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ALLEGED THEFT BY TRICK

... ALLEGED THEFT BY TRICK. George Francis Train (41), St. Peter’s Mount, Bramley, was rernanded at Leeds, yesterday, charged with stealing £25 by trick. ■Mr. Alf Masser alleged that Train advertised for clerks for his business. Ho induced one of them part ...

Published: Wednesday 26 August 1931
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 74 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

A QUICK WAY ROUND

... and home. This little outing would run to more than the new forty days’ limit, though easily cutting the records of George Francis Train (the real Phineas Fogg of fiction) and the journalistic Nelly Bly. both of whom took over sixty days to circle the ...

Published: Friday 19 July 1907
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 311 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

A FAMOUS TRAMWAYS ENGINEER

... oft Januarv Ist, 1343. and married the present Lady Robinson 1374, When quite voung he joined the staff of the late George Francis Train, and since that time closely connected with tramway enterprises Kngland, America, and the’ Continent At Lo, Angeles ...

Published: Tuesday 08 November 1910
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 361 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

A Carious Study

... PHILIP HAMILTON. MILLIONAIRE TO PAUPER. JHE MAN WHO GAVE ENGLAND TRAMS. News was received on Tuesday from New Yor! that George Francis Train—who always claimed that he gave London her first tramway—had died that de at Mills’s Hotel, a cheap lodging- ed on ...

Published: Saturday 23 January 1904
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 704 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

AMERICAN STREET RAILWAYS

... between 1855 and 1860, and more than eighty between 1861 and 1870. In 1860 a trainwav was laid at Birkenhead (England) by George Francis Train. In 1862 a tram.vay was built in London, and in 1868 another in Liverpool, while in 1870 a general Act, regulating ...

Published: Saturday 27 October 1894
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 941 | Page: 12 | Tags: News 

MILLIONAIRE TO PAUPER

... MILLIONAIRE TO PAUPER. DEATH OF THE MAN WHO GAVE ENGLAND TRAMS. • News was received yesterday from New York that George Francis Train—who always claimed that he gave London her first tramway —had died in that city at Mills’s Hotel, a cheap lodginghouse ...

Published: Wednesday 20 January 1904
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 896 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Advertisements & Notices

... Yl'rk Times says: -' The Democratic Convention has 3 been saved from one nuisance by a tyrannical British judge. When George Francis Train was brought up for his trial a fortnight ago, he expressed his anxiety to the judge for a conclusion of his case, as ...

EEL CULTURE AND FARMERS

... Imperial Government, has been submitted to the Legisla- tare by the Joint Committee- ROUND THE WORLD IN SIXTY DAYS. Mr. George Francis Train, the American lecturer, who left Tacoma, Washington Territory, on March 1Sth, under engagement wvith the Tacoma Ledger ...

Published: Tuesday 13 May 1890
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1201 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

THE WEATHER

... EXCHEQUER ADD MR. Tonq.-The Court of Exchequer, Dublin, sat specially on Monday, to hear the motion instituted by Mr. George Francis Train, to set aside the fat, judgment, and capia3 ad satisfaciendeun obtained against him by a trustee of the Ebbw Vale Company ...

Published: Wednesday 16 December 1868
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1305 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

A FRENCH VIEW OF THE ABYSSINIAN CAMPAIGN

... statement. Another attempt was made on Friday in the Court of Consolidated Chamber, Dublin, to obtain the re- lease of Mr. George Francis Train front custody. The motion was mado before Mr. Justice Keogh, on thegrruad of irregularity in the proceedings on the ...

Published: Monday 20 July 1868
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1462 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

FENIANISM

... action secured Mr. Train's speedy release.' The Chisuaqo Tribune, before hearing of Mr. Train's re- a lease, wrote :-George Francis Train, who started for Europe some ten days aga with a large mouthfal of - Feniaeisie, was arrested at Quecnstown on the ...

Published: Tuesday 04 February 1868
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1413 | Page: 5 | Tags: News