Merchants' Trust Company Fails Over $1.25 Million in Loans
New York May 2 State bank examiners say deposits will be paid in full from assets including Hudson Valley Railway Rutland Street Railway and Chittenden Development securities totaling about 1.25 million in loans deemed not marketable. Receivers Douglas Robinson and New York Trust Company appointed after finding loans to Richmond interests and local railways with impaired market value. Depositors owed roughly 2.2 million with assets estimated near 3 million ready to be realized to cover claims.
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Fuld
Hudson Valley Railroad
Rutland Light and Railway
New York
Merchants’ Trust Company
State Superintendent of Banks
Douglas Robinson
Roosevelt
Hudson Valley Rail Way Company
Glens Falls
Albany
Troy
Saratoga
Lake George
Hutland (VI) Street Railway Company
Chittenden Development Company
Rutland
State Bank Examiner
Hudson Railway Company
State Bank
Judson
Banking Department
Juana
Richmond
Compartoy
Jacob I Phillipa
Cagalus M Wicker
Frederic P Davis
Jacob Coyne
John P. Munn
Krigatelan
Gould
Hudson Valley Railway Company
Hudson Valley Railway
Virgina Passenger and Power Company
Chittenden Power Company
First
City of
Langdon
Ioana
Trust Company
Edwin Langdon
Edwin Hawley
Prillips
Phillips
Rutland Securities
Mayer
Justice Cochrane
Supreme Court
New York ‘Trust Company
Marchants’rust Company
Robinson
Merchants' Trust Company
Rutland, Vi., Street Railway
Trust Company in New York Seeks Receiver for Richmond Debts
The Merchants Trust Company of New York reports payment of 2,267,000 to depositors, leaving 150,000 unpaid, and relief from a 700,000 personal guarantee. With securities not easily liquidated, the firm cannot protect capital, prompting the attorney general to seek a receiver to handle the matter. The company, once tied to Virginia Passenger and Power and Petersburg properties, was founded by George E. Fisher, a Richmond figure connected to streetcar assets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Hudson Valley
Rutland
Trust Company
Washington
Merchants’ Trust Company
New York
George E. Fisher
Virginia Passenger and Power Company
City
Manchester
South Side Railway and Development Company
Petersburg
Fisher
Petersburg Propertiees
Missouri patrons target Wyoming senator amid confusion
Missouri residents flood Washington with calls and telegrams to push their favored patronage on Senator Warren of Wyoming amid misaddressed attention to Senator Warner. The spree prompts promises of judicial promotions, including district and circuit seats, as political maneuvering intensifies over patronage and appointments.
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Missouri
Wyoming
Warren
Washington
Warner
New Willard
Roosevelt
Cleveland
Wisconsin
Warmer
E. B. Adams
Thayer
Adams
United States
Burton
A. Finklenburg
St. Louis
Lmwyer
Printing Investigation Team Progress Delayed Yet Active
A joint Senate and House committee on printing investigation has delayed sessions but is actively gathering information. Members work through adjournment to assemble data, with some departments slow to respond due to the breadth of inquiries. The panel plans future hearings and aims to pursue inquiries with more noise but not more effect than since adjournment.
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Senate
House
Ita
Tha
Removal of Earth at Arlington Raises Government Land Question
Wallace and others challenge the removal of soil from Arlington Reservation for approaches to Bishway bridge. Mackenzie briefed Secretary Taft that earth will be taken from government land and deposited on government land, with no gift to contractors. Officials contend specifications allowed earth from the government and a site designated by engineers. Arlington Cemetery authorities have been consulted.
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Arlington Cemetery
Postmasters Appointed Across Regions
The fourth class postmasters were appointed yesterday in several locales including New York with Disco and Almina Disco and in Virginia with Bloom Jacob J. Crabbl and Samuel P. Rheetm. The notice warns of health risks from neglect of respiratory diseases and endorses Dr King’s New Discover as a remedy.
