Missouri 2-Cent Fare Trial Starts Wednesday
Kansas City reports Judge McPherson ordered a three month trial of the Missouri 2-cent passenger fare law with enforcement paused for a practical test. Attorney General Hadley calls it a strategic win and expects federal court handling of freight rate questions while state suits on passenger rates proceed.
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Kansas City
Smith McPherson
Red Oak
United States District Court
Prem
Inez
Missouri
Railway click men quit work under new law
New law inspects railway workers and forces changes. In New Florence Missouri on June 19 G L Dryden of High Hill refused to pay a fare of two cents per mile and was ejected from a Wabash passenger train after asserting his rights under the new rate law.
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New Florence
G. L. Dryden
High Hill
Telegraphers quit as railways face eight hour limit
Telegraphers along the Alton line quit en masse after a Ryder Missouri date line message warned to stop work. Six operators at Watson Booth Curryville walked out. New law imposes a 1000 dollar fine on railways for forcing longer than eight hours daily. Delaware and Hudson raises wages by ten percent for conductors baggagemen and trainmen following a meeting of workers and officials.
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Kansas City
Alton Railway
Ryder
Delaware & Hudson
Binghampton
N. C
Delaware and Hudson
Doctor Aids Stork Thousands Of Times In Galena
Dr W A Walker marks 28 years in Galena practice by reporting 2008 births credited to him at $10 each with twins discounted. He estimates his professional support to births has netted him over $20 000, noting an unequaled stork aid record in the west.
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Galena
Eas
W. A. Walker
Bees Get Drunk on Orange Juice Appeal to Prosecutor
Residents and apiary owners from Passa Den a appeal District Attorney Fredericks alleging Disbrow nursery proprietors ferment large quantities of orange juice. Bees and flies are intoxicated as workers extract seeds from decayed oranges for planting.juice pulp is squeezed through a sieve causing juice to flow and intensifying bee stings.
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Los Angeles
Disbrow
Passadena
Fredericks
Woman captive in stable three years shocks Rome
Rome reports a grim case of a woman kept in a cowstable for three years so her husband could live with another woman. The arrest of the husband and local officials revealed the tale as the captive woman, now weakened, finally spoke.
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Rome
Holmes Made Fortune In Crop Report Leak
In Judge Stafford's court Sonia P. Van Riper testified as the prince witness in the trial of Edwin Holmes Jr charged with defrauding the government over leak of agriculture crop reports. Van Riper recounted meeting Holmes in 1904 and Holmes boasting of fabricating bulletins and supplying advance cotton reports to others in New York, claiming $55,000 earned.
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Washington
Stafford
Sonia P. van Riper
Edwin
Holmes, Jr
Agricultural Department
van Riper
Holmes
Frederick A. Peckham
New York
Hyde
Mayor Schmitz Is Removed From Office
San Francisco June 19 Mayor Schmitz was formally removed by the supervisors after his incarceration in the county jail following a felony conviction. James Gallagher named acting mayor. replacement to be appointed soon. Grand jury to probe Schmitz jury corruption and Home Telephone inquiry. fight trust prosecutions to begin. Bribery case of Louis Glass continued. Adler perjury case delayed six weeks.
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San Francisco
Cal
Schmitz
James Gallagher
Meyer Schmitz
Gallagher
Board of Supervisors
Grand Jury
Schmitz Jury
Fight Trust
Louis Glass
Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph Company
Norway Grants Women Voting Rights in National Elections
Christiania on June 19 reports that women over 25 who pay taxes on a minimum income have been granted the franchise in national elections by the storthing, marking progress toward universal suffrage. Stockholm notes the riksdag closed with the royal message as debates praise the session, predicting the reform will expand the electorate and push Sweden toward a more democratic constitution.
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Christiania
Storthing
Stockholm
Riksdag
Eyes the prime attraction report queried lovers
Boston june 19 Precisely what a trait or physical characteristic in youth maiden man or woman that most attracts to the opposite sex. Dr G Stanley Hall Worcester has set a census of young lovers to learn what in fact endears him or her to the object of affection. He abstracts from hundreds of letters the ordered list of attractions: eyes cheeks hair form of head size of stature throat feet ears brows chin and complexion.
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Boston
G. Stanley Hall
Worcester
Cage
Hall
Man of the Hour in Railroad Government Fight
Attorney General Hadley accuses eighteen Missouri railroads of fraud after they won a federal injunction delaying enforcement of the 2-cent fare law. He seeks supplemental bills in equity and a temporary injunction to halt railroad action while the courts review the statutes and potential validity. Justice and public interest demand a speedy decision on the rate statute challenged by railroads and state officers.
