Gould Ally Of Gould Member Executive Board
Stuyvesant Fish, deposed as Illinois Central president, is elected director of Missouri Pacific, signaling intensified Gould Harriman rivalry in Western railroads. Gould says Fish election keeps policy, expects active role. Fish cites long friendship and rail experience. Missouri Pacific routes include St Louis, Denver, Salt Lake City. Western Pacific to San Francisco. Gould predicts about 12 percent earnings and no dividend cut, notes Western Pacific work costs about 1 million monthly and aims completion by September 1, 1908, pending money market conditions.
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Washington Post
New York
Stuyvesant Fish
E. H Harriman
Illinois Central
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Union, Pacific and Southern Pacific
Fish
Georges J Gould
Gould
Harriman
Mississippi
Missouri Pacific
Would
Mrr
Hartman
Missouri Pacific Board
Paso
Galveston
St. Louis
Kansas City
Omaha
Denver
Salt Lake City
Western Pacific
San Francisco
St Louis
Southwest
Witness
The
Aystem
Mr. Gould
Thost
Wabbash
Maryland
Publc
Boardroom Changes Mark Missouri Pacific Turmoil
The article notes high money rates forcing railroad cutbacks and ongoing improvement work. Legislative limits are cited as a cause. J J Slocum is elected to succeed the late Russell Sage, representing Sage Interests, while Mr Fish fills the vacancy left by James Hazen Hyde.
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Pieh
Missouri Pacific Securities
St. Louis
J. J. Slocum
Russell Sage
Sage
Fish
James Hazen Hyde
Icicle Falls Kill Two Near Niagara Gorge
A large ice fall from the Niagara Gorge cliffs crashed onto a trolley car along Gorge road near Whirlpool Rapids. Motorman Everett Ramsdell was killed. Dr. and Mrs Nervy of Sioux City Iowa and Miss Nervy were struck and bruised. C Lindsay and wife of Pittsburgh were injured. Injured were taken to Prospect Hotel.
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Niagara Falls
Niagare Gorge
Gorge Road
Everet Ramsdell
KH. B. Nervy
Sioux City
Iowa
Mies Nervy
C. Lindsay
Pittsburg
Prospect Hotel
Sage foundation to bring $10,000,000 for social reform
Mrs. Russell Sage announces a $10,000,000 endowment to the Sage foundation aimed at improving living conditions in the United States. The national, New York headquartered fund will study adverse social conditions and apply remedies, with trustees including Miss Helen Gould and others with extensive philanthropic experience. Albany, March 12.
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United States
New York
Helen Gould
Albany
N. Y
Russell Sage
Henry W DeForest
Sage Foundation
New York City
Gage
I Tere
Wisconsin Professor Calls Race Death by Own Action Blessing
Special to The Washington Post from Chicago reports Prof Edward A Ross of Wisconsin argues in the American Journal of Sociology that Americas birth rate should be lowered to save the nation from degradation. He condemns large families and calls race death by own action a blessing, urging readers to oppose famine, war, and class antagonism.
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Wisconsin University
Washington Post
Chicago
America
Edward A. Ross
University of Wisconsin
Current American Journal of
University of Chicago
Wisconsin
Ross
Idleness Cited as Half of Divorce Cases
Judge Charles I Hunt of the Divorce Court in Cincinnati Ohio states idleness by men is the cause of about 50 percent of docketed divorces. He notes petitioners are mostly women and lack of support is common, with desertion and abandonment tied to unemployment. He claims if men were employed 60 percent of cases would not exist.
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Washington
Cincinnati
Ohio
Charles I. Hunt
Rev Thomas Spurgeon Resigns From Tabernacle Post
London report states Rev Thomas Spurgeon resigns as pastor of the Metropolitan Tabernacle citing ill health. The piece notes his duties and the strain of a busy charge. A second item references the Chesapeake and Ohio train schedule with a parlor car from Washington to Virginia Hot Springs.
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Thomas Spurgeon
Epectsl Cable
Washington Post
London
Metropolitan Tabernacle
Virginia Hot Springs
Chesapeake and Ohio
Washington
Virginia
France's Iena battleship explodes in Toulon dry dock
A catastrophic explosion in the Toulon dry dock destroys the French battleship Iena's after section. Captain Adigard and Captain Vertier die, Rear Admiral Manceron and 70 to 80 sailors are killed or injured, as powder magazines and torpedo charges ignite during a routine inspection. Rescue efforts are hampered by ongoing blasts and smoke.
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Adigard
Vertier
Manceron
Toulon
Mar
Iona
Mediterranean
Insa
Arsenal
Scorea
Iena
Practical
Tena
Varios
Dack
Sheila
Thetar
Ytig
Valet held on burglary charge in Schiff case
Lawrence de Foulke, formerly Mortimer L Schiff’s valet, is held in $5000 bail after admitting he wrote love letters to Mrs Schiff and used a bowling pin to assault Schiff at his home. He stole two diamond pins and hid them, claiming hard luck and ambition to travel back to Stockholm.
