Judge Lovett Denounces Interference in Union Pacific Dissolution
New York June 18 Judge Robert Lovett chairman of Union Pacific condemns unnamed emissaries who offered influence with Congress and other bodies to affect dissolution talks with Southern Pacific. He says all such offers were rejected and links rumors to these approaches.
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Southern Pacific
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Congress
Sale of Orient Road in Receivership Planned
A final decree petition seeks permission to sell the Kansas City Mexico and Orient railway. About 24 million dollars in bonds are outstanding. A new company to pay for the Orient property is forming. Judge Pollock appointed receivers last year amid money-conditions troubles and leadership changes.
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Kansas City
Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railway
Pollock
Federal Court
Kan
United States and Mexican Trust Company
Orient
Hitchcock Plan For Tax On Large Corporations
Washington June 18 a graduate income tax on corporations with over 100 million capital stock and controlling more than a quarter of their lines production was proposed to the finance committee by Senator Hitchcock. He noted the measure is a substitute after rejection of a tobacco trust levy. Kaiser Recognizes Huerta Government In Mexico City a German emperor autograph letter recognizing the Huerta administration was handed to Provisional President Huerta by Her von Kardorff the German legation charge d affaires. Music Teachers Meet In Cedar Falls The Iowa State Music Teachers association will hold its annual convention in Cedar Falls this week starting with a concert and continuing through Friday evening.
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Hitchcock
Senate
Tobacco Trust
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Huerta
Mexico City
Her von Kardorff
Legation
Cedar Falls
Iowa State Music Teachers' Association
Ashes of Joaquin Miller scattered at Oakland funeral
The ashes of Joaquin Miller the poet of the Sierras were scattered on a funeral pyre at his Heights home near Oakland. The Bohemian club of San Francisco oversaw the rites attended by over 600 people including his widow and daughter Juanita. Colonel John P. Irish lit the pyre and urged rejoicing the poet’s genius lives on as a jealous wind carried the ashes away.
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Militant Suffragettes Convicted of Conspiracy in London
Six prominent leaders of the Women’s Social and Political Union and Edward Clayton, a chemist, were found guilty of conspiracy to damage property. Sentences ranged from six to twenty-one months with hard labor. costs split and a year of peace binding. Hunger strikes planned by most women, except Mrs Saunders.
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Annie Kenney
Beatrice Saunders
Harriet Kerr
Rachel Barrett
Agnes Lake
Laura Lennox
Saunders
Martine and Morton Clash in West Virginia Senate
A stormy nine strike committee session in Charleston ends with a near fist fight between Senator Martine of New Jersey and Paint Creek Operators' manager Quinn Morton over testimony about the Holly Grove attack. The clash escalates until Senator Kenyon takes charge to restore order as the hearing resumes.
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New Jersey
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Paint Creek Operators’ Association
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Cabin Creek
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Holly Grove
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Swanson
Rugeins
Mr. Vinson
Kenyon
March Planned for Women Suffragist March to Capitol
Women suffragists plan another march from New York to Washington starting by August 1 to press the latest favorable Senate committee report on suffrage. Men’s League for Equal Suffrage members will join, forming a cavalry troop and staging suffrage plays en route.
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Washington
National Capital
Senate Committee On Suffrage
Men's League For Equal Suffrage
Trail of Lobby Reaches Beet Sugar Officials Private Files
The senate’s probe into the beet sugar industry uncovers letters and telegrams in the Washington offices’ private files. The material suggests a coordinated effort to shape public opinion against free sugar through newspaper columns and press associations.
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Washington
Senate
United States
Pure Food Law Extended to Meat and Meat Products
Washington June 18 Secre taries Houston McAdoo and Redfield ruled meat and meat products in interstate or foreign commerce may be seized if misbranded or adulterated. Manufacturers of meat foods must now comply with the food and drugs act. Bulgarian Troops Dying of Cholera Saloniki June 18 Cholera spreads among Bulgarian troops in Macedonia with hundreds of cases and deaths and civil districts affected.
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Houston
McAdoo
Redfield
Saloniki
Maacedonia
Infant Dies After Drinking Gasoline in Cedar Rapids
The infant son of Bart Flaharty died two hours after being given gasoline mistaken for water from a cup. The incident occurred in Cedar Rapids, Tennessee, on June 18.
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Cedar Rapids
Bart Flaharty
Medical trust charges loom in national health plan
Minneapolis reports Dr. John A. Witherspoon of Nashville as newly installed American Medical Association president urging a national board of health with centralized government backing to prevent epidemics and curb infectious diseases. He defends the move against charges of selfish motive, arguing it serves preventive medicine and would cut physician incomes. St Louis operators strike alarms city wide Bell exchanges as about half the workers quit, while union officials say the strike affects all lines.
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National Board of Health
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