Dynamiters Nabbed Near Post & McCord Building
Nine police detectives stopped a plot to dynamite a five story Post & McCord building at 304 East Twenty-third Street. Three ironworkers were arrested after dynamite totaling 35 pounds and fuses were seized, with one man resisting arrest.
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Post& McCord
East Twenty-third Street
Trousesmiths’ Union
McLaughlin
Butis
Second Avenue
Post & McCord
Twenty-third Street
Twenty-fourth Street
Charles Moran
Nelson Street
Jersey City
John Guthrie
Seventh Street
Sergi Dunn
Wier
Guthrie
Guthriel
Bureau of Combatstibles
Fire
Bureau
Columbian Lodging House
Olive Tree Inn
House smiths peace effort aims at union recognition
A conciliation board to meet this week to promote recognition of the Housesmiths Union by allied iron associations backing open shop practices. President Ryu of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers arrived to assist, saying employers cannot fill all good workers without unions. A telegram from a large employer requested settlement of the Housesmiths’ trouble.
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Allied Iron Associations
Ryu
International “Association of Bridge ‘and Structural Iron Workers
Travel note hints at stops through North Carolina routes
Morning guide mentions Asheville Hot Springs Tryon Mt Toxmay waypoints through Sapphire Country in the Land of the Sky with Florida travel on the mind. It cites New York offices with numbers 271 and 1 155 b way. Adg.
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Asheville
Hot Springs
Tryon
MT. Toxmaway
Land of the Sky
Sapphire
Charming
Florida
New York
Adg
Detective seeks Dorway over $180,000 claim in New York
Detective Mulholland reports Frederick Clifford Dorway linked to a Sudbury railway tie and a Kansas will, with $180,000 to be claimed in New York. Dorway arrived January 20, letters followed, then vanished after a Fifth Avenue Hotel mail inquiry. Police notified. Quinn assigned. family in Sudbury says he may be dead or victim of foul play.
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Frederick Clifford Dorway
New York
Mulholland
Fifth Avenue
Dorway
Sergeant Quinn
Headquarters
Mr. Mulholland
Sudbury
Canada
James
Dorwizy
Doorway
Kansas
Philadelphia
Central Office
Kings County
Queens County
Quinn
Waves Toss Cunarder Campania and Brasile Crews
A Friday noon collision with two large waves hurled four Campania saloon passengers from their seats and sent a pantryman’s dishes crashing on deck. A second wave knocked down crewmen on the forward deck. The Brasile, with 1200 passengers aboard, rolled and broke much crockery but suffered no serious damage.
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Campania
Charles Herendeen
Frederick H. Wickett
James Green
Ferank Larenburg
Green
Larenburg
Hierendeen
Wickett
Stafford
Brown
Froth
Father Ellini
Train wreck near Crescent City kills engineer
A Toledo Peoria and Western west bound passenger train derailed east of Crescent City Illinois killing engineer J E Welch of Peoria. The locomotive baggage and smoking cars left the track and a day coach overturned. Twenty passengers in the day coaches were bruised. The crash was caused by a broken flange on the ten wheel. The train was moving thirty five miles an hour.
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Peoria
Toledo
Crescent City
Til
J. E. Welch
New York Arrives in Southampton February 17
Latest shipping news notes the S. S. New York arriving at Southampton on February 17.
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S. S. New York
Southampton
California Tours Offered by Southern Railway Tour
The Southern Railway announces its second high class Washington to California tour returning via the Sunset Route. It leaves Washington March 8 with two days in New Orleans one day in San Antonio one day in El Paso for Juarez Old Mexico and visits principal points in California Salt Lake and Colorado. The 29 day trip is escorted privately and costs 365 285 or 220 dollars depending on tour chosen. Offices 1-271-349-1,185 Broadway Adv.
