History in a week December 22 dispatch brussels riot killings
A Brussels dispatch reports a priest and 1,000 native Christians killed in Chinese riots. Other items note Cant Fire Insurance of Concord licensed in Illinois, miner Thomas Leary asleep since last Wednesday, and multiple brief world and local events including indictments, marriages, weather, and accidents.
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Brussels
Cant Fire Insurance Company
Concord
NHL
Illinois
Thomas Leary
Butte
Mont
Louise Lee Bayard
Bayard
Frank Angell
Cornell University
Charles Waite
Follett
Second Division Court of Appeals
Norwich
N.Y
Walt Whitman
Minneapolis
Leiva
New York
Edward M. Field
Field
Justice of the Peace
James S. Galloway
Montford
Wis
Madison, Wis
Pension Bureau
Drexel family donates over 35 million for charity
A. J. Drexel and relatives give more than 35,000,000 for charitable causes. Other notes include a Mercer Missouri man dying after eating salmon, and various political, legal, and crime items such as Antwerp dynamite blast casualties and a libel suit in Detroit.
Great Chattanooga Fire Destroys Twenty Three Buildings
A devastating blaze in Chattanooga Tennessee on Saturday destroyed twenty three business buildings on Market Street. D B Loveman Co’s dry goods house led the flames with a rapid spread aided by a strong wind. Losses include Fort and Morgan Christie and Co and others totaling about 600000 with insurance around 550000. Two women leaped from upper windows, one severely but not fatally hurt and the other seriously injured.
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Chattraxouea
Tenn
Chattanooga
D. B. Loveman & Co
Market Street
Eight Street
D. E. Loveman & Co
T. C., Ervin & Co
Fort & Morgan
Christie & Co
Jackson & Trigg
H. Swartz &Bro
Silva & Abbott
Gottschalk & Co
W. N. Kelly & Co
J. H. Vandeman & Co
Southern Bank and Trust. Company
Hurst
Camden Boxing Report Notes Weakened Whit Man
Camden, New Jersey reports Whit Man was knocked down and beaten more severely yesterday than in recent bouts. The incident highlights a tougher match outcome for the veteran fighter.
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Ilin
Convicted killer visits crime scene years after sentence
A man who broke into a house occupied by two sisters killed one and left the other for dead. He was tried and given ten years to serve. After his sentence expired recently he is now visiting the scene of the murder, the brutal act recalled.
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L. Wolff Manufacturing Company
Chicago
Norman Borden
Fall River
Mass
Pernambuco
Brennan
Huntington
Wheeling
John A. Givens
Cortland
N. Y
Louis Oliver
J. B. Oliver
St. Paul
Henry Dunn
Northern Railway
Mississippi
Meridian
Barnby
Suffolk County
England
Pettegrew
South Dakota
Chili
South
What the Sclons at Washington Are Doing for the Country
In Washington reports deck the senate with many bills including a $100 monthly pension for eye loss, banning Chinese immigration, state irrigation loans, $10,000,000 for Mississippi improvements, Des Moines port delivery status, and a probe into individual debt. Also bills on the national flag display and a Columbus statue.
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Washington
Senate
Mississippi
Des Moines
Peffer
Columbus
Lake Erie
Ohio River
War Department
Grand Army
Morrill
Vermont
Smithsonian Institute
Congressional Work and Adjournment Actions
In Washington on December 28 the senate met sparsely as a Loyal Legion memorial urged navy expansion and Colorado labor petitions protested army bands competing with civilians. House adjourned to January 5 after executive session and Ford memorial observance.
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Washington
Washingon
Senate Chamber
Loyal Legion of Minnesota
Congress
Colorado
Stanford
House
Ford
Michigan
Senate
Nicaragua
Secretary of Agriculture
Myer Knocks Out Carroll In Forty Third Round
New Orleans crowd watches Myer defeat Carroll by knockout in the forty third round after a cautious start. Myer lands a decisive left and Carroll falls unconscious, ending the fight after twenty rounds of rough exchanges and near knockdowns.
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Myer
New Orleans
Olympic Club
Carroll
Jimmy
Still Waiting on Chili and Chilean Crisis Watch
Washington reports an ominous silence on Chile with Dispatches from Minister Egan awaited. Officials limit knowledge as Chile's provisional government, in place for about ten days, may not trigger a crisis unless forced by unforeseen events. The administration watches closely and prepares to act when a new cabinet is announced.
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Sam
Washington
Chili
Egan
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