Bank wrecking plot widens with new bank ties alleged
New York reports tie the Western National Bank to the wrecking syndicate behind uptown bank failures. Probes probe possible $500,000 stake and prior knowledge by Western officials. more prosecutions expected as depositors learn details at Lenox Hill meeting where Jordan defends actions.
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Distator
New York
Western National Bank
Simmons, Claassen
Allack
Pell
Combine
Sixth National
Simmons
Claassen
Carnegie Offers Million Dollar Central Library Plan
Andrew Carnegie proposes to fund a grand central public library with adjuncts in East Liberty, Lawrenceville, Birmingham and other areas. He asks Pittsburgh to raise 40 000 annually for maintenance and envisions a fire proof building with art rooms and spaces for scientific societies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew Carnegie
East Liberty
Lawrenceville
Birmingham
Carnegie
Academy of Sciences
Pittsburg
Carnegie Plan for Pittsburgh Library System Unveiled
The proposal envisions four to five branch libraries in Lawrenceville East Liberty Birmingham and other sites. Branches would house parts of the circulating collection and include reading rooms and societies to foster reading. Carnegie would fund at least 1 million with the city paying 40 000 annually and a 21 member board of trustees with 9 city officials and 12 chosen by Carnegie to govern the project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrenceville
East Liberty
Birmingham
Carnegie
Coun
Baltimore
Pittsburg
Genoa
Central Board of Education
Douglass Ax Works Sold to Pennsylvania and Nashua Investors
The Douglass Ax Works in Minot, Massachusetts were sold to Mann and Hubbard of Pennsylvania and Bixby of Nashua. The plant will be renamed the Douglass branch of the American Ax and Tool Company. Production is starting today and will be fully running by next week. Purchase price is reported at 150000 dollars, a high value given the plant and mill privileges. It is likely that all Neshua operations will move to Douglass due to the strong water power there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minrorp
Mass
Douglass Ax Works
Messrs. Mann and Hubbard
Pennsylvania
Bixby
Nashus
Douglass
American Ax and Tool Company
Isa Song
Neshua
Social season closed by White House after Lent
Washington reports that all social entertainments arranged by the President and Vice President are postponed until after Lent. Secretary Tracy accompanied the President to visit his daughter Mrs Wilmerding, marking their first meeting since recent tragedies. Alice Wilmerding learns of the death of her grandmother and aunt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
White House
Tracy
Wilmerding
F& Most
Alice
Ex-President Cleveland Attends Buffalo Bridegroom Wedding
Wison 8 Bissell of Buffalo and Miss Louise Sturges of Geners were married at Sturges mansion with over 100 guests. Ex-President Cleveland and Mrs. Cleveland attended, arriving by Lehigh Valley special car and joining the couple to New York for their honeymoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rocuestar
Auburn Theological Seminary
Sturges
Exdent
Cleveland
New York
Old-fashioned ideas prevail in Massachusetts Senate fight
Washington February 6 The President sent to the Senate the nomination of Alanson W Beard for Collector at the Port of Boston replacing Leverett W Saltonstall The move shocks young Republicans who sought Saltonstall’s removal and Beard’s appointment The drama centers on senatorial prerogatives and party factions led by Henry Cabot Lodge Dawes and Hoar supporting the change while opposing Saltonstall
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Massachusetts
Senate
Alanson W. Beard
Boston
Apostle of
Mugwumpery
Leverett W. Saltonstall
Henry Cabot Lodge
Saltonstall
Beard
Tax Suit Aims 6 Per Cent Bequest Tax From Vanderbilt Will
Controller Myers sues executors of William H. Vanderbilt for 55000 in a 6 percent tax on personal legacies under a New York law effective 1885. Vanderbilt left 1100000 to charitable institutions and large legacies to individuals, with exemptions for some collateral heirs and corporate entities. The case seeks tax on legacies to colleges and missionary societies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Myers
William H. Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt
Thomas Harland
Rolline
National Silver Crusade Inaugurated by Advocates of Metal
St Louis February 6 Mr L M Rumsey of the National Executive Silver Committee returns from a Washington meeting where a campaign plan was approved The group will avoid lobby work but keep Washington information officers in place Mass meetings will be held starting in New York with Senators Jones and Stewart and others to speak followed by events in Chicago St Paul and additional cities
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
L. M. Rumsey
National Executive Silver Committee
Washington
Congress
New York
Jones
Stewart
Thomas Fitch
Nevada
Chisago
St. Paul
Postage Stamp Famine Strikes St Louis Feb 6
A stamp shortage paralyzes mail in St Louis with 2 cent stamps exhausted, a few arriving later, and businesses impeded. Wagons carry unsent mail as postmaster Harlow appeals to Washington for help and considers requesting aid from East St Louis or Chicago.
