GIST OF THE WEEK S NEWS INTERESTING MINOR EVENTS
Senator Stone exposed tariff board misreporting inflating US farm wages while lowering Canadian wages. Senate Judiciary Committee backed a House joint resolution for direct Senate elections. Stilson Hutchins's wife seeks insanity ruling. Metropolitan club fights snobbery in Washington. Senate to address reciprocity. Washington officials condemn Mexico City interview on US fomenting revolution. Rep Prince denounces reciprocity. Rep Cullop accuses the Post Office as a political machine.
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Stone
Senate
Senate Judiciary Committee
Sutherland
House
Stilson Hutchins
Metropolitan Club
Washington
Carrol
Mexico City
Mexico
Prince
Ilinois
Cullop
Indiana
Post Office Department
Diverse national notices and incidents from 1900s press
President Taft accepts invitation to Kansas City Press club for September 25. Princeton trustees accept 50000 for a public affairs chair with ex Mayor McClellan as first incumbent. Cardinal Gibbons condemns shortening the Ten Commandments. Gen. King named to NY battlefields commission. Mothers Congress hears child guidance claim. Grand jury investigates Ohio bribery. Weymouth torpedo proves government savings. Train wreck at Martin's Creek with eleven dead. Bangor fire devastates business district. Greenwitch reports scarlet fever. Bayonne boards questions NJ rail map. McLean-Walsh fortune heir threats prompt police protection. Massachusetts bar license changes under bottle bill. Hoffstot rejection by district attorney over extradition. Rockefeller donates 180000 to American Missionary Union. Colorado stenographers excluded from secrets law. Hudson County grand jury can not fix caus e of Communipaw explosion. Kansas drilling
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Taft
Kansas City Press Club
Princeton University
George B.mcclellan
New York
Columbus
Ohio
Newport
Weymouth
Martin’s Greek
N. J
Bangor
Harry Graham
Toms River
Charles ‘Turner
Lakewood
Nar
Greenwich
Massachusetts
Frank N. Hoffstot
Pittsburg
John D. Rockefeller
American Missionary Union
House
Colorado Senate
Collins
Indianapolis
McNamara
Hudson County
New Jersey
Plans for Five New State Buildings Proposed in Albany
State Architect Ware submits to Governor Dix a plan for five new state buildings at Albany. Other items include a $42,800 Caxton edition sale, a $10,000 jewelry theft, martial and crime news from New York, and a large Arbuckle refinery sugar dust explosion in Brooklyn.
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Ware
Dix
Albany
J. Fleichman
New York
Canadian Pacific Railway
McLeod
Calgary
Caxton
Belle Green
J. P. Morgan
Lloyd Marshall
United Wireless Telegraph Co
Multiple Global Alerts and Conflicts Dominate World News
Reports indicate an Anglo American five year arbitration treaty praised by The London Telegraph. the Tokio Friends of America call for peaceful discipline at Baltimore Peace congress. Camorra trial resumes in Viterbo. Canton rebellion quashed with new outbreaks nearby. Shinting prefect assassinated. Espinosa denied San Salvador admission to thwart revolt. Italian jurists seek fee relief in Camorra case. Mukden plague conference adjourns without results. pirates hunted by British and Chinese gunboats near Asia wreck. Cronstadt crackdown nets 20 arrests. Paris aviation entries total 20 with May 21 race for 20000 dollars. Canton rebels massacre many. French commander Bremond reaches Fez. Schimank arrested in Berlin. Holy See Portugal split waits law on church state. Canton Taotai assassinated. Paris arrests 160 May Day demonstrators.
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London Telegraph
Tokio Association of Friends of America
Baltimore Peace Congress
Italy
Canton
Republic of San Salvador
Rofaldo Espinosa
United States
Estrada
Camorra
Viterbo
St. Petersburg
Mukden
China Sea
Asia
Finger Island
Social
Cronstadt
Paris
Tangier
Bremond
Fez
Max Schimank
Berlin
Iil
Heilsbronn
Bavaria
Holy See
Portugal
Taotai
Chung
Ohio Starts Bribery Probe Grows Across Legislature
Gov Harmon appears as a witness while a nonpartisan alliance calls for reform as Columbus bribes scandal widens. Detectives say nearly fifty legislators are implicated with marked money used to sway votes. Investigators promise grand jury evidence and clashes among lawmakers ahead. Harmon urges Republican Langdon to unite with Democrats to restore atmosphere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio
William Je Burns
Grand Jury
Pittsburg
Harmon
Lawrence K. Langdon
House
Hard Fight to Save Fruit in Southern Missouri
Springfield reports hundreds of residents battle frost damage to fruit crops in the Ozarks. Smudge pots burn crude oil from dusk to dawn as temperatures fall to 80 degrees with ice forming, while large orchards deploy thousands of burners in a bid to save peaches and apples.
