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Mt. Vernon IL Register (Weekly) - January 5 or 12, 1898
Submitted by: Mary Zinzilieta
Mrs. Mary A. JARRELL, wife of Thomas JARRELL was adjudged insane by a
Medical Commission consisting of Drs. R. W. PLUMMER and W. P. BILES
before Judge FARTHING yesterday afternoon. Her trouble was declared
to be "melancholia and a religious paranciacism". She was taken to
the Southern Hospital for the insane at Anna this morning in charge
of Sheriff WARA and Mrs. W. O. RINE.
The Daily Register - Thursday, February 17, 1898
Princeton, Ind. Clarion - Mrs. Elizabeth WELCH of Mt. Vernon, Ill.
is visiting her cousin, Mrs. H. W. LAGOW, in this city. Mrs. WELCH
was born and raised in Princeton, but has not been here for 25 years.
She is the daughter of Mr. James BOSWELL.
Mt. Vernon IL Register (Weekly) - February 23, 1898
Submitted by: Mary Zinzilieta
Frank M. DAVIS of St. Louis and Mary E. BAXTER, of this city, were
married by Squire S. T. CROZIER at his office on West Main Street
Saturday afternoon. They left on the L & N train for St. Louis where
they will make their future home.
Miss Bertha BINCE, of Belmont, came up from Ewing Saturday night,
where she is attending college and spent Sunday with friends at the
Jefferson House and with Mr. and Mrs. G. G. SMITH at 210 West Main Street.
The wife of Rev. G. M. READ, who resides at 606 South First Street, died
last night. Interment will take place at Mapleton, Kan. Brother REED
starts on his sad journey tomorrow afternoon via the Air Line.
Dr. GEE returned home last night from a visit to his plantation near
Fitzgerrell, where he has been looking after his stock and planning a
campaign of spring work. The doctor is greatly attached to his "broad acres"
and thinks there is no place to live like "down on the farm".
Miss Frankie M. BENTON, of Enid, Oklahoma, who is visiting H. J. Benton and
family at Bluford, was among the DAILY REGISTER's visitors today. Miss BENTON
is a printer and has for some time been employed on a daily paper in her western
home. She is a bright and intelligent young woman and having traveled extensively
is well informed on matters of public interest.
T. J. BANDOLETT, of Washington, Ind., was here yesterday visiting relatives and
friends. He is a conductor on the B & O S W Railroad and is a nephew of Mr.
Ock PACE and Mrs. H. S. PLUMMER.
W. D. TAYLOR came over from East St. Louis Saturday night and remained
over Sunday with Mrs. TAYLOR who is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
J. T. DILLINGHAM, and other relatives in this city.
Revs. J. H. ALLEN, Calvin ALLEN and J. F. BAKER, all of Ewing, were present
at the services at the First Baptist Church yesterday. The former preached
in the morning and the latter at the evening services.
The Daily Register, Mt. Vernon, IL - Thursday, March 24, 1898
O. H. McNEW, J. B. HOWARD and Thos. BOOK and family, all of the Bonnie
neighborhood, left this afternoon on the L&N Train en-route for the far west.
Mr. McNEW goes to LaGrande, Ore. and the others to Weiser, Idaho.
The Daily Register
March 18, 1898 - Reunion of Charles PARKS, the son of Uncle John PARKS;
sister Mrs. William WILBANKS; wife of Charles, the daughter of John BOUDINOT.
March 25, 1898 - Theodore SWISHER, nephew of Marshal SWISHER, ran away in
the fall of 1896 and a letter from Paris, France has now been received from
Theodore.
March 29, 1898 - Mr. Charles BOSWELL of Nashville was the guest of his
cousins, Miss Fannie and Miss Lena BOSWELL. Mrs. F. D. BOSWELL went to
Belle Rive this morning to visit relatives.
March 30, 1898 - Mrs. R. F. BOSWELL died yesterday; husband is the son of
Uncle Joe BOSWELL formerly of this city.
