Tunnel Blast Kills Three at North Bergen Pennsylvan ia Tunnel
New York dispatch reports three men killed and five injured in a powder blast at the Homestead end of the North Bergen tunnel on the Pennsylvania Railroad. Victims named are Robert Alien Joseph Cova and Leo H Mack erley. Injured include John Batley Samuel Johnson John Sutton John Tarrel and Lee Taylor. Explosion occurred as a tamped hole was filled with giant powder, likely from a spark between tamping tool and rock.
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New York
Homestead
Pennsylvania Trailroad
North Bergen
N. J
Robert Alien
Joseph Cova
Leo H. Mackerley
John Batley
Samuel Johnson
John Sutton
John Tarrel
Lee Taylor
Fulton’s Arkansas remark sparks House clash
During debate on the urgent deficiency appropriation bill Mr Fulton of Oklahoma criticized by Arkansas lawmakers. The chair called him the gentleman from Arkansas triggering his denial that he intended to harms Arkansas. Fulton then hugged Mr Robinson in a conciliatory gesture amid applause.
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Washington
Fulton
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Robinson
Mr. Robinson
Pensions Spending Set to Rise Under House Plan
Representative Keifer of Ohio, chair of the pensions subcommittee, announced the committee will recommend a pension roll of 160 million dollars for the year ending June 20, 1900, about 7 million more than the current year. The rise follows the McCumber bill’s expansion of pensions by age and the removal of medical exams for disability claims, and includes a proposal to cut pension agencies nationwide from 18 to nine or a single Washington office for economy.
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House
Washington
Keifer
Ohio
House Committee On Appropriations
McCumber
Secretary of the Interior
Commissioner of Pensions
United States
Prohibition in Constitution Reported in Michigan Plan
Lansing audience reports a constitutional committee proposes a section to ban all malt brewed vinous and intoxicating liquors in Michigan after May 1 1909 with exceptions for medical sacramental and medicinal uses. The proposal was unanimously favorably reported by the committee on liquor affairs at the constitutional convention.
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Michigan
Lansing
Mich
Committee On
Liquor Affairs
Gorham plant to resume full time after lull in demand
About 1 800 Gorham Manufacturing Company silversmith employees welcomed news that the plant will return to full time operation within two weeks after months of short time work amid recent economic downturn. Mary Baker Eddy, founder of Christian Science, moved her residence from Concord New Hampshire to Brookline near Boston to be closer to the mother church.
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Providence
R. 1
Gorham Manufacturing Company
Mary Baker Eddy
The
Christian Science Church
Concord
N. H
Brookline
Boston
Williams Chosen Senator for United States
Congress man John Sharp Williams was elected to the United States senate to succeed Hon H D Money whose term expires March 4 1911. Federal Judge Smith McPherson at Kansas City ruled Missouri law forfeiting railroad charters appealing to the U S Supreme Court unconstitutional.
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Smith McPherson
Kansas City
United States Supreme Court
Bank Wreck Exposes 40000 In Sliver And Gold Robbery Suspected
An explosion wrecked the front of an Italian bank in New York exposing about 40000 in silver and gold kept in a window display by Pasquale A Patt & Son. Salvatore Patt was injured by glass but helped move the money to the vault as crowds gathered. Police doubt a professional robbery. the motive remains a mystery.
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New York
Pasquale A. Patt & Son
Salvatore Patt
Pati
Starlang
Pati the Elder
Many killed in great Baltimore fire
Baltimore suffered a disastrous blaze that began shortly after midnight in the J Register Sons building at Holliday and Saratoga. A northwest wind spread flames, the northern wall collapsed, and four firemen were killed. Fire chief George Horton and Lieut WarMon were among the injured. The Read & Son building also burned as fifteen firefighters were hurt and the death toll rose.
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Baltimore
J. Register Sons
Holliday and
Saratoga Streets
George Horton
E. B. Read & Son Company
Frederick Warmon
James Barrock
August Sechriver
John Steed
Horton
Hepeeavanat
President Criticized For Exceeding Authority In Treaty
Washington report says President Roosevelt sent to both houses the tariff agreement with Germany plus an amendment to customs rules. Critics say the executive acted beyond constitutional power by proclaiming the instrument and treating it as legislation. House adopted a resolution demanding the report of the special commission on Goldfield labor troubles.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Senate
House
United States
Germany
House of Representatives
Congress
Special Commission
Goldfield
Cement for Canal Work Involves New York Colon Transport
Secretary Taft and Panama Canal chief Goethals plus Commissioner Chamberlain and Winship of the Boston Towboat Company agreed to invite proposals from New York to Colon for transporting 4,000,000 barrels of cement for canal construction.