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New York—Disco
Almina Disco
Feposyivania
Clythsdale
Alles DB
Hearing on railway rate regulation ends for now
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee closed hearings on railway rate regulation after thirty days of testimony and documentary evidence. Samuel Spencer of Southern Railway said the 1892 rate agreement was dissolved after the 1892 trans Missouri decision and no longer in effect. Armour Car Lines counsel urged courts, not commissions, decide rate questions, while others argued about private car lines and exclusive contracts and the impact on shippers and growers. The panel adjourned to resume discussions and consider report options when Congress reconvenes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate Committee On Interstate Commerce
Congress
Samuel Spencer
The
Southern Railway
Interstate Commerce Commissioners
Spencer
Southern Railraada
trans-Missouri
Mobile and Ohio
Mobile and Ohio Railroad
Southern
H. T. Newcomb
Commission
W. G. Magee
Pittsburg
A. B. Johnson
Philadelphia
Baldwin Locomotive Works
F. D Henderson
Cumberland
Maryland
Aga- Board
R. Union
Chicago
Armour Car Lines
Tice Brewer
United States Supreme Court
Prion
Ferguson
Duluth
Mead
Boston
Onion
Pullman Car Company
Texas
United States
Southern Pacific Railroad
Union
North Carolina
Armour Lines
Idaho
Orion
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission Ag
EL. M. Ferguson
Minn
Roger 8. Powell
Western Fruit Growers’ Association
Contingent Fund Curtailed in State Department Notes
A conference between Third Assistant Secretary of State Peirce and Secretary Taft leads to applying a deficiency bill provision to current diplomatic and consular appropriations. Circles to consular officers warn that only salaries, clerk hire, and urgent telegrams may be paid this quarter, with no drafts without further instruction. Acting Secretary Loomisaldro cables officers to stop contingent account drawings except for urgent telegrams.
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Peirce
Taft
Congress
Loomisalo
Greene Party Returns From Mexico Hunting Trip
Senator Latimer Representative Black burn Col M M Parker and Col W C Greene returned to the city from a month in Mexico. They hunted in the Sierra Madre Mountains for ten days using over eighty mules fifty cow ponies and a well equipped camp. They bagged two bears fifty deer and many wild turkeys. Governor Terrazas of Chihuahua hosted a banquet for the party.
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Terazzas
Chihuahua
Mexico
Diploma Ceremony for National Homeopathic Nurses
The New Willard ballroom hosted the twelfth annual graduation of the Nurses Training School of the National Homeopathic Hospital Association. Nine graduates received diplomas from Dr Ralph Jenkins as Maj John A. Carson and Rev. Charles Alvin Smith spoke on the profession, its growth, and the role of trained nurses in modern medicine. The event featured Haley's Orchestra and remarks emphasizing dedication, future expansion, and continued service in hospital care.
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John M. Carson
Charles Alvin Smith
J. H. Branstom
Jenkins
Board of Trustees
New Willard
Naonal Homeopathic Hospital Association
Somers
Peck Mema
Flld
Tabor
Betanza
National
Homeopathic Woepital Association
National Homeopathic Hospital Association
General Hospital
National Homeopathic Hospital
Haley
Carson
Charles Alvin Stuth
J. H. Branson
Vine
Ralph Jenkins
Board of Trestees
Addie Bar Iton
Vola Goetz
Nettle Harvey
Anna Hodge
Clara
Guatemala Pays Claims After Missionary Riots
A. H E Bishop, missionary with the Central American Mission, reports to the State Department that Guatemala paid damages claims after rioters attacked missionaries on Good Friday. United States consul Leslie Combs acted quickly and within eight days the Guatemalan government satisfied the claims, an unprecedented move in State Department records for Central American countries.
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State Department
A. H E. Bishop
Guatemala
Leslie Combs
United States
Guatemala City
Roundabout Tales In A Quirky Family Exchange
A playful dialogue echoes Galileo, pendulums and wedding blips as a neighborhood tale unfolds. Nunsery lore, misheard phrases, and a family banter mix as Aunt Bamanthy and Silas Sartin trade quips about fishin and pretended scandals.
House Furnishing Hints From a Witty Homemaker
A humorous column offers living room and dining room decor tips for a restful home. It warns against bold parlor colors, suggests updating dining paper to soothe a weary husband, and notes floors need only yearly attention. It also nudges changing footstool positions to encourage the man of the house to clean.
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Clara
The Diagnosis and Rheumatic Tales in Old Papers
A compendium of clipped notes from Podunk News and others recounting Mrs Hank Jones and Mrs Henry T Tones suffering rheumatic ailments with brief mentions of spouses, dates, and health status. The items mix personal illness with social gossip and a joke about a hair cutter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Podunk News
Hank Jones
Henry Jones
Don Smith
History Down to Date Braver Holds the Bridge
Horating stood firm at the bridge while Tye clung on hoping Macaulay would finish the last stanza. Wrongfellow critiqued Wrongfellow's production with disdain and Hiawatha muttered his contempt for the poem's rhymes.
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Horating
Tye
Macaulay
Hiawatha
Fairmont Seminary Holds Commencement Exercises
The Fairmont Seminary class received diplomas at a ceremony in the seminary hall at 2701 Fourteenth Street NW. Rev Wallace Radcliffe gave the invocation, H B F Macfarland delivered the address praising women’s education and rights, and Sir Chentung Liang-Cheng attended as guest of honor.
