World events terse and briefly told headline summary
A Washington official cautions on freight rate ruling due July 8. WV coal strike ends after conciliators' proposals. Panama treaty ratification noted. Senate probes anti trust and foreign relations issues. Yale wins four mile race by inches over Harvard. Boston police inspector shot. Chicago crowd for Margaret Woodrow Wilson speaks. New Jersey and New York officials charged in elections fraud. France’s bow damages New York pier. Adlai Stevenson will probate with $100,000 estate. Denver murder suicide case. Chicago bank prosecutions underway. Thompson murder case in Grand Rapids cleared after claimed confession. McClure, Ohio, fire destroys part of town, $70,000 loss.
Mexican War Figures Pivot as Crisis in Mexico Deepens
Reporters in Washington relay telegraphic updates from Mexico as General Carranza may flee to Laredo while Villa signals a march on Mexico City. Villa’s resignation fears ease after Carranza’s statement, yet Wilson and mediators clash over provisional president terms and the demand for a neutral. Lazaro de la Garza urges Laguna Spaniards to return home amid tensions.
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Kent
California
Bryan
Washington
Mexico
Carranzaz
Laredo
Tex
Villa
Torreon
Lazaro de la Garza
Juarez
Laguna District
Wilson
Personal envoy named ambassador to Russia report
George T. Marye of San Francisco reportedly to be ambassador to Russia per a White House Washington disclosure. Also noted are a $100000 breach of promise suit in Cincinnati, a dog fancier filing in New York, and various international political and maritime updates.
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George T. Marye
San Francisco
Russia
White House
Washington
Eugene Zimmerman
Cincinnati
Duchess of Manchester
Icy Waream
New York
Mme
Lillian Nordica
Batavia
King’s Weigh House
Grosvenor Square
London
Nordica
George W. Young
Golder’s Green Cemetery
Illinois plan to reorganize 100 departments into 12
A state efficiency committee urges major reform of Illinois government pointing to about 100 departments employing roughly 6,000 people and spending around 17 million annually. It recommends consolidating into 12 departments under governor-appointed heads to improve coordination, information flow, and accountability.
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Springfield
Illinois
State Efficiency and Economy Committee
Auditor of Public Accounts
Attorney General
General Assembly
Inovernor
Spencer to Be Hanged for Rexroat Murder in 1918
Henry Spencer, condemned for killing Mrs. Mildred Rexroat, a Chicago dancing teacher, was scheduled for execution Friday July 31 after the supreme court upheld the trial court’s death sentence. Spencer, then at Dupage county jail in Wheaton, lured Rexroat to a secluded Wayne area road and killed her with a hammer on September 26, 1918. He pleaded insanity.
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Henry Spencer
Mildred Allison Rexroat
Supreme Court
Spencer
Dupage County
Wheaton
Rexroat
Chicago
Wayne
Ruling Bars Annexes In Fire Insurance Industry
Insurance Superintendent Rufus M. Potts declares underwriters agencies or annexes illegal as deceptive to the public welfare. He cites subsidiaries and absorbent practices by large eastern firms to mask activity, noting 32 companies retired in 1913 but 30 continued under new names. Only six of 211 state stock fire insurers are Illinois corporations. Large firms plan a campaign against the ruling, hiring 54 agents and challenging the decision in court.
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Rufus M. Potts
Potts
Af E
Illinois
Memorial tablet honors Dr John Milton Gregory on campus
Alumni and students at the University of Illinois Champaign campus unveil a memorial tablet atop a boulder marking Dr John Milton Gregory’s grave. Tribute speakers include Edmund James and others from Michigan, Kansas City, and Union University. A $25,000 gift funds part of a $150,000 Gregory Memorial building project.
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University of Ilinois
John Milton Gregory
The
State University
Champaign
Edmund Jane James
Fred L. Keeler
State Superintendent of Public Instruction of
Michigan
William B. Yrager
Kalamazoo College
Martin L. Dooge
University ‘of Michigan
Henry M. ‘Beardsley
Kansas City
Homer A. Stilwek
Chicago
Gregory
Lorado Taft
J. C. Llewellyn
Charles L. Richmond
Union University
Casualty Companies Win Tax Exemption in Supreme Court Ruling
The Supreme Court ruled that casualty and Fidelity firms cannot be taxed on net receipts as fire insurers are. About seventy Chicago firms and $20 million in taxable value were affected. The decision arose from a test case by Fidelity & Casualty Co of New York in agreement with local assessors.
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Fidelity and Casualty
Supreme Court
Chicago
Fidelity & Casualty Company of
New York
Board of Assessors
Air crash tragedy as balloon and plane collide near Vienna
June 23 Vienna reports a military dirigible Koerting and a pursuing biplane collided after a mock battle. The explosion burned nine aboard and left wreckage scattered far from the ground, with eddies blamed for the disaster.
