Syndicate Eyes Fort Stevenson Purchase for Cattle Ranch
Boston capitalists seek to buy the 45,000 acre Fort Stevenson military reservation in North Dakota. Appraised value about 735,000 dollars. Other items note train wrecks, a child killed, drownings, lynching mobs, a newspaper editor takeover, an infernal machine in court, and Dun’s weekly trade commentary with weekly failures numbers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Fort Stevenson
North Dakota
Grand Trunk
Port Huron
Sarnia
William Riggs
John A. Burke
Erie
Milton Tower
Ohio
Charles M. Sheldon
Topeka
Kan
Capital
Criminal Court
New Albany
Miss
C. X. Day
Shaffer
Cheat River
Parsons
W. Va
Fort Scott
George
Ed Meeks
Smith
Kansas City
Leopold Edlinger
Bates Count
Missouri
Amos Phillips
Bates County
R. G. Dun
Weekly Review of Trade
Burt
New York
United States
Canada
News Nuggets From Around The World And Nation
Russia reportedly agrees to join Corea. Dr C L Diven of Unity Church St Paul Minn is dead. Chinese Six Companies aid SF police against highbinder murders. Three Italians killed in an New York tenement row. Gage asks Congress for 317509 to equip a marine hospital in Chicago. Osman Digna captured. Dr Abram H Witmer dies in Washington aged 35. Innere leader shot near Wellsboro Pa. Yaqui defeat reported near Nogales with 200 killed and 500 prisoners. Macrom carries Kruger letter seeking McKinley mediation. Bank of Ellensburg robbed. 1500 taken. Fire at Barnum Bailey winter quarters Bridgeport destroys 11 cars and laborer quarters. loss 100000. Martin Bergen killed in North Brookfield. death attributed to his father.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Corea
C. L. Diven
D. D
Unity Church
St. Paul
Minn
San Francisco
New York
Gage
Congress
Chicago
Osman Digna
Khalifa Abdallah
Abram H. Witmer
Government Hospital For the
Washington
Fd. C
William J. Thomas
Wellsboro
Nogales
Mexico
United States
Macrom
Kruger
Transvaal Republic
McKinley
Transvaal
Great Britain
Bank of
Barnum& Bailey
Bridgeport
Conn
North Brookfield
Mass
Martin Bergen
Eian
Bergen
Early 1900s Memos: Bank Retires $100,000 and Notables Pass Away
East in 1900s notes report Philippi bank retirement of a $100,000 loan, deaths of Charles A. Siesfried medical inspector US Navy in Newport age 50, Thomas Egleston founder Columbia School of Mines in NYC age 68, Gen. George H. Sharpe of Kingston NY in NYC after surgery. Also mentions gifts, municipal plans, and various industrial incidents across the nation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philippi
W. Va
Charles A. Siesfried
United States Navy
Newport
Rt. 1
Thomas Egleston
Columbia University School of Mines
New York
George H. Sharpe
Kingston
N. Y
New York City
John J. Albright
Buffalo
Henry Hughes
Chester
Illiam Newman
Pittsburg
Alice Warner
van Horn
Meriden Bronze Company
Meriden
Helen Gould
Naval Branch
Young Mens—Christian
Brook- Inn
N.Y
Rutland
Francis E. Clark
United Society of Christian Endeavor
Boston
H. C. Wainwright & Co
United States
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Tunnel
Oxford
N. J
Americanssociation of Inventors and Manufacturers
Washington
Francis UW. Richards
Dartford
Conn
J. C. Anderson
Chicago
Western items from era connect horror, floods, and justice
A montage of 1900s brief items reports Mrs. H. G. Fuller’s death in Yankton, labor clashes in Cleveland, and various accidents, crimes, and civic notes across the Midwest. Highlights include a bear trap dam yielding river junctions, Kansas City’s electric rail plan, a Chicago bankruptcy filing, mine and court actions, a St. Louis stabbing, a Belgrade murder suicide, and Walker pine protection tensions.
