Cadets Complete Ninety Mile Practice March in Heavy Gear
South Carolina Military Academy cadets, 150 strong, logged eleven miles in three hours during a practice march. The group, clad in full marching order, beat the army pace of two and a half miles per hour as they finished fresh.
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South Carolina Military Academy
William Cox
William Carney
Smithfield
Ohio
Carney
Cox
Missa
Kate Moore
Aliance
Youngstown
John Gellins
International union strike costs exceed 600000 dollars
The International Typographical Union reports the eight hour day strike has cost the union over 600000 to date. In New York Oren Root Jr nephew of Elihu Root becomes first vice president of the Metropolitan Street Railroad Company and starts as a motorman.
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International Typographical Union
Oren Root, Jr
Elihu Root
Metropolitan Street Railroad Company
New York
Wewatta Street
Denver
Denver Transit and Warehouse Company
Witte
F. A. Cook
Alaska
Mount McKinley
Leland W. Folsom
State Street
Boston
Tiffel Tower
Paris
August Braun
Germany
Cincinnati
Cape May Express
West Jersey and Seashore
Camden
Cooper Hospita
Scandal at Frisco Reveals Relief Supply Hoarding
San Francisco police and military authorities pursue alleged abuses of free relief supplies aided by anonymous letters. Detectives seize at a committee member’s home stored provisions and bedding, while a woman’s home yields $500 in blankets and clothing. Coroner Walsh clarifies earthquake deaths, noting 358 total with one gunshot case. Water from taps shows bacteria, sewer pollution feared. boil water. Post office fire damage tops $500,000 with $100,000 from dynamite. 23,000 children lack school seats. 30 large buildings destroyed.
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San Francisco
Relief Committee
Walsh
Heber Tilden
Tilden
Gibbs
J. W. Roberts
New Post Office
Ilis
Washington
President presses Congress on oil trust rates and reform
President Roosevelt transmits a Bureau of Corporations report to Congress on transportation and freight rates in the oil industry. The findings show substantial benefits to Standard Oil from secret, often unlawful rates, with estimates of at least three quarters of a million dollars yearly, and call for stronger interstate commerce commission powers to curb rate discrimination and protect the public.
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Roosevelt
Congress
James R. Garfield
Interstate Commerce Commission
Standard Oil Company
White House
Standard
New York
Combine
Senate
House of Representatives
Bureau of Corporations
Department of Commerce and Labor
Standard Oi
Commissioner of Corporations
Bureau
Via Jas
R. Garrfiell
Railroads
Corporations
China to Open Ports and Regulate Foreign Colonies
China plans to open Manchurian ports and interior cities to world trade only after completing governing regulations for foreign colonies. The move, led by Tang Chao Ye, may require foreigners to lease holdings rather than own them. Washington reports warn of a harsher anti foreign boycott ahead with looming effects next autumn.
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Washington
Tang Chao-Ye
Board of Foreign Affairs
America
Yale
China
Railways and rail projects sweep across global scale
The article notes Japan now has over 4 500 miles of railways with a 2 feet 6 inch gauge. It reports the Western Pacific railway seeking bids to build 110 miles of line from the Nevada Utah junction to Deeth along the Humboldt River. A New York Chicago electric railway is planned, 742 miles long, to operate in five years at about 75 mph, with a ten hour trip. It mentions railroads using wooden legs and wooden-log mills, and cites Leipsic station planned at 31 million dollars as the world’s largest. It also notes a massive Mont Blanc Swiss railway project taking five to six years, and cites Boston South Station and St. Louis Union Station in competition with a German city’s mammoth station.
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Japan
Western Pacific Railway
United States
Nevada
Utah
Deeth
Trumboldt River
New York
Chicago
Leipsic
Great South Station
Boston
Union Station
St. Louis
Mont Blanc
Switzerland
Government vs the Standard Oil Monopoly
American government findings allege secret rates and rebates by Standard Oil across interstate lines. Commissioner Garfield reports published tariffs 1 to 2.714 cents lower at Standard refineries vs independents, with oil 2 to 5 cents higher in Standard monopolized fields. The Rockefeller trust is said to influence published rates from well to consumer.
