Grand Rapids Boodle Cases Postponed at Opening
Grand Rapids Mich December term opens with twenty water deal boodle cases on call. Prosecutor Brown says informations incomplete. all cases postponed for a week to Dec 21. Salsbury sentenced for bribe but deferred for witness needs. Aldermen Kinny, Ellen, Johnson, Muir bound over or examined as court reconvenes.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
Lake Michigan
Superior Court
Brown
Newnham
Lant
K. Salsbury
Supreme
Malachi Kin- Svs
Caperton Cot
Ellen
Salsbury
Demand for Chinese Laborers in Africa
In Johannesburg a mass meeting urged a government referendum before any unskilled labor import to the Transvaal. Thousands of miners from the Rand districts flooded the venue, with strong support for Chinese labor and no hearing for opponents. An overflow meeting later carried a motion against a referendum by a large margin.
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Johannesburg
Transvaal
East
West Rands
Thibetan Monks Oppose Trade Amid Himalayan Crisis
Letters from Lord Curzon to the Dalai Lama at Lhasa surface as British forces in Tibet gather in the Chumbi valley under Cols Younghusband and MacDonald. Monks reportedly dominate Lhasa and oppose trade concessions tied to India Tibet commerce, a thrust linked to the expedition. King Alfonso completes Lisbon visit and heads to Villa Vicosa with Queen Amelia and Prince.
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London
Lord Curzon
Dali Lama
L'Hassa
Thibet
Chumbi
Younghusband
MacDonald
L'Hasen
India
Lisbon
Alfonso
Villa Vicosa
Jing Wil
Amelia
Madrid
Pris
Canadian courts take control of Consolidated Lake Superior Company
In Toronto, December 14, the court ordered wind up of the Consolidated Lake Superior Company and all related actions require court consent. A voluntary liquidation was granted to three Philadelphia shareholders, with Toronto General Trusts Corp and John G. Carruth named provisional liquidators. The move aims to prevent a New York sale by Speyer & Co and bring the Speyer claim before the Canadian court for investigation. In New York, December 14, a sale of the company’s securities may proceed without delay if terms with the reorganization committee are met, though Speyer & Co. may seek an extension amid negotiations.
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Toronto
Ont
Consolidated Lake Superior Company
Justice MacMahon
Philadelphia
Spencer Love
Consolidated Company
Toronto General Trusts Corporation
John G. Carruth
Speyer & Co
New York
Coun Y
Speyer
Investigan
James Bicknell
Ee Company
Kansas City man Alpheus Young and nurse vanish
Alpheus Young a 60 year old Kansas City lumberman with Texas timber holdings disappeared in Cincinnati after traveling from Southern California with a nurse to visit Milford Ohio relatives. Neither the nurse nor his baggage has been found and authorities seek trace of the missing pair.
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Cincinnati
Alpheus, Young
Kansas City
Texas
Young
California
Milford
Manchester
Devonshire urged Unionist electors to shun Chamberlain policy
In London on December 14, a letter from Duke of Devonshire urging Unionist electors in key pending by elections to oppose any candidate sympathetic to Joseph Chamberlain's fiscal policy gains wide approval. Former Cabinet members including Balfour, Lord George Hamilton, C. T. Ritchie, Lord George Goschen and Lord James of Hereford back the duke's advice.
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London
Duke of Devonshire
Ist
Joseph Chamberlain
Rd Balfour
Burleigh
George Hamilton
C. T. Ritchie
George Goschen
James of Hereford
Antiquarian Mary Narbonne attacked in Salem home
Mrs Mary Narbonne an elderly antiquarian of Salem is in critical condition after being beaten by a house breaker at her Seventeenth and Essex streets residence built before 1741. She fought the intruder until she lost consciousness. no plunder was taken.
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Salem
Mass
Mary Narbonne
Seventeenth
Essex Streets
San Juan Arrives in New Orleans. Gil Still at Large
The steamer San Juan reached New Orleans today from Porto Rico without the Santo Domingo fugitive president Wosy Gil aboard. Passengers report Gil remains in Porto Rico and intends to come to the United States. He was last seen headed toward Mayaguez in southern Porto Rico.
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New Orleans
San Juan
Porto Rico
Wosy Gil
Gil
Mayaguez
Former Brooklyn cop Ennis executed for wife murder
William H. Ennis, ex Brooklyn policeman, was put to death in Sing Sing for the January 14 1902 murder of his wife. Two applications of the current were used. The crime began with an attack on his mother in law at her Canarsie home.
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New York
William H. Ennis
Brooklyn
Sing Sing
Funeral services for Rear Admiral Bancroft Gherardi
Funeral services for the late Rear Admiral Bancroft Gherardi U S Navy retired were held at the Naval Academy chapel in Annapolis today. Interment followed in the Naval Cemetery as a thirteen gun salute fired. The admiral died at his Stratford Connecticut residence last Thursday.
