New U P Bond Issue Directors Take Action
Union Pacific announces planned first mortgage bond issue totaling around 56 million dollars secured by unmortgaged lines and seeks stockholder ratification May 5 1908 for bond authorization. It also plans to consolidate physical properties of Leavenworth Kansas Western and Topeka Northwestern railroads into the system to attach future liens.
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Union Pacific Railroad Company
Stockhollers
Union Pacific
Leavenworth, Kansas & Western Railway Company
Topeka & Northwestern Railroad Company
Millar
Millar Mave
Leavenworth, Kansas & Western
Topeka & Northwestern
Leavenworth
Onville
Kan
Menoken
Onaga
Kansas
Wall Street
Southern Pacific
Harrimen
Harriman
Hartman
Westerno
Evans on Armor Belt Location and Naval Chain of Thought
Secretary Metcalf releases Admiral Evans findings on armor belt placement for battleships. The report notes belts raised six inches to one foot could improve protection yet belly of the belt remains risky where waterline and casemate armor interact. Academic debate continues over optimal belt position given sea conditions and ship weight.
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Washington
Metcalf
Evans
Pacific Coast
Admiral Evans
Hampton Roads
Mexico City Shaken by Two Severe Earthquakes
Mexico City endured two strong shocks, the first at 4:50 p m lasting 4 minutes 28 seconds causing wall cracks and minor damage, the second at 9:17 p m deeper with more cracks and stopped clocks. No deaths reported, telegraph service briefly disrupted and residents alarmed by repeated tremors.
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Mexico City
National Observatory
Knickerbocker Trust Reopens With Deposits Surging
Knickerbocker Trust Company resumes operations at noon under new management. Deposits exceed withdrawals by about half a million dollars, with total deposits around 1.5 million and withdrawals near 1 million. Major deposits from Pennsylvania Railroad and General Electric aid the reopening, while a Boston City Trust remits 200000. Officials praise the reopening, and the bank plans to continue with counters open and no Clearing House connection.
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Knickerbocker Trust Company
Trust Company
National Bank of Commerce
34Th Street
Fifth Avenue
Clark Williams
Broadway
125Th Street
Lenox Avenue
144Th Street
Third Avenue
Charles H. Keep
J. T. Brown
Herbert L. Satterlee
William A. Tucker
Charles F. Hoffman
Frederick G. Bourne
G. Louis Boissevain
Nathan Rauch
West 10Th Street
Rauch
Nathan Harris
Pennsylvania Raiilroad Company
General Electric Company
City Trust Company
Boston
New England
Keep
Knickerbocker
B. L. Allen
Joseph T. Brown
H. A. Dunn
F. G. King
Rate Fight Begins In Illinois And Missouri
Chicago March 26 railroad presidents and general counsel from Illinois and Missouri met to challenge cent fare laws in both states and the Missouri freight rate law. They plan to file petitions in state courts asking for unconstitutional penalties and aim to have laws invalidated by aligning with the Supreme Court Minnesota and North Carolina rate decisions. Similar actions are anticipated by railroads in other states.
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Chicago
Illinois
Missouri
Supreme Court
Minnesota
North Carolina
Mock Trial Ends With Unremovable Handcuffs
Carnegie Technical School students staged a mock theft trial with John Wasson accused of stealing. The jury disagreed and Wasson was discharged, but the handcuffs could not be unlocked. After many keys failed, he slept with the cuffs on and later had them removed by a machinist at Oakland police station.
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Hepburn
Judiciary Committee
House
Judiciary
Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee
Cannon
Asher C. Hinds
Hinds
Commerce Committee
Judiciary Committees
Tribune
Pittsburg
Carnegie Technical School
John Wasson
Engineering Department
Wasson
Oakland
Woman Bravely Douses Fire To Save Five Children
Mrs Lillie Raymond of Brooklyn rushed into a burning house at 1248 45th Street to rescue five children. After alerting bystander aide, she saved Harry Locke seven, Annie Locke two, and an infant, plus Daniel and Edward Zeidler four and two. Her clothes and hands caught fire as flames spread, house left almost completely destroyed.
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Lillie Raymond
49Th Street
Brooklyn
45Th Street
Andrew Jackson Letter Found From Four Miles Below New Orleans
A telegraphic report from Rutland Vermont notes Frederick S. Platt discovered a December 26 1814 autograph letter by General Andrew Jackson. Written to Wille Blount then Governor of Tennessee it recounts the fighting before the Battle of New Orleans and mentions taking about sixty prisoners. The letter’s path includes Bradley Smalley and poet John G. Saxe, and notes Major Mitchell among the prisoners who helped burn Washington.
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Tribune
Rutland
Andrew Jackson
Frederick S. Platt
Burlington
Tennessee
New Orleans
Jackson
Wellington
Mitchell
Washington
Democrats Define House Stance On Roosevelt Program
Representative John Sharp Williams of Mississippi issued a statement outlining the Democratic minority’s views in the House. He supports key President Roosevelt proposals with Republican votes, while opposing others including boycott penalties, AG receivers for carriers, Sherman act modification, trade agreements within limits, and tariff revision data commission.
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Washington
John Sharp Williams
Mississippi
House of Representatives
House
Roosevelt
Congress
Williams
District of Columbia
Territories
Supreme Court
Judge Blackstone Removed for Immorality and Neglect
Richmond Va March 26 The General Assembly removed Judge J W G Blackstone of the 11th Circuit for immoral conduct and neglect of official duties. The notice follows a midday session in which legislators cited misconduct and failing to perform official duties. Great Seab Spring Water advertised as its purity noted for context.
