High Court Denies Government Bid to Dissolve United States Steel
New Jersey court rules United States Steel Corp did not violate the Sherman act and refuses injunctions. It finds no unlawful restraint from the 1907 Tennessee Coal and Iron purchase and notes the case centers on whether the steel trust unduly restricts trade. The decision frames monopoly as trade power, not mere size, and keeps the Roosevelt era deal intact.
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Trenton
N. J
United States Court For New Jersey
Federa
United States Steel Corporation
Department of Justice
Steel Corporation
Gary
Joseph J. Buffington
Tennessee Coal and A [Ron Company
Roosevelt
Tennessee Company
Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie
Buffington
McPherson
Hunt
Wooley
Supreme Court of the United States
Woolley
Taft
Jacob M. Dickinson
Secretary of War
Supreme Court
Fall of Przemysl Reported After Three Week Siege
London heard of Przemysl surrender after a fierce artillery campaign by Austro German forces ending a siege that lasted three weeks. Russians had held the fortress for about seventy days before capitulation. The piece notes the surprise in London and examines the wider Galician and Polish front amid renewed fighting along a twenty five mile stretch toward Warsaw.
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Warsaw
London
Przemysl
Petrograd
Galicia
Silesia
Hungary
San
Przemys
Pilica
Vistula
Bzura
Rawka
German Transport Torpedoed by British Submarine
London reports a large German transport was torpedoed in Panderma Bay by a British submarine. The submarine was part of several operating in the Sea of Marmora and was cited by the Dardanelles command after receiving the official dispatch.
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London
Sea of Marmora
Panderma Bay
Dardanelles
Italian Torpedoes Sink Two Boats
Italian torpedo boats entered the Gulf of Trieste early yesterday and sank two merchant vessels while damaging an Austrian auxiliary cruiser. The reports reached Geneva via Paris on June 3.
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Geneva
Switzerland
Paris
Gulf of Trieste
Lemberg Likely Next Austro German Objective In War
Reports say Lemberg may be the next Austro German target as Pra semysl fell to Teutonic forces after a costly siege. A daring French morning raid on Crown Prince Frederick William’s headquarters produced shells and darts but left the planes unharmed.
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Crown Prince
Frederick William
Praemysl
David Lloyd- George
Prazemysl
Galician
Lemberg
French War Office
France
Belgium
Prince Frederick William
United States
Berlin
Washington
Hooge
Ypres
Arras
le Petre
Stry
Rome
Fienne
Trent
Uncle Sam Behind in Naval Progress
Rear Admiral Fiske warned at the Naval Academy Alumni Dinner in Annapolis that the U S Navy lags in equipment and preparedness. Secretary Daniels praised President Wilson Lincoln and McKinley for patience and firmness as he urged making laymen aware of naval needs amid rapid modernizing Europe.
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Annapolis
Fiske
House Naval Committee
Office of Aid For Operations
Navy Department
Naval Academy
Navy
Daniels
Wilson
Lincoln
McKinley
Admiral Fiske
Europe
United States Navy Progress Lags Behind Rise of Global Fleet
The passage laments American security and naval preparedness. It notes the absence of a central general staff despite admiring foreign expertise, and praises the recent creation of the office of chief of naval operations as overdue by fifteen years.
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United States
Office of Chief of Naval Operations
West Virginia to see fair Friday and clouds Saturday
West Virginia forecasts show a fair day Friday with increasing clouds Saturday. Virginia expects partly cloudy and warmer Friday with Saturday fair and warmer. North winds moderate to light, turning dimmer Friday.
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West Virginia
Virginia
Lloyd-George urges munitions drive in Manchester speech
David Lloyd George as minister of munitions told Manchester employers and trade unionists that German victory in Galicia stemmed from superior equipment. He warned Britain must reorganize labor under state control to boost shell and gun production or risk losing the war. The meeting endorsed increasing war material output.
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Manchester
Eng
Galia
France
Belgium
David Lloyd-George
Welgium
Germany
Germany to pay compensation for Belridge torpedoing
Germany informs Norway that the Norwegian tank steamer Belridge was sunk by a German submarine in error. Berlin deplores the incident and offers full compensation, proposing a joint expert committee to determine the payment. Norway agrees to this arrangement.
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Germany
Christinana
Norway
Renewed Efforts to Withdraw Foreigners From Mexico City
Vera Cruz June 3 The state department in Washington orders John R. Silliman Wilsons special agent in Mexico to renew efforts to remove foreigners from Mexico City. British charge d affaires reports that about 800 Americans, perhaps more, wish to leave at once.
