More Ohio firebugs arrest to trigger revelations
North Baltimore dealer William S. Bryant is arrested on an affidavit accusing him of causing an incendiary fire nine years ago. The case is expected to uncover further fires across Wood and Henry counties tied to Bryant and Jefferson Richcreek, who confessed to paying $250 for the North Baltimore furniture store blaze on April 26, 1896.
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William S. Bryant
North Baltimore
Ohio
Bryant
Jefferson Richcreek
Richcreek
Wood
Henry
Man Hangs Self in Box Car in Chicago Yard
The body of 65 year old S. G. Harger of Randolph Iowa was found suspended from a box car rafters in the Erie railroad yards Chicago. He used four knotted kerchiefs and wore poor clothing with his name tattooed on the right arm and a Randolph Iowa slip in his pocket.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. G. Harger
Randolph
Iowa
G. Harger
Erie Railroad
Chicago
Randolph, Iowa
Tax Sale in New York City Hall Sets Odd Stakes and Gains
The first tax sale in sixteen years at New York City Hall yields over $300,000 as bidders offer the shortest leases in return for delinquent taxes. Daniel Eichner bought a Fulton Street parcel near Broadway and after alerting National Park Bank he netted $61 when the bank bought his claim. If he had stayed silent for two years his profit could have grown substantially.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City Hall
Fulton Street
Broadway
Daniel Eichner
City Hall
National Park Bank
Eichner
Hichner
Kansas seeks 25 900 harvest hands for state crops
Kansas farmers will need 25 000 men and 2 240 teams to harvest crops. The report to A B Jamison notes a sixty day harvest with daily wages from 1 75 to 2 50. Two hundred men are already signed in Kansas City and shipments to Kansas fields have begun. Additional workers will come from Topeka and St Joseph.
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Kansas
State Labor Department of
A. B. Jamison
Free Employment Department
Missouri State Bureau of Labor Statistics
Kansas City
Ohio Banker Pleads Guilty Seven Years
Orus M. Burns Montpelier banker pleads guilty on one count in one of three federal indictments. Judge R W Taylor sentences Burns to seven years in the Ohio penitentiary. Other items note a Canadian claim of a tug sunk inside Canadian waters and various court actions across the country.
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Ohio
Cullty
Orus M. Burns
Montpelier
Toledo
R. W. Taylor
Burns
Canada
Marine Department of Canada
Spain
Port Stanley
Gracie M
Vigilant
Loot of Train Robbery Securities Recovered
Securities valued at 864000 dollars taken from a Dominion Express Company safe during a Canadian Pacific train robbery at Mission Junction last September have been recovered through information from Jake Terry. Terry claims Miner will not be arrested. Notorious thief Eddie Guerin escapes Cayenne and is in New York.
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Jake Terry
Bill Miner
San Quentin
Cal
Dominion Express Company
Canadian Pacific
Mission Junction
Terry
Miner
Eddie Guerin
Chicago
Paris
Cayenne Island
French Guiana
New York
Ba Houtective
Fort Francis Fire Destroys Seventeen Stores
An incendiary blaze in Fort Francis Ontario destroyed seventeen businesses including Nelson's store and the Bank of Commerce. Firefighters could not save the wooden businesses, leaving only three survivors. No injuries reported as flames began at 6 am after travelers on a Canadian Northern train spotted the blaze. The town sits opposite International Falls Minnesota on Rainy River.
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Fort Francis
Ont
International J
Canadian Northern
Nelson's
Long Jones’s Wife Drowns Self in Fox River
Mrs Emeline Jones 66 native of New Hampshire and wife of Wisconsin Illinois politician Colonel A M Long Jones was found dead in two feet of water in the Fox River at Waukesha. She had been in ill health for years and her death is believed suicide. The Jones family moved from Galena Illinois to Waukesha a decade ago. Colonel Jones was General John A Logan’s campaign manager.
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Wisconsin
Illinois
Emeline Jones
A. M. (“Long”) Jones
Fox River
Waukesha
Galena
Ill
Colonel Jones
Northwest
Long” Jones
John A. Logan
Charges of Great Land Fraud Hit California Counties
State Mineralogist L. E. Aubrey accuses H. H. Ward and T. B. Walker of illegally filing on thousand s of acres in Butte Plumas and Siskiyou counties. He says many lands listed as mineral are not mineral and has given information to a government special prosecutor in Oregon land fraud cases. Yard admits securing 100000 acres in Butte and Plumas counties and says those lands are legitimately mineral.
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California
San Francisco Examiner
L. E. Aubrey
Butte
Plumas
Siskiyou
Oregon
H. H. Ward
Western Pacific Railroad
T. B. Walker
Minnesota
Aubrey
Yard
Department of the Interior
H. H. Yard
San Francisco
Auto outruns robbers in Oklahoma treasure heist
A machine carrying about forty thousand dollars in receipts from the Miller Brothers show was attacked near Bliss Oklahoma. Bandits on horseback fired as the auto fled, but the vehicle sped away and escaped unharmed though its speed regulator was shot off. George Miller shouted to McGowan the chauffeur to accelerate while Dr. Thomas joined firing.
