Brewers Move to Cleanse Social Evil in Saloons
The Brewers Association at its closing session adopted a platform pledging to abolish the immoral saloon and promote temperance. Delegates urged stronger action, condemning social evils tied to drinking establishments and supporting a broad housecleaning against undesirable saloons nationwide. George Cherman and N W Kendall were named honorary members amid calls for reform. Colonel Schwarts urged active efforts to eradicate the saloon’s criminal ties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
United States
Brewers Association
H. B. Scharman
Brooklyn
Joseph Uihlein
Scharman
New York
Board of Trustees
George Cherman
N. W. Kendall
New Haven
Colonel Schwarts
Buffalo
Blind Tom Dead at Hoboken Pianist Known World Wide
The renowned blind pianist Thomas Wiggins, known as Blind Tom, died June 14 in Hoboken New York after years of retirement on charity. Born near Columbus, Georgia around 1850, he gained fame as a child prodigy and toured the United States and Europe amid reports of his remarkable imitation and musical memory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Tom
Marvel
Hoboken
N. Y
Thomas Wiggins
Columbus
United States
Europe
Big rail mill resumes in Birmingham area
United States Steel at Ensley will resume operations, with allied plants, bringing about 300 workers back. The plant is being expanded to a daily capacity of 1500 tons of finished rails, as furnaces and mines in the district have already restarted, putting 8000 men to work overall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
United States Steel Corporation
Ensley
Railroad Accused of Rebating in I C C Complaint
Washington DC alleges Missouri Pacific paid rebates totaling over 220000 dollars to T H Bunch Co grain dealers in Little Rock and Argenta Arkansas and Brook Ranch Mill and Elevator Co of Little Rock, prompting a formal complaint to the Interstate Commerce Commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Missouri Pacific
T. H. Bunch Co
Little Rock
Argenta
Ark
Brook Ranch Mill and Elevator Co
Interstate Commerce Commission
Immigration officials to visit Ellis Island ports
Secretary Straus and Commissioner General of Immigration Sargent will visit Ellis Island to confer with Commissioner Waterman and officials from immigration stations at Boston Philadelphia Baltimore and Montreal and with medical authorities from the principal Atlantic ports to perfect regulations for administering immigration laws and coordinating port operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Secretary Straus
Immigration
Sargent
Ellis Tsland
Watehorn
Boston
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Montreal
Powers and Howard Granted Pardon in Goebel Case
In Kentucky Frankfort Governor Willson pardoned Caltech Powers and James B. Howard who had been convicted of complicity in the William Goebel assassination. Howard, serving a life term, was alleged to have fired the fatal shot.
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Powers
Howard
Frankfort
Caltech
James B. Howard
William Goebel
Willson
Ggebel
Large oil plant fire destroys 100000 gallons in Albuquerque
Continental Oil Company plant in Albuquerque suffers total loss with the office building spared. Nearly 100000 gallons of coal oil gasoline and naphtha burned. Estimated damage around 50000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albuquerque
N. M
Continental Oil Company
Cruiser Captain Blamed Dismissed From Ship
Naval court martial finds Captain Lumsden of the cruiser Gladiator hazarded his ship by default after the April collision with the American Line steamer St. Paul. He is reprimanded and dismissed from the ship in Portsmouth England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portsmouth
England
Lumsden
Ben
Contests Decided By Republican National Committee
The Republican National Committee finished seven days of hearings on 21 contested seats. Taft leads with 603 instructed delegates on the temporary roll call after accounting for the 887 previously instructed. Foraker has 3. Alaska and Arizona among the 296 total contests resolved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Republican National Committee
Taft
Alabama
Arkansas
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
Louisiana
Mississippi
Missouri
North Carolina
Ohio
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
Alaska
Arizona
Foraker
President Roosevelt Reduces Penalty in Court Martial Case
