River disaster and coal barges lost in ice gorge
The Cincinnati Gas and Electric Light Co loses 17 barges loaded with coal as an ice gorge breaks loose on the Ohio River. Six men drift 15 miles on logs before rescue. A nearby steamer is destroyed and widespread damage to vessels and harbor facilities follows the rise and shifting ice.
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Cincinnati Gas & Electric Light Co
Cincinnati
W. H. Grapevine
Coney Island
Vine Street
Grapevine
Cincinnati Gas Co
New City
Ohio
North Bend
Evansville
Ind
Louisville
Green River
Tarascon
Hawesville
Wabash River
Wabash
Pittsburg
Allegheny River
Rosston
Springdale
Allegheny
Monongahela
Tragic Wedding Trip Ends in Duquesne Lim Ited Wreck
Miss Lillian Bennett of Wednesday England learns of Ambrose Good’s death in the Duquesne Limited wreck near McKeesport Pa. after a 4000 mile journey to the intended wedding. A somber scene unfolds in Ambrose Good’s brother’s home as the wedding plans dissolve and the funeral is set for Monday.
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McKeesport
Dee
Lillian Bennett
Ambrose Good
Duquesne Limited
Thomas R. Good
Ambrose
Thomas Good
Miss Bennett
Oil stove accident in Spring Garden ends in two deaths
A late Saturday night oil stove overturn caused a small house fire on Spring Garden street. Two occupants were fatally burned and died in a city hospital Sunday after the blaze.
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Philadelphia
Spring Garden Street
Big Troy Fire Hits Several Firms at once
A Sunday night blaze gutted A W Hollister’s wholesale and retail grocery Fitzpatrick and Draper’s tobacco factory and the Troy Furniture Co. buildings in Troy New York causing about 200000 dollars in damage water damage affected other firms as well.
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Troy
N. Y
A. W. Holltister
Fitzpatrick & Draper
Troy Furniture Co
Negro Farmer Shot and Killed Near Athens
Anderson Mas Jones, a prominent Negro farmer, was shot and killed at Rowland, five miles south of Athens. Fletcher and Mollie Hall, two young white men, are alleged to be the slayers.
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Athens
Ala
Anderson Mas Jone
Rowland
Fletcher
Mollie Hall
Death of Rev Jeremiah R. Brittain Former Greenville Pa Pastor
Rev Jeremiah R. Brittain aged 64 died at his Newark New Jersey residence. He served as pastor of the Greenville Pennsylvania church for 22 years and preached at Oxford Ohio for eight years.
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New York
Jeremiah R. Brittain
Newark
N. J
Greenville
Oxford, O
Smithson Remains Brought to Smithsonian Ties
Genoa reports that Dr. Alexander Graham Bell will transport James Smithson’s remains to Washington for burial at the Smithsonian. The move follows encroachment by a Genoa stone quarry on the local cemetery where Smithson died in 1829. Congress has made no appropriation. Bell acted amid debate over final resting site.
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Genoa
Alexander Graham Bell
Smithsonian Institution
Washington
D. C
James Smithson
Institution
Bell
Congress
Mr. Smithson
Prof
Langley
Regents
The
Smithsonian
Dowie's Farewell Before Australian Venture
John Alexander Dowie bade farewell to Chicago adherents at the Auditorium after an all night watch meeting. He will travel to San Francisco and sail from New Orleans toward January 21, planning to return to Chicago next June. He denied allegations about his wife and said he would take only enough cash for spending money.
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Chicago
Australia
John Alexander Dowie
Zion City
Dowie
New Orleans
San Francisco
Temple
Trades Uninism: New York unions show membership rise
Albany dispatch reports the New York State Department of Labor bulletin for the quarter ending October 1 shows 2 587 trade unions in the state up 225 from six months prior. Total membership reaches 295 736 a gain of 38 634 with New York City up 24 361 11 3 percent, building and transport trades rising while clothing trades fell by 4 065.
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Albany
N. Y
New York State Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics
New York City
Belle Seward Visits Mother Amid Murder Indictment Stir
Rising Sun Indiana December 28 Mrs Belle Seward under indictment as accessory to Elizabeth Sewards murder for the first time in two years visited her mother since James Gillespie Elizabeths twin brother and the principal in the crime left to live across the street. The town remains stirred and deeply unsettled by the murder.
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Rising Sun
Ind
Belle Seward
Elizabeth
James Gillespie
British steamer Lady Joicey sinks off Porto Rico
The British steamer Lady Joicey carrying nitrate of soda from Chile to Savannah Wilmington and New York sank 75 miles south of Porto Rico after a fire. Captain Smith, his crew and a passenger reached Ponce in two small boats, exhausted and nearly naked after two and a half hours afloat amid rough seas.
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San Juan
P. R
Savannah
Wilmington
N. C
New York
Porto Rico
Smith
Ponce
Protest Against Typesetting Machines Faces Congress
Washington reports the Columbia Typographical Union formed a committee at a Sunday meeting to go before Congress and press an earnest protest against installing type setting machines in the government printing office.
