Foreign Banks Affected By Withdrawals In New York
New York January 27. The financial week featured a rush of funds back into reserve deposits and lower discount rates in London Paris and Berlin. Demand for gold exports rose as the U S money market eased aided by reduced call loan rates and retirements of clearing house loan certificates. Despite a $10,000,000 withdrawal of government deposits banks favored more bond purchases and dipped notes from circulation, with Treasury redemptions rising and banks increasing lawful money deposits.
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New York
Bank of England
Bank of France
Imperial Bank of Germany
Supen
Newark
New York Clearing House
United States Treasury
Fire at Killeen Destroys Stores in Brick Complex
Sunday at 1 a m fire destroyed Spivey & Fry drug store and the nearby racket store causing stock losses of 5000 and 3700 with partial insurance. Shoe repair rear shop and saddlery suffered water damage and stock removal losses. Two brick buildings owned by R M Cole total loss about 4000 with no insurance. Spencer Young's brick building damaged at least 200. Origin unknown.
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Killeen
Spivey & Fry
J. ‘We Best
M. F. Ri‘Jey
W. A. ‘Gilmore
M. Cole & Son
R. M. Cole
Spencer Young
Harriman System Under Fire in Railroad Regulation Fight
Washington prepares for a major regulatory clash as suits aim to dissolve an alleged illegal railroad combination. The action targets Union and Southern Pacific with the San Pedro Los Angeles and Salt Lake Road in a bid to unravel the alleged monopoly.
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Harriman
Washington
Union
Southern Pacific
San Pedro
Los Angeles
Salt Lake Road
Ouida Dies in Poverty in Marrarosa Cottage
The writer Luisa de la Romee known as Ouida died Saturday at seventy eight in a milkman's cottage in Marrarosa Italy. After a long career she spent much of her fortune and lived in poverty.
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Ouida
Rome
Luisa de la Romee
Tuccon
Marrarosa
Daring Mail Robbery Hits New Orleans Route
A fast mail wagon arriving from Cincinnati and other Northern points was robbed Sunday night in New Orleans. The thieves reportedly secured about 5000 dollars, though officials gave no exact figure. The driver and a clerk were unharmed and detained on suspicion.
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New Orleans
Cincinnati
Passenger earnings rise for Texas railroads in five months
The Railroad Commission released figures showing Texas railroad passenger earnings for the first five months of the current fiscal year ending November 30, 1907, at 11 610 594 dollars versus 10 328 034 dollars the previous year, a net increase of 1 282 560 dollars.
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Austin
Railroad Commission
Texas Railroads
Texas Lines
Big Day at Port Arthur Opens Sabine Neches Channel
Port Arthur Texas January 28 celebration marked the opening of the Sabine Neches ship channel linking Sabine and Neches rivers to the Gulf of Mexico. Mayors of Beaumont Port Arthur and Orange declared a holiday as crowds gathered. The cutter Windom from Galveston joined the salute, with extensive government dredging spending noted and flags and bunting displayed.
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Port Arthur
Texas
Sabine-Neches
Sabine Lake
Sabine
Neches
Gulf of Mexico
Beaumont
Orange
United State Revenue Cutter
Windom
Galveston
Elem
United States
Fatal Chicago Fire Hits Mayer Building and Hotel Florence
A severe blaze in Chicago damaged the Mayer building a seven story brick structure and the Hotel Florence at 163 167 Adams Street early Monday. One fireman reportedly died and more than twenty others were injured as flames spread from the Mayer basement aided by high winds destroying property valued at about half a million dollars.
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Chicago
Mayer Builing
Florence
Adams Street
Mayer
Ito
War era mills resume work as shops reopen
Pottsville Pennsylvania reports two more open hearth furnaces back in operation on Monday. The Eastern Steel Company rolls at 19 and 28 inch departments restart full force. The twelve inch mill resumes on Tuesday. Reading Coal and Iron Company coal and iron operatives restart, with 38 collieries and 30,000 workers back at work and 1,000 in repair shops returning on reduced hours.
