Leading steel interest keeps work in Gary through 1907 downturn
R G Dunn and Company's year end review notes 1907 started with high trade velocity and record farm outputs but ten weeks of late year strain reduced production. Deposits fled large trust companies. insolvencies rose late year yet mercantile mortality remained light. Iron and steel output peaked July 1 at 528,170 tons weekly before a 33 percent cutback amid renewed confidence in early 1908.
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Company
New York
Report Shows Mutual Reserve Life in Poor Shape
Albany December 31. State Insurance Superintendent Otto Kelsey announced the Hadley and Hughes examination into Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Company found serious impairment of its financial condition. Pending attorney general review the department will withhold the examiner report from public inspection.
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Associated Press
Albany
N. Y
Otto Kelsey
State Insurance Department
Nelson B. Hadley
Charles Hughes
Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Company
Kelsey
New Year 1908 Opens With Renewed Business Push
Private and public corporations begin new books as 1908 starts. Bells, whistles, and fireworks mark midnight while institutions and churches hold services and dances. Merchants plan stock, reorganization, and spring purchases as finance eyes a firmer year ahead.
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Ninteen
Fortune Hidden by Relatives Found in Indiana House
Relatives cleaning out the late Elizabeth Means’s Shelbyville home uncovered 6000 dollars concealed in three syrup cans tucked away in an unused part of the house. The stash was hoarded for years and unknown to the family.
Parents lose bid to seize child in courtroom dispute
Prosecutor Custer consulted with Mr and Mrs Zed Shinn about reclaiming their one year old from Mrs Shinn's parents in Wright Street. The Schwerdmans claimed custody since three months old and cited the child's cold and a father with no steady job. No habeas corpus action was filed.
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Zed Shinn
Custer
Chicago
Remonstrances Not Filed This Week in County
Auditor Thursday expected as no remonstrances will be filed this week by anti saloon league forces led by Dr J Z Powell. John Eckert of the Saloon Keepers organization notes signatures collected but declines exact totals, saying cards may be filed with county commissioners on Thursday. Powell says remonstrances have not failed and the canvass may extend for weeks.
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John Eckert
Powell
Roses Bloom in Dover Garden Amid Mild December
In Dover Pennsylvania Railroad garden roses bloomed outdoors due to mild days and a springlike Christmas week. Morning sun and warm spell spurred two rose bushes to open with colorful blooms yesterday, while York notes similar springlike weather causing blooms in fields and yards.
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Pennsylvania Railroad Company
York
Penn
Joliet Steel Plant to Resume Operations for 2500 workers
Joliet Illinois December 31 1920 about 2500 men to be recalled as the Joliet plant of the Illinois Steel Company restarts tomorrow morning in most departments after a shutdown since December 22. The Rockdale plant of American Steel and Wire will also resume Thursday morning after a brief closure since last Saturday night.
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Joliett
Ill
Illinois Steel Company
Rockdale
American Steel and Wire Company
Trial of the First Duma Ends in Mass Convictions
The St Petersburg court concluded the trial of 169 Duma members who signed the Viborg manifesto. One hundred sixty seven were convicted and jailed for three months with loss of political rights. two were acquitted. Ramishvili will be freed after serving preliminary time. The ruling may remove leading liberal figures from Russian politics for decades.
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First
Duma
Viborg
M. Ramischwili
Constitutional Movement
Ivan Petrunkevich
Price Dolgiroukoff
Dimitri Shakacskoy
Prince Obolinssky
Prince Ourosoff
M. Petrajitski
Vladimir Naboukoff
Constitutional Democrats
Max Vinayer
Lenitsa
Receivers Appointed for Chicago and Milwaukee Electric
Judge Tut Hill of Cook County Circuit Court appointed receivers for the Chicago and Milwaukee Electric Rail road company and allied firms on a Monahan petition alleging management fraud. Named as receivers were Carter H. Harrison Gordon Ramsay and Charles G. Dawes, with A C Frost accused of gaining control. The 75 mile road is run by Illinois and Wisconsin corporations bearing the same names.
