Daylight at Last Scenes at the Pit Mouth Rescue
Jeanesville miners endure a nineteen day entombment 600 feet underground after a flood, surviving on scant air and water. Four men are rescued and carried to a town hall hospital amid prayers and a doxology, while officials recount their harrowing ordeal and the risks of black damp.
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Jeanesville
Nevouy
Casey
Hale
Ketcham
MacFarlane
Benneath
McFarlane
Miner
McFarlana
MecFarlane
Keecham
Jiote
Hayden
Fidgle
Tomisky
Poland
Piriday
John Barne
Hungary
Thiel
Freight Cars Smashed in Reading Railroad Wreck
Ashland February 4 A disastrous wreck on the Reading Railroad between Barry station and Gordon destroys four engines five 00 gallon oil tanks and three freight cars. Coal engine No 5 with 100 cars started from Locust Summit for Gordon half the train broke loose a flagman was sent to warn a following train and the engine crew leaped to safety. Several engines collided wreckage piled up by the track and fire swept the scene with losses estimated around 100000.
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Ashland
Reading
Barry Station
Gordon
Locust Summit
Gordon Yards
Ei Pee
Lee Irceet
City Swept Away By Flooding In Arizona
Phoenix ARIZ Feb 24 The first wire from Pimaia since Wednesday reports Yuma threatened with flooding as the Gila shifts its bed into the Colorado River. Wires down and town may be swept away while the agency flour mill area is inundated andWilliam Cornwell and family escaped drowning as their home was washed away.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Salt River
Yuma
Gila
Colorado
Holbrook Aays
San Carlos
William Cornwell
Conductor Jessup Killed in Freight Car Accident
New Castus Pa Feb 24 Conductor H O Jessup of Sharpstille died instantly when he climbed onto a box car between Wilmington and Sharpsville and fell beneath the wheels.
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Disraron
New Castus
Conduett
H. Jessup
Sharpstille
Wilmington
Sharpsville
Sherman Place Named for General at Seventy-Third Street
The Board of Aldermen approved a resolution naming the triangle at Seventy-third Street and the Boulevards Sherman Place in memory of the late General.
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New York
Board of Aldermen
Seventy-third Street
Sherman
Desperate Battle At Tokar Shifts Dervish Front
Descriptions of a clash at Tokar show Osman Digna attempting a flank while Egyptians under Colonel Slith countered with infantry advancing through inwood and ruins. Houses were seized, a dervish assault was checked by a house defense, and a later Egyptian rout drove the enemy from rising ground.
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Svakm
Tokar
Slith
Osman Digna
el Teb
Fere
Osman Dignasod Naib
Advan
Fire in Anitchkoff Palace Empresses Suite Causes Panic
Reports from St. Petersburg detail a February 16 fire at the Anitchkoff Palace during which the czar was alone in his study when smoke appeared. The blaze started from electric lighting wires in a bathroom below the empresses suite, causing panic as guards guarded the palace. The fire damaged paintings, tapestries, and statuary before being controlled. the empress, returning from a drive, became ill from the shock.
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Lonpox
St. Petersburg
Anitchkoff Palace
Palace Commission
Czarin Parson
Moendiariem
All Ncendiaries
French Artists Protest Berlin Exhibition
Paris artists denounce French colleagues who will exhibit in Berlin, calling it desertion and accusing them of assisting Emperor William to crown Berlin as Europe’s art center, eclipsing Paris which sees itself as rightful cultural leader.
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France
Berlin
Paris
Feo
William
Europe
Germany's Customs Relations and Trade Treaties
The North German Gazette reports Germany should secure stable customs relations through tariff treaties that protect national labor. It argues widespread trade pacts could pressure France to adjust its prohibitive tariff, and similarly check Russia and the United States’ protectionist moves. Prince Napoleon II notes King Humbert visited Prince Napoleon who is seriously ill with nephritis.
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BERL
Gaman Gasette
Germany
France
Russia
United States
Napoleon II
Roms
Humbert
Napoleon
Pittsburg Dogs Dominate New York Beach Show Wins
A Special Telegram from The Dispatch reports over 1,000 entries at Madison Square Garden for the New York beach show. Washington’s Irish setters led the field with Ruby Glenmore and Winnie, while Beau Brommel set a record with multiple firsts. Other top winners included Russian wolfhounds Fiocem and Prokaza and Dashound Countess Liva, as crowds filled the venue.
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Madison Square Garden
Pittsborg Dogs
From. W. LE
Washington
Ruby Glenmore
Winnie IL
Beau Brommel
Ruby Jeomore
Dick Swirelic
Killarney
Chicago
Paul Hacke
Fiocem
van Romanoff
Joe Lewis
Dashound Countess Liva
Eeague
Ntsburg
Compulsory Education Debate Opens National Meeting
In Philadelphia on February 4 the annual session of the Department of Superintendents of the National Education Association began with representatives from all states and territories. The first topic discussed was compulsory school legislation in Illinois and Wisconsin presented by N. Deeaberry and others.
