Delay Angers the President Over Canadian Reciprocity
President Taft is frustrated by Senate inaction on Canadian reciprocity and may take defiant action. He believes broad support exists for the trade pact, though a small group of influential interests opposes it. Canadian leaders reportedly hold a pro reciprocity majority and expect a general election if needed. A Pekin cyclone near Peoria, Illinois, killed two and caused property damage.
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Washington
Senate
Taft
Canada
Peoria
Ill
Pekin
Roosevelt Summoned as Witness in Steel Trust Probe
Theodore Roosevelt is asked to testify before the house special steel trust investigating committee about the U S Steel takeover of the Tennessee Coal and Iron company. John W Gates challenged Roosevelt's letter to the attorney general and officials Gary and Frick. Roosevelt may be asked to reconcile discrepancies.
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Washington
Theodore Roosevelt
Special “Steel Trust
House
Mr. Roosevelt
Tennessee Coal and Iron Company
United States Steel Corporation
John W. Gates
Bonaparte
BE. H. Gary
H. C. Frick
Coal and Iron Company
More Postal Banks Open In Fifty New Cities
Postmaster General Hitchcock designated fifty additional postal savings depositories bringing total in operation before July 1 to over 300. The plan targets second class post offices to broaden banking facilities in smaller communities with deposits opening June 27 in Sheldon Iowa Crookston Minnesota Bozeman Montana Lewiston Montana Crete Nebraska Carrington North Carolina Yankton South Dakota and Wauwatosa Wisconsin.
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Washington
Hitchcock
Sheldon
Crookston
Minn
Bozeman
Lewiston
Mont
Crete, Neb
Carrington, N. C
Yankton, 8. D., and
Wauwatosa, Wis
Hill plans transcontinental line from Chicago via Denver
A road southwest from Denver through Prescott to the Pacific coast is said to be planned by James J. Hill. The line would connect with the Burlington route, also a Hill line, creating a fourth direct transcontinental route from Chicago to the Pacific. The project leaked after an Hill system official said part of the route has already been surveyed and staked with camps established and preliminary work nearing completion.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Denver
Prescott
Ariz
Pacific Coast
James J. Hill
Burlington
Chicago
Pacific
Hill System
Nine Die in Burlington Train Wreck Near McCook
A head on collision between Burlington passenger trains Nos 9 and 12 east of McCook Nebraska killed nine and injured about twenty. Denver and Omaha Western league teams were aboard. several players injured lightly, including James McGill with a broken foot and Kinsella and Lloyd with minor wounds.
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Denver
Gans
Burlington Railroad
McCook
Neb
W. J. Leahy
Lincoln
Jack Hyder
A. J. Olson
Cameron
Fred Shepherd
Holdredge
Express
Frazier
George Freer
J. F. Vallery
Burlington Road
Omaha
Colorado Limited
James McGill
Kinsella
Lloyd
Twenty Three Lost At Sea Taboga Sinks Off Guanico Point
Panama May 80 The National steamer Taboga struck a rock near Guanico point and sank. Seventy three survivors aboard the David recounts bravery and cowardice. Chief Engineer Perivanches and a Cuban sailor refused lifeboats and went down with the ship. Captain Campbell faced accusations of ungallant conduct. French chargé d'affaires brother M. Ponsignon was rescued after twelve hours afloat. Fourteen passengers and nine crew are dead.
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Panama
Guanico Point
David
Perivanches
Campbell
Taboga
M. Ponsignon
Amusement resort fire claims two lives in San Francisco
Two men are believed dead after a blaze destroyed the Chutes amusement resort in San Francisco. A neighboring lodging house burned as occupants were awakened, and Della Alviso and John Feist leaped from a second story window, both seriously injured. A resort employee, William Williams, broke his arm trying to catch Miss Alviso. the concrete theater survived, with losses estimated at 250000 dollars.
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San Francisco
Della Alviso
John Feist
William Williams
Miss Alviso
Five Die in Electric Car Collision at Los Angeles Crossing
Five persons were killed and one mortally injured when a Pacific Electric streetcar struck an automobile at a crossing near Rivers in Los Angeles County. The car attempted to cross as the streetcar, traveling at high speed, could not stop in time.
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Los Angeles
Pacific Electric
Reward for Labor Leader in United States
W. G. Lee head of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen receives a salary increase from 7000 to 8000 dollars annually after an aggregate 37000000 dollar rise in train crew wages. The American Federation of Labor weekly notes this as the world's highest labor leader salary.
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Chicago
United States
W. G. Lee
The
Brotherhood of Railway
American Federation of Labor
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Steel Trust
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Moving Pictures
Bower & Thomas, Proprietors
Petersen Bros. Plumbing & Heating Company
Beach, North Dakota
Burlingtom
McCook, Neb
J. C.C
Beach
Golden Valley
Nature
Diana
Lorraine
J.C. C
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