Roosevelt letter cites rebating indictments across railroads and shippers
A President Roosevelt memorandum released by the Interstate Commerce Commission details indictments for rebates against ten railroads and several shippers in multiple districts this year. It notes earlier Supreme Court decisions strengthening the anti rebating laws and lists key figures and political maneuvers in New York state.
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Washington
Ing
Rece
Rooeevelt
Gar
Tie Etter
Jane BE. Morbie
Interstate Commerce Commission
William J. Bryan
Southern Pacific Company
Northern District of California
Southern District
Ocstith
Missouri Pacife Railway
Eerten
Arkansas
A. P Gilbert
Cheesreake & Ohio Railway
Eastern District of Virginia
Western District
New York
Mutual Transit Company
Lake Tent Line
Ohio
Toledo Ice A74 Coal Company
Michigan
Stearns Sail and Lumber Company
Cen- Vermont Railway
Packing House
Supreme Court
Dallas
Caméec
Philadelphia
Groszscup
Standard Oil
Chicago
Gray
Kern Attacks Roosevelt in Kalamazoo Speech
Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Joan W Kern denounced President Roosevelt for his campaign efforts and his push to name his own successor. He drew a parallel to 1884 President Arthur’s era, claiming similar overreach rebuked by voters. He planned to go to Saginaw next, with a stop in Lansing.
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Kalamazoo
Midh
America
Joan W Kern
Academy of Music
Roosevelt
Arthur
Folger
New York
Kern
Saginaw
Lansing
Vote fraud probe targets upper district election inspectors
An investigation by the Board of Elections probes alleged irregularities in the 224 Assembly District primaries. Complainant Arthur N. Wadick cites ballot excesses and improper name usage across districts. inspectors, witnesses, and a key incident involving L W Lewis and R Reidinger are examined as hearings are adjourned.
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Veeterdar
Board of Elections
Arthur N. Wadick
Wakefield
Beth
Sith
Charles I. Reifiner
Reidinger
L. W. Lewis
Lewis
Mr. Reidinger
James W. Randolph
Harrison chief adviser fails to secure chair of state committee
Chairman Conners announced that Representative Francis Burton Harrison accepted the advisory chair while the upstate Democrat aimed to lead the Democratic State Committee. Other members listed include Denis V Brien Jefferson County, Cady Herrick Albany, Hampden Robb Suffolk, Thomas S Conner Clinton, Nathan Straus New York, David Booey Kings, William S Hedie New York.
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Democratic State Committee
Conners
Francis Burton Harrison
Denis V Brien
Jeferson County
Cady Herrick
Alfeny
Hampden Robb
Suffolk
Thomas S. Conner
Clinton
Nathan Straus
New York
David Booey
Kings
William S. Hedie
Stokes Nominated by Socialist Party in East Side Rally
J G Phelps Stokes is nominated for Assembly from the 8th District by the Socialist party. The ratification at Thalia Theatre drew a Yiddish speaking crowd to back Stokes, with several speakers urging electing Mailly and Pine in other districts. Mrs Stokes praised her husband’s rise to Socialist leadership amid lively East Side interest.
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J. G. Phelps Stokes
Socialist Party
Thalia
Stokes
Lower East Side
Fifth Avenue
William Mailly
Mailly
the Call
Max Pine
United Hebrew Trades
Morris Hillquit
Congress
Mr. Stokes
East Side
Police News Policy Clash Up at West 152d Street Station
Reporters faced a crackdown as Lieutenants refused to read the blotter under a new police manual claim. Captain Kreuscher backed the move but Daniel Slattery ordered news to be released as usual. The confusion arose from an unindexed manual and misread rules on sharing information with the press.
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Louis Kreuscher
West 153d Street
Leutenants
Kreuscher
Daniel Slattery
Bingham
West 152d Street
Becker
Leutenant
Slattery
Faculty to Run Cooperative Apartment House at Columbia
A movement among Columbia University faculty proposes a cooperative apartment house for professors and instructors. High salaries gaps, especially for assistants, drive demand for housing. Scientific school faculty favor the plan to curb rising rents, with plans to be arranged soon.
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Columbia University
Columbia
Bailey Denies Senate Resignation Rumors
United States Senator Joseph W. Bailey of Texas, at the Waldorf with Mrs. Bailey and his two sons, debunked reports he would retire from the Senate. He called the claims inventions and said he has no intention of resigning or leaving his political career, despite recent primary results.
