Sugar customs fraud at Brooklyn docks trial ongoing
Oliver Spitzer dock superintendent at American Sugar Refining Company faces conspiracy and bribery charges in Brooklyn Circuit Court. Witnesses describe a device to underweigh sugar, and a plan to split rewards with accomplices. Trial testimony links J O Brezinski Richard Parr and Richard Whalley with alleged past schemes. The case proceeds with further cross examination and evidence.
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Williamsburg
American Sugar Refining Company
Oliver Spitzer
United States Circuit Court
Brooklyn
Resterdng
Spitzer
J. O. Brezinski
Treasury Department
Brezinski
Whalley
Charles Melley
No. 28
Broadway
Manhattan
Anderson
Richard Parr
H. F. Cochrane
Parr
Westinghouse completes Mexican electrical installations
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company reports completed electrical installations for Mexico including a 50 horsepower rotary converter with switchboard appliances for Guanajuato Consolidated Mining and Milling Company, large motors for La Tula Mining Company, and multiple motors for Lake Chapzin Agricultural and Improvement Company to drive irrigation pumps for Chapai irrigation projects.
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Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company
Mexico
Guanajuato
Rail earnings rise in Illinois railroad report
Springfield March 10 An Illinois state board report shows increases in passenger and freight earnings for railroads in the year ended June 30 1907 Passenger service 41157957 up 4975319 Freight service 120620799 up 19555418 Other earnings 16245917 up 324915 Income from property 12541063 up 23444 Total earnings and income 190565756 up 25564417 Freight carried 155672528 tons up from 146127773 The 2 cent fare due July 1 1907 falls after report and effect on earnings unknown.
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Springfield
State Board of Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners
Illinois
Walsh seeks new trial in Chicago National Bank case
In Chicago on March 10 a bid for a new trial was filed for John R. Walsh, former Chicago National Bank president, convicted of illegal use of funds. Walsh's counsel offered 114 reasons, citing juror misconduct, lack of verdict unanimity, and improper evidence.
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Chicago
John R. Walsh
Chicago National Bank
United States District Court
Anderson
Walsh
Hotel Chatham Wing Near Rue Valmey Opens With Suites
The new wing of the Hotel Chatham in Paris overlooking Rue Valmey is finished. It offers suites and single rooms with private bathrooms.
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Chatham
Paris
Rue Valmey
Hotel Bristol Vienna Attracts American Visitors
The Hotel Bristol in Vienna stands out among Austrian hotels with proprietor Mr. Wolf ensuring the Bristol restaurant earns a reputation as one of Austria’s best. Located in the Kammerring district, it draws many American visitors to the city.
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Bristol
Vienna
Wolf
Austria
Kammerring
Nuremberg Stands Timeless Amid Modern Hotels
Few Americans visit Europe without lingering in Nuremberg a city rich in Old World character. It remains largely unchanged for centuries except for its modern hotels led by the Warttembergerhof which anchors a hub for electric cars departing to all parts of the city.
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Europe
Nuremberg
Wurttembergerhof
Nui
Receiver Asked for Coal and Coke Company
Baltimore March 10 Application for a receiver for the Davis Coal and Coke Company selling agent of the Western Maryland Railroad was made to the State Circuit Court by Lynch Read coal miners creditors for 1755 No order signed and case to be heard soon The Davis company says it has no assets and only acts as selling agent for the Western Maryland Railroad which owns coal lands in West Virginia
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Baltimore
Davis Coal and Coke Company
Western Maryland Railroad
Lynch & Read
Western Maryland
West Virginia
Adjusting United Railways Debt Plan Reported
A Pittsburg dispatch says United Railways of San Francisco will form a plan with creditors to adjust 5.5 million dollars of floating indebtedness. It centers on a 3.5 million dollar issue of 6 percent notes by United Railways Investment Company secured by 3.5 million dollar 7 percent first preferred stock. Half maturing in August 1913 and half in February 1914.
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Pittsburg
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company
United States District Court
United Railways Company of
San Francisco
United Railways Investment Company
Philadelphia
The
Railways Company
Grant Greene suit decision over service by publication
Judge Leventritt in Supreme Court denied the Cobre Grande copper company’s motion to vacate an order for service by publication in the Grant and Nettie Grant suit. Plaintiffs seek an accounting of profits and income from mining property valued at 25 million dollars, alleging four million distributed to stockholders and claims Greene and related companies refused an accounting.
