests, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse
Richards, of
Cairo, and was engaged in conversation with them when she
expired.
She is survived by her husband, three
daughter, Frances, Gladys, and Mary; one son, Coleman; three
sisters, Mrs. H.
Calvin, of Olmsted, Mrs. R. H.
Hawley, and Mrs.
Carrie Spence, of
Mound City, and one brother, Richard
Boren, of New
York.
The deceased was 42 years of age and
was a member of St. Peter's Episcopal Church. She had been
a resident of Mound City all her life. The funeral
arrangements have not yet been made.
(Edward
Moss married Birdie Boren
on 17 Sep 1890, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
Hiram Calvin
married Gussie
Boren on 24 Jan 1883, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
Robert H. Hawley married Mary A. Boren
on 6 Sep 1876, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
Thomas W.
Spencer married Carrie Frances
Boren on 8 Oct
1889, in Pulaski Co., Ill. —Darrel
Dexter)
The last sad rites over the remains of
Patrick J. Purcell
were held this morning at St. Patrick’s Church, of which the
deceased was a member. The services were conducted by
Father James Downey,
assisted by Father James
Gillen, pastor of
St. Joseph's Church and Father
Hoffend, of
Detroit, Mich.
Mrs. W. B.
Pettis died at her home, 320 Eighth Street, at 11:15 o'clock Monday
night as the result of an attack of pneumonia, which she was
unable to withstand. She had been in failing health for
months and her family felt that the end was near. This
summer her sister came on to be with her and remained for
several months, only returning home a short time ago.
Mrs.
Pettis was born in Rixeyville, Va., on May 20, 1853, and was married
to Walter B. Pettis,
at Taylorsville, Va., on Jan. 16, 1877. She came to Cairo
with her husband that year and has remained continuously
ever since. Seven children were born to them, who survive
with their father,—Mrs. Mary
Russell, Walter
B. Pettis, Jr., Norma Pettis,
Mrs. Alex Weldon,
Mrs. John Downing,
Robert and Ruth
Pettis. There are also two grandchildren, Pettis
Russell and
Elizabeth Downing.
Died—Mrs. H. B.
Pettis, age 59, at residence, 320 8th Street. Services
will be conducted at residence Wednesday morning, Dec. 4th,
9 a.m. by Rev. Eels
of the Presbyterian Church. Special interurban cars will
leave 8th and Washington at 9:L30 a.m. Interment
at Beech Grove Cemetery.
Friends of family invited.
At the home of the late Mrs. W. B.
Pettis, funeral
services were held this morning, conducted by Rev. A. M.
Eels, pastor of
the Presbyterian Church, of which she was a lifelong
member. Profuse floral offerings were the gifts of
friends. The funeral cortege went to Beech Grove Cemetery
on a special interurban car where the interment was made.
Mrs. R. A.
Clutts died Nov. 8 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W. H.
Whiteaker, at Los
Gatos, Calif. She leaves only one child, Mrs. Marind
Whiteaker, two grandchildren, Dalton
Cole and Alonzo Salem
Whiteaker, and one great-granddaughter to mourn her
loss. Mrs. Clutts
moved from Tennessee with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Austin, to Union
County, Ill., in 1849 and in 1850 settled in Alexander
County. She was married to C. C.
Cole in 1851. Mr. Cole
died in 1859, leaving four children besides his widow. She
was married to Samuel
Clutts in 1860 and four children were born to them and
died in early childhood, the oldest living to be 13
years. Mr. and Mrs.
Clutts went to California in 1880 to visit her daughter,
Mrs. W. H. Whiteaker
and remained one year. After the death of her husband in
1893, she returned to California and remained two years,
when she returned to her old home at Delta, Ill. Her health
was so bad that she returned again to California, leaving in
April 1911. She reached San Jose and was met by her
daughter. She was very feeble, but got better for a
while. She was 81 years of age at her death.
(Christopher Cole married Caroline Austin
on 17 Mar 1851, in Alexander Co., Ill.
SSamuel Cluts
married Mrs. Rebecca Ann
Cole on 16 Sep
1860, in Alexander Co., Ill.
W. H.
Whitaker married Marind P.
Cole on 6 Oct
1870, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Thomas W.
Gannon, superintendent of The Cairo Water Company, received word
today that Mrs. J. A.
Beeber, wife of the former president of the company,
died in Williamsport, Pa. The deceased's husband died last
March and since that time Mrs.
Beeber had been
quite ill.
S.
