Tremont Temple Fire Ravages Tremont Street Structure
Fire swept Tremont Temple on Tremont Street near Tremont House, gutting the organ loft and interior and causing widespread damage. Loss tallies around 875000 with later revision to 225000. injuries reported to Fireman Patrick Dunn and another seriously hurt. Cause under review attributed to defective electrical wiring or overheated steam pipes.
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Boston
Tremont Temple
Tremont Street
Tremont House
Patrick Dunn
Manufacturing Plant Burns in Leeds Suburb of Sioux City
The Poch Manufacturing Company plant at Leeds near Sioux City caught fire Sunday morning. Four large wooden buildings with corrugated iron were consumed as high winds drove the blaze, threatening the town outside the fire limits. Loss estimated at 58000 with 38000 covered by insurance. The firm makes road scrapers and windmills and will rebuild at once.
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Sioux City
Poch Manufacturing Company
Leeds
Fatal Fire at Madrid destroys pastry shop and many families
Maprio March 2. A pastry cook shop fire at Saint Sebastian spread via a keg of spirits to adjoining four story houses. Fifteen jumped from windows. ten killed and three mortally injured. Twenty-one known dead, others missing or unaccounted. Flour Mill Burned at Jordan Minnesota. city mills valued $130,000 burned Sunday. Six story stone building, capacity 600 barrels daily. only floor from grinding area saved. elevator saved. Frank Nicolin prostrate. mill insured for $56,000. Loss a heavy blow to the city.
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Madrid
Maprio
Saint Sebastian
Jordan
Minn
City Mills
Chaska
Frank Nicolin
Forest fires devastate Sierra mountains near Saltillo
Fires rage in the Sierre mountains southeast of Saltillo for days destroying thousands of acres of timber and leaving many families homeless. Dozens of goat herders are reported missing as no rain falls for months and the dry country fuels the blaze.
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Monterey
Mex
Sierre
Saltillo
Fire From Open Grate Destroys Home in Philadelphia
A fire in an open grate at the residence of James Wood, 406 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, partially destroyed the home. Rose Gallagher, a servant, was burned to death and nearby property belonging to Miss Elizabeth Morris suffered damage. Loss estimated at about 20000 dollars.
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Philadelphia
James Wood
Walnut Street
Rose Gallagher
Elizabeth Morris
Honesdale Fire Destroys Several Businesses
A Sunday morning blaze in central Honesdale, Pa., burned out six businesses including Reif boots and shoes Terwilger china and glass Bar ber and Mangine fruit Heft boarding house and Grambes. The Postal Telegraph office was destroyed and wires are down. Total loss estimated at 40 000 dollars.
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Honesdale
William Reif
Boots
F. G. Terwilger
Barber & Mangine
William Heft
L. Grambes
Cotton Thread Factory Burns in South Easton Mass
J. Morse & Co. large cotton thread factory in South Easton North Easton was burned around midnight Saturday. Fire started near the engine room. Loss on buildings and machinery is estimated at 175000 to 200000 dollars, only partially insured.
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North Easton
Mass
J. Morse & Co
South Easton
Geen
Clarendon hotel burns in Cripple Creek with no insurance
The new Clarendon hotel and its contents burned at 6 oclock Sunday morning in Cripple Creek Colorado. No insurance was carried on building or contents as insurers refused the risk due to the inflammable structure. Loss estimated at about 30000 dollars.
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Cripple Creek
Colo
Clarendon Hotel
Territorial Waters Defined by Commission in Bering Sea Case
The commission, tasked to define territorial waters, rules the term covers all waters within leagues of the coastline. This decision is unlikely to be accepted by foreign powers, possibly only the United States might concede.
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St. Petersspurag
Bering Sea
United States
Cases Against Bourke Dismissed in Rio Grande City
In Rio Grande City court Saturday eight complaints against Captain John Gt Bourke of the Third United States Cavalry for alleged false imprisonment were dismissed as the plaintiffs refused to prosecute.
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Bourke
San Antonio
Tex
John Gt. Bourke
Third
United States Cavalry
Rio Grande City
Novel Journey A Chicago Woman Plans Groundless Rail Trip
Cascado March 19 Miss Bessie Mitchell Doolittle confidential clerk for Knight Leonard printers will depart Chicago next Wednesday night at 9 30 on a trip famed in railroad history. She will not set foot on the ground from departure to return to prove American through car service palace car arrangements and union depot transfer accommodations allow such a journey.
