Train Wreckers Attack Houston Rail Line Injury at Scene
A Missouri Kansas Texas line near White Oak Bayou saw rails removed by wreckers. Baggage car and mail coach derailed as a passenger engine passed. Brake man Elliott was shot while flagging a freight train and lies dying. Lou Harris and others injured. relief train sent. Separate meeting of the unemployed heard county officials pledging aid, with debate over courthouse terrace removal and upcoming maintenance plans.
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Houston
Tex
White Oak Bayou
Missouri, Kansas & Texas
Elliott
Lou Harris
H. Hatton
W. Carter
Political Gatherings and Populist Demands Across States
In Birmingham Alabama a populist coalition conference opened to oppose the Populist Koshite alliance and discuss nominating a straight Republican ticket in August. Gov. McKinley and ex-Speaker Reed supporters favoring the plan. In Topeka Kansas resolutions from the national Farmers Alliance demand a sound flexible currency free coinage of silver 16 to 1 a graduated income tax and higher percapita money supply.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia
Birmingham
Ala
Republican Campaign Committee
Republican Coalition
Democracy
McKinlay
Reed
Topeka
Kan
National Farmers Alliance
Receiver Farley and the Iron Hall cash duties debate
Reporter enters the Iron Hall den of receiver Farley who dismisses questions about 10 percent dividends unpaid. Farley says he pays out daily and refuses to calculate remaining sums. Royal event notes Welsh ladies choir concert for Queen with Beatrice and Battenberg attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caesar
Farley
Iron Hall
Sen
Key
Lonpay
Osborne
Beatrice
Prince Henry
Battenberg
Chicago
Lng Blonday
Francis Murphy's Daughter Reunites With Child at Woodruff Place
Mrs Josephine Holmes, daughter of Francis Murphy, reports her three year old daughter found after being stolen nine weeks earlier in Brooklyn. Private detectives and police across eastern cities aided the search. The child, located in a Philadelphia hospital, was secured and brought to Woodruff Place where Holmes and child will stay with the temperance speaker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis Murphy
Woodruff Place
Josephine Holmes
Murphy
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
Holmes
Holmes Uame
Town Fash Secy Fall victim to sporting cap craze
Secretary Smith of the Board of Trade falls prey to new fashion in hats. Market notes report a seed stand at the outside market house and price shifts in fruit and eggs. Several local officials and banks are mentioned in various notices and legal actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smith
Board of Trade
Societa Italiana Dimutuo Benificenza Umberto i
Indianapolis
Peoria
Big Four
Gilland
Soldiers Monument Commission
Marion County
State Charities
Terre Haute
Indianapolis Light Artillery
Lincoln League Club
Hoffman’s Hall
S. Meridianst
Democratic Party
Third National Bank of New York
Bradley, Holton & Co
Indianapolis National Bank
Hawkins
Isaac Wilson
Agnes- Bt
Bridgeport
Sarah A. Baupre
Frank
Plot to Kill Peixoto Triggers Election Call in Brazil
Buenos Aires reports President Peixoto ordered elections for March 1 after uncovering a plot to murder him. Plotters were executed by firing squad beside graves, others received life terms, some fled to England and the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peixote
Buenos Ayres
England
United States
Peixoto
Ex-Convict Claims Train Robbery Details To Police
An intoxicated man visited police headquarters and told Superintendent Powell of a purported true history of the Wendallville train robbery. He claimed four men were involved, two now in business in Wayne, and that he met two of them in Allen county while recently released from a northern penitentiary. The Lake Shore line offered a $5,000 reward for those implicated, but authorities doubt the tale and will investigate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supi’ Powell
Wendallville
Withhheld
Northern Penitentiary
Allen County
Wayne
Lake Shore Road
Premature Lake Halts Work at Garfield Park
Laborers arriving Friday to excavate an artificial lake found a natural flood pooling the area, blocking progress. No work will resume until early next week as relief committees consider bathing quarters at the Friendly Inn with labor supplied by the relief bureau.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garfield Park
Friendly Inn
Relief Bureau
Astronomer Honored With Arago Gold Medal
San Francisco report states Prof. Parnard of Lick Observatory received the Arago gold medal from the French academy for his 1892 discovery of Jupiter's small satellite. The honor is the world's top astronomical distinction and has been awarded only twice previously.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Prof
Parnard
Lick Observatory
Business Looking Up As Factories Restart Across Nation
Reports from New York dated February say more than twenty large towns report improving spring trade especially in dry goods. Over three hundred factories resumed operations since last Friday with full workforces, including cotton mills, stove and car works, tube and nail plants, cordage factories, rolling mills, hosiery factories and quarries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thrae
New Yor
Anarchist Placards Warn New York Millionaires
An anarchist crank placed Latin placards on the doors of Chauncey Depew Vanderbilt Flagler and other prominent New York residents in the nabob neighborhood on Friday morning. The message urged violence against the rich and invoked “the glorious examine of Vaillant” with a warning that “This is a marked man.”
