Treasury Reflects 1907 Panic and 1908 Deficit Outlook
The 1908 annual report of Secretary George B. Cortelyou shows a rebound from the Panic of 1907 yet projects large deficits. Receipts exceeded disbursements in 1907, while 1908 saw a $58,070,201 excess of disbursements over receipts. Projected deficits for 1910 approach $143,046,796 with a present-year estimate of $114,060,000.
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George B. Cortelyou
the Treasury
Treasury
New York City
National Bank
National Bank Act
Abraham Ruef Convicted of Bribery in San Francisco
A lengthy dispatch reports Abraham Ruef, former San Francisco political boss, convicted of bribery after a 24 hour jury deliberation. The verdict led to a quiet courtroom silence as Foreman McNamara announced, guilty as charged.
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Abraham Ruef
San Francisco
Cal
Lawler
McNamara
Welch
Abraham Rees
Town Fire Destroys Rosewell Business District
A large blaze swept Rosewell Ohio near Canal Dover destroying the business section. Estimated losses run to twenty thousand dollars.
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Rosewell
Canal Dover
Ohio
Man Shoots Teen After Snowball Bullying
Adolph Schultze of Schenectady New York aged 40 shot and mortally wounded Mark Kiligalen aged 17 after years of snowball harassment. The boy died two hours later and Schultze was arrested. In a separate case Ira Mansfield of Orwell Indiana was summoned after his son killed Kitchens, the husband’s father, in Rochester Kentucky with near immediate death.
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Adolph Schultze
Schenectady
N. Y
Mark Kiligalen
Schultze
Ira Mansfield
Orwell, Ind
Rochester
C. Kitchens
Lad
Mark Killgalen
N.Y
Treasury Presents 1910 Budget Estimates to Congress
Secretary of the Treasury submits to Congress the 1910 estimates for all departments, showing increases over 1909 figures. The report details appropriations for 1910 by department and notes a total of 824 million versus 842 million in 1909, with a rise of about 57.9 million. Separately a fire at the Ohio State Capitol damaged records in insurance rooms, due to defective wiring.
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Secretary of Treasury
Congress
Secretary of the Treasury
State Department
Treasury Department
War Department
Navy Department
Interior Department
Postoffice Department
Department of Agticulture
Department of Commerce and Labor
Department of Justice
Ohio
State Insurance Departments
Capitol
Columbus
Robbery at Dafiance: Rob Merchant Bound in Home Invasion
Robbers entered the residence of John Budd a retired merchant at Dafiance Ohio bound and gagged him broke into his private safe with a crowbar and escaped with $100.
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John Budd
Dafiance
Ohio
Wealthy Linseed Company manager dead by self infliction
Charles W. Blow a wealthy manager of the American Linseed Company shot himself at his St Louis home. Confirmation of the death came from the residence but residents would not discuss the motive behind his act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles W. Blow
American ‘Linseed Company
St. Louis
Blow
Grand Trunk Docks Burned in Portland Fire
A massive blaze destroyed two of eight Grand Trunk railroad docks in Portland Maine, along with three sheds and their contents. Loss estimated above 150000 dollars.
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Grand Treak
Bursa
Portland
Grand Trunk Railroad
Congress Opens Sixtieth Session Amid Spectators and Rules
Washington reports crowds filling galleries as the Sixtieth Congress convenes. Vice President Fairbanks and Rep Sherman receive ovations while the House considers a Hull bill to curb imitation goods with strict labeling and penalties.
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Washington
Congress
Capitol
House of Representatives
Senate Chamber
Apeen
Senate
House
Fairbanks
Edward Everett Hale
Dillingham
Vermont
Carroll S. Page
James S. Sherman
Hull
Iowa
Texas to figure big in winter racing game
Record notes match between Al Kaufman and Jim Barry for forty five rounds at the Jeffries Club in Los Angeles. Also mentions Vermillion South Dakota football score, polo death in Ireland, Latonia handicap winner, Shattuck over Pillsbury, and upcoming aero race Paris to Bordeaux.
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Texas
al Kaufman
Jim Barry
Jeffries Club
Los Angeles
Vermillion
South Dakota
Unversity
North Dakota
John Watson
Navan
Northwest
Shattuck
Pillsbury
Dorando
Halian Rigger
America
John J. Wayes
Paris
Bordeaux
American Association of Trotting Horse Breeders
New York
Water Congress Opens With High Officials In Attendance
Senators governors and finance leaders gather in Washington for a waterway development congress described as among the most notable in U.S. history. President Rinsdell urged a $50,000,000 appropriation and praised Roosevelt for prioritizing waterways. Vice President Fairbanks urged timely action and fair funding via bonds while Ambassador Bryce noted British contrasts in water transport.
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Iera
Harbors
Con
Rinsdell
Congress
Ransdell
Roosevelt
Washington
Fairbanks
American
Tle
Sfryce
Great Britain
Britain
Canada Sees Fewer Immigrants Under New Rules
Consul Chilton reports Canada will avoid labor market congestion if immigration department limits on dependent settlers persist. Nine months of this year show 127 G h o against 235 820 in the same 1907 period, indicating a sharp drop in arrivals.
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Canada
Imigration Department
Chilton
Diamond Field in Canada Reported Near New Ontario
In the wilds of New Ontario near the Dane lead to the northland, a cluster of stones lies resembling diamond ore. The finds have drawn comparisons to Kimberly types with one stone valued at a notable figure.
