Government to sue powder trust largest in the nation
The government will file a major suit against the powder trust led by De Nemours, claiming a holding structure of about seventy companies in the powder business. The action, centering on price restraints and Sherman Act violations, will prompt hearings in New York City, Wilmington, and other venues, with a special examiner to be named by the Second Circuit. The case could take a year or more to adjudicate.
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Powder Trust
Wilmington
Del
New York City
de Nemours Company
New Jersey
Delaware
Second Circuit
United States Court For
Standard Oil Company
Revelations of Lisbon regicide plot shock Lords
The story claims Dr. Jose Maria de Alpoim exposed a plan by progressive and regenerator leaders to kill King Carlos and Crown Prince Luiz in Lisbon last February. Alpoim says republicans proposed wiping out the royal family except Maria Pia, with monarchists opposing such slaughter. Buissa and Costa allegedly received funds to kill the royals, and during the plot shots killed Crown Prince Luiz.
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Carlos
Jose Maria de Alpoim
Lisbon
Luiz
House of Lords
Progressive and Regenerator Party
Alpoim
Repulicans
Maria Pia
Silvia Buissa
Alfredo Costa
Franco
Buissa
Costa
Harbor Storm Disaster Drowns Hundreds at Tatavia
A severe storm swept over Tatavia harbor causing massive loss of life. About ten to six hundred people perished as boats capsized and crews struggled to survive. Fishermen rescued around thirty. many victims were found mutilated by sharks in the week that followed.
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Datavia
Victoria
Tatavia
Wrais
China
Mine Swindle Alleged Indictments Against Officials
Post office inspectors investigation into the American Mexico Mining and Developing Company, a $3,900,000 corporation based with principal officer in Chicago, ends with indictments against W. A. Arms promoter and Walter S. Dillon manager in Mexico.
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Post Office
Chicago
W. A. Arms
Walter S. Dillon
Mexico
Wreck at Boracho Texas Drops Train Off Washout
A Texas and Pacific passenger train derailed after crossing a washout at Boracho Tex Thursday morning. The engine and two coaches fell over an embankment. Engineer Jones was instantly killed and several passengers injured.
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Texas and Pacific
Boracho
Tex
Jones
Sioux City Live Stock Prices Echo Market Trends
Sioux City live stock quotations for Thursday show Meeves at 7.85 and Top bugs at 6.05, reflecting modest gains across the market with buyers watching demand and supply dynamics in the region.
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Sioux City
Meeves
Heat Kills In New York Despite Cooling Forecast
A fragmented notice reports heat deaths in New York with details unclear. The garbled text mentions high temperatures near 85 degrees and warnings about dangerous conditions, urging caution amid ongoing health concerns.
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New York
Vail on National banks and treasury call details
Secretary of the Treasury Certekrption announced a further call upon the United Bank beneficiaries for approximately $45. It would be paid on or before the 15th next month.
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Vail
Secretary of the Treasury
Francis 2. Loonis
Francis B. Loomis
Marvelous Zeppelin Airship Sets Record at Friedrichshafen
Thousands witnessed Count Zeppelin’s airship Futuristic marvel surpass world records for steerable balloons. The craft stayed aloft twelve hours, covered northern Switzerland, and visited Zurich Winterthur and Lucerne with an average 34 mph. Manned by fourteen, it demonstrated superb dirigibility and precise control under Count Zeppelin.
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Zeppelin
Friedrichshafen
Switzerland
Zurich
Winerthur
Luceren
Aelm
Count Zeppelin
Lake Constance
Constance
Frauenfeld
Winterthur
Lucerne
Duel Follows Libel Suit in Paris Journals Fight
A sword duel occurred in Paris on Wednesday between M Jouvenel, editor’s brother at Matin, and lawyer Baudelot. Baudelot was wounded in the right arm after a quarrel linked to a libel case involving Senator Humbert and the Matin. Baudelot struck Jouvenel, who responded with a cane blow, prompting the challenge.
