Cunard Line Faces Morgan Offer and Government Aid Fight
London shipping circles report Cunard seeks government help to rival Morgan led combine with an Atlantic fast line. Morgan and Albert Ballin reportedly hold a controlling option, void if party deals with the state, while Sir Robert Giffen argues subsidies are political not economic. U S consul in Liverpool laments reliance on combinations.
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Liverpool
Southampton
Cunard Company
Morgan’s Combine
Morgan
Cunard
J. P. Morgan
Albert Ballin
Robert Giffen
The
Statistical Society
Statistical Department
Board of Trade
House of Commons’ Committee On
Germany
Combine
White Star Line
United States
Robert
Bourgeois Elected President of the Chamber of Deputies
Paris June 6 M Leon Bourgeois a Radical Republican and former Premier was today formally elected President of the Chamber of Deputies after winning the provisional vote on June 1 Deschanel former president did not stand Bourgeois a Paris native aged about fifty is a lawyer by profession His political career began in 1888 with a deputy seat and included posts as Education Minister under de Freycinet and Loubet Justice Minister under Ribot and premier in 1895 leading the first Radical Republican ministry of the third republic
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Paris
M. Leon Bourgeois
Chamber of Deputies
Chamber
M. Deschanel
M. Bourgeois
Jone 1
de Freyelnet
Loubet
Ribot
M. Rouvier
M. Casimir Ferier
Sugar Monopoly Backed by German Reichstag Committee
Berlin June 6 The sugar committee of the Reichstag adopted a motion to make the saccharine industry a state monopoly and to confine its manufacture to certain producers. The move signals a sweeping government control over sugar production and distribution.
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Berlin
Reichstag
Little Red Devils and Coffee Cure Story
A woman details debilitating coffee use causing faintness, liver pains, headaches, insomnia, and nerve distress for years. She recalls visions of red devils pulling her stomach and resorting to laudanum. After switching to well-boiled Postum, health gradually improves and coffee is abandoned.
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Abe
Tom
German tariff reform debate reaches Bundesrat
The passage notes factories seeking special privileges from the Bundesrath and Baron Von Thilmann of the Imperial Treasury expressing personal favor while the government remains undecided on the motion.
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Bundesrath
Imperial Treasury
Baron von Thilmann
Boers Surrender Arms as King Edward Honored
London dispatch reports 1,154 Boers laid down arms in various districts with three cheers for King Edward. Lord Kitchener praised the troops and noted good relations with the Boers. Parole liberty granted to Boer officers near Bermuda. Roosevelt formally informed of peace terms and sent congratulations.
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London
Pretoria
Kitchener
Edward
War Office
Lord Kitchener
South Africa
Roosevlt
Washington
Mr. Raikes
Roosevelt
Ratkes
Lynch to be barred from taking seat in House of Commons
Detectives await Colonel Arthur Lynch who fought for the Boers and was elected to Galway’s seat. He plans to land in England and enter the House of Commons but will be arrested on treason charges on arrival. A sharp watch for Lynch is in place and any Westminster arrival will be by stratagem.
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Hamilton
Bermuda
Wessels
Botha
London
Arthur Lynch
South Africa
Galway
House of Commons
England
England's Finances Good
Lord Goschen speaks on the country's financial position before the second reading of the loan bill in the House of Lords. Consols at 214 percent now 97, vs 101 in 1888, showing fifteen points higher after war costs and a £159 million borrowing. Premier Salisbury calls the remarks gratifying and widely read.
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London
House of Lords
Goschen
Lord Salisbury
Irish M. P. McHugh Charged in Conspiracy Case
A special court in Sligo, Ireland, under the crimes act, tried Patrick A. McHugh M P and other Irish League members on a conspiracy and intimidation charge tied to a tenant dispute after eviction. McHugh did not appear and a warrant was issued for his arrest.
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Sligo
Ireland
Patrick A. McHugh
M. P
McHugh
India Sugar Bill Passed to Impose Countervailing Duty
The sugar bill empowering India to levy a countervailing duty on bountied sugar passed the Council in Simla. Viceroy Lord Curzon urged refiners to improve methods to justify the protection. Sugar shipped before May 23 will be exempt from the new duty.
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Simla
India
Government of
Lord Curzon of
Kedleston
Minister Challenged to Duel in Italian Parliament
In Rome on June 6 Signor Franchetti a Chamber member challenged Foreign Minister Prinetti to a duel after a heated lobby dispute over the Eritrean budget. The incident follows a tense confrontation in the Chamber of Deputies signaling potential hostility.
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Rome
Chamber of Deputies
Signor Franchetti
Chamber
Signor Prinett
Emperor William to Meet Queen Wilhelmina on Rhine Route
Emperor William announced plans to meet Queen Wilhelmina at Nieder Wesel on the Rhine as she travels to Castle Schaumburg. The meeting occurs during her journey through the Labn Valley where she will convalesce.
