House Representation From South Reduced
Washington May 22 Practically all hope for a ship subsidy bill faded as the House rejected the conference report on the post office appropriation bill by 145 to 156. The House sent the measure back to conference with little chance conferees will yield to the Senate. The campaign contribution bill with an amendment cutting southern representation passed by 360 to 125 with Democrats opposing the amendment. The District of Columbia and other appropriations bills moved toward conference as Democrats used roll calls. The Senate opened with a debate on interstate commerce and the Hepburn reform. a Foraker substitute was defeated. The President threatened a veto on the public buildings bill amid talk of retaliation for naval appropriations and two battleships.
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Post Ofice
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Congress
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Committee On
Aldrich
Chicago Sighting of Directoire Gown Stirs City Fashion
May 22 Chicago witnesses a first local directoire gown worn by Miss Bertha Carlisle of the Joe Weber company. She will appear in downtown streets in the French cloth attire with a close fitting skirt and slashed right side revealing satin trousers and black patent feather shoes.
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Directoire
Bertha Carlisle
Joe Weber
Paris
London
Lamphere Indicted for Multiple Murders in Indiana
A La Porte grand jury charged Ray Lamphere with seven indictments for murders of Mia Guinness Bella Guinness Philip Guinness Lucy Sorenson Myrtle Sorenson and Andrew Helgelein. An arson count and an accessory charge accompany the killings as authorities uncover a skull and dismembered remains in a chicken yard cemetery.
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Helgelein
Guinness
Mack
Airship A Success In Passenger Flight Test
At Collingwood Heights Toledo May 22 A Roy Knabenshue piloted the airship with passengers Barry Hess and Charles Hamilton aboard. The test flight went smoothly with the craft handling well in all positions relative to the wind as it ascended and descended, marking a major milestone in U.S. aviation.
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Collingwood Heights
A. Roy Knabenshue
Barry Hess
Charles Hamilton
Man Fatally Wounds Officer. Suspect Nabbed by Posse
Ike Watson, an Black man, allegedly fatally injured a police officer at Meridian yesterday. A sheriff's posse captured him eight miles east of Columbus today.
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Misa
Ike Watson
Meridian
Mae Wood Still Fights Platt Despite Prison
Mae Wood, Omaha woman jailed in default of 5000 bail for perjury after alleging she was Senator Platt's wife, vows to fight on as long as Platt lives. District Attorney says case will go to the grand jury. Platt not expected to testify.
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Mae OC. Wood
Omaha
United States
Platt
Miss Wood
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Jerome
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Garvan
Garvan Said This Afternoon That Miss Wood
Churches form Sioux City club drive for Sunday closings
Sioux City Iowa May 22 The men’s clubs of local churches have formed an association with a membership over 1000 to launch a campaign for Sunday closing of theaters poolrooms and skating rinks.
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Sioux City
Nevada Governor John Sparks Dies in Reno
Governor John Sparks, an early Wyoming cattle king who moved to Nevada, died at his Alamo farm near Reno after a long illness. Don S. Dickerson to fill unexpired term. Sparks faced labor troubles at Goldfield and a clash with President Roosevelt over federal troops. Born Mississippi August 1843, elected Nevada governor in 1902.
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Cheyenne
Reno
Goldfield
Alamo
Don S. Dickerson
Sparks
Bright
San Francisco
Roosevelt
Mississippi
Fortune Hidden in a Secret Drawer
Albert Kendall barber of Newfield Millville shares discovery with his two sisters of a hidden desk in his attic. While refinishing the desk they found papers valued at 175000 and a deed to a Reading Pennsylvania farm, bearing railroad bonds in the name of their late father John Kendall who died fifteen years ago.
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N. J
Albert Kendall
Newfield
Kendal
Reading
John Kendall
Albert
Weather Report for Washington May 22 1908
Fore cast shows warm day with showers Saturday afternoon and evening for the 24 hour period ending May 22. Temperatures range from a high of 65 to a low of 40 degrees with trace precipitation. Palmer section director notes official reading at 6 p.m. May 22.
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Washington
D. C
Palmer
Senator Rayner rails at Arizona stand stoic and supreme
In Washington D C on May 22 Senator Rayner urged a senate vote on a resolution to appoint a court of inquiry into charges against Colonel Stewart. He mocked war department delays and warned that the president claims virtual infallibility while denying defense witnesses.
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Stewart
War Department
Senate
Congress
Committee On Military Affairs
Mr. Rayner
Arizona
England
Girl Stowaway Travels on U S Torpedo Boat
Vallejo California May 22 a young woman named Olga Islle from Los Angeles was arrested at the Georgia street wharf while entertaining torpedo boat crew. She says she stowed away from San Pedro on the Hiplands and was known aboard by many seamen and some officers. One seaman offered to marry her on his payday, but she remains in custody.
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Vallejo
Cal
Olga Islle
Los Angeles
Georgia Street
Wyoming G A R officers elected at Fort Collins encampment
R. B. Fitch of Laramie named junior vice commander of the department. Mary Hader elected treasurer of the Woman's Relief Corps. Sarah J. Miller of Laramie joins the W R C executive board. Miss Sadie Fisher of Cheyenne elected secretary of the ladies of the G A R. Returning Wyoming delegates praise the results.
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Wyoming
Fort Colling
R. B. Fitch
Laramie
Mary Hader
Woman's Relief Corps
Sarah J. Miller
Sadie Fisher
Cheyenne
G. A. Bt
Russian exile tallies stun New York journalist
Alexia Smirnoff, a St. Petersburg journalist, arrived in New York to study American economics. He claimed about 100,000 exiles and 1,420 in Russian prisons, and said the true horrors of exile have not been told.
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Alexia Smirnoff
St. Petersburg
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