Giant Shoe and Leather Bank Robbery Unfolds
New York reports the National Shoe and Leather Bank at Broadway and Chambers street was swindled of 354000 by bookkeeper Seely and depositor Baker. Seely fled after leaving a confession. Baker drowned at Lind's Point. The scheme spanned nearly ten years involving fictitious balances and fake credits across 100 accounts, with Seely exploiting a modern ledger system. The case includes a coroner’s finding of accidental death for Baker and Seely’s disappearance, with police seeking an accomplice.
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New York
National Shoe and Leather Bank
Broadway
Chambers Street
Samuel C. Beely
Frederick Baker
Seely
Fraker
Lind's Point
Puker
Beely
Baker
Long Island Sound
Guker
United States Guaranty Company
Brooklyn
Crane
Mr. Pease
Mr. Angel
St. Beely Wood
Halsey Street
Behrends
Halsey
Orai
Guaranty Company
Eee
Rhoe and Leather Bank
Eton
John Jones
Jones
National Bank
Pease
Bank Aginst
Sealy
Sody
Europe
Canadian
Boston
Fire damages Fourth Avenue residence of D Gallagher
This morning a fire partially destroyed the residence of D Gallagher at Fourth Street. The alarm from box 48 at Fifth Avenue and Fifth Street summoned hose companies who extinguished the blaze in twenty five minutes. Roof was largely consumed but overall damage not expected to be heavy.
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PD. Gallagher
Fourth Avenue
Fifth Avenue
Fifth Street
D. Gallagher
Fourth Street
European Debt Proposals Surface Amid Personal Tragedies
European governments propose converting Mexico debt to a silver basis as various personal calamities and legal happenings unfold. Marcus Cox in Vancouver endures misery while counting gold. Mrs Harney Kelly of Webster City fights defamatory stories. Mrs Lily Thompson seeks a Washington police post. Mrs Gabble rescues her child from a hog and dies. Justice Johnson stamps passes. Bancroft to wed Commander Flack. Robison becomes North Carolina judge. Biott leaves NYNH to join Field. Attorney Burnett faces contempt after two months.
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Mexico
Marcus Cox
Vancouver
B. C
Harney Kelly
Webster City
Gabble
Sacred Heart
Oklahoma
W. A Johnson
Kansas Supreme Court
Misa Bancroft
Flack
Newport
North Carolina Superior Court
Keystone Vignettes From a Fragmented Ledger
Reading will burn its garbage and Delaware county faces a tramp issue as a Crum Lynne resident loses 20000 in stock and shoots himself. A misread marriage leaves John Kobalsky seeking a Vietnamese surname, while a quarry blast damages a roof and injures a fireman. Dr. Barclay is expelled for advertising. A horse crash at Bower’s Station kills a bystander, and a Sharon woman bears a baby. The Bethlehem church cornerstone is laid. Alfred Lind, Moravian missionary, dies at 70.
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Reading
Delaware County
Charles Depew
Crum Lynne
Tracthon Company
Allentown
William F. Barclay
Pittsburg
Allegheny County Medical Society
Daniel Bittings
Bower's Station
Berke County
Henry Himmel
Sharon
St. John’s United Fivanpetical Church
Buite
Bethlehem
Hishop Homan
Alfred Lind
Jamaica
WANT AN HONEST BALLOT STRONG FEDERAL ELECTION LAW NEEDED
A call for a robust federal election law surfaces in a public statement arguing for clear national standards to ensure ballot integrity and uniform casting rules. Proponents urge Congress to address voting access, security, and oversight across states.
Force Bill Debate Highlights Need for Fair Election Law
Washington November 26 The southern states hardest hit by election abuses push for a broad fair voting law. A prominent Republican says a national Lexow inquiry will target abuses, aiming to protect qualified voters and secure honest counts across all regions, not just the South.
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United Prez
Washington
Alabama
Congress
Sta
Missing Pitzel children story unfolds in Congress Street city
In a city on October 12, Mrs. Burns reports a woman named Burne found in a cheap boarding house on Congress Street. She had cared for the Pitzel children for weeks, but Holmes arrived three weeks ago, took the children away unseen, and beat Burns out of a $2 boarding fee.
Heiress Adelaide Featherstone Meads Pleads Guilty to Larceny
Milwaukee reports Mrs Adelaide Featherstone of Philadelphia, said to be an heiress, is serving six months in the house of correction after pleading guilty to larceny. She waited four months in county jail, chose imprisonment over exposing relatives, hoping to avoid disgrace. She is the wife of a son of the late General Featherstone of Philadelphia.