Duel ends in deaths after feud between Colson and Scott
A collision with Lieut. Scott at a hotel stairway left two men wounded and a seventh with a fractured leg. The duel stemmed from a feud that began during the Spanish American War between Colson and Scott.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lieut
Scott
Colson
Spain
Multiple Disasters Reported Across World
A church collapsed during mass in Maloouselle, Samara district, Russia, killing nineteen and wounding sixty eight. Venezuela faces arch criminal unrest as bank directors are jailed for refusing government funds. An Avigliana dynamite factory blast near Turin killed ten, with many others missing and a fire burning. Benjamin West’s Raising of Lazarus sold for 7500 dollars for a New York cathedral. The British steamer St Helena wrecked near Bombay rock after a long voyage from Hong Kong to Singapore, leaving crew to survive eight days aboard boats and reach Cape St James after fifteen days of hardship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maloouselle
Samara
Russia
Caracas
Amrarchy
Venezuela
Avigliana
Turin
Italy
London
Benjamin West
Winchester
Cape St. James
Mysterious Epilogue and Global Troubles Highlight Era News
Reports from Skaguay aboard the Danube note White Pass blockade lifted and Dawson business setback after a fire may cost over 500000 dollars. A Fort Monroe convict, Louis August, hanged himself after murder sentence. opera singer Marion Mason sues for divorce naming a Massachusetts socialite. Frigate Saratoga sails from Philadelphia on winter cruise with 70 boys aboard. Immigration sources show 14000 soldiers from the republic settle in Canada recently, while a damaged life buoy found near Helgoland bears a fragmentary inscription. British Columbia mines petition repeal of the eight hour law amid capital concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Skaguay
Philadelphia
West Indies
Danube
Dawson
Ontario Superintendent of Immigration
United States
Republic
Canada
Kansas
Arkansas
St. Johns
St. Mary’s Bay
Elguland
Kentucky selects J C S Blackburn to Senate
A Kentucky Legislature vote formally names J C S Blackburn as United States Senator. Simultaneous reports from Tennessee detail multiple murders and a lynching aftermath, including Elvin Phillips killing Andy Chitwood in Almy and mob violence in Henning and Nashville related incidents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kentucky
J.C. S. Blackburn
United States
Almy
Tenn
Andy Chitwood
Elvin Phillips
J. W. Murphy
Third National Bank of
Columbus
P. T. Shutze
Graysville
Andrew Gauze
Henning
Gauzes
Gingerly Brothers
Turner and
Dunn
Robinson County
Tennessee
Nashville
Will Morrison
Morrison
W. D. Coffman
Capitol Hotel
Frankfort
David G. Colson
Ethelbert Scott
Scott
Market Reports from Multiple Cities Including Cattle Hogs and Grains
A dense market rundown across Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo New York with varying bid ranges for cattle hogs and sheep. Grain values include wheat corn oats rye and barley across No 2 grades and regional spreads. dairy eggs and butter prices also listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Toledo
Milwaukee
New York
Senate and House Debates on Philippine Resolutions and Finance
The Senate and House devoted time to Philippine resolutions and a financial bill. Debates featured Mr. Pettigrew’s critique of the administration and Mr. Wolcott’s reply. The House advanced an urgent deficiency appropriation bill and discussed state bank note authority, while a Census bill and pensions measures moved forward. A resolution sought state department info on Britain US war vessel limits and a proposal on a Great Lakes canal surfaced amid broader district DC business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Mracon
Pettigrew
Wolcott
Dakota
Rawling
House
Cannon
III
Secretary of State
Great Britain
United States
Great Lakes
District of Columbia
Gulloin
Ilinois
Hoar
Peace Commission
Wweard
McLaurin
Gage
Richardson
Tennessee
Hopkins
Illinois
Barney
Wis
Wellington
Philippines
Teller
Hoss
Ulale
Patseg
Allen
Transvaal
Morgan
Commissioner of Pensions
Curtis
Rep
Kan
Lentz
Norton
Ohio
Robinson
Indiana
Missouri River
St. Charles
League Island
Mare Island
Roberts
Danford
War Department
St. Mary’s Rapids
Lake Superior
Hallowell Fire Destroys 65000 Worth of Property
Scattered brief items report losses in Hallowell Maine totaling sixty five thousand dollars. Other notes mention coal discoveries in Cuba West W Gage linked, Toledo tragedy, New York Produce Trust resuming business, New Yorkers planning a Mills hotel in Chicago, the death of Manlio Garibaldi, Danish land purchase near Athens Georgia, Santo Domingo apologizing to France, smallpox in Orizaba and Tehuantepec Alessco, Peter Beebe dying from cold, Ohio cigarette sales ban efforts, and West Point exam deficiencies for C L Lacey Indiana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. W. Gage
Gage
Toledo
Ohio
Produce’ Trust Company
New York
Chicago
Manlio Garibaldi
Athens
Santo Domingo
France
Orizaba
Tehuantepec
Alessco
Peter Beebe
Ogdensburg
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the Brimfield News
Addison Pacey
Western
H. G. Fuller
South Dakota Supreme Court
Yankton
Cleveland
Lockport
Lake Michigan
Nave
P. F. Ryan
Chicago West Side
National Association of Ered Alill
American Steel and Wire Company
Charles Hauptman
G. W. Chaffee
Gen. Chaffee
Chaffee
Houston
Texas
Charles Dougherty
Edward Elnois
William S<aiser
Northwestern Lumbermen’s Association
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Iowa
Wisconsin
Dakotas
Belgrade
Mon
Frank Rogers
Eta Davis
Fort Bayard
N. M
Surgeon General of the Army
General Hospital
Great Northern Road
Hillyard
Wash
J. M. Atwater
Hiram College
Eureka College
Hainois
Central Christian College
Albany
House of Delegates
Thayer
United States Circuit Court
Ted
Wild Brothers Jewelry Company
Peter A. Pickel
Bastrop
Arthur Burford
Burford
Colorado County
William Clements
Lafayette
August Stephany
Cortland, Neb
J. G. Ludlam
Lepper
Johnson
Green Springs
Orpha Sheets
Claude Tuttle
Tuttle
Austin IX. Wheeler
Lemon & Wheeler
Grand Rapids
Mich
S . Brain
Tom Condon
Littie Wilson
Sioux Range
Pierre
Woodward Avenue
Mutual Storage Company
Valentine Schroeder
Gebhard Paper Company
Schneider & Lieder
Diamond Printring Ink Company
William Lochren
United States Court Room
James Welch
Lochremand
Charles Afnmes
Anna Monroe
Shelbyville
Ind
Miss Monroe
Sioux City
George C. Haddock
Oklahoma
Henry Peters
Bunt
Walker
T. B. Walker
British Columbia
West Kootenai
Southern
Market Reports
Hallowell
Cuba
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