Government Gold Ready to Pay All Silver Notes in Gold
Heidelbach Yekelehimer & Co. tendered $1,000,000 in silver purchase treasury notes and demanded $1,000,000 in gold for shipment to Germany. Treasury paid out in gold, sparking debate on crisis potential. Assistant Treasurer Roberts declared the government stands ready to meet all obligations in gold, with free gold balances of $112,000,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Heidelbach, Yekelehimer & Co
Treasury
Germany
Roberts
Death in a Stampede Kills Three Hundred Cattle and Two Cowboys
In Idaho near Bannock Butte hunger driven prospectors tried to capture a stray calf causing a stampede. Three hundred sixty one cattle fell from a cliff while two cowboys Watson and Hancock leaped to block them. both were killed. The stampede ends with their bodies found mangled as others are arrested.
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Thoise Croy
Idaho
Bannock Butte
Watson
Hancock
Cunarder Aurania Beats Alaska in Atlantic Passage
The Cunarder Aurania defeated the Alaska of the Guion Line in a Queenstown to New York race. Both ships exited Cork within fifty five minutes of each other and finished at Sandy Hook, Aurania clocking 6 days 19 hours 43 minutes while Alaska posted 6 days 20 hours 35 minutes.
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New York
Aurania
Alaska
Queenstown
Cove
Cork
Atlantic
Sandy Hook
East Digest: Scanaln and Disaster Reports From Several States
W J Scanlan the comedian in Bloomingdale Insane Asylum grows worse as recovery seems unlikely. August Pitou his manager is away. In Columbus Ind Enoch Ledrow’s son causes a fatal powder blast destroying a barn and harvest stored grain. In Cover N J a building collapse traps twenty workers with many dead or fatally injured. Weather Bureau issues blizzard warnings and predictions to aid northwestern states with approaching storms.
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New York
W. J. Scanlan
Bloomingdale Insane Asylum
August Pitou
Pitou
Ind
Enoch Ledrow
Washington
N. J
Specifl
Indton
United States Weather Bureau
Weather and murder cases in telegraph era notes
The report covers blizzard warning protocols for several states with a red flag signal, plus maritime and consular handling of a murdered boatswain's mate Charles W. Riggin in Valparaiso. It notes his body arriving in Philadelphia for public display in Independence Hall. A New York special reports a large multi-generation birth in Indiana and a lightning strike death at Beaver Dam killing John Edwards’ family.
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New York
Pacific
Columbia
Charles W. Riggin
Valparaiso
W. S. McCreary
United States
Philadelphia
Boby
Independence Hall
LeGanfront
Ind
Julius Carney
Abraham Hildebrandt
Minopietown
N. Y
Beaver Dam
John Edwards
Heaven at Hand and other frontier intrigues in the west
From San Francisco to Grand Forks and beyond, reports detail Steven Maybell’s new creed Heaven at Hand with a celibacy reversal and a planned wedding in Metropolitan temple, a beheading tale from Horton, a fatal shooting in Walkers lumber yard, a stabbing in Cuicano, a Sperry Flour Company consolidation, a Knights Templar train accident, and the Fox River drowning of Sale and his sons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Steven Maybell
Kearney
Salvation Army
Maybell
May Hansen
Heavenly Army
Muaybell
Metropolitan Temple
Hansen
Kolheim
Botheim
I’oo Chow
Horton
Louisa Isele
Christain Jackman
Joseph Jackman
Jackman
California
Sperry Flour Company
Horace Davis
Missouri
Starr & Co
Clrronx
Iowa
Knights Templers
Denver
Chicago
Northwestern
Green Bay
Wis
Sale
Fox River
Grignon’s Point
Montreal Grain Shippers Propose to Retain Canal Rebates
Foreign Jottings reports a Montreal meeting of major grain shippers protesting Canada’s removal of rebates on canal shipments via the St Lawrence. Speakers, including W. W. Ogilvie and D. G. Thompson, urge mutual concessions and warn of U S retaliation while urging government action to preserve trade ties with England. May urge calm to avoid harming Canada’s railways and overall relations.
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Montreal
Can
Dominion
St. Lawrence Canals
United States
W. W. Ogilvie
Canada
Clendenning
England
Victoria
Behring Sea
Lydix
Richard Rush
Northern Light
Sitka
Jane Grew
Mohican
Behiing Sea
Winifred Victoria
Earth cave collapses New Orleans depot in river crash
New Orleans Fort Jackson and Grand Isle Railroad depot seses a dramatic cave in after a riverbank collapse. The building partially sinks into the river as heavy timbers crash and offices become wrecked. City surveyor sees potential bank restoration. losses reach thirty thousand dollars. Three arrests reported in a separate Van Buren green goods case, with two Chiltons and Absalom Coleman held on two thousand dollar bonds. Denison reports a sixth murder near a railroad track and a Tucson stage holdup yields no loot.
