Brooks Faces Country Drive for Speaker Role
Harrisburg dispatch reports a widening country bloc to topple Brooks in the New Year speakership race. Thompson leads the anti Brooks coalition with 65 votes, while Baker presses for unit backing as Andrews arrives amid Quay rumors. The six country candidates plan to withdraw to form a single anti Brooks majority, aiming to elect a speaker from rural districts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Haverssoua
House of Representatives
Mr. Brooks
Philadelphia
C. Thompson
Warren County
Jesse N. Baker
Delaware County
E. Stewart
Allerbeny County
William Finley
Washington County
W.E. Burdick
McKean County
Theodore Capp
Lebanon County
City
Thompson
Baker
Brooks
Stewart
Allegheny County
Burdick
Finley
Capp
State Committee of the
Senate
Edward W. Smiley
Venango County
A. F. Bannon
Reading
Captain Reed
Mifflin County
George Hutchison
Huntingdon County
Herman P. Miller
Delaney
Mayard
Lawrence County
W. W. Dalbey
Tabernacle Baptist Church
Harrisburg
James A. Dunlap
Tarentum
A. Kennedy
Oeny County
Sy House
Wallism Baer
George W. Hazlett
Allegheny
Joseph D. Grey
Ohio Township
Sax
James Day
Glenfield
Warren
L. E. Storren
Archbishop Corrigan Urges Africa Mission Fund Drive
Archbishop Corrigan releases a circular urging Catholics in New York to support Africa missions. He cites slavery and hardship of native tribes, notes Pope Leo XII's encyclical urging an Epiphany collection, and says the collection will fund missionaries in Africa across all diocesan churches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corrigan
New York
Africa
Pope Leo XII
Will Become a Countess
Washington reports the engagement and wedding arrangements for Miss Florence Audenried and Count de Vonne. The ceremony at St Matthews Church will be a high mass at 11 4. m on Wednesday the 14th with Archbishop Corrigan performing and President and Cabinet members attending. Secretary Blaine will give the bride away. The couple will sail for Paris on the 17th after a wedding breakfast attended by many dignitaries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Florence Audenried
Count de Vonne
St Matthews
Corrigan
Ecenes
Blaine
Countess de Vonone
New York
Paris
Covenues
Onne
Lake Geneva
Fatal Train Crash Kills Two on Hadley Crossing
A Central Massachusetts train struck a team of six youths at Hadley crossing at 5 30 PM killing Henry Learned son of Dr J P Learned and Mabel Hinckley daughter of Rev Frederick M Hinckley. The other occupants were injured.
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Northawprox
Mass
Massachusetts
Hadley
Henry
J. P. Learned
Mabel P
Frederick M. Hinckley
Ae Occupantsa
Fesny Ia
Untold Tragedy Ties City Train Arrival to Missing Bodies
Reports describe a fatal incident linked to a student from the Art Cultural College and a Capen School member named Miss Hinckle. The bodies were transported by train and Judge Bond encountered the arrival at the depot, with one eyewitness noting a torn face and a bruised leg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Bond
Learned
Artcultural College
Miss Hinckle
Capen School
Gir
Judge Bond
Miraculous Cure at Woodworth Meeting in Anderson
A Special Telegram reports Mrs. Woodworth the trance evangelist holding services at the Church of God in Anderson where several alleged cures are described. Mollie Bowers, blinded for twelve years by measles, regained sight after prayer and a public altar moment. Tests of color and reading confirmed recovery. Two locals claim deafness cure, and William Span walked again after years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Distator
Anderson
Woodworth
William Span
Fortville
Gorman to Lead Democratic Campaign In State
Senator Gorman plans to campaign in the state next fall to build an unprecedented Democratic majority. He believes he will be elected to succeed himself as U.S. Senator with proper management. Barnes Comorae, current Democratic State Central Committee chairman, is expected to address the effort early.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gorman
United States Senate
Barnes Comaere
Democratic State Central Committee
Fae
Plage
Grams
Eeweather Bey
Two Solemn Events in a Prominent Baltimore Family
In Georgetown Convent of the Visitation chapel Miss Mary Abell daughter of the late A S Abell of Baltimore took the white veil in a two hour ceremony led by Cardinal Gibbons and Bishop Curtis with Rev Albert Frank as spiritual adviser. Afterward Cardinal Gibbons presided at a breakfast. Walters R Abell, son of A S Abell and Sun proprietor, died suddenly at his home after a brief illness.
