Insurance trust likely to draw heavy penalties in Mississippi
Jackson Miss The alleged fire insurance trust faces a forthcoming chancery court suit in Union County under Mississippi anti trust statutes. District Attorney George H Strange says penalties may surpass 22 million tied to Standard Oil and 14 million in a lumber trust case. The action targets rate fixing by fire insurance companies through prevention and inspection bureaus and rating committees. More than fifty companies allegedly separated sheep from goats by limiting rate cuts and capping agent commissions. Co defendants may include local underwriting agencies linked to member companies.
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Jackson
Miss
Mississippi
George H. Strange
Chancery Court
Union County
Clay
Harrison
Standard Oil Company
Strange
Expert Boll Weevil Report Shifts Outlook Across States
Government boll weevil expert Prof. W. D. Hunter reports climatic changes have reduced infestations in Texas and neighboring states. He notes less than 10 percent fruit infestation in central and northern Texas prairie regions, higher levels in valleys and southern areas, 6-10 percent in northern Louisiana, up to 20 percent south of Boyce, and 45 percent near Natchez, with dry weather now destroying 20-50 percent of weevils as the season progresses. The outlook is less threatening than last year.
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Dallas
Tex
W. D. Hunter
Texas
Louisiana
Boyce
Mississippi
Natchez
Mohamed Ali Dethroned In Persia By National Assembly
In Tehran the national assembly proclaimed Sultan Ahmed Mirza the new shah after dethroning Mohamed Ali who has sought refuge at the Russian legation in Zerzende under guard. The 12 year old prince is to act as regent Azar Ul Mulk heads the Kajar family with the provisional government pledging to uphold the constitution. The former monarch’s disposition is undecided, with banishment likely.
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Azar Ul Mulk
Kajar
Alleged Bomb Thrower Held in Chicago Inquiry
Vincent A. Altman a former policeman and Carpenters Union assistant business agent was held to the grand jury by Judge McSurely on a $20,000 bail for allegedly throwing the bomb that wrecked Chicago’s central telephone exchange. Altman’s brother, a barber, is also under arrest amid suspicions of involvement in multiple bomb outrages across the city over the past two years.
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Chicago
Vincent A. Altman
The
Carpenters Union
McSurely
Central Exchange
Joseph Company
Oe Altman
Ah Man
Latham abandons proposed channel flight venture
Despatches from France report Herbert Latham’s channel flight ending in a fiasco and his return to Paris marking the definite abandonment of the enterprise. The aviator’s failure to seize favorable weather conditions suggests he realizes the folly of the undertaking.
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London
France
Herbert Latham
M. Latham
Paris
Latham
Republicans Committed on Tariff Says Taft Statement
President Taft told twenty three Republican congressmen at the White House that the party is committed to a downward tariff revision. He said he had no other idea of the Chicago platform and personally promised such a cut to the people. Some readers see this as a signal to tariff conferees to push for material duty reductions or face the president’s vote.
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Washington
Taft
White House
Congress
Chicago
Brick Building Collapses in Philadelphia Killing Seven
In a busy city section a five story brick building under reconstruction for United Gas Improvement Company collapsed. Thirty two people were buried or pinned under debris with seven dead one missing one fatally injured and twenty four seriously or critically injured.
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Philadelphia
United Gas Improvement Company
Diaz Accepts Taft Meeting Invite for September
President Diaz wrote to President Taft accepting the invitation for a meeting in El Paso in September. State Department officials said Diaz may not be able to make the trip but he expressed happiness at any opportunity to meet Taft in October in Mexico City.
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Taft
Mexico City
Diaz
EL Paso
State Department
Mr. Taft
Jew Entered Protest at White House Over Ellis Island Cash Rule
Leon Kamasky editor of the Jewish News of New York filed a protest with the president against the rule by Immigration Commissioner Williams requiring immigrants to carry 25 in cash to land at Ellis Island. Kamasky was accompanied by Representative Bennett to the White House.
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Washington
Williams
New York
Ellis Island
Leon Kamasky
Jewish News of
White House
Bennett
Mexican Revolutionists Stir Border unrest noted by U S
Washington recognizes continued Mexican revolutionary activity aimed at northern Mexico and along the Texas border. U S marshal Eugene Nolte and deputies are deployed in the field to preserve peace on the border.
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San Antonio
Tex
Mexican Revolutionary Junta
Mexico
Texas
Washington
Eugene Nolte
Mississippi flood crest at St Louis hits 35.6 feet
The Mississippi River at St Louis reached a crest of 35.6 feet as observers forecast the river to hold for two days before starting to fall. The flood spread over thousands of acres, with the river six miles wide at several points.
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St. Louis
Manipulation Claims Highlighted in New York Markets
Mr. Fish argued that stock prices in Wall Street were buoyed by manipulation by certain money interests. He believed the financial situation was encouraging and that the United States credit was rapidly being rehabilitated.
