Weather and crop notes from June report
The weekly crop conditions report shows generally favorable conditions with rain needed in the Ohio valley and parts of New York and New England where drought is serious. Corn remains excellent in the South and growing rapidly in Kansas Nebraska Iowa and Wisconsin while tobacco planting advances in Virginia and Maryland.
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Washington
Crop Bureau
Ohio Valley
New York
New England
Kansas
Nebraska
Iowa
Wisconsin
Virginia
Maryland
Ohio
Kentucky
Disastrous Greenville Fire Destroys Westerfield Stores
Incendiary blaze in Greenville Ohio started in a stable behind the Winter block razed Westerfield Bros wholesale store and nearby property. Fire damaged the steam laundry daily Tribune and Courier offices, Methodist church, Deutsche Umschau, Dr Matchett, H E Davis livery stable, and Mrs Sullivan home. Two injured, losses pegged near 225000 amid looting by thieves. two attempts to ignite other buildings failed.
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Greenville
Ohio
Westerfield Bros
Daily Tribune and Courier
Methodist Episcopal Church
Deutsche Umschau
Charles Dalrymple
Mozart Store
Dell Daugherty
Fatal Fire Burnouts at Wooster India Dundee?
In Wooster Ohio, Jacob Keifer and his 70 year old wife suffered fatal burns while lighting a gasoline stove. The wife was burned on body and head. The husband, attempting to move the stove, spilled burning fuel on himself.
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Wooster
Jacob Keifer
Fighting in Formosa under 10 000 Black Flags siege
A Shanghaishi special reports 10 000 Black Flags led by General Lui Yung assembling at Taiwas Island For m as Japanese forces attack forts there. The British warship Spartan evacuates foreigners while fighting rages. In Cedarville Ohio burglars break Andrew Bros. & Co. safe taking about 500 dollars. notes remain and 80 dollars in currency missing.
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Formosa
Shanghaissys
Taiwas
Island of
Form
Lui Yung
Spartan
Cedarville
Ohio
Andrew Bros. & Co
The Festive Keepper
Swarms of grasshoppers alighted on an eel field at the infirmary farm in San Dusky Ohio and destroyed it. Meadow land suffered a similar ruin giving the appearance of a week’s grazing by sheep. Fourteen houses three general stores and small tenements were destroyed by fire at Brownstown.
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Infirmary
Sandusky
Ohio
Brownstown
Ies
Mets
Ers
Canadian Soo Canal Opens For Vessel Passage
The Soo canal near Sault Ste. Marie formally opened to vessels with total cost about 84 million. Officials planned a ministerial and parliamentary delegation but postponed attendance to avoid interrupting sessions, leaving a formal ceremony. The canal across St. Marys Island links Lakes Huron and Superior, with 18 foot water level difference at the island, 3500 foot canal span, and overall 18100 feet including approaches. Channel width at low water is 152 feet with a 145 foot bottom, depths suited to vessels up to twenty feet draft.
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St. Mary’s River
Canada
Huron
Superior
Fatal boiler blast in Fall River harness shop kills four
Four workers die and ten are injured when a boiler explodes in Langley harness shop on Coney street Fall River Massachusetts, wrecking the four story building as flames spread through the ruins. Firemen and doctors rush to rescue the trapped workers.
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Fall River
Encore
Langley
Mass
Coney Street
National Baseball League Club Standings Summary
Standing of the clubs in the National Baseball League is presented, listing team positions and performance context. The passage outlines current rankings and comparative results, indicating each club’s standing status within the league.
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National Baseball League
Draught of Death at Barrett Hotel in Chicago
A mysterious bottle passed from the Barrett Hotel top floor to the lobby of Chicago. Several guests drank from it causing sickness and death. Mary Hulley, 27, a hotel employee, died. Mrs. M F French, Edward Reynolds, and others were affected. Each believed the bottle contained whisky. The bottle later returned to the top floor.
