Gold Shipment From New York To Europe Sets Market on Edge
The first October gold shipment from New York to Europe is planned with Berlin as its target, Austria a suspected final destination. The Bank of New York drew $500000 for Kidder, Peabody & Co. to supply the sale proceeds, triggering stock market unease over foreign exchange and tariffs.
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New York
Europe
Bank of New York
Kidder, Peabody & Co
Boston
Berlin
Austria
United States
Germany
Democratic boodle and 5 percent kickbacks alleged in Indiana
Indianapolis dispatch reports chairman Gowdy alleging Democratic managers distributed funds to postmasters and federal workers to boost campaigning. He notes letters from county chairs confirming large sums traced to English manufacturers aiding the Democratic effort and tied to profits from American markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Chaiyman Gowily
Wilson
London
England
America
Mr. Gowdy
President Silent as Campaigns Pressure for View
New York reports Democratic managers seek word from the president amid the battle in Ohio. Senator Hill praises David B Fill's courage against opponents. Some expect a presidential statement, others doubt it, while Reed's speech will be circulated across towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Senator Hill
David B. Fill
Hill
Don Lamont
Thle
Mit
Reed
Croge-Roads
Wilson in Danger in West Virginia District Race
Kingwood West Virginia October 1 9 9 9 A United Press analysis notes William L Wilson the 1899 congressman from the Second District won by 1051 votes out of 42663 and warns that a 526 vote swing could defeat him requiring about 35 votes per county or five per 40 in the district. The piece cites district dissatisfaction and a strong Republican challenger as a decisive factor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Kingwood
W. Va
William L. Wilson
Con. P
Wilson
Wilon
Beaver Falls Shovel Works Resume After Wage Cut
Beaver Falls Pennsylvania October 15 The large shovel works of H M Myers and Co employing several hundred men, idle for weeks for lack of orders, reopen today with wage reductions of from to 10 percent. A firm spokesman said the cut was imperative, necessary to avoid further closures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beaver Falls
H. M. Myers & Co
Missing Murder Trial Robber Noted in Baltimore Case
A report outlines a suspect who allegedly lost about 575000 through a stick figure linked scheme, involving an aristocratic persona and about 75000 of other people's funds. The individual reportedly came to the city amid this controversy.
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United Press
Baltimore
Pral Troy
Le Roy’s Farm Trade Swindle Suspected of 75000 Loss
About a year ago Le Roy entered the farm goods brokerage field and induced farmers to consign to him. He controlled most trade and large shippers joined. Warehouse receipts and drafts were presented to Merchants' National Bank for funds. Two weeks ago the farmers asked for balances. Le Roy fled, leaving $75,000 unaccounted for as yet.
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Leroy
Merchants’ National Bank
Brother Shot At New Haven Bank Entrance
Elisha Trowbridge fired two pistol shots at his brother Charles Trowbridge the bank cashier near the Mechanical National Bank in central New Haven. One bullet struck Charles as onlookers watched. authorities believe Elisha is mentally unbalanced and the incident shocked local business and civic circles.
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New Haven
Conn
Mechanical Nuational Bank
BE. Trowbridge
Charles Trowbridge
Trowbridge
Ellahn
Awful Boiler Explosion Kills Two at Sugar Run Saw Mill
A boiler explosion at H. M. Kelly’s saw mill on Sugar Run near Bradford Pennsylvania blasts apart the mill. George McAllister and Gus Carlson are killed instantly while William Dyer, the fireman, is fatally injured. The boiler is demolished. Several others are severely wounded. The victims’ bodies are described as horribly mangled with injuries to the head and limbs.
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United Preas
Bradford
H. M. Kelley
Sugar Run
Mering
George McAllister
Gus Carlson
William Dyer
McAllister
Dyer
George Lewis
Unlawful Deals and suits against Villard Hoyt Colby
The Northern Pacific company through Brayton Ives petitions Judge Jenkins to authorize suits against Henry Villard Colgate Hoyt and Charles T Colby to recover nearly 2 million 600 thousand dollars alleged as unlawful profits from Northern Pueblo deals. The petition asserts Hoyt and Colby were connected with Villard in the alleged illegal transactions.
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Villard
Hoyt
Colby
United Press
Milwaukee
Wis
Northern Pacific Company
Brayton Ives
Jenkins
Henry Villard
Colgate Hoyt
Charles T. Colby
Diphtheria Epidemic Shuts Hollidaysburg Schools
Hollidaysburg Pa October 15 The diphtheria outbreak has caused the township to enter quarantine and close public schools to stop spread. Five deaths reported and many homes under isolation.