April 4, 1898 - Margaret L. BOSWELL, born June 27, 1870; died April 2, 1898;
wife of Richard F. BOSWELL; married November 25, 1886; children Clyde L. age 10;
Georgia B. age 8; Earl K. age 6; Gwendolyn age 2; infant son age 4 weeks.
(from her obit)
Mrs. Silvina Braddy, of Farrington township, was in town yesterday.
Mrs. Braddy was born January 8, 1812, the day of the battle of New Orleans.
Her husband, Jesse Braddy, died about the close of the war, since which
time
she has managed the farm and reared the children who survived their
father. Mrs. Braddy was born in Tennessee,
but came to Jefferson county about 65 years ago, and has lived most
of the time on the farm she now occupies. She
was acquainted with nearly all the old settlers of the county, most
of whom she has outlived. Mrs. Braddy is a most
remarkable woman in many respects, and although 87 years of age, she
not only does her own housework, but milks
the cows and does her own gardening. Yesterday she brought to town
and sold a wagon load of Irish potatoes and
will bring in another load soon. Besides these potatoes she has about
30 bushels of sweet potatoes at home, all of
which is the result of her own individual labors. She keeps no hired
help about the house, and says she isn't old enough yet to require such
assistance, and says also that her own girls can't do as much work as their
"ma." Every-
body in her part of the country knows and respects the old lady, who
is remakably intelligent and well informed, al-
though her opportunities for obtaining an education were necessarily
very limited. She gives promise of many years
of life yet.
October 30, 1898 Mt. Vernon Register News
submitted by: Sharlet Bigham LaBarbera
Oct 29, 1997
John H. Watson, of Siverton, Colo., was the guest
today for a few hours of his uncle, Capt. S. H. Watson, and fam-
ily. The young man has been in service as a member of Torrey's Rough
Riders, which regiment was mustered out
at Jacksonville, Fla., a few days ago. He is a son of William D.
Watson, who removed from here in 1872 to Colo.,
where he now resides, and as his son expresses it, is hale and hearty.
Another son, Albert, was also a member of the rough riders but having secured
a
good position at Jacksonville determined to make that city his future home.
Torrey's men were recruited from the ranches and mines of Colorado
and being inured of outdoor life might well
have been classed as immunes in the army. They lost but seven men from
disease while in the service. Seven were
killed in a railroad smashup en route to Jacsonville, and by the way
Mr. Watson had a like close call coming home.
He was in a wreck last night when three men were killed in the car
next to him. Mr. Watson left this afternoon for
Silverton, where a good position that he left to enter the army has
been kept awaiting his return.
October 26, 1898 Mt. Vernon Register News
submitted by: Sharlet Bigham LaBarbera
Oct 29, 1997
AN UNFORTUNATE ACCIDENT
Guy Summers was the victim of a very unfortunate accident at
the car shops lumber yard this morning., which result-
ed in a compound fracture of the femur bone of his left leg, about
midway between his knee and hip. Mr. Summers
had just driven into the yards with a load of six hundred feet of hickory
lumber to be used in the manufacturing of brake beams, and was in the act
of dismounting from them wagon when the accident occured. In getting off,
he at-
tempted to step on the hub of one of the wheels, but by some means
slipped and fell to the ground, which frightened his team causing them
to run. Mr. Summers was thrown directly under the wagon and two of the
wheels passed over
his body, one of them across the pelvic bone and the other the left
thigh, breaking the bone, causing it to protrude
throught the fleshy part of the leg.
That Mr. Summers was not killed by the great weight which passed over
him is rather remarkable, and that he did not receive other serious internal
injuries, in addition to the fractured limb, is probably due to the fact
that the wheels
missed vital organs. Had the wagon passed over his chest or side crushing
in the walls of the body against the heart
or breaking the spinal column, death must have resulted in a very short
time.