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New Ontario
Dane
Kimberly
LOOT TRAIN HELD UP EAST OF HILLYARD
Three men robbed a Great Northern eastbound train No. 42 near Hillyard. They looted the mail car and escaped after firing revolvers and forcing a stop. Fireman Perrin prevented theft of the express car by acting quickly, but the total haul remained unknown. Local pursuit followed the bandits toward Mead.
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Great Northern
Hillyard
Wesh
Mind
W. Perrin
Spokane
Montana
Perin
Perrin
Mead
Roosevelt denies canal graft in Panama purchase
President Theodore Roosevelt issues a formal denial of any graft in the Panama canal deal. He refutes claims of $10,000,000 payments to Americans and involvement by Charles P. Taft or Douglas Robins, calling the charges willful misrepresentation. Roosevelt says all records are open to the public and rebukes related attacks in the Indianapolis News and New York Sun.
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Panama Canal
United States
Charles P. Taft
Douglas Robins
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt
William Dudley Foulke
Indianapolis News
Delavan Smith
Canal Purchase
Mr. Roosevelt
New York Sun
Harriman interests order 1000 box cars for Oregon R N
Harriman interests place orders for 1000 fifty ton box cars valued at 1250 each for the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company. Snowball incident leads to killing in Schenectady as Adolph Schultze 40 shoots 17 year old Mark Killgalen after peer abuse. Governor Haskell proclaims Oklahoma dispensary system abolished after election, removing legal medical liquor in state.
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Harriman
Oregon Railway and Navigation Company
Haskell
Oklahoma
Akron Woman Dies After Postal Card News
Mrs Ellen Hushour aged 48 of Akron Ohio died of heart failure shortly after receiving a postal card from Indiana announcing her father’s death. The note conveyed the family loss and triggered a fatal shock.
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Ellen Hushour
Akron
Ohio
Indiana
Aged Couple Burned In Willimantic Cottage Fire
John Sullivan aged 73 and his wife 71 were found burned to death after a cottage blaze in Willimantic Connecticut. Firemen ended a fire that completely destroyed the dwelling.
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John Sullivan
Willimantic
Conn
Sullivan
Roosevelt's Last Message Urges Federal Controls and Reform
President Roosevelt calls for comprehensive federal supervision of railroads and trusts, stronger publicity, and reform in courts and labor laws. He urges wage protection, pensions, employer liability, and limits on monopolies while condemning delays and lobbying in Congress. He also critiques judiciary, injunctions, and secret service overreach.
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Congress
Roosevelt
Secret Service
Hunting Notes From Across the Nation
Reports include John Dawes of Pittsfield Wisconsin fatally shot by his brother during a deer hunt. Wards Kirkoff and Culbertson discover three deer hung on a tree before season. two men mistaken for game, Leonard Johnson of Beacon Hill Mich., shot likely fatally. Edward Tonkin arraigned after coroner’s jury exonerated him in Roger Olds death. A $15,000 pearl necklace stolen from Frank G. Jones’s Memphis home recovered in New York. Garrett Lamb pays $2000 reward. William Bentley’s body found in an abandoned desert mine. 87, fortune rumored, 5 cents on the body. Treasure hunt urged as miners dig the mine.
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John Dawes
Pittsfield
Wis
George
Kirkoff
Eau Claire
Culbertson
Baryon
Leonard Johnson
Beacon Hill
Houghton
Mich
St. Louis County
Minn
Edward Tonkin
Roger Olds
Tonkin
Frank G. Jones
Memphis
Tenn
New York
Garrett E. Lamb
Clinton
Iowa
Jones
William Bentley
Barslow
President outlines broad program of federal reform
The president's message calls for stronger national control of interstate commerce with railroads under the Interstate Commerce Commission, extending to securities, and enabling traffic agreements. It favors telegraph and telephone oversight, updated employers liability law, protections for small stockholders, and a DC model liability law. It also seeks forest preservation, inland waterway improvements, repeal of denatured alcohol tax, postal savings, parcel post expansion, next decennial census, ocean mail extension, New Mexico and Arizona statehood, fisheries development, modern army retirement boards, and an eight battleship navy build.
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Panama
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
Parcel Post
New Mexico
Arizona
Army
Navy
Telegraphic Brevities From Early 20th Century Notices
Fire destroyed the Slyde Paper Company in Pueblo California with losses around 60000. A Fayetteville New York chair factory loss stood near 110000. German admiralty planned 2740000 for submarines. Ill health cited for Miss Margaret Illington retirement. Portland Missouri suffered nearly 500000 in dock and ship damage. Panama canal medals ordered for two year employees. Portrait of Roosevelt and Culebra Cut view featured. Congressional Ways and Means eyes possible witnesses for tariff inquiry. Mrs William Astor will estates and personal property values. Edith Augusta Forbes secret marriage to John Howard Sturgeon comes to light.
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Slyde Paper Company
Pueblo
Calo
Knaus Brothers & Browine
Fayetteville
N.Y
Margaret Illington
New York
Daniel Frohman
Portland
Grand Truck Railway
Dominion Line
Panama Canal
Washington
Roosevelt
Ways and Means Committee of Congress
Tarif
William Astor
Wilson
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Peter Snyder
Grass Creek
Logansport
Ind
Snyder
Pine Bluff
Ark
Cady
Harding Bayou
Cotton Belt Railway
John L. Sullivan
Centreville
R. I
Chicago
Henry Bruns
Henry Bullock
Lafayette
Bruns
G. E. Barnes
James Crane
Woodville
Toledo
Reuben F. Jones
Paxico
Stoddart County
Brandon
National Baseball Commission
Ford
Philadelphia Americans
Edmonton
Philadelphia
Water Congress
Finance
Plans National
Bryce
Diamond Field
Workman
Sage
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Taft
China
Saynx
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