Roosevelt's Great Victory in Taming the Senate
Washington reports a dramatic push by President Roosevelt to advance anti trust legislation after Rockefeller telegrams allegedly sought to halt the drive. Key senators Aldrich Hale Kean Hanna Depew Spooner implicated. White House sources say publicity forced swift action and possible passage of commerce and anti trust measures.
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Aldrich
Hanna
Kean
Hale
Spooner
Depew
Roosevelt
Washington
John D. Rockefeller
White House
Associated Press
Congress
Rockefeller
Theodore Roosevelt
Rhode Island
Maine
New Jersey
Ohio
New York
Wisconsin
Big News Association
Allea Oty
Senate
Wealthy Girl Missing In Transit With Cattle And Cash
William Garland of Pendleton Oregon pursues his missing sister from Pendleton to Big Timber Columbus and Absarokee tracing 27 000 in bank funds and 100 head of cattle branded Garland. A deputy sheriff and Patrick Welch aided driving cattle across Wyoming line to Gleason where a restrained woman is alleged to be kept. Garland heads to Wyoming to pursue further leads.
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Serge
Helena
Mont
Wiliam Garland
Pendleton
Ore
Columbus
Garland
Europe
Reed
Absorakee
Patrick Welch
Wyoming Line
Gleason
Wyoming
Needs a Receiver for Rockfeller’s Unpaid 1900s Estate
New York reports John D. Rockefeller Jr. facing financial difficulty. He allegedly owes about 400000 and has only 20000 in personal property. Tax assessments place his value near 390000 and the commissioners accept a reduced tax figure after negotiations.
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Mr. Rockefeller
New York
John D. Rockefell
America
Department of Taxes
Young Rockefeller
H"e
Germany to Convince U S of Manufacturing Lead
Feb 11. Dr Lewald argues Germany has one serious rival in manufacturing. He urges St Louis conference of forty manufacturers to showcase German exhibits, asserting such displays will broaden belief in Germany’s strength and influence in American industry. The report notes the emphasis on manufacturing prowess and competition.
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Germany
House Passes Its Anti-Trust Bill
Washington Feb 10 The House by 245 to 0 passes the anti trust bill imposing filing duties on new corporations to the Interstate Commerce Commission and allowing it to demand returns from existing carriers. Rebates are punishable and violators barred from interstate commerce. Witnesses cannot refuse to testify. circuit courts handle violations and damages suits are permitted.
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Washington
House
Thomas
Iowa
Interstate Commerce Commission
Vote on statehood looms this week in Senate
Washington Feb 10 All indications point to the end of the statehood debate this week. Leaders plan a substitute bill in the committee on territories to consolidate and admit two states, subject to full republican support. If not, Quay may push the statehood amendment on the agricultural bill, risking a tight test of strength.
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Senate
Washington
Committee On Territories
Quay
Oklahoma
Commerce Bill Safe and Interstate Commission Preserved
Washington Feb 10 conferees on the department of commerce bill reach agreement. Senate positions in major matters are accepted by house conferees, leaving the interstate commerce commission as a separate organization. All references to the interstate commerce commission are eliminated and statistical bureaus to be transferred limited to the war Navy and department of justice.
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Interstate Commission
Washington
Department of Commerce
Senate
House
Interstate Commerce Commission
War, Navy
Department of Justice
New York Customs Officer Held on Theft Charge
Byron W. Winters, long in charge of the New York Customs Bureau, was arrested on embezzlement charges. The theft, alleged at over 8,600 dollars, prompted Collector Stranahan to file the complaint. Winters was held on 10,000 dollar bond with examination waived by Commissioner Shields.
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New York Customs Bureau
Uncle Sam
New York
Byron W. Winters
Customs Bureau
United States
Stranahan
Winters
Shields
Filipino Labor Union Protests Chinese Immigration
A Filipino labor union denounces Chinese immigration and warns of violence to block it, urging public cooperation. Separate dispatch reports Governor Taft’s illness from contaminated water, his recovery, and resumed friar lands negotiations with Archbishop Guidi starting Monday.
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Manila
Taft
Guidi
Pratt Cleared After Second Trial in Wife Murder Case
Reading Pa February 10 William Pratt formerly convicted of murdering his wife is found not guilty by the jury after a two week trial. Mrs Pratt was found dead at her home in November 1901 and Pratt had been sentenced to death before appeals led to the acquittal.
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William Pratt
Reading
Hill Denies Friendship with Trusts in Anti Trust Talks
Washington February 12 The Post quotes Speaker Henderson denying ties to Standard Oil or attempts to block anti trust legislation He says he never knew any Standard Oil official and only helped Upper Iowa University years ago He champions anti trust measures and says he worked with judiciary leaders to advance a Sherman bill amendment and consulted the president on the anti trust program and a conference Sabot has just been accepted by the case.
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Associated Press
Rockefeller
Washington
Uhey
Aldrich
Standard Oil
Abbie Aldrich
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Eithe
Big Trust
Hill
The
Post Today
Henderson
Nelson
Standard Oj
Standard Oil Company
Upper Iowa University
Andrew Carnegie
Department of Commerce
House
Jenkins
Judiciary Committee
Overstreet
Littlefield
Arraigns the Union in Coal Strike Case
Philadelphia February 12. Reading Company president Baer listened as non union miners represented by attorney John T Lenanan of Wilkes Barre argued before the anthracite coal strike commission. They urged the commission to hold United Mine Workers responsible for violence that deprived nonunion miners of work and denied workers the right to choose when and for whom they work. Major Everett Warren for Hillside Coal and Iron and Pennsylvania Coal argued against the unions, denouncing socialist theories and claiming union methods degrade labor and curb initiative while not challenging the right to organize.
