News of the Week condensed across world events
A wide range of items: Russian monarchs crowned. Russian government calls for cabinet resignation. Kansas experiments on meat preservatives. San Francisco food aid and supply camps. Moody prosecutes Standard Oil rebates. Transcontinental Insurance assets cover only 10 percent claims. Portland grand jury indicts 12 in state election fraud. California earthquake insurance disputes. Southern Russia peasant revolt. English suffragists arrested. mutinies in Raselan garrisons. Bryan criticizes conservatism. canal bill seen as Roosevelt victory. Alaska manufacturing bulletin shows 83 concerns with 10 million capitalization. Los Angeles doctor extracts and washes a heart. Census shows European death rates. Korean revolt. Japan aims to monopolise Orient trade. Los Angeles fire. Russian papers suppressed. California public land sale proceeds. Italian orders on American canned meat. Witte warns of revolutionary Russia. submarine eruption near Alaska. educational reshuffle at California university. Russia revolutionary mood. tobacco officials linked to conspiracy. Dreyfus forgery evidence. California fights insurers. pending pension bill. Hermenn land case set for July trial.
Prosecutions Planned Against Standard Oil Leaders
Washington rumors say the administration intends immediate criminal prosecutions against Standard Oil officials for Sherman anti trust violations and against Standard Oil affiliates and railroad leaders for Elkins rebate violations. A high authority cites prior investigations and Garfield report findings supporting convictions.
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Jane
Standard Oil Company
Standard Oil
Elkina
White House
Usid
Department of Justice
New York
Mutiny Predicted in Baltic Fleet at Cronstadt
Ivan Narodny reports a forthcoming mutiny in the Baltic fleet at Cronstadt with greater success than the Black Sea revolt. He says captains join the revolution movement, army officers with nobles back reforms, and that peasants and nobles share close ties fueling upheaval.
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New York
van Narodny
Baltic
Cronetadt
Russia
France
Rueois
Bialystok
Senate Debates Sundry Civil and Agricultural Allocations
In Washington the senate withdrew an amendment to fund president travel costs and passed an independent bill with a similar appropriation. House debate centered on the pure food bill’s states rights aspects and package section, with the measure likely to pass in final form. The Beveridge agricultural amendment received near unanimous support and was sent to conference, while other bills moved forward under suspension.
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Washington
House
Beveridge
Wadsworth
Committee On Agriculture
Scott
Ken
Lamb
Cbamp Clark
Missouri
Williams
Mississippi
Senate backs canal plan through Panama as House debates
Washington action aligns Senate with the president and House on a rock canal across the Isthmus of Panama after a day of light debate. A lone motion to table the pea level substitute for the pure food bill failed 36 to 31. The House then focused on the pure food measure, leaving unfinished business at adjournment.
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Washington
Senate
House of Representatives
Panama
Kittredge
Insurance cases heard in Oakland court
Two refugee women from San Francisco sued Palat Insurance of London for 600 dollars each. Justice Quinn decided for plaintiffs with appeals filed, the defense to rest on earthquake clause but no evidence linked the loss to the quake. San Francisco commercial bodies plan to form a policy holders association to secure prompt fair settlements.
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Palat Insurance Company
London
England
Justice of the Peace
Quinn's
Oakland
Ecourse
Senate Debates Meat Inspection and Canal Plans
Washington reports include a senate discussion of the meat inspection provision in the agricultural appropriation bill, with the bill’s fate left undecided. The senate also held its first night session to consider the sundry civil appropriation bill and heard two speeches on the Panama Canal plan. The house passed about twenty bills under suspension, including $25,000 for president’s travel, land subdivision under the reclamation act, elevating the mental health bureau chief to brigadier general status, and carrier regulation. a joint resolution to extend representatives’ terms failed to gain a two thirds majority.
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Kittredge
Gatam
House
Senate
Washington
Proctor
Panama Canal
Morgan
Perkine
Bureau of Mental Affaire
Britain Declines To Intercede Over Russian Outbreaks
London June 22 Walter Runciman parliamentary secretary to the local government board for Foreign Secretary Gray declined to inform the Russian government of the British people’s views on anti-Jewish outbreaks. He said the impression and sympathy aroused by Russia were known to the Russian government and further protest would be useless.
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Walter Runciman
Gray
Russia
Weslees
Washington Senate Address on Lock Type for Panama Canal
June 19 Washington report cites Knox addressing the Senate in support of a lock type for the Panama Canal. He argues it best serves navigation, defense, and future traffic, outlining technical and strategic advantages.
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Washington
Knox
Senate
Hell Detreys Corn and Fruit
In Dallas Texas a storm on June 22 caused wind rain and hail damaging crops and necessitating repair work to restore operations at local corn and fruit facilities. Local crews were called to assess and fix the storm damage.
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Hell
Dallas
Tex
Jame
Revere
President and Cenmittes Reach Meat Inspection Accord
The basic agreement on the meat inspection bill was reached today at the White House between President Roosevelt and the major agricultural committees. Speaker Cannon represented the committees and explained the situation to the group in the Capitol room as talks continued.
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Washington
Roose
White House
Connee
Capitol
Senate passes canal bill amid adjournment death notice
The Senate approved the Lake Erie and Ohio river canal bill with 11 votes against and advanced several unopposed measures. Death of Rufus Lester of Georgia announced. House adjourned after tributes and unanimous consent actions. Franklin Wadsworth and Payne scheduled suspension days for the week. Bartlett of Georgia paid respects and noted Lester’s 18 years in the House.
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Senate
Tillman
Hopkins
National Bank
Chicago National Bank
Lester
Georgia
House of Representatives
Rufus Lester
Congress
Wadsworth
New York
Committee On Agriculture
Payne
Bartlett
House
Senate debates ship canal bill amid protests and amendments
Washington scenes show the senate spending the day on a bill to create a lake Erie to Ohio River ship canal. Patterson attacks the measure in the interest of speculation while Knox and Nelson defend it. La Follette’s amendments are tabled as the session ends for lack of a quorum. The Panama canal supply resolution is adopted and civil appropriations for the canal total 604.6 million dollars.
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Senate
Lake Erie
Ohio River
Patterson An
Knox
Nelson
LaFollette
Panama Canal
Senate bill proposal on rail rights and marsh construction
Washington report notes the Senate considers a bill affecting railroad rights along marsh areas, with references to construction timelines and August deadlines. The fragmentary text hints at regulatory steps and potential project delays, but lacks clear specifics on parties or outcomes.
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