Jones Stirs The Senate Over Confederate Loyalty
In the Senate, Senator Heyburn labeled the Confederacy an infamous cause, provoking Senator Williams of Mississippi to rebuke remarks about Jefferson Davis’s former bodyguard Jim Jones. The chamber voted 37 to 18 to keep Jones on the payroll as a laborer at 720 dollars yearly, amid memories of Civil War figures and loyalties.
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Baseball Scores From Yesterday as Standings Shown
Results across leagues include Chicago 2 to Boston 1 in the American League and St Louis 6 to New York 1. National League games feature Philadelphia 1 Cincinnati 0 and Brooklyn 6 Chicago 5. The Telstate League notes Trenton 10 Reading 7 and Altoona 8 York 3. Standings list Detroit and Boston atop their divisions with various teams following.
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Woman Dies In Auto Wreck Near Cape May After Bicycle Swerve
Cape May New Jersey July 14 John A Judge a prominent New York lawyer was seriously injured and his wife was killed when their car which was traveling north in Swainton about twenty miles north of Cape May veered to avoid two boys on bicycles and crashed into a tree. Mrs Judge died from a broken neck. Judge's brother in law Mr Goldsmith was also seriously hurt and none of the Judge children were injured in the crash.
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Taft Pardons Convict Amid Maybray Gang Case
Washington July 14 Taft pardoned Willard Powell of Connell Bluffs Iowa who was convicted in March 1910 with Maybray gang for using the mails to defraud in a Lakehorse race scheme. Powell claimed mistaken identity and testified he was in Cuba when the crime was committed. Daisy the giraffe dies at Cincinnati Zoo from heat and storm induced prostration. Powell and Daisy are the lead items. no further details.
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Paris to London Aerial Race Captures Thrilling Debut
July 14 Paris reports the inaugural international aviation race from Vincennes to London and back. Fifty aviators started June 18. nine completed the course across France Belgium England and Holland. Lieutenant Conneau as Andre Beaumont won. Garros placed second. Le Martin Landron and Captain Princeton died opening day. many were injured. Fires built on Dover cliffs guided pilots to safe landings. prizes totaled about $100,000.
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Bribery Indictments Hit Chicago Revenue Officers
A federal grand jury indicted two revenue officers and a former official for taking bribes. Twenty-one employees of three oleomargarine manufacturers face conspiracy charges for defrauding the government and bribing officials, with alleged losses running into hundreds of thousands. Named defendants include Frank Gaviezel and Lara, plus executives and staff from Jelke, Moxley, and Brown companies.
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Frank P. Gaviezel
United States Revenue
Harry Oldham
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Lara
John F. Jelke
Francis M. Lowery
William M. Steele
John Fp, Jelke Company
John Dadie
Thomas W. Dudman
Frank H. Harding
John F. Ryan
William J. Moxley
William
150 Maderists Slain In Puebla Night Battle
Mexico City July 14 reports from Puebla state that in a Wednesday night fight Maderistas suffered 150 killed and eighty wounded while federals lost twelve killed and twenty wounded. Fighting stopped in the morning and fears of fresh clashes grow as Maderistas say reinforcements from Morelos and Guerrero are en route to resume battle. Twenty killed in Ortolan district Cavaca in Monterey area as rival factions clash.
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Investigation of Brussels steel conference eyed by Justice
Washington reports an inquiry into the Brussels conference of steel men aimed at later government scrutiny. Henry D. Martin and Cotter T. Bride urged President Taft to action, who backed an inquiry by Attorney General Wickersham and Solicitor General Lehmann, though timing may wait on U.S. steel trade matters.
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Anti- Trust League
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Wickersham
Lehmann
Atlantic
Ships That Kick Seamen Do Not Like Them
Seamen fear kicking ships as the stern drops from a wave causing the wheel to shake and men to be hurled or wounded. Tales describe injuries and even deaths from kicks and gear like kicking straps used in rough seas. London Tit-Bits notes crews avoid ships known as confirmed kickers. Advertising promises success in this paper.
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Ancient Roman dental cures and bizarre remedies
A London Hospital note recounts antique Roman practices for toothache. Magicians proposed ear injections from dog rabies ash mixed with cyprine oil, and scarification with a water snake vertebra or lizard bone. Other cures included lemon and mallow bug mixtures, or chewing an adder’s heart. A stated preventive urged eating two rats monthly.
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Two Points of View and War Wounds at Murfreesboro
War reminiscence contrasts pessimism and optimism. A wounded trooper at a field hospital jokes about the Johnnies while another man with a missing nose quips about the enemy nearly striking him. Chicago labor clash ends with a blast in a building shaft, injuring several and causing $50,000 damage.
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