Destruction at sea as brigantine Champion sails home damaged
Harrrax Nova Scotia January 20 The brigantine Champion from Demerara arrived dismasted after a gale of fifty hours. Forward house, water tanks, head gear and jibboom were carried away. A heavy sea hove her on her beam ends. Crew cut away topmasts to right the ship and save lives. Lower masts sprang, vessel leaked badly. They saved only a lower topsail yard for a jury rig. squall broke it. No deaths, several serious injuries. Cargo sugar and molasses. cargo damage pending survey. Encountered a disabled bark burning flare lights nearby at latitude 43 and longitude 64.
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Harrrax
N.S
Champion
Demerara
Verge
Bencin
Harvard faculty accepts Carey gift for gym addition
The Harvard faculty decided to accept Mr Carey’s gift of 25000 dollars for an addition to the college gymnasium. The report notes the gift will fund improvements and expansion, signaling strong support from benefactors and the university community.
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Durgin
The
Christian Union
James E. Nowlin
East Cambridge
Harvard
Carey
Franklin School Association
Rabbi Schindler
Manasse Ben Israel
Church of the Unity
Unity Club
Edward W. Kinsley
Atiwooa
Government telegraph system debate before Senate committee
Senate committee on post offices and post roads heard Dr Norvin Green of Western Union opposing a postal telegraph bill while Gardner Hubbard pressed for a government run system. They debated costs and ownership Western Union assets and potential savings from government operation versus private monopoly. The session adjourned indefinitely.
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Yale
Concord
N. H
St. Paul
Bayard
New York
Yale Alumni Association
Norvin Green
Western Union Telegraph Company
Senate Committee On Post Offices
Wasuixaton
Norvyin Green
Western Union
Baltimore & Ohio
National Treasury
The
Orne
Powderly
Dr. Green
Senate
Gardner G. Hubbard
Hubbard
Green
Switzerland
Belgium
Ongland
Cullom and
Edmunds
Dawes
Postoffice Department
Egypt Exploration Fund donation to Hgynt fund
The trustees of the Museum of Fine Arts contributed 100 dollars to the Egypt Exploration Fund.
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Egypt Exploration Fund
Museum of Fine Arts
Hgynt Exploration Fund
Shipping Movements and Arrivals in Early January At Sea
Various ships reported movements and arrivals across ports including Bristol Bremen New York and Hamburg. Vessels such as Tyrian Marchioness Dora Rosario Acadia Asia Moravia and more are listed with departure or destination ports and dates in mid January.
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Bristol
Llandaff City
New York
Tyrian
Bremen
Marchioness
Galveston
Gibraltar
My Dora
Rio
Bonn
Christiania
Islaid
Picqua
Mediterranean
Reston
el Giva
St Ann's Bay
Late Ship News From Loxpox Idle
Loxpox reports sailing vessels including Lake Huron bound for New York from Liverpool, Mineola sailing to New York from Swansea, and Maine Swalsey heading to Baltimore, all on January 20.
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Lake Huron
Liverpool
New York
Mineola
Swansea
Maine
Baltimore
Release of William O Brien from Tullamore Jail in Dublin
Mr William O Brien MP and editor of United Ireland was released from Tullamore jail after Oct 31 detention. He praised British democracy while pledging to avoid violence and align with Parnell and Gladstone. Crowds cheered, processions formed, and protests over coercion laws grew.
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Tullamore
France
Balfour
Parnell
Gladstone
Great Britain
Ireland
America
Moorhead
Egan
Blunt
Mr. Blunt
Tullamore Catacombs
Father McFadden
Gweedore
Armagh
Mr. Blane
South Armagh
Donegal
Londonderry
Hayden
Westmeath Examiner
Justice Andrews
Exchequer Court
Wilfrid Blunt
Woodford
Byrne
Crown
London
Ulster Land Committee
Belfast
Chronicle
Rome
Cardinal Manning
Vatican
Michael Hicks-Beach
Netheravon
Evelyn
Deptford
Conservative
House of Commons
Cork
Crooke
Cross
Don Carlos and Spain in Venice interview
In Venice Don Carlos says Spain must become a great European power and strengthen the navy. He urges obligatory military service and questions the present monarch’s fitness, predicting a republic if not replaced. He favors Spain’s expansion in Morocco and South America and offers to fight when called. Reports say Spain plans a 24 000 man expedition to Morocco. Mapxup dispatch notes government pressure to sever connections with the matter.
