Hague Peace Plan Praised by Lake Mohonk Conference
The fourteenth Lake Mohonk Conference on international arbitration applauded the Hague conference work and noted 50 arbitration treaties in recent years. Highlights include calls for obligatory arbitration, an international court of prize, and a permanent court of arbitral justice. Speakers included Takahira and Henry C. White. the platform urged peaceful, legal settlements and elimination of war causes. Also reported: William Deane Wilde charged with bigamy in Los Angeles.
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Boke Mohenk
N.Y
Mohan
Langue Canterenes
Tligue
Raron Koroge Takahira
United States
Henry C. White
We University of Georgia
Swain
Swarthmore College
William P. Rogers
Taw School
University of Cincinnati
Lake Mohonk
Hirther
Lake Malone
New Haven Railroad Accused Of Regional Monopoly
Washington reports United States District Court in Boston heard a petition filed by Attorney Prouch against the New York New Haven Hartford Railroad and others. The filing claims a combination and monopoly under the Sherman act, alleging New Haven controls about 300 of 600 Connecticut miles and large shares in Rhode Island Massachusetts and Boston & Maine, suppressing competition and dominating New England land transportation.
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Washington
New York, New Hinton & Hartfort
Fea
Seston & Maine Railroad
New Haven Road
United States District
Prouch
United States Fivewolt
Boston
New York, New Sirven & Siartford Riachwodd Company
Boston & Maine Railroad
Fuston & Maine
New England
Geston & Albany
Vermont
New Haven Company
New Fluweu Company
United States
Campaign contribution publicity bill passes House with Crumpacker amendment
Washington May 23 The house approved a bill requiring publicity for campaign contributions by 160 to 125 The Crumpacker amendment would reduce congressional representation in southern states He argued the amendments target fraud and intimidation and guard ballot purity while asserting no member would oppose a law to ensure honest elections.
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Washington
House
Camnpacker
Senate
Crumpacker
Aldrich currency commission plan gains committee support
Washington May 23 The house committee on finance and currency voted to recommend passage of the Aldrich Joint resolution creating a currency commission. The senate had passed the measure. Amendments proposed to enlarge the commission beyond 18 members were defeated to avoid a conference.
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Washington
House Committee On
Senate
Two Die in Sugar Refinery Blast in Paris
A powerful explosion in the grinding room of the Say Sugar refinery in a seven story building near the Orleans railroad depot killed two workers and injured 42 others. The blast occurred just after the shift began, with the force described as tremendous.
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Paris
Say
Orleans
Tragic Baseball Injury and Editor Found Dead
In Hersheywood on Thursday, 11 year old Ralph C. Bare was struck in the chest by a line drive during an exciting baseball game and died almost immediately. Clarence R. Pant, 65, editor of the Illinois State Journal, was found dead in his room Thursday night by a valet in Springfield, Illinois.
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Wpilisburg
Haxehwood
Ralph C. Bare
Wiineis
Springfield
Clarence R. Pant
Six Murders Charged Against Dowagiac Suspect in 1907 1908 Case
South Bend Ind May 23 James Brimmingstall age 40 is under arrest at Dowagiac Mich charged with six murders. Police say he confessed to five and may confess to others as his wife survived a bid to make him seventh victim. Prosecutor Bresnahan expects further sweat box examinations. The list includes David Huff Dowagiac 1907 and Smith Hortium Dowagiac 1908 plus two unnamed men in Missouri and a man in Kansas. Authorities note Huff deeded Brimmingstall property for life care and was found dead after a midnight scuffle in an upper room. A missing Hortium body was located frozen in a stream with money missing. The case links Brimmingstall to an earlier killing and possible motive remains under investigation.
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South Bend
Ind
James Brimmingstall
Dowagiac
Mich
Bresnahan
Brimmingstall
Summingstall
Missouri
David Huff
Smith
Huff
Smith Hortium
Hortium
Miners to Return to Work After Strike Endorsement
Thirty five thousand coal miners from Missouri Kansas Oklahoma and Arkansas members of the United Mine Workers of America will resume work early next week after their states miners convention ratified the joint sub committee's agreement with operators. Four killed and fifteen injured in trolley collision at Brooklyn Bridge end Manhattan. three cars wrecked. Elks close Peoria convention election names officers and parade marked by a monster procession and banquet with Andrew Aison named president.