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Wasuincrox
Georgetown
Cardinal Gibbons
Curtis
Wilmington
Albert Frank
Miss Abell
Mary Joseph
Baltimore
Walter R. Abell
A. 8S. Abell, and One of the Proprietors of the Sun
Autocratic Convict Controls State Prison Operations
At Tremaston State prison William Gould, a 10 year embezzlement convict, allegedly runs the facility. He handles officer salaries, money, commissary, and purchases, and even fills roles as assistant librarian and physician assistant. He reportedly imposes punishments and drafts annual prison reports, enjoying privileges denied to other inmates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tremaston
William
Gould
First National Bank
Missing Boston broker leads to arrest fears
W D Lovell of The Potter Lovell Company note brokers has been missing for three weeks. His counsel says he left on legitimate grounds, but officials suspect he may be avoiding arrest after the late failure spurred criminal actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
W. D. Lovell
Potter-Lovell Company
W. F. Dickinson, Jr
Train collision delays fast mail near Elyria
An engine backed into the New York and Chicago fast mail on the Lake Shore and Pennsylvania line at Elyria due to a misplaced switch. The mail train ran at high speed. The fireman on the mail train jumped and was slightly injured. The engineer remained at his post. No other injuries reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
New York
Chicago
Lake Shore and Pennsylvania
Elyria
Dub
Braves Reinforced and Red Cloud Attacked in Indian Skirmish
Report from Mania North Dakota describes Company H of the Twenty second Infantry marching to Fort Yates. Friendly Indians at Standing Rock join hostile forces and call for aid. Old Chief Red Cloud attempts to flee but is pursued. ponies shot, guards placed. Rations requested for 80 at Fort Pierre, wounded to Fort Riley, and a further skirmish near White River with four Indians killed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. D
Twenty-second Infantry
Fort Yates
Standing Rock
McLaughlin
Bad River
Fort Pierre
Mr. Ketchum
Pierre
Fort Bennett
Tassin
Fort ‘Ierre
Omaha Bet
Pine Ridge Agency
Fort Riley
Kan
Red Cloud
Wounded Knee
Episcopal Church
Iowa W National Guards
White River
John Kerr
Farm conflict ends in fatal shooting near town
Two farmers, Embree and Terrill, quarrelled on the road with Terrill firing five shots from a revolver, killing Embree almost instantly. Terrill, to be protected from the mob, was placed in the custody of soldiers and kept as a prisoner. Both men resided about 25 miles northeast of the locality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terrill
Embree
Emma Abbott Dying in Salt Lake City
Special telegram reports the renowned prima donna Emma Abbott is dying in Salt Lake City Utah after contracting pneumonia during a four night engagement. She ignored her doctors advice and performed the first night, then fell seriously ill the next day. Physicians say she cannot live tonight and she is unconscious as death approaches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salt Lake City
Dispatch
A Miner's Mystery and a Joyous Brooklyn Reunion
William Bennett, once a California gold seeker, returned to New York after a decade to find his daughter Sarah. He learned she had been adopted by neighbor J. H. Newcombe, grew up in Brooklyn, married, and had children. Bennett visited Newcombe, met his daughter, then vanished from sight. Brooklyn papers note Newcombe’s advertisement seeking Bennett.
