Charity conference opens in Buffalo with world issues focus
The National Conference of Charities and Correction began its largest session in 36 years in Buffalo, running June 9–16. Ernest P. Bicknell presided, outlining relief problems from Northwest fires, Southern floods, and Italian earthquakes while committees focus on defects, families, health, immigration, law breakers, publicity, statistics, supervision, and children.
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Buffalo
National Conference of Charities and Correction
Ernest P. Bicknell
National Red Cross
Washington
Italy
Henry H. Goddard
New Jersey Training School
Vineland
N. J
John S. Fulton
Philadelphia
Baltimore
W.S. Freeman
Denver
Col
William Jay Schieffelin
New York
George H. Leslie
Los Angeles
Peter H. Bryce
Ottawa
Can
Naughton Granted New Trial in Bribery Conviction
Jefferson City Mo June 9 Daniel E Naughton former assistant clerk of the St Louis house of delegates was granted a new trial on the bribery charge for which he was convicted in February 1908 by the Missouri supreme court.
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Jefferson City
Daniel E. Naughton
St. Louis House of Delegates
Missouri Supreme Court
Earthquake Recorded Distant Quake Tracked by Weather Bureau
Washington June 9 an earthquake estimated as four thousand miles away was recorded by the weather bureau possibly near northern Chile or the Aleutian islands.
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Washington
Chile
Aleutian Islands
Weather Bureau
French Navy Naval Program Approved for 600 Million
Paris June 9 report that the cabinet approved a ten year naval program with an expenditure of 600 million dollars. The plan outlines a decade of expenditures to enhance the French Navy.
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Paris
Hatters Strike Ends in Secret Settlement Pact
Danbury Conn June 9 The long hat factory strike ending five months and closing 22 plants in Danbury Bethel and New Milford is near an end with a settlement reached between about 15 manufacturers and the United Hatters executive boards. The agreement requires withdrawal from the National Association of Hat Manufacturers and sets 90 day return to work for union employees and arbitration of local disputes once withdrawal is effective.
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Danbury
Conn
Bethel
New Milford
United Hatters
Movement For
National Association of Hat Manufacturers
National Association
Floods Claim Four Lives Across Colorado
Denver reports heavy rains and melting snow triggering floods in multiple regions. Four fatalities recorded as swollen rivers disrupt train service and threaten water systems. Grand Junction faces an immense flood risk while Greeley areas flood along the Cache La Poudre. A dam southeast of Greeley bursts, flooding Englewood suburbs and causing property damage.
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Denver
Col
Grand Junction
Grand
Gunnison
Greeley
Cache la Poudre
Engiewood
Froman slain by ambush near Uniontown
Charles Froman was assassinated as he returned from a picnic at Oakland park near Uniontown Pennsylvania in company with Mrs Fanny Rodgers. Five shots were fired, four hitting Froman. County Detective McBeth arrested Rodgers on an alleged accessory charge and she was jailed. An hour before the shooting Froman reportedly argued with a man now being sought by authorities.
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Pittsburg
Oakland Park
Uniontown
Fanny Rodgers
Charles Froman
Froman
McBeth
Rodgers
Feud Slayers at Large in Breathitt County
Lexington Kentucky June 9 Ed Callahan feud leader shot during an attempt to kill his family in Breathitt county remained alive but paralyzed from the waist down and near death. Bloodhounds tracked the ambush men through the night as Callahan clan members gathered at his home signaling a possible renewal of feud troubles.
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Lexington
Ed Callahan
Breathitt County
Callahan
Hardwick Named Arbitrator in Georgia Railroad Firemen Dispute
In Atlanta on June 9 the strike of Georgia railroad firemen over seniority between whites and negroes moved to arbitration under the Erdman act. Congressman Thomas W. Hardwick of Georgia was announced as their arbitrator after the Georgia railroad refused proposed compromises on the negro question.
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Atlanta
Georgia Railroad
Thomas W. Hardwick
Georgia
As the Child Saw It at the Barber Shop
A three year old girl, Bernice, visited a barber for a trim and described a man who arrived while another man “put icing all over his face,” a child’s humorous reflection captured in The Delineator.
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Bernice
Air records broken in balloon endurance race
Indianapolis on June 9 reports the University City of St. Louis broke the 44 hour endurance mark in the national distance balloon race. Indiana’s balloon landed near Ashland City after 48 hours 55 minutes, winning the endurance trophy for Indiana. University City reportedly landed atop Lookout Mountain Alabama as pilots and crews claimed the finish.
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Indianapolis
Ind
University City
St. Louis
Lookout Mountain
Aero Club of America
University City of
Tennessee
John Berry
Paul McCullough
Indiana
Dickson
Tenn
Messrs. Fisher
Baumbaugh
Nashville
Carl Fisher
Fort Payne
Ala
Alabama
P. J. McCullough
Four Women Drowned in Sacramento River Accident
Knights Landing California June four women drowned when an automobile toppled into the Sacramento River after the driver lost control. The chauffeur was rescued. The dead include Mrs. W F Mixon wife of Woodland Mail editor Mrs J H Dungan postmaster of Woodland and Miss Meryl Dungan daughter of Mrs Dungan Mrs Julia Dungan sister in law. Joseph Armstrong the driver also of Woodland was thrown into the water but escaped.
