Cabinet Summoned by a Hurryed Call in White House
Washington June 10 Cabinet members summoned by President after talk with Secretary Hay assembled at 8 pm in the White House. Six present in evening dress, including Leng's with his young son. Meeting concerned a private matter not related to Cuba or other public issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
White House
Leng
Long
Hay
Buffalo
Gage
Hitchcock
Wilson
Knox
Smith
Root
McKinley
Cuba
China
Philippines
Supreme Court
Mrs McKinley Improves at White House
Washington June 10 Dr Rixey said Mrs McKinley is doing very nicely and gaining steadily She sat up in a rolling chair for about an hour today Surgeon General Sternberg noted continued improvement The White House relief from anxiety grows as physicians report progress though danger remains and the President stays hopeful
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Washington
Rixey
White House
Souvenir Gifts From Walsh for President and Cabinet
The President and Mrs. McKinley and the Cabinet ladies received gifts from Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Walsh in Glenwood Springs Colorado. The President's gift is a leather bound book of views with gold plate engravings. Mrs. McKinleys gift is a gold card case from New York Colorado gold with fine workmanship. Cabinet ladies received engraved cartcoases using gold and silver.
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Washington
Colorado
McKinley
New York
Twins May Avert Lynch Attempt At Missouri Hearing
Special to The New York Times. In Cape Fair Stone County residents gather for a preliminary hearing of Mrs John Stallion her father William Crabtree and brothers William and James on murder charges. Parson anger rises but twins three months old may protect her from violence as crowd dwarfs the county’s rail access.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cape Fair
Stone County
John Stallion
William Crabtree
William
James
Parsons
Justices of the Peace
Index to Departments and Market Notes
Stocks irregular and commodity quotes listed with No 2 red and No 2 mixed prices. Entries include middling cotton at 8 1 2 cents, iron offerings, foundry steel at $16.25, Western butter at 19 cents, and various page references for sections such as Amusements and Real Estate. Advertisements for Pond’s Extract and Antediluvian Rye appear alongside notices about fire coverage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
le B
Aoe Ientelligence
United Service
Weather Report
Ninety Two Railways Chartered Under Focht and Emery Acts
Harrisburg officials announce charters granted to ninety two railway companies totaling 12 million in capitalization with a 42146 state bonus. Philadelphia councils introduce fourteen ordinances for street railway franchises underground surface and elevated lines plus a Broad Street subway plan in favor of two main companies. A Cleveland telegram hints at 3 cent fares and possible challenges to franchise validity.
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Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
State Department
Philadelphia
Broad Street
Surface Railway Company
Elevated Railway Company
Albert L. Johnson
Cleveland
Johnson
Transit Chief Pledges Study To Cut St Louis Accidents
President Murray Carleton of the transit company says he and General Superintendent Grant will study today’s crash patterns on St Louis and East St Louis lines to locate fault and fix failures. They aim to reduce accidents ahead of the World’s Fair traffic and make the system as safe as private cars.
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St. Louis
Grant
Nation style liquor crusade hits Plainfield speakeasies
Plainfield New Jersey authorities led by Chief Kiely join a Carrie Nation style crackdown on so called speakeasies. Patrolman Morris Higgins raided a store run by Mrs Catharine Burns breaking beer bottles and police instruct to enter quickly and smash illegal sells without warrants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plainfield
N. J
F. J. Kielyat
Carrie Nation
Morris Higgins
Catharine Burns
Central Union Telephone seeks $5 million with $60 share assessment
Chicago June 10. President Sabin announces to stockholders that $5,000,000 is needed. The plan calls for a $60 per share assessment, $3,000,000 immediate, $1,000,000 in 1902 midyear, $1,000,000 in late 1902, plus net income. Stock ends at 40, down 7 points.
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Chicago
Sabin
Central Union Telephone Company
New Sightseer Train to Buffalo Debuts June
New York Central will start a new daylight train to Buffalo on Monday June 17 leaving Grand Central at 9 20 A M and arriving Buffalo at 9 20 P M. The service offers a daylight ride along the Hudson River and Mohawk Valley to Buffalo.
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Buffalo
New York Central
Grand Central Station
Hudson River
Mohawk Valley
Through Train Service At Grand Central
From Midnight to Midnight there is an average of a through train every hour leaving Grand Central Station by the New York Central Lines offering the most complete through train service in America.
