Paper Trust Probe Ordered by House
In a New York meeting the House adopted Speaker Cannon’s resolution to appoint a six member select committee to investigate the paper trust and wood pulp for printing paper amid agitation over sharp price increases. Dalzell argued the rise stems from a trust combination, not tariffs, and the panel aims to gather facts for possible legislation.
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House
Cannon
Dalzell
Pennsylvania
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Miller
Kan
Stafford
Wis
Bannan
Sims
Tenn
Ryan
N. Y
DeArmond
Missouri
St. Louis Man Beaten and Club Raided by Police
St Louis on April 22 reports say John Wilbert told police he was beaten kicked and robbed by 14 men near Washington and Jefferson avenues. A police raid on a so called physical culture club in a former black church led to the arrest of 14 men.
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St. Louis
John Wilbert
Washington and
Jefferson Avenues
Rumania Attacks Ioni Oil Group in Parliament Action
The Romanian government presents a bill to the chamber of deputies aimed at the petroleum combine. The move follows long standing protests by Romanian dealers against the Ioni Oil Company in Timucharest.
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Rumania
Standard Oil
Tiucharest
Apr
Chamber of Deputies
Petroleum Combine
Ioni Oil Company
Escaped Patient Killed Self at Dixmont In Pittsburg
Welix Vitu vie, an Hallan, 20, escaped from Dixmont asylum and, after being pursued by attendants, was struck by a fast passenger train in Pittsburg. The body was badly mutilated.
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Pittsburg
Welix Vituvie
Hallan
Dixmonth
Hidden Treasure Found at Kansas City Plant
Gold silver and lead valued at 000 were found in an abandoned brick pie at the Kansas City Structural Sleep Company plant in Argentine.
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Kansas City
Kansas City Structural Sleep Company
Liability Bill Is A Law
Washington reports that after an attorney general opinion the president declared the liability bill constitutional and likely to stand in court. The McCal bill on campaign contribution publicity passed the House committee. Senate debate on the Brownsville affair notes race tensions and defends the president's order discharging soldiers amid race-issue accusations.
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Washington
Agere
Bonaparte
Toyestay
House
Committee On Elections
Congress
Brownsville
Twenty-Fifth Infantry
Committee On Military Affairs
Senate
Warner
Missouri
Gotham Company Suspends Operations In New York
Long shore and Co, members of the New York and New Orleans cotton exchanges, announce suspension of business in New York due to customers failing to meet margins. The firm will continue operations in New Orleans. the New Orleans headquarters are noted. The New York Cotton Exchange confirms failure to have ready their clearing sheet and checks as required.
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New Orleans
Longshore & Co
New York
Cotton Exchange
Exchange
Calls Law Unconstitutional in Hancock County Pension Opinion
Attorney General Ellis issued an opinion stating the new blind pension law is unconstitutional for the same reason as the prior act. He says a valid pension law could be enacted by including a provision that beneficiaries must be without means and dependent.
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Columbus
Ellis
W. L. David
Hancock County
Forty Two Bodies Retrieved After Train Collision
Melbourne report Apr 22 states forty two bodies have been taken from wreckage of two trains at Braybrook Junction near Melbourne. Several others are believed buried. The total injured is reported at 88.
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Melbourne
Australia
Tallarat
Bendigo
Braybrook Junction
Aid for Trapped Russians at Persian Frontier
Tiflis reports 2,000 Russian troops have been dispatched to the disturbed Persian frontier area due to threats and urgent requests from commanders. The reinforcements will require several days to arrive at the scene of hostility.
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Tiflis
Banker W R Brentwood Smith Dies in Philadelphia
W R Brentwood Smith, a member of Winthrop Smith & Co of Philadelphia, died at his home Tuesday aged 95. He was a director of the Distrers' Security Corporation of New York and known in financial and club circles in the East End.
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B. Smith
Philadelphia
W. R Brentwood Smith
Winthrop, Smith & Co
East End
Distrers' Security Corporation of
New York
Wreck injures several on La Crosse streetcar and train
A collision on the eastern outskirts of La Crosse Wisconsin between a La Crosse railway street car and a Green Way and Western train on Tuesday wrecked the street car and damaged the locomotive car and cars. Several persons were injured.
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la Crosse
Wis
Green Way & Western
Four Die in Blast at Burke Camp near Heber
A premature explosion of 1000 pounds of blasting powder and several cases of dynamite at Burke's construction camp six miles west of Heber Arkansas killed four Italian laborers instantly and seriously wounded many others including native citizens.
