Happenings in Washington and Abroad This Week
Secretary of the Treasury Mac Veagh plans a summer move to Dublin New Hampshire as adjournment nears Immigrant arrivals fall by 20 percent in June compared with May Taft attends tariff conferees dinner as deadlock persists in Congress. plus a wide spread of political and social items across the United States and abroad including aviation progress and notable crimes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington News
Secretary of the Treasury
MacVeagh
Washington
Dublin
N. H
Congress
United States
House
Taft
Aldrich
Payne
John W. Herron
Chalons
Suippes
France
John S. Wise, Jr
New York
Paris
Roosevelt
Charles W. Eliot
Harvard University
Boston
William Franklin Willoughby
Virginia
Census Bureau
Huntington Wilson
Denver
Portugal
Alexandra
England
London
National and regional news highlights across the country
The report covers the National Hay association starting in Cedar Point Ohio and a North Dakota jewelers and opticians convention in Grand Forks. It notes Alfred Wortman in Philadelphia prison after a fraud charge, a fatal Wabash wreck near Kansas City, a Big Four crash at Zionsville injuring forty-two, a Newport News shooting incident, Louis Bleriot’s Channel crossing, inspector Howard McCann’s bribery indictment, King Edward and Queen at Wrest Park, and naval militia summer cruises. Milwaukee lists 370 246 residents in new directory, up from last year.
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S. W. Strong
Pontiac
Ilinois Grain Dealers’ Association
Kankakee
United States League of Local Building and Loan Associations
Philadelphia
Cellarius
William Thompson
United States Navy
Sunnyside
Lake Washington
Seattle
Providence Hospital
General Biscuit Company
Hartford
Memphis
Tenn
Denver
Madarial Dhinagri
William Hutt Curzon Wyllie
Cawas Labaca
London
Cornelius Shea
Teamsters’ Union
Alice Welsh
New York
Foster
Amos P. Dorrence
Helena
Mont
Hot Springs
Ark
Max Ozzine
Hoboken
N. J
Richard Cannon
Speaker Cannon
John Noone
Danville
Ill
Crawfordsville
Ind
St. Petersburg
James Griffin
Chicago Police Force
Mexico City
Taft
Diaz
San Antonio
el Paso
Tex
Erie
New Jersey
American Telegraph & Telephone Company
Central District and Printing Telephone Company
Bell Telephone Concern
Pittsburg
Fargo
N. C
Adam God
Kansas City
Nicholas Mullan
Jefferson City
Russia
Travelers’ Insurance Company
Conn
Fred G. Jenkins
Farmers’ National Bank
Cynthiana
Latrobe
Greensburg
Wisconsin
Kenosha
E. H. Harriman
Duluth
Minn
Peter C. Hains
William E. Annis
Sing Sing
Washington
Argentine
Bolivia
Houston
Agnes Mayfield
Chicago
H. G. Hinkley
National Hay Association
Cedar Point
Maurice Niezer
Monroeville
North Dakota
Grand Forks
N. D
Alfred Wortman
Portland
Oregon
Zionsville
Josephine K. Binwick
Newport News
Louis Bleriot
Calais
France
Dover
England
Howard McCann
Lakes
Milwaukee
Absconding Assistant Cashier Robs Tipton Bank
Noah R Marker, assistant cashier of the First National Bank of Tipton Indiana, fled with about sixty thousand dollars after locking the vault time lock. The bank closed pending federal exam and efforts to recover funds. Marker left a note for his brother, later authorities sought his return while officials reassessed the bank's finances and pledged to pay creditors.
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Tipton
Ind
Noah R. Marker
First National Bank
Marker
Indianapolis
William Marker
Ever
Othet
National Bank
N. R. Marker
Lima
Shirk
Noah Marker
Tuillfanapolis
Tipton Bank
Insurance Company
Illinois highlights collide with crime and heroics across towns
Mrs Gertrude Hinkley widowed resident of 4411 8th avenue confesses to police a quarrel and attempted murder by her daughter Marie Mayfield at 180 Forty-first street. Earl Neely saves a drowning boy at Wing Park and earns Carnegie medal consideration. A fraud order targets Charles Ratzel of 275 La Salle street for insider wheat tips. Additional items cover legal battles and local governance in De Kalb Carmi Jerseyville Carlinville and Chicago.
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Chicago
Gertrude A. Hinkley
Bs Avenue
Marie Mayfield
Forty-first Street
Hunt
Waukegan
Albert Davis
Zion City
Wilbur Glenn Yoliva
Moore
Voliva
Post Office Department
Washington
Charles Ratzel
Ratzel & Co
la Salle Street
Post Office
Stuart
Ratzel
Elgin—Earl Neely
EL. A. Stickelman
Wing Park
Earl Neely
de Kalb
A. J. Freudenberg
Hazel Soderstrom
Beresford
M. D
Mills Shoals Township
Jerseyville
Thomas B. Royle
County Board of Review
J. S. McCullough
Jersey County Board of Review
Jersey County
Carlinville
J. B. Vaughn
Miners’ Examining Board
Macoupin County
George Hawkins
Staunton
Samuel Duggan
Girard
Thomas Long
Gillespie
Alton, Jacksonville & Peoria Railway Company
Alta L. Presler
la Salle Avenue
Washington, D. C
William Lorimer
Cannon
Illinois
Mann
Interstate Commerce Committee
Bloomington
Erie
Roosevelt Avenue
William Crabtree
Portsmouth
St. Joseph's Hospital
Rioting at Mee-Kees Rocks Ties Up Steel Plant
Rioting erupted for the first time in ten days at Mee-Kees Rocks near Pittsburg. Striking workers of the Pressed Steel Car Company were fired upon, allegedly by deputy sheriffs, with the plant again guarded by armed forces. The Butler unit of Standard Steel Car Company strike ended amicably.
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Pittsburg
Pressed Steel Car Company
Mee-Kees Rocks
Standard Steel Car Company
Butler
Kellogg Sponsors National Corn Exposition Trophy
W K Kellogg of Battle Creek announces a $1000 Kellogg trophy for the national corn exposition in Omaha December 6 to 18. The vase style prize, to be designed by Gorham or Tiffany, will become the winner's property after two victories. Kellogg cites seed selection and better cultivation as keys to higher yields and farm prosperity.
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Battle Creek
Mich
W. K. Kell
Omaha
Neb
Kellogg
Iowa
Holden
Farmer Raises Turkey Eggs In Odd Fashion
A Rhode Island farmer confounds neighbors by placing a hooded hen on 14 turkey eggs. Friends visit from near and far to witness the peculiar scene as onlookers joke about the number of poults the hen might hatch.
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Rhode Island
Silas
Hiram Haggers
Harper’s Weekly
Old Man Bitt and His Hay Helpers on a Hot Day
A city man rides with a glum driver toward a summer boarding-house in a rickety wagon. The driver mentions Pine field and Old man Bitt as the proprietor. The city man learns Bitt’s boys are stacking hay in the heat, a detail the driver implies is part of Bitt’s plan.
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Bitt
Hosses
Doctor Tests Grape-Nuts on Sick Children
A Kansas doctor reports using Grape-Nuts with his four year old son recovering from pneumonia and gaining eight pounds in a month. He describes another old patient with stomach issues who, after two to three weeks on the cereal, improved and gained 22 pounds before branching to rice or egg. The letter ends with a promotional line: There’s a Reason and a prompt to read Road to Wellville.
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Kansas
Wellville
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General News
Indiana Bank
First National
Illinois State News
M’kees Rocks
Armed Men Guard Plant
W. K. Kellogg
Farmer
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