Roosevelt Defines State and Federal Roles at Governors Session
President Roosevelt pledged that laws should be enforced by the power best suited to serve the people, favoring state control where feasible but national power where necessary. He urged a division of responsibility to protect forests, lands, mines and waters, and called a future governors conference as needed. Bryan urged conservation through federal-state cooperation, while George M. Kober stressed the critical role of clean water and public works, tracing ancient aqueducts to modern supply.
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Roosevelt
Gov
Comer
Alabama
W. J. Bryan
Bryan
George M. Kober
Medical School
Georgetown University
Rome
Pliny
Plumbers Strike Blocks La Crosse Steam Work
La Crosse steam plumbing and heating work halted as union plumbers walk out at 8 am after failed talks with master plumbers. Union demands include higher pay, apprenticeship abolition, and union-only crews, while masters resist adding journeyman pay and limiting nonunion helpers.
Sheriff Buries Her as Crabbites Try to Raise the Dead
In Martinsville Indiana on May 15 fifty members of the Church of the First Born or Crabbites gathered at Goose Creek graveyard to halt the burial of Mrs. George Hatley whom they believed could be raised. A general fight broke out as the funeral party arrived and continued until the sheriff's force arrived hours later and buried the body.
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Martinsville
Ind
Church of the First Born
Goose Creek
George Hatley
Fire destroys Minneapolis storage warehouse
A warehouse of the Minneapolis Storage company containing farm machinery bound for the west was totally destroyed by fire this afternoon. The entire department fought the blaze as a shifting breeze likely saved the river front warehouse district. Loss estimated at 200000 dollars.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Minneapolis Storage Company
Vigilantes Form in Des Moines Over Rapes
Indignant residents organize a secret vigilance committee after two rapes by black men. They plan to buy bloodhounds and warn they will take justice into their own hands if another offense occurs.
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Des Moines
Dentist Identifies Gunness Jawbone as Mrs Gunness
La Porte May 15 Dr I T Norton identified the jawbone found in the Gunness home ruins as Mrs Gunness peculiar bone formation rear teeth removed and cement fragments found Norton also cited a Norway man en route to locate his cousin Carl missing years ago and believed a Laporte accomplice may be involved Lamphere’s attorney said evidence points to a prominent Laporte citizen eyeing arrest sheriff Smutzer said digging will continue at the private graveyard amid new watches and missing person inquiries
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Laporte
I. T. Norton
Christiana
Norway
Carl
Gunderson
Worden
Lamphere
Debs Heads Socialist Ticket for President and VP
Eugene V. Debs of Kansas was nominated for president with Benjamin Hanford of New York as vice president by the Socialist national convention after an all night session. Five candidates were contenders and the platform pledges government ownership while the plan to merge with the Socialist Labor Party was decisively rejected.
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Chicago
Eugene V. Debs
Kansas
Benjamin Hanford
New York
Socialist National Convention
A. M. Simons
Illinois
Carol D. Thompson
Wisconsin
James E. Carey
Massachusetts
Max Hayes
Ohio
Socialist Labor Party
Repeats Chester Gillette Crime in Utah Canyon
Alvin Heaton, 18, confesses to killing his sweetheart Mary Stevens, 17, in a canyon near Orderville Utah after she begged him to marry her and give their unborn child a name. Heaton, a schoolmate, shot her four times when she renewed pleas in the sunlit gorge. He confessed after two weeks of questioning.
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Kanab
Utah
Chester Gillette
Alvin Heaton
Mary Stevens
Ordeville
Heaton
Royal Neighbors in Bitter Chicago Election
Mrs Lena M Collins of St Paul Minn claimed the supreme oracle title after an all night session at the Auditorium hotel in Chicago May 15 with voters recounts and allegations of bribery graft and ballot box stuffing. Two women tellers fainted and the count paused for half an hour to revive Myrtle E Dade of Rock Island Ill also reportedly won the contest for supreme recorder amid charges from rival factions.