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Roaiload
Chicago
Cascado
Bessie Mitchell Doolittle
Knight & Leonard
Pacific Ocean
Atlantic Ocean
New England
Miss Doolittle
Thomas
Union Depot
New York Irishmen to Indorse Home Rule at Mass Meeting
In New York on March 20 the Irish-American subcommittee laid plans for a mass meeting at the Academy of Music next Sunday to back Gladstone's home rule bill. Speakers include Rep. W Bourke Cochran and ex-Judge Noah Davis, with governors of several states sending letters of support and pledging to subscribe to the home rule fund. A general committee will meet to finish arrangements for the demonstration.
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New York City
New York
Academy of Music
Gladstone
William Wallace
W. Bourke Cochran
Noah Davis
Emmet
Sunay
Lehigh Winter Sports Meet Sets New Records
Lehigh University held its annual winter sports in Bethlehem gymnasium on Saturday. In middleweight boxing J. M. Van Cleve defeated R. M. Tarleton, amateur champion of Maryland. Two records fell as W. S. Murray 95 set a running high kick mark of 8 feet 11 inches, surpassing the old record by three inches, and F. P. Full set a running high jump record of 5 feet 5 inches.
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Bethlehem
Lehigh University
College Gymnasium
J. M. van Cleve
R. M. Tarleton
Maryland
W. S. Murray
F. P. Full
Largest shaft forged in America sent to Chicago fair
The Bethlehem Iron Works shipped the largest shaft ever forged in America, weighing 89 420 pounds, to the Chicago fair. It will serve as the axle of a 2 foot high perpendicular hurly gurly invented by a Pittsburg engineer. Eight tons of armor diagonal plates for the battleship Oregon also departed for Union Ironworks in San Francisco.
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Bethlehem
America
Bethlehem Ironworks
Pittsburg
Oregon
Union Ironworks
San Francisco
Unprofitable Year Prompts Dividend for Cunard
London March 2 The Cunard Steamship company will propose a 2 percent dividend at the next meeting. Profit for the year exceeded £172000 with £32000 available for dividend. Despite a press profit, the year was notably unprofitable due to low freight rates and steerage trade suspension. Capana, the new twin screw liner, to sail April 2 and Lucania to begin voyages in July.
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London
Cunard Steamship Company
Capana
Lucania
Willing to Accept an Amendment in Home Rule Bill
John Dillon, nationalist MP for East Mayo, told a Glasgow audience that Irish home rule supporters could endure harsh measures if needed to defend Protestants. He rejected Catholic persecution of Protestants and said Irish would accept clauses protecting Protestants in the home rule bill.
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London
John Dillon
East Mayo
Glasgow
Ulster
Ireland
Royal Train Crash Delays King and Cabinet Movement
King Carlos Queen Marie Amelie and cabinet members were jolted on a special Caldas Da Rainha train ride. Passengers were thrown from seats but no one was injured. After two hours, the royal party continued aboard another train.
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Lisson
Carlos
Marie Amelie
Caldas da Rainha
Rome Death Probe Into Pope Physician Poisoning Suspected
The Messaggero Patria reports an inquiry has been ordered into the death of Dr. Cecarrelli, the pope's physician. A suspicion arises that he was poisoned at the urging of his relatives and a woman from a traditional Italian Catholic family.
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Rome
Messagreo Patria
Cecarrelli
Messagreo
Italy
Belgium Labor Party council vows universal suffrage strike
Brussels March 20 The general council of the Labor party of Belgium with delegates from working men's societies across the country has resolved unanimously to proclaim a great strike if parliament fails to vote universal suffrage. The council has passed similar resolutions before but never enacted them.
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Brussels
General Council
The
Labor Party of Belgium
Salisbury Very Sick Who Hopes to Address Unionists
Lord Salisbury is bedridden and forbidden to work by physicians. He sent a dispatch to Belfast hoping to address the Unionists on April 4. A French anarchist named Barnard was arrested in Roz suspected of causing explosions at Palazzo Antici Mattei and the palace Altiori.
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Salisbury
London
Lord Salisbury
Belfast
Roz
Barnard
Palazzo
Antici Mattei
Altiori
Body of Jules Ferry Lies In State In Paris Hall
The coffin with Jules Ferry’s body is to be moved to the great hall of the Senate where it will lie in state on Tuesday in Paris. The event marks a formal paying of respects by the nation.