Mallouf, father of N. Mallouf,
the young Syrian who was robbed and killed by three negroes
in their store at Twelfth and Washington, on the night of
November 19th/sup>, has recovered from his wound,
having been shot in the back by negroes and has reopened his
store for business.
Chief
Egan is in receipt of the photos and descriptions of William
Benton and Jerome
McDonald, two negroes who were arrested in St. Louis for highway
robbery on Thanksgiving Day. They answered the descriptions
of the negroes who robbed and killed N.
Mallouf on
November 19th, but on being shown to S.
Mallouf, they were found not to be the right parties.
Mrs. Lizzie
Welch, wife of Seymour Welch,
of Olmsted, died Monday, of dropsy and was buried Tuesday,
Rev. Mr. Bartley
officiating at the funeral. The deceased was 35 years of
age, and left four small children, besides her husband and
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chris
Witchman. She
also had three sisters and three brothers. The deceased was
a member of the Lutheran Church of Olmsted.
Denver Scott, son of J. W.
Stout, manager of
the Barrett Fleet, died at St. Mary's Infirmary Friday and
was taken to Mrs. L. C.
Falconer's
undertaking establishment from where the remains were
shipped to Charleston, West Virginia.
Whereas:—the Great Supreme Ruler has
seen fit in His wisdom to call from our midst and transfer
our beloved brother, Vincent
Edwards, to a
seat in the Supreme Lodge in that beautiful city prepared
for the people of God, and,
Whereas, Thebes Lodge No. 1792, Modern
Brotherhood of America, has lost one of its most worthy and
beloved members, and,
Whereas, Sister
Edwards has lost a kind and affectionate husband the children a
tender and devoted father and the relatives and friends a
faithful and loving friend
Therefore, Be it Resolved:—That this
lodge extend to the wife and relatives our greatest sympathy
in their sad hour of bereavement, that we keep the
association of our dead brother fresh and green in our
memories until our Heavenly Father calls us to that eternal
city there to meet and clasp hands with our dear bother in
that beautiful city of light.
Resolved, That a copy of these
resolutions be placed in one of our county papers, that a
copy be spread on our records, and that copy be presented to
the bereaved family.
A message was received this morning
announcing the death of H. M.
Buchanan, which
occurred at his home in Morrisonville, Ill., Friday
night. The deceased is the father of C. L.
Buchanan, of
Cairo, who left for Morrisonville early this morning. C. N.
Buchanan, a
brother, will probably go up this evening.
Nancy, the five-year-old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. George
Smith, of Clifford, Williamson County, was burned to
death Tuesday night in her father's barn which was destroyed
by fire.
The little girl, with her
seven-year-old brother, was hunting eggs in the barn,
carrying a lantern. The little one's clothing was ignited
and from her burning clothing the barn was fired. She was
trapped in and not until the barn was reduced to ashes was
it possible to recover her body. It was badly charred.
The account of the shocking accident,
as it has reached this city, is that when the girl's dress
began to burn her brother ran from the barn to give the
alarm and bring help. By the time her parents reached the
place it was afire all within and they could not enter. The
lantern overturned while the children were in the hay
searching for eggs.—Marion
Post
The
St. Louis Globe-Democrat of Saturday contained the announcement of
the death of Mrs. Ellen
Monaghan, of that
city. The following notice appeared in the list of deaths:
MONAGHAN—Entered into rest on Wednesday, December 4, at 7 o'clock
a.m. Ellen Monaghan
(nee
Fitzgerald),
beloved wife of Michael L.
Monaghan, dear
mother of Dorothy Olive
Monaghan, dear
sister of Mary and Mamie
Fitzgerald and
the late James and William
Fitzgerald.
Funeral from family residence, 4455
Gravois Avenue, Saturday, December 7, at 8:30 a.m. to the
Church of Our Lady of Sorrows thence to Calvary Cemetery.
Chicago, Cairo, and Tamms, Ill., and
Kanas City, Kan., papers will please copy.
DIED—Mrs. Clarissa
Robinson, wife of Judge J. H.
Robinson, Dec. 8,
at St. Louis, Mo., at the age of 69 years. Remains will
arrive in Cairo via M. & O. railroad Tuesday at 1:40 a.m.,
Dec. 10th, and will be conveyed to E. A.
Burke's
undertaking parlors.
Funeral services will be conducted by
Rev. Eels at the
Presbyterian Church, Tuesday, at 1:30 p.m., Dec.
10. Special interurban cars will leave corner Eighteenth
and Washington Avenue at 2:00 p.m. for interment at Beech
Grove Cemetery.
