British shippers press reform at Imperial Conference
At the Imperial Conference Sir David de Villiers Graaf urged a South African style ban on rebates and a united empire response to shipping combinations. Sydney Buxton supported concerted action and a Royal Commission to study trade and resources across overseas dominions. A plan for a chain of wireless stations and a universal penny postage was discussed but not adopted.
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Castro Mystery Deepens As Venezuelan Ex-President Denied
Washington dispatch reports Haiti's foreign minister told American minister Furniss in Port au Prince that ex President Castro of Venezuela was not aboard the steamer Consul Grostuck and could not have slipped ashore unseen. The Birmingham cruiser now shadows the vessel. Berlin dispatch cites Ecuadorian Consul Grostuck denying Castro aboard and calling the tale a myth.
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Umbria
Cipriano Castro
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Royalist Fund Rumor Ties to Portuguese Plot
Lisbon reports government pledge to arrest Capt. Couceiro and Coutinho Chagas to deter Royalists in Galicia. El Mundo cites a $40,000,000 Monarchist agency unearthed in Lisbon aimed at restoring the monarchy. Dr Abelmpos and Saldanha Gama arrested for conspiracy. Royalist bands reportedly gathering at Lindoso near the border.
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Hearst Rumored To Buy London Daily The Morning Leader
London reports claim William Randolph Hearst plans to buy The Morning Leader and merge it with The Daily News. The deal, kept secret, could involve Hearst and has drawn comment on his European ventures including Nash's Magazine and The Weekly Budget.
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Hearst Illinois Campaign Set For Quiet Chicago Meeting
Hearst faction of the Illinois Democracy plans a June 17 gathering at the La Salle Hotel to map a path to seize party control. Attendees include down state leaders Rep. George W. English Sen. Frank W. Burton Millard F. Dunlap John L. Pickering and Mayor Carter H. Harrison. There is talk of reading former Mayor Dunne out of the governor nomination race.
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Illinois Democracy
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Prairies
Egypt
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Frank W. Burton
Carlinville
Millard F. Dunlap
Jacksonville
John L. Pickering
Springfield
Carter H. Harrison
National Committee
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Rat Plague Reappears at Port of London
The Times reports plague has returned among London rats, with infection found at a Wapping wharf near Tower Bridge. The paper notes risks from suppression attempts and cites new spread two miles further up the Thames, signaling either containment or a widening outbreak.
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Madero Learns of $500,000 Property Loss in Vega de Metztitlan
Senor Madero reports destruction of foreign owned assets valued at 500000 pesos by Maderist forces at Vega de Metztitlan. He faces charges from Jorge Vera Estanol while defending his conduct as misjudged but not corrupt. Details remain scarce on the damaged irrigation plants and dams.
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Mexico
Senor Madero
Vega de Metztitlan
Jorge Vera Estanol
Diaz
Madero
Mexico City
National Railways of
Ernesto Madero
Montreal Swindler Jailed for Investor Funds Scheme
Charles D. Sheldon convicted in Montreal for misappropriating client funds in a blind pool stock scheme. Sentenced to five years. He advertised from 1908 claiming insider stock manipulation promising 20 to 30 percent monthly gains. He fled last October, arrested March 27 in Pittsburg, and later revealed his true name as Charles W. Robinson.
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Charles D. Sheldon
Sheldon
St. James Street
Pittsburg
Brockton
Mass
Penn
Charles W. Robinson
Robinson
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Maine Wreck Mud Blocking Exploration Delays Rescue
Aboard the Maine wreck near Havana the board of officers reports hundreds of tons of tenacious mud clogging interior spaces and spar deck as the water cofferdam holds ten feet below normal. They expect to lower the water and remove the mud before any further exploration or bulkhead work can proceed. No bodies have been found among the exposed decks.
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Maine
W. H. Bixbee
Bixbee
Deckhands Strike Looms Over Wages Across Ports
London reports a wage dispute among deckhands with narrow strikers. Canada Pacific and Anglo American Oil raise monthly wages to avert shortages. Antwerp and Amsterdam see dockside unrest as crews abandon ships, while Morgan Line faces threatened walkouts over living conditions and meals.
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London
Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Anglo-American Oil Company
Norway and Japan Sign a Treaty of Commerce
Christiania reports the new treaty of commerce between Norway and Japan was signed today. The agreement marks formal economic ties between the two nations as of June 16.
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