Merger Schemed to Enter Far Seven Killed, Eleven Wounded in Collision Gorakhpur, Jan, 23.
Seven persons were killed and eleven seriously injured, in accident te a mixed goods and passenger train of the Bengal and North-Western Railway, between Haiyaghat and Kishenpur last hight. The train broke in two and the leading goods-truck was derailed and crashed into a coach, a part of which was wrecked Route East Trade New York, Jan 20.
Possibly a dangerous rival in the Far East for both the. Standard Oil and Royal Dutsh-Shell interests is indicated in the announcement of plans for the menzel of two of the largest oil companies in the United States—the Texas Corporation and the Californin Petroleum Company—with a combined capital of $375,- 000,000.
The merger depends upon the participation of at least 51 per cent. of the shareholders of the California Petroleum Company—Reuter.
Cutcaco, Jan, 24:—The Federal Reserve Bank has raised its rediscount rate from 8} per cent. to 4 per eent.—Reuter.
New York, Jan, 23: Florence Knapp, the only ever elected to a State office in New York, is charged with forgery, grand larceny and other criminal offences, in a reports on her administration as secretary of the 1925 State Census. The report was prepared by a special investigator appointed by the Governor of New York, Mr. Alfred E. ("AI") Smith—Reuter.
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