London Letter on War News and Social Season Returns
London rejoices as Kimberley and Ladysmith reliefs lift gloom, sparking a revived social season. Kinghtly heroism of Kandahar and public admiration for Sir Redvers Buller sit beside Queen Victoria's enlistment appeal and a chaotic War Office response. The death of James Cowen, coal magnate and MP, is noted with portraits of contrasts from millionaire to popular reformer, and future imperial debates stir in the North.
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London
Associated Preas
Great Britain
Kimberley
Ladysmith
Bol
South Africa
Crimea
India
Afghanistan
Kandahari
Kitchener
War Office
James Cowen
Newcastle Chronicle
Europe
House of Commons
Northumberlan
Burr
Lord Beaconsfield
Mr. Cowen
Moscow
Madrid
Italy
Massani
Orsini
Napoleon Tit
Cowen
Fire destroys half a million dollars in Philadelphia blaze
A deadly Philadelphia fire on February 2 left one woman dead and several others severely injured. The blaze destroyed property valued at about half a million dollars.
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Philadephia
Fire sweeps wholesale millinery district in Philadelphia flare
A major blaze broken out tonight in Philadelphia’s wholesale millinery district consumed two acres. Clara Cohen, a 22 year old seamstress, died by jumping from the fifth floor of the building where the fire began at 721 Arch street. Clara Ador was seriously injured after falling from the third floor of the same structure. The fire heavily damaged the May building and later destroyed a row of adjacent properties including the Northern Life Assurance offices and several brokers, a Grand Opera house, and other firms, all left in ruins.
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Clara Cohen
Harris
Bernard Cohen
Clara Ador
Arch Street
Linton May
Owen, Dineen & Co
May
Northern Life Assurance Company
Park and Purden
Barristowa
Oath Brothers
C. F. Turner
F. H. Butler
Keen Furniture Company
Grand Opera House
Gq, Dun & Co
Dominion Loan & Sayings Companies
War Office Faces War or Peace Decision on Soldier Discharges
Washington Feb 24 The secretary of war must decide if the United States is in a state of war as two dozen discharge applications loom. A ruling of peace could cut Philippine soldiers pay by half, a dangerous contingency. Officials regret the timing of this decision.
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Washington
Secretary of War
United States
Department
Philippines
War Department
Combination Mining and Milling Company
Buslress and Works
Combination
Granite County
Montana
Spe
County of
Granite
Jesse B. Pasate
St. Louis
Missouri
Beourlty
Werner, Ziegler
Bi-Meralio
Entripsburg
Philipsburg
Board of Trustees
Jesse B. Mellor
McCormick's Will Filed in Chicago Probate Court
Leander H McCormick's will lists an estate valued at 4135 dollars though lawyers say the actual value is not less than five million dollars. The estate is placed in trust for twenty years for R H McCormick the named executor. After twenty years the trust lands are to be divided among the three surviving heirs or their issue with each heir receiving an annuity of 20000 dollars during the settlement period.
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Chicago
Leander H. McCormick
Murder Over a Squaw Near Pelly River
Seattle Feb 24 The steamer Humboldt reports the murder of William Blair by Charles Hill on the Pelly river February 1. The two men, partners and both from Washington, quarreled over a squaw. Hill surrendered to the mounted police.
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Seattle
Wash
Humboldt
Skagway
Wiliam Blair
Charles Hill
Pelly River
Meni
Hill
A Vision of Private Subsidy for a National Opera
Walter Damrosch argues that America will build a subsidized national opera not by government funding but through private enterprise or popular subscription. He predicts a shift as art becomes a national necessity, with operatic and conservatory growth tied to public demand and school support, expanding access beyond leisure classes.
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América
America
Walter Damrosch
Pearet
Newspaper Publishers Press Paper Price Rise Inquiry
The American Newspaper Publishers association meeting in New York unanimously adopted resolutions blaming a trust for white paper price hikes. A congressional inquiry is urged into price increases, with a committee to present the case to Congress and seek remedial legislation in the public interest. Officers and an executive committee were re-elected.
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New York
American Newspaper Publishers Association
United States
Waaldorf-Astara
Congress
American Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Republic
Ways and Means
Seila
H. Kauffman
Washington Star
Two deaths and fires across cities in brief telegraph items
Low Sing, jailed for murder at Bingham City, hanged himself in his cell this morning. In London Ontario, the Masonic Temple and adjacent areas were destroyed by fire, with losses around two hundred thousand dollars. Other items note a Wisconsin Republican executive committee lineup, stock market opening activity, a fire at the Merry hotel in Birmingham with nearby bank guards, and Montgomery seeking aid as the blaze loomed toward a million-dollar loss.
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Salt Lake
Utah
Low Sing
Bingham City
London
Ont
Masonic Temple
Great Northwestern Telegraph Office
Grand Opera House
Birmingham
Ala
Merry Hotel
Hewlett
Berney National Bank
Montgomery
Pacific rail firm swaps bonds for note collateral
Washington report states the Central Pacific railroad company prepaid a note of 2.9 million dollars due over a year hence and received the same amount in Union Pacific bonds pledged as collateral.
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Washington
Central Pacific Railroad Company
Tts
Union Pacific
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A Great College OF Music
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Conte En Lovering
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Mear
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Erimit
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Cierloy Mon
Royal Fraternal Union
Central Dry Goods House
Great Falls
Mont
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W. P. 21
Inter Mountain
West Side
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McMillan & Floyd
East Broadway
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P. Allred
Investors Realty Co
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Case & Holmes
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Butte
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TN Smale
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Tle Creek
M. AM
20 Street, Center
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East Hide
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Elty Water
F Jompenn Investment Company
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Mines
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Brombauer
Carney & Hand
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Mazi
Madam Editha
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French Steam Dye Works
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Second Judicial District
State of
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James Eva
Silver Bow
J. B. Rickards
Clinton C. Clark
James F. Wilkins
Michael Devitt
Butte and Boston Consolidated Mining Company
Hatterman
Northern Pacific
Mainstreeta
W. H Merriman
Butte Mont
J.D. McGregor
Seer
Hale Ig
Toronto
Canada
Treerinary College
Marlow’s
Malin Street
Aleae Peeesel
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