Prices of Coal Prices Ring Across Railroads Under Probe
A congressional sub committee studied how anthracite coal prices are fixed by railroads including the Philadelphia and Reading. Witnesses T M Olyphant of Delaware and Hudson Canal testified a yearly 4 million tons are mined with half moved to tidewater. he cited a 30 cent per ton rise over two years and monthly price fluctuations. Other witnesses Mackey Young & Company and William E Street discussed costs and sales meetings aimed at regulating output and prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Congressional
Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee
Philadelphia and
Reading
T. M. Olyphant
Delaware and Hudson Canal
Delaware and Hudson Canal Company
Tidewater
Hornellsville
Consul Beach
Mr. Olyphant
Comepany
Beach
Olyphant
Smith D. Mackey
Mackey, Young & Company
William E. Street
Pennsylvania Coal Company
Patterson
Two Little Ones Burned to Death The Mother Prostrated
CuicaGco reports a frame residence at 36 Edgewood avenue burned with mother escaping but suffering severe burns after attempting to rescue her children Alice aged three and Clifford age six who perished in the blaze caused by a overturned coal oil lamp.
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CuicaGco
W. L. Dessey
Edgewood Avenue
Alice
Clifford
Nation's Finances Show Year of Debt Reduction and Cash Shifts
The 1892 annual treasury report by E H Nebeker shows net ordinary revenues of $354,937,784 and expenditures of $345,023,330, yielding a reduced surplus of $9,914,453. Total receipts were $2.374 billion with gold reserves and public debt numbers detailed, including a debt of $1.588 billion and a stock of money rising by about $150 million for the year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
E. H. Nebeker
Treasury
Secretary of the Treasury
New York
Floods in Costa Rica Cause Devastation and Death
Panamanian dispatch describes Costa Rica’s ongoing floods that wreck landscapes and destroy crops, especially coffee. Landslides near Pascura threaten villages as workers abandon fields and a pending revolution rumor grows amid economic paralysis and mass unemployment.
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Panama
Republic of
Costa Rica
Pascura
Mercado
Niagara
San Jose
Ple
Sensational arrests in Swetlick murder case
In Hotton Kansas on November 28 detectives arrested Mrs. John Stach sister of the murdered farmer Paul Swetlick along with Joseph Stach and Henry Noxtwick. Swetlick valued at about $50 000 with life insurance of 87 000 motive believed to be to gain his estate by his sister.
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John Stach
Joseph Stach
Henry Noxtwick
Justifiable Homicide in Gainesville Editor Shot
Gainesville reports Charles H Pratt editor of The Daily Leader was shot and killed by Thornton Stringfellow after a discovered affair with Stringfellow's wife. The coroner's jury ruled justifiable homicide amid confidential statements. Pratt, 32, had lived in Gainesville six months. Public opinion supports the killing.
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Gainesville
Fla
Charles H. Pratt
Daily Leader
Thornton Stringfellow
Stringfellow
Pratt
Aurora
Nonunion workers leave Carnegie mills in mass departure
One hundred non union workmen left the Carnegie mills at HomeEstEad Pennsylvania in a body. Mill officials refused comment on the move. The removal opens positions for as many striking workers seeking employment.
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HomeEstEad
Carnegie Mills
Trial Begins As Rev Charles A Briggs Faces Heresy Charge
The Rev. Charles A Briggs appears before the Presbytery of New York in West Fourteenth Street to answer a charge of heresy. He defends himself aided by professors from Union Theological Seminary and argues procedural irregularities and amendments to the charges.
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Terday
New York
Charles A. Briggs
Presbytery of
Scotch Presbyterian Church
West Fourteenth Street
John C. Bliss
Washington Heights
Eery
Wa Bend
Mine Istera
Briggs
Brown
Union Theological Seminary
H. M. Field
General Assembly
Presbytery
Book of Discipline
Hero at his post Ellers promoted for extraordinary heroism
Secretary Tracy promotes Henry A. Eilers of the U S cruiser Philadelphia to acting gunner for bravery during a near fatal explosion on September 17 1892. He extinguished burning fragments at the magazine entrance amid a panic, earning a Medal of Honor under section 1407.
