Stock Rates Rule on Length of Cars in Iowa
Des Moines June 3. State board of railroad commissioners cut live stock freight rates by about 20 percent by restoring the minimum car length to 31 feet for Iowa shipments. Sioux City Live Stock Exchange and Sioux City Stock Yards Company petitioned. After a hearing the order took effect June 1, benefiting small shippers. If a 31-foot car is demanded and unavailable, the shipper pays the minimum for the smaller car.
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Des Moines
Iowa
State Board of Railroad Commissioners
Sioux City Live Stock Exchange
Sioux City Stock Yards Company
Sioux City
Latter Day Saints Meeting in Des Moines
Beginning last night and continuing over Sunday a large Latter Day Saints gathering will be held at East Fourteenth and Lyon. The program includes children’s work, convention sessions, and a literary program with district conference business on Saturday. Possible reunion in the city this summer is under consideration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tes Moines
East Fourteenth
Lyon Streets
Sunday School Association
Zion's Religio-Literary Society
Reorganized
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Iowa City boosters visit Des Moines in June procession
Des Moines hosts Iowa City boosters who arrived by special train. A parade formed on Fourth Street led by the visitors band, marching Walnut to Seventh, where autos carried the delegation to tour the city. A reception at the Chamberlain followed with brief speeches by local business leaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa City
Greater Des Moines Committee
Fourth Street
Walnut
Seventh
Des Molines
Cownie Voices Defiance Amid Governor Carroll Clash
Des Moines June 38 Hon John Cownie issues a statement asserting the governor cannot take his good name without consequence. He claims defamation and malicious falsehood by Carroll and accuses him of stabbing him in the dark.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cownie
Des Moines
John Cownie
Carroll
Ex-Congressman Knowles Dead in Deadwood South Carolina
Freeman Knowles former congressman dies of pneumonia at 64 in Deadwood South Carolina where he spent twenty years as a newspaper editor. He was widely known as a socialist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knowles
Deadwood
S. C
Freeman Knowles
United Commercial Travelers Meet in Atlantic City
More than 1000 U C T members have taken possession of Atlantic City as they prepare for the convention of 1911. The main contest centers on selecting the meeting site and coordinating events for the upcoming year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic
United Commercial
War on Railroads Moves to Dissolve Trunk Line Groups
Chicago reports the Justice Department plans a threefold assault against railroads under Sherman act rules. An injunction curbs rate hikes. a dissolution suit targets trunk line committees. a contempt action seeks enforcement. Judge Judson leads the prosecution with a case likely to run into 1911. Freight-rate revisions by NY Central West Shore and DL&W take effect July 5, while service is served on Missouri Pacific Wabash and Frisco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
United States
Tobacco Trust
Illinois Manufacturers’ Association
Taft
Wickersham
Washington
Department of Justice
Hannibal
Trunk Lines Committee
trans-Mississippi
Judson
Frederick N. Judson
Circuit Court of the Eighth Circuit
Interstate Commerce Commission
New York Central
West Shore
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
St. Louis
United States Marshal’s Office
Missouri Pacific
Wabash and
Frisco Systems
Declines to Kill Assailant in Memphis Grillroom
Arthur E. Mallory a noted clubman and relative of W. B. Mallory of the Illinois Central refused to shoot Richard G. Turner after Turner attacked him with a knife in a fashionable downtown Memphis grillroom. Turner was arrested after the incident, reportedly sparked by Turner finding his wife dining with Mallory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memphis
Tenn
Richard G. Turner
Hife
Arthur E. Mallory
W. B. Mallory
Ilinois Central Railroad
Harahan
Turner
Mallory
Revere Memorial Fund Created By Will
New York June 3 Augustus L. Revere probate of will in Morristown New Jersey sets aside twenty thousand dollars for a Revere family memorial fund at Harvard University The will disposes of an estate valued at 150000 dollars and makes other bequests in line with Paul Revere’s lineage
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New York
Revere
Harvard University
Augustus L. Revere
Paul Revere
Morristown
N. J
PARDONS SCANDAL ROCKS COLORADO POLITICS
Former Colorado pardons secretary Clarence F. E. Hagar is jailed on a $180 bribe charge to obtain a pardon for Samuel Haas. Attorney General Bennett, deputy Brinso, and Warden Tynan lead an probe into a suspected pardon ring that allegedly profits from freeing convicts. The case ties to widespread suspicions from Canon City to Denver amid a broader inquiry into more than twenty pardons. Hagar, a prominent Republican figure, founded the Denver Times and holds several community roles.
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Denver
Col
Clarence FE. Hagar
Colorado State Board of Pardons
Henry Buchtel
Samuel Haas
Hill
Haas
Hagar
Bennett
James M. Brinso
Thomas Tynan
John Cleghorn
State Penitentiary
Shafroth
Attorney General’s Department
Buchtel
Canon City
Tynan
Attorney General
Attorney General's Department
John F. Wright
Cripple Creek
Wright
Barnett
Board of Pardons
Sons of Colorado
Republican Party
Eleventh Ward
The
Typographical Union
Denver Times
Frankfort
N. Y
Oklahoma votes on women suffrage in November election
Guthrie Okla June 3 The state supreme court sustained Secretary of State Cross over objections to the suffragists petition ensuring the question of women’s suffrage will be submitted to voters at the November regular election.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guthrie
Okla
Oklahoma
State Supreme Court
Cross
Norton Named Secretary to Taft in His Cabinet
President Taft announces Charles Dyer Norton of Chicago as secretary to the president succeeding Fred W. Carpenter. Norton accepts the post and will assume duties after the western trip or Monday morning. The treasurys assistant secretary must resign first. the retiring secretary becomes minister to Morocco.
