Downfall of Merritt and Burne Yantis Grain Firms
Chicago traders heard that Merritt and Burne Yantis Grain Co. faced suspension and a receiver. W. H. Merritt & Co. closed after Bank of Montreal requested a receiver. assets around 277 000 dollars with 200 000 in liabilities. Moldy corn and high prices blamed for both firms’ collapse amid 24 hours of closures.
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Merritt & Co
Burne Yantis Company
Oue
Chicago
Board of Trade
W. H. Merritt & Co
Burns-Yantis Grain Company
Western Union
L. Merritt
Chicago Grain House
Bank of Montreal
Opium Destroyed In Sewer Seizures In San Francisco
Customs officials poured 23 000 dollars worth of opium into the sewer after recent searches of oriental liners. The seizure included 765 tins of contraband opium. A prior destruction ten days earlier totaled 10 600 dollars in value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Reservoir Flood Damages Pittsburgh Neighborhoods
At midnight a Highland Park reservoir released about 70 million gallons through a broken 36 inch main, flooding the east end area. The gushing water blocked the Allegheny Valley railroad, carved deep gullies in boulevards, and reached the lower floors of many homes.
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Pittsburg
Highland Park
Allegheny Valley
Taft Cancels Indiana Visit
President Taft has canceled his planned May 5 visit to Indianapolis. No reason released, but the move is tied to events at the Indiana Republican convention in Indianapolis.
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Indianapolis
Washington
Taft
Will of Brewer Is Filed
Justice David J. Brewer did not reveal estate value in his will and codicil filed for probate. He leaves his Washington home and most personal property to his widow, while his cottage at Thompsons Point, its contents, and $50,000 life insurance go to his three daughters.
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Washington
David J. Brewer
United States Supreme Court
Thompson's Point
Dr B C Hyde Sues Pax ton for Slander for 100000
Dr B C Hyde files a lawsuit against John G Paxton seeking one hundred thousand dollars in damages for alleged slander. The action details a libel claim and requests court relief.
Paxton Replies to Hyde Slander Suit Over Swope Case
Attorney John G. Paxton filed an answer to Dr. B. C. Hyde's $100000 slander suit linked to the Swope poisoning case. Paxton admits writing the letter to Stuart B. Fleming but defends his actions.
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Kansas City, Mo
John G. Paxton
B. C. Hyde
Paxton
Stuart B. Fleming
Columbia, Tenn
Mr. Paxton
Lynchings Threaten After Bates Killing and Deputy Wounding
Gov. Campbell orders state rangers to Centerville to curb disorder after Frank Bates Sr. is killed, Dolly Bates wounded, and Deputy Sheriff J. S. St. John fatally shot. A mob hanged Dolly briefly before the sheriff intervened. fear of further violence rises as threats loom.
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Austin
Texas
Campbell
Centerville
Frank Bates Sr
Dolly Bates
J. S. St. John
Bates
St. John
Firemen Injured When Boiler Tubes Burst Aboard Maryland
Reported after a cruiser voyage from Santa Barbara to Monterey Bay three firemen and water tenders were scalded by a forward boiler blast. One man died, others treated on the ship and to be moved to Mare Island naval hospital as fleet arrives. local officials deny knowledge of the incident.
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Vallejo
Cal
Maryland
Monterey Bay
Santa Barbara
Naval Hospital
Mare Island
Willman Arrested for Murder of In‑Laws in Chicago
Peter C. Willman 28 of Massillon Ohio was arrested in Chicago for the murder of his father in law and mother in law Mr and Mrs Koontz of Canton Ohio. Detected through telegraphic advice from Ohio he was taken to Central station and jailed. A revolver with blood stains was found in a suitcase he carried.
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Chicago
Peter C. Willman
Massillon
Koontz
Canton
O. Willman
Ohio
Central Station
Negro Soldiers Guilty Says Court of Inquiry
Washington April 7 The military court of inquiry investigating the Brownsville Texas shooting up finds that the evidence clearly sustains the charge that the shooting was done by soldiers of the Twenty-fifth infantry colored.
