Fire and misfortune sweep Iowa towns in 1895 reports
Ed Wadsworth assigns in Fontanelle. Miller and Phelps mill at Fort Dodge destroyed by fire with $10000 loss. Lorens Zenffert dies at Burlington aged 63 leaving widow and six children. Smallpox cases rise in Pioneer Humboldt county. Mrs. Samuel Anderson dies after brutal incident in Independence. Rock Island engineers threaten strike over unaddressed grievance in Council Bluffs. Rev Dr Dennis Murphy dies suddenly at West Liberty. Des Moines mayoral corruption charges spark council probe. Internal revenue office may move from Burlington to Davenport. Keokuk court sentences for counterfeiting. Crosscut accident near Alden injuries. Kellogg Ogden House fire with $5000 loss. Morning Sun hardware and law offices burned. Osceola man John Alexander dies. property owner. Winona and Northwestern expansion talks. Pension Agent Van Leuver ill. pardon considered. Destructive cold wave hits Manson. Keokuk fish catches surge on frozen Des Moines river. Anamosa prison notes and local court rulings. Dubuque bridge subsidy vote defeated by residents. Odebolt residence fire. Richardsville rumor and Creston theft sentencing. Anamosa wrecks and local crime updates continue.
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Ed Wadsworth
Fontanelle
Miller & Phelps
Fort Dodge
Lorens Zenffert
Burlington
Pioneer
Humboldt County
Samuel Anderson
Independence
Council Bluffs
Rock Island
Dennis Murphy
Keokuk
Iowa Methodist
West Liberty
Hillis
Des Moines
Council
Washington
Internal Revenue Office
Davenport
John Krewson
E. E. Lusha
E. E. Selley
Alden
Hardin County
Ogden
Kellogg
John Burton
H. S. Darby
Morning Sun
McKinley & Cavin
Morning Sun News
John Alexander
Osceola
Horace Gage
Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern
Chicago & Northwestern
Winona & Southwestern
Osage
Mason
George M. van Leuyer
Anamosa
British parliament meets as world news piles up
The 5th dispatch reports a fatal streetcar crash in Milwaukee at an open draw bridge drowning six. Bank robbers in Milan, Ohio, loot a safe. Martial law tightens in occupied regions. Ex royalty and insurgents face charges. The Elbe collision near Lowestoft sinks with 380 aboard. only 21 survivors reported.
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Milan
Greenhut
Whisky Trust
John McNulty
Honolulu
Lilioukalani
Barrett Scott
O'Neill
Neb
London
Bremen
New York
Lowestoft
Crathie
Elbe
Maasluis
Iowa Patent Office Report Des Moines Feb 5 1895
The A C Mount Broom Co of Des Moines registers its trade mark two concentric color spaces under Iowa law. Patents granted to Dr J W Haughanait Fort Dodge for an upright boiler with concentric sections and scrubbers. to W W Rebuschaus and J T Collins Des Moines for a printers galley with movable side stick. to J T Owens for a mop wringer. Five US patents issued to Iowa inventors last week.
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W. W. Rebuschaus
J. T. Collins
Des Moines
J. T. Owens
United States
Iowa
Tuomas G. and
RaLrn Orwig
Solicitors of Patents
Lawmakers debated funding Pacific railroads and currency reform
The congressional record shows bills on funding debt to Union Pacific and Kansas Pacific railroads with 3 percent bonds and ongoing currency discussions. Key figures include Reilly advocating the railroad measure, Harris opposing, and various senators like Allen McPherson Aldrich Sherman Chandler Platt Allison Gorman weighing treasury information and financial conditions.
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HOUSE
Union Pacific
Kansas Pacific
Reilly
Harris
Kansas
Washington
Allen
McPherson
Aldrich
Sherman
Chandler
Platt
Allison
Gorman
Secretary of the Treasury
Chicago Board of Trade Quotation Range Report
The Chicago Board of Trade quotes show the day’s range across wheat corn and other trading classes with price movements. The report lists bid ask spreads and closing figures for the current session.
