Conspirators at Juarez and Mexican Political Change
United States secret service agents arrested four followers of Ricardo Magon in El Paso. Rifles and ammunition were seized from the house linked to plans for sparking a revolution in Juarez. In Mexico City Madero said reconstructing the government will be harder than overthrowing Diaz, yet achievable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
el Paso
United States Secret Service
Ricardo Magon
Lower
California
Magon
Juarez
Mexico City
Madero
Diaz
Coke Trust Under Federal Probe in Pittsburgh
A federal grand jury was summoned to probe alleged coke trust activity. The study targets coal concerns accused of cornering coke sales in Pittsburg, following an $18 million coal sale to United States Steel. F H Gary testified that U S Steel Corp now handles about 90 percent of America’s export steel and iron business and accounts for about 50 percent of total steel and iron output.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Coke Trust
Pittsburg Coals
United States Steel Corporation
Washington
F. H. Gary
Steel Trust
Branley
U.S. Steel Corporation
America
United
Arm Crushed Under Wagon On Market Street
Walter Elswick, 153 South Seventh, was seriously injured Wednesday when his left arm was crushed after a wheel swerved between wagons on Market Street near Fourth. He was aiding a paper wagon and was taken to the hospital where doctors hope to save the arm. The Elswick family has faced recent misfortunes and sympathy is extended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter
William J. Elswick
South Seventh Street
Market Street
Fourth
Pittsburg
Bates
Memr
Laugh- Tin
Elswick
Rose Fete at Stanton Park Casino a social and financial success
The Rose Fete under King's Daughters at Stanton Park Casino drew over eight hundred patrons for an elegant evening. The Imprial Orchestra played under Prof Jelly with Maypole dancing by Malcolm McGowan and Janet Taggart, amid rose decor, pink and white gowns, and charitable selling of candy for the circle’s charities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
King’s Daughters
Stanton Park Casino
Imprial Orchestra
Jelly
Houk
Malcolm McGowan
Janet Taggart
Robert McGowan
King’s Daughters Charities
Evans Escapes For Testifying Before Grand Jury
Evans who was fined 500 dollars last week for bribe and who made a full confession before the grand jury will escape trial on two other bribery indictments. Judge Rathmell dismissed them today, marking a rare outcome in the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cha Sele Osegtseieiestive Evans
Rathmell
Sensation of Years Promised by Accused Woman
Miss Lillian Graham and Miss Ethel Conrad are held without bail for shooting millionaire W. E. D. Stokes. Graham says New York will hear her full story, claiming Stokes forced entry and choked her after she refused his letters. Stokes plans to prosecute for attempted murder. letters remain missing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Lillian Graham
Ethel Conrad
W. E. D. Stokes
Stokes
Stanley Denies Knowledge of Steel Trust Investigation
Congressman Stanley, leading a probe into the steel trust, was challenged by Secretary Nagel who said he informed Stanley that the Commerce and Labor Department was investigating the matter. Nagel asserted the inquiry had begun but was not far enough advanced to publish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Stanley
Steel Trust
Ananias Club
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Nagel
Department of Commerce and Labor
Taft Travels to New York City for Brooklyn Visit
President Taft departed for New York City this morning. In Brooklyn he will review local school children this afternoon and address the Cotton Seed Crushers' Association this evening. Local attendance and ongoing events underscore a busy presidential itinerary in New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Washington
Taft
New York City
Brooklyn
Cotton Seed Crushers’ Association
Ard Woman Prisoner Killed in Norfolk & Western Train Crash
Constable James Payne and assistants John Ashworth Edward Jones escorted two prisoners Mrs Martha Noel and Charles Oades to the jail in Bluefield Virginia when a Norfolk and Western train struck them. All three officers and Mrs Noel were killed and Oades seriously hurt. Noel had been convicted of a salutatory charge and faced childbirth next week. The cause remains a mystery.
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Bluefield
James Payne
John Ashworth
Edward Jones
Martha Noel
Charles Oades
Norfolk & Western
Oades
Noel
Payne
Hiram College Students Sued Over Pell Tax Protest
June 22 Hiram Ohio authorities sue twenty two students for refusing to work out a $3 pell tax on public roads. Students keep rooms locked to bar enforcement, with constables ready to levy on tennis rackets and mandolins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hiram
Hiram College
Pastor Turns Detective for Chicago Gambling Raid
Reverend Elmer Williams of the Great Methodist church posed as a tramp to enter a gambling house in Chicago. He gathered evidence leading to a police raid that arrested 29 inmates for shooting craps. A parishioner had lost $75, prompting the minister to act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Elmer Williams
Great Methodist Church
Ohio Weather: Unsettled Showers Late Tonight and Friday
The forecast calls for unsettled conditions in Ohio with showers late tonight or Friday. Temperatures will warm tonight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Witness Otis Sought in New York by Grand Jury Detectives
Traveling salesman Charles W. Otis once with the American Warming and Ventilating Company is the witness in a legislative bribery probe sought by Prosecutor Turner and detectives for weeks. He is thought to be in New York but what testimony he could provide remains undisclosed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo
Charles W. Otis
American Warming and Ventilating Company
Turner
New York
Otis
Reciproc ity Action on Canadian Pulp Wood Trade Policy
The Senate Finance Committee agreed to report the Canadian Reciprocity bid with the Root amendment. The committee will not recommend Senate action. The Root amendment makes the pulp wood and print paper clause effective only after all Canadian provinces agree to free export of those products.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
Canada
Pottery Owners Call for Uniform Price System
A leading East Liverpool pottery owner urged a general price uniformity across the industry, warning that profit remains slim and a pottery trust could shift operations. He noted western potteries show little profit recently and suggested a price rise to sustain the business amid premium stamp debates. Industry buyer H E O'Brien in Chicago recalled a legislative bill on trading stamps failing in the Senate, while noting open access to premiums for all potteries and dealers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Liverpool Tribune
Ilinois
H. E. O'Brien
Chicago
Senate
Conscience fund receives $50 money order from small payer
Washington reports that the government's conscience fund took another $50 money order posted from Portsmouth New Hampshire. A man says his pay is small but he strives to be a Christian and will send more as he can save. Treasury officials do not know how much he thinks he owes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Uncle Sam
Portsmouth
N. H
Treasury
Murder in onion patch solved by confession
Norfolk, June 8. The murder of Harry C. Davis, found in an onion patch, was solved when Minnie Murdock confessed Davis was killed by her former lover Charles Merkle as he slept in her arms. Merkle and the woman were arrested after the confession.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk
Harry C. Davis
Minnie Murdock
Davis
Charles Merkle
Merkle
Bridge Election Carries In Lorain County
Elyria Ohio June 8 at a special election bond issue of seventy thousand dollars was approved for the construction of a high level bridge over the Black River at old Thirteenth avenue south of Lorain in Lorain county.
