Ma dero takes seat in capital as federal and rebel guards wary
In Mexico City Francisco I Madero enters the government seat amid tension with federal troops. Officials plan to keep federals and Maderists apart as Madero heads to Cuernavaca to review southern forces while De la Barra’s cabinet welcomes him at the palace. A separate Senate hearing in Washington probes US Steel’s coal holdings and a major New Haven Railroad freight wreck in Fairfield, Connecticut kills five.
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Mexico City
Francisco J. Madero, Jr
Diaz
Madero
Tle
TRAFAG R C Hall Charges Steel Trust Leader
TRAFAG R C Hall, former president of the Pittsburg Stock Exchange, accuses the head of the steel trust of misconduct and bad faith in a public statement. The charge centers on alleged control over prices and market manipulation affecting workers and investors.
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R. C. Hall
Pittsburg Stock Exchange
Steel Trust
Five Men Die In Peculiar Collision On East Road
A tragic crash on an eastern road in a lonely area kills five men. Investigators probe the unusual collision details and circumstances surrounding the deadly derailment.
Taboga Disaster Details Reach New York
Details emerge on the Taboga disaster off Panama two weeks ago. More than twenty passengers and crew died, and the captain James Campbell and pilot Matthews are under arrest in Panama City. Reports say only three life preservers existed and some crew refused to crowd lifeboats, while others smoked as the ship sank.
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New York
Panama
San
James Campbell
Matthews
Panama City
Perivanchi
Gregoire
Train Porter Is Killed on Iron Mountain Train
A Negro porter named Curtiss Hides was shot and killed by one of four negro tramps on an Iron Mountain train near Piedmont Missouri while driving them from the train. The four tramps escaped after the shooting, which occurred as they rode on the tender. Piedmont is listed as the porter’s home.
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St. Louis
Curtiss Hides
Iron Mountain Railroad
Pied- Mont
Piedmont
Watami
Fatal Railroad Engine Crash Near Bailey
In Bailey Missouri on June 7 engineer Jessa Gamblin was killed when a Butler County railroad engine turned over near Bailey. Fireman Fred Grable was severely burned and crushed, and road brakeman James Hill suffered crushed legs.
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Bailey
Jessa Gamblin
Fred Grable
James Hill
Ths
Butler County Railroad
Wheat corner probe over May grain deal under inquiry
United States District Attorney Sims is probing the May wheat corner engineered by A J Lichstein after brokers on the Board of Trade reported indictments likely. The investigation follows William H B Lanyon of St Louis defaulting on May wheat by 205000 bushels and a probe into how Lichstein and bull leaders amassed up to 15000000 bushels.
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Chicago
May
A. J. Lichstein
United States
Sims
Board of Trade
Willian HB. Lanyon
St. Louis
Lichstein
Ocean steamer on fire off Waarden Oxonian reported
A large four masted liner with yellow funnel the Oxonian is on fire off Waarden. The Le Land line vessel sailed from New Orleans for Antwerp via London May 4 and was last reported at Antwerp June 1. Built in Glasgow in 1898 459 feet long 4070 tons net owned by F Leyland Co Limited Liverpool with 85 first class passengers aboard.
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Flushing
Holland
Waarden
Oxonian
New Oreleans
Antwerp
London
Glasgow
F. Leyland & Co., Limited
Liverpool
Lumber notes sought in probe of alleged lumber trust
Chicago June 8 the special federal grand jury demanded documents from Weyerhaeuser Lumber Company employees in a probe targeting a perceived price control pact with Edward Hines Lumber Company. Authorities look to a Red Book and Blue Book to link wholesalers as witnesses exceed 200.
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Chicago
Weyerhauser Lumber Company
Edward Hines Lumber Company
United States
Grand Ury
Lehmann to Lead U S Solicitor General in Sherman Suit
A Washington dispatch reports Frederick W Lehmann has been chosen as the United States solicitor general to lead a possible ouster suit against the steel trust under the Sherman act. The government is said to plan criminal proceedings against officers and a dissolution of the corporation, following precedents set by Standard Oil and the tobacco trust cases. A separate note mentions a new insomnia device, the spectascope, and its night sleep claims.
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Washington
United States Steel Corporation
Pittsburg
Robert C. Hall
E. H. Gary
Stanley Steel Investigating Committee
House
Oliver
Pennsylvania
Stanley
Gary
Pocahontas
Pittsburg Coal Company
Monongahela Company
Pitsburg
Tetie Remided
United States Free Corporation
Eee
United States
Ohio River
Middle West
United Stes Steel Corporation
Ind
Southern Illinois
Gardner
Young
Hall
Monongahela
Steel Corporation
St. Louis
Wasington
Frederick W. Lehimaane
Gov
Steel Trust
Trust
Standard Oil Co
Tobacco Trust
Supreme Court
Body Found in Arkansas River Near Cowlington
A body of a white woman was found in drift near Cowlington by local fishermen. Authorities believe she is Mrs. George Glover, who with two family members drowned last Thursday night in the swollen Canadian River near Butaila, Oklahoma.
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Cowling
Okio
Arkansas
Cowlington
George Glover
Butaila
Okla
Height of Fane and a Mother's Tale in Literature
A visitor asks about Henry and his progress in literature. The road mother replies that Henry is doing famously, noting his auto brought ten dollars to a promissory note of three hundred, bought by herself.
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Fane
Henry
Harret
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New Haven
Fairfield
Conn
June
William Laurie
Hartford
Robert Gate
New London
Robert Beachy
Hoffman
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Curtiss
Pine Blut
Pine Bluff
Ark
Charles Gordon Newman
Memn the
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Maurice Rouvier
France
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William Lanyon
New Orleans
the Citizen Bank
J. S. Regan
Lehmann i! Trust Suit
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Solicitor General
Ozan Mercantile Company
Prescott, Arkansas
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