Harriman pressuring Ryan over Equitable stock share
In New York on December 12 Thomas F. Ryan testified before the committee about a demand from Harriman to share the Hyde stock. Ryan said Harriman urged partnership or influence, but he declined and planned to proceed with his plans regardless. The exchange illustrated Harriman's political influence concerns as the hearing covered stock control and potential investigations.
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New York
Thomas F. Ryan
Equitable
Hyde
Harriman
Hinghes
Ryan
Mr. Hughes
Republican National Committee
Prudent Life Insurance Company
Americ
Hughes
Legislative Committee
John FP. Dryden
New Jersey
Dryden
Prudential
Duluth
Minn
Hays
al- Jones
Superior
Barnard & Record
Liverior
Superior Street
W. J. Murritt
Aavig
Santa Fe Central Enjoins New Mexico Eastern Over Willard Crossing
Report from Belen notes the Santa Fe Central has obtained an injunction preventing the New Mexico Eastern from crossing tracks at Willard. Construction east of Willard halted, workers report near-stagnation on the cut-off, and tensions between lines persist since Kennedy issuances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa FE Central
NEW Mexico Eastern
Willard
Santa Fe
Kennedy
New
Mexico Eastern Railway
Belen
Santa i Fe
Deten
New Mexico
Santa Fe Central Company
Santa Me i
Central
Light Ship Crew Are All Saved In Nantucket Rescue
Persistent hand pumping and wireless signaling saved the fifteen crew aboard lightship 58 after the vessel foundered near Nantucket shoal. The ship went down moments after the crew evacuated, with leaks discovered Sunday and pumps failing as water rose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Bedford
Mass
Nantucket South Shoal
Indictments Dismissed in Second District Court
The Second district court adjourned with indictments found by the late grand jury deemed groundless. Will Springer was found not guilty in a case of mistreating a horse. Sefering Crollett, justice of the peace of Old Albuquerque, was also acquitted for failure to report fines collected. A separate case against Santiago Garcia involved a $25 fine, shown as paid by county records but not in tax books. Thomas Rule, a territory merchant, faced charges connected to a fight in Old Albuquerque last April.
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Will Springer
Sefering Crollett
Pemce
Old Albuquerque
Santiago Garcia
Pesca
County Trenatrer
Tad Bean
Casey
Thomas Rule
Juan Joa Garcia
Political parties struggle for Russian mastery in turmoil
The report outlines a spectrum of Russian political forces from reactionary noble and church-backed factions to moderates supporting reforms, radical democrats seeking a constitutional assembly, republic supporters, and anarchists, with note of internal tensions and Cossack disaffection amid ongoing unrest. It also notes a Vienna dispatch about a Bucharest report of Elizavetgrad riots and Jewish casualties as mobs burn quarters.
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St. Petersburg
Russia
Black Mouses
Nicholas
Dolgoruki
Moscow
Rurik
Russian Empire
Church Party
Holy Alliance For National and Self-Protection
Witte
Social Democrats
Vienna
Bucharest
Roumania
Elizar Bethgrad
Kissineff
Electrical Exposition Opens at Madison Square Garden
The great Electrical Exposition at Madison Square Garden opens with President Roosevelt pressing the button in Washington to start the machinery. The display features electric heating cooking apparatus motion pictures talking machines and a model Williamsburg bridge showing waste burning to power a converter. A Theatroscope will link nightly to theaters letting visitors hear showings from the venues.
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New York
Madison Square Garden
Roosevelt
Washington
Williamsburg Bridge
Woodsbury
Sentence Set in New Jersey Murder Case
In Jeremy City New Jersey the day is set for the death sentence in the case of Mrs Antoinetta Tolla who shot Joseph Senta and who was married last March in Kinewand. She is now in Hackensack jail awaiting the ruling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jeremy City
Hyi
Antoinetta Tolla
Joseph Senta
Wan
Kinewand
Hackensack
Dairy Problems for Dairymen at New York Convention
Several hundred men gathered in Binghamton New York for the annual convention of the New York State Dairymen Association. Prominent dairymen and state agricultural experts attend. Speakers include Agriculture Commissioner A Wieting and experts from Cornell and the state experiment station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Binghamton
N. Y
New York State Dairymen’s Aspciation
Agricultural Department of the State
A. Wieting
W. H. Jordan
New York State
J. H. Bailey
College of Agriculture
Cornell University
James J. Rogers
Broome County
Gilbert M. Tucker
The
Country Gentleman
Coal Operators Oppose Rate Regulation Meeting in Knoxville
A large group of coal operators from Tennessee and Kentucky gather at the Hotel Imperial Knoxville to oppose a railroad rates regulation bill. They formed a committee to win southern operator support and plan a Washington trip to urge delaying action on the bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knoxville
Tenn
Tennetee
Kentucky
Imperial
Thin City
Toulsville
Washington
Chicago Convention Opens To Frame New City Charter
Mayor Dunne leads Chicago convention to draft a new city charter. He warns the old charter has outgrown itself and caused confusion, noting amendments have failed to settle issues. Committees will study provisions as delegates prepare a charter needing state legislature approval.
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Chicago
Dunne
Dearing
Boston Throes in Election As Reform Question splits city
Boston voters faced a high stakes mayoral contest between reform candidate Louis A. Frothingham and Democrat John F. Fitzgerald. The race centers on reform and municipal ownership with many wards and aldermen also up for grabs. Voter turnout appeared large with 118 255 eligible, and stay at home sentiment aimed to be countered across eighteen Massachusetts cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Mass
Louis A. Frothingham
John F. Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald
Madivas
Massachusetts
Mrs Maxwell Hit by Street Car Near Post Office
Mrs. E. J. Maxwell, living with her daughter at Coal avenue and South Second street, was struck and knocked into mud by a street car near the post office. She walked home from a nearby store, insisting the incident was her fault for crossing in muddy conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. J. Maxwell
Coal Avenue
South Second Street
Ofice
Fifty Years of Horticultural Work Highlighted
The Illinois State Home horticultural Society marks its fiftieth anniversary in Champaign with the annual meeting. Officials recognize the milestone in opening addresses as elders are recalled and Prof. Suir presents a paper on the Apple Crop of 1608. St Louis wool market steady.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Champaign
Alinotns State Homevitaes Society
Tolay
Tarhe
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