Deadly Detroit Area Street Car Crash Kills Three
A fatal collision on the Detroit Michigan and Oakland Electric railroad at 1 pm Sunday left three men dead and about twenty injured. Ten cars were crushed together on a steep grade between Pontiac and Birmingham, in fog with sleet making rails slick. Two outbound trains collided as one passed a switch two miles from Pontiac, amid traffic delays and assumed miscommunication from Birmingham.
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Japan Maintains Opposition to Hawaii Annexation
Toro Hosi, Japanese envoy, aboard City of Pekin, departs San Francisco for Washington with instructions opposing Hawaii's annexation. He warns U S to respect Japanese interests in the Sand wich Islands, citing possible trouble if annexation proceeds without accord. He earlier clashed with Sherman over the policy.
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United States
Orient
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Sie
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Washington
Sherman
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Hews Army Desertion Sparks Noted Wichita Feud
Wichita man Hews, a bold organizer, left Wichita for Oklahoma City Sunday with no followers amid claims of vast boomer followings. Kansas City tragedy follows a woman’s suicide amid chronic illness. dynamite found at a deputy’s home. a major warehouse fire in Allagheny raises questions of origin and loss. Turko-Grecian treaty signed in Washington as dispatch from Constantinople notes peace terms. suspects captured in murder case near Milwaukee. Henry George IV marries Marie Hitch in Chicago. Dayton trains shatter local records with a 2 mile run.
McKinley’s Mother Struck by Paralysis in Canton
Mrs Nanty Allison McKinley, aged nearly 90, mother of President McKinley, was stricken with paralysis Thursday morning in Canton. Doctors fear death is near though mental faculties remain intact. Abner McKinley contacted the president by telephone and the commander in chief plans to travel to Canton immediately.
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Canton
Br. Phillips
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McKinley
Gen Pando Reported Killed in Cuba Amid Palace Stir
A Havana dispatch says Gen. Pando, placed in charge of Cuban military operations by Gen. Blanco, was shot by insurgents in Santa Clara while marching from Sagua la Grande to Trinidad. The report set official circles in intense excitement with no further details. Concurrently, Spanish forces were routed by insurgents near Matanzas, with heavy losses claimed.
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Blanco
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Insurgents Active in Cuba Amid Seizure of Gaisa Town
Spanish envoys report insurgent generals Arabi and Salvador Rios sacked Gaisa near Bayamo Cuba. Firepower destroyed blockhouses, killing a military commissary and a lieutenant. Garrison loses total fifty troops before surrender. Spanish reinforce to retake town. rumor of insurgent leader Cuervos assassination circulates. Commissioners sent to negotiate reportedly killed or missing.
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Trade activity rises with colder weather and holidays
Bradstreet's Weekly Review notes improved general trade tied to colder weather and the approaching holidays. Demand grows for clothing hosiery hardware and groceries in major markets while exports of wheat corn and cereals spike, with total weekly cereal exports near 2 million dollars in value. Martin Thorn to be electrocuted the week of January 20 after murder conviction in New York. plea deal reduces charges for accomplice Mrs Nack to man slaughter with 20 years and possible seven years seven months more.
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Omaha
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Kansas City
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Martin Thers
Martinhoro
William Guldersuppe
New York
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Youngs
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William Guidensuppe
Dauntless Lands Arms for Cuban Insurgents
The steamer Dauntless arrived at Jacksonville Florida after landing a large cargo for Cuban insurgents. Included were a 12 pound Hotchkiss gun and a quantity of quinine. The vessel returned with little crew and was boarded by a Vesuvius officer finding nothing suspicious.
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Cuba
Dauntless
Jacksonville
Pla
Dinamite Cmiser Vesuvius
Griggs for the cabinet and other political items
News items report Governor Griggs of New Jersey slated for attorney general to succeed McKenna, who will join the Supreme Court. Other notes cover Anna Niggs's murder of her two children by gas, extended rail law compliance deadlines, Yukon mining firm closures, ex governor Upham buying a mine, Canadian postal card decor policies, pope's intervention in a university dispute, the Dawes treaty vote, and Senator Davies renomination with Virginia court changes.
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McKenna
Supreme Bench
Justice Field
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Hobart
Anna Niggs
Philadelphia
Internal Revenue Report Shows Big Yearly Revenue Lift
The secretary of the treasury reports total receipts for the current fiscal year at about 155 million dollars, up 5.5 million from the prior year. Spirits and tobacco dominate the figures with notable increases and decreases across categories, while collection costs run at roughly 3.55 million dollars. Illicit activity enforcement yielded 2,241 stills destroyed, 29 arrests, one death, and three wounded.
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Secretary of the Treasury
Forman
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
AGAIN SWEPT BY STORMS ON ENGLISH COAST
Widespread storm conditions lash England with heavy hail rain and gales. Vessels wrecked on Goodwin Sands and along the Norfolk coast. A volunteer lifeboat capsized near Margate with ten drowned. The Persian Empire collided with the steamer Carlisle City near Deal amid the gale. Counterfeit five dollar Grant notes seize attention as a new fake circulates. Fatal feud violence in Horatio Tennessee ends with a physician killed and a businessman wounded. Insurance agency practices cited as illegal in Wisconsin. A GE employee shot by a burglar in Schenectady. Locomotive boiler explosion near Lima Ohio injures crew. The president appoints B. K. Bruce to register of the Treasury.
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England
Goodwin Sands
Norfolk
Kentish Seaboard
Madgate
Persian Empire
Carlisle City
Deal
U.S. and regional market prices for livestock and grains
Market notes list cattle hogs sheep and grain prices across Chicago St Louis Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo and Kansas City regions. Prices for wheat corn oats rye butter eggs and butterfat shown with No 2 grades and regional variations.
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St. Louis
Detroit
Milwaukee
Inheritance Tax Law Challenged in Federal Court
Frank Shinn filed suit in a federal court at Council Bluffs to restrain collection of the collateral inheritance tax. He attacks the law's constitutionality under the fourteenth amendment, arguing due process and equal protection issues. The case targets the legality of the inheritance tax enacted last winter.
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Sireasurer
Frank Shinn
Couleil Bluffs
Shinn
Old Pioneer No More Judge Whiting Dies at 76
Judge E C Whiting of Whiting Iowa a former state senator and longtime Monona County resident died Wednesday night at 76 from Brights disease He was born January 1 1822 in Otsego County New York and once ran for governor as a Democrat The death leaves a legacy as a Hawkeye pioneer and public servant with family surrounded at the end
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Hawkeye
Monona County
Bright
Otsego County
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