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Dixon Evening Telegraph from Dixon, Illinois • Page 1

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THE EVENING TELEGRAPH. 10 Cents Per Week. DIXON, ILLINOIS. THURSDAY OCTOBER 25, Elrvknth Year, No 253 Never have we as and varied assortnjent Dress (kxxls as at the present time. This, with the fact that Dress 5 (XkIs have never sold as low in price as now, makes it a time to buy.

All kinds, cheap, medium and hijih j)riced Lwk at them. I WEST DDK ES S. G. Austin Go Buy Your DRESS GOODS At Headquarters! We have just Opened two Cases of tiie Very Latest Novelties, Our Styles are Kiiiht Our Prices the ROUND CORNER STORE. W.F.

WALL Window Sill III III Cililiiti Piii The best paint in the world witliout any exception. TILLSON HAYDEN, H6 Galena Ave. LeHders In Wall Taper, Curtains, Paints. Oils and Stove Gasoline. Bargains.

IT PAYS to buy your music, vocal and instrumental, 2 sheets for 5c. We are also offering a bargain in Writing Paper; 60 sheets of paper and 50 Envelopes for 25e. guaranteed. Henderson Opera House Block. mis.

Wiiilis. Jnilii and SILVEKWAllE, whore you ean find the large.st aHsortment and lowest and know that everything will be just as represented. properly fitted to tin eyes without exoi'bilaut eharges. Having HtH'Ui'ed the services of Mr, of lloekford, a line watch inaker and engraver, we shall endeavei to get out all work and can guarantee will be in workmanlike manner. S.

s. DODGE, Tie Jeieler, Corner Main and Hennepin Ave is frtun Walton. of the GI I meet tonight. Taylor is from Ko- ehelle. 1 J.

Glant'eid is moving hiafamily i b'egon. E. Marie went east this morning. n. Miller, of is at the Nacliusa House, Ashley is ith his bi-other and sister totlay.

H. was in our city a few hours Uxlay. W. 1 Brown camo home from Chicago last niglit. Schell, of I'olo, Is on a visit with Anna Marshal Andy GrafT lias ch IU a joint meeting of the fireeompanies of this eity tonight.

Mewhirter, pnihition candidate for representative from in our city tixlay. Hcv. S. Earngey and wife arri vini in 1 1 yi'sterday and departed for Elgin this morning. Mr.

and Mrs. I hm UofTanl and son, are a few days with Mrs. Kilday. Hhodes, of Camenm, Missouri, formerly of Dixon, who Ixsm quite ill, is now rw'overing. registry iHXiks of Mt.

Morris show i'lGG voters in that townshij) gain of nO in the past two years. eight-year-old son of Frank Hartholme, of South Dixon, broki his cellar Ixitui while at play at sclnxd yesterday. B. D. Vaughn and W.

Weaver were hunting siiiiirrels at Sugar Grove this morning ami baggeii a number. F. A. Wright, of New arrived this aftermxm for a few days visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Grover. next evening, the Bird Club will givo an invitation dance at Itosbiook's Hall. Hive, W. C. H.

Shelton Harvey Cami) Sen, H. Brown and 'T. 1 Miller have changes of advertise meuts this evening. A FEARFUL ACT. Blew Half Haad Away With a Ball WE HAVE A full stock of the Celebrated Stoves and Ranges, made by the Sill Stove Works of Rochester, N.

Y. We have them in all styles and sizes for hard coal, soft coal or wood. They are un- etjiialled for size, ipiality, finish and durability. See them that thosii holding invi tations fei' Prof. llepburirs recejitien tfiHt the date was changed to tomorrow evening, Friday, Oct.

2 at 51 FifSl I VA IT A E1 IX BRILLIAXCY AXD HARDXESS. HETAIXS LPSTER IX WEAR. The nearest approach to the Henuine Diamond yet discovered. See our show window week for a complete line of these beautiful stones made up in solid gold Agent for Dixoii, 160 GALENA AVENUE. C.

O. WENDELL, Jeweler Ml i Provided you use the right kind. The riglit kind, House and is for sale by us, and is guaranteed by tin; manufacturers to WEAR HO FARTHER, LAST LOXHER and LOOK TLR, tlian any other mixed paint for sale in the eity. We absolutely guarantee to paint your (bdiing over again free of tdiarge if it do as we say. For sale exclusively by Your Friends, 'rreiiMurer M.

