Would-be assassin fires at Bishop Whitaker in Philadelphia church
David Alexander, a young man described as calm and religious, fired a .22 pistol at Right Rev C W Whitaker during a St. John’s Church service in Philadelphia. He was seized by bystanders and taken to the seventh district station. he says he aimed to kill Whitaker and Rev Lattimer over high license vs prohibition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bishop Whitaker
St. John’s Protestant Episcopal Church
Philadelphia
David Alexander
St. Stephen's Church
C. W. Whitaker
Pennsylvania
Whitaker
McCreight
Hunter
Seventh District
Lattimer
Alexander
Money Order Department
Strawbridge & Clothier
Alewander
Drs Patou
Charles W. Cooper
Twenty-first
Christian Streets
Ryan
Christ
D. McConneall
St. Stephens Church
Rum Sellers
Ram Sellers
Oldest Insurance Order Holds Grand Lodge Meet
The biennial gathering of the Grand Lodge of District No 3 of the Independent Order of B nai Brith met in Saenger Hall Newark on January 26 with 39 lodges and 51 delegates. A banquet followed with 120 attendees as leaders debated the amended endowment law adopted unanimously to create a graded assessment. Reports noted 91 deaths from 1585 1589 with $91 000 paid, and the district claims over 2 000 members. This marks the first Grand Lodge meeting in Newark in 30 years of the order’s existence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newark
N. J
Grand Lodge
Order of B'Nai Brith
Saenger Hall
New Jersey
Delaware
Pennsylvania
Virginia
Josiah Cohen
Pittsburg
Jacob Singer
Philadelphia
Joseph Stadtfeldt
S. J. Strauss
Charles Hoffman
Adolph Eicholse
J. Cohen
Albert Rosenstein
Lancaster
William Seligsburg
Hoboken
Frank Marx
Edward Simon
Jacob Holzman
Wanamaker politics muddle in Philadelphia senate race
Philadelphia January 26 Mayor Fitler and Cameron contest the next United States Senatorship to be chosen by the 1591 Legislature. Postmaster General Wanamaker is openly discussed as a candidate though he declines to deny or affirm gossip. A close ally indicates Wanamaker has considered the race but will not rush a declaration, planning to wait for friend influence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Eddie H. Fitler
J. Donald Cameron
United States
Wanamaker
Mr. Wanamaker
North Fleet Brings Rio News On Brazilian Crisis
The British steamship North Fleet, from Rio Janeiro via Pierre Pont stores, carries Rio News December 23. It criticizes decrees forcing foreign citizenship, bans deportation of Dom Pedro II, and the arrest of Silveira Martins as mistaken. The paper argues monarchy cannot fall in a day and Dom Pedro II’s fate remains debated.
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Brookaey
North Fleet
Rio Janeiro
Pierrepont
Roberta
North Flint
Rio
Brazil
Dom Pedro II
Martins
Silveira Marting
Wolcott of Denver Sees West Ignored by Harrison Admin
Washington January 26 Henry Wolcott a Denver Republican and partner in a Denver law firm visits the city. He notes the West shows little interest in the Harrison administration and says the interior secretary was appointed without party consultation. He says it is too early to name the next nominee but hopes for another Harrison.