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Washington, D. C
Taft
Catone] Goethals
Panama Canal
Chamberlain
Bureau of Navigation
Mr. Winship
Hoston Towboat Company
War Department
New York
Colon
Elmira Jury Finds Rebating Guilty in Transit Case
In Elmira New York a federal court jury found the Mutual Transit Company of Buffalo guilty in a rebating case. Judge Hazel presided. Judgment was withheld. The company was charged with giving a rebate to the R L E Wood Company of Bemus Pa. Maximum penalty is 20000 dollars.
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Elmira
N. Y
Min
Hazel
Mutual Transit Company of
Buffalo
Mutual Transit Company
R. LE. Wood Company
Bemaus, Pa
Prohibition Vote Set By North Carolina Senate
Raleigh NC Senate unanimously passes bill for state election on prohibition to be ratified by the people on August 6 with effect January 1 1909. The House planned to vote on the bill Monday.
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Raleigh
N. C
Senate
House
Census Census Bureau seeks 14 million for 1919 count
Washington Director North asked Congress for a 14 million dollar appropriation to fund the 1919 United States census. He cited a need for 3,300 additional clerks and 60,000 enumerators, with some clerks to serve from one to three years, to complete the national enumeration.
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Washington
North
Census Bureau
House Committee of Census
United States
Portugal Plotters Arrested After Bombs Seized
Police broke into a raid as royals and officials attended events. Leaders including Jono Chagras and Franca Berger were captured. 40 conspirators detained with bombs and revolvers found. A second revolt date January 31 is suspected if the plan failed.
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Portugal
Franco
Villa Vicosa
Abruzzi
Army
Navy
Jono Chagras
Franca Berger
OQ Munda
Grendella
Trevolvers
Premier Iranco
Chagras
Brazil
Lisbon
Bernadino Machado
Diario Il Tustrado
Oportu
Suspects Arrested in Portage Paymaster Robbery Ties Found
In Messina Sicily three Italians Carmelo Cavalli Rosario Degrazio and Guiseppe Felorma were arrested as alleged accomplices in a 1904 Portage Pennsylvania paymaster robbery in which driver Hay was killed and Campbell wounded. Police shadowed suspects for months before cornering them in a house where six officers forced entry and the men surrendered. No casualities reported.
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Messina
Sicily
Portage
Pennsylvania
Campbell
Hay
Carmelo Cavalli
Rosario Degrazio
Guiseppe Felorma
Two Negroes Killed Attempting Fire at Tobacco Factory
In Clarksville Tennessee an attack to set fire and dynamite the Heyes Story Tobacco Company plant led to the deaths of Tony Allen and Walter Watkins alias Frog Eye during their attempt to escape. Police report dynamite found on bodies. The factory has been under tight guard since unrest in the tobacco district.
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Clarksville
Tenn
Story Tobacco Company
Tony Allen
Walter Watkins
Frog Eye
Bill to organize state militia to match regular army
Senator Dick introduced a bill arranging the state militia to conform with the organization and equipment of the regular army, outlining how the force would be structured and equipped.
Standard Oil Inquiry Resumed In Washington
Washington inquiry into Standard Oil Company operations with railroads resumed before Judge Franklin Ferris, examiner, at the interstate commerce commission. The session aims to develop the tariff filed with the commission on oil carried by rail from Whiting Indiana Olean New York and other refinery sites.
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Standard Oil
Washington
Standard Oil Company
Franklin Ferris
Inter-State Commerce Commission
Whiting
Ind
Olean
Standard
Oll
Wabash Secures Freight Tie From Bruceton to Cumberland
The Wabash Railway wins an important freight agreement with Baltimore and Ohio to carry goods from Bruceton Pa to Cumberland Md and connect with Western Maryland. This shifts eastern traffic from Toledo lines to Wabash ties from Pittsburgh and Toledo, excluding export grain. Tariffs will be filed soon and tonnage is expected to rise through Pittsburgh.
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Baltimore. & Ohio
Wabash
Bruceton
Cumberland
Baltimore .& Ohio
Maryland
Pittsburg
Toledo
Pittsbore
West Virginia Central
Drownings on ice prompt Amesbury lake search
Skaters Lewis Woodman 22 and Blanche Adking 15 drowned at Lake Gardner Amesbury Mass. after skating this afternoon. A hat was found on the ice and Blance Adkins body recovered. Woodman’s body still sought late tonight. Earlier in New Haven John Andrejack 14 and Frank Hayes 12 drowned by thin ice while skating in Bridgeport and Danbury Conn.
