ALL EYES ON CONKLING AS NY REPORTS IMPENDING ARRESTS
New York hearts the Conkling inquiry with talk of bribery and corruption tied to Broadway surface railroad plans. Rumors say his name is linked to sensational developments, with a dozen men shadowed by detectives as probes aim to repeal the Fourteenth Street to Battery tramway charter.
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New York
Gowen
Edison
the Times
Jake Sharp
Mr. Conkling
the Battery
Seventh Avenue
4& Bar
Fourteenth Street
Battery
Widener
Ilkins
Edison’s Florida enterprise ends with house sinking at wharf
A reported mishap chronicles the Edison project in Florida as a schooner bearing the laboratory reached land while the house failed upon the wharf, sinking with the cargo. The house was salvaged in pieces and is slated for Edison’s occupancy after his upcoming marriage, suggesting rough seas ahead but noting his ample means and genius.
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Mr. Edison
Florida
Frye Plan Aims American Conference With Latin Nations
Senator Frye unveils a Senate bill to invite delegates from Central and South America including Mexico and San Domingo to convene in Washington on October 1, 1496. The agenda includes a customs union, uniform weights and measures, silver coin, direct steamship links, and arbitration of disputes, with $100,000 for delegates. He argues the aim is closer political and commercial ties to preserve peace and boost national prosperity.
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Washington
Frye
Senate
United States
Central and South America
Mexico
San Domingo
Empire
Brazil
Frye Snys
South America
New York
London
Rye
Hemisphere
Senate Likely to Pass Education Bill This Week
Special dispatch notes the Senate will debate and likely pass the educational bill this week before sending it to the House. Debate centers on aid to common schools and constitutionality. Observers expect stronger passage in the House despite southern hesitation and overall liberal Treasury sentiment.
Boy 13 Fractures Skull in Churchyard Quarrel
William Haight, 13, of 989 Lombard Street, allegedly struck by Cornelius Wood, 12, of 1021 Barley Street with a cane fitted with an iron nut after a dispute at St Pauls Churchyard. Wood arrested. Haight injured but resting, danger not yet passed.
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William Haight
Lombard Street
Cornelius Wood
Barley Street
Wood
St. Paul’s Roman Catholic Church
Christian Street
Tenth
Haight
Bodies Missing After River Disaster Near HarrispurG
Four men drownings from yesterday remain unrecovered as ice blocks and cold shore hinder salvage on the busy river near New Cumberland. Frank Mathias, rescued in critical condition, has returned home, while his mother fainted from relief at his survival. The swamped canoe was found opposite Middletown.
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Harrispurg
New Cumberland
Frank Mathias
Charles Mathias
Middletown
Old Church Rededicated After Remodeling Efforts
The Third Street Reformed Church in Easton was rededicated today after 12 000 dollars were spent on interior remodeling and beautification. Rev N M Kleffer, formerly of Norristown, delivered the dedicatory sermon. Clergy Mary Rev J B Kieffer of Hagerstown Md Rev Dr Porter President Reilly of Allentown Female College Rev Dr Heister and Rev T O Stern attended. The church, built in 1776, was enlarged in 188? Much of the original timber remains in the older section.
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Times
Easton
Third Street Reformed
N. M. Kleffer
Norristown
Apple
Franklin and Marshall College
J. 8. Kieffer
Hagerstown
Notice of first class nun buoy marking wreck off Delaware Bay
Lighthouse inspector for the Fourth district informs mariners of a new first class buoy marking a wreck near the entrance to Delaware Bay. The buoy lies west of Cape May Light and north of Tighe hours, with red paint and the letter W clear.
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George B. White
Es Delaware Bay
Lopen
Weslaware
Pape
Bachata Fries
Gowen Aims to Reorganize Reading Without Foreclosure
Reading trustees discuss Samuel Gowen buying Vanderbilt stock to gain control for a plan to reorganize the Reading Railroad without foreclosure. They note syndicate funding questions and warn foreclosure would disintegrate the property, with Philadelphia interests only partly represented. Gowen returned from New York and stayed away from reporters at Mount Airy.