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New York
Mr. Fish
Wall Street
United States
Daring but unsuccessful attempt to cross English Channel
French aviator M Latham tried to cross the English Channel in a monoplane from Sangatto Calais. After more than half the distance at 500 feet the motor failed and he landed on the sea aboard the Harpon torpedo boat destroyer. He was uninjured, kept smoking a cigarette, and pledged to try again once the machine was repaired. The craft floated like a cork until the wings broke. a bad carburetor blamed for the failure.
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Calais
Herbert Latham
English Channel
Sangatto
Harpon
M. Latham
Treu Amfy Afytaoni
Latham
Cotton Ginners Report Signals Record Low 72
Memphis telegraph from J A Taylor president of the National Ginners Association cites a 72 condition, the lowest on July 16, with many reporters below average. Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas show mixed changes while Texas suffers drought and heat. Rainfall arrives too late. cotton growth halted. forms and small bolls shed. weevil further jeopardizes new growth.
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Memphis
Tenn
J. A. Taylor
National Ginners’ Association
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Arkansas
Texas
Alive and jailed after presumed death in railroad crash
Union City residents gathered to meet John Henry Wise, once believed killed in a Monroe, Louisiana rail crash. Instead, Wise appeared alive and in custody on a 23 year old murder charge linked to Nobe Macon’s death. Wise’s troubled history includes a later Paducah marriage and a divorce from his first wife.
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Union City
Tenn
John Henry Wise
Monroe
Wise
Nobe Macon
Paducah
Refuses to Sell Hair in France This July Report
New York reports a rare crop failure as hair merchants from the United States and England arrive in France. The present girls have abandoned the national bonnet and refuse to sell their hair this season, saying they need it for their own use.
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New York
France
United States
England
Riot at Butler Pa Follows Arrival of Constabulary
Striking Standard Steel Car Company workers in Butler Pennsylvania were surprised when a detachment of state constabulary from Punxsutawney arrived to guard Lyndora plant property. A clash with mounted troopers left one striker possibly dead, two bystanders wounded and more than ten injured. Fifteen alleged leaders were arrested.
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Butler
Standard Steel Car Company
State Constabulary
Punxsutawney
Lyndora
Alot
Jauavmonec Amfwyyafwya
Couple Elopes In Automobile Marriage Spreads From Memphis
Memphis Tennessee Miss Harrel B. Sandling and George E. Goff eloped in a buggy turned automobile to Hernando Mississippi and wed. Sandling was en route to Labeled Baptist church to lead a Sunday school class when the elopement happened. Her father tried to stop the wedding by telegraph but failed. All parties are prominent in the community.
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Memphis
Tenn
Harrel B. Sandling
George E. Goff
Hernando
Miss
Miss Sandling
LaBelle Baptist Church
Goff
Mississippi
Mrs. Margaret Davis Hayes Dies at 54 in Colorado Springs
Margaret Davis Hayes, known as the Daughter of the Southern Confederacy and daughter of Jefferson Davis, died at her Colorado Springs home after six months illness. She was fifty four, the last surviving Davis, and survived by her husband two daughters and two sons.
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Colorado Springs
Col
Margaret Davis Hayes
Jefferson Davis
New York Surgeon Opposes Dr Distaso Theory
New York physicians doubt the theories of Dr Distaso who has been experimenting with patients in a London hospital. Dr Distaso endorses Prof Metchnikoff's theory on the large intestine and argues every child should have its large intestine and appendix removed at age two or three. He claims the large intestine breeds germs injuring health and shortening life.
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New York
Distaso
London
Three Drownings at Kings Lake Near Elsberry Missouri
Mrs Edward T Haase of St Louis a wealthy merchant’s wife another drowning victim Mrs W D Shannon and Shannon’s daughter Arline twelve were drowned when a launch capsized on Kings Lake near Elsberry Mo Mr Shannon saved a second daughter Maxine but watched two others drown Bodies of Mrs Shannon and Arline recovered.
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St. Louis
Elsberry
Edward T. Haase
W. D. Shannon
Bonus for babies in France proposes child bonuses
New York reports France faces a declining birth rate. Prof Charles Richet suggests a birth bonus plan where the first child earns no payment, the second 500 francs, the third 1,000 francs, increasing with each additional birth. He estimates national births could rise by 750,000 to 1,000,000 annually at a state cost of 30,000,000 francs.
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Republic
New York
France
Chas. Richet
Prof
Richet
Wire Flashes Condensed News From Around the World
Don Carlos the Spanish pretender dies in Lombardy. Agitation grows in Mexico with meetings in many places. New Shah of Persia escorted to palace by foreign troops to be educated abroad. Russian soldier jailed for flogging kills supervising officer. Sheriff of Paris Tennessee fatally shot by a man he had under arrest. Sixteen drowned near New York from a capsize. Bonnie Covington seven dies in Mobile from swallowing a doll foot. Charles B. Percy Jr died at Point Clear on a yachting trip. Four killed, twenty-two hurt in a Berlin motorcycle race explosion. Prince Alfonso and his fianced princess marry without the king's consent. he forfeits his rank. Two killed, six injured in a Monon railroad wreck. Louisiana to borrow 250000 for general expenses until 1909 tax collections. Realty values around Union Mississippi up 25 percent after McDonald feud ends. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw makes statements about her relations with Thaw.
