Haywood trial resumes as Orchard testifies on Wardner killings
Haywood case advances with witness Orchard revealing his Western Federation of Miners ties and involvement in the Wardner concentrator explosion of 1899. Orchard under protection, claims he helped fit fuses and was paid $200 for the Vindice blast, implicating Haywood.
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Boise
Idaho
Haywood
J. M. Brunzell
Nampa
Orchard
Jack Simpkins
A. Hinkey
Simpkins
Steunenberg
Hinkey
John C. Connors
Silver City
C. H. Wentz
Wardner
Harry Orchard
Rasbeamer
Hawley
Ontario
Alfred Hansley
Western Federation of Miners
Burke
Gem
Wallace and
Wood
Harwood
Deneen Vetoes Grand Jury Abolition Bill
Governor Deneen vetoed McGoorty’s bill abolishing the grand jury in some cases and making state attorney information the initiatory step in criminal prosecutions. He says the measure would be constitutional only if the grand jury were fully abolished, which it is not. The bill would require impaneling a grand jury at least once a year in every county, effectively halving its use. The governor also approved the Chicago charter bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Deneen
McGoorty
Chicago
Assails Chicago University Critics Probe Infidelity Claims
Rev Gustavus A Hoff man denounces John D Rockefeller backed Chicago University as a hotbed of infidelity and destructive higher Bible criticism in response to a Missouri Bible College petition suit for 4019 dollars.
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Missouri Divine
St. Louis
John D. Rockefeller
Chicago University
Ingersoll
Gustavus A., Hoffman
The
Bible College of Missouri
Hoffman
Romance of Groom of 72 and Bride of 49 in Iowa City
A secret wedding in Iowa City joins 72 year old George W. Brown and 49 year old Amy H. Ustick. They wed on Decoration Day and kept it secret until today. Brown, a pioneer contractor, has lived in town fifty years and recently celebrated his birthday as Ustick cooked a large dinner from vegetables Brown grows.
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Iowa City
George W. Brown
Amy H. Ustick
Brown
Wag
WAKINS LEFT AS Illinois Bans Manufactured Cigarettes
Chicago dated June 5 report that Governor Deneen signed a Berry bill adding a joker to outlaw cigarettes. The law makes it a misdemeanor to sell or manufacture cigarettes with any health-deleterious substance, including tobacco, and fines under 17 for public smoking. Tobacco interests vow legal challenge to test validity.
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Chicago
Lil
Tovanto Cambilie
Lucy Page Gaston
Anti-Cigarette League
Illinois
Berry
Deneen
Lee O'Neill Brown
la Salle County
Next Friends Faces Accounting Fight Over Mrs Eddy’s Property
In Concord New Hampshire June 5 Judge Chamberlain denied three trustees petition to substitute as plaintiffs in the suit for an accounting of Mrs Mary Baker Eddy’s property. The trustees are Henry M Baker Josiah E Fernald Archibald McLellan The next friends include George W Glover Mary Baker Glover J Foster Eddy and George Baker The suit alleges control of Mrs Eddy’s progeny by Galvin A Frye and other Christian Science leaders The action also notes questions about Mrs Eddy’s physical and mental condition.
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Concord
N. H
Mary Baker Eddy
Next Friends
Mrs. Eddy
Chamberlain
Merrimack
Many Free Masons in Iowa Reported in State
Clinton June 5 There are 37 38 Masons in Iowa an increase of 1192 in the last year Grand Master Cleveland delivered the annual address to the grand lodge convened here The sixty fourth annual convention drew over 700 Masons in attendance He also noted the death of 501 Masons during the past year Election of grand lodge officers was to be held today.
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Clinton
Iowa
Cleveland
Grand Lodge of
Grand Lodge
Presidential Candidate Andrew Hisey Is Jailed in Iowa City
Andrew Townsend Hisey, a presidential hopeful, was arrested in Iowa City on Tuesday afternoon after addressing University of Iowa students from the old capitol steps. He was placed in the city hall jail and released at night after crowds dispersed. Police repeated last year’s action by detaining the speaker.
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Iowa City
Andrew Townsend Hisey
United States
Iowa
Andrew T
University of Iowa
Old Capitol
Hisey
City Hall
Body of Minneapolis Woman Found in Abandoned Well
Detectives recover the body of Mrs. Catharine McCain from an abandoned well on George Katelbach’s farm near Minneapolis. Her head was crushed. Katelbach, brother-in-law of the dead woman, fled and is chased by a posse after barricading himself inside the home.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Catharine McCain
George Katelbach
Katelbach
Union label requirement extends to all women’s wear
Logansport Indiana June 5 Delegates at the International Woman's Union Label League case in session here announce a decree that all lingerie and hosiery must bear the union label. The ultimatum applies to every article worn by women from stockings to hair combs, signaling strict labor labor standard.
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Logansport
Ind
International Woman’s Union Label League
League
Molten freight train crash kills two in Birmingham
An electric car crashed into a train carrying fifteen tons of molten metal at North Birmingham early today. The collision overturned the hot pots on the car, fatally burning two men and seriously injuring another.
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Birmingham
Ala
North Birmingham
Train Wreck Near Lebanon Wounds Fifty Seven
A Southern railway passenger train wrecked three miles beyond Lebanon Tennessee. No deaths reported. sixteen injured, six seriously. A later Lebanon report says sixty aboard, all but three injured, victims being brought to Nashville.
