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1861 - A Snake Sent By Mail
One Philander Pierce lived unhappily with his wife, and she
went alone to Chicago, where she received several sharp letters
from him. One afternoon the clerks in the post-office, at the
city named, were thrown into consternation by a series of
agonized screams, evidently coming from a woman. Hastening to
the spot whence the noise proceeded, they found Mrs. Pierce
speechless with terror, but able to point to a green adder, then
crossing the floor and seeking the air of perfect freedom. Some of the men fled, but
enough remained firm to capture the serpent, which was taken to the City
Marshal's office. There an explanation ensued. It seems that the woman had found a
thin pasteboard box and a letter at the office, and had hastened to
open the former, not doubting that it was a pledge of returning
affection. She was surprised to hear from within at a slight hiss, and was quite
transfixed with horror when, from the uncovered, prison, shot the ugly green
head of the snake. Just then she dropped the box and the screams came in.
The letter accompanying this infernal machine was hideously sarcastic, but
not otherwise entertaining.
Contributed 25 Jan 2013 by Deb Haines,
Source: The Daily Dispatch, Nov 6, 1861
1875 Aug 23 - City Brevities
The library directors failed to meet on Saturday afternoon.
There was no quorum.
A successor to Judge Lambert Tree will be elected on Nov. 2.
Governor Beveridge has so ordained it.
Thomas Murphy, aged 14, fell off the pier at the foot of
Fourteenth street on Saturday afternoon and was drowned.
The "hoodlums" who infest the leading thoroughfares have
invented a new outrage—throwing paint on ladies' dresses.
Three grangers from the county were caught in the toils on
Saturday, and assessed in the aggregate sum of $230. No arrests.
David Humphrey, a watchman employed at the Palmer House, died in
Joliet on Saturday from an overdose of laudanum.
On Saturday the Board of Public Works awarded a contract for
1,000,000 sewer bricks to H. Jones & Co., at $6.95 per thousand.
On Saturday the City Collector received $21,000 on account of
city taxes. One- half the amount came from J.V. Farwell & Co.
Any one expecting to purchase a good gold or silver watch should
call upon or address Hamilton, Rowe & Co., corner State and
Washington streets.
The residents along Wentworth avenue south of of Thirty-ninth
street object to the building on that throughfare of the
Englewood horse and dummy railway.
The reunion meeting called for yesterday afternoon at Judge
Rogers' room did not take place, owing to the want of interest
taken in the reunion organization.
On Wednesday Colonel Dickey, Corporation Counsel will attend a
reunion of the Fourth Illinois Cavalry at Bloomington. He was
the first Colonel of the regiment.
Coroner Dietzsch held an inquest at Hyde Park on Saturday on the
remains of George Adams, which were found in a cistern. The jury
decided it was a case of accidental drowning.
William Wilson and John Dobbins indulged in a fight on Saturday
evening at the corner of Lake and Canal streets. The former had
his right hip joint fractured. The latter was arrested.
The Coroner held an inquest on Saturday on the body of Robert
Woodstein, who had lived on North Wells street. The jury found
he died from the effects of poison, administered by his own
hand.
An unfortunate creature, whose name could not be learned, made
the Armory very uncomfortable for the lodgers in that hotel last
night. She will be taken before the County Court this morning.
If Isaac Taylor, from Ohio, or Richard Cusach, from Canada, will
make known their whereabouts at the rooms of the Young Men's
Christian Association they will relieve the great anxiety of
their parents.
Last Friday morning, on the anniversary of the copartnership of
W. H. Banks and W. J. Hanna, under the firm name of W. H. Banks
& Co., each of the gentlemen was presented with a very rich
bouquet by their employes.
There is a great demand for the Aromatic Bitter Wine of Iron,
prepared by Mr. James Boland, the druggist, at 53 Clark street.
We advise those suffering from nervousness, loss of appetite,
weakness, headache, indigestion, and dyspepsia, to try it.
The Sovereigns of Industry met at the Palmer House on Saturday
evening, where brief addresses were made by the Hon. W. H.
Earle, president of the National Council; Dr. J. S. Avery,
President of the Illinois State Council, and other members of
the order.
A slight fire in the two-story brick building in rear of No. 504
South Morgan street, owned by John Holland, and occupied by
James O'Brien as a barn, caused the alarm from box 362 at 11:30
yesterday morning. Loss, $25. No insurance. Cause unknown.
Two young fellows named Edward Cunningham and Albert Litzinger
were collared and lodged in the Armory last evening for stealing
iron from the Bridgeport station of the Chicago and Alton
Railroad. Justice Summerfield will pass upon their cases this
morning.
A meeting of the survivors of the United States Zouave Cadets
was held in the Sherman House clubroom on Saturday evening.
Major E. B. Knox in the chair. John R. Floyd, from the Committee
on Organization, presented a constitution, which was adopted. A
committee of three was appointed to make arrangements for a
banquet on the 15th prox.
