Anal meeting officers elected at Minneapolis gathering
Telegraphic report lists officers elected at the Anal meeting of the dG ALL in Minneapolis Minnesota. Commander in chief Rob Brown of Zanesville is named with senior vice commander War Hl Arn strona of Indianapolis and junior commander EL BK.kenton of Detroit. Chaplin in chief Archbishop John Ireland of St. Vinh is noted along with surgeon general W. TH dotinson of Linvuin Nebraska.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnnesapolis
Minn
Rob. Brown
Zanesville
Arnstrona
Indianapolis
Kenton
Detroit
Chaplin
John Ireland
St. Vinh
W. TH. Dotinson
Linvuin
Neb
Bank of Smithville Shuts in Ritchie County
The Bank of Smithville in Ritchie County West Virginia was closed by a state bank examiner. The cashier George Claminer was arrested on charges of falsifying accounts and a $2000 bond was set after he waived examination. Shortage reportedly stems from overdrafts allowed by the cashier.
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Bank of
Smithville
Ritchie County
W. Va
George
Claminer
Governor's Plea for Black Fiend Vain
A mob killed Bob Davis after he attacked Miss Jennie Brooks at her home. Governor H C Heyward spoke to the crowd without success as Davis was lynched at Greenwood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tas Yicum
Jennie Brooks
H.C. Heyward
Bob Davis
Mexican Laborers Die in Mexican Central Railcar Explosion
An explosion of a dynamite car on the Mexican Central railroad near Chilamehia Mexico killed about thirty Mexican laborers and wounded many more. The blast during the transfer to the Lobenrson mine at Santa Fina shattered windows and damaged walls. several American foremen are reported dead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chilamehia
Mexico
Mexican Central Railroad
Forto Lobernson
Santa Fina
Insane Batavia Man Slays Three Then Ends His Life
Finil Berner, 36, a Batavia mechanic, attacked his wife with a razor and slashed Ernest Franzeen, 40. Berner then wounded his brother in law before turning the blade on himself. All three victims died and a daughter and a boarder escaped through a second story window.
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Finil Berner
Batavia
Tin
Ernest Franzeen
Berner
Explosion Blasts Soda Fountain in Mt Vernon Store
A large carbonic acid tank exploded in a confectionery shop at Mt. Vernon Ohio. Charles Schiapparacasse suffered extensive facial injuries and is expected to die. Harry Eggleston sustained serious injuries as glass panes shattered.
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Charles Schiappacasse
Mt. Vernon
Ohio
Schiappracasse
Harry Eggleston
Mill Fire Destroys Ypsilanti Paper Mill
A blaze destroyed the Superior mills of the Ypsilanti Paper Company just outside Ypsilanti Michigan. The loss runs about 100000 dollars and the plant, which employed eighty workers, produced sulphite fiber paper and had been operating around the clock.
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Superior Mills
Ypsilanti Paper Company
Ypsilanti, Mich
Sheriff Seizes Slocan City in British Columbia
Sheriff Tuck of Nelson British Columbia takes control of Slocan City with execution papers. Once a town of about 15000 residents six years ago, it now has around 150 inhabitants as creditor C KE Smitheringale of Vancouver winds up the municipality.
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Tuck
Nelson
B. C
Slocan City
2. C
C. KE. Smitheringale
Vancouver
Earthquake Shocks Mendoza Province Cause Panic
A Buenos Ayres special reports an earthquake felt in Mendoza province causing widespread panic. Telegraphic links with Chile have been interrupted though authorities believe no serious damage occurred.
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Buenos Ayres
Mendoza
Chili
Bank Failure Hits Garfield Park Institution in Chicago
A small Chicago bank, Garfield Park Bank at 404 West Madison Street, is placed in receivership by Judge Bethea in the United States District Court following a failure.
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Garfield Park Bank
Zoo4
West
Madison Street
Chicago
Bethea
United States District Court
Anarchists seize Odessa rail depot in bold attack
Odessa dispatch reports fifteen anarchists seized the railway freight station killed a police inspector and three officers who resisted them and carried away eight thousand dollars.
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Russia
Odessa
Wabash Station Robbed at Lakeville Indiana
Thieves entered the Wabash railway station in Lakeville Indiana and forced the safe with nitroglycerin. About $45 was stolen, and the burglars escaped.
