Harriman Enormous Stock Deals Scored by ICC Probe
Interstate Commerce Commission hearings reveal Harriman controlled Union Pacific Southern Pacific Oregon Short Line and related rail and steamship interests as a single system. Executives ratified loans and stock purchases. questions focus on funding and cross ownership among Harriman lines and their ships.
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Te Hington
New York
E H Harriman
The
Union
Coacrman Knapp
Commissione Lane
Interstate Commerce Commission
Harriman
Union Pacific Railroad Company
Southern Pacific
Oregon Short Line
Oregon Railroad and Navigation Counyy
Southern Pacific Company
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
Portland
Orient
Ite Occidental
Itilt
Commission
Union Pacific
Mr. Harriman
Gould
Nes
John G. Milburn
Chicago
Millar
Tinfon Pacific
Kellogg
Southern Pacific Railway
Oregon Railway and Navigation Company
H Harriman
Cornish
Alton
Sant Pedro
Los Angeles
Salt Lake
W A. Clark
Mr. Kellogge
Traffe
San Pedro Company
Union Pacific Company
Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company
Eeetary Millar
Mahl
Giant Swindle Suspect Flower Nabbed After Nationwide Hunt
Philadelphia detectives arrest Jane R. Flower alias C Darney in a center city room. Blaze of mining swindle charges claim about 1.8 million dollars from investors using a fake diamond making process. He fled New York in 1904 after indictment and led a long chase through Mexico Central America Brazil Canada and the United States before being detained.
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Flower
Darney
New York
Philadelphia
Jane
R. C. Flower
C. Darney
McCornville
Oxford
Agsent
Mexico
Central America
South America
Canada
United States
Mexico City
Brazil
Montreal
Padgahc
Ami Paterson
Dalney
Dr. Flower
Central St
Philadelphia man known for broker years in Washington
R. C. Flower, once a brokerage office head on F Street, is noted as well known in Washington. The man’s appearance at arrest included a two-beard and large eyeglasses look, contrasting with his earlier clean-shaven appearance when leaving the area.
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Hhem
Philadelphia
R. C. Flower
Washington
F' Strest
Special Panel for Burnham to Hear Grand Larceny Charge
Assistant District Attorney Nott announced that a special panel of jurors would hear the case against Frederick A. Burnham, president of Mutual Reserve Insurance, with trial aimed for January 14 in the New York Supreme Court. Burnham faces a grand larceny in the first degree charge.
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New York
Nott
Justice Fitzgerald
Supreme Court
Frederick A. Burnham
Mutual Reserve Insurance Company
Burnham
Cold Wave Cuts Gas in Cleveland Locking Homes in Darkness
A severe cold wave hits Cleveland Ohio leaving the natural gas supply completely cut off. Thousands face no heat or light as crews work through the night to repair a burst gas main in Summit County amid floodwaters from heavy rains. Utilities warn relief may not come until late tomorrow.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Summit County
Aged Novice Kills Himself In New York
Aged novice Theodore Slavinsit, 81, a member of St Tikhon Monastery and Orphans Home, South Canaan, Pa, was found dead with a bullet wound in his head in a room at the archiepiscopal residence in East Ninety seventh Street New York. He had been a novice at the monastery for about a year and had traveled to New York for a blessing to attend Christmas services at the cathedral.
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Dally
Ohio Gas Company
West Virginia
Cleveland
Akron
Qohic
New York
Theodore Slavinsit
St Tikhon Monas
Holy Orthodox Church
Sian
Canaan
Tels
St. Nicholas’ Cathedral
East
Slavinasi
St. Tikhon
South Canaan
Tikhon, D. D
North America
Aleutian Islands
Unclear Lumber Shipment Hindered by Telegram Threat
A decoy note reports fifteen cars of lumber shipped between December 1 and 10 and unable to be traced. The commission will not send a special agent, believing a telegram to President Hill will achieve the needed result.
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Commission
President Hill
Warships Sought Over Nicaragua Mahogany Concession Abrogation
The George D. Emery Company faces Nicaragua's abrogation of its Mosquito territory concession and seizure of a $250,000 plant. Minister Murray travels to Guatemala City to Managua to seek protection, with Judge Penfield handling U S interests in Washington. Chelsea Moss hosts a large Emery plant.
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Mahogany
Murray
Guatemala City
Washington
New Orleans
George D. Emery Company
Nicaragua
Blueflelda
Zelaya
Emery Company
Mosquito Territory
Borys
Tropics
Zeleya
Merry
Managua
Tima
Penfield
State Department
Chelsea
Moss
Suffering in North Dakota From Severe Cold Wave
Reports from North Dakota describe extreme cold with temperatures about 20 degrees below zero. Citizens faced fuel shortages forcing many to stay in bed and resort to burning wood from outhouses to keep warm as the Great Northern line towns endured the brutal stretch.
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North Dakota
Minneapolis
Jan
Great Northern Railroad
One Hundred May Be Lost In Pacific Shipwreck
A Pacific Mail Steamship City of Panama, with seventy passengers and a crew of about thirty, wrecked near Peres Beach sixteen miles below Pescadero. Life rafts and wreckage marked City of Panama come ashore but no survivors found as a gale rages along the California coast. A caller from Pescadero relayed the distress.
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Washington. Post
San Francisco
Pescadero
Pacific Mail
Panama
South
Central America
Peres Beach
Wardell Beach
Town asks relief as Mohall faces coal shortage
Mohall North Dakota urgent appeal to Interstate Commerce Commissioner Lanse from the Mohall Commercial Club describing desperate fuel lack and freezing city. Commissioner Lane wires Northern Pacific president Hill seeking prompt relief and options.
