Death of financier's son ruled heart disease at inquest
Nathaniel Forg Moore, son of James Hobart Moore, dies at a Chicago resort. Coroner's jury finds heart disease caused death after post mortem. Evidence showed no drugs or poisoning. witnesses describe his long heart illness and past fainting spells. Moore frequently paid by check, once giving a $1500 check to Victoria Shaw.
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Chicago
Nathaniel Forg Moore
James Hobart Moore
Moore
Victoria Shaw
Dearborn Street
Shaw
Pearl Moore
Lake Shore Drive
Hoffman
Mr. Moore
W. R. Mygatt
Mr. Mygatt
Helena Fargo
New York
Paulhan Sweeps Grandstand As Farman Bi Plane Dazzles Crowds
Louis Paulhan in a Farman bi plane electrifies 20,000 spectators at Aviation Park on day one of the meet. Glenn Curtiss, Charles Willard, Lincoln Beachy and Roy Knabenshue display flights and dirigible tests as crowds cheer, Paulhan circling the field and waving to the ducking crowd before alighting near his quarters.
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Los Angeles
Aviation Park
Louis Paulhan
Curtiss
Clifford Harmon
Charles FE
Willard
Cross County
Paulhan
Glenn H. Curtiss
Charles F. Willard
Lincoln Beachy
Roy Knabenshue
Knabenshue
Beachy
Joyful Lewistown Reopens After Mail Backlog
The regar train returned to Lewistown Montana with 125 passengers from Harlowtown and 100 bags of mail plus express. Clerks processed the day’s mail while businessmen queued at the post office. The line to Butte is clear again and regular service resumes.
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Lewistown
Montana
Harlowtown
Star
Butte
Washington negotiates out of court settlement of Harriman merger case
Negotiations began at the White House toward an out of court settlement of the Sherman anti trust suit seeking dissolution of the Harriman lines merger. No decision reached, with further meetings planned to explore possible terms while the government keeps its case. Attendees included Judge Robert S. Lovett Attorney General Wickersham and others. Taft’s position remains undefined pending railroad proposals. A resumption date has not been set though likely soon.
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Washington
Harriman Lines
White House
Taft
Harriman
Robert S. Lovett
Union Pacific
Allied
Wickersham
Frank B. Kellogg
Buster
United States
Railroads
John C. Spooner
Maxwell Ewarts
New York
Trial of Hermann Begun at Portland
Former U.S. Representative Binger Hermann pleads not guilty to a conspiracy to defraud the government regarding the Blue Mountain forest reserve. Jury selection is underway with 12 jurors in the box and both sides set to exercise peremptory challenges. Portions of Hermann's Washington testimony on destroying land office records will be read to save witness travel costs.
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Portland
Ore
United States
Oregon
Binger Hermann
Blue Mountain Forest
Hermann
Washington
Land Office
Three Men Killed in Gas Plant Explosion at Bloomington
An explosion at the Union Gas and Electric plant in Bloomington Illinois killed three men and set the building ablaze. Firefighters fought the blaze as the town faced gas shortages tonight and into the coming days with several others seriously injured.
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Bloomington
Union Gas and Electric Company
Smelter Smoke Returns as Great Falls Strike Continues
Great Falls reports smoke from the Boston and Montana smelters for the first time since the switchmen's strike began. The Great Northern hires 50 imported switchmen and moves freight, with 600 workers at the plant and 100 deputies guarding facilities. A meeting is set at Luther Hall to rally non imported crews and keep trains from being serviced by imported labor.
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Standard
Great Falls
Boston & Montana
Great Northern
Chicago
West Side
Montana
J. K. Taylor
Central District
Taylor
Lutherhall
Sand Coulee
Suit Tests Constitutionality of Federal Corporate Income Tax
Lewis Jared of Chicago brings a suit in the United States circuit court in Cleveland as a stockholder in American Multigraph Company a 4 1 000 000 concern seeking an injunction to halt payment of the federal income tax on corporations arguing the tax is unconstitutional a direct tax and interferes with state rights to contract and grant general franchises the tax due date is June 2.
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Cleveland
United States
Lewis Jared
Chicago
Jared
American Multigraph Company
Main Amendment Is Lost in House
Washington news reports the House votes down Representative Mann Illinois amendment to cut the $1 350 000 national guard encampment appropriation. Debate accuses Democrats of feigning economy while opposing real cuts. Senate adopts Ballinger Pinchot investigation measure with House elected members.
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Washington
Taft
Ehi
Utero Hiay
Virginia
National Guard
Hay
Representative Mann
Illinois
Mann
Senate
Jones
Ballinger- Pinchot
House
Newlands
House Committee
Nelson
Insurgent Republicans Defy Party Leadership in House
A defiant statement from insurgent Republican members denounces efforts to read them out of the party and opposes Speaker Cannon's control. They pledge to continue the fight to restore legislative power to the majority and deny anti Taft accusations, while criticizing autocratic leadership and party whips.
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Washington
Jan
Cannon
House of Representatives
House
Taft
Dwight
Cloping Couple Finally Caught in Custody
A cloping couple was finally captured in Chicago after a prolonged pursuit. Police confirmed the pair were taken into custody following surveillance and a successful stakeout. Authorities expect to interview them regarding recent incidents linked to their alleged activities.
Elopers Roberta De Janon and Frederick Cohen Arrested in Chicago
Roberta De Janon, 17, Philadelphia heiress, and Frederick Cohen, 43, a Belle Vue Stratford waiter, were found in a Chicago rooming house with their pet dog Tootsie. Cohen admitted the flight from Philadelphia after a worldwide search, and both were taken to police, with extradition to Philadelphia arranged.
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Chicago
Roberta Buist de Janon
Philadelphia
Frederick Cohen
West Superior Street
Cohen
Reading
Chicnago Avenue
Miss Delanon
United States
Canada
England
Halifax
St. Johns
N. B
Perrin
Elopers
Coaden
Chicago Avenue
Miss de Janon
Harrison Street
de Janon
New York City
New York
Montreal
Boston
Chief Charlot of Flathead Nation Dies at Jocko Cabin
In a Missoula dispatch, Chief Charlot, hereditary leader of the Flathead Indians, died at his Jocko cabin at 2 AM after a long illness. Surrounded by family, he faced death with calm and a smile, his last white contact being Agent Fred Morgan, who visited him the day before. He leaves a wife, a son Martin Charlot, and a daughter believed married, also named Martin Charlot aged about 59.
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Standard
Missoula
Charlot
Flathead
Fred Morgan
Martin Charlot
Plathead tribe faces succession after Chief Charlott's death
The tribe declares that the sole possible hereditary successor is the remaining living member. Charlott dies of age related infirmities, with friends attributing his decline to a broken heart and grief over failures to secure the Plathead reservation for his people.
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Plathead
Charlott
Plathead Reservation
Glavis Heads for Washington Amid Alaskan Coal Controversy
L. R. Glavis, former chief of the field division of the general land office, arrives near Portland en route to Washington, D. C., to testify before the investigating committee on Alaskan coal land cases. He refuses to comment on Ballinger-Pinchot affair or Gifford Pinchot dismissal and says he has not been formally summoned.
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Portland
L. R. Glavis
Foremer
General Land Office
Washington, D. C
Gravis
Porester Gifford Chot
the Interior
Glavis
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Aeronaut
Glenn Curtiss
Roberta DE Janon
Ferdinand DE Jano
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