Henderson Bros to inaugurate monthly India line from New York
The Henderson Brothers, agents for Anchor Line, plan a regular monthly steamship service from New York to India. The Asia, 2082 tons, Captain Craig, leaves Calcutta Nov 25 and is due daily with cargo. Other ships Belgravia Britannia Hesperia and Arabia are en route. Ships dock near Wall Street ferry in Brooklyn. Shipping agent calls the venture a major blow to American sailing ships, predicting a 40 day voyage and a future exodus from sailing craft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Henderson Bros
Bowling Green
India
Asia
Craig
Calcutta
Suez Canal
Belgravia
Britannia
Hesperia
Arabia
Wall _ street ferry
Brooklyn
Evening Sun
Mme Janauschek Wins 12000 Damages in Newport Hotel Case
In Providence, R I jurors awarded Mme Janauschek twelve thousand dollars in the United States Circuit Court for personal injuries from a fall down a stairs at the defendant Henry Bull Jr hotel in Newport last summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mme
Janauschek
Providence
R. L
United States
Mme. Janauschek
Henry Bull, Jr
Newport
Hoar
Senate
National Capital
Dawes
Committee On
Ships and routes in transatlantic traffic near Gibraltar and Liverpool
A series of vessel movements with origins and destinations listed around January by way of Gibraltar, Queenstown, Liverpool, and other ports. Entries include Castlegate from Catacola to New York, Aller from New York to Bremen, Erin from New York to London, and multiple sailings to Havre, Havre, Havre, and Port Antonio, among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gibraltar
Belgravia
Calcutta
New York
Castlegate
Catacola
Queenstown
Pennsylvania
Liverpool
Southampton
Aller
Bremen
Oregon
Portland
Erin
London
Kinsale
England
New
Barrow
Plato
Rio Janeiro
State of Nevada
Glasgow
Jerome
Para
Mediterranean
Ludgate Hill
Boston
Manhattan
Alfred D Snow Ship Loss Near Waterford
The Alfred D Snow, a Nevada Bank wheat ship, is reported lost near Waterford Ireland. Captain W H Wiley commanded a crew of 26 plus his wife aboard. cargo valued at 95000 dollars and insured with Anglo Nevada and Thomas Messey. Owned by T W Chapman Co of Thomaston Missouri. built in 1877 costing 115000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Alfred D. Snow
Waterford
Nevada Bank
Oper
Liverpool
W.dresbach
W. H. Wiley
P. H. Sullivan
John Child
Wiley
Anglo-Nevada
Thomas & Messey Company
T. W. Chapman & Co
Thomaston
Dennett's Food Snowy Winter Teaser Opens Taste Test
A playful winter verse invites readers to try Dennett's Food, comparing snow’s whiteness with a pure, appealing bite and urging a snack challenge. The approachable ad tone positions the product as a crisp, inviting choice for cold weather.
Foreign News Roundup Despite Irish Rent Protests
Irish rent reductions deemed insufficient by National League meetings across Ireland. Mitchelstown board rejects land commission confidence. Thomas Sexton recuperating from typhoid. Turf dealers clash with police at Kidysart, Clare, amid turf shortages. London report notes Wilfrid Blunt appealing crimes act verdict. Davitt clarifies Power readmission stance. Ireland judgeship filled. Leinster Hall meeting planned. Crown Prince to Cairo. Columbus fund created. Nihilist Tschernoff condemned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National League
London
Wilfrid Blunt
Woodford
Ireland
Michael Davitt
O’connor Power
Mr. Power
Power
Gibson
Marquis of Ripon
John Morley
Leinster Hall
Dublin
Remains of Napoleon III to be moved next Monday
Ex-Empress Eugénie plans the transfer of Napoleon III and the prince imperial remains from Chiselhurst to Farnborough next Monday. The ex-empress requests no royal family attendance. the Queen will send wreaths. After Mass, coffins travel by special train with Eugénie and her entourage present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Eugénie
Napoleon III
Imperial
Chiselhurst
Farnborough
Sore
Conservatives Gain Three Senate Seats in Paris Election
Paris dispatch reports triennial Senate elections show 57 Republicans and 21 Conservatives elected. Conservatives gain three seats. Admiral Krantz named minister of marine and Admiral Gervois named chief of naval staff. earlier report misstated Gervois’s post.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Senate
Krantz
Gervois
Terrible N S gale wrecks and crew escape on Winterton
The Nova Scotia brig W. E. Stowe rescued the crew of the New York schooner Winterton after a 27 day ordeal from Washington North Carolina to Turk's Island. Sailors report a hurricane at seventy miles per hour, seas that swept decks, loss of provisions and a rescue by the Stowe at Lunenburg. The J. W. Crossly of Gloucester was wrecked entering Louisburg Harbor with crew saved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hanifax
N.S
Nova Scotia
W. E. Stowe
Lunenburg
Nickerson
New York
Sophia
Winterton
Navy
Washington, N. C
Salem
N. J
Electra
Strucker
B. W. Morse
Nantucket Shoal
Newton
Ecook
W. EH. Stowe
Turk’s Island
Staughenwhite
J. W. Crossly
Gloucester
Louisburg Harbor
