Bank Robbers Steal Vast Lenton and Westminster Funds
Reported robbery at the Lenton and Westminster Bank Mirattedsh suspects watched for the moment of access. A parcel of bank drafts from country banks is missing with figures ranging from seventy five hundred to potentially one million two hundred fifty thousand dollars. Authorities pursue clues to the thieves.
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Benkine
Lenton and Westminister Bank
Miratted
London
London and Westminister Bank
Melbourne to Rain for Kansas People Contract
Melbourne the Australian rain wizard agrees to make rain for $590 at Goodland Sherman County Kansas starting September 25. He plans to affect rain within many miles in all directions and uses a secret method with chemicals and a darkened room while a brother bets rain will fall within forty eight hours. Melbourne brings revolvers into the building to deter interference during operation.
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Melbourne
Geechand Kaen
Goolland
Sherman County
Colorado
Goodland
Dyrenforth
Coes
Ostend and Berne News Highlight Global and Local Loos
Report from Ostend shows gambling frenzy with a high rolling Lon oner whose in a single day wins reach 690 000 francs at a non Belgian club run by Paris interests paying 3000 francs season royalty to Os. Also Berne hosts an international accident congress with four Americans among 400 delegates. A daylight hotel robbery in St Joseph yields 300 dollars and a diamond stud. In Washington the attorney general rules bible readings in public schools violate state constitution.
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Monte Carlo
Ostend
Lononer
Paris
Berne
Switzerland
Tongres
St. Joseph
Jones
Washington
Church Unity Meeting Aims At Spiritual Renewal
A church unity group met at a local church with Revs. FL Hutburt of Deirgit presiding. The conference focused on fostering the Spirit’s influence, encouraging Christian fellowship, and promoting neighborhood solidarity under a common church effort.
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Blcaco
Hutburt
Deirgit
Crowds Await Proclamation as Cherokee Strip Burns
Reported crowds of settlers and boomers in the Cherokee Strip await a government proclamation while fires burn thousands of acres. A crowd includes many African Americans and they fear a land rush. Nearby Huntington, Pa reports cattle dying from a disease resembling Texas splenic fever.
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Prospec
Chere Strip
Guthrie
Huntington
War in Watches Underscores Elgin Waltham Split
American watchmakers Elgin and Waltham join against John A. Dueber to crush a rival. The text also notes a Boston syndicate buying control of Lincoln Stock Yards for 310000 and fires burning vast prairie land from Bray's Bayou in Texas and Dakota areas destroying fences and harming farmers.
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America
Elgin
Waltham
John A. Dueber
Wiu Esthte Trust
Agc
Lincoln Stock Yards
Boston
Texas
Dakota
Houston
Tex
Bray's Bayou
Prairie Fire Ravages Dickinson Area in North Dakota
A vast prairie fire swept through miles of prairie near Sekford and Dickinson, threatening towns and consuming hay, grain, and buildings. One farmer reports the blaze damaged land south of the Northern Pacific line for about seventy miles square, with thousands of bushels of grain and extensive hay losses.
Floods devastate southern Spain drowning thousands
The disaster in Spain’s south, especially Toledo, leaves numerous drowned and homeless. Rivers burst banks, hundreds of corpses float, crops ruined, and a national relief fund opens as authorities assess two thousand dead and widespread destruction.
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Tousands
Spain
Toledo
Consuegra
Anieson
Rain Making Experiments Partial But Encouraging At El Paso
Government rain makers at El Paso Texas report two hours of bombardment yielded no rain though a brief moist dew appeared. Poor conditions at one of the driest U S points blamed. Corpus Christi will be next. The only positive sign was a heavy morning dew after the test.
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el Paso
Tex
Signal Ser Itvice Bureau
Slenal Service
Met
Cobunry
Corpus Christi
Balmaceda Causes Self Destruction in Valparaiso
Despairing Balmaceda shoots himself in his room at the Argentine Inn Sentinzo after attempting escape from Chile. News reaches Valparaiso as crowds gather at the Argentine legation and react with cheers and hooting amid the junta crisis.
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Balmaceda
Chili
Sentinzo
Valparaiso
Elty
Eda
United Heisco
Santiago
City
Legation
Senor Uriburia
Junta
Oklahoma opens ceded lands to settlers Tuesday
President proclaims the Sac and Fox Sacanda F Iowa and Pottawotamie reservations in eastern Oklahoma open to entry at 12 noon CST on Tuesday September 23. The schedule covers 206 243 acres with the ceded lands attached to Eastern and Oklahoma districts as troops maintain order and boomer line movement continues.
