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The Cairo Evening
Citizen,
Wednesday, 1 Jan 1908:
A man named
Allen, section master for the Illinois Central at Winford, south of
Wickliffe, was struck by the fast passenger train No. 1010
last evening and instantly killed.
Allen
was returning to Wickliffe on a hand car with the section
crew when the train approached. The other men got out of
the way of the train, but
Allen tried to
get the hand car off the track when he was struck by the
train and instantly killed.
The dead man
leaves a wife and five children. His wife was fairly beside
herself with grief when the lifeless body of her husband was
brought home last evening.
G. B.
Mayberry, the man
killed by falling from the Big Four train, was buried at
Beech Grove Cemetery today, under the order of his son, who
came here several days ago. The body will later be taken to
Mt. Vernon for burial.
The remains of
Patrick McCarton,
who died at St. Mary’s Infirmary, were shipped to Calamine,
Wis., last night. His son, Joseph
McCarton, came
down after them. The deceased had been a patient at the
hospital for seven years.
Mrs. A. L.
Scott, formerly of this city, died at her home in Jonesboro, Ark, on
Friday, Dec. 20th, after having been a sufferer
from Bright’s disease for about two years.
The funeral was
held Saturday Dec. 21st, at the family residence
and was conducted by Rev. S. L.
Grigsby, pastor of the Presbyterian Church.
The deceased is
survived by her husband and four children, Joseph
Scott, of Pine
Bluff, and Misses Bertha, Edith and Vernon, and Arthur
Scott, all of
Jonesboro.
The family have
many friends in Cairo, who will be grieved to learn of the
death. During their residence in this city, Mr.
Scott was
employed as bookkeeper for the
Lancaster &
Rice Lumber
Company. They were members of the Presbyterian Church.
The Grim Reaper was busy during the
year and quite a number of old citizens were called to their
reward. Cairo suffered a loss in the death of two very
prominent women, Mrs. J. M.
Lansden, on Jan.
31, and Mrs. Charles
Galigher on May 19. Of interest to Cairo people
was also the announcement of the death of Mother Augusta at
Notre Dame, Ind., on Dec. 24, she having been one of the
founders of St. Mary’s Infirmary in Cairo. Other
deaths of Cairo people at home or abroad were:
Four murders without a conviction is
the criminal record of the year. In the opinion of the
general public the homicides were none of them justified,
causing a growing discontent with the administration of
justice in Cairo.
Jessie
Lender, the one-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs.
Lender, of 2009 Poplar Street, died this morning. The funeral
will be held tomorrow and the remains will be taken to
Kentucky for burial. Mr.
Lender is
employed by the Mobile & Ohio Railroad Company. The
remains were in charge of
Burke &
Blaine.
Miss Vera
Mulkey, daughter of the late Judge J. H.
Mulkey, died at Metropolis Saturday afternoon. Attorney Angus
Leek and Dr. J.
H. Davis, who
were her cousins, went to Metropolis to attend the funeral.
The deceased was 31 years of age, and death was the result
of tuberculosis.
(John H.
Mulkey married Henrietta C.
House on 25 Sep 1873, in Massac Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. David
Herring of 516 Thirty-third Street, died Sunday morning at 3 o’clock
of consumption of the throat.
She leaves a husband and two daughters,
aged 15 and 13, and brothers, George and Lee
Boyd, of Cairo, King Boyd,
of Fort Wayne, Ind., Harlin
Boyd, Kennett,
Mo., and three sisters, Miss Lucy
Boyd, of Cairo,
and Mrs. Mollie
Herring, of Kuttawa, Ky., and Mrs. W. P.
Kabler, of Fort
Wayne, Ind.
The deceased was 35 years of age and
has resided here a number of years. Her husband is
employed at the Singer factory. Funeral services will
be held tonight at the residence at 8 o’clock by Rev. W. T.
Morris, pastor of
the Methodist Church, and the remains will be taken to
Kuttawea, Ky. Mrs. M. E.
Feith will have
charge of the funeral.
James
St. Clair, employed at the powder plant at Fayville, fell from a
train last Thursday evening and received injuries on his
head that crushed his skull. He died Friday night.
Saturday his body was brought down to Cairo on
Bryan’s train.
He has relatives in New York and his remains will be shipped
there.
The
Jackson Sun publishes a likeness of the late Mrs. Rosa
Mangrum, whose
body was found in the Ohio River here by Capt. George
Spence of the tug
Theseus and the
following:
The above is a life-like portrait of
Mrs. Rosa Mangrum
for whose supposed murder at Nashville about two years ago
Dr. Herman Feist of that city, is now under sentence of death and whose case on
appeal will probably be heard in the Supreme Court this
week.
Mrs.
Mangrum was a daughter of Mr. J. E.
Mason, of Hicksville, and was reared in Madison County, but since
her marriage resided in Nashville. She mysteriously
disappeared in that city on December 14, 1905, and nearly a
month later her body was found floating in the Ohio River at
Cairo, Ill.
On the day she disappeared she had
drawn $1,500 from a bank in Nashville and is also supposed
to have had from $1,200 to $1,500 worth of jewelry on her
person. None of this property was found on her body,
but there were evidences that she had been robbed.
Various circumstances pointed out Dr.
Feist as having
been concerned in her disappearance and some months later
grand jury of Davidson County brought in an indictment
charging him with her murder and he was arrested and there
was a sensational trial lasting several weeks resulting in
the jury bringing in a verdict of murder in the first
degree, and he was sentenced to be hanged.
Mrs. Florence
Trousdale, of Birmingham, Ala., a younger sister of Mrs.
Mangrum, was
indefatigable in her search for her sister after her
disappearance, and after the body was found did most of the
detective work in solving the mystery and which resulted in
the arrest and conviction of Dr.
Feist.
The above is the first picture of Mrs.
Mangrum that has
appeared in any publication and as will be seen she was a
very beautiful woman.
Noel
Whiteson, better known as “Big Boy” on account of his size, dropped
dead Saturday night in Gus
Bourgois’ saloon
of heart disease. He was a bartender and had most
recently been employed in Lee
Beckwith’s saloon
at Fourth and Commercial.
It is said that he was an important witness for John
R. Ford having
been the only witness to the trouble in
Beckwith’s saloon, which preceded the homicide in
Riddle’s saloon
when John R. Ford
shot and killed John W.
Lewis.
Whiteson, who was 30 years of age, leaves a mother and sister at
Obion, Tenn.
Carbondale, Ill., Jan. 7.—The dead
bodies of Clarence
Snider and wife were found in bed today with the bed
coverings on fire. It is suspected that
Snider killed his
wife and then committed suicide and that the pistol set the
bed clothes afire. The couple had quarreled.
Mrs. D. R.
Sanders received a telegram Wednesday morning apprising her of the
death by shooting of Dr. H. C.
Armstrong, of
Texarkana, Ark. No further particulars are forthcoming
at this time of the tragedy, which occurred on Tuesday.
Mr. Armstrong was married a number of years ago to Dr. Minnie
Sanders, oldest
daughter of the late Dr. D. R.
Sanders, who with
four children survive him.—Jonesboro
Gazette
(Henry C.
Armstrong, 37, a merchandiser in Fort Smith, Sebastian Co., Ark.,
son of S. D.
Armstrong and Sallie
Norris, married
Minnie J. Sanders,
36, daughter of David K.
Sanders and
Delphina Gallegly,
on 25 Oct 1895, in Union Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Cairo Evening Citizen,
Wednesday, 8 Jan 1908:
George W.
Cole, aged 58, died last night at his home in the rear of No. 1415
Commercial Avenue, as a result of a stroke of paralysis. He
was riding down the river in a gasoline boat about 11:30
yesterday morning when he received the stroke. He had the
presence of mind to explain to a companion, who was riding
with him, how to stop the engine. The boat was landed
at Wickliffe, where he received all the necessary attention
until the arrival of the ferryboat which brought him home
last evening where he died about 11 o’clock.
The deceased was born in Cole, Mich.,
in 1850, the place having been named for his father.
He has been in the upholstering business in Cairo about
three years and in that time he has won a large circle of
friends, who will be grieved to learn of his death.
He is survived by his wife and three
brothers, E. T. Cole,
E. B. Cole, and
Will Cole, all of Detroit, Mich. Funeral arrangements have not yet
been made.
Burke & Blaine
have charge of the remains.
Robert
Randolph, a colored man, died last night at his home, 515 Fifteenth
Street, of stomach trouble. He was about 60 years old.
The funeral will occur tomorrow and the burial will be
conducted by Burke & Blaine.
(A marker in Ullin Cemetery with a Masonic emblem reads:
Manzo A. Rhodes Born Dec. 1, 1867 Died May 5,
1907. Gone but
not forgotten.—Darrel Dexter)
(Adam
Hoffner, 26, born in Union Co., Ill., the son of Paul
Hoffner and
Rebecca Lentz, married Mary J. Dillow,
19, born in Union Co., Ill., daughter of Jacob
Dillow and Lucinda Cruse,
on 19 Dec 1880, in Union Co., Ill.
His marker in Hinkle Cemetery near Dongola reads:
Adam J.
Hoffner Born July 26, 1854 Died Jan. 5, 1908.—Darrel
Dexter)
David
Davidson died at Willard Tuesday of Bright’s disease. He was
an old soldier and the remains were buried there by the G.
A. R.
(David
Davidson, 21, born in Macoupin Co., Ill., black hair, black eyes and
dark complexion enlisted as a private in Co. K, 122nd
Illinois Infantry on 9 Aug 1862, and was mustered out 15 Jul
1865, at Mobile, Ala.
David Davidson
married Malinda
Burleson on 28 Feb 1864, in Macoupin Co., Ill.
He filed for a pension in 1879 and his widow,
Malinda, filed in 1908.
His marker in Baumgard Cemetery near Cache, Ill.,
reads: David
Davidson Born Dec. 25, 1840 Died Jan. 8, 1908 At Rest.—Darrel
Dexter)
Charles
Feuchter, Sr., one of Cairo’s oldest residents, passed away at 12:40
o’clock this morning at St. Mary’s Infirmary, after a period
of ill health lasting about two months, which ended in an
operation as a last resort to prolong his life. The
operation was performed by a distinguished Chicago surgeon,
Dr. Albert I.
Bouffleur, the ailment being an old incarcerated hernia.
While it was believed up to the last that the patient
had chance to recover, his advanced age was against him and
his system was unable to rally as it was hoped it would from
the shock of the operation.
Charles
Feuchter, Sr., was born in Brachbach, province of Wurtenberg,
Germany, on May 21, 1831. He was one of a family of
three brothers and two sisters and only one still survives,
Miss Kate Feuchter, who still lives in the old homestead in Germany.
Coming to America in 1854, a few years
later he located in Cairo, where he has since resided.
In June 1862, he was married to Miss Anna
Schwanitz, who
survives him with two sons, Charles and William
Feuchter. The latter has been in California and on receiving
word of the operation, started at once for home, arriving
Wednesday afternoon in time to see his father before death
came. He was conscious to the last.
For many years Mr.
Feuchter
conducted a brewery on Ninth Street, in the building now
occupied by the power plant of the Traction Company. It was
Cairo’s first brewery, and Mr.
Feuchter put up the building. He also built the brick building
at Ninth and Washington occupied by the Brewery Saloon.
He acquired considerable property, including the home on
Ninth Street. In his social life, he was a charter
member of the Rough and Ready Fire Company, remaining as an
active member until the company disbanded. He was also
a charter member of the Cairo Casino.
He was one of the quiet unassuming,
solid German citizens of which the Cairo of the early days
had a large number. After retiring from active
business affairs, he allowed his sons to take up the cares
of business pursuits while he lived in quiet.
Funeral services will be held Saturday
afternoon from the family residence, and the remains will be
buried at Villa Ridge cemetery.
(Charles
Feuchter married Anna
Schwanitz on 12 Jun 1862, in Alexander Co., Ill.
His marker in Cairo City Cemetery at Villa Ridge
reads: Charles
Feuchter
1831-1908.—Darrel
Dexter)
Burial took place at Thebes Wednesday.
The deceased was the father of Charles
Rendleman, of Thebes, also he leaves a little girl about 3 years of
age. His wife was accidentally shot a few months ago.
His two sisters are here to attend the funeral, Mrs. Emma
Reed, of Illmo, and Mrs. Sarah
Gunther, of Wolf
Lake. Dr.
Gunther is also here. It is quite a sad affair.
(Thebes)
(Jacob Mortimer
Rendleman married Sarah Ann
Brandon on 1 May 1879, in Jackson Co., Ill.
Jacob M.
Rendleman, 23, born in Greene Co., Ark., son of Thomas
J. Rendleman and
Mary E. Hale,
married 2nd Alice
Gregory, 17, born
in Jackson Co., Ill., John C.
Gregory and Mary
Amanda Wallace,
on 11 Mar 1883, in Union Co., Ill.
He married 3rd
Mary F. Fox, 20,
born in Illinois, daughter of Daniel T.
Fox and Mary
Lacy, on 28 Oct
1893, in Union Co., Ill.
He married 4th
Mrs. Dovie N.
Chandler, 24, born in Union Co., Ill., daughter of James
Freeman and
Barbara Buchanan,
on 8 May 1895, in Union Co., Ill.
Jacob S.
Reed married Emma E.
Rendleman on 18 Sep 1884, in Union Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
It was reported that the father of Dennis
Mills, of Thebes,
was shot at Illmo. Mo., Tuesday night, but we haven’t the
particulars at hand. (Thebes)
Feuchter—Died, Thursday, Jan. 9, 1908, Charles
Feuchter, Sr.,
aged 76 years.
Funeral services will be held at the
family residence, No. 315 Ninth Street, Saturday afternoon,
Jan. 11, at 2 o’clock. Remains will be taken to Villa
Ridge cemetery for interment, funeral train leaving foot of
Fourteenth Street at 2:45 p.m. Friends of the family are
invited.
Cairo Evening Citizen,
Friday, 10 Jan 1908:
Capt. Andrew
Glynn, a prominent river pilot, passed away last evening about 7
o’clock at the Marine Hospital of Bright’s disease, Capt.
Glynn who was 50 years of age, was born in Columbus, Ohio, June 9,
1857. He has resided in Cairo about 14 years and was
pilot on several of the transfer boats. The last was
the transfer Pacific, which he left on the evening of February 8th,
1907. Since then he has been confined to his bed ten
months of it at the Marine Hospital. He was prominent
in the river circles, belonged to the marine engineers and
held an engineers’ license, although it has been many years
since he served in the engine room. He leaves a wife
and one son, Arthur, aged about 20 years. The family
residence is No. 230 Twentieth Street. The body will
be buried at Villa Ridge, probably tomorrow afternoon.
(His marker in Cairo City Cemetery at
Villa Ridge reads:
Andrew Glenn
Born June 9, 1854 Died Jan. 9, 1908.—Darrel
Dexter)
Were the bodies which were found when
the old fair grounds were made over into the
Feuchter & Lansden
addition to Cairo those of Confederate soldiers who died in
Cairo during the war?
If they were, is there anyone in Cairo
who remembers any of these old soldiers, when and where they
died and how they came to be in Cairo?
There is a commission working under the
War Department of the national government which has the task
of marking the graves of Confederate soldiers and the
records in Washington show that a number of the boys in gray
died in Cairo in the year 1862. They were evidently
prisoners of war, and possibly they may have been brought up
here mortally wounded, to die here in the hospital and to be
buried in an unmarked grave.
Sometime ago Postmaster Sidney B.
Miller received
from William Elliott,
who is at the head of the commission that is searching for
these graves, a list of those who are supposed to have died
in Cairo. He has no knowledge of them, and if there is any
old citizen in Cairo who remembers anything about any of
these soldiers, they can help the government find their
graves by communicating with Mr.
Miller. The
list furnished Mr.
Miller by the department is as follows:
It will be noticed that these men all
died during November 1862, and they were all members of
Georgia and Florida regiments, so that it would appear that
they must have been brought here wounded from an engagement
somewhere in this vicinity in which these two regiments
participated.
(They are among the unknown Confederate soldiers
buried at Mound City National Cemetery, according to the 21
Jan 1908, issue.
W. W. H. Carter
enlisted 10 Mar 1862, in Co. F, 43rd Georgia
Infantry Confederate Army, and died 12 Nov 1862, at
Vicksburg, Miss.
John M. Meadows
and James Thompson were privates in Capt.
Perry’s Company Marion Light Artillery Florida Confederate.
There is a James
Cathcart listed in Co. C, 7th Florida Infantry.
John W. Sweat
was a private in Co. G, 1st Florida Infantry
Regiment and died 4 Nov 1862.—Darrel
Dexter)
The last tribute that can be paid to a
mortal being was paid this afternoon by the friends of the
late Charles Feuchter,
Sr., when they followed his remains to the grave at Villa
Ridge cemetery.
Funeral services were held at the
family residence, No. 315 Ninth Street, and were largely
attended. Among the number present were the surviving
members of the old Cairo Casino Society, of which the
deceased was a member.
The services were conducted by Rev. C.
H. Armstrong,
pastor of the Lutheran Church, and the pallbearers were
William Schatz,
Peter Lind, L.
Lazarus, Paul H. Schuh,
L. C. Herbert,
George G. Koehler,
Claude Winter, C. V. Neff, Peter
Day, William
Brinkmeyer, John
Ogg, and R. Brown.
Funeral services over the remains of
Capt. Andrew Glynn
were held at the family residence, No. 230 Twentieth Street,
this afternoon by Rev. James
Gillen, of St.
Joseph’s Church, and the remains were taken to Villa Ridge
cemetery for burial. The pallbearers were Michal
Bambrick, Louis
Zanone, F. D.
Nellis, John Carmody,
John Ehlman, and
John Farrell.
W. L.
Richardson, aged 26 years, died at 1 o’clock this afternoon at St.
Mary’s Infirmary, of consumption, after an illness of four
weeks. The deceased came to Cairo from Memphis about
six years ago, and was employed as a motorman on the street
railway. His parents reside at 2508 Walnut Street, and
he is also survived by two sisters, Mrs. Mona
Coyle, of Memphis, and Mrs. Mollie
Sims, of Milburn, Ky., and a brother, W. P.
Richardson, living in Texas.
The remains will be taken to Milburn,
Ky., tomorrow for interment. The deceased was a member of
the Christian Church of this city.
Cairo Evening Citizen,
Monday, 13 Jan 1908:
Paducah, Ky., Jan. 13.—E.
Fels, aged 67
years, one of Paducah’s prominent citizens, died after a
lingering illness from Bright’s disease. He was a
native of Neiderkirchen, Rheinfalz, Bavaria, and was born
May 27, 1841. He came to America when a boy.
When the Civil War began, he joined the Southern army and
was a brave soldier. After the war he settled in
Wickliffe, Ky., where he went into business. A short
while later he came to Paducah and entered the retail dry
goods business with his brother, S.
Fels. Later
they started a wholesale house and today the firm of
Fels Brothers &
Rubel is one of
the leading dry goods firms in the state. Mr.
Fels continued in active business until June 1, 1907, when his
health failed. Besides his wife, he is Louis F.
Rubel, of this city, a brother, S.
Fels of this city, a sister, Mrs.
Simon, of Evansville, Ind., and an uncle, A.
Rosenbaum, of
Louisville, Ky. The funeral took place Sunday, Rev.
Rabbi Lovitch of
Temple Israel, officiating.
Nashville, Ill., Jan. 13.—Col. Louis
Krughoff, aged 70
years, died suddenly Sunday evening at 10:25 o’clock of
apoplexy. He was treasurer of the First National Bank
of Nashville and prominent in G. A. R. circles over the
state, having at one time been adjutant general of the
Soldiers and Sailors Association.
(Louis
Krughoff enlisted as a private in Co. H, 1st Illinois
Cavalry, on 10 Jul 1861, and was transferred as captain to
Co. C, 49th Illinois Infantry on 1 Nov 1861.
He was 24, of Nashville, Ill., born in Minden,
Prussia, 5’6”, with dark eyes, dark hair and light
complexion, and was mustered out on 9 Jan 1865, in
Springfield, Ill.
He applied for a pension in 1874 and his wife,
Caroline O., in 1908.
He died 12 Jan 1908.—Darrel
Dexter)
Cairo Evening Citizen,
Tuesday, 14 Jan 1908:
If the two sons of Peter
Light, who
married a widow in Cairo about fifty years ago, will
communicate to Mrs. S.
Rosenbery of No. 822 Hewitt Place, New York City, they may learn
something to their advantage.
In a letter to the circuit clerk’s
office the woman asks the name of the widow whom Mr.
Light married. She said that it was desired in connection with
some legal matters. Records were not kept by the
county clerk of marriage licenses in those days. In
fact, no license was necessary. The certificate of
marriage was recorded with the clerk sometimes, but it was
not always returned for record, so the documentary proof of
this marriage has not been found.
(The information about county clerks
not keeping marriage licenses is incorrect and marriage
license were required by law.
Peter Light married Mrs. Jane
Littlejohn on 27 Oct 1873, in Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs.
Bradley, mother of Police Officer George
Bradley, and widow of the late Jacob
Bradley, at one time one of the best known colored preachers in
Cairo, died Monday afternoon after a short illness of
pneumonia. She was about 70 years of age, and leaves
two daughters besides her son. She owned property on
Fifteenth Street near Walnut which the Cairo & Thebes
railroad purchased. She retained her house and removed
it directly across the street, where she has since lived.
(Jacob
Bradley married Caroline
Bradfield on 19 Jul 1867, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Cape Girardeau, Mo., Jan. 14.—Suffering
from acute nervous trouble is alone assigned as the cause of
the suicide of W. T.
Wilson, one of the best known dry goods men in the
state, who shot himself at his home yesterday. The
former stockholder in the
Ely & Walker Dry Goods
Company of St. Louis had been in business here for two
years, and of late had contemplated opening the largest dry
goods house in Southeast Missouri. Inability to
consummate the plan because of illness is believed to have
led him to fire the bullet through his brain. About 66
years of age, Mr.
Wilson was active in business and all affairs which
gained the attention of the Commercial Club of Cape
Girardeau.
Last Thursday night he was installed as
president, after a unanimous election. His phenomenal
success in his personal affairs has made him one of the most
prominent men of this city. Mr.
Wilson leaves a
widow, three daughters, and a son, Frank, an attorney in
Oklahoma City.
Edwin
Corlis, whose death occurred in Metropolis on Tuesday of last week,
was a brother of the late George
Corlis, of Cairo.
He was 54 years of age.
(Edwin
Corlis married Sarah Scott
on 30 Jun 1868, in Massac Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Yesterday Morning at Malone, Miss.—Colored Fireman Killed
A report reached the city shortly
before noon today of the derailment at Malone, Miss., at
10:30 of the southbound I. C. passenger train No. 23, which
passed through the city this morning at 7:30 says
yesterday’s Jackson
Sun.
According to information received by
the Sun, the train
which was in charge of Conductor W. W.
Roker, of this
city, struck a cow on the track at Malone, Miss., a station
ten miles north of Water Valley and the engine was turned
over killing the colored fireman,
Holt, who lives
in Water Valley.
It is understood that none of the
passenger coaches were overturned and there were no further
serious injuries to the train crew or passengers.
Operators in the train dispatcher’s
office here were reticent in regard to the accident and
would only say that the engine was not derailed and that no
one was hurt.
Cairo Evening Citizen,
Wednesday, 15 Jan 1908:
Anna May, the one-year-old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. George
Fox, died last evening about 5 o’clock at their
residence, No. 2314 Washington Avenue.
The funeral will occur tomorrow
afternoon at 1:30 o’clock at the residence with burial at
Beech Grove Cemetery.
We desire to express our heartfelt
gratitude to all friends who gave us sympathy and aid in our
late bereavement, the death of husband and father, Charles
Feuchter, Sr.
Cairo Evening Citizen,
Thursday, 16 Jan 1908:
(This may be the same person as Mrs. Mary Ann
Rose, who married
Daniel T. Brown
on 12 Jan 1879, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
Henderson Rose
married Mrs. Nancy
Conner on 1 Jan
1884, in Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Cairo Evening Citizen,
Friday, 17 Jan 1908:
The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter
Doud, of Division
Street, died this morning about ten o’clock.
Arrangements for the funeral have not been completed.
The remains are in charge of M. E.
Feith undertaking establishment.
Cape Girardeau, Mo., Jan. 17.—A
deplorable accident occurred at the Jackson Military Academy
at Jackson, this county, in which Cadet Everton
Parks, from
Caruthersville, Mo., lost his life. It was shortly
after taps had been blown and Cadet
Parks and his
roommate, Burt Layden,
also of Caruthersville, were in their quarters. The
two boys undertook to take the cartridges from a revolver,
which was held between them. It was accidentally
discharged and the ball struck young
Parks over the left eye, inflicting a wound from which he died
shortly after 3 o’clock this morning. His body was
taken to Caruthersville, this afternoon accompanied by a
military bodyguard from the academy.
(Everton K.
Parks was born 27 Sep 1893, died 15 Jan 1908, and was buried at
Caruthersville, Mo.—Darrel
Dexter)
Cairo Evening Citizen,
Saturday, 18 Jan 1908:
Du Quoin, Ill., Jan. 18.—The funeral of
George Spencer Smith,
pioneer banker and first mayor of DuQuoin, was held there
yesterday. He was for many years president of the
Exchange Bank of this city, the oldest in Perry County.
In compliance with Mayor
Pope’s
proclamation, business was suspended during the funeral
hour.
DuQuoin has had the misfortune to lose
four of her most prominent citizens within one week. The
first was Maj. L. B.
Skinner, one of the founders of the banking
establishment of G. S.
Ward & Co.
Following this was the death of F. Dwight
Ward on Saturday and on Monday, George S.
Smith, head of the banking firm above named, dropped dead on the
streets.
Edward
Schuler, a switchman for the Illinois Central, was caught between
two cars at Mounds about 10 o’clock this morning and was
instantly killed.
The deceased leaves a wife and two
small children living at Mounds, besides his mother and
other relatives who live in Mound City.
(Edward Ira Schuler married Emma Stern on 20 Feb
1895, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
His marker in Beech Grove Cemetery reads:
Edward Schuler
Born Dec. 6, 1870 Died Jan. 20, 1908.—Darrel Dexter)
By the death of Thomas
King, a tailor
living at 312 Ninth Street, Jessie
Smith, a negro
woman who served as his housekeeper, will come into
possession of property valued at $12,000 to $15,000.
King was a bachelor and had lived in Cairo since 1863.
He was 77 years of age and was a native of England. He
was reared in an orphan asylum and never knew his parents,
so that so far as he knew he had no living relatives.
It was in England that he learned his trade, and he followed
it in Cairo. He was frugal and gradually accumulated a
considerable amount of property. It includes
considerable Cairo real estate, tenement houses, some of
them on Ninth Street, and also stock in a department store
in Chicago and in a sanitarium there.
Mr.
King had been in poor health for about a year. He fell down
the steps some months ago and received injuries which
developed a cancer. This was removed, but his advanced
age prevented his complete recovery. Phillip
Lehning is
looking after the funeral arrangements and the disposition
of the property.
(His marker in Beech Grove Cemetery reads:
Thomas King
1831-1908.—Darrel
Dexter)
“We, the undersigned jurors, sworn to
inquire into the death of Lee
Griggs, on oath
find that he came to his death by bullets fired from a
revolver held in the hands of Police Officer John
Wade. We
further find that the said John
Wade was
justified in the act, and we therefore exonerate him from
all blame. The said shooting took place at the corner
of Thirty-second Street and Commercial in Cairo, Alexander
County, Illinois, about 12:15 a.m. Jan. 20, 1908.”
The verdict was signed by W.
McEwen, foreman;
J. J. Coleman,
Roy Clark, Richard Taylor,
Walter Noonan,
and Joseph Mulvin.
This was the verdict reached in Cairo’s
latest homicide case, after six witnesses had been examined
and the jury was out just long enough to prepare their
verdict.
According to the statement of
Wade, who is a
Cairo police officer, he was patrolling that vicinity with
Officer George Bradley. The officers had separated,
Bradley going on, when Wade’s
attention was attracted by a noise behind him, and turning
around he saw Griggs
approaching with a knife in his hand and his arm drawn back
to strike. Wade
said that his hand was on his gun which was in his pocket
and he turned loose and emptied his revolver, shooting five
times.
An examination of the body showed that
four bullets took effect. One went through his heart,
one entered above the heart, another below, and another hit
him in his head.
It is alleged that
Griggs had had an
old grudge against
Wade and had made threats against him.
A big crowd was present at the council
chamber to hear the evidence, and those who knew of the
dilapidated condition of the building were fearful that it
would give way under the strain. The remains when
viewed by the jury were at
Hughes’
undertaking establishment.
One of the witnesses, Martin
Temple, when
asked how he happened to be in that vicinity at the time of
the shooting, said that he had been upstairs over the saloon
at Thirty-second and Commercial, where they had some beer,
but had been ordered out. This statement is of
interest as indicating that the Sunday “lid” was lifted in
that vicinity.
Anna, Ill., Jan.20—Former State Senator
Jesse Ware died
at his home here Sunday morning, aged 77, of Bright’s
disease. He was one of the wealthiest citizens in
Union County and was a retired attorney. He was born
at Eaton, Ohio. His wife was Anna
Hanna, a relative of the family of the late Senator Marcus A.
Hanna.
He served as the first senators from
this district after the State Constitutional Convention from
1878 to 1876 and it was due to his untiring efforts
that the appropriation for the building of the Illinois
Southern Hospital for Insane at this place was secured.
He leaves a widow, two sons, Charles and Frank, and one
daughter, Miss Anna. He was a stanch Democrat until
1896, when he returned to sanction the free silver issue of
the Democrats.
Mr.
Ware was an intimate friend of David
Davis and Abraham Lincoln.
He taught school at Caledonia, Ill., in the fifties, and
later, in the same town, practiced law.
From Caledonia he went to Jonesboro and
formed a partnership with Ex-judge John
Dougherty and later with Judge Monroe C.
Crawford and David W. Karaker.
(Jesse
Ware married Anna K. Hanna
on 1 Apr 1862, in Union Co., Ill.
Marcus Alonzo
Hanna, born
24 Sep 1837, at Lisbon, Ohio, and died 15 Feb 1904, was a
U.S. Senator from Ohio.
His marker in Jonesboro Cemetery reads:
Jesse Ware
Born Aug. 23, 1829 Died Jan. 19, 1908 Father.—Darrel
Dexter)
Jonesboro, Ill., Jan. 20.—Mr. and Mrs.
J. C. Brown died
at almost the same hour Saturday night. Mr.
Brown was at the
home of his sister in Anna, Ill., and his wife was at their
home here.
Neither knew of the other’s death or
that the other was seriously ill.
Brown had been an invalid for several years, though appeared no
worse when he went to visit his sister a few days ago.
His wife became ill suddenly and died
before the news of her husband’s death reached Jonesboro.
(James Cal
Brown, 24, born in Jonesboro, Ill., son of Oliver C.
Brown and Lucinda
Sumner, married Nancy E.
Leyerle, 27, born
in Union Co., Ill., daughter of Daniel W.
Leyerle and Sarah
A. Penninger, on
28 Sep 1879, in Union Co., Ill.
Joseph Leyerle
married Fannie M.
Brown on 24 Sep 1890, in Perry Co., Ill.
His marker in Anna City Cemetery reads:
J. C. Brown Born April 7, 1856 Died Jan. 19, 1908 Aged 51 Yrs., 9 Mos., 12
Ds. A. E.
Brown Born Nov. 24, 1850 Died Jan. 18, 1908 Aged 57 Yrs., 4 Mos., &
24 Ds.—Darrel Dexter)
Miss Hazel
Kennedy, daughter of Postmaster Mark
Kennedy of Mounds, passed away shortly after 1 o’clock this morning,
of Bright’s disease, after an illness of a number of months.
She was about 20 years of age and was
well known in Cairo.
The funeral will be held Tuesday
afternoon at 2 o’clock from the Congregational Church and
the remains will be buried in the Beech Grove Cemetery.
(Her marker in Beechwood Cemetery at Mounds reads:
Hazel Maud dau. of M. L. & C. B.
Kennedy Born Aug.
28, 1886 Died Jan. 20, 1908.—Darrel
Dexter)
The funeral services of the late Mrs.
Anna Ruggaber
will be held Tuesday at the residence, 1112 Poplar Street,
conducted by Rev. Charles H.
Armstrong, pastor
of the Lutheran Church. Interment will be made in
Villa Ridge cemetery.
Mrs.
Ruggaber died at 5:50 o’clock Sunday morning at the family
residence. She had been in poor health for several
years but was not compelled to take to her bed until about a
week ago.
The deceased was 66 years of age and
came to his country from Hessen, Germany, in the early
fifties. She leaves three sons and two daughters,
Joseph, John, Louis, Josephine, and Elizabeth. The two
first named reside in St. Louis.
(Michael
Ruggaber married Anna E. Hook
on 16 Jun 1864, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Died.—January 20th, 1908,
Thomas King, aged
77 years. Funeral services will be held at Mrs.
Falconer’s
undertaking rooms on Sixth Street Wednesday afternoon.
Funeral train will leave Second Street depot at 2:45 p.m.
Interment will be held at Beech Grove Cemetery.
Friends of the deceased invited to attend.
The funeral of Mrs. Anna
Ruggaber was held
this afternoon at the residence, No. 1112 Poplar Street,
conducted by Rev. Charles H.
Armstrong, pastor
of the Lutheran Church and the remains were taken by a
special train to Villa Ridge cemetery for burial. The
pall bearers were F. H.
Haas, Peter Day, J. F.
Kolb, Sr., Henry
Levy, P. A. Doud, George
Lattner, Claude
Winter, and W. A. Steagala.
V.
Wilson, who ran a colored restaurant in Wild Cat Chute, died at 5:50
this morning after a long illness of consumption. He
was about 4_ years of age. The remains will be buried at
Beech Grove Cemetery Friday.
(Vince
Wilson, born November 1861 in Tennessee, married Alice
Wilson, born May
1862 in Missouri, on 24 Apr 1900, in Alexander Co.,
Ill.—Darrel Dexter)
A telegram was received in this city
from Martin, Tenn., conveying the sad intelligence of the
death there this morning of Conductor Ed H.
Warmath at 6
o’clock says the
Jackson Sun. Pleurisy was said to have been the
immediate cause of his death.
Conductor
Warmath for several years ran on the Illinois Central between this
city and Mounds, Ill., but for the past few months he has
been employed on the Birmingham Branch of the I. C.
About two weeks ago he was called to
Martin to attend the bedside of his brother, who was quite
ill. His brother improved and has about recovered, but
Conductor Warmath
was taken ill with pleurisy a short time ago and rapidly
grew worse until the end this morning.
Mr.
Warmath was born in Martin Dec. 27, 1878. He was a member of
the local O. R. C., B. R. T. and the Elks Lodge of this
city, who will have charge of the funeral tomorrow afternoon
at Martin.
In your last weekly issue there was an
inquiry made about some Confederate soldiers that died in
Cairo in November 1862. It is possible I can throw some
light on that subject. There were two of my company
boys that were wounded and in the Cairo hospital at that
time and as I had been discharged sometime previous to that,
their people up home sent me down to look after them, and
bring them home as soon as they were able to travel.
These Georgia and Florida men were
taken prisoner down near Tupelo, Miss., and sent up on the
B. & O. Railroad to Columbus and put on the transfer boat
and landed at the old wharf boat and were taken from there
to the old hospital that stood out in the Big Four Railroad
yard. That was about the last days of October or the first
of November. There were eight of them, five of them
were badly wounded and died as I remember it. Two of
them died on the 11th of November late in the
evening and one died on the 12th early in the
morning. They were placed in coffins and a fatigue
party was detailed and an army wagon took the detail and the
dead men to Mound City and buried them where the dead
Confederates from Mound City had been buried—that is now the
Government Cemetery. I presume the other two were
buried at the same place.
Those dead bodies found near the old
fair grounds were not soldiers, but some refugees that died
from small pox and were buried near the pest house (or tent)
early in 1862.
The dead soldiers, concerning whom the
department at Washington is inquiring were:
(George W.
Endicott, 22, of Johnsonville, Wayne Co., Ill., carpenter, 5’11”,
brown hair, blue eyes, dark complexion, born in Uniontown,
Belmont Co., Ohio, enlisted on 15 Sep 1861, as a private in
Co. I, 48th Illinois Infantry, and was discharged
for wounds on 2 Aug 1862.—Darrel
Dexter)
(William
Allen married Ada Drake
on 17 Oct 1891, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
(His marker in I.O.O.F. Cemetery at
Dongola reads:
Charles E. Henley
1872-1908.—Darrel
Dexter)
Tuesday’s
Paducah News-Democrat says: Marvin
Boren, an I. C. switchman, was hurt today in the I. C. yards by
being caught between two cars he was coupling. His
shoulders and chest are badly contused, but he is not
seriously injured.
He was taken to the I. C. hospital and
will be confined there for several weeks.
Boren came here recently from Cairo. He was recently acquitted
for killing a policeman in Cairo.
Mattie
Smith, the negro woman who came into the property of the late Thomas
King, the tailor,
whose funeral occurred today, acquired his property by deed
from the dead man. The deeds were placed on file at the
court house at his death, and show that on May 27, 1907,
Thomas King
conveyed to Mattie
Smith by quit claim deed lots 11, 12, 37, 38, and 39, in
block 27, city of Cairo, and lot 29 in block 40 in the first
addition to the city of Cairo. One dollar was given as the
consideration in the transfer.
The property consists of three lots on
Ninth Street in the rear of
Kaufman’s Store,
with tenement houses on them, two lots in the same block but
fronting on Tenth Street, and one lot on Twenty-Seventh
Street, between Poplar and Sycamore, on the north side of
the street. It is said that
King also
transferred his stock in the Chicago companies in which he
was interested to the woman. He left no will.
The entire estate which he disposed of
is estimated at form $12,000 to $15,000.
Culpepper
Matheney, aged 49, of Vernon, Ill., blew out the gas in his room in
the Columbia Hotel at Centralia Sunday night and died from
inhaling the gas. It is said that he was intoxicated when
he retired.
(Culpepper
Matheny married Mary C. S.
Bunyard on 10 Jul 1877, in Fayette Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
We desire to express our heartfelt
thanks and appreciation to our kind friends and neighbors
and to all who showed their sympathy during the recent
illness and death of our mother.
Mrs. F. M.
Thornton, formerly of Cairo, died at Jackson, Tenn., at 4 o’clock
Sunday afternoon of pneumonia, after an illness of but one
week. Mr. Thornton
was proprietor of the Planter’s House here.
Earl
Karaker, a switchman employed by the Illinois Central at Mounds, was
seriously injured early this morning when his right side was
crushed between two box cars while he was attempting to make
a coupling when the cars came together catching him between
them. He was brought to Cairo this morning on the suburban,
and conveyed to St. Mary’s Infirmary in the ambulance. His
injuries were attended to by Dr.
Boswell of Mounds
and Dr. Grinstead
of this city. At last reports he was in a critical
condition and there is but a slight chance for his
recovery. His wife is confined to her bed which makes the
situation a very pathetic one, as she has a little baby but
a few days old.
(C. C.
White married Mary Ann Coyle
on 5 Mar 1880, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
His marker in New Hope Cemetery near Ullin reads:
Christopher White Born Oct. 12, 1847 Died Jan. 25, 1908.—Darrel
Dexter)
Jackson, Tenn., Sun: At
a few minutes before 5 o’clock Sunday afternoon Mrs. F. M.
Thornton died at her home, the Central Hotel, this city, after an
illness of about two weeks.
She had been in delicate health for
some time, and several weeks ago was taken with the grip,
which developed into something like pneumonia to which from
her weakened condition she soon succumbed.
Mrs.
Thornton was forty-four years of age. She was born and reared near
Henderson, in Chester County, and was married to Frank M.
Thornton in 1844. Most
of her married life was spent in Cairo, Ill., where she was
very popular.
She was a devoted Baptist and was always an earnest worker
for her church.
She is survived by her husband, Mrs.
Frank M. Thornton,
of this city, and three children, Mrs. Sam D.
Clark and Miss
Ludie Thornton,
who made their home with their parents and Frank M. Jr., who
lives in Memphis. She leaves one brother, Mr. John
Newsom, of
Shreveport, La., besides whom she was quite a large
connection of near relatives in this city and elsewhere.
The funeral will take place at half
after two o’clock tomorrow afternoon from the First Baptist
Church.
Hess
Manley, formerly of Mounds, was injured at Harrisburg Tuesday
morning early, by being run over by a train there. His
injuries resulted in his death in the afternoon.
Manley lived in
Missouri and had only been in Harrisburg a short time.
He was a switch man for the Big Four there and was going for
his lunch at midnight when he received his injuries.
Mrs. Anatasia
Steagala, aged 91 years last Christmas Day, passed away at the home
of her son, William
Steagala, No. 312 Sixth Street, at 3:10 o’clock this
morning. Death came to end an illness which had
confined her to her bed for fourteen months.
Mrs.
Steagala was born in Westenung District of Buela, Germany, on Dec.
25, 1816, and came to America when she was about 21 years of
age. For half a century she has made her home in
Cairo. Her husband, Antoine
Steagala died on
Aug. 8, 1881. They had ten children, five of whom,
including the late Joseph
Steagala, have
passed away. The survivors are Mrs. William
Curry, of
Philadelphia; Mrs. Louis
Fleck and Mrs.
Rosa Fritzker of
St. Louis, and Frank and William
Steagala, of
Cairo.
The funeral will be held tomorrow
afternoon as may be seen from a notice elsewhere today, with
services at St. Patrick’s Church at 1:30 o’clock.
Died—Mrs. Anatasia
Steagala, aged 91 years, 1 month, 4 days.
Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at
St. Patrick’s Church at 1:30 o’clock. Funeral train
will leave foot of Fourteenth Street at 2:45 p.m. for Villa
Ridge cemetery. Friends of family invited to attend.
Please omit flowers.
Where is James
Smith, the man whose wife is alleged to have been stolen a few days
ago by Otice
Strawbridge?
Did he intend to commit suicide when he
asked for carbolic acid at a downtown drug store at the time
his wife left him?
Has he carried out his threat to end
all, because of his domestic troubles?
These are questions that acquaintances
of Smith were
asking today.
Smith was last seen about 5:30 last Monday morning by Sam
Reeves of 905
Washington Avenue, when
Smith notified
Reeves that he was about to vacate the house at 427 Seventh Street,
which Reeves
hoped to secure. He also arranged to let
Reeves have an
ice box that he had purchased at the Fair and for which he
still owed $6, if
Reeves would pay the balance on it, and agreed to return
that night to go with
Reeves to see Mr.
Newman about the matter. He never came back and
naturally those acquainted with the man are wondering what
has happened to him.
Smith left his boarding place on Seventh Street at 5 o’clock in
the morning without saying anything about getting his
breakfast, but he told
Reeves that he
must hurry back there for breakfast. He never
returned.
Smith, who worked for the
Lewis Commission
Company, sent a note to Louis
Walder, that he
would not be on hand to work that day, but would come around
that night, Monday, but he did not come. Last Saturday
he gathered up a lot of fruit which he said he was going to
take to his boy in Charleston, but he did not have any
bundle when he was last seen.
The house No. 427 Seventh Street, was
searched last night in the hope that some trace of the man
might be found.
It will be remembered that
Smith’s wife left
him and took up with Otice
Strawbridge,
taking one of her children. When
Smith attempted
to take the child away from the boarding house on Seventh
Street he was arrested, but was later released.
Strawbridge was
arrested on the wharf boat as he was about to leave the city
with Smith’s wife
and Smith’s household goods. The peculiar thing is that
Smith failed to
swear out a state warrant against
Strawbridge, so
all that the officers could do was to charge with carrying
concealed weapons.
In a fire which destroyed a negro
tenement house in Mound City yesterday afternoon, a baby was
left in the building when the occupants made their hurried
exit, and received burns which resulted in its death this
morning.
Captain Joe
Flasch, the veteran river engineer, is critically ill at his home,
327 North Fourth Street.
Captain
Flasch is a sufferer from Bright’s disease, and some doubt of his
recovery was entertained this afternoon. He returned
recently from Washington, where he represented the local
Marine Engineers association at the national convention.—Paducah
Sun
The last sad rites over the remains of
Mrs. Anatasia
Steagala, who died early yesterday morning, were held
this afternoon at St. Patrick’s Church at 1:30, Rev. Father
Downey
officiating. The funeral cortege left on special train
for Villa Ridge Cemetery where interment was made. The
pallbearers were Paul G.
Schuh, P.
Lehning, Louis Riggaber,
H. A. Jones, J.
R. Kolb, M. J.
Howley, James Meehan and
Henry Levy.
James
Smith, whose mysterious movements were causing his friends
considerable alarm yesterday, turned up last night with the
explanation that he had been called suddenly to East
Prairie, Mo., to see his child, who is ill and had no chance
to let anyone here know of his whereabouts.
Two wagons from East Prairie, in charge
of Smith’s
father-in-law, came over last night after
Smith’s household
goods to take them back to East Prairie, where his wife is
now living.
Silas
Johnson, charged with the murder of William
Gibson, another negro at a levee camp near Maple, in Hickman County,
Kentucky, was arrested this morning at No. 521 Eighteenth
Street and is now in the county jail awaiting the arrival of
the officers from that county. It is said that there
is a reward of $50 for the capture of the man.
The arrest was accomplished through the
efforts of the wife of the dead man, who saw
Johnson here and notified Deputy Sheriff Albert
Frost, who with
the aid of Jailer
Abernathie made the arrest.
Johnson claims that he killed
Gibson in self-defense when he shot him in the head with a double
barrel shot gun, blowing off the top of his head. Mrs.
Gibson tells a
different story, and she further states that for fear that
she would tell on him,
Johnson had been tracking her in order to kill her.
Johnson tracked
the woman to Bird’s Point, where he worked for a time and
followed her over to Cairo when she came to this city.
The woman says that there are four
witnesses right in Cairo and that there are fifteen persons
who know about the tragedy which occurred last October.
The
Mt. Carmel Republican tells how Hess
Manley was injured at Harrisburg Monday night which resulted in his
death Tuesday. Mr.
Manley was
hanging on to the side of a moving car, and had been warned
to look out for cars on other tracks, but he failed to do so
and struck the steel corner of a coal car, cutting a big
gash in his head, knocking out his right eye and cutting the
right ear off. He was taken to the hospital at
Harrisburg to be cared for.
Mrs. Ellen
Jones, aged 80, mother of Capt. Richard
Jones of Fire Station No. 2, died late last night in the Insane
Asylum at Anna, Ill. She has been confined to the
asylum for 26 years, having been taken there because of her
worry over the death of her son, Thomas, who was killed 27
years ago on the Illinois Central incline, near Twentieth
Street, while switching. The deceased was born in Cork
County, Ireland and came to this country when a young girl.
She is one of Cairo’s oldest citizens, having come to this
city in 1857, from Rome, New York. Her husband Edward
Jones, died two
years ago last September at the age of 75. She is
survived by her son Richard, the only one living of their
ten children.
Capt.
Jones received the message early this morning and immediately left
for Anna accompanied by John
Coleman.
They will return this evening and convey the remains to
Capt. Jones’
residence, No. 226 Twentieth Street. The funeral will
leave for residence tomorrow at 1:30 for St. Joseph’s
Church, where services will be held. A special train
will leave the foot of Fourteenth Street at 2:45 for Villa
Ridge cemetery.
Paducah Sun: Mrs. Natalia
Glauber, one of
Paducah’s most highly esteemed women, died Wednesday morning
at 12:10 o’clock at her home 503 South Fifth Street, after a
short illness of the grip, which affected her heart.
She was in her usual good health until last Thursday, when
she complained of feeling badly, but no alarm was felt until
Monday evening, when her illness became critical.
Mrs.
Glauber was born in Prussia, in 1830, and had she lived until next
Sunday, she would have been 78 years old. When she was
seven years old her parents moved to America and settled in
McCracken County, where Mrs.
Glauber lived
until her marriage to the late Sebastian
Glauber, when she
moved to Paducah and had resided here since.
Mrs.
Glauber’s maiden name was Miss Natalia
Snyder. She has been a lifelong member of the Catholic Church
and a more devoted member of the church could not be found.
She was kind to the poor and always ready to lend a willing
hand where her assistance would be beneficial. She was
a member of the Altar Society of the church.
The following children are left:
Misses Flora and Carrie
Glauber, Mrs.
Mary Pettit, of
Paducah; and Sister Mary
Glauber, of St.
Joseph’s Hospital in Lexington; Mr. James
Glauber, of
Paducah; Mr. A.
Glauber, of Cairo; and Mr. Will
Glauber, of St.
Louis. Seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren
survive.
The funeral will take place Thursday
afternoon at 1 o’clock at the Catholic Church, the Rev.
Father Jansen
officiating. The burial will take place in Mt. Carmel
Cemetery. The pallbearers will be: J. J.
Dorian, Frank M.
Fisher, J. T.
Donovan, W. F. Paxton,
Henry Gockel, and
George Grief.
Mrs.
Nau, wife of Andrew Nau,
of Willard, passed away at noon Wednesday at her home at
Willard of some chronic trouble. She was an old
resident of Alexander County, having resided in this county
for over 40 years. Forty-six years ago she married Mr.
Nau. She
was 71 years old at her death. Besides her husband,
she leaves three grandchildren, daughters of W. S.
Cavender.
The funeral will be held Friday
afternoon at 2 o’clock with burial at Lake Milligan.
Burke & Blake have charge
of the remains.
(Waldo
Cavender married Adilla Nau
on 20 Sep 1885, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. E. M.
Brickell, aged about 70 years, died of pneumonia at 9:45 o’clock
this morning, after an illness that developed only last
Tuesday. She has not been well for some time, but
there was nothing serious the matter until pneumonia
developed. Her son in Pittsburg was at once notified,
and he arrived before her death. The deceased survived
her husband by five or six years, and leave three children,
Frank Low and
Mrs. Lily Rectanus,
both of Pittsburg, and Mrs. Thomas P.
Caraher, of 314
Ninth Street.
The deceased was a member of the
Presbyterian Church and Rev. S. A.
Buchanan will
have charge of the funeral, which will probably occur
Sunday. Burial will be a Villa Ridge cemetery.
(Jacob
Brickell married Elizabeth M.
Low on 26 Nov 1865, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Friends of Mrs. Emma
Carey, of St.
Louis, will be grieved to learn of her death which occurred
in that city Thursday.
Mrs.
Carey resided in Cairo for many years, her husband, G. W.
Carey, being the
leading undertaker.
About seven years ago she left Cairo to
reside with her daughter in St. Louis, Mrs.
Shroerds, whose husband died suddenly a few days ago.
Although Mr.
Carey was quite feeble, it is believed that the shock occasioned by
the sudden death of her son-in-law hastened her death.
Her relatives here are J. B. and G. J.
Gilmore and Mrs.
Minnie Madden.
Messrs. Gilmore
left today for St. Louis to attend the funeral which will
take place tomorrow at Bellefontaine Cemetery.
(James C.
Speer, 28, born in Springfield, Ohio, 5’7 ½”, black hair, light
eyes, dark complexion, farmer, of Villa Ridge, Ill.,
enlisted as a sergeant in Co. I, 81st Illinois
Infantry, on 5 Aug 1862, and was mustered out on 5 Aug 1865.
He filed for a pension in 1879.
J. C. Speer married S. A. Atherton
on 11 Aug 1867, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
J. S. Clay,
39, of Unity, Ill., married Ella
Spears, 29, of
Beechwood, on 16
Oct 1899, in Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Funeral services over the remains of
Mrs. Ellen Jones
were held at St. Joseph’s Church this afternoon conducted by
Rev. Father Gillen, and the remains were taken to Villa Ridge cemetery for
interment.
The pallbearers were Anthony P.
Ehs, Patrick
Mahoney, Arthur Magner,
Thomas Calvin,
John Barry,
William Fitzgerald, John Carmody,
and M. J. Mahaffey.
Word was received today that the
sheriff of Hickman County, Kentucky would arrive tomorrow to
take the negro murderer Silas
Johnson back to
Mable, Ky., where he is wanted for the murder of Will
Gibson.
Johnson was captured here a few days ago by Jailer
Abernathie and
Deputy Sheriff Allie
Frost on Eighteenth Street.
After examining ten witnesses the
coroner’s jury inquiring into the death of Henry
O’Neill, completed the work of taking evidence at 12:15 today and
after debating upon the matter for thirty minutes, took an
adjournment until 4 o’clock before they reached a verdict.
The inquest was held in the city
council chamber. The jury was composed of William
Magner, H. M. Sullivan,
H. A. Ellsworth,
Roy Clark, Harry
Steinhouse, and John Coleman.
The witnesses examined were Earl
Carver, motorman;
David Meehan,
engineer for the Halliday elevator; James
Gillespie,
superintendent of the Halliday elevator; Frank
Clark, a steamboat man of 401 Commercial Avenue; Emmett
Palmer, laborer
of the same address; R. H.
Williams,
locomotive fireman who also boards at
McCann’s; B. H.
Lambert, a
bartender for McCann;
Joseph E. Mueller, real estate dealer; P. H.
Hubbard, the tailor; and William
Johns, conductor on the car.
Carver’s testimony was substantially as given in
The
Citizen last
evening. He said that the car was running about four
miles an hour and he saw the man when he was about twenty
feet away. He was then approaching the track. He
said that he applied the brakes and rang his bell and slowed
the car down to about a mile and a half an hour when the car
struck the man. He was asked if he dropped the fender
and why if he did not, and he replied that he did not drop
it; that he was putting all of his force on the brakes.
David
Meehan testified that he was on the car talking with some other men
and paid no attention to the car slowing up until the
motorman opened the door and said that he struck a man.
When he got off he found the man lying on his face with his
left foot behind the rear wheel and his right foot in front
of it with the wheel partially on it. The wheel had
passed over the left foot and the car had to be backed up to
get the wheel off the other foot.
Emmett
Palmer stated that he saw the man about fifteen or twenty minutes
before the accident happened, in
McCann’s Saloon.
When the accident did happen, someone ran into the saloon
and said that someone had been run over. He ran out
and saw the man lying there and when the body was turned
over, he recognized him as
O’Neill. Witness stated that as far as he knew the man was not
a habitual drunkard. He said that while he saw him
drink occasionally, he never saw him drunk.
B. H.
Lambert, the bartender at
McCann’s, also testified that
O’Neill was in
the saloon fifteen minutes before the accident. He
stated however that the man was a sober man as far as he
knew him that he only drank occasionally.
Lambert said that
when he heard that the man had been run over, he went out
and saw him lying with his foot under the wheel. He
told the motorman to back the car up and the motorman said
“I can’t.” Insisting that the car be backed,
Lambert said that the motorman got in his cab and backed it up and
witness pulled the man’s right leg out from under the wheel.
Just as he did it, the man drew up his leg just a little.
He said that he never heard the man speak a word as long as
he was out there, but that he heard him groan once or twice.
William
Johns, the conductor said that he was on the inside of the car when
it struck the man. He knew that there was something
wrong when the car stopped for he felt a sudden jerk as
though the car has hit something. He said that the
motorman rang his bell all the way from Third Street; that
he is a motorman who continually rings his bell. When
asked whether the headlight on the car was burning all the
time, he said that he knew that the light was burning when
they started from the depot, and that it was burning after
the accident happened.
Gov.
Hubbard in his testimony said that he had already made his
statement; that he wrote it out on paper. When asked
how that was the fact, it was brought out that he had filled
out a blank that was presented to him for signature by the
Traction Company. He handed the statement to the
coroner who examined it.
Word was received this morning from St.
Louis over the long distance telephone to prepare the body
for burial and ship it to E. J.
O’Neill, at St.
Louis.
The sewer people say that
O’Neill mailed a
letter a few days ago to Mrs. Henry
O’Neill, 407
Minerva Avenue, St. Louis, which would indicate that he had
a wife.
The body will be shipped to St. Louis
tonight.
Two letters are in the post office, one
from St. Louis and the other from an address in Kansas, for
the dead man, which it is believed will throw some light on
the man’s relatives.
The
St. Louis Star Chronicle today said:
A telegram from Coroner
McManus, of
Cairo, Ill., apprised Chief
Gillaspy Thursday
night of the killing in that city of Henry
O’Neill, formerly
of St. Louis. No details are furnished, but the police
here were asked to notify John
O’Neill, an
uncle, who was mentioned in the message as a street
inspector here.
Chief
Gillaspy sent to 20 addresses in an effort to locate the family.
Finally the family of John
O’Neill was found
at 3830 Sullivan Avenue. John
O’Neill is a race horse man, the police were informed and is in
Hematite. The family, however, said that John had a
nephew named Henry, but he had not been heard of for years
and the family did not know what had become of him. No
John O’Neill is
employed by the street department.
Died—Mrs. E. M. Brickell
aged 70 years. Funeral services will be held Sunday
afternoon at Presbyterian church 2 p.m. leaving residence
___ Nineteenth Street at 1:30 p.m. Train leaves
Fourteenth Street at 2:45 p.m. for Villa Ridge cemetery.
Friends of family invited.
The funeral of the late Mrs. E. M.
Brickell was held Sunday afternoon at the Presbyterian
church, and the remains were taken to Villa Ridge cemetery
for burial.
The deceased was a member of the home
department of the Presbyterian Sunday School and the
following action was taken on her death:
The undersigned officers and visitors
of the Home Department of the Presbyterian Sabbath School of
Cairo, Ill., hereby extend heartfelt sympathy in behalf of
the members of the said Home Department, at the passing away
of our beloved sister. She was a faithful member and
we shall miss her; but we rejoice in the thought that she is
no longer alone, but in the company of her Saviour.
The undersigned desire to extend to the
people who were so kind during the last illness and at the
death of their mother, their grateful thanks.
At the last term of circuit court, Jesse
Hutchison was
given a sentence of 25 years for murder. (Mound City)
After a session which lasted until 9:30
Saturday night, the coroner’s jury summoned to inquire into
the death of Henry
O’Neill, who was killed by an electric car, returned a
verdict which did not attach any blame to anyone for his
death. The verdict after stating the manner in which
the deceased met his death reads: “We further find
that the said motorman sounded the gong and applied the
brakes but failed to use the fender attached to the front
end of the said car.”
Paducah Sun: One
of Paducah’s most prominent river men, Capt. Joseph B.
Flasch, died Saturday morning of Bright’s disease at his home, 327
North Fourth Street.
Captain
Flasch, who was 53 years old, was a native of New Orleans, but moved
to Paducah when a boy and worked in the river business 36
years. He was married 37 years ago and lived in
Paducah most all his life.
Captain
Flasch was a member of the Episcopal Church for 40 years and was
also a member of the Masons, Woodmen of the World, Woodmen
Circle, Red Men and the Marine Engineers’ Association.
