Senate revolt forms against Hughes program in Albany
A secret meeting-backed coalition of 17 Democratic and 15 Republican Senators forms to block anti-racetrack gambling and direct primary bills. They anticipate enough votes to defeat the racing measures, while debates continue on strategy and potential leadership changes amid pressures from rural districts and business groups.
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the Tribune
Albany
Senate
Hughes
Anti-Hughes
Raines
Governors
Horace White
White
Friends of the
Assembly
Puble Service Commissions
Republian
Senate Judiciary Committee
Jockey Club
Davis
Armstrong
Allds
Cobb
Page
Hinman
Smith
Grady
McGarren
Taylor
Cohalan
Grattan
Murphy
Hart
Aldrich Bill to Open Currency Reform Path with Commission
The House is expected to amend the Aldrich bill to create a commission to study and report on a general currency reform. Supporters including the President and Senators Aldrich Allison and Lodge view a central bank of issue as the next step in reorganizing the financial system, with early movement anticipated.
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Washington
House
Aldrich
Allison
Lodge
Burton
Weeks
P R R Curtailment Cuts Jobs Across Pennsylvania Railroad
The Pennsylvania Railroad plans sweeping reductions in all departments due to dropped business. Cuts will start April 1 with preference to married men and old employees. Many workers face layoffs while some will be moved to short hours to maintain basic work. Company officials call the move necessary amid current conditions.
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Tribune
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Fraternity Official Arrested In $75,000 Shortage
Port Huron Michigan reports the investigation into United Home Protectors ends with supreme secretary W L Wilson missing over 75000. He admits converting association funds for years. State Banking Commissioner Zimmerman takes charge. the fraternity is insolvent and a receiver will be sought.
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Port Huron
Mich
United Home Protectors
W. L. Wilson
Zimmerman
Wilson
Fraternity
Panic on Third Avenue elevated after axle breaks
An axle breaks in the sixth car of a northbound Third Avenue train entering Chatham Square at 6 PM crippling service for five hours. Crowded cars panic as the last car rips ties, crowds walk from Brooklyn Bridge to rest stations, and shuttle trains are later started. Captain Murtha orders extra guards to manage the crowd.
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Third Avenue
Chatham Square
Brooklyn Bridge
South Ferry
Second Avenue
Bridge
Murtha
Bridge Squad
Relief in Pittsburg as flood crest eases
A sudden flood in Pittsburg shows a crest near 30 feet, lower than feared. Many cellars and first floors flood, thousands of workers lose a day’s work, railroads disrupted, and extensive damage across the lower city and Ben Avon suburb amid fires, explosions, and landslides.
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Pitsburg
Pittsburg
United States Weather Bureau
Old City
Manufactures’ Light and Heat Company
Ben Avon
Two Men Lynched in Florida Jail Mob
Early today a mob surrounded the county jail and dragged Will McMullen and Richard Smith from custody. They had been charged with murder and were awaiting trial when the mob shot them. Authorities reported the incident as a lynching carried out by armed citizens outside the jail.
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Fla
Will” McMullen
Smith
McMullen
Perry
Richard Smith
Five hour Pullman train for Baltimore and Washington
Daily New York departure offers a five hour Pullman service to Baltimore and Washington via the Liberty line. The schedule notes a 19 minute early arrival at 2nd Street and mentions connections with the C R R of XNI and Balto & Ohio lines.
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Baltimore
Washington
New York Daily Liberty
XNI
J. T. and
Balto
Ohio
Adyt
Woman shot himself after domestic turmoil at hotel
Herbert Kremer, a clerk for insurance broker Wallace Reid, killed himself in the hotel apartment of Mrs. Lafayette B. Gleason at the St. Charles, after a troubled affair involving Gleason, her divorce from Lafayette, and a proposed marriage to Kremer. Coroner says death by own action. no blame on Mrs. Gleason.
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Herbert Kremer
Wallace Reid
Maiden Lane
Lafayette B. Gleason
St. Charles
West 49Th Street
Gleason
State Senate
Republican State Committee
Kremer
William N. Kremer
German-American Insurance Company
Gibbons Sanatorium
Stamford
Conn
East 27Th Street
Manhattan
Albany
Education Board Hits Decline in Rockefeller Funded Assets
The General Education Board reports a nearly five million dollar drop in the value of its railroad and industrial securities for the year ending June 30 1907. Total assets stand at 42 499 961 with Missouri Pacific New York Central and Manhattan Railway among the largest losses. The board disbursed 136 130 for operations plus 24 983 in administration and pledged 1 959 712 in contingent grants if grant conditions are met.
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General Education Board
John D. Rockefeller
Missouri Pacific
New York Central
Manhattan
Trolley Conductors Discharged Over Rail Company Robbery Probe
In Trenton on March 19 more than one fifth of trolley conductors were discharged after detectives uncovered that the railway company was being robbed. Suspected conductors were found betting on horse races and engaging in related extravagances, accounting for declining receipts.
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Trenton
N. J
Tragic Death After Thrown Ball Fells Student
In Montgomery Alabama March 19 S H Smith a student at the Alabama Polytechnic Institute died early today after a ball was thrown striking the back of his head during a game yesterday afternoon Authorities report no foul play and the incident is under investigation.
