Early revival predicted trade 18 not embarrassed
A special meeting of pig iron and steel executives at United States Steel Corp offices decided to maintain current price schedules to stimulate demand. Attended by leaders from 90 percent of national output, the group heard reports of production at half the 27 million ton peak and noted European demand abroad. They concluded there is no need to cut prices and emphasized no large stocks or dumps into foreign markets, with ongoing export trade sustaining steady movement and fair returns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United States Steel Corporation
I Thas
E. I. Gary
W. B. Corey
Jones & Laughlin Steel Company
Pennsylvania Steel Company
Lackawanna Steel Company
Cam
Great Britain
Europe
FE. H. Gary
Woman Fasted Forty Days to Break Record
Long Beach California Miss Bittza Prisella Grove a Chicago schoolteacher completed her 40th day of fasting and resumed nourishment at her sister's request. Her weight fell from 123 to 103 pounds but she felt no ill effects and believed she could have continued longer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Long Beach
Cal
Rich Strike in Colombia Two Men Reach New York
Adam Umholt of Washington and C W Bruce arrived on the Venudla from Santa Maria claiming to have mined $2,000 in gold dust in Colombia over two months and $300 in ten days, with plans to return. They report deep interior travel on muleback and poor roads hindering machinery. They believe Colombia will not yet match California in gold production. Representative Charles E Littlefield of Maine resigned from Congress to resume law practice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Colombia
Adam Umholt
Washington
Venudla
Santa Maria
C. W. Bruce
California
Charles BE. Littlefield
Maine
Congress
Australian Senate Considers Roosevelt Visit Invitation
The Australian Senate discussed inviting President Roosevelt to Australia as the guest of the Commonwealth during the next winter's visit. The proposal, greeted with enthusiasm, envisions the American president touring Australian waters aboard the battleship feet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australian Senate
Melbourne
Australia
Roosevelt
Commonwealth
Steel Market Grows as Rail Buy Sparks Activity
The Iron Trade Review notes modest gains in steel demand as federal and municipal contracts bolster the market. Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul announces 2600 steel cars and 70 locomotives to be built at Milwaukee shops, signaling rising railroad activity and more orders for structural material and malleable castings. Orders for the first half of March exceed February by about 10 percent amid continued steel corporation construction and approved improvements though full yearly appropriations remain unsettled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steel Corporation
Iron Trade Review
Chicago, Milwaukee and St
Relief for Labor Congress Prospects of New Measure
Washington reports the House Speaker Cannon and Vice President Fairbanks expect Congress to pass an employers liability act to resolve the constitutional issues cited by the Supreme Court. They spoke to a delegation led by Samuel Gompers of 87 labor and farmer organizations urging action and presenting a memorial titled Labor's protest to Congress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Washington
Cannon
Fairbanks
Supreme Court of the United States
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Trade and Labor Organizations and Unions of Farmers
Jay
House of Representatives
Rates Equalized By ICC For Virginia West Virginia Coal
Commissioner Lane of the Inter State Commerce Commission ruled for Red Raven Ash Coal Co and others against Norfolk and Western Railway. The decision grants Virginia and West Virginia coal operators the same eastbound carload rates as Pocahontas and Tug River fields, noting similar seaboard distances, but bars money damages for shipments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D.C
Lane
Inter-State Commerce Commission
Virginia
West Virginia
Red Raven Ash Coal Company
Norfolk & Western Railway
Clinch Valley
Pocahontas
Tug River
Seaboard
Bandits Force Robbery Near Rawhide Steal 47000
Three armed bandits waylaid Edward Silesman and a companion on a road two miles from Rawhide Nevada, threw them down and escaped in the victim's two horse rig with about 47000 in gold and bank notes consigned to the Coalition Mining Company at Rawhide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reno
Nev
Edward Silesman
Rawhide
Coalition Mining Company
Campaign to abolish horse racing in Louisiana
New Orleans papers report a campaign to end horse racing in Louisiana. Signers include well known men who demand a bill to abolish betting at state tracks when the legislature meets in May.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Louisiana
Death of Bishop Fowler in New York
Rev Charles H Fowler bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church died at his home from heart failure due to a complication of diseases. He had been in poor health for two years but remained active in church affairs most of that time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Charles H. Fowler
Methodist Episcopal Church
Capital Notes Senate Passes Life Service Pay Bill Amendment
The Senate approved a house bill raising pay for life service to the United States with an amendment granting a dependent mother the same pension as a widow. The House tabled a presidential information resolution 148 to 115, and the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee heard support for the Maynard bill to standardize a bill of lading.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Senate
House
Bureau of Corporations
House Committee On Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Pension bill clears house abolishing most pension agencies
A pension appropriation bill eliminating all but one pension agency was passed by the house. A resolution asking the President to inform the house by what authority of law he acted in Panama was adopted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House
Panama
Private Banker Indicted in Chicago Insolvency Case
A grand jury in Chicago returned five indictments against A Tisdelle a private banker linked to the insolvent bank at 94 La Salle Street. The cases outline charges stemming from the bank's late insolvency and alleged financial improprieties.
