Paper Tariff Debate Divides Probers Report
A six member House special committee filed a majority and a minority report on wood pulp and print paper tariffs. The majority urges further study before legislation, while the Democratic minority supports immediate passage of the Stevens bill to put pulp and paper on the free list.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
House
American Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Mann
Ilinois
Miller
Kansas
Stafford
Wisconsin
Bannon
Ohio
Sims
Tennessee
Styan
New York
Viala
Stevens Hill
Congress Adjourns After Prolonged Session and Filibuster
The Sixtieth Congress adjourned just after sundown on May 30 in a hushed Senate and singing House. Senator La Follette set a 18 hour 43 minute filibuster against emergency currency reform, with Gore also speaking over two hours. The Senate adopted the conferees’ Aldrich Vreeland currency bill by 48 to 22, and the President signed the measure using his pen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Senate
Messrs
la Follette
Stone
Gore
Mr. Gorn
Wilson
Chicago
Strike on Gould Roads Spurs 1200 Railroad Workers Walkout
Reports from St. Joseph Missouri indicate 1200 employees of Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain rail lines walked out amid a dispute over a contract change to piecework pay replacing the former hourly rate. The Brotherhood of Railway Carmen headquarters confirms the strike is escalating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri Pacific
Iron Mountain Linen
St. J.quis
Missouri, Pacific
Tron Mountain
Brotherhood of Railway
Carmen
Bubonic Plague Spreads Amid Alarm at La Guaira
New cases of bubonic plague appear daily at La Guaira causing widespread fear in Caracas. Citizens react after President Castro’s decree on May 23 to reopen the port to interior traffic once no new cases are reported, though the outbreak persists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
la Guaira
Caracas
Castro
Taft's Successor Luke Wright Named Secretary of War
Luke Wright of Tennessee is reported to become Secretary of War when Taft retires in July due to a likely presidential nomination. Wright, a gold Democrat, is highly regarded by Roosevelt. He served as Governor General of the Philippines for four years and as ambassador to Japan for a year and a half.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Luke
Wright
Tennessee
Taft
War Department
Cabiinet
Roosevelt
Philippines
Japan
West Virginia Democrats pick delegates at Wheeling convention
At the Wheeling gathering on May 28 four at large delegates were chosen for the national convention in Denver and three candidates nominated for the state supreme court of appeals. Resolutions pledge support for William Jennings Bryan for president and call for tariff revision, trust dissolution, strict immigration enforcement, and unity under Democratic principles.
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Wheeling
W. Va
West Virginia
Denver
State Supreme Court of Appeals
Shiprame Court of Appeals
William Gordon Mathews
Kyanawha County
Supreme Court of Appeals
Sanders
Walter Pendleton
Roane County
Cox
Meilville Peek
Barbour County
A. Z. Wilkin
Tayboy
D. Ta. Wilkin
Logan County
J. McGregor
Ritchia County
Carl Vance
Flarrigan County
Bryan
William J. Bryan
Congress
Bryan i
The
United States
Former President Cleveland Leaves Lakewood Transit Home
Grover Cleveland, once confined to Lakewood Hotel for rheumatic attack and indigestion, has sufficiently recovered to return to Princeton. He traveled in John Hays Hammond's touring car as the party left Lakewood for home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grover Cleveland
Lakewood
N. J
Princeton
John Hays Hanmond
Prominent Ohio Real Estate Dealer Sentenced
Ceveland Ohio J W Hamby once a leading real estate dealer received a three year penitentiary term with hard labor after being found guilty of frauds believed to total hundreds of thousands by Judge Beacom in common pleas court.
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Ceveland
J. W. Hamby
Beacom
Com- Mendless
Yaquis Quit Fighting After Long War Threatens Nation
After a century-old conflict the Yaqui nation nears dissolution as Yaqui tribesmen drift toward peaceful Mexican life. Once 20 000 strong they have not acknowledged Mexican authority, and the nation’s unity and status appear to be vanishing.
Texas Volunteers Win Pension After Fifty-Three Years
Washington report notes surviving officers and enlisted men of the Texas volunteers won pensions after fifty-three years of effort. The House and Senate bill provides for relief for those who defended Texas frontier from Mexican raids and Indian depredations from 1855 to 1870.
