Happenings of the Week From Across the Nation
A roundup of major incidents and events from the past week includes a dynamite blast at Litchfield Illinois injuring two workers, horse illnesses spreading across Yellowstone ranches, a fatal Louisville and Nashville train collision at Bardstown Junction, and the steamer Lief Erickson fire near San Francisco with seven lives lost. Also noted are political shifts in Italy and Britain, Samoa hostilities, notable deaths, and local accidents.
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Litchfield Car and Machine Company
Litchfield
Yellowstone
Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Bardstown Junction
Mary Perkins
Old Deposit
Willie Houston
Lief Erickson
San Francisco
Pacific
Martin's Ferry
Lake Erie Railroad
James F. Casey
Grant
Gorgetown
D. C
Pneummonia
Australia
Broken Hill
New South Wales
Columbus
Melbourne
Spalding
Chicago
Friends of Baseball
Cleveland
White House
George B. McClellan
Gen. McClellan
Hillan
Young McClellan
Eighth Regiment
National Guard
Panama
George William
Corge
Diggel
Clarion
Tacoma
W. T
J. Hughes
United States Coast Survey
T. J. Potter
Hughes
Zanzibar
Leipzig
Laurence Oliphant
Twickeham
Eng
Grant Duff
Italian Chamber of Deputies
Senate
Signor Magliani
Slevin
Panama Canal
Paris
Duluth
John Jackson
John Olyson
Western and Atlantic
McTvar's Station
Hugh Young
Samoa
Mataafa
Tamasese
H. A. Blake
Jamaica
Joseph Chamberlain
Manchester
Washington
Lord Sackville
Chamberlain
Prince's Gate
W. Va
William Mears
Henry Newhaus
William Mytes
Hewitt
New York
The Markets. New York Money Market Summary
The New York Money Market report notes a money close at 5 percent with a 3.44 to 6 range, steady exchange at posted and actual rates for sixty days and demand, steady government and currency quotes, and Pacific railroad bonds showing varied firsts, land grants, and sinking funds values across several issuers.
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New York
Pacific Railroad
Union Firsts
Centrals
New York Produce Exchange Flour Prices and Grains Report
New York December 27 prices for flour and grains show dull trading. Flour ranges listed from 2.65 to 3.55 for various grades, with West Indies and Southern flour noted. Wheat options weak with declines from Monday, corn and oats also soft, spot sales mixed. Butter steady, cheese and eggs mixed. pork and lard quoted, byproducts listed. Buffalo market reports lower wheat and mixed corn values with steady flour.
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New York Produce Exchange
New York
City Mills
West Indies
Usgc
Tate
Canada
Through the State: Fire destroys Forest City home. deaths rise
A fire in Forest City killed an elderly woman and a young child after Mrs Priesty fled with one child and returned for the other, the floor collapsing. The town lacks water after a reservoir burst, forcing a river line to defend the blaze. Police chase an armed Italian quarrel, while a Philadelphia detective retrieves suspects from Merion Station to Ardmore. An elaborate funeral in West Chester honors Catherine A Teagle, and local industry news note Middletown car works resuming with 225 workers and 50 gondola orders.
