Old Mortgage Tax Law Stands Amid Senate Debate
The senate rejected amendments to tax credit property tied to mortgages and similar evidences of wealth. Debate centered on charging one half of one percent or exempting certain credits from taxation as state officials argued over equity and impact on capital. Final passage aligned with the unamended Bird bill, while other measures on vessels taxation, citizenship for voters, and legal see-saw outcomes faced mixed votes.
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Merton
New York
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Wyle
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Johnson
Rogers
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Rummel
Sandorn
Smith
Stevens
Wipperman
Wolff
Wright
Roeher
Morris
Sanbera
Wolt
Assembly
Tatton
McGillvray
Stout
Hanging Delayed One Week in Peterson Murder Case
Chicago reports that Jocko Briggs who faced execution for the murder of cigar dealer Hans Peterson on September 12 has been granted a one week stay. The delay postpones the hanging and shifts final action to a later date as authorities review proceedings.
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Chicago
Jocko" Briggs
Hans Peterson
Pocket Ballot Bill Passes in Assembly Amid Controversy
Madison June 14 The Assembly approved the pocket ballot bill by 88 to 28 and advanced related measures. Debates centered on state pay for lawyers, county fair aid, and a separate hospital building, with opposition led by Assemblyman Potter who denounced the deal as theft and warned he could not face constituents if he supported it.
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Reedle
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Curtiss
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Rvaos
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Jeamy
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Irvine
Henry Johnson
Kinney
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Bretzler
Perry
Powell
Rovcroft
Langen
Stevens
Swenholt
Thomas
Ties
Winch
Lenroo
Audmitge
Baker
Health Park Plan Not Approved In Wisconsin
Governor La Follette withheld approval of a bill appropriating 31,000 to the Pestathay Health Park association. He argued the bill listed no mechanism for expenditure or public benefit and could go to private interests, blocking the measure.
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Madison
la Follette
Pestathay Health Park Association
Wisconsin Health Park Association
State Tuberculosis Sanitarium Debate and Public Duty
The speaker argues against using state funds to back private groups while endorsing a state sanitarium for pulmonary tuberculosis. He notes the disease's alarming and highly contagious nature and supports legislative action to establish a public institution under state control, stressing public interest over private association. He would not approve funding private donations.
Archduke Joseph of Austria Dies at 72 in Vienna
News in brief reports Archduke Joseph of Austria died in Vienna at age 72. Other items note mixed Russian troop activity near Vingecheng and Shuftunta, a court petition delaying Gaynor and Gren to the Supreme Court, and a fatal plunge by Carl A. Chanssen in New York.
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Timber
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Ted
Lettysburg
Minnesota
Tokio
Vingecheng
Erheliblip
Shuftunta
Montreal
Yakima
Gilchrist Transportation Company
Mereland
St. Clair River
Port Huron
Aire
Glen Carbon
August Margel
Josie Haller
Frank Haller
Mary Heller
Wnc
Margel
Brest- Latowak
Poland
Far East
Patrick Case Death Sentence Stay Denied in Albany
Albany officials report the court refused a stay of execution to allow a reargument in the murder case of Albert L. Patrick, convicted in the death of William Rice. The court will set the execution date this morning.
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Albert L. Patrick
William Rice
Chicago Markets Livestock and Grain Quotations Ledger
Market page lists cattle receipts at 3,500 head with varying prices for steers, cows, stockers, and heifers. hogs today around 30,000 head with mixed and butchers demand. sheep and lambs steady with specified shorn and native prices. Grain futures show July wheat at 87 cents, corn July 53 to 54 cents, oats and rye ranges, and fats like lard and hog products priced.
Fairbanks to Deliver Commencement Address at Iowa State University
June 14. Vice President Fairbanks opened his trip yesterday to Iowa City where he will deliver the formal commencement address at the state university.
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Tnllanapeli
Iowa City
The
State University
Bigelow May Be Prison Gardener at Leavenworth
The former Milwaukee banker Prank G. Figelow, now inmate No. 1717, began light garden work at Leavenworth under hospital care. He endures nervous strain from smoke loss, accepts chewing tobacco, and is shaved and photographed for prison records while health gradually improves.
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Kan
G. Figelow
Milwaukee
Bigelow
Thew
McClaudry
How Rubber is Obtained in the Congo State
A 1889 decree directs caoutchouc forests in the Congo to plant caoutchou trees at fixed proportions per ton collected. A later decree raises required tree plantings per ton. Foresters, eight controllers and twelve sub-controllers, enforce the rules under a chief inspector. Native tapping involved incisions and collecting the sap, sometimes applying it to the body.
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Congo
Harvesting a Plant From the Upper Congo
The passage notes a wasteful method that killed the plant when drawn, but abundant plente on the Upper Congo and its tributaries has saved it from extinction. Caqui jebou is now harvested by extracting the fluid from the stem without injury to the plant.
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Congo
Auxiliary cruiser Dnieper sinks St. Kilda in China Sea
In the Straits of Malacca the Russies auxiliary cruiser Dnieper stopped the Dutch steamer Bloras and transferred 41 Chinese crew and mails from the British steamer St. Kilda captured with contraband. The St. Kilda’s European officers returned aboard the Dnieper.
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Russies Auxiliery
Straits of Macca
St. Kilda
Hongkong
China Sea
Teamsters Strike Ends in Chicago Delivery Almost Normal
Chicago sees near normal goods delivery as police and deputy sheriffs guard wagons. The standoff appears to ease with reduced reports of teamsters’ disruption.
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Teamsters
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Stra
Big Railroad Case Opens in Wisconsin Court
Madison June 14 jury drawn and depositions taken in the Wisconsin vs Chicago and North Western Railway case testing if the railroad reported gross earnings for taxation. Federal questions may delay final ruling as trains in New York’s underground system resume after 48 hours.
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Sean
Jones
Bowers
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Jule Remer
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Thorsten Thompson
Godfrey Schmale
Martin Pennewell
John Clark
George Stumpf
Hans Peterson
John King
Hugh McWatty
New York
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