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St. Louis
Harlow
Washington
East St. Louis
Oahou
Eight Montana Senators Abdicate After Reed Rule Rift
In Hetenna Montana on February 6 eight Democratic senators left Senate after a row over Reed's Rule and Lt Governor Richards counting them present. They boarded trains to different destinations and said they would not vote, risking a quorum crisis that could halt proceedings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reed
Montena
Hetenna
Mont
Senate
Richards
Msid
Merced
Anarchist Case Seeks New Supreme Court Review
Chicago lawyer Moses Salomon wins a writ of error to take the famous Anarchist case to the United States Supreme Court for review. The move centers on whether Neebe Fielden and Schwab were present when final judgments were imposed, risking a new trial or freedom if a federal question is acknowledged. The hearing is slated for Washington during the October term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moses Salomon
Chicago
Neebe
Fielden
Schwab
Springfield
Ill
Spies
Parsons
Engel
Fisher
Louis Lingg
Neabe
United States Supreme Court
Supreme Court
Salomon
Supreme Court of Illinois
Colored Men Organize Elect Pinchback President
Washington February 6 The colored men convention elected ex Senator Pinchback as president of the national organization and issued an address to the people of the United States. The address says colored citizens must meet separately due to oppression and fraud in elections and hostile state laws. It calls attention to denial of rights and cruel treatment of colored Americans and their families, and asks the president to be thanked for his support in Congress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Colored Men’s Convention
Pinchback
National Organization
United States
South
Congress
New York Shoemakers See Big Shoe Trust Forming
In New York on February 6 reports say a large shoe trust is being organized by Eastern manufacturers. Lawyer Samuel Untermeier oversees negotiations for consolidation of interests while brokers for American capitalists handle the talks. Rumors of English capitalists buying factories are denied. Brokers will not entertain offers from smaller shoe businesses under 700000 in value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Irprosal Teleonam
Dispatch
Samuel Untermeier
Plan to locate World’s Fair at Van Cortlandt Park
Still the plan faces opposition as J Irving Burns proposes a bill to set the World’s Fair in Van Cortlandt Park New York City. The measure would create a ten year incorporated body including the governor president of the senate speaker assembly mayor and 100 others to hold up to 50 million in property for the fair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burns
New York
Axapanxy
N. Y
J. Irving Burns
Westchester County
van Court- Snndt Park
Senate
Assembly
United States
Bressant
Break in on Cleveland Front Porch During Dinner
A thief climbed to the front porch and gained entry to the Perkins residence during dinner time in Cleveland. The incident occurred at 6 30 PM. Details on valuables taken were not provided in the report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
J. B. Perkins
Edmunds Quits Foreign Relations Panel Over Samoa Fight
In a Senate executive session on the Samoa treaty, Senator Edmunds moved to reconsider ratification and then urged a review of U S harbor rights at Pago Pago. The vote to table the resolution and to reconsider was 39 to 13, leading Edmunds to announce he would quit the Foreign Relations Committee amid renewed Blaine tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Committees On Foreign Relations
Blaine
Wasnineros
Senate
Sherman
Edmunds
Mr. Edmunds
United States
Pago Pago
Committee On Foreign Relations
Floods Subside in Portland As River Falls
The Willamette River has dropped to 28 feet 4 inches, the highest level on record for Portland. Travel interruptions persist with rail lines blocked and trains limited to partial routes, while steamer service resumes to points above. Flooding damaged live stock and destroyed grain and hay in river bottom areas.
