Crooked Officials to Be Arrested in Philadelphia Scandal
In Philadelphia Mayor Weaver’s push for good government, officials face arrest after a Caven hearing revealed Insurance Commissioner L W Durham as a partner in James P McNichol’s contractor firm. McNichol, a state senator, led the firm with Durham and others, prompting resignations of John W Hill and Bear Y Hill and an order to halt filtration work costing the city about 22 million dollars with 5.6 million more needed.
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Weaver
James P. McNichol
McNichol
Durham
James P MecNichol
Jotn M. Mack
Daniel J. McNichol
Meyer Weaver
John W. I
Beary W. Hill
Chief Hill
Hicks
W. Durham
Peter E. Costello
John W. Hill
New York
Vity Hall
Oscar Noll
Noll
Cae
No More Race Track Betting In Missouri
St Louis reports final day of Breeders law as repeal takes effect 90 days after passage. Union race track will close while Delmar remains open under a new state controlled betting system. Governor Pelk warns the turf association will be stopped if found violating statutes.
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Union
Delmar
Jefferson City Riday
Pelk
Sunstroke Fatality Reported Near Chanute Kansas
The first sunstroke of the year was reported near Chanute Kansas on Thursday night. The victim is Frank Norstein a railroad bridge bull. His condition is very serious as heat has been extreme in the area for two days.
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Chanute
Kan
Leum
Frank Norstein
Japan Requests Griscom Recall Over Ambassador Posts
Washington June 17 The Japanese government asks for the recall of Griscom the U S ambassador in Tokyo and officials indicate he may be displaced with Loomis new assistant secretary of state in official circles. Chicago June 17 Indictments against executives of at least five packing firms were presented to the federal grand jury by District Attorney C B Morrison for possible action.
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Griscom
Washington
Loomis
Chicago
Federal Grand Jury
C. B. Morrison
Mrs Taft to sail for England in July
Mrs Taft wife of the Secretary of War will sail for England on July 13. She will be accompanied by her daughter and will visit London Paris and return later in the year.
Paris Premier Ravier Keeps Foreign Affairs Post
Premier Ravier announced at the Elysee that he will permanently retain the foreign affairs portfolio and resign from finance. A decree will name a new finance minister. The move follows requests from President Loubet and colleagues amid stalled Morocco negotiations with Serbia, causing great concern among French officials.
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Ravier
Council of Ministers
Elysee Palace
Finance
M. Rouvier
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Loubet
Ser
Morocco
Greason Freed After Acquittal in Reading Murder Case
Samuel Greason, a colored man, was acquitted of the murder of John Edwards in Reading. Mrs. Kate Edwards, wife of the victim, testified in his favor after previously convicting him. Edwards was killed nearly four years ago. Greason faced a lengthy trial with ten death warrants issued. Mrs. Edwards, mother of Greason’s child, is under death sentence, with a governor’s date likely to be set soon.
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Samuel Greason
John Edwards
Kate Edwards
Greason
Edwards
Ohio Banker Sentenced in Federal Indictments
In Toledo Ohio on June 17 Olus M Burns of Montpelier Ohio pleaded guilty to one of the twenty one counts across three federal indictments for employment misapplication of bank funds and false entries. Judge Tudge R W Taylor sentenced Burns to seven years in the Ohio penitentiary.
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Toledo
Olus M. Burns
Montpelier
Federal Grand Jury
United States District Court
Tudge R. W. Taylor
Burns
A Quaryman's Crime In St Paul Ind
William Boardman a quarry manager killed his wife with a revolver as she lay in bed with a baby in her arms then fatally shot himself Jealousy is blamed Mrs Boardman is held blameless Four children remain oldest seven years
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Quaryman
St. Paul
Ind
William Boardman
General Gomez's Condition Deteriorates at Santiago
Havana reports Gen. Maciino Gomez remains critically ill as a hand abscess after May surgery appears to affect the heart and other organs. Doctors fear total failure may occur at any time.
