Officials Make Arrests In Black Hand Case At Marion Ohio
Cincinnati federal inspectors say Black Hand headquarters found in Marion Ohio with arrests in Columbus Dennison Pittsburg and Cincinnati linked to extortion plot. Dynamite threat tied to Amicon family in Columbus and a Cincinnati fruit dealer Cianciolo involved. letters traced to Cincinnati men, with further raids planned.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
United States Postoffice
Marion
Sam Lima
Antonio Vicadio
Columbus
A. Martis
Dennison
Pittsburg
Bellefontaine
Oldfield
Amicon
Government Secret Service
Post Office
Black Hand
Fred Cianciolo
Ciancolo
Boom times predicted for steel by October 17 say Pittsburg manufacturers
Pittsburg iron and steel leaders forecast a nationwide prosperity surge in coming weeks. The National Tube Company Wheeling works have restarted the steel and plate department, adding 4,500 idle workers since 1907, with orders for 165000 tons of steel rails 2000 freight cars 6500 steel passenger cars and 100 locomotives. Producers anticipate prices rising and demand congestion as a result.
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Pittsburg
Associated Press
Steel and Plate Department
National Tube Company
Wheeling
W. Va
Tariff Will Defeat G O P, South Carolina Senator Says
United States Senator E D Smith of South Carolina warned that the tariff bill will defeat the Republican party. He said the policy has reached its logical outcome and its disastrous effects will be understood when the law takes effect. He criticized Republican press for highlighting supposed Democrat disloyalty to shift attention from the policy's failure.
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South Carolina
Columbia
S. C
United States
E. D. Smith
Fatal Elevator Ride in Flatiron Building
Miss Lena Schoormaker aged 19 from Saugerties New York died on her first elevator ride in New York City when the Flatiron Building elevator halted and then surged upward crushing her head against the shaft wall. She was part of a party of a dozen girls escorted by Mrs. Charles M Hall of Kingston. The incident occurred during the descent with four companions and Mrs Hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
New York City
Lena Schoolmaker
Saugerties
N. Y
Charles M. Hall
Kingston
Alton B. Parker
Schoormaker
William Penn’s Body to Return to Delaware Banks
A congressional movement in Washington aims to bring William Penn’s coffin from a Buckinghamshire cemetery to America for interment on the Delaware river banks. The proposal argues Penn’s distinguished career warrants a properly marked grave here.
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America
Congress
Washington
D. C
William Penn
Buckinghamshire
England
Delaware River
Penn
Cotton Condition Maps Acreage Drops Trade Bulls On Report
The Agriculture Department reports May 26 cotton condition at 81.1 percent with 31,918,000 acres planted, down 1,452,000 from last year. Area by state shows Virginia 28,000 acres. North Carolina 1,486,000. South Carolina 2,498,000. Georgia 4,763,000. Florida 266,000. Alabama 3,552,000. Mississippi 3,244,000. Louisiana 1,155,000. Texas 9,716,000. Arkansas 2,304,000. Tennessee 7,554,000. Missouri 90,000. Oklahoma 2,112,000. Market reacted with cotton futures falling seven to nine points on bearish tone from the condition figure, though acreage decrease remained a bullish support.
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Washington, D. C
Bureau
Agriculture Department
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Texas
Arkansas
Tennessee
Missouri
Oklahoma
United States fiscal 1909 receipts exceed expenditures by May
A treasury department report shows for the year ending June 30 1909 total receipts 546 360 801 and total expenditures 644 421 402. May receipts 53 332 811 and expenditures 58 786 266. National debt declines from 2 636 992 527 on April 30 to 2 633 550 788 on May 31.
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United States
Washington, D. C
Treasury Department
Treasury
Reunion of Blue and Gray to be held in Washington
Telegrams from Grand Army and Confederate Veterans leaders approve a national Blue and Gray reunion in Washington next year under the war secretary. G A R Commander-in-chief H M Nevins says plan should be considered at the Salt Lake City encampment in August. General Clement A Evans adds that war passions are gone in the south personally.
