Jews Present Case To Roosevelt And Hay On Kishineff Massacre
The Bnai Brith delegation met at the State Department and at the White House with President Roosevelt and Secretary Hay to seek action over Kishineff outrages. They presented a memorandum and petition plan urging unofficial or semi official help to deliver their appeal to the Czar. Hay and Roosevelt cited the need for caution and noted American sympathy for Jews while respecting Russia’s sovereignty.
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Washington
Binai_ B'rith
Roosevelt
Hay
State Department
Leo Ne Levi
New York
Jarrob Furth
Lleveland
Solomon Sulsberger
Joseph D. Coons
Wilkesbarre
Penn
Adolph ‘Moses
Chicago
Simon Awol
White House
Russia
Nishinetz
Kishineff
Gerélich
Oxnur
Majesty
Ismiel
Phere
Bowery
Christian Agsee
Ald
Fr - Russia
Jme
Rnlow
Strike Debate Opens at United Mine Workers Convention
The United Mine Workers in Scranton convened with 640 delegates as National President John Mitchell presided. The convention referred the conciliation issue and other grievances to a seven delegates from each district plus the three district presidents committee, weighing whether to back the Conciliation Board or prepare for possible strike actions.
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Sqrantion
Penn
United Mine Workers
John Mitchell
Mitchell
Joint Conciliation Board
Conciliation Board
Commission
Gray
George Hartlein
William Tarr
Shamokin
Tartlein
Tarr
Schuylkill
Honduras Road Seized In Honduran Government Project
The Honduras government confiscates the Honduras Railroad from Puerto Cortez to San Pedro, a fifty eight mile line. Lessees include the Honduras syndicate led by Senator Chauncey M. Depew as President and Henry L. Sprague as Vice President, with other New York financiers involved. President Manuel Bonilla, installed after a recent revolutionary movement, orders operation on an independent basis.
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New York Times
New Orleans
Government of
Honduras
Puerto Cortez
San Pedro
Honduras Syndicate
Chauncey M. Depew
Henry L. Sprague
New York
Manuel Bonilla
Niagara Falls and Return via Lackawanna Railroad
Tickets sold June 17 for a Niagara Falls round trip via Lackawanna Railroad with return June 22. Price 429, 1,183 by way. Advance sale notes indicate excursion details and pricing.
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Niagara Falls
Lackawanna Railroad
Lehigh Valley R. R
Superior Pullmar
Adyv
Omaha Strikes Collapse Ends After Bricklayers Reopen
Special to The New York Times Omaha Neb June 15 Bricklayers settle with contractors return to work at noon on union scale but accept non union workers Carpenters still on strike though many return individually Plumbers remain locked out All brick factories resume at union scale but without union recognition Construction resumes on partially finished projects yet overall activity limited this season by labor troubles
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New York Times
Omaha
Neb
Building Trades Union
Omalha
Strike arbitrators blamed by ministers in stock yards dispute
In Cthcago on June 15 the Methodist ministers voted to censure three arbitrators of the Stock Yards engineers strike and one who billed the union for 1000 dollars. The report cited wrong course by the arbitrators E A Welly W M Lawrence and M W Haynes. The committee failed to interview all arbitrators.
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New-York Times
Cthgago
E. A. Welly
M.j) Lawrence
M. W.haynes
Decoy Letter Leads to Arrest of Corning Cashier
Treasury Secret Service arrested George E. Eaton, cashier at Vandenning & Co. in Corning New York, on bribery charges after decoy letters were traced to him. Eaton posted bond and awaits federal court, while officials say he sought a suspicious land sale to fund a Post Office building. Eaton claims innocence.
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George E. Eaton
Corning
Washington, Jane
Treasury Secret Service
of Vandenning & Co
N. Y
United States
Treasury Department
Traylor Ates
Faton
Wilkie
Secret Service
Eaton
Tayior
Maton
Rate War Roils Western Railroads Amid Ticket Cuts
Western railroads engage in a sweeping rate war from Omaha to Chicago with fares cut for Summer school and conventions. Missouri Pacific and St. Louis and San Francisco initiate the lower fare, prompting other lines from Kansas City and Omaha to match. Central Passenger Association and Trunk Line Committee warn offenders as tensions rise across the trans-Missouri region and eastward toward Buffalo and New England.
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New York Times
Chicago
Omaha
Kansas City
trans-Missouri
Colorado
Missouri Pacific
St. Louis
San Francisco
Soo
Buffalo
Detroit
Boston
Albany
Twin Cities
Grand Trunk
Chicago-St. Paul
Central Passenger Association
New England
Europe
Trunk Line Passenger Committee
Gen. Gordon's Son Lost in Georgia Search Plea
Gen John B Gordon requests police locate his son Capt Frank Gordon and return him home. The notice posted at Atlanta Police Headquarters asks police nationwide to aid after Capt Gordon left home last week with nerves overwrought. The elder Gordon fears he wanders aimlessly across the country.
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New York Times
Atlanta
John B. Gordon
United Confederate Veterans
Frank Gordon
Gordon
Capt. Gordon
Ray
Platt names Sheldon as Roosevelt’s choice for county chair
Senator Thomas C. Platt says President Roosevelt favors George R. Sheldon for head of the Republican County Committee after returning from Washington. He reports Sheldon to dine with the President tonight and aims to persuade him to accept. Platt also asserts Mayor Low should be renominated by Fusion, arguing any other choice would hurt Fusion and the administration.
