Exposition meeting pledges to repeat 1892 event in11
A large Commercial Club crowd filled the rooms Monday night to back a 1893 Corn Belt Exposition. The motion to continue the Exposition work passed unanimously, with thanks given to the executive committee for last year’s success. The article also notes lectures at the Presbyterian church and local political notices.
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Sulers
Exposition Fund
Smith
Mitchell
Exjive Committee
Death List Grows From Wann Oil Train Disaster
Relatives flood Wann Alton area as coroner conducts inquests and funerals for victims of the Big Four wreck. Nineteen dead, more dying, with dozens injured after an oil-filled tank car explosion and burning wreck near Wann station. Authorities report crowded hospital and ongoing identification efforts.
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Alton
Ills
Wann Station
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Web Ross
Mattoon
Hiram Cornelius
Iowa
Edward M. Miner
Alton Junction
William Sauttuck
Upper Alton
Henry Penning
Wann
Wellie McCarry
Joan Locke
Edward Maury
Daniel Hares
Charles Urrr
William Mantha
Fosterburg
Williiams
Miller
Charles HaAnrnis
John Willimason
George Rolf
Mia
J.M. Murray
Charles Haller
Kinder
Chicago and Alton
Waun
Egyptian Cabinet Crisis and Cairo Turmoil Deepens
London reports the Egyptian situation as dire with Arabi Pasha leading the mobs while the khedive seeks Turkish and powers’ verdicts on English actions. Cabinet debates reinforce army reinforcement to protect interests and frontier, as Paris notes khedive’s cabinet independence and a six horse gift from the sultan. In Cincinnati, Thomas Ambrose surrenders after twelve years, returning from Europe to face embezzlement indictments totaling about $60,000.
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London
Lord Roseberry
Lord Cromer
England
Fakhari
Cairo
Arabi Pasha
Gladstone
Marquis of Ripon
Foreign Office
Egypt
Riaz Pasha
Paris
Cincinnati
Thomas
Ambrose
United States Court For
Southern District of
Ohio
United States
Europe
Bishop Brooks Dies Suddenly in Boston Residence
Boston reports the death of Bishop Phillips Brooks at 6:30 a.m. in his home at 238 Clarendon Street after a brief illness marked by throat trouble and diphtheria symptoms. Born December 13, 1835, he rose from rector of Trinity Church Boston to bishop of Massachusetts and was known for powerful sermons and broad ecumenical influence.
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Presbyterian Church
C.rk
Williams
America
Europe
Clark
Bethere
Boston
Phillips Brooks
Clarendon Street
H. A. Beach
R. N. Phillips Brooks
Fitz
Beach
Andover
Harvard
Alexandria
Protestant Episcopal Church of the Advent
Philadelphia
Church of the Holy Trinity
Trinity Church
Massachusetts
Benjamin Henry Paddock
Brooks
Pennsylvania
Bishop Brooks
Protestant Episcopal Church
Yale Divinity School
Jesus
Bohlen
New Coal Combine Plans 7.5 Million Financing Details
Boston January 24 report on Kidder Peabody backed coal combine outlines 7.5 million in stocks and bonds to fund mine purchases 4 million railway builds from Sydney to Louisburg 1 million terminal facilities at Montreal and Quebec 500 thousand piers at Louisburg 250 thousand ships and barges 500 thousand mine improvements with large Boston terminal expansion. Whitney named president Pearson managing director. option taken on Black Diamond steamers at 400 thousand. Capital stock projected at 20 to 22 million.
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Boston
Kidder, Peabody & Co
Coal Combine
Sydney
Louisburg
Montreal
Quebec
Whitney
Black Diamond
St. Lawrence
H. M. Whitney
F. 8. Pearson
Schools closed after deadly diphtheria outbreak in Trempeleau
In Trempeleau on January 24, seven year old Cora Patterson died from a putrid sore throat later identified as black diphtheria. The illness spread to two younger siblings and exposure risk fears led to school closures. Meanwhile in Chicago James Frank Black alias Frank Woodruff, linked to the Cronin murder case, died in the state penitentiary October 10, making the seventeenth participant in the case to die.
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Trempeleau
Cora
William Patterson
Patterson
Frank Woodruff
Cronin
Chicago
James Frank Black
Dr. Cronin
Lansing
Black
Minneapo lis Skater Sets New One Mile Record
John S. Johnson of Minneapolis, famed for breaking the bicycle world record last year, lowers the one mile skate mark to 2 45 3 3. The Hayti note reports no revolution. legation says calm prevails.
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Minneapolis
John S. Johnson
Johnson
Hayti
Paris
Haytian Legation
New York
Legation
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DR. Clark
Butte
Montana
Ly Miner
Wilbra Hamlin Swett
Easte
Wolfton
N. H
Friends
Providence
R. I
East Saginaw
Mich
Butte & Boston Smell
Brotherhood of Stationary Engineers
National Association of Engineers
Republic Party
Tatman
Epston
John Tatman
Wann Junction
Illinois
Charles Allen
Henry Jennings
John Henry, Jr
Henry Waigand
John Philfort
C. Hermann
Michigan
Adrian
H. B. Hathaway
Blissfield
Luke Lanen
George Hathaway
Malone
C. Josenhans
W. H. Barrow
St. Louis
St Louis
Carondelet Elevator
Grain Company
Missouri Pacific Railway
Pittsburg
John Federlein
George Rodler
Kate Rodler
Capen
Utah
Richmond
Lewis
James Kerr
Thomas Exeter
Fred Rainey
Clander Peart
Blaine
Santa
Lama Trav’ling
Trav’ling
Fairbank
Santa Claus
N. K. Fairbank & CO
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THE
NEW Coal Combine
Trempeleau, Wis
Postoffice
F. A. Winter & CO
Booth Bros
Aea Pherson
Taylor’s Hardware Store
Asi
SE Chemical CO
St. Paul, Minn
P. Lorillard Company
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