Standard Oil Lawyer Defends Rockefeller
Chief solicitor L. S. C. F. Dodd of Standard Oil argues in a statement that Rockefeller earned his fortune honestly and rejects accusations of rebates or railroad control. He cites the InterState Commerce Law and a U S inquiry, asserting no stock ownership or domination by Standard Oil in railroads or related gas and copper ventures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ls. Cc
Mr. Dodd
Standard Oil Company
Dodd
Mr. Rockefeller
Board of Missions
Rockefeller
The
Standard
United States Industrial Commission
Railways
Index to Departments and Page References
The page list shows sections such as Commercial World Amusements Arrivals of Out-of-Town Buyers Business Troubles Court Calendars Marine Intelligence and Foreign Mails Wew Corporations Real Estate Society United Service Weather Report Yesterday's Fires with their respective page numbers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Society
United Service
Weather Report
Banker Dead in Surf at Swampscott Massachusetts
David K. Phillips, president of the National Grand Bank of Marblehead and Boston real estate partner, was found drowned in Phillips Beach Swampscott. Medical examiner ruled self destruction during temporary mental aberration, while relatives seek autopsy. He had cash and a watch missing, reportedly worried over tenant improvement demands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lynn
Mass
David K. Phillips
National Grand Bank of Marblehead
D. K
L. H
Phillips
Marblehead
Iowa Supreme Court ruling upsets Conger plans for governorship
The Iowa Supreme Court decision keeps Gov. Cummins in office for another year, disrupting a sequence that would have brought John R. Conger home from China to become Mexico’s minister and then run for Governor. Loomis’s distant post makes a delayed appointment unlikely, signaling Conger’s temporary retirement. Rockhill is slated to succeed Conger in Peking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Washington
Iowa Supreme Court
Cummins
Conger
China
Mexico
Loomis
State Department
W.W. W. Rockhill
Bureau of Pan- American Republics
Slumming Romance Sparks Fifth Avenue Night Altercation
An elderly man clashed with a younger man near Delmonico's after a reported slumming date. The younger man, bleeding from the nose, claimed the girl’s father attacked him. the elder fled in a hansom. Police and reserves responded to the riot call.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fifth Avenue
Forty-fifth Street
Delmonico’s
Sherry’s
East Fifty-first Street
Thorley
Decker
Chicago Council Unhindered by Partisan Lines on City Ownership
Aldermen from both parties in Chicago indicate the next City Council will back Mayor-elect Dunne's push for immediate municipal ownership of street railways. Dunne sails to New York to rally support and seeks Glasgow’s aid, while traction interests propose values for takeover totaling about 64.07 million dollars based on earning capacity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Chicago
Dunne
Lake Shore Railroad
New York
Glasgow
Municipal Tramways
Chicago City Road
Union Traction Company
Rothschild Scandal Enmeshes State Officials and Politicians
The April Grand Jury probe into David Rothschild widens to include a state official and Republican figures. Confessions written by Rothschild at Sing Sing surfaced through State Superintendent Collins to Abraham Gruber, tied to ex Governor Black and Armitage Matthews. Gruber claims a pardon plot and alleges a covert bargain with the DA.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Rothschild
Federal Bank
Sing Sing
Jerome
Rothschild
Collins
Abraham Gruber
Black
Armitage Matthews
Republican County Committee
Johnson
Powers
Industrial Department
Grand
Jackson
Martin Conlon
New York
Gruber
Kiesel
Mr. Gruber
Matthews
Grand Jury
Mr. Matthews
Conlon
Foreman Kohn
Weisel
Deal
William Eisel
Cleveland
Armitage Thens
Connorton
Atlantic City Tour Ad Offers Two Day Stay
OVER. SUNDAY ATLANTIC CITY TOUR April 8 via Pennsylvania Railroad. Rate or $11 covers two days hotel board with each front hotels at $11 rate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic City
Pennsylvania Railroad
Lady Curzon Narrow Escape In Simla Earthquake
Calcutta dispatch reports Lady Curzon escaped injury as a massive chimney crashed into the room above where the Viceroy's wife slept. Lord Curzon notes Lahore earthquake damage with Dharmsala suffering heavy casualties and relief efforts underway. A second shock in Simla caused residents to flee and sleep outside.
