Court action aims to dissolve Pullman Palace Car Company assets
A court order seeks to dissolve the Pullman Palace Car Company by divesting its lines of business and selling its extensive Chicago area assets. The 1894 suit by former Attorney General Maurice T. Maloney targets plants, the Arcade building, the Hotel Fiorence, markets, churches, a school, water mains, and hundreds of land and town lots.
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Ullman
Egal
Great Palace Ea Company
Supreme Court
Linois
Pullman Comming
Circuit Court
Cook County
Palace Car Company
I Corporation
Pullman Company
Maurice T. Maloney
Pullman Palace Car Company
Pullman Iron and Steel Company
Pullman Brick Company
Pullman Gas Company
Fiorence
I. O. Lowden
Telegraph tolls lowered by Kansas law
Kansas legislators passed a law Thursday cutting telegraph tolls after a heavy lobbying effort. Opponents argued wires had operated at a loss, while supporters said the long term public benefit justified the reduction.
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Kansas
Boston's New Railway Station and the Pullman Town Controversy
Boston reports on a railway station described as the largest in the world and the related fight over Pullman property rights. The piece details the Pullman Land Association, the 1867 incorporation, legal battles through 1909, and the town of Pullman built for workers with hundreds of houses and the Hotel Mlorenes. It notes stock profits and telegraph and toll rate changes amid broader transit policy debates.
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Boston
Plot to Resist Americans Claims Aguinaldo Spreading Trouble
Major General Otis reports to the War Department that Aguinaldo is the moving spirit of a plot to resist American authority in the Philippines. Otis locates Aguinaldo at Malolos where the Filipino parliament convened to rally sentiment against U S authority. Otis expresses confidence in defeating Aguinaldo's forces if conflict arises and notes his army is large enough to meet any emergency.
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Aguinaldo
War Department
Otis
Malolos
Ife
CAPTURES SPANISH ARMS IN HAVANA CRACKDOWN
General Ludlow reports success in seizing guns ammunition and machetes hidden by former Spanish volunteers and sympathizers in Havana. Captain Breble's detachment recovered many weapons following New Year information from multiple sources.
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Cuba
Ludlow
Havana
Breble
TWO SIRES OF CYRANO
Chicago real estate dealer S. Be. Gross files in the United States Circuit Court for an injunction against M. Palmer and Richard Mansfield to stop production of Cyrano De Bergerac claiming theft of his twenty year old play The Merchant Prince of Cornville. He says he sent a copy to Mansfield and Palmer but received no reply. Mansfield denies knowledge and Palmer is in New York. The last act allegedly mirrors Rost’s work in language and situations. Gross claims his London copyright was filed in 1806.
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Mr. Gross
Chicago
S. BE. Gross
United States Circuit Court
4. M. Palmer
Richard Mansfield
Gross
Cornville
Messrs
Mansfield
Palmer
New York
Rost
London
Vanderbilts Ball Dazzles New York Society
Lavish Vanderbilt ball draws five hundred guests amid dazzling jewels. The event honors a beardless son about to inherit 4,000,000 dollars, with Miss Virginia Pair hailed as the belle of the ball while Elsie French misses connections from Europe.
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New York
Elsie French
Europe
Virginia Pair
Willie IX
Vanderbilt
Senate opens after recess as treaty debate looms
The opening session of the Senate lasted fourteen minutes with two open sessions and one executive session. Senators greeted peace commission members as the House considered an Alaska crime and procedure bill, while debates on liquor restrictions and Nicaragua canal continued. The move to strike civil service funding succeeded narrowly amid anti-imperial and expansion debates as House and Senate operate on routine and treaty questions.
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Senate
Peace Commission
Frye
Maine
Morrill
Vermont
Rye
Major Pruden
House
Alaska
Dingley
Moody
Rep
Mass
United States
District of
Tongue
Ore
Hoar
Massachusetts
Committee On Foreign Relations
Spain
Caffery
Louisiana
Lower Brule
Rose Bud
Tennessee
Butte
Mont
Cassius Lester
Kansas
International Cotton Press Company
New Orleans
Davis
Foreign Relations Committee
West
Missouri
Civil Service Commission
Evans
Kentucky
Swansor (Dent
Virginia
Time conflicts over a train and a clock dispute
A domestic scene shows Mrs Flimpson rushing Henry over a train timetable while his watch proves correct. They hurry to the station as the train arrives five minutes late, illustrating the old adage about women’s time vs men’s. The piece moves to a note on the Junior Republic experiment by Mr George in New York, then ends with a humorous aside about a tailor and a gramophone marriage fad.
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Henry
Mary
Wimpson
Lincoln Tablet to Adorn Illinois Battleship Turret
In 1898, 1,258 criminals were sentenced in Towa and the auxiliary cruiser Yosemite is ordered to Manila with men and supplies for Admiral Dewey. Camden, New Jersey reports a plentiful artesian water flow of 20,000,000 gallons in about twenty hours.
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Towa
Yosemite
Manila
Dewey
Illinois
Abraham Lincoln
Camden
N. J
Weather, war, and politics mix in shifting 1900s news
The dispatches cover a range of topics from maritime liability and weather warnings about the Portland steamship wreck to congressional weathered grip worries, army accusations, and questions on Philippine occupation. Included are clerical claims, a senate age profile, and a savage surgical tale from Dorsetshire.
Warship funding and Johnston’s burial moved
Secretary Long estimates the warship program needs 14 168 400 for armor and armament and 36 100 800 for construction and engineering. The remains of Albert Sidney Johnston, Confederate general, have been moved from Austin State Cemetery to a vault by the Daughters of the Confederacy.
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Long
Congress
Johnston
Albert Sidney Johnston
Daughters of the Confederacy
Austin
Texas
Bellachini the Conjurer Leaves Morocco After Impossible Demand
A tale from the Youth's Companion recounts Bellachini, famed conjurer, performing in Morocco for the sultan. He mimics a trick with pigeons passing heads between bodies, then the sultan orders him to repeat with two men. Unable to comply, Bellachini asks for fourteen days to prepare. the sultan grants it and Bellachini flees the country.
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Bellachini
Morocco
Iing
Gellachini
Kentucky Superstitions and Omens on a Train Car
A Louisville Post piece recalls seven Kentucky men trading tales of signs and luck on a Western Kentucky trip. Items include a graveyard rabbit foot, gray goose feather, a governor’s steel pen, an Irish potato, and a belief in the new moon over the right shoulder. The column closes with remarks on honesty and social restraint.
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Kentucky
Southern State
Louisville
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George M. Pullman
John Gray
Norman Williams
Baker
Uet
Mlorenes
Court of Visitation Law
M. Puli
Charles Munberger
New York Central
Col. Lewis
Mmir Medil
Washington
Russia
Imperial Bank
Cleveland
Cyrano
Junior Republic
George
Mr. George
Sumsaeyr
Mippi
Black & Co
Life Insurance Company
Sintst
Weather Bureau
Portland
Company
The
War Inquiry Commission
Emil G. Hirsch
Hirsch
Montauk Point
Red Cross
Philippines
Grip
Brice Washington
Elkins
West Virginia
Fairbank
Indiana
Senator Foraker
Ohio
Cockrell
Anaconda Smelting Company
Anaconda
Solomon Caesar Mason
Dorsetshire
Newton Fair
Dorset
Charles
Law
Doctor
Chawles
Jane
Jennie the Kisser
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