Mr. Simon Loger, of No. 297 Sedgwick street, reported at the
Union Street Station last night that as he was proceeding
through the lumber yard at the Northwestern Railway bridge, near
Kinzie street, on the previous night, he was assaulted by two
men who rifled his pockets and carried off all his wealth—$20
and a watch. He is unable to identify them as it was quite dark
when the deed was done.
On Saturday afternoon, while Oscar Gamble and Jacob Evans were
riding along in a buggy, the horse became frightened and ran
away. The occupants were thrown out and severely injured. They
were taken to the Massasoit House and cared for. The horse
plunged into the river at Rush street bridge, and after keeping
afloat until he reached Goodman's dock, was fished out.
Contributed 25 Jan 2013 by Deb Haines
Source: The Inter Ocean [Chicago IL] August 23, 1875
1875 Nov 4 - City Brevities
Sheriff Agnew starts for Joliet to-morrow with twenty-three
convicts.
Billy Manning will go on the "bone end" with the California
Minstrels next week.
Ellsha Marks is a prisoner at the Union Street Station, charged
with tapping the till of William Vender, at No. 60 South
Sangamon street, yesterday afternoon.
The Rev. A. E. Kittredge is preparing a sermon to preach
especially to young men next Sunday evening in Farwell Hall at
the request of the Young Men's Christian Association.
The Free Employment Bureau, 145 Fifth avenue, can furnish
employers with good, experienced business young men, laborers,
mechanics, and errand boys. Call and see the help.
The Coroner yesterday afternoon held an inquest on the body of a
newly-born female infant, found under the sidewalk in front of
No. 12 Green street. A verdict of "found dead" was returned.
A hard and well-known character named Andrew Hickey was arrested
yesterday and confined in the Armory on suspicion of being one
of the trio who robbed General Anson Stager's house some time
ago. He will have a hearing on the 10th inst.
For stealing an overcoat from a West Madison street store while
the owner was at the polls defending the ballot-box on Tuesday
afternoon, a woman named Mary Kearney was sent before the
Criminal Court under bonds of $300 by Justice Scully yesterday.
A sneak named Richard F. Green was collared by an officer and
yesterday held to the Criminal Court to answer to the charge of
stealing property from the Rock Island Depot. His bail was fixed
at $500, in default of which he was committed to the County
Jail.
Yesterday afternoon about 1:30 o'clock, while some boys were
playing on Halsted street between Erie and Fourth, Michael
Mahoid accidentally stabbed Peter Malloy in the right eye with a
knife he had in his hand. Malloy will in all probability lose
the use of the optic.
On last Monday afternoon Mr. George Hercher, a farmer residing
near Washington Heights, while climbing a fence, accidentally
discharged a gun which he was carrying. The load entered his
body in the region of the heart, and caused almost instant
death. The deceased was 26 years of age and unmarried.
A gentleman named Rudolph Ruch, residing at 201 West Twelfth
street, died yesterday afternoon from injuries received by being
kicked by a horse last Monday. The deceased's face and breast
was lacerated and bruised in a frightful manner, and the wonder
is that death did not immediately ensue. The Coroner has been
notified.
Contributed 25 Jan 2013 by Deb Haines
Source: The Inter Ocean [Chicago IL] November 4, 1875
1879 Sep 16 - City Brevities
During the past week the Recorder has received on the average
200 deeds a day.
The hotels were crowded to their utmost yesterday, and cots were
at a premium.
The Executive Committee of the First Ward Republican Club met in
private session at the Grand Pacific Hotel last evening, and
disposed of some routine business.
The Underwriters' Association of the Northwest will give a
banquet at the Grand Pacific Thursday evening at 7 o'clock. It
being the decennial anniversary of the association.
Louisa Wright, of 108 Pacific avenue, informs the police that
she would like to recover her pocket-book, containg $55, which
she thinks she dropped in Fritz's saloon, on Clark street.
The temperature yesterday as reported by Ed Maucher, optician; 7
a. m., 56; 9 a. m., 60; 12 m. 67; 3 p. m., 72; 5 p. m., 70; 7 p.
m., 67. The weather cloudy, wind southwest, barometer failing.
A laboring man, drunk and unknown, walked off the dock into the
river at the foot of Laflin street at 11 o'clock Sunday night,
but his cries brought night watchman J. Whalen to his
assistance, who rescued him and sent him home.
Isaac Teterdean, 40 years old, French, of 70 Foster street, had
his right leg broken at 11 o'clock yesterday morning by falling
through a broken sidewalk in front of the vacant lot, being No.
92 West Harrison street. Not dangerous.
Justice Prindiville has met with a sad affliction in the death
of his mother. He was absent from his office yesterday afternoon
attending the funeral of this aged lady, which took place at the
Cathedral of the Holy Name at 2 o'clock.
A horse belonging to Michael Burke, of Franklin street, ran away
at noon yesterday, colliding on Madison street with William
Schinek' furniture wagon, smashing a wheel. The runaway was
stopped at the bridge, with a bad cut on the right shoulder.
