Train Robbery and Global Dispatches From Around the World
The clipping reports a Rock Island passenger train No 4 robbed near Tusumcari New Mexico after passengers were held up and valuables taken. Other items include a Chicago area train hold up, Andree bottle find near Spitzbergen, a Venezuela payment ultimatum, a Michigan Central grain elevator fire, Diaz potential US visit, a prison turnkey death, lightning injuries in Ohio, and Lowell mills closing for a month.
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Rock Island
New Mexico
el Paso
Texas
Santa Rosa
Tusumeari
N. M
Logan
Tusumcari
el Paso & Northeastern Railroad
Chicago
Illinois Central
Frossmore
Matteson
St. Louis
Patrick O’keir
Illinois Central Railroad Company
Britain Demands Redress Over Knight Commander Sinking
The British government demands indemnity and an apology from Russia after the sinking of the Knight Commander by the Vladivostok squadron. London seeks naval protection for neutral shipping and a clear principle of responsibility, following notes from Sir Claude MacDonald and Sir Charles Hardinge.
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Russia
Red Sea
Charles Hardinge
Claude MacDonald
Tokio
Jas
Glaude
Balfour
House of Commons
Malacca
Mr. Balfour
London
Count Benckendorff
Great Britain
Lord Lansdowne
Vladivostok
Assassination of Russian Minister of the Interior Plehve
Bomb destroys the carriage of M. von Plehve the Russian Minister of the Interior as he traveled to Warsaw station. He dies from injuries and the assassin is seized. The coachman also dies and the scene draws crowds and police at the wreck site. The Emperor learns of the tragedy and tensions in Russo British relations are noted with related statements in Parliament.
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M. von. Pjye
Warsaw
Peterhof
M. von Plehve
M. von Pledge
Empire
Plehre
Ministry of the Interior
Bilice
Exandria
Theouguse
Senese
Dives Derer
Zemstvos
Russia
Whole Town Evicted In Industrial War At Zeigler Ill
The town of Zeigler Illinois is an armed camp owned by Joseph Leiter. Guards patrol streets and permit only those with passes. Eviction followed a failed wage dispute with miners leading to camps near Camp Turner and tents in the woods five miles away.
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Ziegler
Ill
Zeigler
Joseph Leiter
Chicago
Leiter
Camp Turner
Christopher
Lester
Chicago Week Trade Review Shows Slight Shifts in Commerce
International Mercury Agency reports dull, normal seasonal trade with better fall outlook in the South and Southwest. Flood losses revised to 30 million bushels of winter wheat across four states. total wheat yield projected at 610 million, exportable surplus near 145 million. Packers strike persists but overall activity improves in clothing, shoes, and dry goods. Grain shipments down 38 percent from two years ago. wheat up five eighths cent, oats up half a cent, corn up one eighth. Livestock receipts fall due to butcher strike. beef prices up, hogs and sheep down. Chicago district failures rise to 28 from 22 a year ago.
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Chicago
International Mercantile Agency
St. Louis
G. Dun & Co
York
Wis
Maybrick release and Shanghai rumor contrasts
The passage contrasts Mrs. Maybrick’s release with a note on freedom versus confinement. It also questions Russia’s trouble seeking and mentions a Chinese rumor about 4,000 Japanese casualties near Port Arthur. The tone critiques sensational interpretations by press agents and foreign correspondents.
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Port Arthur
Shanghai
Pattison former Governor Robert Pattison dies of pneumonia
Robert Emory Pattison former Governor of Pennsylvania and a leading Democrat dies at his home near Philadelphia after pneumonia and heart complications. He was born in 1850 in Quantico Maryland and moved to Philadelphia at age six. He studied law and served as a prominent politician and church leader, once considered for Bryan's vice presidency.
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Pennsylvani
Robert B. Pattison
Pennsylvania
United States
Methodist Episcopal Church
Philadelphia
Pennslvania
Pennypacker
Pattison
St. Louis
Bryan
Robert Emory Pattison
Quantico
Somerset County
Maryland
Central High School
Mr. Pattison
Regional Commodity Prices Across U S Markets
A fragmented list shows live cattle hogs and sheep prices across Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee with grains and products including corn oats rye wheat hay butter eggs potatoes and pork prices. Notable ranges include Chicago cattle 3.00 6.00 hogs 4.00 5.75 sheep 2.76 4.50 wheat 96 98 cents corn e to dc standard oats 40 41 cents rye Tc to Tic hay 8.50 14.00 butter 16 Ye eggs Ide 16 cents potatoes 5 to 6 cents.
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Chicago
Adianapolis
St Luis
Detroit
Milwaukee
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Maie
Panorama OF the World
Andree
Christiana
Spitzbergen
Prof
North Pole
Stockholm
North America
Siberia
Spitzberg
Venezuela
Willemstead
Caracao
Herr Pelidram
Caracas
Germany
Herbert W. Bowen
Michigan Central
Paddock-Hodge Company
Toledo
Ohio
President Diaz
Mexico City
Thomas N. McAuley
New York
Diaz
Clayton
McAuley
Mexico
Turnkey
Jere Uondo
Center County
East Liverpool
Caroline White
Scott Manufacturing Company
Lowell
Mass
Britain
Edward
England
Czar
Balyour
M. Bogolepoff
M. Sipiagiine
Prince Obolenski
Kharkoff
Generali Krikoff
Finland
Viatshes Constantinoviteh von Piehve
von P
Volundrer
Joseph Lexter
Robert E Pattison
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