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Died. Benjamin Franklin Smith, 96, perhaps richest New Englander ($50,000,000), who built the world's second largest stockyard in Omaha, Neb.; in Boston. With his three brothers he started his career by buying a gold mine near Pike's Peak, Col., which was thought to be a quartz claim. General Fitz-John Porter† attempted to bore into the claim. Gold-miner Smith forthwith made an opening into the outlaw shaft from below, built a fire, and smoked out the General's workers. The General promptly installed a huge fan which blew the smoke down...
Died. Frau Hildegard Carson, 50, designated by the usually conservative New York Times "Germany's richest woman"; in Bayreuth, Germany; from apoplexy. Her $10,000,000 estate of shipbuilding yards and docks in East Prussia goes to her Swedish husband. (Frau Bertha Krupp von Bohlen is probably worth...
Oldtime prospectors grumbled They had no chance. The great diamond syndicates had hired professional runners who would distance the old fogies to richest diamond earth...
When Chang, a six-foot bandit chieftain, visited Peking, last winter, cultivated Chinese were shocked to see in his train as concubines some eighty young women seized by his soldiers from the richest fathers and husbands in Shantung province. Conscienceless and avaricious, Chang has farmed tribute out of this densely populated province until even the poorest have yielded all that could be seized...
...they went in and out to the waterfront, past the already world-famed Absinthe House, to the levees where thousands of one-way flat boats, manned by grizzly "Kaintucks" lay at anchor. New Orleans was the richest city in the Americas and rivaled New York as a port. Bushy-whiskered rivermen were resentfully discussing that "outrageous sale of Louisiana to the United States." The boys disappeared in the bales piled high on the wharf. The suspicious guardsman peered about for a while, looked out over the muddy Mississippi and the waving grasses back in the impenetrable swamps, spat, returned...