Coal Mine War in Illinois Threatens Supply and Jobs
Operators and miners are at odds over pump and air shutoffs risking damage to wet and dry mines. Illinois Manufacturers' Association backs operators amid a multipliers cost burden and possible federal arbitration similar to the 1902 anthracite case with Taft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
Illinois Manufacturers’ Association
Hotel la Salle
Chicago
Norman W. Fraser
Chicago Portland Cement Company
Taft
Roosevelt
Massive Minneapolis fire devours four warehouses and more
A blaze starting about 1 a m destroyed four large implement warehouses in Minneapolis causarng heavy damage and forcing aid from St Paul. The fire left losses over 75 000 with extensive damage to The Rock Island Great Northern Waterbury and Northwestern warehouses. One man Christ Madison was seriously burned. The Sixth Avenue Hotel suffered near total destruction. Firefighters battled the flames into 3 a m and investigators seek the unknown cause. Major losses cited include Northern Rock Island Plow Company 200 000 Great Northern Implement Company 250 000 and Waterbury stock and building 100 000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
Christ Madison
Great Northern Implement Company
Washington Avenue
3D Street
6Th
7Th Avenues
Rock Island
Great Northern
Waterbury
Northwestern
Sixth Avenue
St. Paul
Northern Rock Island Plow Company
C. W. Wright
Saginaw
Mich
Waterbury Implement Company
US Claims 3,000,000 Acres in Oregon Lands
The government seeks about 3,000,000 acres in Oregon once granted to the Oregon and California Railroad Company in 1856. A brief filed in Portland by B D Townsend argues against the demurrer by Southern Pacific, citing lack of jurisdiction and lapse of time. The suit demands return of lands valued at roughly 45 to 50 million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oregon and California Railroad Company
Portland
Ore
B. D. Townsend
Southern Pacific Company
Oregon and California Isroad Company
Stampede to Alaska Drives Surge in Northward Steamship Travel
Officials say 15,000 people will depart Seattle for Nome and St Michael on early June sailings. Berine Sea routes are taxed to capacity as rush of prospectors swells demand. Wealthy travelers forced into steerage with long waits at steamship offices amid gold field reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alaska
Berine
Seattle
Nome
St.ichaels
Iditarod
Ex-Wife Accused in Train Shooting Death of Prosser
Reese Prosser, an automobile salesman from Seattle, formerly Cleveland, was shot on a train at Libby. His former wife Vera Prosser was arrested after the incident.
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Reese Prosger
Seattle
Cleveland
Ohio
Vera
Libby
Morr Vs. Prosser
Deportation Orders Hit 1200 Jews in Kiev Rus
One thousand two Jewish families must leave Kiev by June 14 under a Russian decree to drive Jews from the city. An additional 193 suburban families face deportation if they cannot prove residence rights. The Jewish relief committee reports uncertain totals but estimates 200 to 300 families have already left.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kiev
Russia
Jewish Relief Committee
Kellner Girl Missing Then Found in School Cellar
Alma Kellner eight years old vanished on December eight while attending Mass at St. John s Parish and was found murdered in the cellar of the same church school. Police say foul play involved with the body wrapped in carpet and partially burned. Lena Wendling wife of the former janitor has been arrested as an accessory.
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Alma Kellner
St. John's Parochial School
Fred F. Kellner
Louisville
Lena Wendling
Joseph Wendling
St. John’s
Wendberg
George Schuhmann
Wendling
Richard B. Sweet
Professor Peck Sued for Breach of Promise by Esther Quinn
Miss Esther Quinn sues Columbia University professor Harry Thurston Peck for $50,000 in a New York Supreme Court breach of promise of marriage claim. The defendant is noted as Latin chair at Columbia, literary critic, and magazine writer. The article recalls Peck’s divorce from his first wife in 1908 and his 1909 marriage to Elizabeth H. DuBois.
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Supreme Court of
New York
Esther Quinn
Harry Thurston Peck
University of Columbia
Latin Club of America
Peck
Sioux Falls
Elizabeth H. DuBois
Morris High School
Dedication of Kentucky Capitol At Frankfort
Kentucky’s 2 million dollar capitol was opened with day long exercises. Special trains brought thousands to Frankfort including a Louisville high school train with over 1,000 girls. The program opened with a signal gun and included an invocation by Bishop Lewis W. Burton and addresses by Gov. Augustus E. Willson and U S Senator William C. Bradley.