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London
Calcutta
Curzon
Simla
Brodrick
India
Lord Curzon
Lahore
Dharmsala
Kasululi
Pasteur Institute
West Indies quake alarms rise as Soufriere surveys made
In Kingstown on April 6 the police chief and two constables visited La Soufriére after shocks in St. Christopher Dominica Antigua and Pointe a Pitre Guadeloupe with heat waves. They found the crater lake diminished boiling green water appeared north of the lake steam billowed from the lake lip and fissures inside the crater. A sudden disturbance changed the lake water to a dirty red and the party fled as activity increased.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kingstown
St. Vincent
St. Christopher
Dominica
Antigua
Pointe--Pitre
Guadeloppe
la Soufriére
English Balloonists Race Toward France From South England
Four balloons launched in a south England race under the Aero Club of Great Britain. English clouds fell short of the Channel as three landed near Hastings, while M Faure from Folkestone ascended at night and drifted over the Channel before dawn.
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London
England
France
Aero Club of Great Britain
M.faure
French Aero Club
Westham
Crystal Palace
Sevenoaks
M. Faure
Folkestone
Channel
Hastings
Meningitis Cases and Deaths Reported in Several Areas
Bridget McGrath a Waldorf-Astoria laundress was moved to Bellevu Hospital with spinal meningitis and is described as precarious. In Manhattan 11 deaths, plus 1 in the Bronx and 5 in Brooklyn, occurred in 24 hours. week totals show a drop from last week. A Jersey City report notes 40 cattle deaths from cerebro spinal meningitis in March, all fatal. An Indian Reservation in New Mexico reports an epidemic moving through Mescalero with three of four patients dead. the school is ordered closed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bridget McGrath
Waldorf-Astoria
Bellevu Hospital
Mann Barse
Manhattan
Bronx
Brooklyn
George M. McCarthy
Jersey City Health Board
Hudson County 8. P. C. A
Jersey City
Washington
Carroll
Mescalero
New Mexico
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Tragedy in Basement Gas Fatalities Hit Family
Samuel Clark, a truckman living at 320 East 118th Street basement, finds three children Ellen, Katie, Elizabeth Clark and Mrs. Mary Rogers dead from gas asphyxiation. An adjoining room's elderly resident also perished. A bracketed two stopcock gas setup in Rogers room suggests a lit gas flow. Rogers reportedly lit the gas and may have left burners on.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Clark
East One Hundred and Eighteenth Street
Mary Rogers
Ellen Clark
Katie Clark
Elizabeth Clark
Rogers
Barnum & Bailey Obtain Injunction Against Clown Slivers
Justice Davis issues a Supreme Court injunction restraining Frank Oakley known as Slivers from entering a contract to perform at Thompson and Dundy's Hippodrome while under contract to appear at the Barnum and Bailey circus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barnum & Bailey
Davis
Supreme Court
Frank Oakley
Slivers
Thompson & Dundy
Society of American Artists Elects Officers at Meeting
At the annual meeting held last evening at 215 West Fifty-seventh Street the Society of American Artists elected officers. President John La Farge, Vice President Kenyon Cox, Treasurer Isham, Secretary Henry Prellwitz, and Board of Control member H. Bolton Jr. were chosen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Society of American Artists
West Fifty-seventh Street
John la Farge
Kenyon Cox
Roosevelt Visits Texas Amid Public Cheers And Rail Plan
President Theodore Roosevelt arrives in San Antonio after a Texas tour, with crowds cheering through cities like Hillsboro Waco Temple Taylor and Austin. He urges regulated railroads and fair rates while defending corporate prosperity and pledging cautious measures against abuse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Texas
Roosevelt
Alamo
Fort Worth
Dallas
W. H. Atwell
United States
J. S. Hogg
Panama Canal
Hillsboro
Waco
Dixie
Temple
Temple Station
Teme
Taylor
Missouri, Kansas, and Texas
International and Great Northern
Austin
Lanham
Neil
Texas Legislature
State House
Hall of
Reurn
Purity of Burnett's Vanilla Questioned by No Commission
A claim notes that no pure food commission challenges Burnett's Vanilla purity. The statement suggests unanimous acceptance of the product's quality with respect to food standards, lacking official scrutiny or inquiry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pure Food Commission
Pay for Presidents Train to be at Regular Rates
Colorado Midland headquarters announced that the President’s train will be billed at regular rates and settled through the Pennsylvania Railroad auditing department. The only special courtesy allowed is permission to ride on the engine through Red Rock Canyon. Two top engines will be retired next Saturday for overhaul.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colorado Midland
New York Times
Colorado Springs
Pennsylvania Railroad
Red Rock
Colorado City
Unclaimed Goods Seizure Sale Totals $12,994.35
A three day sale of unclaimed items in the Seizure Room at Public Stores realized $12,994.35. The top lot was 35 cases of unstemmed filler tobacco at $3,150, and a cow painting consigned to J Pierpont Morgan unclaimed sold for $4.50.
