National Bank of North America Closed Amid Heavy Withdrawals
Persistent rumors and a rapid run on deposits forced the National Bank of North America to close. Comptroller Ridgely appointed Charley W Hannada as receiver to liquidate the bank and pay creditors, with deposits reportedly to be paid in full. The bank had about $2,000,000 capital and deposits around $19.8 million before withdrawals accelerated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
W. F. Havemeyer
National Bank of Nath America
We Jontikution
Havemeyer
Tagemeyer
National Bank of North America
Morse
Alfred J. Curtis
Per
View
W. Morse
Mr. Curtis
Wihi- Mam l
Ridgely
Washington
Natonal Bank of North America
Eure Rvory
National Bank
Charley Whannada
Nevada Miners Win a Point in Card System Clash
Carson Nev January 27 Members of the Nevada legislature say a meeting of Mine Owners and others led to abolishing the card system. They expect the police measure to pass the assembly with amendments and a large majority. Also reported a passenger train accident in Xenia Ohio with injuries and a railway yard collision near St Louis involved a mil and other brief items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carson
Nev
Nevada
Jobbles
Mine Owners' Association
Whipped by Night Riders in Hopkinsville Invasion
Rogers of the Era vicinity was visited Saturday night by about 75 night riders. He was called from his home and severely whipped with buggy whips. A member of the Association, he allegedly sold tobacco outside the organization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hopkinsvile
Rogers
Rodgers
Monarchs to Sail Mediteranean in Spring Tours
Rome reports that the German emperor will cruise the Mediterranean in late March and King Edward will follow with a similar voyage in April. Both monarchs plan stops at Sicily and Florence during their cruises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mediterranean
Rome
Germany
Edward
Sicily
Florence
Welcome by Argthina Buenos Ayres flotilla visits
A division of Argentina torpedo boats and American torpedo cat flotillas arrived in Buenos Aires after leaving Rio Janeiro January 21. The flotilla was greeted by Commandant Moreno and a large crowd. Weather was stormy but cleared for the harbor welcome. Lieutenant Cone praised the voyage despite a 12 hour delay caused by fog. The flotilla will stay until Thursday then proceed to Sandy Point in the Magellan Strait to join the battleship fleet. Various entertainments, a banquet, and receptions are planned. All men reported in good health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buenos Ayres
Argentina
Rio Janeiro
Buenos Aires
Moreno
Ministry of Marine
Repubsic
Lleut. Cone
Rito Janeiro
Eivery
Magellan Strait
Mlnister of Marine
The
Republic
Naval Club
American Logation
Fire Destroys Portland Wholesale Firm and Adjacent Shop
A blaze soon after midnight gutted Milliken Gausens & Co wholesale dry goods, spreading to A F Cox & Son wholesale shoe dealers. Loss approx 925000. In Knoxville a Nastville Pants Co four story building on Jackson Avenue burned early Monday, logs on building and contents about 50000. In Danville near Johnstown eight dwellings a store and United Brethren Church burned Sunday night.损估值约九十万美元.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Milliken, Gausens & Co
A. F. Cox & Son
Knoxville
Tenn
Nastville Pants Company
Jacksan Avenue
Johnstown
United Brethren
Danilo
Thaw Trial Moves Swiftly Into Fourth Week
New York January 27 the Thaw trial enters its fourth week with the defense to present three physicians and a trained nurse who arrived on the Adriatic to testify about alleged irrational outbreaks by Thaw in Europe ten years ago. The state plans rebuttal by Thursday night as the defense rests its case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Adriatic
Europe
Rail line sues town over 700000 claim in Herrin case
Illinois Central Railroad sues the town of Herrin for 700000 alleging interference with traffic. A Herrin magistrate recently fined the railroad for shipping beer and whisky into the town after the territory became anti saloon as the suit unfolds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion
Illinois Central Railroad Company
Herrin
Trath
Missing Murder Witness Found in Indianapolis Case
Ruth Kelly alias Delaney was arrested in Indianapolis January 27 as the principal witness in William Mickey's trial for Bud Cooper's death on February 26, 1907. She claimed Hickey's father provided $600 for her disappearance.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Ruth Kelly
Delaney
Cinem- Akl
William Mickey
Bud Cooper
Hickey
Fatel Coasting Accident Claims Three Lives
Martine Ferry Ohio January 27. George Malkeay aged 19 died and Elmer and Frank Shaffer were fatally injured while 12 others were hurt when their bob sleigh collided with a telephone pole on Sunday.
