Omaha to be terminus of Des Moines line extension
Omaha gains status as the end point of a Chicago St Paul and Kansas City extension from Des Moines. John M Egan president GM of the road visits Omaha and discusses multiple routing options with city officials and investors.
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Chicago, St. Paul
Kansas City Railroad
Weyding
Omaha
Omaua
Neb
Kansas City
Des Moines
John M. Egan
St. Paul
Town
Rock Island
Passenger Rate War Rumors Roil St Paul Lines
Chaos grips local passenger rates as Chicago meeting fails to settle tensions. Soo South Shore and St Paul Chicago lines balk at concessions, Minneapolis and St Louis refuse to cancel second class rates tied to large ticket blocks, risking broader eliminations and differential conflicts among routes.
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St. Paul
Sr. Paul
Chicago
Soo-South Shore Lines
St. Paul-Chicago Lines Decided To Withdraw From the St. Paul
Minneapolis
St. Louis
Albert Lea
Absorbed the Midland Atchison completes Colorado Midland deal
Atchison directors meet in Boston and approve the acquisition of the Colorado Midland railway. The line runs from Colorado Springs to Leadville with branches to Aspen and Jerome Park coal fields, totaling 276.76 miles main track and 37.08 miles of sidings. The deal ties into a through route to Denver and Salt Lake City. A separate Santa Fe note clears rumors on San Francisco access and Mackey Line troubles are settled in Evansville with a wage standard agreed.
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Atchison Company
Boston
Atchison
Colorado Midland Railway
Colorado Midland Railroad
Colorado Springs
Rifle
Leadville
Colo
Aspen
Jerome Park
Spr Ng
Denver
Salt Lake City
Oregon
Santa Fe
San Francisco
Southern Pacific Company
Santa Fe Company
Atlantic and Pacific Railway
Engineers Corps
Belle Hamlin and Justina Race to 2 13 1 4 at Independence
In Independence Iowa on October 27 Belle Hamlin and Justina the double trotting team aimed for 2 15, the world record, and finished in 2 13 1 4 aided by rough weather. The cold rainy day hindered faster times. The pair started Monday pursuing the mark.
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Belle Hamline
Justina
Independence
Iowa
Belle Hamlin
Pattison Libel Suit Spurs Warrants in Philadelphia
Former Governor Robert W. Pattison filed libel charges after affidavits were signed against Jamies Wiveron The Inquirer editor Charlie H Eustis and others. Warrants issued. article linked to Harrisburg Call and Enquirer North American publications. Call headlines attacked Pattison’s actions and the veto incident.
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Sven Philadelphia
Tibet
Philadelphia
Robert W. Pattison
O'Brien
Fifteenth Street
Ridge Avenue
Jamies Wiveron
The
Inquirer Company
Charlies H. Eustis
Inquirer
Clayton McMichael
North American
W. F. Jordan
J. J. McInaured
Harrisburg Call
Pattison
Enquirer
Robert FE. Pattison
South Penn
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Judge Black
Senate
Lord High Sheriff in Jail over Blythe case dispute
San Francisco and London linked case revolves around Lord High Sheriff Hutton who, after a quarrel with fellow lawyer Donague over Blythe estate fees, was jailed seeking bail. A syndicate of Savage heirs funded lawyers’ expenses but internal disputes led to arrests and a $96,000 judgment against Donague.
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Blythe
San Francisco
Hutton
London
Donague
Savage Heirs
Chicago Steamfitters Strike Demands Higher Wages
Three hundred steamfitters and helpers walk out in Cuicano after a heated meeting at 106 Randolph Street. The strike follows employers’ refusal to grant a 15 to 20 percent wage increase and to recognize the Steamfitters Protective association.
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Cuicano
Steamfitters Protective Association
Randolph Street
Employers’ Association
Steamfitters’ Association
Vienna to Expand City Limits and Population
Vienna plans to double its size extending from about twenty square miles and 700,000 people to sixty five square miles and 1.3 million. A 189 member town council will govern the enlarged capital, effective January 1 1892, placing Vienna near three times Berlin in area.
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Vienna
Berlin
Europe
Budapesth
Prague
Germany Blocks Reciprocity Talks With Austria
London reports an obstacle in the Frankfurt treaty that guarantees France equal commercial privileges with Germany toward any trading partner. German manufacturers, hurt by the loss of American trade, fear French competition and conclude negotiations will fail.
