Wall Street Faces Sharp Selloff Amid Legislative Fears
Wall Street and Boston trading floors showed a sharp selling wave amid fears of new investigations and potential banking and railroad regulation. The market closed in a semi demoralized state with major stocks down from 2 to over 6 points, as bullion movements and cash positions influenced sentiment.
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Wall Street
Albany
New York City
House of Representatives
Washington
Pennsylvania Company
New York
Reading
Pennsylvania
State Street
Amalgamated
Union Pacific
Southern Pacific
Galaxy of Copper “Stars
Brooklyn
Anaconda
Colorado
Southern Railway
Steel Common
Boston curb market shows broad gains with mixed bond notes
Exchange place curb volume rises over prior week led by Mexico Consolidated at 134.20 and New England Gold and Copper near 80 cents. Keeweenaw up to 19 while Raven Mining and Utah Apex slip, Butte & London debuting at 2 14. Bonds total 38,500 sales. rights 3,564 shares.
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New York
Bingham
United Copper
Amalgamated
Boston & Worcester
Greene Consolidated
Michigan
Copper Range
Utah Consolidated
Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company
Old Colony Trust Company
Massachusetts Electric Company
United States Steel Corporation
Denver
International Copper Company
Utah Copper Company
Boston Consolidated
Cactus
American Smelting & Refining Company
International Company
Heinze
Anaconda
Marcus Daly
H. H. Rogers
Daly
Pittsburg
New York Stock Exchange
London Stock Exchange
Salt Lake City
Guggenheim Exploration Company
Nevada Consolidated Copper Company
Ely
Nev
Gay & Sturgis
Chicago
Toughton
Mich
Boston
United Shoe Machinery
Beverly
Mass
Dyer
Portland
George H. Barr & Co
Barre
Barre Savings Bank and Trust Company
Soulab
Amalgamated Copper
Amer Car & Foundry
Amer Cotton
Amer Hide & Sea
Amer
Amer Tobacco
Anaconda Mining Co
Atchison Ee
Chesapeake & Ohio
Chicago Great Western
Chicago & Northwestern
Chicago, Mil & St Paul
Chicago Ter & Trapref
C & St Louis
Colorado Fuel & Iron
Colorado & Southern
Delaware & Hudson
Denver & Rio Grande
Distillers Securities
Erie Eee Ewer Ewe Wees Ee
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General Electric Erreee
Ilinois Central Ooene
International Paper
Kansas City Southern
Louisville & Nashville
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Minneapolis & St Louis
Missouri Pacific
Missouri, Kan & Tex
Mexico
New York Central
New York Ont & West
Norfolk & Western
North American
Northern Pacific
Pacific Mail
Pennsylvania Ee
People’s Gas
Republic
Rock Ieland Co
Southern Railway
Flore
Tennessee Coal & Iron
Texas & Pacific
Union Pacific
Virginia
Exchange Place
Keeweenaw
Raven Mining
Utah Apex
New England
Butte & London
Utah
Apex
Raven
Eagle & Blue Bell
Troy-Manhattan
St. Mary’s Rights
Nevada-Utah
Butte
London
Keweenaw
Black Mountain
Bay State
East Butte
Dominion Copper
Idaho
Ahmeek
Ventura Oil
Utah Copper
Duluth
Calumet & Pittsburg
St Bly
Merg
Horton Basket
Jim Butler
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Santa Yesubel
Atchison Vee
Bos & Alb
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Bos & Me
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Union Pac
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Guanajuato
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New York Bond Prices Summary From Yesterday
Yesterday's bond list shows various issues with mixed quotes. Notable items include Japan 6s at 2d series 414s, Mex Cen 4s at 804, M & StL 4s at 96, NY Cg 3% at 48, Penn 3s at 105 4, StL&IM cds at 0e, US Steel 2d 5s at 99 1/4, Wabash Ist debentures at 116, and Wis Con 4s at 94.
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Tutuay
Jen
Japan
L & No
T.stlaw
US Steel 2d
Wabash Ist
West Md
Dividends Payable Notices From Railways and Mills
Lists upcoming dividend payments for Boston Elevated Railway Massachusetts Cotton Mills and Lawrence Gas Company. Payments include 3 percent semi annual to be paid Feb 15 8 percent semi annual to be paid Feb 10 and 8 percent semi annual to be paid Feb 1.
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Boston Elevated Railway
Massachusetts Cotton Mills
Lawrence Gas Company
Chicago grain quotations May wheat and oats
In a grain letter from Innis & Stoppani, Chicago Board of Trade quotations show May wheat trading around 84 to 85 cents, with bid and ask variations and note on other months and oats pricing. The report lists several price ranges, highs and lows, plus option references including May wheat puts at 84 and calls at 85.
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Innis & Stoppani
Chicago Board of Trade
State Mutual
Mag
Team Selected for Roosevelt Wedding Gift in Lexington
In Lexington Kentucky on January 29 a $15,000 team of high gaited horses named Tattersall and Mate is reported purchased or spoken for by Cincinnati friends of Congressman Nicholas Longworth and Miss Alice Roosevelt. Horsemen consider them the most evenly matched pair. They won the State fair prize in September and have blue ribbons in other events over the past year.
