Storm devastates Reading area wiping out mills and cars
A severe storm battered Reading Pa and surrounding cities on January 11 causing the Mount Penn stave works roof loss and extensive damage to J I Stormbergh rolling mill and Reading Railroad facilities. Four men died in the mill fire, with dozens injured as cars and workshops collapsed and waterways flooded.
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Canada
Yelo
Reaping
Boothlook
Mount Penn Stave Works
J. I. Stormbergh
Neading Railroad Company
Reading Railroad
Slarety
Jeff
John Kahler
Albert Landberger
Sheridan Jones
George Schaffer
Aaron Dewalt
George Knabb
Reading
Messrs. Grimshaw
George Grinshaw
Woo
Burrao
N. Y
Falls
New York Central Railroad
Georgia Street
Porter Avenue
Tragic Decapitation on Switch Train
Springfield reports Clifford Richards killed when he fell under a moving switch train near New Carlisle. His head was severed and his body mangled in the crash. Also noting smallpox fears in New Holland forcing school closures after cases arise and a Singapore collision sinks the steamer Phyapeket with forty two dead.
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Springfield
Clifford Richards
New Carlisle
London
Singapore
Phyapeket
Coryoox
Tad
Ed Stark
Meade County
Kennucky, Ltd
Stark
Canadian Parliament to Visit the United States
The Canadian Parliament members will visit the United States on a tour arranged by a group of American bankers and businessmen. The trip costs an estimated 500 dollars and includes a route through Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Chattanooga, Birmingham, Wilmington, Philadelphia, New York, and Rocheport before returning home. Willing participants believe the journey will enhance mutual understanding between Canadians and Americans.
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United States
Cresac
Canada
St. Loui
Cincinnati
Urey
Chattanoora
Teun
Birminghan
Ala
Wilmington
Philadelphia
New
Fifty Congress Proceedings and Tariff Debates Reported
The record covers Senate filibuster tactics by Weaver of Town Iowa and tariff debates reducing duty on pertris, with amendments and pension actions for Col Scott’s widow. It notes sessions, adjournments, conferees on the Nicnrusua bill, and House actions on District of Columbus business and South Dakota admission. A separate item reports a natural gas pipeline explosion near Tiffin Ohio, injuring none but causing massive heat from 12,000,000 feet of gas.
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Weaver
Bell
Senate
Iowa
Col
Scott
War Records Office
House
Turrix
Tiffin
Wood County
Gallimore & Ohio
Cattle and sheep perish in New Mexico cold snap
Cattle and sheep perish across the New Mexico plains and mountains with hundreds dying. A drove of antelope was found frozen to death south of Albuquerque as a severe cold wave grips the region. In Massachusetts a schooner docks with a remarkable catch of 100000 pounds of Lalibur valued at 40000.
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Albuqueeque
N. M
Albuquerque
Mass
Lizzie Griffin
Grand Banks
Unclear fragmentary report on local crime and notices
Fragmented telegraph clippings describe alleged White Cap band activity near a Dakota area and various crime notes including murders, robberies, robberies near Jacksonviaty, and a suit for damages. Names are garbled. some arrests noted with vague locations and dates, plus stray mentions of divorces and missing details.
Fatal Collin wreck near Tallmadge kills child and four Chinamen
A New York Pennsylvania Ohio freight collision with an eastbound express near Tallmadge Akron at 3 am leaves ten dead or missing. Victims include Mary Ann Lyon six. four Chinamen. engineer Bob Huntington and several crew. About a dozen injured. cause cited as freight cars splitting apart and signaling errors.
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Cape
Akron
New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Road
Tallmadge
Bob Huntington
Galion
Express
Willian Walters
Ashland
William Lundy
J. A. Rushford
Mary Ann Lyon
Cherry Creek
New York
Thomas Fairfax
Cleveland
Janes Boyd
Paterson
N. J
Sam Douglass
Fairfax
Mary Lyon
Rittman
Grand Army
Murder at a Ohio Farm Leaves Family Shaken
In Eaton Ohio on a January Saturday widow Caroline Sharkey was found murdered in her bed with blunt force trauma from a wooden maul. Her son Elmer, twenty two, fled after a night disturbance and later confessed with conflicting statements amid neighborhood suspicion and mob tension. The case mirrors a prior parricide and notes that insanity runs in the family.
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Guilt. Eaton
Caroline Sharkey
Agal
Lere
Elmer
John Clarke
Beal
Eaton
Young Sharkey
Severe Costa Rica quake devastates San Jose and threatens Poas
A January dispatch reports the December quake that leveled Costa Rica's capital destroying the cathedral and many public buildings. Damage tops 5 million dollars as Poas volcano erupts nearby with daily tremors leaving residents in tents and streets.
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Costa Rica
Central America
New York
San Jose
Republic of
National Post Office
Poas
One Man Operates World’s Most Marvellous Hydraulic Mill
A Wheatland rolling mill implements a unique hydraulic pipe iron machine operated by a single worker using simple levers. The apparatus claims labor savings of sixteen to one and promises future use at the mill. Snow plagued the Northwest with six to twelve inch accumulations near St Vincent and scattered sleet in northern Iowa and Nebraska lines.