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Kentucky
Frankfort
Louisville High School
Lewis W. Burton
Lexington
Augustus E. Willson
United States
William C. Bradley
Dynamite Bank Robbery at Unity Wisconsin
The State Bank of Unity Wisconsin was dynamited and robbed of about $2,000 by two men who fled the scene. They had been lingering near the bank for several days prior to the crime. The institution was founded in 1905 with a $10,000 capital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Unity
State Bank of Unity
Wis
Court Stops Freight Rate Rise in Sherman Action
United States District Judge David P. Dyer halted 25 Western railroads from raising interstate freight rates. The move, in Hannibal Missouri, follows a government petition alleging unlawful price fixing in breach of the Sherman Act. The Western roads include Missouri Pacific and Chicago and Northwestern among others.
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Western Railroads
United States District
David P. Dyer
Hannibal
United States
United States Circuit
St. Louis
Dyer
Edwin P. Grosvenor
Washington
Frederick N. Judson
George W. Wickersham
Williams. Kenyon
Charles A. Houts
Missouri Pacific Railway
Chicago and Northwestern
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway
Wabash Railroad
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
Illinois Central Railroad
Chicago and Alton Railroad
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
Chicago Great Western Railway
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway
San Francisco
San Francisco Railroad
Quincy, Omaha and Kansas City
St. Paul
Chicago
Western Roads
Eastern Roads
Interstate Commerce Commission
Ohio River
Mississippi
Missouri River
Atlantic Seaboard
Eastern Trunk Lines
Mrs Doxey Freed After Not Guilty Verdict in Arsenic Murder Trial
Dora Elizabeth Doxey was found not guilty by a St. Louis jury in the arsenic murder case against William J. Erder. She was rearrested on a bigamy charge and her husband Dr Loren B. Doxey faces trial within two weeks. The trial began May 23 after her December custody in Columbus, Nebraska.
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Dora Elizabeth Doxey
St. Louis
William J. Erder
Newton
Doxey
Columbus
Neb
Elder
Aledo
Robert L. Downing
Joy, Ill
Loren B. Doxey
Burlington
Iowa
Downing
Senate Passes Railroad Bill Amid Political Flare
The U S Senate approved the administration railroad bill by a 50 to 12 vote, with Democrats Boer in opposition. Debate touched on statehood, public lands, and prior measures, as insurgent leaders urged amendments and adjournment followed the Bev eridge motion. Also noted are Bryan on the Edinburgh trip, Root heading to Newfoundland, and Socialist party’s Chicago platform revise opposing immigrant exclusion while opposing contract labor and strike-breakers.
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Senate
United States
Bacon
Fletcher
Frazier
Hughes
Money
Newlands
Percy
Purcell
Rayner
Shively
Smith
Maryland
South Carolina
Beveridge
Nelson
Public Lands Committee
Cummins
la Follette
Dolliver
Clay
Paynter
Simmons
Gore
Congress
Cannon
Keifer
William J. Bryan
New York
Presbyterian Ecumenical Council
Edinburgh
Folk
Gaynor
Senator Root
Newfoundland
England
National Congress of the
Socialist Party
Chicago
Hilquit
Treas. Charles H. Treat Dies in New York Hotel
Charles Henry Treat longtime U S treasurer under Roosevelt died of apoplexy at the Hotel Victoria New York. He was stricken an hour before death and left a wife and two daughters. Treat born in Frankfort Maine about sixty eight years ago attended Dartmouth College and joined the family shipping business. He helped solidify Delaware at the 1888 Republican convention and later served as Collector of Internal Revenue for the Wall Street district during the Spanish American War.
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Charles Henry Treat
United States
Roosevelt
Hotel Victoria
New York
Mr. Treat
Frankfort
Robert Treat Paine
Robert Treat
Connecticut
Dartmouth College
Delaware
Chicago
Benjamin Harrison
McKinley
Wall Street
Standing of the Clubs Progress of the Pennant Race
The article outlines standings in the pennant race across base ball leagues with team positions and key performances. It notes leaders in divisions and notable shifts in rank as teams push toward the season’s close.
