Disaster Aboard the State of Florida Leaves 120 Dead
The Titania arrives with 24 crew from the Florida wreck. About 120 passengers and crew perished after a night collision with the Pomona near Ireland. Only 44 saved, including 24 on the Therese of Christiana, while details from survivors recount panic, freezing conditions, and heroic rescues. The loss includes captain and officers.
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Quebec
Titania
Donaldson
Florida
Christiana
Allan
Ireland
Pomona
Chatham
N. B
of Florida
Hero of the Mid Ocean Wreck Bain Remembered in Tributes
Montreal dispatch recalls engineer Bain as the hero of the State of Florida disaster. Survivors testify to neglect and air of mystery around signals from the City of Rome. Allan, a Scottish sailor, led survivors and saved stewardess Jane McFarland, at the cost of his life. Chief Engineer John Anderson lauds Bain as gallant, cool, and selfless.
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Montreal
Quebec
Florida
Allan
James Bennett
London
Whiere
Hibernia
City of
Rome
Captain Munroe
Eliza Churehans
Jane McFarland
John
Thea
Georgia
Virginia
John Anderson
Biante
Nebraska
Bain
Turbulent Echoes From Ocean Tragedy Aboard Florida
Testimony from survivors and officers recounts chaos aboard the State of Florida after the collision near Montreal. Passengers describe uncoordinated escapes, boats launched in panic, and mothers saving babies as the ship sank. Captain's conduct and watertight compartments are debated by both crew and experts.
Six More Survivors of Florida Wreck Reach Quebec
The steamship State of Florida wreck survivors arrived in Quebec aboard the Theresa. Names include James Thompson, W Alslock, Jane Macfarlane, and Captain Heyburn. The report details their rescue, accounts of the collision, and harsh conditions aboard the Ponema and other ships. The cause of the disaster remains unclear, with conflicting signals and eyewitness claims.
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Quebec
Morrison Bill Killed by Defection in House Vote
Washington date reports revenue reformers defeated as the Morrison tariff bill lost its enacting clause by 159 to 155. The defeat shifts tariff policy for a year, signals possible June adjournment, and splits the Democratic and Republican blocs with several party-switches cited during the lengthy debate and vote.
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House of Representatives
Nex
Congress
Messrs
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White
Strait
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Minnesota
Anderson
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House
Lamp
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Muller
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Virginia
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Tulley
Glasscock
California
Lamb
Wise
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Campbell
Pennsylvania
Sumner
Morrison
Burr
Robinson
Cox
Brown
Two New Tariff Bills Headed for House Debates
May 11 report from Washington notes Representatives Hewitt and Converse will introduce tariff bills in the House. Hewitt’s proposal expands the free list for many raw materials and lowers a few rates without touching iron, steel, or wool. Converse reintroduces a Morrison bill amendment aimed at simplifying duty assessments. both bills face uncertain action in the Ways and Means Committee and may not be reported.
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Cal of States
House
Hewitt
New York
Converse
Olio
Manly
Treasury Department
Ways and Means
Ways and Means Committee
Tae Grone
Morison
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Mr. Converse
Revenue reformers vow tariff fight and delayed Congress action
Washington May 8. Morrison and Blackburn say no tariff bill will be reported this session. Bills will be introduced next week but not advanced. Reformers plan to pressure Democrats at the convention and push to widen the treasury surplus. Educational and public works bills face defeat while river and harbor funding may proceed. Various appropriation measures inch forward or stall as tariff debates bog down House business.
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Morrison
Blackburn
Ways and Means Committee
Friends of Revenue Reform
Randall
House
Major Burke
New Orleans Times-Democrat
New Orleans
Milittary Academy
Senate Committee On Appropriations
Senate
House Appropriations Committee
District of Columbia
National Bank
Utah
Ald
No Free Ships Amendment Rejected in Senate Debate
In Washington on May 12 the Senate resumed shipping bill debate. Apologies between Beck and Dawes were exchanged and accepted. West’s anti free ship stance faced strong support from Voorhees and others. Vance argued for free ships. others warned against repealing navigation laws. Yes amendment defeated 20 to 81 as the collision over ship policy continued.
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Washington
Senate
Beck
Dawes
Senator Voorhees
Voorhees
Feek
Vance
Missouri
England
Vlumb
Great Britain
Bayard
Mr. Yes
Favorable Report on Collins Amendment to Constitution
The House judiciary committee favored a resolution by Mr. Collins to insert nativity as a protected class in article 15 section 1, ensuring voting rights are not denied for pativity race color or prior servitude. Also noted is the May 10 unveiling of ex Chief Justice John Marshall of Virginia on Capitol grounds with an eulogy by William Henry Rawle and praise for W. W. Story sculptor and the statue’s prominence among looming Capitol front improvements.
