Ten Pages of Foreign News Lead with Ladysmith Advance
Gen Buller pushes toward Ladysmith with a new advance and an attack planned on Hlanguane Hill. Cronje pursuit continues under Kelly-fenny as British seize over 100 wagons. Dordrecht skirmish defeats Boers. Roberts proclaims ceasefire to Free Staters. Ex-Consul Macrum presses charges in Washington. Two elephants kill a keeper at Crystal Palace. Incendiaries burn Martinique. Snowfall totals 16.9 inches. railroads report little trouble. street cleaning sets a new snow-removal record. The Union attacks wage law in a column. Belmon t and Watterson letters released. plays condemned by Actors’ Church Alliance.
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Buller
Ladysmith
Hussar Hil
Chieveley
Hlangwane Hill
Cronje
Kelly-fenny
Dordrecht
Lord Roberts
Washington
Crystal Palace
London
Martinique
Hudson
Yonkers
Stakce
Fort Lee
George Washington
Cowper Union
People’s Institute
Nagle
Sewall Talks Expansion in Democratic Meeting Plans
Special to The New York Times Arthur Sewall candidate for Vice President in 1896 arrived at St. Charles Hotel New Orleans to confer with party leaders and William Jennings Bryan. He said the Chicago platform should be upheld and discussed anti trust and silver planks while outlining cautious views on Philippine expansion and retention. Bryan expected to be the nominee. Sewall denied he sought the vice presidency.
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New York Times
New Orleans
Arthur Sewall
St. Charles
William Jennings Bryan
Col. Bryan
Florida
Mrr
Sewall
Chicago
Philippines
United States
Philippine Islands
Democratic Party
Bryan
Joseph Cowen Dead Prop Newcastle Chronicle Proprietor
Joseph Cowen died in London at age 89. He owned The Newcastle Chronicle from 1878 to 1916 and served as Newcastle’s MP, son of Sir Joseph Cowen. Born July 9, 1831, he forged ties with Mazzini and Garibaldi and backed oppressed European nationalities while running a private press for revolutionary manifestos. He sat as a Democrat with imperialist foreign policy leanings and acted independently in Parliament.
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London
Joseph Cowen
The
Newcastle Chronicle
Cowen
Newcastle
Mazzini
Garibaldi
Kossuth
Herzen
Europe
Italy
Hungary
Poland
Iitheuza
Lord Gearconsfield
Senator Elkins Slips on Icy Capitol Sidewalk
Senator Elkins of West Virginia fell on an icy Capitol sidewalk yesterday afternoon. He sustained bruises and was shaken, but the attending physician said his condition is not serious.
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Washington
Elkins
West Virginia
Capitol
Fic
Carnegie's Nephew to Marry in Cincinnati Private Ceremony
Pittsburgh February 15 Andrew Carnegie Sr second son of Mrs Lucy Carnegie and a nephew of Andrew Carnegie will wed Miss Bertha Sherlock of Cincinnati on Wednesday The ceremony will be private at Calvary Church Cincinnati due to the death of the bride's mother Abe Sherlock Andrew Carnegie will travel north with Mrs Carnegie and her family in a special car Andrew Carnegie Jr is with his mother at her winter home near Fernandina Florida
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Pittsberg
Andrew Carnegie, Sr
Lucy Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie
Bertha Sherlock
Cincinatti
Thomas
Nancy Sherlock
Abe Weacng
Calvary
Cincinnati
Newport laundress pleads guilty to larceny in Riggs case
Mary Dennen, a laundress at the apartment house linked to Francis B. Riggs robbery last summer, pleaded guilty to larceny and was remanded for the upcoming term of the Common Pleas Division in the Supreme Court. She was held on $500 bail in Newport County jail after the jewelry and gold water presented by Robert Goelet were involved. investigators noted a missing $10 bill in the same drawer.
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New York Times
Newport
R. I
Mary Dennen
Francis B. Riggs
Robert Goelet
Supreme Court
Newport County
New York to Lorida Route via Pennsylvania and Southern Railways
The notice describes a rail route from New York to Palm Beach Miami and Tampa without change via Pennsylvania and Southern Railways. It references the New York Office at 271 or 1 183 Broadway and highlights the popular Lorida route.
