Explosion in New York causes great damage
A noon blast at the Park avenue shaft of the Rapid Transit tunnel construction killed six and wounded about a hundred. Towers, hotels, and hospitals in a four block area suffered windows shattered and the Grand Central station lobby damaged as debris and glass rained down.
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New York
Park Avenue
Murry Hill Hotel
Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital
Grand Union Hotel
Grand Central Station
Cyrus Adams
Murray Hill Hotel
James Carr
Lawrence Hine
Ansonia
J. R. Robertson
Nelson
British Columbia
Ralph Thompson
Thomas Tubbs
Ira A. Shaler
Nylog
Madison Avenue Lines
East Forty-first Street
Murray Hill
Manhattan Eye and Car Hospital
Surrey Guy
Lowe
Grand Union
Manhattan Hospital
Moses Eppes
Flower Hospital
Eppes
Niagara project to raise electric output to 200000 HP
The Niagara Falls Power Company expands with eleven more water wheels and three 10000 horsepower generators, potentially reaching 200000 horsepower. Contracts with General Electric will place dynamos on the Canadian side, connected by 100 foot shafts to surface level wheels, aiming to surpass prior largest units.
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New York
Niagara
Electrical World
I.e Falls
Niagara Falls Power Company
General Electric Company
Niagara Power Company
Manhattan Railway Company
What Neely Stole Inspector Testifies Shortage Near $131000
Havana January 28 inspector Gregory testified in the Cuban postal frauds trial that Neely's accounts show a shortage of $100,813 debited by Washington with $131,413 total shortage including cash. He also noted charges matching Estes Rathbone private bills with no vouchers.
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Havana
Gregory
Department of Finance
C. F. W. Neely
Neely
Washington
Estes G. Rathbone
Express Car Looted Near Branchville in Rail Robbery
The Branchville area experienced a night rail robbery as seven or eight men attacked the express train from Charleston five miles from Branchville. The robbers uncoupled the express cars at fifty-eight station and stripped the local safe. The engineer John Reynolds was held at gunpoint briefly, while mail baggage and passengers were not harmed. Leader Barton Warren is suspected, with a history of a prior single handed robbery in 1899 and a murder committed days before a recent court session.
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Branchville
S. C
Southern Railway
Charleston
John Reynolds
Barton Warren
Warren
Southern Express
Thomas Watson
Oil land deals around Boulder and Louisville outlined
A Denver-Boulder area report details a $3500 purchase of seven acres near the McKenzie well and plans for a new drilling outfit and 1.5 million shares. Louisville sees a cooperative with 600 acres of coal, funding two test holes and a cautious stock launch. Maxwell Oil and Gas reports lands near Newland's addition north of Boulder.
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Boulder
Calo
Louisville
Louisville Oil and Investment Company
Cheyenne
Maxwell Oil and Gas Company
Newland
Addition
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