Standard Oil Victory Cuts Anti Trust Counts in Chicago
Judge A I Anderson trims 1 462 counts against Standard Oil to 36 and lowers the potential fine from 29 240 009 to 720 000 while withholding final order until evidence is complete. Also reports in Indiana show three more counties voting dry with Hendricks Fountain and Fayette County referencing majorities.
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Standard Oil
Standard Oil Company
Chicago
A. I. Anderson
Oil Corporation
Anderson
Sims
Wilkerson
Indiana
Hendricks
Fountain and
Fayette
Fountain County
Fayette County
Gibson
Carroll
Fleet Returns After Globe Cruise In High Parade
Sixteen battleships arrived home to a display of national pride as the fleet completed its world voyage. President Roosevelt rejected secret vice accusations and spoke on unity while Taft prepared remarks at Pennssylvania. Riots erupted in South Omaha as Greeks faced threats, and the nation marked Washington’s birthday with ceremonies aboard the Mayflower.
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Roosevelt
Senate Committee
Otho S. A. Sprague
Sprague, Warner & Co
Chicago
Pasadena
Cal
Isham Randolph
Panama Canal
Taft
South Omaha
Neh
Nicholas
Russia
California
Illinois
Lake Michigan
New York
W. K. Vanderbilt
Nashville, Tenn
Coopers
Carmack
Franklin MacVeagh
Treasury
National House of Representatives
Dallas man gets thirty years for attempted robbery
Robert B. Bledsoe of Dallas entered the Kansas City home of millionaire Lawrence M. Jones and attempted to extort 7000 dollars. He pleaded guilty to attempted robbery and was sentenced to thirty years by Judge Ralph W. Lath shaw. He claimed no confederates and denied intent to detonate the bomb mentioned in the threat.
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Exan
Robert B. Bledsoe
Dallas
Legas
Lawrence M. Jones
Kansas City
Bledsoe
Ralph W. Lathshaw
Criminal Court
Jones
Mail car alert as nitroglycerin caps found on train
A Norfolk and Western mail car near Roderfield West Virginia at forty miles an hour snatched a pouch from a stationary crane and five clerks opened it to find an unaddressed package containing 1000 nitroglycerin caps. The train carried more than 100 passengers.
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Norfolk and Western
Roderfield
W. Va
Reno Bank Branch SUSPENDS Operations Amid Cashier Statement
The Reno Nevada branch of Nyé and Orms bank network suspended operations. Cashier Byington announces depositors will be paid, signaling a protective move for customer funds as the bank halts withdrawals.
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Reno
Nev
Hank Saapends
Nyé and Ormsby
Nevada
Byington
GIRI BOUND TO BATH TUB IN CHICAGO HOTEL
Police seek to untangle a case involving Miss Ella Gingles found unconscious and bound in a bathtub at the Wellington Hotel Chicago. A note to a roommate warned she expected to be killed. she had been gagged with a laudanum bottle on the floor and attacked before binding.
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Chicago
Ella Gingles
Wellington Hotel
Hecht
Hille
Sears Roebuck Mall Indictment Dismissed By Court
Judge McPherson rules Sears Roebuck cannot be compelled to appear in federal court in Des Moines on mail fraud charges. The indictment accuses selling paints and jewelry different in form and quality from catalogs. The ruling notes a corporation cannot be arrested to face trial in another state.
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Des Moines
Sears-Roebuck Company
Chicago
McPherson
United States Court
MecPherson
Ilinois
Profit Under Two Cent Fare Boosts Missouri Rail Lines
State Railroad Commissioner John A. Knott finds minor lines in Missouri profitable on a 2-cent fare. 1908 data show minor lines increased passenger earnings from 1907, while several trunk lines posted mixed results with some losses. Santa Fe and Missouri Pacific show gains per mile on Missouri business, supporting profitability under the two cent fare law.
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Missouri
Missouri Railway Commission
Santa Fe
Missouri Pacific
Kansas and
Texas
Iron Mountain
Wabash
Frisco
Burlington
John A. Knott
Gary rails begin production for Chicago Burlington rail line
The Gary Indiana steel works has started turning out its first rails for the Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad. The company has orders including a 30 000 ton shipment for the Baltimore and Ohio. Four blast furnaces and two open hearth furnaces are active with more to come. labor will rise from 3100 to 4500 with day and night shifts to keep mills running. The plant is supplying steel to the South Chicago and Joliet plants whose furnaces are reportedly shut down.
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Big Steel Mille
Indiana Steelis
Gary
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
The
Steel Company
Baltimore and Ohio
Chicago
Joliet
Strike shuts shoe factory throws 4000 out of work
In Portsmouth Ohio the Selby shoe tasters strike reached a crisis with plants shutting down and workers laid off as other firms in the city asked employees to do Selby work. Four thousand are temporarily unemployed while the dispute remains unsettled.
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Portsmouth
Ohio
Selby Shoe Tasters
Elvery
Portamouth
Mighty U S Battle Fleet Returns Home to President Roosevelt
President Roosevelt reviews the American battle fleet as 16 battleships and 28 bands parade past his yacht Mayflower at Old Point Comfort Virginia. The Connecticut leads the returning squadron with Admiral Sperry aboard as crowds cheer in Hampton Roads.
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Old Point Comfort
Mayflower
Unampton Toads
Virginia
Chesapeake Bay
Hampton Roads
Connecticut
Heet
Washington
Sperry
Admiral Sperry
Roosevelt
Louisiana
Georgia
Wisconsin
Boy Killy Companion Accused After Fatal City Theater Event
A Mississippi town reports a boy about nine years old killed a city attorney in a theater incident. Authorities suspect a companion unaware of a gun in the boy’s possession. The event unfolds as investigators search for motive and safety details.
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Minor Holmes
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