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Chicago
A. ©. Tisdelle
la Salle Street
Bera
Judge Recommends Commutation in Orchard Case by Judge Wood
Saye He Believes All the Condemned Man Said and Recommend a Commutation, Caldwell, Ida stating Orchard told the truth in the Haywood Pettibone trials for Steunenberg’s murder. Judge Fremont Wood sentenced Orchard to hang May 15 and urged the pardons board to commute to imprisonment. Orchard thanked the court, tearful, saying no immunity was promised. He is back in Boise’s penitentiary as the board prepares to meet on April 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orchard
Wood
Haywood
Pettibone
Frank Steunenberg
Ship Subsidy Bill Expands Liberal Aid Across Oceans
Senate passes the ship subsidy bill with 16 knot speeds earning 4 dollars per mile for routes to South America, the Philippines, Japan, China and Australia. Amendments cut 12 knot vessel payments to 2 dollars per mile and require one line to stop at two ports south of Cape Charles. Caps subsidies to match government ship service receipts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
South America
Philippines
Japan
China
Australia
Atlantic
Cape Charles
Sugar Refining Suit Dismissed in Sherman Act Case
Judge Holt of the United States circuit court dismissed the $30 million damages suit filed by Pennsylvania Sugar Refining Co against American Sugar Refining Co for alleged Sherman Act violations. He granted 300 days to amend the complaint, and the sugar firm has 30 bays to press its case again.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sugar Company
New York
Holt
United States
Pennsylvania Sugar Refining Company
American Sugar Refining Company
Pennsylvania
Fleet Will Visit Japan Visit by U S Battle Fleet Planned
Washington reports the American battle ship fleet will visit Japan after Baron Takahira proposes Imperial reception. President Roosevelt and his cabinet weighed the cordial invitation. Secretary Root was directed to accept it and communicated the acceptance to the Japanese ambassador.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Washington
Root
Baron Takahira
Roosevelt
Farmers Driven Out By Warning Letters In Tobacco Belt
In Kentucky counties of the white burley tobacco region farmers destroy their tobacco beds and start far fewer than normal. Signs rise declaring intent not to raise this season. Many tenants plan to move to other states while owners list property for sale to leave Kentucky. The era also includes remarks on interstate commerce, Taft, and a divorce claim by Mme Anna Gould.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lexington
Alent
Kentucky
German Expedition Fights Hottentots in Kalohira Desert
A cablegram from South Africa reports a severe clash between the German expeditionary force and Hottentots seeking the last chief Simon Kopper. German losses include Captain von Erckert and Lieutenant Ebidger killed, 12 soldiers dead, 17 wounded. Kopper escaped as the Germans, marching with 430 men, 700 camels, and huge guns, pursued into the waterless desert. The battle leaves Kopper’s power weakened and prompts continued vigilance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
von Erckert
Ebidger
Cochas
Erckert
Lne
Negroes May Re Enlist Aide From White House Approval
President Roosevelt approves a measure proposed by Senator Warner to reenlist former Twenty first Infantry members discharged without honor after the Brownsville incident of 1906. The bill lets eligible ex soldiers prove innocence to the President, granting pay from discharge date and one year to establish facts. Senator Toraker earlier sought restoration but required an oath denying involvement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Warner
Missouri
Twenty-first Infantry
Brownsville
Tex
Toraker
New York Central Orders 136 Locomotives and Rails
New York Central Railroad seizes a major order of 126 locomotives and 24 000 tons of steel rails for east of Buffalo lines funded by a 30 million dollar equipment trust issue. This marks one of the largest locomotive orders since unsettled business conditions began.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Ovrners
New York Central Railroad Company
Buffalo
Bank Robbery Near Muskogee Sparks Kansas Gang Suspicion
Two men believed to be part of the Tyro gang robbed the Davis bank at Hoffman Oklahoma, 30 miles southwest of Muskogee, held up bank officials with pistols, stole 900 dollars, then mounted horses outside and fled.
