Poison plot against P D Armour sparks Chicago panic
A Chicago report details a thwarted poisoning of P D Armour the great packer. A buckwheat package laced with strychnine was delivered to Armour's Prairie avenue residence. Two men rumored to sympathize with strikers plotted harm, the package was intercepted by Armour's staff and investigators including Pinkerton agents are on the case.
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Armour
P.D. Armour
Prairie Avenue
Wabash Avenue
Twenty-F1st Street
Enok
Pinkerton Agency
Messrs
Fire destroys Bur roughs Bros drug warehouse in Baltimore
Fire roared through Bur roughs Bros drug warehouse on Camden street near St Charles in Baltimore, consuming the building. A ladder company truck capsized during firefighting, pinning four men beneath. Captain Marston escaped injury, while Grund, Ryan, and Ken reportedly suffered spinal injuries with Grund and Ken believed dead. A separate item notes an Adams Express robbery in St. Louis with a confidential circular seeking information and rewards for leads. Harper normal and business college opened at Haupen with about 100 students. Masonic relief boards meeting at Southern hotel to guard against fraud and strengthen welfare distribution.
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Mov
Burroughs Bros
Camden Street
St. Charles
Marston
Chas. L. Grund
Frank Ken
Henry Qian
Grund
Ryan
Ken
Sr. Lecis
Adams Express Company
St. Louis
Across the Pond Anxiety Felt in Caucas Revolt
Reports from Nov 27 note a sack loss amid efforts to quell a Caucasus tribe revolt and concerns Russia may see spread. Also tallies baseball league news, cattlemen petitions, and local incidents in Denver Cincinnati and Vienna with various civic and medical notes.
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Losnos
Caucasus
Russia
Blizzard Hits Railways Across the West in Early Snow
Reports from Kansas City and Sioux City detail a major early season blizzard. Trains on the Union Pacific and Santa Fe lines faced long delays and blockades from Colorado to Iowa, with ice, snow drifts, and snow fences hindering routes. The severity is described as the worst in years, with sleepers missing and equipment iced over as storms extend across Nebraska and Kansas.
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Kansas City
Union Depot
Colorado
Kanany
Nebraska
Iowa
Union Pacific
Brookville
Kansas
Colorado Line
Santa Fe
Nickerson
Kas
Pueblo
Southwest
Missouri Pacific
Council Blvds
Texas Pacific
Sioux City
Northwest
Dexven
Overland
Weat
Heavy Snowstorm Paralyzes St Paul and Minneapolis
Snow began early yesterday and intensified into a general blizzard. Streets and sidewalks were blocked. street cars halted, and trains across the region ran hours late. Reports note severe conditions across the northwest with heavy accumulations in South Dakota and Kansas. A Detroit postmaster, about 50, died by suicide using crude carbolic acid, leaving a family.
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Snhow- St. Pave
Minn
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Northwest
South Dakota
Sioux City
Gracesville
Detroit
This
Pike) County
Washington Notes Appointments and Benton Case
Washington notes appointments include Chas Jones at Prague C Grellet at Algiers Edmund Johnson at Kiel Alex C Jones at Chin Kong and James Fulton to lead the bureau of provision and clothing. The Benton case correspondence is public with Benton asserting duties as U S attorney while the president defends his admonitions against political campaigning by officials. The trial of Mrs Sarah J Stevenson for murder of Archibald Stahl opens in Kr Kasparo with a crowded courtroom.
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Wasminctos
United States
Chas. Jones
Wisconsin
Prague
Grellet
California
Algiers
Edmund Johnson
New Jersey
Kiel
Alex C. Jones
West Virginia
Chin Kong
James Fulton
Bureau of Provision and Clothing
Benton
Garland
District of
Missouri
Nails Advance
Nail manufacturers of the wear met on November 17 and decided to advance prices by five cents per keg.
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Prrissune
Bonds Voted for Railroad Aid in Chase County
Corroxwoon Falls Kas November 17 Yesterday Chase county voted aid to the Chicago Kansas Western railroad for ninety thousand dollars in bonds and public support.
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Corroxwoon Falls
Kas
Chase County
Chicago, Kansas & Western Railroad
Weather Outlook for Missouri and Kansas Regions
Missouri fair weather expected with possible snow or rain in the northern portion. Temperatures slightly cooler. Kansas to see fair weather and warmer conditions with variable cloudiness and generally milder temperatures.
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Missouri
Edna
Kansas
Views of Progress Two Women Distrust Modern Inventions
Two backwoods women discuss new inventions with humor and skepticism. They question the tellyphone and electricity, imagine wires in houses, and fear a bicy Clarke. The piece satirizes 19th century progress through simple, colloquial dialogue.
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Tellygraft
Industrial World Notes From Across the Nation
A Hudson sausage plant processes fifteen hundred pounds of meat per hour and California growers export nearly fifteen million pounds of fruit this season. Inventors seek a corn cutting machine for hillside kernels. Troy Times notes plow imports to Mexico. Rochester Tumbler Company offers four thousand dollars in prizes for employee performance. Azusa forms a corporation to pipe irrigation water, replacing wasteful ditching. Swiss watchmakers average forty watches yearly. US mechanics about one hundred fifty. Americans earn three times Swiss pay in skilled tins work. Germany sees a new steel pipes process with a mold core. South Carolina farmers find rice labor unreliable as cereal demand shifts. Chicago Times hints at improved mortar strength by saccharine matter. Sugar in water boosts strength, per Chicago Tribune. Dauphin wages reveal rolling mill workers at 479 dollars, Bossaber steel at 472, printing/publishing at 487, newspapers at 473. Paris Palais de Industrie exhibits a vote registering machine to speed parliamentary voting.
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Mexico
Rochester Tumbler Company
Pennsylvania
Azusa
Los Angeles County
Cal
United States
Germany
South Carolina
Chicago Times
Chicago Tribune
Dauphin
Harrisburg
Hatriot
Bossamer Steel Works
Dauphin County
Palais de Industrie
Paris
Senate
Chamber of Deputies
M. Debayeur
Pungent Paragraphs Snapshots From The Era
A collage of humorous quotes and snippets from various papers, including W. Y. Mail, Philadelphia North American, Somerville Journal, and Omaha World-Herald. The items poke fun at readers, technology, and social mores, with sly wits on reading, swimming, secrecy, and courtship.
Fire Engulfs Makow Town in Toland
News notes report Makow in Toland, a Jewish village, on fire. Other items note a 472,247 man German army budget, a jail for a man in Indiana accused of killing his wife, France seeing ten killed in Grenoble collapse, and various European incidents including arms seizures and fires with large losses.
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Toland
James Blackwood
Ltazil
Ind
Grenoble
France
County Kerry
Ireland
Frimatain
Berne
Switzerland
Durham
N. C
J. K. Atwater
Lucius Lathrop
Newport
N.U
Bartholdi
Dresident
Secretary of the Treasury
Heinrich Prince
United States
Cousins
St Louis
Washington
Market Reports from Gea and Meovinions St Locis
Market table notes activity across AXN and related futures, with prices for wheat, corn, oats, and provisions. Entries include cash and futures bids, with details on farmers, shippers, and packing demand, plus cattle and hog quotes from New York, Chicago, and local markets.
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St. Locis
Mies
Sansas Cacy
Tency
Fred
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