Weekly review of trade shows brisk speculation and price gains
Oakes Republican notes extraordinary speculation in grains pork products cotton oil and sugar with prices advancing. Spruce lumber rises amid eight hour strikes slowing building. General commodity prices up one eighth of one percent in a week and one seventh in three weeks. Iron and housing demand weaken amid eight hour strikes. Exports in March up about five percent year over year, April imports up twelve and a half percent, with hits to New York figures. weekly business failures total 214 vs 209 last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R.G. Dann & Co’e
Sesson
New York
General Sherman Birthday Party at New York Club
The 70th birthday of Geo. W. Sherman was celebrated with a reception by the Union League Club of New York at their 80th Street and Fifth Avenue building. A Fifth Artillery detachment, Gen. Sherman, Chauncy M. Depew, and Secretary Noble attended as guests passed by the pictured general amid laurel wreaths.
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Ceneral Sherman
Geo. W. T. Sherman
Union League Club of
New York City
80Th Street
Fifth Avenue
Arc
Fifth Artillery
U. S. Army
Lieut
Miley
Joont
Kerman
van Vliet
James Ottis
Huntington
Sherman
M. Depew
Interior
Noble
Tornado Poisoning Blamed for Kentucky Illness
The Prewitt family near La Grange, Kentucky faced a virulent illness with symptoms resembling spotted fever. Doctor D M Porter concluded the disease was spread by tornado borne germs from an infected district. A daughter died and two other children were near death, causing community alarm as doctors could not identify the exact disease.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewie Prewitt
la Grange
Louisville
D. M. Porter
Prewitt
Widower Foote Forces Quick Marriage in New Haven
Henry Foote a 25 year old widower induced Mian Burt of New Haven to ride with him. He threatened to kill her unless she married him at once, and a ceremony was performed at Reverend Nathan Hubbell's home in Handen. Afterward the couple returned to New Haven. divorce proceedings began and the bride was sent to Brooklyn.
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Henry Foote
Mian Burt
New Haven
Conn
Foote
Nathan Hubbell
Handen
Noote
Brooklyn
Attempted assassination at Elizabeth and Franklin
An actor named a Flond attempted to shooting Tattie Dann of Fulton Street church in Elizabeth on the 19th inst. A window shade was pulled down as the bullet crashed through the glass and lodged in the ceiling. The shooter fled and soon tried to kill Maud and Trena Weber in Franklin. two shots narrowly missed their heads.
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A Flond
Elizabeth
N. J
Tattie
T. R. Dann
Fulton Street
Maud
Trena Weber
Franklin
Leila and Don Juan in Moorish tent scene unfolds
Leila prays as a young Spaniard Don Juan presses for love and alliance. Tomas de Torquemada confronts the prince about faith, coercion, and moral danger as Ferdinand plots funding for war. A tense confrontation ensues between church, state, and secret desires amid perilous intrigue.
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Nazarenea
Babylon
Ruth
Leila
Harasa
Don Juan
Spain
Ibis
Tomas de Torquemada
Juan
Pather
Ferdinand of
Arvarth
Torquemada
Alan
The Night of Almamen Before the Inquisitor
Four soldiers guard a mysterious prisoner Almamen in a vast tent near the royal pavilion. Inside, Tomas de Torquemada presides as the inquisitor. The Hebrew prisoner refuses to confess while torture looms, and a miraculous fire transforms him before vanishing the moment a vial is shattered, leaving a dead guard and a shocked room.
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Holy Brotherhood
Brotherhood of
St. Hermadad
Almamen
Tomas de Torquemada
Torquamada
Spain
Bais
Ferdinand
Contesa
Terael
Sinai
Horeb
Andalusia
Beate
Dominiel
Spasma
Tony
Therisoner
Almarmen
Jerseite
Ageng
Josh
Bearcehall
James
Silk Firm Failure In Silk Trade Shake Up
Louis Franks & Co a well known silk firm at 110 Grand Street assigned to Adolphus Grolbus amid rumors of trouble. Partners Louis Franke and Henry W. Straus face liabilities estimated at 200000 plus with assets around 1500000. Causes cited include tighter money market and bank credit cuts, plus losses from Patterson issues. The firm imported raw silk from France China and Japan and held a large stock, traditionally loosening on credit and slow to collect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis Franks & Co
Taw Sik Impartere
Grand Street
Trown Sikat Patterson
N.Y
Louis Franke
Henry W. Straues
Adolphus Grolbus
Waik House
Louis Janks & Co
Fim
Wall Ion
Pattereon
France
China
Japan
Murder at North McGregor Aims to Grinnell
George Cornell a 28 year old Milwaukee and St Paul railroad engineer was shot by J J Grinnell in North McGregor Ia at about 11 PM Grinnell a former district court reporter is alleged to have acted after Cornell pursued his wife Grinnell claims motive involved alleged attachment to Mrs Grinnell Cornell died from a bullet to the head with Grinnell denying criminal intent.
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North McGregor
George Cornell
Milwaukee and
St. Paul
C. H. Cornell
Dubuque
Cornell
North
Miceresor
McGregor
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Strinting To, Publishere
Askes
North Dakota
Crenada
Bir
Edward Bulwer Lytton
Earth
Heaven
Palestine
Hebron
Mina
Adam
Fredinand
Guwando
Tomas
Cordova
Grenada
Solomon
Crath
Isabel
Castile
Aurely
Dominiesa
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