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Washington
Military Court of Inquiry
Brownsville
Texas
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Fourteen Turkish Battalions Destined for Albania Revolt
Fourteen battalions of Turkish troops have been ordered to North Albania where a revolt has broken out. The unrest stems from resentment over new taxes and the government feels anxious about the situation.
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Albania
Constantinople
Severe frost damages buds across three states
A severe frost was reported across Kansas, Oklahoma, and northern Missouri. Central and western Kansas saw freezing temperatures down to 27 degrees, risking major damage to fruit buds and tender plants.
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Kansas City
Kansas
Oklahoma
Missouri
Sugar Trust in New Probe Shifts to New Orleans
Washington reports the American Sugar Refining company faces a new federal probe moving from New York to New Orleans. Winfred T. Denison of New York, aided Henry Stimson in sugar cases and recently becoming assistant attorney general, has departed for New Orleans after Treasury White House and Justice Department talks.
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Washington
American Sugar Refining Company
Sugar Trust
United States
New York
New Orleans
Winfred T. Denison
Henry L. Stimson
Mr. Denison
Treasury Department
White House
Department of Justice
Bank Slayers Surrounded Near McKees Rocks
Sheriff Bruff with a posse of thirty armed men surrounds four bank robbers who struck Victor Bankings County in McKees Rocks. The bandits killed the general manager and bank cashier and wounded others, as detectives report the confrontation unfolds on the Steubenville pike eight miles from McKees Rocks.
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Pittsburg
Judd H. Bruff
Allegheny County
Steubenville Pike
McKees Rocks
Prejudice Squints At Truth Says Abrantes
Quotation attributed to Abrantes notes prejudice blinds sight and distorts speech as a critique of bias and deceit.
Trio Ordered to Pay 525000 in Land Sale Scandal
Chicago April 7. John Fetzer Benjamin Thomas and Charles R Kappes must pay 525000 to the Chicago and Western Indiana railway for alleged illegal profits from land sales to the company. Former Judge E C Field, acting arbiter, noted a lively fight with recriminations. The railway had claimed losses exceeding 800000, which the arbiter reduced by about one third.
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Chicago
John
Fetzer
Benjamin Thomas
Charles R Kappes
Chicago and Western Indiana Railway
E.C. Field
Western Indiana
Record cattle and poultry prices at Monroe county sale
In Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania on April 7 at William Hellers farm record prices for ordinary breed live stock were paid. A bread sow with ten piglets two weeks old brought 70 dollars while another with six piglets weeks old sold for 58 dollars a cow brought 55 dollars and thirty five Plymouth Rock hens sold for 60 cents each with several ordinary hens at 82 cents each.
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Wilkesbarre
William Heller
Monroe County
Plymouth Rock
Panama Fortification Board to Submit Report
Washington April 7. The Panama fortification board that visited the canal will report to Secretary of War Dickinson within weeks. Fortification work is estimated at about ten million dollars.
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Washington
Panama Fortification Board
Panama Canal
Dickinson
Canal
Markets Report for Hogs Cattle and Sheep in Chicago
The Chicago markets show receipts of around 11000 hogs today with prices from 10 25 to 10 70 for various hog grades and cattle around 3500 head steady while sheep are weak around 8000. Estimated receipts tomorrow are about 7000 with markets mostly 10 lower than yesterday and beef and sheep ranges noted across light mixed and heavy packing grades.
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Texas
Chicago
Washington City Wholesale Market Prices Listed
Prevailing prices show corn at 55 to 60, oats at 42, hay and straw by load at 14 and 5 respectively, flour per sack 1.60 to 1.70, bran 1.35, shorts 1.50, corn meal 10M, buckwheat 0.50, farm stock including turkeys, chickens, ducks, geese with various quoted figures. Prices appear in a mixed format with some OCR errors.