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New York
Palm Beach
Miami
Tampa
Pennsylvania and Southern Railways
Lorida
Broadway
Snow Cleansing Efforts Set City Snow Record
Commissioner Nagle led a large team to clear Manhattan and the Bronx after a 10.9 inch snowstorm. Uvalde Company crews moved thousands of loads from Battery to One Hundred Sixty-sixth Street, with 42,000 loads reported by 9 p.m. as drivers praised higher wages and the commissioner’s hands on approach.
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Nagle
Capt
Gibson
Uvalde Asphalt Company
Manhattan
Bronx
Battery
Uvalde Company
White Wings
Sergeant
Commissioner Nagle
Col. Waring
Nagie
Bradish
George M. Silverberg
Broadway
Bowling Green
Fifth Avenue
Washington Park
Central Park
Sixth Avenue
Fulton, Cortlandt
Liberty
Grand Street
Fourteenth Street
Fifth
Sixth Avenues
Nassau Street
Maiden Lane
Wall Street
Fulton Street
Lower East Side
Seventh Street
Work in Brooklyn Cleans Streets Fast in Snow Removal
The Street Cleaning Bureau and Brooklyn railroad firms led a rapid snow clearance. Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company deployed 1,500 workers and 50 flat cars to haul snow to the bay, while contractor Maillie with 1,000 men and 500 carts labored to meet the city’s needs. Quinn aims to finish today.
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Brooklyn
Quinn
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
Fifty-eighth Street
John F. Maillie
Maillie
New York Central Adopts Pintsch Light Across Cars
The First Railway in the World to adopt Pintsch Light in all its cars The New York Central uses Pintsch Light in sleeping and parlor cars coaches baggage and mail cars to improve comfort and safety for passengers.
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New York Central
Adv
Shipping Embargo Ends After Snowstorm Rages Off Sandy Hook
Belated steamships arrived at port after a violent Saturday storm off Sandy Hook. The American liner St Louis sighted off Fire Island, anchor mishaps at La Touraine pier, and ice-choked river conditions were noted. The Staten Island ferry Northfield crashed into a bulkhead, breaking seats and glass. Graf Waldersee, grounded in the bay, later freed with no damage reported.
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Sandy Hook
Hook
St. Louis
Fire Island
la Touraine
Havre
Staten Island
Northfield
Whitehall Street
St. George
Graf Waldersee
Pulver, Milliard
America
Barge Crews Might Be Frozen Off Delaware Coast
Reports from Philadelphia describe crews aboard two barges isolated in the Lower Delaware ice during a nor’easter. The Hamilton and R. R. Thomas, towed by the Walter Luckenbach from Norfolk toward Boston, sank lower as the storm raged, with four men aboard each barge and no signs of life at dawn. The tug plans rescue when weather allows.
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New York Times
Philadelphia
Delaware
Cape Henlopen
Hamilton
R. R. Thomas
Walter Luckenbach
Norfolk
Boston
Luckenbach
X Ray Cure for Cancer Trial Shows Promise in Oakland
San Francisco reports Dr. J M Selfridge founder of Fabiola Hospital Oakland along with his son Dr C M Selfridge and Dr N H Chamberlain achieving near total cure of facial cancer after X ray treatment begun last October. He devised a thin tea mask to expose only the cancer to the ray and observed immediate drying and healing with only a scar remaining.
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New York Times
San Francisco
J. M. Selfridge
Fabiola Hospital
Oakland
Selfridge
Shafter Sees Philippine Insurrection Largely Ended
Major Gen. William R. Shafter, visiting Fort Porter, says the insurrection is practically ended among the Tagalines and predicts garrisons will be needed in the Philippines for years. He notes no certain outcome among other tribes and plans to return to San Francisco tomorrow. Fast rail times to St. Louis listed.
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Buffalo
William R. Shafter
Dougherty
Fort Porter
San Francisco
Philippines
Woman Fights Burglars In 131 West Twenty-Eighth Street
Marie Dellia, 40, returned to her five story building at 131 West Twenty-Eighth Street and surprised two burglars in a bed chamber. She clung to one, the other struck her. janitor Charles Metzer intervened, stabbed the attacker with a file, who was captured by Officer Cook. The wounded burglar, John Kennedy, was treated at New York Hospital. Dellia was bruised but refused ambulance or surgeon. Kennedy confessed to thefts. Metzer escaped arrest, hailed as hero.
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Marie Dellia
West Twenty-eighth Street
Charles Metzer
Mrs. Dellia
John Kennedy
Ninth Avenue
Kennedy
New York
Metzer
Dellia
St Josephs in the Pines to Open on Brentwood Site
A new women’s college named St Joseph’s in the Pines is assured at Brentwood New York with a budget of at least 300000. Groundbreaking is planned for March 19 St Joseph’s Day. The Hotel Astral Building will serve as a sisters’ home and St Joseph’s Academy at Flushing becomes a novitiate.
