Perking Alleged Independant Harvester Trust Inquiries
Chicago observers report George W Perkins accused of guiding International Harvester to pull independent firms into the trust. Edward P Grosvenor presented documents showing sales and secrecy aims to keep the independents indistinguishable from the trust, with several named acquisitions and contracts outlined in court.
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Chicago
George W. Perkins
International Harvester Company
Perkins
Harvester Trust
Edward P. Grosvenor
Taylor
Federal
Harvester Company
D. Osborne Company
D. M. Osborne & Co
Osborne
Keystone Company
International Company
Bancroft
Grosvenor
Allen and Edwards Seek Change of Venue in Hillsville Killings
Roanoke Virginia September 19 Sidna Allen and Wesley Edwards now in Des Moines Iowa engaged Attorney J G Buxton of Mount Airy North Carolina to defend them They announced their intent to move their trials from Hillsville to the scene of the crimes with the commonwealths attorney opposing the change as supporters in Hillsville press for venue.
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Roanoke
Sidna Allen
Wesley Edwards
Des Moines
Hillsville
J. G. Buxton
Mount Airy
N. C
Allen
Edwards
Wytheville
Commonwealth
Allens
Treasury official eyes 25 million loan to banks on farming move
Assistant Secretary R O Bailey and M H Dublin prepare to discuss a plan with Secretary MacVeagh to distribute 25 000 000 to banks in the great farming sections to ease money stringency caused by crop movement withdrawals.
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Washington
Clapp committee schedules Roosevelts Morgan and Perkins
Washington reports the Clapp committees will hear J Pierpont Morgan George W Perkins and Colonel Roosevelt in the first week of October including Roosevelt on Tuesday October 1 a Philadelphia fire scene follows noting over 200 families displaced by the Gilles Monville Paper and Woolen Mills Supply warehouse blaze in Philadelphia on September 21.
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Washington
Clapp
J. Pierpont Morgan
George W. Perkins
Roosevelt
Philadelphia
Gilles, Monville Paper & Woolen ‘Mills Supply Company
Rioters Wreck Cars In Major Northwest Outbreak
In Superior Wisconsin a mob of about six thousand attacked street cars and car barns all night causing extensive damage and injuring many. Police, guards, and deputies restored order as Duluth reports peaceful picketing with no violence across the bay.
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Superior
Wis
Northwest
McKinnon
Duluth
Double Funeral Of Gen Maresuke Nogi And Wife
The double funeral of Gen Count Maresuke Nogi and Countess Nogi was held at Aoyama cemetery in Tokyo with grand ceremony. The procession moved from the Nogi residence in Akasaka as the late Emperor Matsuhito’s body passed, the general on a gun carriage and the countess in a hearse, pallbearers drawn from top military ranks and an infantry guard of honor.
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Tokyo
Maresuke Nogi
Japan
Nogi
Matsuhito
Tokyo City
Monoyama
Aoyama
Noga
Akasaki
Colt strike halts gun production after 70 years
Hartford workers at the Colt Revolver plant walked out in a sudden strike halting work on urgent army orders. About 1,000 employees left, stopping thousands of rifles and revolvers and hundreds of machine guns in various stages of completion as the government rush to arm soldiers faced a setback.
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Hartford
Conn
Colt Revolver Works
Meetings of Oil Trust Former Subsidiaries Dissolved
Richard C. Veit testified that interlocking directorates among Standard Oil of New Jersey and its former subsidiaries have been abolished since last December. He said daily luncheon meetings at 26 Broadway ended and former officers now operate independently with no cross talks on business.
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New York
Broadway
Standard Oil
Trust
Richard C. Veit
Standard Oil Company of New York
Percy Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller
William Rockefeller
J. A. Moffett
A. C. Bedford
H. C. Folger, Jr
C. M. Pratt
Walter Jennings
W. C. Teagle
M. F. Elliott
Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey
Oil Trust
Federal Supreme Court
Veit
Utah Mine Strike Expands Idle Workforce
In Bingham Utah on September 21 a strike leaves about six thousand two hundred miners idle and the number may grow. Pickets patrol roads to the mines and shots were exchanged with deputy sheriffs as they tried to enter the hills to reach the work sites.
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Bingham
Utah
Pacific Mail to Cancel Four Steamships Over Canal Rate Bill
A. J. Frey claims the Pacific Mail Steamship Company will cancel four 28,000 ton ships and exit business because of the Panama canal rate bill. He says every railroad owned steamship line will follow, noting Pacific Mail is largely owned by the Southern Pacific railroad.
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San Francisco
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
A. J. Frey
Schwarin
Pacific Mail
Frey
Southern Pacific Railroad
Gompers and allies receive month long appeal stay
Samuel Gompers Frank Morri son and John Mitchell may file appeals from contempt of court sentences extended from October 1 to November 1. They were jailed for violating a court injunction in the Bucks Store and Range case Test Health of Indians. Treasury Secretary MacVeagh assigned nine public health surgeons to study contagious diseases among Indians with reports on tuberculosis tracoma smallpox and other illnesses.
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Washington
Samuel Gompers
Frank Morrison
John Mitchell
Bucks Store
Secretary of the Treasury
MacVeagh
The
Public Health Service
Former convict Morse to tell of his ruin before banking committee
Charles W Morse plans to testify before the House Banking and Currency Committee in New York during November hearings. He accuses a powerful financier group of orchestrating his downfall after bank failures like the Oriental and Morse banks. Morse previously served time for criminally mismanaging his banks amid money trust allegations.
