Peace Plan Emerges as Philadelphia Street Car Strike Eases
Clergymen propose two arbitration schemes to settle the street car strike in Philadelphia as 200 state troopers arrive to restore order. Cars run at night with limited trouble while a major labor demonstration looms for Monday, and President Taft orders inquiry into mail stoppage.
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Taft
Philadelphia
State Railroad Commission
Rapid Transit Company
Washington
Wickersham
United States
AGENT STANDS BY GLAVIS IN BALLINGER PROBE
Washington hearings on Ballinger and the general land office resume as Horace T. Jones testifies. Jones corroborates Glavis and accuses James T. Sheridan of Alaska coal land hearings of blocking fraud proofs and seeking personal publicity before leaving government service.
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Washington
Louis R. Glavis
Ballinger
General Land Office
Horace T. Jones
The
Land Office
Ballinger- Pinchot
Jones
Gravis
James T. Sheridan
Alaska Coal Land
Cunningham
Sheridan
Railroads Refuse Wage Increase Cited by Labor Unions
New York February 26. Thirty two eastern railroads resisting wage hikes sought by the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and Order of Railroad Conductors release a pamphlet declaring carriers cannot raise wages as the cost of necessities has risen for years while freight rates declined.
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New York
Brotherhood of Railroad
Order of Railroad Conductors
Editor Anderson Is Dead
Chicago obituary of John Anderson long resident since 1844 and publisher of Skandinaven since 1866 died at home from heart disease.
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Anderson
Chicago
John Anderson
Skandinaven
Senate to Vote on Postal Savings Bill March 3
Washington report says the Senate will take up the postal savings bank bill on March 3 after Senator Carter won unanimous consent following Senator Bailey’s opposition speech. Senator Burton proposed an amendment to localize deposits and ensure a sufficient reserve, with investments in government or municipal bonds of which administration approval is noted. Bailey challenged constitutionality and rejected the Democratic platform backing for postal savings banks.
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Washington
Postal Savings Bank
Senate
Carter
Bailey
Burton
Ohio
Insurgents Win a Victory in Nicaragua
Dispatches from Washington report a major insurgent triumph as Gen Chamorro's main division flanks government forces and captures Granada. The Chamorro family holds influence in the city and the siege has produced heavy government casualties while guerilla fighting leaves many unburied dead.
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Washington
Nicaragua
State Department
Chamorro
Granada
Buffalo Bill Drops Suit Over Lost Stage Venture
The case brought by Col. William F. Cody against Katherine Clemmons Gould seeking 60000, tied to a failed stage venture, was marked off the calendar in New York Supreme Court as Cody’s lawyers said the litigation had been dropped. They offered no details on any withdrawal terms.
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New York
Col
William F. Cody
Buffalo Bill
Katherine Clemmons Gould
Supreme Court
Cody
Allds Resigns as Senate President Pro Tempore
In the senate investigation of Senator Benn Conger’s charge that Senator Jotham P. Allds accepted money to smother a bridge bill in 1901, Allds’ lead counsel Martin W. Littleton announced that Allds had filed with the senate clerk his resignation as president pro tem.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
N. Y
Senate
Benn Conger
Jotham P. Allds
Assembly
Martin W. Littleton
Allds
Man fatally shot in courtroom feud in Saint Louis
In Justice Reichmann's courtroom John Barry known as Bad Jack was shot by court clerk Henry Diedrichson. Diedrichson says Barry opened a knife and threatened him saying he would kill. The incident stems from a political feud and is considered likely fatal.
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Henry L. Diedrichson
John Barry
St. Louis
John
Bad Jack) Barry
Justice Reichmann
Henry Ll. Diedrichson
Diedrichson
Barry
Taft Outlines Budget Plan for Economy Drive
Taft’s Newark speech champions a budget system to curb waste and cut costs. He urges consolidation of departments, pension reform replacing annuanced workers, and rapid Panama Canal and navy expansion until completion. The talk is billed as the campaign’s keynote for reducing living costs.
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Newark
N. J
Taft
Board of Trade
Panama Canal
Atlantic
Pacific
Congressional Commission
Wyoming lands opened under enlarged homestead act
About 60 320 acres in Wyoming were designated by Secretary Ballinger as subject to disposition under the enlarged homestead act provisions granting 320 acres to each individual settlement.
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Washington
Wyoming
Ballinger
One Killed, Another Hurt In Yard Collision
Waterloo Iowa February 24 Clyde Scott foreman was killed and Fred Camp engineer was injured when a passenger train on the Chicago Great Western collided with a switch engine in the yard.
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Waterloo
Clyde Scott
Freman
Fred Camppel
Royal Flush Fatality Shocks Carbondale Player
In Carbondale Pennsylvania on Pebruary 26 Frank Constantine collapsed after drawing a royal flush in a poker game and died from what doctors termed over exertion of the heart.
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Carbondale
Frank Constantine
Madriz Forces Gain Victory at Tipitapa
Managua dispatch says Gen Chamorro’s army is nearly annihilated at Tipitapa. Insurgents lose about 1100, government 400. nearly 1500 dead and wounded reported. Italian consul Dr Compari leads relief with Red Cross. hospitals crowded as families plead admission. Chamorro remains uncaptured despite reports of disaster.
