International Monetary Conference Looms In October
The Exchequer Informa Amert wtable Comission proposes delaying responses to the United States and French envoys on an international monetary conference in October. Senator Wolcott reports England’s cabinet may need more time to consider the proposals, with India communications delaying. Silver markets fall amid weak demand. miners anticipate limited impact in Colorado, while Park City Utah reports two large mines ordered to close. Georgia revenue official H A Rucker appoints five deputies under civil service rules.
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Exchequer Informa
United F
England
Wolcott
Michael Hicks-Beach
United States
India
Great Briiain
Gait Laxey
The
Herald
Park City
Utah
Ontario
Daly
New York
Death of Three Prospectors in Alaska Tragedy
Aug 7. News from Skagway reports the deaths of Charles A. Blackstone George Butcher and J W Malinque minors who went to Alaska in 1890 and froze to death while attempting to return to Seattle. Blackstone’s body found others not recovered. A note on April 4 1897 describes their fates and injuries. Klondyke gold output estimates are given with the day’s mint official noting totals and purities.
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Perinh
Sxartim
Newa, Haa
Charles A. Blackstone
George Butcher
J. W. Malinque
Alaska
Seattle
Mayyh
Alsaka
Blackstone
Butcher
A. Blackatone
Joan
Malinque
Shortage of 6000 to 10000 in Orla Havill accounts
Penitentiary clerk Orla Havill faces arrest as Illinois officials from Chester report a theft of remittances totaling between six and ten thousand dollars. Havill, former clerk at the institution, now edits a Lawrenceville newspaper while awaiting investigation results.
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Orla Havill
Sr. Lous
Thoman
Wincott
Fairfield
Lils
Illinois Penitentiary
Chester
Banquet to the President Aug 24 in Chicago
Commander Mc Connell of Columbia post G A R reports President McKinley will attend a banquet in Chicago on August 24. Speakers include Clarkson President Black Mayor Jewett Archbishop Ireland General Wirony Algar Long Justice Brewer and Charles D Anderson.
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Burrow
McConnell
Columbia
Chicago
Porter
McKinley
Clarkson
Grand Army
Black
Jewett
John ‘Ireland
St. Paul
John 8. Wirony
Algar
John D Long
Navy
Justice Brewer
Supreme Court
Charles D. Andergan
Pray Offered Two Jobs in Alaska or Indian Service
Dee, Iowa, Aug 7 G B Pray arrived in Des Moines and said he has not decided which post to accept as surveyor general to Alaska or Indian commissioner He has not seen the enabling law and denied reports that he has been to Washington to secure appointments He noted boundary issues would be an international matter and not for him to decide
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Pray
Dee Mores
G. B. Pray
Alaska
Des Moines
Hahaa
Washington
Hastings
Senatory Quay
Qld Strathmore
Lexington
Frederick de Forrest Allen
Harvard
Boston
Henry A. Rucker
Atlanta
Tennede
Charles F. Crocker
San Francisco
Senor Castellano
Senor Canavag del Castillo
Cuba
Indiana
Illinois Women Suffrage Association
Nashville Exposition
Chicago
Helen M. Gougar
Indiana Association
International Tennis Association
Omaha
Loc Club
John Francia
John Douglas
Nashville
Edmund Kirby Smith
Bewanee
University of the South
General Kirby Smith
Ex Secretary Foster Retires in New York Visit
Ex Secretary Foster arrives in New York aboard the St Louis with Mrs Foster after completing a mission to England for President McKinley regarding the Bering Sea matter. He offered no comment on the mission’s outcome.
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Foster
New York
John W. Foster
President McKinley
England
Lord Salisbury
Bering Sea
St. Louis
Mia
National League scores and Western League results
National League games report scores for Pittsburg St Louis New York Philadelphia Boston Baltimore Brooklyn Washington Chicago Cleveland with key pitchers noted. Western League shows Grand Rapids Kansas City Detroit Indianapolis Milwaukee Des Moines Rockford Dubuque Burlington St Joseph Cedar Rapids with final tallies.
