Census Plans and Costs Stir Public Debate Across States
The article surveys a forthcoming national census and costs. It reports government projections, staffing needs including supervisors clerks and officers, and estimates a per capita expense of about 14 dollars for the population inquiry. It notes legislative concerns over methods and timelines and describes regional employer resumption in industry as context.
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United States
Direstor
Warsess
Barber
Tragedy at North Collinwood School Fire Kills Many
A devastating fire at a North Collinwood Ohio public school killed between 160 and 170 children aged 6 to 15. Inward opening doors and a single rear exit trapped panicked pupils as flames from a furnace surged upward. Teachers guided students into a fire drill formation but could not reach the front exit.
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North Collinwood
Cleveland
Ohio
John J. Morgan
Columbus
Collinwood
Dat
State House
Mayor Bond
Columibus
Fire evacuates Central High School in Grand Rapids
Fire broke out in the laboratory at Central High School in Grand Rapids Michigan. Students were marched out in perfect order as the building was emptied in two minutes with one likely casualty avoided.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
Cleveland
Central High School
Lue Jamie
Erio
Naky Qaimitca
Bank Robbery at Mount Crab Bank in Ohio
Four or five attackers blew the Mount Crab Bank with nitroglycerin near Mount Crab Ohio, taking 3000 in currency and securities. The blast woke guests at the Brown Hotel across the street. The robbers fled toward Fayetteville in a buggy after entering by a rear window.
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Mount Crab
Ohio
Cincinnati
Norfolk & Western Railroad
Quire
Brown Hotel
Fayetteville
Boys' Home Dormitory Burns at Clarenceville
The D'Arcambal Home for Boys in Clarenceville near Detroit caught fire Thursday night. All thirty six boys were evacuated safely. Superintendent Lane leaped from an upper window but sustained no serious injuries.
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D'Arcambal Home
Clarenceville
Detroit
Mich
Lane
General Herman Lieb Dies at 11, Chicago Figure
General Herman Lieb, brigadier general in the Civil War and a leading German citizen of Chicago, died on Thursday.
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Herman Lieb
Chicago
Historic theater disasters and fires cited in 1900s records
The column lists major theater and public disaster losses: Rhodes opera house at Boverstown with over 200 dead. 1907 San Francisco quake and fire with about 3000 casualties. General Slocum steamer tragedy. Chicago, Windsor and other theaters naming hundreds dead. Paris charity bazaar and Cincinnati Opera House deaths. Vienna Ring theater blaze. 1900s London fire with thousands dead. Christening court acquittals and sanity rulings follow, plus 400 streetcars burned in New York, with $1 million loss.
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Rhodes Opera
Boverstown
San Francisco
General Slocum
East River
New York
Chicaro
Windsor Hotel
Wott
Paris
Mi7
Wil
Richmond
London
Cheltenham Football Player Dies From Injury
William Artemus aged 21 of Cheltenham near Philadelphia died in a hospital from a broken back suffered during a Thanksgiving Day football game.
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William Artemus
Cheltenham
Philadelphia
Senate Debates Indian Tribes and Army Plans Amid Turmoil
Senators including Owen and Cartiv spar over tribal designations while the Senate moves the Ways and Means panel and rebuffs an army pay rise. The Indian appropriation bill passes. post office and currency debates follow with mixed success. Anarchist attack on Chief Shippy ends with the assailant killed and the chief wounded, his son dead from injuries.
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Senate
Qwen
Oklahoma
Cartiv
Kansas
Owen
Simuator McCreary
Kentucky
Reed Smoot
Uith
Pocam
Foster
Illnois
McCumber
North Dakota
Newlands
Nevada
Tillman
Kign
Lloyd
Missouri
Ife
Wanger
Pennsylvania
Trepburn
Aldrich
Hopkins
Post Office
Tur
Sims
Tennessee
Chicago Chief of Police Attacked in Home Tragedy
An assailant shot at Chicago police chief George M. Shippy beside his home early Monday. Shippy and his son Tharry were wounded, the latter fatally, and driver James Foley was injured. The attacker was killed by the chief. Eyewitnesses included Mrs. Shippy and Georgia, the chief’s daughter. The assailant was described as an anarchist before his death.
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Slippy
Shippy
Foley
Harry Shippy
Would
Chicago
Potles
George M. Shippy
Tharry
James Foley
Georgia
Lhief
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