Events Of The Week From The Global Field
A roundup of notable incidents includes three Alberta bay tribe chiefs brought to Vancouver to face accusations of cannibalism at a potlatch led by Chief Gilhunk. Judge Taft forecloses and orders sale of the Columbus Sandusky and Hocking Railroad with an upset price of 2.5 million dollars. a Massachusetts Macaroni Company fire injures and causes heavy losses. Count Castellano secures over a million from his wife’s siblings after a difficult loan pursuit. a street pistol duel injures Wight and Blanton amid mayoralty tensions. California murder and suicide cases. a bank vice-president’s arrest for a historic robbery. Nebraska sues railroads under a freight-rate act. a Covington man terrorizes his wife until neighbors intervene. Downtrodden business conditions noted by Bradstreet with cotton and wheat market movements. other legal, shipping, and international updates.
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Cincinnati
Taft
Columbus, Sandusky and Hocking
Metropolitan Trust Company of
New York
Massachusetts Macaroni Company
North Street
Count Castellano
United States
Douglass Wight
Horace H. Blanton
Nevada
Wight
Blanton
Alexander Carter
Charles
North
Berkeley
Cal
Fuller E. Brown
Helena
Mont
N. L. Michael
American National Bank
Lima
Ohio
Michael
Smyth
Nebraska
Supreme Court
Union Pacific
Missouri Pacific
Rock Island
Jack Edwards
Covington. Inc
Aharacter
Ile
Edwards
Bradstreet
London
Pioneer Solon Humphreys dies at Bergen Point aged 80
Across a wide sweep of notices the death of Solon Humphreys, longtime railroad builder, at Bergen Point at age 80 tops today’s list. The item follows with a sprawling roll of events from leagues and courts to accidents, politics, and local crimes across the nation, including labor wage advances, a measles epidemic scare at Harvard, a derailed New York Central train, and other era-shaking incidents.
Western. Present appoints George F for Western District of Michigan
The Present names George F as a candidate for federal judgeship in the western district of Michigan. A series of fires and losses reported include Woodsfield Ohio with $50,000 damage and the Second Presbyterian Church in Chicago destroyed after a blaze from the organ loft. Obituaries note Rev Charles Secumbe in Springfield South Dakota aged 82 and Archbishop John Lennessy in Dubuque Iowa. Other items: bankruptcy petition by John J Seiberling in Akron. a fatal gas-fire accident near Muncie Indiana. a robbery at the South Side Elevated’s Twelfth Street station in Chicago. corporate leadership changes in Kansas City. drowning incidents near Champaign Illinois. William J Bryan’s return to Austin Texas. and Colorado Springs construction strikes impacting 50 carpenters and painters.
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George F
Michigan
Woodsfield
Charles Secumbe
Northwest
Springfield
S. D
Second Presbyterian Church
Chicago
John Llennessy
Dubuque
Iowa
E. A. Guibert
Lie A
State Board of Health
West
John J °. Seiberling
Akron
Ohio
SUI
Sun
William Jolloways
Muncie
Ind
Dennis A. Foster
Twelfth Street
South Side Elevated Railroad
George Anderson Fowler
George Fowler & Son Company, Limited
Kansas City
Goebel law repeal bill killed in Kentucky House
Multiple early 20th century items report Goebel election law repeal defeat in Kentucky's lower house. Also noted: Julius Moyse held for federal trial in New Orleans for impersonating a government officer. Drake, a famed mountain detective, killed with Ford in Bloomfield. smallpox alarm in Jonesville, Miss., with nearly 100 deaths in six weeks. Butler County murder case of Harlan Whittaker. Segregated trials in Franklin and Whitley counties. college fist fight at Lexington over a quarrel. Mobile murder admission by 12 year old John Drashmal and mother Agnes. Red Ash mine disaster near Creek West Virginia leaves many dead or trapped.
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Kentucky
Julius Moyse
Clarke
New Orleans
Bloomfield
United States
George W. Drake
Will St. John
James Ford
Trinds County
Miss
Board of Supervisors
Jonesville
Harlan Whittaker
Butler County
William Guebel
Frankfort
S.lus Jones
Whitley County
Japklin County
State College
G. Gaither
James I. Sevley
Lexington
Gaither
Seeley
John Drashmal
Agnes
Mobile
Ala
Bessie Miller
Cohen
Bessie
Red Ash
The
Creek
W. Va
Foreign briefs from the era and world events
Reports note Peru floods causing 1.5 million dollars in damage Paris fears smallpox spread in the city Isaac Gordon famed as England’s great usurer is dead Spain denies Canary Islands would be ceded to England Queen Victoria postpones Bordighera visit Holland seeks industrial and political ties with Germany Mount Asama, a major Japanese volcano, recently showed unusual activity
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Peru
Paris
Isaac Gordon
England
Spain
Canary Islands
Victoria
Bordighera
Holland
Germany
Mount Asama
Japan
Turbulent headlines of war and violence span Europe
A sequence of reports describes a powerful explosion and uproar over the Transvaal war gold supply, a duel between Paris editors Maurras and Monod with wounds, and vague Serb Bulgarian tensions. A bomb at Alfred Picard’s Paris residence failed to explode as a witness was assaulted. In the Philippines, Lieutenant Edgar I. Knoehler was killed and twenty four enemies perished after a rifle ambush near Tarlac. Alsace Lorraine rejects importing American grapevines amid vine ruin concerns.
