Lorimer Loses Friends in Senate Amid Push for Probe
Democratic Senators revealed Lorimer faces dwindling support from allies like Bailey as calls grow for a full reopening of the Lorimer investigation. La Follette assailed lumber boss Edward Hines over alleged campaign funding tied to Lorimer’s election.
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Senate of
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Democrats
New Democratic
Senate Committee On Privileges and Elections
Elevator Joy Ride Ends With Fines In St Louis Court
Frost and Volrath, telegraph operators, rode two passenger elevators in the Commercial Building at Sixth and Olive, pursued by night watchman Gage. After multiple up and down trips, a fuse blew and they were stopped. each fined 10 dollars.
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St. Paul
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Tracy
The Feminine Jury in a Hat Case Gaffe
The prisoner, a woman aged forty eight, faces a all female jury. She claims innocence while asserting her hat cost ninety eight cents. The jurors gasp at her age and verdict comes as insane, a striking result from a women’s jury in Baltimore Star report.
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Baltimore Star
Indians Take 10 Warpath Near Reno
A band of Shoshone Indians, armed and mounted, has gone on the warpath near Little Canyon about 150 miles from Reno. They reportedly have taken their first blood toll in retaliation for the February killings attributed to Red Mike and his eight marauders who murdered four stockmen.
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Little Canyon
Red Mike
Boston Boy Seventeen Charged in Black Hand Letter Case
Charlies Bachelder, seventeen, son of a Boston and Maine Railroad baggagemaster, arrested by Lynn Police for taking a pocketbook left by Aidren B. Sleeper in a Black Hand extortion plot. Charged with sending a demanding note threatening death to Sleeper's two sons if payment not made. case ties to a prominent Boston leather man.
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Mass
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Swampscott
Charlies Bachelder
Lynn
Boston and Maine
Sleeper
Confederate Soldier Gives Water to Wounded Federal Man
Rev J W Ltike of Gate City, a Confederate veteran from North Carolina, handed water from his cedar canteen to a wounded Union soldier after Chickamauga. The act, later recounted in Arthur Van Lisle's Under Both Flags, honors Southern chivalry and prompts hopes for Van Lisle's fate.
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Stike
Real Daughter of Revolution Dead
Mrs Elizabeth Floyd Bettimore of Norfolk died Wednesday night at age eighty three. She was a Daughters of the American Revolution member and a direct daughter of Revolutionary soldier Rev Matthews Floyd. Her granddaughter relation traces to Anne Custis, kin of General Robert E Lee.
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Elizabeth Floyd Bettimore
Thomas Bettimore
Fottimore
Daughters of the American Revolution
Matthews Floyd
Anne Custis
Robert E. Lee
Taft Household Romance Ends In Electrician Marriage
George W. Riley, an electrician at the Executive Mansion, has married Florence I. Marsh, a maid to Mrs Taft. The pair, long seen as companions to the President and Mrs Taft, confirmed their union in a surprising announcement.
Newport News Insurance Agents Brace Supreme Court Appeal
Newport News insurance agents indicted for conspiring to raise fire insurance rates plan a review in the Supreme Court of Appeals. The case grew from a city tax dispute with the council and a 6 percent premium levy, leading to arrests, fines, and protests by local businessmen.
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Newport News
Supreme Court of Appeals
Southeaastern Underwriters’ Association
Virginia Committee
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L. R. Warren
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E. H. Jones
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Corporation Court
City of
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Hot Springs
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Southeastern Underwriters’ Association
Corporation Court of Newport News
Richmond Office Audit Expands After $21000 Shortage
The Atlantic Coast Line Railway in Richmond launches a full books and accounts investigation of all bonded trust employees after cashier Louis Gregory vanished with over 21000. Ernest Poindexter of American Surety Company orders a broad audit to verify assets and sources, covering at least 25 bonded Richmond office staff while the shortage raises questions about payroll and temptations.
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Atlantic Coast Line Railway
Ernest Poindexter
American Surety Company
New York
Poindexter
Louis Gregory
Coast Line
Gregory
Grorory
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Police Seek Gregory in Bonding Shortage Case
Police continue efforts to locate missing cashier Gregory. A $200 reward from the bonding company is offered as investigators send letters and telegrams nationwide. The note on the river wharf lacks any suicide indication and authorities do not expect a body.
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Gregory
United States
Ex-President on Way to Venezuela
A man pursued for stealing a pair of shoes fled into the River des Peres near Broadway and drowned while attempting to cross. The body, about 47 years old and five feet eight inches, was recovered after a hunt of more than an hour by Joseph Hoffman.
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ST. Louis
River Des Peres
Louis Stoecker
Man recovers stolen shoes then pursues thief into river
Weighing 14 pounds with reddish complexion and sandy moustache Stoecker of 5419 Bischof Ave confronted a thief who stole his shoes after a nap near Broad Way. The man fled toward the river. Stoecker followed, jumped in after him, but the current forced him to retreat. Patrolman Speckman witnessed the chase and the thief’s plunge into the water. Both men report the suspect did not resurface.
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Stoecker
Bischof Avenue
City Street
Broadway
Gabriel Phillips
Water Street
Carondelet
World in Boston reflects distant missions and isolation
An account from a missionary describing remote life in which his wife did not see a White face for a year and a sympathetic young woman comments on the poor situation.
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