Treasure Missing in Indiana Bank Scare
Large bank in Mancle Indiana reopened under a receiver but failed to transact as an $80,000 currency package from Washington did not arrive. The missing chest prompted urgent wire messages from Agent Rod Thomas as investigators search for the funds. The case highlights the fragility of a bank still under receivership and the uncertainty over the missing 889,000 in currency.
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Citizens National Bank
Mancle
Ind
United States Treasury of
Washington
Baltimore and Ohio and Lake Erie and
Western Railways
United Stats Express Company
Rod Thomas
Martial Law Readiness Shuts Chicago Streets After Midnight
Reports describe rigid patrols and plainclothes officers in Chicago from 1 to 6 am as police hunt midnight prowlers. Residents are questioned, weapons controlled, and curfews enforced to curb burglaries and murders. Maritime storms off Britain claim vessels and lives, with the schooner Favorite believed lost in a squall and the Beilleau sinking with most crew missing.
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Chlengh
Chicago
Plaza
Kirlet Caplonaga
Thor
Lea
Great Britain
English Channel
Trish Sea
Munde
Favorite
Ifraconda
Bristol Channel
Beileau
Cardiff
Kuody Isle
Edgewood Seminary Fire Kills Two Girls in Wisconsin
A fire destroyed Edgewood Seminary near Madison Wisconsin killing two girls and suffocating several others. The building housed twenty eight girls and fifteen sisters, all were asleep when flames consumed the campus. Firefighters took hours to control the blaze and recover victims in a night of tragedy.
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Norror
Beaver
Sis
Government Dam
Morrill
Frank J. Dendley
Robert Kenyon
William Bolles
Boules
Iowa
Berth
Edegwood Institution
Mich
Edgewood Mamalo Berminary
Lake Wingra
Madivson
Wis
Fwo
Physic
Nama
Movement of Wheat Across North America Report
Bradstreet's notes total wheat stocks in the United States and Canada. East of the Rockies about 90,039,009 bushels are available. west of the Rockies 9,876,900 bushels. Exports by rail and port cities including New York Boston Philadelphia Baltimore Newport News New Orleans Galveston San Francisco Portland Tacoma and Seattle amount to 2,645,250 bushels.
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United States
Canada
Bradstreet's
Rocky Mountains
Rockies
New York
Boston
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Newport News
New Orleans
Galveston
San Francisco
Portland
Oregon
Tacoma
Feattle
Matt and
Wire
Bradstreet
Swindled the Roads in Vast Ticket Counterfeiting Ring
A huge railroad ticket counterfeiting case is unveiled with alleged losses surpassing 200000 dollars. Victimized lines include Baltimore and Ohio, Chicago and Erie, Pittsburg and Western, Nickel Plate, New York Ontario and Western, Missouri Pacific, and more. The gang’s leader is identified as 1% andhor survaliiines.
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Ammarican Railways
Ralinnya
Baltimore and Ohio
Chicago
Eric
Erle
Pittsburg and
Western
Une
Baltimors
Ohio
New York
Chicnago
Bt Louis
Ontario
Wastern
Missouri
Puelfe
Long Strike Looms as Lehigh Valley Train Crew Walkout
Lehigh Valley workers prepare for a protracted fight against management. The strike has halted freight movement, keeping the road quiet for now as trainmen stay away. About six hundred Buffalo-area employees are reported to be orderly, with no rash violence expected, amid a highly organized, stubborn labor battle involving engineers, conductors, telegraph operators and others.
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Lehigh Valley
Buffalo
Poncaxblan
War sparks price shift after plate glass association dissolves
The dissolution of the National Plate Glass Association triggers price changes and a market shakeup. Reports claim 20 percent price cuts, private farm deals, and disruption by an outside firm alleged to be the Pennsylvania Glass Company at Irwin operating multiple furnaces. The firm faced financial strain and slashed prices across the trust’s territory to win business.
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National Plate Glass Association
Og Lish
Trust i
Pennsylvania Glass Company
Irwin
Hoa
Krupp Gun for Sale May Boost New York Harbor Defense
A Krupp monster gun, showcased at the World’s Fair in Chicago, may be mounted for New York harbor defense. Army ordnance favors designs of their own, study to the War Department may propose sale if needed. Also reports of Nictheroy massacre scenes, Georgia execution, mines disaster, and other varied items.
