Magnates Meet in New York to Redraw Railroad Map
A four-group plan for United States railroads surfaces after conferences at J. P. Morgan & Co. Attendees include Hill, Harriman, Schiff, Gould, and Vanderbilt representatives. Gould-Rockefeller to control Delaware Lackawanna Western. Harriman Vanderbilt to hold Central Pacific and St Paul Northwestern. Hill Morgan to run Great Northern Northern Pacific Burlington and Erie. Pennsylvania group to take over Atchison and Rock Island.
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Pennsylvania
J. Pierpont Morgan
Union Pacific
Southern Pacific
George J. Gould
John D. Rockefeller
Missouri Pacific
Atlantic Seaboard
Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western
Gould
Gould Party
Harriman-Vanderbilt
Central Pacific
St. Paul
Northwestern
Hill-Morgan
Great Northern
Northern Pacific
Burlington
Erie
Atchison and
Rock Island
Southwestern
Cotton Belt
Mississippi
Rockefeller
Indemnity Deal Satisfies Foreign Ministers in Peking
China accepts 450 million taels as indemnity, easing evacuations though ministers doubt guaranteed payment. Elites debate customs up to 10 percent and likin removal to raise 23 million taels yearly. Von Waldersee may travel via Yokohama not America. departure by June 14.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peking
China
America
Washington
Count von Waldersee
United States
Yokohama
Countess von Waldersee
Legation
Legation Guards
Simeprial
Plan for gigantic banker's bank in Chicago
The Record-Herald reports plans to establish a nationwide banker's bank led by Oakley Thorne of North American Trust. W S Courcey has spent a week in Chicago meeting with local bankers. Stock issued only to banks, one share to 100 largest, with deposits limited to shareholders. Headquarters will be in New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
the Record-Herald
Oakley Thorne
North American Trust Company of
New York
W. S. Courcey
Western Labor Union pushes for new party in labor interests
The Western Labor Union adopts resolutions declaring current parties controlled by capitalists and instructs the executive board to form a new labor party. It also calls on Congress to reenact the Chinese exclusion law and to pass an immigration ban against Japanese and all other Asiatic peoples.
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Denver
Western Labor Union
Congress
Filipinos Denied Landing From Manila Voyage
Nineteen of eight Filipinos who arrived in San Francisco en route to the Buffalo exposition are refused entry. Doctors at the Marine Hospital and immigration officials order their return to Manila due to loathsome contagious diseases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Buffalo Exposition
The
Marine Hospital
Manila
Cape Government Railways Seeks Best and Cheapest Equipment
Charles Bletter man Elliott, general manager of the Cape government railways, arrived at Southampton from Cape Town for talks with The Daily Mail about acquiring material for South African railways. He plans weeks in England then trips to the continent and United States to study narrow gauge systems and electric lighting, favoring British manufacturers if terms and material are satisfactory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Charles Bletterman Elliott
Cape Government Railways
Cape Town
Southampton
Daily Mail
England
Continent
United States
Elliott
Five Men Lynched for Horse Theft in California
In Sousanville Modoc county California on June 3 Calvin Hall and his three sons plus a young man living with Hall were arrested for horse stealing. A mob of about 54 people took them from custody and hanged all five. The bodies have been cut down and the district attorney is en route. Hall wielded notable influence and his wife was a squaw.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Sousanville
Cal
Lookout
Modoc County
Calvin Hall
Hall
Park Board Refuses Ripper Act Transfer in Detroit
Detroit park commissioners meeting to hand control to Robert E. Bolger rejected this transfer and announced the one man commission act would be tested in court, challenging the supposed reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Mich
Park Commissioners
Robert E. Bolger
Detroit Park System
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John W. Masury
K Son
C. H. Longstafe
Third Street
Huron
Arena Gold Mining and Milling Company
Crippler Creek, Colorado
Arena Company
Cripple Creek
Califory
BON Drold
Mexico
Manhattan
Dee
Crystal
Great Eastern
Balay
Saint the
Arena Group of Mines
Aegis
501 Equitable Building
Colorado
Hill
Gan Syndicate
North
Lington
Harriman
St. Paul and Northwestern Roads
Hill-Morgan Roads
Banker’s Bank
Sporting Goods
U.G. Fowler & CO
D.W. Smith
Reds Cross
de Laval
Collier’s
Foremost Illustrated Journal
Hall Caine
Collier’s.weekly
West Thirteenth Street
New York City
Beadle County
WM. Waibel
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