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Kansas City
Missouri
Kansas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
United Mine Workers of America
New York
Manhattan
Brooklyn Bridge
Andrew Webbe
William F. Wagge
George McGuinness
George Smith
Brooklyn
Sinois Elke
Peoria
Ill
Elks
Affleets
Phice
Andrew Aison
Moline
Sparks Dies Governor of Nevada at 62
Gov. John Sparks of Nevada died at his ranch near Reno after a long illness from Bright's disease. Born August 1848 in Mississippi, he had served as governor since 1902. Don Dickerson, age 34, becomes Nevada's new governor, reportedly the youngest in state history, as official mourning and funeral preparations began.
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Reno
Nev
John Sparks
Nevada
Don
Dickerson
Gov. Sparks
California
Roosevelt
Mae Wood Remains in Jail After Perjury Charge
Mae C. Wood of Omaha stays jailed in default of $4,000 on perjury charges linked to a divorce suit against United States Senator Thomas C. Platt. Despite her claim of influential Washington friends ready to help, no bail effort was seen Friday as she remained confined.
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New York
Mae C. Wood
United States
Thomas C. Platt
Miss Wood
Washington
Ship subsidy killed amid post office bill clash
Washington May 23 The house rejected the conference report on the post office appropriation bill by 147 to 155 sealing the defeat of ship subsidy support. Hobson of Alabama lamented breaking with Democrats yet urged the subsidy as essential to national interests. Chicago May 23 Mrs Anna Wenter’s divorce bid against Frank Wenter yielded sensational testimony on alleged infidelities before Judge Gibbons and a decree ordered. Paris May 23 France may be forced to recognize Mulai Hafid as Morocco’s legitimate sultan as he nears Fez and the three capitals Morocco City Fes and Mequinez potential control.
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Washington
House
Post Office
Hobson
Ala
Chicago
Anna Wenter
Frank ‘Wenter
Gibbons
France
Hafid
Paris
Fez
Mulai Hafid
Morocco
Fes
Mequinez
Lynching Reported in Meridian Suspect near Macon
A Meridian dispatch says Lewis Watson, the Negro who killed a policeman named White, was surrounded in the Tombigbee swamp near Macon Alabama and was lynched by a mob.
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New Orleans
Meridian
Miss
Lewis Watson
Policeman White
Tombigbee
Macon
Ala
Explosion Kills Several in Paris Refinery Blast
Paris reports an explosion at a Say sugar refinery on Friday. Several people are dead and police say about 40 are wounded as rescue crews search the site and secure the area.
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Paris
Say
Divorce cloud shifts votes at Methodist bishops ballot
At the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Baltimore Maryland on May 22 two bishop ballots were held neither elected a bishop but Rev Charles L Goodell of Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church New York saw his position drop from five to ten amid a divorce scandal He claimed the split was political and not moral He said his first wife died before his second marriage and asserted no remarriage until after her death
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Baltimnore
Mad
Methodist Episcopal Church
Charles L. Goodell
Calvary Methodist Eiscopal Church
New York City
Dr. Goodell
Dn Coodell
Gosdell
Providence
Indictments Against Ray Lamphere in Gunness Murders
In Laporte Indiana on May 28 grand jury indicted farm hand Ray Lamphere on seven counts for the murders of Mrs Belle Gunness Philip Gunness Lucy Sorensen and Myrtle Sorensen plus arson in destroying the Gunness house and the murder of Andrew Helgelein with an additional charge of accessory in Helgelein's murder Coroner Mack Friday meanwhile filed a report dated May 23 declaring the deaths of Philip Gunness Myrtle Sorenson and Lad Berghat Sorenson felonious homicides with the perpetrators unknown.
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Laporte
Ind
Ray Lamphere
Belle Gunness
Philip Gunness
Lucy Sorensen
Myrtle Sorensen
Gunness
Andrew Helgelein
Philip Alexander Gunness
Myrtle Adolphine Sorenson
Ladh Berghat Sorenson
Typographical Union Reelects Lynch Hayes Bramwood
In Indianapolis at the International Typographical Union headquarters, it was stated late Thursday that President James M. Lynch, Vice President Hayes, and Secretary-Treasurer J. W. Bramwood are likely reelected. This conclusion follows from over 100 telegrams received at national headquarters showing locals' votes.
