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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1898
Page
2
Favorable trade developments noted in Bradstreet report
The Business World reports favorable trade developments with stronger wheat and flour prices due to improved foreign demand and cautious American selling. Katy cotton shows plentiful supplies and slower demand, while Western notes remain cheerful. Overall trade volume matches historic records.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bradstreet
Katy
Mine Explosion at Snowden Mine Near Brownsville
A blast at Snowden Mine near Brownsville Pennsylvania trapped fifty eight workers. Fire damp engulfed tunnels and eight bodies were recovered. Rescuers toil to reach imprisoned miners as they search multiple entry points hoping for survivors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Snowden
Brownsville
Lisbon warns of anarchist plot against King Carlos
A Lisbon dispatch reports authorities protecting the royal residences at Cintra and Cascaes after warnings of an anarchist plot against King Carlos. A Vienna correspondent notes powers back Italy's antianarchist proposals with expected severe measures and criminalizes mere anarchist views.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lisbon
London Daily Mail
Cintra
Cascaes
Carlos
Vienna
Italy
Double tragedy near Center I T ends with three deaths
A. B. Harding killed his wife in a moment of passion and was bound by angry citizens. J. A. Page, father of the murdered woman, tracked Harding to a wagon and killed him as he lay bound. Page is jailed at Pauls Valley for the act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Worth
Texas
Center
I. T
A. B. Harding
J.A. Page
Page
United States
Paul’s Valley
Paris Conflict Deepens Between Civil and Military Authorities
The Paris press and public acknowledge a grave crisis as civil and military authorities clash. Gen Zurlinden's sudden move to prosecute Col Picqdart for forgery in a civil court sharpens tensions surrounding military intervention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Zurlinden
Col
Picqdart
Carnegie Steel Plans 4 Gun Factory to Rival Krupp
McKeesport Pa special reports Carnegie Steel prepares a four gun factory to rival Krupp with shipbuilding and a deep water outlet at Norfolk or Newport News. The Homestead plant will employ 2000 men and reportedly hold a secret in gun construction that could revolutionize naval and coast armament.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Krupp
McKeesport
Carnegie Steel Company
Norfolk
Newport News
Homestead
Conspiracy Aims to Install Prince Kung's Grandson China
Pekin dispatches report European community members believe the Chinese Emperor’s life is in danger. The Dowager Empress reportedly wants Prince Kung's grandson on the throne while the Emperor strengthens palace guard as he senses a conspiracy.
Explosion kills two men at Pittsburgh exposition display
An accidental discharge during a Manila battle display at the Exposition Building on the Allegheny River front in Pittsburgh instantaneously killed Capt. George J. Adams aged 38 and Capt. Charles Miller aged 22.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George’ J. Adams
Charles Miller
Manila
Alle’ River
Pittsburgh
Floods Drown Regions in Japan. Hundreds Feared Lost
Damaging floods sweep across Japan causing widespread destruction and high fatalities. Local officials report hundreds of lives missing or confirmed dead as rescue operations intensify in affected areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Hina
Kentucky Fight Prizes Ordered by Officers
In Kentucky efforts to quell violent clashes prompt officials to issue proclamations. Authorities extend authority to rural counties to uphold public safety amid reported brawls and resisting action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kentucky
Innatt
Corbatt-McCoy
Ady
Widespread Fatalities and Thefts Reported Across Cities
A collage of readings notes missing jewelry valued at 10000 from Jim Corbett’s luggage in Asbury Park. Stabbings in Scranton leave Edward Moran charged with killing his brother in law Tater Gin ergans. Several deaths reported including Ernst Branford and John Marsh. Rev H Schnellédruéssler dies in Plainfield NY. A Polish christening ends in a fight in Banning Pa. George R Waters found dead in Marietta river. Police kill two constables in Garrett Pa. Sloop Emily sinks in Newburyport amid drownings at Amesbury. Several other accidents, fires and strikes reported nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Salvation
Jim Corbett
Asbury Park
King
Scranton
Edward“Moran
Tater GiNegans
Purned
Ernst
Branford
Pana
John Marsh
