Sugar Leads Downtick in Dull Stock Market Action
Stock market notes a subdued session with scattered moves. Sugar dominates early trading, slipping to around 103% from 108% as Amalgamated, Osceola, Quincy, Mohawk, Centennial, Baltic, Erie Telephone, Woolen, and Mexican Central show minor shifts in light volume on Tuesday noon December 24.
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Boston
Amalgamated
Osceola
Quincy
Mohawk
Centennial
Baltic
Erie Telephone
Mexican Central
Sugar stock dips on open as market drifts in New York
Sugar moved lower in early New York dealings with 5000 shares traded and a wide quote from 108 to 107, vs 109 last night. The market weakened with few gains, Manhattan and several rail stocks falling, Sugar slipping to 101 at one point before recovering to 103 before noon.
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New York
Manhattan
Westinghouse Electric
Amalgamated
Anaconda
Atch
Baltimore and Ohio
Brooklyn Transit
Chesapeake and Ohio
Erie
Missouri Pacific
Ontario and Western
Pennsylvania
Reading
St. Paul
Southern
Southern Pacific
Union Pacific
U. S. Sel
U. S. Steel
Shorts
N.Y. C
People’s Gas
Market Notes and Signals From the Week
The Missouri Pacific dividend set at 2 percent as Arbuckle retains cuts in Sugar. Copper traders anticipate further reductions. Northern Pacific injunction dissolved. Cotton futures opened steady amid declines with Dec through Sept quotes. A Wall Street broker predicts GE may raise capital by one third as a stock dividend with 10 percent cash on existing capital, valuing stock around 170, 11 points under current price.
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Wall Street
General Electric Wall
Fatal Explosion at Liverpool Dingle Station
An explosion in a fuse box ignited a fire on an electric overhead railway train at Dingle station Liverpool. Two railway workers were killed and several burned. many passengers escaped as flames and smoke filled the tunnel. Firefighters faced great difficulty extinguishing the blaze.
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Liverpool
Dingle
Stamp Seller Held On Bonds In New Haven Case
A tall blonde man calling himself Henry Boutall, claiming Rochester New York Philadelphia and Providence addresses, was arrested by detectives in New Haven for selling postage stamps at half face value. He carried sheets numbered 1110 to 6011 and faces bonds of 2000 dollars to await trial. He also disclosed locations of his sales.
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New Haven
Henry Boutall
Rochester
Philadelphia
Providence
Detective Bureau
U. S
Boutall
Jin
Post Office Burglary Proceeds Linked to Stolen Stamps
Police say 1000 postal cards sold for 6.75 may be proceeds of a post office burglary. Suspect Boutall carried three gold watches and cash, claimed to buy stamps in Lowell, and produced a carpenters union card naming Charles Shipley as brother-in-law. Authorities seek Washington info.
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Boutall
Lowell
Mass
Carpenters’ Union of
Baltimore
Charles Shipley
Chicago
Post
Washington
Fire destroys Saxonville two story house on High and School
In Saxonville Middlesex County a two story frame dwelling at High and School streets owned by Simon Lavine and occupied by Lavine family and Adolphus Porter’s family burned Sunday night at 11. Occupants escaped in night attire with only wearables. Loss estimated at 1500 with some insurance on both Lavine and Porter. Cause unknown. Earlier police raid seized a small liquor amount at Lavine’s tenement.
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High
School Streets
Saxonville
Simon Lavine
Lavine
Adolphus’ Porter
Porter
Silver anniversary of Rev. Cusack ordination celebrated
Monday marked the 25th anniversary of Rev. Thomas Francis Xavier Cusack being ordained a priest and rector of St. Michael's church. A forenoon mass was led by Fr. Cusack with sermon by Rt. Rev. Thomas D. Beaven. A letter from Bishop O'Connell authorized papal blessing. Attending officials included Archbishop Williams and Bishop Harkins. An evening town hall reception followed a parade with music by the Hudson brass band. Fr. Edmund T. Schofield chaired the program.
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Thomas Francis Xavier Cusack
St. Michael's Church
Cusack
Thomas D. Beaven
D. D
Springefild
Edmund T. Schofield
O'Connell
Portland
Archbishop Williams
Boston
Harkins
Providence
Town Hall
Hudson Brass Band
Cloudman Named Head Gym Instructor at Vermont University
Lewiston reports Harry H. Cloudman of South Windham Bowdoin 1901 has been elected head gym instructor at the University of Vermont. Cloudman is regarded as Bowdon College’s best all around athlete.
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Lewiston
Brunswick
Harry H. Cloudman
South Windham
Bowdoin
University of Vermont
Cloudman
Bowdon College
Captain Cook Improves at Naval Hospital
Washington report states Captain Francis A. Cook, ill at the United States naval hospital, is improving slowly. His physician forecasts about two weeks before he can be out.
