Schermerhorn Convicted of First Degree Murder
Frank Schermerhorn, a Millbrook coachman, found guilty of murdering Sarah Brymer. Judge Morschauser set execution for Sing Sing in August. Schermerhorn had blackened his face to hide his identity and confessed after attempting suicide. His wife fainted in court as she showed intent to use laudanum if convicted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Brymer
Morschauser
Schermerhorn
Hernbeck
Sing Sing
Compton Place
Fruit Shippers Fight Roads In ICC Complaint
The Georgia Fruit Exchange of Atlanta filed a complaint with the Interstate Commerce Commission on behalf of about a thousand Georgia fruit growers against the Southern Railway and other carriers. They allege unreasonable and discriminatory minimum carload weights for fruit, urging provision of cars adequate for proper refrigeration and handling. Georgia ships about 3000 cars of fruit yearly to the North and East, with losses due to decay from inadequate refrigeration and dense packing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern
Commerce Commission
Washington, D. C
Interstate Commerce Commission
Georgia Fruit Exchange
Atlanta
Southern Railway
Georgia
Missouri moves against five meat packing firms
Jefferson City Missouri Attorney General Major filed quo warranto information in the Supreme Court to oust Armour Packing Morris Swift Hammond and St Louis Dressed Beef and Provision. The suits arise from an examination led by former Judge Daniel W Dillon. Hammond and St Louis Dressed Beef are owned by National Packing Company of New Jersey controlling livestock purchases and finished product sales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jefferson City
Major
Supreme Court
Armour Packing Company
Morris & Co
Swift & Co
Hammond Packing Company
St. Louis Dressed Beef and Provision Company
Daniel W. Dillon
Heat Wave Claims 33 in Chicago as Death Toll Rises
Chicago reports ten new heat related deaths raising seven day total to 33. Many victims succumbed directly or indirectly to the heat wave including cases of self harm and drowning while seeking shade. Dozens of babies fell ill and several died from heat exhaustion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Ill
Cousins Hanged Together in Lancaster for 1909 Murder
Walter and Benjamin Aston, cousins, were hanged in the Lancaster county jail for the murder of Alfred Hallman in Pequea Township in January 1909. Paul Fornwall, nineteen, who was present, claimed intoxication and was convicted of second degree murder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancaster
Walter and
Benjatmin Aston
Alfred Hallman
Pequea Township
Paul Fornwall
House Unseats Democrat in Virginia Contest
The House Elections Committee No. 2 voted to unseat Edward W. Saunders Democrat of Virginia's Fifth District and seat Republican J. M. Parsons who challenged Saunders. The decision adds two Republican seats to Virginia's quota of ten members.
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Washington, D. C
House Committee On Elections No
Edward W. Saunders
Virginia
House
J. M. Parsons
Saunder
Porter Charlton Confesses to Lake Como Murder
Porter Charlton, son of a Washington official, confessed aboard the Prinzess Irene to beating wife Mary Scott Castle of San Francisco with a mallet, stuffing her body in a trunk, and sinking it in Lake Como after a heated quarrel. He described fleeing Italy under an assumed name, was arrested in Hoboken, and identified by Captain Henry Harrison Scott, her brother, whose foresight aided the capture.
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Hoboken
N. J
Lake Como
Porter Charlton
Continents
Mary Scott Castle
San Francisco
Paul Charlton
Bureau of Insular Affairs
Washington, D. C
Taft
Yale
Castle
Wilmington
Del
Italy
Son
Charlton
Henry Harrison Scott
Scott
Fort Wright
Fisher’s Island
New London
Conn
Chariton
Como
Moltrasio
Coro
Genoa
Bribe Exposed Over Indian Lands Sale Senate Charge
Senator Thomas Gore charged a $25 000 to $50 000 bribe offer to aid favorable legislation affecting contracts between Oklahoma attorneys and the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians. He said a $3 000 000 fee would flow to J Frank McMurry and associates if the measure passed. Ex senators Long Thurston named in the probe. The sale concerns coal and oil lands valued up to 50 million dollars with a 30 million dollar sale to a syndicate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Thomas P. Gore
Oklahoma
Senate
Congress
Gore
United States
House of Representatives
J. Frank McMurry
Senator Gore
Kansas
Nebraska
Charles E. Creager
House
Creager
Bird McGuire
Chester I. Long
John M. Thurston
Committee On
Hale
Cecil Lyon
Chester J. Long
Dick" Adams
Postal Savings Bank Bill Passes Senate Amid Details
The Senate approved postal savings banks by forty-four to twenty-five with Taft leadership. A three-member trustees board will manage deposits from one to five hundred dollars per account, via stamps and receipts. Deposits may be insured with bonds, funds kept as reserve, and operations financed by a $100,000 appropriation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Taft
House
Senate
Chamberlin
Oregon
Bristow
Secretary of the Treasury
Attorney-General
Congress
United States
Board of Trustees
Taft appoints Fine Arts Commission with Chicago to New York lineup
President Taft names Daniel Burnham as chairman and a distinguished group including Frederick Law Olmsted junior Thomas Hastings Daniel C French Frank D Miller Cass Gilbert and Charles Moore to the new advisory Fine Arts Commission. Colonel Spencer Cosby will be secretary. The panel will advise on architecture city improvements and artistic matters in Washington without pay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taft
Fine Arts Commission
Daniel H. Burnham
Chicago
Fine Arts Frederick
Law Olm Commission
Sted, Jr
Boston
Thomas Hastings
New York
Daniel C. French
Frank D. Miller
Cass Gilbert
Charles Moore
Detroit
Spencer Cosby
Cannon
Washington
North Mexico in Arms Amid Border Revolt Fears
El Paso reports widespread revolutionary tension along the Mexican border from Cananea to Ciudad Porfirio Diaz Cahuila opposite Eagle Pass Texas. Troops from Cananea and Cananea were deployed to deter disturbances while rurales under President Diaz organize to prevent election riots. Citizens are pressed into service to guard government funds at border custom houses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
