President Roosevelt Heads To Mississippi Bear Hunt Camp
President Roosevelt continues to Memphis this morning after a Kentucky to Mississippi journey. He aims for four days of recreation in the woods near Smedes, Miss., with hunts organized by Stuyvesant Fish and John McElhenny, while not pursuing bear as the sole aim. The trip includes stops in Columbus and Dennison with cheers from crowds and a brief speech in Ohio.
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Smedes
Miss
Vicksburg
Wade Hampton
Black Horse Cavalry
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Stuyvesant Fish
Tlinois Central
Rockies
Fish
Mississippi Delta
Memhis
Memphis
Ohio
Tramway
Dennison
Luke Wright
Philippines
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Columbus
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Axine
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Lyng
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Tyree, Walsh
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Connell
United States Secret Service
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Cincinnati Police Force
Gen. Duke
Mr. Knott
Steel firm secures coal land to secure supply
United States Steel Corporation moves to protect coal supply after the national strike. It has leased 5,000 acres of Sullivan County Indiana coal territory for years, signaling Western plants will stay put, with six in Indiana and one in Chicago, to mitigate gas shortages.
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New York Times
Richmond
Ind
United States Steel Corporation
Sullivan County
Indiana
Chicago
Barge Hamilton Brings Down Largest Item in Fleet
Montreal on November 12 reports the barge Hamilton of the Montreal Towing Company’s fleet has brought down the largest...
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New York Times
Montreal
Quebec
Hamilton
Montreal Towing Company
Index to Departments and Page References
Commercial World and Amusements sections listed with page numbers. Hotels and Out-of-Town Buyers on page 10. Business Troubles and Court Calendars on page 10 and 11. Insurance Notes on page 12. Legal Notes on page 16. Losses by Fire and Yesterday's Fires on page 10. Marine Intelligence and Foreign Mails on page 10. New Corporations on page 10. Estate and Service pages noted, with Berea referenced.
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Freight ship carries record wheat cargo via inland routes
The vessel left Fort William with over 70 000 bushels of wheat and, after discharging 11 000 at Kingston due to strong rapids, arrived at Montreal with 60 000 bushels. This surpasses the previous record of 50 000 bushels for inland shipments through Cana das waterways.
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Canada
Fort William
Kingston
Montreal
President's influence in Delaware fight shapes party split
The New York Times reports President McKinley's decision to recognize the Union Republicans in Delaware could steer the ongoing factional struggle. Addicks argues administration support would settle the split. Payne says recognition affirms the Union Republicans while not ignoring the regulars.
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New York Times
Washington
Delaware
Addicks
Senate
McKinley
Roosevelt
Payne
United States
White Republicans Confused by President Strife
Washington report says Southern Republicans face internal turmoil as the President attacks the white party movement. Alabama officials may lose posts like Birmingham Postmaster Hughes and Mobile Marshal Simmons, while North Carolina Senator Pritchard’s leadership could falter, risking the movement's unity and deflating hopes for a white man's party. Democratic voices split on the fallout.
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Alabama
Vaughan
Internal Revenue
Bingham
J. W. Hughes
Birmingham
W. S. Reese
Montgomery
Frank Simmons
Mobile
North Carolina
Senator Pritchard
Pritchard
Oyster Bay
South
Will Let Tariff Alone Say GOP Leader In Washington
Representative Charles H. Grosvenor of Ohio says the tariff will not be revised this session and predicts lawmakers will focus on the appropriation bill. He notes the Dingley era pace and cites voter support for Republican restraint on tariffs amid prosperity. He links Foss's Massachusetts loss to a cautious mood.
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New York Times
Washington
Charles H. Grosvenor
Ohio
Dingley
Foss
Massachusetts
Republican Party
Central push ad touts Hudson River run and Briarcliff milk
An advertisement extols travel along the Historic Hudson River by the New York Central Rail Road calling it the American Rhine. It also promotes Briarcliff Milk with farm to consumer delivery and emphasizes superior food quality.
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Hudson River
New York Central
Civil Service Tangle Over Police Positions
The Civil Service Commission held a long session at its new Elm Street headquarters to discuss 1200 police patrolman applicants. Questions from a substitute exam raised controversy over potential paper leakage and accuracy, leaving fewer than 100 earning spots and no action taken that day.
