Four Schwarzchild & Sulzberger officials plead guilty in rebate case
In Chicago four Schwarzchild & Sulzberger Packing officials Samuel Weil B S Casey Vance D Skipworth and Chess E Todd pleaded guilty to conspiracy to accept railroad rebates. Weil fined 10000 others 5000 each totaling 25000. They faced charges of presenting false damage claims to obtain rebates from multiple railroads.
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Chicago
Schwarzchild & Sulzberger Packing Company
Humphrey
United States District Court
Samuel Weil
New York
Casey
Trafic
Vance D. Skipworth
Chess E. Todd
Weil
Lfe
William H. Moody
Schwarzchild & Sulzberger Company
Michigan Central Railroad Company
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
Grand Trunk Western Railroad
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
Boston & Maine Railroad Company
Mobile & Ohio Railroad Company
Schwarzchild & Sulzburger
Weissenbach
I M Boyeson
J. J. Herwick
First Lieutenant Burbank to be Court-Martialed
Lt Sidney Burbank of the Sixth Infantry faces court-martial for conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. He previously filed a district court suit to annul an alleged marriage to Filipino woman Conception Vasquez. that case, pending for nearly two years, is set for trial in October.
Emperor's cruise will not delay peace treaty signing
ST PETERSBURG The Associated Press was assured that the emperor's cruise will not cause any delay in signing the peace treaty. An official copy of the treaty and all documents related to the conference is on the way here with the peace commission members.
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ST. Petersburg
Associated Press
Peace Commission
Coal Dealers Form International Council Merchants
The National Council of Retail Coal Dealers' associations and the International Anthracite Merchants' associations have merged to form the International Council of Coal Merchants in Buffalo New York.
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Buffalo
N. Y
National Council of Retail Coal Dealers’ Associationss
International Anthraclite Merchants’ Associations
International Council of Coal Merchants
Operators Refuse Eight Hour Demand in Scranton
A leading coal operator from the region, returning from Philadelphia after a conference with President Baer of the Reading, states operators will not grant the miners eight hours. They will only extend the current agreement. The announcement comes ahead of the Shamokin miners’ convention on December 14.
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Scranton
Philadelphia
Baer
Reading
Shamokin
Believes in Poison Story Prompts Reward Increase
Welton Stanford, nephew of the late Mrs. Jane Stanford who died in Honolulu last summer, remains convinced of murder by poison. He previously offered $1,000 for information, plans to raise to $2,000, and has employed detectives to pursue the case.
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Schenectady
N. Y
Welton Stanford
Jane Stanford
Honolulu
Monang
Hastings Leads Lincoln Democratic Nominations
In Lincoln the state democratic convention nominated W. G. Hastings of Saline for supreme court justice and D. C. Cole of Polk and Louis Lightner of Platte for state university regents. The platform called for anti pass measures, direct primary, initiative and referendum, direct senatorial election, and strict anti trust enforcement with personal liability for violators. Lincoln populists endorsed Hastings and the same regents nominees.
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Lincoln
Justice
Supreme Court
W. G. Hastings
Saline County
Regents
The
State University
Louis Lightner
Platte County
D. C. Cole
Polk County
United States
Interstate Commerce Commission
Hastings
Supreme
How Uncle Sam Will Save Some Money
Washington reports that civilian physicians will no longer examine army recruits after September 30. The practice cost about $60,000 annually and was criticized for poor recruit fitness and high costs for equipment and transportation of condemned men.
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Washington
War Department
Army
Livestock Freight Rates Questioned in Interstate Case
J M Tittemer of the Minnesota and St Paul and the Iowa Central lines testifies before Judge Bethea on a ICC inquiry into freight-rate discrimination. He says livestock rates from Missouri River points to Chicago exceed just freight but less than passenger costs, noting high pickup expenses and costly livestock reception facilities.
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Chicago
Iowa Central Railroad
J. M. Tittemer
Minneapolis & St. Paul
Iowa Central Railway
Tittemor
S. H. Bethea
Interstate Commerce Commission
Missouri River
Public Safety Bans Political Contributions in City
Philadelphia officials forbid police and firemen from paying political contributions under threat of immediate dismissal. City council passes ordinances authorizing a 6 million dollar loan to erase grade crossings and fund street paving, pending voter approval under the law.
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Philadelphia
Potter
Myer ‘Weaver
Buffalo Bill Show Quarantined in France, Horses Shot
A Chicago Report to the Record Herald from Cody Wyoming says Colonel W F Cody’s Wild West show has been quarantined in France and all show horses, many worth over $1000 each, have been shot under official orders because of glanders.
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Chicago
Herald
Cody
Wyo
W. F. Cody
France
Glanders
Langdon, Last Cavalry Survivor, Dies in Tacoma
Joseph Langdon, the last survivor of the cavalry unit that captured Jefferson Davis, died at his Tacoma, Washington home after years in St. Joseph, Missouri.
