Wickersham predicts big combines will be split up
Hancock Mich July 21 Attorney General Wickersham told a Hancock crowd that large combinations like the Standard Oil Company and the tobacco trust will be broken into many distinct parts with no connections or monopoly power. He praised President Taft for guiding Justice and defended high fees for special counsel as cost effective for enforcement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taft
Department of Justice
Hancock, Mich
Standard of Company
Tobacco “Trust
Wickergham
Hancock
Supreme Court
Wickersham
Toe
Redstone
Wea
Uncle Sam
Department At
Washington
Justice
William H. Taft
Standard Oil to Split Up Into Thirty Five Companies
A Standard Oil officer denied a reorganization and announced the firm will divide into 35 smaller companies. Stockholders will receive proportionate shares in each new company, with distribution to holders of Standard Oil of New Jersey stock. The move follows Supreme Court directives to divide the company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
New York
Standard Oil Company
Wall Street
Sach
Supreme Court
Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey
Wickersham to face House judiciary committee on Alaska charges
Attorney General Wickersham will be taken to a hearing next Monday before the House committee on judiciary regarding charges by Delegate Wickersham of Alaska that he refused to investigate waterfront grab allegations at Controller Bay after proof was lodged. He said he will answer the charges the best way he knows how and declined further comment on the Wiley affair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wickersham
Houe Committee On Judiciary
Alaska
Controller Bay
Hancock, Mich
Wiley
Smelter Trust Investigation Dropped in New York
United States District Attorney Wise says the probe into the American Smelting and Refining Company and the so called smelter trust in violation of the Sherman act has been dropped. The complaints were found without foundation. Two killed on British destroyer Kangaroo during speed trials off Beachy Head.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
American Smelting and Refining Company
Smalter Trust
United States
Wise
Smelter Trust
Portsmouth
England
Beachy Head
Movements of Ocean Steamers Reported
Movements listed show ships sailing from Liverpool and Havre to New York with routes including New York Bremen and New York for Cherbourg. Vessels like Sable Island Baltic from Liverpool and Le Touraine from Havra expected to dock late Sunday night or Monday morning. Minnewaska from London bound for New York to dock around 8 am Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Campania
Liverpool
Southampton
Adriatic
Carmania
Cherbourg
Bremen
Sable Island
Baltic
le Touraine
Havra
Minnewaska
London
Congressional House Ball Game Drafts Nick Longworth Pitcher
Nick Longworth trains hard to pitch for the GOP in a today at American League park. Representative Paul Howland joins the Republican nine as they face a Democratic team with Oldfield Webb Reilly Hughes and others. Umpire deemed a real expert.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nick" Longworth
Paul Howland
Cleveland
Nick
American League Park
Repubiican
House
Representative Hughes
West Virginia
Ohio
Oldfield
Arkansas
Webb
North Carolina
Reilly
Connecticut
Hughes
Owa
Burke
Pennsylvania
Lafferty
Oregon
Tilson
Wilson
W. W
Ilinois
Woods
Iowa
Subways to Transform New York City Amid 225 Million Deal
New York officials announce Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company wins contracts for a vast underground system. Within ten days thousands of workers begin burrowing as four of five contracts are signed. Total cost approximates 150 million to taxpayers, 75 million company funding, routes across Manhattan Brooklyn Queens and the Bronx. Some segments may be finished in eighteen months to two years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Willcox
Public Service Commission
Frank Bradley
Board of Estimate
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
Manhattan
Brooklyn
Queens
Bronx
Waa
Ends Turbulent Career After Marital Strife
In Philadelphia on July 21 James T Dunn head of a city novelty firm shot himself in an Atlantic City hotel. Believed to be spurred by marital troubles, Dunn had separated from his wife Mrs Sarah M Dunn since October 1909. A suit for alienation of affection against Elizabeth H Holme is pending in New York Supreme Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
James T. Dunn
Atlantic City
Sarah M. Dunn
New York
Elizabeth H. Holme
New York Supreme Court
Dunn
Mrs. Holme
San Francisco
Sarah Rosenbaum
Holme
John Hastings
Frazer C. Fuller
Brothers Held After Fire in Wood County Farm
Albert and Martin Cross, sons of farmer James Cross, were arrested in Parkersburg on arson charges over a residence and barn fire on the family farm near Red Hill, Wood County. Detained in jail on bond default, authorities say the brothers threatened their father after learning he redirected property to his eldest son Luke Cross. The Cross family is prominent in Wood County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parkersburg
W. Va
Albert
Martin Cross
James Cross
Red Hill
Wood County
Kindelberger
Wheeling
Luke Cross
Cross
Man bars women from funeral in will demand
Evansville Indiana July 21 John Steller 67 stipulated that none but men attend his funeral claiming his wife deserted him in Louisville and induced him to assign half his property. He left all farm property and savings to Joe Haas a grocer who befriended him in his last illness. The funeral will follow his wish tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evansville