The Joseph H. Brown Rolling Mill Company will erect a number of
large blast- furnaces at South Chicago this fall. The works are
to be completed before cold weather begins, and will employ a
large number of men when completed and in running order.
At 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon Geo. Brown, 41 years old,
engineer at the North Side Water Works, left his home, 235
Goethe street, to proceed to his work, and when about 150 feet
from his door he suddenly dropped dead. Deceased leaves a wife
and seven children. Coroner notified.
The sale of fine paintings at Hazeltine's, corner of Wabash
avenue and Adams street, will continue every night this week.
The collection includes some very fine pictures, which are on
free exhibition, and must command ready prices from the patrons
of the fine arts. Sales begin at 8:30 each evening.
A workman met with an accident by falling through the skylight
over Chapin & Gore's bar on Monroe street at 3:30 o'clock
yesterday afternoon. Catching the sash above he broke his fall
somewhat, and, a waiter procuring a step-ladder, he was rescued.
The heavy glass came near striking the bar-tenders upon their
heads.
They all do it. A colored man named Charles Brown shot and
killed an alleged mad dog on the corner of Thirty-first street
and South Park avenue yesterday afternoon. Policemen and the
ordinary citizens of the county have figured largely in
slaughtering "old dog Tray" of late. Now if a half-breed Indian
and a Chinese assassinate a pub? apiece the thing will be
complete.
Michael Davie, a switchman employed at the North Chicago Rolling
Mill Company, was severely hurt about the shoulders by being
struck with a bar of iron while coupling ears in the company's
yard at 10 o'clock yesterday morning. He was removed to his
home, corner of Wood street and Waubansia avenue, and attended
by Dr. Cox, who pronounces his injuries not dangerous.
The Coroner's work: William McCarthy, 16 years old, of 73
Finnell street, accidentally killed by being struck by the
elevator at the Anglo-American Packing Co.'s place at the stock
yards; Clara Castro, aged 3 years, of 712 West Lake street,
death by falling from an unguarded window; George Brown, aged 41
years, of 235 Goethe street, death from heart disease.
Jaues Henry, 15 years old, 57 North Market street, slipped while
trying to board a freight train on the Chicago and Northwestern
Railroad near the Wells street viaduct at 4:30 o'clock yesterday
afternoon, and falling beneath the wheels, his left leg was cut
off close to the hip, and his left arm broken in several places.
The unfortunate young fellow never lost consciousness, but
dragged his maimed form from off the track. He was removed home
and attended, but died soon after reaching the house. Coroner
notified.
Mrs. Catherine Prindiville, an early settler of Chicago, died at
her residence, 351 Chestnut street, Sunday morning, at 6
o'clock. Mrs. Prindiville was 83 years old at the time of her
death. She leaves two sons, ex- Commissioner Redmond Prindiville
and Captain John Prindiville, four daughters, and a host of
friends to mourn her loss. She was a member of the Catholic
Church, and the funeral ceremonies were conducted at the
Cathedral of the Holy Name yesterday afternoon. The remains were
taken to Calvary Cemetery for interment.
A horse attached to one of Fleishmann & Co.'s wagons, ran away
from the corner of Church place and the C. A. and St. L.
Railroad, taking fright at a passing locomotive. At Archer
avenue the wagon upset, and was badly smashed. John Meyers, the
driver, was thrown out, striking on his head on the edge of the
sidewalk, causing a fracture of the skull. The unfortunate man,
who is 20 years old, single, was taken to the boarding-house on
Thirtieth street, near Butterfield, and attended by Dr. G. M.
Cooper, who considers his injuries dangerous.
Goods received at the Custom House Sept. 15: Mandel Bros., l
case dry goods; Rand, McNally & Co., 1 cask paints; C. McKord, 2
cases dry goods; C. W. Webster, 5 octaves brandy; Robert Walsh,
1 case dry goods; Lyon & Healey, 8 cases musical instruments;
Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co., 3 cases gloves; Wilson Bros., 3
cases dry goods; Hanscom & Co., l case machinery; Carson, Pirie,
Scott & Co., 3 cases hosiery; Beach & Austin, 3 cases plate;
Fowler Bros., 118 sacks salt; Burley & Tyrrell, 15 crates
earthenware; Turner Casing Co., 1 cask sheep casing; W. E.
Burlock & Co., 1 case cotton hosiery. Collections, $8,823.11.
In answer to a call signed by Mr. P. D. Doyle, a large meeting
of workingmen of the Eighth Ward was held in the saloon of James
Nolan, No. 72 Blue Island avenue, last evening. It was voted to
form a political club, and one, to be known as the Workingmen's
Club of the Eighth Ward, was organized by the choice of Dennis
Doyle as Chairman; Michael O'Grady Financial Secretary; Lewis
Laflamme, Corresponding Secretary, and Fred Mallette, Treasurer.
