Terrors of the tempest rips through towns and skies
A sweeping hurricane from Chicago to New York devastates property and kills a boy near McKeesport. Telegraph lines fall, derricks and buildings collapse, with major damage in Pittsburg area and Virginia. Widespread injuries and several deaths unfold across Maryland Ohio and West Virginia as storms strike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mongar
Prairies
Atlantic
Chicago
New York
Allegheny Mountains
Pittsburg
Winsburg
Louisville
Chicagy
Mississippi Valley
Ohio Valley
Great Lakes
Indiana
Ohio
Alleghenies
Washington
Virginia
West Careun Street
Margaret Peskies
McDonald
Jac
Bailey
Coulterville
McKeesport
Wheeling
W. Va
Fostoria Glass Company
Moundsville
Garner Marriage Company
Gaillare
Baltimore
D. C
Metacrott Music Hall
Iuely
George Waite
Metacrott's
Westington Gas Company
Twe
Frecites
Braddock
Copeland
Carnegie Bist
Bessemer
Carnege
Phipps & Co
Homestead Steel Works
Tenter Avenue
H. Arras
Geoehring
Mu.ray
Wiley
Burglaries blamed on doctors and liveryman in Gardiner
Nov 21 Gardiner 23 miles away reports two leading physicians Dr Boyes and Dr Meddam and a livery stable keeper Briggs suspected in daring burglaries. They tried to blow open Gardiner bank safe. detective infiltrated the gang, shot Meddam, Boyes captured, Briggs escaped. Earlier robberies tied to resident James Bean loss of 1300 dollars. Civil Service exam to hire a Biological Clerk for the Department of Agriculture on Dec 8 at salary 1000 dollars. residents not eligible. Fort Scott KS gun trap kills thief. William MacVein reports intruder mortally wounded after midnight. thief claimed Peoria origin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jolie
Gardiner
Here
Boyes
Meidam
Briggs
Gardiner Bank
Meddam
James Bean
Dellara
Civil Service Commission
Department of Agriculture
Salaly
Fort Boat
Kan
William Mac Vein
Walnut
Peoria
Capital and Labor Doings From Various Forces
Receiver Barner of the American Wheel company plans to reopen the Fort Wayne branch. About 500 workers have been out for six months due to wage split between two cigar making groups. Ohio Iron Co at Zanesville asks workers to return without a signed scale. unionists refuse to work. Around 1,000 coal miners near Washington Indiana strike to back Brazil district issues. Hale & Nilburn Furniture in Philadelphia sees nine hour days demanded. firm to refuse further union workers. Brilliant Iron Works in Brilliant Ohio closes indefinitely. A few Indiana bituminous mines reopen with state union permission. Some operators show willingness to meet miners’ demands. relief fund likely. Monte Carlo reports 15 new unmarked graves of gamblers. Pittsburg job printers strike persists. offices operate with new hires and some workers sent home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barner
American Wheel Company
Fort Warne
Agsin
Luweigar
Bringer Brea & Coif Lancaster
Ohio Iron Company
Zsucsville
Amalgamated Association
Washington
Ind
Brazil
Brilliant Iron Works
Brilliant
Indiana
Monte Carlo
Daniel van Tingling
West Freedom
Clarion County
Monterey
Order of Odd Fellows
Frank Alen
Jacob Smith
Latrobe
Charles King
Butler
W. M. Adams
Clearfield
Millersburg
Catlin
John McKidowney
Brownsville
Wiliam Licht
South Bethelhem
Geissinger
Central District Printing Telegraph Company
Pittsburg
Heynoldsville
Punxsutawney
Jeff County
DuBuis
Clearfielt
Brookville
Jefferson County
New York
Dittsburg
Wn. Byerly
Greensburg
John Riling, Jr
Altoona
D. A. Ostrander
Shamokin
Kruimbarger Lumber Company
Albert Orr
West Neves Times
Lawrence County
Youngwood
H. F. Holtzer
Luss
Anderson W. Gray
Uniontown
Anthony Fretzeki
McKeesport
Rankin Station
Hig Bay
Michael J. Rohrer
Lancaster
Silas M. Clark
State Supreme Court
Ierval
Happenings From Ocean to Ocean Briefed Across News
A sweeping summary notes a Toronto diphtheria outbreak expanding to a pest house. Newark reports seven mad dog bites. Belleville near 200 diphtheria cases with many deaths. National news covers the Republican Committee choosing Minneapolis for the 1904 convention in June, and leadership changes including James S. Clarkson as chairman. Also recounted are shipwrecks, fires, drownings, murders, and various accidents from across the U.S. and abroad, with notable events in Georgia, New York, Illinois, Arkansas, Texas, and beyond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toronto
Health Department
Newark
N.J
Belleville
Republican National Committee
Washington, D. C
Minneapolis
Pennsylvania Notes: Violent deaths and fires sweep towns
A scattered digest reports a murder in Montere y by Mexicans, barn fire at Her Mitage, and multiple losses from fires in Latrobe and New Brighton. Other items note jailbreak attempts near Butler, a fatal bridge accident at Greensburg, an explosion injuring two in Westmoreland, and various killings and accidents across Jefferson, Cambria, Allegheny, and surrounding counties.
