Fire destroys Newhall House Milwaukee in deadly blaze
Milwaukee January 16 The Newhall House hotel was destroyed by fire early Wednesday. Many guests and employees perished leaping from upper stories while fire ladders failed. The loss is estimated near half a million dollars with scores injured or missing as rescue efforts continued.
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Milwausgee
Newhall
Milwaukee Fire Department
Chicago
Sweeney
Chicago & Northwestern Road
Milwaukee
Michigan Street
Mutual Union Telegraph Company
H. J. Baumgartener
Goitz
Barnieck & Armitage
Broadway
Mainuufacturers
Bank
Metropolitan Plate Glass Insurance Company
Charlies FE. Luin
William T. Durand
Goodyear Rebef Company
Lous
C.D. Nash
Newhall House Association
Cincinnati
Horrific blaze at Newhall House ruins hotel and lives
Eyewitness accounts recount the Broadway front fire at the Newhall Hotel where Mrs Gilbert died in the morgue and many guests escaped by ropes and ladders. Edward Pollock from Lancaster Wisconsin survived on a balcony rope while others endured brutal injuries and scenes of devastation. The tally of dead rises to sixty two with extensive property losses and insurance.
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Milwaukee
American Express
Miss Sutton
Chicago
John Gilbert
Minnie Palmer
Ohn Autisdel
Edward Bullock
Lancaster
Wis
Tom Thumb
W. H. Thompson
Messrs. Herbert and
Dunlap
W.Q. Lavelle
Madison Square Company
Hey
Chicago Board of Trade Ius
Willam E. Cramer
Evenip Wisconsin
Charles Gressing
Tice
Edward Pollock
Broadway Front
Pollock
The
Sentinel
Flannagan
Gilbert
Broadway
L. W. Brown
Chicago & Northwestern
Zach
Jack Clayton
Wisconsin Street
McDonald
Godfrey & Crandall
Allen Johnson
Johnson
Wap and Daughter
Planters' Hotel Fire Kills Three in St Louis Blaze
A six story Planters' House annex fire in St Louis early Sunday left three dead and two more bodies found later. Guests, 43 in all, escaped in nightgowns as flames confined to the rear annex. Names include C B Batchelder and George B Webb of Worcester, Mass., plus Massachusetts resident W W Allen. Servants amounting to about 25 narrowly fled. two died in the debris. Damages estimated at 80000 dollars. Cause attributed to matches.
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St. Louis
Milwaukee
Planters
C. B. Batchelder
Worcester
Mass
George B. Webb
W. W. Allen
Massachusetts
Julia Haskell
Henry Blaney
Dennis Reponti
Charles Ribou
Fire in Berditscheft Circus Kills 300 in Russia Poland
A fire during a circus performance in Berditscheft, Russian Poland, caused the deaths of about 300 people. Berditscheft, a town of Kiev government, with a population around sixty thousand, is noted for its commerce.
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St. Petersburg
Berditscheft
Poland
Kiev
British Empire Burned At Sea Near Shields
The British ship British Empire under Captain Rickers from Shields bound for Bombay was burned at sea on January 9. Ten persons were saved while two boats carrying the captain, mate, and fourteen hands are missing.
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London
British Empire
Rickers
Shields
Bombay
Italian Gets a Bill of Sale of His Wife for 857
Giacomo Lepretti, an Italian farmer, owed Ignazio Bocchini 857. To settle the debt he proposed Bocchini take Lepretti’s wife as payment. The wife, unaware and not consulted, refused to acknowledge the agreement and threatened to prosecute. Bocchini seeks redress.
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Providence Presa
Giacomo Lepretti
Simmonsville
Lepretti
Italy
Chistan
Ignazio Bocchini
Bocchini
New York
Fire destroys Henry Pierce home. two children die
Sioux City reports a blaze at Henry Pierce’s house near Elk Point Iowa when a tipped over lamp exploded igniting the room. Pierce rescued his wife who was fatally burned while attempting to save their two children Cyrus aged 5 and Bertha aged 9, who perished in the flames. In Scranton Pennsylvania a husband named Quinnan killed by hot pokers after burning his wife in a feud. The notice then inserts an ad for Dr Pierce’s Pills claiming health benefits.