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Paris
M. Jouvenel
The
Matin
Baudelot
Humbert
Henri Rochette
M. Baudelot
M. Bauderot
Mae Wood Indicted for Perjury and Forgery in Platt Divorce Case
Mae C Wood of Omaha is indicted by a New York grand jury on perjury and forgery charges for signing Senator Thomas C Platts name to a document acknowledging marriage. The indictment stems from her 1901 testimony in the divorce action alleging marriage at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. She is free on $5000 bail.
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Mae C. Wood
Thomas C. Platt
New York
Miss Wood
Platt
Fifth Avenue
Liberty
Suffragists Ordered to Pay Fine or Go to Prison
Twenty seven of twenty nine women arrested during the suffragist protest before the British house of parliament faced fines or security for a year or three months imprisonment. Most chose prison. Two involved in broken windows at Premier Asquith’s residence received two months hard labor. Mary Leigh said on arrest it will be bombs next time.
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House of Parliament
Aisquith
Mary Leigh
Bartnett Sentenced to Ten Years in Federal Prison
Walter J. Bartnett, ex vice president and general counsel of Western Pacific Railroad and California Safe Deposit and Trust, whose San Francisco firm failed last November for 9 million dollars, received a ten year penitentiary term on Wednesday.
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Walter J. Bartnett
Western Pacific Railroad Company
California Safe Deposit and Trust Company
San Francisco
Chicago Rooming House Murder Mystery
Unidentified woman found dead Wednesday in a Chicago rooming house. Her body showed cuts and bruises with finger marks on the throat and hands and feet tied. She had visited the place Sunday night with a man who has since vanished.
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Chicago
Fire Hose Quells Mutiny at Brest Barracks
A mutiny in the Brest barracks was quelled by a fire hose and a score soldiers are confined to barracks under discipline.
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Brest
Troops Sent to Border From Texas Division
Gen Myer commanding the department of Texas telegraphed to the War Department that four troops of cavalry were sent to Del Rio to counter potential insurrectionist activity across the border in Mexico.
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Myer
Department of Texas
War Department
del Rios
Mexico
Condition of Cotton in United States June Report
The average condition of the cotton crop on June 25 was 82 percent of normal, down from 78.7 percent on May 25. The figure reflects nationwide assessments of crop health and matur ity by agricultural authorities.
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United States
Outbreak near Palomas sparks Mexican insurrection
A revolutionary attack on Palomas Chihuahua sparked fire at a Mexican garrison. About fifty insurrectionists struck at 4 am Tuesday, killing one civilian and wounding one, capturing another. Bombs disrupted telegraph. defenders saved the post. One insurgent captured. one wounded. A related report places the group near Mimbres, El Paso.
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Republic of Mexico
Coahuila
Palomas
Chihuahua
el Paso
Columbus
N. M
Juan Correon
New Mexico
Mimbros
Southwestern
Women plan raid on Commons over suffrage
Several hundred suffragists gathered at Caxton Hall on Tuesday and sent a deputation to the House of Commons to interview Prime Minister Asquith about immediate women’s franchise. Police blocked admission, and the delegation returned to Caxton Hall as thousands of suffragists prepared a larger demonstration guarded by hundreds of officers.
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House of Commons
Caxton Hall
Asquith
Secret Service man who seized Czolgosz dies in Chicago
Albert Gallagher, longtime U S secret service agent who restrained Czolgosz after McKinley’s assassin fired, died in Chicago on Tuesday. He was mistaken by a crowd for the killer and beaten, with doctors attributing his death to injuries from the incident.
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Asasin
Albert Gallagher
Secret Service
United States
Czolgosz
McKinley
Chicago
Gallager
Gallarher
British Navy Mobilizes Record Fleet for Home Waters Maneuver
Admiral Lord Charles Beresford takes supreme command of about 80 ships with 68 000 officers and sailors in the annual naval maneuvers. The mobilization marks the greatest fleet ever assembled in the history of the world.