A membership list was started, and was signed by forty-six
persons. The club after organization adjourned to meet at the
same place on Monday evening, Sept. 22.
CRIMINAL GOSSIP.
Ninety-eight prisoners on the Armory docket yesterday, forty-one
of whom took changes of venue.
George Young, of 172 Carroll avenue, wants the police to find
his ex-roommate, Charles P. Shaw, who has decamped with all his
clothing.
William O'Leary, who shot Henry Vogt in Bridgeport a month ago,
was yesterday remanded in $3,000 to the 25th by Justice Wallace.
Arlington Ray Carpenter, clerk at Lichtenstein's boot and shoe
store, 81 Clark street, is a North Side prisoner, charged with
robbing his employer.
Before Justice Hudson: The case of the young woman against her
grandparent for alleged incest was yesterday continued, by
agreement, to the 18th.
Owner wanted at Lake Street Station for a valuable cloak, found
at 3 o'clock yesterday morning by Watchman J. D. Andrews, in an
alley near Hoyne street.
S. M. Johnston, the newly married man who about a month ago
nearly caused the death of his wife by dancing on her, was
yesterday discharged by Justice Walsh for want of prosecution.
Some West Side prisoners: Robert Rist, Thomas Doyle, and William
Heisch, disorderly; saloon row. Mary McGee, aged 8 years,
destitute of parental care. Lot of very ordinary drunks.
John Butler, alias "Bouquet Johnny," a despicable character, was
fined $50 at the Armory. There are plenty of these well dressed
vagrants around the streets. Why are not more arrested?
Those Sunday assaults: Martin Statman, shooting his tormentor:
Alexander McCabe, $l,000 to the 25th, Ed Parton, colored,
stabbing George Carroll, colored, $500 to the 18th. Both held
from the Armory. Samuel Malcom was up yesterday, before Justice
Hudson, on the charge of feloniously making away with a horse
and buggy. It wasn't his. He had venued over from Kaufmann. He
was held in $500 to the Criminal Court.
W. G. Conkright, a junk dealer, was held in $500 for appearance
at the Criminal Court by Justice Summerfield, yesterday, on a
charge of receiving pieces of brass metal, knowing them to be
stolen from the Illinois Railroad Company's premises. i
The case of John T. Cowles, the heating apparatus manufacturer,
who was arrested for perjury on a warrant sworn out by Mr. John
A. Hamlin, proprietor of Hamlin's Theater, was dismissed in
Justice Summerfield's Court. Mr. Hamlin declined to prosecute
defendant. Some thirty inmates of dens of infamy on Pacific
avenue were before Justice Prindiville yesterday, and fined $2
and costs each. The keepers of the same, Rubey Bell, Katie
Pollock, Emma Bond, Hattie Brooks, Mary Hamilton, and Lizzie
Wright, were held for trial on Saturday.
Stephen McGarry and another thug went into Henry Porges' saloon,
747 South Halsted street, last night, and after drinking
considerable whisky settled the score by banging the landlord
over the nose with a beer glass. Both broke—the nose and the
glass. McGarry is arrested.
Eugene Pratt, the crippled tramp who alleges brutal treatment at
the hands of the police, is a fraud. So far from having ever
been ill treated, he has been accorded exceptionally kind
attention, owing to his condition. Yesterday the fellow was
removed from the Sherman for disgusting conduct. He had better
be sent to the Bridewell.
Mary Touse, of 149 West Jackson street, who has already served a
term for abusing her children, was yesterday fined $20 for a
simlar offense. It seems Mary had a party at home, and in a
dispute with a guest, flung a beer glass, which descended on her
daughter's head, inflicting a nasty wound.
Cearles Miller, alias "The Double-headed Negro," is a West side
prisoner, charged with burglarizing L. D. Carcioth's
barber-shop, 83 Madison street, and also breaking into the
LaPierre House, corner of Halsted and Washington streets, and
stealing $25 worth of property. Prisoner admits doing both jobs.
Some South Side prisoners: John McNamara said to be wanted at
some place called Winstone, and marked "not to be let out
without orders from headquarters." Charles Vail, riotous conduct
in Morris Finkelstein's saloon. Amanda Hamilton, larceny of two
cheap rings from a man she was hack-riding with.
Some North Side prisoners: Nicholas Glasket, assault and
battery, on complaint of John Mitchell. Henry Hottinger,
assaulting F. Walter, of 159 Clybourne avenue; two charges
against prisoner. Fritz Walter, on two charges for assaulting
Annie Shaffer and Mary Hottinger. William and Charles Otto,
disorderly.
From the North Side Police Court: James Pluuket, larceny from
Peter McNarriman, to the 16th. Joseph Felton and John J. Kelly,
disorderly, $15 each.
Pat Sweeney, a troublesome dock laborer, disorderly, $25. Carl
A. Scherer, assaulting Wm. Fisching, $10. Everybody else fined
$5 and the fine suspended.
