Free coinage plan nudges Populist reform in Yankton meeting
The piece surveys a non partisan free coinage convention set for Yankton on the 25th. It notes a shift from strikes to jobs, cites Rep Burrows seeking authority to revoke pensions, and covers South Dakota politics, court nominations, college exercises at Brookings, and Governor Sheldon defending South Dakota exhibit quality at the World’s Fair.
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Yankton
Congress
South Dakota Agricultural College
Brookings
Republican Judicial Convention at Turon SD 1893
The Republicans of South Dakota convene a delegate meeting at Turon Opera House on September 20 1893 to nominate three candidates for the Supreme Court. Representation equals one delegate per fifty votes or major fraction for Governor Sheldon in 1892, with alternates, no proxies, and counties casting full county ballots.
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South Dakota
Turon
Opera House
Supreme Court of
C. H. Sheldon
Mitchell's Bank Solvent Illusion Fails Amid Runs Across Cities
Milwacker July 26. At 10 a m suspension posted on Mitchell's Fire and Marine doors. Bank closed after action by Benjamin Weil over a 13 341 71 debt. receiver Washington Becker appointed on bonds of 1 000 000. Bank depository for the city holds 1 365 000 in funds. Cashier Murphy downplays insolvency but cites ongoing drains and necessity to suspend. Indianapolis reports three bank failures Fletcher's Indiana National Commercial. Louisville sees Merchants National and Fourth National close.
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B. K. Miller Washington Becker
Molley
Mitchell Bank
Chicago
Milwaukee and St. Paul
Wisconsin National Bank
Murphy
The
Fire and Marine Bank
Indianapolis
Indiana National
Fletcher's
Commercial
Banking woes across towns hit by receivers and fraud
Listings from July 26 report G B Hodgeman Manufacturing in Sandusky placed under court receiver Clark Rude. cashier absconded. Other items note Taylor County bank assigned for creditors, Herrmann Matt fleeing. Hollson Rock town hit by fire with record office and store intact. Plainview bank robbed of about $8000. Portsville contractor E J Gayner assigns for creditors with nearly $50,000 in judgments. Great Falls bank closes. Bradford Church bank in Dearborn Street ends operations.
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Hodgeman Manufacturing Company
Totepo
G. B. Hodgeman Manufacturing Company
Sandusky
Clark Rude
Meprorp
Wis
Taylor County Bank
BE. L. Urquhart
Herrmann Matt
Hollson Rock
Tenn
Fie
Lovelace & Bros
Portsville
E. J. Gayner
Great Fas
Merchants’ National Bank
Curiaco
Bradford & Church
Dearborn Street
Montezuma Mine Resumes In Aspen
Montezuma silver mine in Aspen, Colorado, will resume operations and ship ore to smelters where it will be stored until market conditions improve. Separately, Farmers National Bank of Findlay Ohio closed at noon with no official statement issued. A separate note reports the Chief Telegrapher may face impeachment after a detailed inquiry into charges of immorality against Grand Chief D. G. Ramsay of the Order of Railway Telegraphers.
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Tonepo
Farmers National Bank of Findlay
Aspen
Colo
Herald
Omaha
D. G. Ramsay
Order of Railway Telegraphers
Ramsay
W. F. Gurley
A. D. Thurston
George C. Flegel
Spreading Rails Wrecks Baltimore and Ohio Train Near Munroe Falls
The westbound second section of the Baltimore and Ohio express wrecked one mile east of Munroe Falls due to rail spreading on a tight curve at 4:30 a.m. Five coaches carrying passengers bound for Chicago were derailed down a 10 foot embankment. Thirty injured, five seriously, were treated at Akron City Hospital after transfer by special train.
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Cuyahoga Fallls
Baltimore and Ohio Express
Munroe Falls
Chicago
Akron
England Has Lost Behring Sea Case Says Canadians
Ottawa reports that Sir John Thompson a British arbitrator and justice minister believes England has conceded in the Behring Sea dispute. The department expects the United States to win and Thompson to seek concessions. Earlier Paris argument notes corroborate this view. Washington confirms Bowler’s rulings allowing congressmen to hire clerks during extra sessions and permitting multiple representatives to employ the same clerk without an oath.
