Arkansas Christened Arkansas Coast Defense Monitor at Newport News
The Arkansas coast defense monitor, keel laid in 1890, was launched and christened at the Newport News shipyard with Miss Robbie Newton Jones as sponsor. The ceremony featured a champagne christening, a cross cut saw release, and speeches by Gov. Daniel W. Jones of Arkansas, Gov. Tyler of Virginia, and other officials.
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Governor Jones
Arkansas
United States Monitor Arkansas
Robbie Newton Jones
Newport News
Newport, News
James River
Coast Defense
Daniel W. Jones
Tyler
Virginia
Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company
Miss Jones
Warwick
Loudenslager
New Jersey
Collis P. Huntington
Post
Lemley
Navy
J. Hoge Tyler
Jones
Commerce
Warner
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Robert G. Bickford
Goulds ex valet awarded five thousand dollars
In a sealed verdict read in Part 4 of the New York Supreme Court Howard Gould was found liable to Frank Dutton Mowbray for 5000 in damages. The trial drew wide public attention over tales of Goulds bachelor life aboard yachts and included testimony naming Kathryn Clemons and Odette Tyler among others.
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New York
Supreme Court
Aginst
Howard Gould
Frank Dutton Mowbray
Gould
Rush Taggart
Taggart
Glegerich
Mowbray
Wales F. Severance
Court House
Nestere
Kathryn Clemmons
Odette Tyler
George Blanchard
Fire destroys Morris's Spring Mill grocery store
A morning blaze wrecked Thomas Morris's grocery in Spring Mill causing about 6000 dollars in loss. Morris his son and George Lentz forced entry into the adjacent post office at risk to their lives and saved the mail before the Consbohocken fire department arrived unable to reach the Sebuylkill line.
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Thomas Morris
Spring Mill
George Lentz
Morris
Lentz
Consbohocken
Sebuylkill
Seventy-One Lost on Doomed Ship Monticello
A fierce gale sank the City of Monticello four miles from Yarmouth, killing thirty-four of aboard a crew and passengers of thirty-seven. Survivors include Wilson the cook, Kate Smith, Captain A N Smith, and James Flemming. many local navigators are listed among the missing.
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Hartrax
Bay of Fundy
Bay
Atlantic
Monticello
St. John
Yarmouth
Flemming
Smith
Pembroke
A. N. Smith
Pharsalina
City of Monticello
Halifax
St. Johns
Harding
City of Norfolk
Wilmington
Del
Wilson
Cook
Kate Smith
Battle Line
Pharsalia
James Flemming
A. XN. Smith
Rupert Olive
St. Johm
Prince Edward
Atel Eldridge
Elsie MacDonald
J. C. Fripp
Woodstock
N. B
O. W. Coleman
New Glasgow
John Richmond
Sussex
Mr. Eldridge
Miss MacDonald
Thomas Harding
Schooner Myra B Weaver Wrecked in Vineyard Sound Loss of Six
The three masted schooner Myra B Weaver wrecked in Vineyard Sound early today and six lives were lost. Names: Captain R S Vannamay of Philadelphia aged about 38 Steward William Petersen married residing in New Orleans Charles Magnussen Bergen Norway Jo an Heim an Aland Finland Miss Mary Emerson Mobile Ala Miss Ella Der bof Mobile Ala. City of Macon rescued four survivors bringing details.
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Boston
Myra B. Weaver
Vineyard Sound
Vannamay
Philadelphia
William Petersen
New Orleans
Charles Magnussen
Bergen
Norway
Joan Heiman
Aland
Finland
Mary Emerson
Mobile
Fella Derbof
Emerson
Ella Tehoe
City of Macon
Savage
AWFUL RIDE AS STEAMER ONEIDA SURVIVES GALE
The Clyde Line steamer Oneida en route from Providence to New York fought a violent gale off Fire Island. Captain Staples steered through heavy seas as the propeller rose from the water and sails were blown away. After hours in the trough she drifted toward Squaw Rocks and Sandy Hook, returning uninjured with all aboard safe.
