Wreck Near Union Station Injures 100 Passengers
A Pennsylvania passenger train collided with several empty cars near Chicago Union Station, injuring more than 100 passengers including Georgia convention delegates. Among the injured were Henry Lincoln Jackson and Dr. W. F. Penn, with A N Fulker critically hurt, spine damaged and internal injuries reported. Locomotives wrecked and windows shattered, officials rushed to aid victims.
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Chicago
Georgia
Pennsylvania
Union
Henry Lincoln Jackson
Atlanta
Washingington
D. C
W. F. Penn
F. S. Broadnax
Thomasville
A. N. Fulker
Argyle, Ga
Eleventh
Zion City Zealots Injured Riot Clashes At Cook Plant
In Zion City Illinois on June 18 a mob severely beat one woman and three men, followers of Wilbur Gienn Voliva. The assault occurred after they appeared at closing time of the Cook electrical plant, jeering workers who were leaving. The incident continues a months long pattern of confrontations over workers using tobacco.
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Zion City
Ill
Wilbur Gienn Voliva
Cook Electrical
Katmai Volcano Eruption Destroys Alaska Villages
Ashes forty feet deep blanket Afognak island as Katmai volcano eruption plus explosions plague the Seward area. Belief grows that all villages at the mountain’s base are destroyed with substantial loss of life.
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Seward
Alaska
Katmai
Katmai Mountain
No Surrender by Antomarchia in Santiago Cuba Proclamation
June 18 report says Julio Antomarchia the insurgent leader in Santiago Cuba ordered whites to evacuate El Cobre on Saturday and issued a fresh proclamation yesterday morning vowing to hang anyone who suggests surrender. The stance signals ongoing hostilities and no immediate capitulation.
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Antomarchia
Santiago
Cuba
Julio Antomarchia
el Cobre
Erie Honeymoon Tragedy as Train Strikes Car
T A Snyder a Cincinnati millionaire and his wife were killed today at a grade crossing in Erie while traveling on their honeymoon. The couple were in an automobile when struck by a passing train.
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Erie
T. A. Snyder
Cincinnati
Arrest of Louise Lindorf in Chicago Suspect Deaths
Mrs. Louise Lindorf, 45, arrested by Chicago police on suspicion as investigation continues into the deaths of her husband and wife, plus three children two of whom are boys and girls. Five insured for about 10 560 dollars.
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Chicago
Louise Lindorf
Cloakmaker Dies in Sleeper at Toledo Union Station
S Baruch, 55, a cloak and suit maker from New York, died of heart trouble in a sleeper at Toledo Union Station early yesterday.
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Toledo
S. Baruch
New York
Union Station
Supreme Court Sets Rule on Wife's Property Exemption
Springfield Il June 17 The supreme court laid down a rule that a wife's property is wholly exempt from the debts of a husband. The ruling clarifies which assets are protected and ensures full exemption for marital property under state law.
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Springfield
Supreme Court
Supreme Court Sets Damages in Actress Suit
New York June 15 The supreme court ruled Laura Biggar must pay Mrs Agnes Mary Hemdricks $30 000 for alienation of her husband's affections in a case involving the actress.
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New York
Supreme Court
Laura Biggar
Agnes Mary Hemdricks
Race meet in Jacksonville ends with fatal motorcycle crash
An aviation automobile and motorcycle race meet in Jacksonville closed early when Henry Wells Jr a local motorcyclist was killed during the event. Wells was participating in the competition when the fatal accident occurred this afternoon in Jacksonville.
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Jacksonville
Henry Wells, Jr
Fifteen Dead In Missouri Cyclone
A Missouri cyclone killed fifteen and injured many in Bates and Johnson counties. The half mile wide tornado moved from Kansas into Missouri, destroying homes, farms, and a work train near Drexel. In Leeton and surrounding areas, households were ruined with deaths reported. Ohio towns also faced fatalities and extensive property damage totaling over a million dollars.
