Record of July 12 1889 Financial News Highlights
Special telegrams from Bradstreet's report mixed trade activity with autumn prospects favorable and crop optimism boosting demand at New Orleans Kansas City and St. Joe. Gold exports to France rise while New York stocks react to rail and lead market shifts. Steel rails demand strengthens, copper and wool markets show firmness, and monetary pressure looms as Carnegie strike disrupts mills.
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New York
Bradstreet's
New Orleans
Kansas City
St. Joe
New York City
Ain
France
New
Melbourne
Australia
New Zealand
London
Europe
Uni
San Francisco
Alaska
Bureau of Statistics
Southern
Sea Board
Liverpool
Bradstreet
United States
Canada
R.G. Dun & Co
Carnegie
Ohio
Stock Exchange
Cementing Iron Railings to Stoves by Sulphur Lead Mix
A contemporary notes a cementing compound of sulphur white lead and borax with acid when applied between iron parts. The mixture forms a homogeneous mass that, after five days, shows no wear and appears welded, with sledge hammer blows resisted.
Gasometer Gas Well Completes in Hass City
A Stoodton California note reports the Hass gas well in this city completed today and connected. The gasometer holds 22000 feet and the flow reached between 8 and 3 feet per day. Connections are being made to supply customers with gas and fuel as soon as possible.
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Stoodton
Cal
Hass
Cnet
Rich manganese mountain found in Gunnison Valley
A Chicago daily reports that Chicago and Pennsylvania capitalists surveying Gunnison Valley lands uncovered a vast manganese mountain of nearly pure manganese with extensive anite veins. The find promises a high grade spiegeleisen for steel rails used in Bessemer furnaces, signaling immense commercial value.
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Chicago
Pennsylvania
Gunnison
Val
Gether
Spiegeleisen
Bessemer
New Pensacola Firm Plans Alabama Coal to Cuba Iron Ore Loop
A Pensacola company forms to ship Alabama coal to Cuba and return iron ore. Source ore lies in a Cabanas mountain on Cuba’s north coast about 80 miles west of Havana. Ore claims assay 63 percent iron with over four million tons visible.
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Dirie
Pensacola
Fla
Alabama
Cuba
Bessemer
Irom
Cabanas
Havana
Export of Breadstuffs Gains Shown in June Trade
The Bureau of Statistics reports exports of domestic breadstuffs from the United States rose in June, with totals for the twelve months ended June 30 reaching substantial values. Data cover the monthly and yearly import export activity, reflecting gains across bread products.
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Washington
Bureau of Statistics
United Ee
Ore from Ireland shipped to Cleveland district works
A novelty vessel in the Cleveland district England discharged about 40 tons of ore from Hellast. The ore originates in Antrim and will be smelted at the local works.
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Ireland
Cleveland
England
West Hartepool
Hellast
Antrim
Gould Must Pay as Supreme Court Rules for Laredo Bank
The Milino National Bank of Laredo sued Jay Gould and others in the Supreme Court for 32214 dollars paid to Southwest Construction Company in 1883. The court overruled a demurrer, finding a common scheme by defendants to wrongfully obtain funds and hold liabilities beyond a worthless corporation, with affirmation by the General term.
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Supreme Court
Laredo Bank
New York
Milino National Bank of
Laredo
Tex
Jay Gould
Southwest Construction Company
Gould and Grant
Europe
Justice O'Brien
Presidin
van Brant
Brady Cat Bartlett
Police discipline follows wild Wednesday chase
Report cites no further details as officers probe a dramatic chase early Wednesday involving a white woman identified as Clara Rodgers of Youngstown and a colored man on Basin alley. Authorities note the suspect drove a fast horse and that city leaders ordered suspensions for Lieutenants Fitzgerald Snyder Lewis and Teeters pending a hearing next week.
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Clara Rodgers
Youngstown, O
Basin Alley
Webster Avenue
Ea Dhanes
AL Page
Thomas Fitzgerald
Snyder
Ee Lewis
Albert Teeters
Clara
Old man marries nurse soon after wife’s death in Massachusetts
Springfield authorities report Pelatadah Ely an 84 year old man from Long Meadow married his housekeeper Lucy Morse 55 within 25 days of the death of his first wife. The unusual union has sparked local interest and raised questions among relatives about the octogenarian’s motives and fortune.
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Springfield
Mass
Pelatadah Ely
Long Meadow
Lucy Morse
Mayor Silent On Diamond Street Widening Ordinance
Clerk McCleary says Mayor did not act on the Diamond street widening ordinance yesterday and offered no further opinion beyond noting no more could have been derived from the mayor if present.
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McCallin
McCleary
Diamond Street
Dead Man's Vengeance by Flow in To Morrows Dupatesr
A fragmented line hints at a serialized tale titled Dead Man's Vengeance. The entry mentions a flow and a tomorrow continuation, suggesting an ongoing crime or western style serial in a future edition.
Most Impressive Funeral of Chief James E Crow
Revered late Chief James E Crow honored at Uniondale grave in Allegheny County with funeral rites described as most impressive. Burial followed display of flowers and ceremonial tributes by community leaders and mourners.
