Board shakeup looms for rival railroads after antitrust ruling
Wall Street reports a wide reallocation of Northern Pacific Union Pacific Burlington Chicago and Northwestern St Paul and other boards as one man cannot serve competing lines. George J Gould James Stillman William Rockefeller and others face removal or non reelection with Harriman Hill and Rockefeller interests signaling radical changes. Northern Securities assets to be distributed starting tomorrow.
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Northwestern
Northern Securities
Wall Street
United States
Community of Interest
E. H.harriman
Northern Pacific Railway
Harriman
Union Pacific
Northern Pacific
Burlington System
Supreme Court
Hill Interests
Northern Securities Company
James J. Hill
The
Hill
Rockefeller
Union and
Chicago and Northwestern
Burlington
St. Paul
E. H. Harriman
James Stillman
Union and Northern Pacific
Chicago
Jacob H. Schiff
H. H. Rogers
William Rockefeller
George J. Gould
Union
Nichols
Couny
J. J. Hill
Lakewood
Hot Springs
Two Bears and a Record by Roosevelt Hunt
Rising at dawn the President added another bearskin to his trophies after two days of hunting. A five foot nine inch bear was killed twelve miles from camp with fifty hounds in action. Roosevelt and aides endured fatigue, while Dr. Lambert and Phil Stewart lagged behind.
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The
New York Times
New Castle
Col
Goff
Phil Stewart
Dr. Lambert
Huntsman Hills
Borah
Garfield Creek
Supreme Court Mandate in Northern Securities Case Issued
Washington April 17 formal mandate from the Supreme Court confirms the decree of the United States Circuit Court is affirmed with costs. The Northern Securities Company is ordered to recover its costs, and the case is remanded to the Circuit Court for the District of New Jersey for further proceedings.
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Washington
Fuller
Supreme Court of the United States
W. P. Clough
Securities Company
Buneeme Court
United States Circuit Court of Ap- E
Northern Securities Comny
Circuit Court of United States For
District of Newersey
Index to Departments and Page References
A compact listing from the Commercial World index noting page numbers for sections such as Amusements, Arrivals of Out-of-Town Buyers, Business Troubles, Court Calendars, Matinee performances and Foreign Mails, New Corporations, and state items.
Will Recall Tax Bill in New York Senate Move
Albany April 17 Republican Senate leaders say they will withdraw the Mortgage Tax bill from the Governor to amend it to exempt mortgages held by building and loan associations and to refine administrative features. The measure’s principle will stay, opponents fear it may not return to him. Real estate interests doubt it becomes law, while Governor Higgins expects the Stock Transfer and amended Mortgage Tax bills to become law.
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New York Times
Albany
Senate
Higgins
Assembly
Malby
Maltby
Howard van Ingen
Gov
Republicans condemn tax at club meeting
At the Republican Club monthly meeting resolutions were adopted against the Mortgage Tax bill and the Stock Transfer bill now before Gov Higgins. Magistrate Ommen moved to instruct Louis Stern, club president, to telegram the Governor urging veto of both measures.
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Republican Club
Higgins
Ommen
Louis Stern
Silent Courtship At Bellevue Hospital Leads To Engagement
A Bellevue Hospital ward romance between nurse Madge Connors and A W Bielby, both recent diploma holders, began after time apart and a broken stethoscope incident. The couple, who kept to hospital rules at first, grew closer and plan a Church of the Holy Name ceremony in Brooklyn Park West. The engaged pair previously worked on adjacent wards and Bielby resigned to return home before their wedding.
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Bellevue Hospital
Madge Connors
A. W. Bielby
Bielby
Miss Conners
Miss Connors
Ana
Church of the Holy Name
Bae Ec Park West
Brooklyn
Transatlantic Liners Near Nantucket Lightship
The Red Star Vaderland from Antwerp was ninety miles east of Nantucket Lightship at 5 30 P M yesterday and arrives in New York about noon today. The Minnehaha from London was at Nantucket Lightship yesterday morning and reaches Newark about 8 A M. The Noordam from Rotterdam passed Nantucket at 11 A M yesterday and docks in Hoboken about 8 A M today. The Oscar II from Copenhagen anchored in quarantine last night and will dock about 8 A M today.
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Red Star
Vaderland
Antwerp
Nantucket
New York
Minnehaha
London
Newark
Phas
Noordam
Rotterdam
Hoboken
Oscar IL
Copenhagen
Easter at Old Point Comfort Six Day Tour Ad
Six day rail tour to Old Point Comfort departs April 22 with special package rates. Includes train travel and hotel expenses. Special tickets priced at seventeen dollars available through agents.
