Bank cashier in embezzlement case returns to Clintwood
Walter D. Sutherland, ex cashier of Citizens National Bank of Clintwood Va, arrested in Bluefield district after fleeing July 2 1910 with reports of 8000 cash and 7000 unsigned bank notes. He admits identity as Walter Scott and claims he left Clintwood with about 200 cash. He says higher living by others caused the shortage and hints at complicity among Clintwood individuals as investigators probe the bank failure on July 6.
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Walter D. Sutherland
Citizens National Bank of
Walter Scott
W. W. Phaup
Walter Belk
Roanoke
Bluefield
Detectve
Sutherland
Clintwood
Coeburn
Daily Telegraph
Altamont
Travelogue Route Through North America Promptly Sketched
A traveler describes visiting Philadelphia after a stop, then proceeding to New York Buffalo and Niagara Falls before continuing to Toronto Montreal Rochester and back to Niagara Falls praising the scenery and its appeal.
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Philadelphia
New York
Buffalo
Niagara Falls
Toronto
Montreal
Rochester
Mexico to Name Diaz's Successor in October
Mexico City reports provisional President de la Barra ordering a special election. Electors across states will vote October 1 to choose Diaz's successor, with the vote count set to determine the next leader on October 15 amid evolving district boundaries and census 1910 guidelines.
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Mexico
Diaz
President de la Barra
Mexico City
de la Barra
Porfirio Diaz
Lynching of Negro Crump Near White Haven
Memphis reports Pat Crump a Black man accused of assault on a planter's wife was captured by a sheriff's posse and hanged by a mob just outside the city limits while being taken to the county prison for safekeeping.
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Memphis
Pat Crump
White Haven
Crump
Taft Heads to Chicago for Canadian Reciprocity Campaign
President Taft sails to Chicago with Secretary Fisher and Secretary Hilles to address the Western Economic Society tomorrow as part of his drive for Canadian reciprocity.
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Washington
Taft
Interior
Fisher
Hilles
Chicago
Western Economic Society
Pacific Coast Congregational Congress Opens in Portland
Scores of Congregationalists from California Washington Oregon and other states gather in Portland for a seven day series of meetings and conferences in the largest Pacific Coast Congregational Congress to date with prominent missionaries attending.
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Portland
Ore
California
Washington
Oregon
Pacific Coast Congregational Congress
Dynamite Plot Threat At Juarez Ballroom Sparks Alarm
A dangerous explosive was found in the Juarez ballroom area suggesting a plot that could have demolished the building and endangered hundreds if detonated. Police and investigators fear potential loss of life.
Former Rebel Leader Goes to Mexican Capital
Francisco I. Madero travels to Mexico City after an alleged plot to dynamite him at a Juarez ball is exposed. Insurrecto police report the plan involved demolition during the event attended by about 500, including Madero and his wife, with Cruzerey jailed in Juarez and Delaluz Lance leading 1,500 insurrectos.
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el Paso
Tex
Francisco J. Madero
Mexico City
Insurrecto
Madero
Juarez
Cruzerey
Jefe Politico
Town of
Guadalupe
Insurrecto Secret Service
Revolution Plot Aide Suspected in Managua Explosion
Washington reports a garrison explosion in Managua Nicaragua killed sixty to seventy. Some observers consider the blast part of a revolutionary plot in the country, per a telegram from Minister Northcott.
