Electric Companies Combine In Rhode Island Gang War
In Provipenox Rhode Island and Narragansett electric firms announce a planned merger. The Rhode Island company, once burned and unstable, would be absorbed by Narragansett which owns the Thomson-Houston system and United States incandescents. Narragansett stock trades around 62% as 600 arc lights serve the city.
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Rhode Island
Narragansett
Thomson-Houston
Weston
United States
Narragansett Company
Marsden J. Perry
Weavers Strike Threat Hits Embarrassed Paris Bank Run
Paris reports the Comptoir d'Escompte faces ongoing trouble despite meeting depositor demands as 60,000,000 francs remains tied to Société des Métaux. Copper panic spreads caution. Guardian banks may reconstruct the institution to recover losses while Shanghai operations suspend awaiting supplies. Fort River faces its first broad strike in years as Weavers seek union recognition and wage gains, with 10,000 workers threatening to halt 25,000 jobs and endanger $25,000,000 in capital.
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Paris
Comptoir d’Escompte
Société Des Métaux
Comptoir W Escompte
Rothschilds
Bank of Paris
Netherlands
Crédit Foncier
Frances
Banque d’ Escompte
Crédit Mobilier
Michel
Heine
Stern
Hottimer
Andre
Girode
Hentsch
Crédit Lyonnaise
Société Générale
Temps
M. Rochereau
Société Auxilaire
Figaro
Comptoir d’ Escompte
Shanghai
Concern
Fort River
Farl River
Howard
Knights of Labor
Board of Trade
Fall River
Vay Marshal Hilliard
Associated Press
Weavers
American Linen
Richard Borden
Flint
Mechanics
Sagamore
Seaconnet
Narragansett
Laurel Lake
Osborn
Weetamoe
Wampanoag
Weavers’ Union
Seaconner Mill
Connolly
The
State Board of Arbitration
Two New Assignees Chosen For Pacific Guano Company
Creditors of Pacific Guano Company meet at 66 State Street to appoint assignees. A. D. Bell Charles Morrison and William Stowe are chosen to close the business, with advisory committee deemed unnecessary. The stockholders' committee reports large losses and the need to realize assets, while noting liabilities and misposted journals.
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Mr. Glidden
Pacific Guano Company
Glidden & Curtis
John M. Glidden
George W. W. Dove
State Street
A. W. Stetson
State Bank
J. H. Cline
Ropes
A. D.S. Bell
Charles E. Morrison
William E. Stowe
F. E. Peabody
George Whitney
Union Bank
John ©. Ropes
James H. Eaton
Essex Bank
Lawrence
E. L. Tead
Bassett
Taunton National Bank
Guano Company
Ohio
Tead
Ohio & Western
State House
Ccccee
S.cessreeee
Enalee Imsutanege
Esceese, Pany
Maritime Movements and Arrivals Listed in Port Reports
Ocean steamers bound for New Orleans Boston and Baltimore departed from Liverpool Glasgow and Hong Kong with routes including Australia to New Orleans Bulgaria to Boston and Michigan to Baltimore. Arrivals noted Dorset at New York Ontario at Bristol and other ships today with March dates across ports.
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Australian
Liverpool
New Orleans
Bulgariaa
Boston
Michigan
Glasgow
Baltimore
Dorset
New York
Hong Kong
Ontario
Bristol
Naval orders and promotions in Army and Navy Gazette
March 10 naval directions list promotions and assignments. Commander William T. Sampson to examination for promotion. Lt George M. Stoney to inspector of steel for new cruisers at Pacific Rolling Mills San Francisco. Lt A J L T Halpine to the Lallapoosa South Atlantic station via steamer the 30th from New art News Virginia. Lt Daniel Delehanty named to board of inspection and survey San Francisco and to duty on the coast survey.