el Paso
Texas
Naco
Sonora
Mexico
Cananea
Ciudad Porfirio Diaz
Cahuila
Eagle Pass
Diaz
Golden Rule Chief Kohler Wins Reinstatement
Frederick Kohler known as the Golden Rule Chief of police in Cleveland was acquitted by the Civil Service Commission after being suspended by Mayor Baehr on charges of drunkenness and immorality. The commission cleared him and he will be reinstated, noted for a disciplinary system for first offenders outside court and praised by President Roosevelt. The two-day suspension followed charges filed May 24 with 23 counts. trial began May 29.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Ohio
Frederick Kohler
Baehr
Civil Service Commission
Kohler
Roosevelt
Arrest Banker in $272000 Loss Case
Captain S P Gillett, 70, a United States Naval Academy graduate and former Citizens' National Bank president of Evansville Indiana, was indicted on federal banking law violations. He posted a $10000 bond as losses at the bank totaled 272000 before its reorganization after a two week suspension in January 1910.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. P. Gillett
Naval Academy
Evansville
Ind
8. P. Gillett
Citizens' National Bank
Gillett
United States Naval Academy
Navy
First Returns From Census for District of Columbia
The 13th decennial census shows DC population at 331,069 up from 278,718 in 1900 and 230,392 in 1890. This decade adds 52,351 people, an 18.8 percent rise, compared with a 21 percent gain last decade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
District of Columbia
Washington, D. C
Philadelphia Women Held For Smuggling Valuables
Mrs. Walter B. Saunders and her niece Miss Baugh of Philadelphia brought undeclared valuables from Europe. Custom House officials in New York City held the items for redemption at four times the home value or forfeiture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter B. Saunders
Miss Baugh
Philadelphia
Europe
Custom House
New York City
Irish Nationalists Honor Bryan With London Dinner
John E. Redmond and other Irish Parliamentary party leaders hosted a dinner at the House of Commons in London to honor William Jennings Bryan, reflecting strong nationalist support and public esteem for the American statesman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bryan
John E. Redmond
Irish Parliamentary Party
William Jennings Bryan
House of Commons
London
Confesses Trunk Murder In Portland Hotel Room
Jesse B Webb confessed to killing W A Johnson whose body was found in a trunk at Union Station Portland. Webb claimed self defense after a hotel room brawl. Mrs D W Kersch, arrested with Webb, is exonerated but admitted conspiring in placing the body in the trunk and sending it to the station. She revealed she was actually married to Bert Kersch of Seattle and fled with Webb a year ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Ore
Jesse B. Webb
W. A. Johnson
Webb
Johnson
D. W. Kersch
Bert Kersch
Seattle
Avy
Woman Attempts Suicide by Gasoline Torch in Ohio
Cincinnati Ohio Mrs George Millidger sixty years old wife of a wealthy retired baker made a gasoline torch of herself in an attempt to die by her own action. She will die from her burns. The Millidgers recently built a fine home on the outskirts of Loveland Mrs Millidger did not want to leave the old homestead where she had spent many years of her married life and said she would never go to the new house alive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Ohio
George Millidger
Millidgers
Loveland
Millidger
First passenger flight by zeppelin Deutschland begins service
Dusseldorf Germany. Aerial passenger service started when Count Zeppelin’s dirigible balloon the Deutschland carried eleven passengers on a 500 mile trip from Friedrichshafen to Dusseldorf. It was the trial voyage of the world’s first aerial liner with schedule and time accuracy like a steamship or express train.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dusseldorf
Germany
Count Zeppelin
Friedrichshafen
Spain Closes Seven Schools Under Decree
The Madrid government shut seven Christian Brothers schools under the May 31 decree requiring unauthorized religious orders to obtain authorization or face dissolution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spain
Madrid
Order of Christian Brothers
Two States Admitted Admitting New Mexico and ona
Resident Taft signed the state bill admitting New Mexico and ona, marking the entry of two new states into the union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taft
New Mexico
Ona
Resolution Introduced for Steel Trust Inquiry in House
A House resolution by Representative Stanley proposes a wholesale inquiry into whether the Government has prosecuted all violations of the Anti-Trust Interstate Commerce and Banking laws, focusing on the United States Steel Corporation. It calls for a nine member congressional committee to investigate potential law violations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
United States Steel Corporation
Stanley
Congress
Englishman compares cricket and baseball at Cooper Union
An Englishman's comment quoted by the Rev. Percy Stickney Grant at the national negro conference in Cooper Union, New York City contrasts cricket and baseball. He notes cricket crowds say well tried after a muff while baseball crowds may shout kill the son of a gun.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Percy Stickney Grant
Cooper Union
New York City
The Chicago Record-Herald Preaches Enthusiasm as Tonic
A Chicago Record-Herald piece asserts enthusiasm is the sole tonic needed to sustain effort and morale. It argues energy and zeal fuel work, study, and daily life, urging readers to cultivate bright spirit amid challenges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Record-Herald
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Solomon
Committee On Foreign Affairs
San
Panama Francisco
New
New Orleans
Snoop
America
Ces
Shoop
Shnon
Ly Freet
Racine
Wis
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Zeppelin Dirigible
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Fair
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Cnerse
Hennery
Davis
Northern Spy
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