Prince Probes New York New Haven Railroad Monopoly
Massachusetts House considers a committee to investigate the New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company for alleged monopoly and unfair discrimination. Debates on political party nominating votes and sweat shop reform accompany committee reports on health, medicines, and state printing oversight.
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Messrs. Parkman
Suffolk
Lawton
Middlesex
Election Laws Committee
Stevens
Worcester
Fitzgerald
Committee On Public Health
Henalih
State Board of Health
Gold Flows North as U S Money Market Tightens
New York reports a tightening money market driving gold across the border from Canada. Banks record large influxes of gold coins and Canadian notes, with the Third National Bank noting a $400,000 weekly delivery to the sub-treasury and other institutions accumulating gold via customers. An estimated $800,000 in notes from Montreal and $900,000 in small currency were withdrawn and backed by gold for shipment to Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Canada
Third National Bank
Sub-Treasury
Montreal
Chicago
Chirkstown Neck arson gang held for grand jury
In District Court Judge Bragg bound over Matthew Greene after a not guilty plea for an alleged arson at Garrity's blacksmith shop. Modoc Doherty, linked to the Eastman Candleating Works fire, was held on separate charges with bonds set at two thousand. Prosecutor Adams asked to discharge Crosby furious and Carolan boys for insufficent evidence.
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Chirkstown Neck
Melvin OQ. Adams
Crosby, Furious
Carolan
Grandmother, here's the minister in awe and defiance
In a Philadelphia Record item an amused granddaughter questions a minister about sanctification and foreordination. The elder, shocked by the Egypt reference, exclaims she has never left her village and cannot fathom such travels.
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Land of
Egypt
Philadelphia Record
Fossil Collection Returns to Planover Museum Phase
Planover New Hampshire March 17 The large and valuable collection of fossils geological specimens bequeathed by the late Ralph Otterfield of Kansas City along with 200 000 to Dartmouth has reached Planover It will be kept in the Museum in Culver Hall until the Butterfield building provided for in the will is completed
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Planover
N. H
Ralph 'S Otterfield
Kansas City
Dartmouth
Culver Tall
Butterfield
Agreement Did Not Work Chief Arthur Tells of His Side of the Strike
Torrpo March 17 Grand Chief Arthur and Grand Master Sargent present a statement to explain why the settlement plan for the Ann Arbor strike, negotiated by President Ashley and William Kirkby railroad commissioner, failed. They say Kirkby inserted an adverse clause without Ashley’s consent, forcing reinstatement terms that favored the master mechanic, leading to continued strike action. They express willingness to submit the dispute to three Toledo general managers for decision and emphasize justice to the workers.
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Torrpo
Arthur
Sargent
Ann Arbor
Ashley
William Kirkby
Kirkby
Iate
Owosso
Mr. Kirkby
Mr. Ashley
Toledo
Grade Crossing Fight In Bristol Heads To Supreme Court
The New York and New England Railroad appeals a Connecticut Supreme Court ruling in a Bristol grade crossing case. Bristol seeks to force the road to carry Main Street under the tracks per state law requiring annual elimination of grade crossings if financially feasible. The road contends the $60,000 upgrade plus land damages, possibly $40,000, is unaffordable and proposes sharing costs under a general law.
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Ifantiogo
New York & New England Railroad Company Today
Connecticut Supreme Court
Bristol
United States Supreme Court
Main Street
Superior Court
Supreme Court
Ruling halts race track licenses and bookmaking in New Jersey
Chief Justice Beasley issues writs removing licensing for Monmouth Park Grattenburg and Gloucester and suspends them while challenging constitutionality. Applicants from Elizabeth and Red Bank argue first law unconstitutional and second law special legislation favoring one track class. Case likely to be heard at next Supreme Court term.
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Trenton
Beasley
Monmouth Park
Grattenburg
Gloucester
Richard V. Landabury
Elizabeth
John Beanins
Redbank
Supreme Court
Patrick Donahoe Wins Lietare Medal At St Patrick's Day Event
Patrick Donahoe, veteran editor of the Pilot, received the Lietare Medal from the University of Notre Dame at the Charitable Irish Society’s St Patrick’s Day gathering in Boston. Father Byrne and Father Zahn praised his long service to Catholic causes, charity work, and press apostolate, as Donahoe thanked Notre Dame and expressed pride in his seventy ninth birthday reflections.
