Lost Is Found in Charlestown Brother News
New York reports a Charlestown family rejoiced as architect William T Doherty learned his search for his brother John A Doherty yielded unexpected joy. John A remains missing after Cuban War service. John P Doherty is a POW in Ceylon, prompting a cross country tale of mistaken hopes and final relief.
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New York
William T. Doherty
Charlestown
Mass
John A. Doherty
Wiliam
South Africa
John P. Doherty
Ceylon
Cuba
Doherty
War Department
Army Headquarters
Pretoria
Lord Kitchener
Lawrence _ street
William Doherty
British ship Celeste Burrill bought for Manila firm
The Manila Times reports the British ship Celeste Burrill was bought at auction in Hong Kong by the Compañia General Tabaco, a Filipino company of Manila, and will thereafter fly the American flag.
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Tacoma
Wash
The
Manila Times
Celeste Burrill
Hong Kong
Compania General Tabaco
Manila
National Bank Adverts For General Banking Services
National Bank transacts general banking business with foreign exchange in English French German and Swedish money. Offers safety deposit boxes with private rooms and savings at 314 percent per annum compounded. Includes ladies banking section and acts as depository for United States and Massachusetts. Banking hours 8 am to 4 pm Monday to Friday and 8 am to 1 pm Saturday 7 to 9 pm. Banking rooms at 30 to 46 Middlesex Street and 11 to 24 Post Office Ave.
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United States
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middesex Street
Post Office Ave
Solons At Work Draft Of Enactments Follows U S Models
L S Rowe Porto Rico law revision chair arrived from San Juan aboard the Ponce and said the codes he provided will align the island’s legal system with U S principles. He noted buoyancy in Porto Rico, credit improvement, and cross party support for administration aims, including drainage, water, and sanitation projects.
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New York
L. S. Rowe
Law Revision Commission of
Porto Rico
San Juan
Ponce
Legislative Assembly
Rowe
Commission
Union
Gov. Hunt
New York Wide Open On Second Sunday Under Partridge
New York on Sunday January 13 1900s era reports a wide open city with excise law violations high. Hotels and saloons from Broadway to tenement districts sold drinks with side doors open and no sandwich meals. Tenderloin music halls closed but Bowery venues remained open selling only soft drinks. The growler passage from Battery to Harlem indicates widespread indulgence in alcohol.
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New York
New York City
Partridge
Broadway
Fifth Avenue
the Battery
Harlem
Tenderloin
Bowery
Gagnon Shots Heal. Beaudry Burial Set in Mills Incident
Miss Jennie Gagnon remains in stable condition after a head wound from Saturday's shooting at Amoskeag mills in Manchester New Hampshire. Doctors express confidence in a swift recovery as the patient is kept quiet in hospital. Annie Beaudry, who shot herself after the attempt, has been turned over to relatives for burial arrangements.
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Manchester
N. H
Jennie Gagnon
Amoskeag Mills
Annie Beaudry
Workingmen Give Large Sum for McKinley Memorial
Pittsburg reports ten thousand dollars raised by Homestead workers for the national McKinley memorial fund. The contributions, the largest in western Pennsylvania for this cause, include names of donors and will be sent to Washington this week. Most workers donated a half day's pay, from laborers to department heads.
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Pittsburg
National Fund
Homestead
Pennsylvania
McKinley Memorial Commission
Washington
Embezzlement in Corea Prompts Executions
Mail advices from Seoul report 10,000,000 yen embezzled by Korean government officials over six years. Emperor approves wholesale executions, with eighty officials implicated including ex-premier Cho Pyng Jik. Officials say funds were for salaries or expenses in tax collection.
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Tacoma
Wash
Seoul
Corea
Ye Ye Yok
Cho Pyng Jik
Disappeared girl from Kline acrobats family in St Louis
Lottie Richards an 11 year old member of the Kline family of acrobats vanished on Friday after being sent to a nearby grocery in St Louis. Her mother Mrs Laura Richards suspects kidnapping by someone aware of the girl's theatrical talents. Her half-brother Bertie Richards, 10, disappeared six months earlier under similar circumstances, with no word since.
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St. Louis
Lottie Richards
Kline
Laura Richards
North Tenth Street
Bertie Richards
Lottie
Catholic Seminary Planned to Aid Philippine Missions
New York church leaders announce a plan to establish the Seminary for the Home and Insular Missions to train about 700 missionaries for the Philippines. Father Elliott of the Paulist Fathers will head fundraising, with $300,000 required and $150,000 already promised conditionally on raising the rest.
