Plan and C. Grilling: C&O facing criminal probe
Washington reports that the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway and favored shippers may face criminal prosecution over alleged interstate shipment practices. The Interstate Commerce Commission findings claim C&O granted favorable rates on grain and packing-house goods, diverting inbound business from Seaboard Air Line and Atlantic Coast Line. A Richmond hearing led to a commission report urging Attorney General Bonaparte to seek prosecutions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company
Interstate Commerce Commission
Chesapeake & Ohio
Seaboard Air Line
Atlantic Coast Line
Richmond
Lane
Bonaparte
United States District Attorney At
Seaboard Airy Line
United States
Atchmond
Bnas
Indians in Paint Perform at Gotham Club Green Evening
Three Native Americans sat in paint and feathers for hours as the Gotham Club held its Green Evening at the Waldorf Astoria. Chief Charging Hawk Princess Red Wing and Young Deer spoke and danced, with translations guiding the audience through a speech on government and a wilderness themed musical program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gotham Club
Waldorf-Asworth
Princess Red Wing
South Dakota
Charging Hawk
Deer
Hippodrome
Hey
Peer
Hawk
West 28Th Street
National Mothers Congress Concludes Sessions in Washington
Final day of the National Mothers Congress centers on improving conditions for the blind and promoting day nurseries. Participants include Senora Lopez representing Mexico, Mrs Arthur M Dodge of New York on day nurseries as child savers, and speakers from Perkins Institution and New York State on blindness prevention and instruction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
National Mothers’ Congress
Sefiora Lopez
Diaz
Mexico
Republic
Arthur M. Dodge
Federation of Day Nurseries
New York
Edward E. Allen
Perkins Institution
Boston
F. P. Lewis
Buffalo
N. Y
Lewis
New York State Commission
Empire State
Winifred Holt
New York Association For the Blind
Paintings Ready Offer for Testament Pictures by Coupon
A promotional notice announces that 120 new Testament pictures are available and requests readers to send the coupon and one dollar to New York Tribune Tissot department to obtain the complete set.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newestament Pictures
New-York Tribune
Tissot
New-York Tribune, Tissot Dept
Corn Products Cuts Extra Dividend Amid New Food Law Costs
E. T. Bedford, president of the Corn Products Refining Co, cites $500,000 in expenses from the new food law and a drop in business as reasons for reducing the extra dividend on preferred stock. Directors declare 1 percent quarterly plus an extra 1 percent for the year, down from 7 percent, with a plan to defer 2 percent of the annual payout.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. T. Bedford
Corn Products Refining Company
Bedford
Corn Products Company
Hattiesburg
Miss
J. J. Newman Lumber Company
Ferdinand Peck
Scranton
Penn
St. Paul
Chicago Great Western
Knapp
Interstate Commerce Commission
Charles P. Neill
Labor
Pipe Frightens Girls In West 24th Street Factory
A steam pipe burst on the sixth floor of a ten story factory at West 24th Street causing about a thousand cloak workers to flee. Two hundred employees had just started work when the pipe burst and steam filled the floor. Elevator operators and firefighters coordinated a rapid return to work as crowds gathered outside the building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West 24Th Street
Rubenstein & Goldsmith
Two Deaths From Hurrying Fire In Brooklyn Tragedy
A woman tried to hasten a stove fire with kerosene oil on Saturday night. Her clothing ignited and she died early Sunday. Her six year old son, Charles Kastenbein, of Arlington Avenue, died at St. Ma Hospital, Jamaica, Long Island, from burns. The delay and injuries prompted hospital care for both, with the mother succumbing to her burns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Kastenbein
Mary Emma Kastenbein
Arlington Avenue
Rosedale
Hospital
Jamaica
Long Island
St. Ma
Fire scare on L train at Broadway Brooklyn
A fuse short circuit on a Broadway and Keap Street elevated car caused blue flame and smoke, prompting passengers to flee to the sidewalk. The car halted as riders rushed toward Hewes Street station, many abandoning clothes as they walked the narrow path. cars resumed soon after all had disembarked.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Broadway
Keap Street
Brooklyn
Williamsburg Bridge
Hewes Street
Storm over Wearing of the Green at Hebrew Orphan Asylum
unrest swept the Hebrew Orphan Asylum on Amsterdam Avenue near 138th Street after a Singing of the Wearing of the Green sparked a crowd. three Erin brothers attempted a northward ride from ith Street and Fifth Avenue to a dance at Amsterdam and 138th, recalling two Patricks and one Mike in the car and that H O A reversed signified an open house as officers investigated the gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hebrew Orphan Asylum
Amsterdam Avenue
138Th Street
Erin
Ith Street
Fifth Avenue
Patricks
Mike
Paraders at an Orphan Asylum Roar Drunkenly
Patrolman Lavender handles a disruption at an East 142nd Street orphan asylum. Patrick and two Companions march to honor their patron saint, climb the gates, serenade inside, and cause a ruckus. Nurses recall Purim as five hundred voices fill the halls until Men of Kildare and Lavender take control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lavender
142D Street
Patrick
Mike
Orphan Asylum
Order of
Hibernians
Kildare
Union brewers strike in St Louis amid Local 43 feud