On the river Captain
Flasch had
licenses to be pilot, mate, engineer, and captain. For
sixteen years he worked for the St. Bernard Coal Company and
for 14 years he was on the ferryboat
Bettie Owen. The remainder of his river career he spent on the
Ryman line that runs from Paducah to Nashville. One
year ago he was elected business manager of the National
Marine Engineers’ Association of America representing the
western and southern rivers. He resigned recently on
account of his health.
We, the undersigned, desire to extend
our heartfelt thanks to all those friends who so kindly
assisted us at the time of the death of our beloved mother,
Mrs. Ellen Jones.
The Cairo Evening Citizen, Wednesday, 5 Feb 1908:
Joseph E.
Lufkin, one of the prominent men of Pulaski County, and a former
resident of Cairo, died at 8 o’clock this morning, at the
age of 78 years. Death was the result of the
infirmities of old age. The deceased followed his wife
by less than two months, her death having occurred on Dec.
18th, six weeks ago today.
The deceased is survived by two
brothers and a sister, John E.
Lufkin, of Anna,
and O. A. Lufkin,
of Frederick. The sister resides in California.
No children are left, but a stepdaughter, Mrs. Lou
Benedict, who has
made her home with Mr. and Mrs.
Lufkin at Mounds
and cared for them, alone survives of the family circle.
The deceased was an uncle of Mrs. Henry
Partee, and Mrs.
George Clark of
Cairo. Capt. and Mrs.
Partee were present this morning when the end came.
Mr.
Lufkin was a member of the Masonic Lodge of Mound City and they will
have charge of the services at the grave. Short
services will be conducted at the house by Rev.
Utley of Mound
City.
Special trains will go from here and
Mound City to the cemetery at Beech Grove.
The deceased formerly resided in Cairo
and was an agent for the Illinois Central Railroad Company.
The deceased was a man of considerable
means. He was formerly engaged in farming, but sold
his farm several years ago and moved into town.
Lucy
Thomas, an aged colored woman, died this morning at her home on
Twenty-fifth Street. The funeral will be held tomorrow
from Mt. Moriah Baptist Church on Poplar Street, and
interment will be made at Mounds.
William
Alexander, a young colored boy, son of George
Alexander, of 2515 Poplar Street, died Wednesday of consumption,
after a long illness. He was taken sick in August and
his parents sent him to California, but he did not improve
and so returned home. The funeral will occur Sunday.
(Lewis H.
Vick, 34, born in Elco, Ill., son of Joshua
Vick and Fannie Henry,
married on 2 Aug 1894, in Union Co., Ill., Sophronia Jane
Holshouser, 24, born in Mill Creek, Ill., daughter of Adam
Holshouser and
Polly A. Mowery.
A marker in Rose Hill Cemetery at Pulaski reads:
J. F. Sharp
Born March 8, 1883 Died Feb. 2, 1908.—Darrel
Dexter)
Died—Joseph H. Lufkin,
age 75, at his home in Mounds, Wednesday morning at 8
o’clock. Funeral services Friday afternoon at 2:30 at
the residence conducted by Rev. B. F.
Utley.
Masons will conduct the services at the
grave. Special train leaves Cairo for Beech Grove at
1:00 p.m. sharp. Leave Mound City at 1:20 p.m.
Friends invited to attend.
Edgar, the five months old son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. L. Myers,
of 223 Sixteenth Street, died this morning at 2:30 o’clock.
Died—Mrs. Joseph Speth.
Funeral services will be held at the residence on Mound City
Road, Saturday at 10 a.m. Conveyances will leave the
residence of Otto Tauber, 327 Twenty-eighth Street, at 9 a.m. The remains will
be interred at Villa Ridge cemetery. Friends of the
family are invited.
Anna Talk: Died, Monday, February 3, at the
Hale home
sanitarium, of Bright’s disease from which he had long been
a sufferer, Rev. R. W.
Purdue, aged 54 years, 2 months and 23 days.
Not long since, the deceased accepted a
temporary call to the Congregational Church at Grand Chain,
but his health did not permit him to remain there long.
He had tried various locations in hope of regaining health,
but all efforts availed nothing. When he went to the
sanitarium there was no hope of accomplishing more than to
prolong life a little while.
Rev. Mr.
Purdue was born in Williamson County, but a very large part of his
life was spent in Union County. He was an enthusiastic
Congregationalist and organized a large number of churches
which now thrive in southern Illinois. His last
regular charge was near Cherokee, Iowa, but he was not
strong enough physically to endure the work. He had
previously been in New Mexico.
He is survived by Dr. Finis
Purdue and Mrs.
Purdue, both of whom were present during the last illness. The
son is now temporarily located in New Mexico, but his home
is at Rock Island, where he had been practicing.
The remains were taken to Cobden
Tuesday for interment in the Cobden Cemetery, following the
funeral services, which were conducted by Rev. Dr.
Tompkins, of the
Alto Pass church which Rev. Mr.
Purdue served for
several years.
(Roland W.
Purdue married Mary J. Houser
on 25 Jun 1874, in Union Co., Ill.
His marker in Cobden Cemetery reads:
Rev. R. W.
Purdue Born Nov. 11, 1853 Died Feb. 3, 1908 Mary J.
Purdue Born March
5, 1854.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Joseph
Speth, aged 62, died last night about 8:30 at her home in the
drainage district. Her death was caused by asthma, and
complications from which she has been suffering for nearly a
year.
The deceased was born April 12, 1846,
at Indianapolis, Ind. She was married twice, her first
husband having been a brother of the late Louis
Herbert, of this
city. She is survived by her husband, Joseph
Speth, a daughter, Miss Edna
Speth, and a son, Albert
Herbert.
Jackson, Ky., Feb. 8—Judge
Hargis was buried
today beside the bodies of his father and three brothers,
who died from bullet wounds. Beach
Hargis was
overcome that he could not speak when given his preliminary
hearing today. He was remanded to jail without bond.
His defense will be that his father was choking him when he
shot him. Witnesses deny this.
Beach
Hargis was taken to the side of his father’s coffin. He
shuddered as he viewed the body and then knelt and said,
“Lord have mercy.” While he was there his mother knelt
beside him. He did not attend the funeral.
Thomas
Kelly, aged 22, died at St. Mary’s Infirmary at 9 o’clock last
night. He was brought down from his home in Anna in
the afternoon suffering from appendicitis. It was
thought best to operate at once in the hope of saving his
life, but the operation had been too long delayed and he
died on the operating table. The remains were shipped
back to Anna today. J. M.
Kelley, a
brother, came down with him.
The funeral of Mrs. Joseph
Speth was held
this morning at the family residence at 10 o’clock,
conducted by Rev. Charles H.
Armstrong, pastor
of the Lutheran Church, and the remains were taken to Villa
Ridge for interment, the funeral party going in carriages to
the cemetery.
Martin
McCuen, a laborer on a section gang for the Iron Mountain railroad
at McClure, Saturday afternoon, deliberately committed
suicide by jumping in front of a fast moving passenger
train. His head was cut completely off and thrown
forty feet from where his body fell, while his left arm was
also cut off.
The tragedy occurred at 2:20 in the
afternoon.
McCuen had only gone to work for the railroad half an
hour before and the extra gang had gotten to a point a mile
and a half below McClure, where they were at work on the
track, when the passenger approached. The section crew
stepped aside to let the train pass, and just as the train
was about twenty-five feet away,
McCuen sprang
right upon the track in front of the train and was ground to
death before his companions could make a move to stop him in
his desperate deed.
A coroner’s jury was summoned later in
the day with Herman
Bunch as foreman and returned a verdict that the man
came to his death by jumping in front of a train with
suicidal intent. They could learn nothing of him
except that he came to McClure from Bush, Ill., near
Chester. He had been on a spree and was just sobering
up.
Mrs. M. A.
Hawkins, one of the older residents of Cairo, died at her home, No.
810 Twenty-second Street, at 7:30 Sunday morning, at the
advanced age of 84 years. A general breaking down of
the system incident to her extreme years was the cause of
her death. Funeral services were held this afternoon
and the remains were taken to Villa Ridge cemetery for
interment.
Mrs.
Hawkins was the widow of the late J. S.
Hawkins and came with him to Cairo in 1864, after a residence in
Mound City of six years. She is survived by Mrs. J. L.
Barnard, Mrs.
Kate Lemen and Miss Mary Hawkins,
of Cairo, William and Charles
Hawkins, Mrs. C.
C. Marshall, Mrs.
W. S. Simpson,
and Mrs. A. Lynn.
(Charles C.
Marshall married Harriet E.
Hawkins on 16 Sep 1874, in Alexander Co., Ill. –Darrel
Dexter)
Paducah, Ky., Feb. 7.—”I couldn’t see
you while you were living, so I do not care to see you after
you are dead.”
This is the reply W. W.
Meadows, of
Fulton, who was the defendant in the noted
Hawley-Meadows
$100,000 damage suit, is purported to have made to a
telegram from his wife in St. Louis, stating that she was in
a dying condition.
Mrs.
Meadows, accompanied by her young daughter, went to St. Louis
several months ago to reside with her sister. He has
been in bad health for some time and is now regarded to be
hopelessly ill. Shortly after the sensational
horsewhipping Meadows
administered to Rev. W. J.
Hawley, a
Presbyterian preacher, Mrs.
Meadows brought
suit for divorce, alleging cruelty, and asked for big
alimony. She moved to St. Louis and it is said that
worry over the affair impaired her health. A few years
ago Mrs. Meadows
was noted for her beauty, being one of the handsomest women
in Western Kentucky.
When the
Hawley-Meadows suit was
tried in the United States court here in November it
resulted in a hung jury and
Meadows soon
afterward comprised by paying all costs,
Hawley’s
attorneys’ fees and granting Mrs.
Meadows a divorce
and alimony.
Meadows is a wealthy hotel proprietor at Fulton.
The jury in the
Causey murder trial was secured at 3:30 this afternoon when the last
panel of four men was accepted by both sides. They
are:
The members of the jury are all white
men.
State’s Attorney
Wilson immediately began his statement of the case to the jury.
Seventy-one persons were examined in
securing the jury. Three special venires were secured
today and two Monday, besides a number of persons who were
picked up.
Twenty witnesses are to be examined.
The grand jury has not yet reported.
All morning was spent in the circuit
court today in the attempt to complete the jury in the
murder trial of Joseph
Causey, resulting
in but a single juror.
Eight men had been secured when court
adjourned Monday evening. They were:
These eight were secured from the
regular panel. Then a special venire of twelve was
ordered and late a venire for ten more.
Thomas H.
Sheridan, of Vienna is assisting State’s Attorney
Wilson in the
prosecution, while
Lansden & Leek are defending Causey.
Henry Wooden, son
of the murdered man, and Joseph
Causey, the
defendant, and his father, Council
Causey, were in
attendance during the day.
The grand jury is likely to be in
session for three of four days, as State’s Attorney
Wilson is kept in the Causey
trial and can spent little time with them.
Mrs. Virginia
Ramar, wife of August Ramar,
died Saturday afternoon at Ravenwood, a suburb of Chicago.
The deceased who is survived by her husband and one son,
Julian, has been ill for several years. Mr. and Mrs.
Ramar formerly
resided in Cairo about nine years ago. Mr.
Ramar being employed by the Illinois Central as assistant
trainmaster between Mounds and Cairo.
Sister Anthony of the Order of the Holy
Cross, died at Notre Dame, Ind., last Friday at the age of
86. She was formerly in charge of St. Mary’s Infirmary
here. She was also on duty at the U. S. Marine
Hospital here in the early days. The deceased will be
remembered by many of the older residents, as her service
here will not be forgotten.
The prosecution in the murder trial of
Joseph Causey,
slayer of Former Police Officer George
Wooden, completed
its evidence at noon today, and when court reconvened after
dinner, the evidence for the defendant was begun.
Eleven witnesses were examined for the
prosecution. They were Ernest
Jackson, Henry
Wooden, son of
the dead man, Andrew
Johnson, Dr.
McManus, Charles
Hunt, Delia Boyd, Depney
Lee, Ada
Flournoy, Susie Guinn,
Henry Christmas
and Tom Smith.
The grand jury returned the following
indictment: John R.
Ford, murder
Carbondale Free
Press: One
of the most shocking railway fatalities in this section
occurred on the Illinois Central railway south of Carbondale
Saturday night, when Iva
Ferrill, a young girl a few months over fourteen years of age, was
struck by I. C. passenger train No. 23 and almost instantly
killed.
The killing occurred about three miles
south of this city at about 9:30 p.m. The passenger
train running a half hour or more late from the Carbondale
station.
The dead girl was a daughter of Charles
Ferrill, Illinois
Central section foreman, the family living in the section
house near the railway tracks, about two miles below
Carbondale. Saturday night Mr.
Ferrill, the
daughter Iva and the other children of the family, together
with some others living in their neighborhood attended
services at the Union Church at Boskydell, the party walking
the distance about two miles on the I. C. railway tracks.
On their return home the members of the party had covered
about half the distance from Boskydell when the shocking
tragedy was enacted.
The young folks in the party were
lively and the walk from Boskydell was without special
incident until a northbound freight train passed them about
a mile north of that place. It is stated that one of
the boys was trying to entertain the girls of the party by
trying or pretending to board the freight. The girls
and some others of the party were intent on watching the
boy’s performance and did not notice the passenger train
which was coming towards them at a good rate of speed, on
the south main on which they were standing. Several of
those in the party had narrow escapes from being struck, but
all managed to get out of the way but Iva
Ferrill.
She was struck by the engine of the passenger train, her
body being hurled quite a distance. When the body was
picked up a minute or two later she was already dead.
Mr. Ferrill and
little son were some distance in advance of the other
members of the party and were not eye witnesses of the
killing.
John
Adams, brother of Enoch and Thomas
Adams, of this city, was one of those in the party returning from
the Boskydell church. He was ahead of the several
girls when he saw the passenger train coming. Noticing
that the young folks were in great danger, he succeeded in
getting one of the girls named
Waddington, off the track by almost tossing her over his head.
The two girls were arm in arm at the time, laughing loudly
and entirely unconscious of any danger.
Train No. 23 was brought to a stop
immediately. The body of the girl was placed on board
and the train backed to the
Ferrill home one
mile north. The parents of the girl were almost
prostrated by the tragic death of their daughter.
The coroner’s jury completed their
inquest Sunday night, the verdict being that of accidental
death.
The
Ferrill family formerly lived in or near Makanda. Mr.
Ferrill being a
nephew of H. E.
Ferrill of that place and a cousin of Mrs. Henry
Chamness, of
Carbondale. Mr.
Ferrill has but recently resigned as section foreman
with the intention of removing back to Makanda.
The burial took place today at the
Limestone Cemetery between Makanda and Cobden.
T. B. CARR DIES OF PNEUMONIA
T. B.
Carr, grocer and prominent citizen of Future City, the settlement
just north of Cairo, died last night after a week’s illness
of pneumonia. The deceased was a native of Jennings
Co., Ind., and was 56 years of age. He came to
Illinois as a youth and for several years resided in this
county near Olive Branch. He owned a dozen houses and
lots in Future City besides the one he occupied. He
leaves a widow. The funeral will occur Thursday and
the remains will be buried at Willard.
(James M.
Myers married Ora Williams
on 12 Sep 1892, in Alexander Co., Ill.
His marker in Ullin City Cemetery reads:
Edgar son of J. M. & Ora
Myers Born Aug.
25, 1907 Died Feb. 7, 1908.—Darrel
Dexter)
Arguments in the
Causey murder case were concluded this afternoon, the court gave its
instructions to the jury and then that body retired to
determine the fate of the man who shot and killed former
police Officer George
Wooden.
State’s Attorney
Wilson made his argument last evening. This morning Mr.
Leek spoke for
two hours for the defense and Thomas H.
Sheridan made the
closing talk for the prosecution, starting at 11 o’clock and
concluding after dinner.
At 2:45 the jury filed out of the
courtroom to prepare its verdict.
Ashley, Ill., Feb. 13.—Chauncey B.
Geiger, former
chairman of the Illinois State Board of Arbitration, died at
his home in Ashley at 11:25 p.m. Tuesday, February 11.
He was widely known in Southern Illinois business and
political circles, and was appointed a member of the
Illinois State Board of Arbitration by Gov. Richard
Yates. He
began his business career as an employee of the Martin
Lammert Furniture Company in St. Louis, where he remained nine
years, when he returned to Ashley and entered into
partnership with his father in the furniture and
agricultural implement business. He was 51 years old
and a Mason and Odd Fellow.
(John
Williamson married Mrs. Sarah
Lee on 30 Mar 1863, in Alexander Co., Ill.
Chesterfield
Lee married Sarah
Fox on 19 May 1853, in Alexander Co., Ill. Chesterfield
G. Lee, 31, born
in Tennessee, 6’4”, light hair, hazel, fair complexion,
enlisted on 15 Aug 1862, as a private in Co. B, 109th
Illinois Infantry, and died on 12 Nov 1862, at Bolivar,
Tenn. Her marker in
Williamson & Strader Cemetery reads:
John M.
Williamson Born Feb. 14, 1819 Died Aug. 15, 1900 Enter
into Joy Sarah Williamson Born Jan. 16, 1836.—Darrel
Dexter)
(William James
Slawson married Mary Jane
Waterman on 16 Oct 1870, in Alexander Co., Ill.
Isaac B. Davis
married Ella M.
Slawson on 15 Apr 1888, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
After being out for six hours, the jury
in the murder trial of Joseph
Causey returned a
verdict at 9:30 last night of not guilty.
Little was done in court this morning.
Judge Duncan
returns to Marion tonight.
A reward of $25 is being offered by the
widow of the late Clarence
Monteith, who was
drowned near Paducah Wednesday February 12th, for
the recovery of the deceased’s body.
Monteith was working on a barge and it is thought he was arranging
some lines when he slipped and fell into the river. He was
employed by the Barrett line.
The deceased was 38 years old and
besides his wife is survived by his parents who reside at
New Richmond, Ohio, also the home of the deceased. The
sad accident occurred about 6 p.m. It being dark at
the time, the body was soon lost to view and swept away by
the swift current.
(Paducah papers please copy)
MRS. A. MARTIN HAS PASSED AWAY
Mrs. Amarala Martin, one of
Cairo’s foremost women, passed way this forenoon at 11
o’clock, after an illness of about a week. Weak heart
action, which developed when she was suffering from an
attack of the grip, was the cause of her death.
While she was taken ill two weeks ago,
she was able to sit up last Sunday and had dismissed her
physician and nurse. She was taken ill again Monday,
and since then her condition has given her family the
greatest anxiety. A nurse from St. Louis arrived
Thursday evening to attend her.
Mrs.
Martin was born in New Caledonia, Ill., on May 2, 1837. She
was a daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Daniel
Arter. She
was married in Villa Ridge on Oct. 4, 1863, to Jacob
Martin, who died in 1887. They had four children, two boys and
two girls, but all died in infancy except Mrs. Edith
Martin Ellis, who was
killed in a runaway accident at Villa Ridge a few years ago.
The Cairo relatives besides her
granddaughter, Mrs. Winifred
Ellis
Bannister, are
Miss Mary Foster,
Mrs. J. B. Magee, nieces; and Wood A.
Rittenhouse, a nephew.
Besides these, her sister, Mrs. Laura
J. Rittenhouse,
of Chicago, survives her.
Mrs.
Martin was a member of the Board of Education of Cairo. She
was a woman of high intellectual ability and did
considerable literary work. She also owned
considerable property in Cairo, having only two years ago
built an elegant home on Twenty-eighth Street opposite St.
Mary’s Park. Her death is a distinct loss to the
community.
Mrs.
Martin wrote a number of poems and two books. One of these was
“Our Uncle and Aunt,” devoted almost entirely to the
suffrage question.
Mrs.
Martin was a very strong Spiritualist and had always expressed the
desire to have Mr. B. F.
Underwood, editor
of a paper at Quincy, Ill., officiate at her funeral.
He has been asked to come. The funeral will be held
Monday afternoon at the family residence and the remains
will be buried at Villa Ridge cemetery.
(Jacob
Martin married Amarala Arter
on 4 Oct 1863, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
Eugene E.
Ellis married Edith L.
Martin on 16 May
1883, in Alexander Co., Ill.
Her marker in Cairo City Cemetery at Villa Ridge
reads: Amarala
Martin Born May
2, 1837 Died Feb. 15, 1908.—Darrel
Dexter)
B. J.
McNeile died at his home in Mound City Monday morning at 6 o’clock.
He was well known, having lived there all his life. He
was about forty years old and leaves to mourn his loss, a
mother and father, five brothers and four sisters all living
in Mound City. The funeral will occur Wednesday
morning at St. Mary’s Catholic Church.
At a special meeting of the Board of
Education of the City of Cairo, held on Monday, the 17th
day of February, A. D. 1908, the following tribute of
respect to the memory of Mrs. Amarala
Martin was
unanimously adopted.
Whereas, the announcement has been made
to us of the death of Mrs. Amarala
Martin, for
several years an honored member of this Board: Be it
resolved that we have suffered the loss of one of our most
active, capable and devoted members, whose long, faithful an
intelligent service to the cause of Education, and
especially to the Public Schools of this city, has entitled
her to a lasting place in the hearts and memories of the
people of Cairo.
Mrs.
Martin possessed a bright genius and a highly cultivated mind.
She brought to her educational work a sincere love and
service to her fellows and an abiding faith in the upward
and onward march of humanity. She loved the young, and
it was ever her first care to guard in them the priceless
jewels of truth and virtue.
She gladly gave the fullest measure of
her time and talents for the good of others. Her
gentle manners, her kindly tolerance of adverse opinion, her
charity to all, her malice toward none, her all-embracing
love for humanity, were qualities possessed by her in the
highest degree and these endeared her to us all, and to
everyone who came within the circle of her influence and
companionship.
A perfect woman nobly planned
We sorrow for her departure and
lovingly leave upon the pages of our record words this
testimonial of our high appreciation of her official worth
and her beautiful womanly character.
The secretary of this board is hereby
directed to spread this memorial upon the records of the
Board, to send to the family of the deceased a properly
engrossed copy thereof, and to furnish a copy of the same to
the Cairo Daily Bulletin and The Cairo Evening
Citizen.
Followed to the grave by a large number
of sorrowing friends, all that was mortal of the late Mrs.
Amarala Martin
was buried this afternoon at Villa Ridge cemetery, beside
the body of her husband.
Mr.
Armstrong read the 90th Psalm, and paid a fine tribute to
the life and character of the deceased. He closed his
remarks by reading one of her poems in which she told of the
triumph of the soul over the body and which expressed her
views upon the life here and hereafter. He
characterized this poem also as justifying her as being
called a poet.
At the close of the service at the
house, the remains were taken to Fourteenth Street where a
special train was waiting to take them to Villa Ridge
cemetery. The Board of Education, of which she was a
member, followed in a body, and the pallbearers were P. T.
Langan, M. F.
Gilbert, Judge W. S. Dewey,
Sidney B. Miller,
J. W. Wenger, M.
J. Howley, Frank Torrey,
John A. Miller,
P. C. Barclay,
Fred Galigher.
The flowers were most beautiful and
were in great profusion.
Smith
Fields, one of the directors of the Cairo National Bank, and one of
the founders of the
Fields-Wearen
Grocery Company, later merged into the
Scudder-Gale-Wearen Company, passed away at his home in Fulton, Ky., Monday
morning of tuberculosis of the lungs after quite a siege of
ill health.
Mr.
Fields was 40 years of age and had had a successful business career,
which was due entirely to his own efforts. He was president
of the First National Bank of Fulton and for the past ten
years had been tobacco buyer for the Italian government in
this country.
The surviving members of the family are
his wife and his three daughters, the oldest of whom is 18
years of age. The deceased was born in Hickman Co.,
Ky., and resided in Kentucky all this life. His wife
was a Miss Bedford,
of Hickman County. They had been married about 20
years.
Funeral services will be held tomorrow
morning at Fulton and a number of Cairo people will probably
attend. The Cairo National directors took action on
his death at their meeting this evening.
KORN CASE SET FOR NEXT MONDAY
The trial of Fred
Korn, slayer of the negro David
Bharam, was this morning set for trial next Monday afternoon. The
trial of Harry St.
Clair, charged with rape is also set for the same day.
It is understood that owing to the
absence of an important witness for the People, the state’s
attorney will ask a continuance of the
Nellum case until
the next term of court.
The trial of John R.
Ford for murder
was set for Wednesday of next week. There were two
indictments found against him and one of them was quashed
today.
Clinton, Ill., Feb. 17.—The jury in the
Thomas Snell will
case is still balloting on the problem whether the letters
and other evidence presented indicated an unsound mind when
he cut his only son off with fifty dollars in his will.
Does anyone in Cairo know anything
about Miss Cinderella Beatrice
Love, who worked
as a domestic in Cairo a number of years ago? If they
do they can do her a favor by communicating with
The Citizen or
writing to her sister, Mrs. Emily E.
Williams, of Jacksonville, Ill.
The Citizen is in receipt of the following letter about the missing
woman:
Dear Sir: Will you kindly advise me
what course to pursue in order to as quickly as possible
find one Miss Cinderella Beatrice
Love, whose
address has been lost to me for the past seven years?
The lady is a sister of mine and
through changing of address of both she and myself we have
lost each other. At the last that I could learn from people
for which she had worked as a domestic she had been in
Pulaski, Pulaski County, Illinois, and had gone from that
place to Cairo, from thence she went to Creal Springs to
visit with one Mrs.
Lefler and then she had gone again to Cairo.
The last that I have learned was her
return to Cairo about six or seven years ago and I anxiously
await your reply to know how I may find her.
Robert
Terry, colored, was killed just north of the Sycamore Street subway
late yesterday afternoon. He was struck by a freight
train on the Illinois Central, Second Freight No. 2.
He is believed to have been walking on the track when the
train approached. His head was cut off and his right
arm was severed. He had relatives in Villa Ridge.
Coroner McManus
held an inquest over his remains.
(Alexander
Kirkpatrick married Millie
Thompson on 30 Oct 1869, in Alexander Co., Ill.
Her marker in Beechwood Cemetery at Mounds reads:
Millie
Kirkpatrick Died Feb. 16, 1908.—Darrel
Dexter)
Sam Beaver
after ten weeks illness with typhoid fever is on the mend
and now his brother, Charles, a strong young fellow of 18,
is seriously sick with the same disease.
Mrs. Lou
Benedict, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. H.
Lufkin, died at
Mounds at noon today of pneumonia. This is the third
fatality in the family in but a few weeks. Mrs.
Lufkin died about
a month ago and was followed by Mr.
Lufkin about a
week ago.
(Ike
Singleton, 25, of America, married Annie
Williams, 19, of America, on 15 Dec 1897, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.—Darrel Dexter)
Bloodhounds are on the track of a negro
named Clay who
killed his wife, Beulah
Clay, at
Wickliffe last Sunday.
Clay, who was
cook at one of the railroad construction camps, called his
wife out of the house and shot her. The woman is a
niece of Mrs. Lulu Jackson, who lives on Pine Street in Cairo. A 5-year-old boy
is left. The body was buried at Mounds.
Mose
Taylor, colored, better known as Mose
Rice, dropped dead this morning about 5:30 at Sixteenth and Poplar
streets. He fell at the northwest corner just as he
attempted to cross the street walking south and dropped
partly in the gutter. Frank
White, also
colored, ran over to the man to give him aid, but he was too
late as death was instantaneous.
White, with the
assistance of another man,
McManus lifted
him out of the gutter and placed him nearer the sidewalk.
Coroner was called and held the inquest. Later the
remains were removed to A. H.
Hardy’s undertaking establishment at 1413 Washington Avenue.
The deceased was a married man, resided
at Future City and has been employed by a number of the
wholesale houses on the levee in cleaning offices.
Word was received here today of the
death of William
Chrest, which occurred at Butte Falls, Cal.
The deceased is a brother of Mrs. James
Rennie of
Twenty-second Street. He formerly resided in this city and
has many friends here who will be grieved to learn of his
death.
A special meeting of the Ancient Order
of Hibernians will be held at St. Patrick’s Hall at 7:30
o’clock tonight to make arrangements to attend the funeral
of our late brother, Cornelius
Linehan.
Murphysboro, Ill., Feb. 22—Dr. William
T. Ingram, the
oldest physician of Jackson County in point of years of
service, died at his home in this city Thursday night of
heart failure. He had been in poor health for several
weeks. Deceased was born near Greenville, Ky., in
November 1820. He enlisted as lieutenant in the Fourth
Illinois in 1861 and in 1864 organized the One Hundred and
Thirty-sixth Illinois, serving as lieutenant colonel.
(William T.
Ingram, of Webb’s Prairie, Ill., 31, born in Greenville, Ky., 5’6”,
dark hair, blue eyes, dark complexion, physician, enlisted
on 3 Aug 1861 in Co. F, 40th Illinois Infantry
and was promoted to captain before resigning on 26 Jan 1863.
He was lieutenant
colonel of the 136th Illinois Infantry for 100
days’ service and mustered out 22 Oct 1864, at Springfield,
Ill.—Darrel Dexter)
Funeral services will be held Monday
morning over the remains of Cornelius
Linehan, whose
death occurred last evening at his home, No. 315
Twenty-seventh Street, from pneumonia. The funeral
notice will be found elsewhere in
The Citizen today.
Mr.
Linehan leaves a widow and several children. He was weighman
for the Halliday elevator, having been employed in that
position for a number of years.
(Cornelius
Linehan married Mary Shanahan
on 5 Dec 1889, in Alexander Co., Ill.
His marker in Calvary Cemetery at Villa Ridge reads:
Cornelius Linehan Born Sept. 29, 1862 Died Feb. 21, 1908.—Darrel
Dexter)
The funeral of the late Mrs. Lucinda H.
Benedict will be
held at Mounds at 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon, and Cairo
friends of the deceased are invited to go up on a special
train leaving at 1 o’clock p.m. The remains will be
taken to Villa Ridge cemetery for burial.
Mrs.
Benedict was the last surviving member of the family of Joseph Henry
Lufkin, died on
December 18th last. Then on February 5 her
father Joseph H. Lufkin, passed away and the daughter followed only fifteen days
after.
The deceased was born on July 3, 1843.
Her husband died more than thirty years ago, and they left
no children.
Of this family, which was so completely
wiped out almost within two short months, the only surviving
relatives are John E.
Lufkin, of Anna, and Orin A.
Lufkin, of
Frederick, Ill., brother of the late Joseph H.
Lufkin and a
sister, Mrs. Mary
Thomas, of Larange, Mo., Mrs.
Lufkin as also
survived by two nieces, Mrs. Henry
Partee and Mrs.
George Clark, of
Cairo. Mrs.
Bancroft left three nephews, the
Mattson brothers
of Mounds.
Mrs.
Lufkin’s family were residents of Cairo, Villa Ridge, and Mounds for
more than half a century, and were always prominent in the
affairs of the community.
(Her marker in Cairo City Cemetery at
Villa Ridge reads:
Lucinda
Benedict 1844-1908.—Darrel
Dexter)
Died—Friday evening, Cornelius
Lineham.
Funeral services will be held Monday morning. Leave
residence on Twenty-seventh Street at 7:30 o’clock for St.
Joseph’s Church. Special train will leave foot of
Fourteenth Street at 9 o’clock or Villa Ridge cemetery.
Friends of the family are invited.
Funeral services over the remains of
the late Cornelius
Linehan were held this morning from St. Joseph’s Church
and the body was taken to Villa Ridge cemetery for
interment. Mass was held at 8 o’clock and the funeral
party left for the cemetery at 9:30 on a special train over
the Illinois Central. The Ancient Order of Hibernians
attended in a body. The pall bearers were Richard
Jones, David
Meehan, William
Magner, Thomas Ryan,
Michael McElligott,
Thomas Galvin, H.
E. Smith and Howard Phillips.
Mrs. E. J.
Hodges passed away at her home in Tamms at 8 o’clock last evening of
consumption. Death came at the end of a year’s
suffering from the dread disease.
Mrs.
Hodges was 38 years old and was a native of Alexander County.
Her maiden name was Miss Amanda
Powless and she
was reared near Hodges Park and lived for several years in
Cairo. Her husband, Edmund J.
Hodges, and three
children, E. J.
Hodges, Jr., of this city, and Misses Winifred and
Mildred Hodges survive.
Funeral arrangements have not been
perfected but the interment will be at Beech Grove Cemetery.
(Edmund J.
Hodges married Amanda Powless
on 16 Jan 1887, in Alexander Co., Ill.
Her marker in Unity Cemetery reads:
Amanda C. wife of E J.
Hodges Died Feb.
24, 1907 Aged 39 Yrs., & 11 Mos.
Edmund J. Hodges Born Dec. 22, 1859 Died Oct. 13, 1923.—Darrel
Dexter)
The work of electing the jury in the
murder trial of Fred
Korn who killed the negro David
Bharam occupied
the attention of the circuit court this morning, but no
progress had been made when court adjourned for dinner.
Eight jurors had been secured at 3:30
o’clock this afternoon. They are Samuel M.
Campbell, of Thebes, Cyrus
Grace, of Elco, W. R.
Woodward, of
Tamms, Scott
Hazlewood, Tamms, George
Hartline, Elco,
Samuel Bass,
Elco, Ruben Fozard, Elco, and William H.
Parker, of Sandusky.
State’s Attorney
Wilson was present in court, but his throat gave him so much trouble
that he spoke with difficulty.
Answer to the fourth amended bill in
the Herbert will
case will be made by
Lansden & Leek
tomorrow morning.
Mrs. W. D. Banister Heir to Estate of Mrs. A. Martin—Nieces
and Nephews Remembered
By the will of the late Mrs. Amarala
Martin, all of
the real estate and personal property of the deceased, with
the exception of a number of minor bequests, is left to her
granddaughter Mrs. Winifred
Ellis Bannister, with her husband, Prof. W. D.
Bannister as executor of the will. Nieces and nephews of the
deceased, including Miss Mary I.
Foster, Wood A.
Rittenhouse and
Mrs. Grace Magee,
of this city, are remembered in the will, receiving some
valuable stock which Mrs.
Martin owned.
(John
Knupp married Harriet Powell
on 19 Apr 1855, in Union Co., Ill.
A marker in Knup Cemetery near Anna reads:
John Knupp
Born Nov. 20, 1830 Died Feb. 18, 1908 Aged 77 Years.
A precious one from us has gone.
A voice we loved is stilled.
A place is vacant in
our home, Which never can be filled.
Harriet Knup
Born Feb. 5, 1836 Died May 7, 1926 Aged 90 Years.—Darrel
Dexter)
Lamar, Mo., Feb. 25—Lee
Hart, while
shooting at his wife after a quarrel, missed her but killed
his mother-in-law, and then probably fatally wounded his
father-in-law, Joseph
Edwards. He then threw himself under a passing
train and was ground to pieces.
A lad named
Chester, aged about 12 or 14 years, shot and killed his mother at
Thebes last night when attempting to shoot a burglar.
It is reported that when they heard the
burglar in the house, Mrs.
Chester held the
door open and told the boy to shoot. He did so, but
shot her instead.
Coroner
McManus was notified today and he instructed Deputy Coroner D. W.
Sammons to hold
the inquest which he did today.
The mother and son lived alone in
Thebes, the father having left them.
(Charlie’s father was Jesse Henry
Beaver, who died
8 Dec 1907.
Jesse H. Beaver, 22,
born in Union Co., Ill., son of Moses
Beaver and Anna
Seemore, married Malinda
Casper, 16, born
in Union Co., Ill., daughter of Moses
Casper and Anna
Hoffner,
on 27 Mar 1881, in Union Co., Ill.
His maker in Mt. Zion Cemetery near Dongola reads:
Charley Willard
Beaver
1890-1908.—Darrel
Dexter)
The whole day was spent in the circuit
court today without securing another juror in the
Korn murder case.
Venire after venire was issued and
exhausted in the effort to secure the last four names.
The homicide case of Fred
Korn on trial of
killing David Bharam
at the Illinois Central station, went to the jury late this
evening.
The examination of witnesses was
concluded at 2:30 o’clock and then in turn State’s Attorney
Wilson and Reed Green
spoke and then Mr.
Wilson made the concluding argument.
The following witnesses were examined:
For the prosecution, Resekial
Rogers, E. J.
Stubbins, Charles
Meshew, Henry
Thompson, Sid Barnes,
John Watson, M.
S. Egan and Dr.
James McManus. The witnesses for the defense were S. M.
Burtleson,
Charles Cleaves, W. C. Mahaffey,
F. G. Blankenship,
O. P. Hurd, Jr.,
and the defendant, Fred
Korn.
The jury in the
Kohn murder case was completed last evening by the selection of the
remaining four jurors as follows:
Walter V.
Huette, Jr., C. C. Terrell,
John Jones,
Albert Hurst, all
of Cairo.
The opening statements were then made
by State’s Attorney
Wilson for the prosecution and Reed
Green for the
defense.
John A.
Prather, the well-known traveling man, passed away at St. Mary’s
Infirmary at 6:20 o’clock last evening of apoplexy after a
very brief illness. He arrived in Cairo Tuesday on his
regular visit to the trade here, and was taken ill and went
to the hospital for treatment. His illness was not
regarded as serious and his untimely death was a shock to
all. Mr.
Prather traveled for the John V.
Farwell dry goods
company of Chicago, and resided at Centralia, where he
leaves a widow, two sons and a daughter. His son,
William Prather
came down after his father’s remains, which were taken to
Centralia today. Mr.
Prather was very
prominent in the Egyptian Hustlers’ organization.
Thebes, Ill., Feb. 26.—Mrs. M. A.
Chester was shot
and almost instantly killed this morning at 4 o’clock, Feb.
26 by her son of 16 years of age. The boy says his
mother was holding a bedroom door against an unknown man who
had already entered the house and trying to force it open.
Being unable to do so she was pushed back and immediately
called to her son to get the gun and shoot. As he did
so, the man pushed the woman in front of him to protect
himself from the shot at the entire load entered the back of
her neck.
The verdict of the coroner’s jury is
accidental shooting by her son, Charles
Lambert.
Mrs.
Chester is separated from her husband since last June, he having
left her at that time. She was an industrious woman
and worked hard to care for her children. She also
leaves a baby about two years old.
Elsberry, Mo., Feb. 27.—Rev. C. W.
Dow, pastor of
the Methodist Church South, has been a fugitive since a
warrant was issued for his arrest following the death of
Miss Lizzie Gleason,
the pretty school teacher. Dr. W. A.
Hemphill who was
arrested has been released on bond. The coroner’s jury
returned a verdict finding death caused from peritonitis as
a result of an operation. The girl made a deathbed
statement. Hemphill admits the operation, saying her condition was serious and
he considered the treatment justified.
(Jones
Durham married Martha A.
Dexter on 29 Jan 1863, in Ohio Co., Ky.—Darrel
Dexter)
Another jury has acquitted a man for
killing a fellow being. If this was the only case of
this kind in recent years perhaps it would not be the cause
of any concern, but when it occurs almost as frequently as a
homicide is committed, then it certainly is a matter of
grave concern to the community.
The funeral of John E.
Prather will be
held Saturday afternoon at his home in Centralia and will be
in charge of the Masonic lodge.
Concerning the deceased the
Centralia Democrat
says:
The deceased was born in Ohio, Nov. 28,
1862, being aged forty-five years, two months and
twenty-eight days at the time of his death. He was
married in Brazil, Indiana, on May 14, 1885, to Miss Mary
Henderson, who
with three children, two sons, Frank and Robert, and one
daughter Marguerite, survive him. He also leaves his
mother, Mrs. Lillian
Prather, of Brazil, Indiana, and three sisters, Mrs.
William Admonson, of Harmony, Indiana; Mrs. Daniel
Davis, of Indianapolis; and Miss Sarah
Prather, of Brazil, Indiana; and one brother, William
Prather, of
Carbondale.
He has been a commercial traveler for
twenty years and was a resident of this city for the past
twelve years. Mr.
Prather
represented John V.
Farwell & Co. of Chicago and was one of the most
successful travelling salesmen on the road. He had
been with this firm for quite a long time and was one of the
best known traveling men in Southern Illinois. His
genial good nature and hearty good fellowship made all who
knew him fast friends. He was of a generous
open-hearted disposition, ever ready to help the needy or
unfortunate or to do a favor for a friend, no matter what
sacrifice might be called for.
He was a member of the Masonic lodge
and Royal Arch Chapter of Brazil, Ind., and of Cyrene
Commandery Knight Templar of Centralia. He was also a
member of Helmet Lodge, No. 26, Knights of Pythias,
Centralia Lodge, No. 493, B. P. O. Elks and of the Centralia
branch United Commercial Travelers, I. O. O. F., and
Traveler’s Protective Association.
After considering the verdict for less
than three hours, the jury in the homicide case of Fred
Korn, the lumber inspector, returned a verdict at 8:15 Thursday
evening declaring that he was “not guilty” of manslaughter
in the killing of David
Bharam, the negro
transfer man at the Illinois Central station.
Beattyville, Ky., Feb. 29.—John
Hamilton and a
man named Bowles
were killed while George
Frazier and
Richard Spicer
were seriously wounded in a pistol duel on Roses Creek
according to a message received here. The trouble
originated over the children of the participants.
John Holland
Cook, engineer for the Big Four, died this morning at 12:15 at St.
Mary’s Infirmary, of kidney trouble. He had been ill
about two years, but only recently was confined to his bed,
and later to St. Mary’s Infirmary.
The deceased was 53 years of age and
had resided in Cairo about seven years, having come here
from Vincennes, Ind., where he was born June _0, 1854.
He had been an engineer on the Big Four since ‘82 and was a
member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. The
many friends of the deceased will be shocked to learn of his
sudden death as he was well liked and known by almost every
railroad man in this vicinity.
Frank and Bernard, two sons, are the
only immediate relatives surviving him. Frank, who is
living in St. Louis, arrived last night in time to be at the
bedside of his father before death took him.
The remains will remain at Mrs.
Feith’s
undertaking establishment until Monday morning when they
will be taken to Vincennes for interment.
Representatives of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
will join the train at Mt. Carmel and will take charge of
the funeral.
George W.
Rearden, brother of Col. James S.
Rearden, of Cairo, died at his home in Rowena, Colo., Wednesday from
heart disease. He was 82 years of age and leaves four
brothers and one sister. They are Edward
Rearden, of
Evansville, Ind., James S.
Rearden, of
Cairo, Frank and Charles
Rearden, of
Rowena, Colo., and Mrs. Ellen
Boyd, of the same
pace.
Charles Edward, infant son of Mrs. and
Mrs. Clarence Smith,
formerly of this city, died at Hemit, Calif., Friday of
diphtheria. The sad news was received in Cairo in a
telegraph to Mrs. George F.
Ort, father of Mrs. Smith.
Mrs. Smith, who
was Miss Vava Ort,
and her three-year-old baby are also ill and their friends
are quite concerned about them.
(George F.
Ort married Helena Ellen
DeGolden on 4 Nov 1874, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Cairo Evening Citizen, Monday, 2 Mar 1908:
The body of Ed
Horn, of Mound City, was found in Cache River today and it was
learned that he had fallen through the Big Four railroad
bridge over the stream sometime last night.
In company with a man named
Patrick, also
from Mound City, the two men walked back from Cairo over the
Big Four track last night. They had been drinking, and
it is believed that
Horn was too drunk to get over the bridge safely.
Horn was unmarried. Both men worked for
Williamson &
Kuny.
Three suspicious characters were
arrested near the Iron Mountain and Missouri Pacific
railroad shops at Bixby, Ill., a suburb of East St. Louis,
Thursday morning, who may be the men wanted for attempting
to rob the home of Mrs.
Chester at Thebes
early Wednesday morning. The robbers were thought to
be three in number. While trying to barricade the door
of her home, Mrs.
Chester was shot and killed by fourteen-year-old son who
was attempting to shoot the robbers through the door.
After the shooting, the robbers fled,
probably catching an Iron Mountain train and going north to
Bixby.
The lad was prostrate with grief at
having killed his mother.
In speaking of the arrest of the three
suspects Friday’s
Globe Democrat says:
Three men with a grip full of loaded
dice and tools for boring into dice and loading them were
arrested Thursday morning at Bixby, Ill., by Deputy Sheriffs
J. F. May and Joe Goetz,
assisted by Detectives
Hagerty and
Stocker, of the
East St. Louis police force. The men had been at Del
Burnett’s hotel
for a day and their actions were so suspicious that a
waitress reported some of their conversation to Mr.
Burnett and he
notified the authorities.
They gave their names as William
Bumgarden, J. F.
Wright, and W. F. Wright,
the two latter being brothers. In
Bumgarden’s
pocket was found an unsigned note giving the combination of
a safe. The note is as follows: “Turn to the
left four times to 29; three to right three times to mark;
left two times to 33, then turn to right and open. The
only keys I have are the one to the big door which doesn’t
work well until you get onto a certain way of pulling your
key as you turn it and a small key to the drawer inside.
I never had a key to the iron box.”
Among their tools were some drills that
might do for a safe cracking job. They will be held in
East St. Louis until some identification can be secured.
Bumgarden had a bank book showing that he has money in a bank at
Edna, Mo.
Monday, Alex
Criswell, colored, chef at the Main Street Cafe, returned from Cairo
where he was called by a message from his sister, Bessie
Smith, who
recently fell heir to a neat fortune, says the
Poplar
Bluff Citizen.
The woman was a servant in the home of Thomas
King,
seventy-seven years old, who went to Cairo in 1863. He
followed his trade, tailoring, and being frugal, he
accumulated wealth. His holdings are in Cairo and
Chicago property. He was an Englishman, an orphan and
at his death some few days ago left his holdings to his
faithful servant.
The Cairo Evening
Citizen in mentioning the affair stated that the fortune
was worth possibly $15,000.
Criswell lives on
Vinegar Hill. He does not know the plans of his
sister.
The funeral of the late John E.
Prather was held
at the First M. E. Church at 2 o’clock this afternoon and
was largely attended says Saturday’s
Centralia Democrat.
The Masons attended the funeral in a body and escorted the
remains to the city cemetery where he was given a Masonic
burial. Dr. A. H.
Rainey made an address at the church in accordance with a request
made in the will of the deceased.
Anna, Ill., March 2.—William B.
Elmore, age 79,
one of the pioneers of this section, died after a lingering
illness. A native Tennessean, he settled in Union
County in 1840 and married Sarah
Barringer ten
years later. Mrs.
Elmore died less
than a year ago. He was a Republican in politics and
was closely affiliated with Lick Creek Masonic Lodge for
forty years. He was one of the best informed men in
this section.
Mr.
Elmore engaged in the following Civil War battles, Fort Donelson,
Tenn., where he was severely wounded, Thompson Mill, Miss.,
Raymond, Miss., Jackson, Miss., Champion Hill, Miss.,
Vicksburg, Atlanta, and Jonesboro, Ga.
He is survived by six children, Dr. S.
J. Elmore,
Metropolis, Ill., Frank
Elmore and Rufus
C. Elmore, Creal
Springs, Ill., Charles G.
Elmore, Mrs.
Alice Royster,
and Mrs. Regina Lewis,
all of this city.
The funeral services were largely
attended by veterans of the Civil War, whose affection and
friendship he had cherished for nearly half a century.
(William B.
Elmore married Sarah
Barringer on 17 Jan 1850, in Union Co., Ill.
John Royster,
22, married Alice
Elmore, 18, on 31 Dec 1874, in Union Co., Ill.
William Lafayette
Mann, 19, born in
Union Co., Ill., son of Miles H.
Mann and
Catharine Woodward
Fly, married Regina
Elmore, 16, born
in Union Co., Ill., daughter of William B.
Elmore and Sarah
Barringer, on 29
Sep 1878, in Union Co., Ill.
William Beverly
Elmore, born in
Woodbury, Tenn., 5’6”, fair complexion, blue eyes, dark
hair, enlisted as a sergeant in Co. E, 31st
Illinois Infantry on 1 Sep 1861.
He was wounded in the sacrum at Fort Donelson, Tenn.,
and discharged for disability on 17 Sep 1864, at Atlanta or
East Point, Ga.
The 1881 Atlas of
Union Co., Ill., states he was born 21 Oct 1828, in
Warren Co., Tenn.—Darrel
Dexter)
Capt. James
Linn, the oldest steamboat engineer in the United States, died this
morning at 1:30 o’clock at his home, 1309 South Third
Street. He was 87 years old. He is survived by
two children, Mrs. James
Meigan, of South
Fourth Street, and Mr. S. D.
Linn, a miner at
DuQuoin, Ill., and his second wife, whom he married in
Paducah 26 years ago. The funeral will be held
tomorrow morning at 10:30 o’clock at his residence, the Rev.
D. C. Wright,
rector of Grace Church officiating. The burial will be
in Oak Grove Cemetery.
Captain
Linn was born in Portsmouth, Ohio, and was reared in that city.
He obtained an engineer’s license when 18 years old and had
been steamboating all his life, except the last few years.
He was engineer on the
Great Republic, Tycoon, Alben Adams,
Statesman,
Mayflower, U. S. S. Tamah,
and the Tawtaw.
Most of these boats were in the Cincinnati and New Orleans
trade. He was a Union soldier and sank the
U. S. S. Tamah in
the harbor at Paducah during the war on orders from
Washington.
Captain
Linn’s children are by his first wife, whom he married in Ohio.
He has been a resident of Paducah since he married 26 years
ago, living where he does now. He was a member of the
Episcopal Church.
An interesting document in connection
with his wartime record is preserved in connection with an
appeal for aid he made to Congress. In it he detailed
some traces about the sinking of the
Tamah. It
reads:
“In again asking your assistance I deem
it proper to explain as well as I can that you may fully
understand the justice of my claim, viz.:
“The
U. S. S. Tamah was originally a big ferryboat at Quincy, Ill.
I was ordered to her long before she was sent in commission
and she was originally intended for Commodore
Phelps’ flagship,
but after trial she proved too slow for him and got the
Emma Duncan at
Louisville, Assistant Surgeon Adrian
Judson, a former
ship fellow of Commodore
Phelps who was
not a volunteer, but a member of the regular navy. In
time they became an order for his transfer to the
Duncan. At
that time we were at Clinton, Tenn. Our paymaster had
no money. To accommodate him I got his watch with two
dials—one for one place and one for another. Also a
gold pen and heavy gold holder with pencil for six dollars
(not $660 as is shown by mistake). Our ship while
patrolling the Tennessee, often anchored at Paducah for a
week at a time. I took an option of a fifty-acre farm
opposite Paducah, four miles from the river. Got a ten
days’ leave of absence and left for home, Jackson C. H.,
Ohio. I stopped one day at Cincinnati and ordered a
new suit of uniform and overcoat. When at home the
first thing I did was to ship three barrels of flour to
Cairo. I settled up everything with instructions for
my family to move by rail to Portsmouth and by river to
Paducah.
“When I got to Cairo my flour was
there. Took the packet for Paducah. My ship was
anchored there. The flour was intended one barrel for
the steerage, one for the wardroom, of which I was the
caterer, and one to go home. I had a big trunk which I
filled with my books and other valuable that accompanied me.
With a check all were lost.”
Because his wife would not return to
Olmsted with him, a negro named Oliver
Welch beat her
over the head, inflicting injuries from which she died at
St. Mary’s Infirmary last night.
The tragedy occurred at the home of
Nancy Motton, No.
515 Fifteenth Street.
Welch called at
the house about 4:30 in the afternoon and without being
noticed locked the back door. Then he sat down and
talked with his wife for half an hour or longer. The
Motton woman
heard him ask her something and heard her reply, “I don’t
want it.” Then she heard him begin beating her.
Taking alarm at this, the
Motton woman tried to run out of the back door and found it locked.
She succeeded in prying it open with a hatchet, and getting
outside yelled murder at the top of her lungs.
In the meantime the man had broken a
lamp and a big glass bowl over his wife’s head and broke
also a heavy dining room chair literally to pieces.
The woman’s head was terribly bruised and there was a great
gash in her cheek. She was taken to the infirmary at
8:30 o’clock and passed away a short time late.
Today Coroner
McManus summoned a jury to inquire into the woman’s death.
Welch was located at Olmsted today and Deputy Sheriff Patrick
Mahoney went up
after him.
The principal witness was Nancy
Motton, in whose
house the trouble occurred. She testified about as
stated above.
Another witness was Charles
Holmes, who stays
there. He heard the screaming and tried to get in the
back door, but could not and going around to the front of
the house, saw the woman on the floor with the man beating
her over the head with a piece of chair. The man told
witness if he came in he would kill him.
Tom
Anderson, who lives next door, was the man who shot at
Welch. He
called on Welch
to stop and he paid no attention to him.
Welch had a knife
in his hand at the time.
Anderson fired a
couple of shots, trying to hit him the second time, but
Welch kept on
going.
Other witnesses were Rev. J. H.
Fulton, Fannie
Stephens and Hennie Bradley.
The jury returned a verdict defining
that Welch was
responsible for the death of the woman, Levange
Welch, and that
he was not justified in the act and recommending that he be
apprehended and held until discharged by due process of law.
The jury was R. E.
Gannon, foreman;
Oscar Gaskins, T.
Cahill, John Coleman,
James E. Wheeler,
and L. N. Tucker.
Anderson L.
Wall, of Fairfield, Ill., father of J. B.
Wall, of Cairo, died last week at the age of 70 years. He was
prominent as a Grand Army man, was a director in the First
National Bank of that place, was a deacon in the First
Methodist Church, and was secretary of a building and loan
association. He was also the founder of the Helen Moore
Mission there. Mr. and Mrs.
Wall attended the
funeral, returning Monday.
(Anderson L.
Wall, of Grayville, Ill., 22, born in Daviess Co., Ky., 5’9”, dark
hair, blue eyes, dark complexion, enlisted on 25 Jul 1861,
in Jeffersonville, Ill., in Co. E, 40th Illinois
Infantry. He
reenlisted on 1 Jan 1864, in Scottsboro, Ala., and was
mustered out as a sergeant 24 Jul 1865, in Louisville, Ky.
He applied for a pension in 1889 and his widow, Sarah
J. Wall, applied
in 1908.—Darrel
Dexter)
Oliver
Welsh, the murderer of his wife, Levange
Welsh, who was captured yesterday near Olmsted, made an attempt to
end his life, but was talked out of the notion by John
Thomas, a friend of his with whom he stayed the previous night.
After
Welsh had fatally beaten his wife, he ran out toward the Mobile &
Ohio tracks and finally made his way to the home of
Thomas about two miles south of Olmsted, which he reached at
midnight. He said nothing of his deed until the next
morning, when he suggested to
Thomas that they
go duck hunting.
After they had walked a short distance,
he asked to carry the gun. He then told
Thomas that he was going to kill himself and when the latter asked
for what reason, he told of the murder he had committed.
He was persuaded not to shoot himself and several times
Thomas made
efforts to take the gun away from him, but was unsuccessful.
He then stated that if Robert
Caster, the
jailer and deputy sheriff at Mound City, be called with the
assistance of an officer from Cairo, he would return.
He had a great deal of confidence in Robert
Caster, as he
said he knew that he (Caster)
would not let anyone harm him. Mr.
Caster called on
Deputy Sheriff Patrick
Mahoney for
assistance and they both went to Olmsted. When they
reached the station at Olmsted, a great crowd had gathered
and it was difficult for the officers to make their way
through. After taking their prisoner in charge they
walked to America, for they feared trouble at Olmsted, and
later took the train for Cairo. On their arrival here
there was another large crowd and, as soon as they could get
a carriage, Mr.
Mahoney shoved his prisoner in and drove to the county
jail.
Mrs.
Feith, who has charge of the remains of
Welsh’s victim, was bothered a great deal during the day and
especially in the evening by the large gathering of negroes.
It was necessary for her to summon the police several times.
The remains were taken to Olmsted today for burial.
Robert
Harris, negro porter for the Illinois Central, accidentally shot
himself this morning and as a result death ensued this
afternoon. The accident happened about 10:15 at his
home, No. 206 Thirty-third Street, while he was cleaning a
revolver. He dropped the gun to the floor and it was
accidentally discharged, the ball entering just above his
heart. Death came late this afternoon.
CONSUMPTION CLAIMS ANOTHER VICTIM
Death came this morning at 7 o’clock to
the relief of Miss Elsie
Henderson, whose
suffering has confined her to her bed about eight weeks with
consumption. The deceased resided with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. James
Henderson, at 1812 Poplar Street. They have been
residents of this city four years, coming here from
Crossville, Ill. Mr.
Henderson is
employed by the Mobile & Ohio Railroad as section foreman.
The remains will be taken to Crossville in the morning on
the Big Four train for burial.
Miss Emma
Pierce, aged 20, died this morning at 1 o’clock of consumption, at
the home of her sister, Mrs. Walter
Slaton, No. 408
Thirty-second Street. The deceased whose mother died a
year and a half ago, has since made her home with her
sister. She came here from Marion, Ky., and has been
employed at the overall factory until July, when it became
necessary for her to leave her work on account of her ill
health. The remains will be taken to Marion tonight
where the funeral will be held.
Mrs. Mary
Greif Louraine, sister of Mrs. J. W.
Greif, of Cairo, died at her home in Paducah Wednesday morning of
cerebro-spinal meningitis. Funeral services were held
today.
Mr.
Caster made the arrest without any trouble whatever, and took
Welch back to
Cairo and placed him in jail. Mr.
Caster formerly
resided at Olmsted for many years and was well known by
Welch, which doubtless accounts for his being able to make the
arrest without difficulty.
Welch’s
reputation, it is said, up to this trouble, had been rather
above the average. The father and mother of the dead
woman both live at Olmsted, instead of at Joppa as was
reported. (Mound City)
Amanda
Powless was born in Unity, March 24, 1868, and died at her home in
Tamms, Feb. 24, 1908, of consumption. Surviving her
are her husband, E. J.
Hodges, a married
son, living in Cairo, and two daughters, aged 12 and 14.
Her sisters are Mrs. S. O.
Lewis, of Villa
Ridge, Mrs. W. F.
Kessler, of Cairo, and Mrs. John
Nelson, of
Diswood, Ill., and a brother, W. W.
Powless, also
lives at Diswood. Most of her life was spent in Unity,
her husband being in business there for several years, but a
few years were spent in Cairo. A member of no church,
she was reared by Methodist parents, and this was the church
of her choice. She was especially kind to the poor and
those needing help and many who looked with love and sorrow
upon her pale face in the coffin, had reason to remember her
deeds of kindness to them in the days that are past.
The funeral was held in the home at
Tamms, conducted by Pastor C. W.
Campbell, of
Villa Ridge. It was the intention to hold another
service at the grave in Unity, but a storm coming on at the
time rendered it inadvisable and almost impossible to do so.
A large number of relatives, neighbors and friends were
present to see her laid to rest and to mingle their tears
with those of the orphaned children and widowed husband.
MAY BE HEIR TO FORTUNE IN GERMANY
Is Joseph E.
