Fires and losses hit factories and villages worldwide
The Hamburg chemical works of Reit and Phill i burned with a $200,000 loss. London carriage works also burned. A New York steamer shipped $500,000 in gold and another carried 13,000 silver bars. Beeson France nearly destroyed by fire with fourteen residents killed. In Bayote a clash left Lieutenant Gordon and four policemen dead. Gotfried Gremer hanged in Portland after insanity notes. Mexican official Nieves Hernandez death sentence postponed due to a judge’s illness. Puebla treasury defalcation rises above $25,000 with high officials implicated.
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Reit & Philli
Hamburg
London
New York
Beeson
France
Bayote
Gordon
Bombay Lancers
Gotfried Gremer
Park Hotel
Portland
Tacoma
Nieves Hernandez
Mexico
Garza
Juan N. Lendez
Supreme Court
Puebla
Record Snow Strands Cities From PortLane To Spokane
Snow depths reach a foot in PortLane with electric lines down and only one streetcar line operating. Rail traffic runs late or stalled across the Pacific Northwest as telegraph lines fail and schools close in Seattle. In Spokane a blizzard rages with zero temperatures and widespread train disruption. A Spokane elevator fire destroys 60000 bushels of wheat, losses estimated at 60000 to 70000 dollars.
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PortLane
Northern Pacific
Union Pacific
Southern Pacific
Albany
Salem
Corvallis
Harrison Street
Northern Pacific Overland
Union Pacific Fast Mail
Southern Pacific Overland
The
Tribune
Tacoma
Oregon
Nevada
California
Spokane
Walla Walla
Washington
Dakota
Montana
Idaho
Big Bend
Astoria
Bellingham Bay
Seattle
the Tribune
Wash
Pacific Coast Elevator Company
Fairfield
Spokane County
Murder attempt at Pacific House ends with near miss
Roger Jones fired at Charles Doesel in his Washington street room last night but missed. The bullet grazed Doesel’s head, leaving powder burns on cheek and temple. The motive cited involves Jones’s anger over abuse of a female friend. No arrest reported. Washington dispatch notes General Rosencrans traveling to California for winter with family amid nervous prostration. Other items report Panama Congress extra session to empower rapid contracts with a new company and a smallpox epidemic in Ecuador’s Azuay province.
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Sxatrie
Roger Jones
Charles Doesel
Pacific House
Washington Street
Doefel
Jones
Washington
General Rosencrans
Register of the Treasury
California
Los Angeles
Carl
Toole
Montana
Helena
Panama
Paris
Congress of Columbia
Ews
Ecuador
Azuay
Grant and Coolidge Nominated for Diplomatic Posts
Washington December 22 The president sent to the senate nominations for Frederick J Grant of Seattle minister to Bolivia Archibald Coolidge of Massachusetts secretary legation at Vienna and George Creighton Webb of New York secretary legation at St Petersburg Grant editor of the Seattle Post Intelligencer and former member of the state legislature is 34 and a Zanesville Ohio native The appointment was secured through Watson C Squire's influence.
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Cer
Washington, D. C
Senate
Frederick J. Grant
Washington State
Seattle
Bolivia
Archibald ©. Coolidge
Massachusetts
Vienna
George Creighton Webb
New York
St. Petersburg
Fred J. Grant
Post-Intelligencer
Lafayette College
Zanesville
Ohio
Blaine
Harrison
Watson C. Squire
Snow balls and rotten eggs greet Regent Smith at agricultural college
In Pullman Washington on December 22 snow balls and eggs greeted Regent Smith and new college president Heston during a tense farewell visit on the last day of the fall term. Students demanded Lilly's removal as Smith and Heston hid in the library and later fled the campus pursued by the crowd. A separate note announces Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley will perform at Unity auditorium on January 3, 1893, to great local anticipation.
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Lilly
Smith
Heston
Pullman
President Heston
James Whitcomb Riley
Importer L. L. Baker Dies in San Francisco
L. L. Baker of Baker & Hamilton, prominent San Francisco hardware and agricultural implement importers and manufacturers, died today. He headed a leading firm with headquarters in the city.
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San Francisco
Cal
L. L. Baker
Baker & Hamilton
Louisiana Fusion Ticket Elects Five Harrison and Three Weaver Electors
The Louisiana fusion ticket of the Republicans and Populists elected five Harrison electors and three Weaver electors. Other notes show Minnesota governor winner Nelson leading by 146,620 and a constitutional amendment passing. Montana results favor Harman for Congress with a 1,270 margin over Cleveland’s top elector, and Republican strategy aims to safeguard Senate gains with moral support and vigilance against Democratic moves.
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New York
The
Evening Post
Cleveland
Ae Bence Cuales
Louisiana
Republicans and
People's Party
Harrison
Weaver
Minnesota
St. Paul
Nelson
D. M. Clough
Montana
Herena
Mont
Harman
Congress
Supreme Court
Pemberton
Dem
Lake
Rep
Poison cases at Homestead claim thirty two lives
Edward O. Christy of Carnegie Steel tests the Homestead poison case death toll at thirty two as grand jury weighs the matter. He notes many letters from non union workers nationwide who fell ill and returned home after exposure. About two thousand of four thousand workers sickened.
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Homestead
Pirissura
Edward 0
Christy
Carnegie Steel Company
Measles and Cough Ravage Girl Then Cure by Dr King's Discovery
Mr and Mrs Loren Trescott guardians of the Gov Lighthouse at Sand Beach Michigan report their four year old daughter fell ill last April with measles followed by a severe cough and fever. After home and Detroit doctors failed she worsened becoming a mere handful of bones. A two and half bottle course of Dr King s New Discovery brought complete cure and a free trial bottle is offered at Marr Boss Acme Drugstore.
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Loren Trescott
Gov. Lighthouse
Sand Beach
Mich
Detroit
Dr. King
Marr & Boss
Acme
Candies and Lecture Offers in Olympia Ad
An early Olympia notice promotes French candies at 113 Fourth Street and a holiday candy specialty. It invites subscriptions to a lecture and entertainment course featuring Annie Besant or James Whitcomb Riley for 50 cents and lists order and contact details at local bookstores.
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Olympia
Fourth Street
Lurenton
Annie Besant
James Whitcomb Riley
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Chinchilli
Melton and
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the Furnisher and Clothier
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George Martin
West Fourth Street
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Main St
GHO. A. Motitiman
J. N. Squires
California Grocery
the State Printing and Publishing Company
Olympia Washington
Hodgman’s
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Ohio Rubber CO
Ottles
Marr & Ross
Acme Drugstore
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Chicago
J. ©. Percival
Union Pacific R. R
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Fred J, Grant
South America
Mr. L. S.J. Hunts
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Regent Smith
Agricultural College
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Republican Senate Caucus
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Martin Ware
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