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Heber, Ark
Burke's
Holiday on Coast in Honor of Tars
Los Angeles crowds welcome the Atlantic fleet with a four day celebration led by Mayor A C Harper. An automobile parade honored 60 officers including Gov J N Gillett and Rear Admiral Thomas. A sailor was killed in a Santa Fe train accident. rest of events followed with dinners, theater, and shore leave for thousands.
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Los Angeles
Cal
A. C. Harper
Harper
J. N. Gillett
Thomas
Lauck
J. R. Grant
Adna R. Chaffee
Sperry
Emery
Alexandria
Johanson
New Jersey
Santa Fe
Boston
Mystery of a Century Skeletons Found at Hancock
New York April 22 The unmarked grave at Hancock on Sandy Rock turned up skeletons believed to be remnants of a party of Englishmen cast away on Sandy Hook in 1783 and buried where their frozen bodies were found.
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New York
Hancock
Sandy Rock
Sandy Hook
Auto Crash Kills Two in Dearborn Michigan
Two Milan men F. J. Draper and William Walcott died instantly when their car was struck by a Michigan Central passenger train while crossing tracks in Dearborn Michigan on Tuesday afternoon. In Chelsea Massachusetts the death toll from the April 12 fire rose to fifteen with two more bodies found.
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Dearborn
Mich
F. J. Draper
William Walcott
Milan
Michigan Central
Chelsea
Mass
Fire sweeps Vergennes business district in loss of 60000
Vergennes Illinois Apr 22 a major blaze destroyed the business section starting in Joss Son drug store. Estimated damage 60000 with some insurance. No casualties. The town with 1200 people lacks a fire department. Bucket brigades fought flames as bank post office hotel and several stores burned. Cause undetermined.
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Vergennes
Til
Joss & Son
St. Louis
Vergennes Bank
Schimpi's
Loeb Demands Retraction Over Sims Speech
Secretary to the President Loeb released a letter replying to Representative Sims of Tennessee about the Washington Railway and Electric Company. Loeb demands an immediate retraction and says Sims statements were false and misleading. He asserts only 100 of 4700 shares in his name qualify him as director and denies approaching anyone about street railway legislation.
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Washington
Loeb
Representative Sims
Tennessee
Sims
House
Washington Railway and Electric Company
Guatemala Chief in Peril and Pensacola Strike Riot
A Guatemala City message to the Guatemalan consul reports an assassination attempt on President Manuel Estrada Cabrera with several shots fired and a hand wound described as not serious. Separately in Pensacola Florida strikers attacked a street car outside the city, wounding the conductor with three bullets while the motorman was unharmed.
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San Francisco
Guatemala City
Manuel Estrada Cabrera
Guatemala
Pensacola
Fla
Taunted boy poisons self in Kansas City street
Ray Warwick, 12, son of A J Warwick treasurer of Lewis Leather Co, was taunted about his name by companions and bought carbolic acid at a drug store. He drank the poison while returning home and died within an hour.
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Kansas City
Ray Warwick
A. J. Warwick
Lewis Leather Company
Tragic double-alignment in Houston murder suicide
Amelia Cox known as Dot Lehman was shot by Eugene S Payne a Houston real estate dealer who then shot himself two bullets lodged in his body J A Matthews former Missouri politician and longtime Omaha Herald manager died in St Louis at 67
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Houston
Tex
Amelia Cox
Dot Lehman
Eugene S. Payne
J. A. Matthews
St. Louis
Missouri
The
Omaha
Neb
Herald
New Hampshire Republicans Back Roosevelt Platform at Convention
Concord reports the New Hampshire Republican convention chose an uninstructed delegation to Chicago and endorsed Theodore Roosevelt's administration. Taft supporters failed to insert a pro-Taft plank, while four official delegates were named. The platform calls for tariff review without piecemeal tinkering and pledges party support to Chicago nominees.
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Concord
Nows
New Hampshire
Chicago
Roosevelt
Taft
Judge Cross
at-Luge
Jacob H. Gallinger
Chester J. Jordan
Edwin G. Eastman
Edward J. Joses
Republican Party
United States
Roosevelt II
Theodore Roosevelt
Alberta official seeks Capt. Sarbatile on warrant
Winnipeg Apr 22 a warrant was issued for Capt Sarbatile a noted social figure and inland revenue collector in Alberta. He vanished ten days ago and is alleged to be seven thousand dollars short in his accounts.
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Winnipeg
Man
Alberta
Sarbatile
Fire destroys mill in Altoona planing mill blaze
Tuesday fire at Finley and Campbell planing mill and lumber yard in Altoona caused about 50000 dollars in loss with light insurance. Fire believed incendiary. The firm consists of R. B. Campbell and George R. Finley.
