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Multiple Local Disasters and Trials Reported in November and December'
Baltimore papers detail fires destroying homes in Cambridge and Pikenville, deaths from rail and locomotive accidents, vast telegraph and telephone outages in Ellicott City and Hagerstown, a council choosing a road to Havre de Grace, and a Maryland naval brigade dinner guest. Other items include St. Louis bribery trials, a Charlotte murder surrender, a Pittsburgh operator fatally injured, insular commerce in the Philippines, and health notes on scrofula and croup remedies.
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Cecil County
Spowrod
Alexander Shaw
Baltimore
Ellicott City
Hagerstown
Deer Creek
Churchrills
Havre de Grace
Naval Brigade
Admiral Schley
Rapier
Cambridge
Edward Conway
Williamsport
Chesapeaks
Ohio Canal
Washington County Taschers' Institute
N. O. Schaeffer
Pennsylvania