Roosevelt speaks in Austin on rail policy and the National Guard
President Roosevelt visited Austin on April 6 and addressed the Texas legislature and public. He argued for careful regulation of corporate wealth especially railroads, warned against partisan misuse, and defended a square deal approach. He praised the National Guard and noted Texas’ fighting heritage from Austin to Houston.
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Austin
Tex
Roosevelt
The
Legis
Public Square
Fence Fight Sparks Armed Guard On Bodine Creek
Melville E. Wygant mayor of the Golden City Port Richmond Staten Island mobilized about 100 volunteers to resist Miss Clara Bodine's plan to erect a fence along Bodine's Creek. Cannon, rifles and guard patrols were deployed with Captain Thomas Carr in command. Bodine retreated after sighting the armed forces and a tense standoff grew as the dispute over property rights escalated.
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Bodine
Miss Bodine
Thomas Carr
Wygant
Jewettave
Patrick Keating
Roosevelt
San Juan
Golden City Guard
John Redmond
Hogan's Alley
Golden City
Redmond
Richmond Terrace
West Brighton
Hogan
Golden City Wygant
Driver Fights Police In Tenderloin District Altercation
Edward Hunt resisted arrest after a traffic dispute on Sixth Avenue. Patrolman Arthur F. Werner was injured in the encounter, later hospitalized and placed on sick leave. Hunt was charged with violating the corporation ordinance and assault on an officer. A crowd watched the melee and Jefferson Market Court was expected to hear the case.
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Edward Hunt
Tenderloin
Arthur F. Werner
Hunt
Werner
Barrett
34Th-St
East 27Th-St
Jefferson Market Court
Gillespie
New-York Hospital
Action in Beef Case Opens with Federal Probe
Judge J Otis Humphrey was recalled from Springfield as United States District Attorney Morrison and Assistant Attorney General Pagin arrived. Officials would not reveal reasons but the grand jury is moving toward further indictments on charges of interfering with witnesses. A large contingent of Secret Service men from Washington has joined the investigation.
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Texas
Couny
Pblic
Tribune
Chicago
J. Otis Humphrey
United States District Court
Springfield
United States District Attorney
Morrison
Pagin
Grand Jury
Secret Service
Washington
Senator Platt in Serious Condition with Bronchitis
Senator Orville H. Platt, ill at his Washington Connecticut home with bronchitis and pneumonia, was reported by his physician Dr. W J Ford to be less favorable as the illness returned in one lung. Earlier this afternoon his condition was serious but slight improvement was noted at eight this evening.
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Washington, Conn
Orville H. Platt
W. J. Ford
Rockefeller Gift Defense by Standard Oil Chief Solicitor
Chief Solicitor Dodd of the Standard Oil Company issued a statement defending John D. Rockefeller’s $100,000 gift for foreign missions. He rebutted charges of dishonesty, denied railroad ownership or control, and argued rebates before and after the Interstate Commerce Act were misrepresented.
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Dodd
Standard Oil Company
Dr. Gladden
John D. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
United States Industrial Commission
Standard Oil
Subscriptions Push Fund for Rome Academy Home
Three additional subscriptions of 190000 each are expected to reach the 1,000,000 goal for the American Academy of Fine Arts Rome home. Princeton Chicago Chicago University Yale Harvard and others including J Pierpont Morgan Henry Walters William K Vanderbilt are pledged for 100000 each with June expected for completion.
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American Academy of Fine Arts
Rome
F. D. Miller
Academy
Tribune
Princeton University
Chicago University
City of
Chicago
The
James Stillman
Yale University
Columbia University
J. Pierpont Morgan
Henry Walters
William K. Vanderbilt
Harvard University
Henry L. Higginson
Rome Watching Suit Opens Over Biondi Satunalia
Rome circles follow Ernesto Biondi’s suit against the Metropolitan Museum of Art for 200000 dollars over the non display of Saturnalia. The National Sculpture Society plans to respond to Italian art critics while denying any action by the society on moral grounds.
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Rome
Ernesto Biondi
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Supreme Court
National Sculpture Society
Daniel C. French
Tribune
Unione Degli Artisti
Union of Artists
French
Society of American Artists
Biondi
Sculpture Society
Filippo Cifariello
Committee of Regency
John de Witt Warner
The
National Sculpture
Boynton man scalded in sugar factory plunge
John Demartine of 27 Roosevelt street fell into a large boiling glucose tank at Otto Esing's candy factory 380 Pearl street. He suffered extensive burns, was aided by fellow workers, and rushed to Hudson Street Hospital where surgeon Hall treated him as his clothing peeled away with the skin.
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John Demartine
Roosevelt St
Otto Esing
Pearl St
Demartine
Surgeon Hall
Hudson Street Hospital
Russian troop shifts replace Ameer forces in Bokhara zone
Bombay reports The Times of India states Russian troops now occupy all posts on the Upper Oxus in Shignan and Roshan districts. Four thousand men detach from Merv garrison join Kushk and Murgab River force, while Merv deficiency is filled from Orenburg in the Urals.
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Bombay
The
Times of India
Ameer
Bokhara
Upper
Oxus
Darya
Shignan
Roshan
Merv
Kushk and
Murghab
Orenburg
Ural
April 23 Promises a Great Historic Event on Rail
The Pennsylvania Railroad plans to run through trains on April 23, promising a notable advance in rail service. Early reservations for parlor car seats are urged to be made.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Erie Railroad Increases Capital Stock In New Plan
The Erie Railroad Company filed with the Secretary of State to raise total capital stock from 177 million to 197 million dollars. The common stock rises from 113 million to 133 million, signed by President Frederick D. Underwood and Secretary David Bosman. The move aligns with prior 50 million dollar convertible bonds issued in 1903 and 1905, with a future conversion price not below 41 2 percent of a share, while the stock closed at 46 percent. The company plans extensive betterment programs costing many millions.
