Supreme Court Limits Interstate Commerce Commission Inquiries
The Supreme Court ruled that the Interstate Commerce Commission cannot press questions about private transactions when its inquiry began on its own initiative, limiting power to cases with complaints. Justice Holmes announced the opinion, with dissenters led by Justices Harlan and McKenna.
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Washington
Edward H. Harriman
Otto H. Kahn
Interstate Commerce Commission
Supreme Court of the United States
Commission
Interstate Commerce Law
Justice Holmes
Messrs. Harriman and Kahn
Harriman
Union Pacific Railroad
Harlan
McKenna
Dar
United States Circuit Court
Southern District of New York
Messrs. Harriman
Kahn
Justice Moody
Supreme Court
Circuit Court of the United States
Union Pacific Road
Southern Pacific
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Northern Pacific
Great Northern
Illinois
Chicaco & Alton
Union Pacific
Ilinois Central
New York Central
T Pacific
Iruit
Otto H Kahn
New York
Kahn, Loeb & Co
Tham
Massive Builders' Exchange Building Sells for 2.5 Million
An investor purchased the twelve story modern Builders' Exchange Building, 29 to 35 West 32d Street and 30 to 34 West 33d Street, for about 2,500,000 through Pease & Elliman. Sellers were William and Julius Manger. Tenants include Brunswick Parke Collender, D Appleton, Oxford University Press, Henry Holt, and others. The sale is described as a major central Fifth Avenue investment.
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Pease & Elliman
Builders’ Exchange
West 32d Street
West 33d Street
William
Julius Manger
Fifth Avenue
Waldorf-Astoria
Broadway
Brunswick- Parke-Collender Company
Parker Building
Building Trades Employers’ Association
D. Appleton & Co
Oxford University Press
James Clarke & Co
Henry Holt & Co
Sperry & Hutchinson
Frank Seamons
Baron Held as Thief in West 112th Street Robbery
Detectives Campbell and Murtagh arrest Baron Adolph von Stern schwert at the General Post Office after the Zur Helles report jewels stolen from their No 120 West 112th Street home. He confessed to the December 19 theft valued at 809 dollars, claiming Austrian army former officer status.
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Charles Zur Heile
West 112Th Street
Baron Adolph von Sternschwert
Campbell
Murtagh
Zur Helles
von Sternschwert
Philadelphia Street Railway Strike Threat After Wage Demands
Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company rejects recognition of Amalgamated Association leaders in response to wage and concession demands. Members threaten a strike if demands are not met, seeking pay rise from 21 to 25 cents per hour and a 25 cent daily fee for carmen instructors.
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Philadelphia
Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway
Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company
Amalgamated Association
Bell Company Faces Long Battle in Ohio Court
Cleveland December 14 The United States Telephone Company seeks a permanent injunction against Bell Telephone in a case over alleged monopolistic long distance contracts. Bell claims US Telephone instigated a trust and accuses it of violating antitrust laws amid a heated legal fight over exclusive independents.
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Cleveland
United States
Bell Telephone Company
United States Telephone Company
Ohio
Kell Company
Taylor
United States Company
Bell Company
Liner Celtic Reaches Port After Stormy Crossing
The White Star liner Celtic finally arrived after a week of gale and heavy seas delaying its voyage. A teak rail broke and deck fittings dented but no serious damage reported. eight days twenty-one hours at sea. Also the Fabre liner Gallia arrived after a twenty day passage from Marseilles, two lifeboats lost. Neustria sighting unsuccessful.
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White Star
Celtic
Saturdday
Gallia
Marseilles
mid-Atlantic
Bouleuc
Neustria
Atlantic
K M An Honorable Degree
Mrs A H Dahl wife of the state treasurer spoke in Madison about recognizing the kitchen mechanic title as a respectable grade equal to A B for a properly trained maid. She argued the wife’s role is the home and a skilled homemaker is more valuable than fashion.
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the Tribune
Madison
Wis
K. M
A. H. Dahl
Five Fishermen Escape Fire Sinking Boat Near Sheepshead Bay
Five anglers aboard the Ilene were burned and stranded for about fifteen hours after a gasoline tank exploded. Captain John Morson and Captain Thomas Bell survived with burns while Charles Cartwright Daniel Langdon and Samuel Stout clung to a rowboat and were rescued near Sheepshead Bay after signaling passing ships in vain.
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Morson
Sheepshead Bay
Ilene
John Morson
Thomas Bell
Charles Cartwright
Daniel Langdon
Samuel Stout
Cartwright
Langdon
Stout
Bell
Sheepsnead Bay
Governor Hughes Forms Nine Member Stock Exchange Inquiry
In Albany on December 14 Governor Hughes announced a nine member committee of bankers merchants and economists to study stock exchange practices in New York. They will report on needed changes in securities and commodities laws to protect investors and guard against illegitimate speculation. The panel serves without pay and includes Horace White Charles Schieren David Leventritt Clark Williams John B. Clark Willard V. King Samuel Ordway Edward Page and Charles Sprague Smith.
