Kansas plan to create private bank system by alliance
Topeka Kansas June 8 The Alliance executive committee weighs a scheme to place sub treasury style finance in private hands J C Hopkins originator The plan would set up a bank in every county funded by private subscriptions with elevators or storehouses for grain deposits redeemed by gold or silver checks designed to circulate as money The scheme limits deposits to stock value and imposes storage and insurance charges Macdonald dead after long unconsciousness Ottawa June 8 Sir John Macdonald dies at 10 15 pm Queen Victoria and other notables send condolences funeral details announced including a state funeral Wednesday from parliament buildings to St Albans and then Kings Kings to station Canadian leaders react in cables from Vienna London and Balmoral
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Topeka
Kan
Alliance Executive Committee
Kansas
National Farmers’ Alliance
J. C. Hopkins
New York Economic Club
Cincinnati
Local
Alliance Exchange
Ottawa
Ont
Sir John Macdonald
Lady Macdonald
Earnscliffe
Parliament
St. Alban's Church
Canadian Pacific
Kingsn
Queen Victoria
Balmoral
Governor General
Sir John
Canada
Charles Tupper
Vienna
Lord Salisbury
England
Work of Enlightening the People Pushed Nationwide
Col L L Polk president of the National Farmers alliance and Rep Jerry Simpson left for La Crosse Wisconsin to attend a state convention and unite with local industrial groups. Mass meetings are planned across Illinois Indiana Ohio Pennsylvania New Jersey and New York to explain the alliance and push for state and national legislation with hundreds of speakers canvassing the nation before the Fifty-second congress. Polk aims to demonstrate alliance strength as a presidential and congressional factor in 1892. He will tour from Maine to the Pacific coast personally leading the drive.
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Washington
Col. L. L. Polk
National Farmers’ Alliance
Jerry Simpson
la Crosse
Wis
National Alliance
Alliance
Illnois
Indiana
Ohio
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
New York
Polk
Spme
Maine
Pacific Coast
Wheat crops flourish as rains aid growth in Dakotas
Reports from thirteen North Dakota and thirty-one South Dakota counties show crops improving despite below average temperatures and limited sunshine. Heavy showers benefited late sown wheat and grass pasturage, with corn growth slow but overall prospects excellent. weather remains favorable for crop development. Train attacked by a mob in Coltrists Indiana leaves four jailed suspects after knives drawn following Seymour departure. conductor Harry Smith reports incident.
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Huron
United States Signal Office
North Dakota
South Dakota
Coltrists
Ind
Pennsylvania Line
Seymour
Charles Cutsinger
Harry Smith
Veteran journalist Captain Chester dies at 52
Detroit mourns Capt George M Chester longtime Detroit Free Press veteran aged 52. Army service included quartermaster duties in Elmira New York during the draft era. He later held editorial posts at St Paul Press New York Tribune Appletons Journal and returned to Detroit Free Press in 1878 until his death.
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Detroit
Mich
George M. Chester
Michigan
Detroit Free Press
Maj. Rucker
Washington
Elmira
N. Y
New York
Lincoln
St. Paul Press
New York Tribune
Appleton’s Journal
Free Press
Plotting Against Barillas Sparks Guatemalan Unrest
A Guatemala City dispatch reports mounting insurrection in the Atlac districts against President Barillas with secret meetings and calls for separation. Loyal garrisons exist but most residents align with separatists declaring Barillas a despot and warning of an early outbreak. In Detroit, police tried to halt a Northwestern League game on Sunday but deputies released players to continue the game, the sheriff observing from the stands.
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City of
Mexico
Guatemala
Atlac
Barillas
Atlas
Republic
Detroit
Mich
Murder in Yotunes Town Shocks Ohio Community
Mrs John Booker aged 46 wife of a colored barber was found murdered at 5 am in a shed near her home. Her head was cut into pieces. Authorities report fever but no positive clues. Police believe the crime occurred early evening and that the woman had been assaulted.
