Forest Fires Threaten Millville Area As Heat Rises
Multiple forest fires rage across southern New Jersey towns including Millville and Waterford. Firefighters rush by special train and backfiring tactics to protect homes, timber, and cranberry bogs while authorities estimate tens of thousands in losses and monitor winds that keep fanning the flames.
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Waterford
Warmthorp
N.J
Pestleton
Broddrick
Ancora
Elin
Chesilhurt
Crow’s Nest Destroyed In Fatal Buzzards Bay Fire
Fire at Crow’s Nest near Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, killed a missing woman presumed cremated by flames. Several workers suffered severe burns including maid Miss Collinson and employee Clarence Whipple. The owner, Mr Jefferson, plans to rebuild on the same site and use the Whittier cottage this season. Naval Review Programme issued with visitors enjoying the fleet.
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Wearoh
Buzzard’s Bay
Mass
Buttermilk Bay
Crow's Nest
Helen McGrath
Clarence Whipple
Frank Ashwort
Jefferson
Whittier Cottage
Buzzard’s Bay Shore
Gray Gables
Cleveland
Mr. Whittier
Benedict
Will Open the Fair President to Visit Chicago May First
Washington notes that President Cleveland plans to attend the opening of the World’s Fair in Chicago on May 1 if public business allows. He may travel via New York by special train with cabinet members, attending the naval parade before heading to Chicago. Also reported are antisemitic protests in Vienna over a U.S. consul nominee, and various Washington dispatches on arbi tration, weather bureau tensions, Congressman Hooker’s condition, Senate activity, the Chicago World’s Fair fish exhibit, a boy’s accident, the death of Mary Learned Bartlett, and Kentucky prisoners idle awaiting new contracts.
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Cleveland
Chicago
Washington
New York
Pennsylvania Road
Fair
Supreme Court
Vienna
Jud
Missouri
United States
Australia
Keiley
Austria
McDonald
Commission
Dave
Edmund Keras
Union Ave
Four Drown In Lake Pontchartrain Pleasure Party Tragedy
A New Orleans party of Thomas Kelly and guests boat trip ends in a boating accident on Lake Pontchartrain. Mary Flynn Agnes Flynn Effie Kelly and Mrs Thomas Kelly drown after the anchorSlip caused a capsize. Rescue efforts fail and bodies are not recovered.
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Millenburg
New Orleans
Kelly
Mary
Agnes Flynn
Freezy-Out Sale Seized Ship Plans to Freeze Out Stockholders
The steamship Seguranca of the United States Brazil line was seized at Brooklyn docks by U S Marshal Jacobs to satisfy creditor judgments. The fleet, including Alli ance Lance and Vigilancia, will be sold at public auction at the foot of Nineteenth Street. Rumor says old company leaders may form Standard Steamship to buy the fleet and exclude small stockholders.
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New York
Seguranca
United States
Brazilian Mail Steamship Line
Brooklyn
Marshal Jacobs
Alliance
Lance
Vigilancia
Nineteenth Street
William M. Ivins
Standard Steamship Company
Women raid North Dakota taverns to gather evidence
WCTU women in Fanao North Dakota planned to visit local joints to obtain evidence for prosecutions. They entered a prohibition dive presided by Tin Bash, seized several bottles, and were assaulted by a landlord named Bush. Proceedings were dismissed by the state’s attorney, and the women vowed to continue their efforts.
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Fanao
N. D
Rolla
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Tin Bash
Bush
North Dakota
Mexican and Austrian War News and Local Fire Report
Mexican affairs report presidential message noting joint commission decision in favor of Sim eon Weil and Abrawining company and possible return of funds to Mexico. Also details mining law, telegraph and railway growth, cholera precautions, and planned Tampico Vera Cruz harbor works. Austrian Army reforms aim to raise strength under a two year system with added infantry and artillery, cost 20 million florins. A Temple Court fire in New York damages $10,000 and disrupts Telegraph Age offices. cause unknown. Captain Lillie reports John Cooke narrowly escaped icebergs near Queenstown with a giant iceberg up to 35 miles long and 700 feet high.
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City of Mexico
Congress
Joint
Simeon Weil
Abrawining
Washington Congress
Court of Claims
Mexico
Ignacio
International Congress
Chicago
Tam
Vienna
War Office
New York
Temple Court Building
Beekman and
Nassau Streets
Eugette Kelly
Telegraph Age
London
Lillie
John Cooke
San Francisco
Queenstown
Ann Arbor boycott called by engineers and firemen
In Toledo on April 8 meetings of engineers and firemen vow to stand by Ann Arbor strikers regardless of court ruling. They say freight will not be touched, argue injunction power limits and prepare for contempt cases in Cleveland. President Ashley seeks to adjust troubles while federation plans advance. Snow, rain, and washouts disrupt Northwest rail service as new American Press association forms in Trenton.
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Terre Havre
Ind
Sargent
Brotherhood of Firemen
Toledo
Judge Ricks
Firemen’s Brotherhood
Ann Arbor
Ann
ToLepo
Wil
Chief Arthur
Ricks
Arthur
Brotherhood
Cleveland
Taft
Ashley
Three Haute
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Notes of the Day: varied events and legal actions
Mrs. Cleveland and Secretary Thurber attended service Sunday while the president remained home. Jeff Harrison was convicted of railing the Nashville and Georgia nail train near Piedmont last fall. May 1 establishes mounted police on the Manitoba frontier to curb smuggling. Blanche Keister and Magele Blair drowned at Butler Pennsylvania. Blair's body recovered. Mrs. Phillip Kline and two Lima children died from poison in pies made from prepared fruits. Phillip Klein Jr. of Phillip Klein & Sons brewery in Philadelphia held on $1500 bail for illicit sale. Governor Flower commuted Michael T. Slinny’s murder sentence to life imprisonment. The Duke and Duchess of Veragua and their children left Madrid for Chicago en route to Paris and Tangier.
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Cleveland
Thurber
R Maining
Jeff Harrison
Georgia
Piedmont
Manitoba
Northwest Frontier
Blanche Keister
Magele Blair
Butler
Miss Blair
Phillip Kline
Lima
Phillip Klein Jr
Phillip Klein & Sons
Philadelphia
Curicuna and Curicuna Remedies Promised Cure
An advertisement touts Cuticura remedies for skin scalp and blood diseases. It claims Curicuna products externally purify skin and scalp while Curicuna RE HOLVENT internal cures. The ad cites cures from infancy to adults and promises sensational testimonials from Potter Drug and Chemical Corporation Boston.
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