Trial Opens in Standard Oil Conspiracy Case
Jury, largely farmers, hears prosecutor outline of a long battle against Standard Oil beginning in 1882. Prosecutor David alleges a trust exists and details past actions from 1892 to the present, while defense argues the company is merely in business of selling oil.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Findlay
Standard Oil Company
Ohio
David
Kline
Standard Company
Standard
Hancock County
Phelps
Mgr
Oil Combine
Supreme Court
Standard Oil Company of New Jersey
Standard Oil Company of
Solar Refining Company
Ohio Oil Company
Illinois
Indiana Pipe Line Company
Buckeye Pipe Line Company
Seven Hurt In Wreck East Of Wamego On Union Pacific
Seven persons were seriously injured and many more slightly hurt in a wreck near Wamego Kansas on the Union Pacific. Four cars of the Overland limited No 101 were derailed by a broken rail and scattered along a quarter mile. The engine tender baggage mail car and smoker stayed on track. Passengers remained composed as they were crushed by debris and had to dig free through beams and timber to escape.
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Topeka
Kan
Wamego
Union Pacific Railway
Overland Limited
Hart Found Dead in Office with Self Inflicted Gunshot
Nathaniel Kh Hart, a prominent Stamford lawyer and former assistant United States district attorney about 65, was found dead in his office Tuesday after shooting himself sometime during the day.
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Stamford
Conn
Nathaniel Kh. Hart
Hart
United States District Attorney
Court-Martial Totals Reported For Last Fiscal Year
General Davis reports 4596 general court martial trials in the last fiscal year with 50 commissioned officers tried, 42 convicted, eight acquitted. Fourteen officers dismissed. two resignations in lieu of further action. one sentence disapproved. About half of enlisted violators received dishonorable discharges. The year saw 204 fewer trials than the prior year, many for selling government clothing to soldiers. Davis urges harsher action for soldiers charged with selling clothing issued by the government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
George B. Davis
United States
Gen. Davis
Newspaper Man Shot Dead in Minneapolis
William Dowell, a prominent Minneapolis newspaper figure, was shot by John Quirk at 901 Chicago Avenue as Dowell and Miss Bessie Squires approached Quirk’s home. Dowell died minutes later at City Hospital. Quirk surrendered calmly to officers.
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Minneapolis
Minn
William Dowell
John Quirk
Bessie Squires
Quirk
Chicago Avenue
Dowell
Sheriff Foils Lynch Threat In Bloomington Incident
In Bloomington Indiana on October 8 Edward Jones the black man who shot and killed Alfred Stephens a lunch wagon operator was taken to the Marion County jail. A hostile crowd gathered overnight and again in the early hours of Sunday but the sheriff and deputies held the doors against the mob and prevented a lynching.
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Bloomington
Ind
Edward Jones
Alfred Stephens
Marion County
Jones
Hill Sells Mining Property Big Ore Deal With Steel
James J. Hill, president of the Great Northern, sold 750000000 tons of ore to United States Steel for 400000000 dollars. The sale, described as the largest financial transaction in U S history since US Steel’s formation, was completed by five men in a few hours, with possible small additional figures involved.
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New York
James J. Hill
Great Northern Railroad
United States Steel Corporation
Steel Corporation
Hummel Remains in Jail on Conspiracy Conviction
Albany, Oct 10. The New York Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that Attorney Abraham N. Hummel remains jailed and cannot be granted bail while awaiting a certificate of reasonable doubt on his conspiracy conviction in the Morse-Dodge case.
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Hummel
Albany
N. Y
Court of Appeals
Abraham N. Hummel
Morse-Dodge
Well-known Missionary Dead
Rev. Peter Paul Kline, a well known missionary of the Order of the Holy Cross college, has died in Notre Dame Indiana. He formerly served as president of Holy Cross college New Orleans and of St Edwards college Austin Texas. Born in Cincinnati in 1862.
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Notre Dame
Ind
Peter Paul Kline
Order of the Holy Cross College
Holy Cross College
New Orleans
St. Edwards College
Austin
Tex
Cincinnati
Marine transport Sheridan Floated After Grounding
A Honolulu cable reports the US Army transport Sheridan was floated after running ashore at Barber's Point on August 31. It was refloated October 1 but began to founder and was beached near Pearl Harbor.
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Sheridan
San Francisco
Honolulu
United States Army
Barber's Point
Pearl Harbor
Bombs thrown at vice governor in Kazan injure minorly
Terrorist attack in Kazan on Monday targets Vice Governor Kobeto. Two bombs exploded injuring the official slightly as the would-be assassin escaped, and authorities search for the assailant.
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Kazan
Russia
Kobeto
Welcome Macoon to Cuban Capital Arrives as Taft Proclaims Amnesty
Charles E. Magoon arrives in Havana as Gov. Taft issues a broad amnesty for rebels and political offenders. Marines and ships accompany the party, with flowers exchanged among Taft, Mrs. Taft, Mrs. Bacon, and Cuban officials. The reception includes the mayor Julio de Cardera and city council. The group proceeds to the palace after a conference with Taft.
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Taft
Bacon
Havana
Charles E. Magoon
Cuba
Cienfuegos
Col. Barnett
Magoon
J. Franklin Bell
Julio de Cardera
Navy
Mrs. Taft
Mrs. Bacon
Villaverde
Palace
Roosevelt May Be Senator From New York
Reports claim President Roosevelt wishes to become U S senator from New York to succeed Thomas C Platt after his term. He reportedly believes New York politics favor his bid and is seen as a central Republican figure with allies guiding and supporting the move.
