Foreman Whirled to Death in Minneapolis Plant
In St Paul on July 18 foreman Martin Casperson, 34, of Minneapolis, was killed at the St Paul Boiler and Manufacturing Co. He and witness Chris Olmscheid drilled holes in a steel drum when the drum shifted. Casperson's clothes were caught on the shaft, tearing his clothes from his body and crushing his head. Olmscheid shut off power but could not save him.
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St. Paul
Martin Casperson
Minneapolis
St. Paul Boiler and Manufacturing Company
Caspersen
Chris Olmscheid
Minneapolis police dismissals tied to city liquor action
Mayor Haynes dismissed Patrolman Walsh and revoked Briggs saloon license amid Minneapolis robbery case fallout. Arrest warrants issued for Fred A. Briggs and A. H. Denson on highway robbery and burglary charges following the double shooting that killed Patrolman Olinger and Jerry McCarthy. Prosecutors say Walsh drank with Briggs as McCarthy staged a street robbery, with a Briggs gift watch found on McCarthy.
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Minneapolis
Haynes
Fred A. Briggs
A. H. Denson
Olinger
Jerry McCarthy
Yegree
J. J. Walsh
Briggs
McCarthy
Martin Brennan
Benson
Walsh
Brennan
Publicity bill passes Senate limits campaign spending
The Senate adopted a sweeping publicity bill setting caps on campaign spending. It limits senatorial campaigns to 10,000 dollars and House campaigns to 5,000 dollars, requires disclosure of all contributions and expenditures, and bans promises of political jobs. The bill also mandates pre election publication and potential conference with the House.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
House of Representatives
House
Committee On Privileges and Elections
Bacon
Bailey
Bankhead
Johnston
Bryan
Overman
Taylor
Reed
Missouri
Dent Resolution Endorsed Calling Dismissal of Two Officials
Washington reports the house committee on state department expenditures adopted a favorable Dent resolution. It asserts the state department unlawfully used emergency funds for portraits and urges dismissal of Consul General W. I. Michael of Calcutta and Distributing Officer Thomas Morrison over a $1,600 unaccounted sum tied to a $2,450 painting of former Secretary Day. Michael was chief clerk.
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Washington
Dent
Alabama
State Department
W. i. Michael
Calcutta
Thomas Morrison
Department
House Committee
House
Morrison
Michael
Day
Publicity bill discussed in Senate debate
Washington on July 18. Senator Heyburn of Idaho said a bill requiring disclosure of campaign spending would virtually endorse buying election. Senator Lodge of Massachusetts argued the law should reveal money spent and how it is handled to show accountability.
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Washington
Senate
Heyburn
Idaho
Lodge
Massachusetts
Blaze Destroys Smith Lumberyard Timber in La Crosse
Fire started likely by boys in Smith Manufacturing lumber sheds destroyed 39000 dollars worth of finished timber used for wagon construction and wrecked a block long building. City crews battled a stiff wind but confined the blaze to the Smith storehouse with full department effort.
Plans for Spiritual Hospital Planned in Chicago Area
Bishop Quayle of the Methodist Episcopal church proposes an open air spiritual hospital or refuge near Chicago for men and women struggling with temptations in big cities. The plan will be discussed at the fifty second annual Chicago Methodists camp meeting opening next Wednesday at Des Plaines.
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Chicago
Quayle
Methodist Episcopal Church
Chicago Methodists
Des Plaines
Lee McClung Turns Over Immense Sum to New Assistant Treasurer
Lee McClung transfers control of a vast sum to a newly appointed assistant treasurer amid ongoing financial oversight. The move signals a restructuring within the organization and aims to stabilize fiscal management.
Large New York Subtreasury Receipts Signed
Receipts totaling 133,471,617 dollars in cash were signed for Charles S. Millington after he assumed charge of the New York sub treasury on June 17. The balance covered by United States Treasurer McClung shows the vaults at that time held the sum and the account balanced to a cent.
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New York
Charles 8S. Millington
United States
Millington
McClung
George S. Terry
Panama
Dismissal of Dr. Wileys Staff Member for Insubordination
Floyd W. Robinson, a New York based expert on Dr. Harvey W. Wiley’s chemistry bureau, was dismissed June 30 for insubordination. Secretary Wilson said the act involved defying a policy banning benzoate of soda in foods unless labeled, and the move was separate from any Wiley board recommendation.
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Washington
Floyd W. Robinson
Harvey W. Wiley
Bureau of Chemistry
Department of Agriculture
Wiley
Robinson
New York City
Michigan
Department
Wilson
Departments of Agriculture, Treasury and Commerce and Labor
Pettit Will Filed for Probate in Chicago
The will of James Pettit head of the Peavey Grain firm was filed for probate. It leaves all property not exceeding 25000 to his wife Sadie Prescott Pettit and their son William Prescott Pettit. Pettit drowned July 8 in mysterious circumstances amid firm debts of about 1200000. The document dates to October 13, 1910, when he knew the company owed far more than could be repaid.
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Chicago
James Pettit
Peavey Grain Company
Sadie Prescott Pettit
William Prescott Pettit
Pettit
Three Spokane Girls Drown While Bathing in Idaho River
In Sand Point Idaho on the Pend d Oreille river Ellie Bitterich sixteen Lucy Bitterich twenty one and Goldie Robinson fifteen drowned while swimming. None could swim.
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Spokane
Wash
Ellie Bitterich
Lucy Bitterich
Goldie Robinson
Pend d‘Oreille
Sand Point
Ida
Government Sues to Dissociate Philadelphia and Reading Firms
A federal suit filed in Philadelphia seeks a bona fide separation of the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company from the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company. The action, echoing a Lehigh Valley case, accuses the coal firm of buying anthracite from independents to stifle competition while the railway profits from freight. It also argues officers are common and the railway has lent over 79 million dollars to the coal unit, charging high rates while the coal unit pays little interest.
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Washington
Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company
Philadelphia
Lehigh Valley
Philadelphia and
Reading
Reading firms face dissociation action in coal move
Attorneys for the Reading companies were surprised to learn the government had begun action to separate the Philadelphia and Reading Railway from Reading Coal and Iron in the mining and transport of anthracite coal. The Reading argues the railway does not own any Reading Coal and Iron stock, asserting it is held by the Reading holding company and not a transportation entity. The circuit and supreme courts previous decisions did not bind the Reading companies.
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Philadelphia
Reading Companies
Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company
Reading
Reading Coal and Iron Company
Reading Company
Greed of ice companies blamed for New York price rise
Police Commissioner Rhinelander Waldo reports that high ice prices stem from the greed of large wholesalers. Of 430 ice dealers interviewed, 229 complain of price hikes by larger firms as summer heat arrived. The Knickerbocker Ice company raised the price from 2.25 to 3 a ton and an East Side house charged 5 a ton, more than doubling.
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New York
Rhinelander Waldo
Knickerbocker Ice Company
East Side
Plague Claims One Victim At Quarantine
New York health officials report a single death in the last day at quarantine. No new cases observed and several of eighteen Swinburne Island hospital patients are convalescent. Serious illness persists for some. bacteriological tests are underway for 600 passengers from the Moltke and Perugia.
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New York
Alvah H. Doty
Swinburne Island Hospital
Moltke
Perugia
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Spiritual Hospital
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