Olson Freed By Jurors In Murder Case
In St Paul Minnesota April a jury found Professor Oscar M Olson not guilty of the murder of Clyde N Darling. The six day trial followed a confession by Mrs Olson after persistent harassment. The verdict brought an emotional reunion for the Olson family as Olson prepared to return home.
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Minn
Oscar M. Olson
Koemeniy
University of Minnesota Farm School
Clyde NS
Darling
Olson
Irr
Olson Kturns
Professor Olson
Han
Vorlig
Mre Olson
Awa
Wrotesor Olgon
Minimum wage bill proposed to fix $9 for women
In Washington the senate introduced a measure by Chilton to set a minimum wage of nine dollars weekly for all women and girls employed in interstate commerce. The bill also prohibits employing girls under 15 and covers coal mine inspections and diplomatic housing purchases by Americans. The senate adjourned at 12 40 until noon Saturday.
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Washington, D. C
Hille
Senate
Chilton
Missionary William W. Borden Dies in Cairo
Arbago April 9 William W Borden aged 25 multimillionaire who renounced wealth to serve as a missionary died today in Cairo Egypt of spinal meningitis He inherited his fortune and later pursued missionary work at Mood Institute Chicago
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William W. Borden
Cairo
Egypt
Young Borden
Mood Institute
Chicago
Weather Report for Rock Island Area Tonight and Tomorrow
The forecast covers Rock Island Davenport Moline and vicinity with rain or snow tonight and likely Thursday. A 7 am temperature of 37 with a high yesterday of 43 and a low last night of 35. Winds 20 mph at 7 am. Precipitation 0.39 inch and humidity 88 at 7 pm 95 at 7 am. Stage of water 8.1 with a 0.1 inch fall in the last 24 hours. Astronomical events list evening stars Venus Saturn morning stars Mercury Jupiter Mars and the Great Dipper high overhead near 10 pm.
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Davenport
Moline
J. M. Sherier
Venus
Saturn
Mercury
Jupiter
Mars
Miss Emerson Freed in London
London April 9. Miss Zelle Emer-50, suffraget from Jackson Michigan, released from Holloway jail last night. Taken by mother in a motor ambulance to a nursing home for medical care. Mrs Emerson fears for her daughter's condition and bars visitors. Annie Kenney, head of militant suffragists, arrested for inciting crime and released on bail. Olive Wharry, jailed March 9 to 18 months for setting a fire at Kew Gardens, also released.
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London
Zelle Emer- 50
Jackson
Mich
Holloway
Emerson
Miss Emerson
Annie Kenney
Emmeline Pankhurst
Olive Wharry
Kew Botanical Gardens
Officer Dead in an Airship Drop Near Fort Rosecrans
San Diego April 9. Lieutenant Rex Chandler coast artillery corps US A was killed instantly and Lieutenant Lewis H Lorre ton was badly hurt when a hydroplane fell into the bay just before noon near Fort Rosecrans. The wreckage lies in the bay and the plane plunged from about 100 feet as witnesses watched from shore. Both aviators were assigned to the army aviation school on North Island.
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Rex Chandler
Coast Artillery Corps
Lewis H. Lorreton
Bay
Fort Rosecrans
Fort
Brereton
Chandler
Army Aviation School
North Island
War Department
Aviation
Sister of Bandit Webb to Enter a Convent
Chicago TL April 9 Mary Webb sister of Robert Webb the automobile bandit will enter a convent as atonement for crimes his brother has confessed.
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Bandit Webb
Chicago
Mary Webb
Robert Webb
Pennsylvania Railroad to Issue 45 Million Dollar Stock
Directors of the Pennsylvania railroad approved a 10 percent stock issue totaling 45 million dollars. Existing stockholders may subscribe at par up to 10 percent of their holdings, under the new authorization.
