Pension grants and political strife loom in Congress
The Senate passed a pension of 4008 a year to widows of generals Logan and Blatr, raised widow and dependent pensions, and addressed petitions for retaliation against France and Germany. House debates included land sales, warship repairs, and forest land surveys. Domestic trade figures and a wave of local disasters, crimes, and weather events fill the week, with mining incidents, fires, and rail accidents across multiple states.
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Congressional
Senate
John A. Logan
Geneal
Frank P. Blatr
France
Germany
Utah
Telegraph
New York
Indiana
Committee On Elections
White
Lowery
Deex
United States
Supreme Court
Committee On Ways and Means
Internal Revenue
Corporal Jones
Cutcheon
Runaway streetcar disaster in St Paul injures many
A runaway gripcar on the St Anthony Hill line in St Paul plunges down a steep incline. The passenger car derails at Third street, one man killed and eighteen injured. Rescue teams treat the wounded as spectators watch the chaotic scene unfold.
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St. Pau. Minn
St. Anthony Hill
Atraché Hill
Shelby Avene
Thig
North
Gripman Johnson
Ghpman Johnson
Shelby Avenue
Coer
Third Street
Melville L. Saunders
Northwestern Mel Company
Dad
Familly
Louis Robert
Dayton Avenue
Frank E. Nottix
George H. Watson
Marshall Avenue
CA. Baker
Ada Kersten
Dayton Aveee
Charles Steele
North Waushington Street
Bert Darrow
Selby Avenue
Seney
Dayton
Virginian Avenues
A. Bertram
West Tenth Street
Henry E. Smith
Iglwhart Street
Roy Smith and Son
Milton G. Brown
Andrew Nason
F. J. Meyst
Kellogg's Printing Ofice
Linda Thorsen
Don Seaman
Milwaukee
Miss Thorsen
Pope and H His Presents Disposed by Subilee Gifts in Rome
Rome Jan 28 His Holiness the Pope has decided how jubilee gifts are to be distributed The Papal Secretary of State will implement the directives Funds go to St Telers treasury for prepagand ism and the Vatican will house artistic sovereign gifts The vestry of Sir Peters will receive worship objects while the linen altar cloth presented by Catholics of Antrim will be used at Rowan Church communion services Most remaining gifts go to hospitals No exceptions were made for the Emperor of Austria’s Tokay or the Duchess d Area gift Nearly 15000 pairs of slippers and many foods and wines are included Calif ornia Spain France Austria Algeria and Australia are the principal contributors
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Hilo
Rome
St Teler
Vatican
Sir Peter's
Antrim
Austria
California
Spain
France
Algeria
Australia
Called Back to Life by Dr Fell Rescue at Continental Hotel
Jan 28. Stakus Bear of Lockport attempted suicide at the Continental Hotel by ingesting Juudsmun, slashing his windpipe and wrist. He lay unconscious Tuesday night until Dr George E Fell arrived with his own revival device, reviving Bear after about three hours. The case left coroner summoned and Bear later showed signs of life and recovery.
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Fell
Teuffuio
Borrano
Stakus Bear
Lockport
Continental
George E. Fell
Baers Windome
Fox
Boer
Pats
Dy Doe Hos
Destructive Ice Gorge Hits St Louis Riverfront
A massive ice gorge broke loose on the Mississippi at St Louis, flooding the riverfront and wrecking or sinking multiple vessels. The blast, around Feb 1, caused about 100000 in damages as boats, barges, and steamers were crushed, with City of Monroe and Crystal City among ships driven ashore. Authorities and crews report ongoing but diminishing danger as the ice clears.
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St. Louis
Moreq
Str. Louis
Paeademonium
Anna Street
Change
Les
Mason
Louis Seeberger
City Oud Monroe
Burt
Hayes
Mattie Belle
Terry-Lant
Jacob Tamm
Alica Parker
Alma
Katie M
Arges
City of Monroa
Crystal City
Flying Eagle
St Paul Packet Company
No 51
Joe
Bat
Gas danger warned after city sewer disaster fears
A report warns that a break in petroleum pipelines could release vast volumes of crude oil and gas into Rochester sewers. It cites recent explosions in Buffalo and Detroit as precedent and warns of possible widespread fires and toxic gas exposure in the city core if a leak reaches the sewer network.
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Petrolemsa
Burrato
Rochester
Easst Guffalo
Eiuka
Wisconsin Supreme Court Restricts Women Voting Rights
Olympia Brown of Levine sued election inspectors after being denied a ballot in a local election. The Wisconsin Supreme Court reversed the circuit court ruling, holding the 1855 act granting school officer suffrage does not grant women political voting rights.
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Wisconsin
Supreme Court
Mavisoy
Wis
Olympia Brown
Levine
Ciruit Court
Wisconsin State Supreme Court
Hay
Circuit Court
California Landslide Blocks 100 Miles of Rail Line
A massive landslide on the California and Oregon railroad covers about 100 miles with debris. The slide runs between the delta and the eighteenth crossing of the Sacramento river and between Hornbrook and Arden. About 420 men are at work, but track clearance will likely wait until spring.
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California
San Francisco
California & Oregon Railroad
Delta
Sacramento River
Hornbrook
Ar Oland
Murder by Son in New York Village
February 1 in Burydane New York John Cullen a slip carpenter killed his mother aged about 80 with an axe then roamed saloons declaring the act He claimed he killed her to spare the poor house and kissed her before she died He was arrested as the body was found and he was intoxicated at the time.
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Columbia
New York Central Road
Niagara Falls
New York
New York Centra
Hudson River
Gail Ires
United States
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Minn
Indiana Soliers’ Monument Commission
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Indiana
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Tur
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Ayler
Min
Golden City
Oscar Coulter
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Must
Williamstown
Mass
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N.C
American Horticultural Fuciety
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Cal
Congress
Peoria
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Indianapolis
Ind
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W. F. Bernhamer
Great Barrington
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Sprinfield
Jose
Allegheny City
Beate Hall
Western Theological Seminary
Cora GE Lez
Borah Graham
Springfield
Pittsburgh
Davin Dinca
W. St Wilkon
Charles B. Hitchcock
Garden Grove
New York City
John’s Orphans’ Home
Vinson
West Virginia
Logan County
St Louis
Taz Empire
Malone
Ysane Chesley
Ben Epwanos
Catherine Hayes
Amite City
Christian Peetch
Pil
Snowden
Dennis Clifford
Tawas City
Mich
Cliford
Winchester
Tamarow
Buffalo Gap
C. T
Fieg
Broadway
Nantucket
Troy
Milwaukee
Marquette
Bartley Breen
Menominee
Beth C Moffatt
Priblloniste
Ishpeming
8 Steel
Bubvelcr
David Linazop Hunn
Buffalo
N.Y
Denis
Yale College
Jame Hassey
Beaver Falls
Philadelphia
Burydane
N. Y
John Cullen
Cullen
Bee
Allen
Englishman buys vast Coahuila land from Mexican agents
English interests close on 800000 acres in Coahuila through L M Gonzales, agent for Coahuila investors. A syndicate already holds 4000000 acres in the state. The price totals £125000, about twenty five cents per acre. The tract includes significant mountain land, expanding English ownership to roughly a quarter of Coahuila.
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San Axtoxio
Tex
Gonzales
Coahuila
Mex
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