Snow and strife sweep across towns in listings
Weekly Leader Watertown reports five feet of snow. Boston shows wool demand remains active. Raleigh suffers a block destruction. Arthur fears tariff failure. Congress debates navy funding. Allentown shoemakers join strikers. Winnipeg cold persists. New York docks cite ice hindrance. many fires and accidents noted including in Coshocton and Dickson City.
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Raleigh
N. C
Arthur
Congress
Allentown
Strilers
Irish Question Framed as Irish Union With England
Forster spoke at Leeds to the Liberal Club proposing Ireland be made one country with England and Scotland as the solution to the Irish question. The remark drew applause and he said Home Rule opponents should be met by treating the Irish people as equals. He added leasehold suffrage for Ireland depends on the country’s state when the reform bill is introduced.
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London
Forster
Leeds
Liberal Club
Ireland
England
Scotland
Ingland
Making Presents in Berlin After Royal Birthday
Berlin reports show the crown prince and princess received more than three thousand congratulatory letters and telegrams and 100 unopened packages. The emperor gave a massive silver tea service. the queen of England sent a marble statue of herself. Ten Prussian towns offered dining room furniture worth 76,000 marks, Berlin city funded a sanitary school with 118,000 marks, and Germany raised 800,000 marks for benevolent purposes. The British consul contributed 30,000 marks for an English church.
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Berlin
England
Prussia
Germany
Red Cloud claims cattle fund misused by 19th century sale
Red Cloud at the Indian bureau objects to a 1876 sale of ponies seized from his people by General Crook. The $5,000 proceeds were to buy cows for the Indians, but Red Cloud says the funds were not used for that purpose and records show no return. Sale participants may be questioned if further records fail to confirm an account.
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Washington
Red Cloud
Indian Bureau
Gen. Crook
Wasiteurene & CO
Washburne & So
Broadway
Cok
Reade St
New York
Dave & Collins
G. W. Hoyt
Louis Shaw
Cheyenne
Wyo
Sad Obsequies at Milwaukee After Newhall Disaster
Funeral services for Newhall disaster victims were held in Milwaukee on January 26. Twenty three bodies accorded Protestant rites, twenty Catholic, with processions joining en route to cemeteries. The two processions stretched two miles, a steam pipe burst at the Protestant service causing a temporary panic among about six thousand attendees.
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Milwaukee
Newhall
Exposition Building
Austrian Socialists Arrests Stir Trieste Irredentist Club
In Trieste on January 25 1909 police visited homes of members of the Overdank irredentist club after it issued an insulting paper. Several members were arrested and the burgomaster of Versa who arrested Overdank and his associates has been receiving threats. He plans to sell his property and relocate.
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Trieste
Irridentist Club
Overdank Club
Versa
Overdank
Pennsylvania Railway Blocked by Board of Trade Refusal
The board of trade denied admission to Pennsylvania railway representatives over a disputed claim by one member. Eastern trunk lines met and resolved not to solicit business from the board until the Pennsylvania company is restored.
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Chicago
Board of Trade
Pennsylvania Railway
Eastern Trunk Lines
Pennsylvania Company
Dublin police guard house of informer Farrell
In Ireland the police guard the house of informer Farrell for protection of his mother and sister amid threats. A hurricane at Limerick caused serious damages with houses blown down and harbor vessels affected. The Galway to Dublin train ran off the track.
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Dublin
Farrell
Limerick
Galway
Great Railroad Case heard in United States Supreme Court
Arguments opened in Omaha in a major railroad dispute between Denver and New Orleans and Atchison Topeka Santa Fe. Denver Rio Grande link via Pueblo valued around 3 million dollars annually. testimony focuses on through traffic customs and usage.
