Rail commission weighs drastic measures to relieve rail shortages
Austin January 1 The railroad commission contemplates forfeiting charters to ease Texas rail freight congestion. Commissioner Colquitt warns motions to place several roads under receivers may pass, urging prompt action and urging the Santa Fe to move all business promptly via connections.
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Austin
Railroad Commission
Texas
Mayfield
Colquitt
W. P. Preston
Fsico Lines
Bush & Witherspoon Company
Waco
Brady
Blanket
Carruthers
Brownwood
Galveston
Santa Fe
Pure Food Law Goes Into Effect In New York
The pure food law now operative aims to stop adulterated foods and drugs. Inspectors will enforce labeling to show what products truly are, with fines or imprisonment for violations. Some brands of jams preserves and canned goods may exit the market due to strict labeling requirements. Distilled spirits must be labeled to reflect contents, with final label forms pending agriculture department guidance.
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New York
Department of Agriculture
Boarding house fire endangers Normal College students
A fire destroyed the J. B. Leeman boarding house in the Normal College addition at Denton Texas causing about 10 000 in losses. Twenty two Normal College female students boarded there. four were away at the time and two narrowly escaped with their lives. The building belonged to W. T. Potts and carried 5500 of insurance. Leeman's furniture suffered about 2000 in damage and was uninsured.
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Normal College
Denton
Tex
Leeman
Adnrdinal College Addition
Normal
W. T. Potts
Maier Missing After Note Says He Planned Self Harm
Gustav A. Maier a Galveston ship broker is missing in New York. His wife says a note indicated he planned to jump overboard from a Hoboken ferry and fears he died by his own hand. She lacks funds to return to Galveston after losing his last $50 in stock speculation.
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New York
Gustav A. Maier
Galveston
Hoboken
Arrest Made in Ax Murder Case
Austin dispatch says police and sheriff report the arrest of Will Stamps alias Will Fisher a colored man on suspicion in the killing of George Fidel a Syrian who was slain with an ax Friday night Fidel’s death remains under investigation with Stamps jailed awaiting further inquiry.
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George Fidel
Austin
Will Stamps
Will Fisher
Stamps
Fidel
Explosion at Mexican excavation kills three, wounds six
El Paso reports two boxes of dynamite exploded near Parral Chihuahua. Three men were blown to pieces and three mortally wounded while at work in an excavation. Cause not known. In New Orleans a Tulane street car collided with a wagon, killing one and injuring about six passengers.
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el Paso
Parral
Chihuahua
Mexico
New Orleans
William Grant
Tulane
Music Hall Beauty Lady Lancardy Dies in Ireland
Dublin notes the death of Lady Lancardy wife of Lord Clancardy after a long illness. Once London's celebrated music hall beauty she married into the peerage and lived happily on the Galway estate among Irish tenants. Cancer developed last February and was the cause of death.
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Dublin
Lady @lancardy
County
Galway
Stagg
London
Lord Clancardy
Belle Bilton
Earl
Petition for American Protectorate Circulates in Cuba
A report from Havana says petitions for an American protectorate are ready to be sent from Remedios with 200 wealthy signers. Cienfuegos plans a similar petition with 700 property owners. Other regions are preparing petitions as a weekly paper backs the move. A Havana banker vows no sugar advances after June 1907 without U.S. peace guarantees.
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Colon
Havana
Remedios
Cuba
Cienfuegos
United States
Pope Replies With New Year Greeting From Vatican
The pope answered Vienna Archbishop's New Year felicitation telegraph expressing sympathy for Catholics in hardship and invoking the infant Jesus to help their wishes for justice and return to better conditions.
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Jesus
Vienna
Peter
Viscountess Chenay Denounces Anonymous Letter Plot
The Viscountess Chenay faces accusations in Kil Paris as an anonymous letter exposes a scheme linked to her husband. She claims responsibility for defending her seat and attacking the expense of the matter.
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Chenay
Paris
Chare
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