Pulaski Co., IL Historical Newspaper Data

Pulaski County, Illinois

Historical Newspaper Data

Source: 12 Oct 1872 Corrine, Utah Daily Journal Newspaper

Cairo, Ills., Oct. 11--The ladies' cars on the express train on the Paducah and Elizabethtown Il. R. jumped the track last night, eight miles from Paducah, and went down forty feet of an embankment, landing bottom upwards completely demolished. It contained about twenty passengers, nearly all of whom were more or less injured. Two were killed outright, a little girl named Georgia Jordan, of Clarksville, and Neal DeFassi, a tobacco agent for the Cuban government. He was there found standing on his feet leaning against the car dead. The wounded were nearly all residents of Paducah. Mrs. Cobb, one of the wounded, lies in a critical condition.

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Source: Davis County Utah Clipper 25 July 1924

TROOPS CALLED TO HANDLE MOB

Illinois Governor Orders Out Soldiers To Help Preserve Order

Sheriff Prevents Lynching of Negros by Rushing Them to Penitentiary as Suspects

Mound City, Ill.--Following a series of narrow escapes by mobs which twice threatened their lives, three negroes rested behind safe walls of the Illinois state penitentiary at Menard, Ill., harrowed by their experience.

The three negroes, two of whom claim residence in Memphis, Tenn., and one in Cairo, Ill., are arrested here as suspects in connection with the slaying of Daisy Wilson, pretty18 year old Villa Ridge girl was taken to Menard as a last resort measure by Sheriff I. J. Hudson of Pulaski county, after the jail at Mounds, Ill., and later at Mound City, where they had been held, were surrounded by threatening mobs.

As a result of the demonstrations, Governor Len Small, of Illinois, ordered the immediate mobilization of company K., 130th Illinois Infantry to proceed here and aid county authorities in restoring order.

The negroes denied the crime. A mob formed in Villa Ridge and the sheriff, fearing trouble, took the negroes to the Mounds jail where another crowd quickly gathered and threats were voiced to lynch them. When trouble was imminent, H. F. Moreland, a Ku Klux Klan organizer, offered an eloquent plea for the negroes' lives, concluded by a prayer, during which the crowd stood respectively with bared, bowed heads.

With the crowd quieted temporarily, the negroes were quickly brought here. The crowd followed in automobiles.

Wilson, father of the murdered girl who was badly beaten in an attempted robbery of his store and who had been unable to identify his assailants declared one of the negroes, who gave the name as Ike Brown of Memphis, had done the shooting.

At this assertion, the crowd threatened to attack the jail in which the three negroes were held and several shots were fired into the air.

Fearing a more determined assault Sheriff Hudson, under cover of darkness, led the negroes from the rear of his home, adjacent to the jail and escaped by auto, accompanied by several of his deputies.

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Source: The Saguache Crescent (CO), 28 Jan 1937

Mrs. K. D. Saliba and son, Fred returned to their home in Saguache Sunday evening after visiting relatives in Mounds, Illinois for the past three weeks. They report a nice trip with good roads, but very little sunshine. They drove through six states; Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky, and Illinois. They ended their trip by spending the weekend in Trinidad with Mr. and Mrs. Mike Saliba and family.

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Dougherty-Ah Fong to Wed

Source: Jonesboro Gazette, Jonesboro, Illinois, 2 Mar 1901

Transcribed and submitted by Darrel Dexter

Lieutenant A.J. Dougherty, Jr., of the Thirty-seventh regiment, United States volunteers, now in the Philippines, is to be married March 10, to Miss Martha Ah Fong, a wealthy Chinese woman of Honolulu. Her father, Wing Ah Fong, is a full-blooded Chinaman, and her mother is a Portuguese. Miss Ah Fong has a number of sisters, one of whom married Captain Whiting of the United States navy. The girls are handsome, cultivated, and highly educated, and their parents are anxious that they all marry Americans or Englishmen. It is said, that Papa Ah Fong gives them a million apiece when they marry, besides his blessing. Lieutenant Dougherty belongs to the Mound City family of that ilk.

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