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Willis L. Ogden
Vanderbilt, Mason
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Ireland
Ogden
Board of Examiners
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Friedland Beach
Greater
New York
Partridge
Manhattan
Bronx
Broadway
Third Avenue
Richmond
Queens
Police Department
Municipal Civil Service Commission
State Civil Service Commission
Commission
Elm Street
Molders Strike at Buckeye Plant in Poughkeepsie
Twenty six molders at Adriance Platt & Co in Poughkeepsie went on strike over alleged wage cuts longer hours and apprenticeship rules. Company officer says dispute masks union control aim. Buckeye mowers reapers and binders are produced at the plant.
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New York Times
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Adriance, Platt & Co
Buckeye
W. A. Adriance
Adriance
Bronze and Marble Tablet Honoring Lt Commander Jesse M Roper
A bronze and marble tablet will be placed in the National Academy Chapel to honor Lieut. Commander Jesse M Roper who died saving a seaman aboard the gun boat Petrel near Cavite in spring 1901. The tablet is being made in Philadelphia and will first occupy the old chapel before joining other tablets in the new chapel funded by Congress.
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Annapolis
National Academy
Jesse M. Roper
Petrel
Cavite
Philippine Islands
Philadelphia
Congress
Canadian firms order rails from German manufacturers
Mackenzie, Mann & Co., owners of the Canadian Northern Railway and a Nova Scotia line, have just closed a 40,000 ton Rails and fastenings order with German firms. It is the largest single Canadian export order, as Grand Trunk and Canadian Pacific also place big German contracts. German State Railways will relay tracks, while Canadian railways seek to fill orders before prices rise.
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New York Times
Montreal
Quebec
Mackenzie, Mann & Co
Canadian Northern Railway
Nova Scotia
Canada
Grand Trunk
Canadian Pacific Railroad
Horn
Vancouver
Canadian Railways
National Association of Manufacturers of Chamber Suits Disbands
In Cincinnati on November 12 the National Association of Manufacturers of Chamber Suits failed to agree on prices after an all day session. Most members favored a sharp advance, and the group effectively disbanded with about 125 members present, representing roughly the same number of plants.
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New York Times
Cincinnati
National Association of Manufacturers of
Pall Mall London Cigarettes Ad Endorsement
Advertisement for Pall Mall London Cigarettes promotes them as specially recommended for gentlemen who smoke the finest blends of Turkish tobacco, endorsed by Ady.
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Pall Mall
London
Mascagni Seeks Italy's Intervention Over Boston Arrest
The Tribuna reports Italy will elevate the Boston arrest of Signor Mascagni to an international issue. Mascagni telegraphed Premier Zanardelli asking Italy to protect him from alleged mistreatment in America. Prinetti will handle the case after embassy report. Meyer has not been asked to explain.
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The
Tribuna
Italy
Boston
Signor Mascagni
Mascagni
Zanardelli
America
Signor Zanardelli
Signor Prinetti
Mascaegni
Washington
United States
Meyer
Foreign Office
Sad Lot of Working Women in Cleveland
Cleveland observers report dire conditions for working women. Director of Charities Harrison R. Cooley finds average living costs at $5.24 while average wages run $4.83. Among 38 women questioned, 12 earned $3 and 6 were paid $2 weekly. He calls the situation a tragedy of the industrial and social system.
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New York Times
Cleveland
Ohio
Harrison R. Cooley
Window Glass Agreement Protects Trade For Season
Pittsburg November 12 The Jobbers Association has signed an agreement to shield the window glass trade for the current season. It addresses a price cut by independent jobbers claiming control of independent factory outputs. Factories under Philadelphia scale face Burns scale wage advantages, and the pact sets a limited delivery price ceiling to defend against mechanized blowing machines.
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New York Times
Pittsburg
Jobbers’ Association
Philadelphia
Woman's Fear of Cats Leaves Her Jaw Displaced
Lizzie Cunningham has suffered cat-induced hysteria for thirty one years. After a cat attack she often dislocates her jaw. Bellevue Hospital surgeons treated her twice in one day. She recalls a 16 year old encounter with a cat and has lived with a morbid fear ever since.
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Lizzie Cunningham
Bellevue Hospital
Hallowell
East Seventeenth Street
Morris
Wife Accuses Husband of Abuse in Supreme Court Testimony
Dr Julius Broder a young east side physician testifies in a separation suit that his wife beat him slung water down his back rammed his head into a corner hurled soup at his nose and disrupted his home and office. His wife counters that he was the aggressor and assaulted her. They married in 1894 and later separated. The case resumes.
