Incendiary Fires Devastate Milwaukee Plant Thefts and Scares Spike
A bomb or incendiary attack destroyed the Milwaukee Street Railway South Side plant on Kinnikinnick avenue, causing extensive losses including cars, motors, and stables. Fire officials and insurance firms fear a coordinated arson campaign, with political figures and citizens calling for action and a Grand Jury to investigate.
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South Side
Milwaukee Streit Railroad Company
Street Railway Company
South Ride
Kinnikinnick Avenue
OsaThre
Areregi
Altukee Street Railway Company
Jay
Flre
Ffirébug
Night Watchman
Worden
Lynn
Ouse
Amos
Hes Dutcher Stove Company
Milwaukeetreet Railway Company
Uch
Keenan
3D Ward
Populists Come to Stay Says Senator Stewart
Senator William M. Stewart of Nevada argues in New York that Populists will elect a President in 1896 if free coinage passes and a silver coinage bill is delayed. He dismisses the monetary conference as a fraud and notes free coinage as a key issue. He is unsure which party will control the Senate after March 4.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stewart
William M. Stewart
Nevada
New York
Monetary Conference
Rocky Mountains
Congress
Senate
Pranifesto Urges Stance by People's Party Leaders
At Indianapolis a conference issued a manifesto urging legislators elect in Nebraska Wyoming Montana California North Dakota and other states to stand firm on united states senate balloting. The document warns against fusion with the two dominant parties and calls for a square fight for principles with candidate foundations in the Senate.
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Thad
Peo le
People’s Party
H. EB. Taubenboe
J. H. Turner
M. H. Rankin
Indianapolis
Industrial Legion
Paul Vandervoort
Omaha
People's Party
Nebras
Wyoming
Montana
California
North Dakota
United States
Foundman
Advocate
United States Senate
Epoliod
Prince
Bloody Battle at San Juan Mining Camp In Colorado
Eleven men were killed and many wounded in a violent mining camp clash near Dolores Colorado over disputed claims after a rich nugget strike. Nearly 5 000 prospectors crowded the field as guns rang out and Arizona and New Mexico figures among the slain. News spread from Jesuifs City to Denver stirring excitement about a rumored gold bonanza.
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San Juan
Colorado
Jesuifs City
Col
Igo Ferguson
James Cody
Blind Jim
Arizona
New Mexico
Dolores
John Eddy
Denver
Prohibition Plan Backed by Lewelling and Rockefeller Gift Highlighted
Governor-elect Lewelling supports the state agency plan in his forthcoming message a Prohibitionist stance and belief it would end the whisky question by closing drug store saloons. In Chicago Rockefeller’s Christmas gift brings his total to 3.6 million dollars to the University of Chicago, surpassing Peabody donations and marking a record lifetime gift.
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Lewelling
Topeka
Kan
J. D. Botkin
Botkin
Levelling
Lowelling
Loewelling
John D. Rockefeller
University of Chicago
George Peabody
South
Rockefeller
Chicago University
Peabody
New police boat for Lelegraphic Prevides at thirty thousand
Reports list a new police boat for Lelegraphic Prevides to cost 30000 dollars. Other items note snowfall at Puget Sound reaching twenty two inches and various political and legal events across the country including nominees and court cases.
Five Die As Street Car Struck By Fort Wayne Train
A Fort Wayne train crashed into a crowded Chicago City Railway street car at 47th street and Stewart avenue injuring many. Five police arrested, including conductor Bernard O Connor and driver Patrick Stanley. several victims identified, with three hundred yards south of the crossing the train halted. Fatalities, injuries, and blame attributed to missing signals and duties at the crossing.
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Fort Wayne
Chicago City Railway
47Th Street
Stewart Avenue
Colehour
John Blaha
Archibald McAndrews
M. Carson
Forty Seventh Street
Wabash
Bernard O'Connor
Patrick Stanley
Rossellp
Menger
John” Allbright
Peter Schwartz
John
Civil Service Extension Faces Union Opposition in Washington
Washington reports say President Harrison shows little prospect of broad civil service expansion before the next administration. He favors extending the rules to the Post Office but resists wider growth such as Printing Office or customs. The Typographical Union opposes exams that allow non union members, fearing “rats” gaining government jobs. The government awaits civil service changes amid union standoff.