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Kansas City
Bates
Johnson Counties
Missouri
Lacygne
Kan
Drex@h Mo
Galloway
Cory
Warrensburg
Johnson County
Henry County
Shawnee Mound
Leeton
Don Carlos
Carlos
Milmer
Sutherland
Guy Booth
Booth
Blanche
Ethel
Zaneaville
Ohio
Americus Loses to Gotch in Toe Hold Victory
Frank Gotch defeated Americus native Gua Schoenlein at Oriole Park Baltimore in straight falls. First fall lasted 62 minutes and 10 seconds, second fell 34 seconds. Weather was cold with drizzle. Schoenlein fought hard but Gotch secured the toe hold to win both falls.
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Baltimore
Frank Gotch
Gua Schoenlein
Americus
Oriole Park
Gotch
House Aims at Hanford Judge Corne Hanford Inquiry
By a unanimous vote the House directed a subcommittee of the judiciary committee to travel to Seattle and other places to probe charges against Federal Judge Corne Mua Hanford connected to his ruling in the Oleson socialist citizenship case.
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Names Committee
Deers
Prince of Wales Reaches Legal Majority at Eighteen
The prince of Wales turned eighteen on Sunday and received his own household as a result. He was chosen by the king and queen to head this new domestic establishment marking his legal majority in London.
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Prince of Wales
London
Forty Two Clubmen Near Death Wreck on Flusning Bay
The motorboat Count with 42 Hancock Social club members and 12 crew was wrecked Sunday on a dike hidden by high tide along the west shore of Flusning bay near New York. Rescue efforts followed as authorities investigated the incident with several injured reported.
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New York
Hancock Social Club
Flusning Bay
Darrow Trial at Risk as Witnesses Block Testimony
Los Angeles June 17 The Darrow bribery trial faces possible collapse as District Attorney Fredericks signals he may quit proceedings if Judge Hutton allows the defense to place labor leaders O A Treitmoe and Antone Johannsen on the stand to testify that Clarence Darrow had no involvement in the alleged abduction of Mrs Flora Caplan. Roger, Darrow’s chief counsel, says the court’s ruling admitting collateral crime evidence forces him into an intolerable position. He requests the court to allow the defense to present Johannsen and Treitmoe to counter Caplan case claims, a move opposed by Fredericks and Ford.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Darrow
Fredericke
Hutton
O. A. Trehmoe
Antone Johannsen
Clarence
Flora Caplan
Earl Rogers
Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ Association
Los Angeles Times
Rogera
McNamara
Mrs. Caplan
Johannsen
Treitmoe
Illinois Contest 18 Filed Seeks Seating Review
Baltimore June 18 Representative H T Rainey of Illinois filed notice with Secretary Urey Woodson that seating of the two delegates and alternates from the Twentieth district will be contested. The Democratic national convention opens June 25 and observers expect a protracted fight in Chicago. Former Judge Martin J Wade of Iowa City arrived as a subcommittee on arrangements member and said the Iowa delegation supports Clark.
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Rainey
Baltimore
Chicago
H. T. Rainey
Iinois
Urey Woodson
Illnois
Martin J. Wade
Iowa City
Iowa
Clark
Vasquez Gomez Proposes Early Orozco Deposition Leader Plans Mexican Revolt
Washington dispatches report a new powerful Mexican revolt led by Vasquez Gomez with plans to depose Orozco. Gomez has moved from San Antonio and aims to unite rebel forces for a final campaign.
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Vasquez Gomez
Orozco
Washington
Mexico
Gomez
San Antonio
Girl frees man as slayer claim weak in Moore family case
Monmouth Illinois June 17 District Attorney Ratcliff with Mrs Emma Van Glider and Fay arrived to question Joe Ricks held as possible link to the Moore family murders in Villisca Iowa. The girl who saw a man in Villisca identified Ricks as not the one. Authorities here believe Ricks had no connection with the crime.