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California
Southern Railway
Washington-Sunset
Washington
New Orleans
San Antonio
el Paso
Juarez
Old Mexico
Salt Lake
Colorado
Broadway
Vanderbilt Jr. mobbed and jailed after Pontedera crash
W K Vanderbilt Jr and his chauffeur were detained after an auto accident in Pontedera injuring a boy named Adolfo Butini. The crowd attacked the car and the Vanderbilt party, but gendarmes rescued them. The boy’s condition is serious with possible grave complications. the father declined to sue. Vanderbilt posted $40 to a hospital fund.
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Florence
W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr
Pontedera
Pisa
Vanderbilt
Adolfo Butini
Vanderbilts
Butini
Arno
JAIL FOR E F SHEPARD IN FRENCH JUSTICE ACTION
Paris report says the Ministry of Justice rejected clemency requests for Elliott F. Shepard of New York tied to a 2023 case. Shepard, grandson of W H Vandertilt, was sentenced last Oct. 26 to three months imprisonment and a $120 fine plus $4 009 damages to Madeline Marduel's parents after a crash in St Ouen on April 24. The fine and damages were paid and further clemency efforts are planned, but official action is deemed final. Shepard arrived in New York from France on Jan 8 to visit friends.
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Paris
Ministry of Justice
Elliott F. Shepard
New York
W. H.vandertilt
Madeline Marduel
France
German tariff extension bill to the United States approved
The Federal Council approved the Reichstag’s extension of the new German tariff to the United States until June 30, 1907 and sent the measure to the Emperor for signature.
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Berlin
Federal Council Today
Reichstag
United States
Florida Cuba and Nassau Train Service Ad
Southern's Palm Limited offers best Florida service with daily trains except Sunday at 12:55 PM and two other fast trains daily. Through Sleeping and Dining Car service on all trains with New York offices on Broadway.
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Florida
Cuba
Nassat
Southern
Palm
New York
Adv
Seaboard Florida Ltd Train to St Augustine
Advertisement touts Seaboard Florida Ltd as the quickest and handsomest Florida train with a 12 25 noon departure and 2 10 pm arrival to St Augustine. Office contact listed at 1183 Broadway.
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Seaboard Florida Ltd
Florida
St. Augustine
Leys to contest Mrs. Mackay in school board race
Dr. Peter D. Leys, long critical of Mrs. Mackay in Roslyn, announces he may challenge her election. He questions the August ballot results and notes unopposed terms in the past, while insisting he will not run again after twenty five years of service. Mrs. Mackay declines to comment.
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New York Times
Roslyn
L. I
Peter D. Leys
Mackay
Capt Hodgins in a Fight Over Protecting Women
Captain Hodgins, ruler of the Tenderloin, fought with a man on Thirty-sixth Street after he tried to stop two women from speaking to them. The man, named Charles J. Burns of 75 West 100th Street, was jailed at West Thirtieth Street Station and will be arraigned in court this morning. Hodgins aims to enforce order by deterring harassment of women.
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Capt. Hodgins
Tenderloin
Thirty-sixth Street
Hodgins
Broadway
Charles J. Burns
West 100Th Street
Cannon
Clapp
Tillman
Mr. Dolliver
Mr. Roosevelt
Mr. Tillman
Aldrich
Minnesota
Dolliver
Iowa
Long
Kansas
Warner
Missouri
McCumber
North Dakota
Congress
Panic at tunnel blast injures crowd near Pennsylvania tunnel
An explosion at the Pennsylvania tunnel compressed air powerhouse on Thirty-second Street caused iron and wood debris to rain over First Avenue. A defective pipe from a high pressure drill system exploded, injuring at least one man identified as E. H. Groves. officials named Frank Smith of 157 East Thirty eighth Street as in charge, while hospital details remained withheld.
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First Avenue
Thirty-second Street
Pennsylvania Tunnel
Pearson & Sons Construction Company
Howe
E. H. Groves
Frank Smith
East Thirtyeight Street
McCord
Pope Pius May Close 40000 French Churches
Rome reports Pope Pius plans drastic action if France’s church state rules offend Vatican. About 3000 Frenchmen including bishops arrive for St Peter's consecration of nineteen new French prelates. Paris sees protests against ex President Loubet amid church state separation tensions. Ten arrests, Gen. Recamier among detainees after inventory at St Thomas Aquinas.
