Supreme Court Upholds State Rate Laws For Railroads
Missouri and other states win a series of unanimous rulings upholding rate regulations while striking down general laws as to smaller roads. The court limits rates to two cents per mile for most lines, but allows compensatory rates for smaller branch lines. Several specific lines are ruled to have had confiscatory rates, reversing lower court decrees in favor of the railroads.
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Washington
Missouri
West
Virginia
Oregon
Arkansas
Supreme Court
Hughes
State Utility Commission
St. Louis
Kansas City Southern
Missouri, Kansas & Texas
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
Kansas City
West Virginia celebrates fiftieth birthday jubilee
From Wheeling to the White House the fifty year commemoration of West Virginia features President Wilson pressing a button to release carrier pigeons and balloons in Wheeling. Gov. Hatfield and state leaders witness the nationwide signal as bells flash and a light shows across state capitols.
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Wheeling
W. Va
West Virginia
Wilson
White House
Washington
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Ohio
H. D. Hatfield
West
Hatfeld
Law Up To Voters Again In Missouri Prohibition Fight
In Jefferson City Rev Sam Small Georgia evangelist urged that the statewide prohibition question be submitted again to Missouri voters at the 1914 election. The dry faction protests the county unit law. A single tax amendment, defeated in 1912, is also likely to be on the ballot again next year.
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Jefferson City
Sam Small
Georgia
Methodist Church
Missouri
Membership Rise At AMA Meeting In Minneapolis
Minneapolis reports the sixty fourth annual AMA session opened with Dr Abraham Jacobi presiding. Secretary Craig notes membership rose from 34223 to 37913 while state associations grew from 70021 to 70538 across 2001 county societies in 2961 counties. In Leavenworth Walter Johnson escaped prison engine room then Thomas Parker was recaptured in eastern Missouri. West Virginia mine strike resumes as senate committee questions witnesses amid renewed unrest in Paint and Cabin Creek districts.
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Minn
American Medical Association
House of Delegates
Engineering
University of Minnesota
Abraham Jacobi
New York
Alex. R. Craig
Chicago
United States
Leavenworth
Kan
Walter Johnson
Lansing
Codding
Thomas Parker
Parker
Missouri
West Virginia
Charleston
W. Va
Paint
Cabin Creek
Senate
No M. N. G. Encampment Abandoned In Missouri
The Missouri National Guard encampment at Nevada is canceled this year by state military council order. The action follows Missouri Pacific Railway's refusal to grant a 1 cent per mile transport rate for guardsmen.
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St. Louis
Missouri National Guard
Nevada
Military Council of
Missouri Pacific Railway
Railroad Wreck Fatal to Five in Stamford
Stamford, Conn., June 13 five persons are dead and many injured in a rear end collision on the New York New Haven Hartford line opposite the local passenger station. The Springfield Express crashed into the first section as it was leaving the station killing five and injuring many. The incident disrupts service and prompts investigations.
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Stamford
Conn
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Would Livewoman Equal Suffrage Action Urged In Congress
Washington June 14 Senator Ayshurst submitted the woman suffrage committee report opposing the Chamberlain resolution for a constitutional amendment to extend suffrage to women. The report argues the people govern and that granting equal franchise would strengthen government. Ayshurst aims to secure a vote at the special session without blocking tariff legislation.
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Washington
Ashurat
Woman's Suffrage Committee
Republic
Ayshurst
Pesky banks still slide in Panama Canal area
In Panama on June 14, ongoing slides along the Culebra Cut produced a new east bank movement that dumped earth and rock into the canal, covering the drainage ditch and overturning a steam shovel. The Cucaracha slide worsened the fill to the 17Foot level while a west bank slide near Empire threatened further trouble.
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Panama
Culebra
Cucaracha
Empire
Atchison Youth Dies by Suicide in Richmond Missouri
Herbert Boyle a 14 year old Atchison resident died by his own hand in Richmond Missouri. A relative suspects a love affair with his employer’s daughter may have contributed to the death. The youth was the son of Mrs May Boyle of Atchison.
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Atchison, Kan
Herbert Boyle
May Boyle
Atchison
Richmond
M Shafer in Critical Condition After Bull Attack
M Shafer formerly of Burdett now of Norwich Kan. is in critical condition after a vicious bull gored him last week reports reaching relatives in Larned Kansas.
Japs Let Yacht Go
Washington reports the American yacht Columbia seized by Japanese authorities for unlawful op ened to be an international incident has disappeared.
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Washington
Columbia
Italian Chamber Approves 900,000 War Fund
Rome June 16 Italian chamber of deputies unanimously approved an appropriation of 900000 to continue the war in Tripoli where Italians recently suffered a severe reverse at the hands of Arab forces.
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Punich
Rome
Italian Chamber of Deputies
Tri
McKinley Relics Put Up For Auction In San Francisco
Auction of President William McKinley items from the late George E Morse collection includes badges photographs clippings and books. Morse was Ida McKinley’s husband and known before her death as the president's favorite niece. The sale takes place next week in San Francisco on June 14.
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McKinley
San Francisco
William McKinley
George E. Morse
Ida McKinley
Spuds on Market Hold Released For Charity
One hundred thousand bushels of potatoes spoiled on the tracks in Minneapolis may be given to charitable institutions. A local produce company set up a committee to negotiate with railroad officials to cancel freight charges as a condition for donation.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Minneapolis - Produce Company
Bank legalizes collection of liquor sale draft in prohibition state
In St Paul Minnesota on June 14 a U S circuit court of appeals opinion holds that a bank collecting a sight draft representing liquor purchase price shipped interstate into a prohibition state does not violate laws prohibiting a collector from acting as an agent.
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St. Paul
Minn
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Packing House Employees Strike in St Joseph
More than 100 workers at Swift Morris and Armour packing plants in South St Joseph walked off the job and others quit hourly. The strike targets sheep hog and cattle butchers and casing workers demanding union recognition refused by the packers.
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Packing House
St. Joseph
Swift, Morris and Armour
South St. Joseph
Keokuk Locks Open After Closure for Mississippi Navigation
Keokuk Iowa June 13 the large locks that closed Mississippi river navigation since last November have been formally opened. Two boats Sidney of the Streckfus line and W H Hill of the Wishard line passed through with Sidney carrying a large crowd of excursionists.
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Keokuk
Sidney
Streckfus
W. H. Hill
Divorce Bargain Day in Randolph County Circuit Court
In Randolph county Missouri on June 14, thirteen divorces were granted in session here. Raymond and Miss Anna Stern of St. Louis were granted their marriage license issued by the clerk this month. A separate Wichita Kansas report notes a fatal bite incident involving a 6 year old boy from Haysville, hydrophobia linked to rabies.
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Moberly
Randolph County
Raymond
Anna Stern
St. Louis
Wichita, Kan
Thomas , Jr
Thomas Taylor
Haysville
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