Week's History Highlights of Crimes and Frauds
A collated summary reports a Philadelphia steamboat disaster on the Quaker City with ten dead and twenty-five injured, plus seven drowned, and injured taken to the city’s riverfront correction facility. It also covers Marshall Field exposing New York customs frauds, large estate fees for James G. Fair heirs, and China’s protocol progress with Hung Chang signaling signings and arms edicts for the forthcoming agreement.
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Philadelphia
Quaker City
This City
Torresdale
Marshall Field
Chicago
United States
Wakeman
Customs Service
New York
Field
America
San Francisco
James G. Fair
Troutt
Senator Fair
Child Heiress Kidnapped From Chicago Home
A seven year old heiress, Margaret Lyler, was abducted from Mrs M E Green’s home at 2345 Magnolia Avenue Chicago where she had been cared for since her mother’s death a week earlier. Police pursued the kidnapper two miles to Ravenswood but lost trace as horses fell behind the getaway vehicle. Neely trial slated for October.
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Margaret Lyler
M. E. Green
Magnolia Avenue
Chicago
Ravenswood
Richard Darling
Pennsylvania
Donaldson
Anna Kohr
Mt. Olive
Albert Butts
Margaret Smith
Richland
William B. Leeds
New York
Hannah Tega
Highland
Iron and Steel Labor Troubles and Market Updates
Market and labor notes show mixed strength with iron and steel sectors resilient while wage-cut threats in Fall River are checked by a large print cloth purchase by Matthew D. Borden. Reports cite 205 U.S. failures, 35 in Canada, weather improving for corn, and notable crimes and disasters across several cities.
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Iron and Steel
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Plate
R. G. Dun & Co
United States
Canada
Fall River
Mass
Matthew
D. Borden
American
Borden
Market Prices for Cattle Hogs and Grains Across Cities
The report lists Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit and Milwaukee price ranges for cattle hogs sheep and grains. No trains carriages or lines beyond pricing and observations on a Baltimore and Ohio derailment are detailed.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Detroit
New York
Wiman's Night of Terror On Schooner Scribner Beached
Mrs. Dodd wife of captain Eliza Scribner experienced a night in a small boat after the schooner Scribner struck a sunken rock off Bosgannah. Captain D ordered the line cut and provided, while she clung to a sheath knife awaiting rescue by life savers as darkness and risk tested her endurance.
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Dodd
Scribner
Ilas Dodd
Eliza Scribner
Bosgannah
Birea
Ife
Robber Gang Strikes Household Near Deshler
Five masked men invade the Phillip Styles home one mile south of Deshler Ohio at midnight. They bind and gag the family including a 3 month old baby, ransack the house and take $60 before fleeing toward the Baltimore and Ohio tracks on a handcar. Bloodhounds and a small posse pursued them with no capture. Styles and family survive.
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Ohio
Johnson
Blakesley
Phillip Styles
Deshler
Styles
Shooting and fires dominate the Sul llivan Street Fair headlines
Frances B Vig, a Chicago immigrant nurse, shot J Fry a saloonkeeper at Fry's home amid jealousy claims. A fatal tent fire at Sullivan Street Fair injures Lillie May 16 and many spectators in panic. A westbound Lake Shore freight wreck at Burdick injures J Teeter, with $20,000 loss. A Bunga loon mob raids Fairview Park attacking blacks, including Harris. Oil gusher hits Hartford City as leases rush in. plus state items on accidents, suicides, and curiosities.
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Sie
Sullvan Street Fair
Burdick- Toughs
Frances B. Vig
la Porte
Chicago
J. Fry
Fry
Meys
Holy Family Hospital
New York
Sullivan
Lillie May
Martin
Lake Shore
Burdick
J. ©. Teeter
Garrett
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Orland Zenithsher
Lanwiched
Fina
Hi Hung Chang
London Times
Pekin
Neely
Fosnes
Department of Posts
Cuba
War Department
Chas
Havana
Washington
Post Office Department
Christian Science
First Church of Christ, Science
Helen ©. Brush
Fitzgerald
Miss Brush
Alexandria
Ind
Ray Nelson
James Nelson
London
Helen
Levi P. Morton
Boson de Perigord
Duc de Tallyrand
Hoey Rearréstea
Tucson
Ariz
Collector of Customs
Hoey
City Hall
Brooklyn
N. Y
Ness
Peters Byre
Ingsivharolare Re
Irs
Pwo
Ourglars
Kansas City
Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company
Navy Department
Cleveland
Simon
Crib No. 2
Orlean
Emerson
Dick Burrell
Brownstown
Burrell
Nellie Poor
Corning
France
Toledo
Sol. A. Lasalle
Maumee River
William Price
Baltimore
Winchester
Wemarkeys
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Poe
Isville
Barnes Ohio
Knights Templars
Pitts
Barnesville
Milo Fran- Ene
of Pacenas
Rosseann
Wiman
Henry Gephart
Kella
Middletown
Wesley Wells
Gepharts
Wells
Robt, G. Evans
Robert G. Evans
Minnesota
Legislatum
Cushman K. Davi
United States Senate
Minneapolis
Joseph Ginjottiy
Ashdown
Ark
Austria
Mexico
Gilber Graft Hohenwert-Gerlachstein
Franz Joseph
Maximiliu
POSSE
Ashville
Ala
Jim Brown
Birmingham
Alabama
Himore County
Judge Enson
Sandy Valley Banking Company
Malvern
F. 8. Miller
Superior Street Savings and Banking Company
H. J. Wilson
Lafayette Newkirk
Mary Baker G. Holdy
Concord
N. H
Conscord
Boulder
Col
Bess Striegel
Lane Block
Colo
Bert Striegel
Cleveland Bank
Superior Treaty and Improvement Company
Dellenbaugh
Common Pleas Court
Walter D. Sayle
Edward VII
Wilhelmshoe
Germany
William
Rapidan Landing
Loisel & Israel
John GC. Topping
Topping Bros
Kohlsaat
Allis-Chalmers
Indiana
Fairview Palk
Harris
Hartford City
Wildcat
Corporation
Pierce & Thomas
Trenton
Fey
Laurin Humbarger
Thorn Creek
Humbarger
Lacey Washington
Ora Jennings
Marcellus Forbes
Jennings
Washington Cottom
Mill Creek
Charles Caing Jayette
Eis
Savannah
Albion
War
Aby Ff