Mueller heir to a small fortune in Germany? Attorney Miles F.
Gilbert has
received inquiry about one George
Mueller, who has
been traced to Cairo and who was living here in 1889.
It is stated a relative died in Germany leaving him 3,000
marks, about $750.
Joseph E.
Mueller is the only Mueller
known here and he does not know whether he is the right
party or not.
Centralia, Ill., Mar. 6.—John
O’Bryne, aged 30,
married, slipped and fell under a locomotive here, losing
both legs above the knee. He died from his injuries.
Harrisburg, Mar. 6.—Rev. Silas C.
Swallow, leader
for years of the prohibitionists, is at death’s door at his
home near here. He is the best known prohibitionist in
the country.
Zack
Bugg, of Wickliffe, passed through the city today
en route to Cape
Girardeau to accompany the remains of his niece, Miss Ina
Coffee, aged 14,
daughter of Mrs. Lucy
Coffee, who died at midnight, while attending St.
Vincent’s Academy. Pneumonia was the cause of her
death. Mrs.
Coffee went to Cape Girardeau yesterday.
Mrs. Emil
Axelson, daughter of J. B.
Anderson, of Willard and better known here as Miss Maude
Anderson, passed away at St. Mary’s Infirmary at 2:35 this morning
from appendicitis, from which she was a sufferer for two
weeks.
Only last Christmas she became the
bride of Emil Axelson,
foreman of the
Peterson Box Company. Prior to that she made her
home with her sister, Mrs. Arthur
Twente, of
Twenty-fourth Street.
The deceased is survived by her husband
and father, and three sisters, Mrs.
Twente, Mrs. Alvin Cavender,
and Miss Nellie
Anderson, the latter of Willard and one brother.
She was 24 years of age on the 18th of last
February.
The remains were taken to Willard this
afternoon, where the funeral will be held.
Mrs.
Axelson as a young girl was of a very winsome disposition and made
friends readily. She was for a time employed in the
office of Circuit Clerk Lee B.
Davis, and later
worked at Kaufman
Bros. Store.
Cincinnati, Ohio, March 7.—Mrs. Daisy
Allen, wife of
Harry Allen,
formerly of Cairo, Ill., died here last night as the result
of an operation four months ago which resulted in blood
poisoning. She had been married only nine months and
previous to her marriage was one of the belles of Rising
Sun, Ind.
Frank
Harrell, aged 70 years, died at Sandusky last Wednesday and his
remains were buried at Villa Ridge Thursday.
(His marker in Cairo City Cemetery at
Villa Ridge reads:
Frank B.
Harrell 1847-1908.—Darrel
Dexter)
Walter
Jones was arrested last night about 7 o’clock on the wharf boat by
Constables Whit Larry
and Stephen Jackson.
He was taken to the county jail to await the arrival of an
officer from Missouri where he is wanted to answer the
charge of murder.
Mrs. Theodosia
Drake, aged 42, died Sunday night at 8:20 at her home, No. 317
Twenty-eighth Street, of grip. She had been ill about
14 years, most of the time being confined to her bed.
She had been at St. Mary’s Infirmary a number of times and
only last year an operation was performed for appendicitis.
The deceased is survived by her husband two children, Frank
and Verna, her mother, Mrs. R. A.
Keller, and three
brothers, Wilford, Daniel and Frank
Penrod, the last four are of Dongola. Mr.
Drake, who is
foreman for the Three States Buggy and Implement Company,
moved to Cairo with his family about seven years ago from
Dongola.
The remains were taken to Dongola this
afternoon where interment will be made. The husband,
two children, mother and one brother accompanied the
remains.
(Sidney
Drake married Sarah Theodosia
Penrod on 3 Mar 1881, in Union Co., Ill.
William M.
Keller married Mrs. Sarah A.
Penrod on 6 Oct
1891, in Union Co., Ill.
Barnabas
Penrod married Rachel A.
Caraker on 2 Aug
1863, in Union Co., Ill.
Her marker in Friendship Cemetery near Dongola reads:
Theodosia
Drake 1865-1908 Sidney
Drake
1859-1938.—Darrel
Dexter)
Sergeant Jerome M.
Howard, son of
Mr. and Mrs. John W.
Howard, of No. 422, Eighteenth Street, was accidentally
killed yesterday by being thrown from his horse. The
accident occurred at Fort Riley, Kansas, where he was
sergeant of Co. A in the 7th Cavalry. The deceased was
a member of Co. K, 4th Regiment under Capt.
Greaney before he
enlisted in the Army. His term of service in the army
would have expired in May had he lived. Since his
enlistment in the army, he was traveled over the United
States and a number of foreign countries.
He was well known here and his sudden
death will be a great shock to his numerous friends.
He was __ years old and is survived by his father and
mother, a sister, Cassie, of Cairo, and another sister, Mrs.
Eva Panke, who
lives in Arkansas. No arrangements for the funeral
have been made. The remains will probably arrive in
Cairo tonight.
(Sgt. J. M.
Howard, U.S. Army, was buried in Mound City National Cemetery in
Section F, grave 4831B.—Darrel
Dexter)
Ashley Gazette:
“Charles H. Smith,
a former citizen of Richview, died at Tarpon Springs, Fla.,
on Friday, Feb. 28. No particulars concerning the
manner of his death have been received. Mr.
Smith was one of
the best known fruit men in the country, and his death was a
great surprise to his wide circle of friends. He was been in
the employ of the well-known commission firm of
Wayne &
Low, of Chicago, for the past eighteen or twenty years. He
spent the winters at Tarpon Springs, where his brother, A.
L. Smith, and one
of his sisters have a winter home. Mr.
Smith’s family,
including his father, mother, brothers and sisters, came to
Richview about 1867 and were among the best and most highly
esteemed residents of that place. Mr.
Smith was a
veteran of the Civil War and belonged to the 44th
Ohio Infantry. He was captured by the Confederates and
placed in Libby Prison, where he remained eleven months.
Mr. Smith
introduced the strawberry plant in Southern Illinois.
He brought them with him from Columbus, Ohio, and furnished
the plants for the first Southern Illinois field, which was
at Villa Ridge. He also set out the first strawberry
field in the vicinity of Richview, and the first peach
orchard in that vicinity. He has been connected with
the fruit business nearly all his life.
Mr.
Smith was a man of high character and enjoyed the confidence of a
wide circle of friends. His father and mother died and
were buried at Richview. His wife, who was a daughter
of the late Dr.
Hopkins, of Richview, died about twenty-five years ago
at Topeka, Kan., and with a daughter is buried there.
We have been informed that Mr.
Smith’s remains were taken to Topeka for burial. He is
survived by two sons, A. H.
Smith,
superintendent of the Leonard Seed Co., of Chicago, and W.
C. Smith, who is
connected with the same company. He also leaves two
brothers and two sisters.
The body of Mrs. Maude
Anderson Axelson,
was lain to rest Sunday in the family cemetery at Willard,
by the side of her mother, who preceded her seven years ago.
The funeral service was read by the
Rev. Mr. Hodges,
of Cobden, Ill., and Rev. Mr.
Rodman, pastor of
the Baptist Church at Willard.
A large procession of friends and
relatives followed the remains to their last resting place
and the floral tributes which were many and beautiful spoke
volumes of love for her whose grave they covered.
A dispatch from General Manager C. H.
Ackert of the
Southern Railway to Capt. W. M.
Williams states
that Mrs. J. N. Seale
died at Garfield Hospital in Washington at 3 o’clock this
morning. The remains will be buried at Jackson.
Her husband died only a short time ago.
Mrs.
Rhea, wife of Attorney W. S. C.
Rhea, of Marion, died Monday morning after an illness of less than
two weeks of a form of bowel trouble.
(W. C. S.
Rhea married Ella LeMaster
on 30 Apr 1891, in Williamson Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
John
Brinkman, living west of Charleston, Mo., was murdered last night at
Bird’s Point and his body was thrown in the river. It
was found there today and the sheriff has been notified of
the tragedy.
Brinkman was a passenger on the Iron Mountain train yesterday for
Cairo, but failed to get aboard the transfer boat at Bird’s
Point. It is believed that he got to drinking, and
that someone murdered him for what money he had on his
person. A mark over his right eye as if he made a
blunt instrument the means by which he came to his death.
On the river bank about 75 feet above the place where the
body was found were indications of a struggle, and it is
believed that the body was thrown into the river at that
point.
The deceased was a man of about 32 or
33 years of age.
The people of Bird’s Point believe that
they have a clue to the perpetrator of the crime.
Marion, Ill., March 16—Southern
Illinois’ leading woman farmer has quit her calling after
several years of successful crops and farm produce. At
Raddle, a small village northwest of this city, the wedding
of Mrs. Melvina J. Boyd to Thomas W. Cooney
is being celebrated. The bride enjoys the distinction
that but few women attain, that of being one of the most
successful farmers in Southern Illinois and the recognized
most successful woman farmer of the section. Her
husband is a school teacher, now in charge of a school in
Jackson County. Mr. and Mrs.
Cooney will
remain on the farm near Raddle.
The remains of Sergeant Jerome M.
Howard, son of
Mr. and Mrs. John W.
Howard, of 422 Eighteenth Street, who was accidentally
killed Sunday by being thrown from his horse at Fort Riley,
Kansas, will not arrive here until Thursday. Interment
will probably be made at the Mound City National Cemetery.
Jackson, Ky., Mar. 11—The Beach
Hargis trial has
been continued until next term.
The funeral of Mrs. J. N.
Seale will be
held in Jackson, Tenn., tomorrow (Thursday) morning,
according to advices received by Capt. W. M.
Williams last
evening. The remains will be laid beside those of her
husband in Riverside Cemetery.
Mrs.
Seale was the widow of the late J. N.
Seale, general superintendent of the Southern Railway, whose death
occurred a few short months ago and was for many years a
resident of Jackson.
Mrs. Maud Anderson
Axelson, a daughter of J. B.
Anderson, died at
St. Mary’s Infirmary in Cairo Friday, March 6. Funeral
services were held at Lake Milligan Baptist Church Sunday by
Rev. Hodge. The remains were laid to rest in the Baumgard
Graveyard. Father and relatives have the sympathy of
the community (Willard).
(James B.
Anderson married Julia P.
Thompson on 23 Feb 1873, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
No clue has been obtain to the
mysterious murder of John
Brinkman, of
Charleston, Mo., who was killed at Bird’s Point, Monday
night. A brother of the deceased and an undertaker
from Charleston arrived at Bird’s Point last night and had
the remains shipped to Charleston this morning on the Iron
Mountain local. Sheriff
Cupp was in the
city last night and a short while today investigating the
matter.
The body of Sergeant
Howard will
arrive from Fort Riley, Kan., at 11 o’clock tomorrow
morning.
George
Ball, formerly of Cairo, died at Memphis, last night and will be
buried in Villa Ridge cemetery tomorrow. He was the
father-in-law of Thomas
Williams,
formerly store keeper for the Halliday Hotel here. The
remains will be brought up from Memphis tonight. He
was employed at the Gayoso Hotel in Memphis.
(Amasa Barry
Daugherty, 27, born in Jonesboro, Ill., son of Alexander
Daugherty and
Emma Woolridge, married Flora A.
Allsup, 19, born in Jonesboro, Ill., daughter of James
E. Allsup and Sarah E. Empson,
on 15 Apr 1900, in Union Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Peter M.
Jones, of Sandusky, died last Sunday at 11 o’clock, after an illness
of nine days, of pneumonia.
The deceased was 47 years of age and
leaves a wife, who was Miss Evelyn
Winn, and two
children.
Funeral services were held Tuesday at
the Catholic Church, of which he was a member and the
remains were buried in the Hulen Cemetery.
Besides his brother, Benjamin
Jones, the
deceased leaves two sisters, Mrs. Julia
Winn, of
Murphysboro, and Mrs. M. L.
Susanka, of St.
Louis.
Mr. Jones owned a fine farm near
Sandusky.
(Elvis A.
Winn married Julia E. Jones
on 9 Apr 1885, in Alexander Co., Ill.
Frank Susanka
married Maria L.
Jones on 29 Dec 1873, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Arthur
Parker, of Cliftondale, Mass., was fatally injured at Mounds last
night by being run over by an Illinois Central freight
train, which resulted in his death at 6 o’clock this
morning. About 11:30 last night
Parker, with two
companions, attempted to board the freight at South Mounds,
but Parker
stumbled over a pile of cinders placed there to repair the
roadbed and fell with his right arm under the wheel.
His left arm and shoulder were crushed by the journal boxes,
and he was injured internally. His companion carried
him to Mounds, a distance of about one mile, where he was
taken to the Y. M.C. A. and received the attention of Dr.
Boswell. The three young men are about 20 years of age and
appear to be working men. They were dressed nicely and
their appearances were far above that of the hobo.
The Junction City, Kan.,
Union says:
Sunday afternoon while riding between here and the Post,
Sergeant Jerome M. Howard, of Troop A, Seventh Cavalry, was thrown from his horse so
violently that he was fatally injured and died later on in
the evening. At the time of the accident he was riding with
the trumpeter of his troop along Washington Street near the
Fifteenth Street school building.
About 4:30 while the two men mentioned
were directly opposite the school building on Washington
Street, Sergeant
Howard’s horse bolted, began bucking and ran through the
playground of the school. Sergeant
Howard tried to
gain control of his horse, but was thrown off his balance
and was struck on the chest and head by a heavy limb of a
tree as his horse bolted under it. The blow caved in
his chest, fractured his skull and threw him violently to
the ground in the fall his neck was broken.
The trumpeter did all he could to help
him out, but was pretty busy with trying to care for his own
horse. As soon as Sergeant
Howard was thrown
to the ground the trumpeter was unconscious, and Dr.
Yates was summoned. He gave him all the relief he could until
the post ambulance arrived. In the meantime the
trumpeter’s horse had bolted and had gone to the post with
the Sergeant’s horse. The injured man was removed to
the hospital, where he was given all the attention possible.
However he died twenty minutes after reaching there.
Sergeant
Howard was one of the very popular men in the Seventh Cavalry.
He was a sober man, and was well liked by all who met him in
the service and outside. He comes from a good family
in Cairo, Ill., and had been in the service not quite three
years. He was to have been discharged by expiration of
service on May 13, of this year.
The body will be sent to Cairo for
interment. Sergeant
Howard was a fine
fellow and his death was a distinct loss to the army.
Frederick
Trautman, father of District Attorney W. E.
Trautman, died Tuesday evening at St. Vincent’s hospital after an
illness of about three months. Deceased was a native
of Alsace-Lorraine, but had lived in this country most of
his life. For over 50 years he had lived in this
county. He was born near Strassberg December 11, 1833.
He was married two times, his first wife, Dorothy
Deck, dying in
1902. While touring Europe in 1905 he wed Mrs.
Caroline Kuntz, who died in March of last year. Surviving are his
children: Mrs. H.C.
Stolberg, and
Mrs. J. P. Stolberg,
of Sweet Springs, Mo., Mrs. Gustave
Seibert, of
Shiloh Valley, and two sons, Phillip A.
Trautman of Sweet
Springs, and District Attorney W. E.
Trautman, of East St. Louis.—Belleville
Advocate.
(Henry C.
Stoberg married Emma C.
Trautmann on 14 Aug 1884, in St. Clair Co., Ill.
John P.
Stolberg married Louisa M.
Trautmann on 29
Jun 1887, in St. Clair Co., Ill.
Gustave
Seibert married Carrie
Trautmann on 23
Aug 1894, in St. Clair Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The body of the late Sergeant Jerome M.
Howard, of Co. A,
Seventh Cavalry, arrived from Fort Riley, Kan., at 11
o’clock this forenoon, and the funeral will be held tomorrow
forenoon from the home of the parents of the deceased, No.
422 Eighteenth Street. The body was encased in a
casket furnished by the movement and a great quantity of
flowers were sent by his comrades at Fort Riley.
The funeral services will be held at 9
o’clock and the burial will be under the direction of Co. K,
Fourth Regiment, I. N. G., of which the deceased was a
member before he enlisted in the regular army. The
remains will be buried at Beech Ridge.
Members of Co. K will serve as
pallbearers, and a firing squad composed of the commissioned
officer, five non-commissioned officers and three privates
will with bugle and salute give the deceased the last
military honors. The members of Co. K, will meet at
the Armory at 8:30 to attend the funeral.
John
O’Brien, a former employee of the government, died this morning
about 11 o’clock at St. Mary’s Infirmary. Death was
the result of the amputation of his left limb, which has
been reset several times.
O’Brien was
struck by a Big Four passenger train five months ago today,
and was brought into the city in a dying condition.
The accident happened near the Grear-Wilkerson plant while
he was walking towards this city. The train struck him
from behind throwing him down the embankment breaking his
right arm and left limb and causing a number of other
injuries about head and body. He was removed to St.
Mary’s Infirmary where Dr.
Rendleman, the
company’s physician, attended him. His broken arm and
other injuries healed up immediately, but his left limb
confined him to his bed where he has been lying on his back
for five months. The limb was set several times, but
it became necessary to amputate it, and the shock caused his
death. The deceased has a brother and sister, but he
did not know where they are. Interment was made at
Mounds today.
Mrs. J. W.
Jones, of 410 Walnut Street, today received the news of the death of
her mother, Mrs. M. A.
Rich, of Tacoma,
Wash. Old age was the cause of her demise. The
body may be brought east for burial in Kentucky. As
the result of her bereavement, the millinery store of
Jones &
Bristol on Eighth
Street will be closed tomorrow.
Anna Talk: The remains of Frank J.
Miller, the youngest son of the late John B.
Miller, of Anna, who died Sunday at Passevant Hospital in Chicago,
were brought to Anna for interment in the Casper Cemetery
Tuesday. The remains were accompanied by John B.
Miller, Jr.,
brother of the deceased and by Dr. Samuel
Walton.
The death is surrounded by mystery.
On Sunday morning at about 1 o’clock young
Miller’s body was picked up from the steps leading in a basement on
a north side street in Chicago. Whether he had fallen
there or had been knocked there will probably never be
known. The victim of the accident or of foul play,
whatever it was, was unconscious when found and never again
regained consciousness. His body was carried into a
nearby drug store and then was taken to a police station
without medical attention for four hours before he was
removed to the hospital. At the latter place
examination revealed gear bruises on his back and sides.
Whether these were the result of kicks or of the fall is not
known. It is believed, however that
Miller had been
foully dealt with. It is also thought that he lay in
the basement way several hours before being found. The
coroner’s inquest threw no light upon the matter and a
verdict of accidental death was given.
Frank J.
Miller was born in Anna. He was 33 years of age. His
boyhood was largely spent here and he had many friends both
in this city and in Chicago where for several years he had
been employed at various hotels as bell boy. At the
time of his death he was employed as a key clerk at the
Stratford Hotel and was held in high esteem by his employer.
His brother, John B.
Miller, is prominent in Chicago musical circles and is
an instructor at the Chicago Music College. His father
was for many years postmaster at Anna and the entire family
was highly regarded.
(John B.
Miller married M. Fanny
Misenhimer on 16 Oct 1870, in Union Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
McClure, Ill., Mar. 14.—Robert
Deck, a Missouri
Pacific Railway fireman, was murdered and robbed here by a
companion while on his way to Chaffee, Mo. The body
was found in a sitting position in the trunk of a tree on
the old East Cape Girardeau right of way by some school
children. Deputy Coroner Marion
Culy held an
inquest and the jury found he had been shot twice in the
back of his head and once in his back with a 38 caliber
revolver. The murderer was dark complexioned and had
his forefinger off is right hand. He wore a dark suit
of clothes and a soft hat.
A man answering this description was
seen to get off of the ferry boat at Cape Girardeau by
McClure people about 5 p.m. last evening. Deputy
Sheriff Abernathie
went after the murderer.
The crime was committed about 3 o’clock
last evening.
Deck and his companion arrived at McClure yesterday
about noon on Bryan’s train. They had met on the train and the stranger had
told Deck that he
could secure a job for him at Chaffee.
Deck had worked
for the Missouri Pacific as late as Feb. 24th,
according to a time book found on his person, but had been
laid off at McKee, Ark. The man left the train at
McClure as the stranger told
Deck that they could go to East Cape Girardeau from there and take
the ferry over. Instead of taking the hack at McClure,
the stranger induced
Deck to walk and they started down the old Illinois
Central right of way. It is believed that the stranger
induced Deck to
go down that way with him in order to rob him.
The body was found about 4:30 in the
afternoon as above described.
Death at 10 o’clock this forenoon ended
the suffering of Sister Lucinda, who for seven years has
been one of the staff of St. Mary’s Infirmary.
Pneumonia which developed about a week ago was the cause of
her death.
Sister Lucinda was about 70 years of
age. She entered the order in 1874 in Notre Dame,
Ind., and was a teacher until she received an injury to her
wrist which laid her up for a long time. Later, in
1901, she came to Cairo and her familiar figure at the door
of the infirmary will be remembered by everyone who visits
that institution.
Not until word has been received from
the Mother Superior, who is spending the winter in Texas,
can the funeral arrangements be definitely settled, but they
will probably occur Sunday morning.
Requiem high mass
will be held at St. Joseph’s Church at 8 o’clock over her
remains, and they will lie in state at the infirmary all
day. On the 7:15 train they will be taken to Notre
Dame, accompanied by Rev. Father
Downey.
The
Charleston Republican says:
John
Brinkman, living four miles north of Charleston, met with a foul
death sometime Monday night and the body town into the
Mississippi River at Bird’s Point. During Monday he
was at Cairo on business and among other things purchased a
lubricator for an engine or John
Dever, of this city, which he had with him when he crossed the river
Monday evening for home. While his train was on the
transfer crossing the river, he with others stepped from the
coach, and he failed to get on board before the train pulled
off for the Point. He ran to the Point but was too
late to reach the train before it pulled out for Charleston.
He was seen about Bird’s Point by several, and finally fell
into the company of a man by the name of Ed
Williams, who was
working on the levee. When last seen he and
Williams were together and, it is said drinking. The next
morning blood was noticed on the ground near the incline and
upon examination evidences of a human body having been
dragged over the ground to the river nearby was noticed.
Further investigation revealed the body in the river which
was bought to shore and recognized as that of John
Brinkman. Coroner
Ogilvie was notified and went to the scene where the
conducted an inquest. The examination revealed the
fact that Brinkman
had been shot back of the right ear with a 38-calibre
revolver. The jury recommended that
Williams be held,
if found, to await an investigation of the grand jury.
It is said Williams
crossed the river at an early hour Tuesday morning for Cairo
and trace of him has been lost.
John
Brinkman was a member of the Catholic Church. The body was
brought here for burial yesterday morning and the funeral
services were conducted at the church today.
The remains of Sergeant Jerome M.
Howard were laid
at rest this morning at the National Cemetery. The
services were held at the residence, No. 422 Eighteenth
Street, at 9 o’clock, conducted by Rev. Mr.
Buchanan and Rev. Mr. Morris.
The funeral party departed for the cemetery at 10 o’clock in
several wagonettes, followed by a large number of buggies,
and was largely attended. The floral offerings which were
profuse were placed on the coffin over which was thrown the
flag. The pallbearers were six privates from Co. K who
presented a neat and attractive appearance in their blue
uniforms. A firing squad also of Co. K, composed of
one commissioned officer, three noncommissioned officers,
five privates and one bugler were under command of Lieut.
Peabody.
Taps was sounded over the grave and three volleys were
fired.
A number of Mound City people were
present at the funeral.
Jonesboro Gazette: A man named Charles H.
Smith, formerly
of Ashley, died recently in Florida and some of our
exchanges are printing a story to the effect that he
introduced the strawberry plant into Southern Illinois.
This is evidently a mistake, as it appears that Mr.
Smith did not come to Southern Illinois till after the war while
strawberries were grown here long before that. We have
heard that Alfred
Meeker was the first Union County grower, along in the
‘50s. He was an eastern man and his letters printed in
a New York paper first attracted the attention to Union
County and Southern Illinois generally as a fruit producing
country. A son of this Mr.
Meeker, Mr. Ralph
Meeker, is now on the staff of the
New York Herald, and still remembers the “beer seed” as one of the
luscious products of Egypt in his boyhood.
Did Mahaly
Davis, a negro woman, set fire to her house Saturday afternoon and
go away leaving her 5-year-old daughter, Rosie
Davis, locked up in the house?
That is the question that Coroner
McManus was
probing today.
Saturday afternoon the fire department
was called to put out a fire in a house on Sixteenth Street
near the Mobile & Ohio tracks.
Neighbors say that shortly after the
woman left, they heard the child running about, the house
screaming and cursing. They paid no attention to it, but
later a man living next door, Albert
Bryant, broke
open the door and entered with Ed
Johnson. They
found the house afire in several different places and the
child ablaze, with its clothes almost entirely burned off of
its body.
The child was taken out and after the
mother came, Drs.
Field and Davis
were called to attend it. It died between 6 and 7 o’clock
that evening.
The mother says that the little girl
told her before she died that she had set fire to the house
herself with a stick, which she stuck in the kitchen stove,
and set fire to her mother’s jacket. The woman also said
that the doors were not locked.
This morning, when Coroner
McManus visited
the house, the back door and the door between the two rooms
were both nailed shut and the front door was
locked. Entrance had to be made with force.
The most of the damage done by the fire
was near the front door. In the kitchen the newspaper which
had been pasted on the walls were burned off. From the
appearance of the damage done by the fire, one might believe
that the child had gotten afire and had spread the flames in
running to the door trying to escape.
The coroner’s jury could find no
evidence against the woman and returned the following
verdict this afternoon.
We undersigned jurors, sworn to enquire
of the death of Rose
Davis, colored, on oath do find that she came to her
death by burns received in an accidental manner at her home
at Sixteenth and Pine streets in Cairo, Alexander County,
Illinois, about noon, March 14, A.D. 1908 (Signed) James
Swank, foreman;
W. M. Hughes,
George Lackey, William Husley,
Taylor Howard,
Perry Bell.
Andrew
Nau, one of the old residents of Alexander County, passed away at
his home at Willard last night of pneumonia. He was 71
years of age.
The funeral will be held tomorrow
conducted by Burke
& Blaine of this
city.
Mr.
Nau lost his wife only a few weeks ago.
Was the murderer of John Brinkman
at Bird’s Point the same man who killed Robert
Deck at McClure
and did he also kill a man at Graysboro below Cape Girardeau
Sunday?
These are questions that the officers
are asking.
Another murder was committed at
Graysboro, similar to the one at Bird’s Point and McClure
and, as the McClure murderer escaped across the river to
Cape Girardeau, it is suspected that all of the crimes were
committed by one man.
It is also reported that detectives
from Michigan are at McClure and that they think the
murderer is the man who committed a similar crime in that
state. They have the picture of the man they want.
It is stated that after the McClure
murderer got aboard the ferry boat to cross the river to the
Cape, he flourished his pistol to intimidate those
aboard. At Cape Girardeau he was traced to a sporting house
by Deputy Sheriff Abernathie and to a saloon and the depot, but no further trace could
be found of him. Mr.
Abernathie thinks that he left the Cape afoot and walked
down to Graysboro.
It is said that the murderer of
Brinkman had a
missing thumb and that
Deck’s assailant
also had that member gone.
It is said that there is a reward of
$2,000 for the man in Michigan.
There was something unusually pathetic
in the funeral of Mrs. J. N.
Seale, which took
place at 10 o’clock yesterday morning from St. Luke’s
Episcopal Church, says Friday’s
Jackson Sun.
Just four months ago today her husband
was brought here from Washington City and buried from the
same church, since which time his bereaved wife has been a
broken hearted woman, and while she seemed at first to have
no physical ailment she remained alone in her desolate home,
grieving silently and constantly until her strength was
exhausted.
About three weeks ago her friends
persuaded her to go to Garfield Hospital hoping that the
scientific care her physical strength would rally and that
with time she would learn to adjust herself to life.
But their hopes were disappointed. She
grew gradually weaker and on Monday became seriously
ill. Her heart which was naturally rather weak, ceased to
perform its functions and death freed her from suffering and
pain very soon after she became really sick.
St. Luke’s Church was well filled with
sorrowing and sympathetic friends and among the floral
tributes were several very beautiful ones from friends at a
distance. The choir sang “Thy Will Be Done,” “Lead Kindly
Light,” and “On the Resurrection Morn.”
She was buried in Riverside Cemetery
beside her husband and near their graves are the graves of
her mother, sister and brothers, and all of her immediate
family are now sleeping together in this beautiful retired
spot. Rev. Charles H.
Lee read an appropriate and beautiful poem at the grave.
Among those from a distance who
attended Mrs. Seale’s
funeral were her half-sister, Mrs.
Burchett, of St.
Louis, with her two sons; Mrs. Jerry
Seale, mother of
her late husband; Mr. Sam
Seale, his
brother with his wife and two sons; Mr. Robert
Seale, also his brother; and Mr.
Bolin, of Washington D.C., private secretary to the late Mr.
Seale.
A great many M. & O. men and their
families by their presence at Mrs.
Seale’s funeral
testified their loyalty to the memory of her husband, who
was formerly one of the most popular officials of the M. &
O. system.
(Her marker in Lot 351, north, in
Riverside Cemetery in Jackson, Tenn., next to one for Jesse
Newton Seale, who
died 11 Nov 1907, reads:
Sophia Spratt Seale, daughter of Capt. H. D. & Etta J
Spratt, Died
March 9, 1908.—Darrel
Dexter)
Cairo Evening Citizen,
Tuesday 17 Mar 1908:
Mrs. Emily Bowers,
colored, 77, of 428 Seventh Street, died yesterday.
She was a member of one of the ___est families in Cairo and
had resided on Seventh Street a number of years. The
funeral which will be held tomorrow at the A. M. E. church
at 12:30 will be in charge of Pride of Egypt Lodge
Tabernacle No. 8.
Casey Ricketts,
of Jackson, Tenn., until six weeks ago a fireman for the
Mobile & Ohio, was knocked off a Mobile & Ohio freight train
on the bridge approach near the Sycamore Street subway last
night and fell under the train. His left arm was run
over, cutting his hand completely off at the wrist.
After being run over, the injured man rolled down the slope
of the bridge approach and then managed to make his way to
the house of a colored man living near the bridge, where he
received attention until he could be taken to the infirmary.
This morning the bruised end of the arm was amputated near
the shoulder by Drs.
Grinstead and McManus.
Ricketts
was trying to beat his way to Jackson. He had gotten
on a coal car and was trying to make his way over the top of
the train to the engine, when the brakeman interfered and
knocked him off of the train.
This morning the dismembered hand was found lying beside the
track on the bridge approach.
Since leaving the road,
Ricketts has
found employment in Cairo.
Cairo people were shocked this morning to hear that Louis C.
Herbert,
proprietor of the American Steam Laundry, was dead.
He passed away at St. Louis about midnight last night, as
the result of an operation for rupture.
Louis C. Herbert
was born on June 11, 1846, in Wertheim, Baden, Germany. He
came to America as a lad in 1860 and to Cairo in 1873 and
for the greater part of this time has been in the laundry
business, starting in the building at the corner of Eighth
and Railroad streets, now occupied by the Commercial
Printing Company. He was a tireless worker, and it is
due to his energy that the business that he leaves was made
the foremost of its character in Cairo.
Mr. Herbert was
married in Cairo on Feb. 27, 1887, to Miss Louisa
Koehler and his
widow and five children survives. The children are
Misses Clara, Emma and Ada, and Carl and Frank
Herbert. He
also has three sisters, Mrs. Joseph
Volmer, of Cairo,
and Mrs. Krauss
of St. Louis, and Mrs. A.
Schaumburg, of
Seattle, Wash., and two brothers, Otto
Herbert of
Seattle and Frank
Herbert, whose address is not known.
The remains will be brought to Cairo this evening arriving
at 6:35 o’clock. Funeral arrangements have not yet
been definitely arranged.
Mr. Herbert was
one of Cairo’s most public spirited citizens. As a
member of the Commercial Club, he was always ready to drop
his own work and devote his time for whatever was regarded
as public benefit. When that disagreeable task of
soliciting funds was undertaken, he was always ready to do
his part. He was a firm believer in Cairo, always.
He was a member of the Odd Fellows, the A. O.U. W. and the
K. M. K. C.
(Louis C. Herbert
married Louisa E.
Koehler on 17 Feb 887, in Alexander Co., Ill.
Joseph Vollmer
married Helena
Herbert on 18 May 1883, in Alexander Co., Ill.
His sister may have been the same person as Anna
Herbert who
married William
Schaumburg on 23 Jun 1886, in Cook Co., Ill.
His marker in Cairo City Cemetery in Villa Ridge
reads: Louis C.
Herbert Born June
11, 1846 Died March 18, 1908.—Darrel
Dexter)
J. B Anderson,
familiarly known among his friends as Bailey
Anderson, died at
his home near Willard Tuesday night, of pneumonia.
Death came after an illness dating from last Friday, when he
contracted a severe cold.
The deceased was a native of Ballard County, Kentucky, where
he was born on Nov. 2, 1850. Thirty-five years ago he
removed to Alexander County and has resided here ever since.
He became in these years one of the prominent farmers of the
county and at his death owned one of the fine farms in the
county.
Mr. Anderson left
four children, one son and three daughters. The son is
R. S. Anderson, son of Chicago, and the daughters, Miss Nellie
Anderson, who was
her father’s housekeeper, and companion in the last years of
his life, Mrs. Julia A.
Twente, wife of
Arthur H. Twente,
of Cairo, and Mrs. Laura
Cavender, wife of
W. A. Cavender,
also of Cairo.
Mr. Anderson’s
last days were saddened by the death of another daughter,
Mrs. Maude Anderson
Axelson, who
passed away less than two weeks ago. His wife died
about seven years ago.
The funeral will be held Friday forenoon. The remains
will leave the house at 10 o’clock for the Lake Milligan
Baptist Church where services will be conducted by Rev. W.
W. Hodge, and the
burial will be at Baumguard Cemetery.
Mr. Anderson was
prominent in all that went to make up the social religious
and political life of the community. He was a member of the
Lake Milligan Baptist Church. Politically, he was a
Democrat. He had often served as a road commissioner
and a deputy assessor. He was a good man and one whose
influence will be missed in the community. His death
is a decided loss to the county. Cairoites who may
desire to attend the funeral of Mr.
Anderson will
have ample time to drive to Willard Friday morning before
the services. The roads are fine now so that the trip
will not consume very much time.
(James B. Anderson
married Julia P.
Thompson on 23 Feb 1873, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The members of the K. M. K. C. are requested to meet his
evening at the I. C. depot at 6:30 o’clock sharp to meet the
remains of our late brothers, L. C.
Herbert.
All members of Alexander Lodge No. 224 I. O. O. F. are
requested to meet at Alexander Hall tomorrow (Thursday)
evening for the purpose of making arrangements for the
funeral of our late brother, L. C.
Herbert.
Cairo Evening Citizen,
Thursday, 19 Mar 1908:
The last rites over all that is mortal of the late Louis C.
Herbert will be
held Friday afternoon at the late residence of the deceased
on Eighth Street under the auspices of Alexander Lodge I. O.
O. F. Rev. Charles H.
Armstrong, pastor
of the Lutheran Church, will conduct the services.
Pall bearers have been chosen as follows:
Honorary—Phil Lehning,
C. Bucher, E. A. Buder,
William Oehler,
J. A. Miller, J.
F. Kolb, J. H. Galligan, T.
J. Kerth, Conrad
Alba, Daniel
Hartman, Charles Feuchter,
Casper Vellingmeyer,
P. G. Schuh,
Peter Saup, A. Comings, A.
Botto, Peter
Day, C. F. Miller, H.
Hasenhaeger, E.
A. Smith, C. R. Stuart, M.
C. Metzger, J. C.
Fischer, P. C.
Barclay, H. F. Potter, C.
Kusener, H.
Goettel, Dr. J. H. Davis,
J. F. Rector,
Capt. J. E. Mueller,
George Parsons.
The active pall bearers have been selected from the various
organizations of which the deceased was a member as follows:
K. M. K. C.—Claude
Winter, Peter Lind
I. O. O. F.—George J.
Gilmore, R. A. Hewitt, P. Kobler
Maennerchor—Joseph
Raeth, Joseph Bucher
Commercial Club—W. B.
Huette, C. R. Stuart, T. C. Clendenen
A.O.U.W.—R. Brown,
W. Felnagle
The body of the late Louis C.
Herbert arrived
from St. Louis last evening, accompanied by his sorrowing
daughter, Miss Clara, and was met at the station by a large
number of old friends and associates of the deceased.
The remains were taken to the
Herbert residence on Eighth Street.
John Deveney, a
river man, aged 56, died at the Marine Hospital after an
illness of several weeks. The deceased had been
suffering from a stroke of paralysis for a number of years.
His home is in Memphis where he has relatives who have been
notified of his death.
Word was received here today by Charles
Meshew of the
death of his grandmother, Mrs. M. A. S.
Stigall, of
Bardwell, Ky. She was 72 years of age and died this
morning at 11 o’clock of old age. The deceased was
very prominent in Bardwell and the vicinity. The
funeral will take place at Blandville, Ky., tomorrow.
Murphysboro Independent:
Robert Deck, the
locomotive fireman murdered near McClure last Friday
afternoon, was well known in Murphysboro, having fired on
this division of the Mobile & Ohio several months up to last
December when he quit.
The address of his relatives is not known. He was
buried near McClure.
It is stated that he was
en route to Cape
Girardeau to get a job firing on the Frisco. He was
seen at McClure in company with a heavy-set, dark man with
the thumb missing from one of his hands. A man
answering the same description is suspicioned in connection
with a murder in Missouri a few days earlier.
A report that the murderer was seen in Murphysboro Tuesday
afternoon proves, after investigation, to have been a bundle
of heated atmosphere such as is peddled promiscuously by a
certain publication.
J. L. Brown, a
well-known negro politician, commonly known as “Clean Wheat”
Brown, is dead.
It is said that tuberculosis was the cause. Funeral
services were held today and the remains were taken to Villa
Ridge cemetery on a special train in charge of Egyptian
Lodge 139. The deceased was a member of the Church of
the Living God at Twelfth and Walnut streets. He
leaves a wife and two adopted children. The family
lives at 223 Nineteenth Street.
(His marker in Cairo City Cemetery at Villa Ridge reads:
Julius L.
Brown Born July 18, 1861 Died March 17, 1908 Farewell My
Wife.—Darrel Dexter)
Died, in St. Louis, Tuesday night, Mar. 17, Louis C.
Herbert.
Funeral services will be held at the family residence, No.
208 Eighth Street, at 1:45 o’clock p.m. on Friday, March 20,
Rev. C. H. Armstrong,
pastor of the Lutheran Church officiating. The funeral
will be under the auspices of Alexander Lodge I. O. O. F.
Funeral train will leave foot of Second Street at 2:45 p.m.
for Villa Ridge cemetery. Friends of the family are
invited.
WITNESS DIED UNDER CROSS EXAMINATION
Mount Vernon, Ill., Mar. 20.—The county court of Jefferson
County was brought to a dramatic adjournment Wednesday when
George McBride
died while seated in the witness chair.
McBride
was the chief witness for the defense in a case on trial and
had come in from his farm to testify.
All day he waited around the courtroom for his turn to take
the stand and exhibited extreme nervousness as the day wore
on.
Finally he was called into the court room and sworn,
whereupon he dropped more than sat in the chair just below
the judge’s bench.
The examining counsel at once took up his questioning of
McBride, whose
answers were almost inaudible.
McBride
had given his name, his occupation, his residence, and had
told of his long acquaintance with the parties to the suit.
The attorney turned to refer to some memoranda he had and
after a minute or two resumed his examination of
McBride, not noticing the fact that the witness seemed to be gazing
abstractedly into space.
The attorney asked his question—the vital one in the suit,
and the answer to which would mean victory for plaintiff or
defendant.
There was no answer. The lawyer thought perhaps the
question had been misunderstood and repeated it.
Again there was no response, and again the question was
repeated, this time in a tone that showed the attorney’s
determination to force a response from the witness.
McBride’s
lips did not move and the lawyer said:
“Answer the question. You have heard it often enough
to understand it.”
Still McBride was
silent.
In desperation, the attorney turned to the court.
“If your honor please,” he said, “this witness seems
suddenly to have been stricken dumb. I insist upon an
answer to the question.”
Judge Blair, who
had known McBride
for years, was surprised at the man’s seeming stubbornness,
and left the bench in order to repeat the question himself
to the witness.
One glance showed Judge
Blair that
McBride was dead
and the hearing came to an end.
An inquest was held at which it was developed that
McBride had often
complained of trouble with his heart.
Clarence Tyson,
negro porter for the Mobile & Ohio, running between Cairo
and Jackson on Conductor Walter
Stout’s train,
was thrown from the train last night after it left Jackson
by some bum who was stealing a ride, and is now lying at the
point of death at Jackson. He has never regained
consciousness since.
Conductor Stout
brought No. 4 into Cairo early this morning. On the
front of the train as it left Jackson was an empty express
car with a front door. The porter got on the engine
and climbed over the tender to this car to see if there were
any bums aboard. It is believed that he encountered
one or more in the car and that after a severe struggle he
was pitched out of the car as the train was running at a
40-mile rate.
Tyson
was not missed from the train until Humboldt was reached.
Then Conductor Stout went through the train and a big pool of blood was found in
the express car. It is also reported that a negro was
seen getting out of the express car at Humboldt, but when
blood hounds were secured and put on the scent, they could
not track anyone.
Conductor Stout
says that Tyson was one of the best porters that he ever had.
Conductor Depew
brought word from Jackson today that
Tyson was picked
up unconscious three miles from Jackson and that he is not
expected to survive.
Funeral services over the remains of the late Louis C.
Herbert, who died
in St. Louis Tuesday night, were held this afternoon at the
residence, No. 208 Eighth Street, at 1:45 conducted by Rev.
C. H. Armstrong. The funeral which was under the auspices of Alexander
Lodge, I. O. O. F., was over three blocks long. They
left on a special train at 3 o’clock for Villa Ridge
cemetery. The procession was headed by the 31 honorary
pallbearers followed by the I. O. O. F. and the K. M. K. C.
The floral offerings were very numerous.
Michael Deveney,
the river man who died at the Marine Hospital, will be
buried tomorrow at Mounds. His relatives at Memphis
have not been heard from and a number of the rivermen here
have contributed enough to pay expenses.
Sheriff Frank E.
Davis has offered a reward of $200 for the arrest of Ed
Williams,
alias Herman
Johnson, who is believed to have killed Robert
Deck near McClure.
The description of the alleged murderer is as follows:
White, 25 or 30 years of age, five feet ten inches in
height, black hair, stands erect, thumb or finger off one
hand. Last seen at Cape Girardeau, Mo., on March 13.
Home believed to be in Madisonville, Ky.
Mrs. J. S. LeMay,
aged 40, died this morning at 8:45 of complications from
which she has been suffering about a year. She was
born June 1, 1868, at Willard, Ill., and has resided in
Cairo about 12 years. The deceased is survived by her
husband, her father, John L.
LeMay, of
Broughton, Ill., a sister Mrs. Mathew
Hughes, of Fifth
Street, and a brother, Marion
LeMay, of
Eleventh Street. Her father arrived last night from
Broughton and was at her bedside when she passed away.
She was a member of the Cairo Baptist Church and the pastor,
Rev. Mr. Ohrum,
will conduct the funeral services. The funeral will
leave the residence, No. 515 Cedar Street, tomorrow morning
at 8 o’clock and will drive to Willard, where interment will
be made at Lake Milligan Cemetery.
(Her marker in Cavender & Schindler Cemetery reads:
Mary A. wife of Joseph S.
LeMay Born
Jan. 1, 1868 Died March 21, 1908 Come Ye Blessed.—Darrel
Darrel)
The funeral services of Mrs. J. S.
LeMay were held
at the residence, No. 515 Center Street, Sunday morning at 8
o’clock. Rev. Mr.
Ohrum of the
Cairo Baptist church officiating. The funeral left for
Willard in carriages and wagonettes and was largely
attended. Services were also held at the Baptist
church at Willard after which interment was made.
Samuel C. Hall,
aged 25, died this morning about 7 o’clock at St. Mary’s
Infirmary. Death was due to tuberculosis, which
confined him to the infirmary for about two months.
The deceased was well known having lived here the greater
part of his life. He was a graduate of the Cairo High
School in 1900. He was employed as traveling
representatives for C. N.
Buchanan, who was
a relative and also made his home with him. He is
survived by three sisters, Mrs. C. N.
Buchanan, Miss
Nelle Hall and
Mrs. A.H. Kurzdorfer,
of Chester. The remains are now at the undertaking
parlors of Burke & Blaine and will
leave there tomorrow at 2 o’clock of the Episcopal Church
where services will be held by Rev. A. H. W.
Anderson.
At 3:45 the remains will be taken to Norris City where
interment will be made Wednesday morning at the Hall
Cemetery.
(Cyrus N. Buchanan
married Lula Hall
on 12 May 1892, in Gallatin Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Caroline E.
Morris, widow of the late William H.
Morris, who was a
member of the firm of
Safford, Morris & Candee, died at
her home in Sheboygan, Wis., recently. Her husband
died in Cairo in 1897, since which Mrs.
Morris has made
her home in Sheboygan. She leaves three children,
Frederick Morris,
Mrs. Eugene E.
Pautzrer, of Sheboygan, and Mrs. A. O.
Fielder, of
Athens, Wis.
Casey Rickets,
the negro who was injured last Tuesday night on the bridge
approach by a freight train, died last night about 8:30 at
St. Mary’s Infirmary. An inquest was held last night
at Mrs. Feith’s
undertaking parlors and a verdict was reached that he came
to his death by injuries received in an unknown manner by a
train unknown to the jurors.
Rickets’ story is that he was formerly employed by the M. & O. as
fireman and that he boarded a southbound Mobile & Ohio
freight train on the bridge approach with the intention of
going to Jackson, Tenn. He stated that while climbing
over the cars toward the engine that a brakeman accosted him
and knocked him off the train and down the embankment.
Mrs. S. C. Brown,
wife of the foreman of the Chicago Mill, died Sunday evening
at St. Mary’s Infirmary after an illness of two weeks.
She was 33 years of age, and has been married to Mr.
Brown for five
years. The husband and three children survive, besides
her father at Harrisburg and three brothers. A. L.
Watson, of Cairo,
is an uncle of the deceased.
Death Came This Afternoon to End a Long Illness of Uremia
Richard E. Powers
passed away at 10:25 this morning at his home, No. 1709
Poplar Street of uremia, after an illness of a year and a
half.
The end was not unexpected. He had been failing for
some time, and although he passed a good night, his friends
despaired of his survival for many days.
The end came peacefully and he was conscious to the last.
Mr. Powers born
on August 15, 1871, in Cairo, and was therefore in his
thirty-seventh year. He was married on October 23,
1895, to Miss Julia
Mahoney, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick
Mahoney, and the
widow and three children survive.
Mr. Powers was
elected to the legislature as the Democratic minority
representative from this, the fiftieth district, in 1906.
He had always been active in Democratic politics, having
held a position in Springfield when Senator Reed
Green was a
member of the upper house of the General Assembly.
Later for eleven years, he was a mail carrier here in Cairo.
Mr. Powers was a
member of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church and of the Eagles
Lodge.
Besides his immediate family, he leaves his mother, two
brothers, Edward A. and James W.
Powers, and two
sisters, Mrs. John
Grimes and Mrs. William
Boren.
Funeral arrangements have not yet been arranged.
(Richard E. Powers
married Julia A.
Mahoney on 25 Oct 1895, in Alexander Co., Ill.
John Grimes married Mary E. Powers
on 9 Nov 1892, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Springfield, Mo., dispatch dated Saturday says:
A stranger giving his name as Herman
Johnson and
Madisonville, Ky., as his home, was arrested at Strafford,
eight miles east of this city, last night on suspicion of
being the robber who killed John
Evans, of Neosho,
and wounded George
Ryan of Norwood, Mo., in a freight car of a Frisco train
between Monette and Pierce City Wednesday night.
Johnson was taken
to Carthage by a deputy sheriff and a telephone message
received from there says that he was positively identified
by Ryan by a
missing thumb on his right hand.
Johnson
was found wandering aimlessly about in the vicinity of
Strafford. He was picked up by a farmer and turned
over to a constable, who brought him to Springfield.
He had a bottle of cocaine and $1.25.
Died—Samuel C. Hall,
Monday, March 23, 1908. Cortege will leave undertaking
parlors of Burke
& Blaine at 2
o’clock tomorrow afternoon for the Church of the Redeemer,
where services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Train will
leave Big Four depot at 3:45 p.m. for Norris City, where the
remains will be interred. Friends of the deceased are
invited to attend.
Word was received last evening by Deputy Sheriff Patrick
Mahoney
concerning the arrest of Herman
Johnson at
Strafford, Mo., from Sheriff George W.
Sims, of
Carthage, Mo. The message stated that Herman
Johnson had been
arrested at Strafford charged with killing two men and
wanted to know if the authorities here wanted
Johnson brought
to this city. As Sheriff
Davis was out of
the city, Deputy
Mahoney sent word to hold the man and asked if he could
be brought back without requisition papers. At noon
today no word had been received in answer to Mr.
Mahoney’s message.
A message was received this morning from Sheriff
Sims stating that
the prisoner is being held at Jasper County on the charge of
murder. A letter was also received from Chief of
Police H. R.
Patterson, of Springfield, Mo., which continued about
the same information. It stated that
Johnson was arrested at Strafford and was taken to the jail at
Carthage where he is being held on the charge of killing two
men.
Powers—Died,
Richard E. Powers,
Monday, March 23, 1908. Funeral will leave family
residence Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. for St. Joseph’s Catholic
Church, where services will be held. Train will leave
the foot of Fourteenth Street at 2:30 p.m. for Villa Ridge
cemetery. Friends of the family are invited to attend.
(His marker in Calvary Cemetery at Villa Ridge reads:
Richard E.
Powers 1871-1908.—Darrel
Dexter)
Clarence Tyson,
the negro porter who had a battle with hoboes on Conductor
Stout’s train and
who was thrown from the train after being severely beaten,
died from his injuries at Jackson Monday. His
assailants are still at large.
Members of Cairo Aerie 513 and visiting brothers are
requested to meet at the Eagle Hall, 602 Commercial, at 1
p.m. sharp Wednesday, March 25th, to attend the
funeral of our late Past Worthy President Richard E.
Powers.
All Eagles are requested to meet at their hall, 602
Commercial Avenue, tonight at 8 o’clock for the purpose of
making arrangements for attending the funeral of our late
brother, R. E. Powers.
Hon. M. S. Link,
of Madison County, and Hon. Joseph
Clark, of Fayette
County, attended today the funeral of their friend and
colleague, Richard E.
Powers, minority representative from this district in
the general assembly.
Services were held at 2 o’clock this afternoon at St.
Joseph’s Church and were very largely attended. The flowers
were also very beautiful and in great profusion.
Culver’s
band headed the cortege as it passed from the residence on
Poplar Street to the church and from the church to the
train, and with a solemn dirge and with sorrowing hearts the
friends of “Dick”
Powers followed his remains to their last earthly
resisting place in Villa Ridge cemetery.
The Eagles Lodge attended in a body. The pall bearers
were P. T. Langan, Mart Egan, James
Galligan, Frank
Adams, Henry Jones, Reed
Green, Gus
Osterloh, and George Shaw.
I wish to return my sincere thanks to the kind friends and
neighbors who so kindly assisted during the recent illness
and death of my wife, Mrs. Mary
LeMay. Especially to I wish to thank Mrs. J. J.
Gillespie, Mrs.
John Ehlman and
Mrs. Harry Foster,
who were so attentive and devoted in my sad bereavement.
A photograph and description of Herman
Johnson were
received today from the jailer at Carthage, Mo.
Johnson is the murderer who was captured at Strafford, Mo., several
days ago for the alleged murder of two men in a box car.
The description furnished is the same as that given for the
murderer wanted at Bird’s Point and McClure. He will
be tried at Carthage, Mo., and if he cannot be convicted, he
will be turned over to Sheriff
Davis.
Mary Michael, the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hakel
Elias, of 415
Commercial Avenue, died this morning at 5 o’clock, at the
age of two months and 26 days old and had only been ill a
short time. Funeral services were conducted by Ven. A.
H. W. Anderson,
of the Church of the Redeemer. Interment was held at
Villa Ridge cemetery.
We desire to express our sincere thanks to the kind friends
and neighbors who so kindly assisted during the illness and
death of our husband and father. Especially do we wish
to thank Culver’s
Band for their kind services.
Funeral services over the remains of the late Mrs. S. C.
Brown were held
Tuesday afternoon at the family residence on the county
road, conducted by Rev. Mr.
Tracy of the
Southern M. E. Church. The remains were taken by
carriages to Villa Ridge where interment was held.
Besides a sorrowing husband, three children survive, Viva,
Charles and Frederick, the latter being a 17-month-old baby.
Also two sisters, Mrs. Lulu
Beal and Miss
Maude Farmer,
both of Harrisburg, Ill., Mrs. A. L.
Watson, of this
city, being also an aunt of the deceased. Mr.
Brown and family
have the sympathy of their friends in this sad bereavement.
(Thomas Jefferson
Farmer married Lula
Farmer on 1 Oct
1900, in Saline Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
(B. W. Metz, 81,
of Ullin, farmer, born in West Virginia, son of Isaac
Metz and Lucy
Hoskins, married
4th Mrs. Sarah Jane
Cantrell, 63, of
Ullin, born in Kentucky, daughter of Vincent
Stevens and Sarah Pierce,
on 20 Aug 1900, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
His marker in Ullin Cemetery reads:
B. W. Metz 1819-1908 Nancy Nally
Metz his wife 1833-1890.—Darrel
Dexter)
An unknown white man was killed last night at Mounds by
being run over and dragged by a northbound train. The
body was found this morning about 5 o’clock very badly
mutilated and all of his clothes torn off. He had
evidently been dragged a quarter of a mile as part of his
clothing and fragments of his body were strewn along the
track. Nothing was found on the man to identify him
and after an inquest Coroner J. C.
Steel had the
remains buried.
Tom Richardson,
colored, a resident of Noah’s Ark on Nineteenth Street west
of Walnut, was shot and killed Saturday night at Carbondale
by another of his race
alias “Box Car.” The murderer is a notorious
gambler and is also from Cairo. His real name could
not be learned, as it is unknown to most people. The
remains of Richardson
arrived here today and will be shipped to Jackson, Tenn.,
for interment. “Box Car” is still at large.
Victor Pritchett,
son of J. H.
Pritchett, formerly of Cairo, died at Sioux City, Ia.,
last Thursday, and his remains were taken to Decatur, Ill.,
his home, for burial Sunday. The deceased was 19 years
of age and was traveling for a Chicago house when he was
suddenly taken ill.
Theron Pritchett,
elder brother of the deceased, is working for
Swift & Co., at
East St. Louis, and it was through a letter from him to a
friend here that the sad news was brought.
Harry Bopp, aged
24, of 819 Twenty-third Street, died at 2 o’clock this
afternoon, after an illness of ten days’ duration, of
malarial poison.
The deceased leaves a mother, Mrs. Josephina
Bott, five
brothers, Alfred, Jesse, Fred, Otto, and Lloyd, and three
sisters, Miss Gertrude
Bott, of
Cairo and Mrs. Laura
Shoulder, of Lawrenceville, Ill., and Mrs. William
Eastridge, of
Detroit, Mich.
The deceased had been a resident of Cairo for three years
and was in the employ of the Clark-Danforth factory at his
death.
The W. O. W. will have charge of the funeral.
(Eli Bopp married
Josephine Kinner
on 13 May 1871, in Lawrence Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The family of the late Hon. Richard E.
Powers some days
ago received a letter from Hon. Edward D.
Shurtleff, speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives, of
which deceased was a member. Mr.
Shurtleff pays
the deceased Cairo member a high tribute of respect,
expressing his regret at being unable to attend the funeral
himself. The letter follows:
I am very much pained to hear by wire from Hon., Jos. S.
Clark of
Vandalia, of the death of the Hon. Richard E.
Powers, which occurred at Cairo on Monday the 23rd day of
March, 1908, at 11:45 a.m.
In case the funeral is to be held tomorrow (Wednesday) or
Thursday, I shall be very much disappointed that I shall not
be able to attend. My matters are in which shape that
I could not possibly get away if the funeral is held before
Friday.
Whereas it has pleased Almighty God in his infinite wisdom
to remove from our midst our esteemed brother, Hon. Richard
E. Powers, and
Whereas, the members of Branch No. 405 National Association
of Letter Carriers deeply feel his loss, therefore be it
Resolved, That the branch extend to the bereaved family our
heartfelt sympathy in this their time of grief for the great
loss they have sustained and be it further
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the
family and that they be spread on the minutes of the Branch,
and that they be published in the “Postal Record,” “The
Evening Citizen, “ and “The Cairo Bulletin.”
Charleston, Mo., March 31—Ernest
Lester, 18 years
old, probably was fatally shot last evening while duck
hunting. Lester
took hold of his shotgun by the muzzle and pulled it toward
him in taking it from a boat. The gun was discharged
by the hammer touching a boat seat.
Jackson Sun:
Peter Williams, a
white man, and Sam
Payne, a negro, both of Humboldt, have been arrested and
put in jail in this city, suspected of being implicated in
the murder of Clarence
Tyson, the
colored porter, who was a few days ago so horribly beaten
and thrown from a fast north bound passenger train on the M.
& O. Railroad a few days ago, which caused his death a few
days later.
The prisoners were arrested by Andrew
Bennett, special
officer for the M. & O. Company at Humboldt, who has been
working with the city officers on the case, who thinks he
has some good evidence against these men and is also looking
for a third party who it is believed is connected with the
assault.
Warrants have been taken out by Coroner T. H.
Temple for the
two men now in jail and for the other member of the party,
who is as yet still at large. They will probably be
given a preliminary hearing tomorrow afternoon in Magistrate
J. G. Carter’s
court.
Cairo Evening Citizen,
Wednesday, 1 Apr 1908:
Jackson Sun:
This afternoon at 2:35 o’clock, Judge S. J.
Everett, who has
been hearing the
habeas corpus
proceedings since yesterday afternoon in the case of the
State vs. Pete Williams, a white man, who was arrested and sent to jail Saturday on
a charge of being implicated in the killing of Clarence
Tyson, rendered his opinion which resulted in the defendant being
remanded in jail, under a bond of $2,500.
The habeas corpus
proceedings were hard fought throughout by the attorneys on
both sides. The State was represented by Attorneys T.
W. Pope and L.
McCoy, while
Williams was
defended by Hon. James D.
Senter, of
Humboldt, and Attorney J. M.
Troutt.
At this writing the bond has not been secured.
Williams until a
few months ago, was a switchman for the I. C. in this city,
but recently has been engaged at some other employment at
Humboldt.
Friends of State’s Attorney Frank L.
