Banking plans and political tensions across distant territories
News items note possible formation of an Anglo-American Bank in Manila led by J and W Seligman with broader ties to Anglo-California Banking Co. A separate Manila deployment reports Grant with troops under Lawton. Other items cover a Manila veto on statehood efforts, a Delaware senatorial dispute, war casualty totals, and bombs found in Cleveland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
New York
8 Corporation
J. and W. Seligman & Co
Manila Corporation
Anglo-American Bank
Anglo-California Banking Company
San Francisco
London
Honolulu
Tragic Accident In Connersville Child Dies From Lamp Rod Injury
Clarence Sands aged four of Connersville Ohio died after a cracle accident when an iron lamp rod entered his mouth and pierced the brain. The report notes a fatal head wound with the rod passing through the roof of the mouth. Police and medical officials investigated the tragedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence
Parker Sands
Connersville
Ohio
Gilbert Confesses to Killing Wife and Children at Enterprise Run
In Enterprise, John Gilbert, jailed after a reward led to his capture, confessed to murdering his wife and four children. He described planning debt troubles, offering divorce, and killing the infant and wife during a dispute before killing the children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enterprise
Ran
John Gilbert
Aan
Gilbert
O'Connor
Chautauqua Officers Chosen and Rich Patch of News
Chautauqua selects Crem Studebaker as president and Wilson M. Day as business manager. Day of Cleveland named general manager to oversee all association business, replacing the late Lewis M. Miller. Clem Studebaker of South Bend will be president, Edward A. Skinner resigns as treasurer and Warren F. Walworth of Cleveland is elected to the post. Also reported are a perilous voyage of Capt. William Davie and crew after a blizzard, a gunpowder works explosion in Toulon with forty dead, and multiple local crime and court items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crem Studebaker
Wilson M. Day
Cleveland
Chautauqua Association
Day
Lewis M. Miller
Clem Studebaker
South Bend
Ind
Edward A. Skinner
Association
Warren F. Walworth
Chinese Rebels Win At Central Provinces Invasion
Reported insurrection in central China describes a 10 000 strong rebel force defeating imperial troops in a pitched battle. Rebels captured Kuyang Meng Sheng and Kauchon, massacres followed, the garrison commandant was killed, and up to 200 civilians died at Kauchon. Famine fears emerge as crops remain unharvested.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
China Mail
Kuyang
Meng- Sheng
Walla
Kauchon
Niu
Whitecaps Stripping Mob Torments Missouri Town Prisoner
In Missouri City the Whitecaps broke into the jail and whipped Odin Summers with a rope until he bled, claiming revenge for insults to a woman. They later forced Perry Chaney’s son to strip and lash James Jackson, a boy, and then stripped and punished Joe Asbury and others with forty lashes each, driving several residents to flee.
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Whitecaps
Missouri
Missouri City
Odin Summers
Summers
Mercury
Perry Chaney
James Jackson
Chaney
Jackson
Joe Asbury
Denny Stephens
Riley Yates
Jesse Yates
Ben Munkers
Asbury
ICY PLUNGE FAILS TO KILL IN NATCHEZ BROKER
Abraham Moses a wealthy cotton broker of Natchez Mississippi escaped from Cincinnati hospital where treated for nervous prostration and jumped from the suspension bridge into the Ohio River. Rescued by boatmen, he was unconscious on arrival but expected to recover.
