Sugar bounty proposals and trade duty suspension amid surplus
Treasury notes indicate sugar exports from Italy had been limited to domestic needs but a new surplus may trigger bounty payments and duties to cover extra charges. Reports cite German capital talks on relaxing rules that affected American life insurance firms, as relayed to the New York Journal of Commerce.
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Treasury Department
Italy
United States
Herlin
New York Journal of Commerce
Consolidation Planned Between National and Carnegie Steel
Reports from June indicate a pre arranged plan to merge National Steel Company with Carnegie Steel Company at a June 4 meeting in East Orange New Jersey. After the merger the National Steel officers will join Carnegie staff in Pittsburg under unified management.
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National Steel Company
Eaat Orange
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National
Carnegie Steel Companies
Carnegie Company
Pittsburg
Tions
United States Steel Corporation
SLAIN ON EVE OF WEDDING IN MOUNT CARMEL
Daniel Richards aged twenty of Green Ridge was found dead on the porch of Miss Elizabeth Walters in Mount Carmel with a bullet wound to the temple. He was to wed Miss Walters today, after leaving the Walters home around 10 PM. police suspect murder and transported the body to the Walters house. No weapon has been found and Miss Walters reported no quarrel, noting Richards appeared in good spirits.
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Pun
Daniel Richards
Green Rice
Mount Carmel
Young Richards
Elizabeth Walters
Harry Walters
Walters
Green Ridge
Fred
Richards
Constitution Resumes Toning Up Spells in Narragansett Bay
The Constitution returns to sea after two weeks of mast repairs. It sailed in a light breeze outside Sorenton's reef lightship and Point Judith for about four hours. The trial centered on the repaired rigging and mast while crew enjoyed the outing. plans for further events on the sound this month remain uncertain.
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Newport
R. I
Constitution
Sorenton
Reef
Point Judith
Duncan
Warrant Payments Authorized for Manila Bay Officers
The Treasury issues two warrants recalling prize money for Manila Bay officers. One for 17 dollars in favor of Mrs. A Brumby administratrix of the late A M Brumby, lieutenant at the battle, mailed to Mrs Brumby in Pennsylvania. The other in favor of Harriet V Gridley administratrix of the late W Gridley, commanded the fleet, mailed to her in Pennsylvania.
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Manila Bay
A. Brumfe
As M. Brumby
Minnie Healy Mine Awarded in District Court Decision
In Butte Montana Judge Marney awards the Minnie Healy mine valued at $1,000,000 to F August Heinz after a court dispute with Miles and the copper trust. Heinz acquired the property from Fine who spent $54,000 to develop it, then offered it to Heinz. Finelan tried to regain the property with support from the trust, but Heinz struck a rich copper vein shortly after.
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Mont
Judge Marney
Distri*t
Minnie Healy
F. August Heinz
Miles
Copper Trust
Heinz
Fine
Wing
Finelan
Weather forecast for Indiana Illinois Ohio June 14
Forecast for Wednesday and Thursday calls for partly cloudy skies and possible showers in Indiana and Illinois with Thursday fair and variable winds. Ohio expects fair weather Wednesday with possible lake showers, and fair Thursday with fresh westerly winds becoming variable.
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Washington
Indiana
Illinois
Ohio
Death by scalding in Monroe County quarry accident
Special to the Indianapolis Journal Bloomington Ind June 18 an accident at the Acme zone quarry in the Clear creek district left Luther Lasure dead from scalding after the hoisting cab overturned and a heavy stone fell Frank McPherridge was seriously injured Kemper Ray John Stewart and James Gillaspie were less severely hurt The Acme quarry is owned by John Rawle and Chicago capitalists In Muncie Samuel Liggett eighty five a Madison resident was killed by a Big Four switch engine while walking on the track
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Indianapolis Journal
Bloomington
Ind
Acme
Clear Creek
Luther Lasure
Frank McPherridge
Kemper Ray
Bedford
John Stewart
James Gillaspie
Lasure
McPherridge
John Rawle
Chicago
Muncie
Samuel Liggett
Madison
Liggett
Harry Lyons
Gift to Lafayette Y M C A reshapes corner property
Miss Anna Max, aged eighty, donated a 315000 property at Fourth and North Streets to the Y M C A in fee simple with a life monthly stipend of seven dollars. The two story brick and stone building, once the Reynolds heirs property, may be remodeled for association use. The gift surprised officials and lifts a recent space shortage for the club.
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Indianapolis Journal
Lafayette
Ind
Anna Max
Fourth
North Streets
Y. M. Cla
Silas Max
Association
Peoheres
Reynolds
To Unionize Saloons Plan at Terre Haute Meeting
Terre Haute June 18 The sixth annual Indiana Liquor Dealers Association convention opens tomorrow with about four delegates. A key proposition seeks a compact with organized labor requiring union made cigars and liquors, with patrons urged to favor union saloons through a central labor union card.
