Mystery of Gen White solved after Cape Town letter
Grand Rapids dispatch reports Gen White, fugitive Michigan quartermaster general, alive in Cape Town. He wrote Feb 19 claiming innocence and detailing travel from Chicago to New Orleans, then to Dundee Scotland, then to Cape Town. Other brief items note Admiral Dewey illness, Boer surrender, a Plant System wreck, and famine news.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
Gen. White
Michigan
Cape Town
South Africa
White
Chicago
New Orleans
Matin
Dundee
Scotland
Cape ‘Own
Janary
Klondike Mine Produces Vast Gold Output
Norman MacAuley, returning to Victoria from the Klondike, shows a $64.45 gold nugget and touts a claim on Gay gulch known as the Sulphur. He asserts the Sulphur claim 46 yields about $36,000 daily, potentially $10.8 million yearly if run 300 days, with a fifteen foot pay streak across 100 feet, averaging $6 per bucket from some 6,000 buckets daily.
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Klondike
Norman MacAuley
Victoria
B. C
Bis
Gay Gulch
Mr. MacAuley
MacAuley
Baay
New York Capitalists Plan Chicago Air Line Rail Route
Eastern railroad men and New York financiers consider reviving an air line railroad from New York to Chicago. Surveys and maps show a route across northern New Jersey into Pennsylvania through Oil City Cleveland Toledo and South Bend. Projected line would be over 300 miles shorter than standard routes with a 16 hour New York to Chicago schedule.
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New York
Eastern Railroad
Chicago
New Jersey
Mauch Chunk
Pennsylvania
Oil City
Cleveland
Toledo
South Bend
Air Jine
Atlantic Seaboard
Fatal Shots At Nebraska Soldiers At Owl Saloon
In Valentine Nebraska Cicero Thompson proprietor of the Owl saloon fired five shots striking Privates Arthur London and Austin H Millaman soldiers from Fort Niobrara. Thompson awakened by a door crash leaped from bed and fired as the soldiers wandered into his room following a grievance they held.
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Nebraska
Valentine, Neb
Cicero H. Thompson
Owl
Arthur London
Austin H. Millaman
Fort Niobrara
Thompson
Concession of pulp lands includes mill in Canada syndicate
A Dominion Legislature concession grants twenty one years of pulp lands to a syndicate including Marshall J. Dodge of New York. The deal covers fifty square miles along the Spanish, Vermilion and Onaping rivers with a $500,000 mill construction obligation within three years. Meanwhile Michigan Governor Pingree denies further discharge papers for soldiers in the Philippines.
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Dominion
Marshall J. Dodge
New York
Trade Still Solid Amid Farm Market Rally From Corn Report
Bradstreet notes cheerful trade advices with farm products rising and cereals leading gains. Government data shows smaller than expected corn in farmers hands fueling speculative interest as wheat and other cereals hit 1899 highs. Iron and steel outlook firm outside Chicago with machinery sector improving. Wheat and flour shipments total 2.73 million bushels. corn exports 3.73 million, up from prior week.
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Bradstreet's
Chicago
Say She Gave Them Property Strange Claim to Estate
Mrs. Mary Ann Craythorne died Feb 3 in St. Joseph Mo leaving a residence three Main and Rosine streets lots and 1000 dollars. Sister Mrs Jane Bennett of Indianapolis arrives to settle the estate and finds Bert George and his wife, strangers from Des Moines, occupying and claiming they were given the property to care for. They refuse to vacate.
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Mary Craythorne
Mary Ann Craythorne
Main
Rosine
St. Joseph
Jane Bennett
Indianapolis
Bert George
Des Moines
Attempt to wreck fast mail near Olmsted Falls
An obstruction was placed on the Lake Shore track at Olmsted Falls Ohio. A west bound fast mail train encountered the rail and stopped before derailment. The engineer saw three men flee the scene after applying air brakes.
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Lake Shore
Omstead Falls
Olmsted Falls
Ohio
Wrecked by a Falling Chute on Ninth Avenue Line
Nine passengers were injured when a coal chute at the coaling station above Rector Street dropped as a train reached the station in New York. The impact wrecked roofs of two cars and hurled riders about. no fatalities reported.
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Rector Street
New York
Plot to Slay Forty Miners at Whipsaw Camp
A heavy powder charge was placed under the messroom of forty miners at Whipsaw mining camp sixty miles from Phoenix Arizona. A lit fuse was discovered in time by a miner saving a massacre. The would be attacker is described as a new, eccentric, possibly insane miner with unknown identity.
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Whipsaw
Phoenix
Ariz
Shooting Ends Horse Deal in St Louis Quarrel
John S. Bratton, noted horseman, and A C Hunter of Chicago, a buyer for export trade, quarreled at the National Stock Yards East St Louis over an auction sale. Hunter went to Bratton's office after the sale. Bratton drew and fired twice, neither shot taking effect. The fight was halted by bystanders and a temporary truce arranged.
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St. Louis
John S. Bratton
A. C. Hunter
Chicago
National Stock Yards
East St. Louis
Hunter
Bratton
Binds and Gags Himself in Safe Theft at La Porte
A dental student in La Porte Indiana robbed his employer safer, gagged and bound himself, and confessed after being placed in the sweat box. Gold and notes worth an unspecified amount were stolen. Police arrested him on suspicion and the confession followed.
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Page Lowrey
Dr. Wasser
la Porte
Ind
Lowrey
The Markets Across Cities Trade Prices
Markets report varied commodity prices by city including cattle hogs sheep and grains. Prices cover Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo New York and more with ranges for cattle hogs sheep wheat corn oats rye butter eggs and potatoes.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Toledo
Milwaukee
New York
Senate debate on money and Puerto Rico bill pursuits
The Senate and House moved through a busy session with personal explanations by Allen and Butler supporting free silver at 16 to 1, Turner opposing the Porto Rico bill as unconstitutional, and passage of the currency reform conference report. Senate talks covered Philippine questions, DC appropriations, and the Quay case timing, while the House passed multiple district and Santa Fe real estate relief measures and moved toward future leadership actions.
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Allen
Butler
Turner
House
Teller
United States
District of Columbia
Adamson
Nicaragua
Cowherd
Philippine
Mr. Howard
Philippines
Orient
Rucker
Boutell
War Claims Committee
Santa Fe
N. M
Thomas Paul
Wellington
Quay
Penrose
Gallinger
New Hampshire
Fort Hays
State of Kansas
Spooner
Swanson
Monroe L. Hayward
Nebraska
Spain
Foraker
Beveridge
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Norval's Point
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Ozark
Ala
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R.L. Todd
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Jack Cornalzer
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A. L. Mizell
Houghton
Felus Karppa
Atlantic
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Here
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Ferrin
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N. Y
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Miles
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American Sugar Refining Company
Masonic Temple
Fort Wayne
Bill
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Robert Mantell
Entz Santley Variety Burlesque Company
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E. W. Swisher
Columbus Cigar Box Company
E. W. Swisher Cigar Company
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Steyn
Western Millers Unite
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Ao Stock Company
The
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Isaiah Lindsey
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Lillian Bell
April Y
Arthur H. Bogue
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Whidden
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Edward S. Dreyer
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Tower 310
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Thrasher Combine
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G. W. Blick
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Chris Shmsen
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Amos J. Snell
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Berlin
George Williams
Pleasant Hill
Watson
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