Death of Professor Elisha Gray at Newtonville
Professor Elisha Gray, famed electrical inventor connected with Bell on the telephone and submarine signaling, died suddenly in Newtonville after feeling ill. Born 1835 in Ohio, Gray built a career from a self adjusting telegraph relay to the speaking telephone, organized Western Electric, and led the electrical congress at the 1893 Columbian Exposition.
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Newton
Mass
Elisha Gray
Chicago
Arthur J. Mandy
Newtonville
Professor Gray
Alex. Graham Bell
A. J. Mundy
Maine
Ohio
Oberlin College
Cleveland
Western Electric Manufacturing Company
Ite
Mysterious Death of Domestic in New York Hotel
Margaret Travis a domestic whose body was found in a room at a hotel on One Hundred and Twenty-Second Street and Amsterdam Avenue is believed to have died under unclear circumstances. Coroner to order autopsy. Davis of Schenectady, from Kentucky, attended the room in a dazed state. Also, Barney Haskell, four, died from burns at his home in Dunnam North Carolina after a fire near an oil can.
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New Yorke
Margaret Travis
One Hundred and Twenty-Second Street
Amsterdam Avenue
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Clarence M. Davis
Schenectaday
Schenectady
Davis
Kentucky
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Dunnam
N.C
Barney
Baller
Windsor
South Africa
Italy
Empress Frederick
Duke
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
Edinburg
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Helena
Christian
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Holstein
Kruger
Ger
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Romegaya
Camillo Pecci
United States
McKinley
Cuba
Ramora
Ankera
Alabama Iron Products The Birmingham District Shines
Final figures for 100 year iron trade show total shipments of pig iron at 1 227 741 tons with the Birmingham district contributing 17 972 tons. Pig iron exports reached a record 234 15 tons with nine tenths from Birmingham. About 30 percent of Birmingham iron was exported.
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Birmingham
Mostoosweny
Ala
Alabama
Tennessee
New Road to Montgomery Pushes Rail Plan from Brunswick
A Montgomery delegation will attend a Brunswick mass meeting to back a Brunswick Birmingham railroad via Montgomery. The line would run 97 miles, using Louisville and Nashville routes into Birmingham. About 64.75 million dollars has been subscribed and 40,000 rail are contracted. 900 workers are already on site. Americus plans to lobby for the route through the city. In Atlanta, Bass Frazer’s brother was duped out of 500 while awaiting his release plan.
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Montgomery
Ala
Board of Trade of
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Branswick
Birmingham
Louisville
Nashville
Ateer
Americus
Americua
Jon
Americat
Brunswick and
Atlaxta
C. H. Frazer
Bass Frazer
Atlanta
Tom
Marion
H. Frazer
Captain Frazer
Union Springs
Queen Victoria's Declining Days Marked by War Woes
New York dispatch relays London court circles account of Queen Victoria’s long decline. Mind failing for months, she alternated between lucid moments and deep drowsiness while haunted by the South African War. Paralyzing illness followed a sequence of royal losses and wartime anxieties, ending in coma after a stroke.
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Queen Victoria
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Victoria
South Africa
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Baller
A Tender Tribute to Dying Victoria
Senate opens with a moving tribute to Queen Victoria and a demand for action on US citizen R. E. Brown’s damages claim against the South African republic. Brown sought 9.5 million dollars for mined claims in Witwatersrand. the case centers on removal of his holdings by South African authorities.
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Wasmyotes
Senate
Victoria
Turner
Washington
State Department
R. E. Brown
Brown
South Africa
Witfontein
Baseball in the South forms Southern Association
Ouatraxcooa Jan 21 The Southern Association of Baseball clubs is completed with Atlanta joining by Nugent and Bernhardt of New Orleans. Schedule meeting will be in Wampus in March to finalize game details. Season to open late April with eight teams: Chattanooga Atlanta Memphis New Orleans Nashville Birmingham Shreveport Little Rock.
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Ouatraxcooa
Southern Association of Baseball Clubs
Nugent and Bernhardt
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Memphis
Nashville
Birmingham
Shreveport
Little Rock
Postoffice Robbed and Burned in Truesdale County
A special to The Banner reports Burnley and Hall's post office and store in Truesdale county robbed and burned on Sunday morning. The thieves cracked the safe and took $250 to $300 in cash plus stamps. property loss estimated at $10,000. Officers pursue the suspects as the fire is set.
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Nashville
Burnley & Hall
Truesdale County
New Industries Reported Across Southern Cities
The Tradesman lists multiple new ventures for the week ending Jan 10 including brickworks at Decatur Alabama and Augusta Georgia, a Birmingham coal mine, a $100000 cotton mill at Statesville New York, distilleries at Medco North Carolina, a $30000 dengatats specialties firm in Chattanooga, an electric light plant at Red Springs, a No. 8 foundry at Hickory NC, a $750000 bus company in Atlanta, a 40000 grain elevator at Montgomery Alabama, an ice factory at Dawson Georgia, a $200000 land company at Raleigh NC, a Red Springs NC laundry, a Marion NC light and water company, a $40000 lumber firm at Jacksonville and Lexington NC, a paint factory at Wilmington NC, a planing mill at Athens Georgia, a sash and door factory at Jonesboro NC, and sawmills at Silver Spring and Tallahassee Florida. 150 students jailed at Kiel for political agitation are expatriated to Port Arthur for military service. similar fate for others arrested in the capital. The ferment continues.
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Decatur
Ala
Augusta
Birmingham
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Statesville
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Chattanooga
Red Springs
Hickory
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Lexington
Wilmington
Athens
Jonesboro
Silver Spring
Tallahassee
Fla
Minder is Tired of Life in Macon Jail
The Macon tailor Isador Minder who killed another tailor, Andrew Mahoney, has published a self written review. He says he has no friends and wishes to die and that life holds nothing for him. Minder recovered from 17 knife wounds inflicted during a previous self harm episode. His trial resumes in February.
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Macon
Isador Minder
Andrew Mahoney
Minder
Atlanta
English Female Reformer Visits Montgomery Mills
Mrs Irene M Ashby of London England visits Alabama to study cotton mills and promote two bills banning child labor and enforcing compulsory education. The report notes medical advice urging quick use of One Minute Cough Cure to prevent complications from colds.
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Montgomery
Ala
Irene M. Ashby
London
England
Alabama
H BR. Palmer & Sons
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