Devastating Fires and Bank Failures Dominate Early 1893 News
The period reports a wave of bank failures across the United States with institutions in Oregon Kentucky Wisconsin and Michigan among those failing. Floods floods in Pueblo Colorado cause nine deaths and widespread damage while riots against liquor dealers in Brooklyn include a dynamited saloon. Many factories close and tens of thousands lose jobs across Paterson Plainville Attleboro Paterson and other towns as murder lynchings and executions are noted alongside weather and rail tranquilities.
Panorama of Crises and Shocks Across the Nation
The piece notes mass unemployment in Chicago with 150 000 out of work. It reports Cleveland Rolling Mill layoffs affecting 3 000 workers plus related industrial losses. A Wisconsin farmer killed his family then tried to kill himself citing poverty. Fire losses hit San Francisco wholesalers Burger Reicu Co and Indianapolis Eagle machine works with heavy liabilities. Oklahoma fires cause wide damage while census ex-superintendent Porter regains control of the New York Daily Press. Strike violence in Ashland Wisconsin and a Treasury audit change appoints Charles B Morton to fourth auditor. Kansas City bank failure resumes operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oregon National
Portland
Mount Sterling
First National
Middlesboro
Bank of Sparta
M. A. Thayer & Co
Sparta
Wis
Montana National
Helena
Mont
National Granite State Bank
Exeter
Fifield
Plainville
North Attleboro
Attleboro
Mass
Nasvirt Hoyt
Topeka
Kan
Sioux City
Luk Mercantile Houses
Neal Currie
Tracy and Currie
Minn
Oh Invixa
Boston
William G ‘Tayron
Auburn N Oy
Solomon Johnson
Auburn
Goodwin Pants
Evansville
Ind
O. D Tartar
Inter State Investment Company
Dalles
Ore
S. H Mourrison
Philadelphia
Kansas
United States
Hanry Cacewell
Middle Fork
Ray Banrn
Chicago
New London
Cona
Hisey Mirren
Dudlas Tex
Drewer Alexander Brown
Kastrop
Tex
Ida Hiers
Waterloo, & C
Stghg
Isaac Harper
Culera
Union
Lockport
Hair
Wakeman
Lovin Iria
Chadron
Neb
TRADF
Tar
Interstate Ecommerce Commission
Mobile
Ala Bolivar Hudson
Pittsburgh
Joseph Hassell
Magpie Mithell
Russelville
Clark Richardson
John Ligon
Vermillion
Minnesota
F Brennan
Denver
Arata
Great Falls
Covington
Port Washington
Seymour's Bank
Chippewa Falls
W. Chopin & Co
Banksat
Patrick McVit la
Paterson
Pennsylvania Road
Indianapolis
Cartfers
Ludington
Wich
Whiiitass
Washington
York
Cleveland
Brooklyn
New York
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Baltimore
Louisville
Waite
Emma Lindsay
Jeffersonville Ind
Banx
Kankakee
Dollar Savings Bank
Youngstown
Citizens’ Savings and Loan Association
Akron
Kingston
Ill
Lockie Ropat
Galveston
Abram Fardon
First National Bank
Egg Harbor
L. H. Harris
Witt Thompson
Lom Preston
Gaston
Waltham
Wichita
Walter Sanger
Milwaukee
Northwestern Pacific Elevator Company of
New England
Sayles Woolen Mill Company
Killingly Conn
Gromnek G Thornburg
Charles Asche
Council of Administration
Groveton Tex
Birmingham
Ala
Cherokee
Clebourne
Pendleton Savings
Pendleton
Bellingham Bay National
Whatcom
Wash
Springfield Savings
Springfield
Akron Savings
A Daniels & Co
Cedar Rapids
J. W Case
Astoria
Park National
Livingston
Langroin
Olga
N D
Langrain
Grogae Wo Sarre
Rhinelander
Jenlousy
Hanpy Kaltatrr
Manchester
Eagle Machine Works
Oklahoma Territory
Robertr P Porter
New York Daily Press
Ashland
Charles B. Morton
Maine
the Treasury
John K Lynch
Mississippi
Missouri National Bank
Kansas City
Surviving Mexican War General Mongan Dies at Fortress Monroe
GEN GEORGE W Mongan of Mount Vernon Ohio died at Fortress Monroe Virginia where he had gone for his health. Other obituaries note Nancy Quinsy Lawwint aged 100 in Columbus Ohio W S Meiers Victoria British Columbia heart paralysis death Donaldo McNaughton New York state official at the world fair aged 68 Grandma Hernon 103 Lincoln Illinois John Stephenson famed car maker near New Rochelle New York aged about 4 years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George W Mongan
Mount Vernon
Fortress Monroe
Nancy Quinsy Lawwint
Columbus
W .S. Meiers
Northern Pacific
Wisconsin Central Roads
Victoria
B C
Logan County
Lincoln
Ill
Grandma Hernon
Donaldo
Pearl sinks Archibald Finney with seven drowned
News reports the steamer Pearl collided with the Archibald Finney off North Reck Ireland and sank it, resulting in seven drownings. Other items note a new Hawaii annexation draft, home rule fights in Britain, Germany raising import taxes on Russia, a Paris suburb fire, a Prague convict’s murder confession, a large coal miners strike, Siamese France ultimatum, Buenos Aires revolutionary unrest, and a cholera surge in Russia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tur
Pearl
Archibald Finney
North Reck
Ireland
Finney
NFW
Provisional Government of
Hawaii
United States
House of Commons
Germany
Bercy
Paris
Kurl Smetana
Prague
John Olkowski
Pennsylvania
Miners Féderation
London
Buenos Ayres
Russia
July public debt rises as receipts beat expenditures nationwide
Public debt statement shows July increase of 4,263,973 while treasury cash stands at 651,756,908. Government receipts for July total 30,905,776.19 with expenditures at 39,675,586.60. Emancipation Day observed by Black Americans. July coinage in U S mints at 2,165,500 pieces valued 391,800. Burglary at Newspaper Union in Chicago yields 15,000 in notes taken.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ist
Treasury
United States
Targall Gulch
Colorado
Chicago
A. W Thurman
Ohio
Louis Pierson
Homer
Newspaper
