Fatal Fire Leaves Arlington Apartment Building Destroyed
A Chicago Arlington apartment at 482 Forty first Street burned after a gas explosion in the rear. Most tenants escaped. Fred Marte his wife and infant are missing. Two people injured. total loss estimated at 150000. Gen Gomez received a large ovation at a Lagos La Grande banquet with Maj Morgan praising American help for a stable Cuban government.
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Arlington
Forty- First Street
Chicago
Grand Boulevard
Fhames
Ihe
Fred Marte
Gom
Gomez
Lagos la Grande
Cuba
Maj. Morgan
Gladstone
Coneuer Cuba
Gen. Gomez
New York Armories Opened for Shelter of Homeless Poor
Governor Roosevelt orders the armories of the Eighth Ninth Twelfth One Hundred and Sixty Ninth and Seventy first regiments opened to shelter homeless New Yorkers amid cries for aid. He acknowledges possible legal questions but expects legislative support. A Vineyard Haven report notes the schooner Emma wrecked in Muskeget channel with crew rescued from the tug Winslow. another schooner Eric feared lost with all aboard after collision and drifting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
Roosevelt
Vineyard Haven
Mass
Winslow
Hunter
Emma
Muskeget
Eric
Wrecked steamship William Lawrence feared total loss
The steamer William Lawrence of the Merchants and Niners line, sailing between Baltimore and Savannah, lies wrecked off Port Royal South Carolina. The crew abandoned in four boats. one boat reached Port Royal, while three others with Capt. Willis, the first and second officers, engineers, and crew are unaccounted for. The ship left Baltimore with a full cargo and no passengers.
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William Lawrence
Merchants
Niners’ Line
Baltimore
Savannah
Port Royal
8. C
Willis
Murder Mystery in Cleveland Police Probe Death
A mutilated body found in Cleveland at the Hunt stamp factory, Jacob Gerbrand an engineer, murdered by a stab through the heart. A woman’s fascinator lies on the floor. police note no robbery motive and the killer fled through a broken window.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Ohio
Jacob Gerbrand
Hunt Stamp Factory
Gerbrand
Fall of Iloilo After Bombardment by U S Troops
Dispatches say United States forces under Gen Miller captured Iloilo after a bombardment. Rebels set the town on fire before evacuating. American troops extinguished the flames with no American casualties reported.
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Hloilo Hay Follen
Mavile
United States
Miller
Mloilo
Fires and Losses Hit Cities Across the Northeast
Reports detail multiple fires and explosions causing heavy damage. Atlas oil refinery blast in Buffalo losses around 25000. New York bag factory fire cited 60000 to 1000000 in damage. Philadelphia firms in a five story blaze suffer 20000, 15000, and 10000 losses. Additionally Andrew Carnegie offers 100000 for a free Atlanta library and Brown University heads toward new leadership in Providence.
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Forestport
N. Y
Andrew Carnegie
Atlanta
Atlas
Buffalo
Theodore A. Havemeyer, Jr
New York
Goff
James Monroe Taylor
Vassar College
Brown University
Providence
R. I
Ethan Allen
Walter & Bell
Delaware and Hudson
Sweeney’s
Saratoga Company
Schaeffer
Saratoga
James V. Snyder
United States Varnish Company
New Jersey
John Williams
D. D
Middletown
Conn
Grip
Protestant Episcopal Church
Connecticut
House of Bishops
Episcopal Church In
America
New Street
Philadelphia
Technic Electric Company
Hancher Manufacturing Company
American Pearl Button Company
Maxcy
A. L
Widespread Fires and Fatalities Mark Turbulent Year
A flood of reports details fires in Grall Brothers store Delaware Ohio destruction and $10000 loss, a Massillon shooting that killed Valentine Eckert, and a snowslide in Silver Plume with twenty four fatalities. Other items include a Pleasant Mills Indiana blaze, a $20000 Akron home fire, and a hospital blaze that burned seventeen women. Additional notes cover strikes by Choctaw miners, a Akron widow of Edwin Stanton, a Denver death by self inflicted wound, a Shawnee frozen death, a divorce suit for Genevra Johnstone Bishop, cereal company merger talks in Akron, and multiple factory fires in Mansfield and St Louis suburbs.
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Grall Brothers
Delaware
Ohio
Massillon
Joseph Ford
Valentine Eckert
Silver Plume
Goodrich
Iown
Milwaukee
Lake Michigan
Pleasant Mills
Ind
Hospital For the Insane
Yankton
Youngstown
Qobbie
Patrick Moore
Scott
Choctaw Coal Company
Indian Territory
Pamphilia Wolcott
Akron
C. P. Wolcott
Edwin M. Stanton
Lincoln
Denver
Ilenry P. Rhodes
United States District Attorney
Dick" Dibbs
Shawnee
Kan
Genevra Johnstone-Bishop
Marion
Bishop
Chicago
American Cereal Company
New Cereal Food Trust
American
Baxter Stove Works
Mansfield
Webster Grove
St. Louis
Allen
Strauss
Bredel & Conkling
F. W. Warrington
Lonnie
Hoopeston
Ill
Hoopeston Grain and Coal Company
National Steel Company
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Jorney City
Multiple Disasters and Fatalities Reach Across States
Reports from West Virginia, Kentucky, Texas, and Tennessee describe a knife duel ending in William Dunn's death, a $75,000 Dallas office building fire with about one hundred tenants, drowning deaths of Mrs. Mary Williams and family during a Clinch river flood, a Kentucky governor's mansion fire with partial saves, a deadly spinal meningitis outbreak in Morgantown, a Tennessee river steamer wreck and fire near Johnsonville, and the loss of life among roustabouts.