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New York
Philippines
Islands
Father Elliott
Paulist Fathers’ Society
Paulists
Washington
Seminary For
Home and
Strong Firemen Reach Peak Membership in 1899
Frank W. Arnold, grand secretary treasurer of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, reports the order as the strongest railroad fireman body in the United States and Canada by proportion. Total membership reaches 40,720, up from under 21,000 in 1894 when the order moved to Peoria. Last year’s gain is 3,119 with insurance in force totaling $55,628,500.
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Peoria
Frank W. Arnold
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
United States
Canada
Committee to examine Maine treasurer accounts begins work
Augusta Me Jan 18 The annual committee to audit state treasurer accounts opened today. Members include Edward E Chase Blue Hill councillor Martin V B Chase Augusta Veranus L Coffin Harrington George G Weeks Fairfield Bennett B Fuller Auburn and Frederick W Plaisted Augusta a Democrat The audit is expected to take about three weeks.
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Augusta
Edward E. Chase
Blue Hill
Martin V. B. Chase
Veranus L. Coffin
Harrington
George G. Weeks
Fairfield
Bennett B. Fuller
Auburn
Frederick W. Plaisted
Plaisted
Vicksburg Dispatch Reports Minor Clash at New Chwang
Commander Edward D. Barry of the gunboat Vicksburg cables from Ying Pang that the clash with Russian soldiers in New Chwang was not serious and was orderly. The navy secretary received the message noting no date and signing as Barry.
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Washington
Long
Edward D. Barry
Vicksburg
Department
New Chwang
Ying Pang
Navy
Von Buelow Talks on Polish Question in Diet
Berlin Jan 13 The imperial chancellor Count von Buelow answered in the lower House to interpellations on the Polish issue in Prussia. He said the Wreschon incidents were exaggerated and used to cause international trouble. He vowed to drop corporal punishment in religious instruction and urged Poles to learn German and join German civilization.
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Berlin
Count von Buelow
Diet
Prussia
Wreschow
von Buelow
Wres
District of Columbia Day In The House Advances
Washington January 18 District of Columbia day in the House followed the journal reading. Mr Babcock from Wisconsin, head of the District of Columbia committee, claimed the day and the House moved to district business.
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District OF Columbia
Washington
Babcock
Wis
President of Citizens Mutual Fire Insurance Dies
Dedham Jan 13 Henry Clay Bigelow president of the Citizens Mutual Fire Insurance Co of Boston died here today of apoplexy. He had led the company since 1877 and spent 40 years in the insurance business. He was 67.
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Dedham
Henry Clay Bigelow
Citizens Mutual Fire Insurance Co
Boston
Ambassador Choate Visits President in Washington
Ambassador Choate called on the President in Washington. He plans to sail for Mangland on Wednesday and said the White House visit was to pay respects and bid farewell.
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Washington
Choate
Mangland
White House
Captain and Mate Die From Escaping Gas Pact
New York on January 13, a tugboat captain named Thomas O'Brien and an unidentified woman about fifty were found dead in a water-front hotel room. The deaths were caused by inhaling illuminating gas that leaked from two open fixtures in a chandelier.
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New York
Thomas O’brien
Payne to Take Charge as Postmaster General
Washington report states Henry C. Payne, newly appointed postmaster general, will take the oath of office Wednesday morning and immediately assume charge of the department.
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Washington
Henry C. Payne
Actress Settles Breach of Promise Suit in London
The breach of promise suit by Miss Portia Knight the American actress against the Duke of Manchester is settled out of court. The duke pays Miss Knight 1000 pounds and covers legal costs. Final papers to be signed Wednesday with payment to follow. Lawyers say trial would not have produced a grave scandal but would have exposed letters and notoriety.
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London
Portia Knight
Duke of Manchester
Miss Knight
Great Grain Elevator Fire Destroys Chicago Plant
A fire at the J. F. Weil branch of the American Malting company on Fifty second street and the Pan Handle tracks destroyed a 150 foot high elevator storing 300000 bushels of barley. Loss estimated near 275000 dollars. Pickle factory adjoining damaged. firefighters faced dangerous conditions from red hot sheets of iron as flames spread through the structure.
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Chicago
J. F. Weil
American Malting Company
Fifty-second Street
J. Weil
Checkered Life of Father Ebert Born Bavaria to Priest
The burial of Father Joseph Ebert in Kalamazoo marks the end of a romantic career. Born in Wallersley Bavaria in 1849 he served in the Bavarian army earning a captaincy, joined the Papal Zouaves, later becoming a priest and chaplain of St. Peter's in Rome. He later served as a missionary in the United States and edited a German Catholic paper in Michigan.
