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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1898
Page
2
National Trade Review Reports Postwar Business Improvement
The Weekly Review states business is passing the winding up of the war with greater challenges than before but improving as orders resume. Prices rose due to pent up demand and the active trade climate. Clearing house payments in the second week of September were 22.6 percent higher than in 1892, with a two week rise of 12 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Michael’s
New Westminster
B. C
Oliver H. Payne
Cornell University
United States
British Columbia
Bradstreet’s
Chicago
Kansas City
Omaha
Cleveland
Louisville
Northwest
Stolen Silver Plate Recovered
Superintendent of Police H A Gors line of Fort Wayne Indiana arrested two tramps with three silver plate pieces. The recovered goods show signs of use and may have come from a restaurant or hotel. The men claim circus work and payment in silver. the tale checked out. Report any stolen items to the superintendent with descriptions for return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. A. Gorsline
Fort Wayne
Ind
Sell Bros
Palace poison plot shocks Seoul court
A Seoul special reports a high palace official Ko confessed he ordered poisoning of the king and crown prince. The plot was allegedly incited by a former interpreter from the Russian Legation now in disgrace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seoul
Corea
Evacuation Delays Mark Havana Negotiations
The American and Spanish Commissioners pursue cordial talks in Havana with evacuation delays. Spain expects longer than initially planned to withdraw 160000 troops and ceded territory, while Bianco remains until completion of all formalities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havana
Bianco
Army officers question timing of Indiana troops mustering out
In Indianapolis officers doubt that the thirty days furlough will end with peace. Colonel Smith of the 158th, close to the Administration, believes the mustering out date will be extended repeatedly as long as conflict continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Indiana
Col. Smith
158Th
Day Quits Cabinet Posts Amid Resignations
Secretary Day resigns as Secretary of State after cabinet session. Assistant Secretary Moore also tenders resignation to the President, ending a brief period of turnover in the State Department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Day
Alger
Moore
General Toral Hailed by Angry Vigo Mob After Surrender
General Toral arrived by ship at Vigo after surrendering the Spanish army at Santiago. A hostile crowd hissed and abused him on the pier, so violent that he retreated back to his ship and chose not to land.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toral
Santiago
Vigo
Spain
Warship Contracts Allocated to Major Shipyards
The threa batteships under contract are assigned to Union Iron Works in San Francisco Newport News Company and Cramp and Sons in Philadelphia The Ohio to Union Iron Works the Missouri to Newport News and the Maine to Cramp and Sons all to be completed in thirty three months
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Union Iron ‘Works
San Francisco
Missouri
Newport News Company
Maine
Cramp & Sons
Philadelphia
Clash at Fashoda Tensions Between Nations Rise
Fragmentary report from Constantinople mentions occupation near the White Nile south of Khartoum. Major Marsehand led a urach faction resisting a large Abyssinian force under Ras Makonne, the principal general of Emperor Menelik.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Constantinople
Fashoda
White Nile
Fragmentary Riot Note Sparks Security Worries
Disjointed OCR fragment hints at unrest and coded exhortations. Mentions designs and actions but lacks clear names or places. Authorities monitor unclear threats as public order concerns rise.
