London Fire Sweeps Aldersgate Street Block
A catastrophic fire in London near Aldersgate Street raged for four and a half hours, driven by strong winds through a six story block of buildings filled with Christmas goods. More than 400 engines fought the blaze, with 150 warehouses gutted and losses projected above £5,000,000. St Giles Church suffered severe roof and window damage as the district burned, while insurance and telegraph networks faced upheaval amid the chaos.
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London
Aldersgate Street
Red Cross Street
Old Street
Stock Exchange
Dreavill
Red Cross
Maidenhead Court
Bradford Avenue
Jewin
Homeell
Well and Edmund
Jewin Crescent
Australian Avenue
Paul's Alley
Cripple Gate Churchyard
Wood Street Square
Monkwell Street
Nicholl, Square
Fore Street
Hamsell Street
Walter Brown & Co
Jewin Street
Well Street
Poe
Red U Cross
Alsc
Sealing Talks Include One Year Suspension Plan
Washington reports a key feature in the BedHog negotiations. If Britain and Canada agree to pelagic sealing suspension for one year, the United States would similarly suspend all seal killing for one year on the Pribilof islands, part of U.S. territory, with the three mile territorial waters treated as part of the islands.
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Washington
Great Britain
Canada
United States
Pribylot Islands
Behring Sea
Mrs Booth Ordained Evangelical Minister in New York
At Carnegie Music Hall on November 23 Volunteers of America witnessed the ordination of Mrs Babington Booth as an evangelical minister to preach the Gospel. Chauncey M Depew presided and delivered an address. Commander Balington Booth assisted by Rev Dr R S MacArthur and other pastors conducted the ceremony.
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New York
Carnegie Music Hall
America
Babington Booth
Chauncey ‘M. Depew
Bal Mngton Booth
R. 8. MacArthur
Pando to Lead Campaign for Peace Talks in Havana
Havana November 23 Gen Pando started by rain from this city to take charge of the campaign against the insurgents. He was accompanied by his staff and escorted by artillery. Reports say Marshal Blanco has commissioned him to enter into communication with the insurgent leader to arrange for peace.
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Marshal Blanco
Havana
Pando
Iui
Hutib
Died in a Barrel Arctic Oddity Drowns in Topeka Butcher Shop
Ed Uuechner a 52 year old meat dealer and prominent citizen of Topeka Kan was found dead in his shop drowned in a barrel used to catch drip water from a refrigerator. The barrel was two thirds full and contained celery. He apparently reached for the celery when heart failure struck. His head was underwater with his feet on the floor.
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Topeka
I Kan
Kan
Ed Uuechner
Alger's War Department Report Urges Army Growth and Seacoast Defense
Secretary Alger releases his first annual report urging Congress to add two artillery regiments and to set a standard for army strength tied to population and wealth. He backs seacoast fortifications, coast defense budgets, and Alaska deployments, plus improvements for military education, records, and hospital access, with total next year estimates around 96 million dollars.
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Washington
Alger
War Department
Ger
Nelson A. Miles
Miles
Congress
Republic
Engineer, Ordnance and Quartermaster
John M. Wilson
Alaska
St. Michaels
Yukon
United States
Military Academy
West Point
Hot Springs
Engineer Corps
Various early 1900s brief items from across the U S
A montage of short notices reports from across the country noting Cuba politics and pardons, yellow fever, weather upheavals in Washington state, a Holstein bank closure, the death of turf figure Solomon Sharp in Cincinnati, Cuban leadership changes, pardons of a betrayed general, Denver deaths, a 101st birthday in Pawpaw Illinois, earthquakes in California, a Terre Haute death by suicide, a Santa Fe stock car fire in Kansas, moonshine busts in Arkansas, a Nashville naval visit, Baltimore fire losses, medical diplomat Dr. Skilton’s death, a boy recovering speech after years of muteness, a long-tenured tailor in Kentucky, Wisconsin judge Mills’ death in Denver, a diver’s stunt on the Eads Bridge, Union Pacific funds in cash and bonds, Chinese exclusion reports from Guatemala, guilty pleas in Pennsylvania embezzlement cases, a St Louis prison sentence, a jail suicide in Ohio, counterfeit silver dollars in several Illinois towns, a flood in Mount Vernon Washington, and widespread wheat planting in western Tennessee.
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Hading
Cube
Frosta
Washington
State Bank of Holstein
Neb
Solomon’. Sharp
Cincinnati
Eee of
Cuba
Bartolmo Masso
Nuia Rivera
Brooka
National Guard of
Colorado
Denver
Isaac Thompson
Pawpaw Til
Randsburg
Cal
Elizabeth Matherly
Terre Haute
Ind
Santa Fe
Wakaruen
Kan
Cecil Scott
Paresia
Lake Bhore
Ligouter
Coal Dus
National Bank
Los Angeles
Langdon & Co
Boston
Pope
Scott Counties
Ark
Nashville
Tenn
Norfolk
Susan E. Maxon
Julius A. Skilton
Mexico
Brooklyn
N. J
Samuel
David Johnson
Phillipsburg
N.J
William H. Smithers
United States
Veronilles
Death Sentence in Arroyo Murder Case in Mexico
Reports from Luxchors of Aroyo in Mexico City state ten police officials were sentenced to death for the massacre of a man whose attempted attack on the president caused wide uproar. The trial concluded Monday evening amid the public outcry over the killings.
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Aroyo
Mexico
City of Mexico
Arroyo
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Gilea
Haraged
Mascoutah
Ill
Martin Wartholemy
George Moehl
Robert Loren
Kolb
Indiana
Fuatioe
Indianapolis
Sureme
Timothy J. Howard
South Bend
James McCabe
Mavana
Artemisa
Frnar del Rio
Cubs
Gilchrist
Mike Kirsh
John Squire
Drg Wire
Australia
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Booth
Ingle Sam
Youngstown
Carpou Limestone Company
Neibery
Minneapolis
Minn
George Durnam
Saratoga
Wisconsin
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Wis
J.T. Mills
Col
J. Warner Mills
Judge Mills
Republican Party
Beds Bridge
St. Louis
Paul J. Tuston
Eads
Cuah
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Treasury
Union Pacific Railway
San Francisco
Guatemala City
Philadelphia
Bard Jabor
John B. Meixell
Excashier
Willis KE. Hoch
Willis KE. Hoch, Exteller of the South Gethichem (Pa
Dimer B. Adams
United States District Court
Lawrence J. O'Neill
Bullwater
O. Ti
van Martin
Kinmundy
Omega
Oskaloosa
Laclede
Mount Vernon
Wash
Memphis
West ‘Tennessee
Milwaukee
I. L. Nicholeon
Bishop Nicholson
Seaman
Tacksonville
Fla
Mascotte
Angel Paz
Castillo
Cienfuegos
Potiton
Atlanta
Ocones County
Athens
Lizare Cross
M. Patenotre
Eire
Streator
Etreator
D. Heenan & Co
Oconomowoe
Willis Cornell
Lillie Cornell
Ernest Cornell
Commandore Dewey
Naval Trial Board
Iowa
Wavana
Mberty
Mra
O'Reilly
John Boyle O'Reilly
Heinz& Carstens
INZ & Carstens
Bank OF Ackley
Luscy, Martin & Eggert
Europe
Acelyey
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