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Philadelphia
Gowen
Reading
Porter
Harrisburg
Rega
South Penn
Beech Creek
Supreme Court
Coal and Iron Company
Reading Corporation
Drexel
Provident Life and Trust
John Lowther Welsh
First National Bank
Standard Oil Company
Adams Express
London
New York
Boston
Fee
Pacific Coast
Mount Airy
Evils of Card playing sermon denounces card games
The Rev J O Wilson rector of Fifth Street Methodist Church delivered the second lecture in a Popular Amusements series titled Cards and Card-players He warned card playing ruins youth by leading to gambling and vice and told of two Christian-raised men who ended in a vile den stabbing and a gallows death.
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J. O. Wilson
Fifth Street Methodist Church
Wilson Urther
Doctor Linked To Baby Death In Nineteenth Century Case
Dr H A Slocum investigated the death of a newborn in the Ford home at 341 Dean Street. Witnesses say Hattie Nichols the mother’s companion hinted at harm and a chloroform bottle was missing. Coroner ordered a post mortem to determine cause amid suspicions of homicide.
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Hattie Nichols
James Ford
Dean Street
H. A. Slocum
Spruce Street
Ford
A Vessel’s Ill Luck Sinks Three-Masted Schooner David Lee
The three-masted schooner David Lee under Captain James W. Lee dragged anchors and ran ashore on Fourteen Foot Bank in Delaware Bay. She struck hard, sprang a large hole, and sank two miles ENE of the shoal. Wrecking tug North America sent for aid. crew believed saved. Built Camden New Jersey last November. 608 tons. class Al. Since first voyage, a string of mishaps.
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David Lee
James W. Lee
Charleston
Delaware Bay
North America
Lee
Camden
N. J
Samuel W. Tilton
Great Fire Rips Through Wilmington NC Wrecking Mills Warehouses
A catastrophic blaze in Wilmington North Carolina broke out on a Sabbath noon, fed by resin turpentine and cotton aboard the steamer Bladen. With winds at fifty miles per hour, flames swept Water Street Mato Street and the Clyde Steamship Company storage house, destroying churches, rail depots, offices, grain mills, and ships. Loss estimated at not less than one million dollars. hundreds made homeless as the town faced a massive calamity with outside aid rushed from Goldsboro.
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North Carolina
Tamm
Wilmington
N. C
Clyde Steamboat Company
Water Street
Mato Street
Atlantic Coast Line of Railroad
Flrst Methodist Church
Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta Railroad
Wilmington and Weldon Railroad
Champion Compress
A. Sprunt & Son
Worth & Worth
Kerchner & Calder Brothers
S&s. P. Shotler & Co
River Queen
Atlantic Coast
Rocky Point
Bladen
Vayuetteville
New York and Wilmington Steamship Company
A LULL IN LEGISLATION Washington Session Outlook
Washington February 21 Tomorrow being Washingtons birthday neither house of Congress will be in session The Blair education bill remains unfinished business of the Senate If disposed of this week Hoar will push for bankruptcy Wash Territory bill Platt will back it Mitchell of Oregon addresses on Tuesday on the Chinese question Frye seeks speech on the fishery question The House will focus on appropriation bills Committees expect to report the deficiency bill Tuesday and it will be acted on The pension and Indian appropriation bills likely taken up The Hennepin Canal bill will be debated in the morning hour before moving to unfinished business If committee on railways is reached the compulsory survey and patenting of lands for Pacific railroad will be considered Appropriation bills advance toward completion and Military Academy army consular diplomatic and post office bills may be reported and placed on the calendar
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Mea
Washington
Senate
Evarts
Peabody
House
Uncle Sam
Committee On Education
House of Congress
Hoar
Platt
Washington Territory
Mitchell
Oregon
Frye
House of Representatives
Committees On Appropriations
Committee On Railways
Pacific
Military Academy
Army, Consular and
Diplomatic and Post Office
SONS OF BENJAMIN Hold Annual International Convention
The Independent Order of the Sons of Benjamin convened at Minnerchor Hall with 125 delegates. Officers were elected at Wheatley Hall led by Edward Wertheimer and Julius Bandman. effective governance and law revision were on the agenda as 101 lodges from the U S and Canada participate.
