Death and wrecks collide in a tangled Idaho tale and more
Fragmented clippings reveal a mix of dramatic headlines from December era papers. Edwin L. Shumwa cited in a mysterious train wreck, a romantic vengeance plot unfolds in Texas, a Baltimore life insurance dispute surfaces, and the Utopia rescue ship arrives in New York. A Chicago fire devastates property near a $1,000,000 loss, a Norwalk electric plant burns, and beam trawling and shipbuilding duties are debated. Probing the whiskey trust and a distillery plot loom, while Kentucky politics and clothing workers’ conventions appear. International items cover Franz Joseph, Paris miners, and Chilean naval events, with notes on English labor and Macroon conflicts.
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Edwin L. Shumwa
Westfield
Texas
Baltimore Equitable Society
Nw York
Utopia
Chicago
Haymarket
Norwalk
Conn
Whiskey Trust
Kentucky
Clothing Cutters’ Convention
New Tee
Baldwinville
Harvard Worcester ball game and league notes
The page lists baseball and league items including the New England Baseball League with clubs and standings of amateur inter-club bowls. It mentions a death of Dr Eben Tourjée, director of the New England Conservatory of Music, and notes strikes by painters and squareers. It references railway conductors and a sermon by Dr Herrick marking his twentieth anniversary. An arrest in Essex of an ex-preacher charged with incendiarism and the closing session of a manual training conference are also noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oly
New England Baseball League
Eben Tourjée
Ts New England Conservatory of Music
Brotherhood
Missehattock
Pratt Institute
Prang Wonterenes
Boston
Herrick
Mount Vernon Shusoh
Essex
No tights no show cancels Minnesota appearance
The McCaull Opera Company cancels its Minnesota engagement after the state senate passed a bill banning women in tights on stage and with possible House enactment. Manager Ashin telegraphed the St Paul manager simply: No tights, no show.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CubcaGco
Minnesota State Senate
McCaull Opera Company
Ashin
St. Paul
Death by Self-Destructive Dynamite Ordeal in Kansas
John Carroll, a coal miner in OsaGce City Kansas on April 12, placed a dynamite cartridge in his mouth and lit the fuse with a match. The blast blew off his head.
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OsaGce City
Kan
John Carroll
Survivors Of The Utopia Arrive In New York
The Anglia from Gibraltar brought Utopia survivors to New York after the March disaster in the Bay of Gibraltar. Drowned were 560 passengers. Two saloon passengers survived, W. T. Cobron and Miss Mathilda Sohn, with Cobron recounting the rescue aided by a Newfoundland dog and a launch from the flagship Camperdown. The Italian immigrants were landed at the barge office, many mourning losses. Captain Marr of the Anglia distributed $12 per person from a relief fund.
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New York
Anglia
Anchor
Gibraltar
Utopia
Bay of Gibraltar
Charles G.davis
Columbian Bank of Boston
W. T. Cobron
Mathilda Sohn
Camperdown
Italian Home Society
Marr
New Beam Trawl Aims to Boost Gloucester Fishermen
Captain Alfred Bradford, after a trial trip aboard the Mary F. Chisholm off Georges Bank, plans beam trawling expansion in New England waters. He targets Essex investors to build a 90 ton hybrid vessel with steam hoisting gear, designed to haul a beam trawl along the sail and fish unknown species for markets, though he notes initial prejudice may fade as familiarity grows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gloucester
Srecian
Alfred Bradford
Mary F. Chisholm
Georges Bank
Bradford
England
Essex
Ambassador Snubs Anxiety in France and Naval Talk
An ambassador faced a cool reception in France as anxiety over Franco-German tensions rose. Emperor William addressed naval capacity and preparedness, signaling a warning tone about the forthcoming conflict.
Amassadors tense ties falter in Germany Paris report
Paris April 12. M Herbette French ambassador to Germany warns of strained Berlin relations. Kaiser William’s curt manner alarms officials, despite prior cordial exchanges with Chancellor Caprivi and the Berlin Foreign Office. If Kaiser resents Empress Frederick’s Paris treatment, recall may follow.
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Paris
M. Herbette
Germany
M. Ribot
Berlin
von Caprivi
William
Frederick
Emperor William Urges Navy to Lead Offensive in Next War
In Kiel at the Marine Academy, Emperor William said the navy should take the chief offensive role, seeking to annihilate the enemy by a grand coup. He compared naval duties to cavalry on shore and said future German maneuvers would follow English strategic principles.
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Berury
William
Marine Academy
Kiel
Emperor opens Reichsrat session in Vienna urging lasting peace
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria opened the Reichsrat with a speech stressing broad European peace desires and assurances from governments. He urged readjustment of Austria’s political commercial relations to enable prosperity under a stable regime, and announced plans to strengthen the budget with reforms to direct taxation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
Francis Joseph
Austria
Reichsrath
Europe
Irish Sunday meeting in Macroom turns violent
In Macroom, April 12, Tanner and Deasy, Nationalist MPs, spoke to a crowded audience as opponents hooted. Fights broke out with blackthorn blows and bloodshed. many people were seriously hurt and speakers were largely unheard. In London, McCarthy offered to resign his Newry seat if Shaw resumes leadership.
