Gas fight over price control case in St Louis
Missouri Attorney General files injunction against Laclede Gas Light Company now owned by North American Company seeking to block alleged price fixing of gas ranges sold in St Louis. AG says order aims to curb monopoly and prevent higher consumer costs by forcing manufacturers to raise prices or lose connections.
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Crow
Judie Taylor
St Lows
Laclede Gas Light Company
St Louis
Laclede Gas Company
North American Company
Philadelphia
Petiten Fer
Laclede Gats Light Company
Row
Bu Louis
Cruiser Is Damaged After Fast Maine Coast Voyage
A damaged cruiser from the Caribbean Sea squadron arrives at Norfolk Virginia after a dangerous voyage from the Maine coast. The ship’s bottom is badly damaged and will be placed in dry dock for new plates following the attack on Portland.
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Maine
Fami E Causer Olwuipaa
Admural Coghtan
Anribbean Sea Squadron
Norfolk
Portland
Chicago Woman Acquitted in Chihuahua Case Arrives Home
Mattie Tr Rich of Chicago, recently acquitted of the murder of her husband in Chihuahua Mexico, has arrived home after a four year stay following a fourteen year Juarez court sentence. The Supreme Court had intervened and she was released from prison some time ago.
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Mra Mattie Tr Rich
Chicago
Chihuahua
Mexico
Supreme Court
Juarez Courte
Trade Review Notes Teaction Readjustment In Business
Trade review notes a Teaction and readjustment in business following unhealthy speculative excesses. Caution advised to seek steady legitimate gains and avoid risky ventures in the market.
Address by the Sultan on Welfare of All Peoples
The Sultan of Turkey delivered an address to heads of religious communities urging welfare for all people without distinction of race or religion, emphasizing unity and mutual respect among diverse communities. He urged leaders to uphold harmony and cooperate for the public good.
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Turkey
Trains Crash Injuring Three in Missouri Kansas Texas Route
A stock train from Missouri Kansas Texas collided head on with a freight train at MCBam Mang injuring three crew members. Both trains were wrecked in the collision.
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Kansas
Texas
Amo
Collmium
Mcbam Mang
Railroad Wreck and Explosions Kill and Injure Many
Six killed and twenty five injured in wrecks and explosions including a Sauchern Railway crash near Yorkville. An Anglican steamer Vaskapusem suffered three blasts after leaving a Bulgarian port heading to Constantinople with twenty nine dead. Roosevelt to appoint trained men only for consular posts, promoting experienced officials.
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Owreck
Saucherm
Yorkville
Vaskapusem
Hurgar
Constantinople
Roosevelt
Coun
Outlook of trade and industry improves amid cautious optimism
Dun and Co Weekly Review notes improved industrial sentiment in New York and across sectors. Demand rises for steel rails and pig iron contracts, while transport and leather markets show steady activity, with increased railway car equipment and foreign trade signals.
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New York
IL É Dun & Co
Texas
New England Shoe Manufseturera
Wartners
Suige
Linus
Iuw Prov
Organize Rival to Trust Form Independent Packing Company
Stockmen from the Western grass country met in Kansas City to form the Independent Packing Company to challenge the packers' trust. It will start with 2 million shares of a 5 million capitalization, with 51 percent held in escrow to keep control by stock interests.
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Grass Country
Midland
Kansas City
Packers’ Trust
Independent Packing Company
Arizona
Discoveries by S S J Marsh in Arctic Expanse Nome Return
S J Marsh completed a two year Arctic expedition from Colville river to the border. He reached Nome emaciated after 128 days with no human contact except his own. Marsh mapped five unknown rivers and gathered data on mineral potential south toward the Korukuk region.
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Ss. J. Marsh
Arctic
S.J. Marsh
Nome
Arctic Ocean
Colville River
International Boundary
Marsh
Fort Yukon
Gen Funston
Jeff Thasis
Arcte Ocean
Korukuk
Chicago School of Crooks Revealed by Boy Shoplifter
I fred Spies, a boy shoplifter arraigned in St Louis on seven petit larceny charges, confessed to Detective Desmond that he was educated in a Chicago school of crooks and sent to St Louis to stage thefts. He named gang members and said stolen goods were fenced in Chicago, with money portion sent to the trainers. Desmond aims to aid Chicago police in rounding up the gang.
