Giant Powder Blast Kills Six In New York Subway Shaft
A Park Avenue subway shaft blast in New York on January 27 killed six people and injured about one hundred. Major damage hit Murray Hill and Grand Union hotels, Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital, Grand Central Station, and surrounding blocks as debris shattered windows and wrecked rooms. Officials and witnesses report a massive explosion from stored high explosives in the Rapid Transit project with several workers and bystanders among the injured.
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New York
Park Avenue
Murray Hill Hotel
Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital
Grand Union Hotel
Grand Central Railroad
New York City
Miss Best
Newport
R. 1
Murray Hill
Mrs. Best
William R. Bristol
Meridian
Conn
Walter R. Bristol
St. Vincent's Hospital
James E. Bunting
Boston
MR. Cummings
Troy
N. Y
Cummings
George Chapin
Stamford
Madison
N. J
Manhattan
Father Ryan
New England
H. C. Scott
Kingston N. Y
Jefferson Stanton
Bridgeport
J. Roderick Robertson
Nelson
British Columbia
Canada
British Columbia Gold Fields Company, Limited
Madison Avenue
East Forty-first Street
Avenue
Grand Central Station
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
A. T. Turner
Shepard
Turner
G. Hi. Wilson
New Haven
Foster
Connecticut
Special Fund Planned to End Strikes Nationwide
The Morning Session reports a convention vote to create a special assessment to raise funds to terminate all strikes engaged by the union. The national executive board will determine the amount, with reports due at this convention, targeting strikes in Hopkins County Kentucky Thatcher and Matewan West Virginia and the Southwest. The Iowa joint conference admission was referred to the scale committee.
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National Executive Board
Hopkins County
Kentucky
Thatcher and
Matewan
W. Va
Southwest
Iowa
Crumpacker
Indiana
Congress
Pritchard
Elkins
Gibson
Tennessee
Bartholdt
Missouri
Ball
Texas
Moody
North Carolina
Gaines
Dovenor
West Virginia
Boreing and
Irwin
St. Louis
Cold Wave Origins and Forecasts From Local Weather Bureau
The Local Forecast Officer warns of a wintry blast with subzero temps for Indianapolis. Weather Bureau Chief W T Blythe explains cold waves originate mainly from the Canadian Northwest, with about 16 percent first felt in the U S on the Pacific coast and 25 percent from the eastern Rocky Mountains, describing how highs and lows rise from the Northwest and move eastward shaping cold weather across states including Indiana.
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Seseseceeerenesa
Tam Wa
Lia
Weather Bureau
United States Weather Service
W. T. Blythe
British Northwest Territory
Rocky Mountains
Canadian
United States
Pacific
Blythe
Weather
Frank H. Bigelow
Earth
Willis J L. Moore
United States Weather Bureau
Arctic
Way
Mgr
Florida
Gulf Coast
Indiana
Express Car Robbery Haunts South Carolina Line
A bold express robbery near Branchville South Carolina involved seven or eight men who overawed crew with Winchesters and looted a local safe while the through safe remained untouched. Engineer Reynolds fired upon. Fireman Cobb jumped clear. Hall opened the express car. Leader believed to be Barton Warren. Warren linked to a prior 1899 branchville case. $800 reward offered. Bloodhounds expected. no decisive follow up yet.
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Branchville
S. C
Southern Railroad
Charleston
John Reynolds
Reynold
Cobb
Black
Hall
Barton Warren
Warren
Southern Express
Thomas Watson
Orangeburg
Bookkeeper German Re-Arrested On False Entries
Albert F. German former bookkeeper of Third National Bank Louisville arrested on a warrant for false entries totaling 10.02. Previously charged with embezzlement, released on 5000 bond, re-arrested to raise bond. New bond fixed at 7000. total 12000. He remains in custody awaiting bond execution.
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Louisville
Albert F. German
Third National Bank
National Bank
R. B. Garrett
German
Norwegian Ship Ashore Off Cape Henry in Jan. 27
The Norwegian steamship Daggery, en route from New York to Mexico with coal and railroad iron, ran aground two and a half miles south of Gull Shoal life saving station, North Carolina. Captain Simonson and seventeen crewmen were landed by surfboat crew from Guill Shoal station after anchors were set to halt drift. crew is cared for at the station as the sea moderates.