Mulimoy, An tun M. and Pet attended the Deimx-ratic rally at yewterday. Judge Farrand, 11 U. Hardwell and Win. Ivink among thohe by tiie Sterling at the Mason mooting Archibald Shaw, after a vinit with Samuel Shaw and Eliz alwdh Shaw of Ottawa avenue, tnriK'd to her home in Olatha, Kansas.

and Mrs. Itobert Stratfont, of Jersey City, New Jersey, who have visiting at the 11 home, dejnirted last night for Dwnver, their next stopping place. Circle of West Dixon will meet at IbiV. Bonham's, West Thiril street, at 7:30 this evening. Anyone interested in the work will be welcome.

Ml', and C. H. Morrison ro- im-ried from hicago yesterday, where they have been making selections of eariH'ts and furniture for their new and elegant home at BlulT our officers found Ernest bicycle there was a small tixi! hex attached which did not Isdong to the wheel. The rightful owner can liave same liy applying to-Marshal Ball. aeeonnt of the Sabbath SchiMil Institute to be held In our city this week the monthly supper of the Woman's SiH'iety of the Baptist ebureh will be until Saturday, Nov.

fail to hear llev. lecture this evening at the rniversal if .1 ehnreh. The subject is the planet the conditions of which are more nearly like those of the eai'th than are any other of the heavenly Isxlies. J'he ieetnre will eotnuienee at 7:30 Wayne Whipple, at his F.ast Fellows street. North Dixon, alxnit nine this morning killiHl him- in a horrible manner.

'The rtveiit history of the young man or the events that hnl up this act are as fellows: He had a ilreman on Chicago A Northwestern railroad until the of this summer. Heirtg a memlx'r of the HrotherluxHl Firemen went out at command, leaving a dollar and a half and employment in this eity at the eleetrie light plant as at one and tifteen where he luis been a faithful workman. Being on night shift he usuallv went and to beil alxint tt'cUx'k. His brothers aiui neighlxirs say that he has been a drinking man and was seldom intoxi- but this morning he was drunk, and it takes hut little liquor make a man. not addleted to the habit, drunk on an empty sUnnaeh.

He drank aftei leaving the electric light works ami was seen by Moyer and Bill Steel after eight o'cUx'k on the in eom- pany with Stryker Hossiler ret'ling drunk, on his way home. lie home at 8 30 His mother, Emelliu Whipple, brother Abraham ami sister Until thei'o when arrived, and Inth Ix'gan ai-ranging his breakfast on the taVile, cixikingcakes, He for lea hut when it was handed to him didnk. He tried to play fnl with his He langhetl when she came in fitmi kitchen and found 1 dm at d. was then getting the eai tiidge for rifle, for that was they kept. He was sick at Ids stomueh and vondte'd on the flrxir, and sixm went up stairs to his without eating.

Five minutes afterward the loud of 40 -H 2 rllle ht'ui'd ami Abraham huri'ied up stairs, to fimi his br'other dead. He had his coat and vest ami and sbM-kings, iiml while seated on the of tlie had placed the muzzle of the ight side of his and pulled trigger with his big result was instant tlealh, ulKint all tin- half of his head was torn completely away and alMtnl rrxmr. On the lliKir, Is'd, ceiling iitnl walls, and through the open thxir into the next rmiin were fonnd bi'ains and shreds of flesh, the Ixxlv falling bai'k on the Ix'd, a horrible sight. Handlton, at 1 he F. A.

Watson place, heard the shot, and going to the division fence, was told the story by Whipple and he in Marshal Hall. Coroner Andrus was telegi'aphed for. and as we go to is holding the inquest. Deceastsl was twenty-eight years old. a twin brotlicf to Eeomud His brolher-H say tliat on the im casions when hewasdi'iink he sewined very fmdish; whisky making liitiK'razy.

He carried a life insiiram'e polii-y for three IhousatHi dollars in Hm Ueyal Arcanum. The fnm'i'al will be at the house at 1 tomorrow afterniMUi. We I ts ve HiU of Houses and Lots ----Vacant Lots For Sale at UcMunxbU' Trices ainl Tprnis. -------III 111 Dill Hi Fn sure to nurclmslnx anything In our FORGET THAT O. H.

BROWN, One Humlriiil fc Jackets Hughes Sterling, FRIDAY aii.l SATTKDAY. REAL INSURANCE. Some Specilli Offers in Hlankets; prices 47e a pair to See the Wool, full size, at $2.411. FOR REAL ESTATE, LOANS OR FIRST CLASS INSURANCE, lOVElAND STITEIEY. Corner IttSt-, and Hennepin Av.

YOURS FOR BUSINESS. O. H. BROWN. have a car of extra Fancy Vcnnont Fotatocs on track.

