Big Meat Packers Found Guilty Of Taking Favors
Kansas City reports the Armour Swift and Cudahy packing companies were convicted by a jury after about an hour of deliberation. The case centers on rebates and concessions tied to shipments from Kansas City plants to New York for export under the interstate commerce act. The Burlington trial begins this afternoon. the verdict carries a fine possibility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Judy McPherson
Burlington Railway
Burlington
Armour, Swift, and Cudahy
United States District Court
New York
McPherson
American Ship Seizure Threat Over Nicaragua Harbor
Washington reports the cruiser Marblehead has the steamer Empire cornered in Corinto harbor Nicaragua. When the Empire attempts to leave the coast the Marblehead is expected to seize it for aiding Guatemalan revolutionists.
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Marblehead
Nicaragua
Washington
Corinto
Brother Killed His Father in Craig Neb Two Boys Involve Confession
Noah Headly the younger of two boys accused of killing their father confesses that his brother committed the crime. He says he heard the shot while working in a field and later saw the body placed in a barrel on wheels, hauled to a creek and dumped. The elder brother Jesse remains silent and did not comment on the story.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Craig
Neb
Craig, Neb
Noah Headly
Jesse
Burlington and Great Northern Link Completed at Sioux City
Sioux City Ashland extension of the Great Northern railway finished this morning. The new link provides direct communication between Burlington and Great Northern for southwest and northwest routes. Sedalia boy Willard Farris, left at Boone, was sent to his grandmother in New York this morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burlington and
Great Northern
Sioux City
Lincoln
Neb
Siouxity-Ashland
Great Northern Railway
Sedalia
Willard Farris
Booneie
New York
Fire cuts Galveston from mainland by burned bridge
About a thousand feet of the bridge linking Galveston island to the mainland burned this morning isolating the city from outside contact except by boat. Houston reported June 12. Local authorities began sheltering residents and assessing damage as communications to the island were disrupted.
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Houston
Texas
Galveston Island
Galveston
Great triumph for Miss Ellen Terry
London June 12 The Drury Lane theater hosted Ellen Terry’s jubilee matinee in a packed surpassing turnout. Admirers queued all night, outstripping doors. A starry program featured Signora Duse Rejane and the Coquelines, with Melba and Caruso plus a family cast portion of Much Ado About Nothing led by Ellen Terry.
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London
Drury Lane Theater
Ellen Terry
Terry
Signora Duse
Mme
Rejane
Coquelines
France
Mme. Melba
Signor Caruso
Terry Family
Unions In War Leave 50,000 Men Idle In City
St Louis June 12 More than 50 000 union men in the building trades council are idle as a general strike spreads. Bricklayers and stonemasons refuse to work together, halting most construction and forcing work only on projects not requiring both trades. Tensions between the two unions led to the stoppage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Building Trades Council
Philippine life not suited to Americans
Manila June 12 Exeutive A W Fergusson reports to Governor General Ide that European and American willingness to live in the Philippines diverges. He notes conditions have not markedly improved and urges making Philippine appointments a permanent livelihood. Maccabees Dedicate Port Huron temple ceremony marks dedication of an $80,000 Knights of the Modern Maccabees temple with large attendance.
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Manila
Suez
A. W. Fergusson
Ide
Fergusson
Executive Bureau
Phillippine
Maccabees
Port Huron
Mich
Stella Grady Case Tangles Over Custody Contract
In Peoria the Mary McKinney case centers on a contract with the Chicago Children’s Home and Aid Society to secure Stella Grady, with testimony from home witnesses and the defense arguing transfer of custody. Martha Falconer, former head of the home, identifies correspondence while the trial proceeds.
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Peoria
Specia
Mary McKinney
Childrens’ Home and Aid Society of Chicago
Stella Grady
Chicago
McKinneys
Chicago Juvenile Court
Aledo
Falconer
Martha P. Falconer
Philadelphia
McKinney
Blow for Missouri anti trust measure
Judge Withrow ruled that corporations are not required to answer questions from the secretary of state about trust membership in Sanger's suit for $1000 damages against Pittsburg Plate Glass. If sustained, the decision could nullify a Missouri statute authorizing sworn disclosures by corporations on trust affiliation.
