Control Is Less Now Than in 1901
Washington June 8 Judge Elbert H Gary testified before the house steel trust investigating committee that United States Steel Corp does not now control as large a share of U S steel business as at its formation In 1901 he said about 50 percent of domestic output and about 90 percent of export business are now under its influence He dismissed a world trust plan and noted Germany and Belgium as key foreign producers with discussion of an international steel institute at Brussels He cited competition among early companies and argued the 1901 control was not exceeded by present conditions
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Elbert H. Gary
House Steel Trust
United States Steel Corporation
United States
Gary
Steel Corporation
International Steel Institute
Brussels
World Trust
Germany
Norman B. Ream
Percival Roberts, Jr
James Galey
Steel Corporation Directorate
Carnegie Steel Company
Federal Steel Company
American Steel Hoop Company
National Steel Company
American Steel and Wire Company
National Tube Company
American Tin Plate Company
American Sheet Steel Company
American Bridge Company
Lake Superior Consolidated Iron Mines Company
Illinois Steel Company
Pittsburg
Chicago
U. S. Steel Corporation
Iowa Eagles End Convention With Officer Election
Des Moines June 8 Iowa Eagles conclude their convention with officer elections and a decision on the next meeting city. Officers elected include President Samuel Swift of Dubuque and Vice President Ed Lofton of Keokuk with O K Kirkpatrick Des Moines as secretary and Nicholas Tutz Chariton as treasurer. Burlington selected as the next convention site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa Eagles
Colfax
Colfax Aerie
Eagles
Samuel Swift
Dubuque
Ed. S. Lofton
Keokuk
O. K. Kirkpatrick
Nicholas Tutz
Chariton
Burlington
Taft Guests Brooklyn Today With Parades and LaCrosse Game
President Taft arrives from Washington to Brooklyn for a day of events. He reviews a Sunday school parade, meets officials at Hanover and Union League clubs, addresses congregations, watches a LaCrosse match, and attends a Cottonseed Crushers banquet before returning to Washington at midnight.
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New York
N. Y
Taft
Washington
Brooklyn
Hanover
Union League
Dix
Stimson
Bryce
Manhattan
National Cottonseed Crushers’ Association
Prospect Park
Pennsylvania Railroad
Gaynor
Williamsburg Bridge
Hanover Club
Sunday School Union
Union League Club
Tompkins Avenue Congregational Church
Crescent Athletic Club
Montreal Athletic Association
Revenue Cutter
Seneca
Bay
East
Canada
Lewisburg College Boys Head to Kansas Wheat Fields
Five Lewisburg Tennessee college boys began a foot journey to the Kansas wheat fields on June 8, aiming to work during their vacation. The trip covers about 800 miles as they travel from Nashville to their destination.
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Lewisburg
Tenn
Western Harvest Field
Nashville
Kansas Wheat Fields
Lewisburg, Tenn
Probe for Monopoly in Coke Industry by Grand Jury
United States District Attorney John H. Jordan petitions to reassemble the May term grand jury in Pittsburgh to investigate officers and directors of Monongahela River Consolidated Coal and Coke Co and Pittsburg Coal Co for possible monopoly attempts in the coke industry. Edwin P. Grosvenor will participate. Judges Young and Orr ordered recalling the grand jury. Prominent coal operators in Pittsburgh district are summoned.
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Pitsburg
United States District
John H. Jordan
United States District Court
Federal Grand Jury
Monongahela River
Robbers Bind Cashier Steal $9000 From Bank
In Tooele Utah yesterday two mounted robbers bound and gagged S I Shafer the bank cashier and fled with $9000. Several posses are in pursuit as authorities search the hills.
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Tooele
Utah
S. I. Shafer
Tooele Commercial Bank
New Heat Record at Topeka Described in 100 Degree Peak
Topeka Kansas June 8 all heat records for this year were broken here today as the mercury rose to 100 degrees at 2 PM. The blistering heat blanketed the city with students indoors and workers adjusting schedules to dodge the hottest hours.