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Texas Volunteers
Washington
Congress
Hovee
Senate
Texas
Big Oil Lease Sale By Associated Producers Company
The Associated Producers Company completed a major sale of oil leases in Tillmois. The Trent and Crawford operations across Clarke Crawford and Lawrence counties with existing production of 4 500 barrels daily were transferred to new owners who have now taken over the properties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tillmois
Associated Producers’ Company
Trent & Crawford
Clarke, Crawford
Lawrence Counties
Tornado Toll Rises Across Alfalfa County Oklahoma
A string of tornadoes hit Alfalfa county Oklahoma Tuesday night causing ten deaths and dozens injured. Hundreds of cattle perished, crops ruined, and many buildings wrecked. Notable losses included the Hutchinson and Guy families and the McDonald home. A baby remained missing and likely buried in debris. Fremont Nebraska also reports a mile long tornado causing about $10,000 in damage and several farm houses destroyed.
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Wichita
Kan
Alfalfa County
Oklahoma
Guy. Hutchinson
Peter Rudy
Eliott
Parker
R. C. Atchison
McDonald
Ingersoll
Guy Hutchison
Fremont
Neb
Typhoon Devastates Hankow and Kwangsi Coal Mine Disaster
The Shinena reports a sudden typhoon flooding the Hankow Kan river, wrecking 1,000 junks and drowning hundreds along the riverbanks. The disaster follows a freshet that killed over 1,000, with many steamers stranded. Also reported is a coal mine fire in Kwangsi claiming about 1,000 lives.
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Victoria
B. C
Hankow
Kan River
Shanshai
Kwang Si
Seventeen Drowned When Fishing Schooner Is Struck
Seventeen fishermen from Massachusetts and Newfoundland die when the schooner Fame is rammed by the steamer Boston of the Dominion Atlantic line off Chases bank, 72 miles southeast of Thatchers Island. Dense fog prevented the steamer from seeing the schooner's light. the Fame sank with little chance of escape while only two aboard are saved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
Yarmouth
N. S
Massachusetts
Newfoundland
Fame
Boston
Dominion Atlantic Line
Chases Bank
Thatchers Island
Five hurled to death as train plunges into river near Port Arthur
A Canadian Pacific freight train derailed when a washout from the Current river overflow caused the track to give way near Port Arthur Manitoba. Five people were killed including two tramps who were riding the train. The locomotive and five cars plunged into the river. the railway company faces about 500000 in losses.
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Winnipeg
Canadian Pacific
Port Arthur
Nead
Sayard
Wiremann McBride
Inmann
Canadian Pacific Railroad
Smuggled Chinamen Suffocated Report Details
The report states twelve Chinese men were smuggled across the Mexico border and shipped from El Paso to New York in nailed boxes. They were dead upon arrival, per F. P. Sargent, Commissioner of Immigration, via I. W. Berkshire, supervising inspector at San Antonio.
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Mexico
el Paso
New York
F. P. Sargent
IF. W. Berkshire
San Antonio
Pittsburg Mining Agreement Restores Two-Year Wage Scale
After nearly two weeks of talks the Pittsburg district coal operators and United Mine Workers representatives reached a mining wage scale renewal. The restored scale of the past two years will be operative for the next two years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
United Mine Workers of
May Need More Men In Pipe Order For Steel Firm
The United States Steel Corporation secured a $1,600,000 pipe order from Columbia Oil and Gas Company to be filled at the McKeesport plant. Work will start in a few days and additional men are expected to be hired. Senor Don Agusto BR Legula elected to succeed Dr. Pardo as President of Pert.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Steel Corporation
Columbia Oil and Gas Company
McKeesport
Don Agusto BR. Legula
Dr. Pardo
Pert
Bryan Beaton and Bryanites Defeated at NH Democratic Convention
In Concord New Hampshire the friends of William J Bryan were defeated at the state convention where the platform was adopted without a plank endorsing Bryan or directing delegates. An aeronaut at Passaic New Jersey fell into the Passaic River when a flag wrapped around his legs caused him to drown before help arrived.