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Grand Central Station
New York Central Lines
America
Adv
Suit for 182508 on stock transactions against Kessler
London brokerage Crews Lichtenstadt & Co. sue George A. Kessler in U S Circuit Court for 182508 60 on stock trades from March 14 to May 21 this year. Kessler counters with over 250000 claim, alleging fictitious prices and panic period misdoings, plus demand for stock and near three million dollars in cash.
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London
Crews, Lichtenstadt & Co
Charles Thomas
Daniel Crews
August Lichtenstadt
George Henry
Martin Whish
Frank Alder
Cecil Edward Byers
United States
George A. Kessler
Mr. Kessler
Ontario and Western
St. Paul
Union Pacific
de Beers Consolidated Mining Company
de Beers
Onttario and
Western
Leon Brothers
Ladenburg, Thalmann & Co
New York
Kessler
London Stock Exchange
Doctors Attack "Healers" in Typhoid Case Clash
In Jacksonville Florida two physicians filed a death certificate alleging typhoid fever caused by medical neglect and interference by a Christian Scientist named Mrs Campbell The doctors Morris and Love claim Holmes died June 6 after neglect of prescribed medicine Health Officer Dr Joyner plans to seek court action amid the dispute between regular physicians and the Christian Science movement
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Jacksonville
Fla
Christian Science
George Holmes
A. Morris
Dr. Love
Morris
Campbell
Love
Joyner
Machinists Rule Death Certificate From Christian Scientist Invalid
The International Machinists Association declared that future death benefit claims will not recognize a death certificate issued by a Christian Science doctor. The decision affects claim validity and benefits processing for members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toronto
International Machinists’ Association
Pastor Wins in Court Over Sermon Language
In Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania Judge Ferris approved Bishop Charles F. Fowler’s finding that a Welsh Methodist Church pastor could preach in any language. The pastor alternated Welsh and English sermons after factions locked him out, and his legal suit was upheld, allowing free pulpit language.
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New York Times
Wilkesbarre
Penn
Ferris
Charles F. Fowler
Fowler
Express firms clash as injunction forces AmEx to accept packages
Terre Haute Ind June 10 Judge Piety of the Circuit Court granted a mandatory injunction ordering the American Express Company to accept parcels from the Southern Indiana Road express line led by John R Walsh of Chicago. The action follows a new statute pushed by Walsh's representatives amid strong opposition from established lines at the Legislature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terre Haute
Ind
Piety
Circuit Court
American Express Company
Southern Indiana Road
John R. Walsh
Chicago
Drowned Men Recovered Near Nutley Quarry
The bodies of William Clough and William Conan were recovered this forenoon after their boat overturned off Eton's stone quarry at Nutley. Clough, 30, from Franklin, and Conan, 20, of Belleville, identified the drowned pair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newark
N. J
Eton
Nutley
William Clough
Franklin
William Conan
Belleville
Boston man is charged with forgery after chase
Melville Chester Jr of Boston faces 25 forgery charges and a six block pursuit before capture at the Auditorium Annex. Police say Chester admits to being sought in multiple cities for dozens of forgeries and attacks, claiming a troubled pattern and intent to reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Melville Chester, Jr
Boston
Sergis. Bock
de Sousa
Central Station
Auditorium Annex
Colleran
Kansas City
Memphis
Judge rules excise power over saloon licenses in St Louis
Judge William Zachritz dismissed the certiorari case Delabar vs Excise Commissioner Seibert. He said the Excise Commissioner has absolute authority to revoke licenses for violations and that no one has a vested right to liquor traffic. The ruling cites Supreme Court guidance on determining facts for legal actions.