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Chauncey Depew
Vanderbilts
Flagler
Standard Oil
Nabob
Vaillant
Warnall
Mary Rafferty Sues Over Tarpey Slayer Case Reward
Mary Rafferty files in superior court against the town of Haughville claiming information she provided led to the arrest of Lon Senderson, murderer of John Tarpey. Town offered a 2300 reward not paid. Rafferty seeks 400 judgment. Her daughter Gertrude is joined in the suit.
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Tarpey
Lon Senderson
John Tarpey
Mary Rafferty
Haughville
Irsafferty
Henderson
Gertrude
Bull fighting halted by Texas 181 statute finds policy
In San Antonio Esteban Sendoval’s bull fighting plan ends after a 181 statute banning bulls is found. Mexican champion Ponciano Diaz and his 15 men were advised not to come. In Waterbury a mob forms at a closed Italian bank, demands deposits, is dispersed by police, with potential further trouble feared.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antronio
Tex
Esteban Sendoval
Texas
Ponciano Diaz
Mexico
Waterbury, Conn
Feb. J
Liliputians Perform A Trip to Mars At English's
The Liliputians, a famed troupe of petite performers, excel in colorful costumes and precise movement in their new production A Trip to Mars, offering a striking ballet style show that delights audiences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liliputians
English’s
Mars
Rosebery to resign as British foreign minister
Lord Rosebery plans to resign with Gladstone as the British foreign ministerial resignation looms. The Coughlin murder defense advanced as a trial nears its end. Tuaregs defeated French forces near Timbuctoo with heavy officer casualties. A P A members in Kansas City held a secret meeting electing Stewart of Topeka as president. The steamer Werman carrying Gov Rimmer and German African staff was wrecked near Nifou. Ali survived.
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Lord Roseberry
Gladstone
Coughlin
Timbuctoo
Kansas
Kansas City
Stewart
Topeka
Werman
Gov. Rimmer
Germany
Nifou
Ali
Local Health Adverts Highlight Pale Belect and Home Brew
An old newspaper snippet touts The Home Brewing Company's Pale Belect Home Brew and Columbia as city bests bottled at their boiling department. It also mentions K K Garag remedies for coughs colds and hoarseness and New York buckwheat flour at Van Pelt's. A garbled line notes gait reductions to
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Home Brewing Company
Columbia
K. K. Garag
New York
van Pelt’s
Many good looking men the Democratic editors visit governor
Democratic state editors from Indiana visit the governor in the Hendricks club room. A. J. Dipboyo leads a delegation praising the Wilson bill and Cooper’s amendments, while editors comment on the party’s strength, campaign plans, and potential nominations. Officials are elected by ballot as tensions mix humor and policy support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Democratic State Editorial Association
Piletge
King
Phare
A. J. Dipboys
Columbus Herald
F. D. Hambaugh
Muncie Herald
F.A. Hambaugh
Miami County Sentinel
Rothrock
Monticello Democrat
Ben Southam
J. W. Burns
Logansport Phares
J. E. McDonald
Ligonier
Banner
C. W. Welman
Sullivan Timea
Boyd
Washington Democrat
A. A. Sparks
Mt. Vernon
Cooper
Lester Hembaugh
Mundierald
Hendricks Club
Louis Holtman
Brazil Democrat
Cleveland
D. Halmbaugh
Muncie
Geo H. Vunteney
Rushville Jacksonian
B. Boyd
Washington
J. K. Strauss
Rockville
H. A. Barnhart
Rochester
J. Q. Henderson
Kekomo
Mgr. Punteney
Rte
Monumert Place
Cosen
C. W. Wellman
Sullivan Times
8. B. Boyd
St. Vernon Democrat
Fr. D. Hsimbauga
J. M
Wilson
Senator Voorhees
Tom Taggart
Democratic State Committee
Indiana
Matthews
Wildman
Shanklin
Punteney
West Front
Weather and crime notes mix in late February dispatch
Washington dispatch reports a cold wave with temperatures dropping 20 to 25 degrees by Saturday. The page notes a Kentucky desperado, Bob Marler, was hanged after a lengthy preface, and a patchwork of local notices covers fires, robberies, foreclosures, paving bids, pension payments, and births and marriages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farrington
Ulster
Man
Wappenhans
Mississippi
Washington Bureau
Mississippi Valley
Ohio River States
Pineviiur
Bob Marler
Kentucky
Bee
Jia
Impure Blood Made Pure by Faked Simmons Liver Regulator
A dubious claim describes removing boils pimples and other emptions by using a fake Liver Regulator marketed as purely vegetable. The text frames this as a health hoax or quack product promoting a clear healthy appearance through counterfeit remedies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Simmons
Brutal Robbery Leaves Aged Clayton Near Death
In Kentucky, Jamen Clayton, a 70 year old mountaineer from Leatherwood Creek Cumberland County, was robbed of 1500 dollars by three masked men who bound his family and tortured him with fire and choking before revealing the hidden money. The assailants escaped with three horses. Clayton is expected to die and pursuers scour the mountains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asam Lane
