Wickersham Urges Interstate Commerce Reform In Kansas City
Attorney General Wickersham called for changes to the interstate commerce act to ensure fair rates and practices for railroads, proposing a dedicated Commerce Court, federal incorporation, and safeguards against state interference. He argued for curbs on the commission’s litigation role and detailed amendments to empower review of classifications, through routes, and carrier coordination while preserving anti trust aims.
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Kansas City
Wickersham
Interstate Commerce Commission
Wickertham
Des Moines
Iowa
Ommerce Court
Circuit
District Courts
Circuit Courts of Appeals
United States
Interstates Commerce Commission
Supreme Court of the United States
Department of Justice
Hell
Arrest of Mrs Lamont Over Reckless Driving Near Webster Square
Mrs Juliet Lamont widow of Daniel S Lamont ex Secretary of War was arrested in Worcester for reckless automobile driving after her chauffeur Frank Taylor was caught speeding thirty seven and a half miles per hour in a police trap near Webster Square. She interfered as the charge was pressed and agreed to stand trial in District Court tomorrow. The party was en route from New York to Boston to see the Harvard game.
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Tribune
Worcester
Mass
Juliet Lamont
New York
Daniel S. Lamont
Cleveland
Pierce P. Power
John J. Conlin
Webster Square
Frank Taylor
Protest on Congo at Albert Hall in London
A remarkable Congo oppression protest gathered at Albert Hall with the Archbishop of Canterbury presiding. Bishops, forty MPs, peers, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Edmund Morel, and many ministers attended. The Archbishop urged Britain to assume responsibility and reforms, and resolutions asked Sir Edward Grey to use Britain’s influence toward reforms.
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London
Congo
Albert Hall
Archbishop of Canterbury
House of Commons
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Edmund PD. Morel
Congo Reform Association
Canterbury
Great Britain
Edward Grey
Jury Holds Student in Fatal Stabbing Case at City College
A jury before Coroner Accritelli held Vincent Stabile, a City College student living at 540 West Td Street, for the grand jury on a charge of shooting and killing John Mc Grath at his home’s stoop on September 25. Stabile, who has been in the Tombs, said McGrath led a gang harassing him since May 1 over house rents. McGrath allegedly fired twice at Stabile before the fatal scuffle. Bail arguments set for today.
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Accritelli
Vincent Stabile
City College
West Td Street
John McGrath
West Od Street
Stabile
McGrath
Death in applause at city school gathering
Mrs Minnie Daubert of Nu Holmes street collapsed and died from heart disease while applauding the school glee club at Public School 23. Dr Frank Cohen pronounced her dead. She attended with many fellow parents from the School Parents' Club as her children’s event ended with anticipation for a child’s appearance. Coroner Schwannecke authorized removal of the body.
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Both Street
Union Avenue
Minnie Daubert
St. Holmes Street
Frank Cohen
Daubert
Tenerippe in Peril Volcano Threatens Tenerife Villages
Official advices from Teneriffe report a brief five minute eruption in the Las Flores mountains but warn it endangers all southern villages. Residents fear sea escape as panic spreads. Nearby peaks also show volcanic signs.
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Madrid
Teneriffe
Las Flores
Hurricane hits Lisbon port causing damage
A hurricane struck this port city this afternoon causing considerable damage but no casualties. It is rumored that a fishing vessel was swamped offshore near Lisbon.
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Lisbon
Famous Corps Suspended by Bonn Senate
In Bonn Prussia university students disorderly in Bonn and nearby towns led the Bonn University Senate to suspend the aristocratic Borussia Corps for the remainder of the six month session. Emperor William and the late crown prince once belonged to the corps. A ban on wearing corps colors followed. Cuba Currency Plan Advances in Senate Havana moves to adopt a U S style gold based national currency with five ten and twenty dollar gold coins and silver nickel and copper subsidiaries.
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Prussia
Bonn University
Borussia Corps
William Andrown
Frederick William
Cuba
Havana
Senate
United States
Guverniment
Nourmahal Silent Amendment Raises Supreme Court Pay
The City Board of Estimate increased the annual compensation of Supreme Court Justices in the First and Second Departments by 4000 each, raising total pay to 21500. The move, effective immediately, faces questions of legality since it precedes state and city action and may violate constitutional provisions.
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Board of Estimate
Supreme Court
Upstate
New York City
Controller Metz
Board of Aldermen
1St Judicial District
2D Department
Metz
Brooklyn
Jenks
Carr
Stapleton
Burr
Manhattan
Bronx
1St Judicial Department
West Orange teen dies after football tackle during New York game
Albert P. Wibialske seventeen of West Orange dies in Orange Memorial Hospital hours after a fatal neck injury during a high school game at the Watsessing Oval. He was the star athlete for West Orange High School and the field drew hundreds as East Orange police investigate.
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Tribune
Orange
N. J
Cadet Byrne
West Point
Harvard
Albert P. Wibialske
Theodore Wibtralske
Riggs Place
West Orange
Orange Memorial Hospital
Wibtralske
Watsessing Oval
Essex County Park
Trinity Chapel
New York
Youns Wibialske
Frank W. Lockwood
Prospect Street
East Orange
Range Memorial Hospital
Dodd Street
Glenwood Avenue
Ocal
Wibialske
Escape from the Varuna wreck off Madeira
Twelve of Eugene Higgins's yacht Varuna party survived a wreck off Madeira in rough seas after abandoning ship. A small boat drifted far from land but was rescued by the British steamer Hasperly. In all, sixty-five people were saved from the Varuna, which was deemed lost.