Hatch, of
Springfield, will be pained to learn of the death of his
wife, Tuesday night in a sanitarium near Denver, Colo.,
where she has been visiting for her health for two years or
more. Death was due to tuberculosis. Mrs.
Hatch was about 34 years old. She was a sister-in-law of State
Senator Logan Hay
and was a member of one of the best known families in
Central Illinois.
(Frank L. Hatch
married Alice H.
Bowen on 19 Sep 1900, in Sangamon Co., Ill.
Logan Hay married Lucy Langdon
Bowen on 9 Nov 1899, in Sangamon Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Dr. A. M. Lee, a
prominent physician of Carbondale, died Thursday night after
an illness of two months of the grip. He was at one
time a member of the legislature, was chief surgeon of the
Chester penitentiary, served on the pension board at
different times and was a Mason and an Odd Fellows. He
was also an ordained minister in the Baptist church for a
number of years.
Jacob H. Poole, a
prominent citizen of Union County, died at Jonesboro last
Tuesday.
George William Dewey,
youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. George F.
Dewey, died at
St. Mary’s Infirmary last evening of spinal meningitis.
Death came at 11 o’clock last night, to end its suffering.
The little fellow contracted a severe cold about a week ago,
but it was not until Tuesday night that his condition became
at all serious. Then he was taken to the infirmary,
but spinal meningitis developed in addition to pneumonia.
He would have been 4 years old in June.
A simple service was held at the family residence on
Twenty-eighth Street this afternoon, conducted by Rev. Mr.
Morris and the
remains were taken over to Charleston, Mo., on the afternoon
train for burial here tomorrow.
Funeral services will be held at the family residence, No.
2515 Sycamore Street, Thursday afternoon, April 9, at 1:30
o’clock p.m. Remains will be taken to Beech Grove
Cemetery by special train, leaving foot of Fourteenth Street
at 2:45.
Friends of the family are invited.
Mrs. Catherine
McCallum Bennett, widow of the late Sanford P.
Bennett, passed
away at 3 o’clock this morning, after an illness of several
weeks’ duration. The end had been expected for several
hours, as she seemed to be on the threshold of death last
evening.
Mrs. Bennett had
a severe attack of facial neuralgia about two weeks ago.
It was the return of an ailment that nearly resulted in her
death thirteen years ago. She suffered most intense
pain, from which she seemed to be able to get little relief.
She was not very strong when the attack came on, and the
dread of each recurring pain, with her general weakened
condition resulted in her steady decline. Her daughter
and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. W. J.
Johnston, were in
Florida at the time of the attack, but they were not advised
of her condition until it seemed certain that her end was
not far off. They arrived last Saturday morning.
Since that time, Mrs.
Bennett has had slight runs for the better, when her family grasped
at the slight hope of her ultimate recovery, but Monday it
appeared that life could only be counted by hours.
Mrs. Bennett was
a native of Inverness, Scotland, where she was born on Dec.
16, 1842. She was married to Mr.
Bennett in
Allegheny City, Pa., on Dec. 14, 1865, and her husband
passed away on the thirty-seventh anniversary of their
marriage, on Dec. 14, 1902.
Mrs. Bennett is
survived by four children Mrs. Mary
Johnston, Misses
Frances and Catherine and Sanford L.
Bennett, and one
grandson, Hugh
Johnson. She also leaves one sister, Mrs. Elizabeth
Shepherd, of Pittsburg, Pa. All of these were with her at her
death.
Mrs. Bennett was
a faithful and in her earlier years a most active member of
the Presbyterian Church. She was devoted to her home
and to her family and most unselfishly in her devotion to
them. She was much given to charity and was free in
her gifts to others of her means. Her friends and
neighbors have reason to cherish her memory with the most
happy recollections.
The funeral will probably be held Thursday, with burial at
Beech Grove Cemetery beside the remains of her husband.
Mrs. Bennett was
a stockholder in the
Wood & Bennett Company, the wholesale grocery establishment, of which her
husband until his death, was one of the firm.
(William J. Johnston
married Mary
Bennett on 30 Apr 1889, in Alexander Co., Ill.
Her marker in Beechwood Cemetery at Mounds reads:
Catherine
McCallum Bennett Born Dec. 16, 1842 Died April 7,
1908.—Darrel Dexter)
Mrs. Anna
Meisenheimer died at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Arthur Hargrave,
of Fifteenth and Cedar streets, at 9:40 o’clock this morning
of apoplexy. The deceased was about sixty years of
age. She made her home with her daughter.
Other surviving relatives are a son, Paul
Meisenheimer, in
Kansas, and a daughter, Mrs. John
Harness of
Charleston, Mo. The deceased was also an aunt of Eric
Starzinger.
The remains will be taken to Jonesboro, Ill., for burial,
but funeral arrangements have not yet been completed.
(Paul M. Misenhimer
married Mrs. Anna
Freeze on 19 Jan 1873, in Union Co., Ill.
Hiram A. Freeze married Anna Gettinger
on 31 Mar 1859, in Union Co., Ill.
Alias
Starzinger married Theresia
Gattinger on 26
Aug 1860, in Union Co., Ill.
Paul Misenheimer married Elizabeth
Reed on 4 Sep 1855, in Union Co., Ill.
John Harness,
41, farmer, of Charleston, Mo., born in Van Buren Co.,
Mich., son of Jacob Harness and Louisa Longstreet,
married 2nd Annette
Misenheimer, 20,
born in Union Co., Ill., daughter of Paul
Misenheimer and Elizabeth
Reader, on 27 Sep 1887, in Union Co., Ill.
Her marker in Jonesboro Cemetery reads:
Paul M.
Misenhimer Born July 5, 1820 Died Aug. 19, 1904 Anna
Misenhimer Born
Feb. 11, 1838 Died April 7, 1908.—Darrel
Dexter)
As a result of a disagreement among several natives of
darktown, Maude
Wilson is in her bed at Wild Cat Chute suffering from a
bullet wound, and Oscar
Dokes with Buck
Tyler have been incarcerated in the city jail.
The disagreement took place this morning at Fourteenth and
Halliday Avenue about 9:35.
Dokes who is a
sweetheart of Maude, gave the woman a beating and then shot
her with her own gun. It is said that
Tyler, who is
also a sweetheart to Maude, gave her the gun to shoot
Dokes, but she
was too quick and snatched the gun away from her. The
chief appeared on the scene in a few minutes and arrested
both the men and had the woman taken to her home. She
is in critical condition.
Mrs. Olizen Eichhoff,
wife of Charles
Eichhoff, died at her home, No. 230 Eighteenth Street,
at 1 o’clock this morning, of nervous prostration. She
was 71 years old. The deceased was a native of
Cleveland, Ohio, and came to Cairo in 1878 and has resided
here ever since. She has been an invalid for the past
six years and up to a couple of weeks ago she was staying
with her daughter, Mrs. D. J.
Lambert, of 214
Eighteenth Street. She was a member of the Church of
the Redeemer and was also a member of the Knights and Ladies
of Honor.
Surviving members are her daughter, Mrs.
Lampert, and a
brother, Aulson S.
Pouchard, of St. Louis. He has been notified and
was expected today. Two grandchildren are also left,
Miss Modie and Sam Humm. Funeral arrangements have not yet been concluded.
(Her marker in Beech Grove Cemetery at Mounds reads:
Olizan Eichoff
1837-1908.—Darrel
Dexter)
Herbert Edward Huber,
aged 2 years, living in Alba Block, died Tuesday of typhoid
fever. The remains were taken by the parents to Olive
Branch for burial.
After an illness of over six months, death came to Mrs. Mary
O’Loughlin last
evening at 6 o’clock at the family residence on Twenty-first
Street. She had been ailing for the past two years,
but had been seriously ill only about two weeks.
Mrs. O’Loughlin
was born in Sandusky, Ill., on Dec. 28th, 1856.
In 1880 she was married to Patrick
O’Laughlin.
Besides her husband, she leaves four sons, Joseph, Stephen,
Thomas, and John; and a daughter, Mrs. James V.
Piersol. A
sister, Miss Katie
Lovett, of this city; and two brothers, J. C.
Lovett, of
Granite City, and T. C,
Lovett, of Tamms,
and two grandchildren, also survive her.
She was a devoted wife and mother and was loved by all who
knew her.
Funeral services will be held Friday morning at 8 o’clock at
St. Joseph’s Church of which she was a member. Friends
of the family are invited to attend.
(Patrick O’Laughlin
married Mary Lovett
on 21 Feb 1882, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. John Miller,
who took concentrated lye at Mound City Monday night with
the intention of ending her life, died at 3 o’clock this
afternoon.
She leaves a husband and three children.
This was her second attempt at suicide, the first time she
endeavored to cut her throat.
Bennett—Died,
Tuesday, April 7, 1908, at 3 o’clock a.m., Mrs. Catherine
Bennett.
Funeral services will be held at the family residence, No.
2515 Sycamore Street, Thursday afternoon, April 9, at 1:30
o’clock p.m. Remains will be taken to Beech Grove
Cemetery by special train, leaving foot of Fourteenth Street
at 2:45 p.m.
Friends of the family are invited.
Eichhoff—Died,
Wednesday, April 8, 1908, at 3 o’clock a.m., Mrs. Olizan
Eichhoff.
Funeral services will be held at the family residence No.
230 Eighteenth Street Friday afternoon, April 10th,
at 1:30 o’clock p.m. Remains will be taken to Beech
Grove Cemetery by special train, leaving foot of Fourteenth
Street at 2:45 p.m.
Friends of the family are invited.
Funeral services over the remains of the late Mrs. Catherine
P. Bennett were
held at the family residence, No. 2515 Sycamore Street, this
afternoon, conducted by Rev. A. S.
Buchanan, pastor
of the Presbyterian Church, of which the deceased was for so
many years one of the most active and faithful members.
A double quartette from the choir of the church sang the
hymns. A large number of the friends of the deceased
and her family followed the remains to Beech Grove Cemetery,
where the body was laid at rest under a mound of flowers,
beside the grave of her husband, the late Sanford P.
Bennett.
Burke &
Blaine had charge of the funeral arrangements and the pallbearers
were Charles
Cunningham, P. P.
Gooding, G. W. Buchanan, W. A. McKnight,
J. S. Jenkins, W.
W. Hodge, W. S.
Dewey, John C. Fisher, E.
G. Kerth, and N.
V. Lewis.
Walter Watts, a
Cairo boy residing at No. 428 Thirty-third Street, was
probably fatally shot shortly after midnight last night in a
disorderly house on Cedar Street. The shooting was
done by Lena
Dickmeyer of No. 1710 Cedar Street.
After the shooting,
Watts was taken by his companions to St. Mary’s
Infirmary and Officers
Hagey,
Hofheinz and
Carmody arrested the woman had lodged her in jail.
The bullet, which was of a 38-caliber, entered the abdominal
cavity and was later removed from back of the left hip.
His intestines were pierced in three different places and it
was necessary to remove a portion of them. The
operation was performed by Dr.
Bondurant,
assisted by Drs.
Carey and Rendleman. The injured man is in a critical condition and his
chances for recovery are slight.
Lena Dickmeyer of
No. 1710 Cedar Street, who did the shooting stated to
The Citizen today
that Watts had
visited her house twice last night creating a disturbance.
It was after midnight when he came the second time and he
hammered on the door and tried to break in. She was in
the rear of the house and said she thought he had broken in
the door so she got her revolver and went to the front door.
When she found that
Watts had not broken in, she then opened the door and
Watts with
several other fellows entered.
Watts, she says,
struck her in the face. When he did that she shot him.
She stated that she did not know
Watts or any of
his companions.
Burly Bevill, who
was with Watts at
the time of the shooting, made a statement to
The Citizen, as
Watts was asleep
when the reporter visited the hospital. He said that
Walter Watts, Sam Warden, Tom
Taylor and
himself started to enter Lena
Dickmeyer’s house
at 1710 Cedar Street, but were told not to enter as there
was no one there. One of the number called her a vile
name as they were going away.
Several words passed between the two and the boys walked to
the corner house at 1714 Cedar. He said they were just
about to enter when they saw the
Dickmeyer woman walking toward them. They thought nothing of it at
the time. He said she followed them into the house and
when they came out she made an attempt to follow, but was
held by two women in the house.
Bevill stated
that he saw the revolver in her hand when she first entered.
When Watts saw this he rushed back into the house, knocking
Bevill down
accidentally and pushed the
Dickmeyer woman
against the wall in an attempt to secure the weapon.
She then shot him and he struck her several times before he
weakened.
(His marker in Ullin Cemetery reads:
John L.
Needham Born Sept. 11, 1881 Died April 2, 1908 Amanda
Needham his wife
Born Sept. 1, 1882 John
Needham Born
April 18, 1908 Died April 27, 1908 Della
Needham Born June
18, 1906 Died June 22, 1906 Delbert
Needham Born June 18, 1906 Died July 12, 1906.—Darrel
Dexter)
Walter Watts, who
was shot by Lena
Dickmeyer Wednesday night, died about 3:30 this
afternoon at St. Mary’s Infirmary. The woman is in
jail, having been arrested and held to await the outcome of
Watts’ injuries.
His sister, Mrs. M. W.
Wilson, came down
from Mt. Carmel last night.
William C. Steagala,
only son of the late Joseph
Steagala, died
this morning at 8 o’clock at Dry Bayou, Mo., fifty miles
below Cairo on the Mississippi.
News of his death reached Cairo over the long distance
telephone.
Mr. Steagala had
not been feeling well and two weeks ago went down to Dry
Bayou to rest up and visit his friend, Ike
DeLeon, the
merchant at that place. It was not known that he was
seriously ill and his death therefore was a great shock to
his friends.
The deceased was 38 years old and unmarried. He leaves
three sisters besides his widowed mother. His sisters are
Mrs. Ed Bambrick,
Mrs. Frank Connell,
and Miss Margaret
Steagala.
Members of the Owls and Eagles lodges went down the river
today in a gasoline boat and will bring the remains home,
arriving probably during the night.
It is stated that death was very sudden. Mr.
Steagala ate
breakfast as usual, and then, without warning, fell dead,
evidently from heart attack.
(Edward J. Bambrick
married Jenna R.
Steagala on 17 May 1897, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
John T. Fisher, Brother of Postmaster Passed Away
Mr. John T. Fisher,
assistant postmaster and one of Paducah’s prominent men,
died Tuesday night at 6 o’clock at his home, 614 Kentucky
Avenue, after a long illness of complication of diseases.
Mr. Fisher had
been ill for some time, and was confined to his bed several
weeks ago, but his strong constitution and will power
prolonged his life. He had been in declining health
several years. Mrs.
Fisher was a
native of Paducah and was born March 8, 1859, and was the
son of the late Hon. John G.
Fisher, who was
mayor of the city. On October 1, 1881, he was married
to Miss Sophia Graham,
who survives him. He leaves only one daughter, Miss
Iola Fisher.
His sisters are Mrs. W. F.
Paxton and Miss
Lula Fisher, and
he has one brother living, Postmaster Frank M.
Fisher.
The funeral services of Mrs. Mary
O’Loughlin were
held this morning at St. Joseph’s Church at 8 o’clock by
Rev. James Gillen.
The cortege departed at 9:30 on a special train for Villa
Ridge cemetery, where interment was made. Despite the
inclement weather the funeral was largely attended.
The pallbearers were W. E.
Walker, H. J.
Dacres, J. C.
Crowley, H. McCabe, Dan
Little and Louis
Zanone. When the funeral arrived at the foot of Fourteenth
Street, Patrick
Mahoney was substituted for Louis
Zanone, who was
called away on account of the illness of his daughter, Miss
Tillie, at Florissant, Mo.
The remains of the late W. C.
Steagala, who
died at Dry Bayou, Mo., were brought back to Cairo this
afternoon over the Mobile & Ohio, accompanied by a
delegation of his friends. A large crowd of Owls and
Eagles met them at the station and they were taken to the
family residence at 329 Sixth Street, where the funeral will
be held, probably tomorrow afternoon. The services
will be conducted by the Owls. Rev. C. H.
Armstrong will officiate.
Died, at Dry Bayou, Mo., Friday, April 10, William C.
Steagala, aged
__years.
Funeral services will be held at the family residence, No.
329 Sixth Street at 1:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon.
Remains will be taken by special train to Beech Grove
Cemetery at 2:45 p.m.
Friends of the family are invited.
The inquest over the remains of Walter
Watts, who was
shot by Lena
Dickmeyer, early Thursday morning, was held this
afternoon at the council chamber. The coroner’s jury
was W. S. Thompson,
foreman; William
Eiler, W. H.
Muller, George Walker, W. P. Fraser, and
J. W. Whitlock.
They examined about a dozen witnesses and the testimony was
somewhat conflicting. The companions of
Watts bore out
the story given in The
Citizen Thursday as related by Burley
Babill,
who was one of the witnesses to the tragedy.
The witnesses were Thomas
Taylor, Sam
Warden, Burley
Bebill, Willie Estelle,
Annie Smith, Emma
Smith, Eddie
O’Brien, Ella Hendricks,
Annie Thomas and
Beulah Doaty.
The woman was ordered held to the grand jury.
The remains of the dead man will be buried tomorrow
afternoon, funeral services being held at the family
residence No. 428 Thirty-third Street. Interment will
be at Villa Ridge.
Funeral services were held over the remains of William C.
Steagala Sunday
afternoon at the residence No. 329 Sixth Street. The
services were conducted by Rev. C. H.
Armstrong, pastor
of Immanuel Lutheran Church.
Culver’s
band played a solemn dirge from the residence to the train
and the Eagles and the Owls of which the deceased was a
member attended in a body.
A special train left the foot of Fourteenth Street at 2:45
for Villa Ridge cemetery.
The funeral was largely attended and the floral offerings
were numerous.
The funeral of Walter
Watts was held Sunday afternoon at the residence, No.
428 Thirty-third Street, Rev. J. T.
Tracy pastor of the Southern M. E. Church officiating.
The procession was nearly four blocks long and the flowers
were very beautiful and numerous. The employees of the
Cannon Box Factory where the deceased had been employed,
gave a beautiful offering, a broken wheel.
Banner Camp No. 109 Woodmen of the World conducted services
at the grave at Villa Ridge cemetery.
Funeral services over the remains of Mrs. Olizan
Eichhoff, wife of
Charles Eichhoff,
were held Friday afternoon at 1:30 at the residence, 230
18th Street, by Ven. A. H. W.
Anderson.
The funeral left for Beech Grove Cemetery on a special train
at 2:45. The pallbearers were: Dan
Little, Michael
O’Donnell, David
Barry, William Fitzgerald,
H. J. Wilbur,
Harry Schuh, C.
R. Stuart, and Thomas J. Sloo.
We desire to extend our sincere thanks to our many friends,
particularly the order of Owls and
Culver’s Band,
for their kind assistance during the burial of our son and
brother.
East St. Louis, April 14.—James P.
Slade, one of the
best known educators in Southern Illinois, died at his home
in East St. Louis last night, as the result of a paralytic
stroke suffered on April 2.
Mr. Slade was 70
years of age and had been prominent in St. Clair County
since 1856. He had served as state superintendent of
schools, as county superintendent of school, and at the time
of his death was principal of Irving School and president of
the East St. Louis Teachers’ Association.
Salem, Ill., April 14.—Henry C.
Feltman, present
grand scribe of the encampment of the Illinois I. O. O. F.,
committed suicide at his home here by jumping into a well
forty feet deep.
Feltman
had been in ill health for several years and continued
brooding over his physical condition no doubt unbalanced his
mind, which resulted in his taking his own life. He
was born in St. Louis in 1849, but resided here since about
1850.
Feltman
had served this city as mayor and postmaster and ever since
he reached his majority attended all Democratic conventions
as a delegate. He is survived by a widow, one son and
one daughter. Grand Master Fred P.
Suelling, of Chicago, attended the funeral Tuesday.
(Henry C. Feltman
married Emma Kagy
on 6 Oct 1875, in Marion Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Cairo Evening Citizen,
Thursday, 16 Apr 1908:
Paducah, Ky., April 16.—After dressing herself to return to
her home at Elizabethtown, Ill., Alice
Graham, aged 18
years, stepped in front of a mirror and shot herself in the
temple breast, dying almost instantly. It is said she
was disappointed in life and despondent because she had been
separated from girl friends at school in Louisville, Ky.
Miss Graham was
an exceptionally handsome girl.
(Her marker in Thebes Cemetery reads:
Bessie Marie
Sims Born May 28, 1906 Died April 9, 1908 Gone but not
Forgotten.—Darrel
Dexter)
Anna, Ill., April 16.—Mrs. Hanna
Ware, widow of
State Senator Jesse
Ware, who died in this city January 19, died at Battle
Creek, Mich., aged 69 years. Mrs.
Ware was a
relative of the late Marcus A.
Hanna, was a
native of Taton, Ohio, where she was married to Jesse
Ware, a young
school teacher. They spent the early years of their
married life in Jonesboro, where the husband practiced law
for many years, serving two terms as senator from this
district.
Mrs. Ware leaves
two sons, Charles, the eldest, is superintendent of the
Union Pacific railway lines in Nebraska, with offices at
Omaha, and Frank, who has been at home with the parents, and
Miss Anna Ware,
who is employed in the Frisco Railroad office in St. Louis.
The funeral was held Wednesday at the Lutheran Church, Rev.
H. L. McGill
officiating and interment followed in Jonesboro Cemetery.
(Jesse Ware
married Anna K. Hanna
on 1 Apr 1862, in Union Co., Ill.
Her marker in Jonesboro Cemetery reads:
Anna Hanna Ware Born Dec. 25, 1838 Died April 12, 1908 Mother.—Darrel
Dexter)
STEP-DAUGHTER OF G. W. AXLEY DEAD
Mrs. Sarah Maloney,
daughter of Mrs. George W.
Axley, of
Dongola, died at Mt. Vernon, Ill., last Sunday and the
remains were buried at Dongola Wednesday.
(George W. Axley,
49, a cooper, from Cairo, Ill., born in Johnson Co., Ill.,
son of P. W. Axley
and Margaret Martin,
married 4th Mrs. Tempy Jane
Axley, 40,
from Dongola, born in Union Co., Ill., daughter of Sheridan
Bradshaw and
Katie Hileman, on 1 Feb 1891.
Mikael Burns
married Tampy Jane
Bradshaw on 11 Dec 1867, in Union Co., Ill.
Her marker in the I. O. O. F. Cemetery at Dongola
reads: Sarah
wife of John T.
Maloney Born Feb. 7, 1871 Died April 11, 1908 I hear the
words from the lips of Jesus, Sweet words that my spirit
thrills. We are parted, but not forever. We are living and
loving still.—Darrel
Dexter)
William G. Hughes,
formerly of Cairo, died in St. Louis Friday morning.
The remains will be buried in Keokuk, Ia.
Mr. Hughes was a
brother of Cicero J.
Hughes and for many years was a mail carrier between
Cairo and Chicago. He was 64 years of age.
Coroner James McManus
and Sheriff Frank E.
Davis were called to Elco today by a homicide which
occurred there between 6 and 7 o’clock last evening.
R. H Woodward was
shot and killed by Albert
Duncan in the
street there.
Duncan then made his escape and is still at large.
Details of the homicide could not be obtained as the
telephone was not working well.
The dead man was a blacksmith.
Inquest over the remains of Matt
Price, who was
fatally cut Saturday night about 11:45 o’clock, was held
tab___ at of William
Hughes, No. 914 Poplar Street. The verdict was
that he came to his death by a cut in the throat caused by a
knife held in the hands of an unknown colored man. It
has been rumored that William
Freeman, residing
in the old Singer building on the west side of Poplar Street
between Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth Street, was the
assailant, but this could not be proved at the inquest as
there was only one witness to the affray. The witness
was Charles Crouch,
who was with the murdered man when he was cut. He
stated that while walking west on the north side of the
Thirty-third Street with
Price that
someone accosted them and asked
Price for the
dime he owed him.
Price told him he
did not owe him any money and he was not going to pay him.
With that the other slashed him across the throat severing
his wind pipe, and then ran down the street. The
witness said it was very dark and he could not distinguish
who the man was.
A diligent search by the police has been going on since
Saturday night, but no one has yet been captured. It
is believed that the murderer left Cairo Sunday morning
about 4 o’clock for Union City, Tenn.
Whereas, Our beloved brother, Deacon James Bailey
Anderson, has in
the providence of God been called from the labors of earth
to the rest which remains to the people of God and where, he
held the office of deacon among us for about thirty years,
and was looked to and regarded by our membership as a leader
in the church affairs, and
Whereas, He was a leading citizen of the community, and a
useful member of society, social in his turn, witty,
entertaining and helpful in spirit.
Wherefore, Resolved that as a church, we feel deeply the
loss which we have sustained and that we cherish with full
appreciation the memory of his useful life.
Resolved, That we express our sympathy for this bereaved
children in the great loss which they have sustained and
pray that they with us may look to the Lord of all grace,
for consolation and help.
Resolved, that this preamble and resolution be entered upon
our church records, and a copy furnished to at least one of
our county papers and also to the
Illinois Baptist
for publication.
(This may be the same person as Mrs. Ester
Cox, who married
J. R. McDonald on
12 Sep 1878, in Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
New York, April 18.—Henry
Edwards, who,
from papers in his pockets, is believed to be the heir to an
estate in Jasper Co., Ill., valued at nearly two hundred
thousand dollars, was found dead in a gas-filled room here.
The police are investigating the case. The coroner
says it was accidental asphyxiation. The dead man had
25 cents in his pocket. An open prayer book was on a
table in the room.
A river man named Miles
Mainord picked up
the naked body of a man at New Madrid Monday. The dead
man was about 35 years old. He had black black hair
and a smooth face. The body was attired only in a
leather belt and a pair of No. 6 shoes. There was
nothing about the belt or the shoes that might lead to an
identification. The man was about 5 feet 6 inches in
height. Tattoo marks were found on both arms and on
his right breast, the one on his right arm being the head of
a woman.
Albert Duncan,
the 17-year-old boy who killed Blacksmith W. T.
Woodward, aged
50, at Elco, at 6 o’clock Sunday evening, has not yet been
captured.
It is stated Sam and Will
Hearston were
quarreling with
Woodward’s son and called on Duncan to help them.
He ran to their assistance and knocked
Woodward’s son down. Later the father met one of the
Hearstons and was
telling him what he was going to do to him for quarreling
with his son. About that time
Duncan walked out
of a nearby store and stabbed
Woodward in the
heart and then fled leaving the knife in the wound.
Duncan
is described as follows: 5 feet 7 inches, weight 140
pounds, black hair, smooth face, thick lips, impediment in
speech, left handed, black suit, black Stetson hat.
H. R. Newman,
formerly supervisor of bridge and buildings on St. Louis
division of the I. C., killed himself at Delmar, Ala., on
last Wednesday, says the
Carbondale Free Press.
Delmar is a station on the Northern Alabama, five miles
south of Haleyville. Newman
cut his wrist and then cut his throat with a razor in the
freight depot and died soon after.
The above information came in a message to John
Fitzgibbons, the
present supervisor here. Until recently Mr.
Fitzgibbons was in a similar capacity on the new branch of the I. C.
from Corinth, Miss., to Haleyville and Mr.
Newman was a foreman under him. Mr.
Newman was well known among the railway men in this section, but has
been in the south most of the last two or three years.
Mr. Newman leaves
two sons, Eugene and Ralph.
A white woman named Ida
Truste or
Powles was shot last night about 9:30 at Future City. It is
reported that a negro shot her and then made his escape.
It could not be learned what was the cause of the shooting.
She was removed to the home of her mother on Twenty-ninth
Street between Commercial and Poplar.
An inquest was held this afternoon at 2:30 at the
undertaking parlors of Mrs. M. E.
Feith over the
remains of Jeff
Rollins, colored, who died this morning.
Rollins
died this morning from an epileptic attack about 9:30 on the
rear porch of the residence, No. 310 Seventh Street, where
he had been working.
William Walker,
colored, who killed Matt
Price on
Thirty-third Street near Polar Saturday night, was brought
down from Murphysboro last night by Chief
Egan. He
was taken before Judge
Ross today and
waived examination and bound to the circuit court without
bail and taken to the county jail to await the action of the
grand jury.
Mrs. Mary Monahan,
aged 61, a resident of Mound City, died about 12 o’clock
last night of throat trouble. Her death is a great
shock to her relatives and friends as she had been ill only
a week and her case was not considered serious. The
deceased had resided at Mound City a number of years and was
a member of the Methodist Church. She died at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. Ott
Betts. She
is survived by two sons and two daughter, Mrs.
Betts being the only one living in Mound City. Funeral
arrangements will not be made until word is received from
the relatives.
The secretary of the Woodmen of the World has received the
insurance of Walter Watt and Harry Bott and
has turned it over to the relatives. Monuments will
also be rejected over their graves. The monument of
Bott will be
erected at Lawrenceville, Ind., where he was buried.
There are now 280 members in the W. O. W.
Miss Inez Hogan,
of 405 Walnut Street, died in St. Louis Sunday night.
The remains were brought down to Villa Ridge cemetery for
interment and a number went up from here to attend the
funeral. She was 29 years of age. Consumption
was the cause of her death. She is survived by four
sisters, Misses Minnie, Maggie, Josie and Edith.
Ambrose Beecher,
age 18, fatally shot Clyde
Williams, age 18,
inflicting injuries from which he died 15 minutes afterward.
The shooting happened about 8:45 this morning at the Singer
Manufacturing Company plant where both were employed.
The nature of the quarrel which seems to have started Monday
is that a negro named David
Robinson,
alias “Pig” was
telling Clyde
Williams that he had beat him out of his girl in Future
City, when Beecher
passed and overhearing the conversation, laughed.
Williams became angry, and meeting
Beecher later, words were passed, both becoming angry. It is
stated by witnesses that
Beecher waited
outside the gate Tuesday evening with a club and that he
also waited Wednesday noon, but
Williams left by
another gate and laid off yesterday afternoon, that he might
secure a revolver.
Williams waited
for Beecher,
last night and ran him home with the gun. This morning
Beecher came
prepared with a gun and while he was stopping over a veneer
machine Williams
stabbed him in the back with a large pocket knife.
Williams ran out
of the building with
Beecher after him with a revolver, who shot at him four
times. He fell after the last shot was fired at the
south corner of the new dry room on the west side of the
grounds.
Beecher ran to his home, No. 221 Thirty-fourth Street,
where his wound was dressed by Dr.
Fields.
Beecher did not say in his statement that he waited outside with a
weapon for he was not asked the question, but he admits that
he waited outside and
Williams went out another gate. The wounds of both
the negroes are almost in the same place, Williams being
wounded in the right side of his back about 1 inch from the
spine, and Beecher
in the back just to the left of the spine.
Williams was host
by a bullet of a 38 caliber which lodged in his body.
Coroner McManus
held an inquest of which the verdict was that
Beecher should be
held to the grand jury. The jurors were: William
Susanka, foreman; Dean Stites,
John Watson, Jake
Young, J. B.
DeLawter, and Harry Elliott.
There were sixteen witnesses examined and all their
statements were very much the same. The witnesses were
William Barnhill,
R. D. Penick,
John Winfrey, John Jones,
Roscoe Horlace,
Bundy Peterson, Charles Phillips,
F. J. Bryant, E.
E. Harrell, Joe
Thornton, W. M. Diefenbach,
Bert Beckwith,
David Robinson,
alias “Pig,” Ed Swaine,
George Barth and
David Martin.
Clyde Williams is
the son of John
Williams, plumber for James
Gilmore, and
resided with his father at No. 2900 Commercial Avenue.
Cairo Evening Citizen,
Friday, 1 May 1908:
Mark Anthony,
aged 72, a well-to-do colored man of Springfield, Ill., and
brother of Albert Frost, Sr., of this city, died in that city yesterday afternoon.
He resided in Springfield about 42 years. The deceased
was considered one of the wealthiest colored men at the
state capitol. His brother left at 2 o’clock this
morning for Springfield to attend the funeral.
Columbus Brown
one of the Brown brothers who was sent to the Chester penitentiary for killing
Deputy Sheriff Miles
Coleman at Olive Branch about eight years ago died at
the penitentiary and his body was buried at Olive Branch
Friday. He was serving a life sentence.
Charles H. Seifert,
formerly an operator in the office of the Western Union
Telegraph Company in Cairo, died Friday at his home in
Moline. Manager John C.
Glade received
word today. The funeral will occur Sunday.
The deceased worked here for two years when he went to
Memphis.
From there he was transferred to Chicago, but his health
failing he returned to his home in Moline. He was a first
class operator and made a great many friends in Cairo during
his stay here.
Austin Perry, of
Mattoon, Ill., father of Mrs. E. S.
Dickerson, died
at the home of Dr.
Dickerson, No. 416 Twenty-fifth Street, at 2 o’clock
this afternoon, of typhoid malarial fever and complications.
He had only been here a month. The remains will be
taken to Mattoon for burial. The deceased was 73 years
old.
Benton, Ill., May 5—Judge Charles H.
Layman, one of
the prominent Republicans of Franklin County, died Monday
morning of uraemia. He was 65 years old and was a
native of Williamson County. He served in the Civil
War and then studied law, beginning his practice in
Murphysboro. He was elected county judge of Jackson
County in 1872 and in 1876 served a term in the legislature.
He went to Benton in 1881 and built up a reputation as a
criminal layer.
Rev. B. S. Swan,
one of the best known Presbyterian ministers in Southern
Illinois died at his home at Metropolis, last Saturday.
For years he was the stated clerk of Cairo Presbytery.
For a number of years he has been retired from the ministry.
Charles E. Hessian,
president of the New York Store Mercantile Company and one
of Cairo’s most promising young businessmen, passed away at
St. Mary’s Infirmary at 6:10 o’clock Monday evening, after
an illness of several weeks. Death came suddenly for
although it was known that he was serious ill, no one
believed that his wend was so near. His death was due
to inflammation of the lining of the heart.
Mr. Hessian was a
member of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church and was one of the
most enthusiastic members of the parish club, devoting his
time freely and generously toward its upbuilding. He
was also a member of the Elks Lodge and the T. PA., and
Ancient Order of Hibernians.
His family consists of his widow, who was Miss Cecelia
Greaney, and six
children, Edwin Patier, Harold Ralph, Leroy, Rosemary
and Winifred.
Mr. Hession
wielded a quiet influence in the business life of Cairo that
was felt though he made no sitre about it. His
judgment was sound and he was often consulted about public
matters on this account. He was active in all
movements for the public good and was one of the younger
businessmen of Cairo who are pushing this city to the front
in a commercial way.
Today the New York Store is draped in mourning in his
memory. Festoons of black hang in front of the store
and inside his desk was draped and a large bunch of flowers
was placed upon it. The company is also sending out
notices to its customers as follows:
(A photograph of Charles E.
Hession was
published with the obituary.
Charles E.
Hessian married Cecilia B.
Greaney on 27 Apr
1892, in Alexander Co., Ill.
His marker in Calvary Cemetery at Villa Ridge reads:
Charles E.
Hessian Born Jan. 24, 1865 Died May 4, 1908.—Darrel
Dexter)
Paducah, Ky., May 6—Capt. James
Owen of the
steamer Bettie Owen
died here Tuesday morning of kidney trouble. He was 62
years of old and was a native of this city.
Hessian—Died,
Monday, May 4, 1908, at 6:10 o’clock p.m., Charles E.
Hessian.
Funeral services will be held at St. Joseph’s Church
Thursday morning, the cortege leaving the family residence
211 Twenty-first Street at 8 o’clock. The remains will
be taken to Villa Ridge on a special train for interment.
Friends of the family are invited.
The following sketch of the late Rev. B. C.
Swan appeared in
the Metropolis
Journal-Republican:
So we are called upon the chronicle the death of one of our
beloved citizens, one who so loved our little city that when
he came among us he made the remark,” This is my last move,
as I never intend to leave this place.” After a number
of years in faithful work as pastor of the Presbyterian
Church, he purchase the house which has been his home ever
since. He was generally beloved, and preached on
different occasions in all of the churches in town. He
was a member of the Grand Army of the republic and had many
comrades and friends among them. He had married many
of our young people, stood by the dying, and preached
sermons of comfort when we have been called upon to lay away
the bodies of our dear departed dead. His familiar
face and venerable snow-white locks and his portly bearing
commanded respect, as he seemed to walk with God whilst
dwelling among us.
Benjamin Chestnut
Swan, son of Benjamin C. and Hannah (Cowgill)
Swan, was born Nov. 27, 1823, near Camden, Preble County, Ohio.
His ancestors settled near Chambersburg, Pa., and on both
sides were zealous workers in the Presbyterian Church.
Later they moved to Oxford, Ohio, to take advantage of
educational and religious privileges to be there enjoyed.
In 1841, at Oxford, Ohio, Dr.
Swan united with the church there. He finished the course at
Miami University in 1845; after finishing his theological
course he was ordained in 1851 by the Oxford Presbytery.
He began his work as a minister right away. His
pastorates were Carthage, Shawneetown, Carmi, Enfield,
Harrisburg and Metropolis, all in Illinois. He was
twice moderator of the synod of Illinois, also stated clerk
of Cairo Presbytery for about twenty-five years.
We feel and can truly say, “Know yet not that there is a
prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel.”
The funeral services were held at the Presbyterian Church on
Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock, Rev.
Stevenson, of
Kings, Ill., conducting the service, assisted by the pastor,
Rev. T. D. Latimer. Interment was made in the Masonic Cemetery.
The surviving relatives of Dr.
Swan are a son,
Dr. Walter Swan,
of Harrisburg, and two daughters, Mrs. Mary C.
Willis, of
Toledo, Ill., and Miss Augusta
Swan, of this
city.
(Rev. Benjamin C.
Swan married Clara Sidney
Wolf on 9 Oct
1888, in Saline Co., Ill.
R. Chalmers Willis married Mary C. Swan
on 30 Oct 1877, in White Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Nashville, Tenn., May 7—Another chapter in the legal history
of the celebrated case of the State vs. Dr. J. Herman
Feist was opened
in the criminal court, when the attorney for Dr.
Feist made application for bond. The question saws not passed
on, but went over till Saturday, when another hot fight for
the liberty of Dr.
Feist will be waged.
The application for bond will be resisted to the last, as
was evidenced by the position taken by Attorney General F.
M. Bass, who
asked the court for further time, as the question of bail
came up totally unexpected.
The application was made on the ground that Dr.
Feist had not
been found guilty as charged in the indictment of the murder
of Mrs. Rosa Mangrum,
and that he is therefore entitled to bail. Decisions
of the Supreme Court were cited in support of the contention
of the defendant.
“Nah suh! I hasn’t killed no one,” said Golda
Johnson,
alias Sid
Towtalow, a negro, when he heard Jailer
Lutz ask the sheriff at Tiptonville, Tenn., if he wanted a negro
answering to Johnson’s
description.
Jailer Lutz
immediately called up the sheriff of Lake County, Tennessee
over long distance telephone, and from the description given
by the sheriff, it is almost certain that
Johnson is the
negro wanted at Tiptonville for killing a white man there
last October and throwing the body in a cistern. The
affair took place on the farm of Bill
Buckloa, near Tiptonville.
Johnson
came to Cairo on
Roosevelt Day last October and has been here ever since.
He has recently been employed at
Dowlings pressing establishment on Eighth Street, as a bootblack and
presser. He is of medium height, dark brown, about 165
pounds in weight and bears several scars on his face and
head.
Word was received here this morning that Mrs. Henry
Weis, mother of
Bert Weis, died
at her home in Waterloo, Ia.
Mrs. Weis and
daughter Miss Laura had been visiting the son of the former
C. A. West, at
Decatur, Ala., where she was taken seriously ill.
An operation was to have been performed at Nashville, Tenn.,
but when she reached that city, she was so much improved it
was considered best to confine the journey to her home in
Waterloo.
Mrs. Weis and
Miss Laura were guests the past winter at the homes of Mrs.
Anise Hastings
and Mrs. J. W. Wenger
and they have many friends in Cairo who will be grieved to
learn the sad news.
Mrs. J. W. Wenger
will go to Waterloo this evening to attend the funeral.
One of the largest funerals ever held in Cairo was that of
the late Charles E. Hessian, president of the New York Store Mercantile Company, which
was held at St. Joseph’s Church at 8:30 o’clock this
morning.
The funeral cortege left the family residence on East
Twenty-first Street at 8 a.m. for the church. Heading
the sad procession which filed slowly to the church were the
Elks of which order the deceased was a member. The
Ancient Order of Hibernian and the employees of the New York
Store followed.
At the church, the services were very impressive, solemn
requiem high mass
being held, conducted by three priests.
The floral offerings were profuse and very beautiful.
Besides many pieces were given, including a large crescent
with a lyre in the center, the gift of the New York Store
Company. The employees gave a large cross and other
large pieces were given by individuals.
The services were conducted by Father
Gillen and Father
Downey of Cairo
and Father Renhardt
of Grand Chain. The honorary pall bearers were George
Parsons, W. J.
Johnson, John M.
Lansden, Thomas
W. Gannon, W. H. Wood,
Douglas Halliday,
Patrick Mahoney,
Daniel Kelly, Jr., Louis Zanone,
M. J. Howley, P.
T. Langan, Harry
W. Schuh, N. V. Lewis, and
P. J. Purcell.
Mrs. Mary Patier,
widow of the late Col. Charles O.
Patier, pays a
high tribute to the late Charles E.
Hessian, whom she
has known all of her life. She says that she never
knew him to tell what was not true in all of his business
transactions. Although he had some difficult problems
to meet, she says that he was as true as steel throughout,
as straight as a die, and exercised infinite patience.
Those who knew Mr.
Hessian intimately can endorse what Mrs.
Patier says.
(Charles O. Patier
married Mary
Toony on 27 Jan 1873, Cook Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
We desire to thank the friends for their kindness during the
recent illness and at the death of our husband and father,
the late Austin M.
Perry.
(Austin M. Perry
married Susan Luich
on 18 Dec 1860, in Coles Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Alice, the little, two-year-old daughter of Mrs. Gertrude
Waldschmidt, was
struck by Car No. 28 on the belt line at Twelfth and Walnut
streets, about 10 o’clock this morning, and suffered
injuries which will probably end her little life before the
day is over.
She had strayed away from her home at 1106 Walnut Street in
the former residence of the late Judge
Robarts, and was
apparently headed for
Doud’s grocery. She was going across Walnut
diagonally when the car struck her about on the north
crossing.
When the car struck her, Conductor
DuVall jumped
form the car and picked the little body up. The car
had dragged her about thirty feet, passed the middle of
Twelfth Street, where in some way she was thrown out from
underneath so that the wheels did not pass over her.
The car then ran about eighty feet farther according to
people in that vicinity who took note of the distance,
before it could be stopped. The fender was not
dropped, according to these same eye witnesses, nor was the
bell sounded as the car came down the street. The
motorman on the car was a young man named
Odum.
When Conductor DuVall
picked up the little child, he called for assistance and
Mike Walker ran
out of Doud’s
grocery and they took the little one home. Dr.
Woelfle was
called and he found the child was injured at the base of the
brain. Later it was taken to St. Mary’s Infirmary.
Conductor DuVall
was asked about the matter by
The Citizen, but
did not want to talk about it.
Drs. Woelfle and
McNemer performed an operation upon the child this forenoon in the
hope of saving its life. Besides the injuries to its
head, its little back was terribly cut and bruised.
A piece of the child’s skull was driven into the brain and
had to be removed by the physicians. In performing
this operation some of the brains came out of the wound.
Superintendent Macey
of the Traction Company is making an investigation of the
affair. He says that it is his information that the
child fell between the rails and that the car passed clear
over it. He says that just as the car approached the
crossing, a wagon was passing there going along beside the
car track. Whether the child stepped out from behind
the wagon on the track or whether the child was in front of
the wagon he had not learned.
The child is the little daughter of the late George
Waldschmidt.
(George P.
Waldschmidt married Gertrude A.
Howard on 5 Sep
1900, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Dr. James W. Russell,
one of the old residents of Mississippi County, Missouri,
died at his home at Bird’s Point at 12:20 o’clock after a
long period of ill health. Bright’s disease and
complications, which ended in dropsy, was the cause of his
death. He suffered a nervous breakdown a year ago and
has not been well since. Six weeks ago Dr.
Russell went to
Dawson Springs in the hope of securing relief, but did not
gain the benefit that he had hoped.
Dr. Russell was
57 years old. He graduated from a medical college and
engaged in the practice of his profession in St. Louis, in
his early manhood, but his property interests in southeast
Missouri demanded his attention and he gave up the
profession and located in Bird’s Point, devoting his entire
time to looking after his property. He left a valuable
estate, including a farm of 600 acres in Mississippi County,
besides property at Jackson, Mo., and elsewhere.
Dr. Russell is
survived by a wife and two grown daughters, Misses Annie and
Elizabeth Russell.
(James W. Russell
married Annie M.
Smith on 30 Nov 1892, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Jane Law,
who died Sunday morning at the home of her son, James A.
Law, No. 226
Nineteenth Street, after a long illness, was one of the old
residents of Cairo and lived here before the war. She
was the widow of the late Capt. James
Law, who was with
the Halliday-Phillips wharf boat for many years.
The deceased returned to Cairo a year ago from Coulterville
where she resided with her daughter, Mrs. N. H.
Marple, for nine
years. She was 69 years old and is survived by two
sons and two daughters, Mrs.
Marple, of
Coulterville, Mrs. W. H.
Grear, of Mt.
Pleasant, Texas, and John Edward
Law, of
Coulterville, and James A.
Law, of this
city.
The pallbearers were John C.
Gholson, George
Feuchter, J. O.
Baldwin, Abe Hoaglin,
Girard Bouchet,
and Rev. Armstrong.
(William h. Greer
married Clarissa Law
on 29 May 1887, in Alexander Co., Ill.
Benjamin H. Shelby married Ella Law
on 25 Oct 1881, in Alexander Co., Ill.
N. H. Marple
married Mrs. E. L.
Shelby on 13 Mar
1899, in Sangamon Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. William B.
Gilbert passed away at noon today at Champaign, where
she has been ill at the home of her son, Prof. Barry
Gilbert, for
several weeks.
The death of Mrs.
Gilbert comes as a shock to the people of Cairo.
While it was known that she was seriously ill, and that her
family felt very much concerned about her, ti was hoped that
she would recover from the malady that had seized her since
she left Cairo for a visit with her son.
A message from Attorney Miles S.
Gilbert, her son,
who is in Champaign, says that the remains will be brought
to Cairo tomorrow evening at 6:35 and will be taken to the
family residence at Twenty-eighth and Washington Avenue.
The funeral will be held at 10 o’clock Wednesday morning at
the Church of the Redeemer and the remains will be taken to
Alton, Ill., for private interment there Thursday morning at
9 o’clock.
Mrs. Gilbert was
married to Mr.
Gilbert in 1866. Three sons were born to them, all
of whom survive. They are Miles Safford
Gilbert, of
Cairo, who is associated with his father in the practice of
law under the firm name of
Gilbert &
Gilbert, William C. Gilbert,
of Chicago, and Prof. Barry
Gilbert, of the
University of Illinois at Champaign.
Mrs. Gilbert was
one of the foremost women at Cairo. She was a member
of the Cairo Women’s Club, and of the Church of the
Redeemer, in both of which she was prominent in all of their
endeavors. She was also a member of the Children’s
Home Society, and was known for her interest in all forms of
charity. Her death will not only be a crushing blow to
her family her friends, and her church, but it will be a
serious loss to eh community as well.
Besides the members of her family named above, Mrs. Miles
Frederick Gilbert of this city is her sister.
Mrs. Gilbert was
the daughter of A. S. and Catherine
Barry, of Alton,
Ill., where she was born in September 1845. She came
here a bride in 1866 and has resided in this city ever
since. She leaves two brothers, William C.
Barry and John
Barring living in Los Angeles, Cal. Mrs.
Gilbert was a
graduate of the public schools of Alton and of Oriad Academy
at Worcester, Mass.
At noon today brief funeral services were held at Champaign
over the remains of the late Mrs. William B.
Gilbert,
conducted by Rev. F. A.
DeRosset of
Springfield and then the body was taken to the Illinois
Central train to bring it to Cairo. It will arrive
this evening at 6:35 o’clock.
Accompanying the remains this evening will be the bereaved
husband, Hon. William B.
Gilbert, and his
two sons, William C.
Gilbert, of Chicago, and Prof. Barry
Gilbert, of
Champaign, and their wives, Mrs. Charles H.
Barry, of
Chicago, a brother of Mrs.
Gilbert, and Rev.
Mr. DeRosset.
Mr. and Mrs. Miles S.
Gilbert returned to Cairo early this morning. The
pallbearers will meet the body on its arrival and it will be
taken to the family residence Greenway, at Twenty-eighth and
Washington, where it will remain until the funeral tomorrow
forenoon.
Rev. Mr. DeRosset
will assist Rev. A. H. W.
Anderson, rector
of the church, in the funeral services here, and will also
accompany the remains to Alton, where the interment will be
made Thursday morning. A private car will be secured
if possible to take the family to Alton.
The grand jury in the circuit court made their first report
this morning and the following indictments were returned:
Additional indictments were returned as follows:
Mrs. Ollie
Daniels died at St. Mary’s Hospital in Cairo while undergoing an
operation last Monday, May 4. The remains were brought
up to Ullin the same day and the following day funeral
services were conducted at the residence, after which the
remains were taken to Anna for burial. Mr.
Daniels has many friends who are in deepest sympathy with him in the
loss of his young wife.
(Her marker in Anna City Cemetery reads:
Effie V. wife of O. M.
Daniels Died May
5, 1908 Aged 24 Yrs., 5 Mos., & 1 Day.—Darrel
Dexter)
Oliver Welch, the
negro who killed his wife on Fifteenth Street, pleaded
guilty this afternoon and the court listened to evidence
before passing upon the man. Other witnesses will
testify before the court passes sentence.
(Rufus Miller was
the son of Dewalt
Miller and Sallie
Beaver. Her marker in
Mt. Pisgah Cemetery near Wetaug reads:
Sallie wife of Dewalt
Miller Died Sept.
26, 1879 Aged 37 Yrs., 2 Mos., & 11 Ds.—Darrel
Dexter)
Sorrowing hearts filled the Church of the Redeemer this
morning at 10 o’clock when the funeral services were held
over the remains of the late Mrs. William B.
Gilbert.
The services was conducted by Ven. F. A.
DeRosset, former
rector of the Church of the Redeemer, and Ven. A. H. W.
Anderson, the present rector.
Two hymns, “Abide with Me” and “Asleep in Jesus,” favorites
of the deceased, were sung by the choir.
The altar was massed with flowers, the last visible tribute
that friends could give to her memory and the pew that she
occupied so faithfully in the church was decorated with
flowers.
After a short service the remains were taken to the Illinois
Central depot, where a special car was taken by the party
for Alton, Ill., where interment will be made Thursday
forenoon. About twenty went to Alton to attend the
funeral there, including the members of the family and the
most intimate friends.
Besides the sons and their wives, Mr. and Mrs. William C.
Gilbert, of
Chicago, and Prof. and Mrs. Barry
Gilbert, of
Champaign, Mr. and Mrs. Charles H.
Barry of Chicago and Mr. and Mrs. T. B.
Whitledge, of St. Mary’s Mo., were here.
The pallbearers were chosen as follows:
Active—H. S. Candee,
H. E. Halliday, Joseph W. Wenger,
Douglas Halliday,
Reed Green, Judge
W. S. Dewey, Frank Spencer,
Davis S. Lansden.
Honorary—George
Parsons, John M.
Lansden, John S. Aisthorpe,
Judge William N.
Butler, Frank
Howe, Dr. J. J. Jennelle, Andrew Lohr,
Charles Cunningham,
Charles Pink.
In the circuit court at noon today seven jurors had been
secured for the trial of Louis
Nellum,
alias Louis James, who is
charged with murder. Out of over seventy-five examined, only
the seven were accepted, six of whom were secured yesterday
afternoon.
Nellum is represented by G. W.
Dougherty, a
colored lawyer from Terre Haute, Ind.
The jurors so far selected are: C. F.
Arter, E. S.
Thornbury, Elsie
Akins, John Cornell,
Horace Cornell,
John White, and
J. W. Whitlock.
Because his death was shown to be due to his own negligence
the widow of Edward Schuler, who was killed at Mounds last January by being crushed
between two cars on the Illinois Central railroad, lost her
suit for $10,000 damages in the Pulaski County circuit court
today.
The case was on trial before a jury yesterday, but the
complainant failed to make a case and today the railroad
company took a non-suit.
Attorney Angus Leek
assisted Attorney L. M.
Bradley in the
defense, while Attorneys
Wall &
Caster represented Mrs.
Schuler.
Schuler
was a switchman for the Illinois Central at Mounds when he
was killed, but the evidence showed that he tried to go
between two cars and was crushed to death.
(Her marker in Thebes Cemetery reads:
Nina E.
Wallace 1901-1908.—Darrel
Dexter)
Jasper N. Miller,
one of the old and well known residents of Pulaski, died at
his home in that village Thursday of this week, at the age
of 74 years. Mr.
Miller served his
country during the Civil War in an Ohio Regiment, came to
Illinois and 1873 and resided at Villa Ridge until four
years ago when he removed to Pulaski. He had been an
invalid for several years. A wife and six children
survive him, viz: Mrs. C. M.
Gaunt and E. S.
Miller, of Mound
City, J. N. Miller,
Jr., of Pulaski, D. E.
Miller, of Los
Angeles, Cal., Mrs. Ida
Forsyth, of
Tamms, and C. S.
Miller, of Chicago.—Mound
City Enterprise
Sheriff J. A. Carlew
and Deputy Sheriff J. K.
Osborne, of
Tiptonville, Tenn., arrived in the city this morning and
returned with a negro prisoner, Sid
Hardin, who is
wanted for murder.
Hardin was
arrested here several days ago by Officers
Casey and
Wade and has been
held awaiting the arrival of the requisition papers and also
authorities from Tiptonville. He murdered an old man
about a year ago by throwing him in a well.
(A marker in Beech Grove Cemetery at Mounds reads:
Mr. Albert
Aliff & Family.—Darrel
Dexter)
W. H. Harley, a
foreman in the chair factory at Mound City, committed
suicide about 5 o’clock this morning by taking morphine.
Harley
had been suffering from rheumatism for several days and was
compelled to lay off from work. He got to drinking at
Cairo and the Half Way House. Friday he was in Cairo
and it is said that he tried to end his life, but was
prevented. It is said that he spent last evening at
the Half Way House where he drank heavily, going home at a
late hour. He awoke this morning at 5 o’clock and
asked his wife for a pickle. She went after it and
while she was gone he took a heavy dose of morphine which
ended his life.
In the circuit court this morning the Louis
Nellum case was
given to the jury about 10 o’clock and they retired to
deliberate on their verdict.
The jury was still out at 3 o’clock this afternoon.
J. W. Dougherty,
attorney for the defendant, failed to be present in court
this morning to make his final argument. He telephoned
that he was sick and would be unable to be present.
Later he sent for his books and it is reported that he has
left the city.
Dougherty is a colored lawyer from Terre Haute, Ind.
A check for $3,000 insurance has been received from the
National Association of Letter Carriers No. 405 by Mrs.
Richard Powers on
the life of her late husband.
A fatal accident occurred on the street car line at
Eighteenth and Commercial this afternoon. Failing to
notice an approaching car, or perhaps confused by the danger
that confronted it, the victim was run over and instantly
killed. Efforts of the motorman to warn him by the
ringing of the gong were without effect. The accident
happened in front of the Model clothing store and was
witnesses by a number of people who were helpless to prevent
it. Immediately after the victim was struck, the
motorman brought the car to a stop and jumping down picked
up the lifeless body. All that he said was, “Now I
know I will have chicken for dinner Sunday.”
Mrs. Mattie Twiford,
aged 28, died at her home in Future City this morning of
consumption. Funeral services will be held tomorrow
morning at the Southern Methodist Church at Thirty-seventh
and Elm streets.
Burke and
Blaine have
charge of the funeral.
Four of the men in whose hands the life of John R.
Ford will be
entrusted were selected at 3 o’clock this afternoon.
Of these only one was taken from the regular panel.
Robert Thornberry, better known as “Dad” of the Egypt street car line.
He served on the jury which brought in a verdict of death in
the case of Louis
Nellum.
The four men who were found to be satisfactory to both sides
in the trail are:
The last three are from the north end of the county.
Mrs. Emma F. Nolen,
sister of the defendant, whose home is in Los Angeles,
Calif., was in the court room this afternoon.
Ford
was accompanied in the court room by his brother. He
is being defended by Attorney Angus
Leek and Reed
Green. Mr. Green
directed the cross examination of the talisman this morning.
The attorney stated that the trial will be short after the
jury is secured, as there are not a large number of
witnesses. State’s Attorney
Wilson says that the prosecution will have not more than half a
dozen.
The ground for the defense will be self-defense and in his
questions Senator Green showed that he wanted to find just the attitude of each man on
this subject before he entered upon his service as a juror.
The importance of the lawyer in the case was shown Saturday
evening when the jury in the case of Louis
Nellum
alias Louis James brought
in a verdict of guilty and fixed the punishment at death.
The verdict was brought into court about 5 o’clock and the
jury which inflicted the death penalty was composed of the
following: C. F.
Arter, John White, Horace
Cornell, John
Cornell, Robert
Thornberry, Elsie Akins,
James Oliver, J.
W. Whitlock,
Benjamin Warner, Pleas Buchanan,
Tullis Hughes,
and Will Daily.
Nellum
was defended by a colored lawyer named J. W.
Dougherty.
He came here from Terre Haute, Ind., stating that he had
been employed by the parents of
Nellum to defend
the young negro. But during the trial he showed his
incompetence and as stated in
The Citizen
Saturday evening did not appear at the court house at all
Saturday to finish the case and prepare the instructions to
the jury. Judge
Butler has to do this work himself. He took the
instructions that were prepared by Attorneys
Leek and
Green in the Korn murder
case and used them as the basis for the instructions.
Later after the jury had been out for some time,
Dougherty sent up
some instructions to be used.
Because of this neglect of his attorney, and his bad
management of his case throughout,
Nellum may have
good grounds to ask for a new trial.
The crime for which
Nellum was convicted was the killing of a white man
named Patrick
Dougherty at Seventeenth and Commercial last August.
The evidence as was presented before the coroner’s jury at
that time was to the effect that
Dougherty who was passing along the street came across
Nellum having
some words with a woman which it is stated were of an
insulting character. Dougherty chased the man off with a revolver and he ran up
Commercial.
Dougherty then went up as far as the fire station,
hunting Webster’s saloon. When he got to the fire station eh was
directed to the saloon and he started back down the street.
At Seventeenth he encountered
Nellum talking to
a woman. Nellum
recognized Dougherty
as the man who had chased him and seizing a pick from a box
of tools there he struck at
Dougherty. The blow missed and nearly sent
Nellum off his
feet. Dougherty
however felt the wind of it (the attempt to strike having
been made from behind) and started to turn around.