Assistant Surgeon David A. Spear of Ohio was tried at Washington Barracks on forgery theft and scandalous conduct charges. The court sentenced him to two years imprisonment and dismissal, but seven judges recommended clemency and the President reduced the term to one year and approved the dismissal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chioan
Washington
Roosevelt
David A. Spear
Ohio
Washington Barracks
Night riders shot in Ohio tobacco section clash
In Ripley Ohio two night riders were shot by troops at Hiett. One rider died and farmer Tip Martin aiding the troops found a barn door note reading you got two of us but we are coming back and will get you and five others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Tobacco
Ripley
Hiett
Tip Martin
Washington to Probe Telegraph Companies
Secretary Straus orders a thorough inquiry into telegraph company operations under a senate resolution. The investigation covers receipts and expenses, wages, working conditions, hours of labor, and related company practices. Dr. Charles P. Neill and Herbert Knox Smith lead the inquiry for labor and corporations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Straus
Charles. P. Neill
Herbert Knox Smith
Former Army Officer Convicted in Chicago Case
Daniel F. Kellar, a former U S Army captain, was found guilty in federal court of larceny of six blank checks from Fort Sheridan quartermaster office Illinois. He was given until June 23 to file a bill of exception. Punishment ranges from one to five years imprisonment or a $5,000 fine, or both.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Daniel F. Kellar
United States Army
United States District Court
Fort Sheridan
Names for New Battleships and Johns Hopkins Donation
Secretary Maet calf announced two new battleships will be named Florida and Utah, with a future ship to bear Wyoming. The monitor Florida will be renamed to a city in Florida after a White House conference. Henry Phipps donated 500000 dollars to Johns Hopkins for a mental health clinic and hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Maetcalf
Florida
Utah
Wyoming
Henry Phipps
Johns Hopkins University
Plague Outbreak Reported in Caracas Venezuela
Reports indicate buhente plague cases in Caracas over recent days. City shows widespread contamination and no measures or serum available. Diplomatic representatives of foreign powers have not acted yet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caracas
Taracaas
Venezuela
Cuban Wants Damages in High Profile Divorce Case
New York reports Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt seeks an additional ten million dollar settlement with his wife. A separate claim for sixty thousand dollars alleges alienation of affection by Cuban diplomat Antonio A. Ruiz. Ruiz reportedly may resign from the Cuban legation to pursue the suit through the courts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Alfred Gwynne Vander Ibilt
Agnes Ruiz
Antonio A. Ruiz
Ruiz
Ten Die In Mexico Flood Drowns Residents at Jacala
A flood in Jacala caused by two cloudbursts drenched parts of Mexico. Ten people drowned, thirty houses were destroyed, and several towns in Puebla state faced flood damage and displacement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico City
Jacala
Puebla
Political quarrel ends in murder in Missouri town
In Stanberry, Missouri, attorney and prosecutor candidate R H Duncan shot city marshal Charles R Butler seven times after a political quarrel. Butler died en route to the hospital. Duncan is jailed. Meanwhile a merchants' association in New York and the Philadelphia Trades League urged Secretary Taft to back credit currency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Joseph
Stanberry
R. H. Duncan
Charles R Butler
Butler
Duncan
Taft
Merchants’ Association of New York
Trades League of Philadelphia
Missing mail pouch could top Post Office losses
Reports from postal officers in three cities suggest a registered pouch vanished within the Kansas City post office area. The pouch, en route from Los Angeles to New York, reportedly contained large sums of currency and valuables, with estimates ranging up to 100000 dollars.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Kansas City
Postoffice Department
New York
Union Station
Woman Kills Herself in Reval Amid Czar Arrival
A London dispatch from Reval reports a local school teacher who joined revolutionists long ago and later withdrew. She was urged to assassinate the czar with a bomb but, fearing retaliation, killed herself by leaping before a train two days before the czar’s arrival.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Reval
