Rights in Manchuria Views of Mr Root
Secretary Root described Harbin as a complex issue with many complications and no great obstacle to a satisfactory adjustment. He noted the Russian dominated railway zone does not threaten Chinese sovereignty and warned against overemphasizing recent decrees. Chinese and foreign interests seek a voice in municipal rules while consuls operate on equal footing in Harbin.
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Russia
Harbin
Era Railway
China
State Department
Skinner
Japanese attack at American Consulate shocks Meoukden
Four Japanese entered the American Consulate in Meoukden on April 6 and assaulted native staff in reprisal for a private grudge. Chinese police arrested the assailants and took them to the Japanese Consulate. No apology has been offered and the incident may trigger diplomatic action.
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Meoukden
Apri
Consol
Straight
Hinese
Laken
Alexieff Forced Out Of Office In Russia
In St Petersburg on April 6 the Douma compelled the retirement of M. Alexieff, vice-minister of commerce and head of the Department of Commercial Navigation, after budget pressures and a threatened report against the ministry. Shipoff, the minister, yielded. This marks a major move toward ministerial responsibility in the Douma era.
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St Petersburg
Douma
M. Alexieff
Department of Commercial Navigation
Budget Commission
Alexieff
M. Shipoff
Commerce
German lines meet rate cut in transatlantic dispute
The Hamburg American and North German Lloyd lines join White Star in reducing steerage fares between New York and Mediterranean destinations against Italian competitors. Hamburg American blames Italian lines but expects an early settlement. The Mediterranean rate fight will not affect the recent agreement with New York and North European lines.
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Heambure
Hamburg-American
Lloyd Companies
White Star Line
New York
Mediterranean
Hamburg-American Line
Vetes
Twenty-Fight Fishermen Saved In North Atlantic Rescue
Halifax reports the French fishing schooner Champagne from St. Malo, with twenty eight crew, foundered after battles with heavy seas. The Volturno rescued fourteen crew, then the remainder on the next day. The vessel was abandoned and set ablaze before sinking.
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Halifax
Champagne
St. Malo
France
Rotterdam
New York
Harrison
MrIntosh
Tokyo Finance Dept Reports 56 Million Won Excess Receipts
Returns for the year ended March 31 show an excess of receipts over estimates of approximately 56,000,000 won due to full tax collection. Arrears are minimal and the Department of Finance is gratified, noting the result dispels doubts about the government’s ability to redeem its bonds.
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Tokio
Department of Finance
Grape-Nuts as Safe Weaning Food for Babies
Mothers seek a nourishing postweaning option and the article promotes Grape-Nuts as a safe first food. It claims the cereal, made of wheat and barley and baked long, suits nearly all babies when soaked in hot milk and sweetened, then cooled to a paste.
Americans Arrested Over Newfoundland Fishing Dispute
Washington reports Representative Gardner says Newfoundland violates the 1818 treaty and the 1907 fisheries modus vivendi by arresting Gloucester fishermen Clayton and Spinney for cod trawling within the three mile limit. London notes partial treaty drafts exist but a full agreement stalls over Niagara Falls power and Atlantic fisheries arbitration.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Gardner
Massachusetts
Newfoundland
Gloucester
Clayton
Srinney
Port Aux Basque
Spinney
White House
State Department
Hague
London
Foreign Office
United States
Canada
Ottawa
Niagara Falls
Great Britain
Dominion of Canada
New Jersey Wins Suit on Waters Protection
In a Holmes opinion the Supreme Court upheld New Jersey to prohibit diversions of its streams to another state. The Hudson County Water Company case held the Passaic River water supply to Staten Island could be restrained under state police power to preserve public welfare and public health.
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Washington
Justice Holmes
Supreme Court of the United States Today
New Jersey
Hudson County Water Company Agt
Robert H. McCarter
Passaic River
Staten Island
Holmes
Supreme Court rules brokers may return client holdings in bankruptcy
The Supreme Court holds securities held by a broker who becomes bankrupt may be returned to the original owner without creating a preference. In Richardson v Brown, assets given back to Shaw and Davidson are restored.
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Washington
Supreme Court of the United States
Davidson
Shaw
Henry Arnold Richardson
J. Francis Brown
Boston
Joan M. Shaw
Alexander Davidson
Brown
New York
Richardson
United States Circuit Court For
Eastern District of New York
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Justice Day
Pledger
E. S. Thomas
Jacob Berry & Co
Anna D. Taggert
Supreme Court
Federal Courts of
Circuit Court of Appeals
Baltic Sea Convention Reaches Baltic Status Quo Accord
From Copenhagen April 6 Russia Germany Denmark and Sweden agree on a Baltic coast status quo with a forthcoming signing. Sweden and Denmark express satisfaction and removal of fortifications on the Aland Islands. An eventual North Sea accord is anticipated amid Sweden Russia tensions over Finnish coast fortifications and Aland naval station plans.
