Roosevelt Boy Shows Improvement at Groton Infirmary
Groton February 1 Theodore Roosevelt Jr son of the President awoke from a long night in double pneumonia showing partial improvement. Left lung crisis passed though right lung still threatened by pleurisy with possible pleuro pneumonia. Mrs Roosevelt and the President stayed by his side through the night and morning as doctors reported better vital signs and continued careful monitoring.
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Groton
Groton School
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Wm. A. Gardner
Brekfast
Alexander Lambert
New York
Cortelyou
O'Clock
Sioux and Assiniboine chiefs press half reservation plan
A delegation from Fort Peck Montana, led by Chiefs John Long Dog Bear Fighter and Chester Arthur, traveled through St Paul to petition Washington to cede half their reservation for settlement. They request continued aid only for elders, women, and disabled, noting their tract would remain 20 by 40 miles with about 1800 Indians on the reservation.
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St. Paul
Minn
Fort Peck
Mont
Washington
John Long Dog
Bear Fighter
Chester Arthur
Long Dog
Stone Affair In Balkans Delays Ransom Talks
Constantinople Feb 11 The American delegates at Seres Macedonia continue negotiations with brigands after the failed ransom talks for abducted American missionary Miss Ellen M Stone and her companion Mme Tsilka.
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Constantinople
Seres
Macedonia
Ellen M. Stone
Mme. Tsilka
Cleveland City Council OKs three-cent streetcar fares
Cleveland Ohio February 11 the city council voted 21 to 1 to authorize the director of law to draft ordinances establishing a three cent fare system for street car routes in the city.
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Cleveland, O
Fire destroys Bass's summer home in Fort Wayne
A suburban summer home of J. H. Bass, noted billionaire iron founder, burned early today in Fort Wayne Indiana. Estimated loss is about 200000 dollars.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
J. H. Bass
Rochester Man’s Death By Poison Linked To Jobless Plight
Rochester police report James Paveny aged 50, of Rochester New York, took his own life last night by drinking carbolic acid after failing to find work. The death was ruled a suicide amid unemployment hardship.
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Rochester
N. Y
James Paveny
Burning schooner off Cape May baffles lifesaving crews
Five life saving stations from Cape May, Cape May Point, and Two Mile Beach battled ice packed Delaware Bay waters to reach a burning schooner on Friday night. Crews fought through dense ice and freezing conditions until 3 a.m. with failure and one rescuer, Enoch Roseman, severely frozen. The hulk drifted in the harbor ice today as smoke rose from the blaze. The captain reportedly set fire to the vessel after becoming trapped in drifting ice.
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Cape May
N. J
Cape May Point
Two- Mile Beach
Here
Enoch F&. Roseman
Fire engulfed two masted schooner off Cape May
Tugs Somers N. Smith and Juno, sent to aid a burning two masted schooner two miles off Cape May, reported the vessel burned to the water line with no identifyable name. Despite rockets and a daylight search by the steam pilot boat Philadelphia, no crew members were found.
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Delaware Breakwater
Del
Somers N. Smith
Juno
Cape May
Philadelphia
Cold Spring life savers return after Cape May schooner fire search
Atlantic City Feb 11 The Cold Spring life saving crew returned at daylight after a six hour ocean chase for the schooner crew off Cape May. They were nearly exhausted by cold and exposure from the perilous small boat voyage.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Cold Spring Life Saving Station
Cape May
Broom Makers Move Up Meeting Date in Chicago
Chicago February 11 the Broom Manufacturers association of the United States and Canada has shifted its Chicago meeting from February 25 to February 18. A general advance of several cents per dozen for brooms was decided, with more increases likely due to the broom corn crop shortage.
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Chicago
Hidden treasure found by covetous admiral
Victoria March 11 At a meeting of the Pacific Exploration Company a letter from Admiral Palliser, former commander of the British Pacific squadron, offered to reveal the hiding place of Cocos Island treasure if awarded one fourth of the proceeds if the current expedition fails. The admiral earlier searched the island and located the treasure but planned to recover it after retirement.
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Navy
Killed on the Rail near Lovell Bridge in Somerville
John A. Hughes a longtime Boston and Maine section hand was instantly killed last evening beneath the Lovell railroad bridge while returning home after a day's work. The 57 year old married father of three was struck as a freight train was being assembled. a son had died in a train accident years earlier.