Multiple Disturbing Incidents Across U S Reports
News items recount a Philadelphia brewer’s suicide jumping from Goat Island bridge at Niagara Falls, a bold Wilkes-Barre robbery, a Maine Republican win, a New York 54 Beekman St fire injuring fourteen firefighters, a Philadelphia gasoline explosion triggering building collapses, a missing New York woman at Coney Island, a New Jersey judge’s self-inflicted death, a Milton mill fire ending a 1890 idle period, a gruesome Bridgeport body discovery with surgical-like mutilation, and a possible fatal river mangling with dismembered remains found in Yellow Mill river.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Schamm
Philadelphia
Goat Island ‘Bridge
Niagara Falls
Wilkesbarre
Raeder
Maine
Reed
Vover McKinney
Beekman Street
New York
Seeburger Bros
South Street
Louise King
Coney Island
Thomas F. McCormick
Union County
New Jersey
Court of Common Pleas
St. Mary's Roman Catholic
Elizabeth
Waumbeck Woolen Mills
Milton
N. H
Picker-Room
Yellow Mill River
Bridgeport
Conn
Yellow Mill
Notable failures and disasters across towns and states
Citizens of Canton drive saloonkeepers from town. Judge Thomas M. Cooley dies in Ann Arbor. A man near St Joseph attempts suicide after engagement ends. Liverpool Ohio Pottery plant damaged by fire. Jerome Arizona wiped out by fire with over 1 million in losses and many bodies recovered. Lorenzo Snow chosen president of LDS Church in Salt Lake City after Woodruff’s death. Rees Printing Company plant in Omaha destroyed. extensive loss. New Masonic Temple in Washington Ohio destroyed. Stutzon department store ruined. Missouri Pacific train collision near Independence kills one, injures another. A 12-year-old Emporia boy arrested for attempting to wreck a Denver train. Hunt Manufacturing plant in Walla Walla reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canton
Kan
Thomas M. Cooley
Ann Arbor
Mich
St. Joseph
L. E. Purcell
Bedford
Iowa
Liverpool
Ohio
Pottery Company
Jerome
Ariz
Council of Apostles
Salt Lake
Lorenzo Snow
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Woodruff
Rees Printing Company
Omaha
Neb
Masonic Temple
Washington
Frank L. Stutzon
Stutzon
St. Louis
Missouri Pacific
Independence
R. J. Thompson
A. Bechtel
Gorman
Santa Fe Secret Service
Albert Phillips
Emporia, Kan
Santa Fe
Denver
State Reform School
Walla Wialla
Wash
Hunt Manufacturing Company
Ea A. Walls
Yearly farm product values and a tragic multi-incident report
The article tallies farm income with wool cheese and milk figures totaling 59 393 913 dollars, comparing to 46 983 922 the prior year. It also recounts a fatal Wichita accident where a Rock Island train hit a wagon with teens en route to a Buffalo Bill show, killing two and injuring others, plus a Dayton murder suicide involving chloroform. It notes steel syndicate deals near Birmingham and Illinois Central moves into Alabama coal fields, and narrates the Rosser murder case in San Francisco with Tennessee regiment fallout.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wichita
Kan
Rock ‘Island
Iprissenger
Wilhelmina ‘Litsenbach
Spitler Avenue
Dayton
Joliet
Chicago
Cleveland Steel Syndicate
John ‘W. Gates
Illinois. Steel Company
Alabama Steel
Ensley City
Birmingham
Ala
Federal Steel Company
Ensley
Illinois Central
Alabama
John Cc. Welling
T. Harahan
G. B.fitzhugh
Secretary of State
Canton, Aberdeen and
Ashville
Walter Rosser
Tennessee
Henry Hildebrand
Spreckels Market
San Francisco City
Rosser
Market Street
Hildebrand
Stevenson
Nashville
Chattanooga and St. Louis
Col. Smith
Tennessee Regiment
San Francisco
Presidio
Families in duals and wrecks end in fatalities at Erlanger and Galveston
In Erlanger Kentucky a family feud duel left James McCray and Joseph Michaels Jr dead while Ben Michaels Sr and Joseph W Watson were fatally wounded Edward Alexander Callaghan a private in First United States Volunteers was shot to death at Galveston with Jack Elliott wounded in the abdomen Harry Owens surrendered after attempting to arrest assailants who attacked a boy A Texas and Pacific passenger train plunged from a weakened bridge near Texarkana due to high water four killed and several injured as the engine and four coaches fell into the river
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erlanger
James McCray
Joseph Michaels
Ben Michaels
Joseph W. Watson
Edward ‘Alexander Callaghan
First United States Volunteers
Immunes
Galveston
Texas
Jack Elliott
Harry Owens
Abe
Texas and Pacific Railroad
Texarkana
United States Replies to Turkish Government Note
Washington announces that the United States has replied to a recent Turkish government note declining to accept Turkey. No further details on the exchange are provided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Turkey
Global turmoil and royal tragedies in 19th century alerts
Reports describe a sweeping peacetime protocol adoption for schools, mass executions after Guatemala election riots, rumors of Mayon's capture of Fashoda, Empress Elizabeth's assassination in Geneva, Vatican notes on church property in Cuba and the Philippines, and a deadly Barbados cyclone. Political warnings and a family tragedy in Berlin accompany these events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anish “Senate
Gr A. R
Porto Rico
Prospero
Morales
Guatemala
Mayon
Fashoda
White Nile
Elizabeth
Austria
Geneva
Switzerland
Lucchini
Mgr
Sharrill
Washington
United States
Cuba
Philippines
Prince August Wilhelm
William
Berlin
St. Vincent
Barbados
Kingston
Pile
Assembly
Fire Devastates New Westminster Causing 2.5 Million Loss
New Westminster British Columbia nearly erased by fire with property damage estimated at 2.5 million dollars and multiple fatalities. The blaze follows a period of economic activity across western markets as shipments and trade show varied effects.
