Embezzlement Charge Made Against Bank Teller
Adolph Stamwitz, paying teller at the Minneapolis Bank of Commerce, is accused of stealing 3450 dollars from bank funds after rising from office boy to custodian of large sums. He is bound over to await the grand jury and free on a 5000 dollar bail bond posted by friends. a 10000 dollar bond was provided by a surety company. Irregularities in the bank accounts were found by National Bank Examiner O F Bosworth.
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Minneapolis
Adolph Stamwitz
Minneapolis Bank of Commerce
Stamwitz
National Bank
O. F. Bosworth
Jacobson to seek Republican governorship in Minnesota
Telegraphic brief notes report J. F. Jacobson will run for the Republican nomination for governor of Minnesota. Other items note a Brooklyn fighter and a San Francisco competitor in a 15 round bout, a Charlottesville grocery warehouse fire causing 70000 dollars in losses, Farmer Burns defeating War Fagle in two straight falls, and a broad winter storm aiding grain and fruit prospects across Kansas Oklahoma and Western Missouri.
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J. F. Jacobson
Minnesota
Baltimore
Willie Fitzgerald
Brooklyn
Fred Landers
San Francisco
Omaha
Burns
War Fagle
Kansas
Oklahoma
Missouri
Market Quotations Wheat Prices Report
Minneapolis Wheat prices on February 14 show May at 1.01 1/4 dollars and July at 1.01 dollars. On track values list No. 1 hard at 1.06 1/6, No. 1 Northern at 1.02 1/4 to 1.03, No. 2 Northern at 1.00 to 1.01, and No. 3 Northern at 0.96 to 0.98 dollars.
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Minneapolis
Northern
Cattle and Hog Prices From St Paul Market Report
St Paul market notes list cattle ranges from good to choice steers at 4.75 to 5.50, cows and heifers 3.25 to 4.25, veals 3.75 to 5.00. Hogs 4.00 to 4.15. Sheep wethers 4.75 to 5.10, good to choice lambs 6.25 to 6.55.
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St. Paul
Wheat and flax price report from Duluth market
Wheat to arrive and on track with prices for No 1 hard 1.02 and No 1 Northern 1.01, No 2 Northern 98 3 4 cents, May 1.015 and July 1.01, in store No 1 Northern 99 4 cents No 2 Northern 96 4 cents Flax to arrive and on track May 1.165 and July 1.18.
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Duluth
Northern
Chicago market livestock prices bid by range
Chicago on February 14 reports cattle and cattle stockers with prices for cows and heifers Texans calves Western cattle stockers and feeders ranging from 1.85 to 7.25 dollars per hundredweight Hogs show light through rough categories from 4.05 to 4.35 dollars and 4.20 for pigs Sheep and lambs priced from 3.20 to 6.90 dollars with yearlings at 5.40 to 6.25 dollars.
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Chicago
Grain and animal market prices for Chicago futures and dairy items
Wheat futures for May at 98%c, July 90%c, September 87%c. Corn May 60%c, July 59 59%c, Sept B&%. Oats May old 524% 525%c, May 50%c, July 43%c, Sept 375¢c. Pork May $12.51, July $11.62. Creameries 22 33c, dairies 21 29c. Eggs 18% 1%c. Poultry turkeys 12c, chickens 11 40, springs lic.
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Chicago
Great American Fleet Parade Stirs Chilean City Enthusiasm
In Valparaiso on February 15 the sixteen battleships led by Rear Admiral Evans passed into the bay in a grand spectacle. President Montt greeted the fleet as Chilean officials and thousands of citizens watched from shore. The Baquedano escorted the ships out, while a banquet aboard followed with toasts to President Roosevelt, Admiral Evans, and the crews.
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Valparaiso
Evans
Callao
Peru
Chile
Montt
Republic
Caraumilla Point
Valparaiso Bay
Chacabuco
Connecticut
President Montt
General Baquedano
Baquedano
Santiago
Bolsa Commercial
Noted Fireman Kruger Dies After Braving Fire
New York Deputy Fire Chief Charles W. Kruger known as Big-Hearted Kruger died after a thirty six year career. In a heroic cellar rescue at 217 and 215 Canal Street Kruger led firefighters into flooded smoke filled tunnels to reach the basement and save others. His body was found in the debris and Chief Croker performed last rites as the crowd looked on.
