Man Arrested on Drunken Charge Attempts Suicide in Custody
Charles Olsen, arrested for drunkenness at 2:40 pm, attempted suicide in Station 6 custody by hanging from a cell crosspiece. Officers cut him down, he battered his head on the wall, and he tried to swallow a pants buckle. He was restrained with a straitjacket and taken to the Tombs.
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Charles Olsen
Land of the Living
Station 6
Mr. Olsen
Napoleon
Seine
Cato
Fitzgerald
Olsen
Burrill
Four Boilers Burst at Onge Pittsburg Rolling Mill
A boiler explosion at Phillips Nimick & Co. rolling mill in Pittsburg, Jan 26, killed one man and injured about a dozen. A rescuing party searches the wreckage for more workers believed entombed as the steel department is wrecked.
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Pittsburg
Penn
Phillips, Nimick & Co
Forecast for New England and Maine fair with changing winds
Fair in Maine on Tuesday with a cold wave in the east and diminishing westerly winds. Snow possible Tuesday night into Wednesday. New Hampshire and Vermont expect snow and warmer temperatures with brisk westerly winds shifting to south and southeast. Massachusetts and Connecticut forecast fair Tuesday with warmer western sections and possible snow Wednesday.
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Washington
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Maud Gonne Arrives in New York Plans Ireland Visit
Maud Gonne arrives aboard the French liner La Normandie from Le Havre and says she will stay a month then return to Ireland. She plans to address meetings in support of the Boers and will lodge at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
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New York
Moore Extradition Hearing Postponed in Chile
In Santiago de Chile on January 29 the Supreme Court postponed further review of Frederick T. Moore's appeal in the embezzlement case involving $53,000 from the Boston National Bank. Public opinion has opposed surrender to American authorities, and the court will resume after holidays in March.
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Santiago DE Chili
Supreme Court
Court of First Instance
Frederick T. Moore
National Bank of Commerce of Boston
Moore
Mrs Astor Hosts Annual Ball for Fashionable Set in New York
Mrs. Astor’s ball at 842 Fifth Avenue drew about 600 guests after an opera visit. The two connected houses glowed with palms roses and jewels as supper followed a cotillon led by Elisha Dyer Jr and M Orme Wilson. Notables included Elbridge Gerry the Gerry sisters Beekman Wysong Jones Baylies and Castellane counts.
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New York
Astor
Fifth Avenue
John Jacob Astor
Elisha Dyer, Jr
M. Orme Wilson
Harry Lehr
Ogden Mills
Kr. J. Collins
James Hyde Beekman
J. J. Wysong
Pembroke Jones
Edmund IL. Baylies
George B. Deforest
Countess Castellane
Aldermen May Elect Today Break Deadlock Over City Posts
The Board of Aldermen gathers to break a four week stalemate. James H. Doyle is favored for chairman with the city clerk post contested between Frank J. O Toole Edward J Donovan and others. A party split could shift votes and seal Donovan’s election or prolong the impasse.
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James H. Doyle
Frank J. O’oole
Edward J. Donovan
Edward J. Leary
John E. Dewer
O'Toole
Delivery wagon robbed in broad daylight on Purchase Street
A team from the Boston Parcel Delivery Company at 87 Arch Street was robbed near 113 Purchase Street around 5 PM yesterday. A box of men’s clothes from a tailoring shop, a box from Shepard & Norwell, a box with a lady’s wallet addressed to Cleveland Place, and a package for 31 Tilesion Street were taken.
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Boston Parcel Delivery Company
Arch Street
Purchase Street
Shepard & Norwell
Cleveland Place
Tilesion Street
Malden Man Paralyzed By Elevator Fall at Local Store
Timothy O'Brien of 564 Pleasant Street Malden fell into an elevator well at Wilson Larrabee Co 29 Bedford Street. He was taken to Emergency Hospital where a vertebral fracture caused paralysis in both legs though paralysis was receding by evening.
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Timothy O’brien
Pleasant Street
Malden
Wilson, Larrabee & Co
Bedford Street
Healy Convicted of Illicit Voting in Superior Court
Henry F. Healy was convicted by a jury in the Superior Criminal Court yesterday afternoon for illicit voting. Judge Sheldon sentenced him to six months in the House of Correction.
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Superior Criminal Court
Sheldon
Edward Hartnett
House of Correction
Henry F. Healy
Superior Crimial Court
Bheldon
Casualties Reported From Spion Kop Action
General Buller reports from Spearmans Camp that January 24 at Spion Kop caused officer losses in the Fifth Division and Mounted Brigade with 22 killed, 20 wounded, and 6 missing.
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White
Ladysmith
Spion Kop
London
Buller
Spearman
Fifth Division
Army officers listed among wounded and prisoners
The article lists multiple regiments and officers from the Lancashire Fusiliers Middlesex Borderers South Lancashires and other units, with several captains lieutenants and majors named. It notes wounded and a prisoner: Colonel Blomfield. Continues on page 3.
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Seond
Lancashire Fusiliers
Blomfield
W. FP. Waler
Wilson and
Lecarton
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S. Vorenberg & Co
Washington and Hanover Sts
Onge
Hoosac Tunnel
Tuttle
Boston & Maine Railroad
Bryan
Boston
William J. Bryan
Providence
Maud Gonne
Cobb, Bates & Yerxa CO
Preck's
Market St
Boston, Mass
Pawtucket
Woonsocket
Lentz
McKinley
Beers
R. 1
New England
Faneuil Hall
Mechanics’ Hall
Lawrence
Portland
Portsmouth
N. H
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Concord
Montpelier
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Holyoke
Springfield
Chicopee
North Adams
Wittsfield
Williamstown
Hartford
Bridgeport
Conn
Vention
National Committee
Mil
Chili
Brilliant Society
Doyle
Davis Street
Adam Stokes
Boston Ilevated Railway Company
Northampton
Washington Streets
Stokes
Michael Sullivan
Sullivan
Herbert Miller
Hotel Nahant
Nahant
Ruggies
Tremont Streets
City Hospital
LST
M. H. Virtue
S. M. Stewart
Fk. R. Mallock
E. Fraser
Middlesex
C. Muriel
Honolulu
Channer Furniture
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