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Montgomery
Ala
S. H. Smith
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
Tyro Bandits Rob Another Bank in Hoffman Oklahoma
Two robbers believed to be from the Tyro gang entered the Davis Bank at Hoffman Oklahoma. They covered officials with pistols and escaped with currency after mounting their horses outside.
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Muskogee
Okla
Davis Bank
Hoffman
Supplies for the Fleet Sail From San Diego
The supply ship Culgoa set sail for Magdalena Bay with $100,000 worth of provisions and 400 to 500 mail sacks for the battleship fleet.
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San Diego
Cal
Culgoa
Magdalena Bay
Costly Blaze Destroys Lowell Tool Plant
Fire destroys the Field Tool Company plant in Lowell Massachusetts with an estimated 400000 loss partly insured. Flames spread to the Highlands residential area burning one house and badly damaging two others.
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Lowell
Mass
Field Tool Company
Highlands
Tri Alumni Dinner Planned by Yale Harvard and Princeton Groups
Boston hosts a tri alumni dinner on May 15 organized by the Yale Harvard and Princeton alumni associations to foster cordial relations among the universities. Princeton President Wilson, Yale President Hadley and Harvard President Eliot are slated to speak.
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Boston
Yale
Harvard
Princeton
Princeton Alumni Association
Hadley
Eliot
Wilson
Labor leaders press for new workers protections in Congress
A large AFL delegation urged Congress to pass an employers liability law and other measures. Samuel Gompers led the group to Speaker Cannon and Vice President Fairbanks, who promised to bring the request to the Senate. The memorial criticized the Sherman act's reach and urged reforms to limit court power and defend workers rights.
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Cannon
Fairbanks
Congress
Supreme Court of the United States
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
House of Representatives
Mr. Gompers
Joseph F. Valentine
W. R. Fairley
United Mine Workers of North America
C. J. Barnett
American Society of Equity
W. D. Mahon
Amalgamated Street and Electric Railway
P. J. McArdle
Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers
Supreme Court
Danbury Hatters
Courts of Equity
Hatters
Measures for Labor and Sherman Act Reform In Congress
Washington March 19 The President and congressional leaders push a legislative program for the session with a major aim to revise the Sherman act. A proposed bill would replace restraint language with lawful combinations and address railroad traffic, securities valuation, and farmer and worker associations. Labor leaders demand legal boycotts and trial by jury objections, which the President rejects. A bill is expected to be introduced by Hepburn if the week begins.
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Party
Tribune Bureau
Washington
Civic Federation
Low
Interstate Commerce
Federation
Senate
Elkins
Representative Hepburn
Town
House Committee On Interstate Commerce
Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Labor groups meet in Washington to amend Sherman act
A conference in Washington aimed at exempting labor organizations from Sherman anti trust provisions was attended by AFL leaders Samuel Gompers and Joseph Lennon ex mayor Seth Low Cornell professor Jenks and Labor Commissioner Neill. Low left for New York after aiding in drafting amendments.
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Washington
Gompers
Lennon
American Federation of Labor
Seth Low
New York
American Civic Federation
Neill
Jenks
Cornell University
Low
No Pledges for Bryan Advice to Democrats
Democratic State Committee votes 49 to urge unpledged delegates to the Denver convention. William J. Connors presided as roll calls showed intraparty Bryan sentiment but no militant stance. Leaders Murphy and Connors favored uninstructed delegates while debates continued on the party’s national choice.
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Democratic State Committee
Denver
William J. Conners
Carnegie Hall
Alton B. Parker
John B. Stanchfield
Charles F. Murphy
John A. Mason
James Kane
M. J. Cummings
Patrick Lynch
John W. Weber
Charles P. Haney
James P. Sinnott
Sheriff Foley
Daniel E. Finn
J. Sergeant Cram
Thomas E. Bush
Hayes
James J. Frawley
Michael J. Garvin
Haffen
Eugene P. Stocker
Stephen Ryan
Daniel E. Conway
Moiloy
Troy
Winfield A. Hoppe
Robert Wempie
John Hannan
George Hall
J. C. McDonald
Calvin J. Huson
John C. McGreevy
James E. Schwartzenbach
Harry Patten
James O. Bennett
Robert Chanler
Dutchess
McCarren
New York
Bryan
Thomas W. Finucane
Rochester
Fletcher C. Peck
Livingston County
Conners
Murphy
State Committee
Bartletts
Court of Appeals
Democrat Party
Connners
Williams
Hotel Victoria
Mr. Williams
James J. Hagen
Tammany
Hagen
Hearst
Johnson
Jackson
Nathan Vidaver
McClellan
Bryan silent on New York Democratic action
Chicago report notes Mr. Bryan responding with no comment when asked about the New York Democratic State Committee's action. He said he had nothing to say and thanked journalists for the information. The exchange occurred on March 1 in Chicago.
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Chicago
Bryan
New York
Democratic State Committee
Bryan on Judge Parker's Defeat and Monopolistic Influences
Telegraph report previews William Jennings Bryan charging in The Commoner that financial interests attempted to control party conventions and selfishly sold Parker down river. He asserts influential figures delayed Parker's nomination to serve personal gain.
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Judge Parker
Truunent
Lincoln
New
Norrow
Parker Iy
Joige Parker
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