Meat Inspection Bill Reaches Complete Agreement in White House
Washington June 19 The basis of a full agreement on meat inspection legislation between President Roosevelt and the House Committee on Agriculture was reached at the White House. Speaker Cannon led the committee in explaining the situation as the bill neared completion. The measure includes an annual 3 million dollar appropriation for inspection costs, no new deficiency levy, excludes the court review provision, and drops several president recommendations. The packing plant inspection rights are expanded to cover all times, and civil service waivers and label dating are removed. A conference is likely after suspension-day debates.
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Washington
Roosevelt
House Committee On Agriculture
White House
Speaker Cannon
Cowan
Texas Cattle Growers
Secretary of Agriculture
Beveridge
Russian Cossacks Invade Georgia In Brutal Campaign
London reports Georgian women appeal to England over a Russian government sanctioned raid. Cossacks plundered four towns and 200 villages in central and western Georgia, brutalizing the inhabitants and killing or violating even children. Signers include a princess and wives of high officials.
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London
Georgia
England
Norway's Crowns Passed To King Naakon VII In Trondhjem
At noon in Trondhjem cathedral King Naakon VII and Queen Maud were anointed blessed and presented with Norway's crowns in a ceremony adapting old forms to the modern democratic spirit.
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Norway
Trondhjem
Naakon VII
Maud
Balloonist Miss Leta Ails Worth Drops From Parachute
Miss Leta Ails Worth, a young amateur balloonist at an amusement park in Peoria Illinois, fell about a hundred feet from her parachute on Sunday afternoon, landed on a rock pile and suffered internal injuries regarded as likely fatal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peoria
Ill
Leta Ails- Worth
Attempt on Pretender Bu Hamara in Melilla
In Melilla on June 21 adherents of the Moroccan sultan unsuccessfully tried to kill Bu Hamara the pretender as he slept in his tent. Several guards were killed and others wounded in the attack.
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Melilla
Morocco
Bu Hamara
Fight Leaves Man Dead in Yale Domestic Dispute
In Owingsville Kentucky on June 22 a fight at Yale twelve miles east left Ulrick Bart fatally shot. Harry Cole, accused of being too intimate with Bart’s wife, was arrested after the incident.
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Owingsville
Harry Cole
Ulrick Bart
Yale
Here
Hart
Cole
Japanese Transport Toyotomi Sinks after Mine Strike
The Japanese transport Toyotomi struck a mine twenty four miles off Joshin Korea and sank immediately. Twelve crewmen were saved and fifty remain missing.
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Tokio
Toyotomi
Joshin
Korea
Cable Failure Drops 8 Ton Skip In Quincy Mine
In Calumet Michigan on June 21 a cable attached to an eight ton skip in No 6 shaft at the Quincy mine broke. The car dropped killing two men and injuring another.
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Calumet, Mich
Quincy
Bryan Couple Depart Trondhjem Norway
Mr and Mrs Witham J Bryan left Trondhjem Norway on June 25 as part of a travel notice. The departure marks a brief international move amid mid year travel.
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Trondhjem
Norway
Witham J. Bryan
Trond
Congressional Sessions Outline Week of Legislation Actions
The senate advanced the Lake Erie and Ohio River ship canal bill and other noncontroversial measures. The house did not sit due to Representative Lester’s death. The Beveridge amendment was amended to meet the president’s wishes, and several bills passed under suspension, including witness immunity, value standards, Philippines coinage, and St Louis free bridge rights. Senate deliberated Panama canal and sundry civil bill. the house passed about twenty bills and approved $25,000 for the president’s travel. The senate supported a canal lock plan amid widespread discussion. The week featured travel expense provisions, naval issues, and mass tragedy sympathy, with continued focus on the pure food and meat inspection items.
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Senate
Lester
Georgia
House
Beverdge
Philippines
St. Louie
Mississippi River
Fourhoues
Sycomee
Twenty Years for Him Abductor John Kean Sentenced
Philadelphia reports John Joseph Kean received twenty years of hard labor in solitary confinement at the eastern penitentiary for abducting Freddie Muth. Swift justice earned praise as no one stood to defend him. if he behaves, his term could drop to twelve years and three months. Mrs Kean faces ruin as she contemplates leaving for New York with her three children after the shock.
