Fusion drives three party pact across Colorado conventions
Denver Sept 12 Fusion is the aim of the Democratic Silver Republican and Populist state conventions meeting in Denver. Committees on fusion and office division were named. A platform backs free silver 16 to 1 eight hour day and fusion of silver parties while denouncing Wolcott. Galveston relief drive raises $900 in minutes.
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Denver
B. F. Montgomery
Texas
Supreme Court
Wolcott
Charles$. Thomas
United States
Edward O. Wolcott
Wall Street
Colorado
Galveston
Teller
White Cotton Screwmen’s Organization
Barker Search Ends as Populist Candidate Found in Chicago
Wharton Barker of Philadelphia, candidate for president of the Populists, was missing for three hours in Chicago after arriving from Detroit. A large hunt at hotels and stations failed to locate him before he postponed departure to Indianapolis. He discussed Illinois affairs with the state committee and projected vote totals in Georgia and Texas.
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Chicago
Wharton Barker
Philadelphia
Detroit
Welington
Parker
Indianapolis
Illinois
Barker
Georgia
Texas
Planing Mill Fire Destroys Hermansville Lumber Plant
A Sentinel report states fire consumed the Wisecon sin Land and Lumber company planing mill in Hermansville, Milwaukee area. The blast damaged floor and facilities with no total loss figure yet available.
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Milwaukee
Wiseconsin Land and Lumber Company
Hermansville
Bank failure legacy fuels Cedar Springs unrest
Cedar Springs Michigan on September 12 reports rising unrest linked to the three month old bank failure involving F. L. Fuller. Tension grows as residents resort to public demonstrations and effigy threats amid ongoing banking dispute.
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Cedar Springs
Mich
F. L. Fuller
Condition of General McClernand Worsens in Springfield
Springfield dispatch reports General John A. McClernand in rapid decline. He grows weaker and cannot take nourishment or communicate, while his vitality appears almost exhausted. Five civilized tribes of Indian Territory are described as no longer a savage race.
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Springfield
Lls
John A. McClernand
Five Civilized Tribes
Indian Territory
Chicago Live Stock and Midwest Grain Markets Report
The Chicago live stock market reportsReceipts hogs 19000 cattle 4500 sheep 14000 with diverse price ranges for pigs light rough packing mixed and heavy packing and shipping lots and varied cattle quotes across grades. East Buffalo reports cattle 1 car veals 5.00 7.75 hogs Yorkers 5.80 5.85 pigs 5.70 5.75 mixed 5.75 5.80 heavy 5.75 and grass ers 5.55 5.70 sheep and lambs steady. St Louis posts grain prices with No 2 red wheat 73 75c and related futures. milwaukee notes firm wheat and rye with several prices listed.
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Chicago
Texas
East Buffalo
N. Y
Dunning & Stevens
Live Stock Commission
Galveston Relief Faces Mass Loss and Urgent Aid
Reports from Galveston describe 5 000 to 8 000 dead with thousands homeless and destitute. Debris burial in trenches, water works repair underway, and aid shipments and National Guard mobilization amid martial law as looting surges.
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Lawrence
Houston
Brazoria County
Washington
Meikelsohn
St. Louis
Galveston
Oury
National Guard
Scurry
Catastrophe in Galveston Described From Houston
Post special from Houston recalls the deadly hurricane that struck Galveston. It portrays terror, despair, and a city submerged as 40 000 residents faced certain death with no aid nearby. Winds near 100 mph, blackout ensued, and the sea rose while ships and lights failed. The storm peaked Saturday night and eased Sunday morning.
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Chicago
The
Post
Houston
Tex
Galveston
Bay
Gulf
Washington
United States Weather Bureau
Government Observatory
Elopement of Eaton and Cooper. pursued by parents
Albert Eaton and Grace Cooper, living ten miles south of Warsaw, eloped Sunday night and were captured Monday by the girl’s parents at Alexandria, Missouri. The couple, not yet married, were traced after the mother woke to find her daughter missing and buggy tracks at the gate.
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Quincy
Ills
Albert Eaton
Grace Cooper
Warsaw
Alexandria
Miss Cooper
Eaton
Hamilton
Keokuk
Keokuk Bridge
Elopers
German speed ships raise war trade fears in Britain
London reports Hamburg American Line’s Deutschland rapid passage stirs wide interest and prompts warnings the British fleet could be outpaced in wartime commerce. Cunard acknowledges Germany’s fast vessels and government support, stressing cost limits and ongoing speed development. Chicago boxing results list six round decisions and draws at Tattersall's. La Crosse Brewing incorporation files with 1.2 million capitalization and a 350 thousand dollar plant, 500 thousand barrel capacity. Michigan secretary fixes wheat crop near seven bushels per acre with 12 percent of last year still undelivered.
