Business Outlook Amid Financial Struggles and Trade Decline
R G Dun reports weak sustained cattle receipts and hog packing near last year. Railroad earnings plunge about 86 percent from last year while clearing house activity expands. Banking withdrawals rise, currency premiums grow, and gold imports surge as failures mount and industrial demand softens across regions.
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New York
R. G. Dun & Co
Congress
Europe
Nashville
Clearing House
New York Exchange
Chicago
New York Central
Boston
Albany
Fall River
New England
Treasury
Bank of England
Canada
United States
West
Millionaire Mackey Recovering From Operation
New York August 12 John W Mackey California millionaire staying at his son apartments in the Belgravia Forty ninth street and Fifth avenue rests quietly after surgery All inquiries answered that Mackey had recovered his health
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Millionaire Mackey
New York
John W. Mackey
California
Belgravia
Forty-ninth Street
Fifth Avenue
Mackey
Express Robbers Bound Over in Wichita Hold Up Case
Wichita, August 12. Doc Snapper, fourth member of the gang that robbed the United States express wagon on July 20 and secured 7600 dollars, was arrested at Anadarko. The three others already arrested were bound over in bonds of 2000 dollars each.
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Wichita
Kan
Doc” Snapper
Anadarko
Services No Longer Needed In Pine Bluff Shops
Little Rock Arkansas August 12 announced that over 300 men employed in the St Louis and Southwestern Railway company shops at Pine Bluff would lose their jobs as their services were no longer needed.
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Little Rock
Ark
St Louis and Southwestern Railway
Copany
Pine Bluff
Polk County Republicans Likely Endorse Prohibition
Des Moines Aug. 12 Polk county which includes Des Moines is watched for GOP stance on prohibition. The county convention will be run by prohibitionists who will pick delegates to the state convention and nominate the legislative ticket. A. B. Cummins leads the liberal wing and faces defeat if the party embraces prohibition, threatening his U.S. Senate bid to succeed James F. Wilson.
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Des Morina
Polk County
Des Moines
Polk
A. B. Cummins
R. P. Clarkson
State Register
United States Senate
James F. Wilson
Prohibition
Swineford to Probe Duncan Land Schemes at Four Offices
Special Agent Swineford arrives from Washington to pursue Duncan over land allocations and town site schemes. Four offices planned at Kildare Santa Fe Pond Creek Rock Island and western strip. Opening expected by Sept 10 if no major issues found. Also notes a near-deserted Leavenworth town after a coal strike and a wage settlement in Portspura boosting miner work.
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Swineford
Oklahoma
Smith
Guthrin
O. T
Interior Department
Washington
Duncan
Kildare
Santa Fe
Pond Creek
Rock Island
Leavenworth, Kay
L. V. Harkness
L. D. H. Russell
Brighton Coal and Mining Company
Harkness
Coal Creek Miners Quiet
Nashville August 12 reports from Coal Creek and Briarville say calm prevails as miners remain restless in idleness. The body of Dick Drummond was brought to Knoxville. a coroner's jury found he died by the willful and malicious acts of the state militia stationed at Coal Creek.
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Coal Creek
Nashville
Briarville
Dick Drummond
Knoxville
Prospect Dark Outlook Hits Upper Peninsula Mines
Iron Mountain Mine shutters amid 800 layoffs as upper peninsula towns brace for a bleak fall and winter. Syndicate control of mining properties fuels fears of speculative profits over legitimate industry. In Breckenridge a landslide destroys a 40 stamp mill under construction, exposing a moving hillside and threatening further collapse.
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Iron Mountain
Mich
Chapin
Upper Peninsula
Breckenridge
Colo
Jessie Gold Mining and Milling Company
Split Switch Causes Trouble in Kansas City Crash
A split switch caused a collision between a switch engine freight train and box cars on a sidetrack near Second and Main. Switchman B F Pinkerton was probably fatally hurt and crew member George B Hayward was seriously injured.
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Kansas City
Second
Main Streets
B. F. Pinkerton
George B. Hayward
Union Pacific Cuts Deep Across System
Omana Aug 12 The Union Pacific announces further job cuts across its network. The engineering corps has been reduced to a shadow, with 50 more clerks eliminated at headquarters and additional reductions noted in Boston and New Orleans.
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Union Pacific
Omana
Boston
New Orleans
Engineering Corps
Drowning and deaths reported in Lyons Norwalk Parnell and more
A sequence of calamities and legal actions across states includes 12 year old John Crouch drowning near Lyons Iowa, John Parker killed from a third story fall in Norwalk Ohio, Mrs Anises Roberts celebrating her 102nd birthday in Watseka Illinois, and Bellaire Ohio resident forest F Ford sued by Emma Simpert of Cleveland for 25000 breach of promise. Also deaths from a train collision near Parnell Missouri, a rescue attempt thwarted by a bull attack in Smelson Illinois, farm damages suit against Ohio Oil by Thomas Wagoner, hay fire killing a horse in Oakland Illinois, a destructive new beetle in Wayne Indiana, a shooting of Assistant Yardmaster Flynn at Great Bend Pennsylvania, a bank cashier in Redding California defaulting on over 100000, and an attorney general opinion on three mile prohibition impacting distilleries. Levi Morton sails to Europe aboard the Augusta Victoria with family for the winter.
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John Crouch
Lyons
Rock River
Ills
John Parker
Norwalk
Anises Roberts
M. H. Peters
Watseka
Forest F. Ford
Bellaire
Emma Simpert
Cleveland
Tom Ricketts
Robert Miller
Parnell
Great Western
George Kaiser
Smelson
Thomas Wagoner
Moulton Township
Ohio
Ohio Oil Company
John Endsley
Oakland
Wayne County
Indiana
Colorado
Flynn
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad
Great Bend
Fred Grotefend
Bank of Shasta County
Redding
Cal
Friday National League Games Recap From Pittsburg To New York
Friday’s NL games feature Pittsburg edging Louisville 11 to 3 in the opener. Baltimore beat Boston 4 to 2 behind strong pitching. Cleveland defeated St Louis 5 to 4. Washington toppled Washton 14 to 7. New York outslugged Philadelphia 18 to 10 in a high scoring affair with multiple batters contributing. Umpires: Emilie Lynch McQuaid Gaffney.
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Pittsburg
A. E
Louisville
Ehret
Stenzel
Rhodes
Grim
Hurst
Baltimore
Boston
McMahon
McNabb
Robinson
Gastright
Ganzel
Emilie
Cleveland
R. H. E. Cleveland
St. Louis
Hasting and
Gunson
Clarkson
Peitz
Lynch
Washington
R. HE
Washton
Haddock
Esper
Farrell
McQuaid
New York
KK. A. E
Phil’d'ip
Germain
Petty
Wilson
Keefe
Taylor
Clements
Gaffney
City Clerk Milligan Under $6,000 Shortage Probe
The investigation into Milligan's city clerk accounts shows a $6,000 shortage. He had posted $10,000 bonds, though some bond names dispute having signed. Further developments may involve other city officials. Milligan was arrested and bondsmen have attached his property.
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Futhrie
O. T
Milligan
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