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Michigan Street
Avon Johnson
Broadway
Michigan
Ruemer
Manager White
Plankinton House
Plankinton
Tom Thumb
Tinuwab
Sioux City
Elk Point
Oak
Henry Pierce
Cyrus
Bertha
Scranton
Penn
Quinnan
C Quinnan
Peace of Europe in doubt as war rumors swirl
Flashed Under The Ocean notes tensions among Austria Russia and fears of a wider European conflict. It reports latent Balkan hostility since Berlin while Russia presses in Bulgaria and Bosnia is cited, with France urged to remain at peace. Gambetta and Grevy resist a Russian coup and Armenian plans are described as a future revival of the Armenian empire.
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Paris
Russia
Austria
Germany
France
Berlin
Balkan Peninsula
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Kingdom of
Servia
Danube
Bulgaria
Tne
Francé
Grevy
M. Gambetta
M. Grevy
Gladstone to Leave for Cannes Amid Liberal Woes
London January 14 Mr Gladstone will depart for Cannes in the south of France on Wednesday. His fragile health and restlessness under medical care raise fears he cannot lead the Liberal party through a likely arduous new session. His absence could plunge the party into chaos and expose its fragile leadership without him.
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Cannes
Liberal Party
Lonpdon
Gladstone
France
England
Egypt
Jotluotl
Dublin Arrests Reach Fifteen In Plot Against Officials
In Dublin on January 13 fifteen suspects were arrested over a suspected plot to murder government officials, including James Carey a town councillor. By morning more arrests followed as twenty one individuals were arraigned in Police Court and remanded after informal examinations amid rampant rumors.
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Dublin
James Carey
Floods Hit Rhine Regions and Danube Areas
The Rhine and its tributaries flood losses May reach 20 million dollars. In South Hungary the Danube town Mensutz is submerged and Semlin Panchova and Somebere face imminent danger. Raab roofs removed for rescues as waters rise over dikes and corpses interred in debris cause cadaverous odors.
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Berlin
Rhine
Presta
Hungary
Mensutz
Danube
Somebere
Semlin
Panchova
Vienna
Raab
Komora
Lives Lost by the Floods Near Ludwigshafen
Berlin reports in January that floods around Ludwigshafen have killed forty one people. Soldiers halted plundering, two men were captured near Frankenthal trying to cut dams. Six flood spectators drowned near Oppenheim. Danube subsided above Mohnes but evacuees cannot return. Raab situation unchanged. Epidemic likely due to overcrowding and privations.
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Berlin
Ludwigshafen
Frankenthal
Oppenheim
Danube
Mohnes
Raab
British Plans for Administration and Suez Canal Reform
Constantinople January 13 The British charge d affaires presents to the Porte a scheme for Egypt reforms covering administration judiciary finance and military. It also includes proposed Suez canal regulations and plans to withdraw British troops once objectives are secured. The scheme reportedly dispels any aim of annexation.
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Constantinople
Egypt
Porte
Suez Canal
England
Armenian Movement Reported in Constantinople
News from Constantinople confirms a popular Armenian movement seeking liberation from Turkish rule. Authorities evade details while ordering harsh measures to suppress the unrest, leading to the arrest of four to five hundred prominent Armenians.
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Constantinople
Armenian conspiracy seeks restoration of old order in Armenia
Vienna report confirms a broad Armenian revolutionary movement against Turkish rule. Observers say the goal is to re establish the former regime in Armenia following several months of expectation based on the current state of affairs.
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Vienna
Armenia
Armenian Revolutionary Party
Serious Railway Accident in Camerlata Italy
Rome reports a serious railway accident at Camerlata on the Milan Como line. Several killed and many injured in the crash. Other items note English journal reaction to a statue, Irish distress protests, a London railway worker strike, and a Spanish earthquake near Ardena.
