Debt Reduction and Public Figures The Week
News of the week reports December debt reduction around 12 million and yearly decline near 110 million. General Mackenzie is in Bloomingdale Asylum for treatment and not sent to Washington. Internal revenue receipts for six months total 61 million with December at 985,706. Silver dollars for the week end 29 December amount to 297,498. Humphreys funeral held in Washington with no military display. remains to Congressional Cemetery. Cable from Minister Hunt notes Lt. Harber’s route from Tomsk toward Orenbourg with bodies of DeLong crew.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MacKenzie
Bloomingdale Insane Asylum
New York
Washington
Humphreys
Congressional Cemetery
Chandler
Hunt
St. Petersburgh
Harber
Tomsk
Orenbourg
DeLong
Pittsburgh Shipwrecks and Fires Sweep Through Week
A trio of maritime and industrial incidents dominate the brief from the river towns and coal belt. The Bunton and Case tows collided at Davis Island dam near Pittsburgh with a fatal blaze on the Bunton and several men missing. a German feud in Wilkesbarre ended in a fatal stabbing. fires destroyed mills and hotel property in Scottsdale and Keefe’s areas amid broader strikes and labor disputes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
I. N. Bunton
John T. Case
Davis Island Dam
Pittsburgh
Bunton
Neville Island
Underwood
Wilkesbarre
Fred. Schroeder
Gus Schmaltz
Schmaltz
Schraeder
Francis Hawey
United States
Hawley
Hartford
Conn
Scottsdale
Samuel Yearly
Dr. Gifford
Samuel Eichler
Broadway Hotel
Keifer
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Company
Scranton
Putnam & Co
Capital
Clearfield
Rogert Moone & Co
Baltimore
General Grant
Pennsylvania
Monongahela River
Brownsville
Board of
The
Northern Pacific Railroad
New York
Frederick Billings
Ashbel H. Barney
John W. Ellis
Roswell G. Rolston
Robert Norris
Thomas
Pennsylvania Coal Miners
Congress
National
Bureau of Labor Statistics
A.J. Roders
James Pel
Pennsylvania Railroad
William B. Pettit
Pullman Palace
Canada
American Tinned Plate Association
Maryland
Tariff Seen As Way To Cut European Plate Prices
Observers argue a tariff on cocowage competition will reduce the high prices for tinned plate charged by European manufacturers in this country.
Terrible railway wreck and other dispatches from the 2d
A dispatch from London reports United States Minister Lowell resigning St Andrews College rector duties. Humber Ontario rail crash kills 27, many injured. conductor George Barber arrested. Rioting in Dromore Ireland averted by troops. Orange men wounded. Gezireh garrison engagement defeats rebels. Dublin MP Charles Russell praises Irish immigration resilience and urges selective future settlement. Khedive proposes ten percent civil list cut. Halifax seeks Canada Pacific Railway termini. Inter-Colonial to Montreal. St Stephen's riots toll rises in Harbour Grace. cholera in Egypt blamed for 50,000 deaths. Cabinet Council meets in London. Notre Dame de Lourdes boarders poisoned. two seriously ill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Eng
United States
Lowell
St. Andrew’s College
Grand Trunk Railway
Humber
Toronto
Canada
Bolt Works
George Barber
Dromore
Ireland
Gezireh
Halifax
N. 8
Canada Pacific Railway
Quebec
Inter-Colonial Railway
Montreal
Dominion
Victoria
Journal of Life
Highlands
St. Stephen’s Day
St. Petersburg
Sudeikin
Egypt
Notre Dame de Laudre’s
Tragic Fires Claim Children and Nuns in Two States
