Ohio Moves to Prosecute Over Jamestown Land Deed
Ohio officials threaten criminal action if the Jamestown Exposition fails to deed land for the Ohio Building. Maryland faces a similar demand as mortgage language covers the buildings, with officials considering united action against the management for alleged double dealing.
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Commercial Tripune Bureau
Outlook Building
Columbus
Ohio
Commercial Thibune
Columbus, CO
State of
Ohio Building
Jamestown
Maryland
Virginia
Twelve Die as Rail Crash Telescopes Trains at Norris Siding
A northbound Rock Island passenger train derailed and struck a southbound freight at Norris Siding near Waterloo Iowa killing twelve and injuring twelve. All casualties were in the smoking car which was destroyed. The express was late when it collided, telescoping baggage and mail cars and demolishing the smoking car.
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Commercial Tribune
Waterloo
Rock Island
Norris
Presbyterian Hospital
Norris Siding
Cedar Falls
Earle Affair Woman Says She Aimed To Reconcile Couple
Miss Julia Kuttner states in an Orange Mountains interview that she traveled from Europe to unite Mr. and Mrs. Earle. She would have given up the man for duty's sake, insists no deception occurred, and says Mrs. Earle plans to marry again if happy.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
Earle
Julia Kuttner
Orange Mountains
Methodists vote to restore time limit for pastorates
Cincinnati Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Oxford votes 127 to 28 to memorialize the next General Conference to restore a time limit for pastorates. A five year limit existed until 1896. The meeting also approves a $2,000,000 fund for retired ministers and hears appeals from religious presses and greetings to lay delegates.
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Cincinnati
Methodist Episcopal Church
Oxford
Frank G. Mitchell
Wyoming
Troy
N. Y
Baltimore
Cincinnatian
Levi Gilbert
Western Christian Advocate
Gilbert
Stephen Griffis
Kansas
Bishop Spellmeyer
Jesse B. Young
A. B. Leonard
John Pierson
J. T. Bale
Guy P. Benton
Smith
Northern Normal University
Ada
H. C. Minnich
R. S. Downey
M. E. Board of Education
New York
C. A. Bovard
Montana
Walter A. Nash
Austin
Tex
F. M. Dowlin
St. John’s River
Florida
W. E. Grose
North Indiana
Harry Compton
Andes
South America
Charles Gonédy
Central Ohio
Oil Trust and Two Railroads Indicted Again
Jamestown N Y Sept 6 The Standard Oil Company and the Pennsylvania and New York Central Railways were indicted by the Western District of New York grand jury. Each railroad and the oil firm face multiple counts charging rebates on shipments from Olean to Burlington Rutland or Bellows Falls. Total counts 438 with potential fines up to 8 760 000.
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Commercial Tribune
Jamestown
N. Y
Standard Oil Company
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
New York Central Railway Company
Western District
New York
Oil Company
Olean
Burlington
Rutland
Bellows Falls
Postal Telegraph Sues Telegraphers Union Over Telegram Fees
The Postal Telegraph Company filed suit against the Commercial Telegraphers' Union of America in Chicago on September 6 for refusing to pay telegram charges. Officials said no payment was made on bills sent to the union, which required a certification that messages reached their destination via a post-delivery “chaser.” The disputed messages were sent after the strike began and the case was set for September 1.
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Commercial Tribune
Chicago
Postal Telegraph Company Today
Commercial Telegraphers’ Union of America
Telepraph
Jerome to Probe Traction Affair
District Attorney Jerome sought a special grand jury in October beyond the regular panel. The Recorder granted the order, citing pressing public business. Interest rose as William M. Ivenda said he would alert the DA to destruction of Metropolitan Street Railway Company books before 1902.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
Jerome
McAvoy
William M. Ivena
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
Former Cincinnati Journalist William P. Ewing Dies
Special Dispatch to Commercial Tribuna from Elkton Maryland reports the death of William Pinkney Ewing aged 79. He was a longtime newspaper writer at Harpersville New York and earlier worked with the Cincinnati Daily Atlas before its merger with the Gazette and the Southern Ladies' Book in New Orleans.
