Rockefeller Stock Losses Hit University of Chicago Holdings
New York reports show John D Rockefeller at 247,002 shares of Standard Oil of New Jersey with vast control, while the University of Chicago holds 5,000 shares. The stock has fallen from peak values, cutting Rockefellers net holdings by more than 100 million dollars and reducing University of Chicago assets by about 2.2 million. Other major holders include C. H. Pratt estate, D. M. Harkness estate, Payne estate, H. M. Flagler, and J. A. Bostwick among several.
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New York
Standard Oil Comany
New Jersey
com@ Wa
John D. kefeHer
Rockeeller
University of Chicago
Standard Oil
Standards Company of
John D. Rockefeller
University Chicago
Standard Ilpany
John YD. Rockefeller
Charles H. Pratt
D. M. Harkness
Payne
H. M. Flagler
O. BB. Jennings
H . Rogers
J. A. Bostwick
William Rockefeller
C. M. Waster
Charlies Lockhart Este
Pittsburg
L. C. Ledyard Payne Whitney
William ©. Whitney
W. HL. Tilford
John D. Archbold
W. G. Garden Estate
University of Icago
C. M. Pratt
Independent refiners tied to Standard Oil deal details
Wesley Tilford testifies about a late 1892 verbal agreement between Standard Oil and a list of independent refineries to export their crude oil to Standard in exchange for daily crude supply. He notes Standard defined market prices and that the United States government analyzed profits from this arrangement.
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Wesley ‘Tilford
Andard
Cleveland
Standard Oil Company of
New Rk
Kellogg
Standard Oil
Tilford
Standard Oil Couny
Pittsburg Oil Refining Coun Ry
Coraopolis
A. D. Miller Sons
Pittsburg
Seneca Oirks
Warren
Cornplanter Fining Company
Conewango Refin Company
Glade Oil Works
Wurren
Warren Refining Comany
Eimlenton
Levi Smith
Lake Carriers’ Reing Company
Neville Island
Nlenton Refining Company
Em Dton
Superior Oil Company
Arren
Beaver Refining Com. Ny
Dunk Grove
Island Petro- Mm Company
Canek Oil Company
Thng Oi Works
Marietta
Trona Oi Company
Adard
de Tilford
United Tes
Heaviest Newfoundland Gale Claims Five Lives
A devastating gale along the Newfoundland coast near St Johns on September 21 caused five deaths. Reports from settlements indicate the storm was the heaviest in forty years, with ships and coastal communities stricken.
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Newfoundland
St. Johns
N. F
Black Is Still Missing After Desertion of Bridegroom
Muncie Ind Sept 21 The formal return to the county clerk confirms the marriage license for Miss Effie Icerman and Edgar Claire Black. The bridegroom disappeared last Tuesday night and both families say they are pleased the deceit was uncovered. Indefinitely postponed is the family view while concerns are voiced for Black’s safety by his relatives at the People's National Bank.
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Muncie
Ind
Effie Icerman
Edgar Claire Black
Charles Icerman
Black
Norman Black
People’s National Bank
Musicians Win the Fight at Powers Grand Opera House
Decatur HL Sept 21 The strike by local musicians ends as the Powers Grand Opera House resumes with an orchestra. After a week of musicless shows Manager Fred Given relents and signs a one year contract at the new pay scale following the arrival of Coming Thro the Rye.
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Decatur, HL
Decatur
Powers Grand Opera House
Fred Given
Playhouse
Given
Aging suit over old Wabash claim before Federal judge
James Compton of Washington sues the Wabash Railroad for about 10000 principal plus accumulated interest from before the Civil War. He claims a dormant claim against what is now a Wabash line. Judson Harmon defends for the railroad which argues it paid 6 percent on two old mortgages and has no cash to settle. The plaintiff is nearly 75 years old as the case proceeds in Cleveland.
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Cleveland
W. R. Taylor
James Compton
Washington
Wabash Railroad Company
Compton
Wabash
Judson Harmon
Cincinnati
The
Wabash Railroad
Cow Survives Five Weeks With No Food Or Water
A cow owned by Joseph Blake in Greeland, Michigan, remained tethered to a tree for five weeks thriving without sustenance. Found skeletal and starving, the beast lunged at a passerby breaking its tail as he fled to safety on a wood pile. After the scare, the cow wandered off seeking food.