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New York
Krupp
Chiago
New York Harbor
War Department
Army
Krapps
Thieves Hold Away From Chicago Crime Rise
A sensational Chicago column laments a crime wave with police overwhelmed by daylight robs and home invasions. It notes a spike in bravado, calls for focus on major sensational cases, and mentions a series of incidents across the city. Researchers cite police reporting gaps and a breakdown of law and order in the era.
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Chicago
Law and Order
Borgieries
Commission of Crimé
Renatal
England Snowbound Amid Channel Storm and Shipwrecks
Heavy seas and gale force winds lash the English Channel and North Sea. Calais to Dover ships report extreme weather with many vessels lost or stranded. rescue efforts save numerous lives. Snowbound rail lines halt traffic at Saffron Walden and Ashwell. In Hastings and Cleethorpes crews missing. one farmer’s wife found frozen at Scarborough. Wreckage from several vessels washes ashore near Yarmouth.
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English Channel
Calais
Dover
Vestals
Channel
North Sea
London
Raya
Saffron and Walden
Great Eastern Railway
Great Northern Railway
Ashwell
Haratah
Hastings
Cleethorpes
County of Lincoln
Edward Moore
Scarborough
Whisky tax debate shapes revenue outlook and rates
Treasury estimates drive whisky rate talks in the tariff bill amid tax reform. Some committee members support a 19 cent per gallon rise adding about 10 million dollars annually, while others urge a higher figure. No changes are expected to beer, manufactured goods, or data taxes, and cigar tax prospects fade with whisky gains. Sumatra tobacco duty likely to drop from 2 to 81 per pound as the panel probes revenue needs.
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Ten Center Galvin
Treasury Department
Waya and
Means
Hoswiver
Permit to land for ten Russian convicts denied
Secretary Carlisle, after investigation, orders landing permission for ten Russian convicts detained at Eso Francisco by immigration inspectors Gurilsla. Officials deem them political refugees not removable under ordinary criminal immigration laws. The men escaped from Sughelles island, reached sea, were picked up by an American whaler.
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Carlisie
Carlisle
Eso Francisco
Gurilsla
Sughelles
Siberia
Otsego man escapes asylum after self mutilation
Unidentified resident of Otsego Wright County Minnesota, recently insane, escaped from the asylum at St Peter after amputating his right leg above the ankle and severing his left hand from the wrist. He tied cords to stop bleeding and was found alive around mid afternoon. Local authorities report he is likely to die.
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St.Joseph
George W. Matlow
St. Joseph
Mmo
Haylor
Religions
Munisac Hache
Ehmbe
Fred White
Otsego
Wright County
Mion
Bt Peter
Michigan items mix crime and calamity across towns
Dundee plans another oil well while Grand Rapids suffers a huge fire loss. Warrants, robberies, and odd accidents plague Muskegon, Ontonagon, and Montmorency counties as hunters and locals report thefts, misfortunes, and small-town mischief amid year-end upheavals.
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Dundee
Atoire
Maddll & Oliver
Ubly
H. M. Goebel
Grand Rapids
Daniel Sheady
Tran Mountain
Reohon
Waueedah
G. A. Rowill
Owosso
Cates
Thomas Brannigan
Coghlan House
Sir Joseph
William G. Saunders
Birmingham
Pontiac
Christian Grosci
Manager Chappelle
Almont
Thomas Sawyer
Frenton
James Richardson
Tonia Marn
Charles Woopsury
Ontonagon
Croswell
Christian Endeavor
Leonard
Butler Methodists
Lewis Stonebarner
Charles
Henry Foster
Foster, Stevens & Co
Sturgis
Chicago
Howe
Kalamazoo
Trientje Schureur
Spring Lake
Munroe
Bee
Timothy Hekate
Rusk Township
Montmorency County
Kendalls
Kalamazoo County
F. W. Nortes
Manistes
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James Pranty
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Renton
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United States of Columbia
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J J. Bretio
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Edward Woodward
Menu
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Benninger
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Lem Bregson
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Spain
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Grand Trunk Repair
Hynes Bron Plaviage
Oak Park
New Theater
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Swift Specific CO
Pam Drawer
Atlanta, Ga
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Wheeler & Puli Medicine Co
Cedar Springs
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Warshall
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