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Porrtland
Onn
Willamette
Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company
Southern Pacific
Union Pacific
Canadian Pacific and Postal Cable Company
Exodous of Black Immigrants From North Carolina Arrives in New Orleans
A large group of Black migrants, numbering several hundred, arrived in New Orleans from Goldsboro en route to Coushatta on the Red River. Labor agents had packed them without clear destination knowledge. On the levee a crowd warned them of danger upstream, and police had to intervene to move them onto the River Queen toward Hollingsworth sect lands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Goldsboro
Coushatis
Red River
North Carolina
Hollingsworth
Carolina Darkeys
Clark and Taylor to Hang After Pardon Board Session
In Hanermssuree on February 6 the Board of Pardons met in secret and refused to commute the death sentences of George Clark and Zach Taylor for the murder of William McCausland. They face execution on the 26th unless the Governor grants a respite. James H. Jacobs of Lancaster, jailed for a relative’s murder, was recommended for another reprieve amid claims of insanity.
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Hanermssuree
Board of Pardons
George Clark
Zach Taylor
William McCausland
Greene County
James H. Jacobs
Lancaster
Clark
Taylor
Jacobs
Gaiety Theatre Company Stranded by Elopement
Boston based Gaiety Theatre Company falters as star Belle Lewis and juvenile lead W T Hodson vanish with tour funds. Hodson reportedly married. wife and child have not seen him since Tuesday. The pair left East Boston with Hodson disappearing with cash intended for ticket purchases. The troupe's Maine tour is canceled amid the shock departure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Gaiety Theater Company
Maine
Pretty Belle Lewis
W. T. Hodson
Hodson
Son
Miss Lewis
Demand of the Shippers Congress Seeks Navy, Harbors Aid
February meeting of the American Shipping League approves the Resolutions report. The Farquhar bill to promote American shipping by Government Aid is endorsed. Resolutions urge Congress for seaboard and lake defenses, praise navy rebuilding, and call for harbor and river improvements to restore and expand ocean commerce nationwide.
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Wasuinotox
American Shipping League
Farquhar
Congress
Cleveland Iron Mining Buys Ironcliff Stock Stake
The Cleveland Iron Mining Company purchases seven tenths of Ironcliff Company stock owning 59,000 acres near Marquette Michigan. The price paid is 1,750,000 dollars in cash. Noted mining figures include J E Selah Chamberlain with a reported 300 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan
Dispatch
Cleveland
Cleveland Iron Mining Company
Ironcliff Company
Marquette
Mich
J. E. Selah Chamberlain
Terrible Abercsychan Colliery Disaster Traps 300 Miners
A British colliery explosion at Abersychan in Monmouthshire entombed about 300 miners after flooding of adjacent pits released gas that ignited. Rescue attempts saved some badly burned, with 60 bodies recovered initially and the dead estimate rising to 150.
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Lospon
Abersychan
Monmouthshire
Emperor William's Socialism in German Press
The Times Berlin correspondent notes that the Chancellor agrees with socialist policy while Prince Bismarck has not cared for strict consistency. The Germania praises the Emperor, clerical factions back him, and socialist organs stay silent unable to openly oppose a program that mirrors their own yet appears constrained by official rescripts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loxpon
Times’ Berlin
Bismarck
Germania
Government urged to secure new loan in France
Paris February 6. Finance Minister M Rouvier told the Budget Committee that fresh resources are needed to restore financial equilibrium. He indicated a new government loan is imminent and that the country must make sacrifices to cover national expenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
M. Rouvier
Chamber of Deputies
Plot to Kill Prince Ferdinand Foiled at Ball
February 6 report from Soria states Major Panitza planned to surround the palace and kill Prince Ferdinand during the ball. Kalopkoff of Rustchuk, ex Russian officer, is tied to the Panitza conspiracy and is thought to be the agent in contact with the conspirators via the Russian Legation in Bucharest.
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Soria
Major Panitza
Ferdinand
Kalopkoff
Rustchuk
Panitza
Bucharest
Cuba's Governor in Danger Seized by Illness
Governor General Salamanca lies seriously ill in Havana after a 12-physician consultation. Officials plan a meeting to decide actions if he dies, as the Vice Governor General takes command of the island.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havana
Salamanca
Pope Oversees Monument Erection in Rome
The Pope supervises a sepulchral urn bearing a life size statue of himself with colossal figures of religion and justice in Carrara marble. The porphyry urn will take three years to complete and cost £5,000, with the project described as a gloomy undertaking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dunlap
Rome
Pope
Carrara
Porphyry
Bishop of Lincoln Urges Candles on Communion Table
In a Privy Council session, the Arch-Diener of Canter permitted counsel for the Bishop of Lincoln to advocate using lighted candles on the communion table. This practice, long deemed illegal, has caused a sensation in clerical circles.
