Boston Market Buoys on Mixed Fortnightly Settlements
Financed London sessions open with tepid interest in American stocks. Our market gains stem from about $1,000,000 gold shipments and bullish chatter on McKinley’s acceptance. Trade balances favor us as imports drop and exports rise, with cotton awaiting gold settlements. local weakness noted in Whitney stocks due to Mr. Whitney’s illness.
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Boston
London
Manhattan
McKinley
Whitney
Bay State Gas
Com. Coal
Mr. Whitney
Montana
F. R. Cordley & CO
Brooklyn to make trial run by Isles of Shoals seen from Star Island
The armored cruiser Brooklyn will run from Cape Ann to Cape Porpoise past the Isles of Shoals. Observers at Oceanic hotel on Star Island can spot her at record speed, with expected 21 knots per hour.
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Isles of Shoals
Portsmouth
N. H
Brooklyn
Cape Ann
Cape Porpoise
Oceanic Hotel
Star Island
Allen's Foot-Ease powder advertisement notice
A vintage advertisement for Allen's Foot-Ease powder to relieve swollen tired feet. It promises cooling relief for smarting feet, tight shoes, blisters, callous spots, corns and bunions, and offers trial packaging free plus mail order at 25 cents.
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Allen
Alllen S. Olmsted
le Roy
Misplaced switch wreck claims six killed near Valencia
MISPLACED SWITCH. SIX KILLED AND THIRTY INJURED IN THE SMASHUP. The Baltimore and Ohio Chicago express was wrecked near Valencia station on the Pittsburg and Western division. Six people were killed outright and 20 or 30 badly hurt. Coaches and Pullman cars were full. Telegraph lines were interrupted. Reports vary on the casualty count with unconfirmed figures of 15 dead and 25+ injured. A relief train carried the seriously injured to Allegheny General hospital in Pittsburg.
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Pittsburg
Reese P. Harris
Jones & Laughlin Steel Company
Carnegie
Wréek
Main Station
Lynch Station
Sharpsburg
Etna
Pittsburg & Western Road
Allegheny
Boy rides bridge plank and falls forty feet into water
Twelve year old James Forbes of Brookline rode a narrow plank on the Tin bridge over the New England road during a rainstorm. He fell into the water but survived with a broken collar bone. His father and elder brother carried bicycles across to reach him and he was treated at a doctor on Oak street. He walked home wet but in good spirits.
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Boston
James Forbes
Brookline
Needham
Newton Upper Falls
New England Road
Oak Street
Forgery Charged In Money Order Case In Boston
Eugene H. Newhall a 37 year old clerk of American Express on Franklin street was arrested on a charge of forging the name of Dunmore money order clerk to a receipt for 72.60. The missing funds totaling about 809 over two years are blamed on Newhall who confessed. He was held for the superior court after a municipal court hearing.
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Boston
Eugene H. Newhall
American Express Company
Franklin Street
FE. M. Dunmoré
Express Company
Newhall
Cincinnati
E. M. Dunmore
Dunmore
Nervy Cambridge Boys Descend Five-Story Chain Heist
Three boys aged 7 to 9 years entered O G Peterson store at 351 Main Cambridge. They climbed down a five story iron chain from roof to ground to steal $1.50 from the money drawer. They then climbed back up and escaped. Patrolman Wiley traced one boy and names of the others, with court pending juvenile day.
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Boston
O. G. Peterson
Main Street
Cambridge
Edward J. Horgan
Edward Towne
Ralph Lamprey
Wiley
Mysterious disappearance reported in Amesbury
A. W. Warren of Haverhill reported a mysterious disappearance to Amesbury police this morning, giving his name as the witness. The case details and any leads were not disclosed in the initial report.
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Amesbury
A. W. Warren
Haverhill
Mysterious disappearance after ride from Salisbury to Kingston
A man named Warren recalled being given a ride by a stranger in a station's team from Salisbury beach to Kingston New Hampshire Saturday afternoon. They left Kingston late at night near Burnt Swamp. The stranger asked Warren to hold the horse while he entered the woods and did not return. Warren alerted a neighbor and searched the area until 5 a.m. Local officers suspect the team might belong to Wester who lives on the town's outskirts and are investigating the disappearance.
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Salisbury Beach
Kingston
N. H
Warren
Wester
Parker case eased with September 22 continuance
Horatio G. Parker the lawyer charged with embezzling 1100 Union Pacific bonds, property of Rebecca D. Dearborn, appeared in municipal court. Judge Ely granted a continuance to September 22, keeping $14,000 bail and the same sureties Charles G Read, Dr. Eugene Shurtleff and Melvin M. Weston.
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Boston
Horatio G. Parker
Union Pacific Railroad Company
Rebecca D. Dearborn
Ely
M. M. Weston
Charles G Read
Eugene Shurtleff
Melvin M. Weston
Raised the Wind Fraud In Springfield
A two dollar silver certificate from 1891 was found at a bank after a customer claimed it had been raised to ten dollars in value. Two similar bills have appeared with local businesspeople and were reported to the police.
