Government to file suit to end Union Pacific control
The Attorney General plans a government lawsuit to break Union Pacific influence over Southern Pacific and rival lines, citing the Inter-State Commerce Commission Harriman report. Counsel Kellogg and Severance assist, while Union Pacific officials vow to contest the action as Inter-State Commerce Commissioner Knapp questions the move. The case mirrors the Northern Securities approach amid railroad competition.
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Great Northern
Northern Pacific
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company
Union Pacific
Frank B. Kellogg
Cordenio A. Severance
St. Paul
Inter-State Commerce Commission
Bonaparte
Southern Pacific
Union Pacific Railroads
Harriman
Northern Securities Company
Knox
Roosevelt
Washington
Wall Street
E. Harriman
Inter-State Commerce
Knapp
Attorney General's Department
Harriman Gould War Ends Over Railroads
The Examiner reports E H Harriman and George J Gould have settled their rivalry over the Southern Pacific and Western Pacific Railroads. A peace agreement ends hostilities and pending lawsuits, reached this week in New York between Gould and Harriman.
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San Francisco
the Examiner Today
E. H. Harriman
George J. Gould
Southern Pacific
Western Pacific
New York
Gould
Harriman
Union Pacific retrenches Omaha workers amid reform drive
Union Pacific cuts five day workweek for most shop workers after already reducing hours. A. B. Mohler blames President Roosevelt's reform drive for the move, saying thousands more on the railroad may face layoffs nationwide. Motor car shops exempt. 3,000 mechanical workers in Omaha, 8,000 laid off in four months overall.
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Omaha
Neb
Union Pacific
the World-Herald Today
Roosevelt
Monitor to Be Target in Navy Gunfire Experiment
Washington reports the Navy plans a test firing on the monitor Florida using 12 inch rifles from a battleship. The target will be one turret and the shot location will be Chesapeake Bay or the Potomac River. The aim is not to sink the monitor built about ten years ago.
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Washington
Navy Department
Florida
Chesapeake Bay
Potomac River
Monitor
Bowery Saloons Closed By Commissioner Order
Commissioner Bingham ordered fourteen Sergeants moved to Fifth Street precinct and nine Lieutenants to supervise their work, closing saloons along the east Bowery from Fourteenth to Houston Street and toward Avenue B. The East 104th Street Precinct reportedly saw similar actions in the selected area for disciplinary transfers.
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Bingham
Fifth Street
Nct
Bowery
Fourteenth Street
Houston Street
Avenue B
104Th Street
Three Brooklyn Boys Rob Church Then Set Fire
Three boys under twelve forced entry into the Fourth Avenue Baptist Church in Brooklyn. They ripped out a marble baptismal font for its lead pipe, started a fire to hide the theft, and were seen by neighbor Christian Meyer. The trio sold the lead pipe to a junk dealer for 26 cents. Authorities arrested Frank Wardlow Louis Larsen and Arthur Johnson.
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Fourth Avenue Baptist Church
Brooklyn
Christian Meyer
Frank Wardlow
Fifth Avenue
Louis Larsen
Thirtyfourth Street
Arthur Johnson
Thirty-third Street
Gridiron Club Dinner Echoes 1909 Campaign
The twenty third annual Winter Gridiron Club dinner at the New Willard spotlights the national campaign with Roosevelt Bryan Knox Cannon Root and others attending. The Court Journal parody songs lampoon candidates while a naval mock revue and a midnight sing end the event, honoring Charles Emory Smith and raising funds for Children’s Hospital.
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New York Times
Gridiron Club
New Willard
Court Journal
Theodore Roosevelt
Pantata
William Jennings Bryan
George Gray
Judson Hiarmon
Mr. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Warwick
Bryan
Knox
Speaker Cannon
Elihu Root
Charles Emory Smith
Children’s Hospital
Bryan Delayed Arrives in Time for Gridiron Club Dinner
William Jennings Bryan missed a train in Atlanta and was late reaching Washington for the Gridiron Club dinner. He arrived at the banquet hall at 9 40 p m in evening clothes, having dressed on the train and met by an automobile in the suburbs.
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William Jennings Bryan
Henry
Club
Evans
Washington
Atlanta
Visitors at the White House Include Notables
Washington January 25 reports an unusual crowd at the White House with Speaker Cannon Vice President Fairbanks and several lawmakers from New York and Connecticut. President Roosevelt discusses naval expansion with Rep Richmond P Hobson who seeks navy growth. Hobson says the President backs the effort. E H Gary chairman of United States Steel Corporation also took luncheon at the White House.
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Bob
Evans
Doc
Nebraska
Minnesota
Admiral Evans
Roosevelt
W. J. Bryan
Fairbanks
Gray
Cannon
John Sharp Williams
Knox
Root
Hengelmuller
Bishop Satterlee
Washington
White House
Bennet
J. Sloat Fassett
Herbert Parsons
New York
Gov
Woodruff
Lilly
Connecticut
Richmond P. Hobson
House Committee On
Naval Affairs
Hobson
E. H. Gary
United States Steel Coreae
White Ouse
Seventieth Anniversary Mass At St Paul Brooklyn
The Church of St Paul at Court and Congress Streets Brooklyn marks its 70th anniversary with a special service today High mass at 11 A M celebrated by Bishop McDonnell and a sermon by Vicar General Joseph F Mooney of the New York Diocese St Pauls is the second oldest Catholic Church in Brooklyn
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Church of St. Paul
Court and
Congress Streets
Brooklyn
McDonnell
Joseph F. Mooney
New York
St. Paul's
Charity asks aid for the poor in New York by Minturn fund
R S Minturn treasurer invites donations to the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor. Details show gifts from $1 to $1,060 enable stockings for eight children, meals for a mother and four kids, warm clothing or bedding, eviction prevention, and support for over 2,000 families. President R Fulton Cutting notes the campaign.