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Rome
St. Peter's
Pius
Vatican
France
Paris
Cathedral of
Notre Dame
Loubet
T.e
Dante
M. Loubet
St. Thomas Aquinas
Gen
Récamier
Arrest Him I Am Mr Mack Complaint On Broadway Crowd Incident
Traffic Policeman Thomas Michael Galvin questioned a crowd at Broadway and Thirty-seventh Street after a man with a light hat claimed to be Commissioner Mack and ordered the arrest of a salesman Thomas Lee The commissioner later called to say the prisoner should be released after a lecture.
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Thomas Michael Galvin
Galvin
Broadway
Thirty-seventh Street
Mack
Tenderloin Station
Thomas Lee
West 184Th Street
Robinson
Train of the Century Twentieth Century Limited
The Twentieth Century Limited runs 18 hours from New York to Chicago by New York Central Lines. Leaves New York at 4 to 5 P.M. and arrives in Chicago at 8:30 A.M. next day. Advertisement.
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New York
Chicago
New York Central Lines
Auto party on rails heads to California in two cars
Two large automobiles built to run on railroad tracks depart Omaha bound for Southern California. President Underwood of the Erie Railroad leads a party returning from Pasadena to New York City, a 3500 mile trip. Extra trains will run with telegraphic dispatch orders along the route.
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New York Times
Omaha
Neb
Union Pacific Railroad
California
Underwood
Erie Railroad
New York City
Pasadena
San Pedro
Union, Pacific
Northwestern
Chicago
Irie
New York
Two Pittsburg Street Cars Crumble In Frost-Induced Wrecks
Two Pittsburg Railways street cars derailed in separate accidents within twenty minutes, injuring forty passengers as ice rails spread by warm ground frost. One car plunged eighteen feet near Bennett. the other fifteen feet opposite Rising Sun Hotel. Several badly hurt, three near death as cars slammed into the Baltimore and Ohio line.
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Pittsburg
Millvale and
Etna
Pittsburg Railways Company
Bennett
Rising Sun
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Tommy's Quest of Fortune
Ten year old Thomas Richardson, son of F B Richardson of 56 Hinckley Place Brooklyn, sails for Manhattan after reading ads of easy money. He agrees to work for a grocer for 2 dollars weekly, sleeps in a wagon at night, and returns home after tiring of the job as police review the case.
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Thomas Richardson
F. B. Richardson
Hinckley Place
Brooklyn
Manhattan
Tommy
New York
Richardson
Brooklyn Police
Florida's Famous Trains Schedule Note
Florida's famed rail routes listed with departure times 2 10 P M for New York and Florida Special and 9 25 A M for Florida and West Indian Limited via Penn and Atlantic Coast Line. Also references Broadway advertising.
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Florida
N. Y
SLAIN BY DIPLOMAT'S SON IN BRUSSELS
In Brussels on February 24 M Waddington son of the Chilean Chargé d Affaires fatally shot Balmaceda the Secretary of the Consulate He took refuge in the Chilean legation and police cannot enter under extraterritorial law His father promised to take responsibility and to decide whether to surrender him to police or Chilean authorities Balmaceda was to marry Waddington's sister and the shooting followed Balmaceda’s alleged intention to end the engagement
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Balmaceda
Waddington
Legation
Foreign Minister
Foreign Office
Southern Pacific steamer Prince Arthur loses shaft en route to Havana
The Prince Arthur bound for Havana from New Orleans broke her shaft, leaving one propeller. The ship is in Havana and likely to be docked, causing cancellation of early sailings. Reports say Mr and Mrs Nicholas Longworth had booked passage for a Havana departure.
