Charleton Arrested After Confession In Lake Como Murder
Porter Charleton arrives on a German liner in Hoboken and is arrested after admitting in a signed statement that he killed his wife during a violent quarrel at their villa on Lake Como, striking her with a wooden mallet and hiding her body in a trunk disposed of in the lake. Captain Scott, a brother of the victim, identifies him.
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New York
N. Y
Porter Charleton
Lake Como
Stalk
Hoboken
Charles W. Coleman
Charleton
Captain Scott
Chrleton
Banker Indicted in Fraud Case Worth Over Half a Million
The federal grand jury reported at noon and is understood to have indicted P. M. Joyce, former Lake Mills banker, for issuing fraudulent papers totaling more than $500,000. A warrant was sent to St. Paul and Joyce will be brought here for arraignment.
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By Town Evening Press
Fort Dodge
Federal Grand Jury
P. M. Joyce
Lake Mills
St. Paul
Joyce
Roosevelt Quietly Asks Hughes for Sagamore Hill Meeting
President Roosevelt invites Governor Hughes to a Sagamore Hill conference. Gifford Pinchot will dine with Roosevelt at Sagamore Hill today. Roosevelt declined to detail discussion topics and stayed active in Oyster Bay engagements and city travel.
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Hughes
Oyster Bay
New York
Theodore Roosevelt
Sagamore Hill
Roosevelt
Gifford Pinchot
Robert Collier
William T. Hornaday
Bronz ‘Zoo
Colonel Roosevelt
Campfire Club
Bold Robber Triggers Bomb At German City Hall
In Friedberg Hesse a bank bandit exploded a bomb near the city hall injuring none of the officials inside. The robber then shot the bank manager, stole cash and fled on a bicycle pursued by a crowd. He died by suicide after a last volley. One boy was killed and two other bystanders were wounded.
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Friedberg
Hesse
Imperial Bank
Senate Committee Reports Causes of High Living Cost
The majority report from the senate committee on the increased cost of living lists causes such as higher farm production costs, greater demand for farm goods, urban population shift, crop holdings by farmers, cold storage, industrial combinations, producer and dealer organizations, and a higher standard of living. Brown discusses living cost in St. Paul, arguing monetary gold supply and labor pay rise with costs, and suggests redirecting battleship funds to agriculture.
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Washington, D. C
Senate Committee On
Brown
St. Paul
Minn
President Brown
New York Central Railway
Minnesota Bankers’ Association
Insurgents occupy San Vicente near Acoyapa in Nicara gua
General Mena with 1500 men seized San Vicente near Acoyapa as dispatches to Estrada provisional government representatives in Washington, D. C. reported today. The development came as insurgent forces extended their control following yesterday's action.
Iowa Bar Association Opens Sixteenth Annual Session
Des Moines June 23. The sixteenth annual Iowa State Bar association session opened with Judge Cole delivering the welcome. County Attorneys elect W C Edson president and C A Dewey vice president with C C Ratcliffe as secretary-treasurer. Resolutions urge Cosson law amendment to aid officers, including filing charges by 25 electors and ten days for show cause, and removing sheriff references from the law.
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Des Moines
Iowa State Bar Association
Co. C. Cole
John M. Read
Cosson
Two Hanged on Same Gallows in Norristown
Norristown Pennsylvania June 23 Nick Maringe and Frank Chicarine were hanged today for the August 1909 murder of George A. Johnson. Robbery motive cited in the killings.
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Norristown
Nick Maringe
Frank Chicarine
George A. Johnson
Taft Pleased By Congress Work As Postal Bills Pass
Cincinnati June 23 President Taft praises Congress for enacted legislation. House passes postal savings bank and public building measures amid Senate amendments and opposition. Debates over over time claims, campaign publicity, reclamation bonds, and irrigation funding shape the session.
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Cincinnati
Times- Star
Taft
Congress
Washington
D. C
House
Senate
Postal Savings Bank
Carter
Bristow
Hughes
Simmons
Cummins
la Follette
Chamberlain
Freight Handlers Strike Paralyzes Dubuque Freight
In Dubuque Iowa on June 23 the freight handlers and related workers walkout halted city freight. Milwaukees and Illinois Central men refused to work, Great Western freight also stalled, and consignments to other cities were refused. Non union labor refusal averted wider trouble though the standstill persists with no quick relief.
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Dubuque
Milwaukees
Illinois Central
Great Western
Heatwave to Persist Across Western States for 48 Hours
High temperatures continue for two days with a hot spell over the western half of the nation. A distant rain area over the Rocky Mountain region brings unsettled conditions to the northwestern states.
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Washington, D. C
Rocky Mountain
Millers Meet Wheat Topic At Minneapolis Session
The National Association of Millers gathered in Minneapolis on June 23 to discuss wheat. J J Hill prepared a paper read by Charles B Jenkins due to Hill’s absence. Prof G I Christie of Purdue and Prof A F Woods of the Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station also spoke.
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Minneapolis
Minn
National Association of Millers
J. J. Hill
Bourgq of Directors
Great Northern Railroad
Hill
Charles B. Jenkins
Noblesville
Ind
G. I. Christie
Purdue University
A. F. Woods
Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station
St. Paul
Auto turns over injuring five near Nashua
A car returning to Nashua from Waterloo overturned at about fifty miles an hour, trapping G. W. Horton, his two daughters Emma and Mattie, Miss Eva Hansen, and the driver. Horton and the two daughters suffered broken arms and Horton was gravely injured. Hansen and the driver had only minor injuries.
