Waiting in Fear as Ice Gorge Rises in Chippewa Falls
Chippewa Falls Wis Dec 2 Yesterday brought panic and anxiety as residents faced a rising ice gorge on the Chippewa River. Homes moved to higher ground while most people waited in schools and vacant buildings. The gorge grew over five miles long with walls thirty to fifty feet high, threatening the courthouse as floods spread downstream toward Eau Claire and Durand reports.
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Chippewa Falls
Wis
River Street
Chippewa Lumber and Boom Company
Court House
Little Falls
Durand
Eau Claire
Badger Mills
Chippewa Falls Flood Forces Businesses to Empty Streets
The Chippewa River flood drives mass evacuations with Spring and Bridge street stores emptied by six last night as water overtops the post office and commercial buildings. Reports from Flambeau farm describe an ice gorge and widespread inundation. Authorities attempted dynamite blasts to carve a channel, but the river remains swollen with the worst feared yet to come.
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Chippewa Falls
Spring Street
Bridge Street
Center Street
McCalm
Heller & Jacobs
Jenkins Bros
Be, Posnansky
Wirenberg Bros
Goddard & Wilson
Good Luck Drug Company
Mitchell Restaurant
The
Herald
Independent
Chippewa Run
Flambeau Farm
Lindley
Senate split over Dingley tariff bill faces new opposition
Washington December news reports Senator Cannon of Utah, a Republican who joined Democrats to defeat the Dingley tariff last session, now argues that some interests favored its immediate enactment are opposed. He warns wool growers would suffer, delaying a tariff revision. Senator Hale hopes the bill passes next session, while Populist Senator Peffer dismisses talk of an international monetary commission.
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Cannons
Pater
Washington
Cannon
Utah
St. Louis
Hale
Senate
Treasury
Cleveland
Peffer
Chandler
International Monetary Commission
Hanna Visits Major McKinley Before Washington
Hon M A Hanna and his wife visited Canton to confer with Major McKinley before Hanna heads to Washington for the inauguration. He plans to meet Senator Sherman, fueling cabinet speculation and possible state secretary appointment. Elden G Dewitt of Chicago Marquette club called on McKinley with a cordial visit.
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Cleveland
M. A
Hanna
Canton
McKinley
Washington
Sherman
Allan T. Brinsmade
Senate
Elden G. Dewitt
Marquette Club of
Chicago
Major McKinley
Cullom
H. H. Kohlsaat
Public Debt Again Increases Across Nation
Washington reports Nov 30 public debt at $995,769,159, up $8,270,208 for the month as cash on hand declines. Interest bearing debt totals $847,864,520, noninterest $872,170,117, and debt on which interest ceased $1,591,620. Treasury cash sums to $885,961,529 with demandabilities of $610,604,481 leaving a cash balance of $225,357,098.
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Washington
Well-known horseman dies after threats and suicide
George H. Wilson, a famed horseman from Marcel, drove to Parker School where his daughter teaches, handed over his horse, and shot himself. His wife obtained a divorce last spring over his drinking, and he had threatened to kill her relatives and himself.
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Decatur, Ms
George H. Wilson
Marcel
Parker School
Wilson
National Democrats to Meet in Indianapolis December 10
William D By num, chairman of the executive committee of the National Democratic party, returns from talks with party leaders and says a meeting of the executive committee will be held in Indianapolis on December 10 to decide the party's future course.
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Indianapolis
Willam D. Bynum
National” Democratic Committee
Pottery Combine Dissolves in New Jersey
Yronton New Jersey December 2 The American Sanitary association of fourteen potteries making sanitary ware met here yesterday and voted to dissolve. The group formed last March to maintain uniform prices and discounts but cited excessive outside competition as the reason for ending the alliance.
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Yronton
N. J
American Sanitary Association
United States
Paralyzed Lawyer Stricken in Supreme Court Argument
Popeka Dec. 2 Thomas Prenton a well known lawyer of Leavenworth Kansas was stricken with paralysis while making an argument in the supreme court here His entire left side was paralyzed but it is thought he will recover.
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Popeka
Thomas Prenton
Leavenworth
Ixas
Supreme Court
Everhardt Knocks Out Ernst In New Orleans Fight
Albany report says Jack Everhardt of New Orleans defeated Billy Ernst of Brooklyn by knockout in the twentieth round of a scheduled twenty in a Clovefighting bout last night.
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Albany
Jack Everhardt
New Orleans
Billy Ernst
Brooklyn
Central West business clubs call national convention on currency
Fifty-two men from sixteen central west cities met at the Century club in Indianapolis to plan a national convention for January 6 1897. They aim to secure congressional support for currency reform, calling the current system unsafe and urging a sound elastic currency backed by gold silver or paper. The plan allocates 1 314 delegates from 83 states and cities by population.