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Abraham Moses
Natchez
Mias
Cincinnati
Covington
Moses
Liberals Win Court Battle Over United Brethren Property
The U S Court of Appeals in Cincinnati ruled unanimously for the liberals in a long running dispute over church property including a Dayton publishing house and many colleges and churches. Judge Lurton affirmed Judge Taft by granting property to the liberals against the radicals, ending nearly a decade of litigation with about $20,000 spent defending these suits in multiple states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Brethren Church
United States Court of Appeals
Cincinnati
Dayton
Church of the United Brethren In Christ
Iberaja
Lurton
Taft
Quarantine Clamps Down On Cleveland Apartment Blaze
A smallpox case in a large Cleveland downtown apartment house forces lockdown for nearly 400 residents. The victim, an attorney, was the roommate of Froderick L. Taft. The patient to the smallpox hospital. Taft to detention. All inmates confined. outsiders barred without quarantine compliance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Ohio
Froderick L. Taft
Market Reports Highlight Regional Livestock and Grain Prices
Chicago cattle mixed to prime 3.00 to 6.25. hogs shipping 3.00 to 11.00. sheep 3.00 to 4.75. Wheat No. 2 red 71 to 79c. corn No. 2 35 to 36c. oats 27 to 32c. rye 34 to 60c. Butter 11 to 20c. eggs 11 to 14c. Potatoes 50 to 60c. Regional quotes from Indianapolis, St Louis, Cincinnati, Detroit, Toledo, Milwaukee, and Buffalo listed for multiple commodities.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Ste
Toledo
Milwaukee
Indiana Legislature Ends Sixty-First Session With Adjournment
The Senate passed a reorganization bill for the State Board adding three members. a county superintendent among them. The Winfield anti trust bill died in the House, halting anti trust legislation. Other actions included county government, machine voting, and a new Indianapolis street railway franchise. The Noel anti lynching bill passed the Senate and a veto sustained on Vincennes University claim. The assembly adjourned after singing America and totaling main institution appropriations about 1.1 million plus monument funds bringing total monument cost to 600 thousand.
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Senate
House
Vincennes University
Indiana
Texas Rangers
America
Ascesa Yes
Indianapolis
Insurance risk and Kentucky flights in old time tales
A Chicago Inter Ocean piece recalls how life insurers scrutinize policyholders. A manager explains rates differ if a client travels to Kentucky for horse buying, warning against risky trips and unnecessary lists while highlighting underwriting prudence and humor.
Thrifty Views on Matrimony and Rings
A Boston transcript fragment contrasts thrift in engagements with concern for valuable rings. Nellie weighs risk of broken engagements against protecting a betrothal, while Kate favors sensible, economical choices amid social expectations.
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Che Tribune
Denver
Froeris & Woolley
Ganwiched
Edward Bogart
Wilkesbarre
Siddon Flick
the Times
Aaid
Washington
Secret Service
Flick
United States
Territorial
Barnes
Oklahoma
Delaware
Dover
Del
Adjutant General’s Office
Hickox
Euclid Avenue
Erie Street
Czar
Hague
Peace Conference
Congress of Representatives of the
Powers
Dr. Talmage
T. DeWitt Talmage
First Presbyterian Church
Japan
Shanghai
Daily Mail
San Mun
Alger
Geng
Brooke
Ongtalion
United States Army
Accardi
William Davie
Norfolk
Nellie
Cuba
Harbor Island
Charley Rose
North Carolina
Mr. Green
Green & Pearson
Madison
N. J
Davis
Hog Island
Scannell & Woley
Lowell
Mass
John F. Healy
Healy
Scannell & Woley’s
Henry
Topeka
Kan
Hazen
John Collins
Young Collins
J. S. Collins
Tekamahy Neb
Calvin Hiscox
Fred Sellers
Hiscox
la Gondran
Toulon
Frank Smaltz
Atone
Myerstown
Monroe Billinger
Irving Firestone
Schley
Sampson
United States Senate
Schley-Sampson
Willian R. Merriam
Minnesota
Ling Shaft
Iward
McHenry
Cartman
Ohio River
Dyea
Alaska
Klondike
Atlin
Yukon-White Pass
Humboldt
Skaguay
Dunkards
California
Dunkard
Lordsburg
Cal
William and
Joseph Borschiz
Buffalo
N. Y
Michael Oosate
Borschiz
Sig. Martino
Tsung- H-Yamen
Ah Mun Bay
Liberal
Nebraska
Union Pacific Railroad Company
Union Trust Company of
Omaha
W. D. Cornish
Union Pacific Company
George L. Miller
Seymour Park
Ontario
The
Herald
Maximo Gomez
M. L. Hayward
Monroe L. Hayward
Nebraska City
William V. Allen
Dyca
Chilcoot
Court House
Josephine Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
East
Tennessee
Market Reports
Kentucky
Thrifs
Kate
Boston
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