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Barrett
Chicago
Wen
Mary Hulley
M. F. French
George D. Barrett
State Street
Edward Reynolds
Despondent waitress dies by self-inflicted gunshot in San Jose
Amelia Reinholt, 22, a Eureka Hotel waitress, killed herself with a revolver in her San Jose room. Despondency over anticipated separation from roommate and fellow hotel employee Gussie Munson drove the tragedy. Reinholt, employed five months, confessed a strong affection for Munson before the act.
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San Jose
Cal
Amelia Reinholt
Eureka
Gussie Munson
Miss Reinholt
Jalil Birds Free Escape From Crown Point Jail
Two Chicago inmates escaped from Crown Point jail in the night by entering an upper corridor. They sawed through a steel roof and leaped forty feet to the ground to flee. Both were serving long sentences and were later linked to trouble with tramps at Whiting. their current location was unknown. Dollar Wheat in St. Louis and a carload of Missouri crop No. 2 red wheat were noted, priced at one dollar per bushel.
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Chicago
Crown Point
Ind
Whiting
St. Louis
Missouri
Bullion Output Tops All Time in 1894 World Totals
The mint director R I B Preston estimates 1894 world gold production at 870,518 fine ounces valued at 181,510,100 dollars, up from 1893. Africa leads growth with 11.4 million, Australia 6.08 million, U S 3.5 million, Mexico 3.195 million. Silver output reaches 165,918,838 fine ounces worth 214,481,000 dollars, led by Bolivia 10.8 million, Mexico 3.5 million, Peru 2.0 million, Chile 1.4 million, Greece 1.4 million. Gold and silver production in 1894 surpass all prior years.
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Preston
Africa
Australia
United States
Mexico
Bolivia
Peru
Chile
Greece
Business Outlook Improves Says Dun's Review
R G Dun & Co weekly review reports widespread improvement in business. June bank clearings run 24.8 percent above last year, 11.4 percent below 1802. Crops—good yields—lift optimism. wages rise, labor troubles ease, iron leads manufacturing. Monetary conditions improve. exports expected to bring gold. interior money receipts decline, but commercial loans rise, fair for the season.
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R. G. Dun & Co
Review of Trade
Atocka
New Swindle Ring Uses Marked Cards Across States
A Cincinnati based gang wheels a marked card scam across Ohio Indiana Kentucky Illinois and West Virginia posing as a card company salesman. They flood towns with nearly free marks then resell readable cards while duping locals. In Indianapolis they reportedly cleared more than $15,000 in weeks.
Taylor Goes Home Ex-Treasurer Nears Justice
W. W. Taylor former South Dakota State Treasurer and fugitive from a $375,000 embezzlement deficit returned to surrender to state authorities after weeks in hiding in Chicago. Settlement aims for $100,000 repayment, property turnover to bondsmen, a guilty plea and a brief sentence with possible pardon. Taylor is married with no children.
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South Dakota
W. W. Taylor
Chicago
Pierre
Taylor
Alton Pays A Bic Bill In Long Ferry Judgment
Wiggins Ferry Company settles a Missouri Supreme Court approved judgment of 1680000 for transferring cars between East St. Louis and St. Louis. The suit, pending for years, originally had an $880,000 entry. Alton had earlier proposed a $500,000 compromise.
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Wiggins Ferry Company
Chicago and Alton Railroad Company
St. Louis
Supreme Court of Missouri
East St. Louis
Louis
Alton
Ninety at Duluth Miss Northwest Departure Disappoints Crowd
Ninety persons gathered at Duluth docks to board the Northwest for a lakes trip but the new northern liner had already left. Eighty passengers, a steward, storekeeper and eight waiters were left ashore as the ship departed without them. Gaentana Gamblers Will Fight Grvemnett Montana oppose gaming laws and will contest the new duty measures.
