Grand Jury Seeks Garber Return Over Ohio Bribery Probe
Former Ohio Democratic national committeeman Harvey C. Garber is urged to return from Europe to testify before the Franklin County grand jury in a widening bribery and corruption inquiry. Garber's trip was publicized as a rest voyage but officials suspect he may illuminate alleged merger bill practices tied to telephone interests. The probe continues as prosecutors press for testimony and consider indictments of additional senators and representatives.
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Commercial Tribune
Columbus
Harvey C. Garber
Ohio
Europe
Franklin County Grand Jury
Garber
New York
Grand Jury
Union
Price Russell
The
Senate
Hitbery
Turner
Rosecutor Turner
Hogan
Bishop Urges Papers Reform in Catholic Sermon
Rt. Rev. James A. McFaul urged journalism reform calling for a press ethics code modeled on medical and legal standards. He urged truthfulness and respect for rights, during a St Patrick's Cathedral mass marking ten years of morning paper services for workers. Archbishop Farley presided while McFaul preached.
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New York
James A. McFuaul
Trenton
N. J
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
St. Andrew's Church
Printing House Square
Berlin
Farley
McFaul
Daughters of the Revolution Hold Twentieth Annual Convention
The General Society of the Daughters of the Revolution meets in Baltimore for its twentieth annual convention from Tuesday to Friday. A feature is the unveiling of the sailors of the revolution memorial in Bancroft Hall at Annapolis Naval Academy. Secretary of the Navy Meyer represents President Taft at the exercises.
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Baltimore
General Society of the Daughters of the Revolution
Bancroft Hall
Naval Academy
Annapolis
Nevy Meyer
Taft
Hydrophobia Epidemic Strikes Fayette County
Excitement runs high in Washington C. H. and surrounding Fayette County as eight people are bitten by rabid dogs and two by a rabid cat. Authorities impose strict measures and all bite victims receive Pasteur treatment to halt the outbreak.
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Commercial Tribune
Washington C. H
Pasteur
Steel Trust May Buy Shipbuilding Plant
United States Steel Corp is negotiating to purchase Moran company's shipbuilding plant in Seattle valued over 2.9 million dollars. Representatives have surveyed the property since April 2 and negotiations with principal Moran stockholders are underway in New York.
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Seattle
Washi
United States Steel Corporation
Morar Company
The
Steel Corporation
Moran Company
New York
Scenes in Juarez and El Paso Escape Bombardment
War era dispatch describes scenes in Juarez and El Paso where bombardment was avoided as Maderos withdrew from the United States frontier. Reports focus on street life near the international bridge linking El Paso and Juarez and the surrounding frontier streets.
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Juarez
EL Paso
Madero
United States
Bank Robber and Marshal Are Killed in Iowa Clash
Jefferson Iowa May 7 Marshal Busby of Paton and a bank robber were killed in a schoolhouse fight with a sheriff posse after an early morning bank job. A second robber was wounded and captured with a leg injury requiring amputation. a Des Moines hotel key and postmark papers tied them to other crimes.
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Iowa
Jefferson
Busby
Paton
Dana
Williams
Tilly
Wiliams
Des Moines
Sing Sing
Chicago
Bayard (Ja
New Suffragette Bill Introduced In Parliament
May 7. The suffragettes and supporters in parliament introduced a bill to enable women to vote at Parliamentary elections. It would enfranchise nearly half of adult women by allowing wives to register as joint occupiers where husbands hold the vote and by prohibiting plural voting for men under the bill.
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London
House of Commons
Flustered Leaders Seek Guiding Hand as Democrats Struggle
Washington dispatch chronicles Democratic leaders lacking constructive plans as they face Schedule K tariff fights, wool and cotton schedules, and revenue gaps. Congress endures low attendance with baseball crowds, while investigations stall and statehood for Arizona and New Mexico looms.
Professor Kills Self at University of Illinois
Professor Fred Lemar Charles, assistant professor of agricultural education at the University of Illinois, died by hanging in his Champaign room after leaving a note to his wife declaring a life failure. He was 38, a Northwestern graduate, and left a widow and two children. He had suffered insomnia and two nervous breakdowns in five years.
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Commercial Tribune
Champaign
Til
Fred Lemar Charles
University of Illinois
Charles
Northwestern University
Dekalb
Lynching Averted by Narrow Margin in Lebanon Ky
Night Police Officer John A Robey was killed in Lebanon Kentucky as two Black men were suspected of the stabbing. A mob formed at the jail seeking lynching but cooler heads prevailed. Suspects Jesse Smith and Jim Buckner were captured and moved for safety.
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Commercial Tribune
Lebanon
John A. Robey
Robey
Jesse Smith
Bardstown
Jim Buckner
Comprehensive Child Welfare Exhibit Opens in Chicago
A wide child welfare exhibit opens in Chicago’s Coliseum for two weeks highlighting prevention of child illness with a flashing light message. The school section led by Mrs. Ella Flag Young shows hundreds of children performing school duties while girls display domestic and sewing skills and boys show manual training. Mrs Cyrus H McCormick Jr backs the project with a 30000 dollar pledge and pledges more if needed.
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Chicago
Holid
New York
Ella Flag Young
Chicago Public Schools
Cyrus H. McCormick, Jr
Diaz Manifesto Says He Will Resign Presidency When Peace Restored
Mexico City May 7 General Porfirio Diaz issues a manifesto declaring his intention to resign the presidency once peace is restored and asserts the timing depends on conclusive public order. He frames his move as safeguarding the country and resists resigning while at war. Madero advised insurrectos to abandon the frontier to avoid international complications with the United States.
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Senate
Frye
Lorimer
House
Senate Committee On Judiciary
Gallinger
New Hampshire
Clapps
Minnesota
Wis
Arizona
New Mexico
United States Steel Corporation
Sugar
American Woolen Company
Madero
Taft
Mexico City
Porfirio Diaz
Mexico
Francisco J. Madero
Daz
Diaz
Carabajal
Vasquez Gomez
Europe
Corral
Minister de LaBarra
Republic
Juarez
Figureoa
Beltran
Federal Army
EL Paso
Tex
United States
Francisco I. Madero, Jr
Mexican
Ciudad Juarez
Douglas, Ariz
Juaréz
Orozco
Army of Liberation
the Bravo
Senors Braniff
Obregion
Carbajal
Madera
Jua
Coahuila
Ambrosio Figueroa
Senor
Carranza
Nuevo Leon
Tamaulipas
Manuel Bonilla
Siniloa
Senor Maytorens
Sonora
Guadeloupe Gonzales
Zacatecas
Forest fires threaten settlements across Canadian regions
Forest fires rage along Big River north of Prince Albert and near Clearwater Bay in the Lake of the Woods district. A special train evacuated residents from the danger zone while fire rangers report dry conditions and small blazes along rail lines.
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Man
Big River
Prince Albert
Saskatchewan
Clearwater Bay
Kenora
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