Mr.Summers was picked up by some workmen employed by the lumber yard,
and as soon as possible a carriage was
summoned and he was taken to the office of Dr. Green, and Drs. Earl
Green and Walter Watson called in to make an
examination of his injuries.
After his wounds had been properly dressed Mr. Summers was taken to
the home of his uncle, Mr. John Liebengood,
401 East Main street, where he was made as comfortable as possible.
While his injuries are very serious they are not
necessarily fatal, and having health and strength in his favor there
seems to be every reason to expect his recovery.
August 2, 1898 Mt. Vernon Register News
submitted by: Sharlet Bigham LaBarbera
Oct 29, 1997
MET HIS SON YESTERDAY
For the First Time in Sixteen Years
A very happy reunion of father and sister with a son and brother who
had been absent for sixteen years, occurred
at the L & N depot yesterday morning as the south bound train passed
this station, followed by another reunion in
which mother and son were the participants when the train reached Belle
Rive. The father was Uncle John Parks,
of Belle Rive, the sister Mrs. William Wilbanks of this city and the
long absent son and brother, Mr. Chas. Parks,
now of Colorado, who had not been seen by either Mr. Parks or the sister
Mrs. Wilbanks for the period above
mentioned.
A few days ago Mrs. Charles Parks, wife of the son, was called to this
county to attend the funeral of her father, the
late John Boudinot. She was accompanied by one of her children who
since Mr. Boudinot's burial had taken daner-
ously ill and the husband and father was telegraphed to come. Uncle
John Parks came up from Belle Rive to meet his son at this station. When
the morning train arrived yesterday Uncle John and his daughter, Mrs. Wilbanks,
were
at the depot. They boarded the train to look for the son and brother.
After a hurried search throught the cars Uncle
John was about to leave the train with the idea that Charley was not
aboard, when Mrs. Wilbanks called to him and
he returned to take a seat by the side of the son he had not seen in
all these years. He did not recognize the son, al-
though the latter knew the father and watched him as he anxiously peered
in the faces of those in the seats. The hap-
py reunion attracted the attention of everybody in the car. Arriving
at Belle Rive the platform was crowded with friends and acquaintances,
among whom was the aged mother of Charley and another affecting and happy
reunion
occurred between mother and son.
March 18, 1898 Mt. Vernon Register News
submitted by: Sharlet Bigham LaBarbera
Oct 29, 1997
CHARGED WITH STEALING A BUGGY
Sheriff Ward went to Grand Prairie township yesterday to arrest Sherman
Copple and George Rapp, who are charged with stealing a buggy
from Samuel Dickerson, who lives near Walnut Hill. In anticipation
of a visit from the officers Rapp had left home and Mr. Ward was compelled
to return without him, although Copple was
placed under arrest and brought here last night and lodged in jail.
It was suspected that Rapp had gone down to
the southwestern part of the county to stay with some relatives until
the affair had quieted down, and Deputy
Sheriff James V. Bruce was dispatched to that quarter to hunt him up.
This theory proved to be correct and Mr.
Bruce found his man about three miles southwest of Dareville and brought
him up with his confederate in the county jail. This appears to have been
the first time Copple has been under arrest on a criminal charge and his
reputation has hitherto been fairly good. Rapp, on the other hand,
is an old offender, and is now held to answer to circuit court under bonds
in the sum of $700 on the charges of burglary, larceny and arson. When
arrested he
had on his person four notes of the Old National Bank of Centralia,
one of which was filled out for $100 to which the signatures of George
Rapp, Thomas Copple and Charles Sanders had been forged. The other three
notes had not been filled out but there is little doubt that they would
have turned up at some bank had Copple been given time to carry out his
schemes unmolested: That he had planned a forgery is apparent from a paper
which he carried in his pocket and which bore the names of a number of
his neighbors whose signatures he had
been trying as nearly as possible to imitate. By a great deal of practice
he had been able to produce very clever
counterfeits of their signatures and it is highly probable that he
would soon have fallen into the hands of the of-
ficers for forgery had he not been apprehended on another charge.