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Vera Cruz
State Department
Washington
John R. Silliman
Wilson
Mexico
Mexico City
Mr. Silliman
Italian King Offers Mediation in Russia Romania Dispute
Paris June 3 reports King Victor Emmanuel of Italy has offered to act as intermediary in resolving territorial questions between Russia and Roumania. The Milan Secolo conveys the offer as a possible peace initiative.
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Paris
Victor Emanue
Italy
Russia
Roumania
Milan Secolo
Wilson drafts brief note to Germany on submarine warfare
President Wilson prepares a pointed note asking whether Germany will follow international law in naval warfare. An emissary of Count von Bernstorff will travel to Berlin to relay American views on submarine policy and public opinion. The White House expects no delay in issuing a formal reply, and officials confirm Lusitania unarmed evidence.
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Washington
Wilson
Germany
Berlin
Count von Bernstorff
William
United States
Bryan
Gerard
Foreign Office
Rabki
Great Britain
State Department
Lusitania
Berlin Bread Price Reductions Set for June 7
German authorities announce Berlin will see price reductions on various breads and a policy allowing baking of small loaves from white flour starting June 7. The move signals adequate flour supplies and aims to ease cost of living in the capital.
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Berlin
London
Comprehensive Plans for Mexican Relief
Washington reports the American Red Cross and government agencies are advancing famine relief for hungry non comb atants in Mexico. Orders go to frontier posts to move food and cooperate with border officers. Mrs Mabel Boardman leads committees to organize city collections while Secretary Bryan notes a Brazil Mexico City train plan to repatriate Americans via Vera Cruz.
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Mexico
Tuas Cae Hientes
United States
Red Cross
Monterey
Tanna
Carothers
Chihuahua
Villa
Silao
Carranza
Obregon
Trinidad
Washington
Wilson
American Red Cross
State
War Departments
Republic
Mabel Boardman
New York
Chicago
Bryan
Mexico City
Vera Cruz
International Relief Committee
6000 Veterans March in Richmond to Lay Stonewall Jackson Monument
Nearly six thousand Confederate veterans marching through rain in Richmond performed the closing ceremony of the twenty fifth reunion by laying the corner stone of a Jackson statue. The project plans a belated equestrian monument funded by southern donors and state and city gifts with design to be chosen soon.
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Richmond
Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson
Virginia
Jefferson Davis
Robert E. Lee
Jackson
Monument Avenue
Lee
J. KE. B. Stuart
Wm. A Anderson
South
Legislature of
Robert [. Lee
J. BE. B. Stuart
Valley
Stonewall” Jackson
Alexandria
Bluefield Plans Grounded for City Playground Board
The Bluefield Playground and Recreation Association, chartered May 2, with H. Mabie and Isadore Cohen among incorporators, aims to buy up to five acres inside the city and fifty outside for playgrounds. They seek $750 immediately for the first land payment. over $400 already pledged.
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Bluefield Playground and Recreation Association
Stuart F. Reed
H. 3. Mabie
B. Wancock
H. A. Lilly
F. S. Bailey
Ho L Shott
Isadore Cohen
J. v. Shumate
Truefield
West Virginia
H. 8. Mabie
C. B. Hancok
J. BL Soumate
Chamber of Ceromece
H. S. Mabie
W. H. Thomas
W. Moore
J. BE. Mullen
Bluefield Water Works and Improvement Company
Spring ‘Hollow
Water Company
Pendleton Terrace
Pearis Street
Tyler Street
Hluefield
Penmar
View Avenues
McCulloch
H. 8
Mabie
Chamber of Commerce
Safe cracked at Indian Refining in Lynchburg
A nitroglycerine blast cracked the safe in the Indian Refining Company office in Lynchburg Virginia last night. Fifty dollars in wages were taken and police believe professionals carried out the theft.
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Lynchburg
Indian Refining Company
Casualties in First Canadian Expedition Listed
Ottawa June 3 casualties in the first Canadian expedition total 251 dead wounded and missing. Most losses occurred between May 20 and 24.
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Ottawa
Canada
Disturbances Erupt at Tokio Anti-Government Meeting
A mass gathering in Tokio ends in serious disturbances with many arrests outside the meeting building. A manifesto from the organizer is confiscated as authorities move to quell unrest.
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Tokio
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Tennessee Coal and Iron Company
Lackawanna
Bethlehem
Przemyol
Uncle Sam
Lloyd George
Bernstorff
Will Tay
Kaiser
America
Red Cross Society
Stonewall Jackson
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