Jamen Clayton
Leatherwood Creak
Cumberland County
Clayton
Record Benefit For New York Poor At Broadway Theater
A major benefit event for New York City's poor opened at 1 PM Friday at the Broadway theater. Receipts were expected near 25,000 to be distributed by actor Gilroy among various charities. The all-day program featured Frohman and Harrigan companies, E F Rice, Lillian Russell, Camille d Arville, the Bostonians, Modjeska, and others. proceeds to be shared among organizations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aiden Fort
New York
Broadway
Playor Gilroy
Charlea
Daniel Frohman
Harrigan
Ih E
Schaeffer
Marie Tempest
Miss Aldis
Contralto
Hoyt and McRees Company
Looks Bad for Oaks Murder Trial in Indiana
The Oaks murder trial resumed in Lananon Indiana on February 9 with photographer Joseph Keeter explaining his photo of the murder scene. Eyewitness William Plage identified Oaks as the shooter from Pitts. Peter Catshall, Pitts’s father in law, pointed to Oaks as the killer and William Linderman testified as the train engineer stating orders to stop at Washington Street. The defense argued the order was countermanded. court adjourned for the afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lananon
Ind
Oaks
Joseph Keeter
Wm. J. Plage
Pitts
Oakes
Peter Catshall
Wm. Linderman
Riley
Washington St
Mining tragedy burns clothes from two Plymouth miners
In Plymouth at the Nottingham mine of the Dodson coal company William Zimmmerman, 44, and his son George, aged about 12, were severely burned by a gas explosion. Their clothing burned off, they were found naked and charred from head to foot, still alive but not expected to survive. The blast is believed caused by lamps igniting gas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Relief Bureau
Mra. A. P
Mick
L. Ohioat
Joga
Deal
Allen County
Supreme Court
Meyer Denny
Prospect Building Association
A. J. Buchanan
Mississippi St
Pogue’s
Georgia St
Board of Works
Tim Sheenan
West St
Washington
New York
Pennsylvania
Winkeswarker
Wm. Zimmerman
George
Nottingham
Dodson Coal Company
Plymouth
Complaints of Teamsters and City Work Allocation
The city promised a committee of teamsters would arrange work so each teamster could work at least occasionally. Critics claim Henry Buhning, kin of street cleaning head, has kept two teams employed and hired drivers. Officials say one team served as a foreman’s wagon and the other was used only occasionally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denny
Igy
Henry Buhning
Tie Sun
Buhnuise
Firebugs blamed for string of arsons in Peru
Fires of incendiary origin early Friday destroyed the Ruthburn factory and Remmick's blacksmith shop in Peru. Losses total about 8,000 with eight fires in less than a month causing over 10,000 in damage. Authorities push to detect the firebugs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peru
Penn, Sod
Rhuthburn
En Contenta
Remmick
Reverend Dingleday case heads to verdict in Indiana
In Ricrarono Indiana on February 9 the trial of Rev John Dingleday superintendent of Wertle orphans home ended testimony with jurors leaning toward conviction. The report notes the jury likely to convict and mentions rheumatism and a patent remedy advertisement for Hood's Sarsaparilla as a closing filler.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lieoks
Dingleday
Ricrarono
Ind
John Dingledey
Wertle Orphans
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Criminal Court Room
Court House Yard
Stubbs
Court House
D. F. Kennedy
Brown
Sullivan’s
Gay & Stanwood
Boston
West Indianapolis
State Bank
Nettle Blue
W. Washingtoner
Water Company
Louisiana and
McRaests
Sherman House
Jeff Majors
Noblesville
Illinois
U.S
Brinton
Zimri Dwiggins
Indiana “Napoleon of Finance
Fowler
Kennedy
State Agricultural Board
Randolph County
Harry W. Williams
Herbert Albii
Dickson & Talbott
Williams
Albini
Williams Mateors
Wm. Orrell
Jennings County
Thomas Taggart
Nenia
Monahan County
Ireland
Xenia
Little Miami
Clark, Helm & Co
Denison House Bell Boys
Geo. Brown
Geo. Scott
Georges
Gua Stewart
tYerit
Gowdy
Terry Hut
District 1
Evansville
Hoc
ColumBets
Z. McDonald
States Prison
H. A. Sackett
Tis
Florence Davenport
Elkhart
Gosmen
Harry Brown
Millersburg
Astons
Council
Burrs
Marion Kelsey
Fort Worth
Atragpele
White
Mr. Perkins
the Sun
Sam Perkins
Jennie Williams
Lane
Texas Bara Bull Fights
WIR
Tam
Easley
Martin van Bates Spencer
Fort Wayne
John R. Williams
Lafayette
Capt. Campbell
Anderson
Blyers
Boarder
Harding
Shelby-st
Hlm
Emille Kellen
A. B
Dora Coffy
B.F
Mrs. McCready
Della Hutchins
James
Lizzie Thoman
James A. Dickson
Dna Koehler
Leon Parker
Addie Reed
Bessie Hilderbrand
Mary Smith
David D. Irish
Carrie L. Elsmeyer
Wmn. Martin
Leora F. Emery
Geo. A. Witt
Katie A. van Jelgerbuis
Aaron 8. Pierce
Tracy Cunningham
Hood
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