DID JOHN W. GATES DICTATE TERMS Ot L.GN TRUCE
Special Despatch to Commercial Tribune reports Mason-like maneuvering in Louisville & Nashville stock. J W Gates sought Morgan & Co arbitration to prevent a market panic as Belmont and Rothschilds weighed offered settlements. Gates faced pressure and waited thirty days for short sales.
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Louisville & Nashleby
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England
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Runaway Box Car Threatens Train in Colorado
A freight box car ran away east of Eclipse on the Florence Cripple Creek line near Cripple Creek, Colo. The crew, led by Conductor Blondy and Engineer Rush, forced the locomotive to overtake and couple with the car four seconds before it reached Anaconda, narrowly averting disaster.
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Cripple Creek
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Eclipse
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Rush
Anaconda
Brandy
Defies Smallpox for Sweetheart in Washington Ind
In Washington Indiana Miss Kate Trainor of Xenia Illinois has smallpox and her sweetheart Charles Padgett forced a lock and entered the pesthouse. Police officers confronted him he brandished a revolver and was detained for vaccination while Padgett remained at large.
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Commercial Tribune
Washington
Ind
Kate Trainor
Xenia, Ill
Charles Padgett
Padgett
Board of Health
Padget
Leipsic Hopes to Buy Klinger's Beethoven Statue
Leipsic council allocates 150000 marks toward Klinger's Beethoven statue for the Leipsic Museum while Klinger seeks 400000 marks. Private subscribers are to raise the remaining 250000 marks before Vienna ends negotiations. the statue recently drew strong interest in Austria and Germany.
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Berlin
Leipsic
Herr Klinger
Beethoven
Vienna
Austria
Germany
Oversubscribed British Consols Sold in New York
J P Morgan & Co and Baring Magoun Co announce 25 million pounds of British consols sold in the United States were oversubscribed tenfold. Cecil Baring says applicants likely to receive only about one percent of their subscriptions.
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United States
New York
J. P. Morgan & Co
Baring, Magoun & Co
Cecil Baring
College Girl Ethel Coatney Found Dead in Indianapolis Palace Hotel
Miss Ethel Coatney, 17, niece of Benjamin Coatney, disappeared five weeks ago and was found dead in a Palace Hotel room in Indianapolis. A Cincinnati letter explains she traveled to Cincinnati, bought a ticket, then plannned to sleep all day and died hours earlier. She had been a Butler College student and once posed as Goddess of Liberty.
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Commercial Tribune
Indianapolis
Ethel Coatney
Benjamin H. Coatney
East Drive
Woodruff Place
Palace Hotel
Cincinnati
Keystone Avenue
Miss Coatney
Benjamin Coatney
Ethel
Coatney
Liberty
Butler College
President and Mrs Roosevelt head to Columbia installation
President and Mrs Roosevelt depart Washington for New York to attend the installation exercises of Nicholas Murray Butler as Columbia University president. They travel with Secretary Cortelyou Dr Urie and Surgeon General Rixey. the President will return to Washington tomorrow night.
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Washington
Roosevelt
New York
Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia University
Eight Little Steers Perform Tricks Told in Pictures
A brief note invites readers to read about eight young steers taught to perform remarkable tricks, with full illustrations from photographs. The piece targets children and families and promotes tomorrow’s Commercial Tribune.
Havana Court Accepts Bond for Rathbone in Habeas Petition
In Havana on April 18 the Audiencia Court approved a $100,000 bond posted by Fidelity Co for Estes G. Rathbone’s appearance, but required the bond be drawn before a notary, delaying fees and taxes. Rathbone’s lawyers seek to continue habeas corpus without further delay. A petition to pardon Americans now under arrest in Cuba gains support from Cuban senators and representatives-elect. Local press criticizes Governor General Wood’s order affecting the judiciary.
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Havana
Audiencia Court
Fidelity Company
Estes G. Rathbone
Rathbone
Rathone
Estrada Palma
Gibrara
United States
Cuba
Barber Quip Turns Fate as Roedler Dies in Chair
Special Despatch reports Michael Roedler, a wealthy butcher, visiting Thomas Welch’s barber shop for a shave. Roedler whispered he felt like a dead one before sitting. the barber joked about charging corpses. Roedler slumped and died, with the undertaker directing the barber to finish shaving the dead man’s face for 15 cents of a $5 job.
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Commercial Tribune
Pitts
Michael Roedler
Thomas Welch
Roedler
Barber Welch
Welcham
Marquis of Downshire Granted Divorce in Misconduct Case
London April 18 The Marquis of Downshire is granted a divorce due to misconduct by the Marchioness Miss Hare with Captain Joseph Laycock of the Yeomanry The case was not defended and the co respondent admitted the charges A letter from the Marchioness was read asking for forgiveness Laycock a noted millionaire hunts and yachtsman served under General French in South Africa and was twice mentioned in despatches He owned the car that won the Paris Berlin race.
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London
Marquis of
Downshire
Miss Hare
Joseph Laycock
Yeomanry
South Africa
Duke of Westminster
Laycock
Paris-Berlin
UK Chancellor announces rebate on re exported flour duty
The Chancellor of the Exchequer told the House of Commons that a rebate of duty would be allowed on flour re exported from imported wheat. The rebate applies to flour previously taxed at three pence per unit weight as required by the ow duty.
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London
House of Commons
Protocol for Panama Canal proposed terms released
State Department reviews modifications to the Colombia United States canal protocol. The plan sets a lump sum of 7 million dollars for fourteen years rent at 500000 annually, with annual price fixed by mutual consent or arbitration. A joint commission will handle canal belt administration and mixed tribunals. Policing to involve both American and Colombian constables. Modifications clarify points but do not retract original proposals and preserve Colombian sovereignty.
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United States
Colombia
Canal
Bit
Panama Canal
Canal Land
State Department
Regency Planned for Netherlands in Early Session
The Hague April 18 The Netherlands Government weighs establishing a regency amid Queen’s illness and may summon Parliament soon. Castrated gates at Casie Loo display a notice on typhoid cases as required by Dutch law. The source notes water is safe at the castle but the Queen reportedly drank sterilized milk.
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Netherlands
States General
Casie Loo
Trial Notes Major Glenn Accused of Orders to Kill
Lieutenant John H A Day testified at a court martial that Major Glenn ordered executions of native leaders in Samar and that Ba sey gobernador and plotters were shot. Trial adjourned to April 22, with Lieutenant Cook awaiting a similar charge against Major Waller and Day.
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Manila
John H. A. Day
Maine Corps
Samar
Basey
Glenn
Cook
Scouts
Waller
Day
Dem and GOP Clash Over Ohio Legislature Control
In Columbus April 18 the House backs Speaker McKinnon as Democrats waver to abandon leadership and allow Republicans to pass the general appropriation bills. Democrats, aided by Cleveland figures, hope to add amendments but risk Republican retaliation. A plan to trim items may hinge on Article 2, Section 29, with governors and state officials weighing options.
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Hull
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