Turbulent storm wrecks Pittsburg steel works
A cyclone struck Reapersport Pa and caused roof collapses at Mount Penn stove works and J H Sternbergh rolling mill. A Reading railroad yard car was overturned with workers buried as a silk mill near Pittsburg collapsed, killing at least eighteen and injuring many. Rescue efforts continued amid widespread damage across the city and region.
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Canada
VulTalo
Reapine
Mount Penn
Reading Railroad Company
Reading Railroad
John Kahler
Albert Landberger
Sheridan Jones
George Schatner
Aaron Dewalt
George Knabb
Reading
Messrs. Grimshaw
George Grinshaw
Collision at Sea Sinking of Phyapeket Claims Forty-Two Drowned
Advices from Singapore report the steamer Phyapeket collided with another vessel and sank. Forty-two persons are drowned. The incident prompted swift dispatches and memorials for the lost at sea.
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Loxpox
Singapore
Phyapeket
Canadian Parliament to Visit United States Tour
The Times reports that Erastus Wiman claims Canada with 320 parliament members will tour the United States on special railroad trains. A bankers syndicate funds the $500,000 trip, with Canadians not spending a penny. The circuit includes Buffalo Cincinnati Chicago St Louis Chattanooga Birmingham and more before returning to New York and home.
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United States
Chcaco
the Times
Erastus Wiman
Canada
Actians
Cincinnati
Chattanooga
Tenn
Birmingham
Ala
Coal and Iron
Washington
Baltimore
Wilmington
Philadelphia
New York
Rochester
Wiran
Fifty Years of Congress Tariff Debates and Filibusters
The report covers multiple days of congressional action with Weaver of Iowa filibustering in both houses. The senate debates tariff provisions adjusting duty on peaks and fresh fish. Amendments to the tariff bill and pension measures are noted, plus adjournments and upcoming sessions. Separate items report McKinley’s Ohio support, a natural gas pipe explosion near Tiffin, and related incidents.
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Weaver
Iowa
Senate
Ad Valorem
Journal
Plumb
Hale
House
Nicaragua
Col
Scott
War Records Office
Tiffin
Wood County
Baltimore & Ohio
Severe Winter Crisis Hits New Mexico Livestock
In Albuquerque New Mexico on January 16 reports describe great distress among cattle and sheep as deep snow covers plains and mountains. Hundreds perish and a driven herd of antelope is found frozen to death in the southern mountains near Albuquerque.
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New Mexico
Albuquerque
N. M
Unprecedented Catch Off Gloucester Riveron Lizzie Flin
The schooner Lizzie Flin arrived from Grand Banks with an extraordinary catch of 100000 pounds Lalibur, selling at once for 9000 pounds. The captain says the weather on the banks was remarkable as the crew hauled in trials in shirt sleeves.
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Gloucester
Mass
Lizzie Flin
Grand Banks
Indiana Quiet News From Local Districts
Telegraph fans gather from ftopsterdom to seek nests in January timber while Indiana divorce records show strain. Reports of White Cap band activity near Tagre and warnings with skull motifs. In Terre State Joseph McCann shot Willis Edwards, wound not dangerous. Johan Sage to Marion for first degree murder trial in January. Three masked men rob Jacksonlairg farmer. Andrew J. Martin deserts wife and children to elope. Westtall, western Indiana newsman, paralyzed. Jerry Shoal found guilty of murder at Fort Wayne, sentenced to two years. Carbon marshal Thomas Fitaseraki involved in shooting. Goeschbaska namesake thwarted. Atullen of Lafayette charged with perjury. voters and a libel suit in Liberty for damages.
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Indiana
Tnndiana
Tagre
Lod
Terre State
Ind
Joseph McCann
Willis Edwards
Westtall
Jerry Shoal
Fort Wayne
Tech
William Govleku
Thomas Fitaseraki
Carbon
Goeschbaska
Atullen
Lafayette
Yonpan
Liberty
Wreck Near Tallmadge Kills Child and Four Chinamen
An eastbound express crashed into a disabled freight near Tallmadge, Akron. Five killed, about a dozen injured, including Thomas Fairfax and James Boyd. Mary Ann Lyon six, and four Chinese workers burned in the smoker. Cause traced to freight breakup and signal mix up by flagmen.
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Tallmadge
Akron
New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Road
Bob Huntington
Galion
Express
William Walters
Ashland
William Lundy
J. A. Rushford
Mary Ann Lyon
Cherry Creek
New York
Thomas Fairfax
Cleveland
James Boyd
Paterson
N. J
Sam Douglass
Fairfax
Mary Lyon
Rittman
Grand Army
Murder in Eaton as son confesses in Icy Ohio tale
Eaton Ohio January report tells of widow Caroline Sharkey murdered in her bed by a maul. Her son Elmer Sharkey, twenty two, initially fled after a stairway disturbance and later confessed on Monday. Neighbors doubt his story, noting indifference and a $1000 reward offer, with insanity cited as a family trait.
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John Clarke
Elmer
Beal
Eaton
Young Sharkey
Severe earthquake devastates San Jose Costa Rica
A Costa Rica earthquake on December 30 caused widespread ruin in San Jose, destroying the national cathedral, presidential palace, city hall, post office and other public buildings. Damage surpasses 5 million dollars. daily tremors continue as residents live in tents awaiting further shocks. The nearby Pon volcano reawakened, with lava and ash threatening the region.
