Rail mail service reports huge parcel volumes and savings
The railway mail service handled 71,650,849,745 pieces of mail in the last fiscal year. Illegible addresses required attention, with 18,988,626 returned or corrected. The report proposes Alaska plus Oregon Washington Idaho division, travel expense for clerks, and retirement pay for disabled workers. Net savings from new weighing methods reach 2,229,108 yearly. car space readjustments saved 272,040.
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Railway Mail Service
Oregon
Washington
Idaho
Territory
Alaska
Congress
Ystem
Valdez
Fairbanks
New York
Porto Rico
Netherlands
Uruguay
Italy
France
Austria
Bolivia
Chile
Ecuador
Peru
deported anarchist
A terse AP dispatch notes the deportation of an anarchist figure, details sparse, with date and location obscured in the fragmented text.
Reichstag Transfers Ministerial Responsibility to Committee
Berlin December 3. The Reichstag votes to refer all motions about ministerial responsibility to a business committee for report. The German admiralty plans a new submarine program developed from three years of Kiel experiments with budgeted sums totaling 6 250 000 for 1909 and 1910. Orders placed at Dantzig for six submarines to be completed soon.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Reichstag
Europe
Kiel
Dantzig
Committee Wins Power to Subpoena Tariff Witnesses
Washington dispatch reports the House Ways and Means Committee authorizes a resolution to subpoena witnesses for tariff hearings through December 19. Crumpacker backs ongoing hearings, Taft concerned about criticism, aim to thoroughly investigate tariff changes before a new bill for the special session. Wool growers' representatives pressed to maintain current wool schedule.
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House Committee
Payne
House
Congress
Crumpacker
Indiana
Taft
Hot Springs
National Wool Growers Association
United ‘States
Independents Eye Chicago Access in Long-Distance Plan
At the national convention of the Independent Telephone association in Chicago officers were elected led by President E H Moulton. The group plans long distance ties with 4,000,000 users nationwide and Canada, pursuing agreements with independent lines to challenge the Bell system.
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Mr. Uhl
Independent Telephone Company
State Association
National Association
Chicago
Canada
Council Committee On Gas, Oil and Electric Light
International Independent Telephone Association
Ilinois
Automatic Télephone Corporation
Bell Company
South Bend
Ind
Savage
New York City
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Kansas
City
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Omaha
Milwaukee
Bell Companies
Mr. Lindermuth
Governor Elect's Wife Seeks Home in Indianapolis
Mrs. Thomas R. Marshall and Mrs. John W. Kern toured North Side houses in Indianapolis as the governor elect’s wife continues a home search. A tentative selection was reported, contingent on Mr. Marshall’s approval. One viewed property was 1309 North Pennsylvania Street, formerly Gray home and until recently Pierre Gray’s residence.
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Tribune
Indianapolis
Thomas R. Marshall
Necklace valued at fifteen thousand recovered in Iowa man’s tale
New York dispatch says Garrett E Lamb of Clinton Iowa recovered a pearl necklace valued at $15 000. The piece had been stolen from a Memphis Tennessee house last February during Lamb’s visit there. A remark by a friend’s son prompted the tip that led to the recovery.
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Associated Press
New York
McCafferty
Garrett E. Lamb
Clinton
Iowa
Memphis
Tenn
Lamb
Mrs Tribby Implicated in Whitecap Trial
Rushville Ind December 3 six alleged whitecaps trial crowded court. John Tribby victim and witness testified with intense cross examination by Congressman Watson. State aims to prove party line telephone conversations to implicate several defendants and show Mrs Tribby knew of the mob and helped gather men to assault her husband.
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Tribby
Watson
Archbold Tells Nothing of Oil Transport Ties in Case
In the government’s Standard Oil dissolution hearing, John D. Archbold testifies that Pacific Coast Oil was acquired in 1901 for 761000, capitalization rose to 17000000 by 1906, and the Texas Oil company sold some output to Standard. He says pipelines are not common carriers, and calls Hepburn law a factor in shifting Maryland and New Jersey lines to avoid carriage status.
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Cific Coast Oil Company of California
Standard Oil Company of California
T. N. Barnsdall
Pittsburg
Archbold
Rosenthal
Standard
Texas Oil Company
Standard Oil Company
The
Kellogg
Mr. Kellogg
Interstate Commerce Commission
Maryland
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Four Burned at Shapiro Block Fire in Princeburg
Fire from an overheated stove at midnight destroyed the Shapiro block in Princeburg near Scranton. Four people Abraham Shapiro, his son Arthur, daughter Anna, and mother in law Mrs. Sarah Blatski died. Mrs. Shapiro escaped via ladder. two sons jumped to safety, one incurring a fractured ankle. A son returned home as the roof collapsed. Police restrained another son from entering the blaze. Building and merchandise losses reach $15,000.
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Shapiro
Princeburg
Here
Abraham Shapiro
Mer
Chant
Arthur
Anna
Sarah Blatski
Local merchants hit by Gray bankruptcy losses
Danville Illinois December 3 sixty seven local merchants and 16 individuals were caught for amounts from 3 to 3000 by the failure of Edmond F Gray former head of the E S Gray Coal company. In his petition Gray lists liabilities at 29905 68 and assets at 24243 30. Of the total indebtedness 27000 is due parties in this city with the remainder due at Lafayette and Terre Haute.
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Associated. Press
Danville
Ill
Edmond F. Gray
E.S. Gray ‘Coal Company
Gray
Lafayette
Terre Haute
Brayfield Bond Set at Five Thousand in Parrish Death Case
Dr R F Brayfield released on bail of 5000 dollars after arraignment in the Parrish death case. He returned to Mulkeytown Ill and pleaded not guilty. He said he met Mrs Parrish regularly for six months prior to March 11 but these meetings were professional and with her husband's knowledge.
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Associated Press
Benton
Ill
R. F. Brayfield
Reuben F. Parrish
Mulkeytown
Brayfield
Ancient church relics found in Chicago warehouse
In Chicago a customs broker's warehouse yielded robes tapestries and ecclesiastical antiques believed to have come from France with monks displaced from Seélisions. The items valued from 2500 up to 25000, possibly 100000 if sold to collectors, include a pope's robe silver and gold altar cloths old monastery panels and oriental fabrics.
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France
Chicago
S. Robinson
Wakem & McLaughlin
Prison Sentenced for Attack on Friend in Noblesville
A court in Noblesville Indicts a man for attacking a friend and orders imprisonment. Details of the arrest and sentencing are reported by local authorities.
Hoosier Wins Deck of Ribbons at Livestock Show
At Chicago and Purdue Indiana events, winners emerge from DeKalb and Shelbyville segments. Baron's Best loses. Baron's Heir denied ribbons while Baron's Voucher wins Clydesdale title. Purdue rejoices as Fyvie Knight crowned king of steers at Chicago expo.
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Alexander Galbraith
Dekalb
Ind
Luce & Moxley
Shelbyville
Prince Rupert
L. Brock
King
van Natta
Margaret - Arama Indiana
Dale Wright
Ple
George MecKerrow
Shropshire
Hammers& Hodgson
Brantford
Ont
Purdue
Lafayette
Purdue University
School of Agriculture
Chicago
Fyvie Knight
Agricultural Department
Purdy
University
W. E. Stone
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Princeburg, Pa
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