Miss Jean Reid to Wed Edward's Equerry-in-Waiting
London April 29. The engagement of Miss Jean Reid daughter of Whitejaw Reid American Ambassador to the Hon John Hubert Ward brother of the Earl of Dudley was announced. Ward a favored equerry in royal circles is a noted racing and sports man. The wedding is planned for the summer with date to be fixed.
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Jean Reid
Edward
London
White- Jaw Reid
John Hubert Ward
Earl of Dudley
Reid
Ward
Dorchester House
Miss Reid
America
Mr. Reid
Biarritz
King Edward
Vreeland Proposes New Currency Bill After Talks
Rep Vreeland of New York introduces a revised currency bill after Republican conference talks. The plan drops emergency bond circulation, retains government deposit interest, forms a National Clearing House with at least ten banks and 5 million dollars capital. A 4 percent tax rises to 10 percent until circulation ends. A Currency Commission would include six members from each chamber and six presidential appointees. The Banking and Currency Committee will consider it tomorrow.
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Clearing House Association
Currency Commission
House
Senate
Vreeland
Banking and Currency Committee
Indictments Against Morse and Curtis Sustained
In New York on April 29 Judge Hougn sustained indictments charging Charles W. Morse and Alfred H. Curtis with misapplication of bank funds at the National Bank of North America. The court kept counts alleging conspiracy to deceive examiners and the Comptroller, while striking out false entry counts.
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New York
Charles W. Morse
Alfred H. Curtis
National Bank of North America
Hougn
United States Circuit Court
Morse
Curtis
Ruling Favours Helen Maloney in Marriage Case
Daniel F. Copalon, appointed as referee, is expected to report that no valid marriage ever existed between Helen Maloney and Arthur H. Osborne. If the court accepts the finding, Maloney may marry Samuel Clark and live in Europe after a ceremony in New York.
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New York
Daniel F. Copalon
Helen Maloney
Martin Maloney
Standard Oil
Philadelphia
Arthur H. Osborne
Supreme Court
Miss Maloney
Samuel Clarkson
Montreal
Europe
Osborne
Anarchists Ordered Deported in U S Roundup
Washington reports a nationwide roundup of foreign born anarchists, with immigration authorities investigating cases of those with criminal records. Five Italians in New York were ordered deported under the new action.
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Washington
United States
America
New York
Tobacco grower sells 3000 pounds after farmer murder
E. D. Edwards, brother-in-law of Hiram Hedges, the Nicholas County tobacco grower slain by night riders, arrived in Lexington and sold 3000 pounds of tobacco at 100 cents a pound. He was the first to reach Hedges' home but refused to discuss the tragedy.
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Lexington
E. D. Edwards
Hiram Hedges
Nicholas County
Heages
Ohio Legislature Passes Probes and Night Rider Bills
In Columbus on April 29 the House funded Cincinnati and Cleveland probes with 25 000 each amid tense debate. A two thirds vote legality dispute rose as the Hafner appropriation faced changes. Two night rider bills moved quickly to curb southern Ohio depredations.
Missionary Guarded as Koreans Plot in San Francisco
In San Francisco a plot to assassinate Bishop Merriman Colbert Harris was thwarted when federal officials and police placed him on the revenue cutter Golden Gate and moved him to Oakland. Washington alerted local officers who had received telegrams about the danger from Korean residents, prompting heightened precautions around his arrival on the Korea.
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San Francisco
Merriman Colbert Harris
Pacific Mail
Korea
Orient
Port
Durham W. Stevens
Washington
Harris
Japan
Pacific
Roosevelt Plans To Forge Action In Congress
President Roosevelt vows vigorous effort to push his legislative program through Congress. He will use power to approve or veto the public buildings bill as leverage to influence re elections and secure support for key recommendations.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Tents for Storm Sufferers
Washington April 29 Acting under a Congressional resolution Secretary of War Taft ordered immediate provision of tentage rations and other needs for South storm victims. The resolution was adopted yesterday.
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Washington
Secretary of War
Taft
Japanese Cruiser Matsushime Sunk After Projectile Explosion
The training cruiser Matsushime was sunk off the Pedras Islands this morning by a projectile explosion. Itsukushima and Hashi rescued thirty crewmen. It is feared over 200, including Matsushime's captain, are lost.
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Matsushime
Pescadores Island
Er Matsushime
Pesca
Death of Dr. Morgan Dix rector of Trinity
Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix, rector of Trinity Protestant Episcopal Parish since 1862 and a leading New York clergyman, has died at 81. He was born in New York and was the son of General John A. Dix, famed for the dispatch about defending the flag. His father served as Secretary of the Treasury.