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James E. Crow
Uniondale
Allegheny
Impressive funeral for Allegheny Chief Crow
A citywide tribute marked the funeral of James E. Crow former Chief of the Allegheny Fire Department. Thousands viewed the cedar casket as floral tributes from fire companies and civic groups surrounded the bier. The service featured Rev Dr Fulton and an address by Dr Robinson. The procession, led by 70 firemen, proceeded to Uniondale Cemetery for interment.
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James E. Crow
Allegheny Fire Department
Ludwig
David Hunter, Jr
Crow
Dr. Fulton
U. P. Church
Nettié Hunter McFadden
Miss McFadden
Dr. Robinson
Chief Crow
Allegheny
Robinson
Fire de Ent
Chamber of Death
Jackson Street
Patsy Howard
Eee
Semke Unter
James Lindsay
Common
Select Councils
Robert Jones
John K. Hunter
Fire Department
Noble Jones
Columbia Engine Company
William Swindell
Select Council
Messrs
Herman Landis
David Winters
Grand Army Band
Lisle Post
Uniondale Cemetery
Dr. Jayne's Tonic Vermifuge Promoted for Children
An old advertisement urges parents to protect children from worms with Dr. Jayne's Tonic Vermifuge noting it destroys parasites and acts as a tonic to improve general debility and dyspepsia in both young and old. It also promotes Capsar your Budweiser from Max Klein.
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Jayne
Max Klein
Oddities From Norwich and Nearby Towns
A Norwich Town man shoots a giant skunk that has slaughtered 36 chickens. F B Bishop offers $25 for three clever pet crows missing from North Madison. A large porpoise washes ashore at Quonochontaug sighted after a swordfish nudge. In Westerly a dog of Albert Norman kills 40 sheep in an hour. the dog’s cost climbs by nickels. Pigs on an island swim home to their pen after an Isle Pocotopaug experiment. A Square Pond salmon fight ends with the fish back in the boat. A Westerly dog finds a veteran box turtle inscribed with Carrick 1805 1839 1869.
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Norwich
George McClellan
Mr. McClellan
North Madison
F. B. Bishop
Albert Norman
Westerly
R. I
W. H. Cottrell
Norman
Portland
Pocotopaug Lake
Middlesex County
Lonely Island
Fred Close
Frank H. Talcott
Square Pond
Stafford
Maine
Carrick
J. K
Real Estate Ties Lead to Prayer Case in Toronto Church
Elder Brown a Dovercourt North End member and real estate agent faced a Presbytery hearing over a dispute about moving the church to one of his suburban lots. After investigation the charge was found unsubstantiated.
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Toronto
Brown
Oakmont Home Overcrowded With CHILDREN Vacationers
The Oakmont Home for Little Folks is crowded with 55 children for a two week period though capacity is about 50. The Society for the Improve ment of the Poor reports 60 applications for July 25 to August 8 and plans to find other places. Forty-seven children were sent there at opening on June 28, with about 175 permit requests since opening.
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Society For the Improvement of the Poor
Oakmont
Pittsburg Relief Fund Surpasses 763 230 71 in Johnstown drive
The Pittsburg Relief Fund for Johnstown Soill Growing reports total contributions now at 763 230 71 dollars with yesterday's intake of 1 074 18. Readable items include gifts from Oil City citizens and church groups, with amounts listed for several donors though some names appear garbled.
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Pittsburg
Johnstown
W. R B. Thompson
Oakdale
Lyons
Daylight poker raid nets eight players and Nesbitt
Detectives Fitzgerald and MecTighe with Officers Miller and Adolph Metz raided William Nesbitt's gambling house on Lemon Alley yesterday afternoon. They arrested Nesbitt, eight players and a comic poker outfit, and took them to Central station. Players named Benson ward Morton, Walls, Fulton, Spadiey, Devlin and Jackson. Nesbitt to be prosecuted for keeping a gambling house. Pittsburgh beer by Frauenheim and Vilsack noted as a summer beverage.
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Fitzgerald and MecTighe
Miller
Adolph Metz
William Nesbitt
Lemon Alley
Nesbitt
Central Station
Pee
Thomas Benson Ward Morton
William Walls
John Fulton
John Speadiey
Robert Devlin
William Jackson
Curse Carne Hold Unfolds in Ailing Family Mystery
Lieutenant Gulston attends Carne Hold where a centuries‑old curse appears to shadow the Carne family. Miss Margaret Carne is murdered in her sleep and a knife linked to lover George Forrester is found. Dr Arrowsmith notes maddening bloodlines fueling suspicions as Coroner questions premeditation and motive.
Dead Lady in Mysterious Fatality at Carnesford
Doctor and Lieutenant Gulston confront a village murder case after Miss Carne is found stabbed to death in her bedroom. The coroner hears from Ruth Powlett, the cook, Dr Arrowsmith, and Captain Reginald Carne as tensions mount and Captain Mervyn becomes a focal suspect amid accusations of a long running feud.
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Margaret
Mervyn
Galeton
Ace Carne
Gulston
Plymouth
Dr. Arrowsmith
Miss Carne
Emagy
Charles Gulston
Tam
Dr. Mackenzie
Carnes
Carne
Carnesford
Hiram Powlett
Jacob Carey
Gaulston
Ronald
Ruth Powlett
Ruth
Miss Powlett
Oscott
Severa
Mr. Carne
Acros
Mr. Gulston
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Will Stoeving
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Hers & Tees
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Edward Anostrong
John E. Hetzel
Samuel C. Grier
Eureka Engine House
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