Higher Rates for Railroads Sustained in Appellate Ruling
The U S circuit court of appeals reversed Judge Emory Speer and allowed increased freight tariffs on Georgia and regional railroads. Atlantic Coast Line, Louisville and Nashville, and others faced a broad rate rise affecting groceries and food products from Georgia westward. The decision signals possible Supreme Court appeal by shippers, with the Interstate Commerce Commission to address reasonableness of rates.
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New Orleans
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Emory Speer
Southern District of Georgia
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company
Macon Grocery Company
McCormick
Pardee
Shelby
United States Supreme Court
Interstate Commercce Commission
Georgia
Appellees
Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company
Nashville, Chhattanooga and St Louis Railroad Company
Southern Railroad Company
Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railroad Company
Southeastern Freight Association
United States
Interstate Commerce Commission
Acta
Ghetby
Not to Wed Mrs Maybrick Den 1 of the Runnor
Charles L Wagner denies a report that he and Mrs Florence Maybrick will wed in a public appearance scandal. He says the relation is purely business and the marriage rumor harms neither. In Mobile, a vacant house fire destroys the southwestern dwelling. Firefighters were alerted by neighbors after a grocery store nearby was pried open for theft of cash from a till.
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Charles L. Wagner
Chicago
Charles L Waghe
Florence Waybrick
Maybrick
Wagner
Lincoln
Mobile
Ala
Gruesome Killing of Rev John Carmichael at Columbus Church
Detroit January 6 dismembered body of Rev John J Carmichael a Methodist minister found in two church stoves near Columbus Michigan in Southwestern St Clair county. Investigators exchange theories as to identity motive and suspect strangers with rumors of a perverse motive and possible connections to a prior unresolved murder nearby. Spectacles with his name helped identify the victim and clues include a dirk and burned limb remains amid blood stained clothing fragments. The minister lived at Adair with wife and three children and had traveled to Columbus for revival meetings.
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Mich
John J Carmichael
Columbus
At. Clair County
Orville Lindsay
Miw Carmichael
Hickey
Carmichael
Michlgan
Adair
Chine
Dig
Brown
Hickory
Port Huron
Pinsy River
Thornton
Grand Trunk Railroad
John Staley
Parrior
Hanson
Wagonsell
Prosecutor Brown
Bribery Allegations Touch Tennessee Night Riders Case
In Union City Tennessee Rice Pierce attorney for the night riders denounced Governor Patterson accusing him of bribing witnesses to perjure, citing the Carmack killing as context. Judge Jones rebuked the remarks as improper while Pierce pressed the claim that pardons were dangled for testimony. The hearing adjourned with the case set to resume tomorrow and a jury verdict expected by mid afternoon Thursday.
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Pierce
Patterson
Union City
Tenn
United States
Edward Carmack
Rice Pierce
Febringer
Hogg
Morris
Obion County
Rankin
Reelfoot Lake
Carmack
Frank Fehringer
Herschel Hosg
Wad Morris
Boyd Made Recorder in Griffin City
Representative elect Joseph D Boyd of Spalding county has been unanimously chosen Griffin city recorder and will assume on Monday January 1. Boyd, a prominent Spalding lawyer, is noted for a studied grasp of human nature and will hold both offices with no conflict after verification.
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Spalding County
Griffin Ga
Joseph D Boyd
Griffin
Colonel Boyd
Stamp Clerk Ed D Smith at Anniston Postoffice Vanishes
Postoffice inspectors report stamp clerk Ed D Smith of Anniston fled Saturday night and left a shortage between 1500 and 2000 dollars. Friends may cover the deficit. Smith was last seen in Birmingham Sunday night, after sending a letter claiming he could not stand trouble. The Anniston postoffice is otherwise in good order.
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Anniston
Ale
Postoffice
Ed D. Smith
Smith
Birmingham
Count Tried to Kill Himself in Tokio After Royal Engagement Ends
Count Toka, whose engagement to a royal princess was cancelled after it was learned he married as a Cambridge student and later divorced, attempted suicide in Tokyo by taking poison. The attempt failed. He has been deprived of his seat in the upper house.
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Toka
Cambridge
England
Japan
State to buy two farms for penitentiary and reformatory use
The state prison commission and Governor Hoke Smith decided to buy two farms immediately for convicts. One farm, 6000 acres, will house white penitentiary convicts and the reformatory needs. the other, 1000 to 1500 acres in central Georgia, will host the white boys reformatory program. Funds of about 260000 will come from near beer taxes and prior appropriations. The Baldwin County farm will confine black convicts unable to work on roads. Continuous offers have been received, with terms yet to be finalized.
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Hoke Smith
Ronis
Stata
Baldwin County
Reformatory
Middle Georgia
Prison Commission
Aiready
Unma -m
Severe rebuke prepared for Roosevelt in house report
Washington January 6 a special committee will report to the house on Friday amid debate over the presidents annual message and the reference to congress and the secret service. The panel led by Perkins Denby Williams and other members will consider a rebuke or possible refusal to receive parts of the message with arguments that it reflected on the house. A separate note reports a $500000 stock yard fire at Daring Co in Chicago injuring several firemen.
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New York
Tawney
Minnesota
Smith
Iowa
Fitzgerald
Sherley
Kentucky
Griggs
Georgia
Mila
Gramma
Roosevelt
Tita
Perkins
Denby
Michigan
Williame
Mississippi
Stock Yard
Chicago
Daring & Co
Bribed Wines to Rule Hubbel Novel Feature in Oil Fight
New York reports testifying in a suit to dissolve Standard Oil, Baltimore manager George J L Wolff accuses Bruce Robinson of false testimony about cut prices by Crewe Levick. Wolff says Eagle Oil Company offered wives gifts to sway purchases. Wolff details employee theft of books, stolen tank wagons, and claims of Standard customer loss to Eagle.
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Standard OM Company
George J L Wolff
Baltimore
Crewe-Levicq Company
Bruce Robinson
Standard
Crewe-Levick Company
Wolff
Eagle Oil Company
Hlaustein
Hagie Oil Company
Crewe Levick
Eagle Company
Blaustein
Standard Company
Blausteins Eagle Ol
W H ‘Wasenfeld
Red C Olf Company
Red C Olf
Faaenfeld
Yorkville
N. C
Roosevelt Denies Senate Power to Demand Explanations
President Roosevelt informs the Senate that Congress has no authority to compel explanations regarding the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company purchase by the United States Steel Corporation. He cites a November 4 1907 letter to Attorney General Bonaparte detailing the deal and his personal involvement, noting that the Steel Corporation sought to avert a potential crisis in New York business circles.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Washington
Osevelt
Senate
Gan
Nessee Coal and Tron Company
United States Stess Corporation
Gparte
Enate
Aenata Waa
Rhnce
Nator Culberson
Ates Company
Tennesses
Bonaparte
White House
E H Gary
HC Frick
Steel Corporaton
New York
Tennessee Coal Company
Steel Corporation
Geary and Frick
Gary
Frick
Georgia Cold Wave Thursday Through Friday Weather Outlook
Georgia faces a chilling spell with a cold wave arriving Thursday and lingering Friday. Forecasters warn of threatening conditions and continuing cold air, with fresh north winds shifting to northeast as the system moves southeast.
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