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Supreme Court
Julius Broder
East Side
Broder
Blackmailer Harlow Cazar Found Guilty in Ithaca Case
In Ithaca New York Harlow Cazar of Peruville was found guilty of attempting to blackmail Benn Conger a Groton manufacturer with a 12000 dollar ransom. A lookout spot was staked with deputies and a shooting incident occurred as the suspects fled the scene. The court withheld sentence and prosecutors pursued clemency.
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Ithaca
N. Y
Harlow Cazar
Peruville
Benn Conger
Groton
Cazar
Pennsylvania Special-20 Hours to Lie Tate
A cryptic wire fragment suggests a Pennsylvania item involving a 20 hour period and a Tate correspondence possibly in transit.
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Pennsylvania
Tate
TwentyStory Hotel Brunswick Planned on Madison Square
Promoters announce a twenty story Hotel Brunswick at the old Brunswick site on Madison Square with construction to begin May 1, 1903. Land fronts Fifth Avenue and extends 130 feet on Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Streets, with Knickerbocker Trust backing and Gustav Baumann leading the project.
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Hotel Brunswick
Fifth Avenue
Brunswick Construction Company
Brunswick Hotel Company
Gustav Baumann
Holland House
S. H. G. Stewart
Stewart & Co
Broadway
Henry E. Howland
W. S. Randall
Knick
Knickerbocker Trust Company
General Building and Construction Company
Charles T. Barney
Old Brunswick
Brunswick
S. Townsend Burden
Stevenson
Twenty-sixth
Twenty-seventh Street
Burned Bridge Incident Injures Steamer Crew
The Norwich Line steamboat City of Worcester struck wreckage from a burned East River Bridge, snapping a mast and sending the topmast section into the ship. No injuries were reported. Col. S. M. Mansfield said no complaints had been received and no action would be taken for a temporary obstruction.
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Norwich Line
Worcester
New East River
North River
Col
S. M. Mansfield
United States Army Engineer Corps
Department of the East
Barred Cuban immigrant faces deportation to Cuba
Constantino Garcia a Cuban resident in the United States for months was deported after Ellis Island officials ruled him excludable. He had stowed away on the Ward liner Mexico bound for Havana and later returned on the Monterrey. The immigration board ordered his removal to Cuba by the first steamship, while the Ward Line weighs transportation losses and Garcia contemplates jumping overboard.
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Constantino Garcia
Havana
New York
Mexico
Ellis Island
Garcia
Ward
Monterey
Cuba
Ward Line
Debt of Odd Fellows Home Paid in New Jersey
Trenton New Jersey November 12 Grand Master H S Pine of Jersey City aided by Trustee Henry Poster paid off the Odd Fellows Home debt. The three thousand dollar mortgage was cleared and the floating debt of three hundred fifty dollars settled signaling swift financial relief after the property passed to the Grand Lodge last summer.
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New York Times
Trenton
N. J
Odd Fellows
H. S. Pine
Jersey City
Henry Poster
Grand Odge
Pine
Deerfoot Farm Sausages Adverts Health note
An advertisement extols Deerfoot Farm Sausages stressing purity and cleanliness as key selling points to reassure health conscious consumers about carefully prepared foods.
Grand Lodge Supports Liquidation of Indebtedness
Support given to the home justified the liquidation of indebtedness and indicated the Grand Lodge is positioned to do better than its agreement to lift the debt.
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Grand Lodge
Brooklyn Lawyer Chadsey Arrested in San Francisco
Benjamin F. Chadsey a Brooklyn lawyer was arrested on embezzlement charges after arriving by Panama steamer. He allegedly stole 900 from Isabella Miller and faced related cases in Brooklyn including estate and attorney actions involving the Collins estate and a Ward case. Chadsey previously vanished Oct 23 and was sought by Justice Dickey.
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New York Times
San Francisco
Benjamin F. Chadsey
Brooklyn
N. Y
Panama
Chadsey
Isabella Miller
Edward Orr
B. C. Franck
Fulton Street
Louis Meyer
Meyer
Dickey
Supreme Court
Daniel Collins
John H. Collins
Testator
George L. Weed
Collins
Delay on the Raleigh Delays Commissioning in Navy Yard
Navy yard officials fear the cruiser Raleigh cannot be commissioned before month’s end due to boiler and heating system delays. The Raleigh, along with the Texas and Newark, were slated for Rear Admiral Higginson’s Caribbean Sea maneuvers in December, but Raleigh’s prolonged hold means it will miss Christmas availability. Commander Nazro and department heads reported for duty weeks ago, yet heating and lighting problems prevent commissioning.