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Don Carlos
Lombardy
Mexico
New Shah
Persia
Russia
Paris
Tenn
New York
Charles B. Percy, Jr
Mobile
Point Clear
Berlin
Alfonso
Good
Louisiana
Union
Miss
McDonald
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
Thaw
Taft Sees Free Tariff Material Additions in Bill
Washington. President Taft clears the way for free or reduced duties on raw materials including iron ore oil coal hides and lumber as part of the tariff bill. Conferees anticipate reductions meet with administration approval. Costs for the canal are set at 375 201 000 with bonds to cover 290 569 020 and 50 000 000 for canal property. Corporate tax amendment favored taxing net earnings at 1 percent.
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Washington
Taft
Senate
Congress
White House
Philippine Islands
Canal
Treasury
Wickersham
Deadly pistol fight in Union over old cow dispute
In Union Mississippi two factions the McDonalds and Chisholm Miller and a friend clashed in front of the Union Bank over ownership of an old cow. Revolvers fired killing E J McDonald and Peter McDonald and wounding Cornelius Chisholm Joseph Miller and Murphy McDonald. Bystanders fled as shots rang out.
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McDonald
Chisholm
Union
Miss
E. J. McDonald
Peter McDonald
Cornelius Chisholm
Joseph Miller
Murphy McDonald
McDonalds
Miller
Union Bank
Black Mountain buys Slemp coal lands for 2 million
Alexandria based Black Mountain corporation buys Congressman C. B. Slemp coal properties in Lee county Virginia and Eastern Kentucky for two million dollars. B. L. Dulaney and Dr N D Bachman of Bristol are among interested parties in the recently organized company which has seven million dollars authorized capital.
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Alexandria
Black Mountain Corporation
B. L. Dulaney
N.D. Bachman
Bristol
C. B. Slemp
Lee County
Kentucky
Crosses Continent to Answer Charge in Real Estate Case
Robert Leclerc, arrested in San Francisco, returns to Hackensack to face a $1,500 charge of obtaining money by false pretenses as a real estate agent. He traveled back on his own dime after New Jersey officials agreed to cover his railroad fare and meals. Mexico denies revolutionary plots and notes heightened tensions ahead of the 1915 presidential election with Diaz renominated.
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New York
Robert Leclerc
San Francisco
Hackensack
Leclerc
Pacific Coast
New Jersey
Mexico
Mexico City
San Antonio
Washington
United States
Diaz
Interurban Car Crash Kills Two in New Bremen
An interurban car on the Western Ohio railroad jumped the track in New Bremen, turning over at a curve. Conductor Henry Hertratz and an unidentified lineman passenger died instantly. The high speed entry into town and loss of control caused the wreck, with numerous injuries reported.
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New Bremen, CO
Western Ohio Railroad
Henry Hertratz
Railroad to Give Each Passenger Four Drinking Cups
Bristol Tenn news item reports Norfolk & Western Railway equipping passenger coaches with individual sanitary drinking cups. Each passenger uses a personal cup drawn from an automatic spring device, aimed at reducing transmission of tuberculosis and other diseases on trains.
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Bristol
Tenn
Washington, D.C
Norfolk & Western Railway Company
Samuel Gompers in Paris Sparks Mixed Labor Reactions
Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, speaks before French labor groups in Paris. Moderates show sympathy for his critique of political roles, while extreme socialists condemn him as reactionary and deride his high salary amid the General Federation of Labor’s revolutionary campaigns.
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Paris
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Zsich
Cotton Break Remarkable Weevil Report
New York cotton markets saw a remarkable break after a government entomologist report on boll weevils. Prices for new crop delivery ended the decline at $2 a bale amid panicky liquidation and widespread excitement.
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Hunter
New York
Mountaineer Mob Attacks Officers in Wolfe County
A mob of about 100 furious mountaineers in Wolfe county surround two Oklahoma officers at Cannes City and compel them to surrender their prisoner. The officers had arrested Grover Whitaker for shooting his wife at Ardmore Oklahoma months earlier, while the pair waited on the depot platform for a train. Count von Arco-Valley, the German Minister to Brazil, died suddenly in Rio Janeiro.
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Lexington
Oklahoma
Cannes City
Wolfe County
Grover Whitaker
Ardmore
Okla
Count von Arco-Valley
Brazil
Rio Janeiro
Committee to raise funds for Parker road extension
Pine Bluff Arkansas reports a committee has been named to raise about 150000 dollars to secure the right of way and pay a 100000 dollar cash bonus proposed by the Arkansas Louisiana Gulf railroad. The plan aims to extend the line from Hamburg north through Pine Bluff to DeValls Bluff on the Rock Island.
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Pine Bluff
Ark
Parker Road
Arkansa
Louisiana & Gulf Railrad
Hamburg
DeValls Bluff
Bock Island
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Mohamed Ali
Ahmed Mirza
Shah of
President Diaz
Dead Man
Butler, PA
J. A. Hayes
Bia
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