Impeachment Articles Filed Against Judge Archbald
Washington July 8. The House Judiciary Committee presented thirteen articles of impeachment against Judge Robert W. Archbald of the United States court of commerce. The panel charged he used office for personal gain through deals with litigants and railroad interests, and recommended Senate trial. The report cited bribery attempts and improper influence in several cases and a Europe trip funded by railroad interests.
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Washington
Henry D. Clayton
Committee On Judiciary
House of Representatives
House
Robert W. Archbald
United States Court of Commerce
Clayton
United States
Charles Swayne
Florida
Serrate
Archbald
Europe
Henry W. Cannon
New York
Erie Railroad Company
Edward J. Williams
Archhbald
George M. Watson
Scranton
Marian Coal Company
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad
Boland Brothers of
Interstate Commerce Commission
Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Commerce Court
Bruce
Philadelphia & Reading Coal ‘Company
Frederick Wrenke
Wrenke
Das. R. Dainty
Lehigh Valley Railroad
Lehigh
W. W. Reissinger
Reissinger
Arenbald
Edward J.williams
EB. W. Searle
J. B. Woodward
Wilkesbarre
Federal
Woodrow Wilson's Best Joke From Seagirt Speech
The item recalls Woodrow Wilson’s humor in Seagirt New Jersey on July 8. A story about a southern negro fleeing his master with a knife and a near- shooting aims to illustrate fear and fright in his public speaking.
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Woodrow Wilson
Seagirt
N. J
Woodrow ‘Wilson
PARDONS AND PAROLES INDIANA PRISON SYSTEM
Governors Mar shall granted pardons to three inmates and paroled seventeen from Indiana's prison and reformatory. The action affected names including Ora Strine, George T. Anderson, and William McQuinston, with multiple others receiving parole or facing denial on twenty cases.
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Indianapolis
Marshall
State Board of Pardons
Indiana Reformatory
Parole Boards of Indiana Penal Institutions
Ora Strine
Elkhart County
George T. Anderson
Shelby County
William McQuinston
Johnson County
Josephus Mallory
Laporte County
Trankck Carter
Marion County
Herbert Craig
Allen County
John Bodenhorn
Randolph County
J. W. Dowd
E. C. Watkins
Harry Gordon
Knox County
Reformatory
Albert Beverly
William Beavers
Lawrence County
Arthur Burdick
Lagrange County
Leo Branson
Delaware County
Kenneth Davis
Henry Trahem
Green County
Byron Murdock
Clinton County
Henty Bader
Laporte
Gordon Wentworth
Charles Bray
Grant County
Floyd Dunn
Board of Parole of Penal Institutions
William J. Boyd
Vigo County
Allen Keeney
William Waymire
Marshall County
Rollie Mack
Henry County
Edward Varnata
Fred Taberne
Vanderburg County
Sherman Chum
Edward Williams
Governor Marshall Declines Letters After VP Nomination
Governor Marshall says he cannot answer thousands of congratulatory letters and telegrams after his nomination for vice president by the Democratic convention. He plans to reach well-wishers through the press. Moving picture crews filmed him and Mrs. Marshall as they left the residence for a stroll.
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Indianapolis
Marshall
Marshall Residence
Pocket in Stockings Patented by University Student
Arthur M. Prestmont, a University of Pennsylvania junior, has been notified in Washington that a patent for a knitted pocket to be woven into women's stockings has been granted. The pocket measures six inches deep and four inches wide and is described as inaccessible to pickpockets.
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Philadelphia
Arthur M. Presmont
University of Pennsylvania
Washington
Fort Wayne Celebrates Foster Park Dedication on Independence Day
More than 15 000 people flocked to Foster park for the Fourth of July observance and park dedication donated by Col D N Foster and Samuel M Foster. Speakers praised the gift and riverfront plans while a full afternoon of athletic events and a grand fireworks display capped the celebration.
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New Foster Park
City
Fort Wayne
David N
Samuel M. Foster
Foster Park
Prohibition Party Seeks Name Change to Progressive
Atlantic City July 8 prohibition leaders push to rename the party at the national convention opening Wednesday They argue they are the original progressive party and would prefer the title Progressive over Prohibition The Roosevelt led third party is not seen as harming their cause delegates from New York and Pennsylvania back the name change The convention will elect a temporary chairman with Clinton H Howard likely to serve in Rochester New York as the Little Giant anticipated to lead the meeting.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Prohibition Party
Roosevelt
Prohibition
Chicago
Progressive Party
New York
Pennsylvania
Charles R. Jones
National Committee
Movement 9
Progressive
American
Liberty Party
Jones
Clinton H. Howard
Rochester
N. Y
Little Giant
Dr. Duemling Named to Fort Wayne Board of Health
Dr. Herman A. Duemling, a leading Fort Wayne physician, was named by Mayor Grice to succeed Dr. A. P. Buchman as president of the Fort Wayne board of health. He will assume duties immediately and align with Dr. Crull in briefing on office details. The board also includes Dr. H. O. Bruggeman, who has been abroad for two years.
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Fosters
Board of Park Commissioners
W. H. Shambaugh
Charles H. Woraen
Civic Improvement Association
Herman A. Duemling
Grice
A. P. Buchman
Fort Wayne
Duemling
Eric Crull
Dr. Duemling
Concordia College
Milwaukee
Crull
H. O. Bruggeman
Europe
Three men die in electric chair at Sing Sing
Ossining July reports three murder convicts Giuseppe Cirelli George Williams and Santa Zanza were executed in quick succession at Sing Sing prison. Zanza confessed to the Hall murder but said he acted under duress. Williams and Cirelli were executed for separate killings in 1911.
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Ossining
Giuseppe Cirelli
George Williams
I Negro
Santa Zanza
Sing Sing Prison
Cirelli
Zanza
Mary Hall
Henry Hall
Croton
Griffin's Corners
Westchester County
Gov. Dix
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Parole Board
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Shambaugh
Harry G. Hogan
Hogan
Seibelle
Louis Dorn
Dorn
John R. Quinlan
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
Philip Wambsganss
Emmaus Lutheran Church
Foster Brothers
Messrs. Foster
Col
D. N. Foster
New York City
Central Park
Lindenwood Cemetery
George E. Kesler
Park Board
Stellhorn Bridge
al Wefel
William Barth
Charles Leuenberger
Paul Miller
William Metsch
I. Tuttle
Arthur Lohse
Albert Wefel
Fred Metsch
Edwin Ordlieb
Leonard Bowers
Lillie Street
Arthur Allwardh
Packard Avenue
Clarence Frame
South Thomas
Floyd Allen
Hoagland Avenue
H. M. Loney
Weat Creighton
Elmer J. Kellogg
Forest Avenue
Clarence Siemon
Huestis Avenue
Winton Grosjean
Guthrie
Walter Romke
Wall Street
Fred Wellman
West Berry
M. N. Johnson
Kinnaird Avenue
Alice Griffith
Baltes Avenue
Gertrude Grosjean
Broadway
Ruth Simon
Helen Gossiger
Minnie Wagner
Hurd Street
Mr. Johnson
Kinnaird
F. F. Kellogg
Stout Strawn
Nelson Wagner
Ruth, Bolyce
Beaver Avenue
Hilda Bossiger
Messrs
Foster
France
Lta
Eng
Dr. Buchman
the Health Department of the City
Samuel M. and
David N. Foster
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