Spcinal price if delivered from ear. NOW IS YODR OPPORTUNITY SECOND-HAND OKG AN )lv SAT.E CHEAB AT 'I'. 1 MIlJ.Eirs 4 SToHE, II E. FIKST if you wish best that is ripe. stock that grows and J.

H. MORRIS SON, Telephone Xo. 21. 117 (ialena Avenue. MET BY CHANCE a few of tlie Bargains in Box this week.

worth I rom 26e to 40e, going at I5e anti 2()e; 24 of and 24 in htix. A Happy Union. S. iKiini. 'reseription I druggist.

I Telephone Xiirnher Pharmaci.st.'i. by the New York Sunday Tribune that friend, Arthur Higgins, is still on deck with the mrwt elegant and artistic di.splay of fine tttl gla.st ami china to fx; found in that eity. In that line trade Higgins have for years carried tfie palm. IT IS TIHE that you discarded tiiat old fashioned watch of yours and secure one of our elegant Fidi IX or WALTHAM MOVEMEXTS, of we always have a full line. Call in and examine the latest novelties in jewelry.

B(lK as low as lie lowisi. KEWIN. THE JEWELER AND OPTICIAN No. 0, East First Street. number of new pupils joined class, Ixith and Friday.

Von ean join at any meeting and the Professijr will give private to all taking out lass tickets, to catch them up with the class, without extra charge. trietly select. Hhixle-. of Pine Creek, returned this morning from Cameron, has visiting his uncle, Rhixles, and C. P.

l.int and family. He brought with him an eb-gant mallet turned out of Lieutenant Pbilip MeGrath and Miss Elizabeth last evt'iiing united In marriage at St. Patrick's Catlndie at minuteH after six the edifice fM-iiig crowded with fri' tids to tiride and gnsnn were assisU'd by Maggie Bogue, a sister of Hm bride, ami Edward Mi'Gratti, a brotloT of tfie guests were into the chni'ch by Mtrssrs. Colonel ns) Hanlon, T. J.

3'homas and John -Murphy. I'roin He; chiiiH'h the wedding party, including ush- ei'H, were driven Ur home of bride's sister, Mrs. John Kilday, and ia avenue, where a Hplendid wediling was sprtuid. guesU to this, those already naiiKHl, were relatives of the married couple: HofTerl and James Hogue, of Chicago, mother and brother of Mrs. .1.

Attiey, of Park; and John Mctirath, of Mrs. avanaugh and Ivlward MeGrattr, of Woosnng. arrd Mr. and tiarles P. Curran, of city.

'J'hi; Lieutenant arrd his went west on the m. unliniiied as Ui the or time of their jortrney, unlimited in th-ir love and an rrnlimitrsl amount of grxKl fr'ottr their many brifleha- not many in Dixon, is by who know 'I'he is a in ortrfjany (i, Illinois Guards, is a of late Mr. arid Philip Mi Gratti. of Wfxwurig. who honored first of that hixxi tte; 1 Jijubuiant was fsirn.

and Capt. and his young will make their Have You iriil" Eiirin Call and see one, it will pay you 'I'le; finest buihlei's its and It the that has Will be to show our lo )ul of Hug PAUL G. LORD, null Slriifli IhlHih hew h- hilwartls, 155 GALENA AVE. FOR EFFICIENCY, SIMPLICITY, DURABILITY, our of (HL 11 EA'I'ERS cannot he cfiuallcd. Wm.

Beck FHSHIOIBBLE TBILOBS.s- CALL AXI) SEE US. Basement Bchiiier Building. Alexander Ik Howell. (ialena Avermc, Dixon, Ills. Special Cloak Sale! Friday, October 26 th.

An agent from of the large.st in west will at our store ALI. DAY Friday, Hctoher 26th, with all the latest novelties in and (Uiil- (doaks. You eaii buy the samples or your measui'e for a cloak. efirly and avoid tlu rush. BRUBAKER CARPENTER.

a I.ak«* of lias ju -1 on trial for ofrtaining undijr 11 t- chargiid with trading his properly, it freij fr-om Ui 1 M. Swan of county, for lattm's wixxl by Cyrus IJnt and 1 valuable farm. was a to Jacob Patrick, It a last thrmigh ri tion of John J. of who be entir F. E.

link ill oys-n his bf 3 Is; known as the Court corner ago avenrnq i lieavily Swan Dutrm's drug tomorrow overling. already 2.000 by the Star Irnys-rial Mandolin Club will Is- in and all cordially invitod to call and have a srx'ial smokii and insys'Ct one of the west of ChieligO. trade. and J. Wamsley, of a today.

JHRDINERS! NEW LINE JUST RECEIVED AT I. B..

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