Trust Is Overruled in Standard Oil Trial Proceedings
A state court case on the Standard Oil conspiracy continues with intense legal wrangling. Judge Banker excludes some evidence while allowing key testimony from 1898 regarding John D. Rockefeller era matters. Testimony introduces trust stock certificates and corporate records from New Jersey as the trial proceeds into adjournment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Company
Obie
Inile
Attoynera
Banker
Phelps
Dn M. Bota
Mradde M. Tule
Aira
Bure
George Mt. Rice
Ma- Fett
Pelgate
Rive
Secretary of the State
New Jersey
Todge Tanker
Defense Objections to Introduction of Evidence in Conspiracy Case
Defense argues the Prosecution exceeded the case set by the county informant and questions authenticity of evidence. Attorneys Elliott Kling Troup and Toles handle defense while Phelps counters Valentine law sufficiency. Proceedings discuss nine founders of Standard Oil and a New Jersey ownership dispute amid a trade conspiracy charge. A separate note from Terre Haute reports Schreck Hart bout promoters anticipating no police interference after Monday club exhibition despite earlier police blockage.
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Andone
Davi
Goverdl Ocower
Wrde
Ellis
Phelps
Elliott
Kling
Troup
Standard Oil Trust
Thither
New Jersey
Steeldon Company
Ohio
Valentine Guii
Chie
Hancork Cquity
Terre Haute
Lnd
Shelbyville pastor rails at young lovers in sermon
In Shelbyville the First Christian mission preacher Rev. A Q Privard delivered a pointed sermon on ideal courtship. He claimed ninety two percent of young men would not reveal the truth about relationships and warned that all couples met on the street were courting. He urged restraint and said an ideal woman would not flirt or stroll the streets.
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Trhutal
A Q. Priviard
Firat
Couartey
Shelbyville
Womlan
Murder Mystery Surrounds Death of Archi Amith in Michigan
In Moulatique Mich an estate farmer Archie Amith has been missing for days. A body found led investigators to suspect strangulation though post mortem officials say heart disease not to blame. Doctors opine a deadly poison caused death. police continue inquiry and search for clues.
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Moulatique
Mich
Cmnystery
Archie Amith
Guiteau’s Defender Dead at 82 Years Old in Chicago
George Scoville, prominent Chicago and Indiana attorney who defended Charles Guiteau, brother of his wife Frances Norton, died at 1254 Layman Avenue. He began practice in 1851 and rose to national attention in the Garfield assassination case. He was 82. The report notes his burial and family attendance.
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Chicago
George Scoville
Garfield
Guiteau
Scoville
Frances
M. v.Norton
Plea of the Negroes Appeals for Equal Rail Treatment
Representatives of southern freedmen petition the Interstate Commerce Commission seeking an end to Jim Crow car discrimination on interstate rail travel. They urge an order enforcing equal rights in seating dining and accommodations, while lacking funds for lawyers. A separate New York speech calls for organized Negro defense and ongoing resistance to racial oppression.
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Washington
South
Interstate Commerce Commission
Tive Yu
Thomas Oliver
W. W. Johnson
Sissigstypi
Pongrese
Jmanhinnns
Coangel
Tilman
New York
Roke Smith
John Temple Graves
Yardamar
Tillman
Oswald G. Villard
Funston to Leave Cuba Command for U S
Havana Oct 11 General Frederick Funston will not continue in command of Cuban forces. Governor Taft and General Monston will depart Havana Saturday aboard the battleship Louisiana, bound for the United States. Assistant Secretary Bacon and others accompany them. Governor Magoon and General Bell will handle Cuban affairs. Funston was summoned for his knowledge of insurgent chiefs and helped secure arms agreement.
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Havana
Frederick Fepston
Cubs
Taft His
Monston
United States
Louisiana
Bacot
Cuba
Magoon
J. Frantinn Bell
Plang
Fatt Saids
Funston
Pacific Coast
Cube Maerely
Bell
Fonaton
Mr. Bacon
Yaft
Fatal Delay of an Operation
Fast Vawas Mick, a pioneer of Saar City, died of appendicitis at 68 after refusing an operation the previous afternoon. He preferred to wait until the next morning to seek hospital care.
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Fast Vawas
Mick
Wilfin Rawmage
Saar City
League Wins the Second Game in World Championship Series
Chicago crowd saw the League defeat the American 7 to 1 in the second game of the world championship series on October 11, with fans expressing disappointment. In Bonneville Indiana, Scott Whittinebill, a Republican candidate, died after a campaign crash that ended his bid for county auditor.
