Conference at the White House Ends with Resolutions
Washington May 16 Governors conference at the White House ended after an enthusiastic session adopting broad declarations with no permanent organization or specific legislative recommendations. A committee was named to thank the president and plan a future meeting while the next gathering may consider extradition marriage and divorce laws taxation and police power.
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Washington
White House
Willson
Kentucky
Folk
Missouri
Sheldon
Nebraska
Gov
Swanson
Virginia
Gov. Willson
Roosevelt
William J. Bryan
Cleveland
William Jennings Bryan
Gov. Blanchard
Louisiana
Committee On
Congress
Train Crash Near Muskogee Kills Seven on Flyer and Freight
A southbound Missouri, Kansas & Texas passenger train No. 5 the Flyer left St Louis Thursday night for Texas points and collided head on with a freight one mile east of Muskogee at noon Friday. Several cars were badly wrecked and caught fire. Six or seven persons are reported dead and several others injured.
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Muskogee
Okla
Missouri, Kansas & Texas
St. Louis
Texas
Whisky Warehouse Fire Destroys C A Hoover Distillery Warehouse
A hand fed warehouse of the C A Hoover distillery at Oskaloosa Iowa holding 2600 barrels of whisky was burned Friday. The Hoover distillery is the only operating distillery in Iowa. The warehouse will be rebuilt at once. Loss placed at 100090 dollars with 65000 dollars insured.
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Oskaloosa
C. A. Hoover
Hoover
Iowa
Doctors Hold Thaw Insane at Matteawan in Sanity Ruling
Poughkeepsie May 16 Harry Thaw, seeking habeas corpus to leave the Matteawan state asylum for the criminal insane, was deemed sane by two District Attorney experts. Dr Carlos F MacDonald called him incurably paranoiac and dangerous to public safety if released. Dr Amos T Baker, acting superintendent, said freeing Thaw would threaten public safety, noting Thaw’s peevishness over stimulants and smoking, a generally normal physical exam, and comments about past trials and chocolate eclairs. Baker recounted Thaw’s desire for gifts and piano tuning, lilies for Easter, and hymn books for patients, while Thaw noted observations and made notes during testimony.
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Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Harry IX. Thaw
Matteawan
Jerome
Carlos F. MacDonald
Thaw
Amos T. Baker
Baker
Mr. Jerome
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
Stanford White
Quake Recorded at Capital on May Report
A Washington weather bureau seismograph record shows an hour long earthquake that began at 3 39 52 am with the strongest motion at 8 55 am. Chief Willis L Moore estimates the epicenter about 3200 miles away with possibilities in Central America or the Pacific Ocean west of Central America. The preliminary tremors lasted six minutes forty seconds.
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Washington
Weather Bureau
Willis L. Moore
Bureau
Central America
Pacific Ocean
Thomas Surrenders Command of Atlantic Fleet
Admiral Charles M Thomas ends a 47 year naval career as his flag is lowered from the Connecticut and Admiral Sperry assumes command for the voyage home. The torpedo boat flotilla reaches Sacramento after inland travel and lepers on Molokai request sight of the ships.
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Sacramento
Molokai Island
San Francisco
Charles M. Thomas
Connecticut
Thomas
Charles S. Sperry
Alabama
E. N. Freeman
Capital
White
California
Honolulu
Molokai
Aldrich currency bill passes Senate in May vote
Washington reports the Senate approved the Aldrich currency bill by a 47 to 20 margin, substituting it for the Vreeland plan after brief consideration. The Finance Committee’s unanimous action to strike Vreeland and insert Aldrich changes sections 8 and 11, creates a National Monetary Commission, with mixed support among Democrats. The House later passed the omnibus public building bill totaling 23.1 million dollars.
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Washington
The
Senate
Senate Committee On Finance
House
Aldrich
Johnston Reserve
National Monetary Commission
Bailey
Noted Prince Arrives in Washington for Pleasure Trip
Prince Prospero Colonna of the Italian family arrives in Washington with his son Prince Mario Colonna from New York. He denies any plan for an international marriage, saying the visit is for pleasure and to let his son, who is studying, see America.
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Washington
Prince Prospero Colonna
Prince Mario Colonna
New York
America
Former Banker Sentenced in Bank Failure Case
Pittsburg Pa May 16 Thomas W Harvey former teller of the Entre prise National bank which failed years ago for nearly 2 000 000 surrendered to federal authorities Friday and was sentenced to seven years in the western penitentiary.
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Pittsburg
Thomas W. Harvey
Enterprise National Bank
United States Court of Appeals
Western Penitentiary
Accidents on the Increase in City Transit systems
New York reports from the public service commission show April street railways, subways, and elevated roads had 4,707 accidents, rising from January to March. A total of 2,386 people were hurt, including 1,671 passengers, 662 non passengers, and 503 employees, with 30 fatalities in April.
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New York
Public Service Commission
Detroit Business Man Dead After Streetcar Strike
Smith W. Ketchum, 65, a prominent Detroit businessman, died at Sisters' Hospital from a stroke attributed to injuries after being struck by a cab while boarding a street car Thursday night. He passed away Friday morning, according to Buffalo dispatches.
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Detroit
Buffalo
N. Y
Germans Seize English Vessel Taurus Near Amrum
The crew of the English steam fishing boat Taurus from Grimsby were arrested by a German torpedo boat and brought to Cuxhaven with the vessel after fishing near Amrum in the North Sea on May 16.
