Bankrupt Nicolai testifies on Standard Oil contract
Lawrence Nicolai, a bankrupt oil merchant, testifies that in 1895 a contract with Standard Oil was made to abandon Nicolai Bros. after ten years of opposition. He says payments were to continue until January 1905 when Standard Oil declined renewals. Nicolai later ran a new firm, National Oil, without success.
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Sted Oil Company
Attact
Washington
Nicolai
Standard Oil Company
Nicolas
National Oil Company
Jealous Infatuation Drives Georgia Farmer to Kill Widow
Roswell, Ga. June 27 A well to do farmer John A Grimes twenty two shot and killed Mrs Tevie McGinn a young widow at her home near Roswell early Wednesday Jealous infatuation is said to have caused the act Grimes fired on himself but only wounded himself He surrendered at Dunwoody eight miles away and refused to talk The community is greatly excited and violence is feared
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Georgia
Atlanta
Roswell
John A. Grimes
Tevie McGinn
Grimes
Dunwooey
Pennsylvania Democrats Hold Harrisburg Convention Platform Praises Bryan
The Pennsylvania Democratic state convention met in Harrisburg to nominate candidates for governor lieutenant governor auditor general and secretary of internal affairs. Temporary chairman Michael J. Ryan of Philadelphia condemned corrupt control of state affairs and the platform praised William Jennings Bryan.
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Harrisburg
Bryan
Guffy
Pittsburg
Donnelly
Michael J. Ryan
Philadelphia
Ryan
W. J. Bryan
Violent Shocks Hit South Wales and Bristol Area
Violent shocks shook southern Wales around 9 40 morning causing chimney collapses and damage to cheap houses. People fled in fear recalling the San Francisco quake though no casualties were known. Tremors were also felt in Bristol Ilfracombe and nearby towns with loud rumblings VARIETY.
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Cardiff
Wales
South Wales
San Francisco
Bristol
Ilfracombe
Safety Appliance Law suits across railroads urged by attorney general
Washington May 27 Attorney General Moody orders suits against many railroad companies to recover penalties for safety appliance law violations due to improper equipment. The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company has the most violations cited at fifty three.
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Washington
Moody
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company
Forty-Two Officials Meet of New Syndicate In Knoxville
Forty-two officials of the new syndicate owning street railway and electric lighting properties gathered in Knoxville Tennessee. Cities represented include Nashville Memphis Knoxville Birmingham Houston and Little Rock with New York representatives present. The conference discussed mutual interests in operating the properties.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Nashville
Memphis
Knoxvile
Croker hopes to see Bryan win the presidency
In a Dublin dated letter Richard Croker expresses hope he will live to see William J Bryan become president. Separate dispatches report a public auction in Oakland of Milton Andrews effects for 10000 after the Bes sie Bouten slaying, a man in Cleveland dying of fright after fearing a felon lopped a finger, and a terrifi c downpour that turned Elm street into a river in Dallas.
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New York
Richard Croker
Dublin
William J. Bryan
United States
San Francisco
Milton Andrews
Bessie Bouten
Mount Cutler
Colorado
Oakland
Federal court halts Houston and Texas Central fare cut
Deputy U S Marshal Lancaster served the Texas railroad commission with a temporary restraining order barring the commission from implementing the Houston and Texas Central passenger fare reduction. The panel was ordered to appear for a July 16 hearing and subpoenas were issued for the first Monday in August, the court’s regular rule day.
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Austin
Railroad Commission
United States
Lancaster
Houston and Texas Central
Central
Earnest Retires After Long Corps of Engineers Career
Colonel Oswald H Earnest of the United States corps of engineers retires with the rank of brigadier general. In 1886 he directed Texas coast harbor improvements at Galveston and kept the entrance channel at twelve to twenty feet. He served in Mexico under the state department, on several boards, through the Spanish War, and led troops at Coamo on August 9 1898.
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Texas
Washington
Oswald H.earnest
United States Corps of Engineers
Earnest
Glveston Harbor
Mexico
State Department
Coamo
Cuba
Treaty From Algeciras Conference To Reach Senate
Washington reports that the US Europe Morocco treaty negotiated at Algeciras will be laid before the senate foreign relations committee at its first meeting next December and a vote aimed by December 20. Democrats oppose the treaty while Republicans on the committee support it. no vote in the current session.
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Washington
United States
Europe
Morocco
Senate
Foreign Relations Committee
Congress Resumes Session Until Work Is Finished
Speaker Cannon and leaders pledge to keep Congress in session until all business is completed. They aim to prevent any delay on the pure food bill and note friction on the meat inspection bill and railroad rate bill. The immigration and several appropriation bills remain in conference.
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Washington
Congress
Cannon
Hidalgo Railway Extension Planned From Tuxpan To Brownsville
The Hidalgo railway, now part of the Mexican National, is to be extended north from Tuxpan on the Gulf to Brownsville Texas and south to Vera Cruz. The coast line construction is expected to be comparatively easy with the bridges comprising the costliest portion.
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City of Mexico
Hidalgo
Mexican National Railway
Tuxpan
Gulf of Mexico
Brownsville
Tex
Vera Cruz
Guatemala Revolt Advances as Toledo Seizes Ayitla
Censored from Guatemala from City of Mexico reports General Toledo and revolutionary forces move inward without resistance. Government troops desert in large numbers and Ayitla in the north is captured. Mexican border trade suffers as merchants fear insurgent gains.
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City of
Mexico
Guatemala
Toledo
Ayitla
General Baldwin Retired From Army at Age
Brigadier General Frank D. Baldwin commanding the Southwestern division with headquarters in Oklahoma City was placed on the retired list by operation of law due to age. Colonel Walter T. Duggan, commander of the First Infantry in the Philippines, will fill the vacancy.
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Army
Washington
Frank D. Baldwin
Southwestern Military Division
Oklahoma City
Walter T. Duggan
First Infantry
Philippines
No Officers Ball for National Guard Encampment
Nashville dispatch reports Governor Vardaman told Mississippi National Guard officers there will be no officers ball at the Gulfport encampment this summer and that privates may attend if a ball is held. Officers protest, warning against a free for all affair.
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Nashville
Jackson
Miss
Vardaman
Mississippi National Guard
Gulfport
Thirty Seven Slaughterhouses Ordered Closed in Philadelphia
The Philadelphia board of health notified owners of thirty seven slaughter houses in various sections of the city to abandon their establishments. The city lists 171 such places in total.
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Philadelphia
Board of Health
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