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Kansas City
Joseph Langdon
Company of Cavalry
Jefferson Davis
Tacoma
Wash
St. Joseph
Government awards contract for rapid fire guns in Sharon
The United States government awarded a contract to the Driggs Seabury ordinance corporation for 176 rapid fire guns of various sizes.
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Sharon
United States
Driggs-Seabury Ordinance Corporation
Roosevelts Last Sagamore Hill Days Before Message
President Roosevelt nears end of summer at Sagamore Hill with work on his annual message to Congress. He will depart by rail and boat Saturday with Mrs Roosevelt and entourage for Washington. Topics targeted include life insurance regulation, U S Venezuela relations, and Santo Domingo fiscal affairs.
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Oyster Bay
Roosevelt
Sagamore Hill
Washington
Loeb
Executive Force
Long Island
Long Island City
Jersey
Pennsylvania Railroad
Capitol
Congress
Venezuela
America
San Domingo
Departments of Agriculture and the Interior
Department of Justice
Panama Canal
Russia
Japan
Morocco Question Reaches Complete Agreement Reported
Information from a well informed source says Dr. Rosen the German minister to Morocco and M Reveil representing France reached a complete agreement on all disputed points in their conference today. Premier Rouvier and Prince von Radolin German ambassador to France met afterward and spoke cordially.
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Paris
Rosen
Morocco
M. Reveil
France
Rouvier
Prince von Radolin
Foreign Office
Bomb Explosion Kills Four in Pekin Railway Car
At Pekin station a bomb in a private car killed four minor officials and wounded over twenty, including Prince Tsai Tohe and Wu Ting Fang. The bomber perished in the blast as authorities tighten guard on court and government leaders.
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Pekin
Prince Tsai
Tohe
Wu Ting Fang
United States
Million Dollar Fire Destroys Butte Business Block
A fire in Butte Montana consumed the entire business portion between Scho lar block and Renshaw alley on West Park street. It caused about 1,000,000 dollars in losses and destroyed half of the public library.
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Bute
Mont
Butte
Schoolard
Renshaw Alley
West Park Street
Nine New Cholera Cases in Berlin Bulletin
Berlin officials report nine fresh cholera cases from yesterday noon to today noon and two deaths, lifting totals to 236 cases and eighty deaths.
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Berlin
Treasury Cash Count Confirms Balance at $1.26 Billion
Washington reports the annual transfer of office funds from William Ellis H. Roberts to Charles H. Treat completed. The July 1, 1905 total of cash notes bonds and other securities in the treasury matched the books at $1,259,598,278.
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Washington
Treasury of
United States
William Ellis H. Roberts
Charles H. Treat
Treasury
Bank Wire-Tapping Suspect Arrested in Gettysburg Scheme
B V Dunham also known as F D Miles was arrested in Gettysburg S D charged as the principal in a wire tapping plot that secured 3800 from a Gettysburg bank. An accomplice telegrapher reported the details leading to the arrest and the scheme involved posing as a cattle buyer from Miles City Mont. The Chicago bank reference was used to obtain the funds and a forged Chicago reply allowed payment.
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Sioux Falls
S. D
Gettysburg
B. V. Dunham
Dunham
F. D. Miles
Miles City
Mont
Chicago
Miss Alice Roosevelt Showered with Honors in Seoul
Prince Yi hosted an open air garden party at the East palace in honor of Miss Alice Roosevelt with Korean and American flags adorning paths and pavilions. President Roosevelt and Korea's emperor were toasted. Miss Roosevelt received a Korean Bible and prayer book at a Korean Christian Women's missions gathering.
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Seoul
Prince Yi
Old East Palace
Alice Roosevelt
Korea
Roosevelt
Morgan
Miss Roosevelt
Korean Christian Women's Missions
Widow of the Revolution in New York City
Washington reports the pensions bureau year ending July 1 shows 46 985 allowances under the old age disability order of March 15 1904 and 655 pensions raised from 72 to 100 dollars a month for total blindness under the April 1904 act. Five Revolutionary War pensioners remain including Esther S Damon aged 91. four are daughters of soldiers. Original Civil War survivor claims total 15 256 awaiting adjudication.
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Washington
Commissioner of Pensions
Esther S. Damon
Mrs. Damon
Cuban Liberals Thankful In Havana Dispatches
The Cuban liberal executive board at Cienfuegos asks the mayor to thank municipal authorities and customs officials for protecting lives during Friday’s events that killed the chief of police. No disturbances since. order throughout the republic remains, and elections for boards held with strict legality, moderates winning in most boards.
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Washington
Havana
Liberal Party
Cienfuegos
Republic
Knights of Honor Enacts Life Policy Scaling Law
In Indianapolis the supreme lodge of the Knights and Ladies of Honor passed a life insurance scaling law. It sets benefits based on time since issue: one-third in year one, two-thirds in year two, eighty percent in year three, full payout after three years. The measure aims to curb fraud by assessing health at issuance.
