Government vows limited prosecutions of trusts
Washington reports Attorney General Bonaparte says violations of federal statutes by some corporations and individuals are being pursued but the number of cases is small and the law can bolster prosperity. He rejects claims prosecutions will unsettle industry and explains about Standard Oil fine and possible receivership.
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Washington
Bonaparte
Wall Street
Standard Oil Company
Standard Oil Company of
Indiana
Standard C! Company
Panet
Standard Oile Company
John D. Rockefeller
Taft
Rockefeller
Roosevelt
Moody
Department of Justice
Two pharmacists to open new drug store venture
Henry A. Diebold and Charles A. Niebergall, longtime Wagner drug store staffers, will launch a new pharmacy in the former S. B. Tning shoe-store space, aiming to open after September 1. Both bring nineteen and ten years of experience respectively and are praised as reliable, patient druggists with wide community support.
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Henry A. Diebold
Wagner Drug
Charles A. Niebergall
S. B. Tning
Mr. Diebold
Wagner
Dreier Brothers
Change Doesn’t Change Pastorate Charge
Rev D A Kuhne formerly of this city as Lutheran pastor has moved with his family to Corunna DeKalb county Ind His change in residence does not change the pastorate charge he has held for the past two years.
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Monroeville Breeze
D. A. Kuhne
Lutheran Church
Fort Wayne
Corunna
DeKalb County
Ind
Armienia Hunchakists Found With Deadly Weapons Cache
New York Aug 14 detectives uncovered a vast arsenal beneath a coal bin at 317 East Forty-ninth Street, a Hunchakist workshop with poisoned daggers, hydrocyanic acid bottles, iron bombs and revolvers linked to recent killings. Jurors and DA Jerome questioned suspects Jelalian and Booznijian, both bound over on $5,000 bonds as grand jury sessions continued.
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New York
Sing Sing
New York City
Kissak Jelalian
East Forty-ninth Street
Bluebeard
Tarshanjian
Union Square
Jelalian
Jerome
Nott, Manly
Perkins
Woods
Jelallan
Grand Jury
Foster
Alie Booznijian
Booznijian
Criminal Court
Bedros Hampartsoonian
Tavshanjian
Preachers Assigned in Indiana Wesleyan Conference
Fairmount Ind Aug 17 Appointments for the Indiana conference of the Wesleyan Methodist church for the ensuing year list many towns with assigned ministers or unsupplied posts. Names include Albion C S Smith Amboy H B Brown Anderson T J Pierce Atlanta mission Letta Caldwell Bryant H and Josephine Abright Boxley S M Roberts Blue River E H Kennedy Elwood Belle McClure and others. Also notes ministerial delegates to the National General conference to be held in Fairmount in October with listed delegates.
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Fairmount
Ind
Indiana
Wesleyan Methodist Church
Albion
C. S. Smith
Amboy
H. B. Brown
Anderson
T. J. Pierce
Atlanta
Letta Caldwell
Bryant
Josephine Abright
Boxley
S. M. Roberts
Blue River
E. H. Kennedy
Elwood
Belle McClure
Fowler
Newton Gilliland
Fountain City
W. L. Thompson
Greensboro
S. W. Crowell
Hamlet
B. L. Couch
Hartford City
A. W
Lydia Murphy
Huntington
C. G. Payne
Kokomo
A. L. Blake
Kirkland
L. W. McClure
Lafayette Mission
Laketon
Mygrant
Santa Fe
M. van Blaricum
Sheridan
Esther L. Pickey
Bstelert Mission
Strawtown
A. L. Sooshee
Thorntown
G. Reber
Union
Wabash
J. W. Brown
Westfield
C. A. Bilheimer
More folk in prison but crime shows decrease
Indianapolis reports state institutions Michigan City prison and Jeffersonville reformatory reach 2211 inmates, a peak. Yet first six months of 1907 show 307 paroled and 595 total new commitments in the past year, while overall commitments decline 6 percent over five years due to indeterminate sentence and parole laws.
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Indianapolis
Board of State Charities
Michigan City
Reformatory
Jeffersonville
Parole boards tighten as prison populations rise
The report shows the state prison paroled 217 men in 1902 but 123 in 1907, and the reformatory 249 in 1902 and 184 in 1907. Attendance at the reformatory rose 26.5 percent, while the state prison attendance gained 14.7 percent. Despite more prisoners now, total commitments are down compared with five years ago.
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Reformatory
Georgia Bill 10 disfranchises Negroes passes House
Atlanta reports the Georgia lower house approved Bill 10 by 159 to 16 and sent it to Governor Hoke Smith. The measure adds multiple voter qualifications including Civil War service, descent from Confederate soldiers, literacy with reading and writing, or ownership of land or property. Officials claim it will disfranchise about 95 percent of Black voters. A Decatur fire damaged the Richards saloon for about $200 Thursday night.
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Atlanta
Georgia General Assembly
Senate
Hoke Smith
United States
Georgia
Richards
Decatur
Girl kills father who killed wife in Harlem shooting
In New York Harlem a German man, George Wasser, 57, shot his wife then was shot by his daughter Adeline Langlotz who said he abused the family. Mrs Wasser died. Wasser died soon after. Adeline and her sister Annie were arrested. magistrate vows aid and no prison.
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New York
George Wasser
Harlem
Wasser
Adeline Langlotz
Annie
Robert Pinkerton Dies Aboard Bremen Head of Detective Agency
Robert Pinkerton, age unknown, chief of the Pinkerton Detective Agency founded by his father, died on the steamship Bremen sailing from New York. He had been associated with the Chicago office and led the agency bearing his family name. The death occurred August 12 while en route.
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New York
Robert Pinkerton
Chicago
Bremen
Roosevelt to Speak in Provincetown Next Tuesday
Provincetown Mass Aug 17 all arrangements completed for laying the Pilgrims monument corner with President Roosevelt as principal speaker He will travel from Oyster Bay on the Mayflower to attend the ceremony in Provincetown Mass next Tuesday.
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Provincetown
Mass
Roosevelt
Oyster Bay
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