Powers Win Narrow Victory Over Edwards in Louisville
Caleb Powers and supporters from the Eleventh District secured a signal win over incumbent Don C. Edwards at a state central committee meeting in Louisville. Powers claimed confidence in beating Edwards in the coming primary. The committee moved to reschedule the Eleventh district primary and set voter qualifications aligned with prior Republican support.
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Commercial Tribune
Louisville
Jaime
Caleb Powers
Eleventh
Don C. Edwards
State Central Committee
Galt House
Powers
Ed Wards
Repub
Tate Central Committee
Eleventh District Committee
Jews Driven From Their Country Summer Homes
Dispatches received by the Jewish Aid Society say Jews are being evicted from their summer country residences across Russia. The report, dated Berlin June 11, describes widespread forced removals amid mounting anti Semitic pressure and property seizures affecting many families.
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Berlin
Associated Press
Jewish Aid Socety
Russia
Nuttal Out of Asylum to Escape Trial
Dr W L Nuttall former superintendent at Frankfort asylum for the feeble minded was released from Lakeland asylum and the indictment against him for detaining a woman at the institute was dismissed. Court officials reported the case was found insane and Nuttall sent to the asylum, ending the pursuit.
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Commercial Tribune
Louisville
Lakeland
Henry County
W.L. Nuttall
Institute For
Frankfort
Nuttall
Benton Hopes to Die at Miami University Presidency
Special Dispatch reports at Miami University in Oxford Ohio that Dr Guy Potter Benton announced he hopes to remain president for life and would not leave Miami for money or other offers. He may stay despite a Boston University offer while trustees meet to decide. Several deans will take leaves of absence for a year in Europe.
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Commercial Tribune
Hamilton
Miami University
Oxford
Hughes
College of Liberal Artts
Elizabeth Hamilton
Europe
A. H. Upham
Burn Mawr
Guy Potter Benton
Church Or
Central Committee Sets Details for State Convention
Piqua Ohio June 11 The state central committee has been tallied for June 21 at 10 o clock to finalize details of the state convention and to hear any contests that may have arisen at the dispatch to the Commercial Tribune.
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Commercial Tribune
PIQUA
Socratic Central Committee
Colonel Anderson Dead Son of Ohio Governor Dies in California
Colonel L. L. Anderson of Ohio and son of former governor Charles Anderson died suddenly today in Santa Barbara where he had spent the winter. His death was reported from Los Angeles with details scarce.
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Ohio
California
Commercial Tribune
Los Angeles
Cal
L. Anderson
Charles Anderson
Santa Barbara
Drowned Judge Harris Tied to Reelfoot Lake Night Riders
Judge Harris president of the West Tennessee Land Co. died of heart failure while swimming in the Mississippi near Tiptonville. He had faced threats from the Reelfoot lake night riders tied to his ownership claims and lived under armed guard with mines around his residence. Harris, 30, was among Tennessee's wealthiest men.
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Associated Press Dispatch
Tiptonville
Tenn
Judge Harris
West Tenessee Land Company
Reelfoot Lake
Mississippi River
Harris
West Tennessee Land Company
Night Riders
Quentin Rankin
Walnut Log
Balloonist Starts Alone To Capture Lahm Cup
John Berry left St. Louis at 4 19 PM in the balloon University City to attempt to win the Lahm cup now held by P Holland Forbes of New York. He flies solo and carried four days provisions as witnesses watched the ascent.
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ST. Louis
Associated Press
John Berry
University City
Holland Forbes
New York
Girl Refused Suitor Stabbed at the Altar
Brownsville Texas June 11 A.P. report Basilio Martinez fatally stabbed Bonita Garcia at the altar as the bridal party waited for the ceremony. The killer was enraged after the bride abandoned thoughts of a rival and declined the marriage.
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Brownsville
Tex
Associated Press
Basilio Martinez
Bonita Garcia
Martinez
Death by live wire shocks Springfield child
William Eastgate aged 2, a married man, died instantly after grabbing a live electric feed wire that fell before his home. He attempted to push it away with a stick but touched it with his bare hands as the current could not be stopped in time.
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Commercial Tribune
Springfield
William Eastgate
Archbishop Blenk Targeted Over Race Track Gambling Fight
In New Orleans on June 11, letters threatening Archbishop Blenk with death arrived at the archbishop's palace after his active role against the revival of race track gambling in Louisiana.
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New Orleans
Associated Press
Blenk
Louisiana
Eighty Chinese Otter Hunters Slain by Brigands
In early May near Manchali on the Russian Chinese frontier brigands attacked a party of eighty Chinese otter hunters. The band killed most of the men and seized about 1,000 otter skins. The reports reached Victoria British Columbia on June 11 via Associated Press.