End of the Life of the Chief Executive of Indiana
Indianapolis reports Governor Alvin Hovey died at the Executive Mansion after a lung illness while visiting Mexico with friends. Hovey, born September 6, 1821, served as colonel, brigadier general, and major general, led Indiana and Arkansas districts, earned recognition from General Grant, later minister to Peru, congressman, and governor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Ind
Alvin
Hover
Mexico
Alvin Peterson Hovey
Pevey County
Mount Vernon Coumin
Twenty-fourth
Indiana Volunteers
Arkansas
Indiana
Grant
Hovey
Vicksburg
Champion’s Hill
Ans
Peru
Congress
Two Children Burned to Death at Bartram Farmhouse
In Wayne county Kentucky three miles from Louisia Mill Creek farmer David Bartram left his family at church. Two infant children died in a house fire that destroyed a $10,000 residence. The eldest child raced to alert parents but could not save the youngsters. The Bartrams had previously suffered the death of a young son in a mule accident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooks Story
Cade Rush
Alfred Barry
George Hundson
Lexington
Miss
United States
Marshal Ozburn
Bear Creek
Quin
Ala
Young
Francis McCarey
Brooklyn Bridge
George Lerow
G. W. Kenyon
Owaitunna
Minn
Pierre
Edgerton
David Oper
Sylvania
Georgia
Humes
Cooper
Ernest Hickman
St. Louis
Elijah Jett
Decatur
Maggie Wilson
Med Rock
Jane Buchanan
Creighton
Old Homestead
Jamestown
N. Y
Fifth Street
Chicago
William Hite
McKeesport
A. W. van Andas
Electric Sparks’ Company
Boyer
Eed Morrison
Treasury
Livsey
Morrison
John Martin
Johnstown
Charles Simms
Kittanning
Allegheny Valley
Liverpool
Charles Kelley
Dunbar
Joseph Smith
Ligonier Township
Westmoreland County
John Farley
John Smith
Calvin
Alexander Carr
John Crawson
William Weathery
Richard Specht
Frank
Robert Minn
Robert James
Helfenstein
James
Albert Darby
Lloyd Hardisky
Cochran
Layton
David Bartram
Wheeling
W. Va
Louisia
Mill Creek
Wayne County
ANGLE SAMS LITTLE ARMY REPORT SUMMARY PROCTOR
In Secretary Proctor s annual report military reforms push fortifications and batteries for New York Boston San Francisco Hampton Roads and Washington. Ninety eight breech loading steel guns plus 100 more under contract. Mines and seventy three 15 inch mortars under construction. Recruiting shifts to small towns with probation and strict antecedent checks. Rations gain vegetables daily. Enlistment says discharge after three years with option after one year. Courts speed petty offences. compensation for defence. Desertion drops and prison inmates fall over 2 percent. Post concentration and interior transfers. licenses of posts traders revoked. Indian enlistment expanded. officers to colleges up. Rebel records sped up. pension system streamlined. 600 clerks to be discharged or reassigned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Proctor
New York
Boston
San Francisco
Hampton Roads
Washington
Interior Department
The New Apportionment and Electoral Votes Shifts
A historical table explains changes in Electoral votes from the 1538 baseline to the 1892 allocation. It accounts for 20 new votes from Idaho through Wyoming and 23 additional votes redistributed among states such as Alabama, Illinois, Michigan, Nebraska, Texas, and Wisconsin, detailing state by state gains and the total national count.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Idaho
Montana
North Dakota
South Dakota
Washington
Wyoming
Alabama
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Georgia
Illnois
Kansas
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri
Nebraska
New Jersey
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Texas
Wisconsi
States
Isa
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Penns
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Oytote
Tennessee
Pexas
Vermont
Virginia
Washingon
West Virzias
Wisconsin
Fatal Grip of a Bear Trap in Ontario Mystery
Reports detail a British trapper, David Allan, who vanished near Waynetawan and was found dead with both wrists caught in a bear trap. The drowning cold and exposure killed him. two hunters discovered him in a bush copse, face down, in a fatal trapping accident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kingston
Ont
David Allan
Waynetawan
Allen
Allan
Ohio Official Vote Count in Columbus Returns
