Rate Bill To Go Back From The Tribune Bureau
Washington June 4 The Railway Rate bill will be sent back to conference. Senate objections target three changes by conferees including delayed effective date details and broad switch connection privileges. Also contested are salary increases for the Interstate Commerce Commission officials and sleeping car regulation. If conferees withdraw the report, the Senate may reopen the conference to clear obstacles and allow a swift final passage.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Senate
Conferrees
Tis
Elkins
Interstate Commerce Commission
Drug Trust Complains Amid Indianapolis Probe
Wasteneton June 4 President Roosevelt declines to reopen investigations into the Drug Trust. He will leave the case to the Department of Justice as interviews with National Association of Retail Druggists representatives and Assistant Attorney General Purdy noted ongoing months of inquiry. Retailers allege a lack of a square deal and cite broken hearing promises while urging action against trust practices.
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Wasteneton
Roosevelt
Indianapolis
Pollowine
National Association of Retail Druggists
Purdy
Department of Justice
Food bill prospects brighter in House this week
Washington June 4 Prospects for the Pure Food bill in the House brighten as Speaker Cannon indicates the measure will be taken up before adjournment. Representative Mann of Ohio introduces a resolution urging consideration, while the bill remains under Rules Committee and political pressure persists to move forward.
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Tribune Bureau
Washineto
Senate
Congress
Mann
Olinoia
Ely
Committees On
Cannon
Tos
House
Ction Ny
Safer warships through electrical insulation upgrades
Wellington June 4 Instructions go to navy yards including Brooklyn to overhaul turrets during summer exercises. After the Kearsarge incident authorities order protection against contact with live electrical fixtures. Proposed changes cost about 12000 dollars. fixtures will be covered with insulating material and movable components relocated to safer sections.
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Tribune Bureau
Wellington
Navy Yards
Brooklyn
Statehood Clash Delays Congress Over Oklahoma and Indian Territory
Washington reporters note grave anxiety as Foraker claims enough votes to reject the conference report and attach Oklahoma and Indian Territory statehood to the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill. Senate opposition to Arizona and New Mexico persists, while House leaders threaten a revolt to push joint statehood. Delay of adjournmentlooming as partisan battles unfold.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Congress
Senator Foraker
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
House
Senate
Foraker
Arizona
New Mexico
Missouri
Kansas
Far West
Panama Canal Sea Level Question Sparks Senate Debate
The Tribune Bureau reports Washingtonians note unexpected doubt over settling the Panama Canal sea level issue. Senators weigh sea level vs lock designs, with possible moves to attach prohibitive provisions to Sundry Civil Appropriation bills. President warned of a veto and possible special session if the Senate forces sea level. The debate unsettles leaders and risks canal progress.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Capitol
Senate
Kittridge
House
Cotton Crop Report Details US Acreage and Prices
Washington June 4 The crop estimating board places US cotton planted area at about 28 million 680 thousand acres an increase from last year. May crop condition averages 84 with a ten year average of 54.9 Prices rose 10 to 15 points mid session on Cotton Exchange then eased 15 points on profit taking closing with modest advances in futures.
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Washington
United States
Cotton Exchange
Shorts
New Orleans
Liverpool
Auto outing for orphans by Hudson County club
The Hudson County Automobile Club will give Jersey City orphans their annual outing next Saturday afternoon. The run will likely go along the Boulevard to a North Bergen location where children will play in woods and fields. Each member will bring confectionery cakes and fruit. About two hundred children are expected to participate.
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Hudson County Automobile Club
Jersey City
North Bergen
Niagara Falls Bill Passes House by Unanimous Vote
The Niagara Falls preservation bill drafted by Representative Burton of Ohio passed the House without debate on a suspension of the rules. It awaits early Senate action with limited water use for the Chicago drainage canal and broad support from both chambers. A Senate committee plans no extra hearings, and condolences were offered on Senator Gorman's death with 17 members appointed to attend the funeral.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Niagara Falls
Burton
Ohio
House
Senate
Senate Committee On Foreign Relations
House Committee On
Chicago Drainage Canal
Niagara
Arthur Pue Gorman
Maryland
Talbott
Committee On Agriculture
Gorman
Messrs
Gill
Smith
U. S. Judge for China gets district court by bill
The House passed a bill under suspension creating a United States district judge for China with exclusive jurisdiction in certain criminal and civil cases. The court will sit in Shanghai Hankow Tien-Tsin Canton and other consular jurisdictions. Positions include judge district attorney marshal and clerk with specified salaries and a fifteen year appointment.
