Meat Bill Agreed On After Long Congressional Concession
Washington reports a near complete agreement among the President Speaker Cannon and the House Agriculture Committee on the Meat Inspection bill. The compromise resolves five key points including labeling dates, funding responsibility, civil service for inspectors, plant withdrawal rights, and court review. The measure will be sent to the House with a favorable recommendation and could be debated tomorrow or Wednesday. The fight ends with both sides yielding on main points as the bill faces a quick passage or possible delay.
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New York Times
Washington
Speaker Cannon
House Committee On Agriculture
House
Bureau of Animal Industry
Civil Service
Secretary of Agriculture
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Financial News
Marine Intelligence
Society
United Service
Weather Report
Indictment Focus Shifts to Rail Presidents on Graft
The Inter-State Commerce Commission plans voluntary testimony from major railroad leaders led by Cassatt Newman Murray and others on graft scandals. The commission aims to indict presidents for company acts, holding underlings as reflections of leadership, while officials may not appear. Yates of the Buffalo Rochester & Pittsburg Railroad also refuses to attend the Washington hearing.
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New York Times
Washington
Cassatt
Pennsylvania Railroad
Newman
New York Central
Murray
Baltimore & Ohio
Chesapeake & Ohio
Norfolk & Western
Inter-State Commerce Commission
Elkins
Mosley
Rochester, N. Y
Trust Men Plead Guilty In Ice Conspiracy Case
In Toledo Henry Breining of the Baw Beese Ice Company pled guilty to a conspiracy in restraint of trade. The plea follows two other conspirators in the anti trust case about ice dealers raising prices. In Norwalk the Mount Vernon Bridge Company waived jury trial and was fined $300 plus costs after a related Bridge Trust case.
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Toledo
Ohio
Henry Breining
Baw Beese Ice Company
Breining
Norwalk
Mount Vernon Bridge Company
Bridge Trust
Richards
Actress in Pass Forgery Ring Arrested in Jefferson Market
Olive Berkeley once an actress now Mrs Olivia Brickhurst was arrested on complaints from theatre managers who say she forged letters to obtain fifteen to twenty passes daily. She appeared with her seventeen month old daughter before Magistrate Barlow and was discharged after W G Smyth declined to press charges. Police say she wrote under other actresses names and sold tickets to a dealer earning about 25 dollars a day. Her address is 840 West Twenty fourth Street. Detective Sergeant Foy traced decoy tickets to a store and a sale intermediary was arrested. Post Office Inspector Jacobs will investigate.
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Olive Berkeley
Olivia Brickhurst
Barlow
Jefferson Market Court
Frances
W. G. Smyth
David Belasco
Miss Berkeley
Brickhurst
West Twenty-fourth Street
Gerry Society
Foy
Smyth
Post Office
Jacobs
Longworths Enjoy Busy London Parliament Day
Mr and Mrs Nicholas Longworth spent a full day in London visiting the Houses of Parliament and touring both the House of Commons and Lords. They lunched with Arthur Hamilton Lee and Mrs Lee and dined at Dorchester House with Ambassador and Mrs Reid before planning an Ascot visit with the Reids.
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London
Nicholas Longworth
Houses of Parliament
Arthur Hamilton Lee
Admiralty
Lee
Miss Moore
New York
House of Commons
House of Lords
Longworth
Dorchester House
Ambassador
Reid
Opera
Oyster Bay prepares for July 4 celebration with Roosevelt
Oyster Bay L I June 18 all arrangements for a July 4 celebration are complete and President Roosevelt is expected to deliver an address. The new Opera House is nearly finished and will host a large crowd with ample accommodations.
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Oyster Bay
L. F
Roosevelt
Washington
Cape Cod Steamboat Grounds in Fog Near Provincetown
The excursion steamboat Cape Cod carrying about forty passengers grounded on a sandy bottom a mile and a half below its docking place in thick fog. Passengers were taken ashore in small boats as the vessel proceeded slowly and struck gently.
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Provincetown
Mass
Cape Cod
Kidnapped Boy Found After Harsh Philadelphia Arrest
Freddie Muth, seven, seized from Muhlenberg public school, was found in a vacant Philadelphia house and reunited with his parents. John J. Kean, a former Harlem River Bank bookkeeper and broker, was captured after a chase. he faced possible life imprisonment for the abduction and robbery of $20,000. The boy's rescue followed tips from locals and a public manhunt, with Mayor Weaver and Capt. Donaghy praised for aiding the investigation.
