Army raises pay split favoring enlisted men in $7 million bill
Congress approved the army appropriation bill with $7 million for pay raises. $5 million goes to enlisted men and about 942 officers on the retired list also benefit. The measure, part of a $95 million package, expands the Porto Rican infantry on a permanent basis and funds lighthouse navigation aids. Debate questioned retired-officer pay and long-term costs.
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House of Representatives
Gill
House
Hull
Slay
Virginia
Ferris Confesses to Burlington Train Wreck Near Bird Mountain
Lewis Ferris, a young Italian, details dynamiting a Burlington train near Bird Mountain last Friday night. He says he loaded the powder house with dynamite, watched the blast, and helped the conductor summon aid. Ferris claims sole blame and says he was drunk at the time.
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Ferris
Burlington
Lewis Ferris
Bird Mont
Oliver Keanel
Trie
Great Fire Destroys Two Blocks in Atlanta
A major blaze in Atlanta, Georgia Friday leveled two solid business blocks and threatened more of the business district. Estimated loss reaches 1,500,000 dollars with no casualties. Principal losers include Terminal, Marion annex and Childs hotels, Schlessinger Mayer Airing, Southern Suspender, Southern Handkerchief, Georgia Vehicle, Piedmont Hat, AleClare Ten Cent, Liquid Carbonic, Inman Building, and the post office substation.
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Atlanta
Terminal
Marion Annex
Childshotels
Schlessinger-Mayer Airing Company
Southern Suspender Company
Southern Handkerchief Manufacturing Company
Georgia Vehicle Company
Piedmont Hat Company
AleClare Ten Cent
Liquid Carbonic Company
In.man Building
Shuts Off Speakers after Ten Minute Auto-Stop Innovation
A Flutsian invention attaches to a car lamp and speaker system. The device automatically extinguishes the lamp after ten minutes, aiming to conserve power and reduce noise while the vehicle is idle.
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Tt Pn
Murray Awarded 75,000 in Queen Victoria Letters Case
John Murray, publisher, wins a verdict of 75 000 against the London Times after the paper accused Murray's firm of extortion in selling letters of Queen Victoria at high prices.
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Murray
John Murray
The
London Times
Times
Victoria
Nine Young Men Drown as Launch Strands on Ohio River
A gasoline launch with nine occupants broke down near East Liverpool on the Ohio River early Friday morning and was swept under a line of empty coal barges. Five men drowned in the incident.
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Ohio River
Liverpool
Sioux City Live Stock Market Fragments Note Prices
Fragments from the Sioux City live stock market show top beeves at 3.05 and top liege at 5.95. The Ko Piust Company of Cleveland is mentioned in a faulty assignment line. A collision reference appears with unclear names and places, rendering the rest unreadable.
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Sioux City
Fridar
Top Liege
Bies
Cleveland F
Ko Piust Company
Ot Clevelintey
T Company
We Tee Te
Habit
Sanotes
Prominent Pittsburg Bank Official Charged With Embezzlement
Allegheny National Bank in Pittsburg faces a $429000 embezzlement charge against cashier Montgomery. He was arraigned Thursday night and held for the grand jury under a $50000 bond. Bank’s finances remain sound. Montgomery has long been a political and social figure and a friend of the late Senator Quay.
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Allegheny National Bank
Pittsburg
United States
Lindsay
Montgomery
Quay
Folds
San Francisco Welcomes Atlantic Fleet Amid Recovery
The Atlantic battleship fleet, after a 14 000 mile cruise, arrives in San Francisco Harbor. Governor, mayor, and residents greet the ships as the city observes a holiday with streets deserted and crowds gathering to welcome the modern naval pageant.
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Francisco
Golden Gate
Secretary of the Navy
Yorktown
Navy
California
San Francisco
Oakland
White ink papers could yield cheaper Black newspapers
Wisconsin paper makers propose using white ink on black paper to save forests and cut print paper costs potentially in half. They claim black paper can be made from waste newspapers while white ink needs spruce or hemlock stock. The idea will be presented to eastern manufacturers after the Washington congressional inquiry ends.