Ind
Louisville
John Steller
Steller
Joe Haas
Trusts Hand in Politics Testimony on Sugar War End
John E. Parsons testifies before a congressional committee investigating trusts. He details a $10,000 contribution by the American Sugar Refining Co to Benjamin Harrison’s presidential campaigns and argues there is no sugar trust monopoly. Parsons opposes federal incorporation laws for local firms and claims Havemeyer did not wield absolute board power. The sugar war, he says, remains unresolved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
American Sugar Refining Company
Benjamin Harrison
Grover Cleveland
John E. Parsons
Congressional Committee
Harrison
Parsons
American Trust
Standard Oil
American Tobacco Companies
Sulzer
H. C. Havemeyer
Havemeyer
Madison
John Arbuckle
HW G Havemeyer
Cuession
Wireless telephone used in U S naval maneuvers
In San Francisco a simulated battle between State militia and regulars featured the first use in U S naval maneuvers of a wireless telephone to send messages from land to ships at sea. Maj. A W Chase and Capt. A T Schenick on the coast artillery commanded the tug Captain Gregory Barrett about 14 miles offshore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
United States
A.W. Chase
A. T. Schenick
Coast Artillery
Gregory Barrett
Naval Orders Heat and Ensigns to Asiatic Station Duty
Heat G P Brown transferred to home and wait orders Ensign A C Train assigned to Truxtun Ensign E F Buck ordered to Asiatic station Ensign G C Brandt assigned to Asiatic station Ensign H E Woodson Ensign H N Forgus Ensign C B Yost Ensign R G Gillmor Ensign J D Moore Ensign P J Peyton Ensign V J Dixon Ensign G H Emmerson Ensign F Van Valkenburg to Asiatic station Ensign J E Iseman Jr to Asiatic station
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. P. Brown
A. C Train
Truxtun
E. F. Buck
Asiatic
G Eh, Brandt
HE. M. Woodson
H. N. Forgus
C. 8. Yost
R. & Gillmor
J. D Moore
Naval Vessel Movements Arrive at Multiple Ports
Movements of numerous vessels including Yankton Castine Dixie Grayling Bonita Narwhal Salmon Stingray Snapper Tar pon and more arriving at Newport Warrington Cramps ship yard Chester Bradford Monaghan Dolphin Boston Navajo Honolulu United Warrington Des Moines Fort au Prince Chester Bradford Cape Haiden Salam Hampton Roads Isla de Cuba Newport Baltimore and Gloucester for Barton in a broad update of port arrivals and departures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yankton
Castine
Dixie
Grayling
Bonita
Salmon
Newport
Warrington
Cramps
Chester
Bradford
Monaghan and Dolphin
Boston
Navajo
Honolulu
United
Philadelphia
Gramps’ Shipyard
Des Moines
Fort Au Prince
Cape Haiden
Salam
Long Island Sound
Hampton Roads
Isla de Cuba
Baltimore
Dolphin
Gloucester
Barton
Wynn in Canada money order case arrest in Toronto
Thomas Wynn, one of four Western Union money order fraud suspects, was arrested in Toronto under an assumed name. Detectives plan to bring him to Washington, D.C., as part of a nationwide case alleging over $1,000 obtained via fraudulent telegraph money orders. The quartet, led by Wynn, were indicted in Washington with others already in custody.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Wynn
Western Union Telegraph Company
Mheans
Toronto
Canada
Henry Pratt
Wynn
Washington
H. J. Grasett
Grasett
Canadian Telegraph Company
Buffalo
Reeves Wood
Hodd
Edward Reeves
Read
Pittsburg
Orrin Brennan
Duskin
St. Louis
Grand
Western Union
Edward J. Read
Twelfth Street Northwest
Capt. Boardman
Cholera Suspect Dies in Quebec Detained Sailors
Alexander Hargues, a sailor aboard the steamer Bendu, died in Quebec amid cholera fears after confinement at Grosse Isle. The ship came from Bombay via Baltimore and New York on July 2. Meanwhile 118 first class passengers on the Principe di Piemonte cleared quarantine in Jersey City, but steerage and crew remain detained to prevent spread. No deaths reported in the last day, per Dr. Doty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quebec
Alexander Hargues
Lat Grosse Isle
Bombay
Baltimore
New York
Typhoid Epidemic Checked at St Helena Naval Reservation
Four typhoid cases were moved to Portsmouth Naval Hospital with one death so far. Remaining patients are in an isolated ward and improving. Inoculation at St Helena has been extensive and is credited with checking the outbreak.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Helena Naval Reservation
Norfolk
Naval Hospital
Portsmouth
St Helena
Army Orders Move Officers and Details Across Posts
Leaves of absence granted to Second Lieut FRANK M. KENNEDY five days from August. Col SIDNEY W. TAYLOR, two months. HERMAN HALL four months. First Lieut THOMAS W. JACKSON two months. First Lieut WALTER W. MERRILL one month. Several officers detailed as students at the School of Fire for Field Artillery Fort Sill OK. board to examine fitness for promotion at Fort Riley KS. officers assigned to Fort Oglethorpe GA for duty. horse show duties in Orange VA. command of Fort Worden WA. other duty reassignments and promotion boards in Chicago IL. Also changes in subsistence and quartermaster duties with multiple transfers and retirements. Ass’t to chief commissary, Eastern division. Philippine constabulary detail. Fort Douglas UT construction duty. Fort Benjamin Harrison temporary duty. Twentieth infantry transfer. retirement of Sydney W Taylor.