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Interstate Commerce
Lanse
Mohall Commercial Club
Mohall
Noah
Lane
President Hill
Northern Pacific Railroad
St Paul
Modell Commercial Club
Constitutional convention opposes states rights doctrine
Guthrie Oklahoma January 4 The constitutional convention voted against the State's rights doctrine reversing previous action after a vigorous debate Judge Ledbetter opposed delegating federal power reserved to the states The convention proposed two amendments to the Federal constitution one for a federal income tax and the other for direct election of United States Senators by the people
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Guthrie
Okla
Ledbetter
United States
Hermit George Munson Found Dead Amid Hidden Wealth
Osceola Iowa January 4 special to The Washington Post reports hermit George Munson died of freezing. His dilapidated cabin held gold and greenbacks tucked in floors and walls, with thousands of dollars secreted for years. Neighbors say he also owned stocks bonds and several hundred acres of land.
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Washington Post
Osceola
Iowa
George Munson
Munson
Promised Nurses Diplomas Allegations Hit Gottlieb
New York scene reports Dr Julius Adelphi Gottlieb faces arraignment next Sunday over sending an infernal machine to his father in law Morris Gluckman. Complaints from young women claim they paid Gottlieb to obtain diplomas and registry without meeting legal requirements. Dr J M Larque of Boston says Gottlieb offered to register him as a physician for 300 dollars plus 250 later, without exams, but he never received a certificate.
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New York
Julius Adelphi Gottlieb
Morris Gluckman
Gottlieb
J. M. Larque
Boston
Gottiieb
Larque
Primers Put In Powder at King Powder Plant
Hundreds of lives and thousands of dollars in property were placed at risk by a bold attempt to blow up the King Powder Company plant southwest of Lebanon Ohio. Primers were concealed in a twelve ton stack of powder and exploded as they passed rollers. Thirty primers were hidden in the pile and the culprits remain unidentified.
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King Powder Company
Lebanon
Ohio
Here
Ponce Passengers Reported Overdue From Ponce Voyage
Special to The Washington Post New York Jan 4 The Panama Railroad Steamship Advance arrived four days from Colon renewing hope for the safety of the New York and Porto Rico Steamship Company vessel Ponce overdue five days from Ponce She sailed December 25 for New York The Advance encountered a ferric norther in the Caribbean forcing the Ponce to shelter near Colom The line reports fifty nine people aboard including five first class passengers two in second cabin and a crew of fifty two The Ponce was built in 1899 at Wilmington Delaware a single screw 2519 tons and has no passenger list available at the office
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Washington Post
New York
Panama Railroad Steamship Company
Colon
New York and
Porto Rico Steamship Company
Ponce
Savannah
Harlan & Hollingsworth
Wilmington
Del
Texas Ranger Demands More Evidence From Judge Purdy
Captain Bill MacDonald of the Texas Rangers arrives in San Antonio to urge Judge Purdy to grant additional time for testimony about Brownsville disturbances. He criticizes Senator Foraker's Senate remarks as insulting and says the Senate should hear the facts from him.
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Specia
San Antonio
Tex
Tan
Bill’ MacDonald
Texas Ranger
Foraker
Senate
Four Die in Fire Aboard Lyndholmen Steamer
The mail steamer Lyndholmen from Christiania to Bergen caught fire off Farsand amid a gale. Four passengers died by suffocation, others jumped or were drowned, one passenger went mad, lifeboats burned, and the captain guided the ship ashore to save the rest.
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Christiania
Lyndholmen
Bergen
Farsand
Blame at Hearing on Wrecks Sparks Rigorous Probe
Interstate Commerce Commission opens a detailed inquiry into Baltimore and Ohio and Southern Railway wrecks on Thanksgiving Day. Witnesses including engineer Hildebrand and dispatcher Dent testify on block system safety, signal rules, sleep and past suspensions, with scrutiny of Takoma and Terra Cotta signals and possible railroad negligence.
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Baltimore and Ohio
Terra Cotta
Southern Railway
Lawyers
Samuel Spencer
Interstate Commerce Commission
Congress
Clements
Commission
Hildebrend
Extra
Iildebrand
Takomi
Takoma
Walter
Hildebrand
Dent
Washington Junction
Blogo
Special
T. F. Dent
Camdes Station
Baltimore
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Ulness
Morgan Line
Atlantic Ocean
Sene Canona Clark
San Pedro
Hlinois Central Railroad
Union Packie
St Joseph
Northwestern
Milwaukee
St Paw
Atchison, Topeka
Santa Fe
St. Joseph
Grand Island
Knon
Ern Pacific
Pacific
George J. Gould
Mr. Gould
Western Pacific Railway
Southern
Occidental and Oriental Steamship Company
Morgan Steamship Line
Union , Pacific
Thera Biss
Chicago and Alton
Chicago and Alton Company
W .B. Leeds
Chicano, Rock Island and Pacific Railway
Rock Island
Central Trust Company
Southern Railway Company
Paplic
Garvan
Arizona Eastern and
Montana Mining Company
Plower
Flowers
Belle Gray Taylor
Cornelia Storrs
District Attorney's
Theodore Hagaman
Waldorf-Astoria
Hagaman
Sama
Ume
Geoge E Mills
Sth Mills
Assnistant
Hae
Mra Hageman
Bhis City
Jersey City
Col. Watterson
Burneam
Jerome
Gold
Kogas
Semds Gall
Boston Company
City
California
Safe Trust Co
Ankine Dept
Dr. Gottlieb
Terrific Norther
Porto Rico
Bill” MacDonald
Senator Foraker
Nault
Lynndholmen
Christiana
Baltimore and Return
Baltimore & Ohio
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