Prince Ourouszeff Denies Forged Document Claim
Prince Ourouszeff the Russian minister at Brussels denies being the author of forged documents sent to the Czar. Friends say the Czar retains confidence and will not remove him. Despatches from Brussels report a financier clique forged the papers to aid a Bulgarian loan, not the Orleanists. The Standard cites Deroulede as instigating a war party in St Petersburg to shape the affair at Copenhagen before a Czar William meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Briain
Prince Ourouszeff
Brussels
Cologne
Loudon
Standard
Vienna
M. Deroulede
St. Petersburg
William
Copenhagen
Greece
Condition of the Bank of England and Bank of France
The Bank of England reports a bullion increase of £245,000 in the past week and a reserve-to-liability ratio drop from 43.11 to 39.5 percent. The Bank of France shows a weekly gold decline of 14,450,000 francs and a silver decrease of 7,350,000 francs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Bank of England
Paris
Bani of France
Conservative Win in Winchester and Royal Silver Wedding Plans
In Winchester Moss the Conservative candidate won 1364 votes to Handerbilt the Gladstonian 849, with last election totals lower for both. London notes the Winchester result dampens hopes of separatists while the silver wedding of the Prince and Princess of Wales prompts planned national celebrations. An Italian offer to join Italians with 40,000 followers for Abyssinia king status is reported, and future talks of Kilrain versus Burke in England surface. Mr Spurgeon returns to London greatly improved in health. Paris reports Massowahi says Ras Alula seeks Italian alliance if he is made king of Abyssinia after King John’s defeat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Winchester
Moss
Gladstonian
Loxpon
The
Daily News
Maude
Black Sea
Prince
Princess of Wales
England
Jack Burke
Jake Kilrain
Kilrain
Burke
Spurgeon
Mentone
Rome
Massowahi
Ras Alula
Abyssinia
John
Paris
le Paris
Gianatone
Copper Market Surges Before Paris Crush Upset
A brisk metal market opened with large copper export orders as a major Wall Street banking firm placed a 1,000,000 pound order and sought another 1,000,000 pounds. Copper futures rose. Paris faced a shock from M. Caluimbach’s 15 million franc insolvency impacting listings like Egyptian Unified.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Metal Exchange
Wall Street
Lake Superior
London
Paris
M. Caluimbach
Rio Tinto
Crédit Fonecier
Panama Canal
Rio Tintos
Miners Yet Defiant Amid Strikes Across Reading Coal Fields
Reports from the Reading railroad system show growing unrest and mixed coal production. Some individual collieries granted the advance, while others remained idle or limited. The strike spreads through Shenandoah Shamokin and Pottsville areas with union and non union tensions rising.
Fire at Brooklyn Navy Yard Destroys Navigation Building
A blaze at 1 a m gutted the three story navigation building in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Occupied by the navigation construction and equipment bureaus the brick structure measured 500 by 75 feet and housed office contents plans and designs. The city fire department fought the fire to 2 a m and the building was completely ruined with an estimated loss around 200000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Navigation
Fires Alarmed at Somerville and Broadway Dorchester
Box 24 Somerville reported a small dwelling fire at Webster avenue and Norfolk street due to an overheated stove causing $50 loss. A second alarm from Box 126 at 7:15 p m noted a fire in building 308 Broadway South Bastge occupied by Morris Lewinberg with damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Somerville
Webster Avenue
Norfolk Street
Broadway
South Bastge
Morris Lewinberg
Reading Railroad Drops Plan for Public Statement
At Reading, General Manager McLeod refused to disclose any forthcoming statement or circular and denied arbitration talk. He said the railroad operates as usual with no change while a strike by railroad workers continues to affect service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McLeod
Brotherhood of Locomotive
Knights of Labor
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company
F. S. Sargent
Brotherhood
Terre Haute
Ind
Jeremiah J. Leahy
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Employees
Leahy
Reading Employees’ Convention
Sargent
Lafayette Lodge
Labor Disputes at Braddock and Reaprya Furnaces
In Braddock Pennsylvania Carnegie Phipps and Co workers demand a ten percent wage raise for seven furnaces while management argues the steel market cannot support it and may cut pay. A Lucy furnace conference yields no firm decision. In Reaprya the Penn Hardware Company agrees to a ten percent wage increase for over 250 moulders, effective next Monday with a one year guarantee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isaac P. Langworthy
Chelsea
New York
Sophia
Winterton
Reading
F. S. Sargent
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Braddock
Penn