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Albany
Erie Railroad Company
Frederick D. Underwood
David Bosman
The
Erie
Banker Drowns in Suspected Suicidal Death at Swampscott
Lynn Mass April 6 David K Phillips president of the National Grand Bank of Marblehead and senior member of the Boston real estate firm D K and L H Phillips disappeared while walking toward Palmer Beach. His body was found wedged between rocks at the beach with missing coat waistcoat hat watch. Police and medical examiner consider death possibly suicide though autopsy sought. Family and associates note nervous temperament and recent tenant dispute pressures.
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Lynn
Mass
David K. Phillips
National Grand Bank of Marblehead
D. K
Phillips
Eben Phillips
R. Harris
Onions Odors Block Title Company Offices Injunction
C. C. Sedgwick & Co. obtain a district court injunction to stop owners of a building from making changes that would allow cooking odors from a nearby restaurant to reach the title company offices in Sioux City Iowa. The suit argues such fumes would injure their business.
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the Tribune
Sioux City
Iowa
C. C. Sedgwick & Co
Boy with $5000 in bag travels alone to Muscatine
Dickie Hourigan eleven years old rode from Deadwood S D to Muscatine Iowa eight hundred miles carrying a sack with five thousand dollars left by his father to reach his grandmother Mrs Mary Leonard. He arrived safely then wandered off with the bag and has not been found. Authorities fear robbery and death.
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Tribune
Muscatine
Iowa
Dickie Hourigan
Deadwood
S. D
Mary Leonard
Green Estate Net Value Tallies After Appraisal
The estate of Andrew H. Green, known as the father of greater New York, is appraised at about 1.77 million dollars after gunfire death by Williams. Real estate valued around 51 thousand dollars. personalty mainly mortgages, stocks, and bonds totaling about 1.705 million. Executors’ commissions and administration costs are to be deducted to reach the net value.
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Andrew H. Green
Greater
New York
Williams
Mutualization Debate at Equitable Meeting Ends Favor Hyde
A pitched Equitable Life directors meeting in 1906 produced a two year mutualization plan favoring James Hazen Hyde. The vote left in place a three fifths consent clause for future amendments and created committees to vet new directors and investigate management. Amid charges and countercharges, harmony remained elusive as Harriman and others influenced the process and President Alexander faced potential scrutiny.
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Equitable Life Assurance Society
James W. Alexander
James Hazen Hyde
Alexander
Mr. Hyde
Hyde
Crimmins
Cornelius N. Bliss
E. H. Harriman
Gage E. Tarbell
Senator Depew
James J. Hill
Charles Stewart Smith
Melville F. Ingalls
Brayton Ives
T. de Witt Cuyler
John A. Stewart
Equitable
Depew
Superintendent of Insurance
Bliss
Papal Delegate Sbarretti Admits Interference in Manitoba
MontrealApril 6 The Papal delegate Monsignor Sbarretti issues a formal statement admitting charges by Canada’s Minister of Public Works over his interference in the Manitoba boundary dispute He defends his mission to aid the Catholic minority while arguing his Vatican role shields him from political negotiation Canadian press largely denounces his actions and a recall is rumored with Archbishop Bruches named as a possible successor.
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tTarsous
Montreal
Wilfrid Laurier
Canada
Monsignor Sberretti
Manitoba
Ablegate
Monsignor Sbarretti
John McNeill
First Baptist Church
Winnipeg
Ottawa
Pagal Ablegate
Northwest
Borden
The
Valles
Canadian
Philippines
Cuba
Monsignor
Sharrett
Bruches
Vatican
Heiress Pearl White Weds New York Hotel Clerk in Hot Springs
Miss Pearl M. White daughter of W. J. White a Cleveland gum maker and former congressman secretly married James L. Bancroft a New York hotel clerk in Hot Springs Arkansas. The couple met at Palm Beach and kept the affair quiet until the ceremony and public curiosity followed. Bancroft age twenty five and his Brookline Massachusetts parents are noted.
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Hot Springs
Ark
Pearl M. White
W. J. White
Cleveland
James L. Bancroft
New York
Paul L. Sorg
White
Florida
Palm Beach
Bancroft
Miss White
Brookline Mass
Banana War in Boston Shakes Import Trade
A banana price fight unfolds among United Fruit, Atlantic Fruit, and W W R Noyes in Boston. Auction sales by Atlantic push lower prices while United Fruit sticks to fixed per pound pricing and Noyes sells by the bunch. Import volumes rise as the dispute grows.
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Boston
United Fruit Company
Atlantic Fruit Company
W. W. R. Noyes
Atlantic Company
Noyes
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August Belmont
Pach Bros
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George J. Gould
Ames
Valentine P. Snyder
Alvin W. Krech
A. J. Cassatt
Charles S. Smith
J. J. Hill
Louis Fitzgerald
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Interate Commerce
National Guard
Feijing
Houston
Davy Crockett
Bodine’s Creek
Staten Island
C. H. Platt
Defence OF Rockefeller Missions
American Academy of Art
Atlantic City
Court
Equitable Settlement
Frank H. Platt
Bainbridge Colby
William N. Cohen
Mr. Harriman
Sbarretti
Claims Authority
Laurier
Clere
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