Turpentine and Grain Clashes in State News Summary
State items report a $5,000 fire at an East district plant on the night of the 31st, $30,000 loss at the Methodist Female College in Murfreesboro, sale of White Sulphur Springs for $20,000, and first cucumber shipment by W H Bray from New Bern. Other notes include a gallows erection for Tony Rogers, property tax listings in Craven County, railroad stock subscriptions, and various local crop forecasts and weather impacts across counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Methodist Female College
Murfreesboro
Mount Airy
Rufus Aports
W.H. Bray
New Berne Journal
Tony Rogers
Rockingham Rocket
Register of Deeds of Craven
Kinston Free Press
James City
Warrenton Record
T. P. Jerman
Journal
New Berne
Stanly News
Concord Standard
Henderson
Gillburg
Epsom
Steedsville
Sys
Danbury
Burlindton and Southwestern
Meckenburg
Davidson
Caldwell
Elion News
Lexington Dispatch
Bank and Commercial Failures Sweep the Nation
A flood of bank and business failures crosses the nation from Kansas City to Milwaukee. The Kansas Grain Company and Shoe and Leather National Bank announce losses and liquidations. Savings banks in Sandusky Chicago and Milwaukee warn depositors as runs surge. Assignments and receiver actions touch Caro Cortland Nishoff & Co and other firms. Public confidence wavers amid widespread insolvencies and bank runs across multiple states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Kansas Grain Company
H. M. Kirkpatrick
New York
Shoe and Leather National Bank
Canal Street Bank
Sandusky
Ohio
Sandusky Savings Bank
Illinois Trust and Savings Bank
Globe Saings Bank
Schaffner & Co
Chicago
West Lynchburg
Cumberland Gap Hotel and Improvement Company
Chattanooga
Jule
Exchange Bank
Plankinton Bank
Milwaukee
Minn
Plankinton
Second Ward
Curiaco
Grant Locomotive Works
Defiance
Andrew Suez Savings Bank
Philadelphia
Samuel F. Prince Steam
Rugland
Manitowoc
Wis
Meadowcraft Brothers
Dearborn Street
Lyman E. Crandall
Superior Court
Arun
Dime Savings Bank
Washington Street
Robert C. Clowry
Western Union Telegraph Company
C. B. Farwell
Bailey
Hibernian Bank
Prairie State Savings Bank
West Side
Second Ward Bank
South Side Savings Bank
F. T. Day
Plankington Bank
Wichita
Kansas
Francis Whitaker Packing Company
Reprorp
Ind
Bedford Bank
Courtland
Neb
Cutcaco
Nishoff & Co
Bank of Washburn
Shell Lake Savings Bank of Wisconsin
CaatTanoona
Tenn
Miners' War Veteran Sentenced to Seven Years
D R Monroe, a miner involved in the Coal Creek war last August, was sentenced at Clinton to seven years in the penitentiary. The report notes the dramatic blast and the ongoing closure of the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knoxville
Tenn
D. R. Monroe
Clinton
Explosion Destroys Hustler Office in Kentucky Town
In Cattlettsburg Kentucky on June 5 the Hustler weekly office was destroyed when unknown assailants placed dynamite under the door last night at about 11. The paper edited by Rev J J Dickey was noted as the sole cause of the county local option law recently passed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cattletsburg
Breathett County
Hustler
J. J. Dickey
Fearful Fire at Fargo Threatens City
A heavy wind sparked a blaze in Faroeo North Dakota at 2 p m. burning 225 business houses and residences. The fire, not yet under control, looms over the business district bounded by the Western Union office the Headquarters Hotel and the Northern Pacific depot toward the Great Northern line to Red River. About 2200 people lose homes with losses estimated at 3 million dollars. aid was dispatched from Grand Forks on a special train at 4 40 p m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilkesboro
Ben Tedder
Traphill
Hack Bilings
Billings
John Crawford
Canady
Monroe
W. C. Steele
Steele
Mr. Steele
The
Monroe Enquirer
Shallote
Brunswick County
Moses Milliken