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Fatel
Martine Ferry
George Malkeay
Elmer
Frank Shaffer
Vanderbilt Heiress Weds Hungarian Noble in Love Match
Miss Grady Vanderbilt, youngest daughter of Mrs. Corneling Vanderbilt, marries Count Laszlo Jena Maria Henrik Simon Sunchenyl in a high society ceremony at the Vanderbilt mansion. The couple plan Newport and a February European tour, with gifts valued over $1 million and no money settlement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Lamous Vanderbilt
Fifth Avenue
Fifty-seventh Street
Miss Grady's
Corneling Vanderbilt
Duchess of Marlborough
Count Laszlo Jena Maria Henrik Simon Sunchenyl
Mise Vanderbilt
Remor
Migs Vanderbilt
Laszia
Emerich, Szecheny
Berlin
Bismarsk
Laszlo
Europe
Hig
Amnevor
Menelik
Abyselnia
Count Laszly
Horpacs Castle
Szechenyi
Dionys
Count Yaszio
Mays. Lavelle
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Ruth Vanderallt Fromblay
Dorothy Whitney
Anton Sigray
Count Clonys
Paul Esterliay
Newport
Mia. Wideruilt
Fire and unrest sweep Midwest and Caribbean regions
The Central hotel in Pontiac Illinois burned destroying the building and forcing guests to flee in nightwear. Two blocks in Madison Illinois burned with losses exceeding $100000. Civil War veteran and mineralogist Captain Charles F Brown, 74, died in a St Louis hospital. The Minnesota board of pardons commuted Merton S Munn to life imprisonment for a murder to have been hanged February 7. Haytian revolution crushed with leader Jean Dumeau captured and shot. North Carolina railroad workers plan to petition legislature to repeal the 214 cent per mile wage law. George L Thomas and L 2 Taggart of New York pleaded guilty in Kansas City to conspiracy to pay debaits to shippers. fines imposed.
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Central
Pontiac
Ill
Wrester
Madison
Charles F. Brown
St. Louis
Minnesota Board of Pardons
Merton S. Munn
August Franklin
Jean Dumeau
Dessalines
Gonaives
North Carolinia
George L. Thomas
New York City
L. 2
Taggart
United States District Court
Kansas City
Smith McPherson
Thomas
Sea storm wreck tales draw grim losses and wreckage
News from New York reports a severe storm causing feared schooner losses off the Delaware capes. The steamer Manoa Hata sighted wreckage and pieces of a vessel, while the oil barge Matanzas and crew were rescued by the Italian steamer San Giovanni after breaking adrift near Boston Harbor.
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New York
Delaware Capes
Manoa Hata
Baltimore
San Giovanni
H. V. Morse
Matanzas
Fall River
Grafton
Concord
Phila-delphia
Noston
Morse
Daring Robbery of Mail in New Orleans
In New Orleans on Sunday night two armed men stopped a screened United States mail wagon returning from Cincinnati and other northern points. They forced the mail clerks and driver into a box car and seized the mail, reportedly taking about $5,000 though authorities gave no official figure. The heist occurred near downtown, close to freight cars and a police station, with two robbers making the crew surrender before escaping with the mail. Barney Simmons and S J Smith, the clerk and driver, were detained briefly by police.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Unite States
Cincinnati
Queen & Crescent
Post Office
Barney Simmons
S. J. Smith
Tirus
Quida Dies at Home Near Florence After Decline
Miss Louisi de la Romeo, known by pen name Quida, dies Friday night at her Florence area home. The once celebrated novelist succumbed to old age after years of privation following the loss of her fortune from writings. only her loyal maid Solina Cervelli was with her in the final days.
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Rome
Tao
Louisi de la
Romeo
Quida
Solina Cervelli
Florence
Three Killed by Dynamite Blast in New Jersey Tunnel
A premature dynamite explosion in the Pennsylvania tunnel at Homestead New Jersey killed three men instantly and seriously injured five others. The blast occurred as the night shift ended with fifteen men at work tamping holes. eight remained to finish the task.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Gergen Hill
Pennsylvania
Homestead
N. J
Burglary at Kalamazoo Jewelry Store
Burglars entered the F. R. Darcy jewelry store in Kalamazoo Michigan on January 27 Saturday night and took goods valued at 320000 including diamonds watches and other high grade jewelry.
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Kalamazoo
Mich
F. R. Darcy
Policeman Kills Hard Up Man in Chicago
A patrolman on Hudgon Avenue fatally shot a man believed to be Henry Von Bargen Sunday night during an attempted arrest. The wounded man attacked Newton Hurtt, 77 Goethe Street, and was seen reaching into pockets before the figure and companion fled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Henry von Bargen
Rudolph Brokopp
Hudgon Avenue
Newton Hurtt
Goethe Street
Jim
Immigrants Reach St John After Long Atlantic Voyage
After about 50 days at sea, 300 immigrants who departed Antwerp on December 7 aboard the Mougt Oral for Canada and the United States arrived in St John on Sunday aboard the Montrose.
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St. John’s
N. B
Antwerp
St. John
Mougt Oral
Canada
United States
Sungay
Montrose
Large Janesville Tobacco Warehouse Fire Suspected Arson
A Janesville blaze destroyed Julius Marquissee’s tobacco warehouse housing about 4,000 cages of tobacco, causing an estimated 250000 loss with over 200000 insured. Walls fell before firefighters arrived, contents unsalvageable, two nearby warehouses saved. origin suspected incendiary after hours. Marquissee was a leading tobacco handler in the Midwest.