Edward
Nicholas
Standard Oil Case Reversed For New Trial In Anti Trust
Findlay Ohio circuit court reversed the probate court verdict fining Standard Oil Company $5,000 under the Valentine anti trust law. The case is remanded for a new trial. It is Hancock county’s first Standard Oil suit begun two years ago. The circuit court also reversed the common pleas court and affirmed probate court jurisdiction to try cases upon information filed by the prosecuting attorney.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Circuit Court
Findlay
Circuit
Probate Court
Standard Oil Company
Valentine
Hancock County
Common Pleas Court
Coke Industry Recovering in Uniontown
The coke industry is rebounding from last fall's depression. Sufficient furnaces are firing to employ the remaining workers, many on yards and in mines preparing for a general resumption soon. Railroad crews note improved coke shipments, notably from the Klondyke field.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uniontown
Klondyke
Bandits Steal His Bride During Mountain Bridal Tour
W. F. Burns of Jackson county North Carolina reports a six man gang robbed him in Greensville county while he and his wife were on a bridal trip crossing Panther mountain. He says he was bound and beaten, his wife abducted. He has not seen her since and authorities are investigating the claim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spartanburg
Steamships Idle in Transatlantic Rate War
New York The Prince line withdraws the Sicilian Prince and Neapolitan Prince from the Naples route citing reduced business and losses from the trans Atlantic rate war. The ships are now in Naples and will stay there unless conditions improve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Prince Line
Naples
Line
Revolutionists kill Archbishop Nikon in Tiffs
Revolutionists assassinated Archbishop Nikon ex-arch of Georgia on the steps of the Synodal Building in Tif fs. A monk in attendance was severely wounded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nikon
Arch
Georgia
Drowning of Clarence Dunn in Wellsburg canoe accident
Clarence Dunn age 18 son of Ellsworth and Dunn of East Liverpool Ohio was drowned after their canoe upset near Wellsburg West Virginia. His companion Roy Winters escaped with minor injuries in the accident report from the river.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence Dunn
Ellsworth
7000 mile pipeline stretch linked to Tidewater system
The Associated Producers' Oil Company plans a 500 mile pipeline from Robinson Illinois to near Rixford Massachusetts connecting with the Tidewater main line from Bradford Pennsylvania to Bayonne New Jersey. Total system to about 1000 miles with 10000 barrels daily capacity and 4000 barrels a day extra outlet. Source notes recent property acquisitions and joint efforts with Tidewater Pipeline Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minela
Associated Producers’ Oil Company
Itainois
Trent, Crawford & Trent
Pittsburg
Robinson
Rixford
Tidewater Pipe Line Company
Bradford
Bayonne
N. Z
Associated Producers’ Company
Thlinois
Treat, Crawford & Treat
Suit Began 30 Years Ago Over Land Title Reduced to 860000
The estate of James Compton won a judgment of 860000 against the Wabash Railroad in U S circuit court. The dispute centered on land along the Wabash line from Toledo to the Ohio state line and stock ownership. The suit, started in Washington DC, has been pursued by Ellen Compton, the widow, for more than 30 years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo
James Compton
Wabash Railroad Company
Robert W. Taylor
United States Circuit Court
Ohio State Line
Compton
Goulds
Wabash
State Line
Washington, D. C
Ellen Compton
Enormous Crop Forecast From Department Report
Washington DC report says this summer and fall will bring record fruit and vegetable markets. Apples up 16 percent and 73 percent of peaches reaching markets. dumper crops of blackberries and raspberries. Increased watermelons by 11 percent and onions by 3 percent. cabbage and cabbage? and onions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Department of Agriculture
Virginia delegates pick big four for Denver convention
Roanoke Virginia state Democratic convention chose at large delegates for the Denver national meeting. John W. Daniel opposed binding instructions but will be among the four top delegates. Also named were US Senator Martin Governor Swanson and former Governor Tyler as the other three delegates at large.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John W. Daniel
