C of C Probes L and N Staples Deal in Mobile
President Armbrecht plans prompt chamber action. He will convene committees, draft a year long policy, and press the Louisville and Nashville Railroad ties to Staples line financing, amid concerns over competition on Alabama waterways. He will focus on chamber business through February 15 before relocating to Biloxi for federal cases.
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Armbrecht
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Alabama
Norman A. Staples
Staples
Birmingham and Gulf Railway and Navigation Company
Mobile
Chamber
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber of Commerce and Business League
United States
Biloxi
Miss
Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Robinson Land and Lumber Company
Mobile and Ohio Railroad
The
Land Company
Railroad Company
Chicoro, Miss
Meeting Of Mobile Chamber Directors Called For 6 30
President Armbrecht calls a Mobile Chamber of Commerce and Business League directors meeting at 6 30 in the Battle House rooms. The decision was made before noon and directors were notified by telephone. The agenda covers plans for the coming year and urgent matters. All board members are expected to attend.
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Armbrecht
Mobile Chamber of Commerce and Business League
Battle House
Commercial Association
Armbrecht Returns from Washington Plans Board Meeting
William H. Armbrecht newly president of the Chamber of Force and Business League has returned from Washington. He will confer with officials and call a meeting of the board of directors as soon as possible to discuss the organization’s agenda.
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Washington
William H.armbrecht
Chamber of Frce and Business League
Deserter Turned Bandit Montague Faces $5,000 Bail
Boston report details William J. Montague a 22 year old who deserted a normal life to become a gentleman bandit. He boasted of crimes across Pittsburg Philadelphia New York Buffalo Cleveland and claimed he only robbed those with means. He was nabbed during an uptown bank scare after entering a sketchy office with customers present. Montague said he never targeted the poor and preferred those who could afford losses. He registered under an alias, explained methods, and warned of further exploits.
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Boston
William J. Mone
Pittsburg
Philadia
Rob
New York
Buffalo
Cleve
Montague
Wil
Cleveland
Philadelphia
Money Denies Stump Charge At Orleans Meeting
In Orleans on January 16 C P J of Memphis testifies at the Southern Newspaper Publishers' meeting after reading Stump s affidavit about Standard Oil. He says he never saw Stump or any other letters with Mr Chambérain. The brief statement seeks to counter alleged linkage and letters.
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Standard Oil Office
Orleans
Memphis
Stump
Standard Oil
Chambériain
Question of Principle Moves Dam Bill Through Sea Commerce Panel
Ashington January 16 The sea commerce committee ordered an idle report on the bill authorizing construction of a dam across the river to regulate shipping and power generation.
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Ashington
Seacommerce Committee
British Ship Veronese Driven Ashore at Lexicos
The British steamer Veronese with 139 passengers went ashore today off Lexicos near Oporto Portugal. A high sea prevents boat access, and rescue by lifelines from shore is hoped. The Veronese is owned by the Lamport and Holt line.
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Vigo
Portugal
Lexicos
Oporto
Lam- Port and
Holt Line
Conference on School Bonds For Mobile Schools
The Mobile public school system faces a proposed 300000 bond issue to fund improvements. A conference between Mobile city commissioners and the board of school commissioners will be scheduled after a letter from Superintendent Murphy asking to set a convenient date.
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Mobile
Board of School Commissioners
Schwarz
Murphy
Ala
Board of City Commissioners
Sire
Mobile Public Schools
Ss. B. Mi
Allen Brothers Given Reprieve in Virginia Case
Floyd and Claude Allen, two Hilléville gunmen linked to the Carroll County courthouse shooting, were again reprieved by Governor Mann on January 16, delaying their scheduled January 17 execution.
Banker Opposes Concentration of Money Power
George M. Reynolds president of the Continental and Commercial Bank of Chicago testifies to the House Money Trust Committee that current concentrations of money and credit threaten the nation. He opposes interlocking directors and calls for restored competition to improve banking, while offering no specific remedies.
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President Reynolds
Continental and Commercial Bank of Chicago
Washington
House Money Trust Committee
George M. Reynolds
Reynolds
New Home for Aged Planned by Little Sisters of the Poor
Work will start in ten days on a three story New Home for the Aged to be built on a city block bordered by Monterey street Elizabeth street Hannon avenue and a south lane. Architect A H Downey and contractor M H Roberts seal the project with capacity for 300 residents and a rear chapel.