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Altoona
Finley & Campbell
R. B. Campbell
George R. Finley
Spectator killed in Bernice street duel shows two duelists hurt
In Bernice Louisiana on April 22 a street duel left one spectator dead and five others wounded. Both duelists C. J. Morton and W. F. Barham were injured but not seriously. The incident saw prominent locals involved in the confrontation.
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Bernice
C. J. Morton
W. F. Barham
Man and Wife Convicted in Mail Fraud Case
New York April 22 Thomas O Connor and his wife Frances O Connor also known as Frances McLain were found guilty by a jury in the United States circuit court on two counts of using the mails to defraud.
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New York
Thomas O'Connor
Frances O’connor
Frances McLain
United States Circuit Court
Former Illinois Solon Dies at 81 in Oklahoma
Dr. J. W. Phillips, Mexican war veteran and former Illinois Twenty sixth General Assembly member who helped cut railroad fare to three cents per mile, died in Oklahoma City today at age 81.
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Illinois
Sleep on Track Ends in Tragic Deaths Near Bunkie
Three men in Bunkie Louisiana were killed after they fell asleep on Texas and Pacific tracks near the town. The incident occurred on April 22 as a freight train passed and could not stop in time. The victims were identified as local workers, highlighting dangers near railroad lines.
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Bunkie
Texas & Pacific
Telegraphic Briefities Across The Nation And World
Brief items report a divorce suit filed by William Cooke against Grace MacGowan Cooke in Tennessee. Venezuela’s Castro closes La Guayra port after three deaths and 12 tuberculosis cases. Kansas City courts wipe clean over 2,000 anti Sunday law dockets. Mrs James A Stillman’s eccentricities alarm friends. Grace Church posts a 158000 single offering, including a 40000 memorial for an aged home. Wallaces J Ham, ex treasurer of St Pauls Boston, jailed for 214000 larceny. Hawkins Zouaves commemorate 1940s era reunion at the Waldorf. Konrad, a Kansas City jeweler, dies in a car streetcar crash, two women injured.
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William Cooke
Grace MacGowan Cooke
Chattanonaga
Tenn
Castro
Venezuela
la Guayra
Kansas City
Supreme Court
James A. Stillman
Prince Helle de La Gan to Naples to meet Gould
Paris April 22 Prince Helle de La Gan told a Journal representative at a friend’s house he would travel to Italy to meet Mme Anna Gould the former Countess de Castellane and is reported engaged but offered no date for a wedding The future is in the hands of God He called his American experience torture Federal Probe of Paper Trust Slap Causes Double Tragedy Wheeling Apr 22 A federal grand jury in New York is about to investigate major Manila wrapping paper makers to determine restraint of trade violations The inquiry may probe Sherman act breaches Jacob Ashoff shot his wife and killed himself after a quarrel in Bellaire Ohio The couple had married recently and his wife allegedly slapped him prior to the shooting.
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Paris
Prince Helle de la Gan
Naples
Italy
Mme. Anna Gould
Countess de Castellane
America
Paper Trust
New York
Wheeling
W. Va
Jacob Ashoff
Bellaire
The Markets in Chicago and New York Apr 3 Wheat and Grain Prices
Chicago wholesale markets show weak flour and spring wheat with price ranges for Minnesota patent jute and export bags. Rye flour and winter wheat prices vary by grade. Butter eggs and live poultry steady to higher. potatoes ranged from choice to fair. New York firm flour with unsettled wheat, May and July futures mixed on crop news. London cables buoyed by support.
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Chicago
Minnesota
New York
Northwest
Western
Cope Atari
Tilverpool
Commission House
The
Live Stock Prices Reported for Chicago and Omaha Markets
Chicago market lists cattle ranges from good to prime steers at 36.75 7.10 to 5.25 6.25 for cows and heifers, feeders 4.00 6.25, stockers 2.50 4.00, calves 1.75 5.60. hogs and pigs show heavy packing sows 6.40 5.65 and mixed packers 5.05 5.73. Omaha figures show native steers 5.00 6.60, cows and heifers 9.40 5.80, western steers 1.76 5.50, range cows 2.75 4.50, stockers 3.00 5.30, calves 2.00 5.50, hogs mixed and feeder prices, and sheep market steady with yearlings 5.00 6.00 and lambs 7.00 7.60.
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Omaha
Neb
F.svghli
Stuady
Taqee.ng
Averbiers
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