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Springfield
Missouri
Ozark Country
Chicago
Illinois
Bangor Fire Believed Caused by Cigarette Stub
In Bangor Maine a major city fire is blamed on a cigarette stub tossed into hay in a storeroom during a Sunday poker game. Officials estimate losses between 3 009 000 and 6 500 000 dollars with 150 business blocks and 390 residences burned. National Guardsmen patrol all city areas as plans for rebuilding and street reorganization unfold and a Kenduskeag stream park with public buildings is proposed.
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Bangor
Broad Street
Kenduskeag Stream
Rebels Annihilate Federals Near Magdalena
A small Mexican federal force under Luis Estralla from Magdalena was ambushed by rebels twenty miles east of Magdalena. Twenty five federals were killed and Estralla with three followers escaped to Magdalena.
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Nogales
Arizi
Luis Estralla
Magdalena
Sonora
Ctates
Estralla
Kennedy to Get Red Hat as American Cardinal
The Vatican plans to appoint Right Rev Thomas F Kennedy bishop of Adrianapolis as an American cardinal alongside Cardinal Gibbons. Bishops favored Prendergast as Ryan’s successor, but papal delegate Falconio sought US archbishops’ choices. Rome now faces confirming Prendergast as archbishop after presiding letters.
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Thomas F.kennedy
Adrianapolis
Rome
Italy
Holy See
Cardinal Gibbons
Baltimore
Kennedy
Ryan
Philadelphia
Prendergast
Monsignor Falconio
United States
Falconio
New Head for Hill Lines
Carl Raymond Gray resigns as senior vice president of the St. Louis and San Francisco to become president of Hill system steam and electric railroads at Portland. He will be replaced by W. C. Nixon as senior vice president of the Frisco. James J. Hill arranged the move. Howard Elliott weighed Missouri Pacific and St. Louis Iron Mountain options while Gray negotiated in secret with St. Louis officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Raymond Gray
St. Louis
San Francisco
Portland
Ore
John F. Stevens
James J. Hill
W. C. Nixon
Gray
Frisco
Charles M. Levy
W. W. H. Rosing
Hill
Nixon
South Eyes James Thomas for Southern Education Plan
James Shelby Thomas, dean of Virginia Christian College in Lynchburg, will become commissioner of education for the Southern Commercial Congress on June 1. He will travel through southern states to promote exchange of educational ideas, school improvements, and a plan to help students attain scientific education, aiding pre high school and high school pupils.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Shelby Thomas
Virginia Christian ‘College
Lynchburg
Southern Commercial Congress
Congress
South
Thomas
Saltville
Tazewell
City High School
Catlettsburg
Milligan College
Johnson City
Tenn
Tennessee
Virginia Christian College
Wizard of figures backs New York rep in appropriations
Representative John J Fitzgerald of New York leads the appropriation committee after a Democratic shift. His right hand man, James C. Coutts, has served as clerk for over a decade and is famed as the mathematics expert of the house. Coutts is always near the chair, supplying precise financial data on obscure items.
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New York
Committee On Appropriations
National
House of Representatives
James C. Coutts
Lttle
Congress
Coutts
Courts
Pride and downfall of Uzziah in biblical history
The lesson recounts Uzziah’s reign from Amaziah’s son to his leprosy after entering the temple as king and priest. It notes Israel’s golden age, wealth and inequality, and warns that pride, like a leprosy, corrupts the soul. a prophet rebukes him, leading to his isolation and decline.
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Zziah
B. C
Hastings
Uzzilah
Jotham
Temple
Jerusalem
Israel
Jeroboam I
Assyria
Shalmanezer Iit
Prophets
Amos
Houes
Isaiah
Zechariah
Joash
Amaziah
Dead Sea
Judea
Judah
Salt
Jehovah
Jérusalem
Josephus
Uzziah
Uzalah¢y
Miriam
Gehazi
Ahaz
Uzzah
Uzziah’st
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Telegraph
Rolin
Horatio C. King
New York Commission For
Gettysburg
Chattanooga
Alexander Webb
Tom A. Williams
General News
New York City
National Highways Protective Association
Charles H. Hyde
Carnegie Trust Company
King George
Louisville
Corry
George W. Douglas
St. John the Devine
Denver
Supreme Court
Arbuckle
Brooklyn
Nye
Hill Lines
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