Mrs Huntington Purchases Colorado and Southern Railroad
Denver reports that Mrs Collis P Huntington widow of the Southern Pacific magnate has bought the Colorado and Southern Railroad. Hawley acted as her representative in a private purchase run as specu lation with stock voting trust until 1904. George Crocker of New York may be linked. Rock Island Road alleged as real buyers by some.
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Colorado and Southern Railroad
Collis P. Huntington
Great Southern Pacific Railroad
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Hawley
Huntington
George Crocker
New York
Crocker
Pacific Coast
Rock Island Road
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Rock Island
Irrigation Bill Progress Amid House Committee Deliberations
Washington April 7 The House committee on Irrigation held an all day session and reached an agreement on all vexed questions. The amended bill prevents speculation by limiting water rights to bona fide residents and caps land ownership at 160 acres.
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Washington
House Committee On Irrigation
Senate
Hoosevelt
Substitute acts as blind man’s wife in Chicago suit
Violet Gleason sues Mrs. Catherine Walsh for wages alleging she was hired to impersonate a wife for Ira Walsh, a blind man at 76 Peoria Street. The trial opens with the husband as a witness to determine if he was misled by the proxy wife and if wages were due after Walsh ordered the substitute removed and pay refused.
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Chicago
Violet Gleason
Katherine Walsh
Ira Walsh
Peoria Street
Violet Greason
Mr. Walsh
Democrats Rally for Cuban Reciprocity Conference
A petition among Democratic Congressmen seeks funding for a conference on the Cuban reciprocity bill, to be held tomorrow night. The drive is led by supporters and opposed by some Democratic members who favor reciprocity.
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Washingon
Felse Emocrat
Washington moves to block Northern Pacific merger
Attorney General Stratton of Washington asks the U S Supreme Court for leave to file a bill of complaint against the Northern Pacific and Great Northern railroads and the Northern Securities Company. He notes the case raises identical questions to the Minnesota matter. Accidents on farms cause cuts bruises and sprains and Dr Thomas Electric Oil is advertised as giving instant relief.
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Washington
Straton
United States Supreme Court
Northern Pacific
Great Northern
Great Northern Railroad
Northern Securities Company
Stratton
Minnesota
Thomas
Roosevelt Declares War on Beef Trust in Chicago
President Roosevelt orders legal action to break up the meat trust controlled by Chicago packers as beef prices rise. A New York rival, the Butener's Company, plans a 1 million dollar New York packinghouse to enter the Eastern market. At the Stock Yards prices rise with cattle at 7.0 per hundredweight and hogs at record levels for the year. The industry cites supply and demand but packing meetings weekly fix prices.
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Chicago
Looxevelt
Ieef Trust
Washington
Roosevelt
Butener
New York
Armour
Swift
Morris
Metal and Money Market Report
New York on April 7 shows Mexican dollars at 48 cents, silver at 54, and copper at 12 percent. Market notes indicate continued demand and price movement across metals and currencies.
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New York
Burdock Blood Bitters Promises Digestive Relief
Health claim stating the tonic strengthens the stomach and makes indigestion impossible with a slogan Not Lagé Other Men, reflecting era advertising language and remedies.
British Camp 8 Maintained Near New Orleans Under Investigation
Governor Heard’s report to Secretary Hay on British operations near New Orleans is under serious review. The Justice Department seeks Attorney General Knox’s opinion on legality if Chalmette shipments to South Africa included horses and mules.
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New Orleans
Heard
Hay
South Africa
Chalmette
Department
Department of Justice
Chaimette
Milwaukee
Mootcair
David Warner
Dempstear Steamship Company
Knox
Hee
Chinese Exclusion Bill Advances In House Amid Amendments
The House reconsidered the Chinese exclusion bill after a journal reading and adopted two amendments under the five minute rule. One by Clark of Missouri defines teachers as needing two years of prior higher teaching experience. The other by Comos of California requires Chinese students to leave the country immediately after completing their studies.