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Standard Oil Company
Standard
New England
Ohio River
Mississippi
Rockefeller Trust
Roosevelt urges oil law and railroad reforms after Garfield report
Roosevelt outlines congressional measures from the Garfield oil report. Proposes oil on the free list, land fees kept by government, railroad mergers curbed, and IC C examiners with immediate effect. Warns that monopolies crush individual initiative. Garfield finds secret and open rebates to Standard Oil nationwide totaling about $750,000 yearly.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Standard Oil Company
United States
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Congress
Garfield
Oil Magnates Reply to Roosevelt on Standard Oil
H H Rogers and John D Archbold of the Standard Oil Company reply to Roosevelt and Garfield claims saying allegations of unlawful practices are untruthful and unjust. They dismiss the President's concern over railroads and shippers and defend the investigation as misinterpretation of facts.
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Roosevelt
Garfield
Messrs
H. H. Rogers
John D. Archbold
Standard Oil Company
Congress Debates Rate Bill and Navy Programs
The Senate and House spent days on the railroad rate bill and military spending. A pending amendment to curb rebates was debated, with Culberson’s substitute restricting free tickets and passes and outlining penalties. The passage of seed distribution funding and West Point improvements were noted, while discussions touched on San Francisco reconstruction bonds and port of Panama cables.
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Newlands
Finance
Senate
Ways and Means Committee
House
San Francisco
Flint
Perkins
California
Committee On Finance
Daniel
Fort Mason
Panama
Military Academy
West Point
Foraker
McCumber
Burton
Ohio
Butler
Calder
N. Y
Flood
Clark
Fla
Shackleford
King's Mountain
Bartholdt
Missouri
Johnson
South Carolina
Webb
North Carolina
Tirrell
Weeks
Massachusetts
Culberson
United States
President nominates Julius Jacobs for assistant treasurer post
Notes of the National Capital report the Senate receiving the nomination of Julius Jacobs for assistant treasurer of the United States in San Francisco. Sir Mortimer Durand visited the capitol to inquire about Congress methods at Britain’s request. Senator Lodge denies plans to amend the Philippine tariff bill to remove the denatured alcohol tax and denies opposition to that measure.
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Senate
Julius Jacobs
United States
San Francisco
Cal
Mortimer Durand
Capitol
Congress
Lodge
Chicago Week Sees Labor Strife and Rising Defaults
Chicago reports labor troubles and many commercial defaults while demand for future execution remains strong and consumption holds high. Money movements improve after bank withdrawals for San Francisco. business confidence stays firm with progress in key industries and robust pig iron and steel buying. Bank clearings rise 5.8 percent versus 1905. failures in the district total 33. Retail and building activity show vigor. fall orders and crops advance. country trade steadies with easier credit and rising railway earnings.
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San Francisco
Board of Trade
Chicago
Dun
Review of Trade
New York
Bradstreet
Commodity price listings by city and grain types across markets
Indianapolis Chicago St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Toledo Buffalo New York and more report cattle hogs sheep and grain prices. Prices cover wheat corn oats rye and butter eggs and reflect regional ranges for No 2 grades and prime stock with figures per unit.
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Chicago
Ste
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Milwaukee
Toledo
New York
Far and Near Notables and Political Quips
R C Lehmann, noted English journalist and oarsman, sits as Liberal MP for the Market Scarborough division of Leicester. Winston Churchill faces light mockery for a coined phrase in debate calling an opponent’s claim a terminological inexactitude. Sir Harry Johnston, addressing a London meeting, recounts travels in Africa aimed at ending the slave trade and notes greater misery in London than any single African region.
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R. C. Lehmann
Scarborough
Leicestershire
Winston Churchill
Harry Johnston
London
Africa
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