Three Found Fatally Injured at Home in Marshall County
Ray Hardy aged 19 of Van Cleave is jailed on suspicion of murdering his father James Hardy and his mother Nevina Hardy and his brother Earl Hardy at the Hardy home four and a half miles south of Van Cleve. The bodies were found early Monday. authorities consider it a mysterious case with no clear motive.
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Marshalltown
Ray Hardy
James Hardy
Nevina Hardy
Earl Hardy
Hardy
van Cleve
Mabel Starnes
Hardys
Davenport seeks lumber rate cut to 21 cents
The Davenport Commercial Club petitioned the Interstate Commerce Commission to lower the lumber rate from the south from 23 cents to 21 cents, arguing the existing rate is unjust and unreasonable and referencing the former 21 cent Rock Island rate.
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Iowa
Washington
Commercial Club of
Davenport
Interstate Commerce Commission
South
Rock Island
Methodist Conference and Epworth League Meeting in June
The Oskaloosa district of the Iowa Methodist conference will meet with the Epworth League from June 20 to 24 in Oskaloosa Ia. Des Moines blocks on Des Moines streets will be decorated for the Grand Army of the Republic encampment a three day session begins Wednesday.
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Grinnell
Oskaoosa District
Iowa
The
Methodist Church
Epworth League
Oskaloosa
Des Moines
Grand Army of the Republic
Indictments Likely In Fish Bill Bribery Probe
State's Attorney Burke widens inquiry into a 75000 slush fund used to defeat the net weight package bill. Evidence links Chicago packing firms, a major baking concern, and beverage sellers to payments via Beardstown fishermen Traut and Schneer. Grand jury will hear witnesses including Ralph Lord and Charles Gridley as fish interests face scrutiny.
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Springfield
Burke
Kjellander
Chicago
House Committee On Manufactures
Albert Glade
Hits
Sangamon County
Mammoth Baking Concern
Btate
Frank J. Traut
Beardstown
Fred E. Schneer
Traut
Grand Jury
Ralph O. Lord
Henry Lemm
Pekin
Charles Gridley
Virginia
Chinese Pledged to Liberty or Death in Peking
Delegates to provincial assemblies in Peking demand an imperial decree to summon a national parliament immediately. The eight delegates pledge to die by their own hands if refused. Prince Chun, the regent, aims to delay a response, while merchants withhold stamp tax support to pressure the regime. The leaders fear foreign intervention if a drastic move sparks an antidynastic revolution.
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Peking
China
Prince Chun
Hague fisheries case opens arbitration session
The first business session of the arbitration tribunal to settle the Newfoundland fisheries dispute between the United States and Great Britain was held in The Hague on June 7. President Prof. Meinrich Lammasch of Austria presided as Sir Robert Finlay presented the British case while Senator Elihu Root led the U.S. delegation. The dispute stems from differing interpretations of the 1818 treaty.
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Arbitration Tribunal
United States
Great Britain
Meinrich Lammasch
Austria
Robert B. Finlay
Elihu Root
Shippers in Split on Rail War at White House
The Illinois Manufacturers association faces a split as railroads and makers of railroad equipment clash with agriculturist firms over rate hikes. John M. Glenn cites opposition from railroad equipment producers, while others unite against higher charges. Washington interest centers on President Taft as rail leaders seek to avert rate boosts amid higher wages and equipment costs.
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Chicago
Illinois Manufacturers’ Association
George M. Reynolds
Continental National Banrk
Board of Trade
Stlffois Manufacturers’ Association Committee
Glenn
John M. Glenn
Association
Omaha
Washington
New York
J. Pierpont Morgan
Mr. Perkins
Perkins
White House
Taft
Wage Increase Affects 27000 Railroad Firemen
The U S arbitration board under the Erdman law grants western locom otive firemen a wage rise averaging ten percent with variations from five to eighteen percent across engine types. The award covers every class of fireman on railroads west of Chicago to the Pacific and from the Rio Grande to the Canadian border, retroactive to May 16, 1910. The decision adds about 3 million dollars annually to payrolls and marks a broad victory for the firemen while underscoring the statute’s role in preventing rail strikes.
