Underwood tariff bill opens house debate today
Democrats in the ways and means committee back the wool tariff revision led by Chairman Underwood with a lengthy report. Republicans led by Payne oppose it, arguing the measure could harm industry and public welfare while criticizing President Taft's past positions. The report accuses the tariff board and administration of delayed data sharing and warns of possible protracted debate.
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Washington
House
Underwood
Ways and Means Committee
Payne
New York
Taft
Tariff Board
Congress
Steel Trust
Statistical
Bureau of Corporations
Treasury
Customs Service
Francis Burton Harrison
Dalzell
Club Women Convene Twelfth District Meeting at Swinney Park
Delegates from Angolia Auburn Albion Butler Columbia City Kendallville LaGrange St Joe and others attend the Twelfth district federated clubs annual convention at Swinney Park. Mrs Grace Julian Clark Indianapolis presidents the session urging women to balance duties beyond social vanity and motherhood.
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Swinney Park
E. M. Wilson
Cldb
Clark Fairbank
Morning Musical Society
I. N. Taylor
O. N. Guldlin
0. P. Kinsey
Valparaiso
Buchanan
Auburn
Grace Julian Clark
Indianapolis
Edwin Knapp
Winona Lake
Rose Carter
Seymour
Angola
Albion
Butler
Columbia City
Kendallville
Lagrange
St. Joe
Virgil Lockwood
Indianapols
CAPT RANKE WINS HONOR AT INDIANA SPANISH WAR VET encampment
Lafayette Indiana June 7 final business session of the Indiana Department of the United Spanish War Veterans news notes that William F Ranke was elected department commander and Terre Haute nominated for 1912 encampment while resolutions urged a law to bar admission fees on Memorial Day.
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Lafayette
Ind
Indiana Department of the United Spanish War Veterans
Resolutions Committee
George W. Powell
Indianapolis
Powell
Terre Haute
William F. Ranke
Fort Wayne
T. J. Louden
Bloomington
Charles F. Zillmer
South Bend
Frank Walsh
Herman C. Kelm
Kelm
Harvey C. Petry
Richmond
Wilbur Ryman
Muncie
John 8. Morrison
W. W. Barnett
C. V. Lawson
Jasonville
United Brethren Church
James F. Hill
A. L. Littell
Jeffersonville
James E. Bailey
Vincennes
Frank J. Walsh
H. W. Elser
Huntington
Oklahoma City
Symathy
Theodore
Louden
Senate panel sizes up Canadian reciprocity bill drift
Washington dispatch reports the Senate Finance Committee will vote 10 to 5 to amend the Root paper and wood pulp clause of the reciprocity bill. Democrats Bailey Simmons Johnson back the change while Penrose Culom oppose. Final action slated for July 15 with possible July 20 vote on the free list. Secretary Knox unable to appear to explain the agreement.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Bailey
Simmons
Johnson
Penrose
Cullom
United States
Canada
Knox
Senate
Cardinal Gibbons Honored by Nation in Baltimore
James Cardinal Gibbons was saluted in Baltimore at the Fifth Regiment Armory where President Taft and other national leaders attended to honor his twenty five years as America’s principal Catholic prelate. The crowded armory held about 15 000 and the cardinal appeared in red robes while receiving enthusiastic thanks from the audience.
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Baltimore
James Cardinal Gibbons
United States
Fifth Regiment Armory
Taft
Sherman
White
Roosevelt
Bryce
Great Britain
Clark
Root
New York
Crothers
Maryland
Cannon
Presly
Only woman elected county school superintendent in state
Auburn Indiana June 6 Dr Lida Powers Leasure elected by township trustees as county superintendent of DeKalb county schools becoming the states only woman to hold the post. A Auburn resident she is a former teacher and longtime educator with medical training after the University of Michigan. She has been active in women’s clubs church and temperance work and serves as Eckhart Public Library trustee.