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Philadelphia
Eastern Penitentiary
John Joseph Kean
Freddie Muth
Liberty
Kean
New York
Conservative centrists push for cabinet resignation in St. Petersburg
Reports say Premier Goremykin faces rising pressure as the Conservative Centrist council faction advocates a cabinet drawn from Octoberists and Constitutional Democrats. M. Yermoloff warns pacification efforts fail without reform while ministers reportedly deny plans to resign.
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St. Petersburg
Council of the Empire
Goremykin
Democratic Reform
Constitutional Democratic
M. Yermoloff
Constitutional Democrats
Gorenivkin
Salutary Punishment Fines Total 85000 in Elkins Law Violations
Federal court in Kansas City handed down penalties totaling 85000 to corporations and individuals for breaking the anti rebate clause of the Elkins act. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, Cudahy Packing, Armour Packing, Swift & Co., Nelson Morris each fined 15000 or 17000. George L. Thomas of New York fined 6000 and four months, L. B. Taggart fined 4000 and three months.
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Kansas City
Smith McPherson
Chicago
Burlington & Quincy
Cudahy Packing Company
Government to Probe Standard Oil Under Elkins Law
Attorney General Moody announces the government will prosecute Standard Oil under the Elkins inter state rebates ban. He notes that if justified, further action will be taken under the Sherman anti trust law. Washington, June 23.
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Standard Oil
Washington
Standard Oil Company
Moody
New Political Movement Emerges in Labor Background
Washington June 22 The executive council of the American Federation of Labor appoints a committee to draft a statement to organized labor and its friends about a political combination aimed at defeating labor opponents and electing friends, especially representative workmen to Congress.
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Washington
Executive Council
The
American Federation of Labor
Organized Labor
Congress
Governor to Move Against Floating Gambling Palace
Unverified report from Laporte Indiana states Governor Hanry has talked with Lake Porter and Laporte county prosecutors to seek measures to drive the floating gambling boat Traverse from Indiana waters.
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Laporte
Ind
Hanry
Lake, Porter
Traverse
Indiana
Funeral services for Governor Pattison held at Promont Milford
Cincinnati June 21. Funeral services over the remains of Governor Pattison were held this afternoon at his home Promont Milford.
Governor grants respite for two murderers in Missouri
Jefferson City June 23 Gov Folk grants a respite to Mrs Aggie Myers and Frank Hettman until September 3 from a planned June 29 hanging. He refused a respite to Ed Bateman a black man sentenced to hang in Lawrence county on June 24 for assault.
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Jefferson City
Folk
Aggie Myers
Frank Hettman
Ed Bateman
Lawrence County
Boonville Man Kills Wife Then Takes Own Life
In Boonville Indiana on June 15 W N Harding a Civil War veteran aged sixty shot and killed his wife near his home and then killed himself Sunday morning. Police say jealousy prompted the tragedy.
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Boonville
Ind
W. N. Harding
Tennyson
Sentenced for Lift
Hopkinsville Kentucky June 25 Stone Chaney pleaded guilty to murdering Mrs Maude Ellis and fatally wounding Dunes Veach He received life imprisonment in the state penitentiary.
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Hopkinsville
Stone Chaney
Maude Ellis
Dunes Veach
Lfe
Kings depart San Sebastian for sale of
Madrid reports King Alfonso and Queen Victoria plan to leave San Sebastian for an unspecified sale event, with details unclear in the fragment.
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Madrid
Alfonso
Victoria
San Sebasily
Market Report Indianapolis Grain and Livestock snapshot
Market report cites Indianapolis Wheat No 2 red at 85 to 87?c, corn 5.23 to 5.23?c, oats 38c, various hay prices, cattle 2.50 to 5.75, hogs 4.75 to 6.67, sheep 2.50 to 4.50, lambs 4.50 to 7.25, receipts 8,000 hogs, 1,500 cattle, 700 sheep from Indianapolis. Also reports Cincinnati Chicago New York East Buffalo prices for wheat corn oats cattle hogs sheep and lambs with varied ranges.