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New York Times
Portsmouth
N. H
Navy Yard
Raleigh
Texas
Newark
Higginson
Culebra
Hampton Roads
Nazro
Rich oil well found near Chatham Ontario
A remarkable oil discovery on the Scannon farm near Chatham Ontario. Prospector Good and Kittermaster of Petrolea reported the well flood before capping, with capacity estimated up to 1000 barrels per day. Standard Oil is already inquiring about the find.
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New York Times
Ogdensburg
N. Y
Scannon Farm
Chatham
Ontario
Kittermaster
Petrolea
Standard Oil Company
Rate War Opens Between Eastern Lines and Differentials
Chicago reports a renewed dispute over differential versus standard rates between Chicago and New York. The Central Passenger Association anticipates arbitration to settle the clash, with Big Four pressing for a differential on Western business and opponents including several differential and standard lines. Michigan Central also seeks a differential while Erie faces criticism for its direct service. Smaller roads risk harm from any comprehensive revision.
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New York Times
Chicago
Eastern Standard
Central Passenger Association
New York
Big Four
Michigan Central
Erie
Young Woman Knocked Down By Runaway Horse
August Reiss, hotel proprietor at 685 Sixth Avenue, was arrested for reckless driving after his horse and runabout struck Miss Annabel Hill of 11 West Eighteenth Street on Sixth Avenue. Hill, who was dragged under the horse, was sent to New York Hospital. Reiss claimed the horse danced and did not touch her. Policeman Browne detained him after bystanders halted the vehicle.
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Sixth Avenue
Reiss
Miss Hill
Browne
New York Hospital
Aliens at Tetuan in Peril
Disturbances erupt in Tetuan Morocco as a Spanish mail steamship is dispatched for Ceuta amid unrest. The note references Burnett's Extract of Vanilla and Dinchtat seabate, with stock reports and a stenographer en route, all within a cryptic adv section.
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Tetuan
Peril
Gibraltar
Morocco
Ceutaise
Burnett
Adv
Pennsylvania
Tony Be
Jewelry theft at Holland House nets hotel porter
Patrick Bolan, a 34 year old porter at the Holland House, is arrested after attempting to pawn a pearl necklace found in Room 235. The haul valued at 12 000 dollars and the first item recovered includes a 2 500 dollar pearl necklace from Mrs. William J. Matheson. Detectives Titus Reap and Holland recovered most of the jewels, with more to follow from Bolan’s home and other sites. The case ties to a broader collection worth 12 000 dollars stolen April 4 from Mrs. Matheson.
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Patrick Bolar
Reap
Holland
Bowery
Bolan
Chatham Square
William J. Matheson
William J. Matheson & Co
Front Street
Capt. Titus
Detective Bureau
East Thirty-fourth Street
James Gayley
United States Steel Corporation
Andrew Carregie
Gayley
Missouri Furnace Company
Capt
Titus
Tiffany
Mathesons
Huntington, L. I
Tailor Wins Suit Over Unpaid Gown costing 110
Joseph Durand, a Brooklyn woman’s tailor, won a Supreme Court verdict for 110 against Mrs. Walter Bryan. Dr. Bryan and his wife testified she paid ordinary bills, while Durand claimed the gown did not fit though delivered years ago. The gown, lost when the Bryans’ Sterling Place home burned, sparked dispute over payment.
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Joseph Durand
Walter Bryan
Brooklyn
Supreme Court
Bryan
Bryans
Sterling Place
Durand
Carpenters in Boston Reach Voluntary Arbitration
A joint committee of the Master Carpenters Association of Boston and the United Carpenters Council will arbitrate trade disputes to prevent strikes and lockouts. The permanent panel includes an impartial umpire with final say if the committee cannot agree, upholding workers' right to choose whether to work.
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New York Times
Boston
Master Carpenters’ Association of Boston
United Carpenters’ Council
Physician seeks church annulment in Rochester divorce case
An ecclesiastical court in Rochester will consider a physician’s request for a church sanctioned divorce from his wife. He alleges the marriage was made while under liquor and drugs, that he never lived with her, and that the union occurred in a Western city. The bishop supports annulment. a civil action is pending.
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New York Times
Rochester
N. Y
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