Leather Trust Swamp Yarns Stir Boston Markets
Labor Day observations show close markets in New York and Boston with a bullish tilt ahead. Rumors of a Boston led leather trust plan to buy many tanneries spark speculation but skeptics in the Swamp doubt the scheme's viability.
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Bostox
New York
Boston
Banks
Stock Exchange
Villara
United States Treasury
Oos
New York Mail and Express
New England
California
Maine
Massachusetts
Pennsylvania
Ferdinand A. Wyman
Walter Potter
Messrs. Wyman
Potter
Europa
Umbria
Leather Trust
First Mortgage Gold Bonds on Denver City Lines
Notes offer 6 percent gold bonds secured by a first mortgage on all property of the Denver City Railway Company operating by horse with over 50 miles of tract and a first mortgage on the Denver City Cable Railway Co. with 914 miles of double cable tracks and power house. Details on application, price, par and accrued interest.
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Denver City Railway Company
Denver City Cable Railway Co
Mining stock closing quotations in San Francisco
The San Francisco closing quotations for mining stocks on September 2 listed numerous names with varied prices. Highlights include Occidental at 1.65, Alta at 2.40, Chollar at 3.26, Union Copper at 3.45, Gould & Curry at 2.60, and Norcross at 5.25, among others.
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San Francisco
Cal
Occidental
Alta
Pest & Welchér
Commonwealth
Savige
Gould & Curry
Utah
Petetade
A & Norcross
Exican
Foreign financial reports from London market notes
London market closes show Sols quotes 9615 16 for money and 973 16 for account. Atlantic and Great Western seconds at 6 Canadian Public 65 Erie 28% doseconds 105%s St Paul common 753s Pennsylvania 55. bar silver 427-16. Money 2 3 percent rule of discount in open market 3 percent. Paris advices quote 3 percent rates at 85 francs 55 centimes exchange on London 26 francs 27/2 centimes.
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London
Atlantic & Great Western
Canadian Publie
Erie
St. Paul Common
Pennsylvania
Paris
Will of William Thaw Probate Reveals Heir Share
The will of William Thaw, the Pittsburgh railroad magnate, probated in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania provides his estate excluding coal lands divided into sixteen equal parts. His wife receives three sixteenths, each of ten children one sixteenth, and the remaining three sixteenths fund numerous private and public bequests including large gifts to Western University Pennsylvania Presbyterian boards and Pittsburgh hospitals.
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Pittssune
Penn
William Thaw
Western University, Pennsylvania
Presbyterian Board of Home Missions
College Board
Presbyterian
American Board
Pittsburg
Lake Shore railroad holds annual meeting at Moulton Opera House
In Laconia New Hampshire on September 2 directors were elected Charles A Busiel John Kimball F N Rollins Stilson Hutchins Amos Rollins Hiram Hull and John Crane The road now half built and to be finished in a few weeks A Bussel president Frank Streeter clerk The formal opening expected mid October likely under Laconia Lake Village Board of Trade.
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Laconia
N. H
Lake Shore Railroad
Moulton Opera House
Charles A. Busiel
John Kimball
F. N. Rollins
Stilson Hutchins
Amos Rollins
Hiram Hull
John 3
A. Bussel
Frank 5. Streeter
Laconia & Lake Village Board of
Veade
Vermont investigators to probe Brooksville wreck
State Railroad Commissioners Pingree and Fletcher with Clerk Watson visited the Brooksville crash site in Mipperary Vermont and will start hearings in St Albans tomorrow accompanied by State Attorney Wildes to represent the state.
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Vermont
Mipperary
Pingree and Fletcher
Watson
Brooksville
St. Albans
Wildes
Carpets Rugs and Upholstery From Pray Sons & Co
The house of John H Pray, Sons & Co offers the newest and most artistic carpets rugs and upholstery fabrics. Buying carpets and upholsteries together in one establishment avoids the inconvenience of visiting two places and achieves harmony in home furnishings.
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Wirh
John H. Pray, Sons & Co
Cheese sales report from Utica and Little Falls markets
Commercial matters in Utica N on September 2 show cheese sales totaling 9700 boxes with prices down 44 to 46 cents. Little Falls market sold 7100 boxes at 8 to 8 1/2 cents, closing steady amid overall market activity.
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Utica
Little Falls
Storm Signals at Havana Aid West Indies Trade
The Post reproduces the Hydrographer United States Navy text on Havana storm signals adopted August 2. Signals include triangular red flag caution, yellow blue horizontal stripes storm signal, and black ball for port closure, with instructions to haul yards and strengthen moorings. It notes the hurricane season’s importance, reports on August weather and Gulf Stream currents, and urges careful observations of obstructions and dangerous shoals, plus a September forecast of moderate to fair weather with possible West Indian hurricanes.
