Bank closes amid creditor claims and crop loss fears
The People’s Bank of Americas in Gay shuts after a week long run. assets reportedly cover liabilities with $380,000 due creditors. Hancock County Ohio crop damage by field mice estimated at $20,000, spurring farmers east of the county to discuss buying cats. An unknown barge wreck near Bridgehampton prompts perilous search. Mevo station crew finds no life signs. Newark banks plan consolidation, while a Detroit hotel death involves the Conger adopted daughter valued at $6,000,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
People’s Bank of Americas, Gay
Simmons
Hancock County
Ohio
Bridgehampton
Long Island
Mevo Station
A. J. McCaster
Fidelity Trust Company
Newark
N. 4
Second National
German National
Frank Conger
St. Marks Avenue
Brooklyn
Detroit
Oresa Stewart Conger
Hamburg
N. Y
Various 19th Century News Nuggets of Crime, Fire and Politics
Unidentified man dies of starvation on New York street. Fire at a plate plant costs Hardiman Peek te. Daniel Bowers acquitted of Wright Gillum murder in Bowling Green. Emperor William orders torpedo boat renamed Alice Roosevelt. Anthracite miners push for eight hour day and mine committees. Dr Granville Louther to face heresy charges. Frank M Hill, Chicago railroad figure, missing. wife distressed. James Fairchild dies at Oberlin College after long tenure. Appleton plans a paper mill in Independence Kansas. New mail to use sorghum cane paper. William Leeds buys Bellhaven villa Later Rocks. Irish House of Commons scene ends with Dillon suspended for calling Chamberlain liar. Mrs Ellen Carey attacked in St Louis. Terry McGovern and Tillman meet in Worcester. Paul Bortz dies from freight-car fall in Cleveland. Zion City strike. Dowie followers seek union wage scale. Carpenters bricklayers painters demand union scale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Hardiman, Peek & Te
Plate
Daniel Bowers
Wright Gillum
Bowling Keen
Emperor William
Alice Roosevelt
Anthracite Miners’ Convention
Granville Louther
McPherson, Wan
Frank M. Hill
Chicago
James TH. Fairchild
Oberlin College
Bellhaven
Conn
House of Commons
John Dillon
Joseph Chamberlain
Ellen Carey
St. Louis
Terry McGovern
Tillman
Worcester
Mass
McGovern
Paul Bortz
Cleveland
Auburn
N. Y
Zion City
John Alexander Dowie
Lake Erie
City of Detroit
Detroit
Paul Miller
Bucyrus
Ohio
Catherine Miller
New Washington
Margaret Prieberger
Elizabeth Metz
Vernon Junction
Joseph Phillips
Florence
Margaret
Springfield
Mad River
Phillips
Proy
Master Painters’ Association
Willard Smith
Tillie
Neb
Harvey II. Wheelock
Jerome Wheelock
Henry I. Harris
Wheelock
Jn Cleveland
Randall Mattress Company
Superior Street
Philip Stopel
Lincoln
Lincoln City
Ind
Congress
Titlin
Frederick Baldan
Saginaw
Mich
United States
Toledo
Guardian Trust Company of
Charles Rollo
Findlay
Kansas City-Leavenworth
Leavenworth
Kan
Fort Leavenworth
Harvard Observatory Receives Anonymous Gift and Other Easton News
Harvard Observatory gets a $20000 anonymous gift while Algernon Sartoris leaves Westinghouse to join the army. The American Bridge Company wins a $1500000 Pittsburgh to Wa bash Railroad viaduct contract. Bryn Mawr dormitory burns from a lamp. 100000 pounds of oil burned in Philadelphia refinery loss 860000 insured. William L. Elkins Jr dies at Menlo Lodge. Fire at Hoboken destroys docks and ships with nearly 1 million in losses. A lifeboat crew drowns saving a distressed barge. John T. Stover slain by wife in New York. Pelham fire claims one life. 17,000 bales of jute burned at Green Point warehouse. Plans for a 8000000 union station in Washington. Rupert Fritz assigns after theft of silverware at Emperor William yacht luncheon. I M Osborne leads coal deal amid Pittsburg district imports. Osborne Saeger & Co. to reorganize to challenge coal trust. Former Pittsburg Coal Co officials resign to join Osborne.