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Havana
Maciino Gomez
Santiago
Heavy rain in Salina breaks record rainfall
June 17 Salina Kansas reports a rainstorm that drenched the county in under an hour, with 2.55 inches falling and flooding streets cellars and small streams. The event set a local record for rainfall in a short period.
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Kans
Kan
Laundry worker shot by farmer in case of revenge claim
In St Joseph Missouri on June 17 John We Nowan a laundry employee was shot Friday by G W Stackton a farmer who said McKowan had mistreated his daughter.
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St. Joseph, Mo
John We Nowan
G. W Stac Khton
McKowan
Lawrence Couple Wed in Local Ceremony in 1900s
Lawrence Kansas records show Sylvia Walker a 48 year old Black woman and Harrison Arbaugh a Georgia man aged 4 years were wed in a local ceremony on a Thursday in June.
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Lawrence
Kan
Anne
Sylvia Walker
Harrison Arbaugh
Georgia
Empress Augusta Victoria Cancels Public Engagements
Berlin reports Empress Augusta Victoria is indisposed and has canceled all public duties for the time being. Authorities say her illness does not appear serious, though she remains under medical care.
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Berlin
Augusta Victoria
Liverpool Newspaper Publisher Sir John Wilcox Dies
Sir John Archibald Wilcox proprietor of the Liverpool Courier and tobacco trade figure in Liverpool and London died today. He was born in 1840s.
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Liverpool
John Archibald Wilcox
Liverpool Courier
London
Evidence in Arkansas river irrigation hearing ends
The Arkansas river irrigation hearing closed with four witnesses Cyrus Anderson Thomas J Anderson W H Mitchell and A M Campbell testifying that droughts stemmed from water deflection in Colorado, not Kansas tributaries. The board will meet in Denver July 1 to compare and sift the evidence.
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Cyrus Anderson
State Board of Railway Commissioners
Thomas J. Anderson
W H. Mitchell
Beloit
A. M Campbell
Salina
Colorado
Kansas
Denver
Colo
Iuly 1
Chicago Peace In Chicago Move Slated If Washington Exit Feasible
A campaign to host peace talks between Russia and Japan in Chicago was launched Friday. The Illinois Manufacturers' Association representing large capital and workers invited the governor of Illinois and the mayor of Chicago to join in extending the invitation.
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Chicago
Russia
Japan
Washington
Illinois Manufacturers’ Association
Witnois
Resignations Prompt Navy Shakeup in Russia
Grand Duke Alexis the high admiral and Admiral Avellan head of the navy department resign, followed by an imperial rescript relieving the grand duke of supreme direction. Public opinion sees it as a concession after the Sea of Japan tragedy amid long standing corruption charges. Possible successors include Vice Admirals Biriloff and Chonknin.
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St. Petersburg
Grand Duke
Alexis
Avellan
Alexander III
Russia
Sea of Japan
Marine Department
Department
Clado
Biriloff
Vladivostok
Russian forces push Japanese back in Manchuria actions
A June 15 dispatch to the emperor reports Russian movement forced Japanese to retire from Klentizi on June 11 after burning supplies. On June 12 a Russian column from the Tyin River valley moved toward Varloungon pushing back Japanese posts, with cavalry occupying Nanshantchersi and slight northward retirement.
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Line- Voteh
Eatee
Klentizi
Tyin
Varloungon
Tng Nanshantchersi
Tunnels Contract Let for Sierra Nevada Line
Reno June 17. The Southern Pacific Company announced a contract for tunneling through the Sierra Nevada mountains. Work will start within a month with five tunnels planned, the main tunnel about five miles long. The project calls for expenditure of over a hundred million dollars.
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Nev
Sierra Nevada Mountains
Southern Pacific Company
Driscoll Appears Before Grand Jury In Chicago
John C. Driscoll testified again about alleged labor union corruption and was kept under night surveillance by a state attorney detective. Officials say he may flee after the grand jury, with potential indictments making him a co conspirator and star witness rather than a co defendant.
