Crisis postponed as Balfour falters in debate
London June 10 There is a subsidence of Commons excitement after a rumor of a concordat. Balfour spoke with little conviction and showed an open mind on fiscal revision. The division saw twenty eight Tories for Chaplin's amendment while Liberals backed repeal of the coin tax. Unionists remain split and confidence in the government wavers as debate continues.
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London
House of Commons
Balfour
United Cabinet
Asquith
Chamberlain
Lloyd George
Michael Hicks-Beach
United Kingdom
America
Gladstone
Peel
Mr. Chaplin
Lioyd George
Sir Henry Campell Bannerman
Ring
Premier Balfour’s speech calms cabinet rifts in London
London June 10 The Premier Balfour delivered a dexterous speech that relieved Chamberlain of resignation threats and soured no firm stance on tariff. The Chaplin amendment was defeated 396 votes as liberals, unionists and Irish backed government. He praised open mind on trade, insisted no final answer, and noted three threats: tariff walls, trusts, and shifting duties. The room roared with applause as Chamberlain returned to his post.
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London
Balfour
Chamberlain
Henry Chaplin
Mr. Chaplin
House of Commons
Colonial Secretary
Mr. Balfour
MR ROOT AT WEST POINT HONORED AT COMMENCEMENT
West Point prepares for the commencement with Secretary Root in attendance. Crowds, including mothers and sisters from across the United States, gather as a salute is fired. A dress parade closes the graduates' formal duties, with plans for a portrait presentation to Hooker at Cullum Memorial Hall and summer camps for classes two and four.
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N. Y
United States Military Academy
Gayery
United States
Union
Root
West Shore
Mills
Academy
Colonel Mills
War Department
Miles
Old Academy
Cullum Memorial Hall
Joseph Hooker
Ludwig E. Faber
Philadelphia
Sickles
Society of the Army of the Potomac
Albert L. Mills
Builders Combine in Pittsburg Convention Plan
Arrangements are underway in Pittsburg to hold a two week convention to form an international association of contract organizations. Representatives will include the Building Trades Employers' Association of New York the Cleveland Builders Exchange the Master Contractors' Association of Chicago the Builders' Club of Philadelphia the Builders' Exchange of Cincinnati the New Orleans Contractors' Association and the Master Builders' Association of Pittsburg.
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Pittsburg
International Association of Organizations of Contractors
Building Trades Employers’ Association
New York
Cleveland Builders Exchange
Master Contractors’ Association
Chicago
Builders’ Club
Philadelphia
Builders’ Exchange
Cincinnati
New Orleans
Cloudburst near Clifton Leaves Clifton Town in Mourning
News from Bisbee reports a sudden eight foot wall of water rushing down Chase Creek near Clifton. Several bodies were recovered and the death toll is feared to reach twenty as wires to Clifton remain down.
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Clifton
Chase Creek
Carnegie Steel plans large expansion at South Sharon plant
Pittsburg telegram reports Carnegie Steel Company intends major improvements at its South Sharon works. After a recent U S Steel inspection, officials approved plans to enlarge the plant by adding five open hearth furnaces, bringing the total to seventeen in the group.
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Tribun
Pittsburg
Carnegie Steel Company
South Sharon
United States Steel Corporation
Tobacco Sale Sets Louisville Record Purchase
The Continental Tobacco Company will buy two thousand hogsheads of white barley tobacco from Louisville Tobacco Warehouse Company for about 350000 dollars. The deal will be the largest sale ever on the Louisville breaks and will exhaust all burney on the Kentucky market used for cigarette manufacture. The rest is a promotional ad about wireless telegraphy.
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Tribune
Louisville
Continental Tobacco Company
Louisville Tobacco Warehouse Company
Kentucky
Fifteen Firms Blackmailed Over Strike Aid Fund
A report notes fifteen firms faced blackmail over a fund intended to break a strike by aiding rival union building efforts. The plan reportedly aimed to divert union support and undermine strike action, with funds raised but no construction started.
