Senate debates over Indianola affair and Mississippi attitudes
The Senate opened a regional debate on the Indianola case with Sen Spooner and Sen McLaurin arguing over federal authority and race. McLaurin asserted Mississippi would take 100000 bayonets to change its attitude toward the negro, while Spooner produced Post Office papers detailing pressure leading to Minnie Cox resignation and a mass meeting backing petitioning a black Postmaster.
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New York Times
Washington
Senate
Spooner
Senator McLaurin
Mississippi
Tillman
Carmack
House On Post
Crumpacker
Congress
House
Dix
McLaurin
Indianola
MecLaurin
Post Office Department
Roosevelt
Indonola
Minnie M. Cox
Wayne Cox
Mr. McLaurin
Mr. Carmack
Weeks
Cox
Fitzgerald
Davis
Republican Party
Getti
Wehmegerichte
Wehmeerichte
Horrors of Mazatlan Report From Mazatlan Mission
A Mazatlan Methodist pastor describes a plague city cut off by closed ports and factories. Thousands fled or starve as soldiers seal the cordon, prices rise, provisions run short, and work is scarce. The Palm Limited train advertisement follows.
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New York Times
Dallas
Texas
Broadway Goes Dry as Salons and Saloons Close at Midnight
Tenderloin and surrounding Broadway areas shut their doors at midnight hoping for a dry Sunday. Major eateries posted signs limiting alcohol, with some wine rooms closing by 1 AM on weekdays. Captain O'Reilly quipped that impending snow said otherwise.
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Tenderloin
Broadway
Shansley
O'Reilly
West Thirtieth Street
Conference Between Erie Railroad Officials and Trainmen
A large Erie Railroad trainmen delegation held a secret three hour meeting with President Underwood and Third Vice President Willard at company offices in Erie. A similar conference occurred Friday. Officials call it a friendly talk on railroad matters amid ongoing friction with the Grievance Committee. Some workers complain wages lag behind others, fueling pay disparity discussions.
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Erie
Underwood
Willard
Sisters-In-Law At Odds Over Burial Plot
In Trenton New Jersey on January 24 1900 widow Mrs Elenore Smith seeks removal of her husband’s body from the plot owned by sister in law Mrs Emma Shepherd to her own plot. Smith a wealthy manufacturer, widow and housekeeper received his fortune. At death in May 1898 the widow agreed to be buried with her husband after death. Mrs Shepherd reportedly objected to the arrangement and ordered the grave marked and leveled twice.
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New York Times
Trenton
N. J
Elenore Smith
Bloomfield
Emma Shepherd
Smith
Mrs. Shepherd
Braun and Pupin Comment on Wireless Discovery
Berlin professor Ferdinand Braun announces a method to generate unlimited electric energy and project it as waves at any distance. Pupin calls Braun’s system a significant improvement in wireless telegraphy, while Marconi declines to comment until facts are verified.
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Pupin and
Marconi
Berlin
Ferdinand Braun
Strasburg University
Signor Marconi
Atlantic
Strasburg Scientific Society
Liaun
Prof. Braun
Michael Idvorsky Pupin
Columbia University
Strasburg
Siemens-Halske Company
Signor
Braun
Chicago traction finances reveal big pledged backing
A Chicago committee negotiating streetcar franchise terms reports strong Eastern interests in Union Traction Company pledged to raise 50 million dollars if needed for improvements. J Pierpont Morgan origin of the pledge, with plans for a major financial reorganization after franchise grants. George W. Perkins of Morgan to visit, followed by Auerbach Harrity Gavin and other New York representatives.
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New York Times
Chicago
Union Traction Company
J. Pierpont Morgan
Chicago West Division
North Chicago Railway
George W. Perkins
Shallifield
Union Traction ‘ Protective Committee
Mr. Perkins
Joseph S. Auerbach
W. F. Harrity
R. R.gavin
New York
Eastern Union Traction Stockholders
Wood for Boston's Poor found in East Boston tunnel
Nearly 1000 cords of wood were uncovered by tunnel workers beneath State Street in East Boston. The supply is offered free to those in need, with leftovers moved to Levett Street Roxbury field. The timber is remnants of an old corduroy road once near the water front.
