Aged couple foully murdered in Erie house
The Frehrs, an elderly couple missing since November 20, were found buried beneath a woodshed in their Cherry street home. Charles Bonier, who moved into their house the day they disappeared, is under arrest in Erie. Police found gold in Louise Lindholm’s bosom and linked other items to Bonier and associates as part of the murder inquiry. Bonnie r is 65, and neighbors recall a stranger offering $2,000 for the property.
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Charles Bonier
Danser
Bonier
Po- Mce
John Doe
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Bull
Erie
Louise Lindholm
East Side
Frehrs
Bonfer
Kate Rahm
Cherry Street
Jefferson Street St
Frebr
Regan
Fhehr
Mébrang Bonfer
Frehr
Mrs Frehr
Buffalo
Gardenville
Tegan
Taylor
House of Refuge
Reading Railroad moves workers to ten hour day
Reading Pa December 3. Workers in the blacksmith department of the Reading Railway company have been informed their eight hour day will become ten hours. The change affects those in the car shape shop and storehouses within a one mile area of the plant.
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Reading
Reading Railway Company
Boston Cab Drivers Strike Slows City Traffic
Boston on December 3 reports a strike by Boston Cable drivers for shorter hours ongoing, causing more trouble at stations and hotels as snow dampens travel. The company suspended carriages but plans to hire or recruit new drivers by tomorrow amid the ongoing disruption.
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Boston Cable
Boston Company
J. B. Robinson
Financial and Commercial Closing Stock and Market Notes
Financial and commercial brief detailing money on call at 6 7 percent, prime mercantile paper 6 6 percent, Exchange totals around 268 million, 12.6 million balances. Stock quotes include North & West 56 percent, Penn R R 115, Reading, Rock Island, Southern Pacific 46 percent, Union Pacific and U.S. Steel around 1 percent. New York markets note flour firm at 4.75 and 3.08, wheat mixed with rains in Argentina but receipts heavy in the West, sugar raw at 0.96 percent, molasses steady, rice futures firm, cattle markets steady with veal and lamb bids, live stock trading cautious.
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Chicago Shooting After Fare Ejection Leads to Wounding
Omer R. Burke, secretary of the Steamfitters union, was ejected from a Forty-first Street electric car for refusing to pay fare to a non union conductor. He pursued the car five blocks, assaulted the conductor, and was shot in the ensuing scrimmage. Conductor Robert Rogers admitted the shooting. police arrested him. The incident drew a crowd of passengers including several women.
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Omer R. Burke
Steamfitters’ Union
Robert Rogers
Stock Yards
Durand Presents Credentials as Britain's U S Ambassador
Sir Mortimer Durand arrives as Britain’s new ambassador to the United States and delivers a formal letter from King Edward VII to President Roosevelt. He vows to strengthen Anglo American ties and serves under the instruction to promote peace and mutual goodwill between the two nations.
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United States
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Chara
Bank Collapse Leaves Stockholders Short on Camden Bank
The Farmers and Merchants Bank of Camden reports its president and cashier killed themselves the same day the bank failed. Depositors and creditors may recover, but $72,370 belonging to stockholders is unrecoverable as the bank closed with only 171.99 in cash on hand.
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Dee
Farmers and Merchants’ Bank of Camden
Rewards for Fa ther's switch case divide over arrests
Judge Burpee says rewards for the Fa ther's switch assault are unpaid as no arrests for the actual assault occurred. Eight youths, jailed for ten months, were convicted only of conspiracy, not the assault, and no further arrests seem likely. Attorney Paige for the trolley company will decide the course. Sheriff Rigney and Sunny may receive expenses, while Rogers in New York suggests dividing the reward among Rigney Lunny and Wolcott. The Pinkerton agency rejects any claim.
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New York
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Rigney
Lunny
Wolcott
Springfield sees Morgan named bishop coadjutor
In New Haven on December 3, Rev George Pemheten Morgan, long time rector of Christ Church, expressed surprise at Springfield Illinois announcing his election as bishop coadjutor of the Episcopal diocese. Morgan has not received official word and has not set any acceptance plans. The Springfield diocese reportedly spans about two thirds of Illinois.
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Dee
Springfield
Ill
George [Pemheten Morgan
Morgan
Christ Church
Exeter
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Tlinois
Gompers Asked to Settle Pittsburgh Strike Issue
President Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor has been asked to come to Pittsburg to settle a trade dispute. Forty eight lodges of the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers and Shipbuilders seek relief after their international office declared a $2 special strike assessment without a referendum.
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Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
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International Office
Dr Edson Dies of Sudden Heart Failure in New York
Dr Cyrus Edson, a renowned New York physician, dies at Roosevelt hospital from heart failure triggered by severe pleuropneumonia. Ill for just under four days, he endured pain and unsuccessful calls for aid while among attendants at the Larchmont club. Despite top medical care, his weakened heart could not be strengthened, leaving a prominent figure of medicine mourned.
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New York
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Chilean Government Sells Two Warships For Nine Million
Santiago report states battleships Libertad and Constitution have been sold by Chile for 9 million dollars. It is believed the buyer is the Tava company. Both ships were in Scotland during speed trials and construction.
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Tava
Weather Forecast for Connecticut Brisk Winds and Storm Warnings
Forecast for Connecticut calls for rain or snow tonight and Friday with brisk north to east winds. Northeast storm warnings extend from Eastport to New Haven as officials track developing conditions.
