Wreckless Rock Island Train Wiped Out Near Clayton
Sixteen dead and eleven injured in a Rock Island passenger wreck two miles east of Clayton Kansas when a fast train plunged into a twenty foot torrent after an open bridge failed during a heavy rain. Locomotive tender and baggage car vanished under water. engineer fireman baggageman and conductor killed. several passengers drowned or killed in the chest. The smoker car was telescoped by a chair car and many more perished.
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Clayton
Kansas
Rock Island
Kansas “City
Denver
Shippers Form Federation for Middle West Transport
At Topeka a conference of shippers businessmen and rail executives laid groundwork for the Traffic Federation of the Middle West. About 130 attendees adopted anti trust enforcement on freight traffic and called for a national railroad valuation. A seven member committee will push Congress and the president for anti trust action and funding. W D Williams chairs the Texas Railroad Commission and John S Dawson serves as secretary.
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Topeka
Stubbs
Middle West
Kameda
Congress
New Association
Traffic Federaton
W.D. Williams
Texas Railroad Commission
John S. Dawson
Kansas Railroad Commission
J. B. Bartholomew
Peoria
Uls
Ilinois
Packers Buy Mexican Ranch Near El Paso
Morris & Co packers of Chicago announce the purchase of 1 250 000 acres in Mexico to form one of the world s largest ranches. The tract lies within miles of El Paso on the Mexican river side. A $1 000 000 packing plant will be built here to process ranch products into food staples.
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el Paso
Texas
Morris & Co. Packers of
Chicago
Mexico
Hyde files appeal in Swope murder case
Jefferson City Missouri Attorneys for Dr B Clark Hyde of Kansas City under a life sentence for the murder of Col Thomas H Swope have filed an appeal in the supreme court The case will be docketed for hearing in the January term of the court which will begin January
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Supreme Court
Jefferson City
B. Clark. Hyde
Kansas City
Thomas H. Swope
Rochester G A R Camp Picked for Next Meeting Site
Rochester New York was chosen as the next meeting place of the G A R but the decision depends on obtaining satisfactory railroad rates. The organization opened its business session in Atlantic City New Jersey.
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Rochester
Atlantic City
N. J
N. Y
Railroads Earnings Rise As Rates Under Review
United States railroads report total gross earnings for the year ending June 30 1910 at 2 799 250 000 up 13 7 percent while net operating revenues rise to 938 000 000 up 13 3 percent The Interstate Commerce Commission speeds analysis to inform hearings on possible freight rate increases in Washington D C
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Chicago
Illinois
United States
Washington
Interstate Commerce, ‘Commissioners
Interstate ‘Commerce’ Commission
Treasury says no major money shortage this fall
Washington officials foresee plenty of money nationwide as banks build reserves and reduce risky lending. A bumper crop year with record corn and oats and cotton expected to exceed last year by about a million bales supports the outlook.
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Washington, D. C
United States
Treasury. Department
Gilman Elected National Commander at G A R Encampment
John E Gilman of Boston was elected commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic for the coming year at Atlantic City New Jersey. John McElroy of Washington was the sole other candidate who withdrew before ballots. Samuel R Van Sant of Minnesota opened the business session and praised increasing fraternization of the Blue and the Gray.
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Atlantic City
N.J
John'e. Gilman
Boston
John McElroy
Washington
Hig
Samuel R. van Sant
Minnesota
Grand Army of the Republic
Roosevelt Confident of 100 Delegate Lead at State Convention
At Oyster Bay Roosevelt declares he will win a majority of delegates in the state convention after a Sagamore Hill conference. He says L. will run for temporary chairman and that friends want him to run, framing the convention as an open fight against the old guard in the Saratoga contest.
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Sagamore Hill
Oyster Bay
L. Will
Col. Theodore
Oklahoma Blacklist Law Upheld in Railroad Discharge Case
The Oklahoma statute barring the blacklisting of discharged employees was invoked for the defendant as Thomas Fitzmartin received $10,000 after being dismissed by the St Louis and San Francisco Railroad in 1908.
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Thomas Fitzmartin
St. Louis
San Francisco
Railroad Co
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
St.Louis & San Francisco
Metcalfe Declines Bryan Backing for Governor Race
Lincoln editor R L Metcalfe of W J Bryans Commoner declines to back mayor Dahiman the anti prohibition Democrat for governor and says he will support C H Aldrich the county option Republican candidate Metcalfe previously lost a US Senate bid on a county option platform.
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R. L. Metcalfe
The
Commoner
Dahiman
Lincoln
Nebraska
W. J. Bryan
C. H. Aldrich
Metcalfe
United States
Suit to Stop Bootlegging In Oklahoma City
Fred 3. Caldwell, state prohibition law enforcement attorney, filed a suit in the superior court seeking an injunction against railway and express companies, draymen, and others delivering intoxicating liquors to licensees selling liquor in violation of state law.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Fred 3. Caldwell
Internal Revenue
Receiver Sought for Chesapeake & Ohio in Cass County Suit
A suit filed in Cass County Circuit Court seeks appointment of a receiver for the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad and a revocation of the company charter and dissolution of the corporation. The filing alleges fraud in a recent mortgage.
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Logansport
Indiana
Cass -County
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
Chancellor Strong Denounces Hazing Amid KU Address
Lawrence Kansas Chancellor Strong delivered his ninth annual address to KU faculty and students condemning hazing. He warned that excessive football and dramatics threaten higher education and called for reforms to protect campus life.
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Strong
Lawrence
Kan
University of Kansas
Japan Aims to Fortify Panama Canal
Baron Uchida the Japanese ambassador has been instructed to support U S policy to fortify the Panama canal. He will end his vacation and hurry back to Washington to carry out these instructions.
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Japan
Washington, D. C
Baron Uchida
United States
Panama Canal
Washington
Chanute Oil sells Delaware pool holdings near No wata Oklahoma
Independence Kansas reports Chanute Oil company has consummated a deal disposing of its Delaware pool assets north of Nowata Oklahoma for 200000 dollars. The package includes about 10000 barrels of production and 240 acres under lease.
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Independence
Kas
Chanute Oil Company
Delaware Pool
Nowata, Ok
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Morris & Co
Gilman
Man
Roosevelt
Bryan
A Bolter
Standard Oil Company
Lette Gtamps
Maerial
Pot Eine
Enosis Cosinos
Desnoyers Shoe Company
Pine St., St. Louis, Lle
Haneas City
St. Joseph
Omaha
Coluam Ch
Avis Og Jentetiouop
Ao Fox, Pean
Defiance
Guperio
Thompson
S. N. Y. Lincoln
Standard OL Co
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