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Pittsburg
Kansas City
Detroit
Indianapong
Milwaukee
Western
Des Moines
Rockford
Dubuque
Burlington
Bt. Joseph
Cedar Rapids
Fire elevator blast claims four lives at Cook and Water
An explosion at the North Western grain elevator on Cook and Water streets last evening killed four firemen and injured many others. Debris and fire spread quickly as walls collapsed and a boiler or dust explosion triggered a massive blaze. Dozens of bystanders were cut by glass. total loss estimated at 400000, fully insured.
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Qpicaco Ang
Cook and Wear Water Street
Bremen
Walla
Jacon J. Scaxua
Joan J.coogan
Stramer
Charles H. Conway
Dennis Swente
Campion
Smith
Bartlatt
Benjamin Blanchard
John Smith
William. McGuire
Thomas Engle
Ignatius Bond
John’ J Evang
William Hanley
Cnt
P. Walker
Jobn Hentz
Akuli
James McGuire
Straoture
Engine Company No. 8
Jefferton Street
Carroll, Avenue
Final Steps Toward Giant Spirits Combine Reached
Deals to corner spirits markets report a successful formation of a large combine using a percentage allotment plan. Distillers and distributors face rules and forfeitures, with arbitration by a panel including Samuel Woolner and J. W. Freiberg. Meanwhile Standard Oil declares another 2 percent dividend as liquor interests plan a national convention at Manhattan Beach.
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Cmicase
Reading Distillers
Samuel Woolner
Peoria
Jacob P Railes
New York
N. J. Walsh
J.W. Freiberg
Cincinnati
P &E, Mer
Omaha
P. EB Ller
Hawaiians Plan Labor Substitution By Negroes
Hawaiian planters move to replace Chinese labor with African American workers across cane and rice fields. The shift, amid Chinese exclusion, is framed as resolving labor needs while disadvantaging Japanese workers, with plans for colonizing American plantation Negro labor. Also notes parade vets, political rumors, and other brief telegraph items.
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San Francisco
Hawaii
Honolulu
Australia
United States
Failures Fall Off in Dun Weekly Review of Trade
New York Aug 7 Dun yearly review shows July failures at 7,117,727 the smallest since 1862 with manufacturing and trading failures at record lows. Optimism grows as clearings rise, cotton prices steady, and industrial demand improves with more hands employed in iron works. Missouri miners strike at Ardmore. 250 diggers quit over wage dispute. mine closures follow.
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New York
R. G. Dun & Co
Dun
Amalgamated Association
Sumatra
Germany
United States
Canada
Nicaragua Canal Commission Elects Walker President
Aug 7 in New York the Nicaragua canal commission met in the army building. Admiral John O Walker was elected president of the commission. Battleships of the North Atlantic squadron arrived at Newport under Rear Admiral Montgomery Ricard. The ships include flagship New York armored cruiser Brooklyn and battleships Massachusetts Diana and Maina.
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Nicaragua Commission
Sfeeta
New York
Nicaragua Canal Commission
John O. Walker
O. M. Carter
Lewis M. Hagot
Army Building
Walker
Newport
North Atlantic Squadron
Montgomery Ricard
Brooklyn
Indiana
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Prade
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Beny
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Culmere
Bernard
Near
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Bluseat
Piltaborg
Pirrisune
Walnut Street
Sewickly
Abercrombie
Young's Dry
Panabeepats
William _W South
Greenwich Point
Ape
Ne Insurance
Parmassone
Miss
Joseph E. Perryman
Standard Oil
Standard Oil Trust
Standard Ollatook
National
Dessrts' Association of America
St. Manhattan Beach
Delmonico's
Burrazo
Turner
Pennsylvania
Illinois
Ohio
Massachusetts
Telegraph
News IN Brief
Missouri
Ardmore
Missouri and Kansas Coal Company
Anit Nwa and
Gian
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Bole Propa
Boeton
Wumar
Frank B. Martin
Pensylvany Ave
Washington, D.C
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Swift Specific Co
WinécGirdat
Iamas Wine
Cardui
I Advta
Millis
Chattanooga
J. W. Smith
Camden
G. Suanyai
Winsor
Lake Street
N. W. MW
Opera House Block
Fifth Street
Metterling
J. F. McGriff
Opera Block
John Weddf
RN & CO
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