Compromise currency bill blends Aldrich and Vreeland aims
Senate and House conferees reach a tentative three year compromise on emergency currency. Key points include a 10 percent reserve, 90 percent bond valuation limits, 40 percent of bank capital for paper circulation, 10 percent redemption fund, and a $509.06 million cap.
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Washington
Senate
House
Congress
Vreeland
National Clearing House
Aldrich
Cannon
Floor Leaders Clash Over Record Printing And House Pace
Washington May 27 floor leaders clash over printing five day leave to publish remarks in the Congressional Record. They spar over opportunity to reply. The House passes multiple bills on rail safety, land openings, and pipeline rights of way while debating the military academy bill and a West Point education amendment.
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Payne
New York
Williams
Military Academy
Slayden
Texas
Senate
West Poéint
Salt Lake City
Utah
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Plattsburg
N. Y
Delaware and Hudson River Railway Company
Standing Rock
Committee On Appropriations
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District of Columbia
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Sabath
Illinois
House
Disaster Reported in Oklahoma Floods and Rail Traffic
A Colbert Oklahoma special reports fourteen people on a Red River refuge island possibly drowned. J H Roberts ferry children were swept from a tree south of Lawton. Will and Newton Stidham drowned near Henrietta while trying to flee their home.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Colbert
Texas Line
Red River
J. H. Roberts
Lawton
Will
Newton Stidham
Henrietta
Eschle Pleads Guilty to First Degree Murder
Fred Eschie pleaded guilty to murdering John Smolensky a 6 or 7 year old rag picker in St Paul on March 22. Judge Hal lam postponed sentencing while attorney T J McDermott said witnesses would show extenuating mental conditions. County officials raised no objection to the line of inquiry.
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O’brien
Flood Tie Ups Fort Worth Rail Traffic
In Fort Worth Texas a historic Trinity River flood blocks all rail movement as officials race to save tracks and bridges. The river surrounds the city on three sides with many bridges unsafe for use and waters show no sign of receding. Hundreds of cottages float downstream with residents losing their possessions. no additional fatalities reported.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Trinity River
TROOPS TO STAY IN CUBA UNTIL CUBAN REPUBLIC REOPENS
The War Department announced no withdrawal of American troops from Cuba for now. After meetings with President Taft and General Bell, officials cited urging from Governor Magoon and General Barry that reducing forces before the Cuban republic is restored next fall may be inadvisable.
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Washington
War Department
Cuba
Taft
Bell
Magoon
Barry
Army of
Prohibition Wins Big in North Carolina State Vote
North Carolina carried for state prohibition by an estimated 40 000 to 42 000 with the Prohibition ticket carrying 78 of 98 counties. Anti Prohibition held 20 counties with about 5 600. Total statewide vote around 175 000. Prohibition leaders speculation of possible reach to 60 000 exists. Election passed quietly with no major disturbances.
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Raleigh
N. C
North Carolina
Tornado Strikes Fairmont Farm Wrecks Buildings
A tornado east of Fairmont in Pleasant Prairie township hit the Albert Manly farm, blowing down the farmhouse and barns, injuring Manly family members including a broken back for the father and broken leg for Albert Manly. The child and nephew also suffered serious injuries as lightning and rain accompanied the disaster.
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Fairmont
Minn
Pleasant Prairie Township
Albert Manly
Manly Farm
Manly Place
Mr. Manly
Texas for Bryan at Democratic state convention
Fort Worth on May 27 reports the Texas Democratic convention selecting 36 delegates to the Denver national convention. The state executive committee verified May 16 primary returns showing a 223,094 vote lead for the Batley ticket for delegates at large. The platform backs Batley and instructs for Bryan for president.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Denver
Batley
Bryan
New Clue in Gunness Case Prompts Yard Excavation
Harold Chapman, a former Gunness employee, told authorities that Mrs Bella Gunness supervised the construction of a wire fence around a rear yard area and directed a crooked section where she claimed a favorite horse was buried, leading to an excavation under Sheriff Smutzer.
