BOODLERS WORSTED IN CHICAGO GARBAGE OF NEWS
The Leader reports Chicago had its streets filled with a wild mix of crashy disorder and uproar as city officials moved to strike down doodle gas and electric ordinances. Judge Payne ruled the ordinances void but allowed the attorney general to pursue remedy, noting some old charter provisions survive despite attempts to substitute. The piece also notes wild scenes of wind and chaos in Chicago streets, bloomers in Victoria, and a string of political and crime related items across multiple regions.
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Par
Neas
Payne
Chicago
Masonic Temple
Victoria
B. C
Ethel Delmont
Gidiva Lad
Yaze
Wthel
Miss Delmont
George Loshi
Nesanally
Puyallup
Muckleshoot
Bouchett
Dominic
Domnic
Seattle
Wasl
Arivona T
Walla Wallaa
Washington and Columbia Railroad
Trinidad
Colo
Ginchnnati
Louisville
Whisky Trust
McNulta
Crime and Casualty Chronicle Evidence of Brutal Crimes and Tragedies
A compendium of murder and assault cases across the nation includes Thomas Hoffman, an express agent in Bisthewood DC, killing himself during arrest for embezzlement, and a spate of killings and robberies in Buffalo, Smithport, and Petersburg. Clarence and Sadie Robinson receive life and twenty years for murder and manslaughter, while other cases involve mob violence, ore theft at Cripple Creek, electrocution deaths in Petaluma, and a fatal railway collision near Dallas. Police pursuit in Denver and Camden shots, counterfeiting arrests in Butte, and a spring-gun incident in Shelbyville left victims crippled or dead.
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Thomas Hoffman
Express Company
Bisthewood
D. C
Rence P. Baldwin
Ioosick
Buffalo
Clarence Robinson
Sadie
Montgomery Gibbs
Smithport
Matthews
Indiana
Joseph Wade
James Howard
Kansas State
Petersburg
Tenn
Fremont
Solon McCloskey
Cripple Creek
William 8. Pierce
Petaluma Eleetric Light and Dower Company
Bierce Telephone Company
Clifornia, Dairymen's Union
Wos
Petaluma
Gal
Pierce
Missouri
Kansas
Texas
Dallas
Exnog
Wigher
Hearne
Bolts
Ilinden
al Moore
Pat Crowe
Denver
Camden
N. 7
Ely
Norwich
Conn
Bryn Mawr
al Judd
Des Moines
Halley Miller
W. Currier
George Perkins
Butte
Mont
Calvin Ross
Shelbyville
Ind
Disastrous fires strike several towns and mills
A Burlington wood shop blaze at J R Booth and a series of outbreaks wreck major facilities. The Baldwin Refrigerator Co and Vermont Roller Shade Co works burned, W J Milling ton died, and about 825 workers lost jobs as northern lumber mills may not be rebuilt. Other fires hit Peoria Wisconsin Sioux City Iowa St Paul Minnesota New Orleans and Washington with substantial losses and one arson suspect.
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Burlington
J. R. Booth
Pioneer Lumber
Baldwin Refrigerator Company
Vermont Roller Shade Company
W. J. Millington
Mike McDonald
Galveston
Lexus
Devein
Peoria
Knights of Pythias
N. Kreisman
J. P. Schnellbacher & Sons
Kilborn
Cooper Shop
San Franciseo
Sioux City
Iowa
Slick & Co
St. Paul
New Orleans
Washington
Personal mentions and society notes from a challenged will case and deaths
Henry and a man named Johnson in Lexington are contesting a will involving Mrs. Robert FP. John Bohen, a Boston orbiter, and Theresa Gertrude Butler are said to be engaged, kept secret by her agents who oppose it. Holmes, long prominent in Chicago finance and real estate, dies in Milwaukee from the grip with kidney trouble. General Adam Badeau, once Grant's military secretary, is noted as deceased in Ridgewood, aged 64. Charles Broadway Rouss, a New York millable merchant, is described as losing his eyesight.
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Hamlin
Washington
J. Dimbly
Jamestown
N. Y
Qathalies
Omaha
St. Paul
Philadelphia
Tower
Mion
Dimote
Ohio
Delaware
Oyeston
Iowa
Ullnois
Joseph Vaslin
Natehloches
Tay
May
Anthony
Henry ‘Reddick
Yancaster
Henry
Hette
Robert FP
Tohnson
Lexington
John Bohen
Boston
Migs
Theresa Gertrude
Butler
Howard
G. Butler
Tia Holmes
Chicago
London
Hidgewood
N. d
Charles Broadway Rouss
New York
Jils
Secretary Gresham Kay Demands Regal of Tork A Pharson
From Washington, Secretary Gresham Kay demanded the regal of Tork A, Pharson, Hawaitin Minister at Washington, My, Thurstan.