Union
Henry Rey Noupa
Montgomery
Tex
Nickel Savings Bank
Charleston
S. C
Seven Corners Bank
St Paul
Minn
Safety Deposits Trust Company
Denver
Col Tor
National Bank
William Bepeck
Rushville
Charles Johnson
Arlington
Neb
Tur
Board of Trade
John Cudahy
E. W. Bailey & Co
Wright & Haughey
A. Helmholz &Ua
J. G. Steever & Co
North American Provision Company
Corner Crashes as Pork Prices Plunge on Chicago Board
Six major Board of Trade firms including John Cudahy and Austin Wright collapse after pork futures plunge from 19.25 to 10.50 in forty five minutes. Panic grips the pit as margins fail and brokers rush to liquidate, with losses estimated at 3 to 4 million dollars and reputations tied to Wright and Cudahy in the park corner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
John Cundahy
A. W. Wright
John Cudahy
A W Wright
J G Steever
Wright
Cudahy
Armour
Esterday
Bulls
Bear
Gold Pouring In as Atlantic Influx Arrives
Between 84 and 85 million dollars are now coming across the Atlantic with a large inward gold movement. Estimates place 1 to 5 million on the way to Newark or ordered from foreign banks, including Lazard Freres and August Belmont & Co. The Spree is to ship part of it, with other sums to Meidelbach Ickefheimer & Co. Last week’s imports totaled 1,752,445 dollars, with 805,519 from Europe and no exports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Newark
England
Lazard Freres
August Belmont & Co
Siam Surrenders to France Complete Guaranties Accepted
A Paris meeting announced Prince Vadhana signaled Siam will concede France demanded supplementary guaranties. The note includes temporary custody of Chanibunat river and port and bans Siam from fortifying near the Cambodian frontier or within a Mekong vicinity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Palace of the Elysee
M. Develle
Prince Vadhana
France
Siam
Chanibunat
Mekong
M. Devylle
Pope Leo X encyclical on labor questions outlined
Rome's encyclical argues property supports social order, cites duty to provide work, condemns strikes as collective aggression, favors religious basis for social reform, calls for inspectors, minimum and maximum wages, labor housing, and care for the sick and unemployed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leo
Tike Wadd
New York
Rome
Sims
Bose
Europe
Bion
Five Men Killed in Farm Thresher Boiler Blast
An explosion at Louis Pierson’s farm near Homer Luther Sillen and John Kittle killed five men and injured four others after the boiler and engine burst into flames. The dead are John Kittle Norman Sellen James Bowers John Bell and Frank Hell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newark
Louis Pierson
Homer Luther Sillen
John Kittle
Pierson
Norman Sellen
James Bowers
John Bell
Frank Hell
Scheme to Save Millions Proposes Western Shipments Shift
Gov Lewelling of Kansas asks Texas Gov Hogg to appoint fifteen commissioners to join a Chicago meeting Sept 11 with foreign representatives. The plan aims to route western product shipments via the Mississippi and Gulf to Europe, bypassing rail to New York, saving western farmers millions annually.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
TorkKa
Kan
Lewelling
Gov. Hogg
Texas
Kansas
Chicago
Gulf of Mexico
Europe
Mississippi River
Mexico
Atlantic Ocean
New York
West
Treasury reports July debt rise and gold reserve swells
Wasurxeton August 2 The treasury department reports a July debt increase of 4,203,973 and a gold reserve gain near 4,000,000 to 99,202,038. The treasury surplus falls by 4,500,000 as total debt minus surplus stands at 845,283,449 with 585,037,440 of interest-bearing debt mostly four percent bonds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wasurxeton
Treasury Department
Treasury
Notable claims on presidents and world blindness
The passage asserts every U S president is a lawyer or soldier or both and that the United States has the lowest share of blind people. It mentions a Kow school with four pupils named King Duke Earl and Lord and claims New York and New Jersey together have as many English speakers as the rest of the world in Shrakesphare's era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
South Atchston
Kow
King
Duke
Earl
Lord
New York
New Jersey
Shrkesphare
Tales From West Point Cemeteries and Cadet Traditions
A reflective piece recalls West Point history through its monuments and graves. It mentions Gen Scott and the Chippewa victory, Anderson and Sumter, Custer, and Susan Warner the author. It notes cadet mothers Bible classes on Constitution Island and Battery Knox named for Knox's wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westminster
America
Huy
Old Far Putnam
Gen
Scott
Chippewa
Anderson
Sumter
Custer
Susan Warner
Miss Warner
Constitution Island
Hudson
Point
Anne
Dresden
Joseph Jefferson
West Point
Knox
Washington
Mess Hall
Cilds
Napoleono
Harper’s Bazar
The Slaughter of Elephants in Zanzibar Ivory Trade
The San Francisco Call reports vast ivory markets in Zanzibar with up to 500000 pounds of tusks per season. Many tusks weigh 150 to 160 pounds or more, but most are smaller, reflecting the ease of capturing younger elephants. Roughly 20000 elephants may be sacrificed for Zanzibar ivory, with some tusks used for domestic goods and ornaments. Ivory fences around interiors and poisoned arrows drive the killing, while some elephants die unseen in the jungle before tusks are found.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zanzibar
Africa
San Francisco
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