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Old Point Comfort
Percertre Re Railroad
Old Point
Ady
New York Ten Hour Law Ruled Unconstitutional
Supreme Court Justice Peckham declares New York bakery ten hour work limit invalid under the Fourteenth Amendment. Justices Harlan White Day Holmes dissent, asserting the decision upholds freedom of contract and states’ rights in domestic affairs. Lockner of Utica was fined for allowing over sixty hours.
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Washington
Peckham
Supreme Court of the
United States
New York
Harlan
White
Day
Holmes
Lockner
State of
Utica
Court of Appeals
Parker
Bakers Strike Threat After Supreme Court Ruling
85000 bakers threaten nationwide strike if ten hour day demand is blocked. International Union officials vow a united fight for May 1 enforcement, despite Supreme Court ruling. Local and city units report 3000 journeymen bakers ready to strike with renewed bargaining aims and firm employer ties.
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United States Supreme Court
United States
International
Frank H. Harzbecker
Journeymen Bakers’ and Confectioners
International Union
Harzbecker
International Executive Board
George Krebs
Bakers’ Union No. 164
Supreme Court
Robert Urban
Ra Union No. 3
Rick Jordan
Troops Fire in Limoges Porcelain Strike Violence
In Limoges on April 17 striking porcelain workers tried to storm prisons after demand for comrades freed. Troops arrived, barricades formed, red and black flags raised, and a volley as guards fired blank cartridges then live rounds. One killed, another mortally wounded, several strikers hurt and many arrested. Parallel unrest hit Nantes with a dozen gendarmes injured.
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Limoges
Dunne Plans Big Subway For Chicago
Chicago mayoral plans aim to build a vast downtown subway to house streetcar lines water supply high pressure sewer gas pipes and all electric wires as part of municipal ownership. If private traction firms balk the mayor will construct new lines himself within the downtown core and run existing routes underground. Coler of New York seeks Mueller law certificates. Patterson named Commissioner of Public Works succeeding Blocks as city treasurer.
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New York Times
Chicago
Dunne
Bird S. Coler
City of
New York
Mueller
Coler
W. N. Coler & Co
Joseph Medill Patterson
Fred W. Blocks
Four Newsboys Die In Stampede At Indianapolis Show
Four newsboys were crushed to death and several others injured in a panic stampede in the Masonic Temple stairway during a ticket distribution by a patent medicine promoter. Police and ambulance crews struggled to reach victims as a crowd swelled and chaos spread.
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Indianapolis
Masonic Temple
Washington Street
Capitol Avenue
Ambulance Corps
Mrs Coats in Crazy Broadway Car Crash at Carpet Store
A car driven by chauffeur James Davis, carrying Mrs Alfred M Coats, rammed through glass doors of W & J Sloane carpet store on Broadway at Nineteenth Street causing panic. Mrs Coats and a boy, Joseph Strong, were injured but not seriously. the machine sustained limited damage and was driven away.
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Broadway
Alfred M. Coats
Nineteenth Street
W. & J. Sloane
James Davis
Tenderloin Station
New York Transportation Company
Coats
Charles Hall
Stratford Hotel
East Thirty-second Street
Hughes
Broadway Squad
Davis
Mrs. Coats
Strong
New York
Stop Color Dispute Hits Eastman College
Poughkeepsie April 17 C V Daniels a Eastman Business College student withdrew from main college today after 160 Southern students petitioned President Gaines claiming he has negro blood. Gaines accompanied him to New York to place him in the Harlem branch. Daniels from St Thomas is seventeen. his father English, grandmother Danish, mother Porto Rican.
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Poughkeepsie
N. Y
C. V. Daniels
Eastman Business College
Gaines
New York
Harlem
Hastman College
Virginia
Daniels
St. Thomas
Drowned Youth at New Haven YMCA Pool
Clarence H. Barnes sixteen son of Charles H. Barnes was found drowned late in the afternoon in the YMCA swimming pool. The high school gymnastic class had been at work and Barnes left to swim alone, leading to the belief he struck the shallow end while attempting a dive and was stunned. The pool depth was four feet nine inches.
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New Haven
Clarence H. Barnes
Charles H. Barnes
Young Men’s Christian Association
Barnes
Revolt over Japanese in South Omaha Schools
In South Omaha on April 17 800 white school children struck and locked out teachers to bar Japanese pupils from public schools. Police dispersed the crowd after which the youths paraded the streets crying Down with the Japs. Parents aided the disruption as the School Board prepared a special meeting to decide the issue.
