Business Outlook Indicates Right Track for Wiear Markets
Wiear and general trade show mixed signals with several industries starting up or expanding while others slip. January exports from New York rose about 4 percent while imports fell 15 percent. money markets ease and gold flows shift. Retail, wool, iron, leather, and textiles face price pressure as traders remain cautious and fewer business failures occur nationwide.
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New York
N. G. Dun & Co
Winedstreet
Unitedtates
Lawrence Wins 24000 Damages Against Palace Gar
Truman Pp Lawrence sued Pullman's Palace Gar Company after alleging a porter on a train in Illinois assaulted him. A jury awarded $24,000 in damages, later reduced to $15,000 by court order. both sides plan appeals.
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Fort Gibson
Siss
Truman
Lawrence
Pullman's Palace Gar Company
Ilinois
Depew Predicts Hard Times Before Improvement
In a New York interview Chauncey Depew foresees worse conditions before better, urges an extra congressional session to pass a moderate tariff and currency reform. He cites three years of financial strain, reduced coal and metal outputs, idle bank reserves, and sagging wages as signs of broad hardship. He predicts an unprecedented revival after tariff passage and currency fixes, with four years of growth to follow.
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Baga Times
New York
Chlaunaey Mb Depew
Estra Bessiniy
Congress
Nia
Ballot desires at suffrage convention in Des Moines
National and local suffrage updates from Des Moines Iowa recount officers reelected receipts of 11823 and near equal disbursements, speeches by Susan B Anthony and others, and a push for congressional action. Separate items note cold wave across the US and a murder suicide in Dundee Indiana with unrequited love as motive. Formosan plague reported by Japanese legation officials in St. Petersburg.
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Women's Suffrage Association
Des Moines
Washington
Congress
Dorriet Taylor Upton
Ohio
F. M. Drake
Joli Masz- Vicar
Susan L. Anthony
National Woman's Suffrage Association
Susan B. Anthony
Jinchel Foster Avery
Alice Stone Blackwell
Harriet Taylor Upton
Laura Clay
Carrie Lane Chapman Catt
Nationsar Woman's Suffrage Association
Formosa
St. Petersburg
Miner Fends Off Two Black Bears In North Fork Camp
Thornburg of Granite Ore recounts an ascent near his camp when two full grown black bears emerged from a log burrow. They seized his pack’s bacon and victuals while he climbed to safety in a pine tree. Dickinson and Flaherty arrived with rifles, enabling his safe descent.
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Flmer Thornburg
Bears
Enmp
Lower North Fork
Ife
Thoroburg
Mr. Thornburg
Mr. Whernburg
Key
Mr. Dickinson
Ed Flaherty
Dead Rats on a Chicago Streetcar Spook Passengers
Five dead rats attached to a string were carried by a man on a westbound Eighteenth Street car in Chicago around eight o clock. The sight caused women to shriek and flee as the man refused to remove the burden, finally alighting at Center avenue to the relief of frightened riders.
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Cartley
Chicago
Halsted Street
Center Avenue
Schoolboys and Their Pop Bottles Alarm Chicago Schools
In Chicago, water shutdowns for drinking spur amusing antics as students bring bottles of fizzy pop and wine to class. Foster school teacher confiscates three bottles, warning pupils not to repeat the drinkable transgressions amid drought driven improvisations. Boer Is Lazy. Big Deer Story. Spearfish resident J M Burgess shoots the largest Black Hills deer, ten feet long and weighing 240 pounds.
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Chicago
Board of Education
You Brothers
Big Peer Story
J. M. Burgess
Black Hills
Scheme to settle California with low-price farm lands
Tenants in the upper Sacramento valley push a 200000 acre colonization plan. A joint stock company would pool land in Glenn Tehama Colusa Sacramento and Butte counties and issue shares by appraised value. Eastward recruitment would offer 40 60 and 100 acre farms with long term contracts at low prices and cheap rail rates. Proceeds fund dividends and company setup costs.
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Mig Company
Sacramento
Cal
Sacramento River
Glenn
Tehama
Colusa
Butte Counties
D. J Chambers
St. Louis
Colusa County
Mississippi
Ohio
Kansas
Nebraska
Dakotas
Witches Haunt Ohio Village In Witchcraft Panic
Richfield Center in Lucas County near Toledo faces a witchcraft scare as 17 families suffer a mysterious illness described as a malady causing sleeplessness and rapid decline. Residents report black cat apparitions, haunted rooms, and beleaguered livestock while physicians remain baffled.
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Richfeld Center
Richfield Center
Hiile
Lucas County
Toledo
A. M. Miller
Tiehfield Center
Eloping Couple Marries Aboard Train in Missouri
William Dyer and Miss Addie Hard of Pascola Missouri wed on the St. Louis and Southern express near Kennett to thwart the bride's pursuing father. Rev L K Davis officiated after the license was secured in Dunklin county. The ceremony made the train the wedding altar as the father chased a special engine to catch them.
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Missouri
William Dyer
Addie Hard
Pascola
Kennett
Dyer
Lcense
Dunkdin County
Tucola
Pemiscot County
Rev. L. KR. Davis
Pemlacot
Dunklin County
Autograph Sale Highlights American Presidents in London
A London sale of autographs shows English estimates of U S figures for chiefs like Adams Jefferson Madison and Buchanan. Individual letters fetched small shilling and guinea sums with figures such as Adams five shillings Jefferson sixteen and Longstreet one pound. A Dickens autograph sold for two pounds and nine shillings, while a railway engine life is discussed as about one million miles or twelve years with proper care.
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Gous
Les
Stonewall
Jackson
London
United States
England
John Quincy Adams
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
James Buchanan
Andrew Jackson
Chester A. Arthur
Jefferson Davis
R. K. Lee
Millard Fillmore
J. A. Early
Gen. Longstreet
Gen. Forrest
John Hancock
Tedhillings
Napoleon
Joseph Bonaparte
Dickens
Carlyle
Tennyson
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