Kilkenny Election Furore Splits Irish Party in Paris Talks
Parnell attacks priests over Kilkenny disaster claiming coercion swayed ballots. In Paris, Irish Nationalists debate whether compromise is possible as O Brien and Parnell face divergent aims. Sullivan questions American Irish support while Kilkenny vote irregularities cited by supporters of Parnell.
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America
T. D. Sullivan
Harrington
Parnell
Americas
Sullivan
Kilkenny
O'Brien
O Brien
O'limen
Ireland
Parnell Talks of Election Plans and Catholic Influence
The document records Patrick Parnell discussing alleged Catholic influence on Irish politics and the approaching general election. He says time is on his side and outlines a campaign plan including potential travel to France, and resuming campaigning in Ireland with stops at Limerick Ennis Waterford and other centers.
Woman mutilates herself during religious gathering in Wattenheim
Barbara Pfister, 23, cut herself repeatedly and appeared before villagers with bloodied wounds claiming a Christ like crucifixion. Authorities arrested her as a crowd of over 100 peasants pressed in, police forced a path to the jail with drawn swords as the district physician examined her.
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Berio
Wattenheim
Ehineland
Barbara Pfister
The Scottish Strikes and International News Details
The report notes about 9,000 Scottish railway workers on strike causing traffic disruption on the North British line. Docks close, coal shortages threaten gas supply in Perth, and a derailment attempt is alleged near Kilbride. Other items cover a Berlin burglary, a plea for neutrality by English and Irish railway societies, and a Belgian socialist funeral.
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Glascow
Scotland
North British Railway
Loch Lomond
Clyde
Glasgow
Caledonian Railway Company
Perth
Kilbride
Aberdeen
Edinburgh
Berlin
Berli
Broeseker
Schacter
Poor Success of the Peace Party With the Hostile Indians
A brief telegram from Diefator dated December 25 reports the Peace Party’s efforts with hostile tribes yielding little progress. The message notes continued tensions and limited gains from recent diplomatic talks.
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Diefator
Pixs Eipon, & D
Peace Party Faces Setback Amid Camp Rumors
Reports from the camp indicate the peace party suffers a public setback and General Brooke faces further disappointment. Word circulates that Little Wound and other chiefs are resisting and Colonel Henry's troops remain present, worsening the situation since yesterday.
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Brooke
Henry
Christmas Tree Fire in Philadelphia Ends in Tragedy
In Philadelphia on December 25 Edward Penrose’s residence at 2106 Gratz avenue burned from a Christmas tree blaze. Mrs Fitzsimmons of Brooklyn, visiting for the holidays, died in her third floor room amid smoke and flames as firemen searched the room for her body. The fire nearly destroyed the house and disrupted a happy family celebration.
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Dispatch
Philadelphia
Edward Penrose
Gratz Avenue
Fitzsimmons
Brooklyn
Mrs. Fitzsimmons
Big cattle boycott charges of conspiracy in Chicago
Springfield Dec 25. Cicero J. Lindley and M L Crum file information with Attorney General Hunt alleging a Chicago Live Stock Exchange at Union Stock Yards with 500 members fixed min commissions and barred nonmembers from selling cattle. They claim a conspiracy between exchange members and major buyers to force stock producers to sell only to exchange members at inflated rates, harming nonmembers and producers.
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Springfield, Inc
Cicero J. Lindley
Farmers’ Mutual Benefit Assurance of Illinois
M. L. Crum
Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial Union
Hunt
Union Stock Yards
Chicago
Chicago Live Stock Exchange
Exchange
Commission
Live
Myers
Armour Packing Company
Nelson Morris & Co
Swift & Co
American Live Stock Company
Gome
American Live Stock Commission Company
Live Stock Company
Court declines to stop railroad track tearing in Seattle
In Seattle a conflict with Northern Pacific over right of way led the court to refuse an injunction to halt track laying. City officials and citizens had torn up tracks to prevent encroachment, while the railroad defied authorities and proceeded with crossing work amid fears of bloodshed.
