Frank Pool and wife are in the city (Henry).  Mr. P. is a Chicago merchant in management of a prosperous business. [The Henry Republican, Henry Illinois August 31, 1882 - Submitted by Src #25]

Some 200 citizens, of Chicago, have signed a call for an anti-Mormon meeting Monday night. It is intended to make a strong protest to congress against allowing polygamy and longer to disgrace American civilization.

Portland Enterprise, Thursday, January 26, 1882

Yesterday, Margarethe, the spouse of the insurance agent August Mayerle, was awarded a divorce through Judge Goodwin.  The couple lived in the house of Margarethe’s mother, Frau Naegele who stated that Mayerle had frequently abused his wife, one time had beaten her with a kitchen stool.  Other witnesses claimed to know of even worse things.  A private detective stated he had followed the accused for ten successive nights and saw Mayerle, accompanied by a 19-year-old blonde, disappear into the back of Lincoln Park, also to have visited a certain house.

[Translated January 18, 2008 by Don Schwenk

Found in German newspaper clipping in Johanna Peters’ diary - Submitted by Src #32]

Karoline Holle (Mrs. George Holle) of 6058 Halstead Street filed for divorce last April after her husband of 14 years abandoned her.  They had argued about his habit of “roaming around” two nights a week and the fact that she had seen him running around with other women.  Mrs. Holle was previously married.

Mr. Holle now lives at 4316 Vincenne Avenue with Grace Swanson and an older sister.  It is said he has girlfriends in Kenosha and Milwaukee.

[Taken from the Chicago German newspaper in 1918, translated by Don Schwenk, submitted by Src #32]

A Chicago Man Fatally Stabbed by a Negro

Chicago, September 3. – Fred Curtis, 28 years old and living at 363 South Clark Street, was fatally stabbed by a Negro named Henry Mivens last night.  Curtis was walking with his wife when Mivens passed and made an insulting remark to her, when her husband pushed him into the gutter. The Negro drew a long knife and sprang upon Curtis, stabbing him eight times, five in the back and three in the left side.  The wounded man was taken to the county hospital, where the surgeon pronounced the wounds fatal.  Mivens was arrested just as he was stepping on a train to leave the city.  He is an ex-convict and bears a bad reputation generally.

Times Picayune – September 4, 1890

Transcribed and contributed by:  Frances Cooley

A Drunken Gardner Runs Amuck and Finally Shoots Himself

 Chicago, September 3 1890. – Crazed by liquor Wm. Sigert, a gardener, near Cross Park, put a tragic end to his existence tonight after terrorizing the entire neighborhood.

For several years Sigert has been a gardener and lived with his wife at the corner of Horn Avenue and Addison Street. This morning he visited the city as usual to sell vegetables.  He returned in the evening gin an intoxicated condition.  During the day he had bought a revolver, and with the weapon in his hand he entered his home and stood before his wife, who was holding her baby in her arms, raising the weapon to her breast, he was about to take her life, when Bertie Wilwack, the servant, came between them.

Being a buxom girl and possessed of nerve, she grappled with the infuriated gardener and succeeded in taking he weapon away.

Sigert then seized a butcher knife, which lay near, and holding it menacingly over the girl, he demanded the return of the pistol.  Brave as the girl was, she threw down the revolver and ran screaming from the house.

The cries of the girl were heard by several men who were passing, and they hurried to her assistance.  With bloodshot eyes, the madman stepped from the door of his cottage, and, with an oath, leveled his weapon at the breast of the foremost man.  Three shots in quick succession were fired, one of the bullets passing through the coat sleeve of George Schultz.  The sudden appearance of the gardener and his war like actions frightened the men who had come to the girl’s assistance, and they fled in every direction.

A great crowd had now gathered at a safe distance from the house, and the maniac quietly looked at them with the smoking revolver in his hand.  Some one had taken the precaution to send in a call for the police.  A few moments later the loud ringing of the gong was heard and the patrol wagon dashed through the crowd.   Sigert watched the approach of the horses, and, raising the weapon above his head, he darted behind the house.

As the wagon stopped and the officers leaped to the ground, they heard a sharp report, and Sigert’s dead body rolled out at their feet.  He had stood closed against the house on the opposite side from the direction in which the wagon was coming, and had sent a bullet through his brain.  The police picked up the dead body of the gardener and carried it into the house.  While at work in his garden about six weeks ago, Sigert had been prostrated by the heat, and has shown signs of it since.

Times Picayune – September 4, 1890

Transcribed and contributed by:  Frances Cooley

Ironing a pair of circa-1917 pantaloons and dusting off an antique high chair kept Nora Busse plenty busy last week as she prepared a personalized exhibition of memorabilia to display at the 150th anniversary of the Busse family Sunday in Grayslake. [click below to read rest of story]

Alma, Wabaunsee County, Kansas October 23, 1908 Page 2
$100,000 Memorial to Cleveland.
Chicago.—Definite action was taken here Thursday for the erection In Chicago of a $100,000 memorial to the late Grover Cleveland. The Cleveland memorial association announced that within a few days Incorporation papers would he filed and that the necessary fund was practically assured.

[Submitted by Source #82]

Chicago Daily Tribune (Chicago, Illinois) January 21, 1915
DESERTED WIFE DIVORCES LATE BROADWAY DRUGGIST
  Mrs. Emma Nancy Ohlendorf Proves She Needs More Luxuries then She Has Been Enjoying.
 Mrs. Emma Nancy Ohlendorf got a divorce decree and permission to resume her maiden name of Emma Nancy DeSpain in Judge Sullivan's court yesterday on her testimony that her husband had failed to supply her with "the comforts and luxuries to which she was accustomed."
 When the Ohlendorfs were married the husband had a drug store at 3902 Evanston avenue, now Broadway. That was in 1910. Two years later, it is alleged, he went to Florida, leaving Mrs. Ohlendorf behind.

[Submitted by Source #96]

A citizen of Chicago, named Charles Sallidger, was run over on Wabash avenue in that city a few days ago, by a run-away team, and so badly injured that he died in a few hours.

[Edwardsville Intelligencer, March 31, 1870 - submitted by K. Torp]