News of the Week in Few Words
A digest of international events: Mare Island fire kills Charles Mattson. J C Taylor and 10 Sozialist party members jailed. Oregon battleship Oregon to be scrapped at Bremerton. Dawson deaths from ptomaine poisoning at Yukon Gold Co.. lash sentence in Victoria for would be robber. Portland infant deaths from infectious dysentery. San Francisco machinists oppose Money strike. Wood for President club forms in Seattle. Tacoma central labor council to back Socialist party. Washington ratification petitions for federal prohibition. Mexican troop train on Nogales siding. Vancouver labor walkout in sympathy with Winnipeg. Canadian crop rains raise conditions. ex-German foreign secretary Zimmerman in Holland. Yaqui Indians join Villa raids. Bolshevik end near in Hungary. possible Ireland rebellion. Wilson offers Luxembourg delegates. Vienna-Copenhagen report hostages to be freed. Austrian jewels stolen and replaced. Kolchak troops storm Orenburg. German demand over blockade damages. King Albert to visit Washington. Versailles dissatisfactions voiced by Wolff bureau.
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Charles W. Mattson
Marine Corps
Mare Island Marine Camp
J.C. Taylor
Socialist Party
California
United States
Oregon
America
Bremerton
Wash
William C., Lawson
Yukon Gold Company
Dawson
San Francisco
Gold Company
Victoria
B. C
Portland
Leonard Wood
Seattle
Central Labor Council of
Tacoma
Krutzky
Washington
Nogales
Chihuahua
Villa
Vancouver
Winnipeg
Alberta
Canada
Alfred Zimmerman
Amerongen
Holland
Germany
Mexico
Vienna
Basel
Switzerland
Hungary
Ireland
London
Wilson
Council of Four
Luxembourg
Copenhagen
Austria
Kolchak
Orenburg
Russia
Albert
Belgium
Washington, D. C
League of Nations
Wolff Bureau
United
Cattle Tuberculin Rule Aims to Curb Spread Interstate
The agriculture department will ban interstate shipments of cattle failing the tuberculin test beginning July 1. The report notes broader policy actions, including labor and war measures, with United States political and military figures discussed across the period.
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Department of Agriculture
Kenyon
Congress
United States
Europe
House
War Department
Lima
Peru
Baker
Federal Congress
Washington
Railroad Administration
Austrian Peace Terms Outlined at St Germain
Dr. Karl Renner outlined Austria’s hopes for peace terms from the allied powers. Austria must renounce large territories and surrender its navy while gaining transit rights. indemnities and final army status await future decisions. Fifteen days are given for reply as talks on Fiume and Dalmatia continue.
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Karl Renney
Austria
St. Germain
Dr. Renner
Hungary
Adriatic
Paris
Fiume
Dalmatian Islands
Wilson
Lloyd George
Clemenceau
Orlando
House
Two Killed as Toledo Riot Guards Open Fire on Crowd
In Toledo Ohio two men were shot dead and two others gravely wounded during riots tied to a Willys Overland plant dispute involving 18 000 workers. Discharged soldiers guarding the plant fired over 100 shots at rioters after a guard fired into the air near a fire station.
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Toledo
Ohio
Willys-Overland Automobile Company
Automobile Company
Chen
Cornell Schreiber
Peace Terms Tangle Near Paris As Austrian Negotiations Continue
In St Germain en Laye the Jong presented the Austrian side with war exit terms. Austria learns only future duties and boundaries from military and political standpoints. Financial indemnities and reparations are deferred. Allied commissions review German treaty counter proposals and are poised to reply this week. Leaders weigh possible concessions.
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Paris
St. Germain-en-Laye
Violence accompanies trouble in Winnipeg
Violence by strike sympathizers amid a 2000 strong parade marked Winnipeg’s eighteenth general strike day. Police, detectives, and volunteers repelled demonstrators aiming for the board of trade building where the Citizens' Committee of one thousand operates. A large banner was torn from the building and an automobile at the curb was smashed.
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Winnipeg
Man
Board of Trade
Citizens’ Committee
United States Faces Trap Allegation Over League of Nations
Senator Johnson of California warned in the senate that the league of nations is a trap by old world powers led by Great Britain and Japan to force the United States into perpetual guarantees of their integrity. He said the proposal lacks real peace aims and would sustain autocratic power.
