Fatal Boiler Explosion at East Jordan Mill Kills Seven
An explosion at the East Jordan Lumber Company mill in Michigan wrecked the facility minutes after startup. Seven men died and several were fatally injured. engineer James Carter was away for breakfast, leaving John Ringle in charge. Cause remains undetermined, though low water or high pressure are suspected.
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East Jordan
Mich
East Jordan Lumber Company
James Carter
John Ringle
Pearson
Missouri Judges jailed for contempt over railroad bonds
At Kansas City Judge Phillips of the United States Circuit Court jailed Cass County Missouri judges Ray Blaine and George until they arrange payment of bonds from 20 years ago to aid the Tebo and Neosho Railroad. Each was fined 500 dollars. The bonds backed by Cass and St Clair counties were issued in 1870 but the road never built. purchasers won judgments but could not collect.
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Missouri
Kansas City
Phillips
United States Circuit Court
Ray, Blaine
George
Cass County
Cass
St. Clair
Rumor of Spreckles Joining Sugar Trust
Secretary Searles of the Sugar Trust met with Harrison Frazier & Co. and FE C Knight in Philadelphia. It is said for American Refining Co. that he agreed to pay ten million dollars for Harrison refinery and the offer was accepted. Spreckles denies joining the trust though indications point toward surrender. Also reported: Knight's refinery sale price at about one and a half million.
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Sugar Trust
Searles
The
Philadelphia
Harrison, Frazier & Co
FE. C. Knight Company
American Refining Company
Harrison
Spreckles
Knight
Harvey Long
Moscow
Tenn
Storm Ravages cattle along line from Trinidad to Fort Worth
The report states about 20,000 cattle perished along the Denver Texas and Gulf line between Trinidad Colorado and Fort Worth with similar losses north and east of Trinidad. The storm, however, is a salvation to the wheat crop in northern Texas which looks finer than in several years.
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Mexico
Texas
Denver, Texas and Gulf Road
Trinidad
Colo
Forth Worth
Norhern
Love and elopement rock Ware as Belle Davis runs away
Miss Belle Davis daughter of farmer B F Davis and niece of Congressman George R Davis elopes with Booth a Northampton hired man. They traveled to Chicago to wed while Director General Davis comments that they will take care of themselves and she is a handsome 24 year old with musical talent.
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Belle Davis
B F. Davis
George R. Davis
Ware
Mass
Frank L. Booth
Northhampton
Booth
B. F. Davis
Miss Davis
Chicago
Nve
Davis
Jamestown Sleigh Tragedy Ends In Heroic Sacrifice
Frank Braithwaite, a strong 10 year old, braved a blizzard to shield his wife and children in a sleigh near Jamestown North Dakota. The husband died from exposure while his family survived beneath buffalo robe and blankets as rescuers found them after the storm eased.
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Jamestown
N. D
Frank Braithwaite
Braithwaite
Ulree
Elopement Sparks Old Discrepancies in Columbus
A September scene in Columbus reveals 18 year old John Marin living with a 50 year old woman and their baby as if a married couple. A visitor from Spades claims his name was Koster and says he abducted her mother, who left her husband and four children, and vanished. The visitor withholds her name, but says her father is a farmer near Spades.
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Elopers
John Marin
Columbus
Ohio
Spades
Koster
Man Arrested After Threats to Kill Senator and Gov
A Brooklyn man detained at the Charities Commissioners office declared he aimed to kill Senator Will and Gov Hill. He resisted police as three officers restrained him amid shouting demands for access to Buffalo. The case followed a separate report of Sioux Indians from Buffalo Bill’s Wild West returning from Europe with plans to move to Pine Ridge and Fort Sheridan.
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New York
Charities Commissioners
Brooklyn
David BR. Hi
ER. Nierwehner
Amityville
S. 1
Suffolk County
Will
Charities Commmissioner
Gov Hill
George
Crager
Buffalo Bill
Europe
Short Bull
Kicking Bear
Fort Sheridan
Pine Ridge
Cody
Russia Letter Signals Alaska Behring Sea Arbitration Bar
A confidential note from the Russian Government to the United States warns that Russia would view U S arbitration over Behring Sea as undermining its transfer of Alaska. The Czar seeks U S backing against European powers and hints at Russian support for U S seale rights near the Pribilof Islands. The document is described as exceedingly important.
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State Department
Washington
Seceretary of State
United States
Behring Sea
Russia
Alaska
England
Priby Jov
Asia
Paris Bank Failure Hits Directors and Fraud Claims
The Banque Chemir de Fer et Industrie suspended after a director died by his own hand, two absconded, and another arrested. The bank speculated in French Spanish and Russian securities with liabilities of 24 million francs and assets of 5 million. Authorities prepared insolvency and fraud proceedings related to misappropriated funds from the 1891 French national loan.
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Paris
Banque Chemir de Fer Et Industrie Hais
Negroes Starving Report Sparks Anti Immigration Action
Memphis special reporting that S. P. Mitchell head of the Oklahoma Anti Immigration Bureau says winter arrivals of blacks to Langston City and other areas face starvation and privations. He notes hastily built dugouts lack weather protection and immigration agents push exodus. The bureau plans a meeting in Helena Arkansas on March 25 to stop the flow.