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Wisconsin
Congressional Investigation
Washington
Robbers Kill Messenger On Denver and Rio Grande Train
On early Thursday morning at Castle Rock Colorado train No 4 of the Denver and Rio Grande was boarded by robbers who killed express messenger Charles H. Wright age 69 of the Globe express company. They seized a key to a small safe and opened it taking contents worth little more than a key. The large safe was not opened. entry was gained through a broken side window and Wright died with his gun in hand.
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Rio Grande
Castle Rock
Colo
Charles H. Wright
Globe Express Company
Attempted derailment on Reading Blue Express near Nicetown
Two foreign men allegedly jammed a railroad switch with old iron on the Reading Blue Express near Nicetown Philadelphia, narrowly derailing the train. A tower operator saw the tampering and alerted police, who arrested Weneys Koowl, 28, Pole, identified as one of the men. Motive unknown.
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Reading
Reading Railroad
Nicetown
Philadelphia
Weneys Koowl
Maj O P Chiffee Dead
Maj O P Chiffee former Confederate Army officer and brother of Lieut Gen Adna R Chafee US A retired Los Angeles resident died at his Kansas City Missouri home Thursday from kidney trouble aged 72 years
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O. P. Chiffee
Maj
O. P. Chaffee
Adna R. Chaffee
U.S. A
Los Angeles
Kansas City
Divorce Condemned as Curse at Episcopal Conference
The final session of the sixteenth annual conference of Episcopal church clubs of the United States met in St. Louis Missouri on Thursday. Social settlements were favored. Divorce and remarriage were condemned as the curse of the country.
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Annual Conference of Episcopal Church Clubs of the
United States
St. Louis
Decatur Declares Dry. Saloons Close at Midnight
Decatur becomes dry under local option law with fifty eight saloons closing at midnight Thursday. The brewing company will shift to producing soft drinks exclusively.
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Decatur
Four Die as New York Tenement Fire Rages on Orchard Street
Four persons were killed and twelve injured in an Orchard Street five story tenement fire in New York early Thursday. The blaze is suspected incendiary origin and left the building practically destroyed.
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New York
Orchard Street
Actress Amelie Bingham Hospitalized for Peritonitis
Amelie Bingham the actress has suffered peritonitis for over a week and was moved to a sanitarium in New York on Wednesday in preparation for a surgical operation.
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Amelie Bingham
New York
Famous Pequet house burns at New London headland
Fire swept the Pequet house at the western entrance to New London Connecticut and four cottages early Thursday. Loss estimated at 25006 dollars. Chelsea Fire Company responders report damage and parties charged with arson and idle for the great fire. Jacob L. Har a Wein Bern testified.
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New London
Conn
Harbor
Banker Charles Coster Death Sparks Insurance Claim
New York banker Charles Coster died by his own hand, leaving a $100,000 life policy. The incontestable policy, taken out two months ago, is to be paid by the insurer. Louis Werner, assignee of the brokerage firm, and partner Waapp secured firm securities for creditors whileLiabilities rise, jeopardizing recovery.
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Coster
New York
Charles Coster
Louis Werner
Werner
Waapp
Stock Exchange
New York Barber Shop Slayings Shock City
Luke Black and a youth named Koowhony allegedly entered a Brooklyn barber shop on a Wednesday, fatally injuring employer Anton Mernig and three barbers while they slept. Perse and his wife were severely wounded. the boy escaped. Police theorize a Dinek hand gang used the youth to coerce Perseya into revealing names under threats.
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Dinek
Whie
Perasa
Perasyo
Chinese minister Wu Ling Fang attends New York Lotus Club dinner
Minister Wu Ling Fang of China served as chief guest at a New York dinner hosted by the Lotus Club. The event drew prominence including Gen. Frederick D. Grant of the U S Army and Cornell University President Jacob G. Schurmann among others.
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Lotus Chih
Bomb Blast Destroys Dayton Fruit Merchant Home
A bomb exploded Tuesday night at the rear of the Dayton residence of Frank Gentile, a wealthy fruit merchant. Gentile was in the home when the dynamite detonated, blowing him to pieces. Four days earlier he had received a Black Hand demand for 10,000.
