Death of Daniel in Lynchburg Ends Senate Career
John W. Daniel senior Virginia senator died at a Lynchburg sanitarium at 10 35 p m after a cerebral hemorrhage following a third paralytic stroke He was 67 and had been seldom in Washington in recent years His death occurred quickly with heart action failure and a city fire alarm rang to announce the death in Lynchburg Virginia
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Lynchburg
John W. Daniel
Virginia
Daniel
Senate
Dantel
Philadelphia
Daytona
Fla
Florida
Whellington
Senator Dantel
Fierce Flood Drowns Six in Saylorsville Kentucky
In Saylorsville, Kentucky the Licking River rising from rains and a cloudburst swept away buildings and crops. Six persons are known to have died by drowning with many others missing including three families. Two men’ s bodies recovered but not identified. A woman’s body was seen but unreachable.
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Saylersville
Licking River
Oil Prices Cut By Standard Oil Across Nation
New York reports Standard Oil lowers refined oil price from one and a half cents to one cent per gallon. The cut, setting nationwide price at 7 1/4 cents a gallon, highlights the company's control of over 70 percent of refined output and the impact of its actions on the industry.
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New York
Standard Oil Company
Standard
Great Corporation
Town Fire Destroys Half of Genoa Nevada
A large blaze in Genoa Nevada destroyed over half the town including the Douglas County courthouse. About fifty houses remained standing after the fire was checked by Carson City firefighters before reaching grain fields and ranches. Insurance covered the courthouse, with total losses around 100000 dollars.
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Genoa
Nev
Douglas County
Carson City Fire Department
Greek Banker Arrested for Alleged Fraud in Chicago
Chicago police accuse Soterios Boussoulas, a 35 year old Greek former private banker and employment agent, of illegally taking between 30000 and 40000 from fellow Greeks over the past two years. He has been placed under arrest.
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Chicago
Soterios Boussoulas
Woman Held as Accomplice in Cairo Bank Case
A Roumanian woman calling herself Marcelle Webber is held at Ellis Island as an accomplice of Paul Webber a Cairo bank fraud suspect. Webber is charged with withdrawing 5000 dollars from a German bank in Cairo Egypt recently.
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New York
Marcelle Webber
Ellis Island
Paul Webber
Cairo
Egypt
Hankow Loan Ratified by China Sought by State Department
The Hankow loan of 40 million dollars is now sought for ratification by the United States State Department. Washington reports that other governments have approved the Paris approved arrangements among the financial interests involved.
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Washington, D.C
China
State Department
Paris
Sioux City Live Stock Market Quotations
Sioux City Wednesday quotations show light stockers at 2.00 to 41.50 and top hogs at 9.05. The report covers the Broux City market and notes current price ranges for livestock types.
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Sioux City
Stabbing on depot platform in Valentine leaves two hurt
In Valentine Nebraska on Wednesday night Tom Whitehat stabbed Bam White in the back during a quarrel on the depot platform. Bam White is hospitalized and expected to recover.
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Valentine
Tom Whitehat
Bam White
White
Roosev el t to be guest at Milwaukee Press club jubilee
Theodore Roosevelt will be the guest of the Milwaukee Press Club on September 7 in Milwaukee wa for the club's silver jubilee celebration.
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Prose Club
Milwaukee
Theodore Roosevelt
Milwaukee Presse Club
La Follette Praises Roosevelt as Great American in Fighting Shape
Senator Robert M. La Follette spent two hours with Theodore Roosevelt at Oyster Bay and Sagamore Hill. He praised Roosevelt as the great living American in fighting trim, left the scene smiling, and avoided details beyond noting the insurgent Congressional stance.
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Oveter Bay
Robert M. la Follette
Wihicon- Ain
Theodore Roosevelt
Oyster Bay
Senator LaFollette
G. K E. Roe
New York
Roosevelt
Sagmmore Hill
Bagamore Hill
Congress
Sagamore Hill
Colonel Roosevelt
Robbery on Oregon Short Line Train No 1
In Ogden Utah three masked bandits robbed the northbound train No 1 with 100 passengers aboard after leaving at 1 20 am They bound the mail and forced the safe contents from the press messenger Two passengers and two trainmen were injured as the bandits fired into the air and fled in a buggy Sheriff Wilson formed a posse and pursued the suspects.
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Ogden
Utah
Oregon Short Line
Presa Messinger
Wilson
Picture show ruins eye in Omaha man’s sight
Omaha attorney C. W. Britt faced possible blindness after two months of nightly movie exposure. Doctors at Clarkson Hospital performed an operation on his right eye by Dr. Harold Gifford. A growth under the eye contributed to his prior trouble, leaving him totally blind before surgery.
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Omaha, Neb
C. W. Britt
Omaha
Clarkson Hospital
Harold Gifford
Britt
Desperado Shot by Militia Near Irwinville Georgia
A man described as a desperado, W. T. Bostwick, was killed by soldiers after barricading in his home for hours near Irwinville Georgia. His six children were unharmed. Officers warned of burning the house before the posse opened fire. A military company from Fitzgerald participated in the confrontation.
