Bond Deal Scandal Hits U S Credit, World Claims
The World editorialized from New York on February 21 alleging a bond deal between the government and financiers drained millions from the public purse. It criticizes secret sessions with bankers, a “dreadful operation,” and pressures on government credit compared with other markets. It notes bond prices and cites cities and states as price comparisons, urging accountability for the scandal.
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the World
United States
Dutmaks
Fiji Islands
Athol
Mass
Atholt
Boston
Hudson County
New Jersey
Lawrence
Musa
Congress
Harpies Scatterings and Loan News From London Markets
London financial notes report a massive subscription to the American loan with estimates suggesting twentyfold demand. Allotments likely next week as temporary capital lockups ease. Telegraph and Times cite heavy activity, with discounts around 4 to 9 percent. A bread promotion at Barston Meal Stouks accompanies this item in the Daily News.
State Oratorical Contest Tickets On Sale Now
Tickets for the State Oratorical Con test are on sale at Sim's Drug Store Promptness will secure good seats. The contest is set for the Grand Opera house Friday evening February 22.
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Sim
Grand Opera House
Silver Men Fight Bond Measure in Sundry Civil Bill
Silver senators met in Vasursoros on February 21 to block attaching a certificate of indebtedness to the sundry civil bill. They plan to oppose the loan amendment and talk the bill to death if the measure is not delayed.
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Vasursoros
Murderer James Gentry Recovers Sanity After Yorke Case
James B Gentry, killer of actress Madge Yorke, shows rational mind after his hospital statement to Magistrate Milligan and is expected to remain under care for weeks. Miss Yorke's remains were sent to New York for services at the Little Church Around the Corner and burial at Woodlawn cemetery.
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Madge York
Prtaneienta
James B. Gentry
Madge Yorke
Milligan
European Capitalista Orders Linked to Billion Dollar Bond Sale
The Rothschild firm stated the American loan subscriptions were covered about twenty times. They would not take any portion of the loan allotted to America. Paris subscriptions had not opened. local French investments were made here. Large funds were subscribed in England outside London, at par with London gains.
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Associated Press
Messrs. Rothschild
Europe
Messre
Rothschild
America
Paris
England
London
Loudou
Greek patriots death recalled in elder Greek revolt
Clatford Bozsaris killed by own men in Sanem Mass. Feb 2. Frank Constantine Victorato dies aged about 100 in his home. Born in the Ionian islands he fought in the Greek rebellion under Marco Bozzaris. He recalls the August 1823 night attack where 1,200 Greeks defeated 4,000 Turks. Victorato’s friars dispute accepted histories of the battle.
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Sanem
Mass
Frank Constantine Victorato
Mle
Ionian Islands
Marco Bozzaris
Victorate
Gorgaria
Libel on Kansans Describes Western Kansas Hardship
Novelist story reports B. W. Iat soliciting aid in St Josefa with tales of extreme western Kansas suffering. People reportedly eating horse flesh as cows are trained to draw plows to enable an upcoming spring crop.
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St. Josefa
B. W
Kansas
Fire and Gunpowder Fatality in Kas House Explosion
Feb 21 Fr Scott Kas. While preparing to retire Frank Pfeifer aged 19 dropped a spark from his pipe into an open drawer with about three pounds of gunpowder. The resulting explosion wrecked the large house, forced the roof out, probably fatally burning Pfeifer. A brother in the same room was hurled against a wall and badly injured.
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Kas
Frank Pfeifer
Young Pfeffer
Officer Kills Miner in Mont Saloon Fight
Berre Mont Feb 21 Policeman James Dwyer shot and instantly killed Owen Walsh a miner in Harrington Driscoll's saloon Walsh cut him above the left eye with a knife the officer fired into the wall to frighten him but Walsh fought on and the officer shot him through the heart also report a pursuit in Georgia a man shot during arrest and a Denver death from malignant scarlet fever plus local ads and notices
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Mont
James Dwyer
Owen Walsh
Harrington & Driscoll
Walsh
Women’s National council hears papers on reform and education
At the Feb 21 session Mrs. Sarah M. Kimball of Utah discussed Our sixth sense in higher education. Mrs. Louise Rockwood Verdeer reviewed Blary Carpenter’s industrial schools origins. Louisa Green Richards urged reform in schools and married women teachers. Mrs. Purdy Palmer called for male female cooperation in correctional work and emphasized factory and tenement inspections.