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Ontenagon
Mich
Joseph Blake
Greeland
Man sues over 2-cent fare law on Big Four train
Clarence Wilson, Bloomington, filed suit for damages after being charged 8 cents a mile by a Big Four conductor when Mackinaw ticket agent was out. He refused to pay more than 2 cents a mile, was ejected and walked three miles. This marks Illinois first case under the new law.
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Bloomington
Clarence Wilson
Mackinaw
Wilson
Iilinois
Perjured Herself to Marry in Ludington
William Wishrop, proprietor of the Ludington Dye Works, eloped with his employee Elizabeth Thompson after securing a marriage license. The father contends Elizabeth is only 16, not 18, and has asked Mason County officers to locate his daughter.
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Ludington Midh
William Wishrop
Ludington
Elizabeth Thompson
Mason County
Daugh
Tragic 660Foot Cage Fall Kills Eleven at Negaunee Mine
A cage plummeted 660 feet at the Jones & Laughlin steel mine in Negaunee Michigan inflicting eleven instant deaths and seven severe injuries. Names of the dead include Charles Kent and Alfred Wills with seven others. Rescue and grim recovery followed as families waited amid a heartbreaking scene at the shaft.
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Negaunee
Mich
Jones & Laughlin Steel Company
Charles Kent
Alfred F. Wills
Joseph Rodda
Matt Lind
John Abe
John Cheri
Thomas Blight
Antonio Curto
John Johnson
Sam Stevens
John Makki
Johi Kelvisto
Alfred Jewell
George Sebastano
Thomas Roberts
Emil Muhonen
Mexico Rail Horror Death Toll Climbs after Encarnacion Wreck
City of Mexico Sept 21 Fuller details say the El Paso express collided with a freight train at Encarnacion. Total deaths now sixty three with forty three injured, many of whom are expected to die. The freight engineer Brock a U S citizen is said to have confessed to disobeying orders.
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Mexico
City of Mexico
Encarnacion
el Paso
United States
Brock
Cameron Dam Case Settled Links Logs to Flambeau Route
In Cameron Wisconsin 5 000 000 feet of logs held for three years by John Dietz will be floated to Chippewa Falls via the Flambeau river route. The Mississippi Logging Co contracts W F Moses to haul by team from Thornapple to Flambeau five miles. Dietz denied paid 15000 dollars. Sheriff Clark pursues three criminal warrants against Dietz.
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Chippewa Walls
Wis
John Dietz
Cameron Damn
Flambeau River
Mississippi River
W. F. Moses
Northfield
Minn
Thornapple River
Dietz
Cameron
Thornapple
Clark
Children Attacked by Hogs in Iowa Pasture
Mason City Iowa sept 21 two young children Howard Laird seven and Vera Laird five were badly injured by two half wild hogs after trying to take loose pigs home as pets. The hogs knocked them down and trampled and slashed them with their hooves causing severe head and facial cuts for the boy and serious bruising for the girl.
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Mason City
Howard
Vera Laird
Rover Rider to be first boat through Joliet lock on canal route
Theodore Weise of the Illinois Motor Boat club will carry a racing craft from Chicago to St. Louis to demonstrate the value of an all water route. Rough Ktder will convey Mayor Busse's waterway message to President Roosevelt, detailing the 81 mile Ottawa route via the drainage and Illinois and Michigan canals.
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Roosevelt
Chicago
Theodore Weise
Illinois Motor Boat Club
Busse
St. Louis
Ottawa
Illinois
Michigan
Rover Rider
Joliet
Carved wedding cake bears Civil War sword heirloom
At Seymour Indiana on September 21 the wedding dinner for Chester Reed and Miss Avphnelle White featured a cake carved with a sword that saw sixty four Civil War engagements. The sword, captured from a Confederate soldier, was once owned by the bridegroom’s father, a Union veteran.
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Seymour
Ind
Chester Reed
Avphnelle White
J. O. White
Marriage at Deathbed in Crawfordsville Indiana
Miss Louise Chambers wed Roy H. MacClanahan of Sullivan at the home of her parents Dr and Mrs W B Chambers as her father lay critically ill waiting to witness the ceremony. The event unfolded Sept 21 with local esteem for the bride and the surviving Chambers family.
