Pastor Arrested for Debauching Public Morals in Rock Island
Rev J B Lewis pastor of Brighton Methodist church was arrested with Miss Zoe Swain at the New Harper house. He was arraigned on a charge of debauching public morals, fined 50 plus costs, paid and left for Denver. Miss Swain, 18, taught music in Brighton and remained with the Lewis family. The case prompted review by the Iowa Methodist conference as ministers seek to minimize publicity.
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Rock Island
J. B. Lewis
Brighton
New Harper House
Zoe Swain
Lewis
West
Denver
Miss Swain
May Smith
Far West
Rock Island Ministerial Association
Iowa Methodist Conference
Fort Dodge Des Moines & Southern Rail Way Receivers Named
Judge Smith McPherson appointed Homer Loring of Ashland Massachusetts and Parley Sheldon of Ames as receivers for the Fort Dodge Des Moines and Southern Railway company at the request of Old Colony Trust company Boston. The trust seeks foreclosure of a 3 million dollar mortgage from June 1907. The interurban firm claims solvency and inability to pay interest. Receivers are to operate the line and finish improvements begun weeks ago at Frazer and Fort Dodge.
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Des Moines
Smith McPherson
Homer Loring
Ashland
Mass
Parley Sheldon
Ames
Fort Dodge, Des Moines & Southern Railway Company
Old Colony Trust Company
Boston
Interurban Company
McPherson Atde
Frazer
Fort Dodge
Port Dodge, Des Moines and Southern Railway Company
Boone
Homer Toring
Old Colony Trust Company of
Ames, In
Congressmen Hear Iowa Protests on Rates
Iowa shippers protest that a Justice Department injunction obtained before Judge Dyer does not restrain rate increases to Iowa points. They note Missouri River points are covered but state points are not, and urge broader scope of the order.
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Washington, D. C
Congress
Iowa
Department of Justice
Dyer
Missouri River
Enginemen Favored in Wage Arbitration Decision
The federal arbitration board ruled for enginemen in the wage dispute with 27,000 workers and 49 railroads west of Chicago. It granted 60 percent of the 12 1/2 percent wage increase sought, resolving the long contested settlement.
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Chicago
Federal Arbitration Board
Arbitration Board
Reward Offered for Election Bribery in Des Moines
Des Moines June 6. A reward of 1000 is offered for the arrest and conviction of men guilty of election bribery and other illegal work in the primary Tuesday. The reward is offered by twenty three business men of Des Moines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Browne 19 Gives Up Bondsman Surrender in Lorimer Case
Browne indicted for bribery in the Lorimer election scandal is surrendered by Alderman John Powers. A writ of habeas corpus is set for Monday to challenge Cook County court jurisdiction. Two fishermen from Peoria and Pekin face grand jury questions about a fund to kill the fish bill as more indictments loom.
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Chicago
Lee O'Neil Browne
John Powers
Browne
Powers
Scanlan
Cook County Court
O'Donnell
Alderman Powers
P. H. O'Donnell
James Hartnett
Circuit Court
Haneey
Attorney O'Donnell
Springfield
Ill
Henry Lemm
John Dixon
Peoria
Pekin
Sangamon County
Burke
Dixon
Lord
Lemm
Hot Springs
Ark
Michigan bank closed in Plainwell by state examiner
Plainwell Michigan June 6 Citizens State Savings bank of Plainwell was closed by State Bank Examiner Zimmerman. A L Shepard cashier was charged with investing 28000 in Texas lands without director approval. J W Gilkey president of the bank says depositors will be paid dollar for dollar. Carrie Chapman Catt ill in New York after a serious operation in a private sanitarium.
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Plainwell
Mich
Ciizens
State Savings Bank of
Zimmerman
A. L. Shepard
Texas
J. W. Gilkey
Gilkey
Carrie Chapman Catt
New York
International Woman Suffrage Association
Fire destroys steamer City of San Rafael in bay
A small freight boat named City of San Rafael was burned to the water's edge in the bay near Alcatraz Island while plying between San Francisco and San Rafael. The incident occurred on June 6 with the vessel utterly destroyed. No further details on casualties or cause available in the report.