Roanoke
Virginia
Denver
Bryan
United States
Thomas
Martin
Claude A. Swanson
J. Hoge Tyler
Two Killed as Apartment House Collapses in D C
A Washington DC construction accident at the southwest corner of Twentieth and P streets NW left two workers dead and five injured when a building under construction collapsed on the fourth floor as walls spread. All victims were laborers employed on the project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Twentieth and
P. Streets
Carnegie offers $100000 for Rochester science building
President Rush Rhees said the fund to match Andrew Carnegie’s offer is nearly complete. Carnegie pledged $100,000 if the university raises an equal amount to construct a new building of applied sciences in Rochester.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carnegie
Rochester
Rush Rhees
University of Rochester
Andrew Carnegie
Prohibition Wins in Oregon Counties Post Vote
Oregon voters end all wet options in 21 of 33 counties after July. The measure bars saloons across counties, with nearly 500 saloons closed statewide since local option law took effect and every county showing some dry territory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Ore
Oregon
Texas To Vote On Saloon Primary On Prohibition Question
The Texas Democratic state committee votes to place the prohibition issue on the July 25 state primary. The contest will determine if the measure becomes broad local option or full prohibition, signaling a likely push for temperance legislation statewide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Tex
Democratic State Committee
Steel boon as steel and ore prices to drop nationwide
In New York Judge Elbert H. Gary leads a daylong steel conference of United States Steel Corp and major rivals to slash finished steel prices. Billets fall to 25, bars to 27, plates to 1.60 per 100 lb, structural iron to 1.70, merchant pipe by 4 per ton, and wire nails to 1.95 per 100 lb, with ore pricing cut by 50 cents per ton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Whert
H. Gary
United States Steel Corporation
Pittsburg
Bomb Wrecks New Orleans Dry Goods Store
In New Orleans at Hospital and Decatur streets a dynamite bomb wrecked Joseph Sperio's dry goods shop while he and his family slept. Sperio and his wife and four children were unharmed. He suspects the attacker but fears testifying. For months he has received threats demanding $1,000. His wife recalled an Italian caller who threatened money and drew a dirk when Sperio refused.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Joseph Sperio
Hospital
Decatur
Sperio
Sperro
Plague Claims Victims in Venezuela Dispatch
A State Department dispatch from Jacob Sleeper reports the bubonic plague at Caracas, Venezuela, with eight cases between May 30 and June 1 and four known fatalities, including one death in Caracas. The consul at La Guayra confirms the outbreak and rising toll.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
State Department
Jacob Sleeper
Caracas
Venezuela
Churchman pleads guilty to stealing horses in Indiana
Robert H. Se of Waynetown, a vice president of Farmers and Merchants Bank, a Methodist church trustee and large property owner, pled guilty to horse stealing in Indianapolis. He was sentenced to one to 14 years in the state penitentiary, disfranchised for one year, and fined $10. Police found several stolen horses in his possession when arrested under an assumed name.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Ind
Robert H. Se
Waynetown
Farmers and Merchants
Methodist Church
Green
Confederate Veterans Adjourn At Birmingham Convention
United Confederate Veterans adjourned their annual convention with Memphis chosen as next reunion site and General Clement A. Evans of Georgia elected commander in chief succeeding the late General Stephen D. Lee. Scotland steel makers also cut prices by five shillings a ton following the lead of America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Confederate Veterans
Birmingham
Ala
Memphis
Clement A. Evans
Georgia
Stephen D. Lee
United Confederate Veterans
America
Scotland
Big Coal Order Ties Canadian Pacific to Three Railways
Canadian Pacific Railway will buy at least 225000 tons of bituminous coal annually from Buffalo Rochester and Pittsburg Railway for two years ending April 30 1910. The agreement includes a maximum annual supply of 300000 tons if market demand requires, ensuring a steady coal flow between the lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canadian Pacific
Buffalo
Rochester
Pittsburg
Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg
Steels Prices Cut Amid Weak Finish Markets
The Iron Trade Review notes steel producers lowered prices for billets, sheet bars, plates, and other products after a steel bar price cut. Demand and contracting activity show improvement, with pig iron markets strengthening despite dull finished goods and a large stock of ore sold at old prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buethens
Iron Trade
Cleveland
The
Iron Trade Review
Consimora
National Car Wheel Company in big Wheeling Line claim
National Car Wheel Company leads creditor claims in the Wheeling & Lake Erie receivership. Judge R W Taylor of Toledo Ohio appointed B A Worthington of Pittsburg as receiver for the Wheeling line, bond set at 100000. The action follows receivership of the Wabash Pittsburg Terminal, placing all east of Toledo lines under court control. Total claims amount to 8791047 with the National Car Wheel Company as principal claimant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Car Wheel Company
Wheeling & Lake Erie
B. A. Worthington
Pittsburg
Wabash-Pittsburg Terminal
Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad
R. W. Taylor
Toledo
Wabash-Pittsburg
Wabash
Wheeling Hne
New Piano Combine Formed From Three Firms
A consolidation of William Knabe & Sons of Baltimore Chicker ing & Sons of Boston and the Foster Armstrong Company of Rochester N Y created the American Piano Company with total capital of 12 million dollars six million preferred and six million common. Officers named include Ernest J Knabe Jr president George G Foster vice president William Knabe Charles H Eddy and William B Armstrong treasurer George Eaton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Wiliam Knabe & Sons
Baltimore
Chickering & Sons
Boston
Foster- Armstrong Company
Rochester
N. Y
American Piano Company
Ernest J. Knabe, Jr
George G. Foster
William Knabe
Charles H. Eddy
William B. Armstrong
George Eaton
Many Koreans Killed as Japanese Fight Insurgents
Seoul dispatch reports from June 3 to 7 that government troops fought 26 engagements with insurgents. Ninety three insurgents were killed and 26 taken prisoner. In Seoul a British editor faces sedition charges for a Korea newspaper, trial set for June 15 before an English judge from Shanghai.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Seoul
British Council
Korea
Shanghai
King’s Council
Barking dog ordinance proposed in Montclair council
Councilman Charles H. Hartshorne proposes an ordinance to curb barking dogs and dogs at large. It would require owners to pay five dollars for the first after six p m and ten dollars for every subsequent bark.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles H. Hartshorne
Montclair
N. J
Nine workers killed in dynamite blast at Chamber Bros camp
Nine workmen die when dynamite explodes at Chamber Bros camp east of Winnipeg Manitoba on the Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad. The Youngstown Sheet & Tube plant plans to resume in all departments with orders received to keep it running for a month. Minnesota Chamber of Commerce votes 25 to 109 to adopt a rule making No 2 Northern wheat deliverable on all future contracts with an eight and a half cent per bushel differential. Yale senior George F Catlin drowns at Branford after a canoe overturns. Former Allegheny National Bank of Pittsburgh cashier William Montgomery faces new forgery charges. Charles Henry Brent Bishop declines Washington bishopric after Satterlee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber Bros
Winnineg
Man
Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad
Youngstowk Sheet & Tube Company
Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce
New Haven
Conn
George F. Catlin
Yale
Branford
Thirteen Executed in Russia in One Day Across Cities
Thirteen people charged with political offenses were executed on June 10 in several Russian cities including five in Ufa four in Ledz and four in Odessa. Eighteen more death sentences were issued by court magistrates, while the Wheeling and Lake Erie railroad group will separate from the Wabash Pittsburg Terminal and move its headquarters from Pittsburg to Cleveland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Petersburg
Russia
Ufa
Ledz
Odessa
Wheeling & Lake Wire
Wabash-Pittsburg
Pittsburg
Cleveland
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RON
Churchman
Prige
William Montgomery
Allegheny National Bank of
Charles Henry Brent
Philippines
Henry Y. Satterlee
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