Friends of the family invited to
attend.
The remains of Mrs. Clarissa
Robinson, wife of
the late John H.
Robinson, who died in St. Louis Sunday will be brought
down to Cairo tonight on the Mobile & Ohio, for interment
Tuesday. Funeral services will be held at the Presbyterian
church in which the deceased was for so many years an active
worker, conducted by the pastor, Rev. A. M.
Eels and the body
will be interred at Beech Grove as can be seen from funeral
notice elsewhere.
Mrs.
Robinson was 69 years of age. She leaves a granddaughter as the
only member of the family.
The funeral of little Ronald Henry
Albright, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Leo
Albright, of Mounds, was held Monday afternoon in the
Methodist church at Mounds, Rev. Mr.
Gore officiating. The child died Saturday at St. Mary's Infirmary,
following an operation to remove a needle which the little
one had swallowed.
H. C.
Hamilton, of Fort Branch, Ind., aged 68 years, was seriously injured
Monday evening, when he stepped off of an interurban car
while it was in motion and sustained injuries to his head,
which rendered him unconscious.
The accident occurred near the County
Club. Mr. Hamilton
was on his way to the home of his son, C. E.
Hamilton, who
resides on the Sycamore Street road. He did not signal the
motorman to stop and before the conductor knew what
Hamilton was up to, the latter had deliberately walked off the car.
He was removed to St. Mary’s Infirmary,
where he remains in a precarious condition.
Funeral services were held this
afternoon at the Presbyterian church over the remains of
Mrs. John H. Robinson,
and the body was taken to Beech Grove Cemetery for
interment. Rev. A. M.
Eels, pastor of the church, officiated at the funeral, and E. A.
Burke, had charge
of the interment. The active pallbearers were Reed
Green, Alex Wilson, Foree
Bain, Will
Cunningham, E. L.
Gilbert and Joseph Gotthart.
Died—Eugene Morris
Gardner, son of Thomas P.
Gardner, December
11, 3405 Sycamore.
Friends of the family are invited.
Eugene Morris
Gardner, son of Thomas P.
Gardner, of 3405 Sycamore Street, died today, and the
remains will be buried tomorrow afternoon. Services will be
conducted by Rev. M. H.
Loar, pastor of
the Methodist church, at the family residence. The burial
will be at Beech Grove.
H. C.
Hamilton died Wednesday night at St. Mary's Infirmary, as the result
of injuries sustained last Monday evening when he stepped on
an interurban car while in motion.
The deceased was about 66 years old and
resided at Fort Branch, Ind. He is survived by one son, C.
E. Hamilton, and
was on his way to the latter's home, when the accident
occurred.
We wish to express our thanks to those
of our friends who so kindly assisted us by their sympathy
and help during the illness and death of our father, the
late H. D. Hamilton. We are deeply grateful to them all.
We thank our many friends and neighbors
for their kindness and faithfulness during the illness and
death of our precious little darling, also for the many
beautiful flowers.
The Cairo Evening Citizen, Saturday, 14 Dec 1912:
John
Mulkey, aged 78 years, one of the oldest members of the Benton Bar
Association, died at his home in that city last week. He was
admitted to the bar July 22nd, 1858. From 1858
his was a busy life, having filled the following public
positions with credit to himself and satisfaction to the
people.
Appointed circuit clerk to fill a
vacancy in 1867, elected to succeed himself in 1868 and
again in 1872, elected coroner in 1878, elected justice of
the peace in 1879, again in 1882, appointed county
commissioner by Gov.
Hamilton in 1883, appointed special agent of the United
States Department of Agriculture in 1894, again elected
justice of the peace in 1901.
(John
Mulkey married Helen Adams
on 24 Jul 1859, in Franklin Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Cairo Evening Citizen, Monday, 16 Dec 1912:
Cecil
Daniels, air inspector for the Illinois Central at Mounds, was
knocked down and killed early Sunday morning while walking
on a track in the yards. A string of cars were "kicked" on
the track on which he was walking and he was struck from
behind and run over. His body was horribly mangled.
(Charles
Daniels married Lizzie
Clanton on 20 Apr 1892, in Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
E. M.
Titus, one of the prominent residents of Villa Ridge, died last
Thursday and was buried Sunday. Pneumonia was the cause of
his demise.
