Supreme Court Ends Ten Year Anthracite Coal Trust Fight
The United States Supreme Court rules that the Reading and other railroads illegally conspired to control anthracite coal prices. It voids 65 percent contracts and allows the government to pursue Sherman Act actions against railroads, signaling a major step toward dismantling the coal trust. Justices Toughes Day Pitney did not participate.
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Washington
Anthracite Coal Trust
Spreme Court of the
United States
Reading
Lurton
Department of Justice
Justice Lurton
New York, Wyoming && Western
Temple Iron Company
Simpson and Watkins
Standard Oil
Tobacco Trust
Railroad
Cabinet To Be Chosen By President-elect Wilson
New York December 17 reports say President elect Wilson will form a cabinet based on executive ability and administrative talent rather than party service. He indicated he may appoint outsiders if needed and will refresh his outlook after Bermuda vacation.
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New York
Wilson
Bermuda
Local Health Notes And Illness In The Community
Wiliam Helton of West 18th Street is ill with grip. Mrs Marshall Smith and Mrs Charles Smith were called to Erie Monday by the serious illness of Mr and Mrs Fred Stipp. Mrs J C Mates of 13th and 1st Streets has been seriously ill two weeks and is improving. Walter Sutton of Southeastern Line shops mashed the great toe of his left foot. L R Witty of Terre Haute, critically ill and after an operation, is improving and able to be in his office part time.
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Marshall Smith
Charles Smith
Erie
Fred Stipp
J. C. Mates
Walter Sutton
Southeastern Line
L. R. Witty
Terre Haute
Houlihan Denies Charges In McManigal Testimony
In Indianapolis on December 17 1911 Richard H Houlihan Chicago defendant testifies he paid Mrs Ortie McManigal 25 weekly from August to December 1911 The defense claims donations were to McManigals wife for charity The court plans longer hours to speed the dynamite conspiracy trial and hints many defendants may speak or be kept off the stand
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Indianapolis
Ind
Ortie McManigal
Richard H. Houlihan
Chicago
Miller
Houlihan
McManigal
Rough
Albert B. Anderson
Treitinoe
Clancy
Cooley
Webb
Hockin
Butler
Munsey
Smythe
Ral
Local Visitor Louise Houston Returns Home
Miss Louise Houston, guest of Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Pearson for several days, returned home Tuesday.
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Louise Houston
H. P. Pearson
Wife Wins Large Alimony in Heinze Divorce Case
Mrs. Bernice G Heinze receives 1000 dollars monthly alimony plus 233 dollars monthly rent until two year lease ends. She gains custody of their son with education costs covered after age five. The case highlights a high-profile New York divorce with limited testimony and a mysterious photograph link.
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Newburgh
N. Y
New York State
Bernice G. Heinze
Arthur S. Tompkins
Supreme Court
Fritz Augustus Heinze
New York
Ogden
Los Angeles
Heinze
Nyack
Wreck Death Toll Grows in Italian Express Crash
Rome reports two more passengers died from injuries after an express collided with a freight train near Managno between Messina and Catania. The fatalities now total 12.
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Rome
Managno
Messina
Catania
Parcel Post and New Rates Endanger Express Companies
The parcels post set to start January 1 and the proposed express rate schedule from the Interstate Commerce Commission threaten the express business. Railroads may desert express contracts if parcels post expands, shifting profits to government service and altering long standing railroad- express ties.
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United States
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
Congress
Canton quells disturbances in Jay county seat clash
Private advices from Grove indicate Adjutant General Canton has pacified the Jay county seat fight between Old and New Jay townships. Canton, dispatched by Governor Crump after a request for State troops, commands the situation as three to four days of disturbances end.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Grove
Canton
Jay
New Jay
Crude
Havana Faces New Agriculture Fraud Report
Reports claim vast frauds amounting to hundreds of thousands in Cuba’s agriculture department. The government will neither confirm nor deny the accusations while arranging notes to cover several million dollars owed to American contractors for Havana sewer construction.
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Havana
Department of Agriculture
Taft For Panama Trip Delayed By Cold
President Taft stayed in the White House library due to a slight cold contracted last Saturday. Major Rhoads said the illness is not serious but he will not risk a trip to Panama on Thursday.
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Washington
Taft
White House
Rhoads
Panama
Testimony in Harvester Trust dissolution case in Chicago
In Chicago Special Examiner Robert Taylor resumes the suit for dissolving the Harvester Trust. The morning centers on a series of letters read into the record, including a 1907 Cyrus McCormick letter to the U S Attorney General showing International Harvester controlled over 90 percent of U S agricultural business.
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Chicago
Harvester Trust
Robert 3. Taylor
Cyrus McCormick
United States
International Harvester Company
Attempt to blow up mine at Black Oak suspected
Dav iess County Coal Company president C C Martin offers a reward for information leading to conviction of those who tampered with the mine boiler at Black Oak. Intruders damaged the company office windows shut off boiler valves and drained water to cause an explosion but a watchman found the plan before disaster.
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C. C. Martin
Daviess County Coal Company
Black Oak
Wilson Named Ambassador Twist Post Vacant After Reid Death
Taft declines to appoint a successor to Ambassador Whitelaw Reid in London and keeps the post empty until March while Asquith offers a battleship to convey Reid’s body. Westminster Abbey service planned. royal and diplomatic condolences pour in.
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Washington
Wilson
Taft
Whitelaw Reid
London
Knox
Asquith
America
House of Commons
United States
Bryce
Reid
Westminster Abbey
George
Palace of St. James
New York Tribune
Curtis Guild
St. Petersburg
Thomas J. O'Brien
Rome
Heide
Madrid
Paris
Deputy Sheriffs Die in Eight-Wullet Ambush near Santa Ana
In Los Angeles on December 17 Deputy Sheriff Robert Squires was killed and three posse members wounded in a fierce clash with outlaw James Welch nine miles east of Santa Ana. Welch died after fourteen bullets struck him as lawmen and citizens stormed his stronghold following an assault on Myrtle Wulf of the ranch nearby.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Robert Squires
James Welch
Santa Ana
Welch
Myrtle Wulf
Wilson aims at canal tolls and coastwise shipping
The piece argues British confidence in Wilson will curb American protectionist policies for the Panama Canal tolls. It contends a toll discrimination favoring American coastwise shipping could boost domestic trade, yet critics warn such moves risk free trade principles. The author notes the canal is American property and any treaty is unnecessary to assert rights.
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London
Wilson
Mr. Wilson
Panama
Rockefeller
Cleveland
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