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New York Times
Boston
Chatham Row
Merchants Row
State Street
Levett Street
Roxbury
Custom House
Dexter will favors male heirs only in Boston estate
F Gordon Dexter’s will filed in Boston on Tuesday restricts inheritance to male descendants to preserve the family name. It leaves Susan Greene Dexter $10 000 annually for life and designates the Massachusetts General Hospital as successor if no male issue remains.
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New York Times
Boston
F. Gordon Dexter
Susan Greene Dexter
Massachusetts General Hospital
Hear to Gay Introduces U S Resolution for Marconi
Senator Hear to Gay introduced a concurrent resolution thanking Signor Marconi for the wireless telegraph invention and its great benefit to mankind.
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Washington
Hear to-Gay
Congress
Signor
Marconi
Coastwise ship trust formed by Boston meeting
A private Boston meeting among capitalists launched the Coastwise Transportation Company to operate the Atlantic coastwise trade with a $3,000,000 capital. The firm will acquire the Crowley fleet of schooners under Capt. John G. Crowley and is to file incorporation papers in Trenton, with Lawson Henry and others directing formation.
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New York Times
Philadelphia
Young's Hotel
Boston
Coastwise Transportation Company
Crowley
John G. Crowley
Taunton
Mass
Clement A. Griscom
John Bissell
Pittsburg
Cramps
Consolidated Coal Company
M. B. Mope Iron Company
Thomas W. Lawson
Charles W. Henry
H. M. Bean
Camden
Maine
James W. Fitch
Samuel M. Goucher
Fromer Albers
Pennsylvania's Loan Funds Immediate Construction Push
First Vice President John P. Green of the Pennsylvania Railroad announced a 35 million dollar loan arranged in New York is for immediate use to relieve traffic congestion. The loan will be temporary until stockholders approve a capital increase at the March annual meeting. Construction work east and west of Pittsburgh will be financed to add yards and multiple tracks and speed movement of traffic.
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Philadelphia
John P. Green
Pennsylvania Railroad
Gay
New York
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Pittsburg
Ice Gorge Blocks Hudson River Near Glen Station
A mile long ice and log jam on the Hudson at Glen Station, along the Adirondack division of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad, rises over forty feet and creates a lake behind it. Today's cold spell delays the jam’s breakup, but milder weather may send the block downstream threatening the nearby Adirondack Road section and bridge.
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New York Times
Saratoga
N. Y
Glen Station
Delaware *and Hudson
Hudson River
Rockefeller wood sale aids poor families in Tarrytown
John D. Rockefeller has hired wood choppers in his forest at Tarrytown New York to cut and sow trees to be sold to poor families on his estate. Nearly three hundred cords have been sold at a cord with delivery free to purchasers.
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John D. Rockefeller
Tarrytown
N. Y
Usher's Scotch Adverts on Mardi Gras Route
An old advertisement notes Usher's Standard Scotch and urges readers to write Southern Ry New York for setes. The brief copy promotes standard quality with a carnival tie in Mardi Gras publicity and directs inquiries to 271 11 veuway New York.
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Mardi Gras
New Orleans
Veuway
New York
Sete
Safe-burglary trio linked to five city thefts
Captain Langan announced three men Mary, James W. Wilson, Albert Emerson, and Edward Gallagher confessed to a spree of five safe robberies in the past month. The break-ins affected Farrell's furniture, Griffenhagen Brothers bottling, M. Von Glahn distillery, a Rose Street cafe, and Rickerson & Sons hay warehouse. Cash and valuables recovered included 52 dollars at a furniture store and 25 dollars for cigars, with tiny sums at other sites.
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Langan
Detective’ Bureau
Police
Farrell's
Eighth Avenue
Thirtieth Street
Griffenhagen Brothers
Tenth Avenue
Twenty-fourth Street
M. von Glahn
Sixty-first Street
Rose
William Street
Charles L. Rickerson
Marvin Company
Gee
Marvin
Gallagher's
Gallagher
Reap
MacCauley
Collins
Murphy
Deevy
Wilson
Emerson
Circle
Fifty-ninth Street
Bits, &c
Marvin Safe Company
Tombs
Zeller
Capt
New Yorker contests a will in Tulane bequest dispute
Edward A. Hutchinson of New York City filed a petition in the Civil District Court contesting Alexander C. Hutchinson's nun cupative will. The will left most of the estate to Tulane University for medical school buildings and grounds, while Hutchinson seeks one fourth of the estate worth about 1 million dollars.