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Venice
Don Carlos
Spain
Europe
M. de Lesseps
Panama Canal
Toulon
Louis Hutton Versturme
London
Morocco
South America
Mapxup
Ex-Queen Isabella Leaves Country Amid Opposition Trigues
In a maneuver amid political strife, ex-Queen Isabella departs the country as pressure from rival factions intensifies. Her departure signals a possible reshaping of the region's power balance and raises questions about succession and governance.
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Isabella
M De Lesseps Scheme Faces Government Rebuff
Paris reports the Chamber of Deputies committee has rejected considering the amnesty bill and ministers refuse M de Lesseps authority to issue lottery loans for the Panama Canal. Panama shares fell sharply while de Lesseps pledges to go directly to the public with guaranteed bonds and urges districts to push for a public inquiry.
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Paris
Chamber of Deputies
Journal Des Dibats
M. de Lesseps
Panama Canal
War Whispers in Toulon and European Diplomacy
Telegrams from Toulon report heightened Arsenal activity as ships and cruisers prepare for possible deployment. Railways in southwest Russia halted freight for ten days to inspect rolling stock. In St Petersburg Lord Randolph Churchill eyes a campaign against Salisbury over England joining the triple alliance. Florence incident settled with Italian proctor reduced and French consul reproved.
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London
Toulon
Russia
St. Petersburg
Lord Randolph Churchill
Lord Salisbury
England
Lord Randolph
Berry
Rome
Tribuna
Florence
Rebels Lose 180 Men in Recent Battle
The report from Svakim dated January 20 states rebels suffered 180 fatalities in the latest engagement. Colonel Kitchener was wounded and required rest and treatment in Cairo. Other items note US Spain dispute claims, prizes and an educational speech, a retired admiral’s suicide, student movements delaying universities, and Gladstone backing a senator’s neutralization idea in the papal question.
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Kitchener
Cairo
Maprio
Dia
United States
Spain
Dr. Nadal
Porto Rico
London
Phelps
Birkbeck Institute
Facmourn
Louis Hutton Versturme
Moscow
Rome
Gladstone
Vacini
Sold Out by Creditors in Girard Avenue Home
The sheriff will sell tomorrow the dwelling and contents of Mrs. Celia Hendricks at 1527 Girard avenue under an execution for debt. Creditors include several tradesmen and retail firms. Hendricks, aided by Miss Mary A. Brown, allegedly secured about 30,000 from Brown with promises of a $500,000 fortune, now missing. victims claim over 100,000 while her husband and son deny knowledge of her whereabouts.
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Puapeirhia
Celia Hendricks
Girard Avenue
Hendricks
Mary A. Brown
Norristown
Sirs. Hendricks
New York
State v One Barrel of Whiskey Case Reopened for Trial
In Porriano Missouri on January 20 the state case against one barrel of whiskey with H. Guppy as claimant was sustained to grant a new trial. The law court held that prima facie evidence is competent to justify a guilty verdict only if the jury is convinced beyond a reasonable doubt, not otherwise.
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Porriano
H. Guppy
Law Court
Blizzard Death Toll Rumor Spurs Area Reports
A Chicago area blizzard report cites 235 deaths last week. Ver milion California claims over thirty frozen to death in Lake county. Authorities suppress local news. An unknown man froze near John Ward's door in Fulda Minnesota. George Dow and his brother-in-law disappeared from a Nobles county tree claim.
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Pau
Mian
Vermilion
Cak
Lake County
John Ward
Fulda
Minn
George Dow
Nobles County
The Man Who Blew Out The Gas
Oliver Cummings a Truro merchant who named L Fulton one of the men who died from gas exposure visited the coroner's office. He said Fulton was wealthy and lived in Onslow Nova Scotia. Cummings planned to send Fulton's body home that night.
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New York
Oliver Cummings
Truro
N. 8
L. Fulton
Internasone i
Park Row
Onslow
N.S
Match Made In New York For 122 Pound Skin-Glove Bout
A match was arranged in New York between Jack Farrell who faced the Belfast Spider last spring and Jack Havlin of Boston who battled the Spider near Providence for a fight to a finish with skin gloves. The bout is set for March 5 within 100 miles of New York, for $500 a side plus an added purse, with each fighter to weigh 122 pounds or less.
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Nw York
Jack Farrell
Belfast
Jack Havlin
Boston
Providence
R. I
New York
Old Strikes and New Strikes Hit Mines and Railroads
Massachusetts notes describe a broad strike wave affecting Reading company collieries and shipments from Schuylkill. Miners, railroad officials, and iron workers face mass protests, threatened closures, and proposed reforms as unions rally support and employers plan contingencies across towns from Reading to Shamokin and Pittsburgh area.
