Great Steel Tral Buying Railroads and Coal Lands
Marion County West Virginia coal lands purchased for 14000000 dollars and Harrison County fields to be absorbed as part of the Billion Dollar Steel Trust expansion. The Cleveland Lorain and Wheeling Railroad acquisition ties to Federal Steel and Morgan interests with coal assets and potential Baltimore and Ohio involvement. Executive meetings between Schwab Morgan and others signal ongoing negotiations and market reactions.
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Steel Trust
Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling
Blair & Co
J. P. Morgan & Co
Wheeling
West Va
Lake Erie
Cleveland
Torain
Henry A. Taylor and Associates
Wall Street
Messrs. Blair & Co
Federal Steel Company
Lorain
Federal Steel Interests
Norman B. Ream
H. H. Porter
Chicago
Anson R. Flower
J. Pierpont Morgan
Stock Exchange
Johnson Iron Works
Johnstown
Penn
Cleveland, Lorain
Messrs. Porter
Ream
Flower
Pittsburg
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Baltimore and Ohio
Coal and Iron Road
Pennsylvania Railroad
Chesapeake and Ohio
Norfolk and Western
South
H. S. Porter
New York
Messrs
Blair and Morgan
Tworain
Steel deal negotiations make progress in financial district
Confidential talks on the steel deal continued in the financial district with officials stating progress but offering no firm timetable. Reports suggested incorporation papers could be filed in New Jersey after today’s business close, though details remained unsettled.
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Mowe
Financial
Org
New Jersey
Stock prices and page references in the financial section
The notice lists Wheat No 2 red 804c Corn No 2 mixed 4il c oats No 2 mixed 30%c cotton middling 5 16c iron Northern No 2 foundry 16 butter Western creamery v3c and directs readers to various pages for related items including Amusements Arrivals at Hotels and Out of Town Buyers Business Troubles Court Calendars Legal Notes Marine Intelligence and Foreign Mails Banks and Real Estate Weather and Yesterday's Fires Antediluvian Rye the aristocratic whiskey advertisement.
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Heal Estate
Society
United Service
Weather Report
Frick Offered Chairmanship in New Steel Concern
Reports from Pittsburgh on February 18 indicate Henry Clay Frick has been offered the chairmanship of the new large steel combine. If he accepts, he would likely assume a role similar to his prior position before resigning to Carnegie. Morgan has discussed support, while Lovejoy’s interests are to be managed by Frick. No dissensions with minority stockholders are claimed.
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Schwab
Carnegie Company
Mr. Morgan
Morgan
Gary
Federal Steel
William Nelson Cromwell
Max Pam
Steel and Wire Company
Philadelphia
Consolidated Company
Carnegie
Wall Street
National Steel
National Tube
Tennessee
Colorado
Pittsburg
Penn
Frick
New
Big Steel
Lovejoy
A . Morgan
Impeachment Vote Moves Against North Carolina Chief Justice
The North Carolina House, 62 to 33, impeaches Chief Justice David M Furbes and Associate Justice Robert M Douglas over the White vs Auditor case mandamus dispute. A Senate verdict of not guilty is anticipated amid public opposition. The session also proposes fines and imprisonment to bar Dr. D M Abbott from railroad duties if he serves post act ratification.
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Raleigh
N. C
House of Representatives
David M Furbes
Robert M. Douglas
Supreme Court
White
General Assembly
Senate
Pistol Threat at Lamothe’s Restaurant In New Orleans
A quarrel at Frank Lamothe’s St Charles Street restaurant led to Steve L'Hommedieu drawing a pistol toward Robert A. Pinkerton, Eastern manager of the Pinkerton Detective Agency. Lamothe intervened, seizing the weapon and hiding it behind the bar. No one was harmed and the Pinkertons planned to downplay the incident.
