Bowen in Disgrace Service Loomis Exonerated
Washington dispatch reports President Roosevelt ordered the dismissal of Herbert W. Bowen United States minister to Venezuela and exonerated Assistant Secretary of State Francis B. Loomis in the Bowen Loomis controversy The President condemns Bowens conduct as disloyal and unfit for service while praising Loomis for self restraint and noting his slandered reputation despite lack of direct dishonor in Loomis schemes.
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Washington
Herbert W. Bowen
United States
Venezuela
Francis B. Loomis
Bowen
Loomis Bowen
Roosevelt
Taft
Loomis
State Department
Convention at Manila adopts Roosevelt policy for islands
The Federal convention at Manila approves a resolution backing President Roosevelt’s plan to govern the islands by Filipinos with American assistance, aiming for gradual self government and eventual independent Republican rule while preserving the political union with the United States. The radical wing opposes a clause in the resolution.
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Roosevelt
Manila
Filipiddy
Buat
United States
Teteabe Wits Ricibeas
War Department allocates funds for Ohio River survey
The War Department set aside 56000 for a 9 foot Ohio River survey, to be available July 1, from the river and harbor appropriation. Lt Col Ruffner, based in Cincinnati, will oversee the examination of the stretch below the Big Miami mouth, with Majors Zinn and Sibert handling much of the work at Pittsburg to Cincinnati. The survey aims to cover sections not yet surveyed and is expected to take about a year.
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Washington
Ohio River
Congress
Ruffner
Cinermond
Big Miami River
Ohio
Big Miami
Pittsburg
Cincinnati
Zinn
Sibert
Secretary of War
Which Perished First Wallace Andrews Case Sparks Large Beneficiary Battle
In New York on June 21 a contest over Wallace Andrews and his wife death date from the April 7 1899 fire seeks to determine which spouse died first. The will provides 2.5 million to the Andrews institute for girls from a 3 million estate, triggering an 1860 law limit of half to charity. Heirs argue the wife survived. institute lawyers argue no proof. Probate is in effect.
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New York
Wallace Andrews
New York State Supreme Court
Crown Prince Frederick William and Crown Princess Cecilia Enter Potsdam
Potsdam crowd greets the royal couple arriving from Hubertusstock. Prince Bitel Frederick leads guards to the station as banners decorate the city. Burgomaster welcomes them at the old market, and the crown prince thanks the people before they proceed to the marble palace.
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Potsdam
Germany
Frederick William
Cecilia
Hubertuaslock
Bitel Frederick
Berlin
Marble Palace
No Discrimination in Canal Supplies Buy Across Cities
Washington June 21 Chairman Shonts of the Isthmian canal commission announces assistant purchasing agents Alfred H. Anderson in New York S. E. Redfern in New Orleans Major Carol A Devol U S A in San Francisco and F H Haraden in Tacoma Each will cover surrounding cities by visits while ads for bids C I F on the isthmus will run simultaneously in leading newspapers to avoid bias against any region.
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Washington
Shonts
Isthmian Canal Commission
Alfred H. Anderson
New York
Spencer Seedless Apple Company Incorporation News
To Boom Seedless Apple Albany June 21 The Spencer Seedless Apple company of New England and New Jersey formed to propagate seedless apples and conduct a general nursery business has been incorporated. Capital is $300,000.
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Albany
Spencer Seedless Apple Company
New England
New Jersey
Pug Billy Stitt Injured in Ogden Bout
Salt Lake City reports Billy Stitt of Chicago lost to George Gardner in Ogden and sustained a broken right wrist in the fourth round. He also bit off the end of his tongue and suffered severe pain during the bout.
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Salt Lake City
Billy Stitt
Chicago
George Gardner
Ogden
Stitt Dee
Feln
Irving Signs US Tour Contract With Frohman
London June 21. A contract between Charles Frohman and Sir Henry Irving is signed for a 14 week tour of Irving in the United States beginning in January.
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Irving
London
Charles Frohman
Sir Henry Irving
United States
Jucary
Japanese Prize Crew Beats Mutinous Russians Aboard Orel
Victoria June 21 Empress of China reports Japanese prize crew on captured Russian battleship Orel fought two days and nights to subdue a mutinous Russian force. Japanese sailors guarded by marines maintained control as lights failed after an anchor pin damaged the dynamo. At dawn Asahi Kasuga and Asama escorted, mutineers subdued. strong tensions described in reports from St. Petersburg and Tokyo amid armistice discussions and potential renewed battles in Manchuria.
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B. C
Japan
Asahi
Nakagawa
Asama
St. Petersburg
Rooseveltt
Fred Marshal Oyama
Linevitch
Vladivostock
Oyama
Russia
Roosevelt
Washington
Tokio
Japanese Victories Foreseeable as Forces Rally
Russian forces have been flanked on both wings while reports suggest Japanese successes are imminent. Japanese strength exceeds half a million in the field, with preliminary operations traced to May 30.
Boys Try Blackmail Over $10,000 in Columbus Duster Threat
A Columbus letter demands $10,000 or arson on Broad street near the railroad and Alum creek. Dr. Hartman and detectives Glenn and Hamer investigated, suspecting a juvenile prank or dime novel influence. Police consider the Newark case tied to the same writer.
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Omand
Columbus
Broad Street
B. Hartman
Glenn
Hamer
Dr. Hartman
August Wehrle
Newark
Governers and legislators meet over Equitable scandal
At a conference in Albany Governor Higgins with B B Odell Jr and other leaders agreed to keep the Equitable scandal out of the extra session. The session will focus on the trial of Judge Warren B Hooker while hints of possible future legislation depend on Hendricks report findings.
