Giant Street Railway Combine Planned in Chicago
Negotiations are under way in Chicago and New York to consolidate major traction interests into one large company possibly including the elevated lines. The plan envisions a national giant with at least a third of a billion dollars in capital, absorbing numerous regional systems. The Whitney Elkins Widener Ryan syndicate and J Pierpont Morgan back the effort, with H Gray guiding local dealings. Potential New York entrants and a sizable securities firm are also reported to back the expansion.
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Chicago
New York
United States
Whitney-Elkins-Widener-Ryan Syndicate
Philadelphia
J. Pierpont Morgan
H. Gray
Landlord of burned building pays tenants after blaze
In Chicago on February 8, 47 families burned from University flats received envelopes with $100 each, handed out at a drug store corner. The money came from Thomas Byrne, owner of the destroyed building, as a gesture to help them start anew.
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Coun
Sixty-first-st
Ellis-ave
University Flats
Thomas Byrne
Rear Admiral Sampson Ends 45-Year Navy Career on Birthday
Rear Admiral William T. Sampson, born 1840 in Palmyra New York, closes a 45 year active service on his sixty second birthday and will retire with annual pay of 4781.25 dollars. He survived the Patapsco sinking in 1865 and rose through ranks to command fleets in West Indian waters at the war's start.
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Washington
William Thomas Sampson
Navy
Sampson
Palmyra
N. Y
William
Naval Academy
Patapsco
Charleston
Colorado
Bureau of Ordnance
Long
Maine
Admiral Sicard
North Atlantic
West Indian
Democratic state committee to set date for convention
The democratic state committee will meet on February 22 to fix the convention date and chairman O'Brien will announce the secretary and minor officers at that time.
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Democratic State Committee
O'Brien
Admiral Schley and wife arrive in Washington
Admiral and Mrs Schley reached Washington on Saturday morning after completing a western tour, arriving in the capital with their party.
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Washington
Mrs. Schley
Coffee Eyes Attacks Many Persons There In Woodland
A Woodland Louisiana woman describes severe headaches and eye trouble linked to coffee. She switched to Postum, notes eye relief and overall health improvement, and credits Postum as safer and nourishing. The testimonial is provided by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Michigan.
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Woodland
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Prince Victor Napoléon Calls for Imperial Return
Paris dispatch reports Prince Victor Napoléon, royalist leader, issuing an election manifesto. He favors restoring the imperial form of government, reducing military service, and maintaining peace. He opposes socialist interference with wages and hours of labor and pledges to lead the French people if chosen.
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Paris
Victor Napoleon
Victor
Rice challenges Standard Oil capitalization figures
George Rice of Marietta Ohio alleges in a letter to a local paper that Standard Oil’s capitalization exceeds 200 million dollars, not 100 million. He cites Rockefeller’s 1898 testimony and a June 14 1899 capitalization change by New Jersey Standard Oil that raised total trust value, arguing the public has been misled about transferring capitalization and the oil monopoly remains active.
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New York
George Rice
Marietta
Oil Trust
Standard Oil Company
Rice
John D. Rockefeller
Standard Oil Trust
Standard Oil
New Jersey Standard Oil Company
Steel Combine
Injunction Prevents Mother From Killing Babe in Ohio County
Judge T T McCarty issued a restraining order in Canton Ohio to stop Mary Koehn from harming or removing their daughter Pearl, age 3, amid Edward Koehn's divorce petition and custody request. The order bars concealment or interference with the child. The Koehns are prominent locals. the husband is a wagon manufacturer.
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Canton
T. T. McCarty
Common Pleas
Henry W. Harter
Babe
Edward Koehn
Mary
Pearl
Koehn
Pearl Koehn
Koehns
Aged Woman Allegedly Assaulted Near North Vernon
William Osborn is arrested in North Vernon Indiana on a criminal assault charge against 61 year old Mrs Thomas Story wife of a prominent farmer. Story is in critical condition after fleeing to her daughter's home and fainting. Osborn admits being at the Story house and intoxicated amid community threats and heightened unrest.
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William Osborn
North Vernon
Ind
Thos. Story
Osborn
Story Farm
Warren
Eck
Peck
Story
Story House
Muzzled Father Starves Children With Wire Muzzles
In Duluth Minnesota on February 8, A Grauski a Polish farmer near Willow River was arrested after muzzling his 18 year old son and 11 year old daughter to stop them from getting food. The miser fed them barely and they survived on raw vegetables roots and even grass. The children finally sought cows to suckle and the farmer welded wire muzzles to their mouths.