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New Orleans
Steve
L’hommedieu
Robert A. Pinkerton
Pinkerton Detective Agency
Frank Lamothe
Robert
William A. Pinkerton
Lamothe
St. Charles Street
L'Hommedieu
I. Hommedieu
Jockey Club
Washington Park
Pinkertons
Bob Pinkerton
L’ Hommedieu
G. L. Vath
Clark
McCafferty
No. 20
Price
Cuff
Church Street
Justice Jerome
Rynder
Kelly
Deafness Strikes Young Hosiery Worker in Connecticut
Louise Gibbons twenty two at the Win sted Hosiery Company inspection room became suddenly deaf after a sneeze. Doctors reported hemorrhage in the labyrinth of both ears and warned she may never hear again unless condition improves within two weeks.
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Winsted, Conn
Louise Gibbons
Winsted Hosiery Company
George W. Brown
St. John of
Hartford
Miss Gibbons
Travel Ad Promotes Pinehurst Rail Sleeper Service
Advertisement invites travel to Pinehurst North Carolina via Seaboard Air Line Railway. Mentions a trough Pullman drawing room sleeping car offered twice weekly and provides a contact at 1206 Broadway for inquiry.
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Pinehurst
N. C
Seaboard Air Line Railway
Trough Pullman
Broadway
New Train to Chicago via New York Central
Train departs Grand Central Station at 2 00 P M and arrives in Chicago the next day at 4 00 P M Sleeper parlor and dining cars offered by the New York Central system.
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Chicago
New York Central
Grand Central Station
Ady
Waldersee May Lead Expeditions in China Surmise
Berlin and London dispatches debate Count von Waldersee plans amid Boxer crises. Reports claim possible expeditions to Pe Chi Li and Shan Li with American British and Japanese transport strengths. German delays and bluff theories surface as China braces for action near Peking and Shanghai.
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Peking
Count von Waldersee
China
Mumm von Schwartzenstein
Ji-Hung-Chang
Prince Ching
Li-Hung-Chang
Shanghai
Shanghai Mercury
North China Daily News
German expedition aims to clear Pe chi li province
Berlin reports from Peking outline Field Marshal Count von Waldersee's plan to purge Pe chi li of Chinese troops and spread dread among locals. The Commissariat orders a thousand transport wagons ready in eighteen days. A detachment under Col Hoffmeister moves from Paoting Foo toward Inomai Kwan.
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Berlin
Cologne
Peking
Count von Waldersee
Pe-chi-Li
German Commissariat Department
War Office
Sees von Waldersee
von Kettler
Col. Hoffmeister
Pao-ting-Foo
Ino-mai Kwan
Anger in Washington Over Von Waldersee China Expedition
Washington officials voice horror and disapproval as von Waldersee proposes a punitive expedition into Shan Si and Shen Si following tensions with China. President McKinley to discuss options at the cabinet meeting and may issue a formal note to the powers. General Chaffee reports the plan and is ordered to avoid participation.
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Washington
Count von Waldersee
China
United States
Shan-Si
Shen-Si
McKinley
von Waldersee
Chaffee
Pennsylvanian Rail Cab Service Advertised for West 23rd St
Railroad cab service in connection with West 23rd Street Station offers prompt performance and reasonable rates. To start, call phone 914 18th Street for a hansom or four wheeler.
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Pennsylvanian Railroad
West 23Rd St
18Th St
Envoys demand compliance after unsatisfactory Chinese reply
In Peking the envoys met over China's response to punishment demands for Boxer leaders. The reply was deemed unsatisfactory and officials insisted on meeting the original terms. In Washington Beijing delays peace talks and signals exile for princes while proposing varying punishments for others.
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Peking
Washington
Conger
Prince Tuan
Duke Lan
Prince Chwang
Yu- Hsien
Chao-Chi-Chao
Ying-Nient
Chi- Hsiu
Hsu-Cheng-Yu
Britain's China policy notes Russia assurances on railways
In the House of Commons debate Lord Cranborne said Britain’s main Chinese interests are commercial and that delay in settling Chinese affairs is to be expected. He cited Russia’s temporary occupation of the Peking Shanhaikuan railway and assured disturbances will not lead to territorial gains, stressing friendly ties with the Czar.