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Georgia
Atlanta
W. T. Bostwick
Irwinville
Bostwick
Fitzgerald
Actress Miss Marion Dell Taylor Dies in River Disaster
An actress known on stage as Miss Marion Dell Taylor drowned in the Nadson River when a skiff carrying four theater colleagues was struck by a barge. The survivors were pulled from the water and identified as Marion, nee Speider, with parents reported living in Ankeekee.
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Marion Dell Taylor
Nadson
Isu
Taylor
Marion Dt Speider
Ankekee
Spanish War Veteran Crowned in Gloomington Relatives Recall Death
Local relatives mourn the drowning in the river of a Philippine insurgent veteran, a former member of the Angels Company, noted for a storied service in the Spanish-American War.
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Crowns
Gloomington
Milwr
This Y
Statn of Angels Company
Bell Clerks Gain Pay Increase
New Haven clerks on the New York New Haven and Hartford line win a wage rise to 14 percent. About 3 300 clerks affected will see the higher pay in the next pay period.
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Bell
New Haven
Conn
New York
New Haven &Attford Cvilroad
Tafts Son Hits Laborer In Beverly Auto Crash
President Taft's son Robert T Taft drove a car that struck a street laborer near Pride's crossing in Beverly Massachusetts injuring him severely. The laborer's skull injury was reported at the hospital while Robert and two friends were in the car.
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Beverly
Mass
Taft
Robert T. Taft
Robert
Lendall King
Minneapolis
George Harrison
Washington
White House
Massachusetts North Shore
Pride's Crossing
General Funston Near Death Illness At Fort Leavenworth
Gen Frederick Funston commandant of army service schools at Leavenworth Kansas is dangerously ill with heart disease at his home. Post physicians and nurses attend him constantly as Mrs Funston in California is notified. He suffers angina and has had serious heart trouble for some time, with the recent heat blamed for the attack.
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Kansas
Leavenworth
Kan
Frederick Funston
Army Service Schools
General Funston
Army
45 Million Eggs Placed in Newark Cold Storage Profits Seen
Newark warehousemen report forty five million eggs stored since April 1 at about 23.5 cents a dozen. The eggs cost roughly twenty six cents a dozen to hold, with potential retail prices in New York next winter at 45 cents a dozen, yielding about 19 cents profit per dozen and a total of over $700,000 if prices hold.
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Newark
N. J
New York
Twenty Mexican Soldiers Killed in Train Disaster
Mexico City report states twenty federal soldiers died and many were injured when four rail cars carrying troops on the Manzanillo line derailed on a steep grade in the State of Colima after breaking loose from the locomotive.
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Mexico City
Manzanillo
National Railway
Collwa
Spalding Plans Senate Run From California Home
A. G. Spalding of San Diego, formerly of Chicago, agrees to run for the United States Senate if campaign expenses are limited and he can stay at home. He is tied to Los Angeles and discusses the bid from California bases.
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A. G. Spalding
Senate
Los Angeles
Cal
San Diego
Chicago
Bie
Chicago Sporting Couch House
United States Senate
Tennessee Supreme Court Upholds Memphis Charter
The Tennessee Supreme Court on Saturday ruled the Memphis charter bill constitutional and upheld the commission form of government in Jackson. The decision affirms the city’s governance structure and its commission system.
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Jackson, Tenn
Tennessee Supreme Court
Memphis
Americans Triumph as Hamburg Probe Ends in Acquittal
German press campaigns against Deutschbe Vacuum Oil, a Standard Oil unit, led Hamburg prosecutors to investigate manager KE L Quarles and the German sales department. Findings show no basis for indictment, marking a notable victory for American interests in Germany amid long running slander by rivals.
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Berlin
Standard Oil Company
Deutschbe Vacuum Oil Company
Hamburg
Vacuum
KE. L. Quarles
Germany
SAY CHARLTON IS INSANE New York Porter Charlton’s Trial Fight
New York Porter Charlton the self confessed slayer of his wife Mrs Mary Castle Charlton may avoid extradition to Italy. His father Judge Charlton and allies pressed to block removal while four alienists report he is incurably insane, seeking to keep him in the United States.
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New York
Porter Charlton
Mary Castle Charlton
Lake Como
Italy
Hudson County
Jersey City
Charlton
R. Floyd Clarke
William D. Edwards
Washington
Princess Irefe
Hoboken
Rome
Quashes Trust Indictment In Sherman Act Case
Judge Kenesaw Landis sustained the demurrer against the National Packing Company and related firms in Chicago ending the conspiracy indictment. A special venire of 75 men is to report July 14 to select a grand jury for a new investigation of the packing interests.
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Landis
National Packing Company
Chicago
Staten
Keneshaw M. Landis
United States District Court
Beef Trust
Storm Flood Displaces Hundreds in Whitesburg Kentucky
A severe southeastern Kentucky storm left over a hundred homeless in Whitesburg as the Beaver Creek overflowed its banks. Dozens of farm homes were swept away and authorities fear multiple deaths. The flood damages run into millions of dollars.