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Italy
Rome
Camerlata
Milan
Como
Merchant Seeks 100000 Damages Over Evil Designs
Richard W. Peck of Brooklyn sues Benjamin T. Babbitt a soap manufacturer for 100000 damages alleging in 1876 he plotted to entice Peck’s eighteen year old daughter to leave home. The suit claims the defendant aided Peck’s daughter in recovering stolen funds, paid her 19000, then had her arrested and mortgaged the Peck household furniture.
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Brooklyn
Richard W. Peck
New York
Supreme Court
Benjamin T. Babbitt
Ellen Be. Peck
Charles Breckwith
Miss Peck
A Brave Mother Trudges Sled Across States With Children
A sorrowful tale from Cleveland shows Mrs. E. S. Madison of Troy New York traveling with three small children on a hand sled from Meadville Pennsylvania to Elyria Ohio then toward Niles Michigan after her husband died and left four children destitute. The journey included a loss of funds a stolen wallet a buried infant and continued hardship as she sought aid and a path home.
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Meadville
Penn
Elyria
Cleveland
Madison
Troy
N. Y
Niles
Mich
Toledo
Adamson's Botanic Cough Balsam Endorsed by Physicians
Eminent doctors and clergymen from Maine to Boston endorse Adamson's Botanic Cough Balsam as a safe remedy for coughs colds asthma and throat complaints. Letters from G W Martin M D and H P Dorsey D D LL D praise its efficacy, with testimonials from retailers bankers and customers noting universal satisfaction and cures after other physicians failed.
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George W. Martin
University of New York
Aviett’s Surgical and Medical Institute
Bellevue Hospital
New York
Kinaman & Co
Gente
Adamson
Chichester
Myrtle Ave
Brooklyn
Geo
Goodwin & Co
New England
Patent Medicine
Hanover
Boson
Kineman & Co
H. P. Dorsey
D.D
Ll.d
Maine Yeni Ao Seminary
Kent
F. W. Kinsman
Nir
Jno, Osborn, Jrm
Evans, Webster & Co
Boston
Beware of Imitations in Glass Bottles
Warnings about F. W. Kinsman Druggist Augusta Me name blown in bottle glass. Sold by all respectable druggists and dealers.
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F. W. Kinsman
Augusta
Baron Becomes Lunatic While Chasing Youth and Kills Himself
In Paris, Baron Robert du Creuzy, aged about 60, obsessed with youth, drank a self made potion and suffered a split personality. Believing himself young and his father inside him, he fatally stabbed himself after railing at the ancestral “curse.” He left no family, lived at 77 Rue Monge, and kept occult books.
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Paris
Robert du Creuzy
Rue Monge
Poe
Dr. Faust
M. de Creuzy
Sepher Jecresh
Zabar
Albert Leqgrand
Cornelius Agrippa
A. Delrio
Baron de Creuzy
Deputy Sheriff Tom Lee Reappointed in New York
Tom Lee, agent for the Chinese Six Companies in New York, was reappointed deputy sheriff by Sheriff Davidson. A 40 year old tea store proprietor at 2 Mott Street, he is American citizen, married to an Irish wife, with one son Patrick. His gold badge is elaborate and diamond mounted.
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New Yorks
Tom Lee
Davidson
Edmund E. Price
Aye
Mott Street
Patrick Lee
Frightful boiler explosion at Bethlehem Iron works kills five
A boiler explosion at Bethlehem Iron Company No 1 blast furnace on Tuesday afternoon killed four men and a woman and seriously injured several others. Two 30 inch boilers blew apart wrecking the engine house and half the pattern shop. One boiler was hurled 800 feet through the roof of the old mill among about 100 workers. Damages to mill and machinery are extensive.