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Diaratc
Wasuinctox
Henry Wolcots
Denver
Centennial
E. ©. Wolcott
Henry Wolcott
Harrison
West
Colorado
Wolcot
Murder at a barber shop shocks Ontario county
A Jan 26 telegram from CanaxoDaloua N Y reports John Fish killed John Cullinane in front of George Roberts barber shop on Main Street after a dispute over a handshake. Fish fled but was arrested and confessed, claiming Cullinane was his best friend. Frank Fish, John's brother, is believed to be the shooter, with a prior six month sentence for assault.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CanaxoDaloua
N. Y
Ontario County
Main Street
George Roberts
John Fish
J. 8
Robinson & Son
John Cullinane
Fish
Frank
Cullinane
Robert
Frank Fish
Callinane
Enatinat
Sirdine
Culli Dare
John Ran
Doyle
Dwyer
Salton Street
Robinson
Aod
Whisky Trust to reorganize as Illinois grant company
The Whisky Trust, with a capital above 50 million dollars, plans to convert from a trust to a Illinois incorporated grant company due to harsh state laws. Trustees, including Mr. Corning and Mr. Unnning, say proxies are being secured for the February 11 meeting in Peoria to formalize the change.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Whisky Trust
Warren Corning
Peoria
Ill
Illinois
Sugar Trust
Distillers and Cattle Feeders’ Trust
Unnning
Belle Starr's Husband Jim Starr Wounded in Arkansas
Jim Starr noted Cherokee horse thief and Belle Starr's husband is dying from wounds suffered when U S deputies shot him near Ardmore Ind He evaded bondsmen after eight months on the run and was cornered in a cabin before a volley of Winchester fire left him shot and his horse killed in the same exchange
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Smith
A.K
Jim Starr
United States
Ardmore
Ind. T
Belle Starr
Starr
Bond
Colorado Mine Floods After Drilling Surtax
Yester day at the La Plata mine in Lunpville Colorado after blasting holes in a drift men heard a roar like a mighty river and saw water pouring from the drift. Within five hours the mine was flooded to 270 feet below the surface with four thousand feet of drift submerged and slopes covered. Some think the opening released a lake behind a water barrier. If a water pourge continues the mine may be abandoned. pumping could take about 80 days if only a pocket water exists.
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Lunpville
Col
la Plata
Aineral
Builders Convention Opposes Eight Hour Workday
Preparations for the National Association of Builders fourth annual convention in St Paul show near unity against an eight hour day in the building trades. Missouri Valley Cut Stone Contractors join delegates from Philadelphia Boston St Paul St Joseph St Louis and Kansas City in opposing the change while debates on lien laws subcontracting and apprentices occupy sessions.
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National Association of Builders
St. Paul
W. H. Sayward
Boston
Association
Chamber of C
Agen
Seventh and
Cedar Streets
Minneapolis
Missouri Valley Cut Stone Contractors’ Association
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Kansas City
Pennsylvania Railroad seeks Delaware River bridge link to Philadelphia
A special telegram reports Senator Quay's bill to build a Delaware River bridge between Trenton and Philadelphia as the Pennsylvania Railroad's first move to secure a direct line. The move targets blocking Reading era plans and aims to connect seashore traffic from Pittsburgh with interior Pennsylvania. The Reading elevated road may be blocked, and the Pennsylvanian system plans a Broad street to Delaware continuation. Four tugboats keep Pennsylvania freight car traffic between terminals day and night. Philadelphia and Camden capital reportedly back the bridge effort.
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Pennsylvania Railroad Company
CampsEs
N. J
Senator Quay
Delaware
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Company
Reading
Market Street
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Broad Street
Camden
Leedom Returns to Ohio to Practice Law for Congress
Ex-Sergeant at Arms John P. Leedom travels back to West Union Ohio with about 25000 dollars. He says the government will not hold him or bondsmen liable for Silcott defamation. He defends his conduct in a speech circulated to constituents and plans to run again if redistricting places him in a favorable district.
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Ohio
Congress
Washington
John P. Leedom
West Union
Silcott
Leedom
Peal
Arkansas
Armas
Senator Daniel Eulogizes Jefferson Davis in Virginia
Rico Mono Va January 26 crowds fill Mozart Academy as Senator John W. Daniel delivers a lengthy oration on Jefferson Davis. Daniel extols Davis as a great man of a great epoch, noting his leadership, trials, and ultimate disfranchisement, while acknowledging the war's legal and moral complexities.
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Daniel
Virginia
Jefferson Davin
McHinney
Rico Mono
Mozart Academy of Music
John W. Daniel
Jefferson Davis
Legis
McKinney
Jubal A. Harry
Cardwell
House of Delegates
Noble
Cicero
Congress Hall
Jefferson
Washington
Batte
Chaina
GREAT GALES DEVASTATE ENGLAND AND WALES AT SEA
Persistent January gales lash southern England and Wales with impassable Menai Strait. Sailors swept overboard and drowned aboard Irex off the Needles after crew clung to rigging. lifeline rescue saved survivors. Umbria reports roughest voyage yet with injuries and deck bans. Janet Crown returns to Plymouth with two drowned crew and many injuries. Yorkshire from Baltimore floods at Liverpool, bridges destroyed, three seamen blown loose and two drowned.