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Amesbury
Mass
Lewis Woodman
Blanche Adking
Lake Gardner
Treasury Withdraws Public Deposits From Banks
Secretary of the Treasury said improved financial conditions allow gradual withdrawal of public money from national banks. The first call targets New York banks for about $10,000,000, adding to roughly $10,000,000 already returned since December 26, with similar calls planned in other cities soon.
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Secretary of Treasury
Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
New York
Washington panel approves $13 million for coal bill and canal work
The sub-committee on appropriations voted to recommend immediate appropriation of 1 million dollars to cover coal costs for Admiral Evans fleet voyage to the Pacific coast and 12 million dollars requested by Secretary Taft and Chairman Goethals to fund Isthmian Canal digging through the end of the current fiscal year as laid out by Colonel Goethals.
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Washington
Tkwag
Admiral Evans
Pacific Coast
Taft
Goethals
Isthmian Canal Commission
China Demands Manchuria Expansion Test
Peking signals Japan may allow extending the Hsinmintan line northward with Japanese capital, but China opposes the move and will test Japan pledges on Manchuria restoration. China also protests Harbin’s municipal government installation by Russia, urging address of the matter.
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China
Manchuria
Peking
Japan
Hsinmintan
Harbin
Russia
Ex-Lawmaker Gaoés to Jail in Minnesota
Former Minnesota legislator and noted Minneapolis politician Sherman Smith received a three month jail term for contempt of court. He was arrested after allegedly attempting to influence two jurors in a case concerning alleged mail misuse.
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St. Paul
Minn
Morrig
Sherman
Smith
Minneapolis
Washington News Notes Senate acts on naval info and bills
The senate board adopted two Hale resolutions asking the secretary of the navy for duties of line and staff officers. A $24,000,000 deficiency bill was approved by the house appropriations subcommittee. Taft summons Magoon of Fanana for February 1 to 8 to discuss island government matters. Bailey and Hansbrough prepare rival financial bills including a government money issue via bank deposits and a central bank plan.
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Senate Board
Hale
Naval Committee
Secretary of the Navy
House Committee On Appropriations
Root
Taft
Magoon
Fanana
Island
Aldrich Financial
Senate
Bailey
Hansbrough
Central Bank
Shaw Quits His Job In New York
Former Treasury Secretary Leslie M. Shaw resigns as Carnegie Trust Company president after differences with Charles C. Dickinson. Ballumore and Ohio railroad announces a 10 percent salary cut for all workers earning $166 a month or more.
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Shaw
New York
Secretary of the Treasury
Leslie M. Shaw
Carnegie Trust Company
Charles C. Dickinson
Ballumore and Ohio Railroad
Third stage of Pacific voyage for American battleship fleet
Rio de Janeiro hosts a grand farewell as the American battleship fleet weighs anchors for Punta Arenas. President Penna and Rear Admiral Thomas review the ships, with 16 Brazilian warships escorting for about 25 miles. The voyage toward the Pacific covers 2230 knots via the Magellan narrows, ending around February at Punta Arenas.
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Rio de Janeiro
Punta Arenas
Penna
Petropolis
Minnesota
Thomas
Evans
President Penna
United States
Senor Penna
Fort Villeganon
Fort Villepagon
Brazil
Buenos Ayres
Benjamin Constant
Rio Janeiro
Pacific
Straits of Magellan
Iron Market Quiet Depressed Prices Tendency Defers
The Iron Trade Review notes a quiet market in pig iron after last week’s uptick from cast iron pipe buying. Furnace interests in Mahoning and Shenango valleys discussed wages borices and market conditions but no action occurred. Measures to curb falling prices were postponed until the next manufacturers meeting in New York.
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Cleveland
Iron Trade Review
Mahoning
Shenango
New York
Reach an Understanding Japan Is Anxious To Stay Home
Ottawa report by Postmaster General Lemieux on a Tokyo mission states that negotiations with the Mikado's government have effectively halted emigration from Hawaii to Canada. Japan supposedly seeks to limit direct emigration and sees it as an economic loss, with colonization policy focused on Korea and Manchuria.
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Japan
Ottawa
Ont
Lemieux
Tokyo
M. Lemieux
Hawaii
Canada
Korea
Manchuria
Senate committee backs poll for mine inquiry panel
The senate received a favorable report from the committee on mines and mining on Senator Scott's resolution authorizing a commission of six senators and six representatives. The panel would investigate methods of operation and recent accidents in coal and other mines across West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Alabama, and other states.