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Washington
Roosevelt
New York
Thomas C. Platt
Woodruff
Charles E. Hughes
Senate
Denatured Alcohol Set to Supplant Oil and Gas
Washington reports Yerkes announces new internal revenue rules for denatured alcohol to be tax free, used in arts, industries, and for fuel and light. Effective January 1, 1907, aims include cheaper heat and power, reducing costs, and curbing fraud while replacing wood alcohol. Price may run as low as 35 cents per gallon.
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Washington
Yerkes
Internal Revenue
Secretary of the Treasury
Congress
Diverse brief items from national news pages
Homer Davenport imports 27 thoroughbred Arabians to New York. Y M C A plans office boys training school. Rockefeller pities rich with no interests beyond business. San Fernando escapes wildfire fate by changing wind. U S mint to coin 2,500,000 Mexican half dollars. Tillman warns of potential southern race war within a decade. Jessup fire destroys telephone exchange and Strickland hotel, $20,000 loss. Hoar ill with neuralgia in Worcester. Indiana W C T U appeals for anti smoking crusade. No Magoon successor until Taft returns from Cuba. Newchwang blocks American goods unless Japanese names used. Providence mills strike amid higher wages. 600 looms idle. Sholto Douglas arrest for grand larceny in St. Louis. Bryan may lose Portugal post amid diplomatic changes. Patrick asks clemency only from himself. Portland cement not monopolized per survey. Mrs Clyde renounces her husband’s will seeking dower rights. New York Life seeks to overturn Kimmel verdict in St Louis case.
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Homer Davenport
New York
New York Y. M. C. A
John D. Rockefeller
San Fernando
Cal
United States
San Francisco
Republic
Tillman
Augusta
Jessup
Strickland
Rockwood Hoar
Senator Hoar
Worchester
Mass
Indiana
Lord Sholto Douglas
St. Louis
Washington
Charles Page Bryan
Chicago
Portugal
Albert T. Patrick
Gov. Higgins
Patrick
Geological Survey
Kimmel
G. C. Rankine
Niles, Mich
Army officers blamed for desertions in Texas report
Brig. Gen. William S. McCaskey reports a worsening shortage of company officers in Texas. He argues more captains would reduce desertions and boost morale, while proposing a 20 percent pay raise and higher quarters allowances. He favors restoring departmental commands for better administration. Maj. Finley also backs shorter first enlistments to curb losses.
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Washington
William S. McCaskey
Department of Texas
Gen. McCaskey
Maj
Finley
Cabinet Meeting In Washington With Six Cabinet Members
Six cabinet members in Washington attended Tuesday's cabinet meeting. Secretaries Root Wilson Hitchcock Metcalf Bonaparte and Attorney General Moody were present. Moody visited the White House before the session but could not meet the president until the regular hour due to other callers.
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Washington
Root
Wilson
Hitchcock
Metcalf
Bonaparte
Moody
White House
Canadian workers shot down at Buckingham riot
Two men were killed and a dozen wounded in a clash between striking mill hands and provincial police at MacLaren's saw mills in Buckingham Quebec. Authorities used drastic measures to quell the riot and no further trouble is expected. Strikers say wages of 1.25 dollars a day would not sustain them and their families.
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Buckingham
Que
MacLaren
Trans-Atlantic Fire Insurance Loses First Liability Ruling
In San Francisco on October 9 Judge Carroll Cook delivers the first superior court decision in a dispute over insurer liability after a company refused a collar settlement. The Trans- Atlantic Fire Insurance company has no legal excuses for repudiating policyholder claims according to the ruling.
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Frisco Insurance
San Francisco
Trans- Atlantic Fire Insurance Company
Carroll Cook
Panama Canal to be completed by contract
The Panama canal will be finished by contract rather than by government work. A formal statement outlining the reasons will be issued soon, along with a contract form expected to protect the work. President Roosevelt supports contracting as the more satisfactory method, with Chinese labor protections preserved through contractor terms.
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Washington
Panama Canal
Roosevelt
White Sox Edge Cubs In Postseason Opener
Chicago October 10 The Cubs champions of the National league fell to Fielder Jones led White Sox champions of the American league in the first game of the post season series. Brown and Altrock pitched for the Cubs and White Sox respectively. Both teams had four hits while the Cubs committed two errors. The game ended 2 to 1 before over 20 000 fans in overcoats.
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Chicago
Chance
Cubs
Fielder Jones
White Sox
Brown
Altrock
Constructed His Own Coffin Causes Suicide
Charles Stout, 85, a county pioneer in Litchfield Illinois, shot himself at home after four weeks of coffin making. He left two notes requesting burial in a striped shirt and overalls and specified funeral expenses not exceed five dollars. He left $300 to his wife.
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Litchfield
Charles Stout
Vendetta in Indiana Rekindled Between Two Villages
In Kokomo Indiana Oct 9 a feud between Oakford and Hemlock eight miles south erupted again. Carl Vanderbart of Oakford was shot from a bush and wounded in the scalp while returning from visiting a young woman in Hemlock. Vanderbart fired back four shots at his attacker. The feud involves young men and boys and starts when a man visits a girl from the rival village.
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Kokomo
Ind
Oakford
Hemlock
Here
Carl Vanderbart
Vanderbart
Schoolgirl Dies by Own Action in Venice Township
Owosso Mich Oct 9 Bessie Gerady aged 12 a country school pupil at Venice township pump house took poison in the presence of four little schoolmates to end her life. The tragedy occurred Monday as the children played nearby.
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Owosso, Mich
Bessie Gerady
Venice Township
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