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Boston
John A. Hughes
Boston & Maine Railroad
Lovell
Boston & Albany
Somerville
Hughes
Pensions Granted Include $10 to Daniel Riley
Among recently granted pensions is a $10 stipend to Daniel Riley of this city and a renewal of $12 for Mary J. Willey.
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Daniel Riley
Mary J. Willey
King Edward's First Levee at St James Palace
London February 11 King Edward held his first levee since accession at St James's Palace. The event drew the Prince of Wales Duke of Connaught and large crowds with diplomats cabinet ministers and military officers present. A new feature allowed attendees to kiss the King's hand rather than kneel as at Queen Victoria's levee. Crowds witnessed the arrivals and departures of attendees including Allison Armour of Chicago and Chas Gibson of Boston.
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London
Edward
St. James's Palace
Prince of Wales
Duke of Connaught
Marlborough House
Royal
Messrs
Allison Armour
Chicago
Chas. Gibson
Boston
Victoria
Dash to death in mine car at No 11
Three miners were riding a descending mine car when a grip failed causing a fatal plunge to the track end. All three occupants, Mike Smith John Jackim and John Rabbler, were killed instantly including a severed head in the grisly accident near South McAlister I T.
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South McAlister
I. T
Fel
Mike Smith
John Jackim
John Rabbler
Kansas relief fund sends 83.51 for Paterson fire victims
Topeka treasurer reports 83.51 telegraphed to famine sufferers in India, the remaining Kansas India relief committee fund. The money arrived after the last draft and was awaiting a suitable use opportunity before distribution.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas India Relief Committee
Paterson
India
Governor McBride to Dismiss Rail Pass Acceptors
Tacoma Washington February 11 Governor McBride vows to fire any state employee who accepts a railroad pass as part of his campaign against the railway lobby. He pledges to crush the lobby and enforce strict ethical standards across state offices.
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Tacoma
Wash
McBride
Ayer's Pills Promoted for Tongue Cleaning and Digestion
An 19th century advertisement touts Ayer's Pills as a cure for coated tongue dyspepsia and liver issues. It claims the medicine cleans the tongue, improves digestion, and restores liver function, noting it is easy to take and operate and priced at 25 cents.
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Ayer
AM Druggis S
Dead in Merrimack boarding house Patrick Sweeney dies
Patrick Sweeney, about 42, found dead in his Merrimack boarding house room with empty liquor bottle and drained quart bottle beside him. Death ruled from acute alcoholism after inquiry by Dr. Guy W. Greeley and Coroner Hunt. Sweeney worked at a Merrimack tannery and lived with Octave Binette. Relatives not located after town efforts.
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Patrick Sweeney
Merrimack
N. H
Sweeney
Octave Binette
Michael Madden
Apeenest
Pitt
Guy W. Greeley
Hunt
Nashua
Behring Sea Vessels Faced With Unalaska Ban
A Seattle despatch publishes Collector J W Ivey’s directive to Unalaska officials banning British pelagic sealing vessels from Canadian ports from port privileges and tonnage dues. They must depart if refused, risk seizure with marshals and cutters, and may only aid distressed ships to return home.
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Seattle
Wash
The
Post- Intelligencer
Unalaska
J. W. Ivey
Alaska
Behring Sea
Dutch Harbor
United States
Great Britain
United States Marshal and Revenue Cutter
Public Bequests From Thos Robertson Will Rockford
Thos Robertson estate in Rockford Illinois valued around 560000 will total 30000 in bequests to multiple institutions. Named beneficiaries include Chicago Theological Seminary Rockford College Resoff College Rockford Hospital Association American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions American Sunday School Union American Bible Society Congregational Home Missionary Society New York American Missionary Association Congregational Church Building Society with balances to family equally after small legacies.
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Rockford
Chicago Theological Seminary
Thos. Robertson
Rockford College
Resoft College
Rockford Hospital Association
American Board of Commissioners For Foreign Missions of Massachusetts
American Sunday School Union
American Bible Society
Congregational Home Missionary Society of New York
Amerian Missionary Association
Congregational Church Building Society
Against the Road: Boston and Northern Railroad Tracks Contested
Lawrence aldermen move to block the Boston and Northern street railway from laying tracks under a location granted last year but now revoked. A $110,000 debt for overdraft relief in city departments was approved, along with final passage of a $50,900 Shanty Pond sewer project. M. A. Scanlon was confirmed as milk inspector and BE. C. Stiegler as a health board member.