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Indianapolis
Central West
Century Club
Denison
Congress
Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce
Kr. E. Ingalls
Herman Goepper
W. Cooper Procter
Chicago Board of Trade
W. I
Charles H. Lindenberg
Grand Rapids Board of Trade
N. A. Fletcher
Wi. A. Anderson
Indianapolis Board of Trade
H. H. Hanna
EL. B. Martindale
George G. Tanner
Commercial Club
John T. Brush
Louis Holweg
Herman I.ieber
Louisville Board of Trade
Augustus BE. Wilson
Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce
F. H. Madgeburg
H. L. Palmer
Minneapolis Board of Trade
T. B. Walker
Jos. WU. Barnes
St. Louis Merchants’ Exchange
Board of Trade
Speeches by Miller and Wilson Launch Currency Reform Move
Ex Attorney General Miller and John R. Wilson address a gathering that forms a permanent organization led by ex Governor Stanard of Missouri as chairman and Smith of Indianapolis board of trade as secretary. They urge state driven currency reform, outline a national commission, and set a January 5 1897 Indianapolis convention with an executive committee from major commercial bodies.
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Stanard
Missouri
Smith
Indianapolis Board of Trade
W. H. H. Miller
United States
John R. Wilson
National’ Democratic Party
Wilson
Congress
Smalley
St. Paul
Chicago
P. B. Weare
Grand Rapids
W. H. Anderson
Indianapolis
Call for Lumbermen to Meet in Cincinnati December 15
Chicago December 2 1894 publishers urge a national convention of the lumber industry at the Grand hotel Cincinnati Ohio on December 15 inviting all lumbermen organizations and individual members to send delegates and participate in deliberations and actions of the convention to protect the trade from tariff impacts.
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Chicago
United States
W. B. Judson
Northwestern Lumberman
J. E. Defebaugh
the Timberman
Grand Hotel
Cincinnati
Airship Liar Abroad and Court Moves
A San Jose report describes John A. Heron claiming an electric platinum speaking apparatus airship trip from San Francisco to near Honolulu and back in two days with no fuel or steam. In Yreka Judge Thayer joins G Foster for Santa Fe receivership hearing, rearguing jurisdiction and remand questions. Indianapolis glass makers' convention ends with plans to restart furnaces Direct 14 and reorganize two associations, maintaining stock prices and scheduling a follow up meeting.
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San Jose
Cal
John A. Heron
Heron
San Francisco
Honolulu
Yopeka
Thayer
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
St. Louis
G. ©. Foster
Santa Fe
Fudge Poster
Lawus
District Court of
Jefferson County
Indianapolis
United States
Armenian distress sale postponed after sparse turnout
Chauncey M. Depew voiced astonishment at the low public interest in Armenian relief. He visited Hoyt's theater for a December 10 charity box sale and found only thirteen attendees, most of them Armenian, leading to the decision to postpone the event.
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New York
Chauncey MM. Depow
Hoyt's
Julius Berry shoots himself in Boone clothing firm incident
Julius Berry, manager of the Colin Hoffman Clothing company in Boone Iowa, attempted suicide by shooting himself in the right ear yesterday morning. The bullet went downward and he remains alive though risk to life persists. He was despondent over business troubles but not financially ruined.
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Boone, Ia
Julius Berry
Colin-Hoffman Clothing Company
Berry
Widow, Car Repairer Killed by Switch Engine
Cairo Ill Dec 2 Joseph Edmins a car repairer for Illinois Central at Ulin was struck and killed by a switch engine He was 38 and had just married on Thanksgiving Eve to Mrs Dora Stoddard in a brief wedding report from Ulin Illinois Central yard tragedy with a young widower future at the end of a life cut short
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Cairo, Ills
Joseph Edmineni
Illinois Central
Uilin
Ulin
Dora Stoddard
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M’kinley
Senator Sherman
Morseman
National” Democrats
Word Counsel
Everhardt
Ernst
Comercial Club
D. P. Erwin
Board’ of Trade
Hugh Hanna
Millwaukee
Madgeburg
C. Stanard
George C. Tanner
Ivour
Hodies
Miller
Searline
Ruth
Worden
Rey
Freeport Light & Fuel Co
N. Goldsmith’s Sons
Stephenson Street
Freeport
Illinois
Ill
James A. Egleston
Consult
Warren D. Scott
West
Scott
Dr. Scott
Star Clothing Store
Stephenson St
Lizzards
Dowagiac
Mich
Bee
Ourluminum
Cooke and
Ranges
Agkett & Philhower
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