Insurgent Wins and Supreme Court Shakeup in Taft Era
Washington dispatch reports Moody’s retirement to retire Justice William H Moody prompts new Taft judge appointment before October. Harlan may also retire with son James Harlan linked to a new commerce court. Insurgents force rules concession as Taft policies advance, including statehood bills for Arizona and New Mexico and reclamation bond controversy.
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Washington
William H. Moody
Taft
Supreme Bench
Justice Moody
Congress
Moody
Harlan
James 8
Iinterstate Commerce Commission
New Commerce Court
Lloyd W. Bowers
Storm Hits New York City damaging trolleys and buildings
A severe electrical storm swept upper Manhattan and the Bronx on June 22 disabling the trolley system and cutting power. Lightning struck several buildings injuring workers, ignited a school, and damaged St Pauls church steeple prompting street patrols.
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New York
Manhattan Island
Bronx
One Hundred and Forty-Ninth Street
St. Paul's Roman Catholic
Harlem
Taft to Stay in Washington Over Postal Savings Bill
President Taft, warned of a filibuster by insurgents in the senate against the postal savings bank bill, abandons a planned New Haven trip to see son Robert graduate from Yale. He will remain in Washington and push the legislation through, with a senate vote expected today.
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Tariff Board
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Senate
Washington
New Haven
Robert
Yale
Murder in a Trunk Sparks Portland Arrests
A Portland murder case unfolds after a body is found in a trunk at Union depot. Victim William A. Johnson traveled with his wife Mrs. Johnson and a man named A C Powers, later revealed as J F Webb, leading to arrests of Powers Webb and Mrs. Johnson at a lodgings house. Two watches and bloody handkerchiefs were found on Webb.
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Ore
Union Depot
William A. Johnson
A.C. Powers
Powers
Nome
Alaska
Johnsons
J. F Webb
Johnson
Webb
Market Trading Across Chicago Omaha And East Buffalo Livestock
Chicago hogs range 9.25 to 9.80 with receipts about 12 000. Cattle steady to mixed with steers 8.20 8.75 and cows 4.75 6.30. Sheep lambs sold 4.50 8.25 with 12 000 hogs and 12 000 lambs. Omaha buyers show slow cattle and steady hogs around 9.30 9.50. East Buffalo quotes mixed cattle slow, hogs higher to 10.20, lambs 6.00 7.75, calves 4.50 8.50.
Ideal Corn Weather Now
Chicago reports describe ideal corn weather with drought concerns in the northwest and potential global crop impacts. Wheat markets show gains on rain fears and steady closes. corn stands mixed with early harvest delays and strong oats demand while hogs drive provisions higher.
Grain Prices in Omaha Markets June 18
Wheat declined with No 2 hard at 90 63, No 3 hard at 87 90. Corn held steady with No 2 white 604 or 61 1/2 and No 8 white 604 6 1/2. No changes across oats with No 3 white 83 1/4 to 84 1/4.
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Omaha
Live Stock Markets Chicago Cattle Hogs Sheep June 29
Chicago live stock totals for the week show cattle receipts up 12 000 to about 58 000 with strong demand and steady to higher prices top at 8 75. Hogs sold 9 60 top with most at 9 45 9 55 as buyers paid more. sheep and lambs hit record weekly runs with prices sliding 1 00 2 00 per hundred and ranges for good to choice sheep 4 75 5 25 and spring lambs 7 50 8 00.
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Northwest
Russia
Balkans
Dakotas
Southwestern Commission
Southwestern
Northwestern
Timothy
Clover
Mess Park
Texas
Livestock Receipts and Prices From South Omaha June 18
Cattle receipts at 300 with varied classes: native steers 5.50 to 8.25, cows and heifers 3.60 to 7.00, western steers 3.50 to 6.75, Texas steers 3.00 to 6.00, range cows 2.75 to 5.75, canners 2.75 to 4.40, stockers 5.50 to 6.40, calves 4.00 to 8.25, bulls 3.75 to 6.00. Hogs receipts 6,500 with prices 7.50 to 9.35. bulk 9.25 to 9.35. Sheep receipts 100 with lambs 5.00 to 5.75, wethers 4.50 to 5.40, ewes 4.25 to 5.25, lambs 6.50 to 8.25.
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South Omaha
Texas
Market Report Des Moines Cattle and Hogs
Des Moines reports cattle receipts at 200 with steady prices. best steers range 5.95 to 6.70, medium to good 5.45 to 5.95, common to fair 3.50 to 5.40, and good cows and heifers 5.35 to 6.45. Hog receipts 800 with steady demand. good to choice 8.45 to 8.70, medium to good 7.95 to 8.45, rough mixed order 5.50 to 8.00.
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Des Moines
Cattle and Sheep Receipts Report From South St. Joseph
South St. Joseph June 18 cattle receipts 500 steady with steers $6.25 to $8.20 cows and heifers $3.50 to $7.25 calves $4.00 to $8.00. Slogs receipts 4 020 steady top $9.40 bulk $9.82 to $9.37. Sheep receipts 200 steady lambs $7.50 to $8.25.
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South St. Joseph
Des Moines Markets Price List of Produce
Apples four dollars per six pounds. Lemons five dollars fifty. Oranges California two seventy five four fifty per case. Bananas and Cuban pineapples listed. Cabbage two cents per pound. Carrots de be. Celery one fifty per dozen. Lettuce head and leaf varieties. Onions Texas Bermuda two twenty five per crate. Potatoes Burbank fifty cents per bushel. New potatoes one twenty per bushel. Radishes twenty cents per dozen. Eggplant one seventy five per dozen. Parsley forty cents per dozen. New beets sixty cents per dozen. New carrots fifty cents per dozen.