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Seattle
Northern Pacific
Superior Court
Sawtelle Murder Jury Convicts Defendant
The Sawtelle murder trial jury returns a first degree verdict at 7:40 PM and sentences the defendant to be hanged on the first Tuesday in January 1891. Isaac Sawtelle spent Christmas hearing counsels arguments before the verdict. The trial included late State arguments and a conservative jury charge from Judge Doe.
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Doyrin
N. H
Sawtelle
Therisoner
Isaac B. Sawtelle
Edgerly
Barnard
Doe
Portland Chamber Presents Bankrupt Law Memorial
Senator Mitchell reads a Portland chamber memorial urging federal action on bankruptcy reform. It outlines why state laws failed and supports the Torrey bankrupt bill as a just and wise measure needing Senate passage.
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Wasuixetox
Mitchell
Chamber of Congress
Portland
Ore
Congress
House
Senate
Dead and injured in river crossing near Golden Gate plant
The report lists fatalities John Angues superintendent Wiley Sloan engineer seriously injured Maud West severely burned William aan badly injured with multiple fractures. Four others were hurt but not in danger. The Kelley Wells lumber plant was built here this summer at a cost of chess and has been operating only one week.
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Golden Gate
John Angues
Wiley Sloan
Maud West
William Aan
Kelley & Wells
Italian Lover Describes Face-Marking Plot to Marry Her
An Italian man tells how Nanette Francioli urged him to scar her cheeks to deter suitors and secure their marriage. He cut two gashes, was jailed seven months, then sent for America with her money and promise to follow.
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New York
Augustino Carmenette
Naples
Barge Office
Ansfered
Nanette Francioli
Florence
Nanette
America
Erhardt
Augustine
Vast Brazilian Colonization Plan Attracts European Capital
Reports from the Bureau of American Republics describe a New York backed Compania Nova Fria Rural do Brazil proposing 20 agricultural settlements on public lands, rail links, and sugar bricks and lime manufacturing. It envisions 5,000 European families, free transport, tools, and housing with 5 percent government guarantees. Distinct Cuban sugar ventures and Gran Chaco exploration are noted alongside steamship improvements and wider Caribbean service.
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Washington
Bureau of American Republics
Brazil
Compania Nova Fra Rural Do
Europe
Federal
Havana
New York
San Damon
Cuba
South America
Luisa
Sagua
Parana River
Gran Chaco
Argentine Republic
Africa
Maixze
Alaispalani Vogi
Bureau of American Abies Pat
United States
Royal Mail Steam Packet Company
England
London
Southampton
West Indies
Detroit Pudding Classified as Building Material by Customs
Detroit authorities decide a plum pudding imported by Charles B Mangham is to be taxed as building material after a lengthy classification search in the McKinley list. The fate of the pudding remains in custody at the Government storehouse as Mangham protests the duty and appeals to the British Consul.
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Detroit
Charles B. Mang
England
Custom House
McKinley
Mangham
New York
Murders and mysteries in Colfax county report
In Colfax county near Van Bremer lakes two Mexicans were found dead with throats cut, rifles beside them, and money in pockets. Deputy Sheriff G W Cook is jailed for killing Julio Martinez during an attempted arrest. Separate cases include the disappearance of J P Jones on Vermijo creek and Mrs Stockbridge beaten and strangled by her son John, who is jailed after a bail default and claiming divine instruction.