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Hollidaysburg
Distillery Yields Spirits From Sugar Beet Molasses
An Omaha East distillery reports success in producing pure spirits from sugar beet molasses. The experiment demonstrates a new use for molasses once wasted by sugar manufacturers.
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Omaha
United Press
Oct
Political Glints from Campaign Trails
A roundup of political maneuvering across states with speeches planned in Philadelphia Beaver County Tunkhannock and Dun Kirk. Campaign finance links surface as donors from New York gamble money to influence elections amid party battles in New York Ohio New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Rumor and Diplomatic Maneuver Touch World Affairs
The text reports on a rumor about a royal figure going insane and a doctor confirming a cancer claim. It notes a Japanese parliamentary convocation about war with China and a Viscount being honored in London for aiding the Anglo-Japanese treaty, with his life reportedly improved by the reward.
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China
Viscount Ok
London
Rumor of Czar Death Tied to Unnatural Causes Foretold
Ciphered dispatches from St Petersburg claim the czar is near death and that a faction plans to dethrone him. They allege a second son, aggressive and anti foreign, aims to expand empire toward America and to tighten control of Russia. The reports mix political plots with church opposition and fears of a non natural illness.
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Minneapolis
Minn
George E. V. Schmidt
Jetter
St. Petersburg
Russia
Tnusgela
Moscow
Aas
I Fleht
Kingland
Germany
America
London
Daily News
Berlin
Pheesar
Michael Price
Regina
Epidemic of theft as Jersey City gang robs freight train
A Jersey City group of about fifty men and boys surrounded a freight train at the Erie tunnel end to steal coal and break into cars. They opened a car with live hogs and five hogs were stolen while conductor Dickinson failed to stop them.
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Jersey City
United Press
New York
Erie Tunnel
Dickinson
Twenty feet of gold discovered in Arizona mine
A newly found granite lode near Phoenix yields up to 4 feet openings with 60 workers in gulches and 26 dirt-wrashed on arrival. One cleanup of 1400 pounds produced 500 dollars as Mexicans toil. the property sits near the Congress Weaver Jim Dindy King Solomon and Mammoth group.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Congress
Weaver
Jim Dindy
King Solomon
Mammoth Group
Land Opening to Fortunes in Hoopa Valley Reserve
The Hoopa Valley Indian reservation in California will see about 840000 acres opened for settlement. Filings target 900 or more Klamath and Hoopa tribal members, with around 144000 acres to be allotted to some members while the rest becomes available to settlers. The reservation spans roughly 60 miles to the coast and contains about one million acres.
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Hoopa Valley
United Press
San Francises
Cal
Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation
California
Klamath
Hoopa
Hoops Valley
Found a big cave near Cujon peak California
Prospectors have partly explored caverns in Cujon peak on the Cuyamuca range in California. The caves rival Mammoth Cave in Kentucky with brilliant stalactites and stalagmites. An exploring party plans to organize a corporation and secure title to the land, still owned by the government.
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San Cieno
Cal
Cujon Peak
Cuyamiuca Range
Mammoth Cave
Kentucky
Gashed with an Axe. Woodman Nearly Bleeds to Death
James Tamson of Richburg Alleghany county narrowly escaped death after an axe slipped in the woods striking his left leg. He crawled toward a nearby house calling for help, then collapsed and was found by locals soaked in blood and near death.
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Ford
Conn
Lakewood
Belleview
Howe
Jones
Mr. Jones
Hila
United Preay
Hornellaville
James Tamson
Richburg
Alleghany County
Jones and Fowler Involved in Incident at Jamestown
Charles W. Jones a prominent local insurance man and Edgar C. Fowler of Hart are connected to an incident reported from Jamestown New York dated October 15. The brief item notes their involvement with a tartar capture event and a near drowning of a captor.
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United Pres
Jamestown
N. Y
Charles W. Jones
Edgar C. Fowler
Hart
Willard Heads Philadelphia WCTU Convention in 1895
About 2000 women and 100 men attend the morning session of the state WCTU convention in Philadelphia. Frances Willard, world president, delivers the keynote address as Mrs Edith Bushong reports on narcotics and tobacconic profits. Delegates are chosen for London in June 1895 and Cleveland next month.
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Philadelphia
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Mise Frances FL. Willard
Mis
Edith K. Bushong
May Post Office
London
Cleveland
Boy Found Starving in Marsh After Disappearance
Fourteen year old Charles Coeren who vanished from home four weeks ago was found by a Chicago hunter in the Kankaskee marshes near Davis Indiana. The boy lay in a rude hut, nearly dead from hunger and exposure, after a long ordeal.