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Wheatland
St. Paul
Minn
St. Vincent
Omaha Road
Sioux City
Northern Pacific
Here
Detroit
Iowa
Cincinnati Southern Railway
Ludlow
Haydock Carriage Manufactory
Cincinnati
Monongahela
Kanawha
Fishback
Pottsville Iron and Steel Company
Inauguration Round Trip Fares From Ohio and Nearby States
The inauguration committee arranged round trip rail rates to Washington for the March ceremonies. Fares from leading Ohio Indiana Kentucky and West Virginia points include Cincinnati 12.50 Columbus 12.00 Dayton 12.50 Louisville 15.45 Wheeling 10.00 Toledo 13.50 Zanesville 12.00 and others with varying prices.
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Washington
Ohio
Indiana
Kentucky
West Virginia
Cincinnati
Checaiant
Columbus
Dayton
SH Wayne
Ind
Tisthiers Rot
Lima
Logansport
Louisville
Mansfield
Newark
Richmond
Springfield
Terre Haute
Tiffin
Toledo
Inauguration of Gen Hovey and Chase Amid Political Turmoil
Indiana Governor Hovey and Chase were inaugurated amid protests and political maneuvering. An appropriation of $125.00 for salaries and legislature upkeep was approved as both chambers adjourned to attend the ceremony at Enstilis's opera house. Hovey urged election law reform, anti monopoly measures, road improvements funded by liquor taxes, school checks, and relief for a congested supreme court.
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Presidins
Berk
Erier
Enstlisi
Opera House
Gen. Hovey
Mr. Chase
Indianapolis
Jal
Hovey
Supreme Court
Indiana Election Frauds Grand Jury Seeks 300 Witnesses From Indianapolis
Reported in Jan 14 dispatches three hundred witnesses are summoned to appear before the Indianapolis grand jury to testify on election frauds. The piece notes difficulty securing witnesses in the Dudley case and suggests a theory about a possible letter origin from Democratic committees.
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Indianapolis
Isleinapolis
Jan. KL
Dudley
Diverse 19th Century News Flashes From Around the World
Items cover corn shipments from Baltimore to Europe, Congress seeks regimental bands, a statistics bureau for supply and demand wool, emigrants expelled from Oklahoma, Gulf cable Galveston to Coatzacoalcos, World expedition to Africa to locate Stanley and Emin led by Thomas A. Stevens, Ute treaty ratified, immoral books seized in Chicago, electoral college meetings, and crew exoneration after the Kate Adams fire at Commerce Landing Mississippi.
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Baltimore
Congress
Oklahoma
Gulf
Galveston
Coatzacolcos
Vera Cruz
New York
Central Africa
Stanley
Emin
Thomas A. Stevens
Secretary of the Interior
Senate
Germany
Chicago
Washington
By. Im
Commerce Landing
Miss
Multiple Fatal and Injury Incidents Reported Across States
A string of violent events and accidents is recorded from Alabama to Minnesota. Cries of murder, stabbings, and mob executions appear alongside disastrous fires and industrial accidents. Notable items include a Birmingham murder, a Bell's Mills explosion in Michigan killing several, a Montana governor's inauguration, and labor strikes in Cincinnati and Ludlow.
Obedience Rift Splits Powderly Era Labor and Plots
A Central Latex union boycott targets J. Kelleher for breaking an early closing rule, asserting resistance to Powderly authority. The dispute signals broader labor rebellion, with hints of shifting loyalties toward T. B. Barry and Knights of Lahore. A New York Herald report cites a British steamship plot blamed on Irish-American radicals. detectives cite glue laws for arrests of clairvoyants Wright Harding Clark in Connecticut.
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Powderly
P. J. Kelleher
Central Latex Union
T. B. Barry
Knights of Lahore Saaniser
New York
the Herald
New York Harbor
Eisedherents
Ing Corman
America
Parnell
Voateeth Egan
W. B. Walv
Conn. Jap
Mary J. Wright
Isabelle Harding
Jeannette L. Clark
Wright
Iveten
Harding
Nilbecutese
Dhue
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Patate
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Marshall, Mich
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Stevine
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Thichester Chemical Co
Madison Sq.,Phila
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Mike T
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Charles H. Chase
Nurseryman
Rochester N.Y
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12Th &T
Messrs. M. W. Ayer & Son
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Broadway
N.Y
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Italy
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W. & Warner
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Grand Army of the Republic
Omaha
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Republican National Committee
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Mont
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Paine
Wills, Richardson & Co., Proprietors
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Y. Aily
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Portland Ave
Brooklyn, N.Y
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David BE
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Slinkard
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Fowler
Lester Newberry Ree Slinkard
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Lyonton
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Enterprise
Monon
Lafaeyette
Yogisa
Gulf Coast
Florida
Tennessee
O. McOrmick
Whitaker
Agt
Broomfiel
Tna
Wm. J. Parker
National Medical Association
Bruguscox & Co
Parker
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