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New York
Kruger
Charles W. Kroger
Canal Street
217
215
Andy
Charley
Chief Croker
Indictment of Dock and Cotton Council members on anti trust charge
United States grand jury in New Orleans indicts seventy two members of the Dock and Cotton Council, a river front labor union, for conspiring to restrain trade under the Sherman act after denying coal to the steamer Habil. The Habil’s agent had coalied the vessel before turning the matter to prosecutors.
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New Orleans
Dock and Cotton Council
United States Grand Jury
Union
Puerto Cortez
Habil
United States District Attorney
Taft Addresses U S Military Academy Graduates
Secretary of War William Howard Taft handed diplomas to 108 United States Military Academy graduates at West Point on February 15. He urged subordination of the military to civil government, spoke of duty to obey orders, and noted future opportunities in national danger. Taft was escorted by Col. Hugh L. Scott, with a colored cavalry guard and a seventeen-gun salute.
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West Point
N. Y
W. H. Taft
United States Military Academy
Taft
Detroit
Hugh L. Scott
Academy
United States destroyer flotilla arrives at Puerto Montt
The U.S. torpedo boat destroyer flotilla reached Puerto Montt after a smooth voyage from the Strait of Magellan along the Chilean coast. Lieutenant Rozas of the Chilean navy piloted the vessels through. Locals welcomed the arrival with enthusiasm as Puerto Montt lies about 600 miles south of Valparaiso.
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Puerto Montt
Chile
United States Torpedo Boat Destroyer Flotilla
Strait of Magellan
Rozas
Valparaiso
New York City Bonds Oversubscribed Six Times
The 50 million dollar New York City 4 percent bond issue drew 1,168 bids, far exceeding expectations. Comptroller Metz predicted about 104 of the bonds would be awarded at a higher price than the previous 40 million dollar offering, which was oversubscribed four times and yielded about 102.063.
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New York
New York City
Metz
Chicago Team Wins Championship Bowls Title
Cincinnati February 15. The Thompson's Colts of Chicago won the International match among national and regional bowling bodies. Thompson's Colts earned 400 dollars in gold for the victory. Fire in Brooklyn Courthouse New York February 15. A blaze damaged about 75000 dollars worth of art and court records, soaking paintings of judges and narrowly saving valuable records.
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Chicago
Cincinnati
Thompson
American Bowling Congress
National Bowling Association
Western Bowling Association
Canadian Bowlers’ Association
New York
Brooklyn
Kings County
American mine owner robbed in Paris by English pickpocket
Paris on February 15 witnessed Charles Hastings an American mine owner lose a pocketbook containing 6000 dollars to a skilled English pickpocket. The incident underscores ongoing street crime in the city center as authorities review surveillance and seek leads.
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Paris
Charles Hastings
Wisconsin for Bryan Platform Adopts Solid Delegation Policy
The Wisconsin Democratic state convention in Milwaukee on February 15 instructed the state’s Denver delegates to vote as a unit for William Jennings Bryan, first and last. The platform praised Jeffersonian democracy and Bryan, while denouncing Republican administrations.
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Bryan
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Denver
William Jennings Pryan
Charles H. Weisse
Sheboygan Falls
Herbert H. Manson
Wausau
John A. Aylward
Madison
Melvin A. Hoyt
Patrick H. Martin
Green Bay
James W. Murphy
Plattesville
Daniel H. Grady
Portage
Thomas J. Fleming
H. Grady
Grady
Aylward
Ayiward
Evan A. Evans
Baraboo
Republican Party
William Jennings Bryan
Legislation Advances in House Through Points of Order
In Washington the house shifted from rhetoric to lawmaking as executives and courts push bills forward. The debate touched salaries for assistant secretaries, which were struck out by Mr. Macon of Arkansas who argued budget bills are not the place for such legislation. With two-thirds of the bill dealt with, the house adjourned.
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Washington
Macon
Arkansas
Mrs Bell Taylor Held in Creston Murder Case
Mrs Bell Taylor and her two sons are jailed in Creston on suspicion of killing N Z Taylor a former Prescott banker shot in his boarding house room. Taylor’s death alarm was raised by Mrs Taylor as neighbors rushed to the scene finding a neck wound severing the jugular vein and no revolver located.
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Des Moines
Lincoln Delegates Back Roosevelt at Republican Convention
Lincoln Nebraska February 15 delegates at the Republican county convention pledged support for Theodore Roosevelt for president and instructed state convention delegates to work toward that outcome following Thursday's primary results.
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Lincoln, Neb
Theodore Roosevelt
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