Nevada Anti Japanese Legislation Moves In Assembly
Nevada lawmakers debate anti Japanese measures at Carson City and Sacramento. Drew bills bar aliens from land ownership and restrict Japanese in schools, with President Roosevelt pressuring restraint. Johnson to push bills limiting alien directors. debate centers on constitutionality and international repercussions.
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Sacramento
Drew
Carson
Assemblyman Drew
Fresno County
Roosevelt
Broker Reveals Morgan Ties in Major Merger Plan
A broker identifies J P Morgan as intermediary in a vast coal and iron company merger. Sixteen men formed an association seeking control, with absorption by a greater corporation deemed necessary after consulting President Roosevelt to relieve 1907 strain.
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Coal and Iron Company
Greater Corporation
Roosevelt
Policy clash over Tennessee Coal and Iron deal details emerge
Grant B Chey of Moore & Schley testified before the Senate judiciary committee about a syndicate formed to control Tennessee Coal and Iron and the subsequent sale of most stock to United States Steel. He named 16 investors, discussed stock loans, and described negotiations aided by J Pierpont Morgan & Co, with focus on the 1903 purchase and 1907 control.
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Tennessee Coal and Iron Company
United States Steel Corporation
Grant B Bchey
New York
Moore & Schley
Witheas
Senate Committee On Judiciary
Schley
Sftso
Alock
Steel Corporation
J Pierpont Morgan & Co
Sfossa
Aml
Association of Business Men
Bchley
United States
Count Hatton
Calls on Moore and Schley in stock panic described by Schley
Schley testified that calls by banks on Moore & Schley went unanswered and were pressed to a dangerous point. He recounted visits to Lewis Cass Ledyard and discussions about a merger plan involving Tennessee Coal and Iron and United States Steel. He said the panic caused about seven million dollars in calls over three days, and that the purchase helped relieve the situation for his firm and others in the Street.
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Mr. Schley
O H Payne
L C Hanne
G B Schley
J B Duke
EB J. Serwing
J. W Gates
A N Brady
G A Kessler
Oakleigh Thame
W Ogleway
H S Bindk
D Stout
J W Simpson
G W French
Cooper
J A‘ Topping
Schley
Tennessee Company
Culberson
Tennessee Coal and Iron Steel
Schiey
Moore & Schley
Moore & Schley A
Morgan
Airm
Tennessee Coal and Iron
Tennessee
Senator Culberson
Steel Corporation
Ioana
Strat Corporation
Sehly
Mr. Overman
Moore & Schl
Lewis Cass Ledyard
Tennessee Coal and Iron Company
United States Steel Corporation
Ledyard
Pierpont Morgan
Messrs
Thingham
Hi S
Senator Culpernon
Kisses at $10 Each Fined in Landlady Theft Case
Chicago judge fines John Fallon 30 for stealing three kisses from his landlady Mrs Edna Carameili. Fallon claimed to be son of a millionaire real estate dealer from New York and gave several name changes. He said his father was Al Levy of 16 Beekman Place.
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Chicago
Julus Levy
Agg
al Levy
Beekman Place, New York
Bank Merger Makes World’s Largest Institution
Plans near completion union of National City Bank and National Bank of Commerce will create the world’s largest bank with about 80 million dollars in capital and surplus, and deposits near 10 million. Frank Vandertip is slated as president of the merged bank with Valentine Snyder of the Bank of Commerce likely to hold a top post.
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Washington Post
New York
National City Bank
National Bank of Commerce
Easd
Bank of Commerce
National City
Morgan
Kuhn-Loeb
Kuhn. Loeb & Co
Injunction Barred Oklahoma Officials Over Gas Company
Federal Judge R B Campbell issued a temporary restraining order against Gov Haskell and the Oklahoma Attorney General blocking interference with Kansas Natural Gas Company and other foreign firms and individuals seeking to pipe gas from the state. Plaintiffs include T Barnsdell, A T W Lewis, O D Bleakley, and Barnett Mining Company alleging interference with interstate commerce under the U.S. Constitution. Also notes enhanced rail service to Aiken and Augusta with drawing room and compartment cars via Southern Railway, including schedules from Washington to Aiken and Augusta.
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Oklahoma
Muskogee
Ohio
Del
R. B. Campbell
Haskell
West
West Virginia
United States
Aiken
Augusta
Auguste
Ane
Southern Railway
Washington
Court Will Hear Patrick Habeas Corpus Writ
New York reporters note Justice William J. Gaynor granted a writ of habeas corpus for Albert T. Patrick held for the murder of William Marsh Rice. Patrick’s counsel argued the governor’s commutation from death to life was unwarranted as a punishment not authorized by statute and an impediment of a different, greater punishment.
