Valencia Wreck Leaves Only 33 Survivors Off Vancouver
Victoria B C Jan 26 The steamship Valencia wrecked five miles off Cape Beale near Vancouver coast with 121 feared dead from 164 on board. Rescue efforts by Salvor Orion and City of Topeka yielded 33 survivors, including two children, with many bodies recovered and others still ashore. Lifeboats capsized. women largely remained aboard as crews search rough surf for more survivors tonight.
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Victoria
B. C
Valencia
Vancouver
Cape Beale
Orlon
Aix
Darling Creek
Topeka
Darling River
Salvor
Ramfield Creek
Orion
Queen
San Francisco
Beegardess Point
Aed Klanewak
Associated Press
Pachena Telegraph Hut
Gulf
Tuchlay
Bunker
Saattle
Greene Trial Hears Bribery Claim Involving Greene and Gaynor
Savannah jury hears a June 1880 bribery allegation by W dR Curtis tied to work by Greene and Gaynor. The court pauses to decide admissibility as government presents documentary evidence, mostly letters between Captain Carter and Greene discussing money making schemes in coal timber railroads and other ventures.
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Savannah
Dan
Carter
Greane
Trent
Gaynor
Royal visit in France as Alfonso tours San Sebastian
King Alfonso with Princess Ena and party travel by automobile from Paris to San Sebastian amid celebrations. Queen Maria Christina welcomes Ena. royal entourage tours the city and countryside then moves to Biarritz for tea. King to dine with the queen mother. A grand amnesty is expected to follow the betrothal announcement.
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Warvity
France
Alfonso
Ms Household
San Sebastian
Maria Christina
Ena
Prince Alexander
Biarritz
Bellevue Hospital Laundry Fire Endangers 800 Patients
Eight hundred patients at Bellevue Hospital in New York faced danger as a fire damaged the laundry building. The hospital fire brigade and regulars kept the blaze from spreading, limiting damage to a few thousand dollars. Spontaneous combustion is believed to have started the fire, with asbestos sheets burning like tinder, according to hospital fire brigade chief Philip J. Smith.
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Bellevue Hospital
New York
Hospital Fire Brigade
Fromen
Philip J1. Smith
Ediet
East Liverpool Clerk Charged With Overcharging Customers
Jamues P. Fredericks, a Kinney and Devans clerk, arraigned in Cleveland on overcharging charges. He confessed guilt admitting ties to East Liverpool where his parents reside. He received a suspended sentence after admitting to pocketing the difference and leaving jail briefly to spare his parents worry.
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East Liverpool
Cleveland
Jamues P. Prederickhs
Kinney & Uevan
Fredericks
Ted
Three More Bodies Found from Valencia Wreck
Three more bodies recovered along the Valencia wreck shore in Victoria British Columbia include a middle aged man a young man and a woman about 20. The woman wore two rings one with a ned at one and a large pearl. No identifications found. Fred Erickson of Oelwein Iowa is found a mile east of Cape Buale with a $90 purse and an ID card.
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Valencia
Victoria
B. C
Fred Erickson
Oelwein
Cape Buale
Bibles Presented to Cadets at Naval Academy
Amnapolig Mi Jan 29 Copies of the Bible were presented to the menhi bers of the graduating classy of the negal aeademy during chapel services by the American Seamens' Privat So ciery. The presentation was by he ley Charles A. Stoddard president of the Sociery, who also preached a special sermon to the graduates. Indicted for Uncle's Murder Caldwell 0 dan 24 The special grand jury after a thre days ses sion sected as dicletaemne against Jamnus Harvey baisiee for the apiider by the first degree of his uncle WA Ham Leisure the phautier was ar gaieued and plastiked not witty Court yoused ball Monday March 12 was pel for trial day.
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Amnapolig Mi
Negal Aeademy
Caldwell
Phe
Jamnus Harvey Baisiee
Ham
Pel
La Follette Sees Roosevelt at White House
Senator La Follette of Wisconsin met with President Roosevelt at the White House in a late night conference. In Cadiz Ohio Hopedale voted against saloons eight to twenty, and Harrison county reported ten years without saloons.
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la Follette
White House
Washington
Senator la Follette
Wisconsin
Roosevelt
Cadiz
Hopedale
Marrison County
Weather Forecast for Ohio and Western Pennsylvania
Forecast calls for fair conditions Monday and Tuesday in Ohio and western Pennsylvania with warmer Tuesday. Light variable winds become fresh south later. West Virginia also fair on Monday and Tuesday.
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Ohio
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Two Cents Per Mile Battle Sparks Rail Fare Change
Columbus news reports the Senate swiftly passed the 2-cent railway fare measure raising rates for journeys over eight miles. Rail executives threaten to cut excursions in retaliation while House hearings loom. The bill’s passage prompts debate on highway improvements and education funding, with adjournment set for Monday.
Seton Convicted of Larceny in Texas Case
Seton convicted and remanded for sentencing after trial before Recorder Golf on charges of larceny of 6,800 dollars from the Houston Galveston and Interurban Railroad company of Texas amid bonds valued about 3,000,000 dollars. Explosion Kills Fourteen at WilteniMe mine. Dragging for Drowned Lumberman. Midshipman Decatur Dismissed. Send Bill for Mitchell's Funeral.