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CarroxpaLre
Forest City
Delaware and Judson
Norristown
Miller
Pennsylvania Railroad
J. C. Ross
J. W. Phoenix
Ardmore
Squire J. Owen Vetter
Merion Station
Thayer Boys
Fifty-second Street
Park Station
Phoenix
Bala Station
Ross
Manayunk
George’s Hill
Fairmount Park
Belmont Avenue
Sterdman Street
Philadelphia
Werst Crystern
Catherine A. Teagle
Dr. Teagle
East Market Street
Samuel J.tilden
Catharine A. Teagle
J. B. Reeves
Central Presbyterian Church of
Charles Jeffries
Second Presbyterian Church of
West Chester
Abram Jackson
John Hawkins
James Morgan
George L. Fry
Anthony ¥. Wilson
James Anderson
Chestnut Grove Cemetery
Assoxtown
Frank Cooley
Smithfield
Lizzie Pastorius
Reading
Death of Buffalo Morning Express proprietor James N Matthews
James N Matthews editor and proprietor of the Buffalo Morning Express died at 7 o'clock Thursday night after an illness of four months. Born November 21, 1828 in Suffolk England, he came to Buffalo at 18 and rose to foreman at Jewett Thomas Co before leading the Express. He led Matthews Northup & Co art printing, never held office, attended Republican national conventions, and is survived by two children George E. B. and Frances Amy and wife Harriet Wells who died last February.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annie Kelly
Church Street
New York
Washington Street
Aspen
Lime Creek
Colo
T. Harlin
Robert Martin
London Times
Newfoundland
France
England
Robert Bull
Norfolk and Western Railroad
Allen Hull
Canada
Prince of Wales
Herr von Gosslen
Schleswig
Mme. Bernhardt
Constantinople
Coffee County
Henry
Scheyer
Adolph Wittstock
Whittstock
Europe
Red Cloud
Neb
National Bank
Joseph Sturtevant
Dilworth, Porter & Co
Pittsburg
Citizens’ Bank
Columbus Delano
National Wool Growers’ Association
Buffalo Morning Express
Burrac
James N. Matthews
Mr. Matthews
Suffolk
Buffalo
Messrs. Jewett, Thomas & Co
Matthews
Sterling F. Rounds
Mr. Thomas
Journal of Commerce
Buffalo Express
A. M. Clapp
Rufus Wheeler
Matthews, Northrup & Co
Harriet Wells
Westfield
George EB
Frances Amy
Steamboat John Hanna Destroyed by Fire on Ouachita River
The steamer John Hanna, loaded with cotton from Ouachita, burned Tuesday near Plaquemine. About 100 aboard, with nearly thirty feared dead or burned. Crew posted at their posts as fire spread. Captain Jones escaped by jumping into the river. The blaze left only charred timbers and floating debris as witnesses watched in horror.
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Bob Smith
Robert E. Lea
Merriman
J. 5
Holmes
Monroe
Ouachita
Mississippi
Plaquemine
Powell
Captain Jones
Hanna
Carr
Banner Pownt
Smith
Smith Land
Monitor
Jack Darr
Rocky
Jim Watson
Jonny Crafton
Dan Carroll
Jim O'Neil
Jonny Gyanons
Louis Welch
John Barlow
Jim Blank
Dick Blank
Stephoe John
Monroe Diggs
Priscilla Wright
Wreck on the Central at Churchville injures twenty one
An express train on the New York Central and Hudson River line derailed at Churchville station near Rochester on December 24 about 7 30 p m after a spread rail. Twenty one people were injured including Mrs J H McCormick of Buffalo seriously and Miss Anna TENNY of Lewiston Ma fatally. The nine car consist included a baggage car two day coaches and six sleepers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Churchville
Roengster
N. Y
Atlantic Express
New York Central and
Hudson River
J. H. McCormick
Buffalo
Anna Tenny
Lewiston
J. Witttans
Chicago
J.T. Daxes
Utica
F. H. Harn
New Haven
Conn
Jons Dorie
New York
Jovern Delaney
Batavia
L. O. Leonard
Anaconda
Mont
A. Cockellan
TL. BE. Owens
East Eleventh Street
H. A. Coats
Mrs. Senener
Jons Doxonut
San Francisco
Frank Evy
Grorce
Swit
Quincy
Joux J. Bunk
Pultney
Miss Mixxie Brows
Rochester
G. W. Graves
N. W. Betroun
WN. T. Hopano
J. Greentree
Congress Adjourns for Holidays Amid Tariff Debates
The House agreed to an adjournment from December 21 to January 2 and kept studying the river and harbor bill amid sectional claims. The Senate moved toward adjournment and debated tariff impacts on workers with Senators West Coke and Hiscock speaking. Ninety private pension bills passed as the Nicaraguan canal bill faced committee amendments before reporting. Both chambers adjourned until January 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
House
Senate
West
Coke
Hiscock
New England
Pennsylvania
Aldrich
Local Politician Urges Peck for U.S. Attorney Post
A prominent East Aurora figure states W. E. Peckham, formerly of Attica and now in Jamestown, is quietly pursuing the appointment as United States district attorney for Northern New York. He is said to have influential backers backing his effort.