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Chicago
Kane
Tlesgue
Amercan
Bonneville
Ind
Scott Whittinebill
Dublin Libel Suit Filed by Croker's Attorney
J N Campbell, Croker’s attorney, filed a libel suit in the Four Courts against Tondo Magazine and publishers in Dublin. The action seeks damages and a writ of execution to recover false defamatory statements about Croker and related claims. The plaintiff asserts the statements were entirely false and that he gained no benefit or advantage from them.
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Dublin
J. N. Campbell
Richard
Croker
Agaist
Tondo
Eruaisson
Speve
Ree
Aarimworth
Tandon
Coumges
Rought
Damiages
Deatram the
da Fendgate
Rpm
England
New York
Tadmany Ball
Supreme Court weighs Idaho Moyer Haywood Petubone case
The high court heard arguments in the Western Federation of Miners leaders case, jailed in Canyon County Idaho for the murder of ex governor Steunenberg. Plaintiffs claim kidnapping frauds denied writs of habeas corpus as Idaho asserts jurisdiction over Colorado residents. Arguments presented by Richardson and Darrow for prisoners and Hawley for Idaho.
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Washington
Supreme Court of the United States
Charles 1. Moyer
George A. Pet Ubone
Western Foderation
Canon County
Tdn
Exsrovernor Steunenberg
Idaho Federal Court
BH. F. Richardson
Yenger
Darrow
Chicago
Idaho
W. H. Hawley
Boise
Colorado
Moyer
South American boycott threat targets Roosevelt voters
A printed circular dated Sept 12 from Caracas threatens that American manufacturers who vote for Roosevelt in the next election will be barred from South American trade. The note, drafted abroad, claims Latin American disloyalty and notes 117 boycott stations. In other news five Russian and Polish terrorists were hanged by drumhead court-martial in Lotz.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
United States
Hoopevelt
Prince! Nea
Cirenlay
Caracas
Yoneaneld
Roosevelt
Dreaim
Democratic Party
Lotz
Poland
Marriage of Carrie Anan Walt and Alexander Estill in Augusta
Miss Carrie Anan Walt of Augusta Georgia and Alexander Devtham Estill of Savian were married by a mute minister. Hazing has disappeared at the United States Military Academy per the superintendent’s annual report. The National Association of Manufacturers plans its annual convention in New York on October 27. A Derry tobacconist cites queens of Portugal and Romania as cigarette smokers. Senator Beveridge of Indiana suffers a cold at Hyannisport. Representative Rockwood Hoar ill at home in Worcester, expected to recover. Secretary Noot to address Trans Mississipp i Commercial Congress November 19 in Kansas City. A Missouri River boat line will operate between Kansas City and St. Louis this fall. The Catholic Mutual Benevolent Association ends initiation rites known as “riding the goat.”
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Carrie Anan Walt
Auguste
Alexander Devtham Estill
Savaian
Augusta
Christina
United States
Beveridge
Tudiang
George B. Baker
Hyrockling
Mass
Rockwood Hoar
Worcester
Mase
Noot
Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress
Kansas City
Missouri River
St. Louis
Catholic Mutual Benedit Associaton
Cleveland School Tragedy Ends in Suicide After Murder
In Ohio’s South Euclid a 25 year old man, Warren Smith, fatally shot Miss Mary Shepard, a 22 year old teacher, in a school building before killing himself two hours later in Warrensville. Police and armed guards pursued him. he confessed briefly before dying by his own hand. The crime, described as a cold blooded act spurred by rejected affection, shocked a room full of about sixty pupils.
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Cleveland, O
South Euclid
Warry Smith
Mary Shepard
Hiy
Warrenaville
Smith
Cleveland
Miss Shepard
Hart
South Baelic School
Warrensville
Pottce Nobler
Wartenstille
Smeth
Sheriff election pledge ends death penalty in Cook County
Chicago Oct 11 capital punishment may be abolished if Progressive Alliance candidate for sheriff Joba Fitzpatrick refuses to carry out death sentences. He vows no hanging by deputies, asserting no execution will occur if he becomes sheriff. Other items note a Christian convention in Huntington Indiana and traveling agents meeting in Lick, plus a report from Evansville Indiana about preserved homes built by the Rapprees in New Harmony.
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Chicago
Cook
Joba
Fitzpatrick
Fle
Chicago Federation of Labor
Rod
Party of
Tom Taggart
Proneby Lick
Ind
Américan Association
Themias Taggart
Tie Hotel
L. W. Landman
Toledo
Wedding cake special pleases Mackinac crowd
Chicago sent a special train to Mackinac Island for the wedding of Vincent J. Walsh and Julia Camille Ondahy. The cake train carried bakers, waiters, and a patissier to serve a wedding breakfast after a dawn ceremony at The Pines summer home, with a fleet of silver and glass ready for service.
