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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1904
Page
7
Olney supporters seized leadership at the Massachusetts state convention in Boston with 600 of 900 delegates backing Olney. Hearst delegates shifted to a conciliatory stance as talks over the unit rule and a proposed platform favored Olney, and a two-ballot at large delegate selection followed.
Massachusetts Democratic Convention at Tremont Temple instructs four delegates at large and twenty district delegates to back Richard Olney for the presidential nomination at St Louis. Hearst supporters suffer a decisive defeat. unit rule adopted to govern all convention actions. George F Williams denounces the outcome while vowing no changes to district voting.
Congressional debate examines claims that the Mormon church runs vast commercial interests in Utah and operates with secrecy. Senators compare it to Methodist and Trinity churches in Chicago and New York, noting property ownership and rents rather than mercantile activity.
Washington April 28 The Senate adopts the Cullom amendment striking most of the House Chinese exclusion provisions in the general deficiency appropriation bill reaffirming existing exclusion laws. Protests from New York Chamber of Commerce against the exclusion amendment noted. House actions include pension amendment and naval appropriation conference report adoption, plus forest reserves protection bill and merchant marine investigation bill discussions.
Representative William R. Hearst files with Attorney General Knox a Sherman antitrust complaint against a combined Philadelphia and Reading railroad and Central railroad of New Jersey. He seeks restraint on the Reading company and return of stock to rightful owners, claiming monopoly building since January 2001.
The suit charges that by transferring 145000 of 272138 Central stock to Reading and placing rival lines under its umbrella, George F Haar gained executive control of Reading Company, Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron, Central Railroad of New Jersey and Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre Coal Company, driving anthracite freights to an extortionate five dollars per ton.
News dispatch from Washington reports Senator Fairbanks will travel to Indianapolis to attend the state convention. Senator Beveridge has begun his return trip via New York and others including Charles Landis, Fred Landis, Crumpacker, and Cromer will depart in the coming days. Additional rural routes in Geneva Adams County will be established May 16 serving about 1,200 people over a thirty mile area.
Washington April 24 the president sent to the senate nominations for military posts Brig Gen Fred C Ainsworth chief of the record and pension office Major General and Brigadier General William P Hall assistant adjutant general Brigadier General Col Tudiana Robert F Brammer Postmasters Japahol F Lel man Herne Henry Radcliffe Pierce ton and others named in the communication
A group of engineers from Spring field and Port Wayne Traation company led by Mesarg Petrie Fish baugh and Vogt began a foot survey from Decatur to Portland. They plan to continue to Berne Geneva Bryant and Portland paralleling the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railway. Contracts for Decatur power house boilers are not let yet. The Fort Wayne Goshen Electric Railroad project has delayed work with July 1 deadline and a recent directors meeting canceled due to absentee parties.
Fragmentary ad copy promotes a so called remedy by Dr R Vet Pierce in Buffalo New York. It mocks women seeking cures and touts a laxative followed by vague claims and odd spellings.
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