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North Atlantic Ocean
Post
United States Navy
Havana
Morro Semaplore
North Atlantic
Santo Domingo
Bahamas
Hatteras
Cape Cod
Gulf
Atlantic
United States
Labrador
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Lake Erie
Sable Island
Jennings
Colina
Nantucket
Bight
Sandy Hook
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British Isles
Mid-Ocean
Willie Rosenfeld
Entella W
Scotland
Tropics
Cienfuezos
Cuba
Straits of
Belle Isle
Grand Banks
Garvin
Orinocy
New York
Bermuda
Gulf Stream
Cummings
Maud H. Dudley
Montank
Hetherington
Ferrando
Syvret
British Prince
Ear N
Long
Lone
Wills
British Empire
Daniels
Carribean
Cartagena
Colon
Farallon Sucio
Schumacher
Auguste
Va E
Scott
Struan
Gunderson
Otto
National
Heeckt
Kiel
Evans
Mineola
Annsell
Dalton
Porgas
Ayler
Birkenhead
Bermudas
Ten Pound Island Ledge
Gloucester Harbor
Sankaty Head
Canonbury
Head of Harbor
Wood's Hall
Block Island
Alexander Campbell
Long Beach Hotel
Rockaway Beach Hotel
Highland Lights
Iberia
Abs
Chincoteague Light
Hatteras Light-House
Currituck
Hatteras Light-House N
Cape Lookout Shoal
Aberlady Bay
Savanilla
Old Light House
Porto Belillo
Hermoso
Megrola
Rolling Mills Start Up In Schuylkill Valley Area
Reading Iron Company and related plants resume partial operations after six months idle in Reading and nearby towns. Melbvaine’s rolling mill, Seyfert’s Station and Potts Iron Company puddlers see wage increases to 370 and 250 per ton. About 2000 workers expected to be reemployed as production ramps.
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Reapina
Penn
Schuylkill Valley
Reading Iron Company
Melbvaine
Glasgow Iron Company
Jesuits Estates Act Constitutional Ruled In Ottawa
The law officers Sir Richard Webster and Sir Edward Clarke report that the Jesuits Estates Act is within provincial powers and valid. They state the Governor General should not interfere and that funds will be sent to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
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Ottawa
Ont
The
Crown
Richard Webster
Edward Clarke
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
Brother in law of Lincoln Ninian W Edwards dying in Illinois
Ninian W Edwards brother in law to Abraham Lincoln lies dying in Springfield Illinois at eighty years old. He is distressed by his grandson gambling losses and creditors. He was son of Ninian Edwards first territorial governor of Illinois born near Frankfort Kentucky. Married Elizabeth Todd sister of Mrs Lincoln in 1832. He moved to Springfield in 1835 and served in the Illinois Legislature with Lincoln as part of the long nine. He helped form Illinois 1848 constitution and in 1862 was appointed US commissary by President Lincoln.
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Springfield
Ill
Ninian W. Edwards
Abraham Lincoln
Mr. Edwards
Ninian Edwards
Illinois
Frankfort
Elizabeth P. Todd
Lexington
Lincoln
United States
Prospect Street Methodist Camp Meeting Opens
Arrangements completed for Prospect Street Methodist Church camp meeting. A 146 by 54 foot tent seating 1500 was set up and first service held at 7 30 with Rev David H Ela of Chelsea preaching. Services run daily throughout the week.
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Prospect Street Methodist Church
David H. Ela
Bellingham Street
Chelsea
Forest and town fires sweep Minnesota and Montana
A Helena telegraph reports Black Pine in Deer Lodge county Montana destroyed by a forest fire started a week earlier. Twenty men suffered blisters as crews battled flames that prevented entry within 300 yards. Gardner Montana burned entirely with only one house saved. Yellowstone Park fires blamed on campers till extinguished campfires. In Minnesota a ten mile prairie fire endangers Big Stone City after a hunters cause. Farmers lose hay and stock as flames sweep the bottom lands.
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Cuicano
Helena
Mont
Black Pine
Deer Lodge
Cinnibar
Gardner
National Park
Yellowstone Park
Park
Empire
Empire Mining Company
Lac Qui Panix
Minn
Minnesota
Big Stone City
Ten Dollar Bar Harbor Trip Offers All Inclusive Voyage
Bar Harbor excursion package includes passage to and from Bar Harbor transfer to boat carriages to points of interest ride on Eagle Lake rail trip to Green Mountain summit atop the Atlantic coast. Travelers are met at the boat by Mr. Win Perkins and cared for throughout the journey with comfort guaranteed by participants.
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Bar Harbor
Eagle Lake
Green Mountain
Atlantic
Win Perkins
Fitchburg cuts Boston to Chicago fares on Erie and West Shore lines
The Fitchburg railroad announces a four dollar fare reduction to Chicago via the Erie and Boston line lowering the first class Boston to Chicago rate to nineteen dollars and a two dollar cut via the West Shore route making the Boston to Chicago fare twenty dollars. American agents for Woodstock Bugs are John H Pray Sous Co.
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Fitchburg Railroad
Chicago
Erie
Boston
West Shore
John H. Pray Sous & Co
Wool sales at Antwerp buyers attend strong demand
At the Antwerp wool market on September 2 a fair turnout of buyers supported steady demand. Of 1800 palas offered, Buenos Ayres sold 440 bales at 85 210 francs per 100 kilos and Montevideo moved 868 bales at 120 220 francs.
