Seven Boilers Let Go At Once In St Louis Disaster
A battery of eleven boilers exploded at the St Louis Transit Company power house killing three workers and injuring others. The blast toppled brick walls and lifted the roof, trapping nearly twenty employees. Rescue crews battled darkness, fire, and debris as Wilson and Barber died en route to hospital. several others likely to die, with the death toll possibly rising at daylight.
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St Loufa Transit Company
to+ Wight
Wilson
Louis Barber
Frank Steele
William Gantt
Denos O'Leary
Peter Valley
Simon Mixon
Charlen G Thompson
Joseph Grooms
Barber
Gleanings from the Automobile Magazine
A humorous scene unfolds as a woman lectures a man on vice and savings, contrasting smoking and drinking with money saved for an automobile. The conversation references a boy who saved cigarette labels to buy a shotgun but could not use the gun, highlighting folly and the allure of cars.
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Automobile Magazine
Wood contractturned down in Havana rentals probe
Wavanne December 21 The house voted forty to eight to suspend payments on the 1902 contract for rentals of government buildings in Havana and elsewhere. The agreement would have paid 190000 annually for five years covering the custom house, the university, and the academy of science. Critics called the rents extravagant and some questioned Platt amendment compliance, awaiting senate and President Palmer reaction.
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Wavanne
House of Representatived
Wood
Sbaretti
Hanvano
Havana
Custom House
University
Academy of Science
Senate
Palmer
Mother and Son Alive In Wisconsin Lake Home Case
Mrs William Hord and her son, alleged victims of a December 3 murder by husband at Lake Muig Wisconsin, are alive at Frederick Weed’s home west of here Weed says he positively identified the woman and police say the letter about the murders was written to deceive authorities The husband is jailed in Watertown awaiting further action.
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Lake Muig
Frederick Weed
Weed
Mce
Bullwinkel
Jeferson
Turd
Watertown
Lette
Hurd
Weed An & Houseneepor
An Interesting Romance of Anthracite Coal
A Commoner article recounts the rise of anthracite coal use in America from a 1 965 ton output to 70 million annually. It notes Philadelphia bought 100 tons in 1804 for pumping works but burned it as gravel. 1814 shipments sold for 2 a ton at Schuylkill Falls. An initial failed burning led to a lunch break and the furnace catching fire, after which anthracite was successfully used.
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Hkansay City Journal
Trady
Tucilva
Philadelphia
Schuyl Kill
America
80 000 Men Affected by Steel Wage Reductions in Pittsburg Area
Pittsburg December 2 An impending wage cut will affect about 80 000 iron and steel workers in the Pittsburg district including Sharon and Youngstown. Independent plants account for roughly 20 000 of the total. Reductions are expected to average about ten percent and take effect after January 1, with some blast furnace workers already seeing lowered wages. No signed agreement exists between United States Steel and independents, though local talks aim for uniform readjustment across the region.
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Pittsburg
United States Steel Corporation
Sharon
Youngstown
Valleys
Alseady
Jones & Laughlin Company
United States
Stee
Prison Sentence Follows Attempted Murder Charge in Lamar Case
TaNahassee Florida December 21 Walter L Taylor, acquitted on four indictments for assault on Congressman Lamar, was found guilty on the assault with intent to murder charge. Judge Malone sentenced him to five years in the state prison after a confrontation where Taylor accused Lamar of saying he stuffed the ballot box and drew a pistol demanding a written retraction. Lamar, then attorney general and later congressman, seized the pistol and returned it to Taylor’s uncle before Taylor again pointed it and forced the retraction.
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Taylor
Lamar
The Auctioneer at the Grand Delights Atlanta Audiences
Dave Warfield headlines as the Auctioneer in a Belasco classic at the Grand with seven curtain calls. Blanche Walsh leads Resurrection at the Grand while Mrs Langtry stars in Mrs Doorsing's Divorce. Bijou presents Iris and The Little Church Around the Corner with strong cast and fresh scenery.
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Dave Warfield
Atlanta
Simon Levi
Hester Street
Lexinton Avenue
Dickens
Bob Crochet
Tiny Tim
Jon Jefferson
Rip van Winkle
Levi
New York
Belasco
Dave Wearfield
Mrs Tagan
Dave
Appointments for Year Elijay Georgia December 21
Special appointments for the ensuing year were announced to the Georgia conference of the Methodist Episcopal church. Atlanta District lists presiding elder L D Ellington and several appointments. Blue Ridge District names W A Parsons as presiding elder and includes multiple appointments. Elected delegates to the general conference include A Ellington as delegate and R H Bobb as alternate, with W F Slagie as lay delegate and J S Everett as alternate.
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Methodist Episcopal Church
Atlanta
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Marietta
Ene
Wesley
East Point
Bremen
L. D. Hamil
Dunagans
Simpson
T R. Ba‘ker
Fitzgerald
D. Tuttle
Mount Zion
J. 8. Everett
Fire destroys Hubinger Bros factory in Keokuk Iowa
A large Hubinger Bros plant in Keokuk collapsed in a blaze on December 21. One workman is believed killed, with total losses estimated at 280000 dollars and insurance of 100000. The incident makes the factory the largest independent cemented facility in the nation.
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Keokuk
Iowa
Sa Mg N
Hubinger Bros
Fae
Todh Diant
Rane
Cotton trade very hard hit in Lancashire year end
Manchester December 21 W Tattersall's annual review reports this year the worst in a decade for cotton trade. Eighty-two uptinking concerns in Lancashire lost 180000 dollars as American cotton prices sit 45 percent higher than last December. A mass meeting of Lancashire cotton manufacturers set for December 29 to discuss the crisis with many mills slated to close for ten days over the holidays.
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Manchester
England
Tattersall
Lancashire
Lancashire Cotton Manufacturery
Norfolk Police Ban Rewards For Sailor Arrests
Norfolk authorities moved to end a practice where police accepted rewards for arresting straggling sailors and delivering them to the naval station. The police commissioners prohibited accepting any reward to curb the exchange and stop the alleged quid pro quo.
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Norfolk
Naval Station
Williams Seeks Revenue Tariff at Free Trade League Dinner
Boston December 21 Congressman John Williams of Mississippi Democratic leader in the national House was the principal speaker at the Massachusetts Free Trade League annual dinner. Other speakers included Charles Hamlin and John A Sullivan of Boston. Williams argued that tariff reform should be revenue only, gradual to avoid harming industry and commerce. he urged Democratic effort to revise what he called an inequitable tariff. Hamlin spoke on Free Trade in Spots while Sullivan criticized the administration position on Colombia and Panama.
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House of Representatives
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Hamlin
the Treasury
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League
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Congress
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Sullivan
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