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Pottsville
Eastern Steel Company
Reading Coal and Iron Company
State health officer proposes rat extermination rules
Austin officer Brumby plans a code to exterminate rats on Texas seaport wharves and warehouses to prevent bubonic plague spread. Scientists link plague transmission to fleas on rats.
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Austin
Brumby
Texas
California Orange Harvest Declares Record Crop
California’s orange harvest is in full season with fruit exchanges projecting about thirty thousand car loads, roughly nine million boxes or one billion three hundred fifty million oranges. The harvest is expected to continue until the Fourth of July.
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San Francisco
Cal
California
Miss Vanderbilt Wedding to Count Szchenyi in New York
Miss Gladys Vanderbilt daughter of Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt wed Count Laszlo Szchenyi at her mother's 11th Avenue residence soon after noon Monday in front of about 350 guests. The Hungarian nobleman is a lieutenant of hussars and hereditary member of the Austro Hungarian Parliament.
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New York
Gladys Vanderbilt
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Laszlo Szchenyi
Hussars
11Th Avenue
Plot to overthrow Haiti government uncovered by Secret Service
Investigations in New York tied Jose M Giordani to a wide conspiracy plan spanning Haiti Santo Domingo and Cuba. Agents found 2000 Remington rifles in Brooklyn warehouse stored for shipment on the Graecia with a fake consignee and a total of 800000 counterfeit Haitian dollars hidden inside the ammunition boxes and barrels.
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Washington
Jan
Nordin
Haiti
Secret Service
New York
Jose M. Giordani
Santo Domingo
Cuba
Giordani
Brooklyn
Hamburg-American Steamship Company
Graecia
Cape Haitian
West Indian
C. Miriam & Company
Consignee
Canaives
Fire devastates Baltimore firm building and city block
A midnight blaze in Baltimore at Holliday and Saratoga Streets engulfed the J. Regester & Sons building as high winds fed the flames. The north wall collapsed killing three firefighters and injuring at least ten including Chief George Horton, whose skull fracture and internal injuries prompted fears of death. A rear four story structure housing E. L. Read & Son burned fiercely. damage is described as the heaviest since 1904.
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Baltimore
J. Regester & Sons
Holliday
Saratoga Streets
George Horton
E. L. Read & Son Company
Horton
Bomb exposes money in Italian bank window on Elizabeth Street
An exploding bomb wrecked the front of an Italian bank on Elizabeth Street exposing about 40000 in gold and silver piled in the windows as depositors evidence of pay capability. Junior partner Salvitor Pati was cut by glass but stayed on guard and the money was hurried back to the vault.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Elizabeth Street
Pasquale A. Pati & Son
Salvitor Pati
New York Digs Out After Major Snow Storm
New York endures a heavy snow storm leaving streets blocked and deaths tolls, with 35,000 unemployed workers finding jobs in the clean up while some tramps face renewed hardship. Newport Rhode Island also hit by a blizzard with 2.5 to 3 feet of snow and temperatures plunging to 18 degrees below zero.
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New York
Coney Island
Newport
R.I
Tuberculosis in Cows Tests Show High Infection Plague
In Fort Worth Texas January 25 a state health drive against impure foods led to testing milk cows at the North Fort Worth stock yards. Twenty five cows slaughtered and examined, twenty four condemned for tuberculosis and two of four yearlings also condemned, highlighting widespread infection among dairy cattle.
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Blizzard
Etroiin
Fort Worth
Tex
North Forth Worth
Forth Worth
Bureau of Animal Industry
A Big Strike Averted in Manchester Cotton Mills
After lengthy negotiations between cotton mill workers and their employers, a potential lockout was averted as the workers capitulated to the terms offered. The agreement followed days of intensified bargaining in Manchester, England.
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Manchester
Eng
Vets to Parade Separately at Birmingham Reunion
Adjutant General Mickle informs the arrangements committee for the United Confederate Veterans annual reunion in Birmingham that two parades will be held on June 9 10 and 11. One parade will include only actual veterans while the other will include sponsors maids National Guards and all others to ease strain on veterans.
