Toledo Fire Wrecks Musem Theater District In Jan
A major Toledo blaze gutted the Wonderland theater and adjacent blocks near Madison and Water streets. F. N. Quayle & Co elevator, C A King & Co, Chamber of Commerce, and West & Truax buildings suffered total losses. Fire walls slowed spread. no fatalities reported, though one captain was briefly overcome. Prompt aid came from Cleveland Detroit and Adrian.
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ToLeEpo
F. N. Quayle & Co
Madison
Water Streets
Madison Street
C A. King
Water Street
Chamber of Commerce
Hon. T. B. Brown
Western Union Telegraph Company
American District Telegraph Company
Summit Street
Hartford
Postal Telegraph Company
Western Union
Toto
Madison and
Quayle
C. A. King & Co
T. P. Brown
Detroit
Adrian
Frasier
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Sensational marriage elopes with 81 year old widow
A clandestine marriage shocks Higginsville Missouri where Alice Erskine widow of coal plant owner Charles Erakine secretly wed Charles Williams a 29 year old St. Louis syrup salesman. The news drags in family rifts, ill health of a daughter, and social disruption as the couple eloped to Ballleville Illinois. The report ties Erakine and Belt to Confederate circles and notes Williams’ youth and the widow’s prominence.
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Charles Eraking
Lou
Alice Erskine
Higginsville
Charles. Williams
Balleville
Eratine
Charles Erakine
Mark Belt
Rocky Branch
Erakine
Belt
News of the Day items span theft to deaths and trials
A composite roundup notes Alice MacCormac jailed in Kansas City after theft then insanity leading to a clothes bonfire in her cell. Spokane arrests of Charles Bodman on opium smuggling. Judge McKnight sentences William Palmer to 25 years for murder after four trials. Nebraska farmer Joseph Pfeiffer feared murdered in Omaha. coroner blames John Cummings for Omaha fire that cremated four. Cincinnati court reverses ruling on tin boxes with matches. Jim London alias Grasshopper Jim arrested in Waco for Nebraska killings. Lee Targest beaten by tramps in Albia and critical. 4-year-old burned in Farmington from a miner fuse. powder explosion injures Hawkins, Hadley in Brazil Indiana. Ottumwa council meeting becomes unemployed mass meeting. Levicks killed by discharged gun during quarrel at Fairfield. Cascade Rocks quarrel ends with Cummings mortally shot. Segurance and Vigilance steamery bought for West India service. Missouri treasurer shows 447302 balance. Edward J. Henley to regain sight. ex mayor Grummond dead. Daniel Wilkins dies at daughter’s home.
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Alice MacCormac
Kansas City
Charles Bodman
Northwest
Spokane
McKnight
Saginaw
Mich
William Palmer
Joseph Pfeiffer
Nebraska
Omaha
John Cummings
United States
Cincinnati
Jim London
Grasshopper
Jim
Waco
Tex
Lee Targest
Albia
James Turner
Farmington
Willian
Edward Hawkins
James Hadley
Brazil
Ind
Ottumwa
John Levicks
George Sturgis
Fairfield
Levicke
Cummings
Hull
Cascade Rocks
Hal
West India Service
Ward Company of
New York
Missouri
Edward J. Henley
S. B. Grummond
Detroit
Daniel Wilkins
Washingtonian Home
Hawaiian and tariff debate delays in Congress
Washington dispatch reports a delayed tariff debate as Democrats fail to muster a quorum. Boutelle pushes the Hawaiian resolution while Republicans resist. in the Senate Frye introduces a noninterference measure on Hawaii, and Pugh moves to repeal foreign real estate restrictions in the District of Columbia amid absentees hunt.
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Washington
House
Wilson
McCreary
Hitt
Foreign Affairs Committee
Boutelle
Ways and Imeans Committee
Senate
Frye
Maine
Hawaii
Senate Committee On Foreign Affairs
Comiites
Pugh
District of Columbia
New Goldfield in Colorado Reported Near Buena Vista
Unconfirmed reports from Dexvexn describe a new gold field on Cracked Creek near Buena Vista in the last two months. Discoverers H. M. Woodward and Lewis Weinberg found free gold in white quartz in the Nellie Bly claim, with assays around one ounce per ton and four feet of rich ore reported. One quarter interest in the mine sold at a good price amid locals shifting to Crooked Creek.
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Rich Stvika
Bowes Vista
Dexvexn
Cracked Creek
Buena Vista
H. M. Woodward
Lewis Weinberg
Nellie Bly
Brena Vista
Crooknl Creak
Nellie Bay
McMillin Outlines Key Points of Income Tax Plan
Washington January 4 Representative McMillin chairman of the subcommittee on the internal revenues feature of the tariff bill outlines the main points of the income tax plan. Corporations pay and pass the tax to incorporators, avoiding double taxation on dividends. Foreign holdings taxed same as domestic. Tax collection by internal revenue bureau with few extra staff. Taxes aimed at about 83,000 people. Penalties for nonreporting not set. Jerry Simpson supports the plan as opening to free trade. Tarsney notes opposition.
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Washington
McMillin
Internal Revenue Bureau
Treasury Department
Jerry Simpson
Congress
Simpson
Tarsney
Ways and Means Come Bitter
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Wonterland Museum
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Camrraage
H. D. Hydrick
Claude Shepherd
Mound Valley
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Wioura
Walter Donaldson
Caldwell
Postmaster Ball
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Elkhorn
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Frankfort
Henry Nelson Smith
Jamey Shields
Hea
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Ireland
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Ryan
San Francisco
Jack McAuliffe
Lightwight
Jin Ryan
Australia
Bos
Hawilton Club
Thomas B. Reed
Reed
St. Clare
Phillips
Chambers
St. Clair County
Tobo and
Neosho
Dan
Bering Sea
West End Association
Gilroy
Riverside Park
Riverside Drive
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I. T
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Allano
el Paso
Presidio del Norte
Juarez
Rio Grande
Uill
Erye
New Goldfield IN
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Commercial Club
Blackburn
Provo
Utah
John W. Blackburn
Canon City
Colo
Librador Mora
Denver
State Board of Pardons
Red Hill
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Hallett
Willard Teller
Union Pacific
Wells
Taylor and Taylor
Trumbull
Gulf System
John Evans
Lgadvville
Jan
William C. Garvin
Carbonate National Bank
American Surety Company
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Wilh
Pursio
Phoenix Bridge Company
Milliken
Jacksonville
Treadwell
Emporia
Buck
Supreme Court
Lyon County
Lease
Topeka
Freeborn
Board of Charities
Mavison
Wis
J. B. Ogilvie
J. W. Farwell & Co
State Bank of
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Dubuque
Ausipia
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A. C. Christman
Puitapenesra
Rosenthal Brothers
Virginia
Virginian
Des Mores
Porter Scott
Silas Taft
Esses
Taft
Scott
Hot Springs
M'Millin Explains
Mes Climax
Dr. Wood
Specuists
Thia
Samppe Medical and Surgical Institute
Atlantic
Park
Chicago Medical Surgical Institute
Woop
Mireler
Aureleas
Consault
APOE
U.S
Chicago Medical and Surgical Institute
E. van Buren ST
Wabash Ave
Weite
DE Kalb Fence CO
de Kalb, Ili
J. H. Neadles & Son
Atlantic, Iowa
Iece Ie Raat
J. A. McGinn
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