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Managua
Nicaragua
Galveston
Tex
Tipitapa
Aldrich Fights to Limit Court of Commerce Jurisdiction
Senator Aldrich won a senate committee victory to keep the administration railroad bill from broadening court review of Interstate Commerce Commission decisions. The fight shifts to the senate floor where a broad court review could threaten the proposed court of commerce. The attorney general amendment is not in the bill as reported to the senate by Elkins.
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Washington
Aldrich
Senate Committee On Interstate Commerce
Court of Commerce
United States
Senate
Attorney General
Interstate Commerce Court
Commission
Elkins
I Will Not Vote for Cannon Says Vermont's Foster
Representative David J. Foster of Vermont declares on the House floor that he will not vote again for the speaker from Illinois. He says a change is desirable after listening to Representative Kitchen of North Carolina accuse anti Cannon Republicans of cowardice and disloyalty to party policy.
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Washington
Illinois
David J. Foster
Vermont
Foster
Representative Kitchen
Dem
North Carolina
Hogs Jump to 9.65 at Chicago Stockyards
Chicago February 24 hog prices rose to 9.65 per cwt at the local stockyards, the new high for the year, 16 cents above Monday’s 9.60 high. The market implies further gains with an anticipated 10.00 per cwt threshold.
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Chicago
Ethel Barrymore Stricken With Severe Cold
New York February 24. Mrs Ethel Barrymore lies seriously ill at home of her husband Russell T Colt. She suffers a severe cold that threatens to develop into insanity or mania, doctors warn.
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Ethel Barrymore
New York
Ethel Harrymore
Russell T. Colt
Indict Beef Kings Packers to Be Arrested
New York reports a Jersey City grand jury charged a criminal conspiracy in restraint of trade. Six corporations including the National Packing Company Armour Co Swift Co Morris Co Hammond Co are named. Twenty one directors from Chicago Kansas City and St Louis face arrest and possible extradition for trial. The body continues probe into storage of impure food in Jersey City cold storage plants with more indictments expected next Tuesday.
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New York
Consolidated Milk Exchange
National Packing Company
Chicago
Kansas City
St. Louis
Beef Trust
Jersey City
Grand Jury
Hudson County
The
Armour & Co
Swift & Co
Morris & Co
Hammond Packing Company
G. H. Hammond Company
J. Ogden Armour
A. Watson Armour
Louis F. Swift
Edward F. Swift
Charles H. Swift
Edward H. Morris
Ira N. Morris
Arthur Meeker
Edward Tilden
L. A. Carter
Thomas E. Wilson
Thomas J. Connors
F. A. Fowler
L. H. Heyman
James E. Bathgate, Jr
George H. Edwards
F. W. Cooper
Henry P. Darlington
D. E. Hartwell
L. B. Paterson
A. A. Fuller
America’s Tobacco Trade Surges Since 1890
Washington reports that over one billion dollars in tobacco and manufactures passed through the United States since 1890. Exports totaled 646 million, imports 386 million, with Porto Rico shipments and Alaska Hawaii trade adding nearly 7.75 million in 1909. The U S led world exports, supplying over 41 million of about 150 million in last year’s international tobacco trade.
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Washington
United States
Porto Rico
Alaska
Hawaii
Kirksville Jury Rules Vaughn Death Poison Strychnine
A Monroe City coroner’s jury finds Prof. James T. Vaughn’s death the result of strychnine poisoning. A Kirksville special grand jury investigates possible indictments for murder. Dr. James W. Hull of Monroe City was arrested on a first degree murder warrant.
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Kirksville
Monroe City
James T. Vaughn
Prof. Vaughn
Vaughn
James W. Hull
Reiger
Curfew for Negroes in Memphis Enforced by Mayor Crump
Memphis on February 26 reports a city wide curfew for the black population from midnight under Mayor Edward Crump. All blacks on streets after 12 am were to be arrested though workers with night shifts could show written notices. Crump cited fears of a race war after recent clashes as the reason for indoors enforcement. The report also notes the death of Rev. Jacob Patch at age 96 in Stevens Point Wisconsin.
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Memphis
Tenn
Edward H. Crump
Crump
Stevens Point
Wis
Jacob Patch
Wisconsin
Dyola Dyes Promoted by Customer Letter
Mrs Simmons writes Dyola dyes color silk cotton and wool nicely and evenly. If you have dyeing to do use Dyola dyes priced at 10c a package. Direction book and color card sent free by Dyola Burlington VI. Many a man has kicked himself out of a good job.
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Dyola
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John T. Murphy
Murphy
State Constabulary
Kensington
Glavis
Ballinger-Pinchot
Col. Cody
Consolidated Exchange
Boston
James Maurice
Thomas Holmes
Pawtucket
R. J. Holmes
Madriz
Commerce Court
Kitchen
New Jersey
Packers
America
Uncle Sam
Missouri
Dodds
Ipa
Guares
California
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Southern Pacific
E. L. Lomax
Omaha
Western Canada
J.J. Hill
Canada
Alberta
Saskatchewan
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West
Ottawa
Can
HM. Law Building
AMS
Toledo
Cascaret
Tenace
Audi
Sam A. Ford Co
Fittabure, Pe
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