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Iowa
Monmouth
Ill
Ratcliff
Villisca
Emma van Glider
Fay
Joe Ricks
Moore
Willisca
Aqw
Ricks Abe
Villteca
Ricks
Smelter Strike in Perth Amboy Ends in Victory
The 1100 workers of American Smelting and Refining in Perth Amboy New Jersey won a total victory in a strike that cost three lives and heavy property losses. The settlement raises wages by 15 percent on average and abolishes the bonus system.
Resaulte Umpire Gets Jail Sentence in Pittsburgh
In Pittsburg on June 18, Charles Hague was fined 100 and ordered to pay court costs plus a nine month county jail term for assaulting umpire Ralph C. Kennedy of the 8 C Frick league on Sunday.
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Pittsburg
Ralph C. Kennedy
8. C. Frick
Charles Hague
Thaw Seeks Release From Matteawan Court
Harry K. Thaw, who killed Stanford White, appeared before Supreme Court Justice Keogh in White Plains to seek release from Matteawan State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. The case raises questions about Thaw’s mental condition and potential parole or confinement status.
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Thaw
New York
Harry KK. Thaw
Stanford White
Supreme Court Juetice
Treasury Chief Testifies Morgan Funds Tied to Government
At a Pujo committee hearing in New York on June 15, ex Secretary of the Treasury George B. Cortelyou claimed the 25 million dollars loaned during the 1907 panic was a government transfer to banks for general relief rather than private funding for the stock market. He recalled meetings with J. P. Morgan and other financiers and said he could not provide a precise list of banks where the funds were deposited, only that they were placed in national banks.
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New York
J. P. Morgan
New York Stock Exchange
Treasury of
United States
Pujo Committee
House of Representatives
George B. Cortelyou
Treasury
Roosevelt
Stock Exchange
Samuel Untermyer
Mr. Cortelyou
James Stillman
A. Barton Hepburn
Tablets mark march route of General Herkimer in 1777
In Utica New York on June 15 a commemorative ceremony unveiled fourteen bronze tablets along General Nicholas Herkimer’s 40 mile Mohawk Valley advance to Fort Stanwix. The tablets map the route and explain each historic site, marking the rescue party’s path against British and Indian forces.
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Herkimer
Utica
N. Y
Nicholas Herkimer
Mohawk Valley
Peter Gansevoort
Fort Stanwix
United States
Lillian Russell Marries Alexander P Moore in Pittsburg
Lillian Russell wed Alexander P Moore editor of the Pittsburg Leader in a drawing room ceremony at the Hotel Schenley Pittsburg on a Wednesday. The small group included relatives and close friends. Rev Frank L Lewis and Rev J W Righter officiated. Mrs Moore claimed a Clinton Iowa birth date and year 1865.
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Alexander P. Moore
Pittsburg
Lillian Russell
Wingfield Balks at Senate Seat for Nevada Mine Work
Reno Nev June 17 George Wingfield millionaire mine operator appointed by Governor Oddie to succeed the late Senator Nixon may not accept the senate post He has written a strong letter saying he must not sacrifice his business to go to Washington Governor Oddie has not replied.
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George Wingfield
Nevada
Reno
Nev
Oddie
Senate
Nixon
Whangfield
Washington
Strike at American Smelting firm ends in Perth Amboy
The weeklong strike by 1100 workers at American Smelting and Refining in Perth Amboy New Jersey concluded Sunday after costing three lives and causing property damage worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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Perth Amboy
N. J
American Smelting and Refining Company
Aerial Tour of England Begins From Henderson Aerodrome
Aviator Slack starts an aerial tour of England from Henderson aerodrome on June 18. He ascends to an altitude of one thousand feet and makes Bradford his first stop.
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England
London
Slack
Henderson
Bradford
President Gomez to quell: Rebellion in Cuba
Washington reports the United States government has assurance from President Gomes that the Cuban revolt will be quelled within ten days. Rear Admiral Hugo Osterhaus says the Atlantic fleet, stationed in Havana, conveyed the pledge after Osterhaus’s official visit to Gomez. Government forces fought rebels near Daiquiri and El Cobre with several deaths and captures.