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Muskogee
Axia
Tyro
Kan
Davis
Hoffman
Okla
Here
Washington Fire Destroys Lumber Yard and Neighborhood
A blaze in Washington at midnight wiped out the Hisinger brothers' lumber yard the grandstand of the Washington American League baseball club and about twenty homes near Seventh and U streets Northwest. Losses approach $500,000 with flames not yet controlled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Hisinger Brothers
Seventh and
U Streets
Swindlers Sentenced in Storey Cotton Fraud Case
Frank C. Marrin alias Franklin Stone was convicted of using the mails to defraud in connection with the Storey Cotton Company of Philadelphia. Judge Holland sentenced him in the United States court to four years in prison and a $5,000 fine, with release on $10,000 bail pending appeal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Frank C. Marrin
Franklin Stone
Storey Cotton Company
Holland
United States
Equipment for Naval Station Great Lakes Power Plant
The Standard Engineering Corporation of Philadelphia was the lowest bidder at 127,667 dollars for furnishing the power plant equipment for the Great Lakes naval station. Bids were opened at the navy department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Naval Station
Washington
Standard Engineering Corporation of Philadelphia
Great Lakes Naval Station
Navy Department
Fabulous gold find reported by American whalers near Herschell Island
A Dawson City dispatch says the Royal Northwest Mounted Police expedition to Fort McPherson has returned with news of a fabulously rich gold find 80 miles east of Herschell Island. American whalers and the wrecked crew of the Duchess of Bedford were taken north by Captain Miklesen.
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Bonanza
Winnipeg
Dawson City
Royal Northwest Mounted Police
Fort McPherson
Herschell Island
Anti-Foreign Outbreak Shrugs At Port au Prince
London reports an anti foreign outbreak in Port au Prince as British and German ships offer protection to residents. Haitien officials deny further executions beyond Sunday’s 10 to 12 conspirators shot for arms. The government plans to send insurrection authors abroad and prosecutions may follow with consular asylum limits.
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Port Au Prince
Haiti
Bremen
Devenoncourt
Alexis
Council of Ministers
Gonaives
London
Foreign Office
Explosion Kills Three at Coalmont Mill
An explosion in the press mill of United States Powder Company in Coalmont killed three workers and injured six, one fatally. Victims named Crede Simmons George Gorby and Lt. Lon Smith. Charles Myers died of injuries. The blast damaged windows across nearby towns as physicians rushed to the scene. Limited information on cause is available.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linton
Ind
United States Powder Company
Coalmont
Crede Simmons
George Gorby
Lon Smith
Charles Myers
New Hampshire Battleship Commissioned at League Island
The new battleship New Hampshire was placed in commission at League Island navy yard with Captain Cameron McK. Winslow in command. The warship is expected to be ready for service in about a month following the standard ceremonies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy
New Hampshire
Cameron McK. Winslow
League Island Navy Yard
Still Trust in God on Coins Vote Sparks Party Split
In Washington D C the motto In God We Trust was voted back on coins. Five Representatives Bartholdt Kuestermann Gordon Cooper Slayden voted no. Longworth voted present avoiding a clash with family or religious sentiment.
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Washington, D. C
Bartholdt
Kuestermann
Gordon
Cooper
Slayden
Longworth
World War Vessel Burned at Guan Tanamo Cuba
The old Monongahela sloop of War burned to the water’s edge on Saint Patrick’s Day at the Guan tanamo naval station in Cuba after many hairbreadth escapes and extraordinary experiences.
