Russia imposes 50 percent tariff on American imports
Russia announces a March 1 effective decree doubling duties on U S machinery iron and steel goods. The measure targets American imports including tools castings engines sewing machines and dynamos with exceptions for certain locomobile threshers plows and fire engines. The move sparks U S concern and possible legal challenges as trade tensions rise between the nations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Petersburg
M. de Witte
Senate
Russia
Supreme Court of the
United States
Gage
Supreme Court
Washington
Cassini
Isue
State Department
$30,000,000 Lumber Deal Heads Toward Consolidation
Baltimore reports indicate options on a large lumber merger have been extended to March 1 after a negotiation hitch. Governors Smith and Jackson and Maryland dealers expect the consolidation to finalize soon. The New Jersey corporation will exceed $30 million in capital and include key Maryland Virginia and North Carolina firms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Gov. Smith
Jackson
Maryland
New Jersey
Virginia
North Carolina
Tunis Timber Company
Surrey Lumber Company
George F. Sloan & Brother
Suffolk Sawmill Company
Norfolk
Roper Lumber Company
Roanoke Railroad and Lumber Company
Gay Manufacturing Company
Suffolk
Greenleaf-Johnson Company
E. E. Jackson & Co
Salisbury, Md
The
Virginia Sawmill Company of
W. W. Tunis
Brothers’ Lumber Company of
Wiley, Baker & Co
New York
Aristocratic Jurymen Head Jury List for Boston Trials
The Boston Board of Elections released a jury pool composed of prominent Back Bay residents for the coming year. Names include bankers Gordon Abbott Lawrence Curtis Francis Higginson Gardner Lane Frank Peabody and others. Montgomery Seers appears on last year’s list but is not named today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Board of Elections
Back Bay
Gordon Abbott
Lawrence Curtis
Francis L. Higginson
Gardner M. Lane
Frank E. Peabody
Frank G. Webster
R. H. White
Erving Winslow
The
Anti-Imperialist League
Royal Robbins
Waltham Watch Company
Charles H.taylor
Boston Globe
Philip Hale
Boston Journal
Edwin D.mead
New England Magazine
Arlo Bates
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Loren F. Deland
Nathaniel D. Thayer
Charles W. Amory
Francis B. Forbes
Joseph Lee
Patrick Grant
Amory A. Lawrence
John Mason Little
John F. Moors
Henry Russell Shaw
Francis M. Stanwood
Samuel Vorersburg
Patrick E. Duffee
Charles P. Jaynes
Montgomery Seers
Blown Off a Passenger Train Near Canton Connecticut
Michael Pynen, brakeman on Central New England Railway Train No 8, was blown off one mile east of Canton while en route to Hartford. The train stopped a mile and a half away. Darwin Wood led the search. Pynen was found in a farmhouse with a broken leg after landing on a snow bank which likely saved his life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winsted
Conn
Michael Pynen
Central New England Railway
Hartford
Canton
Darwin Wood
Pynen
Brooklyn Lawyer Victim of Stock Certificate Forgery
Bert Reiss a Brooklyn Republican and former congressional candidate was entangled in a forged stock certificate tied to a $15,000 loan from Hamilton Trust Company. The document, raised from five to fifty shares, led to a loss of about $6,000 as Reiss returned the loan after discovering the tampering. He refuses to name the supposed architect or the beneficiary of the crime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bert Reiss
Brooklyn
Congress
Hamilton Trust Company
Reiss
Montague Street
Kings County Trust Company
National City Bank
Joseph B. White
Mr. Reiss
White
Secretary White
Mexican oil lands eyed near Tampico by officials
A Tampico dispatch says Mexican Petroleum Company officials have arrived to inspect more than 600000 acres of oil lands near Tampico. A large refinery is planned at Tampico and the firm will fuel the Mexican Central Railroad engines. Standard Oil holds many regional lands, making this company a potential competitor in Mexico and the Americas. INE bar-
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Texas
Tampico
Mexico
Mexican Petroleum Company
Tabasco
Standard Oil Company
Central
South America
Mexican Central Railroad
American Smelting Company faces court challenge over Guggenheim plan
Two directors resign amid a NJ court fight as stockholders seek to block a $100 million capital increase and a Guggenheim property absorption. The case pauses actions while a modified injunction allows voting on stock rise but halts approval of the merger and asset transfer.