Detective Morgan is still following up the horse thieves.
Yesterday morning he arrested, on the corner of Lake and Clark
streets. Louis Cook, a notorious freebooter, who is said to have
sold about a dozen horses in this neighborhood within a few
days, the proceeds of raids into Michigan City, Berrien Springs,
and Big Rapids, Mich. His confederate, J. Evans, is in custody
in Michigan.
Charles Kurtz, 53 years old, laborer, of 4 Shaughnessy place,
has just returned home after spending 200 days in the Bridewell
for maltreating and neglecting to support his wife. Last night
he got drunk, and commenced quarreling as usual. The abused
woman remonstrated, when the vagabond drew a knife and plunged
it into the woman's left arm, inflictiog a wound to the bone,
and two inches long; not dangerous. Kurtz was arrested.
"This," said Justice Kaufmann, as he leant on the Station
Keeper's desk at Chicago Avenue station last night, "is the
quietest spot in the city; we don't allow any criminals here;
everything is lovely, everybody is peaceable, and nothing
occurs—." Just here the door opened and an officer threw in a
ruffian named William Kurtz, who had just been chasing his wife
around at the end of a big knife. The Judge hid himself behind
the coal-box, and the prisoner was booked for assault with a
deadly weapon.
Kate Higgins is at the Armory, charged with being drunk. Kate is
a practical drunkard. Last night she stretched herself out on
the corner of State street and Harmon court, and pretended to be
dead. A policeman came by, lifted up her limp hand, shed a tear,
called a hack, lifted the body in, told the driver to drive
slow, and departed for the Armory, followed by a big crowd of
mourners. At the station Kate raised up and laughed at the fun
she had had, till she was transplanted to a cell.
The eighteen milk venders whose article of merchandise Dr.
Sawyer has found creamless and adulterated, and who are under
arrest at the instigation of Health Commissioner De Wolf, were
before Justice Prindiville yesterday, having taken a change of
venue from the South Side Police Court. The milkmen were
represented by Messrs. Trude and Krause as counsel. They claimed
not to be ready for trial, and received a continuance of their
several cases until Friday. Each furnished bail in the sum of
$200 for his further appearance at court.
Police Officer Leuders, it appears by his own statement, was
badly beaten a few nights ago by three men named Thomas Curley,
Emil Bensinger, and Edward Morrill. He was knocked down, badly
injured about the face, and both his pistol and club taken away
from him. Morrill was yesterday before Justice Summerfield,
charged with an assault on the officer with a deadly weapon, but
the charge was not sustained, and he was discharged. Curley and
Bensinger are to be tried before Justice Summerfield on
Wednesday.
The village of Hyde Park was well represented in Justice Brown's
court yesterday. The attractive feature of the day was the trial
of Fred Busse, who with Hanley Lynch, Thomas McDermott, and Pat
Ryan, had been arretted at the instigation of Hyde Park
temperance people for keeping open tippling houses on Sunday.
The offense is that of violating section 239 of chapter 38 of
the statutes. The case was tried before a jury of twelve men,
and much evidence was put in, but the counsel for the
prosecution failed to sustain their charge. The verdict was "not
guilty." The cases of Lynch, McDermott, and Ryan, have been
continued to Sept. 22.
Louis Zimmerman, the young man that pounded Henry Larson for
writing an insulting note to his sister, was discharged by
Justice Kaufmaun yesterday, but Larson was fined $5. It came out
in evidence that the latter had escorted Miss Zimmerman to the
Exposition and taken special pains to point her out certain
works of art of a character not to be dwelt upon by the youth of
the land. The young lady, in her guilelessness, descanted upon
these pictures at meal table, whereupon her father grumbled, and
her brother very properly swung Indian clubs for twenty minutes,
and then went out hunting for tbe other fellow.
From the West Side Police Court: Charles Rinkleman, aged 12,
stealing grain from the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago
Railroad, $200 to the Criminal Court, and in $200 more for
stealing coal from the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad.
Charles Smith stole a watch; $300 to the Criminal Court. Annie
Costello, larceny of a ring from Mrs. Quinn, 32 Ogden avenue,
$200 to the 20th. Thomas Connell, one of a thieving family,
stole $24 from a Randolph street boarding-house, and assaulting
Julia O'Donnell, $30. Caroline Weiss, tbe barn-stormer, $50; the
Noble street coal merchant was not arrested.
Michael Breen, vagrant, $75. Henry Theis, another, $25.
From the South Side Police Court: John A. Duffy, pugilistic milk
dealer, resisting an officer, $200 to the Criminal Court. T.
Mahoney, larceny from G. Hoffmann, corner of Eighteentg and
Canal streets, $200 to the Criminal Court. James Murphy,
carrying burglar's tools, and vagrancy, $1,000 to the 16th. Ed
Fenley, burglary of W. A. Jones' place, 107 Harrison street, to
the 17th. Ann Kennedy, the drunk and disorderly would-be
suicide, discharged. Fred Groskurst, disorderly, $50. Edmund
Franches, disgusting behavior, $35. James, alias "Nipper"
Murphy, bad man, carrying concealed weapons, $100 to the 16th.