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Amsterdam
William
Wilhelmina
Nieder
Wesel
Rhine
Castle Schaumburg
Labn
Spanish officers' boat struck by steamer. one drowned
A boat carrying eight Spanish artillery officers was rammed by a steamer today near GLJION. One officer was drowned while others were rescued unharmed.
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Gljion
Coal police turmoil and miner strike escalate amid arrests
Reports detail Hayden's arrest after a shooting tied to labor unrest. officials blame deputies and the coal police system. Union leaders, farmers, and city figures weigh in as Nanticoke seeks water supply injunction against Susquehanna Coal. President Mitchell plans broad WV wage walkout starting tomorrow with thousands to strike.
Roosevelt declines to intervene in coal strike
Washington report says President and Cabinet found no legal grounds to intervene in the Pennsylvania coal fields dispute. They traced New York Board of Trade and Transportation resolutions seeking presidential action to an 1892 law repealed in 1898, leaving no authority for intervention and avoiding potential nationwide trouble.
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Philadelphia Times
Washington
Roosevelt
Pennsylvania
New York Board of Trade and Transportation
Board of Trade committee halts Washington trip on coal strike
Darwin R. James reports receipt of a telegram from George B. Connellrou, secretary to the President, saying the 1888 act was repealed and the committee may come if they wish. The group then decides not to go to Washington for now. Frank S. Gardner forwards the telegram with note that 1888 law removed presidential power to appoint arbitration. Operators doubt real results and note the act covered railroad labor disputes, not mining.
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Philadelphia Times
New York
Darwin R. James
Board of Trade and Transportation
Roosevelt
Congress
Washington
George B. ConneLrou
John P. Kernan
Frank 8. Gardner
Board of Trade
Sue
Board
Lykens Valley Miners Threaten Trouble Over Work Stoppage
June 6 report from Harrisburg notes miners in the Lykens Valley threaten trouble if pumpmen and engineers do not quit. Officials and operators have been burned in effigy in Lykens Williamstown and Wiconisco. An effigy bearing Seab was hung in Lykens square as workers left posts amid jeers and eggs. Sheriff Reiff sought deputies but found no volunteers as locals gathered at the sheriff’s office amid confusion.
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Harrisburg
Lykens
Williamstown
Wicentsco
Reiff
Striking Miners Rally as Colieries Reopen Under Guard
Workers faced a bitter mood as Suffolk Colliery resumes pumping with fifteen non-union men under rifle-armed guard. Sentries guard all approaches and two guards with Winchesters man each breaker door as pumps run across Vulcan and other collieries. By Monday, officials say all thirty-two area collieries will be running. Union pickets fail to sway Gilberton under boss. a Frackville march ends with effigy burnings of strike breakers.
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Mahanoy City
Suffolk
Philadelphia and
Reading Coal and Tron Company
Vulcan
Park Place
Indian Ridge
Morea
Ellangowan
Knickerbocker
Frackville
Board of Trade Declines to Intervene in Strike
Three committees of the Philadelphia Board of Trade met in secret to consider the miners strike and decided not to intervene. They concluded that permanent security and order require leaving the settlement to the directly involved parties. Trades League secretary N B Kelly said the league will do nothing for now, with further discussion planned at the next directors meeting.
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Board of Trade
William M. Coates
E. H. Hance
Andrew J. Wheeler
Philadelphia Board of Trade
N. B. Kelly
The
Trades League
League
Board of
Operators May Appeal to Governor Stone
In Shamokin on June 6 Sheriff Deitrich was asked to provide protection for non union workers in Lake Fidler colliery fire rooms after strikers pelted Quinns men with stones. If violence continues and the sheriff acts未, the court will be asked to compel him and Governor Stone will be appealed to. Locust Spring and Locust Gap collieries paused operations as pumps and fire boilers shut down, flooding the mines. The United Mine Workers Ninth District Executive Board met, ordering miners to stay away from mines to avoid clashes with deputies. engineers and pumpsmen had quit, while local Poor Board saw no striker seeking help.
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Mitchell
J. J. Curran
Holy Saviour Church
Ninth Regiment
Locust Spring
Locust Gap
The
Reading
Eecutive Board of
United Mine Workers
John Fahy
District No. 1
Hanna
Presid Mitchell
Lackawanna Valley
Jermyn
Sheriff Discharges Forty-Two Deputies at Yorktown
In Carbon county, Sheriff Combert revoked the commissions of forty two deputy sheriffs stationed at Yorktown amid protests led by President Duffy who called them irresponsible. Strikes halted non union firemen and pumpmen at Coxe Bros. Coleraine mine. two railroad engines were pressed into service to keep pumps running as meetings planned to address transport of officers and imported workers.