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England
Ottawa
Ont
Sir John Thompson
Department
United States
Thompson
Paris
Washington
Bowler
Kerr
House of Representatives
Congress
Cunarders Campania and Bothnia Set Record Pace
The Cunard steamer Campania sailed from Queenstown to New York in six hours and twenty eight minutes, passing 140 miles west of Queenstown on Sunday. Bothnia reports Campania’s fast pace may smash the record.
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Queenstown
Cunard Line
Bothnia
McKay
Boston
Liverpool
Campania
New York
Pomeroy Relief Effort Organizes Local Committee
Sibley July 25 A six woman relief committee from town churches was appointed by the mayor to aid Pomeroy flood victims. They turned Memorial Hall into a workshop and prepared about $200 worth of clothing bedding and towels for shipment. The business men's committee has about $150 subscribed for relief.
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Pomeroy
Sibley
Memorial Hall
Four Missing After Ewen Fire Strikes Town
Mina Michigan July 25. Three children and an old man are said missing since the destructive fire at Ewen though unverified. The blaze left about 300 families homeless and many penniless. Provisions and necessities came from Bessemer Ontonagon Ashland and other points.
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TsHprem Mina
Mich
Ewen
Bessemer
Ontonigon
Ashland
Bishop Hennessey to receive pallium in September
Hennessey will be invested with the archbishop’s pallium by Mgr Satolli the week after the Chicago Catholic congress. The American hierarchy will attend. Daley in Devils Lake sentenced to 13 months in prison and a $2000 fine for conspiring to defraud the government of Turtle Mountain land.
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Hennessey
Pallinin
Dusugue
Paallini
Mgr. Satolli
Chicago
Devils Laker
N. C
Daley
Turtle Mountain
Many Go Hungry as Relief Funds Run Low
Denver July 26 eight thousand seven hundred men have registered as out of employment and the list grows daily efforts to provide work and food continue but relief funds are exhausted Dean Peck and Rev Thomas Uzzell have led the aid drive nightly meetings gather Denver's prominent citizens to raise funds an estimated fifteen thousand people need immediate assistance as destitution widens food is shared at missions and hunger deepens with a trainload of Colorado miners headed east after meals in Boone Ta
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Denver
Dean Peck
Thomas Uzzell
Boone Iowa feeds 150 hungry Colorado miners on rail route
In Boone Iowa on July 26 19xx 150 Colorado miners halted a Chicago and Northwestern fast freight at Council Bluffs and were allowed to ride after receiving a meal. City officials ordered bread bologna cheese and coffee for the hungry travelers. The group remained orderly and left on the next train.
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Boone
Colorado
Chicago and Northwestern
Council Bluffs
Roundhouse
Traveling Men Parade in Chicago and Salt Lake Celebrations
Traveling salesmen parade attracts 12,000 in Chicago with 44 states and six foreign countries represented. Mayor Harrison, officials review the line and the new Travelers Club House is dedicated. In Salt Lake City pioneers celebrate the 46th anniversary of settlers entering the valley with a large gathering at the Mormon tabernacle. In Pirtszura the Jones & Laughlin iron and steel plant resumes after weeks idle, 5000 workers return to work as Amalgamated Association scales are signed.
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Trocadero
Salt Lake
U. T
Great Salt Lake Valley
Mormon Tabernacle
Governor West
Woodrutt
Mormon Church
Tabernacle
Pirtszura
Jones & Laughlin
Amalgamated Association
Guests of a Newspaper. Pittsburg July 26
Fifty teachers from Pittsburg voyage to Chicago to view the world’s fair as guests of the Pittsburg Times. Chaperoned by seventeen Pennsylvania educators and Times staff writers. Hay for England demand grows as surplus land sought for large scale shipping to distant markets.\">
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Pittssurg
Chicago
Pittsburg
South Dakota
England
Minter
Gold shipments arrive from Europe and Havana at New N Y
The steamship Ems arrived from Europe with 320000 in gold and the Seneca from Havana brought 200000, both landing at New York on July 26.