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Patrick Donahue
Pilot
University of Notre Dame
Indiana
Irish Society
American House
J. B. Moran
William Byrne
V.G
Archbishop Williams
Charitable
Father Byrne
Ind
Erin
Boston
Massachusetts
Donahue
John Boyle O'Reilly
Ireland
America
William Pelletier
Charles F. Donnelly
James
Dunphy
Harrison Avenue
Carney Hospital
Workingboys’ Home
Patrick
Patrick Donahoe
College Green
Dublin
Father Zain
Notre Dame
John Boyle O’ Reilly
Zahn
Father Burne
Father Zahn
Lazare
St. Patrick
London
Treland
Mr. Donahoe
Milwaukees Inez Nunnemachar and Miller Found Dead
Pass CuRistraN Miss March 17. The bodies of Inez Nunnemachar daughter of a Milwaukee merchant and William B Miller of Milwaukee were found yesterday in a pine thicket. They disappeared last Friday after lunch and were believed to have run off to marry against parental wishes. It was a murder and suicide case.
Wreck on Concord Division Soon After Morning Hours
A freight train on the Concord division of the Boston & Maine railroad at Lebanon broke apart on a steep grade. The released section rushed backward striking a following train, two cars piled atop the locomotive, others crushed and a fire started destroying cars and contents. Loss is expected to be heavy, but train men escaped injury by jumping.
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Concord
N. H
Boston & Ee
Lebanon
Coroner's jury accuses plant owner of arson
Chicago March 17 Coroner's jury investigating Wednesday's fire that killed three returned a verdict charging Stephen J. Carter owner of the Garden City Moulding Company with arson. Carter is in hospital suffering a broken leg and internal injuries.
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Chcaco
Stephen J. Carter
Garden City Moulding Company
Carter
Misguided Sympathy Ad Ifowe Stummel Urge Pardon
The Commercial Advertiser reports Recorder Smyth may spare Carlyle W. Harris as a mass meeting at Madison Square Garden next week pushes for a full pardon from Governor Flower. Noted attorney Joseph Choate may preside while hundreds of city leaders have written urging clemency.
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New York
Recorder Smyth
Carlyle W. Harris
Madison Square Garden
Governor Flower
Joseph Choate
Ifowe
Stummel
Yale's Chapel Addition at New Haven Enlarges Seating
Construction begins on Batsell Chapel to extend 68 by 20 feet on the south removing the southern entrance and adding a door on the west. The expansion will add seating for 800 students on ground and gallery levels while preserving devotional use through next June and completion by September, making chapel attendance compulsory due to limited seating.
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Hlaven
Batsell
Yale
Ya'e
Seventeenth Annual Vermont Dental Society Meeting Ends
The Vermont State Dental Society concluded its seventeenth annual meeting in St. Albans. Officers elected include President A. J. Parker of Bellows Falls, vice presidents W. H. Wright of Brandon and E. O. Blanchard of West Randolph, with George O. Webster of St. Albans as executive chairman and other officers named. The next gathering is set for White River Junction on the second Tuesday in March 1904.
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St. Albans
Vermont State Dental Society
A. J. Parker
Bellows Falls
W. H. Wright
Brandon
E. O. Blanchard
West Randolph
George O. Webster
C. W. Staples
Lyndonville
F. P. Mathers
Chelsea
Thomas Mound
Rutland
W. EL. Munsell
Wells River
G. W. Hoffman
White River Junction
General Simeon L Brown Dies After Long War Service
St. Clair Mich March 17 General Simeon L Brown aged 91 died. Born to military stock in New Hampshire his father served in the War of 1812. He moved to Michigan in 1835 and rose from major in the Sixth Michigan Cavalry to colonel of the Eleventh Michigan Cavalry in 1862. For meritorious service at Marion Virginia he was brevetted brigadier general and took part in seventy two engagements.
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St. Claim
Mich
Simeon L. Brown
New Hampshire
Michigan
Michigan Cavalry
Muirion
Murderer Schneider Executed at 10 52 A M
Howard J Schneider was executed at 10 52 A M for the murder of his wife and her brother. He had long abused his wife who sought her father protection and he shot them after she refused to return to him.