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Dupin
Tanner and
Deasy
Macroom
London
Justin Huntly McCarty
Newry
House of Commons
Shaw
From pulpit to cell in Essex fire case
George A. Andrews, a former Free Will Baptist preacher active in Maine, is jailed in Salem awaiting examination next Friday on a charge of incendiary fire that destroyed his Essex dry goods store last Friday. He was held in 2000 for the hearing with District Officer Shaw handling the case.
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Essex
George A. Andrews
Salem
Shaw
Andrews
Sayward
Barnam
The March of the Insurgents in Northern Chile
Reports from Iquique indicate Arica and Tacna have fallen to the insurgents with Tacna under Congress party control, extending Northern Chile's reach to Copiapo as government forces retreat toward Bolivia. Paris says Franco-Chilean cruisers will be handed to Balmaceda government with minimal French crew and coal rights, Presidente Pinto due May, Errazuriz near completion, British crew aiding Chilean marines under Col Villageran.
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Galveston
Iquique
Chili
Arica
Tacna
Department of Tacna
Congress Party
Copiapo
Bolivia
Paris
Foreign Office
France
Balmaceda
Presidente Pinto
Villageran
Quick Fire Guns Show French Factory Speed
At Canet's Havre factory in Havre Paris on April 12 French officers Russian commission headed by Colonel Sanatsky and Danish General Linnemann observed quick-fire guns fired. Linne mann reported nine shots in forty five seconds and seven shots in fifty four seconds with heavier calibre. Results suggest French factories can compete with other ordnance makers worldwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Canet
Havre
Sanatsky
Linnemann
Rear Admiral Shufeldt Gravely Ill in Washington
Rear-Admiral Robert W. Shufeldt, retired, is dangerously ill at his Washington home with acute bronchitis from a severe flu. Doctors express little hope for recovery tonight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shufeldt
Washington
Robert W. Shufeldt
Fate of An American Who Shot His Book Keeper
In City of Mexico on April 12 Edgar Bou lingy, an American, who fired at a bookkeeper when the latter attempted to stop a police shooting, was sentenced to an unspecified punishment after the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City of Mexico
Edgar Boulingy
Mani pur Mass Casualty Memoirs Details Commissioner Quinton Death
London reports from India describe Commissioner Quinton decapitated with his body hacked and limbs discarded outside Mani pur walls. Two officers and a bugler speared, Mr Grimwood and others wounded, victims' bodies cast over the city walls, and a large reward offered for the Manipur regent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
India
Manipur
Quinton
Grimwood
Manivur
Manipur Massacre Denial and Franco American Notices
British treatment of natives at Manipur denied by Captain Boil Senior who says the natives fired first. Paris dispatch notes ex Speaker Reed avoided the US Legation and is now in Italy. American charity fund gains fifty thousand francs. last year sent 170,000 francs home. Bride Miss Munroy to wed Henry Ridgway with Minister Reid as witness at the American church in Alma Brerur. German Reichstag seat resignations offered by Kardorff in favor of Prince Bismarck II after conservative Geestemunde result.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Boil Senior
Manipur
Paris
Thomas B. Reed
House of Representatives
United States
Legation
Italy
American Charity Fund
Miss Munroy
Henry Ridgway
Reid
Avenue L
Alma
Brerur
Herr Kardorff
Gibson's Infernal Machine Alleged Plot Unfolds
Federal grand jury continues probe into an alleged plan to blow up the H. H. Shufeldt distillery. Evidence points to purchase of bomb material at Colburn & Bird's in Peoria and lab work at the whiskey trust. Witness intimidation claims surface. Ashford testimony linked to a fire test. William Barry critiques arrests as the government argues for caution and perjury risks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Curiaco
H. H. Shufeldt
Gibson
Whiskey Trust
Federal
Grand Jury
Colburn & Bird’s Drug Store
Peoria
Ashford
Trust Laboratory
A Texan Melodrama Sequel Ends in Acquittal Reno
W C Cash was acquitted of the Dallas murder of E T Young, a killing that followed a social upheaval in which Young allegedly led Cashs wife astray in Kentucky. Cash hunted Young through several states, killed him in Dallas, then remarried his ex wife at a hotel amid a dramatic scene.
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Daas
Tex
W. C. Cash
E. T. Young
Young
Cash
Kentucky
Dallas
Dangerous plaything explosion kills two Munce children
In Washington, Pennsylvania, Thomas Munce’s three young boys found an almost empty glycerine can and threw stones at it. The resulting blast blew two boys to atoms and fatally injured the remaining child. The piece also promotes Mellin’s Food as a reliable infant nourishment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washineaton
Penn
Thomas Munce
New Coffee Colored Goods Arrive at Paine's Furniture
Paine's Furniture at 43 Canal Street Southside Boston announces a new stock from Irish Points. The coffee colored items feature white tracery and large embroidery-like designs. Prices are attractively low at 14 and 17 dollars.
