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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1906
Page
10
In Belville, Bethany Bros bank falls prey to a bold counterfeit theft amounting to about $60,000. A gang using a drugged plan and a time lock device manipulated by Meinert deceives staff. recoveries total about $48,000 with arrests after a nighttime bank raid and a minister-coin scam unraveling through careful detective work.
Securities totaling 4.5 million dollars representing Empire Sugar Refining company's entire capitalization were sold at public auction in Adrian Muller's rooms in New York. The firm, linked to Adolph Segal whose loans affected the Metato Trust of Philadelphia, fetched only 9000 dollars.
John F. Stevens, chief engineer of the Panama canal, said construction has begun on a large earth dam at La Buen. Preliminary work is under way with track laying, and a new town will rise on Sosa Hill near Gatun as La Buen’s old town is replaced. One steam shovel is on site with two more expected within a month.
Sixty families of Kaput, a German settlement northeast of Kewanee Illinois established fifty years ago, petition to rename the community to Brandenburg. The proposed change reflects the derisive meaning of Kaput as "broke" while the settlement is described as well to do.
Loren A. Walling of Ohio avenue endures a sequence of broken bones and dislocations across months after falls and a shelving impact. Walter Tyner of the American rolling mill suffers burns from hot scrap iron, injuries from a heavy sheet iron collision, and a burst blood vessel in his left ankle. Weather and market quotes follow for Illinois Indiana Wisconsin Iowa and Chicago grains with livestock and hay prices and receipts noted.
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