Central Bank Plan Dominates Iowa Bankers Session
Sioux City man G. John McHugh defeated S. M. Leach of Adel to become president of the Iowa Bankers association at Des Moines closing sessions. Leslie M. Shaw urged elasticity in currency and warned against a central bank. Mason City won the convention for 1911 with Cedar Rapids invited for 1912.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux City
S. M. Leach
Bankers” Association
Mason City
Des Moines
Leslie M. Shaw
Shaw
Mr. Shaw
Chase
John McHugh
Iowa Bankers’ Association
Adel
McHugh
Leach
Gilger E. MacKinnon
T. W. Hall
Sheldon
Hall
D. B. Allen
Arlington
Cedar Rapids
Armed Posse Hunts Girl Assailant Near Marshalltown
Miss Edna Dever a 19 year old domestic at the L. J. Chevelle home five miles south of Marshalltown was assaulted by an unknown man who bound her with rope and left her unconscious in the kitchen. Sheriffs and officers hunted for the attacker as details remained unclear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshalltown
Edna Dever
L. J. Chevelle
Atlantic Man In Trouble Over Family Mistreatment
Harlan June 18. Harl Deen of Atlantic was brought to this city from Lake Mills where Sheriff J J McMinn arrested him on a charge of family mistreatment. Charles Neff, father of an 11 year old girl and cousin of Deen, filed the charge. The girl became a mother about a month ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic
Harlan
Harl Deen
Lake Mills
J. J. McMinn
Charles Neff
Deen
Laughlin Criticizes Taft At Drake University
Prof James Lawrence Laughlin of Chicago University assailed President Taft as a tolerated weak and well intentioned failure in his commencement address at Drake University. He spoke to the graduating class on the subject of Leadership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laughlin
Taft
Des Moines
James Lawrence Laughlin
Chicago University
Drake University
Deaf Mute Struck by Town Train in Marshalltown
Mrs Lawrence James a deaf mute aged 45 and mother of six was fatally injured when struck by a Town Central passenger train in Marshalltown Iowa June 18. Her skull was fractured and both ankles broken with severe bruising.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshalltown
Lawrence James
Town Central
Lodgemen Meet at St. Joseph
The thirty eighth annual assembly of Knights of the Red Cross of Constantine opened in St. Joseph with high Masons attending from many parts of the United States. Woman Kills Self By Drinking Acid. Pauline Duckstein, 28, a farmer's daughter from near Burlington, died by suicide drinking carbolic acid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Joseph
Knights of the Red Cross of Constantine
United States
Burlington
Pauline Duckstein
Woman Kidnaps Daughter Mystery in Des Moines
Des Moines authorities and detectives search the city for 10 year old Margaret Mills who was reportedly kidnapped from Whittler school by her mother Mrs Jennie Mills. The case prompts a city wide manhunt and public notices for clues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Link Makes Speech In Lorimer Bribery Trial
Chicago June 15 Representative Michael S Link author of confession No 3 in the Lorimer bribery scandal took the witness stand in Lee O Neil Brownes trial In the dramatic session Link testified he with White and Beckemeyer voted for Lorimer and received 1000 from Browne The defense pressed him about the money and he said no money was promised nor explained when paid He launched a campaign speech for Lorimer and attacked Governor Deneens waterway plan The session featured lawyer squabbles as Beckemeyer also testified Simultaneously Representative R H E Wilson was ordered to appear for trial A woman witness Mollie Vandeveer appeared for the state while Katherine Woods prepared for the defense Wilson also faced perjury allegations and possible replacement by another candidate in his ward
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Michael S. Link
Lorimer
Lee O'Neil Browne
Link
White
Beckemeyer
Browne
St. Louis
Southern
Springfield
Mr. Lorimer
Deneen
H. J. C. Beckemeyer
Forty-second
P. H. O’donnell
Miss Vandeveer
Katherine Woods
Wilson
Fee
Robert BE. Wilson
General Assembly
Matthias Aller
Train Kills Aged Couple in Mount Vernon
A Chicago and North Western fast mail struck Mr and Mrs Phillip Johnson both 70 of Broken Bow Ta while they stood on a street near Mount Vernon visiting relatives. They were killed instantly after alighting from an east bound train and stepping in front of one moving opposite.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Phillip Johnson
Broken Bow
Chicago & Northwestern
Mount Vernon
Walks In Sleep to Death in Sixth Floor Window
New York report of P. T. Bradder a seventy nine year old retired businessman who walked in his sleep and fell from an open window in his sixth floor apartment. He was instantly killed with relatives noting a lifelong somnambulism.
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New York
P. T. Bradder
Hog drive brutalizes farmer in Sterling Illinois
Hungry hogs killed and mutilated Charles Anderson, a farmer in Sterling. On June 18 a drove of hogs mauled the man, eating both arms, and his body was found afterward.
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Sterling
Ill
Charles Anderson
Jeffries Johnson Fight Set for Goldfield July Fourth
Rickard reports a telegram from Morris Sullivan offering $120000 to promote the Jeffries Johnson bout in Goldfield Nev on July 4. California authorities vow no fight will be held in the state while Goldfield remains the likely site. Hotel men protest attempts to block the match as Johnson gains two pounds to 216.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Rickard
Morris Sullivan
Goldfield
Nev
Jeffries-Johnson
Sullivan
Richard
Nevada City
Gillett
Gillet
California
Jeffries
Johnson
Webb Bays
Jack Johnson
George Little
Chicago Missionary Drive Reaches $226000 This Year
At the Chicago Laymen's Missionary Movement meeting the executive committee announced that foreign missions have received $226,308 this year from the May 2 convention. Organizers expect to reach $500,000 by year end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Chicago Laymen’s Missionary Movement
Kaiser Rests Easy After Knee Tendon Inflammation
Imperial physicians report Kaiser’s condition is not worrying. The emperor suffers tendon inflammation at the knee caused by horseback riding, with Potsday set for June 18.