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Wasutscrox
Women's National Council
Sarah M. Kimball
Utah
Industrial Schools
Louise Rockwood Verdeer
Indiana
Blary Carpenter
Bristol
England
Louisa Green Richards
Woman's Exponent
Salt Lake City
Purdy Palmer
Providence
R. I
Raphael book case entertains judge on obscenity charge
J M Ference was arraigned in Justice Bradwell's court on selling obscene literature. The defense produced Eugene Martz's Raphael from the public library as evidence, and the judge quipped that Raphael would have been hauled to the criminal court if he lived in the city, art or no art.
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Chicago
Carexco
J. M. Ference
Bradwell
Eugene Martz
Raphael
DolgLaSS Funeral Planned at Metropolitan AME Church
Funeral arrangements for the late Fred Douglass are under way in Washington with services expected at the Metropolitan AME Church. Interment may occur at Mount Hope Cemetery Rochester where a Douglass daughter is buried. Death believed due to apoplexy by physicians, cause not final.
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Fred Douglass
Mount Hope Cemetery
Rochester
N. Y
Douglass
San
Graceland Cemetery
Metropolitan A. M. E
Jenifer
Lovers quarrel ends in fatal shooting at Wyman home
Mionie Dingat, 21, domestic, was shot and killed by Joseph Wyman, 25, at his Paulina Street residence. Wyman attempted suicide, firing twice, once in the cheek and once in the right shoulder, and was taken to the county hospital. The tragedy followed Dingat jilting her fiancé Phillip Woreh, three weeks earlier, and fleeing to Waukegan with Wyman.
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Fett
Mionie Dingat
Joseph Wyman
Wyman
Paulina Street
Wyman Thow
Phillip Woreh
Miss Dingat
Waukegan
Port Arthur generals condemned to prison then execution
Feb 21 news from Tren-Tsix reports an imperial decree ordering Kung ex taots of Port Arthur and General Wei Chi Cao condemned to prison until autumn and then executed for losing Port Arthur to Japan after trial by the board of punishment.
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Port Arthur
Tren-Tsix
Kung
Wei Chi Cao
Board of Punishment
Texas Sows Oats for Biggest Crop Ever
North Texas boosts oats plantings to record scale as June sun follows a dry fall and winter. Farmers plow and seed after snows left the ground pulverized, while a long dry spell hurt the preceding wheat crop.
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Dalas
Texas
Blackmail Trial Ends in Paris Press Ring Sentences
Paris court convicts Raoul Canivet and associates in a sprawling blackmail case targeting gambling clubs and newspapers. De Clercq, Hestler, and others receive prison terms and fines from fifteen months to five years, with Portelis and Portulis notes of default. Several defendants acquitted.
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M. Raoul Canivet
de Clercy
M. Girard
M. Hestler
France
M. Camille Dreyfus
Chamber of Deputies
Nation
M. Edouard Portelis
Antwerp
M. Portulis
M. Canivet
M. Trocard
de Clercq
Hestler
HOLLY SPRINGS ROUTE PROMOTES FLORIDA TRAVEL VIA ST LOUIS
A new line marketed as the quickest route to Birmingham and southeastern points touts through Pullman cars from St Louis to Jacksonville. Advertisements urge readers to contact agents or request a Florida Folder for full route details. Other items include a patriotic festival in Stockbridge, cholera news from Brazil, and medicinal ads for Beggs products.
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St. Louis
Cairo
St Louis
Mlinois Central Railroad
Hulls Springs
Southern Railway
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Florida
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Atlanta
Macon
Charleston
Savannah
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Pls
Guo
Lary
Agesat
Chinese Attack on Kumochang Repulsed in Manchuria
An official dispatch reports Chinese forces attacked Japanese troops at Kumochang Manchuria last Sunday but were repulsed with about thirty Chinese killed. Japanese incurred no losses. Prisoner accounts say 3000 infantry eight guns and 800 cavalry under General Sheung moved from Lieu Yang to Kumochang, with the vanguard numbering 1000 infantry and 800 cavalry.
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Yokoyama
Kumochang
Manchuria
Sheung
Lieu-Yang
Market Report Signals Mixed Wheat and Jumps in Cables
Feb 21 market summary notes wheat opening easy on receipts and crop rumors. Paris and Berlin firmer with early losses recovered. May wheat range 52 to 54 1/4 cents, corn steady, oats dull, provisions weak on hog receipts. Kansas City livestock steady to higher with cattle and hog prices listed. Sugar and cotton futures show varied activity as raw sugar market indicates steady refining and price levels.
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Paris
Berlin
Holliday
May Park
Sueer
Kansas
Kansas City
Texas
Misalasippi
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