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New York
Ems
Europe
Seneca
Havana
National Real Estate Convention Sets Transfers and Titles Topic
Arrangements for the National Real Estate convention in St Paul August 21 to 23 are nearly complete with large attendance expected. The main discussion will be transfers and titles, examining state laws to select best points and a possible state title guarantee. The effort aims to simplify conveyancing so deeds can be sold as freely as stocks, reducing days to pass title from sale.
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St. Paul
New York
New York Herald
Olmstead
National Real Estate Association
Stood Off Burglars in Hudson Hardware Hold Up
James Stickney and John Smith pled guilty to burglarizing a Baldwin hardware store. Smith confronted Deputy Erickson with a revolver, but Erickson knocked the weapon aside and fired, sending eight burglars back to their cells. The prisoners face penitentiary terms.
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Hudson
Wis
James Stickney
John Smith
Reid
Baldwin
Smith
BE. O. Erickson
Erickson
Chinese Entrants From Juarez Enter El Paso Nightly
Reports from El Paso indicate 20 to 30 Chinese men are slipping into the city nightly via Juarez Mexico. A wealthy group of Chinese and ex customs officials are supervising the importation. Carloads move from San Francisco in bond for Cuba, then to Vera Cruz and into ports on the Rio Grande. The piracy charges $150 per person plus expenses for entry.
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Mexico
el Paso
Tex
Juarez
Mex
United States Customs Service
San Francisco
Cuba
Vera Cruz
Rio Grande
United States
Mail Train Wreck Near Dodgeville Station in Providence
In Providence on July 26 at 1 01 am the Boston to New York mail train was wrecked opposite Dodgeville station after a Boston freight passed through Atleborough and left a car on the main track. Mail clerk Molleo of New York was killed instantly and another clerk Murphy was severely injured. Several passengers were hurt.
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Providence
R. I
Boston
New York
Dodgeville
Atleborough
Molleo
Murphy
New Jersey Militia Poisoned at Sagirt Camp
About 60 members of the Second regiment New Jersey militia at Sagirt camp were poisoned by axalytic toxin from ware used in cooking. Surgeons are treating the victims as the situation is monitored.
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New Jersey
Asbury Park
N. J
Sagirt
Bradley & Co. Goes Into Receivership in Syracuse
Syracuse July 26. The Bradley & Co. firm, a large maker of trip hammers wagons and fancy carriages and filters, entered receivership in the afternoon. The buildings and plant were valued at $500 600.
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Syracuse
N. Y
Bradley & Co
State troops mobilize as Kansas miners strike tightens
ToprkA Kansas July 26 eleven militia companies ordered to readiness to head to strike scene. Governor Lewelling delegates command to Major General Daniels while warning no outbreak. He supports strikers yet says law must prevail. If blacks work in mines the strike would end, defeating strikers. Also reported Weir City clash as guards repel mob fire. deputies uninjured. In Springfield six Winchesters loaded on Memphis train to replace strikers, amid confusion over workers told little about the strike.
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Toprka
Kan
Daniels
Kansas National Guard
Lewelling
United Press
Weir City
Grant
Springfield
Memphis
Nichols Station
Siamese Reply to France Provokes Fresh Friction
Bangkok dispatch reports Siamese foreign minister rebuking France for deeming Siam’s abdication of sovereignty over disputed Mekong left bank and Stung Treng and Khone insufficient. Siam asks France to define rights in Annam and Cambodia, offers pilots to guide French gunboats down the Menam, and notes Pavie plans to depart aboard the Inconstante.
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Siam
Lonpbon
Times
Bangkok
M. Pavie
Mekong
Stungstreng
Khone
France
Annam
Cambodia
Mekong River
Menam River
M. Paiie
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Argus Leader
Guv. Sheldon
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Charles Mix
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Union
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Windworth
Mitchell's Bank
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Merchants National Bank
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Plainview
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Relief Association
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Michael Plum
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