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Philadelphia
Freddie Muth
Charles Muth
Muhlenberg
John Joseph Kean
New York
Harlem River National Bank
Central Police Station
Prospect
Kean
West
Donaghy
Muth
Wilmington
Del
Joseph Sager
Sixtieth
Haverford Avenue
Freddie
Charles J. Cooke
Clare and
Vale
Sixty-second
Charlie Ross
Mr. Muth
Louis Kolasky
Mayor Weaver
Capt. Donaghy
Four Die After Bologna Sausage Tragedy in Arkansas
Farm family near Fort Smith Arkansas loses J B Barmore his two daughters and infant son to poisoning after eating bologna sausage. Wife Mrs Barmore ingested all other items and remained well. Sausage origin traced to packing house products with dealer fallout in Memphis.
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New York Times
Fort Smith
Ark
J. B. Barmore
Belle Point Hospital
Memphis
Policeman Known as Mile-a-Minute Rescues from Quick Sand
Adams Street Officer Murphy nicknamed for riding behind a locomotive on a bicycle saved a workman named Constant Albert from a cellar quick sand. Sergt Bernard Clarke and a laborer supported Murphy as he entered the mire and pulled Albert to the surface after about thirty minutes. Albert suffered head injuries and was taken to a hospital.
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Murphy
Adams Street
Madison Street
Sergt
Bernard Clarke
Manhattan Avenue
Albert
Clarke
Holden May Step Down From National Safe Deposit Post
Report says James Co. Holden resigned as president of the National Safe Deposit Co, affiliated with Mutual Life Insurance. Directors Chadbourne Fonda Lloyd and Pendergast offered no confirmation or detail, while Holden denied comment.
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James Co. Holden
National Safe Deposit Company
Mutual Life Insurance Company
Holden
Madison
N. J
Thomas L. Chadbourne, Jr
John A. Fonda
Isaac T. Lloyd
J. Lynch Pendergast
Fly bite endangers life of Milo man in New York
Erastus Haines of Milo may lose his arm or die after a large fly bit his left wrist while he worked at a fertilizer plant. He was treated at Thrill Hospital in Middletown as the arm swelled and pain spread up the limb, with surgeons fearing an operation. The fly is thought to have fed on diseased meat.
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New York Times
Middletown
N. Y
Erastus Haines
Milo
Thrll Hospital
Haines
Dr. Thomas
Hackensack
Charles Levee
Little Falls
New York
Earth
Levee
Americans Held in London Over Bogus Shares
Mark Anthony Young and Henry Jonas, managers of the American Mining Milling and Smelting Syndicate, were remanded at Guildhall Police Court on charges of conspiracy to defraud the public. Inspector Pentim said thousands of pounds were involved. Shares advertised as one dollar faced value were sold at $12.50, and the mines were alleged to be bogus. Jonas secured bail at $5,000, while Young was refused bail.
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London
Mark Anthony Young
Henry Jonas
American Mining, Milling and Smelting
Guildhall
Pentim
Jonas
Young
City College New York Welcomes 175 Preparatory Students
During commencement week 175 preparatory course completers were received as freshmen in the chapel of Townsend Harris Hall at Amsterdam Avenue and 138th Street. The event marked the first exercises in the new building and the college will move there by the fall term.
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The
College of the City of New York
Townsend Harris Hall
Amsterdam Avenue
138Th Street
Mayor's Farewell to Cabinet Before European Trip
A farewell meeting of the Mayor and his cabinet at City Hall yesterday preceded his Saturday departure for Europe. Fire Commissioner O'Brien was absent. The talks centered on cautioning department heads against extravagance in budget estimates.
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Europe
O’brien
Balloonist Thomas Returns Aboard After 8000 Foot Flight
Dr. Julian P. Thomas arrived in the city after a perilous 14 1/2 hour ascent in a French balloon. He rose to 8,000 feet, crossed into New Jersey, weathered a fierce thunderstorm, and landed in Otsego County near Butternut. The flight covered about 300 miles, setting American records for height and distance.