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Ifred
St Louis
Desmond
Lo Louis
Stag
Tam
Jesmond
Chicago
Policemen Shoot Wildly in Wife Slayer Case
Reports describe a chaotic confrontation in St Louis where officers Connors and White exchanged shots with a man aiming at his wife’s alleged killer. Several wounded including Connors, with one comrade critically injured, and the suspect Schlicher dead. Also mentions a separate court case in which Blakely is fined for assault.
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St Louis
Los
Nera
William Schlieher
Schlicher
Connors
White
Che Dujeression
Wirt Wes
Lis
Tois
Attack on the President at Oyster Bay
An assailant fired a pistol at President Roosevelt with a Secret Service guard knocked unconscious. Two other prowlers were observed on the grounds but their involvement is denied.
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Secret Service
Roosevelt
Oyster Bay
Hay Notes Cause Colombian Senate Rift On Panama Treaty
The Colombian Senate rejected the Panama canal treaty due to the insulting notes from Secretary of State Hay and United States Minister Beaupre. The note incident triggered diplomatic friction and controversy in 1900 era reporting.
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Hay
Senate
United States
Beaupre
Crimes in Anthracite Regions Believed Linked to Molly Maguire Type Group
Dispatches from Tamaqua report continued criminality in northern Pennsylvania coal fields. Police and detectives say the Molly Maguire spirit remains strong in some areas, with murders unresolved in Schuylkill County and other counties. Suspects have been arrested in Columbia County.
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Pennsylvania
Tamaqua
Coal and Iron
Molly Maguire Brotherhood
Schuylkill County
Luzerne
Columbin
Lackawanna
Columbia County
Chicago Pastor Marries Stranger at Hindu Wedding
Rev Thomas Hases of Chicago marries his wife to William Hall by mistake at a church benefit Hindu wedding in Susquehanna. The accidental ceremony binds under law, the groom’s fiancée’s friend teased her, and the fiancée refuses to proceed until the marriage is severed by the courts. Hayes blocks his wife’s name in divorce filings.
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Chicago
Thomas Hases
Starlight
Susquehanna
William Hall
Mr Hayes
Lying Turk Report on Dismissals at Uskub
Bulgarian agent at Uskub says despite the VPorte promise after the Russian demonstration in India Bay, twenty four offerals accused of malpractices were to be dismissed. Russian and Austrian consuls report only nine have been dismissed with others given higher posts.
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Uskub
Vporte
Iniada Bay
Knapp Fate at Hamilton as Judge Denies New Trial
Alfred A Knapp, convicted of multiple murders, faces execution after Hamilton Ohio judge Belden refused a new trial. Knapp showed indifference, will be sent to Columbus for electrocution as addressed in the Dec 12 filing. Millionaires Released. Indictment over manslaughter against New Jersey trolley officials dismissed by Chief Justice Gimmere citing road employe carelessness.
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Knapp
Hamilton
Ohio
Belden
Alfred A Knapp
ATI
Columbus
New Jersey
Gimmere
Chicago
Gesoline Motors
Bridegroom Shot at Wedding by Brother of Bride
At a Kenosha Wisconsin residence Earl Marshall fired twice during the marriage ceremony of Miss Nellie Marshall and J. W. Roberts. One bullet grazed the groom’s head and lodged behind him. no injuries reported as Earl fled declaring he would stop the marriage.
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Earl Marshall
J. W.roberts
Nellie Marshall
J. W. Roberts
Dudley
Iowan
R. H. Marshall
Kenosha, Wie
Marshall
Revolt on Isthmus Gains Steam After Canal Treaty Rejection
The isthmus of Panama shows rising revolutionary sentiment following the Colombian congress rejection of the canal treaty in Bogota. Gen Huvertas, Fort Chuiriqui commander, appears pivotal to quelling unrest, while the naval force is described as largely pro American.
