Judge Landis Denies Dropping Alton Rebating Case
In Chicago on September 25 Judge Landis refused to discharge the grand jury probing rebates involving the Chicago and Alton railway and the Standard Oil company of Indiana. The court ordered the jury to investigate other manufacturers and issued a subpoena for President Moffett.
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Standard Oil Company of Indiana
Chicago
Landis
United States District Court
Chicago and Alton Railway
Standard Oil Company
Whiting
Ind
East St. Louis
Bonaparte
Sims
Morrison
Alton Road
Alton Railroad
Chicago and Alton
Chicago and Alton Railroad
Moffett
Missing ledgers threaten Standard Oil records case
New York dispatch reports two books that would show stock transactions linking Standard Oil of New Jersey to nineteen allied firms cannot be found. Frank B. Kellogg seeks the ledgers from 1892 to 1899 to prove a reorganization of the dissolved Standard Oil trust. Transfers clerk John N. Bensinger said he left them in 1900 in the Standard Oil vaults at 26 Broadway. Attempts to locate by Milburn Tilford Pratt and Rockefeller failed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey
Ohio
Frank B. Kellogg
Standard Oil Company
John N. Bensinger
Kellogg
Bensinger
Standard Oil
No. 26
Broadway
John C. Milburn
Jamaica faces Chinese immigration pressure in Kingston
Kingston officials condemn large influx of Chinese and Syrians urging changes to pauper immigration law. City council approves resolution to restrict entrance of undesirable foreigners, stressing impact on local traders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kingston
Jamaica
Receivers Appointed for New York City Railway Company
Receivers named for the New York City Railway company after a joint creditor and official request. Judge Lacombe presided in the U S circuit court with arian Joline and Douglass Robinson named in the appointment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City Railway Company
New York
Lacombe
United States Circuit Court
Borah Timber Land Fraud Trial Jury Selection Underway
In Boise Idaho on September 25 the United States district court resumed empaneling a jury for Senator Borah’s timber land fraud case Judge Whitson in charge and federal prosecutors questioned jurors at length about their views of Borah and District Attorney Buick as part of a broad examination to gauge impartiality and fairness in the imminent trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boise
Ida
United States
W. E. Borah
United States District Court
Whitson
Spokane
Wash
Dietrich
Borah
Buick
Peace Declared in Morocco After French Victory
Paris reports the Morocco war ends with unconditional surrender of rebel tribes to General Drude. Delegates from Ouleseeyah Zenata and Zuaida sign capitulation. French naval and military forces agreed on hostages from each tribe to ensure terms. The campaign began in August under the Algeciras mandate following the Casa Blanca killings.
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Paris
Morocco
Drude
Philibert
Moroccan
France
Spain
Algeciras
Casa Blanca
Wu Ting Fang Reappointed as Chinese Minister at Washington
Gazette reports Wu Ting Fang reappointed to his former post as minister of China at Washington. The U S state department has not received formal notice from Peking but expects no objection to his reception. The minister is known for outspoken criticism aimed at protecting Chinese nationals from discriminatory treatment.
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Peking
Wu Ting Fang
China
Washington
State Department
Rockhill
Roosevelt Bear Camp Planned Near Lake Providence
President's hunting camp set for East Carroll parish opposite Alsatia station on the Iron Mountain line. The camp will sit about eighteen inches from Lake Providence along the Tensag river with several famed local bear hunters preparing the site for weeks.
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Lake Providence
Roosevelt
East Carroll Parish
Alsatia Station
Iron Mountain
Tensag
Nebraska rate fight stalls in federal court
Federal judges remanded Nebraska state cases against five carriers to the state supreme court for injunctive relief to enforce Sibley rate cuts. In separate actions, the court overruled a similar motion against Union Pacific Rock Island Burlington and Missouri Pacific seeking to block reassertion of the Aldrich rate and 2 cent fare laws.
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Omaha
W.W. Munger
T. C. Munger
State Supreme Court
Nebraska
Union Pacific
Rock Island, Burlington and
Missouri Pacific
Captain Cas sius Sandford denies Goebel affidavit claims
New York witnesses Captain Cas sius Sandford son of the late John Sandford of Kentucky denies all statements in Mrs. Lulu Williams Clark affidavit claiming he was present at the statehouse in Frankfort when Governor Goebel was killed. He states he was in the Philippines on February 8, 1900, on business and can prove his residence there.
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New York
Cassius
Marshall Sandford
John Sandford
Lulu Williams Clark
Frankfort
Goebel
Kentucky
Charles Strong
Sandford
China
Philippines
Lake steamer Nimick wrecked near Lake Superior coast
The Gilchrist steamer Alexander Nimick was driven ashore in a northwest gale between Whitefish and Vermilion points on Lake Superior. The wreck claimed Captain Randall and five or six sailors. Eleven crew members survived, reaching the desolate shore after their lifeboats battled the surf. steering or machinery failure caused the disaster.
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Detroit
Mich
Whitefish
Vermillion Points
Lake Superior
Gilchrist
Alexander Nimick
Randall
Nimick
Auto kills its owner near St Martin in Minnesota
Fred Ware president of Ware and Griffins bank of Clark Minnesota was instantly killed when his auto crashed near St Martin. The car ran into a ditch and overturned wounding none of his family. The body was taken to Clark with Mrs Ware and their children.
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St. Cloud
Minn
Fred Ware
Ware & Griffin’s Bank of
Clark
St. Martin
Twin Cities
Executed Without Trial in Poland Cotton Mill Strike
Sept 24 in Lodz seven work men and two girls were executed by firing squad for involvement in the murder of Marcus Silberstein, owner of a large cotton mill killed on Sept 18 during a strike. Police and troops had arrested 800 workers after a Sept 20 mill raid.
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Lodz
Russia
Marcus Silberstein
Mexican Italian arbitration treaty talks at peace conference
Senor Esteva, chief of the Mexican delegation, and Count Tornielli, head of the Italian delegation, negotiate a general arbitration treaty at the peace conference. The proposed pact mirrors a recently concluded convention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Hague
Senor Esteva
Count Tornielli
Italy
Treaty expected to be concluded before conference adjourns
Stuyvesant Fish visited Oyster Bay and met with Secretary Loeb for an hour. Fish refused to discuss his目的, and Loeb would not disclose the message delivered for President Roosevelt.
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Italy
Argentina
Oyster Bay
S. 1
Woman Kills Three Children in New Jersey Home
Bertha Mund, 37, strangled her children Christopher eight, Helen two, and infant Freda eight months in Clinton street Buffalo N J. She told her husband she killed them to spare them from growing up like her. Police call it a sudden insanity episode amid six months of nervous trouble.
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Buffalo
N. J
Bertha Mund
Christopher
Helen
Freda
Clinton Street
Pennsylvania Yards
Mund
Regan
Ex Congressmen Hayner Targets Creamery Rates in Court
Lincoln Nebraska September 25 Ex Congressmen Hayner says centralized creameries will challenge the state railway commission rates in court. He plans a protest to the commission and an appeal to the courts alleging the new rates discriminate against established plants by increasing long distance cream transport costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln,Neb
Hayner
State Railway Commission
Death by own action in St Charles hotel rooms
Two young men aged about twenty three and twenty eight died in a St Charles hotel room by inhaling gas and were found locked together. Police traced one man to a traction car the night before, registering as John Leonell Ben Marsee and Tom McLaughlin but giving no addresses. The coroner suspects John Leonett and Tom McLaughlin. the third man Marsee has disappeared.
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Hamilton, O
St. Charles
Sigan
John Leonell
Ben Marsee
Tom McLaughlin
John Leonett
Marsee
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