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Topeka
Kan
Mercury
Reciproc ity bill advances with Root amendment in Senate panel
The Senate finance committee acted on the Canadian reciprocity bill, adopting the Root amendment to print paper and wood pulp provisions by an 8 to 6 vote. A report without recommendation passed after ties, signaling a battle still to come on the Senate floor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
Finance Committee
Nelson
Minnesota
Bailey
Simmons
Kern
Canada
Lodge, Smoot
Gallinger
Clarke
Wyo
Heyburn
la Follette
Penrose
Cullom
McCumber
Stone, Kern and Williams
Johnson
Maine
Williams
Mississippi
Stone
Convention Opens of Women Missionary Society in Traer
The twenty first annual convention of the Women’s Missionary Society of the Methodist Church Cedar Falls district opened in Traer Iowa. Final session scheduled for tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Traer
Women’s Missionary Society of the Methodist Church
Cedar Falls
Volcano Active After the Quake Rips Mexican Towns
Reports from Guadalajara and Mexico City describe Colima volcano becoming active after yesterday’s earthquake. Tonila San Andres Zapotlan Tonila Platanar suffer heavy damage and thousands are homeless as a relief train moves to the scene.
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Guadalajara
Mexico
Colima
Tonila
San Andres
Mexico City
Tuxchan
Jalisco
Zapotlan
Postmasters of Iowa hold first business session in Waterloo
Iowa postmasters convene in Waterloo with welcoming remarks from Waterloo mayor J R Rector and Fort Dodge president S J Robertson. Speakers include P V Degraw and E L West with a banquet to follow and officer elections slated for tomorrow.
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Waterloo
P. V. Degraw
Washington
Iowa
S. J. Robertson
Fort Dodge
W. R. Law
J. R. Rector
Copel and Walker
Iowa City
S. F. M. Peeve
Perry
E. L. West
Chicago
J. C. Murphy
Des Moines
C. H. Hughes
Burlington
J. S. Humphreys
Sioux City
A. G. Davis
Cedar Rapids
F. A. Nimocas
Ottum
Conference addresses range of social problems at Boston meeting
The national conference of charities and corrections held a morning program in Ford Hall and nearby venues. Dr. Harlow Brooks and Dr. W. R. Williams spoke on drunkenness effects while Miss Jane Addams and Joseph Lee discussed housing and health. Experts including Dr. Healy, Dr. Schlapp, and Maurice Parmalee lectured on mental defects and delinquency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
National Conference of Charities and Corrections
Ford Hall
Harlow Brooks
W. R. Williams
New York
Jane Addams
Chicago
Joseph Lee
Wm. Healy
M. G. Schlapp
Maurice Parmelee
University of Missouri
Frederick Almy
Buffalo
J. R. Brackett
O Callaghan Jury Deliberating In Polk County Case
Des Moines June 8 The jury remained in deliberations at three o clock in the trial of James O Callaghan accused of complicity in an attempted dynamiting of the Polk county treasury. A mistrial is believed inevitable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
James O'Callaghan
Polk County Treasury
Society Girl Weds Indian Chief Wolf Wanna
Miss Lorette Colombo of Boston marries Chief Wolf Wanna a full blooded Navajo Indian. The romance began when Colombo was 13 at her father’s ranch in San Antonio Texas where Wanna worked as foreman. Wanna, a Carlisle graduate, has lectured for the government about Indian life in war and peace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lorette Colombo
Boston
Chief Wolf Wanna
Mass
Miss Colombo
San Antoni
Texas
Vanna
Carlisle
Treasure Hunt Claims Vast Hidden Gold Cache
A San Diego report states treasure seekers aboard the steamer Eureka claim to have found a huge cache of gold hidden by a Chilean cruiser crew off the Honduran coast over two decades ago. Estimates range from 15 million to 65 million dollars. the vessel sails for San Francisco with Captain Burtiss in command and financier Harry Krelling involved.
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San Diego
Calif
Eureka
Honduran
Cap
Tain Burtiss
San Francisco
Harry Krelling
Honduras
Krelling
Ithe Eureka
Roosevelt denies candidacy and taft support statements
Col Theodore Roosevelt arrives from Vermont and拒 refuses to confirm any 1912 candidacy or Taft endorsement. He says he will not comment further. In Springfield he notes no truth in a report he would back a candidate and continues to White River Junction for a Vermont farmers' banquet.