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Whitesburg
Kentucky
Beaver Creek
Taft Signs Harbor Bill as Regular Session Closes
Washington reports President Taft signed the harbor bill and backed most of his program while urging reform of river and harbor financing. Congress adjourned after delaying the river and harbor measure and addressing the Gore bribery charges with a wider Indian contracts investigation. The Appalachian forest reserve remained the lone pending item. Taft plans ten days rest at Beverly.
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Washington
Taft
Congress
Amersige
Postal Savings Bank
Treasury Department
Gore
Oklahoma
Senate
Indian Affairs Committee
Beverly
White House
House
McGuire
Carter
Martin
Dem
Colorado
Friar Janda
Philippines
Interior Department
Philipping
House Committee On
Ship Fire Claims 1,500 Passengers on Mississippi River
A excursion steamer J S with 1,500 aboard caught fire Saturday night on the Mississippi River near La Crosse Wisconsin. At Bad Ax Island most escaped ashore by gangplank while 1,200 to 1,300 leaped into water four to five feet deep and suffered severe burns and injuries. Some passengers are dead and many more seriously hurt.
American Pittman Guilty in Martial Conspiracy Case
American William Pittman, captured by Madrid forces during the Bluefields fight, has been found guilty by a court martial of conspiracy against the government. He faces a sentence of at least ten years in Manggua prison, with efforts to halt execution through Washington.
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Ieceld
Miredolda William Pittman
Madrid
Bluefelds
Pittman
Manggua
State Department
Washington
State Board Criticized as It Defies Commission Orders
The Rock Island railroad faces legal trouble for not paying occupation tax and defying state orders. Without Attorney General Thompson, officials could not comment on charter cancellation or its effect on ongoing litigation over 1907 railroad law and a Hallam crossing order. The dispute has lingered about two years over a $24.00 matter.
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Thompson
Towal Department
Rock Island Railroad
Nebraska
Eittier
Jas
Rock Island
State Railway Commission
Hallam
Grant Martin
Oder Wif
Legal Department of
State
Railway Commission
Allroad
District Court
Supreme Court
Lange claims discovery of silver via alchemy principles
Scranton physician Dr. F W Lange releases a statement titled The true story of Dr F W Lange s sensational discovery claiming he has evolved methods to transmute metals into silver and possibly produce a ton from a small quantity He describes experiments with nitrates chlorides carbonates and fluxes and questions whether his new metal is silver while noting no interest in the philosopher s stone.
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Scranton
F. W. Lange
Mckineon
Dotter Lange
Wesleyan University
Conn
Atwater
PF. W. Lange
Lange
Doctor Lange
Normal Board Reorganizes Leadership Change
The state normal board reorganizes with Dr. Shellhorn of Peru named president replacing outgoing Mr. Childs. N. P. McDonald becomes vice president and Luther F. P. Ludden continues as secretary.
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Normal Board
State Normal Board
Dr. Shellhorn
Peru
Mr. Childs
N. P. McDonald
Luther FP. Ludden
Attorney General Candidate W. W. Terry Files for Democrats
Stenzo W. Terry of Heatrice files as a Democratic candidate for attorney general. He previously ran for the office in 1908. So far his only opponent for the Democratic nomination is Grant Martin, deputy attorney general, while Martin is not expected to face strong opposition for the Republican nod.
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Stenzo W. Terry
Heatrice
Terry
Grant Martin
Martin
Complaint Against the Railroads in Nebraska Rates Case
Lumber dealers in Omaha and South Omaha file a formal complaint with the state railway commission against all railroads asking for reductions in intra state rates to Nebraska points. They seek rate adjustments on lumber doors and sashes while condemning present rates as high extortionate and cruel. They do not specify exact reductions but urge the commission to review traffic and lower rates to remove harsh terms.
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State Railway Commission
Omaha
South Omaha
Nebraska
Lancaster County Republican Convention Date Noted
The Lancaster county Republican convention will be held in Lincoln on July 14. Delegates chosen at this meeting will select ten delegates to the state convention.
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Lancaster County
Lincoln
Denver Bids to Host Grand Army Encampment
Department Commander W. W. Ferguson of Colorado Wyoming requests Nebraska support for Denver’s bid to host the Grand Army encampment next year. The letter seeks backing as the national meeting venue.
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Denver
Grand Army
W. W. Ferguson
Department of Colorado and
Wyoming
Nebraska
Bunyan's Birthplace and Local Heritage Echoes
The Elatow area links to Bunyan through its abbey founded by Judith of Huntingdon and later owners. The village features a church tower, bells, a guest house, a cross memory, and a 1698 patent tied to John Bunyan. Visitors recall Bunyan’s boyhood in the church, green, and Most hall amid local history.
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Bunyan
Judith
Huntingden
William the Conqueror
Elatow
Humphrey Radcliffe
Hillenden
John Tunyan
Orly
Noah and Japhet Debate Feeding Animals for a Grand Production
Japhet doubts food after feeding the animals while Noah proclaims fortune and declares they possess material for the greatest Uncle Tom's Gabia production on earth. The dialogue hints at a grand theater project stemming from their resources.
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Japhet
Noah
Earth
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