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New York Times
New Orleans
Edward A. Hutchinson
New York City
Civil District Court
Alexander C. Hutchinson
Tulane University
Louisiana
Widow Lillie Worthington Lured Across Continent for Fraud
Mrs Worthington and her daughter Lillian Elizabeth traveled from Boston to Los Angeles after a man purported to be wealthy wooed them with promises of marriage and riches. On meeting, the supposed wealth was gone, revealing a crippled man whose wife had divorced him, leaving him penniless. she refused to marry him and faced a hard struggle for livelihood.
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New York Times
Los Angeles
Cal
Lillie Elizabeth Worthington
Boston
Lillian Elizabeth
Jefferson Baker
Penrose
Ventura County
Trenton Man Convicted of First Degree Murder
Bartholomew Zdanowicz found guilty of murder in the first degree for killing Nellie Cubberley on August 24. After a thirty one hour jury deliberation the court heard the verdict and mercy was recommended due to alleged mental imbalance, but Justice Pitney must impose the death sentence. The jury’s split over mercy was overruled.
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New York Times
Trenton
N. J
Bartholomew Zdanowicz
Zdanowicz
Nellie Cubberley
Ming
Justice Pitney
The 20th Century Limited Cuts West East Travel Time
The new 20th Century Limited of the New York Central and Lake Shore runs daily and saves time for busy travelers between the East and the West. It advertises 80 miles in 20 hours and emphasizes efficiency for business schedules.
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New ‘ 20Th Century Limited
New York Central
Lake Shore
Teller Reelected U S Senator by Democrats in Denver
In Denver on January 24 the Democratic Senate and House, 51 members, elected Henry M Teller to succeed himself as U S Senator. Republican members were absent and contesting factions formed as Madden, ill with grip, voted after arriving late. The session extended into night with guards in chambers and plans for future action by Wolcott and anti Wolcott Republicans.
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Denver
Senate
House of Representatives
Henry M. Teller
United States
W. H. Adams
Weller
Assembly
Teller
Representative Madden
Madden
Colorado
Thomas M. Patterson
Tier
House
Secretary of State
Wolcott
Supreme Court Chamber
Delaware Republicans Seek Senate Seats in Dover Row
In Dover on January 24, representatives of Union and regular Republicans met with President Roosevelt about the pending Delaware senatorial contest. J Edward Addicks and Alee for Union Republicans and T Coleman Du Pont with M Henry Robertson for Regular Republicans held brief interviews. The talks centered on Senate representation, with the President urging unity to retain two U S Senators. Dover observed a perfunctory joint session with four members present, two Union Republicans and two Democrats.
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New York Times
Washington
Delaware
J. Edward Addicks
Senator Alee
T. Coleman du Pont
Col. du Pont
M. Henry Robertson
Dover
United States
Dover. del
Armour Whipsaws Traders In Chicago Wheat Trade
Armour lifted May wheat from 80 1 2 to 82 1 2 cents then sold portions to trigger a selloff to 82 cents. Local traders were squeezed as prices jumped on Paris market gains and French purchases. Reports said ships loaded with wheat for Austria and sales to France supported the move. Florida shipments and Atlantic Coast Line ad included.
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New York Times
Chicago
Armour
Paris
France
San Francisco
Austria
Schwab Changes Travel Plans From Palermo Italy
Charles M Schwab reportedly alters schedule from Palermo to remain abroad several weeks and possibly send Margarita back without him. Oliver Wrenn confirms a cable pledging his health is improving and contradicting reports of illness.
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Palermo
Sicily
Charles M. Schwab
New York
Margarita
Mr. Schwab
United States
Schwab disputes reports on Charles M. Schwab health
Joseph E. Schwab, president of the American Foundry Co, rejects rumors of his brother Charles M. Schwab’s decline. He cites a recent visit to Nice noting improved health and plans to return to lead the United States Steel Corp in March, with no resignation contemplated.
