Machen Arrested in Postoffice Bribery Probe
August W. Machen general superintendent of the free delivery service is arrested on a warrant based on post office inspectors charges that he received commissions from Groff Bros. contracts for patent postal box fasteners. The warrant cites eighteen thousand eight hundred ninety one dollars and seventy eight cents since 1900 with possible further sums. Other Groff firm members are arrested and bond amounts set.
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Department
Machen
Diller B. Groff
Groff Bros
August W. Machen
United States
Samuel A. Groff
Groff
Washington
W. Machen
Free Delivery Service
Post Office
Postmaster General
General Bristow
Busin
Taggart
Bankrupt promoters’ receivership ends in $2M debts
Springfield on May 28 reports Judge Humphrey approved the receiver’s report in the E. J. Arnold & Co case. East St. Louis race track promoters are discharged as receivers. The firm’s liabilities reach about $2,000,000 while realized assets total around $40,000, about 2 cents on the dollar.
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Springfield
Ill
United States District Court of
E. J. Arnold & Con
East St. Louis
Humphrey
L. Schwartz
Four Die When Boat Capsizes In Arkansas River
Four men Henry Field Will Ferrell Walter Parker and D B Craig drowned when their boat overturned while attempting to carry mails across the swollen Arkansas River at Tamaha Indian Territory Field was the mail contractor and Ferrell the carrier.
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Fort Smith
Ark
Arkansas River
Tamaha
I. T
Henry Field
Will Ferrell
Walter Parker
D. B. Craig
Field
Ferrell
Lizzie McCormick Pleads Not Guilty in Murder Case
Memphis Tenn May 28 Mrs Lizzie McCormick indicted for first degree murder arraigned in criminal court and through her attorneys pleaded not guilty. The case was given its regular place on the docket.
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Memphis
Tenn
Lizzie McCormick
Carelesanees Causes Rail Wrecks and Suffering
A fragment describes Carelesanees causing railway wrecks and many human sufferings from Thrust and Lang troubles. It mentions Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption Coughs and Colds as a remedy, claiming even the worst cases benefit.
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Carelesanees
Dr. King
beciuaPvens
Barred minister appeals as Presbyterian assembly sustains excommunication
Rev. Louis Richter of Minneapolis challenged his deposition and excommunication for acting as a brewery trust literature agent and urging funds via circulars. A judicial committee chaired by Rev. Dr. Samuel McCormick upheld Minnesota Synod actions and the assembly adopted the ruling. Buffalo was chosen for the next meeting.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Presbyterian General Assembly
Louis Hichter
Minneapolis
Synod of Minnesota
Richter
Brewery Trust
Buffalo
Severe Thunderstorm Hits Northwestern Ohio Causing Wide Damage
A late yesterday storm struck Northwestern Ohio with Toledo suffering about 100400 dollars in damage. Widespread destruction hit oil fields in Wood Hancock and Sandusky counties with hundreds of derricks down. Several Toledo factories including Ohio Brick Lake Erie Asphalt Libby Glass and Ford Plate Glass sustained damage while many trees toppled.
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Toledo
Ohio
Wood
Hancock
Sandusky
Ohio Brick Company
Lake Erie Asphalt Black Company
Libby Glass Company
Standard
Special Grand Jury Probes Cockrell Murder in Jackson
Jackson Ky May 28 The special grand jury has begun investigating City Marshal James Cockrill s assassination last July Troops guard witnesses and protect jurors as testimony targets a conspiracy extending to the Cockrill brothers circle and the Marcum case Observers expect cross connections to the Cox killing and other assassinations with Judge Redwine authorizing searches and martial law level measures while witnesses fear retaliation and await affidavits from Strong and Back
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Jackson
James Cockrill
Marcum
Cockrill
Cockrill Brothers
John Patrick
Jurge Redwine
Curtis Jett
Tom White
J. B. Marcum
Redwin
Colonel Williams
Breathitt County
Ned Strong
Henry Back
Strong
Mrs. Marcum
Hargis
Agreement Reached As Strikes End At Cupples Station
In St Louis on May 28 an agreement ended the strike of Cupples station freight handlers and warehousemen and work will resume immediately. The sympathy strikers in the rail freight ranks will also return to duty. The settlement was signed by union officers and a committee for the employers. It is believed the St Louis sympathy strikers will resume work at once.
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St. Louis
Cupples Station
Tragic Electrocution Near Huntington Gas Work
Jack R. Jennings twenty seven of Urbana Ohio was electrocuted eighty feet up while working near Huntington West Virginia contact with a live wire caused instant death. The incident occurred on May 28 and local authorities began investigations into the accident. Jennings was employed by a regional construction crew and leaves a lone prior address in Urbana Ohio.
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Huntington
W. Va
Jack R. Jennings
Urbana
One Dead and Three Dying in Indiana Incident
A brief wire note from Indiana dated May 28 reports one person killed and three others dying after a record incident. The extent of injuries and details were not provided in the fragment.
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Ind
Erie Police Strike Threat Looms Over Wage Demand
Erie on May 28 reports police officers threaten mass resignation to take effect June 1 if wages are not raised from $60 to $75 a month. A proposed $75 rise was cut to $70 by the council after a special committee promised $75. The force except the chief and captain submitted resignations to the mayor.
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Erie
Three Engineers Die After Train Collision Near Birmingham
A Southern Railway collision twenty eight miles west of Birmingham resulted in the death of three engineers. One brakeman survived as twelve loaded cars derailed in the wreck.
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Pico
Colliaioh
Bryan
Birmingham
Brkkeman
One Long Ovation For Roosevelt In Butte Montana
President Roosevelt arrived in Butte from Helena to a vast crowd and long ovation. Senator W A Clarke and Mayor Mullins greeted him. Spanish war veterans and militia provided honors. He spoke briefly to 2000 schoolchildren and received a silver copper sapphire vase from Anaconda residents.