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Chicago
United States Arbitration Board
West
Pacific Coast
Rio Grande
Twenty Oil Firms Ready to Merge in Oklahoma Field
Kansas City June 7 nearly all details are set for a merger of twenty large oil producing companies in the Oklahoma field. The merged firm will own refineries and pipelines and control wells producing about 20 000 barrels daily, per Thomas Priestly of Bartlesville Oklahoma.
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Kansas City
Oklahoma Feld
Thomas Priestly
Bartlesville
Ohlo
Cotton drafts in protest in Liverpool banking case
Liverpool June 7 cotton men refuse to meet acceptances due Saturday arguing collateral security was fraudulent as courts seek responsibility of banking houses over defective bills of lading tied to Knight Yancey Co Decatur Ala. Hurled Through Wind Shield Denver June 7 seven year old Hdna Warner daughter of Louisa Warner hurled through windshield when auto driven by father hit a telegraph pole.
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Liverpool
Knight, Yancey & Co
Decatur
Ala
Denver
Col
Hdna Warner
Louisa Warner
Two Firemen Die in Warehouse Fire Near North River Front
In New York on June 7 a stubborn warehouse blaze killed two firemen and injured many as fumes overwhelmed crews. Ten men trapped on the fourth floor were pulled to safety after a backdraft. Timothy Cotter died on the sidewalk and William Healy perished inside the building. Three other injured firemen lay in serious condition at a hospital.
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New York
North River
Timothy Cotter
William Healy
Unidentified man found hanging near Youngstown
In Seattle on June 7 a body was found hanging from a tree near Youngstown. Police and the coroner believe the deceased is the man who had been frightening women and children for a week. His pockets held hay, suggesting forage as his sustenance. A second body was discovered in the neighborhood within two days.
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Seattle
Wash
Youngstown
Train kills Day Leader in Marshalltown Indicated
W D Elwell once leading figure in State Prohibition central committee was struck and killed by a Northwestern passenger train while walking from Marshalltown to LaMoille. He was widely known in prohibition circles and had held leadership roles.
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Marshalltown
W. D. Elwell
State
Prohibition Central Committee
Prohibition
Northwestern
LaMoille
McKeesport Ex-Mayor Seeks Primary Recount
Dr Robert J Black former mayor of McKeesport announces he will request a recount of the Pittsburg primary vote. The move follows disputes over vote totals and the outcome of the election.
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Pittsburg
Robert J. Black
McKeesport
Dalzell claims thirteenth term on GOP ticket in Pittsburgh
Congressman Dalzell of Pittsburgh insists he won the Republican nomination for Congress for a thirteenth term. Unofficial returns show Dalzell leading by 402, according to his managers. Congressman James Francis Burke won the Republican nomination in the Thirty-first district.
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Dalzell
Pittsburg
James Francis Burke
Bur bank Produces 2 Blooms in New Hybrid Poppy
San Francisco reports Luther Bur bank of Santa Rosa, famed as a plant wizard, unveils a perfected hybrid described as a huge poppy combining Shirley, tulip poppy, and four North African mountain varieties with an evening primrose, white, five inches across.
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San Francisco
Luther Burbank
Santa Rosa
North
Africa
Brother shot while rabbit hunting in Vincennes
Charles Dollihan accidentally shot his brother Albert Dollihan in the neck while punting a rabbit in Vincennes Indiana. The injuries proved fatal.
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Rabbit
Vincennes
Ind
Charles Dollihan
Albert Dollihan
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4Th and
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John H. Wood
BEN U. Wood Co
W. Savery
D. C. Herbert
East Fifth Street
Max Emmert
Musson
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C. G. Clark
State University of Iowa
R. A. Gamble
Opera House
Chas. D. Finley
C. L. Campbell
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A. S. Mullins
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Smiley’s Music Store
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