Noted Personalities and Tragic Accidents Feature Week’s News
Obituaries mark the deaths of William Hamilton at 86 in Billings Montana and W N Chancellor at 78 in Parkersburg West Virginia. Other losses include Cyrus Dupee in Chicago aged 81 and Daniel Cohalan elected grand sachem of Tammany Hall. Fatal incidents span across North America from drownings in Walkerton Ontario to a lightning strike in St. Louis during golf.
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William Hamilton
Billings
Mont
W. _N. Chancellor
Parkersburg
W. Va
West Virgina
Cyrus Dupee
Chicago
Daniel F. Cohalan
Charles F. Murphy
Tammany Hall
Tammany Organization
Bourke Cochran
Law Department
National University of Washington
Northwest
Gustav W. Wiegand
Minneapolis
Cyrus M. Kelly
Lakeville
Minn
C. D. Hamel
Grand Forks
N. D
Isaae Pearson
Aberdeen
Tragedy and Robberies Mark Waterloo and McKeesport
Bessie Cotter of Waterloo, Iowa swallowed carbolic acid and died within an hour after a jilted lover episode. Two masked men robbed a trolley car near McKeesport, Pennsylvania, taking money and valuables from conductor motorman and eleven passengers, then fled. Authorities suspect Charles Cornelius of Menominee, Michigan, was robbed of hundreds before his death after leaving for Europe with $600 and a ship ticket. on search his wallet held only $37 and the ticket was gone.
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Bessie Cotter
Waterloo
Towa
McKeesport
Charles Cornelius
Menominee
Mich
Cornelius
Europe
Filibuster Collapse Marks Currency Bill Passage
Washington June 2 The first session of the Sixtieth Congress ends as the Aldrich Vreeland emergency currency bill passes 43 to 22 after a lengthy filibuster led by La Follette Stone and Gore. La Follette spoke eighteen hours and forty three minutes, with Stone six and a half hours and Gore over two hours, ending just before midnight.
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Washington
Congress
Cannon
William J. Bryan
Senate
Messrs. la Follette
Stone
Gore
Houses
Oklahoma
Senator Stone
Senator la Follette
Senator Gore
Fairbanks
la Follette
Mr. Gore
Brutal double murder shocks Paris painters circle
A noted painter Adolphe Steinheil and his mother in law Mme Japin were strangled in their Rue de Vaughirard home. Steinheil's wife, gagged and bound, heard her mother die as intruders ransacked the house. Police are at a loss to explain the atrocity and the murder method.
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Paris
Adolphe Steinheil
Louis Charles Auguste Brelhell
Meissonier
Mme. Japin
Rue de Vaughirard
Chance Shot Is Fanal
Waterloo Iowa reports Clarence Btrain twenty years old of Fremont is dying from a forehead wound caused accidentally by hunting companions.
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Waterloo
Iowa
Clarence Btrain
Fremont
Tawney Manes Fiscal Review of 1919 Appropriations
Representative Tawney of Minnesota, chair of the appropriations committee, presented a review showing next year’s public service and public works demands exceed last session's by over 156 million. He cited recommendations backed by press approval and noted increased civil and military compensation. Total session appropriations were 861,088,670 with revenue estimates at 878,123,011.
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Washington
Tawney
Minnesota
Committee On Appropriations
House
Congress
Secretary of the Treasury
Eloping Princess Seeks Family Consent in Furstenberg Alliance
Princess Amelie Louise of Furstenberg and Gustave Kozian arrived in Lucerne with Kozian's mother as negotiations with the princess's family continue for marriage approval. If the talks fail, a wedding is planned soon in Lucerne.
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Lucerne
Amelie Louise of Furstenberg
Gustave Kozian
Kozian
Cholera Claims 29 Lives in Dagupan Day
Cholera toll rises in Dagupan 29 deaths in a single day as authorities urge sanitation. locals resist germ theory, viewing outbreak as divine will, despite health bureau campaigns. Manila reportsDagupan 120 miles from Manila. June 2.
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Philippines
Manila
Dagupan
Bureau of Health
Mexican village wiped out by cloudburst flood
A special dispatch reports floods near the City of Mexico causing great damage in the Padula area. Eighteen people drowned and the village of Puchula wiped out after a cloudburst.
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City of Mexico
Herald
City
Padula
Puchula
Fireman Drowned in Lake Superior Near Marquette
Gustaf Warebrook of Marquette's fire department was swept from rocks by high waves while fishing on Lake Superior and drowned. In Washington, adjournment leaves Minnesota district judge nomination of M D Purdy unreported. decision on recess appointment expected within ten days.