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Washington
Columbia Typographical Union
Congress
Government Printing Office
Barber Surrenders in Wife Murder Case
Frank Rose a Salt Lake City barber surrendered to police saying he killed his wife Christmas afternoon. He claimed the body lay in the bedroom where she died.
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Salt Lake City
Frank Rose
Tragedy in Knoxville Love Home Ends in Death
In Knoxville in the parlor of his sweetheart Miss Susie Gillam whom he planned to marry on Christmas Day J L Householder age 20 drank carbolic acid and died later News reports suggest a suicide in the presence of his beloved detailing the dire event in a domestic setting and the immediate aftermath
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Knoxville
Tenn
Susie Gillam
Terrible crash kills twenty two with many injured
Grand Rapids Mich December 28 reports show 22 dead and 38 injured after a head on collision of Pere Marquette passenger trains near East Paris. High wind blinded a signal at McCord station and two trains collided at speed in a blizzard. Rescue teams worked to remove bodies and recover survivors.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
Pere Marquette Railroad
East Paris
McCord
Paris
No. 6
Engineer Waterman
Moon
Pere Marquette
Erade
Fire claim Dana Calhoun in Mound City blaze
In Cairo Illinois on December 28 a fire in Mound City claimed the life of Dana Calhoun a young colored woman. She rushed into the burning building to save her trunk and was overcome her head burned from her body.
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Cairo
Mound City
Dana Calhoun
Boiler explosion at Wolsey barracks kills soldier in London
A boiler explosion at the Wolsey barracks heating plant in London Ontario on Sunday left one dead and five seriously injured. The deceased is Corp. James Burnett.
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London
Ont
Wolsey Barracks
Corp
James Burnett
Mrs. Evarts Dies in Windsor at 83
Mrs Helen W Evarts widow of William M Evarts of New York died at her country home in Windsor Vermont on Sunday in her 84th year The obituary notes her status as widow and her long residence in New York society.
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Wm. M. Evarts
Windsor
Helen W. Evarts
William M. Evarts
New York
Wintry Weather Hits St Louis And Midwest
A frigid cold snap moved across St Louis, Chicago, and Sioux City on Friday night into Saturday. In St Louis a 31 degree drop and 40 mph wind caused damage including partial collapse of the Bucking ham hotel's east and north walls with losses around 75000. Chicago recorded a 31 inch snow accumulation, wind gusts of 40 mph, and temperatures from 15 above to 4 below. In Sioux City the temperature plunged to 6 below zero by nightfall.
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St. Louis
Buckingham Hotel
West Pine
King's Highway
Buckingham Club
Helen M. Gould
Chicago
Weather Office
Sioux City
Dinner at the White House Christmas Night Revelry
President and Mrs Roosevelt hosted a small circle of personal friends at the White House on Christmas night. Guests included Senator and Mrs Jodge Captain and Mrs Cowles Mr and Mrs Brooks Adams Mrs Charles Henry Davis Miss Davis the Masters Davis Lieut Granville R Fortesque and Mr R H M Ferguson of New York. The British ambassador and Lady Durand celebrated their first Washington Christmas hosting embassy staff at dinner along with diplomats from Austrian French German and other embassies attending likewise.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Jodge
Cowles
Brooks Adams
Charles Henry Davis
Davis
Masters Davis
Granville R. Fortesque
R. H. M. Ferguson
New York
Durand
Vaccination Rule Bars Dowieite Children from Chicago Schools
The Chicago health department orders all Dowieite children to be vaccinated or barred from public schools starting January 4. Zion adherents face segregation with vaccination certificates required at entry. Names and addresses of noncompliant children will be sent to the health department.
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Chicago
Health Department
Zion
Hunters Find Man's Body in Wiseman Woods
Two hunters in Salem Indiana found a well dressed male corpse in Wiseman woods near the Monon railroad. A pistol with a spent chamber was in his right hand while a glove covered the other. Powder burns mark his mouth and a bullet was recovered under the skull. A gold watch and razor were in his pockets. The name G Hope is tattooed on his right arm and the body is believed to be a Louisville man.
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Salem
Ind
Wiseman Woods
Monon
Patent Office Gazette records record highs in patents and designs
Washington December 26 report shows 31 165 patents 1 886 trade marks and 536 design specifications printed in the Patent Office Gazette this year marking a record volume for filings and classifications.
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Patent Office
Washington
Horse on City Payroll Convicts Official
Cedar Rapids Iowa December 26 W J Moore street commissioner of this city was convicted of obtaining money by false pretenses. He entered a horse on the city payroll under the name William Martin and drew excessive pay for the horse.
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Cedar Rapids
W. J. Moore
William Martin
Bryan meets Crown Prince in Copenhagen visit
William Jennings Bryan arrived in Copenhagen on Friday evening and was granted an audience with Crown Prince Frederick. They held a long interview before Bryan departed for Berlin the same night.
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Copenhagen
William Jennings Bryan
Crown Prince
Frederick
Mr. Bryan
Berlin
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