Agree to 30 cent cut in sugar duty
Washington July 27 An agreement between regular and progressive Republicans to pass a sugar tariff bill sets the duty at 1.60 per hundred pounds, replacing 1.90, with progressives aligned with regular Republicans. Lodge attacks refiners for backing free entry to hurt beet sugar rivals.
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Lodge
Senator Lodge
Senate
Finance Committee
House
Senate Democratic
Firnstow
Bristow
moHer
Underwood
Fletcher
Hitchcock
Bourne
Clapp
Crawford
Cummins
Grenna
Jones
Kenyon
la Follette
Nelson
Poindexter
Townsend and Works
Root, Lodge, Sutherland and Clark
Wyoming
Court of
Archbald
Commerce Court
Unsettled Weather With Thunderstorms Forecast Ahead
The forecast covers Rock Island Davenport Moline and vicinity with unsettled weather and probable thunderstorms tonight or Sunday. Temperatures near yesterday's high 84 and current 7 am reading 66. Humidity and barometric trends noted with a 4.3 stage of water and a 0.2 foot fall in the last 24 hours. Astronomical events list Sun sets 7 19 and rises 4 51, evening planets Mars Jupiter Mercury Venus, morning Saturn. Political notes reference progressive Republicans and tariff measures in Congress and potential battleship support in the House.
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Rock Island
Davenport
Moline
J. M. Sherier
Mars
Jupiter
Mercury
Venus
Saturn
Emperor's Health Improves In Tokyo Bulletin
Tokyo July 27. Bulletins say little change in the emperor's condition. State secretary notes artificial methods to prolong life may be attempted with salt solution injections. Later reports say the emperor rests easily, temperature down and general condition improved.
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Tokio
Wife named in divorce suit is asking $50,000
In Chicago, a $50,000 slander and libel suit was filed in the superior court following a Sycamore divorce. Plaintiff Mrs. Edna Sell charges Mrs. Jennie Ellwood Rogers, ex wife of William H. Rogers, with scandal and seeks alimony pending arbitration by three judges.
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Chicago
Sycamore
Superior Court
Edna Sell
Jennie Ellwood Rogers
William H. Rogers
Rogers
Carnes
Sell
Board of Arbitration
Rich Illinoisan Is Dead In Tucson Horse Accident
Forbes Talcott son of Walt Talcott a Rockford capitalist is dead at Tucson Ariz from injuries after his horse fell during a cattle roundup. A Princeton Cottage Club member he chose the plains over city life after Princeton graduation.
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Forbes Talcott
Tucson
Ariz
Rockford
Explorer Safe After Greenland Crossing Mission Ends
Copenhagen reports Captain E Nar Mikkelsen and Engineer Iversen have reached Aalesund from a 1910 Greenland crossing expedition. The pair began to locate a depot left by Mylius Erichsen and continued beyond the original objective after the depot search. News came from the expedition committee, and hope for their safety had waned.
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Copenhagen
Enar Mikkelsen
Iversen
Greenland
Aalesund
Mylius Erichsen
Mikkelsen
Nebraska to Stick to Old Party's Ship
Lincoln Nebraska July 27 progressives and regular republicans met to withdraw Roosevelt aligned electors in favor of Taft supporting a full Republican ticket. Governor Aldrich involved but may refuse to back Roosevelt. Over a thousand delegates expected at Chicago convention with calls for unity and acceptance of the Republican platform.
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Lincoln
Neb
Roosevelt
Taft
Aldrich
Down
Chicago
John F. Baas
Progressive Party
Massachusetts
Boston
New Party
Jacksonville
Fla
Roosevelt Party
Florida
Kentucky
Lexington
Louisville
Texas
Dallas
United States
Bugs Found in Pie Material Shipped to Des Moines
Charges allege that apple chops used in apple pies contained filthy putrid decomposed vegetable and animal substances infested with bugs and worms. The Arthur J. Thompson company shipped the material from Chicago to Des Moines Iowa in violation of the pure food law.
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Chicago
Arthur J. Thompson Company
Des Moines
Iowa
Unionists Rally at Blenheim Palace to Regain Power
In Woodstock England a large unionist rally was staged in the Blenheim Palace courtyard. About three thousand delegates and twenty thousand party members gathered as the unionist organizations nationwide sought to regain influence.
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Woodstock
Eng
Blenheim Palace
Fight Wild Cat Schemes Mining Movement Begins
Duluth on July 27 mine owners engineers operators and brokers in the northwest are invited to join a campaign against wild cat mining schemes. Robert W. Thompson of Chicago assistant secretary of the American Congress of Mines is in town to recruit local and range miners for Spokane's November congress. He plans sections in Minnesota including Hibbing Virginia and Minneapolis.
