President Roosevelts stance on meat inspection amendment
Washington June 16 Secretary Loeb summary of a letter from President Roosevelt to Chairman Wadsworth of the House Agriculture Committee. He says the House substitute for the Beveridge amendment worsens inspection aims and would shield packers while hurting honest stock raisers and packers and delay restoring foreign and interstate dressed meat trade. He notes concerns about who pays for inspection are secondary to other bill features.
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Washington
Loeb
Roosevelt
Wadsworth
House Committee On Agriculture
Secretary of Agriculture
Government toinspect packinghouse meat under new plan
Washington June 14 a house committee substitute to the agricultural appropriation bill envisions government inspection of packinghouse products with a 2 million dollar annual automatic appropriation. It requires post mortem and inter mortem inspection, a government label for interstate meat, a purity certificate for foreign commerce, and an inspectors corps to enforce sanitary rules. The label shows ingredients but not manufacture date.
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Washington
House Committee On Agriculture
Beveridge
Secretary of Agriculture
Explosion on British steamer Ha verford kills nine in Liverpool
Nine men died and about forty were wounded in a powerful blast aboard the British steamer Haverford of the International Navigation company near Liverpool on June 15. The ship, from Philadelphia, suffered a furnace‑room naptha explosion that caused a blazing fire and widespread destruction as stevedores were unloading can be ledges.
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Liverpool
Haverford
International Navigation Company
Philadelphia
Baltimore Waterfront Fire Claims Three Lives
A massive blaze on Baltimore’s harbor front caused about 3 million dollars in damage. The fire threatened the Merchants and Miners Transportation wharf and spread from the steamship Essex to six barges, with three Essex crew members killed and bodies recovered.
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Baltimore
Merchants and Miners’ Transportation Company
Essex
Indictments for land frauds hit 13 Nebraska cattlemen
A federal grand jury indicted thirteen Nebraska cattlemen on charges of conspiracy to defraud the government subornation and perjury and illegal fencing of public lands. The cases involve over 400000 acres in Sheridan and Cherry counties including the Stade Overton and C Bar ranches. Names listed include Bartlett Richards W G Comstock Charles Read Fr M Walcott Amy Todd Aquila Triplett J H Edmiston O H Hendee G H P Babcock J H Tucker and J C Pettijohn.
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Omaha
Federal
Nebraska
Bartlett Richards
W. G. Comstock
Charles ¢. Read
Fr. M. Walcott
Amy Todd
Aquilia Triplett
J H. Edmiston
O. H. Hendee
G. H. P. Babcock
J. H. Tucker
J. C. Pettijohn
Sheridan and
Cherry Counties
Neb
Stade-Overton
C. Bar
Cousin of Russell Sage Dies in Poverty in Toledo
James Sage cousin of New York financier Russell Sage died in Toledo in abject poverty. He had been an inmate of the county infirmary and later received annual gifts of $50,000 from his cousin. The county will bury the deceased.
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Toledo
James Sage
Russell Sage
New York
NOLE FOR GOVERNOR STATE TICKET IN CONVEN TION AT DULUTH
The Minnesota Republican state convention in Duluth nominated A L Cole for governor on the third ballot with J F Jacobson of Madison a leading contender earlier. The ticket includes A O Eberhart, C C Dinehart, E T Young, J H Schmahl, S G Iverson, C A Pidgeon, C F Staples and Charles M Start.
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Duluth
A. L. Cole
Walker
A. O. Eberhart
Mankato
C. C. Dinehart
Slayton
E. T. Young
Appleton
J. H. Schmahl
Redwood Falls
S. G. Iverson
Rushford
Supreme Court
C. A. Pidgeon
Buffalo
C. F. Staples
West St. Paul
Charles M. Start
Rochester
Cole
J. F. Jacobson
Madison
Roosevelt
Panama
Minnesota
Fire devastates Ryan Annex in St Paul. millions lost
A six story Ryan Annex in St Paul burned from shortly after 8 am. The blaze gutted the building and damaged stocks estimated between 460000 and 500000 dollars. Gas explosions hampered firefighting. Dozens of firefighters were injured. Lieutenant W A Edwards in critical condition.
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St. Paul
Ryan Annex
Palace Clothing Company
W. A. Edwards
Company 3
In Favor of Lock Canal by House Vote
Washington June 16 in committee of the whole the house voted 110 to 36 in favor of a lock canal across the Isthmus of Panama. Representative Uittauer of New York submitted the amendment. The house also refused to sanction the purchase of materials in world markets for the Panama canal, Republicans arguing American tax funded construction should benefit American workers and manufacturers.