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Victoria
B. C
Associated Press
Manchali
New Officers of Harvard Clubs Elected in Cleveland
Mitchell D. Fellansbee was chosen president Parmely W Herrick and the Rev Minot Simons were re elected treasurer and secretary of the Associated Harvard Clubs of America at the fourteenth annual convention in Cleveland The session drew nearly 500 delegates and visitors and called the meeting the most successful in the organization s history An effort was announced to boost attendance at the Minneapolis meeting next year A feature was an address by Henry M Rogers of Boston.
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Cleveland
Mitchell D. Fellansbee
Chicago
Minot Simons
Parmely W. Herrick
Associated
Harvard Clubs of America
United States
Minneapolis
Henry M Rogers
Boston
Spreckels Sets Fight On Graft To Stay In San Francisco
Rudolph Spreckels, famed anti graft crusader from San Francisco, sails on the George Washington to study European graft issues and to organize a national association for graft suppression. He vows to continue the battle at home, warning grafters may kill themselves amid public revolt. He blames corporate stockholders for tolerating graft and urges accountability in public and private affairs.
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WEW
York
Associated Press
Rudolph Spreckels
San Francisco
Association For the
Europe
Spreckels
No Briefs Filed in the Ballinger-Pinchot Case
A closed meeting of the Ballinger-Pinchot investigating committee ended with no briefs received from the three attorneys. No action was taken beyond setting next Saturday as the date for the next meeting.
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Ballinger-Pinchot
Washington
Associated Press
Reduction of Sleeping Car Rates Stays in Court
In Chicago on June 11 judges Grosscup Baker and Seaman of the U S circuit court refused to enjoin the interstate commerce commission from cutting sleeping car rates. They overruled the motion and allowed a new bill later with no prejudice due to Great Northern Railway’s intervening petition. Attorney J Lindley for Great Northern presented new evidence not before the ICC. The judge noted the court’s reluctant jurisdiction and urged presenting all evidence to the commission.
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Associated Press Dispatch
Chicago
Grosscup
Great Northern
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
No Torpedo Boats for Big Exposition
Cincinnati will not host torpedo boat destroyers during the Ohio Valley exposition from August 24 to September 24 unless there is a war trigger. Secretary Meyer informed Representative Goebel that naval vessels sent to St Louis last year were damaged and the department sees no need for risking a repeat.
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Mississippi
St. Louis
Department
Cincinnati Man Wins Banking Institute Election Recount
A recount by the executive council of the American Institute of Banking declared Henry J. Mergler of Cincinnati elected to the executive council, replacing G. K. Biérere of Los Angeles. Mergler won by a majority of three and one half votes.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Associated Press
American Institute of Banking
Executive Council
Henry J. Mergler
Cincinnati
G. K. Biérere
Los Angeles
Mergler
Infants Found Drowned In Chicago Ditch
The bodies of two five day old male infants, likely twins, were found in a gunny sack floating in a stagnant ditch on the city outskirts. Death appears due to drowning with no violence signs.
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Chicago
Ditcn
Associated Press
Murder Mystery Deepens in Venice Villa Case
Italian police chase a possible motive as Porter Charlton, a New Yorker, remains missing after a woman identified as Mrs Porter Charlton is found alive in a trunk in Lake Como. Witnesses say she was intoxicated and mistreated. suspicions fall on Charlton who drank heavily and vanished after the crime.
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Commercial Tribune
Mary Eters Sac
Porter ‘Chariton
Roosevelt
Venice
Charlton
Villa
Como
Italy
Associated Press
Porter
Chatiiton
New York
Lake Ke Keine
Red
Ispolatoff
Mystery over trunk death of Mrs Charlton in Italy
Paul Charlton suspects a former admirer may be involved in the death of Mrs Mary Scott Castle Charlton whose body was found in Lake Como. Porter, about 20, tied to the case, is presumed dead. he married Mary Scott Castle in March and sailed to Genoa shortly after. Charlton notes Porter’s tuberculosis and last letter describing plans.
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Washington
Associated Press
Mary Scott Castle Charlton
Lake Como
Italy
Paul Charlton
Porter
New York
Foreign Department
The
National City Bank
Mary Scott Castle
Neville Castile
San Francisco
Wilmington
Bel
Genoa
Oklahoma City Wins State Capitol Location by 50000 Plurality
Conservative estimate from forty of seventy Oklahoma counties shows Oklahoma City leading Guthrie and Shawnee for the state capitol site by about 50 000 in the June 11 tally.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Associated Press
Oklahoma
Guthrie
Shawnee
Man Bird Flaps Wings Over Ferry
Homebound Staten Island commuters watched Charles K. Hamilton soar above the ferry, wheeling and dipping in the dusk. He unveiled his aeroplane on Governor's Island and conducted two trial flights despite a stiff northeast wind, preparing for a Monday flight to Philadelphia and back.