St Louis reports about three thousand of the thirty-five hundred union brewery workers walked out following a factional quarrel in Beer Drivers Local No 43 after a fruitless conference with brewery officials. The strikes mirror labor unrest across industries with multiple unions and railroads facing friction nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
International United Brewery Workers of America
Bankruptcies Filed in U S District Court
Petitions list liabilities and assets for several debtors including Jacob Pollikoff Gilbert R Boyd and Alfred Van Praag with values ranging from a few thousand to over thirty thousand dollars. Madeline Z Doty named receiver for Montauk Cigar. Joseph Baerstow Munn Price Company and Simon Kagorin & Co. show mixed schedules with debts exceeding assets and minimal or zero assets for individuals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States District Court
Jacob Pollikoff
First Avenue
Labilites
Gilbert R. Boyd
East 5Th Street
Maurice Newmark
Lexington Avenue
En Brass Company
Alfred van Praag
Broadway
Mary H. Pasedine
Fifth Avenue
Arnold
Constable
Madeline Z. Doty
Holt
George F. Detreil
Montauk Cigar Company
Joseph Baerstow
Munn Price Company
Simon, Kagorin & Co
Joseph Simon
Morris Goldstein
Morris Ragverin
Balance for dividends and depreciation figures cited
The document states dividends totaling 4 562 267 dollars equal 10 14 percent of 45 000 000 dollar capital stock. Depreciation, betterments and improvements charged off total 3 200 000 dollars, or 7 11 percent of the stock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cambria Steel Company
Isc
Rein Ivestment and Inc
Wheat and corn rise on Liverpool strength and bugs
Chicago grain notes firm wheat market led by Liverpool prices and reports of green bug and Hessian fly damage in the Southwest. May wheat near 95½ to 96½ cents. corn gains 4 to 7 cents with May at new highs for the crop. Provisions firm early, then softens. hogs and lard mixed as receipts rise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Liverpool
May
Bradstreet’s
Shorts and
Commission Houses
Boston wool market steady with limited sales
Boston wool dealers expect market bottom reached as prices hold and slight uplift persists. Domestic quotations show mixed fleece and delaine values across Ohio Pennsylvania Michigan Wisconsin New York Kentucky Indiana Missouri Texas California Oregon and territories with scoured and pulled grades listed. sales remain small and demand tepid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Delaine
Sia Delaine
Michigan
Wisconsin
New York
Kentucky
Indiana
Missouri
Texas
California
Middle County
Oregon
Valley
European Produce Market Summary
European produce market report notes closing steady for wheat with No 2 red Western winter at 7s 2½d, March futures steady. Corn bid firm with prime mixed American bids, March futures quiet. Flour winter patents quiet at 20s. Hops and bees show limited activity in London and Liverpool with subdued trading. March 17 Liverpool reference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Pacific Coast
India
Liverpool
Sealed Proposals for Official Postal Guide and Supplies
Proposals from March 10 to April 15 1908 invite bids to furnish the Official Postal Guide for four years from July 1 1908 and a wide range of postal office supplies for the 1908 09 fiscal year. Multiple Post Office Department notices from Washington DC set bid dates, required tenders, and drawing checks, with locations and offices specified.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
JOST
Washington, DC
Postal Service
Post Offce
Co. Co
P. Grandfield
ST Office Department
Washington, D.C
Post Office Department
Washington
Overnor's Island
Department
Governor's Island
U. S
Ino
W. Pullman
Q. M
Nort Slocum
N. Y
Quartermaster
New York Surrogates Court issues two estate probate citations
The People of the State of New York call Samuel Lawson and other heirs to appear before the New York Surrogate's Court to prove the will of Eliza J. Torney and to attend a probate hearing. The notice names many heirs and creditors and directs guardians for minors. It also cites Abraham Jacobi and George McAneny regarding a judicial settlement of their estate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State OF
New York
Samuel Lawson
David Lawson
Mary A. Greer
Nancie Leighton
Isio Graham
Louisa Grant
Catherine Gilliland
Edith Lawson
Mary Mallory
Randolph Lawson
Fannie Lawson
Robert Lawson
Annie Hay
Carrie Slee
Mary la Stile
Annie Creassey
Amy Forman
Andrew Miller Lawson
Esther Eastwood
Grace Lawson
Bernard Fr. B. Lawson
Robert Richard Lawson
Elsie Heatly
Eliza J. Torney
Lawson
City of
County of New York
Ourounty
Sat
Witnes Hon Abner
Thomas
Said
Daniel J. Dowdney
Putney
Twombly & Putney
Hector St
N. Y
RHA
Gertrude Boas
Franzeska Boas
Frieda Urbach
Hedwig Urbach
Adele Cleffmann
Ida Cleffmann
Margarete Cleffmann
Margarete Meyer
Marie Boas
Ernst Philip Boas
Henry PD. Boas
Theodore Smutny
Edgar Smutny
Rudolph Smutny
Walter Urbach
Franz Urbach
Rudolph Urbach
Otto Cleffmann
Otto Meyer
Rudolph Lehmann
Anna Meyer
Ludwig Wohlauer
Cleffmann
Abraham Jacobi
George McAneny
Jacob Meyer
Mount Sinai Hospital
German Hospital
Academy of Medici of the City of New York and Civil Service Reform Association
Ja Meyer
County of
Hall of Records
Abner CC. Thomas
Seals
Daniel J. Dowdn
Pork Prime Messes and Bacon Cuts Listed
A historical price list enumerates pork and bacon cuts with weights and quotes. Items include Western easy hog meat 14 to 18 pounds at 58 shillings per hundredweight, Cumberland bacon 28 to 30 pounds at 28 to 30 pounds, long clear middlings and short clear backs with varied weights and prices, plus shoulders and bellies priced for market.