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Louis
Hadley
Mincourt
McPherden
Kansas City
Trusti Wien 4
United States
Go Furth
Ieelold
Missyrel
Two-Cent Row Mixes Wisccur Government Must Lend Its Credit
New York June 1: James J Hill says the national government will be forced to lend its credit to meet railroad needs. He contends public exasperation will push for more cars and rails, railroads claim they cannot raise capital, and the government may have to supply funds. He warns such steps could lead to government ownership of railroads.
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New York
James J. Hill
Courtroom Clapping Earns Five Cents Per Hand
In Chicago on June 19 Frank Petriv paid a court clerk five cents for each time he clapped his hands in Judge Lardis in the case United States vs Kuster. The defense attorney spoke as Petriv was fined for improper postals. The judge warned that applause is against court rules.
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Chicago
Frank Petriv
Bride Sues Husband Over 10 Cent Pin Money
In St Louis on June 19 Hazel Hill filed for arrest of her husband Harrison Hill after claiming he gave her only 10 cents for meals since their May 14 marriage and that he whipped her when asked for money. They reside on University Row.
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Bt. Louis
Harrison Hill
Hazel HI
Confusing 2 Cent Fare Sparks Jute Union Row
In St Louis at the debt offices a 2 cent fare change caused confusion as agents argued over the new rate. A rural resident questioned the fare to Koko Grove while clerks cited the usual 3 cents. Some agents were unsure of the new rule as inquiries flooded the phone and injunctions flew from federal authorities. Credit Men Elect Gettys in Chicago with Gettys as president and Barclay and Dudlow named vice presidents. Senator Morgan’s funeral held in Selma with Gov Comer and VP Fairbanks in attendance.
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St. Louis
Union
Koko Grove
Credit
Gettys
Chicago
Credit Men's Association
Frank M. Gettys
Louisville
George R. Barclay
David A. Dudlaw
Philadelphia
Senator Morgan
Selma
Ala
Morgan
Methodist Church
Fairbanks
Comer
Rail lines vow no rate cuts until courts decide
Chicago June 18 General passenger agents of Iowa railroads meet and back a pact not to reduce state rates until court rulings on state laws fix 2 cents per mile as the maximum for interstate trips. Also Los Angeles June 18 rotten track blamed for 25 wrecks in nine months on the Southern Pacific within California. 70 killed, 200 injured, with rails loose, worn ties, and poor ballast blamed for many deaths. Three freight cars plunged into Niagara Falls today from a Grand Trunk train at the bridge, the derailment sending cars into the rapids 230 feet below.
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Chicago
Iowa
Los Angeles
Panall
California
Fr. H. Harriman
Tse
Jong
Niagara Falls
Grand Trunk
Niagara Rapids
Passengers Rescued From Burning Dakota Wreck
The Great Northern Oriental limited derailed near Palermo forty miles west of Minot North Dakota at 6 am. The engineer and fireman died and several passengers were injured as cars plunged into the ditch and caught fire. Injured were rescued with difficulty. Train traveled about fifty miles per hour. Accident blamed on spreading rails.
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Dakota
Minot
N. D
Great Northern Oriental Limited
Palermo
Telegraphers Union threatens strike over Western Union wage cut
The Commercial Telegraphers Union of America denounces Western Union for wage reductions and alleged tactics to undermine the telegraph workforce. Chicago local No. 81 votes a one day strike assessment totaling about 35,000, with national officers pledging support and telegrams from New York and other cities backing the stand.
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Western Union
Uen Ubat
Yen Beanr
Penglavier
America
Samuel J. Small
D. Jones
Chicago
United States
Canada
Mexico
New York
Ace
Noisy haired girl tries to kiss jurors in Chicago trial
Miss Mary L. Wightman, cashier for Hapgood & Co Chicago branch, was found not guilty after a theft trial. Delighted by the verdict she attempted to kiss jurors as pandemonium broke out. Milas Wightman, Northwestern graduate, faced separate charges of tampering with books and misappropriation. An employee testified she wore noisy silk stockings.
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Chicago
Mary L. Wightman
Hapgood & Co
Sbell
Milas Wightman
Uate
Northwestern University
Ambassador Aoki Angry Over Berkeley Glass Damage
Waenington June 1 Viscount Aoki Japanese ambassador protested to the State Department after glass panes were broken in a Berkeley California greenhouse owned by a Japanese national. Root urged restraint and warned against turning a minor incident into an international dispute. The Navy would not redeploy battleships, fearing risk and escalation.
