Happenings Across Worlds From A Week’s Lens
A scattered digest reports a Portland highway robbery near East Sixth street and Holliday avenue, a Seattle bank teller’s grand larceny arrest, a brutal child assault in Helena, and a mob lynching. It covers political marriages, episcopal convention sermons in San Francisco, Miss Helen Long’s death, Boer envoy Wolmarans with Kruer, and London socialist interest in McKinley’s assassination.
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Henry 8. Rowe
Portland
East Sixth Street
Holliday Avenue
Donald McKeracher
Seattle ‘National Bank
Young McKeracher
James Edward Brady
Ida Pugsley
Helena
Haymarket
Chauncey M. Depew
Cupid
Missay Palmer
New York
San Francisco
Helen Long
Long
Bingham
Maes
Mies Long
McKinley
R. Kelly
Postoffice
John P. Clum
Alaska
Yukon Valley
King Edward
Copenhagen
London
Sweden
Sophia
Luxem-burg
Wied
Roumania
Netherlands
Alany
August Sinn
Holy Cross Hospital
Salt Lake
Utah
Sinn
Duret
Col
Kekewitch
Kimberly
Trade report signals active general business early in year
Bradstreet's weekly trade summary notes active distributive trade and industry with a rising business volume. Bank clearings and railway earnings are strong, though several large financial suspensions appear. Cereals fade, export trade weak, woolen goods demand steady. US nine month 1901 failures total 8144 with $97.86 million in liabilities, while strict commercial defaults lower than 1900.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bradstreet
United States
R. G. Dun & Co
Murdered for Money in Boise Main street rooming house
Davis Levy a wealthy Boise resident was found strangled in a rooming block on Main street. Robbery is suspected after money deposits and $5163 in certificates and notes were found. Governor Hunt offers 1000 reward. administrator Charles M. Kahn to handle estate. no arrest yet.
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Boise
Idaho
Davis Levy
Levy
Charles M. Kahn
Mra. Hauser
San Francisco
M. H. Lippman
New York
T. Isadore
Sam Klein
Carlists Readiness for War Across Frontiers
From Cape Cerbera reports indicate Carlist forces are near ready with 20 000 rifles amassed through smugglers and uniforms produced in Perpignan France. Ammunition streams from Cuba and the Philippines, with rising to start at Berga and other mountain centers. Guerilla warfare manuals are issued, refugees and malcontents recruited, and a major meeting is slated for October 10 with two Carlist generals present.
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Barcelona
Cape Cerbera
Perpegin
France
Spain
Cuba
Philippine Islands
Berga
Don Carlos
New York plow plans face opposition in the Plow Combine
The Journal of Commerce reports a hitch in organizing the plow combination as certain interests refuse to join the American Plow company, hindering consolidation efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
the Journal of Commerce
American Plow Company
Bold Kidnappers Implicate Newspaper Men in Daring Ruse
Philadelphia Oct 7. Four men including Howard K Sloan Henry Wallace J Knight Findlay and Oscar Dunlap led a complex kidnap plot against Mrs Mabel Goodrich owner of a North Tenth street establishment She was held for four days deprived of food forced to sign bank checks and robbed of jewelry worth over 2000 The scheme involved a fake warrant a Germantown rendezvous and a fire engine house hideout Police traced clues to a 21 year old Findlay who confessed implicating Sloan and others with details of the staged ruse Jewelry was recovered largely from their possession.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Howard K. Sloan
Henry Wallace
Society
J. Knight Findlay
Wayne
Fairmount Park
D. Clarence Gibboney
Law and Order Society
Third National Bank
Tenth
Polar Streets
Fort Wayne
Findlay
Sloan
Gibbons
Barber
Germantown
Wallace
Goodrich
North Twelfth Street
Boers Evade Cordon as British Move in Natal Front
London reports from Dundee tell of Boer withdrawal across farms as General Botha and the main force press north within the Transvaal cordon. Small dispersed groups slip through columns while British scouts monitor eastern Natal fronts and watch for sniping opportunities.
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London
the Times
Dundee
Natal
Lyttleton
Tranavaal
Botha
Zululand
Transvaal
Indictment of Robert Burt for embezzlement in Chicago
Chicago grand jury indicted Robert Burt oil inspector on two counts charging embezzlement totaling about 23 000. The charges stem from fees allegedly paid by Standard Oil to Burt in his official capacity. Burt, a Democratic leader and ally of Mayor Harrison, had earlier deposited 30 000 with the city treasurer to cover shortages. He claimed the books misled him and that the deputy handled reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Grand Jury
Robert Burt
Standard Oil Company
Burt
Democratic County Central Committee
Harrison
Arisona to be State as Governor Calls Convention
Phoenix Ariz Oct 6 Governor Murphy issues a semiofficial proclamation to convene a statehood convention in Phoenix on October 26. The Phoenix board of trade will fund delegates from each county with efforts to include all political faiths. He expects allied action to spur Congress to pass an enabling act this winter though corporate support may be limited. Governor Murphy will address a statehood conference in Albuquerque on October 25 and cooperation with New Mexico is expected.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Murphy
Phoenix Board of Trade
Fifty-seventh Congress
Otero
New Mexico
Albuquerque
Widow Arrested in Dayton for 14 Murders Case
Merderens Ohio Oct 8 Mrs J H Witmer a widow living in Dayton is jailed at Central station on suspicion of 14 murders. Police allege four husbands five children one sister and four employments died under her care. Sister Anna Pugh is latest victim with autopsy showing arsenic and copper poisoning.
