Wheat and shipping news from Cal and Australia
The report describes wheat price activity and shipments affecting commercial circles in Cal and Australia. Notes include harvests, port cargoes, drought effects in the South Sea continent, and chartered ships loading six and more cargoes before month’s end. An unrelated incident mentions a Mississippi flood event with fatalities and injuries.
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Dhat Injor
Australia
Camer Salama
Claverdon
Trafar
Militias Assaulted as Soldiers Escaped Bloodshed at Bank
Militia units returning from coal fields were attacked by workmen on the 22nd floor of Farmers' Deposit Bank in Plbtaburg. Nails bricks and concrete were hurled. a captain struck a bystander after a civilian insult. Troops averted a fatal clash. offenders to be discharged and reported to unions.
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Plbtaburg
Farmers’ Deposit Bank
Jealousy Siblings Death After Carbolic Acid Slaying
In San Francisco on October 20 John Ebard, a laundry owner, was slashed by his sister in law whom he lived with. She then drank a half pint of carbolic acid and died in agony. Jealousy is suspected. The man escaped serious injury, and in Chicago wheat priced at 72 1/2 cents per bushel.
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San Francisco
Cal
John Ebard
Bandits Rob Exchange Bank in Gardner Heist
Five masked men, suspected of also hitting Prairie City Bank yesterday, bound and gagged the local marshal in Gardner NL early this morning. They dynamited the safe at the Exchange Bank, took about $6000, and fled by train toward Chicago.
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Exchange Bank
Gardner
Prairie City
Chicago
Death by own action of H G Boal in Sheridan
H G Boal son-in-law of Buffalo Bill and a leading northern Wyoming stockman died by his own action in his Sheridan Inn apartments between 1 and 3 PM Monday after returning from the Chicago cattle market with a train load of cattle last week.
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Buffalo Bill
Sheridan
Wyo
Boal
W. F. Cody
Wyoming
Sheridan Inn
Chicago
Opening of the Umatilla County Teachers Institute
The Pendleton Umatilla teachers institute opens with 111 registered. County Superintendent Nowlin presided at 1 am and introduced Salem editor Charles 4H Jones and others. Robison and Martindale spoke on primary numbers and language in the primary division as students tested observation, memory, and attention with a toy dog and cat demonstration.
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Pendleton
Timatilla
Nowlin
Charles 4H. Jones
Salem
Oregon
Greenwood
Miss Baum
Old Farm Gate
America
Robison
Multnomah County
Umatilla County
Umatilla
Ting
J. M. Martindale
East Oregon Normal School
Martindale
Effie Patterson
Pendeton Academy
Ackerman
Wise
Mr. Ackerman
Thanksgiving Proclamation Declares Day of Thanks 1902
Washington October proclamation by President Roosevelt designates Thursday, November 27, 1902, as Thanksgiving. He lauds national prosperity and moral uplift, urging heartfelt thanks and deeds beyond words to govern duty to self and fellow citizens.
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Roosevelt
United States
Doukhaborus Leave Home Amid Pleas and Riots
Winnipeg reports 400 more Doukhobors join the 1600 in exile as 200 prepare to desert for pilgrimage. Immigration officials undecided, mounted police ordered to quell unrest. Riots break out among pilgrims as deaths rise. Two elderly residents die this morning.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
Senator Harris Reelected Amid Debt Plan Bribe Refusal
In Kansas Senator Harris wins reelection after a World review notes he refused a 75 quick bribe from Union Pacific and Central Pacific railways to drop his debt readjustment fight. In Wilmington Delaware the semiyearly Methodist bishops meeting opens with six months review and plans for future conferences. A welcome demonstration featuring local churches is planned for tomorrow evening.
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Harris
Kansas
Kansas City
Senator Harris
The
World Today
Union Pacific
Central Pacific Railways
Wilmington
Del
Hishops
Methodist Holocopal Church
Gouge the Public In Oil Price Hike Reported
Toledo October 2 6 The Standard Oil Company announced another crude oil price rise adding 2 cents on Bastern and 3 cents on Western creating an unprecedented total increase of cents in the West and 1) cents in the East during the past month.
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Toledo
Standard Oil Company
Bastern
Western
Fireman Killed as Norfolk & Western Train Jumps Track
Norfolk and Western passenger train jumped the track in a mountain cut near the seven mile ford in Norfolk Vermont last evening Fireman Spicer was killed and about twenty passengers were injured but none fatally An accident report notes the train derailed at the scene near the fording point.
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Norfolk & Western
Norfolk
Ford
Spicer
Eight Women Arrested in San Francisco Bucket Shop Raid
An unlicensed bucket shop was raided at o clock this morning in San Francisco. Eight women, the sole operators, were arrested. Three are married, the rest young or adopted. Berlin Tariff News notes a tariff on cattle and sheep adopted but deemed unacceptable to the government.
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San Francisco
Berlin
Menta
John Mitchell Day Sparks Miner Parades Across Pa
Massive celebrations mark the second anniversary of the 1900 life strike and a 20 percent wage gain. Miners and militia parade through Shamokin Hazelton WilkesBarre and WilkesBarre with crowds and speeches, many stores and collieries closed for the civil holiday. An enormous turnout of thousands with bands, flowers and a President Mitchell address headlines the day in WilkesBarre and surrounding towns.
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Hazelton
John Mitchell
Haxelton
Wilkesbarre
Scranton
Shamokin
Wilkerbarre
Ort
John Mitchell Tay
Witehell
Ile
YMC. A
Mines Cave In At Prosperity Mine In Joplin
Two acres of ground caved in near Prosperity mine in Joplin Missouri on the 29th, reaching about 100 feet deep and engulfing the Stewart mill and other property. Fifty miners fled in panic after warning cracks, but all escaped unharmed.
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Joplin
Stewart
Benen
Opens a wide market as tariff enacts free imports
A new Chinese tariff becomes effective Friday and shifts duties on railroad materials and coreala. The state department published the full schedule, replacing ad valorem duties with specific ones. Railroad materials and coreala are admitted free, expanding opportunities for American goods in the market.
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Washington
State Department
Funeral of Elizabeth C Stanton in New York
The funeral of Elizabeth Cody Stanton was held quietly today with only a few in attendance. The principal sermon was delivered by the Rev. Conway of London, and Human B. Anthony was nearly prostrated with grief.
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New York
Elizabeth Cody Stanton
Conway
London
Human B. Anthony
South Pole Stock Now On Sale at North Pole Hill Mine
Owners offer stock in the Cele brated North Pole Hill mine claiming 4941 feet of property. They note a tunnel and workings showing the mine to be the richest on the mother lode.
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South Pole
North Pole
Mother Lode
Price 15c Per Share Buy Before the Price Advances
An offer to buy shares at 15 cents each appears to be circulating. The notice urges action before prices rise and directs readers to visit the abstract office of Hare inau at Mape photogra and be seen at the office.
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Wee Gahagan
Hareinau
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