Million and Half to Send Taft Across
Postmaster General Hitchcock testified before the senate committee on 1904 and 1908 campaign contributions that Taft’s funds were accurately filed in Albany. The total raised was 1 005 518 dollars with most gifts under 5 dollars, save several large donors including Charles P Taft and Andrew Carnegie. Banks contributed but stockholders and tobacco trusts largely did not. Tomorrow William F Sheehan will testify. Atlantic City experiment with city government by commission began as five commissioners chose William Riddle as mayor.
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Washington
Hitchcock
Senate
Taft
Albany
N. Y
Congress
Finance Committee
Earch State
Charles P. Taft
William Nelson Cromwell
Tobaccs Trust
Khom Stem
SOL Des
Steel Corporation
Monsey
Cochran
Oliver
Paynter
Siitchcock
International Harvester Company
Perkins
McCormicke
Frank Muncey
George Perkins
Clarence S. Funk
MD Perkins
Nater
McCormickst
William F. Sheehan
Democratic National Executive Committee
Atlantic City
N. J
William Riddle
Heistand May Be Adjutant General
Col H O S Metstand in line for promotion to adjutant general of the army. General Hall took the post after the sensational resignation of General Fire. The vacancy is open again after his recent retirement. Appointment likely within weeks.
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H. O S Metstand
Army
Hall
Weather forecast for Rock Island area
Generally fair and cooler tonight and Thursday with light winds. Yesterday's high 79 and low 59. At 7 am 64 degrees, wind three mph. No precipitation in 24 hours. Humidity 46 percent at 7 pm and 82 percent at 7 am. Water stage 3.2 feet, up 0.1 in 24 hours. Astronomical events from today noon to tomorrow noon include sun set 7:20 and rise 4:42 with visible planets Mars Jupiter Mercury Venus in evening sky and Saturn in morning.
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Rock Island
Davenport
Moline
Sherier
Mars
Jupiter
Mercury
Venus
Saturn
Auto Hits Pole Injuring Five In Des Moines Area
Des Moines July 17 five persons were badly injured when an automobile carrying them struck a telephone pole and rolled down an 11 foot embankment on the outskirts of the city. The injured include James Staley driver C M Russell of Boone Louis Clement of Waterloo Iva Woods and Clara Woods both of Des Moines. All were taken to a hospital and it is reported they will recover. Staley was arrested on a charge of failing to report the accident. Other members of the party may be arrested.
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Des Moines
James Staley
C. M. Russell
Boone
Iowa
Louis Clement
Waterloo
Iva Woods
Clara Woods
Staley
Ethel Conrad Gagged in West Side Park
New York July 17 Miss Ethel Conrad chorus girl once acquitted with Miss Lillian Graham for attempted murder of W. E. D. Stokes is now a hospital patient after police say she was found unconscious in a vacant lot on the upper west side a chloroformed handkerchief over her mouth and her hands and feet tied with rope she said a man followed her after leaving the subway last night and her mind went blank she would not reveal her name until Miss Graham identified her
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New York
Ethel Conrad
Lillian Graham
W. E. D. Stokes
Upper West Side
Mise Graham
Kidnapped Child Found With Indians in Lenox Iowa
Marshalltown Iowa July 17 a little son of J D Marlow of Lone Rock Iowa said to have been kidnapped near his home weeks ago was found by detectives at Lenox Iowa Today word says the child was found with a party of Cherokee Indians An Indian and a squaw were arrested A telegram from Lenox says the child found with the Indians is not the son of J D Harlow of Lone Rock
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Marshalltown
Iowa
J. D. Marlow
Lane Rock
Lenox
J. D. Harlow
Lone Rock
Wilson denies soft place for his son period
Secretary Wilson testifies before the house committee denying Akins charges that his son Jasper Wilson earns a large salary from the western irrigation project through the secretary's influence. He claims no action was taken to secure the position and the government provided no funding to the company. Representative Bucker of Colorado corroborates him.
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Wilson
Washington
House Committee
Akins
Jasper Wilson
Western Irrigation Project
Bucker
Colorado
Trousers Open Gas Jet. Man Found Dead in Chicago Flat
Frederick Utes habit of hanging his trousers on a gas fixture led to a fatal gas leak in his bedroom. A milkman alerted police after smelling escaping gas. officers broke in and found Utes dead.
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Chicago
Frederick Utes
Utes
Cardinal Gibbons Denounces Bailey Revolution Prognosis
Baltimore July 17 Cardinal Gib bons disapproves of Senator Bailey idea that if current US conditions persist for 30 years a revolution like France could occur He says No and warns any revolution would resemble a revolution of words at the Democratic National Convention He trusts the people to avert such a state of affairs.
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Baltimore
Cardinal Gibbons
Bailey
United States
France
Cabinet Out and Turkish Army Rebels
Constantinople July 17 Army mutiny drives the Turkish cabinet from power as soldiers desert and most officers lean toward joining Albanian insurgents, creating a crisis over control and government legitimacy amid a revolt against the committee's methods.
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Constantinople
Committee of UN
Senate Resents Executive Club in Taft Lori mer Clash
The United States senate reaffirmed its independence after a Lorimer post mortem spurred a rebuke of executive meddling. Senator Bailey, a Texas Democrat, denounced President Taft for using office influence to gain votes to oust Lorimer, stressing constitutional separation of powers.
