Peace Negotiations Foreseen After White House Talks
The June White House conference among President Wilson and Japanese Minister Takahira focused on peace in the Far East. Officials noted no clear Japanese demand on Russia yet, and Cassini’s report from St Petersburg awaited reply. Neutral powers lean toward direct talks between belligerents to hasten peace.
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Far East
White House
Takahira
Jusserand
Q’bienne
Japan
Russia
Count Cassini
St. Petersburg
Keer
William
Dir
Susio
Tease of the Czar Triggers Russo Turmoil
In St Petersburg June 6 an imperial ukase creates Governor Trepoff as a strong governing figure. The act signals heightened internal crisis and mirrors 1880 moves by Alexander I. Pobiednostsef’s silent influence looms over the palace politics as officials rush to interpret the crackdown.
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St. Petersburg
Nicholas’ Ukase
Trepoff
Gien
Russia
Alexander I
Winter Palace
Loris Melikoff
Loris- Meliko
Holy Synod
Tsarskoe Selo
Trepoft
Pobledonostself
M. Bouligan
Resignations Sweep Equitable Board Underscore Turbulent Times
In New York on June 6 reports said Prime Minister resignations reach high level after ministerial exit. Count Jams dorff rumored to have resigned as foreign minister and may be replaced by M. Maravieti as plans to guide harmony in Equitable life Assurance society grow more complex. Five directors have quit, including T Jefferson Coolidge and Jacob Schiff, with Melville Ingalls and John A Stewart weighing next steps as state officials reopen inquiries at Equitable offices.
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Count Jamsdorff
M. Maravieti
Rome
New York
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Boston
T. Jefferson Coolidge
Jacob Schiff
Banking House
of Kuhn, Loeb & Co
Equitable
Insurante
Mother and Daughter Die After Drinking Contaminated Brandy
In Milwaukee on June 6 Florence Bel Mayer aged 21 and her mother Anna Meyer died at 855 Jackson Street after drinking from a bottle believed to contain brandy. The younger woman died hours before her mother. A note on Mrs Meyer's table read Sell everything and give the dead a decent burial. In the purse is $29.56.
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Milwaukee
Florence Bel- Mayer
Anna Meyer
Jackson Street
Pennsylvania Railroad sets record for New York to Chicago run
Chicago June 6. The Pennsylvania railroad minimum distance between New York and Chicago was covered in 11 hours flat breaking all records for fast travel. Two special trains achieved the feat with eight hours fifty minutes from New York to Pittsburgh and eight hours ten minutes from Pittsburgh to Chicago.
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Chicago
Pennsylvania
New York
Pittsburg
Carpenter Nominated for Rhode Island Governor by Socialist Party
Warren A. Carpenter of Woonsocket was named the Socialist party candidate for Rhode Island governor on Monday. A lightning strike killed Mrs. Mary B. Bretberg at 3 AM Monday at her St Paul residence.
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Warren A. Carpenter
Woonsocket
Rhode Island
Socialist Party
Mary B. Bretberg
St Paul
Market Quotations From Minneapolis to Chicago and St Paul
Wheat prices across Minneapolis Duluth and Chicago show July and Sept contracts with Nos 1 and 2 Northern varieties trading near 1.15 to 1.57 per bushel. St Paul and Chicago stockyards list cattle hogs and sheep values with steers from 5.50 to 6.40 and hogs around 5.05 to 5.20. Butter eggs turkeys and poultry prices are also noted with regional cash and forward quotes.
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Northern
Ste
St. Paul Union
St. Paul
Chicago Union Stock Yards
Chicago
Northwestern
Southwestern
Pawtry
Shea Arrested as Teamsters Leader Faces Conspiracy Charge
Cornelius P. Shea president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and Chicago strike leader is taken to jail on conspiracy indictments. Hugh McGee, Truck Drivers union president, accompanies him. Both released on bail after two hours. A wage and settlement conference failed as employer and union negotiators demanded power to bind. Albert Young, former Teamsters president, arrested on a libel warrant and later released on bond.
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Chicago
Cornelius P. Shea
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Hugh McGee
Barrett
Shea
Robert Wilson
Martin Honan
Washington
Franklin Streets
McGee
Teamsters
Employers’ Association
Attorney Mayer
Teamsters’ Joint Council
Mayers
Joint Council
State Street
Albert Young
International Teamsters’ Union
Robert J. Thorne
Ward & Co
House
Sears, Roebuck & Co
Dennison Acquitted In Diamond Robbery Case
Red Oak June 6 The jury acquits Thomas Dennison of Omaha charged with complicity in the 1593 night robbery of $18 000 worth of diamonds from James Pollock a New York jewelry salesman Dennison fought extradition and carried a habeas corpus petition to the U S Supreme Court.
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Red Oak
Thomas Dennison
Omaha
James Pollock
New York
Dennison
Sarah Kuhn Dies in Angmosa Prison After Lye Poisoning
Des Moines reports the death of Sarah Kuhn at Angmosa prison following a 17 day period of severe suffering from lye poisoning taken in capsules amid a personal crisis. Kuhn was sentenced to life imprisonment on January 1901 for murdering her husband, who died September 4, 1900, from arsenic poisoning.
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Des Moines
Sarah Kuhn
Iowa
Angmosa
Two English Brothers Drowned at Raver Lake
The Jay cock brothers aged twenty one and twenty three from Wilonipeg Manitoba drowned at Raver Lake seven miles south of Shoal Lake Saturday night when a storm capsized their boat.
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Wilonipeg. Man
Jaycock Brothers
Raver Lake
Shoal Lake
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