Vanderbilt plan to build 54 mile trunk line to Chicago
Pittsburg January 22 The Commercial Gazette reports Vanderbilt interests plan to build about 54 miles of new road to create the greatest trunk line between Pittsburg and Chicago. It would shorten the route by nearly a dozen miles from the Fort Wayne line of 468 miles by reorganizing Lake Erie and Western into Pittsburg and Lake Erie and Lake Shore divisions and linking Youngstown to Virgo. Wreck of British steamer Sutton near Dover Delaware shows 24 rescued. vessel damage minor but salvage unlikely.
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Pittsberg
The
Commercial Gazette
Vanderbilt Interests
Pittsburg
Fort Wayne
Lake Erie and Western
Vanderbits
Lake Erie
Lake Shore
Toungstown
Viron
British War Dispatches From Spearhead Campdescribe Boer battle near Spion Kop
London reports dated Jan twenty two describe General Warren advancing on the left and Lyttelton probing Poltger ers Drift as British brigades under Woodgate Hart and Hildyard press the Boer lines near Three Tree Hill. Casualties total 11 officers and 279 men. Boers hit hard as shelling and rifle fire dominate.
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War Office
Buller
Spearmans Camp
Warren
Spion Kop
Woodgate
Hart
Hildyard
Spicn Kop
Potgieters Drift
Lord Roberts
Lord Kitchener
Ladysmith
Mafeking
Lourenzo Marques
Rebuff for General Mercier at Polytechnique vote
Paris on January 22 reports General Mercier facing a surprising rebuff as old students of the Ecole Polytechnique convened to elect a president. Amid uproar 280 ballots favored Mercier while 1,060 supported his opponent, followed by a melee in the school theater.
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General Mercier
Paris
Roberts in the Howse and Qenry in the Semaic case in Congress
Washington January 22 The forthcoming house week centers on Brigham H Roberts Utah's representative elect The majority favor excluding Roberts while the minority seek seating then expulsion Both sides invoke constitutional limits Roberts may plead in his defense Senate focus shifts to speeches with unfinished financial bill Quay contest reports due and possible early decision Senator Penrose aims for rapid ruling on Quay While Jones moves to recon sider Samoa treaty in executive session
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Mr. Roberts
Roberts
Congress
Senate
Quay
Penrose
Mr. Quay
Jones
Arkansas
Mexico's fatal earthquake rocks Colima and Guadalajara
Reports from interior areas describe seven dead and fifty injured in Colima as Friday night quake and Saturday morning tremors caused widespread property damage. City of Mexico largely unscathed though some adobe structures fell. scientists say undersea origin and a volcanically silent eruption was misreported. Local governor forms commission to inspect churches and unsafe houses must be secured.
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Colima
City of Mexico
Guadalajara
Mexico
Pacific Ocean
Ambushes Mark Philippine Insurgent Moves On Luzon and Negros
An escort of 50 convalescents from Company C Thirteenth Infantry commanded by Lt. Ralston was ambushed near Lipa Luzon, with two Americans killed five wounded and nine missing. In Batangas mountains Forty-fifth Infantry killed eight wounded three and captured six rifles. Letters from Negros detail a revolt by autonomous government officials led by local police. eleven officials jailed on treason charges, with reinforcement sent from Iloilo and imminent expulsion predicted.
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Ralston
Lipa
Luzon Island
Santo Tomas
San Pablo
Laguna
Freepur
Batangas
Forty-fifth Volunteer Infantry
Dorst
A. C. Ledyard
Autonomous Government
So Tatich
Smith
Beng
Negros
Twenty-sixth Infantry
Iloilo
Bacolod
Sympathy for the Boers at Washington rally
At the Grand Opera House Washington an enthusiastic audience voiced strong support for the Boers in their war with Britain. Speakers from both parties including Senators Mason Allen Tillman and Representatives Clark De Armond Cochran Bailey Rhea Jones Lamb Shafroth Sulzer and Lentz framed Boer fighting for independence as akin to the American founders in 1776.
