Guilty Plea Ends Rebates Case for Chicago Firm
Four officers of Schwarzchild & Sulzberger Packing in Chicago, Samuel Well of New York VP, plus O B Casey, Vance D Skipworth, and Chess B E Todd, were fined a total 25090 by Judge Humphrey after pleading guilty to conspiracy to accept railroad rebates. Well received 10000, others 5000 each. all fines paid.
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Chicago
Schwarechild & Sulzberger Packing Company
Humphrey
United States District Court
Samuel Well
New York
Casey
Vance D. Skipworth
Chess BE. Todd
Well
Lill
Willam H. Moody
Schwarzchild & Sulsberger Company
Michigan Central Railroad Company
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
Grand Trunk Western Allroad
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
Boston & Maine Railroad Company
Mobile & Ohio Railroad Company
Dope
Schwarschild & Sulzberger
Weissenbach
J M Boyeson
J. J. Herrick
Court Martial for Lieutenant Burbank in Leavenworth
Fort Leavenworth reports Fleet Lieutenant Sidney Burbank of the Sixth Infantry left for the Philippines in February to face a court martial for conduct unbecoming a gentleman and an officer. The charge relates to an allegedly improper marriage attempt with Mrs. Conception Vasquez, a Filipino woman, with the case pending from a district court trial delayed for nearly two years and now set for October.
Empire peace treaty signing not delayed says press
8ST. PETERSBURG The Associated Press reports the emperor will not delay the peace treaty signing. An official copy with all related conference documents is en route to here with the peace commission members.
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Petersburg
Preas
Peace Commission
Coal Dealers Unite Into International Council Merchan ts
In Buffalo New York the National Council of Retail Coal Dealers associations and the International Anthracite Merchants associations merge to form the International Council of Coal Merchants.
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Buffalo
International Anthraclite Merchants’ Associations
International Council of Coal Merchants
Anthracite Barons Stand Firm Against Eight-Hour Day Demand
Branton Pa coal operator, fresh from Philadelphia talks with President Baer of the Reading, declares operators will not concede an eight-hour day. They will offer only to extend the current agreement. A formal announcement will come after the Shamokin miners convention on December 14.
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Branton
Philadelphia
Baer
Reading
Shamokin
Believes in Poison Story in Stanford Death Case
Welton Stanford, nephew of Mia and Jane Stanford, remains convinced of murder by poison in the Honolulu death last summer. He previously offered $1000 for leads and now plans to raise the reward to $2000 while detectives continue inquiry.
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Schenectady
N. Y
Welton Stanford
Mia
Jane Stanford
Honolulu
Mondey
Hastings Leads Democratic Convention Nominations
In Lincoln the state convention nominated W. G. Hastings of Saline for Supreme Court justice and D. C. Cole of Polk with Louis Lightner of Platte for university regents. Delegates backed a strong platform including direct primary, initiative and referendum, direct Senate election, and vigorous anti trust and rate regulation measures.
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Lincoln
Justice
Supréme Court
W. G. Hastings
Saline County
Regents
The
State University
Louis Lightner
Platte County
United States
Interstate Commerce Commission
Hastings
Supreme
D. C. Cole
Polk County
Civilian doctors to be dropped from recruit examinations
Washington reports civilian physicians who examine army recruits will be dispensed after September 30. General orders from the War Department justify the move noting annual civilian fees around 60 000 dollars and rising costs from rejected recruits due to poor physical condition.
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Washington
War Department
Army
Livestock Freight Rates Questioned by Railroad Official
J. M. Tittemer freight traffic manager for Minnesota and St. Paul and the Iowa Central Railway says livestock shipments to Chicago cost railroads more to handle than passengers. He testifies before Federal Judge H. Bethea in ICC rate discrimination cases involving eighteen railroads, arguing rates from Missouri river points to Chicago are unfair to shippers and cheaper for carriers. He cites expenses for reception yards scales windmills brick pavements and cold and heat resistant buildings.
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Chicago
Iowa Central Railroad
J. M. Tittemer
Minnneapolis
St. Paul
Iowa Central Railway
Tittemor
H. Bethea
Interstate Commerce Commission
Missouri River
Philadelphia orders public safety to refrain from political payments
Director of Public Safety Potter bans policemen and firemen from political contributions with dismissal for disobedience. City council passes ordinances authorizing a $6,000,000 loan for grade crossing removal and street paving, but borrowing requires voter approval to take effect.
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Philadelphia
Potter
Myar Weaver
Buffalo Bill Show Quarantined in France
A dispatch from Cody says Colonel W F Cody’s Wild West show is quarantined in France and all herd horses, many valued over $1000, have been shot under official orders due to glanders.
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Buffalo Bill
Chicago
Herald
Cody
Wye
W. F. Cody
France
Joseph Langdon Dies Last Davis Capture Cavalry Survivor
Joseph Langdon, the final survivor of the cavalry company that captured Jefferson Davis, died at his home in Tacoma Washington. He had formerly lived many years in St. Joseph Missouri.
