Bonds Decided To Build Up Gold Reserve
Washington dated November 14 reports there is no longer any doubt that a bond issue is decided. A circular seeking bids will be issued within days to restore the gold reserve before heavy shipments exhaust treasury holdings. Carlisle consulted with the president and President Stewart of the United States Loan and Trust Co. about bond class and terms, confirming the forthcoming issue will match the February issue in amount rate and other key details.
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Washington
Carlisle
Stewart
United States Loan and Trust Company of New York
Growth in Money Order Offices Reaches 108 Percent
The post office auditor George A. Howard reports the number of money order offices rose from 9,382 on June 30, 1890 to 19,529 on June 30, 1894 an increase over 108 percent in four years. During the last fiscal year 1,095 offices were added. Total receipts from money orders and postage notes amounted to 165,235,129 while payouts totaled 157,983,566 to postmasters and offices.
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Washington
George A. Howard
Post Office Department
Kent murder trial opens in Mandan with scarce jurors
Mandan North Dakota November 14 The Kent murder case began with Frank M Nye district attorney of Hennepin county Minnesota assisting the prosecution. The jury panel was exhausted and only two jurors were obtained. The defendant is charged with murdering his wife Miss Laird of Minneapolis. He is also wanted at Medina Ohio for wrecking a bank.
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Mandan
N. D
Kent
Frank M. Nye
Hennepin County
Minn
National Non-Partisan W C T U meets in Washington PA
The National Non-Partisan W C T U opens its annual convention in Washington Pennsylvania and will run through Friday. The group split from the Women’s Christian Temperance Union by opposing a third party movement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W.C. T. U. Pittspurg
Washington, Pa
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Insurance Bills Aimed at Mutuals and Fire Safety
St. Paul November 14 Insurance Commissioner Smith will push bills in the upcoming legislature. One covers mutual insurance companies currently without state laws. Another regulates assessments of life insurers. A third creates the office of state fire marshal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Paul
Smith
Burglars Loot Lamar Store of Pool Bros Missing Cash and Diamonds
In Lamar Missouri on November 14 burglars entered Pool Bros. store, blew the safe, and took about 150 in cash 2700 in notes and around 1500 worth of diamonds and jewelry. They left a tin box containing several thousand dollars in bonds and notes.
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Lamar
Pool Bros
Government report on Great Railway Strike targets Managers Association
The federal labor commissioner's report to President Cleveland analyzes the General Managers' association linked to railroad wage disputes. It criticizes the unincorporated body for overreaching powers, warns against pooling, and urges government restraint and a permanent three member U S strike commission for railway labor disputes.
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Chicago
United States
Carroll D. Wright
John D. Kernan
New York
Nicholas E. Worthington
Illinois
Cleveland
General Managers’ Association
Pullman
Interstate Commerce Commission
Knights of Labor Open Convention In New Orleans
The Knights of Labor opened its annual convention in New Orleans with about 90 delegates as Powderly and Eugene V. Debs did not attend at noon. Governor Foster sent word he was ill. Colonel T. Sambda Jones read a governor’s letter and Mayor Fitzpatrick welcomed delegates. The eight to ten day session focuses on officer reports and future leadership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Powderly
Debs
New Oreans
Eugene V. Debs
Knights of Labor
Foster
T. Sambda Jones
Fitzpatrick
Grandmaster Sovereign
Knights
Sovereign
Seventeen Policemen Suspended Over Election Night Outrages
In CuicaGco, Nov 14, Inspector Schaack suspended seventeen policemen from the East Chicago avenue station for neglect of duty and disobedience of orders linked to widespread election day outrages. A Union League dinner of 344 members discussed the events and formed a 25 person committee to pursue charges and fund efforts to catch violators.
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CuicaGco
Inspector Schaack
Chicago Avenue
Gus Colliander
Union League Club
Joliet
Judge Cole Overrules Demurrer in Sugar Witness Cases
In Washington on November 14 Judge Cole of the United States district court DC overruled the demurrer in the cases of John W. McCartney and E R Chapman who refused to answer questions before the senate sugar committee. They are held for trial, a decision that affects Havemeyer Searles and Seymour and the newspaper men Edwards and Shriver who were indicted and must stand trial.
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Edwards
Shriver
Earthquake Kills One Hundred Near La Paz
Seismic shocks along Chilean coast and Bolivia around La Paz have killed about one hundred people within a 40 mile radius. The cathedral is unsafe and one tower collapsed. Local authorities report widespread damage and tremors in the region.
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la Paz
Bolivia
Chile
National Peoples party forms after Montgomery convention
A Montgomery Alabama convention of Jeffersonians Populists and supporters of Kolb adopts a National Peoples party name. Speakers claim ballot box fraud and threaten a force bill and potential militia action if the legislature does not correct the vote. The adjournment ends the gathering with no immediate government plan.