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Nashville
Jume
Southern Railway
Lebanon
Tenn
Yachts Start on Race From New York to Bermuda
Twelve yachts began the six hundred mile ocean race from New York to Bermuda for two cups. The first division of nine vessels 50 to 99 feet led out at 10 o clock, followed by the second squad under fifty feet at 10 30. Starters included Priscilla Dervish Zurah Shamrock Tammany Mist Isolt Flamingo and Zeina Vaalg Piperson Lila and Zeina.
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New York
Bermuda
Lepeth
Priscilla
Dervish
Zurah
Shamrock
Tammany and Mist
Isolt
Public utilities bill passes both houses in Albany
The New York Senate concurred with the Assembly to override Mayor McClellan's veto and pass the public utilities bill. The move unites the two chambers in a show of support for the measure amid ongoing city tensions.
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New York Senate
Assembly
McClellan
Albany
N. Y
Senate
New York City
Aged Veteran Outruns Mounted Officer in Lexington Race
In Lexington Kentucky on June 5 Frank Tatman a 65 year old ex Confederate soldier sought mercy to avoid a workhouse sentence. He agreed to race a mounted policeman and won by about three feet after racing three blocks. He was released immediately.
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Lexington
Frank Tatman
Tatman
Richmond
Riley
Frisco Trembles as Earthquakes Ripple Across Cities
San Francisco felt a ten second earthquake shock at 12 27 this morning causing considerable apprehension but no damage. Pau France reported a slight tremor in the Pyrenees today with no damage.
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Pacific
France
San Francisco
Cal
Pau
Schmitz Trial Opens in Extortion Case
San Francisco jury hears opening from Assistant District Attorney Hewes in the Schmitz extortion case. Prosecutors will present testimony alleging Mayor James Schmitz extorted 3175 from Delmonico's restaurant owners.
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San Francisco
Cal
Schmitz
Tstrict
Hewes
Charee
Uslfants
Delmouno
Muscatine Woman Passes the Century Milestone
Two Iowa women students at Northwestern University face expulsion from geology classes for cheating on a recent test. An appeal by a student committee led by Horace B. Smith urged refrain from dishonesty during upcoming finals. The students named are Lilian P. Hackley of Newton and Harriette B. Gilson of Knoxville.
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Chicago
Northwestern University
Iowa
Horace B. Smith
Y. Mw. Cc. A
Lilian P. Hackley
Newton
Harriette B. Gilson
Knoxville
Wreck Fire Kills Three and Injures Dozens At Reddick
A freight derailment on the Chicago Indiana and South West line at Reddick triggers a blast after a dynamite car ignites a fire. Fred Heppling is killed, two trespassers die, and several bystanders are wounded as debris scatters across the fields. Towermen are hurled from a switch tower, while nearby residents flock to the scene.
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Reddick
Chicago, Indiana
Sxutiert
Wabash and
Fred Heppling
Joe Johnson
Jake Weimer
Earl Nelson
Harry Guest
John Smith
Henry Kelly
John Follen
Furniture dealers indicted across four states in Sherman act case
In Portland Oregon today 18 furniture dealers including manufacturers and jobbers from Oregon Washington Idaho and California were indicted in federal court for alleged Sherman antitrust violations. A large number of those named are retailers.
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Portland
Ore
United States District Court
Prr
Ainmst
Oregon
Washington
Idaho
California
Coin for booze starts a fight in Eagle Grove
Webster City special reports a drunken brawl in Eagle Grove ending with Irwin Wren of Webster City stabbing Geo Wendall five times. Wendall sustains a dangerous abdominal wound likely to prove fatal. The altercation arose from a dispute over a coin given for Day Whiskey.
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Webster City
Eagle Grove
Irwin Wren
Geo. Wendall
Wren
Wendall
Mary Hanlin At Century Mark At 1017 East Ninth
Mary Hanlin of 1017 East Ninth Street nears her hundredth birthday in a life spanning a second war with England and decades of memory. Born June 7, 1807 in Washington County Pennsylvania, she remains beloved by family and friends as she reflects on joys, sorrows, and a long, contented old age.
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Mary Hanlin
East Ninth Street
George and
Rachel Henderson
Washington County
Pennsylvania
Long life remembered by Mrs Hanlin turning hundred
Aged resident Mrs. Hanlin nears her hundredth birthday with memories of childhood in Washington county during the war era and later life with husband John Hanlin. The couple moved to Iowa in 1852, lived in Lee and Davis counties, settled in Muscatine, and she now lives with daughter Mrs. Elizabeth Porter as friends prepare to fete her milestone.
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Hanlins
Iowa
Lee County
Hanlin
Davis County
Muscatine
Iowa Weather Forecast Nudges Warmth Across State
Chicago reports show Illinois tonight and Thursday rising temperatures. Iowa forecast calls for fair skies with warmer conditions in the western portion Thursday. Increasing cloudiness with possible showers in western areas.
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Chicago
Ilinois
Iowa—Fair
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Posse
Woman's League
Tion
Logans
Port, Ind
North Birm
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Metal
Frisco
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Western
RIBLE
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