Ministers gratified with work in London parliament
London dispatch reports ministers upbeat during country week end visits. They seek a supplementary 5 million dollar grant, argue weekly war costs drop to 1 million from 1.25 million, and push reforms on drink, water regulation, and parliamentary procedure. Arthur Balfour praised as reforming cobbler of rules.
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London
National Temperance Reformers
Arthur Balfour
Balfour
Lord Rosebery
Hague
Brodrick
South Africa
Rand
War Office
Labouchere
Murder in East Side ruin No 127 Chrystie Street woman found dead
Police describe the scene as a deliberate murder in the notorious Chrystie Street house. Detectives Butler and Lindsay found a woman in the basement room with a two inch throat wound and a blood stained bed and walls. A knife remained in her hand and a box yielded trinkets and letters suggesting a linked romance with Harry A. Macomber. Coroner Scholer noted the body could have been dead hours to a day before discovery.
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Central Office
No. 127
Chrystiest
Butler
Lindsay
Eldridgest
Kitty Burke
Emil Schacht
Schacht
Eldridge St
Scholer
Harry A. Macomber
R. L. Foster
Danversport Rubber Company
Danversport
Mass
G. B. Esterly
Globe Street Railway
Fall River
Shapiro
East One-hundred-and-seventeenth-st
Pleasant-ave
Bowery
Rosie
Rosie Mac
Macomber
Henry Shapiro
Harvard Medical School Expansion Fund Receiving Rockefeller Gift
Harvard President announces J D Rockefeller offers one million dollars to aid the plan to erect three buildings for the Harvard Medical School. The gift hinges on local supporters raising about five hundred thousand for land buildings or endowment to complete the project. The initiative follows J Pierpont Morgan’s earlier pledge to fund over one million dollars for the facilities.
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Cambridge
Mass
Harvard
J. Pierpont Morgan
Harvard Medical School
Eliot
J. D. Rockefeller
Morgan
Rockefeller
Clubhouse plans chosen for Republican Club at park front
The Republican Club selected York & Sawyer to design a new 10 story clubhouse at 40th street near Bryant Park, with Indiana limestone exterior, a banquet hall, a roof garden, and apartment suites from the third to eighth floors. The Library Realty Company members will erect the building, aiming for a first class club and hotel-like service. Florida and Metropolitan Limited trains noted with reservations at 1.18 Broadway.
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Republican Club
Fifthave
St. Ignatius’s Church
Fortieth St
Bryant Park
York & Sawyer
William Schickel
York
New York Club
New Bowery Bank
Riggs National Hotel
Washington
Fifth Avenue Church Settlement House
Children’s Hospital
Frank Jay Gould
Library Realty Company
Louis Stern
Henry E. Tremain
Edward A. Newell
J. Edgar Leaucraft
William Einstein
R. N. Kenyon
Crisis in Cuba Deepens as Congress Delays Aid
Washington dispatches warn the Cuba crisis worsens due to Congress delaying concessions. Plantation owners report massive job losses from rationed crops and low sugar prices, urging immediate abolition of Cuban sugar duties to avert disaster and preserve stability in Matanzas and Pinar del Rio.
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Cuba
White House
War Department
Congress
Santiago
Conchita
Asuncion
Pinar del Rio
Matanzas
Saratoga
San Cayetano
Vallente
Viandas
Cable Dispatch
Juan Pedro Baro
Conchita and
Asun
Death of the Biddle brothers ends dramatic escape tale
At Butler Pennsylvania on February 1 1901 John Biddle died at 7 Edward Biddle died at 11 and Mrs Kate Soffel survived surgery but faced pneumonia. Ed Biddle’s deathbed confession and a long letter found on Mrs Soffel reveal a planned jail escape aided by her.
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Penn
Biddle Brothers
Kate Soffel
John BidMe
Edward Biddle
Ed” Biddle
Father Walsh
Rahney
Fitzgerald
Soffel
No Grain 10 Take Abroad Sparks Freight Debate
Steamship men reject talk of meeting to raise passenger rates while defending minimum freight levels for grain flour and provisions. Industry figures note few cargos, high costs, and uncertain effects on exports as talks of new rate schemes surface with limited cargo activity and no clear agreements.
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Tribune
Mr. Moore
Lanham & Moore
Gustav H. Schwab
Lloyd Line
Taft
Washington
Mincoro
Chicago exporters expect only a temporary market ripple
Chicago grain exporters view the recent pool among steamship lines as a temporary market blip. They say supply and demand will normalize rates, though some deferred buyers face higher ocean prices. Counselman Day and McReynolds & Co. maintain the pool won’t disrupt trading, given widespread knowledge of current rates and adaptable buying.
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Ry Telegraph
the Tribune
Chicago
Counselman & Day
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