Harriman Lines Hearings Highlight Alton Financing
New York February 28 The Interstate Commerce Commission resumed Harriman lines inquiry with Charles W. Hilliard, Alton controller, testifying the Springfield cutoff from Murrayville to Springfield was mortgaged before build and that directors over the years capitalized debts. He questioned long past book entries and said profitability and consolidation moves masked prior losses. The session also revealed fund misuses, stock swaps, and commissions tied to Union Pacific and Kuhn Loeb interests. The hearing adjourned with no further witnesses.
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New York
Interstate Commerce Commission
Torkay
Harriman
Charles W. Hilliard
Alton
Murryvile
Springfield
Bartler
Kellogg
Joliet & Chicago
Hilliard
Louis Stanton
St. Louis, Peoria & Northern
Murrayville
Rock Island
William Mahl
Big Beal in Coal at Danville Ill
Thadville Feb 28 The Kelly Coal company transfers to R O Hammon a $4,000,000 deal for a Danville coal property. The tract, owned by John R Walsh of Chicago and the International Tracrhm system, includes five shafts and about 2000009 tons of ore and adjacent lands.
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Danville
Ill
Thadville
Kelly Coal Company
R. O. Hammon
Ob KK
Berring Gid
Shirky
John R. Walsh
Chicas
Pittsburg
T. M. Taylor
Taylor
Railway franchise blocks city’s street removal in Des Moines
Federal court enjoins Des Moines from ousting the Des Moines street railway. The court rules the railway holds a perpetual 1865 franchise with 1875 registration, finds prior state actions and 1872 provisions invalid against the federal constitution, and confirms the company’s ongoing authority through extensions.
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Des Moines
Towa
Fells
Jude Smith
Des Moine
Ely
Glass Combine Is Guilty
Philadelphia court of appeals finds the National Window Glass Jobbers violated the Sherman act by forming a alleged combination to restrain trade and fix prices. The ruling concerns a national trade group and its anti competitive actions.
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National Jobbers’ Association
Philadelphia
United States Court of Appeals
National Window Glass Jobbers’ i
Sherman
Wilkie Heads Secret Service Probe of Chicago Subtreasury Robbery
Chicago chief of Secret Service John Be Wilkie was placed in charge of the investigation into the recent subtreasury robbery in Chicago. Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 28 reports say the senate skipped the house fare bill, which becomes effective upon gubernatorial signature.
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Secret Service
Chicago
John BE. Wilkie
Sub-Treasury
Lincoln, Neb
Senate
Governa
Medicine Is Fatal in Woodland Household Tragedy
In Woodland suburb near St Louis, the bodies of Frank Koeppen nine and Miss Selma Giersback housekeeper were found on the floor with Dently Koeppen eight and Robert Koeppen six nearby. An empty bottle labeled Drops and a recently purchased medicine bottle indicate possible opium poisoning.
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St. Louis
Emil Koeppen
Woodland
Frank Koeppen
Selma Giersback
Dently Koeppen
Robert Koeppen
Ted Drops
Thaw Murder Case Interest Falls as Harbors Bill Moves
A public interest report notes waning attention to the thaw murder case while a harbor bill progresses. The Senate was served notice on a plan to ensure a 14 foot channel. A lactation period test extended 64 days with milking, water, milk weight, and sample tests by an experiment station representative.
Adams defense strengthens alibi in Idaho murder case
In Wallace Idaho on February 28 the defense aims to prove Steve Adams is an incorrigible liar rather than a killer. Witness Lloyd Mason testifies to an alibi for Adams on August 1 1904 when Fred Tyler was slain, while Myr te Marsan of Mason supports the timeline, as prosecutors seek a conviction based on Adams confession to Det McParland and associates.
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Wallace
Idaho
Steve Adams
Fred Tyler
McParland
Alvin Mason
Adanie
Pylor
Mason
Steve Adkins
Steve Dickeon
Adonis
Dickson
Clover
K Simpkins
Myrte Marsan
Thaw Trial Sees Cross Examination Of Dr Evans Continue
New York Feb 28 District Attorney Jerome pressed Dr Britton D Evans in the Thaw murder case. The judge focused on letters Thaw wrote, with Evans stating some show mental insensibility but not permanent insanity. The spectator count dwindled as the cross examination stretched into tomorrow.
