Pennsylvania Well Supply Co Goes Into Receivership
The Well Supply company, a Pennsylvania corporation with $1.5 million capital and $2.4 million assets, has placed itself under a receiver as debts near $1.1 million. Principal offices and mills are in Pittsburgh with facilities in Gil City Bradford and other sites. over 1,500 employees. Creditors will likely meet as the company seeks to save the plant as a unit and recover and resume operations.
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Maine
Portsmouth
API Timber Lands
West Virgina
Sung
Stureus
Leatherbee & Son
Andrew VP
Leatherbee & Co
Andrew F
Edwin Booth's Will Leaves Bulk to His Daughter Edwina
The late Edwin Booth's will values his estate at about 650,000. The bulk goes to his daughter Edwina Booth Grossman with a trust through Central Trust Company. Specific bequests include 10,000 to brother Joseph Booth, 10,000 to niece Marie Booth Douglas, 5,000 to Adrienne Clark and others, and 5,000 to several funds and institutions. Upon Edwina's death, the property goes to her children.
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Edwin Booth
Mr. Booth
Edwina Booth Grossman
Joseph Booth
Marle Booth Douglas
Asia Clark Morgan
Adrienne Clark
Junius Brutus Booth
Creston Clark
Wilfred Clark
Charlotte Mitchell
Baltimore
Robert Mitchel
North Carolina
Marie Anderson
John B. Magonigle
Margaret Devlin
Magonigle
Actors’ Fund
Actors’ Order of Friendship Ofhiladelphia
Asylum Fund of
Home For
West Farms
N. Y
Central Trust Company
Missouri Supreme Court voids va grant sales in Mexico
The Missouri Supreme Court ruled the va grant sale law unconstitutional. Earlier auctions allowed selling vagrants to highest bidders in Mexico and other towns like Marshall and Fayette. Joseph Thompson and George Hardin, previously sold, have been released.
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Missouri
Supreme Court
Marshall
Fayette
Joseph Thompson
George Hardin
German Officers to Visit America Engage in Rail Way Study
A colonel and ten other officers from a German railway regiment have begun a journey to the United States. Their mission is to study the American railway system. Each officer will travel through an exclusive district assigned by the colonel.
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Bini
United States
Oficer
Bayard to Present Credentials at Windsor Castle
Ambassador Thomas F. Bayard will go to Windsor Castle on Friday to present his credentials to the queen as the American ambassador to Great Britain.
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Bayard
Loxton
Thomas F. Bayard
Great Britain
Windsor Castle
Cholera Toll Mounts in Mecca and London
Advices report Mecca and London facing cholera outbreaks with high death counts. Mecca records 817 deaths from June 18 to June 21 amid ongoing spread.
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Mecca
London
Verdict faults Ford theater builders for fatal collapse
Coroner's jury finds criminal negligence and manslaughter by Col Frederick Ainsworth engineer Francis Sasse and Superintendent William Covert and contractor George Dant in the Ford theater disaster. Bail set at 10000 each for Ainsworth Covert and Sasse. Dant reportedly without bail. Loftus died when a pier failed during repairs on June 9 1893.
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Covert
Engineer Sasse
Washincton
Ford Theater
Frederick Ainsworth
Dant
Sasse
Willard’s Hall
Frederick B. Loftus
Ford
George W. Dant
Frederick C. Ainsworth
William G. Covert
Francis Sasse
Loftus
Ainsworth
Bond
War Department
Fatal Somnambulism Cases Shock Chicago
A Chicago morning reports three sleepwalking fatalities. Daniel Lord of New York, 22, died after falling from a fourth story window at 124 Rush Street. Anton Tripp, a West Indiana Street barkeeper, was found dead near Oakley after allegedly falling asleep by the window. Minnie Berg, of 435 Washington Boulevard, survived a second story fall during somnambulism and remains critically injured.
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Daniel Lord
New York
Chicaso
R. Hall McCormick
Rush Street
Lord
Indiana Street
Tripp
Minnie Berg
Washington Boulevard
President alters plans to stay for business then join Mrs. Cleveland
The president will not accompany Mrs. Cleveland to Buzzard's Bay. He will remain in Washington to handle public business before summer vacation and plans to join Mrs. Cleveland at Gray Gables at the end of August.
