Prohibition Debate Stirs Congress Amid Caucus Tug
Washington May 27 Special report notes a House judiciary move on a constitutional amendment for prohibition has sparked petitions from diverse regions. The rules committee delays action pending caucus direction as Democrats and Republicans trade critiques on voting records and appropriations in Washington.
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Arthur W. Dunn
Washington
Judiciary Committee of
House
Congress
Judiciary Committee
Senate
Rules
4Ry
Committee On Rules
Hobson
Proposal Aides for Vice President Autocar Use Rejected
The Senate debated supplying automobiles for Agriculture Department officials to chase gypsy moths and carry hog cholera serum. Senator Reed of Missouri ridiculed the idea and noted the chamber spent two days on whether to furnish a car for the vice president, then rejected it. He suggested appointing the vice president as purveyor of hog cholera serum with car use.
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Senate
Agriculture Department
Reed
Missouri
United States
Armed Negro Runs Wild in Newark Killing Wife and Self
David Mitchell, separated from his wife Emma, killed her at 178 Academy Street then wounded himself and fled. He fired on police while moving through High Street and Intervale, taking cover under a stoop near the Babies' hospital as officers closed in.
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Self
Newark
N. J
David Mitchell
Emma
Academy Street
Walter Cause
Mitchell
High Street
Slaussling
Babies
Boy Dies From Bonfire Fringe Fire At School
Charles A Browning Jr of East Orange died from burns suffered while playing near a school bonfire at Columbian School in Bart Orange New Jersey on May 27 His Indian fringe suit caught fire as he leaped over the flames The incident involved Albert Carson the assistant janitor who started the fire while rubbish burning.
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Bart. Orange
N. J
Burns
Columbian School
Charles A. Browning, Jr
Charles A. Browning
Springdale Avenue
East Orange
Albert Carson
Young Browning
Edison aid dies in Africa Lomond Ricalton
Professor James Ricalton of Maplewood learns of his son Lomond Ricalton's death in Nairobi British East Africa from typhoid pneumonia. Lomond, twenty four, went to Africa three years ago with his father to photograph big game for Thomas A Edison. He fell ill two weeks ago and will be buried in Natobi.
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Maplewood
N. J
James Ricalton
Valley Street
Nairobi
British East Africa
Africa
Thomas A. Edison
Ricalton
East Africa
Natrobi
Longo Dies in Electric Chair After Blindfold Tug
Raffaelo Longo, who married in the death house for property in Italy, was executed in New Jersey state prison for the murder of his cousin Antonio Migliore in Elizabeth. He refused to watch the chair and asked to be blindfolded as the process began.
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Longo
Trenton
N. J
Raffaelo Longo
Italy
Antonio Migliore
Elizabeth
Dr Maurice F Egan Critically Ill in Washington
Dr Maurice Francis Egan minister to Denmark is critically ill in Washington. He arrived from Copenhagen to lecture in the south and west. All engagements have been canceled.
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Denmark
Washington
Maurice Francis Exan
Copenhagen
Labor's Demand Is Granted by Wilson
The Wilson administration reaches a labor backed agreement on the anti-trust bill. An amendment to the Clayton bill clarifies labor organizations in section 7 but officials say it does not exempt unions from Sherman act prosecutions. Labor leaders announce they withdraw opposition, while critics doubt the amendment’s scope.
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Jim Mann
Committee On Rules
Repubicans
Mann
Victor Murdock
Chicago
Ohio
Murdock
Washington
Wilson
Congress
House
Democratic Party
Woman sues for breach of promise in New York trial
Miss Mae A Sullivan testified in a $150000 breach of promise suit against Arthur I Hoe after admitting she paid 100 for one afternoon with the defendant. She broke into tears and was excused from the stand. The trial before Justice Gavegan and a jury continued.
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New York
Mae A. Sullivan
Arthur I. Hoe
Miss Sullivan
Justice Gavegan
Supreme Court
Recruiting Resumes at Pittsburgh Naval Station
Pittsburgh May 27 Acting on orders recruiting was resumed at the naval station here. Fifty men examined and accepted about the time recruitment paused May 1 will be assembled and sent to Norfolk and Philadelphia.
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Naval Station
Pittsburgh
Norfolk
Chiladelphia
Becker May Confess to Save Himself
New York reports say Charles Becker may admit to a confession that could implicate high police officials and ease his death sentence. Prosecutors doubt a plea bargain before the Court of Appeals and governors may influence clemency, with efforts accelerating as Glynn era looms.
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New York
Charles Becker
Court of Appeals
Whitman
Becker
Mr. Whitman
Glynn
Printer Dead at Ninety Five in Greeley Era Obituary
A long obituary notes Joseph Ulrich, a printer who worked with Lorace Greeley on the New York Tribune, died at age ninety five in San Antonio. It includes market data from New York on wheat butter cheese eggs hay potatoes cattle sheep hogs and related prices and receipts from May 27.
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San Antonio
Tex
Joseph Ulrich
Lorace Greeley
The
New York Tribune
Dev Tere
New York
North Duluth
Kansas
Pennsylvania
Timothy, Ton
Bermuda
Southern
Kuspurgh
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American Press Association
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Third Ave
Savoy
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2Nd Ave
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Mgr
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Simmerman
California
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Rockwell Ave
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Crock
Madison Ave
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Long Branch, New Jersey
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Supply and Service
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