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New Orleans
Southern Pacific Company
Cable
Havana
Nicholas Longworth
Fight Ohio 2 Cent Fare Law Across Railroads
In Philadelphia on February 24 a conference at Broad Street Station united all affected rail systems to challenge Ohio's new law cutting rail fares to 2 cents per mile. James McCrea, VP of the Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburgh, led the meeting. John G. Johnson, famed Norton Securities advocate, was retained to aid the railroad groups in pursuing legal action up to the Supreme Court.
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New York Times
Philadelphia
Ohio
Broad Street
James McCrea
Pennsylvania Lines
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
John G. Johnson
Northern Securities
Supreme Court of the United States
Julia Marlowe Injures Ankle For Nixon Theatre Run
Actress Julia Marlowe sprained her ankle returning from a visit in the East End. She was taken to Fort Pitt Hotel and ordered to rest in her room. Alice Harrington covered her roles as Katherine and Portia as the company planned to depart for Cincinnati with Marlowe expected to return Monday.
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New York Times
Pittsburg
Julia Marlowe
Nixon Theatre
H. Sothern
East’ End
Fort Pitt
Katherine
Portia
Alice Harrington
Marlowe
Cincinnati
Siff
Alexander Family Hints at Mr. Alexander’s Recovery
At James W. Alexander’s home H M Alexander reported that his father ex president of the Equitable Life Insurance Society shows improving condition and doctors express optimism for recovery.
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James W. Alexander
The
Equitable Life Insurance Society
H. M. Alexander
Henderson Near Death in Dubuque
Dr Han cock said ex Speaker Pyle Henderson could not live more than twenty four hours. The bulletin came from Dubuque Iowa on February 24.
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Dubuque
Iowa
Hancock
Pyle Henderson
Henderson
Million Dollar Fire Destroys Intercolonial Rail Cars
A blaze in Moncton New Brunswick at the Intercolonial Railroad workshop destroys the private car of Earl Grey Canada’s Governor General and fifteen passenger cars. The car-manufacturing plant and locomotive shops burn, with over 100 cars and costly machinery ruined. Total loss put above 1 million dollars.
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Moncton
N. B
Intercolonial Railroad
Earl Grey
Canada
1875 Gold Dollar Found By Albany Buyer
A. C. Myers, buyer for an Albany dry goods house, found an 1875 gold dollar on a Madison Avenue car. Numismatists value such coins at about 75 dollars in good condition. few exist. The coin was under a newspaper near Fifty Fourth Street, then Meyers kept it.
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A. C. Myers
Albany
Madison Avenue
Myers
Fiftyfourth Street
Sunset Route and Southern Railway Passenger Line Notice
Arizona California and Mexico travel routes via Sunset Route through Washington to Southern Railway and related lines. Advertisement for Annex Pullman drawing room sleeping car service. Departs from New York Daily offices at 4 25 P M with offices at 271 and 1186 Broadway.
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Arizona
California
Mexico
Washington
Southern Railway
P. W
Ala
Sumeet
New York
Broadway
Black Diamond Express to Chicago Sleeper and Rates
Buffalo Parlor Car available with through sleeper to Chicago. Chicago fare nineteen dollars, Buffalo eight dollars fifty cents. Services operate via High Valley at 306 and 1234 Broadway, New York.
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Chicago
Buffalo
High Valley
B'way
N. L-Ady
Tillman Plans a Fight for Changed Rate Bill
Democratic leaders in the Senate map strategy as the Hepburn railroad rate bill moves under Tillman control. President Roosevelt's support shifts amid GOP and Democrat tensions, with Tillman seen as pivotal in shaping the bill and party unity.
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Tillman
Senate
Congress
Mr. Aldrich
Roosevelt
Aldrich-Crane-Kean-Foraker
Aldrich
House
White House
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Wuocst
E. F. Shepard
Kaiser
Leys
Allens
Pope Pius
Pontiff
Recamier
MR. Mack
Auto Party
ON Rails
Mr. Underwood
Tommy’s
Brussels
M. Waddington
Railroads
J. W. Alexander Better
D. B. Henderson
New Brunswick
Sobers
Colpburn
Townsend
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