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Birmingham
Ala
Mickle
The
United Confederate Veterans
Numerous Local and National Updates Across US News
Tioga appoints W Frank Dunn as night customs inspector. Three Davidsons seek state office. Satin County Missouri votes dry, with sixty-five counties following. Fires devastate Henry Morgan's Melissa store and Portland Maine city hall. Carnegie pledges 200000 to Berea College if matched. Bodies and disasters appear in Chicago and Washington.
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Satin County
Missouri
Texas News Items Highlight Local Disasters and Political Shifts
Texas reports a string of incidents and events from January including a theater negotiation in Houston and a Fort Worth leather workers strike. Injuries from a store explosion in Roxton and the death of G. T. Terrell. Dallas figures mourn Colonel M. W. Mann and J. W. Smith as notable deaths. A murder verdict in Dallas, flu and pneumonia outbreaks near Rusk, and a new college presidency in Stillwater. Talks of road improvement between Fort Worth and Dallas, a blue-back spelling bee in Sherman, and a name change for a Dallas construction firm. State finances, wheat acreage down but yields up, mail theft near Texarkana, a fatal fire in Waco, postmaster changes in San Antonio, and Llano Burnet geology expedition announced.
State buys plantations for convict farming plan
The State acquires Cunningham plantation of 13 000 acres Sartatia 5300 acres and Riddick 1000 acres with mules irrigation tram road and cars to support convict farming. Lease system criticized. Total investment $650 000.
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Austin
Cunningham
Sartatia
Riddick
Oklahoma railroad project linked to Missouri and Texas route
Guthrie Oklahoma reports a corporation formed at Muskogee to build the St. Louis and Oklahoma Southern Railway from Monett Missouri to Honey Grove Texas and on to the Gulf. About twenty miles of roadbed are graded near Gravette Missouri, with plans to traverse Delaware Cherokee Muskogee Haskell Latimer Pushmataha and Bryan counties in Oklahoma.
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Guthrie
Oklahoma
Missouri
Muskogee
St. Louis and
Oklahoma Southern
Monett
Honey Grove
Texas
The
Gulf
Gravette
Delaware
Cherokee
Haskell, Latimer
Pushma
Bryan
Shriners Lose Baggage After Train Car Fire
Shriners returning from the City of Mexico lost baggage lodge paraphenalia jewelry and Mexican curios when a baggage car used as a commissary burned after a gasoline stove exploded to prepare coffee. The blast occurred near Hewitt as the train stopped and the car was uncoupled.
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Waco
Kansas City
St. Louis
City of Mexico
Hewitt
Die Same Night In Plano Aged Gee Couple Passes
M L Gee aged seventy two and his wife Mrs Alice Gee eighty died Wednesday night in Plano. Mr Gee died four hours after his wife from stomach trouble while Mrs Gee succumbed to pneumonia. Gee was a veteran Texan who lived in Galveston for years. A son from his first marriage, a theatrical manager in Boston, survives.
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Plano
M. L. Gee
Alice Gee
Squaw Man Incinerated at Oklahoma Ranch House
Felixen Wooten an Osage Nation squaw man was burned to death in his ranch house near Gray Horse Oklahoma. He and his wife attended an Indian dance and returned home about midnight. Mrs Wooten awoke suffocating near dawn and heard him calling before the roof collapsed and the flames consumed the dwelling.
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Fairfax
Felixen Wooten
Gray Horse
Wooten
Port Arthur Channel Opens as Rivers Meet
Sabine Lake ship channel nearly finished at 1 30 p m Friday marking the confluence of Sabine and Neches rivers and the Gulf. Dredges still must complete extensive work before final completion. Tug Katherine with two lumber barges arrived Friday night from Orange via the new channel.
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Port Arthur
Sabine Lake
Sabine
Neches
Gulf
Katherine
Orange
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Southern Co-Operative Land and Live Stock Company
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M. W. Mann
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J. H. Connell
Oklahoma A. and M. College
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Sam Johnson
J. H. Truett
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