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Wabash Station
Wabash Railway
Lakeville
Ind
Kite Tragedy Sparks Franklin Emulation Fatalities at Wilhalmesville
Emerson Montjar a 16 year old in Wilhalmesville Ohio and his mother were fatally burned when a kite wire in contact with trolley power caused electrocution. A younger brother was severely injured and a passerby rescued him and a train passenger helped break the danger.
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Franklin
Emerson Montjar
Emerson
Benjamin Franklin
Wilhalmesville
Ohio
Shoe
Dozen Lost in Texas Flood Near Langtry
A Langtry Texas flood after a midday storm left at least a dozen dead or missing. Torrents swept the town and surrounding area, bridges and railroad tracks were destroyed, cattle drowned, and property losses near Langtry totaled about 1 million dollars. The Colorado River overflow affected 400 miles of farmland below Austin.
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Langtry
Texas
Colorado
Austin
Man Dies Mysteriously in Hotel After Fleeing Death
Joplin Missouri hotel reports a man from Cedar J T Merritt who fled from a life threat in Indian Territory to escape his son in law. He died in his room after screams drew staff. coroner investigates possible self poisoning amid claims his daughter was killed by her husband who had sworn to kill him.
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Indian Territory
Escarge
George Merritt
Cedar
J. T
Joplin
Merritt
Six Injured in Worden Destroyer Paint Locker Explosion
Six men burned when varnish in the Worden destroyer at Norfolk navy yard exploded after a rivet worker dropped steel into varnish. The blast hurled riveters Robert White and William Wilson onto the deck as the boat caught fire but was quickly put out with limited damage.
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Worden
Norfolk
Navy Yard
Robert White
Wiliam IL Wilson
Banat
Alabama Bank Teller Arrested for $100,000 Shortage
First National Bank of Birmingham reports paying teller Alex K. Chisholm is $100,000 short in customer accounts. Shortage found during vacation. upon return from Atlantic City he confessed and named brokers as accomplices alleged to have funded losses through speculation.
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Alabama
First National Bank
Birmingham
Ala
Alex K. Chisholm
Chisholm
Atlantic City
Tomato Combine a Failure Ends in Creditors’ Wreck
John Finney Wells of Belair Maryland failed in the tomato rambine scheme to corner the market for the season. He made an assignment for the benefit of his creditors after the project collapsed as a great tomato crop drove prices down.
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John Finney Wells
Belair
Mr. Wells
Secretary of National Board of Trade Dies in Kansas City
W Hi Hyers, secretary of the National Board of Trade of Kansas City, was found dead in a field in Kansas City. Papers found on him indicate he resided in St Paul. His death is reported as self-inflicted due to financial difficulties.
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W. Hi. Hyers
Kansas City
St. Paul
National Board of Trade of
Bank Officials Die In Trolley Collision
Milton Whetstone a 43 year old cashier at Citizens National Bank of Lansford Pa was killed instantly and Daniel McGeehan 27 an assistant cashier at the same bank was fatally injured when their carriage was struck by a trolley car.
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Milton Whetstone
Citizens’ National Bank
Lansford
Daniel McGeehan
Cigar Makers Strike at Sam Hirsch Company
Seventy five cigarmakers at the Sam Hirsch Company in Cincinnati walked out after the proprietor refused to discharge a foreman named in their complaints. The Hirsch plant is the city’s largest union shop.
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Sam Hirsch Company
Cincinnati
Hlirsch
Ptomaine Attacks Party At Old Settlers Reunion
Thirteen people fell ill from ptomaine poisoning at an old settlers reunion in Oskaloosa Kansas. Eling McClenny and Mrs McDonald were in dangerous condition.
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Old Settlers
Oskaloosa
Kan
Eling McClenny
Mob Leader Is Sentenced in Salisbury Lynching Case
Leader of Salisbury North Carolina mob that lynched three Black men is convicted of conspiracy and sentenced to fifteen years in the penitentiary.
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Salisbury
N. C
Syndicate Gains Control of Oregon Land Strip
A deal transfers most of the old Oregon Central Military road grant from the California and Oregon Land Company to a syndicate of Eastern and California capitalists. The tract runs 825 miles from Cascade forest reserve to the Oregon Idaho boundary with 13 miles width, excluding a 25 mile band through the Mamath Indian reservation. The sale, about 750 000 dollars, aims to launch a large colonization project led by Hunter Land Company and partners.