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Indianapolis Journal
Terre Haute
Ind
Indiana Liquor Dealers’ Association
League
Central Labor Union
Negro Causes a Strike at Indiana Iron Works
In Muncie Indiana on June 18 more than one hundred employees at the nut and bolt works department of the Republic company's Indiana iron works quit over hiring a colored man in their department where around a hundred girls pack nuts and bolts. The girls refuse to work and white workers join, signaling possible plant closure amid mounting unrest.
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Indianapolis Journal
Muncie
Ind
Nut and Bolt Works
Indiana Iron Works of the Republic Company
Terre Haute Ministers Oppose Lewd Street Fair Shows
The Terre Haute Ministerial Association rejects verbal assurances by Street Fair officials that lewd displays will be barred and demands firm action. Protestant ministers and Catholic clergy cite a ten thousand strong church vote backing their resolutions urging no such shows. Merchants are told to withhold subscriptions unless shows are banned.
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Indiana Felix Journal
Terre Haute
Ind
Troublesome Hock Sinkhole Threatens Penn Railroad near Hartford City
Near Hartford City Indiana June 18 the Pennsylvania Railroad reports a sinkhole two miles east of town disrupting the roadbed built decades ago. The hole swallows fill and timbers as rails sag and a mogul engine nearly topples. A watchman guards the site at all hours.
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Indianapolis Journal
Hartford City
Ind
Pennsylvania Railway Company
Lebanon Council Passes Gas Ordinance to Cut Costs
Lebanon Indiana June 1 The city council passed a natural gas ordinance setting meter usage after October at zero cents per thousand cubic feet and requiring meters to be installed. The measure aims to address fuel difficulties by standardizing pricing and metering practices.
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Indianapolis Journal
Lebanon
Ind
Indiana Gas Ordinances and Local Developments
Richmond reports describe gas meter inspections and city oversight, with a dispute over ordinance acceptance. Montpelier notes oil and gas activity spreading across counties, including new well No. 5 in Madison County. Jeffersonville covers Deputy Sheriff Delanty planning a damages suit after a false arrest at Union Station. Muncie items recap a remarriage decree amid judge’s involvement and a mysterious trunk delivery from St. Joseph, plus a shooting attempt on Mrs. Heeb in Connersville.
State Sunday school convention opens in Shelbyville
Shelbyville Indiana hosted the State Sunday school convention with representation from sixty counties and about sixty delegates attending. An open-air meeting on the public square drew nearly twenty percent of the town’s population, featuring Rev. D. J. Wilbur Chapman. Shelbyville Lithia Company forms and plans a bathhouse with a city franchise to pipe spring water to the facility.
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Indianapolis Journal
Shelbyville
Ind
D. J. Wilbur Chapman
Longtime Hagerstown bootmaker dies at 70
Henry Presbaugh, one of the county’s oldest residents and a former boot and shoe dealer in Hagerstown, died at his home at age 70. Survived by a widow and children Mrs. W. A. Fox, Mrs. Henry Adams of New Castle, and William Presbaugh of Cincinnati.
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Hagerstown
Ind
Henry Presbaugh
Ann Bosworth Miller
Thomas Bosworth
Augustus Bosworth
Richmond
Charles H. Reed
San Luis Obispo
Cal
Decetseed
Irwin Reed
Portland Deaf Man Identified After Death Near Anderson
In Portland, a deaf man killed near Anderson in May is identified as George Butcher of Bryant, not J. N. Butcher. The mix up arose because the deceased carried two checks belonging to J. N. Butcher who had lost them. Butcher’s family, including two members at the Indianapolis Institute for the Deaf and Dumb, had recently returned home. In Sullivan, Thomas J. Mannes remains in fragile health in Asheville, North Carolina, where his family joined him after his yearlong health program. He is a substantial county landholder, with health concerns noted as the town reports continue.
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Portland
Anderson
IS. N. Buteher
Bryant
George Buteher
J. N. Butcher
Butcher
Institute For the Deaf and Dumb
Indianapolis
Sullivan
Thomas J. Mannes
Asheville
N. C
N Besiuetipn
Mann
Smallpox cases reported near Sellersburg and regional updates
Two new smallpox cases appear near Sellersburg with Bert Bagiton and Henry Cuddy affected. Cuddy returned from Bedford suspected as source. six of seven pesthouse arrivals from Sellersburg have contracted the disease. Other items: Richmond Ice Delivery formed to cut delivery costs. Elwood barn fire destroys building and grain. Muncie Epworth League district meets. Pierce family reunion planned at Willow Lake. Fort Wayne High School baccalaureate given by Rev. J Webster Bailey. Crawfordsville subsidy approved for Interurban railway. New Albany flour mills at Marengo burned, loss 38 000 partly insured.
