Funeral plans announced for James J. Hill in St Paul
James J. Hill dies in St Paul after illness and will be buried in a private North Oaks mausoleum. Funeral at 2 p.m. Wednesday at 240 Summit Avenue, with public services followed by private interment. Great Northern offices close. Hill family releases statement noting simplicity and flowers to the house. Old employees to pay respects at the residence. First National Bank of St Paul transfers control to Louis V Hill. traffic on Till lines halted 2:00 to 2:05 p.m. in tribute.
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ST. Paul, Minn
James J. Hill
Summit Enue
Calvary Cemetery
North Oak Farm
St. Paul
Empire Builder
Mr. Hill
Puse
General Services
Great Northern Railway
Lrst National Bank and Northwest Inust Company
Mily
Louis W. Hill
Hill
Anson Ecard
James S
Samuel Hil
Gibbons
Hull
Summit Avenue
P. m
North Oaks
Buill
Louis V
Janes Hill
First National Bank
Mississippi River
Ank
Till
Grand Rapids Dentist to Appeal Murder Verdict
Clyde Waite brother of Dr. Arthur Warren Waite announced in Grand Rapids that an appeal would be filed from the New York jury verdict finding the young dentist guilty of first degree murder for poisoning his millionaire father-in-law John E. Peck. Waite and his father returned from New York to disclose the plan.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
Clyde Waite
Arthur Warren Waite
Lastaturday
New York
John E. Peck
Annapolis Honor Men Named At Naval Academy
Annapolis Md May 30 An announcement of the names of the star graduates for the class next day at the Naval Academy lists Henry B Mullinix Indiana Norman F E Barre Illinois Ralph E Davidson Missouri Don Moon Indiana Russell R Berkey Indiana Robert C Bourne Massachusetts George F Russell Jr Massachusetts Thomas J Kilcher Jr Massachusetts Osborne B Hardison North Carolina.
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Annapolis
Naval Academy
Henry B. Mullnix
Indiana
Norman FE. Barre
Tiiois
Ralph E. Davidson
Missouri
Don . Moon
Russell R. Berkey
Robert C Bourne
Massachuette
George F. Russell
Massachusetts
Thomas J. Kilcher, Jr
Massachusets
Osborne B. Hardison
Orth Carolina
Fresh Note on Carranza Portrayed as Mysterious
Washington officials puzzled as a new note from Gen. Carranza failed to reach the Mexican embassy. Manuel Mendez arrived declaring no knowledge of the note while Eliseo Arredondo denied any foreign office message. Rumors tied to troop mobilization near Chihuahua City and possible U.S. troop withdrawal circulated as Herrera’s name echoed from past tensions.
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Washington
State Department
Carranza
Department
Manuel Mendez
Foreign Office
Mexico
Eliseo Arredondo
Mendez
Mexico City
Lansing
War Department
Chihuahua City
Scott
Trejino
Luis Herrera
Rodgers
Herrera
Columbus
Roosevelt in Chicago For Four Hour Stopover
Theodore Roosevelt halted in Chicago for four hours en route from Oyster Bay to Kansas City for a Memorial Day speech. He greeted a packed LaSalle Station crowd and later addressed guests at his hotel lobby. He conferred with Progressive leaders about Fort Benjamin Harrison training camp plans and met officials and party figures before departing at 8 PM.
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Chicago
Theodore Roosevelt
Oyster Bay
Kansas City
LaSalle
Col. Roosevelt
Progressive Party
Central Department Military Training Camp Association
Fort Benjamin
Indianapolis
German War Loan Proves Popular Across Subscriptions
Berlin May 30 figures show a rise in small subscribers for the German war loan. At least 259,988 Germans subscribed 1000 mark units, surpassing September 1915 numbers and indicating growing support among poorer classes, according to bankers.
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Berlin
Crew of Trunkby Arrives in Algiers
The crew of 26 men from the British steamer Trunkby, sunk by an unknown submarine, have arrived in Algiers via Paris. The 2635-ton vessel, owned by R. Ropnet & Co of West Hartlepool, was built in 1866 and was last reported arriving at the Clyde on March 2.
