Hawley or Bond May Get Job of Bumpus Jones
President John Elliott prepares a meeting of baseball directors as talk of replacing manager Bumpus Jones grows. Directors hint five of seven favor change with Hawley or Bond likely to take the berth, Bond at second base or Hawley as bench manager amid management shakeup.
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Hawley OR Bond
Bumpus’ Jones
Champs
Carl Bond
Bumpus
Hawley
Bond
Kernan
Short
Snyder
Jones
Elliott
Red Wing May Withdraw From Minny League
Red Wing threatens withdrawal from the Minny league if Winona and other teams are not forced to reduce to the salary limit. A board meeting in La Crosse will consider action against the Outcasts as well. President Force was notified by J. J. Farrin that Red Wing and La Crosse field strong teams within the limit.
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Minny League
Red Wing
Farrin
la Crosse
Shake-up Looms as Pitching Big Guns Falter
Directors fault Jones for poor leadership and Bumpus for lacking inside baseball as manager. Fans agree Hawke Hawley stands out as the only proven manager, with two new pitchers to bolster the Outcasts into a classy team though Weis is deemed too light for the load.
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Bond
John
Jones
Bumpus
Hawk
Hawley
Weis
Countess Maidstone Loyal to Country Women
Viscountess Maidstone formerly Margaretta Drexel of New York will skip court social events during the coronation. Rumor suggests she declines to attend to avoid snubbing American spouses who married into English royalty, seeking fairness for American friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Viscountess Maidstone
Margaretta Drexel
New York
London
Countess Maid Stone
Countess Maidstone
Coal Trust the Next On Program
In Pittsburg a second federal grand jury is convened to probe a coal trust involving the Pittsburg Coal Co and Monongahela River Consolidated Coal & Coke Co. Edward P. Grosvenor and John H. Jordan will hear executives from both firms as scrutiny follows the $18 million sale of coking coal lands to U S Steel. Officials prepared to testify before the jury this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Pittsburg Coal Company
Monongahela River Consolidated Coal & Coke Company
Edward P. Grosvenor
Wickersham
United States
John H. Jordan
Connellsville
United States Steel Corporation
Grand
Innocent Man Released After Twelve Years In Jail
John Henry Chance walked free from Charlestown prison after twelve years of a life sentence for murder later found not to be his. The confession pointed to Arthur Hagan, then living in Chicago, who was tried and acquitted, prompting Governor Foss to pardon Chance.
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Boston
Mass
John Henry Chance
Charlestown
Foss
Chance
Arthur Hagan
Chicago
Hagan
Berger Denounces Rebels as Non Socialists in Mexico
Representative Victor L. Berger of Wisconsin, speaking as an international secretary of the Socialist Party, rejected labeling Lower California raiders as socialists. He stated there is no Socialist Party in Mexico and that the marauders aligned with Madero are not socialists, offering Raisuli as a contrast.
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Washington, D. C
Socialist Party
Victor L. Berger
Wisconsin
Lower
California
Mexico
Mr. Berger
Madero
Raisuili
Rats slain as Princeton holds second annual rat killing day
Princeton, Ind on June 8 held its second annual rat killing day. Four thousand rats were killed and it is estimated the program saves about $30,000 yearly in property destruction.
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Princeton
Ind
Millionaire Stokes Shot by Two Women in Verona Apartments
Lillian Graham and Ethel Conrad, both charged with first degree assault, claim self defense after shooting millionaire William E D Stokes in his legs to save themselves. Stokes, recently married to Helen Elwood, denies and says he was lured for blackmail of 25000. Court holds the women without bail. three Japanese witnesses present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
William E. D. Stokes
Roosevelt Hospital
Lillian Graham
Ethel Conrad
Stokes
Verona
Graham
Helen Elwood
Denver
W. E. D. Stokes, Jr
Miss Graham
Miss Conrad
Los Angeles
John Singleton
Paris
Andrews
San Francisco
Pat Casey
Boy Risks Life Twice For Heroism In Chicago
William Schmeade a 17 year old boy saved gas inspector William Neuhaus from a gas filled home then returned to search for the mother and was overcome. Neuhuas and Schmeade are expected to recover and efforts seek Carnegie hero medals for both.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
William Schmeade
William Neuhaus
Neuhaus
Schmeade
Widow and lover confess to murder buried in onion patch
Norfolk police report Minnie Murdock and her lover Charles Merkle confessed to murdering Harry Davis. Davis died as he slept, his head crushed with an axe. They hid the body under a bed and then buried it in an onion patch at Mason's Creek. Both are jailed for murder.
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Norfolk
Harry C. Davis
Minnie Murdock
Mason's Creek
Charles Merkle
Davis
Merkle
Harry Davis
Harding
Charlie Merkle
Harry
Prisoners killed on way to jail in Bluefield
Bluefield West Virginia June 8 four persons dead and one fatally injured after being struck by a Norfolk and Western train. The dead are Martha Noel James Payne town constable John Ashworth Edward Jones. Charles Cade seriously injured. Noel and Cade had just been found guilty and were handed to Constable Payne for transport home when the accident occurred. Ashworth and Jones aided Payne.
