River steamer Chester opens Missouri river freight link
Walter S. Dickey of the Kansas City Missouri River Navigation Company leads the Chester on its first post remodel trip from New Orleans to Kansas City, aiming to revive river traffic with regular freight runs and 13 trustees overseeing a $1,250,000 capital. About 150 Missouri merchants have signed contracts to use the route.
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St. Louis
Chester
Kansas City
New Orleans
Missouri River Navigation Company
Missouri River
Walters
Dickey
Navigation Company
The
Ciites
Missouri
St -Louis
Carnegie details warn of ruinous steel war and price agreements
James E. Gayley, early Carnegie associate, testified before the Stanley steel trust committee that pretrust conduct bred ruinous competition. He described price agreements after cut-throat wars and noted Carnegie weighed entering steel tube and wire markets, with Morgan's National Tube Works as a rival. He denied knowledge of Frick Carnegie sale specifics.
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Washington
Andrew Carnegie
United States Steel Corporation
Stanley Steel Trust
House
James E. Gayley
Carnegie
Gayley
Steel Trust
Carnegie Steel Compu
Young
Michigan
Carnegle
National Tube Works
J. P. Morgan
Carnegie Anx Fous
Guyley
Conneaut
Ohio
Riverside
McKeesport
Chester
Frick-Carnege
Rus
Pittsburg
Steel Corporation
Evans of charges freed in Stark bribery case
Representative Owen J. Evans of Stark county who pleaded guilty to receiving a bribe and was fined 500 dollars will escape prosecution on charges of soliciting bribes from J. C. Sharer of Alliance and J. F. Weiss of Stark-Tuscora Brewing Co Canton. Judge Rathmelle nolled both charges as part of a deal related to testimony before the grand jury in a statewide bribery inquiry.
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Columbus
Owen J. Evans
Stark County
J. C. Sharer
Alliance
J. F. Weiss
Stark-Tuscarawas Brewing Co
Canton
Frank Rathmelle
Family lived on five cents a day in six weeks
Peoria Illinois June 10 The appeal of Mrs William Bamber and her six children to police revealed they had lived on a total of five cents daily for six weeks with only 2.50 dollars left. Provisions ran out and neighbors helped. They will be cared for by Associated Charities.
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Mexico City
Republic
Pacific
Acapulca
Mount Colima
North American
Peoria
William Bamber
Associated Charities
Oil and to"aggo differ in brief district brief
Chicago June 10 United States attorneys in a brief filed in district court denied the assertion of attorneys for the indictable meat packers that the Supreme Court’s Standard Oil decision created a new rule of reason for criminal Sherman act cases. Government lawyers say the decision affirms the validity of the Sherman law in express terms and by necessary implications. Ed ward W Sims United States district attorney argues the language adds no new procedure but clarifies the construction to be applied to all criminal statutes.
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Chicago
Tune
District Court
Standard Oil
Hoth
Pers
John 8. Miller
Levy Mayer
United States District
Edwin W. Sims
Supreme Court
Monument to John Brownshaft unveiled in Kansas City
A monument honoring John Brownshaft, funded solely by African American donors, was unveiled in Kansas City Kansas during Western University for Negroes commencement ceremonies. Principal speakers included Eva Marshall Shonts, sister of Theodore P. Shonts, along with Gov. Stubbs, Lieut. Gov. Hopkins, and former Gov. St. John.
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Kansas City
John Brown
Abram Grant
African Methodist Church
Kan
Western University
Eva Marshal Shonts
Theodore P. Shots
New York
Stubbs
Hopkins
St. John
Kansas
King Prepares for War Front as Montenegro Turbulence Grows
Vienna reports imminent hostilities between Turkey and Montenegro as King Nicholas oversees frontier mobilization. Austria aims to deter Russia or Italy from intervening with suspected moves to influence the Albanian revolt era.
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Vienna
Turkey
Lontenegro
Nicholas
Austria
Rusia
Italy
Montenegro
Parkey
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Acapulco
Walter S. Dickey
Marion
Rose
Indiana
Champion Steel Range Company
Prescott Heating & Plumbing Company
West Front Street
Main
Elm Streets
Plice Carnegie
Gates
Ironmaster
Morgan
Free Evans
Citizen Bank
J. S
Regan
U. S
Sin
Chica Packers
Dener
John Brownshaft
Colored People of Western University At
Nicholas’ Kingdow
Albania
Ozan Mercantile Company
Prescott, Arkansas
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