Eldorado Creek strike thrills Klondike region
Passengers detail a fabulously rich second bed rock discovery on Eldorado creek near Klondike. Nuggets run from a quarter ounce to an ounce, with refines yielding up to $50 per pan and a day’s haul of $5,000 reported, sparking widespread excitement along Eldorado. Bryan rejects third presidential bid and discusses future plans. Lookout Distilling plant seized in Chattanooga with 681 barrels whiskey. former proprietors arrested. Bold $1,000 gold robbery at Anaconda Mount. "Black Jack" execution ends with decapitation. Empress dowager forms a cabinet. boiler explosion at Griesheim kills many. Filipino skirmishes near Norzagaray. Morres forces surrender.
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Eldorado Creek
Theoma Wash
Justin
Dawson Pise
Klondike
Eldorado
Chattanooga Tenn
The
Lookout Distilling Company
Mullineux
Washington
Messrs
Shumultsky and Connor
Bowles Linked To New Ship Yard Chief Executive Post
Rumor places Rear Admiral Bowles, head of Washingtons Bureau of Construction and Repair, as chief executive of a forthcoming ship yard combination with a reported salary of 50000 dollars. Michigan House passes unanimous anti cigarette bill seeking to bar manufacture sale or gifting of cigarettes or paper if Senate governor approval follows. President McKinley reappoints George R Bidwell as New York City customs collector.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bowles
Bureau of Construction and Repair
Washington
Michigan
House of Representatives
Senate
Bidwell
McKinley
George R. Bidwell
New York City
Eastern Niagara boat incident and other early 20th century notes
A collection of brief items reports an unidentified man crossing Niagara Trails by boat under inquiry, a court investigation into cadet subordination at West Point, and a wide range of notices. It mentions Louis Godard planning an Atlantic balloon crossing from New York, a $1,000,000 donation to Johns Hopkins University, indictments for Albert T. Patrick, a life sentence for Joseph Clinton in a murder case, and a train collision that sank the Ricker with a captain drowned. Also covered are shipbuilding contracts, major mine sales, the death of circus clown Costello, a fatal hotel explosion, bank robbery attempt, revenue stamp ruling for export bills, and various regional accidents and casualties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Niagara Trails
West Point
Louis Godard
Atlantic
New York
Henry Walters
Baltimore
Johns Brooking University
Grand Jury
Albert T. Patrick
Joseph Clinton
Maggie Shurtz
Logan
Muders
Rosana Shaskill
Champion
Fort Wayne
Lima
Ohio
Huth Cnardie Long
John D. Long
Dorchester
Mass
Pilgrim
Samuel Ricker
New Haven
Cornfield
N.Y
Ricker
Allen
Craig Shipbuilding Company
Toledo
United Fruit Company
Boston
Lake Superior
EP i
Nimberly
Sharon
Pin
Jones & Laughlins
Pittsburg
John Costello
Tay Jers Hotel
Tan Costello
Barnum
Bonn Avenue
Tittsburg
Barker, Williams & Co
Brudward Piagenmeyer
Anderson
John Beown
Abner Moore
First National Bank
Wiscasset
Floh
Clergue
Steadier Ossifrage
Duluth
Sault Ste. Marie
Port Arthur
Western town wrecks and train crashes headline a string of disasters
A crowded Kansas City to Chicago line reports multiple tragedies as fires, floods, and train collisions ripple across Ohio, Illinois, and nearby states. Losses mount with $35,000 at Westview and a fatal crash near Marietta, while burglars seize cash in Chicago. A mail bomb in Brazil triggers alarms as officials report suicides and escapes. Washington bank executives die amid a debt scandal, and a jail escape near Rawlins ends with recapture. Lincoln family remains move to Springfield with the nation watching.
German Suthday paper formed by two papers
Hlinots Sante Zeitung and Chicago Freie Presse unite as a German Saturday edition while keeping separate identities during the week in one office. The report covers court awards, stock speculation, wage demands, violent crime, fires, and notable deaths across multiple U.S. locales.
Outrageous Kentucky County Case and West Virginia Killings
Sidney Cole Southern of Parkersburg WV killed William T. Verry a car penter aboard the steamer Keystone State. W O Nicholas Lexington KY acquitted of murder after an examining trial. A strike of 2500 mine workers in Ohio WV No.5 over dead work scale. Creed Potter and Join Reynolds band members surrender in Kentucky. Ku Klux fears linger as others refuse to surrender. Six die in a gas explosion fire at Commercial Hotel St Marys WV with several near escapes. Letcher County KY detachment battles Reynolds gang. three mountaineers badly hurt. Lewisman Purchase Exposition Co to be formed in St Louis with $6,000,000. $100,000 overpaid on first 10% stock. Springfield TN mob hangs Wyatt Mallory from courthouse veranda after abducting him. Adams Mallory fatally wounds J H Varmer.
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Sidney Cole
Parkersburg
W. Va
William T. Verry
W. O. Nicholas
Lexington
Owen Bradley
Ohio
West Virginia
Joe Johnson
John Potter
Creed Potter
Reynolds Band of Outlaws
Kentucky
Ku Klux
St. Mary's
Ammountain Detective
Wright’s
Reynolds
Court House
Springfield
Tenn
Wyatt Mallory
Adams
Mallory
J. H. Varmer
Divorces and Edicts Hit World Headlines
Don Antonio de Bourbon seeks divorce from Infanta Eularia as European, Asian, and African affairs unfold. An edict in China scraps the privy council for a general state board. Bresci’s madness follows King Humbert’s assassination jailer abuse. Vesuvius erupts drawing tourists from Paris to Naples. Boers burn a Cape Colony supply train near Molteno. troops recover the locomotive. The Sultan of Turkey promises to pay the United States.