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Antwerp
Buenos Ayres
Montevideo
Wheat and Flour Market Report from General Markets
John E. Welsh Flour and Grain at 206 State Street reports Chicago and St Louis receipts and shipments for flour and grain. Market notes show quiet to firm conditions across wheat corn pork lard and dry goods with fluctuating prices and varied regional traits.
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John E. Welsh
State Street
Chicago
St Louis
T Louis
Hog and Cattle Market Specials From Kansas City and Chicago
Stock yards Kansas City specials show steady cattle prices with steer shipments around 3.10 to 2.75 and cows to 1.90, hogs down 10 to 15 cents with heavies at 3.70 to 4.10. Chicago receipts total 13 000 cattle and 14 000 hogs with mixed markets. beeves 4.65 to 5.64, hogs weak around 3.75 to 4.85, sheep steady with natives 8.25 to 8.60 and Texans at 3.45 to 3.95.
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Kansas City
Chicago
Texas
Exports and Imports Listing From Buenos Ayres 1889
A dated list of imports and exports including pine lumber from Shiv Earl Burgest and various goods aboard ships Rio and Forest City bound for Digby Annapolis St Pierre and Bris Aquila. Items include lumber, household goods, canned foods, textiles, glassware, cement, paints, oils and kerosene with quantities in bbls cases bags crates and boxes.
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Buenos Ayres
Shiv Earl Burgest
Digby
Annapolis
Aged farmer found murdered in Minn. wife accused
Samuel Holmes, 65, a prosperous farmer near Farmington in Hastras Minnesota, was found dead yesterday in a pool of blood. His wife, recently described as younger by twenty years, is jailed and charged with the deed after neighbor Charles Haines saw her on the porch shouting words of murder. The couple had a history of quarrels and threats to his life.
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Hastras. Minn
Samuel Holmes
Farmington
Charles Haines
Holmes
Doctors Versus Undertakers Snowball Ends With Broken Arm
At Curiaco a baseball game between two nine called Doctors and Undertakers ended abruptly in the seventh when pitcher James McNerney broke his arm on a swift in-shoot. The arm snapped near the shoulder and bone nearly protruded through the flesh, leaving him unconscious.
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Curiaco
Tio Nines
Undertakers
James McNerney
Colonel North's Italian palace at Avery Hill nears completion
Lord Wellesley visited Avery Hill where Colonel North's private residence rises on a wooded slope with a 100 by 50 foot picture gallery, a marble musicians' gallery, a strong room costing £2000, and a Pompeian mosaic corridor. The Italian collection from Manchester plus new paintings by Goodall and Sturgis are planned. the nitrate king will take possession before November.
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Edmund Yates
WN. T. Tribune
Lord Welseley
Avery Hill
Colonel North
Lee
Chislehurst
Fonthill Abbey
Thomas Cutler
Manchester
Frederick Goodall
Sturgis
Jem Selly
Brighton
Augusta and Other Cities Featured in Firm Listings
A compiled list shows names and affiliations across multiple cities including Augusta Georgia W Mulberio of Mulherin Rice and Co Grand Island Nebraska Wolbsch Bros Cleveland Ohio H B Clubs of Childs Graf Co Cleveland G W Cady of G W Cady Co Rd Chicago Illinois C W Marka Kansas City Missouri J P Sidwell WW Kendall B 8 Co Craw Pittsburg Pennsylvania A J Scott Qu Portsmouth Virginia W M Kennett Pa St Louis H W Peters Peters Miller Shore St Paul J B Tarbox Tarbox Schlick Co Vo Toledo O C Smith Smith Simmons Peabody Uniontown J 8 Harah Craw participating in the same notice of professionals active in related firms.
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Augusta
Penn
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Labi
Pecodagg
Schuylkill Works
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Horsford
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Smith, Simmons & Peabody
Uniontown
Harah
Craw
Boston Tow Boat Co
Parkinson & Burr
Congress
Northwestern Land Co
Minneapolis
Menn
W. B. Clark Investment Co
Minneapolis, Minn
Summer St
Hoxton, Rinses
Eastern Banking CO
Milk Street
Francis A. Osborn
T. Merrihew
Medical
Huwreeys
Cesare
Aisha Rin Wien
St. Vitus
Kent
Portpald
Humphreys
Caiine Oo
Fulton St
HumPaniia
Puanpromnna Co
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Nsuranch
American Insurance Co
Khilby Street
Messrs. George Croshaw & CO
Francis Peabody
J. W. Field
Renry S. Bean
Boylston
Kilby Street
W. Balch
W. Glover
Waban
Newton Highlands
WM. C. Strong
Uoumon
Massaach Usket
Messenger's
York E.suffolk
Suffolk
Samuel W. Creech, Jr
Exid
Court Square
WM. D. Martin
Chauncy Hall School
Messrs. T. Groom & Co
W. B. Clarke & To
Damrell & Upham
Boylston Street
Walter
Aalon B. Gay & Co
Stats Street
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