Boy Taken From Farmer In New York Albany Line
James Kalls a thirteen year old boy was rescued from abuse at a Woodbury New York farmer Abraham Campbell after five months as a bound-out inmate from Snake Hill Almshouse. He had extensive injuries frost bite and beaten days of mistreatment noted. Overseer Charles Lent supervised return to Orange Farm and potential action against Campbell was reported as imminent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goshen
N. Y
James Kalls
Orange Farm
Charles Lent
Woodbury
Snake Hill
Hudson County
N. J
Abraham Campbell
Campbell
Five Men Lashed in County Jail Yard by Sheriff
Delawares Newcastle February 16 Sheriff Mc Daniels punished five inmates in the county jail yard before spectators. James Finns, the only white man, endured a pillory hour and fifteen lashes as others, including Lea Ackwood James Spence and John Roach, received five to ten lashes with varied pain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newcastle
Del
McDaniels
James Finns
Finn
James Spence
Lea Ackwood
John Roach
Percy Coleman
Skeletons Found in Chisos Cave Suggest 16th Century Expedition
W Van Sickle reports discovery of a cave in the Chisos Mountains thirty miles from Alpine containing twenty six human skeletons. Surgeons say the skulls are not Indian. Van Sickle and others suspect remnants of Cabeza de Vaca expedition from 1520s seeking El Dorado and perished except the leader.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Texas
el Dorado
Mexico
Five sailors drown as barge sinks after hawser parts
The steamer Aragon reports the loss off Hogg Island in a Wednesday night gale of the tow Alabama with five men aboard. Four crew from Providence perished. Captain R. J. Reeve, of Brooklyn, leaves a wife and three grown children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Providence
R. I
Aragon
Hogg Island
Alabama
R. J. Reeve
Brooklyn
Family of Capt Reeve Reports Crew Change and Disappearance
Mrs H W Reeve of 309 Hart Street Brooklyn says her husband Captain Robert Reeve left home last Tuesday bound for Providence with a new crew. He is sixty three, has followed the sea since boyhood, and his father-in-law accompanied him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Reeve
Alabama
H. W. Reeve
Hart Street
Brooklyn
Providence
Smelting Company Directors Beneath Inquiry On Value Of Guggenheim Plants
Deacon White testifies at the Chancellor proceeding that Henry Rogers and Leonard Lewisohn challenge the valuation of Guggenheim plants and disclose a floating debt of about seven million dollars. Rogers declined 2500 shares of preferred at eighty and a planned capital increase to one hundred million. The Smelting stock closed near record levels as Wall Street reacted to the injunction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wall Street
American Smelting and Refining Company
Leonard Lewisohn
HB. H. Rogers
Standard Oil Company
Deacon S. V. White
William H. Donald
Abraham Sartorius
Henry A. Zemans
John W. Gordon
William H. Curtiss
South Orange
N. J
New Jersey
Edward Lauterbach
Lindeburg, Leone & Faulk
Newark
Stock Exchange
United Metals Selling Company
H. H. Rogers
Jesse Lewisohn
Metals Selling Company
Guggenheim
Times
United Retails
Guggenheims
Perth Amboy
Deacon White
Henry H. Rogers
M. Guggenheim’s Sons
Rogers
White
Lewisohn
Nash
Ralk
Through Sleeping Car From Washington to Pinehurst
Seaboard Air Line Railway to inaugurate a through sleeping car from Washington to Pinehurst North Carolina via Richmond and Southern Pines. Service runs twice weekly southbound on Florida and Metropolitan Limited leaving Washington 6 55 PM and New York 12 55 PM, arriving Pinehurst 6 23 AM. Return nights Tuesdays and Thursdays to arrive New York next morning. Through service from New York to Pinehurst via Washington with same train. For information call 1206 Broadway Adv.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seaboard Air Line Railway
Washington
Pinehurst
N. C
Richmond
Southern Pines
Florida & Metropolitan Limited
23Rd St. Ferry
Penn. R. R
New York
Esnine
Seaboard Air Line
North Carolina
Broadway
CAPT PRICE IN FLORIDA
Capt J K Price who led the Nineteenth Precinct in New York during Dolly Reynolds murder case arrives in Jacksonville with Detective Sergeant A Carri to locate Daniel Melville, the missing witness. They are aided by Detective E K Burgess and say they will pay Melville’s expenses home if he testifies to help reach the truth about Kennedys case. They depart for Sanford to reconvene with Melville in the morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacksonville
Fla
J. K. Price
Nineteenth
New York
Dolly Reynolds
Cragsmoor
Miss Foley
Helen W. Watts
Delcomyn
Grace Church
New _ York City
William S. Rainsford
St. George's Church
New York City
Hudson River Ice Crop Ends Near Poughkeepsie
