Desperate Hangings in El Paso noted by Telegraph
Desperate escape attempt at El Paso ends with Geronimo Parra and Antonin Flores overpowered and hanged after stabbing at officers and spectators. Ranger Bryant wounded. crowd chaos ensues as doctors remove liquor tax issue noted and other world news summarized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geronimo Parra
Antonin Flores
el Paso
Texas
Flores
Ranger Hd Hryant
Wilson
Internal Revenue Bureau
Hawaii Territory Bid Advances in Senate Panel
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee ordered a favorable report on the Hawaii territorial government bill. Modifications include land sale validation since annexation and a nine year tenure for the Court of Judges. A Congressional delegate is still part of the bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hawaii
Senate Committee On Foreign Relations
Court of Judges
Congress
Lynching in Newport News and other late 19th century notes
A white man B B Watt was lynched by seven masked men in Newport News Virginia after an alleged assault on Mrs. Thomas Simpson. The account also notes Major John A Logan’s remains in state in Youngstown Ohio and a funeral expected around February 6. Berlin reports seize of the German steamer General. Manila dispatch says American prisoners freed and arrived at Vigan in South Lobos.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. B. Watt
Newport News
Watt
Thomas Simpson
John A. Logan
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Youngstown
Ohio
Company H
Ohio National Guards
Logan
Manila
Glass industry resumes as Indiana belts reopen factories
Labor unions control the window glass trade as 44 Indiana plants restart, 1,700 pots capacity, in Hartford City and across the gas belt about 16,000 workers return. Indiana leads U.S. in glass production with 45 window glass concerns and 2,607 pots total capacity nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana Gas Belt
American Window Glass Company
Hartford City
Ind
Trust
Gas Belt
Indiana
United States
The
Boy Saves Mother as Father Fatally Wounds Self
Larry Jacobs, 18, of New York, prevented his drunken father Julius Jacobs from shooting his mother during a domestic crisis. The father fired once, then a second shot, and died from a self-inflicted wound after the boy restrained him and urged his mother to escape.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Larry Jacobs
New York
Julius Jacobs
Harry
Tarry
Distributive Trade Quiet After Heaviest Holiday Trade
Bradstreet reports a holiday lull and stock-taking giving a dull appearance to distributive trade. Some firms are reordering to replenish depleted stocks, with fair activity noted in cotton hog products coffee copper tin and lead as prices firm up after rapid money movements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bradstreet’s
Noted Thief Hunter Killed In Kansas Dooryard
Bob Devine, famed Wyoming cattleman and nemesis of thieves, was murdered in his Kansas dooryard after warnings to flee. The Casper, Wyoming report notes his history of killing outlaws and suggests a possible rival from Wyoming as the assassin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Devine
Kansas
Casper
Wyo
Howard County
Wyoming
Devine
Tie
Explosions Kill Eight Workers In Two States
Four men die when a boiler explodes one mile west of Elizabethtown Pennsylvania injuring several others. At Eagle River Wisconsin two wagon loads of 4875 pounds of powder explode, killing two tenamsters named Alex Hammerstrom and Joseph St. Louis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabethtown
Keller & Kresgon
Eagle River
Wis
Hagle River
Tenamsters
Alex. Hammerstrom
Joseph St. Louis
Rockefeller Extends Time to Raise Gift Funds at Chicago
At the University of Chicago convocation President Harper announced that nearly enough was raised to meet John D. Rockefeller's 2,000,000 conditional gift and that the donor has granted a 90 day extension to obtain the remaining 314,000. The largest gift of the year came from Mrs. Anna Hitchcock with 200,000 for the La Salle block memorial, followed by Leon Mandel with 50,000 for a new assembly hall and Mrs. Nancy Foster with 20,000 to complete Foster Hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Studebaker
Chicago
University of Chicago
Harper
Quarterly Review
John D. Rockefeller
Anna Hitchcock
la Salle Block
Madison
la Salle Streets
Charles Hitchcock
Leon Mandel
Nancy Foster
Foster Hall
Boy Meets Death on Gallows for Jealous Murder
Edward Cressinger, 19, hanged at Sunbury Pa for killing Daisy Smith by slaying her with a gunshot and knife. The last execution in the state and the crime dated to August 10, 1808, born of jealousy as the Hoeley Run farmer's daughter was gathering herbs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Cressinger
Sunbury
Daisy Smith
Boyles Run
Augusta Township
Cressinger
Daisy
Milwaukee killing by four unknown men shocks city
Victim Thomas Kivlin Slal died after being beaten and stabbed by four unknown assailants in Milwaukee. Quintin escaped after a jaw strike. Kivlin found unconscious at his boarding house and died the next day. Attacks followed alarming violence in the night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Kivlin
Milwaukee
Thomas Quintin
Kivlin
Quintin
Lead Christian Scientists Protest School Vaccination Rule
Christian scientists in Lead 5 D rebel against public school vaccination orders. The school board requires vaccination after a reasonable time or removal from attendance and threatens to bring the case to court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christian Scientists of
Lead
5. D
Landslide Damages Mare Island Sea Wall Front
