Wabash Freight Wreck Causes Heavy Damage and Fatality
A Wabash high class freight train No 1 collided with cars on the main track near Lafayette Indiana killing fireman O E Phallabaun of Peru and injuring engineer W E Ernest and brakeman Robert Wis. Fourteen cars burned, engine damaged about $3000, main track cleared two hours later, passenger train No 3 delayed. Witnesses report unattended track after switching crews left unprotected. Phallabaun was a well known figure in local Wabash lines.
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O. E Phallahann
Perk
Gelock
W. E. Ernest
Decatur
Ind
Wwe
Fort Warne
Bat Tere
W D A Ryan to Talk on Illumination Tonight
Rysy an illuminating engineer at Schenectady GE plant will lecture tonight at the Fort Wayne Commercial Club on Practical Illumination. The Fort Wayne section of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, with about thirty members, hosts a national officer this year and covers a radius of fifty miles. A large Chicago Northwestern passenger terminal opens in Chicago, ranking among the nation’s largest. Memorial services will be held next Sunday by local labor and locomotive engineer unions.
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Schenectady
gGeneral Electric Company
Commercial Club
Fort Verne
American Institute of Electrical Engineers
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Ite Derier
Fort Wayne
Fern
Wabash
Huntington
Toint
Fort Wayne Division
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Nickel Plate Vision
Brotherhood of Lomotive, Engineers, and Friendship Divalon
Grand International Auxiliary
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Highest Paid Labor Leader In The World
A salary increase of $2,000 a year was voted for B. Garrettson, president of the Order of Railway Conductors, at the Jacksonville convention. He will now receive $10,000 annually, the highest pay for any labor leader. A meeting at the engineers hall on Calhoun Street will discuss arrangements for a forthcoming event with speakers from each division and a minister to preach.
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Engineers’ Hall
Calhoun Street
G. Flag
Grant Rhodes
B. Garrettson
Order of Railway Conduito
Jacksonville
Fla
Garrettson
Garrettzon
Heavy Travel on Pennsylvania Trains Delays Yesterday
The Pennsylvania Railroad ran extra trains yesterday due to heavy travel. Train No. 5, the Pennsylvania Limited, arrived at 4:60 yardday morning with a second section shortly after, and No. 23, the Pennsylvania Special, reached 5:54. These two trains are the line's highest class services between New York and Chicago.
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Pennsylvania
New York
Chicago
Two Day Excursion To Detroit On Wabash
Agent William Shocey of the Wabash announces a two day Detroit excursion this summer. The first trip runs next Saturday and Sunday from Fort Wayne at $2, with departures at 5 35 PM and 9 47 AM Saturday and 11 35 AM Sunday, returning Sunday night at 1 30 AM. An order has been placed with Pressed Steel Car for forty all steel coaches and with American Car and Foundry for twenty baggage cars by the Pennsylvania railroad.
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William Shocey
Wabash
Detroit
Fort Wayne
Traina Lésving
Pressed Steel Car Company
American Car and Foundry Company
Pennsylvania Railroad
Evans Cook Company Stock Offer At Fifty Dollars A Share
Notice to investors states the Evans Cook Company offers a limited amount of its capital stock at fifty dollars per share with a guaranteed minimum twenty percent per annum. For particulars contact R. L Evans secretary at 2805 Broadway Fort Wayne Indiana by phone.
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Evans Cook Company
R. L Evans
Sec
Broadway
Fort Wayne
Ind
Weather Bureau to Mail Forecast Post Cards
The government weather bureau will distribute Washington style postcard forecasts previously handled by Postmaster R B Hanna. About 300 printed forecast cards are sent to Fort Wayne daily and sold out from Washington. Local forecasts will not be issued here for some time.
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Government Weather Bureau
Washington Post
R. B. Hanna
Fort Wayne
Washington
Weather Bureau
Results of the tobacco and oil decisions
Washington June 4 The Supreme Court rulings on the Standard Oil and Tobacco trust cases trigger a vast reorganization of over two thousand combinations. Taft praises the decisions as a warning that the Sherman Act has teeth and presses for federal incorporation to oversee reorganizations. Six pending anti trust actions loom, including the sugar refining, steamship pool, General Electric, eastern States Lumber, anthracite coal, and gun powder trusts, with court led receiverships possible.
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Supreme Court of the United States
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Oil and Tobacco Trust
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Electrical Appliences Trust
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Reading
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Combine
Éasa
Department
Justtice
Congress
Standard and Tobacco Trust
Wickersham
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