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Bryan Beaton
New Hampshire
Concord
N. H
Friends
William J. Bryan
Bryan
Passale
N. J
Icee
Honeymoon Couple Arrested in Box Car Hideaway
Bride Féuhd Glad and New York man Max Hendér arrested after railroad workers find them in a Lake Shore & Michigan Southern box car. The woman wore a man’s garb with a severed braid. they claim a New York wedding on May 18 and a honeymoon trip to South Dakota with no money.
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Chicago
Max J. Hendér
New York
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad
Bender
South Dakota
Pittsburg and Lake Erie awards large bridge contract
The Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railroad awarded McClatick Marshall Construction Company of Pittsburgh a contract for 13,500 tons of steel superstructure for a vast bridge over the Ohio River at Beaver. Estimated total bridge cost exceeds 1,600,000 dollars with masonry let to Dravo Construction Company for about 500,000 dollars. The bridge is slated to be ready by October 31, 1909.
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Pittsburg & Lake Erie- Railroad
McClatick-Marshall Construction Company
Pittsburg
Ohio River
Beaver
Dravo Construction Company
New M. E. Bishops Named in Baltimore
The newly elected bishops listed in order are Rev Dr W F Anderson New York Rev Dr J L Neulsen Berea O Rev Dr W A Quayle Chicago Rev Dr Charles W Smith Pittsburg Rev Dr Wilson S Lewis Morningside Sioux City Ia Rev Dr Edwin H Hughes DePauw Greencastle Ind Rev Dr Robert McIntyre First Church Los Angeles Rev Dr Frank M Bristol Metropolitan Washington D C The last named was a pastor and adviser to the late President McKinley.
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Baltimore
W. F. Anderson
New York
Board of Education
Freadman’s Aid and Sunday Schools
J. L. Neulsen
Nast Theological Seminary
Berea
W. A. Quayle
St. James Church
Chicago
Charles W. Smith
Pittsburg Christian Advocate
Wilson
Lewis
Morningside College
Sioux City
Edwin H. Hughes
DePauw University
Greencastle
Ind
Robert McIntyre
First Church
Los Angeles
Cal
Frank M. Bristol
Metropolitan Church
Washington, D.C
McKinley
Society Woman Goes Mad In Madison In Lavish Debauched Soirees
Mrs Heddie Prescher aged 45 wife of a German army officer and adviser to the Emperor has been committed to the State Hospital for the Insane at Mendota after an attempt to kill her 12 year old daughter. She moved to Madison years ago and built a lavish establishment entertaining local professors and German notables, a living rumor in town.
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Madison, Wis
Heddie Prescher
Germany
Mendota
Prescher
Native revolt collapses after British punitive campaign
After an 18 day effort against Mohmand tribesmen Major General Willocks ends the expedition and plans demobilization. British losses include six officers killed nine wounded 72 enlisted dead 144 wounded with cholera responsible for nearly half of the deaths. Also noted, James Gillespie Carson of Xenia Ohio is elected moderator of the fiftieth United Presbyterian general assembly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Simla
Willocks
James Gillespie Carson
D. D
Xenia
The
United Presbyterian, Church
Baptize Seven Converts Episcopal Ministers Enter Catholic Church
Seven Episcopal ministers who left the church after the Open Pulpit canon were received into the Catholic Church in Philadelphia by Archbishop Ryan. Names include William McGarvey, Maurice Cowl, William L. Hayward, William H. McClelland, Edgar N. Cowan of Milwaukee, Charles Bowles, and Otto Gramall of Chicago.
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Philadelphia
Ryan
William McGarvey
Maurice Cowl
William L. Hayward
William H. McClelland
St. Elizabeth's Protestant Episcopal Church
City
Edgar N. Cowan
Milwaukee
St. Marka’s Episcocal Church
Charles Bowles
Otto Gramall
Chicago
Akron widow contests murder finding in husband’s death
In Akron Ohio a suit seeks $7000 accident insurance by Mrs. Fred Baron claiming her husband, cashier of Dollar Savings Bank, was murdered last December and disputing the coroner’s ruling that his death was self inflicted.
