Senators Clash Over Railroad Rate Debate In Senate
The Tribune reports a lively Senate debate sparked by Senator Dolliver defending executive consultation with railroads. He clashed with Senator Grone and others over presidential influence on rate setting, while Senators Allison Aldrich Foraker and Bailey weighed in on party divisions, consultations, and the Hepburn bill's impact on railroads.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
United States
Dolliver
Senate
Allison
Grone
Stone
White House
Shore
2Tor Batley
McKinles
Spain
Bailey
Aldrich
Texas
Foraker
Iowa
Interstate Commerce Committee
Tillman
Mellen
New York, New Heaven & Hartford
Cassatt
Pennsylvenia
Senate Committee On Interstate Commerce
Mr. Foraker
President Cassatt
Messrs
Ohio
Miners Propose Arbitration to Halt Anthracite Strike
President Mitchell of the United Mine Workers pushes a plan to arbitrate the miners’ and operators’ differences through the Anthracite Coal Strike Commission board with Judge George Gray as umpire. Operators caution against expanding arbitration to issues like the checkoff and closed shop. The proposal requires a miners’ convention approval and immediate resumption of work pending ruling.
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Mitchell
United Mine Workers
Anthracite Coal Strike Commission
David Willcox
Delaware & Hudson Company
Shamokin
Anthracite Post
Pennsylvania
Board of Conciliation
George Gray
Delaware
Anthracite Miners’ Committee of Seven
Miners’ Committee
Anthracite Coal Commission of 192
Roosevelt
Coal Commission
Willcox
Anthracite Strike Commission
Disagreement Over Coal Prices Sparks Retailer Debate
In New York City a clash emerges between coal operators and retail dealers over rising coal costs. Operators deny aiding price hikes, while dealers blame supply restrictions and added costs. The Coal Merchants' Association asserts no price fixing, though a recommended rise was issued. Retailers report scarce steam coal, higher delivery costs, and embargoes by operators, predicting prices could fall if embargoes end.
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E. B. Thomas
Lehigh Valley Railroad
New York
G. I. Curtis
The
Curtis-Blaisdell Coal Company
Tidewater
Coal Merchants’ Association of
Manhattan
Coal Merchants’ Association
Dancers Collapse Hotel Zum Hirschen in Germany Tragedy
A German hotel under construction collapsed during a dance after a rooftop installation celebration. Fifty five killed and about one hundred injured with twenty missing. Rescue under way as two hundred people were inside. the town faces collective grief.
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Nagold
Black Forest
Germany
Zum Hirschen
In Terror at Vesuvius Forces Veil Naples
Naples reports Mount Vesuvius eruption causes great terror with lava and ash on roads and villages. Reinforcements deployed to keep order as new craters and fissures erupt. Central crater cone reaches three thousand feet. lava streams exceed a mile in length. Authorities forecast ash fall ending soon as residents flee.
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Naples
Mount Vesuvius
Mattencei
Potter Gives $5,000 Toward Cathedral Fund Drive
Announcement by Cathedral of St John the Divine trustees states Bishop Henry C Potter donated 5000 toward the 100000 needed to finish the choir and crossing. Trustees will pursue the remaining 95000, adding to total contributions over the past fifteen months. Rev Dr E M Stires elected to the trustees.
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Cathedral of
St. John the Divine
Henry C. Potter
E. M. Stires
Lost Parcel of 14365 Dollars In Baltimore News
Telegraph report from Baltimore April 5 describes Miss Emma Slagle losing a parcel with 14265 in bank notes while moving from a bank to a proker's office. She did not inform police and offered a liberal reward upon advertising the loss. She is an orphan who recently sold inherited real estate to invest in bonds.
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the Tribune
Baltimore
Emma Slagle
Slagle
Gas theft case in Milwaukee ends with guilty plea
Charles Ross, a retired hardware merchant, pleaded guilty to stealing gas valued at 26000 dollars from the Milwaukee Gas Light Company over six years. He was fined 100 dollars plus costs by Judge Neelin, with the maximum penalty being 100 dollars or one year imprisonment.
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the Tribune
Milwaukee
Charles Ross
Milwaukee Gas Light Company
Neelin
Zulus Beaten Off By Natal Expe dition at Impenza
London dispatch reports Zulus led by Chief Bambaata attacked the Natal Colonial expedition at Impenza. The column regrouped at Botha's farm after fierce night fighting, rescuing women and children. Three policemen were killed and Sergeant Brown missing. White residents fled to Keate's Drift.
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London
Mansell
Bambaata
Natal
Keate
Impenza
Greytown
Botha
Sergeant Brown
Impanza
Seize American Fisher A. E. Whyland Off Newfoundland
Gloucester Massachusetts reports that the fishing schooner A. E. Whyland from Gloucester has been seized by Newfoundland authorities for fishing inside the three mile limit. The telegram from captain Fred Morrissey to owner Charles C. Young confirms the action, dispatched from Port Aux Basques Newfoundland.
Pattison Leaves Columbus for Cincinnati on Stretcher
Governor Pattison departed Columbus for Cincinnati by train tonight, carried on a stretcher. The move was reported by telegraph from The Tribune.
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Columbus
Cincinnati
Tribune
Ohio
Pattison
Vanderbilt Auto Scares a Horse in Dobbs Ferry Street
A large automobile carrying Alfred G. Vanderbilt Reginald W. Rives and three other men frightened a curbed delivery horse, causing a crash that threw driver Frederick Hallock and left him seriously hurt. The wagon toppled, three more horses pulled the damaged vehicles, but the party later continued toward Lexington Avenue.