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Dayton
Ohio
J. H. Witmer
Central Station
Fatal Feud Violence in Kentucky at Big Springs Church
Four people died and two were fatally or seriously wounded in a feud clash at the Big Springs Union Baptist church near the Tennessee line in Kentucky. Victims named include Tip Caldwell, James Caldwell, Rush Morgan, and Henry Morgan, with Henry Everstreet and Mr. Jones among the fatally or seriously wounded. The feud between the Virginia Morgans and the Tennessee Caldwells traces back to the Civil War, with many killed in recurring confrontations.
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Middleboro
Big Springs Union Baptist Church
Tennessee Line
Tip
James Caldwell
Rush
Henry Morgan
Henry Everstreet
Mr. Jones
Sir Thomas
Shamrock St
America
Arlington, Wash
Hollames
al Weinig
Day
Creedon
International Athletic Club
Fort Erie
N. Y
Arlington Wash
Skookum Joe
Ellen M. Stone
Kider, Peabody & Co
State Department
Big Springs
Taswell
Tenn
John F. Chadwell
John Morgan
Asa Chadwell
Jones
Noble
Sheriff Brook Slight
Egan Tip Chadwell
Rush Morgan
Chadwell
Collins
Czolgosz
McKinley
Auburn
Fatal head end collision west of Wenatchee
A Great Northern head end collision five miles west of Wenatchee, Washington left two men dead Sam Stallcup fireman and H Dickenson head brakeman and three injured J C Fielding engineer J E Barr Spokane engineer and E P Carson brakeman. The wreck on a sharp curve involved seven cars and prompted dramatic escapes and shifting orders.
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Wenatchee
Wash
Great Northern
Sam Stallcup
H. Dickenson
J. C. Fielding
J. E. Barr
Spokane
E. P. Carson
Fielding
Stallcup
Carson
Barr
Dickenson
Wenatchee River
George Smith
Leavenworth
H. A. Kennedy
Strike End in San Francisco After 10 Weeks
The city’s teamsters and longshoremen strike ends with the draymen’s association guaranteeing to keep current wages hours and overtime for one year and to reinstate as many former employees as possible. Union and nonunion workers are to be treated without discrimination and the general strike is declared off. Gov. Gage helped broker the settlement as relief swept the city.
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San Francisco
Teamsters
Draymen
Draymen’s Association
Gov
Gage
Drayman’s Association
City Front Federation
Brotherhood of Teamsters
Teamster
Spokane Prices Read From Local Market Listing
Spokane quotat ions show vegetable prices for potatoes at 1 per cwt and 1.35 per cwt for ions. Poultry and eggs include live spring chickens at 3 to 4 a dozen, duck 9 4 per dozen, geese 12c per lb, and eggs at 7 per case. Livestock prices list beef steers 4 dressed 7c, live cows 3 4c, veal calves 7 c, hogs live 4 75 5 per cwt. Sheep and wool prices cover shar lings 10 each, wool 30 50c, hides 5 6c per lb, dry hides 10 12c per lb. Grain prices from Spokane mills delivered: club wheat bulk 46c sacked 46 c, bluestem bulk 47c sacked 49c, ted 48c bulk 44c.
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Spokane
Bluestem
Ted
Ameer of Afghanistan Reported Dead in Simla Dispatch
A Simla dispatch to the Associated Press states Hamidullah Khan, eldest son of the ameer, reports his father died last Thursday after a brief illness. Habibullah Khan requested prayers on October 2, with the ameer’s death announced October 3 at 3 a.m. No confirmation at Cabul or the British foreign office, but the report is not doubted amid South Africa tensions and praise for Lord Curzon’s experience in Afghan affairs.
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London
Simla
Hamib Dullah Khan
Ameer
Afghanistan
Cabul
Associated Press
Habid Oullah Khan
Foreign Office
South Africa
United Kingdom
Lord Curzon
Central Asia
Fatal Wreck Shocks Montana Central Line Near Helena
A Montana Central wreck fifty miles north of Helena destroyed an engine and toppled into a mud bank. Engineer Patrick J. Hussey, 35 years railroading, was scalded to death with his body mangled. Hussey’s family resides in St Paul. A preceding wreck two miles south occurred a day earlier, blamed on rail spread. no fatalities in that incident, but three trainmen were injured.
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Helena
Mont
Montana Central
Patrick J. Hussey
Hansey
St. Paul
Saner
Blacksmith narrowly escapes mob lynching at Pilot Rock
A blacksmith named McWilliams from Alba barely escaped a lynching by an angry Pilot Rock mob. After hurling vile words about President McKinley and boasting of his death, he fled toward Pendleton as the crowd armed with a rope sought him. He reached Pendleton exhausted after a night of running.
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Pendleton
Ore
McWilliams
Alba
Pilot Rock
McKinley
Mighet
Minister Killed In Crowded Carboneal Square
Carbondale Newfoundland October 7 on the public square Rev Joseph McGammiab a Seventh day adventist was killed while streets were crowded today as a disturbance erupted involving a minister and bystanders in a tense scene at a downtown intersection.
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Tee Qmekiy
Carbondale
Joseph McGammiab
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Orly Shews
Amplete
Town
Kekewich
Rhodes
Kimberley
French
Lord Kitchener
Report ON Trade
Thesr
Ion
Arisona
Kentucky
Montana
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