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Road Company
Judge Tut
Chicago
Charles G. Dawes
Currency
Gordon Ramsay
Rail
Birmingham Day With New Year Seventeen Counties Go Dry
Birmingham on New Year Eve marks the shift to statewide prohibition. Across Alabama saloons close as optional counties vote to ban alcohol, totaling 50 dry counties while 17 remain wet for another year. Jefferson County, including Birmingham, sees about 120 saloons shut at midnight amid lower intoxication levels.
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Birmingham
Alamada
Crenshaw
Cunty
Jefferson County
Trial of Caleb Powers Will Be Closed Today
Georgetown Ky December 31 The Caleb Powers trial nears closure after four speeches and two remaining. Major W C Owen to open the defense closing tomorrow morning and finish at noon. Commonwealths Attorney Franklin to start at 1 30 pm with four hours and ten minutes. Jury to receive case for final deliberation about 5 30 pm. Both sides express confidence.
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Caleb Powers
W. C. Owen
Editor Alfred H. Spink Shot in St Louis Office
Alfred H. Spink editor and president of the St. Louis World and author of The Derby Winner was shot and wounded in his office by employee Victor Groves after an altercation with Spink’s son William. Groves surrendered to police. Spink, 53, suffered a shoulder wound and lung injury. Groves reportedly had been drinking.
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St. Louis World
Victor Groves
William Spink
Spink
Groves
Mr. Spink
Beckley pays $1600 to settle county fees upon taking office
Sheriff Beckley turned over $1600 in cash to the county treasurer to cover in and out fees and accrued costs retained during the prior term. Attorney says about $2500 remains in dispute but Beckley holds receipts for most, and the payment avoids transfer complications.
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Beckley
Enyart
Hnyart
A. G. Jenkines
N. B. Richeson
I. A. Adams
Miners Plan Strike in Kentucky District
Madisonville Kentucky December 31 indications point to a strike of coal miners in the twenty third district. Organizers are actively in the field and a relief fund has been sent to the district. Practically all miners are non union and operators deny any future dealings with the union. The biggest mines in the state are located here.
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Associated Press
Madisonville
Twenty Third District
Hog sale frees church from debt at Hope Indiana
The Hope Baptist church in Columbus Indiana was freed from debt as a hog sale cleared 1400 dollars. The auction drew about a thousand people and featured hogs sent from states including Pennsylvania Illinois Ohio Kentucky Missouri and the Dakotas. Col Thomas Winnedge organized the event on the last afternoon of the year.
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Associated Press
Columbus
Ind
Hope
Baptist Church
Pennsylvania
Ilinois
Ohio
Kentucky
Missouri
Dakotas
Thomas Winnedge
Fire in Cleveland lumber yards causes $100000 loss
A late afternoon blaze swept the Fisher and Wilson lumber yards in Cleveland's flats, ending tonight with an estimated $100,000 in damage. Fire crews fought the flames through the evening to bring the fire under control.
Explosion at Rome Stock Exchange Injures Twenty
Tremendous blast at the Temple of Neptune on the Roman forum caused by a gas explosion injuring about twenty people, mainly clerks, and scattering crowds. Brokers moved millions in the exchange before conditions stabilized as firemen and troops assisted and crowds dispersed.
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Associated Press
Rome
Neptune
Hadrian
Agrippa
Stock Exchange
St. Petersburg
Leo XIII
Pope Pius
Once Wealthy Jockey Dies Without a Gent
East St. Louis ill Dec 31 Deserted by relatives and friends who had clustered about him while he was successful as a jockey years ago Fred Bards aged 30 years who died yesterday on obscurity was today saved from the potter s field by a subscription taken up among his saloon associates of the past few years Barnes was at one time wealthy but was a spendthrift He rode at New Orleans and St Louis tracks.
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Associated Press
East St. Louis
Ill
Fred Bards
Potter’s Field
Barnes
New Orleans
St. Louis
Two Miners Killed in Crow's Nest Mine Collapse
Massillon Ohio December 31 two miners George Roberts and his son George were killed in Crow's Nest coal mine near Hast Greenville. Three others were trapped but rescued after two hours of effort by rescuers who reached the entombed men.
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Associated Press
Massillon
George Roberts
George
Crow’s Nest
Hast Greenville
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