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New York Times
South Omaha
Neb
Veteran actor Joseph Jefferson sinks in Florida hospital
Joseph Jefferson, the veteran actor, worsened this evening in West Palm Beach Florida and by midnight was sinking rapidly. Physicians have remained at his bedside and family members not with him have been telegraphed to come as his condition deteriorates.
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West Palm Beach
Fla
Joseph Jefferson
Senate Passes Keenan Bill on Long Island Fares
Albany April 17 The Senate approved the Keenan bill prohibiting the Long Island Railroad Company from charging patrons more for travel and baggage than the rates in force before January 1, 1905.
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New York Times
Albany
Senate Tonight
Long Island Railroad Company
Vast Scheme for Antwerp Port Extension Approved
Antwerp April 17 The Chamber of Commerce unanimously approved the Government scheme for a vast extension that would make Antwerp the largest port in the world at a cost of 40,000,000 dollars. The project will be submitted to Parliament soon.
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Antwerp
Chamber of Commerce
Death by own action shocks Rand-McNally leader
CHICAGO April 17 T C Haynes secretary of Rand McNally Publishing shot and killed himself in his room at the Marquette Club. He was nearly eighty and believed to have ended his life due to failing health and despondency over his condition. He seldom left his room and was found dead after club attendants failed to gain a response.
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Chicago
T. C. Haynes
Rand-McNally Publishing Company
Marquette Club
Haynes
Mr. Haynes
Wife Sues W D Walker for Divorce in Providence
Special to The New York Times reports Mrs. Wilfred D. Walker files a divorce petition in the Appellate Division of the Rhode Island Supreme Court. She alleges desertion and extreme cruelty by her husband, son of John Brisben Walker. The marriage occurred July 2 last year and was announced recently.
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New York Times
Providence
R. I
Supreme Court
Wilfred D. Walker
John Brisben Walker
Cosmopolitan
Willis B. Richardson
New York
Walker
Beatrice J. Francis Dillworth
Mayor McClellan to Run Campaign for Fall Ticket
Albany April 17 Tammany delegates report a peace pact with Mayor McClellan who would personally manage the Democratic campaign if he secures the nomination this fall. Senator McCarren declines comment. McClellan aims to harmonize Democratic factions but will not allow Tammany interference with his union plan and Murphy.
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Albany
Tammany
New York
McClellan
McCarren
Charles F. Murphy
Democratic
Pension bill makes retired justices referees in New York
Albany April 17 The Elsberg bill allowing retired Supreme Court Justices to serve as referees became law without Gov Higgins signature The provisions cover only retired First Judicial District members in New York County Appointment rests with the Appellate Division Those named must have twenty years service and be at least sixty five Justices Barrett Van Brunt and Ingaham are expected to become eligible with Gildersleeve set for later eligibility
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New York Times
Albany
Elsberg
Supreme Court
Justicee Gildersleeve
Rockefeller Buys Gas Stock To Influence Kansas Fight
Philadelphia April 17 Jonn D Rockefeller and allies buy United Gas Improvement stock to gain control and blunt Kansas opposition to Standard Oil. A 5 point rise today lifted the stock from 117 to 123 stock. Rockefeller fears Kansas momentum and says control could cripple the opposition while other independents offer limited help.
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New York Times
Philadelphia
Jonn D. Rockefeller
United Gas Improvement
Kansas
Standard Oil
Rockefeller
Oliver's Scotch Named The Highbell's Famous Choice
An advertisement extols OLIVER'S as the Scotch that made the highbell famous and declares it the best. It markets a single brand with a prideful claim of superior quality for discerning drinkers.
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Oliver's
Hyde Agents at Savoy Meet Drift Toward Settlement
General agents of Equitable Life Assurance Society, about 180 of 220, convened at the Savoy then moved to the Netherland for a secret caucus. They endorsed Alexander, heard reports, and planned a public statement with Hyde to address the controversy. Agents pressed for business stability while wary of press coverage and internal fights.
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Equitable Life Assurance Society
Hotel Savoy
Alexander
Gage
Tarbell
Evering
James H. Hyde
Mr. Hyde
Savoy
Netherland
Julius Bohm
Joseph H. Choate
Bohm
Hyde Syndicate Dispute Over Alexander Involvement
Friends of President Alexander and Vice President Hyde offered conflicting statements yesterday about Hyde's claim that Alexander helped underwrite the syndicate James H. Hyde and Associates. Hyde's assertion was repeated while others alleged Alexander received checks that did not reflect his knowledge and were returned.
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Alexander
Hyde
Mr. Alexander
James H. Hyde
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Nantes
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Indianapolis Hall
West Indian Eastman Student
Piso
Long Island
Keenan
Rand-McNally Company
Sues
W. D. Walker
Murphy
Tammany Men
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