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Springfield
Safe Deposit Trust Company
Brooklyn Trial Sets Record Pace for Cruiser Brooklyn
Boston August 24 The U S cruiser Brooklyn completed a preliminary draft forced trial along the official course from Cane Ann to Cape Porpoise. The round trip averaged 83 knots with 20.97 knots per hour on the four hour run. Premiums of 50000 per quarter knot above 20 knots apply. Officials expect 214% knots on the official trial Wednesday with a 300000 bonus for the builders The wind and sea were perfect.
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Boston
U. S
Brooklyn
Cane Ann
Cape Porpoise
City Council Provides Work for Unemployed Men in Lawrence
In a Tuesday meeting the Lawrence city council approved a 15000 dollar appropriation to aid unemployed mill workers. Five thousand dollars will fund new streets and sewer construction, with a plan to create jobs for unemployed women mill workers at the next session.
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Lawrence
Blandis
Fire wipes out Kent hay storage and barn
In Chatham on August 24 Capt James H Kent’s large hay storage rooms and barn burned completely. A summer resident alerted, Kent rushed to warn his family then died of heart failure during a return to the flames. Livestock and carriages were saved. heated hay is suspected as the fire cause. Kent, a retired ship captain and wealthy resident, is identified.
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Chatham
James H. Kent
Kent
Old Colony conductor Asa R. Porter dies at Roxbury home
Asa R. Porter, aged veteran of the Old Colony road and longtime Fail River line boat train conductor, died today at his Roxbury district home 104 School street from a paralysis stroke suffered on the 15th.
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Boston
Asa R. Porter
Old Colony
School Street
Roxbury District
Missing agent swipes $1000 before vanishing in Boston
Boston authorities report J. E. Wilbur, a traveling agent and collector for the Boston stock and grain exchange, disappeared last Tuesday. It is learned today he took with him $1000 collected prior to departure, prompting an active search for the missing man.
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Boston
J. E. Wilbur
Boston Stock and Grain Exchange
Salem merchant Benjamin Shreve dies after long illness
Benjamin Shreve senior member of Shreve Crump Low of Boston died at his home 27 Chestnut Street Salem Sunday noon after a long illness.
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Salem
Benjamin Shreve
Shreve, Crump & Low Company of
Boston
Chestnut Street
McDoel Named Receiver for Monon Line in Indiana
Indianapolis Aug 24 W H McDoel appointed receiver of the Louisville New Albany and Chicago Monon road Attorney Field admitted the complaint's justice and consented to the receiver's appointment indicating court action progresses smoothly with legal consent from company counsel.
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Indianapolis
Ind
W. H. McDoel
Louisville, New Albany
Chicago
Monon
Field
Two workers killed in fall at Warren mills rope break
James Mc Manus and Samuel McCusker plunged fifty feet from a ladder staging on the fifth floor of Warren mills this afternoon after a rope broke. Both men died from their injuries.
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Arctic
R. I
James McManus
Samuel McCusker
New Warren Mills
McGregor Night Clerk Dies After Electric Car Jump
Saco Maine August 24 rank Mc Gregor a 25 year old night clerk at Hotel Thatcher was struck by an electric car and died an hour later from injuries.
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Saco
Rank McGregor
Thatcher
Body Identified In Death On Sound Steamer Northam
New Haven authorities confirm the woman who died on the sound steamer C. H. Northam is Huma Oswald of Brooklyn. A man named Quinn claimed to be a friend and offered funeral expenses, later identified as Thomas G. Hunter. The body was taken to New York for burial at Greenwood Cemetery amid pleas for secrecy.
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New Haven
Conn
C. H. Northam
Huma Oswald
Brooklyn
N. Y
Quinn
New York
Greenwood Cemetery
Tanger
White
Thomas G. Hunter
Broklyn
Bold Abduction Attempt Terrifies Waterbury Residents
In Waterbury on August 24 two young women Sadie White and Emily Bergin were accosted after leaving Belleview Lake. A man named Porter and an accomplice Teddy Wells abduct attempt ended with the women leaping from the wagon and seeking help. Police are expected to arrest the suspects. Separately in New York, Bedford Park burglar John Clare died in Brooklyn hospital after being wounded in the Adams confrontation. John Jenkins died in Mt. Kisco jail.
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Waterbury
Conn
Belleview Lake
Sadie White
Emily Bergin
Porter
Teddy Wells
New York
John Clare
Bedford Park
Walker B. Adams
Long Island Hospital
Brooklyn
Clare
Charles Jenkins
John Jenkins
Mt. Kisco
Emperor William seeks autumn bill on army criminal procedure reforms
Berlin reports the Reichsanzeiger states Emperor William desires a bill to be drawn up and sent to the Bundesrath in the coming autumn. It would follow the lines of Prince Hohenlohe's May 18 Reichstag statement on reforms in military criminal procedures.
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Berlin
Reichsanzeiger
William
Prince Hohenlohe
Reichstag
Laurier denies Blake bid for Privy Council panel
Ottawa reports a London telegram stating Hon. Edward Blake refused a Privy Council judicial committee seat. Laurier dismissed the claim, saying no correspondence occurred. The note mentions Dr. Fowler's Ext. of Wild Strawberry as a cholera and diarrhoea remedy.
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Ottawa
Ont
London
Edward Blake
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
Wilfrid Laurier
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Central Block
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William After
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Berkeley
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NEW England Business University
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Humber Factory
England
J. E. Jeannotte & CO
Hurd Street
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Middlesex Street
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