Schnellédruéssler
Muhlenberg Hospital
Plainfield
N. J
Hiccoughs
St. Patrick’s Church
Audenried
George R. Waters
Pittsburg
Marietta
Ohio
Garrett
I. P. Myers
Newburyport
Mass
Emily
Adolphus Cole
Gustave
Morrean
Amesbury
Alice Meiss
Eighth Avenue
New York
New- York
Bangor
County Down
Ireland
Hall
Europe
Winnie” Davis
Jefferson Davis
Rockingham
Narragansett Pier
R. L
Brocton
Rockland
Whitman
Stoughton
East Weymouth
Middleboro
Randolph
O’rourke & ‘Co
American ‘Street
Philadelphia
New York Building
West Park Street
Butte
Mont
Monongahela City
Andrew’ Cassagné
Tmen
Williamsburg
Brooklyn
Jhis
Cassagne
Vast Western Fire Toll and Miscellaneous 1900s Notices
In a Western sweep a square in Wadsworth Ohio was leveled by fire killing James Hadlin and injuring his wife and daughter near Scotch Ridge. Separately Tucson saw Radchovich Mercantile burned with $75,000 loss. other blazes touched Colorado politics free silver ticket and St. Louis tobacco consolidation. A river crossing death near Clinton Missouri. a Chicago harbor project begins. Akron hydraulic canal bank failure. St. Louis rail sale. Zanesville manslaughter sentence. Union Pacific freight crash near Grand Island. McConnellsville warehouse fire. Maumee Bay shipwreck crew rescued. Hastings Bank robbed. multiple disaster items flow through a sprawling, disjointed wire-service notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wadsworth Village
Ohio
James Hadlin
Scotch Ridge
Radchovich
Tucson
Arizona
Colorado
G. B. Spencer
St. Louis
United States
Social Democracy of America
Washington
Ang
API
Nélfew Ead
Sweere
Brush -Creek
Clinton
Mo Iether
Amide
Chicago
York
R. P. Neu
Fourth Street and
Arsenal Street Railway
John H. Overall
Zanesville
Delia Dickerson
Siétér
Union Pacific
Grand Island
Neb
Roddy
McConnellsville
C. Iu, Baker
Maud Preston
Gillespie
Maumee Bay
Toledo
Avchich
Boia! Waller’ State
Hastings
Towa Jar
Massive early 1900s World News Digest Highlights Violent Incidents
A string of violent incidents reported across states includes a bloody boatyard fight on a Mississippi river boat near Creston Missouri leaving two dead, a fatal shooting over a fence dispute near Yale Iowa, and a Toledo fire that killed ten cremations and many burned. Also noted are stockyard records, a fatal wreck near Leipsic Ohio, and factory conflict at Cleveland's American Wire Company amid a strike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ini
Issac
Witz
James
McClellan
Yale
Iowa
Fitz
Toledo
Paddock, Hodge & Co
Kansas City
Western Ranges
Cincinnati
Hamilton
Dayton
Detroit
Lima
Leipsic
Ohio
American Wire Company
Cleveland
Black Hills Forest Reserve
South Dakota
Wyoming
Co. C. Cunningham
Milton
Ore
O. Young
Julius J. Worcester
Pendleton
Cunningham
Effie Worcester
Great Eastern Hotel
Johnson
New Government Dam
Neville Island
Coraopolis
Multiple crimes and fires reported across states
Reports from the era describe Wardy Wolfe in Churchville West Virginia shooting his father and brother then killing himself. In Glasgow Kentucky a son-in-law murders his wife’s mother. A clash at Camp Holland Knoxville involved First Georgia and Third North Carolina colored regiments with about 100 shots and several wounded. The Commercial Hotel in Durant Mississippi burned, $7000 contents loss, $2000 insurance. building loss unknown. Effie McKibbon was shot near Birmingham Alabama. a fire in De Funiak Florida destroyed fifteen stores and hotels, around $100000 loss. Irvine Kentucky saw a timber land deal in Knott and Lewy counties }
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wardy Wolfe
Churchville
W. Va
Glasgow
William Boles
John Franklin
Georgia
Third
North Carolina Regiment
Camp Holland
Knoxville
Tenn
Duran, Miss
Tninois ‘Central Railroad
Effie McKibbon
Birmingham
Ala
George . Noble
de Funiak
Fila
Florida Chautauqué
W. L. Cawthon
Irvine
Eby
Knott
Tagles & i
Kentucky
Cincinnati
Boundary dispute settles amid regional conflicts
The article reports a boundary dispute between San Domingo and Hayti resolved. Fire destroys MacDougall's flour mills and other factories at Mill Dock in London causing estimated damages of 325000 dollars. A Bradford electric street car derails injuring fifty seriously, with several fatally. A Volga famine forecast prompts Russia to seek 80000000 bushels of wheat this year. Baltic wrecks claim twenty fishermen dead. France moves toward a conciliatory stance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Domingo
Hayti
MacDougall
Mill Dock
London
Bradford
England
Volga
Russia
Memel
Prussia
Baltic
France
Rebellion in Japan’s southern island region prompts clashes