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St. Louis
Withrow
Circuit
Sanger
Pittsburg Plate Glass Company
Secretary of State
Missouri
Tampico Mayor to Return Amid Rising Support
Tampico mayor Kempt plans to return home this week after a $300 raise of $175 approved by Tampico license faction leader Charles Burden, who ran the campaign that elected him. The move signals a renewed push to open the city gates. Also reported is completion of the first steel passenger coach by Pressed Steel Car for Southern Railway, a three-car set.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sterling
Kempt
Tampico
Charles Burden
Pittsburg
Pressed Steel Car Company
Southern Railway
Edison locates cobalt beds in North Carolina claim will boost electric autos
Asheville reports Thomas Edison has arrived after touring western North Carolina and believes cobalt is abundant enough to astonish the electrical world. He predicts auto storage batteries could drop 50 percent in weight and city traffic costs by 55 percent, with cars affordable for all. Edison says cobalt now known mainly in France and Australia. he found ore in Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, and more in North Carolina, which he says tops all states. The find could bring southern prosperity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asheville
N. C
Thomas A. Edison
North Carolina
Mr. Edison
France
Australia
Kentucky
Tennessee
Alabama
Georgia
Defer Reception Plans for Bryan Return
Commercial Travelers Anti League, which organized a campaign to welcome William J. Bryan on his August 29 return, postponed details and formed a 10 member committee to arrange a plan with broad party cooperation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bryan
New York
Commercial Travelers’ Anti-League
William J. Bryan
Trainload of relief supplies sent from Chicago to San Francisco
The Chicago Commercial Association forwarded a trainload of relief goods valued at $100,000 to San Francisco in response to a Red Cross request. The shipment is intended for earthquake sufferers and marks the association’s ongoing aid effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Commercial Association
San Francisco
Chicago
Red Cross Society
Epithets of Congressional Doings Yesterday in Brief
Washington June 12 brief resume from official records of yesterday's proceedings in both houses. The diplomatic appropriation bill carried 8 154 594. Tillman and Hopkins sparred over bank ing methods while Aldrich promised a ministerial inquiry. The House adjourned after four hours with no extra DC appropriation and continued discussion on Abuses in China.
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Washington, D. C
Congress
Senat Follette
Spooner
Tillman
Simmo
John R. Walsh
Viankney Whyte
Maryland
HOUSE
District of Columbia
Am Diers
China
D Ud
Yellow Fever Cases Quarantined at Ship Island Station
Three yellow fever cases have been under quarantine for ten days at Ship Island station in the Gulf of Mexico between the Mississippi River mouth and Mobile. Dr C H Iri on, president of the Louisiana board of health, released the information.
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Ship Island Station
New Orleans
Ship Island
Gulf of Mexico
Mississippi River
Mobile
Ala
C. H. Irion
Louisiana Board of Health
Mrs Corey Seeks Absolute Divorce From William E Corey
Reno Nevada June 12 Mrs William Ellis Corey wife of United States Steel president filed in Nevada district court for absolute divorce on desertion grounds and requests custody of their minor son.
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Reno
Nev
William Ellis Corey
United States Steel Corporation
District Court of Nevada
Corey
Natal Rebels in Trees Fall to Colonial Attack
Durban June 12 Colonel Mackenzie’s column attacked rebel natives sheltering in bush and climbing trees to fire on troops. Bullets felled them from branches. One hundred sixty natives slain. Darkness halted operations but the rout is deemed practically complete.
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Durban
Natal
Mackenzie
Wellman motor test boosts dirigible plans
Paris reports a public test of Walter Wellman’s American dirigible motors reached 100 horsepower, far above the 7 required by contract. The envelope, appliances, and provisions attracted attention from European dignitaries as Wellman aims to depart northward this week, likely Thursday or Friday.
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Paris
Walter Wellman
North Pole
Scence
Wellman
Defies the Court Remains in New York Oil Ouster Proceedings Postponed
The ouster hearing against Standard Oil and Waters-Pierce in St Louis was postponed for the fourth time due to H Clay Pierce's absence in New York. Attorney General Hadley accused Pierce of illness while seeking travel arrangements under an assumed name. The court adjourned to Friday at 10 a.m. with Pierce warned to attend.
