Doings of the Day Seventeen Suspenseful Events
Summary of weekly news reports including a home invasion in Toronto Ohio where an elderly couple was robbed of two dollars and a gold watch after a violent search. a Akron deed of assignment at J F Seiberling Company with $250000 liabilities and 350 workers. Cuban landings bringing rifles ammunition and artillery. and a double murder suicide on a Noblesville Indiana farm where brothers James and Henry McCay killed Henry then James killed himself.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Akron
J. F. Seiberting Co
Empire
W. U H. Carter
First National Bank of
Ravenna, O
Rue Company
John F. Seiberiing
F. A. Seiberling
William Frost
Nobblesville
Ind
James
Henry McCay
An Old Miser Robbed of His Hoard
An elderly Chicago man, Christopher Sehrage, 73, living in a shabby TL! South Jefferson Street shack, was bound and gagged and robbed of gold, paper money, bonds, mortgaged properties, and other valuables totaling thousands. Two thieves escaped with the hoard, while the story notes a separate pursuit of Albert Black, alias Clarence Reilly, a wanted highwayman nabbed by a Bristol Indiana marshal. A hurricane reports describe Suva destroyed, Warrimvo seaborne news, and a separate Indianapolis dispatch quotes Mayor Taggart not seeking Indiana governor. Three boys bodies found on a Brownsburg Texas railroad track, ages 18, 15, and 11, likely killed by a team. Also listed is a Masonic Temple Theater note for Ft. Wayne Indiana showing a Chinatown trip on April 20.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christopher Sehrage
Tl! South Jefferson Street
Chicago
Cook County
Hoone Smith
Tom Slosiit
Charles McMillan
Reilroad
Brownsburg
Texas
Spaniards Routed In Pinar Del Rio Battle Loss
Reports from Havana via cipher cable reach New York claim a crushing defeat for Gen Wester's Spanish forces at Pinar del Rio. Officials allegedly suppress bad news, while Cuban insurgents gain standing. Analysts in New York deem the Spanish cause weakening and Weyler likely to resign or be recalled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pinar del Rio
Spain
New York
Havana
Wester
Tampa
Fim
Cuba
Gen. Weyler
Crank from Nebraska Tries to Collect from Edison in Orange
Bert Budgeon of Edison Nebraska walked to Orange New Jersey to claim a $100 settlement from Thomas A Edison saying Edison stole his arc light carbon patent eight years ago. Budgeon traveled across the country, was met by officers, and talked rationally on most topics except his fictitious claim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W Noebraska
Thomas A. Edison
Orange
N.J
Bert Budgeon
Edison
Neb
Budgeon
West Orange
Lincoln
Flo
Elizabeth Bowdin challenges A J Davis will in Butte
Elizabeth S Bowdin of Springfield filed a petition seeking revocation of Andrew J Davis's probate. She alleges the probated will was unsigned or invalid, and that a later 1880 will revoked prior wills. She says the 1886 act of destroying the last will came from its vault in a bank. Estate assets are about 1 million dollars in cash and 300000 in mining bonds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth &. Bowdin
Springfield
Mass
Andrew J. Davis
Butte
Mont
Elizabeths. Bowdin
Davis
Anid
First National Bank
Butte and Boston Mining Company
Hope for Cuba pacification seen as impossible
The piece states pacifying Cuba is now regarded as impossible without a supreme effort, large reinforcements, and a full naval blockade. It notes a Madrid denial of Weyler proposing resignation, claiming he does not intend to relinquish command and has government and public backing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cuba
Madrid
Weyler
Havana
Senate Aide Backs Cuba Resolutions In House Substitution
Senate Foreign Relations Committee stands by the conference agreement and supports House Cuban resolutions as a substitute for Senate versions. The panel split, but a safe majority favored expediency over the Senate form.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Senate Committee On Foreign Relations
House
Swift Retribution in Huntsville Lynching of Murphy
William Murphy, jailed for the murder of Bill Knowlin, was dragged from Huntsville jail by about thirty masked mountaineers and hanged from a tree. The mob, led by an unmasked man, seized keys after threatening the jailer’s family, while Murphy prayed for mercy and his victims’ kin mourn. He leaves a widow and several children in Junction City, Kentucky.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Murphy
Huntsville
Tenn
Bill Knowlin
Murphy
Junction City
Discounted the Future in Trade Conditions
R G Dun and Co Weekly Review of Trade notes limited improvement in shoes and small industries and a squeeze of cotton short sellers, but overall mood remains cautious. Weather has reduced country business, and several large failures raise caution as merchants overbought stock in hopes of rising prices that have not materialized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. G. Dun & Co
Review of Trade
Army Revolt Splits Salvation Army in Chicago
About 50 Salvation Army members in Chicago deserted the old organization at a Sunday meeting at Princess Rink. Rebellion was signaled by removing badges and seating with the general audience as officers in blue uniforms remained. Estimates vary on corps splits and supporter counts, with two rival factions forming in the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Masloner
