Bond Issue Seen To Stave Off Treasury Deficit
Reports from Washington indicate another bond issue may be required as the tariff bill lags, with expenses exceeding revenues by millions weekly. Secretary Carlisle’s plan to fund current government needs and cover overdue bills hinges on gold reserves and bond sales, as current warrants and payments strain the treasury.
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Treasury Department
Uncle Sam
Carlisle
Congress
Carriei
Tne
Tablet marks old Congress site with bronze display
The spot where the old Congress met in 1778 was marked by a bronze tablet. The tablet measures 334 feet wide by 4 feet high with a central relief plate showing Old Congress Hall. Inscribed are the events of December 1775 and December 27, 1776, with a second inscription noting the 1894 erection by the Sons of the Revolution. The sides list the original states.
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Baltimoore
Veh
Congress
Tts
Congress Hall
Jacob Fife
Continental Congress
Washington
Society of the Sons of the Revolution
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
Delaware
New Yorks
Rhode Island
Connecticut
New Hampshire
New Jersey
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Aurora Borealis and Sky Cross Stun Cincinnati and Crisscross City
Reports from Cincinnati and Olean describe brilliant nocturnal displays as the aurora borealis illuminated the northern sky on Thursday night. In Ohio the crimson arch stretched from east to west while in Pennsylvania a luminous cross appeared high in the zenith with rainbow balls at its corners, lasting about thirty minutes before fading.
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CincinnaTi
Price Hill
Om Crry
Louisville
St. Paul, Minn
Desperate Burglars Try to Loot East St. Louis Safe
Four masked burglars attacked the Flozel Milling Co. on Broadway near the L&N tracks at 1 am. They beat and bound three men Fred Brock Charles Maynard and Fred Scheib and forced open the safe with powder but found nothing of value. Police seek clues as amateurs driven to crime by hard times.
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St. Louis
Flozel Milling Co
Broadway
Louisville & Nashville
East St. Louis
Fred Brock
Charles Maynard
Fred Scheib
Harris to be moved for Chicago forgery trial
Judge Coxe in Utica granted an order to remove Le Roy Harris the postal money order swindler to Chicago for forgery trial. Harris will leave with Chief Inspector Stuart and Deputy Marshal Colt and is joined by Postmasters Dick and Harr who were each swindled out of $200. Morris cites dire poverty as motive.
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Burraro
N. Y
Coxe
Utica
le Roy Harris
Chicago
Harris
Stuart
Marshal Colt
Valparaiso
Ind
Harr
la Salle
Morris
Divorce Proceeding in Indiana Court Over Inhuman Treatment
Anna Brown files for divorce from Gen George W Brown a 92 year old farmer in Valparaiso Indiana citing inhuman treatment including driving her from the house forcing her to sleep in the barn and drugging her cup to destroy life. She is 20 and seeks alimony.
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Valparaiso
Ind
Annah Brown
George W. Brown
Union League hosts patriotic services and banquets
Chicago reports a large Union League club celebration with 500 guests at the banquet after Washington's birthday exercises in the Auditorium. Gov. McKinley and speakers from Justice Brewer to Bishop Fowler attended. all Chicago public schools joined in patriotic programs.
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The
Union League Club of
Chicago
Union League Club
Wilson
Gov. McWinsey
Washington
Lincoln
John Ss. Wise
New York
David J. Brewer
Wasteston
Charles Tl. Fowler
Minnesota
America
William J. Bryan
Nebraska
George Washington
Union League
Gov. McWinley
University of Chicago
Ohio
W. R. Harper
Bedlam
Gov. Melkkinley
Washington Plurality Hints at Congressional Victory
Reports from Philadelphia and other cities show Grow leading for congress with a 180,339 plurality by last counts. The day marks Washington's birthday observed with closures and charity events across banks exchanges and public buildings while schools parade with flags. A coal prospecting shaft is planned after finding seven feet two inches of vein in Litcnrie p Hl. A Springfield flagman Dennis Perriman dies after a switch error turns him into a train. Nathan Strauss expands from a milk at cost shop to an undertaker service for the poor.
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St. Louis
Washington
Philadelphia
Allegheny
Armstrong
Erie
Fayette
Westmoreland
Grow
Congress
P. Hl
Stretly
New York
Nathan Strauss
Cornell suspects arrest in gag poisoning cases
Ithaca authorities expect several crews will lead to arrests of sophomores accused in a chlorine gas poisoning that killed Mary Jackson, a cook, and injured students Patterson, McNeil, and McCulloch. The coroner's jury foreman is State Civil Service Commissioner Van Vleet.