No envoy to the Pope disputed by State Department
Washington reports a despatch claiming a presidential envoy to the Pope. Secretary Bayard reads it as rubbish. He says the President did not send an envoy and that the act was a private gesture via Carolina Gibbons. No State Department authorization or involvement is acknowledged.
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Barmore
Washington
Bayard
London
Vatican
Rome
Enery
Italy
Humbert
Carolina Gibbons
State Department
Death by Own Action in New York
John Gordon a Scotch youth of 18 killed himself by leaping from a fourth floor window at 280 West Thirty ninth street New York. Once a wealthy Glasgow potato dealer ruined by a bank failure he came to the city with his wife to try the potato trade then failed. He owed rent and his landlady pressed him. His wife is penniless and his body was taken to the morgue. He has a son in Boston.
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New York
John Gordon
West Thirtyninth Street
Gordon
Glasgow
Scot
Boston
Payne Diamond Merchant Surrenders After Court Release
New York January 20 W H Payne a diamond merchant charged with larceny of jewelry left with him on memorandum surrendered today to the bondsman He was released on new bonds then arrested again upon leaving the courtroom in connection with a civil suit He contends he is the victim of persecution.
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W. H. Payne
New York
Fatal Explosion at Janusville Feed Mill Kills Two
Janusville Wisconsin January 20 A massive blast at James Gagen and Co feed mill wrecked the establishment instantly killing Byron Kennedy and James Bracken. Adjacent warehouses suffered damage from the force of the explosion with no loss estimate available at this time.
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Janusville
Wis
James Gagen & Co
Byron Kennedy
James Bracken
T Mill
Nation Pure Food Association Forms At Conference
At the Pure Food Convention in Washineron the afternoon session discussed the proposed food adulteration bill. A resolution urged congressional enactment. A permanent organization named The National Pure Food Association was formed with officers including President J W Callahan and treasurer Finley Acker.
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Maine
Commissioner of Industrial and Labor Statistics
National Board of Trade
Washington
House Committee On Manufactures
Baseball League
Pittsburg
Washineron
Congress
Sherman
National Pure Food Association
J. W. Callahan
Nyack
N. Y
Hi. W. Grannis
Chicago
Louis W. Buckley
Grocery World of
Philadelphia
Benjamin Johnson
Boston
Finley Acker
F. B. ‘Sharber
New York Grocer
Yale Alumni Dinner Highlights Depew Boston Banquet
Chauncey M. Depew presided at the New York Yale Alumni Association dinner at Delmonico's with President Dwight of Yale and Rev Dr Van Dyck of Princeton present. About 150 alumni attended, including James W. Husted Major Bundy and Thomas Darling. The decor featured Yale blue and trophies from the past twenty years. Depew praised Yale and joked about New Haven girls while Dwight spoke on Yale’s needs.
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New York
Chauncey M. Depew
Yale Alumni Association
Association
Delmonico’s
Dwight
Yale
van Dyck
Princeton
James W. Husted
Major Bundy
Thomas Darling
United States
Yale College
Depew
New Haven
Columbia
Harvard
Dwight On
Mr. Depew
Sandwich Islands
Mr. Gromley
Dr. Fisher
The
Theological Seminary
2. C. Wetmore
Dickman
Coastings Accidents Report From City Streets
At 8 o clock last evening Thomas Sperry of 521 street South Boston was struck by a double runner sleigh and suffered a severe cut above the left eye. Willie Duggan about 15 years old on Mountain avenue was injured when a double runner collided with his sled and he sustained two broken ribs. In School street a sled collided with a hack. injuries included a broken lower jaw to the wife of Lieutenant W EF Reynolds and a broken left arm for Frank A Booth. Reynolds was badly bruised.
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Thomas Sperry
521
Boston
Mapen
Willie Duggan
Mountain Avenue
Tremont Street
New Brproro
School Street
Vieutenant
W. EF. Reynolds
United States Revenue
S. P. Chase
Frank A. Booth
Reynolds
Yale Literary Magazine editors named for next year
In New Haven on January 20 Yale junior class members elected editors for the Yale Literary Magazine. The chosen editors are Thomas W. Buchanan of Albany Vermont, John Griggs of Terryville Connecticut, Herbert A. Smith of Worcester Massachusetts, Hubert W. Wells of Louisville Kentucky, and Lewis S. Welch of Hartford Connecticut.
