Chauncey Wed The New York Senator Takes A Bride
The civil ceremony of Senator Chauncey M Depew and Miss May Palmer occurred in the United States consulate this afternoon. Miss Palmer, a New Orleans native and European social leader, is 37 and heiress in her own right.
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Nice
Chauncey M Depew
May Palmer
United States
Baron von Andre
Baron de Cantalause
James Giordon Bennett
Count de Zeras
Notre Dame
Episcopal Church
U.S
Albany
Mise Palmer
New York
New Orleans
Europe
Fleishman Absconder Sought by Bank Officials
Los Axories Dec 27 Nothing has been heard from Henry J Fleishman the absconding cashier of the Farmers and Merchants bank Officers of the American Surety company are in the field and will not be called off until he is located Relatives in Mexico report trouble as two Fleishman cousins have been arrested due to identical names
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Los Axories
Henry J. Fleishman
Farmer's and Merchant’s Bank
American Surety Company
Fleishman
Mexico
Tom House
United States
Treasury Department
Washington
Wey
Robinson
Nogales
Pullman Company
Surveyor General Receives Christmas Gift Desk and Chair
Surveyor General Hugh H. Price was presented with an oak desk and matching chair as a Christmas gift by his Tucson office staff. The surprise present followed a jest about taking orders from higher authorities as Price prepared to leave for Phoenix.
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Hugh H. Price
Mr. Price
Phoenix
United States
Secretary of the Interior
Omce
Tucson
Price
The Combine’s Answer To Minnesota
In St. Paul on December 2 the ace Pacific will announce a vein of principal freight tariffs for the territory linking Minnesota with the Pacific coast. It plans through rates and similar tariffs to be announced alongside Great Northern, marking a regional tariff shift.
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ST. Paul
Ace Pacific
Pacific Coast
Lotia
Great
Ortnaern
Fire Trapped Girls Slide Down a Pole at Norwalk Plant
In Norwalk Connecticut on December 27 a fire at the Snap Hook and Eye company building trapped many young women on the second floor. They grabbed a pole set up to a window and slid to safety as flames cut off stairs. Vice-President Jobelman and Supt. Reed escaped. Reed injured breaking down a door. Loss totaled 43000 dollars with unknown origin.
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SIUTH
Jobelman
Supt
Reed
Loyal Horse Stays With Frozen Cavalier in Virginia
Captain Jesse Fry, a leading Albemarle County farmer, was found unconscious and nearly frozen near the University of Virginia after returning from a funeral. The horse stood by him for eighteen hours in the blizzard before guiding a farm hand to his master, who died upon returning home. Captain Fry was a Confederate veteran.
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Charolottesville
Jesse Fry
Albemarle County
University of Virginia
Fry
Ragged Mountains
Captain Fry
Richard Toorsqua
Rich and Poor Equal Before the Alien Law
In San Francisco on December 27 Commissioner of Immigration Hart H North ruled that an alien with consumption traveling first class and ample means may not be admitted. He said tourist circumstances are personal and social and do not alter the alien’s statutory position.
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San Francisco
Cal
Oceanic Seamship Company
Hart H North
Good Hard Fighting In Central America
News from Cotox Colombia reports General Marin attacked Honda on the Magdalena river December 19 with 1200 men. The 430 strong garrison held for six hours until 200 reinforcements arrived. Government forces claimed victory and about four hundred were killed in the battle.
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Cotox
Colombia
Marin
Honda
Magdalena River
Train Runaway Kills Four On Scranton Division
An Ontario & Western coal train ran away on a steep grade near Preston Park in Scranton Pennsylvania. After passing a switch it derailed and plunged about a hundred feet. The engine and sixty loaded gondola cars piled into a mass and four men were killed.
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Scranton
Ontario & Western Railroad
Preston Park
Genial Dick Leary Dies. Guam's First U S Governor
Captain Richard H. Leary United States Navy died at the Marine Hospital Chelsea this morning. A native of Maryland Leary served as Guam’s first American governor after the island came under U S control and was widely popular in the service.