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Don Antonio de Bourbon
Infanta Eularia
China
Privy Council
General Board of State Affairs
Bresci
Humbert
Mount Vesuvius
Paris
Naples
Pretoria
Molteno
Cape Colony
Turkey
United States
German missionary reports Boxers' rising in China
The Cologne Volks Zeitung prints correspondence from a German missionary in China noting Boxers preparing a new uprising in southern Pe Chi Li, with activity concentrated near Kuang Ying Fu and Nai Ming Onn, amid long standing diplomatic tensions over a $100,000 claim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cologne Volks Zeitung
China
Pe Chi Li
Kuang Ying Fu
Nai Ming Onn
Foreign and Domestic Briefs From The Era
A wide array of notices covers presidential appointments and policy, military honors, legal actions, court rulings, territorial governance shifts, and critical commodity news. Highlights include Gen Miles' mobilization plan, Victoria Cross honors for Canadian officers, a divorce suit by Gunner Charlies Morgan, Supreme Court bail denial for ex Captain Carter, Jenkins and Raynolds named territorial governors, Iceland coal discoveries, a third St. Lawrence span, and a Montreal Bridge construction update. Also reported are a mail theft at Moneton NB, beheadings and punishments for Chinese officials proposed by multiple nations, a Chicago Great Western settlement with the IAM, Loomis not returning to Venezuela, and national trade and agricultural data noting adverse weather, delayed crop planting, and weekly wheat and corn exports alongside U.S. business failures.
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Miles
Gunner Charlies Morgan
Admiral Sampson
United States Supreme Court
Oberlin M. Carter
William M. Jenkins
Oklahoman
James W. Raynolds
New Mexico
Nowd Fjord
Iceland
St. Lawrence
Montreal
New York Central
Montreal Bridge Company
Moneton
N. B
St. John
Halifax
England
France
America
Holand
Belgium
Italy
Diplomatic Corps
Chicago Great Western
International Machinists’ Association
Loomis
Venezuela
United States
Caracas
Brasstreet’s
Northwest
Market Prices Across Cities For Cattle Hogs and Grains
Chicago and Indianapolis to Detroit and Buffalo report price ranges for cattle hogs and sheep, with grain values for wheat corn oats and rye. Prices vary by market from common to prime categories and reflect regional demand.
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Chicago
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Toledo
Milwaukee
New York
State Of The Crops Reports Fourth Cold Week Delays Planting
The weather bureau reports a fourth consecutive week of abnormally cold weather across the nation hindering germination and growth. Central valleys and Southern States see the strongest deficits with heavy rains in the Ohio valley and Atlantic gulf districts. Crop progress slow, with extensive replanting needed in the South and cotton planting damaged by frost in Texas and Georgia. Winter wheat formation varies by region. Oklahoma and Texas report insect damage. oats near completion in central valleys. spring wheat sowing lagging in several states. and corn planting notably delayed north of the Ohio River.
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The
Weather Bureau
Ohio Valley
Rocky Mountains
Pacific Coast
Rocky Mountain
Ohio River
Oklahoma
Texas
California
North Dakota
Minnesota
South Dakota
Middle Atlantic
Georgia
Tennessee
Ilneis
Indiana
Ohio
Michigan
Wisconsin
Towa
Nebraska
Northwestern Begins Chicago to Liverpool Voyage
The steamship Northwestern sailed from Chicago on a transatlantic voyage to Liverpool with a cargo of harvesting machinery Chicago provisions and about 60 000 bushels of grain for Buffalo to serve as ballast. At Montreal grain was replaced by other freight and the vessel continued to Liverpool expected to arrive in twenty days.
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Steamship Northwestern
Buffalo
Montreal
Sidney
Cape Breton
Liverpool
England
Northwestern
Chicago
United States
St. Lawrence
Also Mentioned on This Page
Heribune
Denver
Fan
Terady
Crimea
Firea
Bryan
William J. Bryan
Anaconda Mount
Alaska
Lmits
Thomas E. Ketcham
Black Jack
Southwest
Clayton
N. M
State Department
Squire
Pekin
National Administration
Sian-Fu
Prince Ching
Prince Kung
Germany
Frankfort
Griesheim
Ion Ebulacan
Manila
James HH. McRae
Norzagaray
Bulacan
Morres
Morales
Pennsylvania
Baltimore and Ghia
Cambridge
Fred Jobs
Baltimore and Ohia
Newark
Flor. Hoke
Baltimore and Ohio
Woodford
Western
Mainview
Marietta
William Falavre
St. Paul
West Side
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
AL Lina
Ghie
J. D. Baker
Henry Ebbeling
Ohio Southern
Florence and Cripple Creek
Hassell
Cole
Brazil
Ind
Charles Brown
E. L. Canby
Vancouver
Wash
W. H. Timmons
Coshocton
Orlo McSwain
al Propst
Rawlins
Wyo
Qr. M. McDonald
Wellington
Ill
President
Hlinots Sante Zeitung
Chicago Freie Presse
Judge Clancey
Butte
Mont
Thomas IT. Hindes
Boston and Montana
Pettigrew
United States Court of Appeals
Board of Trade
Dampier
Harvey
N. D
Southport
Dohn
James
William S. Fagoli
Big Four
Dayton
Bank of Gilbert Brothers
Salem
Ore
Wiliam Casper
John EH. Gorham
Union Copper Mine
George H. McCarthy
Copperopolis
Cal
William Ritter
West North Avenue
Lizzie King
Market Reports
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