Tillman Attacks Executive Power in Senate Speech
In Washington on March 17 Senator Tillman delivered a forceful address denouncing executive encroachment on legislative power. He backed his critique with references to Paul Morton and the Santa Fe rebates case, criticizing Wall Street and White House conferences while urging action on banking and currency reform.
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Washington
Tillman
Senate
Committee On Finance
New York
Roosevelt
Paul Morton
Santa Fe Railroad
Judson
Harmon
Wall Street
White House
Republican Party
Chamber
Beveridge
Peveridge
Mr. Tillman
Senator Beveridge
Hale
Mr. Hale
Walsh
John R. Walsh
Chicago
Aldrich
Grand Jury
Recited History Of Standard Oil And Oil Trade Changes
Lewis Emery Jr of Bradford, Pa, testifies in government suit against Standard Oil about pre consolidation trade. C B Darby of New London, Ohio, recalls selling oil at 14 cents a gallon while Standard Oil wagon sold at 0 cents. Emery describes 1872 to 1875 consolidation, rise in freight rates, and key figures Rockefelle r, Payne, and Wm Rockefeller.
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Standard Oil Company
Lewis Emery, Jr
Bradford
C. B. Darby
New London
Darby
Emery
Pennsylvania
Burer
South Improvement Company
Standard Oil Company of
Cleveland
John D. Rockefeller
William
Oliver H. Payne
Indicted Judge Defends Clearing House Action
The speaker noted the time he had been indicted and convicted and argued that Chicago clearing house measures against the Walsh banks were justified and entirely legal.
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Chicago
Walsh Banks
Mystery surrounding Averbuch death cleared by Hull House backers
Chicago reports that the investigation into Lazarus Averbuch's death, once described as mysterious, is now attributed to support from Jane Addams of Hull House and Mrs. Joseph T. Bowen and Mrs. Mary Wilmarth. Bowen funds a $25 000 Hull House clubhouse and has a Bar Harbor summer home.
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Chicago
Lazarus Averbuch
Shippy
Jane Addams
Hull House Settlement
Joseph T. Bowen
Mary Wilmarth
Bar
Wilmarth
Hull House Trustees
Railroad bonds eliminated as bank note security
Washington March 17 the Senate finance committee voted unanimously to remove railroad bonds from being security for national bank note circulation as provided in the Aldrich financial bill.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
National Bank
Aldrich Financial
Green Carnations Adorn Lapels For St Patrick’s Day
The latest St Patrick's day novelty is the green carnation introduced by florists Jack Davis and I A Oldham. W McKinney said the product sold briskly and demand was hard to meet. The colored flower is artificial, dyed by dipping a white carnation in a mild chemical solution.
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St. Patrick's Day
Jack Davis
I. A. Oldham
W. McKinney
Italian Court Denies Abruzzi Duke Engagement to Elkins Heiress
In Rome the court denies a marriage engagement between the Duke of the Abruzzi, cousin of King Victor Emmanuel, and Miss Katherine Elkins of West Virginia. The Duke is expected in Rome March 28 for a Prince of Monaco oceanography lecture. In Altoona, Pennsylvania, Mrs Martha Cartright, 59, dies in a Hollidaysburg lamp fire that forces her sons to jump from a upstairs window.
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Rome
Abruzzi
Victor Emmanuel
Katherine Elkins
Elkins
West Virginia
Prince of
Altoona
Hollidaysburg
Martha Cartright
Roadbed grading contract signals rail link Washington to Love City
Report confirms plans for a new roadbed from the B&O line west of Love City toward Washington. Promoter Mr. Young has leased coal lands in eastern Guernsey and surveys rights of way for a route to connect with the Wheeling & Lake Erie system, with coal fields and markets in view.
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Jeffersonian
Washington
Love City
Cambridge
Young
Marietta & Lake
Guernsey
Middlebourne
Fairvein
Jewett
Ohio
Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad
Great Lakes
Guernsey County
Marietta
Ohio River
Local Union Charges Embezzlement Against Valentine
Local No. 802 of the United Mine Workers obtained a warrant for Emmett Valentine charging embezzlement of about 300 dollars while he served as secretary. A separate forgery warrant, filed by John Dunning as an individual, was intended to hold him if he appeared in City Mayor Bradford's court. The union officers met with Attorney O. W. Wells to pursue the case.
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Emmett Valentine
No. 802
United Mine Workers
King’s Mines
Jack Taylor
Joe Shooter
John Dunning
O. W. Wells
Wells
Messrs. Taylor
Shooter
Dunning
Bradford
Valentine
Two Thousand Michigan Students Riot At Ann Arbor Theater
Ann Arbor March 17. A college riot erupted as about 2000 University of Michigan students attacked the Star theater wrecking the building and seizing a piano for a street performance. Police and fire crews fought the mob. several officers were injured and the theater, windows, and nearby shops sustained heavy damage.
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Ann Arbor
Mich
University of Michigan
Star Theater
Ann Arbor College
Henderson
National Guard
Angell
University
Dean Hitchins
Law Department
Officers Ordered to Pursue Valentine Capture Efforts
The action noted instructs officers to take the steps described and to exert every effort to effect the capture of Valentine.
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Valentine
School Buildings Inspected by State and Local Officials
State Inspector John H. Morgan and District Inspector E. M. Dilley, with John O. Carnes of the local board, inspected all city school houses today. They checked East End South Cambridge Central and later North Ninth and North Fourth streets. Morgan is expected to recommend changes for nearly all buildings.
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John H. Morgan
E. M. Dilley
John O. Carnes
Board of Education
East End
Cambridge
Thomas Pritchard
North Ninth Street
North Fourth Street
Mr. Morgan
Bank Robber Gang At Large Near Hominy Creek
Bartlesville Oklahoma March 17. Three Tyro bank robbers remain at large likely in the hills along Hominy creek about twenty miles southwest of Bartlesville. Posses continue the pursuit. Men disarmed by the robbers say the gang leader is Henry Starr a notorious southwestern figure sought by authorities for months.
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Hominy Creek
Bartlesville
Okla
Henry Starr
Starr
Hypes plan defeated as senate blocks bipartisan bid
In Columbus on March 17 the senate narrowly defeated the Hypes resolution to add Senator Mather to the investigating committee on the state treasurer, keeping a two Democrat one Republican balance. House actions included bills from committees and a push for direct Senate elections.
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Columbus
Senate
Mather
House
Committee On Railroads
Ely
State Railroad Commission
Stockwell
Elections Committee
United States
Schmitt
Judiciary Committee
Irwin
Railroad
Jere Balcolm Seeks Life as Painter After Elopement
Florence Whaley and Jere Knode Cooke known as Balcolm tell of a life change from rector to painter. The former St George's Hempstead pastor recalls schooling at Yale, elopement with Flor etta Whaley, and a move to San Francisco where locals offered support and he now works as a painter and decorator.
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San Francisco
Jere Knode Cooke
St. George's Church
Hempstead
L.L
Floretta Whaley
Balcolm
Cooke
Yale
Baltimore
L. I
St. George’s
Jere Balcolm
Explosion at Powder Mill Kills Four Men in Indiana
Four men died and twenty were seriously injured when the United States Powder Co. mill at Coalmore, fourteen miles from Linton, exploded. Windows shattered in Linton and nearby towns as debris rained over the area.
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Linton
Ind
United States Powder Co
Coalmoor
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TAFT
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Standard Oil Co
Averbuch
Marietta & Lake Ry
Fuji-Ko
London
Jere Ano DE Cooke
HS Living
Swell Church
Florence Whaley
Balcom
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