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Washington
Taft
Charles Dyer. Norton
Chicago
Fred W. Carpenter
Norton
the Treasury
Morocco
Attempt to wreck train near Reno reported
A man named C B Pryor was arrested and several others were reportedly detained at Truckee as authorities investigate an attempted derailment of the Southern Pacific China and Japan fast mail near the American river snow sheds. A mound of fish plates and a rail section were set on the tracks on a steep grade. The forward locomotive stopped within feet of the obstruction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reno
C. B. Pryor
Truckee
China
Japan
American
Harvard Doctor Claims Leprosy Cure Found
San Francisco reports Dr Walter C Brinckerhoff Harvard medical graduate who served five years at Molokai lower settlement Hawaii on leprosy research has discovered what is reported to be a cure for the disease.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Walter C. Brinckerhoff
Harvard Medical
Molokai
Hawaiian Islands
United States
Hoboken City Treasury Deficit Revealed
A deficit of 305000 dollars was found in Hoboken New Jersey city treasury per a report by a newly appointed investigating committee. The finding highlights financial shortfalls and prompts scrutiny of city finances and oversight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Hoboken
N. J
Disclosures Ahead in Bribery Scandal May Involve Grand Jury
Springfield reports state Rep H J C Beckemeyer has given a detailed confession to State's Attorney Burke hinting at a syndicate backing Lorimer election. Gov Deneen may testify as investigators press for more lines to the bribery case while Attorney Dawson may appear before the grand jury. Foster of Rushville also faces questioning about the fish bill and Lorimer votes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Ill
H. J.C. Beckemeyer
Burke
Cook County
Beckemeyer
Thomas Dawson
Chicago
Dawson
Roberts
Wilson
Joseph
Clarke
John Broderick
Harry Shephard
Charles L. McMackin
B. F. Staymates
Staymates
Jack Pot
H. J. C. Beckemeyer
Thomas O’brien
Deneen
Charles $. Deneen
Sangamon County
Grand Jury
Edmund Burke
Sarimer
United States Senate
Dene
Foster
A.M. Foster
Rushville
Fish and Game Committee
State Commission
Lorimer
AIDS PEDDLER MADE HEIR
Washington farmer George White received a letter from a western state attorney stating Patrick Sullivan left him ten thousand dollars in a will. White recalls befriending a peddler named Patrick Sullivan fifteen years ago and providing meals and lodging, initially thinking the claim a joke.
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Washington
George White
Rea
Patrick Sullivan
White
Rehearings Ordered For Thirty Supreme Court Cases
Washington June 3 Due to seven justices, 380 cases heard in the term must be reargued next term. Major issues include the corporation tax, 28 hour law penalties, tobacco company dissolutions, grazing on forest reservations, Walker River water use, Oklahoma prohibition in interstate shipments, and railroad car load rate rights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Supreme Court of the United States
Walker River
California
Nevada
Gila
Arizona
Many Lost in Hurricane Wrecks at Loyalty Island
Victoria B C June 3 Many lives were lost and several ships wrecked as a hurricane swept Loyalty Island. Coasters Paola and Warralow dashed on rocks, another coaster lifted high on shore with only one survivor. Captain Robertson reported his coaster Arthur wrecked and practically broken up after grounding on Telegraph.
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Victoria
B. C
Loyalty Island
Manuka
Australia
Paola
Warralow
Plecea
Robertson
Arthur
Fijl
Televefon
Monte Carlo for Mexico in Canfield club
Saratoga N Y June 3 packed and shipped to Mexico where Richard Canfield plans another business start. Orders to packers came last week and workers have been busy in the clubhouse. When authorities said he could not reopen in 1908 he said he would quit Saratoga for good.
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Saratoga
N. Y
Richard Canfield
Mexico
Canfield
Gardens for colored children aid Panama canal project
Washington June 8 Colonel Goethals in charge of Panama canal construction shows concern for both his workers and the colored community by establishing experimental gardens attached to schools for colored children. The gardens were started last October and are projected to yield vegetables valued at 200 gold in one year.
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Washington
Goethals
Panama Canal
Three Killed in Quarry Blast at Lehigh Cement Yard
A premature blast at the Lehigh Portland Cement quarry in West Coplay, Pennsylvania, killed three workers instantly and seriously injured three more. Three men remain missing, feared buried under rock debris.
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Allentown
Lehigh Portland Cement Company
West Coplay
Transport Sinks as Crew Escapes Near Corregidor
Manila log rammed a hole in the hull of the United States Army transport Indianapolis eighteen miles outside Corregidor Island. The ship sank in 120 feet of water, but all sailors and soldiers aboard escaped in lifeboats. Joseph S Harris, former president of the Philadelphia Reading Railroad, died suddenly at his Germantown home.
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Manila
United States Army
Indianapolis
Corregidor Island
Joseph
Harris
Philadelphia
Philadelphia @ Reading Railroad company
Germantown
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Atlantic Evening News News Publishing Co., Publishers
State Railway Commission
Latter Day Saints Meeting
Jelcome
Iowa City Boosters
Iven
Trunk Line Committee
Eastern Roads
Revere Memorial
Paul India Wii
Harvard
Roosevelt
London
REULE
Tui
Colorado
Charles D. Norton
Treasury Department
White House
Charles Dyer Norton
Southern Pacific
United States Supreme Court
Monte Carlo
Pickaninnies
Panama Canal Zone
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