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Monster Fiecet
Lord Charles Beresford
Prison sentinel fatally wounds girl signaling from window
In Kiev Russia a girl confined in a political prison was struck by a prison sentinel while signaling with a mirror from a window. She died from the injuries sustained in the attack.
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Mme. Sherstnova
Kiev
Russia
Battle in Van Buren as striking workers clash with strikebreakers
A Monday night confrontation between St. Louis and Iron Mountain Railway shopmen and Italian strikebreakers in Van Buren Arkansas left two strikebreakers shot and seriously wounded while more than 200 shots were fired.
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St. Louis and Iron Mountain Railway Company
van Buren
Ark
Indictment Hit in Utah National Bank Looting Case
A federal grand jury indicted cashier A. W. Nelson on Tuesday for looting the Utah National Bank vaults in Salt Lake City. The shortage in the reserve vault exceeds 106600 dollars.
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Pank
Federal Grand Jury
A. W. Nelson
Utah National Bank
Salt Lake
Eulenburg Sent To Hospital Amid Perjury Trial Pause
The Berlin trial of Prince Zu Eulenburg on perjury charges was halted Tuesday after the prince fainted. He was taken to a hospital guarded by officers.
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Eulenburg
Prince Zu Eulenburg
Berlin
Young killer case shocks Minnesota jail scene
Small Royan Assissin, ten year old Robert Jardine, is jailed in Lesueur Minnesota on a murder charge. Witnesses say Jardine laid in wait for Pascell St. John and deliberately shot him.
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Small Royan Assissin
Tnobert Jardine
Lesueur
Minn
Pascell St. John
Jardine
Milners Return to Work at Great Lakes Coal Mines
After a long idleness the mines of the Great Lakes Coal Company at Kaylor Pennsylvania have resumed operation, employing 1,400 men.
Date Set for Marriage Ends in Murder Suicide at Decorah
Mrs. Edward Ottoway, about 45, survived a murderous assault by Flarry Crawford in Decorah after agreeing to marry him. Crawford, former Arlington livery barn operator, died by self-inflicted wounds following a failed plan to wed the widow, who remained severely wounded with a heart-area injury and uncertain prognosis. The case centers on disputed property and arranged nuptials that never occurred.
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Deeprah
Edward Ottoway
Flarry Crawford
Burr Oak
Ottoway
Decorah
Crawford
Arlington
Mother's Sudden Insanity Tragedy in Wal lin Area
Milo Wilcox home near Wal lin becomes scene of a killing and mutilation as Mrs. Wilcox, in a jealous, imagined stepmother delusion, slays her 6-year-old son and wounds an 11-year-old daughter with a butcher knife before injuring herself. The husband arrives, saves the daughter and baby, and the mother is confined in Red Oak after rational behavior returns. The 11-year-old will recover.
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Milo Wilcox
Wallin
Bashful suitor jailed as vagrant lately seeks love in Ottumwa
Cumberland Tenn. tobacco farmer Jonathan Wardin Kardin wandered Ottumwa streets for days hoping to meet Miss Etta Crafts of Keosauqua. Police released him after he explained his plan to call on her. He hurried to her home, only to learn she had left. She then departed Keosauqua to return home fearing unknown trouble.
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Wau
Thomas Jefferson
Jonathan Wilburn Wardin
Cumberland
Tenn
Ottumwa
Kardin
Etta Crafts
Keosauqua
Ottum
Prouty Seeks Supreme Court Move To Block Ballot
Judge Prouty plans to file in the Supreme Court to stop Hull from appearing on the official ballot in Iowa Seventh District. The move risks leaving the district without a Congressman as Democrats failed to nominate in primaries. Hull led by 43 votes after a recount allege fraud in Vacuty’s challenge.
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Iowa
Prouty
Supreme Court
Hull
Vacuty
Lightning Strikes Cab Driver In Wild Storm
Glenswood cabman Bert Byers was knocked unconscious when a fierce electrical storm lashed the city. Lightning belt the court house area as his horses plowed toward Alexander’s barn, where Byers and his rig crashed into the doorway and he lay slumped over the dashboard.