Shallotte
Isaac Milliken
Wilmington Star
W. J. Weatherly
Greensboro
A. M. Tomlinson
Richmond
Jordan Lindsay
Lindsay
Policeman Cheek
Dave Scott
Aleigh
Winston Sentinel
Red Springs Statesman
Hotel Townsend
Red Springs Lumber Company
Parmelo
Bethel
Greenville
Beaufort
Cape Cockout
Isabella Bogart
Washington
W. A. Denmark
Joe
Reidsville
Barnette Moore
Brooklyn
N. Y
J.S. Ritter
Franklinsville
C. F
Shelby Aurora
J. M. Norcross
Blacksburg Mining Co
Cleveland
Faroeo
North Dakota
Durig
Grand Forks
Western Union Telegraph Office
Northern Pacific
Great Northern Railroad
Red River
Virginia Red Hot Campaign Opens With Bitter Attacks
In Ricamont Virginia on June 7 the Democratic nomination race for Governor heats up with W R Alexander of Augusta attacking Congressman O Ferrall in reply to a prior insult. Both men are hotheaded and may spark trouble. Populists plan a full ticket and campaign themes include silver coinage, tax equalization, and election law changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ricamont
W. R. Alexander
Augusta County
O'Ferrall
Alexander
O’ferrall
Virginia
Bank Robbers Corralled in Bentonville Arkansas
Farmer Stone is alive but not expected to recover after three gun battles with bank robbers. The posse lost five horses killed in action and six wounded. A dead bandit was found across the state line. marshal Copeland pursues the gang into the Nation. The bank remains sound and stockholders offer a 1000 dollar reward plus half of recovered money, total about twelve thousand dollars secured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Herald
Briggs
New Berne Journal
Old Fort
McDowell County
Jennie Kirkland
Disseway
Watauga
Boone Democrat
J. H. Michael
Tyre
Lexington Dispatch
Winston Republican
James Haymore
Pilot Mountain
Mat Jones Fund
Pitt
Paul Eudy
Pioneer Mills
Concord Standard
Farmville Township
Greenville
R L Rycroft
Granville County
Trinity College
Danbury
Hickory Press
Carolinian
J. L. Murphy
General Synod of the
German Reformed Church
Reading
Catawba College
L. J. Johnson
Hamlet
Sam
Durham Sun
Durham Globe
Greensboro College
Lacey McGee
Raleigh & Augusta Airline
G. E Lemmon
Chatham Record
Messie, Hackburn and Willett
Rockingham
Burke
Morganton
C. V. Henkel
Fleming's Ford
Lenoir Ellott Stutts
South
Guilford County
Wilson Mirrior
Lizzie Anderson
Wilson
Martin Byrd
Theouthern
Roanoke Beacon
Lemuel Peacock
Roper
R. M. Peacock
Bentonville
Ark
Stone
Patton
Grimsly
Starr
United States
Copeland
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State News
William Battle
Harvard
Ity
Littleton Courier
Rhodes
Statesville
Hidden
London
James Delap
Thomasville
N. C
North Carolina
New Lutheran Church
Fourth Street
Cape Hatteras
Boyd
Hiendertonville
Rocky Mount
Carr
Albert Manefield
Mocksville Scotland Neck
McJounellaville
D. C
Lichtning
R . Johnston
Lincolnton
Newton Enterprise
J. H. Young
Iredell
Island Ford
Catawba
Green, Foy & Co
Citizens’ Bank of
Bekereville
Tom” Buchanat
Wm. Greene
Bakersville
Goldsboro
Duplin
Sampson
William Wilmouth
Robert Carady
Dobson
Brim
United States Court
A P Long
Cates Mill
Roxboro Courier
Maxton
Geo. A. Smith
Young Smith
Sandy Smith
Laurinburg Exchange
Elizabeth City
Chowan Baptist Association
Plymouth
Treasury Department
High Point Enterprise
Jeff Nelson
Jamestown
Carolina
Scotland Neck
Rutherford
J. W. Harris
Wilmington Review
Clinton Loan Association
First National Bank
Wilmington
Superior Court of Larceny
Octavious Cully
Ed. Bryan
Blades Bros’, Mill
Caroline White
Presbyterian Church
Kugler
Washington Gazette
Shelby Review
George Hunt
Golden Valley
Rutherford County
Hunt
Hunts
R. R. Wakefield Esq
Bumgarners
James Maat
Sarah Starnes
Caladonia
Graham and
Gilbreth
Davis
Ben Trolinger
John Tate
Ruffin
Alamante Gleaner
Stanly
Frank Morgan
Lindsay Lowder
Hatley
Morgan
Kentucky
Fargo
Virginia Red Hot
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