Dollar Wheat Here Prompts Lusty Market Cheers In New York
New York and Chicago wheat markets surged with record attention as September futures topped one dollar per bushel in early trading. Export rumors, tight supply, and bullish sentiment pushed prices to new highs, with international buyers and UK markets pressing demand.
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New, York
New York
Chicago
Liverpool
Northwest
Beerbohm
Br. Louis
Minneapolis
Duluth
London
Bristol
Hull
United Kingdom
Paris
Philadelphia
Dunns Review of Trade Highlights Broad US Recovery
Dunn & Co reports across the country showing strong improvement in telegraphic trade signals. Agriculture leads gains with corn and cotton rising. wheat and iron and steel demand also improve as coal miners strike eases. Trade tone broadens with more establishments reopening and steady prices amid fewer business-blocking frictions. Failures total 223 in the U.S., 20 in Canada, against prior year counts.
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New York
R. G. Dunn & Co
Iron and Steel
Cleveland
Tittsburg
Chicaro
United States
Canada
Whitney expands game preserve near Lenox Massachusetts
Ex Secretary of the Navy William Whitney has completed purchases totaling 4000 acres to join his 12000 acre estate near October mountain six miles east of Lenox. The land in Becket and Washington towns is wild and forested, fit for preserving Rocky Mountain game. Buffalo elk and deer thrive in the area.
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Massachusetts
Lenox
Moes
William ¢. Whitney
October Mountain
Lenox Village
Becket
Washington
Weymouth Would Return From Chilcoot Pass Peril
In a Lake Linderman letter dated Aug 7 Weymouth reports disgust with the Chilcoot Pass trek and would return to Dyea for safety. He notes Dyea as a looming horse market due to hoof damage and predicts most Klondike travelers at Dyea Skaguay or on the route will fail to cross the divide this year.
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Port Townsend
Lake Linderman
C. M. Weymouth
Mexico
Weymouth
Chilcoot
Dyea
W. J. Jones
United States
Alaska
Klondike
Jones
Skaguay
Explosion hits hillside near Buyukdere suburb Constantinople
An explosion occurred yesterday on a hill behind a Buyukdere suburb in Constantinople. No injuries or fire, but several Armenians were arrested as police checked documents of possible incriminating nature.
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Hombh
Constantinople
Buyukdere
Colonel Elmer Otis Dead at 67 While On Duty in 1877 Strikes
Colonel Elmer Otis United States Army retired died in San Diego after a long illness. He served as a muster ing officer and cavalry inspector during the Civil War era and fought at Perryville and Stone River. He was on duty at Pittsburg during the 1877 Pennsylvania railway strike with four companies of the Twenty second Infantry and retired in February 1891 due to disability.
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San Diego
Cal
Elmer Otis
Percyville
Stone River
Pennsylvania
Pittsburg
Twenty-second Infantry
McKinley
Canovas
Faure
Goard
National Guard
Army of the Potomac
Army of the Dead
Grant
Sheridan
Meade
Hooker
Burnside
McDowell
Hancock
Hartranft
Slocum
Devans
Humphrey
Newton
Gibbon
Organized Society
Mac- Mahon
Robinson
Chamberlain
Parke
Connor
Butterfield
Porter
Miles
Webb
Jordan
Henry
Civil Service Deception Probe Flexes in Treasury
Assistant Secretary Vanderlip has prepared a blank for each treasury clerk to disclose how they entered the classified service. He aims to expose, verify, and dismiss those who gained entry by irregular means. Memory lapses will not shield clerks from dismissal once statements are checked.
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Washington, D. C
Vanderlip
Treasury Department
Angiolillo Executed for Assassination of Spain's Premier
Michele Angiolillo, convicted of killing Senor Canovas del Castillo at Santa Agueda baths on August 8, was executed today after a court martial sentence on August 13. The supreme council of war confirmed the verdict. Angiolillo faced priests' visits with calm defiance and refused chapel entry. An executioner from Burgos carried out the sentence as a priest urged repentance.
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San Sebastian
Michele Anfiolillo
Senor Canovas del Castillo
Spain
Santa Agueda
Supreme Council of War
Angiolillo
Burges
Angloliko
Forgery Arrests Of Two New York Men In Pa Bank Case
Philadelphia reports James Hines aged 40 and Lewis Falk aged 30, both of New York, held on warrants charging forging a 1500 fight draft on the First National Bank of Claysville Washington County. Identified by director J P Miller, the suspects were described as well dressed.
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New York
Philadelphia
Finkerton
First National Bank
Claysville
Washington County
James Hines
Lewis Falk
John Doe
W. W. Thomas
David Haggerty
J. P. Miller
Beeh Bu Duden to Face Burglary Charge in Vanderbilt Case
In New York August 20 Convict Kent from Ohio penitentiary is linked to the defaming letters about Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt and R T Wilson. Wilson and counsel DeLaney Nicoll say Beeh Bu Duden ex valet will be prosecuted for jewelry burglary after being held on bail. A feminine hand letter offering further counsel was handed to him as he left court, suspected to be the letter author.