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Chicago Board of Trade
Curcaco
Chiago Board of Trade
Coal at a Ton Falls to Record Chicago Price
Chicago January 31 coal markets slump as soft coal sells for 8 a ton the lowest ever in the city. Railroads including Chicago & Eastern Illinois and Illinois Central trim rates from Brazil and Carbondale prompting coal jobbers to drop prices from 3 25 to 2 a ton.
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Chicago
Chicago & Eastern Illinois
Brazil
Ind
Illinois Central
Illinois
Ilinois Central
Herr Most Denounces Brooklyn Trolleys in Waterbury Speech
Herr Most of New York addressed about three hundred at Turnverein Hall in Waterbury, denouncing the Brooklyn street railroad companies amid the trolley strike. Police warned against anarchistic talk and Most spoke in mild tones, after Concordia Hall rental was canceled when organizers learned of his presence.
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Waterbury
Brooklyn
Waterbury, Conn
Herr
New York
Turnverein Hall
Brooklyn Street
Concordia Hall
Herr Most
Body of Drowned Passenger Recovered at Sea
The fishing smack Verena landed in Lowestoft with the body of Friedrichs Ernst of Magdeburg Prussia among drowned Elbe passengers. A mail bag marked Stockholm was found with the body which appeared with hands clenched on the chest and mouth wide open. The body was located forty five miles southeast of Lowestoft.
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Lowestoft
Eng
Verena
Friedrichs Ernst
Magdeburg
Prussia
Stockholm
Ernst
Dan Shelby Dies at 57 in Wilkes-Barre Music Hall
Daniel Shelby manager of the Wilkes-Barre music hall died suddenly of heart disease aged fifty seven. He was well known in theater, having managed houses in New York Buffalo and Chicago. In Buffalo he was an intimate friend of Grover Cleveland.
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Dan Shelby
Wilkesbarre
Daniel Shelby
New York
Buffalo
Chicago
Grover Cleveland
Wyoming Legislature Opposes Bond Issue
Cheyenne Wyoming February report states the house is considering a joint bill declaring the people of Wyoming oppose an additional federal bond issue. The measure argues the move is driven by eastern bankers to push the country to a gold standard and erode the national government's currency supervision.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Wyoming
Thieves Use Powder Explosion Hits Milan Bank
A massive blast at the Lockwood bank in Milan near Toledo woke the town and led to the theft of about $30,000 by five masked men who fled in a carriage toward Sandusky. L. L. Stoddard witnessed the escape and a posse pursued, with telegrams sent to towns nearby. Police suspect two suspects may be among the fleeing group.
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Martin Johnson
Dows
Constable Wright
Webster City
Clarion
Peter Taylor
Alden
Iowa Falls
Eldora
Toledo
Milan
Here
Lockwood Bank
L. L. Stoddard
Supposed Bank Robbery Suspects Held in Sandusky
San dusky police arrest two suspects in the Lockwood National Bank heist at Milan. Stoughton, a saloonkeeper, and Sally Hirschberg, unemployed, rented a rig to Fremont and later returned it, raising suspicion. No loot recovered. three other suspects at large.
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Sandusky
Ohio
Sandusky, O
Lockwood National Bank
Milan
Fremont
Stoughton
Hirschberg
Coldest Day Of The Winter Turns Deadly In Chicago
Chicago records a temperature of 13 degrees below zero at the government instrument with suburbs showing 16 to 18 below. The deep freeze lasts over 24 hours with no rise expected and causes numerous freezing injuries. One death reported as M Carmody frozen at 1232 West Eighteenth Street, others seriously frozen at Alexian Brothers Hospital and various locations.
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Chicago
Mercury
M. Carmody
West Eighteenth Street
Martin Jonson
Alexian Brothers
James Brady
Halsted
van Buren Street
Edward Burnside
Madison
County Hospital
Chicora Still Missing with No Confirmed Sighting
Chicago reports scant new information on the missing steamer Chicora. Rumors persist of a wreck along the southern lake line, while Graham & Morton offices report no confirmation and only one renewed search by the tug Morford from the Chicago river.