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Julian P. Thomas
Paris
Thomas
France
188Th Street
Locust Avenue
Bronx
South New Berlin
Chenango County
Otsego
Dr. Thomas
Grant
Hudson
Mr. Levee
Sevee
Ievee
Butternut
South New Lerma
Otsego County
Heir Killed in Street Fall at 149 West 33rd Street
Frank B. Gaffney aged about 45, heir to a share of 50 000 dollars and a Rochester native, fell into an areaway in front of 149 West Thirty-third Street and was killed instantly. His identity was confirmed by letters in his pockets and Caspar Neirengarden, a 389 Seventh Avenue liquor dealer, identified the body. Neirengarden said the deceased had a brother who was vice president of the Boston Trust Company and a sister living on West Seventy-sixth Street.
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Frank B. Gaffney
Rochester
West Thirty-third Street
Caspar Neirengarden
Seventh Avenue
Boston Trust Company
Boston
West Seventy-sixth Street
British battle ships Ramillies and Resolution collide
The Ramillies was assisted back to Sheerness after a Channel collision with the Resolution during naval manoeuvres. The Ramillies requires docking for repairs to its propeller while the Resolution suffered no damage. Other torpedo craft have had minor incidents.
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London
Ramillies
Sheerness
Channel
Resolution
New York Merchant Pledges 250000 for Norfolk Y M C A Home
A New York merchant will donate over 250000 for a Norfolk Naval Y M C A home, pledged through Miss Helen Gould. Local secretary Heisenbuttle reviews possible sites, with a final choice due next week as 4000 sailors and Marines are present at the Norfolk Navy Yard.
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Norfolk
New York
Norfolk Naval Young Men’s Christian Association
Helen Gould
Heisenbuttle
Norfolk Navy Yard
Naval Station
Boy Tied to Railroad Tracks Near Fort Edward
Ten year old Benjamin Stott of Fort Edward was found exhausted and strapped to the Delaware and Hudson rails between Fort Edward and Sandy Hill. A track walker freed him before a train could strike. He said two young men abducted him and bound him to the rails. Police hunt the assailants.
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Glens Falls
N. Y
Benjamin Stott
Delaware & Hudson
Fort Edward
Sandy Hill
Ousted M. P. Aga-Robartes Unseated Over Garden Party
London June 18 The Election Court unseated Thomas Charles Aga-Robartes eldest son of Viscount Clifden Liberal MP for Bodmin Cornwall due to illegal practices The principal complaint cited a garden party entertaining voters as the key item in the case
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London
Thomas Charles Aga-Robartes
Viscount Clifden
Bodmin
Cornwall
Special Train Wreck Near Bridgeport Leaves Several Injured
A head on collision near West Wheeling, two miles south of Bridgeport, involved a special Baltimore and Ohio train led by General Superintendent Loree and a heavily loaded ore train. Six men are seriously injured, with two deaths feared including engineer William Scott and fireman Frank Davidson. A Wheeling dispatcher error and heavy fog are blamed for the high speed crash.
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Bridgeport
Ohio
West Wheeling
Loree
Baltimore & Ohio
William Scott
Frank Davidson
Wheeling
Nurse Killed by Trolley Car in City Collision
Catherine Hooks an 18 year old nurse at Lying-in Hospital was killed when struck by a trolley at Eighteenth Street and Third Avenue around 1 30 this morning. Mary Gordon 20 suffered injuries. Motorman Martin Kelley and conductor Albert Davis were arrested on homicide charges.
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Catherine Hooks
Second Avenue
Eighteenth Street
Third Avenue
Mary Gordon
Martin Kelley
Albert Davis
East Twenty-second Street
Autoist Held for Death in Park Collision
Isaac T. Strauss, Newark merchant and N. Strauss & Co. partner, rearrested for death of chauffeur Harry Isaacson in yesterday’s auto collision at Asbury Park. After initial release on 2000 bail, Isaacson’s death led to a second arrest with no bail set by Judge Borden.
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Asbury Park
Isaac T. Strauss
Harry Isaacson
Strauss
N. Strauss & Co
Newark
David Belasco
France Takes Big Pennsylvania Loan For New York Improvements
The Pennsylvania Railroad announces a French 50 million dollar bond loan placed through Kuhn Loeb. The deal channels funds to cover 83,000 steel cars, 313 locomotives, and New York tunnels and terminal work, with payments in monthly installments through year end.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Paris
Kuhn
Kuhn, Loeb & Co
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Pennsylvania Company
Banque de Paris Et Des Pays-Bas
Credit Lyonnais
Crédit Lyonnais
Banque de Paris Et Des Pays Bas
Société Générale
Rothschilds
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
A. J. Cassatt
Cassatt
Car Trust
Water Company
New York
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