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Washngton
Harrison
Congress
Samoa
Executive Departments
Olga
Nipsie
Apia
Navy Department
Genoa
Italy
Leman
Nipsia
Kimberly
New York
San Francisco
H Rald
Breslau
Nipsic
Mariposa
Whitney
New Zealand
Berlin
Fernald
United States
Charleston
Charleston, Said He Had Received No Orders From the Secretary of the Navy
Naval Bureau
City of Pueblo
Auckland
Steamship Company
London
Robert L. Stevenson
Hawaii
Knappe
Bismarck
Washington
Blacklock
Coetlegogne
Mr. Stevenson
Klein
Malietoa
Adler
Army and Navy
William T. Sampson
George M. Stoney
Pacific Rolling Mills
A.J. L. T. Halpine
Lallapoosa
South Atlantic
Newart News
Daniel Delehanty
Board of Inspection and Survey
Coast Survey
Body Found In Water Near Swett Street South Boston
A dead male about 45 was found in the water near Swett street on the South Boston side yesterday. He had dark hair a dark gray beard a gray coat a black vest and light striped trousers.
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Swett Street
Boston
Roxbury Clergyman Charles Hudson Smith Missing
The Rev. Charles Hudson Smith of 19 Akron Street Roxbury has been missing since Saturday. He is seven feet tall? No, 7 inches? He weighs 140 pounds with dark hair and mustache. Dressed in dark clothes wore a standing collar and gold eyeglasses. His hat was found on the Charles River bank near Poplar Street and the river was dragged for his body but not recovered.
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Roxbury
Charles Hudson Smith
Akron Street
Charles River
Poplar Street
University Lecture Schedule March 11–16 at Harvard
A schedule of lectures and events from March 11 to 16 at Harvard includes lectures in anthropology, German engraving, English debate, physics, Sunday vesper services at Appleton Chapel, Harvard Union debate on prohibition, and English literature seminars led by Professors Hill and Smollett with time and location details for each session.
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Athenian Acropolis
Erechtheum
Wheeler
Jefferson Physical Laboratory
Ward
Upper Boyiston
College
University
Gunnlaugssaga Ormstunga
Babbitt
Sever
Divinity School
Deutscher Verein
S. R. Koehler
Upper Boylston
Professor Hall
Appleton Chapel
Harvard Union
Massachusetts
E. E. Shoemaker
J. L. Dodge
E. J. Smith
L. S
R. W. Hale
Richardson
Scott
Tobias George Smollett
Hill
Legitime's Army Victorious In Haitian Battle
The World will publish news from a bloody clash between Legitime's and Hippolyte's forces. Captain Fraser reports Port de Paix April 3, famine looming, prices high, and describes Grand Saline destruction after a late February battle and massacre. Hippolyte generals Mom Point and Jean Mesereau led resistance before Legitime's triumph and looting.
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New York
Coban
Légitime
Hippolyte
Fraser
Port de Paix
Gonaives
Grand Saline
Mom Point
Jean Mesereau
Mesereau
la Patrie
Stand Up Conybeare at Cornish Dinner row
Lonnox March 10 report says Mr. Conybeare MP attended the annual Cornish dinner at Holborn restaurant. When a toast to the Prince and Princess of Wales was proposed the guests rose and sang while he sat, provoking fury and shouted calls to stand up and be disloyal, and he finally rose.
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Mr. Conybeare
Johns Big Jump
John Kennedy of 324 Federal Street jumped from a third story window yesterday and sustained probable fatal injuries.
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John
John Kennedy
Federal Street
Maritime Passenger Listings Reach From Across the Atlantic
A scrambled extract shows ships and routes with March dates, listing arrivals and departures at ports like New York Baltimore Boston and Queenstown. Names include Ocean liners such as Bremen Havre Hamburg and Gloriously the records show crews and passengers traveling to Liverpool Sydney and Genoa amid routine transatlantic movements.
Clause Shields Mills From Deliveries During Work Stoppage
A clause relieves mills of obligation to deliver goods if shut down by a strike or lockout, for as long as the shutdown lasts, without impairing the contract for the remainder of the period.
Bobbin Trust Collapse Shocks New England Mills
Lawrence March 10 The American Spool and Bobbin Association once linking major East Coast bobbin and spool makers has collapsed. Members undercut price lists via rebates, undermining trust. Commission men fear loss of business while promoters seek an iron clad pact. yet opposition from commission men and press exposure jeopardizes the plan. The East’s spool and bobbin trade centers in Manchester Nashua Lowell Lawrence and New Bedford with activity also in New York and the Middle States.
