Senator Allison Home From Washington Faces Primary Hopes
Dubuque Iowa June 1 Senator Allison returned from Washington welcomed by neighbors and declared he would not discuss Tuesday's primary. He expects a solid Dubuque vote tomorrow and vows to let friends guide his campaign. In transit via Chicago he praised the currency bill as elastic but noted higher notes may burden bankers. He called the filibuster futile and predicted tariff revision will be the overriding issue in the coming presidential contest between Democrats and Republicans.
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Dubuque
Allison
Washington
Chicago, Illl
Iowa
Auditorium Annex
Sixtieth Congress
Fairbanks
Currency Commission
Congress
LaFollette
Nelson
Alex Miller
United States
Gore
Stone
Senate
Aldrich
Foraker
Cleveland Is Almost Well Returns Home
Former President Grover Cleveland, two months ill with rheumatic gout and acute indigestion at Lakewood hotel, returns to his Princeton home Sunday evening. He travels in John Hays Hammond's touring car with Mrs. Cleveland and Dr. G Rowe Rockwood and appears in good health.
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Princeton
N. J
Grover Cleveland
Lakewood
John Hays Hammond
Cleveland
Weather Outlook For Illinois Tonight And Tuesday
A few showers likely tonight and Tuesday with warmer temperatures tonight. Illinois will see generally fair conditions aside from possible showers in the south tonight or Tuesday. Sunrise is 4 16, sunset 7 20, moonset 9 52 p m.
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Illinois
Smuth Rule A Failure Sparks Indicted Confession
La Porte Indiana June 1 Sheriff Smutzer returns from Vernon Texas after investigating a man named Truelson who claimed involvement with Mrs Gunness in several murders. The sheriff reports Truelson made a full confession and then repudiated it admitting it was to aid his escape from Texas where he faces forgery charges.
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la Porte
Ind
Smutzer
Vernon
Texas
Truelson
Smith
Gunness
Copper business booms again says Amalgamated report
Amalgamated Copper company reports net income of 686000 for year ending April 30 with a 525000 surplus, total surplus 12008823. After a low mood last fall and winter, surplus copper stock has disappeared and mines are now operated at full capacity. James Stillman retires from the board as National City Bank president.
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New York
N. Y
Amalgamated Copper Company
James Stillman
National City Bank
Copper Company
Sunday Splinters Pulpit In Burst Of Gospel Fire
The Rev. Billy Sunday, former professional baseball player, concluded revival meetings at the Tabernacle in Sharon Pennsylvania. In a fervent finish he pounded the pulpit into splinters with his fist and snapped a wood sliver from the desk to underscore his remarks before a large crowd.
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Sharon
Billy Sunday
the Tabernacle
Catr
Railroads Seek Injunction Over Coal Car Distribution Order
Illinois Central and Alton railroads filed federal court petitions asking for writs of injunction to stop the Interstate Commerce Commission from enforcing a new coal car distribution order. The action was filed in Chicago, Illinois, on June 1.
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Chicago, Ill
Illinois Central and Alton
Federal
Interstate Commerce Commission
Oil Magnate Must Face Trial in Texas Extradition
The U S Supreme Court upheld Missouri extradition of H Clay Pierce to Texas on perjury charges alleging his Waters-Pierce Co did enter a restraint of trade conspiracy. The decision ties Pierce to Standard Oil ties and notes the term ends with no further actions until October 12. Bench warrants issued for Theodore T Pierce E S Holmes Jr Moses Haas and Frederick A Peckham over government cotton report leaks.
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Washington, D. C
Supreme Court of the United States
Circuit Court of
Eastern District of Missouri
H. Clay Pierce
Texas
Waters-Pierce Company
Standard Oil Co
Theodore Ti. Pierce
New York
E. S. Holmes, Jr
Department of Agriculture
Moses Haas
Frederick A. Peckham
Conference Renames Presiding Elder to District Superintendent
Baltimore May 1 The general conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church adopts a resolution changing the title Presiding Elder to District Superintendent. Bishop Henry W Warren consecrates Rev Dr William F Anderson of New York as bishop at the Lyric theater in a simple ceremony attended by delegates and friends.