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Pittsburg
Penn
Joseph E. Schwab
American Foundry Company
Charles M. Schwab
United States Steel Corporation
Mr. Schwab
Nice
United States
Steel Corporation
Miners clash over socialism at United Mine Workers convention
In Indianapolis on January 24 the United Mine Workers convened amid a dispute between Socialistic and Conservative factions. A pro public ownership resolution was countered by a conservative committee, and the issue was tabled. The convention also raised salaries for key officials and adopted a resolution limiting federal court injunctions against labor organizations.
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Indianapolis
United Mine Workers
L. P. Talmage
Gwynn
Kan
W. H. Haskins
Ohio
John Mitchell
W. B. Wilson
Lewis
No More Coal Middlemen Plan Emerges in Detroit
Detroit report on a proposed shift to the Standard Oil style distribution by the Coal Trust. The plan envisions direct sales to consumers, reducing dealer middlemen as public approval is seen as favorable, though local coal dealers have mixed views on public benefits and past scarcity grievances.
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New York Times
Detroit
Coal Trust
Standard Oil Company
Congress
George F. Baer
Richmond Newspapers Consolidate Into Two Papers
Richmond newsrooms announce the merger of four outlets into two daily papers. The Dispatch and The Times combine as The Times-Dispatch for morning readers, while The News and The Leader unite as News-Leader for afternoon circulation. The move ends a two year newspaper war among Hankin Williams Bryan and associates.
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New York Times
Richmond
Dispatch
Times
Times- Dispatch
News
Leader
Tle News-Leader
Leland Hankin
Alfred BB. Williams
The
Joseph Bryan
Plans a Buffalo Trust Near Kenosha Wisconsin
Major Gordon W. Lillie buys a 300 acre Kenosha area farm to raise buffalo for the market and build a million dollar buffalo trust. He aims to bring in buffalo from Oklahoma with Indian tenders, placing nearly all market stock near Milwaukee and Chicago. Government records show only about 300 buffalo exist nationwide, with Lillie already owning 8 and set to acquire the rest not in government hands or public parks.
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New York Times
Kenosha
Wis
Gordon W. Lillie
Buffalo Trust
Oklahoma
Milwaukee
Chicago
Lillie
California Sunset Limited Advertises Daily New York Service
The ad promotes daily California Sunset Limited departures from New York at 4 25 P M via multiple rail lines with superb service. It lists offices at 271 and 1185 Broadway and features an advertisement for The Shoreham in Washington D C after extensive alterations and refurnishings, now open.
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Southern
New York
St. Augustine
Florida
N. Y
Broadway
California
Sunset Limited
Southern Ry
A. L
Shoreham
Washington, D. C
Lessler Friend Details Quigg Bribe Offer Probe
At a House Naval Affairs Committee hearing in Washington on January 24, 1900, witness Doblin testified about a proposed bribery tied to votes on submarine boats. He recounted a £5 000 offer from Mr Quigg, with a possible £1 000 later, and described calls and meetings with Lessler to secure support.
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Washington
Naval Affairs Committee
House
Representative Lessler
New York
Philip Doblin
John McCullagh
Lemuel E. Quigg
Doblin
Representative Taylor
Republican Committee
Quigg
Holland
Broadway
Mr. Quigg
Lessler
Eee
J. Q
Mr. Quiggin
Mr. Lessler
Mb. Lessler
Foresterday
Lessier
Wheeler
de Lancer Nicoll
Mr. Doblin
Nicoll
The Line of Least Resistance Route Across the Midwest
The Line of Least Resistance runs along the Hudson River Mohawk Valley and through Lake Erie and Lake Michigan to Chicago with branches to Cincinnati and St Louis. It is called the New York Central.
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Hudson River
Mohawk Valley
Lake Erie
Lake Michigan
Chicago
Cincinnati
St Louis
New York Central
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Mazatlan
Mexico
Chicago Traction Finances
J. P. Morgan
Pinehurst
Charleston
Coastwise
Ship Trust
Ice Gorge
Hudson
Usher
NEW Yorker
Pitney
Republic
Ans
MR. Roosevelt
Ceaba
Thomasville
Augusta
Tampa
Palm Beach
Atlantic Coast Line
C. M. Schwab
Steel
Oliver Wrenn
Schwab
Palegno
Italy
Trust
Major Lillie
Quige
Dublin
House Committee
McCullagh
John F. McCullagh
Henry D. Herts
Rice
Holland Boat Company
Hertz
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