Rain Delays Calamitous Guinness Farm Case Revelations
Laporte Indiana May 7 A rain soaked day slowed exhumations at the Guinness farm as investigators pursue evidence in the Phoebe Guinness murder case. Authorities report remains identified as Ole Budsberg of Wisconsin bought through matrimonial ads. grand jury action against Ray Lamphere postponed amid new witness claims and a growing web of misdeeds surrounding Mrs Guinness.
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Laporte
Ind
Guinness
Ole B. Budshbere
Jola
Wis
Andrew Helgelein
Mansfield
Budsberg
Mat
Oscar H. Budsberg
Smutzer
Ray Lamphere
Lamphere
la Porte County
C. J. Smith
Chicago
Guinmess
Ralph N. Smith
Smith
Zamphere
Helgelein
Michigan City
Guinness Farm
PD. M. Hudson
Guinness Country Mansion
Mrs
Chicago Investigation Into Possible Graves At Guinness Site
May 7 Chicago officials announce a labor squad will search the former Guinness property to check for buried bodies before she moved to La Porte. Coroner Hoffman reviews records on Max Sorenson’s suspected murder and on Carolina Sorenson and an unnamed infant’s deaths, with no postmortem finding on record.
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Chicago
Shhuettier
Hoffman
Moyer
Guinness
Carolina Sorenson
Sorenson Murder Claim Ties Wife to Death in Austin Mystery
Providence on May 7 reports Ivan Sorenson believes his brother Max Sorenson of this city was killed by his wife Bella Guinness of Laporte Ind. Relatives say they spent much to obtain her arrest for murder, but authorities in Chicago suburb showed no interest. It is alleged Max died from a poisoned cup given by his wife, who he accused with his last breath.
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Mack
Jennie Olsen
Ask Helgelein
Bmtarshfield
S. D
Miss Olsen
May Olander
Mrs. Guinness
Guinness
Vera Shoren
Indianapolis
Helgelein
Shoren
Bessie Conklin
Michigan City
Ind
Laporte
Smutzer
Roy Lamphere
Laporte County
Carl Petersen
Wanpaca
Wis
Indiana
Chicago
la Porte
Etris
P. S. Guinness
Laporte, Ind
Providence
Ivan Sorenson
Max Sorenson
Bella Guinness
Austin
Jealous husband tried to cremate wife in bakery incident
In Shamokin Pennsylvania on May 7 Join Cushner allegedly forced his wife into a dough tray at Kulpmont and set it alight with paper. She was badly burned and may not recover. Cushner and helper John Cardish were arrested.
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Shamokin
Penn
Kulpmont
Here
Cushner
John Cardish
Custer
No Censure for Hughes in Niagara Supervisors Vote
Niagara County board of supervisors voted 13 to 1% to kill Supervisor Gould’s censuring resolution against Governor Hughes for calling a special election in the 47th Senate District without local petition. An amendment by Porter-Stevens Republicans narrowly failed. Democrats and Wadsworth Merritt Republicans backed passage. four Democrats absent could have shifted the result. Dr J A Hartman Albion Prohibition candidate comments on ministerial bias against the Republican Senate candidate. He vows to continue the fight. ministers’ support promises discussed.
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Tribune
J Lockport
N. Y
Board of Supervisors
Niagara County
Gould
Hughes
Senate
Wadsworth-Merritt
J. A. Hartman
Albion
Prohibition
Lockport Union-Sun
Wyoming Instructs For Taft At State Convention
Tander May 7. Wyoming Republicans in state convention nominated Frank W. Mondell for re election to Congress and instructed delegates to back William H. Taft at the national convention. Senator Clark and Warren Congressman Mondell Governor Brooks G W Burkhauser and H B Ridgely named as delegates.
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Tander
Wyo
Wyoming
Frank W. Mondell
William H. Taft
Clark
Warren
Mondell
Brooks
G. W. Burkhauser
Ridgely
Roosevelt Utahs First Choice at State GOP Meet
Salt Lake City May 7 National issues figured slightly at the Republican State Convention today. Delegates cheered Roosevelt as first choice for the presidential nomination with Taft second and backed platform planks for tariff reform ship subsidies a larger navy mines department and postal savings banks. A move to nominate a Senator sparked acrimony between insurgent Gentile faction and regulars led by Senator Smoot. The Chicago delegation includes Reed Smoot George Sutherland Joseph Howell and others with a mixed roster of alternates. the delegation remains uninstructed.