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Leventritt
Supreme Court
Cobre Grande Copper Company
Arizona
James L. Grant
Nettie L. Grant
William C. Greene
Greene Consolidated Company
Cananea Consolidated Company
Cobre Company
Grant-Greene
Colonel Greene
Cananea Company
Cobre
Surety Company Merger Hinted By Chicago Dispatch
Local and national surety firms weigh a merger amid low rates shrinking profits. Names mentioned include National Surety, Hartford Ztna Indemnity, Metropolitan, People’s, and Maryland Casualty, while American Surety is not listed. Obstacles include perpetuity bonds, state deposits, and contract changes.
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Chicago
Middle West
East
National Surety Company
Ztna Indemnity Company
Hartford
Metropolitan Surety Company
People’s Surety Company
Maryland Casualty Company
American Surety Company
William B. Joyce
Knickerbocker Foreclosure Receivers File Lis Pendens
Ernest Tallman Henry C Ide and George L Rives acting as temporary receivers for the Knickerbocker Trust Company filed a lis pendens with Nassau County Clerk Thomas Cheshire at Mineola naming George Crocker William L Stowe and R Livingstone Beeckman as defendants in a mortgage foreclosure action. The loan of 159000 made June 11 1904 was secured by the Crocker estate adjacent to the William C Whitney estate.
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Ernest Tallman
Henry C. Ide
George L. Rives
Knickerbocker Trust Company
Thomas Cheshire
Nassau County
Mineola
Long Island
George Crocker
William L. Stowe
R. Livingston Beeckman
Crocker
William C. Whitney
Greene Consolidated Copper cuts board size and officers
At the adjourned annual meeting Greene Consolidated Copper Company reduced the board from twenty one to seven members and eliminated an executive committee. A single vice president was authorized. Directors named were Alfred Romer E C Rice W D Thornton C D Fraser F E Searle J W Allen and P L Foster. Officers for the year are W D Thornton president C D Fraser vice president J W Allen secretary and treasurer G I Borden assistant secretary. The next annual meeting will be held on the second Tuesday in March.
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Greene Consolidated Copper Company
Alfred Romer
E. C. Rice
W. D. Thornton
C. D. Fraser
F. E. Searle
J. W. Allen
P. L. Foster
G. I. Borden
Ice Channel Opened by Homer Ramsdell Steamer
The thick ice bridging the Hudson north of Haverstraw Bay gave way yesterday as the Homer Ramsdell forced a channel open. Central Hudson boats will start daily trips from Franklin Street at 5 p m to Cranston's West Point Cold Spring Cornwall Fishkill and Newburg. Poughkeepsie and Rondout boats will enter service in about a week.
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Hudson River
Haverstraw Bay
Hudson
Homer Ramsdell
Newburg
Franklin Street
Cranston’s
West Point
Cold Spring
Cornwall
Fishkill
Poughkeepsie
Sale of Julius Oehme Masters Collection at Fifth Avenue Art Galleries
A collection of paintings gathered by Julius Oehme and fine old masters from Ehrich galleries is on exhibition at 546 Fifth Avenue. The sale will be held tomorrow evening at 15 o'clock, conducted by James P. Silo.
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Julius Oehme
Ehrich
Fifth Avenue
James P. Silo
Pennsylvania Railroad Holds Stockholders Meeting
In Philadelphia the sixty first annual stockholders meeting approved the acquisition of three minor lines Bald Eagle Valley Railroad Southwest Connecting Railroad and Junction Railroad. The annual report was approved and stockholders election set for March 24 with directors likely re elected including Clement A Griscom Charles E Ingersoll and Henry C Frick.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Bald Eagle Valley Railroad
Southwest Connecting Railroad
Junction Railroad
Clement A. Griscom
Charles E. Ingersoll
Henry C. Frick
Tin Plate "Hot Mills" Resume
The American Sheet and Tin Plate Company ordered hot mill workers at its South Sharon plant to report for immediate work. The firm said the remaining ten hot mills would be started quickly, providing work for about twelve hundred men.
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Tribune
Sharon
Penn
American Sheet and Tin Plate Company
South Sharon
Railroads sue to block Kansas rate plan injunctions
In Topeka on March 16 the railroads operating in Kansas filed suits in the circuit court seeking injunctions to stop enforcement of the state board of railroad commissioners new freight rate schedule. They allege the average 20 percent cut is confiscatory and seek injunctions against county attorneys and shippers to halt enforcement actions.