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Washington
Managua
Nicaragua
Northcott
Eleventh Intercollegiate Conference Track Meet Opens at Minnesota
Hundreds of college athletes gathered at Northrop field for the preliminary events of the eleventh annual Intercollegiate Conference Athletic Association meet. Finals follow tomorrow with strong contenders including Notre Dame, Illinois, Chicago, Minnesota, California, Missouri, and others competing for the title.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Northrop Field
University of Minnesota
Intercollegiate Conference Athletic Association
Wisconsin
Iowa
Perdue
Minnesota
Northwestern
Indiana
Chicago
Notre Dame
University of Kansas
University of South Dakota
Oberlin College
Iowa State College
University of Missouri
South Dakota State College
Morningside College
Coe College
Pacific Coast
University of California
Illinois
California
Missouri
Wedding in Plainfield of Hege man and Baron Podmaniczky
In Plainfield New Jersey on June 2 a distinguished congregation gathered at the church of the Holy Cross for the marriage of Miss Virginia Hege man daughter of Mr and Mrs B Arrowsmith Hegeman Jr of New York and Plainfield to Baron Tiber Podmaniczky formerly an officer in the Hungarian army now retired and a medical student at the University of Freiburg The ceremony united two prominent families and linked American and European backgrounds through the baron’s scholarly pursuits.
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Plainfield
N. J
Church of the Holy Cross
Virginia Hegeman
Tiber Podmaniczky
B. Arrowsmith Hegeman, Jr
New York and
University of Freiburg
American Leaders Attend 400th Cosmography Introductio Celebration
In Paris a large American colony delegation led by Ambassador Bacon and Consul-General Mason travels to St Die in the Vosges to mark the 400th anniversary of the Cosmographiae Introductio. The Franco American event includes a military review, a historical pageant, and a tablet unveiling in the house where the name America was first written. A stone obelisk tower monument will be laid atop Mount Ormont.
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Paris
Bacon
Mason
St. Die
Vosges
America
America's Tower
Mount Ormont
Vosges Forest
Melody Wins Acorn Stakes at Epsom Downs
Melody owned by Charles Carroll of New York and Paris won the Acorn Stakes at Epsom Downs for two year old fillies. Eleven horses started the race, run over five furlongs for two thousand sovereigns.
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Epsom Downs
England
Melody
Charles Carroll
New York
Paris
Negro Murderer Executed in Richmond
Alexander Hollomen, a Black man, was electrocuted in Richmond after months of delay while appeals sought commutation on grounds of insanity. He had murdered his wife and child.
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Richmond
Alexander Hollomen
Intercollegiate Balloon Race Ready in North Adams
North Adams prepares for the first intercollegiate balloon race in aeronautics history. Williams College Aeronautical Society hosts as Williams Dartmouth and the University of Pennsylvania field balloons with Harvard possibly joining. Balloons of 35000 cubic feet will lift within five minutes. Leo Stevens acts as referee and starter. Cups awarded for greatest distance and longest air time.
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North Adams
Miss
Aeronautics
Willams College
Areonautical Society
East
Aeronautical Society
Williams
Dartmouth
University of Pennsylvania
Harvard
Leo Stevens
New York
Unsettled Weekend Weather Across West Virginia and Virginia
West Virginia forecast calls for unsettled conditions with possible local showers Saturday night into Sunday. Virginia outlook mirrors with unsettled Saturday and Sunday showers and light variable winds.
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West Virgina
Virginia
Wet forces win Charleston liquor license vote in 10 wards
Charleston West Virginia June 2 Wet forces won a decisive victory on liquor licenses for the next two years with a 510 vote margin from 4382 cast about sixty percent of the registered vote. Seven of ten wards went for the wets. Arrests for vote buying included wholesale whiskey dealers A C Lawrence and John A Jarrett. Women were active at the polls.
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Charleston
W. Va
T. M. Hare
State Anti-Saloon League
Crowd Cheers as Fox Soars Over Heads in Flight
A spirited crowd watches fox pilot dominate the air at the event. The aviator keeps position as if behind the wheel but fails to surpass any distance records.
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Fox
Aviator
Aviator Fred Fox Demonstrates Plane Flights on Bluefield Field
In Bluefield yesterday afternoon Fred Fox piloted the Rex Smith aeroplane over golf grounds in view of about a thousand spectators. The craft rose up to twenty feet then dipped for quick turns limited by the small field while Fox remained poised as if at the wheel of an automobile. Assistants LaMott and Gastroy kept the engine in order and cranked the propeller for each start. Berger noted the need to draw crowds to cover costs as business ties end, with continued demonstrations planned on the rough field.
