Taft Wins End to Western Trunk Line Rate Injunction
President Taft reaches a ten hour White House conference agreement with twenty four railroads ending the rate increase injunction. Railroads withdraw all increases effective after June 1 and agree not to file new ones until the new interstate commerce bill becomes law. Taft says the case is closed but the bill must be signed and enacted with immediate effect. Cabinet members participate in the talks.
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Washington
Western Trunk Line Association
White House
Congress
Interstate Commerce Commission
Taft
Engineers and Firemen Win Wage Award in Arbitration
The federal arbitration board ruled in favor of 27 000 enginemen and 49 railroads west of Chicago on a wage dispute. It grants 60 percent of a 24 percent increase after three weeks of hearings. Members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers are involved. The board based pay on service class and cited high living costs while railroads argued they could not afford the raise.
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Chicago
Federal Arbitration Board
Arbitration Board
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Admits Taking Money Linked to Fish License Fight
State Attorney Burke reports progress in probing the 40 fund tied to defeating the fish license bill. F J Traut of Beardstown confessed he received money from John Dixon and sat with Representative Foster during the bill’s defeat. Grand jury to hear more next week as contributors’ statements unfold. Governor Dineen has not acted on State Senator W Holstlaw’s resignation.
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Springfield
Attourney Burke
F. J. Traut
Beardstown
Burke
John Dixon
Foster
Foundrymen Open Detroit Convention With Heavy Attendance
Foundrymen meet in Detroit for the T A convention of foundry interests with an estimated 6,090 delegates expected to attend before adjournment.
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Detroit
Darby Thielman Escapes During Hospital Visit
Seattle June 6 R L Thielman alias Darby Thielman arrested on an Omaha indictment for complicity in a fake prize fight promoter scheme. He escaped from Deputy U S Marshal Lathe while visiting his ill daughter Edith in a local hospital and has not been recaptured.
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Seattle
R. L. Thielman
Darby” Thielman
Omaha
United States
Lathe
Thielman
Edith
Jones Suspended From Service Amid Ballinger Dispute
Horace T. Jones, resigning as general agent for the general land office, is indefinitely suspended by order of Secretary Ballinger while en route to Washington. Jones testified against Ballinger and supported Glavis's charges in the air.
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Portland
Ore
General Land Office
Washington
Horace T. Jones
Interior
Ballinger
Jones
Louis R. Glavis
Roosevelt Visits Stratford to See Shakespeare Birthplace
Theodore Roosevelt arrived at Stratford on Avon for a brief visit to Sir George and Lady Trevelyan. A large crowd cheered him at the station as he toured Shakespeare's birthplace and Anne Hallaway's cottage.
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Stratford On Avon
Eng
Theodore Roosevelt
George
Trevelyan
Shakespeare
Anne Hallaway
Kairer Back on the Job
Potsdam June 4 Emperor William resumes work on special documents after healing of an abscess on his right wrist.
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Kairer
Potsdam
William
Wheat gains drive upticks across markets in Chicago report
Chicago reports active foreign demand lifting wheat and other staples. Prices closed higher across July and Sept futures with gains in corn oats and pork and lard for nearby contracts. Omaha meanwhile shows mixed moves with various grades of wheat corn and oats up or steady.
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Chicago
Europe
Northwest
Southwest
Cattle and Hogs Mixed Prices Rise at Omaha Market
Bullish cattle trades show active demand with native steers $5.50 to $8.10, cows and heifers $3.50 to $6.75, western and Texas steers around $3.56 to $7.00. Hog receipts near 3,000 with heavies $8.05 to $9.00, bulk around $6.97 to $9.00. Sheep and lambs record varied gains, yearlings $5.75 to $6.25, wethers $3.00 to $5.76, ewes $4.75 to $5.25, lambs $7.00 to $8.33.
