Briefly Told Happenings of the Past Week
Washington Secretary Bryan led a clash in Washington at a Peace Society meeting celebrating the Hague Tribunal anniversary, attacking armor and battleship construction. A Senate finance panel hearings vote on the Underwood tariff failed 41 to 86. Reports show 59.6 million parcel post packages in April, led by Chicago. A female suffrage move nears passage in a Chamberlain amendment. Ohio and New York cases touch bribery and trials. Multiple international items, criminal cases, and political shifts populate a broad weekly digest.
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Bryan
Bengsation
Washington
Washington Peace Society
Poncerna
Penrose-La Follette
Senate
Ranedell
Thornton
Louisiana
Poindexter
Post Office Department
Chicago
Ray Reginald Webster Dies Playing Golf With Bonar Law
Foreign Very Ray Reginald Godfrey Michael Webster dean of the Chapel Royal Dublin died after a golf game with Bonar Law leader of the opposition in the British House of Commons. He was born in Cork on April 6 1860 and ordained in 1883.
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Very Ray
Reginald Godfrey Michael Webster
Chapel Royal
Dublin
Bonar Law
House of Commons
Cork
Johnson Signs Alien Land Bill in California
California Governor Hiram W. Johnson signed the alien land bill amid intense protests from Japan and opposition from President Wilson and Secretary Bryan. The act takes effect August 10, with the legislature asserting the state’s first anti alien law. The U.S. response to Japan’s protest was delivered to Ambassador Chinda, with a firm stance to preserve friendly ties while pursuing a potential new treaty negotiations. Wilson attributed Japanese pride and discontent to the recent unsettled stance, linking it to Portsmouth conference tensions.
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Sacramento
Cal
Hiram W. Johnson
Japan
California
Wilson
Bryan
Johnson
Washington
United States
Viscount Chinda
Tokio
Itta
Offinis
King Peter to Abdicate Before Peace Restored
Geneva reports King Peter of Servia, age sixty nine, will abdicate once peace is secured in the Halkants. The monarch, worn by governing during war with Turkey, plans to return to Geneva, his former home before becoming king in 1903 after the assassination of King Alexander and Queen Draga.
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Geneva
Switzerland
Peter of
Servia
Halkants
Turkey
Peter
Alexander
Draga
Accused of Slaying Two in Cripple Creek War
James L. Bacon a member of the Eighteenth general assembly from Teller county was arrested on a warrant charging murder of his wife Ida Bacon and his stepdaughter Josephine Davidson. The killings followed an explosion that wrecked the Bacon home on April 28.
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Cripple Creek
Colo
James L. Bacon
Eighteenth General Assembly
Teller County
Ida Bacon
Josephine Davidson
Bacon
Congressional Doings Across Senate and House Actions
In Washington on May 20, Senate activity included Senator Kenyon proposing a tariff amendment aimed at curbing monopolies and Mrs Helen D Longstreet a Gainesville postmistress candidate appearing before the Senate post office committee. Senator Clapp urged a ban on congressional campaign fund solicitation while a $600,000 post office clerk and carrier hire bill moved in the Senate for two months. The Kern mining probe in West Virginia was debated and referred to education and labor. The House passed a bill to devote Panama Pacific Exposition funds for prize payments, while the chamber was not in session.
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Washington
Kenyon
Senate
Gainesville
Post Office Committee
Clapp
Congress
Kern
West Virginia
Committee On Education and Labor
Neseion
Horace Greeley Burt Dies at Oak Park Hospital
Horace Greeley Burt sixty four long railroad career after joining Vandalia line as a rodman in 1868. He served as chief engineer for smoke abatement and electrification at Chicago Association of Commerce and was former president of the Union Pacific Railway. Died following surgery complications, body to be taken to Terre Haute for burial.
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Chicago
Horace Greeley Burt
Chicago Association of Commerce
Union Pacific Railway
Oak Park Hospital
Burt
Terre Haute
Ind
Torpedo Hits Vesuvius Submarine Off Newport
May 20 Newport R I reports a torpedo strike on the Vesuvius submersible. The torpedo misfired in aiming, struck the hull below the waterline, and caused a two inch rent. Hatch blankets jammed as the boat listed then beached safely on Hope Island under Chief Gunner Thomas Smith's command.
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Newport
R. 1
Thomas. Smith
Hope Island
Wilson rewards a hero in Philippines Medal of Honor
In Washington on May 20 President Wilson, with Major General Wood and other officers present, awarded Capt Louis J Van Schaick of the Sixth Infantry the Congressional Medal of Honor for gallantry in the Philippines. He was first to emerge from a canyon and engage the enemy while pursuing a band of insurgents.
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Washington
Wood
President Wilson
Louis J. van Schaick
Sixth Infantry
Philippines
van Schaick
Machinists Strike Over Wages and Hours in Buffalo
About 3,000 machinists walked out in Buffalo demanding a minimum wage of 37 1/2 cents an hour a nine hour day and five hours on Saturday. They had been working ten hours on varying scales and police guards were posted at all shops.
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Buffalo
Schwab Reiterates Steel Trust Tale at Hearings
Charles M Schwab, former president of Carnegie Steel and head of Bethlehem Steel, testified in the government’s dissolution suit against U S Steel. He said the policy toward rivals was not to hurt competitors and that prices were published, with no secret pricing. He described past poolings, plant dismantling only for redundancy, and outlined talks with J P Morgan that led to the steel trust.
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James A. Farrell
United States Steel Corporation
New York
Fedaral
Sa UN
Charlea’ M. Schwab
Steel Trust
Giant
Jacob M. Dickinson
Schwab
Bethlehem Steel Company
Truat'a Ohlet
Richard V. Lindabury
Trust
Ware
Mr. Schwab
Steel Corporation
Poola
Iito
Carnegie Company
Bethlehem Company
J. P. Morgan
University Club
Morgan
Federal Steel Company
Taleo
Carnegie
Wilson warned over veto and anti trust exemptions
Washington May 20 President Wilson was served with a warning by Representative Fitzgerald New York that if he vetoes the sundry civil appropriation bill the house would attempt to override the veto to exempt labor unions and farmers organizations from anti trust laws. The house has twice affirmed the desire for the exemption by overwhelming votes.
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Washington
Mrs Bryan Goes to Florida for Miami Visit
Washington May 20 Mrs William Jennings Bryan wife of the secretary of state has gone to Miami Florida for a ten day visit to inspect the winter home the secretary and Mrs Bryan are building there
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Mrs. Bryan
Florida
Washington
William Jennings Bryan
Miami
Fla
Balkan War Remnants and Moral Tales in a Century
An 1633 Vienna dispatch is cited showing a Turkish advance with 20,000 troops poised to attack the Austro-Hungarian frontier, while later recollections touch on a tale of a man reborn in the afterlife and a reformer’s charity toward New York sailors.
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Greater
New York
Bureau of Social Hygiene
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Sosa Te
Vienna
London Daily Chronicle
Turskey
Hungary
Austria
Newea
Best Friend or Enemy Coffee Versus Postum Claims
A reader from Indiana recounts heart palpitations and nervousness caused by coffee, claiming Postum eased symptoms and led to weight gain and improved strength. The testimonial extols Instant Postum and urges readers to write for information about Postum and the book The Road Wellville.
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Indy
Stalin
Aho
Postum
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
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Moore
Waa Reduard
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John W. Russell
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Reinhart C. Zimmer
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