Landis fines Standard Oil record $29 million in rebating case
Judge Kenesaw M Landis in Chicago federal court levied a $29 240 000 fine the maximum under the antirebate law against the Standard Oil company following a last April conviction. He called for a special grand jury for August 14 to probe conspiracy with the Alton railroad and key officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenesaw M. Landis
United States District Court
Chicago
Standard Oil Company
Oil Trust
Standard Oil
Alton Road
Herbert Knox Smith
Swift Tarbell
E. L. Woodson
William Catchings
Milwaukee
Angers
France
Loire River
New York
Southport
Conn
Peter Henderer
A. Booth & Co
New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Company
Nickel Plate
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
Elkins
Union Pacific Railroad
Aroostook County
Maine
People’s State Bank
Brownstown
Ind
O. A. Bryant
Kaiser Lumber Company
Chippewa Falls
Wis
David Christie Murray
London
Aloise R. Garze
Mexico City
Brooklyn
N. Y
Honolulu
Exete
British Medical Association
Notable Crimes and Disasters Sweep US and Worldwide
A roundup of tense incidents includes two failed attempts to wreck a Cincinnati Hamilton and Dayton passenger train near Midway Ohio. A white man’s body with a head wound was found in a Baltimore freight car sent from Chicago. Fires devastate foothill regions near Visalia California and a valve plant in Edgewater New Jersey. Koreans clash with Japanese in Seoul with heavy casualties. Russia experiences a new Lodz labor riot. A San Pedro trestle collapse kills four. Political and labor actions ripple nationwide from Minnesota iron mines to Oklahoma statehood conventions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. F. Richardson
Denver
Clarence Darrow
Idaho
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton
Midway
Hamilton
Baltimore
Chicago
Visalia
Cal
Pittsburg Coal Company
Petriella
Minnesota
Fred Magill
Clinton
Ill
Magill
Edgewater
N. J
Valveline Oil Company
Katie Pritschler
New York
Neil N. Hughes
Columbia, Tenn
A. M. Hughes
Columbia
United States Post Office
Marquette
Kan
Missouri Pacific
Frank Frantz
Oklahoma
Garrett Walsh
Maine
T. F. Maddox
Baker J. Ackerman
Fred Gutierrez
Phoebus
Voronezh
Russia
American Powder Company
Avoca
M. Hague
James Coolbaugh
Colorado Springs
Laura Matthews
A. R. Rumbaugh
Roosevelt
Gov. Curry
New Mexico
Gov. Johnson
Iron Range
Duluth
Casablanca
Morocco
Claude Heywood
Naval Academy
Annapolis
Jackson, Mich
Clark’s Lake
Empire
Klotz Mills
Simpson
Lackawanna Valley
Belfast
Ireland
A. Nichols
Egg Harbor
Pittsburg
Marshalsea
Abraham C. Ruebush
Port Lavaca
Tex
Ruebush
French Bombard Casa Blanca. 150 Moors Killed in Moroccan Clash
French cruisers bombard Casa Blanca on the Moroccan coast after Moorish attacks as French and Spanish forces land. The Galilee and Du Chayla joined to shell the native quarter while 2,000 shells fired and 150 Moors reportedly killed. European residents suffer no casualties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tangier
Morocco
Casa Blanca
France
Spain
Algeciras
Anatole
Galilee
du Chayla
Four Die in Buffalo and Allegheny Wreck Near Kelly
Four people were killed and 25 injured when the Titusville express, speeding about 60 mph, was sideswiped by a coal gondola on the Buffalo and Allegheny division near Kelly, Pennsylvania. The crash ripped roofs, toppled cars, and left Mrs. Alonzo Huff and an infant dead in the second coaches among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Buffalo & Allegheny Division
Pennsylvania
Kelly
Titusville
Alonzo Huff
Johnstown
George Cochran
Rimesburg
M. B. Irwin
Oakmont
Irwin
Allegheny River
Mia Huff
Mob seizes suspected killer after Blair Station shooting
Adam Lacach, a foreigner, was rescued from a mob at Blair Station after shooting Joseph Warech in the street over a police complaint. He fled, hid in brush, was surrounded, and police from Clairton escorted him to jail as the mob dispersed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Blair Station
Adam Lacach
Clairton
Blair
Joseph Warech
Lacach
Warech
A. L. Critchfield
Blair Iron Works
Cooler Heads
Three Trainmen Killed Near Auburn Collision
A Southern railway dispatch reports an eastbound passenger train and a westbound freight collided one mile east of Auburn North Carolina last night. The passenger engine crew, the engineer and fireman, and the freight engine fireman were killed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Southern Railway
Auburn
N. C
Auto Crash Claims Killawog Man In Richford
Ringhamton, N. Y. The victim Wes Stretch of Killawog was ejected from his car in Richford on Tuesday. He suffered a crushed skull and died about six hours after the crash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wes
Ringhamton
W. B. Stretch
Killawog
Richford
State moves to enforce Alabama rail law against Southern
Governor Comer and Attorney General Garber conferred with special counsel on enforcing state rail laws. They indicated readiness to call an extra legislature session or use troops if needed to compel compliance. The Southern Railway faces charter revocation and possible arrests of officers operating without state authorization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
Comer
Garber
Southern Railway
Montgomery
Secretary of State
Southern
Water Control on the Nile and the Assouan Dam
A description of the Nile water management from Assouan to Cairo via telegraph. A button at a high dam regulates water flow, altering thousands of gallons daily and affecting rural farms. The granite dam stands 150 feet high with shutters along its length, creating a rising southern lake in winter and full river flow by June and July.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White House