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Akron
Fred A ‘Baron
Dollar Savings Bank
Corsoner
Presbyterian Assembly Rebukes Centralization of Power
The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church rebuked centralization by placing church governance in the hands of new leadership, shifting authority away from existing power structures.
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General Assembly
Ho Kow Recaptured by Imperial Troops in Shansi
Imperial forces reclaimed Ho-Kow in Shansi province after rebels seized the town two months earlier amid renewed insurgent activity in Shan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peking
Ho-Kow
Shansi
Shans
Government rangers quell Long Pine forest fire
Rangers have extinguished a blaze at the Long Pine forest reserve north of Bellefourche, burning over 20 square miles. More than 10,000 acres of timber were completely destroyed in the fire.
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Bellefourche
Long Pine
Thaw Case Withdrawn Over Monthly Allowance Dispute
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw withdrew her annulment suit against Harry K. Thaw amid claims she sought financial recompense for sacrifices in his defense. Attorneys state the Thaws’ family supports her with a $1,000 monthly allowance, a figure defender says exceeds what any court would grant for maintenance.
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New York
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
Harry K. Thaw
Daniel O'Reilly
O'Reilly
Evelyn Thaw
Thaw
Franklin Bartlet
William Thaw
O’reily
Colonel Bartlett
Harry Thaw
Colonel Scott Reports Navajo Peace Negotiations to President
Colonel H. L. Scott of the Fourteenth Cavalry and superintendent of the United States Military Academy presented an oral report to the President detailing his two month mission negotiating with the Navajo and other tribes to resolve uprisings threatening the Southwest. He traveled over 7000 miles across Colorado Utah New Mexico Arizona and Oklahoma during the effort. The President praised the thorough inquiry and said the findings would aid the Interior Department in settling outstanding matters.
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Scott
Washington
H. L. Scott
Fourteenth Cavalry
United States Military Academy
Southwest
Colorado
Utah
New Mexico
Arizona
Oklahoma
Secretary of the Interior
Rockefeller Directors Overlap With St Paul Board
Edward W. Melenna testifies in the government suit to dissolve Standard Oil. He says four Standard Oil directors also serve on the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railroad board: William Rockefeller Percy Rockefeller H H Rogers and W C Harkness. He adds he expects cheaper oil from Galena as Pennsylvania Rail roadway pays more than half what St Paul does.
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Rockefellers
New York
Standard Oil Company
Edward W. Melenna
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad
William Rockefeller
Percy Rockefeller
H. H. Rogers
W. C. Harkness
Frank B. Kellerry
United States
Pennsylvania Railroadway
St. Paul
McKenny
Galena Company
Hearst Wins Recount Case in New York Mayor Election
Justice Lambert in the New York Supreme Court overruled 202 objections by Mayor McClellan's counsel and ordered the boxes containing ballots from the McClellan Hearst mayoralty contest to be opened. The litigation over the outcome, spanning nearly three years, continues as the process proceeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hearst
New York
McClellan- Hearst
Lambert
Supreme Court
McCiellan
Navy Rifle Team to Compete at Camp Perry Ohio
Secretary Metcalf has reconsidered and allowed members of last year's Navy rifle team now with the Atlantic fleet to participate in this year's Camp Perry contest. The Navy team won high honors at last year's shoot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy
Camp ‘Perry
Washington, D. C
Mettealf
Camp Perry
Ohio
Portland Banker Fined in Oregon Court Case
Judge Burnett of Salem Circuit Court sentenced J Thoburn Ross a Portland banker to five years imprisonment and a fine of 576094 for wrongful conversion of state school funds while president of the Title Guarantee and Trust Company. The court also enjoined further penalties.
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Salem
Ore
Burnett
J. Thoburn Ross
Portland
Ross
Title Guarantee and Trust Company
No Change In Steel Prices In New York Meeting
United States Steel Chairman E H Gary announced no reduction in iron and steel selling prices at the general committee of iron and steel manufacturers meeting in New York. The statement was released as the session adjourned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
E. H. Gary
United States Steel Corporation
General Committee of Iron and Steel Manufacturers
Coal Cost Estimate for Atlantic Battleship Fleet Cruise
An estimated six million dollars would cover the coal consumed by the Atlantic battleship fleet during their globe circling voyage underway, indicating the vast fuel expense of the mission and the scale of naval logistics involved.