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Kansas City
Joseph Langdon
Company of Cavalry
Jefferson Davis
Tacoma
Wash
St. Joseph
Government awards contract for 176 rapid fire guns
SHARON Pennsylvania The United States government awarded a contract to the Driggs Seabury ordinance corporation for 176 rapid fire guns of varying sizes.
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Sharon
United States
Driggs-Seabury Ordinance Corporation
Roosevelt to Return to Washington After Sagamore Hill Stay
President Roosevelt will finish his Sagamore Hill summer sojourn and return to Washington next Saturday with Mrs. Roosevelt and family, Secretary and Mrs. Loeb, and the executive staff aboard a special Long Island rail train and boat to Jersey. He is drafting his annual message, to be completed in early November after cabinet material is gathered, covering life insurance regulation, U S Venezuela relations, and San Domingo fiscal affairs, with other topics including oil scandals and Panama canal progress.
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Hia Mmensago
Venezuela
America
San Domingo
Departments of Agriculture
the Interior
Department of Justice
Panama Canal
Russia
Japan
Roosevelt
Sagamore Hill
Moroccan matter reaches full accord between Germany and France
Information from a reliable source says Dr. Rosen the German minister to Morocco and M Revoll representing France have agreed on all disputed Moroccan points. They reported complete satisfaction with the settlement after their conference. Premier Rouivier and Prince von Radolin met at the foreign office and spoke cordially.
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Paris
Work of Bomb Thrower at Pekin Station
A bomb exploded in a private car at Pekin railway station as a train carrying a foreign mission departed. Four junior officials were killed and over twenty injured including Prince Tsai Tohe and Wu Ting Fang. The bomber was killed in the blast. The incident alarms court and government leaders. officials and railways are under tight guard.
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Pekin
Prince Tsai
Tohe
Wu Ting Fang
United States
Million Dollar Fire Destroys Much of Butte West Park Block
A fire in Butte Montana Sunday burned about one million dollars in property. The blaze consumed the business portion between the Schodard block and Renshaw alley on West Park street and destroyed half of the public library.
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Bute
Mont
Butte
Schodard
Renshaw Alley
West Park Street
Nine New Cholera Cases Reported in Berlin
The official bulletin reports nine new cholera cases and two deaths between noon yesterday and noon today, raising totals to 236 cases and eighty deaths in Berlin.
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Berlin
Treasury cash count confirms July 1 1905 total
The tally of cash notes bonds and securities in the U S treasury confirms the transfer of the office from William Ellis H Roberts to Charles H Treat and shows July 1 1905 total of 1 259 598 278 dollars.
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Washington
Treasury of
United States
William Ellis H. Roberts
Charles H. Treat
Treasury
Bank wire tapping scheme lands Dunham in Gettysburg
SIOUX FALLS, 8 D. D. Donham alias F D Miles was arrested in Gettysburg after a wire tapping plot netted $3800 from a Gettysburg bank. A telegraph operator and accomplice aided the scheme by intercepting Chicago bank communications and obtaining funds from the Gettysburg institution. The scheme involved posing as a cattle buyer from Miles City Montana and a forged reference from a Chicago bank.
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8. D
Gettysburg
B. V. Donham
Donham
Dunham
F. D. Miles
Miles City
Mont
Chicago
The Presidents Daughter at Seoul Garden Party
Korean officials vie with each other in honoring Miss Roosevelt at an East palace garden party. Prince Yi hosted and toasted Roosevelt while Korean and American flags adorned the grounds. Miss Roosevelt received a Korean Bible and prayer book at a later gathering hosted by Korean Christian Women.
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Seoul
Prince Yi
Old East Palace
Misa Alice Roosevelt
Korea
Roosevelt
Morgan
Miss Roosevelt
Widow Of The Revolution Remains In Pension List
The report from the commissioner of pensions shows 46 085 allowances under the old age disability order and 655 pensions raised to 100 dollars monthly for total blindness. There are 15 256 original survivor claims pending for Civil War descendants, to be adjudicated quickly. Five pensioners remain from the Revolutionary War, including 91 year old Esther S. Damon, widow of a revolutionary soldier, and four daughters.
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Washington
Commissioner of Pensions
Esther S. Damon
Mrs. Damon
Cuban Liberals Thankful for Havana Dispatches
Washington reports from Havana say the liberal party executive in Cienfuegos sent a communication to the mayor, praising municipal authorities and customs officials for protecting lives during Friday’s disturbance that killed the chief of police. No disturbances since, order prevails, elections held yesterday were legal, and moderates won most boards.
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Washington
Havana
Liberal Party
Cienfuegos
Republic
Law Seals Life Insurance Certificates for Knights and Ladies
Indianapolis report states the supreme lodge of the Knights and Ladies of Honor enacted a law to seal life insurance certificates. If a policyholder dies within a year, one third of the face amount is paid. in the second year two thirds. in the third year eighty percent. after three years the full amount is paid.
