Illinois General Assembly Ends Record Session
Illinois finishes a record session with 1041 House measures and 612 Senate bills, four major laws, a $60 million road bond plan, private bank regulation, and a $50 million appropriation. Governor Lowden urged speedily reconvening if war needs arise, while a national rail rate fight pits Illinois against federal rulings.
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Springfield
Lowden
State Council of Defense
Assembly
House
Senate
United States
New Code Law Means Changes In Illinois Government
Governor Lowden has selected candidates for all posts created by the new civil administrative code to take effect July 1. Attorney General Brundage plans a fight against railroad fare increases, while a utilities fight and contempt actions loom over 2.4 cent transits.
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Bureau of Labor Statistics
Lebauton Commission
Legation
Court of Claims
Illinois
Interstate Commerce Commission
D. P. Dyer
St. Louis
General Assembly
Lowden
Brundage
Charles M. Foell
Chicago
Dyer
Springfield
Department of Finance
Department of Agriculture
Department of Public Works
Department of Public Welfare
Department of Public Health
Department of Trade and Commerce
Public Utilities Commission
Department of Registration and Education
Jroa
Utilities Board
James H. Wilkerson
George T. Buckingham
State Public Utilities Commission
Attorney General
Missouri
Ilinois
Landis
Iliois
Centennial Commission
Wilson
Senate
Oglesby
Dailey
Barr
Curtis
Cliffe
Roos
Cornwell
Hull
Hughes
Lantz
Gorwian
Herlihy
House
Representative Tyers
Aurora
Coleman
John A. Wheeler
Jackson
Lowen
John Denvir
Shanahan
Warning to liquor dealers to enforce federal law
Springfield authorities urge strict enforcement of the federal ban on selling liquor to soldiers and sailors with severe penalties. The council discusses enforcement, appoints a bureau to root out fraudulent war relief solicitations, and backs Army Volunteer Week activities starting June 24 with war department support.
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Lowden
Ilinois
State Council of Defense
Council
Chicago
Springfield
Inclinois
Samuel
General Assembly
War Department
Illinois Draft Mobilization Nears Camp Dates
Illinois will mobilize its selective draft force at Rockford cantonments while the National Guard camps at Springfield. Chicago units may remain at armories until all troops move to camps in the Southern department.
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Rockford
Springfield
Illinois
National Army
War Department
National Guard
Mann
Militia Division
Chicago
Chicago Mayor Faces Impeachment Crisis Over School Board Appointments
Jeering aldermen forced Mayor Thompson from the chair at a special city council meeting. A motion to impeach was drafted by Alderman Kennedy as 45 opposed and 22 in favor of confirming Thompson-Davis school board appointees. Police guarded school board offices to resist a potential ouster or removal of the Thompson appointees.
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National Guard and
Naval Reserve
State Board of Agriculture
Blue Sky
Secretary of State
Sanitary District
Will County
First Cavalry
Chicago
Second Infantry
Ottawa
Galesburg
Thompson
Alderhin Cullerton
John C. Kennedy
Twenty-seventh Ward
City Council
Judiciary Companotee
Thompson-Davis Board
Police Schuettler
School Board
Tribune
Loeb
Schuettler
Westbrook
US Gunners Sink U Boat After Submarine Hit
An Atlantic port report says a United States armed freighter fired 19 shots at a periscope three days out of Liverpool en route to America. The captain reports the submarine’s superstructure wrecked and believes the submersible went to the bottom after the attack. A torpedo strike glanced off the ship but did not explode and one propeller blade was torn away on arrival for repairs.
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Atlantic
United States
Liverpool
America
American
Pickets Seized as Police Break Up Sufferage Demonstration
Washington June 25 police moved against suffrage pickets outside the White House arresting Miss Lucy Burns of New York and Miss Katherine Morey of Boston after two days of rioting events. The arrests marked the first disruption since the pickets began their protest 2538 days ago to pressure President Wilson on nationwide suffrage. No major disorder followed the seizures.
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Washington
White House
Lucy Burns
New York
Katherine Morey
Boston
Executive Mansion
Wilson
Russian Prisoners Starving in German Camps
A cable from the Russian Red Cross mission states that many Russian prisoners in Germany have died and more are dying from famine and tuberculosis. Names Borodine and Sakhnovsky are cited as the letter senders.
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Washington
Germany
Messrs. Borodine and
Sakhnovsky
Russian Red Cross Mission
Danish Ship Orton Torpedoed in North Sea
A steamship arriving from a Dutch port reports the Danish steamer Orton was destroyed by a submarine on June 4 in the North Sea. The crew were landed on the Norwegian coast.
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Orton
North Sea
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University of Timois
Eveeagneee
Illinois National Guard
Supreme Court
J Brome
Lcense
Labor
House of Correction
Wiftieth General Assembly
Fiftieth General Assembly
Forty-ninth General Assembly
Edward J. Smejkal
House Appropriations Committee
Edward Curtis
Senate Committee
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