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House Committee On Judiciary
Collins
United States
John Marshall
Virginia
Capitol
William Henry Rawle
Philadelphia
W. W. Story
Irvine
America
London
Henry Irving
Chicago
Irvin
England
Walsh to Testify on Monday in Grand Jury Case
Washington May 10 E L Hutchins fore man of the last grand jury in the Star route trials declined to divulge grand jury secrets until consulting his attorney Witness excused until Monday Deputy United States Marshal Brown of western district of Pennsylvania was examined and the committee decided to hear John A Walsh in his own defence Monday next
Adjournment Date Discussions Stir Washington House Panel
Washington May 8 reports show House Ways and Means members near agreement to fix June 28 as adjournment day with a possibility of an earlier end. Kellam Kasson cites June 28 as the date while Morrison offers no prediction. May 10 Agriculture data forecast near record wheat prospects with about 850 million bushels likely, aided by favorable soil and moisture conditions despite cooler April temperatures.
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Washington
Converse
House Committee On Ways With Means
Kasson
Committee On Ways and Means
Morrison
Department of Agriculture
Largest U S Gun Cast at South Boston Iron Works
The largest gun ever made in the United States was cast at South Boston Iron Works on Wednesday afternoon. Notables present included Collector Worthington Senator Miller ex Senator Barnum Chief Engineer Macomb Capitol E P Lull and Captain Pitman. The casting was led by President Trant Superintendent Ashrand and Foreman Woods. The pit measured about 40 feet deep by 4 feet wide and housed the hollow iron core wrapped in rope sand and cement. The molten iron of roughly thirty six tons was poured from three furnaces and the process finished in about thirty minutes. Cooling will take six days with water running through the hollow core. When completed the gun will weigh about 212000 pounds be about 80 feet long be a 12 inch rifle and valued around $30000 capable of firing a projectile five to six miles.
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United States
South Boston
Mysterious sinking of land near Zanesville
In Zanesville Ohio on May 112 a ground collapse near Blandy avenue sank three acres carrying several houses. A fissure 160 feet deep opened. Authorities suspect abandoned coal mines caverned in. No deaths reported. residents panicked by the event.
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Zanesville
Blandy Avenue
Bismarck Defends Anti Socialist Bill in Reichstag
The Reichstag debates the anti socialist bill with Prince Bismarck urging strong government action. He warns that rejection will trigger dissolution and an appeal to voters to back measures against socialist influence and dynamiters. The bill later passed second reading 187 to 153.
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Reichstag
Prince Bismarck
BIS
Germany
Europe
Cones
England
France
Keichstag
Massacre and Train Wreck Reported in Early May
Ravages from Durban report a violence against Christians at the Norwelian mission station in Inhilabatki on May 4. Three killed at dawn and at night marauders killed remaining worshippers. Also a Galician train derailed by dynamite near Vienna on May 10, few injuries.
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Lonpcon
Durban
South Africa
Norwelian
Inhilabatki
Forty Killed in Italian Railway Collision at Cerea
At Cerea station nineteen miles southeast of Verona a collision between a military and a passenger train injured forty people, many fatally, due to a switchman’s negligence. In Ireland, police seized guns and ammunition at Rathkeale, arresting Kenny and two brothers. In Scotland, a dynamite factory accident in Ayrshire killed ten women and severely wounded two others.
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Cerea
Ireland
Limerick
Kenny
Rathkeale
London
Ayrshire
Noble’s
Cable Notes on Jankerville Lead Mine Standstill
Great distress follows stoppage at Jankerville lead mine in South Shrop shire. Many workers have lost their jobs and are facing unemployment due to the halt in operations.
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Shropshire
Jankerville
Kingdom
Lunatic Lamar Terrifies Decatur With Armed Invasion
A madman named Lamar, escaped from an asylum, entered the vacant home of Martin Blenz in Decatur Illinois. Blenz and a posse of about 300 pursued him after he fired at Blenz wounding him in the arm. Lamar fought the crowd with knives and cleavers before being felled and taken into custody.
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Boston Globe
Decatur
Ill
Lamar
Martin Bilen
Blenz
Imnen
Bienz
Brenz
Jal
Native Christians in British India Estimated
Calcutta April 8 The New York Sun reports census and missionary estimates place native Christians in British India proper at 748 002 and total Christians in native provinces with the highest Christian percentages at 620 295. Excluding mixed heritage converts yields 695 816 pure Indian converts.
