Taft-Hughes Delegates Fight Shapes Taft Victory
Taft allies gain ground in the Republican contest as Taft delegates win seating in North Carolina and Ohio contests. With Texas not yet decided, Taft’s total rises toward the 491 needed for the nomination while 380 delegates attend the convention.
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Louisiana
Taft
Mississippi
Missouri
Republican National Committee
Texas
National Committee
Alaska
Princeton Commencement Honors Baron Takahira With Laws Degree
Princeton New Jersey June 10 161st annual exercises conferred the degree of doctor of laws on Baron Takahira the Japanese ambassador to the United States before a large audience of visitors at the university commencement ceremony.
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Princeton
N. J
Princeton University
Baron Takahira
United States
Irvine in Sanf Harrisburg Case Hospitalized
Frank Irvine once traveling adviser and defendant in the capitol conspiracy trial at Harrisburg has been removed to the State Hospital for the Insane at Norristown after breaking down mentally during the trial’s third week.
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Harrisburg
Frank Irvine
Capitol
State Hospital For the
Norristown
Irvine
Joe Center Weds Miss Williams in Washington
The June wedding of Miss Juliette Williams daughter of Col and Mrs John R Williams to Joseph Leiter son of the late Levi Z Leiter occurred at noon at the bride’s home in Washington. Rev Father Buckley presided and about twenty attended the ceremony followed by a wedding breakfast for roughly 200 guests including Representative and Mrs Nicholas Longworth.
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Washington, D. C
Juliette Williams
John R. Williams
Washington
Joseph Leiter
Levi Z. Leiter
Chicago
Father Buckley
St. Matthews Roman Catholic Church
Nicholas Longworth
Senate probes telegraph firms under Senate resolution
Secretary Straus names Charles P. Neill and Herbert Knox to lead a thorough investigation into telegraph companies. The inquiry will study receipts expenditures wages employee conditions hours of labor and related matters with a report due to the Senate in December.
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Washington, D. C
Senate
Straus
Charles P. Neill
Herbert Knox
Suspected Gunness Victim Linked to Indiana Case
Eau Claire Wisconsin June 10 Chris ten Hilkven once of Dover near Chetek vanished in 1906 after selling a farm for 2000 dollars and is now linked to Mrs Gunness of La Porte Indiana. Decorah Iowa Post editor says Hilkven’s paper was changed to La Porte and La Porte postmaster reports his mail delivered to Mrs Gunness.
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Eau Claire
Wis
Christen Hilkven
Dover
Chetek
Gunness
la Porte
Indiana
Decorah
Iowa
Hilkven
Accuses Son in Divorce Suit in Pawtucket
Warren Fales, a millionaire member of the cotton machinery firm Fales & Janks, begins divorce proceedings from his second wife Katherine Harris once of the Edna May opera company. He names his son as co respondent and also implicates Kaffenbaugh, Abe Hummel’s nephew and opera singer Stiles.
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Pawtucket
R. I
Warren Fales
Fales & Janks
Katherine Harris
Edna May Opera Company
Kaffenbaugh
Abe Hummel
New York
Stiles
Baby found dead in Burlington box car at Fairfield yards
The partly burned body of a newborn was discovered in a Burlington box car in Fairfield Iowa yards this morning. No clues were found.
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Fairfield
Burlington
Railroader 19 Released on Murder Charge
Marshalltown Iowa June 10 Frank Benson an Iowa Central engineer was released from the murder charge today He was accused of stabbing Byron Boody a brakeman on April 4 last The state was unable to show any motive for the crime.
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Marshalltown
Frank Benson
Iowa Central
Byron Boody
Mother and gambler dead in Sioux City double tragedy
Margaret Sargent forced entry to her home in Sioux City Iowa and found her mother and a gambler named Joe Ford killed by bullets. A revolver lay in Ford's hand and a note read I was driven to do this may God forgive me. Jealousy is suspected as the motive.
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Sioux City
Ila
Margaret Sargent
Joe Ford
Ford
Wu Ting Fang Delivers Illinois Commencement Address
Champaign June 10 Wu Ting Fang Chinese Minister to the United States delivered the University of Illinois commencement address today.
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Champaign
Ill
University of Illinois
Wu Ting Fang
United States
Brewers Association backs temperance push in Milwaukee meet
The United States Brewers Association adopted resolutions favoring temperate beer use and support for laws regulating drink traffic. It urged individual tradesmen and public sentiment to curb abuses, deny ties to disorderly saloons, and cooperate to eliminate low quality outlets.
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Milwaukee
Wis
United States Brewers’ Association
Floods of U3 Rival Inks Recede at Topeka
Awful flood conditions from five years ago show signs of repeating as waters recede at Topeka while Kansas City anticipates crest today.
G A R Convention Opens With Large Cedar Rapids Attendance
Des Moines enters race for next encampment as Cedar Rapids hosts the G A R encampment with about 1500 attendees and a program featuring Commander in Chief C G Burton and D J Palmer. Des Moines Commercial Club appoints delegates to press for next venue while Perry and Ft. Dodge vie as other contestants.
