Borah Taylor Measure 10 Aids Wyoming Conferees Approve
Washington May 24 Conferees reached agreement on the Borah Taylor three year homestead bill. The plan allows settlers on remaining public land to prove up in three years with reduced cultivation demands and permits absence during settlement. Taft expected to sign. Taylor says the measure will aid thousands in eastern Colorado and eastern Wyoming and may add about 26 000 people to the state.
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Solons Quarrel Over Telegrams
Washington May 24 Representative Fitzgerald chair of the house appropriations committee denounced members who send private telegrams at government expense. Lloyd of Missouri accounts committee said one in ten messages was private. Fitzgerald roasted him for the lapse. The emergency appropriation bill carrying 201000 for house expenses passed after prohibitions on telegraphing privileges were struck out.
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House Appropriations Committee
Lloyd
Missouri
Accounts Committee
Garner
Texel
Wall Street Bets 2 to 1 on Taft Not Re-Elected
New York May 24 stock market inactivity spurred room traders to place bets on presidential nominations. Bets ranged two to one that Taft is not the next president and five to four that Woodrow Wilson will not be nominated, with curb brokers noting wagers from $100 to $500.
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Wall Street
Taft
Roosevelt
Clark
Woodrow Wilson
W. J. Bryan
Curb
Coretta the Dwarf Die in Circus Runaway Tragedy
Coretta Rickoff known as Coretta the dwarf with Ringlings circus was killed in a runaway yesterday while traveling with Warren of the Greater United Shows in Kankakee Illinois. Her body was sent to Clinton Iowa her home. She was twenty one inches tall and fourteen years old. Theodore Roosevelt sent her greetings on her last birthday in January concluding You are the only sweetheart my Wife is not jealous of.
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Coretta Rickoff
Coretta
Ringtings
Circus
Warren
Clinton
Iowa
Theodore Roosevelt
Church union renewed as Methodist Protestant and United Brethren plan reunification
Baltimore May 24 negotiations for an organic union of the Methodist Protestant and United Brethren churches will be renewed under regulations adopted almost unanimously at today's general conference meeting in Baltimore.
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Methodist Protestant and
United Brethren Church
Methodist Protestant Church
Roosevelt a Graf ter and Morgan ties in trust case
Washington dispatch argues Roosevelt will be judged by DOJ files showing Morgan interests shaping his renomination. It claims Perkins and Roosevelt conspired to aid the steel trust and that Townsend advised prosecution but was silenced, leaving the Harvester Trust unpunished. The piece questions Roosevelt's popularity amid these alleged dealings.
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Perkins
Roosevelt
Steel Trust
Tennessee Coal & Iron Company
George W. Perkins
Morgan
Harvester Trust
Burdette J. Townsend
Townsend
Pacific Coast
Ohio Trust
Ovina Roomyvelt
Porkies
Murderer Seng Chooses Courage At Wyoming Noose
Special to The Leader Rawlins Wyoming May 24 Joereph Seng, condemned for a brutal murder, faces execution with stoic calm. He thanks guards and prays as witnesses gather. The crowd hears the decree and watches as Seng is strapped and lowered, water bucket timing the trap before the fall.
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Rawlins
Wyo
Joereph Sen
Annals of
Wyoming
Seng
Panic Reigns In Cuba As Rebel Army Pillages
Two alleged Industrial Workers of the World faced swift action for insulting the American flag. One man was chased from town by daylight vigilantes, the other jailed. Police claim a plot to murder local officials was foiled by a traitor letter from Los Angeles.
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Wilson
Los Angeles
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le Auxoles
Wadham
John L. Bebon
H. & Utley
Wilwon
Annual report criticizes Mormonism at Beattie assembly
Beattie Washington May 24 The annual report of the home mission board presented at the United Presbyterian General Assembly denounces Mormonism as a polytheistic false religion with polygamy among Gods and men and a false priesthood while asserting a true conception of God Christ the Holy Spirit and atonement.
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Beattie
Wash
Home Mission Board
United Presbyterian
Insurrectionary Movement Grows in Oriente Island
May 24 reports from Orleite province indicate a rising insurrection in eastern Cuba with government censorship and volunteer enrollments. Major General Montgendago is to take command amid widespread panic in Oriente as Americans seek protection and guards are requested for plantations.
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Oriente
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Bani of Nero Innuricente Attacks El Caney de Sitlo Near Palma Borane
In Bani province Cuba on May 24 a force allied with Iyonez attacked El Caney de Sitlo four miles from Palma Borane on the Bayamo railroad. They captured the town, looted it and outrages were reported. Guards at El Caney del Billo offered no effective resistance.
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Nero Innuricente
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Bayamo
el Caney del Billo
Caney del ‘Sitlo
Roosevelt forces threaten Chicago convention turmoil
Roosevelt campaign managers claim Roosevelts forces will refuse to abide by Senator Elihu Roots selection as temporary chairman and push for a chairman aligned with Roosevelt policies. In New Jersey Taft, Roosevelt, and La Follette campaign across the state for delegates to the national convention amid rival strategies. Governor Wilson authorizes an address to New Jersey voters defending his refusal to stump and urging support for his record.
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Mate Ager
Taft
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National Committee
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Hlihu Root
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London Quiet As 100000 Transport Workers Strike
London experiences a near Sunday calm as a strike scales back transport operations. Upwards of 100000 workers in central London cancel tools, while those finishing jobs may return to work before joining the action. Pickets are peaceful and authorities plan measures to safeguard food supplies.
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Scotland Yard
Smithfeld
Negro Elected M. E. Bishop
The general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church elected W. P. Thirkield of Howard University as bishop on the twenty sixth ballot and Jane Bishop in Minneapolis Minnesota today. The vote surpassed the required majority by thirty eight.
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General Conference of
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Methodist Episcopal Church
W. PF. Thirkield
Howard University
Jane Wishop
Tax Returns Show Wealth of Ohio Presidential Hopefuls
Returns filed in two Ohio counties reveal William Taft and another candidate’s personal property. Taft lists assets totaling 645000 including a 61000 horse a 100 dollar watch a 100 dollar piano 5050 in cash and 63001 in other property and investments. The report highlights wealth of leading contenders for the presidential nomination.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Wil-lam Ff
Taft
Oronozco Bombardment and Rebel Retreat Amid Battle
Reports from Bellago describe Huerta forces driving Oronzo’s remnants from the town after a fierce fight. Rebels reportedly burned a railroad bridge near their northern stronghold as Federal troops advanced toward Torreon with hundreds of casualties and several hundred prisoners.
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Imines
Wader
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