Quiet Waterbury Near Midnight Keeps Trolley Lines Running
Reports from militia captains at the Connecticut Railway and Lighting car barns and power house say quiet prevailed since midnight in Waterbury. Cars ran on all lines, rain kept crowds indoors, and fears of dynamite or obstructions proved unfounded. Authorities expect nightfall to bring potential disorder, but heavy rain aided peace, with strict guard and provosts continuing curb patrols and discipline.
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Waterbury
Conn
Connecticut Railway and Lighting Company
Waterville
Frost
State Troops
Dunham
New Haven County
Egan
Coal price holds at twelve in Lowell and nearby cities
The Boston Post notes coal prices fell in Boston area on Monday but Lowell Salem and Gloucester still charge 12 for anthracite while Winchester holds at 11. Dealers expect a Boston rate drop soon though the exact date remains uncertain. Strong entity mentions include Lowell Salem Gloucester.
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Boston
Boston Post
Lowell
Salem
Gloucester
Winchester
Ly Nmn
Malden
Hyde Park
Uincy Phates
Marblehead Sae
Sete
Beverly Eee
High coal prices hold firm in Salem and Gloucester
Salem and Gloucester refuse lower prices for coal stating a $12 minimum would mean a loss. Nearby towns also face the effect of ruling coal prices as OWS implications loom over the regional market.
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Salem
Gloucester
Coal dealers panic as prices drop in New York area
The Boston Journal notes coal dealers have hoarded large supplies around New York hoping for a bitter winter to push prices up. With milder weather and no blizzards, demand drops and dealers scramble to unload their expensive stock before prices fall further.
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New York
Mercury
Bliz
Boston Journal
Strike at Webster disrupts Elmsville Woolen mill
Webster February 4 The spinners at Elmsville Woolen mills are on strike over alleged quality cutbacks. The stoppage closes nearly the entire mill, affecting about 70 workers. They warn outsiders to avoid the factory, fearing attempts to fill strikers' jobs though none have occurred yet.
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Webster
Elmsville
Weavers Locked Out at American Woolen Mill
North Vassalboro February 4 The weavers at the American Woolen company in this village were locked out this morning Manager Jealous returned home last night and refused to ratify the agreement made between Superintendent Williams and the weavers A meeting of spinners and weavers with Manager Jealous is expected at noon
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Vassalboro
American Woolen Company
Jealous
Supt. Williams
Detroit and Cleveland Navigation declares 88 1 3 percent stock dividend
At the Detroit and Cleveland Navigation company annual meeting in Detroit reports show record business since organization and a stock dividend of 88 1 3 percent was declared. Over 28,000 of 30,000 shares represented. W C McMillan reelected president and general manager. Capitalization raised from 1,500,000 to 2,000,000 to absorb part of 635,000 surplus.
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Detroit
Mich
Detroit and Cleveland Navigation Company
W. C. McMillan
Gigantic Clearance of Boots and Shoes This Month
O'Sullivan Bros Co of Lowell advertises a month long clearance with new offerings daily and prices cut below competition. Opposite city hall location noted.
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Watch O'Sullivan Bros. Co
House of
Lowell
O'Sullivan Bros. Co
Big Shoe House
City Hall
First Edition Lively Labor War in Elizabethport
In Elizabethport New Jersey last night non-union shipyard workers at Townsend Downey’s yard faced an attacking iron workers’ group. Stones flew as workers emerged from Jersey Central wharf and a volley of shots followed, injuring one passerby and several non-union men. The wounded driver suffered a foot wound and a man was badly cut on the head.
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Elizabeth
N. J
Elizabethport
Townsend & Downey
Shooter’s Island
Jersey Central
Buried Under Snow Near Grand Encampment
Jack Harris, stage driver between Grand Encampment and Rudefeha, and a prominent woman passenger were buried by a snow slide in a mountain defile. The stage was buried under 10 to 12 feet of snow and debris with one horse killed. Harris and the woman survived two days and three nights without food, saved only by an accidental search party.
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Wyo
Jack Harris
Rudefeha
Harris
Blizzard Cuts Off Chicago From World
New York reports Chicago isolated by a blizzard stretching eastward past Toledo. In Cleveland the city also loses telegraph and telephone links with Chicago, as sleet storms disrupt lines. repair crews rush to fix breaks while Cleveland enjoys clear, mild weather.
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New York
Chicago
Toledo
Cleveland
City solicitor to file brief in board of health case
The city solicitor plans to file his brief today in the mandamus case before the board of health. No time was set for presenting briefs. The appropriations committee will meet this week, likely tomorrow night. A $400 sewer bill wrongly sent to the health department caused confusion, as the work was charged to an appropriations item for city stables and not ordered by the health department.
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Board of Health
Committee On Appropriations
Common Council
Health Department
Strike injunction hearing continues as Flynn closes cross exam
Lynn feb 4 e h flynn completed cross examination in the strike injunction hearing. No new developments in the Knights of Labor cutters versus b s w u dispute. Reinforcements arrive as some girls from haverhill take positions of striking shoe stitchers. Plain clothes police on duty but inactive. National organizer sieveraman of the b s w u responds to armstrong of the cutters assembly.
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Workman Armstrong
Cutters’ Assembly
Ladies slipper sale at O Sullivan Bros Co
Shoppers urged to seize today and tomorrow at O Sullivan Bros Co opposite city hall where ladies sized 2 to 4 are offered what the ad calls a genuine bargain. The piece emphasizes a last chance sale with a “slipper feast” for every pair.