Ice harvest in the Hudson River Valley is virtually complete as of February 16. Millions of tons have been stored and hundreds of thousands stacked, employing thousands for weeks. The system spans 445 houses with 3,768,000 tons capacity, led by the American Ice Company with 69 houses and 1,884,000 tons. Total outlay to secure and market the crop reaches about 2.37 million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poughkeepsie
Hudson River Valley
Hudson
American Ice Company
Albany
No Ice Harvest in Maine Dims Winter Industry
Bangor reports no significant ice cutting in Maine this winter as a trust controls supplies from the Hudson. Kennebec and Penobscot crops have produced little, leaving thousands unemployed and forcing reduced shipments and potentially lower freight rates next summer. Local coast ice is exported but Maine states no deliveries to major cities this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bangor
Maine
Trust
Hudson
New York
Kennebec
Penobscot
Denounces Short Skirts at New Brunswick Teachers
William Connors principal of Old Bridge Public School sparked indignation at a New Brunswick Professional Reading Circle of Teachers by condemning short skirts and tobacco use. Female teachers defended their attire. Maude Cunningham, Maude Berdine, and Sadie Smith argued skirts on rainy days remain dignified. Pro f Heniken defended tobacco use. a pianist refused to continue after the remarks. The incident stirred strong feelings among teachers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Brunswick
N. J
William Connors
Old Bridge
Connors
Maude Cunningham
Maude Berdine
Sadie Smith
Heniken
Pennsylvania to open consumption camps in state forests
The Pennsylvania State Forestry Commission plans temporary camps for consumptives in public forest preserves across Pike Clinton and other counties within months The first camp may be opened in Clinton County 2000 feet elevation 45000 acre reservation Temporary tents with permanent foundations will be erected to withstand heavy winds Patients will be housed free of charge but must arrange their own meals
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port Jervis
N. Y
State Forestry Commission
Pennsylvania
Pike
Clinton
Clinton County
Daily Limited Service to Florida Announcement
Seaboard Air Line Railway offers daily limited service to Florida from 23d St Ferry Pennsylvania A A at 12:55 noon. Service unequaled with schedules maintained and satisfaction assured. Office located at 1206 Broadway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florida
Seaboard Air Line Railway
St. Ferry
Pennsylvania
A. A
Broadway
Slavery Contract Scandal Hits Anderson County
Judge Benet reveals a system of contract labor in Anderson County with forms that force laborers to stay on farms and grant the right to imprison workers. The court orders a special term to try those involved, with potential ties to prominent local figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlotte
N. C
Benet
South Carolina
Anderson
Anderson County
State of
Newell
Will Hull
Incendiary Suspect Arrested After Hotel Roof Sighting
Chicago police warned Friday that firebug threats were moving to New York. A man found on the Imperial Hotel roof in Chicago was arrested with pockets full of matches. Investigators believe he is part of a Chicago incendiary gang.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Imperial
Chicago
New York
Imperial Hotel
Deveryn
Titus
Grand Central Station
Tenderloin
McMillan
West Thirtieth Street
William Taylor
St. Louis
Taylor
Secretary Hay To Remain In Cabinet
Washington February 16 All signs point to Secretary of State Hay staying in the Cabinet beyond McKinley’s first term with health as the only possible reason for retirement If so the only expected Cabinet change would be the Griggs vacancy filled by P C Knox of Pittsburg Choate’s interchange with Hay was discussed but foreseen as unlikely based on current authority Knox to succeed Griggs would be the sole cabinet alteration
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
State Hay
Ambassador Choate
Secretary Hay
Hay
Choate
McKinley
Griggs
P. C. Knox
Pittsburg
Louisville Can Company Joins Tin Can Trust
Louisville based Can Company absorbed into a Chicago formed tin can combine with $10,000,000 capital. An official said Louisville Can Company, owned by Louisville Varnish Company, now falls under the Tin Can Trust. The group aims to raise capacity from 80,000 to 160,000 cans annually and use Louisville as the South distribution point with one plant planned in the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville
Louisville Can Company
Tin Can Combination
Chicago
Louisville Varnish Company
Tin Can Trust
Comrites
The Transcontinental Route and the New York Central
The Transcontinental Route is the New York Central and its connections. It carries you through the centres of population and the gateways of commerce, between the East and the West.
