Taft Idolized by Filipinos Says Greater Liberty Under U S Rule
Felipe Buenocamino testifies before the House Insular Affairs committee describing the Philippines as a recovering land under American sovereignty. He praises Taft, notes 800 municipalities, and says Filipinos prefer American status though some urge summoning Sixto Lopez. The minority vote against Lopez continues amid heated exchanges.
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Washington
Felipe Buentamino
Aguinaldo
House Committee On Insular Affairs
The
Philippines
Liberty
Justice
Congress
Dewey
Taft
Jones
Virginia
Sixto Lopez
Buencamino
Lopez
Cooper
Williams
Miss
Patterson
Tenn
Tieup Closes Goods Movement and Stocking Amid Chicago Teamsters Strike
Chicago June 2 The teamsters strike spreads to department stores forcing delivery shutdowns and halting new stock. Fair department store employs 89 workers with 400 more at other downtown stores to join by night. Ice wagon drivers refuse deliveries to hotels, restaurants, and packer houses. Police guard the Fair as managers clash with union agents. Superintendents report meat shortages for Bridewell and Worthy reform schools, prompting purchases of beans and oatmeal.
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Chicago
Teamsters
Teamsters’ Union
Jacob Kessner
Kessner
Mr. Kessner
Great Northern
Palmer House
Kingsly’s
Heusner Bakins Company
Auditorium Hotel and Annex
Wagner testifies on Philippines conduct before Senate panel
Colonel Wagner asserts humane treatment by U S forces in the Philippines and refutes rumors of a brutal camp system. He praises General Bell and describes 100000 people held in concentration camps with property confiscated, while denying the existence of a camp he calls a suburb of hell.
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Washington
Wagner
Army
Philippines
Senate Philippine Committee
United States
Bell
Hughes
Hell
Packers War On Union Labor In Chicago Meat War
Chicago reports show beef packers refuse concessions and align against union labor as a prolonged conflict unfolds. Teamsters across cities including Omaha Kansas City St Joseph and St Louis pledge solidarity with Chicago locals to honor calls to strike.
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Chicago
Beef Trust
Teamsters
Packers
Omaha
Kansas City
St. Joseph
St. Louis
French Force Repels Tuareg Attack at Ain Salah
A small allied Arab detachment under a French lieutenant, returning from Ain Salah in the Sahara, repelled a 300 Tuareg assault near Dils. Sixty one Tuaregs were killed while the French column suffered three dead and ten wounded.
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Algiers
Algeria
Ain Salah
Sahara
Dils
Order Issued Cutting Off Ten Thousand of the Standing Army
Washington June 2 By direction of the president Secretary Root issues a general order decreasing the strength of our permanent military establishment and changing its makeup to carry out the army reorganization law. The total strength is reduced from 77 287 men to 66 497 men.
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Washington
Root
Roach Reinstates 90 Traction Workers in Chicago
President Roach of the Chicago Union Traction Company rehired 90 men discharged for joining the Amalgamated Association of Street Car Employees. He also dissolved the Independent Benevolent Association, the union’s rival.
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Chicago
Roach
Chicago Union Traction Company
Amalgamated Association of
Independent Benevolent Association
Payne's Prediction On Bills In Congress
Congressman Serena E. Payne, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, said the Ray bankruptcy bill will pass early, the Cuban reciprocity bill with a 20 percent tariff cut will pass the Senate after the House, and Nicaragua canal and Philippine bills are expected to advance before adjournment.
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New York
Serena E. Payne
House Committee On Ways and Means
House
Congress
Senate
Payne
Memorial tablet unveiled for Archibald Forbes at St Pauls
London on June 2 Field Marshal Lord Wolseley revealed a memorial tablet to Archibald Forbes the war correspondent who died March 30 1900 in the crypt of St Pauls Cathedral. The ceremony included the widow General Sir Evelyn Wood and Commander Richardson Clover naval attaché of the United States embassy.
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London
Lord Wolseley
Archibald Forbes
St. Paul's Cathedral
Evelyn Wood
Richardson Clover
United States
Strange men appear as Erie railroad aids miners
The Erie Railroad company shipped a trainload of cots bedding and pillows to Pittsburg and distributed them at area collieries. Colored cooks accompanied the delivery and a group of strange men arrived. Many engineers firemen and pumpmen who finished night shifts took their work clothes from the mines.
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Pittsburg
Erie Railroad Company
Government to Decorate John Goodnow in Shanghai Honor
The government plans to award a decoration to John Goodnow United States consul general at Shanghai in recognition of his services in maintaining peace in the Central provinces of China in 1900.
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Peking
John Goodnow
United States
Shanghai
China
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