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Duluth
Minn
A. Grauski
Willow River
Oleo Margarine Aims For House Vote Next Week
Washington reports oleomargarine will be voted on in the House next week pending appropriations. The Indian appropriation bill and a large batch of war claims will be acted on, while the revenue reduction bill faces delay. Senate Philippine tariff debate continues with Turner finishing Monday and other senators to speak in long and short remarks.
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Senate
Washington
Ways and Means
Lkely
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Teller
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Bailey
Jong
Dubois
Culberson
Patterson
Big Canal Would Benefit Indiana at Propylaeum lecture
Professor Emory R. Johnson urged Indiana support for a Isthmian canal citing surveys of 150 manufacturers who favored the project. He noted a Richmond implement firm claimed the canal would cut Pacific trade costs, enabling freight to Australia via New York and through the canal to western U S towns at about half rail rates.
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Propylaeum
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Richmond
Australia
New York
Portshend
San Francisco
United States
Real estate deals trace Oxford flats sale and more
A. Havelick owner of Oxford flats at Massachusetts avenue and Vermont streets sold the building to Herman Munk and George B. Yandes on Friday for 350100. Charles E. Holloway bought several houses on Be Washington street from Thomas B. Fulmer, which he had purchased from Mrs. Fred Knefler a few days earlier for 30000.
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P. ‘A. Havelick
Oxford Flats
Massachusetts-ave
Vermont-sts
Herman Munk
George B. Yandes
Charles E. Holloway
BE. Washington-st
Thomas B. Fulmer
Fred Knefler
Pittsburgh shoplifter arrested for vast theft haul
Mrs. Mary Stebbs was arrested in Pittsburgh on February 8 for stealing from Boges and Buhl's in Allegheny. Detective Johnson caught her placing items in a bag and searches at her home revealed trunks full of silks, satins, lace curtains, and diamond jewelry including brooches rings and locket. She admitted stealing thousands of dollars and said she sold the plunder to an Allegheny fence.
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Pittsburg
Mary Stebbs
Boges & Buhl
Allegheny
Johnson
Blizzard Blocks Roads in Corry Region
CORRY Pa Feb Another blizzard raged in this region Saturday and blocked traffic. Rural mail carriers had to give up tasks for the day as all roads were impassable. Over 2 feet of snow has fallen. Freight trains were abandoned.
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Corry
Ex-Cleveland man acquitted of murder in Kankakee
Adolph Schoeler, formerly of Cleveland, Ohio, was acquitted here on Saturday of the charge of murdering Otto Lunk. The jury returned the verdict after deliberations, bringing closure to a high profile case in Kankakee.
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Kankakee, II
Adolph Schoeler
Cleveland, O
Otto -Lunk
Indiana items mix theater plans and court cases
In Indiana reports, D Kinneman of Marion may build a Bluffton theater. John Hawkins is acquitted after a murder charge in West Baden. John Buzzard near Loransport captured at Kokomo after a near parricide. Charles Buffkin arrested in Lima for embezzling 192 from Odams of Muncie. Dr J A McAllister sails from San Francisco to Manila for army dental service. Frank Manning leaves for Manila or seaport amid embezzlement allegations of 530. Faulkner house bought for rapid transit station in Martinsville near public square. Nine Vincennes women vaccinate then celebrate with lunch. Runaway crash at Ledford injures Charles McCarrell and O M Wallace. Central Labor Union of Brazil plans two stores.
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RE. D. Kinneman
Marion
Bluffton
John Hawkins
Sherman Meyers
West Baden
John Buzzard
Louis Cuiston
Loransport
Kokoma
Charles Buffkin
Odams
J. A. McAllister
Fort Wayne
San Francisco
Manila
Frank Manning
Standard Oil Company
Montpelier
Indianapolis & Martinsville Rapid Transit Company
Faulkner
Vincennes
Thomas Shively
Annual mask ball draws two hundred on South Side
The South-side Turnverein held its annual mask ball Friday night with about 200 attendees in costume. Other items note divorce proceedings for Jessie Mildred Heck from Arch A. over alleged infidelity and threats.
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Turnverein
Jessie Mildred Heck
Arch
Alliance: Francaise
Paris Alliance
Propylaeum
Mountainers threaten University laundry at South
In Nashville in February threats from mountainers alarm University of the South students and faculty. Vice-chancellor D L Wiggins and Stewart RL Colmore received warnings and fled. The unrest stems from a campus laundry that cut mountain workers' main support, with the first laundry burned and a rebuilt facility targeted by further threats.
