Snow Storm Traps Colorado Towns and Delays Rail Traffic
A devastating Colorado blizzard isolates Breckenridge and leads to extensive snow slides near Leadville. Affected mines halt operations, fuel and provisions run short, and the South Park line struggles to reopen after days of heavy snow. Elsewhere, a brutal cold wave grips the central West with subzero readings and fierce winds across Kansas Oklahoma and Wyoming.
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Denver
Apex
Colo
Breckinridge
Leadville
South Park Road
South Park
Como
Kokomo
Lead Ville
Colorado Midland
Wyoming
Enormously Rich Ore Strike Reported at Isabella Mine
A Cripple Creek correspondent describes sylvanite ore chunks three inches thick and free gold ore pieces valued at over 500000 per ton with six feet of quartz worth 1000 to 2000 per ton. The metallic body has doubled in size since Saturday and armed guards protect the site.
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Denver
Cripple Creek Colp
Isabella
Kilburn
English Financier Robert Symon Dies in London
Robert R. Symon an English financier aged about 50 and well known in the United States died in London. He helped secure a concession for the Mexican Central Railway in 1879 and served as vice president and director. He also led ties with the Maxim Nordenfeldt Gun and Ammunition Co. Symon kept large Mexican interests and co owned mints with Sebastian Camacho. Meanwhile in Dover and Harrisburg dull senatorial ballots show no progress with several votes split among parties.
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New York
London
Robert R. Symon
Frederick CC. Roger
Mexico
Mexican Central Railway Company
Symon
Maxim-Nordenfeldt Gans and Ammunition Company
Sebastian Camacho
City of
Clark a Silver Senator in January Report
United States senator-elect William A. Clark, a free silver man and a Democrat, is a protectionist regarding raw materials. Hawaiian trade has increased since annexation, with 50 vessels trading, 35 American, 5 British, 3 Norwegian, 2 German, carrying goods and sugar back and forth. Actress Alice Atherton Ill in New York, seriously ill at Clarendon hotel in Brooklyn, with congestion of the lungs and canceling engagements.
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San Francisco
Hawaiian Islands
United States
Islands
Alice Atherton
New York
Clarendon Hotel
Brooklyn
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John Mike
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Rawlins County
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Seattle
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Skagway
Joseph Barrett
Richard Butler
Mrs. Stanford Economical
Jeane Leland Stanford
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Mare Island Navy Yard
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Paris
the Figaro
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Nile Valley
Joseph Sepic
Mercy Hospital
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Landreth
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Dover
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Addick
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Spruance
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Willis
Topham
Handy
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Quay
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