Happenings of a Week Highlights and Disputes Across Nations and States
Washington notes show Charles Fairbanks preferring audience with Methodist congregations over Pope Pius X. Elsewhere Rev. Stuckey’s new trial denied in Kansas case. Bills move in Congress on Roosevelt mail matter and Taft era reforms. Global events include naval retirements, labor strikes, and major civil conflicts with shifting fronts in Nicaragua and Arctic intrigues.
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Charles Warren Fairbanks
United States
Vatican
Wallace M. Stuckey
Williamsburg
Kan
Inister
Lorena Sutherland
Waukegan
Ottawa
Hamilton Fish
New York
Theodore Roosevelt
Max G. Schlapp
New York Academy of Medicine
Jan Resotsky
Ellis Island
N. Y
Levi Withee
Lacrosse
Wis
Rodman Wanamaker
Philadelphia
Bacon
Paris
Harry Meyers
Chicago
Moses Gootman
Otto T. Barnard
Fire destroys Journal News building and more incidents stir city
Police say John Byers confessed to starting the Journal News fire to satisfy a mania that cost $200 000 in property. Other notes claim Rockefeller ties to a beef trust and Standard Oil millions linked to Armour Swift. A submarine explosion injures a seaman at Charlestown Navy Yard and market losses hit Wall Street. Bjornson is dying, and balloon dirigible plans for May surface as tariff talks ease with Germany. A Milk Producers convention in Chicago aims to raise retailers’ margins. A jealous man shoots his wife.
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John Byers
Evans- Ville
Journal- News
New York
John D. Rockefeller
Beef Trust
Armour & Co
Swift & Co
National Packing Company
The
Trust
Standard Oil Millions
Charlestown
Mass
Mavy Yard
Guggenheim Properties
Wall Street
Bjornstjerne Bjornson
Berlin
Atlantic Ocean
Germany
United States
France
Canada
Milk Producers’ Protective Association
Chicago
Sandie
Post Ofice
Ohio Republican State Executive Committee to Install Washington Wheeler Ellis
Washington Wade H. Ellis is chosen as chairman of the Ohio Republican state executive committee and will resign as assistant to the attorney general. He will be formally installed at Dayton next Saturday, with a reorganization to follow including a new vice chairman and secretary. Ellis will also serve as special counsel for the government in the Sherman antitrust case against the Chicago packers and in Hepburn rate law challenges before the Supreme Court.
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O'Mally
New York
Chicago
Supreme Court
Meat Trust
Taft
Congress
Clark
Wyoming
Parker
New Jersey
Senate
House
Judiciary
Missouri Pacific
Pittsburg
Kan
Kelvin
Ariz
Ray
Mena
Vasquez
Las Goritas
Santo Tomaso
Santa Clara
Independence
Bethlehem
London
Fore River
Argentine Republic
Michigan
Michigan Central Railroad
Mary Blair Brokaw
W. Gould Brokaw
John J. Vertrees
Nashville
Tenn
Carl Rasch
United States
Montana
Ballinger
Dennett
Schwartz
Ballinger- Pinchot
Kentucky
Atlantic Ocean
South Carolina
Mallory Line
Alamo
Key West
Interstate Commerce Commission
American
Adams
Wells- Fargo
Great Northern Railroad
McCumber
North Dakota
St. Paul
Cherry
Ill
Common Council
Federal Grand Jury
Boston
Buffalo
Des Moines
Denver
Detrot
Omaba
Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad
State
Wayman
St. Petersburg
Washington
Wade H. Ellis
Ohio Republican State Executive Committee
Dayton
State Central Committee
W. H. Phipps
Paulding
Eli S
Department of Justice
Cincinnati
Ohio
Uncle Sam
Chicago Packers
Chicago Officials In Graft Combine Faces Confession
State’s Attorney Wayman secured a confession from a man tied to a Chicago graft ring. The informer, a prosecutor’s witness, claims big city officials are involved and will be indicted. A Merriam commission report cites $400000 excess coal payments over two years and $150000 annual waste due to poor bidding Specifications.
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Chicago
Wayman
Merriam Commission
Paper Board group pleads guilty in restraint case
Twenty six corporations forming the Paper Board association plead guilty to illegal restraint of trade. Judge Hough imposes fines of 2000 dollars each totaling 52000 dollars. The plea is delivered through association attorney J M Beck, former attorney general.
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New York
Paper Board Association
Hough
United States Court
J. M. Beck
Maj Gen Wood Hospitalized In Baltimore
Maj Gen Leonard Wood of the U S Army is a patient at a local hospital undergoing treatment for an old head injury. It is not yet known if an operation will be required.
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Wood
Baltimore
Leonard Wood
Shortage in Accounts of John A. Hail and WrennGrek
Shortage of 424,442 dollars affects accounts tied to John A. Hail and WrennGrek of the ee Bevinzs. Officials note missing funds and begin preliminary investigations.
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Boston
Mase
John A. Hail
WrennGrek
Ee Bevinzs
Equal Freight Rates Debate Returns To Indiana Railways
Indiana railroad commission plans fresh evidence gathering within 60 days to address equal freight rates from shipping points notably Indianapolis. The move follows two years of tension with shippers and carriers over directional rate disparities and potential appeals to higher courts.
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Indianapolis
Railroad Commission of Indiana
Indiana
Indianapols
Railroad Commission
United States Court
United States Supreme Court
Wood
Commission
Greencastle
Pennsylvania
Vincennes
Ohio
Central Freight Association
United States
State printing board bans polite note paper for judges
The state printing board refuses to issue a requisition for polite Imperial stock for the supreme court. All judges office correspondence must use regulation letterhead. Imperial stock costs 19 dollars per 500 sheets, deemed too expensive as the board scrambles to trim expenditures.
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State Printing Board
Supreme Court
State Printing Fund
Capitol
Printing Board
Busee Named Superintendent of Southeastern Hospital
Dr. E P Busee of Evansville chosen by the board of trustees to lead the Southeastern Insane Hospital now under construction at Madison. He is a practicing Evansville physician formerly with the Southern Indiana Hospital for the Insane and trained for the new role.
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Southeastern Insane Hospital
Madison
E. P. Busee
Evansville
Southern Indiana Hospital
Miner Awarded 7600 in Damages in Coal Mine Suit
In Terre Haute the jury awarded Otis Cahill 7600 against Green Valley Coal Co for injuries from a Jasonville mine accident after a 24 hour deliberation begun January 3. Evidence included expert testimony and a mine visit by jurors.
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Terre Haute
Otis Cahill
Green Valley Coal Company
Jasonville
Cahill
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Wade Ellis
OF State Executive Committee
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Campfield Construction Company
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Richmond
H. E. Barnard
Food and Drug Commissioner
A. W. Brauner
Indian Railroad Commission
Rail Spa
Amos W. Butler
Board of State Charities of Indiana
Gov. Marshall
John H. Holliday
Demarchus C. Brown
Francis H. Gavish
W. H. Hickhorn
Emma Lee Elam
Mary A. Spink
Logansport
W. H. Eichhorn
International Prison Congress
Brown, Dubois and Starke
WIII
Benjamin W. Douglass
Douglass
Lawrence
Busee Heads Hospital
Babe
Crawfordsville
Marie McCoy
F. D. McCay
George P. Ramsey
May
Sloan
Sloan‘s Liniment
Earl
Mazz
U.S.A
Ever
Reliaf
Rippey
APPEY
Dept. H
Chaat
Hay
Philo Hay Spec. Co
Newark
N. J
DYOLA
Derlingtom
UBBER
South Dakota
Bckinnon, Clark & CO
Feexserehse
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