Petroleum developments in Russia cited by U S consul
U S Consul at Odessa forwarded a State Department report on Russian petroleum. Residual oil yields far higher than in the United States and is used to make benzin gasoline and other products. It is employed as fuel for locomotives and steamers on the Caspian Sea and Volga, with trials for use in new Russian Navy torpedo boats. Crude oil is sprinkled on Baku streets to suppress dust.
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Russia
WasHington
Baku
Frank James Arrives in Independence Remains Free
Frank James reached Independence from Gallatin and surrendered to bondsmen at Judge Glover’s office after arriving with his attorney. He later departed for Kansas City, announcing plans to yield to the U S Marshal, though the marshal did not meet him there. Rumors place him at a relative’s home during the Christmas holidays.
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St. Louis
Independence
Frank James
Gallatin
J. H. Glover
James
Frank
Kansas City
Mussel Shoals
Ralston
Tank
Alleged Modern Lucretia Borgia Arrested in Poisoning Case
An alleged modern Lucretia Borgia, Mrs Christian of San Antonio, Texas, previously accused of poisoning Coolbaugh, a Rio Grande Railway official, has been arrested for causing the death of Louis Brenner, her former lover and Brunner’s mistress. Brenner died after a quarrel and bartering, with stomach analysis ordered. Suspicions of poisoning surface amid rumors of an affair with a farm band member.
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Lucretia Borgia
San Antonio
Tex
Christian
Coolbaugh
Rio Grande Railway
Louis Brenner
Brunner
Gosnen
William Catlin
Catlin
Death of General Cram on Chestnut Street Car
Major General Thomas Jefferson Cain, Colonel of the Engineer Corps, retired from the United States Army, died suddenly in a Chestnut Street horse car in Adelphia Pennsylvania on December 20. He boarded the car at Nineteenth and Chestnut Streets in the afternoon. The obituary notes his rank and service.
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Cram
Elements of December Snow Storms Across Cities
Reports from Cincinnati Pittsburg Utica Petersburg and Cahusano describe heavy snow storms causing structural damage, flooding, and travel disruption. Widespread outages and train delays followed, with temperatures plummeting and telegraph lines down in several regions.
Fire at Jewish School in Galata Kills Fifteen Students
In Constantinople suburb Galatea a basement fire at the German Israelite Schoolhouse destroyed the Jewish school and synagogue. Fifteen students died, nineteen bodies were recovered, thirty are missing, and the directress leaped from a window and perished. Many students jumped to safety via upper windows, injured onlookers describe chaos as flames spread rapidly.
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Constantinople
Galatea
Death by Gas From Stove in Bloomington Milliner
Lucy Allyn a 34 year old widow ran a Bloomington millinery shop and lived alone above it. She was found in bed with a hard coal stove emitting heavy gas. Dampers in the stove pipe were closed while the front and cold air dampers remained open. The death is suspected to be caused by gas from the stove. The deceased was a granddaughter of James Allyn an early county pioneer who laid out Bloomington.
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Bloomington
Lucy Allyn
McLean
James Allyn
Losing Her Life to Save Her Child
In Baltimore Missouri December 21 Mrs Gabriel Kiah Jr living near Cambridge Maryland saw her infant’s clothing on fire. She rushed to save the child and extinguished the flames but her own clothes caught fire. She ran across a field as a colored man came to help and put out the flames. She was in a dreadful state and recovery was not hoped for.
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Baltimore
Gabriel Kiah, Jr
Cambridge
Causeless Murder in Illinois at a Restaurant
At six o'clock in Carmi Illinois Enoch Ballentine was shot in the head by Will C Sanders a young farmer from near Cassville There was no quarrel and Sanders who was intoxicated is believed to have fired due to an old grudge Ballentine cannot recover Sanders was captured after a pursuit by the restaurant owner and an officer.
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Illinois
Carmi
Enoch Ballentine
Will C. Sanders
Cassville
Sanders
Bollerman
Ballentine
Five Thousand Damages for Dead Husband
Martha J. Parsons obtained judgment against the New York Central for 009 for the killing of her bar beaned, time and again she won the case.
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Berra O
Martha J. Parscons
New York Central
Eas
Gallows Tales and Tragic Love in December Hangs
Reports from Fruit of the Gallows detail Jerry Cox and Jun Taylor, both colored, being hanged in South Carolina and Texas for earlier murders, with Cox protesting innocence and Taylor confessing amid a large crowd. A St Louis incident covers Henry Probst shooting Mary Hammer over refusal to marry, then killing himself. a separate suit in Asiontown seeks $5,000 life policy payment for Captain Nutt killed a year ago by N L Dukes.
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Groneetows
S. C
Jerry Cox
Herbert Rembert
Cox
St. Louis
Henry Probst
Mary Hammer
Wilderman Station
Cairo
Monty
Asiontown
Captain Nutt
N. L. Dukes
Accident Insurance Company
North America
Opening of the New Niagara Bridge
The formal opening of the cantilever bridge at Brice N Y on December 20 was a perfect success. The testing used twenty locomotives and twenty four freight cars loaded with gravel, running from end to end with no deflection. Levels were checked by a commission from three hundred engineers. Ten thousand people attended the opening and a banquet followed.