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Kalamazoo
Mich
Joseph Ebert
Father Ebert
Wallersley
Bavaria
Munich
Austria
St. Peter’s
Rome
Detroit
Michigan
Murphy Seeks Junior Counsel Role in Toppan Murder Case
James Suart Murphy expects appointment as junior counsel for Miss Jane Toppan, charged with murder. In a Barnstable dispatch he states he has not been in Barnstable for weeks but remains interested and has reviewed case details, aiming to join as junior counsel.
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J. Stuart Murphy
JamesSuart Murphy
Jane Toppan
Barnstable
Murphy
Miss Toppan
Toppan
Nash Inaugurated for Second Term as Ohio Governor
Columbus reports Gov Geo K Nash inaugurated for a second term. Capitol rotunda crowded with officials and citizens. A parade of U S troops state militia and political clubs followed the inaugural address and ceremony.
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Columbus
Ohio
Geo. K. Nash
State of
United States
Judge Hadley in Lowell police court three months jail with probation
Offenders faced Judge Hadley in the Lowell police court this morning. Several drunkards were placed on probation or sent to the state farm while others paid fines. Elizabeth Clark, already on probation, was jailed for six months, and Louis Devillers and Alphonse Van der Noortgaete paid two dollar fines after pleading drunk. A man named Napoleon LaRoque claimed whiskey caused his intoxication and was sent to the state farm. The row included non support case against Fred A. Shaw, who agreed to six dollars weekly and probation, and theft cases against Joseph F. Blood and Henry C. Reed, the latter caught fleeing after a pocketbook theft. Continued on Page 7.
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Hadley
John O'Neil
Emerson
Lowell
Gaston” Lemoyne
Alphonse’ van der Noortgaete
Napoleon LaRoque
State Farm
Elizabeth Clark
Superior Court
Ramsay
Fred A. Shaw
Shaw
Joseph FE
Blood
Fred Nichols
Eliot Block
Nichols
Massachusetts Reformatory
Henry C. Reed
Celia M. Phelps
Central Street
Drum and Fire Corps
Maguire
Hurd Street
Phelps
Reed
Halifax
Dr. Clifford
D. TL. Page Company
Peter A. Fay
Morrisey in critical condition after Old Colony Street accident
Taunton Jan 13 William Morrisey the young man hurt yesterday on the Old Colony Street railway is now in worse condition with little hope of recovery.
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Taunton
Wm. Morrisey
Old Colony Street Railway
Root Arrives to Fight Gardner in San Francisco Card
Chicago boxer Jack Root has arrived in San Francisco to face George Gardner for the middleweight championship on January 21 at the San Francisco Athletic Club. The articles of agreement have been signed confirming the bout details.
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San Francisco
Jack Root
Chicago
George Gardner
San Francisco A.C
Black Hair Ayer’s Hair Vigor restores gray to color
For fifty years Ayer's Hair Vigor has been used to restore color to gray hair and to stop hair from falling. Priced at $1 sold by all druggists. Geyer Co. Lowell, Mass.
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Ayer
G Ayer CO
Lowell, Mare
Venus shadow cast by planet observed in Nice
Nice France January 13 reports from M Giacobini chief astronomer of the Nice observatory that after the moon set at 7 o clock yesterday evening Venus was so bright it cast shadows on walls. This marks the first recorded instance of the phenomenon.
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Nice
France
M. Giacobini
Nice Observatory
Nixon Takes Post as Tammany Finance Chief
New York on January 18 reports Lewis Nixon assuming duties as chairman of the Tammany Hall finance committee. He sat at the desk formerly used by Richard Croker and began his tenure managing party finances.
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New York
Lewis Nixon
Tammany Hall
Richard Croker
Hohenzollern Set to Sail for New York in January
Wilhelmshaven reports the imperial yacht Hohenzollern will sail for New York on January 18. The band of the second naval division will accompany the emperor aboard the yacht on the voyage to the United States.
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Wilhelmshaven
Germany
Hohenzollern
New York
Second Naval Division
United States
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Boston Citizen
Foreign Exchange
Letters of Credit
the Traders National Bank
P. M
Parker
COAL
Lowell Gas Light Company
Prescott Street
Solons AT Work
Code of Law
U. S
Island
American Institutions
M’kinley Fund
Kline Acro
Catholic Seminary
Maine Commission
State Treasury
Barry
PRES
Ambassador Choate
Sec
Payne
Portia
Duke
Fr. Ebert
Nash
Sale Boys
Merrimack Clothing Company
City Hall
Morrisey
Gardner
Venus
Appleton National
Geo. W. Fifield
Fred H. Ela
Charles H. Allen
Fred A. Buttrick
George W. Fipsild
Wm.e Livingston
Elshaj Neale J. W
Nixon
Q’sullivan Bros. Co
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