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Newspaper
Butler Weekly Times
Location
Butler, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1905
Page
3
In a dim park Dick and a wealthy friend discuss marriage and money while a mystery unfolds. Helen overhears a confession about role reversals and a planned union. Beebe and Meme Wing provoke tense reactions as truth edges toward the surface.
A large crowd gathers as the ten special pleas by Packers Megan and Armour & Co rise for a jury trial before Judge J Otis Humphrey. District Attorney Morrison seeks time to review McRoberts dismissal while Samuel A McRoberts faces a nolle prosequi. Commissioner James R Garfield and four from his department appear to testify on immunity promises tied to the industry probe.
Elkton Kentucky December 12 The tobacco factory owned by Mrs M B Penyck and run for the tobacco trust by the American Snuff company was dynamited early Tuesday causing complete damage and no lives lost. No insurance on the plant had been renewed due to local unrest over tobacco growers. The blast shook the area and damaged nearby houses a depot and passenger coaches. The Dark Tobacco Growers association is blamed by some, though they denounce such acts. A train incident near Elkton followed with robbers searching for buyers. The Dark Tobacco Growers long opposed the Night Riders depredations as a special commerce department inquiry proceeds. F G Ewing of Nashville leads the association and condemns Hillbill actions. A separate fire at Trenton Ky. attributed to incendiarism is noted.
A Fort Scott letter uses an alphabet poem to praise Atkinson the anti trust man and rail against monopoly in poultry and dairy trade. It references eggs ducks cream and produce with social critique and hints at a fatal explosion involving Mrs Dimner Reid in Fort Scott Kansas on December 4.
Spirited session in the Senate on Hollrond rate legislation and Panama Canal funding. Tillman bill to empower the mercantile commission for maximum rates sparks long debate. Mitchell’s death noted as his name is erased from rolls. New York reports subpoenas in Standard Oil suits. Oregon public rites mark Senator Mitchell’s funeral. Ireland’s organizer lands six month sentence, surrenders after assault charge in Kansas.
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