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Algiers
Paris
Trunkby
R. Ropnet and Company
West Hartlepool
Clyde
Berlin to Feed City Dwellers via Central Kitchens
Berlin officials move to relieve wartime food shortages by creating municipal central kitchens in major cities. Adolph Von Batocki announced Reichstag funding for municipalities to establish and run kitchens, with Schoeneberg already preparing to feed about 30,000 people. A Berlin conference launched similar measures despite limited attendance. The Prussian decree orders provinces not to ban export of provisions except in rare cases to curb meat scarcity.
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Berlin
Food Regulation Board
Adolph von Batocki
Ways and Means Committee
Reichstag
Schoeneberg
Frau
Hedwig Heyle
Fraulein Landsberg
Germans Shel Avogourt Wood War Update
Paris reports from May 30 that the war office described an intense Meuse bombardment from Avecourt wood to Cumieres. German assault on Hill 304 was repulsed with losses, a second attack checked, and enemy forces were driven back by artillery and barrier fire near Le Mort Homme and Canieres. Another strong attack northeast of Cumieres breached a single trench briefly. Heavy artillery activity continued east and west of Fort Douaumont.
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Paris
War Office
Meuse
Avecourt Wood
Cumieres
le Mort Homme
Canieres
Cordeaux
Fort Douaumont
German Emperor Rides Street Car in Elbing Visit
The German emperor rode a busy street car in Elbing on a May morning, paying groschen fares like other passengers. He and his small suite boarded a bob tail car, confirmed its route to Schichau shipyards, and the emperor thanked the motorman with a ten mark tip after the ride. Automobiles stood ready to take the party to the station once authorities learned of the visit.
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Elbing
Prussia
Berlin
Schichau
Schichau Yards
Chicago Prepares for Massive Preparedness Parade
Chicago awakes to a planned mass display as over one million residents suspend chores to join and witness the great preparedness parade slated for next Saturday amid patriotic fervor and citywide readiness.
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Chicago
Principles of German Americans CHICAGO May 30 1916
Official statement from a Chicago meeting of German American leaders lists 25 states and Alaska delegates and proxies from churches social and business groups and the German American Press Association. It presents a platform of principles urging neutrality foreign policy protecting American lives and interests opposing partisan racial division and urging major party candidates to align with these views.
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Chicago
Alaska
German American Press Association
United States
George Washington
Republican Convention
Democratic Convention
Italians Hold In Tyrol As Verdun Front Sees Fierce Combat
In Tyrol Italian lines repel Austrian assaults with heavy losses while Germans gain about 300 meters of French trenches near Cantieres on the Meuse. Intense fighting rages around Hill 304 Le Mort Homme and Cumieres, with French counteroffensives nullifying German onslaughts. Artillery duels persist near Verdun and along the Franco Belgian front.
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London
Verdun
Tyrol
Cantieres
Meuse
Verdon
le Mort Homme
Cumieres
Fort Douaumont
France
Belgium
Lagarina
Posina Torrent
Astaga
Monte Mosciag
Petrograd
Riga
Sculptor at Work in German Prison
Parisian Lea Gall crafts a memorial in Griesheim near Darmstadt for French prisoners who died there. The sculpture features a dying soldier on marble stairs, relief portraits of family on a wall, and a standing figure personifying France, with names carved at the wall ends.
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Berlin
Griesheim
Darmstadt
Lea Gall
Cam
France
Roosevelt Headquarters Opened in Chicago for Campaign
Chicago May 30 Republican Roosevelt headquarters opened by Herbert Satterlee and Lawrence Graham to gather delegate votes as Roosevelt heads toward Kansas City. George Von L Meyer expected to lead preconvention campaign. suffrage factions clash over a national woman suffrage plank. Contests total forty affecting 62 delegates. ten loud-voiced clerks appointed for convention duties.
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Chicago
Roosevelt
Herbert L. Satterlee
Lawrence Graham
New York
Col. Roosevelt
Kansas City
George von L. Meyer
Alice Hill Chittenden
New York State
Anti-National Woman Suffrage Association
Hilles
Convention
National Anti Woman Suffrage Association
National Congress Union
Resolutions
Hawaii
Porto Rico
Philippines
Republican National Committee
District of Columbia
Alaska
Henry R. Rathborne
H. H. Bancroft
Jacksonville
J. Mitchell Galvin
Boston
Malcolm Jennings
Columbus
Charles M. Day
Sioux Falls
S. D
Will A. Waite
Detroit
Mich
David J. White
Rhode Island
W. E. Scott
Pueblo
Colo
Willam T
Town
Robert M. LaFollette
Wisconsin
Philader C. Knox
Pennsylvania
Gov
M. G. Brumbaugh
Idiotic War Seen By Hamburg Shipping Leader
Albert Ballin, war manager of German railways and Hamburg America, called the war the greatest bloodiest idiotic war of all time in a Woermann Shipping meeting address. He said German shipping must rebuild and then wage a new economic war against strengthened rivals, and expressed confidence the Hanseatic spirit would endure. He urged freedom in world trade so Germans would no longer be tenants of England and thanked the Reichstag for backing rapid merchant marine rebuilding with government aid.
