Coal Gar Allotment in Courts Faces Interstate Inquiry
The Powhatan Coal and Coke Company sues Norfolk and Western Railway in a June 10, 1907, hearing in Roanoke Virginia. The case debates whether coal cars to Pocahontas mines should be allocated by loading capacity or by existing coke oven based allotment. Leading attorneys from Philadelphia and Huntington represent the miners and rail company. The interstate commerce commission decision will affect mine owners and coal carriers nationwide.
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Interstate
George S. Graham
Philadelphia
Z. T. Vinson
Huntington
Powhatan Coal and Cok Company
Interstate Commerce Commission
United States
Titusville Times Obituary: Tilton Journalist and Author
Born in New York in 1835, he started at the New York Observer and joined the Independent in 1856. He founded the Brooklyn Union and later the weekly Golden Age, famed for accusing Henry Ward Beecher of marital crime in 1874, a case that ended in a mistrial after six months. He published The Sexton’s Tale and Tempest Tossed, and lived abroad since 1883.
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New York
New York Observer
The
Independent
Brooklyn Union
Golden Age
Plymouth Church
Brooklyn
Henry Ward Beecher
Tilton
Paris
Attorney General Says Court Decision Tops All
Jefferson City May 25 Attorney General Hadler asserts Judge Anthony's Standard Oil ruling sustains the state and will have far reaching importance He warns that forcing the oil giant to operate within law sets a precedent for other enterprises and curbs unchecked power.
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Jefferson City
Hadler
Anthony
Standard Oil
Standard Oil Company
Strikers and Street Gas Company Reach Agreement
Evansville Indiana May 23 An agreement was reached today between the street railway company and the strikers the agreement to be signed tonight. The company does not recognize the union but grants a wage increase to from seventeen cents to nineteen cents per hour with time and a half for time over eleven hours per day.
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Evansville
Ind
Street Railway Company
Delinquent Tax Notice From Hawley Deputy Sheriff
W P Hawley deputy sheriff warns delinquents their taxes are due and will be billed if unpaid. Notices already sent by writing and advertisement. readers urged to settle immediately to avoid public listing. White Swan Steam Laundry advertises delivery and wagon call service with phone number 425.
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W. P. Hawley
White Swan Steam Laundry
Doctor Samuel Guy to stand trial for wife murder in Far Rockaway
New York May 25 The case of Dr Samuel Guy a 56 year old wealthy dentist and former Queens coroner to be tried Monday at Flushing for the alleged killing of his wife Lillian Mott Guy in their Far Rockaway home on April 8 The servant heard shots after Mrs Guy slapped him then as police stopped the doctor who said he was going out to get a cigar Mrs Guy lay in the dining room with two bullet wounds to the breast
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New York
Samuel
Guy
Flushing
Lillian Mott Guy
Far Rockaway
Mott
Rockaways
Dr. Guy
Queens Borough
Mirs
Pathetic Scene When Duckworth Was Convicted
Parkersburg West Virginia May 24 The jury found S O Duckworth guilty of stealing 5000 from Equitable Life Assurance Society by forging death certificates The defense motioned to arrest judgment and to grant a new trial on grounds of law and evidence Judge Showelter will hear the latter Monday In court a scene unfolded as Duckworths young wife and seven year old daughter cried aloud before he was led to jail
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Parkersburg
W. Va
S. O. Duckworth
Equitable Life Assurance Society of New York
Showelter
Duckworth
Jai
Pat Crowe Arrested as a Common Vagrant
Omaha May 25 Pat Crowe famed for his kidnapping case a year ago was arrested today as a common vagrant and jailed before bond. The arrest was by the same officer Crowe wounded in prior clashes while Crowe awaits trial on vagabond charges and the Cudahy kidnapping case.
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Omaha
Pat Crowe
Eddie Cudahy
Crowe
Pearl Wright Likely to Accept Commissionership
The president received a call from Senator Elkins pressing West Virginia claims for the internal revenue commissionership left vacant by John W. Yerkes. Pearl Wright of New Orleans has the offer and is expected to accept. no other candidate will be considered until Wright replies.
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Washington
Elkins
West Virginia
Internal Revenue
John W. Yerkes
Pearl Wright
New Orleans
Wright
Mrs Gould Claims Her Letters Are Tampered With
New York May 25 An investigation by the post office department of Mrs Howard Gould’s charges that her maid was tampered with will be made if she provides letters she says were opened and traced addresses. No official complaint has been filed yet.
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New York
Post Office Department
Howard Gould
Millers Struggle to Profit as Wheat Market Advances
Montreal reports millers and flour dealers find it hard to secure price gains. Competition forces booking ahead at pre‑advance levels. Millers have raised prices 25 to 40 cents per barrel, yet expect limited benefit while contracts remain. If prices fall, buyers receive reductions.