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New York
Charles W. Morse
House Committee On Banking and Currency
Money Trust
White
House of Representatives
Morse
Morgan
House
Morgan and
William Rockefeller
James Stillman
Thomas F. Ryan
George F. Baker
First National Bank
Otto T. Barnard
New York Trust Company
William A. Nash
Walter EB. Frew
Corn Exchange Bank
Money
Oriental and
Roosevelt to Testify October 1 in Capital Hearings
Roosevelt will arrive in Washington October 1 at 2 30 PM by train per a telegram to Frank J Hogan. Senate campaign committee chair Clapp will arrange for him to testify on the Stand ard Oil 100000 contribution to his 1904 campaign fund. Roosevelt may go to the Capitol for a session and a mass meeting is planned for the evening.
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Washington
Col. Roosevelt
Frank J Hogan
District of Columbia
Clapp
Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee
Standard Oil Company
Capitol
Hogan
New York Progressive
Banker Snead Indicted in Boyce Murder Case
Amarillo banker J B Snead was indicted by the Potter county grand jury for the murder of Al G Boyce. He remained composed when the writ was read and no comment was offered. A habeas corpus hearing is set for Monday. The murder trial in Amarillo cannot occur before January. a November trial in Fort Worth will address the killing of Boyce’s father.
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Amarillo
Tex
J. B. Snead
al G. Boyce
Potter County
Grand Jury
Snead
Burwell
Young Boyce
Fort Worth
Man jumps to death from Masonic Temple in Chicago
Carl R. Rasmussen, a young insurance agent, leapt from the Masonic Temple and fell onto the Martin J. Regeraon building. Police say the death appears planned. no eyewitnesses found and every bone was broken.
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Masonic Temple
Chicago
Carl R. Rasmussen
Martin J. Regeraon
Argentine Seeks Fifty Million Loan for City Works
Buenos Aires reports a $50,000,000 loan to fund exnitary city works. The DI to congress authorizes the move, with President signaling action and a bill expected to be paused shortly.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Suit Over Telegraph Patent May Be Dismissed
Washington Sept 19 after 46 years of legal battles the case of George Harrington and Thomas A Edison against the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph company and Jay Gould may be dismissed for lack of jurisdiction Attorneys for the Goulds filed the request noting no jurisdiction.
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Washington
Wwer
Supreme Court of the United States
George Harrington
Thomas A. Edison
Atlantic & Pacific Telegraph Company
Jay Gould
Goulds
British Auto Makers Form $25 Million Battle Pact
Representatives of seventeen British automobile firms announced the formation of a $25,000,000 combine to fight the invasion of the American low priced car. The coalition aims to defend market share against cheaper U S imports.
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New York
Morgan Relative to Wed Liner Officer in Hartford
Hartford Sept 20. Harry DB Davidcot coad officer of the liner Symric is here on a flying trip from Liverpool to marry Miss Jeannette Doodwin of Thinality a cousin of J Merpon Morgan.
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Gallor
Rebels Fire On Marines As Nicaragua Turmoil Deepens
A delayed cable from Admiral Southerland reports 1,200 rebels firing on a column of American marines and bluejackets near Barranca, as they moved toward Granada. Rebels refuse to open the road for pacification and reinforcements are sent from Managua. State Department notes barbarous crimes in Granada under General Mena and fears for college girls impounded there.
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Washington
Southerland
Managua
Nicaragua
State Department
Barranca
Granada
Pacification
Mena
Department of State
Huntington Wilson
Wilson
Congo
Putumayo
Legation
Pedro Rafael Cuadra
Diaz
Carlos Cuadra
Mixed Claims Commission
Weitzel
Matagalpa
Leon
Nueva Segovia
Achuapa
Sixty Five Timber Workers Stand Trial in Grabow Riot
Lake Charles La September 20 Judge Winston Overton overruled the defense motion to quash murder indictments against sixty five Brotherhood of Timber Workers members in the Grabow riot dated July 7. Fifty eight accused pleaded not guilty and the trial was set for October 7. The defense argued Beauregard parish had jurisdictional issues since the riot occurred there while Calcasieu parish presided.
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Lake Charles
Winston Overton
Brotherhood of Timber Workers
Beauregard
Calcasieu
Mexican Rebels Routed Near Agua Prieta by Federal Troops
Federal forces under Colonel Obregon defeated rebels twenty seven miles south of Agua Prieta at the San Joaquin ranch. Several rebels were killed and nine federals wounded. Four Americans held by rebels were freed and reached Fronteras to report the battle.
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Douglas, Ariz
Obregon
Agua Prieta
San Joaquin Ranch
Fronteras
Douglas
Girl Killed by Lightning in Owensboro Ky
Sixteen year old Myrle Johnson was killed by a bolt of lightning while crossing. Her clothing was stripped from her body. Her brother was knocked unconscious.
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Owensboro
Myrle Johnson
Aviators Form a Union in Berlin Demanding Wages
German aeroplane pilots form a union in Berlin amid frequent accidents and demand a minimum monthly wage.
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Berlin
Divorce Business Gags From King Solomon Jab
A joke exchange as two lawyers riff on Solomon having 700 wives. The first quips about wishing for his era to boost divorce cases, while the second savors the punchline about potential work.
Garden longing and household notices in a dated fragment
A child asks why Maud wants the garden and a sister suggests Sweet William is there. A line warns that water in bluing is adulteration and notes Red Cross Ball Blue as a whitening product. A banana peel on the sidewalk is described as a sitting invitation.
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William
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