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Salt Lake City
Roosevelt
William H. Taft
Platform Committee
Department of Mines and Mining
Congress
Ty. ©. Rideout
Salt Lake County
Harmony
Chicago
Reed Smoot
George Sutherland
Joseph Howell
W. D. Livingston
C. N. Wilson
C. E. Loose
BR. Haywood
Thomas Seavey
John C. McLean
Lucy A. Clark
Susan Y. Gates
Preston AL. Richards
Massachusetts Democrats Choose Four Delegates to Denver
At Faneuil Hall the Massachusetts State Democratic Convention selected four delegates to the Denver national convention: George Fred Williams Dedham John B Moran Boston John W Coughlin Fall River and Daniel J Doherty Westfield. Alternates named were Kane Lawrence Davenport Greenfield Kenny Boston and Gallagher Lowell. The platform urged tariff reform public works better labor laws and constitutional limits on executive power while approving Bryan as the presidential nominee.
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William J. Bryan
Denver
George Fred Williams
Dedham
John B. Moran
Boston
John W. Coughlin
Fall River
Daniel J. Doherty
Westfield
J. F P
Bryan
Alexander F. Chamberlain
Clark University
Worcester
Faneuil Hall
Rell Callon
Committee On Resolutions
Massachusetts
Minnesota Bryan Campaign Mulls Separate May 14 Convention
In St Paul on May 7, Bryan campaign managers say they may hold a separate convention on May 14 to select delegates to the state convention after losing last night’s Democratic primaries across Minnesota. They assert that unrecognized delegates could prompt a separate state gathering.
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St. Paul
William J. Bryan
Minnesota
Brooklyn Drives 100 Business Men to Back Gambling Pill
Movement forms a committee of one hundred in Brooklyn to urge passage of the Agnew-Hartant gambling pill. A resolution supporting the governor's fight is sent to Brooklyn ministers to read from pulpits Sunday. Those wishing to join or sign the Albany petition may send name and address to J Alvan Hall 27 Quincy Street.
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Brooklyn
Albany
J. Alvan Hall
Quincy Street
Prohibitionists Nominate Woodward for Maine Governor
The Prohibitionists of Maine named Henry Woodward of Winthrop as candidate for Governor. Other nominations included James Perrige for State Auditor, A. L. Witham for Congress in the 1st district, A. J. Dunton for the 2d, W. Sterling for the 3d, and W. A. Rideout for the 4th. Presidential electors named Woodbury, Burrowes, Bragdon, Sustis, Emerson, and Merritt.
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Portland
Henry Woodward
Winthrop
James Perrige
A. L. Witham
Westbrook
A. J. Dunton
Bath
W. Sterling
Waterville
W. A. Rideout
Calais
N. Fef
Woodbury
Auburn
Edward T. Burrowes
Ernest J. Bragdon
Gorham
W. T Sustis
Dixfield
FF. Emerson
Skowhegan
Lyman Merritt
Heulten
Bishop Goodsell Delivers Episcopal Address at Conference
Reading of Bishop Goodsell’s address highlights amendments to Paragraph 28 on amusements, urging strike of listed worldly amusements but not rejection of Wesleyan principles. Liquor measures advance, Littlefield interstate shipment bill to be presented to Speaker Cannon. Conference notes growth in membership, ministers, and languages used, plus reports from church boards and commissions.
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Tribune
Baltimore
General Conference
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Episcopal
D. L. Goodsell
Boston
John Wesley
Littlefield
Congress
Cannon
House of Representatives
Pennsylvania Bible Society
Philadelphia
Bishop Goodsell
United States
Methodist Book Concern
Board of Church Extension
Board of Home Missions and
Church Extension
Sunday School Department
Hanly
Indiana
Temperance
Judiciary Committee
Praise for crew of wrecked cruiser after Solent collision
Thirty cabin passengers from the St Paul, damaged after colliding with the British cruiser Gladiator off the Isle of Wight on April 2, arrived aboard the Teutonic. Witnesses praised discipline aboard the St Paul and the Gladiator, with many blaming the Gladiator's captain for the accident.
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St. Paul
Solent
Isle of Wight
A. E. Lahens
Stoker
Southamptons
Republican Leader Honored In 9th District
Michael H. Blake Republican leader of the 6th Assembly District received an oil painting from his constituents at district headquarters No 265 West 34th Street. The artwork honors his service and will hang in the clubhouse. Blake succeeded John P Windolph a year ago.
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Michael H. Blake
6Th Assembly
34Th Street
Blake
John P. Windolph
Republican District Conventions Report Delegates Named
May fare weather and political actions across states show multiple district conventions approving delegation selections. Cyrus Darey renominated in Saratoga while Edgar T Brackett and Lucius Littauer elected as national delegates. no voting instructions given. In Forest City Arkansas Roosevelt support noted with Kennedy and Taylor chosen as delegates. Missouri delegates Rhodes and Caldwell win, with Gay and Yount as alternates.