Market Report Summary of Midwestern Commodities
The report lists prices across cities for cattle hogs sheep and grain. Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit and Toledo show bids for cattle 2.50 to 5.75 dollars hogs 3.00 to 4.25 sheep 2.50 to 4.50 while wheat corn oats and rye vary by grade with No 2 red No 2 white No 2 yellow No 2 mixed and No 2 white. Prices are given per bushel or hundredweight depending on commodity and city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Toledo
Devastating Caribbean Storm Ravages St Vincent and Barbados
The hurricane and tidal wave devastate St Vincent with Kingstown destroyed and about 300 lives lost on the island while Barbados reports around 200 fatalities. Thousands lose homes and infrastructure suffers extensive damage including churches, bridges, and estates as ships wash ashore and landslides occur. Overall fatalities are estimated at 531 with property losses in the millions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Lucia
Barbados
Gasceiaape
To Be Made a Cardinal Archbishop Ireland
The article notes Archbishop Ireland is to be made a cardinal a recognition of his long career. Born in 1838 in Ireland he emigrated to the United States and settled in the Northwest. He served as a Civil War chaplain and later led St Paul’s Cathedral becoming bishop of Nebraska then St Paul and Archbishop in 1888.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ireland
Northwest
France
St. Paul
Minnesota Regi
St Paul's Cathedral
Nebraska
Veteran Comrade Rappe Walked 600 Miles to Cincinnati Encampment
J R Rappe of Marionette Wisconsin aged 83 and veteran of Mexican Seminole and Civil wars walked 600 miles to the Grand Army of the Republic encampment in Cincinnati in 28 days. He read newspapers without glasses and praised his health upon arrival. He stayed with T A Wilkinson of Avondale who served with him in the Thirty second Wisconsin Infantry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Grand Army of the Republic
J. R. Rappe
Marinette
Wis
Wisconsin
Rappe
Mr. Rappe
T. A. Wilkinson
Avondale
Thirty-second
Wisconsin Infantry
Sagasta Proclaims Prorogation Amid Cortes Turmoil
Premier Sagasta ends a heated Cortes session by proroguing the chamber during violent debate over the war. Generals Primo de Rivera and Count Almenas led the uproar as Sagasta read the decree forbidding further speaking after the queen's decree. The move is seen as saving the country and the queen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sagasta
Cortes
Senate
Primo de Rivera
Count Almenas
Reed Bird and Oyster Season Opens September First
Telegraphic brief notes announce the season for reed birds and oysters opening on September first along the Atlantic coast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Attia
Notable Local Doings and Deaths in Indiana Report
A compact Indiana column highlights notable community events and recent deaths. It notes casualty figures and ongoing crime developments, reflecting local concerns and civic matters.
Indiana Briefs and Local Incidents Across Elkhart to Tipton
A scattered Indiana news roundup reports fires and injuries, arrests, deaths, and civic notes. Notable items include a barn fire at Rich Valley, a fatal stabbing near Lawrence, a drowning risk from a boiling accident, a garbled mayoral finances case, and a Goshen area marl discovery. Also listed are bank leadership changes, factory construction in Elwood, idle Marion works restarting, and a tale of a hotel keeper reuniting with a California brother after decades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion
N. F. Gurley
First National Bank of Troy
N. Y
New Albany
Eli
California
Fis
Also Mentioned on This Page
Nio
Military Commission
Gen. Toral
Njesty
Sai
Andre Olutiorary
Codi
Western
Southern
John Ireland
Gas Belt Electric
Yeah. Bradley
Rich Valley
Lena Blake
Kewood
New’Albany
Harry Fisher
Michael Doherty
Elkb
Shelbyville
Samuel Barker
Beardstown
J. H. Bogart
Matthewa
John H.henderson
Terre Haute
Morton G .A. R. Post
National Association of
Tipton
Anderson
Middleton
Charles Zirkle
Connersville
Joseph Brown
Seovel
Columbus
Ted Britton
New Pittsburg
Cooney
Mattox
David Elliott
Jude Piety
Haud
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