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United States
Joseph W. Bailey
Texas
The
Waldorf
Senate
Savings Bank Depositors Rise Overall in County
The Controller of the Currency released results for the local year ending June 3 showing 38 more reporting banks and 117,07 additional depositors compared with 1907. Deposits fell by 24,525.11 while the average deposit declined from 129.4 to 42047. The report lists 1,452 banks with 5,795,849 depositors and total deposits of 3,000,555,340.
Bryan letter urges publicity on campaign contributions
William J. Bryan argues that voters deserve full disclosure of campaign contributions to judge motives of Republican leaders and candidates. He compares funding to bribery and calls for open records before elections, noting registration days in October for all voters.
Bryan Pounds Away as Auditors Anger at Haskell Mention
William J. Bryan spoke to a large crowd at Beene Iowa station, denouncing Taft and the Republican platform. An audience member challenged the Haskell reference, prompting Bryan to retort about party linen. He urged Democrats in Lincoln to remove his lithographs during Taft's visit.
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Beene
Iowa
Haskell
William J. Bryan
Mr. Taft
Roosevelt
Mr. Bryan
Bryan
Taft
Lincoln
W. H. Taft
Unemployed Session Debates Relief Plans at Lyceum
Five hundred gathered at Manhattan Lyceum for a National Legislation and the Unemployed meeting. James Eads How led removing a slaughter clause and urged an investigation into aiding the jobless. Other proposals called for committees to study Catskill watershed conditions and winter relief, with ideas on work programs and changes to the vagrancy law. Mrs Rose Pastor Stokes was slated to speak Friday at Cooper Union.
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James Eads How
National Convention of the
Manhattan Lyceum
Hiad
Alexander Law
Board of Aldermen
Catskill
Lyceum
McHugh
Boston
How
Certify Maltreatment Cases By State Hospital Workers
Albany Sept 24 state hospital workers must certify any mal treatment cases observed during the month when signing the payroll The rule affects about five thousand employees It was decided at a Lunacy Commission meeting including managers and superintendents A committee will consider placing minor staff in competitive class and nurses and attendants were deemed not feasible to include Dr Robert B Lamb spoke on Habeas Corpus in Insanity Cases not addressing Harry K Thaw.
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Albany
State Commission
Civil Service Commission
Robert B. Lamb
Matteswan State Hospital
Harry K. Thaw
Gould Party Returns With Three Moose Sheds Antlers
Frank J. Gould and his party sailed from St John to New York aboard the Helenia after a hunting trip in the South Branch area. Gould killed a moose with antlers about fifty one inches, Taylor claimed a forty nine inch spread, and Ogilvie took another slightly smaller.
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St. John
N. H
Frank J. Gould
New York
South Branch
Pacific Ocean trade rates debate tied to Interstate Commerce Commission
Franklin K Lane explains ICC jurisdiction over foreign commerce and the need to publish inland rate schedules for Pacific coast and inland movements. He argues joint rates and rebates would undermine enforcement and notes railroad leaders Hill and Harriman blame competition on water, not the ICC, for Pacific trade declines.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Franklin K. Lane
Interstate Commerce Commissioner
Pacific Coast
Pacific Ocean
West
Atlantic Seaboard
Interstate Commerce Commission
Pacific
Trans-Continental
Lane
Tacoma Chamber of Commerce
United States
Commission
Seaboard
Messrs
Hill and
Harriman
Resignation Follows Sing Sing Inquiry Graft Probe
Albany Sept 29 C V Collins state superintendent of prisons said Dr Robert T Irvine Ossining resigning from Sing Sing last June followed an investigation. The inquiry showed he accepted money from friends of convicts for special privileges through his prison connections. Guards had also been dismissed for taking bribes. Minutes and testimony were given to the prison commission and Governor Hughes.
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Albany
C. V. Collins
State Superintendent of
Robert T. Irvine
Ossining
Sing Sing
Irvine
Collins
Hughes
Sing Sing Prison
Gam” Parks
al Adams
John W. Wooten
Maple Street
Weeten
Wooten
Public Auction To Sell Uninspected Wet Goods By Government
The United States plans a public sale of uninspected wines liquors cordials and other beverages at the semi annual auction of unclaimed and abandoned merchandise on October 6 at the Appraiser s warehouse An official from the Custom House notes there is no inspection of these items purchasers must accept risks to purity and identity Bottled beverages sell by label while kegged wines or liquors may be sampled on October 1 and 2 by interested parties.