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Jeffersonville
Sellersburg
Bert Bagiton
Henry Cuddy
Cuddy
Bedford
Richmond
Richmond Ice Delivery Company
Elwood
Norris West
Muncie
Epworth League
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Madison Street
Hagerstown
Pierce
Willow Lake
Economy
Nathan Haywood Edwards
Association
Fort Wayne
Fort Wayne High School
J. Webster Bailey
Plymouth Donational Church
Crawfordsville
Crawfordsville Traction Company
New Albany
W. A. Cook
Marergo
Southern Railroad
Excise Tax Upheld by Ohio Supreme Court
The Ohio Supreme Court sustained a 1 percent excise tax on capital stock of equipment companies used in the state in Street's Western Stable Car Line v. State Auditor W. D. Gilbert. The ruling affirms the state’s right to tax foreign corporations doing business in Ohio, with about $75,000 annually at stake and roughly $20,000 in the case specifically.
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Columbus
Supreme Court
Western
Chicago
W. D. Gilbert
Ohio
Mixed Miscellany of Early 20th Century News
Sally Smith and Joe Bernstein fought a twenty round draw in Los Angeles. A funnel shaped cloud caused about $4000 damage in Delaware county Ohio. The American Institute of Homeopathy opened at Richfield Springs NY with about 500 in attendance. Peach rot in south and central Georgia cited after three weeks of heavy rain. The Junior Order of United American Mechanics opened its 33rd annual session at Buffalo. work is secret. Floyd McFarland of San Jose set a one mile bicycle record in a handicap at New Haven Coliseum track. National Liquor Dealers Convention begins in Cincinnati with several hundred delegates. International Association of Accident Underwriters begins its 14th annual convention at Atlantic City. by-laws allow health insurers as members. Tow of coal barges to Cuba begun from Philadelphia toward Havana via Bahama waters. Professor Maximo Kowalewski of Moscow to lecture at Chicago University on serfdom abolition. A cloudburst at Harrisonburg VA causes $50,000 damage. drownings at Beaver Creek and James River ferryman incident. Knights of Honor Supreme Lodge meets in Milwaukee. freight brakemen gain eligibility for the order. Alabama constitutional convention considers a whipping post and anti miscengenation measures. Rice wills hearing in New York postponed. heirs’ lawyers present. A maniac fire at Rockford AL depot. Policeman Sully shoots and kills him. AOO United Workmen elects officers in Buffalo. roof collapse at Newark roundhouse injures three. Detroit Common Council cited for contempt over a $1,754 claim. American Water Works Association meets in New York. ozonized air discussed for water purification. A million dollar case opens at St Paul over coal field location earnings dispute.
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Joe Bernstein
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American Institute of Homeopathy
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N. Y
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Meadville
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Montreal
Edwin Danforth
San Francisco
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Ore
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Ora Frye
Lewis Thompson
William Myers
Brooke
Wayne
Michigan
Common Council of
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Ralph Phelps
Fourteenth-avenue
American Water Works Association
Nicolas Simin
Water Works
Moscow
Simin
Water
Itggest Convention
Russian Water Works Association
St. Paul
Kelley
Ois
Herbert W. Pearson
Great Northern Road
Mortana
Washington
Pearson
Canons Propose Discipline For Divorced Persons In Church
New York June 1 The joint commission revising Protestant Episcopal canons releases a report to be submitted at the San Francisco General Convention. It approaches prohibitions on elopements and marriages after divorce with cautious limits, requires witnesses, and prescribes baptism and communion rules for divorced individuals under penance and separation. It also clarifies remarriage conditions and the prohibition on dead wife’s sister marriage.
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New York
Protestant Episcopal Church
House of Deputies
House of Bishops
San Francisco
England
Episcopal Church
Crown Point Encounters Scorpion Swarmed Bark Planet
A Philadelphia Times dispatch reports the Crown Point met the German bark Planet on May 1 in mid Atlantic. The Planet’s decks were swarming with scorpions and its crew sick with scurvy. The captain and second officer died during the voyage to Queenstown. Second Officer Bryant led the rescue and the bark reached harbor May 2. Captain Baskenneth died May 12, and the second officer May 24.