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Brentwood
L. I
Women’s College
St. Joseph’s
the Pines
Astral
Sisterhood
St. Joseph’s Academy
Flushing
Mothers’ House of the Order
United States
Price of Eggs Advances in Chicago Market
Chicago reports an egg price rise of two cents tomorrow as cold weather steadies a declining market. Fresh eggs sell 12 to 15 cents, cold storage 8 to 9 cents, with 700000 cases in Chicago over the last month totaling 252009000 eggs, about 126 per person citywide, and roughly 60 percent of US January supply.
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New York Times
Chicago
United States
New York City
Mrs Nellie Grant Sartoris Ill In Private City House
Report yesterday stated Nellie Grant Sartoris was dangerously ill in a local hospital. An inquiry at her mother Mrs U S Grant’s Washington home clarified she is not in a hospital but recovering at a private city residence and has shown marked improvement.
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Nellie Grant Sartoris
U. S. Grant
Washington
American mill for Mexico steel plant slated
A Monterey dispatch reports an American syndicate with 10.6 million dollars capital will start an immense steel plant in Monterey. Ground is purchased and iron ore and coal nearby ensure supply. The plant will produce steel rails and is the first of its kind in Mexico, employing about four thousand workers. several American capitalists in Monterey are major stockholders.
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Chicago
Monterey
Mexico
Seized Sealskin Coat Tailed to Miss Hopkins on Train
Niagara Falls February 18 customs officers seized a sealskin coat found in a sleeping car on a Grand Trunk train. The coat belonged to Miss Mary Hopkins en route from Toronto to New York. She said the garment was old and repaired in Toronto. She was allowed to continue. coat held pending investigation.
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Niagara Falls
Mary Hopkins
Toronto
New York
Miss Hopkins
Grand Trunk
Five States in Five Hours Royal Limited Train Ad
The Royal Limited departs New York South Ferry and Liberty Street at 3 P M daily and reaches Washington by 8 P M with exquisite dining and café car service. A bold rail ad touts speed luxury and reliability.
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Royal Limited
New York
South Ferry
Liberty Street
Washington
Conference on Trusts Opens at Cooper Union Evening
A weeklong Conference on Trusts began at Cooper Union under the People’s Institute with a discussion on the Ethical Basis of Industrial Organization led by W. H. P. Faunce of Brown, Rev. Dr. R. Heber Newton, and John J. Foote. Edwin Markham read The End of the Century and The Man with the Hoe, praising fraternal reform as the audience applauded.
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People’s Institute
Cooper Union
W. H. P. Faunce
Brown University
R. Heber Newton
John J. Foote
Edwin Markham
Lippincott’s
Mr. Markham
Faunce
Heber Newton
Charles Sprague Smith
Dr. Newton
Remedies for the Standard Oil Trust Publicity and Regulation
The text argues for publicity as the first remedy to expose Standard Oil practices, enabling just taxation and honest capitalization. It calls for vigorous state regulation to curb greed without dismantling capital, aiming to socialize industry while preserving a high organizational structure. Dr Newton and John J Cook support building a moral and scientific economic basis ensuring producers receive a fair share.
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Dr. Newton
John J. Cook
Westbound hourly trains from Grand Central via New York Central
Through trains run hourly from Grand Central Station toward the West on New York Central Lines. Two cent mileage tickets are valid on each train. Trains are illuminated by Pintsch Light. Adv.
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Grand Central Station
New York Central Lines
Frick Moves To Fight Carnegie In Westmoreland County
A Greensburg dispatch says H C Frick Coke Company plans a second move against Andrew Carnegie. Courts may dissolve Frick and annul coke contracts with Carnegie Steel. Thomas Lynch, Frick ally and company president, signed the contract under protest. Potential disclosures about Union Supply Company, a Carnegie Frick store outfit in Connellsville region, may follow.