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Montreal
Baseball results from major leagues and Virginia League
No Virginia League games were played. In the National League Philadelphia defeated Brooklyn 6 to 5, then Brooklyn lost 2 to 6 to Pittsburgh, St Louis beat Cincinnati 3 to 0, Chicago and New York tied 5 to 5, and Boston beat New York 1 to 5. In the American League Detroit and Washington were rained out. Cleveland 5 defeated Philadelphia 2. Chicago 3 beat New York 1. St Louis 8 defeated Boston 1.
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Associated Press Dispatch
Philadelphia
Brooklyn
Pittsburg
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Chicago
New York
Boston
Detroit-Washington
Cleveland
May 25 Nuggets of News items across the nation
Reports from Honolulu to Norfolk detail congressional travel due to a family illness, machinist strike activity and expansion risks in Erie Railways, a Mary Baker Eddy suit in Concord, the Duke of Abruzzi visiting New York, Haywood trial witness additions, Calhoun’s political indictments claims in San Francisco, child labor commission formation in Washington, and Woodmen of the World meeting in Norfolk with raised officer salaries.
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San Francisco
Patrick Calhoun
Rudolph Spreck
Labor Union Party
Norfolk
Woodmen of the World
Jamestown
Law Committee
L. N. Archer
Birmingham
Ale
J. W. Currier
Knoxville
Tenn
Mrs McKinley Near Death As Official Bulletin Cites Unconscious State
Canton Ohio May 25 officials report Mrs. McKinley remains unconscious and weakening though stimulants and concentrated nourishment have been given. Doctors hope life may last ten hours or more but dissolution could occur at any time. A 10 o'clock Sunday conference was planned to assess changes.
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Associated Press Dispatch
Canton
Ohio
Rixey
Cortelyou
McKinley
O. Portman
Braxton
Nine Reported Killed in Tornado in Texas
A May 25 Texas tornado killed three in Wills Point and six in Emory with a clear two hundred yard wide path through the towns. The dead include Mrs T C Douglas and Jesse Douglas eight year old. Injured include John Lancaster Mrs McClellan and several others, as the tornado moved northeast.
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Texas
Fort Worth
Emory
Wills Point
Dew
T. C. Douglas
Jesse Douglas
Widow Sues Railroad Over Lynching Transport
The widow and minor children of Robert Tr. Rogers sue the Vicksburg Shreveport and Pacific for 100000 claiming a conspiracy with a mob. The suit alleges a special train carried Rogers from Monroe to Tallulah where he was taken from jail and hanged during his second trial for murder.
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Vicksburg
Miss
Robert Tr. Rogers
Tallulah
Vicksburg, Shreveport and
Pacific Retroad
Monroe
Rogers
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Equestrian State of Gen John B Gordon Unveiled
Unveiled copper statue of Gen John B Gordon rises twenty five feet on a pedestal in Atlanta. The figure on his horse shows Gordon bare headed with bronze bas reliefs flanking him depicting Spottsylvania and scenes of his life as soldier statesman and patriot. The unveiling was performed by Frances Gordon Smith of Atlanta and Mrs Lewis Gordon Brown of Vermont, daughters of Gordon. Capt Nathaniel Harris spoke at the ceremony.
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Terrell
Atlanta
R. J. Park
Gordon Memorial Camp
Oxford
Aln
J. William Jones
Richmond
W. L. Calhoun
John B. Gordon
Gordon
Spottsylvania
Frances Gordon Smith
Lewis Gordon Brown
Vermont
Nathaniel Harris
Japanese Americans Reported Abused in San Francisco
Washington reports that Japanese nationals faced mistreatment and indignities in San Francisco. Secretary Root acted to protect them through two channels after disclosures from Ambassador Wright in Tokyo and Viscount Aoki in Washington.
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Washington
San Francisco
State Department
Root
Wright
Tokio
Bath
Viscount Aoki
Indictments Extend to San Francisco Grafters
San Francisco May 25 The grand jury indicted six millionaires on bribery and attempted bribery charges and returned additional indictments against Abe Ruff Mayor Schnitz Frank Drum Eugene Desalba John Marin Abe Ruef and Mayor Schmitz. They face fourteen counts for bribing fourteen supervisors to fix the 1906 gas rate at 85 cents. Ruef G Urteen J Green and W Brebeck are charged with fourteen counts for attempting to bribe fourteen supervisors to vote a trolley franchise to Parkside Townsite Company.
