Congress Concludes Session With Record Legislation
Washington reports Congress ended a long session amid factional disputes and minority opposition yet enacted bold reform measures. Key actions include railroad reform and a commerce court, statehood for Arizona and New Mexico, and creation of a bureau of mines, with conservation and anti corruption provisions shaping a sweeping legislative agenda.
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Arizona
New Mexico
Bureau of Mines
Tariff Board
Philippine Islands
Hawaiian Islands
Alaska
Panama Zone
Bureau of Health
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Engineer Corps
Army
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Committee On Rules
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Senate
Commerce Court
Interstate Commerce Commission
Bull leaders in cotton push July option amid indictments
New York report says William P. Brown and Frank B. Hayne, named in a restraint of trade conspiracy, press the July cotton option even after indictments. Hayne offered to buy all July cotton any individual or the ring would sell and to sell August at a 30 point difference.
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New York
William P. Brown
Frank B. Hayne
Hayne
Heir to Fortune Found in Chicago House of Correction
William Hamilton, missing from Pittsburg eight months, has been located as a prisoner in Chicago House of Correction. Records show a May 28 disorderly conduct sentence of sixty days. City officials consider a pardon as Hamilton’s health improves and he revels in his sudden fortune.
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Chicago
House OF Correction
William Hamilton
Pittsburg
Nicipal Court
Busse
House Recedes on Labor Immunity to Antitrust Laws
Washington report notes labor organizations failed to secure immunity from prosecution under the antitrust and interstate commerce laws. After a heated debate, the House voted 138 to 130 to join the Senate in striking out a provision in the sundry civil bill that would have granted such immunity.
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Rosebud
South Dakota
Fort Berthold
North Dakota
United States
House
Senate
Taft
Maine
Havana
Cuba
Glacier National Park
Montana
Commission of Fine Arts
Washington
Money for Church Fight In Vanderbilt Controversy
The Board of Education of the Methodist Church South says the board treasurer will honor drafts drawn by the bishops to cover expenses related to defending the church’s rights in the Vanderbilt University controversy in Nashville Tennessee.
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Nashville, Tenn
Board of Education of
the Methodist Church, South
Vanderbilt University
B. R. Hendrix
Kansas City
Southern Methodist
Kirkland
The
Loge of Bishops
Ville
Senator Gore Faces Bribe Claims Over Indian Contracts
Oklahoma Senator Gore disclosed an alleged bid to influence legislation on Choctaw and Chickasaw attorney contracts. He accused a McMurray representative and unnamed ex-senators of pushing contracts amid a large Washington lobby. The House rejected the conference report as Gore pressed for investigation.
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Gore
Oklahoma
Senate
J. F. McMurray
House
Senate Committee On Indian Affairs
House Committee On Indian Affairs
Nebraska
Kansas
Bailey
Indian Affairs Committee
Hale
Congress
McMurray
George
Colorado
House of Representatives
Murphy
Missouri
In Need
Tawney
No Trace Of Wendling In Fruitless Search
Louisville officers return home after two day hunt for Joseph Wendling, suspected slayer of Alma Kellner. Chiefs Ellis and Carney traced to San Antonio, find no ranch location and deem reports of him there untrue.
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Louisville
Houston
Tex
Ellis
Carney
San Antonio
Joseph Wendling
Alma Kellner
Cost of Living Inquiry Causes in 1900s
Washington Republicans and Democrats clash over reasons for price rises from 1900 to 1910. The committee highlights higher farm production costs from land values and wages, greater demand for farm goods, migration from production to consumption, immigration, reduced land fertility, banking enabling crop holding, cold storage stabilizing prices yet raising them, distribution costs, industrial combines, producer and dealer organizations, advertising, money supply, overcapitalization, and higher living standards.
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Washington
Disastrous Mexican railroad wreck claims soldiers
Twenty federal soldiers are reported dead and many injured after four cars on the Manzanillo line in Colima broke loose from the locomotive. The cars tobogganed six miles, reached a curve, left the track, and were dashed to pieces along the steep grade.