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Hughes
Mr. Taft
Havemeyer
Senate
Sugar Trust
Harriman
Taft
Republican Party
William J. Bryan
Appratiser
Custom House
Navy Gunnery Tests Set Across Seas in November
Navy plans battle practice for ships under Sperry in Manila Bay and Magdalena Bay with coastal tests at Cape Cod and a Chesapeake Bay torpedo flotilla. New conditions will mimic combat, hiding ranges and speeds to gauge true marksmanship under pressure. Orders issued for Army and Navy officers alongside vessel movements reported as ships arrive at Philadelphia Annapolis Washington Manila Bay Colon and Delaware Breakwater.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
NAVY
Navy Department
Sperry
Atlantic Fleet
Manila Bay
Pacific
Magdalena Bay
Atlantic
Cape Cod
Chesapeake Bay
W. S. Sims
U. S
Yankee Stands Strain Off Spindle Rock
Newport Sept. U S cruiser Yankee ashore on Spindle Rock Buzzards Bay withstood a night of pounding as a heavy southeast wind created a rough sea. Wireless with the torpedo station resumed and the ship was reported on even keel with conditions improving as wind and sea subsided.
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Newport, R
Yankee
Spindle Rock
Buzzards Bay
Colonel William F Stewart Faces Army Retiring Board
Colonel William F Stewart of the coast artillery, stationed at Fort Grant Arizona, appeared before an army retiring board to determine retirement on heart disease. He asked for two weeks delay before the exam but was ordered to appear tomorrow. medical members were told to extend the examination as needed. Stewart expressed satisfaction with the board’s personnel.
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ARMY
Willis R. Vance
Coast Artillery
Samuel D. M'Alister
Coast Artillery Corps
Army Retiring Board
Washington
Capain Foward J. Timberlake, Jr
Hot Springs
Ark) General Hospital
Alpberto Brookes
29Th Infantry
Fort Riles
Fort Douglas
Thomas F. Harker
Charles A. Ragan
Medical Corps
General Hospital
Washington Barracks
Henry Tferguson
Francis J. Koester
Lucius R. Holbrook
Bert Riley
Stanley C Ramsden
28Th Infantry
Fort du Pont
George Newlove
Medical Reserve Corps
Philippines
Fort Hradh
Beverly ©. Daly
George «. Rockwell
21St Infantry
William F. Stewart
Fort Grant
Arizona
Stewart
P. R. R. Awards Five Thousand Four Hundred Prizes
The Pennsylvania Railroad issued $5,400 in awards for top track makers and best line and surface conditions. Wiseman and Lovell shared a top prize for the New Brunswick to Tullytown stretch, while four $80 prizes went to crews along Jersey City to Pittsburgh and Philadelphia to Washington routes.
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Tribune
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania Railroad
New Brunswick
Tullytown
N. J. C. M. Wiseman
J. D. Lovell
Jersey City
Philadelphia
Washington
J. A. Burchernal
T. E. Lightfoot
Thompsonville
Granville
Penn
H.C. Thomas
M. W. Clement
Woodbine Avenue
West Philadelphia
Paoli
C. J. Leeper
W. W. Huberty
New Florence
George. Penn
George Goldie, Jr
H. A. Johns, Jr
62D Street
Wilmington
Del
Machado de Assis Dies in Rio Brazil Republic Mourns
The Brazilian ambassador to the United States in Hamilton Massachusetts announced the death of Machado de Assis the Brazilian poet and president of the Brazilian Academy He was called Brazil s greatest man of letters and the brightest light of Brazilian literature by Joaquim Nabuco who heard the news from Rio de Janeiro.
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Hamilton
Mass
Joaquim Nabuco
Rio de Janeiro
Machado de Assis
Ambasador Nabuce
de Assis
Brazil
Whiskey in the Army Lieut Ballard on Trial
Court martial at Army Building hears testimony on Lieutenant W. W. Ballard Jr of the 60th Coast Artillery accused of embezzling 961 dollars and other offenses. Witnesses describe his drinking, memory lapses, and inflated officers club bills. Trial to resume next morning.
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W. W. Ballard, Jr
Coast Artillery
Army
John Erry
Ballard
Officers’ Club
Fort Wadsworth
Fenewick Mutr
William T. Johnston
Berry
Captain Johnston
New Yorker Wins His Case in Labor Law Appeal
The Court of Appeals rules an employer is not liable for an employee’s labor law violation if the employer acts to remedy the condition after being informed. George H. Taylor of New York was convicted of employing a girl under age, but his dismissal of the girl after learning of the violation overturned the conviction.
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Albany
Court of Appeals
George H. Taylor
New York
Taylor
Court of Special Sessions
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William Street
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Bailey
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Army and Navy News
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