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San Francisco
San Rafael
Bay
Alcatraz Island
Rebels Hold Rama and Bluefields Proclaim Duties
American consul Thomas P. Moffat issued a proclamation demanding customs duties for the government in Bluefields as insurgents under General Mena gain ground at Rama. Madriz forces under General Chavarria suffer defeats, with casualties and a pursuit by Mena’s troops. Putnam, the American mine operator, captured. Venus considered inoperative to aid Madriz. Also, an Iowa electric line seeks protection after insolvency with $2 million in liabilities.
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Bluefields
Nicaragua
Mena
Rama
Chavarria
Madriz
Chamorro
Recree
Thomas P. Moffat
General Estrada
Cave
Custer
Bluff
United States
Bluefields Bluff
Custom House
Venus
Bluefielda
Atlantic
San Juan del Sur
William P. Putnam
Putnam
Boston
Noise planned for Roosevelt greeting on arrival in New York
New York June 6 Noise will be the chief feature of Roosevelt's arrival greetings on June 18 as the Androscoggin brings him up the bay. A 2 minute whistle salute from all welcome fleet ships will mark his approach while the naval parade is divided into 12 divisions. The patrol will include revenue cutters and various vessels commanded by Senior Captain C C Hamlet and Captain Frederick Mott. The National Federation of Jewish Organizations passes resolutions thanking Roosevelt for not visiting Russia or Roumania amid anti-Jewish sentiment, to be presented at a mass meeting protesting Kiel expulsions.
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New York
Theodore Roosevelt
Androscoggin
Roosevelt
United States Revenue
Key
C. C. Hamlet
Revenue Cutter Service
Frederick Mott
National Federation of Jewish Organizations
Russia
Roumania
Kiel
Mongrel Asiatic in Plight in San Francisco
Willie Wah, recently acquitted of leading a conspiracy to smuggle Chinese across the Mexico border, is deemed a man without a country after U.S. Commissioner Heacock refused deportation to China. Wah claimed his mother was Malay and he did not know his birth or his father’s nativity, speaking limited Chinese and English.
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San Francisco
Willie Wah
Mexico
United States
Heacock
China
Wah
Greek King in Rome Seeks Crete Freedom Aid
King George of Greece arrived incognito in Rome to confer with King Victor Emmanuel on Crete. He will urge Italy, as one of the four protecting powers, to help realize Cretan ideals. He says Crete’s ambitions are shared by the entire Greek world.
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Rome
George
Greece
Victor Emmanuel
Italy
Crete
University of Wisconsin President Refuses Court Appearance
Madison June 6 President BR Van Hise of the University of Wisconsin declined to appear in court to answer a charge of speeding in his car last Thursday. A warrant for his arrest was issued Saturday. Van Hise insists he has not been in his automobile for a week.
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Madison
Wis
BR. van Hise
University of Wisconsin
van Hisen
Fight Over Freight Rates Heads to Washington
Chicago June 6 in a rare clash between middle west shippers and railroad officials with plans for a Washington appeal to President Taft. A conference will be held in Chicago with John E. Wilder as chair as a secretive push to oppose rate increases continues. Plans call for continued action by the Illinois Manufacturers' Association and possible layoffs as road improvements pause.
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Chicago
Middle West
Washington
Taft
Ilinois Manufacturers’ Association
John E. Wilder
Gardiner R. Lathrop
Santa Fe Road
Railway Exchange
Chinese Merchants Object to Angel Island Conditions
San Francisco Chinese merchants, complaining of intolerable conditions at Angel Island immigration station, have forwarded a voluminous arraignment of the administration to Washington authorities. Peng Chu, editor of a Chinese paper, will present the complaint.