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Yotunes Town
Ohio
John Booker
Bad Landslides Close Missouri Pacific Track at Atchison
Recent rains cause landslides along the Missouri Pacific between Leavenworth and Atchison with track buried up to 500 feet. Oak Mills area worst, several passenger trains trapped and passengers nearly starved. Southbound trains halted for a day, 200 workers laboring to clear, more rain could delay clearance for days.
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Atchison, Kan
Leavenworth
Atchison
Oak Mills
Aitchison
Concordia
Heavy Rains Boost Colorado River Flood Losses Near Austin
The Colorado River rose sharply due to persistent rains west of Austin Texas, flooding the mountain gorge above the city by twenty five feet and swelling the big excavation for the new dam. Cofer dam washed away and many cotton fields inundated, signaling very heavy losses. In Pittston Pennsylvania rains benefit coal operators as an eight foot river stage could move about 20 million bushels of coal to lower ports.
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Colorado River
Austin
Tex
Here
Colorado
Pittssurg
High Water at Pierre Dams Pontoon Bridge
The river at Pierre has risen to a very high level and lines are still rising. The pontoon bridge is impassable due to heavy damage and there is fear it will be washed from its anchorage.
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Pierre
Case of Mrs Northrop of Minnesota Resolved by Anti Kidnappers
The Anti Kidnapping union central committee passed resolutions on Mrs Sophronia Northrop, imprisoned eight months in St Paul asylum without lawful authority or insanity. They urge Minnesota Governor Merriam to punish guilty parties, cite Mrs Mary Baird of Auburn for damages, and urge Cayuga County DA to prosecute conspirators including physicians who certified insanity.
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Northrop
Minnesota
New York
Anti-Kidnapping Union
Sophronia Northrop
St. Paul
Minn
Merriam
Mary Baird
Auburn
N. Y
Cayuga County
Baird
Regulations for U S cattle shipments to foreign nations
Secretary Rusk issues detailed rules governing the shipment of cattle to foreign countries under the new safe transport law. Provisions include ample deck space shelter ventilation and proper fittings. Shippers must appoint foremen in charge and one cattleman per twenty five head shipped.
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Washington
Rusk
United States
Chicago Bakers Wine Curiaco Strikes Near End
The German bakers strike began at midnight Saturday and nears resolution. Of 135 bosses, 100 concede demands. From 1200 workers, 800 have returned to work, with about 400 more expected soon to be on the job.
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Chicago
Curiaco
Preachers as Counterfeiters in Illinois Court
In United States district court Rev Mary Holmes of Stonefort Saline county was tried and convicted of crimes related to counterfeit currency. Rev Gronce Vancil of Duquoin pleaded guilty to the same charge and received a one year penitentiary sentence.
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Springfield
United States District Court
Mary Holmes
Stonefort
Saline County
Cars
Gronce Vancil
Duquoin
Twenty Thousand Dollars Destroyed in Railway Mail Loss
In an Ottawa incident, $20,000 mailed from two local banks to Winnipeg was destroyed in the Winnipeg express derailment at Straightlake on the Canadian Pacific line. One $10,000 package was completely ruined, the other bundle partly survived allowing recovery of several thousand dollars. The losing party is not yet known but likely the banks shipping the funds.
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Ottawa
Winnipeg Express
Canadian Pacific Railway
Straightlake
Winnipeg
Railroad on tap from San Digno to San Quinton
A London cablegram says contracts are let to build a 162 mile railroad from San Digno California to San Quinton Lower California once the Mexican government approves the survey. The company is to receive a large subsidy from Mexico.
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San Digno
Cal
San Quinton
Lower California
Sensational Testimony In Mettman Trial Racks Court
Leavenworth Kan June 8 In the Mettman trial Mrs Ranbehn daughter of the murdered woman testified that she believed her mother was killed by Charlies A Benson a man to whom Mrs Mettman had bartered her daughter s honor The testimony created a sensation Mrs Mettman s husband is on trial for the crime.
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Leavenworth
Kan
Mettman
Ranbehn
Charlies A. Benson
Autopsy Planned For Lawyer Bar tine Death In New Jersey
AspurRY Park New Jersey June 8 An autopsy on the remains of Lawyer Bar tine who died from what is supposed to have been hydrophobia caused by a cat s bite will be held Medical experts from New York will have charge of the autopsy in the interest of science.