A Mechanicstown Ohio residence fire kills two children aged seven and four while an older sister is badly burned. In Belleville Illinois the Immaculate Conception convent fire kills twenty eight women with many others injured as inmates panic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milton Higlan
Mechanicstown
Immaculate Conception
Belleville
Catastrophic Fire Destroys Wick Block and Park Theater
A gas explosion in the meter room caused a downtown fire in Cleveland at the Park Theater and Wick Block. The blaze, fed by intense heat, destroyed the theater and church, with damages estimated at about 160000 for Wick Block and 60000 for the church, while authorities say all efforts to save the buildings failed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Losson Theater
Church
Cleveland
Ohio
New Park Theater
Biseau
Frankfort
St. Clair
Court Place
St. Clair Street
First Presbyterian Church
Ontario Street
Church Society
Wick
Henry Wick & Son
Hartz
George H. Adams Humpty Dumpty Company
Monroe Street
Destructive Belville Convent Fire Claims Twenty Eight Lives
A devastating fire at the Convent of the Immaculate Conception in Belville Illinois destroyed the building Saturday night. Twenty eight victims are listed or reported missing including Sisters Mary Jerome Barbara Heil and Mary Edwina Bridget Shanahan and teachers Mary Campbell and Lottie Pierson. Rescue efforts focused on nearby institutions as firefighters battled a mass of flames with limited ladders and equipment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belville
Ill
Convent of the Immaculate Conception
St. Lous
St. Agnes Orphan Asylum
St. Peter’s Church
Harrison Agricultural Works
Susie Wimner
St. Louis
Gertrude Strunck
Belleville
Mary Manning
Lizzie Isch
Centerville Station
Virginia Heingleman
Mamie Hulse
Columbia
Mary Jerome
Barbara Heil
Pittsburgh
Modrata
Jennie ‘Riley
Milwaukee
Mary Campbell
East St.Louis
Edwina
Bridget Shanahan
New Orleans
Delphia Schlermtrauer
Mary Bien
Kittie Urbana
Vandalia
Emily Leonhardt
Trenton
Hilda Hammel
Minnie Bailey
Laura Thompson
Chester
Agnes Scaling
Mamie Schling
Emma Stark
Henry Villard Assigns Estate in Favor of Creditors
Henry Villard former Northern Pacific president assigns his property and Madison Avenue mansion to William Endicott Jr and Horace White for creditor relief. Proceeds first cover $200,000 mortgage interest then contracts for finishing the edifice. Debts to Oregon Railway & Navigation Co are covered, with residue to wife Mrs. Fanny Garrison Villard.
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John Irwin Nevin
Pittsburgh Evening Leader
Sewickley
David Sankey
Ira D. Sankey
New Castle
Toronto
Canada
Henry Villard
Northern Pacific Railroad
William Endicott
Boston
Horace White
New York
Post Office Department
United States
Philadelphia
Henry Morris
Kensington
Morris
Putnam & Phelps
North Leominster
Mass
Baltimore
James Hare
John Scanlon
Scanlon
Hare
William Endicott, Jr
Madison Avenue
Villard
Oregon Railway & Navigation Company
Fanny Garrison Villard
Double Tragedy at Baltimore Shootout Ends in Death
Baltimore reports a midnight duel between James Hare and John Scanlon. Hare, from Calvert County, killed Scanlon in a saloon gunfight after claiming a prior robbery by Scanlon and Lou Miller. Hare was also fatally shot. a woman connected to the case was arrested but released for lack of evidence. Senator Logan remains ill in Washington.