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Butte
Mont
Roosevelt
Helena
Mullins
Montana
United States
W. A. Clarke
Secret Service
Anaconda
Finley Hotel
Thornton Hotel
Columbia Gardens
Savings deposits top $100 million in Chicago banks
Savings deposits in Chicago banks exceed 100 million, rising about 22 million or 26 percent in the past year. From 1890 to 1897, deposits doubled. in six years they more than quadrupled. The last twelve months show the most remarkable gain in Chicago savings institutions aside from 1902, despite strikes affecting workers' earnings.
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Chicago
Icago
Baseball Scores From The Three Leagues Report
National League games in Brooklyn St Louis beat Brooklyn 3 1 Chicago beat New York 5 4 Boston defeated Pittsburg 7 1 Philadelphia and Cincinnati tied 2 2 called in 11th due to darkness American League Cleveland lost to Chicago 0 1 American Association St Paul defeated Toledo 8 4. Foley's Honey and Tar contains no opiates and can safely be given to children sold by C D Knoefel.
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St. Louis
New York
Chicago
Boston
Pittsburg
Philadelphia
Cincinnati
Cleveland
American Association
St. Paul
Toledo
Foley
C. D. Knoefel
Plans for Bethlehem Steel and Shipbuilding formation
New York May 28 plans for reorganizing the United States Shipbuilding company are made public. The plan creates Bethlehem Steel and Shipbuilding company owning Union Iron Works San Francisco Bath Iron Works Bath Me Hyde Windlass Bath Me Crescent Shipyard Elizabethport N J Canada Manufacturing Carteret N J Samuel L Moore & Sons Elizabethport N J Eastern Shipbuilding New London Conn Harlan Hollingsworth Wilmington Del and all capital stock of Bethlehem Steel Works and property in South Bethlehem and Northampton Heights.
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New York
United States Shipbuilding Company
Bethlehem Steel and Shipbuilding Company
Union Iron Works
San Francisco
Bath Iron Works, Limited
Bath, Me
Hyde Windlass Company
Crescent Shipyard Company
Elizabethport
N. J
Canada Manufacturing Company
Carteret
Samuel L. Moore & Sons Company
Eastern Shipbuilding Company
New London
Powder Mill Explosion Kills Three at Fontanet Indiana
Sparks from shafting in the soda house at the Indiana Powder company Fontanet mill caused a blaze that instantly killed Harold Stingon and burned others. Engineer Riddle died in Terre Haute after hospital transfer and Frank Arthur died at Fontanet. The mill will be rebuilt in a month leaving ninety workers unemployed.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Indiana Powder Company
Fontanet
Harold Stingon
Engineer Riddle
Frank Arthur
Police mysteries loom in Alexandria murders confessed
Ollie Dalton, jailed in Anderson, confesses to knowledge of the Lee murder and the Wilson killing near Alexandria. He alleges offers of protection and money to stay silent, naming white and colored associates and asserting immunity by local officials. Two other brief items report a lightning strike death near Decatur where a man survived after severe injuries.
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Alexandria
Ind
Ollie Dalton
Anderson
Dalton
George W. Lee
Wilson
Dayton
Lee
Indiana Masons Adjourn After Installing New Officers
Indianapolis May 26. The annual meeting of the Grand Lodge Indiana Masons adjourned following the installation of newly elected officers. Grand master William E B English Indianapolis deputy grand master George E Grimes Ladoga senior grand warden Alfred Emory Evansville junior grand warden L V Cramer Madison grand treasurer Martin H Rice city grand secretary Calvin W Prather city
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Indianapolis
Grand Lodge
Indiana Masons
William EB. English
George E. Grimes
Ladoga
Alfred Emory
Evansville
L. V. Cramer
Madison
Martin H. Rice
City
Calvin W. Prather
Storm Strikes Twice At Point Isabel In Fatal Lightning
At Point Isabel Indiana Joseph Henderson was killed by a bolt at his front door during a storm. His wife Mrs Henderson was knocked unconscious by a second bolt and remains in poor condition with uncertainty over her recovery.
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Point Isabel
Ind
Joseph Henderson
Claypool hotel eyed for Republican headquarters
Fred Sims of Frankfort, a Republican committeeman from the Ninth district, favors moving the state committee headquarters to Indianapolis's Claypool hotel. He argues it would boost party prestige and energize workers, with even a room or two opening there soon. The piece also notes Indiana stone’s role at the St. Louis World’s Fair and upcoming state events including Modern Woodmen sessions and the state fair preparations.
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Indianapolis
Fred Sims
Frankfort
Claypool
State Committee
Sims
Party of Progress
Getting the Drop in a Stage Contract Dispute
A playwright and star clash over a rifle in every scene as the star defends the demand to ensure audiences see the drop on them before they throw things. The exchange hints at sensationalism versus artistic restraint in theater.
Portland murder fugitive captured near city limits
M V Asia who killed his father in law F H Drews and fled with his former wife as a companion was captured four miles from Portland. Leasis, wounded over the heart, claimed the father-in-law shot him but the wife shot her former husband after shooting her father. Injuries proved fatal. Poitiers racer Renault dies after overturning during Madrid race first stage. Renault had regained consciousness after being found on the roadway.
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Portland
Ore
Poitiers
France
Market Report: Prevailing Grain and Livestock Prices May 27
Report from Indianapolis Cincinnati Chicago New York East Buffalo and Toledo shows mixed prices across grain and livestock. Wheat and corn hold steady or dull with No. 3 red and white notes. cattle hogs and sheep show varied activity and prices across markets.
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Indianapolis
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