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Paris
Jules Ferry
The
Sen- Ble
Plan to oppose Geary act fuels San Francisco interest
In San Francisco the Chinese on the coast gather around possible actions as enforcement of the Geary Chinese act nears. Rumored strategy centers on challenging the act through an arrest in New York on May 6, a habeas corpus writ, and a supreme court appeal aided by Attorney Riordan and eastern lawyers.
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San Francisco
Riordan
New York
Joseph H. Choate
Supreme Court
United States Supreme Court
Lincoln Legislature Adopts Pay to Farrell Widow and Bribery Inquiry
The Nebraska legislature passed resolutions eulogizing late Representative Farrell and ordered his full term salary paid to his widow. A Kyner conduct inquiry was sent to public apology outcomes, with no action taken. The rail committee report sets the maximum rate bill as a special order for next Tuesday.
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Lincoln
Neb
Farrell
Sheridan
Kyner
Senate
Railroad Committee
Thrun Confesses in Romeo Insurance Swindle Case
Thrun has made a written confession detailing the Wisconsin Central insurance swindle at Romeo. He implicates T. G. Hansen, assistant special claim agent, as the chief conspirator. Hansen was arrested at the Wisconsin Central offices and turned over to Sheriff Kraby. Hansen denies guilt.
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Consin Central Railroad
Cubbcanco
F. J. Thrun
Romeo
Wis
T. G. Hansen
Wisconsin Central
Hansen
William Beck
New York Mutual Life Insurance Company
Kraby
Thrun
Ann Arbor Strike Heads To Federal Injunction
The United States court in Detroit granted a temporary injunction restraining Chiefs Arthur and Sargent from ordering a strike or interfering with Ann Arbor railway business. Arthur and Sargent have left the city. local committee now handles the strike. Freight offered by the Ann Arbor road to Pennsylvania and Wheeling and Lake Erie was taken by the Pennsylvania line. Wheeling has not moved any freight yet.
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Arthur
Sargent
Torrepo
Ann Arbor
Pennsylvania
Wheeling
Lake Erie
Detroit
Ashley
Taft
United States Court
Arthur and
Ann Arbor Road
Adoption case in Alton favors petitioner over Oregon real estate
In Alton Illinois on March 17 the Mary Murray adoption case was decided in the city court for the petitioner by recording her legal adoption, affecting the title to Oregon real estate. The ruling may be appealed. Albany reports a Municipal Telegraph company formed with $100,000 capital. many incorporators linked to Albany pool rooms.
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Alton
Ill
Mary Murray
Oregon
Telegraph Company
Albany N. Y
Municipal Telegraph Company
Albany
Insolvency Denied by Lombard Investment Board Chairman
Isaac P. T. Edmunds says reports about Lombard Investment Company's solvency are false. He denies expert circulars and press distortions, asserts the firm remains solvent with 700 000 to 800 000 dollars in cash, and vows to meet interest coupons and guaranteed loans.
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The
Lombard Investment Company
Boston
Isaac P. T. Edmunds
Philadelphia
Tsadac P. ‘I. Epimps
Railway unions press wage demands in Santa Fe and Grand Trunk
Cuicano March 18 An extra session of the General Managers association considers wage demands from Santa Fe locomotive engineers and Grand Trunk conductors and trainmen. A special committee will report at the next meeting, with officials signaling no strike risk though a likely setback for the workers.
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Cuicano
General Managers’ Association
Santa Fe
Grand Trunk
Milwaukee Blaze Threatens District In Paint Depot Fire
A Milwaukee fire began in the J. E. Patton paint and oil warehouse and spread to adjoining buildings housing N. Meissner Boot and Shoe, Milwaukee Knitting, Eureka Paint, W. H. Miller Tea, and A. J. Hilbert Co. A wall collapse seriously injured Captain Andrew White. Loss estimated at 60,000 with insurance covering it all. Some victims had been burned in the October 28 eastward conflagration.
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Milwaukee
J. E.patton Company
Andrew White
N. Meissner Boot and Shoe Company
Milwaukee Knitting Company
Eureka Paint Company
W. H. Miller Tea Company
A. J. Hilbert & Co
Eae Ward
Iron Hall Matters in Indiana Supreme Court Brief Filed
Judge Daniel Howe for the Iron Hall defendants filed a brief in the supreme court arguing four errors. He seeks reversal of Judge Taylor’s order appointing Farley as receiver. Oral argument is set for March 26.