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Lantic
Chicago 74 Fire Scar Consumes Haymarket Block
A massive blaze in Chicago caused by a stable fire at West Madison near Halstead destroyed the Smyth building and Kohl Middleton's museum, wounded 40, and led to the death of a man later at the County Hospital while a brave policeman kept panicked crowds from stampeding. Firemen faced 100 oil barrels stored in the Smyth basement as 300 firefighters battled the flames for hours.
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Chicago
John M. Smyth
West Madison Street
Halstead Street
Kohl & Middleton
Dime Museum
Smyth
Madison and
Union Streets
Haymarket Theatre
Haymarket
People’s Clothing Company
Union Street
Kohl & Middleton’s Museum
Patrick Sheehy
C. A. Messenger
Sheehy
Mme. Carver
Belmont
Smyth Establishment
Xkely
Neely Bros
Adelbert Kaempfer
Alfred Peats
Nall
Baer Bros
M. Jrrman
Hannah & Hoge
Royal Tailoring Company
Board of Education
Smyth Block
Whhile Kohl & Middleton
M. Irrman
Barry & Jay
Meridian Court
Bessie Higgins
Bernard Sloth
J. Z. Bergeron
Sarah Macks
Fires Rage Across Several Towns Flooding Reports
Norwalk Connecticut reports a major morning fire destroying the big frame building of the Norwalk and South Norwalk Electric Light Company, with $60,000 plant value and $20,000 loss. Ames Packing in Springfield, Calhoun Buggy in Springfield, and a Norwich area blaze follow, each with damages and limited insurance details. A Salem Waste Company fire and a gas lamp accident in Washington Street add to the string of incidents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norwalk
Conn
Norwalk & South Norwalk Electric Light Company
Norwalk Gas Light Company
Springfield
Ames Packing Company
Calhoun
Chester
Mary Brownell
St.ord
Salem
Salem Waste Company
North Salem
Messrs. Symonds Newell
T. Putnan Symonds
Highland Avenue
A Question of Corporate Life in Baltimore Insurer
A bill in equity filed against the Baltimore Equitable Society for Insuring Houses asks for a receiver to wind up the corporation and distribute its funds. The suit contends the society's corporate life ended in 1878 and seeks division of $1,500,000 surplus among old policy holders if dissolved or not.
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Baltimore Equitable Society
Baltimore
Act of General Assembly
Treasury
Architects of the Future Prize Winners Named
New York April 12 The McKim Fellow ships in Architecture at Columbia College worth 1000 each were awarded for the first time by a jury including R M Hunt Thomas Hastings Arthur Rotch and C F McKim The winners are A M Munoz of Philadelphia class of 1888 and A M Welch of New York class of 1890
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Architects OF the
New York
McKim
Columbia College
R. M. Hunt
Thomas Hastings
Arthur Rotch
Boston
C. F. McKim
A. ©. Munoz
Philadelphia
A. M. Welch
Brotherhood calls painters to strike in Boston
In Boston labor circles excitement grows as the Brotherhood orders local painters and decorators to strike while Knights of Labor claim illegality. John Burns addresses the Royal Labor Commission, pushing for action and clarification amid mounting tensions.
Rejected Strike Plan Splits Boston Painters Union
Boston painters and decorators including Knights of Labor and the Brotherhood debated wage and hours demands. After mixed replies from employers and a heated public meeting, leaders declared no strike and men withdrew, citing Knights of Labor rules and a later gathering at Pythian Hall.
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Boston
Knights of Labor
The
Brotherhood
Wells Memorial Hall
Local Assembly 4495
Local Assembly
William McCarthy
General Executive Board
State Assembly
General Assembly
Pythian Hall
Workman McCarthy
Brothershood
Pythian Fall
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Hotel Vendome
Chi
East 18Th St
Travers Block
Newport, R. I
Nuremburg
London—Inventors
Spain
Barcelona
GEO
H. Lloyd
Kilmer
Alesro 3
Causewiy S
Emeret Willan
Ris
Macroon
Burns
Labor Commission
Tremont Street
Lake Ins
J. T. Phelps
State Agt
Dev
Qak Hall
Oak Hall
North St
Union
Ireland
Alacranes
la Patria
Mexico
West Point Military Academy
William Vallette
Emperor William
AN Irish Sunday
Justin Huntly McCarthy
Free Will Baptist
Cruisers
Suffolk Trust Co
W. A. Clarb
Ww. A. Sicc Rail Lis
General Foreign News
Massachusetts Loan and Trust Company
Board OF Directors
Samuel Atherton
Isaac Fenno
Cyrus G. Beebe
Joseph H. Gray
Samuel Carr
Hery D. Hyde
Stephen M. Crosby
Jerome Jones
Benjamin F. Spinney
Stephen M. Cerosby
Moses Kimball
Henry A. Rice
Frank W. Reynolds
Richard H. Stearns
Edward Whitney
Frank W. Krewnolds
Treas
Florida
the Carolinas
Geneva Point
Paine
Canal Ct
Norwalk & South Norwalk
Flectele Light Company
Julius Harris
Washington Street
Harris
City Hospital
Pat
Ers
Decorators
John Burns
Royal Labor Commission
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