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Washington
Guantanamo
Cuba
United States
Reduction Hits 1800 at Cocheco Mills in Dover
In Dover New Hampshire Cocheco Manufacturing announces two day mill shutdowns for 1800 workers and warns that a four day week will be adopted indefinitely if business conditions do not rapidly improve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dover
N. H
Cocheco Manufacturing Company
Liberia Appeals for Help to Protect Territorial Integrity
Liberia asks the United States to restrain France from seizing land along the border with French West Africa. A Monrovia delegation travels to Washington to urge the President and Secretary Root to intervene and defend Liberia’s sovereignty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liberia
Washington
Itate African Republic of
Fortifications Budget Recommendation Sparks War Talk
The subcommittee reported an $8.21 million fortifications appropriation far below the War Department request of about $88.45 million. Committee members warned that moving toward a large fortification grant could be seen as preparing for war, a response viewed in light of Japan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Department
House Committee On
Chialfiman Smith
Japan
Bill proposes national bank deposit insurance fund
Washington report notes Representative Bates introduced a bill to amend the National Banking Act creating a National Bank Deposit Insurance Fund with a $6,000,000 treasure hold to guaranty depositors. The proposal also mentions retirement benefits for enlisted personnel after 25 years of service with continued pay and allowances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bates
Washington
Balsa
National Banking Act
Bank Deposit Insurance Fund
Bil
United States
Soldiers Kill Cubans Alleged Deserters Claim Self Defense
An investigation into homicide charges against American soldiers who say they acted in self defense after being aided by Cuban deserters in navigating their boat. The group reportedly returned to the garrison after the killings near the coast, with uniforms and service details cited in the inquiry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havana
Sail
Bills Unconstitutional Prohibition Measure Debate
Washington subcommittee votes to declare unconstitutional all bills aimed at easing liquor regulation by states police powers. In New Jersey, Trenton, Assembly defeats the Anti-Saloon League local option bill by 15 to ? condemning intimidation tactics and church influence in its defeat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ate
Jersey
Trention
N. J
New Jersey
house of/assembly
Anti-Saloon League
League
Czar Commutes Stoessel Sentence in Sevastopol Case
In St Petersburg the court's recommendation spared Lieutenant General Stoessel from death. The sentence was commuted to years of imprisonment in a fortress. The former commander petitioned for a pardon but received no clemency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Czar
Stoessel
St. Petersburg
Hummel Completes Sentence In Dodge Mor Case
New York Abraham H. Hummels, once sentenced for conspiracy in the Dodge Mor divorce case, is released after his term is reduced for good behavior. His time served now shortens to about months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hummel
New York
Abraham H. Hummels
Public Printer Charles Stillings Tendered Resignation
Admiral Yvans reported the tender of resignation to the President and its acceptance. The public printer Charles Stillings was alarmingly ill and resigned with consent. A great fleet reached Magdalena Bay ahead of schedule as the situation developed in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Charles
Stillings
Yvans
San Francisco
Mental Healer Arrest In Kalamazoo Case
Mrs. Mabel Woodham Needley of Kalamazoo is charged with manslaughter after her two year old son Walter died of pneumonia while under treatment by two mental healers. Police reported the boy died last December.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kalamazoo
Mich
Mabel
Woodham Needley
Walter
Manglaughy
Ter
James Oliver probate leaves $60 million to family
South Bend Indiana reports that James Oliver, wealthiest man in the area, filed for probate. He leaves a fortune totaling $60,000,000 to his family, with Joseph D. Oliver, his son, receiving the bulk of the estate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Bend
Ind
Thswill
James Oliver
Badiana
Hie’ T Hsily
Joseph D. Olver
Idle Cars Stowage Across Pennsylvania Line Rises
Officials of the Pennsylvania Railroad face an unprecedented blockage as ten miles of empty coal and coke cars are stored idle between New Florence and Lockport, highlighting a major delay along the line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania Railroad
New Florence
Lockport
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Capital Notes
Interstate Commerce Commissar
William J. Byran
War Taft
Mme
Anna Gould
Count Boni de Castellane
New York Central
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