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New York
Wiliam J . Gaynor
Supreme Court
Patrick
Convention rebukes Lewis over Osage county stance
In Indianapolis on February 2, delegates of the United Minor Workers refused to accept a report praising President Lewis for declining to support the strike in Osage county. Lewis defended his position, but the motion failed amid no reference to an anonymous letter alleging local officers’ corruption. An investigation into the letter’s authorship is underway.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Lewis
United Minor Workers
Osage County
Kang
Ohie
Girl in Court Kills Witnesses Then Tries Suicide
In Gatesville Texas Verna Ware drew a revolver during a trial, killed Jon Hanes and wounded three witnesses, then shot at herself but was restrained by her attorneys. Hanes died, three others wounded, all in a crowded courtroom as the case drew intense public sympathy for the defendant.
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Tral
Law
Gatesville, Tex
Verna Ware
Jon Hanes
Hanes
David Ross
James Smith
Whtey
Miss Ware
Ross Smith
Wiley
Brandenburg Explains Bia Flight on Eve of Trial
New York fugitive Broughton Brandenburg explains his flight from trial for forging a letter of Grover Cleveland. He cites lack of funds for a large defense and says he will return to stand trial once money is secured. He disappeared after his $1600 bail was forfeited following nonappearance.
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Bia
Washington Post
New York
Tram
Grover Cleveland
West Ninth Street
Hamuet Bell Thomas
Heiress Weds Salvationist In A Noted Society Union
Miss Woolman, heiress to a fortune estimated at 150000 to 250000 dollars, married Captain Alexander Romuel Hewitt of the American Salvation Army. They plan to engage in slum work in Plainfield after a brief wedding trip, with the bride giving a large portion of her wealth to Salvation Army efforts.
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Spelial
Washington Post
Burlington
Mizg Marton Fergus Woolman
Alexander Romuel Hewitt
American Salvation Army
Plainfield
Mrs Dunphy testifies in own defense in Boston case
Mrs Martha Mabell Dunphy wife of a Boston physician tells Judge Clifford she borrowed from broker Charles Giles of Boston pledging household goods and stocks She says Giles pressured her to marry him and later took back jewels and stocks after she paid down debt She fled west then to Dubuque and Chicago where further confrontations occurred as her relatives shun her and her husband sues Giles for alienation of affection
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Giles
Chicago
Martha Mabell
Dunphy
Boston
Bedworth
Charles EB Giles
Clifford
Graat Northern
Montana
Butte
Mont
Dubuque
Iowa
Lees
Questioopy
Onete Gilles
Taft Inspects Gatun Dam Plans In Panama Visit
President-elect Taft with Lieut Col Goethals surveyed the Gatun area amid talk of canal breakwater changes. Engineers proposed building breakwaters from Colon and Point Toro to protect the Caribbean entrance at a cost about 10 million dollars. Taft will also inspect Pacific locks and channel as crews report the canal’s progress amid heavy seas and a subsidence explanation.
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Taft
Goethals
Culebra
Colon
Point Toro
Caribbean
Coriad
Gatun
Pacific Locks and Channel
I. Limon Bay
Col Goethals
Ale
Squiers
Obaldia
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
Newport
Pacific Entrance
Maos Island
Naos
Great Highway of Commerce
Newport Vleads
Pacific Aide
Yerkes Executor Removal Answer Defends Estate
Chicago February 2 Louis S Owsley led an answer in probate court to Mary Adelaide Yerkes petition to remove Charles T Yerkes as executor of the estate. Owsley denies the allegations of self enrichment and a scheme to transfer property to Yerkes while she would pay him six percent. The filing labels the charges malicious falsehoods.
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Chicago
Louis S Owsley
Mary Adelaide Yerkes
Charles T. Yerkes
Falaehood
Karight
Budget increase for District of Columbia appropriations outlined
Senate appropriations committee boosted the District budget for the coming year by about 4.16 million dollars, adding 31 thousand for snow removal, 15 thousand for playgrounds, and 48 thousand for police salaries. The plan includes a new workhouse and reformatory with 1000 acre sites in Maryland or Virginia, and provisions for city officials, inspectors, and treasury advances to cover general costs. The bill preserves most prior provisions, with only one decrease for six justices of the peace.
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District of Columbia
Senate
Gallinger
House
Congress
Maryland
Virginia
Reformatory
National Bureau of Criminal
Msteic
Washington
Senate Committee
Justices of the Peace
DHS
Inferior Court of Justice of the Peace
Municipal Court
Dlem
Water Department
National Guard
Secretary of the Treasury
Treasury
United States
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