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Indianapolis
Ind
International Typographical Union
James M. Lynch
Hayes
J. W. Bramwood
American squadron honored by Tokyo officials in public reception
Rear Admiral Hemphill and the visiting American officers receive marked attention from Japanese officials. The functions in their honor rival a public reception in scale and formality, reflecting warm wartime diplomacy during the Tokyo visit.
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Tokyo
Hemphill
Miners Rescued After Lightning Strikes Superior Coal Mine
Lightning struck the shaft of the Superior Coal mine at Ogle Station near Belleville Michigan imprisoning the night shift of 100 men for almost an hour before they were rescued.
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St. Louis
Superior
Ogle Station
Belleville
Levee Bursts Drive 25 Families From Homes
Floods after a cloudburst broke the Illinois levee near Havana on Friday forcing 25 families to flee. Damage from the incident totals about 10,000 dollars.
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Havana
Illinois
Here
Telegraphic Brevities Update From an Early 20th Century Issue
The brief items report Britain’s Orphan Working School’s 150th anniversary, Minnesota Governor Johnson urging inland waterway spending, Paterson New Jersey suing a New York magazine over an anarchist label, St Petersburg editor Sinfrinoff predicting Russia’s exile surge, a Vallejo arrest of a stowaway dancer Olga Istlo from San Pedro, Mrs Rosie Arotwald's 107th birthday party at New York’s Home of the Daughters of Jacoby, with attendees including a 106 year old man and a 112 year old woman.
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Britain
Orphan Working School
John A. Johnson
Minnesota
National Cotton, Manufacturers’ Association
McBride
Paterson
N. J
King
New York
Alexis Sinfrnoff
St Petersburg
Russia
Olga Istlo
Vallejo
Cal
San Pedro
Hopkins
Rosie Arotwald
Daughters of Jacoby
New
Shurtliff Named Third Arbitrator In Street Car Strike
In Cleveland on May 23 the Young Men's Christian Association secretary George K. Shurtliff was announced as the third arbitrator for the street railway dispute. The Carmen’s union vice president said the selection is satisfactory. Strikers now decide to ratify or reject the arbitration panel. An affirmative vote will end the strike on an armistice pending full settlement by the arbitrators.
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Cleveland, O
Qoorga Kk
Lusitania Breaks Trans-Atlantic Speed Records
The Cunard liner Lusitania set new Trans Atlantic records for average speed and shortest trip on the long course, arriving in New York in heavy fog. She anchored off the Sandy Hook lightship four days, 20 hours and 22 minutes after passing Daunt Rock.
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New York
Cunard
Sandy Hook
Daunts Rock
Flood Swamps Red River Bottom After Levee Break
In Red River levee district No 1 the levee broke Friday flooding the bottom south of the Cotton Belt railway. The sudden flood left residents at mercy of rising waters. Livestock perished and several Black residents are reported drowned in the disaster.
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Arkansas
New Lewisville
Ark
Red River
Cotton Belt Railway
Markets Report May 22 Wheat Flows and Butter Prices
Markets dated May 22 show flour and wheat prices steady with diverse grades and regions. Wheat futures open steady in New York with May at 1.07 3/4 and July at 1.01 4. corn declines, butter and eggs list varied retail and dairy grades, while potatoes and live poultry prices cover multiple classes.
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Waleago
Minnesota
Prica
Live Stock and Hogs Price Report May 22
Live Stock Chicago May 22 with cattle prices by grade. Cattle ranges from 2.50 to 6.25 in various categories. Hogs show heavy packers at 6.45 to 5.60 and other hog types between 2.76 and 6.25. Omaha data lists cattle and hog prices with slow cattle trade and mixed hogs. Sheep prices in Omaha and Chicago show steady to higher ranges for yearlings and lambs.
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Chicago
Omaha
Neb
Texas
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Hague
Lake Mohoin
Tuos Angeles
Willam Deane Wilde
No Ya
Sunset Telephone Company
Baron Takahira
New Haven and Hartford Company
House Committee
Rockford
Lilley
George L. Lilley
Connecticut
Aarars Eee Ny
Dowagian
Sparks
Bright
D. S. Dickerson
Mae Wood
Platt
Charles Goodell
Methodist Episcopal
Cleveland
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