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Aspurry Park
N. J
Bartine
New York
Horsethief and Counterfeiter Arrested in Wilkesbarre
Secret service officers arrest Reuben Palmer a horsethief on counterfeit money charges A complete counterfeiter outfit was found on the prisoner in Wilkesbarre June 8
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Wilkesbarre
Secret Service
Reuben Palmer
Church Calls for Reform Amid Heresy Hunt Opposition
London date June Bishop of Salisbury denounces heresy hunting in a sermon. He cited a Madrid picture depicting heretics learning as treachery against Christianity and warned that Anglicans may later regret current bitter controversies as Spaniards regret the Inquisition.
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London
Salisbury
Madrid
Church of England
Father of Railroads Chauncey Wibbard Dies in Georgia
Chauncey Wibbard, longtime railroad pioneer and era defining figure known as the father of railroads, died Friday in Macon, Georgia at age 79. He was born in 1811 in Galway, Saratoga County, New York, and his death followed a general decline from age.
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New York
Chauncey Wibbard
America
Macon
Galway
Saratoga County
Labor Leader Convicted in Extortion Case
RockHester New York June 8 The jury in the case of James Hughes master workman of the Clothing Cutters National assembly found him guilty of obtaining $10 000 from Adler Bros Co by extortion The jury was out all night Judge Rumsey will pronounce sentence at 2 p m
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RockHester
N. Y
James Hughes
Clothing Cutters’ National Assembly
Adler Bros. & Co
Rumsey
Gas leak injures three at Manhattan Athletic Club
Three women employed in the kitchen of the Manhattan Athletic Club were found unconscious from inhaling illuminating gas and were taken to Bellevue Hospital in serious condition. Gas likely turned on by accident.
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New Yorks
Manhattan Athletic Club
Belleve Hospital
The Traveller Names Management and Policy Details
In Boston on June 8 the committee of 100 declares the twice paid for The Traveller totals 117600 dollars. Rev. James Dunn D D becomes managing editor assisted by Revs A A Miner and L T Townsend. The paper pledges a conservative stance on religious matters and adherence to Republican principles.
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Boston
Traveller
James Dunn
D.D
A. A. Miner
L. T. Townsend
Heber Newton’s Inquisitors Named by Bishop Potter
A commission of inquiry into alleged uncanonical conduct by Rev. Heber Newton rector of All Souls church will be appointed by Bishop Potter. The panel includes Rev. Dr. Shipman of Christchurch Rev. Dr. Peters of Old St. Michaels Bloomingdale and Rev. Butler of the Church of the Epiphany.
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Heber Newton
New York
All Soul's Church
Potter
Shipman
Christchurch
Dr. Peters
Old St. Michaels
Bloomingdale
Butler
Church of the Epiphany
Murdered by Apaches in Arizona and related notices
Report from Towerstone Arizona says Frank Cathew was killed by Apache Indians near Arizpe Sonora while working as a mule train swamper. Two companions resisted the attack. Indians believed to head toward Southern Arizona. Ranchers warned to exterminate them. Also notes Wood River township treasurer Peter Greenwood arrested in Portland Oregon with shortages over 7500 dollars. Iowa coal strike causes shortages as northern mines run low and factories face shutdowns.
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Towerstone
Ariz
Frank Cathew
Arizpe
Sonora
Cathew
Arizona
Alton
Wood River Township
Portland
Ore
Peter Greenwood
Greenwood
Iowa
Mason Ciry
Not Been Offered to Steele Story Unfounded
A Washington dispatch to The Press says the president offered the pensions commissionership to Governor Steele of Oklahoma. Investigation found the report unfounded. A source close to the president says the position has not been offered to anyone. It is believed Deputy Commissioner Andrew Davidson of New York will be promoted when Commissioner Ranm retires after Secretary Nobie returns.
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New York
Washington
Steele
Oklahoma
Nobie
Ranm
Andrew Davidson
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Pittsburg
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Eie
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Telenkone
William Peter
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