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Chicago
Royal Neighbors of
America
Lena M. Collins
St. Paul
Western shippers organize fight on freight rates
Chicago May 15 The commercial and shippers' associations of the east and middle west launched a coordinated effort to block proposed freight rate increases by railroads east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio. Delegates from fifty organizations met at the Illinois Manufacturers' association conference at the Auditorium Annex hotel to push national legislation requiring Interstate Commerce Commission consent before rate boosts.
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Chicago
East
Middle West
Mississippi
Ohio River
Illinois Manufacturers’ Association
Auditorium Annex Hotel
Interstate Commerce Commission
Bandits Loot Wells Fargo Express for $35000
Three bandits robbed Wells Fargo express offices and are believed to have taken $35000. They passed Emory Gap New Mexico at 9 am proceeding toward the Wild Cimmaron country. Guards' negligence at French station blamed. reward of $5000 offered.
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EL Paso
Texas
Wells Fargo Express
Emory Gap
N. M
French
Cimmaron
Express
French Station
Thaw to Testify in Sanity Hearing Over White Shooting
In Poughkeepsie on May 15 Thaw plans to testify as rebuttal evidence in his ongoing sanity hearing. Dr Amos T Baker, Matteawan superintendent, testified Thaw is insane and a public menace, while Dr Charles F McDonald called Thaw paranoid and incurably ill.
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Poughkeepsie
Thaw
Stanford White
Peabody of
Thawe
Amos T. Baker
Matteawan Asylum
Baker
Charles F. McDonald
White
Anthony Comstock
Helen Gould
Supt. Lamb
Van Auken Elected Temporary Secretary at County Fair Meet
Madison Wis May 15 C S Van Auken of La Crosse was chosen temporary secretary at a meeting of county fair managers with the secretary of state to discuss auditing methods. The permanent organization is to be formed this afternoon and Van Auken is favored for the secretary post amid apparent sentiment.
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Madison
Wis
C. S. van Auken
la Crosse
Pass Bill Giving $40 000 for New P D Addition Today
The house passed a bill providing 40 000 dollars for a post office addition in La Crosse Wisconsin. Wisconsin cities receive 472 500 under the public building bill with Wa ter town getting 85 000 for a new government building Milwaukee obtaining 50 000 for a customs warehouse Appleton Beloit Water town Stevens Point Menomonie Merrill and Milwaukee also listed for appraisers stores and site extensions.
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Washington, D. C
House
la Crosse
Wis
Wisconsin
Watertown
Milwaukee
Chippewa Falls
Manitowoc
Platteville
Central Electric stockholders meet amid sale talk
George B. Rose and attorney W F Wolfe attend La Crosse meeting of Central Electric stockholders where a call to sell the company property is discussed but not ordered. D S McMillan of La Crosse Gas and Electric presents most of the stock. meeting adjourned to Friday May 22 amid uncertainty. Minority stockholders aim to press the suit to trial while McMillan seeks to block by acquiring protestors’ shares.
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Central Electric Company
la Crosse Gas & Electric Company
George B. Rose
Louis Keene
Central Electric
W. Wolfe
Rose
Wolfe
D.S. McMillan
la Crosse Gas and Electric Company
Andy Lees
Central Company
la Crosse
Old Central Company
McMillan
Katy Flyer Wreck Near Muskogee Causes Multiple Deaths
A Katy flyer crashed one mile east of Muskogee Oklahoma at noon on May 15. Reports indicate a number of people were killed in the accident and authorities are investigating the scene.
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Muskogee
Okla
Here
Weather notes from La Crosse and regional forecasts
Weather and water figures show La Crosse cooled to 50 and warmest 58 with wind six and .42 inches precipitation. River remains stationary for 36 hours, stage 6.8 with a 0.2 fall. Forecasts: Wisconsin generally fair tonight and Saturday with showers north. Minnesota and Iowa mostly fair with little temperature change.
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Northfield
Abilene
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
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