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April
Edith Heuston, wife of Prof. H.H. Heuston of LaGrange, Oregon, died Tuesday, eight days after the birth of a baby daughter, their first child. It is supposed burial will be in Denver, Colo., where her parents live, having moved to there from Carbondale within the last year or two. Edith Roe was a former English teacher in the high school here. MEP, Wednesday, 1 Apr 1914
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January
The people of Herrin and throughout the Coal Belt were thrown into a spell of great excitement Tuesday when they read in the St. Louis papers of the arrest of George Wilson, formerly secretary-treasurer of the U.M.W. of A., who in June of 1912 absconded with nearly $10,000 of the organization’s funds. All efforts to verify the report have proved fruitless, but it is a fact that the sheriff of the county in which Spokane, Wash. is situated thinks that he has Wilson located. [A lengthy account.] HN 1 Jan 1914
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October
Mrs. Ezra Dillon shot her husband, the street cleaner, Monday night. He did not want to press charges, so she released from detention Wednesday. She rushed to her home and infant. Her mother, Mrs. Wolverton of Carterville, came over Wednesday and spent the day with her. She is 18 and he is 37. She was angered by his alleged relations with a 14-year-old girl. The shooting took place at Maiaer’s livery barn where she found him preparing to enter a buggy for a drive to a beer house. He told her to shut up and go home and take care of the baby. She shot him with a 44 in the muscle of his right arm. In jail, she said he had beat and abused her. He said he had in times past whipped her, but not lately. EP Thursday, 3 Oct 1912
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July
A girl was born to Mr. & Mrs. John Heck, the first girl in the family. EP Monday, 1 Jul 1812
Clyde Newton, a former school lad of this city, arrived Thursday on his way to Weaver where he will be greeted by his mother who has not seen him for six or seven years when he left here to join the Navy. After serving in the Navy, he continued on the sea and has been all over the world. For the last six months he has been on a fishing vessel out of Nova Scotia and was but a few hundred miles away the night the Titanic sank. His ship later visited the scene. He finished a six month contract sometime ago but before leaving Norwalk for home was taken ill and for days was at the point of death in a hospital. He has returned home with the intention of remaining. EP 1 Jul 1912
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April
Will Patterson was killed at the Chicago & Big Muddy mine Saturday when he jumped from his machine to escape an accident, losing his life under the machine he had driven for years. In October he was married to Katie Dwyer of Scottsboro. He leaves a wife, some sisters and brothers and an aged father, Dick Patterson who has for days been at death’s door at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Billy McCluskey. EP Monday, 1 Apr 1912
Mrs. H.M. Baysinger died Friday at her home south of the Lincoln School building. She was about 35 years old and leaves a husband and four children. Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery. EP 1 Apr 1912
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