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M. A. Scanlon
BE. C. Stiegler
Board of Health
Lynn Men Held for Shoe Larceny
Edward P. Alpine and John Ward were held in 1200 bail each for superior court on charges of larceny of shoes from the Boston and Maine railroad. They were arrested by Boston inspectors after two weeks of wholesale larceny from freight cars and were discharged in municipal court for lack of jurisdiction yesterday.
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Lynn
Edward P. Alpine
John Ward
Boston and Maine Railroad
Superior Court
Boston
Boston Municipal Court
Fire on Indravelli Holds Port Return in Fortland
A fire in the hold of the steamship Indravelli forced a return to port after starting for Asia last Thursday. The blaze continues to burn and cotton cargo losses are expected to be heavy.
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Fortland, Ore
Asia
Gagnon and Lessard Trial and Sentencing
Thomas and Michael Savage brothers faced Lowell police court on charges tied to ferret hunting a rabbit. Thomas was found guilty of using a ferret and fined $20. Michael was acquitted of that charge but later found guilty of assaulting an officer and fined $15. Kehoe faced multiple larceny complaints with a week-long case continuation. Other defendants included Patrick Fels, ordered to three months at the workhouse, and Gagnon with Miss Lessard in a drugging claim. both received sentences in separate actions.
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Thomas
Michael Savage
Dracut
Frank Scott
John Smith
Thomas Savage
Michael
Lowell
Scott
Smith
Savage
Savangé
Hadley
Guily
Angelo Kehoe
Welch
Kehoe
Edward Gray
James Keefe
Lawrence Street
Thomas H. Owens
Benjamin C. Green
Martha Bailey
Chambers Street
Leith
Frank B. Swett
Levi Gagnon
Mary Lessard
Gagnon
Corporation
Wentworth
Miss Lessard
Waltham
Newburypot
Sherborn
House of Correction
Michael Kiernan
John Murphy
In a Bad Way William Traversy in Critical Condition
William Traversy, who fell down stairs at Farrell and Conaton's block on Dutton Street Sunday night, lies in a critical state at St John’s hospital. Doctors diagnose concussion and possible brain hemorrhage, with fatal outcome likely if hemorrhage is confirmed. He remains semi conscious at times and doctors hesitate to operate until hemorrhage is ruled out.
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William Traversy
Farrell & Conaton
Dutton Street
St. John’s Hospital
Traversy
Installation of Rev Robert F True as pastor of Immanuel Baptist
Rev Robert F True will be formally installed as pastor of Immanuel Baptist church on Thursday evening February 13 at 7 30. Rev C L Jackson evangelist now pastor in Whitman will preach the sermon. Other parts will be by Rev W H Eaton D D secretary of the Massachusetts Baptist convention Rev Thomas S Sayer former pastor and local Baptist pastors. Mr W J Beacon choir leader will direct the singing assisted by Mr C J Estey leading gospel soloist of New England.
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Robert F. True
Immanuel Baptist Church
City
C. L. Jackson
Whitman
W. H. Eaton
D. D
Massachusetts Baptist Convention
Thomas S. Sayer
W. J. Beacon
C. J. Estey
New England
Two Dead in Gas asphyxiation Tragedy in Philadelphia
Mrs Toutea Vannella aged 25 and her 2 year old child died from illuminating gas in their home at 739 South Clarion street. Her two other children were found in the same room near death but revived after hospital admission.
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Philadelphia
Toutea Vannella
South Clarion Street
Coronal disturbance linked to Sumatra eclipse sun spot
A telegram from Lick Observatory reports Prof. Perrine finding that the notable coronal disturbance observed during the Sumatra eclipse occurred immediately above the sole sun spot visible for 11 days, according to Harvard College Observatory.
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Cambridge
Harvard College Observatory
W. W. Campbell
Lick Observatory
Perrine
Sumatra
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Patrick J. Fels
John T. Fels
Patrick
Immanuel Church
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