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Loxpoux
Canter
Ing. Bishop of
Lincoln
Privy Council
British coal mine owners plan federation to resist eight hour movement
Lonpox February 7 report says mine owners at a recent conference resolved to form a national federation. They aim to unite all districts and raise a force to oppose the eight hour work movement.
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Lonpox
Lone Highwayman Robs Wells Fargo Box Near Florence
A masked Mexican, about 19 miles from Florence, held up a Wells Fargo stage this morning. The outlaw escaped with the express box not yet reporting the amount taken. the mail was untouched. A posse has been organized to pursue.
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Arimena
Wells Fargo
Flioresce
Ann
Casa Grande
Florence
Mayor Grant Names Crain City Chamberlain In Surprise Move
New York February 6. Mayor Grant appoints his private secretary Thomas Crowell Taylor Crain as city chamberlain in place of Richard Croker. Crain is a 30 year old Tammany man with strong integrity and adequate executive ability. Crain hunted bondsmen for $500000 surety and qualified at $1,000,000. The net salary runs about $18000 yearly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grant
Yelegham
Dispatch
New York
Thomas Crowell Taylor Crain
Richard Croker
Crain
Mr. Crain
Tammany
Businessmen split over free raw materials in Philadelphia
A Philadelphia Telegram from February 6 reports Republican business leaders backing free raw materials oppose Senator Reyburns bid in Congress. The Democratic Fourth District convention may nominate William M. Ayres of the Tariff Reform Club, seen as the best channel to press the issue. A letter from merchants and manufacturers urges Ayres nomination to present the free raw material platform publicly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Reyburn
Judge Kelley
Congress
Fourth District
William M. Ayres
Tariff Reform Club
Ayres
Paconeaes
Vanes
Nurse abducts baby amid custody dispute
Henry Sutherland sought aid of law to recover his six month old son from a nurse hired to care for him. The nurse claimed the child in a low city area and refused to release it until paid. A writ of replevin was shown but the baby remained with the nurse as authorities moved to recover the child.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Br. Louis
Henry Sutherland
Justice of the Peace
Baby
Sutherland
Mississippi River at Greenville Near 1882 High Water
The river gauge reads 40 feet at Greenville on February 6, near the 1882 high mark, but levees are higher and stronger overall. The only vulnerable spot is Clover Hill in Issaquena County where work is unfinished, yet preparations are in place to meet any danger. Assistant Engineer Somerville said alarms are unlikely across the levee district even if 1882’s level is reached.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greenville
Miss
Clover Hill
Issaquena County
Somerville
Jevee
Robbery in Leadville. widow loses $5000
Denver February 6. At Leadville last night Mrs O E Bailey widow was robbed of 5000 by two masked men. Soon after her husband died three months ago she received the money from an insurance company and kept it on her person fearing banks. Yesterday afternoon two masked men attacked her and took the money.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Leadville
O. E. Bailey
New York Chamber Objects to McKinley Tariff Bill
The New York Chamber of Commerce adopted a protest against the McKinley tariff bill unless it is modified. The meeting took place in New York on February 6 with officials and members voicing opposition to the measure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Chamber of Commerce
New York
Chamber of Commerce
Pittsburg Couple Wed in Pro-Cathedral Ceremony
Mr. Joseph A. Weldon of Pittsburg married Miss Clare McFadden daughter of ex Alderman Mc Fadden at St Patri Pro-Cathedral in Harrisburg with M J McBride assisting and ministers Benton and Holbin officiating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A Pittsberger
Harbeisburg
Joseph A. Weldon
Pittsburg
Clare McFadden
McFadden
St. Patri Pro-Cathedral
M. J. McBride
Messrs. Benton
Holbin
Cronin Jury Bribery Case Postponed to Monday
In Curiaco February 6 by agreement of counsel the arguments and motions from Cronin jury bribers are deferred. Indictments and change of venue requests are postponed until Monday next.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Curiaco
Sionea Cronin
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Shields
Southside and Law
Renceville
William Thaw
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Pittsburger
Grand Central Library
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Kan
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Stecian
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Harrison
DistaTou
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Supreme Court of the United States
Neebe, Fielden and Schwab
Tilinals
Republicas
Portland
Pardon Board
IROX
Leo
Prince Ferdinand
Emperor William
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Heller
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