New York Dry Goods Trust Formed Headed by John Claflin
A new giant dry goods trust called The United Dry Goods Companies of New York was incorporated in Dover Delaware with a capital of 51 million dollars and John Claflin named as its head. Directors include Ex Rene T Alexander and Kenneth McEwen. The move follows Morgan financed Associated Merchants with 17 million in 1907 and links to H B Claflin and other major houses.
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New York City
Wapstad
John Aflin
United Dry Goods Companies of
New York
Boow i
Associated Merchants’ Company
Clatin
Dover
Del
Gould & Wilkie
Rene T. Alexander
New Brighton
Kenneth McEwen
Great Corporation
Alexander
MicEwen
John Claflin
H. B. Claflin Tapany
Mr. Claflin
Louis Stewart
Associated Merchants
Com- NY
J. P. Morgan
Hag
H. B. Kintin Company
James McCreary Company
Gunther's Sons
Hahne
Newark
McCreery & O
Pittsburg
J. N. Adams Company
Buffalo
Stewart Company
Baltimore
Heirs Must Tend Pet of Dead Mistress in New Mexico
Bonnie the dog benefits from the will of Anna E. Dier of North Tonawanda. The will, filed in the Surrogate’s Court, sets a $25,000 estate in trust to Nora Robinson and Mary Wilson of Buffalo to care for the dog, with conditions requiring their agreement before proceeding.
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Buffalo
Budget tax proposal targets bachelors and childless widowers
Vienna reports the Minister of Finance has submitted the budget to the Reichsrat committee. Additional taxes include a supplementary income tax and a levy on bachelors widowers and childless men, among other plans.
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Vienna
Committee of the
Reichsrath
Ward Verrigan Remembered as Longtime Leader and Millionaire
Ward Verrigan, a prominent figure on the tut for many years and a millionaire, has lost all property assets. The report notes his status and calls him a major local figure in business and community affairs.
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Ward Verrigan
Serry
Teacher slays two children then takes own life
Hast Hampton Connecticut reports a Brooklyn wife and former teacher Mrs Sennia Carsten slashed two children to death and fatally wounded a third before fatally cutting her throat. Her husband Captain Louis Carsten and medical staff describe a tragic mental collapse after years of nervous illness.
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Hast Hampton
Conn
Sennia Carsten
Brooklyn
Carstens
Second Street
Louis Carsten
Paris
Berlin
London
Florida
Thay
Louis
Olf
John
Heirs of Man Hanged Win Insurance Payout
United States Circuit Court of Appeals denies Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance petition for rehearing over J Samuel McCue case. Heirs will collect $20000 on life of McCue who was hanged in Charlottesville for wife murder.
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Richmond
Ya-A
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company
J. Samuel McCue
McCue
Charlottesville
Wheat Highest Price in Eleven Years
Chicago May wheat reached an eleven year high trading on the Board at $1.31½ per bushel. The surge reflects renewed demand and market optimism.
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Chicago
Chicago Board
Itinerant crew fears searchlight sighting in Natchez
Avieline Hawkins cried it is the Judgment Heht as she dropped dead of fright when the Mississippi battleship’s searchlight flashed up the river toward Natchez. The vivid scene spooked locals who watched the ship move upriver.
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Torache
Avieline Hawkins
Natchez
Beloit Geloit College Rules Chaperoned Driving
Beloit Wisconsin Beloit College officials ban co eds from driving together without a chaperon. The new rule targets student social transport requiring supervision for rides in private vehicles.
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Beloit
Wis
Geloit College
Strike Ties Up Georgia Road
Augusta Georgia the Georgia Railroad was tied up by a firemen strike as management refused to move trains and prepared to run when state protection is ready Governor Hoke Smith ordered sheriffs to mobilize deputies to guard life and property The strike is said to gain support from local citizens and sympathy mobs with accusations of racial bias and job loss among white workers
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Augusta
Georgia Railroad
Thomas Scott
Hoke Smith
McDuffie
Rockdale
de Kalb
iOongers
Lithonia
Georgia Road
Atlanta
Central of Georgia
Seaboard Air Line
Canoe Party Upset in Lake at Newark New Jersey
A mixed group of boys and girls capsized while returning to Branch Brook Park Lake near the boat house in Newark New Jersey. All members reached shore safely as the canoe tipped after a shift in balance near the dock. Names include Carl Lehman Edwin Brown Otto Hebeler and Miss Anna Gruenewald Lauhoff Laudoff.
