Actor Jepson Dies As Fire Hits Cleveland Theater
Eugene Jepson fifty year old New York leading man in a Keith's theater vaudeville sketch collapsed and died of heart disease in his dressing room as a fire alarm sounded. Fire started near the moving picture apparatus and caused twenty five thousand dollars in damage. None of the audience or stage staff were hurt as they evacuated calmly.
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Morning Journal
Cleveland
Ohio
Eugene Jepson
New York
Keith
Daniels
Jepson
Government Receipts Show Deficit for May
The May 1908 monthly government statement reports a deficit of 11,958,991 with May 1967 a surplus of 8,576,202. For the eleven months of the current fiscal year receipts total 456,407,150 and disbursements 610,010,755, leaving a deficit of 153,603,605.
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Washington
Navy
Four Thousand Land Hungry Men Seek Homes
Twin Falls Idaho June 1 More than 4 000 land seekers attended the drawing for irrigated lands under the Twin Falls Salmon river project registration closed last night Poulson of Greeley Colorado drew ticket No 1 entitling him to a quarter section on the trace Total registration 4 020 with land requests from 40 to 160 acres A million and a half dollars in certified checks for water rights and 500 000 acres applied for more than six times the supply
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Twin Pallas
Pao
Twin Falls
Salmon River
Poulson
Greeley
Colo
Mauretania Completes Fast Westward Voyage
New York reports the Cunard liner Mauretania shortened the transatlantic record by two hours forty minutes on a 2889 mile run from Queenstown to New York. The ship with three propellers in use finished in 4 days 21 hours 18 minutes, 58 minutes behind sister Lusitania's mark, averaging 24.64 knots.
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New York
Queenstown
Cunard Line
New York Gateway
Daunts Rock
Sandy Hook
Mauretania
Paris Painter Adolphe Steinhiel Murder Mystery
Paris police probe the murder of painter Adolphe Steinhiel and Madame Japin at his Rue De Bauguard residence. Gems found in a concealed safe, fingerprints on a crystal clock, and a valet’s testimony label an unresolved case with no suspect yet named. The 16 year old daughter and widow remain in shock.
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Paris
Adolphe Steinhiel
Madame Japin
Rue de Bauguard
Madame Steinhiel
Steinhiel
Messidor Tonight
Coulllaued
Rio Grande Brakeman Charged With Murder
Rio Grande brakeman William Sopher was held for murder by a coroner's jury after a saloonkeeper James Brother was shot as a train pulled from Gilman station. The victim pursued the moving train in a supposed robbery plot.
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Reg Cliff
Cole
William Sopher
Rio Grande
James Brother
Gilman
Sopher
Brother
Renewal of Prosperity in New England States
Boston reports the end of a textile downturn as five months of 1908 close with mills returning to full production. The revival follows a period of shortened hours after financial disturbances last fall. A separate dispatch notes a capsized barge on the Amur river with eighty nine Chinese prisoners drowned.
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New England
Boston
Khabarovsk
Asiatic
Russia
Amur River
New Currency Act Takes Effect
Washington June 1 Treasury officials move to implement the new currency law. Printing of notes to begin within ten days. Notes identical to current bank notes but with legend changed to secured by bonds of the United States or other securities. Controller of the currency holds about 203 million in old notes.
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Washington
Treasury
Congress
Coolidge
Ralph
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
W. W. Eldridge
Office of the Comptroller
National Bank
United States
Plans For New National Bank Notes
Notes belonging to 6 610 national banks will be replaced as new issues are printed. It may take six months to change plates with some new notes ready by July. Denominations are under discussion but smaller notes are expected first due to heavy autumn demand from the west and south. As soon as ready, no further issue of present notes will be made and old notes will be destroyed as the treasury redeems them.
Ranchman Kills Wife and Children Then Himself
In LaBelle Missouri Bert McMillan foreman at Whittmore Thomas Ranch shot and killed his wife Mamie and two children Opal four and Frank six then after setting fire to his clothing shot himself. No witnesses saw the tragedy.
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LaBelle
Bert McMillan
Whittmore Thomas
Here
Mamie McMillan
Opal
Frank
Gulf Compress Company Placed In Receivership
The Gulf Compress company, capitalized at 1 million dollars, was placed in the hands of a receiver in Memphis Tennessee. S C Hansen approved by Judge John E McCall of the United States court to administer the assets.