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Marquette
Mich
Lake Superior
Gustaf Warebrook
Air
Washington
Congress
M. D. Purdy
Minnesota
Senate Committee On Judiciary
Purdy
Cuban officers study U S army to aid reform
A Cuban officer party departed to Fort Leavenworth with the aim of familiarizing themselves with American military institutions to adopt similar practices in Cuba. The trip marks progress toward Americanization of the Cuban army.
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Chicago
Earthquake Scare Shakes Allentown Neighborhoods
Allentown Pennsylvania was jolted by what officials believed to be an earthquake shock. The tremor rattled windows and crockery, toppled chimneys, and unsettled residents including frightened children.
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Allentown
Lynching Follows Race Riot Near Dixon Kentucky
A racial clash on March 14 at Providence, a village near Dixon, precipitated a lynching early yesterday. Jake McDowell, a Black man, confessed to being part of a group that killed a traveling man and wounded another.
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Dixon
Providence
Here
Jake McDowell
Supreme Court Affirms Extradition Case in Pierce Suit
The U S Supreme Court upholds the Eastern Missouri extradition ruling against H Clay Pierce of Waters Pierce Oil, tied to a Texas perjury indictment over alleged conspiracy in restraint of trade. It also rules on copyright pricing, sustaining publisher price controls in Bobbs Merrill v Macy and Scribner’s Sons v Macy.
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Washington
Supreme Court of the United States
United States Circuit Court
Supreme Court
Justice Day
Bobbs-Merrill Company
R. H. Macy & Co
Bobbs-Merrill
House of Macy
Circuit Court
Southern District of
New York
Circuit Court of Appeals
Charles Scribner's Sons
Isador & Nathan Straus
Auto Crushes Four in Ocean Parkway Tragedy
A touring car carrying merrymakers from Coney Island sped about fifty miles per hour on Ocean parkway New York when it struck a tree, flipped and overturned. Two men were killed instantly and two others were severely injured, while two additional occupants escaped with minor injuries.
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Walkerton
Ont
Saugeen
W. H. Howard
St. Louis
Louis Levin
Jacob
Philadelphia
John Weberking
Waverly
Iowa
Ollie May
Thomas May
Long Grove
C. C. Bartholomew
Denver
Aleck Tow
Milwaukee
Dunbar
Buffalo
San Francisco
Henry Baer
Reynolds
Neb
Burlington Road
Peter Guglielmo
Peter Cicotte
Calumet & Hecla
Calumet
Mich
Plum Island Bar
Newburyport
Mass
William Wheeler
Alton
Ill
Turns Turtle
New York
Ocean Parkway
Coney Island
Kingston 250th anniversary celebration ends with fireworks
Kingston New York marked its 250th anniversary with outdoor festivities. A civic parade started by a Washington signal, an auto parade, a sham battle and a Governor Hughes address preceded a fireworks display at Kingston Point Park to close the celebration.
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Kingston
N. Y
Roosevelt
Washington
Clapp Laud s Faith Care. Minnesota Senator Embraces Christian Science
Washington June 3 Senator Clapp of Minnesota praised Christian Science at a National theater meeting where Clarence Buskirk former Indiana attorney general lecturer spoke. He declared his belief and adherence to the faith. Twin Falls Idaho June 3 More than 4 000 landseekers attended the irrigation lands drawing for Twin Falls Salmon river project O C Poulson of Greeley Colo drew Ticket No 1 for a quarter section. total REGISTRATION 4020.
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Minnesota
Washington
National Theater
Clarence Buskirk
Indiana
Christian Science Board of
Clapp
Twin Falls
Idaho
Twin Falls- Salmon River
O. C. Poulson
Greeley
Colo
Ballplayer Killed in Cincinnati Baseball Accident
John Vallacotte nineteen assistant foreman in a large factory died after a foul ball struck him behind the right ear during a local amateur baseball game in Cincinnati Ohio yesterday afternoon.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
John Vallacotte
Congress Vows Early Adjournment as Bills Pass
In Washington May 26 to 29 the House and Senate moved toward adjournment amid crisis over currency and civil bills. House approved conference reports on sundry civil and pension acts, District of Columbia child labor bill, and acts on navigation laws and Alaska coal development. Senate used dilatory tactics before advancing currency reform and military academy funding. Friday saw anticipated passage of the currency measure with Democratic strategizing for final steps.
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Washington
District of Columbia
Spokane
Alaska
Senate
Military Academy
House
Aldrich
Culberson
Texas
Bacon
Georgia
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Aldrich-Vreeland
Wisconsin
Tawney Manes
Fiscal, Review
Pierce
Federal Supreme Court
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