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Janesvile
Janesville
Julius Marquissee
Joilure Marquissee
Middle West
Mrs Hunt Celebrates 106th Birthday at Beloit Home
Mrs Mary Ay Junot of Beloit marks her 106th birthday with a family dinner at Mrs Hunk's home where four generations attend. Relatives include Mrs H L Adama of the city and grandson Harry with great grandson Ralph of Chicago. The Junot family has celebrated her birthdays with visits from Chicago BONs on the Fourth of July for years.
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Beloit
Mary Ay Junot
Hunk
Chicago
Rotary Engine Invented by George A Dibbell of Washburn
In Washburn a man over 70, George A Dibbell, has patented a rotary engine claimed to deliver great power with both low and high pressure cylinders. In Appleton a rescuer named Fema saved a boy at a North Western road crossing but suffered serious injuries when a freight car door fell on him.
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Appleton
Iad
Wlagman Fema
North Western Road
Lfe
Washburn
George A. Dibbell
Dudley JL. Smith
Lawrence University Conservatory of
Hiusi
Lawrence
Highland Park, I
Grave Digging Expensive at Oak Hill Cemetery
Oak Hill cemetery directors report high grave digging costs due to frozen ground. A permanent vault has been built with a 300-body capacity, and hedges will cover it until spring thaw.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Janeaville
Oak Hill Cemetery Association
Jewelry Store Robbery Sees Over 100 Watches Stolen
In Eau Claire a jewelry store owned by Andrew Jackson reports theft of more than 100 watches valued at 1500 dollars. Separately in Downsville near Meh… robbers take 250 dollars in cash and several important papers including money orders and railroad pay checks. A Wisconsin Central passenger train near Thorp fatally injures a driver after colliding with a farmer’s wagon, destroying the wagon and tossing the driver against a pole.
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Eau Claire
Andrew Jackson
Kramum
Downsville
Mehobionie
Thorpe
Wisconsin Central
Thorp
Fort Atkinson Woodmen Install Large Class
Fort Atkinson camp of Modern Woodmen held installation of a large class. A Milwaukee Foresters team performed the ceremony in the Hoard Rifles armory on South Third street.
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Fort Atkinson
Milwaukee
Hoard Rifles
South Third Street
Old Pair Die Together In Lewiston Double Funeral
Portage residents Mr. John M. Anderson and Mrs. Anderson died of pneumonia within hours of each other aged 78 and 76. They were Lewiston pioneers. A double funeral was held.
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Portagé
John M. Anderson
Lewiston
House Work and Silent Struggle of American Women
A historical notice highlights how many American women in homes neglect their health while maintaining duties. It notes a female weakness or displacement causing pains and aches, urging recognition that help is needed to ease daily burdens and preserve well being for devoted homemakers.
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Fans Believers
A patient testimony from Mrs F Ellsworth of Maysville and Mrs W P Lloyd of Beaver Falls praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as restoring strength for female troubles. The notice extols thirty years of use, listing conditions like displacements inflammation ulcers fibroid tumors irregularities and backache and invites women to write for advice from Mrs Pinkham at Lynn Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. Pinkham
Complaints Parade in Club Book Keepsteeping
A secretary notes varied club complaints in the complaint books. Entries joke about cold hot water, a novelist's book not added to the library, youths touting wines and cigars, and anonymous scandals. A past item accuses Maj Hawkins of associating with many members’ wives and owing a debt.
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Maj. Hawkins
Tenner
Whem
Cuticura Proved Effective For Skin Sore Case
Mrs Lillie Wildher of Chattanooga Tennessee writes that two cakes of Cuticura Soap and a box of Cuticura Ointment cured her baby’s neck sore and later cleared her own severe eczema on hands and wrists. She notes one uncle’s baby and another child in the same family also improved after using Cuticura Remedies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lillie Wildher
Eleventh St
Chattanooga
Tenn
Chance to Show It
Mrs Biggs reports Mrs Allow is moving again as Mrs Diggs notes she relocates frequently after receiving new furniture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Biggs
Allow Ie
Mrs. Diggs
Cured in 6 to 14 Days Claim Made
A dubious claim suggests a cure in six to fourteen days for an ailment. The text mocks the ease of making a bad decision and warns that missteps can lead to refunds or losses. The wording appears disordered with possible names or places hidden in OCR errors.
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Ape
Fiat Hinds
Binrakag
Mateo
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National OF North America
Comptroller's
W. F
Xenia
Weday
Aussalla Histon
Cpash
Arghtina
Torpedo
Littin Vessele
Rio
Maine City
Imineig Central
Lincoln
Sioux Clay
Mary Frances Reiley
Iowa
Ilinois
Mary Sullivan
Quincey
Abraham Lincoln
Mido Vanderbilt
Guida
News OF Wisconsin
Intendiary
Mrs. Hunt
Carl Carlson
W. Gargon
Fond du La¢e
Fond du Lac
Lydia E.pinkham
Lins
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