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Crown Point
London
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Queenstown Harbor
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Queenstown
Shipping arrivals and departures across European ports June notices
June maritime brief lists ships arriving at New York Naples and European ports including Werra Kaiserin Maria Theresa Patricia and Deutschland with routes from New York Naples Glasgow Cherbourg Plymouth Hamburg Liverpool and Bremen plus vessels proceeding to Bremen Liverpool and Hamburg.
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Cherbourg
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Philadelphia
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Victoria
Magee Held on Triple Murder Charge in Watseka
Bert A. Magee was jailed in Watseka on June 18 charged with murdering his wife, six year old Calvin, and his mother in law Mrs Mary J Hershberger on May 28. He was the sole living witness to a fatal fire and investigators note he fled with his clothes and held a 2000 policy on his wife.
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Watseka
Lil
Bert A. Magee
Calvin
Mary J. Hershberger
Magee
Labor tensions ripple through steel and mining sectors
General labor news reports Keystone colliery at Hudson pa striking after outside workers docked for breaks. Union actions widen rifts as Hod Carriers Denver refuse higher wages amid Building Trades Council stance. Cleveland Iron Workers and Manufacturers seek wage compromise behind closed doors. Dayton National Cash Register plans to reopen with 1100 allied metal workers seeking same conditions as prior shutdown. Molders and polishers, amid threat to strike, demand reinstatement of four men.
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Hudson
International Printing Pressmen’s Union
National Guard
Cleveland, O
Stone
Common Pleas Court
Amalgamated Association of Iron Workers
Manufacturers’ Association
Cleveland
J. H. Patterson
National Cash Register Company
Dayton
Holloway Interview Reveals Russia Favoring Americans
W R Holloway United States consul at St Petersburg tells New York Journal Paris Cable Americans are in high favor in Russia and can obtain what they want. He notes Russians prefer Americans to English, discusses Tolstoi, American women in Russia, the princess Cantacuzene, and trade with the United States including the Siberian Railway where $700 million in goods shifted away from England.
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New York Journal
Paris
W. R. Holloway
United States
St. Petersburg
Journal
Russia
Ireland
Tolstoi
America
Cantacuzene
Curing Wrong Shop Methods
A New York Evening Post piece describes the rising role of the business doctor who audits a firm’s operations, markets, and staffing. He recommends efficiency measures such as hiring a letters opener to save time, adjusts pay to reward actual efficiency, and emphasizes cost control while noting his fees and nonbinding advisement.
Mob Threatens Lynch Suspect After Slaying in Union
In Marshalltown Iowa on June 15 Mel Clemens killed Will Burgust by stabbing him in the eye with an iron bar near Union Harry County. A mob attempted to lynch Clemens but he was placed in the Eldora county jail for safety as guards patrol the jail amid fears of further violence.
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Union
Harry County
Mel Clemens
Will Burgust
Clemens
Eldora
May South African gold production in Rand district falls
The May output in the Rand district is about 7.40 ounces, showing mining remains far below prewar levels of 444,493 ounces in 1899 May and 459,710 ounces in August. Current activity centers on pumping and machinery repair, hindered by labor shortages from the war.
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Springfield Republican
Rand
South Africa
Fire Devastates Greenville Bakery Block
Fire raged through a Greenville bakery early this morning destroying an entire business block. Loss estimated at 75,000 dollars with the blaze threatening other shops as firefighters battled to save stock and prevent further spread. Thieves were reported to have operated during the incident, complicating rescue efforts. Local authorities conduct an investigation into the fire’s origin and any thefts observed during the conflagration.
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Greenville
8. C
Bryan criticized for premature campaign suggestions
Washington Times argues Mr. Bryan adds nothing to the dignity of his office with recent suggestions about potential presidential candidates. The piece contends it is too early to discuss candidates and that his remarks show a desire to rebuke Democrat associates who helped defeat him rather than address pressing national issues.
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Dem
Bryan
General J B Turchin Reported Dying in Anna Hospital
Nashville dispatch reports Brig. Gen. John B. Turchin a Civil War veteran dying at the Hospital for the Insane in Anna. A later message said he could hardly survive the night.
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Nashville
John B. Turchin
Anna
Once Famous Acrobat Magilton Dies in Philadelphia
Henry M. Magilton once famous acrobat died in Philadelphia after sustaining incurable spinal injuries. He performed at the London Alhambra decades ago and had a celebrated career before his decline. The report notes his longtime status in vaudeville circles and his passing on June 18.
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Philadelphia
Henry M. Magilton
C. A
London
Alhambra
Magilton
Result of a Practical Joke in Crossville
CROSSVILLE Tenn June 18 As the result of a practical joke John Abston was shot and killed by his brother Abston born in the town two brothers were involved in the incident authorities reported no other injuries Name details and possible charges were not disclosed pending investigation
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Crossville, Tenn
John Abston
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