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Bryn Mawr College
Philadelphia
Alexander R. Peacock
Pittsburg
New York
Mitchell Harrison
J. Pierpont Morgan
East St. Louis
William IL. Elkins, Jr
Menlo Lodge
Elkins Station
Hoboken
Phoenix Line
Barber Docks
Eldridge
Monomany
Mass
Surfman
Ellis
John T. Stover
Alice
New York City
Pelham
N. Y
Rudolph Yocum
Green Point
Brooklyn
American Manufacturing Company
Washington
Union Station
Senate Committee On
District of Columbia
Daniel H. Burnham
Pennsylvania Railroad
Rupert Fritz
Shooters’ Island
Emperor William
Fritz
I’. M. Osborne
Pittsburg Coal Company
Soft Coal Trust
Osborne Saeger & Co
Osborne
Varied 1900s News Items From Violent Crimes to Elections
A cornist joins Salvation Army in Denver. Booth Tarkington nominated by Republicans for Legislature. A naval arsenal section at Valparaiso destroyed by fire. Mrs Phoeba Grey died by hanging at Lima Ohio, age 61. A duel at Purdy Station left victors. Swede bicycle rider Dawson died after pneumonia. Leletlite, new site stringer, replaces Kleber. Water invented by Bear Co Salt Lake City. Two women bound and chloroformed Miss Nellie Woods in Avalon block Denver. diamonds worth 80000 to 10000 lost. Larry Mehbee, messenger for Adams Express, missing with 880000 in treasury notes. money traced to Brazil to St. Louis. Sigma Nu Medical Fraternity elects officers in Cincinnati. Miss Vina Woodbury suicides in Newark Ohio. Trust deed for 1 million on Dutch General Electric.
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Ruby Marion
Denver
Booth Tarkington
Dadianapolio
Naval
Valpares
Lima
Ohio
Phoeba Qrey
Reese Evans
A. A. Smith
Nelie Woods
Avalon Block
Dronver
Larry Mehbee
Adans Express Company
Treasury
Brazil
St. Louis
Sigma Nu
Ato
Cincinnati
William Walton
Chicago
Vina Woodbury
Wesley Montgomery
Newark
Dutch General Electricy
Various fires, accidents, and incidents era wide news
A roundup of disasters and crimes includes a Mount Vernon Ind fire destroying a 75 000 bushel wheat elevator. deaths at Cleveland and Youngstown plants. a Scotch Plains tornado damage. a Winslow Ill fire consuming banks and stores. a Denver orphanage fire saving 200 orphans. and other incidents across Duluth Litchfield Missoula and Chicago. Identified figures include John Mitchell Des Moines and John Rockefeller offering funds for colleges.
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Pany
Old Colony Trust Company
Boston
Duluth
Minn
Fatcher & Ford
Mount Vernon
Ind
Litchfield
Frank Addy
Milton Gordon
John Howik
National Steel Company
Youngstown
Ohio
Michael Torain
Scotch Plains
Belleville
Kaw
Dunkard
John D. Rockefeller
William Jewell College
Liberty
Tire
Winslow
Fairmount Manufacturing Company
Euclid Avenue
Cleveland
John Mitchell
United Mine Workers of America
Des Moines
Iowa
Campbell
Nebort
Solway treaty signed ceding townships for cash and installments
A treaty reports Indians cede eleven townships west of Red Lake agency to the government for 1,000,000 dollars with one-quarter paid within ninety days after ratification and the remainder in annual 50,000-dollar installments. Maj. McLaughlin has arrived at Solway, Minn. from the Red Lake agency to announce the terms.
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Maj
McLaughlin
Solway
Minn
Red Lake Indian Agency
Geronimo
Miles
Fort Sill
Montana State University
Missoula
Louisville health officials target limburger cheese sellers
A Southern note reports Louisville health authorities will prosecute anyone selling limburger cheese. The state institution for the deaf in Jackson Mississippi burned, 150 inmates evacuated, $40,000 loss with some narrow escapes. Also covered are a German bequest to barber Fred Kilthauer, a federal seizure against W T Nugent, a mistrial in Breese embezzlement case, a Piper Alabama cyclone with deaths and injuries, and a violent crime in West Virginia ending in a suspect’s suicide attempt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville
State Institution For the Deaf and Dumb
Jackson
Miss
Fred Kilthauer
Germany
Washington
W.T. Nugent
William EK. Breese
First National Bank of
Asheville
N. C
Piper
Ala
Edward Turner
John Allen
Gurnee Junction
Belle Ellen
Lafe Yerkey
Flint
W. Va
Rioting in St Petersburg and distant war rumors frame European unrest
Ten thousand students rioted in St Petersburg forcing police and cavalry action and injuring many. Reports note King Edward cancelled a Riviera visit stirring Irish nationalist criticism. Russian officers face alleged betrayals while Berlin sees emigrants returning home, and a London Times Moscow correspondent cites troop movements to Viadivostock.