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Gresham Kay
Pharson
Hawaitin
Washington
Thurstan
Havana to ask recall of Thurston in Washington
Washington dispatch reports pressure on Hawaii to withdraw Minister Thurston from the capital amid claims he has become distasteful to the President and Secretary Gresham. The Venezuelan case dominates U S attention as Cleveland and Gresham discuss Britain’s Nicaragua demands and potential actions to enforce reparations under the Monroe Doctrine.
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State Department
Washington
Thurston
Gresham
United States
Ihnas
Cleveland
Ambassador Bayard
London
Great Britain
England
Bayard
Nicaragua
Bluefields
Global War News and Naval Dispatches Cross North Atlantic
Over 1000 killed in a battle near Ima Penu. Delaware arrives at Liverpool with crew from the Donan after a mid ocean fire. Japanese warships seen near Formosa ports. Britain reassures US on Nicaragua borders. Huender rebellion crushed. London police clash with brokers in Throgmorton Street. Saimouth blast kills 13 with injuries. Havana’s Luchan claims Allianca carried Maceo brothers to Sandy Hook after Spanish fire. Alfonso XII brings two battalions to Guantanamo. Muruaga to resign as Spanish minister to the US. Li Hung Chang confined aboard ship at Shimonseki. Whistler ordered to deliver portrait to Lady Eden and pay damages.
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Ima
Penu
Delaware
Thomas
New York
Liverpool
Midocean
Formosa
England
United States
Nicaragua
Huender
London
Throgmorton Street
Saimouth
Luchan
Havana
Cuba
Allianca
Conde de Venadito
Antonio Maceo
Jose
Sandy Hook
Alfonso XII
Guantanamo
Barcelona
Madrid
Senor Muruaga
Li Hung Chang
Shimonseki
Japan
Whistler
Lady Eden
Margin loss case shocks Chicago traders and alters trust
Judge Tuley ruled in favor of Mary Wallace against Jamieson & Co. on stock margin losses of about 10,000, prompting appeals and widespread doubt about the credit system on the Chicago Board of Trade and Stock Exchange. Merchants call the ruling a threat to commerce and fear it would equate trading to gambling. Separately, arrests followed grand jury indictments of New York police officials. Other news covers new federal judges, rising internal revenue receipts, Newfoundland relief funds, and European heirs claims.
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Chicago Board of Trade
The
Stock Exchange
Tuley
Mary Waallace
M. M. Jamieson & Co
Mary Wallace
Jamieson
Exchange
Marta
Tiley
New York
William McLaughlin
Jacob Seibert
J.Z. Donohie
M. J. Murphy
James K. Price
John L. Stevenson
William
Devery
Edward
Glennon
Reward
Gill
Burns
Williamvm. Springer
Milnois
Constantine Buckley Kilgore
Texas
United States Court of Indian Territory
Interal
Boston
Newfoundland
Amelia de Dano
Brooklyn
United States
Foo Chow
China
Joseph St. Ledger de Harpart
Range
Phe
Holstein-lglerian Association of American
Prewi
Various Leaders Named in Union and State Posts
Disjointed notes list names such as D. dent Wilbur Otago N Wy and S. Bureford Marison County New York, plus M. R. Seeley Michigan and J. Mo Cillette Wisconsin. The text mixes political titles, suffrage loss in Maine, indictments for New Orleans vote leaders, and a Findlay Ohio case about poker losses. It also covers a bachelor tax proposal, plans for an asylum, emigration outlook, orange crop frost impact, and labor organizing among Chinese laundry workers.
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Maine
Senate
Findlay
Ohio
Walkeer
Ulingia
Florida
Unu
New York
Knights of Tador
Bob Hilliard
Frederick de Belleville
War of Wealth
St. Louis
Dr. Tolley
Greytown
Colon
Nicaragua
Window Glass Trust Forms National Association
The window-glass industry forms the National Association of Window Glass Manufacturers in Pittsburg with TF. L. Botine of Philadelphia as president. The Piedmont cable road in Oakland sold for $82,000 to bondholders. Wood Tarvester Company seeks settlement to end receivership. Genon State Bank in Genon, Nebraska closes and is under state examiner. assets and liabilities unknown after reorganization with a woman as president. Twenty-Waymerger exits sugar trust to tour Europe. New York electrical workers strike ends. Fourteen Amsterdam diamond cutters detained in New York under wine contract hib or hiw.