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Adelaide Featherstone Meads
United Press
Milwaukee
Wis
Adelaide Featherstone
Philadelphia
House of Correction
Featherstone
General Featherstone
Royal Family Squabble Over Princess Alix
Berlin reports a family dispute led to Grand Duke Vladimir being moved from St Petersburg to the Caucasus. His wife the Mecklenburg princess urged Orthodox Greek faith and reproached Princess Alix for Protestant sympathies, straining the imperial circle and prompting further tension at court.
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Berlin
Vladimir
St. Petersburg
Caucasus
Mecklenburg
Alix
Perand
Cgar
Bullets in Their Brains Tragedy in Lancaster
In a Woodward street house the bodies of Jacob Molow and his mistress Mrs. Kate Doman were found with bullets in their brains. Authorities say Molow killed the woman then died by self-inflicted wound. the woman survived into evening but remained doomed. Molow was 57 and a Civil War veteran.
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Lancaster
Woodward Street
Jacob Molow
Kate Doman
Mohow
Walker’s Currency Scheme Promotes Gold Based Circulation
Washington readers hear of Massachusetts Congressman Walker’s plan to back bank circulation with gold deposits dollar for dollar. Proponents say it would retire interest-bearing debts and greenbacks, while keeping most gold in active circulation to fund government needs.
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T .Stress
Washington
Walker
Massachusetts
O'Neill
Tragic Bridge Accident Claims Three At Green Springs
At Green Springs near Cumberland Maryland a New York and Chicago express struck crossing pedestrians Isaac Taylor 60 his wife 68 and Miss Kidwell 17 as they crossed the South Branch bridge on the Baltimore and Ohio line. The train could not stop and all three fell fifty feet into the river dying instantly. The engineer stated he did not see them until two car lengths away.
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Cumberland
Green Springs
W. Vit
Isaac Taylor
The New Eldorado Bonanza Near Slate Creek
Michael Shuman reports a bonanza gold mine atop the Cascade range near Slate Creek in the Okanogan district. Two Anacortes youths Barron and Garrick cleaned up 12000 dollars in a week with crude tools and plans others coming to stake claims.
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Washington
the Tribune
Spokane
Wash
Michael Shuman
Okanagon
Cascade Range
Slate Creek
Anacortes
Barron
Garrick
Shuman
Hldorade
Multinational Turmoil and Local Riots Capture Europe News
Reports describe massacres in Armenia and brigand attacks in Italy with fatalities. Czarist and political tensions surface in Rome and St. Petersburg while executions, exiles, and clemency moves are noted. Cannibal traces and cannery attacks loom on Pacific fronts, and Sicily endures earthquakes as Vienna suffrage marches proceed.
Battle of Port Arthur Ends in Japanese Victory
Port Arthur dispatch reports Marshal Oyama’s forces advancing for two weeks and storming coastal redoubts from November 22. Japanese troops captured Fort Laoma and other positions, taking eighty guns and a vast amount of rice with minimal Japanese losses as land combat dominated.
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United Press
London
Port Arthur
Central News
Marshal Oyama
Laoma
Bravery of a Woman Foils Train Hold Up on Kansas Line
In Little Rock Arkansas on November 21 a would be raid by the Cook gang failed after a courageous woman ran five miles to warn officials of an planned ambush near Fort Gibson. Twenty five armed men occupied a station house but swift alarm prevented any assault on the east bound Kansas and Arkansas Valley train. The section boss wife evaded the robbers and notified the next station, leading to a abortive plot and the gang learning their plan was discovered.
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United Press
Littl Rock
Ark
Kansas and
Arkansas Valley Road
Cook Gang
Fort Gibson
Buford Declared Sane and to Stand Trial in Florida
Buford, who killed a deputy U S marshal in Sumter County last year, has been declared sane at the National Insane Asylum and will be returned to Florida to stand trial. He had been indicted for sending obscene material through the mail but avoided conviction on an insanity plea.
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Ferri
Mantua
Bergedorf
Germany
Kanakasia
New Guinea
Becies
Three Oneers
Admiralty Island
New Ireland
Sicily
Stinti
Rampieri
Milea
Acquacilida
San Roberto
Jacksonville
Fla
United States
McKay
Olney
Washington
BR. BK. Buford
Sumpter County
Buford
Mateer
Escape from Mahdists: Father Rossignol Returns
Father Rossignol, captured by the Mahdists in 1432 and held in Omdurman, arrived in Cairo after escaping with an aid from Aral. He recounts moving along the river at night and hiding in the hills by day while working as a cafe waiter in the final years of his residence.
