KEWo Notes Of A Week Condensed For Busy Readers
The week’s items note alleged bribery in the Lorimer Illinois race as Charles McGowan is said to have received 1500 for testimony. Albert B Cummins enters the Republican presidential race urging Iowa support. A post office probe says promoters of frauds took 77000000 from the public last year, a department high. Isaac Stephenson survives Wisconsin braking bribery charges with no proof found. Taft says US intervention in Cuba unlikely after talks in Washington and Havana. Lowe accuses major trusts of steering stock control and blocks prosecutions of the harvest trust.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert S. Sharp
Post Office Department
Washington
Governor to study flood relief in Black River Falls
Domestic Governor McGovern will investigate flood conditions at Black River Falls Wisconsin to decide if a special legislative session is needed to grant relief for the affected district.
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McGovern
Black River Falls
Wis
Eugene N. Foss
Massachusetts
Lawrence
Boston
State Capitol
Jamaica Plain
Italian and Turkish Attack At Tripoli Breaks After Hours of Fighting
A large force of Arabs and Turks attacked Italian troops departing Tripoli for Ghingarish. After several hours of combat the Italians rallied and the Turks retreated into the desert. Hundreds of attackers were killed. Italians suffered three killed and seven wounded.
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Tripoli
Ghingarish
Harahan Killed in Illinois Central Wreck at Kinmundy
James T. Harahan former Illinois Central president was killed in a rear end collision at Kinmundy Illinois with four other dead and about a score injured. Victims include E B Peirce F O Melcher and E E Wright. Fire spread to coaches as wreckage burned and passengers slept in berths were injured.
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Rock Island Railroad
E. B. Peirce
E. E. Wright
Illinois Central
Decatur
James T. Harahan
Illinois Central Railway
General Wright
Memphis
F. O. Melcher
Chicago & Rock Island Railway
Mr. Harahan
New Orleans
Kinmundy, Ill
Harahan
Illinois Central Railroad
F. ©. Melcher
Luke Wright
Kinmundy
Steel duties cut tariff bill shifts to ad valorem rates
A bill to revise the Payne tariff removes specific duties in favor of ad valorem rates and lowers many items by 33 to 75 percent. The measure would cut steel import duties from 84.51 percent to 22.42 and reduce government revenue by about 4.8 million dollars since 1910 while boosting steel product imports by nearly 20 million.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Underwood
Committee On Ways and Means
Webster Gets Life for Wife Murder in Joliet Penitentiary
Oregon ill Dr Harry Elgin Webster of Chicago was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his wife Bessie Kent Webster. Judge Farrand imposed solitary confinement for the first day and hard labor for the remainder, with costs of prosecution. Webster sobbed as the sentence was read and was taken to Joliet in custody.
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Oregon
Harry Elgin Webster
Chicago
Jolet
Bessie Kent Webster
Richard S. Farrand
Joliet
Dixon
Farrand
Webster
Jollet
Coulon Defeats Forbes by Technical Knockout in Kenosha
Johnny Coulon the world bantam champion defeated Harry Forbes the 1903 champion by technical knockout two minutes into the fourth round in Kenosha Wisconsin Forbes faded as he struggled to make weight and was knocked down four times before being stopped by Kid Howard from Forbes corner
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Kenosha
Wis
Johnny Coulon
Harry Forbes
Conlon
Forbes
Kid Howard
Piles Treated Successfully in Tennessee Ad Claims
A Memphis man testifies Resinol Ointment cured piles after years of failed remedies and extended to other local troubles and perspiring feet. The ad touts success for burns, eczema, and skin eruptions and offers free samples from Department 93, Resinol Chemical Co.
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L. Killian
Memphis
Tenn
Department 93
Resinol Chemical Co
Baltimore
How He Knew
A playful exchange between husband and wife about a milliner. The husband jokes the milliner is a bird, and the wife retorts she has neither wings nor feathers, while he points to her bill as proof.
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Hubby
When the Flag Looks Good
Robert G. Ingersoll contrasts labor hardship abroad with American abundance. He recalls laboring women bearing heavy loads yet knitting busily, and he vows America is the best country when the flag flies, inspiring joy as if the air itself blossomed.
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Robert G. Ingersoll
The Curse May You Had Three Sons and Love Marriages
London Opinion remarks on a curse wishing three sons and marriages for love. The quip frames a social lament about arranged matches and romantic unions in historical context.
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London
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Senate
William Lorimer
Illinois
Charles McGowan
Regina
Canada
Albert B. Cummins
Iowa
Isaac Stephenson
Wisconsin
Heyburn
Island Republic
United States
Havana
Taft
Cuba
F. J. Lowe
House Rules Committee
Sreel, Sugar, Beef and Bankers
International Harvester Company
Department of Justice
Harvester Trust
William B. Nash
Market Street Bank of
San Francisco
San Quentin
William H. Taber
American State Bank of
Terre Haute
Ind
Perry Hazelton
St. Louis
Missouri Military Academy
Mexico, Mo
Thomas Broughton
American Moving Picture Theater
Barberton
Frank Gormond
Lansing Coost
Leavenworth
Kan
Gormond
Key West
Florida East Coast Railway
Florida Keys
Virginia Reckart
Fairmont
W. Va
Elihu Root
New York State Bar Association
William Roberts
Iron Mountain, Mich
Black Hand
New Haven
Ora A. Chappell
Elgin
Nellie Mann Chappell
Allie M. Best Chappell
Gaynor
New York Park Commission Board
Isles of Safety
New York
Hartford (Nonn
Dunning (I
Institute For the Insane
Albert J. Beveridge
Indiana
Azebaijan
Persia
Khol
Yaguache
Ecuador
Quito
Guayaquil
Montero
Manchester
England
Winslow Hall
Buchan Rocks
Aberdeenshire
Yuan Shi Kai
Peking
James J. Harahan
F.C. Melcher
James T. Harahan, Sr
Coulon
Tennessee
Post
Postam Cereal Company, Limited
Battle Creek, Mich
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