Washington tales drum up graft and votes in congress
Washington dispatches detail disbursing clerk Morrison shielding missing voucher in Day portrait case after instruction from Carr. Senate finance panel backs Canadian reciprocity with about sixty senators likely to vote within two weeks. Oxnard brothers profited from Brook lyn sugar refinery tied to the sugar trust. Democratic caucus fails to extend program, shifting focus to tariff. Senator Berger attacks tariffs while Knox defends past state department scandals as unrelated. Numerous indictments and legal motions crowd the news.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Morrison
State Department
House
Washington
Wilbur J. Carr
Penrose
U. S. Senate Finance Committee
Taft
Baptist World Alliance Opens Week in Philadelphia
John Clifford of England presides as the Baptist World Alliance begins a week long session in Philadelphia. In Kentucky, St lg James Proctor Knott dies at Lebanon residence aged eighty one after years of feebleness. The launch Vagrant, owned by Harold Vanderbilt, burns at Red Top Conn injuring Vanderbilt with facial and hand burns but eyes unharmed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Baptist World Alliance
Philadelphia
John Clifford
England
St Lg
James Proctor Knott
Kentucky
Congress
Lebanon, Ky
Harold Vanderbilt
W. K. Vanderbilt
Red Top
Conn
Vanderbilt
Three Aviators Die in European Air Race Debrief
On the first day of the European circuit air race starting from Vincennes France Captain Princeton M Le Martin and M Lendron were instantly killed M Gaubert fatally hurt three others and about 200 spectators injured elsewhere Emperor Nicholas received American ambassador Rockhill who presented his recall letter at St Petersburg Rockhill has been moved to Constantinople Haiti orders search of steamer Consul Grostuck to locate Cipriano Castro Panama decree curbs poker games after Panama canal chief Goethals pressure Mexican forces issue ultimatum over military leadership in Mexico City over 1d persons march in bid for suffrage in London text appears garbled
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Princeton
M. le Martin
M. Lendron
M. Gaubert
Vincennes
France
Emperor Nicholas
Amtassador Rockhill
St. Petersburg
Mr. Rockhill
Constantinople
Nle Lewis
Winnie
Scott School
Frank Eeoff
Williamsburg
Careel Samuels
Keokuk
Johanna Bueckning
Washington
President Taft
State Insane Hospital
Mount Pleasant
Iowa
Marengo
Cedar Rapids
Catholic Order of Foresters
le Mars
J. F. Hindlang
Council Bluffs
Charles S. Duffy
Charles B. Byrnes
W. H. Meuser
Dubuque
John Omer
Jewell City
Kan
Union
Des Moines
Luther Freeman
Morningside College
Big Sioux City
Freeman
Ible
Solon
John L. Adams
Treynor
Omaha & Iowa
American Concrete Pipe & Tile Company
Belle Plaine
Northwestern Railway Company
Indianola Chautauqua Association
Frederick A. Cook
Luther
McCormick
Clarion
Fort Dodge
John McCormick
Clarksville
Newell Construction Company
Town Seed Company
Altoona
Interurban Railway Company
Iowa Central
Thomas Payette
Frank Morgan
James E. Bradford
Marshallstown
Bradford
Northwestern Railway
L. H. Bakka
McCallsburg
Bartoles Fagerland
Marshalltown
Citys Bute
Bilding
Mason
Lightniog
Bilding Wi
Sam Haddy
Story City
Chris Papas
Greak
Lehizh
Maron Iy
Hie Hon
Aly
Wlth
Valencynurt Kesdall
Rt Gall
A. White
Warbingieg
Enya
Mthodies
Eitooyel
Senna
Iowa items report violent deaths and public notices
An Iowa roundup notes a man decapitated by a freight train in Boone, a Tama origin unidentified body, a G A R leader in Rochester diverted, a Tipton suicide by formaldehyde, and a Fairfield armory dedication by Gov. Carroll. Also reported are university commencements, fires, robberies, arrests, deaths from gunshots, and various civic notices across the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boone
Tama
Iowa
Muscatine
H. A. Dyer
Iowa Department of the
Rochester
Minn
Maud Shaffer
Walter Shaffer
Tipton
Fairfield
B.F. Carroll
D. J. Palmer
State University of Iowa
Armory
Ed Green
Farragut
I. J. Larson
Buxton
Larson
Michael Cronin
Nellie Cronin
Woodburn
Alice French
Octave Thanet
Davenport
Randall Parrish
Kewanee, Jr
Iowa Alumni Association
Peter S. Grosscup
Chicago
Iowa University
Johns. Nollen
Lake Forest University
D. T. Blodgett
Des Moines
Henry T. Reed
Federal
Webster City
Fritz Birchbehn
Insane Asylum
Grundy County
Iowa Central
Newburg
James Oliam
Titonka
W. K. Atkinson
Berea Congregational Church
Lavenport
Iowa Parole Powers and Adams Indeterminate Sentence Case
Iowa Supreme Court involved as Attorney General Cosson reviews a case from Osceola County where William Adams was sentenced to two years for burglary by Judge Hutchinson. Adams contends the indeterminate sentence law was ignored. habeas corpus was denied and appeal seeks release. The matter echoes prior debates between Governor Carroll and Editor Dave Brant over parole board authority.
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Des Moines
Cosson
Supreme Court
State Board of Parole
Carroll
Dave Brant
Iowa City Republicans
Brant
William Adams
Osceola County
Hutchinson
Adams
Ellison
Ana
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Oxnard Bros
Brooklyn
Sugar “Trust
Henry T. Oxnard
American Beet Sugar Company
National House “Sugar Trust
Victor L. Berger
Wisconsin
House of Representatives
Knox
Hamlin ‘Committee
Mr. Hale
Elihu Root
Rosenthal
John Haysss
Edgar S.cooke
Big Four Railway
Cincinnati
W. J. Burns
James Hossick
Los Angeles
Cal
Indianapolis
Ind
John J. McNamara
International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers
McNamara
OD. T. Dumas
Cass Lake
Hibbing
Hitchcock
Atterney
St. Louis
Tairé
J. Johnson
Pacific Mall
Agia
Tt Widen
San Francisio
New Yorka
Go Recuey
Cecilia
Somurnaberg
Waa
Hume H. West
Henry W. Knowson
International Stereotypers and Electrotypers’ Union
Detroit
Buffalo
San Francisco
Pontiac
Mich
Isaiah Bayard
United States
Springfield
United Confederate Veterans
Carmelia de Graccia
New York
John Omega
Omega
Louis Orr
Dwight, Sr
Arthur Kern
Grand Trunk Railway
Battle Creek
M. M. Bard
Cleveland
Italy
Martha’s Vineyard Island
Barbara
New Orleans
Frank Marshall
Nellie Tryer
General Baking Company
State of
William Wimberly
Savannah
Haiti
Grostuck
Cipriano Castro
Venezuela
Arosemens
Panama
Goethals
Panama Canal
Jose Vera
Flower of
Federal District of
Mexico
Matera Eciating
Sindero
Mexico City
Iowa News
Jounsen County
Tubb & Co
Alilaon
Eran
Jueim O'Hara
Tras
Willliam Adams
Lowa
Moore
State Pharmacy Commission
Wyler
Sam
W. B. Wiley
Marshall Wayne Morse
Tom Watson
State Parole Board
Iowa City Republican
Des Moines Bridge and Iron Company
Laws Insurance Department
Eedel
Concerny
Smith
Compan Anderson Canning
Wesley Greelyurist
Faville
Britt
OP Friends
Trier
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