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Independent Order of the Sons of Benjamin
United States
Canada
Nnerchor Hall
Meyer
Frechie
Keystone Lodge
Adolph Silberstein
Grand Lodge
Wheatley Hall
Edward Wertheimer
New York
Julius Bandman
Newark
N. J
Nathan Strauss
Cleveland
Ernest Kaufmann
Selig Manilla
Max Levy
Court of Appeals
B. Rosenthal
Mitchell Levy
New York City
M. Helblon
Brooklyn
N. Y
M. Reinstein
Boston
D. Engel
Michael E. Goodhart
the Order
Marine Barracks Expense Draws Reform Scrutiny
Special dispatch reports Congress scrutiny of the Washington marine barracks expense, arguing the Marine Band belongs under Navy Yard command and that headquarters, staff, hospital, and guards are unnecessary. Estimated annual cost exceeds thirty thousand dollars for a nonessential unit. Also notes the Easton Locomotive Engineers meeting with a large crowd and speakers including P M Arthur.
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Marine Barracks
Tae Tres
Washington
Congress
Marine Band
Navy Yard
Marine Corps
Navy Department
Senator Cameron in Bad Health
Special Dispatch reports Senator Don Cameron has been in very poor health all winter and plans a Southern trip until warm weather returns. He has been active in Senate duties and social affairs, but a brother senator notes he suffers from an organic disorder with regular periods of annoyance.
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Senator Cameron
Tres
Washington
Capital Today
Don Cameron
Abandonment of Nanticoke Rescue Sparks Fear
February 21 report from Susquehanna Coal Company officials warn rescuers at Slope No 1 may quit within 24 hours. They near the cave-in point with danger ahead, and if workers resign, no replacements remain to recover the twenty six entombed miners from December 15.
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Winxespaine
Susquehanna Coal Company
Mass Meeting in Hyde Park Prompts Calm Demonstration
The Social Democratic Federation rally in Hyde Park attracted a vast crowd with orderly conduct. Police presence numbered three thousand, but their role remained routine while delegates from London and foreign socialist groups spoke calmly on demanding immediate public works and fair wages. The event highlighted calls for government action to relieve unemployed conditions and improve labor terms.
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Lonvon
Social Democratic Federation
Hyde Park
London
Spoeches
Home Office
Trafalgar Square
Fifty Thousand London Socialists Rally In Hyde Park
Fifty thousand socialists marched through London to Hyde Park where speeches from Burns Hyndman Williams and Champion urged reform not riot. Mounted police clashed with hard faced factions as the crowd dispersed peacefully toward Victoria Street, with no rioting by Westminster.
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London
Hyde Park
Great Stanhope Street
Burns
Hyndman
Williams
Champion
Victoria Street
Westminster
Plot to Unite Spain and Portugal Hinted in Paris
Paris reports royalist council members plan to present Princess Amelia with a diamond brooch bearing the city arms at her marriage to the Duke of Braganza. Radical papers denounce the ceremony as officially staged. A plot allegedly aims to unite Spain and Portugal under the Braganza to overthrow the regency, with the Duke of Montpensier named in Spain as the lead.
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Paris
Amelia
Duke of Braganza
Spain
Portugal
Duke of Montpensier
Parnell Proposes Relief Plan for Irish Distress
Lonxpon February 21 Mr Parnell has prepared a scheme to apply the Irish Church surplus not yet exhausted to relieving distress in Ireland. Thirty thousand persons have applied to the Mansion House for relief.
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Lonxpon
Powers Send Note to Greece as Salamis Fleet Blockaded
The powers relay an ultimatum to Greece before menacing the Greek fleet in Salamis Bay. The Emperor’s adjutant Benim is reported dead, and General Byen, adjutant to the Emperor, is among 18 dead.