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Elyria
Lorain County
Black River
Old Thirteenth Avenue
Lorain
Growth and Development of Steubenville Commencement Theme
Wells Auditorium hosts the Steubenville high school graduation program tonight led by George K. Morris. It features a sequence of Indian legends pioneer and civic topics, music by Florence Beatty and Clara Tweed, and diplomas presented by M. D. William E. Kerr.
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Wells Auditorium
George K. Morris
Franz Abt
Steubenville
Helen Marie Simpson
Elizabeth Louise Lyons
la Regata Veneziana
Rossini
Florence Beatty
Jean Victoria Teeters
Albert Edmund Weinstein
Blumenthal
Ethel Clair Swearingen
Nina Mae Browning
Margaret Mooney
Susie Marie Speaker
Ohio River
Melvin Strearl Rothrock
Clara Belle Tweed
Ruth Elizabeth Melville
Florence Elizabeth Wolpert
William E. Kerr
M. D
Board of Education
Spofforth
Carl Stackman
Public schools praised over private in university leader remarks
Benjamin Ide Wheeler, president of the University of California, told a University Club banquet in Tacoma that drawing students from private schools weakens public education. He voiced preference for public schools and industrial education, warning against aristocratic leanings of some private institutions.
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Tacoma
Wash
Harvard
Yele
Benjamin Ide Wheeler
The
Unversity of California
University Club
Ends in Serious Shooting Affair at Harpersville
In Harpersville a mining town near Jeffersn coal mines a dance and birthday party ended in a shootout between the Kosciuskos and their rivals The Polish victim Dara Lads forsky is hospitalized with a bullet wound and another man is in custody The wounded man may die amid the brawl sparked by factional tensions over invitations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harpersville
Jeffersn
Dara
Forsky
Kosciuskos
Lutherans Elect Head Man At National Convention
The forty fifth biennial convention of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the United States elected Rev Dr J B Remensnyder of New York City as president. President Taft and German Ambassador Boernstorff attended an evening mass meeting. Remensnyder has led St James Lutheran Church in New York for thirty years.
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Washington
J. B. Remensnyder
New York City
General Synod of
The
Evangelical Lutheran Church of the United States
Taft
Boernstorff
Germany
Remensnyder
St. James Lutheran Church
New York
Bryan's Youngest Daughter Weds in Lincoln
Grace Dexter Bryan youngest child of the Bryan family wed Richard L. Hargreaves son of a Lincoln wholesale grocer at Fairview Lincoln on June 8. The ceremony united a prominent Nebraska household with a growing business family in the state capital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bryan
Lincoln
Neb
Grace Dexter Bryan
Nebraska
Fairview
Richard L. Hargreaves
Tri-State Line to Open Weirton-Steubenville Route Soon
The Steubenville Weirton traction line, under construction, is expected to be completed within ninety days linking Steubenville and Weirton five miles apart. Hollidays Cove will gain streetcar service as a stop between the terminals. The project, led by Phillips Sheet & Tin Plate, may cost about 75000 dollars, with Wellsburg power house upgrade turning the site into a substation and wires extending to the station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steubenville
Weirton
Steubenville and
Holliday’s Cove
Hollidays Cove
Phillips Sheet & Tin Plate Company
W. R. W. Griffin
Tri-State
Wellsburg
Salvation Army King's Daughters Gave 600 and La Belle Iron Works 200
Capt Pownell reports for the Salvation Army year ending June 1 1911 with 600 from King's Daughters and nearly 200 from La Belle Iron Works. He lists outstanding bills 173.50 and a total income and expenses both at 2666.77 including gifts from churches shops and subscribers and charity aid.
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Pownell
Salvation Army
King’s Daughters
la Belle Iron Works
Col. Evans
Col. Margrets
Brig. Dunham
Steubenville
Pittsburg Turnfest Steubenville class wins first prize
In Johnstown Pa the Steuben ville class of thirteen members representing Germania Turnverein of Pittsburg district won first prize at the Pittsburg district Turnfest. The boys return home with the bacon and pride from their victory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Johnstown
Steubenville
Germania Turnverein
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Budlding
Kansas
W. R. Stubbs
Sunflower
the Steel Corporation
Gary Ad
Mits
Walter Elswick
Stanton Park
Evans
Aire Stokes
the Steel Trust
Ard
Quartette
Chas. W. Otis
Root
List
Steuben
Ville
Univer
Sity
General Synod
Weirton Line
Poe
Nell
Belle Iron Works
Turners
JOHNS
Town, PA
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