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ST. Louis
J. M. Seibert
William Zachritz
Circuit Court
Delabar
Seibert
Zacritz
Excise Commissioner
Supreme Court
Excise
Chicago Fire Chief Denis Swenie Retires After 50 Years
Denis G. Swenie resigns after more than half a century with the Chicago Fire Department and over twenty years as chief. The mayormandated a medical exam forcing him out amid heart concerns, with assistant Musham and potential successor Marshall Horan discussed. Swenie, born in Glasgow in 1844, began as a volunteer in 1849 and worked through injuries, always answering alarms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Swenie
Marshall Horan
Musham
Dynamite Hidden Beside Rail Line Foiled Train Robbery
A cowboy found about 800 pounds of dynamite in rocks along a desolate stretch near Green River six miles below the Union Pacific tracks. He moved it to a ravine and waited. Later two men with three horses appeared but fled when the plan failed, failing to locate the explosives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheyenne
Wyoming
Union Pacific
Green River
Capt Clark Greets Comrades at Dorothea Arrival
In Chicago Capt Clark visits the Dorothea training ship for the Illinois Naval Militia. He greets Crafts Higgins and Macon and shakes hands with each man in the gig as cheering crowds and a band observe. The militiamen include ten veterans who sailed with Clark on the Oregon during the Cape voyage seeking the Spanish fleet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Ill
Clark
Rocks
Dorothea
Illinois Naval Militia
Crafts
Higgins
Macon
Naval Militia
Oregon
Cape
Wage Question in Alabama
In Birmingham this morning the Alabama Coal Operators' Association held its annual session to discuss the wage question and plan action in response to a proposed wage contract from coal miners. A joint conference with miners is expected to occur, with talks likely to begin as July 1 when the current wage scale expires.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
Alabama Coal Operators’ Association
Burnett's Extract of Vanilla Advert
An advertisement extols Burnett's Extract of Vanilla as a superior flavor delicacy and urges use. It also promotes Johann Hoff's Malt Extract, claiming it aids appetite and digestion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burnett
Johann Hoff
New York man and wife found dead in Chicago hotel
Louis Hartman and Rose Violette were discovered shot dead side by side in a Chicago Great Northern Hotel room. Hartman, son of New York tobacco merchant Max Hartman, appears to have killed Violette and then himself. The couple, registered as husband and wife, had arrived earlier in the week and led a discreet life until the tragedy.
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Chicago
Louis Hartman
Max Hartman
New York
Great Northern Hotel
Providence
Philadelphia
Thirty-fifth Street
Broadway
New York City
C. Hartman
Rose Violette
Hartman
Rot
Ecord
Pearl Street
Seventh Avenue
Young Hartman
Mamaroneck
Reading
Penn
West Thirty-fourth Street
Mr. Hartman
Sentinel
Volunteers Return from Philippines with No Battle Losses
The Thirty first Volunteer Regiment returned to San Francisco landing at the Presidio after two years in the Philippines. Not a shot was fired by any member, with only thirty deaths due to disease, drowning, or non combat causes among 1041 aboard. Col James Pettite remains in Mindanao and Jolo. Col L M Brett led the regiment home.
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San Francisco
Presidio
Philippines
Fort Thomas
Kentucky
Tennessee
Indiana
Ohio
James Pettite
Mindanao
Jolo
Zamboanga
Col
L. M. Brett
Thirty-first
Presidente
Midel
Towne-McMillin oil venture charter filed in Texas
The Export Oil and Pipe Line, with capital stock of 2,000,000 dollars, was chartered in Austin. Ex Senator Charles A. Towne of Duluth is the promoter and principal stockholder, with Gov Benton McMillin of Tennessee and other prominent incorporators from Buffalo, New Orleans, Jackson, Kansas City and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Texas
Secretary of State
Charles A. Towne
Duluth
Minn
Benton McMillin
Tennessee
Harvey J. Hopkins
Buffalo
Gordon
Orme
New Orleans
R. H. Henry
Jackson, Miss
Charles C. Orthwein
Kansas City, Mo
Stephen M. Scott
Joseph
Beaumont oil company forms with Broussard and Withers
The new Beaumont firm will base its principal office in Beaumont with Towne as active manager. The land includes about a quarter acre in the Spindle Heights oil district. Plans call for 12 or more wells, a Lyne line system, storage tanks and tank cars, and a future large Beaumont refinery when warranted by production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beaumont
Contempt fines in Worcester carpet case
The Bigelow Carpet Company of Clinton was fined 2000 dollars. Clinton agent Edward W. Burdett was sent to the House of Correction for twenty days. Walter F. Page and M. J. Flagg each fined 100 dollars for contempt for violating a judge's injunction over underground electric conduits in Clinton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Worcester
Mass
Bigelow Carpet Company
Clinton
Edward W. Burdett
House of Correction
Walter F. Page
M. J. Flagg
Francis A. Gaskill
Superior Court
Main
School
Clinton Gas Light Company
Gas and Electric Light Commission
Selectmen
Carpet Company
Gas Light Company
Gaskill
Scott
Woman Sustained by Faith in Maine Murder Trial
In Portland Maine on June 10 a murder trial opened for Edward Graffam charged with killing Clifford Mosher in Gorham on Jan 12 1901. County Attorney Whitehouse outlined evidence and witness Martha Mosher described two intruders attacking her son and the struggle that ended in his death.