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Washington
Francis A. Cook
United States Naval Hospital
General Seamans Illness Shows Slight Improvement
Washington December 24 General William H Seamans of California remains seriously ill in the capital with no worsening noted. If any change has occurred it is reported as for the better at his hotel.
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Washington
William H. Seamans
California
Kitchener Reports Boer Losses in Johannesburg Despatch
Lord Kitchener's Johannesburg despatch dated December 23 lists weekly figures: 45 Boers killed, 25 wounded, 310 prisoners made, and 35 surrendered. The report comes from London via the British high command.
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London
Lord Kitchener
Johannesburg
Tragic Lynn Death and Major Injury Report
Massachusetts report with two fatal and serious injuries: Nellie Prouty a 35 year old widow and housekeeper at 4 High street Lynn died after taking rat poison amid despondency while two daughters are left. John Flynn, 45 a Lynn shoemaker, was struck at Blossom street crossing by a Boston and Maine train at 9 pm and severed leg injuries considered dangerous.
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Nellie Prouty
Charles A. Foster
High Street
Lynn
Brighton
John Flynn
Blossom Street
Boston & Maine Railroad
Lynn Hospital
Fruit dealer knocked from wagon by electric car
John Vlahos, a fruit dealer, was struck by an electric car while driving a team on Appleton near Pearl streets yesterday around 3 PM. He suffered slight back injuries and was taken to St. John's hospital. His wagon was damaged and the horse bolted but was stopped before causing harm.
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John Vlahos
Appleton Street
Pearl Street
St. John’s Hospital
Vlahos
Christmas tree event at YWCA with Sunshine club
A Christmas tree will be set up at the Young Women's Christian Association Tuesday evening at 7 30. Girls and women may bring presents before 5 o'clock. Sunshine club will perform music and exercises. All women and strangers in the city are invited.
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Young Women’s Christian Association
Sunshine Club
Mill Employes Vaccinated For Smallpox Prevention
Health department had the Appleton mill employer vaccinated as a precaution. Two doctors and a nurse performed the work to prevent a smallpox epidemic in Lowell.
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Health Department
Appleton Mills
Lowell
Women as a Political Factor in Suffrage Debate
The New York Defender argues that newspapers praise women’s political labor yet fear suffrage, claiming women will seek broader political power if voters. It contends suffrage would not disrupt social order and notes Donaldson plans a health retreat to Barnston Corners, P Q for the winter.
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New York Defender
David J. Donaldson, Jr
Wentworth Avenue
Barnston Corners
P. Q
Members New York Stock Exchange Branch Office Albany
The text notes a branch office location for the New York Stock Exchange at 65 State Street in Albany. The fragment identifies an exchange institution and its Albany address, indicating a regional branch presence in the capital city.
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New York Stock Exchange
State St
Albany
Expulsion of Americans in Constantinople Debate
Washington reports Mr Eddy, the American chargé at Constantinople, is in talks with the Porte about expelling naturalized American citizens from Turkey unless they renounce U.S. allegiance. Without a naturalization treaty the United States lacks authority to intervene. The issue hinges on whether a brief period to depart Turkey could be demanded without hardship. Eddy may push for protections if expulsion proceeds.
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Washington
State Department
Eddy
Constantinople
Porte
Turkey
United States
City Hall Tax Exemption Scrutiny and Trolley Doubts
City council expected to reassess tax exemptions with demands for a full list of property exempt from taxes including church educational and charitable properties. Debate over paving, Trackless Trolley progress, and a potential new legal action mirrors earlier fights while the garbage cremator and contagious hospital issues loom for next year.
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Moody Street
Pawtucketville
Burglars Blow Open Post Office Safe in Rochester
Four men entered the Brigh ton post office in Rochester in the early hours. The safe was blown open and about 100 dollars in cash plus 200 dollars in stamps were taken. The blast alarmed Mrs. Sylvester Downs who fired at a robber but was not hit. The desperadoes fled and left no clue to their identities.
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Rochester
N. Y
Brighton
Sylvester Downs
Gov Crane Declines Treasury Post Citing Family Illness
Gov Cranes says he declines the Presidents offer to be secretary of the treasury due to family illness and difficulty arranging business on short notice. He arrived at the State House from Dalton and gave no further comment, noting his mothers invalid condition influences his decision.
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Gov. Crane
State House
Dalton
Centenarian Harrington Celebrates 102nd Birthday
South Braintree December 23 Daniel Harrington marked his 102nd birthday surrounded by children and relatives at his daughter’s home. Born in County Cork Ireland in 1799 he has lived in three centuries and has never been sick a day. He arrived in America at 91 and was a friend of Daniel O'Connell and Charles Stewart Parnell. He is twice married and father of 10 with five living.