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Compress Company
Memphis
Tenn
Gulf Compress Company
S. C. Hansen
John E. McCall
United States Court
Nevada Democrats Convene in Carson for Denver Delegation
Nevada Democratic convention opens in Carson with uninstructed delegation to Denver leaning to Bryan. Frank Mannix chairs, Hal Michels secretary, delegates named for Denver include Newlands and Governor Dickerson. Debate over Sparks administration and Sparks troop-call sparks delay, adjournment planned until tomorrow.
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Reno
Nev
Carson
Considine
Denver
Bryan
Frank Mannix
Bullfrog
Hal Michels
Tom Biggs
Newlands
Sunderlan
Dickerson
E. W. Clar
Charles Earns
W. C. Elliott
Sparks
Committee On
Skaggs
Assembly
United States
Russian Emperor and Empress to Visit Windsor in Autumn
Report from Vienna states the emperor and empress of Russia will make a return visit to Windsor in the autumn, signaling a new phase in Anglo Russian relations.
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London
Vienna
Russia
Windsor
Seven Thousand Men Return to Work in St Louis District
St Louis on June 1 reports more than 17 100 workers previously idle due to weak business returned to work today across manufacturing and mercantile establishments in the city and nearby areas.
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St Louis
St. Louis
Long Motor Car Journey Reaches Chicago
Mrs EK. FB. Leaps and her daughter Mrs. Vera Mckel vie, sent from Portland Maine May 12, arrived in Chicago June 1. The tourists plan to resume the automobile trip to Portland Oregon tomorrow.
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Chicago
EK. FB. Leaps
Vera Mckelvie
Portland
Ore
Famous specialist to treat blind senator
Senator T P Gore of Oklahoma, blind, began experimental treatment at Episcopal Eye Ear and Throat Hospital in Washington under Dr William H Wilmer. He plans a week of therapy and possible lens operation if improved. Gore’s senate term ends next month.
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Washington
T. P. Gore
Oklahoma
Episcopal Eye, Ear and
William H. Holland Wilmer
Senator Gore
Gore
Senate
James K. Jones of Arkansas Dies in Washington
Former United States Senator James Kimbrough Jones of Arkansas died at 5 30 p m in Washington aged 69 after a brief illness He served three terms in the Senate from 1885 to 1903 was a key ally of W J Bryan and conducted his presidential campaigns He is survived by his wife and three children and will be buried in this city
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Morning Journal
Washington, D. C
United States
James K. Jones
Arkansas
Senate
W. J. Bryan
National Committee
Jones
Leonora Carrigan
Mississippi
James Kimbrough Jones
James S. Walker
United States Senate
Senator Jones
Bryan
Carrigan
Sue Jones
Congress
Death of Senator James K Jones shocks Bryan in Mek
William J. Bryan announced the death of Arkansas Senator James K. Jones during a June 1 address in Alliance Nebraska. Jones, a former chairman of the 1896 bimetallic convention, died suddenly in Washington. Bryan credited Jones with pivotal influence on the Chicago convention and the prior national committees. He planned to send condolences after the meeting.
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Bryan Alliance
Neb
William J. Bryan
Associated Press
James K Jones
James K. Jones
Arkansas
Washington
Jones
Chicago
Revivalist Billy Sunday Delivers Sharply Worded Sermon to Pittsburg Ministers
The evangelist addressed Presbyterian ministers in Pittsburg on Why Some Ministers Fail. He accused many modern clergy of being soft and indulgent, noting several left the First Presbyterian church in offense while most stayed to hear his critique.
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iMy Morning Journal
Pittsburg
Billy Sunday
First Presbyterian Church
Sunday
Sharon
Clergy Criticism and Wartime Court Martial at Warsaw
A fiery sermon denounces ministers as corrupt and urges dismantling seminaries while declaring one preacher a surgeon of church ills. In Warsaw a court martial sentenced three girls and eleven men to death for attacking a railcar on the Vistula line last January, with a bomb killing two and wounding ten.
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Warsaw
Selllow
Vistula
Immigration Bureau Denounces Fake Chinaman Smuggling Claim
Commander FF Sargent of the Bureau of Immigration denounces as false a report that twelve Chinamen were smuggled into the country and received in New York. The denial asserts the story is the rankest kind of fabrication.
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Washington, D. CL
FF. PL Sargent
The
Bureau of Immigration, Today
New York
King Edward Receives U S Guests at St James Palace
King Edward opened a busy social week with a levee at St James Palace. Ambassador Reid presented several Americans to the king, including Professor Jerome B Landfield of the University of California.