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United Press
Davis
Ind
Charles Coeren
Chicago
Devere
Kankaskee
Cocren
Madman Pattison Disrupts Olivet Church Shooting
William Pattison, a man described as a madman who escaped Harrisburg asylum, was captured at Peachbottom after entering Olivet church with a jug of elder and a rifle. He fired twenty eight shots, frightening the congregation and causing damage before being brought to York. Authorities at Harrisburg were notified.
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William Pattison
United Press
York
Harrisburg
Peachbottom
Shenk
Pattison
Olivet
Rumor Claims Queen Liliuokalani Went Crazy
A Honolulu rumor circulated that Queen Liliuokalani had become mentally unwell before the Archduke departure, though the report is uncredited. The queen had not left her home for several days, fueling speculation in Victoria.
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Lillowkalant
Lo Pot
Zacharia Haw
Victoria
Aruwe
Honolulu
Littvekalani
Multiple Crime Tales From Across Regions Highlight Unrest and Tragedy
A mosaic of 19th century incidents reports murders over money, a fiancé taking morphine to ease pain then dying, jailbreaks by seven prisoners in Shreveport, a husband beating a wife to death, a woman seeking to overturn a will, and a pastor’s family scandal. Continuing misfortune includes shipwreck injuries and a fatal collision aftermath.
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L. T. Hurd
Sioux City
Aveust Brandt
Chtisen
Wheeling
W. Vai
Milwally
Cela Schuster
Charlottesville
Shreveport
Chicago
C. Crane
New York
A Vs. Lewis Presock
W. Va
van Duren
Georgia Truitt
Hendey
Nesty
Galthers
J. Ho Hoskefross
A. T. Millmurtha
Pension Money
Ae & Soldiera Willow
Agnes Skinner
Agnes Skinner Wae Nere Stout
Palmyra
Sherif
George Willams
Misael
Freeman
Mercer
Centertown
Parker
Hartford
Conn
Mise Maude Purdy
Brooklyn
Sehecomi
Henham Tpenlnee Company
Memphis
Iurrell
Ace Preacher Brown
Gorman
Demorrade
Confession Reveals Cleveland Case of Robbery Murder
Charles Robinson admitted killing Buffalo lawyer Montgomery Gibbs in a pursuit of robbery. Once a Mount Vernon real estate man, he blamed marriage strain and a failed theatre venture for his downfall. He pled not guilty by reason of malice planning to plead first degree murder tomorrow.
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Mount Vernon
Tasted
Cleveland
Buffalo
Charles Robinson
Montgomery Gibbs
Robinson
Mt Vernon
Knox County
Windfield Robinger
Manstrelis
Gibbs
Mality
Pacific Express Office Robbed of Fourteen to Sixteen Thousand
The Pacific Express office in The Dalles Oregon was robbed yesterday of about fourteen to sixteen thousand dollars. The money had been sent from Portland and arrived Saturday night. Investigators suspect the robbers boarded the train with the treasurer’s box and knew its contents. No arrests have been made.
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Dalles
Ore
Pacific Express
Uto
Porthind
Jealous Husband Attacks Wife in Newark Ny
J Planngan, a years old man, assaulted his wife with a knife in Newark. He then tried to kill himself with the same weapon. The wife, aged, crippled by years of abuse, is hospitalized in St Michael and not expected to survive. Planngan is in the station house. A sensational provoking factor involved a 61 year old man.
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Newark
J. Plannagan
St. Michael Hopital
Will
Wlannagan
Jenlouay
Freight discrimination case against Wight in Baltimore and Ohio line
General Freight Agent C Wight and associates face trial after being held on $1000 bail for allegedly paying rebates to Moerlein Brewing Co of Cincinnati. The scheme involved beer shipments from Cincinnati to Pittsburgh under Interstate Commerce Commission rules.
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Wight
Pittsburg
C. &, Wight
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Moerlein Brewing Company
Cincinnat
Governor McKinley Delivers First and Only Speech
An audience of about 4 000 greeted Governor McKinley at the Fourteenth regiment armory for his first and only speech of the evening. Many ladies attended and the gli club sang songs. Three hundred students from the Blute university applauded with the college yell.
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The
United Prem
Columbus
McKinley
Fourteenth Regiment
Gli Club
Blute University
Colorado Desperadoes Kill Sheriff in Victor Hold Up
In Cripple Creek Colorado Sheriff Sterling was killed and a second suspect mortally wounded after an attempted bank hold up near Victor Saturday night. Two prisoners were being transported. one died on the scene and the other refused to give his name.