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Frank M. Kennedy
Tenth Infantry
Sidney W. Taylor
Second Field Artillery
Herman Hall
Infantry
Thomas W. Jackson
Medical Reserve Corps
Walter W. Merrill
Third Field Artillery
School of Fire For
Field Artillery
Fort Sill
Oklo
Alexander B. Dyer
Fourth Feld Artillery
Gorge W. van Deusen
Samuel D Sturgis
Ernest Hinds
Sixth Field Artillery
Otho W. B. Farr
Fifth Field Artilery
John J. Ryan
Tenth Cavalry
Atlanta
Fort Riley
Kans
William P Kendall
Medical Corps
James Lockett
Cavalry
Thomas J. Lewis
Godfrey W. MacDonald
Thirteenth Cavalry
Paul L. Freeman
Wade
Westmoreland
Eleventh Cavalry
Fort Oglethorne
Orange
Guy ¥. Henry
Ephraim F. Graham
Adna R. Chaffed
Fifteenth Cavalry
Charles J. Bailey
Coast Artillery Corps
Fort Worden
Wash
Puget Sound
Louis C. Scherer
Fourth Cavalry
Hons
Theodore B. Hacker
Boston
Eastern Division
Chicago
Edward FR. Dravo
Abiel.l. Writh
Neut
William. B
Banister
Medical
Harre
Wilkins
Perry L Boyer
Subsistence Department
Edward & Dravo
Thi
Frank H. Lawton
William R. Grove
Theodore B Hacker
Herman Fall
Quartermaster's Department
Thomas RB Haricha
Fort Douglas
Utah
Dalton
Jeffersonville
Ind
Paul C Potter
Twenty-eighth Infantry
Thirtieth Infantry
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Sydney W Taylor
John B Benxet
Sixteenth Infantry
Philippine Constabulary
Camorrist Trial erupts in riot as court adjourns
At Viterbo the Camorra trial boiled over with Captain Fabioni clashing with defense counsel Alessandro. Informer Abbatemaggio and Alfano were manhandled by carabineers. Bartolozzi collapsed in a fit as order collapsed and the session adjourned. Prisoners hissed, carabineers restrained inmates, and Fabioni denounced Camorra intimidation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Viterbo
Italy
Camorrist
Fabioni
Carabineers
Alessandro
Enrico Alfano
Gennaro Abbatemaggio
Giovanni Bartelozzi
Bianchi
Faproni
Zanelli
Marshal Capizzuti
Livy
Abbat Smaggio
Alfano
Fabion
Court of the Assizes
Ike
Giovanni Bartolozzi
Bartolozzi
Camorra
Son of C. H. Davis Killed in Illinois
Bristol Virginia receives word that Charles Davis aged 25, son of C. H. Davis, a prosperous local farmer, was killed in Illinois. The body will be brought home for burial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. H. Davis
Washington Post
Bristol
C. & Davis
Charles Davis
Illinois
Cleaner Aids Cat Of Fleas In Murray Hill
A Murray Hill Long Island owner used a vacuum cleaner on her Maltese cat named Buster, observing fewer fleas after the cleaning. The cat initially alarmed by the nozzle relaxed and remained still as dust was removed from its fur, suggesting relief from the rapid flea reduction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
New York
Murray Hill
Long Island
New Comet Discovered by Hobart College Astronomer
Prof Brooks of Hobart College announces the discovery of a new comet this morning. The celestial traveler is located in the Pegasus constellation near Geneva New York. Dr William R Brooks directs the observatory and teaches astronomy.
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Prof. Brooks
Hobart Colege
Celestial Traveler
Geneva
N. Y
Wiliam R. Brooks
Hobart College
Pegasus
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