Ballou Draws 12000 A Year To Defend Sugar Interests
In six hours former Clovernor Carter and Sidney Ballou testified to the senate lobby committee on sugar influence. Carter said he received no pay, only expenses. Ballou claimed $12000 salary plus 3000 for expenses as the regular agent of the sugar producers in Washington. They said about 100000 was spent in the campaign against free sugar and denied a common fund with Hawaiian and U.S. cane interests. The session grew heated as they discussed access to President Wilson and a hearing promised after the bill's passage.
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Washington
Clovernor Carter
Sidney Ballou
Senate
Carter
Ballou
United States
Walsh
Reed
Wilson
Senate Finance Committee
Cummins
Nelson
Powers Use Allies To Prevent Balkan War
London reports show great powers seeking to curb Balkan hostilities with Russia and Germany pushing for peace and the French government backing them as chief creditor warning that war will halt financial aid. Serbia vows no provocation toward Bulgaria, while Bulgaria seeks to avoid aggression. both sides wish to avert war despite tensions.
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London
Balkan
Vienna
Russia
Germany
Servia
Bulgaria
Riot at Ipswich hosiery mill ends with deadly shooting
In Ipswich Massachusetts a strike riot outside the hosiery mills left one woman dead, Nincoletta Pandelopoulou aged 27, and seven others wounded by bullets while many more were hurt by flying missiles. Fifteen people including IWW leaders were arrested as five of the wounded were taken by automobile to Salem hospital for urgent care.
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Ipswich
Mass
Ipswich Hosiery
Industrial Workers of the World
Nincoletta Pandelopoulou
Salem
Ford for Public Printer in Jersey City N J
Cornelius J Ford named public printer by President Wilson and leads New Jersey Federation of Labor for ten years. A veteran politician and former New Jersey legislator he supported reform measures under Wilson. A printer by trade for twenty one years he is forty six years old.
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Jersey City
N. J
Cornelius J. Ford
Wilson
Organized Labor
New Jersey
New Jersey Federation of Labor
Indictments Charged UMWA Officials in Sherman Case
Federal grand jury in Charleston indicts President John P White and 18 UMWA leaders for conspiracy with coal operators to raise West Virginia coal wages and fix prices in rival markets across Ohio Pennsylvania Indiana and Illinois. The scheme aims to unionize West Virginia miners and restrict sales in Cincinnati Columbus Toledo Cleveland Detroit Indianapolis and Chicago.
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Charleston
W. Va
John P. White
United Mine Workers of America
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Indiana
Ilinois
West Virginia
White
Frank J. Hayes
Thomas Slaggerty
Joseph Vasey
James Cantrell
Charles Hatley
Marco Roman
George H. Edmonds
Benjamin F. Morris
Thomas Cairns
Clarence C. Griffith
James M. Crago
James Diana
John Nutter
Rome Mitchell
W. S. Reece
F. D. Stanley
U. S. Cantley
A. D. Lavender
National Organization of
Cincinnati
Columbus
Toledo
Cleveland
Detroit
Indianapolis
Chicago
Militant dies for cause in Derby accident
Miss Emily Wilding Davison died in Epsom hospital after being knocked unconscious when she dashed onto the Derby course and seized the royal horse Anmer's bridle. The horse fell, injuring jockey Jones and Davison, who was trampled as Anmer rose.
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Epsom
England
Emily Wilding Davison
Miss Davison
Epsom Downs
Anmer
Jones
Couple Joins In Death After Child Dies
In New York on June 10 Dominick Jardina and his wife killed themselves and their three year old daughter in a gas filled room, the tragedy marking the end of their joy.
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New York
Dominick Jardina
Denunciation of Lobby Tactics Shocks Senate Panel
Senator Townsend charged President Wilson and Democrats with undue influence to sway tariff votes. He accused the lobby pressure of pressuring senators, while Reed Walsh denied any coercion. Townsend urged recalls to question senators about executive influence. The committee agreed to consider interrogating recalled witnesses.
