Illinois Neighbors and Notable City Figures Colossal Property Links
In Chicago prominent magnates Marshall Field and Levi Z. Leiter amass vast holdings across the city including brownstone stores on State Madison and Monroe, major blocks on LaSalle, Washington, and Wabash, and residences near Pine Street with rail line interests. Illinois events note Peoria fair turnout over 55 000 and 20 000 gate receipts, plus crimes and public notices, weather summaries, and bank and pension updates.
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Chicago
Marshall Field
Levi Z. Leiter
Chicago News
H. N. Higinbotham
Farwells
Field & Leiter
Car-Barus
State and
Twentieth Streets
Eriod Field, Leiter & Co
Field
Leiter
State
van Buren
Charles P. Kellogg & Co
Monroe Street
Franklin
Monroe
Fifth Avenue
Strauss, Goodman & Co
Monroe and
LaSalle Streets
Adams and
Clark Streets
Lakeside
Washington Street
Holden Place
Wabash Avenue
Charles Gossage & Co
Weber Restaurant
Madison Streets
Schlesinger & Mayer's
Leiter's
D. B. Fisk
Nee Ban
State Street
Jackson
Chambers and Golden Eagle
splensMid Investments
County
Randolph and
Pacific Avenue
van Buren Street
Central Music Hall
Saith Leiter
Madison Street
Wisconsin Central Depot
Grand Pacific
Clark Street
Pine Street
Perry H. Smith
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Hawthorne
Riverside
la Grange
Wells and
Schiller Streets
Peoria
Secretary Windom’s debt figures Spark Controversy
The Chicago Herald denounces Secretary Windom’s monthly debt explanation as deceptive. It argues the pledged bond reductions hid a net debt increase in July and August due to higher expenditures, with Treasury cash falling by nearly 28 million while bond purchases reduced the debt only on paper.
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Washington
Windom
Teobsuly i
Cc Pebtpaheesis
Treasury
Treasury Department
Secretary of the Treasury
Harrison
Cleveland
Secesvees
Eeseses
Piootgang Sci
Pccecescceus
Buoutoiing
Tanner
Chicago Daily News
United States Government Act Interim Critique
A taxpayer observer denounces federal salaries and pensions as wasteful while decrying corruption and aristocracy in Washington. He warns that large disbursements foster bankruptcy and disorder as officials discuss spoils and home rule is sidelined.
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Washington
Israel
United States
Chicago Herali
United States Government Act
America
Bureau Comptroller
Tanner and the Surplus and Political Debates
The piece critiques the wartime surplus and treasury accounting under Cleveland and Harrison, noting partisan arguments to use or reduce the surplus. It argues public debt figures, voter sentiment, and party loyalties shape reactions to Tanner and pension policy, ending with a quip about revolutions from printing presses.
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Chicago
Herald
Treasury
Tanner
Blaine
Dudley
Washington
Harrison
Cleveland
Wanamaker
Grant
Lincoln
Porter
Chicago Herald
Horrible Collision Kills Five on Rock Island Line Near Auburn Junction
Five people are dead and about a dozen injured after freight engineer Seth Twombley, running ahead of time, collided with a passenger train near Auburn Junction Chicago. The impact scorched and killed several Washington Heights residents while others were severely burned or crushed.
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Chicago Telegram
Seth Twombley
Rock Island Railway
Auburn Junction
Chicago
Junction
Twombley
Washington Heights
Ward
Washington Pened
Calain Brown
Miss Kelly
Fred Huebner
James W. McKinzie
A. K. Steele
Gus Muccahey
Nty Sixth
Wallace Streets
Clark
Captain Brown
Parker King
Tracy Svenue
Anton Shuberg
Edward Smith, Jr
Daniel Lawrence
G. Klein
John Tierney
Michael Haggerty
Wheeler
Dan O’connor
Rock Island
van Buren Street
C. 8. Ellis
Engineer Parker
Auburn Junction Station
Eighty Seventh Street
Morgan Park
Blue Island
Kelly
Johnstown Death Toll Reported in New Directory
The Johns town New Directory announces 3500 deaths recorded for Johnstown Pa in the flood era. It notes the full edition was lost in the disaster but names were recovered from proof sheets and printed with a special record of those lost.
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Johnstown
C. B. Clarke
Amoona
Czar Danger Plot Reported in Peterhoff Explosion
London dispatch cites a St Petersburg report that a dynamite chest exploded at Peterhoff station before the Czar's departure for Copenhagen. The blast wrecked the building and killed a signal man, with the aim to strike as the Czar passed by.
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London Dispatch
St Petersburg
Copenhagen
Peterhoff Station
Profiles of the Ship Canal Inquiries to Gen Casey
Chicago figures R I Cortell and O Guthrie request Gen Casey to have Capt Marshall provide profiles of boring for the Sag Mud lake and Des Plaines routes to Lemon and Joliet to Marseilles The move aims to check if rock bed fears inflate canal cost as voters face the question next November and Casey may consider the official call.
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Washington
R. I. Cortell
O. Guthrie
Chicago
Gen. Casey
Capt. Marshall
Sag
Mud Lake
Des Plaines
Lemon
Joliet
Marseilles
Casey
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