Theodore Roosevelt Jr to take summer post with U S Steel
A roundup of world items notes Theodore Roosevelt Jr considering a summer job with United States Steel. Adolph Meyer elected director at Johns Hopkins Phipps clinic. a scaffold collapse injures five at National Tube Works Pittsburg. royal selections Jaime Alexander Jean named for Spain’s newborn. France’s Anne Fallieres betrothed to Jean Lanes. and more on rail, politics, and disasters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
United States Steel Corporation
Adolph Meyer
New York
Phipps Psychiatric Clinic
Johns Hopkins University
National Tube Works
Pittsburg
Spain
Jaime Alexander Jean
la Granja
Anne Fallieres
France
Jean Lanes
Republic
Interstate Commerce Commission
Columia
Inhuman acts and disasters across towns and seas
From Sandy Creek Pa to New York and Philadelphia news recount grisly murders by a mother, mine explosions near Monongahela, a boy injured by a firecracker, a bout of flooding damage, a summer resort fire atop Mount Washington, a fatal motorcycle crash in Wilkes Barre, a New Haven decree, and bank executives indicted for fraud. Names of places include Monongahela, Harrisburg, Philadelphia, New York, Brookyn, Washington County, and Boston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Lazarus Levy
L. Levy & Co
Susie A. Merrill
William Foley
Jersey City
Ellsworth
Monongahela
Isaac Lord
Honesdale
Wayne County
Connellsville
T. J. Mitchell
W. J. Rainey
Meadville
Cambridge Springs
Bakertown
M. C. Mills
Arcadia
Delaware River
Philadelphia
Graham Avenue
Brooklyn
N. Y
Theodore Shultz
Reading
Joseph H. Price
Wilkesbarre
Ienry Rothstein
Jennie Levy
Rothstein
Manila
Hough
United States
Manila and Fiber Association
Washington County
Standard Oil Company
Light and Heat Company
Washington
Great Bend
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company
New Haven
Rogz
Supreme Court
Boston
Nine Die In St Etienne Firedamp Mine Blast In France
Nine people perish in a firedamp explosion at a coal mine in St Etienne France. Reports note this fatal accident as rescue efforts continue and the mine faces investigation into gas ignition and safety measures.
Immigration tide 18 halted prompts probe into causes
Immigration officials noted a sharp drop in arrivals and ordered an investigation to determine if foreign methods deter potential migrants. May arrivals fell to 36,317 from 184,886 last year and 150,927 in May 1906, with Russia and Italy among the countries posting the largest declines. Minor upticks occurred from China and nearby regions amid widespread decreases.
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United States
Russia
Austria-Hungary
Italy
China
Pacific Islands
British North America
British Honduras
Mexico
Marriage Shy On Love Claims Blame On Women
Anthony Comstock, secretary of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, argues that divorces and unhappy marriages stem from marrying for status or money rather than love. He blames New York women for a culture of nagging and strained homes, saying men seek peace elsewhere when home is an aggravation.
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New York
Anthony Comstock
the Society For the Suppression of Vice
Insane Clergyman Shot At Stolper Missouri
In Stolper Missouri Reverend Valentine Strauss became violently insane and was killed during a failed capture attempt led by his wife. He had driven his family from the parsonage and armed himself as a village posse converged. Shots were fired in self defense and a stray bullet struck the clergyman. The parsonage was described as a fortress during the confrontation.
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Hanna Malefsky
Thinkstory
Philadelphia
Morris
Martin Finn
Elizabeth
Salisbury
N.Y
St. Joseph's Hospital
Earl W. McConaughey
Irving Park
Ohi
Chicago
Two Harbors
Minn
Illinois University Engineering Department
American Bridge Company
Frank Riedinger
Gunnes
Laporte
Ind
Lincoln
Ned David Hicken
Delafield
Wis
Hiedinger
Riedinger
Lewistown
Mont
Ole Nordahl
Bertha Schleuter
Nordahl
Musselshell Valley
Schleuter
Howe
Charles Eakman
Charles Youhill
Paul Cothrell
Toledo
Ohio
Cothrell
Columbus
Intercollegiate Prohibition Association
C. M. Filmore
Indianapolis
Stolper
Valentine Strauss
American Piano Company forms major New Jersey trust
The largest piano maker merger to date formed in New Jersey as the American Piano Company with $12 million capital, $7 percent preferred and common stock. It includes Knabe & Co., Chickering & Son, and the Foster-Armstrong Company. The merged output is about 18,000 pianos annually, roughly 70 percent of high grade pianos.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Jersy
American Piano Company
Knabe & Co
Chickering & Son
Foster-Armstrong Company
Chicago Trade Activity Shows Early Signs of Recovery
Dun's Review of Trade notes commercial mortality and creased stress easing. Bank clearings reach $220,309,379, 9.5 percent below the year earlier week. Failures in the Chicago district total 33 with nine liabilities over $5,000, up from recent weeks.
