Live News Of The Industrial World: Board Changes And Shipments
T S Lloyd arrives to assume duty as motive power superintendent for Lackawanna after a New York meeting of division and local superintendents. Morris Rothermel succeeds BR W Kellew as head of motive power planning. Baldwin ships engines for China while Cross Creek stock transfer details surface.
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New York
Baldwin
China
Morris Rothermel
BR. W. Kellew
T. S. Lloyd
Lackawanna
Mr. Lloyd
A. C. Salisbury
J. M. Daly
A. H. Schwarz
Syracuse
Robert Dudgeon
Buffalo
R.,dupuy
Hoboken
J. G. Sickles
L, T. Canfield
Largest locomotive shipment sails from Philadelphia to Vladivostok
On April 1 a major shipment of 71 Baldwin locomotives weighing 6544 tons each and costing 1 100 000 will depart Philadelphia aboard the Wilhelmina to Vladivostok. Built for the Chinese Eastern Railway, the order, placed last April, marks the largest foreign railroad purchase in American history. The engines will be assembled at Vladivostok and moved via the Trans Siberian and Chinese Eastern routes.
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Philadelphia
Wilhelmina
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Chinese Eastern Railway Company
Siberian
Holland
America
Vladivostok
Trans-Siberian Railroad
Chinese Eastern
Track Superintendent Appointment Shifts to Morrie Rothermel
Morrie Rothermel, formerly of Plymouth and lately with the Vermont division of the Delaware and Hudson, was appointed track superintendent. His territory runs from Wilkes-Barre to Nineveh. The post had been held for years by R. W. Kellew, who died Friday at his Green Ridge home.
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Morrie Rothermel
Plymouth
Vermont
Delaware and Hudson
Delaware Wind Hudson
Wilkes-Barre
Nineveh
R. W. Kellew
Green Ridge
Del aware Lackawanna and Western Board Today
The list details the Wildcats and Summits lineups for today with players such as Bh Kethham Bartholomew Bush Miller and Magov ern noted. The schedule shows a 10 a m session for Deavers publishers and a 6 90 p m passenger engine with Magovern and North Wildcats.
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Kethham
Kearney
Qobe McCue
Ie A Bartholomew
Bai le
Ta Bush
Miller
Prerty
Magovern
Wild Cats
North
de Sanaatf
O'Hara
Transfer of Coxe Bros property to Cross Creek Coal Co
Notice filed at the state department records the transfer of Coxe Bros & Co incorporated property to Cross Creek Coal Co for 1,289,700 dollars. The action records the legal change in ownership and the stated consideration for the transaction.
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State Department
Coxe Bros. & Co., Incorporated
Cross Creek Coal Company
McAndrews Sues Okells Over Alleged Fraudulent Property Transfer
Attorney for Mrs. Ellen McAndrews filed a suit in equity against George M. Okell and his father Jonn R. Okell to recover possession of property allegedly transferred via a fraudulent deed. A second suit expands the allegations, alleging George M. Okell arranged a forged deed to B Okell to place the property beyond the court’s reach.
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Bell Okell
Equity Court
Charles B. Olver
Ellen McAndrews
Equity
George M. Okell
Jonn Kh. Okell
John M. Okell
McAndrews
Olver
B. Okell
John R. Okell
Recorder of Deeds of
Lackawanna County
Isabella
John RB. Okell
Court of Equity
Scranton Soldiers See Active Service
Lieutenant Thomas Murphy of Co C 13 Regiment participates in a landing at Legaspi Philippines as 3 000 insurgents oppose a small landing party supported by gunboat Nashville and the Venus. The action lasts about two and a half hours with heavy shelling, 35 natives killed and 40 prisoners taken.
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Thomas Murphy
Co. C. 13 Regiment
Nashville
Co. EB
San Pedro Macatta
Samos
Hancock
Manila
Venus
Legaspi
Enemie
Co. H
Bently
Edward Murphy Arrested for Department Store Theft
Edward Murphy once of Scranton and Brooklyn was arrested in Brooklyn after confessing to robbing Abraham & Strauss. He admitted selling bouillon capsules to outside grocers below market price and a search found 574 packages plus 37 jars of Liebig beef extract. He had worked for Jonas Long’s Bros in Scranton until October 21 and lived at 634 Cayuga Street.
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Edward Murphy
Brooklyn
N. Y
Abraham & Strauss
Leas
Murphy
Liebeg
Jonas Long
Cayuga Street
War relics from El Caney join police display
Chief of Police Robling collects two Cuban war relics donated by Martin Cunningham a Cuba veteran on furlough. A bulky six shooting revolver of Spanish make and a heavy machete found by Cunningham while digging ditches at El Caney are described as blunt and ugly but historic mementos.
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Robling
Martin Cunningham
Cuba
el Caney
Cunningham
Thirteenth Regiment
Scranton Soldiers Praise Their Captain and Return Home
Letter from Mus. Company E, Forty-seventh Infantry, recounts landings at Legaspi Albey in the Philippines. Soldiers salute Captain Major A H Betts and celebrate thirty Scranton men in the unit. They describe quarters, natives hungry, and a Filipino commander’s swagger as they await shipment home.
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Thomas Murphy
Scranton
Robling
Forty-seventh Infantry
Tribune
A. H. Betts
Tenth Ohio Volunteers
Co. A. Thirteenth Regiment
Eleventh Cavalry
Stacy
Legaspi
Albey
the Tribune
Beranton Boon
C. J. Rozelle
Mus
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Royal Baking Powder CO
William &T
T. O. Lloyd
Cross Creek Company
Chicago
Boston
Milwaukee
Lehigh Valley Company
Glen Onoko
D., L. & W. Board For Today
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Board
Wildcats Boutis
Sauthe Oue
Puller
Deavers
Ourer
Moran
Cawley
M’andrews
P. I
Philippine
Thomas
Pasig
Guadeloupe Ridge
Guadaloupe Ridge
Colorado
South Dakota
Guadeloupe Monastry
Pasig River
Castillion
Co. C
Scrantonian
Hood
Ree
Apeiesn
Huan Uie
Penn’a
International Correspondence Schools
Co Gs
Reget
Union OF Science
the International Correspondence Schools
Scranton, Pa
Atlantic City
Morton
N. J
Sea View
Ocean End
Virginia Avenue
N. R. Haines
The
Suburban Electric Light Co
Connell
Orient Leader
Florey & Brooks
Third National Bank
United States
Capital
WM. Connell
Henry Belin, Jr
William H. Peck
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