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Indianapolis
Timothy
Cincinnati
Chicago
New York
East Buffalo
Brief Dispatches From Weston Salida And State Bank News
At Weston Missouri Frank Kelly a saloon keeper shot and killed his wife misthinking her a burglar. In Congo Free State dispatches report a Kwango district native revolt. In Salida Colorado Mrs Carl Bode was shot and killed by Mrs Harold Hutchinson jealousy caused the murder. Farmers State Bank of Clearfield Pennsylvania closed by state examiner with a receiver to be appointed. Since 1900 Pennsylvania Railroad capital stock rose from 129000000 to 303000000. Equitable Life Assurance stockholders adopt charter amendments for mutualization by a wide vote.
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Weston
Frank Kelly
Congo Free State
Kwango
Salida
Col
Carl Bode
Harold Hutchinson
Farmers’ State Bank of
Clearfield
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Equitable Life Assurance Company
Admiral McCalla Retired From Service At Reach Of Age
The Navy's Rear Admiral McCalla is placed on the retired list upon reaching the age limit. In the Mediterranean theater at Lissola near Monastir a Greek band killed eight Bulgarians including two priests.
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McCalla
Lissola
Monastir
Republican Party
National League of Repubicans Clubs
Philadelphia
Coronation day and Russian mutiny amid global unrest
The article reports the coronation of King Haakon and Queen Maud in Norway, a mutiny and fatalities among Russian officers at Riazan, U.S. President Roosevelt's expected departure from Washington, a Southern Pacific train wreck with four deaths and two serious injuries, protests against anti Jewish outrages in Russia, and a failed prison escape at Angola state farm where both convicts and the guard captain were killed.
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Haakon
Maud
Norway
Riazan
Russia
Southern Pacific
Roosevelt
Angola
Duke of Almodovar Dying and Global Moves Stir News
The Duke of Almodovar, Spain's foreign minister, is dying while Prince Henry of Prussia is named commander in chief of the German navy. The drydock Dewey reaches Singapore on its voyage to the Philippines. Indiana’s William Cullen Dennis named assistant solicitor of the State. A fire at Gladstone Illinois destroys five frame buildings and two residences with damages around 40000. The county TB mortality averaged 172.6 per 100000 from 1900 to 1904, down from 245.4 in 1890. A fire at Nichalet Quebec destroys a cathedral and church complex with losses about 400000.
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Duke of Almodovar
Prince Henry of
Prussia
Dewey
Philippines
Singapore
William Cullen Dennis
Indiana
Department of State
Gladstone
Nichalet
Quebec
Weekly Business Failures and Notable Crimes
Weekly report notes 173 business failures, up from 170 last week and 170 in 1908. Reports relief in farming improves harvest prospects. Richard Ivens hanged in Chicago for Jan 12 murder of Mrs. Hollister. Andrew Dobbins shot in Jackson Center Ohio. killer unidentified. Senate approves 25 000 traveling expense for the president. cotton supply figures show 3 252 011 vs 3 457 373 last week. Flour millers vow tariff reciprocity at national convention.
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Richard Ivens
Chicago
Franklin C. Hollister
Senate
Hester
Andrew Dobbins
Jackson Center
Ohio
Indiana's oldest woman Nancy Tigue dies at 107
Mrs. Nancy Tigue, aged 107, the eldest woman in Indiana, died in Lafayette. Other brief items note a Wisconsin farmer Rudolf Kollitz killing his wife then himself, three police officers shot in Piotrkow, a New Jersey murder suicide by Freeman Longcors, a Cairo streetcar conductor wounded by Hardin Davis, and a Pasadena car crash with fatal engine explosion trapping Mrs. Cordori.
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Nancy Tigue
Indiana
Lafayette
Rudolf Kollitz
Fox Lake
Wis
Piotrkow
Russian Poland
Freeman Longcors
Rose Colly
Amity
N. J
Cairo
Ill
Hardin Davis
W. J. Kessly
Hing
Indiana State News Special on Henderson Trial
In Indianapolis this morning in superior court No 3 the state sues ex Auditor J Q Henderson for more than 100000. The state contends insurance fees Henderson collected were unlawful. Defense argues fees were part of legitimate compensation. The argument centers on the demurrer to the Henderson defense.
