No Public Observance Planned for Gen Lawton in San Francisco
Washington reports no public ceremony for Gen Lawton's remains in San Francisco. The transport Thomas carrying the body is due about the 29th with a funeral train to Washington thereafter, escorted by two cavalry troops. States deny any diplomatic mission by Webster Davis and note his visit is personal, not official.
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Lawton
San Francisco
Shafter
Washington
Gen. Lawton
Thomas
State
Interior Departments
Webster Davis
Interior
Department
United States
South Africa
Cape Town
Stowe
State Department
Nurse Injured by Yawning in Omaha Hospital
A nurse at Presbyterian Hospital in Omaha Nebraska was injured when yawning snapped a neck cord causing head to fall back. She was in pain with numbness and possible spinal involvement. initial fear of a fatal injury was reported by her physician. The item then shifts to Jamaica rejecting Chamberlain’s trade scheme and a Chicago trunk factory fire with $70,000 loss. It ends with Indiana fruit crop damage from warm weather predicting near total failure.
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Dunbar
Presbyterian Hospital
Omaha
Neb
Chicago
Edward Fitzgerald
Wells
Division Streets
Indiana
Costly Repairs on Olympia at Boston Navy Yard
The Board of Naval Construction estimates repairs to the Olympia at half a million dollars. Work will be performed at the Boston Navy Yard and take about a year. Masonic Temple Fort Wayne Indiana February 1 temperance town February 8 midnight in Chinatown
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Olympia
Board of Naval Construction
Hoston Navy Yard
Masonic Temple
Fort Wayne
Ind
Chinatown
Rate of calamities across cities in brief
The item lists multiple incidents: a Philippi bank robbery of 100000 dollars, Italian interfamily killings in New York, a Chester man admitted to alms, fire damages in Baltimore, a government hospital doctor’s death, steel mill workers returning to work in Beaver Falls, fatalities from a freight elevator collapse in New York, a boiler tube explosion on the yacht Caperon, Helen Gould’s donation to a Brooklyn naval YMCA home, New York transit bid approval, Robert Kopp appealing a freemason order, a new brick plant combine in Allegheny County, a miners’ shooting near Wellsboro, missionary work by Francis E Clark, a Delaware Lackawanna tunnel accident near Oxford, a Barnum and Bailey fire in Bridgeport, and Martin Bergen’s familicide-suicide in North Brookfield.
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Philippi
W. Va
New York
Henry Hughes
Chester
Burrows & Co
Baltimore
Abram B. Witmer
Government Hospital For the
Washington, D. C
American Steel and Wire Company
Beaver Falls
125Th Street
St. Nicholas Avenue
Michael McLean
Patrick Leddy
Caperon
Delaware City
Helen Gould
Naval Branch
Young Men’s Christian Association
Brooklyn
N. Y
Manhattan
Robert Kopp
Order of Free Masons
State Grand Lodge
Allegheny County
William J. Thomas
Wellsboro
Barnum & Bailey
Bridgeport
Conn
North Brookfield
Mass
Martin Bergen
Bergen
Western News Roundup Highlights Scattered Incidents
A wide sweep of items reports deaths and bankruptcies in Chicago and St. Paul. fires destroy a Racine Nail plant. a Kansas City rail venture and a Chicago hospital project loom. Robberies, drownings, and a train collision in Washington and Ohio are noted, plus honors, lawsuits, and political moves across the nation.
Kentucky Elects Blackburn to Senate and Other Era News
The Kentucky Legislature formally elected J C Blackburn as United States Senator. Mrs S M J Henry, a 25 year national evangelist of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, has died in Graysville Tennessee from pneumonia. The South Carolina income tax law was repealed amid claims it aided landowners while shifting burden to capitalists and professionals. In New Albany Mississippi a janitor found an infernal machine aimed at a key witness in a major trial, suggesting an assassination plot. A duel in Frankfort Kentucky between Col David G Colson and Lieut Ethelbert Scott ended with Scott dead, Colson wounded, and multiple bystanders injured.