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Germany
London
Austria
France
Foreign Iron Men visit Bland furnace in Baltimore
About 350 European representatives of the iron and steel industries toured Bland furnace plant and mills in Baltimore guided by a local committee. After a luncheon the group split, with some boarding a special train to New York and others visiting the harbor aboard the steamer Columbia before continuing to Niagara Falls by train.
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Baltimore
Balimore
Europe
Iron and Steel Industries
Bland
New York
Columbia
Niagara Falls
Governor Hill Train Collision Near Moundsville
Governor Hill's special train on the Baltimore and Ohio line collided with a Chicago express east of Moundsville station. The governor's train suffered a demolished cow catcher but no injuries occurred. the other train's engine and a car platform were damaged. Archbishop Ireland and Bishop Shanley met Secretary Noble seeking seclusion rights for sisters at Devil's Lake Dakota school. Noble gave no action yet.
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Moundsville
W. Va
Chicago Express
Moundsville Station
Ireland
Shanley
Noble
Washington
Devil’s Lake’ Reservation
Dakota
Stormwrecked Vessels Rumor and Flooded Towns Across New Jersey
A fierce coastal storm floods southern New Jersey. Elizabeth river and Newark Bay area faces rising waters with possible bridge damage. Barnegat bay sees wrecked schooners and capsized yachts. Far Rockaway reports an ashore steamship and property losses around Long Beach, Hogg Island, and Craig's arbor area with extensive disruption to communication.
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N. J
Elizabeth River
Long Branch
Elizabeth
West Rockaway
Bayway
Jersey Central
Newark Bay
Bergen Point
Elizabethport
Ashbury Park
Barnegate Bay
New York
Philadelphia
Island Heights
Far Rockaway
L. I
Long Beach
Hogg Island
Craig’s Arbor
Lockwood, Smith & Co
Pottsville Express Wreck Kills Engineer Near Potts Town
The Pottsville and Philadelphia express, traveling forty miles an hour, collided with a coal car pushed onto the main track by a siding engine near Ellis and Lessigs. Engineer James Heller was killed when pinned under his engine. Fireman Thomas Walsh and six others were injured, with three sustaining non fatal injuries.
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Pottsville
Reaping
James Heller
Thomas Walsh
Exciting and Dangerous Trip of Yacht Moccasin Crew
New York, Oct 27. The yacht Moccasin owned by E D Morgan, cut adrift from the Catarina during a storm, weathered in with bare poles. The Catarina towed then went ashore on Mattituck rocks. the Moccasin escaped after the mate signalled and the hawser was cut. The Catarina lies wrecked on the rocks, likely a total loss.
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New York
E. D. Morgan
Catarina
Mr. Morgan
Matticicock Point
Trade Review Notes Broad Gains and Mixed Signals
R G Dun & Co reports large trade volume and profits with tariff gains. Prices firm in wool and cotton goods. Chicago sees meat and dairy down but cheese and wool up. Southern money tight with resin and cotton receipts high. breadstuffs rise. total U S failures 203, Canada 22, last week 225.
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G. Dun, Co
New York
R. G. Dun & Co
Review of Trade
Busines
Trunk Fine Association
Boston
Chicago
St. Louis
Milwaukee
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Kansas City
Denver
Savannah
Jacksonville
Louisiana
Bessemer
Pittsburg
Philadelphia
United States
Canada
France to Avoid Involvement in McKinley Tariff Retaliation
Paris October 27 Interviews with M. Lockroy ex minister and M. Criegland Republican senator advocate France abstain from economic retaliation after the McKinley tariff. They foresee an entente with the United States to prevent hostilities and limit French commerce losses. The Figaro suggests retaliations against American insurers in France could be pursued if needed.
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Paris
M. Lockroy
Public Instruction
M. P. Criegland
Department of the North
France
United States
Great Britain
Germany
Pars
the Figaro
Poper
Train wreck near Topeka injures thirty in vestibule smash
Thirty people were seriously injured when Santa Fe Vestibule Denver express No. 5 derailed at Wakarush, thirteen miles south of Topeka, Kansas. The locomotive tender express mail baggage cars and three Pullman vestibule cars left the track after leaving the curve near the east end of the yards. The chair reads as the scene was chaotic with cars scattered along the track.
