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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1906
Page
2
Polities and bills move through Congress amid mixed outcomes
Conferees agree on a pure food bill basing on the House version and grafting Senate provisions. The general deficiency bill expands by about $600,000. Roosevelt approves a joint resolution condemning Russian Hebraic massacre reports. Immigration bill weakened to a commission study and two dollar head tax remains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
House
Committee On Appropriations
Roosevelt
Congress
United States
Russia
Lafeau
Secretary of the Navy
Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railroad Company
Red River
Wadsworth
The Gotham Tragedy and the Stanford White Murder
Stanford White, famed architect, was killed by Harry Kendall Thaw at Madison Square Garden roof garden after Thaw accused White of intimate relations with Thaw's wife Evelyn Nesbit. The case exposed alleged abuses by wealthy clubmen and artists toward young women in society. Thaw was indicted for first degree murder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gotham
Stanford White
Madison Square Roof Garden
New York
Harry K. Thaw
Fitlsburg
Thaw
Evelyn Nesbit
Harry D. Thaw
Harry Kendall Thaw
Ship Subsidy Bill Backed for Next Session By Grosvenor
Gen Grosvenor chairman of the house mercantile marine committee said the ship subsidy bill will be reported to the house at the next session and he expected its passage. Labor troubles delaying St Louis construction have ended per the building trades council.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Big Horn
Montana
Monroe
Mich
Eva Booth
Salvation Army
United States
New York
Red Cross
San Francisco
Harriet S. Huntington
Henry Huntington
Willard V. Huntington
E. Holladay
Oneonta
St. Paul
Oberlin College
Cleveland
Historical Society of the
Kentucky Baptist Association
Richmond
A. Gattliff
Williamsport
The
Baptist Educational Society
Whitley County
Duluth
United States Steel Corporation
Edward
United Mine Workers’ Association of Illinois
Collinsville
Elizabeth Dunbar
Grand Haven
Antrim
Ireland
Ballynahinch
County Down
McCormick
Dallas
Tex
Railroad Commission
Houston & Texas Central Railroad
Berlin
J. P. Cudahy
Cudahy Packing Company
Kansas City
Louisville Packing Company
Haakon
Queen Maud
Trondhjem
Grand Army of the Republic
Jones
Sioux City
State Supreme Court
Kaufmann
Agnes Poirers
Charles Parlange
United States Court of Louisiana
Speaker Cannon
John Esberg
Paul Ross
Davenport
Cappy
Hoffman
Esberg
Ross
Guatemala
Allentown
State Constabulary
Samuel P. Wheeler
Illinois Bar
State Normal At
Carbondale
Springfield
Iowa News Roundup Highlights Contracts and Local Crime
State Board of Control awarded about 25000 dollars in meat contracts for three months at state institutions. Des Moines manager of Wells Fargo, J W Curtis, promoted to division superintendent with 400 offices and 1000 miles of road. Interurban line grading from Woodward to Perry nears completion with cars expected by August. Dispatched obit and legal cases include Miss Mary Ristau custody settlement and Bertie Clausen arrest for liquor sales. Several accidents, fires, poison cattle outbreak near Grimes, and goings on in Davenport and Des Moines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Board of Control
Tim Donahue
O’brien
J. W. Curtis
Des Moines
Wells-Fargo Express Company
Illinois
Woodward
Perry
Montreal
Canada
William Narris
Muscatine
A. DU. W
Narvis
Iowa
Z. W. Thomas
Fort Dodge
M. Langdon
Berlin
N. C
Berin Bank
John Brown
Brown & Hurtt Bottling Works
W. Fisher
Sevastopol
Alexander Anderson
Maple Street
J. M
Des Maroines Street
Walker Flat
Eighteenth
Center Streets
Methodist Hospital
Western Passence Association
Iowa Railroads
H. F. Peitzman
Grimes
Charles Wolf
Davenport
Miss Ristan
Mary
Harold
Ristau
Bertie Clausen
Clausen
Clear Lake
United States
Gustafson
Peru
EK. J. Hickman
Theodore Schuler
Ely
Twin City
Chicago
Great Western Railway
Gladbrook
Basil Rederer
Goose Lake
Clinton
Rederer
George W. Binegar
George Mitchell
Fort Madison
John Parker
Poweshiek County
Supreme Court
Warren Eisner
C. @ Kisner
Rockwell
Wheelerwood
Charles J. Carlson
George McGowan
Will Martin
Fred McGowan
Archie Greenfield
Bagg's Grocery
Ninth and Park Avenues
Tom Sellers
E. W. Hoke
M. E. Brown
Railroad Rate Bill Now a Law
The June 30 Washington bulletin reports the president signed the naturalization bill and the lock rope Panama Isthmus project. He approved Niagara river waters control and Niagara Falls preservation, and a pension for Edward S. Bragg. The House amended the Senate resolution, making the rate bill effective sixty days from June 2, 1406.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Isthmus
Panama
Niagara River
Niagara Falls
Edward S. Bragg
House
Hals
Senate
Meat Bill Passes With Meat Inspection Provision Adopted
Washington reports the agricultural bill conference confirms the meat vision provision. Proctor and Hansborough pressed for Senate approval to accept the House plan allowing new packers as the government stamp guarantees meat quality. The conference report was read and agreed with, the House applauded, and the bill will go to the President after signatures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Proctor
Senate
Messrs. Proctor
Hansborough
Beveridge
House
Pure Food Bill Passes After Conference Report
Washington June 30 The conference report on the pure food bill was favorably acted on by the senate and house. The report was not discussed in the senate and the bill passed quickly. The report was then laid before the house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Senate
House
Thaw Pleads Not Guilty in Stanford White Murder Case
Harry K. Thaw answers not guilty at arraignment before Justice Cowling in New York Supreme Court. His lawyers seek leave to amend the plea, with potential use of temporary emotional insanity as a defense and evidence on Stanford White’s past life and alleged pursuit of Mrs. Thaw.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Harry K. Thaw
Stanford White
Notte
Thaw
Conger Heads Pacific Fire Insurance Company
E. H. Conger former minister to China and ambassador to Mexico was elected president of the new Occidental Fire Insurance Company. The firm with $200000 capital will base headquarters in Los Angeles, with many prominent Pacific coast figures involved. A large field is anticipated as several California fire companies withdraw.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. H. Conger
Insurance Cn
Los Angeles
Cal
EE. H. Conger
China
Mexico
Occidental Fire Insurance Company
Econcern
Pacific Coast
California
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