Rail interests face equity suit over railroad monopoly
United States files a bill in equity in the circuit court of Utah naming Union Pacific Oregon Short Line Oregon Railroad and Navigation San Pedro Los Angeles Salt Lake Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Southern Pacific Northern Pacific Great Northern Farmers Loan and Trust and several financiers as defendants. The suit alleges a series of agreements and operations since 1901 to secure control of roads and to restrain trade and commerce in violation of federal law. Permanent injunctions are sought to restrain the alleged conspiracy and to prevent further control or influence over the rail lines involved.
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Ierkaste
United Ares
B. Booth
Acta
Circuit Court of the United States
Congress
The
United States
Union Pacific Railroad Company
Oregon Short Line Railroad Company
Oregon Railroad and Nation Company
Oregon Short Line Railroad
Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company
Refugees Seek Asylum in American and French Consulates
The state department reports forty to fifty Haytian refugees who took part in a failed revolution have found asylum at the American and French consulates in Gonaives and St Marc. The Haytian government demands surrender of the fugitives led by General F who is now in the French consulate. American Minister Furniss investigates conditions and reports to the department from Port au Prince.
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State Department
Hayti
Gonaives
St. Marc
Furniss
Port Au Prince
St. Marc and
Gouaivés
Department
Portugal Grants Cabinet Broad Power to Suppress Rebels
Lisbon reports a new decree giving the cabinet unlimited authority to repress revolutionary agitation. It allows expulsion or exile of members of associations deemed hostile to the state, suspends parliamentary immunity, and strips political agitators of civil rights. The decree applies retroactively to January.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Brooklyn arsonist Mrs Ackerly jailed for fourteen years
New York February third. Mrs Annie Ackerly the first woman convicted of arson in Brooklyn is sentenced to fourteen years in prison. The court found evidence that she set a fire as part of an insurance scheme.
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New York
Annie Ackerly
Brooklyn
Huron
Odd Fellows
Royal Hotel
Effort to Remove Lieutenant Governor Dunsmuir
Vancouver dispatch reports Liberals and Socialists in British Columbia call for the Dominion government to remove Lieutenant Governor Dunsmuir. The Victoria Colonist demands his resignation. A Socialist representative Hawthornthwaite warns of potential conflict if Orientals are not excluded and drafts an education test similar to Natal act.
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B. C
Dunsmuir
House
Victoria
Dominion
Victoria Colonist
British Columbia
Hawthornthwaite
Japan seeks emigration ties with Chile and South America
Tokio reports a sectional meeting where Vice Foreign Minister Barda Chinda says South America offers favorable ground for Japanese emigrants and a legation will be opened in Chile to foster trade and emigration relations. He cites Chile and Argentina as welcoming, with no need for new treaties.
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Barda Chinda
South America
Chile
Argentine
Korea
Manchuria
Chinda
Japan
M. Oeshi
Terauchi
Thaw Ordered Committed to Matteawan After Not Guilty Ruling
Justice Dowling decides Harry K Thaw suffering manic depressive insanity and recurrence is reasonably certain hence not safe to release. He is to be committed to Matteawan asylum for criminal insane until the state deems he may be at large. Mrs Thaw expresses relief as verdict is announced following twenty five hour deliberation.
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Naa
Stanford White
Harry K. Thaw
Dowling
Matteawan Asylum
Ate
Thaw
Jerome
Littleton
Justice Dowling
London
Monte Carlo
Paris
Albany
Matteawan
William Thaw
Lorraine
Roosevelt Letter to Foulke on Nominations Stirring Congress
Washington notes an upcoming Roosevelt letter to William Dudley Foulke of Richmond Indiana addressing nominations sent to the senate. Charges claim the president used his power to boost Secretary Taft's political future. Foulke, former Civil Service Commission chairman, traveled from Indiana to investigate and awaits the letter from the White House.
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Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
William Dudley Foulke
Richmond
Ind
Senate
Taft
Foulke
Civil Service Commission
Indiana
Tornado Deaths Across Mississippi Strike Multiple Towns
A tornado in Wesson kills six and devastates a three quarter mile wide farming strip. In Lucedale two more die as homes are destroyed and several residents injured including an eight year old girl and a young woman.
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Wesson, Miss
Lucedale
Miss
J. B. Hinson
George Bailey
William Fife Severely Injured at Shipyard Fall
Glasgow Feb 3 William Fife yacht designer was seriously injured at Fairlie while overseeing Sir Thomas Lipton’s new racing yacht. He fell from the deck into the hold striking his chest and back and was rendered unconscious.
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Glasgow
William F. Fife
Fairlie
Thomas Lipton
Fife
Explosion Damages Home of Mine Superintendent
In Trinidad Colorado on February 1 the residence of A Alexander superintendent of the Fréderick mine of Colorado Fuel and Iron company was partly wrecked by dynamite placed under a bedroom where three children slept. All occupants escaped with slight injuries. Officials believe discharged miners caused the blast.
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Trinidad
Colo
A. Alexander
Fréderick
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
Miners and operators weigh next move on wage pact
In Indianapolis on February 1 coal operators from Western Pennsylvania Ohio Indiana and Illinois met with national and district United Mine Workers officers in executive session to decide whether a joint conference of miners and operators should be called to reestablish the interstate wage agreement.
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Indianapolis
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
United Mine Workers of America
Three Strikers Sent to Prison in Belvidere Case
Three Italian silk mill workers in Belvidere New Jersey were sentenced to three years in prison. The incident arose from a strike action at the local mill during February. Proceedings concluded with guilty verdicts and the sentences imposed by the court.
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Belvidere
N. J
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