Proving Signs of the Times Indicates Broad Recovery
A weekly survey of the national economy reports banks resuming operations in several cities. Deposits rise in Kansas City. Chicago discounts expand. factories reopen. rail traffic improves. iron and manufacturing show progress. observers predict rapid recovery with nationwide optimism and higher circulation. Local banks see steady deposits and hopeful outlook for wages and housing.
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Ow York Savings Banks
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Awuks
A Bankers Panic Refuted by Pioneer Press Editorial
The St Paul Pioneer Press counters the claim that banks profit from hard times. It notes banks suffer when note defaults rise, deposits shrink, and panics force suspensions, with losses to managers and stockholders while noteholders and depositors are paid. The piece denounces silver and cheap money rhetoric as falsehoods.
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Literary Notes and World’s Fair Illustrations Highlight Harper’s Weekly
Harper’s Weekly features a follow up on portraits of Enemies of the Public Welfare and presents Friends of Repeal with timely World’s Fair illustrations. It also notes A B Frost’s Woodcock Shooting and Calcutta in the Capitals of the World by Darmsteter. The October Harper’s Magazine will publish Edwin Lord Weeks’s journey From the Black Sea to the Persian Gulf by Caravan with portraits and a cholera scene.
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West Point
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Trebizond
Labreez
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Stead
Henry Somerset
Joan of Arc
Maid of Orleans
University of Chicago
Brother Isaac Pearson Placed in Washington Department
Brother Isaac Pearson of the Aber deen State Democrat has been appointed to a position in a Washington department after years of editorial remarks about office-holders.
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Aberdeen State Democrat
Washington
Senator Sherman Voices Silver Policy Stance
Senator Sherman argues against demonetizing gold and urges policies that build silver, stressing the nation's 15 million people and warning against basing policy on Wall Street. He says congress should decide on silver bullion purchases for the country's broader interests, not regional concerns.
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Europe
Nevada
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United States
Congress
Reports of Officers for the National Grand Army Encampment
The Twenty-seventh annual Grand Army encampment opened in Indianapolis with 1,187 members present and 397,228 in good standing. The report praises discharged veterans for public office preference, notes 7,002 deaths and a net loss of 2,165 in the past year, and funds and hospital proposals. Chicago bids for next encampment. Woman's Relief Corps reports on pensions and Louisiana Mississippi branches.
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Adams
Massachusetts
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Roberts Park Church
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Margaret Ray Wickens
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National Council of Women
New Immigration Inspection Posts Planned on Canadian Border
Commissioner of Immigration Stamp travels from Winnipeg to St. Paul visiting Neche and St. Vincent to study current regulations. He plans to establish inspection institutions on the Northern border similar to Castle Garden, likely at Neche or St. Vincent, to curb undesirable immigration and contract laborers. Railroads crossing into Canada are cooperating with the plan.
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United States
Castle Garden
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North Dakota
Kentucky's Blue Blood in Breckenridge Suit
Louisville report says Senator Blackburn may join Breckenridge as counsel in Pollard breach of promise case. Influence credited to Breckenridge ally Phil Thompson. Mrs Luke Blackburn remains dignified and determined. trial unlikely as strong political force mobilizes in Breckenridge defense.
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Louisville
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Phil Thompson
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Mystery Woman Found Dead in Minnesota Cemetery
In Mankato on September 7 a young woman about 20 was found dead on the Tenth street bridge with authorities unsure of cause. Police suspect suicide but an autopsy will follow. she is identified as Lizzie Marty, daughter of a Monticello blacksmith.
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Tenth Street Bridge
Lizzie Marty
Monticello
Vandalism at Glenwood Cemetery In Mankato
Vandals overturned and smashed 18 monuments in Glenwood cemetery on the south side, destroying ornaments on tall shafts. The act occurred overnight. no witnesses report hearing noises. The cemetery is noted as the city’s largest and most handsome, and the desecration provokes strong indignation.
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Mankato
Minn
Glenwood
Convict Board Plans 25 Acre Factory Complex
The Alabama state board of convict commissioners met and voted to buy 25 acres adjacent to the penitentiary and build several factories to be run by state convicts. This marks the board’s first step toward removing convicts from the current facility.
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Montgomery
Ala
State Board of Convict Commissioners
Trainmen With Nerve Defend Frisco Road Robbery
St Louis report of Express No 1 robbery near Pacific Missouri. Three highwaymen attacked the engine crew and express car, two fled, one was captured after a gun battle. No injuries reported though dynamite damaged the car. A pursuing party presses the hunt.
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San Francisco
Pacific
Milwaukee trainmen vow to strike over wage cut
The grievance committee of the Brotherhood of Trainmen says members on the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul road will strike if wages are cut. In Phillipsburg Pennsylvania puddlers refuse a wage cut from 4 to 3.25 and walk out, idle mill with workers out.
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American Steel Mill
Judge dissolves ban on moving county buildings to Hillsboro
Judge McConnell dissolves the temporary injunction preventing moving the county buildings from Caledonia to Hillsboro, clearing the way to transfer the court house and jail from the old Buell county seat to the present county seat. Traill county seat contest effectively settled. Wisconsin Day at Wamps Fair Grounds features a relaxed day with a social reunion and a reception for Governor Peck and state officers.
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Hilusporo
N. D
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Wamp
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Nurum Dies from Hunting Accident Wounds in Mora
Andrew Nurum, Kanabec county auditor, died in Mora after a hunting accident in which he was shot by Andrew Erickson. Nurum leaves a large family.
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Andrew Nurum
Andrew Erickson
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Kanabec
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