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Niagara Bridge
Suspension
Brice
N. Y
What Constitutes a Chinese Merchant
San Francisco December 20 Judge Hoffman of the U S District Court practically decided today the Chinese trades habeas corpus case If a Chinaman a laborer in his own country came to this country with the purpose according to testimony adduced of going into the merchandising business he is under U S laws a merchant
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San Francisco
Hoffman
U. S. District Court
U. S
Dying After Scalpel Scratch at Autopsy
In Ente Pennsylvania on December 23, Dr. A Easton from New York aided an autopsy on Spencer Meyer who died of a malignant growth. He scratched his finger with the scalpel during the procedure. The next day his hand and arm became inflamed and the infection spread to neck glands. He is reported dying tonight.
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Rioomineton, Inc
Carl Gull
Gull
Frink
Ente
Penn
A. Easton
New York
Spencer Meyer
Burglary Ring Tied by Prisoner at Sunbury Jail
Charles Weaver, confined at Sunbury jail, has confessed to links with a burglary gang active in Mount Carmen and surrounding county. He named all members and supplied their addresses, detailing numerous depredations.
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Mount Carmen
Charles Weaver
Sunbury
Younger Brother Captured Near Warrior Alabama
Bob Younger, allied with Jesse James, was captured near Warrior Alabama on a Missouri governor requisition. The event ties to the Younger brothers gang era and regional law enforcement actions in December.
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Bob Younger
Chattanoga
Tenn
Jesse James
Warrior
Ala
Missouri
Guilford Evening Hangs Man For Rape At Widow Jones
In Kingston North Carolina on December 20 Guilford Soon a colored man was hanged here for the rape of widow Jones in May. The execution drew several thousand spectators and death was instantaneous.
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North Carolina
Kingston
N. C
Guilford
Jones
Gheap Rates From Europe War of Rates Cuts Fares
New York December 21 steamship lines trim third class fares from Europe to 320 amid a rate war. The reductions reflect intensified competition among carriers and affect travelers seeking economical transatlantic passage.
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Europe
New York
Female peddler murdered in Toronto shanty
Susan Gibbs an elderly peddler with some wealth was found slain in her shanty near Toronto on December 23. Police investigation launched into the homicide of the well known itinerant seller.
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Toronto
Susan Gibbs
Here
French Capture Outposts at Sontay in Vietnam War
French forces seized principal Sontay outposts including five fortified villages after heavy combat. French losses about two hundred men and fifteen officers killed or wounded, Chinese losses around 1,000. Citadel surrounded. main fighting on river bank. fortress possibly to fall with heavy combat anticipated.
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Hong Kong
Sontay
London
Hong Hong
Paris
Admiral Peyron
Foreign Legion
Canadian official declares former Ontario minister insane
In Toronto today an order was issued in chambers declaring Adam Crooks, late Ontario Minister of Education, lunatic and appointing a committee of his person and estate. He is at Hartford in retreat and a doctor says he has at most two years to live.
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Toronto
Adam Crooks
Ontario
Iere
Hartford
Conn
Wreck of the L. Hungerford Reported Off Manitoulin Island
Word arrives from Tobermory that the Buffalo schooner L. Hungerford wrecked near Manitoulin Island. Six crew members built a tent inland and endured nineteen days aboard until rescue near Tobermory.
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Wiarrtoy
Ont
Tobermory
Lake Huron
Manitoulin Island
Hungerford
Buffalo
Ebermory
Three Lynchings and Missings Reported Across Texas
Summary of violent incidents dated December 25 across multiple locations. In Yazoo City a dispute ends in the shooting deaths of John Osey, Carnot Hosey, and Jasper Nicholls. James is killed by citizens. In McDade and nearby towns masked men hang Thad McLemore and others, followed by a gunfight injuring several. Willis Griffin dies from wounds. Sherman reports desperadoes terrorizing the county, with killings and arson. New Orleans notes the shooting of Wm. McCaffery in a gambling saloon. Newburyport records Arthur J. Currier shot in a barroom by Lena West. Uniontown reports a fatal shooting during a drunken fight between Hungarians.
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Yazoo City
John T. Posey
William & Posey
John James
Posey
James
John Osey
Carnot Hosey
Jasper Nicholls
H.C. Ellis
Fritz Halider
Ed James
T. J. Walker
Pfeiffer
Tom Bishop
George Millom
Jack Bayley
Asa Bayley
Hayward D. Bayley
Aly
Willis Griffin
McDade
Millom
Bishop
Hayward Bayley
Sherman
Trex
Red River
Pottsville
Dexter
Cook County
New Orleans
Wm. McCaffery
Ward Politeian
Bud Renaud
Newburyport
Mass
Arthur J. Currier
Lena West
Currier
Uniontown
Mike Sohicanka
Perils of the Mountains Rescue from Virginius Mine Disaster
A rescue party of thirty one from Ouray braved a blizzard to aid miners after the Virginius mine disaster. They treated the wounded and used improvised sleds for bodies, four of which slid two thousand feet and toppled over a five hundred foot precipice, likely remaining there until spring. The rescuers barely reached Ouray exhausted and near death.