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Crawfordsville
Ind
Louise Chambers
W. B. Chambers
Roy H. MacClanahan
Sullivan
Merchants See Steady Fall Trade Amid Cautious Mood
New York Sept 21 R G Dun and Co Weekly Review says fall merchandise distribution at retail rises steadily though weather hurts some areas. Jobbers push large dry goods consignments, interior reports show autumn and winter demand may stay solid. Eastern cities show financial fears but mercantile collections improve. Manufacturers have orders for months ahead and pig iron producers stabilize prices as inquiries rise.
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New York
R. G. Dun & Co
Is Williams A Greek in Joliet Tennessee
Joliet Tennessee September 21 police confront a Greek restaurant attack after Prank McFadden the laundry collector is beaten. Williams proprietor of Royal restaurant North Chicago street along with a waiter and a cook arrested. McFadden alleges Williams swung a DIL and others joined in beating him. Disturbance caused panic and damage to the restaurant.
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Joliet
McFadden
Royal
Chicago Street
Thomas Williams
Joseph Reigns
Thomas Papas
Williams
Captains Lindsay and Wygart Arrested Aboard Logan
Manila dispatch reports Captains James B. Lindsay and Henry B. Wygart of the Thirteenth were arrested by Colonel Loughborough for a fist fight aboard the army transport Logan in quarantine at Nariveles en route to San Francisco.
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Manila
James
Lindsay
Henry
Wygart
Loughborough
Logan
Nariveles
San Francisco
Veterans Meet at Joliet Reunion Hosts Delegations
Nearly 1,900 Illinois Grand Army of the Republic members are guests in Joliet for the annual reunion with delegations from Michigan Indiana and Iowa. Chicago veterans include General John H. Stibbs Dr Duncan C Milner and Rev G R Van Horn.
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Joliet
Joliet, Ill
Illinois
Grand Army of the Republic
Michigan
Indiana
Iowa
Chicago
John H. Stibbs
Duncan C. Milner
G. R. van Horn
Market Report Hogs and Livestock Prices Transcribed
Chicago market summary from September 21 1907 shows hogs 7000 receipts yesterday 2754 higher by five percent overall. cattle steady at 300. sheep steady at 2500. Today receipts 7000 with 7 percent gain. tomorrow expected mostly ten higher top 657 bulk 580 to 620. Furnished by J W Culver & Co Washington Iowa phone 741.
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J. W. Culver & Co
Washington
Iowa
Chicago
Irish born Mary Cunningham on U S gold coin face sparks row
Chicago dispatch reports conflict over featuring model Mary Cunningham, an Irish born waitress used by sculptor Augustus Saint Gaudens for new U S gold coins. Pro testers claim the honor should go to an American born in the country, while opponents argue beauty and genius cross national lines.
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Chicago
Mary Cunningham
Augustus Saint Gaudens
United States
Independent Order of Americans
Elizabeth Maloney
Chicago Waitresses’ Union
Pennsylvania Society
Saint Gaudens
Miss Cunningham
Tramps Exodus as Cold Weather Approaches
New York reports a growing exodus of tramps with park benches deserted as railroads brace to handle the hobo issue. Railway officials meet to discuss strategy, with New York Central deploying 100 sworn youths on the Albany line to deter trespass and theft, amid estimates of freight losses approaching twenty thousand dollars yearly.
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New York
Conference of
Railway Boards
Minneapolis
New York Central
Tramp
Albany
Eleventh Avenue
Nashville Man Confesses Theft Of Express Money
Nashville after arrest J. L. Smith confessed stealing two packages from a Southern Express car last October totaling 7 820 dollars. Five thousand dollars was found buried under his house. Smith a mechanic for the Nashville Chattanooga and St Louis railway and active church member, attracted detectives with generous recent contributions.
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Nashville, Tenn
Southern Express Company
J. L. Smith
Smith
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway
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John A. Babcock
North American Commission Company
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Finnerty
P. Shelly O'Ryan
Board of Education
John F. Pinerty
George Washington
Friends of St. Patrick
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