Chicago Bank Fails as Two Small Banks Collapse
The National Bank of Illinois, a long standing Chicago institution with assets between 12 and 15.4 million dollars, closed its doors on Monday. Depositors are expected to be paid in full, with bad loans cited as the cause. Two other mortgage loan banks, E. S. Drever & Co. and Wasmans, Dori, & Hethenian, also shut their doors following the suspension of the institution.
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Chicago
National’ Bank of Illinois
Uderstood
National Bank of Tilingis
Drever & Co
Wasmans, Dori, & Hethenian
Senate Debates Cuban Independence Recognition
Amid crowded galleries, Senator Cameron reports the foreign relations committee favors recognizing Cuban independence and asks for printing and tabled action until after the holidays. Senator Morgan and Miles add supporting facts, while Sherman presides over a favorable report and Call seeks state department details on U S citizens in Spanish prisons. Hale objects noting uncertainty.
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Author Jones
Senate
Cameron
Committee On Foreign Relations
Tin
Morgan
Alabama
Miles
Vegas
Senatar Hale
Maine
Lynching in Kentucky Guard Yard Reported with Mob Vengeance
Fragmented account describes a Black man seized from Finlid county jail in Mayfinid Kentucky on Monday, dragged to the yard and lynched by a mob. Jailer allegedly powerless as shots pierced the prisoner, with mob asserting another man’s guilt. Names and further details are obscured in the text.
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Mayfinid
Amo
Aid
Agtor Duara
Naveral
R. Greene
Mas “Fiel
Submarine Wrecking Shipyard Work Advances in Baltimore
Work has begun at the Ludhian shipyards in Baltimore to construct a submarine wrecking vessel for deep sea exploration. The craft will be cigar shaped, 48 feet long, 9 feet in diameter, displacing 60 tons, with a steel hull braced for pressure at depth.
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Ike
Verene
Lurdhian Shipyards
Baltimore
Mal
Yosmichal Iafe
Train robbery disrupts Texas express near Comstock
A westbound Southern Pacific train near Comstock Texas was held up by masked men who seized money packages from the express car. Other mentions note a Maine incident and a Grant Trunk derailment at Danville Me with several cars wrecked.
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Welktop
Texas
Maine
Grant Trunk
Danville
Payson
Sugar Trust Buys Woolson Spice Stock in Toledo
The American Sugar Refining Company known as the sugar trust buys 1199 shares of Woolson Spice Company of Toledo Ohio amounting to eleven eighteenths of total stock for 1266000 dollars. The Arbuckles coffee kings entered sugar refining and coffee competition.
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American Refining Company
Wit / Buck
Arbucktrees
American Sugar Refining Company
The
Sugar Trust
Nthe Woolson Spice Company
Toledo
Ohio
Arbuckles
Coffee Kings
New York
Jetter
Arbuckle
Yehning Company
Sharkey Receives $8000 Purse After Fight
Sharkey and backer Lynch withdrew $8000 from Anglo California bank in San Francisco after a bout with Fitzsimmons. They held a certificate of deposit for 310,000 with $1509 in attachments on it. Sharkey seeks another match possibly with Maher. A grand jury declined to indict Sharkey Fitzsimmons or backers for prize fighting under state law.
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Anglo-American Bank Tays Bim
Tom Sharkey
Fitzsimres
Sharkey
den ‘Lynch
San Francisco
Maher
Grand
Fitzsimmons
Wreck in Louisiana Leaves Three Dead and Seven Injured
Reported freight wreck on the Texas and Pacific near Sodus after a climb on a 2 strep grade. Three men killed and seven injured, none of the trainmen hurt. A woman’s body found near the tracks, identified later as Mrs. Adiee Wasiliah, wife of Charles Robie. A local gang is suspected in the incident.