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Frank Gentile
Ital
Dayton
Piqua
Three Die in Southern Storm Across Arkansas Tennessee Mississippi
A severe wind and rain storm swept southern Arkansas, western Tennessee, and Mississippi Monday night into Tuesday, killing three people, injuring several others, and causing extensive property damage and demoralization.
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Arkansas
Tennessee
Mis
Sissippi
Move Against Opium Dens in Crown Colonies
The English house of commons unanimously adopted resolutions urging speedy abolition of opium den licensing in crown colonies especially Hong Kong Straits Settlements and Ceylon.
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House of Commons
Hongkong
Straits Settlements
Ceylon
Speaker Cannon's Birthday Observed at 70
Speaker Joseph G. Cannon turned 70 on Thursday. The veteran congressman dismissed a remark about his age with humor, saying Wy Jove he had brought nothing about it.
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Cannon
Joseph G. Cannon
Fire Routs Town Office and Records in Coalton Ohio
A blaze swept Coalton Ohio yesterday destroying the raggar s office and public station. Fire damaged the district building and several structures while destroying town records and papers and endangering the fire apparatus.
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Ohio
Coalton
Teerday
Pulicye
Kaiser ffonors Anertean dan perar WW Hist
The report notes Anertean and Prusshe crews in a wartime history setting with references to Charles Metcok of the New York Times and a conferment of a title or honor.
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Kaiser Ffonors
Dan Perar
Une Griber
Charles Metcok
New York Times
Davis Confesses Murder Des Moines Druggist Gets 18 Years
Edgar Davis of Des Moines pleaded guilty to second degree murder to avoid a new trial. He admitted killing his wife in a drunken frenzy on February 15 and wounded City Physician James E. Miller, who survived. Police encountered Davis as he fired at them in the Davis home yard.
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Des Moines
Edgar Davis
Thursday
Davis
James E. Miller
Strike Breakers Routed in Marshalltown Clash
Fifteen strike breakers returning from a justice court were mobbed by about thirty shop workers in Marshalltown. The workers chased them from town with stones and clubs while the breakers offered no resistance. Many strike breakers still have wages due from the company.
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Marshalltown
Town Central
Justice Court
Lmits
Traveling Man Robbed Near Mason City on Milwaukee Train
E C Edenrole of Cleveland Ohio, a traveling man, was robbed as a Milwaukee passenger neared Mason City. Three men boarded the car, beat him, and forced surrender of money and valuables. The trio jumped from the train and remain at large as officers pursue leads.
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Mason City
Milwaukee
E. C. Edenrole
Cleveland
Ecenrole
Suit Alleges Grant Used Deed to Defraud Wife
The case claims a grant induced a feigned deed to trade property, not execute a real exchange. The wife alleges the deal aimed to defraud her of equity and to shield the residence from her daughter Mrs. Clark.
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Ant
Epidemic Fear After Church Banquet Illness Rises
An outbreak of typhoid fever reported in Rockwell City after a April banquet linked to the Methodist Episcopal church sickens forty people within three days. Most patients are men. two women also fell ill from lunch carried home. Rev. Robert Reedy is among the worst cases and hospitalized. Doctors and nurses from Des Moines and Sioux City rushed to assist as experts investigate the contamination and possible deaths loom.
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Rockwell City
Methodist Episcopal Church
Andrew, Wood
Ethel Johnson
Wood
Robert Reedy
Des Moines
Sioux City
Elopement Ends as 30-Year-Old Arrested for Abduction
A 30-year-old man Riley Collings fled with 14-year-old Sarah Huntback from Geneva and wed in Lancaster Missouri before returning with her to Ottumwa where Sheriff Jackson detained him. He was handed to Sheriff L. Jarnigan of Hampton Franklin County on charges of enticing a minor away from home. The couple’s brief honeymoon lasted only days before the arrest near Farson while employed on a Milwaukee construction team.
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Jackson
Farson
Riley Collings
Ottumwa
Co. L. Jarnigan
Hampton
Franklin County
Collins
Geneva
Sarah Huntback
Lancaster
Milwaukee
Former Mapleton Merchant Dead in Spokane Telegram
A telegram from Spokane announced the sudden death of Cr Snyder, longtime Mapleton grocer. He was 54 and had moved to Spokane a few years ago.
