Sugar lobby Sen Thiel stirs senators in Washington probe
Washington, June. The sugar lobby inquiry widens as Senator Townsend accuses President Wilson of withholding appointments to pressure support for the Underwood tariff. The senate committee extends its 20 day probe to cover lobby practices, with Townsend and others testifying about patronage and attempted influence.
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Buffalo Bill Cody Gravely Ill in Knoxville
Physicians report William F. Cody known as Buffalo Bill is gravely ill in Knoxville Tennessee after falling ill Friday. He is under care at a cousin's home with Col. Cody in attendance.
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Divorce frees Cooke to wed Miss Whaley after elopement
In Hartford Connecticut Mrs Cooke secures a divorce freeing Harold P Parmalee from a prior marriage. Cooke expresses remorse for elopement with a 16 year old, recounts travel across the country, and says he hopes the world forgets the past. He worked as a cattle tader porter and painter before the elopement.
Former San Francisco officer guilty in bunco case
Frank Esola, ex police detective, was found guilty of grand larceny for conspiring with the notorious forty thieves bunco ring that operated here for months. He and seven other policemen face conspiracy charges. Gallo and Denegri testified to police involvement and tribute demands. The seven remaining defendants will be tried together.
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Bunco
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Michael Gallo
Harees
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Dismo Denegri
Beola
Cooke Weds Miss Whaley After Elopement Across Nation
On June 9 in New York Jere Cooke former Hempstead minister married Floretta Whaley the woman he eloped with to California six years ago. They already have two sons and had wandered from one end of the country driven by publicity. The last legal barrier to their marriage was removed.
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Jere Cooke
Hempstead
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Floretta Whaley
California
Defaulter Held In Esteem In Caruthersville
A. C. Tindle cashier of the Pemiscot County bank which closed after a shortage will be retained by bank reorganizers to help straighten affairs. He turned over all personal property and real estate to Citizens' Trust, and no prosecution is planned. Community sympathy remains high.
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Tindle
Citizens’ Trust Company
Shryock Elected President at Southern Illinois Normal
At a Carbondale board meeting, W H Shryock was elected president of Southern Illinois Normal University to succeed D B Parkinson who has served on the faculty for 39 years.
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Wood Acquitted bribe claim shakes Massachusetts court lore
Boston June 1 Grand Jury clears William M Wood head of a $60,000,000 woolen trust of complicity in a dynamite plot. Dennis J Collins found guilty on two counts for planting dynamite during the 1912 Lawrence textile strike. Frederick Atteaux case ends in a no verdict. Hurlburt demands investigation into bribery rumors as district attorney plans grand jury probe. brief note of snow in Chicago and Austin.
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