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Costa Rica
Central America
New York
San Jose
Republic of
National Post Office
Pons
Marvelous hydraulic mill rolls pipe iron with one man
In SuarRon Pennsylvania a single operator controlled a giant hydraulic mill that turns bulky slabs of iron into pipe iron. The process, with levers and a moving bed, claimed labor savings of sixteen to one and was praised as a world novelty. Also reported: a northwest snowstorm spread across Minnesota and Iowa with several inches accumulating, sleet and rain, but no major blockage expected.
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SuarRon
Wheatland
St. Pat
Minn
St. Vincent
Omaha Road
Sioux City
Northern Pacific
Here
Detroit
Iowa
Inaugural Round Trip Fares From Midwest Points to Washington
The inauguration committee arranged round trip rates from Ohio Indiana Kentucky and West Virginia leading points to Washington for next March. Fares include Cincinnati 12.50 Columbus 12. in Dayton 13.50 Fort Wayne 15 Indianapolis 16 Louisville 15.45 Toledo 13.50 Wheeling 10. Others listed with varying cents and dollars. several towns show rounding or OCR errors.
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WashingTon
Inauguration Committee
Ohio
Indiana
Kentucky
West Virginia
Cincinnati
Brownlands O
Columbus
Dayton
Fort Wayne
Ind
Indianapolis
Lima
Logansport
Louisville
Mansfield
Newark
Richmond
Springfield
Terre Haute
Tithin
Toledo
Inauguration Day at Indianapolis Opens Early
The Indiana legislature delayed due to electoral college presence as Governor Hovey and Chase prepared for inauguration. A Republican protest over Senate leadership and personnel history was filed while the house approved a 125000 salary bill before adjourning to the opera house for the ceremony. Governor Hovey's address urged election reforms, local option, anti monopoly measures, road improvements funded by liquor and dog taxes, cost limits on school books, and nonpartisan state governance.
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Ind
Senate
Loveypublicans
Giicer Coxe
Coxe
Svnnte
Robertson
English
Opera House
Hovey
Supreme Court
Indiana Election Frauds Grand Jury Summons Three Hundred Witnesses
Three hundred witnesses were summoned to appear before the Indianapolis grand jury to testify on election frauds. The case notes difficulty securing witnesses in the Dudley matter and suggests the Democratic committee may have obtained the Dudley letter via mail transit to influence expert scrutiny of the signature. Amid other reports, gas flow in Mont Trevier mirrors ocean tides, a White Cap intimidation incident near Huntington, a fatal gun accident in Corydon, and Bliss Ada Walker, a Springfield Vermont teacher, dies by suicide citing temporary insanity.
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Indianapolis
Inpis Napouis
Dudley
Democratic Committee
Mont Trevier
Ind
Springfield
Bliss Ada Walker
James R. Walker
Various 19th Century News Bits Compiled for Quick Read
A compact roundup cites Baltimore corn shipments to Europe, a bill to form army regimental bands, a wool supply and demand bureau, more emigrants expelled from Oklahoma, new Gulf cable from Galveston to Coatzacolcos, a World expedition into central Africa to locate Stanley and Emin, a Ute treaty report to Senate, seizure of immoral German books in Chicago, electoral colleges meeting, votes to be counted in Washington, and exoneration of Kate Adams steamer crew after a ship blaze at Commerce landing Mississippi.
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Baltimore
Congress
Oklahoma
Gulf
Galveston
Coatzacolcos
Vera
Hall of the House
Washington
Kate Adams
Commerce Landing
Miss
Inauguration notes and violent crime reports across states
The dispatches describe Governor elect Hovey’s inauguration in Indianapolis with Harrison present, plus a state house ball. It also notes multiple crimes and deaths from Alabama to Michigan and Minnesota, including murders near Birmingham, a boiler blast in Pellston, and a machine accident in Fergus Falls. Additional items cover labor disputes, fires, and political hints.
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Memphis
Tenn
Hovey
Indianapolis
Gen
Harrison
State House
Fergus Falls
Minn
John Shoberg
Daniel Reynolds
Helena
Ark
Sioux City
Iowa
Henry Gillespie
Nellie White
Dorie Starkey
Garrettsburg
Newton Helm
John Arnett
Bud Smith
Cynthiana
William Chapman
Springfield
Tulsa
Clenmie Cox
Paris
Tex
George Meadows
Birmingham
Ala
Clairvoyants Arrested Under New Haven Blue Law
Mary J. Wright Isabelle Harding and Jeannette L. Clark were arrested in New Haven Conn on a Tuesday for practicing fortune telling after warnings to stop. Wright and Clark posted bonds while Harding remained jailed. Wright plans to contest the case as police push to halt fortune telling under the blue law with no prior precedent.
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New Haven, Conn
Mary J. Wright
Isabelle Harding
Jeannette L. Clark
GOING NORTE Stations Mail Ex Pass Accom Terre Haute
Train schedule fragment lists stations and times for northbound service with places such as Terre Haute Worthington Elliston Fowler Lester Newberry Slinkard Washington Evansville and noting morning departures around 9 20 am and 2 00 pm with intermediate stops and times, reflecting a historic rail timetable segment.
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Terre Haute
Worthington
Newberry
Slinkard
Washington Evansville
Welsh
Elliston
Fowler
Lester
Washington
Evansville
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World's Dispensary Medical Association
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