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Indianapolis
Supreme Lodge, Knights and Ladies of Honor
Consul Reports on Naturalization Inquiry in Constantinople
Minister Leishmanns awaits Consul General Dickinson's inquiry results into the naturalization of Vartanian and Afarian. Vartanian admitted to being sent by a revolutionary committee to murder Aplik Andjian, an Armenian leader, who was killed August 26 in Galata, with Afarian named as accomplice.
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Awarts
Constantinople
Leishmanns
Dickinson
Vartanian
Afarian
Revolutionary Committee
Aplik Andjian
Galata
Afarlan
Violence in Cienfuegos Sparks Election Day Turmoil
News from Havana reports the killing of Congressman Enrique Villuendas and the chief of police in a Liberal versus Moderates clash in Cienfuegos. Police recovered two dynamite bombs at the hotel where Villuendas resided as tensions rise over upcoming election board votes.
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Havana
Cuba
Ceinfuegos
Enrique Villuendas
Liberal Party
Villuendas
Tance
Cienfuegos
Associated Press
Ienfuegos
Nmlance
Salso
Odd Fellows vote to retain funeral service and amend rules
In Philadelphia the sovereign grand lodge of Odd Fellows met and voted 145 to 138 to keep the current funeral service. A proposal to bar liquor trade workers was tabled. The constitution was amended to allow filling an officer vacancy for the remainder of the term and to grant the grand sovereign authority to decide questions from the grand lodge.
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Philadelphia
Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows
Sovereign Grand Lodge
Grand Lodge
Nebraska Industries Grow As Census Reports Higher Output
The census bulletin shows Nebraska at the start of the year with 1 819 manufacturing establishments up from 1 707 in 1900 and capital employed of 80 235 819, wages total 11 022 147 to workers 11 per year. Lincoln leads gains at 89 percent while Omaha and South Omaha rise 42 and 3 percent respectively. Slaughtering and meat packing remain the leading industry with 69 243 468 in output, down nearly 2 million from 1900. flour mills rank second at 12 190 303, up from 7 794 139 in 1900.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Nebraska
Lincoln
Omaha
South Omaha
Nebraska Man Holds the Place
INDIANAPOLIS at Friday morning session of the National Rural Letter Carriers association a motion to have President Cunningham of Nebraska retain his office for one year longer was carried by a large majority. It may prompt about ten unfriendly states to leave the association and form a rival organization as opponents have appointed a committee to draft a new constitution.
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Nebraska
Indianapolis
National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association
Cunningham
Graft alleged in Turner loans dealings with Mercantile Trust
Paul Morton reveals that the Equitable Life Assurance Society paid 2180000 to the Mercantile Trust company tied to the Turner loans with unclear authority. The loans rose from 661491 to 1276478 amid attempts to develop Kentucky and Colorado property collateral.
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New York
Vaquitable Lifee Assurance Society
Mercantile Trust Company
Thee Society
Paul Morton
Morton
Henry B. Hyde
Marcellus Hartley
John E. Searles
Louis Fitsgerald
W. N. Coler, Jr
H. B. Hydee
John W. Young
Salt Lake & Eastern Railway
Salt Lake
Kentucky Mineral and Timber Company
Amity Land and Irrigation Company of Colorado
Kentucky
Colorado
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Cuban Minister Receives Official Version of Cienfuegos Incident
Secretary O Farrill transmitted to Senor Quesada the official report on the Cienfuegos affair. Enrique Villuendas fired on the police chief who died after the attack. Villuendas and another man died. police and rural guards suffered injuries and arrests followed. Ammunition and dynamite were found at the hotel where Villuendas resided. The government ordered strict legality for tomorrow's elections.
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Washington
Senor Quesada
O'Farrill
Cienfuegos
Pilee
Villuendas
Emigration Surge From Spain Follows Famine Regions
Dispatches report mass departure from Andalusia as famine prompts families to abandon homes and farms. Galicia towns are deserted amid relief delays. Fifteen steamers bound for South America are slated to sail from Atlantic ports in October as presses urge bold government action to curb emigration.
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Spain
Madrid
Andalusia
South America
Galicia
Ansalsian
America
Panama Seeks Spanish Immigrants For Canal Labor
President Amador and the canal commission plan to attract Spanish immigrants from famine stricken Galicia. Many are regarded as top workmen for Panama.
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Panama
Amador
Canal Commission
Galica
Albers Convicted by Nicaraguan Court in Ocotal
The state department reports William Albers, American resident agent at Jalapa, was convicted by a Nicaraguan court in Ocotal for resisting legal process and insulting President Zeleya. No sentence yet imposed.
Former Rhode Island Governor Henry Howard Dies at 78
Former Rhode Island governor and prominent manufacturer Henry Howard died at his Harris home at age 78. The longtime public figure chaired state efforts and built a major local business.
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Providence
Henry Howard
Rhode Island
Harrris
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Judge Hastings
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Oyster Bay
Montana
S. DB
Knights and Ladies of Honor
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