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Sodus
Charles Virich
Akron
Waeman
Dean
Adiee Vwisilieah
Charyle
Robie
Derry
Pening Airy
Fragmented notes from a chaotic early 20th century bulletin
Disjointed OCR fragment covers multiple items including personnel changes in Port Turan Mich. district offices, a federal committee investigation, political commentary on Madrid and Cuba, missing persons near Agee Theran, a January fire at St Paul causing extensive damage, the Rostien Safe Deposit fraud case, and a Wool Growers Convention notice plus Alabama train robbery sighting.
Preparing for war sparks in Cuba and Philippines
A Washington dispatch reports Spain and Cuba in crisis talk as Spain prepares 500000 fresh troops and mobilizes arms abroad. Secretary Olney tells Senor de Lome US stance on Cuba independence remains unreco gnized by Cleveland.
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Washington
Madrid
Olney
Spain
Congrésa
Cleveland
Cuba
Gus. Weyler
Maceo
Philippines
War Department
Death in the Drink at Speak Easy Whisky in Ohio
Reported poisoning from a substitute named essence of cinnamon sold at a Bentwood and Monroe County speak easy leaves three dead, three insane, and several seriously ill. A storekeeper allegedly sold the concoction called essence of cinnamon, tainting many drinkers and causing widespread fatalities and injuries among oil men and others.
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Benwood
Monroe County
Olin
Bentwood
Wheeling
Price
Fisher Oil Company
Firat
Charias Seibert
Sardis
Chin
Tholes Sieg
Cames
Mionix
el Ars
Ghite
Heory Rath
Savpig
Five Burned to Death in City Fire Tragedy
A factory district fire in New York City killed five people including a 74 year old grandmother and a 8 year old child. The blaze started when a large pie lamp toppled, causing a floor collapse and chaos as residents fled. Authorities note the lamp accident and report the house was old and crowded. A separate note mentions agricultural appropriations and a treaty between the Choctaw and Dawes commissions regarding allotments and school reserves.
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New York
Phestapuy Galdemith
Chitwlifde Gebtanith
Si Yesrail Hertha Galdemith
Ry Goilsmith
Ne Guldamish
Frank
Jared
Notable Arrest Ties to 1881 Kentucky Murder Case
Arthur Pat, jailed for six months on burglary charges, was arrested on leaving custody in connection with the December 1881 murder of Jesse Tyros at Alumatic Asylum in Lessington Kentucky. He has admitted guilt. Another individual from Zion seeks extradition.
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Arthur Pat
Seinlemes
Jesse Tyros
Alumatic Asylum
Lessington
Zion
Silas
Ndson
Barrington
Horace Grenny
George DP. Prentien
Abraham Lincoln
Glyesce
Grant
Buslingtonsines Tam
Towa
Unclear fragment on Colorado rabbit incident and officials
Fragmentary report mentions Colorado, Barns, Slaughter, and Taman amid a rabbit massacre. It cites figures like 4 387 killed and names Vice President Paul Morten and Seni Pe read among attendees, with distribution in Denver and Virginia references.
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Colorado
Taman
Cele
Paul Morten
Seni Pe
Denver
Three Friends Steamer Reported to Have Landed Its Cargo
Roberto Solar, freed after seventeen months in Col Arrante’s insurgent camp, arrived in Tampa aboard the Olivette. He cites Havana officials claiming the Three Friends landed last Tuesday, and asserts Maceo is dead. He describes Spanish cruelty near Havana, including drowned prisoners and secret executions tied to a supposed negro society. Insurgents may move west toward Atanzas and Havana provinces.
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Col~Arrante
Havana
Mannized
Olivette
Tampa
Fla
Hadeen
Maceo
Junta
New York
Brie
Castillé
Guba
Atantazas
Hevao
Bradstreets Review Signals Slower Wholesale Trade Volume
Bradstreet's Weekly Review reports wholesale trade running at a smaller volume than expected with limited activity in groceries fruits and nuts. Prices show a downward trend in hides steel rails and iron while cotton and grain show more confidence in larger crops. Wheat and resin rise while pork and sugar hold steady. dry goods demand weak and woolen mills show modest orders amid overall weak week.
