Lorimer Bribery Hearing Highlights Taft Links
Springfield March 28. John Hughes stockholder and director of La Salle Street National Bank testifies Lorimer praised as greatest man since Christ and claims he urged Illinois legislators to back Lorimer's election. Edward Hines says Aldrich and Penrose urged Lorimer, Taft anxious to break the deadlock and pass the Payne tariff bill. Hughes hints at possible money offers, while others deny financial aid. Session continues with further witnesses.
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Penrose
Aldrich
Lorimer
Winds
Himes
Springfield
Senate
John Hughes
la Salle Street National Bank
Lorimers Bank
Chicago
Termer
Forty-Sixth
General Assembly
Lorimers
Willam Lorimer
Tim- Nolg
Edward Hines
South
Senate Investigation Committee
Mr Hines
Taft
Illinois
Lon Mines
Washington
John T Hughes
Ea Salle Steel National Bank
Odass
Hughes
Jandus
Moline
Resignation of Diaz Considered Upon Peace Return
In Mexico City Diaz may resign after peace is restored with a new presidential election planned. Officials say Diaz will not leave the country during ongoing insurrection. retirement is possible once stability returns. Francisco Le ón de la Barra has not yet arrived and others took oath at the national palace.
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Diaz
Mexico
Mexico City
Francisco Leon de la Barra
National Palace
San Antonio
Texas
Senor Limanteur
Paris
Francisco Madera, Sr
Gustave
City
de la Barra
Washington
Don Francisco
Don Gustavo
New York Fire Probe Advances After Washington Square Tragedy
Grand jury subpoenas twenty witnesses to investigate the Washington Square fire that killed 142. Aldermen move to require fire drills in factories and place fire escape maintenance under the fire department. Witnesses include Triangle Waist Company owner Max Blanck and building owner Joseph Asch. Identification reduced morgue bodies to twenty as funerals proceed. Charities will bury each unidentified victim in separate coffins. Relief funds rise with new donations from Carnegie, Mrs Russell Sage, and Thomas F. Ryan.
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New York
Grand Jury
Washington Square
Board of Aldermen
Max Blanck
Triangle Waist Company
Joseph Asch
Pbuilding
Department of Charities
Andrew Carnegie
Russell Same
Thomas F. Ryan
New Liquor Law Triggers City Fight Over Shipments
A heated council meeting debated an ordinance to force railroads and express firms to report all whisky shipments to police. The 2-2 committee split promises a courtroom battle, with supporters citing police powers and opponents warning of interstate commerce conflicts and potential prohibition issues.
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Sauory
Council
Southern Express Company
John E. McClelland
McClelland
Auction sale in terminal district nets near 107000
Eight lots on Whitehall and Gannett streets sold at auction above expectations as the market for the between the terminals district gains momentum. Owners S B Turman and Charles H Black predicted 110000. bidding remained spirited across the eight subdivided lots of the old Smith Property.
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Terminals
Whitehall and
Gannett Streets
S B Turman
Charles H. Black
Advertising Talks Clip From Uncredited Booklet
A clipped quotation about advertising notes that no advertising is not a game nor a gamble. The author remains unidentified, with a line promising continuation on Page Two. The fragment suggests a strong view on the seriousness of advertising.
Fire floods New York State Capitol library blaze
Smoke and flames swept the New York State Capitol at 3 o clock this morning, rapidly spreading in the library below the assembly chamber. The fire threatened the state library and thousands of state records and documents amid damage potential near Assemblyman Levy's judiciary headquarters. Officials suspect crossed electric wires started the blaze.
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New York State Capitol
Albany
N. Y
State Capitol
Assembly Chamber
Shocked by fate of girls she tried to kill herself
Greensboro N Y March 28 Mrs Ulysses G Thompson while recovering from fever read about the New York fire and then leaped from a second story window. She survived with a fractured hip and minor bruises.
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Greensboro
N. Y
Ulysses G. Thompson
New York Fire Today
Horse Visits Saloon for Near Beer Then Leaves
A stray horse wandered into Billy Gresham's near beer emporium on Marietta Street at 8 o'clock yesterday. It eyed the barkeeper, sniffed an empty glass, and ambled out after a slight bow. The clerk quipped about a free drink, but the animal exited peacefully without incident.
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Marietta Street
Aged Woman Killed as Rusty Pistol Falls in Georgia
In Crystal Springs near Rome Georgia an accident at breakfast hour killed 60 year old Lucy Dennison and injured her son. A rusty pistol fell from a shelf when Mrs Dennison brushed against it discharging and striking her temple and the boy in the leg. A coroner's jury found the death accidental.
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Crystal Springs
Indy
Lucy Dennison
Flaine
Rewa
Dennison
Che
Roosevelt Seeks Judicial Recall Debate in California
In San Francisco Theodore Roosevelt urged criticism of the federal judiciary as the only alternative to closer touch with the people. He endorsed but did not endorse a California recall amendment and argued short terms with recall may threaten independence more than long terms with recall. He urged focusing on facts over names in evaluating judges and supported reform as a necessary check on judicial performance.
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U. 5
San Francisco
Cal
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt
California
Bad Show Triggers Tragic Act in Cincinnati
A 21 year old widow Mrs Richard Muir spoke of the melodrama she had just seen and said she never knew what it was to be without a mother before she killed herself after the show. The incident occurred in Cincinnati with fragmented references to a Mrs Muir and mentions of Clearwater and Cook.
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Cincinnati
Richard | Muir
Muir
Clearwater
Weather Prophecy Increasing Cloudiness and Rain
Georgia skies may grow cloudy Wednesday with rain possible in the north Wednesday night or Thursday. Winds will be moderate and variable as conditions shift, with southern areas remaining drier longer. Local weather report.
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Georgia
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