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Fred Fox
Rex-Smith
South Bluefield
Fox
Mchanicians LaMett
Gastroy
Berger
Behind Mi Morgan in Averting Panic Reveals Plan
A report shows Mi Morgan presenting a plan to Roosevelt and Root that urges government control and public oversight of corporations. It highlights surprising assertions and argues for major regulatory action to avert financial panic.
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Mi Morgan
Gary asserts steel merger aided Morgan to avert 1907 crash
Elbert H. Gary testifies that U S Steel backed J P Morgan to prevent a bank collapse in 1907. He details plans to buy Tennessee Coal and Iron at a price above value to deter Moore & Schley failure and argues government control of corporations is needed. W B Dickson and John Lambert also summoned.
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Washington
Elbert H. Gary
United States Steel Corporation
Stanley Steel Trust
Pierpont Morgan
Gary
John W. Gates
Steel Corporation
Tennessee Coal and Iron Company
New York
Moore & Schley
Henry C. Frick
J. P. Morgan
Theodore Roosevelt
Mr. Root
Roosevelt
W. B. Dickson
The
John Lambert
Republic Iron and Steel Co
Roanoke Bridge Works Wins Staunton River Contract
Roanoke Bridge Works led by RE C McComb has been awarded a $52,000 contract to erect a steel and concrete bridge across the Staunton River between Mecklenburg and Gaston counties North Carolina. The structure will feature a concrete floor, abutments with three thousand cubic yards of cement and seven hundred tons of fabricated steel.
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Staunton River
Roanoke
Roanoke Bridge Works
RE. C. McComb
Mecklenburg
Gaston Counties
N. C
Archbishop Bruchess Heads to Europe for Eucharistic Congress
His grace Arch bishop Bruchess with his secretary and Canon Sylvestre left Montreal for Europe. He will first attend the eucharistic congress in Madrid the last week of June, then travel to Rome to pay homage to the pope and present a bound volume of Canada’s congress proceedings.
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Montreal
Bruchess
Canon Sylvestre
Europe
Madrid
Rome
Holy Father
Canada
Auto Crash Kills Captain Renkel in Augusta
Captain A. J. Renkel a jeweler was killed in a rear end collision on the Savannah road in Augusta on June 2. His wife and daughter were severely injured in the same crash involving their car and a bogey.
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Augusta
A. J. Renkel
Savannah Road
Renkel
Greensboro Hosts United Commercial Travelers Convention
Greensboro roared with national flags and blue white and orange emblems as the United Commercial Travelers grand council of the Carolinas held its annual convention here in North State.
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North State
Greensboro
N. C
United Commercial Travelers
Grand Council of the
Empress of Ireland Sails With Record Coronation Passenger List
The steamship Empress of Ireland leaves Quebec for the other side with possibly the largest passenger manifest ever from a Canadian port. Officers gave up cabins to house coronation visitors, and a large Canadian contingent of soldiers sails to represent the country.
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Quebec
Canada
Wage dispute mediation continues between Southern Railway and firemen
Washington June 2 reports a repetition of prior days as mediators meet firemen part of the day and railway officials the rest. Little change is seen with neither side yielding so far in the wage dispute negotiations.
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Washington
Southern Railway
Nike
Mediators Meet Fire Officials and Railway Leaders
Fire crews spent the forenoon and part of the afternoon in closed talks with mediators. They reviewed a mass of technical matters before meeting railroad officials later in the day.
Secretaries Fight Disclosure Over Portrait Payment
Washington reports a clash at the capitol as Secretary Knox, on President Taft's orders, refuses a House committee request to show state department books detailing a 2450 portrait voucher. Only 850 paid to artist Rosenthal, 1100 unaccounted, with the president certifying the fund nature to shield items from disclosure. Chairman Hamlin challenged the claimed executive right to reveal expenditures.