A serious landslide at Mare Island Cal caused 150 feet of the sea wall to slide into the bay. The collapse carried tons of granite cement and earth and loosened another 100 feet of wall. Attributed to heavy rains the break threatens further damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mare Island
Cal
Demand for Higher Wages at Steel and Wire Company
The National Association of Red Mill Workers demands wage increases of 3 to 204 percent and restoration of 1893 levels with a uniform scale. The company operates twelve mills, five in Cleveland. Fatal Fight at Turkey Shoot near Jackson Kentucky leaves Jim Noble and Irvin Fugate dead and Jerry Noble wounded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Association of Red Mill Workers
American Steel and Wire Company
Cleveland
Lost Creek
Jackson
Jim Noble
Irvin Fugate
Jerry Noble
Burned to death by her boy in Chicago home blaze
Minnie Fox died in a Chicago bedroom fire started accidentally by her four year old son Alfred who, holding burning paper, climbed onto the bed where she slept. The child dropped the burning fragment after finger burns, igniting the bed and engulfing the room. The child and husband, an insurance agent, were present as firefighters arrived.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred Fox
46Th Street
Chicago
Minnie Fox
Alfred
Mra. Fox
Death in Flat Building Fire in New York
A five story flat at 754 First Avenue in New York burned catastrophically. Fire belched from the building as workers from United Dressed Beer Company saved several women, with many escaping via fire escapes. On the top floor Loretta Lennert, six months old, died of smoke smothering. Joseph Kelleher, 19, and Tillie Powers, a child, were rescued. Kelleher suffered burns to hands and face.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Avenue
New York
United Dressed Beer Company
Loretta Lennert
Joseph Kelleher
Bell Loy
Tillie Powers
Fine Ice Crop At Peak Across Great Lakes States
Reported harvest of ice from Illinois Indiana Michigan and Wisconsin shows one of the finest yields in years. Thousands of men work for Chicago ice companies as calm weather yields ten to twelve inch thick ice and houses may fill soon. A related Omaha water main break caused $20000 in damage and a Passaic NJ shooting left Ellen Labish dead when Michael Schwartz fired a revolver inside the home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ilinois
Indiana
Michigan
Wisconsin
Chicago
Harney
Sixteenth Streets
Omaha
Ellen Labish
Passaic
N. J
Michael Schwartz
Ben Clover Ends Life At Home In Kansas
Former Congressman Ben Clover, once a third district representative linked to the Farmers' Alliance, dies by his own hand at his home near Douglas in Butler County Kansas following illness and poverty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben Clover
Douglas
Butler County
Kan
Clover
Congress
Farmers’ Alliance Movement
Markets report across U S cities with grain and livestock ranges
Chicago to New York prices show cattle 2.50 to 7.00, hogs 3.00 to 5.00, sheep 2.50 to 4.75, wheat No 2 around 66 to 76 cents, corn 40 to 42 cents, oats 20 to 28 cents, rye 50 to 64 cents. Regional notes include Indianapolis Chicago St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo New York with varied grain and butter egg ranges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Toledo
Milwaukee
New York
New Sugar Beet Factory Planned for North Judson Indiana
The New England Sugar Beet Company plans a $400000 factory at North Judson in Starke County to serve St Louis Cleveland and Chicago markets. Groundbreaking for the 1900 season. 600 tons daily beet intake and 60 to 70 tons sugar output. 200 to 250 workers. 6000 acres guaranteed beet supply with 26 000 acres pledged by farmers. Nelson Morris to build a Lake County beets factory on a 15000 acre farm courting further plantings in the Kankakee swoonpound region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana Ann
New England
St. Louis
Cleveland
Chicago
North Judson
Starke County
Nelson Morris
Chicago Pork
Lake County
Kankakee Swoonpound
Tragic Indiana items stir state notes and local lore
A jumble of short items records multiple deaths including a three year old burned at a bonfire and a 16 year old killed in a coal shaft. Trustees elect a new treasurer at Indiana State Normal School. Other notes cover a 75 year old death, a lifelong post box renter, a West Point merchant's suicide, a sanity finding for Center Point resident Kennedy, a Kokomo funeral scene, and agency reports on the State Soldiers Home and railroad projects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lester Morris
Muncie
John Nevins
Mecca
Indiana State Normal School
W. E. McKean
Ralph Campbell
Milton
William C. Kiser
West Point
Porter
A. Kennedy
Center Point
Kennedy
Brazil
First National Bank
Kokomo
Ilenry L. Smith
Trustees of
State Soldiers’ Home
Mount
Jogonsport, Rochester and Northern Traction Company
Warsaw
Logansport
Kendallville
Rochester
Albion
Winona Lake
Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railway Company
Supreme Court
Federal Supreme Court
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Gribune
Denver
N. M
Pekin
Mr. Brookes
Church Missionary Society
Hing Pin
Shang Tung
Frederick Wesenberg
Johnstown
Findlay
New Territory
Berlin
Aden
German East African Line
Bundesrath
Magicienne
Delagoa Bay
Headland
Ala
Cheek
Thomasville
Thomas Bunton
William Danzy
Danzy
Bunton
Jennie Jones
Rosser
Butler, Ind., Canning Company
Hillyard I. Johnson
San Francisco Chronicle
Johnson
Chicago University
Mr. Rockefeller
Moon Stain
Boy
Chicago Great Western
Galena Junction
United States Circuit Court
Mercantile Trust Company of
Chicago and Grand Trunk Railway Company
J. J. W. Meddaugh
Henry B. Joy
Iowa
Massena
Norfolk
Old Dominion Line
Jamestown
Glenvech
Thambert’s Point
Cabot Island
Knoxville
Pittsburg
McCoy
Maher
Kid" McCoy
Peter Maher
Coney Island, N. Y
Hoosier
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