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Multistate turmoil and disasters fill March news
The issue compiles wrecks, strikes, crimes and political fallout from February 29 to March 6. Wrecks claim seventeen Vallejo ferry victims. fires hit New York firms Pottier & Stymus and Herter Brothers. a Denver architect shoots a contractor, exonerated on self defense. Strikes ripple Atlantic and Pacific lines. Utah Utes transfer balked. debts shrink. notable deaths include Louisa May Alcott.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Murray
Knights of Labor
Burlington Engineers
Vallejo
Kingsland
Arkansas
Fred A. Hale
Denver
M. F. Riley
Las Animas County Court House
Hale
Taursday
Atlantic and Pacific
Georgia
Utah
M. Wilson
Grevy
Frances
Legion of Honor
Pottier & Stymus
Forty-second Street
Lexington Avenue
New York
Herter Brothers
Senate Committee On
District of Columbia
Prince William
Dingle
United Ireland
National League
Langtry
Chicago
McVicker
John Newton
City of
Coast Survey
Aberdeen
Mississippi
Colorado Springs
Chemical Bank of New York
Law and Order
Kansas City
Rock Island
George Perry
John J. Pendergast
Citizens’ National Bank
Springfield
Illinois
Perry
Law and Order League of
A. Bronson Olcott
John Dove
Claus Spreckels
California
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
J.ongenecker
Erastus J. Jones
Longenecker
Jones
George Grove
Ellen Silar
Trenton
England
August Lang Doyen
Vienna Presse
Robert Garrett
Baltimore & Ohio
Singapore
East Indies
Egypt
Suez Canal
Sweden
Denmark
Germany
Tures Bay
Louisa M. Alcott