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Washington
Mareh
Howard J. Schneider
Schneider
The Tramp and Hostess Exchange Jibe Over Dog Bite
An exchange in Chicago humor notes a tramp claiming a dog bit him at the side door while the hostess reacts with feigned sympathy and mock concern. The wry vignette captures streetwise banter and urban deadpan wit in a transit of sarcasm.
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Fido
Chicago News Record
Dr Steinberg Private Treatments Advert in Boston
German specialist for private diseases aims at blood skin nervous debility and seminal weakness. Dr J Steinberg offers free consultation in Room 14 Tremont Row Boston with hours 11 am to 2 pm and evenings Tue Thu Sat from 6 to 8, accepts distant patients by correspondence.
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J. Steinberg
Tremont How
Boston
Miss
Dem Democratic Chief McDonough Stricken at Banquet
A Boston Democratic city committee chair John H. McDonough died after apoplexy at a Tammany Club banquet. Clergy performed rites, body moved to Roxbury home, funeral planned from St Joseph's Church then Portland burial. McDonough, born Portland 1857, served in Massachusetts legislature and led local Democratic efforts.
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John H. McDonough
Democratic City Committee
Tammany Club
Dacey
Lane
O'Callaghan
Galvin
Barden
Walter J. Brown
St. Peter and Paul’s
Frederick J. Crosby
Roxbury
Michael and
Margaret
Hanson) McDonough
Portland
Ae Public
McDonough
Auburndale
E. Howard Watch Company
Charles J. Noyes
Boston University Law School
Timothy JF. McDonough
Glen
Hood's Sarsaparilla Promises Dyspepsia Cure Testimonial
A patient recounts ten years of dyspepsia with little relief from medicines and physicians. After trying Hood's Sarsaparilla for about a year, the writer reports complete relief and urges others with this ailment to try the remedy. The narrative emphasizes personal improvement and full recovery.
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Hood
Discovered 8 The River Norwalk Woman Found Dead
Mrs William Howard wife of a Norwalk hatter disappeared from Ilwood Place last Sunday evening. Her bloated body was found under the Norwalk River dock near the bridge. She had expressed grief after her son Willie died last December and had been deranged at times. Reward offered sparked renewed search by locals and two young oystermen aided the effort.
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Norwalk
Conn
William Howard
Ilwood Place
Norwalk Bridge
Howard
George Parnes
Harry Brown
Coree
Deposed priest to celebrate mass in private home
Burrincron New Jersey March 17 The Rev Pp A Treacey excommunicated priest of this city has rented a private house where he will celebrate mass beginning tomorrow He expects a large portion of his old congregation to return while Fr Griffin the new rector of St Pauls Church believes people will not attend his services.
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Burrincron
N. J
Pp. A. Treacey
St. Paul's Church
Father Treacey
Father Griffin
St. Paul's
Roxbury
Thomas Barry
Court
Hanover Streets
Hanover Street
John Doe
Barry
H. M.C
Clark’s
Philadelphia
Brooklyn
Colonado Hotel
Miss Smilax and Miss Ilifly Exchange Tiny Quips
In a humorous exchange from The More Enquutable Ill a playful banter unfolds about attire and comfort. Miss Smilax prefers looser footwear while Miss Ilifly jokes about favoring tighter hands, reflecting light social whimsy.
Yale Bestows Honorary LL.D. on Kellogg in UC Presidency
New Haven March 17 Professor Martin Kellogg of the University of California receives an honorary LL.D. from Yale University at a special meeting. Kellogg, Yale 1850 graduate, has taught at California for about twenty years and is to be inaugurated as UC president next week.
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New Haver
Martin Kellogg
University of California
Yale Corporation
Kellogg
Yale
City of Springfield Arrives as River Opens in Hartford
The first steamer of the season reaches Hartford at noon as the City of Springfield from New York navigates floating ice. Hartford and New York Transportation Company plans regular sailings from today onward.
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Hanthrorp
Hartford
Springfield
New York
Hartford & New York Transportation Company
Train brakeman dies in fall near Worcester
Thomas J. Douglan of Cheshire aged 28, a Fitchburg railroad brakeman, fell from the caboose of a freight train between Jefferson and Holden early this morning and died from a broken neck.
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Worcester
Thomas J. Douglan
Cheshire
Fitchburg
Jefferson
Holden
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