Wheat Bulls Secure Profits Amid Tight Market Wave
Chicago May 20 The past week brought extreme volatility on the Chicago board of trade as trading volume surged beyond prior records. Traders say wire capacity and clerical effort stretched to the limit while rumors of world wheat shortfalls fueled buying, with bulls ending the week ahead as May wheat gained 4% and no clear crop improvement emerged.
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Chicago
Chingo Board of Trade
Maine
California
Liverpool
America
Grand jury hears Ruelfs alleged Parkside payoffs in rail franchise case
Abraham Ruef testified on a Parkside Traction deal in San Francisco May 1 amid grand jury scrutiny. Prosecutors allege 18 supervisors were paid 1 000 each to vote the franchise and 12 000 split between Ruef and Schmitz. Directors include Crocker, Green, Umbren, Watson, Tillman, Gregg, Joseph Green. Mayor Schmitz denies bribe claims and resignation rumors.
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Parkside Corporation
Stoure Street Railway
San Francisco
Abraham Rney
Grand
Parkside Traction
Parksite
Ruef
Schmitz
Parkside Traction Company
W. H. Crocker
Charles B. Green
Crocker
G. H. Umbren
Les
Japan Buying Railway Supplies Invasion of Far East
America’s industrial invasion of the Far East continues as Japan pours gold into U S rail projects. Twelve million dollars已 spent on railroad supplies for the South Manchuria railroad with contracts worth millions pending. Rails shipments and Japanese charters will carry steel and iron across the Pacific while Manchuria gains U S made cars and locomotives. Premiums are paid to speed deliveries as the railroad must be built and operating within two years.
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America
Far East
New York
Japan
United States
South Manchusia
Pacific
Manchuria
Dalny
Mukden
Rioting at Evansville Ends with Dozens Hurt
Evansville Illinois May 20 more than a score of persons mostly strike breakers were hurt in the attempt by the street car company to resume traffic. Attacks on cars were scattered and general across the city as union sympathizers bombarded the strike breakers with various missiles. Police arrive after most guilty parties disappear into crowds. A safety board statement urged law enforcement to avert troops in case violence continues. P H Morrissey re elected Atlante Ga May 20 Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen re elected grand master and officers.
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Evansville
Ima
Bosse
The
Safety Board
P. H. Morrissey
Atlante, Ga
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
P H. Morrissey
Metropolis Honors Kuroki at New York Banquet
In New York a banquet in the Astor Hotel Grand Ballroom honored Viscount Aoki the Japanese ambassador General Baron Kuroki and Vice Admiral Ijuin with officers of the Tsukuba and Chitose. Admiral Dewey presided as Oscar S Strauss spoke for the federal government.
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New York
Astor
Viscount Aoki
United States
Baron Kuroki
Ijuin
Kuroki
Tsukuba
Chitose
George Dewey
Oscar S. Strauss
Commerce and Labor
General Kuroki
General Grant
Governor's Island
Department of the East
Uberty
Shot Down by Cossacks at Lodz Mills Riot
In Lodz on May 12 a Cossack patrol killed twenty-one officials and workers at the Muttner spinning mills after terrorists raided a mail wagon, seized $1,000, and escaped. A Cossack post mortem fire wounded forty seven more and sparked outrage over the employer's alleged lack of involvement in the earlier attack.
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Lodz
Psland
Muttner
Two Plots Against Czar Stir Russia In Palace Confusion
Reports from St. Petersburg May 18 describe government silence on the life plot against Emperor Nicholas at Usarskoe Selo. Officials’ vague stance fuels public confusion and supports theories of a revolutionary plot tied to a broader reactionary push toward regency or dictatorship. Constitutional leaders say they are perplexed by contradictory palace rumors and suspect two conspiracies involving extreme reactionaries.
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Nicholas
Tsarskoe Sela
Hawaii Governor Arrives Aboard Sierra for U S Visit
Governor Carter of Hawaii lands in San Francisco aboard the Sierra and plans weeks in the United States. He will meet President Roosevelt in Washington and seek Andrew Carnegie’s support for a Honolulu public library. Aubert Clement killed in Dieppe practice run for auto prize.
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Hawaii
San Francisco
Governor Carter
United States
President Roosevelt
Washington
Andrew Carnegie
Honolulu
Dieppe
France
Aubert Clement
Auto- Mobile
Auto Club
Clement
Clash Over Temperance Faces Presbyterian Assembly
The Presbyterian general assembly in Columbus will debate the work and stance of the permanent temperance committee. The National Inter Church Temperance Federation, formed in Pittsburg, faces opposition from the Anti-Saloon League over its inter church aims. Expect lively discussion on church action versus civil enforcement, plus talks on marriage and divorce reform and administrative agency changes.
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Columbus
Presbyterian General Assembly
Permanent Temperance Committee
National Inter Church Temperance Federation
Pittsburg
Anti-Saloon League
League
General Assembly
Antisaloon League
Temperance Committee
Committee On
John F. Hill
Church Temperance Federation
Jts
Dr. Roberts
Presbyterian Assembly
Temperance
Standard Oil monopoly traced to rail and pipe control
Washington report charging Standard Oil built a 35 year monopoly through scandalous railroad discriminations and pipe line dominance. It cites 1904 data showing 85 percent of refinery output and 98 percent of mid-continent crude handled by Standard affiliated interests, with growth powered by transportation control and refusal to act as a common carrier. The commission notes the pattern of gate discriminations and suppression of independent pipeline expansion.
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Washington
Standard Oil
Roosevelt
Herbert Knox Smith
Standard Oil Company
Standard and Affiliated
Mid-Continent
Baptist Young People's Union Meeting in Washington
The Baptist Young People's Union of America held its social meeting in Washington in connection with the general Baptist Convention. Rev. D. R. S. McArthur of New York preached a missionary sermon praising Roosevelt's role in resolving the Japan Russia war. The next gathering is set for Spokane July 4-7, 1908.
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Washington
Baptist Young Peope’s Union of America
General Baptist Convention
D. R. S. McArthur
New York
Roosevelt
Japan
Russia
Baptist Young People’s Union
Spokane
Wash
United Presbyterians to Meet in Denver Assembly
M L Armstrong of Butler Pa arrives as the first delegate to the United Presbyterian Church in America general assembly in Denver at First United Presbyterian Church. About 350 delegates from across the United States and Canada attend with missionary delegates from Egypt and India. James Mc Naugher of Allegheny Seminary serves as moderator.
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United Presbyterians
Denver
Manufacturers Meet Poll On Tariff Question In New York
The National Association of Manufacturers opens its convention in New York as the tariff committee reports results of a year long poll of about 2,000 members. The questions aimed to reveal how much revision is desired and when and how it should be tackled.
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Manufacturers Meet
New York
National Association of Manufacturers
Jrg
Three College Students Drown in Lake Washington
A May 20 report details the drowning of three college students, two men and Edith Vogt, in Lake Washington near Seattle after a canoe capsized in a squall. Eugene White survived. two men, J. P. Gosshorn and Glen Jac quelh, and Edith Vogt, a University of Washington junior, perished. A third student, White, was rescued later as another boat aided in the incident.
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Lake Washington
Seattle
Wash
J. P. Gosshorn
Robert Gosshorn
Mont
Interlake
Stamford University
Glen Jacquelh
Edith Vogt
University of Washington
Eugene White
Washington University
Wite
White
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Europe
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Mamie Wiig
Mattie Doris
Lusch, Martin & Eggert
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J. A. Miller
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