Bond Sale Secrets and Hawaii Cable Controversy Sparks Senate Debate
Washington reports reveal the true terms of a private bond sale, 62.4 million dollars in four percent thirty year bonds, with a gold payment option and protection against a cheap money claim. The Hawaii turmoil prompts senators to weigh executing rebels and the future of colonial policy.
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Washington
Treasury Department
Congress
Prsident
United States
Dt Every
Dolla All
Ayeo
Bond purchase via gold for bonds under section 3700
The president proposes buying gold with U S bonds under section 3700 rather than resumption act authority. Morgan Belmont and Rothschilds arrange for 3.5 million ounces of gold to be paid in U S 4 percent bonds, with other banks involved. Committee views split, some favor the measure, others oppose, while Republicans show mixed signals.
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Secretary of the Treasury
United States
August Belmont & Co
New York
N. M. Rothschild & Sons
London
J. P. Morgan & Co
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Belmont
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House
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Wilson
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Tarsney
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Gear
Hawaii turmoil prompts U S government intervention
United States broadcasts two telegrams to Congress report Honolulu unrest after a "rebellion" with 38 court martialed cases and executions anticipated. Prominent Americans Gulick Seward and British Rickard named. Walker jailed for life with a heavy fine. Mob threats rise as Philadelphia arrives.
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Washington
Hawaii
United States
Congress
Willis
Gresham
Honolulu
San Francisco
Gulick
Seward
Rickard
T. B. ‘Walker
Philadelphia
Outlook for Business Shows Little or No Improvement
R G Dun reports broad stagnation in gold exports and bond activity. Treasury withdrawals near $2 million weekly, two month gold loss of $67 million with most in circulation or abroad. Industrial prices soften. iron steel wages fall. Chicago finds some demand while rails lag. Cotton goods steady at unchanged prices. silk auction pricing down about 10 percent from recent levels. Wheat up a penny week over week with mixed grain receipts in the U S and Canada.
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New York
R. G. Dun & Company
Weekly Review of Trade
Treasury
Congress
Chicago
Ipast "ci
Canada
Wisconsin Legislative Doings In Doings
Both houses adjourned until Monday evening. Senate bills reduce supreme court pay from 5000 to 4500 and reorganize the state land office to cut staff and salaries. Land sale and anti trust bills fail. Assembly proposes limiting mortgage broker commissions to keep total interest under 20 percent. Milwaukee council proceedings to be printed in English only.
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Norbohm
Milwaukee Common Council
Escapes Death From Fire in New York Tower
Reported telegraph briefs include Frederick Erickson surviving a fire at a shot tower in New York by sliding down flames, Frank Jeffry escaping jail before a murder trial in Murphysboro, and Don Ernesto Marquese killing his brother and himself in a Lexington Avenue restaurant.
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New York
Frederick Erickson
Frank Jeffry
Murphysboro
Ills
Forty-eighth Street
Lexington Avenue
Don Ernesto Marquese
Guatemala
Henrique
Front Street
Baltimore
V. L. Tessera
Ceylon Importing Company of
Belleville
Ill
Great Britain
Grand Haven
Mich
Wisconsin
Milwaukee
Jacksonville
Ellen Spencer
Norwalk
Rebecca Mullin Brownlee
Kate Brownlee Sherwood
Birdseye
Ind
A. J. Hubbard
Port Washington
Wis
J. N. Foster
Sellersburg
Moses Poindexter
Wyant
Lls
John Barney
William Bridges
Malden
Ruger
Schofield
Tampa
Fla
Chicago
Carter
Weather indications for twenty four hours
Weather forecasts cover Lower Michigan with snow flurries turning to fair and warmer conditions as northwesterly gales ease. Upper Michigan shows generally fair and warmer weather with NW winds. Indiana and Illinois expect fair weather with westerly winds. Wisconsin should see fair to near warmer conditions in the south and east with variable winds. The region near ya and posibles snow flurries early, followed by fair and colder conditions with easterly winds.
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Washington
Lower
Michigan
Upper
Indiana
Illinois
Wisconsin
Four Men Die In Snowbound Express Collision Near Lucknow
Harrisburg dispatch reports ten railroad workers digging out a snowbound train near Lucknow when a westbound Pacific express section struck them. Two men died instantly and others were badly hurt. Crossley died on the operating table. Each of the four deceased leaves a widow and multiple children.
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Pensylvania
Lucknow
P: Express
City Hopital
Pacific Express
Darr
Nye
Stroup
An Crossley
Crossley
Abilene
Kas
Ots
Sixty Men Stranded as Fuel Runs Out on Lake Ferries
Two icebound Ann Arbor ferries Nos 1 and 2 lie near Manistee harbor surrounded by miles of ice with sixty sailors aboard and a cargo of merchandise. The vessels have burned coal to deter freezing and seek relief from Milwaukee and Ludington crews as rescue plans proceed. Captain John Fitzgerald reports from Milwaukee Dry Dock.