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Philadelphia
Baer
Reading Company
Anthracite Coal Strike Commission
John T. Lenanan
Wilkesbarre
United Mine Workers
Everett Warren
Hillside Coal and Iron Company
Pennsylvania Coal Company
Hie
Relief committee in Sweden seeks $1 million aid
Stockholm February 12 The central relief committee for famine sufferers in northern Sweden reports about $17,500 received from America to date. Individuals abroad have sent sums for distribution among the needy. The committee says misery is more widespread than expected and estimates $1,000,000 is required to sustain relief until spring.
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Stockholm
Central Committee For the Relief
Sweden
America
Bremen Fire Destroys Town in Ohio Reports Say
A morning fire almost wiped Bremen Ohio off the map leaving only two stores and a school building in the business district. Columbus dispatch notes Bremen population around 1600 and Lancaster was asked to assist.
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Bremen
Ohio
Columbus
Lancaster
Siemens Halcke and Schuckert to unite in German trust
Berlin Feb 10 The Siemens Halke and Schuckert Electrical companies plan a merger pending stockholder approval. The combined firm will control all German electrical works with capitalization of 22 500 000 dollars. Dresden Feb 10 Report says the former crown princess of Saxony may seek a new hearing date for her divorce case due to alleged mental derangement.
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Berlin
Siemens-Halske
Schuckert
Dresden
Saxony
Henderson Opposes Rosebud Bill Amid Delegation Efforts
Washington dispatch reports Bonesteel D. D. seeks help from South Dakota’s delegation to pass the Gamble bill opening Rosebud lands this session after Senate approval last winter. Speaker Henderson blocks action. debate centers on settler entry fees versus a per acre price. Agency closure and postmaster race add to political shifts in Nebraska and surrounding states.
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Washington
Commercial Club
South Dakota
House
Senate
Nebraska
Henderson
Congress
Bonesteel
C. W. Matthewson
Omaha-Winnebago
Huntsburger
Pender
Neb
McCarthy
Mike Emmington
President Roosevelts Race Plan Sparks Capitol Debate
Washington reports Secretary Root’s Union League address sharpens the race issue with claims the president may have plans to uplift negroes. Republican leaders debate the speech’s meaning as Southern unrest grows, with mass meetings, circulating circles, and calls for social equality spreading from Mississippi to North Carolina.
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Roosevelt
Washington
Root
Union League Club
New York
Representative Littlefield
Maine
Littlefield
Ingalls
Hanna
Mississippi
Alabama
North Carolina
Prince George
Crum
Charleston
Wilmington
Carmack
Tennessee
Richardson
John Sharp Williams
John Wesley Gains
South
Bandit Robs Station Agent at Stanwood
In Cedar Rapids Indiana on February 9 a still unknown bandit held up the Stanwood station agent, secured 24 dollars and escaped. Congressman Ollie James of Kentucky, a leading figure in the Fifty-eighth Congress, delivered a public address when an auditor questioned him about the difference between Grover Cleveland and Theodore Roosevelt. James replied that Cleveland is too lazy to hunt and Roosevelt too restless to fish.
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Cedar Rapids
Stanwood
Ollie James
Kentucky
Speaker Henderson to join New York firm denied
A Chicago Record-Herald note reports General Henderson planned to live in New York and join Simpson Thacher Barnum in the firm’s New York office, but the firm denies the report. The piece also notes political tension over anti trust and Elkins law, with rumors of Henderson leaving the House.
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Henderson Mary Recom
New York
Speakerson
New York City
Simpson, Thacher & Barnum
Reed
Henderson Waih Hendersot
Dubuque
Washington
General Henderson
William E. Curtis
Chicago Record-Herald
Bene
Elkins
House of Representatves
Committee of ‘Rules
Associated Press
Henderson
Simpson, Thatcher, Barnum & Bartlett
Young Pleads Guilty to Murder of Mrs Ann Pulitzer
New York February 11 William Hooper Young pleaded guilty to murder in the second degree for the death of Mrs Anna Pulitzer. Justice Herrick sentenced him to life imprisonment at Sing Sing with hard labor, citing the prisoner's mental condition though doctors found him legally sane. Young appeared composed in court, answering inaudibly as the sentence was read.
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Ann Pulitzer
New York
William Hooper Young
Anna Pulitzer
Justice Herrick
Young
Sing Sing
Grover Cleveland Letter Reflects Public Disinterest
In a Cincinnati dispatch dated February 11, The Times-Star reprints a Grover Cleveland letter from Princeton dated February 6. Cleveland declines to commit to any stance on the next Democratic presidential nomination. Also reported is a Pueblo steel works accident from February 9 where one man was killed and eight injured when a metal pot tipped over.
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Cleveland
Cincinnati
The
Times-Star
Grover Cleveland
Princeton
Steel Works
Pueblo
Colo
Markets Report From Sioux City and Chicago Trade
Sioux City stock yards show hogs mixed to good heavy and butchers at 6.09 to 6.85, off cows and heifers 2.00 to 4.00, feeders 2.75 to 4.30. Chicago quotes hogs 6.25 to 7.05, cattle weak, sheep strong. official close near 6.65 to 7.05 for hogs, steers 5.75 top, lambs 6.40 top. South Omaha hogs 6.40 to 6.80, cattle weak, sheep slow. Kansas City cattle steady to lower. hogs weak to no lower. Wheat, corn, oats and provisions mixed in cash quotations. Duluth spreads and grain futures noted with No. 1 hard 7.7c, No. 1 northern 7.7c, and various delivery prices.
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Sioux City
Chicago
South Omaha
Market St
Kansas City
Texas
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Petroleum Trust
Republican Party
Wall Street
Commerce Bill Safe
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Bill
May Suggeed Reed R
Grover Diplomatic
Grain Markets
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