Telegraphic Gleanings Highlights From World News
The Reynoldsville woolen mills in Reynoldsville Pennsylvania burned, losses reach 100000 with 75000 insured. Fort Scott’s oldest bank suspends payment. A British steamer arrives in Cardiff under quarantine for cholera. A Denver dry goods company closes on attachments. Sparrows Point steel furnace closes, 800 workers lose jobs. Naptha explosion in Brooklyn sweatband factory kills four. National Republican League HQ closes in New York. Grand Trunk train in Chicago hits streetcar, several dead and many injured. Boiler makers strike in St Louis with nine hour workday demand. Ada Ohio bank fails. owner Peter Ahlfeld among wealthiest in area. Alice Reed reaches Delaware breakwater. both mates suffer yellow fever. Lone Mountain foundries close. Ten thousand unemployed. Death by banker's assets reveal low payouts. First national jewelry and watchmakers convention opens in Chicago. French Siamese conflict. forts captured on Mekong. French losses heavy. Amoskeag cotton mill shuts for August. largest US mill employs 8000. London fire destroys 30 buildings. large area damaged, losses estimate 1.5 million pounds. Shoemakers strike in St Louis. wage cuts spark wider walkouts. Cholera spreads among Moscow poor. prison removals feared. Dempsey pardon bid faces setback in Pittsburgh. Birmingham workers shift to Kansas as strikebreakers warned of possible bloodshed. Lick Observatory reports a companion comet with the same tail. A detective team escorts Henry Meyer, exposure-prisoner for insurance money, to New York. Westbrook Mills to shut July 24 to Sept 1. payroll $20000 monthly. Santa Fe uncovers frauds totaling $17000 monthly on Topeka–Chicago division. Payroll padding scheme implicated in many road officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reynoldsville Woolen Mills
Reynoldsville
First National Bank of
Fort Scott
Kansas
Blue Jacket
Marseilles
Cardiff
McNamara Dry Goods Company
Denver
Col
Maryland Steel Company
Sparrows Point
J. D. Campbell
Walworth Street
Brooklyn
N. Y
National Republican League
New York
Chicago
Grand Trunk Road
St. Louis
Rohan, Brothers
Wingler, Garstand
O’brien
Citizens Bank of
Ada
Hardin County
Ohio
Peter F. Ahlfield
Alice Reed
Gienfuegos
Delaware
Chateauguay Ore and Iron Company
Lone Mountain Pa
Crown Point Iron Works
Herman Schaffner
Jewelers and Watchmakers
Illinois
Pennsylvania
Mississippi
Alabama
Newton Dexter
Business Men’s Association
New York State
Donthane
Tapham
Mekong
Boston
Gunner's
Hamilton-Brown Shoe Company
West
London
Moscow
Russia
St. Petersburg
France and Siam clash as French gunboats enter Bangkok river
Bangkok reports twenty Siamese killed and fourteen wounded in the Meinam river fort clashes with French gunboats Comete and Inconstante, which forced the bar passage despite Siamese bans. Washington notes twenty American missionaries in Siam amid rising hostilities. State Dept reports minimal official news as France advances toward Bangkok. US considers sending a vessel if needed. Gladstone says foreign office has no word of active hostilities and relies on French assurances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Bangkok
Siam
Meinam River
State Department
Boyd
United States
Concord
China
England
House of Commons
Gladstone
Foreign Office
Trade Review Signals Tentative Improvement Across Regions
Dun and Co reports a slightly easier money market and a modestly better tone in business, though no clear improvement yet. Orders remain small, shipments and real estate activity are down, and collections lag in several cities. Nashville and Montgomery show progress, while New Orleans and Augusta remain muted. Failures total 374 nationwide versus 168 a year earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dun & Co
R. G. Dun & Co
Review of Trade
Louisville
Nashville
Montgomery
Little Rock
Columbus
Atlanta
Augusta
Mobile
New Orleans
United States
Mobile Register Assigns After Heavy Debt Load
The Mobile Register Company publishers of the daily and weekly Mobile Register went into an assignment Tuesday night. Years of indebtedness from a lawsuit over paper possession, with floating debts, strained finances. John L. Rapier principal stockholder and president urged the move to cut expenses and ease pressure until recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Ala
Register Company
Daily
Weekly Register
South
John L. Rapier
Governor Northen Seeks Georgia Banking History Paper