Cornelius Cronin, a brutal wife-beater, living at Hamburg, in
the stock yards district, $25. Hattie Fitzsimmons, disorderly,
$25. Nearly all the denizens of Pacific avenue took changes of
venue; the few that remained were assessed from $5 to $50 each.
FIRES AND ALARMS.
The alarm from box 386 at 2:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon was
caused by fire at 23 Hunt street; corn husks ignited; no damage.
Barn-burning appears to be an actual profession, but it is to be
regretted that not one of the villains engaged in the dastardly
practice has as yet been captured. Between 1 and 2 o'clock
yesterday morning Mrs. Patton, of 85 Wesson street, observed a
light burning in the barn in rear of the house, and sent her
son, Thomas Patton, to investigate. The young man found that
some person or persons had been in the premises and kindled a
fire, but whether for the purpose of lodging there or destroying
the place he could not tell, though he inclines to the latter
idea. Mr. Patton extinguished the fire hurriedly and then ran
into the alley, where he noticed two fellows running away. They
appeared to be young men, one wearing a dark coat and hat and
the other a light coat and white straw hat.
PERSONAL.
Budd Doble returned to the Palmer House yesterday.
The Hon. T. W. Ferry, of Michigan, is at the Palmer House.
Judge Peter P. Bailey, of Jackson, Miss., is at the Sherman
House.
The Hon. A. L. Conger, of Akron, Ohio, is staying at the Sherman
House.
Professor Theodore W. Dwight, of Columbia College Law School, is
a guest at the Palmer House.
William R. Garrison, President of the New York Elevated Railroad
Company, is at the Grand Pacific Hotel.
A. R. Winfield, Superintendent of the Wagner Sleeping Car
Company, Detroit, is registered at the Palmer House.
Fred Wild, General Freight Agent of the Western Union Railroad,
Racine, Wis., is registered at the Sherman House.
George W. Hays, Secretary of the Fire Underwriters' Association
of the Northwest, Milwaukee, is registered at the Grand Pacific
Hotel.
Charles Webber, Chief of Police at St. Paul, Minn., is in town,
on a combination business and pleasure trip, and will remain a
few days.
Frank E. Fowler, General Passenger Agent of the Missouri Pacific
Railroad, St. Louis, is staying at the Grand Pacific Hotel for a
few days.
M. R. McKeen, President of the Terre Haute and Indianapolis
Road, Terre Haute, and Oliver Garrison, Vice President of the
Missouri Pacific Road, are domiciled at the Grand Pacific Hotel.
Captain A. M. Loomis, of Wyoming, Iowa, a brother of Judge
Loomis, of the County Court, is in the city purchasing goods for
the fall and winter trade.
He is said to be an excellent buyer, and will return to Wyoming
with a large list of Chicago's best.
R. R. Cable, Assistant President of the Chicago, Rock Island and
Pacific Road, Rock Island; C. E. Perkins, Vice President of the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Road, and John B. Carson, General
Manager of the Hannibal and St. Joseph Road, Hannibal, Mo., are
guests at the Grand Pacific Hotel.
Sherman House.—John Davies, Leadville; Charles A. Eldridge, Fond
du Lac; W. A. Gibbs, Negaunee; C. E. Sheldon, Akron; G. W. Fry,
Pittsburg; J. L. Sterling, Cleveland; Charles X. Cordier, New
York; J. C. Huston, Elmira; William F. Perry, New York.
Palmer House.—D. H. Merritt, Marquette; W. J. Harper, Toronto;
J. D. Lehman, Cincinnati; J. S. Carleton, Toronto; C. H.
Nettleton, Kansas City; F. C. Niergan, Omaha; Thomas D. Sanford,
Edinburgh, Scotland; W. P. Perkins, Boston; R. S. Flower, New
Orleans.
Tremont House.—W. J. Hopkins, San Francisco; James G. Daniels
and O. B. Taylor, Leavenworth; W. M. Child, Boston: Geo. E.
Grant, Oakland; Max Meyer, New York; Henry Worms, Muskegon; John
Snyder, St. Louis; John Sullivan, Cincinnati; John M. Reynolds,
Philadelphia; Charles E. Turner, Detroit.
Grand Pacific Hotel.—The Hon. W. C. Plunkett aud G. V__hers,
Briscoe, Ireland; Dr. A. W. de Rouldes, New Orleans; James
Coleman, Wisconsin; T. H. B. Davis, New York; J. H. Ewing,
Eldorado, Kan.; D. C. Adams, Omaha: A. V. Lorimer, W. T.; E. M.
Hill, Nashville; E. S. Carroll, Baltimore; C. W. Phillips,
Pittsburg; Harry Harden, Hartford; N. B. Hinckley, Boston; J. M.