February 10, 1898 Mt. Vernon Register News
Business in circuit court this morning opened with the case of the People
vs. Geo. Rapp and Sherman Copple, two
young men of Rome township, who were charged with stealing a buggy
from Samuel Dickerson, of Boyd. The jury
found them guilty, sentencing Rapp to the penitentiary and Copple to
the refomatory at Pontiac.
The damage suit of James H. Edwards vs. Allen C. Tanner was
tried by the court and judgment for costs given in favor of the plaintiff.
This afternoon a civil suit ( or rather uncivil one to judge by the character
of the evidence,) between Scrivner and Blake, of Pendleton township, is
being tried.
May 20, 1898 Mt. Vernon Register News
submitted by: Sharlet Bigham LaBarbera
Nov 6, 1997
Alderman R. K. Webber received a letter yesterday from his brother,
Harry, who recently gave up a good legal prac-
tice in Chicago to go to the Hawaiian Islands. The letter was written
on the steamer on the outward passage to Hono
lulu and simply states that he had reached Honolulu all right. Mr.
Webber incidentally mentions that he was seasick
for the first two or three days after leaving San Francisco. He will
practice his profession at Hilo, about 200 miles from Honolulu.
August 2, 1898 Mt. Vernon Register News
submitted by: Sharlet Bigham LaBarbera
Nov 6, 1997
With the season of sparrow shooting has come the time of
the reckless use of flobert guns by the irresponsible small
boy and if somebody does not get hurt while it lasts it will be surprising
to those who have noted the carlessness with
which fire arms are used in the city limits. Yesterday afternoon a
bullet crashed through the window of the residence
of Mr. and Mrs. J.H. Rackaway on East Jordan street and narrowly
missed the latter as she sat near the center of the
room. It was probably fired by some reckless boy who did not give a
monent's thought to the danger there might be to the lives of other people
in such indiscriminate shooting. Unless greater judgment and discretion
is used in the handling of flobert guns it is probable that the city council
will interdict their use within the city limits.
December 5, 1898 Mt. Vernon Register News
submitted by: Sharlet Bigham LaBarbera
Nov 6, 1997
Charlie Taylor, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. S. G. H. Taylor,
was accidently shot by George Bullock while they were amusing themselves
by shooting at a mark in Johnson's pasture, near the northern limits of
the city, about 2 o'clock
this afternoon and received injuries of a rather serious character.
A number of boys, ranging in age ten to fifteen, were playing on the common
and as one of them had a shot gun they found their chief source of entertainment
in
loading it with the usual charge of shot and firing it to hear the
report. The Bullock boy attempted to fire it in the air
directly overhead, but one of his companions struch the gun at the
instant he pulled the trigger, causing the load to take effect in the arm
and side of the Taylor boy, who stood directly in front of him. Fully thirty
shot entered the boy's arm and hand, lascerating the latter very badly.
He was brought to town and taken to the office of Dr. Florence
Manion, who washed the wounds and stopped the flow of blood.
Several shot struck him in the face, at least two of
which entered his mouth, passing out through the cheek. It was impossible
to get a very clear account of the accident
but the facts are substantially as related above. Fortunately the gun
was loaded with bird shot, otherwise the accident
might have been more serious. The unhappy boy was taken home in a carriage
after the examination at Dr. Manion's
office to await the arrival of his mother who went into the country
this morning to spend the day. Unless blood poi-
soning or other complications should result he will get over the accident
all right but the memory of it will not be for-
gotten as long as he lives.
July 23, 1898 Mt. Vernon Register News (Dr. Florence Manion was a
woman)
submitted by: Sharlet Bigham LaBarbera
January 28, 1998
Tip Hutchison and Dr. Frost of Dix are litigants
in a lawsuit in Uncle Johnny Bogan's court this afternoon growing
out of a dispute over the ownership of seven-sixteenth of an acre of land.