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Little Sisters of the Poor
Monterey Street
Elizabeth Street
Hannon Avenue
A. H. Downey
M. H. Roberts
Root Denies Alleged Speech On U S Latin Relations
Senator Root in the senate vigorously denies a speech he is alleged to have made on United States relations with Central and South American countries. He says Tegucigalpa paper extracts are impudent forgeries and that he never said or wrote such things. He warns the publication is used by enemies of the United States.
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Washington
Senator Root
Senate
United States
Tegucigalpa
Honduras
Root
Governor Blease Attacks Tillman and Editor in Special Message
In a special message to the legislature on January 16, Gov Cole L. Blease bitterly assailed Senator Benjamin Tillman and State editor W E Gonzales of the State. The attack followed Tillman’s recent publication two days earlier.
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Columbia
D. C
Cole L. Blease
Benjamin R. Tillman
W. E. Gonzales
Tillman
Izzy the Painter Confesses to Arson Ring in New York
Izzy the Painter head of a vast arson trust confessed at Sing Sing to torching up to 200 houses in recent months. He named lieutenants including East Side and Tenderloin figures and insurance agents who shared spoils. District Attorney Whitman says the ring may be linked to over 1000 fires in the city in recent years.
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New York
Izzy
Sing Sing
Whitman
Tenderloin
East Side
Isidore Stein
Trust
Customs Service Reorganization Plans Near Taft Submission
Congress and customs officials met with Treasury to discuss a proposed overhaul of the customs service. Secretary MacVeagh will submit the plan to President Taft for July 1 enforcement, with states like Texas and Port Arthur shaped by ongoing decisions.
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Washington
Congress
Customs
Treasury
Customs Service
Taft
MacVeagh
Pomerene
Ohio
Gardner
Texas
West Virginia
Maine
New Hampshire
Port Arthur
Treasury Department
Steamship Pool Near Collapse Amid Service Shifts
Antwerp report says the Atlantic steamship pool is nearly dissolved as Canadian Pacific plans a Trieste to Canada service and Hamburg American lines announce a Hamburg to Boston route. A rate war is expected to begin immediately.
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Antwerp
Belgium
Atlantic Steamship Pool
Neptune
Canadian Pacific Company
Trieste
Canada
Hamburg American Lines
Hamburg
Heston
Senate considers funding bill amid investigations and bank reform talks
The Senate resumes debate on the legislative and army appropriation bills as investigators hear testimony on campaign funds and White Earth Indian frauds. Bankers and merchants weigh in on proposed banking and currency law changes ahead of a January adjournment.
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Senate
Archbold
House
Graham
Interior Department
Money Trust
Pujo
Glass
Weather forecast for Alabama and Mississippi
Alabama generally fair with steady temperature. southeast to south winds. Frigid night in Mississippi warms tonight with fair conditions. Alabama fair and warmer tonight and Friday. Mississippi generally fair tonight and Friday with warmer temperatures tonight.
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Mobile
Alabama
Mississippi
Stump Testimony Details Sale of Oil Letters
George Stump described a signed 1906 statement by Charles Stump confessing sale of Standard Oil letters to New York Journal figures Chamberlain and Mooney for money. He testified the doc was drafted in Standard Oil New York offices after Barstow interview and signed at Charles Stump’s home.
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Washington
Charles Stump
Standard Oil
Chamberlain
Mooney
New York Journal
Countekanlananen
George Stump
New York
F. Q. Barstow
Broadway
J. D. Archbold
Senator Hanna
Quay
Archbold
George H. Stump
Fred Mahkh, JR
Barstow
Mohr
Stump
Reynolds
Capitol
William R. Hearst
Senator Jones
Noted Inventor Thaddeus Lowe Dead in Pasadena
Dr. Thaddeus Lowe, noted scientist and inventor born August 10, 1832 in Jefferson New Hampshire, died in Pasadena California. He pioneered balloon signaling for the Civil War era providing aiding signals to Union artillery and later developed an ice compression machine.