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Knights Landing
Cal
Sacramento
W. F. Mixon
Woodland Mail
J. H. Dungan
Woodland
Meryl Dungan
Miss Mary Adele Cage Breaks Engagement with Spreckels
The engagement of concert singer Miss Mary Adele Cage to Claus Spreckels III of California has been broken. Cage will soon depart for Seattle alone.
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Claus Spreckels III
New York
Mary Adele Cage
California
Miss Case
Seattle
Seventeen Turks to Die for Adana Massacres
Constantinople reports the imperial trade confirms death sentences by court martial for 12 Moslems and five Armenians in connection with the Adana massacres last April.
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Constantinople
Adana
Fire destroys Decatur Cereal Plant in $650,000 loss
Fire on the sixth floor of the Decatur Cereal Company mill started by electrical wiring. The plant and an adjacent 100,000-bushel elevator were destroyed along with 80,000 bushels of corn. The blaze killed fireman John Sheehy as water pressure failed. The mill, a major Decatur employer, produced corn grits and starch.
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Decatur, HL
Decatur Cereal Company
Eldorado
Vandyke
Wabash
John Sheehy
Decatur
Wheat condition improves in June report from Agriculture
The department of agriculture reports June 1 crop conditions with spring wheat at 95.2 percent and winter wheat at 80.77 percent. Acreage sown totals show spring wheat at 18,931,000 acres with rye oats and barley also listed and year to year comparisons across ten year averages.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Funston Fights Burglar at Fort Leavenworth
Brig. Gen. Frederick Funston, commander of the army service schools, faced a revolver duel with a burglar in his Fort Leavenworth quarters. The intruder escaped unharmed after Funston, awakened from bed, fired three shots as the man fled.
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Gen. Funston
Two Racing Yachts Arrive in Hamilton Bermuda
Two yachts that sailed from New York last Saturday in the Bermuda race reached Hamilton Bermuda at a late hour on June 9. Reports from the motor boats that left New York the same day have not yet been received.
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Hamilton
Bermuda
New York
Arrest Five at Inquest in St Louis Corridor Killing
Five arrests were made among spectators at the inquest into the death of Fred Mohrie who was shot by Thomas Kane in the corridor of the Criminal Court building in St Louis Missouri.
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Fred Mohrie
Thomas Kane
Criminal Court
Taft as Mediator Presses for Tariff Cut Across Congress
June 9 report on Senator Newlands urging the president to send a special message backing tariff reductions. He argues a five to seven vote shift could secure further cuts to the Dingley rates and warns the president may clash with the Republican organization in the Senate. He stresses tariff reform as an economic, not partisan, issue and calls for action now before reform momentum fades.
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Washington
Senate
Congress
Newlands
Finance Committee
Roosevelt
Rhode Island
Waterspouts Cause Big Damage in Wyoming Floods
Cheyenne Wyoming June 9 More than fifty thousand dollars in property damage reported and the Pathfinder irrigation dam a federal project endangered by floods and waterspouts across Wyoming. authorities warn of further hazards.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Wyoming
Packing Company Loses Case in Des Moines Court
Des Moines June 9 Judge Howe of the district court of Iowa rendered a decision adverse to the Agar Packing Company which sued the Rock Island Railway Company for 350000 dollars alleging rebating and injurious rates charged.
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Des Moines
Howe
District Court of Towa
Agar Packing Company
Rock Island Railway Company
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United States
Canada
Pro
Jane Addams
Chicago
David A. Bressler
Grace Abbott
Emanuel Levine
Cleveland
Jeremiah Jenks
Ithaca
N. Y
Julian W. Mack
Samuel Fallows
W. Wirt Steele
J. B
BIG Hatters
Colorado
Uniontown, Pa
Hardwick
UNION
Ekr-Oeder
FRU Pre Press
Auto
Ill
Funston
Taft
Newland
Chas. A. Grubb
Attorney At Law
4Th and
Chestnut Streets
Atlantic
Iowa
C. B. Clovis
General Law
Melcher
G. R. Miller
Gillespie Building
Musson
C. G. Clark
R. A. Gamble
Osteopathic and Medical Physician
Upers House
T. B. Swan
Lowa
C. L. Campbell
Wood & Savery
John H. Wood
Ben A. Wood
A. S. Mullins
Opera House
Charles D. Finley
Josephine Cook-Finley
Butler
M. H. Butler
J. A. Giffen
C.thurman Furniture Company
W. M. Bailey
Bell
Chestnut St
D. O. Herbert
East Fifth Street
D. S. Disbrow
Peone
J.B. Rockafellow
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