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Panama
Colombian Congress
Bogota
Pe Gen Huvertas
Fort
Chuiriqui
Reading Company Cuts Anthracite Coal Output
The Reading Company and affiliates curtail anthracite production after 40 million tons since January, 10 million above normal. Orders close Reading washeries and reduce output to clear 2 million tons of small steam coal stock with no current market.
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Reading Company
Philadelphia and Reading Company
Pos
Grraller
Train Robbers Frustrated Near Malta Mont Great Northern
Detectives halted an attempted westbound Great Northern hold up near Malta Montana by Murvey Logan shastid Curry and their gang. Three suspects jumped from the train, two tried to board the tender but fled under gunfire as officers ordered them off into darkness. Henry Pown Townsend Falson of New York killed Mrs Fanne Poben then himself in a separate incident at Edson's residence, a crime tied to jealousy of the woman and linked to Franklin Edson. Miss Corrigan, an 18 year old Omaha athlete, subdued a thief who raided her apartment and alerted police. A civil action over a marriage go-between service resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff for $75.
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Great Northern
Murvey Logan
Shastid Curry
Malta
Mont
Indading
Henry Pownsend
Falson
New York
Mra Fanne Poben
Edsons
Suncide
Franklin Edson
Cyrus Falcon Edson
Bigs
Tegal
Max Sperling
Booth Omaha
Bertha Weinstein
St. Louis
A. Arnswisky
St Touis
Miners Get Higher Wages Across Midwest Unions
A new wage scale in Missouri Kansas Indian Territory and Arkansas unions raises pay for 21 600 miners totaling about 10 000 per day year rounds. Other items note a missing Baltimore club man a Carnegie speech libel law repeal politics and industrial actions across railroads coal mines and a race riot in Illinois.
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Missouri
Kansas
Indian Territory
Arkansas
United Mine Workers’ Union
Elastic currency and trade openness urged by Shaw
Secretary Shaw warns prosperity hinges on psychology not disaster and urges elasticity in currency. He argues for banks to issue notes up to 50 percent of bond circulation or tax relief, and proposes expanding markets through freer imports and favorable trade privileges.
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Asseris
Extista
Secretary of the Treasury
National Association of ‘Merchants and Travelers
Auditorium Hotel
Chicago
Shaw
United States
Railroads expand power and freight as Great Western rebuilds
Des Moines to St Joseph line strengthens with twenty steel bridges for heavy locomotives. Chicago Great Western reports August gains of 15300.72 over last year while passenger service peaks. Eight western roads note improved motive power, capacity, and equipment, with potential gasoline powered suburban trains discussed.
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Emer Iy
Chicago
Seaboard
Minneapolis
Ugher
Mississippi Valley
Gulf Porta
Des Moines
Towa Falla
John T. Melee
New York Central and
Hudson River Railroad Company
J. R. Smart
Railway General
St. Louis
Grain and live stock prices across major markets
The report lists cattle hogs and sheep values in Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Toledo and New York with grain futures including wheat corn oats rye and barley. Prices per unit and quality grades are provided for each market and commodity.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Milwaukee
Mesa
Toledo
Ein Panthee Tole Shipping Steel
New York
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St. Paul
Duddy Angared
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Talpines
Busi
Laren
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Dee Raber
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Loattis
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Taenden Daily Telegraph
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Chicago School OF Crooks
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Fae
Ain St Lane Pole Court
Lulu Adams
Barney South
Miss Adams
Escar
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Smith
Blakely
ROT Davis Mill and Manufacturing Company
St Joseph
Charles F Enright
BR J Swoodson
Don Carlisle
Ohio and Mississippi Railways
Cincinnati Hamilton and Ioinston Railway
Southern Railways
Cuba
Jefferson Medical College of
Santiago
Dobson's Mills
Tire
8. H. Taft & Co
Cigeinnaui
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H. J Hickey
Bupt
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City Water Department
Osth-Hound Organization
Sorata
Annie Deck
Newark
Albee Wood
Tight
The
University of New Mexico
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St Paul's Church
Inwood
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Minnie M Cook
Sidney
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Duke of
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Troy
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Ricardo Matteperez
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American Sugar Refining Company
Constabulary
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Central Conference of German Baptists
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