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San Francisco Bay
San Rafael
Gerolamo Olivieri
Andrew Castagnola
S. A. Gibbs
Tacoma
Wash
United States
Washington Red Cedar Shingle Manufacturers’ Association
Sarnia
William Riggs
John A. Burke
Erie Railroad
Milton Tower
Ohio
Woodward Avenue
Detroit
Mutual Storage Company
Valentine Schroeder
Gebhard Paper Company
Schneider & Lieder
Diamond Printing Ink Company
Charles M. Sheldon
Topeka
Kan
Capital
Redwood Walls
Minn
Man Slover
California
Moses Lufkins
Gales Township
William
Duluth
W. H. Cook
Henry Tourriat
Wisconsin
W. A. Avery
Mich
Wright & Davis
Saginaw
Rupp & Kerr
Commercial Bank
Silver Lake
Ind
Fort Worth
Texas
National Live Stock Association
William A. English
Indiana
Spain
Kentucky
J. C
Blackburn
S. M. J. Henry
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Graysville
Tenn
South Carolina
Criminal Court
New Albany
Miss
Capitol Hotel
Frankfort
David G. Colson
Ethelbert Scott
Scott
Colson
Alain
Feud Sparks Duel After Spain War Fry and Scott
The fragment describes a feud between Golson and Lieut Scott that began during the Spanish American War. A collision led Golson to suffer a fractured leg as Scott fell lifeless down a hotel stairway, precipitating the duel.
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Lieut
Scott
Hote
Golson
Spain
General Wheeler Resigns and Returns to Congress
General Joe Wheeler resigns from the army and sails from Manila to resume duties in Congress. News items report West Kootenai mining petitions, Yaqui battles near Nogales, and a growing American bridge company consolidation plan with $32 million capital.
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Joe Wheeler
Manila
Congress
Skaguay
Danube
White Pass
Yukon
Dawson
Mary Emma Woolley
Wellesley College
Mount Holyoke College
American Bridge Company
Nogales
Mexico
United States
Macrum
Kruger
Transvaal
McKinley
Great Britain
Leishman
Berne
Switzerland
State Department
Growers and Shippers’ National Protective Union
Kansas City
Eost
Topeka
Fred H. Clayson
Skagway
Olsen
Minto
British Columbia
West Kootenai
St. Johns
N. F
St. Mary's Bay
Elgoland
Geestermunde
Helgoland
R. G. Dun
Review of Trade
New York
Canada
Market Reports Chicago to New York Grain and Livestock Prices
Regional price ranges for cattle hogs sheep and cereals across major markets including Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Milwaukee Buffalo and New York. Data cover wheat corn oats rye butter eggs potatoes and pork values with bid intervals and quality descriptors.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Milwaukee
New York
Senate and House action on tariffs finances and foreign policy
The Senate forwarded a petition against lynching, debated the gold standard schedule for Feb. 15, and passed a census extension bill. The House approved $150,000 for rural free delivery, defended pension spending of $145.2 million, and extended Missouri river bridge work at St Charles. Lawmaking touched on Philippines policy, polygamy inquiry, and international water boundary talks.
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Senate
Custom
Illinois
Pettigrew
Hoar
Peace Commission
Mclaurin
House
Gage
Richardson
Tennessee
Hopkins
Haile
Barney
Wis
Committee of Appropriations
Wellington
Philippines
Teller
Ross
Ins
Hale
Great Britain
Allen
Transvaal
Morgan
Commissioner of Pensions
Curtis
Rep
Kan
Lentz
Norton
Ohio
Hobinson
Indiana
Missouri River
St. Charles
League Island
Mare Island
Roberts
Danford
War Department
St. Mary’s Rapids
Lake Superior
Reitchard
N. C
South
North Carolina
Turner
Wash
Beveridge
Pratt
New York
United States
Canada
Rawlins
National City Bank of New York
New York Custom House
Appropriations and
Military Affaira
Rock Island
Springfield
Scattered Local Briefs Highlight Losses and Findings
Hrief News Stema in Hallowell Maine reports a fire claim of five thousand dollars. Cuban coal beds discovered. W W Gage relative of Secretary Gage dies in Toledo. Produce Trust Company of New York resumes operations. C L Lacey from Indiana found deficient in exam at West Feins and discharged.
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Hrief News Stema
Hallowell
Cuba
W. W. Gage
Gage
Toledo
Ohio
Produce Trust Company
New York
C. L. Lacey
Indiana
West Feins
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Stanton
T. H. Stanton
Gen. Stanton
John Brown
Lane
Kansas
Department of the Platte
Vineyard Haven
Glasgow
Ardandho
Dundas
New London
Britain
Jamaica
Joseph Chamberlain
America
England
Western
C. L. Diven
D. D
Unity Church
St. Paul
Missouri Electric Road
Lockport
Lake Michigan
Mississippi River
Racine
Racine Nail and ‘Tack Company
Olathe
P. F. Ryan
Louis Charles Dougherty
Edward Elma
William Kaiser
Leadville
Colo
Galeb
Jerry Ryan
Fort Bayard
N. M
Surgeon General of the Army
General Hospital
Sb. B. Clark & Co
Mather Street
Michael Smith
Hillyard
Bank of Hiietsville
Susan G. Tevis
Lloyd Tevis
Southern
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