Evidence of Labor Ring Corruption Exposed by District Attorney
District Attorney Jerome disclosed startling evidence of a widespread corruption system in labor leadership. He connected ex tortion arrests with schemes where labor leaders and employers sold out the Amalgamated Painters and Decorators and other unions for cash raised from major decorating firms. Pensioned by bail, Samuel J. Parks faces pending charges as investigations expand, with Carvel and Hopper named in extortion and labor disputes tied to church and building jobs. Witnesses described a fund of about 6,750 dollars from fifteen firms, used to influence council elections and secure union access. The DA listed numerous firms contributing to the fund and signaled six more charges may follow.
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Jerome
Samuel J. Parks
Amalgamated Painters and Decorators’ Organization
Amalgamated Painters and Decorators
United Board of Building Trades Council
Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers
Brotherhood
Theodore Hofstadter
Richard Carvel
Board of Building Trades
Building Material Drivers’ Union
Building Material Dealers and Lumber Dealers’ Association
Carvel
Thomas T. Hopper
Isaac A. Hopper
Mr. Hopper
Hopper
Keane-Van Cortland
Manson
Carver
Parks
John Doe
United Board of Building Trades
Cartel
Keane- van Cortland
Devery Faces Patronage Ban in IXth District Mayoral Fight
Petitions printed to back Devery as independent mayoral candidate amid Tammany resistance. Murphy bans election district patronage for Devery allies, while Stewart resists and stays with Devery. Goodwin-Smith opposition eyes recognition by executive committees. Voorhis notes official lists must be certified. Dowling plots leadership move if Murphy withholds support, with possible shift to Goodwin.
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Bxth
Charles F. Murphy
William J. Stewart
Daniel F. McMahon
Tammany Executive Committee
Murphy
Stewart
Tammany Organization
Dr. Stewart
Goodwin-Smith
Tammany Hall
Tammany
Parks
Mr. Devery
Gpa
Frank Dowling
Ixth
Dowling
Frank J. Goodwin
The Irving National Bank Ad Vignette
An advertisement promotes The Irving National Bank at Warren and Greenwich Streets describing it as safe, conservative and progressive. It also notes Seaboard Air Line Railway routes with through cars and dining service to Savannah Jacksonville Tampa and Atlanta with office at 1 18 Broadway.
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Irving National Bank
Irving N. Bank
Warren and
Greenwich Streets
Advt
Seaboard Air Line Railway
Savannah
Jacksonville
Tampa
Atlanta
B’way
Advu
Luther minister condemned for heresy and claimed inspiration
The Evangelical Lutheran Ministerium of Pennsylvania condemned Rev. Hugo Wendell of Trenton for teaching heresy and claiming direct communications from the spiritual world as an inspired organ of Raphael. He has three months to recant in writing or face permanent suspension. healing charges were not pursued.
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Raphael
Philadelphia
Evangelical Lutheran Ministerium of
Pennsylvania
Hugo Wendell
Trenton
Wendell
Plague Spreads Alarmingly in Hong Kong
The Daily Mail correspondent reports the plague in Hong Kong at an alarming stage the worst since 1918. Two British officers and six seamen aboard the battleship Ocean contracted the disease, as reported in a New York to St. Louis Limited line item.
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London
Daily Mail
Hong Kong
Ocean
Flood Devastates East St. Louis As Embankments Fail
Telegraph report from St. Louis June 10 describes Illinois Central embankment breaks flooding East St. Louis to depths of three to twenty feet. Ten thousand homeless, hundreds saved by embankment defense, widespread property loss, and fatalities feared. Rescue by boats, schools, churches, City Hall used for shelter. Two Black men shot by levee patrols during flood control.
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Tribune
St. Louis
Illinois Central
East St. Louis
Broadway
Bess
West Broadway
Ninth-st
Tenth-st
Cook
Missouri Ave
Two-Thirds Submerged East St Louis Flood Toll Rises
East St Louis faces vast flood devastation as two thirds of the territory lies under two to fifteen feet of water. Eleven lives lost and property damage mounting as Mayor Cook marshals five thousand volunteers to build sandbag levees and defend the city.
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Associated Press
St. Louis
East St. Louis
Cook
Husa
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