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C. Grilling
NEAP
Diaza
ISSOT
de Brunoff
Jephthah
Storm Hebrew Orphan Asylum
Tisset Bible Pictures
of New Testament
Atte Laren
Acadonadigs Peti
Ceevece
Sacaianat
Sree
Tees Ocean
Telegraphic Business Notes
Cleveland
Standard Oil Company
Standard
Lewis Emery, Jr
Bradford
Emery
Philadelphia
Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
The
Jackson, Miss
W. J. Rice
L. E. Schilling
Central Bank of Mississippi
Rice
Denver
Rio Grande Railroad
Gould
Missouri Pacific
Tron Mountain & Southern
Texas & Pacific
Wabash
Houpt
United States Circuit Court
Great Northern Railroad Company
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania Steel Company
Central Iron and Steel Works
Hazleton
Lehigh Valley Railroad
Weatherly
Renovo
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pittsburg
Shamokin
Susquehanna Coal Company
Tecumseh
Okla
Frisco
Rock Island
Albany
Knickerbocker Trust Company
Dover
N. H
Cocheco Manufacturing Company
Detroit
Toledo & Tronton
Ann Arbor
Tos
Bangor & Aroostock
United Railways OF
ST Louis
Ooo
Estiiacis
Cambria Steel
Chicago Grain and Provisions
Boston Wool Market
Hendrickson
Atlantic City
Plymouth
Old Point Comfort
Pinehurst
Niagara Falls
Thos. T. Hendrickson
Fulton St
Raymond & Whitcomb CO
Union Sq
Stuyvesant
Berlitz School OF Languages
Madison Square
Harlem
Branc
Lenox Ave
12Th St
Court St
Newark
Scheuer Bu
TREAE
West 41St St
Foreign Teachers’ Agency
M. J. Young-Fulton
Union Square
Mademoiselle
AMYOT
Madison
Fort Mason
San Francisco
Cal
Army
Quartermaster’s Department
Rankin, Kelloge & Crane
Walnut St
Depot Quartermaster
Chief Quartermaster Department of the Lakes
George McK. Williamson
Marlborough - Bienheim
Josiah White & Sons
Hotel Traymore
Jatlantic City, N.S
Traymore Hotel
Copany Chas. O. Marquette
D. &. Whit
Haddon Hall
Chambers
Leeds & Lippincott
Chalfonte
Leeds Company
Pennhurst
New Jersey
Wm. R. Hood
Hotel Dennis Atlantic
Ony
Alter J. Buzby
S . P. Cook
Browns Mills-In-The-Pines
New York City
Penna. R. R
Browns Mills
Cambridge Bidg
Montclair
Palmer House
Main St
Grove St
Palmer H + & modern
Calla
A. N. Messer
Virginia
Virginia Hot Springs
Bermuda
Seorge
N. TV
HOTEL
Grenoble
56Th ST
7Th AV
William P. Chase
Wellington
7Th Ave
J. F. Champlin, Mer
Abner C. Thomas
Joseph P. Smith
Daly, Hoyt & Mason
William Street
Mary E. Smith
Manhattan
Charles L H. Beckett
William Bartels
Greenwich Street
City of New York
Ferdinand Bartell
Borough of Manhattan
T. E. Beardsley
Nassau Street
Abner C
James M. Quigley
Alfred Brown
Borough of
Anne D. Quigley
Abner & Thomas
Octavius D. Baldwin
Jared G.idwin, Jr
Wall Street
Charles J. Townsend
John Henry Townsend
Alfred F. Baldwin
Jared G. Baldwin
Nandee
Edward Willis
Abner C Thomas
Allersons
Edward Wallis Candee
Pele
Shiland, Shoemaker & Hedges
Pine Street
Edith C Mathews
Uprembe
Nework
Charles Weinberg
Wolf Weinberg
Chana Divorja Weinberg
Purdy, Squire & Rowe
Chana Dlivoria Weinberg
David Leventritt
Supreme Court of
State of New York
County Court House
PORDY
Squire & Rowe
Plaintif
N. T
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