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Evans
Minneapolis
Minn
Grand Army
Minneapolis Journal
Washington
Secretary of War
H. M. Nevins
Grand Army of the Republic
Salt Lake City
Clement A. Evans
Confederate Veterans
Clally
South
Illinois bill voids clauses banning children in leases
The Illinois legislature passed a bill voiding apartment lease clauses that prohibit children. The governor has sign action in mind. Also noted are travel plans of H. Harriman and Mrs. Harriman from New York to Bremen and Paris with a three month abroad vacation in Vienna and Paris not fully arranged yet. Vice Chancellor Garrison in Jersey City rejected an injunction against Southern Steel Co. organization efforts and the case by minority stockholder Harrison H. Schuler was dismissed. Frances Fisher Tierman known as Christian Reid received the Laetare Medal in Charlotte for distinguished literary work, the first Southern recipient.
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Illinois
H. Harriman
Southern Steel Company
Alabama
Laectare
Frances Fisher Tierman
Christian Reid
Salisbury
N. C
Charlotte
Southern soil survey reports big trucking and pecan potential
Dr J A Bonsteel of the USDA reports extensive soil conditions in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida showing potential for trucking crops, pecan groves, and citrus. Savannah area could host large truck gardens with artesian water. early Irish potatoes and celery among key crops. Alabama surveys expand. Mississippi sites offer Satsuma oranges and cotton prospects. overall southlands eyed for intensive cultivation yielding from $500 to $2,000 per acre.
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Washington
D. C
J. A. Bonsteel
Bureau of Soil
United States Department of Agriculture
South
Bonsteel
Savannah
Chatham County
Norfolk
Newbern
Wilmington
N. C
Charleston
Portsmouth
Atlantic
Barnesville
Pike County
Georgia
Bureau of Soils
Cecil Seties
Piedmont
United States
Cecil Sandy
West
Alabama
J. A. Wilkinson
Tallapoosa
Coffee
Baldwin
Hale
Jackson County
Miss
Scranton
Ocean Springs
Marianna
Fla
South Atlantic
Jacksonville
No Veto by Taft on Tariff Bill
President Taft said no one has authority to claim he will veto the tariff bill. Bonde and house leaders, directing the conference path, concluded reports of a veto were baseless. Taft told a Republican leader that no one could suggest he intended to veto the measure.
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Menaire
Washington, D. C
Bonde
House
Senate
Taft
Jefferson Davis Memorial Plan Aims to Raise 50000 in Louisville
Captain John H. Leathers announces a drive to raise fifty thousand dollars to erect a memorial for Jefferson Davis at his Kentucky birthplace in Louisville. He appeals to the chapters of the armies and the Sons of Veterans and the public to contribute.
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Louisville
Jeffersons
Kentucky
John H. Leathers
Sons of
Death Ends Long Sleep Case of Louisiana Piette
Louisiana Piette of Lowell died after lying unconscious for thirty two days with only milk fed through her teeth. The girl endured four prior spells, each longer than the last, including a thirty day sleep last fall treated by electricity.
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Louisiana Piette
Lowell
Mass
Louisiana
Piette
Advice of aged spinster in New York hospital
A 100 year old Miss Mary Cummings at Belle Vue Hospital promotes longevity with two rules for women, never marry and never lose independence. She asserts these guidelines as key to living long and urges others to follow them.
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New York City
Mary Cummings
Bellevue Hospital
Fatal Knife Duel in San Antonio Ends in Death Threat
In San Antonio Texas two prominent young Spaniards Joseph Salinas and Carlos Sauza fought with knives in a locked room. Police forced entry to find the pair on the floor in a bloody embrace, Salinas with a slash over the heart and both men badly wounded. Salinas may die as authorities investigate the fatal duel.
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San Antonio
Texas
Joseph Salinas
Carlos Sauza
Salinas
Man Found In Swamp Near Pensacola Bayou Chico
George Holmes, 83, wandered swamp areas around Bayou Chico for ten days and was found by searchers. He is in critical condition from exposure and insect bites. authorities report he is partially insane.
