Notable Happenings From Around the World and Nation
A wide wrap of events reports the collapse of the United Copper corner in New York, Heinze family bank suspensions, dividend cuts and surcharges, bank failures in Hamburg and Butte, a Texas banking firm assignment, and a deadly shooting in Atoka. Also noted are poetry death, Marconi wireless triumph, railway accidents, explosions in Fontanet, and other global incidents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Copper
New York
Otto Heinze & Co
Stock Exchange
F. Augustus Heinze
Butte Copper
Mercantile National Bank of New York
Amalgamated Copper Company
Boston & Montana Copper Company
Haller-Scehle & Co
Hamburg
Germany
State Savings Bank
Butte, Mont
Heinzes
T. W. House
Houston
Texas
James P. Strong
Charles M. Webb
Atoka
Tenn
Louis Ogilvie
J.T. Neal
Columbus
N. D
R. C. Rasmussen
John Charles McNeill
Scotland County
N. C
Naples
Vesuvius
Canadian Northwest
England
William Marconi
Port Morion
Trish
Charles M. Shortridge
San Jose
Cal
Daily Times
HB. A. Hayes
Woodmen of America
Colorado Springs
St. Louis
Southern Railway
Rudd
Charles B. Schroeder
el Paso
Tex
Robert C. Clowry
Western Union Telegraph Company
John Potts
Victoria College
Department of Education
Methodist Episcopal Church of Canada
Toronto
Philadelphia
Grenville
M. Dodge
John C. Wilson
California
Point Pleasant
W. Va
Kanangam
Dixon (Ui.) High
State Senate Poised to Pass Primary Reform Bill
The conservative primary bill appears certain to pass with 21 to 32 votes anticipated. Senator Karl D. Keyes leads the substitute bill, while Gov. Warner vows to sign any legislature-approved measure. The state elections committee reported amendments. the department asserts it drafted a coherent, constitutional reform bill and will defend it in court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Karl D. Keyes
Olivet
Elections Committee
Administration
Allen
Keyes
Pingree
Chase
House
Supreme Court
Governor Warner Proposes Supplementary Budget Measures
Governor Warner forwards a supplementary message detailing requests to reallocate unspent special purpose funds to acquire 130 acres adjoining Newberry asylum at 30 dollars per acre, approve porch construction at Adrian for tuberculosis inmates of the Industrial Home for Girls, and urges legislative action on Fairview Detroit annexation defects, Wayne county highway tax disputes, and foreign corporation business in Michigan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warner
Newberry Asylum
Adrian
Supreme Court
Fairview
Detroit
Wayne County
Michigan
Court Rules Annexation Of Fairview To Detroit Invalid
The supreme court voids the act annexing Fairview to Détroit, finding it not as broad as its title and creating potential procedural confusion for the city and the village since last winter. Legal complications loom until corrected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court
Fairview
Détroit
Combined courthouse and city hall proposed in Lapeer County
The board of supervisors favors a joint courthouse and city hall costing 100000 with the city paying a quarter of the expense. The report mentions other local items including anniversaries, accidents, court actions, a new bank in Benton Harbor, school openings, and Taft addressing the Philippine assembly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Supervisors
Lapeer County
Ebenezer Pennock
Hastings
Barry County
Henry Zinkle
Port Huron
Oakland County
Walter Hale
Muskegon
C. H. Gage
Saginaw
Friedman & Hynan
John Wilson
Grand Rapids
Flint
William Parr
Marshall
Hale
England
Stewart
Battle Creek
Hook
Michigan State Christian Endeavor
Mich
Myron van Alstien
Big Rapids
Byron
Argersinger
Jackson
Commonwealth Power Co
Albion
Board of Cemetery Trustees of
Sarah Buckner
City Electric Railway
Benton Harbor
State Savings Bank
John
Marsh
Lowell State Savings Bank
Sebastian H. Thuneman
Claude Simpson
Percy W. Parmenter
Mary Crimalo
Adrian
Parmenter
Lucy M. Sickles
Simpson
Jennings
Detroit Tigers
Tigers
Chicago
Green Oak Township
Brighton
George Richards
Woodruff
Howell
Clarence Richards
Cora Bell
Grand Marias
Crape
Miss. Bell
Richland Citizens