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Omaha
United States Supreme Court
McCrary
Towa
Ilwlet
Colorado
Denver & New Orleans Company
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Denver & Rio Grande
Denver & New Orleans
Pueblo
Attorney General to sue Union Pacific over net earnings balance
Washington January 24. The commissioner of railroads prepares papers to allow the attorney general to sue Union Pacific Railway for about 1,000,000 dollars claimed as an earnings percentage. UP says new construction and new equipment were excluded from the balance and argues these items are deductible as operating and repair costs under the liberal construction act and supreme court rulings. The case revisits the definition of net earnings.
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Washington
Commissioner of Railroads
Attorrney
Union Pacific Railroad Company
United States
United States Supreme Court
Sullivan and Slade to Fight in New Madison Square Test
Richard K Fox has telegraphed Mace and Slade to come to New York for a testimonial benefit at Madison Square on January 20. Fox will offer $1,000 to any man who can beat Mace in four rounds under Queens bury rules. Slade may spar Mace for $2,500, with a potential match between Slade and Sullivan for $5,000.
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New York
Richard K Fox
Mace
Slade
Madison Square
Fox
Sullivan
Queensbury
Jem
Progress of the Newhall Fire Investigation
Milwaukee January 24 Night Clerk Delaney testified at the inquest into the Newhall fire. He said the fire likely started in the barroom and that the hotel hose had not been inspected for two years. He would have warned guests if not for office duties and saving papers, noting twenty five minutes elapsed before he learned the hotel was doomed.
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Milwaukee
Delaney
Newhall
Sinking of the Earth Above Coal Mines
The Wilkesbarre disaster at the Delaware and Hudson mines covers about forty acres, mostly occupied by homes. Officials blame rotted roof props while miners say pillar robbing caused the collapse. Authorities fear more trouble ahead.
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Wilkesbarre
Delaware and Hudson
Terrible Keyser Rail Crash Lands Seven Dead and Missing
A George's Creek Cumberland railroad wreck near Keyser West Virginia involved three coupled coal trains on a steep grade. The front engine left the track causing a massive plunge with fifteen crew aboard. seven dead and more missing. Injured included Martin Welch the engineer Daniel Bradley a foreman and others. all Cumberland residents.
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Keyser
W. Va
George's Creek & Cumberland
Cumberland
Cincinnati
Ohio
Harry Baldwin
Wm. Lyons
James McGettigan
Martin Welch
Daniel Bradley
Freman
James Dolan
Geo. Facken
Solomon Gross
Savages Kill Seventeen on New Guinea Shipwreck
Reports from Brisbane say a large three-masted schooner was wrecked at Fly river mouth, New Guinea. Seventeen crew members were killed by natives whose heads were distributed to villages. Captain Pennafather searched wreckage, faced attacks, and burned villages after an old woman confessed the murder.
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San Francisco
Brisbane
Queensland
Fly River
New Guinea
Pennafather
Pearl
Loss of Cimbria Claims Noted Opera Star Dora Henninges
It is now known in Cleveland that among Cimbria passengers was Miss Dora Henninges known as Mile Dorani returning home from Europe. Mapleson recruited her for his company last season after a debut as prima donna in Fidele in Chicago. Her career showed bright promise before the voyage.
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Cleveland
Cimbria
Dora Henninges
Mile
Dorani
Europe
Mapleson
Cincinnati College of Music
Fidele
Chicago
Lynch mob repelled at Shawneetown jail attempt
Early yesterday a masked mob tried to storm the Shawneetown jail to lynch the black murderer of Holmes. The sheriff and deputies repelled the assault with gunfire and the courthouse bell, as citizens gathered to deter the mob.
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Shawneetown
Holmes
Court House
Transcontinental Through Trains to New Orleans and San Francisco
Tucson report details W Towne general manager of the CP and S P railway saying through trains will depart San Francisco for New Orleans on the 28th and the first return train from New Orleans to San Francisco also on the 28th after which regular schedules begin.