Hutchison and Frost are old neighbors and are collaterally related by ties
of kinship, which in fact may partially account for the present es-
trangment between them. Some time ago Hutchison sold Frost the west
half of a tract of forty acres of land, and
made him a deed for twenty acres of land, more or less, describing
it in the usual way. Some time after the trans-
fer had been made a dispute arose about the dividing line between the
two properties, one of them contending that
it was at a certain place and the other dissenting from this opinion.
The result of this disagreement has thus far been three suits before the
Justice of the Peace in Rome township, costing the litigants about sixty
dollars and the
filings of a suit of ejectment in this circuit court. The case which
is being tried this afternoon is one of criminal trespass and was instituted
by Hutchison against the defendant for plowing on the disputed piece of
land. The end is not yet, and from present indications the case promises
to become one of the most notable in then annals of liti-
gation in Jefferson County.
October 15, 1898 Mt. Vernon Register News
submitted by: Sharlet Bigham LaBarbera
January 28, 1998
Dr. W. O. Manion will leave tomorrow morning for Seattle en route to
the Alaskan gold fields. Reaching the Pacific coast Dr. Manion will visit
relatives at Seattle and Portland until the arrival of J. W. Jones, Fred
Strattan, Lys Limecooley, George Cunningham and other members of the Southern
Illinois Alaska Company at Seattle, when the entire party will leave that
part for the month of Copper riverform which point they will proceed by
boat into the interior of the country in search of the auriferous ore.
The other members of the party will leave here about the 20th inst. and
after purchasing outfits at Seattle, will depart for their destination
about March 10. Dr. Manion says he is going to the new Eldorado with the
intention of "striking it rich" and declares his determin- ation not to
return to civilzation without enough of the precious metal to compensate
him for his voluntary exile in the great sub artic wilderness. In bidding
them adieu the REGISTER joins a wide circle of personal friends in hoping
that in their search for the "Golden Fleece" Dr. Manion and his argonautic
companions will not be disap- pointed.
February 7, 1898 Mt. Vernon Register News
submitted by: Sharlet Bigham LaBarbera
George W. Roberts, who was shot Friday night by his son, Homer Roberts,
an accounty of which appered in Saturdays REGISTER, is still alive
and the
prospects seem favorable for this recovery. The ball entered the left
side below
the heart but has not yet been located. The wound seems not to have
discharged
any blood, but Roberts has since spit some up. Later and more minute
details of
the shooting are to the effect that on Robert's return home fromMt.
Vernon Friday
night he found the still boy and inclined to make trouble about the
house, so he
ordered him or pushed him out of the house. In a short time the boy
returned to the
house and shot the father; his step-mother and another person whose
name could not
be learned were present at the time. It seems the boy went to Ina some
time Friday
afternoon and procured the revolver and after the shooting he turned
over the revolver
to some of his friends but seems to have procured another later. The
boy was traced to
Tamaroa where he sold the mare he was riding for $10, after which he
purchased a ticket
for Cairo, boarded an I.C. train and it is thought he is now on his
way to Princeto, Ky.,
where he has an uncle living there. Homer Roberts is a step son of
the present Mrs. Roberts
and seems to have thought that as matters were drifting there was quite
a probability that the
step-mother would get the bulk of the father's estate, and this seems
to have been the most
important cause that produced the trouble which ended in the shooting.
November 28, 1898 Mt. Vernon Register News
Submitted by Sharlet Bigham LaBarbera
Officers of Mt. Vernon Chapter, Order of the Eastern
Star, were elected last night for the ensuing year as follows: Worthy Matron,
Mrs.
Martha E. Plummer; Worthy Patron, Morris Emmerson; Associate
Matron, Mrs. Cora Webb; Secretary, Mrs. Emma McGowan; Treasurer,
Mrs.
B. C. Strattan; Conductress, Miss Maude Merrill; Associate Conductress,
Mrs. Mary Frost.