Union Bank
State Bank of
Richland
B. G. Read
Milo. A. Snow
Wilbur C. Whitney
Comely Muskegon Teacher Shot by 15 Year Old
Miss Frederica Appell an 18 year old Muskegon school teacher lies in Hackley hospital after a gun accident at Alvin Radditz home. A loaded double barrel shotgun discharged when the boy believed cocked, setting her clothes ablaze and causing a leg injury that led to amputation below the knee. Doctors fear blood poisoning though Radditz is exonerated by the girl.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederica Appell
Muskegon
Hackley Hospital
Miss Appell
Alvin Radditt
Radditz
Peter Clarks Murder Trial Opens in Saginaw Circuit Court
Peter Clark charged with murdering his wife near Merrill in a case heard in the Saginaw circuit court. The aged prisoner pleads not guilty and is defended by J. P. Devereaux. Trial expected to last about two weeks with many witnesses subpoenaed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnie Lloyd
Charles Lloyd
Lansing
James Lloyd
Peter Clark
Merrill
Circuit Court
Saginaw
J. P. Devereaux
Chesaning
House Kills Telegraph Tax Bill After Narrow Vote
The house on Wednesday rejected the bill drafted at Gov. Warner's suggestion to tax big telegraph and telephone companies. It would have funded state taxes while shielding small rural lines from tax burdens, a move seen as protecting local systems from bankruptcy. The vote was 44 yes and 33 no, not reaching two thirds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Haiti
State Department
Washington
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Harvard
J. Grier
Homestake
Interstate Commerce Commission
Interstate Commerce
Lane
San Francisco
Southern Pacific
Algernon Sartoris
District of Columbia
Montevideo
Sartoris
Grant
Gustavus L. Monroe, Jr
Michigan
la Paz
Bolivia
Supreme Court of Wisconsin
Henry Nieland
Dane County
Wisconsin
Chicago & Northwestern
W. W. Ward
Fairmount
Mint
George White
Louis
Philadelphia
Bion J. Arnold
City of
Chicago
New York City
Public Service Commission
Portview
Shrewsbury
England
Custom House
London
Wall Street
New York
Toledo
Lowell
Mass
First National Bank
Dresden
Robert Lyons
Joplin
News-Herald
Minnie St. Clair
Charles Smith
W.S. Martin
Bessie Bean
Hazel Ray
Hazel Reed
Ida H. Scott
Augusta Hartje
Pittsburg
Miss Dana
Morristown
N. J
Paris
Philip Coon
Eckard Branden
A. D. Branden, Jr
Granite City
House
Detroit Markets Report Mixed Prices on Cattle and Grains
Detroit markets show cattle and hog prices slipping with extra dry fed steers at 4 50 to 4 85 and fat cows at 3 25 to 3 85. Grain values decline for wheat and corn while soy related beans and clover seed move in thin trading. Edwards, a Union station porter, dies after being crushed between two baggage trucks in Lansing. A Traverse City stunt plans moving a full sawmill outfit to North Manitou Island by scow, with horses and cattle for winter, rowing ashore due to no dock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Williams. Edwards
Union Station
Lansing
Manitou Island
Traverse City
Also Mentioned on This Page
Fontanet
Ind
Dupont Powder Company
Dupont
Roosevelt
Nicholls
Hartweg
Minois House
Deep Waterway Commission
Marguerite Magill
Decatur
Magill
Sergio Osmena
Cebu
Philippine Assembly
Root
Heinze
Grous & Kleeberg
Marx Bros
St. Catherine
Metropolitan Museum of Art
France
Gilchrist
Pittsburg Steamship Company
Mariska
Amherstburg
Ont
Andrews
University of Nebraska
Illinois
Michigan Canal
Joliet
Plant City
Springfield
George H. Kuhl
National Racing Association
United States
Pueblo
Col
Cargill Company
Cincinnati
Simon von Vetsera
San Quentin Prison
Empress of China
Victoria
B. G
Bureau’ of Immigration and Colonization
St. Gregory’s Hospital
Frank Post
Matalbany
Georgia
Wren
Charles
Tanginahoa Parish
Munro
Vancouver
Honolulu
Robert &. Carson
Philadelphia & Reading
Pottstown
Gentral Federated Union
Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Hampton G. Westcott
Standard Oil Company of
Kentucky
Oil Combine
Standard
Combine
New Erie & Jersey Railway
Stony Ford
Kalamazoo
Lake Superior
Taft
East Buffalo
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