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Albany
N. Y
Higgins
B. B. Odell, Jr
Republican State Committee
S. Frey Nixon
Malloy
Raines
Warren B. Hooker
Supreme Court
Beating the High Mark
New York plans for a Metropolitan Life Insurance Company skyscraper to exceed all other edifices. The edifice would be about 70 feet square and around 560 feet tall, surpassing the Washington Monument at 545 feet in height.
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New York
Washington Monument
iNew York
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Buiding
Will Power Weakened In Hoyt Will Case
In Tiffin Ohio on June 21 a deposition from Dr. William Pok of New York testified Mrs Hoyt was embittered by childlessness and claimed her will power was fading and she used drugs to sleep. Miss Callie Mosier recalled visiting Mrs Hoyt in New York and witnessing the dog Bobbie seated at table with a napkin and fed distasteful food as part of Mrs Hoyt’s reasoning.
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Hoyt
Tiffin
William Pok
New York City
Mania from a Scratch: Columbus Man Sent to Hospital
Charles Williams of Columbus, Ohio, is admitted to the Columbus State Hospital after a small scratch allegedly triggered erysipelas leading to acute mania. He is described as suffering intense pain from the ailment and requiring treatment.
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Columbus
Chares Williams
Columbus State Hospital
Chauncey D. Hogg Found Dead in Cadiz Hotel
Chauncey D. Hogg an oil operator from Cadiz was found dead in his bed at the Imperial hotel in Steubenville. Heart disease is given as the cause. He was 28 and a son of State Senator Charles M. Hogg.
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Chauncey D. Hogg
Steubenville
Cad.z
Imperial Hotel
Charles M. Hogg
Railroad Men Subpoenaed in Beef Industry Probe
Chicago June 21 Federal grand jury probing beef packing industry to reopen questions on railroad rebates and icing charges. Eight traffic department officials from as many railroads were served subpoenas. first witnesses expected to testify include a traffic official from a named railroad.
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Chicago
Federal Grand Jury
Trafic
Tonter
Sensational Forgery Case Reveals Bank Losses in Philadelphia
A Philadelphia forgery case ties to the estate of Benjamin H. Gaskill. Certificates of small stock shares were fraudulently raised to large numbers, causing banks to absorb between 760000 and 1000000 dollars. Gaskill died recently and his accounts show large disparities between his books and company records.
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Benjamin H. Gaskill
Gaskil
Benjamin H. Gaskill & Co
Philadephia Traction Company
Steel Corporation
E. C. Miller & Co
Philadelphia Traction Company
EB. C. Miller & Co
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Philadelphia Traction
United Railways of New Jersey
Frankford and Southwark Street Railway Company
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Eyre
George M. Wagner
John G. Johnson
Democratic Politician Drops Dead at Convention Talk
S. P. Sheerino, former secretary of the Democratic National Committee, collapsed and died at the Auditorium during an address before delegates at the National Interstate Independent Telephone convention.
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Chicago
S. P. Sheerino
Democratic National Committee
National Interstate Independent Telephone Association
Floods Hit Central Ohio Farms and Oil Rigs
Continued rainfall drenches Central Ohio fields with widespread corn and wheat damage. In Spencerville fifty or more oil well rigs blown down, gas and barns wrecked by wind and lightning.
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Ohio
Columbus
Spencerville
Wanted to Die the Quickest Way
Nashville dispatch reports Simon Ford a negro who assaulted a white woman near Riverside was taken from jail at Hohenwald by a mob of 50 men and shot to death. He was driven 10 miles to the crime scene, wounded, and allegedly asked to be killed quickly, not pleading for life. Old Quarrel Fatal to Two Men in Bevier Missouri on June 21: John Plummer shot and instantly killed L Daie, mine foreman. Plummer was mortally wounded.
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Nashville
Simon Ford
Riverside
Hohenwaid
Tenn
Bevier
Jane
John Plummer
L. Daie
Plumimér
Vermont protest over hanging of Mrs Rogers cited by Clark kin
June 21 St Joseph Michigan Capu Lloyd Clark United States supply station brother of Admiral Clark requests Governor Bell to spare Mrs Rogers amid Vermont portrait debate. He cites family honor and urges mercy invoking portrait of Captain Clark for Capitol walls. Clark notes legislature earlier approved portrait.
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Rogers
St. Joseph
Mich
al Weys
Cuba's Hero Gomez Buried Amid Crowds and Disorder
Havana reports the interment of General Maximo Gomez after a funeral marked by demonstrations and brief clashes. A field gun caisson procession sparked rushes by youths, crowding at the cemetery gates, and mounted police charges that left bruised heads before order was restored and the burial completed at sunset.
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Maximo Gomez
Central Park
Order
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Gomez
Morton Accepts Resignations in Equitable Board
June 21. Paul Morton, chairman of the Equitable directors, announced the resignation of James W. Alexander as president and James Hazen Hyde as first vice president. He said he has not acted on the other resignation yet.
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Morton
New York
Paul Morton
Equitable Directors
James W. Alexander
James Hazen Hyde
Roosevelt heads to Worcester and Williams College
President Roosevelt departed last night at 9 for Massachusetts to attend Clark University commencement in Worcester and Williams College exercises in Williamstown.
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Roosevelt
Massachusetts
Clark University
Worcester
Iamsa College
Amstown
Chicago Grain Market Briefing on June 20 Amid Wet Conditions
Wet weather slowed soil but spurred active shorts and buying in Chicago wheat futures. France’s anticipated heavy wheat imports supported prices near day’s highs with July wheat at 39 ½ cents, corn at 54 46, oats at 31. Closing quotes reflect gains across grains along with mixed results in butter, cheese, and livestock markets in Pittsburgh reports.
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Shorts
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Jay
Pittsburg
New York
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