E. M.
Titus was born in Auburn, New York, on Jan. 2, 1829. He removed
with his parents to Ohio when a lad of ten years and where
he grew to manhood. In 1855 he went to California,
attracted there by the discovery of gold and engaged in
mining, but in 1860 he returned east, coming to Cairo, where
he engaged in the wholesale grocery business of
Trover &
Miller. In 1867, he located at Villa Ridge and engaged in the
grocery business which he followed for many years.
He was appointed postmaster there in 1873 and served
for a number of years.
Mr.
Titus was married in Ohio in 1854 to Miss Christina
Montgomery who
survives him with a number of children, all grown.
(Edwin Mason
Titus married Christina
Montgomery on 23 Feb 1854, in Coshocton Co., Ohio.
His marker in Cairo City Cemetery at Villa Ridge
reads: Edwin M.
Titus
1829-1912.—Darrel
Dexter)
"Babe"
Barney was shot and killed Saturday evening about 7:30 o'clock by
"Cat" Sam Foree
as the result of a quarrel which is said to have had its
origin in a crap game. The shooting occurred at Fourteenth
and Washington Avenue.
The dice game is said to have been
going on in "Uncle" John
Smith's
restaurant, on Fourteenth Street in the rear of Henry
Zerfass' saloon and Barney,
believing the crowd has planned to "fleece" him, became
angered and demanded fair play, declaring that he wasn’t
going to be the "fall guy." It is said he was then forcibly
ejected from the place. Barney
swore he would "get even" and went after a gun.
Returning to the restaurant he found the door barred. He
started to Zerfass'
saloon when he met John
Smith. Smith
fired at Barney and fled in the saloon, with
Barney in pursuit. In the saloon,
Smith fired another shot at
Barney while concealed behind a stool. Barney
then left the saloon and started back to the restaurant. In
the meantime, "Cat"
Foree had secured a rifle and walked over to the post
office yard where he stood under the magnolia tree and
waited for Barney. Barney
saw "Cat" and cocking his gun started across the street
towards him. Foree then fired the shot that killed
Barney, the latter falling into the middle of the street and died
almost instantly. Foree
then went to police headquarters and give himself up. John
Smith was later
arrested and placed in jail.
The coroner’s inquest was held this
afternoon in the city council chamber.
"Cat" Sam
Foree, the negro
who shot and killed "Babe"
Barney, another
negro, Saturday night at Fourteenth and Washington Avenue,
following a dispute over a nickel in a crap game, was
exonerated Monday evening by the coroner's jury, that body
deciding after hearing the evidence that
Foree killed Barney in
self-defense.
A large number of witnesses were
examined. The coroner's jury was composed of A.
Botto, Louis Zanone, John
Shea, Arthur
Mattingly, J. C.
McCracken, and L. Stevens
DuQuoin, Ill., Dec. 17—Cyrus G.
Pyle, proprietor
of the Central Hotel, died suddenly Monday. He was 57 years
old. A widow, one daughter, Mrs. Fred
Ihardt, of
Decatur, one brother, Joe
Pyle, of DuQuoin,
and four sisters survive.
(Fred
Ithardt married Mabel Pyle
on 2 May 1899, in Marion Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
St. Louis, Dec. 18—Information was
received yesterday of the death of Capt. R. J.
Whitledge, supervising inspector of steamboats in the St. Louis
district from 1899 till 1906.
For the last two years he resided with
his daughter, Mrs. Amadee
Michel, 5114
Sheridan Road, Chicago, where his death occurred.
Capt.
Whitledge was about 78 years old, a native of Pike County, Missouri,
and spent most of his life on the river, his chief service
being clerk and master of the Anchor Line steamers. His
home was in St. Louis.
He is survived by his widow and
daughter. The funeral will be held tomorrow, the burial to
be at Extter, Ill. Henry E.
Fulluo of the
Steamboat Inspection Service in St. Louis will attend.
Anna, Ill., Dec. 18—Edwin
Babcock, a
well-known retired schoolmaster and pioneer fruit grower,
died at his home in this city Monday evening after a few
days' illness with angina pectoris. He was born in Verona,
Renssalaer County, N.Y., September 11, 1831, and for several
years taught school in Pennsylvania, Andrew
Carnegie being at the time a neighboring teacher and with whom he
was well acquainted.
He came to Illinois in April 1856 and
engaged in teaching school at Carbondale, Ill., conducting
the first free school ever held in that city. He came to
Union County in 1859 and engaged in fruit growing with his
brother, Anson Babcock, cultivating the land which is the present site of the Anna
State Hospital for Insane, later purchasing a fruit farm
four miles east of this city and specialized in growing
strawberries. At his golden wedding, celebration, May 2,
1911, he called his roll of old school pupils, several being
present and answering to their names.
