Rail freight rates unlikely to rise nationwide
Washington reports a New York meeting of railway presidents and operators concluded a general freight rate increase is unlikely in the near term. The majority warn higher rates would harm business and worsen slow movement, though some local boosts on fresh meat shipments and a proposed paper rate rise to the Ohio river corridor were reconsidered and deferred.
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Washington
New York
Carolina
Wisconsin
Michigan
Ohio River
Western Trunk Line Association
Confederate Memorial Day Observance at Arlington
Governor Glenn of North Carolina and Representative Sims of Tennessee spoke at Arlington National Cemetery in the Confederate section honoring Confederate Memorial Day. They praised General Lee and General Wheeler and expressed hope for reconciliation, noting Grant’s kindness at Appomattox and longing for Lincoln and Grant to be respected in the South and Lee and Jackson in the North.
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Washington
North
Glenn
North Carolina
Arlington National Cemetery
Sims
Tennessee
Robert E. Lee
Grant
Appomattox
Southland
Abe Lincoln
Ulysses Grant
Old Confederacy
Lee
Jackson
Maine
Massachusetts
California
Joseph Wheeler
New Currency Law Prompts Treasury Bank Survey
Washington June 8 Preparations under way to enact the new currency law. Comptroller of the Currency compiles a state by state list of national banks with capital and surplus to aid in forming national currency associations.
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Washington
Treasury Department
Sarah Koten Confesses Shooting in Harlem Court Scene
New York June 4 Sarah Koten a young nurse who lured Dr Martin W Auspitz to a Harlem house by a false call and shot him after hours of wait declares she does not regret the act She says I shot him but I did not murder him I killed him because he wronged me and then refused to help me saying she acted to protect her honor after her parents died.
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New York
Sarah Koten
Martin W. Auspitz
Harlem
BILLEK MUST HANG
Governor Deneen refused clemency for Herman Billek the Bohemian fortune teller facing death for the Veral family murder. An unplanned jail prayer service with 650 prisoners pressed for life imprisonment and Billek, cheerful yet certain of his innocence, prepared to face Friday’s gallows.
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Chicago
Deneen
Board of Pardon
Herman Billek
Veral
Billek
Cook County
Nashville farmer shot to death by masked men
Montgomery county farmer Ruef Hunter, a Tobacco Growers' association member, was killed at his door by masked assailants who said he talked too much. The motive remains unclear and the incident is shrouded in mystery.
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Nashville
Ruef Hunter
Montgomery County
Tennessee
Tobacco Growers’ Association
Beef shortage sparks price rise across the nation
New York reports growing alarm over a beef supply shortage with prices climbing 1 to 2 cents per 100 pounds since last week. Officials attribute the rise to a reduced cattle supply and discuss returning last winter's beef shipments from England to cold storage in the United States.
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New York
United States
England
Taft Ends Doubt on Hitchcock Delegation Tactics
Washington June 8 telegram from Secretary Taft to Frank Hitchcock of Chicago confirms no changes in the methods used to handle contesting delegations before the national committee. The dispatch settles any doubt about administration approval of Hitchcock’s procedures.
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Washington
Taft
Frank Hitchcock
Chicago
National Committee
Hitchcock
Oregon arrest of Ritzville man for February 1907 Bentonville murder
Robert Threel of Ritzville Washington was arrested at Lind Washington on a murder charge from Bentonville Arkansas in February 1907. He confessed to being the suspect and a pursuing officer heads east but is delayed by washouts in Montana. Threel had lived in Ritzville for the past year.
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Portland
Oregon
Robert Threel
Ritzville
Wash
Lind, Wash
Bentonville
Ark
Threel
Montana
Eruption Rages on Samoa Island Savaili Reported
The Aeon brings news from Apia that Savaili Island volcano, first erupting in August 190, is again violent. Large lava flows cover fertile regions, driving inhabitants to take refuge on nearby islands.
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San Francisco
Aeon
Apia
Samoa
Savaili
Brown County Sheriff Seeks Troops in Tobacco District
Brown County sheriff asked the governor for more troops to quell unrest in the tobacco district. After a conference with the adjutant general the governor ordered a company from the First regiment to Cincinnati.
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Columbus
Brown County
Tobacco District
Tornado Rips Mount Vernon and Lisbon Farmlands
A tornado devastated Mount Vernon Iowa demolishing the light and power house and city pumping station. Several barns were destroyed and houses partly wrecked. In Lisbon Iowa houses were damaged trees uprooted and farm property ruined with the electric light and water plant wrecked.
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Mount Vernon
Lisbon
Pittsburg Worker Dies After Practical Joke
Morris Caseberg, 22, of Pittsburg, employed at Duquesne Steel works, died in hospital after fellow workers allegedly inflated his body with compressed air, causing peritonitis. An investigation is under way.
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Pittsburg
Morris Caseberg
Duquesne Steel Works
Roosevelt appoints Captain Guion to park commission
President Roosevelt selects Captain Lewis Guion of the Twenty sixth Louisiana Infantry and Vicksburg national park commission to fill the vacancy created by General Stephen D. Lee s death.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Lewis Guion
Twenty-sixth Louisiana Infantry
Vicksburg National Park Commission
Stephen D. Lee
Beef and canned meats price rise planned in Chicago
Chicago packers announce a price hike due to a shortage of cattle and canned meats. The increase will range from one to two cents per pound.
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Chicago
Chicago Packers
Outlaw Gang Chase Escalates After Negro Farmed Slain
Guthrie reports another murder tied to Asa Hunter’s outlaw gang now pursued by posses. Temple Gay B Keyton, a gang member, reportedly faced Sidney Smith, a farmer, with Smith killed in the encounter.
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Guthrie
Asa
Hunter
Temple Gay
B. Keyton
Pers Sidney Smith
Smith
Plot to Bomb Portuguese Royal Family Foiled by Police
Lisbon reports that police uncovered and thwarted a plan by the Society of the Black Cross to blow up royal family members during a June 18 religious feast. Three notorious anarchists were among those arrested as ringleaders.
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Lisbon
Society of the Black Cross
Four Buildings Burn in Clovis Fire
Four buildings fell to flames in Clovis New Mexico on June 9 with the Binkley hotel and three other structures destroyed.
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Clovis, N. M
Binkley Hotel
Condition of Wheat in Washington Report
Wheat condition shown as 86.0 with spring wheat acreage totaling 17,710,000 acres as of June 8 in Washington.
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Washington
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