Debates on silver policy and banking reform in 1890s mix
The article surveys arguments for and against free coinage and the gold standard, arguing Gresham’s law favors cheaper metal, cautions that silver would not wreck the economy, and discusses banking policy battles led by Bryan, Quay, and other figures. It notes unions, platforms, and political tensions in the Middle West, Chicago, and national finance debates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Rehure
Unionip
Chicago
Argu
Luis Poco
Vu Stauies
Ebonuks
Political pressure threatens labor unions in Ohio federation race
The passage warns that politicians are exerting influence to control labor unions for the Republican party. It cites the defeat of Lewis at Zanesville for President of the Ohio State Federation as an early result of partisan interference, risking non partisan labor organizations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Republican Party
Lewis
Zanesville
Ohio State Federation
Why the Treasury Is Full and Death Perceptions
The piece discusses why the U S Treasury appears full from borrowing, citing Cleveland and McKinley sums, and questions a nation borrowing itself rich. It then explores attitudes toward death in illness, noting chronic patients sometimes welcome or romanticize death, and contrasts responses across disease types with a brief mention of ancient widow immolation as cultural context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Cleveland
McHinley
Witty Touches and Treasury Widows in Old Letters
The passage sketches light satire on poet husbands and their practical wives with a line about Lady Scott and lambs, then describes Washington Treasury Girls as widows many old maids and many well educated, well traveled, and high born daughters of governors and generals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nen
Jean Vpauul
Siebenkas
Pont
Treasury
Washington
United States
Congo River Steamer Boom Half State Owned
The Congo shows twenty one years since Stanwey solved the river mystery with a current fleet of 55 steamers. About half belong to the Congo State, the remainder to foreign nations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanwey
Congo River
Congo State
Peace Treaty Presented To President In White House Visit
American peace commissioners arrived in Washington from New York and were greeted at the White House by President McKinley. Day Cushman Davis Frye Gray and White law Reid attended with Mrs Day Mrs Davis and Mrs Frye. The treaty was carried in by John Bassett Moore and Michael. The president praised the commission for the Paris negotiations and the successful conduct of the delicate peace settlement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
New York
White House
President McNinley
William KR. Day
Cushman Davis
William P. Frye
George Gray
Whitelaw Reid
Day
Davis
Davis and Mrs. Frye
John Bassett Moore
Commission
Michael
State Department
Pennsylvania Railroad Station
Executive Mansion
McKinley
Paris
Girls Dying of Leprosy in Ohio Hills
Dr. Charles O. Probst investigated two leprosy cases in Perry County near Columbus. Hattie Garry, 32, and her 12 year old sister are slowly dying in a remote hillside area. Officials confirmed they are genuine lepers and slated further health action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Columbus
Hattie Garry
Perry County
Charles O. Probst
State Board of Health
Ife
Bank Vault Looted in Lima Ohio Bank Robbery
Robbers looted the American National Bank in Lima Ohio Sunday night taking $18,168 in cash and gold while leaving silver largely untouched. The inner vault door was opened and a rack of $1,000 in silver was found on a chair along with several hundred dollars in silver in sacks near the bank safe in Inez. The outer time-locked door and the private safe remained untouched and about $16,000 in paper money plus $2,000 in paper money atop the safe were missing. Directors levied an assessment to cover the loss as other Lima banks offered assistance. The case remains deeply mysterious.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lima
Cho
Ohio
American National Bank
Main
High Streets
Inez
Rioting and Injuries in Pana Mines Seethe
On Monday in Pana both union and non union miners caused a tumult as mines halted. Black miners, drinking heavily, roamed the streets while militia kept order. One union miner David McGavie is in dangerous condition after a riot. two black men injured by knives may die. Police arrested twenty people, and two armed black men were seized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pana
David McGavie
West Plains
James Moyers
Snyder
Labor-Saving Suggestion to Hobson and Leprosy Case
In New Lexington a widow named Mrs. Garry, with hereditary leprosy in her children Hattie and Hannah, hidden from public view, led to a panic and a state health report. Experts confirmed the disease and the family was placed under township safeguards near Garry cottage with supplies delivered to them. Mrs. Garry's husband served as a Civil War soldier who was fatally wounded by a bystander.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tie
Hattie
Hannah
Garry Cottage
Garry
Collins Found Guilty of Murder in Topeka Trial
John Henry Collins was found guilty of murdering his father in Topeka Kansas on May 13, 1898. Every juror reported guilt in the first degree by a unanimous vote. The defendant remained cool as attorney Godard filed a motion for a new trial. The death penalty awaits gubernatorial approval, a rare step in state history. The trial spanned four weeks and drew intense local interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Henry Collins
Topeka
Ixan
John Collins
Tie
Godard
Collins
Cost of Nicaraguan Canal Estimated at 135 Million
The Ita commission report led by Gen Elaines Admiral Walker and Prof Haupt estimates total canal cost at 135,004,000 with excavations of 125,000,000 cubic yards excluding dome and embankments. The conservative figure aligns closely with Gen Lindlow's 1880 estimate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ita
Nicaraguan Canal Commission
Elaines
Admiral Walker
Haupt
W. Lindlow
ISOG
Indiana Mob Hangs Murderer Tyler From Tree in Scottsburg