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Chicago
John C. Driscoll
Driscoll
Infants Rescued From Train Hazard After Foundling Transfer
Sixty one infants, former New York Foundling asylum residents, were moved by Union ization efforts and faced traffic dangers. One child, three year old Joseph Brown, died after falling from a car window near St. Louis. Five babies crawled under trains at Union station but were saved. The infants are to be taken to Texas for adoption.
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St. Louis
New York Foundling Asylum
Joseph Brown
Union Station
Texas
State Board to Rule on Pullman Jurisdiction
Topeka Kan June 16 The state board of railroad commissioners will decide June 20 whether it has jurisdiction over the Pullman company in Kansas The railroad board’s attorney says jurisdiction exists while Pullman lawyers contend the company is not a common carrier and thus not subject to regulation in the state Board members have informally endorsed the attorney’s view Pupils
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Caume Bee
Topeka
Kan
State Board of Railroad Commissioners
Pullman Company
Kansas
Railroad Board
University of Pennsylvania awards Packard Prize
The Frederick A Packard prize of $1000 was given by a University friend to Don Carlos Guffer of Unionville Missouri for proficiency in clinical medicine as a member of the graduating class at the University of Pennsylvania on Wednesday in Philadelphia.
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Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania
Frederick A. Packard
Don Carlos Guffer
Unionville
Russian Cruiser Kouban Arrives for Coal at Saigon
The Russian auxiliary cruiser Kouban, formerly the Hamburg American line steamer Auguste Victoria, has entered Saigon in Cochin China and asked for coal to reach the nearest Russian port. The request is under consideration.
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Cochin-China
Kouban
Hamburg-American Line
Auguste Victoria
Populist Congress Nomination Fails to Assemble in Lincoln
Lincoln Nebraska June 16 a populist convention to nominate a candidate for congress in the first Nebraska district failed to assemble as no delegates appeared at the meeting in this city. Democrats held their district convention Thursday afternoon.
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Lincoln
Neb
Congress
Nebraska
American National Dancing Association elects officers
The American National Dancing Association elected Oscar Correa of New York as president and chose Boston for next year is meeting. The group also decided to discard the word professor as a much abused term during its Thursday night session.
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Chicago Grand Jury Probes Alleged Strike Corruption
On Friday June 17 the Chicago grand jury heard testimony about alleged corruption linked to strikes. Businessmen and two women answered subpoenas. the women reportedly resided at a hotel used by labor leaders.
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Chicago
Grand Jar
Wisconsin mother kills four children then herself near Dubuque
Mrs Paul Klass killed her four small children with a butcher knife and then took her own life at her home near Kil er Wisconsin eight miles east of Dubuque. The eldest was six and the youngest a baby. She had been in ill health.
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Dubuque
Paul Klass
Kiler
Wis
Nebraska Hanging Postponed For Insanity Hearing
Lincoln June 16 Frank Barker sentenced to death for murder of his brother and his wife near Red Cloud will not hang Friday as the state supreme court grants an insanity hearing. The district court stays the execution until a commission evaluates his mind. Nurserymen to Meet in Texas. French Lick Ind June 17 Dallas Texas chosen as next meeting site for the Nurserymen's National Association.
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Lincoln
Neb
Frank Barker
Red Cloud
Supreme Court of the State
District Court
Texas
French Lick Ind
Dallas
Nurserymen's National Association
Archbishop Keane Meets Pope in Rome Private Audience
In Rome on a private audience, the pope received the Most Rev. John J. Keane archbishop of Dubuque Iowa, on Friday June 17.
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Rome
John J. Keane
Dubuque
Iowa
Child Dies After Gasoline Ingestion in Butler
In Butler Missouri on June 17 1920 three year old Helen Elizabeth daughter of Dr I G Zey died after drinking gasoline. The tragedy occurred in this locality with authorities noting the accident.
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