Adjournment Near as Illinois Legislature Reaches Omnibus Deal
Springfield June 17 Ad journment of the legislature tonight was assured after a conference on the omnibus appropriation bill. The pact removes a $10 000 item for the vice investigating commission and halves about 80 senate amendments. Lt Gov Barrratt O Hara said he would stall bills until the sum was agreed to. House and senate leaders expect adjournment tomorrow night though 105 senate bills remain on the house calendar. The house also passed an injunction and abatement bill targeting disorderly houses. Several armory funding bills died in committee.
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Springfield
Til
House
Senate
Barratt O'Hara
Vice Commission
Shanahan
Gov. Dunne
O'Hara
Shanhan
Vica Commission
Jacksonville
Moline
Osk Park
Sterling and
Pekin
House’ Appropriations Committee
Vicksburg
Public Utilities Commission
Richard J. Oglesby
Lincoln Park
Chicago
Thomas
Car
Probe Into Sinking of Lusitania Ends
The article reports fresh military developments in Galicia as Austro German forces push toward Lemberg and Niemerow. Russian retreat may shift toward Tarnograd and into Poland, potentially delaying a major German blow while risking greater Russian dispersal. The Times questions whether either side gains a decisive edge and notes strategic implications for Italy, Serbia, and allied coordination.
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London
Galicia
Lemberg
Berlin
Tarnograd
Galician
Poland
Linsingen
Zurawna
Sukowina
Zurawha
Dniester
Niemerow
Jowarow
San
Grodek
Nicholas
Marne
the Times
Creatus
Italy
Serbia
Russia
Sinking of Lusitania probe ends in inquiry closure
June 17 in London an inquest into the Lusitania sinking by a German submarine wrapped up this afternoon with a short private session to gather further evidence. Attorneys debated safety zigzag theories, crew conduct, and coal economy while Baron Mersey and Solicitor-General Smith noted crew rescue rates and boat utilization questions.
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London
Turner
Admiralty
A. CG. Edwards
M.P
Seamen's Union
Baron Mersey
Edwards
A. Thomas
Smith
Sunday and Workers in Big Split Up
Bentley D Ackley former confidential secretary to Billy Sunday says he will expose the revivalists system. He claims dissension arose when George Marquis Sunday began to usurp duties. Ackley resigns over intolerable conditions. He cites money flows and hymn-book profits as systemic issues and alleges plagiarism in Sunday sermons.
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Philadelphia
Bentley D. Ackley
Billy Sunday
Ackley
Sunday’company
George ‘Marquis Sunday
Emmett
George
New York
Ackerly
Billy
Bentley
Fred ‘Siebert
Tabernacle
Roreheaver
Furious battles near Arras offensive gains reported
Paris dispatch says two days of intense fighting north of Arras. Infantry actions, heavy artillery, and multiple trench advances, with German counterattacks repulsed. Allies report gains around Souchez, Neuville, and hill 119, plus prisoners and air bombardments at Givenchy and La Folie.
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Paris
Arras
Aix Houlette
Souchez
Givenchy
la Folie
Quennevieres
Villers-Cotterets
Rheims
Eagles meet 1916 convention narrows vote for Springfield
In Springfield Illinois the Eagles annual convention produced a tight outcome with Rock Island's Asland edging Joliet by two votes for the 1916 leadership. M J McCabe faced John Fuelbier of Quincy for state secretary with Fuelbier winning in an eleventh hour rally. Frank A Correa was elected state president, the retiring chief receiving one honorary vote.
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Springfield
Ill
Rock. Asland
Eagles
Joliet
M.J. McCabe
John Fuelbier
Quincy
Worthy
Uiryan Interests
Chicago
Frank A. Correa
Sworthy
Danville Man War Victim
Ottawa dispatch reports tonights casualty list naming Armorer Corporal Lewis Guy Harrison Brown of Danville Illinois and Acting Sergeant Olafs Olson of Philadelphia as killed in action in the war casualty update.
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Danville
Ottawa
Ont
Lewis’ Guy Harrison Brown
Ill
Olaf’s.’ Olson
Philadelphia
800 Pound Kansas Woman Dies
Mabel Hammond aged 26 died in Harlan Kansas today from a stomach ailment. She weighed 800 pounds and once required a larger school doorway in girlhood. Her sister Bertha weighs 560 and is said to be still growing. The parents are average size, and the girls received many circus offers but refused them.
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Harlan
Kan
Mabel Hammond
Bertha
Front’ Circus
League to Enforce Peace Formed in Independence Hall
In Philadelphia on June 17 a conference at Independence Hall formed the League to Enforce Peace American branch. Former President Taft presided as permanent president and an executive committee was chosen to promote the league’s objects, with aims to prevent war by negotiation and, if necessary, force. The gathering stressed peace enforced through the league’s tribunals and councils, while debates centered on maintaining the option to use force to deter war.
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Philadelphia
Independence Hall
Bunker Hill
League To
Taft
Perman
League
United States
Bose
Resolutions Committee
George We. Kirchwey
Columbia’ University
A. Lawrence Lowell
Harvard University
Vadlitions
Hell
Washington notes loom on British reply to U N contraband order
Officials say Britain has intimated a reply to the March 30 American note protesting the order in council restricting non contraband commerce with Germany via neutral countries. The United States disputes detaining contraband cargoes at neutral destinations and is preparing a single note addressing contraband law and the latest Germany situation. A German reply or modus vivendi could delay sending the British reply.
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Washington
Great Britain
Order-In-Council
Germany
United States
Steel arch collapse wounds workers on Cleveland bridge
A steel arch at the east end of a new high level bridge under construction over the Cuyahoga river collapsed in Cleveland. One man was killed and three others probably fatally injured, with seven more hurt. Twenty workers were tossed to the ground.
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Cleveland
Cuyahoga River
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Gypsy” Smith
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de Carleul
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Neuville
Fuelbier Eagles
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