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Window-Glass Trust
Pittsburg
National Association of Window Glass Manufacturers
TF. L. Botine
Philadelphia
Piedmont
Oakland
Cal
C. R. Bishop
Wood Tarvester Company
Genon
Neb
Genon State Bank
Market Report Highlights Across Major Cities
Regional market figures list cattle hogs sheep and grain prices for Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toledo Buffalo Milwaukee and New York. Prices vary by commodity with wheat corn oats rye butter and vegetables noted alongside per bushel and per hundredweight ranges.
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Chicago
Castle
Sku Indinapolis
St. Louis
Steve
Detroit
Milwaukee
New York
Reina Regente Lost Seconal Search Proves Disaster True
The Spanish cruiser Reina Regente is believed lost with 420 hands after a wreck near the Straits of Gibraltar. Divers and ships Alfaonso XII and Isla de Luzon searched for bodies, while pieces of boats and flags were found near Ceuta and Tarifa. The Reina Regente, launched in 1887, was one of three second class cruisers, 4800 tons, 20 knots, with a 50 foot beam and 20 foot four inch draught.
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Alfonso Xit
Bajo Acitnnos
Noo
Straits of Gibraltar
Isla de Luzon
Wila
Alfonso XII
Cadiz
Tangier
Spain
Coant
Cuba
Nueva Espana
Reina Regente
Alfonso MII
Lepanto
British ultimatum over Nicaragua indignant reaction in Washington
Dispatch from Managua reports Britain has pressed Nicaragua with an ultimatum demanding a £15000 indemnity for the expulsion of British consular agent Hatch and the creation of a three member commission to judge damages to British subjects. Britain to appoint one commissioner, Nicaragua another, and a third not an American. A British warship is en route to enforce the terms, while U S officials say Hatch was not recognized by Nicaragua and acted to foment trouble in the Mosquito reservation. Some Washington figures call for Hatch’s execution for complicity in the revolt, yet express surprise at Britain’s strong stance.
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Managua
Nicaragua
Hatch
Bluefelds
Mosquito Reservation
Great Britain
United States
Washlington
Bivefields
Bluetielle
Vic
Hin
Trateh
Watch
Washington
Sail for the Promised Land Emigration to Liberia
Two hundred Georgia Negroes boarded the steamer Morsay at Savannah for Liberia. Crowds cheered along the wharves as the ship sailed, with singers leading a farewell chorus. The United States laws on passenger carriage were observed before embarkation, as Migration Society officials prepared the colonial voyage.
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Bog
Tneir
Liberia
Morsay
Savannal
Vhose
Religious gathering amid ship tragedy sparks lasting resolve
Survivors and colonists recount a violent shipboard incident that left more than 5 000 aboard unable to board. People of all ages, including children, gathered in prayer and shared apples as they faced the loss, creating a memorable moment for those who remained and later departed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Africa
Heroine Lilyan McMullen Sacrifices Life For Two Children At Sea
Sag Harbor dispatch reports 15 year old Lilyan McMullen died saving two Gordon children and a large dog as they crossed a frozen bay. She warned others to keep back but slipped into a hole in the ice. The elder child clung to Lilyan while the younger was pulled to safety by Lilyan and Rover the dog before the ice gave way.
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Peronic Bay
Lilian McMullen
Sag Harbor
L. 1
Dispatch
George Gordon
Lillian
Tallian
Jillian
Gordons
Rover
Gordan
McMullen
Gordon
The Brave Mc Mullen Girl Sacrifices Self in Ice Rescue
Lillian McMullen steadies a drowning Gordon girl and guides her to safety as ice breaks. She urges the other child to climb over her and fights frostbite and exhaustion, finally slipping under the water as the two survivors reach home sobbing and shaken.
Revenue for eight months shows large gains and a February dip
A report by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue lists eight month receipts totaling 100,532,406 with increases for spirits and tobacco but a decline in fermented liquors and an overall comparative gain of 5,180,622. February 1805 shows a drop of 1,70,445 while cash balance stands at 184,000,305 and gold reserves at 90,445,002.
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Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Spain Fires Again Destroys American Schooner Irene
Key West reports say the American schooner Irene was fired upon and dismantled by the Spanish cruiser Taranta Isabel near Puerta del Padre Cuba. The vessel was not flying the American flag, as inquiries seek to verify.
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Irene
Key West
Taranta Isabel
Tort Meyers
Punin Gorda
Guba
Traily
Trene Liva
Puerta del Padre
Cuba
Arcedo
Agente Ao
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Leader
Malvern
Windy City
Northwest
Crime and Casualty
Gibraltar
John Bull
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