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Edward
Riviera
Paris
Ministry
Ireland
St. Petersburg
la Rochelle
France
Lord Methuen
United States
Berlin
Posen
East
West Prussia
Russia
Austria
London Times
Siberian
Viadivostock
Mixed News From American Press Curent Dispatches
Six deaths occur on transport Sheridan arriving in San Francisco with Manila troops. Andrew D White plans November retirement from ambassadorship to Germany to resume education work. Senator Wolcott pursued as successor, Willis Van Devanter eyed as Hitchcock successor by Roosevelt. Senate backs Hanna Prye ship subsidy 42 to 31. four Republicans oppose. Schooner John K Souther founder off Great Stirrup Island. crew reaches Nassau. Young Gerald Osborne to be awarded 2000 and life pass for flagging a broken rail near Halifax. Fire insurance rates rise 25 percent east of the Rockies by Western Union underwriters. Interior ruling permits Creek Nation Indians to rent allotments for up to one year before deeds. Creek open lands expectations dampened. deeds delayed and rolls incomplete.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sheridan
San Francisco
Manila
Andrew D. White
Germany
Senator Wolcott
Willis van Devanter
Wyoming
Interior Department
Roosevelt
Hitchcock
Senate
Hanna Pryeship
Allison
Spooner
Dolliver
Quarles
John K. Souther
A. F. Poole
New York
Galveston
Texas
Great Stirrup Island
Souther
Nassau
Bahama Islands
Gerald Osborne
St. Johns
Halifax
N.S
Rocky Mountains
Western Union
New York City
Senate and House Debate Ship Subsidy and River Bills
The Senate and House spent Saturday through Thursday debating ship subsidy measures and river and harbor appropriations. Senators Allison Spooner Teller and Elk ins spoke on the subsidy bill. Bacon Mallory offered amendments. Bills passed included 150000 for a Savannah marine hospital and a Missouri river bridge at South Omaha. House approved 229 private pension bills, a first. News covered executive sessions and questions over transport to the Philippines and naval spending.
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Senate
Allison
Spooner
Teller
Elkins
Bacon
Mallory
Savannah
South Omaha
Neb
War Department
San Francisco
Philippines
United States
Hoar
Mason
Rawlins
Hepburn Jowal
Messrs
Ball
Texas
Lawrence
Mass
Messrs. White Eye
Thompson
Ala
Burnett
Culberson
Hill
New York
House
Snook
Ohio
Lewis
Mr. Powers
West
Burton
Aidvieh
Bellamy
North Carolina
Crumpacker
Washington Notes on Bank Notes and Royal Visit
New national bank notes of the 102 series mark a radical design departure from prior issues. Miss Alice Roosevelt will skip King Edward's coronation due to potential Germany tensions and notoriety for her father. William J. Bryan, who recently visited Washington, held an informal reception in the House amid circulating rumors of another presidential bid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
New National Bank
Alice Roosevelt
Edward
Germany
William J. Bryan
Old Joe the Night Watchman and St Jacobs Oil
A Pall Mall Gazette tale praises St Jacobs Oil through the relief of Old Joe a longtime Lam beth Water Works night watchman. After rheumatism and sciatica left him his pain gone he credits the oil for renewed mobility and declares the remedy universal from rich to poor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old Joe
Pall Mall Gazette
London
Aterm
St. Jacobs
Joe
Lambeth Water Works
Guy'nor
St. Jacobs Oil
Great Salt Lake Wonder and Its Briny Waters
The Great Salt Lake is described as a miniature ocean nestled among Wasatch peaks. It measures about ninety miles long and forty miles wide, dotted with grassy islands, and lies nearly a mile above sea level. Boats must be specially built for its briny waters as standard craft would be unsafe due to buoyancy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Salt Lake
Wasateh Range
Strong Letter From La Farge Over Kidney Pills
Wm. T. Payne of La Farge Wisconsin writes that four weeks of back pain and doctor treatments failed until he used Dodd's Kidney Pills. After four or five doses he felt relief, and after four boxes the pain vanished. He credits the remedy with more benefit than five dollars of medicine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dodd
Unpleasant Effect Inquiries Amid Odd Exchange
A clipped exchange references Miss Smilax and a mistaken bill remark. Cleveland Plato Deonler is noted in the dialogue as the speaker, with a terse response suggesting confusion over a presence or arrival earlier in the day.
Coughing Leads to Consumption Advertises Kemp's Balsam
An old advertisement urges readers to visit their druggist for a free sample bottle of Kemp's Balsam promising to stop coughing at once. It promotes 25 and 50 cent bottles and warns that delays are dangerous.
Claims of Ties to Elite Families Spur Philadelphia Tale
A Philadelphia Evening Bulletin report notes residents alleging connections to prominent families, with interviews conducted by phone. The item frames social status claims as part of a broader local discussion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Earliest Russian Millet Seed Advertisement
Advertisement for Earliest Russian Millet claiming 6 to 8 tons of rich hay per acre. Prices listed as 50 marks, 100 marks, with freight discount. Seed sold by John A Salter Seed Co of La Crosse Wisconsin. Includes unrelated quoted lines about vanity and Red Cross Ball Blue laundry product.
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John A. Salter Seed Co
la Crosse
Wis
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Essemer
Michigan
Collis PL Huntington
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Samar
I. 1
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Marissa
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Lyon & White
Furne
Hlassong
Wilson
Brown & Co
A. D. Matthews
Hamilton & Co
S. Rejan
A. L. Kenna
Harvard Observatory
Algernon Sartoris
Westinghouse Company
American Bridge Company
Wabash Railroad
Western
Southern
Colorado Springs
Colo
Laramie
Wyo
Kewaunee
Hale
Poster
Millners
Cochran
Missoni
Lady Vanity
Democritus
Radway
Dru Radway & CO
C.C.C
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