Snowy storms and frost hit multiple states and cities
A chaotic weather week left Los Angeles battered by a severe wind storm that killed two people near Glendale and Norwalk. Snow vanished in Minnesota as farmers feared winter wheat losses, while bitter cold oozed across Nevada and New Mexico. A fog shrouded area near Chesinmalletreces, and a fatal freight incident occurred near Homewood.
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Homewood
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L. D. Hatch
Senyrne
Herth
Fifty-Second Congress opens with record bills
Senate to day set a record with 612 bills and eight joint resolutions introduced in a single day, about 100 more than ever before. Topics include food adulteration, quarantine enforcement, free coinage, Chinese exclusion, Indian education, and various consular and senatorial measures. The House had no session.
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Call
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Gettysburg
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Ohio River
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Bredford
Erie
Committee On Foreign Resolutions
Sonora
Chushus
Coahuila
Supreme Court of the United States
Christopher Columbus
Washington
Naval Monument
Robbers Stop Chicago Mail Wagon in Bold Hold Up
In Chicago five highwaymen surrounded a postal wagon on a main thoroughfare at night and forced mail employees to discard sacks of mail. The cover was snatched while momentarily threatened with death. Sacks were later found on Superior Street three miles away. About $3,000 in currency believed stolen by the gang.
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Uncle Sam
Superior Street
Red Key
Mason City
Moeichert & Dunbar
Richards & Tucker
Farmer's Institute
C. P. Shipley
Moose Jaw
Lorne House
Maynard
Mass
Calvin Whinery
Oakes
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Schmidt Nelson
Treasury Report details 1891 receipts and deficits
Secretary Foster’s annual Treasury report outlines 1891 total receipts and expenditures, noting a fall in receipts versus 1890 and higher ordinary expenditures. It projects upcoming fiscal revenues and outlays, details customs and internal revenue trends, and highlights foreign trade, imports, exports, and immigration figures. It also covers silver and gold movements, bond refunding, and policy recs on customs and ship subsidies.
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Europe
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Centerica
Brazil
Weekly Review of Trada Signals Mixed 1891 Commerce
A broad survey shows holiday business growing with optimism for the future, though cotton regions in the South stay weak. Price movements are modest with grains up and oil higher. exports rise while treasury actions and bank gold flows create mixed sentiment. Two violent deaths: insane husband shoots wife and himself in Mount Olive. Brooklyn murder of Freda Black and her child.
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Bank of England
Treasury
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Flores
Dowinic Etro death linked to prank at Pyne shaft
Pennsylvania notes recount a series of tragic incidents from across the state. A boy forced into a shaft room died after a failed escape, while fires, robberies, illnesses, and accidents afflicted towns from Altoona to Scranton. District attorney actions, a lethal shooting amid a poker game, and other local calamities fill the page.
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James Carson
Riddlesburg
Bedford County
Joseph Overholzer
Spring Trove
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Grace Sheeler
Boyertown
James Price
South Shenango
Count di Montercolo
Virginia Knox
Pittsburg
Philadelphia
Italy
Samuel Thlman
Warren Station
Washington County
Wrecks Reported on Rail Lines Across States
A string of deadly train accidents reported include a Vestibule express wreck near Lima Ohio with multiple casualties and injuries, a Chesapeake and Ohio collision near Alderson West Virginia with several workers killed or injured, and a Chicago Burlington and Quincy crash at Dudley involving seventeen derailed cars and two fatalities. Names of victims and injured span Chicago Cincinnati Philadelphia Grand Rapids and New York among others.