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Nashville, Tenn
University of the South
D. L.wiggins
Stewart R L. Colmore
Kaiser plans to visit czar before Loubet to Russia
Paris officials report the kaiser intends to visit the czar prior to President Loubet's upcoming trip to Russia. The memory of the last czar visit lingers, as officials say the kaiser keeps undermining French initiatives and shifting momentum.
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Paris
Loubet
Russia
France
Desertion sparks divorce suit over faith and fever
Annie Olsen sues William Olsen alleging desertion after she refused to accept his Zion creed known as the modern Elijah. She says he left her when typhoid fever loomed and demanded Zion healers be sent for, while she preferred a physician.
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Wm. Olsen
Elijah
Olsen
Zion
Search for Egeria Deepens Sloops Fate in Pacific
Vancouver reports wreckage likely from the H M survey ship Egeria, suggesting it shared the Condor s fate in the missing sloop of war search. Queen City crew say new wreckage aligns with Egeria rather than Condor, with Condor boat later found by Indians on the Anousaht reservation and secured by the Grant.
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Vancouver
B. C
H. M
Queen City
Vancouver Island
Anousaht
Grant
Mrs Maria Halpin Hunt Dies in New Rochelle
Mrs Maria Halpin Hunt died of pneumonia at her New Rochelle home on Friday. Dr Samuel Berea alerted her son, who has long been away from New Rochelle, and was present at her death. The son is now two years old. Mrs Hunt had led a retired life since the notoriety tied to the Cleveland campaign of 1884.
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New York
Maria Halpin Hunt
New Rochelle
Samuel Berea
Indiana Deaths and Casualties Report Amid Losses
A list notes Mrs John Forgeay 60 Martinsville and Mrs Mary Ann Brown 90 Pendleton among deaths. Others include John Conklin 67 said to have starved, Chalmers Goodwin struck by a falling limb at Sullivan, Jacob Hubler 7 swallowed carbolic, and a Lafay ette child smothered in bed. Six children survive. Some cases labeled accidental or suspected self harm.
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Mary Ann Brown
Pendleton
Claude Adams
Lafayette
James B. Mitchner
Star Machine Works
Kokomo
Chalmers
Fire Strikes Greenfield Mills and Stores in Two Boroughs
Fire tore through the Greenfield lumber and ice plant causing about 15000 dollars in damage with owners Jerome Black George Moorehead and heirs of E P Gordon facing loss. In Greensburg a separate blaze in H S Pinson’s dry goods store caused about 25000 dollars in damage with Pinson insured for 312000. L A Kinsey Co Jeremiah Short J M Woodfil also reported losses.
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Greenfield
Ind
Greenfield Lumber and Ice Company
Jerome Black
George Moorehead
8. P. Gordon
Greensburg
H. S. Pinson
Pinson
L. A. Kinsey & Co
Jeremiah Short
J. M. Woodfil
Irvington annexation ordinance clears council vote
The Irvington annexation ordinance passed Friday night with two dissenters D Billings Jey and Haldeman and Cooper absent. Haldeman struggled with the procedure, seeking yeas and nays on the second reading before Clerk Nelson helped push the measure through. The ordinance was amended to extend the northern limit from Michigan street to the first alley north of Tuxedo park.
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Irvington
D Billings- Jey
Haldeman
Cooper
Nelson
Charlie
Crall
Territory
Michigan-st
Tuxedo Park
The Path of the Reaper: Deaths in Indianapolis Area
Charles F Miller 10 of 1319 N Ilinois sr died Friday night after illness following work at Hibben Hollweg dry goods. He leaves a widow and three sons Frank Charles Richard. Rev Daniel Stover of 1715 Miller Ave West Indianapolis dies after 56 years as minister and last surviving charter member of White River Conference. Funeral from his late residence Sunday afternoon.
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Charles F. Miller
N. Ilinoissr
Hibbenhollweg Dry Goods House
Frank
Charles
Richard
Daniel Stover
Miller Ave
Indianapolis
Air Navy? Prisoner Hill Sentenced For Past Theft
G Arthur Hill once pardoned by President Roosevelt for consumption was sent to Blackwell's Island for six months after pleading guilty to stealing a trunk in 1900. He asked mercy for air and Judge Foster imposed the sentence to provide lodging until warm weather.
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New York
G. Arthur Hill
Roosevelt
Washington
Blackwell's Island
Hill
Judge Foster
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