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Cuxhaven
Germany
Grimsby
England
Amrum
Prussia
North Sea
Wright Aeroplane Wrecked at Kill Devil Hill
Wright brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright faced disaster at Kill Devil Hill North Carolina after a record long flight ended with a wreck during alighting Wilbur escaped unharmed while Orville was not mentioned as injured in this report from Norfolk Virginia May 16
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Wright
Norfolk
Wilbur
Orville Wright
Kill Devil Hill
North Carolina
Wilbur Wright
Hunt
Elderly man shoots rival then kills himself in Pittsburg tragedy
Alois Linsmayer, 62, shot and likely fatally wounded George J. Gerstner, 22, and fired at Bertha Gebhardt, 16, her sweetheart. He then killed himself. The woman saw him as an older friend, not a lover.
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Pittsburg
Alois Linsmayer
George J. Gerstner
Bertha Gebhardt
Explosion of Lamp Is Fatal in Casteneau Home
Williamsport Pa May 16 Two persons were burned to death and another died in a hospital later and a fourth is missing as the result of a fire in the home of Joseph Lorenzo at Casteneau near here early Sunday. The fire followed an explosion of a lamp.
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Williamsport
Joseph Lorenzo
Casteneau
Here
Ex Illinois Congressman J H Rowell Dies at 75
Bloomington Illinois May 16 former Congressman J H Rowell died Friday at age 75. He served as a captain in the Civil War and was a noted public figure in Illinois politics.
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Bloomington
J. H. Rowell
Dentist Identifies Jawbone at Gunness Farm Mystery
A dentist, I P Norton, says a jawbone found at the Gunness farm matches a human lower jaw, with teeth removed and a gold-cuspid bridge. Investigators resume digging around the premises to locate more bodies while anonymous letters accuse a prominent citizen and threats target Prosecuting Attorney Smith.
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Laporte
Ind
Gunness Farm
Chicago College of Dental Surgery
Gunness
Smutzer Three
Schultz
Mack
Mrs. Gunness
New York
Cincinnati
Denver
St. Paul
Joliet
Worden
Darrow
R. N. Smith
United States
Pinkerton
Smith
Garden
Attorney Smith
Canal Workmen Fond of Pie at Isthmian Canal
Washington May 16 cake and pie supplied by the canal commissary are popular, with about 600 pies and 400 pounds of cake produced daily. Pies cost ten cents each and cake ten cents a pound. Attempts to ship fresh strawberries from New Orleans failed, while berries from Norfolk, Virginia, are now sent to the isthmus.
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Washington
Isthmian Canal
Canal Zone
New Orleans
Norfolk
Isthmus
Three mounted robbers loot Santa Fe railroad station
Three mounted men robbed the Santa Fe railroad station at Trench, New Mexico, of 35000 dollars. The incident adds to a string of early 20th century banditry in the Southwest as authorities investigate the daring heist and search for suspects.
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Santa Fe
Trench
N. M
Fritzi Scheff
New York
Baron von Bardeleben
Jacob Ritz
Oklahoma
State Labor Commission
Washington
Shanghai
William L. Franck
Lanark
Charles W. Rae
Annapolis
Federal Coal and Coke Company
Fairmont
W. Va
New England Gas and Coke Company
Boston
Florence Fairview Wieland
Rensselaer
N. Y
Federal Grand Jury
Denver
Wyoming
Roosevelt authority upheld in Brownsville soldier case
In New York on May 16 Judge Hough ruled the president may summarily dismiss a negro soldier from the Twenty fifth Infantry for riot involvement. Oscar W. Reid sued for 122 wages from dismissal to enlistment end, but the court directed judgment for the government, supporting the president's right.
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New York
Roosevelt
Twentyfifth Infantry
Brownsville
Tex
Hough
United States District Court
Oscar W. Reid
Stimson
Indicted on Arson Charge in Colchester Fire Case
Walter Farmer, a leading Colchester merchant, was indicted in Macomb on four arson counts alleging he set fires that destroyed a quarter of Colchester’s business district. He posted bonds signed by Colchester business leaders and Macomb bankers after the indictment on Friday.
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Macomb, Ill
Walter 3. Farmer
Colchester
Ind
Farmer
Macomb
Canadian Banker Shoots Self in Forest Ont
Montague Smith of L. H. Smith & Co. a private banker and liberal candidate for Tampton, committed suicide by shooting himself in the head in Forest Ontario on May 16. No motive is known.
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Forest,Ont
Montague Smith
L. H. Smith & Co
Tampton
Markets Show Mixed Wheat Decline and Stable Flour Prices
Chicago trade reports softening wheat with July at 89 90, September at 86 86 1 2c, and May near 1.00. Corn and oats also sold off while butter eggs and potatoes move within normal ranges. New York flour remains steady, Argentine shipments dampen wheat, with July futures around 98 7 16 9 1 6 cents and rye steady at No 2 Western.
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Chicago
Minnesota
New York
Live Stock Prices at Chicago May 16
Live stock quotes list catt le and hogs with ranges for different grades. Cattle show prime steers at 6.75 to 7.25 and various grades down to common stockers, while hogs range from 4.35 to 5.45 for heavy packing to light barrows and sows, with pigs at 1.00 to 5.15.
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Chicago
South Omaha cattle and hog markets steady in mid May
Cattle market in South Omaha shows steady to firm tone with ranges for natty steers around 4.85 to 6.85, cows and heifers 3.00 to 5.10, western and Tex steers near 3.00 to 5.25, and calves at 2.21. Hog market similar with heavy at 5.20, mixed around 5.15, pigs 4.25 to 5.00, and bulls near 5.26. Sheep follow steady with yearlings 5.50 to 6.10, wethers 5.20 to 6.10, ewes 1.60, lambs 6.50 to 7.60.
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South Omaha
Neb
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