Strikes Grow Across Reading Coal Fields Amid Rail Tieups
The Reading railroad strike deepens, with 8 divisions shut down north of Reading as miners threaten a broader walkout after January 1. Alarm spreads through Eastern Pennsylvania as coal stockpiles dwindle, furnaces bank up, and police and railway officials brace for possible unrest.
Pacific Railroads report split on charter extensions
The presidents commission reports to the nation on Pacific railroads, urging a fifty year debt extension with safeguards, while minority counsel calls for forfeiture of charters and immediate dissolution. Union Pacific is assessed with 1815 miles main line and 2762 miles branches, with branches boosting earnings and development, but many branches run at loss yet interline traffic raises overall value.
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Union Pacific Railway Company
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Union Pacific Railway Commission
Secretary of the Treasury
Robbers Seek Trio After Pottstown Jewelry Raid
A report from Norristown dated December 31 describes private detectives and railroad officers tracking three armed men who robbed D E Hatfield's jewelry store in Pottstown after 6 PM on Wednesday. A clerk was held at gunpoint, the robbers fled via a Reading coal train, then lingered near Phoenixville and Bridgeport, exchanging shots with officers that wounded a deputy. The trio's movements remain elusive as they evade pursuit.
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Europe’s threatened war and Berlin balance shifts
London’s Standard predicts imminent armed struggle or forced submission as European powers growl toward conflict. British ambassador Sir A Paget returns to Vienna with documents signaling England’s support for the triple alliance while protecting Turkey’s unity. Also reports stormy Adriatic voyage and a string of crisis notes from Rome and Carthagena.
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Jumped the Trestle and Fire Tore Through Wreck
A mixed train on the Pittsburg and Western railroad ran off a thirty foot trestle near St Petersburg Clarion county Pa last night. Eight passengers were seriously injured two bridge spars fell with the train and ten cars burned from a stove in the smoker. Names of several injured given with others not learned.
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Clarion County
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A. Kiser
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D. White
Axtoona
Bellwood
Clearfield and
Jefferson
Eastern Express
John Keller
An 1887 Rail Collision Lives Lost Reported
Late telegraph reports a Pennsylvania Railroad collision near a major city. Three killed and many injured as a passenger train traveling at speed wrecks. subsequent updates mention freight disruptions and evolving casualty figures amid a broader strike atmosphere in Reading and Lehigh valley areas.
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Church and State Clash Over Quebec Clergy Registers
The Attorney General of Quebec, Mercier, wrote to parish clergymen stressing exactkeeping of birth, marriage, and death records. French papers attack him, calling the move an insult to Catholic clergy and arguing church independence from the state. La Verite criticizes Parkman, Paris reviews, and questions church sanctity.
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Courrier Des Canada
la Verite
Mr. Parkman
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Canada
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Paris
Parkman
Christ
Remarkable Will Contest in Providence Probate Court
Old tales of Joseph Knight hinge on two marriages and shifting wills. The second wife’s children contest the latest read will while a surprising witness reveals the first Mrs Knight may be alive. The probate decision is soon to be given amid a tangle of legitimacy claims and a fatal past.
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