War shifts in Amalgamated copper case robs Rogers faction
Copper stock news centers on Amalgamated and the Rogers group as major financiers led by J. P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller allegedly plot to wrest control. Market talk cites low copper prices, surplus sales, and looming six month contracts, with Stillman a key opponent and a Rio Tinto delegation arriving in New York amid a strong but inactive market.
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Heinze
Amalgamated Directorette
Finance
Amalgamated
Rogers
J. P. Morgan
John D. Rockefeller
Lewisohn Bros
United Metals Selling Company
William Rockefeller
Stillman
W. A. Clark
Phelps, Dodge & Co
Rothschilds
Kuehn, Loeb
London
Flower Interests
Lawson
Boston
Rio Tinto
New York
Rock Island
Southern Pacific
Atchison
Ripley
Atchison Road
Calumet
Quincy
Mohawk
Osceola
Market summaries show trade totals and price notes
Boston report lists today’s highest and lowest sales with closing bid and asking prices. Ex-dividend and fix-rights statements noted. Total sales include listed stocks 74,000 dollars across 15,798 shares, unlisted stocks 93,120 dollars across 17,580 shares, and bonds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
General Blackmar Urged for Congress in New District
A Plymouth County letter from Hingham Journal advocates General Wilmon W. Blackmar of Hingham as the first representative for the new 14th district. It argues against a fourth term for William C Lovering, cites Blackmar's qualifications including farming, steamboat interests, banking and military service, and records support from district citizens and leaders.
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W. W. Blackmar
Hingham
14Th
New Mth
Brockton
William C. Lovering
Congress
Lovering
Plymouth County
Wilmon W. Blackmar
Congressman Lovering
Massachusetts
Mth
Cape
Ines
Bristol County
Tringham
Blackmar
Hig
General Plackmar
National Capital
Sheldon
Superior Court
Boston Arbor
Massachusetts Bay
Appomattox
Loyal Legion of Massachusetts
Department of Massachusetts
Commonwealth
Washburn, Talbot, Rice
Long
McKinley
Roose
de Witt C. Bates
George E. Davis
Walter W. Hersey
Luther A. Douglas
Walter T. Jones
Wallace Gorthell L. Ripley
Jacob O. Sanborn
William Fearing
Morris F. Whiton Stetson
George P. Cushing
Walter L. Bouve
William H. Pridee
Ira G. Hersey
Joseph Jacobs
Joseph O. Burdett
William H. Thomas
Sumner Cushing
John Stoddar
Edward B. Pratt
Fred H. Miller
Frederic M. Hersey
Edward W. Bartlett
Fare M. Ripley
Curtissohn C
Andrew McNeille
Firm to Liquidate After Death at Schofield Whicher Firm
Louis ER Whicher of Schofield Whicher announces the death of Mr Schofield and seeks customer cooperation in winding up the firm. Assets are expected to cover liabilities. Whicher has not decided whether to continue the business or close out, weighing options including a New York Stock Exchange seat or joining Boston peers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis Er.’ Whicher
Schofield
Whicher
New York Stock Exchange
Boston
British Lose Nine Men at Abraham's Kraal Engagement
War office casualty list reports Colonel D. K. E. Du Moulin of the Sussex regiment and eight men killed at Abraham's Kraal near Koffyfontein Orange River Colony on January 28. Seven other men were wounded in the same engagement.
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London
War Office
Abraham’s Kraal
Wear Koffyfontein
Orange River Colony
D. KE. du Moulin
Sussex Regiment
Death of Kritzinger Unconfirmed
London on January 30 reports that Comandant Kritzinger captured by General French on December 17 has not been condemned to death. A South Africa announcement dated January 20 said his trial would begin this week, but no further word has been heard.
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London
Comandant Kritzinger
French
South Africa
Kritzinger
Waterfront Notices and Ship Movements in East Boston
Funeral rites were held for Captain George W. Leonard of the North route ferries at 187 Lexington Street East Boston. Chief Engineer Edward M. Titcomb died recently after 32 years with the company and was temporarily replaced by Acting Chief Engineer J W Trim. Various vessels including the steamer Devonian and Propellers from Philadelphia arrived with crews and freight. The schooner Tidal Wave was sold for Barbados, while the bark Harrison G Johnson anchored with lumber cargoes. Sailors remain scarce and crews are sought from Portland as the fleet adjusts to new South American trade.
