German iron works prepare giant combination against American trade
German cast iron plants plan a nationwide combination to end competition and defend industry from American invasion. Most leading concerns have signed an agreement. Union foundry and others may join. Tariff questions loom as Reichstag debates higher duties on machinery tools and unfinished products while raw material interests push protection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Berlin
Herald
Union Foundry
Reichtag Tariff Commission
United States
Germany
Tragic Deaths Of Two West Indian Stowaways Aboard Sir Richard Grenville
The British freighter Sir Richard Grenville arrived at New York reporting two West Indian stowaways dead after being buried alive in coal bunkers at St Lucia. The men, believed Negroes, sneaked aboard by slipping into coal chutes during a coal up. One body surfaced April 18 as the ship fought a northeast gale, prompting burial at sea. A second body emerged six days later, with a search finding no further victims aboard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Sir Richard Grenville
West Indies
Jones
St. Lucia
Railroad plan links Houston to New Orleans via Beaumont Orange
The semi official notice states the International and Great Northern will extend from Houston to Beaumont and continue to Orange then New Orleans with a Beaumont Sabine Pass connection. The route runs parallel to the Southern Pacific line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
The
International and Great Northern Railroad
Beaumont
Orange
New Orleans
Sabine Pass
Southern Pacific
Various regional legal and industrial notices across states
Albert Harris of Harrisburg Illinois sued banker H N Finney for alienating wife affection and received one dollar. Southern Pacific plans a Salt Lake Utah trestle. Silver Cell mines in New Mexico sold to St Louis buyers for 100000 dollars. Glucose works at Peoria closed, 700 workers laid off. Nebraska wheat outlook poor with drought. U S Supreme Court upholds Santa Fe grant ruling returning about 150000 acres to public domain. William Nading’s grain elevator at Lewis Creek Indiana destroyed. 10000 bushels corn and 5000 bushels wheat burned. Illinois Governor Yates seeks Arkansas extradition for Chet Pool. Mrs Setingle burned to death in Mason Texas from lamp explosion. Pendleton Arkansas inmates Maurice Quilling Jr assaulted in quarrel over a negro laborer. Benjamin Fraokezie case awards 1573 dollars. A Burlington brakeman killed near Cromwell Iowa by a train car used in bridge work.
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Albert Harris
Harrisburg
Ill
H. N. Finney
Southern Pacific Railroad
Salt Lake
Utah
United States Supreme Court
Arizona
William Nading
Lewis Creek
Ind
Yates
Illinois
Arkansas
Chet Pool
St. Francis County
Ark
White County
Pendleton
Desha County
Jim Cross
Clay
Waylard
Maurice Quilling
Benjamin Fraokezie
English, Ark
Pine Bluff and Arkansas River Railway Company
Cak 3Chneers
Burlington Route
Cromwell
Cyclone devastates towns in Iowa Bayard Van Wert Weldon
A May 2 cyclone struck Bayard Iowa at 7 30 PM damaging two elevators the CMStP depot and many dwellings. The Bayard agent is missing feared dead. Telegraph service to Bayard is down. In Van Wert a funnel cloud damaged homes injuring several and killing nine. Weldon reports a farm house blown down with three children injured.
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Bayard
van Wert
Weldon Soffer
Des Moines
Chicago, Milwaukee and
Weldon
Fire at Weatherford jail injures inmate during escape bid
An unsuccessful arson attempt at Weatherford Texas jail released smoke filling third floor cells. Prisoner Frank Duke, recently sentenced to two years, lay unconscious after bedclothes burned. Jailer Clark alerted Sheriff Bratton and led evacuations to the second floor. Davis returns to Arkansas to face church discipline trial.
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Weatherford
Tex
Clark
Sheriff Bratton
Frank Duke
Chickasaw Choctaw leaders call convention over treaty
About thirty representatives including Richard McLish F Finis Fox and Loui Seeley call a convention at Tishomingo on May 9 to discuss the new supplementary agreement and plan steps to ensure its rejection by the Chickasaws and Choctaws.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ardmore
I. T
Richard McLish
F. Finis Fox
Loui Seeley
Tishomingo
Methodist Bishops Convene in Chattanooga for Conference
The semiannual meeting of the Methodist Episcopal church bishops opened in Chattanooga Tennessee on May 1. They will review church work and settle the Grant University presidency. The conference will also decide pivotal future directions for the church in the southern United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chattanooga
Tenn
Board of Bishops of
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Grant University
Methodist Church
South
Cherokee man convicted in Oklahoma murder case
Indian William Judge, a fullblood Cherokee, was convicted for the October 1901 death of Charlies Sunday whose body was found in the Illinois River near Talequah Oklahoma. The jury sentenced Judge to life in prison.
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Talequah
I. T
Charlies Sunday
Illinois River
William Judge
Money, Shaner, Hooper cases dropped in police court
Washington on May 2 saw an unexpected move to nolle prosse three assault cases tied to a streetcar altercation last week involving Senator Money of Mississippi Conductor O H Shaner and Fire Department Foreman James E Hooper. After conference the cases were dropped by Mullowney as ends of justice, with the judge postponing a decision until next Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Nolle Prosse
Senator Money
Mississippi
O. H. Shaner
James E. Hooper
Mullowney
Shaner
Hooper
Amalgamated association reelects Shaffer and officials
Asectation for Another Year at Wheeling May 2 reports Shaffer and top officers defeated opposition in a decisive vote. Thomas Will Journal and Ben I. Davis praised while M F Tighe and Harry Griffiths faced competition. Trustees were elected and key salaries boosted by twenty percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wheeling
W. Va
Amalgamated Association
Ben James
Carnegie
Har- Specttre
M. F. Tighe
Harry Griffiths
Elwood City
John E. Taylor
Elias Jenkins
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A * M. H. James & CO
Aga A
R. T. Boyle
Bryan, Texas
Bok
Carrizo Springs
Bryan
E. B. Lomax
Great Northern Railroad
Met Lewis
Longview
Laredo
Austin
San Antonio
ST. Louis
Memphis
Objective
OD. C. Demaret
Bryan. L. Price
J. Price
Agen
DeWaet? & Co
Perr
Henderson & Nall Bay
A. Watkins
J. W. Batts
Brazos County
Allen Academy
Price
Main Street
N. B. Cole
Brazos Bottom
Otto Boehme
Ed Pochila
Ewell
New Mexico
Glucose Works
Peoria
Nebraska
Iowa
Houston & Texas Centra
Texas
Dallas, Austin, Waco, FT. Worth
Denison
Houston, Corsicana
Southern Pacific Rice
F. B. Morse
T. J. Anderson
M. L. Robbins
Davis
Trirt
Little Rock
Jeff Davis
Second Baptist Church
Russellville
Nolle
Shaffer
Mrs. Proctor
Washington and
Burleson Streets
Baptist Church
Ytoo
CORA
Gen. Pass. & Ticket Ag
Fupion
Eupion
the Bryan Grocery Co
Edge Bros
Sanders Bros. & Co
Cole Bros
Thos. W. Higgs
Geo. W
Otto Boehm
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