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London
Edward
St. James Palace
Ambassador Reid
Jerome B. Landfield
University of California
Cotton Spinners Meet in Paris Opens International Congress
The fifth International convention of cotton spinners and manufacturers opens in Paris with broad representation including India and Japan. France cites 7,000,000 spindles and 10,000,000 kilos of cloth exported yearly, while planning reviews of 1907-08 and reports on cotton insurance and organization.
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Morning Journal
Paris
India
Japan
M. Kruppie
Congress
Kruppie
Commitree
France
Atlanta
Boils de Boulogne
Chantilly
James H. MacColl
Pawtucket
R. I
Associated Press
Manufacturing Association of America
Rail traffic in Montana demoralized by snowstorm
Butte June 1. Reports say Montana rail conditions are the worst in Northern Pacific history with trains tied up in eastern Montana and west of Butte. Overland passengers reaching Butte were moved to Great Northern routes to St Paul. Snow depths are described as many feet due to the recent storm.
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Butte
Montana
Northern Pacific
Enty
Great Northern
St. Paul
Armed youth in custody after highway robbery attempt
In Los Angeles in June a man identifying as Roy C. Thompson claiming Rochester N Y ancestry is jailed on suspicion of highway robbery. Police found two revolvers and a mask on him. An alleged accomplice reportedly confessed they were tailing a man and woman to rob them when arrested.
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Los Angeles
Roy C. Thompson
Rochester, N. Y
Thompson
French Composer Dead in Paris
Paris June 1 reports the death of M. Pauls a noted popular singer and composer of many songs who passed away today in the city.
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Paris
M. Pauls
Bryan Draws Big Crowds Across Nebraska Stops
William J. Bryan toured Nebraska from Chadron to Alliance on June 1 delivering eight speeches including four set addresses. Crowds, including about 200 cowboys at Chadron, packed stations and open grounds despite intermittent rain. A noon banquet at Crawford welcomed both Democrats and Republicans before a large Alliance rally on a Judge Ellmore lawn.
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Morning Journal
Alliance
Neb
William J. Bryan
Chadron
Nebraska
Western
Mr. Bryan
Belmont
City Rink
Crawford
Bryan
Fair Grounds Pavillion
Judge Ellmore
Taft Tariff Platform Talks Foresee Roosevelt Rift
Washington dispatch reports ongoing talks between Secretary Taft and allies over a Republican platform tariff plank. Ohio figure Wade Ellis and other officials meet Taft, with plans to mirror Ohio’s tariff approach and address Sherman anti trust reforms. A White House conference extended past midnight with President Roosevelt aware of the discussions.
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Morning Journal
Washington
Roosevelt
Taft
Chicago
McKinley
Wade Ellis
Ohio
Resolutions Committee
Sixty-First Congress
United States
Ellis
House Judiciary Committee
White House
Garfield
Wade H. Ellis
Hopkins
Minois
Cowboy Mayor of Omaha Defends Bryan in 1904 Funds
Omaha June 1 Mayor James C Dahlman a democratic national committeeman says money reported by a New York paper as given to Nebraska’s 1904 campaign came to him. He states he secured 5000 dollars in three payments and spent it on the state race for Berge, denying any national or Bryan influence.
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Omaha
James C Dahlman
Nebraska
New York
Thomas F. Ryan
W. F. Sheehan
Sheahan
Packer
Allen
G. W. Berge
Mr. Dahlman
Bryan
Willie Roosevelt
Berge
National Committee
Sheehan
Ryan
Parker
Heavy voter turnout in Oregon statewide election
Portland reports an unusually heavy vote across Oregon in today’s election as polls stayed open until 7 PM. With a heated senator ial right issue and focal option at stake, forecast of results was impossible and final outcomes may take until midnight or several days to determine a clear winner.
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Portland
Oregon
Depositors Paid in Full at Olive Street Bank
Depositors of the defunct Olive street bank, which failed two months ago with liabilities around 300000 dollars, are to be paid in full, announced at a meeting of the Depositors association in St. Louis.
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St. Louis
Olive Street Bank
Public debt growth tops eleven million in May
The statement of the public debt shows a May 24 close with total debt at 936,338,615 an increase of 11,711,379 for the month. Interest bearing debt stands at 897,598,996 while noninterest debt totals 425,476,575 and ceasing interest debt 4,291,305. Cash and treasury notes amount to 1,340,554,869 offset by treasury cash of equal value leaving a cash balance of 390,933,255 and a treasury month gain of 10,663,781.
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Washington
Ises
Treasury
National Bank
Philippine Treasury
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Veilo
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Treasury Department
Nevada
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