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Chicago
Graham & Morton
Morford
Hancock
St. Joseph
Secretary Hoke Smith Plans Athens Summer Home Stay
Secretary of the Interior Hoke Smith arrived in Atlanta from Washington and will spend several days there on private business. He has leased a home in Athens where his family will stay during the summer.
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Hoke Smith
Atlanta
Interior
Washington
Athens
Negroes Headed to Mexico Coffee Trip Through City
A party of 300 negroes arrived on the Queen and Crescent last evening in a special Birmingham to New Orleans run. They are the first of a large contingent, possibly 10,000, expected to pass through the city in the coming months en route to Mexico to raise coffee.
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New Orleans
Queen & Crescent
Birmingham
Mexico
London’s Largest Church Burns in Fire
Fire origin in the furniture room destroyed the Queen's Avenue Methodist Church, the city’s largest church. Loss estimated at 80 000 dollars with 26 000 dollars covered by insurance.
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London
Queen's Avenue Methodist
Carlisle's Narrow Escape From Reckless Sleighing
Secretary Carlisle narrowly escaped a runaway sleigh as he walked toward the White House to discuss the financial question. A high stepping horse drew a cutter with two youths and crossed Pennsylvanian avenue in front of him, causing a near collision before Treasury police escorted him to safety.
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Washington
Lisle
Whit House
Presid
Pennsylvania Avenue
Executive Avenue
Treasury
Three Killed Ten Injured in Soller Explosion at Elwood
A boiler explosion at Earl Carpenter & Sons ice house near Mashapang Pond Elwood Providence R I Feb 5 killed two men Patrick Hehir John Heh Martin Deery and critically injured a third who died soon after Ten others were hurt with varied injuries including broken bones burns and head injuries names of the dead and injured are listed with several locals among the wounded.
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Soller
Elwood
RJ i
Providence
R. L
Earl Carpenter & Sons
Mashapang Pond
Patrick Hehir
John Heh
Martin Deery
William Moton
Herbert Smith
Thomas Casey
Charles Praton
Thomas Neise
Martin Ryan
Henry Butler
Salen S Treet
Il Lynch
Michae Tierney
George M. Darling
Firing at Buckeye Glass Manager Amid Strike Tension
Alexander Humphrey, Buckeye Glass manager at Martin's Ferry, Ohio, was fired upon by four unknown men amid a workers strike. Shots missed, assailants fled, and Humphrey along with several employees were later arrested for unlawful assembly with loaded rifles attempting to block workers from reaching the mill.
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Freal
Glass
Martin's Ferry
Ohio
Alexander Humphrey
Buckeye Glass Company
Works
Humphrey
Glass War Union
Irens
Davis estate contest returns to Suffolk probate court
Boston February 5 The famous Davill case returns before Judge McK of the Suffolk county probate court. The dispute concerns the estate of the late Andrew J. Davis of Miama contended at seven million dollars with one million in Massachusetts.
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Boston
Davill
Mck
Suffolk County
Andrew J. Davis
Miana
Massachusetts
Literary Notes in Midland Monthly and Contemporary Reviews
The February Midland Monthly offers ninety six pages of reading including a Mississippi river sketch by Hamlin Garland and numerous poems. It notes high subscription numbers and discusses Japanese culture and Napoleon’s career as echoed in Harper's and Century magazines. Contemporaries critique China Japan war coverage in Cosmopolitan and feature essays by Mauri and Emile Ollivier on European topics.
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Midland Monthly
Midland
Hamlin Garland
Edith Brigham
Harper's
Napoleon
Tim
Prof. Sloane
Lord Wolseley
Mauri
Emile Ollivier
Louis Philippe
Bills in Senate Propose Women's Suffrage and Trust Reforms
Madison Wisconsin February citizens brief notes bills introduced in the senate to grant women the vote to fine trusts and punish associated persons. Provisions include railroad tickets at 120 dollars for 1000 miles valid for two years for purchaser or family member with companion and refunds for unused miles minus 24 cents per mile. Both houses adjourned to Monday night.
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Madison
Wis
Senate
Railroa
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