He identified himself with the
Republican Party in the early days of its organization. He
was married to Miss Rebecca J.
Singleton, May 2,
1861. Surviving him are his widow and one son, Harry
Babcock,
of Memphis, Tenn., and five grandchildren, Guy, Carl, and
Gerald Babcock,
and Iris Webb, of
Whiteville, Tenn., and a brother, Myron
Babcock, residing
in St. Louis.
(Edwin
Babcock married Rebecca
Singleton on 2 May 1861, in Jackson Co., Ill.
George Tilman
Webb married Flora May
Babcock on 6 Oct
1889, in Union Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
(Leon C.
Read married Ella May
Deshinger on 23 Dec 1890, in Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Charles
Sylvester, aged about 38 years, died at St. Mary’s Infirmary Sunday
night of pneumonia.
The deceased was a well-known character and worked at many
trades. He resided at Thirty-sixth Street and the
Mississippi levee. The remains were buried at Villa Ridge
Cemetery today by Undertaker
Burke.
Eddie, the infant son of Mr. and Mrs.
George Barnes, of
423 Thirty-sixth Street, died this morning.
The child was two weeks old. The remains were taken to
Wickliffe, Ky., this afternoon for burial by Undertaker E.
A. Burke.
(Albert
Mize married Mable
Biggerstaff on 2 Mar 1876, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
Among the children of
Albert Mize and
Mahala Biggerstaff who were
married in Pulaski Co., Ill., are Minnie Ora
Mize, 17, married
Elmer Shehorn on
17 Jun 1897; Mary
Mize married Arnold
Carnes on 21 Oct
1897; Dora E, Mize
married Victor
Seals on 28 Jun 1898, in Pulaski Co., Ill.; John
Mize married Cora
Pool on 22 Sep
1901.—Darrel Dexter)
Last Monday afternoon Loin
Bencini and Bob
Greenwall, two well-known river fishermen of Columbus, started
across the river from Belmont in a skiff heavily loaded with
fish and behind the skiff they pulled a bateau. When they
struck the big eddy above town, the boat was swamped and
Bencini was
drowned. Greenwall
caught to the bateau and was saved just as the bateau was
also swamped.
Bencini's body
had not been recovered up to this morning. He was one of
the best known men in Columbus and had followed the business
of a fisherman successfully for many years. He leaves a
wife and eight children.—Clinton
Gazette
Centralia, Ill., Dec. 20—M. H.
Dance, chief
constructing engineer for the Illinois Central, was killed
last yesterday when an engine backed into his railroad motor
car. Two other men on the car escaped.
We take this means to thank our many
friends and neighbors for their unfailing kindness during
the sickness and death of our infant son.
(J. F.
Lyerly married Nannie W.
Minnich on 2 Jul 1871, in Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill., Dec. 24—A. G.
Ruby, king of
"Little Hungary," was shot and killed and robbed of $110 by
two negroes early today, who had been playing pool in Ruby's
saloon. Ruby
acted as banker, agent for is countrymen.
The body of Capt. Frank R.
Farnsley, who
fell into the Ohio River Tuesday night and drowned, has not
yet been recovered.
Capt.
Farnsley was pilot on the towboat Josh Cook and was drowned Tuesday evening about 7 o'clock, when he
fell from a gang plank leading from the shore to the Barrett
fleet opposite The Halliday Hotel.
He had been uptown making some
purchases and was returning to the boat for supper when the
accident occurred.
Ahead of this loaded coal barge was an
empty model barge distant about 15 feet. An inclined plank
spanned the chasm, separating the two barges. This plank
was narrow and covered with ice and snow. A negro fireman
on the J. H. Friend
moored just below the Barrett fleet proffered his hand to
assist Capt. Farnsley when he saw him attempt to climb the steep plank.
The two, with the negro in the lead,
had reached the middle of the narrow and slippery board
when Farnsley
slipped and striking the board fell into the river.
The negro ran down the plank to the
coal barge and lying down grabbed
Farnsley when the
current carried him under the rake of the barge. He could
only get hold of
Farnsley's cap, the body being carried rapidly under the
barge too far from him to reach.
The negro gave the alarm and an effort
was made to drag for the body but without success.
Capt. Wallace
Farnsley, son of the deceased, was in the city, being a pilot on the
J. H. Friend, and
was of the first to reach the scene.
