World News Summary of a Week's Happenings
A compilation from across the globe reports political talk on prize fighting in Arkansas. Gov Clarke signals potential noninterference if Corbett Fitzsimmons fight occurs in the state. Hot Springs officials discuss venue. Mahone dies after rapid decline with family present. Three convicts mangled in a Kentucky quarry blast. Cincinnati fire claims several, with victims named. An elevator collapse in Chicago injures several. Robbers fire on a Grand Rapids train. the engine escapes. Fort Wayne plans a grand centennial celebration with major parades and band contests. A Logansport stroke survivor awakens at coffin door. a Decatur man faces hanging. Harmon reiterates no fights on U S soil.
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Gov. Clarke
Arkansas
Pugwillets
States
Corbett
Fitzsimmons
Jon
State House Yard
T Hat
Hot Springs
Walters
Martin
Dallas
Turp Turbulence in Constantinople Amid Armenian Riots
Turmoil intensified in Constantinople as mobs of Softas and Turks attacked Armenians. Reports say about 500 Armenians imprisoned, prisoners killed, and police absent. Armenians shelter in churches while clergy urge calm to avoid further pretexts for bloodshed.
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Constantinople
Softas
Mohammedan Theological
Ee Po
Chicago Schools Overcrowded Demand Half Day Sessions
Chicago principals report September enrollment at 183,749, up 11,002 from 1894, with about 20,124 pupils receiving only half a day due to crowded classrooms. The Board of Education has built nearly 40 new buildings since January 1894 but cannot keep pace with rapid growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Board of Education
Millions of Acres Left After Land Office Decline
The General Land Office reports continuing declines in 1895 with 19,095 fewer land entries and 6,016,685 fewer acres entered, plus drops in final entries and cash receipts. Other items list acreage totals, railroad grants, and surveys, while wool production and Egypt furniture demand are noted amid international updates.
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S. W. Lamoreux
General Land Office
Busiens
Land Office
United States
Interior Department
Department
GOOD TONE TO TRADE Famous Novelist Dies and Prosecutions
Dun and Co weekly review reports 1895 third quarter commercial failures total 2 782 liabilities 82 167 170 averaging 11 521 per firm up from 10 028 last year. Failure rate per 1 000 firms lower than last year. defaulted liabilities per firm 26 92 vs 26 89. Manufacturing defaults average 20 965, trading 8 577, banking failures 31 with 114 000 average liabilities. Analysis shows near prosperity but not yet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dun & Co
R. G. Dun & Co
Bank Clerks in Custody for Embezzlement
Harry J. L. Martin a Chicago receiving teller at Commercial National Bank was arrested on embezzlement charges. Joseph H. Wilson of the National Bank of Illinois faced similar warrants, bonded, with both arrests under section 5208 of revised statutes. Wilson, surprised by the arrest, believed his affairs were settled but failed to indemnify the guarantee company. The Government cited excessive compromises with defaulting clerks and vowed to prosecute.
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Harry J. L. Martin
Commercial National Bank
Chicago
United States
Joseph H. Wilson
National Bank of
Ilinois
Wilson
Hank
John A. McKeon
Corner Stone Laying Disaster in Lorain Ohio
A crowd of about eight thousand gathered for St. Marys Catholic Church corner stone ceremony when a temporary floor collapsed. Dozens were injured, one killed, as the platform buckled sending people into the basement. the old church and parish school became temporary hospitals while doctors treated the wounded.
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Lorain
Ohio
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
Obituary of Norwegian Author Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
Professor Boyesen of Columbia College, famed Norwegian author, dies in New York after a two day illness from heart rheumatism. Born in 1848 in Norway, he came to the United States in 1880, edited the Fremad in Chicago, wrote Gunnar, taught German at Columbia starting 1881, and held the Gebhard professorship from 1883. He left a widow and two children.
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Boyesen
Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
Columbia College
New York
Norway
Chicago
Fremad
America
Gunnar
Gebhard
Victor Hugo
Tourgueneff
Coffin case verdict in Indianapolis bank wreck trial
In the second Coffin trial at Indianapolis Percival Coffin was acquitted while Francis Coffin was found guilty of wrecking the Indianapolis National Bank, with nearly 1 million dollars in deposits missing since 1898. The first trial featured a jury bribe attempt and the shooting of defense lawyer A Harris.
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Indianapolis
Percival
Francis
Indianapolis National Bank
A. ©. Harris
Armstrong
Lawrence County
Harris
Markets Across Cities Report Mixed Grain and Livestock Prices
The markets list cattle and hog bids in Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Buffalo Milwaukee and New York style: cattle 2.50 to 5.75 dollars, hogs 2.00 to 5.25, sheep 2.50 to 4.50, wheat No 2 ranges roughly 58 to 70 cents, corn No 2 around 26 to 34 cents, oats about 18 to 23 cents, rye 41 to 48 cents, with creamery butter at 21 to 23 cents and eggs 15 to 16 cents. Prices vary by city and grade, reflecting broad regional trading.
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Chicago
Indianapolia
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Toledo
Milwaukee
Absence Ends as Kokomo Man Returns to Family Tangle
Aaron Swain of Kokomo returns after thirty three years in California. He discovers his wife has remarried and has children, while his daughter now lives with her husband, a prosperous farmer. The families navigate a complex, tense reunion and decide who to live with. Minor items note Vermillion and Laporte county developments, incidents, and local notices.
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Aaron Swain
Kokomo
California
Swain
George Conner
Henry County
Vermillion County
Laporte
Furture
Michigan City
Oliver O'Neil
Brazil
Frederick Royce
Griffith
Chicago & Erie
Indiana
Terra Haute
Marion McKay
Shelbyville
Fort Wayne
Alexander James
Connersville
Young Women’s Christian Association of Citlee and Colleges
Richmond
Elwood Police Board
Edward Brewer
Greenwood
Rotary
George Pederson
James Simpson
Veedersburg
Lafayette
Nellie Bagane
O. P. Kerr
William van Buskirk
Ewlood
Edwards
New York City
Nathan Caldwell McDill
United Brethren Church
Richland
Rovh County
C. D. Porter
Geneva
Geneva Bank
A. G. Briggs
W. Hale
Eugene Ash
John Spencer
Tter
Herusband
Ohio
Anderson
Pencer
Honeseaeet
Jones
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Raphael Davis
Ida Minoonsky
Mamie Ponso
National Tailoring Company
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Rao
Grand Rapids
Indiamza
Kalamazoo
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Logansport
Mary Kunze
Decatur
Charles N. Smith
Aantence
Smith
Uncle Sam
Harmon
Tho
State Department
Bigelow
Rouen
France
Horace Lee Washington
Cairo
Egypt
Heenya
Mexico
Morelia
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Mercado
O. M. Poe
Gen. O. M. Poe
Bannock
Teter
Fort Hall
Pocatello
Idaho
Evanston
Wyo
Jackson Hole
Anderson, Ind
Thomas Lovenski
Lon
Lang-Cheng
Hai-Hong
Lok-Hong
Cambridge
Frank Law
Davis Livery Stable
Buffalo Bill
East Liverpool
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St. Joseph, Mich
Sycione
Youngstown
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Bangkok
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