Gifts to railroad clerks prompt ICC inquiry
Philadelphia June 6. Pennsylvania Railroad assistants admitted taking large gifts from coal interests. Chief clerk Joseph Boyer received stock worth 40 sixty thousand and cash totaling 46 thousand in three years while purchasing locomotive fuel from coal companies. Reeves received stock worth 40 thousand from Col George Huff. Berwind-White Berwind-White paid 107000 total for the Harsimus Pier lease, with railroads to reclaim sums at lease end.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad
Inter-State Commerce Commission
Joseph Boyer
A. W. Gibbs
M. K. Reeves
Pugh
George W. Huff
Pennsylvania
Boyer
Graff Coal Company
Clearfield and Granton Company
Thomas Blythe & Co
Smith & Turner
Dunkirk Coal Company
Glasgow
Blythe
Mr. Glasgow
Rohrer
Reeves
Col
George F. Huff
Col. Huff
Joe
Max Reibenack
Harsimus
Berwind-White Company
Sena Ae Railroad
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Berwind-White
Berwind- White
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company
J. E. Muhffeld
Railroa
H. C. Frick Coal Company
J. Muhlfeld
Frick Company
Accuses Cabinet Members of Violating Law in House Debate
In a House debate on the Sundry Civil bill, Mr. Sullivan of Massachusetts alleged three president’s aides violated law. He cited Secretary Hitchcock over Oklahoma land sales and unaccounted proceeds, Secretary Wilson over an oversized Agriculture building program, and Commissioner Sargent for lax enforcement of the Chinese exclusion law.
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Washington
Sullivan
Massachusetts
Appropriations Committee
Interior
Hitchcock
Agriculture Wilson
Commerce and Labor
Metcalf
Oklahoma
Secretary of the Interior
United States Treasury
Treasury Department
Secretary of Agriculture
Wilson
Department of Agriculture
Congress
Agricultural Department
Sargent
Immigration
Submarine signaling demo links bells to ships at Sandy Hook
A Times observer witnessed a submarine signaling demonstration at Sandy Hook showing how a bell on the lightship transmits warning to distant steamers via submarine telephone. The apparatus, developed by Elisha Gray and Arthur Mundy, uses water as the transmitting medium and relays five second intervals of bell notes. The system, installed on the Maine and Alabama and planned for the Missouri and West Virginia, is Newport coastwide with several lines adopting it.
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Jules Verne
Elisha Gray
Chicago
Arthur Re Mundy
Submarine Signal Company
TIMES
Sandy Hook
Pier 6
Francesca
Maine
Alabama
Missouri
West Virginia
Robley D. Evans
Iowa
Turner
Ivernia
Boston
Nantucket
Fire Island
Pollock Rip Shoals
Justice Rules on Interest in Delahunty Canfield Case
Justice Newburger told counsel that appellate decisions oppose granting interest on the verdicts in the Delahunty and Canfield matter. Edward L Mooney pressed for 5 percent extra for the large claim but was denied amid higher court rulings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Delahunty
Richard Canfield
Justice Newburger
Supreme Court
Delahunty
Canfield
Bucklin
Edward L. Mooney
Court of Appeals
Mooney
New York
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Price
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Fourth Ave
Sroka Brothers
Browning,King & Company
Beau Brummell
Broadway
St. Cooper Square
St. St. Manhatten
Fulton St
de Halb Av
Eras Ano
Sata Ave
Eton
Nainsock
Simpson Crawford Cook
Batiste
Paris
Lyons
Calais
Ieee
Los Gatos
California
Santa Clara Valley
John Guinness
de Jameson & Son
New Hampshire
Vermont
Rhode Island
Connecticut
New Jersey
Delaware
Washington, D. C
Virginia
Ohio
Maryland
Jon
Perdoz. Bots
Muscatel
Monogram
Monticello
Heather
Vermouth — Marino & Co
Rocco
Royal Stuart
Baltimore
Uinness
Dublin Stout
Haut Sauternes
Jules Merman & Co
Bordeaux
France
Erhardt & Sohne
Frankfurt, AM
Laubenheimer
Niersteiner
Rudesheimer
Deinhardt & Co
Coblenz-on- Fanceg
Eltinger
Barton & Guestier
Gallon
J. Calvet & Co
St. Ju
Bott
Vincent Bellon & Co
Old Tom Gin
Belle
Mark
Dr. Bell
V. CG. Bell
Victor C. Bell
A. B
D. D
Boards of Education
the American Dentifrice Co
Park Place
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