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Washington
White House
Vannutelli Resigns as Vatican Secretary Post
Rome June 21 Cardinal Serafino Vannutelli archbishop of Bologna has resigned the position of secretary at the Vatican amid reported differences with the pope over policy. The resignation makes him a leading candidate to succeed Leo.
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Serafino Vannutelli
Bologne
Leo
Vatican
Vannutelli
Brakeman Shot by Tramps Near East Dubuque
Brakeman John Jordan of Freeport Illinois was shot and seriously wounded on an Illinois Central train near East Dubuque by one of two- Negro assailants he was ejecting from the car. The shooter escaped while the other suspect was captured.
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John Jordan
Freeport
Illinois Central
East Dubuque
Insane Man Dies in Patrol Wagon En Route to Police
Casper Shau man of Desnarr Ia died in a patrol wagon while being taken to the police station. He had ingested carbolic acid intending to take his own life after his arrest on an insanity charge.
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Desnarr
Casper Shauman
World's Congresses of Commerce and Finance Open In Curiaco
Exponents of banking finance railway commerce boards of trade and mercantile credits met at the Art Institute hall on Monday evening inaugurating the worlds congresses of commerce and finance. President Bonney Lyman J Gage George R Filauchard and others spoke on finance railways boards of trade and insurance with papers on banking and international board of trade proposals.
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George R Filauchard
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Chicago Board of Trade
John H. Nolan
P. R. Earling
Congress of Mercantile Credits
Julius Stern
Congress On Building and Loan Associations
Bradford Rhodes
Bankers’ Congress
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George R. Blanchard
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John F. Dillon
Union VP Pacific Railway
Horace Vorter
New York
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Congress of Finance
Mutual Insurance Societies
A. W. Berggren
Galesburg
Boards of Trade
Hamilton Andrews Hill
International Board of Trade
Fierce Heat Abroad Leaves Two Dead in London
London reports two sunstroke deaths as intense heat gripped the UK on Monday. Thunder storms caused damage in several districts with a gunner Mac Donald slain by lightning at West Moreland fort near Queenstown and laborer Ha gan killed at Middletown near Cork.
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London
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Queenstown
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Middletown
Cork
Michigan Small fruits to be plenty in June report
The Michigan weather service bureau reports warm, dry weather has improved ground conditions. Crops grow rapidly with good prospects for pears peaches plums and apricots while apples are below average. Hay potatoes and vegetables show potential for good yields.
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Detroit
Mich
Michigan Weather Service Bureau
Ford matriarch dies from rat bite linked to famous outlaws
Mrs J T Ford of Rieumann Missouri died from blood poisoning caused by a rat bite ten days earlier. She was mother to Bob and Charley Ford noted for killing Jesse James in St Joseph under contract with the governor Crittenden. the report notes the linkage to a notable historical case and local conditions. In Columbus Ohio thieves looted the Sons of Veterans encampment band tent, stealing jewelry railroad passes and cash totaling about 700 dollars, leaving Fremont business men stranded.
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J.T. Ford
Bob and Charley Ford
Jesse James
St. Joseph
Mexico
Ohio
Sons of Veterans
Grain Merchants protest slow railroad movement
TWinois Grain Merchants protective association says losses are due to slow car movement and have authorized the railroad commissioner to file damages suits. Married school teachers dismissed in public schools following an edict. nearly 100 teachers removed. In Tennessee a lynching mob reportedly hanged Jim Starris, an innocent man, while Lee Bennett is held in Dresden under heavy guard.
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Twinois Grain Merchants’ S Protective Association
Louisa
Mian, Tenn
Lee Bennett
Gleason
Jim Starris
Bennett
Dresden
Immense Losses in Mesaba Range Fire Report
A Mesaba range fire devastation update from June 21 reports 3,600 homeless, 340 Virginia buildings burned, and multiple mines damaged. Duluth coordinates relief, total losses near 1.1 million with insured value up to 400 thousand. Fire still threatens northern Wisconsin and Michigan upper peninsula towns amid hot, dry weather.