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Santa Fe
Topeks
Kan
Torres
Denver
Wakarusz
Apaches Fight Pursuit Near Silver City
Troops pursuing a band of Apaches who killed two sheep herders met the group near the crime scene. A clash followed and the Indians repulsed the pursuers after two attackers were killed.
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Silver City
N. M
Wreck Fire Destroys Freight Cars Near Oxford
Two freight trains on the Cincinnati Hamilton and Indianapolis road crashed two miles east of Oxford. The wreck caught fire and burned cars with merchandise. Loss estimated at 50000 dollars. Fireman John Mathers was mortally hurt. John Kasneck John McNeill and Spencer were only slightly hurt. Cause under investigation amid possible misreading of orders.
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Crxcrysatt
Ohio
Cincinnati, Hamilton
Indianapolis
Oxford
John Mathers
John Kasneck
John McNeill
Spencer
New York City Floods Hit Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn
A severe twenty four hour storm swamped New York City causing bay waters to flood West and East rivers basements from Battery to Chambers Street. Water rose over bulkheads flooding Vesey Street and Everett's hotel while mud and debris clogged streets. Hackensack river levels rose flooding Little Ferry establishments as trains ran through inundated tracks. A B&O engine toppled into a washout at Staten Island’s St Georges injuring crew who escaped unharmed.
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West Street
Chambers Street
River Front
Vesey Street
Everett’s Hotel
Dey Street
East River
Hackensack
Little Ferry
New York, Susquehanna and Western Road
West End
Baltimore and Ohio
St. Georges
Staten Island
William French
William Rankin
Severe coastal storm rages along At. Antle coast
A big storm sweeps Wilmixeton and surrounding coast with high tides. No casualties reported yet. Many small boats at New Castle swept away. Breakwater damage feared. Communications with New Castle down due to downed wires. Reports from the coast indicate a general, severe storm.
Demolished In The Storm Four-Story Brooklyn Building
Brooklyn October 25 a four story brick building under construction at Halvey street and Patchen avenue was blown down during the storm with no occupants inside John Lindsey injured with a broken leg damage estimated at three thousand dollars A schooner in distress at Ashbury Park New Jersey and storm damage to the boardwalk bath houses and Long Branch beach
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Bown
Brooklyn
Halvey Street
Patchen Avenue
John Lindsey
Ashbury Park
N.J
Bay Head
Long Branch
Sioux Falls
S. D
R. Booth & We
Pepperill’s Big Blaze Destroys Factory and Town Structures
A large fire in East Pepperell Massachusetts at the Leighton Bros shoe factory spread to a row of boarding houses, seven stores, three residences and a block of boarding houses. Nashua sent trucks and men as residents switched to emergency shelter. Losses reach about 300000 with hundreds left unemployed after dawn the blaze was controlled.
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Pepperell
Bostos
Mase
Tame
Walrchild’s
North End Engine Company
East Pepper
Mass
Leighton Bros
Nashua
Canada reciprocity debate noted by The Times
The Times cites that if Congress offers Canada reciprocal trade, Canadians might be tempted though unlikely. It states the McKinley act produced the opposite effect from what Americans intended.
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London
the Times
Congress
Canada
Broadside of scattered news from rail to religion
A miscellaneous North American wire of items reports a Burlington train collision death in Des Moines and a Des Moines man killed by wheels. Other notes cover Sioux Falls construction, Great Northern railway car policy, Crow Creek piping, Ashland pastor backing Bennett law, relic sale in Trenton, and European diplomatic and church figures.
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Seine Pablo
Ashland Wis
Hout
Ashland
Swati
Heard
Proof Omaha census padded claims by Prohibition papers
The Voice of New York and The Lever of Chicago, both Prohibition papers, print what they claim as absolute proof that Omaha’s census is padded by 85,000. They allege this to explain pro liquor charges about wholesale ballot-box manipulation next month amid city election plans.
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Omaha
Neb
The
Voice
New York
Lever
Chicago
Prohibition
Murder Charge Looms in Nashville Woman's Death
W Hyers killed his wife near Lebanon this morning after claiming she eloped with George Dy man in September. He says she returned yesterday and they met at a gate one mile from town where they spent the night. He offered no apology and says he would rather see her dead. lynching is expected.
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Pooxetta
Nashville
Tenn
W. Hyers
Lebanoe
Hyers
George Dyman
Lebanon
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