Roosevelt Report Sparks Revelations on Standard Oil Rates
President Roosevelt transmits Garfield’s freight rate findings to Congress accusing Standard Oil of secret rebates and unlawful discrimination. The report claims rebates net three quarters of a million dollars yearly, highlights open rate advantages, and urges passage of Knox-Humphrey immunity fixes and prosecutions.
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Washington
Congress
Garfield
Roosevelt
Standard Oil Company
New England Railways Cited In Rate Reform Debate
The president indicts railways for unfair pro-rating that raises costs for New England consumers by about 400000 yearly and notes similar issues in the west and southwest. He defends rate legislation to curb monopolies and urges government regulation of railways, with plans to empower commissions and loosen antitrust constraints.
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New England
New York Central Railway
Standard Oil Company
Sugar Trust
Standard Oil
Oil rate abuses cited in report on Standard Oil control
The report details secret and discriminatory railway rates benefiting Standard Oil across the northeast and midwest. It notes wide gaps between published and actual charges, rebates, and open discriminations, with several lines through Whiting and East St. Louis. Garfield cites eight major changes after investigations and calls for tariff filing reforms.
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New England
Standard Oil Company
New York, New Haven and
Hartford
Boston and Maine
Hudson River
New York
Vermont
Olean
Rochester
Standard
Ohio River
Mississippi
Whiting
Ind
E. I
IL. C
Southern Railways
Birmingham
Ala
East St. Louis
Lil
Kansas Territory
California
Associated Oil Company
Union Oil Company
United States
Ot! Company
Garfield
Bureau
Garfield Commissioner's Claim of Verified Facts Stated
Commissioner Garfield asserts his facts have been verified in every feasible way at the outset of proceedings. The remark frames the opening of the meeting and signals insistence on thorough documentation.
Impudent remark sparks old age jibe at Miss Welton
A sharp exchange in Chicago exposes Miss Welton calling out youth and age. Miss Tartan counters, noting the comment wasn’t spoken to her face. The cheeky remark reflects social tensions in the Tribune’s society page context.
Czar Has No Hidden Intent as New Cabinet Gathers
In St. Petersburg on May 5 the new Goremykin ministry reassures the world there is no plan to dissolve parliament. Constitutional Democrats open a convention stressing unity, universal suffrage, and personal liberty, while seeking amnesty for political offenses and abolition of the death penalty.
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St. Petersburg
Czar
M. Goremykin
de Witte-Durnovoe
Court Camarilla
Camarilla
Constitutional Democratic Party
Speech begins as St Petersburg elects liberal premier candidate
Professor Karsieff from St Petersburg calls meeting to order while Prince Paul Dolgoroukoff, heir to the Rurik line, is chosen president amid cheers. He urges serious work over politics and warns government if it frustrates the will of the people. Professor Milukoff outlines tactics of the Constitutional Democrats, noting a contingent role depending on open attitude.
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Constitutional Democrats
Tenisheff
Schop
Milukoff
Karsieff
St. Petersburg
Paul Dolgoroukoff
Paul M. Milukoff
The
Two Drawbacks to Trade and a Found Babe in a Basket
The Weekly Review of Trade notes stock prices do not determine business health as rail earnings rise 9.3 percent in April over 1905, while failures fall in manufacturing and trading sectors. Longshoremen strike on the lake front looms as a major industry event, with US and Canadian failures counted. In Kalamazoo a well-dressed baby girl lies in a basket found by two passersby. Mrs. Ella Romney takes the infant in as authorities decide next steps.
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New York
R. G. Dun Co
Iron and Steel Industry
Lake Water
United States
Canada
Kalamazoo
Mich
Ella Romney
Anthracite Strike Called Off and Return to Work Ordered
In Scranton on May 5, President Mitchell and leaders opposed the strike and the scale committee urged miners to resume under the 19th Anthracite Strike commission award. Operators agree to continue terms and suspend the order. In Iowa City a Bohemian farmer Frank Shimek 25 has disappeared, believed drowned as tracks lead to the river.
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Iowa City
Iowa
The
Evening Journal
Frank Shimek
Chicago Markets May 5 1906 Hogs Cattle Sheep Report
Market notes from Chicago show mixed hogs and shipping grades with prices mainly 5 lower on the day. Hogs bulk around 6 30 to 6 37, lighter animals 6 15 to 6 35, and porkers near 6 30. Cattle and sheep receipts are steady to unchanged with overall subdued activity.
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Chicago
Banks Rebuild San Francisco Under Insurance Funds
The San Francisco clearing house reports hope for rapid rebuilding with 150 million dollars expected from insurance. Banks remain solvent and business activity rises as savings and commercial banks reopen. Temporary wooden bank quarters will be erected downtown while permanent structures rise. Free railroad transportation continues to be abused despite controls.
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San Francisco
Clarke Complicates Terre Haute County Finances
William Clarke, who retired as county treasurer on January 1, allegedly owes the county 820,000 with no payments since retirement. A five member citizens committee says Clarke shifted funds to Terre Haute city accounts, paying 101,000 into the city fund while still owing about 40,000, a figure others have assumed. Clarke, a four year official, plans to contest the report.
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Terre Haute
Ind
William Clarke
Citizens’ Committee of Five
Chicago
Clarke
Phosphorus Accident Burns Doctor in Windfall
Dr. B V Chance sustained severe burns while preparing a skull with phosphorus for a Windfall high school ceremony. Fire spread as he tried to smother it, burning his hands and causing his trousers to ignite.
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Ind
B. V. Chance
Death on freight car head strikes bridge in New York trip
Leland Duncan 17 of Kansas City was killed near Poughkeepsie while riding on a freight car on the New Central railroad. His head struck a bridge as he traveled to New York. He was with Theodore Hamilton of Kansas City and Charles Butler of Jersey City at the time.
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Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Leland Duncan
Kansas City
New Central Railroad
Duncan
New York
Theodore Hamilton
Charles Butler
Jersey City
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Humphrey
New York Central
Frederick Funston
Mrs. Funston
Funston
Philippines
Kansas Volunteers
Aguinaldo
Presidio
Goremykin
Anthracite
Scranton, Pa
Spe
Grain Market
Beach-Wickham Co
McCall Bros
Cosss
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