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Rippon
W. Va
William Dunn
George Ashby
Ashby
Dunn
Scollard
Dallas
Texas
Mary Williams
Harvey
Clinch River
Kentucky
Clinch
Frankfort
Douglass Jones
Tennessee River
Johnsonville
Tenn
Public sheriff sale of The People's Railway of St Louis
The Fourth Street cable line in St Louis, under receiver for two years, was sold at public auction. Third mortgage holders bid $500,000 to secure the property for reorganization. (Other items include a homicide in Toledo and a teen tragedy in Oxford, Ohio.)
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Federal Steel Company
People’s Railway
Fourth Street Cable
St. Louis
Third Mortgage
Charles Schultz
Toledo
Henry P. Rhodes
Denver
Colo
Olga Lavrenius
Rhodes
Farmers’ Party
Avon, Nl
Greenbush Town Hall
Farmers’ Union
W. H. Burke
Farmers’ Voice
Municipal Voters’ League
Lucy Corbin
Oxford
Ohio
Four Mile Creek
Washington News Briefs: Retirements Marriages and Hearings
Brig. Gen. John H. Patterson is placed on the retired list. Senator W. N. Roach and Mrs. V. B. Pollock wed quietly in Washington. The President urged Congress to act on a Pacific cable project. McKinley orders a court of inquiry into Maj. Gen. Miles’s embalmed beef charges. The Naval Affairs Committee backs twelve new warships. War Secretary reports total organized force 101,536 and 8,900,825 unorganized or available. Alger directs a contract for an 18 inch gun. Ordnance officers oppose it. The President promulgates Gen. Charles P. Eagan’s sentence. court martial dismissal reduced to six years suspension from duty. Permanent retirement follows in January 1905.
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John H. Patterson
W. N. Roach
North Dakota
Mra
V. B. Pollock
Washington, D. C
S’riday
Congress
Pacific Ocean
MclXinley
Miles
Naval Affairs Committee
House of Representatives
Secretary of War
Alger
Louis Gathmann
Chicago
Charles P. Eagan
Eagan
Spanish Government Drops Plan To Sell Caroline Islands
The Spanish government decides not to sell the Caroline Islands. General Cantellano reports Cuba evacuation by the Spanish army is complete. William Laird of Laird Bros dies in Birkenhead. American forces attack Caloocan in the Philippines and take it quickly. Taimaica election troubles fade as the British fleet disperses. A Chinese delegation incident in Paris ends with Lien Young shooting the secretary and then killing himself. Havana Times correspondent notes Gen. Maxime Gomes.
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Caroline Islands
Cantellanoa
Cuba
William Laird
Clampus
Laird Bros
Birkenhead
England
Caloocan
Philippines
Tamaica
Paris
Legation
Lien Young
Havana
London Times
Anys
Maxime Gomes
Consolidation and wage boosts mark era of industrial deals
The report notes a Boston based consolidation of Royalty shoe machinery interests into a New Jersey corporation with a 25 million capital. Amalgamation talks target major U S woolen manufacturers with at least 60 million in represented capital. John W Gates confirms a March 7 wage increase for 36,000 American Steel and Wire workers totaling 750 thousand to 1 million dollars yearly.
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Boston
New Jersey
United States
John W. Gates
American Steel and Wire Company
Gates
Royal Artillery
Citadel
Halifax
N. 8
D. W. Glenn
Washington
Klondike
Lieut
Castner
United States Army
Weare
Tanana River
Bradstreet
Senate Passes Right of Way Bill for Choctaw Railroad
In the Senate on Tuesday a bill granting a right of way through Indian Territory to the Choctaw Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad Company was passed. The session featured extensive debate on public building bills, appropriations, and constitutional reforms with several measures advancing or halted before adjournment.
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Senate
Tuesaday
Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad Company
Spooner
Wisconsin
Quarles
Tillman
South Carolina
McEnery
Newport News
Corlisa
Michigan
Congress
Cannon
House
United States
Spain
McDowell
Grosvenor
Payne
New York
Cuban assembly referenced in 3,000,000 pay-off offer to Cuban army
Reports state the Cuban assembly at Marianao agreed to the U.S. offer of 3 million dollars to pay off the Cuban army in exchange for disbandment. A Cayenne dispatch notes Dreyfus is healthy but refuses to answer cessation questions due to alleged transmission errors.
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Marianao
Cayenne
French Guiana
Dreyfus
Devil's Island
Paris
Alexander McDonald
Daweon City
Alaska
Margaret Chisholm
Brixton
England
Timur Peninsula
Siberia
Komo
Pit
Yeniseisk
A. Andree
Markets Report Across Cities with Mixed Commodity Prices
Across Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo and New York cattle hogs sheep and grain prices vary widely. Notable ranges include Chicago cattle 3.00 to 6.25 and wheat around 72 to 73 cents while New York lists No 2 red wheat at 83 to 85 cents and butter 16 to 28 cents.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Toledo
Milwaukee
New York
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Seeese
N. M
Pita
Santiago
Dos Caminos
San Luis Poste
Willions
Dullara
Manonte Temple
Fort Wayne
the King Dramatic Company
Western
Southern
Ie Isen
Warren
Wyo
Committee On
Dockery
Missouri
Appropriations Committee
Dee Armond
Gillett
Massachusetts
Lentz
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