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Ccs
Tkeencane Bree
John A. Babcock Case Aboard North American Stock Firm
John A. Babcock sues a Chicago stock yard company in a dispute tied to North American Live Stock Commission Company. The case centers on business dealings at the U. S. stock yards with complaints over transaction practices and alleged financial missteps.
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John A. Babcock
NORTH
American Live &89Tock Commission Company
Chicago, Ill
Vatican Publishes Note On Pope See Plan
Vatican releases a note stating the pope will not meet with President Theodore Roosevelt and His Holiness Pope Pius X. No audience scheduled for the anticipated audience in the current timetable.
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His
Pope Pius X
Joliet Contractor Leaps From Third Story at Hospital
Joseph Tezak a wealthy Joliet building contractor leaped from a third story window at St. Joseph's hospital during a temporary insanity episode and escaped unhurt. He was later captured and is jailed in the county jail.
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Joliet, IL
Joseph Tezak
Joliet
St. Joseph's Hospital
Tenak
Live Wire Kills Man in Detroit Alley
Thomas Howell a 35 year old electrician from 412 Sixteenth street was fatally burned after grabbing a live power wire blown from a pole while taking a shortcut home through an alley near Michigan avenue. He clutched the energized line in both hands and died moments after onlookers reached him.
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Detroit
Thomas Howell
Sixteenth Street
Howell
W. P. Dunn
Michigan Avenue
Armitage Try
Llowell
Mount Etna Erupts With Collapses and Widespread Lava
Mount Etna remains active as central crater parts collapse. Lava pours down furrows around the cone, lighting the summit at night. Incandescent streams reach miles, with lava spreading toward Cysterna and Regina and causing new destruction in the surrounding area.
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Catania
Mount Etna
Cysterna
Regina
Bryan Receives Warm Welcome in San Juan Island Lectures
William Bryan partook in a well attended lecture at a San Juan theater on Wednesday night. He is scheduled to sail for New York on April 13 as crowds line the streets and celebrate his visit.
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Jefferson
Indianapolis
Welcome Bryan
San Juan
Pp. R
Willian Bryan
Island
New York
J. We
Pope’s Position Outlined as Roosevelt Audience Denied
Osservatore Romano notes that Roosevelt did not face a formal condition about approaching non Catholic centers in Rome. It calls the Methodist center in Via Venti Settembre hostile to the pope and Catholic world and says Roosevelt’s refusal to pledge assurances made an audience impossible.
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Rome
Osservatore Romano
Vatican
Merry del Val
Tipple
Holy See
Roosevelt
Via Venti Settembre
Roosevelti
Fairbanks
Roosevelt Leaves Rome After Stormy Three Days
President Roosevelt ended his Rome visit after three busy days filled with sightseeing receptions and feasting. A mayor's dinner ran long and the caterer was abused by Mayor Nathan in front of guests. The Roosevelts boarded a train to Spezia for a road trip toward Genoa, with Ethel and Kermit staying at Beastie hotel.
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Rome
Roosevelt
Nathan
Spezia
Genoa
Ethel
Kermit Roosevelt
Beastie Hotel
Roosevelts
An Old Story About Weekly Pay Split
Quick quip from Cloveland Mate Dealer about marriage and money. A joke notes the husband gives his wife half his salary each week, and she gets the rest before the week ends.
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Mallory
Keo
Here
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Frank Bates
John May
Willman
Tha
Marshall
Shallenberger
Folk
James B. McCreary
Kentucky
Lon
William Sulzer
James Hamilton Lewis
Henderson
Martin
Lafayette Pence
Joan J. Lentz
Turkey
Sugar Trust IN New Probe
City of
Bank Slayers
Railway Company
Read
Panama Board
Grain Market
Beach-Wickham Grain Company
Washington City
Reister & Son
Theodore Roosevelt
Thomas Howard
Detroit Alley
Deen
Pope
Roosevet
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