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Alfred G. Vanderbilt
Reginald W. Rives
Main Street
Dobbs Ferry
Biscuit
New York
Frederick Hallock
VOTES WORTH $250 TO $5 IN RUSSIA
Moscow reports that reactionaries face bribery charges tied to elections with alleged vote prices from $2 to $80. A separate item notes a Palm Sunday penal tour via Pepnestsenie Railroad leaving New York on Saturday April 7 priced at $10 or $11 including two hotels.
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Russia
Moscow
Pepnestsenie Railroad
New York
Rioting in Albany Assembly Turns Session Into A Riot
Democrats clash with the Speaker as rules are overridden and several Assembly members demand recognition in a session marked by bill filings and water bottle tossing. The Malloy bill to remove a Democratic Ogdensburg school board advances amid party clashes and threats of further action.
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Tribune
Albany
Malloy
Ogdensburg
Palmer
Gray
Assemblyman
Merritt
Oliver
Dem
N. Y
Mr. Oliver
Moreland
Assembly
Cannon on the Tariff in Letter From East Liverpool
East Liverpool Ohio April 5 Speaker Cannon writes that tariff revision is certain to come though he personally opposes it. He states that public demand will push the Republican party toward reform if it remains in power, even though he believes no revision will occur in the current Congress.
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Tribune
East Liverpool
Ohio
Cannon
House of Representatives
Potters
Congress
Republican Party
Hewitt family wreck settlement reached in Rio Grande disaster
Two survivors of the Hewitt family, six members killed in the Rio Grande wreck, have settled with the company for 13000 dollars. The agreement was reached in Denver on April 5, with details provided by telegraph.
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The
Tribune
Denver
Hewitt
Rio Grande
Company
Airship Trip to Pole Ordered for Weather Inspector
Major H. B. Hersey, Weather Bureau inspector from Milwaukee and former Louisville head, is ordered to report to Washington to prepare for the North Pole airship expedition arranged by Walter Wellman.
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Tribune Bureau
Louisville
H. B. Hersey
Weather Bureau
Milwaukee
French artist hurt in runaway near Sewickley
Paris portrait painter Benzinger was thrown from his buggy when a horse spooked by an automobile reared and struck the curb near the Park Hotel. He suffered serious cuts and bruises while returning from painting portraits of the Snyder family of W. P. Snyder, steel manufacturer.
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the Tribune
Pittsburg
A. Benzinger
Paris
France
Park Hotel
Sewickley
Benzinger
W. P. Snyder
Marie Corelli's Soldier Dead Rivaled in Two Worlds Tale Origin
Enos Axtell a Republican politician was killed by a Prospect street car in Kansas City Missouri. Axtell served as a Civil War captain in a New York regiment and at Falls Church. in 1881 he aided a young girl fleeing her home and later married her, inspiring Marie Corelli's romance.
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Telestapt
the Tribune
Kansas City
Enos A. Axtell
Prospect
Axtell
New York
Falls Church
Marie Corelli
Conductor Recovers $9000 Left in Train Valise
Ashtabula Ohio April 5 William R Miles a Lake Shore conductor from Oil City Penn on a passenger run Ashtabula to Oil City found a valise in a coach containing 9000 in currency It had been left by William C Inman of Leon Ohio who drew the money from a bank in Ashtabula The money was restored to him.
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Ashtabula
Ohio
William R. Miles
Lake Shore
Oil City
Penn
William C. Inman
Leon
Two Consuls Injured in Atlanta Trap Wreck
German Consul Dr Ehrich Zoepffell Quellenstein and Panaman Consul Russell Hopkins, along with Atlanta social figures Miss Kate Robinson and Miss Janie Speer, were badly hurt when a tandem trap crashed into a telephone pole. The group, in full regalia, violated the speed limit and were thrown from the carriage as the leader bolted.
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Tribune
Atlanta
Ehrich Zoepffell-Quellenstein
Russell Hopkins
Kate Robinson
Janie Speer
Fields Returns May Defend M Curdys In Scandal
Andy Fields, linked to major insurance firms and the House of Mirth affair, has returned to Dobbs Ferry after a Los Angeles sojourn. Dr. C. B. Judson says Fields is ill but ready to face civil or criminal charges, while Fields’s family and town react with mixed support and caution about possible summonses and testimony.
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Andy Fields
Mutual, Equitable
New York Life
Albany
Dobbs Ferry
Genehurst
Hudson
Equitable
Armstrong Legislative Committee
Los Angeles
Fields
Andy Hamilton
Europe
Yellow Dog
C. 8
Judson
Hamilton
Joseph H. Choate
Truesdale
Imogene
Clareence
P. F. Dutcher
Little Village
Addie Dutcher
Armstrong
Santa Catalina
California
Tribune
Clarence Fields
Young Fields
Armstrong’ Committee
New Jersey
Percy A. Rockefeller
William Rockefeller
William G. Rockefeller
Ocean Grove
Grand Jury
Papa
Dr. Judson
Methodist Episcopal Church
Mr. Fields
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DR. Potter
St. John’s Cathedral
Gloucester
Gov. Pattison
Vanderbilt Auto
Atlantic City
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House of Mirth
Thomas D. Jordan
William H. McIntyre
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