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Pennsylvania Road
Philacelpnia
Pennsylvania Railroad
Banquet for Convicts at Jeffersonville Indiana
A Jeffersonville committee began soliciting funds to host a banquet for state reformatory convicts who toiled day and night to safeguard the city during the flood.
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Jeffersonville
Ind
State Reformatory
Governor vetoes Standard Oil bill in Missouri
Jenerconway Mo April 9 Governor Major vetoed a bill permitting Standard Oil to continue business in Missouri despite the state supreme court ouster decree. The governor said the measure passed late in the session would nullify Missouri anti trust laws.
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Major
Standard Oil Company
Missouri
State Supreme Court
Local men pass state civil service exam for carpenter
Rock Island residents Andrew A. Hussey of 1815 Twenty ninth street and Fred Linquist of 913 Twenty second street in Trenton New Jersey have passed the state civil service examination for carpenter. Governor Fielder plans a special legislative session in May to consider a jury reform bill advocated by President Wilson, which failed to pass at the last session.
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Springfield
Rock Island
Carpenter
Andrew A. Hussey
Twentyninth Street
Fred Linquist
Twenty-second Street
Trenton
N. J
Fielder
Wilson
Wilson May Carry Fight to the Polls
House Democrats caucused on tariff reform with open caucus backed by President Wilson. The caucuses will be secret and staged daily for several days as the Ways and Means committee shapes a tariff program. Wilson may appeal to voters in primaries if the bill stalls, and he planned a 3 pm meeting with the Senate finance committee in the Capitol to discuss the tariff.
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Washington, D. C
House Democrats
Ways and Means
House
Wilson
Senate
Capitol
Congress
White House
Estates
Finance Committee
Militia in Buffalo Strike Suppresses Street Turmoil
Buffalo N Y April Two thousand national guardsmen were ordered by the state supreme court to quell disorders from a street railway strike and quartered in armories at daybreak. an additional thousand were en route. A mounted detail was fired upon at Niagara and Tonawanda streets at 8 AM. troops charged the crowd but did not capture the shooters. No injuries reported. Strike leaders protested to Governor Sulzer. railway officials appealed to the supreme court for protection.
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Buffalo
N. Y
National
State Supreme Court
Niagara
TonaWanda
Sulzer
Supreme Court
Raiway
Breckenridge Named Assistant Secretary of War
War Department announces Henry C. Breckenridge of Lexington Kentucky will serve as assistant secretary of war and William H. Osborn of North Carolina named commissioner of internal revenue in an administration shakeup dated April 9 in Washington D C.
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WAR Department
H. C. Breckenridge
Washington, D. C
Henry ©. Breckenridge
Lexington
William H. Osborn
North Carolina
Internal Revenue
Progressive lawmakers map reform agenda in session
Washington April 9 legislative committee of house progressives met with the national progressive party to discuss bills expected to be introduced soon. They outlined measures to embrace reforms urged by the progressive platform and push action in the house.
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MOOSE
Washington, D. C
Legislative Committee
House Progressives
National Progressive Party
Eaton Will Gives Estate to Widow
Plymouth Mass April 9 The will of Rear Admiral Joseph G Eaton filed for probate leaves his estate to his widow except for 600 dollars She is awaiting trial on a murder charge The estate value is not disclosed
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Plymouth
Mass
Joseph G .Eaton
Flood Threat Grows As Rains Hit Midwestern Rivers
Cairo Ohio area reports rising water levels after days of rain and melting snow. Mississippi and Ohio basins see renewed danger to levees. Golconda Illinois cut off with town largely flooded, one week without outside contact. Congress weighs relief measures including a 40 million dollar appropriation and a 12 million plan to improve Mississippi channels. Red Cross and national banks mobilize funds totaling about 1.4 million dollars. Italian Red Cross offered alcohol supplies rejected due to shortages elsewhere.