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New York Times
Philadelphia
Greensburg
Penn
James S. Moorhead
Moorhead & Head
H. C. Frick Coke Company
Westmoreland County
Frick
Thomas Lynch
Moorhead
H. C. Frick
Andrew Carnegie
H.C. Frick Coke Company
Carnegie Steel Company
Carnegie Company
Union Supply
Carnegie-Frick
Connellsville
Rescued From an Ice Floe in the Hudson River
Two men from Yonkers, Charles Jones and Walter Leggett, were rescued by the crew of the George Washington ferryboat After being stranded on a drifting ice floe near Yonkers they signaled for help and were towed to safety at Fort Lee. They had crossed the river to deliver materials to a Yonkers factory and spent the night on the New Jersey shore.
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Hudson River
George Washington
Fort Lee
Marcus
West One Hundred and
Eightieth Street
Religion closes a factory in Sharpstown Md
A revival at the local Methodist Church caused about thirty young women to sing pray and shout at the bas ket factory. The proprietor a Methodist allowed the demonstrations and paid them as if they worked. About 500 people visited the scene and conversions were reported as services continued.
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Sharpstown
Home for Aged Women Sold to Brooklyn Sisters
The extensive Coles Carman estate on Front Street Hempstead Long Island was sold on Saturday to the Little Sisters of the Poor of Brooklyn. They plan a convent chapel and home for homeless aged women, to become the largest structures of their kind on Long Island. The 25 acre site includes several buildings and the purchase price is not yet disclosed.
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New York Times
Hempstead
L. I
Coles Carman
Front Street
Order of the Little Sisters of the Poor of
Brooklyn
de Kalb Avenue
Long Island
Carman
Shortest Line to Chicago via Pennsylvania Railroad
Advertisement touts the Pennsylvania Railroad as offering the fastest route to Chicago via the renowned Pennsylvania Limited, claiming no faster train exists.
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St. Louis
Pennsylvania Railroad
Aqv
Chicago
Pennsylvania Limited
Buller Begins Another Advance Against Hlangwane Hill
British forces under Buller launch a renewed operation to seize Hlangwane Hill as Burghers around Ladysmith reveal signs of renewed activity in the ongoing campaign.
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Buller
Ladysmith
Boers Still Fleeing as British Press Forward Toward Bloemfontein
Report from Chieveley dated Sunday notes Gen Buller establishing at Hussar Hill with heavy artillery exchanges. British infantry occupy new entrenched positions and shell Monte Cristo to enfilade Hlangwane. Boers retreat inland after heavy bombardment. Nordenfeldt used, Boer gun moved across river. several lighters abandoned. Casualties reported as few.
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London
Chieveley
Buller
Hussar Hill
Hussar Hil
Kopjes
Monte Cristo Hill
Monte Cristo
Blaauw Krantz Hill
Hlangwane
Boers Active at Ladysmith as Kimberley Relief News Spreads
Reports from Ladysmith say Boers have been active in recent days as troops move. The garrison celebrates Kimberley’s relief and remains high in spirits. Dr. Jameson suffers fever amid extreme heat. Major Doveton’s wife, granted safe passage, arrived to nurse him, but he died on Wednesday.
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Ladysmith
Heliograph
Kimberley
Jameson
Major Doveton
British Advance and Casualties Near Monte Christo Hill
CHIEVELEY Feb 18 Gen Buller reports about eighty casualties in the last three days of operations as British forces have partly ascended Monte Christo Hill marking a steady advancement in the campaign.
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Chieveley
Buller
Monte Christo Hill
British pursue the Boers near Jacobsdal and Magersfontein
Gen Kelly-Kenny advances on the Boer forces capturing over 100 wagons as Highland Brigade reinforces after a forced march. Gen French departs Kimberley to join the pursuit while the Guards occupy Magersfontein. Boers retreat with guarded rear-guard action, shells intensify, and convoy progress remains slow as horses tire. Rumors of Cronje's 7000-strong army’s capture circulate in London but lack confirmation.
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Jacobsdal
Kelly-Kenny
Highland Brigade
French
Kimberley
Magersfontein
Kopjes
Klipkraal
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Central Federated Union
Coler
August Belmont
Henry Watterson
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Kentucky
Actors’ Church Alliance
Marine Intelligence
Carnegie
Mr. Riggs
Peekskill
Western
Western Union
Postal Telegraph Companies
Astor House
Shafter
Grant
III
France
Miller
Faunee
Walter Scott
Robert Louis Stevenson
John Ruskin
Lincoln
Emerson
Whittier
Congress
Standard Oil Trust
Henry D. Lloyd
Coke Company
Sharpstown, Md
Home For Aged Women
Bloemfontein
Tugela
Lord Dundonald
Lyttelton
Sir Charles Warren
Monte Cristo Hills
Frere Camp
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