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South Braintree
Daniel Harrington
Thomas Cullinan
Harrington
County Cork
Ireland
America
Daniel O'Connell
Chas. Stewart Parnell
Boston and Northern rail line to link Lawrence and Salem
Lynn item reports the Boston and Northern road rushing through winter to join Lawrence with the sea coast. It will tap Merrimack valley centers including Lawrence Lowell and Haverhill and connect to Lynn Salem with 56 468 people. Contractor Loring Farnham has 300 Italians and teams at work. Express service planned starting July 1st between Lawrence Essex Street and Salem Town House Square in 1 hour 30 minutes. Henry C. Page will control the line. Supt Walcott will run Salem operations.
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Lynn Ttem
Boston & Northern Road
Lawrence
Merrimack Valley
Lowell
Haverhill
Essex County
Lynn
Salem
Loring Farnham
Middleton Square
Middleton & Danvers
North Andover
Boston & Northern
Farnham
United States
Boston & Maine
E. P. Shaw
Salisbury Beach
Plum Island
Salem Willows
Nahant
Revere Beach
Essex Street
Town House Square
New Hampshire
Concord
N. H
Henry C. Page
Supt. Walcott
Iowa Governor Shaw eyed for treasury post switch
Washington reports Roosevelt may appoint Gov. L. M. Shaw of Iowa to replace Secretary Gage with rumors of a tendered offer. Shaw denied any confirmation or details when contacted in Des Moines, Iowa.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Gov. Shaw
Iowa
Treasury
Secretary Gage
White House
Obituaries Summarize Three Local Deaths and Funerals
Eliza J Ready, 28, died at 67 Walker Street leaving A L and Ellen Ready and three brothers James of New York Ambrose and William E. of this city. Ellen I Gage of Pelham died of heart failure at home. Abel Gage’s eight children include four living and Pelham choir member for 36 years. Edward Edwards, of 36 Woodward Avenue, died recently. funeral held with First Baptist pastor Rev Smith T Ford officiating and ritual by family and streetcar company colleagues. burial at Woodbine Cemetery. Ready died December 28 at 67 Walker Street. funeral Thursday at 2 PM. friends invited.
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Eliza J. Ready
Walker Street
A. L
Ellen Ready
James
New York
Ambrose
William E
Ellen I. Gage
Pelham
Abel Gage
Edward Edwards
Woodward Avenue
The
Street Railroad Company
Smith T. Ford
First Baptist Church
W. H. Pepin
Frank
James Edwards
Herbert
Edgar Wilmotc
Currier
Woodbine Cemetery
England
Ready
Minister Drops Headgear Debate at Maplewood Church
Malden reports Rev. F. H. Morgan of Maplewood Methodist Church did not address the feasibility of women removing head gear during services. He had planned a five minute talk but said the affair drew too much notoriety and that some congregants disliked newspaper statements, so he chose to let it drop.
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Malden
F. H. Morgan
Maplewood Methodist Church
Morgan
Plan to free Miss Stone revealed by U S official
Washington reports Spencer Eddy, the U S charge at Constantinople, has devised a new plan to secure Miss Stone's release. Officials withhold details to avoid jeopardizing the effort. Consul General Dickinson, pushing for action, criticizes free press coverage that undermines the mission.
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Washington
Spencer Eddy
United States
Constantinople
Miss Stone
Dickinson
State Department
Gov Rogers Reported Improving With Pneumonia
Olympia December 23 Gov Rog ers rests better after diagnosis of a mild pneumonia state officials say there is no cause for alarm about the governor s condition
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Olympia
Wash
Rogers
FUEL FAMINE STRANGLES LIMA COAL MARKET
Lima Ohio reports a severe fuel famine with no coal in the city since last Wednesday. Wood costs up to ten dollars per cord while residents trek into the country to buy from arriving wagons. Railroads show thousands of carloads of coal awaiting movement between Cincinnati and Lima.
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Lima
Ohio
Cincinnati
Prisoners Overpower Jailor as Mrs Kees Acts
Eight county jail inmates overpowered Jailor Malone during locking up. Mrs Susan Kees wife of Sheriff Kees, living in the jail building, intervened with a revolver rescuing the jailor and driving the escapees back to their cells.
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Walla Walla. Wash
Malone
Susan Kees
Kees
Miss Perkins of Wilmington Corrected Identity in St John
A press despatch clarifies that Mrs McKeown formerly Miss Perkins of Wilmington rather than Williamstown. She is the wife of Hon Harrison A McKeown cabinet minister of New Brunswick. The couple wed here four weeks ago and recently arrived at St John after a long tour.