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California
Texas
Bermuda
Burbank
Local Dairy and Poultry Prices Snapshot
Butter prices list shows Butter No 1 at 28 cents and country roll 24 cents while cooking butter is 23 cents Eggs No 1 20 cents No 2 17 cents cracked 11 cents Live poultry covers hens 18 cents old cocks 6 cents springs 25 cents ducks 10 cents Cheese Wisconsin twin 16 cents young Americas 17 cents brick 16 cents.
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Wisconsin
Flour Prices at Falcon Mills for Local Buyers
Local flour and grain prices listed include Flour-Falcon and C. C. Graham brands with rates such as flour at 5.60 per barrel, 2.50 ewt, and 3.00 for Faleon and Falcon varieties. Other items cover rye flour 2.40, mixed flour 2.40, bolted meal 1.60 per cwt, cracked corn 26 per ton, sops 27, coarse meal 27, bran 22, shorts around 24 to 29, and screenings 1.50 per cwt. winter wheat at 85 0c.
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Falcon
C. C. Graham
Faleon Graham
Verdict on Ballinger and Sugar Trust Probes
Washington reports brief summaries in the Ballinger case show likely partisan split with Ballinger allies and Glavis Pinchot supporters. Government actions press new sugar trust frauds while exports exceed imports. Taft Roosevelt prospects and a pending court vacancy are noted amid tariff policy and conservation bills.
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Sugar Trust
Baseball results from multiple games include tight finishes
A string of nineteenth century box scores shows results from games in Brooklyn Chicago St Louis Philadelphia New York Boston Pittsburg Detroit and Cleveland. Notable pitchers and scorers include Crandall Mathewson Meyers Beebe Gasper McLean Clark Brown Reulbach Kling Adams White Gibson Phelps Plank Donohue Vaughn Mitchell Gray Street Collins Kletnow Bailey Stephens Killian Stanage Casey Young Easterly and Koostner.
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Schlel
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Raleigh
Pickett and
Ee Ae
Gray and Street
Collins
Kletnow
Detroit
Young
Scott
Payne
Easterly
R. HE
Cleveland
Black
Koostner
Innigs
Scores From American Association Games Listed
At Minneapolis Minnesota the Indianapolis team lost to 3 to 2. In Kansas City Kansas City defeated Columbus 6 to 3. In St Paul the Louisville game tied 6 to 6. At Milwaukee Toledo fell to 7 to 4.
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Toledo
Powers to Finance Road Chinese Rail Loan
Washington reports the United States will join Great Britain France and Germany in presenting to the Chinese foreign office the Paris signed railroad loan text. A request for immediate ratification by China is likely as the loan agreement is laid before Chinese officials within weeks. The loan total is 30 million dollars with the American share 7.56 million.
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Washington
United States
Great Britain
France
Germany
Paris
Tannery Plant Is Burned
Chicago spectators watched as the Greiss Pfleger Tanning Co plant on North Halsted Street burned. The five story blaze endangered about 400 workers and caused an estimated 250000 dollars in losses. Firefighters and crowds helped workers jump into the Chicago River to escape.
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Chicago
Chicagoiver
Greiss-Pfleger Tanning Company
Halsted Street
Rive
Harvard Professor Announces Shotgun Beetle Threat
In a Bussey Institute lecture in Boston Professor C T Brues of Harvard unveiled the discovery of the shotgun beetle. He warned the beetle has already destroyed many trees and causes girdling by larvae that pierce elm bark creating tunnels under the bark.
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New Tree Post
Bussey Institute
Boston
C. T. Brues
Harvard
Poosepatuck Indian Tribe Holds 138th Reunion
The Poosepatuck Jnnctians gathered at their Mastic Point reservation for the 138th annual reunion despite a heavy rain. Chief Jacob Ward notes rain broke a 25 year streak on June day, ceremonies unchanged, with two ears of corn rental historically paid, now discontinued.
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Jacob Ward
Poosepatuck
Mastie Point
Forge
Long Island
Wiandance
Richard Woodhull
Woodhull
Mastlepoint
Prices in Cincinnati Markets in 1823 From Guest Journal
A note from Moses Guest’s Cincinnati arrival in 1823 records market prices for meats vegetables and staples. Beef, mutton, veal 2 to 4 cents a pound. pork 1.5 to 2.5 cents. butter 12.5 to 18.5 cents. eggs 4 to 10 cents a dozen. flour 1.25 to 1.75 per hundredweight. cornmeal 18 to 25 cents per bushel. wheat 45 to 50 cents. oats 12.5 to 18 cents. chickens 10 to 25 cents per pair. turkeys 8 to 14 cents per pound. potatoes 25 to 87 cents. turnips 18.5 to 25 cents per bushel.
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Moses Guest
Cincinnati
Kansas Supreme Court Holds Locker System Illegal
The Kansas supreme court rules the Topeka club cannot maintain lockers in clubrooms for members to keep intoxicating liquors for personal use. The ouster suit targeted the club’s corporate rights and privileges. The social organization of business and professional men employed a locker system for members and guests.
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Supreme Court
Topeka Club
Kansas Supreme Court
Women Solve Customs Nuisance in Chicago Scheme
Chicago women devised a plan using a society photographer and a registering bureau to photograph jewels lingerie and other items and affidavit they are not subject to duty to avoid New York customs questions. The scheme aims to take goods abroad and return without duties or scrutiny.
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Chicago
New York Custom House
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