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Ft. W.& Cy
Arden
H.J. Manuel
Cook
Chicago
J. H. Augustus
Wolf
GC. W. George
Cincinnati
H. L. Turner
Philadelphia
W.G. Hamilton
New York
Frank A. Lappen
Grand Rapids
Mich
Joseph H. Plenty
Jersey City
J.S. Runnells
A. Smith
Edward
Frank E. Dono
Mifflintown
George W. Foote
Chesapeake& Ohio Railroad
Alderson
W. Va
Lyons
Burnett
Richmond
Reaum
KE. H. Sims
Carpenter
W. J. Warde
C.L. Lyle
H. L. Mays
J.P. Lear
Dudley
Chicago Burlington and Quincy
Welsh
McGovern
Fragmented foreign news brief covers embezzlement and wars
A Melbourne Building Society officer embezzled 50000. Odessa reports 3000 grip patients. Davitt wounded in Waterford riot. Panpushkey dies in St Petersburg shell test. Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo governors resign. Insurgents in Rio Grande do Sul disband. European deaths from la grippe rise. Russia restricts Lutheran schools and teachers in German schools. London Trade Board reports November trade shifts. German mine explosion at Hennsdorf kills 20. Epizootic hits Arabian horses. London galley recurs. shipping losses rise. Adolf Albert bank fails in Marmitz. Albanian brigands raid seven villages. Russia ships horses west to prevent famine. November trade figures show imports up, exports down. Niska colliery report disputed. Louisville fires destroy multiple firms. losses reach 5000 with 9000 insurance.
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Europe
Russia
London Board of Trade
Niska
Russian
Poland
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Boone Paper Company
Bamberger, Strong & Co
Johan Boeke & Bon
Fires devastate towns and claim several lives
A string of fires across multiple states destroys businesses and homes, with losses ranging from 8,000 to 350,000. Notable blazes hit Mason City Iowa, Moose Jaw Manitoba, Ardmore Indian Territory, and Oakes North Dakota. The outbreaks coincide with a widespread influenza grip affecting New York, Connecticut, Wisconsin and Europe, causing deaths and illness in numerous communities.
Strikes and Labor Tensions Dominate Regional Labor News
Southern Pacific telegraphers strike over handling orders while E P Pugh plans to sue the Augusta Typographical Union for damages alleging obstruction to his livelihood. Pugh, once Chronicle foreman, faced hostility from printers after refusing to quit work. Union access in his area is contested. Sub district No 6 United Mine Workers of Ohio meets at Bridgeport to press coal weighing before screening and to present a 1600-strong, three-union base before the Legislature. Reading Iron Mills resume full operation. Ohio Iron Co Zanesville may hire non union workers as its mill nears start. John Ditlon of the Irish Industrial League tours Obio and Pennsylvania glass plants seeking insights for a Dublin glass plant. he notes Belgian mills but favors American industry.
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Omene Maberes
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Frente
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Pierpoot Morgan
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Bloxt
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Henry Hilbert
W. E. Herman
Berwick Opera House
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Libbie Reizemer
Sherman
David C. Friend
Washington County
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Frank Peddicord
John W. Mack
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George Fisher
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Soas
Ollie Miller
Fairdhance
Harry Wright
Prescotville
Link McClaren
George Baughman
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E. P. Pugh
Augusta Typographical Union
Pugh
Chronicle
Richards & Shaver's
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Belmont
Jefferson
Guernsey
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Reading Iron Co
Reading
Ohio Iron Company
Zanesville
Amalgamated Association
John Ditlon
Irish Industrial League
Objio and
Pensylvania Glass
Dublin
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Richard G Dove dies veteran government employee
Richard G Dove oldest employe in government service, a treasury clerk since 1829 under Jackson, died Friday. Treasury has paid $7,000,000 in pensions this month. influenza hits Berlin and Hamburg. November pension awards total 212,253 with average $124.20. sugar bounties begin. Speaker Crisp names Waterman secretary. Towles of Missouri named chief clerk.
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Crisp
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Thomas C. Towles
Missouri
House of Representatives
Comanche the survivor of Custer massacre dies at 25
The famous War horse Comanche, last survivor of Custer’s 1876 fate, died at Fort Riley age about 25. Tracked by sightseers in later years, he lived under Seventh Cavalry care and was prepared for mounting by Professor Dyche for the World's Fair.
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