Fires and robberies headlined across towns and states
A digest of recent fires and crimes: Columbusville oilcloth plant loss $50,000 with one fireman killed. Nashua rail yard fire and rolling mill loss $50,000 insured for $25,000. Penn Yan fire razes fifty houses. Buffalo Erie freight house safe robbery with several thousand held. Columbia Ky bank robbery leaves $70,000 taken. multiple murders and assaults across Arkansas, Texas, Indiana and Massachusetts. widespread damage from fires in Wareham and Hudson with substantial losses.
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Columbusville
Long Island
New York
Worcester and Nashua
Nashua
N.H
Nashua Iron and Steel Company
Penn Yan
Elmira
Canandaigua
Erie Freight House
Buffalo
N. Y
William G. Case
Columbus
Two Texas Men Die in Indian Hostilities and Fire
Osborne and Clarke of Texas were found one mile north of Mint Valley shot in the head and breast. J Gallagher was fatally wounded by Indians at Beaver Creek. The Marvin House and four large stables at Sedalia Missouri burned yesterday with losses from fifteen thousand to twenty thousand dollars.
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Chicago
Gregori Peri
Daniel O'Brien
Michael Ready
Omaha
Labonti Creek
Fort Laramie
Delphos
Schenck & Lang
U. C. Reid & Co
John Clement
Warren
Chapin Hall House
Hudson
Wis
Connolly
Cleveland
Standard Oil Company
Meridian Street National Bank
Indianapolis
Ind
Cincinnati
Western Union Telegraph
George Wright
Lizzie Gardner
Detroit
Mich
Leland Iron
Leland
Grand Traverse
Grand Rapids
Osborne, Clarke
Texas
Mint Valley
J. Gallagher
Beaver Creek
Marvin
Sedalia
Baptist Church
Watertown
Mass
Dubuque
Iowa
Savanna
Marquette County
Marquette
General Strother
Morse
Insurrection in Spain and global unrest report
Conflict in Spain at Tandela Na varre ends with 300 killed or wounded. Ginton the Communist sentenced to death shot in Satory France. Mexican revolutionists plan to besiege Matamoros. Carlist movements, Bayonne reports, and British royal events feature in a wide string of conflicts and disasters across Europe and beyond.
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Navarre
Ginton
Satory
France
Matamoros
Paris
Bayonne
Vera
Bidassoa
Don Carlos
Prince of Wales
Crystal Palace
London
Empress Augusta
Zanzibar
Pisratch
Roda
Germany
Windsor Castle
Queen Victoria
Brooks
Constantinople
Smyrna
Syria
RIEY
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Livingstone
Zanzivar
Biscay
Areta
Bilboa
London Times
Canada
Congress Proceedings Chronicle Tea Tax Repeal Debates
Senate on April 30 passed the House tea and coffee duties repeal with ten votes against. An amendment delaying effect to July 1 and providing tax rebates on bonded goods was adopted, returning the bill to the House. Adjourned in the House after debates on tree planting and other measures.
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House
Maynard
Committee of Ways and Means
United States
Secretary of the Treasury
Hay
Illinoia
Coburn
Cox
Washington
Ioho Territori
Stockton
Committee On Indian Affairs
United States Circuit Court For
Indiana
Kansas
Brazil
Ferry
Windom
South Carolina
District of Columbia
Chandler
Kellogg
Post Office
Pacific Mail Steamship Line
Committee On Elections
Texas
Giddings
Clark
Committee On Ways and Means
Farner P De Smet Returns to St Louis After Long Europe Sojourn
Farner P. De Smet, famed apostle to the St. Louis Indians, has returned to St. Louis after months abroad in Europe. This marks his twenty first ocean voyage and his first trip to America over fifty years ago.
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Farner P. de Smet
St. Louis
Europe
Ocean
America
Davenport tragedy and Canadian railway scheme confronts
A Davenport mother drowns her child and herself in Iowa, while Canadian debate advances a vast Pacific railway plan backed by a £2.5 million subsidy and land grants to a private company, aiming to link Lake Nipissing with the Pacific within ten years.
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Canada Pacific
Lake Nipissing
Lake Huron
Ottawa River
Toronto
Pacific Coast
Great Britain
Lake Superior
Minnesota
Toronto Globe
Duluth
Dominion
Canada
Washington
St. Lawrence Canals
Chicago Tribune
Mrs Avetta Brooks Dies in St Louis From Fat Overload
Mrs Avetta Brooks aged 51 died in St Louis on Monday from an extreme accumulation of fat. She reportedly weighed between 900 and 1000 pounds and fatally fattened to death.
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Avetta Brooks
St. Louis
A New Torpedo Invented for Underwater Strike
An English engineer now in Austrian service has designed a self propelled torpedo with a pneumatic engine and stern mounted explosive. Two sizes exist, the larger 14 feet long with 67 pounds of gun cotton and the smaller 14 feet with 18 pounds of dynamite. Trials near Sheerness showed it could sink a ship at 200 yards, but reliability in aiming remains questioned.
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Sheerness
I Aigle
L' Aigle
Question of Values in a Darke County Liquor Fight
In Darke County Ohio a dispute among two drinking friends led to one man’s death after a scuffle. The widow sues the liquor seller for 10000 dollars while the slain man’s wife seeks 5000 dollars. The total claimed damages amount to 15000 dollars pending Ohio court action.
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Darke County
Ohio
Bodies of Lewiston factory girls recovered after jump
The remains of two factory workers who leapt from the falls at Lewiston Maine last November have been recovered. The bodies were found by search crews near the riverbank and identified by local authorities.
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Lewiston
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