Court Dissolves Standard Oil Trust in Ruling
The St Paul Circuit Court ruled Standard Oil Company illegal and in restraint of trade and decreed its dissolution within thirty days. The decision, based on the Sherman Act, upholds government claims that the firm is a monopoly and sets a nationwide precedent if the Supreme Court approves. Government lawyers say the ruling could reshape industry by restoring smaller firms to competition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federal Circuit Court
St. Paul
Standard Oil Company
Standard of
New Jersey
Rockefeller
Oil Trust
Supreme Court
United States
Supreme Court of the
Circuit Court
Panama Canal Cost Soars to Nearly Four Hundred Million
The Panama Canal project is now estimated at about 400 million dollars, far above the 150 million dollars Congress was told in 1902. The War Department released the updated figures from the canal commission with Goethals as chief engineer and Dickinson as secretary in the annual report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panama
Panama Canal
Congress
Atlantic
Pacific
Canal Commission
War Department
Goethals
Dickinson
Mob Kills Dying Black Man After Clash With City Marshal
In Delhi Louisiana a Black man, James Estes, died after a confrontation with City Marshal Walter Nichols who tried to arrest him on a minor charge. Estes was mortally wounded and then killed by a mob while he lay near death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Nichols
Nichols
James Estes
Delhi
Estes
Ohio Mine Explosion Kills Six at Florence Mine
A blast from fire damp at the Florence mine of the Youhiogheny and Ohio Coal Company near Martin's Ferry Ohio fatally burns six miners who were ahead of the main shift. The mine suffers severe damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florence
Youhiogheny and Ohio Coal Company
Martin’s Ferry
Ohio
Robbery at Kansas City Saloon Ends in Murder
Two unknown robbers shot saloon keeper M. A. Spangler and fatally wounded his son Samuel during a hold up. Two customers present were unharmed. Authorities seek suspects as investigators review the crime scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. A. Spangler
Spangler
Samuel
Kansas City
Black Hand Member Dies in Federal Prison
Giuseppe Aiello, a member of the Black Hand Society in Cincinnati, died in the federal prison hospital at Leavenworth Kansas from anemia and acute melancholia after two weeks of violent insanity.
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Black Hand
Guiseppe A. Aiello
Black Hand Society
Cincinnati
Federal Prison Hospital
Leavenworth
Kan
Sugar scandals widen probes into customs service
The Sugar Trust frauds at New York and other ports prompt a cabinet overhauls led by Secretary MacVeagh and Attorney General Wickersham. A congressional probe to uncover long running thefts includes 22 NY assistant weighers and indictments for conspiracy to defraud the government, with calls for a nationwide clean up of customs houses.
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MacVeagh
Evry
Seaboard
Sam
New York
Boston
Philadelphia
Chicago
San Francisco
Treasury Department
Department of Justice
Wickersham
Washington
Congressional
Wilbur F. Wafleman
Labor union actions and mining safety facts of 1908
The notice surveys pay hikes for New York City color pressmen and a variety of union activities. It notes 1908 mining fatalities in Britain and large nonfatal injury totals, discusses impending amalgamation of Minneapolis and St Paul stone masons, and plans for dual union conferences. It also mentions Sousa leading a Boston concert, Journeymen Tailors elections, a monument drive for Frank B Monaghan, and foreign workers in Pennsylvania industries. It references union membership comparisons by country and an 1829 workingmen’s ticket in New York.
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New York City
Cigarmakers' International Union
Great Britain
John Philip Sousa
Boston Musicians’ Protective Union 9
A. IF
Boston Musicians’ Union
Journeymen Tailors' Union
United States
Frank B. Monaghan
Boston
Mass
International Union of Steam Engineers
Canada
Pennsylvania
New York
Russia
Hungary
Spain
Ebenezer Ford
Alarming rise in deaths by own action across cities
The 1908 rate per 100000 for personal crisis reports reached 21.8, higher than 1907 and surpassing 1904. The 1910 census may reveal a still higher actual rate. Wealthier, educated individuals are most affected, with links to crime and mental deterioration among city transplants and urban temptations.