Railroads seek immunity in commodity clause case
Washington reports the Department of Justice reached an agreement with coal carrying railroads over the Hepburn rate bill commodity clause. The constitutionality challenge, tied to railroads disposing of coal properties, will be heard in Philadelphia federal court on June 16 under an agreed state of facts with no prosecutions begun against railroads directly involved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Department of Justice
Philadelphia
Department of
Government to Seek Annulment of $25 Million Rail Land Grant
Government attorney Townsend travels to Portland Oregon to file proceedings against the Southern Pacific. The aim is to annul the land grant valued at $25,000,000 and restore the lands to the public domain. The grant was issued to spur railroad construction, but alleged failures by the holders to meet obligations prompt the action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
B. C
Townsend
Department of Justice
Portland
Ors
Southern Pacific
Oregon
Thaw Denied Release as Dangerous Insane
In Poughkeepsie New York Justice Mofshauser declares Harry K Thaw dangerous and insane and rules his commitment legal. The court denies release and upholds Matteawan asylum commitment following the murder trial of Stanford White.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Harry’ 'K. Thaw
Stanford White
Mofschaus
Supreme Court
Thaw
Matteawan Iunatic Asylum
Justice Dowling
Refund of Stamp Taxes and Coal Duties Authorized
Washington action under a house bill allows the secretary of the treasury to refund stamp taxes paid under the war revenue act of 1898 on foreign bills of exchange dated between July 1 1898 and June 30 1903. It also rebates duties on certain imports of anthracite coal collected from October 6 1902 to January 16 190.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Secretary of the Treasury
Night Riders Pay $15000 in Paducah Case
In Paducah Kentucky the Hollowell night rider damage suits were settled with plaintiffs receiving 15000 dollars. Earlier Robert Hollowell had secured a 35000 dollar verdict in federal court against 29 alleged night riders from Caldwell County accused of raiding his home and forcing his family to flee the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paducah
Hollowell
Robert Hollowell
Caldwell County
Digs Up Bones At Gunness Farm Pond Near La Porte
Hogs wading in a pond on the Gunness farm near La Porte uncover a human arm bone. Sheriff Smutzer believes bodies may be buried beneath the pond mud. Authorities plan a shoreline search with rakes to recover any remains and possible evidence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hey
Laporte
Gunness Farm
Sheriff Smutzer
Jong
Women Postmasters Foes Stall Senate Nominations
Washington reports that Senators Clay and Culbergen opposed replacing women postmasters with male staff, preventing confirmation of three male nominees and signaling strong resistance to ousting women from post office positions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Georgia
Texas
Senate
Clay
Culbergen
Post Office Department
Prohibition Carries North Carolina Vote
Prohibition supporters in North Carolina lead by about 40 000 and may reach 60 000 according to figures and estimates provided to The News Observer and the state prohibit headquarters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina
Raleigh
N. C
An .Observer
State Prohibit Headquarters
Telegraphic Brevites Span Nations and Tariff Shifts
More than 200000 tons of pig iron were included in new orders with Independent blast furnaces last week. Two are dead and two injured in a battle near Big Springs Mississippi. Miss Gertrude Johnson resigns from Washington Seminary to join State University of Iowa. Andrew Carnegie offers 100000 to build a temple of peace in Cartago Costa Rica for the Central American Court of Justice ceremony. In Congress the tariff law for the Philippines is amended suspending rules to reduce copper foil duty, increase button duty, and extend free importation to materials for vessel construction and repair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Big Springs
Miss
Washington
Gertrude’. Johnson
Washington Seminary
State University of Iown
Central American Court of Justice
Hleh
Buchanan
Andrew Carnegie
Cartago
Costa Rica
Washington, D. C
House
Philppine Islands
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Democrats
Action
House of Representatives
Gould Roads
Trusta
Yaquis
Tornado Kiel
Helikoma
Pittsburg & Lake Erie Railroad
M. E
Daughter
Arilagkos
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