The Register Colorad o Mosquito Net Invention and Diplomatic Honesty
A collage of short items notes that the Chinese invented the mosquito net and laments publishers bias in school books, while praising Ambassador Lytton and Minister Lowell for integrity in diplomacy. It also discusses buffalo prairies, bronze cents maintenance, and minting costs, ending with a note on bronze penny production by a Connecticut factory.
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United States
Uncle Sam
Connecticut
Knowledge Without Action and State Prison Reform
A profile contrasts mere accumulation of facts with usable wisdom and argues for stronger state control of prisoners. It calls for centralized, uniform prison management by states, with the state handling custody and treatment, reducing local interference and ensuring consistent preventative and corrective measures. Includes critique of state sovereignty as hindering national prison governance.
Colorado News Highlights From Wheat Prices to New Mills
Diverse Colorado items report wheat at 1.40 to 1.45 a bushel in Greeley, a Brighton farmers' institute on the 19th, Meeker's new flour mill producing high grade flour, and Glenwood Springs building a comprehensive bath house and hotel. A Swedish miner, Simon Anderson, died at Leadville mine from a powder explosion on the 16th. Temperance workers Wolfenbarger and Huckins tour the state while Pitkin County frees a convicted prisoner to save costs. Chas Wood of the Salvation Army in Leadville fined for sidewalk meetings before a saloon. Lectures for the public library fund planned in Colorado Springs and the Childs Drexel Home for Union Printers to be dedicated May 12. First Colorado flour shipment to Russia, carload from Grand Junction Milling, with free Colorado Midland transit to Buffalo for Odessa. Governor Routt orders militiamen enrollment dispensed with. Denver market prices listed for eggs, butter, hay, potatoes, cattle, hogs, and sheep. Petrified bones from chalk cliffs are added to Grand Junction’s cabinet. A Leadville bob sled accident injures several. Castle Rock railroad worker William Wilson killed. Bee-keepers elect officers in Denver. Honey Day planned at Longmont and a Denver honey exhibition. A Aspen man, Thomas Smith, commits suicide by lying on Midland track. notes imply robbery connection. Rail slides near Lookout Mountain delay engine. Convictions for Rio Grande train robbery at Texas Creek. two to life, four others to be tried February 15. Yorkers attacked in Valparaiso. Berlin reports influenza detection advancements. German Reichstag approves World’s Fair credit for Chicago with emphasis on German industry representation.
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Greeley
Brighton
Meeker
Glenwood Springs
Simon Anderson
Leadville
Messrs
Wolfenbarger
Huckins
Pitkin County
Chas. Wood
Salvation Army
Colorado Springs
Public Library Fund
Childs-Drexel
Union Printers
Childs
Colorado
Russia
Grand Junction Milling Company
Colorado Midland Lines
Buffalo
Odessa
Routt
Denver
Jersey
New
Condit
H. C. Long
Perry Rodgers
Scientific Society
Grand Junction News
East Sixth Street
Nollenberger
Thomas Hicks
Mary Murphy
William Wilson
Denver & Rio Grande
Castle Rock
Wilson
State
Bee-keepers’ Association
E. B. Porter
Longmont
BR. C. Aiken
H. Knight
Littleton
Rhodes
Booth
Golden
Thomas Smith
Aspen
Midland
Smith
O’brien
Front Street
Pueblo
Silverton Railroad
Lookout Mountain
Bert Curtis
President Enraged at Chili War Clouds Loom Over Nation
A Washington dispatch says the cabinet met amid contingencies as war with Chili looms. President reports danger to Americans in Chili and notes a rapid buildup of naval forces near Valparaiso. Recruiting chief orders all fit men into arts or navy. multiple ships near Chilean ports.
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Chili
New York Recorder
Washington
Priday
McCreary
Valparai
United States
Remy
Tracy
St. Thomas
Valparaiso
New York
Arts
Navy
Irani Aera
Fixing Up the Montauk at League Island Navy Yard
Orders have been issued at League Island Navy Yard in Philadelphia to prepare the monitor Montauk for sea. Once laid up since 1883 on the Delaware riverfront, she features a single revolving turret with two 16 inch rifled guns for coast and harbor defense. Two other monitors, the Nabant and the Jason, are also planned for readiness.
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League Island Navy Yard
Philadelphia
Delaware River
Mississippi River
League Island
Nabant
Jason
Various World News Briefs and Local Incidents
Reports reveal General Neal Dow of Maine is seriously ill and Edwin Arnold is sick in Philadelphia with la grippe. Other items note Senator Gorman reelected, Tennessee not represented at World's Fair, Plumb estate valued at about $500000, a man drowns over his wife’s extravagance, Russians drown after Neva bridge collapse, Spanish snowstorm halts rail and telegraph with France, fatal coasting injuries in Nashville, fraudulent silver quarter plundering, a Toledo barn fire destroying 35 electric cars, train wrecks near Milwaukee, a Lancaster gas explosion, and a large shipper strikes impact at Catassauqua. News also covers oil theft near Woolwich, Sullivan’s temperance pledge, Washburn anti option bill, Cardinal Manning’s death, and Edison’s new ship telegraph system. Additional notes include post office delays, a Covington Nebraska fire, Cherokee delegation moves, Louisiana lottery opposition, and Montreal telegraph franchise transfers. A Pennsylvania sleigh accident injures many. Morse comments on possible war with Chile and calls for arbitration and peace.