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Ohio
Mississippi
Meimper S
Tenn
Golconda
Washington
Indiana
Gard
Cox
Representative Cullop
Humphreys
National Board of Directors of
Rights of Columbus
American Red Cross
New York
National Treasury
Ait Dayton National Banks
Italian Red Cross
Nicholas Plans to Abdicate Throne Amid Union Talks
London reports King Nicholas of Montenegro intends to abdicate if external forces threaten his realm. Negotiations with King Peter of Servia outline Nicholas and his family leaving Montenegro, a Serbo Montenegrin throne union forming, with provisions from the civil list and a reserved succession.
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London
Nicholas
Montenegro
Peter of
Servia
Mill Blaze Kills One in Chicago Fire
A worker died and 75 escaped injury as a blaze destroyed the planing mill of William Morris & Sons Co. on the South Side. The fire caused about 100000 dollars in losses.
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Chicago
William Morris & Sons Co
California land ban spawns Japan protest and White House note
Widespread irritation in Japan over California bills barring land ownership by aliens who have not declared naturalization. Japanese merchants threaten to boycott the Panama Pacific Exposition unless the measures are withdrawn. President Wilson informed that the federal government would not interfere, noting the act applies to all aliens and respects state sovereignty.
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Tokio
Japan
California
United States
Wilson
Bryan
Washington, D.C
Becomig
Repro Baker
Chicagoan elected president of Wilnels Bar Association
Robert McMurdy of Chicago was elected president of the Wilnels Site Bar Association in Springfield on April 6. The event marks a leadership change within the association serving lawyers in the region.
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Springfield
Robert McMurdy
Chicago
Bar
Queda Holds Out Against Attack
In two battles near Naco and ongoing artillery duels, federals suffer heavy losses while state troops incur greater casualties. Twenty federals wounded, seven killed, two died in hospital. U.S. Army medics treat twenty more. deserters report heavy losses amid shell and machine gun fire. Private White and Trumpeter Flemming wounded, Brown gravely wounded. Local violence also touches El Paso and Galveston with casualties and political threats surfacing.
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Naco
Ariz
Sonora
Ojeda
United States Army Medical Corps
White
Ninth United States Cavalry
Flemming
C. J. Brown
el Paso
Texas
Washington
Bryan
Wilson
Mexico City
Roque Gonzalez Garza
Madero Chamber of Deputies
United States
Huerta
Great Britain
Russia
Redfield Calls For Industry Probe On Trusts
Secretary Redfield of the Commerce Department urged a thorough study by the Bureau of Corporations into whether trusts are industrially efficient or national menaces. He noted many trusts have failed commercially and profits on securities lag those of smaller private firms, and said exact facts must be exhaustively worked out.
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Washington
Redfield
Department of Commerce
American Cotton Manufacturers’ Association
Bureau of Corporations
Department
Pope Condition Improves As Doctors Hopeful In Rome
Rome reports say the pope's condition improved with fever reduced and temperature near normal after a long morning visit by Professor Marchiafava. Officials urge rest as storm and fainting rumors swirl. prayers planned and pilgrimages suspended amid cautious optimism.
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Rome
Marchiafava
Marchisova
Pompili
di San Pietro
Vatican
Associated Press
New York
Schriembs
Toledo
the Observatore Romano
McReynolds Opposed to Dissolution Plan For Rail Merger
Attorney General McReynolds rejects Lovett proposed dissolution of the Union Pacific Southern Pacific merger. Union Pacific plans to submit the dissolution proposal to the federal court in St Louis for consideration.
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M’reynolds
Washington, D. C
McReynolds
Diesaj
Union Pacific
Southern Pacific
Lovett
Union Pacific Board
St. Louis
Brooklyn Opens National Season at Ebbetts Field
Under a brilliant sun the National League season opened at Ebbetts Field Brooklyn with fans flocking early as Brooklyn received the first opening day. Philadelphia assisted while other teams in both leagues begin play tomorrow in 1913.
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Ebbetts Field
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
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