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Washington
Senate
Committee On Mines and Mining
Scott
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Alabama
Interior chief seeks $15000 for mine disaster inquiry
Secretary Garfield forwards to the House a request from Geological Survey Director George Otis Smith for appropriations totaling 15000 dollars to fund investigations into mine disasters. The appeal stresses the need for continued inquiry and safety measures.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Secretary of the Interior
Garfield
George Otis Smith
Geological Survey
Comptroller Ridgely cautions on bank deposit plan
Comptroller Ridgely wrote to Governor Hoch of Kansas stating that a plan to guarantee national bank deposits would be contrary to law.
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Ridgely
Hoch
Kansas
Startling railroad accident bulletin for July September 1907
The Interstate Commerce Commission reports 23 063 railroad casualties in the July to September 1907 quarter with 1 389 killed and 21 724 injured. Collisions and derailments totaled 4 279 including 2 245 collisions and 2 034 derailments, with 320 collisions and 222 derailments affecting passenger trains. Vehicle and track damage reached 3 606 696 dollars, marking increases over 1906.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Doctor the Fare Law Extra Session Hears Propositions
North Carolina legislature met in an extra session by Governor Glenn to amend the railroad fare law setting 244 cents per mile. The plan proposes a 20 cent flat rate, 2000 mile books for five firms, 1000 mile books for individuals at 2 cents, and 500 mile family books at 2.5 cents. Passengers boarding without tickets would pay a 15 cent surcharge.
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North Carolina
Raleigh
N. C
Glenn
RIGHEST INDIAN DIES IN OKLAHOMA
Guthrie Oklahoma James Big Heart former Osage chief died of paralysis near Big Heart in the Osage Nation He was reputed the richest Indian in the United States He volunteered with 40 Osages in a Kansas cavalry company and fought in Civil War battles He once bought $2000 worth of valentines in Washington and mailed them to statesmen and tribal leaders He held stock in two national banks.
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Guthrie, Okla
James Big Heart
United States
Big Heart
Kansas Cavalry
Washington
Hogs Drink Standard Oil Pipeline Blockade
In Washington County Elmer Willetts halted Standard Oil pipeline work demanding 1800 dollars for eighty hogs poisoned by spilled oil. He and his tenant stopped workers on the farm until the company pays for the dead swine, then it may proceed.
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Washington
Elmer Willetts
Willetts
Fire damages two story brick building in New York
A two story brick building on Rodney Street housing International Cork Company and Brooklyn Battle Stopper Company burned in a blaze caused by a roller explosion. Estimated loss runs about $100,000 with both occupants affected by the fire.
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New York
Rodney Street
International Cork Company
Brooklyn
Stopper, Company
French women sign motion for suffrage
A report notes 50 000 French women signed a motion in support of female suffrage in France. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw testified Harry twice proposed that she harmed herself, alleging threats. Westinghouse announces reorganizational plans in New York including a 35 million bond issue over 25 years and 7 million in new capital to cover total obligations of 36 million.
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France
Evelyn Nesbit
Thaw
Harry
Westinghouse
New York
Pope counsels caution against press stirring Japan US strife
The pope has written to Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore asking him to urge the American Catholic press to avoid provoking conflict between Japan and the United States. Archbishop Riordan of San Francisco, currently in Rome, has received similar instructions.
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Rome
Cardinal Gibbons
Baltimore
Catholic Press of
America
Japan
United States
Riordan
San Francisco
California Congressman Kahn Seeks Pacific Coast Defense Bill
Congressman Kahn of California introduced a bill to defend the Pacific coast ports and provide for construction funding. The measure would appropriate 1,000,600 dollars for 15 submarine torpedo boats at a cost not to exceed 5,000,000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western
Washington
Kahn
California
Higher Salaries for Judges in Congress Bill
Senator Byulker Jey introduced bills to raise United States circuit judge salaries to 10 000 dollars and to base district judge pay on the highest salary paid to state appellate judges in their state plus thirteen percent, with a minimum of six thousand dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Byulker Jey
United States
Boston Wool Market Slows Buyers Yet Maintains Prices
The wool market remains dull in Boston though prices stay strong with makers hesitant to sign large contracts. Demand exists for samples as quotations from leading domestic lines show varied figures across fleeces and combing grades, including Ohio and Pennsylvania consignments and several washed and unmerchantable categories.
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Boston
Ohio
Pennsylvania
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Negro Marauders
Washington News Notes
Iron Market
Brathe
Ment Bulletin
Pope
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