Osborn, Toledo; T. Penfield, Hannibal; S. B. Reed, Joliet;
Walter Scott, Philadelphia.
Contributed 25 Jan 2013 by Deb Haines
Source: The Inter Ocean [Chicago IL] September 16, 1879
1893 Mar 22 - Little Boy's Long Journey
New York, March 21.-A 10-year-old Russian immigrant, Antoin
Kudenzski, arrived
here on Monday on the steamship Rhaetia. He was all alone and
started for
Chicago with a ticket pinned to his coat. The little fellow left
his home with
his father seven months ago. They reached Hamburg, where his
father died of
cholera. The boy remained there until friends started him on his
long journey
to America. He has a brother at Chicago who has promised to take
care of him.
Contributed 25 Jan 2013 by Deb Haines
Source: Decatur [IL] Daily Review March 22, 1893
1900 May 23 - Horsewhipped by a Woman
Chicago, May 19.--Walter E. Harris, a loan agent, was
horsewhipped at Clark and Adams streets by Mrs. Frank Cameron,
who claims he was responsible for an insult offered her. Mrs.
Cameron had a heavy horsewhip, which she laid on with such force
that Harris sought safety in flight, leaving his hat. He went to
his room at the Saratoga hotel.
Contributed 25 Jan 2013 by Deb Haines
Source: The Humeston [IA] New Era May 23, 1900
1906 May 18 - Aged Couple Badly Burned
Lamp Explodes in Home and Blazing Oil Ignites Clothing
Patrick Canary, 60 years old, and his wife, about the same age,
were severely
burned by the explosion of a lamp in their home in Chicago Lawn.
Both are now
at the Englewood Union hospital and physicians say Mrs. Canary
probably will
die. Canary is employed as a flagman and with his wife has for
many years
lived on the second floor of a frame dwelling at Sixty-third and
Leavitt
streets. Mrs. Canary had retired shortly before 10 o'clock and
Canary was on
his way to the bedroom carrying a lighted lamp, when it
exploded, throwing the
blazing oil on the bed clothing. Before Mrs. Canary was able to
reach a place
of safety her nightrobe caught fire. Canary attempted to rescue
his wife and
his clothing caught fire. Both were unconscious when members of
engine company
No. 64 arrived.
Contributed 25 Jan 2013 by Deb Haines
Source: Cook County Herald [Arlington Heights IL] May 18, 1906
1906 Sep 21 - Argument Leads to Stabbing
As the result of a dispute growing out of an argument as to
the proper way of
sharpening a knife, Frank Hall, colored, fatally stabbed James
Williams, also
colored, with the knife at Matteson. Williams was arrested in
the Kankakee
railroad yards. He confessed the crime.
Contributed 25 Jan 2013 by Deb Haines
Source: Cook County Herald [Arlington Heights IL] September 21,
1906
1908 May 22 - Carr & Wright Will Receive Inheritance
By the sudden death of Mrs. Esther Wheelock, of McLean,
Thomas Carr, a naval
officer, and Mrs. W. R. Wright, both of Chicago, will receive a
bequest of
$25,000 or more.
Contributed 25 Jan 2013 by Deb Haines
Source: Cook County Herald [Arlington Heights IL] May 22, 1908
1921 - Mrs Harriet L Mitchell 96 Years Old
Mrs. Harriet L. Mitchell, 96 years old, lays claim to being
the oldest voter and Chicago Tribune reader in Oak Park. Mrs.
Mitchell lives at 515 North Cuyler Avenue, with her daughter,
Mrs. W. T. Robinson. She was born in Canada and has been a
resident of Illinois since the Civil War. She has two daughters,
nine grandchildren and twelve great-grandchildren living. Mrs.
Mitchell voted at the last two presidential elections, and keeps
well informed on all current events.
Contributed 25 Jan 2013 by Deb Haines
Source: Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society,
Published Quarterly by the Illinois State Historical Society,
Springfield, Illinois. Vol. 14 April-July, 1921 No. 1-2.
1921 May - Carried Message Through Confederate Lines
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Doyle celebrated her ninetieth birthday,
May 21, 1921 in
Chicago, Illinois. Mrs. Doyle, the wife of a Civil War Captain
and the mother
of Hon. C. J. Doyle, former Secretary of State, is one of the
few women who
carried messages through the confederate lines during the Civil
War.
Contributed 25 Jan 2013 by Deb Haines
Source: Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society,
Published Quarterly
by the Illinois State Historical Society, Springfield, Illinois.
Vol. 14 April-July, 1921 No. 1-2.
1921 May 5 - Mr & Mrs Stephen B Garrigus Celebrate 62nd Anniversary
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen B. Garrigus, 1020 Lathrop Avenue, Forest
Park, Chicago, celebrated their sixty-second wedding
anniversary, May 5, Mr. Garrigus is 87 years old and his wife
81. They were married in Lacon, Illinois, and came to Chicago
forty-four years ago. The couple belong to two of the oldest
families in Illinois.