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Copenhagen
Russia
Germany
Denmark
Sweden
Baltic
Aland Islands
North Sea
Trenmark
Finland
Alison
Large Boston Bank Closes Doors Amid Liquidation
The National Bank of the Republic, a major Boston institution with about 15 million in deposits and 2 million in capital, shuts its doors. Its assets will be liquidated by the National Shawmut Bank, which absorbs several local rivals and becomes New England’s largest national bank.
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National of Republic
Shawmut
Boston
National Bank of the Republic
National Shawmut Bank
Bank of the Republic
Shawmut Bank
New England
Cleveland Streetcar Fight Settled With Three Cent Fare
City officials announce likely settlement of a seven year street railway dispute. The new rate will be three cents with one cent transfers, under a fifty year security franchise with a possible fifty year extension, protecting original companies and adding forfeiture clauses. Public negotiations created a holding company for the consolidated property.
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Cleveland
Consolidated
Lake Superior Corporation Holds Annual Meeting in Jersey City
The Lake Superior Corporation held its annual meeting yesterday in Jersey City. A harmony ticket was elected without opposition after repeated adjournments due to an injunction sought by dissatisfied interests. Directors named include Reeves Hay Lloyd Hinchman Lea Terry Warren Sheppard Lovell Drummond Wilson-Smith and Targinson. Warren was named president and Reeves first vice president. Drummond second vice president. Terry secretary and treasurer.
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Lake Superior Corporation
Jersey City
Harmony
Francis B. Reeves
James Hay
Horatio G. Lloyd
Charles S. Hinchman
J. Tatnall Lea
Philadelphia
John T. Terry
New York
Charles D. Warren
Willem J. Sheppard
Toronto
Leander N. Lovell
New Jersey
Thomas J. Drummond
Sale of Master Paintings at Mendelssohn Hall
Sale of notable early English Dutch Italian French and Flemish paintings from Blakeslee galleries to be held at Mendelssohn Hall on Thursday and Friday evenings. Thoms J. Kirby of the American Art Association conducts the sale. Paintings on exhibition at the American Art Galleries from 9 a m to 6 p m and from p m to Wp m.
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Blakeslee
Mendelssohn Hall
Thoms J. Kirby
American Art Association
American Art Galleries
Transfer Tax Case Dismissed by Supreme Court
The U S Supreme Court dismissed the case of Carolyn Foster Stickney against the New York Controller finding no federal question. She challenged the transfer tax law arguing journals failed to prove a three fifths quorum when the bill passed. The ruling affirms the Surrogate Court of New York asserting the proceeding regular and valid.
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Washington
Carolyn Foster Stickney
Joseph Stickney
New York
Supreme Court of the United States
Moody
County of
House for currency commission debate spurs poll findings
Representative Hill reports a House poll showing a majority favor creating a six six six currency commission to study the financial issue before the next Congress. He notes support for a plan roughly like the Lovering bill with members appointed by the President.
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Washington
Hill
Connecticut
House Committee On Currency
Roosevelt
House
Lovering
Quarantine Set Against Cuba Excluding Havana District
The Marine Hospital and Public Health Service issued an order establishing a quarantine against Cuba starting today. The Havana metropolitan district which includes Havana Marianao and Camp Columbia is exempt from the quarantine.
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Washington
Marine Hospital and Public Health Service
Cuba
Havana
Marianao
Camp Columbia
Two London Tenement Collapses Buried Dozens
Early today two old tenement houses in Castle street and Oxford street collapsed in London. Forty people were buried, mainly German waiters. By noon eight bodies were recovered from Castle street ruins and twenty were rescued unharmed. The building failures followed excavations for a new adjacent structure.
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London
Castle Street
Oxford Street
Agreed Liquor Shipment Bill After Senate Hearings
Washington April 6 Senate Judiciary Committee members agreed on a bill regulating interstate liquor shipments. The measure, to be reported by Senator Knox, bans collect on delivery packages with fictitious names and requires clear consignor and consignee naming to curb liquor house agents.
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Washington
Senate Committee On the Judiciary
Knox
Consignee
Iquor
Freedman's Savings and Trust Depositors Await Senate Action
Depositors in the Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company stand to receive about $1,000,000 if the Senate bill passes and is acted on favorably by the House. The postwar charter aimed to aid freedmen’s thrift, though many believed government guarantees were involved. The institution failed and only about $1,040 had ever been paid to depositors.
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Washington
April
Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company
Senate
House
House Votes 300 to 1 on Key Labor Bill Passage
The House passed the Sterling Employers' Liability bill by 299 to 1 with Representative Littlefield of Maine dissenting on constitutional grounds. The measure limits coverage to employees of interstate carriers and relaxes some common law rules, while a companion Senate bill narrows scope to railroad carriers. Also approved was a $600,000 appropriation for a Pearl Harbor naval station and changes to the pass provision for carrier employees and their families.
