Root Speaks On Lumber Schedule Clash With Heyburn
Washington May 24. Senators Root and Heyburn push for a differential duty on dressed lumber amid tariff bill debate. Root cites Canadian border interests and warns reductions could shift business to Canada. Heyburn questions wage costs and labor impacts, clapp and heyburn clash over Chicago convention promises.
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Washington
Senate
Root
Canada
Committee On Finance
Hale
New York
Amalgamated Wood Workers
Heyburn
Mr. Heyburn
Clapp
Chicago
Idaho
Burkett
Tariff bill passed in House after quorum fight
Washington May 24. The Philippine tariff bill cleared the house after earlier efforts stalled by lack of a quorum. Speaker Cannon counted 175 members present, a quorum short, and a call of the house was ordered. Absentees were sought while Latta waited to present messages on Porto Rican ordinances. Eventually 197 members answered the roll.
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Washington
House
Macon
Arkansas
Cannon
Payne
N. Y
Latta
Monkeys to be added at Robison park zoo
The Proctor Bulger Franklin Amusement company received a consignment of monkeys and baboons for the Robison park zoological garden as workers prepare the park for its opening next Sunday. More than 2 000 people visited yesterday despite a shower, and cashier William M Smith of the Ossian bank will pay the remaining 500 pledged to the M E church at Markle while he resided, with the suit filed against him concluded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Proctor-Bulger-Franklin Amusement Company
Little Zoological Garden
Robison Park
William M. Smith
Ossian Bank
M. E
Markle
Four Die in Oklahoma Flood disaster
Guthrie Oklahoma May 24 At least four lives are lost and extensive property damage results from four days of continuous rain ending in a cloudburst. Mrs W W Brown and her three children were swept away with their farmhouse near Foraker.
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Guthrie
Okla
Oklahoma
W. W. Brown
Foraker
Flooding Swamps Northeastern Oklahoma Rail Lines
May rainfall floods Grand river and nearby streams in northeastern Oklahoma causing serious damage to railroad property and farms. Afton is partially submerged while Catale loses trestle work on the St. Louis and San Francisco bridge. Bridges in danger and train service disrupted.
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Vinita
Okla
Oklahoma
Grand River
Afton
Catale
Here
St. Louis and San Francisco
Four Days of Rain Floods Muskogee Streets
A thunderous downpour in Muskogee Oklahoma after four days of rain sent the Canadian and Arkansas rivers and tributaries rising rapidly. Streets and many houses were flooded by last night’s heavy rainfall and the rain continued today.
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Muskogee
Okla
Arkansas
Rainstorms hail sweep Kansas and shipshewana wind
A storm in a fifteen mile stretch from South Haven near Wellington into Oklahoma dumped six inches of rain in three hours and blasted grain with hail. A separate Tuesday windstorm at Shipshewana toppled trees and fences and damaged the fronts of local publications buildings.
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Wellington
Kas
South Haven
Oklahoma
Shipshewana
Shipshewana Sun
J. J. Kaufman
Auburn Men Hurt In Auto Accident
Auburn Ind May 24 The worst automobile accident in the city history occurred when a seven passenger touring car driven by Harry McIntyre rolled over on a hill six miles from town. Five occupants were injured. Henry Gast critically, Waldo Seiler with rib fractures and internal injuries. Oak Hasselman John Barkman and W H McIntyre also hurt. The driver lost control after striking a roadside stump.
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Auburn
Ind
Harry McIntyre
W. H. McIntyre
Henry Gast
Oak Hasselman
John Barkman
Gast
Decoration Day Observed By Camp Sons Of Veterans
Fort Wayne readers are urged to attend Decoration Day on Monday May 31 as Captain James B White Camp Sons of Veterans leads the observance. A large battery with seventy two horses will march in parade with guards in new equipment. Citizens are asked to come by carriage or streetcar and join the patriotic display.
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Fort Wayne
James
White Camp
Sons of Veterans
State Guards
Fort. Wayne
Supreme Court clears Shipp in Ed Johnson lynching case
Chief Justice Fuller delivers opinion disposing contempt charges against John F. Shipp Hamilton County sheriff and eight others tied to the 1905 Chattanooga lynching of Ed Johnson. Several defendants are dismissed or attached for further action while the court weighs proper punishment.
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Washington
John F. Shipp
Hamilton County
Tenn
Supreme Court of the United States
Ed Johnson
Chattanooga
Fuller
Shipp
Gibson
Williams
Nolan
Padgett
May
Galloway
Justice
Ward
Johnson
Supreme Court
United States Circuit Court
Roosevelt
Department of Justice
Peckham
a. _flishi
Presbyterian assembly hears evangelistic call in Denver
In Denver on May 22 the Presbyterian general assembly heard John H. Converse urge preaching to sinners, not waiting for them to come. The assembly announced committee chairmen in several key areas and discussed ministerial relief and Brotherhood reports, with a plan for a dollar subscription drive to build a hundred thousand dollar fund next year.
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Denver
Col
General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church
John H. Converse
Philadelphia
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Mr. Converse
Converse
Hairman
D. Gray Bolton
Edgar P. Hull
Chicago
Howard A. Johnston
Colorado Springs
Josiah McLean
Salt Lake City
Jos
Presbyterian Brotherhood
General Assembly
Westminster College
Brotherhood
Admiral Watson
Barkley
Chas. S. Holt
Ian Church
Woman's Board of Missions
Board of Missions of
Assembly
Hey. Wm. Robinson
Board of Missions
Woman's Missionary Board
Mary M. Graff
Evansville
Ind
J. B. Espmnian
Ashburn
Knoxville
Tenn
Mary A. Stevens
Petersburg
Walter A. Crawford
Paris
Mission work reviewed at Bentonville meeting
In Bentonville Arkansas on May 22 a meeting reviewed mission work in every phase both at home and abroad, outlining progress and future plans. Local leaders and attendees discussed ongoing projects and community impact, highlighting the role of churches and organizations in supporting overseas efforts.
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Bentonville
Ark
Union Rejected by United Brethren in Christ Radical Branch
Huntington ind may 22 the general conference of the United Brethren in Christ radical branch rejected the reunion overture from a committee from the liberal branch meeting in Canton ohio the split occurred twenty years ago at york pa over secret society membership the radical branch will meet next at billsfield mich.
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Huntington
Ind
General Conference of the
United Brethren In Christ
Radical Branch
Canton
Ohio
York
Billsfield
Mich
Mastodon Skeleton Unearthed in Bear Swamp Dig
Near Warsaw Benja min Miller Alfred Purdy and Homer Purdy uncovered the majority of a mastodon skeleton while digging a ditch in what was once Bear swamp. They found the lower jaw a foreleg bone foot ribs vertebrae teeth and other indistinguishable pieces thirty inches underground.
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Warsaw
Bear Swamp
Benjamin Miller
Alfred Purdy
Homer Purdy
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Brooklyn
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Brooklyn Bridges
Sila
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Dingley Bill
Clapp and Heyburn
Park Zoo
Kansas
Hill
Waldo Seiler
Kendallville
United States
Tennessee
Chief Justice Fuller
Presbyterian Assembly
Cumberland Assembly
Biemer & CO
Water Supply Contractors
Wells Baker Wind Mills
Barr St
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