Gas Main Break Sparks Narrow Escape On Portland Street
Forty residents staggered from nearly asphyxiation after a gas main ruptured on Portland street. Lodgers at Nos 2 and 4 and 36 inhaled fumes, with deaths of a St. Bernard, a fox and many rats. Residents alerted others and four doctors were summoned as families endured hours of sickness and trembling.
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Portland Street
Hanover Street
Mat. Harrington
Officer Lane
No. 36
Perilous voyage ends as bark Ethel reaches port after gale
The bark Ethel loaded with hides from Montevideo and bound for Boston narrowly avoided stranding near Truro. Tug Kate Jones towed her to anchorage under Long Point and she will be towed to her wharf. Captain Dodge abandons Boston Harbor approach after seventy five days at sea amid calms, winds, and northwester gales.
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Provincetown
Ethel
Montevideo
Boston
Truro Flats
Kate Jones
Long Point
Dodge
Boston Harbor
Jones
Tropics
Barbadoes
Vineyard Sound
Nobska
Cape Cod
Boston Light
Truro
Miraculous Escape as Streetcar Plows Into Frame Building
A Camp Street car bound for downtown Providence ran wild on Olney street hill and crashed into a frame building. Ten passengers plus the motorman and conductor were aboard. two passengers and Conductor Irving F. Mott were injured. Motorman Louis E. Morrow stayed at his post and emerged unscathed as the car was smashed. Mrs. Sarah Malufsky suffered abdominal and head injuries. Mott was taken to Rhode Island Hospital then home. Charles H. Holmes injured his leg and back.
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Providence
Camp
Olney Street
North Main Street
Sarah Malufsky
Irving F. Mott
Charles H. Holmes
Malufsky
Conductor Mott
Rhode Island
Louis E. Morrow
Fires Wreck British Vessel Lamberts Point Off St Johns
The British steamer Lamberts Point arrived at St Johns Newfoundland with its cotton on fire after flames broke out midships. Crew fought the blaze for forty hours in terrible heat flooding compartments and venting steam to reach the cargo. Nearly the entire cargo, including cattle and cotton, was damaged as shipboard efforts continued to discharge cotton and reach the fire source.
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ST. Johns
N. F
Lamberts Point
Humphreys
Norfolk
Liverpool
Martha's Vineyard Steamer Remains Stranded at Wood's Hole
The steamer Martha's Vineyard remains in place after grounding in the Wood's Hole passage. Wrecking crews have pumped the vessel free and, weather permitting, she may be lifted by tomorrow. The Manhunt has replaced her on the line, with the Taurus en route to assist the recovery.
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Boston
Martha’s Vineyard
Harry Roussel
Charley Moody
Taurus
Cape Cod
Perth Amboy
Clifford
Vineyard Haven
Harvey Cook
Governor's Island
Barge Adrift After Collision Near Nantucket Shoals
Tug Carbonero arrived yesterday from Philadelphia with three barges in tow and was in a collision Saturday night with an unknown schooner on Nantucket Shoals. Details continued on page 2.
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Carbonero
Philadelphia
Nantucket Shoals
Catula
Double Tragedy Near Jacksonville Ends Couple’s Christmas Day
Neal Milton and his elderly wife were killed by an unknown assailant in their home near Jacksonville Indiana nine miles south of town. Their son Harry found the bodies after a Christmas greeting call. A double barrel shotgun lay beside the husband as officers search for the killer.
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Indiana
Penn
Neal Milton
Jacksonville
Here
Harry
Milton
Sifton Leaves for Washington to Discuss Yukon Miners Relief
Ottawa Dec 26 The Hon Clifton Sifton Minister of the Interior and J A McKenna depart for Washington on invitation of Secretary of War Alger to discuss relief for Yukon district miners. Sifton expects to stay about a week.
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Ottawa
Ont
Clifton Sifton
Interior
J. A. McKenna
Interior Department
Washington
Firemen Hurt As Building Collapses in Rochester
A fire at the Coburn building on North Water street caused several injuries to firemen. While controlling the blaze the second floor collapsed into the basement trapping six men, including Fireman William Burke who was badly hurt.
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Florence
Mr. Mulhern
Dunn
Thompson
Merrick
Florence Kuebler
Rochester
N. Y
Coburn
North Water Street
William Burke
Burke
James W Allen Dies in Worcester at 37
James W. Allen of Winslow and Allen died in Worcester from pneumonia after a week of illness. He served as United States consul at Zanzibar from 1892 to 189% and was 37 years old and unmarried.
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Victor Hugo
Dr. Dunn
Hanover
Richmond
No. 36
Worcester
James W. Allen
Winslow & Allen
United States
Zanzibar
Man's Ankle Broken In Roxbury Fall
Morris Christian 68 of 422 West Broadway South Boston broke his right ankle after a fall in a vacant lot off Calumet street Roxbury yesterday. He was taken to City Hospital for treatment.
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Morris Christian
West Broadway
Boston
Calumet Street
Roxbury
City Hospital
Mystery of the North End murders linked to feared Italian society
Police probe into the Christmas night killings of Vatalaro Guisseppe di Antonio and Savario Quartario in a Hanover Street boarding house uncovers claims of Mafia influence in Little Italy. Witnesses fear retaliation, while Captain Cain asserts no secret society exists. Catula's wife recalls his lifelong dread of assassination and protection by Captain Cain.
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Little
Italy
Catula
Cain
Vatalaro Guisseppe di Antonio
Joe’ Catula
Savario Quartario
Hanover Street
Quartario
Captain Cain
Boston
Board of Police
Little Italy
Station 1
Post
Catala
North End
Caetula
Wheely
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Noon x & Snaorl
Valley
Monongahela
Gibsonton Mills
Monongahela River
Pennsylvania
NEW England Agency
State Street
Oston
Portland St
Mr. Mace
William H. Mace
St. Bernard
Mary Walsh
Kuro
Wild Electric
Sanford
Cape Ed
Sifton
Alger
New England
Lawrence Cain Pouce
Webster
Jom
Mre-Catula
Catulas
Cappoggino
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