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Washington
Great Britain
Japan
League of Nations
United States
Senate
Johnson
California
League
New York Men Report Treaty Copy Withheld by State Department
Senator Lodge said business interests in New York possessed a copy of the German treaty given out in Paris but withheld from the senate by the state department. The disclosure sparked a sharp debate over the president and department policies on publishing the treaty text.
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Washington
Lodge
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
New York
Germany
Paris
State Department
Wilson
Europe faces wheat and rye import needs in provisional survey
Paris June 4 A preliminary survey shows Europe will need 700 million bushels of wheat and rye at a minimum. Herbert C Hoover head of the allied relief organization said that European needs can be met by export surplus. Hoover estimates U S exports at 470 million bushels.
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Paris
Europe
Herbert C. Hoover
Allied Relief Organization
Hoover
United States
Polish Premier Seeks U S Inquiry on Jewish Treatment in Poland
Paris June 2 Tenace Jan Paderewski Poland’s prime minister says he will ask President Wilson to appoint an American commission to visit Poland and investigate charges of mistreatment of Jews. He wrote to Leibert Hoover tying the move to New York protest meetings and says Poland has nothing to conceal. The piece also notes plans to consolidate U S railroads under 12 to 20 large systems outlined to the American Short Line association by the director general of railroads Ines.
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Paris
Tenace Jan Paderewski
Wilson
Poland
Leibert C. Hoover
New York
Ihuve
Ines
American Short Line Association
Minneapolis Grain Market Report June 4
Wheat receipts 36 cars vs 112 a year ago. Cash No 1 northern 2.04 to 2.43. Flour market unchanged. Shipments 148 181 barrels. Corn No yellow 1.67 to 1.68. Oats No 3 white 65 65 to 67%c. Flax 4.95 to 4.67. Barley 1 071 18. Nye No 2 1.49.
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Minneapolis Grain
Minneapolis
Northern
Chicago Livestock Market Report June 3
Hogs receipts 63,000 with prices mostly 15 to 26 cents lower. top $20.50, bulk around $20.10 to $21.40. Cattle receipts 15,000 with beef steers steady to 25 cents lower. several price tiers listed from $7.26 to $16.26 for steers and $6 to $15 for cows and young stock. Sheep receipts 16,000 with market steady to strong. lambs under 84 pounds at $13.15 to $15.35. over 85 pounds $12.60 to $16.25. yearlings $10.50 to $13.25.
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Chicago Livestock
Chicago
Hogs Receipts Dip as Market Drops in St Paul On June 4
South St. Paul reports hog receipts around 8 800 with prices 29 cents lower in the live market. Cattle receipts total 3 800 with steers at 67 15 and cows and heifers at 52 75, veal calves steady, stockers and feeders steady to 25 cents higher, town price about 5 50 to 14 range.
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South St. Paul
Omaha Livestock Market Report Shows Mixed Hogs Cattle Sheep
Hogs receipts 15 500 market lower with top at 20 and bulk 19.75 to 19.90. Cattle receipts 4 200 market steady with beef steers 12 to 15 and butcher cattle 7 to 12. Veal calves 11.75 to 13.75. Sheep receipts 2 500 markets higher with lambs 85 pounds and under 13.50 to 14, yearling wethers 11.50 to 12.25, lambs 85 pounds and over 12.50 to 13.75.
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Omaha
Plane to Try Transcontinental Flight From Coast to Coast
Washington dispatch says the army air service will attempt a New York City to San Francisco flight in under two days with one stop using a Martin bombing plane. Mineola and North Platte as start and midway points, 1,500 miles apart.
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Washington
New York City
San Francisco
Army Air Service
Martin
Mineola
North Platte
Neb
New York
Midway Point
Livestock Shipments From Montana in 1918 Revealed
A Montana state report shows 36 260 carloads of livestock shipped in 1918, about one forty ninth of U S total. Montana rank far lower than Iowa Illinois Nebraska Missouri tops with 1 808 508 cars.
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Union
Montana
United States Department of Agriculture
Towa
Illinois
Nebraska
Missouri
United States
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Maybee
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