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Indianapolis
Superior Court No. 3
State of Indiana
J. QO. Henderson
Henderson
Charles W. Miller
John W. Kern
W. H. H. Miller
Cc. C. Shirley
Fashions Change Popular With Personal Crisis Reports
Indiana state health board reports for May show drownings and hangings declined as suicide methods. In May there were twenty five personal crisis reports. nine used carbolic acid, four attempted poisoning, four gunshot deaths, one water plunge, and six women and nineteen men died by own action last month. Accidents included rat bites, cold tablets, and coal oil ingestion.
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Indianapolis
Ind
State Board of Health
Indiana
McCoy Withdraws New Trial Motion in Indiana Case
Thomas J. McCoy and his attorney appeared before Judge Farber in Monticello and withdrew the motion for a new trial. The jury verdict from last Saturday sentenced McCoy to one to three years in Michigan City prison with a $96 fine. Alfred McCoy's case was dismissed. Thomas McCoy was turned over to the sheriff and transported to Laf ayette and then to Michigan City to begin his sentence.
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Monticello
Ind
Thomas J. McCoy
Farber
Michigan City
Alfred McCoy
Thomas McCoy
Stephens
Lafayette
McCoy
Unusual Family Record in Evansville Superior Court
In Boonville case Mrs Minerva Williams is found guilty of murder in the first degree for the Leigh killing. Her husband Jonah Williams faced trial alongside her. Wesley Williams, her son, was sentenced to life imprisonment for Leigh’s murder. Andrew Williams was convicted of shooting Town Marshal Williams and jailed. The Williams children face multiple criminal sentences amid joint cases.
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Evansville
Ind
Minerva Williams
James Leigh
Boonville
Jonah Williams
Williams
Rasch
Wesley Williams
Little Boy Shoots Playmate In Indiana Township
Corydon Indiana June 20 Hollis Carl and Pearl Vance both eleven years old in Blue River township quarrel led to Carl firing a single barreled shotgun at Pearl Vance The load fractured her skull and doctors say she will die The shooter lay in a bush waiting for her to pass near his home An arrest has not yet been made
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Corydon
Ind
Hollis Carl
Pearl Vance
Blue River Township
Judge’s decree ignored as minister weds again abroad
South Bend Indiana June 23 The Rev Hugh M Stovall ex pastor of Zion’s Baptist church obtained a divorce from his wife with a two year remarry ban Four hours later he traveled to Niles Michigan with Mrs Helen Blake where they married and then moved to Harrisburg Pennsylvania
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South Bend
Ind
Hugh M. Stovall
Zion’s Baptist Church
Niles
Mich
Helen Blake
Harrisburg
Postmaster of Lagro Ends Life in Despair
Lon Curnutt fifty eight year old longtime Lagro postmaster in Wabash County Indiana committed death by his own action shooting himself through the brain. His son Joseph died in California three months ago and his sorrow led to despair.
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Wabash
Ind
Lon Curnutt
Lagro
Joseph
California
Curnutt
Kellogg Found Not Guilty in Wheat Land Fraud Case
Bloomington jury acquits Ulysses B. Kellogg of defrauding numerous victims across Indiana Illinois and Wisconsin in a pretended Canadian wheat land deal involving Brookston suspect.
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Kellogg
Bloomington
Ind
Ulysses B. Kellogg
Brookston (Ind
Indiana
Illinois
Wisconsin
Indiana Dentists Meet in West Baden
Indiana State Dental Association announces its forty-eighth annual meeting in West Baden Indiana to be held next Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday with members gathering for the event.
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Indiana
West Baden
Ind
Indiana State Dental Association
Rev Thomas A Goodwin Dies at 87 in Indianapolis
Rev Thomas A Goodwin aged 87 a renowned minister and writer died in Indianapolis on June 20. He was celebrated for his sermons and extensive writings influencing religious circles nationally.