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New York
William Bennett
California
Sarah
Bennett
Brooklyn Police
Eile Uaecade
J. H. Newcombe
Newcombe
Gates Avenue
Mr. Newcombe
Newcombes
Brooklyn
Old Bennett
Indian Agency Faces Threats and War Rumors
Telegrams from Pine Ridge and Badlands detail hostile bands burning school and Episcopal property ten miles north of the agency and threats against settlers. Reports cite Red Cloud Little Wound and their followers facing orders to move in, with cavalry clashes and multiple soldiers killed. General Miles and General Schofield coordinate responses amid rising tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Iay
Roger
Pire Ridge
Episcopal Reece
Clay Creek
Todasia
Miller
Grass Creek
Raeniaeen
Kicking Bear
Oak
Mamie Starr Hysterical at Death Sentence Hearing
Mamie Starr screamed for mercy and fainted as Judge Driggs prepared to pronounce life imprisonment for poisoning her employers Mr and Mrs Newland. The prisoner collapsed, was carried from the courtroom in an unconscious state, and the judge spoke the sentence in a slow voice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicaco
Mamie Starr
Evarts Cousin Placed in New Haven Almshouse
Levi Griswold Evarts claiming kin to Senator Evarts was moved to the New Haven Almshouse. A 73 year old veteran of hardship, he had lived for years in a downtown rookery and relied on merger assistance to survive before his condition necessitated institutional care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Haven,eCon
Levi Griswold Evarts
Senator Evarts
New Haven Almshouse
Will of Selah Chamberlain Proclaimed in Painesville
The will of Selah Chamberlain, railroad builder, was probated in Painesville. He left an estate valued at 7 million dollars, largely to the son of his brother in Cleveland. A small public bequest went to Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati. Jennie Chamberlain, later Mrs. Naylor Leylan, was his niece and favored recipient.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Selah Chamberlain
Painesville
Lane Theological Seminary
Cincinnati
Jennie Chamberlain
Puma
Naylor- Leylan
Married an Indian The Strange Disappearance Explained
Ida Arnold, who vanished from Mattoon Illinois sixteen years ago, did not commit suicide but went to the Indian Territory where she taught school for the government under a new name. She married an Indian, Paul Pulaski, and now lives thirty miles from Oklahoma where she owns about a thousand acres of land.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OxnaHoma
Okea
Ida Arnold
Johan Arnold
Mattoon
Til
Indian Territory
Ida A
Paul Pulaski
Oklahoma
Board of Trade Protest Seeks Telephonic Quote Reforms
Daleth Grain Man sparks a Chicago dispute as the Board of Trade votes to urge a return to former quotations and telephonic communication. The unanimous resolution calls current methods unsatisfactory and detrimental to business and asks the Chicago Board to restore the previous system on the floor of the exchange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donlourh
Board of Trace
Chicago Board of Trade
Chicaco of Trade
Chicago
Quarantined Family On Train After Scarlet Fever Found
A Iowa Central passenger train arriving this morning diverted a coach containing John Fitzgerald his wife and three children one child ill with scarlet fever en route from St Paul to Story City Iowa The coach was cleared and isolated under quarantine until the child is out of danger and the family is safe in the coach under supervision in Marshalltown city authorities say.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa Central
John Fitzgerald
Story City
St. Paul
Marshalltown
Several Lupus Patients Declared Cured in New York Hospitals
SPECIAL TELEPERM TO THE DISFATOR reports lupus patients inoculated with lymph at the German Hospital are to be discharged as cured next week. Patients at Mt Sinai and Bellevue Hospitals walk the wards awaiting pronouncement. The durability of the cure remains uncertain. An earthquake shock was felt in Exwoop Isp Indiana with two quakes reported in the afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
German
Mt Sinai Hospital
Bellevue Hospital
Secon Itetoneune
Onda
Rman Ten
Oklahoma claim controversy ends in fatal street shooting
A fatal shooting occurred on a street in Oklahoma during a dispute over Representative IL L Terrill's homestead contest. Payne county men G. L. Embree and Terrill were central figures, with details tying to the U.S. Land Office contest. The incident followed Embree leaving the witness stand.
