Second Graft Trial Opens In Harrisburg Capitol Case
May 11 Harrisburg gives report on a second graft trial linked to metallic furniture contracts for the state capitol. Defendants include Joseph M. Huston Frank Irvine H Burd Cassel William L Mathues George Kunkel presiding. Prosecutors allege overcharges and fraud in eight metal filing cases and a metal table. A possible spillage of crucial testimony is expected. Separately in Belleville Walter Kraft uncovers about 390 dollars in colonial money hidden in a Bible for 14 years.
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Harrisburg
George Kunkel
Joseph M. Huston
Capitol
Frank Irvine
Auditor Generals Department
William L. Mathues
Wiliam P. Snyder
James M. Shumaker
H. Burd Cassel
Pennsylvania Construction Company
Huston
Casse
Irvine
State Department
Lawmaker
Snider
Mathues
Teasurer
Bibie
Belleville
Walter Kraft
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Ex Army Officer Bamford Causes Death in Washington
Charles E. Bamford, a West Point graduate who resigned as a second lieutenant in 1906, shot himself in Washington on May 11. Recently employed in civil engineering, Bamford had a notebook with excerpts of doleful verse. His home was in Trenton New Jersey.
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Charles E. Bamford
West Point
Trenton
N. J
Bamford
Girl Dies of Her Injuries in Harrisburg
Eight year old Hildred V. Marshall died from burns suffered six weeks earlier when her dress caught fire from a candle she carried while locking up chickens. She died after enduring intense pain in a tragic accident.
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Harrisburg
Hildred V. Marshall
Fairbanks to Quit. Indiana Delegates May Tilt to Taft
Indianapolis dispatch reports VP Fairbanks likely to withdraw from the GOP race after a string of recent results. Indiana friends have halted active campaigning and abandoned plans to rally delegates, expecting Taft gains if Fairbanks steps aside.
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Taft
Kentucky
Fairbanks
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Indiana
Baseball Scores in American League Long Saturday slate
Saturday results across the American League show Cleveland and Detroit split a doubleheader with Cleveland taking the first game 3-2 and Detroit winning the second 5-2. Chicago also hosted St Louis in a doubleheader with mixed outcomes and Boston and Washington played as listed. Sunday wrap reports Cleveland beating Chicago 6-3 in the first game and Detroit sweeping St Louis by 11-2 in the second.
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Larke
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National League Scores and Standings
National League games across cities show Chicago and Pittsburgh delivering decisive wins. Brooklyn and Boston split results while New York and Philadelphia trail. Standings list Chicago and Pittsburgh atop the table with St Louis and Cincinnati in the middle. Brooklyn and Philadelphia struggle, while New York and Boston hover below .500.
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Bresnahan
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Weimer
McLean
Boy Laid Low By Rooster In Poultry Yard Attack
In Pottsville Pennsylvania on May 11 three year old Charles Horn son of Lincoln Horn of Donaldson was badly injured after a game rooster attacked him in a chicken yard. The bird knocked him down and gored his cheeks and temples with its spurs, leaving him in a critical condition as doctors battle to save his life.
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Charles
Lincoln Horn
Donaldson
Little Charles
Illness of Governor Fort's Father and Other 1900s News
Governor J Frank Fort of New Jersey travels to his father's bedside after a relapse in his eighty six year old father Andrew H Fort. The report notes no immediate danger. Also cited are a double murder on Apple's Island near Watertown and surgeon John E Muse's successful 17 year hospital battle. Roosevelt returns from Virginia as Grover Cleveland shows improvement in Lakewood. A New York tenement fire claims a teen girl and a Montgomery fire kills five of Jim Kennedy's seven children.
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Andrew H. Fort
J. Franklin Fort
New Jersey
Watertown
Jerry Apple
Apple's Island
Apple
Albert Crowder
Crowder
Royal Dunning
Tns City
Dunning
New York
One Hundred and Fifty-sixth Street
Bates
Montgomery
Ala
Mayr Ji
Jim Kennedy
Kennedy
Tremor State League Scores and Wreck Plot Foiled
In Johnstown Harrisburg Altoona and Williamsport results show Williamsport beat Trenton Wilming 7 5 5 0 0 0 Elemental scoring across cities reveals team records and standings. A 17 year old Wesley Robinson was jailed in Atlantic City for attempting to wreck an electric train. two Car wreck foiled by a switching engine near Washington Pennsylvania left no serious injuries.