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Pasadena
Cal
Thaddeus
Lowe
Jefferson
N. H
Army of the Potomac
First Statement in Charge Given in Staples Explosion Inquiry
Engineer Green Verneuille testified for over two hours as Inspector Eugene O'Brien led the federal inquiry into the James T. Staples boiler explosion at Poe's landing. Verneuille said the cause would likely remain a mystery and noted the mud drum appeared to give way before the boilers, but offered no definitive theory.
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Green Verneuille
James T. Staples
Poe's Landing
Eugene O’brien
Engineer Verneuille
Indians Robbed by the Agents on White Earth Reservation
A House report accuses Indian agents on Minnesota's White Earth Reservation of fraud and mismanagement, alleging theft of timber and land rights worth millions. It faults Major James McLaughlin and Simon Michlet for obstructing full Indian participation and cites improper notices and biased proceedings benefiting lumber interests.
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Washington
White Earth
Minnesota
James McLaughlin
House
Committee
Interior Department
Commission of Indian Affairs
United States
Simon Michelet
Thomas Downs
Francis E. Leupp
Roosevelt
Thief in Hard Luck
A. D. Wade president of Australian Marine Fibres Limited reported to police that a satchel containing stock worth 1 400 000 had been stolen from him at a Chicago railway station on his way to London. Wade said the missing stock was not negotiable.
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Chicago
Wade
Australian Marine Fibres, Limited
Melbourne
London
Relief Bill Aids Indiana Flood Sufferers
Indianapolis January 16 relief funds for Ohio and Webash river flood victims in Indiana. A tower house of the panes one 20 000 and authorizing Governor Ralston to give.
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Indianapolis
Ohio
Webash
Indiana
Ralston
Mrs Wilson Denies Mobile Attendance At Split Meeting
President elect Wilson had several discussions in Trenton on January 16 and Mrs Wilson said she would not preside at the Southern Commercial Congress Woman's Auxiliary meeting in Mobile. The honorary presidency was previously accepted in Philadelphia on October 16, 1912, with letters from Ellen A Wilson.
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Trenton
N. J
Wilson
Robert L. Henry
Texas
Aan Bats
Lroussard
Louisiana
New York
Wileson
Southern Commercial Congress
Mobile
Southern Congress
Woodrow Wilson
White House
Woman's Auxiliary of Congress
Philadelphia
Jesse Wilson
Mal
Clarence J. Owens
Washington, D. C
Owens
Woman's Auxiliary
Senate
Congress
Ellen A. Wilson
Bermuda
Gulf City
Protection for Diamond Stars in National Baseball Report
January 16 report from Chicago shows August Herrmann, chairman of the National Baseball Commission, calling for a bound fund to guarantee players salaries across leagues under the national agreement. Umpire Ollie Ghill notes scarce top prospects driving higher contract demands. Commission debated Atlanta vs New York Americans case and a proposed six thousand dollar monthly Class AA salary cap. Herrmann, Bruce, and A. Jeanner reaffirmed in their positions. The report urges universal world series rules and mandatory inter league regulation sharing of post season proceeds.
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Chicago
Herrmann
National Baseball Commission
Pall Players
American Association
Ollie Ghill
Association
Atlanta Club
New York Americans
National Association
Bruce
A. Je Fianner
Directors resign from Southern Pacific under US court decree
Five directors of the Southern Pacific Railway of Mexico resign following a Supreme Court decree severing control from the Union Pacific. Named resigners include Robert B. Lovett Fo Vo Le Crosby R. L. Gerry Alexander M. and W. Therne all linked to Union Pacific. Julius Schnitt recently left Union Pacific and Lovett becomes chairman of the Southern Pacific of Mexico board.
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New York
United States Supreme Court
Southern Pacific Railway
Union’ Pacific
Southern Pacific Railway of
Mexico
Southern Pacific
Robert 8. Lovett
Fo Vo le Crosby
R. L. Gerry
Alexander M
Therne
Union Pacific
Julius, Schnitt
Lovett
Mobile case affirmed in Alabama court
Special to The Item reports a Montgomery Alabama case decision affirmed by the court on January 1. The brief item notes the ruling setting and implications for the involved parties from the city.
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Montgomery, Ale
Jan i
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Veronese
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GOV. Blease
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Gov’t Ownership
Eugene N. Foss
Massachusetts
New Haven
Boston and Maine
Foss
IS. T. Staples SA
Verneuille
Tombigbee River
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