Woman's age secret costs ten dollars in Nebraska
Miss Sarah E. Peck a Union College normal faculty member in Lincoln Neb paid a ten dollar fine in federal district court to purge herself of any indictment for contempt of the census. Enumerator Lewis Terry said she refused information on three occasions and warned she could pay the fine.
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Census Department
United States
Sarah E. Peck
Normal
Union College
Lincoln
Neb
Federal District Court
Miss Peck
Lewis Terry
Infant found beside Big Four tracks near Cincinnati hospital
A four hour old baby boy was found beside the Big Four Rail tracks in Cincinnati, near passing trains. He was believed to have been thrown from an inbound Cleveland-bound train and was rushed to city hospital where doctors express hope for recovery.
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Railro
Cincinnati
Cleveland
City
Rich Youth Ends Life in New York Shooting
George Morgan a 28 year old wealthy social figure in New York took his own life by shooting himself through the head. Relatives and friends cannot explain the motive or reason for the act.
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George Morgan
New York
Seventeen Hurt in Midvale Steel Works Explosion
An explosion at Midvale Steel Works in Philadelphia leaves two men dead, three dying, and seventeen injured. Rescue teams rush to the scene as investigators begin work on the disaster.
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Midvale
Philadelphia
Church Membership figures rise to over 32 million
Census figures for 1906 show 32,936,445 total religious adherents in the United States, with Protestants at 20,287,742 and Catholics at 12,679,142. Proportions vary by city size, with 80.6 percent of Protestants outside major cities and 27.9 percent of Catholics in the largest cities.
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United States
Protestant Episcopal Church
Church of Christ, Scientist
New York
Chicago
Philadelphia
Boston
Ct. Louig
Lorimer Defends Self in Senate Bid for Inquiry
William Lorimer asked the U S Senate for an investigation into bribery charges tied to his Illinois election. He delivered a long speech accusing a political conspiracy, attacked Governor Deneen and the Chicago Tribune, and outlined his political career and feud with critics. The request was referred to the committee on contingent expenses.
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William Lorimer
United States Senate
Illinois General Assembly
Lorimer
Chicago
Chicago Tribune
Deneen
H. J. Beckemeyer
Senate
Committee On
Educational Outings and Academic News Across Regions
The North Central Minnesota Editorial Association plans its annual outing at Glengarry Springs on Leech Lake near Walker. Des Moines hosts a Missouri Valley conference gathering with twenty five colleges invited for the meet. St Thomas College debaters beat University of Minnesota Forum Society. Fifty Minnesota engineers and scientists are dropped for failing to meet scholarship standards. Manitoba University mathematics chair Prof. R R Cochrane has died at sixty. Beloit College hires Dr John C Parish as American history and political science professor. The Tri County Educational Association met in Grafton NC urging rural school funding and renewed emphasis on medical inspection of students.
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Minnesota Editorial Association
Glengarry Springs
Leech Lake
Walker
el Ashar University
Cairo
Egypt
Homer H. Seerley
Iowa State Teachers’ Association
Games Committee
Missouri Valley Conferences
Des Moines
University of Minnesota
Engineering
R. R. Cochrane
Manitoba University
George Cochrane
Los Angeles University
John C. Parish
State Historical Department of
Iowa
L. W. Parish
Cedar Falls
Beloit College
Tri-Country Educational Association
Grafton
N. C
State Legislative Assembly
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Kellner
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Wickersham
Federal Government
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Long
the King
Minneapolis Journal
W. F. Schilling
The
Minnesota Dairyman
H. Treat
Nation
Brooklyn
Pittsburg
Boston Eoceekd
Philadel’a
Detroit
Indianapolis
Kansas City
Toledo
Milwaukee Ok
St. Joseph
Lt Coln
Sioux City
Omaha
Nebraska
Lee O'Neil Browne
Charles A. Rees
Fchools En
Olleges
St. Thomas College
Forum Literary Society
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