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Neal Dow
Maine
Edwin Arnold
Philadelphia
la Grippe
Senator Gorman
Maryland
Tennessee
Plumb
Constantine Hermann
el Pa
Neva
Spain
France
Nashville
New York
Jay Gould
Robson Electric Company
Toledo
Ohio
Omaha Road
Milwaukee
Lancaster
English Miners’ Federation
Standard Oil Company
Woolwich
Pennsylvania
Tacoma
Washington
John L. Sullivan
Francis Murphy
Michigan State Millers’ Association
Lansing
Washburn
Catassuqua Manufacturing Company
Fullerton
Cardinal Manning
England
Snowbound sleighing party crashes into train in St Louis
A Clover Leaf Fishing Club sleighing excursion of twenty two was struck by a moving train at the Sarah Street crossing. Nine killed and eleven badly hurt as the party was taken to hospital and the dead to the union depot. The wreck occurred after a night of enjoyment returning from Ferguson aboard a chartered special by a local Legion of Honor lodge.
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St. Louis
Clover Leaf Fishing Club
Gayety
Sarah Street
Legion of Honor
St. Mary's Iormary
Grave Robbery Stirs Indianapolis Over Exhumed Body
In a snowstorm ghouls exhumed Miss Emma J. Cossal's body and moved it to the Central College of Physicians and Surgeons. The young woman, who suffered for ten years, died of consumption. The corpse was found stripped of burial clothes in the college gutted room awaiting dissection. Police expect to arrest the principals by morning.
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Indianapolis
Emma J. Cossal
Central College of Physicians and Surgeons
Editor mobbed in Johannesburg over Duke of Clarence remarks
Cape Town dispatch reports the editor of a Johannesburg Transvaal English newspaper was mobbed after insulting the late Duke of Clarence and Avgon. He fled via a side door as the crowd formed a mass meeting threatening to drive him from the country if he remained.
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Cape Town
Johannsberg
Transveal
Duke of Clarence
Johannsburg Theatre
Fist Fight in the French Chamber
The French chamber of deputies on the 19th erupted into roughhouse fighting as Minister Corstans struck Deputy Lauer. Members engaged in exchanges and duels were arranged between Delep and Castelin with Boulangists and Houlangists, ending when the session was suspended to halt the disorder.
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Corstens
Lauer
Intransigtent
Corstans
Constany
M. Delep
Castelin
Densatil
Delep
Dunsaul
Dumotl
Bordain
Senators by Direct Vote Proposal Sparks Congressional Hearings
The push for electing U.S. senators by direct popular vote gains traction in Congress with joint resolutions and hearings. Bryan of Nebraska proposes optional direct election, Miller of Wisconsin backs one senator per state plus one per million population, Enloe of Tennessee and Johnson of Dakota seek uniform nationwide application.
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Congress
House Committee On
Bryan
Nebraska
Miller
Wisconsin
Enloe
Tennessee
Johnson
Dakota
Robbery of Mail Boxes Hits Wheeling Business District
A gang robbed a dozen mail boxes in Wheeling West Virginia on Monday night using keys to open them. Envelopes containing cash and papers were taken and later recovered. Police estimate losses exceed $15,000 based on partial investigations.
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Wheeling
West Va
Rebellion in Brazillooms as forts fall to prisoners
Brazilian uprising near the city ends with prisoners seizing Fort Pico and Fort Lage after overrunning guards. Government ships bombard Port Santa Crus as troops storm the forts, the rebel leader commits suicide, and order is restored with prisoners locked in cells and guards posted.
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Lage
General da Fonseca
Forte
Osce
Fort Pico
Port Santa Crus
Powder Mill Explosion Rocks Central City Area
A massive blast at the Phoenix powder mills near Ceredo West Virginia devastates Central City and ripples to Ironton Catlettsburg and beyond. Three months into a string of explosions, this one claims multiple victims and leaves no structures standing within half a mile as authorities cordon the ruins. About thirty five tons of powder reportedly burned in the successive blasts.
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Ceredo
West Virginia
Phoenix Mills
Central City
Hoentington
Catlettsburg
Kentucky
Ironton
Northwest Frozen Night Sets Record Lows Across Region
An intense cold wave gripped the Northwest last Sunday night with many stations reporting 30s to 40s below zero. Port Arthur Medicine and St Vincent showed extreme readings while North Platte dropped to 24 below. St Paul hit 83 below, the coldest since settlement. Farmers haul grain and report ample fuel as no immediate relief in sight.
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North Platte
Nebraska
Mercury
St. Vincent
Winnipeg
Port Arthur
Medicine
Battleford
Moorehead
Fort Buford
Bismarck
St. Paul
Fragmented naval and wartime logistics report
A chaotic dispatch describes ships at neutral ports awaiting orders from naval authorities, yard work restarting, and machinery being overhauled. It notes six hours of labor costs, the yard at Charleston, and repairs on a monitor as tensions with Chile and other powers rise.
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