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Bank of France
England
Transvaal
Charles Maurras
M. Monod
Paris
Servia
Bulgaria
Alfred Picard
Edgar I. Knochler
Ninth Infantry
Tar-lac
Luzon
Alsace-Lorraine
Reichsland
Baron Zorn von Bulach
Wheeler Back From Manila Will Return to Congress
Gen. Wheeler has returned from Manila and will return to Congress. Helen Gould is said to be the donor of the $160,000 fund for an American Pantheon. The British government has decided that Lord Pauncefoto shall remain as ambassador at Washington indefinitely. Wreckage off Nova Scotia indicates the Elder-Dempster line was lost with all hands, including six cattle ushers. The Independent Window Glass Manufacturers Association formed last December by prominent independents has failed. Charles D Lane reports rich gold discoveries on Jack Wade Creek near Logie City in American territory. Dirt from the dump averages $13 to the pan. Minister Mariscal has accepted the invitation to participate in the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo. Rumor links J J Hill to a rail extension to Vancouver Island with a ferry connection to the mainland. Meiklejohn directs Gen Otis to return to the U S in May with one battalion each of the Fourteenth Eighteenth and Twenty-third infantry. Prof Marshall Saville leaves Mexico with artifacts from Mitla, Oaxaca, studying ancient mounds near the old city.
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Wheeler
Manila
Congress
Helen Gould
Associated Press
Lord Pauncefote
Washington
Nova
Charles D. Lane
San Francisco
Alaska
Jack Wade Creek
Logie City
American
Pans
Mariscal
United States
Powell Clayton
Diaz
Buffalo
Vancouver Island
J. J. Hill
Great Northern Railway
Meiklejohn
Otis
Miles
Marshall Saville
American Museum of Natural History of New York
City of
Mexico
Mitla
Oaxaca
Market Reports From U.S. Grain and Livestock Markets
Market summaries across Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo and New York show cattle shipping prices, hogs and sheep ranges, and grain values for No 2 grades. Notable figures include Chicago cattle 1.00 to 6.25, hogs 3.00 to 5.25, wheat No 2 red 14e to 19e, corn No 2 35e to 86e, and butter creamery 20c to 27c per pound.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Ste. Cincinnati
Detroit
Toledo
Milwaukee
New York
Vattle
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Brimfield
Illinois
Alberta Bay
Vancouver
B. C
British Columbia
Gilhunk
George Dove
Joe Jones
Glasgow
BE. E. Clark
Benton Power and Traction Company
St. Cloud
Minn
Cuvier
Quinton
Antwerp
Brazil
Supreme Court of Chile
Frederick T. Moore
Theational Bank of Commerce of
Boston
Kruger
Tramsvaal Republic
Lord Salisbury
O’brien
Queen and Crescent
Kings Mountain
Tennessee
Lucania
Grear Northern Railroad
Pacific Coast
Far East
Solon Humphreys
Bergen Point
Harvard
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
F. E.-Harvey
University of Maine
Crono
New York Central
Phelps Junction
N. Y
Silas W. Terry
Admiral McCormick
Washington Navy Yard
National Tube Company
McKeesport
Virth
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Harmer
Mott
Olga Nethersole
Hamilton Revelle
Marcus Mayer
Theodore Moss
Roraback
Cross
Connecticut
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company of
Vermont Insurance Company
Burlington
Metropolitan
Kingston
Louis Etring & Sons
Amerean Express Company
A. Curr & Sons’ Undertaking
Hand Brewing Company
Darlington
Pawtucket
RK. 1
Ines
Denver
Bernard Moses
University of California
McKinley
New
Philippine Commission
Moses
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Illinois Central Railroad
Junction
Broadview
Lil
Chicago and Eastern
Ilinois
North Mines
W. V. Morgan
Scott Smith
Jank E. Moores
Omaha
Armers' Bank
Farmington
Chinatown
Sam Yup
Poon Gee
Low Soon
Leong Cheun
Tuck Wo & Co
James D. Burns
George T. Stallings
Detroit Club
American Baseball League
George A. Vanderbeck
Western
Southern
Market Reports
Anns Lawrence
Ayer
Gallen
Asalzer
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