Governor Northen has tasked George R. DeSaussure of the Exchange Bank of Atlanta with preparing a history of Georgia banking and an overview of current banking laws. The paper will be part of the records for the congress of bankers and financiers in Chicago in June. DeSaussure is contributing recent articles on financial questions and is praised for his capability despite his youth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northen
Georgia
George R. DeSaussure
Exchange Bank of Atlanta
Congress of Bankers and Financiers
Chicago
DeSaussure
Throughout the South Notes of Progress on Many Fronts
Georgia historian Colonel C C Jones died at his home near A Wednesday morning after Bright's disease. Kentucky distiller E H Taylor Jr. assigned to Lexington Trust Company. A large fire at Susanville, Colo, destroyed sixty buildings and caused about 250000 dollars loss. Various other notes include suicides, legal rulings, refitting Farragut’s Hartford, pension fraud cases in Knoxville, a train holdup near Nashville, dispensary openings in South Carolina, and a mint embezzlement arrest in New Orleans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. C. Jones
Georgia
Jones
Bright
E. H. Taylor, Jr
Frankfort
Lexington Trust Company
Susanville
Col
Gadsden Als
Monroe
Herstein
Lowenthal & Herstein
Herstein & Lowenthal
Huntsville
San Diego
Cal
Charles A. Briggs
Presbyterian General Assembly
Parker
Briggs
Valero
Stillwater, Minn
Johnson
Chattanooga
Henry Billingsley
Wilson
Henry Wilson
Texas
W. H. Wallace
Lebanon
Tenn
St. Louis
Columbia
St. Matthews
Orangeburg
Manning
Clarendon
California
San Francisco
Union Stock Yards Company
Rodeo
Contra Costa County
5. C
Pope
Hudson
Darlington
United States
Wright
Dowling
Miners Clash With Strikers In Weir City Bloodshed
A Weir City dispatch reports a violent clash at Clement's pit twelve miles south of town as strikers attack peaceful workers. More than one hundred shots fired, wounds to several, and a mob pursuit of retreating strip miners threatens further bloodshed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weir City
Kansas
Kan
Clement's Pit
Clement
First Victim of Charleston Dispensary Law
Proceedings began in Charleston at midnight when six governor's constables raided Vincent Chicco's posada on Market Street seizing goods under a trial justice warrant and an injunction. Mob pressure, bail set, and ongoing arrests followed as crowds denounced the action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
Vincent Chicco
Market Street
Chicco
Gaillard
State Constabulary
Hayne Pepper
Growth of the South Reports Rapid Industry Expansion
A weekly industrial review notes 57 new enterprises or incorporations across the South and border states. Charleston WV gains a gas company with 500000 capital. Greenville AL forms Steiner Land and Lumber with 250000. Winchester NC sees a tobacco factory planned by P H Hanes & Co. New Orleans the Illinois Central funds a 300000 bushel grain elevator. Houston TX charters Lottman Bros Manufacturing at 100000. Additional plants include cotton mills, a cotton compress, canning works, flour mills, ice factories, coal and copper mines, oil mills, tanners, gins, elevators, a knitting mill, and multiple wood product concerns. Major new buildings listed in TX, VA, KY, GA, NC, FL, and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South
Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia Fuel Gas Company
Land and Iumber Company
Greenville
Ala
Steiner Land and Lumber Company
Winchester
N. C
P. H. Hanes & Co
Frank Oliver and
Capital
Denison
Tex
P. H. Tobin
Riverside Cotton Mill Company
Statesville
H. Gilbert
Big Stone Gap
Ayers Coal Company
Abbeville
Hopkinsville
Mayfield
Morganton
Martinsburg
W- Va
Dalton
Shuqnalak
Miss
Nashville
Caseide
Ark
Hefl N
Alexandria City
Macon
Blackville
Ninety-six
8. C
Gainesville
Fla
Springvale
Wadeville
N.C
Elko
Memphis
Tenn
Tom's Creek
Lenn
Buena Vista
Bonham
Waxahachie
Whitney S
Houston
Burlington
Campu la
Brenham
Texas
Savanash
Charlottesville
Louisville
Wheelng
Hammond
Gaineville
Fia
Chaanooza, Tenn
Three Receivers Named for Richmond and Danville Railroad
Judge Goff of the eastern district of Virginia appointed Samuel Spencer FW Huidekoper and Reuben Foster as receivers for the Richmond and Danville Railroad and leased lines under Central Trust Company of New York. Bonds of 100000 each were required. Appointment supports reorganization by Drexel Morgan. Foreclosure of five percent bonds and sale of property anticipated.