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Itmaca
N. Y
Mary Jackson
Fie
Patterson
McNeil
McCulloch
Civil Service
van Vleet
Big Colonization Plan in Chiapas by Salvation Army
In Mexico City on February 22 authorities report the Salvation Army and English capitalists considering a joint colonization scheme. A syndicate has bought 200000 acres in Chiapas for 5000 families with GH Durst sailing to England to confer with General Booth. Chiapas, on the Pacific, is seen as fertile. colonists are expected mainly from England. Mexico bans street warfare by the Army under reforms against the Catholic church.
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City of
Mexico
Salvation Army
United Stites
England
Chiapas
Menico
GH. Durst
Booth
Pacific
Anti-Chinese Sunday School Crusade Shuts Chinese Class Plan
Chicago activists led by Dr. T W Carr and CW N Ilinetop passed resolutions condemning Chinese education for American women. They urge churches to forbid Chinese Sunday schools with young unmarried women as teachers, citing threat to purity and well being. Chinese respond by threatening to refuse instruction if limits persist.
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Acro
Celestials
Chcagoe
Chicago
TW. Carr
CWN Linetop
Washington Birth Day Observances Across Departments
Washington D C honors Washingtons birthday with closed executive departments and parades by the district national guards. The Sons of the American Revolution hold an annual meeting at Welcker's with address by Joseph C Breckinridge. The Daughters of the American Revolution welcome the president general Mrs Adlai E Stevenson. A portrait of Caroline Scott Harrison is unveiled.
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Wasnixcron
D. C
Hursday
Washington
Congress
District National Guards
Veteran Volunteer Fire Company
Joseph C. Breckinridge
Sons of the American Revolution
Welcker’s
Thirty-Third Continental Congress
Daughters of the American Revolution
Adlai E. Stevenson
James 8. Peek
Peek
Wisconsin
Caroline Scott Harrison
President Dole Aims at Drafting Hawaiian Constitution
In Honolulu President Dole shifts toward drafting a new constitution with outside counsel guiding the process. A mass meeting of the Annexation Club nominated candidates for the advisory council as he weighs a constitutional convention or other form of union with the United States.
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San Francisco
Oceanic
Willis
Dole
J W. Hateh
Advisory Council
Annexation Club
American League
D. J. Smith
Smith
Washington
United States
Tlateh
Judiciary Committee
F. M. Wateh
Feats and Fires Across the Nation Recorded
The telegraph reports crop damage in Texas, a fire at Hoover's Dairy in Indianapolis causing large losses, and avalanches near Verdi New. Other items note society and political moves in St Louis, a bishop’s archbishop appointment, a convention of Negro Democrats in St Louis, a Hemispheric debt suspension, and various local incidents.
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Hoover
Iadianapolis
Verdi
New
New York Yacht Club
Carnevie
Emerson Etheridge
Memphis
Tenn
Otto Zardelini
Cathlic
St. Cloud
Minn
Bucharest
Missouri
St. Louis
George Doyle
Columbus
Andy Williams
West Spring Street
Senator McMillan
the Senate
Michigan
Miles B. Davis
Rosseau
St. Louis Merchants’ Exchange
Paducah
Pittsburgh
Senor Cruz
Emperor William
Cowes
Christabel
Mediterranean
Cannes
Tien Tsin
Shanghai-Nkwun
Great Wall
Gulf of Liatung
M. Nicholas de Giers
Markets Report Cincinnati and Pittsburgh Cattle Prices
Cattle and veal prices listed for Cincinnati and Pittsburgh markets with ranges for choice, good, fair, and rough categories. Hogs and sheep show steady demand, with receipts moderate and prices steady to slightly higher in Cincinnati. Pittsburgh shows similar trends across cattle, hogs, and lambs with varied quality.
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Cincinnati
Fep, && CatTtie
Pittsburgh
Coast Dared by Sailor Man Turns Near Miss into Lesson
A Detroit Free Press account recalls a near drowning off Pointe Aux Barques. A second mate on a lumber schooner swam through three feet of water to retrieve a yawl, then fought exhaustion and tides while recalling his wife and children, finally returning with the yaw and soundings. The captain’s reaction was sharp, noting a mile and a half of ghoul water along the coast.
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Pointe Aux Barques
Detroit Free Press
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