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Fairmont Seminary
Fourteenth Street
Merry Wives of Windsor
Wallace Radcliffe
Arthur T. Ramsay
Oxford
Mattie James Falls
Urmingham
Ala
Barah Kathleen Klutz
Klutz
Salisbury
Anna Louise Morriss
Mobile
Ruth Ida Naall
Hi Reno
Okla
Marion Drummond Sawtelle
New York City
Anne R Street
Baltimore
Ethel Catharine Woodard
Diplomas for Twenty Two at Mount Vernon Seminary
The Mount Vernon Seminary held commencement at the New Willard with 22 diplomas awarded to students including Ruth Huntington Campbell and Gertrude Campbell Fry. Rev J H Vincent delivered the address, with music by Kaspar and Kaspar. Mrs Henry Le, assistant principal, gave diplomas due to Mrs Somers absence from illness.
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Mount Vernon Seminary
New Willard
Somers
Henale
Joseph Kaspar
Franceska Kaspar
Mozart
D. D
Indianapolis
Ind
Methodist Church
Vincent
St. Paul
Sidney Lanter
Georgia
Misses Ruth Huntington Campbell
Gertrude Campbell Fry
Kate Keyser Macartney
Ina Isevella McEwen
May
Alice Mayawei
Tkng
Marquin
St Lews
Lilla Marie Osgood
Virgie Marguerite Whitcomb
Bocton
Mass
Emma Evangeline Patten
Appeton
Wis
Blanche Gertrude Plamadon
Elizabeth Ashley Rankin
Chicago
Emily Huffman Wickersham
Cincinnati
Ohio
Alfred H. Armes
City
England Canadians Press Taft On St John River Obstruction
The British Embassy chargé urged Secretary Taft to include the St John River obstruction issue in the Deep Waterway Commission agenda. Canadians oppose summer obstructions, request no new commission, and await Taft’s decision on action after his return from Ohio. Senator Hale backs early international resolution.
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Taft
Ohio
O'Beirne
Wie St. John River
New Brunswick
Meine
Deep Waterway Commission
Washington
O’beirne
Hale
Congress
International Commission
United States
St John
International Deep Waterway Commission
St. John River
Act of Congress
St John River
O'Beime
Ohuo
Famous American singer George Broderick dead at 50
George Heivuclics Broderick aged fifty died on the 10th from paralysis after pneumonia at 40 Fifth Avenue Aurora Ill His wife Emma Baker also starred in opera and the Broderick family includes William Broderick a noted basso and other performers In Chicago and New York the interment was at Spring Lake Cemetery Aurora
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George Heivuclics
Mre C
Annie Louise Cary
Campanin
Pooh Bah
New York
Prige
Chicago
Augustana Hospital
Aurora
Broderick
California
William Broderick
Cincinnati
Robert Broderick
Lyric Theater
New York City
James
Spring Lake Cemetery
Secretary Approves Choctaw Chickasaw Allotment Patents
The Attorney General clarifies that the Secretary of the Interior may approve allotment patents in the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations and that such approval is necessary to transfer title as Congress intended. The dispute, lasting years, centered on whether the Secretary’s consent was required. Interior’s position prevailed after DOJ review, with the Secretary asserting previous actions had misled the tribes and clouded titles.
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Secretary of the Interior
Congress
Department of Justice
Interior Department
Capital City School of Nursing Commencement
The annual commencement of the Capital City School of Nursing will be held at the Washington Club on 1710 I street northwest tomorrow at 8 o'clock. Graduates include Miss Ethel Chisholm Canada Miss Jessie Chisholm Canada Miss Lillian Rinker Virginia Miss Maud Williamson Virginia Miss Mary E. Smith Maryland Miss Emma Gardner Maryland and Miss Maud O'Dell Virginia. A reception will follow.
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Capital City School
Capital City School of Nursing
Washington Club
I Street
Ethel Chisholm
Canada
Jessie Chisholm
Lillian Rinker
Virginia
Maud Williamson
Mary E. Smith
Maryland
Emma Gardner
Maud O'Dell
Hood
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Merchants
Spaper
Harrie Ewing
John Ball Osborne
Kew
Bureau of Trade Relations
Arlington
HUNT
Homeopathic School
President Carson
Harris Ewing
Dominic L Murphy
Panama Canal Commission
Galileo
Arigtle
Jack
Giesman
Tom
Sayso
Henry T. Tones
H. ‘Townsend’ Jones
Jones
Germany
Bigfee
England
George Broderick
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