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State of
Oregon
Oregon Central Miitary Road
California and Oregon Land Company
Eastern
California
Bfunter Land Company
Minneapolis, Minn
Richard Sykes
Santa Barbara
W. Bls. Trimble Company
Jamestown
N. C
Andrew , Johnson
Hunter Land Company
Alfe, Johnson Land and Steamship Company
Cascade Forest Reserve
Freight on tunnel cars in Chicago under ground
Forty five miles of underground track in the Tunnel Company bores near Chicago are opened for freight traffic. Freight transfer begins at the outbound freighthouse with shipments to Marshallfield & Co. and other Chicago warehouses. The system uses fifty electric locomotives and several hundred cars within a bounded territory.
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Chicago
Illinois ‘Tunnel Company
Freighhouse
St. Paul Railway
Marshallield & Co
Polk Street
River
Monarch Refrigerating Company
Cass and
Michigan Streets
Chicago and Erie
Clark and 4Th
Chicago and Great Western
Franklin and
Harrison
Chicago Avenue
Lake
Salsted
With Streets
Forest Fires Forcing Abandonment Near Biwabik
Several large fires burn southwest of Biwabik Minnesota consuming hundreds of acres of second growth and thickets. Settlers flee their homes and cattle property as wildlife invades village limits.
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Biwabik
Minn
Shooting at Randazzo Saloon in Rochester New York
Frank Randazzo's Rochester saloon becomes scene of a gunfire incident after three men entered and demanded 250 dollars. Randazzo fired after seizing a revolver, killing one assailant instantly, while the others fled. Police receive Randazzo's account of the Black Hand threat.
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Frank Randazzo
Rochester
N.Y
Randazzo
Fever Strikes Naval Academy Hospital in Annapolis
Kingiro Matsukata a Japanese midshipman of the new fourth class is hospitalized in Annapolis with typhoid fever. He is among two Japanese youths at the academy by special government arrangement. Five typhoid cases are reported in the naval academy hospital.
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Kingiro Matsukata
Naval Academy Hospital
Annapolis
Academy
Government of Japan
Safeblowers Foiled in Wilmington Burglary Battle
Three safeblowers battled Baltimore and Ohio station agent Robert Kennett at Wilmington Ohio as they prepared to blow the safe. One fell, others fled through a window firing while escaping. The wounded man vanished after Kennett returned.
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Robert Kennett
Baltimore and Ohio
Wilmington
Ohio
Assassins avenge murder of Dr. Graham
The killing of Dr. Graham of folder I T who was shot about a month ago by Ben Steward was avenged when unknown assailants shot Steward from a bush, killing him instantly. Cal Steward, brother of the dead man, escaped by whipping his horse into a run.
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Dr. Graham
Folder, I.T
Ben Steward
Steward
Cal Steward
Man Fatally Shoots Wife in Avondale Quarrel
Charles Smith 45 fatally wounds his wife 40 in Avondale West Virginia after a quarrel over blackberry preparation. He fled into the woods as authorities investigated the shooting.
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Charles Smith
Avondale
W. Va
Smith
Chicago musician dies in rescue at South Haven
Stephen J. Kostka gave his life attempting to save Carrie Anderson, both Chicago residents, after she was pushed from the gang plank of the steamer Eastland at South Haven.
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Stephen J. Kostka
Chicago
Carrie Anderson
Eastland
South Haven
Great Kansas Wheat Crop Estimate by State Board
F. D. Coburn, secretary of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture, estimates the Kansas wheat crop for 1900 at 91,385,076 bushels.
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Kansas
F. D. Coburn
Kansas State Board of Agriculture
English Authoress Pearl Cragie Dies in London
English author Pearl M. T. Cragie died suddenly in her sleep in London from heart disease. The article notes she wrote under the pseudonym John Oliver Hobbes and lists her as a prominent English author.
