Heyburn Opposes 320 Acre Homestead Bill in Senate
The Senate debated a bill to raise homestead allotments from 160 to 320 acres for nonirrigable land. Senator Heyburn delivered a long filibuster speech and the report was withdrawn. The Senate approved the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation conference report. In the House a $17,638,532 deficiency bill passed by suspension. A joint resolution funded $125 monthly for widows of Surgeons Carroll and Lazear for yellow fever work.
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Washington, D. C
Senate
Heyburn
Idaho
Bulkely
Connecticut
Twenty-fifth Infantry
House
James Carroll
Jesse Lazear
Fire destroys Lake Superior pulp mill at Sault Ste. Marie
Fire at the Lake Superior corporation pulp mill in Sault Ste. Marie destroyed the plant across the river from the city. Loss near 350000 with the dynamo room supervisor Albert B Walsh killed by an electric shock and assistant Edward Gray drowning after his clothing caught fire while fighting the flames.
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Sault Ste. Marie
Mich
Lake Superior Corporation
Canadian Sea
Albert EB. Walsh
Edward Gray
Sixteenth Annual Wyoming Congregational Association opens
The Wyoming Congregational Association begins its sixteenth annual meeting at the First Congregational church this afternoon at 4. Professor Graham Taylor will deliver the first of five lectures on The Application of Christianity to the Social Condition of Modern Life. The lectures are free and open to the public. The second lecture follows tonight at 8 o'clock.
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The
Wyoming Congregational Association
First Congregational Church
Graham Taylor
Morse Securities plan aims to pay all depositors
New York May 18 friends of Charles W Morse say the Bath Maine Morse Securities company capitalized at 10 million will enable Morse interests to take over the National Bank of North America assets. The plan deposits cash in the local subtreasury to pay depositors in full.
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New York
Bath
Morse Securities Company
Morse
National Bank of North America
Charles W. Morse
Eald
Chicago Court Rules Mayor Cannot Order Sunday Closings
An appellate court affirmed the lower court ruling that the mayor of Ohi cannot be compelled to close saloons on Sundays under the statute. The decision clarifies limits on municipal Sabbath enforcement and reflects ongoing legal dispute over closing powers.
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Chicago
Ohi
Weather Report for Wyoming and Washington D C May 18 1908
Forecast shows showers and cooler conditions Tuesday and Wednesday then fair weather. Local data report the 24 hours ending 6 p m May 18 1908 with a maximum of 74 degrees and a minimum of 38 degrees and no precipitation. Palmer section director.
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Washington
D. C
Wyoming
de Rees
Palmer
Preacher Slays Wife Then Recovers, Insanity Claim
Rev. F A Coffman, 60, a Methodist Episcopal pastor from Rosstown near Fairmont, killed his wife, 33, by cutting her throat from ear to ear after a revival service. He surrendered, later said he was temporarily insane, and regained his senses after the act.
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Fairmont
A. Coffman
Coffman
Rosstown
Crossing Tragedy Near Flora Kills Four
A Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train collided with a carriage one mile north of Flora Alabama on May 18 killing Township Trustee James L. Cripes his wife and Ruth Cripes and fatally injuring another child.
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Flora, al
Here
Pennsylvania Railroad
James L. Cripes
When Coal Is Missing and the World Weighs Hope
New York scientist Dr Steinmets of General Electric and Union College warned of a future without hard or soft coal as reserves dwindle. He urged a shift to electricity and emphasized limited water power as a possible source, warning against atmospheric pollution from coal.
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New York
Steinmets
General Electric Company
Nectady
Union College
Bank's Money Poured Into Stock Ops In Chariton
In Chariton Iowa May 18 discovery shows that within two to three years before his death cashier F R Crocker of the First National Bank paid over 500000 to a Chicago New York firm for stock gambling. Most funds were invested in the final years of his life as he risked 3000 4000 daily hoping to salvage his finances.
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Chariton
F. R. Crocker
First National Bank
Chicago
New York
Policeman Captures Maniac After Cupola Battle
In St Louis on May 18 George Gall escaped the City hospital observation ward and climbed to the cupola eighty five feet up. He fought Patrolman James H Omohundro for forty five minutes atop a three foot square platform before the officer single handedly overpowered him with a club and subdued the maniac.
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St. Louis
George Gall
City Hospital
James H. Omohundro
Soulard Street
Gall
Omohundro
Maniac
Ex-Cheyennese City Visitor Ives Van Schaack in Cheyenne
Ives Van Schaack formerly a Cheyenne druggist and now a traveling representative for Seabury Johnson of New York, makers of surgical supplies, visited the city yesterday. He left Cheyenne in the 1890s and now resides in Denver. He is well known in his field on the road.