The final official returns show McKinley receiving 336,739 votes, Campbell 365,228, Ashenhurst 20,190, and Seitz 45,472, giving McKinley a plurality of 21,511. Constitutional amendments fell short with Taxation yes 305,177 no 65,042 and Constitutional Convention yes 99,784 no 161,772, total 796,529 with no majority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Columbus
Hyan
McKinley
Campbell
Ashenhurst
Prohibition
Seitz
People's Party
Mother Charged in Arsenic Poisoning Deaths Four Children
In Louisville, four children of Thomas Austin died under mysterious circumstances after life insurance policies in the mother’s name paid 200 to 500 dollars each. The husband and one remaining child are ill. A physician consulted Dr. D.C. Smith who diagnosed arsenical poisoning as the cause of the father’s illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville
Thomas Austin
D.C. Smith
Four Men Buried Alive by Brooklyn Water Pipe Burst
Four men were buried alive and four others escaped when a Ridge water works conduit burst in Brooklyn on November 23. Workers were extending the conduit when it failed, submerging them. Ambulance and fire units rushed to the trench while the pumping-house engine was shut down. Dead include Hugh Murphy Philip Solon Jos Cozine and Frank Hezune who died amid rescue efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Ridge Water Works
Brooklyn
Sre
Hugh Murphy
Philip Solon
Jos. Cozine
Frank Hezune
A Famine in Mexico Spreads Suffering in Durango
Durango Mex Nov 28 The total failure of corn and bean crops due to drought causes extreme hardship. Corn sells for over a dollar per bushel in parts of the state. The laboring class lacks work and food while the better classes guard scarce supplies. Government measures keep the desperate populace subdued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Durango
Mex
Hucker's Narrow Facade Explodes House in Upshur County
In Clarksburg on November 24 Abraham Rucker stood with his back to a fire when a powder flask in his hip pocket exploded. The blast demolished the house but Rucker remained unharmed and undamaged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hucker
Clarksburg
W. Va
Abraham Rucker
Upshur County
Tucker
Favorable Weather Boosts Late Season Corn Across States
The November crop report from Secretary Rusk shows mixed results. In Pennsylvania, cooler, drier conditions allowed late corn to mature though ear filling varied, with good dry conditions overall. potatoes rot less but some tobacco quality hurt. Ohio reports favorable late corn maturation, near average merchantable yield, and encouraging potato prospects though prices weak. apples falter with fall varieties dropping. West Virginia notes high corn yield per acre from cool dry October, good denting, but grapes damaged by frosts and pears below average due to blight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rusk
West Virginia
Influenza Crisis and Disasters Across Europe and Africa
Influenza spreads in France and Germany with Hamburg counts rising 28 above normal. Hardmeyer and Michaelsen bank collapses fail with 3.75 million dollars in liabilities. Buka natives kill Captain Gravenreuth and three others after three days of fighting. An explosion during a gas lamp spectacle in Akeston church injures two, with two eyes lost and potential death. Swallowing influenza returns to southwestern France with severe cases and Paris reports stung cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Germany
Hamburg
Buka
Cameroon
Africa
Gravenreuth
Akeston
England
Paris
International and Domestic News Briefs From The Era
A compilation notes global events and economic signals: famine in Russia, low Mississippi readings, 23 per ton coal in Venezuela, Brazil tax revolutions, Mussouni owning 6,720,000 corn acres, 74,000 Germans in London, France losing 1,572 inhabitants in 1890, Florina strawberries in market, Connecticut onion crop valued, Portuguese tariff protectionist, 21 railroads centered in Minnesota, Samoa eyeing new war, Matoatia rebel status, Poland potato crop losses at 15,000,000, exodus of Germans from Russia, New England grip growth, Iowa and Illinois boundary dispute, Moopy and Sankey touring Scotland, Nevada cattle prices up 33 percent, Choctaw Legislature expelling colored immigrants, 72,703 Vermon t depositors with over 21 million, InrLornia active abroad in Australia and tropical America.