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Washington
House
Littlefield
Maine
Williams
Payne
New York
Mississippi
Supreme Court
Senate
Dolliver
Committee On Education and Labor
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
Hepburn Bill Hearing Features Labor Stand Against Registration
Washington April 6 hearing before a House sub committee on Hepburn bill includes Samuel Gompers AFL president who says organized labor would endure the Sherman act as applied in the Danbury hatters case rather than submit to registration. Professor J W Jenks and Seth Low outline Federation views. further hearing set for April 16.
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Washington
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Organized Labor
United States Supreme Court
Danbury Hatters
National Civic Federation
Hepburn
Iowa
House
Judiciary Committees
Gompers
Seth Low
J. W. Jenks
Cornell University
Daniel Davenport
Bridgeport
Anthracite Coal Commission
Labor
Lake Torpedo Boat Company figure in submarine probe
Washington April 6 the Lake Torpedo Boat Company dominated the House committee inquiry into the Electric Boat Company charges. Robert G Skerrett formerly its foreign representative faced questioning about submarine articles he authored while denying efforts to sway public opinion. Representative Loud denied pressure to support submarine boats amid tense exchanges with a Washington reporter.
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Washington
Lake Torpedo Boat Company
Electric Boat Company
Special House Committee
Robert G. Skerrett
New York
Lake Company
Lilley
R. W. Woolley
Loud
Michigan
Frank Edinboreough
Pearing
Meat Trust Discussion Likely as House Debates Resolution
A House resolution introduced by Mr Hitchcock of Nebraska directs the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to provide monthly data from the past two years on leading meat products and livestock prices at major packing centers. The aim is to show the relationship between livestock costs and meat prices, as part of a meat trust discussion. The measure was referred to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.
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Washington
Congress
Meat Trust
Hitchcock
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Hvesteck
The
Committee On Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Hobson pushes for four battleships yearly to secure Pacific sea
Representative Hobson of Alabama urged in the House that in addition to two already authorized, the United States should lay down at least four battleships annually for security in the Pacific and six annually for the Atlantic until Japan concedes to American sea control.
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Washington
Hobson
Alabama
House Today
Pacific Ocean
United States
Japan
Atlantic Ocean
Answers Filed in U S Suit Against Harriman Railroads
In Salt Lake City on April 6 the United States filed and the defendants answered in the suit challenging the Harriman railroad system as a restraint of trade. Harriman signed his own answer denying ownership of a majority stock and denying collusion while admitting the Union Pacific's controlling role in a broad network.
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Salt Lake
Utah
United States
Harriman
E. H. Harriman
Parley L. Williams
Salt Lake City
W. A. Clark
San Pedro, Los Angeles
Union Pacific Railroad
Schiff and Kahn
Stillman
Schiff
Kahn
Kahn, Loeb & Co
Oregon
Union Pacific
Pacific Coast
Portland
Southern Pacific
Ogden
Missouri River
San Francisco
Central Pacific
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Rebate Case Moves Quickly Against Great Northern Railway
Government charges the Great Northern Railway with Elkins act violations over rebates to American Sugar Refining in 1902 and 1903. Trial before Judge Holt hinges on agreed facts and awaits jury instruction after both sides rested.
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Great Northern Railway Company
Holt
United States Circuit Court
American Sugar Refining Company
New York Central
Stevens Funeral Arrangements After Death in San Francisco
The body of Durham White Stevens arrives in Washington after an assassination in San Francisco. Japanese Ambassador Takahira directs the funeral with services planned at St. John's Episcopal Church, featuring honorary pall bearers and active pall bearers from military and political circles.
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Washington
Durham White Stevens
Corean Council
San Francisco
Tnion
Baron Takahira
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Rept
Frederick Rodgers
W. S. Cowles
James R. Morse
James H. Wilson
Kean
Burton
John W. Foster
Samuel 3
Aegis
William R. Merriam
Charles H Poornd
Longworth
Francis B. Loring
Joseph P. Sanger
Woodbury Blair
Samuel Maddox
Alexander F. Magruder
Taniguchi
Ide
Tanaka
Nagai
Yoshida
Holland Society rebuke for Dutch over statue fund
The Holland Society of New York scolded members at the Hotel Astor for slow subscriptions to fund the William the Silent statue for the Hudson tercentennial. Warner Van Norden reported costs of 50 dollars for the statue and 5 dollars for the pedestal, with only about 4000 subscribed. Tunis G Bergen warned the Dutch risk a Hudson River celebration without them. New president Evert Jansen Wendell and officers were elected with terms to 1912.
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Holland Society of New York
Hotel Astor
William the Siient
Hudson
Tunis G. Bergen
Evert Jansen Wendell
Arthur H. van Brunt
Henry L. Bogert
Amd Tunis
Savoy Hotel Shows Largest Trading Profits in Years
The Savoy Hotel London reports higher trading profits for the year, the best since Strand premises extensions, with balance on trading account up by £1.40 and surplus after debenture interest at £172,025. Extra alterations are planned to enlarge restaurant capacity due to strong demand, especially from American guests.
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Strand
Savoy
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