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New York
Morgan Dix
Trinity Protestant Episcopal Parish
Caldwell
New Orleans
United States Revenue
Amelia Bingham in Critical Condition in New York
Actress Amelia Bingham lies critically ill at her home 40 East Thirty first Street New York with acute intestinal obstruction and peritonitis. Doctors said a slight rally gave hope to her husband Lloyd Bingham and the attending physicians. She ended a road tour in A Modern Lady Godiva two weeks ago and planned a next month engagement.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
Amelia Bingham
East Thirtyfirst
Lloyd Bingham
Witness in land fraud case collapses in court
In Washington on April 23, H. F. Bartels of Portland Oregon a government witness in the land fraud inquiry collapsed in Criminal Court. Bartels had testified on his role in minor transactions alleged to prove a conspiracy to wrongfully acquire public lands linked to defendants Hyde Benson Dimond and Schneider. He identified his signature but could not remember signing the papers.
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Washington
H. F. Bartels
Portland
Ore
Bartels
Messrs. Hyde
Benson
Dimond
Schneider
Three Cent Fare Sparks Legal Fight in Cleveland
Cleveland adopts a three-cent streetcar fare amid a city battle with Municipal Traction Company. Mayor McQuigg sues to enforce the three-cent limit while unions seek a two-cent pay raise. transfers are delayed and citizens face penny shortages as lines adjust.
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Cleveland
Municipal Traction Company
McQuigg
East
Motormen and Conductors’ Union
Themén
Million Dollar Relief For Ex Slaves Passes Senate
Washington April 29 Former slaves or their heirs stand to receive up to 1,000,000 if a banking bill favored by the House Banking and Currency Committee becomes law. The measure, long in Congress, follows a claim that funds deposited in the Freedmen's Bank were lost when the bank failed after the Civil War. For over thirty five years beneficiaries sought government reimbursement.
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Washington
House Committee On Banking and Currency
Congress
Senate
Freedmen’s Bank
Taft Indorsed by West Virginia State Convention
Parkerburg WV April 29 Republicans endorse William Howard Taft for President. Delegates chosen to Chicago convention with Taft support instructions while praising Roosevelt and Dawsons administration. Judges of the Supreme Court nominated Ira E. Robinson and others.
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Taft
West Virginia
Parkersburg
W. Va
Auditorium
Chicago
Supreme Court
Harry Woodyard
Nathan B. Scott
F. A. McDonald
Huntington
Phil Walters
Charleston
William Devore
Scott
George A. Laughlin
Wheeling
C. F. Teter
Phillippi
C. W Dillon
Fayetteville
Isaac T. Mann
Bramwell
Prof. Jones
Kanawha County
W. J. Armstrong
Tyler
T. L. Norris
Ohio
J. A. Saulsbury
Ira E. Robinson
Grafton
W. N. Miller
L. F. Williams
Greenbrier County
William H. Taft
Theodore Roosevelt
United States
Roosevelt
Congress
William M. O. Dawsons
Lodge Secures Proxy for Southern Contests on RNC
Secretary Taft gains Senator Lodge of Massachusetts as a proxy from the Philippine Islands. Lodge will sit on the Republican National Committee when it meets in Chicago to decide Southern contests, where a single vote could affect the convention nominee.
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Commercial Tribune
Washington
Taft
Republican National Committee
Senator Lodge
Massachusetts
Philippine Islands
Chicago
State Committee Unanimously Endorses Taft Candidacy
Portland April 29 The Republican State Central Committee unanimously indorsed Secretary Taft for the presidential nomination. The committee decision reflects solid party support for Taft as a wartime and postwar leader.
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State Committee
Portland
Ore
Republican State Central Committee
Taft
Taft Instructions Adopted by Alabama First District
The First Congressional District Republican convention elected Postmaster P. D. Barker and J. T. Peterson of Mobile as delegates to the National Convention in Chicago. Resolutions praised Roosevelt and instructed for William H. Taft as the party’s presidential nominee.
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Mobile
Ala
P. D. Barker
J. T. Peterson
Chicago
Theodore Roosevelt
William H. Taft
North Carolinians for Taft elect six more Tarheel delegates
Greensboro N C April 29 The Republican Convention of the Fifth Congressional District elected delegates to the National convention for Taft as President The slate includes B S Robertson Haw River Guy Carter Dobson alternates J C Angler Durham and H F Worth Greensboro A second convention of Republicans
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Greensboro
N. C
Fifth Congressional District
S. Robertson
Haw River
Guy Carter
Dobson
J. C. Angler
Durham
H. F Worth
Taft
Republica
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