Mrs Ford in Embezzlement Case Dismissal Sparks Outcry
Mrs Jeanette Stewart Ford called the woman in the case due to her role in the Warriner embezzlement case and she resists what prosecutors call a hounding. Indictments dismissed after a hospital escape scene and police and counsel intervention. A separate wreck near St Louis kills three and injures several as a fast mail train leaves the track and crashes into a building.
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Police Department
Harry A. Hunt
Caldwell
St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern
Texas
St. Louis
Plan for Lincoln Memorial Road in 72 mile federal project
The Lincoln Memorial Road Association formed in New York to push a 72 mile 200 foot wide memorial road from Washington to Gettysburg. Tru man Newberry of Detroit was elected president and leaders urge full federal funding.
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Abraham Lincoln
Washington
Gettysburg
New York City
Truman Newberry
Detroit
Mich
Navy
Lincoln
Four Killed on Train Track Collision in Haverstraw
A locomotive struck a coach returning from a funeral in Haverstraw New York killing four people and injuring one seriously. Police and railway officials investigated the accident and identified the victims and the train involved.
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Haverstraw
N. Y
Dated World News Highlights and Personal Notes
Sunday items report O Henry’s death in New York after surgery and various public figures linked to London rumors. Monday notes cover United Hotels planned capital rise and railroad compromise, with Taft and leaders in stalled railway talks. Tuesday through Saturday summaries mention revolts in Yucatan, Chicago traction talks, and Taft’s remarks on socialism plus a scientist claiming metal transmutation.
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O. Henry
New York
Chancellor Day
Alfred G. Vanderbilt
Lily Elsie
London
Chicago
Illinois State Board of Health
Carnegie Foundation
United Hotels Company
Albany
United States
Canada
Taft
Roosevelt
Herrick Johnson
Atlantic City
Harry Olson
Illinois
Rock Island
Taft Warns Against Socialism in Jackson Speech
President Taft labeled socialism a major US problem and urged the Republican party to lead on future issues during a Jackson address at the unveiling of a bronze tablet marking the 1854 birth of the Republican party. He warned that party majorities must govern or risk rule by groups and spoke of Custer’s memory in Monroe, Michigan.
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Massachusetts
Taft
Madriz
Nicaragua
Canada
Michigan
BE. W. Lange
United States
Republican Party
Jackson
Monroe, Mich
George A. Custer
Little Big Horn
Ohio Ex-Banker Released From Prison After Ten Years
George A. Rose of Cleveland, formerly linked to the Producers' National Bank, left Ohio state penitentiary after serving a ten year term for violation of national banking laws. He had been a government prisoner since 1900 and his home life has been shattered by the loss of his wife in Cleveland years ago.
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G. A. Rose
Cleveland
George A. Rose
Producers’ National Bank of Cleveland
Ohio
Rose
U S Copper Output Tops World. Arizona Leads
In 1908 the United States produced 430 099 tons of copper out of 762 111 world total with Arizona first at 145 084 tons. US trade with noncontiguous territories reached 172 000 000 dollars, up from 44 000 000 a decade earlier. Kalamazoo peppermint farms yield over 300 000 pounds of oil annually at about five dollars per pound. Fort Dodge Independent Telephone Co buys its local Bell line branch and plans a long term Bell toll line connection. An agriculture study estimates 24 000 000 dollars yearly loss from tuberculosis in food producing animals.
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United States
Arizona
Kalamazoo
Michigan
Fort Dodge Independent Telephone Company
Fort Dodge
Iowa
Bell Telephone Line
Bell Toll Lines
A. D. Melvin
Bureau of Animal Industry
Tha Department of Agriculture
Illinois Mine War Escalates Between Operators and Miners
Illinois mine dispute escalates as operators and miners clash over pumping and ventilation. Owners stand firm with Illinois Manufacturers' Association backing and potential federal arbitration echoed by leaders citing Taft as Roosevelt did in 1902.
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Illinois
Ilinois
Oll
Illinois Manufacturers’ Association
Hotel la Salle
Chicago
Norman W. Fraser
Chicago Portland Cement Company
Taft
Roosevelt
United States Forces Confront Bluefields Crisis in Nicaragua
General Rivas of the Madriz forces defies a Washington proclamation by threatening to forcefully bar entry to Bluefields harbor. Commander Harold K. Hines of the gunboat DuBuque replies that any such action would annihilate Madriz troops. Tension rises with rumors against American consul Thomas P. Moffat as U.S. and local forces face a serious standoff.
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Oxford University
Theodore Roosevelt
Gollwin Smith
Toronto
Richard Parr
Italy
Warren Garst
Carral
William Lorimer
United States Senate
Clifford W. Barnes
Chicago
Bluefields
United States
Taft
Eastern Railways
House
Harold K. Tines
Dubuque
General Rivas
Madriz
Bluefields Bluff
Nicaragua
Rivas
Washington
Hines
Thomas P. Moffat
Jones Dry Goods Co. placed in receivership by federal court
Receivers for Jones Dry Goods Co of Kansas City were appointed by the federal court. Liabilities are listed at 1.4 million dollars and assets at 2 million. The firm says operations will continue, with creditors in St. Louis Chicago Philadelphia and New York. The filing cites excessive spending on real estate and leases and poor spring business as causes.
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Chicago
New York
Congress
Railway Business Association
Interstate Commerce Commission
Jones Dry Goods Company
Kane Ana City
Kansas City
West
St. Louis
Philadelphia
U S Claim Seeks 3 Million Acres Recovered in Oregon
The 1866 grant of 3,000,000 acres to the Oregon and California Railroad is challenged in Portland by B D Townsend on behalf of the U S. The government seeks the return of about 8,000,000 acres still held by the company worth an estimated 45 to 50 million dollars.
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Oregon
Oregon and California Railroad Company
Portland
Ore
B. D. Townsend
Southern Pacific Company
Chicago Trade Review notes easing business by midweek
The Weekly Review of Chicago Trade reports easier business amid lower weekly bank payments and improving money conditions. It notes reduced merchandise stocks, sustained production in lending industries, rising factory outputs, and heavier wholesale buying for fall and winter goods, with cautious orders for immediate shipment. Bank clearings reach 244,847,555, down 2.9 percent from last year.
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Weekly Review of
Chicago Trade
R. G. Dun & Co
Chicago
Palkures
Trade reports show uneven demand and cool weather across regions
New York dispatch notes irregular trade advices with quiet retail activity in the north and lighter orders. The Northwest and Pacific coast report the strongest conditions while overall U S weekly business failures total 160 for the week ending June 2, with Canada at eighteen.
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Northwest
Pacific Coast
United States
Canada
Market prices across cities for livestock and grains
The report lists cattle hogs and sheep values in Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee New York Buffalo with ranges for wheat corn oats rye barley butter eggs and hay. Notable figures include hogs generally trending 7.00 to 10.00, cattle 4.00 to 9.00, wheat around 1.02 to 1.13, corn 56c to 65c, butter 25c to 28c, and eggs 11c to 21c.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
Ave. St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
New York
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