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Hamburg
London
Albert Ballin
Hamburg American Steamship Company
Woermann Shipping Company
Herr Ballin
England
Reichstag
Germany
Chief Iron Tail Dies On Train Near Rushville Neb
Chief Tron Tail, 65, of a government reservation home near Rushville Nebraska, died on a passenger train after leaving Fort Wayne Indiana. His death was not discovered until the train reached Chicago.
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Iron Tail
Chicago
Chief Tron Tail
Rushville
Neb
Ft. Wayne
Ind
Chicago Trustees Protest Rivers and Harbors Bill Amendment
Chicago trustees protested a senate amendment to the rivers and harbors bill limiting Great Lakes water flow to 250000 cubic feet per minute. They warn of typhoid epidemics and higher death rates, citing current flows around 500000 cfm and arguing loss to Chicago and state residents. The telegraph urged Illinois lawmakers to urge removal of the provision, signed by Dailey Paullin Clark and Adcock.
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Chicago
United States Senate
Great Lakes
Congress
Illinois
LaFollette
Pittsburgh Steamship Company
United States Steel Corporation
Board of Engineers On
United States
Washington
James M. Dailey
George W. Paullin
Wallace G. Clark
Edmund D. Adcock
Kitchin Defends Naval Bill Against Five Year Program
House including Majority Leader Kitchin spoke in favor of the naval appropriations bill while opposing the five year building plan. He argued preparedness clamor stems from hysteria and jingoism and warned against contracting for ships at peak prices. Britton and others criticized the bill as unscientific and a patchwork, advocating a larger program with two dreadnoughts and six cruisers.
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Washington
Kitchin
House
Navy Department
Farr
Pennsylvania
Britton
Illinois
Roberts
Massachusetts
New York Delegates Back Hughes for President
Frederick Tanner, chairman of the Republican state committee and a delegate at large, released a statement saying a canvass shows a clear majority of New York delegates favor Justice Hughes for president. Tanner noted admiration for Senator Root but said Hughes leads among the delegation despite Hinghes’ nonparticipation.
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New York
Justice Hughes
Frederick Tanner
Republican State Committee
Justice P Hughes
Tanner
Root
Hinghes
Amendment Limits Water for Sluicing Chicago River
Senate passes rivers and harbors bill about 43 million dollars with amendments. An Illinois river navigation provision restricts water from the Great Lakes to 250000 cubic feet per minute for sluicing the Chicago drainage canal. The bill goes to conference. dispute over funding and bids for economy cited by Senator Kenyon.
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Washington
Senate
Illinois River
Ilinois
LaFollette
Great Lakes
Chicago Drainage Canal
Telegram Mystery in the Orpet Case
In Waukegan Illinois on May 30 the Orpet murder trial centered on a telegram from Lake Forest dated February 21, 1916 sent to Joseph Hartman in Chicago. The defense attorney read the message signed A or G and urged jurors to consider its meaning while court adjourned with eight jurors sworn. Two other potential jurors, William Jones and David Carlson, were tentatively accepted.
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Waukegan
Lake Forest
Joseph Hartman
Chicago
Will ST. Orpet
Marian Lambert
Tames HH. Wilkerson
William Jones
David Carlson
Texas Guard Recruitment to War Strength Near Border
May 30 San Antonio reports a War Department authorization to raise Texas militia units now in federal service to full war strength. Recruiting agents will visit towns where companies formed to enroll men to 160 per company, boosting border forces by 1,3400 men. General Pershing notes no new developments beyond continued Mexican troop movements northward.
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San Antonio
Tex
War Department
Texas Militia
Pershing
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Gore
Hollis
Hasting
Lane
Newlands
Pittman
Pomerone
Taggart
Thomas
Thompson
Chamber
Way Commission
E Gatlinger
New Hampshire
Orpet
Texas Guard
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