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New Haven
Amateur Skating Meet Opens at Vancourtlandt Lake
The National Amateur Skating Association opened its meeting at Vancourtlandt Lake with many fine skaters present. O’Brien of Brooklyn won the 22-yard dash in 22.5 seconds, beating Charles A. Gordon of Montreal by one fifth of a second.
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New York
National Amateur Skating Association
Vancourtlandt Lake
O'Brien
Brooklyn
Charles A. Gordon
Montreal
Death identified as possible J Parker in New York hotel
A man found dead in the International Hotel New York yesterday is believed to be J Parker brother of A Parker of this city. Identification continues as authorities compare records and seek next of kin.
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Maxpex
International Hotel
New York
J. Parker
A. Parker
Mr W F Kimball’s Condition After Bradford Accident
Havers Jan 20. The condition of W I Kimball who was injured in the Bradford accident is serious. He had a bad day and it is probable he will have his leg amputated.
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W. F. Kimball
Havers
W. I. Kimball
Bradford
New York Man Dan Driscoll Writes Song From Tombs
Dan Driscoll of New York, to be hanged Monday, writes a letter to the public accusing Warden Walsh of mistreatment tied to a political grudge. He alleges extortion and favoritism toward payers while in the Tombs. Mrs. Rolinda Helen Smith, stage name Helen Mowat, sues for divorce from Hal Clarendon Smith over infidelity and failure to support. She is linked to Vice-Chancellor Mowat of Toronto. Yesterday, William Werner, German employee sizing room at W B Thorn & Co dairy in Haverhill, drank vitriol and was taken to City Hospital.
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Dan Driscoll
New York
Warden Walsh
Driscoll
Poe
Fool
Rolinda Helen Smith
Helen Mowat
Ben Suit
Hal Clarendon Smith
Minnie Palmer
Smith
Mowat
Toronto
e&Msional
Willam Werner
W. B. Thorn & Co
Datry
Haverhill
City Hospital
Eis Antares
Connecticut Humane Society Annual Meeting Reports Cruelty Cases
Connecticut Hamtrorp January 20. At the annual meeting special agents reported about 5000 cruelty or neglect cases requiring investigation. Warnings led to corrections. seventy eight cases called for prosecution and seventy four convictions secured. Directors noted deaths of several officers and elected successors. Relief cases totaled 591, with 479 involving children.
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Hamtrorp
Conn
The
Connecticut Humane Society
Society
D. N. Camp
D. W. Thrall
Hartford
C. B. Adams
New Haven
J. FP. Simmons
Winsted
William E. Quigley
Waterbury
N. J. Burton
Cowen
S. G. Singter
J. H. Twichell
Margaret Blythe
5. C. Dunham
James McManus
Thomas McManus
Washington
Weather Forecast Signals For Atlantic Coast Regions
Weather bulletin issued from Washington on January 20 indicates a 24 hour period starting 7 a m Saturday January 21. New England expected colder fair weather with brisk northwesterly winds. Eastern New York also colder and fair with light to brisk northwesterly winds. Storm signals posted from Narragansett to Wood's Hall and from Portland to Eastport along the Atlantic coast.
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Washington
New England
New York
Atlantic
Narragansett
Wood's Hall
Portland
Eastport
Weather Forecast for Southeastern New England
January 20 update from the Buturn Observatory notes a twenty four hour period beginning at midnight. Southeastern New England predicted to be fair and colder with high and low temperatures unspecified. Clayton, Observer, provides the forecast.
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Buturn
Weather chart shows storm weaken over west territory
The signal service chart of Friday notes the Thursday storm in the West spreading over a large area with decreased force, countered by a low barometer in the South. In St. Louis the temperature stood at zero with low pressure, New Mexico reports a low barometer with high temperature, and indications point to clear and cold weather.
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St. Louis
New Mexico
Detroit and Philadelphia leaders plan next season league schedule
Pittsburgs manager Horace Phillips Detroit’s Manager Wat kins and Philadelphia’s Manager Harry Wright arrive to form the league committee. They meet at the Central Hotel to draft next season’s championship schedule. Brouthers Ganzel Conway Beaton Gruber Bennett Mitchell Sutcliffe reportedly signed to play in Detroit. Lowell engages Champion to cover first base.
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Penn
Watkins
Detroit Baseball Club
Harry Wright
Philadelphias
Horace Phillips
Pittsburgs
Central Hotel
Brouthers
Ge . Ganzel
Conway
Beatin
Gruber
Bennett
Mitchell
Sutcliffe
Detroit
Big Four
Lowrrn
Lowell Baseball Management
Champion
New Havens
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