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Ellers
Philadelphia
New York
Tracy
Henry A. Eilers
United States
Navy
Amore
Fort McHenry
Young Eilers
Flowing Franceward Trade Rush Hits Philadelphia
In response to a heavy import tax threat from the French government after January 1 1893, exporters rush to ship petroleum to France. Steam and sail vessels gather from nearby ports to beat the deadline with New York supplies filling a deficit as Schuylkill refineries max out to meet orders.
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Philadelphia
Peorsun
France
Custom House
New York
Schulkill River
Weissert appoints G A R legislative committee
Commander in Chief Weissert of the Grand Army of the Republic names the legislation committee. Members include Joseph Way Amos J Cummings John Raines from New York, Charles P Lincoln from the Potomac, and William F Ross from Maryland. Joseph W Kay of New York City chairs. The panel will enforce laws on veterans’ government employment.
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Milwaukee
Weissert
Joseph Way
Amos J. Cummings
John Raines
Department of New York
Charles P. Lincoln
Department of the Potomac
William F. Ross
Department of Maryland
Joseph W. Kay
Commiites
Home and Country Magazine
New York City
Grand Army
Express Train Collides With Freight Near Ashburnham
Fitchburg Massachusetts November 29 a Sunday morning collision occurred when the Fitchburg railroad train carrying papers on the Cheshire branch rammed the rear of a freight. Conductor Chapman escaped with minor injuries while M F Fallon was killed and John Coleman injured. Fallon's parents live in Collinsville.
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Fitchburg
Masc
Cheshire Branch
Vermont Towns
Ashburnham
Chapman
M. F. Fallon
John Coleman
Fallon
Collinsville
Prohibition Stirs South Dakota Lawmakers Poll
The South Dakota Democratic committee based in Yankton surveys next legislature members on resubmitting the prohibitory law to the people. Seventeen of fifty two counties reported with ten senators and twenty one house members in favor, eight and fourteen opposed respectively, yielding a joint tally of thirty one for and twenty three against.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yankton
South Dakota
Democratic Committee
House
Will contest over Reynolds will shocks Indiana court
Louis Beno Indiana November 29. Judge Lowry in Fort Wayne presided over a sensational will contest tied to Hon John Reynolds who died in 1890 leaving about 1 000 000 largely to two brothers. Jury found undue influence by the brothers and the case likely heads to the supreme court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis Beno
Ind
Lowry
Fort Wayne
John Reynolds
Reynolds
Reynolds Made A Will Giving the Bulk of His Fortune To His Two Brothers. Stiit
Morton
Supreme Court
Remarkable rescue and grave robbing incidents reported
A man named David Wright slipped into a burning kiln pit at the Kentucky and Indiana cement mills and was pulled out unharmed aside from a burnt hat. In Indianapolis, a cemetery near Mount Jackson shows signs of systematic grave robbing with at least two graves desecrated, including a woman buried. Gustave Pink was arrested for selling adulterated milk as part of a city investigation into dairy purity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jeffersonville
Ind
David Wright
Kentucky
Indiana
Wright
Indianapolis
Mount Jackson
Gustave Pink
Massachusetts Avenue
Pink
Engineer Henry Meyer Dies From Wreck Injuries
Ricamont Indiana November 29 Henry Meyer engineer hurt in the Jackson Hill wreck died at St Stephens hospital yesterday afternoon. His remains were sent to Indianapolis for burial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ricamont
Ind
Henry Meyer
Jackson Hill
St. Stephen’s Hospital
Indianapolis
Race Troubles in Whitesburg Labor Row Ends in Death
In Whitesburg Alabama on November 29 a conflict among railroad workers led to James Wood being killed by a group of drunken black laborers. Four black men were arrested and jailed in Huntsville as authorities fear further violence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
Whitesburg
Nashville, Chattanooga and
St. Louis
James Wood
Woods
Huntsville
President Busy Delays Visit by Miller and Ireland
Ex Senator Warner Miller of New York and Archbishop Ireland called at the White House yesterday afternoon, but the President was too busy drafting his message to receive them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washineton
Warner Miller
New York
Archbishop Ireland
White House
Internal Revenue Receipts Increase in First Four Months
Washington reports that internal revenue receipts for the first four months of the current fiscal year exceed the same period last year by 4232 dollars. The data reflects gains across tax categories and signals improving fiscal performance.
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Internal Revenue
Washington
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