National Capital Briefs on Resignations and Bills
Judge John I Hall resigns as head of the department and Col Dittley of Columbus to succeed. House to consider a bill cutting salaries to three quarters of current, with offshore notes on other posts. Navy appropriation bill totals 51 million plus, funding four battleships and fifteen torpedo boats. Cuban resolutions favored by conference committee, urging neutral flag and recognition of Cuba. Post office funding up, including clerks and inland transport boosts. county seat post offices protected from consolidation. President to nominate B J Franklin to Arizona governorship.
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John I. Hall
Lay
Hyans
Kentucky
Bondad
House
Conference Committee
Senate
House of Representatives
Congress
Spain
Oabs
United States of’ America
United States
Cuba
Thes
B. J. Franklins
Arizona
Senate Committee On Appropriations
Indicted Governor Altgeld and UI Trustees Over Flag Display
Champaign county grand jury indicts Governor Altgeld and the University of Illinois board of trustees for failing to display the American flag over five campus buildings as required by state law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Champaign County
Guy
John P. Altgeld
Board of Trustees
The
University of Illinois
Bate University
Massachusetts Republicans Pick Reed as Preferred National Nominee
At Boston Friday the Massachusetts state convention endorsed Thomas Brackett Reed of Maine as the party’s favored presidential candidate. Delegates cheered loudly for Reed while adopting platform planks on revenue, tariffs, silver, and foreign policy, and declared no binding pledge to national delegates. Four delegates at large to the national convention were chosen by acclamation: Lodge, Crane, Draper, and Gill.
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Massachusetts
St Louis
Boston
Milda
Thomas B. Reed
Maine
James G. Blathe
United States
Americas
Cuba
Amin
Thomas Brackett Read
Lodge
Fredrick L. Greenhalge
Henry Qabot Liodge
Nahant
Wi Murray Crane
Dalton
Hben
Draper
Hopedale
Curtis Gill
Post Riley Dying Seized by Sudden Dangerous Illness
Indianapolis dispatch reports Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley struck by a sudden brain fever. Delirious since Thursday night, he was found incoherent by boarder Holstein. Doctors treated him with ice and opiates to induce sleep as his condition remained perilous.
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Indianapolis
James Whitcomb Riley
Holstein
Riley
Mr. Riley
Virginia town in flames wastes Weston business district
A Sunday morning fire swept through Weston West Virginia destroying the Commercial and Central hotels, port office, Kitcen’s block, Dawson building, Griffin’s flour mills, opera house, Post’s store, Locke’s shoe house, Dyer’s saloon and many small shops. Loss is estimated at $500,000 to $600,000 with around 20 percent insured.
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Weston
W. Va
Kitcen
Dawson
Griffin’s
Post’s
Locke’s
O’hara
Dyer
Indiana Docked in Port Royal Dry Dock Triumph at Tide
The battleship Indiana entered the government dry dock at Port Royal on a high spring tide, resting on the blocks with fifteen inches to spare. Officials praised the docking as a harbor triumph, noting the ship completed the maneuver despite dense fog and a lengthy water-pumping process before the dock was emptied and the vessel secured upright.
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Hesse
Indiana
Government
Paris Island
Herkool
Port- Roy
Naval Station
Java
Port Royal
Paria
Beaufort
MAY PROSHOUTH COMMODORE LANDING ARMS IN CUBA
A Charleston engineer aboard the steamer Commodore claims the vessel recently landed arms and men on Cuban soil during its last trip. He says ship papers were removed for coastwise service as far as Tampa and the ship did not touch foreign soil. The collector reports to the Washington treasury and has turned the matter to the U S district attorney. If corroborated the Commodore could be charged with navigation law violations and face forfeiture under the revised statutes.
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Guna
Cuba
Custume
Charleston
Treasury Department
Washington
Commodore
United States District Attorney
Boom for Birmingham steel plant pledge received
A New York special reports that full funding for a $1,000,000 steel plant at Birmingham Alabama has nearly been pledged by Tennessee coal and iron capitalists, the Sloss companies, southern roads, and the Louisville and Nashville. Construction will start at once, making rails and merchant steel from locally produced materials.
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New York
Birmingham
Ala
Tennessee Cosh and Iron
Sloss
Louisville
Nashville
Interstate Commerce ruling on long and short haul rates
U S Supreme Court reviews a case involving the long and short haul provision of the Interstate Commerce Act. Railroads Cincinnati to Augusta challenge through bills of lading and rates from Atlanta to Social Circle claiming discrimination. Court affirms lower ruling that through rates cannot exempt parties or grant special rates and discusses maximum rate authority.
