Permanent Arbitration Project Pressed at Hague Conference
The Hague delegates discuss arbi tration schemes led by Russia Britain Italy and the United States with a push for a permanent tribunal and mediation rules. The US project envisions a standing body and nonconfrontational dispute settlement, while debates on preserving private property from seizure at sea proceed amid cautious optimism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Hague
Arbitration Committee
Count Nigra
Disarmament Committee
Russia
Great Britain
Italy
United States
Associated Press
Netherlands
Henry Howard
Washington
Hay
State Department
New York
England
Tragic Bay Collision In Seattle Claims One Life
A local passenger train from Northern Pacific and a Grant Street electric car collided near Washington Iron Works in Seattle. About 25 people were plunged into the bay. One passenger, E. B. Broad, died en route to the hospital. Another passenger, Noffeditz, was seriously injured. The accident disrupted ferry and rail service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Wash
Northern Pacific
Grant Street
Washington Iron Works
EB. Broad
Noffeditz
Cubans Accept The Pay In Havana After Resistance Fades
Cuban privates began applying for the American gratuity with Col Randall supervising payments. About 300 men came, 112 were paid, and 99 rifles were surrendered as arms were moved directly to the Americans. Generals Brooke and Delgado coordinated notices and disbanding, with 200 applicants still awaiting payment after June 15. A pay car will depart with guards and an escort to Havana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havana
George M. Randall
Eighth United States Infantry
Mlavana
Col Randall
Col. Randall
Pinar del Rio
Brooke
Senor Domingo Mendez Capote
Pedro Delgado
Guanajay
Delgado
Landit
Guanabacoa
Jacinto Hernan— Dex
San Jose de Las Lajas
Santa Clara
Interior Department Tightens Indian Land Leases Policy
The Interior Department warns it will not allow single individuals or corporations to snatch vast tracts of Indian lands in scattered leases. Secretary Hitchcock orders Inspectors to verify good faith, improve land descriptions, and require detailed claims of improvements and tribal leases. Affected lessees like the Cudahy and Creek Oil and Gas groups must reduce holdings to 640 acres per lease.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Interior Department
Wright
Washington
Department
Indian Territory
Whitchcock
Secretary of the Interior
United States
United States Indian Inspector
Curtis
Cudahy Oil Company
Creek Oil and Gas Company
Cudahy Company
Baseball Tragedies And Political Rulings In Midwest News
A string of brief Midwest items reports Walter Frisk of Aldrich dying by suicide after visiting the Walnut Grove scene, with a friend misjudging his threat. Scott County must pay 3146,000 in bond debt after the U S Supreme Court dismissed the appeal. Thomas Raney, a wealthy Maryville resident, was found dead by hanging in his orchard, a possible suicide amid several similar cases. Iowa circles Predict Henderson as speaker after Hull’s support. Missouri summer university offers free tuition at its state university summer school, starting June 5 and ending August 4, funded by a $4,000 legislative appropriation. Andrew Hooge, 40, dies of hydrophobia in Dubuque after a mad dog scare months earlier.
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Springfield
Walter ©. Frisk
Aldrich
Walnut Grove
Ben Wilkite
Lula Ford
Frisk
Kanaas County
Topeka
Kan
Godard
United States Supreme Court
Scott County
Federal
Supreme Court
Maryville
Thomas Raney
Clyde
Nodaway County
Jowan
Dubuque
Andrew Hooge
Illinois Central
Multiple Fatal and Harmful Accidents Reported Across States
May 1 dispatches record violent incidents and disasters including a bridge bombing attempt over the South Canadian river near South McAlester with six men arrested, a Sac and Fox village burned near Guthrie to destroy smallpox remnants, a fatal initiation incident in Hepburn Iowa, a stock train wreck near Cedar Rapids with cattle losses, two children drowned in Lamont Iowa, and a jail inmate injuring two white prisoners in McMinnville Tennessee. Additional items note a train strike near West Lorne Ontario that killed one and injured others, a Las Vegas New Mexico reunion program with a cowboy tournament, and a sheriff's procurement slip at Topeka Kansas hindered by missing records.
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South McAlester
L T
Joe Lincoln
Barlow Bile
Jim Tompton
Charles Wiseman
George Roe
F.C. Case
South Canadian River
Guthrie
Cushing
Clarinda
Frank Pooht
Hepburn
Focht
Cedar Rapids
Chicago & Northwestern
Prairie Creek
Otis
Elias Smith
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Pfting
Pittsburg
West City
Kansas & Texas and
Central Coal & Coke Companies
Scammon
Mineral City
San Francisco
Venelala
Hitchcock
Louisville
James P. Turvin
Ohio Valley Bimetallic League
MacAuley’s
Oliver H. P. Belmont
Bryan
Baker
Weaver
Joplin
Q. C. Weaver
Opolis
Bal Farm
Charles Baker
Mia Baker
Chicago
Burlington & Missouri River
Rock Island
Missouri Pacific
Milwaukee & St. Paul
Burlington Roads
Western Passenger Association
Missouri River
Colorado
Ohio
McKinley
Moani
Columbus
Hanna
New State Central Committee
Kurtz-Bushnell-McKisson
Henderson
Des Moines
Iowa
Gen. Henderson
Hull
Columbia
Missouri State University
Philadelphia
Cleveland
Brooklyn
Baltimore
Jono
Kanes City
Kansas City
Buffalo
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Detroit
St. Paul
Indianapolis
Ohrid
Lamont
Alma Bennett
McMinnville
Tenn
Sonny Crain
John
William Brown
Crain
West Lorne
Ont
John Johnson
Peter
Michigan Central
Here
Las Vegas
N. M
Rough Riders
Roosevelt
Col
Brodie
Brown
Paine
San Juan Hill
Topeia
Hoover
Osage County
L. Durlind
de Parmenter
Stanley
Algiers
Marseilles
Palermo
New Orleans
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