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Baltimore
Goff
Unite States Circuit Court
Eastern District of
Virginia
Central Trust Company of New York
Samuel Spencer
FW. Huidekoper
Reuben Foster
Richmond and
Danville
Spencer
Drexel-Morgan Banking House of
New York
Richmond
Foster
Huidekoper
Bond
Clyde
Hnidekoper and
Washington Gossip from Day to Day in the Capital
The piece notes the fluctuating gold reserve around 98 million dollars, White House renovations during the president’s absence at Buzzards Bay, and pension roll changes since March 4, 1893. It reports on Gresham receiving a cabinet update from Nicaragua, new consular appointments, naval movements, post office staffing needs, and a state department reform introducing a unified clerical assignment system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buzzard’s Bay
White House
Gresham
Baker
Leon
Zavilla
Charles T. Wilder
Hawaiian Islands
California
Oregon
Nevada
Washington
Charles Henrotte
Turkey
Chicago
Erskine M. Phelps
Republic of
Colombia
Brook
San Francisco
Atlantic
Chemulpo
Corea
Whiting
Callao
Peru
Corrinto
Leoh
United States Custom House
Treasury Department
Hamlin
Dolphin
New York
Newport
New London
Boston
Portsmouth
N. H
Machias
Jones
Post Office Department
New York City
Treasury
Department of State
Thomas Jefferson
William S. Campbell
Rotterdam
State Department
Wells Fargo opens New York bank with capital of 500000
Wells Fargo & Co opens a New York bank with 500000 capital paid in cash and a 3500 000 surplus. Each share sold at 200. The bank will operate as a discount and deposit house in New York City. Wells Fargo already runs banks in San Francisco and Salt Lake City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Wells, Fargo & Co
Albany
Preston
State Banking Department
New York City
Wells-Fargo Express Company
San Francisco
Salt Lake City
Funeral of Eight Unidentified Fire Victims in Chicago
A Friday ceremony for eight unidentified fire victims featured a funeral car with eight coal black horses, escorted by a guard of honor from the dead army officers, Columbian Guards and police. Army officers on duty at the fair attended, along with fifty Columbian guards, ten sergeants led by Captain Schunk and Lieutenants Ely and Sage, and fire department details. Civic societies with membership in common attended among the citizens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Army
Capitan Schunk
Ely
Sage
Fire Department
Tongue Twisters From The London Tid Bits Prize List
The London Tid Bits offered a prize for top tongue twisters. Notable items include six thick thistle sticks, flesh of freshly fried flying fish, the sea ceaseth and it sufficeth us, high roller lower roller, a box of mixed biscuits, two toads tired to Tedbury, and several dense alliterative lines featuring names like Oliver Oglethorp Hobbs Nobbs and Snobbs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Grimes Jim
Tedbury
Stephen Stringer
Haddock
Robert Rowley
Oliver Oglethorp
Hobbs
Snobbs
Nobbs
Jobs
What Educates Your Child in Everyday Life
A reflection on how daily examples shape a son. The speech argues education occurs constantly through social rank, conversations, transactions, and behavior. Parents must model virtue since youth are keen observers, impressions from childhood lasting.
Perilous seat at Arthur’s round table legend
The Pittsburgh Dispatch recalls a legend linked to King Arthur and Merlin. Merlin allocated twelve seats for loyal knights of Jesus Christ and a thirteenth for the traitor Judas. The chair remained vacant until a surpassing knight might fill it, and an unworthy occupant was repelled by magic. The thirteenth seat earned the name perilous seat after a Saracen knight allegedly sank into the earth when he sat there, a superstition that has endured.
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Arthur
Round Table
Merlin
Jesus Christ
Judas
Knights of the Round Table
Pittsburg
Fragmented ad heavy OCR notes on medicine and morals
A collage of 19th century magazine style snippets promoting tonics and cures. References to Hostetter's Stomach Bitters Brown's Iron Bitters Beecham's Pills and Hal's Catarrh Cure appear amid moralizing lines. Mentions of poverty, children, and small moral anecdotes echo a period advertising page tone.
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Brown
Syrup of Figs Promises Gentle Laxative Benefits
An advertisement extols Syrup of Figs as a pure liquid laxative that cleanses the system and aids kidneys liver and bowels without weakening them. It touts broad health benefits, universal medical approval, and urges purchase from druggists in 50c and 1 bottles, made only by the California Fig Syrup Co.
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California Fig Syrup Co
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Hugh Dempsey
Knights of Labor
Patrick J. Gallagher
Dempsey
Leavenworth
Birmingham
San Jose
Lick Observatory
Henry A. W. Meyer
Beteen
Detroit
Ters
Gustav A. J. Baum
Ludwig Brandt
Westbrook Manufacturing Company
Portland
Topeka
Santa Fe
France
Trade Review
Mobile Register
Assigns
Tillman
R & EC
Washington Gossip
Earil
Hood
D. M.ordan
D. M. Jonpax
Edimeston
Nexdoor
Dot
Lensworth & Co
Owego, Tioga
E. D. Loomis
Mich
Hal
Isaac Thompson
Beecham
Beecham's
Cts
U. S
Opi
B. M. Woolley
M.D
Whitehall St
Soi
M. M. Beuster
Bradfield Regulator CO
Atlaska
Tulane University of Louisiana
Eatalogue Soch
E. Chaille
Roxa Ae Chemical
York
Roy C
P. Lovell Arms Co
Thomson
Judson L. Thomson Mfg. CO
Apes Walthan
Mass
Bingha U
Seh
Alton
South Carolina
T. J. Felder
Atlanta, Ga
H_ EATON
Miltonboro
Goitre
E. A. Bond
P. M
Pavilion Centre
N.Y
Warren Street
Hamilton Place
Atlas Tack Corporation
WarrHouses
Philadelphia
Lynn
Taunton
Fairhaven
Whitman
Duxbury
Plymouth
Cardus
Chattanooga Med. CO
Herry
Express
Housh & Co
Washington St
State Normal College
R. Eiridge
Tray
Coox Reuter Co
Sir
E. T. Hazeltine
Warren
Kon
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