House-House Battle Over Senate Railroad Bill Ahead
Washington June 6 one of the season’s fiercest House fights looms as a motion to send the administration railroad bill to conference gains traction. House progressives favor accepting the Senate bill while regulars push for stripping amendments before sending to President Taft.
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Washington
House
Senate
Champ Clark
Elkins
Aldrich
Interstate Commerce Commission
Aviator C S Rolls Completes Channel Crossing Feats
C S Rolls, renowned aviator, is reported to have crossed the English Channel twice. The feats underscore his bold exploration spirit and contribute to early aviation milestones.
Scranton Iron Mining company challenges Alice incorporation
Hibbing Minn June 6 The Scranton Iron Mining company large property owner serves writ of quo warranto on Alice village officers to appear before the supreme court June 23. The probe questions the legality of Alice incorporation with 42 voters and taxes split leaving the mine company paying far more than other taxpayers. The village authorized about 100900 for public improvements funded by bonds, a prospect the mine opposes.
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Hibbing
Minn
Scranton Iron Mining Company
Alice
George Donahue
Supreme Court
Aviator Rolls to Fly Here in United States Tour
New York reports growing aviation fever after Glenn Curtiss feats. Across the nation prizes totaling 150000 dollars are offered for long distance flights. C S Rolls of England says he will arrive this month and enter the New York to Chicago and St Louis flight.
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New York
Glenn H. Curtiss
Albany
United States
C. S. Rolls
England
English Channel
Chicago
St. Louis
Public Land Bill Heads to Senate Action
Washington June 6 The senate faces conservation legislation while the house moves the postal savings bank bill Toward week end votes are expected on both with conferees to follow Western lawmakers fear lingering land lock up policies but administration leaders back Taft era conservation push and hope for early passage of the withdrawal measure
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Washington
Senate
Postal Savings Bank
House
Taft-Ballinger
Warren and Clark
Wyoming
Heyburn and Borah
Idaho
Carter
Montana
Hughes
Colorado
Forester
Gifford Pinchot
Dixon
Flint and
Perkins
California
Piles
Chamberlain and Bourne
Oregon
Smoot and Sutherland
Utah
Taft
Enginemen in Convention Opens In St Paul Auditorium
The twelfth biennial convention of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen opened in the Auditorium at St Paul with about 835 delegates from the United States Canada and Mexico in attendance.
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St. Paul
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen
United States
Canada
Mexico
One Robber Captured After Merrillan Post Office Safe Opened
Five bandits blew open the Merrillan post office safe about 2 am and stole about $1000. One robber was captured in Black River Falls after Sheriff Ben Lanning pursued a freight train on a tricycle. The others escaped by cutting through a boxcar and hiding along rail lines. The captured man carried burglar tools and claimed Pennsylvania birth, offering no further statements.
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Black River Falls
Wis
Merrillan
Here
Omaha
Ben Lanning
Jackson County
Sheppard
Sheriff Lanning
Lanning
Pennsylvania
Youth commits suicide in Winona hotel
John W. Fortner an eighteen year old former Salvation Army member in Winona chose a torturous death by Paris green poisoning. He drank from a four ounce bottle of poisoned water during the night and wrapped the remains in his undergarments before flinging it from his hotel window. He was found by the promoter early morning and died before medical aid could arrive. Ill health is given as the cause.
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Winona
Minn
John W. Fortner
Salvation Army
Socialists name state ticket endorsing miners union
Pierre South Dakota June 6 The Socialists of the state named a complete state ticket. The platform endorses the Western Federation of Miners and declares for equal suffrage.
Mrs Roosevelt anxious to return home
The wife of the former president, Mrs Roosevelt, is reported as anxious to return home after recent engagements. She plans to resume domestic life and rest after her public duties.
Mrs Roosevelt Delighted by British Receptions Aboard
London reports Mrs Theodore Roosevelt enjoys royal welcomes on the abroad tour. She expresses desire to see the Statue of Liberty as the ship nears America and recalls honeymoon drives in London. She praises the receptions and notes little homesickness amid honored duties.
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London
Theodore Roosevelt
Colonel Roosevelt
America
Great Britain
Continental
Mrs. Roosevelt
Maine in doubt as conventions approach
As Maine heads toward the Democratic June 15 and Republican June 19 conventions, conservatives acknowledge the state's Republican base may be uncertain. Democrats target the First and Second districts and aim to elect lawmakers to replace retiring Senator Hale. Republican prospects center on Governor Fernald and a Senate contest between Powers and Cobb.
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Portland
Hale
Fernald
Frederick Hale
Asher C. Hinds
Congress
Edward C. Reynolds
South Portland
Richard Webb
Hinds
United States Senate
Supreme Court
Frederick A. Powers
William T. Cobb
Judge Powers
Augusta
Gardner
Rockland
Frederick W. Plaisted
Taft Returns to Washington After Western Trip
President Taft has returned to the capital and will see no one or hold conferences. Senator Burrows and Assistant Secretary Hilles accompanied him from the Western trip as he entered a waiting automobile and drove to the White House.
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Washington
Taft
White House
Senator Burrows
Treasury
Hilles
Mr. Taft
Exhibition Opening Passes Peacefully in Nanking
Nanking on June 6 reports that despite rumors of a revolutionary movement, the scheduled exposition opening occurred without disorder. Officials say the overall situation is not serious and remains calm.
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Nanking
China
Speculation in Land the Cause of Bank Mortgage Rise
Treasury officials fear land speculation in the Middle West is pushing banks to lend more on farm mortgages. The controller of the currency has directed national bank examiners to focus on these loans as farm land sales surge in Ohio Indiana Kansas Nebraska and neighboring states. Farmers are selling large holdings with some moving to Canada while banks accumulate slow loans backed by real estate.
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Washington
Middle West
Treasury Department
Middle Western
Ohio
Indiana
Kansas
Nebraska
National Bank Act
National Banks
Canada
Mississippi
The
Dakotas
Quarrel over horse deal turns deadly in Flasher
In Flasher near Mandan North Dakota Ira Chapman stabbed William Plum during a post office confrontation over an unsettled horse sale. Plum suffered a back wound exposing spinal serum and faces grave risk of death as bystanders separated the two men and Chapman fled.
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Mandan
N. C
William Plum
Ira Chapman
Plum
Flasher
Ira
Ola Chapman
Chapman
Costly fire at Duluth guts Bradley building
Thousands crowd Superior street as a $100,000 blaze completely gutted the Bradley building housing the Rothskeller cafe H Knox Fire and Ten-cent store and offices. The fire began in the cafe kitchen from a defective gas range and was the third blaze there in nine weeks. Firemen William McLaughlin and John Cribbler were overcome by smoke and carried from the scene after three hours of fighting.
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Duluth
Jane
Superior Street
Bradley
Rothskeller Cafe
H. Knox
William McLaughlin
John Cribbler
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Austin
Thos. Burnham
He Aehott
Golden Eagle Clothing House
Mining Company Objects
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Yeggman
Loot Merrillan Post Office
Maine
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