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Gase
Washington
Circuit Court of Appeal
Atth O Circuit
Intiratate Commerce Commistei
Cincinnati, New Orleana, and
Texas Paviflc Railroad Company
Western and “Atlantic Railroad Company
Georgia Railroad Company
Suathe Bhirga
Cincinnati
Augusta
Interstate Commerce Comminsion
Aupunta
Georgia Railroad
Social Circle
Atlanta
Texas Pacific
the Western
Atlantic
Georgia Rand
Goggin Company
Baltimore
Trade Topics from Dun and Co Weekly Review
Dun and Co's Business Review for the past week notes disappointing failures totaling 12,380,014 for three weeks of March, with 295 failures in the United States and 9 in Canada. No major change in trade, some sectors worse while others improve, and bankers cautious with lending. Foreign trade shows slight improvement in New York exports, while imports fall. Cotton prices rose briefly but declined again. plantation receipts remain large and stockpiles foresee ample supply for the rest of the crop year.
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Dun & Co
Business Review
Texas
United States
Canada
New York
Aight
Resignation Rumor Ties Central of Georgia Chief to Mexico
A Savannah report says Central of Georgia Railway President Comer confirms General Superintendent Theo D. Kline plans to resign for a post with the Interoceanic Railway of Mexico. He will not depart the Central before May 1. Kline earns about $10,000 and faces several applications for his job.
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Mexico
Savanneh
Comer
Central of Georgia Railway Company
Theo D. Kline
The
Central
Interoceanic Railway of
Kinne
the Central
Sale of the Macon and Birmingham road confirmed
Louie F. Garrard, attorney for Bawards and Parsons, paid into court 100000 dollars as final payment for the Macon and Birmingham road. The court refused to reveal the purchaser's name, leaving the buyer's identity a mystery.
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Louie F. Garrard
Bawards & Parson
Macon
Birmingham Road
Georgia Industry and Politics Chronicle of 1900s
State news covers April 15 event at Macon on railroad matters, wage cuts on weaving, and a Phoenix City strike. A Madison drive aims to raise 10000 for a state auditorium for the June convention. Georgia lumbermen elect officers at Cordele. Convict investigations delay by Governor Atkinson who plans trips to Fitzgerald and Irwinville. Military encampment set for June in Griffin with multiple regiments. Georgia to issue 242000 in bonds around June to retire old debt, with 30 year bonds and par-value sale rules in force.
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Lumbermen of
Georgia
Cordele
Alabama
Missieippig
Atkinson
Glenn
Patrick Walsh
Mitsgerald
Walsh
Fitzgerald
Irwinville
Superior Court
Corony
General Assembly
President Hippolyte Dies in Haiti
The Haytian Bank in Paris reports that President Hippolyte of Hayti has died from apoplexy.
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Hippolyte
Haytian Bank
Paris
Hayti
Commodore Beach Cuba Crewman Reveals Alleged Cargo Treachery
Howard Owen, a Commodore crew member, details alleged shanghaiing and false depots to Cuba. He claims munition cargo was overboard and warns of legal action as Spanish authorities and the nation weigh prosecutions for neutrality violations.
New England Mills Cut Output as Southern Mills Rebound
A Boston special reports New England mills, led by Lawrence Manufacturing in Lowell, reduce capital stock and suspend half the plant. Southern mills in Georgia and the Carolinas resume cotton cloth production, widening wage gaps and challenging northern mills. Crane Baker of Lawrence cites a three year crisis driven by wage disparities, fearing prolonged losses.
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Boglind Mills
Boston
Masa
Georgia
Garolinsy
Lawrence Manufacturing Company
Lowell
New England
Directora
Cupital
Malanothaba
Crageuror Baker
Lawrence Company
Tia
Garolinas
Géorgin
Dakor
Tha Uawretha Manufacturing Company
Conrsa Cottons
Milla
Supreme Court tackles rebates and interstate commerce law
A baron majority of the Supreme Court addresses evidence in a habeas corpus case from western Pennsylvania involving Theo Brown and Johnny Walker. Brown, auditor of the Allegheny Valley Railroad, refused to testify about rebates to Union Coal, citing self incrimination. The district court held him in contempt, he was fined five dollars and jailed until he answered. The circuit court and Supreme Court denied relief. In a separate note, Tennessee Coal and Iron directors met in New York to reorganize and plan a steel plant in Birmingham, Alabama.
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United States Supreme> Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Thas Peraong
Peemed
Bar
Drowi Courh
Western Diatrict
Pennsylvania
Beeing Theo
Brown
Johnny Walker
Rmux Thal
Alleghany Valley Railroad
Grand
Union Coal Company
District Court
Bain
Circuit Court
Tennessee Coal, Tran ‘and Railroad Company
New York City
Tomes, Woodward
Gurdee
James Swann
Birmingham
Ala
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Post Riley
Virginia Town
May Proshouth Commodore
Georgia Road
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Georgia News and Notes
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Florida Railroad
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Pirpone
Creatingan
Ttia
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Firsl
Mugon
Valdosta
Firat
Savannah
Virat
Royalty
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Commodore Beach
Tun Bitot
Pittman Owen
Howard Owen
Qhutleaton
Olwen
Fromon
Edward Owen
John Johnson
Edward Olsen
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Tampa
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Simé
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