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Chicago
Dun
Business conditions and trade in New York and Canada
New York reports little new in trade beyond continuance of the better zone and some expansion in industrial operations especially textiles. Retail stocks are not large but fill-in orders are common, fall buying firmer in the east and central west, yet conservatism and crop and political concerns limit big purchases. Collections are backward. Bradstreet notes 234 US business failures for the week ending June 18, vs 253 prior week, 165 in 1907, 173 in 1906, 157 in 1905, 215 in 1904, while Canada shows 25 for the week, up from 24 last week and 15 a year ago.
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United States
Canada
Bradstreet
Trade of farm prices across major markets
Commodity quotes from Chicago to Dallas list cattle hogs sheep and grain values. Prices shown include Chicago cattle 4.00 to 8.15, hogs 4.00 to 5.20, wheat No 2 60s to 92e, corn 60e to 71e, oats 40e to 60e, hay timothy 8.00 to 12.50, butter 19c to 22c, eggs 1de to 17c, potatoes 1.35 to 1.40 per bushel, with similar ranges for Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo and New York markets.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Ste
Detroit
Bulalo
New York
Amador Mining Collapse Shocks Montana Stockholders
The Amador Mining and Development Company of Montana, a $10,000,000 corporation with Chicago HQ, has collapsed. Letters to 1,400 stockholders reveal the copper gold mine near Amador in Missoula County is worth far less than the $560,000 sunk.
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Amador Mining and Development Company of
Montana
Chicago
Amador
Missoula County
Mont
Chicago Board of Trade
J. A. Patten
J. Ogden Armour
Patten
Armour
United States Steel Corporation
Steel
J. J. Hill
Associated Boards of Trade of Saskatchewan
British Columbia
Calgary
Great Northern
Winnipeg
Saskatchewan
Alberta
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Sherman & Hand, Publishers
Bessemer
Michigan
Around
Grover Cleveland
Westland
Princeton
N. J
David Gerry
John
Rose
Thomas Fitzgerald
Bridgeport
Gerry
North Dakota
Hansbrough
C. B. Little
Stalwart
T. S’. Marshall
du Pont Powder Company
Louviers
Denver
Colo
James Erskine
San Francisco
Pacific
Rock Island
Fourche
Ark
Gov
Hughes
Albany
Wilfred Plain, Jr
National Immigration Commission
Ellis Island
Seattle
Nome
Vancouver
Victoria
Skagway
Atlantic
Omaha
Des Moines
Sioux City
Pueblo
Larache
Trans-Atlantic Company
Corunna
Argentina
Charles Reneh
W. L
W. L. Chicago
Cleveland
Elga
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Indianaplis
Minneapolis
Louisville
Milwaukee
Kansas City
St. Paul
Sandy Creek
A. L. Stairn
Alfred H. Curtis
Charles W. Moree
National Bank of North America
Curtis
Morse
United States Circuit Court
Russell Thompson
Findlay
Taft
Coshocton
Portland Railway, Light and Power Company
Cazadero
Ore
Antone Carmelo
Tony Santon
Carmelo
Pinola
Cal
Vigorit Powder Company
James S. Sherman
Wesley Meyers
R. M. Sallier
Edward Jones
St. Vrail
N. M
McKinley
Canton
Felix M. Bopp
Frank Siedel
Lomber
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Turtle Mountains
Lake Erie and Western
Sandusky
Zion City
Dowie
Louise Thompson
Thomas Fibbs
William Brown
Smith
Grand Trunk
Imlay City
Mich
Harry Huggett
People’s Bank of the
East Side
Miriam Frances Bloomer
Hotel Arms
Walnut Hills
J. Ralph Bloomer
Virgil Barrett
James Comstock
Sunbury
Cleveland, Akron and Columbus
George G. Metzger
Broadway Bank
Grand
John K. Welch
Anaconda
W. C. Wicklund
Welch
South Dakota
Jones
State Circuit Court
Carrie E. Goltra
Judson E. Goltra
Madison
D. D
East
Goltra
Sioux Falls
Josephine Carter
St. Johns
Aberdeen Banking Company
Aberdeen
D. H. Fawcett
W. A. List
Fawcett
Webster
St. Etienne
Anna Gould
Prince de Sagan
Ponteaux
Guayamas
Hermosillo
Yaquis
William B. Leeds
Rock Island Railway
Tin Plate
Paris
Leeds
Queen Victoria
Ena
Battenburg
King Alfonso
Madrid
King Edward
Queen Alexandra
Jean Reid
Whitelaw Reid
Hubert Ward
Royal Chapel of St. James
London
Burk Mills
Perry Sound
Ont
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