Fire destroys Union Station ticket office in Chicago
Fire in Chicago yesterday damaged the Union Station ticket office on Adams and Canal streets. Two men escaped by window with firemen’s help, no injuries reported. Over $1,000,000 worth of unused tickets from multiple rail lines burned, station property damaged estimated at $25,000. The Pennsylvanian system owned station.
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Chicago
Tion
Adams
Canal Streets
Adama Street
Pennsylvania
Burlington, Alton
St. Paul
Fort Wayne
Pennsylvan
Intentente
J. W
Oddie
New York Yacht Club
Texas Railroad Commission
Samuel B. Logan
Arcola
Ills
Michigan Buggy Company
Kalamazoo
New York
National Starch Company
Glucose Sugar Refining Company
Thomas Harbin
Tacoma
St. Joseph
Fry Jan Went Co. Foorts
Ohiddths
Prince Henry
Germany
St. Louis
Washington
Congress
Ureday
Indians Besiege Dowagiac Bank Over Lake Front Land Claim
About 300 Pottawatomie Indians besieged Lee Brothers bank in Dowagiac Michigan demanding $38,000 they expected from a Chicago syndicate in exchange for signing over lake front land claims. Armed settlers and a town marshal faced the siege as the agent’s round of payments faltered and violence loomed.
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Dowagiac
Mich
Pottawatomie
Chicago
Lake Front
Vpnk Soft Crube Trou
Lidita
Betas
Goebel Killing Trial Faces Alibi Evidence
William Goebel's slaying continues with Howard on the stand claiming an alibi he was at the Trade Hotel when the crime occurred. The defense emphasizes the present as in time of dormer while Goebel’s death remains a focal point of the case. A related dispatch notes a planned April trip to America tied to health concerns.
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Michigan City
Ind
Jbhankard
Marion
Ipdjang
Rinkard
William Goebel
Howard
America
New York
Staats Zeitung
Waldehide
Wnt
Stete
Gogite Dogell
Ebal
Seven Masked Men Rob Express and Mail Car in Indian Territory
Jan 17 report from Fort Smith Arkansas describes a robbery of a local safe in an express car and a mail car in Indian Territory. Robbers opened the car but failed to take valuables. authorities say about $2000 in registered mail was taken.
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Cincinnati
William Fink
Main Street
Mr. Fink
Indian Territory
Fort Smith
Ark
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Jense United Ltd
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Washburn, Bayfield ,and Lion
River Railroad
Flip Sherif Sage Dist
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Elkhart
James, Mather
Peter Olson
Muskegan
Olson
Mather
State Hospital
Logansport
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Henry Grenfeldt
Wabash
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Old Country
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Fred Blooer
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Norfolk Building and Loan Ass
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