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Baltimore
General Conference
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Henry W. Warren
William F. Anderson
New York
Warren
Anderson
Bashford
Shanghai
China
Nalley
National Synod Backs Prohibition as Liquor Cure
Cincinnati Ohio June 1 The national synod of the Reformed Presbyterian church adopted resolutions declaring national prohibitions as the only ultimate solution to the liquor problem. The measure calls for stricter Sabbath observance and condemns Sunday railroad trains baseball theatres and other amusements.
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Cincinnati
National Synod of the
Reformed Presbyterian Church
Bryan lights on currency law in Nebraska tour
W J Bryan opened the Nebraska tour in Chadron addressing an early crowd at the station. He noted five speeches planned for the day and voiced opposition to the Aldrich-Vreeland bill in the U S Senate calling it an emergency measure pushed to change the basis of bank notes. He praised Democrats who opposed it and regretted their failure to defeat it.
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Chadron
Neb
W. J. Bryan
Nebraska
United States Senate
Five Die in Washington Iowa from Sudden Mortality
Five well known residents of Washington Iowa died today. The deceased are Peter Leeburg James Quinn Flora McAltin Mrs H J Williams and Mrs Shellabarger. Confirmation of causes was not given in the notice.
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Washington
Iowa
Peter Leeburg
Jas. Quinn
Flora McAltin
H. J. Williams
Frescoer Falls Fifty-Five Feet From Church Dome
Godfrey Gentz, fresco painter at St. Marys church in Iowa City, plunged fifty five feet when a scaffold collapsed. He is unconscious at the hospital and expected to die.
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Iowa City
Godfrey Gentz
St. Mary’s Church
Auto Tragedies Report Fatalities In Separate Crashes
Reports from New York and Lowell describe two auto accidents. In New York a speeding car on Ocean Park Way overturned killing William Gonbeard and Thomas Nolan with Victor P. Brandes and James McKenna seriously hurt. In Lowell Barney Oldfield's crash hospitalizes his wife who is dying with others injured after a Buick strikes another car and hits a tree.
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New York
N. Y
Coney Island
Ocean Parkway
William Gonbeard
Thomas Nolan
Brooklyn
Victor P. Brandes
James McKenna
Lowell
Mass
Barney Oldfield
Lowell General Hospital
Joe O’brien
Boston
Oldfield
Wife 15 Accuser Gant Testify in Dowagiac Case
In Dowagiac Michigan James Brimmingstall is freed after lawyers prove he and his wife were legally married. The case involving the death of David Huff is dropped as the wife cannot testify against her husband. Brimmingstall had been arrested on allegations by his wife that he strangled Huff.
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Dowaglac
Mich
James Brimmingstall
David Huff
Cons
Brimmingstall
Aged Woman Drowns Self in Shell Rock River Victim Identified
Mason City Iowa June 1 Mrs Harmon a widow aged about 58 suicided this morning in the Shell Rock river at Northwood. The body was found by the deputy sheriff after she had threatened to take her life.
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Mason City
Harmon
Northwood
Shell Rock River
Kingston 250th Anniversary Parade Starts by Roosevelt Button
President Roosevelt pressed the electric signal in Washington at 11 am to start Kingston New York's 250th founding anniversary parade. The ceremony marked a milestone for Kingston celebrated with a city-wide observance.
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Washington, D. C
Roosevelt
Kingston
N. Y
Annual Convention of American Medical Association Opens in Chicago
The annual convention of the American Medical Association opened in Chicago with about 3,090 delegates attending. The first session focused on business and legislative work.
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American Medical Association
Chicago
Ill
Sixtieth Congress Ends Fight Over Currency Measure
The Sixtieth Congress ends with passage of a currency bill amid a Democratic filibuster by La Follette. Other measures also clear Congress, marking a broad legislative success despite the obstructive effort.
End of the sixtieth Congress and the Aldrich Vreeland bill
The sixtieth Congress closed after a Senate vote to adopt the Aldrich Vreeland emergency currency bill. President Roosevelt visited the Capitol to sign the currency measure as well as other public building and deficiency appropriation bills.
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Senate
Associated Press
Capitol
Congress
Cortelyou
Root
Garfield
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William J. Bryan
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