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Tribuna
Elkton
William Pinkney Ewing
Harpersville
N. Y
Ewing
Cincinnati Daily Atlas
The
Gazette
Southern Ladies’ Book
New Orleans
Telegraphers' Union notes possible strike development
New York Sept. 6 Officers say important tele graph strike developments may come next Tuesday at Western Union directors quarterly meeting. About two hundred strikers have found other positions according to a union statement.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
Telegraphers
Western Union
Woman Freed After 16 Years For Murder Commutation
Wilhelmina Bache, sentenced to life for the murder of Michael Sell, was released from Waupun prison after sixteen years. Governor Davidson commuted her sentence, and she had been 17 at the time of her conviction.
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Commercial Tribune
Madison
Wis
Wilhelmina Bache
Waupun
Michael Sell
Davidson
Free Trade Threatens U S Shops Warns Clifford Egan
Clifford P. Egan, on a commerce department study mission in Europe, warns that free trade would ruin American industry by German competition. He cites higher American wages, coal cost gaps, and inferior US technical education, contrasting with German efficiency and housing for workers. He plans to return to the United States after the Hanover study.
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oAfa
Clifford P. Egan
Commercial Tribune
Paris
Department of Commerce and Labor
Europe
Germany
America
United States
Egan
J. A. Fay & Egan Co
Cincinnati
Japan
University of Charlottenburg
G. I. Carden
Hanover
Provence
Laura B Carter Cleared in Runyan Case and Rewards Pending
New York September six The jury found Laura B Carter not guilty of concealing stolen funds linked to Chester B Runyan’s $79 500 theft from Windsor Trust Company She swayed with emotion as verdict announced Judge Goldfogle urged her to forget the past and starts anew in Baltimore as she leaves the courtroom with sister Broadway Flo The case featured rewards totaling 7441 for Carter and 2000 for Runyan’s arrest plus a ten percent share from recovered money. Carter now may seek these rewards.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
Chester B. Runyan
Windsor Trust Company
Laura B. Carter
Runyan
Whitman
Broadway
Bunyan
Mrs. Carter
Missing Lumber Man Located in Chicago
James W. Myers president of the Enterprise Lumber Company is located in Chicago stopping at a house on Ohio Avenue. His brother William Myers reportedly traveled to Chicago to see him. the brother declined to discuss the matter. Clothing for Myers was packed and sent by Adams Express from the Sterling Hotel where the couple resided for years.
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Chicago
James W. Myers
Enterprise Company
Windy City
Enterprise Lumber Company
Ohio Avenue
William Myers
James Myers
Myers
Adams
Sterling Hotel
Old Frigate to Try in Boston
Acting Secretary Newberry postponed indefinitely plans to move the Constitution from Boston Navy Yard to Annapolis or the New York harbor. The proposal sparked strong patriotic protest in Boston, forcing the Navy Department to abandon the effort for now.
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Boston
Commercial Tribune
Washington
Newberry
Boston Navy Yard
Annapolis
Nggral
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Harris
Commonwealth
P. B. Oliver
Iowa
Will Odman
John N. Watson
L. Landpherr
Shell Rock
W. Ray Johnson
Dike
B. R. Christy
Minneapolis
Lepovan Toja
Hammond
Ind
Laborer
Indiana
W. H. Meyers
Bur
Lington
Edward Steppirre, Minneapo
Trocoein Crisnen
St. Paul
H. McMahon
Cedar Rapids
Albert Mason
Cedar
Charles J. O'Keefe
Marble Rock
W. H. Myres
Albert Lea
Minn
C. H. Martin
West Liberty
Thomas Ivenson
Nora
J. A. Newell
John Shaw
J. H. Douglass
Ome
Tyr
Miss Kuttner
Oxford, CO
General Conference of the Church
C. P. Pumphrey
Lindenwald
Union 13
Postal Company
Ivens
Queen City
Mississippi Valley
Roosevelt
Father OF Waters
Tamsas
Oyster Bay
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Loeb
Sagamore Hill
New York Herald Co
Judge Goldfogle
Kirkstein
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