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Indianapolis
Supreme Lodge, Knights and Ladies of Honor
Naturalization inquiry delays case linked to Galata murder
In Constantinople Minister Leishmann awaits Consul General Dickinson’s naturalization inquiry. Vartanian admitted to being sent by a revolutionary committee to kill Apik Andjian, a leading Armenian, shot in the Galata district on August 26, with Afarian named as his accomplice.
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Constantinople
Leishmann
Dickinson
Vartanian
Afarian
Revolutionary Committee
Apik Andjian
Galata
Officials Slain as Cuban Political Clash Erupts
In Cienfuegos a clash between liberals and moderates turns deadly as Congressman Enrique Villuendas and Chief of Police Illance are killed amid gunfire in a hotel siege. Six dead, twenty five wounded reported. bombs found. reinforcements requested as fears of further violence and election disruption rise.
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Havana
Cuba
Celafuegos
Enrique Villuendag
Liberal Party
Coinfuegos
Villuendas
Illance
Cienfuegos
Associated Press
Nlance
Suiso
Jose Fernandes
Frias
Amendment to Exclude Liquor Dealers Tabled
Philadelphia report shows the sovereign grand lodge of Odd Fellows voting 145 to 138 to table a proposed amendment excluding liquor business operators. The body also amended the constitution to permit filling officer vacancies for the remainder of the term and to grant the grand sovereign authority to decide questions raised by the grand lodge.
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Philadelphia
Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows
Sovereign Grand Lodge
Grand Lodge
Nebraska Factory Growth Report Shows Higher Output
A census bulletin reports at year start Nebraska had 1,819 manufacturing establishments up from 1,707 in 1900. Capital employed rose to 80,235,810 with 3,192 officials paid 3,074,911 and 2,241 wage earners receiving 11,022,147. Products valued at 154,918,220, led by slaughtering, meat packing and flour mills with gains in Lincoln Omaha and South Omaha.
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Washington—S
Census Bureau
Nebraska
Lincoln
Omaha
South Omaha
Nebraska Man Holds the Place in Rural Letter Carriers Session
At the National Rural Letter Carriers conference in Indianapolis a motion to extend President Cunningham of Nebraska for one year was carried by a large majority. About ten states unfriendly to the project may form a rival organization, with a committee already appointed by Cunningham's opponents to draft a constitution for the new body.
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Nebraska
Indianapolis
National
Cunningham
Equitable Life Paid Mercer Mercantile Loans Without Authority
Paul Morton released a report showing the Equitable Life Assurance society paid 218 264 to the Mercantile Trust company on Turner loans and 500 000 later, with no clear authorization in society records. Collateral and guarantees covered large sums, including Salt Lake stocks and Colorado property, while portions of the loans remained inadequately explained.
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New York
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Mercantile Trust Company
Paul Morton
Morton
Turner Loans
Henry B. Hyde
Marcellus Hartley
John E. Searles
Louis Fitzgerald
W. N. Coler, Jr
H. B. Hydee
John W. Young
Salt Lake & Eastern Railway
Salt Lake
Kentucky Mineral and Timber Company
Amity Land and Irrigation Company of
Colorado
Kentucky
Thee Equitable Life Assurance Society
Trouble at Cienfuegos In Cuba Elections to be Conducted
Secretary of State O Farrill provides an official report from Cienfuegos after Enrique Villuendas fires on police at Hotel la Luisa. Police respond, Villuendas and an associate die, two officers wounded, plus three policemen seriously hurt. Ammunition and dynamite found at Villuendas residence. rural guard aids police, order restored. elections set for tomorrow with strict legality.
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Washington
Senor Quesada
O’farrill
Cienfuegos
Pilee
la Luisa
Enrique Villuendas
Congress
Villuendas
Emigration Surges from Spanish Famine Districts
Dispatches from Andalusia report whole trains of emigrants headed to South America. Families abandon homes as Galicia towns empty in despair over promised relief. Fifteen steamers are set to depart Spanish ports in October as presses urge action against mass emigration.
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Spain
Madrid
Andalusia
South America
Galicia
Ansalsian
America
Panama Seeks Spanish Immigrants For Canal Work
Panama reports President Amador and the canal commission aim to attract Spanish immigrants from famine struck Galicia. Officials consider many as among the best workmen for Panama projects.
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Panama
Amador
Canal Commission
Galica
Albers Convicted by Nicaraguan Court
Washington reports that William Albers American resident agent at Jalapa was convicted in Ocotal by a Nicaraguan court on resisting legal process and insulting President Zeleya. No sentence yet imposed.
Former Rhode Island Governor Henry Howard Dies at 78
Providence reports former Rhode Island governor and leading manufacturer Henry Howard died at his Harris home at age 78. He previously steered state policy and built a notable industrial business during his career.
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Providence
R. Il
Henry Howard
Rhode Island
Harrris
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Bates
Burbank
Judge Hastings
Democrats
Buffalo Bill
Noseph
Langdon
Montana
Knights and Ladies of Honor
Cienfugos
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