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Washington
House Today
Clark
Missouri
Comos
California
Democrats Plan Big Harmony Reception At City Club
The Democratic club governors vote to host a Monday April 14 reception inviting leading figures such as former President Cleveland William Jennings Bryan William C Whitney former Senator Hill Senator-Elect Gorman and other Congress members. Lewis Nixon leads the push aiming to unify the party with speeches on harmony and policy over supper.
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Manhattan Club
Democratic Club
Club
Cleveland
William Jennings Bryan
William C. Whitney
David B. Hill
Gorman
Maryland
John G. Carlisle
Daniel S. Lamont
Congress
Board of Governors
Washington
Barthday
Demarcatic Club
Bryan
Senator Hill
Lewis Nixon
Tammany
Nixon
Millionaire's Dual Life Exposed by Grime
Philadelphia report reveals William H. Lane, a negro butler, confessed to murdering Ella Jordan posing as Mrs Charles A. Furbush and her two children at 438 North Fifteenth Street and another home at 2030 Spring Garden Street. Eloise, age 7, died. Madeline, age 10, perished. Furbush's true whereabouts and status remain undisclosed as police pursue theft links.
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Charles A. Furbush
William H. Lane
Negro
North Fifteenth Street
Ella Jordan
Fairmount Avenue
Spring Garden Stree
R. Furbush
Furbush
Furbusu
Lane
Camden
Madeline
Little Eloise
Hahnemann Hospital
Republicans Weaken On Force Bill Project
In Washington on April 7 Republicans shrink from supporting the Crumpacker resolution aimed at probing election laws, with focus on North and South Carolina. Louisiana Alabama Georgia are noted, while a party caucus debate continues and many Republicans indicate support for a Chinese exclusion law, as Pacific coast members align with Democrats to block Southern election system inquiry.
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United States
North
South Carolina
Louisiana
Alabama
Georgia
House
Pacific Coast
Forty years courtship ends in marriage in West Virginia
Jacob Graff aged 66 finally wed Rebecca Gleisbury aged 65 after nine years since he first obtained a license. The pair, after long waiting, tied the knot at Mayton following a persistent pursuit. Jewelry and rings offered by E G Capp at 83 West Corerges Street.
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Parkrsburg
W. Va
Aril
Jacob Graff
Rebecca Gleisbury
Shot Mother in Her Anxiety
A man shot his mother, aiming to save her from reliance on strangers at the gate in old age. Police report the incident as a fatal attack with unclear motive and ongoing investigation.
Grim double murder suicide rocks Winsted household
In Barkhamstead near Winsted Connecticut Elsie Richards aged 52 shot her 74 year old mother Emily Richards in their home then killed herself with the same revolver. The mother survived and identified the weapon before dying from the wound, while the daughter died from a self inflicted gunshot. Neighbors and the Rev. Augustus Alvord witnessed the aftermath.
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Iheana
Omebody
Hisie
James Whitfield Dies by Own Action at Home
James Whitfield, president of the Western Baseball League and longtime sporting editor of the Kansas City Star, killed himself at his home in KA.AS CITx on April 7, according to local reports.
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Citx
James Whitfield
Western Baseball League
The
Kansas City Star
Alaska boundary controversy heats up with royal removal claim
The Alaska boundary dispute enters a new phase as reports claim a Russian boundary monument between Alaska and British territory was removed by a Canadian survey team. Secretary Hay orders a U S commission to investigate with Capt Wilds P Richardson and Lieut George Thornton Emmons named as members.
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Alaska
Great Britain
United States
State Department
Russia
Hay
Wilds P. Richardson
8Th Infantry
United States Army
George Thornton Emmons
United States Navy
Sion
Richardson
Vancouver Barracks
Emmons
Museum of Natural History
New York
Richard Frazier
Aney
Ates
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