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London
House of Commons
Lord Cranborne
Great Britain
China
Peking
Russia
Peking-Shanhai-Kuan
Manchuria
Niu-Chwang
Graf Waldersee afire off Cuxhaven
The Hamburg American liner Graf Waldersee is on fire at Cuxhaven after arriving from New York on February 16. The vessel, built in Hamburg in 1890s, is 580 feet long with quadruple expansion engines and a 9000 ton capacity. Commander Capt. E Kopff commands the ship that carried about 100 passengers on the February 2 crossing.
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Cuxhaven
Graf Waldersee
New York
Plymouth
Cherbourg
Hamburg
Hamburg-American Line
Patricia
Pennsylvania
Pretoria
E. Kopff
Russian Bark Hopper Reaches Grimsby After Collision
The Russian bark Hopper under Captain Lindblom, sailing from Hull February 14, arrived at Grimsby with bows damaged after colliding with the steamer Homer off Sapelo on February 15. Homer, built in 1880 at North Shields, 250 feet long, 34 feet beam, 17 feet deep, 819 tons net, owned by Elliot Steam Tug Company of London, is believed to have foundered with sixteen lives lost.
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London
Hopper
Lindblom
Hull
Sapelo
Grimsby
Homer
Libau
North Shields
Elliot Steam Tug Company of
Boston's New Hotel to Rise at Brunswick Site
Boston date line reports Amos Barnes plans a new hotel on the Brunswick site at Boylston and Clarendon Streets Back Bay. He aims for the largest modern Boston hotel rivaling New York's Waldorf Astoria, noting the site as ideal and denying it will be a skyscraper. Barnes, with 33 years in the business, hints at substantial development after a 1874 Brunswick building and 1876 enlargement costing near 1 million dollars.
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Boston
Mass
Boylston and
Clarendon Streets
Back Bay
Amos Barnes
New York
Barnes
Brunswick
Standard Oil Securing Oil Options in Tennessee Valley Lands
A Birmingham industrial leader says Standard Oil agents have for some time been securing oil options on lands from Russellville to Sheffield and Florence in the Tennessee Valley Alabama. Oil has been found there before but no thorough test of flow volume has been conducted. No further development beyond option acquisition is known and tests may or may not occur.
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Birmingham
Ala
Alabama
Standard Oil Company
Tennessee Valley
Russellville
Sheffield
Florence
Tennessee
Standard Oil Commpany
Railroad tourism deal advertised to California via Chicago lines
Transport advertisement offers $30.00 fares from Chicago to California via Portland Seattle and Puget Sound on Chicago and Northwestern Union Pacific and Southern Pacific lines. Settlers tickets on sale each Tuesday from February 12 to April 30. Highlights include the shortest route and finest scenery with through tourist cars. Address the Northwestern Line Office 461 Broadway New York.
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Chicago
California
Portland
Seattle
Puget Sound
Chicago & Northwestern
Union Pacific
Southern Pacific Railways
Northwestern Line
Broadway
N. Y
Ady
Canadian Club Whisky Noted for Wine Like Aroma
An advertisement extols Canadian Club whisky with a wine like aroma and flavor as a defining trait, highlighting its refined palate appeal.
British Parliament splits as government loses slim majority
In London the first Edward VII Parliament division cuts government majority to 45 from 130. Churchill makes his Westminster debut while Chamberlain defends policy and Dillon presses for adjournment. Debates over foreign policy and the South African war provoke sharp exchanges and calls for accountability.