Carnegie, Phipps & Co
Penn Hardware Company
New York Chamber of Commerce
India
Pirrspurc
Lucy
Reaprya
Citizens Movement forms nonpartisan Ward 24 association
A group of prominent men plans a January 9 meeting at Blake Hall Field's Corner to establish a Ward 24 citizens association. The aim is to monitor city officials, energize youth voters, elevate politics above commerce, and endorse suitable municipal candidates. Signed by Henry L. Pierce and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry L. Pierce
Franklin King
Charles B. Fox
J. Homer Pierce
George L. Burt
William B. Bird
John Conness
Weather outlook for New England and Atlantic coast
Weather forecast issued from Washington indicates a 24 hour period starting Friday morning with colder conditions in New England and eastern New York followed by warmer, fair weather. Fresh to brisk variable winds, modest coastal high, and North Atlantic storm signals noted from Narragansett to Eastport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WaAsatncron
New England
New York
Atlantic
Narragansett Section
Eastport
Lake Region
South Atlantic States
Busy Day in Congress as Committees Are Named
The Speaker announced committee assignments after crowd pressure. Stahlnecker gains library chair. Mills heads Ways and Means with Scott of Pa representing eastern business interests. Massachusetts members secure eight of twelve seats, while Collins and Collins allies gain key posts amid scattered disputes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wasumerox
Speciar.j
New York
Stahlnecker
Library
Ways and Means
Mills
Scott
Pennsylvania
East
Mississippi
Ryan
Burrows
Michigan
Massachusetts
Morse
Collins
Crisp
Outhwaite
Ohio
Bliss
Russell
Perry Belmont
Rockwell
Waite
Connecticut
Rice
New England
Burnett
Hatch
Davis
General Cogswell
Governor Long
Hayden
Charlie Allen
Post Office
Whiting
Merchant Marine
State Department
Pacific
Edge
House
Pacific Railroads
Allen Indian Affairs
Senate Debates Prohibition Bills and World Expo Plans
In Washington the Senate discusses prohibition petitions for the District of Columbia and a national constitutional ban on liquor. It also considers Utah statehood debates with Mormon leadership and Blair education bills. Dawes reports on Indian allotment and education measures. Platts and Plumbs propose new states, bounties, and an ambitious 1899 world exposition plan with a cross nation governance structure. The article continues on page eight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Platt
District of Columbia
Mas Blair
Hoar
Utah
Blair
Dawes
Committee On
Indian Affairs
Severalty
Umatilla
Oregon
North Dakota
Plumb T
National Board of Promotion
National Capital
America
Americas
United States
United States Senate
House of Representatives
Also Mentioned on This Page
Custom Department
G. W. Simmons & CO
North Street
Leonard & CO
Bromfield Street
California and
Union Ins
Cal
E. Whitney & CO
General Marine
Devonshire St
NEW Steamship Line
Anchor Line
Congress
Round Valley Indian Reservation
New England Post Office
Joseph W. Clapp
Nantucket
Lewiston
Carlisle
Cleveland
Fair
Nevada
John W. Mackay
Sedgwick, Barnum and Banks
EDS
Eng
Handerbil
Prince and Princess of Wales
Prince Ourenszeft
Czar
Democrats
Andrew Jackson
Revere House
Cephalonia
Woman’s Union Missionary Society
Trinity Chapel
Phillips Brooks
Henry D. Morse
Pond Street
Jamaica Plain
Commercial Travellers’ Association
C. F. Dole
Moses
Joshua
Channing Hall
William Emerson Baker
Ridge Hill
Wellesley
Fam
Grover & Baker
Benjamin Cushing
Board of Principal Assessors
Ladies’ Aid Society
Common Council
Cambridge School Board
Cambridge
W. W. Wellington
Arthur Chamberlain
Start
Hildreth
Finnegan
Kendall
Longfellow
White
Allison
Church
Hall
Conlon
Orcutt
Paine
McKelleget
Barnes
MecKelleget
Miss Longfellow
Dennett
Timated
Gladstone
Berutn
Cairo
Maprio
Christopher Columbus
Sr. Perarspure
Tschernoff
Bank of France
General Foreign News
the Reading Company
Reapre
Schuylkill
Brookside
Tower City
Suffolk
St. Nicholas
Lee
Knights of America
Shenandoah
Thomas Coal Company
Kehley Run
Reading Company
Mahanoy
Pointer
Shamokin. Penn
North Franklin
Porrsville
Fenn
J. Farne
Scranton
Powderly
Puinap Espata
Pottsville
Coal and Iron Company
Mahanoy City
Henry Clay
Shamokin
Richardson
Glen Carbon
Treverton
William Penn
John H. Davis
Bradstreet’s
Citizens’ Movement
Dorchester
Bice Hil
H. H. Clayton
Observer’s Office
Signal Service
U.S. A
Nate Atasimecmecite
North West
Northfield
Block Island
Albany
Nee
Philadelphia
Lynchburg
Norfolk
Hatteras
Fair Wilmington
Jacksonville
Montgomery
New Orleans
Shreveport
Fort Smith
Fair Galveston
Knoxville
Memphis
Cincinnati
Pittsburg
Ceeses
Buffalo
Cloudy Petroit
Eeonne
Grand Haven
Mackinaw City
Green Bay
Chicago
Enaene
Duluth
St. Paul
Des Moines
Saugeen
Can
Clear Rock Cliffe
Montreal
Clear Yarmouth
Halifax
Clear Leavenworth
Snow Huron
St. Vincent
Bismarck
Fort Buford
Fort Assinaboine
Great Fort Custer
Icf
Helena
Rapid City
Cheyenne
Neer
North Platte
Dodger
Fatr
Santa Fe
Bai
Snow Ball Lake City
Mente Bers
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!