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Lexington Street
Boston
George W. Leonard
Department
Metropolitan Line
Herman Winter
New York
Edward M. Titcomb
Pelham
N. H
Edward P. Titcomb
New Hampshire
J. W. Trim
Trim
David
Santuli
Devonian
Leyland Line
J. Bergerson
J. A. Butler
Butler
Herbert Walker
Sarah Hallowell
Lillian Scott
Emma Hardy
George Thomas
John White
L. Ashton
Philadelphia & Reading Coal Co
Lykens
Philadelphia
Catawissa
Lockwood
Barbados
Gloucester
South America
Africa
William Kemp
Juno
Joe
Vesta
Mystic
Harrison G. Johnson
Portland
Cunard Line
Immigration and Customs
Liverpool
Shipping News Miniature Almanac January 31
SHIPPING NEWS MINIATURE RLLMANAC. JAN 31 Sun rises 7 a m sets 4 56 p m Moon rises 12 17 a m High water 4 45 a m 6 16 p m ARRIVED Steamers Assyria Schlacke Hamburg via Portland with merchandise to Patterson and Wylde Boston Br Stanwood Yarmouth N S with passengers to J F Masters Bonavista Br Patoine Halifax N S with merchandise and passengers to E H Downing Governor Dingley DPennison Portland City of Gloucester Godfrey Cloucester Terman Winter Grove New York tugs Paoli Ritson Philadelphia towing barges Bala and Braddock for eastern ports Catawissa Hanson dto towing barges Robesonia and Shawmont Swatara favior do towing barges Merriam and Kohinoor Georges Creek Kelly Poa towing barges Nos 8 20 and CLEARED Steamers Anglian Br London Mira Br Louisburg C B schooners K H Stimpson St John N B Henry Withington Sargentville Me and Baltimore BATLED Wind north northwest brisk breeze Steamers Teutonia Dutch Rotterdam Katahdin Norfolk Parthian Philadelphia Nantucket Norfolk and Baltimore H F F Dimock New York schooner Eleazer A Percy coal port tug Lackawanna Hoboken towing barge Chemung
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Assyria
Ger
Schlacke
Hamburg
Portland
Patterson and Wylde
Boston
Stanwood
Yarmouth
Hanson
Dto
Robesonia
Shawmont
Swatara
Favior
Merriam
Kohinoor
Georges Creek
Kelly
Poa
Anglian
London
Mira
Louisburg
C. B
K. H. Stimpson
St. John
N. B
Henry Withington
Sargentville
Baltimore
Teutonia
Rotterdam
Katahdin
Norfolk
Parthian
Philadelphia
Nantucket
H. FF. Dbimock
New York
Eleazer A. Percy
Lackawanna
Hoboken
Chemung
Grand Junction Plans Freight Yard Expansion in Mast Boston
Grand Junction proposes a new freight house on Clyde street between the old stone warehouse and the current office. The yard will include 42 car spur capacity, expanded railroad access, and a large grain elevator on Marginal streets. Work advances rapidly, and a paved yard will improve vessel accommodations. Superintendent Livingstone predicts the area will be unrecognizable in two years.
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Grand Junction
Mast Boston
Clyde Street
Boston & Maine
Funeral of Rear Admiral Kimberly Held in West Newton
The funeral for Rear Admiral Kimberly will be at 2 PM Friday at the First Unitarian Church West Newton. Rev. Julian C. Jaynes will officiate with six naval officers as pallbearers and six seamen as bearers. The service includes taps and cremation at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Newton
Kimberly
First Unitarian
Julian C. Jaynes
Mortimer I.johnson
George E. Belknap
Nehemiah M. Dyer
Henry Lyon
The
Olympia
Edwin K. Moore
Stephen B. Luce
George
Navy orders flags at half mast for Rear Admiral Kimberly
The Navy Department issued a special order announcing Rear Admiral Kimberly's death. Flags at navy yards and stations and on vessels will be displayed at half mast from sunrise to sunset, and 18 minute guns will be fired at noon on the day after the order is received.