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Eastport
New Haven
Uncle Tom actor George Thompson dies after heart failure in saloon
George Thompson a veteran actor who originated Uncle Tom in a Harriet Beecher Stowe dramatization died in a rear room of a First Avenue saloon. He collapsed on a chair after entering to rest with his wife and daughter praying over him. Life extinct despite prayers and ambulance arrival.
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New York
George Thompson
Uncle Yom
Harriet Beecher Stowe
First Avenue
Thompson
East Side
Christian Science
West Twenty-third Street
Sixteenth
Chicago's Highwaymen in Crackdown by Police Chiefs
Chicago police Chief O'Neill orders emergency measures to curb the floater class by arresting all members. Inspectors will lead squads and night watchmen patrols target residence districts, with a firm work or leave Chicago stance for suspects and a corps of top shooters backing crime checks.
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O'Neill
Rain of Blood Seen Near Salerno in Advent Weather
The Rome report details a rare red rain phenomenon during severe weather near Salerno. Drops stained like blood, caused by Sahara sand carried across the sea and mixing with rain, a feature seen in Rome three years prior and frightening local peasants.
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Sahara
Waterville Pharmacy Blaze Damages Store and Injures Clerk
A fire at Waterville Drug Co caused by spontaneous combustion badly damaged the Waterville Pharmacy cellar and interior. Clerk John Bolan suffered burns to hands and arms. Dr. J. B. Carney treated him. Fire companies from American Pin shop and Welch Hosiery Co fought flames for over an hour, confining the blaze to the cellar with four water streams. Estimated loss runs to about $1,000. The incident occurred this afternoon amid dense smoke and heavy damage to stock and fixtures.
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Waterville Drug Co
George Sayers
John Bolan
Summit Street
J. B. Carney
American Pin Shop
Welch Hosiery Co
Winter Meeting of Connecticut Fire Chiefs Club
The winter gathering of the Fire Chiefs Club of Connecticut met at Chief Engineer Snagg's Leavenworth street office. Attendance dipped due to stormy weather. Chiefs Coffin Bridgeport Stanton Norwich Magee Watertown Fuller Nauga tuck Chatfield Thomaston Gaffney Ansonia Hyatt Meriden Goodwin East Hartford Norton Bristol Hendrick New Haven Bradstreet Thomaston attended. Only routine business was conducted and a draft of resolutions concerning the death of ex Chief Bollman of Stamford was reported.
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New Haven
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Bollman
Stamford
No Nearer Settlement in Hartford Electrical Dispute
Hartford December 3 reports no noticeable headway toward settling the dispute between electrical workers and employers. Employers announced they would shut down for six months rather than grant the workers demands and are seeking outside help to replace the strikers.
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Church Fire Destroys St Pauls German Lutheran Church
Fort Wayne dispatch reports St Pauls German Lutheran church gutted by fire this morning. Loss pegged at 75000 dollars with 12000 dollars insured. Authorities say the church will be rebuilt at once.
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Ind
St Paul's German Lutheran Church
Big City
Record Crowds 1500 Steerage Passengers aboard Cedric
On the White Star steamer Cedric sailing from New York to Queenstown and Liverpool there were 1500 steerage passengers. This marks the largest number ever carried from a U S port on a single voyage, highlighting the Cedric as a record carrier of emigrants.
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White Star Line
Cedric
Queenstown
Liverpool
United States
Football Victim Hugh Schofield Dies in Scrimmage
In Fishkill Landing New York on December 3 12-year-old Hugh Schofield died from injuries suffered in a school football game during recess He was crushed in a scrimmage and left paralyzed and did not recover, the incident reported from the local scene.
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Fishkill Landing
Dee
Hugh Schofield
Schofield
Head on Collision Shocks Portsmouth Trains
Norfolk and Western passenger train collides with a commuter train near Portsmouth Ohio, injuring many and possibly causing deaths among the 100 workers aboard. Authorities warn of serious casualties as rescue teams rush to the scene.
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Dee
Norfolk & Western
Woman missing after Ottawa fire fears death of Davis
In Ottawa on December 3 the missing woman Davis who worked at the Ottawa university remains unfound and authorities fear she perished in the blaze. Father Fullham is reported in critical condition.
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Dee
Davis
Ottawa University
Father Fullham
Earl of Stair Dies in Scotland Elated 1819 Birth
The Earl of Stair, John Hamilton Dalrymple, died this morning at Loebinch in Scotland. He was born in 1819.
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London
Dee
Earl of Stair
John Hamilton Dalrymple
Loebinch
Scotland
Miss Margaret Sweeney named adminis tratrix in estate case
City notices name Miss Margaret Sweeney of 260 Bank street as administratrix of the late Bridget Hardy estate. Also reported are a calendar giveaway by real estate man B J Torkomian and the death of George A Chapman after a yearlong illness. Funeral plans set for Friday night and burial in Oxford Mass. Fishing crowds flock to Chestnut Hill reservoir with pickerel catches noted. Fred Benham reports the season's best catch, a string of nearly three pound pickerel. Fred Pepe sues Michanello Rinaldo and Michele Ciarilo for 100 dollars over goods sold amid partnership dispute. further details incomplete.
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Bankstreet
Bridget Hardy
B. J. Torkomian
George A. Chapman
Ju- Na Chapman
Frank le Gunn
EB. H. Chapman
Oxford
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Chestnut Hill Reservoir
Fred Benham
North Elm Street
Fred Pepe
Canal Street
Michanello Rinaldo
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