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Duluth
Minn
Gaentana
Grvemnett
Montana
Foreign exhibitors at fairs face alien labor law deportation risk
Treasury circular enforces resolution exempting foreigners brought to the Cotton States Exposition in Atlanta and Chicago World's Fair from alien contract labor law for a year post show. But no funds for arrest or deportation were provided and no one from Chicago was ever deported. It is believed up to three fourths of the foreign entrants did not return to their home countries.
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Treasury Department
Congress
Atlanta
Insurgents Engage as Havana Mobilizes Cavalry
Insurgents remain active with new expeditions under Perico Diaz. A detachment of volunteers clashed with Diaz’s band on Mounts Aguado and Romadios. one insurgent killed and three wounded, bodies left on the field. Havana merchants subscribed $100,000 to fund two cavalry companies. Five men aboard the schooner Candora bound for Cabanas, Pinar del Rio, were arrested for travelling without passes under false names, suspected of aiding insurgents.
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Havana
Augudo
Romadios
Perico Diaz
Cabanas
Pinar del Rio
Iron Workers Get More Pay and Wage Hikes Across South
The Cleveland Rolling Mill Company announced a 10 percent wage increase for all laborers and mechanics at its works. Howard Harrison Iron Company in Bessemer Alabama, a leading South iron pipe maker, notified a 10 percent wage rise. Over 1,000 workers are affected. Hila Forgeries Reach 100,000. A Mors, formerly with Inman Swane and Co cotton brokers, is jailed for forging the firm’s name and signs on paper of East River Silk Co where he was treasurer. About $100,000 of the forged paper has been traced. It was offered to various banks. Open Agitation for Ireland. Delegates from Irish national societies in US and Canada prepare for open agitation against English rule, to be held in New York under the Irish National League within weeks. Band Piles for the Children. Cincinnati ladies propose sand play piles for children in vacant lots covered by awnings. Died at the Bight of Blood. Polk Beck was shot near Cuero Texas. the sight of blood killed Hester’s daughter after she had been sick. Whole Town Destroyed. Geneva in Indiana was wiped out by fire, thirty eight miles south of Fort Wayne in the gas belt.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Indiana
Kentucky
Illinois
West Virginia
Indianapolis
Cleveland Rolling Mill Company
Howard Harrison Iron Company
Bessemer
Ala
South
Hila
Mors
Inman, Swane & Co
Cotton Brokers of
New York
Indig
East River Silk Company
Ireland
Societies of Irish Nationaliate
United States
Canada
Irish National League
Delanson
N. Y
Jane TA
N. Bates
Stander
Sterlimedy Company
Chicago
Market Prices Across U.S. Cities for Livestock and Grains
Markets show cattle prices from Chicago to Buffalo with hogs and sheep varying by grade. Wheat and corn futures span No. 2 red to white, with oats rye and barley quoted. regional posts include Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Seattle and Milwaukee figures, including price ranges for cattle hogs and grains.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Toledo
Milwaukee
No tobacco cure story ends with a healthier life
A man recounts quitting tobacco after using No-to-bac for ten days, claiming restored heart function, appetite, sleep, and nerves. He asserts higher life insurance feasibility and urges others to seek the cure, noting a guarantee and free promotional literature.
Nickel Plate Line Seeks Aid For Lake Erie Limes
A fragmented notice states Nickel Plate Railway compares a list of country lines along Lake Erie south shore and seeks instructions or stamps from a General Passenger Agent to address a press to a certain agent. It also notes September 9 as Admission Day observed as a legal holiday in California.
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Lake Erie
Co Olga
Nickel Plate Road
Borner
California
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Moreno
Woodruff
James Crowley
Alten Stiltner
Limeville
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Montgomery
Josiah Norris & Co
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Brooklyn
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Cent Pure A Ween
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Grand Rapids
Paul
Kansas City
WEST
Cuero
Tex
Polk Beck
Mr. Hester
Geneva
Fort Wayne
Bing Winslow
Utah
Hood
Hood’s Pills
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Gaby
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