Peace in South Africa Sparks London Jubilee Streets
London celebrates the announced peace in South Africa with massive processions and flags. Boers honor Britain as Britons console Mafeking night. Crowds flood Regent Street and the Strand amid horns and cheers.
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London
South Africa
White Chapel
Buckingham Parlage
Mafeking
Ladysmith
Regent Street
Strand
Great Britain
House of Commons
Edward
St. James Park
Buckingham Palace
Piccadilly
Iis
St. James Palace
Queen Alexandra
Victoria
Prince
Princess Charles
Denmark
Covent Garden
Opera House
Treasury
Tariff Conference Divides Over Cuban Reciprocity
Eighteen Republican senators at a Washington conference favored defeating Cuban reciprocity but backed a rebate plan to pay the Cuban government. A White House meeting with top Republicans discussed tariff revision and the Spooner plan for a 20 percent five year reduction. Leader opposition to changes remained firm, with efforts to unite GOP votes for passage continuing.
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Washington
Messrs
Elkins
Scott
Perkins
Bard
Gamble
Kittredge
Dietrich
Millard
Burrows
Foster
Mitchell
Nelson
Clapp
Burton
Kearns
Jones
Nevada
Mason
Pritchard
Deitrich
Cuba
White House
Allison
Aldrich
Hanna
Platt
Connecticut
Spooner
Payne
Cannon
Dalzell
Babcock
Hull
Sherman
Overstreet
Finance Committee
Senate
Ways and Means Committee
House
Republican Congressional Campaign Committee
Congress
Commission Coul
Lafer
Stolen Child Recovered in Kaiserin Maria Theresa Arrival
Margaret Taylor, kidnapped by her aunt and taken to Italy, arrived in New York aboard the Kaiserin Maria Theresa with her father Albert Vinton Taylor of Cincinnati. He said he would not prosecute the aunt, describing her love for the child and belief they would have separated later. The aunt was arrested in Bordighera May 10 after a three year absence.
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Margaret Taylor
New York
Albert Vinton Taylor
Cincinnati
Margaret
Italy
Genoa
Naples
Taylor
Mr Taylor
Bard Ighera
Water and light monopolies before the Supreme Court
The U S supreme court upheld Alabama s power to revoke Bienville Water Supply Company s exclusive Mobile water concession. It also affirmed Florida s Capital City Light and Fuel Co v Tallahassee denying exclusive city lighting rights via state legislation.
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United States Supreme Court
Washington
Alabama
Bienville Water Supply Company
Mobile
Water Company
Supreme Court of
Florida
Capital City Light and Fuel Company
Tallahassee
Decision in patent case favors Consolidated Rubber Tire
Judge Newman rules the Grant patent valid and infringed by Finley Rubber Tire Company. The Consolidated Rubber Tire Company and Munford Rubber Tire Company benefit from an injunction and potential further actions to restrain dealers from selling Goodyear wing tires. The case, tied to extensive litigation, draws national attention and may be appealed toward the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Newman
United States
Consolidated Rubber Tire Company
Finney Rubber Tire Company
Consolidated Company
Finley Company
Arthur W Grant
Munford Rubber Tire Company
Atlanta
Goodyear
Staley & Bowman
Springfield
Ohio
Moessra
Hoke Smith
BH. C Peeples
H. A Toulman
Edmund Wetmore
New York City
D. 8. Craig
San Francisco
Chicago
Consolidated Tire Company
New York
Finley Rubber Tire
New Orleans
Judge Newman
Supreme Court strikes Wilkes case papers over judge bias
The U S supreme court ordered the Wilkes county North Carolina Versus W N Coler papers stricken from the files citing material attacking a judge’s impartiality. Judge James E H Boyd was named in the papers. The application may be renewed next term. In a separate note, Charles Collard Kiowa Oklahoma postmaster killed J G Bailey a traveling representative during a quarrel, after Bailey tried to mediate the dispute.
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Supreme Court of United States
Washington
United States Supreme Court
Commissioners
Wilkes County
North Carolina
W. N. Coler
James EH. Boyd
Western District
South McAllister
I. Ter
Charles Collard
Kiowa
J. G. Bailey
Cincinnati
Bailey
Collard
Fights erupt as police clash with Teamsters in Chicago strike
Chicago June 3 marked heavy violence as police and striking Teamsters and sympathizers fought across the city. Officers protected meat wagons, were pelted with stones, mud, and bricks, and used revolvers and clubs. Dozens of wounded, one leader beaten, and crowds blocked Halstead street for hours before wagons were secured.
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Chicago
Teamsters
Collins
Crosby Street
Little Hel
Lieutenant Collins
Halsted
Division Streets
Double Tracks For West End Street Car Rights Case
West End council adopts an ordinance to widen the culvert for two street car tracks serving Whitehall West End East Point and College Park. The trolley company funds culvert excavation and approaches while railroads cover extra abutments and future track expansion costs if needed. Agreement due within fifteen days. failure grants the grade crossing. Work to start within fifteen days and finish in six months.