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Oklahoma
Sacandaf
Iowa
Pottawotamie
Acts of Congress
Oklahams Tnd
Okishoma
Thirteenth Infantry
Piftieth Cavalry
Everbsiy
Alliance Gains 55 House Members and 4 Senators
At the Farmers' Alliance headquarters in Washington the group claims fifty-five House members will vote with it on all measures this session and four Senators Peffer Kyle Irby and Vance. The sub treasury bill and Stanford land loan bill will be replaced by similar measures in both houses. The American Agriculturist notes a European bread shortage remains severe with Russia provinces especially affected and some families lacking meals since Easter.
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Farmers’ Alliance
Washington
Alliance
Senate
Nators
Peffer
Kyle
Irby
Vance
Stanford
Russia
Konstantiovak
Flood Toll Rises in Toledo and Nearby Areas
Provisional flood figures show 2300 dead in Toledo province and 500 in surrounding localities with many injured. Crops destroyed across rural districts, losses near a million pounds. In horse racing news Allerton sets world stallion record at 2 09 4, predicted to reach 2 07.
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Toledo
Spain
Allerton
Nelson
Independence
Williams
Minnesota Dairy College Opens At State University
A Minnesota dairy college builds on a Department of the State University to teach scientific dairying in detail. Minnesota's dairy cows rose from 600 in 1860 to about 600000, worth around 12 million dollars, making dairy product value near that of the wheat crop.
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Minnesota
State University
Sailor Picnics Sparked Sigri Occupation Rumor
Official dispatches from Constantinople deny Sigri is occupied by Britain. A flotilla officers’ picnic on a desert islet off Cape Sigri caused the scare, they reembarked that evening and sailed away. Mexico Invaded by 100-men force from Texas. Mexican troops expected to handle them.
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Constantinople
Sigri
Cape Sigri
Mexico
Texas
Spoiled A Little Game In Pierre Leads To Tense Probes
A saloon near Pierre’s business district hosted a gaming night that drew police raid and the arrest of several locals. West County official, a city officer, two merchants, and an engineer faced intimidation affidavits while jurors acquitted the players who claimed a social card game. City officials consider prosecutions for illicit gaming and prohibition violations as investigations unfold. In Yankton, druggists G A Rogers and E D Scott faced liquor sales charges to Indians but a judge ruled Soissons not Indian due to paternal lineage, and the case was dismissed.
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Pierre
Tom
Progess
West County
G. A. Rogers
E. D. Scott
Castana
Yankton
Jerrey Soissons
Capt Jeffers Freed After 40 Days In Debt Prison
Capt C T Jeffers commander of a militia company and deputy warden of the state penitentiary is discharged from jail after forty days for debt. The first such case in the state, freedom granted due to a technical defect in the papers. A levee and large reception followed his release.
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Jeffers
C. T. Jeffers
State Penitentiary
G. A.B. Post
Sioux Falls
Jefers
Child Murder Near White, South Dakota Shocks Town
A farmer named Alexander Coulter violently struck his child after it did not obey. He then threw the child to the door, crushing its life. The incident occurred seven miles from White, South Dakota, and authorities investigate this brutal act.
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South Dakota
White, &.D
Alexander Coulter
Nebraska board keeps freight schedules unchanged
The Nebraska state board of transportation decided not to alter current freight schedules. The report argues local rates within the state are minor compared with through rates, noting Iowa farmers demonstrated Nebraska’s favorable market rates. It cites Creston Iowa and Venango Nebraska comparisons and asserts any local-rate cut would raise through rates and hurt Nebraska industries.
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Nebraska
Board of Transportation
Towa
Interstate Commerce Commission
Omaha
Iowa
Creston
Chicaz
Vena Neb
Chicago
Venango
Feo
Nebraska Board Debates Warehouse Law At Lincoln
A lively Nebraska state board of transportation session in Lincoln debated forcing public warehouses under warehouse law and voted against repealing private inspection rules after strong opposition from key officials. Also in Nebraska news reports a record crop surge with high yields in Valley County and a fatal collision involving a Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley locomotive engineer at Rawhide switch.