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Pearl M. T. Cragie
John Oliver Hobbes
London
Ships of Navy to Scatter in Asiatic Waters Deployment Planned
Admiral Brownson will move armored cruisers from the Atlantic fleet to Asia while other ships disperse along the coast. Most vessels rendezvous at Hampton Roads with Brownson’s group heading to Asian stations and not visiting English or French squadrons. The note explains naval courtesy and planned delays in returning visits from foreign powers.
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Brownson
Asiatic
Atlantic
Wampton Roads
Brown
Jon
Prince Louis of Battenburg
United States
Cotton
Treasuer Under Fire Quits Amid Akron Shortfall
Akron officials reveal county treasurer Fred F B Smith resigned amid a 282000 shortfall found by Probate Court examiners. He kept three offices including Akron treasurer and school board treasurer while allegedly loaning public money, with city council and board implicated in a written contract. A.G. High of Barberton named as Smiths successor.
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Akron
Fred FB. Smith
Alston
Oho
A. G. High
Barberton Smith
Smith
Tetanus Cured by Serum at Cincinnati City Hospital
A ten year old boy Harry Towers survived tetanus after a July 4 hand injury from blank cartridge wadding. Lockjaw appeared nine days later and convulsions followed. Doctors gave ten daily injections of tetanus antitoxin totaling over $750 in antitoxin, continued until August 1 when neck and jaw muscles relaxed.
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Cincinnati
Harry Towers
Towers
Death as cure for anarchy urged by Secretary Bonaparte
Secretary Bonaparte calls for death penalty for anarchists who seek to take life and for rigorous lifelong imprisonment with harsh lash for others. He spoke in Cumberland Maryland urging unequivocal law and inflexible execution as remedy to counter anarchist crime.
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Bonaparte
Lfe
Navy
Cumberland
Powder Mill Explosion Kills Machinist in Fontanet Indiana
Laflin and Rand powder mill pressroom at Fontanet Indiana exploded killing Frank Hamilton a machinist whose body was blown to fragments. No other fatalities occurred though the blast damaged adjacent buildings and caused townwide injuries from the concussion.
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Laflin & Rand
Fontanet
Ind
Frank Fiamilton
Nine Indictments Charged With Rebating Across Railroads
Federal grand juries in New York City and Jamestown New York returned nine indictments charging rebating. The New York cases involve several railroads and the sugar trust. The Jamestown case alleges violations by the Pennsylvania railroad and the Standard and Vacuum Oil companies.
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New York City
Jamestown
N. Y
Sugar Trust
Pennsylvania Railroad
Standard and Vacuum Oil Companies
Co. P. Shea Again Chosen President
Cornelius P. Shea was reelected president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters in Chicago by 169 to 22. The ballot indicated many delegates who had joined the secession movement returned to the main body.
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Co. P. Shea
Cornelius P. Shea
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Chicago
Pope Pius X in Good Health Report Denied
London dispatch rejects rumors that Pope Pius X suffers a dangerous gout threatening paralysis of the heart. The Vatican asserts the pope is in good health and free from such peril.
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London
Pope Pius X
County Treasurer Ends Life in Goshen
E. E. Drake treasurer of Elkhart County Indiana, after years of illness and distress over the loss of public funds tied to the Indiana National Bank failure, killed himself in Goshen.
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E. E. Drake
Elkhart County
Indiana
Indiana National Bank
Goshen
Weekly review notes rising demand and stable markets
The Dun & Co weekly review reports growing new demands in reading manufacturing, strong raw materials, and high finished goods consumption. Distributive trade expands, with buyers visiting, boosting orders for general merchandise. Grain and livestock volumes rise at port, with mixed price changes. Bank clearings exceed last year, and fall New York trade opens active with robust dry goods and apparel demand. Weather and harvest conditions affect crops but support overall market activity.
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Weekly Review of
Chicago
I. G. Dun & Co
Reading
Nus
Bradstreet’s
New York
Atork
South Atlantic
Market price report for Midwest commodities and livestock
The report lists bid ranges for cattle hogs and sheep across Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee with grain prices for wheat corn oats and rye. Noted values include cattle 4.00 6.50 hogs 4.00 6.50 and wheat around 60 78 cents per bushel with corn and oats also quoted.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Milwaukee
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Syndilcate
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Minnesota
Black
Naval Academy
Eastern Ohio Traction Company
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Silver Creek
Coney Island
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
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