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Washington
House
Panama
Uittauer
New York
Panama Canal
Massacre of Jews in Bialystok Russia Described
A Tageblatt dispatch from Bialystok reports plundering and murder as the garrison secures the city amid ongoing fires. Warsaw notes say Jews, Poles, and Russians were killed or wounded, with eight sacked streets and suburbs burned. Jew esche shops looted. police casualties reported.
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Berlin
Tageblatt
Bialystok
Warsaw
Botary
Lapy
St. Petersburg
Starostelce
House Passes Railroad Rate Bill Rule to Conference
Congress sent the railroad rate bill back to conference as the Senate requested. The vote was 1184 to 99 with Democrats opposing the rule. The Senate meanwhile revived the statehood bill conference report, presenting a new compromise plan agreed by conferees.
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Senate
Senate Hood Bill Passes Conference Report
On Wednesday June 13 the Senate adopted the conference report on the state hood bill after lengthy debate and without a roll call. The House spent most of the day debating the sundry civil appropriation bill with extensive committee consideration and debate.
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Senate—Conference
House
House clash over statehood report as delegate Smith inquiry sparks protest
During the adoption of the conference report on statehood the speaker confronted insinuations by Arizona Delegate Smith about undue influence. Senate agreed to a June 21 vote on canal type and conference reports on diplomatic and naval appropriation bills.
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House
Smith
Arizona
Senate
House Approves Lock Canal Plan By Large Margin
The House votes 110 to 36 in favor of the locks canal across the Isthmus of Panama. Before the vote Mr Burton of Indiana spoke for an hour in support. Senate speeches on the canal were made by Messrs Teller and Morgan.
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House
Panama
Burton
Senate
Messrs. Teller
Morgan
House Conference approves diplomatic and consular bill
A house conference report approves the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill. Superior Wisconsin is noted as a subport of entry. A sundry civil bill passes. In the Senate discussion, Patterson of Colorado speaks in favor of the Lake Erie and Ohio ship canal measure.
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House—Conference
Superior
Wis
Senate
Patterson
Colo
Uncle of the President Robert B Roosevelt Dies at Sayville
Robert B. Roosevelt aged seventy six, uncle of the president, died in Sayville after months of illness. A lifelong Democrat, he trained as a lawyer before turning to literature and state affairs. He edited the New York Citizen, served as New York Alderman and U S Representative in 1873 to 1875, led anti Tweed efforts, was minister to The Netherlands 1888 to 1890, and was treasurer of the Democratic National Committee during Cleveland's second campaign.
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Sayville
I.L
Robert B. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
New York City
New York Citizen
City of
New York
Congress
Seventy
United States
Netherlands
Democratic National Committee
Cleveland
Grievous unrest grips Russia amid strikes and riots
Reports from St Petersburg and Moscow describe panicky bourses social democrats and social revolutionists pushing for armed uprising demonstrations for a general strike and heavy patrols in industrial districts. Soviet leaders threaten defiance as danger mounts across the empire and reports of a Jewish massacre at Bialystok compound the crisis.
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St. Petersburg
Moscow
Social Democrats
Bialystok
Russia
Burglars Loot Churches in North La Crosse
Burglary struck the three largest churches at North La Crosse Wisconsin on June 15 robbing Catholic and Lutheran houses of worship of valuables. Thousands of dollars in loot vanished as interiors were torn up by vandals.
Southwest strike ends as referendum approves Kansas City agreement
Fort WorthArkansas Indian Territory Missouri vote tally shows 1400 majority for the Kansas City agreement between soft coal operators and Southwest miners ending the strike. Miners expected to return to work next Monday after previously supporting the deal.
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Fort“Worth
Ark
Kansas City
Southwest
Arkansas
Indian Territory
Missouri
Kansas
Wheat Prices and Track Quotations Reported
Market quotations from Minneapolis on June 16 show wheat for July at 88 cents, September 82 and December 82. Track prices listed No 1 hard at 85 and No 1 Northern at 84 with No 2 Northern at 82 cents.
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Minneapolis
Grain and Livestock Prices in Duluth and St Paul Markets
Duluth reports wheat futures for No 1 Northern and No 2 Northern with price quotes across delivery months and on track. Flax futures show arrive and on track prices for July September and October. St Paul markets list cattle ranges for steers and cows, hogs at 6.30 6.45, and sheep including wethers and lambs with price bands.
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St. Paul
Market report Chicago June 16 cattle hogs and grains
Chicago market notes cattle and hog prices with ranges for cows heifers stockers and feeders mixed hogs good heavy rough heavy and mer it meat. Grain quotes include wheat corn date flax butter eggs and poultry with July and September contracts and cash prices for North Western and Southwestern flax.
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Chicago
Northwestern
Southwestern
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Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
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