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Thicago
Chicago
Mackinac
Vincent J. Walsh
Migs
Julia Camille Ondahy
Wus
Chicago Dispatch
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Patissier
Méckinge
Ag Uwthe
New Humpshire
Rockies
Miss Cadaby
Mr. Walsh
the Pines
Attempt to kill judge ends with self ruin in Chehalis
Oct 11 a would be killer detonated dynamite at the home of ex Judge Moses Yoder and wife. The blast ripped a floor section two by three feet and threw the couple from bed though they escaped serious injury. John Spitaner a Siusagemaker was found dead nearby, having shot himself after the attack, likely believing the attorney assisting the wife in a divorce had fallen. In Rome news, Angela de Ristori’s son Marcus Giorgi arrived from Paris and wept at his mother’s death, the room turned mortuary with floral offerings and many visitors.
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Chehalis
Wash
M. Yoner
Nia
Althoneh
John Spitaner
Restort
Rome
Afiglei de Ristori
Giorgig
Paranha Dei Grillo
Paria
Margherita
Methodist Women in Council Opens Twenty-First Annual Convention
Lincoln Neb Oct 11 The twenty fourth annual convention of the Woman Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church opened in this city with more than 200 delegates from every state. The opening address was delivered by the president Mrs Clinton G Fiske of New York and reports from the society officers followed.
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Methodist Women In Council
Lincoln
Neb
Woman’ Home
Missionary Society of the Methodist @piscopal church
Clinton G. Fiske
New York
Bulgaria Threat Drives Turkish Delimitation Move
In Constantinople on Oct 14, reports state Bulgaria warned it would order troops to reoccupy Sujuk unless Turkish commissioners signaled completion of frontier delimitation. The Porte has ordered Turkish commissioners to finish the delimitation work in the Adrianople vilayet dispute.
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Sultan
Bulgaria
Constantinople
Rail Schedule Fragments in Chicago Express Notice
A fragmented timetabled notice lists trains and routes including Waterloo Fort Dodge Dubuque Omaha Sioux City and Dodge implying passenger service on lines 93 34 401 408 and 403 with arrival times and northbound departures from Chicago St Paul and others in a terse transcription of a railroad timetable.
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Chicago Xpress
Itv
Fe Express
Paul
Chl
Lim
Ueda
Omahe
Bioux City Limited
Bera Dude Bee
Bioux City
Dubuque
Waterloo
Fort "Doigh
Chicago
Albert Lea
At. Paul
Eiccespece
Albert Lea Express
Albert Latan
Waterloo Cedar Falls Northern Railway Connections
Waterloo Cedar Falls Northern Railway details show No. 41 joining at Denver Junction with the C G W Ry for routes between Denver Junction and Omaha. No. 45 links at Waverly with the C GW for travel between Waverly and Omaha. No. 43 connects at Denver Junction with the C GW Ry for eastbound routes to Delweth. Nos. 42 and 44 connect at Waverly with the C G W for westbound service to Omaha.
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Connetta
Denver
Omaha
Waverly
C. GW
C. GW. Ry
Delweth
C.G W
Pang
Derivér
Bremer
Sumer
Tripoli
Dali Ly
Glasgow
Br Y Jet
Waterloo
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Valentine Law Omnifotent
Witkens
Mattoon, I
Women’s Christen ‘Temperance Union
Theophil Bassett
Purity Department
Mary G. Smith
Hoopeston
Depew
New York Central Railway Company
Deew
J. M. Cebnilos & Coy
Diuhne Beveridge
Brussels
Icahne* Beridge
Branson
Scnptre
Caty of
San Francisco
Kan Vrandsen
Angell
Ann. Arbor
University
Browth
Darling
Nancrede
Tom
Tillwan
Fuxston
Denville
Catlin
Pittsburg Coal Company
Springfield
Judge Bethea
Dison
Bether
Ceoere
Ireland
Tetton
Moyer Et al
Corone
Shiside
Will Adolign
Aawerea
Inbar
Dao
Sesaton Huntington
QO. W.powers
Columbus
W. W. Staley
Suffolk
Eyaneville
Snn
William Lichtenberger
New Harmony
Dikny
Maurice Chaulin
Paris
Parisiennelan
Davté
Illinois Central Arin
C.R.L.P
Railway
Catar Rapids
Ight Road
Omabs
Memphis
Colorado Springs
Peoria
Fort ‘Worth, & Joseph
Kanees City
Minneapolia
St. Laws Limited
Polo
Twin City Limited
Poimia
Heep Ameseneeyenestees
Rockford
Way Fraight
Ic. G. W. Railway
K. C
Exprésa
Weat
Bepters Nesses West Aide
St. Weatalda
St .West Side
Alde
Twin City West
Waterloo, Cedar Falls & Northern Railway
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