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Portland
Edward Graffam
Clifford Mosher
Gorham
Whitehouse
William Hands
Graffam
Martha F. Mosher
Clifford
Freeman Richardson
Cadet Must Wait For Diploma At Naval Academy
Annapolis Md June 10 Naval Cadet Merlyn G Cook of Kansas a first class man at the Naval Academy failed to receive his diploma for being present during a hazing incident last Fall Authorities ruled he should have intervened and stopped the hazing Cadet Cook who is 23rd in a class of 67 two youngest cadets will wait until after the Summer practice cruise before receiving his diploma
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annapolis
Dorth
Merlyn G. Cook
Kansas
Naval Academy
Cook
Dortch
Blacklist suit over labor refusals ruled for Libby Packers
Judge Waterman ruled the eight plaintiffs cannot sue Libby, McNeil & Libby over a blacklist tied to quitting jobs. He held strikes, lockouts, and boycotts are not illegal and an employer may refuse reemployment after a strike. The decision stresses no action for motives behind such refusals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Libby, McNeil & Libby
Bees Swarm In City Street At Poughkeepsie
A massive swarm of thousands of bees flooded Main Street in Poughkeepsie New York at noon drawing crowds and causing suffering from stings. The queen guided the swarm to a trolley pole before helpers moved them to a hive atop an awning for containment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Main Street
Steel Revival Sparks Birmingham Mills Restart
In Birmingham Alabama on June 10 renewed demand in finished iron and steel goods led the old Birmingham Rolling Mill to resume operations after months idle. The plant's steel mill was overhauled for immediate restart and about 2350 workers returned to jobs as district rolling mills work at capacity. The steel and iron market in the district is unusually strong for this time of year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
Daily Overland Limited Narrows Chicago to San Francisco
The Overland Limited runs daily year round from Chicago to San Francisco via the Chicago and North Western Union Pacific and Southern Pacific lines, connecting with the North Western Line at Broadway 461.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
San Francisco
Overland Limited
Chicago & North- Western
Union Pacific
Southern Pacific
North-Western
Pond's Extract Ad Promotes Shaving Comforts
An old advertisement touts Pond's Extract as a shaving aid offering cooling comfort and soothing lather for a smooth shave. The copy emphasizes enjoyable, refreshing effects and positions the product as a practical grooming aid.
Fifteen Committee to Diminish Raids and Roam Tenements
The Committee of Fifteen plans to cut back gambling house raids after July first and shift effort to suppress vice in tenement districts and to target women of ill repute. It will drop requests for Justice Jerome to supply warrants and violence and reduce the detective force under Chief McCullagh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
William Travers Jerome
Exe
John McCullagh
Justice Jerome
Tammany Hall
Committee of Fifteen
Jerome
Philbin
Jacob H. Schiff
Charles Stewart Smith
Murphy
Beaver Street
Devery
Protests Link Crimmins to Tammany in Gambling Controversy
The note quotes John D. Crimmins denying political plots and defending Committee of Fifteen raids as protecting home life. It cites Justice Jerome’s methods, police duties, and concerns over Canfield’s removal, Gaines funding, and the Committee of Fifteen’s collapsing finances with Austen G. Fox and others summoned from Virginia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John D. Crimmins
Crimmins
Philbin
Jerome
Committee of Fifteen
Justice Jerome
Canfield’s
Forty-fourth Street
New York
Red Light
Austen G. Fox
Virginia
Mr. Schiff
Schiff
William F. Baldwin, Jr
George Foster Peabody
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Alice
John Yocum
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Woods
Mrs. Nation
Telephone Company
Pastor
Judgze
Stcott Express Company
Adyv
Melville Chester
Ith Swenie
Capt. Clark
Alabama
Bacco
C. A. Towne
Massachusetts Corporation
Faiq
Mr. Crimmins
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