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Cape Henry
Daggery
Simonson
New York
Mexico
Gull Shoal
North Carolina
Shotline
Pugh
Guill Shoal
Wife and Child Die After Gasoline Stove Explosion
Mrs John Fisher and her three year old son Charles died tonight from burns suffered in a gasoline stove explosion that occurred at noon today. Mrs Fisher was filling the stove and failed to notice a lit burner, triggering the blast and fatal injuries.
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Cincinnati
John Fisher
Charles
Modern canceling machine sought by Postmaster McGinnis in Indianapolis
Washington dispatch details Postmaster McGinnis request for an electric stamp canceling machine and three extra carriers with two mounted for suburban routes, plus two additional clerks, to handle Indianapolis mail growth. He aims to meet rising demand after a 4000-letter surge and plans to press Postmaster General Payne and Representative Overstreet for support.
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Indianapolis Journal
Washington
McGinnis
Indianapolis
General McGinnis
Payne
Representative Overstreet
James N. Tyner
Indiana
Post Office Department
Drowning of Smith Children While Skating Near Alki
In Sprague Washington on January 2, 19%, the eleven year old Richard Smith and thirteen year old Georgiana Smith along with hired man Joseph Calvin drowned after going skating near Alki Sunday afternoon. The trio failed to return by evening. Calvin hailed from Carmey Illinois.
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Sprague
Wash
Cleve Smith
Richard
Georgiana
Joseph Calvin
Alki
Carmey
Mitchell Case in United Mine Workers Meet
Delegates at a United Mine Workers convention debated Mitchell Mooney charges and the grievance panel heard affidavits about claims of misrepresentation. An exoneration motion passed, a per capita defense fund refund request failed, and district funds were discussed amid strike coverage.
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United Mine Workers of America
Committee
Mitchell
James Mooney
Missouri
Meredith
Mooney
Kansas City
Missouri District Convention
Pat Dolan
District 14
National Treasury
Woman Burned to Death at 412 Holton Place
Ellen Washington a nearly seventy year old blind colored woman, burned to death at her home 412 Holton place while her older husband George Washington slept. Neighbors and Bradford acted to stop the blaze as the couple's crowded room left little room to move. The fire department arrived too late and the body was taken to the City Morgue. A separate fire in a watchman’s shanty under the viaduct caused a large blaze and $15 in damages with fear among streetcar riders.
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Ellen Washington
Holton Place
George Washington
Bradford
Panic in Wheeler courthouse ends in attempted murder
In Wheeler South Dakota Clyde Pattison, just cleared in a case by Miss A Seidler, faced a gunfire burst as she drew a revolver and fired. Imitating the attack she then shot herself. Both are reported seriously wounded but expected to survive.
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Geddes
Wheeler
Clyde Pattison
Mob Kills Two Black People in West Carroll Parish
In Louisiana New Orleans January 27 two Black individuals were fatally harmed by a mob in West Carroll parish after police juror G N Grant encountered Black hog hunters. Grant was shot in the head when attempting arrests. A posse formed and three Black people were captured with two executed by the mob.
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New Orleans
West Carroll Parish
Louisiana
G. N. Grant
Floyd
Grant
McKay
Man Attempts Murder Then Fire at Church in New Jersey
William Schell attacked his employer Gustav Wall in Tom s River New Jersey. He then set fire to pew cushions at the German Presbyterian Church where he served as sexton and killed himself by shooting in the church basement.
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New York
William Schell
Gustav Wall
Toms River
N. J
Wall
Schell
Sexton
Small boat found near Ahousett linked to missing sloop Connevitt
The Queen City reports from Alberni that Imtians at Ahousett located a small clinker built boat believed to belong to the missing sloop of war ConNevit. Wreckage is said to be nearby as observed by the steamer.
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Victoria
B. C
Queen City
Alberni
Ahousett
Clinker
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Manhattan Bar and Eye Hospital
Jerome
Old Boreas
Synopis
Armour
Joel Hermometer
Owens
MR. Blythe
Michigan
Soo
Chicago
South Carolina
A. F. German
Cusdy
North Carolina Life Savers
M’ginnis
George W. Steele
Representative Joy
Alice Roosevelt
C. E. Mallory
Jesse Overstreet
John M. Johnson
Logansport
Cass County Republican Committee
Supreme Court
Supreme Justices
Tien-Tsin
Peking
Celestial City
Middle West
China
East
Senate
New Jersey
John W. Griggs
John F. Dryden
Griggs
Dryden
Holliday
Hemenway
River and Harbor Committee
Ohio River
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Wabash
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Annapolis
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