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New Orleans
Fort Jackson
Brown
Leung
United States
van Buren
Wm. Chilton
John A. Chilton
Absalom Coleman
Denison
Houston
Exas Central
Tobe Garnet
Tucson
A. T
Quijola
Great Allerton and Okoboji News Mix in Iowa Item
News from Iowa reports a mix of local events including the Allerton horse injured in a Davenport race, a fatal stabbing in Villisca, a missing man near Hamlin, and a Davenport canal bid rejection. It notes gas stove explosions at Davenport homes, a Des Moines bond issue, and various civic actions, with photos case and rail excursion shifts at West Okoboji.
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H. Minner
Hamlin
Atlantic
Lenehan
Dubuque
Gov. Eoles
Col. Lyon
Fouke
Berry
Huney V. King
M. M. King
Des Moines
Kansas
Nebraska
Iowa
Davenport
Baldwin
Martin Rasmussen
Rasmussen
Anre
THE
Photographers of Iowa
Ant
Guy
W. D. Smith
Orange Township
Clinton County
Smith
Manhattan Beach Company
West Okoboji Lake
Chicago
Milwaukee and St. Paul
Fort Dodge Greery Company
Ayr
Allerton
C. W. Willams
Lobasco
M. E. McHenry
Williams
Independence
Nancy Hanks
Grinnell
F. H. Henry
Ayreshire
Palo Alto County
J.C. Fitzpatrick
Fitzpatrick
Fort Dodge
William Lynch
Cedar Valley Seminary
National Baptist Educational Society
Illinois and Mississippi
Hennepin
Fifty-first Congress
Bought a Drunk Cure Suit Against French League Safety Care
I M Hunter and C C Cook of Council Bluffs sue the French League Safety Care Company of Sioux City for 10000 alleging they were deceived into buying stock in a fake remedy for drunkenness. Defendants Kingsworth Davis Campbell named. Plaintiffs claim $50000 remedy exists only in false promises and seek rescission of stock subscriptions.
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I. M. Hunter
United States
Council Bluffs
C. C. Cook
French League Safety Care Company
Sioux City
George W. Kingsworth
William Davis
Omaha
J. N. Campbell
Hunter
Cook
Davis
Kingsnorth
Campbell
Campbell, Kinsworth
Blue Grass Palace opening week at Creston Iowa
Creston hosts the annual Blue Grass Palace opening August 22 with a castlelike building, a grand speed program, and concerts by the Iowa Band of Des Moines. Gov Roies and Lieut Gov Bostow are sought, with speakers including Gen Weaver and Adlai Stevenson among others.
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Creston
Iowa
Iowa Band of
Des Moines
Gov. Roies
Gov
Bostow
Gen. Weaver
Mra Seuse
Reed
Adlai Stevenson
Wm. McKinley
Do Great Men Drink In 19th Century Washington
Washington desolate as Congress adjourns with Cabinet absent and city’s official business quiet. Observers contrast current sobriety with earlier eras, noting a rise in public drunkenness since the Civil War and recalling Kossuth’s visit, Pendleton’s famed gambling era, and a past culture of lavish banquets and heavy gaming that drew politicians and diplomats into nightlife.
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Washington
Con- St Cress
Foster
White House
War Department
Grant
Department
Elkins
Deer Park
Navy
Racy
North
Miller
Wanamaker
Noble
Rusk
Congress
Union
Kossuth
National Hotel
Cass
Webster
Shields
Soward
Magyar
Metropolitan
Senate
United States
Capitol Hill
George
Pendleton
House
Mumphrey Marshall
China
Buchanan
Pendleton’s
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Yokonama
Okuyama
Tokushima
Yarmanashi
Gamma
Saitama
Chiba Hiogo
Ashigawa
South Dakota
Minnesota
Wyoming
News OF
Guy Enally
Okobooji
Keokuk
I. Y. Strickler & Co
Drade 4Th
Tuk
Minnesota and
Dakota Fire Underwriters’ Association
Sioux Falls
Vinton
Tall Birds
Yelling
English
Swords
Liberty
Winton
Burlington
Cedar Rapids
Northern
Lynn Junction
Grinnell Centerville
Manning Bank
John Collins
Onawa
Benton County
Urbana
E.O. Henry
Asheshire
FE. Robb
Iowa Falls
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