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Lawrence
Spucrau
Bobbin Combination
American Spool and Bobbin Association
Post
Boston
Young’s Hotel
Manchester
Nashua
N. H
Lowell
New Bedford
Woonsocket
R. I
New York
Middle States
Catholic Foresters Split Rumor Angers Faithful
Montreal reports a Catholic stir as a new Foresters lodge faced delays. Father Dowd denounced the order, excommunication threats followed, then Archbishop Fabre approved the group and named Father Archambaulte chaplain, seen by Irish Catholics as a snub to their pastor.
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Montreal
Order of Foresters
Fabre
Rome
Father Dowd
St. Patrick's Parish
Massacre of French Tourists Reported in Yellowstone Park
Cheyenne reports a half breed hunter claims five French tourists were slain in Yellowstone National Park by Indians. Hank Ferry, guide and sole survivor, says victims included M. Le Clair and wife, J. Vincent and wife, and Paul Gerret. Ferry fled to Canon City. authorities form a posse to pursue killers and recover bodies. Some miners doubt the tale, suggesting robbery by hide hunters.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Yellowstone National Park
Canon City
Park
Hank Ferry
Ferry
M. le Clair
J. Vincent
Paul Gerret
Mme. Vincent
Virginia City
Nev
Gerabgere
San Francisco
Elige
Fatal Fall From Horse Car Kills Gray at City Hospital
E M Gray, an employee of Walworth Manufacturing Company, fell from a horse car on Washington street on Saturday and died at City Hospital yesterday morning.
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E. M. Gray
Walworth Manufacturing Company
Washington Street
City Hospital
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Electric Companies Combine
State Department
Comptoir A d’ Escompte
Comerperceae
Dasepu Burnett
Joseph Burnett & CO
Chicago
Kingston, Essex and
Edinboro Streets
A. B. Crocker & CO
Boston Real Estate and Trust Company
Sore
Nat’l Life Ins. CO
J. T. Phelps Agt
Dev
Liberty Square
Wasnimnactorn
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
New England
Observer’s Office
Signal Service
Upsha
Ean
Max
Temp. m
Atlantic Coast
Speer
Armouth
Eeseatetoree
Entreal
Can
Certe
Eeetesie
Ant Ket
Mass
N.G
S. Ewer
Jacksonville
Ala
Shreveport
Fort Smith
Ark
Galveston
Tex
Ohio Valley
Tennessee
Emphis
Knoxville
Tenn
Cincinnati
Trittsburg
Penn
Lake Region
Kliffe
Ugeen
Wego
Uffalo
Leveland
Detroit
Mich
de Ste. Marie
Mirquette
Grand En
Reen Bay
Wis
Cicago
Anee
Duluin
Bae
Upper
Mississippi Valley
Vaul Nn
Moineés
Missouri Vgberansas City
Ielena
Mont
Custer
Mont Pid Vity
Csess
Salt Lake Cte
Utah
Col
Tee
E City
Rae
Orth Platte
Neb
Paso
Mos
Icc
Eerree
Joseph W. Smith
George C. Tichenor
Illinois
Yellowstone Park
Providence
R. L
Free Church of Christ
Jersey City
Conybeare
Glidden
Ohio & Western Coal and Iron Company
Hart
Massachusetts Tariff Reform League
Friends of the Cause
Lewiston Mills
Edwin A. Curtis
Master Berry
South Boston
Harvard University Calendar
Legitime
M. P
Poe
Itull
Queenstown
N . Syd
Raw York
Ravia
Har
Gascogne
Havre
St. Jeer
Bremen
Naule
New Yor
Sydney
N.S. W
Alameda
Hamburg
Glraltar
Sidonian
Valencia
York Pool
Celt
Mare
Celtic
the Queen
Etruria
Umbria
Kenil T
Philadelphia
Barnwell
St Jago
Panama
New York - Ene
Trinidad
Portia
St John’s
Scilly
Gellert
Hawbury
Nevada
Bobbin Trust
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