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Newark
N J
Branch Brook Park Lake
Sifely
Carl Lehman
South Ninth Street
Edwin Brown
Otto Hebeler
New York Avenue
Lehman
Brown
Anna Gruenewalder
Nelson Place
Anna
Laudoff
Lauhoff
Explosion on Ida May Kills Two on Power Boat
In Ogdensburg New York the Ida May power boat suffered a compressed air tank explosion. Second engineer Peter Wadenhoff of Bridgeport Connecticut was killed after being blown through a partition and losing his arm and head. Chief engineer Harry Purtell of Cleveland Ohio was fatally injured as he was blown into the cabin. The vessel sank in shallow water, the Ida May eighty feet long with 509 horsepower and a double acting motor. Purtell had just returned from Monaco where he worked on the Standard in the international regatta.
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Ogdensburg
Peter Wradenhoff
Bridgeport
Purtell
Monaco
Fire in coal mine burning fifty years at Summit Hill
In Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania a fire has burned for decades at the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company mine in Summit Hill. Over a million dollars has been spent to extinguish it as conical walls are built and sulphur filled shafts are prepared to halt spread toward Spring Tunnel workings. Daily risk to workers forces surface returns due to smoke and unconsciousness.
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Wilkesbarre
Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company
Summit Hill
Reading Company
Ashland
Railroads Must Be Assessed At Market Value in New Jersey
Justice Garrison issued an opinion in the Supreme Court holding that second class railroad property must be assessed at its market value for railroad purposes regardless of its whlcd value. The opinion directs another assessment of this class of railroad property in Jersey City and Hoboken for 1906 and 1907.
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Trenton
N. J
Gairson
Jersey City
Hoboken
Pies to Save Felon’s Fate in Secret Visit Murder
Irvin J. Garter awaiting trial for kidnapping Thomas Bagby last year was found dead with a pistol and shotgun nearby. Beulah Carter testified she and Bagby were engaged and urged him to marry. she refused to perjure herself, prompting Carter to shoot himself rather than face possible conviction and execution.
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Huntsville
Irvin J. Garter
Thomas Bagby
Thomas Ragby
Carter Yard
Burelar
Beulah Carter
Bagby
Carter
Beulah
Saiq
Irvis Carter
No 13 Causes Death Of Railway Conductor
In South Norwalk Connecticut conductor Philip T. Bird, 17 years on the railroad, is fatally injured when a train splits his legs after he noticed the house number 18, a day after his superstition about the number thirteen. He remained conscious and directed his crew to apply bandages and stop bleeding before the doctor arrived at Norwalk Hospital.
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Gars
South Norwalk
Conn
Philip T. Bird
Janis
Norwalk Hospital
Bird
Wilson's Point
Supreme Court setback strikes at state liquor controls
Supreme Court rules that dry counties cannot be protected by state laws and interstate liquor shipments must be delivered. Justice Brewer notes Congress alone can regulate interstate liquor transportation, signaling a major blow to prohibition efforts in the South.
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Supreme Court
Washington, D. C
South
Brewer
Congress
Railroads face grand jury indictments over tariff violations
The Federal Grand Jury indicted the Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad and the Erie Railroad for failing to observe tariff laws and granting concessions. The Buffalo and Susquehanna Coal Mining Company was also charged for accepting concessions. A separate note mentions a city official's death by suicide in Rochester.
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Buffalo & Susquekranna
ERIE
Rochester
Federal Grand Jury
Buffalo & Susquehanna Railroad
Erie Railroad
Buffalo and ‘Susquehanna Coal Mining Company
Free Lumber Amendment Defeated in Senate Vote
The free lumber amendment to the Tariff bill was overwhelmingly defeated in the Senate with seventeen Democratic Senators voting against it.
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Washington, D. C
Senate
Hudson Fulton Celebration Relief Approved in Albany
Governor Hughes signed Senator Schlosser’s bill providing 300000 dollars for the Hudson Fulton celebration in New York City. The action directs funding through state channels to support parade events and related observances downtown.
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Albany
Hughes
Schlosser
New York
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Delaware
Gov. Smith
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Moorestown
Victor Graver
Wilson Beers
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Graver
Gravar
Felon
Irvin 3
Huntsville, Mo
Thomas. Bagby
Girl
Savannah
W.d.chainhorne
Ggeecnee Canal
Ted Finest
Father John
Scott
Daffy
Melvin
Pinkham
Imperial Gramont
Omega
Stemmerman Pharmacy
Main and Jefferson
Passaic
Vreeland Avenue
William C. Miller, Inc
Market Street
Lehigh
Your
East Nutley
Franklin Avenue
Cor, Vreeland
Nutley
Nes
JR. Doyli
Ladies’ and Gentlemen
Stimatt Building
Chestnut Street and
Passaic Avenue
Nutley, Nod
Free Lumber
Hudson and Fulton Memorial
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