Eva Booth
Chicago Salvationista
Salvation Army
Chicago
S Princess Rink
Eva Hoath
John A. Carleton
Alington Booth
Booth
Bogus Bonds Reported Taint Holt County Funds
Boston Bank holds 25000 worth of alleged Holt County bonds claimed issued July 1 1873 under a disputed election. The bonds tag Holt City Holt County Nebraska, signed by County Clerk McAfee ld and Commissioner Glasco, but Holt County was not organized until 1876 and no such election occurred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Holt County
O'Neill
Neh
Hult County
William Mcofield
Charles Glasco
Dog Discovers Burglars Booty Near Norwalk Ohio
A farm dog uncovered a buried parcel containing $1000 in postage stamps two revolvers and burglar tools near Norwalk Ohio. Officers surrounded the scene and a gunfight wounded one man while another escaped the Wellington post office is suspected as the source. The wounded man denies the claim and a birth announces the Blaine Beale child at Augusta home with cheerful messages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norwalk
Ohio
Stix
Wellington
McKinley Indorsed by Wisconsin Republicans in Milwaukee
Wisconsin Republicans in a midweek state convention at Milwaukee endorsed William McKinley for president and pressed sound money against free silver coinage. Delegates named at large Philetus Sawyer William Hoard Eugene Elliott James Arnot and alternates H B Smith W S Heine James R Lyon and Judge Plummer. The gathering marked the largest convention in state history with 681 delegates, and the platform urged unity for McKinley across the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wisconsin
Ohio
Milwaukee
Philetus Sawyer
William D. Hoard
Eugene
Elliott
James
Arout
H. B. Smith
Heine
James R. Lyon
Plummer
William McKinley
Markets Across Cities Report Mixed Commodity Prices
Chicago cattle range 3.50 to 4.75, hogs 4.00 to 4.25, sheep 2 to 4, grains from No 2 Red wheat 60 to 61 cents, corn 28 to 29 cents, oats 14 to 20 cents. Indianapolis, St Louis, Cincinnati, Detroit, Toledo, Milwaukee, Buffalo and New York show varied cattle hog and grain quotes with butter eggs and clover seed also listed. Numerous city pairs and price bands reflect a scattered market snapshot of regional staples.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Indianapolia
St. Lowis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Milwaukee
Ube
New York
Remarkable Matrimonial Career of Alexander Rhimes-C Miller
Alexander Rhimes of Fulton township Indiana has been married nine times, eight divorces, and seeks to end his ninth marriage. The article lists spouses Baaline Gandy Martha Hobbins Samantha Benjal Lavinia Straw Anna Rowland Barak Overtree Rachel Magnum Stella Bloomhagen Rhimes, now in Berrien County Michigan, may seek another marriage once freed. Also noted is C Miller of Decatur, aged 90, who died Friday night carrying a treasure diagram revealing $3,000 in gold hidden in cans and coffee essence jars later placed in a bank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander Rhimes
Fulton Township
Indiana
Alex. Rhimes
C. Miller
Decatur
Gripsack
Thieves loot grocery wagon and local swindles hit Valparaiso
Unknown robbers stole the John Shook grocery wagon at an overnight farm stop with property value $700. A smooth swindler targeted Valparaiso businesses passing altered $10 and $20 bills. Ohio Indiana Butter and Eye Shippers' Association backed a straw board project via Fort Wayne resolutions. Anderson enacts underage smoking ban amid vigilant policing. Jailbreak attempt in Albion ends in discovery. two inmates in Newport jail as guards tightened surveillance. Trustee Bradshaw disappears, $1,200 shortfall revealed. bondmen to cover missing school funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Shook
Osgood
Valparaiso
Ohio
Indiana
Fort Wayne
Iowa Association
Straw Board Manufacturing
Anderson
Also Mentioned on This Page
Thomas Hunt
Gutskirts
Toronto
Braulio Pena
Pena
Hay
Albert Black
Clarence Reilly
Lanstog
Mich
Marshall Mustow
Bristol
Black
Victoria
Warrimvo
Suva
Fiji
Pearl
Brisbane River
Taggart
Indianapolis
Thomas Taggart
Masonic Temple Theater
Ft. Wazag
Robert Mantall
Chinatown
Crank
A. J. Davis
Will
House Action
Platt
New York City
Horne
Morton
Rifton
Ulster County
Rosendale
Norton
Quilty
M. Norton
Pirth
Venera
Bellaire
Frank Wagner
Sid Lennie Clemens
Mountain Avengers
Tennessee
Ranke
Salvation Era
Bonda
Nebraska
Dog
Nate Ales
Hattie Blaine Beale
H.truxton Beale
Persia
Blaine
Augusta
Mrs. Beale
M'Kinley Indorsed
Saade
Secretary of Agriculture
Congress
United States
House of Representatives
Bayard
Thomas K.’. Bayard
Court of St. James
England
Edinburgh
Scotland
Philosophical Institution
Wis
J. H. Lyons
Northern Pacific Coal Company
Roslyn
Wash
Hiskull
Sam Isaacs
Idaho Avenue Bridge
Hart's Creek Valley
Huntington
W. Va
Belleville
Tex
Clem Stanthor
Buck Chappelle
Chappelle
Dora Ermashoff
Glenmoray
Caldu
Portland
Oregon
Ocean Park
Cabanas
Alhes
Berlin
Reichstag
Hella
James O'Connor
A. Bailey
William Smalley
Punty
Albion
Sccarion
Jackson
Walling
Pearl Bryan
Newport
John Bitzer
Kentucky
Silram A. Bradshaw
Clinton Township
Lebanon
Hia Bondymen
Bradshaw
Indiamapolis
KT. Line
Lebghon National Bank
Liudshiw
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