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Greece
Lonxpon
Salamis Bay
Empater
Benim
Byen
Emperor
Shooting Affray After Saloon Altercation Turns Violent
In a Fairhill and Dauphin street saloon dispute over the labor question, James Anderson was shot by Henry Donnelly after a chase and beating spree. Donnelly, wounded, was hospitalized but recovering. Anderson claimed self defense and was arrested later. Wentzell Ferguson Kennedy arrested. hearings set. Donnelly known as Kensington scrapper.
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Eter Butz
Fairhill
Dauphin Streets
James Anderson
Lawrence Street
Henry Wentzell
West
Dauphin Street
Butz
Edward Ferguson
Ella Street
Wentzell
Anderson
Henry Donnelly
Leithgow Street
Reese Street
Donnelly
Omcer Spealer
Eighteenth
George Kennedy
Episcopal Hospital
Geyer
Woentzell
Kennedy
Ferguson
O'Brien
Henzey Donnelly
Kensington
Archer and Sinn pull apart after season of calm work
Herbert Archer and Belle Mackenzie Archer, famed duo, quit Colonel Sinn's company after a 25 week season amid grievances over casting and a recent critique. They return home on Thirty-ninth Street with two bull terriers and a setter, planning likely to tour independently. Sinn had married Cora Tanner and the troupe had run smoothly until tensions surfaced.
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Herbert Archer
Belle Mackenzie
Thirty-ninth Street
Belle Archer
Mrs. Archer
Pittsburg
Buchanan
London
Combination
Mr. Archer
Richard Redclife
Tom Chickweed
W. E. Sinn
Colonel Sinn
Soeciery
Sinn
Cora Tanner
Pittsburg Fireman Kills Wife Then Shoots Himself
A Pittsburg fireman, Dave Wilson, shot his wife Maggie Wilson in Mulberry alley near Twenty second street while she held a baby. He then shot himself in a despondent, deranged act. he died soon after, with uncertain recovery. He sent four stepchildren and two of his own children upstairs. He muttered about hanging if discovered.
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Old Ben Trimble
West
Maggie
Johnson
Dave’ Wilson
Wilson
Mulberry Alley
Twenty-second Street
The Labor Problem by Rev Charles G Ames
The Rev Charles G Ames discusses labor strain at Spring Garden Unitarian Church. He argues depressions and strikes arise from the situation, not solely capitalists, employers, or laborers, and emphasizes the need for unity and organization among workers to determine wage levels and ensure general prosperity.
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Charles G. Ames
Spring Garden Unitarian Church
Losing Sweden Bark Adrift Blocks Passage at Sea
The Philadelphia schooner Anna L. Mulford, captained by Thompson, arrived from Mobile with lumber and reports a thirty day heavy passage. On January 30 at 31.25 N, 77.38 W they passed an abandoned Swedish bark under full sail, no life aboard, name unreadable, likely abandoned in haste. The captain warns she is a navigation obstruction.
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Thompson
Philadelphia
Anna L. Mulford
Mobile
Mulford
Edenburg Fire Destroys Nine Buildings. One Man Dead
Fire swept the central Edenburg block near the Post Office after an explosion of natural gas overnight. Skating rink manager Mr. Groves, who slept above the post office, was burned to death. Loss ranges from 12000 to 15000 dollars.
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St. Peterssure
Edenburg
Groves
English Journalist Kenward Philp Dies in Brooklyn at 40
Kenward Philp an English born journalist aged forty and once accused in the Morey letter forgery case of 1880 died this morning at his Brooklyn residence. He worked for various New York papers, began his career with James Gordon Bennett and wrote several plays.
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Brooklyn
Kenward Philp
Morey
New York
James Gordonnett
Assumption Literary Association Aims to Form Library
The Assumption Literary Association plans a library in their rooms at northeast corner Tenth and Spring Garden streets. Rev Father Thomas A Logue presented a complete set of Cardinal Wise mans works. Other books have been donated and a solid nucleus of a library is forming.
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Assumption Literary Association
Tenth and
Spring Garden Streets
Thomas A. Logue
Cardinal Wiseman
Noon Day Prayer Meeting At Union Methodist Church
Business men gather at the old Union Methodist Church on Fourth Street between Market and Arch for a noon prayer session from 12 to 1. Today's meeting will be led by Harry Taylor of JL Taylor & Co.