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R. S Minturn
Treas
E. 22d
R. Fulton Cutting
N.Y
Bar Association Echoes on Legislation and Prison Anecdotes
The speech highlights opposition to broad state legislation and favors local charter reforms to limit state meddling. A tale of a convict visiting the Governor’s chamber prompts laughs about the system. The bar votes on a judicial nominating committee and elects new officers led by Francis Lynde Stetson as president.
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Gav. Hughes
Association
Simon Fleischman
William P. Rudd
Francis Lynde Stetson
Joseph H. Choate
Paul Fuller
William C. de Witt
Lewis E. Carr
Edward C. Whitmyer
William Nottingham
Bar to Enter Politics Elevnth Amendment Debate
William D. Guthrie of the New York Bar argued yesterday that the Eleventh Amendment does not shield state officers from suits in federal court seeking damages for unconstitutional private-right invasions under color of a statute. He noted Southern disputes over enforcement against corporations and discussed the amendment’s wording and reach.
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Walt
Auburn
Werner
Court of Appeals
Holt
Federal Court
Talcott Williams
Liberty
William D. Guthrie
New York
United States
Hudson River Tunnels Financed for Construction Progress
The Hudson Companies issue 15 million in two year 6 percent notes secured by 22.5 million of Hudson and Manhattan bonds. Funds fund continued tunnel and terminal work as experimental trains run to Christopher Street and preparations for Hoboken to Fourteenth Street service. The Post Office substation secures space in the Church Street terminal. Total 1907- year spend reaches 34.19 million.
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Hudson Companies
Hudson River Traction
Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Company
Oakman
Harvey Fisk & Sons
Treasury
Christopher Street
Fourteenth Street
Hoboken
Church Street
Cortlandt
Vesey Streets
Post Office Department
Plucky New Jersey Couple Survive Blizzard Train Trek
Mr and Mrs Samuel Bartlett of Tuckerton endured a blizzard on a special cargo and passenger train from Burlington to Camden. Bartlett helped dig through snow drifts while Mrs Bartlett was kept warm in the engine cab. The couple reached Camden then proceeded to New York and awaited friends in Philadelphia and Atlantic City before boarding the Oceana voyage.
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Burlington
N. J
West Indies
Samuel Bartlett
Tuckerton
Joseph Shreve
Bartlett
Camden
New York
Oceana
Elizabeth Bartlett
Philadelphia
Sarah Leeds
Henry W. Leeds
Atlantic City
Poisoning at Union Hill breakfast shocks community
Mrs John Gschwind widow of Coroner Gschwind and four relatives are recovering from arsenic poisoning after breakfast. A white powder was seen on rolls and a man was spotted on the doorstep near delivery times, suggesting an attempted deliberate poisoning. The police are investigating with aid from medical staff.
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John Gschwind
Gschwind
Union Hill
N. J
Helen Cooper
Antivivisection Union Applies For Incorporation
The Inter-State Antivivisection Union seeks incorporation with a large New York following led by Secretary Mrs Lisa Badger and Acting Treasurer Mrs Emma Erskine Hahn. A donation of e is noted from a male supporter backing the cause.
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Inter-State Antivivisection Union
New York
Lisa Badger
Emma Erskine Hahn
Aldrich currency bill to speed through Congress
Washington notes indicate the Aldrich currency bill will pass both houses rapidly with the railroad bond clause amended and the surplus bank issue distributed to states by banking capital. Ally allies like Hale Allison and Bailey push changes, while Democratic senators struggle to form a unified position as Bryan travels.
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New York Times
Washington
Congress
House
Fowler
Joe Cannon
Committee On Rules
House Committee On Banking and Currency
Banking and Currency Committee
Uncle Joe
Aldrich
Senate
Senate Committee On Finance
Hale and
Allison
Bailey
Texas
Democratic
United States Treasury
Cortelyou
Treasury
Senate Finance Committee
McLaurin
Culberson
Owen
William Jennings Bryan
Keifer Announces Pension Roll Increase to 150 Million
Representative Keifer of Ohio, chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Pensions, said the committee will recommend a pension roll of 150 million dollars for the year ending June 30, 1909. The increase exceeds the current year by about 7 million dollars, due largely to the McCumber bill provisions allowing higher pensions with age and eliminating physical exams for disability claims.
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Washington
Keifer
Ohio
House Committee On Appropriations
Bargain With Smoking Wife Ends in Move to Brooklyn
New Brunswick New Jersey January fifth Mrs Eugene Foulkes's cigarette habit sparked a quarrel with her husband He sought help from Justice of the Peace Joseph A Headley The justice advised reconciliation The wife agreed to quit smoking if her husband would move them from Milltown to Brooklyn As a result the couple relocated today
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New York Times
New Brunswick
N. J
Eugene Foulkes
Weelk
Justice of the Peace
Joseph A. Headley
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