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Washington
House
United States
China
United States District Circuit Court
Shanghai
Hankow
Tien-Tsin
Canton
Frisco Relief Funds Clarified by San Francisco Dispatch
A San Francisco relief update from James D. Phelan explains actual cash receipts total 4 243 000 dollars while eastern committees hold funds for rehabilitation. The message urges donors to send money and stop purchasing for relief, noting plans to use all available funds for rehabilitation and to help communities return to normal conditions.
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Elief
Earthquake Report Says California Longitudes Shifted Feet
Sacramento June 4 The state earthquake investigating committee reports the Coast Range shows a long oblique geomorphic line with horizontal displacement about twenty feet and vertical movement up to four feet in Sonoma and Mendocino. Latitudes and longitudes of many points likely moved several feet.
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Sacramento
Cal
Pardee
Coast Range
California
Mendocino County
Riverside County
Sonoma
Mendocino
Commission Returns to Manila After Summer Session
Manila June 4 Members of the Philippine Commission returned to Manila today after a summer session at Baguol. The health of the members was improved by their stay in the mountains. Commissioner Worcester is slowly recovering from pneumonia and the others are resting. Commissioner Tevera on leave will visit Australia for two months. On his return the city government will formally adopt Burnham's civic improvement plans.
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Manila
Philippine Commission
Baguol
Worcester
Tevera
Australia
Mr. Burnham
Americans Die in Cananea Riots Stated by War Dept
Reports from Cananea and Naco recount conflicting casualty figures in the Cananea unrest. Early figures list two to ten Americans killed, with three confirmed Americans and sixteen Mexicans per a War Department briefing. The Metcalf brothers, George and William, are described among the victims amid mob violence, while officials discuss alleged revolutionary ties and wrongheaded claims from St. Louis.
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Douglas
Aziz
Cananea
Mexico
Kosterlitzky
Ronquillo
Greene
Metcalfes
Burt Bush
Bisbee
George
William Metcalf
Obituary: John C. New Dies in Indianapolis at 66
John C. New died at his home 318 North Pennsylvania Street after a year of illness. His wife and children, Harry S. New longtime National Republican Committee vice chairman, Mrs. Ernest H. Burford, and Mrs. W. R. McKean Jr. were with him. another daughter was en route from Omaha. He owned The Indianapolis Journal, was Benjamin Harrison's lifelong friend, and served as consul general in London during Harrison’s presidency.
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Indianapolis
John C. New
North
Pennsylvania Street
Harry S. New
National Republican Committee
Ernest H. Burford
W. R. McKean, Jr
Omaha
New
Indianapolis Journal
Benjamin Harrison
London
Harrison
Greene Consolidated Copper Company shows signs of recovery
At No 4 Broad Street Greene Consolidated Copper announces Colonel Greene sent two telegrams noting Mexican authorities have the situation in hand and trouble seems over. Greene plans to monitor a new reverberatory furnace, ore sorting system, and expects the share price to rise as trading surpasses 10 000 shares. The company declares a bi monthly dividend of 4 percent.
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Greene Consolidated Copper Company
Broad Street
Colonel Greene
Greene Company
Greene
Greene Copper
Philippine Banking Bill Drives Chamber Push for Passage
Manila June 4 The Philippine Chamber of Commerce and the American Chamber of Commerce collaborated to urge swift passage of the Agricultural Bank bill at the current Congress session. Plans include a public mass meeting and widespread provincial campaigns to mobilize business support for the bank.
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Manila
Philippines
Congress
Philippine Chamber of Commerce
American Chamber of Commerce
It Really Hurts How Public Feels About Big Corporations
A Cleveland Finance column questions the rush to sensationalize probes into Standard Oil and Pennsylvania matters. It warns against stamping public opinion with exaggerated claims, urging careful scrutiny of corporate conduct and avoidance of actions that could harm the nation.
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Cleveland Finance
Wall Street
Standard Oil
Pennsylvania
Standard Oil Company
Rabid Dog At Large Bites Multiple Animals In Goshen
An apparently rabid dog roamed Goshen on June 4 biting several animals including dogs a horse and three cows. John Kies killed the dog after a struggle and sustained a minor scratch which was cauterized. Local officials report three mad dogs recently killed in Chaplin and a dog muzzle law is now enforced.