Judge Hines Improves After Paralysis Attack
Special telegram reports Judge Hines, longtime partner of President Harrison, is improving after a paralysis stroke that left him unable to move or speak. He was found home alone by a neighbor during a severe Vermont winter, awaiting assistance as his condition began to steady.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lupiow
Washington
Indiana
Judge Hines
Harrison
Capitol
Paras
Vermont
Inhuman son abandons aged father to freezing death
At Mt Freedom New Jersey an elderly man of about 70, John Beach, starved by exposure, was left by his son who refused to help. The son reportedly dragged the frail father on a sled back to their mud hut during a severe winter, showing extreme cruelty and neglect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DE Morrisrons
N. J
Mt. Freedom
John Beach
Imors
Ambiguous Philadelphia Trade Note on Amos Hilborn & Co
A fragment from Philadelphia dated January 3 notes Amos Hilborn & Co as manufacturers and importers dealing with arsene or related materials, mentioning Moses and a line about Falthre. The text is incomplete, but references a business in chemicals or arsenic related goods and imports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelpuia
Amos Hilborn & Co
Ed Moses
Indignation Over Disturbing Remains Incident
Fragmentary report notes a severely disturbed discovery near a farmer's house and that Cor TM Hughson was notified. Villagers express outrage and demand a thorough police investigation into the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hughson
Gospel Hymns In Court Over Church Assault Case
A church dispute in Benarre Massachusetts ends with Rev. L B Hayes accusing three deacons of assault and battery after a Tuesday clash in Saint's Church. Justice Kibby presided as the audience prayed loudly while the trial unfolded and the verdict favored the church faction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benarre
Mica
Saint’s Church
Rev
L. 3B
Hayes
Kibby
A Sac
Will & Weal
Oirenis Court
Government appeals cork import case under McKinley bill
The United States appeals the Board of General Appraisers ruling on a $600 versus $750 cork invoice from A. Magnus. The Treasury secretary orders the appeal after the clerical error finding, with District Attorney Milchrist filing in the United States Circuit Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Board of General Appraisers
New York
United States Circuit Court
Milchrist
A. Magnus
Secretary of the Treasury
The Dunbar Compromise Widows to Receive 16000
Everson Jan 3 The Dunbar widows will push suits against the Dunbar Furnace Company. Representatives offer 16000 dollars to be divided equally among the widows if they drop the suits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Everson
Dunbar
Dunbar Furnace Company
The Disratom Classifieds and Page Contents List
A cluttered note describes THE Disratom issue with 20 pages in three parts including local and foreign news, editorials, and a large classified section. It lists sections such as News of Europe, Resume of the Week, The City in the Desert, The Want Column, For Sale, Holiday Social News, The Grand Army, and various departments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Disratom
News of
Europe
Joaque Miller
Charles T. Murray
the Grand Army
Guarda
Henry Clews
Marketa
Tariff Law Effects on European Trade From Consular Reports
Reports from consuls in London Paris Glasgow Dublin and Gibraltar show mixed early effects of the McKinley tariff. Some districts report no clear export declines while others expect roughly five to twenty five percent drops and note a few firms testing new shipments to the United States. Consul Jarrett warns of hurt to U S commerce with the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Europe
John C. New
London
George C. Hitt
New
Adam E. King
France
America
Scotland
L. W. Brown
Glasgow
Hemes
Alexander J. Reid
Dublin
Kinley
Vane
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Andrews
Quay
W. H. Andrews
Lochiel Hotel
Senator Quay
Quaker City
Brooka
Taggart
Caurvass
James L
W. H. McCullough
Pittsburg
Brooks Boomers
David Martin
William R. Leeds
Theodore B. Stulb
James Jeffries
Dorham
John A. Glenn
Leeds
Phil
Philadel
P = delphia
Siladelphia
Philades
State Committee
Maine
Brokeer Lovell
Braves
Old Chief Red Cloud
Emma Abbott
Evart
New Haven
Nollie
Jennie
Board OF Trade
Daleth Grain
Michigan
Paet Ff
Review of Sports
Sevuee Eens Rengle Partiol
Serena Belones
the Todd
H. Webb
Psyst Pursle Department
Ne RB
Chapsounn
The
Bureau of Customs
Jarrett
England
Consul Brown
John Jarrett
J. M. Crawford
St. Peterspurg
Lemay
Horatio J. Sprague
Gibraltar
Cork
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