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North Atlantic
North Central
Cure for hereditary crime proposed by judge in Pearson article
Judge Warren W. Foster argues criminal tendencies are inherited and endorses basectomy as a sterilization method for criminals. He notes 38 percent of 4 000 criminals had drunken parents and cites Indiana use since 1907 with over 800 cases. Erie Railroad tests new automatic signal system with remote stop, train-to-station contacts, third rail brush, and push button stops. inventor Frederick Lacroix reports successful trials near New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren W. Foster
New York City
Indiana
Erie Railroad
Frederick Lacroix
New York
Women to Storm Capitals for Equal Franchise Drive
Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont and her associates plan to open headquarters in state capitals as legislatures session begin. Quarters are secured at Albany and agents sent to Harrisburg Columbus and Springfield to push laws favorable to women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. H. P. Belmont
Equal Franchise Movement
Albany
N. Y
Harrisburg
Columbus
Springfield
Five die in Nanticoke mine fire and other 1920s life notes
The report lists five men burned to death in a Nanticoke Pennsylvania mine fire. Yale University registration notes two percent fall from attendances. Graff M Acklin of Toledo Ohio named General Grand Master by Royal and ScaLed Masons in Savannah. Joshua Strang of Indiana elected president of Farmers National Congress at Raleigh meeting. Train No 34 wreck near Seinerts Tennessee kills three trainmen. Rear Admiral John Hubbard reassigned to command third squadron of Pacific fleet in Orient, succeeding Giles D Harber.
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Nanticoke
Yale University
Graff M. Acklin
Toledo
Ohio
Grand Council of
Royal and Scaled Masons
Savannah
Joshua Strang
Indiana
Farmers’ National Congress
Raleigh
N. C
Louisville and Nashville
Seinerts
Tenn
John Hubbard
Orient
Giles D. Harber
Warning on land schemes appeals to Department of Agriculture
The Department of Agriculture warns farmers and hopeful buyers about land frauds promotional schemes. Descriptions of undrained swamps and sandy tracts as prime farming land mislead purchasers, while hybrids and fruit tree slips tempt buyers with inflated gains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Agriculture
Wilson
Agricultural Department
Spokane Street Speakers Clash With Police Over I W W Arrests
Police crackdowns in Spokane Washington against Industrial Workers of the World speakers lead to mass arrests and crowded jails. Friends of the accused report brutal confinement while tribunals convict largely on police testimony. John Mitchell of the Mine Workers' Union criticizes the top rung metaphor and supports reform without harming workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spokane
Wash
Industrial Workers of the World
Thanksgiving Dinner Costs Higher in Chicago This Year
The Journal finds that Thanksgiving day dinner in Chicago costs more than last year. Meat and dairy prices rose, vegetables dipped. Dressed turkeys vary by age with young birds at 25 to 28 cents a pound and older birds averaging 20 cents.
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Chicago
The
Journal
Price trends and notes from a 1908 to 1909 market survey
The article compares Thanksgiving prices from 1908 to 1909 with turkey up to 24 cents per pound and cabbage down to one third of last year. It also mentions beef substitutes, rising eggs butter and cheese, and a table of Chicago market data for Nov 20, 1908, and 1909, plus remarks on Lowell and Pickering about planetary news distribution and a discussion at an Episcopal diocese meeting.
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Chicago
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Standard of New Jersey
Custom House Service
Stone Masons’ Union of
Minneapolis and St. Paul
New York World
Blackpool
England
Hubert Latham
Orville Wright
Germany
Paris
Count Lambert
Hiffel Tower
Wright
Atlantic City
John Mitchell
Mine Workers’ Union
Lowell
Pickering
Lowell Observatory
Flagstaff
Ariz
International Planetary News
Farvard University
Mars
Saturn
Prof
Aldrich
Convention Episcopal
America
Nex
Julian Ken
Enna
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