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Tucson
A. T
W. Towne
C, P, &S. P. Railway
Star
New Orleans
San Francisco
Explosion at Risdon Iron Works Kills One Man Fatally Injures Another
A metal explosion at Risdon iron works in San Francisco on January 23 killed laborer John Lyden and fatally injured Thomas Brady. The blast caused a temporary panic as workers mistook it for a boiler burst.
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San Francisco
Risdon Iron Works
John Lyden
Thomas Brady
Grand jury urges higher licenses to curb crime
In St Louis on January 25 the grand jury finds about eighty percent of city crime stems from saloons and calls for a $1,000 minimum license for whisky saloons and $500 for wine and beer establishments to deter crime.
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St. Louis
Wilksbarre
Pennsylvania Military Academy
Chester
Fulton Street
New York
Chronicle
Augusta
Georgia
Henderson
Columbus
Ohio
Boston
Pennsylvania
Kate Judd Arrested in Newport Arson Case
Kate Judd, already serving five years for arson, was arrested in Newport on a charge of burning the Weaver villa. She is suspected in other incendiary incidents.
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Newport
R. J
Kate Judd
Weaver Villa
A Handsome Legacy Bequest Reaches Peace Society
Boston January 23 The American Peace Society received a 40000 dollar bequest from Reverend George C Beckwith. The gift enhances efforts for international arbitration and pacifist outreach. Beckwith’s legacy supports ongoing programs and scholarships tied to peaceful resolution initiatives.
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Boston
American Peace Society
George C. Beckwith
Fish Carriers Carry 18000 Carp to West for Distribution
A Washington Special reports a fish commissioner's car with 18 000 young carp left for California. Distribution routes include Missouri Arkansas Texarkana northern Texas New Mexico Arizona and from San Francisco to Oregon Washington territory with others in Texas. The commission plans white fish in February trout next and salmon later.
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New York
Washington
California
St. Louis
Missouri
Arkansas
Texarkana
Texas
New Mexico
Arizona
San Francisco
Oregon
Washington Territory
Utah
Idaho
Ogden
Commission
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Watertown, N. J
Winnepeg
Nicolaufs
Russia
France
Steel and Able Works
Coshocten
New York City
Deep Wareek
Elk Hill Coal and Iron Company
Dickson City
Massachusetts Legislative Committee
Massachusetts Legislative House
Ben Butler
Prohibitionists
New Jersey
M. Armstrong and Son
House of West Virginia
Senate
Los Angeles
Waterhouse
Tehachapi
Kern County
Wichita
Kan
Sherman
Charles Cobb
Smith
Udell Station
Ebot
Cobb
Butler County
Belknap
Alaska
Skilmore and
Wood
Coast Survey
Cushman
Independence
Nebraska
Abert, McMahon & Co
Wirth’s
Caldwell
Academy of Music Variety Theater
Duug
Horn
Attorney General
The
Union Pacific Railroad
Dey
Orchestra Insirumenis
Pices
Allen
New Yorkn
Ehavo
Ronson
Uxpresa
Post Oiffee
ROOT
Poart Bt
St. Jacobs
A. Vogeler i
Enone
Mid
U. B. le
Toledo Blade
Nasbaon
Vest
Beat
NASBY
Honda Postal
Buade OO
Iolido
Mason & Hamlin
Ceyllinds
Shandup
Tre Marun & Hamlin Organ and Piano CO
Tremont Street
Bustih Street
Union Square
Wabash Avenue
P.O
T. A. Slocum
Savannah
Protita
Derry
Richardson & CO
Washington At
Geo. P. Rowell & Co
Spruce Kt
N, Y
America
Medical Academy of
Paris
Sciientific
Co As
CLAB
Preparatory School
Pupi'a
Normal School
J.A. Sewalds
LL D
Eoulde, Rcolo
R. E. Warren & CO
Tsi
INAZ
Undertakers
F. E Warren & CO
Sixteenth Street
LAW Office
Warren’s Building
Wyoming
Carissa
Naples
St. Super
Union
Gener
Whent
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