An armed mob of about 100 men seized George Tyler from the Scott County jail at Scottsburg Indiana around 2:30 AM and hanged him from a large tree in the jail yard. Tyler had shot his wife on November 25 and attempted suicide, but survived and was jailed before his execution. The mob demanded and received the jail key, then dragged him out and carried out the lynching in full view of local residents. The act followed widespread condemnation of the crime as brutally shocking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Tyler
Scott County
Scottsburg
Ind
Tyler
South Dakota Divorce Laws Move to Tighten Rules
A proposed measure before the North Dakota Legislature would enact a stricter divorce law. Public sentiment decries the state's lax record and seeks to curb matrimonial misfits from seeking legal dissolution elsewhere, signaling a push for tougher standards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Dakota
Prefers Garrison Duty in Cuban Campaign Choice
At Atlanta Captain J. Lh. Campbell of the Ninth Illinois volunteers and a member of Congress from the Twentieth District chose to accompany his regiment to Cuba despite potential effects on his congressional position.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
J. Lh. Campbell
Ninth Illinois Volunteers
Congress
Cuba
Plan for Home Rule Adopts Irish Unity Rally
John Dion, Irish leader, says a land agitation measure will be engineered via the United Irish League conference. He foresees factional unity and eventual home rule. Against Chicago Bank, Minnesota Supreme Court again rules against Fort Dearborn National Bank of Chicago in a $6,000 balance claim against Bank of Minnesota.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plana
John Dion
United Irish League Conference
Chicago
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Fort Dearborn National Bank of Chicago
Bank of Minnesota
Jenner Institute Gift To Boost Sanitation Work In Dublin
Lord Iveagh donates £250,000 to the Jenner Institute of Great Britain and will match the amount to fund sanitation improvements in Bull Alley district of Dublin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jenner Institute of Great Britain
Lord Iveagh
Bull Alley
Dublin
Words of Wisdom and Sympathetic Action Across Faiths
A Sunday meditation urges sympathy and practical help as a turning point in lives. It cites biography as proof of social interdependence and recalls St Pauls teaching none live or die unto themselves. The piece notes the Rescue Army aims to reach church-distant souls in New York with global mission figures. Hannah Maley of Marblehead Baptist Church is highlighted for lifelong church membership since 1818.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cain
St. Paul
Japan
Rescue Army
New York
World-Wide Missions
Hannah Maley
Baptist Church
Marblehead
Mass
Live by thy soul's law and steadfast oath
A poetic meditation urges living by inner law and personal integrity. It counsels ignoring others' opposition, pursuing one’s appointed path, and keeping faith with the heart. The verse emphasizes self-reliance, focus on the future, and swift, steady progress toward a final, self-defined end.
Reading physician vows to give all income to charity
A Reading, Pennsylvania physician, over the past decade, has donated every dollar from his practice to religious and philanthropic causes. Previously, 36 years ago, he gave a tithe, and ten years ago he began giving all income. His latest gift was $225 to buy New Testaments for soldiers in Cuba and Puerto Rico.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reading
Cuba
Porto Rico
Missionary Societies Worldwide See 249 Groups and 1.25M Communicants
Dr Strong’s statement outlines missionary societies across the United States Great Britain continental Europe Asia Africa and Australia totaling 249 groups with 4694 stations and 15200 outstations. It lists 11605 missionaries 65000 native workers and about 1250000 communicants. Global income from these societies is around 13600000. Also notes Society of Friends world and US reach and overseas memberships including Indians Negroes Japanese and Chinese with activity in Mexico Brazil Peru Jamaica Syria Palestine Ceylon and Madagascar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Strong
United States
Great Britain
Europe
Asia
Africa
Australia
Society of Friends
Quakers
England
Continent
Mexico
Brazil
Peru
Jamaica
Syria
Palestine
Ceylon
Madagascar
Catholic congress eyed for Easter 1900 in Australia
The text notes Australia plans a Catholic congress modeled after European events such as Fribourg and Brussels, to be held around Easter 1900. It mentions 20 000 to 30 000 Catholics in east London lacking resident priests, plus broader data on deaconess hospitals, Jewish populations, and missionary groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sweden
Student's Missionary Union
Russia
Europe
America
North Africa
Palestine
Loyal L. Wirt
Alaska
Home Missionary Society
Sunday School and Publishing Society
The
Congregational Church
London
Australia
Fribourg
Switzerland
Brussels
German Empire
Kataoka
Revolutionary sword relic placed in State House display
A priceless revolutionary relic, Tarleton’s sword from Cowpens, is now housed in the Columbia State House for safekeeping alongside Marion’s sword and other artifacts. The piece, owned by Col. T. i. Dickson, bears engravings and battle wear, with anecdotes about Tarleton and Washington enriching its historic glare. Also noted are reflections on elegant hands in art, Georgia editor jests, and a Methodist student population estimate of 47,830 in the nation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
D. C
Tarleton
Battle of Cowpens
Morgan, Pickens
Sumter
Marion
Col. T. i. Dickson
Battle of
Cowpens
Yorktown
Wm. Washington
Washington
Revolutionary Times
Col. Washington
Col
Washington Star
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Tnadia
Mir Bailey
Stade
Furth
Col. Bryan
Chicenzo
Lincoln
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Woo. Bryan
Reyal
Bankers’ Association
Remblean Politi
Intukers
McCleary- Gage Banking
Why Quay
Philadelphia
Matt Quay
Richard R. Quay
Association of Persecuted Patriots
Practical Wives
Congo
Mc Kinley
Klondike
Hobson
Detroit Journal
Indiana
South Dakota
M. FE. Church
Cincinnati
Omaha
Kansas City
Minneapolis
Bloomington
Spokane
Great Falls
Boston
Jeffersonville
Georgia
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