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Grand Opera House
Great Britain
Congress
Mason
Allen
Tillman
Clark
de Armond
Cochran
Missouri
Bailey
Texas
Rhea
Jones and Lamb
Virginia
Shafroth
Colorado
Sulzer
New York
Lentz
Ohio
Burned Bi Infidel Library and Death of a Veteran Editor
Toledo January 22 report that Marshal C Wag goner a convert to Christianity had a library of infidel writings burned and the ashes placed in a church furnace. Stroudsburg Pennsylvania dated January 22 notes the death of Ex Judge Schoch aged 86 veteran editor long associated with The Jeffersonian since 1840 and a longtime Republican Quay faction figure.
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Toledo
Marshal C. Waggoner
Memorial United Brethren Church
Stroudsburg
Jadee Schoch
United States
Juege Schoch
Jeffersonian
Quay
Republican Party
Meted Ruskin's Resting Place in Coniston Churchyard
London dispatch reports the burial of John Ruskin aged 31 after influenza at Hrantwood. Funeral set for Thursday in Coniston churchyard per his prior wish. The obituary recalls Modern Painters and his influence as art critic and reformer with political economy writings that drew ridicule.
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London
John Ruskin
Hrantwood
Coniston
Deserter Finnigan Freed After Nine Years Service
Hot Springs Jan 22 Private Finnigan of Troop C First Cavalry was discharged after nine years in and out of the army. He enlisted in 1891 for five years, escaped while under guard, lived in Mexico and New York, then rejoined for Spanish American War. He fought at Siboney, was court-martialed, but Wheeler interceded to remit his sentence and restore him to duty.
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Finnigan
Troop C. First Cavalry
Fort Arcade
Mexico
New York
Sixth Infantry
Cuba
Siboney
Santiago
Wheeler
Uty
Notable deaths and arrests span oceans and ages
Richard D. Blackmore dies at 75 in Teeddington England. Two stone cutters Lorenzo Borgomast and Baptista Bodeschi suffocate in New York after bed intoxication. Captain F J Mills acquitted for killing John O Melvenes. John W Gates launches the 500 foot steamer at Am Ship Building Co LoTai. Charles L Foote, ex postmaster and city treasurer of Fall River, arrested in Chicago for embezzlement. Annie Ellsworth Smith dies in New York aged 73. A girl of 17 sent the first telegram from Washington to Baltimore.
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Richard D. Blackmore
Teeddington
England
Lorenzo Borgomast
Baptista Bodeschi
New York
F. J. Mills
Idaho
John C. O'Melvenes
Mills
John W. Gates
Great Lakes
American Ship Building Company
Lo- Tain
Charles L. Foote
Fall River
Mass
Chicago
Annie Ellsworth Smith
Century Company
Washington
Baltimore
Italian Family Feud Ends in Triple Slaying on East Side
A deadly street battle in New York on East Eleventh Street left Antonio Colletti 87, Caspar Colletti 13, and Davia Salvatora 40 dead after a feud with the Spinellas sparked by a locked tenement door. Vincenzo Spinella and son Frank Spinella were arrested along with Joseph Colletti as police quell the riot.
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East Side
Antunio Calletti
Mare Ried
Caspar Calletti
Hellegro Hospite
Davia Salvatora
Corlettis
Vincenzo Spinelian
Frank
Munter
Frank Spinella
Vincenzo
Collettis
Spinellas
Joseph Colletti
Colletti
Collett
Eleventh Street
Vincensa Spinelia
East Thirteenth Street
Antonio Colletti
Caspar
Vincenzo Spinella
Diamond
Fifth Street
Thirteenth Street
Joseph Collett
Costly Scrubs and Pure Bred Stock Debate in America
The National Stockman features Howard H. Keim arguing that England’s farms prosper on pure bred stock while America defaults to scrubs. A young farmer’s failed start, resistance from his father, and a call to invest in pedigreed stock underline the piece. Keim praises pure bred sheep as cost effective long term and evokes nostalgia for ancestral farms and brighter childhood memories tied to pure bred stock.
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America
Saya Howard H. Keim
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