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Lonpox
England
Wales
Menai Strait
Sand Gate
Irex
Greenock
Rio Janeiro
McCann
Cunard
Umbria
New York
Janet Crown
Plymouth
Yorkshire
Liverpool
Baltimore
A Girl's Horrible Crime Ties Infant to Cow Tail
Paris dispatch reports a ten year old girl tying her two year old sister to a grazing cow and setting it off. The infant screamed as the animal galloped away and miles later a dismembered body was found.
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Dunlap
Paris
The Czar's War Desire and Marshal Uniform
A Russian resident explains the Czar desires war and will not wear the marshal’s uniform until his brothers grant the right after a victory. The note claims the Czar has 44 uniforms, having worn all but the marshal’s, and vows to don it only after a marshally approval is earned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iby Dunlap
Loxpon
Crear
Marshal of
Russia
Marshals
J P Grant Plans Debenture Float For Brewery Purchase
Mr J P Grant a well known Gilsey House figure sails from New York aboard the Fulda to arrange a deposit and float debentures totaling 24000 pounds for the Gambrinus Brewery purchase and for Pennsylvan steel works connected dealings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. P. Grant
Gilsey House
New York
Fulda
Gambrinus Brewery
Pennsylvan Steel Works
Pennsylvania Given a Show
John Conkling of Steelton, ex-President of the Amalgamated Association, is nearing appointment as Inspector of Immigration at Suspension Bridge Niagara Falls. Chief inspector Tingle says the nomination will be sent to the Secretary of the Treasury, with Delaney and Senator Mylin urging haste. If confirmed, Conkling replaces a relative of ex-Mayor Grace and fills a prized Pennsylvania slot in a New York dominated post.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Conkling
Suspension Bridge
N. Y
WaAshi InoTon
Steelton
Amalgamated Association
Tingle
Conkling
Delaney
Amos Mylin
Secretary of the Treasury
Niagara Falls
Grace
New York
Pennsylvania
Labor conference planned in May for labor regulations
Berne January 26 The Bundesrath has decided to convoke an international conference in May for establishing regulations relative to labor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Switzerland
Berne
The
Bundesrash
Postoffice cashier Lounsberry defalcation nears $40,000
New York post office clerks finalize accounts of George H. Lounsberry who killed himself in Hackensack. Officials estimate the defalcation at over $40,000, with more than $18,000 in postage stamps missing. Bondsmen debate steps, while auditors question nightly balance checks and accountability. The case centers on missing stamps and unverified cash balances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Post Office
Lounsberry
Secorita
Dispatch
New Yorks
Postoffice
George H. Lounsberry
Hackensack
van Cott
VanCott
Noonan
Mr. Lounsberry
John Noonan
Jardine
Congressman Watson Stricken by Influenza
Pennsylvania representative Watson has been absent from the House for days due to a severe influenza attack. He contracted the illness after attending Judge Kelley’s funeral in Philadelphia and, while improving slowly, hopes to be well enough to participate when the Smith versus Jackson election case from Virginia’s Fourth District is discussed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
Corfe
Washmetoy
Watson
Philadelphia
Kelley
Smith
Jackson
Fourth of Virginia
Jackson Arrives Aboard Adriatic To Fight Sullivan
Peter Jackson the colored pugilist arrived on the steamship Adriatic at quarantine night to meet John L. Sullivan. He is with trainer Sam Fitzpatrick and San Francisco Chronicle editor W. W. Naughton. Manager Parson Davies welcomed from the shore. Jackson said he came to fight Sullivan and would accept terms from the California Athletic Club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Peter Jackson
John L. Sullivan
Sam Fitzpatrick
W. W. Naughton
San Francisco Chronicle
Jackson
Parson Davies
Sullivan
California Athletic Club
Forepaugh Show Sold in Part to English Syndicate
Philadelphia January 26 authority states a three fourths interest in the Forepaugh show and menagerie has been sold to an English syndicate for about 600000 dollars. The deal includes contracts actors horses chariots animals and paraphernalia and the agent is en route to America to take over within a week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ispaton