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New York
R. T. Wilson
DeLaney Nicoll
Kent
Ohio
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Wilson
Beeh" Bueden
Miners Return to Work Amid Evansville Marchers Disheartened
Evansville Indiana August 26 Local miners persuaded to quit have mostly returned to mines leaving only one operation active. Marchers remain on site yet discouraged. An operator says future coal union presence may end in the city and would allow workers back only if they quit the union.
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Evansville
Ind
Ths City
Coal mine combine to form near Des Moines
President Woods of Carbondale Coal Company and New York interests are in Des Moines to secure control of forty district coal mines. Local operators may take stock in the new concern or accept cash for their properties. If formed, the combine would raise coal prices by five to ten cents per ton and affect Iowa prices overall.
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Des Moines
Woods
Carbondale Coal Company
New York
Steamship Arrivals and Clearances Summary
Steamship arrivals in New York include the St Paul from Southampton. Liverpool reports arrival of No madia in New York and New York. Cleared ships include La Bretagne bound for Havre Campania and Liverpool.
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New York
St. Paul
Southampton
Liverpool
Nomadia
la Bretagne
Havre
Campania
Queen appoints General Asgarraga to premiership
The queen regent confirms General Asgarraga as prime minister and minister of war. The cabinet will remain unchanged.
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Sebastian
Asgarraga
Reunion of Army of the Potomac in Troy celebration
Troy hosts the twenty eighth reunion of the Society of the Potomac with 3 000 participants and 180 national guardsmen. President McKinley and Secretary Alger visit a tire factory and Watervliet arsenal as crowds cheer. A red flag incident triggers a brief police response before flag restoration.
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Troy
Society of the Potomac
McKinley
Alger
President Olyphant
Plattsburgh
Tillinghast
Black
Treadwell
Edward Murphy
Watervnlet
Army of the Potomac
Conference Call For Organized Labor Adopts Stand Against Pittsburg Proposals
The United Mine Workers national executive board adjourned after calling a St. Louis conference on August 9 and rejecting Pittsburg operators proposed arbitration. The statement denounces injunctions and courts as oppressing miners, urges broad labor unity, and supports action in the West Virginia district. Endorsed by Samuel Gompers and J. R. Sovereign.
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Columbus
United Mine Workers
Conference of Organized Labor
St. Louis
Pittsburg
Ohio
Indiana
Winds
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Samuel Go
M. D. Ratchford
United Mine Workers of America
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
J. R. Sovereign
Knights of Labor
National encampment elects leaders of Union Veterans' Union
Springfield Ohio reports the Union Veterans' encampment elects H. S. Street of New York as Commander-in-Chief with George M. Meade as first deputy and J. W. Barry as surgeon general among an executive slate including W. H. Harman and T. J. Cannon with numerous delegates from Ohio Maryland Michigan Kentucky New Jersey Illinois and Iowa.
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Springfield
Union Veterans’ Union
H. S. Street
New York
George M. Meade
Michigan
BE. H. Hobson
Kentucky
J. W. Barry
Ohio
W. H. Harman
T. J. Cannon
Maryland
Pijopha
J. McGuire
Pon Lwania
KR. Jacobs
Charles O'Connor
Brauer
New Jersey
L. C. Paine
Linois
Langstaff
Iowa
Yoder
Fortified shell explosion kills six at Nis office
A Nis dispatch reports during gunnery practice at the fortress today a shell exploded killing six artillerymen and injuring four others in Belgrade area.
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Belgrade
Aug
Nisosh
German capitalists plan coffee shift in Cuba estates
London dispatch reports Havana conditions as pacifioes die and Spain faces trouble. A private letter cites Senor Sa lasta noting atrocities shock Europe and hinder new loans. German syndicates buy devastated Cuban estates for coffee planting, abandoning sugar and impacting US and French sugar interests in Georgia and Florida.
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London
Havana
Daily Chronicle
Cuba
the Chronicle
Senor Salasta
Spain
Europe
United States
Georgia
Florida
Power from James River Electrifies Richmond Area Project
A new company is formed by investors from Virginia North Carolina and New York to harness the James river at Richmond. The plan aims to drive a large electric power plant serving mills and factories in Richmond Manchester and nearby areas with distribution across the region.
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Raleigh
N. C
Virginia
North Carolina
New York Capitalista
James River
Richmond
Manchester
Elkton’s Oldest Resident John A Rankin Dead
John A Rankin, Elkton Md oldest resident, died today at age 4 years. He worked as a silversmith and had enjoyed fair health until shortly before his death.