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Duluth
Northwest
American Congress of Mines
Robert W. Thompson
Chicago
Congress
Spokane
Thompson
Miineapolis
Hibbing
Virginia
Minnesota
Rail rate advances on potatoes suspended
Washington July 27 The Interstate Commerce Commission will investigate railroad rates on potatoes from producing centers west and northwest to St Louis Chicago and the east. Meanwhile proposed advances ranging from two cents to six and a half cents per hundred pounds have been suspended until November 29.
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Washington
St. Louis
Chicago
Interstate Commerce Commission
German Aviator and Mechanic Die in Aeroplane Crash
Munich reports the German aviator Fischer and mechanic Kugler killed when their plane fell from height and was smashed. Diaz in Good Health Ex-President Diaz of Mexico reported ill yesterday, but today appears in excellent health during a Paris visit.
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Munich
Fischer
Kugler
Diaz
Paris
Mexico
Mexico City
Wealth of aged beggar worth 300000 discovered
Los Angeles reports Leota Seybold once counted pennies from passersby on street corners. An aged vagrant previously sent to an asylum due to indulgence in his only pleasure has now been found to possess a fortune of three hundred thousand dollars.
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Los Angeles
Leota Seybold
Davis Lets McNamara Pleas Shake Bribery Trial
In Los Angeles July 27 attorney Lecompte Davis testified about the deal that sent James B. McNamara to life and John J. to 15 years. He said a Dec 7 compromise would require pleas of guilty and penitentiary terms, with an earlier ten year term provisional for J. J. McNamara. Davis noted he hoped to shield the former official from punishment, and disclosed questions about the source of bribery funds and whether a key witness would testify against Darrow.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Lecompte Davis
Clarence S. Darrow
James B. McNamara
John J
Darrow
Lincoln Steffens
Fremont Older
San Francisco
Fredericks
McNamaras
Franklin
J. J. McNamara
Davis
J. J
International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron
John R. Harrington
Chicago
McNamara
Frank Mo
George N. Lockwood
McNamara Defense
Ford
Pretty Race For 8 Balloons In National Elimination
Kansas City reports ideal conditions for the national elimination balloon race to pick three balloons to fly the stars and stripes in the James Gordon Bennett trophy race in Germany. The first balloon is set to depart at 5 o’clock with the remaining seven at ten minute intervals.
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Kansas City
Germany
Remarkable leg replacement effort following field accident
A three year old girl Ida Sturterwagon suffered the loss of her left leg when struck by a cutter and binder in an oat field near Geneseo. Doctors attempted a remarkable surgical procedure to reattach and grow the limb. Separately, a shed fire at 522 Twelfth street caused 150 dollars in damage after matches ignited stored light. In Lake Forest, Thomas Bundy of Los Angeles defeated Walter Hayes of Chicago in straight sets to reach the Western tennis final against F C Inman.
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Ida Sturterwagon
Julius Sturterwagon
Geneseo
Twelfth Street
Lake Forest
Thomas ¢. Bundy
Los Angeles
Walter Hayes
Chicago
F. C. Inman
Battle near Wyeville reports 209 killed day one
In Wyeville Wisconsin on July 27 heavier firing marked the first day of a two army clash near the city between Red and Blue forces. Reds retreated while delaying Blue advance and scored a yesterday victory driving Blue cavalry into swampy ground. Over 10 000 shots fired left 209 killed and about 110 wounded.
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Wyeville
Wis
Red
Tomah
Blue
Seven Aldermen Sent to Jail as Grafters in Detroit
Detroit July 27.Seven of eight aldermen and the council secretary were arrested on bribe charges tied to closing a city street for the Wabash railroad. Nine names named, with bail set at 5000 dollars for most. one charge withdrawn. The probe, led by detectives, traces payments from 100 to 1000 dollars amid graft rumors since February.
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Detroit
Nich
Common Council Committees
Patrick O'Brien
Schreiter
Tossy
Brozo
Walsh
Rosenthal
Ostrowski
Deimel
Thessen
Glinnan
Mason
Ed Schrieter, Jr
Thomas Glinnan
Council
E. R. Schreiter, JR
American League of Municipalities
Joseph JL
Martin J. Ostrowski
Louis Tossy
Frank J. Mason
Louis Broso
Honest Tomy
Tom
Wabash Railroad
William B. Thompson
Andrew H. Green
Common Council of
Tom Glinnan
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Japan
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Prospect Park
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Root & Vandervoort
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