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U. S
East Aurora
W. E. Peckham
Attica
Jamestown
United States
New York
Wreck of the Kate Adams sinks near Commerce Landing
The steamer Kate Adams burned near Commerce Landing Mississippi while en route from Memphis to Arkansas City. Passengers mostly escaped but three cabin boys and clerk George Corbett are missing. The cotton cargo and vessel valued at $75,000 were lost. Captain Check aided passengers and a sailor named Blanker survived after jumping to the river. Many Black passengers fled on cotton bales. several drowned attempting to escape.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greenville
Miss
Kate Adams
Memphis
Arkansas City
Conmerce Landing
George Corbett
Alexander Harris
Bolivar Landing
Maj. Adams
Little Rock
Garton
Mississippi
Clerk Corbett
M. TL. Check
Chek
Clerk Blanker
New Candidates for Speakership Three More Seek Seat
NEW CANDIDATES Three new aspirants for the speakership of the fifty first congress surface as Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts leads a trio. Lodge is backed by party councils though some fear western pressures on Reed. Also mentioned are James M Farquhar of Buffalo and Thomas M Bayne of Pennsylvania with Pennsylvania still solidly backing Bayne.
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Wasnixeton
Henry Cabot Lodge
Massachusetts
Ion Legade
Lodge
United States
Reed
Ooh M. Farquhar
Buffalo
Thomas M. Bayne
Pennsylvania
Government Officers Arrested Over Ejectment Attempt in Texas
Brig. Gen. D. S. Stanley and Capt. Rambaugh were arrested in Austin for attempting to eject J. M. Snyder from government property donated to Austin school board. They were jailed in default of bonds, released when sheriff refused to accept bonds. Attorney general asked to advise on defense. department offered no further steps.
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Wasnixeton
Tee
Hasheen
War Department
Stanley
Department of Texas
Oval Log
Austin
Tex
J. M. Snyder
School Board of
Tambaugh
Tambaugh, Gen. Stanley
Stuart
Benet
Gen. Stanley
Rambaugh
American Economic Association Holds Third Annual Session
The American Economic Association gathers for its third annual session at the University of Pennsylvania hall. Prominent social economists and political scientists from across the country discuss theories and government and society problems. Members arrive and take headquarters at the Colonade hotel, with a reception by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Economic Association
Purraperrma
American Economic Association
University of Pennsylvania
Colonnade
Historical Society of
Pennsylvauia
Colored Catholic Congress Opens in June in St Augustine Church
Washington reports preparations for the first congress of colored Catholics to be held at St Augustine's church starting June 1. Upward of 600 delegates, mostly from the south, are expected. At 10 00 in the morning the first solemn high mass will be sung with Cardinal Gibbons presiding in the sanctuary, attended by Rev William M Hooman and Rev Richard T Burke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colored Catholic Congress
Washington
St. Augustine's Church
South
Cardinal Gibbons
William M. Hooman
Richard T. Burke
Poisoning Charge Shocks Accomack County VA Couple
In Accomack County Virginia Dee Virginia Taylor, a young white woman, is jailed on suspicion of poisoning her husband William Taylor a thrifty farmer from Modest Town. He died after convulsions and, after burial, the body was exhumed revealing traces of strychnine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Onancook
Dee
Virginia Taylor
Accomack County
Willian Taylor
Modest Town
Workmen Buried by a Cave-in in Denver
In Denver on Fifteenth street a cave-in buried many Denver Gas Company workers during ditch digging beside cable car tracks. Four men are dead and two seriously hurt. others feared trapped. Names of the dead and injured not yet known.
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Denver
Colo
Denver Gas Company
Fifteenth Street
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Guo
James WN. Matthews
Mississippi River
John
Kate
Germany
Wales
Ireland
Norway
Russia
Italy
Scotland
Marlhoro
Mass
Hudson
Brigham & Co
Apsley & Coffin
Goodyear Gossamer Company
John Coleman
Daniel Hawkins
Run Amuck
Chanteston
Horner
Edward Aimes
Aimes
East Brapy
Hillsville
Allegheny River
Carlisle
Unite Press
Tariff Reform League
Boston
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