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Auburn
Ind
Lida Powers Leasure
DeKalb County
Leasure
John Leasure
Decatur County
Spring Hill
State Normal School
Terre Haute
Marshall, Kil
Indianapolis
Princeton
University of Michigan
Angola
Eckhart
Eckhart Public Library Association
Diplomat John Bigelow Seriously Ill at 93
New York June 6 There is no alarming change in the condition of John Bigelow veteran diplomat and author 93 who suffered a recurrence of an old malady serious due to age but not immediately in danger. The former U S ambassador to France during the Civil War remains active dictating memoirs at his Highland Falls summer home The Squirrels and spoke at the public library opening May 24. Mrs Henry Weicker of Woodburn underwent an operation at Lutheran hospital Monday.
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New York
John Bigelow
Milton Powell
Bigelow
Highland Falls
United States
France
New Public Library
Board of
Squirrels
Hudson River
Henry Weicker
Woodburn
Lutheran Hospital
Man Killed by Lightning Near Maywood, Indiana
A farmer named John Hove, from near Maywood, Indiana, was killed by a lightning strike in June. The incident occurred in Indianapolis as the storm affected the area. Further details were not available in the readable text.
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Indianapolis
Ind
John Hove
Armer
Near
Maywood, A
Leopold Dreyfus Dies After Fire Confession
Chicago reports Leopold Dreyfus of L. Dreyfus & Co confessed to plans to burn his Market Street store for insurance. He paid 300 of 2000 and killed himself after police moved him, with $12,000 property value cited. Fire attorney investigates potential incendiary ring.
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Chicago
Leopold Dreyfus
L. Dreyfus & Co
Market Street
L. Drey-fus & Co
Dreyfus
Sullivan
Bankers Seek Parole as Federal Board Convenes
Leavenworth Kansas July 6 the federal parole board chaired by R B Ladow arrived to hear parole applications from 300 prisoners. among the bankers seeking release are D K Cochran B E N Detzer M P Emmerich H Nicolai I T Wells H W Tiers J W Phillips and G A Conzman. Detzer of Fort Wayne and Nicolai of Auburn were convicted in November 1909 for embezzlement and sentenced to three years. The board may sit about a week.
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Leavenworth
Kan
R. B. Ladow
Federal Board of Parole
Federal
D. Kk. Cochran
BE. N. Detzer
M. P. Emmerich
H. Nicolai
Indiana
I. T. Wells
Kenosha
Wis
H. W. Tiers
Pittsburg
J. WW. Phillips
G A. Conzman
Terre Haute
Ind
G HE. Osborne
D. C. Abbott
Columbus
Ohio
Messrs
Detzer
Fort Wayne
Nicolai
Auburn
Old Board Re-Elected by Pennsylvania Company
Stockholders at Pittsburg and Philadelphia held the annual meeting today and re-elected the board of directors as James McCrea John P Green W H Barnes N P Shortridge Samuel Rea George Wood C Stuart Patterson Effingham R Morris from Philadelphia Jos Wood J J Turner Edward B Taylor D T Mc Gabe and G L Peck from Pittsburg A Philadelphia meeting will elect officers later in the year.
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Pittsburg
The
Pennsylvania Company
James McCrea
John P. Green
W. H. Barnes
N. P. Shortridge
Samuel Rea
George Wood
C. Stuart Patterson
Effingham R. Morris
Philadelphia
Jos. Wood
J. J. Turner
Edward B. Taylor
G.L. Peck
Pittsburg Pastor Charged With Heresy to Stand Trial
Rev Diedtrich pastor of St Mark s Memorial Reformed church in Pittsburg faces heresy charges. He is scheduled to be tried in this city on July 12 after classis meeting. He disputes the fall of man and the atonement asserting salvation comes through personal harmony rather than a dying God.
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Diedrich
Pittsburg
John Diedtrich
St. Mark’s Memorial Reformed Church
Reformed Church
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