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Cripple Creek
Col
Get
Victor
Sterling
James Gannon
Tariff Reformer Warangues at Mannington Rally
W L Wilton and party were met by about 800 voters in Mannington this morning. Wilton spoke in the afternoon, the remarks largely mirroring speeches delivered at other points in the state.
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Mannington
W. V
W. L. Wilton
Mr. Wilton
Murder by Revenge Ends in River Death of Louisiana Grower
Adolf Clark, a wealthy orange grower in Louisiana, disappeared after a party. Laborers found a body floating in the river with feet bound and a water-filled demijohn attached. Louis Dinet and his son were arrested. the son testified against his father as principal witness.
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Louisiana
United Press
Diamond
Law
Adolf Clark
Boon
Revie
Clark
Louis Dinet
Murder Charge in First Degree After Fatal River Death
Clark accused Dinet of stealing a skiff. Dinet and his son killed Clark with a heavy stick and disposed of the body in a river. The jury returned a verdict of murder in the first degree, carrying the death penalty.
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Clark
Dinet
Min
Aleath
Fight interrupted at center street boarding house raid
Police raid on Homa Fay’s Center street boarding house at 2:05 am led by Lt Davis and officers Day and Guerlity. Two women and two men assaulted fled as officers found a free fight. Five inmates were jailed including Jack Fee, Charley White, and Hughey of Nanticoke. Charley White suffered facial injuries. one woman broken leg. Mrs Pay left to assist.
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Homa Fay
Center Street
Davis
Gtese
Jack Fee
Charley White
Hughey
Nanticoke
Trade of wives shocks Indiana town
Anderson Indiana October 1 The Rev Dr Smith a well known preacher in Indiana religious circles while preaching at Winchester became infatuated with Mrs Helm wife of Fred Helm Mr Helm in turn fell in love with Mrs Smith and the result was they traded wives causing a great sensation and forcing Mr Smith to retire from the ministry.
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Indiana
United Press
Anderson
Ind
Mev
Smith
Winchester
Fred Helm
Murder and Death by Fire in Suburban Tragedy
A horrific incident reports a mother Elizabeth N 7 October in Wilted Trews area taking her three children aged 6, 3, and months to a hay setting and burning themselves and the children to death in a suburb. Authorities identify Thomas Harrigan aged 10 as a related figure in the case and the tale unfolds as a grim family tragedy.
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Elizabeth
N. 7
Oct
Airs
Thomas Harrigan
Ued
Swift Retribution: Hand shoots Behr in land dispute
Professor J. T. Hand, principal of Kildare high school, shot and killed George Behr former mayor of Arkansas City after a land dispute over plowing. Hand surrendered after reportedly acting mad as a result of the confrontation.
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United Prose
Perry
J. T. Hand
Kildare High Acttor
George SP. Behr
Arkansas City
Behr
Hand
Pittsburg News Roundup Covers Accidents Plans and Trials
Snow in Altoona and frigid readings at Wopsononock highlight a busy day. Reports mention a new Masonic temple plan in Pittsburg, legal cases in various counties, and a long list of court actions including fines and suspensions. The bulletin notes charity events, church dedications, and a regional synod in York, with President figures and local officials referenced.
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McKenna
Pitteburg
Lynnport
Lehigh County
Henry
Pittsburg
Philadelphia
Allegheny City
Harvey Harrison
Bohuylkill County
Pitthlzon
Requisi
Charles Garrett
Lebanon
Columba
Richard Armatrong
Princeton Downs Virginia in Football 12 to 0
In a college football game Princeton defeats the University of Virginia 12 to 0. Other notes mention boxing prospects and upcoming matches between Yale and Princeton, with schedule negotiations continuing.
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Princeton
University of Virginia
Jimmy Mitchell
Yale
Richard Dwyer
Roby
Chicago
Li Robert J
John
Gentry
Joe Patehen
Hal Braden
Nashville
Tenn
Nashvile
New York Baseball Club
Temple Acp Senos
Charles Kelley
New York
Billy Plimmer
Jersey City
New Orleans
Captain Glory
Rob Fitzwimmots
Fitesinmoens
Pay Enough Pay Enough Watch Advice
Citizens are urged to consider value over price when buying timepieces. The piece warns against cheap knockoffs and gold chains that tempt buyers with flashy but poor-quality items, urging patience to find a reliable, honest watch before seeking out-of-town options.
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Nose Sike
Palloen
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Pacific Express Company
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Sero
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Allentown Academy of Munde
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M. Byora
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Rulison
Chatlee
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Heatr Obuyeh
Lancaster
James Wiley
Hebiohen
Hebiohen, Mre. Barger
Curtin
Synod of the Potomac of the Reformed Church
Syed
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Choice
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Lackawanna Ave
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MEI Ins
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