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Montcomery
Ala
Kelb
Committee On
Peoples and Jeffersonian Party
Jeffersonian
National Peoples Party
W. H. Skaags
Committee On Resolutions
Alabama
Kolb
Crow
Perry County
Peoples Party
Montgomery
Skaags
Waite's Thanksgiving Proclamation Cites Industrial Panics
Governor Waite warns in his Thanksgiving proclamation that recurring industrial and commercial panics threaten civilization. He calls monopoly-robbery under the law a curse that withers the energies of the people and urges conscientious regard for the industrial rights of all to secure religious and economic freedom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Waite
Accidental shooting kills 14-year-old in Minneapolis home
At 615 James Avenue North Caleb Corser ten-year-old son of F G Corser fatally shoots his sister Bessie 14 while playing with a revolver on a lower floor room. The trigger caught on cloth, the bullet entered her face near the nose and penetrated the brain.
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Minneapolis
Caleb Corser
F. G. Corser
Bessie
Corser
James Avenue North
McGann Narrowly Wins Chicago Congressional Seat
Congressman Lawrence E. McGann wins in Chicago by 70 votes over Belknap, the lone Democrat elected in the city. The official count shows his victory makes him a potential rival to John P. Hopkins for the Democratic mayoralty in the spring.
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Chicago
Lawrence E. McGann
Belknap
McGann
John P. Hopkins
General Cassius M. Clay Wins Marriage Battle
A Lexington telegram to The Post Dispatch reports General Cassius M. Clay, despite his children’s efforts, succeeded in getting married. The note highlights the family's opposition but confirms the wedding occurred.
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Str. Louis
Post Dispatch
Lexington
Cassius M. Clay
Wedding at Whitehall Unites Dora Richardson and Groom
A quiet ceremony joined Dora Richardson and her groom at Whitehall, the groom’s home, with only farm hands and relatives present. Squire Douglass conducted the service.
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Dora Richardson
Whitehall
Squire Douglass
Collapse Kills One in Philadelphia Construction
A wall of a new building under construction at 2438 Franford Avenue collapsed, killing one worker and seriously injuring six others who were present at the site.
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Philadelphia
Franford Avenue
Economic World conference opens on arbitration in Willard's hall
Noted economists and labor leaders gathered in Curiaco for a congress on arbitration and conciliation. President Lyman J. Gage opened with calls for public representation in labor disputes and prevention of conflict between capital and labor.
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Curiaco
Willard’s Hall
Lyman J. Gage
Chicago Civic Federation
Congress
Gage
Pullman
Professor Gould
John Hopkins University
Joseph Bishop
State Board of
Ohio
Springer
Illinois
Tawney
Minnesota
Josephine Shaw Lowell
New York
Washington Gladden
Divine
H. C. Adams
Interstate Commerce Commission
Gompers
The
Federation of Labor
P. J. McGuire
Carpenters
Garland
Amalgamated Iron and Steel Workers
L. S. Coffin
E. H. L. Gould
John Hopkin’s University
England
Continent
Strangler's Row Claims Another Victim in Denver
In Denver at 1 15 a m on November 14 Kaiku Oyama 24 a Japanese immigrant who ran No 1975 Market Street was found strangled. The killer who previously struck Lena Tapper and Marie Contassou in the same block choked and then tightened a towel around Oyama's throat. Several arrests have been made but no evidence ties any suspect to the murder.
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Denver
Colo
Market Street
Kaiku Oyama
Lena Tapper
Marie Contassou
Japan
Chicago
Indian agent reports stagnation among Sacs and Foxes at Tama
W R Ler ser, the Indian agent for the Sacs and Foxes at Tama Iowa reports 392 Indians living in 35 houses mainly in tepees. Most cling to blankets over civilized dress. He anticipated agricultural progress but finds none and notes no progress in schools.
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Washington
W. R. Lerser
Sacs
Foxes
Tama
Holt county treasurer Barrett Scott gets five years
A Neligh Nebraska dispatch reports Barrett Scott former Holt county treasurer who stole one hundred thousand five dollars was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary.
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Omaha
Bee
Neligh
Neb
Barrett Scott
Holt County
Man Arrested for Attempted Check Raising in City
A man who gave the name Frank Monroe was arrested on November 14 for attempting to cash a certificate raised from 15 to 1500 dollars issued by the Crocker-Woolworth bank of San Francisco. Police say he is a professional check raiser.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denaver
Frank Monroe
Crocker-Woolworth Bank of
San Francisco
Monroe
Bank Robbery in Silvan Grove Ends in Tragic Firing
Three masked bandits rob a Silvan Grove bank. A wounded robber dies after being shot by the cashier John Galene, then his comrades shoot him to prevent exposure. Bank offers 200 reward per outlaw. sheriffs’ units search. Also note a Kentucky marriage of Cassius Clay to Dora Richardson, aged 15.
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Santina
Kan
Silvan Grove
Here
John Galene
Cook
Indian Territory
Rico Mono
Cassius Marcellus Clay
Whitehall
Dora Richardson
General Clay
America
Lincoln
Russia
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Lowell
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Hood
Lenniie
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T. Mountain
North Dakota
Lennie West
Mountain
Money Order Offices
Switchmen’s Mutual Aid Association of North America
St. John
General Margers’ Association
Combine
Pullman Palace Car Company
Mont
Gomery
Colorado
Bap Cowan
K. C. MeLix, Esq
Kempasville
Princess Anne Co
K. C. McLain
U.S
the Economic World
His
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