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Nebraska
Wilson
Fremont, Elkhorn
Missouri Valley
Rawhide Switch
Fremont
Hanging Ordered for Col. H. Clay King in Memphis Murder
The court denies a new trial for Col. H. Clay King who killed lawyer David H. Poston on Main Street. Judge Du Bose sets execution for November 9 1891 between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. to be carried out at a gallows near the jail, after ruling all motions overruled. King remains in jail as an appeal proceeds.
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Supreme Court
H.jay Kinz
Memphis
Tenn
North
Avid H Poston
March
Dlo el Ning
Shelly
H. Clay King
Col. King
Main Street
Court Square
David H. Poston
Howe
King
du Boe
Greer
du Bose
Weatherford
China Faces Pressure Over Riots and Punishments
A Shanghai dispatch reports China preparing a protocol to the powers after recent riots. Foreign ministers may act in weeks. six rioters have been hanged. Germany may bolster fleets in Chinese waters. France and Russia possibly absent from joint action.
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Shanghai
China
Paris
Ribot
Afer
Berlin
London Standard
France
Russia
Germany
Fire Burns Through Six Floors Of Chicago Printing Block
Early morning blaze at No 175 Monroe Street Chicago destroys stock and premises of Wyckoff Seamans Benedict Jameson More Company W J Jefferson Printing Blomgren Bros Co and others with insured losses and total damage estimated between 50 000 and 70 000.
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Chicago
Monroe Street
Wyckoff, Seamans & Benedict
Jameson & More Company
W. J. Jeffrson Printing Company
Bank of England Profits Declared at Half Year
The half year to August 31 shows net profits of £712,258, bringing total reserves to £3,776,800. A dividend of 5 guineas per cent was declared leaving £3,012,770 in rest. A New York fruit merchant sold 18,000 pineapples this season to a restaurant for pineapple spruy for soda water.
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Bank of England
Wm. Lidderdale
New York
Russian Navy Cadets Seek Danube Passage Through European Commission
An astonished European sphere reports Russia asking the European Danube Commission to permit Russian naval cadets to navigate passages on the Danube. The move follows the Dardanelles incident and hints at Russia declining binding treaty limits on non warships navigating below the Iron Gate.
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Russia
Dardanelles
Danube
Europe
European Danube Commission
Iron Gate
Danoty
Ural High
Wagner Enraged Them The Lohengrin Performance At Paris
The audience packed the house for Wagner operatic scenes with an excited crowd outside the open venue. Police clashed with demonstrators as 700 officers cleared streets. about 1 000 arrests reported. A Russian detainee was freed with a polite admonition. Cardinals to be Created in Rome as Hungary talks influence Prague See vacancy. Mixed marriages worry Vatican officials. decision pending.
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Sion
van Dy
Thier
France
Hanovre
Rome
Rotelli
Mgr
Sepiacci
Mer. Rufio Scillo
Italy
Mgr Thomas
Hungary
Prague
Simor
Vatican
Holy See
Holy Office
Saussier Surprised In Maneuvers At War Game
General Saussier head of the French army of maneuvers was reportedly surprised and hemmed in by enemy cavalry during a recent drill. General Boisdeffre, commanding the opposing force, let Saussier’s cavalry escape rather than risk capture. The Berlin Post quotes Emperor William praising Erfurt troops and recalling historic past triumphs with Corsican parvenu references and Plumenthal.
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Saussier
le Temps
Paris
Germany
Temps
Boisdeffre
Berlin
Erfurt
William
Plumenthal
Discipline in Germany and Politics News
The Berliner Tageblatt reports a sentinel asleep near Kotoschin led to a captain forcing four parades, resulting in the arrest and court martial of twenty-one absent soldiers who received prison terms of eighteen to twenty months. The leak of this news caused a sensation. Edward Lytton Bolwer is elected to Parliament in South Wales.
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Germany
Berliner Tageblatt
Kotoschin
Epward Lytton Bolwer Diere
Done Ae
South Wales
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Porte
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Order of Osmania
Mme. Ribot
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Pasha
Ron
Enelich
Ian Ambassaveldoi
William White
Civii
Mitylene
Rysis
Count von Schonvaler
Ambaador
Wickseed Company
James Vickeedsmen Corporation
Rochesser
N. Y
James Vick
Sedgwick Street
Wilmer
Minn
Congress
Valley County
Deati
Poston
Tirance
Gemany
England
Ae SE Nationg
Wagner
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