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Annapolis
Bancroft Gherardi
United States Navy
Stratford
Conn
Naval Academy
Naval Cemetery
Federal National Bank Reopens After Two Months Suspension
PITTSBURGH PA December 14 The Federal National Bank resumes business after a two month suspension with a crowd awaiting entry. The first depositor at the window put in 300.04 dollars as the bank restarts operations under favorable conditions.
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Pittsburg
Federal National Bank
Hearing in Pacific merger under way
The U S Supreme Court began hearing Northern Securities Company v United States arguments on the railroad merger. Attorneys for the government and Northern Pacific argued about restraint of trade, power of the Securities Company, and the act's reach, as Justice Peckham and other justices observed. The session focused on whether stock control by Northern Securities created illegal restraint or promoted trade. The court adjourned with Knox to continue tomorrow.
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Washington
Supreme Court of the United States Today
Northern Securities Company
James J. Hill
J. Pierpont Morgan
Daniel 5. Lamont
United States
Circuit Court For
District of Minnesota
Knox
C. W. Bunn
Charles B. Young
Griggs
John G. Johnson
Philadelphia
Justice Brown
Securities Company
Johnson
Peckham
Circuit Court
Supreme Court
Bunn
Mr. Johnson
Northern Pacific
Mr. Bunn
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Great Northern Jiend
Northern Pacific Railroad
Northern Pacific Company
Great Northern Company
Sollawtag P 3
Secon
Northern Pacific Railroad Company
Sons of An
Northern Pacific Comany
Morgan
Hill
Wisconsin
J. Pmorgan & Co
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad
Burlington
Great Northern
White
Antarctic Explorer Departs for Home on Tijuca
Dr Nordenskjold and other members of the Swedish Antarctic expedition, rescued by a gunboat sent by Argentina, embark home aboard the German steamer Tijuca. He told the Argentine Geographic Institute the voyage aimed to study unvisited regions, not set records, and he created the first map of the coast from Belgica canal to the sixty sixth degree, noting prior maps are inaccurate.
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Nordenskjold
Tijuca
Buenos Ayres
Argentine Geographical Institute
Belgica Canal
Excellent Run Made in Heavy Weather Port Royal Sea Trial
Port Royal C Dec 14 The torpedo flotilla arrived after a Norfolk to Hatteras leg at eighteen knots in smooth water. From Hatteras to Charleston a southeast to southwest gale slowed speeds to ten to fifteen knots. Last night anchored in Charleston outer harbor. Charleston to Port Royal was smooth. The inspection board found the vessels seaworthy after the heavy weather run and will board the Baltimore at Port Royal en route to Key West once coal is loaded.
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Port Royal
8. C
Norfolk
Hatteras
Charleston
Anchorage
Baltimore
Key West
Coffee Tea Pot Patent Lets Two Drinks In One Vessel
A new coffee tea pot patent enables serving coffee or tea from the same pot. A vertical partition splits the vessel into two compartments with opposite side spouts. Coils of strong wire form the lifting handles around each spout, allowing guests to be served either beverage from one pot.
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Sam
Veteran Sea Captain to Retire from Hamburg American
New York December 14 Captain Henrich Barends commander of the steamship Duetschland retires after a quarter century as captain with the Hamburg American Line He will serve on shore duties Barends commanded twelve ships earning many distinctions and decorations.
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New York
Henrich Barends
Duetschland
Hamberg-American Hine
Run
Barends
Ham -American Line
Laxative Bromo Quinine Ad Promises Cure
An old advertisement touts Laxative Bromo Quinine as removing the cause of illness and urges readers to request the genuine full name of the remedy, priced at 25 cents.
No River and Harbor Bill Will Be Passed
Indianapolis Journal special from Washington reports intense pressure for new internal improvement projects could exceed 100 million dollars this session. The rivers and harbors committee plans deferment to January to decide whether to limit this session to existing needs or push a general act later.
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Indianapolis Journal
Washington
Committee On
House
United States
Congress
Bloomington public building funds approved in Congress news item
Representative Crumpacker presided part of today in the House as Miers asked for 0,000 dollars for a Bloomington Indiana public building. Overstreet and Hem enway plan Friday Indiana trip returning in January when Congress reconvenes. In London the cremation of Herbert Spencer was held at Hampstead with Leonard Courtney MP giving a brief life and work tribute. An Indian gentleman offered 5,000 dollars to endow an Oxford lectureship.
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Pension Bureau
Ware
Commissioner of Pensions
Holliday
Capitol
James G. Bryson
Indiana House
Eves E. W. Keith
Indianapolis
Hemenway
Annapolis Naval Academy
Terere
Crumpacker
Miers
Bloomington
Ind
London
Herbert Spencer
Hampstead
Leonard Courtney
Oxford University
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