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New York
Clyde Line
Oneida
Providence
Helot
Fire Island
Staples
Northwester
Fire-Island
Squaw
N. J
Sandy Hook
Barge Dragged Afoul of Schooner off Nobska in Gale
Vineyard Haven Massachusetts reports J P King & Co barge No 21 under Gypsum King tow dragged afoul of schooner Robert Graham Dun Baltimore bound for Boston. Dun lost fibboom head sails port anchor and chains and was damaged. The schooner broke adrift but Captain Blizzard of Gypsum King secured a hawser and kept her offshore until daylight when she was towed in. Barge damage unknown.
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Gypsum King
Thief Arrested After Attack on Holt Family at Buttonwood
Mrs. Family Holt aged 45 and son Lewis 16 were injured in a brutal home invasion at 2421 Buttonwood as William Hurroyd 45, a repeat burglar, fought with police after slashing Mrs Holt and wounding Lewis with a jackknife and carving knife. Hurroyd, caught at the scene, has a history of prison release and burglary skills. Neighbors alarmed. Mrs Holt and Lewis hospitalized at German Hospital.
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Pmily Holt
Buttonwood Street
Lewis
William Hulford
Twenty-third
Brown Streets
Hulroyd
Holts
Young Holt
Mrs. Holt
Hurroyd
Malcomson
Harroyd
Head of Great Mercantile Agency R G Dun Dies in New York
R G Dun longtime head of the mercantile agency R G Dun Co died at his home 261 Madison Avenue New York after years of ill health He was born in Chillicothe Ohio in 1826 and built the firm with Erastus Wyman expanding offices and 1 300 000 names in its recent list Dun’s Review was the agency’s chief publication
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Great Mercantile Agency
New York
Torriers
R. G. Dun
R. G. Dun & Co
Madison Avenue
Walter Duncan Buchanan
A. W. Ferris
Dun
Erastus Wyman
Wyman
Dun, Wyman & Co
Benjamin Douglass
Miss Douglass
Minnie Bradford
Dun's Review
McKinley to attend Philadelphia Union League founders’ day dinner
President McKinley will attend the Union League Club of Philadelphia founders day dinner on November 24. An invitation was extended by Joseph G. Darlington Charles E. Pugh E. Stotesbury and Colonel R. D. Benson, who visited the White House with Postmaster General Charles Emory Smith. He accepted the invitation.
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Times Bureau
Washington
McKinley
Union League Club of
Philadelphia
Joseph G. Darlington
Charles'e. Pugh
E. 'T. Stotesbury
R. D. Benson
White House
Charles Emory Smith
Bryan declines editorial post in Denver paper
Colonel William J. Bryan has declined an offer of editorial work at a Denver newspaper for $10,000 a year. In a telegram from Lincoln, he states he will remain there and continue to defend his principles and policies with speech and writing.
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Denver
Col
William J. Bryan
Lincoln
Neb
Madrid
Senor Campos
Rilvera
Sagasta
Azcarraga
America
Murder of 80-year-old man in Willoughby by tenant
Willoughby Ohio November 10 David Hurran 80 is murdered by tenant Potter Michael 60 with a double barreled shotgun at close range. The act ends a long dispute after Hurran filed an ejectment writ against Michael. Michael is jailed.
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Willoughby
Ohio
David Hurran
Potter Michael
Hurran
Michael
Morro Castle Sails on Maiden Havana Voyage
New steam ship Morro Castle departed New York for Havana on its maiden trip carrying notable passengers including Secretary of War Elihu Root Colonel Tasker H. Bliss and Havana officials. Root said he plans a two week voyage to reassess Cuba's general conditions and to familiarize himself with the situation.
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New York
Morro Castle
Havana
Elihu Root
Tasker H. Bliss
G. Bulle
Root
Cuba
Worcester Carpenter Killed by Unknown Assassin
In Worcester Massachusetts Gustave Erickson a carpenter was dragged from his bed and stabbed to death by an unknown attacker in the early hours. Mrs. Erickson woke to the struggle and inmates heard the fight before the killer fled with the weapon.
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Erickson
Worcester
French Forces Fight Boxer Rebellion South of Pao-Ting-Fu
General Bailloud reports a serious Boxer movement near Pao-Ting-Fu in China. French troops attacked an entrenched village on October 30 and drove out Boxers despite resistance.