Morsemicg tunnel plan eyed to cut through Alleghenies
Pittsburg January 27 Morsemicg curve on the Pennsylvania railroad is slated for elimination. Officials favor a nine mile tunnel through the Alleghenies with four tracks and air ventilation, electric operations, at an estimated cost over 15 million dollars. Plans also include long surface routes east of Hunt ingdon and west from Gallitzin to Conemaugh or Blairsville.
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Pittsburg
Tennsylvania
Allegheny Mountains
Cassatt
Kittanning Point
Cresson
Lilly
Simplon
Alps
Alleghenies
Gallitzin
Huntingdon
Conemaugh Furnace
Blairsville
Bribed Reporters Linked to Chicago Beef Case
White House release under Roosevelt authority details alleged payoffs to Chicago newspaper reporters by a beef packers attorney. Documents include Morrison report summary, Moody remarks, and a president's directive to publish to inform the public on prosecutorial challenges.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Chicago
Moody
United States
Morrison
Myr Morrigan
Harrisburg Budget Moves Through State Legislature
Governor Pennypacker approved a concurrent resolution allowing the state treasurer to advance pay to legislative officers and employees for the present extra session. The measure enables draws for the first 10 days of the session. The Hitchcock senatorial apportionment bill passed first reading in the house and was referred back to committee. The McWhinney representative apportionment bill also passed first reading and will be reached Monday night for second reading. An actuary salary bill for the Insurance department at 1000 dollars per year passed first reading. The house adjourned until Monday.
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Columbus
Senate
House Committee On Railroads
Senated
Foraker
Congress
Ward
Cleveland
Meek
Montgomery County
Boards of Education
Boards of Review
Williams
Yuyahoxa
General Assembly
Reynolds
Cuyahoga
Sagleson
Ohio State University
Representative Paine of
Lucas
Ohio
Harrisburg
Pennypacker
Nitchcock
McWhinney
Insurance’ Department
Monilay
BROUGHT BACK FOR MURDER IN NEW CASTLE
Thomas O Toole was arrested in Chicago for the murder of Roy Barber on December 18 and brought to New Castle to face charges. Chief Spiers escorted him. over 300 people gathered at the station. O Toole pleaded not guilty when arraigned before Mayor Hainer and his hearing was set for Monday. Lawyer remark by O Keale about selecting a lawyer was noted.
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New Castle
Thomas O'Toole
Hast
Chicago
Roy Barber
Spiers
O'Toole
Hainer
O'Keale
Moved 13 Times a Year Young Wife Seeks Divorce
In Uniontown Pennsylvania at a January 27 hearing Justica Dawson heard 19 year old Mrs Thomas Stockton recount that her husband moved 13 times in their first year of marriage, draining finances and prompting her mother to take her home. The 23 year old husband Blockton faced threats charges and claimed he washed more dishes than his wife. the wife vowed to stay single if granted a divorce.
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Tella
Uniontown
Justica Dawson
Thomas Stockton
Blockton
Congress Plans and Debates Set for Week in Washington
In Washington the week opens with talks on Franco Venezuelan tensions and a Moroccan conference, while the Chinese boycott and ship subsidy loom in Senate. Beveridge to report the statehood bill with Arizona New Mexico union debates and a no restrictions Hepburn railroad rate bill advances in the House.
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France
Venezuela
Algeciras
Tillman
Committee On Immigration
Aldrich
Wu Ting Fang
Gallinger
Beveridge
Committee of Territories
New Mexico
Arizona
Foraker
Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Committee
Colonel Mann Arrested on Perjury Charge at Town Topics
Colonel William P. Mann, editor and president of Town Topics Publishing, was arrested in his New York office on a perjury charge. Bail set at 10,000 by his daughter Mrs Minima Mann Wray, with examination slated before Magistrate McAvoy and possible grand jury action. If convicted, he faces up to 10 years in state prison. Separately, the Pacific coast report notes the Bible barque Admiral Courbel in distress off Vancouver Island near Carmanak, with tugs dispatched as heavy swell pushes the vessel toward shore. A Coshocton, Ohio mill complex suffered a 950,000 loss from a fire damaging decorating and shipping departments at the Pope Gosser China company.
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Town Topics
New York
Dan
William PD. Mann
Town Topics Publishing Company
Justice McAvoy
Court of Special Sessions
Minima Mann Wray
Mann
McAvoy
Colonel Mann
Atute
Victoria
B. C
Admiral Courbel
Vancouver Island
Carmanak
Ihe
Coshocton
Pope-Gosser China Company
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Weather Forecast
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George C. Lupeport
Hankerman
Decatur
Stephen Decatur
Commodore Decatur
United States Naval Academy
Navy
Bonaparte
Mitchell
Jan
Fulton
Cas
Venient Time
Bill Wiii Ocoupy
Col, Mann
Thompson’s Insurance Agency
Indiana
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Penn Run
Oliver
American Reduction Co’s
Paramount
G. E. Frantz
W. S. Daugherty
Philadelphia St
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