The Eastern Storm Brings Suffering and Snowbound Cities
The Mercury reports a fierce East Coast blizzard with winds 60 to 68 mph, widespread drifts, and four feet of snow. Victims found in drifts, trains blocked, and heavy losses announced in New York and New Jersey as rescuers and workers battle the cold and shortages.
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New York
New York City
Grand Central Depot
New Jersey
Elizabethport
Singer Sewing Machine Works
Ellis
South Elizabeth
Pennsylvania
Desler
Roscoe Conkling
Union Square
Tahall
Chinese Must Go Treaty and Senate Proceedings
Washington March 14 The Chinese treaty prohibits entrance of Chinese laborers for twenty years and fixes an indemnity of 275 000 for violence to Chinese citizens A Senate session discussed under valuation law and Dakota statehood while a committee proposed canceling unearned railroad land grants The instance notes Nash confirmed as associate justice of the Washington Territory supreme court.
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Dakota
Senate
Washington
Allison
Committee On Finance
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Supreme Court of
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House Public Lands Committee
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Territorial Committee to Meet in Bismarck on March 30
March 14 reports from Dakota Territory say Chairman Bangs will convene the democratic territorial central committee in Bismarck on March 30. Also notes Chicago railway engineers and firemen threaten to boycott Burlington cars, a UP freight embargo, and a new fast mail train planned from St Paul to Chicago via Milwaukee Road.
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Grand Forks
Bangs
Democratic Territorial Central Committee
St. Paul
Campbell
Chicago
Milwaukee Road
BP Ti
Theorthern Pacific
Rail Strike Brings Santa Fe System to Standstill
A nationwide railroad walkout by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen halts the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe main line and its branches. About 600 engineers and firemen quit, affecting thousands of workers and freight flow from Kansas City to El Paso with rumors of wider union actions and legal clarifications following Judge Gresham’s decision.
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Union Pacific Toad
Quincy Cara
Union Pacific
Curiaco
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
St. Paul
el Paso
United States
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Santa Fe
Topeka
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Denver
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Osage City Exec
ML Murray
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Furst
Burst
Rciavaiine
Newton
Brotherhood
Gresham
Abash
Anouqueages
N. M
Sante Fa
Gréenhuis
Circade
Wabash Engineers
Alexander Sullivan
Arthur
Trial of Willian Welch for Libel of Interior Vilas Opens
March 15 in Hennepin county district court the trial of William Welch Minneapolis attorney charged with libel of Secretary of the Interior Vilas began. Welch in Home Daily alleged Vilas and others at Madison 1874 75 as director of Madison Life Insurance wrecked the company and diverted surplus to directors without legal authority. Prosecution led by County Attorney Davis and William Erwin. defense by Col. W. H. Sessions. Afternoon session devoted to jury selection.
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Willian Welch
Minneapolis
Hbel
Interior
Hennebin County
Home Daily
Welch
Madison
Madison Lire Insurance Company
Davis
William Erwin
W. H. Sessions
Flood Promises From Missouri Rivers March
The Ice In the Missouri river is rabidly breaking inp and a general flood is already in progress. Manitoba railroad bridge on the Teton is done and boats on the Milk river are expected to be swept off at any moment. Water in three rivers is rising at an unprecedented rate and all trains on the western division of the Senta SDRL BANE have been ordered abandoned.
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New York
Fred Michaels
Stonington
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Chester
Scranton
Pocono Mountains
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad
Philadelphia
Reanne
Wilmington & Northern Railway
Dupont
Poutstown
East Pennsylvania
Newburg
Newburgh
Castleton
Albany
Paterson
N. J
Simson
Tamesi
Delaware
Lewes
Del
Exme
Sre
Fort Assnapoiyn
Menv
Missouri River
Manitoba
Teton
Bose
Milk River
Senta Sdrl Bane
Canadian Pacific Ottawa talks on Manitoba sale plans
Reports from Ottawa say Sir George Stephen and Sir Donald Swith met with Sir Sob Macdonald after a union meeting to discuss an apply question. The aim is to decide whether the railway should sell the Manitoba and Northwest monopoly for 812.
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Oxe
George Stephen
Donald Swith
Canadian Pacific Railway
Sob Macdonald
Unoon
Usb & Consation T
Manitoba and Northwest
Disfigured for life by Springfield doctor attack
A Springfield physician Dr. Cox is accused of mayhem after luring Effie Ellis from St Louis with telegrams signed in his son’s name. In a Springfield depot carriage assault he poured sulphuric acid on her, burning eyes and disfiguring her face, neck, and chest. A mob talked of lynching but calmer counsel prevailed.
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St. Louis
Springfield
Kiffie Ellis
St Louia
Keown Cox
George W. Cox
United States Pension
Dr. Coxon
Rome
Packer St
Steiger
Fire destroys several buildings in Roscoe town
Fire this morning in Roscoe destroyed the Edmunds house Burker's meat market LG Sunn's dwelling J W Brookbank's general store the post office and Wake's store. Estimated losses around $6000 with little insured, flames started in the rear of Calbur's famous Gree unknown.
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Roscoe
Edmunds
Burker
LG Sunn
J. W. Brookbank
J. F. Wake
Calburs
Poisoned by head cheese in sTON and three die feared
March 15 reports say Mr and Mrs Doyle their two children and Mr and Mrs Adams boarders ate head cheese from Chicago and were poisoned with two Adams and the children near death. The text also notes a mob tarred and feathered two Mormon elders near Briar Ridge school before they fled toward the Ohio River and Blaine plans to arrive in New York after the Republican convention in excellent health.
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Charles Doyle
Wixchester
Briar Ridge School House
Ohio River
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Blaine
New York
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