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Pensacola
Fla
Bayou Chico
George Holmes
France to Spend Millions on Navy
Paris reports cabinet approval of a naval program costing 600 million dollars over ten years. The plan includes six Danton type battleships, six Republic type ships, and four armored cruisers.
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France
Navy
Paris
Increased Immigration in Chicago Report
Figures from the immigrant bureau show a sharp rise in arrivals. For the first four months, alien and citizen steerage passengers entering New York increased by 246 percent, totaling 212,738 more people than the same period in 1908.
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Chicago
Immigrant Bureau
New York
Washingtons aid to southern schools and other late notes
Booker T. Washington disclosed H H Rogers helped fund many southern schools and urged secrecy. The Hague ruled France victorious in the Casablanca desertion dispute with Germany, deserters to face court martial. Innovations include a wireless device from Toulon Arsenal and a method to photograph sound. Taft discussed merit system and elder care, while Indians sought longer federal trust. Posts, tariffs, and naval plans feature, with new testing press for bridges and torpedo boat progress.
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Booker T. Washington
H. H. Rogers
South
Washington
Hague
France
Germany
Jean Nauin
Toulon
R. J. Strutt
Lord Rayleigh
D. C. Miller
Case School of Applied Science
Cleveland
Switzerland
Maniac slaughters seven workers in factory rampage
John Murphy, a 50 year old North Packing and Provision Company worker in Somerville, Massachusetts, went on a six floor rampage with a 15 inch knife killing seven and wounding two. He chased workers through floors and stairs before being overpowered and placed in a padded cell. Murphy, described as very strong, was from Iowa and had worked at the plant for five years.
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Somerville
Mass
John Murphy
North Packing and Provision Company
Murphy
Dr. Hayes
Italan
North Company
The
Iowa
C. Towne
Women Bound and Tortured in Belmont Robbery
Five masked men burst into Mrs. Minnie Ashe's home near Belmont Pennsylvania, binding her, her daughter Mary Ober and granddaughter Minnie Ober. They ransacked the house, tortured the trio, and bound them to chairs using lit candles. Only $3.50 found. assailants fled, leaving Miss Ober who summoned help. A lynching threat swirls as the case unsettles the mining village.
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Pittsburg
Belmont
Minnie Ashe
Mary Ober
Minnie Ober
Miss Ober
Colonel McClure Dead Noted Editor and Confederate Friend
Colonel Alexander K. McClure age 82 veteran editor and prothonotary of Pennsylvania supreme and superior courts died at his Wallingford Delaware County home. He led the Philadelphia Times and was known as a northern man who supported the south after the war offering counsel on southern industrial development and reconstruction efforts.
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Philadelphia
Alexander K. McClure
Supreme and Superior Courts of
Pennsylvania
Wallingford
Delaware County
McClure
Philadelphia Times
Old School of
Greeley
Husband Leaps to Save Wife at Niagara Falls
Louis Cohen of Buffalo rushed after his wife who plunged into the swift river between Second and Third Sisters Island near Niagara Falls. He gripped her hand and fought to rescue her, but Mrs. Cohen died in his arms. An hour passed before help arrived. Cohen clung to a tree stump and was later rescued as authorities recovered the body.
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Louis Cohen
Niagara Falls
Buffalo
Confederate Graves Decorated at Arlington National Cemetery
The Southern Cross, donated by the Washington Camp of Confederate Veterans, was unveiled at Arlington National Cemetery during Confederate Memorial Day ceremonies. Soldiers' graves were decorated with flowers as tributes were paid to Confederate martyrs of the lost cause.
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Arlington Cemetery
Washington, D. C
Arlington National Cemetery
Washington
D. C
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Zittinivk
Canada
Civil Service Retirement Association
White House
American Liberian Commission
Monrovia
Liberia
African Republic
Chester
Birmingham
Valdosta
Jennings
Durham
Greensboro
Anderson
Amazillo
Cummins
Haskell
Department of Justice
Gregg
Eastern Division
Muskogee
Roosevelt
Gulf Coast
Weeks
Massachusetts
Navy Department
United States Geological Survey
Slaughter House
M’clure
Niagara
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