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Bert Byers
Glenswood
Byers
Fin Faithful Hortea
Alexander
Democrats Declare Platform At Primaries Involving Local Options
The state Democratic platform names D W Hi bec of Creston and A J House of Maquoketa as judicial nominees. It rejects the pro galloon plank and opposes resubmission of the prohibitory amendment while reaffirming local self government and home rule. The plank favors popular Senate elections, road and waterway funding, anti injunction stance, protest against freight discrimination, and stronger railroad commission powers.
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W An
Supreme Court
D.W. Hibec
Creston
A.J. House
Maquoketa
Democratic Party
Towa
Cummins Forces Seize Iowa Republican Convention
Gov. Cummins led in Waterloo as his forces controlled the state Republican convention. Standpatters were treated with consideration, and harmony strengthened. Delegates endorsed Cummins and progressive railroad and corporate measures, praised Iowa’s congressional delegation led by Senator Allison, and pledged his reelection. Ladd and Weaver were renominated to the Supreme Court. existing state officers’ nominations were approved.
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Gov. Cummins
Waterloo
Gov
Cummings
Scott M. Ladd
Silas M. Weaver
Iowa Democrats Turn Out Strong in June Primary
Nearly 50,000 Iowa Democratic ballots were cast in the June 2 primary. Senatorial candidate Claude R. Porter earned 47,877 votes across 96 counties while gubernatorial candidate Fred White received 49,078 votes in 97 counties, per the official canvass by the executive council.
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Iowa
Claude R. Porter
United States
Fred White
Executive Council
Postal Clerk Fred W. Bristol Dies at Desk in West Liberty
Fred W. Bristol, a veteran postal clerk on the Chicago West Liberty division for 34 years, was found dead at his desk in his mail car by fellow clerk Gus Reardon. Medical aid arrived too late as Bristol had been dead for some minutes. He was widely known and respected in the West Liberty railway community.
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West Liberty
Fred W. Bristol
Gus Reardon
Medical Airl
Mr. Bristol
Chicago-West Liberty
Prohibition Plans and Divorce Reform Highlight Iowa Convention
Des Moines readers learn of a state convention in Des Moines urging prohibition resubmission to voters, women’s suffrage, felony status for gambling, uniform marriage and divorce laws, and making polygamy a crime. Also reported are a gruesome Fairfield baby death, a Burlington-Fairfield investigation, and minor state notes on schools, drownings, suicides, lightning damage, a stabbing, and a barber shop owner’s sudden death.
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Demnanda
Des Moines
Boards of Trade
Fairfield
Burlington
Ferguson
Pairfield
Fragmented reminiscences and obituaries from a historic page
The text mixes reminiscences of Gore memory and public life with obituaries for Oliver H. Belmont of Hempstead and General James Willcocks. It notes Gore’s senatorial aspirations and partial sight restoration hopes, Belmont’s lineage to August Belmont and Perry, and Willcocks’ Afghan frontier campaigns. The piece sketches political and military figures prominent in early 20th century contexts.
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Anita
Sherm
F. Myers
Uncle Sam
Combine
Texas
Muel
Mae Wood
Alben Tages
Girl
Cummins Controls
Conved
Fred WH. Matteson
Ames Agricultural College
Salt Creek
Lincoln
Neb
Alfred Brenneman
Chariton
Leon
Dike
Jepperson Brothers
Sevastopol
Sam Parke
Charles Woody
Kenanor
Aby -Okinho
Gore
Washington
Mr. Gore
Senate
Congressional
Oliver H. P. Belmont
Hempstead
Belmont
August Belmont
Rothschilds
Commodore Oliver Lazard Perry
Oort
Lake Erie
Mr. Belmont
New
Newport
Denver
Osborn
Osborne
James Willcocks
Mohmandaa
Neocks
Senator Gore
John E. Osborne
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