Just then Nellum
stuck again, hitting
Dougherty in the head and killing him.
Nellum
appears to be simple minded. He does not appear to
realize at all the gravity of his situation. It is
believed that he is not very bright. He is 22 years of
age, short in stature and quite black.
W. R. McDougal,
of No. 214 Eleventh Street, former express messenger, died
Saturday morning at Bolivar, Tenn. He was about 65
years of age and has been residing at Bolivar since March
with his daughter, Mrs. Lizzie
Lightfoot, where
he died. He had been employed as express messenger on
the Mobile & Ohio up to two years ago when he was stricken
with paralysis. Shortly after his wife died and the
remainder of the family shared the house at No. 214 Eleventh
Street with Mrs. Lenora
Sayers an old
neighbor. Interment will take place today at Grand
Junction Tenn., the home of the deceased. The deceased
is survived by six children, Mrs. Lizzie
Lightfoot,
Bolivar, Tenn., Maud, Helen, Will, Harry and Fred of Cairo.
The children left Saturday for Bolivar.
A floater was found in the Mississippi River near Thompson’s
Landing Wednesday and an inquest was held by Coroner R. K.
Ogilvie.
The body was that of a white man about thirty years of age
and from appearance had been in the water for some time.
Nothing was found on the body to indicate the identity of
the man.—Charleston
Courier
A floater was found in the Mississippi River this morning
opposite Tenth Street about 8:30 o’clock. It was the
body of a white man about 55 or 60 years old and had
evidently been in the water for some time, as it was badly
decayed. It was found by two colored fishermen, James
Garfield and Tom
Williams, who
were fishing in the vicinity. Coroner
McManus was
notified and had the body removed to
Feith’s
undertaking parlors, where it was immediately prepared for
burial. The inquest was held at Sixteenth and
Mississippi Levee, where the body was brought ashore.
The verdict was that he came to his death by causes unknown
to the jurors. The man was dressed well and wore
rubbers, which were so large that they were fastened on by
means of small rubber bands. He was gray haired and
with a bald spot on top of his head and he probably had a
mustache, as there were a few hairs on the right side of his
upper lip. He wore a pair of gold frame eye glasses,
which fastened behind the ears. His clothing were dark
and of good material. There was nothing on his person
by which he could be identified.
Mrs. Elizabeth
Kennedy Dille, of Villa Ridge, who died May the 15th
at Pine Bluff, Ark., was buried at Villa Ridge Sunday
morning. The services were held in the Methodist
church and a large number of friends were in attendance.
The deceased was born in Pulaski County, May 30, 1847, and
was married March 11, to J. S.
Dille. Her health had been failing for some months and her
trip to Hot Springs, Ark., for her health several months ago
was of no benefit. She was stricken with three
paralytic strokes while there, and was taken to Pine Bluff
to the home of her children, where she died. She is
survived by two brothers, David
Kennedy, of
Cairo, and James B.
Kennedy, of Pulaski. She also had two sisters,
Mrs. L. F. Crain,
of Villa Ridge, and Mrs.
Pierce, of St.
Louis.
Because four of the twelve men summoned for jury duty in the
Ford case failed
to appear in court at 9 o’clock this morning, court had to
adjourn at 10:30 until 1:30 o’clock because the venire was
exhausted. The men who failed to appear are T. B.
Finch, Green
Bishop, Walter
Sorrels and C. W. Irby.
The whole morning was spent in a fruitless effort to
complete the jury. When court adjourned last evening,
eight men had been chosen finally and three others
conditionally. When court adjourned this forenoon, the
numbers remained the same.
A session was held this afternoon and still the result was
the same. The supply of candidates for the jury box
had again been exhausted and court took a recess at 3
o’clock in the hope that
Bryan’s train
would bring some of the men whom Sheriff
Davis had summoned.
The defense is fighting hard now as they have but two
peremptory challenges left. They are questioning the
venire very closely so as to get such excused for cause as
they do not want to sit as jurors in the case.
The names of the jurors so far selected are:
The three others who were conditionally accepted were E. B.
Bales, G. L.
Crite, and John
Sweeten, all from
around Unity.
Another venire for six was issued when court adjourned.
Attorney W. A.
Anderson, recently of Ballard County, Ky., is assisting
State’s Attorney
Wilson and this morning took his turn at examining the
veniremen. Attorney
Anderson has been
in Cairo since February and is attorney for the Mercantile
Adjustment Company, an organization formed by some of the
Cairo jobbers, and has an office with the
Parham-Matthews Hat Company. Mr.
Anderson is an old friend of the late John W.
Lewis, and he was employed to assist State’s Attorney
Wilson by the
friends of Lewis.
Rev. James Tompkins,
formerly superintendent of the Illinois Home Mission Society
of the Congregational Church, died at Grinnell, Ia., at the
home of his daughter, Monday. He was 68 years of age
and after spending 26 years in the state work, removed to
Southern Illinois three years on account of his failing
health.
Rev. Mr. Tompkins
was largely instrumental in the establishment of a number of
Congregational churches in Southern Illinois a dozen or more
years ago. His interest in this end of the state was
strong and he made a large number of warm friends in Egypt
by his efforts to implant Congregationalism in communities
where there was a need for a greater church activity.
At one time the denomination had under consideration the
subject of organizing a church in Cairo, but it was not
their policy to antagonize or to weaken other denominations
and the field appeared to be fully covered by the churches
already here. It was this spirit that resulted in the
success that he had in organizing other churches and winning
friends for them. The churches at Villa Ridge, Cobden, Alto
Pass and probably others, has reason to remember Rev. Mr.
Tompkins with the
deepest feeling of love and esteem.
John, the 3-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H.
Baker, died this
morning about 10 o’clock of malarial fever at the home of E.
M. Arey, No. 3112
Poplar Street. He had been ill for several weeks.
The funeral will leave the residence tomorrow Friday, May
22, for Dongola, Ill., where interment will be made.
(J. S. Dille
married L. M. Kennedy
on 12 Mar 1870, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
L. F. Crain married Madora Kennedy
on 23 Dec 1879, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
William
Puddefhall married Effie May
Dille on 5 Apr
1892, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
Her marker in Cairo City Cemetery at Villa Ridge
reads: Elizabeth
M. Dille
1848-1908.—Darrel
Dexter)
(The 17 Jun 1908, issue gives the name of the woman who took
the infant as Mrs. E.
Hogue.—Darrel Dexter)
In a quarrel last night in the saloon of George
Douglas, at
Thebes, Will Moncez
was shot in the back by Will
Bailey, following
an assault made upon
Bailey by Moncez.
The shooting occurred about 10:30 o’clock.
The trouble, it is said, was the result of an old feud
existing between the two men, which was renewed last night.
It is stated that Bailey had voted the “dry” ticket at the recent election and
Moncez hearing of
it, got into an argument with
Bailey over the
matter.
Words were passed by both men and
Moncez struck
Bailey, knocking
him down and then jumped upon him, stamping his heels in
Bailey’s eyes.
Bailey left the
saloon and later returned with a gun, when he shot
Moncez.
Deputy Sheriff James
Rutledge attempted to arrest
Bailey, but the
latter resisted and City Marshal Harry
Holshouser went
to his assistance. The two officers overpowered the
man, but owing to his serious condition, he was taken to his
home, where he was given necessary attention.
Bailey,
until recently, was a marshal. He was a family of
nine. Moncez resided in Galesburg, Mo. He is also married.
Both men are in a serious condition and not expected to
live.
As a result of the recent election, seven saloons closed
their doors at Thebes last night.
Alto Pass, Ill., May 21.—Rev. James
Tompkins, D. D.,
who died at Grinnell, Ia., Monday morning was buried at
Galesburg, Tuesday. Dr.
Tompkins’ father,
Deacon Samuel
Tompkins, was one of the founders of Galesburg and of
Knox College, of which Dr.
Tompkins was a graduate.
Dr. Tompkins was
born in Galesburg, April 6th, 1847, and was proud
of the fact that he was an Illinois man. His parents
were Eastern people. He was ordained a minister of the
gospel at Glenn Ellyn and was at one time pastor of the
First Congregational Church of Minneapolis, Minn., and was
for twenty-five years Superintendent of the Illinois Home
Missionary Society. Three years ago he was advised by
his physician at Oak Park to give up the arduous duties of
his position and seek a milder climate. Accordingly he
accepted a call from the churches here and at Cobden.
Last fall he was compelled to give up Cobden, on
account of failing health and accepted a call from the
church here for his entire time.
Several months ago he went to Grinnell, Ia., for an extended
rest, fully expecting that he would be able to return to his
charge. His health continued failing, however, and he
was compelled to relinquish his earnest desire to visit Alto
Pass at least before death should claim him.
Dr. Tompkins was
an unusually strong, clean man of wide education and culture
and had that distinct mark of greatness, the ability to
handle men of every class and opinion.
He received his Doctor of Divinity degree at the Chicago
Theological Seminary.
He was a wonderfully true follower of the Man of Galilee in
whose service he spent the greater part of his life.
In the Civil War he served in the Christian commission and
was recognized for his ability and faithfulness. He
was an honor to his religion and his country and his death
is mourned by all who knew him or his work and the memory of
his righteous life and kindly manner will long serve as an
incentive to noble endeavor and right living.
Dr. Alexander Munroe,
of Albion, is expected to preach a memorial sermon for Dr.
Tompkins in the
Congregational Church here Sunday.
Mrs. Tompkins and
four children survive the doctor. The children are
William C., of Chicago, Roy of Beloit, Wis., Prof. Seely K.,
of Cedar Falls, Ia., and Mrs. B. J.
Ricker, of
Grinnell, Ia.
(James Tompkins
married Ella A. Kelly
on 8 Sep 1869, in DuPage Co., Ill.
Benjamin J. Ricker married Mabel E.
Tompkins on 28 Dec 1897, in Cook Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mr. J. M. Sriedel
died this morning at 5 o’clock at his home in Mounds of old
age.
The deceased was well known in Pulaski County having resided
there since the Civil War.
He was seventy years of age and leaves a wife and one
brother. The brother resides in Wisconsin.
(The 29 May 1908,
Pulaski Enterprise gave his name as J. M.
Fridle.
J. M. Friddle,
51, of Beechwood, farmer, born in Germany, son of Chris
Friddle, married 2nd Mrs. Mary E.
Fehrenbach, 58, of Pulaski Co., Ill., on 19 May 1895, in Pulaski
Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Ford murder
case will probably be concluded tonight and given to the
jury for them to ponder over Sunday.
This afternoon, the defendant, John R.
Ford, took the
stand and told his story of the tragedy, relating that he
entered the rear room of the saloon to use the toilet and as
he did so Lewis
sprang up with an oath and advanced toward him with an open
knife in his hand, and that he then shot him.
The son of the victim of
Ford’s bullet, a
lad of 16, was called in rebuttal by the prosecution and he
declared that the knife that was found beside his father’s
body when he lay in the front of the saloon and which was
offered in evidence was not his father’s knife. Chief
Egan, Coroner McManus,
Officer Crowell,
and Officer Casey
also identified Ford’s
coat as the one he had on on the night of the shooting, but
said that they saw no cuts in the sleeve and side when they
had him under arrest at police headquarters.
The testimony was not concluded until late this afternoon
and then the arguments of the attorneys and the reading of
the instructions alone remained before the twelve men would
file out to take up the work of preparing their verdict
which will either turn John R.
Ford free as
justified in his act, or inflict punishment upon him for
taking the life of a fellow being.
This morning the prosecution conducted its direct evidence
and the defense placed its witnesses on the stand. The
witnesses for the prosecution, besides Joe
Kimmons, who was
with John W. Lewis
the night he was shot by John R.
Ford, were Walter
Pettis, the bartender at
Riddle’s saloon where the shooting occurred, S. S.
Halliday and Lee
Hanauer, who were
in the saloon drinking when the shooting occurred in the
back room, Dr. James
McManus, the coroner who testified as to the position in
the body of the wound, Officer J. M.
Cowell, who arrested Ford
after the shooting, and A. B.
Comings, who took
down the evidence at the coroner’s inquest.
The testimony of the defense was directed toward bringing
out a motive for the shooting to sustain the claim of
self-defense, and toward breaking down the testimony of the
star witness for the persecution, Joe
Kimmons.
Dr. G. H. McNemer,
who was in Botto’s
saloon on the night of the homicide, and a young man named
Jackson, who was
the bartender in
Botto’s then, both testified that
Lewis and
Kimmons were in
Botto’s shortly after 9 o’clock that night and that
Lewis was excited
and was threatening
Ford, while the other man (Kimmons)
was trying to calm him and get him to go home. Dr.
McNemer said he
heard Lewis say:
“I have always spent my money with John
Ford and then for
him to treat me that way! I’ll get even with him.”
Jackson testified
that Lewis said
that he was going to find him (Ford)
before he went home. Dr.
McNemer also
testified that he saw the two men later at the corner of
Eighth and Commercial, west side, and that
Lewis was still
talking loudly and the other man was trying to get him to go
home. Dr.
McNemer thought he saw something in
Lewis’ hand, but
on cross examination could not say that it was a knife.
H. S. Dunn, of
New Madrid, Mo., was another important witness for the
defense. He happened to be in Cairo on the night of
the shooting and was passing along Eighth Street from the
levee to Commercial Avenue, and saw a man run out of the
side door of Riddle’s
saloon. A few minutes after, he heard a shot fired.
He was positive that the man ran out of the saloon before
either shot was fired. The man was a small man and he
ran up toward the levee.
The testimony was brought out in the attempt to prove that
Kimmons left the
rear room of the saloon before the shooting and did not see
what took place between the two men.
John Coleman,
embalmer for Mrs.
Feith, the undertaker, testified that he took charge of
the body of Lewis
after the shooting and that he found no wounds on his head.
John Gardner,
bartender for Albert
Laurent at Eighth and Commercial at the time of the
shooting, said that
Lewis and Kimmons
were in that saloon at 10 o’clock in the morning of the day
of the shooting and were in there again between 4 and 5
o’clock in the afternoon. This contradicts
Kimmons’
statement that they came over at 3 o’clock in the afternoon
of that day. Gardner also stated that he went over across the street of
Riddle’s saloon
about five minutes after the shooting and that he saw a
knife lying beside Lewis’ body.
Guy P. Eichenberger
testified that John
Ford came into the Blue Front restaurant about 9:15
o’clock on the night of the shooting to get change. He
said that Ford
came after change nearly every night.
Ford’s saloon is
near the Blue Front Restaurant.
John Shepherd,
bartender at Ford’s,
testified that he gave
Ford the pistol
with which he shot
Lewis at 6 o’clock in the evening.
The prosecution in the
Ford murder case
won a victory Friday afternoon when Judge
Butler excluded
from the cross examination all reference to what took place
in Lee Beckwith’s
saloon on the night of the murder of John W.
Lewis.
The suit of Mrs. Will
Aldrich against the Illinois Central for damages for the
death of her husband while on duty was finished at Salem
Friday and the jury returned a verdict for $8,000.
Will Aldrich was
a brakeman and was killed by his train being crashed into
from the rear by an engine causing the cars on which he was
riding to buckle up and catch him. This is one of the
largest judgments of this kind ever secured in this county.—Centralia
Sentinel
John R. Ford,
slayer of James W.
Lewis on the night of October 30th last in
the rear of the saloon of Newton
Riddle at Eighth
and Commercial, was found not guilty by the jury at 2:30
Sunday morning and was released.
The trial came to an end at 9:30 Saturday night, when the
case went to the jury and they retired to prepare their
verdict.
The discharge of the defendant was no great surprise to
those who had followed the evidence as it was presented to
the jury. The case of the prosecution was not so
strong as it appeared before the coroner’s jury, and the
defense has built up grounds for self-defense that had
weight with the jury.
To friends, it is said that
Ford has made the
promise that he will quit the saloon business now that he
has gotten out of his trouble. Whether he will do so
remains to be seen.
Cairo Evening Citizen,
Tuesday, 26 May 1908:
DuQuoin, Ill., May 27.—Illinois Central train No. 2
northbound Monday afternoon ran over and instantly killed
George Settler,
82 years of age, at DuBois.
Setler,
who is a farmer living three miles east of DuBois, started
to cross the tracks in company with another gentleman.
His companion discovered the train upon them barely in time
to save his own life, but
Settler was
struck and run over, his body being badly crushed.
It was said the victim had been drinking, though only to
slight intemperance, and it is thought this together with
his feeble age, is responsible for his tragic death.
Springfield, Ill., May 28.—While his pardon was in the mail
on the way from Springfield to the Southern Penitentiary at
Chester, John Strong,
of St. Clair County, convicted of murder, died in the
penitentiary. An effort had been made to secure the
pardon of Strong on the ground that he had but a few more days to live and
last Friday Gov.
Deneen issued the commutation to take effect Saturday.
The commutation was mailed Friday night and reached the
penitentiary Saturday morning, but
Strong had died during the night.
Louis Nellum,
alias Louis James,
granted a new trial.
Oliver Welch,
wife murderer, given a life sentence.
William Walker,
who killed Tom Price
on Thirty-third Street, 45 years in the penitentiary.
This was the decision of Judge W. N.
Butler in the
circuit court this afternoon when he heard motions for new
trials, passed sentence upon prisoners and then adjourned
the May term of circuit court to term in course.
Judge Dewey and
M. J. Oshea presented the petition of Louis
Nellum for a new trial.
J. A. Dougherty,
colored, great criminal lawyer,
beau brummel and
lady killer, languished in the county jail today, charged
with securing money under false pretenses.
The charge was brought by Charles
Nellum, of
Brownsville, Tenn., father of Louis
Nellum, whom
Dougherty
represented or failed to represent as council in the trial
of Nellum for
killing a white man named
Dougherty.
The elder Nellum
is here from Brownsville to look after his son’s interests,
and to secure for him a new trial. If that is possible, to
save him from the gallows for the jury brought in a verdict
finding Nellum
guilty of the murder of a Pat
Dougherty and
fixed his punishment at death.
Dougherty,
according to sworn testimony in the hands of Judge W. S.
Dewey and
Attorney M. J. O’Shea,
who have been retained by the father to represent
Nellum, came to
Louis Nellum when
he was in jail and represented himself as a great criminal
lawyer of Frankfort, Ky. He said that he could clear
Nellum and wanted
the defendant to pay him $100.
Nellum did not have any money except $1.75, which was due him at the
Singer Factory. He gave the negro lawyer an order for
that and he got it, saying that he would use it to write
letter for Nellum.
The negro lawyer then went to Brownsville, Tenn., to see the
father of the defendant, and told him what a great criminal
lawyer he was at Cairo and that he had been employed by his
son to defend him and he succeeded in getting $168 from the
old man. He also represented that he was a preacher as
well as a lawyer and preached in the pulpits of a number of
the churches around there, taking up collections to aid in
the defense of Nellum.
Later he secured an additional $150 from the father, making
in all about $400 that he worked the people of Brownsville
for to be used in the defense of Louis
Nellum.
In the affidavit, which sets forth some of these facts,
Louis Nellum states that there are at least two eye witnesses to the
homicide who will testify that they saw Patrick
Dougherty advanced on Nellum
in a threatening manner, addressing him with an oath and
having his hand on his hip pocket at the time. These
witnesses are Jesse Owens and Joe Cooper.
It is charged that the negro lawyer made no attempt to
secure these witnesses at the trial, although the defendant
had given the lawyer their name.
The Jackson Sun of
Sunday says: Jack
Pyles, a Jackson
negro, was reported to have been host Saturday morning by M.
& O. Passenger Conductor
Crabtree while
endeavoring to steal a ride on the Decoration Day excursion
train to Cairo. The shooting occurred several miles
north of the city and it is stated was the result of the
negro’s persistent efforts to beat his way on the train.
The negro was brought back to this city in a dangerous
condition, the bullet having penetrated the abdomen and
attending physicians gave out but small hope of his recovery
Saturday night.
The little 3-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Shaw, on No. 224
Twentieth Street, died this afternoon about 3 o’clock.
The remains will be taken to Princeton for burial.
Deputy Sheriff Patrick
Mahoney and
Jailer Abernathie
left early this morning with six prisoners for the
penitentiary at Chester. Oliver
Walsh, wife
murderer; William
Walker, who killed Tom
Price; December
Smith, for robbing M. &O. freight car; William
Farrington for
robbery; Hosa Dokes
for attempted murder; “Hog” high robbery were the prisoners.
(Thomas Mosely
married Josephine
Hunt on 7 Sep 1868, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
Clyde Mosley, 19, of Mound City, married Mary
Cobbs, 19, of Mound City, on 15 Sep 1896, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.—Darrel Dexter)
John M. Browning,
a pioneer DuQuoin merchant formerly engaged in business in
Murphysboro, died in St. Louis Saturday and was buried at
DuQuoin Monday afternoon. He was born in Benton 51
years ago and started in business at DuQuoin with a capital
of $500. Later he entered the coal business and of
late years had resided in St. Louis. He owned the
Browning mines at
DuQuoin and was associated with Judge
Wall, W. K.
Murphy and other
well-known southern Illinois financiers.
Bob Pyles, the
Jackson negro who it is claimed was shot Saturday morning by
the Mobile & Ohio train Auditor
Tobin, while
en route to Cairo on the Decoration Day excursion train, died at his
home on South Mobile Avenue, near
McCabe’s Flour
Mill, Sunday morning at 3 o’clock, says the
Jackson Sun.
It is said that at the time of the shooting the negro was
attempting to steal a ride on the excursion train and
persisted on jumping back on the train after being put off.
On account of the nature of the wound, the attending
physicians, Drs. Gilsie
Saunders and James Troutt,
entertained but slight hope of the negro’s recovery.
The bullet entered the abdomen and after plowing its way
through the intestines lodged in the muscles of the back.
Train Auditor Tobin,
it is said, cannot be located.
The statement in The
Citizen that
Conductor Crabtree
had shot a negro on a Mobile & Ohio train last Saturday,
while attempting to put him off the train for stealing a
ride, is incorrect and does an injustice to that official.
The shooting was not done by Conductor
Crabtree or any
member of his train crew. The
Jackson Sun, from
which the first item was copied, now states that it is
claimed that the shooting was done by Train Auditor
Robins. Elsewhere in today’s issue of
The Citizen we publish the time from the Jackson paper.
Conductor Crabtree,
who was in the city today, says that he was told that there
were eight or nine negroes on the head end of the train, and
he went ahead to put them off. He stopped the train
and the negroes got off. One of them, Bob
Pyle, was the
last to get off. Just before they started ahead, a
shot was fired and Conductor
Crabtree says he
thought that someone had fired it to scare the negroes.
He saw no one fall, and did not know that
Pyles had been
hit as he did not even see him duck when the shot was fired.
This happened on the regular train, No. 4, and it was not
until the excursion arrived in Cairo later in the day that
Conductor Crabtree
learned that the negro had been shot. He died Sunday
morning.
An unknown negro boy, aged about 16 years, was drowned this
morning about 11 o’clock in a pond of water at the north end
of Washington Avenue between the Cairo & Thebes embankment
and the M. & O. embankments. He was in swimming there
with a white boy named Norman
Bartell. A
railroad tie, which he was holding to in the water, got
loose from him and he sank three times. The third time
he did not come up and
Bartell quickly
spread the alarm. Coroner
McManus was
notified and made efforts to find the body. John
Coleman and
several others were diving for the body, but could not find
it. Bartell
and the negro came from Carbondale this morning and were on
their way south.
The pond was dragged this afternoon and the body was found.
A.M. Skeen, who
was injured at P. T.
Langan’s planing mill several days ago, died this
morning at 3 o’clock at the infirmary. His father
arrived and had the remains shipped to London, Tenn., at
1:25 o’clock this afternoon. The deceased was injured
while working at a rip saw which threw a piece of wood
striking him in the stomach and entering about four inches.
WELL KNOWN MOUND CITY LADY DEAD
Mrs. Mary Friganza,
aged 68, of Mound City, died Thursday afternoon at 3 o’clock
after a long illness. She was an invalid and since the death
of a son two years ago, she has been gradually growing
worse. The deceased has resided in Mound City for 40
years and was very well known there. He was a member
of the Congregational Church and is survived by three
children and one brother. The children are Mrs. Ida H.
McCartney, Mrs. J. B.
Huckleberry and W. T.
Friganza, all of
Mound City. The brother is John
Harrington, of
Memphis, Tenn. Funeral services will be held at the
Congregational church Sunday afternoon and interment will be
made at Beech Grove Cemetery.
(Her marker in Beech Grove Cemetery at Mounds reads:
Mary A.
Friganza Born July 3, 1840 Died June 4, 1908.—Darrel
Dexter)
Miss Sarah Causey,
aged 14 years, died this morning at the home of her parents,
at No. 629 Sixteenth Street, of consumption. She will
be taken to Norris City in the morning on the Big Four.
Mrs. C. L. Downey,
who is visiting in DuQuoin, says her husband’s brother,
Lewis Downey,
died in Indianapolis, February 1st, of pneumonia.
His parents live near Indianapolis. Lewis
Downey came here
with his father, J. J.
Downey, about
thirteen years ago to put in DuQuoin telephone system.
C. L. Downey was
here frequently from Cincinnati aiding them in the work and
so met for the first time Miss Nell
Jakle, who became
his wife. He is now president of the Circular
Advertising Co., of Cincinnati and doing well.—DuQuoin
Call.
(Clement Lee Downey
married Nelle A.
Jakle on 22 Dec 1898, in Perry Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The body of an unknown white man was found on the Illinois
Central track about a half mile south of Cache Bridge about
11:20 o’clock this morning. It was found by a freight
crew and J. B.
Scoville, of No. 1703 Poplar Street, head of the crew,
reported it to headquarters. The body was found near
the south bound track and appeared to be that of a man of
about 25 years of age. He was well dressed in dark
clothing and wore a derby. There were few cuts or
bruises about his body. It is thought that he fell
from a train. Coroner
McManus was notified and had the body brought in on the suburban
this evening.
Sam Bogus, a
negro of Tiptonville, Tenn., was killed yesterday morning in
a box car of lumber at Bird’s Point, Mo.
Bogus was in the
car with another negro from Mounds and the engine bumped
against the car and the two were caught in the lumber, which
shifted about the car. The accident occurred about
9:30 o’clock. The victim will probably be buried at
Bird’s Point.
Two families were prostrated with grief today, when two
little 13-year-old boys fell victims to two mighty rivers,
the Mississippi claiming Jesse
Miller, of Cairo, as its victim—the Ohio claiming Fred
Mecham, of Mound
City.
Jesse Miller,
aged 13 years, eldest son of County Clerk and Mrs. Jesse E.
Miller, of Center
Street, was drowned this morning while in swimming in the
Mississippi River on the west side of the city.
The boy cried for help and young
Easley threw a
pole out to him, but the latter failed to grasp it and was
soon swept out of sight, leaving his two companions on the
bank, crying and frightened, when they realized the awful
fate which had befallen one of their number.
The accident occurred just north of Twenty-first Street,
near the Greenfield ferry landing about 11:15 o’clock.
After the body was lost from view,
Gibson hurried to
the office of the Cairo Milling Company on West Twenty-first
Street where he notified Mr.
Sutherland of the
accident, the latter notifying the boy’s father and Coroner
McManus.
A search is being made for the body, but up to the hour of
going to press, the body had not been recovered.
Gibson
is a son of William H.
Gibson, of 2101
Pine Street, while
Easley’s relatives reside at 412 Nineteenth Street.
Mr. and Mrs. Miller
have the deepest sympathy of the entire community in their
bereavement.
A diver is now engaged in searching for the body.
Fred Mecham, aged
13 years, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lyum
Mecham, of Mound
City, was drowned this morning, while in swimming in the
Ohio River there, in company with some other boys. The
body was recovered.
(Jesse E. Miller
married Fluanna Short
on 1 Sep 1889, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Hon. William S.
Forman, lawyer, railroad builder and former Congressman,
died at Champaign Wednesday morning, where he went to see
his son graduated from the law school of the University of
Illinois. Mr.
Forman built the St. Louis Valley line now a part of the
Iron Mountain system. He was candidate for governor on
the gold Democratic ticket in 1896. Previously he had
served several terms in Congress and was commissioner of
internal revenue under President
Cleveland.
An engine exploded in the roundhouse at Chaffee, Mo.,
Wednesday, killing the fireman who was working about the
engine.
Coroner McManus
held an inquest last night at the undertaking parlors of
Mrs. M. E. Feith
over the body of the white man who was found Wednesday
morning at the bottom of the I. C. embankment about half a
mile south of Cache Bridge. The verdict was that the
unknown white man came to his death by failing, being thrown
or knocked from a moving train. His neck, right ankle
and right arm were broken, besides a number of other
bruises. There was nothing on his person to identify
him. He was buried today.
The body of Jesse
Miller, son of County Clerk Jesse E.
Miller, who was
drowned in the Mississippi River Wednesday afternoon, was
found about 9 o’clock this morning about 75 feet below the
point where he went down. Diver William
Parker found it
the first time he went down this morning. It was
caught in some willows which prevented it being swept away
by the swift current. The diver tied a rope around it
and it was drawn ashore. Later it was taken to
Burke & Blaine’s
undertaking establishment, where it was prepared for burial.
An inquest was held there by Coroner
McManus this
morning and a verdict returned of accidental drowning.
The boy’s feet were drawn up showing that he was fighting to
gain the surface of the water when he was drawn under and
his life extinguished.
A report that a man was killed by a train on the M. & O.
tracks around the loop could not be verified. Chief of
Police Egan sent
two officers to investigate and they searched for him as far
as Davis Junction, but could not find him. The report
was made by an engineer on a passenger train, who thought he
saw a man lying by the track badly injured.
The funeral of Jesse
Miller, who was drowned in the Mississippi Wednesday,
will be held tomorrow at the Methodist church. The
arrangement have not been definitely concluded so the hour
of the funeral cannot yet be stated.
Funeral services over the remains of Jesse
Miller, whose
young life was ended in the swift waters of the Mississippi
River last Wednesday, were held this afternoon and a large
concourse of friends and relatives followed the remains to
their last earthly resting place in Beech Grove Cemetery.
Services were held at the family residence on Center Street
and then the public funeral was held at the First Methodist
Church at Eighth and Walnut streets, conducted by Rev. W. T.
Morris, pastor of
the church.
Rev. A. S. Buchanan,
pastor of the Presbyterian Church, assisted in the service
and a ladies’ quartette composed of Mrs. B. R.
Thistlewood, Mrs.
Calhoun, Mrs. Starzinger,
and Mrs. Holt
sang the hymns.
The twenty-six members of the Class of ‘12 of the Cairo High
School attended in a body, following to the grave the first
of their number to graduate from earth.
A number of friends and relatives were in attendance from
out of town among them, Mr. and Mrs. William
Brown, and Mrs.
J. S. McRaven, of
Creal Springs, Mr. F. A.
Short of Elco, C.
E. Miller and
family and Mrs. Anna J.
Whiteaker, of
Willard.
Jesse Miller was
a lad of more than ordinary promise. He was a member
of the class which recently graduated from the eighth grade
of the Cairo schools into the high school. He was a
strong, active, healthy boy, a fine physical type, and yet
was a good boy as well, for he was the president of the
Junior Epworth League of the Methodist Church. It was
his enjoyment of outdoor sports that led to his death.
His father had promised to teach him to swim, but he could
not wait and in his eagerness to learn, went in swimming in
one of the most treacherous places in the river, was caught
in the under current and dragged down to his death.
The pallbearers were John A.
Sammons, Prof. T.
C. Clendenen,
Phil C. Barclay, W. M. Hurt, J.
T. Boyd, F. P.
Haines, T. L. Pulley and
Ira Hastings.
I.C. SPECIAL OFFICER DROWNED AT PADUCAH
Exhausted from a swim of about 200 yards, Dick
Tolbert, special
police officer for the Illinois Central railroad, was
drowned this morning at 8 o’clock at the Twin Lakes on the
farm of Robert Noble,
about six miles from Paducah, says yesterday’s
Paducah Sun.
Although his friends were on the bank and frantic efforts
were used to rescue him, he went down twice. The body
was recovered in about six minutes and despite nearly an
hour’s work by his companions, life never returned.
His body was brought to the city this afternoon and Coroner
Frank Eaker will
hold an inquest at 4 o’clock at the parlors of the
Mattil, Efinger, &
Roth.
Tolbert,
with thirteen members of the Illinois Central Fishing Club,
of which he was president, left Paducah this morning at 4:30
o’clock for the lakes. They reached the lakes about 6
o’clock and began arranging their seines. Only four of
the party could swim and while some members of the party
were seining with a small net for minnows,
Tolbert, Clarence
Ellithorpe,
George Hart and Rome Smith, who
could swim, were dragging the big seine. Whenever it
caught on a snag, the four would dive and loosen it.
Tolbert was a
large man and became exhausted.
Leo Shetler, a
Cairo boy, was drowned in the Ohio River at Evansville Ind.,
Friday, while in swimming. He was the eldest son of A.
Shetler, a
broker. The particulars of the accident were not
learned.
Miss Mary Darmody,
the 15-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Darmody, of No.
2214 Washington Avenue, died Sunday at 12 o’clock. Death was
due to typhoid fever from which she has been ill for about
four weeks. She was a student in the freshman class at
the Cairo High School and is the second daughter to pass
away in a little more than a year, Miss Anna
Darmody having
died June 6, 1907. The deceased was very popular among
her circle of friends. Thomas
Darmody the
father of the deceased, who has been very low for some time,
was reported a little better today.
The funeral will be held tomorrow at 1:30 o’clock from St.
Joseph’s Church and the remains will be buried at Villa
Ridge cemetery.
(Thoma Darmody
married Anastatia
Farrell on 27 Apr 1880, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Henry L. Kinnear,
an old resident of Cairo, died at Anna, where he was a
patient in the hospital for the insane Saturday and the
remains were buried today in Villa Ridge cemetery under the
auspices of Alexander Lodge I. O. O. F. of which the
deceased was a member.
Three months ago Mr.
Kinnear was taken to the institution for treatment.
His death was expected when news came of his extremely
critical condition. Failing health is believed to have
been the cause of the loss of his mind.
Mr. Kinnear, who
was over 70 years of age, leaves a widow and one daughter,
Miss Cora, who reside on west Twelfth Street. He was
one of the old resident of Cairo and followed contracting
until ill health compelled him to give up active pursuits.
(His marker in Cairo City Cemetery at Villa Ridge reads:
Henry Kinnear
Born Feb. 16, 1831 Died June 13, 1908 Malital wife of James
Kinnear Born Sept. 30, 1806 Died Feb. 21, 1892.—Darrel
Dexter)
The funeral of Miss Mary
Darmody, aged 15,
who died Sunday was held this afternoon. The services were
held at St. Joseph’s Church and a special train left
Fourteenth Street for Villa Ridge cemetery where interment
was made. A large number of friends attended.
We desire to extend our heartfelt thanks to the friends and
neighbors who were so unstinted and generous in their
attentions at the death of our son and brother, Jesse S.
Miller.
Especially do we wish to thank those who labored so
unceasingly in their attempt to recover his body from the
Mississippi River, forgetting their own physical discomforts
and their own cares in the one attempt to relieve our
sorrow.
The little baby that Mrs. E.
Hogue took to
keep after its mother, who was a traveling woman, died here
last spring, died Sunday of a complication of diseases.
Mrs. Hogue
deserves much credit for the care and nursing she did for
the little orphan. (Wetaug)
(The 1900 census of Wetaug and the 1910 census of Ullin
lists her name Mary M.
Hogue, wife of Edward Hogue,
born March 1870.
Edward Hogue, 19,
born in Carmi, Ill., son of William
Hogue and
Samantha Badgley,
married Marzilla M.
Langston, 18, born in Cape Girardeau Co., Mo., daughter
of Hiram Langston
and Mary Loil, on
2 Apr 1889, in Union Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Henry Butts, aged
71, a veteran of the Civil War, died Thursday afternoon
about 3 o’clock at his home, No. 511 Thirty-sixth Street.
The deceased had been ill for some time with dropsy, which
was the cause of his death. He was a member of Warren
Stewart Post G. A. R. and is survived by three sons and a
daughter.
The funeral was held at 12:30 o’clock today at the residence
and the remains were taken to Elco on the Mobile & Ohio
railroad at 1:40 p.m. where interment was made.
Burke and
Blaine had charge of the funeral.
(Henry Butts
enlisted on 12 Aug 1862, as a private in Co. D, 29th
Illinois Infantry and was discharged at Cairo for disability
on 12 Aug 1863.
Henry Butts
married Josephine
Newman on 18 Nov 1869, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Sergeant Cowell
and Officer French arrested a negro murderer last night named Bill
Tyree, who is
wanted at New Madrid, Mo. He was arrested about a half
hour after he had arrived in Cairo at the home of a negress
named Vincient,
at the corner of Douglas and Cedar streets.
Tyree first denied the charge, but later confessed. He said he
was very angry because his wife left him and married another
negro. A few days later he shot his wife’s new husband
with a single barrel shotgun.
Tyree
agreed to return to New Madrid without requisition papers
and officers from that place are expected to arrive soon.
An Evansville, Ind., paper has this account of the drowning
of Leo Shetler.
Leo J. Shetler, a
traveling salesman for
Inglehart Bros.,
was drowned yesterday morning in Upper Green River while
attempting to swim across the stream to secure a boat.
Shetler
was driving from Rochester to Mammoth Cave, accompanied by a
young boy as driver. About eight miles from
Brownsville, while skirting Green River,
Shetler saw a row boat on the opposite side of the river. He
swam over to secure it and while attempting to do so he was
seized with cramps and drowned. The body has not yet
been recovered.
The father of the drowned man is Anton
Shetler, also a
traveling salesman for
Inglehart
Brothers. The son was making only his third trip for
the firm when the accident occurred. He had expected
to come home on Wednesday of next week to celebrate his 21st
birthday.
The father of the boy was located in Meridian, Miss., last
night and will return at once to this city. Besides
his father, the deceased is survived by his mother and a
brother, Roy Shetler.
He made his home with his parents at 2015 Main
Street.
R. McKay, one of
Cairo’s oldest citizens, fainted yesterday afternoon on
Fourteenth near Poplar Street and received severe injuries
from a fall. He was attended to by Dr. James
McManus and was
removed to St. Mary’s Infirmary where it was learned today
that he is better, but it is thought he will not recover.
He is very old and was formerly employed at P. T.
Langan’s planing
mill.
(This is probably the same person whose death is mentioned
in the 22 jun 1908, issue as Capt. W. D.
McKay.—Darrel
Dexter)
Dorothy Lee Shepard,
the young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lon
Shephard, died
this morning at the home of her parents, 741 Thirty-fifth
Street. The child was ten months old and death was due
to a complication of diseases. The remains will be
taken to Wickliffe, Ky., tomorrow morning for interment.
Capt. W. D. McKay,
an old resident of this city, died at his home on Ninth
Street Saturday evening. He was seventy-six years of
age and had resided in Cairo thirty-five years. He was
a fine mechanic and was for some time employed at
Langan’s Mill as
a finisher.
He was a veteran of the Civil War, serving on the
Confederate side under Gen.
Lyons. He was the last survivor of a party of fifty-six, who
in 1858 went to the assistance of the president at
Nicaragua. After the war he settled in Louisville,
Ky., where he became a leading contractor. He is
survived by two sons, James D., of Kerrville, Texas; and R.
W. McKay, of San
Francisco, Cal.; also a daughter, Mrs. M.
Coleman, of this
city. Interment was at Arlington, Ky., today.
The remains were shipped there by
Burke and
Blaine the
undertakers.
(Albert V. Coleman
married Mary McKay
on 30 Apr 1890, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Murphysboro, Ill., June 22.—Dr. O. L.
Daniel, aged 38,
died at 10 o’clock Sunday morning at St. Andrew’s Hospital
from malarial fever. He was one of the most prominent
and successful physicians in Southern Illinois and was a
member of the Jackson County Medical Association, Elks,
Knight of Pythias, and other organizations.
Anna, Ill., June 22—Jacob
Hileman died at
his home in this city Sunday morning from an attack of
gangrene, at the age of 84 years and 6 months. He was
one of the oldest native-born citizens of Union County,
having been born December 21, 1823. His parents
emigrated from North Carolina in 1800 and settled on what is
now the site of the Illinois Southern Hospital for the
Insane. Mr.
Hileman was defeated for sheriff on the Democratic
ticket in 1870, but ran independently and was elected.
In 1884 he came out for
Blaine and
thereafter was a Republican.
The surviving children are: Philip W., John L., George
T., and Charles C., of Anna, Mrs. Ellen D.
Staub, of Kansas
City. The funeral occurred Monday afternoon at 2
o’clock at the Presbyterian church, Rev. J. R. E.
Craighead
officiating.
(Charles E. Staub,
26, blacksmith, born in Washington, son of James
Staub and
Henrietta Hannsbury,
married Ellen Hileman,
25, born in Anna, Ill., daughter of Jacob
Hileman and Tenna
L. Sifford, on 25
Dec 1881, in Union Co., Ill.
His marker in Anna City Cemetery reads:
Jacob Hileman
Born Dec. 21, 1823 Died June 21, 1908 Tena L. wife of Jacob
Hileman Born Oct.
2, 1825 Died March 29, 1892.—Darrel
Dexter)
Late yesterday afternoon an unknown man was struck by a
train in the Illinois Central yards and probably fatally
injured. The accident occurred near Cairo Junction.
He was taken to St. Mary’s Infirmary and given immediate
attention. He was resting easily this morning, but is
still in an unconscious state. There was nothing on
his person to indicate who he is and his identity remains a
mystery. He is a middle aged man. A fractured
skull is his principal injury.
Mrs. Alda R. Smith,
an old resident of Cairo, died at her home in Future City
last night, at the age of 82 years. She leaves two
granddaughters and a grandson.
Burke &
Blaine had charge
of the funeral and interment was at Villa Ridge cemetery
today.
(Her marker in Cairo City Cemetery at Villa Ridge reads:
Alda R. Smith
Died June 23, 1908 Aged 20 Years.—Darrel
Dexter)
William H. Stoner,
old resident of Cairo and veteran of the Civil War, died
during the night at his home on Park Avenue near
Twenty-ninth Street. His lifeless body was found at 4
o’clock this morning.
Coroner McManus
summoned a jury this morning and found that the deceased
died from natural causes. A widow survives him.
(William H. Stoner
married Louisiana
Hardy on 7 Jan 1876, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The unknown man who was struck by a train late Monday
evening at Cairo junction and who was later taken to St.
Mary’s Infirmary was reported easy today at that
institution. As there was nothing on his person to
indicate who he is and as he is still unconscious, his
identity remains a mystery.
C. H. Denison, of
Marion, father of L. E.
Denison, of the
Denison-Gholson Dry Goods
Company, died at his home this morning of heart trouble.
Mr. and Mrs. Denison
left at noon for Marion.
Mr. Denison was
president of the Marion State Bank and was a man of wealth
and prominence in Williamson County. He was about
seventy-five years of age.
Attorney E. E.
Denison is also a son of the deceased.
The funeral will be held Sunday.
(C. H. Denison
married Mary E. Bundy
on 22 Mar 1869, in Williamson Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
DIED THIS MORNING
Joseph Edline
died this morning about 10:30 o’clock at St. Mary’s
Infirmary after a long illness of consumption.
Burke and
Blaine have charge of the funeral.
Lexington, Ky., June 27.—Henry
Miller, aged 104
years, grew tired of life at Harrisburg in Mercer County,
and committed suicide Friday by taking paris green. He
was one of the oldest men in Kentucky.
John Shaw, of
Olive Branch, who was severely injured Thursday morning when
a traction engine which he was running went through a bridge
and who was later removed to St. Mary’s Hospital, is in a
very bad condition.
Herman Warner, a
negro about 35 years of age, residing near Hough, Mo., Bend,
dropped dead this afternoon about 2 o’clock in Dr.
Fields’ office at
Twelfth and Poplar streets.
He was sitting in a chair and had been feeling ill, when
suddenly he fell over and died within a few minutes.
The remains were taken to Mrs.
Feith’s undertaking apartments.
Coroner McManus
held an inquest and it was found death resulted from a
pulmonary hemorrhage.
Joseph Edline
died Saturday about 10:30 o’clock at St. Mary’s Infirmary
after a long illness of consumption.
Burke &
Blaine have charge of the funeral.
Murphysboro Republican-Era:
Saturday morning shortly after 11 o’clock an extra
northbound freight train on the Mobile & Ohio railroad drawn
by engines No. 58 and 184 with Engineers
Glass and
Bourse at the throttles was wrecked in rock cut on Alto Hill, one
mile south of Pomona. Members of the crew ran to Pomona
station with the news and got a telegram through to
Murphysboro in time to hold passenger No. 4, which was
standing.
Soon after the wreck occurred, Brakeman Kenneth
West was found to
be missing and after searching the wreckage for a half hour,
his mangled body was found at the bottom of the splintered
cars. It is thought that Brakeman
West jumped
before the car which he was on left the track, only to be
crushed to death later when tons of wreckage fell upon him.
Deceased was a son of Mr. and Mrs. William
West, of this
city, and was married more than one year ago to Miss Alice
Patrick, who, with an infant daughter, survives him. The
remains were brought to this city Saturday afternoon at 2:30
o’clock and taken to the D. L.
Boucher
undertaking establishment on Eleventh Street.
The case of the wreck is thought to be a broken flange.
The train was going a good speed with the wreck occurred and
five box cars left the track with much force and some were
splintered against the rocks in the cut. The track was
spread for over fifty yards and many ties were torn up.
Southern bound passenger trains number 2 and 4 left
Murphysboro for the south
via the Illinois Central railroad as it was reported that five hours
would be required in which to remove the wreckage and clear
the main line.
Cairo Evening Citizen,
Wednesday, 1 Jul 1908:
John Shaw, who
was injured at Olive Branch on Wednesday of last week when
the traction engine he was operating went through the bridge
there, died from his injuries this morning at 7:15 o’clock
at St. Mary’s Infirmary.
He was married and leaves a widow and two children, a boy
and a girl.
The remains will be taken to Olive Branch on
Bryan’s train
this evening for interment and the funeral will be held at
Willard.
Mrs. Nancy Dill Floyd,
wife of John Edward
Floyd, died this morning at 1:05 o’clock at her home
3800 Highland Avenue. Death was due to a congestive
chill, she having been ill only a few days. The
deceased is survived by two children, Flossie, aged 3, and
Oscar, 18 months. Her husband, John
Floyd, is
employed as engineer at the Cairo Electric and Traction
Company’s power house. Funeral services will be held
Sunday morning at 11 o’clock at the Southern Methodist
Church at Thirty-seventh and Elm streets. The funeral
will leave the Illinois Central station at 1:30 p.m. for
Beech Grove Cemetery, where interment will be made.
Burke &
Blaine have charge of the funeral.
Mrs. J. B. Smith
died Wednesday morning at 2 o’clock at the family home, 1740
Harrison Street, of bronchitis, says the
Paducah News-Democrat.
She had been ill for some time and was taken suddenly worse
Tuesday. Her husband, Capt. J. B.
Smith, of the
steamboat Nellie,
was called home and reached here Tuesday afternoon.
Mrs. Smith was 45
years of age. She leaves besides her husband, four children,
one girl, Miss Ollie
Smith, aged 16, and three small boys, Fred, Bert and Earl.
Also four sisters and two brothers, Mrs. Ella
Swiney, of Cairo, Ill., Mrs. Eva
Wilson, of Willard, Ill., Mrs. George
Fritus, of Ohio, and one other sister; Mr. George
Windland, of
Marion, Ill., and Mr. John
Windland, of
Caravalla, Ark.
It is the second death in the family in the last years.
Mrs. Charles Thomas, a daughter of Capt. and Mrs.
Smith, died in January.
Mrs. Smith was a
woman of fine character and a devoted wife and mother.
Mrs. E. Curley,
aged 67, wife of W. P.
Curley, died last
evening at her home on Thirty-seventh Street. The
remains were taken to Temple Hill, Pope County, at 6 o’clock
this morning, where interment will be made today. The
deceased is survived by her husband and several daughters.
Word has been received here of the death of John
Angermann, an
uncle of Office Fred
Hofheinz, who died Friday morning at Washington, D.C.
The deceased was 87 years of age and retired. The
funeral was held Monday afternoon.
Charles H. Alsobrook
was crushed to death Monday afternoon at Bird’s Point, Mo.,
by a small building falling on him which was being moved
across the tracks.
He was about 20 years old and was a member of the bridge and
building gang for the Cotton Belt. The gang was
engaged in moving a small building across the tracks which
was a part of the depot.
Alsobrook was
under the building and one of the tracks slipped throwing
the building on him, crushing him to death. The
accident happened at 4:05 o’clock and the young man’s
father, who is also a member of the gang, was present when
the accident happened.
Burke &
Blaine have
charge of the remains and they will be taken to the family
home at Ardeola, Mo., today. The deceased was
unmarried.
Rev. B. F. Utley,
pastor of the Methodist Church of Mound City, passed away at
9 o’clock this morning of tuberculosis, after an illness of
several weeks.
Thus passed away a life of usefulness, devoted to his work
for the betterment of mankind, an almost ideal life.
Rev. Mr. Utley
was 37 years of age. He was a native of Johnson County
and his father was a Presbyterian minister. He held a
number of charges in Alexander County, going to Mound City
from Thebes in September 1906, succeeding to the pastorate
of the Methodist Church on the death of Rev. Mr.
Littell. He
leaves a widow and five little girls, the oldest ten years
old. Besides he has several brothers and sisters
living in Johnson County.
The remains will be taken to Belknap for burial.
Rev. Mr. Utley
was regarded as a strong man. He was nearest in his
work and a great favorite with the people. In the
election last fall which resulted in voting the saloons out
of Mound City, he was most active.
Funeral services will be held at the Methodist church
tomorrow afternoon and the remains will be taken to Belknap
for interment.
(Bennie F. Utley,
son of Thomas J.
Utley, married Sarah Bean on 29
Sep 1897, in Johnson Co., Ill.
Thomas J.
Utley married R. A.
Wiley on 17 May
1858, in Johnson Co., Ill.
Thomas J. Utley, 55, from Vienna, Ill., born in Marshall Co., Ky., son of
Gabriel Utley and
Elisibeth Miller,
married Mrs. Elisabeth C.
Emerson, 52, born
in Union Co., Ill., daughter of N. C.
Boswell and
Lovisa Cox, on 20
Oct 1892, in Union Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Samuel Collins of
the Pathe Theatre received word yesterday that his uncle, F.
J. Shaw, died at
Jackson, Tenn., that morning. Mr.
Collins left last night and will be gone for several days. The
deceased had been a railway mail clerk between Cairo and New
Orleans for 32 years and in the last two years he had been
chief mail clerk at the transfer station at Jackson having
been transferred on account of his age. He was 65
years of age. He died of Bright’s disease. In
the absence of Mr.
Collins, Miss Linnie
Green will sing
at the afternoon shows and Henry
Hasenjaeger will
sing at night.
(Christopher C. Hill
married Eliza Belle
Thompson on 19 Dec 1896, in Alexander Co., Ill.
John E. Floyd married Della Thompson
on 21 Feb 1897, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
(Her marker in Thebes Cemetery reads:
Violet L.
Tinsley Born Dec. 13, 1907 Died July 6, 1908.—Darrel
Dexter)
Ed Daniels died
last night at the infirmary. The deceased had been ill
at the infirmary for several weeks, having been brought here
from his home in Tiptonville, Tenn.
Albert Nelson,
engineer in the Illinois Central, died at St. Mary’s
Infirmary last night of typhoid fever after an illness of
about three weeks.
The deceased lived at Mounds where he leaves a widow and one
daughter.
(John S. Sadler
married Lizzie Mathis
on 3 Jan 1887, in Jackson Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Arkansas Gazette,
July 5: Harrison
Goss died at 6
o’clock yesterday morning at his residence, 415 East Ninth
Street. He was born in Clearfield, County, Pa.,
September 6, 1840, and moved to Little Rock in 1896 and
lived here the remainder of his life. He was a
railroad clerk by occupation. He leaves his wife and
three children, Clarence E.
Goss, connected
with the Iron Mountain Railroad; Emmett
Goss, connected
with the Little Rock Cotton Oil Mill; and Miss Laura of this
city. He was married December 25, 1864, to Miss
Caroline Houseman.
Death was caused by bowel trouble from which Mr.
Goss suffered for
about a year.
Herman Johnson,
alias Ed Williams,
alias Hammond
Jones is on trial at Aurora, Mo., charged with the killing of James
Evans and
seriously shooting
Ryan in that county.
Besides the frightful charge against him in that county,
Johnson is also
wanted in Mississippi County for the killing of John
Burkman, at
Bird’s Point, Mo., and in Alexander County, Illinois, for
the murder of Frank
Beck at McClure. All the murders were committed in
a period of three weeks and all were most heartless.
Johnson
served a term in the Arkansas penitentiary for an attempt to
kill at the age of 18 years. On his release, he went
to Kentucky and shortly thereafter he is traced through
three states by a trail of blood that has few counterparts
in our criminal history, except the record of Harry
Orchard.
Beck was shot on
a lonely and abandoned railroad track near McClure and his
body hid in a hollow log. His body was found by some
school children. Three days later
Johnson is charged with killing
Burkman and sinking his body on the Mississippi River and two days
later with attempting to kill Otis
Wyatt at Poplar
Bluff and being prevented only by the man escaping from a
car where Johnson
had locked him in while
Johnson went to a
store to buy cartridges.
At Springfield,
Johnson met Ryan and Evans and the
three together went to Monett. There they boarded a
freight train and a short way out of Pierce City,
Johnson is said
to have demanded of
Evans his money. It was given him and then, while
Evans with
uplifted hands, pleaded piteously for his life,
Johnson shot him to death, it is alleged.
Johnson then
turned the weapon on
Ryan after getting what money
Ryan had and shot
him four times. Each shot took effect. While
rifling his pockets, he asked of
Ryan if he was
alive, and receiving no answer he left the car, thinking
both men dead.
Ryan although seriously wounded, lived to face his assailant after
five months of intense suffering. He readily
recognized the murderer and has positively identified him.
Johnson’s
entire record has been looked up and he admits his career in
the penitentiary. He, however, denies all complicity
in the murder of
Evans.
Judge Johnson has
appointed as prisoner
Johnson’s counsel, City Attorney James A.
Potter, of this
city, and John Turk,
of Mount Vernon.
(Harry Orchard
was convicted in March 1908 in Idaho for murder and on the
stands admitted to killing 17 people from 1899 to 1906 as a
hired union terrorist in Colorado and Idaho.—Darrel
Dexter)
CARD OF THANKS
I desire to express my thanks for the kindness shown me
during the illness and death of my husband, Carl Albert
Nelson.
Especially do I wish to thank the officials and employees of
the Illinois Central railroad and the members of the Masons
and Knights of Pythias lodges who were so kind and assisted
me during my bereavement.
The funeral of Carl Albert
Nelson, an
Illinois Central engineer of Mounds, who died at St. Mary’s
Infirmary Saturday, was held Sunday afternoon and was
largely attended. Six of the Illinois Central engines
were draped in mourning and run very slowly from the station
to the cemetery alongside the procession. All of the
railroad men including office forces were permitted to
attend the funeral. The funeral services were in
charge of the Masons and Eastern Star lodges and were
conducted by Rev. Mr.
Perry of the Congregational Church. The floral
offerings were numerous.
Springfield, Ill., July 14—The State Board of Pardons met
and continued to next term the cases of Guy E.
Smith for murder
and Samuel A. Mason
for rape, both from Alexander County.
Mrs. Jennie Roach,
mother of Matt Roach,
and a relative of Thomas E.
O’Shea, of Cairo,
died at her home in Grand Chain this morning, of cancer.
Mr. Roach and Mr.
O’Shea left on the afternoon train for Grand Chain to attend the
funeral.
A. H. Donoghue, a
former Cairoite, was killed Tuesday night in a wreck on the
Iron Mountain Railroad near Memphis, Tenn. He was
engineer on the Memphis Express, which crashed into a switch
engine killing him instantly. The accident was due to
the recent washouts along the line and the Memphis express,
which was southbound, was running on the northbound tracks.
He was removed to his home, No. 2313 South Eleventh Street,
St. Louis. Mr.
Donohue married Miss Mary
McCarthy, of this
city, and formerly resided here. William
Curren, of Fourth
Street, is a relative of the deceased.
Marion C. Wright,
formerly mayor of Cairo, and one of Cairo’s foremost
citizens, passed away at Orlando, Fla., last night at 10
o’clock. His death was a great shock to the people of
Cairo, who while knowing of his condition were not prepared
to hear of his demise.
Mr. Wright had
just recently left Cairo for Orlando. On Wednesday
night of last week he left here for Memphis, and after a
stop there of a few days, left there Sunday night. He
had apparently just reached Orlando, a day or two before
death overtook him. It was known that he dreaded the
trip and in the absence of more information it is believed
that the journey was too much for him.
Mr. Wright had
just completed a new house at Orlando and had shipped his
household goods there, but it is believed that he had not
lived to see his new home furnished and ready for occupancy.
No sketch of the life of one of the most remarkable men
Cairo has ever known as a citizen can be found, but from
many of his friends who have known him from young manhood,
The Citizen is
able to give the main facts in his life. One of these
is Dr. J. J. Jennelle, who was a most intimate associate of Mr.
Wright when both
were young men at DuQuoin.
Marion C. Wright
was probably 62 years of age. He was born near
Madison, Ind., and early took to the river. One of the
most important incidents in his life occurred during that
time. He was a clerk on the steamer
Cumberland that
blew up between Cairo and Paducah. He was quite
seriously injured in that memorable accident, as he was
hurled high in the air, and had to go to the hospital to
recover.
His next move seems to have been to come to Cairo and become
a clerk on the wharfboat, and for some time he was connected
with that institution in the palmy days of Cairo’s river
business.
Along about the year 1871 or 1872, he went to St. John’s as
superintendent of the coal, salt, coke and store interests
of Capt. W. P.
Halliday. There he remained until about 1887.
And it was during this period of his life that he made his
record as an executive officer. He had a remarkable
control of men and a marked acquaintance of details.
Capt. Halliday
used to say of him that Marion
Wright knew more
about his business than he did himself. Much of the
success of Capt. Halliday as a financier was due to the remarkable ability of Marion
C. Wright.
As an employer of men, he knew how to manage them so as to
get the most results with the least friction. Labor
troubles were unknown when Marion
Wright was in command.
From DuQuoin or St. John’s he went to Fort Worth, Tex.,
where he embarked in business for himself in the manufacture
of crackers, but he remained there but a short time,
returning to Cairo.
It was in the fall of 1890 that he was married here to Mrs.
