Porto Rico railroad concession granted to Port America Co
President Roosevelt signed the concession allowing Port America Co to build two railroad lines in Puerto Rico one north south and one east west. The president also confirmed a death sentence by court martial in Nueva Caceres Philippines Private Daniel Healy Twenty seventh Infantry was found guilty of murder and sentenced to be hung for shooting the sergeant while asleep.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Executive Council of
Porto Rico
Port America Co
Nueva Caceres
Philippine Islands
Daniel Healy
Twenty-seventh Infantry
Healy
Wall paper combine urged as industry woes grow
Across the United States wallpaper manufacturers push toward forming a new pooling combine with a New York selling agency to curb production. Warships Catskill Manhattan and Mahopac condemned for sale. Yale football receipts near 70 thousand dollars. Pennsylvania Railroad abandons trolley service between Mount Holly and Burlington using steam. Injunction halts allied building trades strikes at non affiliated labor. Massachusetts election canvass shows prohibition and socialist labor parties fail to cross 3 percent threshold. Fatal oil tank blast at Washington Flint Glass works in Philadelphia kills Engineer Beardsley, injures Beardsley’s colleague. Seth Low appoints John N Partridge police commissioner of Greater New York. Clear River mills burn in Bridgeton, Rhode Island. loss about 100 thousand dollars. No more foreign anthracite orders for Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron Co. Boden case deportation decision upheld in Brooklyn court. Lambert mines disaster near Mason Town leaves several dead or fatally hurt as cage cable fails. John T Perry, long associated with Cincinnati Gazette and Exeter News, dies. International Photo-Engravers Union forms alliance with Electrotypers union. New York men Frank Dillon and John F Bennett arrested in bogus stock beverage scheme claiming exchange ties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Wall Paper
New York City
League Island
Navy Yard
Catskill
Manhattan
Mahopac
Yale
Harvard
Princeton
Pennsylvania Railroad Co
Mount Holly
Burlington
N. J
Pennsylvania Company
McCarthy
Common Pleas Court
Philadelphia
Council of the Allied Building Trades
Council
Massachusetts
Washington Flint Glass Works
Richard Bardsley
Andrew McCormick
Beardsley
Seth Low
John N Partridge
Greater New York
Partridge
Clear River Mills
Bridgeton
R. I
Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Tron Co
Thomas
Circuit Court
Brooklyn
N. Y
Treasury Department
Washington
Thomas Boden
Boden
Circuit Court of Appeals
Ireland
Lambert Mines
Masontown
Governors Meet to Halt Worthern Consolidation Threat
Montana Governor accepts invitation from Minnesota Governor Van Gant to attend a Northwestern states conference aimed at preventing the consolidation of railroads under the joint ownership of the Worthern Securities Co. Leaders seek coordinated measures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
van Gant
Minnesota
Northwestern
Worthern Securities Co
Tragic deaths from tainted liquor at Minnesota camp near Two Harbors
Mack Montroy and Dave Cummings died within an hour after drinking what they believed alcohol at a lumber camp near Two Harbors Minnesota on the 29th alt A third man who drank some of the liquid is in serious condition Assistant Postmaster General Shallenberger announces a faster winter mail transfer from Seattle to Nome cutting travel to 24 days and boosting intermediate routes A Denver city hall fire on the night of the 30th alt nearly ruined the six story stone building costing about 500000 dollars
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mack Montroy
Dave Cummings
Two Harbors
Minn
Shallenberger
Seattle
Wash
Nome
Alaska
Denver City Hall
United States
Peoria
Ill
Fred Meyers
Correctionville
Pr. Herman Strecker
Reading
Tle
America
German trade mood worsens as iron stocks sell abroad
The London Daily Mail reports Germany faces a trade downturn with once mighty merchants ruined and cities idle. It notes many works close or cut output, and iron stocks selling to Belgium and England. Ottawa official J W McRae accidentally shot himself while cleaning his revolver on the 29th. The Faraday finishes a cable between the Azores and Ireland for Commercial Cable Co. Bond markets tumble since the South African war starts, with 325 securities down 143,946,000 pounds in two years. Consols fall from 103.5 to 113.1?
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Daily Mail
Germany
Belgium
England
J. W. McRae
Canadian Railway Accident Insurance Co
Ottawa
Ont
Faraday
Azores Islands
Ireland
Commercal Cable Co
United States
Oil Discoveries in Cook Inlet Spark Alarmed News from Alaska
Steamers from southern Alaska report large petroleum finds in the Cook Inlet region with oil slicks and a 30 acre oil lake. Fire Standard Oil Co. experts are on the ground examining the discoveries. A separate report notes the capture of Thomas Troudie in Bootle England linked to a Bank of Liverpool robbery involving about £170,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alaska
Cook Inlet
Fire Standard Oil Co
Thomas Troudie
Bank of Liverpool
Bootle
England
Troudie
London
W. C Davis
Scranton
Kansas
Missouri
Himeis
Ohio Valley
Middle Atlantic
Switchmen's Union
Tittsburg
Maine
Secretary of the Treasury
Congress
Calamity on Wabash near Seneca claims dozens
A massive Wabash railroad wreck near Seneca Michigan left about eighty people dead or injured. Two trains collided head on killing many and throwing survivors into a chaotic inferno. Investigations focus on engineer Strong and possible disobedience of orders at Seneca.