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Fikton
Mikton
John A. Rankin
Elkton
Tramp slain in farmhouse assault near Chicago
An unknown man tried to assault Mrs. Paulina Fenske of Schiller Park after dinner. A posse led by her husband chased the attacker through fields and woods, firing until the man collapsed from bullets in the corn. He died without papers identifying him. Mrs. Fenske sustained minor injuries during the struggle.
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Chicago
Paulina Fenske
Schiller Park
Golg
Mra. Fenske
New Route to the Yukon Survey Planned from Ashcroft
Aug 20 Victoria reports Ashcroft Cariboo residents fund a survey from Ashcroft to Telegraph Creek 650 miles to connect to the Yukon route via Stickeen river. Miners and Hudson Bay traders seek an all Canadian path to Dyea Skaguay. In Seattle the Willamette sails for Dyea as the Willamette and Klondike Protective society forms to guard passengers and fire. eight suspects jailed before reaching Dy¢ta.
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Victoria
B.C
Kingston
Dyea
Skaguay
Ashcroft
Cariboo
Telegraph Creek
Stickeen River
Hudson Bay
Yukon
Seattle
Willamette
Willlamette and Klondike Protective Society
Dy¢ta
Kidnapper Blake Captured in Schenectady By Police
Albany reports Blake the alleged kidnapper of Johnnie Conway was seized by John F. Farrell in Schenectady and escorted to Albany. A 2,000 strong mob surged around the wagon as officers wrestled to protect the suspect. Mayor Thacher aided in restraining the crowd while Blake was moved to safety.
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Albany
Blake
Johnnie Conway
Schenectady
John F. Farrell
Farrell
Thacher
Chief of Police
Murdered on Pike's Peak
The body of H H Key of Wisner Nebraska was found near Pike's Peak summit with a close range bullet wound in the back of the head. The bullet burned hair, and valuables were missing. Key was about 25, six feet tall and 175 pounds.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
H. H. Key
Wisner
Neb
Pike's Peak
Flour Mill Fire at Mount Union Causes Major Loss
A flouring mill owned by the Hockhill Iron Company at OL Rock Hill burned this afternoon in Mount Union Pennsylvania. Loss estimated at 10100 dollars and covered by insurance. Fire blamed on sparks from the smoke stack.
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Mount Union
Hockhill Iron Company
OL Rock Hill
Weather forecast for the middle states and New England
The forecast calls for clear skies and warmer temperatures today in the middle states and New England with fresh northwesterly and westerly winds. Sunday should bring fair skies and warmer conditions with fresh to light westerly and southwesterly winds, followed by unsettled wet weather in the inland regions.
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the Herald
New York
Middle States
New England
Local News Recap and Society Notes Weekly
A compact listing of items from the community pages including local meetings and personal notices. Reports touch on court appearances, club activities, religious school lessons, and society gossip.
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Winton
Windergrass
West Side
Lackawanna County
Japan
Pythians Hold Installations and Nominations for 1898
Knights of Pythias in Pennsylvania complete grand lodge installations led by Wilbur F. Myers. Grand Chancellor Charles F. Linde names 118 deputy grand chancellors and committees, with nominations for officers and guards for the 1898 elections.
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Grand Inner Guard
Grand Outer Guards
Grand Keeper of Records
Senle
Wilbur F. Myers
Linde
Pennsylvania Grand Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Grand Lodge
Charles F. Linde
Philadelphia
Nominations for 1899 Pythian Grand Lodge Offices
The article lists 1899 election nominees for Pythian Grand Lodge offices including John S Graham of Lancaster for grand chancellor Scott Dibert of Pittsburg for grand vice chancellor Thomas Thompson of Philadelphia for grand prelate and Dr G Ernst of Punxsutawney for grand master at arms. It notes four candidates for grand keeper of records and seal and multiple candidates for grand inner and outer guard. Past Chancellor Dunnell praised the convention, and Scranton hospitality was highlighted.
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George Fielitz
M. A. Tryer
Herman Troutwelter
Lemuel Wilt
Calvin Tomlinson
Charles C. Rake
William Brandt
William Hughes
W. A. Mullen
James A. Geary
Tribune
William H. Hood
D. &. Brindle
Fraley
Greenfield
Oram
John 8. Graham
Lancaster
Scott Dibert
Pittsburg
Thomas Thompson
Philadelphia
Co. G. Ernst
Punxsutawney
George Howells
John Stratton
Smith D. Cozzens
D. J. Neal
Grand Inner Guard
Grand Outer Guard
Grand Lodge
Dunnell
Scranton
Uniform Rank Parade Prize Controversy Settlement
The Uniform Rank encampment ended after a dispute over the $100 prize for the largest parade line. General Starbird countermanded a previous award to Altoona company 246 when Scranton company matched with 34 men in line. Past Grand Chancellor Dunnell and Colonel Martin Joyce confirmed the adjustment, bringing an amicable settlement.
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General Starbird
Dunnell
Martin Joyce
Tribune
Altoona Company No
Scranton Company No
Altoona
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