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Iowa Evening Press
Nashua
Waterloo
G. W. Horton
Emma
Mattie
Eva’ *Hansen
Urges Iowans to Observe Sane Fourth Fireworks Alert
Secretary G H Sumner of the state board of health issued a bulletin to city health boards and physicians urging a sane Fourth and asking doctors to be ready to treat injured children and prevent lockjaw. In Boone a fire gutted the Economy department store causing about 12000 dollars loss. fireworks and baby cabs in a display window exploded after a cab struck a dynamite cap. No injuries were reported.
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Iowa Evening Press
Des Moines
G. H. Sumner
State Board of Health
City Boards of Health
Physicians Generaly
Boone
Economy Department
Census Figures Released Report Population Rise
Census figures released today show the District of Columbia at 331,069 residents, up 52,351 in ten years. Adams County Illinois totals 44,588 people based on the new census data.
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Washington, D. C
District of Columbia
Adams County
Illinois
Inheritance Lands Him Behind Bars
Des Moines Iowa June 23 Under guard of two other soldiers John Davidson a trooper was today sent to Fort Leavenworth to serve eighteen months for desertion Davidson fell heir to 7000 last winter and money wine and women got the best of him He could probably have escaped had he not lingered so long with a Des Moines woman and was caught.
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Iowa Evening Press
Des Moines
John Davidson
Fort Leavenworth
Davidson
Dawes Opposes Central Bank Despite Economic Benefits
Former Comptroller of the Currency Dawes told the Illinois Bankers association in Decatur on June 23 that a central bank could not fit with the current independent bank system yet acknowledged European gains from such a system. He warned that legislative or demagogic attacks on a central bank with large deposits could destabilize the entire banking network.
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Decatur, Ill
Dawes
Ilinois Bankers’ Association
Browne Bribery Trial Ends Day With Defense Denial
In Chicago and Springfield reports, defense attorney Forrest claims Browne did not bribe White and urged jurors to reject White’s testimony. Records show grand jury testimony by Dr Schwaer about payments to Traut, while Traut disputes source of funds. Judge McSurely’s courtroom overflowed with spectators as closing arguments proceed. jury deliberation expected tomorrow.
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Chicago, All
Browne
Forrest
White
Traut
Springfield
Ill
T. J. Schwaer
Frank Traut
Chas. A. White
P. H. McDonnell
Lee O’neil Browne
Ottawa
Legislative
Lorimer
Indictment of Beef Trust Faulty Says Judge
Judge Landis sustained demurrers of the beef trust to the indictment charging restraint of trade. A new grand jury was ordered to renew the investigation of the packing companies. The quashing rested on the indictment failing to show any offense within the last three years.
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Chicago
Ill
Landis
United States District Court Today
Beef Trust
Religious Strife in Spain Rises Over School Policy
In Madrid June 23 Catholics in Spain warn that a clash with Vatican policy may force a crisis before any school system changes pass. The Catholic Defense Society cites a civil war risk rather than accepting a laic school system as terms of a throne speech outline. Clerical agitation grows in Barcelona Seville and Madrid as a campaign against the ministry begins.
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Throne
Madrid
Spain
Vatican
Catholic Defense Society
Barcelona
Seville
Bleached flour case admission shifts flour bleaching issue
In Kansas City on June 23 Pierce Butler government attorney pressed T. J. Holdredge of Kingman Kansas to admit that bleaching flour made from yellow-berry wheat altered appearance. The admission centers on whether the practice misled buyers in the bleached flour case.
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Kansas City
Pierce Butler
T. J. Holdredge
Kingman
Kan
Mrs Lavender Sues Pastor for Fifty Thousand in Slander Case
Mrs Mary Lavender of Chicago sues Rev E V Crawford pastor of Woodlawn Methodist church for 50000 dollars alleging slanderous statements tying her name to Rev John D Leck. She testified denying claims she confessed immoral conduct and saying her husband did not love her. Crawford had described them in lovers positions at a Rock River conference.
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Mary Lavender
Chicago
Woodlawn Park Church
Ill
E. V. Crawford
Woodlawn Methodist Church
Mary A. Lavender
John D. Leck
Rev. Crawford
Crawford
Rev. Leck
Rock River
Des Plaines Camp Meeting
Roosevelt Jr and Bride Found in Chicago
Theodore Roosevelt Jr and his bride arrived incognito in Chicago from New York en route to San Francisco where he will join a carpet company. After a three hour bid for privacy he agreed to a brief interview with Chicago reporters. He will remain a private citizen upon reaching San Francisco.
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Chicago
Ill
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
New York
San Francisco
Flour Quality Debate Over Bleached Versus Turkey Wheat
Under cross-examination Hol dredge claimed flour from wheat with a yellow berry is inferior to turkey wheat flour and that bleaching hides this inferiority. Bakers Adolph Boulter and F Hohen garten of St Louis testified no dough difference, while T M Shoecraft of Clinton Indiana said a quarter of his trade preferred bleached flour.
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Holdredge
Butler
Adolph Boulter
F. H. Hohengarten
St. Louis
T. M. Shoecraft
Clinton
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Nyle W. Jones
Jones
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Joseph Parizek
Marine Band
Anna Liska
Earle A. McGowan
Mason City
Cleo Thomas
Fort Smith, Ark
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Okla
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Sumner
Health Board Issues Bulletin
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Gard
Attorney For Defense
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