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Bethlehem
Penn
Bethlehem Iron Company
English lord in Lewiston reported in hotel register
A man posing as British nobility visited a Lewiston hotel about 11 pm, wearing a worn Scotch cap and blue overalls. He flashed jewels and cash, claiming youth of a English peer, claiming to be a disgraced younger son who travels for remittances and fortune.
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Lewiston
England
Suffering and Death After Currituck Sound Storm
Information from Washington reports two men dead after a Currituck sound storm last Friday night. A sloop capsized while tacking. one drowned, another clung to the keel and froze, a third survivor washed ashore after more than three hours in the water. The survivor is identified as Waterfield.
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Washington
Currituck Sound
Norfolk
Waterfield
Avalanche on Mosquito Mountain Kills Two Miners Near Leadville
Denver report describes a snow slide on Mosquito mountain about fifteen miles from Leadville. A long wall of snow swept down the slope at great velocity destroying all in its path. Two millers could not escape and were hurled down the mountain. Though alive when found they froze to death.
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Denver
Col
Mosquito Mountain
Leadville
Ice Bridge Forms Over Niagara Falls Chasm
Niagara Falls January 15 an immense ice bridge formed overnight spanning the chasm below the falls. It measures over a mile in length and is expected to endure for the remainder of the winter.
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Niagara
Niagara Fallls
N. Y
Anecdote From Castine About General Goslin Encounter
An elderly resident of Belfast recalls visiting Castine when English troops led by General Goslin landed. A farmer, upset by the troops, is summoned by the general who asks his purpose. The farmer, after inspecting Goslin, replies he bears no grudge against the general but questions the goose that hatched him.
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Mr. Murch
Belfast
Castine
Goslin
Gineral
Swindle by a Countess Trick Reels Paris Society
A French social climber known as the Countess of Pand swindled Mme M- and others across Paris, Metz and beyond. A young woman, accompanied by a maid, posing as nobility, borrowed hundreds then thousands of francs claiming a Spanish husband and future riches. The scheme expanded to Alsace visits and an alleged property sale, ending with arrests and a total loss over 100,000 francs. The countess fled, but police traced her via a Barcelona-arrested chambermaid.
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Paris
Mme, M
Countess of
Mme
Spain
Metz
Alsace
Mme. M
Sarreguemines
Mme, MW
Uquirles
Ried
Adignant
Adventuress
France
Germany
Barcelona
Soidisant
Drought-Stricken Northern New England Sees Rain Lag Since June
Globe correspondents from Maine and New Hampshire report a severe drought with little or no rain since last June. Water supplies run low across Pemigewasset Valley Manchester and Penobscot regions. Mills idle or half operated, tradesmen short on money, lumber shipments halted, farmers struggle for water for crops and livestock. If rain does not come soon, consequences could be appalling.
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GLOBE
Maine
New Hampshire
Manchester
Pemigewasset
Penobscot River
Baltimore engraving found dead with gunshot and note
Joseph Michael Senter, an engraver, was found Friday in Baltimore with a bullet wound to the head and a pistol in his right hand. A tumbler and an empty champagne bottle lay near him, and a German note read Always merry I tender my last glass to my friends, Joseph Michael Senter. The bee from Munich had been in Baltimore a short time.
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Baltimore
Joseph Michael Senter
Munich
Bavaria
End of the World Forecast Tied to 1886 Dates
In Montreal the Spectator notes a French revival of an ancient oracle predicting world’s end in 1886. It ties Good Friday to St George’s day and Easter to St Mark’s, with belief varying on Wiggins' March storm arrival affecting confidence.
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Montreal
Mother Shipton
France
St. George’s Day
St. Mark’s
Wiggins
Indian Trouble in Metlakatla Sparks Alarm in Victoria
January 11: Metlakatla unrest alarms Victoria as no British warship is on station. Outlying settlements face danger, prompting BC government to seek aid from the American government. Revenue force proposed to Metlakatla to restore order.
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Victoria
B. C
Metlakatla
British Columbia
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