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101 Ranch
Bliss
Okla
Miller Brothers
Vonea
George Miller
McGowan
Dr. Thomas
Child in Shelbyville Seeks Survival After Race Attack
A mob of hundreds hunts a black suspect after May Hill, a 5 year old girl, was struck on the head by a burglar in Shelbyville Indiana. The child lay unconscious under a house before regaining consciousness and naming her assailant.
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May Hill
Shelbyville
Ind
Panama to Coin Silver Peso Plan Aimed to Ease Demand
Panama plans to coin 1,000,000 silver pesos to meet canal area demand and prevent a gold driven monetary crisis. The move follows canal work activity and rising business needs, with bankers and the canal commission in agreement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panama
Canal Commission
Twentieth Century Limited Sets 17 Hour New York Chicago Run
The Twentieth Century Limited on the New York Central and Lake Shore lines set a record with an 17 hour 55 minute westbound arrival in Chicago from New York and 17 hours 9 minutes actual running time for the 066 mile leg. Eastbound service reached New York on schedule with trains running at exceptional speeds. Rail officials hailed the test as the greatest steam and rail test in U S history and suggested possible future reductions to fourteen to sixteen hours.
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New York
Chicago
la Salle Street
Seaboard
Great Lakes
Grand Central Station
New York Limited
Chicago Flyer
Osceola
Mishawaka
Elkhart
Grand Crossing
South Chicago
Lake Shore
New York Central
Frank J. Wolfe
Twentieth Century Limited
W. H. Marshall
Buffalo
Syracuse
Toledo
Cleveland
United States
Methodists in Manila Plan First Church for Philippines
A Manila correspondent reports the Methodist Church in Manila is prospering under American influence with plans announced to establish the denomination’s first church in the Philippines as American involvement grows in the city.
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Philippines
Methodists
Manila
P. L
Wesleyan church plans big island edifice in Calles Nozaleda area
The Wesley church announces a new $30,000 building at Calles Nozaleda and San Luis with seating for 400 to 500, a parlor and social hall, Sunday school room and chapel, library, pastor G. A. Miller, office, kitchen, and pipe organ. A large south veranda will be featured and the pastor says the project carries no debt. Meanwhile Morris Run miners ratify a year-long strike settlement and return to work.
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Islands
Church of Wesley
Calles Nozaleda
San Luis
United States
G. A. Miller
Morris Run
N. Y
Weather improves as trade and production rise
The Chicago weather situation improves with brisk manufacturing and strong wholesale and retail activity despite strike troubles. Farm receipts show mixed changes with cattle and sheep up, hides and cheese up, wool down, grain down slightly, and bank exchanges rising. New York notes a better feeling due to seasonable weather and improved retail and wholesale orders tempered by regional rain and cold.
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Chicago
Lescomes
Board of Trade
Dun
Review of Trade
New York
Lake
Canada
Bradstreet
Grain and Livestock Prices Across Major Markets
Illinois Chicago and other cities report cattle hogs and sheep price ranges, with wheat corn oats and related commodities priced by grade. New York lists cattle and grain values, followed by a brief note on the death of D. B. Bean, president of the Tennessee Coal Company in Knoxville.
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Chicago
Sic
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Milwaukee
Toledo
New York
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Sechart
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Orion
Europe
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Pittsburg
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Brooklyn
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Minneapolis
Louisville
Toledoeeeees
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Colo. Springs
Denver Tee
St. Joseph
Carnegie Company
Edgar Thompson Steel Works
Braddock
W. W. Juntgen
Edgar County
Hitchcock Cement Works
Hitchcock
American Window Glass Company
Gotham
Board of Education
Olmsted
Children’s Court
Michael Czirilla
Kirkman
Roosevelt
George W. Kirkman
Fort Leavenworth
Lincoln
Neb
Japan
Russia
Connellsville
Samuel Might
J. Might
Scottdale
Greason
Samuel Greason
Reading
John Edwards
Kate Edwards
Windsor
England
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Duke of Connaught
Gustavus Adolphus
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Sweden
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Fuller
Supreme Bench
International Board of Arbitration
Supreme Court
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A. J. Haydel
Howard Gould
Mineola
Michigan Road
United States Mortgage and Trust Company
Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad
Ann Arbor
Congress
British Columbia
Hazelton
Skeena River
Pinco Wells
N. M
Melquiades Baca
Baca
Columbian Rope Company
Auburn
W. I. Milliken
Merriam Park
Khartsisk
Donetz Company
James Wilson
Allegheny
Captain Wilson
Maryland
Patapsco
John Peifer
Rushford
Minn
Maximo Gomez
Cuba
Nadian Town
Jones
Brestkovsk
Russian Poland
Colville
William Colville
Red Wing
Minnesota Soldiers
Ead
George Campbell
Tu' ‘Cumeari, N. M
Robert Hagadorn
Alamond
N. J
Theodore P. Delyannis
Greece
Thomas P. Wickes
Constantinople
Yassif Pasha
Pasha
Beats All Records
M. E
Philippin
D. B. Bean
Tennssee Coa
Knoxville
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