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Thomas A. Goodwin
Indianapolis
Hoosier Homecoming Planned During State Fair Week
The Indiana state board of agriculture schedules a grand homecoming during state fair week in September. Secretary Downing says invitations will go to distinguished Hoosiers from out of state and a general invitation to all former residents to return. An elaborate program will follow.
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Indianapolis
State Board of Agriculture
Louisville
Downing
Indiana
Dynamiting Strikes Alaska Indiana Grocery Store
The Grant Phan grocery store in Alaska Indiana was dynamited tearing the brick front. No one injured though Phan’s family was in a rear room. Police suspect liquor sales motives as Phan had recently pleaded guilty to two counts of selling without a license and paid fines.
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Alaska
Ind
Grant Phan
Pham
Phau
Beveridge Cancels Paris Speaking Engagement
Washington June 28 Senator Beveridge cancels trip to Paris and his July 4 speech before the American chamber of commerce as the meat inspection amendment to the agricultural appropriation bill was not sent to conference by the Senate yesterday. He had planned to sail today but will remain.
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Paris
Washington
Senate
Beveridge
American Chamber of Commerce
Governor Hanly Named to Big Committee
New York June 25 Governor J Frank Hanly of Indiana is among the gentlemen who have consented to act with the international policyholders committee in selecting suitable candidates for directors at the annual election of the New York Life Insurance and Mutual Life Insurance companies to be held next fall.
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Hanly
New York
International Policyholders’ Committee
New York Life Insurance Company
Mutual Life Insurance Company
J. Frank Haniy
Indiana
Boy Fatally Impaled in Cherry-Picking Accident
In Greenfield Indiana on June 19 Olsen Hiatt thirteen son of Mr and Mrs Robert Natt died instantly when a tree limb broke while he picked cherries at Mrs Mary Morgan s home. He fell onto a paling of an iron fence and the fence pierced his head three inches causing death at once.
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Greenfield
Ind
Olsen Hiatt
Robert Natt
Mary Morgan
Noted Horsethief Caught in Evansville Case
Evansville Indiana June 25 Leon Chalmers was arrested for horse stealing and theft of a valuable horse and survey outfit. Chalmers has served three terms in state prison and allegedly fled to Missouri with the outfit after selling it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evansville
Ind
Leon Chalmers
Chalmers
Missouri
Outfit
Small NEO convention adjourns to August in Winona Lake
The Northern Indians Editorial convention held in Winona Lake Indiana adjourned with no business conducted due to a small attendance. All Indiana associations will meet jointly in the week of August 6 to resume talks and decisions.
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Winona Lake
Ind
Indiana
Editors Start on Lake Trip
The National Editorial Association members spent their last day in Indiana as guests of the Winona Lake management departing for Chicago at 11 last night to begin a lakes tour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winona Lake
Ind
National Editorial Association
Indiana
Chicago
Death of Judge LaRue in Lafayette at eighty
Judge John M. LaRue, dean of Tippecanoe county bar, former state senator and representative, died in Lafayette on June 22 at age eighty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LaRue
Lafayette
Ind
John M. LaRue
Tippecanoe County
State Sunday School Association Convention to be Held in Kokomo
Marion Ind June 22 The State Sunday School association announced the 1907 convention will be held in Kokomo. The meeting here closed last night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Sunday School Association
Marion
Ind
Kokomo
Indiana Furniture Dealers Meet in Indianapolis This Week
The Indiana Retail Furniture Dealers' association will hold its annual meeting in Indianapolis this week. Leaders from member firms discuss market trends, new product lines, and upcoming promotional campaigns for the summer season.
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Indiana Furniture Dealers
Indianapolis
Indiana Retail Furniture Dealers’ Association
Keller Printing plant destroyed by fire in Evansville
Evansville Indiana June 20 fire destroyed the Keller Printing plant causing about 60000 dollars in damage. The building was reported to be well insured. In Sullivan Indiana June 21 a Paxton school building situated five miles south of town was mentioned.
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Evansville
Ind
Keller Printing Company
Sullivan, Ind
Paxton
Malles
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Tevise
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Witte
Armour Packing Company
New Political Movement
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Market Report
National Convention of Flour Millers
Pasadena
J. J. Cordori
Indiana State News
Hoosiers
Tom McCoy
Tion
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