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Washington
United States
Gomes
Cuba
Taft
Hugo Osterhaus
Atlantic
Havana
Osterhaus
State Department
Gomez
Santiago
Daiquiri
Imias
Oriente
Baracos
Rosendo Collazo
el Cobre
Powder Trust Is Broken Dissolution of Dupont Firms Ordered
The United States circuit court under Judge Gray issues a final decree in the government case against E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co. and affiliated concerns. Dissolution is ordered with property to be distributed to stockholders among E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co. Hazard Powder Delaware Securities Delaware Investment Eastern Dynamite California Investment and Judson Dynamite & Powder. The order calls for two new corporations and allows use of Laffin Rand Powder or Eastern Dynamite as substitutes for one or both.
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Dupont
Wilmington
Del
United States Circuit Court
Gray
Buffington
McPherson
E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co
E. J. du Pont de Nemours & Co
Delaware Corporation
Hazard Powder Company
Delaware Securities Company
Delaware Investment Company
Eastern Dynamite Company
California Investment Company
Judson Dynamite & Powder Company
E. J. du Pont de Nemours Powder Company
Laffin & Rand Powder Company
Accuses Taft of Misusing Traveling Allowance
Washington June 15 Chairman Fitzgerald of the house appropriations committee attacked President Taft over the 25 000 traveling expense fund asserting the president mulched the accompanying newspaper and secret service men on a recent western trip. Representative Page of North Carolina joined in condemning the action and urged striking the item from the sundry civil appropriation bill. The house voted 78 to 51 to retain the allowance.
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Washington
Taft
Congress
Fitzgerald
House Appropriations Committee
Secret Service
Page
North Carolina
House
Meat Boycott Gains Steam in New York East Side
East Side leaders report about 60,000 Jewish families pledged not to eat meat until prices fall. Of 1,600 butcher shops, only 150 still sell meat while around 600 limit to poultry and the rest are closed, according to Sadie Ordman, a movement leader.
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New York
East Side
Sadie Ordman
Baker to Get Gates Gift Despite Contingencies
On the eve of travel to California for tuberculosis recovery Henry Baker nephew and heir of John W. Gates will receive $250000 from the Gates estate. Relatives agreed to drop the will’s condition requiring remaining unmarried and completing college. Also in brief, Arizona Governor Hunt vetoed a twenty round prize fight bill, calling it a step backward.
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Aurora
Henry Baker
John W. Gates
California
Charles Gates
Arizona
Phoenix
Ariz
Hunt
Women Seek Franchise by Constitutional Amendment
Petitions totaling 116,582 signatures favoring a constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote were presented to the House on Friday by Berger of Wisconsin.
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Washington
House
Berger
Wisconsin
Hard for the House and Kidney Disease Remedy Ad
An old advertisement extols Doan’s Kidney Pills as a cure for backache and kidney trouble. A Testimonial from Mia Mace of Shawneetown Illinois praises quick relief and complete cure, urging readers to remember the name. Pills cost 50 cents at stores. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Dean
Mia
C. F. Mace
Madison
Shawneetown
Doan'’S
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
The Chief Requisite from Belasco Interview
David Belasco denounces a modern type of society woman who seeks secret divorce for $500, claiming publicity matters. He notes this figure lives on notoriety and mocks the idea that such a divorce could be obtained quietly.
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David Belasco
New York
Doctor Endorses Kopp's Baby's Friend by Rothrock
Dr D R Rothrock of New Berlin Pa endorses Kopp's Baby's Friend as the best remedy for teething troubles wind colic and diarrhea. Available in 10 26 and 60 cent sizes at druggists or direct from Kopp's Baby's Friend Co York Pa. Sample by mail on request.
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D. R. Rothrock
New Berlin
Kopp
Frosts There Foote Lighte It Is Said Southern Tip Florida
A brief note mentions that the southern tip of Florida has reportedly never experienced frost and then jests about Miss Sue Brette and traveling theatrical companies far away.
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Foote
Florida
United States
Sue Brette
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