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Thomas C. Platt
Roosevelt
Republican County Committee
George R. Sheldon
Washington
F. Norton Goddard
Odell
Sheldon
Platt
Low
Fusion
Justice Gaynor
Baltimore and Ohio Denial in Goulds Suit
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad filed an answer denying violations of agreements and influence by Pennsylvania Railroad to breach them. It confirms majority stock in Consolidation Coal and Fairmount Coal but says it did not use this to steer coal shipments. It notes Western Maryland sale to Wabash altered West Virginia Central policy, causing operators to withdraw patronage and blockade Martinsburg route.
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New York Times
Baltimore
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Today
Gould
Western Maryland Railroad
Cherry Run
West Va
Shippensburg
Penn
Baltimore and Ohio
Pennsylvania Railroad
Consolidation Coal Company
Fairmount Coal Company
Maryland
West Virginia Central
Wabash Company
West Virginia
Baltimore and Qyhio
Martinsburg
Decision in Asphalt Suit Denies Full Stock Assessment
Judge Kirkpatrick refused to approve the part of the decree that would require full capital stock assessment to cover debts. The decree sanctions Land Title and Trust Company claim of 29.84 million dollars with interest, approves Barber Asphalt Company notes of 615 thousand, and orders Everdell, as purchaser, to pay 17,797 dollars plus 50,000 dollars toward unpledged asset price.
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New York Times
Trenton
N. J
Kirkpatrick
United States Circuit Court
Tatnall
Asphalt Company of America
National Asphalt Company
Land Title and Trust Company of
Philadelphia
Barber Asphalt Company
Everdell
Stock Broker Sentenced In Albany Larceny Case
Joseph D. Hamburger, a St Louis stock broker, pleaded guilty in Albany County Court to grand larceny and was fined 500 dollars. He was indicted for filing a false report to the National Bank of Springfield Massachusetts about Hamburger & Co. assets in this city.
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Joseph D. Hamburger
St. Louis
Albany
Colby Students Rebel Over Freshman Reading Suspension
Waterville Maine June 15 A college clash at Colby College prompts the suspension of nearly all sophomores after a disruptive freshman reading event. The student body issues an ultimatum demanding the suspension be reversed or they will withdraw tonight. Women students join the firm stand.
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New York Times
Waterville
Colby College
Forest fires in Adirondacks less extensive than feared
State Fire Wardens report fires in the Adirondacks caused less damage to virgin forests than early reports suggested. William F. Fox says most burned areas were previously logged. Summer tourism should see no major changes, with only a blackened strip along rail lines visible. some private camps near Rockefeller and Webb lands escaped largely intact.
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New York Times
Albany
State Forest Commission
Adirondacks
William F. Fox
Forestry Department
Col. Fox
William Rockefeller
Seward Webb
Alfred G. Vanderbilt
J. Pierpont Morgan
Woodruff
Robert C. Pryn
Jackson trial shifts to arson case amid Jackson terror
In Jackson Kentucky on June 15 the Jett and White murder trial is overshadowed by the arson case against Hargis Brothers linked to the Ewen hotel fire that killed or displaced residents. Witnesses testified about Crawford and Thorp and Judge Redwine urged indictments for arson as the Breathitt feud intensifies. A companion fund drive in Lexington raised support for Captain B L Ewen.
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Jackson
Curtis Jett
Thomas White
J. B. Marcum
Hargis Brothers
B. L. Ewen
Commonwealth
Jett
White
Ockrill
Joseph Crawford
Edward Thorp
Ewen
Redwine
Hargis
Gray Handdicks
Jeremiah Lunsford
Crawford
A. H. Short
Rawford
Thorp
Grand Jury
Breathitt County
Golden
Mrs.Johnson
Mircum
Worldliness in Churches in Boston Meeting
Baptist ministers criticized Harvard President Eliot and Rev. E. E. Hale for modern scholarship and worldly influences. Dr. Bateman warned of church worldliness driven by luxury, theatre, card playing, and dancing, urging a return to narrow religious focus and less adaptation.
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New York Times
Boston
Eliot
Harvard University
E. E. Hale
D. D
F. W. Bateman
D.D
Chelsea
Dr. Hale
Dr. Bateman
Bateman
A. C. Dixon
Emerson
Paul
C. C. Tarle
Lawrence
New York Seeks Cincinnati Currency Transfers
Cincinnati reports large currency shipments to New York amid firm exchange rates. Over the past few business days more than 706000 dollars moved eastward, including 200000 from a Fourth Street bank to Newark. Indications point to further heavy shipments this week as 35 cents per 1000 dollars remains the New York exchange rate. Trains run via the Pennsylvania Lines toward St Louis.
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New York Times
Cincinnati
New York
Fourth Street Banke
Newark
New York Exchange
Flood wipes Heppner and Lexington. 500 feared dead
Flood from Willow Creek roared through Heppner Oregon destroying the county seat and nearby Lexington. About 500 lives are believed lost with most residents homeless and relief efforts under way as trains with physicians and supplies depart for Heppner.
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