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Bullith
Omaha
Texas
Fraud Is Charged In Illinois Central Accounting Suit
Illinois Central Railroad sues four former officials for accounting alleging a conspiracy to defraud from 1906 to 1919. The bill lists Orlando Keith Joseph Baker William Renshaw and John Taylor as defendants and cites overcharges by Blue Island Equipment American Car and Equipment Oster mann Manufacturing Memphis Car totaling about 2 million dollars.
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Chicago
Illinois Central Railroad Company
Railroad Company
Orlando
Keith
Joseph F. Baker
William Renshaw
John M. Taylor
Silionis Central Road
Blue Island Equipment Company
American Car and Equipment Company
Ostermann Manufacturing Company
Memphis Car Company
West Pullman Car Company
Illinoia Central Railroad
Bleaching of flour debated in federal court case
In Kansas City on June 7 the government and millers clash over whether bleaching flour reduces its food value. Andrew S. Mitchell testified bleaching changes odor and could be detected by smell, but a requested simultaneous sample test was not performed.
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Kansas City
Andrew S. Mitchell
St. Paul
Fisher's Case at Hague Opens with British Statement
The Hague June 7 The arbitration tribunal for the Newfoundland fisheries dispute between the United States and Great Britain held its first session in Binnenhof. President Professor Heinrich Lammanth of Austria presided as Sir Robert Finlay presented Britain's case while Senator Elihu Root led the U S attorneys. The dispute stems from differing readings of the 1818 Newfoundland fisheries treaty.
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Finlay
the Hague
United States
Great Britain
Binnenhoff
Heinrich Lammancth
Austria
Robert Bf. Finlay
Ettha Root
New York Firemen Die in Warehouse Fire Tragedy
Two New York firemen were killed and more than a score overcome by smoke and flames while battling a stubborn warehouse blaze near the North River. Ten rescuers were trapped by a backdraft on the fourth floor. Timothy Cotter died on the sidewalk after hours unconscious in water. William Healy died inside the building.
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New York
North River
Timothy Cotter
William Heay
Packers Granted More Time in Dissolution Suit
Chicago June 7 Judge Julse Grosscup extended the time for the packers to enter the dissolution suit against the National Packing company and subsidiary concerns He gave coounsel until July 1 to demur and until Aug 1 to enter pleadings in the case.
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Chicago
Julse Grosscup
Packers
National Packing Company
Multiple World Events Stir 1900s News Mix In Uncertain Times
Reports cover Nanking placards inciting attacks, Gravesend jockey Fred Langan’s death, US weather outlook, Nome gold cleanup, Innoko Editarod outputs, Nebraska and Dakota RR incorporation, railroad rebate debate, Sundry Civil appropriation bill approval, Prairie cruiser voyage, post-storm theft in Kan., Boston track wins, Theodore Roosevelt Jr marriage plans, South Africa Parliament opener suggestion, Chicago building fire death, May Department Stores incorporation, Methodists missionaries drowning, Pike county riot deaths, Taft European voyage, Cincinnati romance crime tale, and various political and legal notes.
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Nanking
China
Fred Langan
Lad
Gravesend
United States
Weather Bureau
Nome
Innoko
Editarod
Nebraska and Dakota Railroad Company
Pierre
Chicago
House
Senate
Prairie
Phlisdelphia
Colon
Panama
Curvite
Bluefields
Tuiret Nisa
Annadolia
Kan
John Bedell
Lous Isang
Revere Track
Boston
W. L. Mitten
Davenport
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Edith Butler Alexander
Chicago Board of Trade
John Larsen
Kent Building
May Department Stores Company
New York
T Ia
Mary E. Williams
Philadelphia
Howard Francia
Ames
President Taft
Europe
Amerika
Taft
Mr. Taft
Cincinnati
Stella Ivy
Marshal G. M. Ivy
Albert Hinkle
Secretary of the Interior
J. H. Taylor Azamat Samuel V. Martin
Broxen Bow Land District
Nebraska
Slason Thompson
Railway News Bureau
Mollie Revel
Clara Morris
Yonkers
N. Y
Miss Morris
Miss Revel
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Illinois Central
Fisher
Hague
Pennsylvania
Republican
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Alfred D Gather
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Mento
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