The Garrigus family in the days preceding the Civil War, had the
only hotel in Lacon and among their guests was Abraham Lincoln.
Mr. Garrigus served with the Union troops throughout the Civil
War. There are two grandchildren, Helen and Edna Davies,
daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Davies. The aged couple have also a
son, Percy and another daughter Nettie C. Carrigan.
Contributed 25 Jan 2013 by Deb Haines
Source: Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society,
Published Quarterly by the Illinois State Historical Society,
Springfield, Illinois. Vol. 14 April-July, 1921 No. 1-2.
1921 Jun 26 - Mr & Mrs Frank M Pebbles Celebrate 60th Anniversary
Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Pebbles, residents of Oak Park since
1865, celebrated their sixtieth wedding anniversary Sunday, June
26, 1921 in the home of their daughter Mrs. Fred G. Baker in
Alameda, California. Three grandchildren and two
great-grandchildren were among those present. Mr. Pebbles came
to Illinois from Wisconsin to become "ornamenter and designer"
in the "old round house" of the Chicago and Northwestern
railroad. In those days locomotives were named after various
celebrities and it would be the duty of Mr. Pebbles to paint the
countenance of the engine's namesake on the headlight.
Contributed 25 Jan 2013 by Deb Haines
Source: Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society,
Published Quarterly by the Illinois State Historical Society,
Springfield, Illinois. Vol. 14 April-July, 1921 No. 1-2.
After 1941 - Folks I Have Known Personally and Otherwise - William McCanney
by James M. Woodman
There are not many historical storries that are of greater
interest than the one telling of the movement of population, in
all directions from the settlement known as Chicago, in the
years 1831-1835.
During those most epochal years in the developing of northern
Illinois, men, women and children from New England and lands
across the Atlantic, were frequently arriving by boat or crude
overland conveyances, expecting to find a modern Utopia. The mud
and swamps proved unattractive to many of these fortune-seeking
adventurers. They soon tired of the settlement's monotonous life
and struck off into the virgin country.
The well defined Indian trails that led to the north and
north-west proved alluring to many, and soon there were erected
along the north shore of Lake Michigan and the banks of the Des
Plaines and Chicago rivers, the log cabins of the whites who had
come to take over the lands wereon had tread none others than
the tribes of red men.
One of the attractive locations reached by the old trail that
traversed the lake shore country was Grosse Point, a settlement
back some distance from the water's edge, later to become a part
of the beautiful village of Wilmette. It was to this place,
during those early pioneer days that Michael and Mary McCanney,
natives of the Emerald Isle, came to make their home. It was
here, as farmers, they reared a family of eight children, one of
whom was the man whose life and residence in Waukegan, prompted
me to present him to the readers of this newspaper--William
Martin McCanney.
He was born March 4, 1867, on the McCanney farm at Grosse Point,
in Cook county. His
boyhood was spent working on the land and attending the common
schools. His playtime was
spent in the manner of youngsters of that period. Occasionally,
visits to the lake shore
and close-up investigation of the old Grosse Point lighthouse,
sails of ships far out upon
the water and exploration of grounds upon which the Potawatami
chieftains had held their
pow-wows, implanted upon his mind the glories of a time that
would pass away, to live only
in his memory so long as it might endure.
He engaged in the grocery and meat business in Wilmette and
succeeded. He took an active
interest in the affairs of the village. Politically he was a
Democrat, but in a strong
Republican district, the voters elected him to the office of
commissioner of public works,
where he officiated in a manner satisfactory to those who had
chosen him for a most
important position.
In 1897 he came to Waukegan and engaged in the tavern business.
He purchased the Henry
Herman property, 34 N. Sheridan rd. for a home, later erecting
on a portion of it, the
three-story building at the southwest corner of Sheridan rd. and
Madison st. He also built
the three-story building at 7 S. Genesee st., and occupied the
ground floor as a place of
business. He acquired other properties in the city, among them
the old Dr. J.M.G. Carter
place at Clayton and County sts.
In 1899 he was elected and served one term as alderman from the
First ward. His interest in and for Waukegan was manifested in
many ways. In 1924 he retired from the tavern business and
became superintendent of public works at the Speedway hospital,
Maywood, Ill. He remained in the place for ten years after which
he engaged in the real estate business at Maywood.
He was married to Miss Christina Sasch who was reared on a farm
owned by her parents and now occupied by Ravina Park. They had
three children: Florence (Mrs. R.B.Johnston), William J., both
of Waukegan, and Ruth (Mrs. M. Burkert), Beech Grove, Ind.
William M. McCanney passed away Oct. 2, 1941.
Mrs. McCanney preceded him in death Oct. 28, 1937.
Contributed May 2000 by Brenda Gaetz [This newspaper article was clipped from a newspaper by the nephew of Christina Sasch McCanney. The date and name of the newspaper is not known.]