Nile
Assouan
Cairo
Great
Voliva Declares Exit From Zion City After Sale Ruling
Overseer Wilbur Glenn Voliva said he would abandon Zion City after Judge Landis denied his petition to join John C. Hately as co receiver. The court ordered the sale of Zion lace industries for 380000 dollars, forcing Voliva to plan a new colony elsewhere with followers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Ill
Landis
United States District Court
John C. Hately
Zion City
Zion
Wilbur Glenn Voliva
John Alexander Dowie
Christian Catholic Church
Voliva
Judge Upholds Fines in Monarch Coal Lands Case
Federal Judge Ryner overruled a new trial motion in the conspiracy to defraud the government case involving E. M. Holbrook E. E. Lonebaugh and Robert McPhilamey. Holbrook and Lonebaugh were fined 10000 each and McPhilamey 2000. Each defendant must pay one third of the costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheyenne
Wyo
Ryner
E. M. Holbrook
E. E. Lonebaugh
Robert McPhilamey
Monarch
Holpreok
Lonebaugh
McPhilamey
Landis Orders a Trust to Dissolve
Judge Landis of the U S district court ordered the dissolution of the church and school furniture trust in Chicago Illinois. The trust had been punished with fines totaling 45000 dollars for admitted violations of the anti trust laws.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Landis
Chicago
Ill
United States District Court
Church
Tragedy at San Juan River Ferry Drowns Marquese Family
George W. Marquese and his two daughters, all under 12, were drowned when their wagon overturned at a ford of the San Juan river near Arboles in Durango. Only vague details remain about the accident and rescue attempts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Durango
George W. Marquese
San Juan River
Arboles
Bear’s pantry raid and cubs payback tale
An old mother bear steals rice pudding from a farmhouse to feed her cubs, then returns for spoons and saucers for her four cubs. The cubs eat the pudding, provoking the mother to attack them with the empty dish. The letter cites President Roosevelt’s disbelief as a dig.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Boston Globe
And Then He Got Mad A Humorous Exchange
A light exchange between Mrs Cissie and a husband reveals a joke about marriage. She remarks it might be pleasant to be married to a clever man, and he retorts that she cannot know since she has only been married once.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cissie
Keeping the Peace
A dramatic cry notes rioters on the street smashing windows and assaulting citizens while a policeman jokes about opium and chasing a Chinese laundry in a breathless New York Weekly moment.
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N. Y
Life Hoffnung and Happiness in the Sonterville Journal
A 19th century sentiment notes that optimism steadies life while a veteran family physician warns that the average man finds more hope than happiness in life, reflecting common moral tone of the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sonterville
Market report from New York on August 7 1907
Flour Minnesota patent 4.90 to 5.35 dollars. Wheat No 2 red 95 cents. Corn No 2 at 61 1 2 cents. Oats clipped white 57 6 1 cents. Hay steady. Cattle none on sale. Veals 5.50 to 9.00. Sheep wethers 3.50 to 5.25, lambs 7.25 to 8.25. Hogs steady and quiet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Minnesota
Market Prices Across Cities Aug 7 Eight Commodities Reported
Cleveland Minnesota flour at 5.25 and 5.00 per bag. Wheat No 2 red at 9 1/4 to 9 1/2 cents. Corn No 3 yellow 60 cents. Oats No 3 white 54 to 54 1/2 cents. Butter best creamery 26 cents. Eggs strictly fresh 18 cents. Cheese York state 14 1/2 cents. Potatoes best grades 7 cents. Hay new No 1 timothy 19 dollars. Cattle choice steers 5.25 to 5.50, calves 7.50 to 8.00. Sheep best Westerns 5.00 to 5.25, spring lambs 7.50. Hogs Yorkers 6.55. Toledo Wheat cash 39 cents. Corn cash 58 cents. Oats cash 50 to 44 cents. Cloverseed cash 9.95. East Buffalo cattle expert steers 6.25 to 6.90. Veal calves 8.00 to 8.25. Sheep wethers 5.60 to 6.80, lambs 7.00 to 7.25. Hogs Yorkers 6.70 to 6.89. Pittsburg cattle 5.60 to 5.85 for choice steers, good 5.09 to 6.20.
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Cleveland
Minnesota
York State
East Buffalo
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Queen Alexandra
Solent
Cowes
E. Arnold Baumann
New Braunfels
Texas
Sweet’s Hotel
Germany
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Marion Heights
Harry Charles
Oskaloosa
Cochran
Toulon
Dixie
Commodore E. J. Schroeder
Auto Boat Club of America
International Marine Motor Cup
Southampton
Couronne
Salins
Sac City
Fountain House
Waukesha
F. W. Stevens
Pere Marquette Railroad
Pere Marquette
Michigan
Boston
Tomahawk
United States Leather Company
Tremaine
Fort Wayne
Torreon
Mexico
Navy Department
Bremerton
Puget Sound
Alabama
Frank N. Julian
American Sugar Refining Company
Chancellor
Magic
Trenton
George H. Earle, Jr
Pennsylvania Sugar Refining Company
Philadelphia
Marysville
N. B
Paris
Wright Brothers
United States
Julia Sands Bryant
William Cullen Bryant
Mineola
L. L
Anne Rebecca Fairchild
Bryant
Edward L. Perwar
Cleveland & Pittsburg Road
Steubenville
Des Plaines
Ottumwa
William M. Powell
Hallie
J. E. Stevens
Charles B. Grubb
Lancaster
Neusandee
John Warner
Vespasian Warner
Bingham
Charles H. Meyer
Western Federation of Miners
Boise
Timothy Reegan
Thomas J. Jones
Clyde
Glasgow Evening News
The
Southern Railway Co
Toledo
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