Various Brief Telegrams From Around The World
Numerous short items report on education leaders, long serving hotel staff, historical society projects, unique facts about Madagascar, a U S attorney death in Alaska, air dust comparisons, Ohio statehood centennial, a fatal fight in Missouri, a Calve marriage note, tariff debates in Boston, clerical appointments in Washington, a librarian's death in Urbana, a minister’s health retreat, coal strike hearings, a Boston stage manager’s death, a baseball peace conference in Cincinnati, Navy Moody’s sartorial faux pas, a doctor’s apoplexy death in Georgia, a Dubuque centenarian, three miners killed in Wisconsin, a Swedish inventor’s poverty death, and Westinghouse train couplers in Britain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nat Ingram
James Galightly
Sikeston
Ingram
Galightly
Paris
Emma Calve
Julia Boss
Mme. Calve
United States
Boston Chamber of Commerce
Rome
Mer. O'Connell
Portland
American College At
Trome
Catholic University At
Washington
Henry Clinton Forbes
State Library of Natural History
Urbana
Mallnois Cavalry
Mexico City
George Granville
Coal Strike Commission
Philadelphia
John Mitchell
Miners’ Union
Clarence 8. Darrow
Chicago
Napier Lothia, Jr
Boston
Mary Anderson
England
National
American League Baseball
Cincinnati
National League
Moody
Navy Department
John Davies Jones
Morristown
Washington, C
Summerville
Avigusta
Jones
Bureau of Forestry
United States Department of Agriculture
Mary Morgan
Dubuque
Hurley
Wis
Karl Klesewetter
Maumania
Mr. Westinghouse
Great Britain
Coal famine sparks grand jury probe in Chicago area
Chicago suffers with 2000 cold related cases as coal shortages persist. Officials accuse fuel dealers of a ring and plan a grand jury inquiry with coal men summoned to testify. Trainloads of coal are being held and stockpiled along tracks beyond the city limits as authorities seek accountability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Weekly Bulletin
The
Health Department
Deneen
Grand
Severe fuel shortages hit Kansas and Missouri towns
Across Kansas and western Missouri fuel is unavailable and citizens burn anything combustible. Kansas City faces coal price pressures with no scarcity of stock yet, while readings show a 4 degree below zero low and a rising 11 above by Sunday evening. In Reading, Pennsylvania, 10 200 coal cars moved that week, signaling a vast shortage and looming factory closures. St Paul reports severe cold with minimal suffering, and Detroit awaits a Washington convention call within ten days by Mayor Maybury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Kansas
Missouri
Reading
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad
New York
Schaykhill County
ST. Paul
Minn
Detroit
Maybury
Lesue
Washington
Chicago
Cold weather slows coal shipments north from Illinois
In Bloomington Illinois extreme cold delays coal deliveries from southern Illinois causing tonnage cuts to keep traffic moving. Officials say coal speed drops 10 to 20 percent while Indianapolis faces fuel shortage with a plan to buy coal for wholesale sales and offer free coal to the poor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bloomington
Ill
Ilinoia
Trafic
Grand jury probes coal market conspiracy in Illinois
A special Chicago grand jury investigates alleged conspiracy among coal operators, railroads, and dealers to raise coal prices in Chicago. Attorney General Hamlin leads, using reports from mines along the Chicago & Alton road. Witnesses include mine owners and wholesale coal dealers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Chicago
Hamlin
Chicago & Alton Road
Cook County
Senate probes Washington coal shortage impact on supply
The Senate District of Columbia committee hearings reveal a 30 percent drop in anthracite deliveries to Washington in the past year. Pennsylvania Railroad official Joseph Crawford cites November and December gains above normal receipts and no freight-rate increase. Local dealer W Z Zech says independents supply coal more easily than railroads, suggesting large firms push coal to smaller firms to keep prices high.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Committee On the
District of Columbia
Joseph Crawford
Pennsylvania Railroad
W. Z. Zech
Publicity as Cure Proposed to Curb Vast Wealth Power
In a Tuesday Senate debate led by West Missouri the call grew for a bill to strip corporate wealth of secrecy and impose personal liability on officers. Hoar outlined anti trust aims while warning of risks from unlimited corporate control over coal and other industries. The measure would require disclosure, prohibit watered stock, and hold managers personally liable for debts and torts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
West
Committee On Finance
Finance Committee
Aldrich
Massachusetts
Lodge
Capitol
RRL
Hoar
Dingley
Congress
Nelson
Minn
President Roosevlt Presses for Trust Legislation
President Roosevelt conferred with Speaker Henderson and Representative Grosvenor on anti trust laws. They discussed enacting some measure this session while aiming for a middle course between radical reformers and those who see little harm in trusts. No specific bill was chosen and no formal decision announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Henderson
Grosvenor
Ohio
House
Congress
Manila Trial Reveals Major Glenn Aimed Pacification Tactics
Two Calbayog natives testified at Major Edwin F. Glenn’s trial that he arrived in Calbaygo and ordered citizens to gather in his office. He read General Smith’s order and urged cooperation with Americans to pacify Samar, warning locals they would be used as guides if insurgents did not surrender.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Calbaygo
Island
Samar
Edwin F. Glenn
Glen
Smith
Bank Robbery Report From Ordway Colorado
Two men broke into the private bank of Silliman Williams & Co in Ordway Otero County Colorado Tuesday morning forced the safe and secured about 2000 dollars. They then fled on horses stolen from a nearby ranch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nenver
Ordway
Otero County
Colo
Silliman, Williams & Co
Mighty Healing Power Proclaimed by Professor Adkin
Ministers and doctors report that Professor Adkin has cured the blind, the lame, the paralytic, and many near death. He offers free aid to all sufferers with any disease and invites professional men to investigate his claimed powers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Euren
Thomas F. Atkins
Adkin Heale Pot
Dregr
Chris Han
Adkin
Elin
Ulery
Sost
J. Adkin
Usw
Amroughen
R. L. Ti. Hawley
I. G. Doane
Etme
Hright
Livi
Ford
Howe
Adilo Joenerta
John Adame
Blakenbury
Aleut
Hovcherter
N. Y
Wen
Wright
Jon BE
Millemture
Leganeport
Lie
Marr
Waerrent Pa
C. W. Savage
Abe Marcel
Adkto
Tad Wekin
Thomas F, Adkin
Also Mentioned on This Page
Alliance
Howard J. Rogers
Department of Education
St. Louis
Robert Scott
Cleveland
Doane Robinson
South Dakota Historical Society
Madagascar
Conou
Tamatave
Juneau
Alaska
Robert A. Frederick
Topeka
Kan
First District of
James Crichton Browne
London
Argylehire
Scotland
Aas
Indianapolis
Bookwalter
Council
MR. Hoar
Sen
Ite
Bines
Colorado
Professor Adkin
Thomas F. Adkin
Institute of Physicians and Surgeons
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