The deceased had been in the employ of
the Atlas Cement Works of Hannibal, Mo., since last
April. He resided in Paducah, Ky., where he has a wife and
several children. He was well known in Cairo.
(Roy N.
Adams married Adah L. Gunn
on 1 Feb 1899, in Cook Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Margaret
Hendricks, aged 75 years, died at the home of her son, J. H.
Hendricks, in
Pulaski County, at 11:30 Christmas Day, after an illness of
three weeks of pneumonia.
Funeral services were conducted by Rev.
C. Robert Dunlap,
pastor of the Lutheran Church this afternoon and the remains
will be taken to Charleston, Mo., tomorrow for burial.
The deceased was the widow of the late
Henry H. Hendricks,
and is survived by four sons, the others being G. W.
Hendricks, C. C.
Hendricks, of
Greenfield Landing, and Fred
Hendricks, of
Oklahoma.
Clarence
Wood, aged 20 years, was accidentally killed Tuesday while at work
on a dam at Guild, Tenn. Details of the accident which
resulted in the young man's death could not be secured
today.
The remains passed through Cairo last
night and were taken to Anna, Ill., for interment,
accompanied by members of the family.
The deceased was a son of John
Wood, of
Twenty-seventh Street, who is employed at William
Aird's grocery
store on Twenty-seventh and Commercial. His mother died
about four months ago. Besides his father, the young man is
survived by five sisters and one brother, Mrs. A.
Trice, of Guild,
Tenn., Mrs. Everett
Welsch, of this city, Mrs. Tom
Carver, of
Mounds, Miss Geno
Wood, Earnest
Wood and Florence
Wood, all of Cairo.
He was employed by his brother-in-law
at Guild, who was engaged in building the dam.
(A marker in Anna City Cemetery reads:
John T. Wood 1858-1913 Father Sarah I.
Wood his wife
1861-1912 Mother Clarence S.
Wood 1892-1912
Brother.—Darrel
Dexter)
The body of Capt. Frank R.
Farnsley, who was
drowned in the Ohio River Monday night, has to yet been
recovered.
Miss Kate
Raefsnider, formerly of Cairo, died in Philadelphia Christmas
morning at 11 o'clock.
Miss
Raefsnider was the daughter of William T.
Raefsnider, one of the old residents of Cairo. The family lived for
years at Fifteenth and Cedar streets. After the death of
her parents, Miss
Raefsnider removed to Philadelphia, where she has made
her home since.
Miss
Raefsnider was a member of The Church of the Redeemer here, and from
the church records it is shown that she was born Feb. 25,
1858, and became a member of the Church of the Redeemer on
April 18, 1880, when she was confirmed by Bishop
Seymour.
GOLCONDA, Ill., Dec. 27—A man's body
was found in Rendew Island opposite here. The victim's
throat had been cut and he had been stabbed through the
head. A receipt made out to Frank
Longnecker, of
Cincinnati, was found on his body. It is thought the murder
was committed by shanty boat people.
CHARLESTON, Mo., Dec. 27—Barton, the
young son of H. B.
Cardwell, of Anniston, was suffocated while playing in
Brown &
Deerfield's
elevator. He was carried downward in a bin of corn, and
although his playmate, Lewis
Curry, gave the
alarm and had the machinery stopped,
Cardwell was dead
when found.
Miss Minnie
Blanchard, formerly of Cairo, passed away Friday at Dallas Tex.,
where she has resided for the past four months. The
deceased had been in poor health for about a year. The
remains will be shipped to Cobden, Ill., where her father
and mother, Dr. and Mrs. J. A.
Blanchard, reside
and are expected to reach there Monday.
Besides her parents, the deceased is
survived by ten brothers, Joe and Earnest, of Cairo, Ross,
of St. Louis, Arch, of Poplar Bluff, Charles, of Colorado
Springs, John, Roy and Raymond, of Cobden, Frank, who was
with the deceased in Dallas, and Will, whose residence is
unknown.
The deceased was well known in Cairo,
where she has a host of friends who will be grieved to learn
of her untimely death. She was employed for several years
at Grand Leader and later at the store of George T.
Carnes, where she
won many friends by her gentle disposition and courteous
manner.
(Her marker in Cairo City Cemetery at
Villa Ridge reads:
Mary Thomas
Born Aug. 29, 1832 Died Dec 26, 1912 Mother.
R. B. Wallace Born April 18, 1820 Died March 1, 1909 Father.
James A.
Silver married Lizzie
Wallace on 8 Sep
1874, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
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