Brief global notes on Taft and world events
President Taft backs arbitration of Panama canal tolls if U S- Britain talks fail. Senate members named for Wilson inauguration. Retrial of bathtub trust case set for February in Detroit. Wickersham rejects pleas unless guilty. Harlan begins major rebate inquiry into trunk line payments. Bailey resigns Senate seat. Johnston to be appointed. Gompers Mitchell Morrison appeal in Buck’s Stove case. Bailey delivers farewell in Senate. Booth and Boutell named to Court of Claims. Bail set for iron workers’ dynamite case at Leavenworth. I M M Co accepts Ismay’s resignation. Blue Creek oil town burned. $40,000 loss. Felker chosen NH governor by legislature. Rosalie Jones suffrage march reaches Albany. Ghirranelli found dead. letter from father cited. DuPont funds turn over to widow. Arctic explorer Johansen dies by suicide. Castro to sail Amerika. Karolyi wounded in duel. Tisza injured. Viceroy Hadinge ill after bomb attack. Count Romanones resigns cabinet. new government sought. London taxi strike reduces fleet. Ma j Daingerfield dies. Dr Swift dies. Badger takes Atlantic fleet command. Roswell Miller found dead in New York.
Supreme Court Upends Cotton Corner Ruling
The Supreme Court upheld several Sherman Act counts against Patten and others for a cotton corner scheme, ruling a corner in any commodity constitutes a restraint on interstate commerce. The case returns to lower courts for trial on the facts while establishing the legal principle that cotton corners violate the Sherman Act.
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Washington
Supreme Court
James A. Patten
Patten
Eugene G. Scales
Prank
Hayne
William P. Brown
New York
New York Cotton Exchange
United States Circuit Court For
Justice Lorton
White
Holmes
Federal Court of Southern New York
Union Pacific
Union Pacific Railroad Company
Southern Pacific Company
Union Pacific Company
Notable bond posts in Cincinnati misappropriation case
Domestic WN Keith former secretary and F R Williams ex treasurer of Cincinnati Trust, with George B Cox as president, each posted 10000 bonds after indictment for mis appropriation of over 100000. William Rockefeller, subpoenaed for Pujo committee, sails toward Honduras on a Key West to Honduras voyage. American Bar Association picks Montreal for next annual meeting September 2 to 4. Boston Mayor Fitzgerald orders study for a city gasoline tank to sell fuel to auto owners at wholesale as gas rises to 25 cents.
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WN. S. Keith
F. R Williams
Cincinnati Trust Company
George B. Cox
Cincinnati
William Rockefeller
Pujo
Washington
Honduras
Key West
Fla
American Bar Association
New York
Montreal
Fitzgerald
Boston
Gompers Pleads For Anti-Injunction Bills Before Senate
Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, urged the Senate Judiciary subcommittee to pass the Clayton anti injunction and contempt bills. He defended organized labor amid criticisms following the Structural Iron Workers union dynamiting trial and condemned government by dynamite as dangerous. He also attacked employers groups including U S Steel and the National Federation, and said labor would not repudiate the Structural Iron Workers union despite condemnation.
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Washington, Jan
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Senate
Judiciary
Clayton
Structural Iron Workers’ Union
Gompers
United States Steel Corporation
National Frectoral Association
Organized Labor
Federation
Indianapolis
Ottumwa Adopts Commission Plan Despite Snow Storm
Ottumwa Iowa voters approve the commission form of government by a 76 vote margin as a major snow storm limits turnout with about one third of the total vote cast.
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Ottumwa
Commission
Illinois News Tersely Told Across Many Towns
Snowbound collision near Harrisburg badly injures a brakeman. several Illinois towns report deaths, weddings, fires, and crime. Notable items include a newborn Aurora infant, a suicide in Blomington, a grain elevator fire in Winchester, a large religious jubilee in Quincy, and a labor dispute settlement at E Z Opener Bay company.
Found works of Stevenson discovered in Samoa and Hawaii
An admirer of Robert Louis Stevenson reports the discovery of several new manuscripts in Samoa and Honolulu. The find includes a poetically styled essay written after a volcanic sighting, a fiction set in South Seas life, several shorter poems, and an unfinished blank verse Maui legend.
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Samoa
Hawaii
Robert Louis Stevenson
Honolulu
Hawai
Stevenson
Pacific
Savaii
Kilauea
Maui
Baby heals from skin eruption with Cuticura in Kingsley
Mrs. W. J. Cleland reports a thirteen month old child suffered a rapid facial eruption spreading from pimples to a large cheek sore. After applying Cuticura Soap and Ointment the sores soothed and healed within days with no scarring. Ad promotes Cuticura products sold worldwide.
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Kingsley, Mich
W. J. Cleland
Cuticura
Dept. L
Boston
Judge Miller Praises Dodds Kidney Pills for Heart Trouble
Philip Miller, Gray County Probate Judge of Cimarron Kansas, reports years of heart trouble cured after taking Dodds Kidney Pills. He says dizziness, puffiness, and backache vanished after about a year of use. He weighs 200 pounds at 63 and remains in good health. He endorses the remedy and offers to publish the letter. Dodds Kidney Pills are 60 cents per box from Dodds Medicine Co. Buffalo New York.
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Dodds Kidney
Gray Co
Philip Miller
Cimarron
Kan
Judge Miller
Dodds
Dodds Medicine Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Lewt's Single Binder Cigar Ad Claims Rich Tobacco
An advertisement touts Lewt's Single Binder cigars for their rich natural tobacco quality and suggests paid work can sap the enjoyment of any task.
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Illinois
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Boutell
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Leavenworth
Iron Workers
International Mercantile Marine Company
J. Bruce Ismay
Blue Creek
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Albany
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la Grange
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