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J. Pierpont Morgan
Spooner as Secretary of State Rumor Circulates
Madison dispatch reports rumors that Senator Spooner may become Secretary of State if Hay retires and that speculation also touches on Spooner’s potential Senate successor. No solid basis for the tale could be learned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Wis
Spooner
Hay
Hill A Ballard Shot by Sweetheart in Huntsville
Hill A Ballard was shot and killed by his sweetheart Oma Harding in Huntsville Alabama. She then shot herself through the heart and died instantly. Ballard died at City Hospital with Gov Cox of Tennessee as his uncle and A C Ballard of Bristol as his father. He had been in the city for six weeks working.
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Huntsville
Ala
Hill A. Ballard
Oma Harding
Young Ballard
City Hospital
Gov. Cox
Tennessee
A. C. Ballard
Bristol
Governor signs anti private graft bill in New York
Albany April 6 Governor Higgins signed Senator Saxe s anti private graft bill. The law makes anyone who gives or promises a gift or gratuity to influence an employee in relation to his employer s business guilty of a misdemeanor and punishable by a fine or up to one year in jail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
Gov. Higgins
Saxe
Beaverned by Train End of the Line Near Two Bridges
The last known beaver in Middletown area died after a failed escape from a Susquehanna and Wes railroad train near Two Bridges. The animal, hunted for years, stood on the track and was struck by Engineer Gould’s engine. The 70 pound carcass, taken home by Gould of Ogdensburg, will be mounted due to its fine coat.
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New York Times
Middletown
N. Y
Susquehannah and Wes
Gould
Ogdensburg
Heiress Pearl White Weds Cleveland Hotel Clerk in Secret Arkansas Ceremony
Miss Pearl M. White daughter of W J White a Cleveland gum maker and former congressman secretly married James L Bancroft a hotel clerk in Hot Springs Arkansas. The couple planned to return to Cleveland and were chaperoned by Mrs Paul Sorg.
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Hot Springs
Ark
Pearl M. White
W. J. White
Cleveland
James L. Bancroft
Paul
Sorg
Middletown
Ohio
James
Miss White
Is White
Florida
Palm Beach
Bancroft
Cleveca
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church
Mr. Kueg
Duncan Campbell
Eastman Hotel
Petition Leads Mellen to Pledge 5000 for Greenwich Station
A group including W H Truesdale E C Benedict James McCutchen Gustave Baumann EB C Converse and others urge Mr Mellen of Consolidated Railroad to invest 5000 at Greenwich station. The plan calls for tearing down a dangerous high point on the northwest end of the property to improve safety for carriages and automobiles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Greenwich
Conn
W. H. Truesdale
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railid
E. C. Benedict
James McCutchen
Gustave Baumann
EB. C. Converse
W. H. Temple
William Phillips Hall
Mellen
Consolidated Railroad
Equitable Adopts Crimmins Plan in Boardroom Clash
The Crimmins Policy Holders Committee won a mutualization two year plan as Equitable Life Directors adopted it yesterday. A special committee will report to the board to decide the four new Executive Committee vacancies split between Crimmins and Cornelius Bliss backers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crimmins
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Cornelius
N. Bliss
Alexander
Hyde
Board of Directory
Colby
William Alexander
James W. Alexander
Committee of Investigation
Executive Committee
Senator Depew
August Belmont
Alvin W. Krech
Mr. Hyde
Cornelius N. Bliss
D. O. Mills
H. C. Frick
E. H. Harriman
Brayton Ives
James J. Hill
M. E. Ingalls
Equitable
C. B. Alexander
J. H. Hyde
J. W. Alexander
H. M. Alexander
B. Ives
RB. Johnson
J. J. Astor
T. D. Jordan
A. W. Krech
C. L. Blair
J. T. Low
C. N. Bliss
J. J. McCook
A. J. Cassatt
W. H. McIntyre
T. Dew. Cuyler
J. F. de Navarra
H. C. Deming
J. H. Schiff
Co. M. Depew
G. H. Squire
M. H. Dodge
J. A. Stewart
T. T. Eckert
G. E
Society
Crimmins Policy Holders’ Committee
Senator Brackett
Albany
Frank Platt
Bainbridge
Cohen
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Company
John D. Rockefeller
D. K. Phillips
Swampscott
Iowa
Council
Donne
Corporation of Glasgow
Manazer
HE IS
Mr. Jerome
Higgins
Lady Curzon
West Indies
Luckier
Waldorf
Bellevue Hospital
Truckman
Circus Clown
American Artists
Rough Riders
Mr. Roosevelt
Morgan
Wisconsin
Alabama Girl
Train
Truesdale
Gage E. Tarbell
Directora
Tarbell
Harriman
Mr. Alexander
Mr. Tarbell
Marah
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