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Washington
Capitol
State Knox
Taft
House Committee
State Department
Rosenthal
Congress
Roosevelt
Knox
Hamlin
Missouri
Narrow escape in Paris to Rome air race near Havre
Lieutenant Luecea of the French army and passenger M. Hennequin barely escaped death during the first stage of the Paris to Rome to Turin air race near Havre France.
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Havre
France
Luecea
M. Hennequin
Paris
Rome
Turin
Red Lopez Executed After Escape Attempt
Red Lopez, once a commander in the insurrecto garrison at Agua Prieta, was executed after an escape attempt while being transported to complete an eight year sentence imposed by a court martial. Francisco I. Madero, Jr. ordered the imprisonment amid charges of selling out to American interests.
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Canadea
Sonora
Mex
Red” Lopez
Francisco I. Madero, Jr
Agua Prieta
Lopez
Pope Pius X Celebrates 76th Anniversary Quietly
Rome June 2 Pope Pius X marked his seventy sixth birthday today but no public celebration occurred due to incomplete recovery from a recent illness. In the morning numerous cardinals Vatican officials and foreign churchmen sent cards telegrams and congratulations from around the world.
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Rome
Pope Pius X
Vatican
Naval War College Opens With Secretary Moyer Speech
Newport R I June 2 Secretary Moyer presided at the opening of the naval war college delivering an address. Speakers included Rear Admiral Stephen B. Luce U S N retired famed as the father of the war college.
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Newport
R. L
Moyer
Naval War College
Secretary of the Navy
Stephen Sh. Luce
the War College
Baracas Open Second Georgia Convention in Macon
Baracas convene in Macon Georgia for the Georgia Baraca Association’s second annual gathering with a large, representative attendance marking progress of the movement in the state.
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Macon
Georgia Baraca Association
Motorman killed in Norfolk streetcar wreck
Motorman Richard W. Swain was killed and three others injured when a Berkeley Street Railway and Electric car from Money Point jumped the track on a curve and overturned in Norfolk Virginia.
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Norfolk
Richard W. Swain
Berkeley Street Railway
Money Point
Texas Cotton Seed Crushers Leave Dallas for New York Meeting
The Texas members of the Interstate Cotton Seed Crushers Association departed Dallas by special train on June 2 en route to New York for the association’s annual meeting next week.
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Cotton Seed Crushers
Dallas
Texas
Interstate
Cotton Seed Crushers’ Association
New York
Commercial Travelers Gather in Gulfport Convention
Gulfport capitulated today to an invading force of commercial travelers who assembled from all directions for the annual convention of their state organization.
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Gulfport
Miss
Bank cashier shot in Virginia death ruled accidental
William L. Linton a retired bank cashier died at his Gwathney Hanover County home from a gunshot wound to the head. Authorities say the shooting is believed accidental.
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Richmond
William L. Linton
Gwathney
Hanover County
Dinner for Japanese dignitaries aboard Saratoga
Yokohama June 2 Rear Admiral Joseph K B Murdock commander in chief of the United States Asiatic fleet hosted a dinner tonight on the flagship Saratoga for Japanese army and navy dignitaries.
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Yokohama
Joseph KB. Murdock
United States Asiatic Fleet
Saratoga
Population by Counties Shows Vast Territorial Shifts in 1910 Census
A census bureau bulletin outlines county level population for the United States as of April 15, 1910. It details counts by state and territory including Alaska Hawaii Porto Rico and explains boundary changes from 1890 to 1910.
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Washington
United States
Louisiana
Baltimore
Maryland
St. Louis
Missouri
Virginia
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
Alaska
Hawaii
Porto Rico
War Department
New England
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Middle Atlantic
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
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Juarez Ballroom
Middle West College
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LA Mott
Steel Trust
Root
Red Lopez
Pope Pius Seventy-Six
WAR College
Naval School
South Atlantic States
Census Bureau
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