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Laporte
Ind
Harold Chapman
Bella Gunness
Smutzer
Chapman
Young Man Killed by Lightning Near Bloomington
Le Roy Giffard twenty was struck by lightning while driving cows on his father’s Blooming ton township farm. The body was found half a mile from the Girard home after a search. A tree splintered by the strike lay nearby with melted watch chain. flesh burned and a hole in the forehead observed.
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Minneapolis
Bloomington
le Roy Giffard
Girard
Senate Passes Omnibus Navigation Bill Amid Resistance
The Senate considered and passed the omnibus navigation bill containing seven measures affecting navigation laws. Senator Newlands attempted an amendment to insert his Inland Waterways Commission bill but faced opposition.
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Washington
House
Senate
Newlands
The
Inland Waterways Commission
Lightning Strike Interrupts Funeral at Cammack Church
During the funeral service for Mrs. John A. Losh at the Friends church in Cammack near Muncie Indiana a bolt of lightning hit the steeple tearing a hole in the roof and damaging the belfry. Several people were injured and the crowd panicked briefly before being quieted.
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Muncie
Ind
John A. Losh
Friends
Cammack
Pastor S H Glasgow Drowned Trying to Save Son
In Jacksonville Illinois on May 27 Reverend S H Glasgow longtime pastor of Woodson N11 Presbyterian Church drowned while attempting to rescue his young son who had been overcome by cramps in the water during bathing.
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Jacksonville
S. H. Glasgow
Woodson
N11
Presbyterian Church
Commits Triple Murder in Owen Sound Hallucination and Suicide
James F. Creighton of Owen Sound killed his wife whom he married in Ypsilanti, Mich, and his two step-daughters Katherine and Clare Chapman aged eighteen and sixteen. He telephoned from a window claiming he had killed his family then shot himself in the eye. He probably will die. The victims were stabbed and he left a letter stating he was near insanity.
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Owen Sound
Ont
James F. Creighton
Ypsilanti
Mich
Katherine
Clare Chapman
Man dies saving hat on bridge in Spooner
In Spooner Minnesota on May 27 Robert Garlick lost his life while crossing a water span of the Canadian and Northern railroad. He reached for his hat as it blew away and toppled from the bridge to the water below.
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Spooner
Minn
National Bridge of the
Canadian and Northern Railroad
Robert Garlick
District Attorney Jerome Defends In Dereliction Probe
New York County DA William T. Jerome led the final hearing before Commissioner Hand in Elizabethtown New York on charges of dereliction of duty. Jerome argued the proceedings were biased and unverified while outlining motives of his challengers and planning a brief for Hand’s personal use.
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Elizabethtown
N. Y
William T. Jerome
New York County
Commissioner Hand
Hughes
William A. Kina
New York City
Jerome
Franklin Pierce
Hand
Bishops Elected by Methodist Episcopal Conference
Baltimore May 27 The eighth and last bishop was chosen by the Methodist Episcopal conference with votes led by Rev Dr W F Anderson and Rev Dr J L Neulsen. The new bishops will be consecrated at a Lyric service Sunday afternoon. The conference then moved to select a Mexico missionary bishop and various officers. A proposal to establish an Episcopal residence in St Paul and omit Detroit from residence cities was approved after reconsideration.
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Methodist Episcopal Conference
W. F. Anderson
New York
J. L. Neulsen
Berea
President McKin
Bisho
Mexico
General Conference
Publishing Syudents
truste@a
Evalgeliem
Methodist Episcopal Committee On
St. Paul
Detroit
Mich
Lightning Hits Frederic Store, $20,000 Loss
A bolt of lightning struck Louis Lund's large general merchandise store at Clam Falls near Frederic Wisconsin causing total destruction. The loss is about $20,000 with partial insurance coverage. The store will be rebuilt.
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Frederic
Wis
Louis Lund
Clam Falls
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