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Old Union Methodist Church
Fourth Street
Market
Arch Streets
Harry Taylor
JL Taylor JO
Bishop Williams Declines Easton Bishopric Selection
Rev Chauncey C Williams of Augusta Georgia elected Bishop of Easton Diocese in December declines to accept. Convention will meet next to choose a successor to Bishop Lay.
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Easton
Campringr
Chauncey C. Williams
Augusta
Stabbing of John Haney Near Third and Moore Streets
John Haney aged twenty six residing at Third and Moore streets was stabbed in the neck by an unknown man during an early morning altercation. He was taken to Pennsylvania Hospital in dangerous condition.
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John Haney
Third and
Moore Streets
Pennsylvania Hospital
Failed to Profit by Their Extension in Barrmore
Bruff and Maddox dry goods firm failed after compromising with creditors a year earlier. They could not meet the settlement obligations, the original debt totaling about 260000 dollars, in Barrmore on February 21.
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Barrmore
Bruff & Maddox
Dry Goods
Grace Speaks on The Irish in America at Boston Theater
Boston February 21 Mayor William P Grace of New York addressed a large audience at the Boston Theatre in a fundraising talk for a hospital. He spoke on The Irish in America detailing immigration, community growth, and civic contributions.
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Grace
America
Boston
Mass
William P. Grace
New York
Boston Theatre
Ocean Steamship Arrivals In New York New York
Ocean steamship arrivals list ships entering New York harbor from Hamburg and Liverpool including Australia and Borvia. Details show vessels arriving from Europe with ports of departure and origin cities.
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New York
Australia
Hamburg
Borvia
Liverpool
Street Car Drivers Organize Amid Tight Security
About 400 of 38,000 city street car workers enrolled in a Saturday meeting held at Norris Market hall. Drivers outnumbered conductors. veterans advised younger workers while fear of spotters lingered. George W. Childs and John Wanamaker reportedly gave $500 each to support shorter hours and a peaceful organization.
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Norris Market
Third
Norris Streets
Norris
Second
Third Streets
Traction Company
George W. Childs
John Wanamaker
No Work for Hungarians in Riddlesburg Mines
Special Dispatch reports hardship for Hungarians reaching Riddlesburg seeking jobs as furnaces and mines restarted. Despite 500 workers employed since resumption, company bans all Hungarians and Italians, driving many to seek work in Maryland and West Virginia coal fields after arduous travel via Huntingdon and Broad Top Railroad.
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Toe Tres
Huntingpon
Riddlesburg
Huntingdon and
Broad Top
Cumberland
Maryland
West Virginia
Contributions to the Parnell Fund at Morrocco leather meeting
At Sweeny's Hall last night the Morrocco leather manufacturers' employer group received 124.90 in contributions to the Parnell fund, with 250.25 previously acknowledged. Henry McDevitt presided, Hugh Mc Crudden served as secretary as officers were re elected. Further contributions are expected to close the fund next Sunday.
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Parnell Fund
Sweeny’s Hall
Henry McDevitt
Hugh McCrudden
Mozart Society Ball at Industrial Art Hall Tonight
The Tai Eee Mozart Singing Society plans a ball at Industrial Art Hall this evening. Charles C Ridgely of 4946 Merion Ave West Philadelphia died suddenly yesterday morning. The Rev Reese F Alsop preached at Grace Church Hall last evening to a large audience at the Arch Street Opera House. Sebastian Genner of 2215 Fulton St died yesterday in St Mary's Hospital from injuries from a fall on February 4 at his residence steps. Harry Lenay proprietor of the saloon at 606 Vine St notes a recent rough incident near the venue yesterday morning.
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Tai Eee Mozart Singing Society
Industrial Art Hall
Charles C. Ridgely
Merion Avenue
West Philadelphia
Reese F. Alsop
Grace Church
Arch Street Opera House
Sebastian Genner
Fulton Street
St Mary's Hospital
Harry Lenay
Vine Street
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Clarion County
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