Philadelphia
America
Sant Io
Sonaty and Fort
Willman
Adam Forepaugh
Extradition Treaty With Britain Expands Ex traditable Crimes
A copy of the new extradition treaty with Great Britain, secured by Secretary Blaine, broadens offenses extraditable beyond the 1842 list. It adds embezzlement, larceny, false pretenses, fraud by officials, perjury, kidnapping, arson, revolt on ships, slave trade offenses, and other crimes, while forbidding surrender for political offenses and limiting prosecutions to agreed offenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Great Britain
Blaine
Senate
Bayard
Supreme Court of the
United States
Hanuscher
Striking Vision in Hamilton over Missing Troutfelter
In Hamilton Iowa residents chase a strange spiritualist mystery after Theodore Troutfelter vanishes from Warsaw. A clairvoyant, aided by magnetic healer White, reports a murder by three men at a bridge over the Mississippi. Blood-stained bridge and river searches continue with no body found.
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Kroron
Hamilton
Illinois
Mississippi River
Theodore Troutfetter
Warsaw
Jules Raymond
Haymond
Raymond
Troutfelter
White
Retired Guerilla Bill Hulse Dies Near Independence
Bill Hulse, once a lieutenant under Quantrill and later allied with Bill Anderson, died at his farm eight miles from Independence Missouri. A close companion of the Youngers and James brothers, he earned a reputation for recklessness during the Civil War but lived peacefully afterward, aiding fellow outlaws and resisting further robberies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Independence
Bill Hulse
Quantrell
Geo Shepherd
Cole Younger
George Todd
Kentucky
Bill Anderson
Youngers
James Boys
Hulse
Benson's Forged Check Paid In Full
January 26 report states the forged check drawn by Plunger Benson has been paid in full though processing remains incomplete. The incident centers on Benson and the payable sum, with officials noting the matter is resolved for the issuer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benson
Nior
Plunger
Pease
Percess
Banker Ditman’s body found in Schuylkill river
The body of Joseph G. Ditman, president of the Quaker City National Bank, was discovered yesterday floating in the Schuylkill River above the Market Street Bridge. Three gas works workers identified the body. wounds suggested a fall or strike, but no conclusive evidence of murder. Details point to disappearance on December 11 amid heavy debts and insurance. The body was returned to his Philadelphia residence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph G. Ditman
Philadelphia
Schuylkill River
Mr. Ditman
Quaker City National Bank
Market Street Bridge
Ninth Ward Gas Works
George E. Hoskins
William A. Hargrave
Robert Porter
Wilson
Samuel G. King
Chestnut Street Wharf
Chestnut Street Bridge
Ditman
Raised blockade near Union Pacific resumes travel
January 26 report from PortLast indicates the Union Pacific blockade is largely lifted. East-bound trains left LaGrande yesterday while a snow plow will reach Baker City today and four delayed trains will proceed to Portland aiming to run on time. Chinook winds melt snow, junctions risk of landslides and washouts deemed low, though Clow Creek Canyon snow slides and two bridge bents at Roseburn were washed out while Southern Pacific news remains unavailable due to downed wires.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Pacific
LaGrande
Baker City
Portland
Johnston
Clow Creek Canon
Roseburn
Theatrical Company Held After Child Incident Near Youngstown
A Pittsburg bound theater troupe arrived in Cleveland with a 10 year old girl Emma Yaeger claiming Allentown Pittsburg suburb as home and an infant. Near Youngstown the girl tried to throw the child from a train window but was restrained by fellow actors. The child was sent to the Open Door and the girl admitted planning to desert her child and father, who lives in Bedale.
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Cleveland
Pittsburg
Emma Yaeger
Allentown
Youngstown
Aes O
Bedale
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Dom Pedro
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National Builders’ Association
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