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Paris
Bailloud
China
Pao-Ting- Fu
Weather forecast for the northeastern mid-Atlantic region
The outlook covers Far Eastern New York Eastern Pennsylvania New Jersey Delaware and Maryland with increasing cloudiness and warmer conditions likely rain in the afternoon. Western New York remains cloudy with rain or snow Sunday and breezy winds turning northwesterly. Western Pennsylvania sees rain in the south and snow or rain in the north with brisk winds by Sunday night. Local figures show sunshine today at 100 percent with temperature and rainfall excess/deficiency data through November and January totals.
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New York
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
Sondar
Bicycle theft, licenses, fires and injuries haunt city
Charles Rowen, 1425 Flora street, held on $800 bail for stealing W. E. Weiss’s bicycle at 1525 George street. Swzenvczeski and Ur bixszeska seek marriage after seeking a license. Fire at 580 584 North Third street prompts insurance probe. Adler Paper Box lost about $4000. Civil works eyed at League Island navy yard for a trolley line to be usable by Thanksgiving. Edwards jailed five days for attempting to wreck his boarding house. Railroad workers injured at Broad street car shed by Niagara express. taken to Presbyterian Hospital. Spris, 40, 1201 Cherry street, held on $800 bail for aggravated assault on John Conlon at Thirty-First and Cherry. Police officer reports bridge seizure by line crews. Penrose Hallowell dies from bull attack injuries. George Addison, 57th and Pearl, chased with six chickens. asks for a chicken from the judge. Lascar Samit falls from mast on Khalif, severely injured and hospitalizedsilent.
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Charles Spris
Cherry Street
Cunningham
John Conlon
North Juniper Street
Spris
Conlon
Thirteenth
Cherry Streets
Pope Receives Bishop Daly in Vatican Amid Health Notes
In Rome the Pope received Marenus Daly of St. Cloud Minnesota while reports say he has shown some improvement after illness in New York City. Intermittent civil and economic items follow including the Joliet Mills closure affecting about 300 workers and a Kansas congressman’s mother Mrs. Bailey dead at 76 from paralysis.
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the Times
City of
Trenendos
Myra BF. Weaver
Experi
Ence
William Holroyd
Emily Hart
Woman
RK. G. Dun
Robert Graham Dun
Great Financial Agency
G, Dun & Co
Chillicothe, Ohloe
Union League Club
MR. Bryan
Premier Azcarraga
Congress
Ates
Assassin
Worcester Carpenter
Mass
Gustave
United States Weather Bureau
Jami
Glear. Sp
Lore
City News
Charles Rowen
Flora Street
W. E. Weiss
George Street
O'Brien
Rowen
Girard Avenue
Roman Swzenvczeski
Algiannoo Urbixszeska
Almont
Roman
Orphans’ Court
Bird
Eee
North Third Street
Adler Paper Box Company
Major Walcott
League Island Navy Yard
William Edwards
Fos South Twenty-first Street
Rison
Rrison
Edwards
John Waters
John Cunningham
Pennsylvania Railroad
Broad Street
Niagara Express
Presbyterian Hospital
Penrose Hallowell
Meadow Brook
Montgomery County
St. Luke's Hospital
Hallowell
George Addison
Fifty-seventh
Pearl Streets
Norman
Addison
Thornton
Khalif
Lascar
Samit
Alt
Spreckels
Staoe
Diocese of
St. Cloud, Minn
Marenus Daly
New York City
McKenna
Joliet
J. HW. Ten Eyck Burr
Cazenovia, N. Y
Chicago
Prigenete
Fort Benton
Mont
Associated Press
Germany
Farsau
Sternberg
Berlin
North Carolina Sounds
Norfolk
Beaufort
Creaton
Pamlico
Albermarle Sounds
Scappernong River
R. ©. Lazier
Nome
Chanlie Harbor
Cornell City
Golevin Bay District
Admiral Dewey
Manila
San Francisco
George T. Brewster
New Y
George d'Essaner
Northwestern Coke
Chica
London
England
William Tjyaniels
Ross Johnson
Lake la
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