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Tribune
Goshen
Conn
John Kies
Accused of Firing Power Plant in Worcester
William Cooper was arrested at ex-Congressman Joseph H. Walker's home in Worcester Massachusetts on Memorial Day charges of setting a fire at the White Power Company plant. Two blasts preceded the blaze. Cooper, a private nurse to Walker, was detained by the State police as Walker's son Joseph, a political leader, ordered his arrest.
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The
Tribune
Worcester
Mass
William Cooper
Joseph H. Walker
White Power Company
Cooper
Walker
Olice
Mr. Walker
Joseph
Brookitne
Senator Reynolds Secures Italian Band for Dreamland Season
Senator William H. Reynolds of Dreamland cabled today to engage the Royal Italian Band of Rome for a season of twenty weeks. The organization, comprising seventy two musicians, will open in Dreamland in two weeks.
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William H. Reynolds
Dreamland
Royal Italian Band
Rome
Colonel Andrew Dickinson Dies at 86 in New York Home
Colonel Andrew Glassel Dickinson of 21 Central Park West died yesterday at his residence. Born April 15, 1835 in Bowling Green, Virginia, he served as chief of staff in the Confederate army under General Magruder and commanded the Rio Grande line late in the war. He later joined New York Life Insurance, receiving honors from Spain and Venezuela, organized the Confederate Veterans Camp of New York, and led Southern Democrats. The funeral is set for Thursday noon at St. Thomas Church.
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Andrew Glassel Dickinson
Central Park West
Mr. Dickinson
Bowling Green
Caroline County
Festus Dickinson
Dickinsons
Dundee
Scotland
New England
Pennsylvania
Virginia
Dickinson
J. B. Magruder
Harriet Lane
Rio Grande
Cotton Bureau
Texan
Transmississippi
New York
New York Life Insurance Company
Cuba
West Indian Islands
South and Central America
Mexico
Spain
Bolivar
United States of Venezuela
Confederate Veterans’ Camp
Association of Southern Democrats
Sue Marshall
Nicholas D. Coleman
Vicksburg
Miss
Marshall
Sagamore Club
New York Southern Society
Bear Lithia Spring Company
St. Thomas's Church
Fifth Avenue
53D Street
Captain Charles Z. Gillette Dies at 79 in Sayville
Captain Charles Zebulon Gillette longtime Sayville resident and former Suffolk County supervisor and postmaster died at his home aged 79. Born in Blue Point he sailed coastwise to New York and New Orleans and served with Farragut in the Gulf Squadron. Survived by a widow, sister Mrs. Austin Roe, and two daughters. funeral Wednesday at 2 p.m.
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Sayville
Long Island
Charles Zebulon Gillette
Zebulon
Lucinda
Avery) Gillette
Blue Point
Ufe
New York
New Orleans
Neptune
Farragut
Gillette
Suffolk County
Islip
Austin Roe
Patchoeue
Rev Alto Fuerbass Benedictine priest dies in Newark
The Rev. Alto Fuerbass of the Order of St. Benedict and St. Mary's Church in Newark died yesterday of tuberculosis at St. Michael's Hospital. Born in 1879 in Altemunster Bavaria he came to the United States as a youth and studied at St. Benedict's College and St. Anselm's College Manchester New Hampshire. He took vows in 1899 and was ordained on June 29, 1903 at St. Anselm's.
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Alto Fuerbass
Order of St. Benedict
St. Mary's
Newark
St. Michael's Hospital
Father Fuerbass
St. Anselm's College
Manchester
N. H
Altemuenster
Bavaria
St. Benedict's College
St. Anselm
Death of Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould Aboard Norman
The Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould, author of historical and religious works and several novels, died today aboard the steamer Norman at Port Elizabeth. He was born January 28, 183, educated at Clare College Cambridge, inherited Low-Trenchard estates in 1872, and served as rector there from 1881. His notable works include Myths of the Middle Ages, The Old English Fairy Tale, and A Memorial of Nelson.