Loss May Be a Million in Bank Embezzlement
Pittsburg March 26 government officials deny large losses at Farmers' National Bank while rumors spread of potential embezzlements by Henry Reiber and John Young. Allegations claim up to one million dollars vanished in a wildcat mining scheme. Reiber and Young reportedly confessed after days in detention.
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the Tribune
Pittsburg
Farmers’ National Bank
Henry Relber
John Young
Reiber
Young
Robber loses his head at Springtown bank job
Bank robbers failed four times to crack the Farmers Bank at Springtown near Gentry Arkansas. A premature blast killed one robber, whose pockets held a map with Gentry Springtown and Sulphur Springs marked. Totals stolen last month included 1300 at Springtown and 300 at the post office.
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The
Tribune
Gentry
Ark
Farmers’ Bank
Springtown
Here
Arkansas
Sulphur Springs
Strike in Five States Prompts General Miner Walkout
A general strike of coal miners in Missouri Kansas Oklahoma Arkansas and Texas will start next Wednesday. About twenty five to thirty five thousand workers are expected to walk out after leaders Howat Colvith and Mass ordered the walkout following a letter from the Southwestern Coal Operators Association. The move comes as the contract between operators and unions ends next Tuesday over a new schedule.
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The
Tribune
Kansas City
Missouri
Kansas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Texas
Alexander Howat
George Colvith
John Mass
Southwestern Coal Operators’ Association
Tombs inmate escapes during prison visit
Adair Salvara also known as Thomas O'Brien, held for burglary, fled Tombs during exercise hour between 2 and 3 pm. He was in cell 713, suspended guards facing inspection, and a rigid inquiry by Commissioner Coggey follows as detectives search for him.
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Adair Salvara
Salvara
Thomas O’brien
Cornell
Yorkville
Charles Sharr
East 4Th Street
John McDonald
Walter Dull
Coggey
Department of Correction
Hammerstein to Build New Opera House in Philadelphia
Oscar Hammerstein announced plans to erect a major Philadelphia opera house after the Louise performance by the Manhattan Grand Opera Company with Mary Garden starring. Plans submitted to city authorities, ground to be broken next Monday, opening set for November 15 this year.
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Philadelphia
Manhattan Grand Opera Company
New York
Oscar Hammerstein
Louise
Mary Garden
Hammerstein
Mrs Sage Returns Sag Harbor Home to Children
Mrs. Sage learned of two Sag Harbor girls appeal for their home and fast tracked a humane intervention. Agents had been buying up nearby property around her ancestral house and even the Moylan family home was sold to tempting buyers. The Moylans loved their house but accepted the attractive offer. The girls wrote seeking relocation of their father’s home, but Mrs. Sage refused to sell. she chose to give the home back, unseen, to the children.
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Russell Sage
Sag Harbor
PASS RACETRACK BILLS BIG VOTES IN ASSEMBLY
Albany reports the Assembly passed two anti racetrack gambling bills by large majorities. Key votes 126 to 7 on the penalties amendment and 126 to 7 on the Percy Gray revision. Several Assemblymen from both parties opposed. debates included charges of property rights and the need to curb gambling at tracks. In the Senate, supporters hope to strike the McCarren amendment and push final passage, though timing and other banking bills threaten delay.
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The
Tribune
Albany
Cuvillier
Donnelly
Fay
Geoghegan
Graubard
McCue
Oliver
Schutta
T. R. Staley
Staley
Amsterdam
Sanfords
Palmer
D. C. Rotenson
Chemung
Hughes
Keller
Marty” McCue
Mr. Cuvillier
Hart
Merritt
House
Shortt
Terry
Senate
McCarren
New York
Bomb Explodes Near Bank in Elizabeth Street Sicilian Colony
A bomb exploded in the hallway of No 246 Elizabeth street near the Dominic Ponomolo bank and close to Pasquale Pati’s former loan house. Police arrived as hundreds of Italians gathered, and Patrolmen Ferguson O'Brien and Eller searched the building. Ferguson found Mrs Pasquale Cassazza hanging by her hands to a fire escape after losing her footing.
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Elizabeth Street
No. 246
Dominic Ponomolo
Pasquale Pati
Black Hand
Ferguson
O’brien
Eller
O'Brien
Pasquale Cassazza
Rockefeller plays golf and praises Southern women
John D. Rockefeller, spending a month in Hot Springs, played golf today and praised Southern women as the handsomest in the world. He issued a challenge to hotel guests to compete with him on the links and plans to play golf frequently during his stay. Trains from New York to Atlantic City leave Fridays and Saturdays at 1.28 PM via the Pennsylvania Railroad, with other through trains at 9:65 AM and 7:55 AM on weekdays and Sundays respectively.
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The
Tribune
Hot Springs
John D. Rockefeller
Rockefeler
Rockefeller
Atlantic City
New York
Pennsylvania Railroad
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James Stillman
Henry H. Rogers
Connecticut
Illinois Central Railroad Company
Railroad Securities Company
St. Joseph & Grand Island Railroad Company
L A Storrs
Henry R Buck
Hartford
Conn
Arnold
Willimantic
A . Bates
East Granby
Mesers
E. H. Harriman
H Rogers
iMnsis Central Railroad Company
St. Joseph & Grand Island Railroad Lompany
Rolce
Stillman
Tiliness Central Railroad Company
Joseph
Grand Island Hrailroad
Ted
Knickerbocker Trust
Bill
Tribune Bureau
Iowa
House Committee On
Representative Littlefield
Maine
Organized Labor
Littlefield
Carnegie “Tech
Jersey Central
Robber
Chanute
Kaw
State Bank
Earlton
Opera House
Pennsylvania City
Pati Bank
Hot Springs, Va
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