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Detroit
Mich
Michigan
Wabash Railroad
Seneca
Adrian
Continental Limited
Strong
G. J. Martin
Parks
Charles ‘Roll
George M. Burns
Hwowever
Burns
Fames
Hamilton
Engineer Strong
Free Press
Peru
Ind
Lucie Virgiles
Trabuzzi Silvestro
Financial turmoil in the Philippines threatens dollar parity
Manila reports a mounting crisis as Henry C. Ide warns of changes to the Mexican silver to gold dollar rate. Manila banks charge 6 to 8 percent on exchange while stores accept two Mexican dollars for one gold dollar. Insular salaries in local currency could have worsened the situation. Gen. Smith seeks rescue for the Wright transport, and Patterson faces deportation and arrest amid insurrection-linked tensions in Batangas with Caballos’ demoralized forces holding two American prisoners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
United States Philippine Commission
Congress
Charles A. Conant
War Department
Philippines
Secretary of War
Washington
Gen. Smith
Gen
Humphrey
United States Army
Wright
San Jacinto Harbor
Mr. Patterson
Sixto Lopez
Aguinaldo
United States
Patterson
Morgan Shuster
Batangas
Caballos
Five Burke family perished in Gwin Station fire
A mother Mary C. Burke 42 and four children Adam 16 Mary 13 Joanna 11 Joseph 8 died in a house fire at Gwin Station near Altoona Pa shortly after 2 am on Sunday. husband Carl W. Burke survived severely burned and isolated. cause suspected that lamp left burning and toppled, possibly by the family dog.
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Altoona
Gwin Station
Wapsononock
Mary C. Burke
Adam G. Burke
Mary E. Burke
Joanna Burke
Joseph Victor Burke
Carl W. Burke
Adam
Senators Pen Wagner Aim Valley Forge Park Purchase
Washington December 2 Senator Pen and Representative Wagner will introduce bills for acquiring Valley Forge and incorporating it into a national park as a memorial of a historic revolutionary site. The measure includes a $200000 appropriation for park purposes.
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Washington
Penrose
Wagner
Pennsylvania
Valley Forge
Shot Elis Father in Greenfield as son fires at him
Robert Glasscock 70, a local farmer near Greenfield Indiana, was fatally wounded when his 17 year old son shot him Saturday night. The youth was jailed after admitting the elder man came home intoxicated and began abusing the family. The bullet struck the right lung. The son, deeply grief stricken, claims self defense.
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Greenfield
Ind
Robert Glasscock
Detroit Boiler Explosion Claims 29 Lives
Detroit reports say 29 workers died in the Penberthy Injector Co plant explosion at Abbott street and Brooklyn avenue, with 24 injured and 18 still missing. Fire and search efforts continued as survivors were treated and debris examined.
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Detroit
Mich
Penberthy Injector Co
Abbott Street
Brooklyn Avenue
Peaberthy Injector, Co
Riley
Childs
Brooklyn
Western Canada praised as wheat and stock frontier by professor
In a letter dated Sept 1 1901 Professor Thomas Shaw of Minnesota State University argues Western Canada offers vast, tilled capable lands especially Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta and Assiniboia with high wheat potential. He notes cold winters aid grain filling and cites quality cattle and favorable conditions for grain and grazing along with rail and government support.
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St. Paul
Thomas Shaw
Minnesota State University
Western Canada
Western
Canada
Prairie
Manitoba
Assiniboia
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Peace River
Rockies
Territories
Jury Deadlocks in Semple Counterfeiting Trial
Philadelphia November 27. After about 30 hours of deliberation the jury could not reach a verdict against John L. Semple a Camden New Jersey lawyer charged with aiding counterfeiters and was discharged by Judge McPherson. Semple allegedly helped Arthur Taylor and Baldwin Bredell produce plates used to print $20 counterfeit notes. Taylor and Bredell await sentence for their roles in the Lancaster Pa revenue stamp counterfeiting case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Semple
Philadelphia
John L. Semple
Camden
X. J
United States District Court
McPherson
Arthur Taylor
Baldwin
Bredell
Lancaster, Ps
CBSO
Jimmy Michael Returns to Racing as Crack Jockey
The New York World notes Jimmy Michael famed for bicycle pace has decided to return to racing. After years on thoroughbreds with mixed results he sold his horses and later resumed bicycles. He now trains in France on French courses with Todd Gloane as his tutor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York World
Jimmy Michael
Michael
France
Todd Gloane
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Carey
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International Photo-Engravers’ Union of North America
Electrotypers’ Union
Electrotypers
Wagkmen
Frank Dillon
John F Bennett
Stock Exchange
Ment
Wabash Road
Senecat
Magdalena
Garagraza
Eighth Regiment
Dunn
Frenning
Tanauan
Luzon
Valley Force
Elis
Westhern Canada
Minnesois
University
Winnipeg
Ontario
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