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Lisbon
Eugene Higgins
Madeira
Funchal
Hasperly
Change In Time Now Twenty First Novelist Express Noted
The Northern and Western Express November 59 via New York Central will depart Grand Central Station at 12 03 PM. The Chicago and St. Louis Limited No 3 via West Shore will depart Cortlandt Street 5 4 PM West 42nd Street. See agents for new timetables.
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Northern and Western Express
Grand Central Station
Chicago and St
Steel Trust Behind Copper Merger Plans
Telegraph report states United States Steel Corporation backs a new copper consolidation, shaping a major industrial move rivaling the steel movement a decade ago. John D. Ryan slated as president with Morgan underwriting. Pittsburg holds a large stake in the $1.0 billion stock of the merger.
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Pittsburg
United States Steel Corporation
Stel Corporation
Cole-Ryan
Guggenheim
Thomas F. Cole
North Butte
Greene-Cananea
Superior
Calumet
Arizona
John D. Ryan
Codmans Pay Customs Penalty After Gowns Found
Mr and Mrs Ogden Codman declared no dutiable goods aboard the Cunard liner Lusitania. Customs officers found gowns bought in Paris and valued at about $1,000. The Codmans admitted gowns were shipped as exports and returned, but records showed no declarations on prior trips. They paid a $3,000 customs penalty.
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Ogden Codman
East Swist Street
Codman
Fifth Avenue
McKeon
Paris
Cedmans
Gladstone Adviser Named Governor General of United South Africa
London reports Herbert John Gladstone Secretary of State for Home Affairs has accepted the post of Governor General of United South Africa. The Liberal executive committee of Mr Gladstone's Leeds constituency asks T E Harvey to stand as Liberal candidate for the upcoming House of Commons election.
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London
Herbert John Gladstone
Home Affairs
United South Africa
Lurton Picked by President to Succeed Peckham
The President plans to appoint Judge Horace H. Lurton of Tennessee to the Supreme Court as successor to Associate Justice Rufus W. Peckham. Widely noted as a Democrat favorite, Lurton has long sat on the Tennessee bench and is an intimate friend of Taft at age sixty five.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Horace H. Lurton
Tennessee
Supreme Court of the United States
Rufus W. Peckham
White House
Lurton
Frederick N. Judson
Missouri
Gill
Tenne
Taft
Floods in Panama Halt Rail Service Across Isthmus
Heavy rains flood tracks and waters rise three to four feet. No trains ran between Ceion and Panama as lines near Bohio and Frijeles submerged. Trains from Celon to Panama halted at Bohio with no onward service today.
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Panama
Ceion
Celon
Bohio and
Frijeles
Bohio
Latham and Paulhan Set World Heights in France
Bouy France November 19 Hubert Latham in a monoplane rose to 1345 feet and M Paulhan in a biplane reached 1181 feet both new world records. Paulhan had held the previous mark of 997 feet at Sandown. Orville Wright's 1600 foot ascent at Potsdam in October was unofficial and Count de Lambert’s 1200 foot Eiffel Tower crossing was also unofficial.
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Bouy
France
Weiller
Hubert Latham
M. Paulhan
Paulhan
Sandown
England
Orville Wright
Potsdam
Count de Lambert
Eiffel Tower
Balfour Admits Cotton Tax Violates Reform
London on November 1 reports that Mr Balfour acknowledges a planned raw cotton tax would breach fundamental fiscal reform principles. The remark, key in Lancashire’s election battle, where free trade is strong, signals tariff reformers’ focus. Winston Churchill, as president of the Board of Trade, to campaign vigorously for free trade in Lancashire.
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London
Balfour
House of Commons
Lencashire
Winston Spencer Churchill
Board of Trade
Lancashire
Eight murder victims in Bogusla village farmhouse incident
In Plaschen Germany on November 19 unknown killers hacked eight people to death at a farmhouse in Bogusla witseh near the Russian frontier. Victims include farmer Wasit sewski his wife five children and father in law. Carried out by likely cross frontier assailants.
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Plaschen
Germany
Boguslawitseh
Wasitsewski
Phone Saves Life Express Train Stowaway Dislodged
Dover New Jersey November 19 A foolish man identity unknown clung to two rods on the Lackawanna Limited vestibule as it pulled out of Dover. Baggagemaster Ford alerted Hoboken dispatch, stopping the train at Boonton where the man remained clinging to the rods.
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Tribune
Dover
N. J
Lackawanna Limited
Buffalo
Ford
Hoboken
Hobo
Missionary Wife Denies Nay Elephant Tale at Seoul Visit
Mrs. Jones, wife of Rev Dr G Heber Jones, refutes Berlin published claim that during Taft party visit to the Empress of Corea tomb in Seoul Miss Alice Roosevelt rode a stone elephant and posed for a photo with Mr Nicholas Longworth. She cites absence of stone elephants in Seoul and notes other missionaries would have reported such desecration. She also denies any Frau Krebel or Frau Sontag as court figures.
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Tribune
Utiea
G. Heber Jones
Methodist Episcopal Church
Corea
Seoul
Nicholas Longworth
Alice Roosevelt
Mr. Longworth
Mrs. Jones
Miss Roosevelt
Dr. Jones
Krebel
Frau Sontag
U S May Control Sugar Refinery Rumors Surface
The Department of Justice weighs heavy penalties and possible receivership to control the American Sugar Refining Company. Officials discuss using court action to seize and run sugar plants to recover back duties and curb alleged frauds while continuing a broad probe.
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Department of Justice of
Washington
Wickersham
Kansas City
Henry L. Stimson
American Tobacco Company
James (. McReynolds
Milton Puray
Ford
McReynolds
Purdy
Department of Justice Corps of Legal
Treasury Department
Department of Justice
United States Circuit Court
United States Supreme Court
Judge Holt
Pennsylvania Sugar Refining Company
Holt
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