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London
Deutschland
Eagland
Daily Chronicle
Cunard Line
Germany
Chicago
Tattersall
Morris Rausch
Tommy Feltz
Brooklyn
Billy Botchford
Hugh McPadden
Johnny Reagan
Clarence Forbes
Tommy Sullivan
Buddy Ryan
Cal Hawkins
California
Jim Popp
Canada
Billy Stift
Barney Conors
Lansing
Mich
Stearns
Michigan
Wall at Swift & Co plant collapse kills laborer
In St. Joseph Missouri a brick wall eighty four feet long and five stories high part of an addition to Swift and Co packing plant was blown down by a wind storm Monday night. Laborer M Smith was killed by falling bricks and O B Reeder was seriously injured and may die.
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St. Joseph
Swift & Co
M. Smith
O. B. Reeder
Wreck of New York fast mail train No 5 at Effingham
The Vanalalia line fast mail No 5 wrecked in Effingham Illinois on Monday morning. Engineer Idler was severely hurt. fireman John Peters escaped serious injury after leaping from the engine. Interlocking switch left open caused the accident. no passengers were seriously hurt. In London, delegates on the North German Lloyd steamer Trave arrived and many will proceed to Philadelphia or New England as tour plans collapse.
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Effingham
Ills
New York
Idler
John Peters
Trave
Christian Endeavor
London
Europe
West
Philadelphia
New England
Boy Impaled on Picket Fence in Detroit
Detroit Sept 10 Arthur Dufore an 11 year old boy is in serious condition at St Marys hospital after playing follow the leader he walked along a picket fence at Nineteenth and Baker streets he slipped fell and hung from the pickets a pointed stake penetrated his abdomen in the incident
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Detroit
Mich
Arthur Dufore
St. Mary’s Hospital
Nineteenth
Baker Streets
Seventy three elites count for large Chicago population total
Seventy three elites have a combined population of 15 214 566. Chicago recorded 444 deaths last week as the latest health update and city census notes.
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Chicago
Grace Mines In Durango Recovered From Mexican Claimants
Mrs Mary Grace, principal of the Tompkins school in Syracuse, seeks to recover her silver mines near Nombre de Dios Durango after Mexican claimants seized the property seven years ago. Lawyers Luis de la Barra and Francisco O Rielly travel to negotiate a final settlement as Guggenheimer Bros arrange ore contracts. Equipment valued near 1 million dollars was destroyed or stolen, leaving the mines stripped and operable output halted. Grace’s son William J. Grace oversees operations from the site 600 miles north of Mexico City.
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Syracuse
N. Y
City of Mexico
Luis de la Barra
Francisco O'Rielly
Mary D. Grace
Durango
Mexico
Grace
Tompkins School
San Francisco
Guggenheimer Bros
New York
William J. Grace
Inez
Nombre de Dios
City of
Tax Ferrets Face End As Court Voids County Contracts
Cedar Rapids Iowa Sept 12 The Minnesota Supreme Court ruling voids county contracts to pay for locating hidden tax delinquencies. Iowa counties expect injunctions to halt ferret payments, ending a practice that has netted some workers about 15000 dollars in Linn County and similar counties.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Board of
Linn County
Police trace counterfeit operation to Lakeside hotel room
Racine police locate a hotel room in Lakeside where a gang passed bogus money for three weeks. Found were 17 dollars in lead dollars and half dollars plus plaster casts for coin molds, with papers indicating suspects. A raid failed as room was deserted. the money flow was primarily to Lakeside workers.
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Racine
Wis
Lakeside
Tibbits Shot After Baseball Dispute in LaCrosse
In LaCrosse Wisconsin on September 12 a dispute over baseball led to Will Tibbits being fatally shot by Clarence Hastings at Bad Ax. Hastings faces a gunfire accusation as the investigation proceeds.
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LaCrosse
Wis
Jim ‘Tibbits
Clarence Hastings
Bad Ax
Maryland man sues for mortgage foreclosure in Marion
Stephen J. Seneca of Havre de Grace Maryland sues Keystone Hub Block Company of Marion in the circuit court to foreclose a $20000 mortgage claiming missed payments.
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Marion, Ind
Stephen J. Seneca
Havre de Grace
Keystone Hub Block Company
Marion
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Albion, Ills
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Albion
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Washingtonspatch
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Chicago Grain and Produce
Milwaukee Grain
Chicago Board of Trade Today
Springs
Ohio
Royal Oaking
Relief Committee
Walter C. Jones
Hans
Tattersall's
LaCrosse Brewing Company
Joseph Boschert
Endeavorers
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Bogus Mint
Atlantic
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Rus Hoyt
Cumberland
Hattie Spies
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Sioux City
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Great Northwest
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Duluth
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Washington, Iowa
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I. M. Sproull
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W. C. Nelson
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Miksch
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T. G Mason
H. Knecht
Journal
T. M. Reynolds
M. L. Logan
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Valag
W. E. Anderson
Klein's
Ashington
J. F. Poage
Osteopath
American School of Osteopath
First National Bank
Joseph Pollard, Jr
Marsh W. Bailey
C. Ju. Wilson
Attorney At Law
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W. H. Butterfield
Crall
P. J. Hanley
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T. Anderson
Washington County Savings Bark
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V. P. O. M. Keon
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A. H. Wallace
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Prop
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Hotel Allen
Burlington
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