Reports from Tokyo describe a new rebellion in the southern part of the island with battles near Taichu and Taihoku as Japanese forces and police fend off tribes. In Paris, cabinet resignations follow a Dreyfus case commission decision, while London convicts on a mail robbery aboard the Britannic receive eight and one years respectively.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Drmosa
Taichu
Taihoku
Dreyfus
Zurlinden
Tillaye
Gen. Chanoine
Senator Godin
J. W. Jago
White Star Line
John Kynaston
London
Northern Alaska Wealth and World News Update
Hamlin Garland reports a rich gold discovery on Atlin Lake Alaska while ex governor Swineford estimates about 15 million dollars of gold to be taken out this year. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen reports 25 thousand dollars in beneficiaries and 4.16 million paid this year. A severe Montreal storm damages property as a trolley wire causes one death. The Ottawa Victoria flow of checks under sealing award totals in the hundreds of thousands. Manitoba wheat crop projected at 40 million bushels with a prior estimate of 30 million. A Penn University expedition to northern Alaska is deemed a failure. The market notices show wheat, tin, copper and lead movements with varied confidence in a tin plate trust. Failures in North America fall to 174.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamlin Garland
Atlin Lake
Alaska
A. P. Swineford
Nicholas Senn
United States Volunteers
United States
Michigan
H. S. Pingree
Connecticut
Daniel N. Morgan
Montreal
Quebec
James Mcenzie
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Toronto
Victoria
B. C
Ottawa
Lillooet
Golden Cache
Manitoba
University of Pennsylvania
E. A. McIlhenny
Seattle
Excelsior
George E. Green
Commercial Travelers’ Home Association of America
South Mountain
Binghamton
N. Y
R. G. Dun & Co
Weekly Review of Trade
Atlantic
Pacific
London
Tinplate Trust
Canada
Market Reports: Regional Livestock and Grain Prices
Regional market notes list cattle hogs and sheep price ranges across cities from Chicago to Buffalo, with grain futures for wheat corn oats rye and miscellaneous items. Notable figures include Chicago cattle $3.00 to $6.00, hogs $3.00 to $6.00, wheat No. 2 red 64c to 69c, corn No. 2 yellow 28c to 32c, oats 21c to 26c, rye around 45c to 49c, and butter and eggs at mid-teens. Multiple metros cited with city-specific quotes and commodity grades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Toledo
Milwaukee
Merriam Opposes Prolonged Hawaiian Camp for U.S. Troops
Major General H C Merriam, returning from Honolulu aboard the Australia, says no suitable camping grounds exist in the islands. He warns that level ground is unsanitary and camps near Diamond Head are miserable. He urges minimal time on Hawaii and rejects sending troops as a Philippines base due to heat and mortality concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. C. Merriam
Honolulu
Australia
Hawaiian Islands
New York Regiment
Diamond Head
Philippines
United States
German officials deny hostile moves in Philippines
Berlin says Washington cablegram about five regiments to Manila is unfounded. German foreign office stresses loyalty of Vice Admiral Diederichs and claims no German tricks or disloyalty in the Philippines, noting trust with the United States and that Ambassador von Helleben has leave.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kaiser
America
Foreign Office
Berlin
Washington
Manila
Dewey
Diederichs
Philippines
Dr. von Helleben
Old Glory Floats in Havana as American Commission Hoists Flag
At 10 o'clock Tuesday morning the first American flag in Havana was raised on the Trocha Hotel flagstaff, headquarters of the evacuation commission. Marines guarded the grounds as Col Claus and Capt Payne stood by the flagstaff with the Resolute signaling the ascent. Commission members saluted the Stars and Stripes while Guardia Civile patrolled approaches to prevent disturbance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havana
Trocha Hotel
American Evacuation Commission
Col
Claus
Payne
Resolute
Commission
Guardia Civile
Troops Leaving for Spain Evacuation Underway
American forces depart Porto Rico as 200 sick soldiers and 200 engineers sail from Havana to Spain. Spains transports have sailed for San Juan while Lares Aquadilla and San Sebastian are evacuated. Troops occupy Viequez and Humacao as Spaniards retreat to Arecibo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Porto Rico
Spain
Havana
San Juan
Lares
Aquadilla
San Sebastian
Arecibo
Viequez Island
Humacao
Peace Commission to Washington from Madrid
Spain's peace commission, representing political, navy, and diplomatic elements, has been officially sent by the Madrid government to the French ambassador in Washington. Senor Montero Rios chairs the Senate, Gen. Cerrero has colonial experience, and Senor Garnica serves on the Supreme Court as part of a strong cross section.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madrid