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Indianapolis
Daniel Howe
Iron Hall
Supreme Court
Howe
Taylor
Farley
Schoolcraft laid to rest in Boston funeral service
Luke Schoolcraft actor and minister was eulogized Thursday at Advent Church with the Boston lodge of Elks directing. The interment followed at Cedar Grove cemetery as mourners gathered in the city. The item notes a separate shipping update from New York reporting docked steamers Lahn Rhyniand and Spaarndam with no news of the Naronic and generally good weather but heavy fogs elsewhere.
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Schoolcraft
Boston
Luke Schoolcraft
Church of Advent
Boston Lodge of Elks
Cedar Grove Cemetery
Naronic
New York
Lahn
Rhyniand
Spaarndam
Grand jury indicts Lewis Redwine for embezzlement
Atlanta March 3 United States grand jury charges Lewis Redwine with embezzling from Gate City National Bank the total sum alleged at 103000 dollars.
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Atlanta
United States Grand Jury
Lewis Redwine
Gate City National Bank
Mysterious mail robbery shocks Akron with $20,000 draft loss
In Akron on March 18 a mail robbery was found involving about $20,000 in drafts from Akron National Bank and Aultman Miller. A special mail pouch was stolen from the post office and vanished between Akron and Pittsburg. Two drafts worth 15000 and 5000 were sent to Pittsburg banks.
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Akron
City National Bank
Aultman, Miller & Co
Union Depot
Pittsburg
Harris Breaks Down At The Tombs
At the Tombs prison Carlyle Harris, crushed by an adverse recorder decision, has become dejected and hopeless. He has eaten nothing since Thursday noon and refused food offered to him, with fears he may starve himself.
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Harris
New York
Tombs
Carlyle Harris
The
Recorder
Prominent Guanajuato Merchant Arrested in Bank Defalcation
In Guanajuato on March 18 Felipe Osante, a wealthy local merchant, was arrested and imprisoned on charges tied to defalcations at the National Bank of Mexico’s Guanajuato branch. The reported shortage stands at 400,900 dollars.
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Guanaljuato
Mexico
Felipe Osante
National Bank of Mexico
Von der Horst Retires From Baltimore Baseball Club
BatLimMore March 16. Harry R. von der Horst longtime head of the Baltimore Baseball club resigns as president. Edward Hanlon succeeds him as president and manager, to lead the club going forward.
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BatLimMore
Harry R. von der Horst
Baltimore Baseball Club
Edward Hanlon
Resignations and deaths mark uneven week in news
Boston receives word of President Clark of the Union Pacific resigning. Efforts push to remove Reading railroad receiver McLeod. Browns fall 7 to 1 to Memphis Southern. Crimes include crimina l assault conviction in Illinois and multiple fatal incidents from Illinois to California. Notable deaths: Lovett at Soldiers Home Erie, Fladden struck by train in Galena, Huckaby stabs rival farmer in Georgia, premature birth death of Mary Smith, Bosley suicide in Illinois, and an 11 year old San Francisco elevator death. Dr. J H Oakley to Savannah Marine Hospital Service. Miss Mahala Medley arrested for opening mail. Frank Rosengard dies from Bay City stabbing injuries. John Mitchell in jail.
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Clark
Union Pacific
Boston
McLeod
Reading Railroad
St. Louis Browns
Memphis
George Roberts
Oquaka
Ill
Joliet
Thomas Lovett
Soldiers
Erie
Frederick Fladden
Galena
Ills
Ernest Huckaby
Willis Smith
St. Mary's
Mary Smith
Levi Smith
Sedalia
James Bosley
Marseilles
J. H. Oakley
Cairo
United States Marine Hospital Service
Savannah
Frank Rosengard
Bay City
Mich
John Mitchell
William O’ Donnell
San Francisco
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Edison Electric Comny
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Here
B. T. Day
Lethbridge
Milwaukee Blaze
Aleana Beef
U.S
LimaxPiuUc
Gunakame
SLIM
Max
Ultaan Y
Ict
Lima
von der Horst
N.k.faineane
Itaia
Nukcpairbank & CO
Benig
Tuch
Conor
Thigisgur
Andes
Vince
A. T. Sanden
Dr. Sanden
H. N. Wilder
Shawmut Avenue
A. T. Sanpen
Wier Plow
Woxnorth
Tll
A. T. Sanpey
DenrSir
Sanden
WM. Hanna
Wier
James Mills
Frazier
Kansas City
Kansas
A. T. Saxpen
O. K
Ieee
Ns. Sperry
Statens
Sanden Electric CO
la Salle St
Chicaco
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