Bumps Billings Bank in Chicago Tax Battle Explodes
Chicago reports reveal fury over the assessments of Bumps Billings bank and the gas trust. Citizens accuse officials of favoritism as banks and building associations face higher taxes, while Billings presses for confessions of judgment and six percent interest. Banking leaders see the reform drive as unfair.
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Gas Trust
Chicago
People’s
Phoenix
Commerce
Garden City
Cesseseeeee Republic
Empire
Drexel Oo
Bankers and Merchant
Thirty-fifth Street
Village
Interstate
North Avenue
Oakland
Dearborn
New Fort Dearborn
Sun
South Chicago
Lincoln and
Fifth Avenue
United States
Billings
Home Savings
Billings’ Bank
BilMage’ Bank
Death Knell of Trusts Opens Chicago Anti-Trust League
The newly formed Illinois Anti-Trust League plans to dismantle trusts across Chicago with a strong central committee and ward branches. Prominent ex-legislatorsEdward C. Hawley and Daniel Berryare named rumored Republican candidates for lieutenant governor and attorney general. The article lists a long central and ward committee roster and notes past police uniform deals and local political clashes, while citing Edinburg Indiana as a warning from a prior trust impact. News touches on gas legislation, Springfield witnesses, and calls for action against the Calumet Western Railway.
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Illinois
Edward C. Hawley
Kane County
Daniel 8. Berry
Carroll County
Gas Trust Akin
Ilinois Anti-Trust League
Ilinois
Aftor
Mitnols
Republic
John J. Altpeter
Henry F. Donovan
Patrick I. Haynes
Henry W. Hill
Peter Kiolbassa
Wm. Schlake
Frank A. Stauber
Paul O. Stensland
Jonathan B. Taylor
Martin van Allen
Charles J. Vopicka
Charles Bary
John Mayo Palmer
Robert BE. Burke
George R. Davis
Henry Stuckart
Bernard A. Eckhart
N. M. Blumenthal
Edward M. Labift
Fernand Henrotin
N. Powell
John Summerfeld
Wm. P. Lawton
Martin B. Madden
John 8
Oehmen
Robert K. Sloan
Elmon Shaffer
John Siman
Ed F. Cullerton
Chas
C. Schumacher
Jas
J. Townsend
Sherman P, Cody
W. Stanwood
Henry Linnemeyer
Otto Hulsman
Geo. C. Leake
Frank J. Brignadello
Hugh Ward
John Powers
Wm. Elsfeldt
J. Gray
Charles Burmeister
Albert J. Olson
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