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Memphis
Tenn
Special
S. P. Mitchell
Oklahoma Anti-Immigration Bureau
Langston City
Anti-Immigration Bureau
Selena
Ark
Allerton at Home as Grand Rapids Race Is Canceled
The owner C W Williams of Independence Iowa will not take Allerton to Grand Rapids for the 20000 station race the August meeting. He fears a clash with Axtell and intends to keep Allerton home until facing Axtell alone. The cotton statistics report also notes world production exceeding consumption by over 1 5 million bales and a rise in visible stock.
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Department of Agriculture
Liverpool
Tilm
Grand Rapids
C. W. Williams
Independence
Iowa
Allerton
Axtell
Scottish Bill for a Separate Legislature Advances
Liberal and many English members back a bill to create a Scottish legislative body. It covers Scottish law making with the queen and Secretary for Scotland handling executive duties. Judicial reform keeps existing courts with potential abolition or overhaul and allows judges to be removed by the Legislature.
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Scotland
Willing to Hang for Pittsburg Special’
A historical report describes Michael Cloonan seizing, assaulting his wife, and declaring relief at his act. He expresses willingness to die for the crime. A son vows to harm his father over the incident. The narrative notes jealousy as a motive.
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St Pittsburg
Michael Cloonan
Seere Cloonan
Cloonan
Yellow Fever Threat Spurs Sanitary Alarm
A Buenos Ayres dispatch says the government neglects sanitary measures to curb yellow fever. A Rio Janeiro report notes seventy five deaths in the last forty nights and that twenty three stammers have been attacked by the disease.
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Buenos Ayres
Rio Janeiro
Iowa Legislature Records One Week of Lawmaking Action
The Iowa Legislature reports a busy week with bills to cut clerks, abolish city marshal offices, regulate rail crossings, and expand court and park powers. It covers World’s Fair funding, opium joint bans, mortgage taxation, and highway measures, with adjournment of sessions and multiple bills advancing or postponing.
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Balter
Justices of the Peace
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Hoopers
Sioux County
Board of Supervisors
Wapello County
Commmities On Appropriations
Iowa
Twentythird General Assembly
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Stewart
Brewer
Brooks
Audubon
Dayton
Ati “Payton
Robinson
Old Capitol
Stone
Executive Council
Committee On Railways
House Committees On Appropriations
Palratter
House
Secretary of State
Yeoman
Rolter
Adjutant General
Vale
Boards of Health
Anamosa
Madison County
Independence
Tulane Asylum
Charles Cook
Farewell Banquet Planned for U S Minister Reid in Paris
Report from Catamarca notes American artists in Paris arrange a farewell banquet for Mr Reid the retiring United States Minister. Haiti appoints Frep Douenas as its representative to the World’s Fair as the government confirms the position.
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Catamarca
Argentine Republic
Tras
Paris
Reid
United States
Frep Douenas
Haiti
Iatr
Widower Dies After Five-Week Fast in Iowa
Daniel Portier a 93 year old resident five miles south of Waucoma is dead after starving himself for more than five weeks. His wife died Feb 11 and would have been 93 the next day. They would have married seventy four years next May, making them the state’s oldest married couple. Portier refused food claiming he was not hungry, and faded away peacefully from starvation.
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Iowa
Daniel Portier
Waucoma
Potter
Des Moines Mill Case Awards Large Damages
The Des Moines Cotton Mill Company sues Wesley Redhead York Investment for breach of contract after they used their own lots instead of selling the Cotton Mill Company lots. The court awards damages of 15,350 dollars. Insurance on the mill is being settled in Chicago, and rebuilding will follow.
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Des Moines
Des Moines Cotton Mill Company
Wesley, Redhead & York Investment Company
Cotton Mill Company
Chicago
Congress Debates Bills Amid Indian Territory and Ports Moves
Senate advances or approves measures on a Yankton Missouri River bridge Post Office building, urgent deficiency, and Military Academy funding. Peffer and Allison push coin value and Des Moines port moves. House and Senate conduct routine business and adjourn after tributes.
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Messrs
Hale
Allison
Cockrell
Missouri River
Yankton
Yeas
District of Columbia
Barry
Morgan
Post Office Department
Peffer
Military Academy
House
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Commmities On Agriculture
Des Moines, Jr
Mississippi River
Plumb
Kansas
Miscellany Snippets on Crime, Press Censorship, and Inventions
A Reading carpet-layer avoids prosecution after a householder declines to press charges. Various notes cover a pine tree in Pennsylvania yielding lumber, a China Astor remark in a cabinet tale, Finland’s press boycott of the Salvation Army, a fire hero’s cooling Wet Towel act, and a leather sewing machine passing multiple tough tests including brass.
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California
Pennsylvania
Beede
Atho Gnu
Ben Butler
Thayer
Harrison
Boston
Endicott
Massachusetts
Plymouth Rock
Craus Epson
New York
United States
Washington
William Waldorf Astor
Middle Kingdom
Blair
Jerry Rusk
China Astor
Salvation Army
Finland
Mackenzie
London
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