December 14, 1898 Mt. Vernon Register News
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Dec 18, 1997
Downing Goodrich and Gabe Jines were thrown from a buggy
by a runaway team on East Jordan street shortly after 8 o'clock this morning,
and were both condiderably bruised. The had started to Ewing, and as the
journey was a long one, a team that was imperfectly broken to work, was
selected for the trip as it was supposed they would be more tractable after
a day's driving. One of the horses became frightened as they were turned
out of Washington street, into Jordan, and started to run, and while Mr.
Goodrich was endeavoring to control it the buckle on one of the lines broke
and the team at once became unmanageable. They ran into the stone curbing
near the residence of J. W. Herrin, and both the driver and his companion
were thrown out on the hard pavement. Mr. Goodrich was severely bruised
by the fall, but fortunately no bones were broken. Mr. Jines was less severely
injured, although he was considerably shaken up by his unexpected contact
with Mother Earth. Dr. Earl Green was summoned and made an examination
of Mr. Goodrich's injuries, which are sufficiently severe to confine him
to the house for several days.
July 12, 1898 Mt. Vernon Register News
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Dec 18, 1997
Mrs. Emma Dawson, who recently removed to
this city from Belle Rive, celebrated her 86th birthday with a family dinner
at her home on South Union street at noon today. Mrs. Dawson is a remarkably
hale and hearty lady for one of her age, and looks after her household
duties with as much satisfaction and pleasure as many a woman half her
years. To assist her in properly celebrating the event a number of relatives
from Belle Rive were present. The REGISTER felicitates Mrs. Dawson on her
anniversary and desires to express the hope that she may celebrate many
more of them under equally happy circumstances.
December 15, 1898 Mt. Vernon Register News
submitted by: Sharlet Bigham LaBarbera
Dec 22, 1997
Mr. and Mrs. Hicks Atchison, of Opdyke, went to East St.
Louis yesterday to visit their son, Guy, who is a train dispatcher in the
office of the Terminal Railroad Company in St. Louis.
Mrs. Edith Harmon, aged 21, wife of J.O. Harmon, died today of pneumonia.
The funeral will occur at Kirk graveyard, in Elk Prairie township, tomorrow
at 2 p.m. Mrs. Harmon was the
daughter of Pierce Farthing.
Mrs. M. E. McAnally of Carbondale arrived this morning for a brief visit
with her daughter,
Mrs. Norman H. Moss.
The condition of Dan Smith is somewhat improved, and in many respects
his health is better
than it has been for several weeks.
October 30, 1898 Mt. Vernon Register News
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Jan 28, 1997
Miss Emma Ham, sister of Mrs. F. G. Whitacre and Mrs.
J. G. Crosier, of this city, died at her home at Browns, Ill.,
yesterday of cancer of the stomach after an illness of a couple of
months. Mesdames Whitacre and Crosier were at
the bedside at the time of her death.
August 1, 1898 Mt. Vernon Register News
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Jan 28, 1997
Mr. and Mrs. Sanford Hill were summoned to the bedside
of the former's father, Mr. George Hill, about 3 miles north
west of town, at 11 o'clock last night by the announcement that he
was seriously ill and that his death was expected at any time. Sanford
Hill came to town this morning and after attending to some necessary business
matters returned to the country to assist in caring for his aged parent.
The elder Hill is about 90 years of age and his present condition
is due to his great age rather than to any well defined disease. During
Sanford Hill's absence Billy Hoffman will look after his duties at the
Adams Express office.
December 15, 1898 Mt. Vernon Register News
submitted by: Sharlet Bigham LaBarbera
Jan 28, 1997
R. W. Lyon received a telegram
on Saturday from his son-in-law, W. M. Pollock, at Alleghany, Pa. apprising
him of the birth of a nine pound daughter to Mrs. Lena Lyon Pollock in
that city. Mr. and Mrs. Pollock are residents of Washington D. C., but
at present are visiting relatives of the former at Allegheny.
August 1, 1898 Mt. Vernon Register News
submitted by: Sharlet Bigham LaBarbera
Jan 28, 1997
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