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Waenington
Viscount Aoki
Department of State
Berkeley
Cal
Aoki
Root
United States
Pacific
Japan
Aventorn
San Francisco
Navy Department
Hampton Roads
Son Marries Father Casts Him Off Elopement Shock
Chauncey Depew Miller 16 and Alice Doroth Parker 20 wed in Valparise Indiana after an automobile elopement. Miller's father, wealthy Chicago merchant William Miller, confronted them at the scene, delivering a harsh rebuke and banishing the couple from home to prove themselves as adults.
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Chauncey Depew Miller
Alice Doroth
Parker
Millar
Chicago
Valparvise
Ind
Women lash man in frontier town justice
Riverton reports Edgar M. Morrison, accused of wife beating, was whipped twenty times on his bare back by a posse of local women and then tarred and feathered by their husbands, sons, and brothers in Shoshone, Wyoming.
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Wyo
Riverton
Edgar M. Morrison
American Schooner Prescott Seized Near Halifax
The government reports seize of the American fishing schooner Prescott near Halifax on June 18 while outside the three mile limit, signaling a dispute over territorial waters and fishing rights.
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Halifax
Prescott
Roosevelt Buada Ordered Away Over Large Family
A fragmented notice reports Roosevelt Buada facing orders regarding his large brood of thirty children. The text shows confusion about maternal status and visitation, with references to birth, motherhood, and service. The readable fragments imply a public or legal action surrounding the family and a request to keep the subject away.
Court orders wife to thrash boarder in domestic dispute
In a New York case Magistrate Connor advised a wife to discipline a boarder harshly. The wife, Joan Stengis, meat dealer, testified to a marriage strain and abandonment amid the dispute. The exchange centered on threats and a rebuked suggestion to thrash.
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New York, Inc
Béeiien
Odvice
Connoin
Joan Stengis
Vernon Agenus
Luland
Stengic
Cha
Stengie
Connor
Dixner
Teen Chops Off Two Toes While Learning Wood Cutting
In Janceville Wisconsin in June a wealthy attorney named Romingeok is reported to have chopped off two toes of his own foot while teaching his son to split wood with an axe. The incident occurred as the father demonstrated lemon-fueled wood splitting skills.
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Janceville
Wis
Eee MacDouran
Packers’ Teamsters Agree to Arbitration End Strike Threat
Packers and their teamsters accepted an arbitration offer, lifting the strike threat for the time being. The agreement came after wage and work dispute discussions, and the union stated there will be no immediate strike while the arbitration proceeds.
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Rae Ean Mass
Bards
Packers
Orchard's Trial Adjourned For Present Court Term
Haywood case adjourned in Boise to allow Judge Wood to travel to Caldwell and formally adjourn Orchard's trial. Orchard and eighteen others were brought to Caldwell. the date will not be set until the Haywood, Moyer, and Pettibone cases are resolved.
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Caldwell
Idaho
Jan Orchard
Hummel Lives Like Prince In His Cell
New York a prisoner named Abe Hummel No 925 at Blackwell's Island prison is said to feign illness and enjoy comforts while under criminal sentence. He walks with Deputy Warden Murtha on the prison's west side, while his tailor outfits him in a custom striped suit and shoes.
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Hummel
Prince
New York
Abe Hummel
Blackwell's Law and Penitentiary
Frowning Stone
Fallon
L. Dortmann
Murtha
Hite
Hummelta
Privan
Firth
Avenus Artiade Elothier
Gare
Suide
Bevotes His Life To Fighting Flies
Dr Crumbing of the Kansas state board urges fly control as a public health measure. He campaigns to educate the public on avoiding breeding sites and using protective habits to curb typhoid fever and other illnesses spread by flies.
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Sopelu
June Wobres
J. Crumbha Relary
Kansas State Board of T
Dow Pune
Crumbing
Crumbine
Nicoshat
Fles
Tubbite
Warlthy
UG Danstizvelts
Ripley Quits Canal for Higher Post in Panama
An unnamed dispatch reports Joseph Ripley resigning from his canal position to accept a more prestigious post in the country. The notice notes his departure from the canal to telegraph with a teacher and mentions a Burnet Newt station and a Wisconsin connection.
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Ripley
Canal
Joseph Ripley
Cnulties
Panama
Ptiol Couretegion
Accep
PLOS
Wiersti
Aga
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Orchard
Cannon City
Cole
Charles W. 3Cne
Haywood
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