Kate Morris,
widow of the late Enos
Morris and
daughter of Mr. F. W.
Nordman. Since that time he has remained a citizen
of Cairo until ill health compelled him to find a more
agreeable climate and he took up his residence in Florida.
Upon the death of the late Capt. W. P.
Halliday, Mr.
Wright was
brought to the front as one of the active managers of the
estate. He was also elected president of the City
National Bank. His ability as a manager was shown
during that period. It was along at this time that the
people of Cairo began looking for a businessman for mayor
and they selected Mr.
Wright. It was in the spring of 1901 that he was chosen mayor
by almost a unanimous expression of the business element of
Cairo and he entered upon his duties with an energy that was
characteristic. He gave every detail his personal
attention. He was mayor in fact as well as in name.
Almost every morning would see him up very early, before
most businessmen had arisen, going about over the city to
inspect the work that was going on at various points.
If there was a sewer being constructed or one being cleaned,
Marion Wright as
mayor was on hand to see how it was being done. The
writer well remembers meeting him early in the morning
looking after these details that are too frequently left to
look after themselves. Public improvements may well be
said to have started during his administration, for it was
while he was mayor that the brick pavement was built between
Fourth and Eighth Street on the levee. The present
city jail was also built while he was the city’s executive,
and the old jail on Eleventh Street that had become such an
eyesore and nuisance was abolished.
Mr. Wright leaves
a widow and two daughters, Misses June and Augusta. He
also leaves a number of brothers and sisters. Of the
latter, those surviving him are Mrs. Eliza
Halliday, widow
of the late Capt. W. P.
Halliday, Mrs.
Smith, wife of Capt. Smith
of Memphis; Mrs. Charles
Moore, also of
Memphis; and Walton
Wright, of Orlando, Fla., June
Wright, of New
Orleans, and Frank
Wright, of New Orleans.
The funeral will be held at Memphis, where the body will be
buried beside those of his father and mother.
Mr. Wright left a
considerable estate, having been interested in the Cairo
street car and gas companies at his death. He was a
director of the First Bank and Trust Company and vice
president of the Home Telephone Company, in both of which he
was a stockholder.
Mr. F. W. Nordman
left for Memphis today to meet Mrs.
Wright and
daughters there on their arrival with the remains.
(Marion C. Wright
married Mrs. Kate
Morris on 22 Oct 1889, in Alexander Co., Ill.
Enos W. Morris, 21, born in Cairo, Alexander Co., Ill., farmer at Ullin,
Ill., son of James S.
Morris and Mary
Starr, married Katie B.
Nordman, 20, born
in Baltimore, Md., daughter of Fred
Nordman and
Augusta Ran, on
21 Jul 1884, in Union Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The St. Louis Times
has the following account of the probably fatal burning of
the little daughter of Thomas W.
Fry, who formerly
lived in Cairo.
Jessamine Fry, 9
years old, daughter of T. W.
Fry, of 5452
Vernon Avenue, was fatally burned in Alton, Ill., at noon
Friday, when her clothing caught fire as she was playing in
the yard at the home of Carl
Munger, on State
Street. Mrs. T. W.
Fry, her mother,
was badly burned about the face and hands in trying to beat
out the fire in the child’s clothing.
Physicians say the girl, whose clothing was almost
completely burned from her body, has no chance for recovery.
The father of the girl, who is traveling in the south, is
not aware of the accident, and efforts to reach him by
telegram and long distance telephone have failed.
T. W. Fry, the
father, is secretary of the Charles F.
Leuhrmann
Hardwood Lumber Company, 148 Carroll Street. He left
the city last Sunday and his wife and daughter went to visit
Mr. and Mrs. Munger.
Jessamine and Lucy
Munger, a girl of her own age, had built a small
bonfire. Mrs.
Fry, the mother heard the girl scream and running into
the yard found her skirts had caught fire. Frenzied,
the child, her clothing aflame, fled around the house as her
mother attempted to catch her and put out the fire.
Three times the girl, a living torch, ran around the house,
with the mother screaming frantically, close behind, and not
until her clothing burned almost from her body did she drop
to the ground. As the mother attempted to beat out the
flames, her own waist caught fire and she was burned about
the face and arms.
Mrs. Munger and
neighbors ran to her assistance and Dr. L. M.
Bowman was
hurriedly summoned. The injured mother, although
suffering terribly from her own wounds, refused even
temporary attention, remaining beside the bed on which the
girl was placed until after the arrival of the physician.
Dr. Bowman said
the child had little chance of recovery, as she had been
burned all over the body. In running, the child had
fanned the flames and the light dress burned like tinder.
The injuries of the mother, while serious, are not expected
to result fatally.
A telephone message was sent to the offices of the lumber
company and efforts are being made to locate the father.
A trained nurse was obtained in St. Louis who departed at
once for Alton. Mrs.
Fry is about 35
years old.
Funeral services over the remains of the late Marion C.
Wright will be
held at Memphis Monday morning at 10 o’clock. Where
the services will be held has not yet been ascertained.
Cairo will be represented at the funeral by the relatives of
the deceased and by a number of business associates and
close friends. Mr. C.
Pink left today for Memphis to attend the funeral.
Today the First Bank and Trust Company, of which he was
president, when it was the City National Bank, bore the
signs of mourning. A large wreath tied with black
ribbon was hung upon the front door of the bank.
Only a few days ago, President
Aisthorpe got all
of the directors together and had them photographed.
Mr. Wright was in that picture, and as they stood there in front of the
bank before the camera they little dreamed that so soon
death would take one of their number.
Mrs. Bridget Riley,
aged 63, died this morning about 9:35 o’clock at her home
402 Washington Avenue. Death was caused by
inflammation of the bowels. The deceased was resided
in Cairo about 30 years and is survived by two sons, Thomas
and John. Thomas
Riley is living
in California and cannot attned the funeral. John
Riley resides in
Cairo. The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon at
St. Patrick’s Church at 2 o’clock. A special train
will leave the foot of Fourteenth Street at 2:46 o’clock for
Villa Ridge cemetery.
Otis McCain, a
negro murderer, was captured yesterday by Constable Edward
Henderson,
colored. He is wanted at Ripley, Tenn., for the murder
of a negress named Willie
Hennings.
Sheriff Pennington,
of Ripley, arrived last night and took the prisoner back.
There was a reward of $70 for his capture and
Henderson
received his money last night.
McCain had been
in Cairo several days and boarded at Mrs. Jane
Gray’s house at 321 Twenty-first Street.
At a meeting last night of Cairo lodge No. 651 B. P. O. E. a
committee composed of Walter H.
Wood, Charles S.
Carey, P. H. Smyth,
Thomas J. Kerth,
B. B. Bradley and
John T. Rennie
was appointed to attend the funeral at Memphis of Marion C.
Wright, who died
Thursday night at Orlando, Fla. They will leave for
Memphis Sunday and beautiful floral emblem will be sent by
the lodge. The Memphis lodge has received instructions
from the Cairo lodge to have a delegation meet the remains
on their arrival at Memphis. Cairo relatives and
friends of the deceased will attend the funeral.
John Holden, one
of the best farmers of Alexander County, is dead. He
was struck by lightning while at work in his field on Sandy
Ridge during the storm last evening. He was found lying
unconscious in the field after the storm and was taken home
and died in a short time.
Mr. Holden was
widely known as a successful grower of melons. He had
a large farm between Olive Branch and Unity, and was one of
the most successful farmers of the county.
The deceased was 65 years of age and was a native of
Chambersburg, Pa. He is survived by a widow, who was
Miss Mary A. Bracken,
daughter of William
Bracken, of Thebes, and two children, Frank
Holden and Mrs.
Myrtle Lyon, of
Little Rock.
The funeral will be held Tuesday.
(John Holden and
Mary A. Bracken on 25 Dec 1871, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Died—Mrs. Bridget
Riley, at her home, 402 Washington Avenue. Funeral
services Sunday afternoon. Cortege will leave house
for St. Patrick’s Church at 1:30 p.m. Train will leave
foot of Fourteenth Street at 2:45 o’clock for Villa Ridge
cemetery. Friends of the family are invited to attend.
(This may be the same person as Bridget
Thorham who
married Martin Riley
on 28 Jun 1865, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The funeral of John
Holden, who died Friday afternoon at his home on Sandy
Ridge, from the effects of a lightning stroke, was held this
afternoon. Postmaster Sidney B.
Miller, Alfred
Brown and Mr. and
Mrs. John A. Sammons
went out from Cairo to attend.
Friends and relatives of the late Marion C.
Wright paid a
last tribute to him today, when his body was laid at rest
beside those of his father and mother in the family burying
ground at Memphis. Funeral services were held at the
residence of Maj. J. H.
Smith, No. 242 South Rayburn Boulevard.
Among the Cairoites who attended the funeral were J. S.
Aisthorpe, W. P.
Halliday, W. H.
Wood, Thomas P.
Cotter and Reed Green
from the First Bank and Trust Company; C. S.
Carey, E. J. Stubbins, J.
H. Jones, E. L.
Gilbert, Herman
C. Schuh, T. J. Kerth, Ned
Aisthorpe, C. B.
S. Pennebaker, C.
Pink and perhaps others.
(Bennie F. Utley,
son of Thomas J.
Utley, married Sarah Bean on 29
Sep 1897, in Johnson Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
In one of the most beautiful cemeteries of the south Monday
forenoon the remains of Marion C.
Wright were laid
at rest, after a service which was attended by a large
number of the business associates of the deceased from
DuQuoin, Cairo and Memphis.
The funeral was private so that those who attended were
sincere mourners. As simply and without ostentation as
was the life of the deceased, so were the services which
marked the close of his life.
The Cairoites who went to Memphis to attend the funeral
returned on the trains Monday night and today.
The death of Mr. M. C.
Wright at
Orlando, Fla., last Thursday night came like a flash.
He died in the presence of the doctor and a nurse who had
been engaged for him.
Upon his arrival, in Orlando on Tuesday of last week he was
feeling well and with Mrs.
Wright visited
his new house there. It was not entirely completed, so
he leased other quarters for a month. Wednesday
morning, Mr. Wright
had a hemorrhage and a physician was called in. He
treated him and Mr.
Wright seemed to get relief. He visited him in the
evening and found him better and the next morning a nurse
was secured because in his weakened condition he needed more
help than Mrs. Wright
and her daughters could give him. Thursday night, when
the doctor visited him at 10 o’clock, he pronounced him
better. Mr.
Wright said then that he was better. But the
physician had no sooner spoken the words and turned aside
for something when the nurse, chancing to look at the
patient, found that he had passed away. Death came
like a flash while they were there at his bedside. It
is believed an internal hemorrhage was the immediate cause.
The eulogy delivered by Rev. Father
Eschmann at the
funeral Monday morning was made at the residence of Mr.
Wright’s brother-in-law, Maj. J. H.
Smith, and not at the cemetery as was stated. The remains were
laid in a cement vault in the grave, and as the coffin which
contained all that was mortal of the deceased was lowered
into the vault, a stone slab was laid across the top and was
cemented in place. Then the grave was covered in the
usual way and the beautiful flowers that were the mute
expressions of the esteem held for the man by those who knew
him best were heaped upon it.
(Samuel T. Chittick
married Emily
Bagsbee on 14 Aug 1863, in Alexnder Co., Ill.
Her marker in Concord Cemetery near Olmsted reads:
Emily E.
Chittick Born Oct. 25, 1834 Died July 21, 1908.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Memphis Scimiter
of Tuesday said:
Marion C. Wright,
whose funeral was held Monday at the residence of Maj. J. H.
Smith, on Rayburn
Boulevard, was
one of the most widely known business men in this section
and the large attendance testified to the high esteem in
which he was held. Many were present from Chicago,
Cairo, DuQuoin, Ill., a delegation of Cairo Elks being among
the number, and floral emblems from many cities were added
to the large number from Memphis.
Mr. Wright came
to Memphis when quite a young man and was clerk on the
“Star” wharfboat owned at that time by his father, Capt.
Thomas T. Wright.
Later he went to Cairo and worked as a clerk on the
Halliday & Phillips
wharfboat, as well as on the Mississippi and Ohio River
steamboats. He was first clerk on the
Cumberland at the
time her boilers exploded and was injured. This ended
his river career, and shortly afterward he became manager of
the large coal and salt mine interests of his
brother-in-law, the late Capt. W. P.
Halliday. Afterward, on account of his great executive
ability, Capt.
Halliday took him to Cairo and gave him entire control
of the immense
Halliday interest. In this capacity he continued
with great ability, adding steadily to the property until
failing health compelled him about three years ago, to
relinquish his arduous duties.
Accompanied by his wife and two daughters, Mr.
Wright devoted
the next few years of his time in a attempting to regain his
lost health. They traveled extensively and spent
several winters at Orlando, Fla., where he constructed a
beautiful bungalow. He had just finished this when he was
stricken with his fatal illness.
Mr. Wright was
greatly beloved by those with whom he came in contact, and
when he left the mining district several years ago, the
miners presented him with a handsome diamond pin in
appreciation of his services in settling a labor dispute.
Later he was elected mayor of Cairo by an overwhelming
majority and served with rare executive ability, declining
re-election because of his health.
In Memphis, Mr.
Wright was related to the
Halliday,
Smith, Moore and
Kyle families.
Among the prominent visitors who attended the
Wright funeral
Monday was the Rev. Father C. J.
Eschmann, pastor
of the Catholic Church at Prairie du Rocher, Ill., which
next year will be 200 years old and is the oldest church of
any character in Illinois.
Father Eschmann
was formerly pastor of St. Patrick’s Church at Cairo, where
he built the beautiful edifice now occupied by its
parishioners. It was there he became a warm personal
friend of Mr. Wright,
and when the latter was on his deathbed, he made a special
request that Father Eschmann be asked to assist in his funeral services.
Mrs. Edith Eder,
sister of J. E. and C. E.
Priddy, died in
Springfield, Ill., Thursday, after a lingering illness.
The remains will be buried Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Priddy
left to attend the funeral, but owing to the serious illness
of C. E. Priddy,
at Helena, Ark., he will be unable to attend.
A. L. Stewart
died at the hospital for the insane at Anna last week after
being confined there for several years. At one time he
was a member of the Cairo city council and was also a leader
in the railroad stroke in ‘91 in this section.
Taylorsville, Ill., July 26.—Cyrus N.
Walls, 62 years
old, former editor of the now defunct
Democrat and
postmaster here during the
Cleveland
Administration, died Wednesday at the Kankakee insane
asylum, from the effects of a paralytic stroke. The
unfortunate ex-editor was taken to the insane asylum about a
year ago after an unsuccessful attempt made at Paris to
commit suicide.
Loses Money in Business
Eighteen years ago,
Walls was worth $25,000, but lost it in unprofitable
newspaper enterprises. Then his only daughter died and
a short time later his wife was run over and killed by a
street car at St. Louis. He was paid $4,000 by the
street car company in settlement of his claim for damages
and was a bankrupt inside of two years.
Walls’
first position as a proprietor was with the Terre Haute
(Ind.) Saturday
Evening Mail. From there he went to Moravia, Iowa,
as editor of The
Vendette, then to Princeton, Mo., as editor; then back
to Moravia where he started the
Messenger, then to Danville, Ind., as editor of
The Indianan, then
to Decatur where he established the
Saturday Herald,
now the Morning Herald,
then to Macon as editor of
The Independent,
then to Assumption, as editor of
The Enterprise,
then to Monticello, as editor of the
Bulletin, and on
March 31, 1888, he moved to Taylorsville and bought the
Taylorsville Democrat,
now The Courier.
Word was received today of the death of A. J.
Brown, at Thebes.
He was a brother of B. F.
Brown, and the
Martin Brown, of
Thebes and an uncle of Alfred
Brown, of Cairo.
(His marker in Thebes Cemetery reads:
A. J. Brown
Born Oct. 21, 1842 Died July 27, 1908 N. J. wife of A. J.
Brown Born Oct.
13, 1846 Died Dec. 21, 1914.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred
Brown went to Thebes this morning to attend the funeral
of Mr. Brown’s
uncle, A. J. Brown,
who died at 4 o’clock Monday morning. He has been sick
about three weeks. The funeral was held today and the
remains were buried in Thebes Cemetery.
Isaac Sitton,
living about eight miles northeast of Thebes, died Sunday
night at the age of 86 years. The funeral was held
today and the remains were interred in the Douglas Cemetery.
The hearts of many Cairoites were saddened to learn of the
death of Mrs. Eric Starzinger, which occurred at St. Mary’s Infirmary last evening
shortly before 6 o’clock.
The deceased had suffered intensely for the past ten days
with a disease of a very painful nature. She was
attended by Drs. A. A.
Bondurant and S.
B. Carey, who
advised a surgical operation as the only means of relief.
Accordingly she was removed to St. Mary’s Infirmary and the
operation was performed, disclosing, according to the
statement of the physicians, that the disease was atrophy of
the liver, with inflammation of the stomach.
Death gave warning before the sad end, but the patient,
feeling that her work on earth was not yet finished, made a
brave fight for life. Even until the last moments of
her life she struggled to live, saying that she was needed
here, doubtless was the thought in mind of the two little
daughters who would be left motherless and the husband who
would be desolate.
The deceased was the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wilton
Trigg, of this
city, and was born in St. Louis, Mo., on Feb. 19, 1873.
Her parents came to Cairo with their daughter in 1874.
She was married to Eric M.
Starzinger on
Nov. 15, 1894, at the First M. E. Church in this city, and
with the exception of two years spent at Oxford, Miss., has
resided here since her marriage.
She was a graduate of the Cairo High school class of 1892
and chairman of the Philanthropy Department of the Cairo
Woman’s Club. As a member of the First M. E. Church
she was prominent in all good work and has sung in the choir
for a number of years.
Mrs. Starzinger
was greatly beloved by a host of friends for her many
estimable traits of character. She was dutiful, to a
degree to her loved ones, appreciative of her friends,
faithful to every responsibility and improved every worthy
talent with which she was endowed. Her memory will be
always dear to her many friends in this city and elsewhere.
The surviving members of the family are the husband, two
little daughters, Lyda, aged 10, and Erica Nell, aged 6, the
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wilton
Trigg, a sister, Mrs. F. P.
Fawkner, and an uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. H. B.
Davidson.
Mrs. T. S. Thompson
and Louis Starzinger, of Carbondale, have arrived to attend the funeral.
Funeral services will be held at the First M. E. Church at
1:30 o’clock Saturday afternoon. Burial will be at
Beech Grove Cemetery, the train leaving the foot of
Fourteenth Street at 2:45 o’clock.
(Erick M. Starzinger
married Lydia Detyke
Trigg on 15 Nov
1894, in Alexander Co., Ill.
Thomas S. Thompson married Anna R.
Starzinger on 7 Oct 1891, in Jackson Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
EXPRESS SORROW OVER CLASS MATE’S DEATH
Members of the high school class of 1892 met last evening
to take action to show their deep sorrow over the death of
their class mate, Mrs. Eric Starzinger.
Resolutions were drafted to express that feeling as
follows:
Whereas, our All Wise Creator has seen fit to remove from
our midst our dearly beloved classmate, Lyda Trigg
Starzinger, we, the members of the Class of ‘92, do
hereby tender to her loved ones our sincere sympathy.
Resolved, that in her death we are deprived of a genial
companion, a true friend and our leader.
Resolved, that these resolutions be spread upon our
records, and a copy be sent to the bereaved family.
Word was received today of the death of Mrs. Henry
Vineyard, sister of Capt. N. B. Thistlewood, at
Houston, Del. She was about 80 years old. The
funeral will be held tomorrow. Capt. Thistlewood
is out in the district and will not learn of his bereavement
until he returns.
A large concourse of people gathered in the First
Methodist Church this afternoon to pay a last tribute to the
memory of the late Mrs. Eric Starzinger by attending
funeral services over her remains. It was a crowd of
sincere mourners, for she had a wide circle of friends and
the cutting down of this life in its prime as wife and
mother awoke the sympathy of everyone.
The flowers were beautiful and typical of the life of love
and service which she led in the church where the last rites
were held.
The pall bearers were taken from friends of the family and
from the members of her own high school class and were as
follows: C. B. Dewey, H. Bozman, John
Messenger, David L. Marx, B. R. Thistlewood,
W. C. Cochran, Al Staehle, and John B.
Greaney.
The remains were taken to Beech Grove Cemetery for
interment by special train.
Sparta, Ill., August 3.—Engineer Henning was
probably fatally scalded in the derailment of the second
engine of a double-header pulling the New Orleans limited on
the Mobile & Ohio at Rosborough six miles south of here last
evening.
The engine turned turtle and Henning was burned by
escaping steam from a broken pipe. The sudden stopping
of the train forced the mail and baggage cars on end,
forming an inverted “V.” The passengers received a
shaking up, but no one was injured.
George Milton Ehlman died at noon today at the home
of his mother, Mrs. Mary E. Ehlman, 708 Center
Street. Death was due to typhoid fever, of which he
had been ill about two weeks. The deceased had just
recently returned from Harrisburg, Ill., where he had been
employed as railroad clerk. He was also employed as
railroad clerk at Mounds for a number of years, as he has
followed that occupation since his school days. He was
25 years old and was survived by his mother, two sisters and
two brothers.
Arrangements for the funeral have not yet been definitely
planned, but it is thought the remains will be buried at
Harrisburg Wednesday.
(Frederick Ehlman
married Mary Eliza
Cope on 14 Jan 1869, in Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
S. L. Cook died at his home in Ullin this morning
at 7:45 a.m. Funeral tomorrow, Tuesday, 3:30 p.m.
All friends of the deceased are invited to attend.
EHLMAN—Died, George Milton Ehlman, aged 25
years and 4 months, Aug. 3, 1908, at noon.
(Stephen A. Steers,
35, farmer at America, Ill., born in Pulaski Co., Ill., son
of Samuel Steers
and Mary A. McCleland, married Mary E.
Mason, 25, born in America, Ill., daughter of B. F.
Mason and Elizabeth Campbell,
on 10 Mar 1897, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
Her marker in Cairo City Cemetery at Villa Ridg
reads: Elizabeth
Mason Born Nov. 19, 1832 Died Aug. 3, 1908 B. F.
Mason Born Feb.
5, 1828 Died Sept. 26, 1899.—Darrel
Dexter)
A negro dropped dead this morning about 6 o’clock near the
Half Way House on the country road. Dr. McManus
held an inquest and a verdict was returned that death was
due to heart trouble.
A message was received this morning announcing the death
of Doctor Victor H. Coffman, of Omaha, who died last
evening. Mrs. Coffman was formerly Miss Rose
Devoto, an accomplished young Cairo lady in the
seventies.
(Victor H. Coffman
married Rose
Devoto on 10 Sep 1879, in Cook Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Dennis Bell died at St. Mary’s Infirmary at 12:20
p.m. today after a long period of suffering from an injury
to his head, which he received last October while
railroading. He had been confined at the infirmary one
month today, having come here from Wetaug for treatment.
He was a son of Mrs. E. D. Bell, who formerly
conducted a millinery store on Walnut Street between Center
and Twenty-first Street and had he lived he would have been
18 years of age on the 11th of next month.
The deceased was employed as a brakeman on the Mobile &
Ohio and was struck by passenger train No. _ near
Murphysboro last October. His head was badly cut and,
when the wound healed, it was found that an operation was
necessary which he did not survive.
He was a member of the Calvary Baptist Church and also of
the Ben Hur Lodge No. 171.
The remains will be taken to Wetaug at 7:15 this evening
and from there will be taken to Mounds where interment will
be made at Beech Grove Cemetery. Mrs. Feith had
charge of the body.
Rev. Charles H. Armstrong of the Lutheran Church
was called to Villa Ridge today to officiate at the funeral
of Miss Lulu Hogendobler who died in a hospital in
Chicago yesterday. Death followed a surgical operation
for appendicitis.
The deceased was a former school teacher in the Lincoln
School in this city and was taking a post graduate course at
the Chicago University this year when she was suddenly taken
ill several days ago.
Miss Helen Hogendobler, of Mounds, a cousin of the deceased, went to Chicago yesterday
and accompanied the remains to Villa Ridge today, where
services were held at 11 o’clock in the Congregational
church.
The surviving members are three uncles, H. G. and H. M.
Hogendobler, of Villa Ridge, and G. M. Miller, at
Mounds. She was a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs.
David Hogendobler.
She was a niece of Mr. G. L. Miller, of Mounds, and
of Messrs. Horace and Henry Hogandobler, of Villa
Ridge. The funeral was held at the Congregational
church, of which she was a member. The services were
conducted by Rev. Charles Armstrong, pastor of the
Lutheran Church of Cairo.
I. B. Sitton was born in Johnson County, Illinois,
January 11th, 1824, and died at his home in
Alexander County, Ill., July 26th, 1908, aged 84
years, 6 months and 15 days. The deceased was married
three times. His first marriage was to Elizabeth
Cox and six children were born to them, three girls and
three boys. Two girls, Mrs. Susan Fields, who
lives in California, and Mrs. H. L. Caldwell, of
Thebes, Ill., and one son, James Sitton, of Kearney,
Neb., are living. His second marriage was to Mrs.
Sarah Lees. To them no children were born.
His third marriage was to Mary Jane Alsup, who still
survives him. They lived together fifty-two years and
to them ten children were born, seven of whom are still
living. He leaves fifty-eight grandchildren and
thirty-three great-grandchildren. The deceased has
resided in Alexander County forty-eight years and has been a
member of the Baptist church forty-five years, living a
consistent Christian life and has passed over to reap his
reward. He was kind and a faithful husband, a loving
father and a useful citizen. He was buried at Douglas
Cemetery July 28, 1908.
The aged companion and relatives have the sympathy of
their many friends in their bereavement. (Thebes)
(Isaac B. Sitton
married Nancy Jane
Alsop on 6 Jul 1856, at the house of G. W.
Harris in Union
Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Coroner McManus brought the remains of a white man
down on the suburban early this morning who was killed by a
train near Mounds. He was dressed very neat and clean
and looked to be about 25 years old. He had light hair
and smooth face. An inquest was held at Feith
undertaking parlors this morning.
Died, Monday, Aug. 10, at 5 a.m. William Bell, aged
51 years.
Funeral services will be held at the family residence, No.
3304 Sycamore Street, at 7:30 tonight. Remains will be
taken to Kuttawa, Ky., at 6 o’clock tomorrow morning for
burial.
Miss Stella, the 11-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
William Childers, of the county farm, died last
Thursday of intermittent fever. Mr. Childers
has had considerable sickness in his family recently and
Mrs. Childers is just recovering from a siege of
illness.
(Her marker in Hargis Cemetery reads:
Stella E. dau. of W. J. & M. E.
Childers Born
June 19, 1898 Died Aug. 6, 1908 Sleep on dear babe and take
your rest. God
called you home; He thought it best.—Darrel
Dexter)
Friends of Mr. Fred S. Taylor, traveling
representative for the J. W. Butler Paper Company of
Chicago were shocked to learn of his death, which occurred
at his home at Centralia, Sunday night. Death was due
to acute indigestion. Mr. Taylor was a prominent
member of the Egyptian Hustlers and had a wide circle of
friends.
The three-month-old boy of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Ozburn,
of 730 Thirty-fifth Street, died last night. The
remains were shipped today to Pittsburg, Kan., for
interment. Mr. Ozburn is manager of the
Nelson-Morris Company in this city.
A man’s toe and portions of his brains were found on the
brake road of engine No. 1040 when she was brought to the
round house this morning after bringing No. 4 in from
Memphis. The engineer, Clinton Dean, said he
did not remember hitting anyone. A man had evidently
been killed by another train and was lying on the track when
No. 4 passed over him.
The toe is now at the round house and has been put in
alcohol to preserve it. You have probably heard of
four legged chickens, two headed snakes and such, being in
alcohol, but when it comes to a man’s toe it’s the limit.
The Cairo Evening Citizen, Friday, 14 Aug 1908:
Lemuel C. Jones, age 12 years, was shot and
instantly killed about 3 o’clock Thursday afternoon near the
Colored Baptist Church in Goose Island Precinct.
The shooting was accidental and occurred when the lad was
out hunting with a negro boy named Will Coleman.
From Coroner James McManus, who was summoned to the scene this morning, The Citizen
learns that the lad had first fired the gun and had given it
to the negro while he chased a rabbit out of its hiding
place. In suddenly turning round, the gun in the hands
of the negro was discharged and the charge took effect in
the lad’s right chest. He died instantly.
The negro was held pending the inquiry by the coroner’s
jury, but was exonerated by the jury.
The lad is a son of Columbus Jones,
who lives on Former Sheriff James S. Roche’s farm,
and the negro, who is 18 years old, was also employed on the
Roche place.
(Christopher Columbus
Jones married Rose Ernoma
Fehrenback on 27 Oct 1889, in Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The J. W. Butler Paper Company of Chicago in the
following letter to The Citizen, announce the death
of Mr. Fred S. Taylor, as follows:
It is with profound sorrow and deep regret we announce the
death of our representative, Mr. Fred S. Taylor, who
passed away suddenly last Sunday evening, August the 9th,
at Centralia, Illinois.
Fred Taylor was beloved by his fellow employees and
held the respect and confidence of his employers. He
was a man possessing that rare personality born of a tender
heart which won for him amongst the trade many warm friends
who will mourn his loss with us.
Sincerely,
(Mounds)
(Edward C. Crippen
married Julia Jones
on 26 Oct 1887, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
Frank Crain,
23, locomotive fireman from Villa Ridge, Ill., son of
Jonathon Crain
and Maggie Vonida,
married Ida B. Jones,
20, of Villa Ridge, born in New Market, Tenn., daughter of
Thomas Jones and
Catherine Ellis,
on 31 Dec 1896, in Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Fred Williams, the young negro shot by Joe
Causey Saturday night at Thirtieth and Commercial, will
probably not recover. Williams is confined to
his home, No. 11 Fortieth Street, and is unable to lie down.
Chief Egan who was talking with Williams
stated that the negro said he did not know why he was shot.
He said he was walking down Commercial and was shot without
anyone saying a word. He knew nothing of the trouble
between the Causey and a negro whom they bumped into while
walking up the street.
After the Causeys shot Williams they met
another negro further up the street named Bud Dawson
and beat him up.
The Causeys were taken to the county jail at noon.
John D. Calhoun died in Grand Chain Sunday after a
long illness. Mr. and Mrs. Calhoun have made
Mound City their home for several years and moved to Grand
Chain just recently. He was 50 years old and leaves a
wife and one little daughter. The funeral was held in
that place Monday afternoon.
(His marker in Grand Chain Masonic Cemetery reads:
John B.
Calhoun Born Feb. 2, 1854 Died Aug. 16, 1908.—Darrel
Dexter)
Wallace E. George, of 615 Thirty-fourth Street, a
pilot on the river, died at the Marine Hospital at 7 o’clock
this morning of typhoid fever. He was about 32 years
of age and had only been ill for several days. The
deceased is survived by his wife and three children.
The remains will be taken to Pittsburg, Kan., tomorrow for
burial.
The deceased was a member of the Masonic Lodge No. 389 of
Altus, Ark., and also of the M. B. A. No. 3745 of Lunden
Mines, Mo.
Wallace Holland, a negro, residing in the Island
Queen, at Tenth and Cedar, died this morning at St. Mary’s
Infirmary. He was stricken with paralysis and was
under the care of the city.
John Williams, a negro wanted here for the murder
of another negro named Bruce Harden, about three
years ago, in front of Dick Taylor’s saloon on Lower
Commercial Avenue, has been captured in Memphis.
Sheriff Davis received word Saturday of the capture
and has sent Deputy Sheriff Abernathie after him.
The fugitive was caught by the sheriff at Memphis.
The funeral of Wallace E. George, who died Monday
morning at the Marine Hospital, was held this morning at 11
o’clock at the residence, No. 615 Thirty-fourth Street.
The remains were taken to Pittsburg, Kan., at 1 o’clock
where interment will be made Wednesday.
Carbondale Free Press:
Virgil Lee, the 2-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Baker, who reside five and one half miles west of
Murphysboro, in Levan Township, died about 5 o’clock Sunday
morning a few hours after he had swallowed some water off a
plate on which was some poison fly paper. A sister of
the dead child, aged three years, drank some of the
poisonous water also for a while it was feared she might
suffer the same fate as that of her little brother, but at
last reports she was thought to be out of danger although
still in a state of semi-stupor.
The children were poisoned late Saturday afternoon. While
the mother was preparing supper, the children were playing
in the dining room. On the table was the plate
containing the poison fly paper. The children had been
warned time and again not to bother the plate of fly paper,
but both the little girl and boy drank some of the poisoned
water. The first the parents knew of it was when the
children complained that their lips burned and after
discovering that the children had been poisoned, a hurried
trip was made to Oraville, where a physician administered
antidotes. The parents and two children returned home
about midnight at which time it was not thought either of
the children were in any special danger. A little
later the boy’s condition became much worse and he died at 5
a.m. the child being in a stupor some time before his death.
County Farm Superintendent William J. Childers has
again been bereft. His son, William, was taken with
intermittent fever, following the death of his daughter,
Miss Stella, a week before, and died last Sunday. The
burial occurred Monday.
Mr. Childers has had a great deal of sickness in
his family this summer, and his friends will deeply
sympathize with him.
(His marker in Hargis Cemetery reads:
Willie S. son of W. J. & M. E.
Childers Born
Jan. 19, 1888 Died Aug. 16, 1908 A little flower of love,
that blossomed but to die, transplanted now above to bloom
with God on high.—Darrel
Dexter)
Illinois Central passenger train No. 1 struck and
instantly killed a Sicilian section hand at Pulaski station
last evening.
The man was just climbing down a ladder from a boarding
car as the train passed. He was coming down backwards
and the train struck him and killed him instantly. The
train was stopped and backed up to the scene of the
accident, and reached Cairo thirty minutes late.
William Crawford, the well-known Cairo brick mason,
died at Anna Friday. He was 65 years of age. He
leaves a widow and a stepson, Charles Orrick,
linotype operator at the Bulletin office.
(William Crawford
married Annie Orrick
on 6 Nov 1882, in Marion Co., Ill.
Charles Orrick
married Kate
Hilton on 1 Jul 1900 in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
(John L. Arnold
married Nancy J.
Martin on 14 Aug 1897, in Saline Co., Ill.
A marker in Rose Hill Cemetery at Pulaski next to
John L. Arnold
reads: Nancey J.
Arnold Born Sept.
3, 1871 Died July 24, 1908.—Darrel
Dexter)
The jury which last week sat in their city on the trial of
Finley Baggett, charged with the murder of Logan
Bradshaw in Carterville May 23, after being out from
Thursday evening at 6 o’clock until Sunday morning at 9:30
was brought in at this time and dismissed by Judge Duncan,
says the Marion Post. The jury was out for
sixty-three hours and thirty minutes, which, with the
exception of one instance, is the greatest number of hours
ever spent by a jury in this county in an effort to fix upon
a verdict.
The Baggett trial lasted from Monday noon until
Thursday evening and was a hard fought one from start to
finish. The evidence of over 200 witnesses was used
during the trial and each side seemed to have enough to
carry its point. It is said, however, though the
Post will not take the responsibility to say that it is
true, that nine of the jurymen stood for acquittal and three
for conviction of murder. It seems that the last
ballot taken was just about the same as the first, which
shows that all stood true to their convictions during the
many hard and weary hours.
Finley Baggett, the man who yet stands indicted for
the murder of Bradshaw, gained his freedom on bond on
Monday morning. He was granted a bond of $7,000 which
was filled within a very few moments. Baggett
seems to be surrounded by friends, and, though without
taking a prejudicial stand, the
Post will say that it seems that public sentiment in the main is
with the accused.
Another chapter to the sensation has been added within the
last few days by the filing of a bill for divorce by
Baggett’s wife, the woman whose company Bradshaw
was in when he was called to the door and slain by someone
charged to have been her seemingly wronged husband.
Carmi, Ill., Aug. 26.—Following the extraction of four
teeth, Miss Effie Lane, aged twenty-two years, living
at Pomona, a small town near here, died in great agony.
Blood poisoning set in and physicians were unable to check
it. Thinking that the death of the young woman might
be the result of rough work on the part of the dentist in
removing the teeth, Coroner Firshee investigated the
case, but held the dentist blameless.
New York, Aug. 26.—Ill, half blind, criticizing the church
on the score, as he alleges, of untruthfulness and
insincerity and declaring that he could not worship
“America’s trinity, success, pleasure and gold,” Rev. Albert
H. Trick shot and killed himself in a room in Mills
Hotel. He was once pastor of a Presbyterian Church in
Chicago and later had a charge at Saratoga, N.Y., but had no
regular pastorate for several years, obtaining an insecure
livelihood as an insurance agent. In a remarkable
letter which he left to Charles N. Dowd, of this
city, who had befriended him, the ex-pastor asserted that
the modern church more nearly follows the example of Robert
Ingersoll than those of Jesus.
The letter read in part as follows: “I have never
been able to conquer an inborn contempt for the place money
hold in this world, though knowing so well how absolutely a
fair amount of it, at least, is necessary to all of us.
I could never adapt myself in view of my early ideas, to the
methods by which money is made. They are so
transparently selfish and more or less was _upulous, whether
used by the church or the so-called ‘world.’ I could
never worship America’s trinity—success, pleasure and gold.
I am too old and settled in my character to change, though
my eyes have long been spent on my delusions.
“I rejoice in the better day dawning, with society with
its superstitions and errors, like all the other religions
of men, shall have passed away and religion itself—free and
simple, religion that has a passion for truth, justice, love
and liberty, purity and humanity—shall prevail. Ye
gods, what does the church care for these things—for truth,
etc. The day will soon come when the world will prove
that sacred as the place that Jesus holds in the world’s
esteem they are no more bound by what he taught, did and
thought than they are by the precepts of Robert
Ingersoll, and the modern church more nearly follows this exemplary
and kindly and honest American than they do the Oriental.
“I wish I could live and preach this, but I am broken too
much, and the habit of my long life of self-denial and
suffering—always so tragically—forbids it. I do not
complain. It is all of destiny.” To his sons and
a daughter, who live in Brooklyn the former pastor wrote:
“I have gone to join mother.” His wife died fourteen
years ago.
Had Pronounced Views at That Time on Question of Church
Entertainments
Rev. Albert H. Trick, who ended his life in the
Mills Hotel in New York City Tuesday as told in The
Citizen last evening, was pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church of Cairo from 1884 to 1890. He was
regarded as a very able man, one of the ablest ministers
Cairo has ever had, and during his ministration something
over a hundred persons were added to the church.
As early as that time Mr. Trick had very pronounced
ideas on the question of church amusements.
He was strongly opposed to the church giving entertainments
to raise money.
Mr. Trick came to Cairo from Lincoln, Ill. He
married here Miss Cora Stratton, daughter of William
Stratton, senior member of the wholesale grocery firm
of Stratton & Bird. She died a number of
years ago and three children survive, a married daughter,
Mrs. R. Parsons, of Brooklyn and two sons.
The following is a portion of the letter that he left that
was addressed to Charles M. Dowd, of New York City.
“I have never been able to conquer an inborn contempt for
the place money holds in this world, though knowing so well
how absolutely a fair amount of it, at least, is necessary
to all of us. I could never adapt myself in view of my
early ideas, to the methods by which money is made.
They are so transparently selfish and more or less was
_upulous, whether used by the church or the so-callled
‘world.’ I could never worship America’s
trinity—success, pleasure and gold. I am too old and
settled in my character to change, though my eyes have long
been spent on my delusions.
“I took deeply to heart the teachings of Jesus and tried
hard and ___ to square my soul by them. I found at
last what a pitiful mistake I had made and how lonely I was
even in the church. The average man cares little about
what Jesus taught and it makes one heartsick to hear its
ecclesiastics prate about it.
“I rejoice in the better day dawning, with society with
its superstitions and errors, like all the other religions
of men, shall have passed away and religion itself—free and
simple, religion that has a passion for truth, justice, love
and liberty, purity and humanity—shall prevail.
“Ye gods, what does the church care for these things—for
truth, etc. The day will soon come when the world will
prove that sacred as the place that Jesus holds in the
world’s esteem they are no more bound by what he taught, did
and thought than they are by the precepts of Robert
Ingersoll, and
the modern church more nearly follows this exemplary and
kindly and honest American than they do the Oriental.
“I wish I could live and preach this, but I am broken too
much, and the habit of my long life of self-denial and
sufferings—always so tragical—forbids it. I did not
complain. It is all of destiny.”
Jackson Sun: A report was circulated this
morning that Conductor J. A. Maxwell of the I. C.
railroad had been killed by a negro at McConnell.
Upon investigation it appears that between 7 and 8 o’clock
Mr. Maxwell was shot five times by a negro at
McConnell, and the negro was also shot by Mr. Maxwell,
who was carried to Paducah, Ky., on fast passenger train 104
and placed in the company hospital, and with little hopes of
recovery.
The negro, it is reported, is badly shot and is in custody
of the authorities at Martin, also with a small chance to
recover.
No definite details have been received of the shooting,
more than that it took place at McConnell, about seven miles
north of Fulton on train No. 53 of which Mr. Maxwell
had charge and was on his return run.
A special train was made up in the Chester street yards
and Mrs. Maxwell, accompanied by her little child and
Mr. Maxwell’s sister, Miss Beulah, left for Paducah
to attend the bedside of the wounded man.
It is reported that the negro who did the shooting was a
Jackson negro named Charlie Snow, living in East
Jackson, and was dangerously wounded.
The latest report of Mr. Maxwell is that he was in
good spirits after arriving at the hospital at Paducah, but
had not been operated on and was in a serious condition.
Conductor Maxwell is known in Cairo. He is an
extra passenger conductor for the south end of the Illinois
Central. It is said that the negro and a white man
were riding on his caboose and he told them that they must
get off whenthe train crew finished switching at a point
below Fulton. For reply the negro pulled out a gun and
began firing at the conductor, and hit him, and as he turned
around, fired several more shots in his body.
Maxwell fell and his negro brakeman took hold of his
shoulders and raised him up to a sitting position.
Maxwell then immediately whipped out his gun and shot at
the negro and hit him.
The negro was taken to Union City for fear that he would
be moved at Fulton and a dispatch from there last night
stated that the negro could not live through the night.
Mrs. West Mock died this morning at 3:45 o’clock at
the home of her daughter, Mrs. Corzine, of 3509 Elm
Street, after a long illness.
The deceased was 48 years of age and leaves a son and
daughter, two sisters and two brothers.
The remains will be taken to Ullin this evening at 7:15
o’clock for burial. Burke and Blaine had
charge of the remains.
Conductor Maxwell, who was shot by the negro Henry
Snow, at Fulton, is likely to recover, but the negro
is still hovering between life and death, according to the
following from Union City.
Union City, Tenn., Aug. 31.—Henry Snow, the negro
who shot and perhaps fatally wounded Conductor John
Maxwell on top of a moving freight car and was afterward
shot four times by the conductor, as the latter lay in the
arms of a negro brakeman, is lying between life and death
here.
Did Lonny Calvin
die from wounds inflicted by Frank
Jackson or was
his death the result of wounds inflicted by Officer George
Bradley?
Coroner McManus
will probe for the bullets and they will tell the story.
Lonny Calvin,
colored, was fatally shot at noon today in front of 510
Twelfth Street. The exact cause of the shooting could
not be learned, but several said it was over a woman, while
relatives of one of the shootists said it was the result of
an old grudge.
As stated by witnesses,
Jackson approached Calvin
in the alley of 508 Twelfth Street and started firing at
him. He fired several shots and ran after him until Officer
Bradley appeared.
Officer Bradley,
as also stated by witnesses, was in the house, No. 508
Twelfth Street, endeavoring to patch up a quarrel between
Walter Hathway
and his wife. Hearing the shooting, the officer ran
out and chased Calvin,
who was also being chased by
Jackson and ran
through the house, No. 510 Twelfth Street, after him.
When he came out the front door, Lou
Eatin, of 508
Twelfth, a negro woman, grabbed
Calvin and kept
him from falling as he was weak from his injuries.
Bradley came out and demanded
Calvin’s gun. The latter is said not to have had
any. He grabbed Officer
Bradley’s gun and
it was discharged, it is claimed, accidentally.
Dr. McManus was
called and had him removed to St. Mary’s Infirmary where he
died in 30 minutes. He was then removed to the
Feith undertaking
establishment. The inquest will be held tonight.
(Walter Hathway
married Jennie
Alexander on 23 Jun 1892, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Word was received this morning of the death of the mother
of Mr. E. J. Stubbins,
assistant manager of the Halliday Hotel, at Windsor Park,
Ill. The funeral will be held at Mattoon Friday
afternoon.
(D. A. Hurst
married Louisa
Branson on 3 Aug 1879, in Jackson Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The verdict of the coroner’s jury which inquired into the
death of Lonnie
Calvin was: We, the jury, sworn to inquire of the
death of Lonnie Calvin or Cavender, on
oath do find that he came to his death by a gunshot wound in
the right hip, caused by a bullet fired from a revolver in
the hands of Frank Jackson. We further find that the said Frank
Jackson was not
justified in the act. We therefore recommend that he
be held until discharged by the due process of law.
The inquest was held last evening at 7:30 at the council
chamber and Officer George
Bradley, colored,
whom it was reported had done the shooting, was exonerated.
Nancy Brooks,
colored, fatally cut her sister Amelia
Brooks, in a
quarrel at their home, No. 231 Twenty-first Street, this
afternoon about 2:30 o’clock. The injured woman died
almost immediately.
The woman was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Allie
Frost and locked
up in the county jail.
Coroner McManus
took charge of the case at once.
Marion Wallace,
of Willard, aged 18, died about noon today at St. Mary’s
Infirmary of appendicitis. He was just brought down
yesterday and taken to the infirmary for treatment.
The remains are now at the undertaking establishment of
Burke & Blaine and will
be taken to the Willard Cemetery tomorrow for burial.
(His marker in Thebes Cemetery reads:
Marion D. Wallace Born Sept. 10, 1889 Died Sept. 5, 1908 Laura F. sister of M.
D. Wallace Born
Feb 10, 1887 Died Jan. 4, 1896 Gone But Not
Forgotten.—Darrel Dexter)
Frank Waters
was killed on Cache Bridge Saturday evening by Jacob
Earnest. Both men had been employed at the ice plant at Mounds
and had quarreled and meeting on the bridge renewed their
quarrel, when Earnest
shot Walters. He then went to Mounds and gave himself up. As
the affair occurred in Pulaski County, the officials of that
county took charge of the body and Coroner
Steele held an
inquest at Mounds.
Sister Mary Magdalen died last night at 11:30 o’clock at
St. Mary’s Infirmary after a short illness. Death was
due to heart trouble of which she has been ill for a number
of years.
The deceased was about 80 years of age and was born in
Ireland. She had been 50 years a nun and had been in
Cairo since 1878 with the exception of one year from 1902 to
1903. That year she was sent to the home of St. Mary’s
on account of her age, but she insisted on returning.
During the war she was at the hospitals at Mound City and
Paducah. She is survived by a niece in New York City,
a Dominican sister, and several other relatives.
The remains will probably be taken to St. Joseph’s Church
tomorrow morning and taken to the home at St. Mary’s Notre
Dame at 7:15 tomorrow evening for interment. Rev.
Father Downey, of St. Patrick’s Church, will accompany the remains.
The Paducah
News-Democrat says: “John
Maxwell, the
Illinois Central railway conductor who was shot by Charley
Snow, a negro, between Fulton and McConnell, a few days ago, and has
since been in a critical condition at the I. C. hospital, is
much better and while not out of danger it is believed that
he will recover. His brother-in-law and sister, Mr.
and Mrs. R. A.
Abernathie, of Memphis, and his sister, Mrs.
Flack, of
Jackson, Tenn., who have been at his bedside, returned home
Wednesday.
“A telegram from Union City, Tenn., says that
Snow, who was
thought to have been fatally wounded by Mr.
Maxwell, in the
difficulty in which Mr.
Maxwell was
wounded, is rapidly recovering. The negro claims,
according to the telegram, that Mr.
Maxwell shot
first and that he fired in self-defense.
“The negro was stealing a ride, and when the conductor
attempted to put him off the train, the shooting occurred.”
(Martin Wallace
married Mary E. Pain
on 25 Oct 1877, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
(J. B. Derouche
married Mrs. Amanda M.
Bankson on 27 Jan
1878, in Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Charlie Snow,
the negro who shot Conductor J. A.
Maxwell on top of
a fast moving freight train near Fulton, a few days ago,
died Tuesday morning at 5 o’clock at Union City, where he
has been in custody of the authorities since the fatal
shooting in which he was shot twice by
Maxwell.
A message from his sister at Union City stated that the
body would be brought to Jackson.—Jackson
Sun
(Her marker in Cairo City Cemetery at Villa Ridge reads:
Blanch Endicott 1896-1908.—Darrel
Dexter)
John Powell
shot and killed Marta
Davis last night in front of Congressman
Thistlewood’s
residence near Mounds. It was the result of a quarrel
between the two in regard to
Powell’s wife.
As reported, Davis
had abused Mrs.
Powell and is said to have kicked her.
Powell, who is
employed by Congressman
Thistlewood met
Davis last night
and a quarrel resulted.
Powell secured a
shot gun and killed
Davis as he was leaving. Then
Powell went to
Mound City and gave himself up to Sheriff
Bankson. An
inquest was held last night and
Powell was
exonerated, the jury declaring that
Powell was
justified. Both are white men and
Davis is from Dongola.
Robert T. Hale,
mail clerk on the Cotton Belt railroad, died Wednesday at
11:40 a.m. at his home in East Prairie, Mo., of malarial
fever, of which he had been ill only a few days. His
condition was not considered serious until yesterday and
medical aid was sent for from Cairo. Until recently,
Mr. Hale and his
young wife resided in Cairo, when they went to East Prairie.
He had only been married about ten months and was 32 years
of age. Mrs.
Hale returned to East Prairie recently from Hope, Ark.,
where her father died and her friends will sympathize deeply
with her. W. M.
Mattox, of Cairo, a friend of the deceased, went to East Prairie
yesterday to visit the sick man who died while he was there.
The remains of Sister Mary Magdalene, who died at St.
Mary’s Infirmary Monday night, were taken to St. Mary’s
Notre Dame last night, where interment will be made.
The cortege, which was large and which included a number of
physicians, conveyed the remains to Central Union Station
last night about 6:30 o’clock. Rev. Father
Downey accompanied the remains to Notre Dame.
The funeral services were held yesterday morning in St.
Joseph’s Church by Rev. James
Gillen. The
body lay in state in the parlors of the infirmary until last
evening.
(Jefferson
Rendleman married Elizabeth
Cox on 26 Jul
1866, in Union Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
A bronze tablet in memory of Rev. Wallace S.
Faris, late
missionary to China, will be unveiled at the Presbyterian
church next Sabbath at 11 o’clock. The tablet is the
gift of Rev. John T.
Faris, of Philadelphia. Dr. Charles F.
Johnson, a
co-worker with Mr.
Faris in China, is expected to be present and make the
principal address at the unveiling.—Anna
Democrat
(George Washington
Coughenour, 31, born in Lebanon, Ohio, merchant in
Dongola, son of Henry W.
Coughenour and
Joanna Powell,
married Rose Bell
Davis, 21, born in Union Co., Ill., daughter of Syren
Davis and Mary
Fergerson, on 25
Feb 1880, in Union Co., Ill.
Marshall Davis is probably the same person as Randolph M.
Davis, the son of
Syrian Davis, who
married Malinda L.
Peeler on 19 Sep 1867, in Union Co., Ill.
His marker in I. O. O. F. Cemetery at Dongola reads:
Randolph M.
Davis Born July 22, 1846 Died Sept. 8, 1908.
Malda L. Davis Born Oct. 17, 1848 Died April 23, 1935.—Darrel
Dexter)
Public notice is hereby given that at the October Term,
1908, of the Illinois State Board of Pardons, to be held in
Springfield on the 13th day of said month,
application will be made of the pardon of Jesse
Reed, who was
tired, convicted and sentenced to fifty years imprisonment
in the Southern Illinois Penitentiary on a charge of murder,
at the September Term, 1889 of the Circuit Court of
Alexander County, Illinois.
(Jesse Reed was
convicted of killing George
Morris on 25 Mar
1889, in Cairo, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Sedalia, Mo., Sept. 15.—A loaded car exploded from an
unknown cause at the Katy freight depot at Windsor, twenty
miles south of here, this morning. Over a dozen on the
depot platform were injured and several are likely to die.
All were Windsor men. George
Hall, seventy,
and F. Yakes,
station agent, were killed outright. The former’s son,
Frank, was blinded.
Shortly after 6 o’clock last evening, Charles
Newells, a negro
employed as a fireman at
McCarthy &
Walters ice
factory, quarreled with his wife at their home, 221
Twenty-second Street. Harsh words led to blows.
“Margie” Allen,
aged 16, a son of Mrs.
Newells, entered
the house and remonstrated with his stepfather, who chased
the boy into the street. While running after the boy,
a revolver fell from
Newells’ pocket. The boy dodged his pursuer,
picked up the weapon and fired at his stepfather. A
bullet struck Newells
in the chest and passed through his heart, killing him
instantly. The body was taken in charge by
Hughes, the
colored undertaker.
Young Allen was
arrested by Constable Green
Lipe and placed
in the county jail. He has been employed as a delivery
boy for Mrs. Walsh’s
grocery at 1915 Commercial Avenue.
Several persons who saw the homicide enacted state the
facts substantially as given above. They were
witnesses before the coroner’s jury this afternoon.
Charles Newell
was a large mulatto and 28 years of age.
The inquest was held by Coroner
McManus at 2 o’clock this afternoon. The jury was composed
entirely of negros, as follows: Henry
Small, Will
Mellon, Ed
Moore, Mac McKinzie,
Thomas Constance,
and Jacob Young,
foreman. The body of Charles
Newell was viewed
at Hughes
undertaking establishment. The jury then retired to
the city council chamber to hear testimony. Ten
witnesses were examined, their testimony being decidedly in
favor of the Allen
boy. The jury soon returned a verdict of justifiable
homicide.
(The 17 Sep 1908, issue reported his name as Charles
Nevell.—Darrel
Dexter)
Superintendent Tim
Mahoney and his street gang are at work grading the dirt
street uptown. Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth streets
have been finished and are in fine shape. Work was
begun this morning on Thirty-seventh street.
While rounding up Thirty-sixth Street, the grading machine
uncovered an old coffin containing a few bones. It was
a grim reminder of the old graveyard which was thought to
have been completely removed years ago when the Three States
Fair and Racing Association built is race track upon the
site of the present
Feuchter-Lansden
Addition.
The find was reported to Health Officer
Orr.
John Burnett,
night watchman at the plant of the Defiance Box Company at
Ullin, was dangerously wounded Tuesday night while making
his rounds. From some cause unknown, he dropped a
revolver which discharged when it struck the ground.
The bullet entered the lower part of his abdomen and passed
through his body, lodging near the spine. There is
little chance for his recovery. Dr.
Robinson attended
the unfortunate man.
DEATH OF ELMORE BOYER
Elmore Boyer,
the six-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H.
Boyer, of
Twenty-eighth and Poplar streets, died Wednesday afternoon
at 3 o’clock at St. Mary’s Infirmary. He had been ill
about a week of spinal meningitis. The remains were
prepared for burial by
Burke & Blaine and were
taken to St. Louis today for interment.
Little Katherine
Orrick, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Orrick, died at
7:45 o’clock as the result of an attack of pneumonia in both
lungs. The little one had battled for life for several
days, but the physician held out no hope of her recovery,
and she finally had to succumb to the disease. She was
five and a half years old. Her father is a linotype
operator at the Bulletin office. The funeral
will be conducted by Rev. Mr.
Graham, pastor of
Calvary Baptist Church, of which Mrs.
Orrick is a
member. They reside on Ohio Street above Eighth.
The funeral will be held at 9:30 tomorrow morning from the
residence.
(Charles Orrick
married Kate Hilton
on 1 Jul 1900 in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The remains of John
Britton, an aged colored citizen, were interred
yesterday at Villa Ridge by William
Hughes, the
colored undertaker.
Britton was 70
years of age and for a long period had been a familiar
figure on the farmers’ wagons while peddling their products
in Cairo. He was particularly noted for his vocal
ability. Everyone for a block ahead knew when John was
selling out a farmer’s load and what he had to offer.
The body of Charles
Nevell, who was shot and killed by his stepson Monday
evening, was shipped to Columbus, Ky., yesterday afternoon
for burial.
(The 15 Sep 1908, issue reported his name as Charles
Newell and
Charles Newells.—Darrel Dexter)
Funeral services were held over the remains of little
Kathleen Orrick,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Orrick, this
forenoon, at the family residence on Ohio Street, conducted
by Rev. Mr. Graham,
pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church, and the members of the
choir of that church sang the hymns. The remains were
taken to Beech Grove Cemetery for interment.
Jackson, Tenn., Sun:
Conductor John A.
Maxwell, who was so seriously wounded several weeks ago
by the negro, Charlie
Snow, came down from Paducah Sunday morning and while he
is still quite weak, he is able to walk about the house.
Mr. Maxwell
remained in the hospital at Paducah until he came home and
he will have to return Saturday to have another bullet
removed, two having already been taken out, and he hopes to
be able to resume his run in a few weeks.
It will be remembered that Conductor
Maxwell was shot five times by the negro Charlie
Snow, who
attacked him when ordered to get off the train, firing five
balls from his revolver into him.
Maxwell shot the
negro three times, they exchanging shots as they lay on the
top of the moving train.
Maxwell
was carried to the R. P. Hospital in Paducah, the negro to
some of his relatives at Union City, where he lingered
several days and there died. The case is rather a
remarkable one and attracted wide spread interest and the
plucky conductor’s speedy convalescence will be good news to
his friends both far and near.
Florence Katherine, the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Goatey, of
316 Thirty-third Street, died last evening at 6 o’clock from
dropsy after an illness lasting six months. The
child’s age was 19 months, 1 week and 2 days.
Interment at Villa Ridge cemetery Sunday morning at 9
o’clock.
Mr. and Mrs. Goatey
have the sympathy of their many friends.
(Joseph E. Goatey
married Margaret F. H.
Kline on 12 Sep
1900, in Alexander Co., Ill.
Her marker in Calvary Cemetery in Villa Ridge reads:
Florence K.
Goatey Born Feb. 9, 1907 Died Sept. 18, 1908 Mom’s
Darling.—Darrel Dexter)
Lying cold in death this morning in
Feith’s undertaking establishment were two negroes, victims of
pistol shots fired by each other. Circumstances
surrounding the case have aroused suspicion and Chief of
Police Egan has a
mystery on hand that probably will never be unraveled.
Early Sunday morning, two brothers, Walter and Joe
McCall, who lived
in Future City, were met on the Sycamore Street road at the
end of the street car line, by two other negroes.