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Ives van Schaack
Seabury & Johnson
New York
van Schaack
Denver
Cheyenne
Ghink Susses Girl And Learns Manners
Sheridan Wyoming May 18 Fan Sing a Chinese cook at the Doyle restaurant was fined 25 dollars and costs in police court after a dispute over a meal price led to his arrest. Mina Fitzgerald a waitress testified and the conviction followed.
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Sheridan
Wyo
Findings in Western Life Indemnity case set for federal trial
Master in chancery Henry W. Bishop issues findings in the suit of Judge A W Field and others against Western Life Indemnity. He holds W H Gray violated fiduciary duty by transferring to E I Rosenfeld and recommends a decree against Gray for 125000 plus interest. He also finds Moulton and Rosenfeld liable for using company funds in a property purchase and for withdrawing 200000.
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Chicago
Henry W. Bishop
A. W. Field
Western Life Indemnity Company
Co. C. Kohisaat
United States Circuit Court
George M. Moulton
Western Indemnity Company
W. H. Gray
E. I. Rosenfeld
Rosenfeld
Moulton and Rosenfeld
Pennsylvania
High Water Pauses Boysen Dam Work
In Shoshoni Wyoming May 18 high water on the Big Horn river suspends work on the Boysen dam of the Big Horn Power company and Burlington dispute. A large force of men is idle until the flood recedes and work resumes.
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Shoshoni, Wyo
Big Horn Power Company
Boysen
Big Horn
Burlington
Chicago Truck Drivers Authorize Citywide Strike
Chicago May 18. Five thousand truck drivers authorize a strike after team owners refuse a $1.50 weekly increase. A union committee will press for higher pay before the strike takes effect.
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Chicago
Mae Woods Details Platt Marriage Claim in Divorce Suit
Mae C. Wood testifies in New York that she and Senator Thomas C. Platt formed a marriage contract on November 9 1901 And she identifies letters from Platt describing affection and personal plans The witness recalls writing a note on a picture back labeled To my little wife and confirms being in his hotel room with two men present as he acknowledged her as wife
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New York
Mae C. Wood
Omaha
United States
Thomas C. Platt
Platt
Odgill
Misa Wood
Thane
Senator Platt
Mysterious murders tied to Mrs Guinness exhumations
Laporte Indiana May 18 A coroner’s inquest on seven unidentified cadavers from Mrs Guinness private burial ground concluded this evening revealing one victim was a woman The case links to Emil Greening Oklahoma City once employed by Mrs Guinness during 1904 Jennie Olsen’s disappearance sparked theories that Mrs Guinness killed all three after Greening spent the night in a barn The watch of Ray Lamphere’s arrest case was identified as belonging to Joe Moe’s brother from Minnesota The notes from Casper Wyoming resident J N Youtzler describe a night of fear at the Guinness house with $700 on him and a plan to murder if attacked
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Jennie Olsen
Lamphere
Fleet Leaves Golden Gate for Puget Sound
In a rainy morning departure the American fleet sailed from the Golden Gate heading to Puget Sound ports. Ships reach Puget Sound Thursday and anchor until May 23 before a Seattle visit for three days. They will then resume the world cruise from San Francisco on July 7.
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Golden Gate
Puget Sound
San Francisco
Cal
Eral
Seattle
Prefers Death Over Incarceration in Colorado Injury
Mrs Kate Findlay wife of ranchman W D Findlay 55 of Abbey Colorado severed her throat with a concealed razor while under guard en route to Pueblo to seek county court asylum She survived and is now at St Marys hospital for probable recovery in a case described as mild insanity for 15 years with recent acute deterioration.
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Pueblo
Colo
Thi City
Kate Findlay
W. D. Findlay
Abbey
Plague Reported in Porto Cabello Venezuela
Plague fears spread from La Guaira to Porto Cabello with three new malaria cases and one fatality noted. The exact disease remains undetermined as officials await confirmation. The voyage from Willemstad Curacao dated May 18 is cited in dispatches.
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Venezuela
Porto Cabella
Willemstad
Curacoa
la Guaira
Widner to Testify in Omaha Federal Case Over Cattle Shipment
Roy Widner of Bundance Wyoming appears as a witness in Meek and Widner vs Burlington Railroad in federal court Omaha. The suit seeks damages for delays to cattle shipments three years past. case has lingered since filing.
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Omaha
Bundance
Wya
Roy Widner
Meek & Widner
Burlington Rillroad Company
Cleveland Street Cars Blasted. Passengers Unharmed
A Broadway street car was partially destroyed by a dynamite torpedo in Cleveland Ohio with twenty five passengers aboard. no serious injuries. A West Madison Street car was damaged by powder explosion on the track leaving a woman severely injured.
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Cleveland, Q
Broadway
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