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Mexico City
Manzanillo
The
National Railways
Colima
Bishop Heslin Critically Ill in Memphis Air News
Wire flash reports Bishop Thomas Heslin of the Natchez diocese is critically ill in Memphis Tennessee. Other items note Count Zeppelin starting regular airship service in Germany, France seeking birth-rate measures, northern Mexico unrest, and various international and church events and moves.
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Thomas Heslin
Natchez
Memphis
Tenn
Count Zeppelin
Germany
Mexico
Robert J. Lowe
Montgomery
Ala
Josie Larguerer
Baton Rouge
la Rochelle
Yews
Skerries
Ireland
G. R. Johnson
Harding
Birmingham
Penalty Death Ends Irwinville Siege of Bostwick
Irwinville Georgia resident W H Bostwick died after a gun battle with state militia and local officers that lasted through the night. Sheriff J P McInnis and Officer James Gill were wounded. Gill expected to recover. Bostwick had held six children prisoner during the siege and refused surrender before the final volley and collapse.
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W. H. Bostwick
J. P. McInnis
Irwin County
James Gill
Bostwick
River Fire Destroys J. S. Steamer at Victory
Fifteen hundred excursionists aboard the Acme Packet line steamer J. S. were saved after Captain Streckfus beached the vessel two miles above Victory, Wis., as a fire broke out near the boiler room. Several people, all women, reportedly drowned or vanished from the third deck amid the panic. one woman likely fatally injured.
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J. S
Streckfus
Bad Ax Island
la Crosse Rng
Religious war threatened in Spain over Vatican concordat
Madrid premier Canalejas warns that breaking off talks with the Vatican over the concordat revision would make Rome responsible. He says the Vatican reply protests the June 11 imperial decree and invades state sovereignty. He vows court action if Catholics push civil war and notes pressure on King Alfonso to topple the government.
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Madrid
Canalejas
Vatican
Rome
Alfonso
Threatened Race Trouble in Simpson County Ends
Jackson Mississippi Simpson county faced a threatened racial clash after Luther Buckley a white farmer was killed by three black fugitives and one of the fugitives was later shot dead by a posse. The posse killed Harrison Jones while the others remain at large as posses scour the woods with possible lynching feared.
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Simpson County
Jackson
Miss
Luther Buckley
Buckley
Harrison and
Robinson Jones
Jim Brady
Harrison Jones
Congress Approves $1 Million for Flood Protection
Washington reports President Taft urged Congress to appropriate 1 million dollars for discretionary use to prevent severe flood damage in the Imperial Valley California, as authorities warn of rising flood risk.
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Washington
Taft
Imperial Valley
California
Papal Secretary of State Mery del Val resigns rejected by Pope
Cardinal Mery del Val tendered his resignation to Pope Pius but the Pope refused to accept it with a remark that he would rather renounce the papacy than lose Mer ry del Val services. The Vatican stance toward Spain and the Spanish government’s religious program remains firm amid concordat talks. A separate report from Montgomery describes a woman shooting a Negro found under her children's bed, and another note mentions a Senate vote allocating 1 million dollars for Colorado River flood control after a president’s message.
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Mery del Val
Pius
Vatican
Germany
Spain
Merry del Val
Acoyapa Captured by Revolutionists Reported
Reports from San Juan Del Sur Nicaragua state Acoyapa has fallen to revolutionists. Details on movement, dates, or combat are not provided in the text. Local authorities offered no confirmation.
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Acoyapa
San Juan del Sur
Nic
Two Children Die and Are Injured by Live Wire Accident
In Sardis Mississippi 12 year old Hester Burns and 10 year old Audley Dorr were up a tree when they touched a charged Panola Electric Light and Power Company wire. Burns died instantly while Dorr was severely bruised and shocked but showed some recovery hope.
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Dorr
Browne Jury Hung In Bribery Case
Chicago jury in the Browne bribery case over William Lormer’s U S senate election spent eighty hours without reaching a verdict. In Mobile, Ala assets of the J B E North Lumber Co were sold in Gulfport for 796000 to Bond Lumber Co. Washington reports thirteen government appointees, excluding post matters, failed senate confirmation this session.
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Chicago
Lee O'Neil Browne
William Lormer
United States
Mobile
Ala
J. BE. North Lumber Company
Gulfport
Miss
Bond Lumber Company
Washington
Senate
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