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San Francisco
Abe Ruff
Scchnitz
Frank G. Drum
Eugene Desalba
John Marin
Abe Ruef
Schmitz
Sas
G. H. Urteen
W. J. Brebeck
Ruef
Parkside Townsit Company
Fire ruins claim more lives in San Jose blaze
Two unidentified bodies were recovered from the Market Street fire site alongside one identified as John McDonald, raising the death toll to four with ten or a dozen other bodies believed inside. Firemen and searchers continued to comb the hurried premises as a new blaze started at Brown's commission store, then spread to Laverty's livery stable and the Union Lodging House above.
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San Jose
Calif
Market Street
John McDonald
Sears
Brown
North Marevill
Laverty
Union Lodging House
Yale Junior Eight Furnishes a Sensation at Regatta
Yale University junior eight-oared crew won the second eight race at the American Rowing Association regatta in Philadelphia. They then defeated the strong Cornell juniors, clocking six minutes and 36 seconds for one mile 550 yards, two seconds off the course record. Earlier Yale beat Harvard and Pennsylvania freshmen by four lengths.
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Philadelphia
Yate University
American Rowing Association
Cornell
Yale
Harvard
Pennsylvania
Civil War Steamer Captain Gill Dies of Cancer
Patrick R. Gill captain on the Mississippi during the Civil War died of cancer in St. Louis. He took part in the engagements of Shiloh and Fort Donelson during the war.
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St. Louis
Patrick R. Gill
Gill
Shiloh
Fort Donaldson
Malnutrition Crisis Ravages Ufa Province in Eastern Russia
Official reports from Barlin describe a famine in the Ufa region with up to 20000 new malignant scrofula cases by end April due to malnutrition. About a quarter of the province’s poor rely on public soup kitchens while outreach is limited to private efforts as officials in Moscow are criticized for interference.
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Barlin
Russia
Ufa
Centennial observances and political events fill week ahead
The week features Louis Agassiz birth anniversary events at Harvard and colleges nationwide. Secretary Taft to speak at Millers' National Medication convention in St Louis. President Roosevelt to visit Indianapolis for Lawton monument unveiling and address the railroad issue. Also Michigan Agricultural College semicentennial and James Town Patrick Henry Day speakers. Confederate Veterans reunion in Richmond with monuments to Jefferson Davis and JEB Stuart unveiled.
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Washington
Louis Agassiz
Harvard University
St. Louis
Taft
Roosevelt
Inedianapolis
Lawton Monument
Michigan State Agricultural College
Birnving Will
Fore River
Quincy
Mass
Willkin J. Bryan
United Confederate Veterans
Richmond
Jefferso Davis
J. EB. B. Stuart
Exhumation in Chicago Aims to Identify De Raylan
Baron von Schlippenbach and a Public Administrator’s deputy travel to Phoenix to determine the sex of Nicholas Konstantinovitch de Raylan. The exhumed remains belong to a clerk at the Russian consulate amid a disputed estate of about eight thousand dollars and competing claims by Mrs F P Bruchullis and Anna de Raylan.
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Chicago
Baron von Schlippenbach
Phoenix
Ariz
Nicholas Konstantinovitch de Raylan
Gardner, Stern & Anderson
Reddick
de Raylan
F. P. Bruchullis
Anna de Raylan
de Raylen
Anderson
Farmer's Search for Son Ends in Morgue
Lawrence Kans May 25 The search by John G Farr a farmer of Milem Kans for his son Jay G Farr who disappeared three months ago ended in the morgue of the University of Kansas where the father found the body in the dissecting room today Young Farr was killed by a train at Perth Kans March 8 REWARD REWARD Stolen from Maple Shade farm Sunday morning about 8 o clock Was about two weeks old black Berkshire six white points Liberal reward will be paid for return of pig and apprehension of thief Pain caused by boll s burns cuts scalds and skin disease is promptly relieved by DeWitts Carbolized Witch Hazel Salve Good for piles For sale by all druggists
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Lawrence
Kans
John G. Farr
Milem
Jay G. Farr
University of Kansas
Young Farr
Perth
Kansas
Maple Shade Farm
Berkshire
DeWitt
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Superior Supply
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Associated Press Disputch
Bluefield
L. E. Tierney
W. H. Tomas
R. E. Botura, Cahier
W. B. Hicks
Epwinmaan
W. O Pot1ocx
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Gvarnteed
Speal
Associated Press Dispatches
Honolulu
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North Carolina
Congressional Investigating Committee
Erie
Concord
N. H
Superior
Next Friends
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Howe
Eddy
Duke of Abruzzi
America
Italy
General Great
Governor's Island
Boise
Idaho
Haywood
Wood
National Commission On Child Labor
National Manufacturer’s Association
American Federation of Labor
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
National Civic Federation
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Russa
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