Trolley Plan Linking New York and Philadelphia
Report from Trenton claims an Ohio syndicate led by A L and Tom Johnson of Cleveland bought the right of way for a trolley line from New York to Philadelphia. The group supposedly owns the Philadelphia and Bristol Railway and the Philadelphia and New Jersey Railroad, and controls the Princeton extension and Delaware Bridge terminals. They are said to aim to run cars by mid summer with high speed equipment and heavy rails to compete with railroads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trenton
N. J
Ohio
A. L
Tom Johnson
Cleveland
New York
Philadelphia
Philadelphia and Bristol Railway Company
Philadelphia and New Jersey Railroad Company
Shaw Company
Princeton
Delaware Bridge
Johnson Syndicate
Deputy Chief Hatted Chase Fails on Busy Fulton Street
Brooklyn Deputy Chief Patrick H McLaughlin, wearing a silk plug hat and gloves, applauded as he warned two wheelbarrow porters to clear the sidewalk. The men mocked him, and, with bystanders watching, he pursued them down Fulton Street without police aid. Eventually he gave up the pursuit at Court Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Devery
Patrick H. McLaughlin
Brooklyn
Fulton Street
Smith Street
Mr. McLaughlin
Bill
Gwan
Fulton
Red Hook Lane
Borough Hall Square
Court Street
Johns Hopkins Endowment Hope In Baltimore Fund Drive
Johns Hopkins University leaders in Baltimore announce confidence in raising a 1 million endowment to secure 750000 land gift for a new site. Trustees cite 600000 in sight, with donors including Theodore Marbury and Henry Walters rumored to contribute. Commemoration Day Feb 22 expected to bring announcements. Gilman to stay until successor chosen. land grant contingent on endowment by May 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Gilman
Johns Hopkins University
Theodore Marbury
Henry Walters
Marbury
Maryland
New York
Carnegie
Hopkins
Messrs. Wyman, Keiser
Jencks
Former teacher sues Mrs Helen W Watts for slander
Elizabeth Foley, a former teacher with Industrial School No 1, sues Helen W Watts president of the American Female Guardian Society and Home for the Friendless for 10000 damages. The suit claims Watts maliciously libeled Foley and impeded her employment. Justice Clarke set trial for Friday March 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen W. Watts
American Female Guardian Society
Home For the Friendless
Elizabeth Foley
Watts
Justice Clarke
Supreme Court
Miss Foley
West Twenty-second Street
First Avenue
Thirty-second Street
Female Guardian Society
Maria F. Bennet
Mount Kisgo
N. Y
Mrs. Watts
Catskills
St. Bartholomew’s Employment Agency
East Forty-second Street
Bronxville
St. Nicholas Avenue
George B. Watts
J. van Vechten Olcott
Olcott
No Hope for Buried Miners in Union Mine
Vancouver speaks of sixty five miners entombed after a gas explosion in the Union Mine. Afterdamp makes boring dangerous and rescuers suffer near death from gas. Authorities plan flooding the mine as a final resort after repeated attempts. A second explosion report proved false and a minor later blast caused no damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vancouver
B. C
Union
Cumberland Mine Disaster Location and Shaft Details
The Cumberland Mine near Comox, part of Union Colliery Company, is the explosion site. No. 6 Shaft reached 1814 feet in October 1898 and features timbering of 12 by 18 sawn hulks, 16 feet wide and 12 feet high. Ventilation is via a 14 by 35 foot fan rated to 85,000 cubic feet per minute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Washington
Cumberland
Union Colliery Company
Comox
Union Bay
Trent River
Bath Works to Build Cruiser
Bath Iron Works received a Navy offer for a protected cruiser contract set at 2,750,000 dollars. The offer requires reinstatement of items omitted from specifications, prompting expected correspondence with Washington as officials anticipate a final award by late next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Bath Iron Works
Secretary of the Navy
Department
Hyde
Washington
Haan's Restaurant Ad on 75th Street Evening Alc Music
An advertisement notes Haan's Restaurant on 75th Street Col. Ave offering music every evening with price 1.50 and alcohol.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Haan
75Th St
Col
Ee Recherche
Florida Cuba Nassau Georgia via Washington and Richmond
Fragmentary rail notice listing Florida and Georgia destinations through Nassau and Washington with Atlantic Coast Line offices at 1161 Broadway. Indicates rapid service options and a timetable cue for travel from the Florida points and other mid Atlantic routes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florida
Cuba
Nassau
Georgia
Washington
Richmond
Charleston
Fla
Atlantic Coast Line
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New York Times
Otard
American Smelting Company
Guggenheim Plant
Frederick W. Stevens
Jersey City
Chancery Chambers
Deacon
Edward W.nash
John B. Grant
Guy Co. Barton
Walter S. Gurnee
Barton Sewell
Anton Hilers
Mahlon B. Thatcher
David H. Moffat
Dennis Sheedy
August R. Meyer
Nathaniel Witherell
Robert Towne
Grant B. Schley
Board of Directors
Delaware
Capt. Price
Kennedy
Hudson River
Stockades
Grand Jury
Can Trust
McLaughlin
Johns Hopkins Endowment
Sues
Bath Works
Cruiser
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