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England
Mississippi
Russia
Venezuela
Brazil
Mussouni
London
France
Minneapolis
Minn
Samoa
Matoatia
Poland
New England
Connecticut
Iowa
Illinois
Moopy and Sankey
Nevada
Ver Mont
InrLornia
Australia
Tropical
America
Europe
Market prices from Pittsburgh Dairy and Produce yard
Readable sections show buyers and sellers in Pittsburgh area markets with prices for butter creamery, eggs, poultry, game, potatoes, seeds, flour, hay, grapes, honey, cranberries, maple syrup, tallow, walnuts, and livestock. Values listed by item, origin, and weight, with multiple regional entries including Cincinnati and Philadelphia markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Creamery
Elgin
Ohio
New York
Cincinnati
Philadelphia
Butiler—Creamery
State
Penn
Curious in Numbers City of Berlin Facts Featured
The piece notes Berlin has 210 miles of streets and a 1,400,000 population forming a line 750 miles long if in double file. It imagines a German rail of people and a telegraph line to Calcutta, then shifts to crop statistics and a potato preservation method winning a 200 prize.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
France
Germany
Calcutta
India
St. Louis Republic
Faith and virtue in fragments from Ram's Horn
Readings from a Ram's Horn column blend moral maxims on faith, self deception, wealth, and responsibility. It cautions against false worship, overreliance on money, and living beyond means while praising inner strength and prudent conduct in everyday life.
King of Annam under tightened guard after love plot
A young 25 year old king held in Algiers for three years amid a romantic escapade. He lived largely free at Des Pine villa near Algiers, used a bicycle to visit the city, and is now to be moved to Mediah under strict surveillance to prevent a potential escape or return to Annam. The pursuing romance led to the arrest of the woman involved and a formal transfer order next Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annam
Algiers
Mediah
Des Pine
Fidier
Oly
San Francisco
Striped Fashion and Hidden Trades In Minor Scandals
A compact vignette notes quirky fashion and social habits among criminals and professionals. It mentions striped goods still fashionable in crime circles, dentists at ease in drawing rooms, a tailor’s misfit tied to carelessness, and a laundress’ rough handling. It hints at social games and contracted debra washing.
Fragmented Humor Notes and Duel Tale from 19th Century Crane
A collage of old jokes and quips on human folly and manners. Bits include remarks on wives and greed, a joke about a cross eyed man and an umbrella, a mock duel anecdote where a lame man asks to lean against a milepost for a shot, and other snippets showing period humor and social quirks.
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Wednespar
Praries
Intersat
Hale & Nilburn Manufacturing Company
George Keen
Quebec
Richard Sandham
A. BR. Ehlund
Sweden
Peter Blonde
Belgium
Scammel Bros
Middlebury
Paragould
Ark
Bertig Bres
Dr. Hick
Gallamore
J. H. Bryant
M. G. Newsom
H. Goldman
Tosa
Sandard Wire and Iron Works
Mid Ocean
Scanner Bros
St. John, N. B
Bark
Correctionville
Latire
Lamb
G. W. Fletcher & Co
Lass
Syracuse
N.Y
Tex
Teheran
Persia
Myhhia
Lyaff Tolstoi
Rosenthal & Co
Beamsville
Patterson & Wisner Company
Woxistovk, Qont
Massey, Harris Company
Brantford
Dominion
Oliver Roberts’ Mill
Pitts’burg
Wheeling and
Lake Erie
Toledo
R. L. Dangy
C. E. Taylor & Co
Barre
Melbourne
Texas Panhandle
J. A. Ablinger
Arlington
Minot
Washington State Farmers’ Alliance
sub-Treasury
Northern Pacific Express
Horsey
Missouri & Cour
Buffalo
Rochester
Silver Springs
Hoyt
Charles Feisner
Andrew Stohl
Carver
Barkentine Northbend
Port Townsend
Wash
G. H. Stratton
Bellevue Hospital
Pennsylvania Notes
Bradford
Lydia Blair
William Morgan
Governor Hover
Angle Sam
Annual Report
Caledonia
Nicholas Ellens
Houston County
William Blash
Mt. Verna
Bone
Blash
New Castile
Kenton & Frampton
William Duberry
Charles Wilson
Clifton Fenton
J. A. Stafford
Wilson
Stettin
Goshen
Mary Machett
Buchanan
Cable
East Liberty
Pittesbors Stock
Live Stock Report
New York World
M. Bchribaux
Faith
Head
Kevin
A. Lampmann
Debra
Joe
Pate
Bill
Sloper
Shakespeare
Esculapius
Hans
Bas Ely
Cayls
Auguste
Sousia
Sinage
Thesgay
Pat
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