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Saratoga
N. Y
Cyrus Darey
Johnstown
Congress
Edgar T. Brackett
Lucius N. Littauer
Gloversville
Brackett
New York State
Hughes League
Forest City
Ark
Roosevelt
F. H. Kennedy
Cotton Plant
R. F. Taylor
Osceola
H. H. Hampton
Jonesboro
BK. P. Crum
Helena
Metz Lecture Highlights City Government Truth And Reform
The annual reunion of the Board of Education free lectures at the Hotel Astor featured Metz urging city government courses, noting scarce truth about the city’s business and bond issues. Dr. Leipziger praised nineteen years of lectures, while Gulick argued the small number of knockers, and Teipziger foresaw broader schoolhouse use and future expansion of the program.
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Metz
Henry M. Leipziger
Board of Education
Hotel Astor
Bronx
Brooklyn
Hillis
Napoleon
Luther H. Gulick
Teipziger
Yale Students Seeing the City
One hundred Yale students mostly seniors with a lone junior toured New York City for a sociology lesson led by Professor William Bailey. They visited the morgue Blackwell’s Island penitentiary and other institutions, saw Chinatown dining, Bowery lodging guests, the joss house on Mott Street, the Atlantic Garden, and will visit University Settlement Educational Alliance and Ellis Island before returning to New Haven.
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Yale
New York
Chinatown
William Bailey
New Haven
Bowery
Atlantic Garden
Joss House
Mott Street
University Settlement
Educational Alliance
East Broadway
Ellis Island
Charity board seeks nearly two million for new hospital beds
The New York City Visiting Committee of the State Charities Aid Association asks the Board of Estimate and Apportionment for 1 735 000 to fund Department of Public Charities needs. Urgent aims include tuberculous patient accommodations in Brooklyn and expanded hospital space.
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State Aid Association
New York City
State Charities Aid Association
Board of Estimate
Department of Public Charities
Brooklyn
Robert W. Hebberd
Commissioner of Charities
Homer Folks
Metropolitan
Kings County Hospital
Cumberland Street Hospital
Bradford Street Hospital
Magistrates Call for Specialized Courts in Divorce Matters
Governor Hughes signed the Page-Francia bill creating a commission to study New York courts in Buffalo and Rochester. Magistrate Breen advocated a separate court for marital matters to improve handling of non support abandonment and related cases, noting the poor often face high costs and lengthy processes.
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Hughes
New York
Buffalo
Rochester
Breen
West Side Court
New York County
Storm Floods City Cuts Streets Stop Traffic
A heavy storm flooded Pocahontas Cut near 157th Street, inundating tracks and basements, delaying subway work at Walker Canal and Centre streets, and grounding trains. West Street cellars flooded stores, while rainfall of 3.44 inches in a day drenched the region, with winds up to 44 mph and temperatures around 45 to 51. Sea front jetties and piers suffered damage along Long Branch surf, and storm forecasts predicted continuation. Military field artillery practiced at Creedmoor despite rain, with 90 percent of marksmen qualifying.
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West Street
Walker
Canal
Centre Streets
Tenderloin
United States
Mississippi River
White Star
Baltic
Caronia
Weather Bureau
Long Branch
Sea View Avenue
Ocean
Pier
Surf House
Curtis
West End Avenue
North Lane Branch
Seabright
P. Hall Packer
New York
Field Artillery
Creedmoor
Long Islami
Manhattan
Brooklyn
State Field Hospital Corps
Long Island
One Killed In Chicago Storm
A deadly wind and rain storm hit Chicago on May 7 causing one death and numerous injuries as pedestrians were struck by falling live wires and were knocked to the ground. The Weather Bureau reported winds up to forty miles per hour, with stronger gusts in suburbs and along the lake shore. Only two steamers sailed early and returned for safety.
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Chicago
Weather Bureau
Lake Shore
Tarrytown Opposes Sunken Tracks Plan By Rail Line
Albany May 7 opposition was voiced by Tarrytown officials and residents to New York Central Railroad grade crossing eliminations in the village. They warned the plan would divide the town by a high embankment and urged paving of streets over the tracks while the railroad agreed to submit change plans.
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Albany
Public Service Commission
Tarritown
New York Central Railroad
Tarrytown
Fatal Stabbing at New York State Soldiers Home
In Bath New York May 7 Hough Edwards inmate at the New York State Soldiers Home fatally stabbed Henry Rockerford another inmate. Edwards claims self defence after a quarrel between the two men occurred at night and Edwards asserts the stabbing was justified.
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Bath
N. Y
Hough Edwards
Au Iomats
New York State Soldiers
Henry Rockerford
Edwards
Ion
Prisoners arraigned for violating factory law on child labor
In the Court of Special Sessions four prisoners were let on suspended sentences while one, Inihor Roissler of 742 East 6th Street, had a $100 bond forfeited. The others were fined for employing children under sixteen.
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Court of Special Sessions
Yes Rayal
Inihor Roissler
East 6Th Street
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