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Mapleton
Snyder
Spokane
Death of Toledo Young Woman Gertrude Modlin
Friends grieved at the death of Miss Gertrude Modlin daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles Modlin longtime Toledo residents She died Monday after a year plus illness from pulmonary tuberculosis She was 25 years old.
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Toledo
Gertrude Modlin
Charles Modlin
Modlin
Woman Dies Suddenly While Baking Bread In Coalville
Mrs B Spainhower aged 60 died at her Coalville home near Fort Dodge after stooping to look into the oven and collapsing from heart failure. She dropped forward and fell to the floor, dying instantly.
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Coalville
Fort Dodge
B. Spainhower
New Elevator at Fontanelle Contracts
Dunlap & Welch of Fontanelle have awarded a contract for a modern grain elevator with about 25 000 bushels capacity. The project, costing around 7000 dollars, will be built by Younglove Construction Co. of Sioux City.
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Fontanelle
Dunlap & Welch
Younglove Construction Company
Sioux City
Boy Burned to Death in Spencer Barn Fire
Six year old George Fate son of Mr and Mrs Grant Fate of Spencer was burned to death in a neighbor’s barn. He likely played in the hay and set it on fire accidentally. He was not missed until the barn was blazing and the body was recovered after the fire department arrived.
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George Fate
Grant Fate
Spencer
Sunday School Panic Sparks Fire at Floris Baptist Church
Sunday morning fire in Floris during Sunday school sent about a hundred children into a panic that was halted by elders who guided the evacuations. all children were safely released. Mason City grand jury returns three indictments including FP H McDonald for murder, Lester Shindel for highway robbery, and Charles Knox for grand larceny.
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Floris
Mason City
FP. H. McDonald
George Stevens
Lester Shindel
Charles Knox
Tragic Gun Accident Injures Mrs Wall
A four year old boy accidentally discharged a revolver while the mother Mrs. Charles Wall and a child slept in bed. The bullet penetrated the back and perforated the intestines, likely causing fatal injuries. The gun had been placed under a pillow and was taken by the child before discharge.
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Matally
Charles Wall
Record Prices for Mules and Horses Near Olin
J. W. McConkey farmer south of Olin sold a span of mules and a pair of young draft horses for a local record. The mules brought 500 dollars and the horses 600 dollars, totaling 1,190 dollars.
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J. W. McConkey
Olin
Murder suspect named Gru ber captured near Creston
Sheriff Munron arrested a man giving the name Gru ber at Creston on suspicion of aiding the fugitive Bert Taylor who is wanted at Minden Nebraska for rape arson and murder.
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Gruber
Creston
Munron
Bert Taylor
Minden
Neb
Bank of Corwith faces $250000 in claims filings
More than 300 claims against the Bank of Corwith total over 250000, with most cases set for Hancock county district court. State city clash erupts as Des Moines authorities confront Mayor over city health department control. Clarion Principal W H Blakely resigns to lead Fort Dodge high school menial training department. Bi Tn Cappeye and B J Carnpy noted as prominent Grinnell figures amid illness and death reports.
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Bank of Corwith
District Court of
Hancock County
Des Moines
State Board of Health
Ot His
Hammery
Clarion
W. H. Blakely
Fort Dodge
Senate debates on appropriations and commissions during session
The Senate and House discussed a broad appropriations bill including testing materials and fuel substa tions while considering extra Fort McKinley lands. Debate touched on the interstate commerce commission, labor provisions, and soldiers homes. A large roll-call session ended with adjournment near 9 pm amid party friction.
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Morton
Abra
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Amuaw
Draon
Jacob Ll Hara Weinbern
Luke Black
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Dubaime
Dubuque
Jullien Avenue
Ike You
B. J. Carnpy
Dames Man
Grinnell
Dawa
Atrn Rials
Forestry Service
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Putlands
Leonard Wood
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Butler
Senate
Ulike
District of Col
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Ohie
Dire
Compierce Commission
Adoe Warner
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William 2. Nelerfied
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