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Milwaukee
Manistee
Ann Arbor Line
Relief Expedition Promised For Ludington Ferries
News from Ludington reports a relief expedition will depart soon to aid the Flint and Pere Marquette ferries. Coal and possibly food will be loaded onto the ferryboats to assist. In New York a snowstorm crash near Norwich injured the wife of Recorder Roberts and her two children. four passengers survived the rear end collision of a milk train with the Philadelphia express two miles north of Utica. The wreck’s cause is blamed on the blinding snowstorm.
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Ludington
Norwicam
N. Y
Utica
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad
Philadelphia Express
Recorder Roberts
Binghamton
Terrible Work in Oklahoma
Reports from the Strip describe extreme suffering with two children reportedly frozen to death while walking home from school. The driver of the Lacy stage reports the discovery of an unknown man's body as cold weather hampers travel and intensifies hardship across distant areas.
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Hennessy
Lacy Stage
Steamship Teutonic Reports Safe Voyage and Uncertain Fate
The Teutonic arrived at quarantine New York reporting no sighting of La Gascogne and that all on board are well. Authorities await further word as the fate of La Gascogne remains unknown and conditions raise grave concern.
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Fire Burns Japanese Leather Works in Cincinnatti
Fire at the American Oak Leather company works on McJean avenue in Cincinnati caused an estimated 50,000 loss, with the building badly damaged. Firemen fought the blaze through fifteen calls that day and several crews suffered frostbite symptoms, though none were seriously hurt.
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McJean Avenue
Fire Kills Two Children as Hanson House Burns
In Brainerd Minnesota on February 9 a residence eighteen miles west of town owned by settler Nels Hanson burned. His two children, ages four and an infant, perished in the blaze while the parents were away from home.
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Brainerd, Minn
Nels Hanson
Sleighing parties reported missing on mountain road
Hazelton Pa Feb 9 Two sleighing parties are lost on the mountain road between Hazelton and Tamaqua and grave fears are entertained for their safety.
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Hazelton
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Tamqua
Night in a Blizzard Traps Six in Car
In Troy on February 9 a motor car stalled on the east side with six persons aboard. The blizzard forced them to spend the night inside the vehicle as it was unsafe to venture out. Dawn found them reaching a fire engine house a quarter mile away, nearly helpless.
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Troy
Weaving a Web Around Hayward Prosecution
The Minnesota state builds a thorough circumstantial case in the Hayward murder trial. Three witnesses place Hayward at the scene purchasing a half pint of whisky at a specific time and place, strengthening the chain of evidence claimed by the prosecution.
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Minneapolis
Hayward
Blixt
Harry Hayward
Claus Blixt
Miss Ging and Hayward linked by signed note and witness accounts
In a restaurant tale, Miss Ging signed a $7,000 note to Harry Hayward witnessed by Hayward and Blixt. Spencer described Hayward and Miss Ging visiting the restaurant and discussing a cash roll of about $2,000. Jeweler Metzger corroborated a watch repair detail, while Louise Ireland testified Hayward stayed in Miss Ging’s rooms but behaved properly.
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Miss Ging
Harry Hayward
Blixt
Harry Spencer
Hayward
Harry
L. Metzger
Louise Ireland
Unable to Return to His Heart as Sheltering Stranger
A troubled scene unfolds as a person pleads for time to mend a marriage on a cold winter day. The narrator seeks shelter among strangers, arguing this life would not be m happiness with the current husband.
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Ing
Yusehold
Professor Harris Saves Guests Then Dies In Fire
In Crab Orchard Kentucky Professor J W Harris of Xenia Ohio staying at Harris hotel discovered the blaze at midnight and warned guests He saved his trunk and aided others before dying of heart disease The hotel loss is estimated at 5000 dollars
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Danville, Ky
J. W. Harris
Xenia, O
Harris
Crab Orchard
Disorder at Polish parish spurs priest escape in Chicago
Disorderly Polish parish members threaten a demonstration at Webster and Hoyne in Chicago. Father Hather Gibrowski escapes through a side door as Joseph Bobinski ferries the crowd away, while a man seizes a cutter to leave the scene. In Berlin, Vorwaerts reports an imperial decree of February 6 1890 ordering officers to intervene forcefully to prevent soldiers' treatment by superiors.
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Chicago
Webster
Hoyne Avenues
Hather Gibrowski
Joseph Bobinski
Berlin
The
Vorwaerts
Thurston Says No News on Hawaii Rebel Sentences
Minister Thurston stated he had not seen the dispatch to Secretary Gresham about death sentences by the Hawaii rebels trial court. He said his government had not telegraphed any information to that effect and he had no information on the subject.
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Gresham
Honolulu
Congress
Morgan
Seward
Hawley
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Washi netTon
Thurston
Willis
Insurance business in Illinois in past year
Springfield February 9. The annual report of the state insurance superintendent shows risks written totaling 1,103,067,634 and premiums received 13,051,255 with losses paid of 7,689,112 by all companies in the state during the past year.
