Fourteen Die As Fire Traps Lincoln Hotel In Chicago
A Chicago fire at the Lincoln Hotel on Madison Street killed fourteen guests. Two exits, a stairway and an unfinished rear fire escape, trapped many in their rooms while others escaped via the stair or a collapsing fire escape. The blaze began on the second floor likely from a dropped cigar. the coroner blamed negligent construction and a nonfunctional fire escape, with the oil stove explosion cited as the probable cause.
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Chicago
Lincoln Hotel
Madison St
F. A. Smith
Musham
Fire Department
Traeger
Cantor Attacks Hill in Bid to Defeat Tammany
The Greater New York Democracy executive committee met at 1155 Broad Street and pledged a relentless fight against Tammany Hall. Borough President Cantor denounced David B. Hill for failing to lead the party to victory, appointing a seven member committee to carry on the campaign. He warned against bossism and corruption, while praising the new city administration’s reforms and charter changes aimed at cleaning government.
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Greater New York Democracy
No. 1
Broadway
Tammany
Borough
Cantor
David B. Hill
Democratic Party
Lfe
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BOVYS WRECK BILLIARD ROOM AND LOCK PROPRIETOR IN CLOSET
A group of youths aged seventeen to twenty stormed Frank Grassie’s billiard parlor at No 2976 Third Avenue last night. They jammed the proprietor in a closet, locked him in, and assaulted the room by tearing cloths from tables, smashing cues, racks, balls, and table legs, before attempting to flee.
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Frank Grassie
Third-ave
Hawk Caught Himself In Seneca Park Zoo Tale of a Pigeon Hawk
Rochester special reports a young pigeon hawk was captured after it squeezed through a hole in a dovecote at a Charlotte farmer’s barn. The hawk feasted on three meals daily, resisted confinement, and was secured after the farmer fought off the trapped bird with gloves. A separate dispatch from New Orleans notes a $5,000,000 Louisiana Cypress Lumber Company to develop 50,000 acres between New Orleans and Hammond, with a $200,000 plant at Manchac and Illinois Central main line access. Thomas B. Lyons leads the Chicago syndicate, with W. R. Lyons, R. A. Blodger, Bradford & Keet, and Danaher Brothers among the partners.
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Seneca Park “Zoo
Charlotte
Tribune
New Orleans
Hammond
Thomas D. Lacy
Chicago
Thomas B. Lyons
Manchac
Lake Ponchartrain
Illinois Central Railroad
Indiana Company Incorporation for Railways and Lights
Camden report states the Indiana Company with capital of 1 million dollars and 50 thousand paid in filed papers to build railways and electric light plants in Indiana. Corporators include Thomas Dolan Randall Morgan Franklin H MacMorris Clinton N Latourette and George H Martin. most are Philadelphia residents.
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Camden
N. J
Indiana Company
Capital
Indiana
Thomas Dolan
Randall Morgan
Franklin H. MacMorris
Clinton N. Latourette
George H. Martin
Incoming Steamers From Various Lines and Ports
Shipping list includes vessels Georgic Liverpool Bremen NG Lloyd Denbighs Allan-State Craigswald Hiliglen John Sanderson La Lorraine French Pe Liverpool Unard Philadelphia Hindoo Monteérer Progreso Niagara Deutschland Hamb-Am El Sud Morgan Mantou At Trane Yeninsular Insular Picana Mediterranean Rotterdam Hol-Am Campania La Champagne Lahn Naples Mesaba Transport Ryndam Zeeland Pennsylvania Furnessia Norge Canadian British Empire Porto Rico Martello Valencia Comus Galveston Jamestown Old Dominion etc December 6 to 8 with sailings arrivals and mail close times noted for New York Port.
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White Star
Caseell
Bremen
Lloyd Denbighs
Gibraltar
Laurentian
Glasgow
Allan-State
Craigswald
Hiliglen Eee
John Sanderson
Bordeaux
Apache
Jacksonville
Antrim
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Britannia
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la Lorraine
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Morgan Manttou
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Campania
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Naples
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Antwerp
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Hamb
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British Empire
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Hull
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Valencia
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Lyde
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Newport News
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Wulff
Christiania
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Various Society Meetings and Notices Highlight City Agenda
A morning closing session of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers meets at 16:39. Episcopal services at Trinity Church and other chapels follow. Evening lectures include Dr Herman Knapp on eye and ear hospitals at the Academy of Medicine and Emil Fischer on China at No 37 West Thirty-fourth Street. The St Nicholas Society announces a dinner with notable speakers at Delmonico's. Elections yield officers for the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen. A Philadelphia school lecture by Dr Robert Ellis Thompson is listed, with a Commercial Teachers Association program. A Company A 24 Regiment reception and dance is planned, with a prior drill. Holiday mail suggests early parcel forwarding with “Do not open until Christmas.” William H McNutt, charged with a Chicago fraud, surrenders at the Tombs. Lawrence Murphy, treasurer of the Journeymen Stone Cutters, is held on $10,000 bail. The Thetford bishop will sermon at St James Church on Sunday.
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Brooklyn
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Charles H. Eaton
Church of the Divine Paternity
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Herman Knapp
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Emilt S. Fischer
China
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New-York
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West Fifty—fifth-st
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Madisorave
Manhattan
Liberal Club
Fifteenth-st
St. Nicholas Society
Delmanico
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Admiral Barker
S. D. McConnell
George L. Rives
Baron Gevers
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Charles W. Hoffman
John Beattie
William E. Strauch
Richard T. Winton
Robert Ellis Thompson
Superintendent of Schools of
Philadelphia
No. Wl East Twenty-third St
Commercial Teachers’ Association
Indian Agent Erwin Attacks Educated Indians
In his annual report to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Indian Agent Erwin condemns educated Indians as worthless. The Tribune Sunday will counter that Carlisle Indian School graduates are not part of that judgment.
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Commissioner of Indian Affairs
the Tribune
Carlisle Indian School
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