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Harrison
Washington Special
PostoMce Department
Government Printing Office
Customs Service
Omce
Civil Service Commission
Civil Service
Typographical Union
Uncle Sam's Big Gain Destruction of Paper Moneyers
Washington dispatch notes that the treasury gains yearly as outstanding obligations are redeemed or destroyed. Since 1862 about 5.82 billion in paper money issued with 4.85 billion redeemed by July 1 1892 leaving 967 million outstanding. Gold and silver certificates backed by vault reserves maintain redemption basis.
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United States Treasury
Treasury
Washington Dispatch
Treasury Department
Plan to ease money market meets presidential veto
A New York correspondent reports Secretary Foster traveled to New York not on private business but to consult Wall Street magnates on issuing up to 100 million in bonds to aid the money market and curb exports. President Harrison opposed the plan, refusing any bond issue during his term, and Wall Street rumors say Foster held a long conference with leading financiers at a club, whose agreement on government policy was overturned by the president.
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United States
Hyatt
Sherman
Nebeker
Treasury Department
Foster
Wall Street
New York
Washington
R. Hannison
Clarrison
No Mercy to the Jews Brutal Edicts Enforced in Russia
Reports from St. Petersburg and other Russian cities describe intensified Jewish persecutions. Six edicts aim to disperse Jews, curb trade, and suppress religion, with 20 000 converts noted since 1891. Converts are deported near Moscow to a colony under strict Orthodox control and require church approval to return.
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St. Petersburg
Russia
Moscow
Tchorkosovo
Methodists Propose Daily Christian Advocate in Chicago
At a Wisconsin Epworth League meeting a plan to launch a national daily Christian newspaper in Chicago was endorsed. The paper would feature liberal religious editorial content and omit sensational news, aiming for about one million subscribers. Launch slated for March or April with support from Epworth Leagues nationwide.
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Chicago
Epworth League
Wisconsin
Hudson
Methodist Church of America
Christian Advocate
Methodist Church In
America
Epworth
Makololo Language Lingers After Emigration From Basutoland
An exchange notes that the Makololo people who migrated from Basutoland to the upper Zambesi region between 1845 and 1864 left their language as a universal medium. Although the tribe vanished from the area after a revolt led by Sekeleto's son, their tongue survives, shaping the speech of thousands who now speak a corrupted form of Makololo.
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Africa
Kalahari
Zambesi
Livingstone
Sebotoane
Sekeleto
South Africa
German Villages at the World's Fair in Jackson Park
A read through the World’s Fair German village features a Westphalian farmhouse framed in Germany with a thatched Indiana rye roof. The exhibit aims to show medieval and domestic life with farmhouses, soldiers, and Viennese trade scenes, and includes anecdotal remarks on visitors and characters encountered nearby.
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Jackson Park
Germany
Westphalia
Two Women in Contrast as Observers Measure Character
A narrator discusses two young women, Miss Case and Miss Brown, contrasting discontent with serene, hopeful outlooks. Miss Brown’s generosity in renting rooms for distressed teachers and mothers is noted as a source of happiness and health for them, while one sees only shadow in the other.
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Miss Blank
Mae
Miss Case
Charles Kingsley
New Guidelines on Word Usage in Newspapers
A compilation lists common misuses such as conceive for begin, create confusion with crimes, sins, and vice, and clarifies terms like divine for clergy, evacute for depart, and post for inform. It also covers tense guidance and preferred spellings to improve precision in reporting.
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Milwaukee KeevieTim
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Lelegraphic
Yon
Puget Sound
Cannisuez
The
Sun
Toronto
C. F. Mayer
Baltimore & Ohio
Oklahoma
Christie
St. Louis
Taz Hughes
Nor Rark Court of Appeals
Ek Isaac Il. Maynard
N Nd of Appeals
Chihuahua
Linn Lesbtoynsk
Yemen
Hersfelf Slves
Odessa
Tusala
Death
Uncle Sam
Santiago
Casanova
Heyi Uta Frenzen
Fred K
Brookne
Brazil
Vienna Baker
Aw Germai
Efe
Arate
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