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Bluefield
W. Va
Norfolk & Western
Martha Noel
James Payne
John Ashworth
Edward Jones
Charles Cade
Payne
Ashworth
Jones
City Dads Must Aid Woman Mayor
Hunnewell Kansas June 8 Mrs Ella Wilson mayor of Hunnewell won a point in her fight in the council when five councilmen received formal notices from Attorney General Dawson that their joke had gone far enough. The attorney general warned no more trifling by the city dads would be tolerated and noted they may be ousted or tried for dereliction of duty with fines up to 1000 dollars and one year in jail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hunnewell
Ansas
Ella Wilson
Dawson
Wilson
Barber Arrest Sparks Hold-Up Claim in St Louis
John Donahue of Carlyle Illinois caused the arrest of William Jones barber shop proprietor after alleging a 5 cent charge was a hold-up. Donahue says he received 15 cents change from a dollar. The barber claimed the charges were for electric bath 35 cents massage 35 cents and shave 15 cents.
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ST. Louis
John Donahue
Carlyle
Ill
William Jones
Donahue
Mahoney Proposes River Intake Plan For Water
Alderman Paul W. Mahoney announces a council resolution to install circular wells across the river with pipes beneath the riverbed to supply well water. Estimated cost about 40000 with sand filtration replacing a plant. Council water committee head Tarbox says no action yet and urges keeping intakes clear while a decision is made.
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Paul W. Mahoney
Mahoney
Council Water Committee
Alderman Tarbox
Nat Goodwin Sues Ex Wife Over Stock and Real Estate
Actor Nat Goodwin files suit in Los Angeles seeking restoration of 120000 dollars of Lafay ette apartment stock in San Francisco and Ocean Park beach property. Co-defendant is Santa Monica Mayor T H Dudley, trustee in the ante nuptial contract with his previous wife. Goodwin says he never consented to Dudley as trustee and argues the contract is irregular.
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Nat Goodwin
Los Angeles
Cal
Lafayette
San Francisco
Much Beach
Ocean Park
Edna Goodrich
T. H. Dudley
Santa Monica
Goodwin
Dudley
Senate votes investigation of Stephenson bribery probe
The senate approved an investigation into bribery links involving Stephenson amid continued scrutiny and political pressure. The move sets in motion formal inquiry procedures and potential public disclosures.
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Senate
Stephenson
Coupon Ballot Law Upheld in Wisconsin Assembly
The Roycroft bill repealing the Dunn Coupon Ballot law was killed 41 to 22 in a Saturday Assembly vote and defeated again 53 to 32 on a later reconsideration. A committee member cited false statements by Val Keppel of La Crosse as undermining support for the ballot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison, Wis
Roycroft
Assembly
la Crosse
Val Keppel
la Crosse County
Taft Heads to New York for School Review and Speeches
President Taft departed Washington at 8 15 a m for New York where he will review school children in the afternoon and deliver several speeches in Brooklyn He is scheduled to address the Cotton Seed Crushers association in New York tonight.
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Washington
Taft
New York City
Brooklyn
Cotton Seed Crushers’ Association
New York
Woman's prophet brigham young mute on battleship Utah service
Mrs. Herbert Sumner Owing of Utah told the Woman's Republican association she wishes she had the courage to speak profanely about Brigham Young whose likeness she is trying to keep off the battleship Utah's silver service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Herbert Sumner Owing
Utah
Woman's Republican Association
Brigham Young
Pastor in Disguise Aids Chicago Gambling Raid
Rev. Elmer L. Williams of Grace Methodist Episcopal church posed as a tramp to penetrate a North Side basement gambling house. He gathered evidence for a police raid that led to 29 arrests. Officers battered two iron doors and drew revolvers to subdue the gamblers as six hundred silver dollars were found at the game keeper.
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Chicago
Elmer L. Williams
Grace Methodist Episcopal Church
House Likely To Concur On Long Husting Speech
Husting delivers a long speech insisting the committee found sufficient evidence to prove guilt. He argues the testimony and documents presented establish a clear case warranting action, citing procedural adherence and the investigative timeline.
Probe for Stephenson election corruption may reach Senate
Wisconsin reports indicate a senate resolution calling for a federal probe into Isaac Stephenson's 1900s election to the U.S. Senate. The measure, already passed by the state senate, seeks a federal inquiry akin to the Lorimer case, with Husting backing and Stephenson supporters cautious. The vote tally in the upper house was 16 to 3 with many absent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Wis
Senate
United States Senate
Isaac Stephenson
Assembly
United States
U.S. Senate
State Senate
Stephenson
U. S. Senate
Lorimer
Hasting
Special Investigating Committee
Bodenstab
Blaine
Senate Committee
Joint Investigation Committee
Senate Investigation Committee
Weather picture and river stage for La Crosse region
Unsettled weather with thundershowers tonight or Friday and warmer tonight across Wisconsin and Minnesota. Iowa mostly fair with some unsettled east portions. A western low moved east over the Dakotas with showers in the upper Mississippi Valley. Charleston reports 1.40 inches in 24 hours. River stage shows La Crosse at 0.125.2 inches and rising.
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la Crosse
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
Dakotas
Plateau
Upper
Mississippi Valley
Plains States
St. Lawrence Valley
Pacific
Northwest
Atlantic Coast
Charleston
S. C
Rocky Mountain States
Aleq
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Pink Hawley
John Elliott
Baseball Directors
Ing
Beaver Dam
Viscountess
Maidstone
Coal Trust
Pennsylvania
Berger
Stokes Miss Graham
Ansonia
Mrs. Singleton
Europe
Belgium
Miss Elwood
Hoboken
Conrad
Belle
Col
Arthur S. Miller
W. E. D. Stokes
Agguses
Onion Patch
Anti-Lorimer
Kenyon
John W. Kern
Luke Lea
Lorimer Investigation Committee
Sen. Lorimer
Sen. Jones
Sen
Sen. Kern
Indiana
Sen. Sen
Tenn
Wellson West Bank
Mississippi
Huste
Ing Resolution
U. S
Dunn
Pastor
Tramp
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