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India
New York Sun
Calcutta
British India
Native Christians in India Share Small Fraction of Population
The passage estimates strictly native Christians in India at no more than 1,200,000, under one half of one percent of 260,100,000. Non Hindu aborigines form most converts, with about 380,000 claimed by Protestants and the remainder Catholic, including German Lutherans.
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India
Wreck of the City of Portland Takes 128 Souls Safe
Rockland Maine dispatch reports the City of Portland struck Grindstone ledge in fog near Fisherman Island channel at 8 26 this morning and sank. All 128 aboard were rescued by the Rockland and Owl's Head boats, with fourteen women five children and two men saved earlier by a sloop. The steamer of 1095 tons and 425 horsepower, built 1862, owned by Eastport interests, was uninsured except for treasure.
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Larcom
International Line
Boston
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Portland
Owl's Head Harbor
Bangor
Owl's Head
Wallace
New York
Eastport
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Commercial Wharf
Maine
Grindstone Ledge
Ash Island
Larcomy
A. Allyard
Wheeler
J.L. Thompson
John Wilson
Buckman
George Newcomb
Tre
Wealthy Bostonian Burt Dies in Milwaukee Hotel
P Burt a vice president of the North Chicago Rolling Mill Company, died at the Metropolitan Hotel in Milwaukee. The Boston millionaire, who recently remarried Elizabeth Thompson a former servant, left a fortune estimated between 500000 and 800000. He had invested in iron and other properties and had just moved into an elegant $100000 mansion after a prolonged bridal trip.
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Wis
P. Burt
Metropolitan
North Chicago Rolling Mill Company
Elizabeth Thompson
Between Life and Death Charles O Conor Lingers on Nantucket
Special Despatch to The Boston Globe reports Charles O Conor hovering between life and death at his Nantucket home. He has had no nourishment since Tuesday except ice water, conscious with a regular pulse today, able to answer doctors questions. Only a sister Mrs Salone and nephew Charles M O Conor remain with him as physicians monitor his condition closely.
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Boston Globe
Woops Holl
Charles O'Conor
Nantucket
Bin
Mrs. Salone
Charles M. O’conor
Flooding The Plantations Threatens Southern Crops
A Shreveport dispatch to the Picayune reports Captain James M. Foster has 1000 acres under water near New Orleans. Levees give way at Ziegier's Shady Grove, forcing replants for miles above and below. Several houses afloat, crops damaged beyond repair, Red Chute river levees strengthened and watched by day and night.
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Picayune
Shreveport
James M. Foster
Ziegier
Shady Grove
Abercromble City
Explosion at Union Cartridge Plant Kills Miner in Breidgeport
In Breidgeport Conn May 12 an explosion at the Union metallic cartridge factory fatally injured William Hutchinson Jr who was mixing fulminate inside a small building. The structure was blown apart and another worker Joseph Severity narrowly escaped serious injury standing nearby.
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Bringeport
Conn
Union Metallic Cartridge Factory
William Hutchinson, Jr
Hutchinson
Joseph Severity
She Was One Too Many for Her Husband in Cleveland
May 10 in Cleveland a divorce petition reveals Walter Yates accusing Charlotte Yates of extreme cruelty. He says she struck him with a boot, threatened him with a carving knife and poison, and incited their two sons to assault him in a domestic dispute.
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Charlotte Yates
Walter Yates
Livitta
They ow tan millions Grant Ward affair hits $10M liability
The Grant & Ward collapse widens with estimates that its liabilities near ten million dollars and possibly higher. Ex president Grant's fortune appears wiped out while Ward faces criminal liability as detectives and banks pursue recovery of overdrafts and pledged securities. Mrs Ward seeks refuge with her mother as the Marine Bank sues Ferdinand Ward for $11,000 in overdrafts.
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Grant & Ward
Ma Tine Bank
Bank
Jay Cooke
General Grant
Long Branch
Vanderbilt
Chaffe
Commodore Garrison
the Honores
Ward
Fish
Morris
President Fish
The
Marine Bank
McNamee
Fred
Jesse Grant
Davis
First National Bank
Tahk
Toller Bank
Pier
Baldwin
Newark
Bnrk
Grant
Jay Gould
George W. Chis
Philadelphia
LOBE
Fred Grant
George Jones
New York Times
Genera
Mr. Ward
Pierrepont Street
Brooklyn
Green
Monroe Place
Ferdinand Ward
Freeman Clarke Stakes Bank Loan Hidden Securities
Freeman Clarke of this city once United States comptroller and uncle of Ferdinand Ward held $50,000 in securities with Marine bank. He has been informed the bank hypothecated them for a loan of $40,000.
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Freeman Clarke
United States
Ferdinand Ward
Marine Bank
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