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Kaiser
Churches Unite to War on Socialism
New York June 18 an organization to fight Socialism was formed in All Saints parish house with Rev Dr Thomas R Slicer as key figure. Rev Dr John Wesley Hil is president Archbishop Ireland is first vice president and Herman A Metz treasurer. The group seeks to show Americans the clash between traditional religion and socialist ideals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Thomas R. Slivers
All Saints
John Wesley Hil
Metropolitan Temple
Archbishop Ireland
Herman A. Metz
W. H. O'Connell
Boston
Earl Cranston
Washington
Henry White Warren
Denver
W. F. Mallalieu
Auburndale
Mass
James H. Darlington
Harrisburg
H. J. Lavelle
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
William 5. Bennett
Thomas R. Slicer
Boy Loses Life On Wager On Railroad Trestle
In Punxutawney Pennsylvania seven year old Little John Allison and companion seven year old John Sugars stood on a Buffalo Rochester and Pittsburg trestle as a fast train neared. Sugars leaped to safety while Allison slipped and fell under the engine, dying.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Punxeytawney, Pa
John Allison
John Sugars
Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg
Sugars
Allison
Man leaps from train to avoid lynching
Kansas City dispatch reports James Chapman, a negro, fled a speeding train near Shannon Iowa to escape transfer to Stillwater Oklahoma for murder. He suffered a broken left arm in two places a facial cut a sprained neck and bruises from the fall while sheriff W A Fox pursued him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Stillwater
W. A. Fox
James Chapman
Shannon
Roosevelt Home Welcome Sparks Nationwide Pageant
Theodore Roosevelt returned to the United States amid a grand welcome in New York Harbor and Battery Park. A flotilla of ships, bands, and crowds accompanied the former president as he landed, with Mayor Gaynor and other dignitaries applauding. A city parade through Broadway and Fifth Avenue followed, organized to balance wide demand to participate, featuring 600 Rough Riders and extensive civic displays. Mrs Roosevelt joined a luncheon at Sherry's, while Taft was unavoidably absent from the welcome events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt
New York Harbor
Republican Club of
Hamilton Club
Chicago
Coast Line
Wanderer
Colonel Roosevelt
Ts. Longworth
Ethel
Kermit
Teddy
Twenty-third Street
Battery
Manhattan Island
Gaynor
Battery Park
Mr. Roosevelt
Taft
Maine
California
Gulf
Great Lakes
Harlem River
Mounted Police
Robert Hunter
Oklahoma City
Broadway
Fourth Street
Fifth Avenue
Fifty-ninth Street
Donald McLean
Daughters of the American Revolution
Sherry’s
Women’s names on ballots sanctioned in Wisconsin
Madison June 18 Attorney General Frank L. Gilbert rules any Wisconsin woman may have her name on the official ballot for county offices. He leaves open whether women may hold offices beyond superintendent of schools, a question for the supreme court. The Ashland case involved Mrs Nettie M Archibald seeking county treasurer. Wisconsin grants suffrage for school officer elections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Wis
Frank L. Gilbert
Wisconsin
Supreme Court
Ashland County
Nettie M. Archibald
Girl Kidnapped in Vendetta in Detroit Case
Detroit on June 18 reported a kidnapping that touched off a wide search by city and sheriff’s deputies for Josie Bomelita, believed seized from her father by a band of Italians amid vendetta. Several men arrested were released while friends of Joe Leone claimed gunfire erupted as the couple rode home in a taxicab, the crowd remarking that everyone was happy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Mich
Detroit Price and Sheriff's Department
Josie Bomelita
Joe Leone
Man in Mounting Frenzy Tries Fatal Harm in Billings
John Matar of near Billings Montana, suffering a fit of temporary insanity, set fire to a stable and his house while holding one child across a block. He then attacked officers with a butcher knife, hacked at his throat, and was overpowered. He is expected to die from injuries.
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Billings
Mont
John ¥. Matar
Acquits Dr Ida M Guthrie in Newton dynamiting case
Dr Ida May Guthrie of Carthage Ill was acquitted by a Newton jury on a charge of dynamiting the Newton area house where her former admirer Dr Alexander Hall and his bride slept. She testified she was in Prairie City to locate a site and left for Carthage after the trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dez Moines
Ida May Guthrie
Carthage
Ill
Newton
Alexander Hall
Guthrie
Prairie City
Hall
Train Conductor Is Believed Dead In River Tragedy
Divers search the Susquehanna river for the body of William Bissel conductor of a fast Ulster and Delaware train. He was on the platform of the front car when a sudden tilt on a curve at a bridge hurled him under the wheels, and his body dropped into the river.
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Oneonta
N. Y
Susquehanna River
William Bissel
Ulster & Delaware Railroad
Bissel
Auto Casualty List Grows in June Report
Five persons killed and 48 injured by automobiles in the first half of June, per a report by Sergeant Horace Elliot of the bureau of records to Chief of Police Steward. The month’s start suggests June may exceed May in accidents.
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Chicago
Horace Elliot
Bureau of Records
Aldrich's Son Ill in New York Typhoid Fever
Richard C. Aldrich, son of Senator Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island, is ill with typhoid fever at Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. The illness was reported from New York on June 18.
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Aldrich
Lil
New York
Richard 3. Aldrich
N. W. Aldrich
Rhode Island
Presbyterian Hospital
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