Washington
Senor’ Montero’ Rios
Senate
Gen. Cerrero
Senor Garnica
Court of Cassation
Supreme Court
Navy
Employment for Cuban Troops In U S Works
General Lawton has advised the War Department to use Cuban troops who leave the Cuban army on various United States works at Santiago. The proposal aims to deploy these troops to aid projects and infrastructure in the area under U S control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawton
War Department
United States
Santiago
Cuban President Proclaims War Ended With Spain
President Maeso of the Cuban republic issues a manifesto declaring an end to the war with Spain and expresses gratitude to the people of the United States for support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maeso
Spain
United States
Great Union elevator fire claims large grain loss
A deadly blaze at the Union elevator, owned by Paddock, Hodee & Co., engulfed the building, trapping twenty workers loading 80,000 bushels of grain. Firemen fought through extreme heat as the river blocked escapes. two workers, David Kemp and Charles Keifer, survived injuries, while the fire destroyed the facility and its grain, with total losses around 450000 dollars and insured amounts totaling 393000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paddock
Hodee & Co
Union Elevator
David Kemp
Charles Keifer
Peck Seeks More Space at Paris Exposition
Commissioner General Peck in Paris reports his offices fully fitted and staffed in Avenue Rapp near the exposition grounds. Picard says the United States cannot receive more space but Peck remains hopeful. The minister of foreign affairs and commerce welcomed him. Peck plans to return to the United States by late October.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Picard
Peck
Paris
Chicago
Avenue Rapp
Exposition Grounds
United States
France
Disorder in San Domingo Sparks Market Panic
The government financial system has triggered unrest in the northwestern region. Monte Cristi is patrolled as merchants and farmers refuse to sell for bank notes. Exchange now stands at 3 notes per 1 gold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Domingo
Monte Cristi
Telephone Companies Pool Formation in Minnesota and Plains States
Negotiations concluded in Minneapolis to pool issues among Northwestern Telephone Company Western Electric system Western Electric Telephone Company Minnesota Mutual Telephone and Telegraph Company and related entities. The plan aims to operate lines in direct connection across 500 to 600 towns in southern and western Minnesota northern Iowa and South Dakota.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
Northwestern Telephone Company
Western Electric System
Western Electric Telephone Company
Minnesota Mutual Telephone and Telegraph Company
Minnesota
Iowa
South Dakota
Japan Supports Czar on International Disarmament Plan
The Japanese government replies to Count Muravieff and backs the Russian proposal for international disarmament. The foreign ministry confirms willingness to cooperate with the Czar's initiative.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Count Muravieff
Alger Denies Resignation Report
Secretary Alger told the Associated Press there is not a word of truth to reports of his resignation and stated clearly that he has not resigned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alger
Associated Press
Royal and cultural notes from across Europe and England
Mawes Prince Victor Napoleon reaches age eighty one. Prince Henry of Prussia donates a Siberian bear cub to the Kenig William crew. The Earl of Leicester gives 10000 dollars for Jenny Lind infirmary in Norwich. The German Emperor’s imperial train costs 830000 dollars with twelve cars. M Vollon elected to Paris Academie des Beaux Arts replacing the late Francois. Women’s art gains practicality in England. The late Lord de Tabley’s niece signs for two Northwich taverns. Henry Irving faces Peter the Great role heightening status more than Napoleon in Madame Sans Gene. The King of Greece uses English in family talks. Mme Leo Delbes aids children in a Clichy school near Paris.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prince Victor Napoleon
Prince Henry
Prussia
Kenig William
Earl of Leicester
Jenny Lind Infirmary
Norwich
Eng
M. Vollon
Paris
Academie Des Beaux Arts
Francois
M. Harpignies
England
Lord de Tabley
Northwich
Henry Irving
Peter the Great
Napoleon
Also Mentioned on This Page
F. Qa
Western
Merriam
Germany
Awanide
Mawes
Greece
Mme, Leo. Delbes
Clichy-In-Garonne
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