Gold Fever Hits Colorado Mines As England Runs The Craze
The gold stock surge spreads from London to the United States. Investors, including small savers, pour capital into mining ventures in Colorado and Kaffir mines in England. Brokers flood Colorado with orders as stocks rise on yet unworked fields. If the craze grows, a Barney Barnato figure could emerge locally, bringing vast fortune or risk.
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Colorado
United States
England
Barney Barnato
London
Big bluff over Turkey powers linked to Rothschilds
The piece argues Turkey’s European crisis is a bluff tied to Rothschilds influence and bond payments. It cites Lord Salisbury and warns that without public outrage, the sultan may restore quiet, risking another massacre of Christians. The essay also touches on local commerce and political missteps at an Indianapolis Republican event.
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Turkey
Lord Salisbury
Europe
Willie Bill McKinley
Indianapolis
Ohio
Unclear fragment hints at Dunraven return and tax market
Fragment references an intruder, honor, birth of a new heir to the tax, dynamite market, and Dunraven returning to work without his crew. Details are garbled with no clear event or dates to confirm.
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Dunraven
Watterson to write Lincoln life in Europe after rest
Henry Watterson plans eight months in Europe to compose a life of Abraham Lincoln. He will travel with family likely to a Swiss town near Paris, writing from an ex Confederate viewpoint yet sympathetically. The piece notes his long familiarity with Lincoln and his editorial stance from Louisville.
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Henry Watterson
Lincoln
Europe
Abraham Lincoln
Paris
Watterson
Mr. Lincoln
Louisville
Handsome Woman Slandered as Accomplice in Kidnap Plot
John Trentman, a wealthy retired merchant from Decatur, was allegedly kidnapped near Mitchell, Indiana, after boarding a train with a captivating woman heading to Mitchell. He endured six days in a dungeon and was robbed of $200 while under sedatives, then released. detectives investigate.
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Decatur
John Trentman
West Baden Springs
Mitchell
Ind
Trentman
John
West Baden
Lold
Interesting suit for slander halts Brown and Rolands wedding
In Colums, two women sue for slander after James F Brown, a Johnson county leader worth over 100000, halted his engagement to Mrs Irene W Roland by alleged defamatory reports. Mrs Roland plans a 50000 suit with ex congressman George W Cooper for prosecution. Wood defends. sensational developments promised. Separate reports recount robberies and crimes across Indiana.
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James F. Brown
Johnson County
Irene W. Roland
Brown
Thomas B. Wood
Roland
W. L. Roland
Elmer E. Roland
Franklin
Wood
George W. Cooper
Friends of the Rolands
Fatal shooting over unpaid debt ends in handover
In Wasasa a detective’s case ends when Ferguson, unpaid by Clark for work, confronts Clark at his home with a gas pipe and is fatally shot by Clark. Clark then surrenders to officers on the scene.
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Dathgs
Clark
Ferguson
Minnesota Supreme Court Affirms Hayward Case Ruling
Hayward will be hanged Dec 6, per the telegrams. Ex-State Comptroller Edward W. Hipple is at Utica state hospital for arson-tinged insanity after voluntary commitment. Mabel Brown, 16, of Chicago, disappeared after bicycle ride and note to her mother, believed to have pawned her bike to join a theater company.
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Minnesota Supreme Court
Hayward
Edward W. Hipple
New York
Utica State Hospital
Mabel Brown
Chicago
Major iron mine deal in Upper Peninsula near Ishpeming
In Inon Mountain Michigan on November 21 the Chapin Mining company gained control of the Ludington and Hamilton mines. Idle for four years after a flood, the mines once employed 1500 men and will be unwatered and resumed, with the Chapin mine enabling over a million tons of ore in 1898.
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Inon Mountain
Mich
Upper Peninsula
Chapin Mining Company
Ludington
Hamilton
Lake Superior
Ghapin Company
United States
Chapin
Sovereign Resigns Then Wins Re election After Heated Debate
The Knights of Labor general assembly in Washington adjourns sine die with Rochester New York named as next year’s site amid a feud over charges of mismanagement. Grand Master Workman Sovereign resigns amid harsh criticisms but is re elected by a large majority well beyond two thirds.
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Washington
General Assembly
The
Knights of Labor
Rochester
N. Y
Hot Springs
Little Rock
Ark
Dallas
Tex
Assembly 49
New York
Sovereign
Saloon Proprietor Shoots Three Men in Terrell
S M Joyce fired four shots at J W Ogies on horseback in Terrell. Seaborn Wackaby died from a neck wound and Buck Scott was wounded in the shoulder. Ogles died from a chest and neck wound. Joyce fled with Marschal Keller transporting him. Bert Hunt remains under arrest.
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Joyce
Marschal Keller
Bert Hunt
Mysterious Crime Reported Near Raymond Illinois
A troupe of St. Louis hunters found the decomposed body of a young woman in a graveyard one mile north of Raymond. The face and hands were black from decomposition but the corpse appeared white once uncovered. Authorities suspect rape and murder though no definite details were learned amid great excitement.
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Raymond
Ill
Litchfield
Tils
St. Louis
Here
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