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Father Rossignol
Khartoum
United Press
Cairo
Omdurman
Holmes Swindle Case Ties Detroit Woman to Children
Detroit police were asked to locate Mrs. Lucinda Burne to verify if she possessed two children of Pitne, reportedly left with Mrs. Burns by the insurance swindler H. H. Holmes, who confessed to Philadelphia police. The report notes Holmes admitted the arrangement on the prior afternoon.
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Holmes
Burns
Detroit
United Press
Mich
Lucinda Burne
Pitne
H. H. Holmes
Philadelphia
Mra
Death of Thomas H. Cooney in Richmond railroad tragedy
Thomas H. Cooney of Pittston Pennsylvania was found dead on the tracks of the Richmond Fredericksburg and Petersburg railroad a few miles north of Richmond Virginia. He was a passenger on the early train from Richmond to Washington and was the brother of the known railroad superintendent of Pittston.
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United Press
Richmond
Thomas H. Cooney
Pittston
Richmond, Fredericksburg and Petersburg
Washington
Cooney
Postmaster General Bissell Proposes Novel Postal Reforms
Washington November 25 Postmaster General Bissell submits his annual report to the president highlighting novel ideas to improve the postal service. He suggests free carriage of second class publications to reduce deficits and endorses a broad plan for selecting smaller office postmasters possibly via popular vote. The report includes figures: routes run 1 100 000 miles, stamps 300 000 000, envelopes 1 800 000, postal cards 1 500 000, mail pieces 165 000 000, letters 7 400 000, dead letter office items 4 000, money orders 1 100 000 daily, expenses 211 100 000, revenue 76 080 479, expenses 84 624 414.
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United Press
Washington
Seldlom
Postmister
Bissell
Postoffer Department
Blasell
Hissell
Ticket Agents Robbed at Bloomfield Station
Two men robbed the Greenwood Lake station waiting room in Mont Clair New Jersey at 1130 am taking about 40 dollars from the cash draw and binding Acting Ticket Agent C W Jacobus. He freed himself and alerted police who are seeking the assailants with descriptions and efforts ongoing.
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United Press
Mont Clair
N. J
Twen
Greenwood Lake
Bloomfield
C. W. Jacobus
Sam
Jacobus
Escape of a Jail Cook in Chester Pa
Richard Webster alias Gardner, detained at Media jail for larceny, escaped this morning while assigned to kitchen duties. He seated himself on the wall and slipped away around 8:90 o clock, taking advantage of the opportunity.
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Chester
Richard Webster
Gardner
Washington Dispatches on Finance and Legislation
Better cent stamps are being issued now and Germany threatens to bar our dried apples. General Cany proposes a 7 257 000 appropriation for fortification work. A bill would require federal revenues to be placed in gold. No roll of Fifty fourth congress members will be ready before March 4. Consul and postmasters cannot be put under civil service without congress legislation. President Cleveland may not convene Fifty fourth Congress in extra session. Labor Commissioner Wright refutes Iron Age criticisms of the Pullman strike report.
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Congress
Deller
Asany
South
Republican Party
Cleveland
Carroll D. Wright
Thief Breaks In During Church Time on Division Street
A thief entered Morgan P. Daniels' Division street residence through a rear window while the family attended church. Jewelry and a few clothing items were stolen and a desk belonging to Daniels' son was broken open during the raid. the intruder has not been captured.
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Division Street
Morgan P. Daniels
Velvetina Cords for Dress and Coat Sleeves
Velvetina cords offered in cream suitable for dresses coats and babies cloaks as described in the textile advertisement.
Weather Outlook: Warmer Monday Night With Winds Shift
A generally fair pattern develops with warmer conditions Monday night. Northwesterly winds ease and shift to variable, bringing mild temperatures and calm periods through the early week.
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Miss Kidwell
Worcester
Mass
Daniel McTheanan
Eldorado
Armenia
Giabanella
Italy
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Mgr
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Albert Club
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Council of State
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Wiedemann
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Cork
Limerick
Vienna
Ringstrasse
Rlye
New West Side School
Florida
Thomas Cooney
Cany
Hinley
Finley
H. A. Kingsbury
Ghas
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Spruce ST
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