According to the
McCalls, they were held up at the point of a revolver in
the hands of a tall, black negro, who shot Walter
McCall. He
had a revolver and opened fire on the robber, while his
brother ran away. The highwayman turned and ran toward the
subway.
The case was reported to police headquarters. The
patrol wagon was sent out and brought the wounded man in to
the hospital. He was found to be fatally wounded, the
bullet having passed through the stomach and intestines.
McCall died this
morning. In a statement made to Coroner
McManus Sunday morning, Walter
McCall
corroborated the story told by his brother.
Sunday morning a dead negro was found in the weeds at the
side of the Sycamore Street road a short distance north of
the subway. A revolver with several empty chambers was
tightly clinched in his right hand.
In general appearance he tallied with the description
of the negro whom the
McCall brothers claimed had held them up. Coroner
McManus took
charge of the body. After holding an inquest, he
ordered the body removed to
Feith’s
undertaking establishment to be buried as a pauper, no
person having claimed the body. The coroner’s jury
found that the dead negro was known as John
Williams and that he had worked in the lumber yards at North Cairo.
The verdict was that he came to his death from a shot fired
by Walter McCall
in self-defense.
So far, there has been no trace found of the fourth negro,
who is alleged to have been the partner of John
Williams in the holdup stunt. A strange circumstance is that
the police have been unable to get any kind of a description
of this fourth person further than he was a negro.
Perhaps he was the fellow who held up and shot Ed
Teyetteff, of
Bardwell, Ky., at the Big Four crossing under the Illinois
Central Bridge about 7 o’clock last evening.
Teyetteff came to
Cairo Sunday to transact some business and leaving here
either took the wrong train or owing to deafness
misunderstood the directions of the conductor. At any
rate, he got off the train at the Big Four crossing.
Almost before he found out his mistake, a negro approached
him with a pistol in hand, demanding him “hold up your
hands.” The negro took a watch and money out of the
white man’s pockets, then told him to climb the embankment
of the bridge approach. Evidently
Teyetteff did not
climb fast enough to suit the negro, who shot him. The
wounded man reached the top of the embankment where his
cries attracted the train dispatcher.
Teyetteff was
brought into the city on the Paducah train and taken to St.
Mary’s Infirmary. Dr. E. E.
Gordon attended
the wounded man. The bullet was found lodged in his
back. Though dangerously wounded, it is expected that
he will recover. No trace of this highway man has been
found. Mr.
Teyetteff described his assailant as a negro about 5
feet 6 inches in height, wearing a suit of blue overalls.
About 10 o’clock Saturday evening, a shooting affray
occurred in a sort of “club room” operated as a resort for
negroes where they could find about anything they wanted,
except beer and booze, and even these were procured from
convenient saloons. Walter
Bailey and Charles
Throgmartin met there. They were not on friendly
terms. Both were “fixed.” With few
preliminaries, guns flashed and bullets began to fly. Each
says the other fellow started the fracas. Neither was
hurt though
Throgmartin got a bullet under his skin at the top of
one hip. Sam
Stringer, an innocent bystander, was shot through both
legs. Bailey and Throgmartin
were arrested by Officers
Glade and
Carmody and
lodged in the city jail. The “club room” is located at
1814 Poplar Street, and has been the cause of much complaint
lately. Chief
Egan stated to The
Citizen today that he ordered the place closed a week
ago and proposed to see that it remained closed hereafter.
A colored woman residing in Future City was wounded in the
side Sunday night, while sitting in her home. The
bullet that struck her came through a window. The
wound is not serious.
Mrs. Mary Manning,
one of Cairo’s old residents, and in former years proprietor
of the Green Tree House, died at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. W. W. Feltcher, where she was on a visit. She was over 70
years of age.
The remains will be brought back to Cairo for burial
tonight by her son.
Mrs. Manning
came to Cairo from Cork, Ireland, in 1863 with her husband
and five children. Her husband died here and she
remarried Mr. Manning.
She is survived now by four children, Mrs.
Feltcher,
Daniel Manning,
of Cairo, and two daughters living in Ohio.
She owns a number of pieces of property in Cairo.
About a year since, the old lady fell down stairs,
sustaining injuries which are thought to have been
indirectly the cause of her death. During several
years past, Mrs. Manning has made her home with Mrs. Herman
Gunther at 229 Eighth Street.
(William W.
Fletcher married Katie
Manning on 22 Jan
1890, in Alexander Co., Ill.
According to the 1900 census of Cairo, Ill., Mary
Manning was born
in 1848 in Ireland and immigrated to the United States in
1863.—Darrel Dexter)
Mrs. Mary Louise
Hacker, niece of the late Dr. Horace
Wardner, died at
Cleveland, Ohio, last Thursday, and the remains were buried
at LaPorte, Ind., today.
She leaves an aged father, Dr. P. J.
Wardner, and three sons, Horace, John and Stuart. She was the
wife of Nicholas
Hacker, of Chicago, but their domestic life was unhappy
and they separated. Her trouble is believed to have
hastened her end.
The deceased will be remembered by many old Cairoites.
She had a wide circle of friends who were most devoted to
her because of her lovable qualities.
(Nicholas Watson
Hacker married Mary Louise
Wardner on 24 Sep
1876, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter) (His
marker in New Shiloh Cemetery reads:
Isaac Edwards Born Feb. 4, 1840 Died Sept. 10,
1908.—Darrel Dexter)
(The 23 Sep 1908, issue states he was buried in Anna
Cemetery.—Darrel
Dexter)
Died—Mrs.
Mary Manning at
Hot Springs, Ark. Funeral services Wednesday at St.
Patrick’s Church at 1:30 o’clock. Funeral train will
leave foot of Fourteenth Street at 2:45 o’clock for Villa
Ridge cemetery. Friends of the deceased are invited to
attend.
The funeral of the late Mrs. Mary
Manning was held this afternoon. A large assemblage of old
friends and acquaintances of the deceased accompanied the
remains from the residence of Daniel
Manning, 1106
Poplar Street, to St. Patrick’s Church, where services were
conducted by Rev. J. J.
Downey.
Seldom are so many elderly persons seen in attendance at a
funeral. The remains were conveyed to Calvary Cemetery
at Villa Ridge by special train.
Mrs. Eckley
will be remembered as Miss Corinne
Cheek, formerly
of Villa Ridge and also a teacher in the Cairo and Mound
City schools and has many friends who will be sorry to learn
of her sorrow. (Mound City)
The Paducah News
Democrat contains the following concerning the death of
Eugene Richardson,
a well-known young man of that city.
Mr. Richardson
has many friends in Cairo who will be grieved to learn of
his death.
Eugene Richardson,
son of Mr. and Mrs. E. B.
Richardson, of
320 South Third Street, one of the most popular young men in
Paducah, died at 12:40 o’clock Saturday night, after a
lingering illness.
Gene Richardson,
as he was known to scores of friends, was born December 15,
1884. He lived in Paducah all his life until last
winter when he went to St. Louis to work for Hamilton Brown
Shoe Company. February 20, he was taken ill of typhoid
fever. It was a severe case and complications
followed. He grew better for a while, but for several
days his condition has been hopeless.
Besides his parents, he is survived by two brothers and
three sisters. His brothers are Charles, of Paducah,
and William, of Chicago. The sisters are Mrs. Charles
Wilstach and Miss
Cora Richardson,
of Paducah, and Mrs. Oscar
Jones, of San
Bernardino, Cal.
Funeral services were conducted from the First Baptist
Church at 2:30 o’clock Monday afternoon. The services
were by Rev. M. E.
Dodd. The burial was at Oak Grove Cemetery.
A well-known citizen of Barlow, Ky., was killed on the
Illinois Central railroad track at the head of Prairie Lake
Saturday night. Tom Lee
Moore had been in
Cairo on business Saturday. Having missed his train he
crossed the river in a skiff and started to walk home.
He was alone, but the position of the body when found would
indicate that he sat down beside the track and went to
sleep, lying his head upon the rails. He was struck by
a train and the top of his head cut off.
Moore was about
thirty-five years of age.
Connie Land,
one of the unfortunates of 217 Thirteenth Street, committed
suicide Saturday night by taking carbolic acid. She
conducted what was known as the “White House.”
(Thomas L. Moore,
27, of Ballard Co., Ky., married Mollie
Shelton, 23, of
Mound City, Ill., on 17 Nov 1898, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
Adolphus
Murphey, 28, of Mound City, Ill., married Hattie
Freeze, 17, of
Mound City, Ill., on 15 May 1889, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.—Darrel Dexter)
The sheriff of Crittenden County, Arkansas, has notified
Chief Egan to
hold the negro Ben
Richardson, arrested here last week on information
charging him with having killed a contractor at Bradley’s
Landing about eight years ago. The description of
Richardson tallies closely with that of one Dick
Johnson, who is
wanted by the Arkansas authorities. Sheriff
Lewis of
Crittenden County has applied for a requisition.
Cairo Evening Citizen,
Friday, 1 Oct 1908:
DICK JOHNSON TO BE RETURNED TO ARKANSAS
Springfield, Ill., Oct. 1.—Governor
Deneen today
honored a requisition from the governor of Arkansas for the
return to Marion, Ark., of Dick
Johnson, wanted
there on the charge of murder in the first degree by
shooting and killing T.
Mike with a
revolver on Feb. 17, 1902.
Johnson is under
arrest in Cairo.
Cairo Evening Citizen,
Friday, 2 Oct 1908:
A husband’s false friend is not always found in melodrama,
cheap novels and high society. Such was the case that
came to light this forenoon and the sequence is the same:
a broken home, a sorrowing husband, and most of all,
innocent babes cry for the comfort of a mother who is beyond
their call. During the forenoon, Drew
Marshall went to
the home of Frank
Bechtel, 217 Thirty-fourth Street. He had been a
friend of the family for some time, according to reports.
Mrs. Bechtel
had returned recently from a visit. According to the
woman’s statement, which was the evidence before the
coroner’s jury, Marshall told Mrs. Bechtel
that during her absence her husband had not been true to
her. She asked for proof of this statement and
Marshall then
declared that he, himself, loved her and wanted her to leave
her husband and children to go with him. This
proposition she repulsed, also attempted familiarities with
her person. Upon seeing that she would have nothing to
do with him, Marshall
threw her upon the floor, took a revolver from a box in the
room and shot at her, then turned the weapon upon himself,
fired and fell.
Doctors Clark
and McManus were
summoned. They found the man dead and the woman
probably fatally wounded. One bullet had pierced
Marshall’s heart.
Mrs. Bechtel was
shot twice one bullet having entered her breast, just below
the heart the other entered her back under the left
shoulder. Both bullets are thought to have lodged in
the plural cavity causing internal bleeding, which is a
serious complication. The chances for her recovery are
slight. At direction of her husband, Mrs.
Bechtel was
removed to St. Mary’s Infirmary this afternoon.
Coroner McManus
empanelled a jury composed of J. E.
Dunn, A. J.
Brooks, Reuben
McCrite, H. C.
Jones, A. T. Ivy, and C.
W. Brown.
They viewed the remains of
Marshall, which
was then taken in charge by
Burke &
Blaine. The
inquest was held at the scene of the tragedy. The
verdict was as follows:
Frank Bechtel
came to Cairo with his family from Bellefontaine, Ohio,
about a year ago. He worked at the Singer for a time
and then got a job on the sewer work under
Hanes & Son.
Mr. Bechtel has
the reputation of being a steady reliable man, his home
shows that he provided well for his family and his friends
and acquaintances are unsparing in their condemnation of the
false friend who has been the means of bringing upon him the
greatest sorrow that falls to the lot of men.
Mrs. Bechtel is
27 years of age and the mother of two children, who are five
and three years of age respectively.
Little is known of
Marshall. He is single man about thirty-five years
of age. He has been boarding at 1_00 Commercial
Avenue. When his clothing was searched at direction of
the coroner, nothing of value was found. He had not a
cent of money in his pockets.
The ten-month-old baby of John
Lesar died about
noon Friday. Its remains were interred in the family
cemetery Saturday morning. Mr.
Lesar has the
sympathy of his many friends. (Olive Branch)
(His marker in Olive Branch Cemetery reads:
John Calvin son of John & Bertie
Lesar Born Dec.
11, 1907 Died Sept. 25, 1908.
Sleep on sweet babe and take thy rest.
God called you home.
He thought it best.—Darrel
Dexter)
Drew Marshall,
who shot Mrs. Frank
Bechtel and committed suicide yesterday, first met the
Bechtel family at
Morehouse, Mo., where he and
Bechtel worked
together at a sawmill. About three months after Mr.
Bechtel removed his family to Cairo,
Marshall followed them. He was seemingly infatuated with Mrs.
Bechtel and is
said to have been persistent in his attention to her while
boarding with the family, while they resided in the
Feuchter-Lansden
addition several months since. Finally Mrs.
Bechtel refused
positively to allow
Marshall to entice her from her home. Then the
demon of jealousy did its work.
The revolver used by
Marshall was a 38
caliber. The weapon was held so close to his victim
that the wounds were powder burned. Four shots were
fired. Two of the bullets passed through the side of
the house, one of them breaking a pane of glass in the house
on the adjoining lot. One bullet was found in the
clothing removed from Mrs.
Bechtel’s person
before she was taken to the infirmary. The fourth
bullet evidently was the one that penetrated
Marshall’s heart.
It would seem from this that the woman was shot only once,
the bullet passing through her body.
Mrs. Bechtel
was resting well this morning. Although the chances
for her recovery are not promising, she may recover.
James Walker, a
negro, about 55 years of age, was run down and killed on the
Illinois Central tracks at North Cairo early this morning.
He got off a train at Bridge junction and started to walk
into town along the tracks. He was run down on the
subway across Sycamore Street and it is supposed that owing
to the number of tracks at that point he was misjudged upon
which the train that hit him was coming.
The body was taken in charge by
Burke & Blaine on order
of Coroner McManus
and the inquest was held this afternoon.
Walker’s
daughter is Mrs. Frank
Musgrave, who
resides with her husband at Fortieth Street and Commercial
Avenue. After hearing that her father was dead, she
received a letter written by him at Guthrie, Okla., on Sept.
30, telling her that he was coming to live with her and that
he had sold his home.
Walker was past
60 years of age. His letters show that he was of a
religious turn of mind. The remains will be interred at
Villa Ridge.
Mrs. G. E. Anglen,
of 700 Commercial Avenue, received a message this morning
announcing the death of her brother, W. S.
Gore, formerly of
this city, which occurred at his home in St. Louis at 8:15
o’clock this morning.
The funeral will be held at Ashley, Ill., tomorrow and
interment will take place in that city.
Mr. and Mrs. Anglen
and Mrs. W. C. Gore
and children will go to Ashley to attend the funeral.
BOAT TURNS TURTLE
The steamer Emerson,
towing the Emerson
floating palace or show boat, was wrecked at Osceola Bend,
180 miles below Cairo, this morning and the man who played
the calliope was drowned.
From information received over the long distance
telephone, it is learned that the towboat struck bar there
and veered around, striking the government mattress and then
turned turtle and sank. It is said that she is a total
loss.
The mattress was torn out of place in such a way as to
obstruct the channel there and the towboats
Mariner and
Hartweg, which
were caught below the tows, cannot get up the river.
They are helping the government boat to pull the mattress
back into position.
The show boat was damaged in the accident and will be
brought to Cairo for repairs.
Capt. Charley
Nichols was pilot on the
Emerson. It
gave an exhibition at Cairo two weeks ago.
Gus Muthig, of
this city, was called to Louisville, Ky., last week by the
serious illness of his mother, Mrs. Katherine
Muthig, who died
last Thursday night. Mrs.
Muthig was 61
years of age and had resided in Louisville since 1890.
The remains were interred in Oak Grove Cemetery at Paducah
yesterday morning. Mrs.
Muthig formerly
resided in Paducah, her husband having been in the tailoring
business there for many years and died in Paducah about
eighteen years ago. The surviving members of Mrs.
Muthig’s family
are Gus Muthig,
of Cairo, and Mrs. E.
Hoendle, of Louisville.
(Her death certificate states Katherine
Muthig was born 1
Oct 1847, in Germany and died 1 Oct 1908, of multiple
neuritis.—Darrel Dexter)
The funeral services of W. Scott
Gore, for many years prominently identified with business interests
here and late of St. Louis, were conducted Sunday afternoon
at Ashley. Many relatives and friends were in attendance
from St. Louis, Cairo, DuQuoin and other southern Illinois
towns.
Sheriff Lewis
of Crittenden County, Arkansas, was in the city yesterday to
take charge of a negro charged with murder of a levee
contractor at Bradley’s Landing, Ark., about eight years
ago. The negro wanted was named
Johnson and the negro under arrest here claimed to be Ben
Richardson.
He stoutly maintains that he was not the other negro, but
his description tallies and the information upon which he
was arrested seems to be positive as to his identification.
The sheriff did not know the negro himself, but having
requisition papers from the governor of Arkansas and
Illinois, he took the negro with him. One point that
the negro was anxious about was that he should be returned
to Cairo if he was not identified by the witnesses in the
case.
Robert Harper,
baggageman on the Mobile & Ohio Railroad running between
Cairo and St. Louis, died at Jackson, Tenn., Tuesday of
Bright’s disease. He was a brother of Trainmaster
Jesse Harper of
the St. Louis division.
A young girl known as Bennie
McClarney, tells a story in defense of the man who shot her mother
near the Cairo high school at Twenty-fifth and Walnut
streets about 10 o’clock last night. According to the
girl’s story, her mother had been compelling her to keep
company with a young man she did not like and last night and
night before she was accompanied to her home by another man,
Walter Davidge.
They boarded a Holbrook Avenue car at Eighth and Washington
Avenue and got off at Twenty-fifth and Holbrook to walk to
her home at Twenty-fourth and Washington Avenue. When
they reached the school building, her mother, Mrs.
McClarney, met them and opened fire upon
Davidge, declaring that she intended to kill him.
Davidge then
opened fire on her mother.
Mrs. McClarney
was shot through the lower part of the abdomen. Such a
wound usually results fatally. The woman is at St.
Mary’s Infirmary under the care of Doctors
McNemeer and
Gordon. She
is the widow of William
McClarney,
formerly a well-known farmer of Willard Precinct, in
Alexander County. Her daughter is an only child.
Miss McClarney
is about sixteen years of age and is employed at the
Favorite Confectionery on Eighth Street, conducted by Mrs.
Magruder, who
recommended the girl highly. Mrs.
Magruder states that the girl left her store last night about 9:45
and said that she would have to go home with “John,” the
young man she disliked, “to keep peace in the family.”
Mrs. Magruder says someone met the girl at the door, but that she did not
notice who it was.
There are several different versions of the affair and
what transpired when Mrs.
McClarney came up
with the young people. The revolver the girl gave the
police as the one her mother used does not substantiate her
story of the shooting.
Walter Davidge
ran away after the shooting, leaving the girl with her
mother. Davidge
is a bartender and has been employed at Nineteenth Street
and Commercial Avenue. He lives with his father on
Eleventh Street and is a brother to James
Davidge, formerly a member of the police force.
(William McClarney
married Jennie Chism
on 19 Sep 1897, in Alexander Co., Ill.
They are in the 1900 census of Goose Island Precinct,
Alexander Co., Ill.:
William
McClarney, born July 1848 in Tennessee, Eugenie
McClarney,
born June 1874 in Mississippi, Katie
McClarney, born
January 1886, James C.
McClarney, born
Sept. 1888 in Illinois, and Benny
McCarter born
Aug. 1892 in Mississippi.—Darrel
Dexter)
In the county court in probate sitting yesterday, the will
of the late Joseph
Edline was probated. The executor named in the
testament is Louis C.
Ent.
Capt. John T.
Mozley, of Johnson County, died suddenly at his home
southeast of Vienna last Thursday. The deceased was 70
years of age and was a native of Tennessee. He lived
on the farm where he lived for fifty years. He served
in the Union Army during the Civil War. He was a
member of the Christian Church and of the Masonic order.
(John T.
Mozley, 24, farmer, born in Marshall Co., Tenn., 5’9”, light hair,
black eyes, light complexion, enlisted on 14 Aug 1862, in
Vienna, Ill., as 1st lieutenant of Co. B, 120th
Illinois Infantry, was promoted to captain, and mustered out
10 Sep 1865. He
was pensioned in 1879 and his widow, Margaret E.
Mozley, was pensioned in 1908.—Darrel
Dexter)
Lorraine
Willis, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy
Willis, died at the home of his parents in Willard this morning.
Burke &
Blaine have
charge of the remains.
Mrs. Lizzie Hammond,
aged 64 years, died at her home on Railroad Avenue at 1:30
a.m. Tuesday. The funeral occurred Wednesday
afternoon, burial at Hogendobler Cemetery. (Mound
City)
Cairo Evening Citizen,
Friday, 9 Oct 1908:
MRS. FRANK BECHTEL GREATLY IMPROVED
Mrs. Frank
Bechtel, the victim of an admirer's mad jealousy, seems now in fair
way to recover. It is probable that she will be
permitted to return to her home from St. Mary’s Infirmary
tomorrow. Unless unexpected complications appear, her
ultimate recovery is assured. Mrs.
Bechtel was shot
by Drew Marshall,
last Friday, at her home on Thirty-fourth Street, the man
committing suicide after shooting Mrs.
Bechtel.
MRS. McCLARNEY DIED THIS MORNING
NO TRACE OF DAVIDGE HAS YET BEEN FOUND
The coroner’s jury found that Walter
Davidge was not
justified in the act and recommended that he be apprehended
and held to the grand jury.
Mrs.
McClarney the victim of a too ready pistol in the hands of Walter
Davidge, died
about daylight this morning at St. Mary's Infirmary, where
she was conveyed for treatment after receiving her mortal
wound, while trying to separate her daughter from a man she
did not know. The woman seemed to be gaining strength
yesterday and last evening was in a cheerful mood. She
rested well until after midnight and then collapsed, sinking
rapidly into a death stupor.
Mrs.
McClarney was the widow of the late William
McClarney, formerly a prominent and thrifty farmer of Willard
neighborhood, in this county. After the death of Mr.
McClarney several years ago, the widow sold her interest in her
husband’s estate to his sons (her stepsons) and came to
Cairo with her young daughter, who is now about sixteen
years of age. Mr.
McClarney was about forty years of age.
The story of the affair as told at the time has not
changed materially. Bennie
McClarney left
the Favorite Confectionery for her home about 9:45 p.m.
Where she met Walter
Davidge has not been learned, but within a few minutes of 10 o'clock
Mrs. McClarney
met her daughter with
Davidge at or near the high school building at
Twenty-fifth and Walnut streets. One important witness
happened to be near at the time. Being a substantial
business man, the testimony of this witness has much weight
and contradicts some important points in the first statement
made by the girl; the principal difference being in regard
to Mrs. McClarney's
approach upon the couple. The girl said her mother
fired at Davidge;
the man says Mrs.
McClarney did not shoot. The pistol now in the
hands of the police, which was identified as the one the
woman had, does not show that it had been fired recently.
The exact location of the tragedy was also disputed and in
this matter also circumstantial evidence is against the
girls' statement. However, laboring under so great a
strain and in the excitement of the moment the natural
impulse of the girl was to shield herself and the young man
in whom she seemed to have much confidence. It is
understood that Mrs.
McClarney made a detailed statement of the affair yesterday.
This statement will probably not be given to the public at
this time.
Young
Davidge disappeared immediately after the shooting before the police
reached the scene, and up to the present time no trace of
him has been found. The authorities in all directions
were notified promptly and given a description of the young
man. Many people are of the opinion that he was hiding
in the city, but the police have been unable to find any
clew indicating that he had remained in the city long after
leaving the girl beside her mother.
The girl seems now to realize
the magnitude of her affliction and was on the verge of
total collapse this morning. Her grief when she saw
her mother's corpse at
Burke &
Blaine's
undertaking establishment was pitiful to behold.
Coroner
McManus empanelled a jury and the inquest was held this afternoon in
the city council chamber.
Alf T. Haynes
was called to Austin, Texas, today by the serious illness of
his brother.
Mrs. Alf T. Haynes
has received a message from Austin, Texas, announcing the
death of Mr. Haynes'
brother, which occurred at 12 o'clock today. Mr.
Haynes left this
morning for Austin to be at his brother’s bedside.
Cairo Evening Citizen,
Saturday, 10 Oct 1908:
NEGRO KILLED AT NORTH CAIRO TODAY
Run Down by Illinois Central Passenger Train No. 5
An unknown colored man was killed by Illinois Central
passenger train No. 5 a half mile south of Cairo Junction
this afternoon about 1:30 o'clock. The man was walking
on the main track and paid no attention to the signals.
The train was drawn by engine No. 1044 and Engineer
McOnley was at
the throttle.
The body was brought down to Cairo and
taken to Burke &
Blaine's
undertaking establishment, where Coroner
McManus held an
inquest late this afternoon.
It is stated that the engineer whistled
repeatedly. The man had a string of fish in his hand
and had evidently been fishing. The body could not be
identified early this afternoon. The man was supposed
to live in Future City.
WALTER DAVIDGE IS IN CUSTODY
Arrested by George Cowell and Officer French This Morning
IN SLEEPING CAR ON MOBILE & OHIO TRAIN
Hiding in City until Last Night—The Inquest—Mrs. McClarney's
Remains Taken to Willard for Interment
Walter Davidge,
wanted on the charge of murder for the shooting of Mrs.
Eugenia McClarney
at the high school building last Tuesday evening, was
arrested by Sergt.
Cowell, Officers
French and Johnson this
morning. They found the man in berth on a sleeping car
attached to the southbound Mobile & Ohio train arriving here
about 2 o'clock.
Davidge was taken
completely by surprise, but seemed not over confident that
his well-planned escape would be successful; he was lying in
the berth with his shoes on, having removed only his coat
and vest. When the sergeant flashed a searchlight on
him the young man made no attempt to conceal his identity or
to offer resistance. He climbed out of the berth, put
on his coat and vest, and accompanied the officers to police
headquarters, where he was locked up for the night.
The officers got only a slight clew, an
unimportant one at that, but followed it up with the result
as stated. An intimate friend of
Davidge drove out
of the city last night going in the direction of Beech
Ridge. Working upon the theory that
Davidge had not
left the city, the officers learned that two men had boarded
the southbound Mobile train at Beech Ridge and that one of
them left the train at Cairo, while the other went into the
sleeper. The officers soon found their man.
Davidge had a ticket for Corinth, Miss., some money, jewelry and
a few trinkets, when searched at police headquarters.
He made no statement and had little to say.
Davidge was transferred to the county jail this afternoon.
He refused to talk about the tragedy.
The Coroner’s Inquest
B. R.
Thistlewood, T. F. Biggs,
J. F. Steinhouse,
W. P. Fraser, A.
L. Stout and Clarence Nichols,
foreman, composed the coroner’s jury that yesterday
afternoon considered the death of Mrs. Eugenia
McClarney,
finding that she came to her death from a gunshot wound
caused by a bullet fired from a revolver in the hands of
Walter Davidge, about 10:30 o'clock p.m. on October 6, 1908, at the north
corner of the high school building in Cairo, Illinois.
The testimony presented to the jury
proved beyond a doubt that Mrs.
McClarney did not
fire a shot, but that she did have a revolver. The
recovered gun presented in evidence and identified by the
daughter of the dead woman as her mother’s weapon, is a
Smith & Wesson revolver of 44 caliber—a large heavy weapon
that could hardly be carried except in a holster. Such
a weapon would, when discharged, make a report similar to
that of a small cannon.
Bennie
McClarney, the daughter, gave her testimony in a quiet,
self-possessed manner. She is said to be 16 years of
age, but would be taken for eighteen. In the main, her
statement did not vary very much from the statement
previously attributed to her, except that she corrected the
statement that her mother fired the first shot, saying that
she thought she did at the moment because she did not see
Davidge have a
pistol until he fired the second shot and her mother fell.
The girl said her mother held her revolver in her hand under
her cloak and that she saw it just before
Davidge fired.
Miss McClarney
stated that she had been keeping company with Walter
Davidge for a
while last summer and her mother objected to him, also that
they had been together,
Davidge taking
her home on two evenings previous to the shooting.
The other witnesses before the
coroner’s inquest were Gus
Muthig, Arthur
Mattingly,
William Boren and Dr. E. E. Gordon.
Dr. Gordon
presented in evidence and identified the bullet that was
removed from the body of Mrs.
McClarney.
Funeral of Mrs. McClarney
The funeral of Mrs.
McClarney was
held today. Services were held at the residence at
Twenty-fourth Street and Washington Avenue this forenoon.
The remains were taken to Willard for interment this
afternoon.
Mrs. Eugenia
McClarney came of a good family of the old southern aristocratic
stock, residing at or near Tupelo, Mississippi. It is
said she left home many years ago, coming to Cairo before
she was married to William
McClarney.
Her father, who was notified of the tragic death of his
daughter and sent in reply a message saying that he would be
unable to attend the funeral.
Roy Minton has
gone to Charleston, Mo., where his brother, Ray
Minton, is
critically sick. The many friends of the family hope
for a favorable turn in his condition. (Thebes)
Cairo Evening Citizen,
Monday, 12 Oct 1908:
NO NEW CASES—ONE DEATH REPORTED
No new cases of diphtheria have been reported to the city
health department within the past two days. One of the
six cases previously reported, that of a colored child at
536 Seventeenth Street, resulted in death yesterday.
All of the other patients are reported doing nicely.
The three smallpox patients in the pest
house are recovering.
So far no more cases have developed in the tenement
house from which the cases were taken.
DEATH OF MRS. A. W. JONES
Mrs. A. W.
Jones died Sunday at her home, 810 Walnut Street, after an illness
of about two weeks' duration. Mrs.
Jones has for
several years been interested in the millinery business,
having been a member of the firm of
Jones &
Bristol at 209
Eighth Street. Later Miss
Bristol withdrew
and Mrs. Jones
conducted the business alone. Her husband and two
daughters, Miss Quindara and the other married, survive her.
The remains were shipped to Lexington, Mo., yesterday
afternoon for interment.
TWO CONVICTS FROM ALEXANDER COUNTY
A Springfield dispatch says that the State Board of Pardons
has set the hearing for next Tuesday on the applications for
pardon by Jesse Reed and Samuel A. Mason,
both of whom are now serving terms in the state penitentiary
at Chester, having been sent up from Alexander County.
Both the men are negroes.
Jesse Reed
was convicted of murder and sentenced to the penitentiary
for a term of fifty years. He has now served about
twenty years and is an old man. For several years he
has been a trusty and although he has made several
applications for pardon, the privilege of a hearing has
never before been granted him. The case against
Reed was made
from direct evidence, he having killed another negro in a
quarrel over a woman at an old house that formerly stood on
the northeast corner of Thirteenth and Poplar streets.
Reed followed his
victim out of the house and cut his throat. There were
extenuating circumstances brought out in the trial that now
give the old man a chance for pardon. Previous to the
murder Reed had a
good reputation.
The case of Samuel
Mason is well
remembered by many citizens. He was convicted of rape
and sentenced about three years ago to serve twenty years in
the penitentiary. The evidence showed that
Mason had
assaulted a little white girl, taking advantage of the
absence of the child's mother from the house in Future City.
Mason was a
painter and at the time was working on the house. The
attorney representing
Mason before the board of pardons is from Nashville,
where Mason has
relatives.
Mason was married to a young woman of a respectable and
industrious colored family in Cairo, but it is said they are
not in the move to secure the pardon.
MISS ROSE GOATEY DEAD
After many months of suffering, death
came as a relief to Miss Rose
Goatey at her
home, 2211 Walnut Street, last evening. Miss
Goatey had for nearly two years been afflicted with tuberculosis.
She sought relief in the southwest and the mountainous
country, but without avail, returning finally to Cairo,
knowing that her case was hopeless. Here, among her
relatives and friends, she bravely awaited the end.
Born and reared in Cairo, she had a host of friends here.
During several years before she was stricken, Miss
Goatey was a clerk in the leading dry goods stores of the city.
The deceased was about thirty-two years of age and is
survived by a sister, Mrs. Frank
Fry, and two
brothers.
(Frank W.
Fry married Mary A. Goatey
on 6 Jul 1891, in Alexander Co., Ill.
Her marker in Calvary Cemetery at Villa Ridge reads:
Rosa M. Goatey
1872-1908.—Darrel
Dexter)
FUNERAL NOTICE
Died—Miss
Rose Goatey,
Sunday afternoon at residence, 2211 Walnut Street.
Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday afternoon at 1:30
o'clock at St. Joseph's Church. Funeral train will
leave the foot of Fourteenth Street at 2:45 for Villa Ridge
cemetery. Friends of the family are invited to attend.
BURIED AS AN UNKNOWN
The coroner’s inquest held Saturday
afternoon to investigate the death of the negro run over by
an Illinois Central passenger train failed to establish the
identity of the dead man. The verdict of the jury was
accidental death. The entire train crew appeared at
the inquest. The body was buried at Mounds today at
the expense of the county. Many persons saw the body,
but none could (identify him.)
Cairo Evening Citizen,
Tuesday, 13 Oct 1908:
DIED AT INFIRMARY
Mrs. K. E. Poiter,
aged 43 years, died this morning at St. Mary’s Infirmary.
The remains were shipped to her home at LaCenter, Ky., this
afternoon by Burke
& Blaine.
FUNERAL OF MISS GOATEY
The funeral services for the late Miss Rose
Goatey, whose
demise was chronicled in
The Citizen last
evening, were conducted by Rev. Father
Reinhardt at St.
Joseph's Church this afternoon, before a large assemblage of
friends of the deceased. Floral offerings covered the
casket, the mass of foliage and flowers bearing testimony to
the esteem of associates and friends. A special train
from Fourteenth Street conveyed the cortege to the cemetery
at Villa Ridge for interment.
DEATH OF MRS. J. H. JONES
Long in Poor Health and Suffered Paralytic Stroke
Mrs. J. H.
Jones died at her home, 622 Thirty-fifth Street, at 8 o'clock last
evening. Mrs.
Jones had been in poor health for a year past and on
last Saturday evening was stricken with paralysis while on a
street car. The deceased was about fifty years of age.
Her husband and five children survive her. Byron and
Charles, the eldest sons, reside at Chickasawba, Ark. They
arrived here yesterday in response to a message stating the
serious illness of their mother. The other children,
Clyde and Misses Lottie and Lota, reside in this city.
Mr. Jones has for
many years been a salesman for the Singer Sewing Machine
Co., and first came to Cairo with his family about twenty
years ago, remaining here some time, then going to Grand
Chain, and returning to Cairo about seven years ago.
FUNERAL NOTICE
Died—Mary
E. Jones, age 50,
wife of J. H. Jones,
October 12, 1908. Funeral services will be held at
1:30 p.m. at family residence, 622 Thirty-fifth Street,
Wednesday. The remains will be taken to Grand Chain
for burial. Friends of the family invited to attend.
LABORER FOUND DEAD UNDER BEACON LIGHT
Belonged to Government Fleet at Beech Ridge—Died of Natural
Causes
Coroner McManus
was called out early this morning to hold an inquest over
the remains of a laborer on the government fleet at Eliza
Point. The man was found dead under a beacon light
about midnight last night by a watchman from the government
fleet who had been sent out to look for him. He was
one of a gang that was transferred yesterday from the fleet
above Beech Ridge to the work below the
English farm. When the others arrived at the new quarters,
they reported one man missing and the watchman started out.
The man was Henry
Miller, aged about fifty years. He joined the
government laborers at St. Louis and so far as known had no
relatives. His death was due to heart failure.
The remains were brought into the city and will be buried at
the expense of the county.
MISS ANNA GILLESPIE DIED THIS MORNING
Miss Anna Gillespie,
eldest daughter of Capt. J. J.
Gillespie, of 517
Center Street, passed away at 9 o'clock this morning,
following an illness of several months' duration.
The deceased was 26 years of age and
was well known and much beloved by her many friends who will
deeply regret her untimely demise.
The funeral arrangements will be
announced later.
(Memphis and St. Louis papers please
copy.)
Cairo Evening Citizen,
Wednesday, 14 Oct 1908:
GRAND JURY MAKES ITS FIRST REPORT
WALTER DAVIDGE PLEADS NOT GUILTY
Other Cases Disposed of by the Circuit Court
Today—17-Year-Old Murderer Went to Reformatory
The first report from the grand jury was made this afternoon
and twelve true bills were turned against prisoners in jail,
as follows:
Frank Jackson,
murder. He killed a negro on Twelfth Street whom
officer tried to arrest. The case was continued to the
next term of court.
Nancy Brooks,
murder. This is the negro woman who killed her sister
on Twenty-first Street with a knife. She pleaded not
guilty.
Walter Davidge,
murder; pleaded not guilty.
Ambrose
Beecher, age 17, pleaded guilty to murder and was sent
to the reformatory at Pontiac. He killed another boy
at the Singer factory.
OLD RESIDENT DIED THIS MORNING
Mrs. John McEwen,
one of the oldest residents of Cairo, died at 10 o'clock
this morning at her residence on Seventh Street.
She had been in feeble health for the
past three years, but has been confined to her bed for only
two weeks. Death was due to creeping paralysis.
The deceased was born in
Newcastle-On-Tyne, England, on April 12, 1829. Her
maiden name was Henrietta
Harrison.
She was married to John
McEwen on June 9,
1850, in England, and nine children were born to them.
Mrs.
McEwen came to the United States in 1854 and resided in New York for
several years, coming to Cairo in 1865. Her husband
died July 14, 1894.
The deceased is survived by two
children, Miss Etta
McEwen and William H.
McEwen; two
grandchildren, Mrs. Millard R.
McGruder, of this
city, and John
Haughawout, of Murphysboro; and one great-grandchild,
Walter McGruder.
Arrangements for the funeral have not
been completed, but the services will be conducted Friday by
the Ven. A. H. W.
Anderson of the Church of the Redeemer.
FUNERAL OF MRS. JONES
The funeral of the late Mrs. Mary E.
Jones, wife of J.
H. Jones, was
held this afternoon, the services being conducted at the
family residence on Thirty-fifth Street. The remains
were taken to Grand Chain on the evening train
via the Big Four, for interment in the family burial grounds.
A large concourse of friends accompanied the remains from
the house to the train.
FUNERAL TOMORROW
The funeral service for the late Miss Annie E.
Gillespie will be
held tomorrow afternoon at St. Joseph's Church.
Special train will convey cortege to Villa Ridge.
Interment will be in Calvary Cemetery. Funeral notice
will be found in this issue of
The Citizen.
FUNERAL NOTICE
Died—Annie E.
Gillespie, Tuesday, Oct. 13, age 24 years, 11 months, 13
days.
Funeral services will be held at St. Joseph's Church
at 1:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 15. Special train will
leave Fourteenth Street at 2:45 o'clock p.m. for Villa
Ridge, where the interment will be made. Friends of
the family are invited to attend.
Cairo Evening Citizen, Thursday, 15 Oct 1908:
The circuit court today was occupied with the trial of
John Williams
indicted for murder of Bruce
Hardin in
September 1906, on Lower Commercial Avenue. The jury
was secured during the forenoon and witnesses were examined
this afternoon, there being a number of them. The case
will probably go to the jury this evening.
Reports to the city health authorities this morning added
three new cases of diphtheria to the list. Two of them
are located at Thirty-second and Poplar streets, the third
is near Thirty-fourth Street on Park Avenue. One death
occurred last night, that of a child at 3307 Commercial
Avenue.
Health Officer Orr
under whose direction all premises wherein contagious
diseases have been, are to be fumigated, suggests that
carpets and all unnecessary furniture be removed from room
occupied by the patient. This precaution will assist
in preventing a spread of the disease.
Mrs. F. Baader,
mother of Mrs. W. A.
Spence, of Cairo, died at the home of another daughter,
Mrs. Fischer, at
Wetaug at 5 o'clock this morning at the advance age of
nearly 77 years.
The deceased was a native of Esteringham, Baaden, Germany,
and leaves four daughters and a son and fourteen
grandchildren.
The interment will be held at Wetaug Friday morning at 10
o'clock.
The funeral of the late Annie E.
Gillespie held this afternoon was largely attended by the friends
and associates of the deceased. The Young Ladies
Sodality of St. Joseph’s Parish attended in a body.
Services were held in St. Joseph’s Church, Rev. Father
Reinhardt
officiating. The remains were taken by special train
to Calvary Cemetery at Villa Ridge for interment.
Jeff Oversee
was found beside the wagon road that parallels the Mound
City branch of the Illinois Central Railroad between Mound
City and Mounds, about half a mile east of Mounds, at 7
o'clock this morning. He had been shot through the
chest, the bullet striking in the right side. Though
nearly dead when found, the man said that he did not know
who shot him. He died a few minutes later, before
medical aid could reach him. The body was taken to
Mounds, where an inquest was held this forenoon at the
livery of Scruggs & Weaver by
Deputy Coroner Davis.
Oversee
was a thrifty colored farmer residing on his own farm about
four miles northwest of Mounds and was well thought of by
his neighbors. He passed through Mounds early this
morning with a load of produce, which he intended to sell in
Cairo. Evidently he fell from his wagon when shot, as
the team kept the road and was found without a driver on
this side of Cache Bridge. It is thought by some that
his assailant took the team and drove toward Cairo,
abandoning it after crossing Cache. One feature that
perplexes the Pulaski County authorities is that a watch and
some money was found in the pockets of the dead man's
clothing.
Oversee
was thirty-five years of age, married and has a family.
(The 16 Oct 1908,
Pulaski Enterprise reported his name as Jeff
Oglesby.—Darrel
Dexter)
(Isabenda DeBaun,
33, born in Kentucky, is in the 1850 census of Madison Co.,
Ill., with her husband, Joseph
DeBaun, 39, born
in Kentucky, a blacksmith; and their children, George A., 9,
born in Kentucky, Nathaniel I., 8, born in Kentucky, James
S., 5, born in Illinois, and Mary A., 1, born in Illinois.
In 1900, Isabenda
DeBaun, born
January 1817 in Kentucky, was living with her daughter, Emma
F. Black, born in
April 1860, in the census of Gillespie, Macoupin Co.,
Ill.—Darrel Dexter)
Died—Mrs. John
McEwen, Wednesday, Oct. 14th, at 10 o'clock
a.m. Age 79 years, 6 months and 2 days.
Funeral services will be conducted Friday afternoon at
1:45 o'clock at the Church of the Redeemer. Special
train will leave the foot of Second Street at 2:45 o'clock
for Beech Grove Cemetery. Friends of the family
invited to attend.
(Her marker in Beech Grove Cemetery at Mounds reads:
Henrietta wife of John
McEwen Born April 12, 1829 Died Oct. 14, 1908.—Darrel
Dexter)
Old friends of the late Mrs. John
McEwen and her family followed her remains to Beech Grove Cemetery
this afternoon where under a mass of flowers, they were laid
beside those of her husband, who passed away a number of
years ago. Services were held at the Church of the
Redeemer, conducted by Ven. A. H. W.
Anderson and a quartet from the church choir sang the hymns.
The pall bearers were W. H.
Wood, Phil C.
Barclay, Frank
Ferguson, W. G.
Cochran, C. C. Terrell,
M. F. Gilbert, W.
S. Dewey, and
John C. Fisher.
The coroner’s jury investigating the death of Jeff
Oversee, the
negro farmer who was assassinated yesterday morning near
Mounds, failed to obtain any information that might lead to
the identification of his assault or in any way clear up the
mystery. The verdict of the jury was that deceased
came to his death by a gunshot wound caused from a bullet
fired by some unknown person. Mrs.
Oversee
identified her husband's body, also the watch and amount of
money found upon his person. None of these valuables
had been taken, hence the theory of robbery cannot be
advanced. The only thing that was missing is a gun
Oversee had when
he left home. No trace of it has been found, although
a diligent search has been made for it along the road to the
place where his wagon was found. So far as is known,
Oversee had no
enemies, and he was a peaceable citizen not likely to stir
up trouble.
We desire to extend our heartfelt thanks to the many
friends who so kindly gave their assistance and help during
the illness and death of our beloved daughter and sister.
They brought in a verdict of manslaughter and sentenced
him to the penitentiary for an indeterminate term.
We desire to extend our most heartfelt thanks to the kind
friends and neighbors who ministered to our needs during the
last illness and at the death of our sister Miss Rose
Goatey.
Their thoughtfulness and sympathy will always remain in our
remembrance.
We desire to extend our heartfelt thanks to the many
friends who so kindly extended assistance during the late
illness and death of our beloved wife and mother
Alexander Johnston,
father of W. J.
Johnston, president of the Woodward Hardware Company,
passed away at his home, No. 728 Twenty-third Street, Sunday
morning at 8:20 o'clock after an illness of about ten days’
duration. He contracted a severe cold and at his age,
78 years, was unable to throw it off.
Mr. Johnston
has for a number of years lived a quiet life at his home.
He leaves a widow, one son, W. J.
Johnston, and two
daughters, Misses Mary and Jennie
Johnston.
In his religious faith Mr.
Johnston was a Presbyterian and in his political belief he was a
Republican. He was a man of strong character, as most
men who passed through the times in which he lived came to
be, and firm in his convictions. In his own circle he
exerted a strong influence for what he believed to be right.
Funeral services will be held at the family residence
Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock and the remains will be taken
to Beech Grove Cemetery for interment.
(A marker in Beechwood Cemetery at Mounds reads:
Alexander Johnston Father.—Darrel
Dexter)
Walter Edwin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Millard
Magruder, passed
away at 8:30 Sunday morning, at the age of four months.
The little one had been frail from its birth, and an attack
of congestion of the bowels was too much for it to survive.
Private funeral services were held at the family
residence, No. 410 Seventh Street, this afternoon and the
remains were taken to Beech Grove Cemetery for interment.
Mr. Magruder is
telegraph editor of the
Bulletin and his
wife was Miss Mamie
Comings.
C. R. Avant,
son of M. M. Avant,
a highly esteemed colored farmer residing west of Mounds,
died last week Thursday evening at the county jail, the
result of having eaten a quantity of glass two days previous
from fear of being taken to the penitentiary. The
young man was awaiting trial for forgery committed last
summer and being exposed to the small pox in the jail the
authorities would not permit his removal.—Mound
City Enterprise.
The father, Prof. M. H.
Avant, is well known in Cairo and makes two or three trips a week
into the city to sell his produce. He is a genteel and
respectable negro who has the good will of many friends in
Cairo.
Died—At
his residence in this city Sunday, October 18, 1908,
Alexander Johnston, aged 77 years, 5 months and 11 days.
Funeral services will be held tomorrow Tuesday morning at
the family residence, 728 Twenty-third Street, at 9:30
o'clock, Rev. A. S.
Buchanan, of the First Presbyterian Church, officiating.
Special train from foot of Fourteenth Street at 10:45 a.m.
for Beech Grove Cemetery. Special street cars leave
Twenty-third and Walnut streets for train immediately after
services. Friends of deceased and family invited.
Hickman, Ky., Oct. 20.—Night riders assassinated Judge R.
Z. Taylor and
Capt. Quinton Rankin,
two prominent Trenton, Tenn., attorneys, at Reelfoot Lake.
The lawyers took a leading part in the court proceedings to
keep the lake for exclusive use of the company controlling
its privileges. The farmers resented. The Night
Riders surrounded the hotel and took the men out and strung
them to trees and filled their bodies with bullets.
Funeral services over the remains of Alexander
Johnston were
held at the family residence on West Twenty-third Street
this morning, conducted by Rev. A. S.
Buchanan, pastor
of the Presbyterian Church. The hymns were sung by the
members of the choir of the church. The remains were
taken to Beech Grove Cemetery for interment. The
pallbearers were Maj. P. P.
Goding, C. R.
Stuart, W. H.
Gibson, E. G. Kerth,
Robert Thompson,
George Farrin,
John Snyder, W. S. Dewey,
Frank Schoembs
and John C. Fisher.
Burke and Blaine had
charge of the funeral.
(Henry Fischer
married Lizzie H.
Baader on 29 Nov 1883, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
Charles Anton
Sicker married Mary
Baader on 17 Jun
1890, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
William Andrew
Spence married Anna Maud
Baader on 31 Mar 1891, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
Philip Schafer
married Fannie Baader
on 15 Jan 1897, in Alexander Co., Ill.
Her marker in St. Joseph’s Cemetery at Wetaug reads:
Our Mother Franziska
Buchiwiller wife
of Sigmund Baader
Born Oct. 28, 1831 in Germany Died Oct. 15, 1908 Ruhe in
Frieden.—Darrel Dexter)
(Her marker in Mt. Pisgah Cemetery at Wetaug reads:
Martha Lavina
Knupp Born Aug. 8, 1861 died Oct. 17, 1908 Aged 47 Yrs., 2 Mos., & 9
Ds.—Darrel Dexter)
(This is likely the same person as Charles Elmore
Henley, who died
19 Oct 1908, at his home in Dongola, according to the 23 Oct
1908, Jonesboro Gazette. His
marker in I. O. O. F. Cemetery at Dongola reads:
Charles E. Henley 1872-1908.—Darrel
Dexter)
While Judge Duncan
was holding circuit court upstairs in trial of the
Herbert will case, Judge
Lewis held a session in the county courtroom and
overruled motions for new trials in the cases of John
Williams,
convicted of manslaughter, and of William
Moore, convicted
of assault to murder. Both were sentenced to the
penitentiary.
An old man committed suicide near Thebes on Wednesday and
from all appearance he had planned his death with much
deliberation. Waiting until a fast train on the Iron
Mountain was making a run for the bridge hill, he walked out
upon the track and stood watching it until the locomotive
was within a few feet of him. He then folded his
hands, faced about and was killed. Coroner
McManus held an
inquest, but no evidence or papers could be found to
identify the man. He was apparently about 70 years of
age and had been seen begging in the neighborhood during
several days past. The remains were buried at expense
of the county.
The little one-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. R. T.
English died this
morning at 9 o'clock at the residence, 330 Twenty-seventh
Street, of acute pneumonia. The funeral services will
be held this evening at 7:30 o'clock. Mrs. M. E.
Feith has charge
of the remains.
We too soon forget our neighbors that have gone before us.
Active, useful, prominent citizens that have gone out from
the living are apparently soon lost to memory, as they
seldom or never are referred to, excepting when an event
they were intimately associated with comes up as a topic of
conversation. When, therefore the memory of a
deceased, good citizen is awakened by pen or voice, one can
properly linger in his thoughts of him.
The subject of this sketch, the late Mr. L. C.
Herbert, of this
city, known widely beyond the limits of the city, in a
business way, as proprietor of the American Steam Laundry,
was generally esteemed in Cairo as a public-spirited,
liberal-minded, generous citizen, an industrious promoter of
every project he deemed of advance to the community in its
probable results. He could be drafted at any time to
work for such enterprises. His opinions were not
formed carelessly, without thought, but he was a good
listener to the opinions of others and tolerant of them.
He bowed cheerfully to the expressed will of the majority in
all public matters.
Mr. Herbert's
clear blue eyes well expressed the character of the man.
He was modest, honest and fearless. His natural candor
and honesty inclined him to believe too much in the
professions and representations of men as they came, this
trait at times costing him something financially.
Always quiet, courteous and pleasant, the aggressive person
who attempted to impose upon him made a mistake, as he met a
solid, stern, brave front which invariably "turned the
tables on him."
As husband and father, Mr.
Herbert was a model. Much of his spare time was given for the
benefit of his children, to whom he was a cherished
companion as well as a parent. He encouraged them in
their school studies, which were continued at home after
school hours. As a result, two of his daughters and a
son graduated from the high school with highest honors.
He was fond of music and gave it much attention, being a
good performer on some instruments. He was also a
vocalist and an active member of the Germania Maennerchor.
When a boy in his teens, L. C.
Herbert came to America from Germany with his parents. They
located at Philadelphia, where the boy was apprenticed to a
coppersmith. He learned the trade well and finally
started out as a journeyman to seek employment in the west.
He stopped for a time at different points before reaching
Cairo. Here he found work in his line difficult to
obtain, and he engaged in various other lines. For a
period he conducted a popular and prosperous saloon on
Commercial Avenue near Eighth Street, where
Huette's shoe store now is. At the same time he had an
interest in the plumbing business, also in the marble
cutting line. He finally disposed of all his business
interests to engage in the laundry line. He soon
established the American Steam Laundry on a paying basis and
readily built up to the large proportions it now has, as
being successfully conducted by his widow.
It is illustrative of Mr.
Herbert's character that when he went into the laundry business, he
employed skilled help, but at the same time went into the
mechanical department himself as a worker and remained there
until he had learned the trade thoroughly. His
coolness and courage were illustrated when a boy apprentice
in Philadelphia. He was then used as a steeple climber
and climbed the highest steeples, where men dared not go.
He said he felt as safe and easy at the top of the highest
steeple, from which people on the streets looked like dolls,
as upon a ground floor.
(Louis C. Herbert
married Louisa E.
Koehler on 17 Feb 1887, in Alexander Co., Ill.
His marker in Cairo City Cemetery at Villa Ridge
reads: Louis C.
Herbert Born June
11, 1846 Died March 18, 1908.—Darrel
Dexter)
(The 20 Oct 1908, issue recorded her name as Caroline
Myers and the 21
Oct 1908, issue as Caroline
Meyer.—Darrel
Dexter)
Belleville Advocate:
William Rames, 29
years old, colored, committed suicide at the home of Edward
Jarrott on East
B. Street Sunday afternoon by drinking carbolic acid.
Rames formerly
worked at the Ittner
brick yards. Two years ago he moved to St. Louis.
Sunday he came to Belleville to visit the
Jarrott family.
He was drinking. Shortly after 5 o'clock he went into
the yard and put carbolic acid in a glass of water. He
drank the concoction and returned to the house. He sat
down at the piano and was playing when he fell over dead.
A verdict of suicide was returned by the coroner’s jury.
The body was shipped to St. Louis for burial.
Cairo Evening Citizen, Monday, 26 Oct 1908:
A message received here this morning announces the death
of Joseph Bailey
in Chicago. Mr.
Bailey was formerly bridge foreman of the Illinois
Central Railroad at Cairo and was married here to Miss Mary
Leadore, a daughter of Mrs.
McCarthy, of 411
Washington Avenue. Mr.
Bailey had many
friends in Cairo.
A.T. Gallimore
died Tuesday at his home on Highland Avenue. The
deceased was about 70 years of age. Three sons and
three daughters, all grown, survive him. They are Fred
and W. G. Gallimore,
of Cairo, and David
Gallimore and Mrs. M. A.
Harris, of Creal
Springs, Mrs. Jennie
Moore and Mrs. Jessie
Dunker, of Cairo.
(A. T. Gallimore
married Nancy D.
Hampton on 5 Nov 1889, in Johnson Co., Ill.
David Jesse
Harris married Alice May
Gallimore on 6
Sep 1885, in Johnson Co., Ill.
George S. Moore married Jennie
Gallimore on 28 Jun 1894, in Johnson Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
FATHER DIED SUDDENLY
Mr. and Mrs. W. A.
McKnight, of Seventh Street, departed last night for
Tucker, Ark., in response to a message announcing the sudden
death of J. W. Tucker,
father of Mrs.
McKnight.
John Holder,
alias Joe
Lewis, indicted for larceny, negro, aged 30, height 5 feet 5 inches,
weight 160 pounds, pox marked nose, bad feet. Was poorly
clad.
Frank Jackson,
indicted for murder, ginger-colored negro, age 28, height 5
feet 10 inches, weight 170 pounds.
About 5 o'clock last evening, Jailer Ed
Abernathie made
his round of the county jail for the purpose of locking up
for the night. When he entered the corridor of the
steel cells to gather up the tinware used by the prisoners
during the afternoon, two burly negroes sprang against the
door forcing their way out. The jailer grappled with
the first negro, but could not handle two of them and went
to the floor to keep them from taking his revolver.
There being no one in the court house except Mr.
Abernathie and his family, the negroes made their escape without
interference after closing the jail door upon their captive.
By the time Jailer
Abernathie got out of the jail, the negroes had
disappeared. The prisoners being dressed as ordinary
laborers had little to fear after getting away from the
neighborhood of the jail. Both had friends who
probably aided them to hide. The negroes are Frank
Jackson, indicted
for murder, and John
Holder, indicted for larceny.
Holder escaped
once before by making a run while waiting preliminary
hearing before Judge
Robinson and was caught in East St. Louis about two
weeks since. Sheriff
Davis has offered a reward of $25 for the recapture of each of the
negroes. Both are considered bad characters and are
not likely to keep out of trouble for any considerable
length of time.
Neither of the negroes had been tried, their cases having
been continued by request of their attorneys until the next
term of court.
J. H. B. Renfro,
a prominent citizen of Carbondale, died at his home on South
Normal Avenue Monday afternoon. The deceased was a
brother of Norton Renfro, of this city. Judge
Renfro was a native of Tennessee, but came to Illinois with his
parents before the Civil War, locating in Hardin County.
He enlisted in Co. C, 48th Ill. Vol. Inf. at the beginning
of the war and saw much hard service until August '64 when
he was retired from active service, but was not discharged
until March '65. Returning to Hardin County, he was
elected county treasurer also county clerk, holding the
latter office seventeen years. Mr.
Renfro removed to
Carbondale in 1888. There he was elected successively
to the offices of city attorney, township clerk and police
magistrate.
Judge Renfro
married twice and is survived by his wife and six children,
all of whom reside in Carbondale. Six brothers and a
sister also survive him.
Judge Renfro
was commander of the Carbondale post G. A. R., also a
prominent member of the Masonic fraternity and of the order
of Odd Fellows. Politically he was a Republican.
He was a member of the Presbyterian Church.
The funeral was held this afternoon under direction of the
G. A. R. The business houses of the town were closed
during the hour of the funeral.
Regarding his last illness, the
Carbondale Free Press says: The end came after many weeks of
suffering, Judge
Renfro having been confined to his bed since the
beginning of his last illness, June 3rd of this
year. Death was due to some form of blood poisoning,
his illness resulting from an injury received in the battle
of Shiloh during the Civil War, when he was shot through the
right lung. This injury has always troubled him more
or less and his last illness is traced directly thereto.
(John H. B. Renfro,
20, of Elizabethtown, Ill., born in Gallatin Co., Tenn.,
5’10”, dark eyes, dark complexion, dark hair, enlisted on 1
Sep 1861, as a sergeant in Co. C, 48th Illinois
Infantry, re-enlisted on 1 Jan 1864, and was discharged at
St. Louis, Mo., on 1 Mar 1865, because of wounds.
J. H. B.
Renfro married Fannie J.
Holden on 29 Apr
1894, in Jackson Co., Ill.
His marker in Oakland Cemetery at Carbondale reads:
John H. B.
Renfro Co. C, 48th Ill. Inf. Born Jan. 2,
1842 Died Sept. 26, 1908.—Darrel
Dexter)
(Steven J.
Stubblefield married Mrs. Serena J.