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Cape Town
Sabine Baring- Gould
Norman
Port Elizabeth
Sabine Baring-Gould
Exeter
Clare College
Cambridge
Low-Trenchard
Riviera
Nelson
Death of Sir Charles Tennant Noted Glasgow MP
Sir Charles Tennant former Glasgow MP and prominent in finance died at age seventy three in London. One of his daughters is married to H. H. Asquith, the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
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London
Charles Tennant
Glasgow
H. H. Asquith
Charles
John H Mooney Dies City Official for Forty Years
John H. Mooney longtime assistant secretary of the Board of Estimate and city employee since 1873 died yesterday at his home 19 West North Street. He served municipal offices for decades and was known in local government circles.
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John H. Mooney
Board of Estimate
West Mth Street
Mooney Dies After Pneumonia In Public Service Career
Mooney, long allied with New York city civic life, served as Secretary to the Commissioners of Accounts and was appointed commissioner by Acting Mayor B. H. Vance after Mayor Have Meyer’s death. He helped found the Brooklyn Bridge trustees and was a Tam many Society member, a 9th Regiment veteran, and a NY Athletic and Democratic clubs member.
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Mooney
Commissioners of Accounts
B. H. Vance
Havemeyer
Brooklyn Bridge
Mooney Leavne
The
Tammany Society
9Th Regiment
New York Athletic and Democratic
Miss Elizabeth H Burgess Dies in New Jersey
Miss Elizabeth H Burgess sister of Right Rev Dr Frederick Burgess Bishop of Long Island died suddenly in Burlington New Jersey from pneumonia while visiting a friend. She lived at the Lee House Garden City Long Island and the funeral will be at the Cathedral at 10 30 tomorrow. Burial will be in Providence. She had headed the art department at the graduation of Mary’s School of Waslienten.
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Elizabeth H. Burgess
Frederick Burgess
Long Island
Burlington
N. J
Hewlett
Miss Burgess
Lee
Fe Hone
Major Robert B. Gorsuch Burial in National Cemetery
Major Robert B. Gorsuch, formerly associated with Collis P. Huntington, was buried yesterday in the United States National Cemetery in Mexico City. The American engineer died after paralysis. He was born in Brooklyn.
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Mexico City
Robert B. Gorsuch
Collis P. Huntington
United States National Cemetery
Brookyn
Mrs J Elizabeth Van Cleaf Dies After Long Illness
Mrs J Elizabeth Van Cleaf wife of John Van Cleaf proprietor of the Mansion House Brooklyn died yesterday after a long illness. Born 1856 in Remsen New Jersey daughter of David I Megill she wed in 1873 and leaves husband two sons and one daughter. Funeral tomorrow morning at 11 from the Mansion House.
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J. Elizabeth van Cleaf
John €. van Cleaf
Brooklyn
Remsen
N. J
David I. Megill
Ouse
Sargent gifts SFD artists relief fund at academy event
At a National Academy of Design meeting at 109th Street and Amsterdam Avenue a check for 3100 from John S Sargent, the London based portrait painter and National Academician since 1897, was announced for destitute San Francisco artists. The federation has sent about 1000 to aid. Summer classes begin, directed by George Maynard N A, through the summer. Harry Aronson, Mooney scholar, sails for Berlin to paint a portrait and assume duties of his grant.
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National Academy of Design
109Th Street
Amsterdam Avenue
John S. Sargent
London
San Francisco
Sargent
Fine Arts Federation
Federation
Academy
George Maynard
N. A
Harry Aronson
Mooney
City News in Brief
Daniel McKitrick Madison Square Garden Skating Rink manager was discharged after a magistrate ruled skating on Sunday not unlawful. Andrew Heidig attempted suicide by jumping into the North River and was discharged. politicians appeared in court and vouched for his reputation. Four youths arraigned for a disturbance on the Joy Line steamer Edgemont. charges dropped for lack of evidence against Henry Shaw and Morris Robiod. A man named Monroe Street held for questioning. Noah Feria taken to Brooklyn Children's Hospital after injury at Hotel Marie Antoinette skylight incident. John Burns held for further examination on charges of taking banker J. G. Robin’s automobile and driving recklessly.
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Madison Square Garden
Wahle
Andrew Heldig
North River
Heidig
Joy Line
Edgemont
Tombs
Henry Shaw
East 13Th Street
Morris Robiod
Suffolk
Monroe Street
Noah Feria
Brooklyn Children’s
John Burns
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