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New York
Jerome
Britton D. Evans
Larry K. Thaw
Stanford White
Tre
Thaw
le Tome
Evans
Recalled
Europe
Democratic Leader Bailey Exonerated in Texas Legislature
In a split vote the Texas Senate cleared Bailey of irregular acts in public life after a six week probe. The House then followed with a complete exoneration, withholding the evidence from the record. Bailey addressed members before departing for Washington to assume his Senate seat on March 4.
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TV Seo
Seater Bailey
Texas
Representative Cocke
Hay
Snofelock
Bailey
Bath
Senate
Ley
House
Washington
Sunspot Due to Reach Here Tomorrow Warns Pittsburg Astronomer
Pittsburg report states a large sunspot is due at the sun's western limb soon. John A Brashear of the Allegheny Observatory notes five small spots observed Monday and cautions the big spot may erupt but should appear in the western sun area by Friday and reach the central meridian in five to six days with possible electrical disturbances on earth mid next week.
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Pittsburg
John A. Brashear
Allegheny
Brashear
Congress Briefs from Yesterday in Washington
Senate debated government ownership of railroads and approved river and barrier appropriation bills. House agreed to conference reports on naval river and harbor District of Columbia appropriations. Army retirement provisions for Civil War brigadiers passed in Senate amendments. Roosevelt relief bill returned to House without approval. Ship subsidy bill debated. one hour extra general debate granted for today. Adjourned 11 p.m.
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Senate
Ier
Patterson von Hi
Riilroads
Pepert
Daniel
Roosevelt
Aldo
District For Columbia
Jaume
J. W Bauer
Cloud
South Dakota
Wisconsin Assembly Rejects Jamestown Exposition Fee
Madison Wis Feb 28 The assembly refused concurrence in the senate bill appropriating twenty five thousand dollars for the Jamestown exposition.
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Madison
Wis
Assembly
Senate
World butter mark set by Holstein Friesan cow
Fond du Lac Wisconsin February 28 In a sixty day official test under a Wisconsin experiment station representative a Holstein Friesan cow owned by W J Gillett broke the world butter record by forty pounds producing 5526 7 pounds of milk and 260 5 pounds of butter The cow calved on December 19 and the test began on the fifth day
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Fond du Lac
Wis
Wisconsin Experiment Station
W. J. Gillett
Would Disendow Church of England Passage in Commons
In Japan Feb 28 the Commons adopted a resolution endorsing disestablishment and disendowment of the church in England and Wales by 198 to 40. The debate centered on Ireland with Chief Secretary Arthur Birrell arguing disestablishment would not harm the church but restore spiritual authority, while the government refused to take responsibility.
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Commons
England and
Wales
Ausnetine Birrell
Ireland
Birrell
General Conflict Looms in Central America
Advised from dispatches dated February 28 indicate a forthcoming broad war across Central America unless the hoped for friendly mediation by the United States and Mexico succeeds.
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Central America
Panama
Lousure
United States
Mexico
Morton reelected president at Equitable Life meeting
Paul Morton was reelected president of the Equitable Life Insurance Society at the annual board meeting in New York. He reported that in 1906 eighty percent of all disbursements went to policy holders and twenty percent covered business operations. Wendell Phillips Garrison died after illness lasting months in New York.
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Equitable
New York
Paul Morton
Equitable Life Insurance Society
Morton
Wendell Phillips Garrison
William Lloydan
Ew York Marlon
Bloomington Man Involved In Double Slaying Near Lynching
Thomas Baldwin, a wealthy Colfax farmer and former merchant, aged about 60, killed Charles Kennedy and Cora Elsman during an alleged attempt to settle with Cora’s father for money. He had been charged with assault on Cora, who was 14, and narrowly escaped a lynching by angry farmers before being surrendered to a deputy sheriff and moved to Bloomington.
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Bloomington
Thomas. Baldwin
Colfax
Charles Kennedy
Eisman
Cora
Balwin
Cora Elsman
Kennedys
Sabrook
Ill sailors overwhelm Connecticut as typhoid cases rise
The battleship Connecticut arrived in New York from West Indian waters with 65 typhoid cases among its crew. Fifty sailors are in critical condition. the ill will be landed and hospitalized. An accompanying United States carrier of illness prompts health officers to quarantine and inspect the ship.
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New York
Connecticut
West Indian
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