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Washington
Townsend
Michigan
Wilson
Congress
Senate
Reed
Walsh
Tim
Tam
Nelson
Clergymen push eugenics as health pledge in marriage
Telegraphic notes report New York clergymen canceling vacations to promote health as the first requirement in marriage amid a broader scramble of June 7 dispatches. Also includes Budapest parliament riot over cabinet resignation and a Texas farmer’s son shooting, plus a Missouri train wreck and a London Ulster Unionist conspiracy probe.
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New York
Budapest
Stephenville
Tex
Lee Jones
Here
McAlester
Okla
George W
Lewis
Kansas City
Missouri
Chin da Seeks Equal Status for Japan in US Nations Policy
Viscount Chin da, Japan's ambassador, met with President Wilson at the White House for an hour to present Japan's grievances and a proposed official declaration. He pressed for recognition of Japan’s status among nations and equality of Japanese citizens with leading powers, signaling a demand for admission of equal standing.
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Washington
Viscount Chinda
White House
Wilson
Japan
Bryan
38 Strikers Face Prison in New Jersey Silk Strike
In Paterson New Jersey on June 7 a quarter sessions court found 38 silk mill strike pickets guilty of unlawful assembly for an April 26 protest before the Harding mill. Leaders Hannah Silverman age seventeen and Benjamin Hagedorn of the IWW face up to three years in prison and fines. Silverman, a spectator at Harry Price’s trial, mocked the court and was jailed 20 days for being disorderly in a public place.
Wood Free Collins Guilty
William M. Wood president of the American Woolen company was acquitted of conspiracy to injure textile strikers at Lawrence through planting dynamite. The jury disagreed on Frederick F. Atteaux. Dennis J. Collins, a state witness, was found guilty on two counts and not guilty on four others. no sentence was pronounced for Collins, fueling reports of a suspended sentence for another Atteaux trial.
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Boston
William M. Wood
American Woolen Company
Lawrence
Frederick F. Atteaux
Dennis J. Collins
Collins
Atteaux
Supreme court upholds state power on interstate rate control
The U S Supreme Court ruled unanimously that states may fix reasonable interstate rail rates until Congress acts. The Minnesota cases, involving Northern Pacific, Great Northern, and Minneapolis & St. Louis lines, upheld state rate limits except for Minneapolis & St. Louis, finding no confiscation of rail property. The decision shapes interstate commerce disputes across six states and related lawsuits.
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Washington
Congress
Supreme Court of In
United States
Minnesota
Minneapolis & St. Louis
Missouri
Kentucky
Oregon
Arkansas
West Virginia
Alabama
Iowa
Kansas
Nebraska
Oklahoma
South Dakota
Supreme Court
Northern Pacific
Great Northern
Sanborn
United States Circuit Court of Minnesota
American Naval Stores Company
Savannah
Turpentine Trust
Department of Justice
Pennsylvania
International Coal Mining Company
Clearfield
Pennsanla
Pennsylvania Railroad
Justice Pitney
Government premeetings to break Kodak trust
Washington reports the federal government began premeetings in a Buffalo civil suit under Attorney General McReynolds against Eastman Kodak. The aim is dissolution by receivership if needed, breaking a monopoly alleged to control 72 percent of U S photographic supplies, restoring competition by dividing assets and business.
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Washington
Kodak Trust
Buffalo
McIte Olds
Eastman Kodak Company
Jastman Company
United States
Confesses Slaying Mother In Ohio Farm Family
Fron ton Ohio June 11 Local authorities report Barkley Flemming twenty of Coryville a farmer confessed here Monday to murdering his mother Mrs Flemming and his brother Culbertson twenty five in a farm home crime that shocked the county confirming a likely double homicide motive and suspect details remain under investigation
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Ronton
Ohio
Barkley Fleming
Coryville
Mre. Flemming
Culbertson
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Wood Free
U. S. Supreme Court
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Eastman Kodak
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