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Wesley Robinson
Seaview
Ocean City
Robinson
Washington, Pa
St. Louis
Pittsburg
Pan Handle
Pennsylvania
Here
McDonald
Cement Boom Resumes Full Operations in Allentown
May 11 Allentown Pa Coplar Cement Company mill C resumes on full basis amid rising orders. All Coplar mills except one are operating and shipments begin for summer building trade. Officials predict annual output to match 1907 peak, a boom year for the region.
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Coplar Cement Company
Coplar
River search for missing Sunbury banker after alleged theft
Sunbury Pennsylvania May 13 The Susquehanna River is being watched as Francis M Bloom chief bookkeeper of Sunbury Trust and Safe Deposit bank is alleged to have stolen 10000 and drowned himself. Investigators believe his body may be in the river near Sunbury. Death in Lasso Throw Chelsea Ohio May 11 16 year old Joe Cons lesley killed while trying to lasso a mule.
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Francis M. Bloom
Sunbury Trust and Safe Deposit Bank
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Broom
Chelsea
Ohio
Joe Consley
Confidence Game Swindle at Western Hotel in 1886
A hotel keeper avoids a smallpox panic by buying silence from two scammers. The con involved misrepresenting a diseased guest to force removal and protect the hotel’s reputation. The landord paid about $5,000 to settle and prevent a public scare, a prudential graft to save the business.
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Seison
Mury
A Wondar Pen Trick Impresses Local Artist
A brief note from Yonkers Statesman reports Bill Is clever with his pen as he holds a fountain pen behind his ear without ink on his cheek. Jill confirms his skill in a light community feature.
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Jill
Cheek
Yonkers
National Prosperity Association Aims to Spread Optimism
The National Prosperity association of Et Lous grows in the south and west and mobilizes business civic groups nationwide. It plans a sunshine campaign to restore confidence and revive industry, with millions of platform copies distributed and broad pledges of support from boards of trade and commercial bodies. Frisco employees are urged to join and help keep pay rolls and employment steady as optimism rises in April.
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Sco Wailroads
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Cipmer
Family Gum Peril at Bloomfield School
A Fairview school pupil in Bloomfield New Jersey was caught chewing gum by a teacher who confiscated it and placed it on a desk. At noon recess the class left and the girl stayed behind asking for the gum claiming it belonged to her mother and that she had borrowed it for the day. The gum was eventually returned to the girl to take home.
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Glories and Glooms New Slang at Yale
Describes Yale students creating slang for young women's attractiveness including terms like glory gloom ball of fire peach pippin corker. Includes humorous verses on seasons and wives misplacing clothes, reflecting campus wit and domestic tensions from the Detroit Free Press.
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Yale University
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Corker
Pie for Canal Workers at Cristobal Bakery Aims to Boost Labor
The Canal administration announces a large Cristobal bakery will supply pies pastries rolls and ice cream to hotels messes and employees on the Isthmus to speed canal construction. An ice cream factory will be set up using modern methods and imported from New York ice cream will be produced for workers. The move, described in Canal Record, seeks to improve worker satisfaction and ease labor issues.
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Fi Lang
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Illinois Delegates To Denver By Auto Train For Convention
Illinois Democratic committeeman Roger C Sullivan chartered an automobile train to carry delegates from Chicago to Denver for the national convention. The four Studebaker tour cars and two wagons will travel June 27 to July 4, with 125 to 150 miles daily between stops including Lincoln Nebraska. Tickets will mirror railroad fares with countersigned by mayors. First use of cars for long distance passenger service in U.S. transport history. In Punxsutawney Pennsylvania a fire destroyed a general store and boarding house, costing foreign savings and leaving Mrs Becke seriously burned.
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Denver
Roger C. Sullivan
National Democratic
Lincoln
Punvsutawney
Joan Beeke
Statut
Becke
Bride of Three Days Carried Off In Jersey City
A rumor of elopement ends with the bride being carried to Jersey City by her father. The girl claims she is eighteen, while her father says she is underage. He intends to contest the marriage and seek annulment, with the husband unnamed in the report.
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