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Santa Fe
N. M
Colfax
van Bremer Lakes
Julio Martinez
G. W. Cook
Martinez
J. P. Jones
Vermijo Creek
Mra. Stockbridge
Eaton
John
Big Coal Land and Timber Deals in West Virginia
The Morgan Drexel firm representing Vanderbilt interests buys 50,000 acres of coal and coke lands in Raleigh county and surveys a railroad line from Baltimore and Ohio to Chesapeake and Ohio routes. Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad acquires vast mineral and lumber lands and plans new railroads, while Baltimore and Ohio purchases 75,000 acres from ex Senator J N Camden. Other prominent buyers include Senator Gorman, James Blaine, Henry G Davis, Stephen Elkins, and others acquiring 10,000 to 20,000 acre tracts as railroads are laid or surveyed through these lands and the Pocahontas coke field is traced across multiple counties.
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Parkersburg
Morgan, Drexel & Co
Philadelphia
Vanderbilt
Raleigh County
Baltimore and Ohio and
Chesapeake and Ohio
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
J. N. Camden
Senator Gorman
Maryland
James G. Blaine
Henry G. Davis
Stephen Elkins
Pocahontas
Guyan River
Indian Mountain
Otter and Barker
Guyan
Wyoming
Penest
Fayette County
New River
Death of a Patriarch in Brappy Texas
Mike Waidick died last night in Brappy Texas at age 103 or 104. He emigrated from Ireland to Texas in 1853 and endured progressive blindness over the years. After a long decline he briefly regained some sight and mobility before again losing them and remaining infirm until death.
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Michael Waidick
Texas
Brapy
Tex
Mike Waidick
Ireland
Disconsolate Widower Falls Before Train at Depot
Patrick Glackin a 29 year old French Canadian widower who lost his wife a year ago and had a lame arm committed suicide this morning at the depot by throwing himself in front of an express train. A note in his pocket stated he was left alone with three small children.
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O'Brien
Messrs
McCarthy
Sexton
Condon
Humpheers
M. Baffalovitch
William O’brien
Boulogne
Bhien
Gilla
Ireland
Duntoun
Parnell
Kingston
Toutale
Crystalline Ice Palace Lights Newark Structure
The Krueger Hygiene Ice Company built a translucent ice palace beside its freezing plant at Rail road avenue and Murray street Newark. Architect Stahlen designed it and workers completed it last week. colored lights illuminated it tonight. The nearly square building fronts 30 feet and rises 35 feet with one tower capped by a flag. Superintendent John B Bell praised it as the first structure erected with artificially frozen ice as hundreds of Newarkers and thousands of Pennsylvania Railroad passengers glimpsed it.
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New York
Krueger Hygiene Ice Company
Railroad Avenue
Murray Street
Newark
Stahlen
Montreal
St. Paul
John 8. Bell
Secret Service
Christmas Dinner Fire Spoils Union Club Feast
A fire in the Union Club house at Fifth Avenue and Twenty first Street New York spoiled Christmas dinners for members. Smoke appeared around 2 o clock from the kitchen area and the dining room ceiling. Firemen reached the blaze quickly with little water used and no water reaching lower floors. The origin likely a defective flue between the dining room ceiling and the floor above.
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New York
Union Club
Fifth Avenue
Twenty-first Street
Death of Pedro Antonio Lopez 105 in Santa Fe
News from Santa Fe reports the death at 105 of Pedro Antonio Lopez in the northern county. He passed quietly after a long life of service as a soldier under Spanish kings. His family gathered as he spoke of past events including Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.
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Eda AL
Santa Fe
Pedro Antonio Lopez
Louis XVI
Marie Antoinette
Lopez
Masonic Temple in Baltimore Destroyed by Fire
Christmas Day blaze gutted the Masonic Temple in Baltimore causing the loss of nearly all Grand Lodge records since its founding. The fire started in the theater on the building’s upper floors, and the $450000 structure was completely ruined with heavy losses anticipated.
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Baltmore
Baltimore
Masonic Temple
Grand Lodge
Turbulent Boiler Explosion at Kelley & Wells Mills
A boiler explosion at Kelley and Wells lumber mills on Black River near Newport Arkansas kills two men outright and fatally injures two others. Engineer Wil Sloan and supervisor John Angues were near the boiler when the blast occurred as work crews numbered around 50 in the mill and six on the steamer deck. Rogues suffered severe injuries, losing limbs and skull fragments, while Sloan’s body was not recovered.
