Injunction Dissolved Against Northern Pacific Merger Plan
Judge William Lochren dissolved the temporary injunction that restrained the Northern Pacific from retiring preferred stock or merging via the Northern Securities company with Great Northern or Burlington. Power plans an appeal to the U S Supreme Court. Northwestern governors and attorneys general agreed to fight the proposed consolidation, pledging legal action in Minnesota and seeking federal rate oversight.
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Minneapolis, Minn
William Lochren
United States Circuit Court
Peter Power
Northern Pacific Railway Company
Elliott
District Court of
Hennepin County
The
Northern Pacific
Northern Securities Company
Great Northern
Burlington
Lochren
J. J. Hill
Northern Pacific Railroad Company
Helena
Northwestern
Minnesota
Douglass
van Sandt
Congress
Interstate Commerce Commission
Buggy Tragedy Near Ardmore Ends in Fatality
Otto Barnes, 20, dies after a northbound Santa Fe passenger train strikes the buggy he shares with Miss Virgie Frensley as they return from a dance. The buggy wrecks and the team is killed. Frensley escapes with minor injuries. The accident happens about a mile from Ardmore, Indian Territory.
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Ardmore
I. T
Otto Barnes
Virgie Frensley
Santa Fe
New York Capitalists Buy Water Rights for San Simonito
New York capitalists purchase water rights at San Simonito to develop a cascade project and build an electric power station to supply mining towns and bolster Toluca’s electric lighting system. The initiative has progressed toward completion.
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Toluca
Mex
New York
San Simonito
Com
Funeral for Senator Sewall Held in Camden Mansion
The funeral of United States Senator William Joyce Sewall was held Tuesday from the Sewall mansion in Camden New Jersey. Delegations of United States senators and representatives joined a large gathering of prominent men from New Jersey and neighboring states.
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Camden
N. J
United States
William Joyce Sewall
Sewall
New Jersey
LWYER MONSON DEAD, 80, PIONEER CALIFORNIA LAWYER
Alonzo Castle Monson a retired New York lawyer died at 80 from Brights disease. Born in New York he graduated Yale in 1840 and Columbia Law in 1844. He helped quell riots with vigilantism in California and later joined Jerome Park racing efforts and American Jockey Club leadership.
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New York
Alonzo Castle Monson
Bright
Mr. Monson
Yale University
Columbia Law School
San Francisco
California
Vigilantes Committee
Stanford
State Court of Appeals
Munson
Jerome Park
American Rocky Association
August Belmont
Revolutionary Leader Invades Colombia With 3000 Men
Cablegrams report General Uribe Uribe with 3000 troops crossed from Venezuela into Santander, Colombia. He faces General Gonzales Valencia as Liberal forces advance from Bucaramanga where four government battalions reportedly joined the Liberal army.
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New York
Restrepo
Uribe Uribe
Colombia
Venezuela
Santander
Vargas Santos
Curacoa
Gonzales Valencia
Bucaramanga
Theater Burned After Merry Maid Burlesque Show
New York January 1 The Miners Eighth Avenue theatre was destroyed by fire early this morning. The Merry Maid burlesque company had just finished a long performance and the audience had exited about 15 minutes before the blaze started. A cigarette was blamed for the fire. The four story old building burned rapidly and the flames spread to two adjacent three story houses on 26th street. Loss estimated at $200 900.
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New York
Eighth Avenue Theatre
26Th Street
Four Chicago youths Held for Chicago Robbery in Los Angeles
Four young men from Chicago were arrested by Los Angeles police at the request of Francis O'Neill. They are held for Cook County authorities and accused of robbing Mrs. Anna Olsen of 980 dollars, the savings of years of work. A confession alleges one principal triggered the crime while others helped spend part of the money.
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Chicago
Los Angeles
Francis O'Neill
Cook County
Anna Olsen
Jewelers Tragedy in Turner Falls Leaves Five Shot
Louis Bitzer a jeweler shot five people in Turner Falls Massachusetts on January 1. The victims include his clerk Miss Ida Golumbe and Bitzer’s young son who are dead. His wife and two daughters were wounded. Bitzer is believed to have aimed to take his own life.
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Turner Falls
Mass
Louis Bitzer
Ida Golumbe
Bitzer
Negro boy shot accidentally near heart in McGregor
A white boy fired a target gun causing a gunshot wound to a black youth just below the heart in McGregor Texas. Officials describe the incident as accidental. The wounded boy is reported as doing well and may recover.
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McGregor, Tex
Sentenced Treasurer Pardoned. Lincoln Neb Jan 1
Governor Say pardons a treasurer in Lincoln Nebraska in a brief press note dated January 1. The item cites executive clemency amid unspecified charges or case history. No names of the official or agency are given beyond the state capital.
Par Don Granted to Former State Treasurer Bartley
Age grants an unconditional pardon to Joseph S. Bartley, former state treasurer who five years ago was sentenced to twenty years in prison for embezzling two hundred one thousand dollars in state funds.
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Age
Joseph S. Bartley
Water spout in Morocco sinks two hundred people
Brief items report a Morocco water spout drowning about 200, a Chicago murder suicide, vessel wreckage at Colon Colombia, a Denver starvation death, a Texas rice industry start with capital stock, and a Kansas City minister ousted over an illegal divorce.
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Henry Albert
Chicago
Ill
Colon
Colombia
Charles Stevenson
Denver
Colo
Texas
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