Wreck of Big Four Train Near Avon Injures Many
Passenger train No. 48 on the Big Four wrecked at a high Avon embankment after striking a broken rail. Three passengers seriously injured, a dozen slightly hurt, but no deaths. The New York sleeper rolled over twice, eleven aboard, others escaped with minor injuries. Emergency crews and surgeons rushed to the scene. all passengers accounted for and moved to Danville. Another Wisconsin Central freight wreck left one death and injuries when the locomotive left the track.
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Indianapolis
St. Louis
Avon
Ind
New York
Cleveland
Danville
WEDS WILDECK MARRIAGE SECRETLY ANNOUNCED
Florence Burns the Brooklyn woman cleared of a hotel murder case in New York last year secretly wed Charles W Wildeck son of the late U S Army Lt Col Abram C Wildeck. The groom later faced arrest for a bad check at Hotel Gerard linked to Mabel Strong who died after hospital treatment.
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Florence Burns
New York
Brooklyn
Walter Brooks
Charles W. Wildeck
Wildeck
Abram C. Wildeck
United States Army
Gerard
Mabel Strong
Cleveland
Miss Strong
St. Luke's Hospital
Nordis Ultimatum Threatens Haiti Political Crisis
General Nord, ex provisional government minister, with 8000 to 10000 men from Gonaives, demands the invalidation of deputies allied to M Firmin. He warns civil war if the chamber rejects. Port au Prince braces as preparations mount for defense against a possible Nord attack.
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Firmin
Port Au Prince
General Nord
St Mary’s
Gonaives
M. Firmin
Chamber
Sugar House Burns at Ashton Plantation in Luling
Fire destroyed the sugar house at the Ashton plantation in Luling Louisiana. The total loss for the sugar house and products is $150000 with $65000 insured. The property is owned by Charles A Farwell and others, formerly owned by John Morris.
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New Orleans
Ashton Plantation
Luling
John Morris
Charles A. Farwell
Landau Arrest in Buffalo Swindle Case
Buffalo police report William Landau, arrested in New York on Thursday, tied to a $300,000 swindle. Formerly ran a Buffalo wholesale clothing house, he departed for Texas after leaving Buffalo some time earlier.
Great Excitement in Lampasas Over Burnet County Action
Lampasas Texas November 28 reports great excitement over Burnet county citizens attempt. Details incomplete but tension noted as residents react to united county efforts and public interest remains high.
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Lampasas, Tex
Burnet County
Corsicana Barber Found Shot Dead Near City
Body of N. S. Jarral, a local barber, discovered a mile south of Corsicana with six bullet wounds. A separate item from Austin notes Sheriff Owens died from a stroke after a ruptured blood vessel.
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Corsicana
Tex
N. S. Jarral
Here
Austin
Owens
Thanksgiving Day Observed in Cities Worldwide
Thanksgiving was observed with closures across the globe on November 28. The U S president hosted a family dinner and offered a blessing in Washington while papal delegates attended mass in St Aloysius church with cadet escorts. In Mexico City a grand ball entertained society and dignitaries, and London hosted a large American gathering at the Cecil hotel under the American Society of London.
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Washington
St. Aloysus Church
Gonzaga College
City
Mexico
Ican
Diaz
PSS
Est Society of
Pres
Ris
Rncan
Thurber
Americhurch
London
Cecil Hotel
American Society of London
Thanksgiving in Texas Observed Across Churches and Games
Austin reports Thanksgiving Day observed statewide with church services and many football games. State departments closed for the holiday.
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Texas
Austin
Lone Star State
Train wreck in Prescott kills engineer in Arkansas
Northbound passenger No. 4 from Texarkana to St. Louis on the St. Louis Iron Mountain and Southern railway wrecked near Prescott Arkansas after heavy rains spread the rails. Engineer Asbury B Archibald died under the wreckage while Fireman Geo Hayes escaped by jumping. A mail clerk was slightly injured and no passengers were hurt. The locomotive Norway rolled down a six foot embankment and flipped over, with the mail and baggage car overturning. The smoker car was thrown across the right of way.
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Prescott
Ark
Texarkana
St. Louis
Iron Mountain and Southern
Asbury B. Archibald
Geo. Hayes
Norway
Archibald
Surgeon reports fever overran interior Colombia during revolution
Doctor F X Varland of the steamer City of Panama says revolutionaries caused little direct fighting but fever is killing scores in interior Colombia. Bodies are often left unburied, taken out of doors for buzzards as mortality soars, while Panama itself enjoys good health conditions.
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San Francisco
F. X. Varland
Panama
Columbia
Varsand
Illinois Central Plans Double Daily Chicago to New Orleans Service
The Illinois Central railroad will inaugurate a double daily schedule from Chicago to New Orleans, completing the trip in 24 hours and 40 minutes. A 7 a.m. departure will offer a through sleeper to Jacksonville, Florida, cut off at Martin Tennessee, with a Hot Springs sleeper detached at Memphis, creating new service from Chicago and the northwest.
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Chicago
Illinois Central Railroad
New Orleans
Jacksonville
Fla
Martin, Tenn
Hot Springs
Memphis
Northwest
Large Sum for Exchange Seat Sale
New York reports Chairman Mc Pherson Kennedy who joined the Stock Exchange on November 4, 1880 and led the body last year has sold his seat and will retire. The price is said to be eighty thousand dollars.
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New York
McPherson Kennedy
The
Stock Exchange
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Batavia
Heinz’s and
Dodson & Braun
Peak, Freau & Co
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Howell Bros
Tyler Haswell
Prin
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John Wittman
Nabors
Nabors Bros
Bryan
Tiree
Wisconsin Central Railway
Albert Pinnee
Walter Sherman
Nordi
Myrtle Boyston
Houston
Texas Central
Dallas, Austin, Waco, FT. Worth
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T. J. Anderson
M."l. Robbins
Denison
Houston, Corsicana
Opera House
Ethel Tucker
Sisseoar, Ars
Diamond Dick JR
Boy Detective
Parsons Bottling Works
C. G. Parsons
Bryan, Texas
Nufactur
Crown Cork System
Hutchinson
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