Denial of Secret Franco-Russian Alliance Report
St Petersburg Reuters agency denies a secret Franco Russian pact. No signed convention or ongoing conference is reported, claiming the entente dates to earlier times and could become an alliance if needed. The visit of the French fleet is said to confirm existing good relations and no formal treaty is planned.
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St Petersbure
Reuters Tetraph Company
France
Russia
Admiral Gervais
Crontadt
Prenehmen
Paris
St. Petersburg
Europe
Northwest Harvest Promises Record Dakotas Minnesota Wheat
Harvest under way across the northwest with yields boosting the crop. Wheat averages 25 to 0 bushels per acre and 150,000,000 bushels minimum output expected for the Dakotas and Minnesota. Labor shortages and scarce storage threaten to force quick sales as railroads prepare to move grain. Harvest weather favorable.
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Northwest
Dakotas
Minnesota
Russian Finance Ministry Warns of Grain Shortage
The ministry announces an expected deficit of grain and warns that 600,000 head of cattle will be needed to supply peasants, insisting potatoes and maize must cover the shortage due to exhausted assets and rising costs.
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Ministry of Finance
Turbulent Chinese Situation Prompts Foreigner Outrage Concerns
The report notes a grave state of unrest in China over hostility to foreigners and domestic agitators. It states that combined fleet powers may be mobilized to take effective action to redress outrages by the Chinese government.
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China
Pekin
We Tang Tae Wlang
Will age proved in Davis case at Butte Montana
Dr Hogan a witness in the Davis will case testified by microscopic study that the will is two years old and that the signature of witness Sconce was written after pin holes were made. Kansas district judges to be elected with fusion to defeat People's Party candidates across the state.
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Hogan
Butte
Mont
Sconce
Kansas
People's Party
Cloudburst Floods San Bernardino Area Causing Extensive Damage
A heavy downpour in San Bernardino California sent water through streets for hours. Redmonds and Craftons suffered the heaviest floods with water washing away small buildings and damaging young orchards.
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Yiel
San Bernardino
Cal
Redmonds
Craftons
Cherokee Nation Senator Plans Sell of Crow Creek Strip
A. Parga, newly elected Cherokee nation senator, says he will introduce a bill in November to sell the Cherokee Strip and distribute proceeds to the nation’s people. He claims many council members have pledged support for the measure.
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A. Parga
Cherokee Nation
Cherokee Council
Tie Teusure
Miber
Alliance plan forms shipping associations in Kansas
The latest alliance in mercantile circles forms cooperative shipping associations in Kansas to manage wheat sales without agents. Three organization charters were filed with the secretary of state at Topeka as part of the alliance plan.
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Kansas
Topeka
Two Die in Blast Involving Powder Store
A blast from a powder store killed John Bay less and Timothy Cooney who were inside the building. George Wells in a nearby house suffered a fractured skull from flying debris. A third group in a distant shed and two others within 400 yards sustained severe injuries.
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John Bayless
Timothy Cooney
George Wells
Tle
Europe in Turmoil Amid Bread Famine Alarms
A German millers meeting calls for ending corn rationing and freeing provisions to avert a Russian airbase disruption. The Viesische Zeitung urges open food imports and lower freight costs while Chancellor Yon Capriviushviziiin resists. Berlin grain markets rise with rye and wheat prices. America’s crop use sparks concern over rye supply and weather prospects loom large.
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Germany
Yon Capriviushviziiin
Trinister
Viesische Zeitung
Berlin
Amsterdam
America
Russia
Usase
Europe
European Rye Export Ban Stuns Berlin and London
A Russian ukase prohibiting rye and rye meal exports shocks European grain markets. Berlin and London see a price surge and a drop in rye values as brokers anticipate further decrees, with bread costs likely to rise and Friesing party agitation increasing. The measure also signals broader Russian financial strain and potential effects on bread supply across Europe.
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Russia
St. Petersburg
Berlin
London
Europe
von Caprivi
Friesinninge Party
Judge Brown Declares Insolvent Lumbermerch Voluntary Assignment
In DuPage County Judge Brown renders decision in favor of insolvent lumber merchant Rt. Vowell granting a voluntary assignment for creditors. Property conveyed to First National Bank of Chicago. decision calls bank the HSSIHeEE. Juan J. Weeks, a U S prisoner at Denver, escapes by peppering a deputy marshal and leaping from a court roof window after being sentenced for piano frauds in Omaha and Denver.
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Dupage County
Rt. Vowell
First National Bank of Chicago
Hssiheee
Juan J. Weeks
United States
Denver
Inai
Omate
Witness City
Wild Scenes on Chicago Wheat Market Amid Price Surge
Reports from the Chicago Board of Trade describe chaotic scenes as December wheat spiked to $1.18 on the curb after the close. Traders faced sensational swings with bears unloading at tops and then buying back minutes later, while rumors linked figures such as Keene Armour and Hutchinson to market forces.
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Chicago
New York
Europe
India
Sin” Keene
Keene
Philip Armour
B. P. Hutchinson
Hutchinson
Bears
Robbery and Chloroform Attack on Memphis Banker
Prominent Memphis financier R D Frayser, president of Security and Memphis City banks and owner of the Public Ledger, was chloroformed and robbed at Da hotel by a man posing as John A Morris of New Orleans. Morris demanded a 3500 indorsement, followed by Frayser signing and a later withdrawal of money. Frayser was found unconscious. $50, a watch, and Morris vanished. Morris is at large.