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Topeka
Kan
Aili
Kansas
State Board of Railroad Commissioners
Expect More Western Union Stock Dividend Declared
Western Union Telegraph Company executives met to decide on the quarterly dividend and withheld filing the decision until after today’s board meeting. Previous declarations favored a stock dividend, with some cash possibly, while others predicted a pass.
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Western Union Telegraph Company
Board of Directors
Treasury
NYSE Nominating Committee Renominates Officers
The nominating committee of the New York Stock Exchange renominates R. H. Thomas for president and F. W. Gilley for treasurer for the annual election on May 11. Ten governing committee members whose terms expire are also renominated, with 1909 nominees listed as John A. Bleck Walter J Currie Stanley D. McGrew Arthur Whitney and Robert D. Wrenn.
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New York Stock Exchange
R. H. Thomas
F. W. Gilley
John A. Bleck
Walter J Currie
Stanley D. McGrew
Arthur Whitney
Robert D. Wrenn
Shorts in Copper Scramble at Nevada Consolidated
Trading on the curb livened by a scramble of shorts in Nevada Consolidated Copper rights. Prices jumped from 3 cents to 15 cents as 47,000 rights changed hands. The rush came ahead of the subscription deadline for the new 3.9 million dollar bond issue. Subscriptions reportedly reached a substantial portion of the total.
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Shorts
Nevada Consolidated Copper Rights
Nevada Consolidated Company
Idle Baltimore & Ohio freight cars exceed historic levels
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad reports 19 200 idle cars out of 7 500 total valued at 19 200 000 dollars. Coke shipments in Connellsville regions plunged from 64 66 carloads in October to 2 60 in December, and tonnage dropped from 1 805 407 tons to 677 7 tons as steel mills shut or cut work.
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Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Baltimore & Ohio
Connellsville
Penn
Salisbury layoff hits 200 at Southern Railway shops
Salisbury North Carolina March 10 The employes of the Southern Railway shops at Spencer except the roundhouse and the car department were laid off indefinitely this afternoon Two hundred men are affected.
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Salisbury
N. C
Southern Railway
Spencer
Roundhouse
Car Department
Dill Contractors File Bankruptcy Petition in District Court
Washington March 10 H Gilbert Dill and Lloyd Dill contractors for reinforced concrete work filed in the District Supreme Court a petition in voluntary bankruptcy with liabilities of 109 890 mostly unsecured and assets estimated at 91 806 including 75 000 in open accounts and unliquidated claims
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Washington
H. Gilbert Dill
Lloyd Dill
District Supreme Court
Union Ferry Board Declares 0.5 Percent Dividend
The Union Ferry Company board approves a regular quarterly dividend of one half of 1 percent citing reduced earnings after the East River subway extension to Brooklyn opened.
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Union Ferry
Union Ferry Company
East River
Brooklyn
Woollen Mills Operating More, Says Wood
W M Wood president of the American Woollen Company reports the firm now runs about 10 percent more mills than a month ago with gradual weekly improvement. He notes only a portion of mills are active. Wood reveals a shift in view, endorsing continued Roosevelt administration for four more years over a new one, as potentially less damaging to the country.
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W. M. Wood
American Woollen Company
Wood
Roosevelt
Greene Copper's Year Report Shows Strong 17 Month Earnings
The Greene Consolidated Copper Company issued a report for the seventeen months ended December 31, 1967. Net earnings reached 3,220,247 with total earnings 14,733,965 from copper, gold and silver, and related revenues. Refinery output totaled 65,150,856 pounds of refined copper, with gold and silver valued at 734,024 and refined copper priced at 19.583 cents per pound.
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Greene Consolidated Copper Company
Cananea Central Copper Company
Sierra Madre Land and Lumber Company
Abundana
Fat Niece Glam Ue
Mining notes show Granby expands capacity and wage cuts
Granby Consolidated Mining, Smelting and Power Co reports full operation at 3,200 tons ore daily, 28 million pounds yearly, yet 1907 annual output only 16.41 million pounds. Wages cut to 350 per day, copper cost under 19 cents per pound. Plans to raise reduction capacity to 4,500 tons daily. Esperanza reserves fall to 65,500 tons from 141,662. Estimated cash and assets realizable at year end set at 1,550,880. Cripple Creek output for February totals 58,622 tons valued at 1,250,713. January lower, gain due to smelter rate cuts. Golden Cycle led production.
