Cornell Mourns 7 Dead After Chi Psi House Fire
Ithaca New York December 7 A fire at the Chi Psi fraternity house on Cornell campus killed seven people including four students and three volunteer townsmen. Injuries numbered seven with J Pope of East Orange severely burned. Bodies recovered except two, and authorities planned to dynamite the ruins to aid search. The dead include attorney Alfred S Robinson fireman and John C Rumsey hardware merchant fireman.
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Ithaca
N. Y
Cornell
Chi Psi
J. Pope
East Orange
N. J
W. H. Nichols
Chicago
IF. W. Grelle
Fr Harkins Denounces Politics in Hibernian School Vote
Boston politics erupts as Fr J J Harkins county chaplain of the Ancient Order of Hibernians denounces bringing school committee issues into Hibernian ranks. He urges members to vote by conscience and reason not by ward leaders or decoy candidates. He questions use of Irish names to sway ballots and calls for independence from officials.
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Boston
J. J. Harkins
Order of Hibernians
Suffolk County
Matthew Cummings
Father Harkins
Ellis
Trieh
Nothng
Hibernians
Duff
Auxiliary 30
Charlestown
David A. Ellis
Braving Death in Arctic Gale A P Imerson Crew Rescued
The three masted schooner A. P. Imerson of Boston endured a 48 hour battle with a fierce Arctic gale. Five crew members, aided by the British steamer Nanetta, survived after escaping death three times and credit Captain Lewis Holmes of Eastport, Maine as the bravest and kindest man aboard. Captain Holmes recently returned to sea after a 20 year retirement.
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Gloucester
A. P. Imerson
Boston
Nanetta
Hunter
Lewis Holmes
Eastport
Captain Holmes
Brave Captain Perishes Enduring Gale On A. P. Emerson
After hours at the wheel Captain Holmes was badly injured by a heavy wave but refused to quit his post. With no adequate cold weather gear aboard the crew battled a fierce gale off Cape Cod. The schooner A. P. Emerson sprang a leak and was ultimately picked up by the Oregon with the crew enduring frigid, perilous conditions.
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Boston
A. P. Emerson
Gloucester Harbor
Holmes
Oregon
Redmond
South Amboy
N. J
Rockland
Vineyard Haven
Hyannis
Cape
Highland Light
Attell Knocks Out Walsh in Eighth Round
Abe Attell world featherweight champion stops Jimmy Walsh of Boston in the eighth round in Los Angeles. The 20 round bout ends early as Attell dominates with jabs and uppercuts. The purse splits 60 40 percent of gross receipts.
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Attell
Walsh
Los Angeles
Jimmy Walsh
Boston
Abe Attell
Roxbury Boys Seek Food in New York Runaway Case
Charles C. Rich wagon, 16, of Roxbury Boston and Louis Schneider, 14, of Roxbury New York applied for food at a police station. They were nearly starved and believed to have run away. Their parents reported them missing earlier in the week after they were said to be seeking work.
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New York
Charles CC. Richwagon
Heath Street
Roxbury District
Boston
Louis Schneider
Columbus Avenue
Roxbury
Boston Faces Bitter Cold Sweep Across City
A frigid wave grips Boston as temperatures plunge from 54 to 4 degrees, breaking decades of records. Wind and icy spray chill streets, with icebreakers deployed on boats and shelter sought by the unprepared as the cold portends several days of hardship.
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Boston
Rocky Mountains
Government Weather Bureau
Mercury
Peary
Roosevelt
Thompson’s Spa
Washington Street
Boston Weekend Outlook. Cold, Then Warmer
Saturday and Sunday forecast for Boston and vicinity show fair skies with continued cold conditions on Saturday. Sunday is expected to be fair with slowly rising temperatures and diminishing northwest winds across New England.
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Boston
Vicinity
New England
Death by Own Action Suspected in Lynn Case
Mary Buncon, 76, vanished after leaving the Portland boat to visit her nephew at 110 Newhall street, Lynn. Authorities believe she jumped from the Narrow Gauge ferry at dawn, after prior suicide attempts and financial distress following a Civil War era widow’s pension search. The purser recalls her near the rail at midnight and last being seen at 6 am with only 75 cents and no baggage.
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Mary Buncon
Portland
George P. Beckett
Newhall Street
Lynn
Bacon
William Bacon
First
Maine Volunteers
Bull Run
Picket Strike Slugger Testimony Ends in Chicago
William Kelly self confessed slugger and paymaster testified he received 500 dollars to pay off pickets during the teamsters strike. He said he worked as a picket from the start and earned nine dollars weekly while the strike fund lasted. Michael Murphy, who pleaded guilty with Kelly, described slugging tactics to blockades and driving non union wagons from strike bound houses.
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Chicago
William Kelly
Cornelius P. Shea
Teamsters
Kelly
Michael Murphy
Albert Young
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Murphy
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Alfreds. Robinson
John C. Rumsey
F. Gray Co
Washington and
Hanover
F, Gray Co
FR. Harkins
Hibernian
Harkins
John F. Fitzgerald
Josiah Quincy
Henry S. Pritchett
John H. Dillon
A. E. Pillsbury
Charles V. Daley
John L. Bates
John B. Martin Godfrey Morse
James A. M.donald
Grafton D. Cushing
John G. Blake
John Shepard
Thomas A. Mullen
John K. Berry
William T. Keough
Thomas J. Kenny
William S. Kenny
Thomas J. Gargan
Andrew J. Peters
Samuel B. Cape, Herbert S. Carruth
Edward A. Filene James Donovan
Charles T. Gallagher
John D. Drum
Melvin D. Adams
John H. Lee
Michael J. Murray Charles H. Slattery
Andrew A. Bacaracco
Henry V. Mackley
A. Lincoln Filene
John A. Ryan
Edward F. M.sweeney
M. J. Sughrue
Edward G. Groves
John A. Kelsher
Paul H. Kendricken
Patrick J. Kennedy
Bernard J. Rothwell
Ferdinand Strauss
Herbert J. Keenan
John C. Gray
John F. Cronim
Daniel S. Harkins
Frank Wood
Joseph A. Sheehan
A. C. Ratshesky
James J. Storrow
George E. Brock
Lane
OFC
Gray Co
THE
Good Government Association
Board OF Aldermen
Francis R. Bancs Tilton
S. Bell
Louis M. Clark
Frederick A. Finigan
Cory Fiasco
Etail Font
Hoveys
McPherson
Hanover ST
Plymouth
Bolls Chambers
Boston Common
Tremont Street
Oxford
Piero
Sp Viatek
LE Diewes
Die
Ska Saieke
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