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San Francisco
Town Victim of Firebugs Hyden Ky Fire loss tops seventy five thousand
Hyden Kentucky reports more than half of its houses destroyed by an incendiary fire. The estimated loss reaches 75000 dollars, with the Hyden academy also burned about a month earlier, attributed to the same arsonists. Meanwhile in Detroit American Foundrymen association opens its annual convention with strong attendance and a large exhibit on the state fair grounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hyden, Ky
Hyden Academy
American Foundrymen
Sesalon
Detroit
Mich
American Foundrymen’s Association
McKinley Syndicate Buys Atchison Railway Properties
The McKinley traction syndicate led by Congressman William B. McKinley of Champaign reports purchase of the Atchison Railway Light and Power company properties for a sum between 500000 and 700000 dollars.
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Atchisan
Kan
McKinley Traction Syndicate
William B. McKinley
Champaign
Atchison Railway, Light and Power Company
Ex-Treasurer Held on Risk Fraud Charge
Max J. Frankel a real estate dealer and former treasurer of Spinoza lodge American Home Circle now merged with Fraternal Tribunes is held to the Rock Island county grand jury on embezzlement charges. Prosecutor Samuel Grossman alleges a 43 shortfall on September 20 1909 while Frankel was treasurer. Frankel denies the accusation stating he bore no treasury duty and that the lodge owed him 165 he paid out of pocket.
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Chicago
Max J. Frankel
West Division Streat
Branch Lodge
The
American Home Circle
Fraternal Tribunes
Rock Island County Grand Jury
Newcomer
West Chicago Avenue
Frankel
Samuel Grossman
North Kimball Avenue
Spinoza Lodge
Ohio bankers open twentieth annual convention in Columbus
In Columbus at ten o’clock President W. Hoffman called the twentieth annual convention of the Ohio Bankers association to order. Governor Harmon gave the welcome and Myron Herrick of Cleveland replied. Reports were heard, and Smith Bennett spoke on federal taxation. Delegates toured Arlington Country Club and a ball game in the afternoon.
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Columbus
W. ¥. Hoffman
Ohio Bankers’ Association
Board of Trade
Harmon
P. W. Huntington
Bankers of Columbus
Myron
F. W. Thomas
Toledo
B. W. Waltermire
Findlay
W. C. Thompson
Ohio State University
George Guckenberger
Cincinnati
A. M. Harris
Chicago
Supreme Court docket swells amid vacancies in Washington
The United States Supreme Court faces a backlog with one vacant seat for the year and another vacant for months. Today the docket includes 108 more cases than a year ago, though it trails the 1,800 cases seen in 1890 after the Evarts act. Now the docket stands with 588 cases.
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Washington
United States Supreme Court
Circuit Court of Appeals
New Pink Madagascar Beryl Shines in New York Jewels
In Maiden Lane the first importation of a pink Madagascar beryl brings praise from jewelers. The stone stands out for its distinct color and luster, delicate pink hue, and notable hardness. Also on view is the Madagascar green beryl in New York City.
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New York
Maiden Lane
New York City
Americans Drown at Sea In India Gulf of Cambay
Bombay reports two American Baptist missionaries Mise W Williams and Howard Bishop drowned during sea bathing in the Gulf of Cambay near Bulear, north of the city.
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Mise W. Willams
Howard Bishop
Gulf of Cambay
Bombay
The
American Baptist Society
Bulear
First Pellagra Case Reported in Western Arkansas
Pallagra in Arkansas Fort Smith June 6 The first reported Pellagra case in western Arkansas is noted at Fort Smith with patient identified as G. C. A. Thornhill a local manufacturer and the entry hints at the condition’s appearance in the region.
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Interurbans Bankrupt
Fort Dodge, Des Moines & Southern
Trust Company
Solon
Fish Bill
Michigan Bank
Oas
Wisconsin University
Denises
White House
EB. P. Ripley
Santa Fe
Manufacturers’ Association
Ilinois
Interstate Commerce Commission
Celestials
Golden Gate
Hyden
Academy
Max J. Frankel Muat
Grand Jury
Ohio Bankers
Supreme Court
Madagascar
India
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