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Lexington
Cincinnati
Nicholas Longworth
Alice Roose
Tattersall
Mate
New York
Alice Roosevelt
Fall River Man Shoots Self During Nurse's Absence
James W. Bemis a 64 year old carpenter who was in melancholy shot himself in the mouth today and died two hours later. He fired the fatal shot while a nurse he kept in charge had been sent away on an errand and was absent at the time.
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Fall River
Self
James W. Bemis
Jerome Pushes Topics Trouble in New York
In New York on January 29 a conference in District Attorney Jerome's office discussed the Collier perjury case against Colonel W. D. Mann. Handwriting experts Hay and Osborne testified. James W. Osborne seeks John Doe subpoenas to follow up Towns Topics disclosures, aiming to present evidence to a grand jury.
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New York
Jerome
Robert J. Collier
Collier’s Weekly
W. D. Mann
James W. Osborne
Hart
Colonel Hay
Washington, D. C
A. E. Osborne
Rochester
N. Y
Patrick
Osborne
Brooklyn Man Offers to Take 10 Year Slocum Sentence
Nis York January 29 John Short of Brooklyn offered to serve Captain William H. Van Schaick's 10 year prison term for criminal negligence in the General Slocum disaster of June 1904. Short claimed he was aboard, heard the alarm, and vouched for the captain's innocence though the offer was not accepted. Van Schaick was released on $10,000 bail.
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Nis York
John Short
Brooklyn
William H. van Schaick
General Slocum
Short
United States
van Schaick
Mr. Short
Faulkner arraigned on four counts of larceny in Charlestown
D Webster Faulkner, Malden druggist, was arraigned in Charlestown Court on four counts of larceny by worthless checks. He pleaded not guilty and was held on 600 bail for trial Feb 3. His wife and Miss Fannie Thomas were among the audience. Thomas was later arrested again amid new questioned checks.
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D. Webster Faulkner
Malden
Charlestown
William H. Breen
W. P. B. Brooks
J. T. Reed
Isabella Monahan
Fannie Thomas
Faulkner
Hiis
Thomas
Miss Thomas
Shawmut Club Marks 20th Anniversary Celebration
Last evening the Shawmut Club celebrated its twentieth anniversary at the clubhouse on 674 Massachusetts Avenue. Hundreds of past and present members attended a social affair with music and singing. The club, formed of eligible wage-earning young women, emphasizes self-improvement and is part of the Massachusetts Association of Women Workers led by Miss Edith M. Howes.
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Shawmut Club
Massachusetts Avenue
Gayety
Massachusetts Association of Women Workers
Edith M. Howes
Miss Rowe
Lillian P. Richards
Mary EK. Shove
Emily G. Denny
A. M. E. Rowe
Josephine Allen
Edith Howe
Julia Murphy
Margaret Crocker
Mary O'Connor
Elizabeth Eustis
Annie Kelley
Margaret Reardon
Nora Vernon
Esther Browne
Margaret Sinclair
Tells How He Killed Girl
Rufus Johnson, a colored man, confessed after days of denials to murdering Miss Florence W. Allinson on January 18 in a Morristown New Jersey barn. He described choking the victim into unconsciousness and fastening a strap about her neck, then entering the house, seizing the watch and valuables, and stealing a savings bank before fleeing to Camden and Philadelphia.
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Baltimore
New Jersey
Rufus Johnson
Florence W. Allinson
Morristown
N. J
Johnson
Allinson
Bessie Walker
Camden
Philadelphia
Bonds Hidden in Trunk at New York Port
Customs officers on the steamship Finland from Antwerp discovered a trunk with a false bottom containing bonds and securities valued at over 100000. The papers included Hungarian government bonds and railway securities. The trunk was linked to Isaac Heicher, an Austrian grain merchant, who said it belonged to Moses Greenberg, a steerage passenger. Immigration authorities promised further search for the trunk’s owner.
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New York
Finland
Antwerp
Isaac Heicher
Moses Greenberg
Greenberg
Heicer
Armenian crime tale stirs Arlington police denials
Arlington Armenian printer Harry Deevarian denies telling police of any Armenian murder gang. Hack Orimian, a former employee, was arrested on larceny charges after accusations of a broader misconduct. Orimian faced Cambridge District Court and pleaded not guilty as Deevarian defended religious and business disputes. Police state they have no knowledge of any murder gang.
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Arlington
Harry Deevarian
Atlantic Press
Atlantic Avenue
Boston
Deevarian
Hack Orimian
Crimian
Washington Street
Almy
Cambridge
Massachusetts Avenue
How Bigelow Was Fooling The Panama Canal Debate
Governor Magoon arrived from Colon and differed with Poultney Bigelow over canal conditions. He said Bigelow’s single day in Panama was a holiday and criticized idleness. Magoon notes 280 Martinique women in the zone, 160 living with men they claim as husbands, most others in domestic service. He asserts all canal workers are busy.
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New York
Charles E. Magoon
Panama Canal Zone
Colon
the Waldorf
Poultney Bigelow
Martinique
Paris Pioneer Jules Despecher Dies at 81
Jules Despecher, 81, a leading early promoter of cable communication between Europe and America, has died in Paris. His work helped establish transatlantic links and shaped early undersea cable ventures. He was among the first in France to advocate and develop international telecommunication.
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Paris
Jules Despecher
Europe
America
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