Route for the canal routes delays action on Nicaragua plan
Washington and House debates focus on the Panama Canal Co offer to sell its property for 40 million dollars. The Isthmian Canal Commission is expected to add a new report as lawmakers weigh the deal amid fears of delay.
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Tragic tunnel collision in New York kills seventeen
A tunnel crash at Fifty Sixth Street and Park Avenue in New York involved a Norwalk bound accommodation and a Harlem local. Seventeen were killed and forty injured, twelve seriously, as a fire broke out and rescuers worked through steam and darkness. Names of the dead and seriously injured followed, with authorities planning an investigation led by District Attorney Jerome.
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B. Altmend & Co
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F. Washburn
Ernest Coffin
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Albert W. Adams
George M. Cadet
George M. Fisher
East Port Chester
Mabel Newman
Richard Millineaux
Thomas T. Murphy
Henry Keene
Siegel Cooper Co
George Winter
William Brooks
Erie
Pay for ex-Confederate war spoils bill advances
Washington January 8. the house committee on war claims favorably acted on a bill to pay former Confederate soldiers for horses bridles saddles and side arms taken from them in violation of the surrender terms agreed by General Lee and Johnson with Grant and Sherman. The bill was introduced by Representative Pagit of Tennessee.
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Lessler Wins Seventh District Victory in New York
Montague Lessler, Republican, defeated Perry Belmont, Democrat, by 394 votes to fill the Seventh district seat after Nicholas Muller resigned. Lessler polled 7667 to Belmont's 7283 with Ward Social Democrat 107, Lindinger Independent Democrat 135, Bennett Greater New York Democracy 182.
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