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Denver
Con
Virginius
Ouray
Cumberland
Train wreck and fire at Blue River bridge near Salem
A south bound Chicago passenger train on the L N A C Road wrecked and burned at Blue River bridge near Salem Indiana after abutments were undermined by recent rains. Nine lives lost and fifteen injured as cars plunged into the flood. The locomotive passed but baggage mail express and gentlemen cars plunged headfirst. ladies and buffet cars stayed on track. The submerged portion caught fire from stove flames and the whole train burned within minutes.
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New Aupayy, Inc
Chicago
Blue River Bridge
Salem
Ind
Infernal Machine Alleged Explosion in Birkenhead
A terrible explosion, likely caused by an infernal machine, occurred in Birkenhead yesterday. Two men were seen watching the burning canister opposite a dwelling as it exploded, shattering nearby windows. the pair then disappeared. No one was killed.
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London
Birkenhead
Uniform Bankrupt Act Urged by Western States
Washington December 25 The Secretary of the New York Board of Trade reports letters from nearly all Western and Southwest cities urging a uniform bankrupt act and immediate Congressional action. Indications are of broad Western and Southwest representation at the January Washington conference.
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Washington
New York Board of Trade
Southwest
Congress
Italian Hunter Accidentally Killed in Pa
Hautewoop, Pa., December 2. Fiora Vanti Ricci a 33 year old Italian was accidentally shot and killed last night by an Italian companion. The two had been hunting and were returning when the gun was being put away. Ricci was unmarried.
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Hautewoop
Fiora Vanti Ricci
Ricci
Postoffice Robber Arrested in Kansas Case
James R. Jones was arrested in Kansas for robbing the Perryville postoffice a few nights earlier, taking 900 in money and 200 in stamps. A separate item notes France will not negotiate with China until Bac Ninh is occupied. A six year old boy in Jamaica, L. J. burned his baby sister on a stove, saying he wanted to hear it cry. California savings banks offer mortgages at six percent amid limited demand.
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St. Louis
James R. Jones
Kansas
Perryville
Kans
Fritz Roucheiner
Jamaica
L. J
J. Y. Mail
California
San Francisco
San Casco
Historic Senate and House actions during December recess
The Congress debated holiday recess timings and rules, created select committees on Civil Service Reform and Education, and discussed commissions on Washington’s surrender. Messages covered land grants and railroad transfers, with executive sessions and adjournments through December 24 and resumption in January.
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Dimols
Michigan
Tigres
Fair
United States
Nevada
Ingalls
Logan
Bureau of Military Justice
District of Columbia
van Wyck
Secretary of the Interior
Eiuce
Supreme Court
Senate
Frye
House
Washington
Morrison
Blackburn
Committee On
Hall of Representatives
Bt A
Cone
Reed
Committee On Labor
Committee On Education and Labor
Education
Willis
Calkine
Secretary of State
Patrick O'Donnell
Messrs
Hoblitzell
Cabell
Wilson
Kasson
Texas Pacific Railway Company
Southern Pacific Railway Company
Arizona
New Mexico
California
Patriot Forces of America
Hovusk
Geddes
Geddes and
Keifer
Reagan
Cobb
Cockrell
St. Louis
U. S
Houn
Wealth in Barrie Damon case and Ohio items across state
An eccentric Ohio landowning recluse Barrie Damon died near Abbeyville Medina County. A paper memo reveals a hidden 48.00 debt. His widow prays, and a bee yard search uncovers 14 000 dollars in hives, jars of twenty dollar coins, and a bushel of silver. Other notes cover court salaries, pardons, and a long list of regional incidents including thefts, suits, drownings, a fire accident, and a plan for an American inventors association in Cincinnati. Regulatory and local news threads thread through the report, with mentions of Springfield tea gifts, public notices, and a 1883 Youngstown pardon.
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Barrie Damon
Abbeyville
Medina County
Damon
Auditor of State
Melivaine
Wm. Winters
Youngstownt
Robbey
J. R. Hayne
Society of Friends
Camp Chase
Columbus
Ohio
Monroe
Brenan
Common Pleas Court
Cincinnati
Hawkins
Sherif
Cuantes A. Wincarp
Cleveland
Joun W. Bookwalter
Springfield
Herbert McPherson
India
Bookwalter
Allahabad
Renecca Hansen
Youngstown
Andrew Lawrence
Ruppa A. Woop
James Wolf
Josefa Kenny
Toronto
Jefferson County
Jutta Norris
Newark
Richmonp Cuapp
Concord Township
Lake County
Jessie Hare
Harney Lewis
Brighton
National Association of American Inventors
J. H. Terbe
Michael O’brien
Pan-Handle Railroad Company
Steubenville
O'Brien
P. B. Martin
Wickham
Norwalk
Charles Anderson
Greenville
Darke County
Hoadly
BroombeLp
Thompson & Co
Dime Museum
James H. Barr
Richland County
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