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Dispatch
Newport
Ank
Kelley & Wells Lumber Mills
Black River
Wil Sloan
John Angues
Sloan
Texas
Whisky drinking contest ends in deaths in Chattanooga
In Chattanooga on December 25 two Black men Ben Sharp and Marshall Quinlan consumed whisky as white men bet on the amount they would drink. Sharp collapsed and died. Quinlan later lay in a muddy yard, insensible and near death, with his condition still grim hours after the event.
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Jdepator
Chattanooga
Ben Sharp
Marshall Quinlan
Sharp
Quinlan
Deficit of School Children In Middletown Hamlet
Little City in Haddon, Conn. has a school house but no pupils. Once thirty children attended, then numbers fell until the State Board of Education notified trustees that the school would close due to declining enrollment.
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Maturit
Farma
Haddon
Middletown
Conn
Little City
Connecticut River
State Board of Education
Great Discovery Promises Cure for Lupus in Berlin Trials
A Mount Sinai report on Koch lymph treatment shows lupus patients improving after injections with blisters forming and no new inoculations that day. Dr Loomis, back from Berlin, presents impressions supporting therapeutic value and warns of dangers from potent poison in the fluid.
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Dispatch
New York
Mount Sinai Hospital
Koch
St. Mark's Hospital
Lapus
H. P. Loomis
Berlin
Prof. von Bergmann
Jenner
A Stormy Christmas Snowstorms Hit Several Cities
Reports from Washrleton Harrisonburg Staunton and Staunton Virginia St. Cloud Minnesota and Peat Louisville describe heavy snow and sleet delaying travel blocking roads and suspending business Temperatures ranged from 27 to 33 with varying depths from four to ten inches
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Washrleton
Harrisonburg
Staunton
Louisville
St. Cloud
Minn
The Third Party Movement in Kansas
Frank McGrath, president of the Kansas Farmers Alliance, notes the National Alliance Legislative Committee will meet in Washington in February with representatives from 35 states to discuss the third party movement. He says the movement will eventually include most labor organizations in the United States and will be organized at the proper time.
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Torrna
Kan
Frank McGrath
Farmers’ Alliance
McGrath
Kansas Alliance
The
National Alliance
Washington
Mr. McGrath
United States
Trial of Bradford on Train Wrecking Ends in Default
In Oodville Mississippi on December 25 the preliminary trial of A. Bradford for train wrecking and attempts to murder railway employees closed before Judge Watson. Bradford faced six counts including one wrecking charge and five murder attempts, but failed to appear, resulting in default on combined charges totaling thirteen thousand dollars.
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Oodville
Miss
A. Bradford
Watson
Bradford
Oka
Nineteen in the Net First District Police Unearth Counterfeit Ring
The First District of Pittsburg uncovers an organized counterfeit coin ring with a New York headquarters and agents nationwide. Nineteen suspects, including Elio Davige and Nelson Maggarini, are in custody after $1100 in silver dollars found under a Lincoln Avenue bed. Detectives traced the operation from New York to Pittsburg and then to other cities, with no molds or dies found.
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United States
Pittsburg
New York City
McSweeney
Elio Davige
Nelson Maggarini
Ltalians
Black Bear Tavern
Fan Market Alley
Mr. Eichleay
Cella
Miene
McAleese
Fitzgerald
Ward
Nineteenth Ward
New York
Sweeney Mys
Horrible Suspicion: Two Men Plundered and Burned Alive?
A fire at Samuel Malone's house in Hotpen Missouri reveals Malone and his brother-in-law John Hicks fleeing a burning bedroom before the roof collapsed. Police believe a robbery preceded the arson and are investigating.
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Hotpen
Samuel Malone
Mr. Malone
John Hicks
Hicks
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