Senate panel says Stephenson may have no seat
Five members of the Senate elections committee file a minority report claiming election evidence shows voters were paid at polls and records were manipulated. The report argues corrupt practices occurred in the Stephenson primary, urging vacant-seat action to deter price buying of seats.
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Washington
Isaac Stephenson
Wisconsin
Senate Committee On Elections
Senate
Kenyon
Clapp
Jones
Lea
Kern
Stephenson
Southerner Walks to Gallows with a Smile
Mobile Alabama February 19 J Lawrence Odom convicted of murdering three people was hanged today He refused priestly ministrations from a clergyman and his own son a Catholic priest He asked to see his five year old daughter Hazel to remove the black cap and then laughed asking to see his wife Odom was wealthy and faced the gallows with a smile
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Mobile
Ala
J. Lawrence Odom
Odom
Hazel
Witness School in Packer Case
A special federal grand jury was empaneled and sworn to probe whether counsel for the meat packers or related parties ran a witness school. The investigation centers on whether packing firm employees were coached on testimony before the trial before Judge Carpenter.
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Chicago
Lendis
Carpenter
Weather Forecast for Rock Island and Vicinity
Generally cloudy tonight and Tuesday with colder temperatures. Lowest near 29 to 25 degrees, 7 am reading 29, wind light, no precipitation. High yesterday 61, humidity 77 at 7 pm and 91 at 7 am, forecaster J M Sherier. Astronomical events include sun set at 5 40, rise at 6 46, moon set at 7 20.
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Rock Island
Davenport
Moline
J. M. Sherier
Peril to 14 year old girl as wage earner revealed
Chicago reports from three women's clubs detail the fate of untrained girls who quit school at 14. The study urges vocational schools and an employment bureau to prevent vice and aimless wandering, noting 23,000 Chicago children left school in 1910 and many under 16 struggle to find lawful, steady work.
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Chicago
Imogen S. Pierce
Francis Parker
Chicago Woman's Club
Woman's City Club
Association of College Alumnae
Ilinois
Taft Accepts Bid To Chicago Next Month
President Taft agrees to attend a banquet of the Swedish-American Republican society in Chicago on March 9, per an invitation extended over a year ago. The notice includes related federal grand jury actions in New York and a series of other local incidents from Feb 19.
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Taft
Chicago
Washington
Swedish-American Republican Society of
New York
Steel Corporation
Dupont Cash Builds Road For Better Delaware
Wilmington February 19 General T Coleman Dupont plans a 2 million dollar boulevard and will devote most of his fortune to building good roads not libraries. The sponsor believes improved highways will do more good for Delaware than libraries and other projects.
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Delaware
Wilmington
Del
T. Coleman Dupont
Commonwealths
Dupont
Pitney Nominated to Supreme Court Justice Seat
President Taft sent the senate the nomination of Chancellor Mahlon Pitney of New Jersey for associate justice of the Supreme Court. Ferdinand A. Geiger of Cassville Wisconsin was named district judge for the eastern district of Wisconsin.
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Washington
Senate
Mahlon Pitney
New Jersey
Supreme Court
Ferdinand A. Geiger
Cassville
Wis
Wisconsin
Pitney
Taft
Johnson backs Roosevelt for Republican nominee
New York February 19. Governor Johnson of California, once a La Follette supporter, issued a formal statement stating Roosevelt should be the next Republican presidential nominee. The action marks a political shift and frames Roosevelt as the preferred standard bearer for the party.
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New York
Johnson
California
la Follette
Roosevelt
Prosecution Ties to Darrow Conspiracy Evidence Surface
Indianapolis reports reveal the government possesses the original copy of a 1910 iron workers convention resolution banning explosions. Los Angeles confirms two telephone devices used to gather evidence in dynamite cases, with one tattler in Ortie McManigal's cell. Cooley bonds out in New Orleans case. Treitmoe and Clancy arrested in San Francisco. Irwin captured in Chicago after a long search, with $5,000 bond set and two indicted still at large.