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Associated Preas Dispatch
New York
Staten Island
Charles K. Hamilton
Philadelphia
Hamilton
Governor's Island
Ohio Wesleyan Commencement Nears in Delaware
The sixty sixth annual commencement at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware is set for next week with 140 graduates. John Bernhardt of Cincinnati will receive a bachelor of arts degree as the first graduate. The baccalaureate sermon tomorrow will be delivered by President Welch.
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Commercial Tribune
Delaware
Ohio Wesleyan University
Welch
Lst
John Bernhardt
Cincinnati
Taft negotiates stock control plan in railroad bill
The White House conference agrees to add a commission to study how rail stock and bond issues should be overseen. President Taft presses for interstate commerce supervision, while Democrats resist outright controls this session. He hopes the commission will bridge party views and prevent stock watering. A magnetic survey ship captained by L A Bauer sails from New York for a decade long world cruise around sacred seas.
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Associated Press Dispatch
Washington
Taft
White House
Congress
Interstate Commerce Commission
House
New York Harbor
Pacific
Atlantic
L. A. Bauer
Department of Terrestrial Magnetism
Carnegie Institute
Washington, D. C
Former Athlete Repentant After Burglary Charge
Ramon W. Wyley, who said he was a former University of Pennsylvania athlete, awoke in a city jail after being captured looting the residence of James M. Yankie. He attributed the burglary to a quarrel over hotel finances, but police question his claim of collegiate sports fame.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Associated Press
Ramon W. Wyley
University of Pennsylvania
James M. Yankie
Wyley
Night rider cases postponed to September term
In Hopkinsville Kentucky on motion by the state all night rider trials set for today were postponed until the September term. Mil ton Oliver the principal witness was wounded and cannot appear. Dr Amos alleged leader and other defendants will renew pleas and 100 witnesses have been subpenaed for September as deputies search spectators for weapons.
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Associated Press
Hopkinsville
Commonwealth
Smith
Milton Oliver
Amos
Ohio Republicans Turn Eastward for National Meeting
Columbus dispatches report Ohioans plan travel to New York for the National League of Republican Clubs meeting June 24 and 26. Congressman Nicholas Longworth and Herman Goebel of Cincinnati named delegates and speakers. A special train departs Cincinnati June 23 with officials joining ninety six Ohio delegates for the event signaling the start of the Republican congressional campaign.
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Beesac
Harrison Biba
Columbus
National League of Republican Clubs
New York
Nicholas Longworth
Cincinnati
Ohio
Herman P. Goebel
Republican National Congressional Campaign
Hu_D. Davis
Ohio of
Republican Clubs
Roosevelt Club Hosts Pinchot Garfield Banquet
About 500 Roosevelt club members and guests in St. Paul honor Gifford Pinchot James Garfield and discuss a new unnamed party built on conservation Two wings conservatives and progressives unite to oppose monopoly of public domain resources Pinchot warns about private profit over public good and the alliance of business with politics while urging removal of special interests from governance
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Associated, Press Disputch
ST. Paul, Minn
Gifford Pinchot
James R. Garfield
St. Paul
Roosevelt Club
Ryan Hotel
Messrs. Pinchot
Garfield
Roosevelt
Governor Aberhart
Keller
Hugh T. Halbert
Yale
Mr. Pinchot
E. A. Jaggard
Minnesota Supreme Court
Bhasemaster
Jaggard
Halbert
Theodore Roosevelt
Ebhart
Keiler
Pinchot
Ain
Solons
Congress
Tariff Debate Sways Senate Over Investigation Provision
The Senate debated the Sundry Civil bill's $250000 fund to study the tariff's operation. Senators Aldrich Beveridge Clay Bailey and others sparred over authorship and possible revision. lively exchanges included jibes about kicking the tariff and epidermis remarks. Adjournment came without a vote.
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Associated Press Dispatch
Washington
Senate
Clay
Bailey
Chamber
Aldrich
Beveridge
Indiana
Rhode Island
Johnston
Clapp
Indianapolis
Bevert
Heyburn
Hale
Idaho
Cummins
Iowa
Auto expense cut off. Must buy their gasoline
Vice President Sherman and Speaker Cannon must pay their chauffeurs and buy their gasoline. The Senate today voted for appropriations of $2,500 for the maintenance of the automobiles of the officers of the two houses of Congress.
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Joe
Sunny Jim
Washington
Associated Press
Sherman
Cannon
Senate
Congress
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Meyer
American Institute Banking
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Wesleyan
Delaware School
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