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Washington
Navy Department
Kimberly
Navy Yards
Doherty Put on Trial for Wagon Incident Injuring Logan
In Suffolk Superior Court Edmund J. Doherty faced charges of assault and battery for running over John J. Logan with a wagon last October in Roxbury. Logan suffered a compound ankle fracture and remained hospitalized after being thrown from a bicycle during a preceding altercation. The defense contends the wagon's horse shied and the event was accidental, not malicious.
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Edmund J. Doherty
Suffolk
John J. Logan
Logan
Doherty
Tin Roxbury
Man Sentenced to Electrocution for 1901 Longmeadow Murder
Springfield reports John D. Cassels is sentenced to death by electrocution in the week of May 4 for the murder of Mrs. Mary J. Lane in Longmeadow on February 26, 1901.
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Springfield
John D. Cassels
Mary J. Lane
Longmeadow
Death of former Massachusetts Congressman Charles F Sprague
The Hon. Charles F Sprague died at 9 20 am yesterday in Butler Hospital Providence after months of nervous and mental illness. He was born June 10 1857 in Boston and served in the House from 1891 to 1893. He left a large fortune and had lived in Brookline on Allandale street with a grand estate noted for its Italian garden and park. His funeral arrangements include services at Emanuel Church with Bishop Brent officiating and burial at Mt. Auburn.
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Charles IF. Sprague
Congress
Massachusetts
Butler Hospital
Providence
Harriet B. Sprague
Beacon Street
Emmaneul Church
Brent
Mt. Auburn
Charles Franklin Sprague
Beacon Hill
Boston
Seth Sprague
Duxbury
Peleg Sprague
Seth BH. Sprague
William Lawrence
Abbot
Amos Lawrence
England
Sprague
Phillips Exeter Academy
Harvard
Harvard Law School
The
Park Commission
Matthews
State Senate
Suffolk
National House of Representatives
Washington
Mary B. Pratt
G. Langdon Pratt
William F. Weld
Pratt
J. L. Gardner
C. A. Platt
Brookline
Allandale Street
Allandale Spring
Daughters of the Sphinx Install Newly-Elected Officers
Lotus Court No. 1 of Daughters of Sphinx celebrated its first anniversary at Allington Hall Washington street. Officers installed included Mrs. A. Jeffries grand worthy matron and Mrs. L A Woolfolk vice-worthy matron with several conductresses and the high priestess Isadora Nelson among others. The group noted is the highest Masonic degree for women under the Imperial Grand Council. Many colored Masonic friends attended.
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Lotus Court
Daughters of Sphinx
Allington Hall
Washington Street
A. Jeffries
L.A. Woolfolk
N. E. Seales
J. H. Fisher
Venia Clark
Adelian Woolfolk
Isadora Nelson
O. E. Jones
W. H. Nelson
Imperial Grand Council of Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of
Mystic Shrine
North and
South America
Four Held for Grand Jury in Hyde Park Kidnapping Case
In Dedham district court Mark Connolly Boston Darby Keady Roxbury and Anthony and Mary Frye Medford were bound over for the Norfolk grand jury on charges of kidnapping Michiel J. Connolly at Hyde Park January 8. Evidence included testimonies from Hannah Gibbons Police Officer Grant Mary Day and Dr John W Pratt. Judge Grover noted the victim was taken from his home in night clothing and that probable cause existed for the investigation.
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Dedham
Mark Connolly
Boston
Darby Keady
Roxbury
Anthony
Mary Frye
Medford
Michiel J. Connolly
Hyde Park
Connolly
Hannah Gibbons
Grant
Mary Day
John W. Pratt
Grover
Norfolk Grand Jury
Tatten Johnson Couple Wed at Dorchester Home
Samuel A. Tatten and Katharine A. Johnson, both of Dorchester, were married Wednesday evening at the bride's home 63 Rossiter street with Rev J W Brigham officiating. The couple received many presents and plan a wedding trip before settling back at Rossiter street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel A. Tatten
Katharine A. Johnson
Dorchester
Rossiter Street
J. W. Brigham
Appointment delays for two acting warrant machinists
Washington dispatch reports Frank H. Church and Francois J. McAllister were named acting warrant machinists on November 1, but despite multiple telegrams sent nationwide, they have not been informed of their appointments. Each man has three years of service as an enlisted member.
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Washington, D. C
Frank H. Church
Francois J. McAllister
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Shipping News
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