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New York
N. Y
Col
Theodore Roosevelt
Vermont
White River Junction
Col. Roosevelt
Indorse
Taft
T. R. Springfield
Mass
Roosevelt
Two Charged With Crime in Poisoning Murders
Baltimore on June 8 two people Ida Cohen and Morris Cohen were arrested for murder by poisoning Morris Cohen and Sarah Cohen. Detectives believe the motive was to remove the spouses so living attachments could be pursued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Morris Cohen
Sarah Cohen
Ida Cohen
Missouri State University Commencement Honors 365 Degrees
Dr. E. J. James delivers the commencement oration at Columbia Missouri as 365 graduates receive degrees. James, president of the University of Illinois, keynotes the State University exercises held in Columbia on June 8.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. J. James
State University
Columbia
Missouri State University
University of Illinois
Foulkes Wins Court Case Over Bygone Romance Fraud
Iowa farmer Thomas Foulkes of Danbury wins in criminal court after accusing his former fiancée Lodavine Miller and her brother J Marion Miller of defrauding him of 11812 and two farms. A jury found the girl and her brother guilty while Foulkes described a financial wooing marked by loans of 50 to 600 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Thomas Foulkes
Danbury
Iowa
Lodavine Miller
J. Marion Miller
Foulkes
California
Prominent Russians Convicted in Heir Plot Case
Seven defendants including two noblemen and a lieutenant were found guilty in St. Petersburg of conspiring to seize the fortune of the late Prince Bohdan Oginsky. Staff Captain Dmitry Von Liarkarski received two years and others lost civil rights. The Oginsky family, once vast nobles in Lithuania, faced a forged will and forged claims after the prince's 1909 death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Petersburg
Bodhan Oginsky
Dmitry von Liarkarski
von Liarliarski
Col
Vladimir von Liarliarski
Oginsky
Poland
Galicia
Lithuania
Prince Bohdan
Count Joseph Sulasski
Bohdan
Nikolai von Liarliarski
Nickolai
Dmitry
Prince Oginsky
Reed Is Elected Druggists Head Sioux City To Host Next Convention
Davenport Iowa June 8 The Iowa Pharmaceutical association reports 462 members down 101 from last year at its convention. New officers include N F Reed Ottumwa president and M W Lage Davenport first VP Daniel Haas Dubuque second VP A J Kilmer Mason City secretary Al Falkenhainer Algona treasurer J M Lindley Winfield. Sioux City chosen as next meeting venue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davenport
Iowa Pharmaceutical Association
J. M. Lindley
Winfield
N. F. Reed
Ottumwa
Iowa Democratic Central Committee
M. Wm. Lage
Daniel Haas
Dubuque
A. J. Kilmer
Mason City
al. Falkenhainer
Algona
Sioux City
Rock Island
Ill
Illinois Pharmaceutical Association
Charles Acelhohl
Quincy
James H. Wells
Chicago
Ralph E. Loorlend
Decatur
A. J. Reiss
W. B. Day
George C. Bartel
Cappoint
Iowa
Millionaire Stokes Shot in Self Defense by Two Women
W E D Stokes proprietor of the Hotel Ansonia and noted horseman lies injured with likely recovery. Women Lillian Graham and Ethel Conrad are charged. three Japanese servants as witnesses. Graham says Stokes demanded letters and choked her. she fired as Stokes allegedly seized by violence. Stokes denies letters and claims he was attacked.
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New York
N. Y
W. E. D. Stokes
Ansonia
Lillian Graham
Ethel Conrad
West Eighteenth Street
Stokes
Miss Graham
Miss Conrad
McManus
Boilermakers Strike Baldwin Plant In Philadelphia
Between 1 000 and 2 000 workers at Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia went on strike without official union sanction. The stoppage stems from the layoff of about 1 200 men weeks earlier, with workers claiming the layoffs targeted union members while company officials say there was insufficient work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Boilermakers’ Union
Train strikes Bohemian families. three dead in Durand
Three Bohemians including a 9 year old boy were killed and two wives injured when they walked along Grand Trunk tracks in Durand Michigan. They reportedly stepped onto a parallel track in front of a passenger train.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Durand
Mich
Washington University Holds 50th Commencement
St Louis June 8 The fiftieth commencement exercises of Washington university were held today with Charles Nagel secretary of commerce and labor and a university trustee delivering the address to the graduates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nagel
St. Louis University
St. Louis
Washington University
Charles Nagel
Commerce and Labor
Weather Outlook for Iowa and Illinois
Weathers show generally fair conditions tonight and Friday. East portions of Iowa and north portions of Illinois may see unsettled skies with warmer temperatures in the far east tonight. Sunrise is 4 14, sunset 7 20, moonset 2 20 a m.
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Iowa
Illinois
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Association
First Business
Conference OF Charity and Corrections
O’callaghan
Taft O. K
Ofine
Missouri
Tommy Foulkes
Miss Miller
Caresses
Reed
Pres
Illi
Nois Druggists Elect
Illinois Druggists Elect
Baldwin Plant
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