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Washington Post
New York
Lawrence de Foulke
Mortimer JL. Schitt
Mortimer L. Schiff
Foulke
Schiff
Mr. Schiff
Mrs. Schiff
de Foulke
Kuhn, Loeb & Co
Editor Tem ple Graves Attacked on Atlanta Street
Atlanta editor John Temple Graves was struck from behind on a city street by J H Crutchfield. Graves fell and was stunned while Crutchfield fled but was captured about an hour later. Crutchfield, a large man, had previously faced a murder case involving his wife.
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Atlanta
John Temple Graves
Atlanta Georgian
J. H. Crutchfield
Col. Graves
Crutchfield
Col Graves
Bryan campaign manager for Bryan 1908 Cleveland action
Special to The Washington Post reports Cleveland Mayor Tom L Johnson may become Bryan’s campaign manager. Bryan reportedly sought Johnson’s consent to replicate Hanna’s McKinley role, with initial talks months earlier and a plan for a third nomination bid.
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Washington Post
Cleveland
Ohio
Tom L. Johnson
Bryan
Johnson
Mark Hanna
McKinley
Bryan J
Indicted church pew makers face anti trust charges
Federal grand jury named F A Holbrook and sixteen church and school furniture firms in indictments charging conspiracy to restrain and monopolize trade. The firms allegedly controlled eight percent of church pew and school desk sales, with a Pruden Hal Club to stifle competition and minimum price agreements. Also named were American Seating Chicago and others across Ohio Michigan Indiana Kentucky Tennessee. Two injunction petitions were filed to stop further violations of the Sherman act.
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Chicago
Mar
F. A. Holbrook
Federal Grand Jury
United States Circuit Court
United States
American Seating Company
A. H. Andrews Company
G. N. Stifford Manufacturing Company
Superior Manufacturing Company
Muskegon
Mich
Owensboro Seating and Cabinet Company
Owensboro
Southern Seating and Cabinet Company
Jackson, Tenn
Cincinnati Seating Company
Cincinnati
Ohio
Eircman Seating Company
New Richmond
H. Voght Sons & Co
Parker City
Ind
Pruden- Hal Club
Gramé Jury
F A. Holbrook
Holbrook
Indict- Mort
School Furniture
Minneapolis Office and School Furniture Company
Minneapolis
Owensboro ‘Seating and Cabinet Company
Hudson School Furniture Company
Handy Benool Furniture Company
Grand Rapids
Mid Peabody School Furniture Company
North Manchester
Illinois Refrigerator Company
Morrison, HL
F. Stafford Manufacturing Company
H. Andrews Company
American ‘Seating Company
Miss Ethel Kelly Sues Millionaire Over Letters
New York March 1 Miss Ethel Kelly actress seeks 2000 from Jack Gallatin claiming a broken heart after his marriage to his deceased ally’s daughter. She produced love letters signed Jeck and signed away her claims after agreeing to publish them and receive a release. Kelly, in Boston acting The Little Cherub, plans to continue work despite the settlement.
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Washington Post
New York
Ethel Kelly
Jack” Gallatin
Kelly Suas
al” Adams
Jeck
Gallatin
Kelly
Boston
Jack
Lost Horace Marvin Kidnapping Sparks Ferry Sightings
Dover detectives widen search for four-year-old Horace Marvin after reports of an Italian woman with a child seen on a Fort Lee ferry and in the Bronx. Delaware authorities plan to drag streams near the Marvin farm toward the bay, hoping to locate the boy or his body as the case unravels.
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Boy
Delaware
Gree
D. Cus
Gos
oMee
United States Fidality and Guarantee Company
Liberty Street
Dover
Del
Mar
Marvin
Marv
Delaware Ber
One Drink a Day for Him at Hoboken Court
William Bell aged sixty nine faced Recorder Stanton in Hoboken on charges of habitual drunkenness and wife abuse. Bell denied the accusation and agreed to take a pledge for two years, promising one drink each morning though size unspecified. The case highlighted local concerns over drinking habits and public conduct.
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Stanton
Bell
Thaw Trial Nearing End as Smith Testimony Is Admitted
New York March 12 The Thaw case nears culmination as jurors readied for verdict after District Attorney Jerome admitted James Clinch Smith brother in law of Stanford White to testify about Thaw two conversations and his actions on Madison Square Garden roof. Smith described Thaw’s talk of stock ideas and seeking a woman described as a buxom brunette. he did not recognize White’s face due to powder. The admission of Smith’s testimony followed a bitter pretrial debate and signals the trial will go to the jury with strong evidence for murder in the first degree.
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Jerome
Smith
Thaw
Garden
New York
Harry Thaw
Taaan
Stanford White
Mr. Jerome
White
James Clinch Smith
Madison Square Garden
Mr. White
Europe
Mr. Smith
Fitzgerald
Delmas
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Jena
Small & Sour
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Mortimer L! Schiff
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Lawrence
Sloan's
Nebraskan
PEW
Sieteen Firms
Plymouth
England
Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosda
mid-Atlantic
Miss Kelly
Marvin Boy
McLaughlin
Big W
Little Horace Marvin
Detectioe
Lala
Seex
Stone & Fairfax
Aswrern
Office of Publication
Cool
Fey
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