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St. Louis
Jume
Standard Oil Company
Waters-Pierce Company
H. Clay Pierce
Pierce
Hadley
New York
H. 5S
Priest
Strachment
Anthony
Mr. Pierce
President Roosevelts Nod Pushes Shaw To Iowa Campaign
Secretary Leslie M. Shaw will make a third Iowa trip in four months to speak for Republican candidates. A message from Perkins headquarters says after a White House conference he will cancel other engagements to address the Lincoln Club of Davenport on Wednesday. Roosevelt personally approved Shaw participation, stirring statewide reaction.
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Shaw
Des Moines
Leslie M. Shaw
Iowa
Perkins
Lincoln Club
Davyenport
Roosevelt
Davenport
Chicago
Secretary of the Treasury
Home Coming Week Draws Kentuckians Back for Big Event
Creditors file involuntary bankruptcy against Brackett Bridge Co of Cincinnati with liabilities over 100000 amid antitrust and bid collusion suits. A deed of assignment is filed as part of the proceedings while Louisville braces for the Home Coming Week with trains crowded and thousands expected to gather. Lincoln cabin logs, birthplace artifact, arrive in Indianapolis en route to Louisville for exhibit during the week.
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Brackett Bridge Company
Cincinnati
Ohio
Louisville
United States
Kentucky
Lincoln Cabin
Indianapolis
Abraham Lincoln
Indianapols
Fugitive Held for Murder After Forty Years
Newton Bohannon was arrested near Okmulgi I. T. on a charge of murdering Mose Echolds near Bohnam Texas in January 1867. He had fled justice for forty years and was tracked down on information supplied by his wife, mother of sixteen children born after the crime described as atrocious.
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Boston
Mass
Charles L. Tucker
Mable Page
Tucker
Muskogee
Jime
Newton Bohannon
Okmulz I. T
Mose Echolds
Bohnam
Texas
Bohannon
Democrats Denied Right to Offer Any Amendments
Washington June 12 Dalzell of Massachusetts reported a rule to move the railroad rate bill from the speaker's table to conference. Williams of Mississippi tried to offer an amendment but was denied. The measure went to conference by 186 to 1092 with conferees Hepburn Sherman and Richardson named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Dalzell
House
Senate
Willams
Denaimda
Hepburn
Sherman
Richardson
Naval Schools
Senate Committee On Naval Affairs
Great Lakes
Bil
Naval Academs
Haxing
Naval Service
Hale
Senate Committee On Post Offices
Insurance Heads Plead Not Guilty In Five Indictments
New York June 12 Frederick A Burnham former president of Mutual Reserve Life and George Burnham and George D Eldridge formerly vice presidents were arraigned before Judge Cowing on five indictments charging grand larceny. Through counsel they pleaded not guilty. Trial date not fixed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Frederick A. Burnhams
Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Company
George Burnham
George D. Eldridge
Cowing
Riot Call to Save Negro From a Mob
Norfolk Va June 12 A Tot call was sounded for the quick assemblage of 200 militia men to proceed at once to Eastville and protect William Lee a negro in jail there charged with criminal as saun op two while women
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Norfolk
Eastville
William Lee
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BIG Meat Packers
Burlington Road
Ferguson
Mabel Page
Dupont
Powder Fame
Delaware
Dover
Del
H. A. Dupont
Moore
Addicks
Congressional Medal of Honor
Army
Wilmington & Northern Railroad Company
Reading Railroad
Henry A. Dupont
Edward A. Addicks
H. H. Ward
Capitol
Guilde
Interstate Commerce Commission
Interstate Commerce Come
Robert N. Franklin
Pennssylvania Railroad
Blow
Cobalt
South
North
President Butts
Bridge Concern
Burnhams
Eldridge
Mutual Reserve
Helena
Mont
Northern Pacific Railway Company
L. Wels
Sadie Gorman
Thomas N. Gorman
Alvis Webster
Keokuk
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