Sowers on 10 Nov
1867, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
His marker in Mt. Pisgah Cemetery near Wetaug reads:
S. J.
Stubblefield Born Aug. 30, 1839 Died Oct. 24, 1908
Sirrenia wife of S. J.
Stubblefield Born
Jan. 6, 1839 Died July 14, 1910.—Darrel
Dexter)
George Stubblefield
and daughter, Miss Leila, were up Sunday to attend the
funeral of S. J.
Stubblefield. (Wetaug)
The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Skewes, of
Twentieth Street, died last night and was buried at Villa
Ridge this forenoon. The funeral was private and held
at the residence.
The funeral of the late A. T.
Gallimore will be held tomorrow forenoon conducted by Warren
Stewart Post G.
A. R. The remains will be laid to rest among those of
the late comrades in the National Cemetery at Mound City, in
accordance with the wishes of the deceased. Carriages
will leave the residence immediately after.
(Asa T. Gallimore,
private, U.S. Army, died 27 Nov 1908, was buried in Mound
City National Cemetery in Section F grave 4730C.—Darrel
Dexter)
(William Farrell,
36, a railroader, born in Buchanan Co., Mo., son of William
Farrell and Mary
Noel, married 2nd Katie
Rice, 17, born in Union Co., Ill., daughter of Mahaley J.
Willson, on 11
Dec 1890, in Union Co., Ill.
Fredrick L. Rice, 20, from Dongola, born in Union Co., Ill., son of Joseph
Rice and Mahala
Wilson, married Dora S.
Gilmore, 22, born in Illinois, daughter of William
Gilmore and Sarah
J. Cassabaum, on
29 Feb 1888, in Union Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
(Adolphus Anglin,
21, married Mary Bell
Milford on 28 Apr 1895, in Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Galimore—Died,
Thursday, October 27, 1908, A. T.
Galimore, aged 73
years. Funeral will occur Friday morning, October 30.
Services at family residence, Thirty-ninth and Highland
Avenue, at 9 o'clock a.m. under direction of Warren
Stewart Post G.
A. R. Interment at National Cemetery at Mound City.
Friends of deceased and family invited.
Paducah Sun:
Failing to hear the warning sounded by Engineer William
Burch, of the Cairo passenger train Thursday morning, Thomas J.
Spidell, an aged
and well-known citizen of Rowlandtown, stepped almost
directly in front of the engine and was fatally injured,
dying an hour later at the railroad hospital, where he had
been carried.
The funeral of the late Charles
Reed will be held at Paducah Saturday afternoon. In accord
with the ideas and expressed desire of the deceased, the
funeral will be devoid of all ostentatious display.
The city officials and Confederate veterans have arranged to
attend the funeral as citizens.
Charles Reed
died of brain fever at the home of his only daughter, Mrs.
Emma Noble, on
Wednesday night. He was 66 years of age and
unquestionably the best known man in Paducah. For a
long period of years he conducted Paducah's principal hotel
in a manner most satisfactory to the traveling public and
patrons. He was elected mayor of the city and served
four terms in the office. Mr.
Reed was born in Paducah and though only a boy when the Civil War
began, he joined the Confederate Army.
P. M. Post, one
of the most prominent businessmen of Murphysboro, died
Friday morning from Bright’s disease. He was a native
of Long Island and came to Murphysboro when a young man.
He helped to build the old Carbondale & Grand Tower Railroad
and for some years was a conductor on the road, which is now
a part of Billy Bryan's
route. Mr. Post
was a brother-in-law of P. B.
Haughawout,
formerly of Cairo. He was 67 years of age.
At 8:05 p.m. Sunday, November 1, All Saints' Day, the
dark curtain of death dropped the folds of oblivion around
the early career of an old and respected citizen of Cairo
and vicinity, a career extending over more than half a
century. John William Morris responded to the
final summons of the Master. He had been confined to
his home by illness during the last two weeks, although he
had been in poor health for several years as a result of a
paralytic stroke. Tomorrow would have been the 75th
birthday anniversary of Mr. Morris, he having been
born in Baltimore Md., November 3, 1833.
"Billy" Morris, as he was familiarly called by old
friends and associates, came in this part of the county as
one of the early settlers. He came from Madison, Ind.,
with a large party of mechanics who located at Mound City in
1858. He was a sheet metal worker and for many years
conducted a shop at Mound City, having during the time
several different partners. In 1881, Mr. Morris
removed his shop to Cairo and established the Cairo Cornice
and Iron Works, which at the time of his death he conducted
at 1113 Commercial Avenue.
Mr. Morris married at Quincy, Ill., in 1870.
His wife, a son, George W. (Jack); a daughter, Mrs. Florence
M. Halliday; and a granddaughter, Miss Florence
Lillian Halliday; are the surviving members of the
family. John J. Morris, A. S. and P. W.
Fraser are nephews of the deceased.
Mr. Morris was an enthusiastic member of the
Masonic fraternity and a member of the Illinois Masonic
Veterans Association. He became a member of the order
at Mound City in 1858, being one of the first members to be
initiated into the Mound City lodge after it was organized.
During the long period of his affiliation with the
fraternity he held many offices of trust and responsibility
and at one time was district deputy grand master. For
many years past he was a member of Cairo Lodge, No. 237, A.
F. & A. M., Cairo Chapter, No. 71, R. A. M. and Cairo
Commander No. 13, Knights Templar.
While a resident of Mound City, Mr. Morris served
the city in various official capacities, as treasurer,
alderman, police magistrate and others.
The funeral will be held on Wednesday afternoon with
services at the family residence, 813 Walnut Street,
conducted by Cairo Lodge No. 237, A. F. & A. M. The
remains will be conveyed to Beech Grove Cemetery with
Knights Templar escort by special train.
Formal notice of the funeral in this issue.
(John W. Morris
married Mary E.
Wilhelm on 7 Apr 1870, in Adams Co., Ill.
Samuel Staats
Halliday married Florence M.
Morris on 26 Dec
1893, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Sank to Rest—After an illness which he bore with
Christian patience and fortitude, November 1st,
1908, John William Morris, aged 74 years.
Funeral services will be conducted by Cairo Lodge No. 237,
A. F. and A. M. with Templar escort at family residence, No.
813 Walnut Street, Wednesday at 1:30 o'clock p.m.
Interment at Beech Grove Cemetery, funeral train leaving
foot of Fourteenth Street at 2:45 p.m. Friends of the
family are invited.
Last evening Coroner McManus was called upon to
hold an inquest over the remains of a baby which were found
in a canvas telescope in a patch of weeds on a vacant lot at
Twenty-eighth and Sycamore streets.
Decomposition of the little body was almost complete, only
the outline of it remaining in dust upon the bones.
Even the hair was so far gone that it was impossible to
determine whether the body was that of a white or negro
baby.
The coroner’s jury was composed of W. B. Thistlewood,
A. S. Magner, Edward Steger, William
Moseley, Charles Ort, Elmer Little.
The verdict was that the body was that of an unknown child
which came to its death from a cause unknown. The remains
were taken in charge by Mrs. Falconer and were buried
this morning.
The mystery will probably never be solved; the identity of
the babe will never be determined. It had been hidden
in the weeds for some time. Two weeks ago a boy
noticed the telescope, picked it up and cast it aside.
He said nothing of the incident until Sunday afternoon when
another boy of that neighborhood came upon the telescope and
when he lifted it the lid came off revealing the little
body. It was wrapped in several thicknesses of green
cloth and an old green skirt. The boys were witnesses
before the coroner's inquest, which was held upon the spot
where the telescope was found.
There will be a special communication of Cairo Lodge No.
237 A. F. & A.M. held in their hall, 609 Ohio Street,
Wednesday, Nov. 4th, 1 p.m. for the purpose of
attending the funeral of our late brother, John William
Morris. All members are requested to be present.
Visiting brothers are fraternally invited.
Despondent because his wife would not give him a divorce
and because the parents of his lady love at Columbus, Ky.,
objected to his persistent wooing, a negro tailor drained
the contents of a bottle of carbolic acid this morning while
on the platform of the Big Four freight depot at the foot of
Commercial Avenue. He was found by two boys who
reported to Alderman Meehan about 7 o'clock.
The man was removed in the patrol wagon to the hospital,
dying there before medical aid could reach him. The
negro's name was A. S. McCant. He was a
cripple, his right leg being cut off at the knee and also
two fingers on his left hand. He was an intelligent man,
seemingly well educated. He was a good workman and not
addicted to drink.
McCant had been in Cairo for about a year and
frequently went to Columbus and Tamms. While here he
worked some for John Muscovalley,
who conducts a cleaning and pressing shop at 1112 Washington
Avenue. Upon returning from a trip to Columbus Monday,
McCant was despondent and told Muscovalley
that "the old folks were raising hell with the girl because
she wouldn't quit him." He remained at the shop all
day, leaving in the evening.
McCant's grip was at the shop. It contained
some clothes and a bundle of letters, most of which were
from the girl at Columbus. A letter from his mother,
Mrs. Mary Robinson, 1206 Ash Street, Texarkana, Ark.,
referred in affectionate terms to his relatives.
The remains were removed to Mrs. Falconer's
undertaking establishment
Died at Employers' Home
Jennie Cook, a colored woman employed in the home
of Lee B. Davis, 2415 Washington Avenue, was stricken
with a hemorrhage of the lungs, resulting from tuberculosis,
while at work this morning and died within a few minutes.
The woman was about 24 years of age and resided at 310
Walnut Street. The remains were taken to Mrs.
Falconer's undertaking establishment by order of Coroner
McManus. The inquest will be held today.
The jury was composed of Frank C. Canon, Charles
Cunningham, W. A. Rice, Gus Kafer, E. C.
Green and Dr. W. H. Fields. They found
that she came to her death from hemorrhage of the lungs at
7:15 this morning.
Sank to Rest—After an illness which he bore with
Christian patience and fortitude, November 1st,
1908, John William Morris, aged 74 years.
Funeral services will be conducted by Cairo Lodge No. 237,
A. F. & A. M. with Templar escort at family residence, No.
813 Walnut Street, Wednesday at 1:30 o'clock p.m. Interment
at Beech Grove Cemetery, funeral train leaving foot of
Fourteenth Street at 2:45 p.m. Friends of the family
are invited.
(William C.
Thompson was born about 1844 in Illinois and is in the
1880 and 1900 census of Elco, Alexander Co., Ill.
William C.
Thompson married Mrs. Nancy P.
Hines on 11 Jun
1868, in Union Co., Ill.
William Thompson, 17, of Ullin, Alexander Co., Ill., born at Ullin, Ill.,
5’10”, light hair, hazel eyes and fair complexion, enlisted
as a private in Co. E, 60th Illinois Infantry and
was discharged on 5 Jun 1865, in Washington, D.C.
His widow, Nancy P.
Thompson, was
pensioned beginning in 1908.—Darrel
Dexter)
(A marker in Concord Cemetery near Olmsted reads:
Alma V. Shafer
Born July 22, 1904 Died Oct. 27, 1908.—Darrel
Dexter)
On order of the mother of the deceased, the remains of A.
S. McCant were shipped today by Burke &
Blaine to Texarkana, Ark. McCant was the
negro who committed suicide at the Big Four freight depot
Tuesday morning by drinking carbolic acid.
Miss Muriel Johnson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. H.
Johnson, of 225 Eighteenth Street, died this
forenoon. Miss Johnson was 17 years of age and
during the past fourteen years has suffered from an
incurable hip disease. Only during the past two weeks
was she confined to her bed. Though unable to enjoy
fully the pleasures and pastimes of children, Muriel had
many friends and acquaintances who will miss her gentleness
and thoughtful practical suggestions. Arrangements
have not been completed, but the funeral will probably be
held Sunday afternoon.
Mr. Johnson is an employee of the Illinois Central
railroad, having come to Cairo from Nashville, Tenn.
The entire force of workmen employed by Contractor Roy L.
Williams laid off this afternoon as a mark of respect
to the memory of Mr. Williams' father, who died
Wednesday and was buried this afternoon at Connersville,
Ind. Charles Williams, Sr., was one of the
oldest and most respected citizens of Connersville.
(Charles E. Hessian
married Cecilia B.
Greaney on 27 Apr 1892, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. L. E. Jones, of 528 Thirty-fourth Street,
received a message this morning of the death of her sister
at Stillwater, Minn., last evening. This is the fourth
death in the family within fifteen months. Mrs.
Jones is unable to attend the funeral.
Word from Miss Eugenia Miller, daughter of Mr. C.
E. Miller, of Willard, this morning, was that she had
passed the night with little change in her condition.
The young lady, who is a niece of Postmaster Sidney B.
Miller and County Clerk Jesse E. Miller, is a
teacher in the Willard School. She was taken suddenly
ill from the effects of a carbuncle, which appeared upon the
left side of her face. Her condition became so
alarming that Dr. A. A. Bondurant was called to see
her Friday.
Benton, Ill., Nov. 7.—The bodies of Patrick Dailey
and George Reed, two buried miners in the Rend mines,
have been recovered. They were burned beyond
recognition and apparently suffocated and then roasted
slowly. Hope is abandoned for Stevens and
Holmes, the other victims. The whole mine is
ablaze, making rescue work almost impossible.
Died—Muriel Johnson, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. C. H. Johnson, on Friday, November 6th,
1908. Funeral cortege will leave residence, No. 225
Eighteenth Street, at 1:15 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 8th,
for Calvary Baptist Church, where services will be held at
1:30 p.m. Train will leave from Fourteenth Street at
2:45 p.m. for Beech Grove Cemetery. Friends of the
family invited.
Miss Eugenia Miller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Clinton E. Miller, of Willard, whose serious illness
from blood poisoning was mentioned in The Citizen
Saturday, died Saturday night. This afternoon, grief
stricken friends accompanied the remains to Beech Grove
Cemetery, where the remains were laid at rest.
Miss Miller was a young lady of more than ordinary
intellectual ability, as well as being an accomplished
musician. She was a graduate of McKendree College and
at her death was teacher of the Willard School. She
was active in the religious life of the community. Her
death was most untimely. Only a week before, she took part
in a church entertainment, but the next day a carbuncle
appeared which was at first thought to be only a boil.
It developed rapidly and by the last of the week
her condition was alarming. Dr. Bondurant was
summoned from Cairo to attend her, and all that could be
done was done toward saving her life, but the poison had
become diffused all over her system.
Miss Miller was a niece of Messrs. Sidney B. and
Jesse E. Miller and of Mrs. Henry Whitaker.
Besides her parents, she leaves a young brother and sister.
(Clinton Miller
married Henrietta
Short on 22 Apr 1883, in Alexander Co., Ill.
Henry Whitaker
married Margaret S.
Miller on 31 May
1866, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Eva Hannon Johnson died at her home in Austin,
Minnesota, on Monday, November 9th.
She was born and reared in Cairo and has many friends here
whom will regret to hear of her demise. Mrs.
Johnson was a sister of Horace A. Hannon, of
Ninth Street.
(George N. Johnson
married Eva
Hannon on 23 Sep 1880, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Joseph Duggan
arrived in Cairo from Los Angeles, Cal., yesterday, having
been called here by the illness of his wife, who is visiting
her sisters, Mrs. Frances
Randall and Miss
Anna Perce, of
Twenty-first Street.
Alton, Nov. 12.—George Henry, aged eighty, is dead,
following his refusal to take food after his wife's death
six weeks ago. He refused to allow the doctors to
administer liquid foods and declared he wanted to die.
The couple celebrated their golden anniversary last summer.
(Her marker in Thebes Cemetery reads:
Mary wife of T. L.
Huggins Born May
17, 1886 Died Oct. 8, 1908.—Darrel
Dexter)
(Her marker in Thebes Cemetery reads:
Flora B. daughter of Jas. & E.
Sowders Born Feb.
16, 1908 Died Nov. 4, 1908 She passed from our sight Like a
dream or a story, From the bosom of love, To a mansion of
glory.—Darrel Dexter)
We desire to express our gratitude and thanks to the kind
friends and neighbors who ministered so faithfully to us
during the illness and at the death of our daughter, Miss
Etta Eugene Miller. The many acts of kindness
will ever be remembered.
Death at seven minutes past 7 o'clock last evening ended
the life of Mrs. Joseph M. Duggan, of Los Angeles,
Calif, who for a number of months had been suffering from
tuberculosis. She passed away at the residence of her
sister, Miss Anna Perce, No. 511 Twenty-first Street,
in this city. Her death was a great shock to her
family, as they did not realize that the end was so near.
Last February she suffered an attack of grip and it left her
in a weakened condition from which she did not recover.
Her sister, Miss Anna Perce, went out to the coast to visit her last May and she seemed to be
much improved then, but a little later grew worse and her
physician told her that the climate of Los Angeles was
unfavorable and advised her to come back to Cairo for a
visit and when bad weather came here, to go to Arizona to
live. Mrs. Duggan came on to Cairo last
September and since then has been failing. Last Sunday
her husband arrived in response to summons and she was able
to be up with the family during the day, but after that her
decline was rapid.
Mrs. Duggan was born in Wappella, Ill., and was 42
years of age at her death. Her maiden name was Miss
Nellie Perce. Coming here with her parents in
1878, she grew up to young womanhood here, and when her
schooling was over, took a position in the freight office of
the Illinois Central Railroad, which she held for many
years. It was there that she met Mr. Duggan
whom she married three years ago. They removed to
Southern California and have made their home there since,
Mr. Duggan having been employed by the Santa Fe
Railroad.
The deceased leaves, besides her husband, five sisters,
Mrs. H. J. Wilbur, Mr. Frances M. Randall, and
Miss Anna Perce, of Cairo; Mrs. John W. Gholson,
of Barlow, Ky.; and Miss Gertrude Perce, of Memphis;
and two brothers, W. L. Perce, of Cairo, and Samuel
Y. Perce, of Memphis. Miss Maria Campbell,
an aunt, made her home with the family here and there is a
large circle of other relatives and friends here to whom her
death comes as a personal loss.
Mrs. Duggan was a member of the Episcopal Church
here and she was active in the work of the church before her
removal to California. In her family and close circle
of friends she was loved for her sweet Christian character.
(George A. Randall
and Frances M. Perce
on 21 Nov 1889, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Pearman, wife of B. E. Pearman, living
on the Tiernan farm above the Half Way House, died
Thursday and was buried Friday. She leaves, besides
her husband and eight children, two sisters and three
brothers.
(Perhaps connected to this family was Charles B.
Pearman, who
married Mary B.
Tiernan on 20 Jan 1864, in Union Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Metropolis, Ill., Nov. 14.—Capt. J. F. McCartney,
aged 75 years, president of the National State Bank of
Metropolis, the Bank of Brookport, the Bank of Golconda,
president of the Metropolis Commercial Club and one of the
richest and best known men of Southern Illinois, died
Wednesday night at Hot Springs, Ark., after an illness of
three weeks.
He was one of the most active and hardest working men in
Southern Illinois and a leader in every public enterprise.
He was one of the most devoted members of the Metropolis
local option campaign and ran for Congress several times on
the Prohibition ticket. He was at one time state’s
attorney of Massac County.
Captain McCartney, a native of Scotland, was
brought to America in his infancy by his parents. He
was captain in an Illinois regiment during the Civil War.
Besides the banks, he owned the State Hotel, the opera
house, and several other buildings in Metropolis.
His body will be brought back to Metropolis from Hot
Springs as soon as possible and the funeral will probably
take place Sunday.
Besides his wife, he is survived by the following
children: Mrs. F. A.
Trousdale, Miss
Hope McCartney,
Mrs. Doric Slimpert,
and Mrs. John N.
Weaver, of Metropolis; Mrs. H. S.
Hollifield, wife
of the cashier of the Brookport bank; Prof. Marcus
McCartney,
superintendent of the Bloomfield, Mo., schools; Prof. Frank
McCartney,
superintendent of the Jennings, La., schools; Mrs. Charles
M. Fouts and Mrs.
Elizabeth Stroud
of Seattle, Wash.
(John F. McCartney
married Minnie D.
Lukins on 1 Mar 1866, in Massac Co., Ill.
Doric F.
Slimpert married Anna
McCartney on 23
Dec 1893, in Massac Co., Ill.
John N. Weaver married Caroline D.
McCartney on 20 Aug 1894, in Massac Co., Ill.
Charles M.
Fouts married Hattie E.
McCartney on 25
Dec 1894, in Massac Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Duggan—Died, Friday, Nov. 13, Mrs. Joseph W.
Duggan, Funeral services will be held at the
family residence, 511 Twenty-first, Sunday at 1:30 o'clock
p.m. Ven. A. H. W. Anderson officiating and the
remains will be taken by special train from foot of
Fourteenth street at 2:45 p.m. for Villa Ridge cemetery for
interment.
Cairo Evening Citizen, Monday, 16 Nov 1908:
Nancy Brooks, the negro woman who fatally cut her
sister on Twenty-first Street, pleaded guilty in the circuit
court this morning and Judge Butler sentenced her to
45 years in the penitentiary. This practically means a
life sentence for the woman.
Mrs. Kate Mulkey, widow of Judge John H. Mulkey,
deceased, died at her home in Metropolis, Ill., Saturday, at
the age of 63 years. Attorney Angus Leek and
Alderman J. H. Davis,
nephews of the deceased, will attend the funeral today.
The Rev. Augustus Holt, evangelist, who has been
holding services at the Calvary Baptist Church, was called
to Mayfield, Ky., Sunday to the bedside of his dying father.
The services last night were conducted by Rev. Mr. Graham.
The revival services will be discontinued until next Sunday
evening.
The remains of Charles Dixon were buried today at
the expense of the county. Dixon was a negro,
about 70 years of age, and lived the life of a hermit in a
little hut of his own building on the M. & O. R. R.
embankment near the Mississippi River opposite Thirty-ninth
Street. He made a living by fishing and peddling
garden truck, which he raised upon a small patch of ground
surrounding his hut. He did his gardening with a spade
and a hoe and peddled his truck in baskets. The old
man often stopped for the night at the home of Albert
Allen at 281 Park Avenue. Sunday night he stopped
there and about 11 o'clock he was stricken with heart
failure in the yard where he was found dead. Coroner
McManus held an inquest Monday forenoon. The
jury returned a verdict of death from natural causes.
So far as is known, the old negro had no relatives, except a
son who is serving a term in the state penitentiary for
larceny.
While at work with an ice wagon of the Distilled Water Ice
Company on Thirty-fourth Street about noon today, Thomas
Stringer was taken suddenly ill. He was taken to
his home at Twenty-second and Commercial and died before
medical aid could reach him. Stringer
was a negro, aged about 30 years, a steady, reliable
worker and had the appearance of a strong husky fellow.
He had been employed by the ice company for a year.
He is survived by his wife and one child. Coroner
McManus held an inquest this afternoon. The
verdict was death from natural cause due to heart lesion.
James Jones, a well-known colored citizen, died at
his home on West Fourteenth Street this morning after a
protracted illness. He was for several years a janitor
at the Cairo High School building, also at the Citizen
office. He was a carpenter by trade and a faithful,
reliable worker. His wife and seven children survive
him. He was about forty years of age.
(Richard Ed Cahill,
25, carpenter, born in Dividing Ridge, Ky., son of John
Cahill and Anna Doyle,
married Elizabeth Mary
Kinney, 20, born
in Anna, daughter of Hugh
Kinney and Sarah
Kline, on 20 Nov
1888. A marker
in Anna City Cemetery reads:
Hugh B. Kinney
1837-1914 Father Sarah
M. Kinney
1840-1908 Mother.—Darrel
Dexter)
John Klein passed away Wednesday afternoon at San
Angelo, Texas, only two days after his arrival there.
The change, decided upon as a last means to check the
progress of tuberculosis, failed, and he died at 2:47 in the
afternoon. The remains will be brought back to Cairo
for burial, reaching here some time Saturday. Until
then, arrangements cannot be perfected for the burial.
John Klein was about 28 years of age and for the
past dozen years had been cashier for the Mobile & Ohio
railroad here. He made his home with his mother, Mrs.
Annie Klein,
at Twelfth and Cedar streets. He was always a steady
working boy and applied himself so closely to his work that
he had few close friends, although everyone who had any
dealings with him liked him well. About a year or more
ago he had an attack of pneumonia that left him in a
weakened condition. He was always frail and about
three weeks ago he had to give up work and from that time
until his death he was marked as a victim of tuberculosis.
He never would consent to going away to build up his health
until last week, when he agreed to go to San Angelo, on
condition that Mrs. Peter Lind and Fred Lind
should accompany him. They were his companions on the
trip and will return with the remains.
J. D. Taylor
arrived in Cairo last night from Carmi and contemplated
returning to this city to locate. Mr.
Taylor formerly
conducted a dairy business here and sold out on account of
his wife's health. Mrs.
Taylor died at
Carmi last week.
Richard Wood, familiarly known as "Dick" Wood,
formerly an artist on the St. Louis Globe Democrat,
died Tuesday in that city. The deceased was a son of
W. T. Wood, of Bloomington, Ill., a traveling man who
formerly visited Cairo. He was a relative of the late
Mrs. G. D. Williamson, of Cairo. After leaving
the Globe-Democrat, he continued to advance in his
profession and for several years visited Asiatic countries
illustrating articles about that part of the world. It
was while in China that he became a member of a Chinese
Masonic order and so thoroughly understood the Chinese
people and their language that after returning to St. Louis
he became the friend and advisor of the colony in that city.
Recently Mr. Wood's wife died very suddenly and the
shock is believed to have hastened his death. He was
38 years of age.
(Alfred Light
married Maud Garner
on 2 Mar 1889, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Cairo Evening Citizen, Saturday, 21 Nov 1908:
William H. Judson,
father of Mrs. Miles S.
Gilbert, died at
his home in Evanston, Ill., at 5:30 o'clock this morning
after a long illness. Mrs.
Gilbert was
called to his bedside several days ago and has been in
constant attendance since, and Mr.
Gilbert left for
Evanston today to be present at the funeral, which will be
held Monday.
(Miles S. Gilbert
married Helen E.
Judson on 4 Oct 1899, in Cook Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
All members of Ascalon Lodge No. 51, Knights of Pythias
are requested to meet at Castle Hall at 1 o'clock sharp,
Sunday, to attend the funeral of Bro. John
Kline.
Members of Cairo Lodge No. 173 and visiting members are
invited to meet with us.
The remains of the late John
Kline arrived over the Mobile & Ohio this afternoon and were met at
the train by a number of members of Ascalon Lodge, Knights
of Pythias, who will have charge of the funeral tomorrow.
Mrs. Peter Lind
and Fred Lind,
who made the trip to San Angelo, Tex., with the unfortunate
man, accompanied the remains back.
Funeral services will be held at the residence of his
mother, Mrs. Annie
Kline, at Twelfth and Cedar streets, Sunday afternoon at
1:45 o'clock, conducted by Rev. C. H.
Armstrong and the
burial will be at Villa Ridge cemetery. Notice of the
funeral appears elsewhere.
Kline—Died,
Wednesday, Nov. 18, John
Kline.
Funeral services will be held at the residence of his
mother, Mrs. Annie
Kline, Sunday, at 1:45 o'clock p.m., Rev. Charles H.
Armstrong, pastor
of the Lutheran Church, officiating.
Funeral train will leave foot of Fourteenth Street at 2:45
p.m. for Villa Ridge cemetery, where interment will be made
under the auspices of Ascalon Lodge, Knight of Pythias.
Friends of the family are invited.
(His marker in Calvary Cemetery at Villa Ridge reads:
John F. Klein Died Nov. 19, 1908 Aged 38 yrs., 1 Mo., & 18 Ds.
Rosie Klein
Died Feb. 5, 1881 Aged 4 Yrs., 7 Mos., & 3 Ds.
Francis Klein
Died May 1, 1890 Aged 59 Yrs., 3 Mos., & 1 Day
Barbara Klein
Died March 7, 1903 Aged 71 Yrs., 2 Mos., & 26 Ds.—Darrel
Dexter)
Cairo Evening Citizen, Monday, 23 Nov 1908:
Tweed Parker,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Dyas F.
Parker, residing
on Twenty-sixth Street, died Sunday afternoon at St. Mary’s
Infirmary from injuries received on Saturday while at work
in the plant of the Chicago Mill and Lumber Company at North
Cairo.
The lad was working in the mill Saturday afternoon when he
was caught by a belt and his body whirled around the pulley
before other workmen near could reach him. The body
was mutilated in a horrible manner, one arm being torn from
its socket and a leg and foot broken in several places, and
his head badly battered.
He was taken to Infirmary where the company’s surgeon
attended him. The spark of life left in the boy's
mangled body flickered feebly, until death relieved his
suffering twenty hours later.
Tweed Benson Parker,
was 17 years of age. The funeral will be held Thursday
afternoon, services being conducted by the Rev. Frank
Thompson of the
Christian Church at the family residence, 610 Twenty-sixth
Street. The interment will be at Beech Grove Cemetery.
Formal notice of the funeral in
The Citizen this
evening.
We desire to thank our friends and the members of Ascalon
and Cairo Lodges, Knights of Pythias, and all others who
tendered their services during the illness and death of our
son and nephew, John
Klein.
(Peter Lind
married Theresa Kline
on 10 Oct 1888, in Alexander Co., Ill.
Jacob Lind
married Lena F. Kline
on 29 Nov 1883, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Parker—Died
at St. Mary’s Infirmary at 1 o'clock p.m., Sunday, November
22, 1908, Tweed Benson
Parker, aged 17
years, 9 months, 3 days, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dyas F.
Parker.
Funeral will occur Tuesday afternoon, November 24.
Services at family residence, 610 Twenty-sixth Street at
1:15 p.m. conducted by Rev. Frank
Thompson, pastor
of the Christian Church. Special train will leave foot
of Fourteenth Street at 2:45 o'clock for Beech Grove
Cemetery. Friends of the deceased and the family
invited.
(His marker in
Beechwood Cemetery at Mounds reads:
Tweed B.
Parker Born Feb. 19, 1891 Died Nov. 22, 1908.—Darrel
Dexter)
Cairo Evening Citizen, Tuesday, 24 Nov 1908:
John A. Sammons,
Jr., infant son of Mr. and Mrs. John A.
Sammons, died at
10:20 o'clock this morning of diphtheria. The little
fellow was only taken sick Monday, and it is not known how
he contracted the disease. He was four years old last
July. The remains will be taken to Thebes early
tomorrow for burial.
May Alexander,
a highly respected young colored woman, residing with her
parents at 2515 Poplar Street, last evening after a
lingering illness of tuberculosis. She was seventeen
years of age and a sister to Miss Bertha
Alexander, one of the teachers in the public schools.
The remains of the late Tweed B.
Parker were interred at Beech Grove Cemetery Tuesday afternoon in
the presence of a large number of his friends and
associates. The services were held at the family
residence of Mr. and Mrs. Dyas F.
Parker, 610
Twenty-sixth Street, Rev. Frank
Thompson of the
Christian Church officiating. A special train from
foot of Fourteenth Street conveyed the funeral party to
Beech Grove.
We desire to express our sincere thanks to the many kind
friends for the sympathy and help during the terrible
bereavement that we experienced in the death of our son and
brother, Tweed Parker.
The floral offerings especially were most beautiful and will
always be remembered in connection with this sad occasion.
Dyas F. Parker
and Family
(The Jonesboro
Gazette of 27 Nov 1908, states that Ben
Wilkinson was the son of Fayette
Wilkinson and was buried in Mt. Pisgah Cemetery in Johnson Co.,
Ill.—Darrel Dexter)
Poplar Bluff, Mo., Nov. 27.—Maggie
Fields, a negress, shot and instantly killed John
Wright, a white
farmer today. She charges
Wright tried to
criminally assault her ten-year-old daughter.
Fields visited
the woman and made insulting advances toward the girl, but
was ordered away. Later he returned and seized the
girl when the woman fired.
Sam Owens, an
aged and well known colored citizen, died Thursday. He
was a veteran of the Civil War and a member of Buckner Post
G. A. R. Owens was past 70 and had been a resident of Cairo for forty years.
He was formerly a member of the Cairo police force, and for
a long period was a county constable. The funeral will
be held Saturday under direction of William
Hughes, the
colored undertaker.
(Samuel Owens,
sergeant, Co. A, 17th U.S. Colored Troops, died
24 Nov 1908, and was buried in section D grave 2412A, Mound
City National Cemetery.—Darrel
Dexter)
After an illness from dropsy, covering a period of about
three years, Mrs. Louisa
Oehler, wife of
William Oehler,
passed away at 6 o'clock this morning. She had been
confined to her room for a number of months.
Mrs. Oehler was
a native of Baden, Germany, where she was born on Aug. 15,
1849. She married Mr.
Oehler in St.
Louis in 1873 and came to Cairo with him to make her home.
Four children survive this union. They are Joseph,
William, Jr., Louis, and Miss Katie
Oehler.
Mrs. Oehler was
a member of St. Joseph's Catholic Church and of the C. K. of
A. Funeral arrangements have not been perfected, but
the services will probably be held Wednesday, with interment
at Villa Ridge.
Helen, the infant daughter and only child of Mr. and Mrs.
Clem Piersol, of
613 Thirty-fourth Street, died at 4:15 o'clock this morning,
after an illness extending over a period of nearly three
months. The child was eighteen months of age.
The funeral services will be held at the family residence at
10 o'clock tomorrow morning. The remains will be taken
to Anna for interment leaving
via the Illinois
Central at 11:15 a.m.
Cairo Evening Citizen, Tuesday, 1 Dec 1908:
In an explosion at the powder plant at Fayville about 5:30
last evening two men were killed. One of them, Monroe
Buster, received
fatal burns and died before he could be gotten out. He
is a son of Marshal
Buster, of Thebes. The other man, whose name could
not be learned, lived at Cape Girardeau, where he has a
family. It is said that a weak magazine is responsible
for the explosion. The concussion was heard for miles
around and the cloud of smoke, which arose, looked like a
storm cloud.
Thomas Davidson,
brother of William M.
Davidson, of Cairo, died at his home in Joliet, Ill., on
Nov. 23. He was a former resident of Cairo and during
his residence here was connected with the Cairo post office.
For twenty-five years he had lived in Joliet and he gained
the respect of his associates. As an evidence of this,
every newspaper in Joliet ceased operation for one hour
during the funeral. Mr.
Davidson was a
printer by trade and for eighteen years was connected with
the Joliet Republican
until ill health compelled him to give up his position.
He was prominent in the local typographical union of that
city, serving as secretary for five years. He was also
an active Republican. Besides his widow, and his
brother in Cairo, he leaves a brother in Villa Ridge, C. C.
Davidson; a
sister there, Mrs. J. W.
Dille; and a
brother, Clarence
Davidson, in Joliet.
The Joliet Herald
pays an editorial tribute to him saying: "Mr.
Davidson was a man of high ideals, of liberal views and judicial
temperament. As an arbiter in labor affairs, he was of
necessity a partisan, but in working for the benefit of the
typographical union he never lost the other point of view.
His moderation and fairness are characteristic of the spirit
which has promoted harmony and good will in the printing
industry in Joliet."
According to advices sent out from the Southern Illinois
Penitentiary at Chester, Herman
Brown, from
Alexander County, better known here as Bud
Brown, escaped
from the penitentiary on Friday night last, together with
Henry Clark, from
Pike County.
Brown was known as No. 7624,
Clark as No.
9309. It is reported that the men made their escape by
sawing out two sets of bars and climbing through an air
shaft. They were supposed to have taken a skiff and
came down the Mississippi River, but all trace of them has
been lost. The authorities are of the opinion that
they had arranged with friends to meet them with clothing
and money and that the fugitives are far from this section
of the country.
Brown was convicted of being implicated in the
assassination of Deputy Sheriff Miles
Coleman at Olive
Branch several years since and was sentenced to the
penitentiary for life. Both he and his companion are
considered desperate characters by the officers of the
penitentiary.
Oehler—Died,
Mrs. William Oehler,
at her late residence, 502 Commercial Avenue, Monday
morning, Nov. 30, 1908. The funeral will be held
Wednesday morning, friends leaving the residence at 8
o'clock for St. Joseph's Church. Special train at
Fourteenth Street at 9:45 o'clock for Villa Ridge cemetery.
Street cars will be in waiting at residence to convey
friends to the church. Friends of the family are
invited.
George I. Bliss
died at the county farm Sunday from the infirmities of age.
"Doctor" Bliss as
he was known to the majority of older Cairoites, came to
Cairo from Missouri about forty years ago and here eked out
a meagre existence by vending of herbs and roots, which he
claimed were cures for innumerable diseases.
Bliss had a
common school education, which enabled him to pose as a
learned doctor among the element of poverty-stricken and
ignorant people to whom he was a great man, deservedly so
when his many little acts of charity are considered.
It cannot be said that "Doc"
Bliss was a bad
citizen; he was never arrested in Cairo, but once for a
serious offense—that of selling cocaine. He was honest
and paid his way so far as he was able, but the weight of
years and life he had led finally drove him to the county
farm about a year ago. He raised a family that
disappeared and was forgotten; so far as known none of them
ever assisted the old man. He had a brother, who is
said to be in comfortable circumstances in the west, but
pride or prejudice, both of which at times were apparent in
the miserable and forsaken old man, forbade asking for
assistance, which had been offered him.
Bliss
was past seventy years of age.
Cairo Evening Citizen, Thursday, 3 Dec 1908:
Benton, Ill., Dec. 3.—Dr. B. F.
Brayfield, of Mulkeytown, Ill., is under indictment on charges of
murder and forgery growing out of the death of his wife and
Reuben F. Parish
in that town and the subsequent efforts of
Brayfield and
Mrs. Parish to
collect life insurance from fraternal orders. He was
arrested and today will attempt to obtain his release on
bail.
Dr. Brayfield
has long been one of the most prominent practitioners of
southern Illinois. He is charged with poisoning
Parrish, who was the agent of the Illinois Central railway at
Mulkeytown.
Parish’s death occurred last March. Dr.
Brayfield had
attended him.
The indictment for forgery alleges that the physician
without warrant signed the name of Isham
Harrison, justice
of the peace, to the affidavit on the death certificate.
On the day that
Parish died, Mrs.
Brayfield became ill. She was attended by her
husband and died shortly after the death of
Parish.
Another "natural death" certificate was issued by the
doctor. No inquest was held in either case.
Shortly afterwards,
Brayfield applied for the payment of an insurance policy
for $2,000 which his wife carried in the Royal Neighbors of
America. Then Mrs.
Parrish asked for the principal of a $1,000 policy which her husband
had in the Modern Woodmen of America.
Myron W. Whittemore,
an attorney, investigated both cases as special counsel for
the fraternal orders and not only withheld payment on the
policies, but laid certain facts before W. P.
Steever, state's
attorney for Franklin County.
No mention of Mrs.
Brayfield's death was made in the indictment.
Sparta, Ill., Dec. 3.—Mrs. Reuben F.
Parish expressed surprise when informed that the grand jury in
Benton was investigating her husband’s death. She
said:
"My husband died a natural death ten months ago. He
had been an invalid for a long time and this is the first
time I have heard it hinted that he died of poison. He
left $1,000 life insurance. Half of it was for our
baby and the other half was mine. I left Mulkeytown
because I wanted to come back to Sparta to live with my
mother."
(This may be the same person as Ruben F.
Parrish, who
married Grace M. Neil
on 27 Jun 1900, in Randolph Co., Ill.
Benjamin F. Brayfield married Irena
Cockrum on 29 Oct 1882, in Franklin Co., Ill.
B. F.
Brayfield married Beulah
Royall on 6 Dec
1891, in Franklin Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
A letter was received this morning by Chief of Police
Egan stating that
James Mahanny,
who claimed Cairo as his home, and that he was a nephew of
Former Chief of Police P.
Mahoney, was drowned at Champagn-nolle, Ark., on November 23.
The letter was handed to Mr.
Mahoney, who
remembers the man, but says he is not related to him.
James Mahanny was
about forty years of age and a riverman who frequently came
to Cairo. He has a brother who is a stockman in
Colorado, to whom Mr.
Mahoney will forward the letter.
The coroner’s inquest held this forenoon over the remains
of J. E. Cummings
resulted in the jury returning a verdict that deceased came
to his death from concussion of the brain resulting from
accidentally falling from the rear stairs of the Planters'
Hotel on Sunday, December 6, 1908. Mr.
Cummins was a guest at the hotel, having registered as J. E.
Cummins of
Memphis, Tenn.
When picked up, an ugly scalp wound was thought to be the
extent of his injuries. Mr.
Allen saw that
the man received prompt medical attention and had him
conveyed to St. Mary's Infirmary, where he died Sunday
night. The remains were taken to
Feith's
undertaking establishment, where the coroner’s jury viewed
the body, then visited the Planters House where the inquest
was held.
Mr. Cummins was
apparently nearly fifty years of age. Letters and
papers found upon his person show that he was a member of
the I. O. O. F. in standing with Chickasaw Lodge of Memphis,
also that he was a daughter, who is an actress traveling on
the southern circuit. Alexander Lodge I. O. O. F., of
Cairo, took charge of the remains and will communicate with
the relatives of the deceased and his lodge.
Vandalia, Mo., Dec. 5.—August
Wagner, a bachelor, was murdered with an ax at this home Thursday
night. Luther
Anderson, a neighboring farmer, was arrested last night
following the coroner’s investigation. He had business
dealing with Wagner,
but protests his innocence and denies that they had any
trouble. His preliminary hearing will be held Monday.
Mrs. Lavinia Yocum,
mother of R. L. Yocum,
a former resident of Cairo, died at her home in Houston
Tex., last Tuesday.
The Post gives the
following account of her demise.
The death of Mrs. Lavinia
Sloan Yocum, occurred at 5 o'clock yesterday morning at the family
residence, 2702 San Jacinto Street.
Those who survive are four daughters, Misses Anne E.,
Margaret C., Kate L., and Laura G.
Yocum, and one
son, R. L. Yocum.
Mrs. Yocum came
of long lines of sturdy Scot Presbyterian and staunch
English stock. These settled in Virginia and
Pennsylvania, where the different families comprising
ancestry, the Sloans,
Gibsons,
Mateers, Montgomerys, and
Caruthers, were
well known for their sterling qualities, whether in official
or private life. One of her greatest pleasures during
many years of invalidism was to quietly dispense charity to
the deserving poor.
Judge Yocum was
at one time county judge of Alexander County and his mother
was one of the early residents of this city. From here
the family removed to Grand Chain, where they lived for a
number of years. Judge
Yocum conducted an insurance business in Gilbert block at the time
of his removal to Texas.
Dick Woods died
at the hospital Monday night as result of wounds inflicted
by a bullet from the revolver of James
Walton on the
corner of Twenty-second and Poplar streets, a week since.
Both are negroes.
Walton was a
peddler of hot tamalas and had a dispute with
Woods over an
account of difference of ten cents.
Walton claims that Woods
assaulted him, also that the fatal shot was fired by another
negro.
A letter was found in
Woods' pocket which indicates that his name is
Warrick, it being addressed by Dr. A. P.
Warrick, of Delaware, Ohio, to his son.
Coroner McManus
held an inquest this afternoon.
James Walton,
the hot tamala man, was exonerated by the coroner's jury at
the inquest held late Tuesday in the city council chamber.
A number of witnesses were examined by Coroner
McManus, but none
of these saw the shooting. The
ante mortem
statement of Orville
Warrick alias
Dick Woods, was introduced. In it was the admission that he had refused
to pay Walton
what was due him also that he procured a brick before
meeting Walton
and that he threw the brick at
Walton at about
the same instant that
Walton shot him.
Walton
was called before the jury after it was found that the
evidence was insufficient to warrant holding him for murder.
Walton made his
statement in a straight-forward manner. According to
his story, Warrick
had told him earlier in the evening that he would pay the
debt if he (Walton)
would come to his boarding place after the money. That
Walton did go to the house before the shooting was proven by the
testimony of several witnesses.
Walton told that
he was attacked by
Warrick afterward when he was returning to the house;
that he was knocked down by some hard missile striking him
in the face, and he was robbed of six dollars by two men,
one of them being
Warrick whom he shot at while on the ground. The
other fellow, whom he could not identify, jerked the
revolver from his hand and fired that second shot,
supposedly at him.
Walton's
appearance showed that he had recently been through a
scrape.
An item in The
Citizen Monday referred to the death of one James
Mahanny, at Chapagnoile, Ark., The mention brings to
light the fact that
Mahanny was born in and reared in Cairo, his father
being one of the earlier settlers here, a thrifty,
industrious man, who accumulated some property, which he
left to his sons, John and James, by whom it was sold, but
neither saved their inheritance. Their older brother,
Michael, has gone west and there made his way until at the
present time he is a well-do-do stockman. One piece of
property owned originally by the senior
Mahanny was the
lot now occupied by St. Patrick’s Church. John
Mahanny died here
several years since. Dennis J.
Foley, of East
St. Louis, formerly city clerk of Cairo, was a stepbrother
of the Mahanny boys.
(The 1870 census of North Cairo, Alexander Co., Ill.,
reads: Mike
Mahaney, age 54, born in Ireland; Mary
Mahaney, 35, Ireland; Dennis
Foley, 19, Ireland; Bridget
Foley, 12,
Illinois; John
Mahaney, 15, Illinois; James
Mahney, 8,
Illinois.—Darrel
Dexter)
All members are requested to meet at their hall this
Wednesday evening, Dec. 9, to make arrangements for the
funeral of the late J. E.
Cummins, of
Memphis, Tenn.
Tuesday evening the officers of Alexander Lodge, I. O. O.
F., of this city, received a message from the Chickasaw
Lodge at Memphis, Tenn., of which J. E.
Cummins was a
member. The Memphis lodge gave instruction to have
remains interred here as they had been unable so far to
communicate with the relatives of the deceased. The
committee of Alexander Lodge has not succeeded in locating
the daughter of the deceased. The members of Alexander
Lodge will meet this evening to arrange for the funeral,
which will probably be held Thursday afternoon and the
remains interred at Beech Grove Cemetery. Mr.
Cummins died Sunday night at St. Mary's Infirmary from injuries
received in falling down a flight of stairs at the Planters
Hotel Sunday afternoon.
Cairo Evening Citizen, Thursday, 10 Dec 1908:
Word has been received that J. R.
Longnecker,
father of Mrs. V.
Coombes, of this city, died at his home in Terre Haute,
Ind., Wednesday morning. Mrs.
Coombes left
Cairo last week to be at the bedside of her father.
(Calvin Miller,
21, of Wetaug, Ill., married Bertie
Cooper, 17, of
Wetaug, on 22 Jun 1901, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
A marker in Mt. Pisgah Cemetery reads:
A. E., Ralph, Rora, the children of Mr. and Mrs.
Calvin Miller.—Darrel
Dexter)
Tuesday evening the officers of Alexander Lodge I. O. O.
F., of this city, received a message from the Chickasaw
Lodge at Memphis, Tenn., of which J. E.
Cummins was a
member. The Memphis lodge gave instruction to have
remains interred here as they had been unable so far to
communicate with the relatives of the deceased. The
committee of Alexander Lodge has not succeeded in locating
the daughter of the deceased. The members of Alexander
Lodge will meet this evening to arrange for the funeral
which will probably be held Thursday afternoon and the
remains interred at Beech Grove Cemetery. Mr.
Cummins died Sunday night at St. Mary's Infirmary from injuries
received in falling down a flight of stairs at the Planters
Hotel Sunday afternoon.
Marion, Ill., Dec. 11.—The report comes from Goreville
that a freight engine on the Chicago & Eastern Illinois blew
up and the engineer and flagman were thrown a hundred feet
and were killed. The fireman was fatally hurt.
Mrs. John W. Boyd
died at her home in Wickliffe, Ky., last evening after an
illness of two years from cancer. The deceased was the
wife of Dr. John Boyd, who has been one of the most prominent citizens of Ballard
County for a long period of years, being located at
Blandville previous to removing to Wickliffe. Mrs.
Boyd was highly
esteemed by all who knew her, and had a number of friends
and acquaintances in Cairo. Her husband, a son and two
daughters are the surviving members of her family.
Mrs. Albert H. Hale,
of west Thirty-sixth Street, is one of the daughters.
James Hayden, of
this city, was a brother of Mrs.
Boyd.
Several Cairo friends of the deceased attended the funeral
at Wickliffe this afternoon.
Word has been received by George
Weldon that Mrs. Edward
Dunning died at the home of her mother, Mrs. Paul
Allen, in
Chicago, Dec. 4. Mrs.
Dunning was
formerly Miss Lille
Allen, a resident of Cairo, and a cousin of George F.
and A. W. Weldon, of this city. The deceased leaves a husband and two
children.
Port Arthur, Tex., Dec.14.—Mary
Gates, mother of John W., is dead. Her body will be shipped by
special train to Lake Charles, Ill., for burial.
Gates is accompanying the remains. Mrs.
Gates had been ailing for several weeks and her son was constantly
in attendance.
A young negro, Lonnie
McGee, who has been employed as porter at the tailor shop of H. A.
Jones, 408
Commercial Avenue, died suddenly this morning. He was
seated on the steps at the side entrance of
Nichols &
Steggs Saloon at the corner of Sixth and Ohio Street this morning,
when he toppled over upon the sidewalk. A hasty
examination of the body showed the man was probably dead
before he struck the walk. The body was taken to
Feith's
undertaking establishment on order of the coroner, and an
inquest was held this forenoon. The jury found that
death was due to natural causes.
McGee was about 27 years of age. His father resides at
Trenton, Tenn., and is said to be in comfortable
circumstances. He was notified of the young man's
death.
Two men suspected of being the murderers of Charles
Speikart at
Mounds, had a preliminary hearing before Squire
Thompson at Mound
City this afternoon. They are William
Disbennet and Charles Carroll,
who were arrested by Sheriff
Bankston and his
deputies in a raid made last night on a house in Stumptown,
as the north end of Mound City is known. The sheriff
had reason to believe that the men were implicated in the
murder and set out to capture them. The crime was one
of the most dastardly ever perpetrated in Pulaski County and
the citizens are greatly aroused. At Mounds the
excitement is running high and it is reported the railroad
men are openly talking of saving the county the trouble and
expense of legal procedure and execution of the murderers,
if the evidence of their guilt is sufficient to warrant
conviction.
Charles Speikart
and his wife have lived in Mound City about four years,
coming there from Kentucky. They were quiet people and
well thought of by their neighbors. Mr.
Speikert was
about fifty years of age and worked in the yards at Mounds,
being employed in the car repairing department. One of
his duties was to gather up the stray bolts, scrap iron
dropped along the tracks in the yards. It was while
making his rounds with a wheelbarrow yesterday morning that
Speikert met his
horrible death.
The scene of the murder was but a short distance from the
station at Mounds, between two switch tracks filled with
long trains of cars. There was plenty of evidence that
a desperate struggle had occurred before his assailants had
subdued Speikert.
The body was found near a wheelbarrow the man had been
using. The wounds also showed the man had fought to
the end; there were numerous stab wounds in the upper
portion of his body and face. One wrist was slashed, and the
head was almost severed from the trunk, his throat being cut
from ear to ear. This last was probably the final
effort of the fiendish assailants of
Speikert.
The only motive that can be assigned for the crime was
robbery, as the monthly pay check
Speikert received
yesterday was not found upon his person when his clothing
was searched by Deputy Coroner
Davis, who held
the inquest Friday afternoon. So far as could be
learned, no one heard a sound of the terrible struggle or
calls of help. The body was found by two other
employees of the railroad, Charles
Kennedy and Pat Lally.
The preliminary hearing of the men suspected of being
implicated in the murder of Charles
Speikert was
continued this afternoon until Wednesday, Dec. 23.
Although the two white men arrested by the sheriff's posse
at Mound City on suspicion of having been implicated in the
killing of Charles
Speikert at Mounds, Friday are still in jail, there seem
to be clews that the dastardly deed was done by a negro.
Several stories regarding a strange negro seen in the
railroad yards Friday have been going the rounds, among
which is one that a negro tallying with the description of
that fellow cashed the paycheck taken from
Speikert.
This story has it that a negro cashed the check at Cache,
the junction of the Mobile & Ohio and Illinois Central above
Beech Ridge, buying some clothing. This negro is known
to have worked as a section hand on the Central. The
amount of the check is given about the same as that issued
to Speikert, but
the number is not verified as yet.
Another possible clew turned up at East Cairo this morning
when a pair of bloodstained overalls were found in an empty
car brought there from Mounds to be loaded with corn.
The police in all directions of many miles are looking for
the murderer of any clew that may lead to his capture.
It is reported also that the railroad detectives are working
on the case and they are known to equal the government
service men in unraveling mysterious cases where railroads
are interested.
The sensational stories circulated Sunday and today
regarding great excitement at Mound City are unfounded.
Everything is reported quiet there. Sheriff
Bankston and his
force are making every effort to secure positive evidence in
the case and there is now no danger of violence should the
murderer be incarcerated in the Pulaski County jail.
The funeral of the victim of this terrible crime was held
Saturday afternoon and the remains taken to Kentucky for
burial.
The check cashed by the negro at a store in the village of
Cache was today positively identified as the pay check taken
from the body of Charles
Speikert.
The governor has been asked to offer a reward for capture of
the murderer and Pulaski County authorities will also offer
reward. The Illinois Central company will make a
determined effort to capture the negro.
Christmas will be a sad day for Mrs. Emma
Johnson, of No.
2810 Commercial Avenue. Her husband, John E.
Johnson, Tuesday
took an overdose of wood alcohol and died from its effects.
He had been in the habit to taking small doses of the
alcohol in water as a relief from rheumatism. The
coroner’s inquest, which was held last evening, turned a
verdict of death from accidental poisoning.
Johnson
was about 35 years of age and leaves a widow and three
children.
Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at the
residence, conducted by Rev. C. H.
Armstrong, pastor
of the Lutheran Church and the remains will be taken by
regular train to Beech Grove Cemetery for interment.
(Mark Welton
married Seney A.
Ferris on 30 Mar 1865, in Pope Co., Ill.
A marker in Beech Grove Cemetery at Mounds reads:
Mark Welton
Co. B, 15th Illinois Cavalry.
In 1900, Lucy A.
Welton, widow of
Mark Welton, was
pensioned for his service in the Civil War.
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
Welton married Cynthia
Welton on 24 Dec 1890, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
Theodore
Newton, 20, of Beechwood, machinist, born in
Hinkleville, Ky., son of Henry
Newton and Mary
Elliott, married Francis E.
Welton 18, of Beechwood, born in Pope Co., Ill.,
daughter of Mark Welton and Sencey Farris,
on 28 Feb 1897.
Her marker in
Beech Grove Cemetery at Mounds reads:
Senie Welton Born June 22, 1842 Died Dec. 20, 1908.—Darrel
Dexter)
The remains of W. J.
Trahern passed
through Cairo today en
route from Poplar Bluff, Mo., to his former home at
Hopkinsville, Ky.
Trahern was until
recently a traveling salesman for the Three States Implement
Company, and since had been employed by the Hartman
Manufacturing Company of Vincennes, Ind. He was
considered a good salesman but within the last month he
returned to Cairo, later going to Poplar Bluff.
Wednesday he was found dead in his room at the Quinn Hotel,
an empty bottle labeled morphine told the story of his end.
Trahern was a
widower, 40 years of age, and has children living with his
brother in Hopkinsville.
Riley Bradley
still hovers between life and death at the hospital as the
result of the fracas Christmas Day.
Bradley,
who is a negro from Joppa, came to Cairo for Christmas and
while hunting up his wife, he learned she was at Dick
Taylor's saloon
and dance hall on Lower Commercial Avenue. He went
there after her and found her together with a large crowd of
negroes, men and women. Bradley's
method of persuasion was rather too forcible; he rapped the
woman on the head with the butt of a gun, according to
reports. General rush to her rescue was a signal for
action, several guns flashed from several directions, and
when the smoke lifted,
Bradley, lying on
the floor, had things all to himself. Five bullets of
different sizes had punctured his body, making wounds from
which he is likely to die. Only one of the shootists
has been found; John
Smith is the name he gave.
Bradley
identified him.
According to special agent W. E.
Briggs of the Illinois Central railroad, who was here today, every
effort of that branch of the railroad company will be used
to run down the slayer of Charles N.
Spikert, who was
killed at Mounds on Dec. 18th and robbed of his
pay check, amounting to $34.79.
Already a reward of $500 has been offered for the arrest
and conviction of the murderer. Of this amount Gov.
Deneen offers $200 the county commissioners of Pulaski County $200
and friends of the deceased at Mound City, have added
another hundred.
Mr. Briggs says
that they have no trace of the negro who cashed
Spikert's check at Daggett's
store at Cache. Clyde
Foraker cashed
the check for the negro and remarked as he did so, "I don't
know you. You might have killed someone for this
check." Nevertheless he did cash the check and when
the negro said that he could not write,
Foraker signed
the check himself.
This negro, who is suspected of having committed this
brutal crime is described as being 5 feet 10 to 11 ½ inches
tall, weighs about 160 or 170 pounds, is very black, had two
weeks’ beard on his face at the time, has large eyes, a
heavy nose and teeth that are bad in front and is thick
through the shoulders.
A message received by Mrs. C. M.
Osterloh, of 1814 Commercial Avenue, this forenoon informed her of
the death of her brother, Henry
Brown, at his
home in St. Louis at 5:30 o'clock this morning. Mrs.
Osterloh and her
daughter, Mrs. A. W.
Neff, leave tonight to attend the funeral.
Henry Brown was
formerly a resident of Cairo and one time being connected
with the Planters Hotel. He removed to St. Louis about
twenty-five years ago. The deceased was 68 years of
age and is survived by his wife, three daughters and three
sons. Mr. Brown
had for some time past been afflicted with cancer, which was
the cause of his death.
(Alexander William
Neff and Amelia
Osterloh on 5 Mar 1889, in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Ernest Wall,
infant child of Mr. and Mrs. J. I.
Wall, of 718
Thirty-sixth Street, died last night and the body will be
taken to Stonefort, Ill., tomorrow for burial. Mr.
Wall works for
the Weis-Peterson
Company. Burke
& Blaine have charge of the remains.
Mrs. Cordelia Axley,
a widow living at 3314 Poplar Street, died at St. Mary's
Infirmary last evening of apoplexy. The funeral will
probably occur Saturday.
Burke &
Blaine have charge of the remains.
A negro is under arrest at Sikeston, Mo., who is believed
to be the murderer of Charles N.
Speikert.
The negro was caught in a crap game and there were blood
stains on his shoes and he wore clothing answering the
description of the clothing purchased by the negro from
Daggett's Store
at Cache, when
Speikert's check was cashed.
Friends of Prof. John
Snyder, county superintendent of schools, are very much concerned
over his condition. For more than a week he has been
hovering between life and death. His ailment is said
to be Bright's disease.
Mrs. Hattie English,
the negro woman who died at 311 Fourth Street Tuesday, was
buried today. She was found dead in bed when her
husband, who works at the Blue Front Restaurant, went home
that morning. She had been complaining of feeling
unwell the day previous. The coroner’s jury found
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