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Springfield
Stay Granted in Train Robber Rogers Executed Threat
Pianix A. T. reports a stay of execution for train robber Rogers, who was to be hanged here yesterday under the new law that designated train robbery a death offense.
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Pianix
A. T
Rogers
Yale Harvard Baseball Gossip of 1896 Season
Tim Keefe has had Harvard pitchers and catchers at work for weeks. Phil King will play second base for the Orange Athletic club. Seven Yale players are in the graduating class. Yale’s 1896 team features Carter as primary coach with no pro staff. Captain Billy Nash of the Bostons begins his tenth year. Yale Harvard games set for Cambridge June 20 New Haven June 25 and New York June 29.
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Tim Keefe
Harvard
Phil King
Bostons
Cambridge
New Haven
New York
Alexander Freedman
Senate probes cruelty claims at Fort Wayne institute
Indiana senate debates investigation of Superintendent Johnston amid factional strife. A special committee was urged but defeated. the regular committee will proceed. Rinear remains seated as elections panel backs his claim. House passes greenback tax and Evansville charter bills and funds for the supreme court clerk. Democratic Editors meet, pushing free silver and criticizing national leadership.
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Johnson
Fort Wayne
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Manson
Indianapolis
Boyd
Johnston
Rinear
Senate Committee On Elections
Foust-Rinear
Evansville
Supreme Court
Democratic Editorial Association of
Indiana
Williams
Sullivan Democrat
Congress
Committee On Resolutions
Resolutions Withdrawn After Taggart's Arrival
Taggart arrived at the scene and calm was restored. The resolutions and the address were withdrawn.
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Sy Demo Ha ‘Man Taggart
Burial of Gen Manson Draws Immense Crowd in Crawfordsville
The funeral of General M D Manson was held at the Methodist church amid cold and snow with a large attendance. Tributes were given by Rev R J Cunningham and Rev W H Hickman of Terre Haute, plus remarks by Rev J L Tuttle of Wabash College and Rev H A Tucker. Interment followed at Oak Hill cemetery with Masons and the Grand Army of the Republic. Condolences came from Senators Voorhees Turpie Representative Brookshire and other friends and comrades.
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M. D. Manson
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W. H. Hickman
Terre Haute
Manson
J. L. Tuttle
Wabash College
General Manson
H. A. Tucker
Indianapolis
Scottish Rite Masons
Indiana Loyal Legion
D. W. Voorhees
David Turpie
E.V. Brookshire
A. C. Daily
Auditor of State
Died After Fifty-Five Days' Fast
Samuel Bowman Chester township farmer died after a fifty five day fast caused by a stomach derangement. He refused nourishment throughout the period and deteriorated to a skeleton before death. He suffered pangs of hunger and rejected food even when offered tempting viands.
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Wabash
Samuel Bowman
Chester Township
Fire Encloses Denison House Room With Boxing Star
Indianapolis February 9. One room in the Denison house was occupied by John L. Sullivan the pugilist who is appearing at a theater this week. Smoke spread through the partition and he moved toward the office as the housekeeper met him in the corridor after she also discovered the fire.
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Indianapolis
Denison
John L. Sullivan
Fort Wayne Man Marries Woman Then Flees to Ada Jail
Samuel Saddler of Fort Wayne traveled with Daisy Kahn of Fort Wayne to Ada where they registered as husband and wife. Saddler departed on the morning train, a warrant followed, he was captured at Upper Sandusky and returned to Ada to be jailed. The pair had promised marriage before, and Daisy had left home under that promise.
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Fort Wayne
Lima
Samuel Saddler
Ada
Daisy Kahn
Saddler
Daisy
Upper Sandusky
Hidden money found in shanty ruins after fire
In Sweet Home on February 9 a boy discovered an iron pot nearly full of Dennis Frynch’s money hidden in his former shanty. With Frynch burned alive earlier, the heirs are unclear as there are no known relatives and the fate of the funds is undecided.
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Sweet Home
Dennis Frynch
Marion Charity Ball Raises Funds in February
In Marion on Feb 9 a charity ball hosted by the Marion Commercial Club drew attendees. Proceeds will be distributed by the Woman's Christian Association to support local causes and charitable work.
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Marion
Marion Commercial Club
Woman's Christian Association
Cepanisation
Cold Wave Records Hit Indiana Cities
Indiana record lows include Crawfordsville 17 below zero Madison 16 Washington 14 Columbus 10 Portland 16 Vernon 20 Fort Wayne 14 Penn 22 Aurora 15 Terre Haute 20 Muncie 8 Wabash 18 Jeffersonville 14 February 9 report lists city temperatures below zero across the state.
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Madison
Washington
Columbus
Portland
Vernon
Fort Wayne
Penn
Aurora
Terre Haute
Muncie
Wabash
Jeffersonville
Modern trunks changing travel habits and costs
The New York Sun describes big modern trunks designed for easy handling, with square cross sections and uniform resistance when stood on end. Leather covered trunks with compartments for dress clothes and grooming items cost 15 to 40 dollars, and steamer trunks gain popularity for short land trips.
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