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Washington
United States
Senate
Lorimer
Bailey
Taft
Lori
Theodore Roosevelt
Borah
Crawford
Burton
Jones
Roosevelt
Arrest Four in New York Murder Case
New York July 17 fourth arrest in the murder of gambler Herman Rosenthal, who was shot yesterday, was made today as Commissioner Waldo calls for a complete police inquiry into the part taken by officers.
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New York
Waldo
Herman Rosenthal
Turbulent Turkish politics and Albanian rebel fears spread
Reports from Athens say liberal factions in Turkey plot to place Prince Mejid Effendi on the throne as officers mutinous amid disaffection among troops fighting Albanian rebels. Nearby, unrest grows with hundreds deserting to the rebel side and fears of swift political change following recent cabinet resignations.
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Ion
Progress
Mahmoud Shefket Pasha
Athens
Liberal Party
Turkey
Mejid Effendi
Sultan Mourad
Sultan Mahmed Rechad Kahn
Body of a Child Slayer Found Floating in Hudson River
New York July 17. A body floating in the Hudson was taken to a Hoboken morgue and identified by a brother as Nathan Swartz, the man indicted for the murder of Julia Conners in the Bronx on July 7. A brother-in-law initially claimed certainty but later questioned the identification. Other relatives were summoned.
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New York
Hudson River
Hoboken
Nathan Swartz
Julia Conners
Bronx
Swartz
Roosevelt Near Break With AIDS Fight at Chicago Convention
Roosevelt rejects any compromise that would recognize Taft in the primary states. He plans to debate the issue at the Chicago convention next month while Wilson considers his gubernatorial status and a list of debatable states. Three “fixers” named in Rosenthal case surface as investigators tie suspects to police and civic circles.
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Chicago
Wilson
Oyster Bay
Flinn
van Valkenburg
Pennsylvania
Taft
Roosevelt
Underwood
Trenton
Massachusetts
Wisconsin
Indictment Lodges in Poisoning Case of Louise Lindloff
Chicago July 17 an indictment charging Mrs Louise Lindloff with poisoning her son Arthur was returned today The coroner investigated the death and several relatives bodies were disinterred with chemical tests showing arsenic in their vitals according to coroner reports
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Chicago
Louise Lindloff
Arthur
Fifty Million Concern Is Result of Merger
Minneapolis July 17 Emerson Brantingham company gains control of Rockford Gas Traction Minneapolis turning the Gas Traction into part of a $50,000,000 syndicate. The sale of the local concern was announced today. CF Brantigan of Rockford becomes president of the new organization planning to manufacture farm machinery.
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Minneapolis, Minn
Emerson-Brantingham Company
Rockford, Ill
Gas Traction Company of
Minneapolis
International Harvester Company
Brantigan
Rockford
American in Mexico Faces Death Sentence
Washington July 17. The state department reports that Patrick Dunne, an American, is imprisoned in Mexico under a death sentence. Consular officers have been ordered to locate Dunne and strive to save his life.
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Washington
Mexico
Patrick Dunne
State Department
Kinkaid
Nebraska
Thenne
Body of Savanna Man Found. Police Suspect Murder
The body of Russell Cliff, 60, once a wealthy Savanna citizen, was found in Plum River today. Police believe he was murdered, noting a bruise on the ear as a possible injury.
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Savanna
Russell Cliff
Plum River
Bruke
Man Runs Amuck in Tampa Leaves Three Dead
In Tampa on July 16 a Black man with a public safety item and mental illness fatally harmed three people of the same race, including two women, while injuring another woman and Officer Riggs. The incident left two additional victims hospitalized.
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Tampa
Fla
Robbers fatally assault man over no money in Chicago
On July 17 in Chicago, Nicholas Doutas of Geneva Illinois was fatally stabbed after robbers, angry at a mistaken target, kicked and struck him until he lost consciousness. Police report four assailants inflicted the fatal blows and fled.
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Chicago
Nicholas Doutas
Geneva
Senate Debates Tariff Bills and Adjournment Tactics
Democratic filibuster presses for quick action on remaining tariff bills and an excise tax measure as Republicans show cautious willingness to ballot. Panama Canal bill taken up. Lodge asserts U S policy under Hay-Pauncefote. President nominates two officials. a labor department bill clears the House and heads to the Senate for action. A foreign relations panel favors a probe of Mexican or Cuban revolutionary foment.
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Washington
Senate
Panama Canal
Simmons
Lodge
United States
Department of Labor
House
Organized Labor
Foreign Relations Committee
Cuba
Society Woman on Trial for Murder in Chicago
Mrs Rene B Morrow a society woman stands trial in Chicago charged with murdering her husband Gem laden and richly gowned attendees fill the courtroom to hear the evidence The state contends Morrow fired the shot while the defendant claims he died by his own hand in a winter home scene
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Rene B. Morrow
Chicago
Morrow
Irs
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Carnegie Munsey
Cromwell
Heistand
Prince Mejid Effendi
Lorimer Case
Rosenthal
Iowa Firemen
Sioux City
Iowa State Firemen
Louis Webber
Bridgey
Webber
Tough Toney
Whitman
Louis Libbey
William Shapiro
John Doe
Wio
Flinn and
Police Department
Force Canal
Sherman P. Allen
Vermont
Treasury
Luther Conant, Jr
Herbert Knox Smith
LABOR
Society
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