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Vienna
Koerting
Fischamend
Johann Hauswirth
Ernst Hofstetter
Bruer
Haldinged
Hadima
Weber
Kammerer
Flatz
Hoosta
Léud
Villa Attacks Zacatecas With 40000 Troops
General Villa led about 40,000 troops in the second attack on Zacatecas, capturing three advance positions in the suburbs and forcing federal withdrawal to the main defenses. Forecasts say his forces may advance on the capital within a week. In another action near Calera, Villa’s relief force overwhelmed 5,000 federal troops, inflicting heavy losses on General Barron’s forces pursuing Natera.
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Saltillo
Mex
Villa
Zacatecas
Torreon
Natera
Medina Barron
Calera
Barron
Man Killed by Hungry Lions in Chicago Yard
Emerson Dietrich, twenty four, a Cornell graduate and manager of an animal act, was mangled and torn to pieces by five half starved lions in a Santa Fe railroad yard cage. He entered to inspect a year old cab injured in an accident, against duty, and was attacked.
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Chicago
Emerson D. Dietrich
Cornell
Santa Fe
Clark and
Sixteenth Streets
Dietrich
Brother Slain After Rebuke in buggy quarrel
In Springfield Ul on June 23 Harry Forbes shot dead his 32 year old brother Marian Forbes after ordering him from a buggy for using profane language in front of his wife.
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Springfield
Marian Forbes
Harry Forbes
Reds Flee to America and Rome Riots After General Strike
A group of anarchists sought by Italian authorities for involvement in riots during the general strike reportedly fled to America. The departures were noted as authorities pursued suspects connected to the capital riots and unrest.
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America
Rome
Illinois News Brevities Summary
Unidentified man killed and another possibly fatally injured by a Louisville and Nashville train near Illinois towns. Wm Grant, 20, in Mount Vernon shot himself dead handling a revolver. John McDougal, 94, Peoria pioneer grocer founder died, leaving six sons and a daughter. Samuel Dungan died by carbolic acid suicide. Retail Merchants convention in Jacksonville with sites at Taylorville and Ottawa sought for next year. Corn in Galva in excellent condition after late rains. bumper crop outlook. John J Manion, Mount Vernon business leader, died from a brain rupture during a coughing fit. Walter Baldwin seeks missing daughter Marjorie. she returned from Wisconsin seminary for summer. Illinois Christian Missionary convention speakers included H Pritchard Eureka, J F Bickel Danville, H H Peters Paris, J W Sparks Shelbyville. sermon by W F McColley Shelbyville. Bailey Dawson, longtime Illinois Republican figure, died at 84. Harvey Weeks unable to attend Rotary due to post seeking. Ernest Bratten fined for annoying women. Paul Walter fined for assaulting a minor. B Y P U and Sunday school convention opened at Christopher with speakers from several towns. Lieutenant Governor McDermott of Kentucky addressed University of Illinois honor societies. pocketbook vanished with $100. Chicago civil service plan outlined to create class A and B employee groups with differing pay. Clinton dry law to prohibit alcohol brought into city. $50 penalty proposed. Polo Supreme Court upheld Martha Peek will for orphanage fund. Savanna teen Bernice Vandervate poisoned herself by carbolic acid while visiting sister.
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Mount Vernon
William Grant
Peoria
John McDougal
Illinois
Chicago
Metropolis
Samuel M. Dungan
Jacksonville
Retail Merchants’ Association of Illinois
Taylorville
Ottawa
Galva
John J. Manion
Manion
St. Louis
Walter Baldwin
Marjorie
Wisconsin
Sullivan
O. Pritchard
Eureka College
J. F. Bickel
Danville
H. H. Peters
Paris
J. W. Sparks
Shelbyville
Illinois Christian Missionary Convention
W. F. McColley
Ae Electric Company
Harvey E. Weeks
Woodruff Trust Company
Houston
Tex
Ernest Bratten
West North Avenue
Stewart
South State Street
Paul Walter
Uhler
Sophie Paligrodzke
Holt Street
Christopher
Illinois State Baptist Association
J. Musgrave
Carterville
G. W. Allison
First Baptist Church of
East St Louis
E. G. Lentz
Marion High School
J. P. Pennock
Cairo
A. M. Kirkland
Eldorado
A. W. Essick
Duquoin Evening Call
Champaign
Edward 4. McDermott
Kentucky
University of Illinois
Phi Beta Kappa
Sigma Xi
Civil Service
Civil Service Commission
Clinton
Polo
Ilinois
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