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Wilmington
McKeown
Harrison A. McKeown
St. John
N. B
Perkins
Williamstown
New Brunswick
Anthony & Scovill forms $2.5 million capital firm
Albany announces the Anthony & Scovill company files articles of incorporation with a capital of $2,500,000 to consolidate E. and H. 7. Anthony & Company and Scovill & Adams firms and to manufacture photographic apparatus and supplies including paper, film, and film cameras.
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Albany
N. Y
Anthony & Scovill Company
E. and
H. 7. Anthony & Company
Scovill & Adams Company
Small Pox Quarantine Hits South Main Lodge
Providence R I December 23 A confirmed small pox case in Louis Bramble at a South Main Street lodging house prompted immediate quarantine. Police guarded the 149 occupant building while 73 guests were vaccinated and cleared to leave. Bramble was hospitalized at Fields Point.
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Providence
South Main Street
Louis Bramble
Chapin
Fields Point Hospital
Firemen Hurt As Oil District Fire Breaks Out
Boston December 24 A threatening blaze in the oil district drew a sizable fire department response to Lewis M Crane’s Oliver street store. Quick action limited damage to stock and furnishings in tanks of oil and varnish. Two firefighters were thrown from a ladder truck and badly injured on the way to the scene.
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Boston
Lewis M. Crane
Oliver Street
Marconi Expresses Hope for Wireless Link to Edison
In St Johns Newfoundland on December 23 no new developments occurred in the Marconi Anglo American Telegraph Company dispute. Marconi sent a cable to Thomas A. Edison thanking him for his press letter and expressing hope to demonstrate wireless telegraphy between the United States and Europe. He planned to depart for Canada the next evening.
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St. Johns
N. F
Marconi
Anglo-American Telegraph Company
Thomas A. Edison
United States
Europe
Canada
Manchurian Treaty discussed with Chinese plenipotentiaries
Pekin December 23 Russian minister Paul Lessar asked Prince Ching and Wang Wen Shao to present their objections to the Manchurian treaty. The foreign ministers here who oppose the treaty see this as a sign that Russia may modify her demands.
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Pekin
Paul Lessar
China
Prince Ching
Wang Wen Shao
M. Lessar
Russia
Third National Bank stockholders vote liquidation
Boston Dec 23 stockholders of the Third National bank unanimously vote to liquidate on Dec 24. A liquidation committee is appointed with Moses Williams Francis B Sears and Frederick E Snow tasked with the process.
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Boston
Third National Bank
Moses Williams
Francis B. Sears
Frederick E. Snow
Peace outlook in South Africa as 15000 troops set sail
London reports no further details on the fighting in South Africa. Newspapers deem peace unlikely in the near term. The government shares this view as 15000 troops from home and the colonies are to proceed to South Africa between now and January 1.
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London
South Africa
Panic in Second Baptist Service Gas Leak Panic Averted
In Columbus on December 23 five women collapsed from natural gas leaking from a heater in the Second Baptist church choir gallery. They were resuscitated and expected to recover. The janitor misadjusted a damper causing the gas escape, triggering a near panic as the service was dismissed amid excitement.
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Columbus
Ohio
Second Baptist Church
Unknown Man's Body Found Near Railroad Tracks
A dismembered body of an unknown man was found by a track walker of the New York New Haven Hartford line near Highwood New Haven Conn on December 23. The severed head was badly disfigured and unrecognizable. Arms legs and clothing were located a mile further along the track amid suspicions of foul play as authorities investigate the case.
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New Haven, Conn
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Highwood
Flood damage hits Lehigh Valley Railroad at $261,000
Easton Pennsylvania December 23 flood losses from a little over a week ago are estimated to have damaged Lehigh Valley Railroad property to about 261000 dollars.
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Easton
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
Dividend Declared by American Woolen Company
New York December 23 directors of the American Woolen company declare a 1 percent dividend on preferred stock payable January 15 1902 to stockholders of record January 2 1902.
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New York
American Woolen Company
Wood's Jewelry Store Cut Price Sale Today
Jewelry watch diamonds and bric-a-brac offered at reduced prices at Wood's jewelry store. Crowds urged to come early for best selection and bargains.
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Wood
Jennie June Croley Dead at 72 in New York
Mrs. Jennie June Croley journalist and organizer of women’s clubs died in New York today from heart failure at age 72. Born in England she began writing in New York under the pen name Jennie June in 1855 and earned wide renown.
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New York
Jennie June” Croley
Croley
England
Jennie June
Toto Edit Cures Colds and Prevents Pneumonia
Toto Edit is claimed to cure colds and prevent grip and pneumonia without opium morphine or other poisonous drugs. The assertion appears in an advertisement style note promoting a remedy. No clinical data or endorsements are provided.
Bargain Window at Wood's Jewelry Store
The 98c. window at Wood's jewelry store offers early shoppers a chance to beat crowds. The notice urges customers to come early to avoid the afternoon and evening rush.
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Wood
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