Fires Destroy Multiple Factories and Ships
In scattered incidents, the GravamSchmitt furniture factory fire in Baltimore caused $25,000 loss, injuring Captain William Dunn. Eagle Lye works and Deorme Quentin soap plant burned in Mitwackis with about $106,000 damage. A Newark Bay building at Union Oil suffered a tank explosion. damages around $30,000. The steamship America reported rescuing the Norwegian bark Yugre’s crew after a gale, with five volunteers aiding in rough seas. A New Orleans incident ends in the execution of William Flutas after barricading his home. Yale prizes awarded for Sophomore Composition, while gasoline tank explosion injures Bradley Childs in South Framingham. Monongahela coal strike expands. Weavers’ protests grow in Woonsocket. Industrial disruptions ripple through several towns on this December 23 report.
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Eagle Lye
De'orme & Quentin
Newavik
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America
Bremen
Frammnaton
Mass
Bradley Childs
Odd Fellows’ Block
Celler
Childs
DAKOTA TROUBLES AND MISCELLANEOUS DESPATCHES
A Roberts County sheriff asks Governor Pierce for help to stop an armed mob threatening Travers and property. Separate dispatches report an accidental shooting near Waxahachie, Texas, a Montreal priest confession case denied as misconduct, a South American Trade Commission visit to New Orleans, and various local incidents including elopement, a murder attempt, and labor strike talks.
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Travers
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Goodwin
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Congressional Dead-Lock Delays Naval Bill Action
Washington December 23 The Senate in a listless session took up private calendar bills then, after a brief delay, considered a substitute for the House Naval Appropriation bill and prepared to vote. Executive confirmations followed before adjournment. Pending: disclosures on the Loreseville election killing case in Iberia parish and looming reshuffles in post office leadership with Lyman resigning to join Bell Telephone and Thompson poised to replace him. Separate items note the Court of Claims examining Choctaw claims around 5 million dollars and a new rags import circular restricting shipments until disinfection. The week also reports an Baltimore and Ohio rail crash near Breve with dining car fire and injuries totaling about 16,000 in losses, plus arson indictments in Rochester and a teacher-linked child death in Nan tleake.
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United State
Court of Alabama Claims
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New England Society Banquet Honors General Sherman
The New England Society of New York marked its seventy-ninth anniversary with a Delmonico banquet for 350. Ex-Lieutenant Governor Woodford presided. General Sherman and other dignitaries were present as toasts honored the country and New England heritage in a period voice ceremony.
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Daniel F. Appleton
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Anarchist Guilty in Inter Allied Association Defense
FOR WCN AFFAIRS reports a convoluted mix of court outcomes and geopolitical moves. Anarchists in Germany faced death sentences or long terms while the International Association's interests draw in German traders and French policy, with tensions over neutralization and a Congo Niger liquor treaty.
Abductor Question Delays Connecticut Requisition Hearing
A December hearing in New Haven before Governor Waller on a requisition in the case of the estate of Connecticut versus Dudley W. Stewart concerned the abduction of six year old Mary Reeves by him in Des Moines Iowa. Waller refused to declare the father an abductor until custody is removed by court order. In Chicago, a probate judge denied admitting Wilbur Storey’s 1881 will to probate and renewed disputes over the Storey estate. Ottawa doctors probe a contagious intestinal disease in Annapolis County. Brooklyn reports the St John Orphans’ Asylum fire ruins and missing children believed housed in private homes. Scranton and nearby William H. Kribs stores tied to a private debt matter are noted.
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