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Wavhingson
D. C
Richard H. Leary
United States Navy
We Marine Hospital
Chelsea
Leary
Guam
United States
Maryland
Roosevelt Cabinet Prospects Spark Gossip in Washington
Washington dispatch notes Cabinet shifts rumor mill as whispers say Root Knox Hay Taft and Wolcott may join or return to major posts. Allegations about Payne lobby ties prompt Roosevelt to consider postmaster general replacement while Alli son Shaw declines Treasury. Long tied to Schley incident. roosevelt aims steady leadership.
Government ownership of telegraph lines eyed after Payne pick
Washington December 27. President Roosevelt selects Henry C. Payne of Wisconsin to be Postmaster General, a move seen as advancing Government ownership of telegraph lines. Payne favors government ownership and would oversee the project through the Post Office. Congress may act after the holiday recess with bills to appraise and purchase telegraph companies, influenced by Hanna’s political network.
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Rosevelt
Henry C. Payne
Wisconsin
Charles Emory Smith
Payne
Post Office Department
McKinley
Western Union
Postal Companies
Jackson
Kansas
Congress
Roosevelt
Hanna
Southern Pacific’s Surplus After Fiscal Report
The annual report released today shows Southern Pacific in surplus with $3,456,560 after deducting operating expenses taxes rent and sinking funds from gross revenue of $77,244,898. The Union Pacific report accompanying it details the railroad’s financial condition.
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New York
Union Pacific Railroad
Southern Pacific
The
Confederate money paid to an Indian confederate money paid
Judge Amidon of the Federal Court at Largo North Dakota ruled that passing Confederate bills for money is not a federal offense. The case, from Billings Montana, involved a cowboy paying $50 in Confederate money to an Indian for a horse. Redress, if any, lies in state courts. The judge held that the similarity between bills is insufficient for conviction.
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ST Pay. Minn
Amidon
Largo
N. D
Billings
Mont
Farmer Found Dead as Hogs Feed in Yard
J Sandbloom an 88 year old farmer living a mile south of Oakland Nebraska was found early today in his hog yard with hogs feeding on his still living body. He apparently fell while feeding during freezing weather and was unable to rise as the hogs attacked until driven off by his son.
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Oakland, Neb
J. Sandbloom
French Barque Henrica Sunk Near Astoria Coast
The French barque Henrica loaded with redwood bound for the United Kingdom sank in a night storm on a reef just outside the Astoria and Columbia River rail road. She settled on both anchors and is believed to have been breached. No lives were lost. Artista's supplies Brown's art store.
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Astoria, Ogn
United Kingdom
Astoria and
Columbia River
Sewell Dies a Noted Soldier and Political Leader
Campen N J December 27 United States Senator Wm J Sewell died at his home at 9 40 am He was born in Connaught Ireland and rose from railroad work to Civil War Brigadier General commanding a division at the Battle of Chancellorville He entered politics after the war and led the Republican party later serving again in the Senate and then as legislative representative for the Pennsylvania Railroad at the New Jersey State Capital He controlled federal patronage in New Jersey under President Harrison and was known as a corporation senator with strong executive ability.
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Hitchcock
Interior Department
Missouri
McKinley
Henry C. Payne
Roosevelt
Payne
Washington
Post Office
Allison
Iowa
Treasury Department
Shaw
Gov
Agton
Treasury
Harrison
Long
Schley
Chancellorville
United States Senate
Pennsylvania Railroad
New Jersey
Sewell
Explosion Kills Three Men in Sharpsville Furnace
An early morning blast at the old Sharpsville furnace wrecked the plant and killed three men with another man likely fatally hurt. In Buffalo three children of Maldary Grezela, ages 10, 7, and 3, perished in a Lombard Street fire that leveled a two story frame building.
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Sharpsville
Buffalo
N. Y
Maldary Grezela
Lombard Street
Smuggling on the Border Faces Trial in Nogales
Paymaster Robinson, a prominent railroad man, faces a January 6 hearing in Nogales on charges of smuggling twenty three boxes of cigars. Government officials aim to convict him to deter border smuggling by railroad workers, with broader measures anticipated across crossings and rail lines.
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Robinson
Nogales
United States
Wells-Fargo
Cus
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