Texas Sues Standard Oil for 100 Million Dollars
Texas files a suit against Standard Oil interests seeking about 100 million dollars in penalties for alleged antitrust violations. The attorney general asserts the Standard Oil companies of New York New Jersey Kentucky Ohio and Indiana are under unified control with Magnolia Petroleum as the Texas branch. Subpenas were served on John D Rockefeller and on several oil and banking executives. The action follows Waters Pierce litigation disclosures and seeks penalties rather than damages.
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New York
John D. Archbold
Texas
Standard Oil Interests
Standard Oil
New Jersey
Kentucky
Ohio
Indiana
Standard Oil Trust
Magnolia Petroleum Company
Subpenas
John D. Rockefeller
Lakewood Golf Links
H. C. Folger, Jr
Standard Oil Company of New York
Samuel G. Bayne
Seaboard National Bank
Howard Bayne
Columbia Knckerbocker Trust Company
Charles W. Harkness
Lewis Cass Ledyard
Great Belgian Strike for Manhood Suffrage Begins Quietly
Brussels reports a large labor walkout as Belgian workmen press the government to grant manhood suffrage. About 200,000 workers stopped work nationwide, with predictions of further reinforcement. Thousands of women and children are reportedly leaving the country to avert suffering, while strike leaders claim a $3,000,000 fund to sustain the movement.
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Brussels
Belgium
Montenegro Isolated in Siege as Servians Withdraw
Montenegro faces the siege at Cettinje with no Serb support as the Servian army withdraws from Scutari and marches back to Servia. Widespread bitterness grips the small Balkan state amid the renewed battle.
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Montenegro
Cettinje
Scutari
Servia
Assassin Fails In Madrid Knife and Gun Attack on King Alfonso
In Madrid the third assassination attempt on King Alfonso the Thirteenth failed when an attacker Rafael Sanches Allegro seized the royal bridle and fired multiple shots. The king’s quick riding and a secret service man intervened as the assailant’s revolver misfired twice more. The bullet hit the king’s horse, not the monarch, and the guard subdued the attacker.
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Madrid
Alfonso
Barcelona
Rafael Sanches Allegro
Calle de Alcala
Secret Service
Permit Denied Friedmann Seeks Interstate Vaccine License
Surgeon General Blue states that until the exact nature of Frederick Friedmanns tuberculosis vaccine and its preparation are disclosed and claims substantiated by official tests, a license for interstate sale cannot be issued. The Berlin scientist was advised on steps needed to obtain licensure.
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Blue
Washington
Public Health Bureau
Frederick Franz Friedmann
Surgeon General
Berlin
Wilson's tariff victory as sugar becomes duty free
President Wilson wins a House caucus vote 155 to 39 to adopt the tentative sugar schedule, making sugar free after three years of 1 percent duty. Underwood says the move saves consumers $115 million yearly, while debates over cattle sheep and other amendments continue. Senate signals accord with free sugar but retains rights to amend other schedules.
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Washington
Wilson
House
Ways and Means
Underwood
Senate
Francis Burton Harrison
New York
Tariff Board
Ways and Means Committee
Capsized Mimi Drops From View In Bay City Waters
Ships pass in the night phrase is recalled as the German bark Mimi disappears after turning turtle off Bay City. All hands gave up recovery of Captain Westphal’s papers and any missing sailors, with bodies presumed to have gone to sea.
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View Bay City
Mimi
Westphal
Garibaldi
Wreck Bay City
Farley
Queen
United States Navy
Point Adams
Squaw Defies City Over Pendleton Water Site
The city of Pendleton sues aged squaw Wenix and her son Red Elk Cayuse to eject them from a tepee site on the Venix allotment near a spring. condemnation paid $2600 two years ago, but the pair still refuse to move and have not drawn the award.
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Pendleton
City of
Wenix
Umatilla Reservation
Red Elk
Gasoline Schooner Anvil Grounded at Florence Spit
The gasoline schooner Anvil from Bandon ran aground inside the Siuslaw river mouth at Florence and lies high and dry on the north spit about 600 yards below the jetty end. It lost its rudder, cargo is being removed, and Umpqua lifesaving crew anchors toward the river channel while efforts to float the vessel continue.
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Florence
Bandon
Siuslaw River
Berwick
Umpqua
Railroad to Bend by Stayton Minto Pass Route Planned
Salem announces Ore gon Railroad Company organization is near completion and contracts for road bed construction may be awarded within three weeks. The line would run from Salem to Bend via Stayton and Minto Pass with ties to Hill and Harriman interests and access to the Santiam timber region.
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Salem
John H. McNary
Oregon Railroad Company
Bend
Stayton
Minto Pass
Cascade Mountains
Hill
Harriman
Rosedale
Santiam
Breitenbush
Big Filing System Planned for Gill Law Registrations
Salem reports S A Kozer assistant secretary of state outlines a likely extensive statewide filing system for Gill law registrations. He says the system will require far more filing space than currently available to the secretary of state's office once the law takes effect June 3.
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Salem
S. A. Kozer
Secretary of State
Kozer
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