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C. G. Burton
D. J. Palmer
Grand Army Camp
City Auditorium
Col
Alonzo Abernethy
E. J. Lockwood
W. P. Hepburn
Des Moines
Floods Reach West Bank Areas and Submerge Crops
Bulletin from New Orleans reports the Rea river broke through a levee near West Dale submerging 25 000 acres of crops and drowning stock. Kansas City warns of flood waters from the Kaw river nearing the union station and threatening lower stock yards with rising basements. crest seen and rivers expected to fall within 24 hours as conditions improve west of the district.
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New Orleans
West Dale
Shreveport
Kansas City
Kaw
Union Railway
West Bottoms
Missouri
St. Louis
Mississippi
Omaha
Lawrence
Topeka
Gambling fund to avert Louisiana racing ban
Investigations launched in Baton Rouge on June 10 into sensational claims that a fifty thousand dollar fund would be used to protect race track gambling from new state legislation by the general assembly.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
General Assembly
Two Anti-Bet Bills Pass In Albany And Baton Rouge
The New York assembly passed both anti-race track gambling bills and expected action in the senate tomorrow. In Louisiana, Baton Rouge, the lower house of the general assembly approved the anti racing bill on June 10.
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Albany
N. Y
Assembly
Senate
Louisiana
Baton Rouge
General Assembly
Belmont Dies of Peritonitis After Appendectomy
New York June 10 O H P Belmont died of peritonitis following an appendicitis operation this morning. Belmont was a leading New York capitalist and partner in August Belmont and Company. He served in Congress representing the thirteenth district from 1901 to 1903.
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New York
N. Y
O. H. P. Belmont
Belmont
August Belmont
Italian Home Robbery Kidnaps Two Children
Hornell New York June 10. The home of Antonio Gemiarrette a well to do Italian was entered last night and his two children a boy eight years old and a girl sixteen months old together with eighty dollars in cash silverware and other valuables are missing. It is feared the children will be held for ransom.
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Hornell
New York
N. Y
Antonio Gemiarrette
Weather Outlook for Iowa and Illinois Shows Mixed Skies
Partly cloudy to very showery in southwest Iowa and southern Illinois tonight with cooler air in the extreme south, warmer in the north tomorrow. Northern areas generally fair with south being unsettled, sunrise at 4 13 and sunset at 7 24.
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Iowa
Illinois
Runaway marriage of Governor's daughter shocks Utah
Miss Mabel Blanche Cutler daughter of Governor Cutler married Thomas Butler in Ogden while the governor remained unaware 40 miles away in Salt Lake City. The clandestine ceremony followed opposition to the match and social prominence of the bride.
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Salt Lake City
Mabel Blanche Cutler
Cutler
Thomas Butler
Ogdyen
Butler
Salt Lake
Cincinnati
Frank Beckman
Corroboration in Hitchcock Case Supports Actor
In New York on June 10 witnesses for the defense corroborated Hitchcock’s account in the Raymond Hitchcock case. Testimony today supported his denial of the allegations by the girls that he attempted to wrong them, aligning with his statements from yesterday on the stand.
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New York
Raymond Hitchcock
Hitchcock
King Edward and Emperor Nicholas Toasts in Reval Meeting
The June 10 dispatch reports the published text of toasts by King Edward and Emperor Nicholas. They expressed hope the meeting would bring closer ties and world peace, with a planned Russian visit to England. The King named Nicholas an admiral of the British fleet.
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Reval
Edward
Nicholas
Russia
England
Archbishop Nikon of Georgia Assassinated on Synodal Steps
In Tiflis on June 10 Archbiship Nikon Exarch of Georgia was assassinated this morning on the steps of the synodal building. Reported assailants are revolutionists.
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Tiflis
Archibishop Nikon Exarch
Georgia
Resolutions Honoring General Stephen D Lee Adopted
Birmingham June 10 United Confederate Veterans met with a floral parade and memorial services honoring General Stephen D Lee. General Clem ent Evans delivered the principal address stressing Southern patriotism and the union of civic virtue with regional identity.
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Birmingham
Ala
United Confederate Veterans
Stephen D. Lee
Clementi A. Evans
Historical Committee of Confederate Veterans
General Assembly
South
United States
Union
Narrow Escape for Battleship Irresistible at Portland Harbor
The battleship Irresistible narrowly avoided sinking in Portland harbor during a test of Kingston flooding valves that failed to close. The ship listed heavily, tugs aided, divers and pumps worked under Admiral Beresford, and collision mats stopped the leak. The vessel remains heavily listed but not sinking.
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London
Irresistible
Portland
Kingston
Beresford
Mats
Fires leave New Orleans hundreds homeless
New Orleans on June 10 reports over five hundred people homeless after two fires destroyed stores and residences across several blocks in different areas. One death is recorded and property losses exceed two hundred thousand dollars.
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New Orleans
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