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London
Edward VII
Winston Spencer Churchill
Westminster
Mr. Chamberlain
Lord Cranborne
John E. Redmond
Dillon
A. J. Balfour
Europe
William St. John Brodrick
House of Commons
House
Balfour
Churchill
Lord Randolph
Mr. Churchill
David Lloyd-George
Lloyd- George
Brodrick
Lloyd-George
Mr. Lloyd-George
South Africa
Transvaal
Sir Robert Reid
Chamberlain
Robert
Great Britain
Pretoria
Na‘tal
Robert Reid
Alfred Milner
Canadian Club Whisky Ad Praises Flavor and Aroma
A vintage advertisement extols Canadian Club whisky describing its flavour and aroma as delightful. The ad emphasizes quality and appeal to connoisseurs seeking a smooth, refined tasting experience.
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Adv
Chamberlain Speech Supports War Goals in South Africa
Amid cheers, Chamberlain is hailed as the leader of the war effort and pledges that Britain will pursue its aims in South Africa with unwavering resolve. He asserts the country will back the party backing the war and notes sacrifices made in the conflict.
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South Africa
Revolt of the Tories shakes British Cabinet
London reports a Tory rebellion as Conservatives consider defying the Government in a division. Liberal papers cheer the setback while editorials blame Cecil influence. The Times questions Lord Cranborne’s capacity and The Telegraph notes no oath change is planned for the coronation regarding Roman Catholicism.
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London
Daily Graphic
Cecil
the Times
Lord Cranborne
Daily Telegraph
Republicans weigh no extra session for Congress
Washington reports say Republicans in both chambers discuss avoiding an extra session unless absolutely necessary. They note the current Congress has progressed well at times but faced costly spending and tax fights, with internal disputes over revenue and appropriations. Senator Allison opposes an extra session, fearing party damage. The administration and Congress clash over a call that could affect Cubans and national finances.
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Washington
Senate
House
Congress
Treasury
Allison
Revival of Vice Admiral rank and Sampson Schley aid
Washington today saw Senator Hale introduce a bill to revive the Vice Admiral grade and allow two Rear Admirals to hold it, aiming to advance Sampson and Schley from the Spanish war era. The move spurs debate in the Senate Naval Affairs Committee over promotion lists, with others urging caution and lists to remain unchanged.
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Washington
Hale
Rep. Me
Senate Committee On Naval Affairs
Sampson
Schley
Admiral Sampson
Congress
William T. Sampson
United States Navy
United States
North Atlantic
Spain
Cuban
Santiago de Cuba
Navy Department
McComas
Santiago
Senate
Bloom
Naval Affairs Committee
Naval Register
Raid on 20 Dey Street Poolroom Draws DA Justice
District Attorney Philbin and Justice Jerome led a surprise raid on a poolroom at 20 Dey Street locating onlookers and patrons amid a Tammany linked probe. Reginald Le Vien and other alleged operators were detained for examination while roughly seventy five patrons received subpoenas to appear before the court.
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Dey Street
Philbin
Justice Jerome
Maurice F. Holahan
Board of Public Improvements
John Doe
Cortlandt Street Ferry
Schurman
O'Connor
Kelly
Price
McCafferty
Rynder
Clark
Church Street
Theergeant
Westervelt
Reginald le Vien
Jerome
Essential Convenience for Manhattan Hotels and Clubs
The Pennsylvania Railroad cabs operate from the West 23rd Street Station bringing rail facilities to the doors of leading Manhattan hotels and clubs, offering convenient service to travelers and guests.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
West 23Rd St
Manhattan
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Marion County
W. Va
Rison County Fields
Messrs. Morgan and
MR. Frick
North Carolina
The
New York Times
R.A. Pinkerton
Steve” L‘hommedieu
Walbersee
United States Administration
Daily Mail
Shan-Li
Daily News
William Vernon-Harcourt
Boston’s New Hotel
Mr. Cham
Berlain
Pro
Otard
Sampson-Schley
Mr. Philbin
Mr. Jerome
Committee of Five
Holahan
State of New York
John Jones
William Travers Jerome
Court of Special Sessions
First District
City of New York
Dew Street
Borouy
State of
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