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Indianapolis
Rochester
Miller
Los Angeles
Fredericks
Ortie McManigal
McNamara Defense
Cooley
Ind
Philip A. Cooley
New Orleans
San Francisco
Olaf Treitmoe
Eugene Clancy
Irwin
Chicago
John W. Irwin
Patrick Ryan
Peoria
Richard H. Houlihan
South Forty-third Avenue
West Lake
United States
Crowley
Foote
Best Philanthropy and Political Standoffs Across States
In various reports from Des Moines Washington and Peking, discussions unfold over philanthropy and governance. Dupont favors roads over libraries as a major philanthropic aim while Pitney fills a New Jersey vacancy amid labor protests. Yuan announces presidency as a Chinese republic moves forward. Shuster’s father lies ill in Washington as Persia’s treasury chief travels, and a Terre Haute trustee’s suicide ends a legal drift.
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Pitney
New Jersey
Congress
John M.harlan
Iowa
Des Moines
Urick
Iowa Federation of Labor Today
Cummins and
Kenyon
Washington
Pittney
Supreme Bench
Roosevelt Favored in Ballot, Johnson Claims Five to One
Johnson stated Roosevelt would win by five to one on any ballot, noting Roosevelt’s four years in office and the GOP’s low ebb. He argued onlyprogressivism remains victorious in state government and warned that continuing with the current leader would spell political ruin.
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Johnson
Roosevelt
Republican Party
Reverend Resigns Pulpit to Raise Chickens
Great Barrington Massachusetts February 19 Reverend Hiram Spencer resigns as pastor of the Congregational church to devote his efforts to chicken farming after failing to earn a satisfactory living in the pulpit.
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Great Barrington
Mass
Hiram Spencer
Congregational Church
Railroads may place bigger orders for equipment soon
WIRE SPARKS reports mixed US and international items. Mills in New York see satisfaction from rail demand, while cotton goods trade remains active until the raw cotton dip. Wilson orders Reno laboratory to test potash bearing materials for free national use. Labour disruptions in Lawrence see no replies from mill agents and a Central Labor Union meeting postponed. Paraguay and Argentina improve ties. Italian commander Canéva returns from Rome with campaign plans. Company A LN.G. awaits annual inspections in March and April under state and federal officers.
Ospina Says Knox Visit Now Inopportune on Panama Partition
Colombian Minister Ospina indicated that Secretary Knox’s planned visit to Colombia would be ill timed. He stressed Colombia’s impatience for arbitration of disputes over Panama partition and noted the situation has changed since an earlier expectation of U S recognition of arbitration. Knox’s itinerary remained unchanged pending Bogota’s direct word.
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Washington
Knox
Colombia
United States
Ospina
Taft
Caribbean Sea
Panama
State Department
Bogota
Lawrence Women Defy Police in Textile Strike
A dozen Polish women workers picketing in Lawrence Massachusetts during the great textile strike defied police and militia. They scattered only after a squad of 30 officers and a small infantry detachment arrived at the scene.
Attack on British government traced to Lords reform squabble
London February 19 A censure move in the Commons aimed at government pledges to reconstruct the House of Lords. Meanwhile grim news from New York reports a dramatic wedding eve tragedy as a groom-to-be hanged himself after a quarrel with his fiancée, and Cornell skating crash ends in two students missing after Cayuga Lake accident.
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London
Commons
House of Lords
New York
Brooklyn
John Messerschmidt
Messerschmidt
Anna Speath
Cornell
Ithaca
N. Y
Pary A. Converse
Buffalo
Charles W. Getman
Richfield Springs
Cayuga Lake
Three Negroes Shot Dead in Shelbyville Court
Shelbyville Tennessee February 19 three negroes were shot dead in the county courtroom this afternoon. They faced murder charges in the death of Railroad Detective Everson. As the evidence accumulated spectators grew angry and at once the men fell under a hail of bullets from all parts of the courtroom.
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Shelbyville
Tenn
Everson
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