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Council
West End
Whitehall
East Point
College Park
Whitehall Street
Trolley
Trolley Company
Steam Roads
Committee On Electric
Georgia Railway and Electric Company
Central
West Point
Money 18 Sent to Strikers by United Textile Workers
The executive council of the United Textile Workers of America met in New Bedford Massachusetts. Treasurer Whitehead announced that Saturday another contribution was sent to the strikers in the southern textile centers bringing the total to nearly 5000. Secretary Hibbert reports the strikers feel encouraged and request continued assistance. The decision to send Hibbert back to work with the strikers was left to the emergency committee.
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United Textile Workers
New Bedford
Mass
United Textile Workers of America
Whitehead
Hibbert
Postmasters for Georgia Fourth-Class Offices Named
Georgia fills four fourth class postmasters including W N Yarborough Coff ee county C T Wiley Gratis Walton county J R Lasseter Hill Berrien county Bailey Carpenter Ways Station Bryan county. Salaries rise by 100 dollars at Madison Mountrip Quitman Savannah Tallapoosa Thomasville Waycross Milledgeville Newnan Sandersville Statesboro Thomaston Valdosta with 200 more at Waycross. Plus two new rural routes Route No 2 Bowersville Hart county and Route No 2 Hartwell Hart county.
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Washington
Georgia
W. N. Yarborough
Bingham
Coffée
C. T. Wiley
Gratis
Walton County
J. R. Lasseter
Hill
Berrien County
Bailey Carpenter
Ways Station
Bryan County
Postamsters
Madison
Mountrip
Quitman
Savannah
Tallapoosa
Thomasville
Waycross
Milledgeville
Newnan
Sandersville
Statesboro
Thomaston
Valdosta
Bowersville
Hart County
Hartwell
Oregon Democrats Elect Head of Their Ticket
Incomplete returns late June 7 show Republicans leading statewide except for governor. Hecht may cut GOP margin to 10,009. Tongue reelected in the 1st District and Williamson wins in the 2nd. George E. Chambers, Democratic candidate for governor, appears strong in Portland and likely to carry the county.
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Portland
Oreg
Thomas H. Tongue
Congress
George E. Chambers
What Shall We Do with the Consumptive Poor
Dr. A. Knopf of New York argued tuberculosis is rarely hereditary and not infectious. He urged building sanitariums for tuberculosis care and moving the consumptive poor to them. Atlanta’s selection as next meeting site was sent back to the committee for lack of guaranteed funds, with Portland, Me, as 1903 fallback.
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Conference of Charities and Corrections
Detroit
Mich
National Conference of Charities and Corrections
8. A. Knopf
New York
Boggs Shoots Wife Mistaking Burglar in Decatur
In Decatur Alabama, June 2, E Boggs awakened by his wife about a burglar in the kitchen fired at the dimly lit figure in their room. He killed his wife instead, believing she was the intruder. The incident occurred shortly after 11 o'clock tonight as he rose from his pillow and called who’s there before firing three times.
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E. Boggs
Decatur
Ala
K. Boggs
Boges
Prince of Monaco Separated From Princess in Monaco Courts
Paris dispatch reports the prince of Monaco has obtained a judicial separation from Princess of Monaco. The princess, formerly Alice, dowager duchess of Richelieu, is a daughter of Michael Heine, a New Orleans banker.
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Prince of
Monaco
Paris
Petit Journale
Princess
Alice
Ducheyns of
Richelieu
Michael Heine
New Orleans
London
Taft
Vatican
United States
St. Vincent
la Soutriere
Diplomatic Secrets Revealed By U S Officials
Washington June 2 Special. The United States government reveals diplomatic secrets to absolve itself of damages totaling twenty five million dollars. Documents show Cleveland and McKinley administrations denied Cuban belligerency despite Spain recognizing insurgent belligerency. The State Department held a letter from Spain indicating war status, contradicting public assurances and altering legal and moral responsibility.
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Chi
Washington
United States
Spain
Cleveland
McKinley
Cuba
State Department
Congress
Georgia News Briefs Spark Local Action and National Figures
Mrs. Minnie Fontaine Stokes is named private secretary to Postmaster Dodgett. Judge Pope Barrow urges grand juries to indict packing-house heads in the beef trust case. Mercer College commencements in Macon and a London peace celebration headlined. Roosevelt in conference on Cuban reciprocity, Hay memorial address praised by many, and science teams reach St. Vincent to study La Soufriere.
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Minnie Fontaine Stokes
Dodgett
Newman
Consolidated Rubber Tire Company
Harry Atkinson
Georgia School of Technology
Jefferson Davis
Atlanta
Dupont Guerry
Terrell Forces
Council
West End
Georgia
Pope Barrow
Beef Trust
Carr
Toccoa
Valdosta
Mercer College
Macon
Chicago
Roosevelt
Cleveland
McKinley
Cuba
Spain
House
Hay
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Hoosevelt
Republican
Senators
United States Court
Favors Consolidated Rubber Tire Company
Finley Rubber Tire Company
Teamsters Union
Meh
Wower
Halstead Street
Railroads and Trolley Company
Postmasters Fork
Covernor
Oregon
Tongue and Williamson
Prince and Princess
McKinley Woerg
Locas
Higdon
Elizabeth City
N. Y
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