Woman in the Case Mrs Ford Furor in Cincinnati Trial
Mrs. Ford, linked to the Charles L. Warriner embezzlement case, faces no retrial as indictments are dismissed after a dramatic return to a Cincinnati hospital. Prosecutor Hunt submits the dismissal order to Judge Caldwell as Mrs. Ford rails she is being hounded. A separate report lists a St. Louis wreck on the Iron Mountain Southern fast mail line near St. Louis killing three train crew.
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Police Department
Harry A. Hunt
Caldwell
St. Louis
Plan Great Memorial Road Promoted by Lincoln Memorial Road Assoc
The Lincoln Memorial Road Association formed in New York City to push a federal funded memorial road from Washington to Gettysburg. Tru man Newberry of Detroit was elected president. The 72 mile long road would be about 200 feet wide and paid for entirely by the national government.
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Abraham Lincoln
Washington
Gettysburg
New York City
Truman Newberry
Detroit
Mich
Navy
Lincoln
Fined as a Smuggler Mrs Charles W Allen of Kenosha
Mrs Charles W Allen wife of C N Allen Sons Company senior member and a Central Leather director appeared in New York Circuit Court and pleaded guilty to smuggling jewelry and wearing apparel worth about 5000 on the Lusitania. She was fined 190.
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Charles W.allen
Kenosha
Wis
C. N. Allen Sons’ Company
Central Leather Company
United States
New York
Lusitania
Allen
Railroads Withdraw Increases After White House Talks
President Taft and officials announced that Western trunk line rate rises will be pulled back. tariffs enjoined and others filed after June 1, 1910 will be halted until a new railroad bill is law. Government will withdraw its Missouri suit once the bill advances.
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Western Trunk Line
Federal Circuit Court
Missouri
White House
Taft
Wickersham
Interstate Commerce Committee
Western Trunk Line Committee
Interstate Commerce Commission
E. P. Ripley
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company
Walker JD. Vines
Frederic A. Delano
Wabash Railroad Company
A. Felton
Chicago Great Western Railroad Company
Dyer
Kentucky dedicates its $2,000,000 capitol in Frankfort
The new Kentucky capitol, costing 2 million dollars, was dedicated in Frankfort with a full day of exercises. Special trains brought crowds, including 1,000 Louisville high school girls. The program opened with a signal gun and an invocation by Bishop Lewis W. Burton, followed by historic addresses by Governor Augustus Brannan and United States Senator Bradley.
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Kentucky
Frankfort
Louisville High School
Lewis W. Burton
Lexington
Augustus B.ronan
United States
Bradley
Cotton Crop Nears Report on Growing Conditions
The crop reporting board notes cotton condition at 82 percent this year versus 81.1 percent last year and 80.9 percent a decade ago. Areas planted total about 33,196,000 acres, up 904,000 acres or 2.8 percent from last year.
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The
Crop Reporting Board
Senate Passes Railroad Bill Amid Contested Precedence
The Senate approved the administration railroad bill by a 50 to 12 vote, with Democrats Bacon Fletcher Frazier Hughes Money Newlands Purcell Rayner Shively Smith of Maryland and Smith of South Carolina voting no. Debate noted that statehood and public land withdrawal measures could gain precedence before adjournment.
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United States
Bacon
Wletcher
Frazier
Hughes
Money
Newlands
Percy
Purcell
Rayner
Shively
Smith
Maryland
South Carolina
Beveridge
Alr
Nelson
Public Lands Committee
Cummins
la Follette
Dolliver
Clay
Paynter
Simmons
Gore
Lengt
Senate bid by Minnesota Dairyman editor Schilling
W F Schilling editor of the Minnesota Dairyman has filed for the Senate from his district on the Republican ticket. Ohio Republican primary notes show shifts on Speaker Cannon with eleven of twenty one nominees opposing reelection and Keifer openly for Cannon. The Socialist party in Chicago debated platform and program and favored immigration of contract strike-breakers while opposing race or land based asylum limits.
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W. F. Schilling
The
Minnesota Dairyman
Senate
Congress
Cannon
Keifer
National Congress of the
Socialst
Chicago
New York
Carroll and Porter Sweep Iowa Gubernatorial Race
Early unofficial returns show Carroll Republican and Porter Democrat leading for governor. In Congress races eight progressives and three stand-patters named. notable results include Prouty leading Hull by about 1,100 in the Seventh District and Smith ahead of Byers by about 2,000 in the Ninth.
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Carroll
Porter
Congress
C. A. Kennedy
Charles Grill
C. E. Pickett
Gilbert N. Haugen
James W. Good
N. I. Wendell
Progressive
S. I’. Prouty
N. M.towner
John Darrah
Walter I. Smith
Frank P. Woods
F. H. Hubbard
B. A. S. Pollard
J. A. Dearmand
John Dennison
J. Murtagh
D. D. Murphy
S. C. Hubbel
Daniel W. Hamilton
Clint L. Price
Q. Stuart
W. I. Cleveland
Prouty
Hull
Smith
Byers
McKinley Leads Buyout of Atchison Railway Light and Power
McKinley traction syndicate led by Congressman William B. McKinley of Champaign Illinois completes purchase of Atchison Kansas Railway Light and Power Company properties. Reported price ranges from five hundred thousand to seven hundred thousand dollars.
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McKinley
McKinley Traction Syndicate
William B. McKinley
Champaign, Ill
Atchison,Kan., Railway, Light , and Power
Taft Warns Against Socialism in Campaign Framing Speech
President Taft spoke in Jackson praising the Republican party and its handling of major issues while warning against socialism and urging loyalty to party majority rule. The address was part of the unveiling of a bronze tablet marking the 1854 birth of the party under the oaks. In Monroe earlier, he paid tribute to General George A. Custer at the unveiling of a bronze statue.
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Prescient
Taft
United States
Republican Party
Jackson
Monroe, Mich
George A. Custer
Little Big Horn
North Central Educational Outing and Academy Notes
The North Central Minnesota Editorial Association outing will be at Glengarry Springs on Leech Lake near Walker. St Thomas College debaters beat University of Minnesota Forum Literary Society twice. 50 Minnesota engineering and arts students dropped for scholarship failure. Beloit College hires Dr John C Parish. Tri-Country Educational Association backs rural school funding and student medical inspections.
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Glengarry Springs
Leech Lake
Walker
el Ashar University
Cairo
Egypt
Homer H. Seerley
Iowa State Teachers’ Association
Des Moines
St. Thomas College
Forum Literary Society
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Engineering
R. R. Cochrane
Manitoba University
George Cochrane
Los Angeles University
John C. Parish
State Historical Department of
Iowa
L. W. Parish
Cedar Falls
Beloit College
Tri-Country Educational Association
Grafton
N. C
State Legislative Assembly
Congress approves railroad bill in Senate vote
The railroad bill passed the Senate 50 to 12 on Friday night with Democrats Chamberlin Clay Gore Poynter Simmonson Stone voting yes. The House meanwhile moved on the sundry civil bill and debated postal savings bank and rivers and harbors measures as session continued through the week.
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Senate
Chamberling Clay
Gore
Poynter
Simmonson Stone
House
Secretary of Agriculture
Burton
Newlands
Porto Rico
King Victor Emmanuel Plans Summer Visit to Russia
The Italian king intends to make a state visit to Russia this summer likely after August. Also noted: Harvard secretary Jerome D. Greene resigns to become business manager of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York City.
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Victor Emmanuel
Russia
Jerome D. Greene
Harvard College Corporation
Rockefeller Institute For Medical Research
New York City
W. J. Bryan
Nebraska City
Neb
Mr. Bryan
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