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Lauiiie Lourgery
Knottsville
Taylor County
W. Va
T. N. Grirrirs
Salem
Ohio
Athens
Tennessee
W. A. Johnson
Paducah
J. H. Weatherly
Madison County
Miss
Lippert
William Lippert
William Ray
Bath
Ill
Henry James
Plumersville
Ark
Huron Mill
Houghton
Mich
Charles C. Raymond
First National Bank of
Homer Raymond
Allonez
Breckinridge
Minn
Sherman
Wilkin County
Joseph Longworth
Cincinnati
Sonora
San Carlos
Timothy Sullivan
Logan County
Bellefontaine
Colorado
Alton
St. Louis
Republic Refining Company
Standard Oil Works
Cleveland
O. C. Fairbanks
Youngstown
William Brophy
Samurel J. Muscroft
Shiloh
Mansfield
W. H. Sornam
Chicago
R. P. Ranney
Annapolis & Elkridge
Nicholas Deale
Phinizy & Co
Augusta
Wesells & Co
Phinizy
San Antonio
Tex
Christian
Brunner
Virginius
Brooklyn Gulch
Betsy Torrey
Jupge Dunpy
United States Court
Wiliam B. Smyth
Keokuk
Hastings
Grand Island
Burlington & Missouri
Republican Valley
Union Pacific
James M. Miller
Hannibal
Miller
Smith
Superior Court of Chicago
Illinois
Manitoba
Northern Pacific
St. Paul
Fargo
Dakota
St. Paul & Duluth
Duluth
Omaha
Baltimore
James Hare
John Scanlon
Hare
Scanlon
Lou Miller
Calvert County
Workingmen Move to Form National Independent Labor Party
Philadelphia hosts a Chicago originated Anti-Monopoly plan to unite labor groups including Greenback Labor and Anti-Monopoly under a National Independent Labor party. Delegates from mills mines and industries are to be chosen for a conference December 12 to 14 to define policy and support a Prohibitionist presidential candidate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Chicago
Independent Labor Party of the
United States
W. A. Carsey
New York
Independent Labor League of the United States
G. D. Lennon
New York City
John W. Kelogh
National Committee
J. J. Cavanaugh
New York Engineers’ Union
B. M. Abell
New York Brass Finishers’ League
Carsey
Lennon
Committee On
Independent Labor Party
Greenback Labor Party
Anti-Monopoly League
Eminent German Physician Dr Edward Lasker Dies in New York
Dr Edward Lasker, a noted German physician, died of heart disease in New York after a dinner at banker Jesse Seligman's home. He had been visiting since May and collapsed as his carriage stopped before a private stable on West Twenty-eighth Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Edward Lasker
Lasker
Jesse Seligman
East Forty-sixth Street
West Twenty-eighth Street
Seligman
Four Children Die In House Fire Near Duke Center
In Duke Center Pennsylvania at J. W. Garver’s Keystone Oil Co dwelling on Kinzua Branch gas overpressure caused a blaze. Mrs Garver was away. four children aged one to six perished. Thomas McHale recovered the bodies. parents left grief stricken.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duke Center
J. W. Garver
Keystone Oil Company
Kinzua Branch
Mormons Alarmed After Utah Church Meeting
Salt Lake City reports the monthly Salt Lake Mormon priesthood meeting with Bishop John Sharp warning that only divine power can save the Mormon people. He says God must pilot their ship or it will sink. Apostles Thatcher and Richards are en route to Washington to handle Utah affairs.
Senator Allison's Father Dies in Peosia
John Allison aged eighty five, father of Senator Allison, died at his Peosia home Saturday at two AM. A farmer who moved from Ohio around 1865, he will be buried Monday in Dubuque on the Senator's cemetery lot. John Degarmo of Milford Md captured five foxes in three days last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senator Allison
John Allison
Peosia
Ohio
Dubuque
John Degarmo
Milford
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Frank C. Culley
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Jim Crummidy
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Chicago Times
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Quincy
Issree Charles C. Trowbridge
Detroit
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United States Army
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Supreme Court of Illinois
Decatur
Ala
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Taunton
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R. I
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McMullen
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Mile
Litta
Prima Donna
Bloomington
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Uss
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Commodore Jeffries
United State Navy
Ginery Twichell
Brookline
Swaim
Martin J.crawford
Supreme Court of Georgia
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Marston
New Bedford
William Wirt Sykes
Wales
Jeremiah S. Black
York
Hugh Hastings
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J. R. Sands
United States Navy
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D. F. A. Ewer
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Leonard D. Gales
Theodore F. Randolph
Newaa
C . Cushman
Matt Head
New Hampshire
Marion Sims
Johnston Blakely Creighton
New Jersey
Labaree
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Sojourner Truth
Averhull
Lizzie Christiancy
Christiancy
Dudley C. Haskell
William J. Reese
Lancaster
Auretta Hoyt
John Burt Wright
Lowe
Archbishop Perche
Vnet
Senator Logan
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