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Philadelfhsia
Department of Superintendents
National Education Association
United States
Illinois
Wisconsin
N. E Deeaberry
Tin’ Mir
Ng Fs Mg IM
Tuppers Revelations Read Letters To Erastus Wiman
Sir Charles Tupper read two letters addressed to Erastus Wiman of New York at a Windsor rally. One letter by G Edward Farrar of Toronto discusses commercial union, annexation, and Jesuit influence, noting Liberals' weakness and strategic delays. The other by K Hitt of Washington comments on Farrar’s views and argues commercial union is a business issue with slower political uptake, urging patience and policy formulation.
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John
Hoar
Washington
Manitoba
Ontario
Hits
Farrar
North American Review
Illinois Senate Bill Targets Political Conspiracy
Springfield February 24. In the Senate a bill makes it a conspiracy for two or more persons to agree to prevent the election of any official on account of religious belief. In the House a bill imposes telegraph company taxes with a tax of 1 dollar per mile for single wires and 2 cents per mile for each additional wire on the same pole.
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Springfield
Senate
Senate repeals conspiracy law against organized labor
HALENA Mont February 4 The Senate passed a bill repealing the conspiracy law. The measure has passed the House and now goes to the Governor for signature amid a stubborn fight.
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Halena
Mont
Senate
House
Broad late news briefs from around the world
Strikes in Brazil widen while Oregon and Washington endure heavy snowfall. Argentina gains seats in elections as diamonds valued at 3200 dollars are stolen from a San Francisco pawnshop. Floods cause hog losses in Centralia and bridges fail. Various political, crime and transport items noted from Guatemala to Chicago.
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Brazil
Oregon
Washington
San Francisco
Galesburg
Rivers Readies for Business After Towboat Movements
Back within its banks the river falls slowly to 13 feet 10 inches as Tar Hudson leaves for Cincinnati at 4 PM. The Matt Allen sails to Parkersburg via Charleston from Patterson's wharf boat while river traffic resumes.
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Tar Hudson
Cincinnati
Matt F.allen
Parkersburg
Charleston
Patterson
Denver pugilist Ed Smith eyes middleweight move and Hall clash
Ed Smith arrives in Denver to train Pat Farrell and an unknown wrestler for Ed Reilly. He backs down from 158 pounds to fight Jim Hall to a finish for a big purse, claims better middleweight class ahead, and plans two bouts daily with Farrell and the unknown before Farrells New York fight.
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Ed Smith
Denver
Farrell
Fitzsimmons
Jim Hall
Hall
Godfrey
Dempsey
Muldoon
Smith
East End
New York
McAuliffe
Elmer Grant
Grant
Western Pennsylvania Football League round two preview
The Western Pennsylvania Football League schedules its second round for Saturday with close expected games. Pittsburg Club faces McDonald in a key match while McKeesport and Lawrenceville won their first round games. Shaner protests the referee as questions of fairness loom ahead of next week’s meeting.
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Western Pennsylvania Football League
Oo Rovers
Allegheny Thistle
Pittsburg
East End
Braddock
Edreka
McKeesport
McDonald
Swith
Tavey
Pennsylvania
Exposition Park
Liberty Park
Lawrenceville
East Finders
oworTer
Aes
Shaner
Homestead
Allegheny
Thisties
Eurekas
Skelihood
Recreation Park
Thistles
Fashionable Society and Health Risks
The fragment describes the strain of late hours and crowded venues on fashionable society, noting fatigue, overindulgence, and uneasy air in theatres and ballrooms. It hints that such excesses upset health and rejects lingering claims, mentioning Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription in passing.
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Dr. Pierce
O'Neill Orders Signings as Pittsburg Aims for Outfielder
President ONeill directs Hanlon to sign the brilliant outsolder and confirms Fred Carrolls contract. ONeill wires to accept Fogartys terms for the sensational outfielder likely to join Pittsburg today and notes telegrams from agents about four Association players. Possible signings include Stratton and a pitcher from Louisville, with other names discussed. local directors form a grounds committee as econ work proceeds.
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Fred Carroll
Fred
O'Neill
Hanlon
Fogarty
Pittsburg
O’ Neill
O’neill
Stratton
Louisville
Glen
Gastright
Columbus Club
Ebret
Louisvilles
King
Plicbera
Riley
Columbus
Mosars
Rea
McCallin
Kerr
Econ
Wrestling and League Moves Stir Pittsburgh Motions
In Pittsburgh chatter a wrestling bout setup with Haslam is backed by a depositor while talk swirls of a Columbus club seeking an injunction against Konges and others. Tip O Neill, Chicago, and Brooklyn clans figure in league reshuffles as Anson hints at a Cincinnati league entry and the Association’s future remains uncertain.
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Tip O' Neill
Chicago
Jimmy Ryan
Pittsburg
Columbus
Konges
AL Jonson
Brooklyn
Myrne and
Thers
Pennsylvania
Stott
Haslam
Anson
Cincinnati
O'Neill
Associaton
Mesars
Irwin
Mara Burnie
Cohen
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