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Granby Consolidated Mining, Smelting and Power Company
Esperanza
Mexico
Cripple Creek
Livestock Market Report from New York March 10 1908
New York market reports cattle calves sheep and hogs arrivals and prices for direct slaughter and export trades. Beef demand steady with light arrivals anticipated. calves and lambs mixed demand and firm to easy on various weights and classes. Sales by S Sanders Kerns Commission Co and others detailed with averages and per hundred weight figures.
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New York
Beeves
Liverpool
London
Oceanic
Swift Beef Company
Morris Beef Company
Indiana
S. Sanders
Kerns Commission Company
Ecov. S. Judd & Co
Eales—S. Judd & Co
Western
McPherson & Co
Chicago and Kansas City Market Receipts Report
Chicago and other cities report cattle hogs and sheep prices and receipts for March 10. Cattle steady to mixed with top steers near 650 in Chicago and 545 in Kansas City, hogs generally steady with tops around 490, sheep strong with lambs rising, mixed regional figures for Cincinnati East Buffalo and Kansas City pricing.
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Chicago
Cincinnati
East Buffalo
Kansas City
District of Columbia Seeks Sewer Construction Bids
Sealed proposals will be received at the office until 12 oclock M Monday March 16 1908 for constructing a sewer in the District of Columbia. Forms specifications and necessary information may be obtained at room 43 District Building Washington D C. Henry B F Macfarlane Henry West Jay J Morrow Commissioners D C.
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U. S. Department OF Agriculture
Washington, D. C
Osrai
Secretary of Agriculture
James Wilson
Government Printing Office
Washington
D. C
Henry T. Brian
Secretary’s Office
Navy Department
Truman H. Newberry
FICE
Commissioners
District OF Columbia
District
Henry B. F. Macfarlane
Henry West
Jay J. Morrow
Notice to Creditors for Isabel F. McCready
Creditors of Isabel F. McCready late of New York City are notified to file claims with the Surrogates Court of New York County by March 20 1998. Estherina F. McCready gives notice under Civil Procedure sections 2660 2662 2664. Dated February 17 1993 at 52 Wall Street New York NY.
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New York County
Isabel F. McCread
New York
Isabel F. McCready
County of New York
Estherina F. McCready
John K. Erskine
Wall Street
New Yor
Charles H. Beckett
Ferdinand Bartell
Greese Street
Borough of Manhattan
City of News
H. T. E Beardsley
Nassau Street
Notice of Summons in New York Supreme Court case
Notice to Wolf Weinberg and Chana Diverja Weinberg to answer the complaint in the Supreme Court of the State of New York County of New York. Defendants must respond within twenty days from service or judgment by default may be entered. Dated February 4 1908. Purdy Squire and Rowe, Plaintiff’s Attorneys.
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Upreme Court
State OF New York
Ss —_cCharles
Weinberg
Wolf Weinberg
Chana Diverja Weinberg
County of New York
Purdy
Squire & Rowe
Broadway
Borough of Manhattan
New York
Chana Divoria Weinberg
David Leventritt
Supreme Court of
County Court House
City of New York
Purdy, Squire & Rowe
N. Y
Market Report From Union Stock Yards Pittsburg
Cattle supplies light and steady market with choice and prime priced from 565 to 590 with highs near 665. Sheep offerings light with prime wethers at 575 to 760 and lambs around 320 to 760. Hogs active with prime heavies at 510, heavy Yorkers around 515 to 505 and pigs near 465.
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Union
Pittsburg
Boston Wool Market Shows Hopeful Tone and Varied Quotations
The Boston wool market remains mildly improved with buyers seeking clothing wool and sizeable sales reported. Domestic quotations cover Ohio Pennsylvania fleeces and washed varieties with multiple grades listed, alongside Michigan Wisconsin New York unwashed fleeces and delaine values. Regional prices extend to Texas California Oregon and Kentucky Indiana Missouri offerings, including scoured, unwashed, and blood percentages, with secured values across several maturities and staples.
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Missouri
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Middle County
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Valley
Chicago grain and provisions market summary
May wheat dipped to 53 1/2 to 54 1/2 cents, closing near the day’s bottom amid heavy long selling and bear sentiment after a government reserves report. Corn rose about a half to four cents, oats firm, and provisions declined as hog supply pressures weighed on prices at Western packing centers.
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