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Bradastreet
Axpecter
Woolen Mills
Ind
United States
Grarper a6 Georgetemn President Creveland Flight
A scrambled report notes Grarper a6 Georgetemn and President Creveland receiving a high percentage of praise then traveling by train to Washington. The party left for Washington after a one hour delay and waved as the crowd cheered at the rear platform.
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Georgetemn
Creveland
Orig
Washington
Mies Winnie Vravis
Notable arrest for alleged assault near Marlhory Mil
A person named Jamesmith, described as a servant, was jailed Friday morning in Ope Ner Marlhory Mo for criminal acts including assault and improper advances toward a girl named Margaret Drown. The accused had been dismissed for misconduct after working in the family.
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Jamesmith
Marlhory
Chen
Margaret
Tin
Grain and livestock prices across cities listed in report
A lengthy price table from Indianapolis, St Louis, Detroit, Milwaukee and Buffalo lists Wheat No 2 red and No 2 white, corn No 2 mixed and yellow, oats No 2 white, rye No 2, barley No 2, flaxseed, clover seed, and various weights for cattle sheep and hogs. Prices are given per bushel or per hundredweight with ranges and market notes.
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Fomnan Io
Erades
Lidianapolis
St. Louis
Caivte
Cincinnati
Bog
Howe
Milwaukee
Sheen
Murder at Carbonada shocks mining camp near Oskaloosa
In Carbonada a brutal murder ends with miner George Splightly dead. Implicated are two Wayland men George Nettleton and Earnest Tarnest and two Oskaloosa women. The pair claimed they did not know a man was killed and said they fired only to scare the occupants after a scuffle near a buggy.
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Oskaloosa
Maresoch
Whitechapel
George Splightly
George Nettleton
C. &. Tarnest
Wayland
Golightly
Nettleton
Earnest
Tie
Soldiers' Home trustees agree to pension rule changes
The Marshalltown Soldiers' Home case ends with an indefinite postponement of charges. Trustees seek to amend rules to stop taking inmate pensions and plan to ask Congress for new pension control. Other items mention burnings cases, society notices, and local losses.
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Soldiers' Home
Marshalltown
Woul Son
Des Moines
Toistees
Congress
Allincs
Missionary A Rooser Arrested After Evansville Meeting
A young Iowa evangelist, claiming weeks of meetings, arrived in Evansville after planning to tour from the Bluffs. He was arrested amid a spree of local robberies involving liquor bills and a court ruling on interstate liquor debt collection.
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Evansville
Frank Lart
Council Kinfis
Shenandoah
Bluffs
Wheel
Bar- Lee
Henry DeLong
Lows
Dhinois
Ind
Aly. Larr
Flw
Tarr
Cape Town
Southfrica
Jefferson Dispatch
District I
Kentucky
Louisville
Towa
Government Overreach Targets Burnell Mail Case in Marshalltown
Federal action blocks mail to A. S. Burnell and associates from Washington, directing Marshalltown postmaster to withhold letters to Burnell and various business entities. The move aims to curb Burnell's communications as part of a broader interstate tracing enterprise.
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A. S. Gurnell
Marshalltown
Burnell
Washington
Afr
I Business Tian
ACS
Darnell
Mimager
Burmell
Feifer
Barnell
Phe Interstate Tracer Company
Crealte
Crealte Leung Auouny, "3 Etc. Ame Ather Telegram Was Reeedyed From Wasiington
Barats
Child’s death from playing with matches shocks Dubuque family
In Dubuque a six year old child of Jacob Nichols died from burns while playing with matches. The Iowa Central State Medical Association held its annual meeting at Marshalltown with papers read and new officers elected. Cholera deaths are reported near Dallas and surrounding areas as the disease continues.
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Jacob Nichols
Dubigie
Matehes
Iowa Central State Medical Association
Marshattitown
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