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Lowell
O'Sullivan Bros. Co
City Hall
Revenue cutter Seminole to aid crews trapped by ice jam
Boston dated Feb 3 the revenue cutter Seminole rushed orders to sail for the Bay of Islands off Newfoundland to assist seven or eight vessels frozen in by a thick ice jam. The ships are valued around $100,000 with cargoes of herring valued at about $60,000 aboard.
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Boston
Revenue
Bay of Islands
New Foundland
Ayers Hair Vigor Keeps Your Own Hair Clean and Color
Jowel Sass promotes Ayers Hair Vigor as a simple way to maintain natural hair, cleanse the scalp, and restore gray hair color with ease. The ad emphasizes easy use and personal grooming benefits.
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Jowel
Man Sentenced for Sawing Own Wood in Spring Street Incident
In a Spring Street police court session Frank Saville, described as a good looking young man, was fined five dollars after an evening near Sophie Marin and her niece. He claimed memory loss and blamed a possible eyesight failure. Officer Dwyer placed him at Spring and South streets where the two women cried out. Also punished were Benjamin Orlovitch for embezzling eighty two dollars forty cents from Philip Goldman with five dollar fine and return of funds, aided by John J. Harvey. Thomas Heffron, drunk, received a suspended jail term of three months with admonitions to curb drinking, and temporary aid to obtain tools to resume woodworking. Additional fines were handed to several other drinkers. Hugh Scullion was jailed for one month.
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Frank Saville
Sophie Marin
Spring Street
Frank
T. J. Dwyer
Saville
Spring
South Streets
Savitle
Benjamin Orlovitch
Philip Goldman
Orlovitch
Goldman
John J. Harvey
Thomas Heffron
Wilson
Heffron
Church Street
Court injunction bars meeting to keep Baptist pastor
East Brookfield February 4 A Worcester Superior Court injunction stops the Narber faction from holding a church meeting in First Baptist to admit members and secure Rev. Frank B Narber’s retention as pastor. The planned gathering was canceled and a door notice was removed. Tension has split the church since the current pastor’s call a year ago with fears of a church split if Narber remains.
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Brookfield
First Baptist Church
Worcester
Narber
Frank B. Narber
Mutiny Reported Aboard Schooner Anna L Mulford
Capt. Webster of the Mount Royal reports sighting the American schooner Anna L Mulford off New Jersey January 16 leaking badly after leaving Charleston January 5 bound for New York. Captain Flentge says mutiny occurred January 13 but seeks latitude longitude and voyage guidance. no port entry found since being spoken.
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Sandy Hook
Anna L. Mulford
Mount Royal
Chinese Happenings in Canton and Reformers Plot
Hong Kong reports the arrest of a German firm’s Chinese agent in Canton for involvement with arms and stores seized by Chinese authorities on January thirty one intended for reformers. The prosecution of seven Kwang Si rebels captured January twenty seven is dropped for lack of evidence. banners and secret codes were found on arrest.
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Hong Kong
Canton
Kwang Si
Cantda
Foot Crushed in Western Avenue Freight Yard Accident
John Dane a 30 year old fireman on engine 1039 was run over at the Western Avenue crossing while on a adjacent track. His foot was caught as engine 2 backed down. the sole kept him from severe injury. He is resting comfortably at St John’s hospital and is from Concord New Hampshire. The incident occurred around 11 this morning.
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John Dane
Western Avenue
St. John’s Hospital
Dane
Concord
N. H
William Hooper Young claims to be sick in jail
New York February 4 a deputy sheriff told Justice Herrick that William Hooper Young awaiting trial for the murder of Mrs Anna Pulitzer was too ill to leave his cell District Attorney Jerome arranged a physician examination the doctor found Young very nervous but able to appear at court
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New York
Justice Herrick
William Hooper Young
Anna Pulitzer
Jerome
Young
Darrow Challenged in Cross-Examination by Justice Gray
In Philadelphia on February 4, lawyer for United Mine Workers pressed statistician H. D. Newcomb who testified for Reading Co before the Anthracite Coal Strike Commission. Chairman Gray cautioned Darrow over his cross examining methods as Newcomb defended his figures on miner danger.
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Philadelphia
United Mine Workers Today
H. D. Newcomb
Reading Company
Antharctie Coal Strike Commission
Gray
Darrow
Darren
Mr. Newcomb
Mr. Darrow
Local option returns favor prohibition in New England towns
Returns from three small hill towns leave four remote communities to report on the local option vote. The statewide tally shows 30 671 yes and 29 048 no, a 1623 majority for the measure. Overall, 152 towns voted against local option and 86 for it, with four ties.
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White River Junction
Little Hill
Dover
Glastonbury
Sherburne
Somerset
City Burning in Guthrie Oklahoma City Fire
Guthrie Oklahoma February 4 The Lion general store fire spreads quickly destroying main business blocks. Fire equipment has been dispatched from Guthrie. Oklahoma City ranks second in territory by size with a population above 10 000.
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Guthrie
Oklahoma City
Lion General Store
Boots at 50c a pair from O Sullivan Bros Co
O Sullivan Bros Co advertises 75 pairs of ladies boots in sizes 2% and 8, all marked at 50 cents. The sale urges shoppers to come early for first pick and to visit the Jowell area shoe house.
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O'Sullivan Bros. Co
Jowell
Oppeity
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William Gilligan
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Michael R. Casey
Amesbury
Frank Stimpson
William A. Murray
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