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R. D. Frayser
Security and
Memphis City Banks
Memphis City Railway
The
Public Ledger
John A. Morris
New Orleans
Morris
Frayser
H. Dudley Vrayser
Morvis
Famine in Mexico reports scarce crops and distress
Advices from Cahuila and Durango describe scarce winter crops and money shortages. A single colony, Tiahuililo, with Diaz and a former minister, profits from river Nazas water, provoking discontent. Corn price is high. a riot nearly occurred as dependen ters suffer. Citizens seek lower American corn duties but fail.
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Mexico
Cahuila
Durango
Mex
Tiahuililo
Diaz
Nazas
Turungo
Chinese Passengers Barred From Oceanic Landing
The Oceanic steamer's Chinese passengers were halted in San Francisco by Collector Vielos following a treasury circular citing the Wan Twing Supreme Court decision. It bans landing without a consular certificate proving no mercantile activity, a virtually impossible standard for Chinese travelers.
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Oceanic
San Francisco
Vielos
Treasury Department
Supreme Court of the United States
United States
China
Phelps
Editor J A MacKnight Cleared In Contempt Ruling
Montana supreme court ruled Editor J A MacKnight of the Helena Jotus not in contempt for refusing to identify his informant in an article claiming biases in the Davis will case. The piece described as an interview with an Old Montanan appeared about a month earlier and challenged courts and juries in Butte.
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Montana Supreme Court
J. A. MacKnight
Helena
Scarcity of Money Hits Texas Ranchers and Farmers
The lower Sto Grande area faces severe money scarcity due to prolonged drought. Farmers and ranchers struggle with debt as no rain has fallen for eighteen months. At Roma, 278 healthy sheep capable of producing four pounds of wool yearly sold for a few cents each.
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Sto Grande
Texas
Roma
Wrecked by Dynamite in Kansas City Residence
Richard M Juvenal's Kansas City Kansas home was wrecked by dynamite with no serious injuries. Explosions reportedly arose from a woman he was seeing before marriage. A Paris bulletin reports France's wheat crop will not exceed five million kiloliters and that 85 million bushels must be imported to meet demand.
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Richard M. Juvenal
Kansas City
Kin
Juvenal
Bulletin Das Hales
Paris
France
Notable Dakota Lawsuit Dockets Set for Mitchell Trial
Two major cases from Douglas and Davison counties head to the Davison county court in Mitchell this fall for trial. Maj. Wm A. Moore of Pierre and Nathaniel T. Hauser of Aberdeen contest warrants totaling over 45 million dollars and 2 thousand two hundred eighty two dollars, amid fraud and legality disputes. A United States deputy marshal captures a counterfeit operation at Pine Ridge, with Charles Wilson suspected of leading a gang flooding the Black Hills with fake currency. John Miller of Blunt, famed for swallowing glass, gains local attention, while a third circuit scandal centers on Judge J O Andrews amid impeachment talks. Congressman-elect Gamble dies suddenly, prompting a special election in South Dakota.
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Northwest
Daviser County
Mitchell
Douglas County
Bon Homme County
Supreme Court Whl
United States
Pine Ridge
Charles Wilson
Wilson
Cambria
Wye
Nebraska Doctors Survive Maris Mire Rescue
Dr. Kernan and Dr. Marsh of Lincoln nearly drowned in a marsh west of Lincoln while hunting snipe. They sank to mid bodies before rescuers laid boards and used ropes to free them after about two hours submerged. Fire crews arrived too late to change the outcome.
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Kernan
Marsh
Lincoln
Plumbers End Strike at Rowe & Co in Omaha
The Omaha plumbers returned to work after a stoppage by a union committee. They accepted eight hours work and pay, eight hours off, at a daily rate of 2.60, reconciling terms with owners. The episode concludes the labor dispute at the shop.
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Omaha
Rowe & Co
Journeymen Plumber's Union
Fatal Train Collision Near Seneca Nebraska
A passenger train at full speed struck four carriages two miles east of Seneca Nebraska killing A. H. Burnett and Miss Frances Fuller. Mrs P P Fuller and Mrs Geo Restenberger and two children ages 2 and 4 were seriously injured.
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Nebraska
Seneca
A. H. Burnett
Frances Fuller
P. P. Fuller
Geo. Restenberger
Renowned Poet and Diplomat James Russell Lowell Dies at 72
Obituary sketches the life of James Russell Lowell born February 22, 1819 in Cambridge Massachusetts. Harvard graduate, lawyer turned writer, Lowell edited Atlantic Monthly and North American Review. He served as diplomat to Russia Spain Great Britain and died in Cambridge after a distinguished literary career.
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That City
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Launfal
Litterati
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Concord
Emerson
Carlyle
Mr. Lowell
Union League Club
Chicago
Richard III
Edward Burnett
Southboro
James Russell Lowe
Republic Buffalo Enquirer
Rainmaking Trials Near Midland Texas Draw Big Rain
A U S Department of Agriculture experiment near Midland Texas led by R G Dyrenforth tested rackarock bombs to seed rain over Nelson Morris ranch. Explosions caused by ground devices produced clouds and six hours of heavy rainfall covering about 1000 square miles with about two inches at the Morris site, signaling drought relief after weeks.
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Parnell
United States Department of Agriculture
R. G. Dyrenforth
Midland
Tex
Nelson Morris
Chicago
Morris Ranch
Indiana Bankers Resist State Tax on Deposits
Indiana bankers vow to refuse exposing depositor accounts to a tax. A Indianapolis committee led by Haughey Gallup and Malott, advised by Addison Harris, plans to challenge the law and cites conflicts with the National Banking Act. Officials warn widespread withdrawals and bank failures could ensue if enforced. The piece also notes tributes to James Russell Lowell from several papers.
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Indianapolis
Haughey
Indianapolis National
Addison C. Harris
India
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