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Albany
Hughes
New York
Horace White
Charles A. Schieren
Brooklyn
David Leventritt
The
Supreme Court
Clark Williams
John B. Clark
Columbia University
Willard V. King
Columbia Trust Company
Samuel H. Ordway
Edward D. Page
Faulkner, Page & Co
Charles Sprague Smith
People’s Institute
Charles E. Hughes
Oldest human remains found at Chapelle aux Saints
Paris reports Abbes Bouyssen and Bardon supervising Chapelle aux Saints excavations in Corréze. They unearthed what are believed to be the oldest human remains dating to 170,900 years ago in the middle Pleistocene. The skull resembles a monkey with a long jaw and no canines. other bones indicate quadrupedal movement. The skeleton has been acquired by the Natural History Museum of Paris.
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Paris
Abbés Bouyssen
Bardon
Chapelleaux-Saints
Corréze Department
Natural History Museum of
Indian revolt checked in Calcutta arrests
Calcutta December 14 authorities report arrest of nine leading Bengali figures including Chunder Malik a Calcutta millionaire and social figure and deportation to a secret destination. They say the move has halted the seditious movement and restrained political agitation.
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Calcutta
Chunder Malik
Dutta
Dying Moscow Millionaire Burns Fortune in Room
A Moscow magnate Petroff reportedly had his entire fortune withdrawn and burned in his sick room after summoning relatives. Bank notes were piled and set aflame as he congratulated relatives on escaping wealth’s evils.
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London
St. Petersburg
Daily Mail
Moscow
Petroff
Mrs Nichols Learns of New Son in Law After Elopement
Pittsburg December 14 Mrs Henry Nichols wife of Liberty Brewing Company president receives a call from her daughter Sarah reporting she has a Christmas gift a new son in law. Sarah eloped with Albert Schwartzkopf a Wellsburg bookkeeper after shopping in town last Friday. Mrs Nichols later relents and tells Sarah to bring the groom home.
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the Tribune
Pittsburg
Henry Nichols
Liberty Brewing Company
Sarah
Miss Nichols
Albert Schwartzkopf
Wellsburg
W. Va
Schwartzkopf
Phonograph Testimony Chains Rumstay in Court
In Pittsburg on December 14 magistrate England bound over C A Rumstay on an assault and battery charge by Mrs John E Hinds. The phonograph and Mrs Hinds were the only witnesses as the device testified to a quarrel over a phonograph price and an alleged choke on a piano stool.
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Tribune
Pittsburg
England
C. A. Rumstay
John E. Hinds
Hinds
Rumstay
Rings Travel In Sewer After Bath Diamond Loss
Boston police report Mrs. S. L. Gottlieb of Dorchester dropped two diamond rings valued at $5,000 while bathing. Sewers inspectors traced the rings through multiple catch basins, finally recovering them at the last basin near the ocean pumping station seven miles from her home. She paid $25 for their return and promised not to wear jewels in the tub again.
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Tribune
Boston
S. L. Gottlieb
Dorchester
Gottilieb
John Fox Jr and Fritzi Scheff wed in Mt. Kisco ceremony
John Fox Jr and Fritzi Scheff, currently starring in The Prima Donna at the Knickerbocker, married Sunday afternoon at Mt. Kisco in a private ceremony performed by Rev. Dr. Wallace. The pair, who sought secrecy for professional reasons, confirmed rumors after Scheff performed that evening. Scheff’s manager indicated she will likely continue her contract engagements.
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Fritzi Scheff
Knickerbocker Theatre
John Fox, Jr
Mt. Kisco
Wallace
Methodist Episcopal Church
Rector Fox
Miss Scheff
Mr. Fox
Brownsville Senate clash over President's Brownsville message
Washington dec 14 the president sent a special message to the senate revealing detectives had obtained a confession from a negro soldier of the 25th infantry implicating others in the Brownsville affair. Senator Foraker denounced the president's use of detectives and demanded a tribunal to hear the accused. he linked Lawson the detective to questions about conyers and pledged to oversee detectives visiting him. Debate in senate expected with Lodge due to speak on Brownsville.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Senate
Brownsville
25Th Infantry
Foraker
Committee On Military Affairs
War Department
Bates
Chaffee
Davis
Jesse Lee
Daggett
Boyd Conyers
Lawson
Conyers
Monroe
Senator Foraker
Mr. Foraker
25Th Regiment
Senator Lodge
Secret
Secret Service
Roosevelt
Herbert J. Browne
23Rd Infantry
Browne
Senate Committee On Military Affairs
Wright
Th Infantry
William Lawson
William G. Baldwin
Roanoke
3Th Infantry
Roosevelt Special Message On Brownsville Confession
President Roosevelt submits Herbert Browne’s War Department report on Brownsville 1906. It cites Boyd Conyers’s confession and names Company B leaders, notes concealment by Companies C and D, and urges reinstatement for innocent or repentant soldiers within a year as the investigation continues.
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Secretary of War
Mr. Browne
Senate
Herbert J. Browne
Department
W. G. Baldwin
Brownsville
Company B
B Troop
War Department
Hele Wous Theodore Roosevelt
White House
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Commerce Commission's
Powers of Inquiry
Illinois Central
Mr. Hastate
Rogers
James Stillman
Cater Pacific
Kuhn, Leed & Co
Low Pacific
Cynthcste
Builders’ Exchange Building
Army
Union
Charge Bell Company
U.S
Dahl
Life In Rowboat
Governor Names Investigating Board
Wall Street
Abbés
Dewey's
H . Dewey & Sons Co
Fulton St
Military Affairs Committee
MR Lodge
United States Senate
Committee On
Noithere
J. B. Foraker
Atlanta
Birmingham
Memphis
Seaboard Air Line
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