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Jones
Mesaba
Mountain
Ohio
Rouchleau
Burke
New England
Minness
Wyoming
Michigan
Upper Michigan Peninsula
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Wisconsin
Iron River
Sanborn
A Rush of Tragic News From Across Towns and Countries
A string of incidents from Van Wert to San Francisco reports killings, suicides, accidents, arrests and political drama. Hiram Bowling dies after mail injury in Ohio. William Rapply shoots self in Missouri. Frederick Love faces theft charges in Minneapolis. Frank Davis jailed for burglaries in New York. Bohemian leader Sulek commits suicide in Iowa City. rapid powder tests in South Dakota to induce rain. dire injuries in Illinois and Wisconsin. historic Hartford ship to be modernized. jockeys face murder inquiry. Clemenceau-Deroulede duel challenge amid electoral reform debate.
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Royal Institute of Architects
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Tenderloin
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Iowa City
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Yates City
Boyer
Emma Breene
Beloit
Wis
Charles Bellew
Mississippi
Davenport
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Hartford
Mare Island
Chicago
John Kelly
San Francisco
Richard Ward
M. Clemenceau
Paul Deroulede
Lucien Millevoye
Gilbert Arrives to Be Cared For by Irish Sympathizers
James Gilbert, recently released from an English prison, arrived in New York on the City of Chester under the alias James Cunningham. He appeared frail and emaciated and said he was far from well. Irish sympathizers plan to send him to a resort to restore his health.
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J. N. Adam
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Supreme Court
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Fosteria
Charles Foster
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ChicaGco
Schaffner
Chicago Desk Manufacturing Company
John M. Menge
Carroll Avenue
New York
James Gilbert
City of Chester
James Cunningham
Kennedy
Gilbert
Chicago Markets Quiet as Wheat and Corn Hold Steady
Markets show quiet, steady tone across grains with spring and winter wheats steady to firmer. Corn and oats mixed with prices unsettled, lard and beef prices steady, pork slow, and petroleum trades modest in Cleveland and Toledo reports.
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Chicago Cattle and Hog Market Steady With Mixed Quotations
Chicago cattle quotations show prices steady with slow demand across grades including choice to extra shipping steers at 85.90 25.60 and cows at 81,5093.60, while stockers and feeders fetch 82.50 3.60 and 83.70 4.40. Hog market remains active with ranges from 84.06 50 for pigs to 96.25 6.55 for mixed and 6.30 66.50 for heavy packing and shipping lots.
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Michigan
Indiana
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Texas
Cambodian arithmetic described as complex and unique
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch explains Cambodian numeration as quintic counting up to five and a distinctive additive method with side-by-side numbers and vertical lines. It details subtraction by aligning lesser and greater numbers, partial remainders, and a multiplication process multiplying each digit and summing small series, noting division is similarly intricate.
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Beye
Boun
Pram
Prammouille
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Trapping Wolves in France and the Wolf Problem
A described trap uses a double circle of stakes with an open outer door that misleads wolves to trap themselves. The piece notes small modern rewards for wolves may hinder efficient extinction and suggests government resolve and hunter cooperation are needed to reduce the wolf threat.
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France
Stone Crusher Sought By Local Paper Circulation
Elder Berry circulates a paper to fund a stone crusher after asserting there are sermons in stones. Mrs Berry comments on the effort as the community considers the project.
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Elder Berry
Joblots
Ex-prize fighter opens cheaper college alternative
In Vogue dialogue, a character notes an ex prize fighter has opened a physical culture school in town as a cheaper option than college. Miss Gotrox is described as owning ice houses in the north and valued at about a million.
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Spencer
Miss Gotrox
Ferguson
Vogue
Brown I Take The Carpet Down Myself
Mrs Brown notes she grew tired of waiting and proceeded to install the carpet herself. Brown responds asking to see the work thumb test.
Burglary Exchange in Texas Siftings Quip
A burglar tells Judge Why he forced a safe door as it was locked, delivering a sardonic reply that highlights the irony of the situation in a terse Texas Siftings item.
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Texas Siftings
In a Sculptor's Studio
Dialogue fragment shows Cholly Dudely and St Gdodens discussing crafting dle-aw mud beads with humor. The exchange hints at an introduction and a playful claim about who made which beads.
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St. Gdodens
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