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Philadelphia Times
Hazleton
Combert
Carbon County
Yorktown
Duffy
Dlifton
Coxe Bros. & Co
Freeland
New York
Coleraine
van Wickle
Lehigh Valley Coal Company
Beddall
Schuylkill County
McAdoo
Wilkesbarre
Mitchell
Delaware, Schuylkill and Susquehanna
Fight to finish in coal strike with no arbitration
Uprising over coal strife grows as operators vow not to yield while prices hold. Reading officials deny fears of a flood and say funds will sustain flooded mines. Rioting reported in Lykens as Dauphin County sheriffs deploy deputies to maintain order and protect property.
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Baer
Reading
Pennsylvania
Lehigh Valley
Pennsylvania Coal Company
Broad Street
Dauphin County
Willliamstown
Nanticoke
Wilkesbarre
Schuylkill
Scranton Councilman Hanged in Effigy Sparks Town Talk
In Scranton on June 6 a Select Councilman Richard Morgan, also an engineer at the Central Mine, was hanged in effigy on Washburn Street. The scene drew a fire department ladder crew to reach the towering effigy. Morgan faces engineer strike bitterness and accusations of double-dealing. The incident fuels ongoing strife as unions discuss eight hour day demands and ongoing mine safety matters.
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Philadelphia Times
Scranton
Richard Morgan
Central Mine
Lackawanna Company
Washburn Street
Recorder
Morgan
Lackawanna Steam
Virginia strike looks limited as coal workers stay at work
A West Virginia based report says the general strike order in District Seventeen will likely affect only a small portion of the 35,000 miners. In North Fork another dispatch says a large turnout is expected, with as many as twenty thousand quitting, while operators offer no resumption plan.
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Fairmont
W. Va
Virginias
District Seventeen
Associated Tress
West Virginia
National
Huntingdon
North Fork
Norfolk and Western Railroad
Big strike imminent at Great Northern boilermakers Hillyard
Spokane reports a possible cross continental strike if wage demands are not met. Great Northern boilermakers seek 3.50 to 4.00 extra per day with boiler makers joining in. If granted, work may continue. if not, machines may shut tomorrow morning across the system. Furnace workers in Youngstown settle for 10 percent raise.
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Great Northern Railway
Spokane
Wash
Mississippi River
Pacific Ocean
Hillyard
Youngstown, O
Indians Keep Bead Art Taught to Oneida Wis Indians
Bead work, long a hallmark of indigenous craft, is being taught in government schools on the Oneida reservation in Wisconsin. Students are learning to make bead belts and purses, with designs based on tribal patterns, and orders are flowing in from outside buyers as the school plans exhibits for St. Louis.
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Wisconsin
Oneida
Roosevelt
Hart
Alabama
Dramatic oath ceremony pledges Magna Charta observance
In a memorable gathering with Henry II present, prelates and archons lit by tapers surrounded the king as the Archbishop of Canterbury invoked a curse on future violators of the Magna Charta and Charta de Foresta. The king then vowed to inviolably observe the charters.
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Henry II
England
Canterbury
Londes
Mont Pelee Eruption Triggers Panic in Martinique
At 10:15 a.m. Mont Pelee erupted spewing a vast dark cloud toward the south. The sea near Fort de France receded for a long period, causing panic as residents prayed in the streets. The smoke was seen also in Castries, St. Lucia, with the sea there retreating about fifty feet. The eruptions align with lunar changes.
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Fort DE France
Martinique
Mont Pelee
Castries
St. Lucia
Eruptions Threaten Soufriere as Caribbean Seas Rise
Cable from Kingstown reports Martinique disturbances stir waves between Martinique and St Lucia. Steam and flame plume from Soufriere crater since May raise fears of another eruption, with seismic activity touching St. Vincent. Explorers Hovey Jaggar and Curtis prepare ascent of the Soufriere. Reports from Queenstown recount Caribbean death toll rumors and looting. Captain Henderson of Anurus recalls a May quake near 5 N 32 W. In Alaska, Mount Redoubt Liama Augustine vent steam and ash over months, with ash near the Bertha.
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London
Kingstown
Martinique
St. Vincent
Edmund C. Hovey
Americ
Queenstown
Anurus
Portland
Ore
Henderson
Seattle
Wash
Mount Redoubt
Mount Liama
Mount Augustine
Cook Inlet
Alaska
Bertha
Philadelphia Engineer in China Heroic in Plague Siege
In The World's Work account, a Philadelphia engineer travels to Newehwang and Tallenwan to aid railway engineering amid bubonic plague. He faces quarantine, harsh conditions, and theft of locomotive parts, but completes the project before the Russian deadline.
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Fisher
Newehwang
Talleman
Philadelphia
King Chow
Tallenwan
Vladivostok
Fire devastates Toronto gardens pavilion and Keyser works
Fire roars through the Horticultural Gardens pavilion in Toronto and nearby conservatories, destroying the Keyser Table Works in Keyser, with a lumber yard owned by Frank Whitmer. The blaze threatens the town. losses about 75000 dollars with 35000 dollars insured.
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Horticultural Gardens
Toronto
Keyser
W. Va
Frank Whitmer
Philadelphia
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