Bribe Plot Framed for Hopkins in Illinois Senate Fight
Chicago July 28 The Tribune reports a bribery plot in the 1909 effort to elect a U S senator by the Illinois General Assembly. It names Albert J Hopkins as target, with Roger Sullivan Speaker Edward P Shurtleff and William Lorimer involved. The plan aimed to purchase 17 democrats for Hopkins before being thwarted by Shurtleff and Lorimer. Sullivan denies knowledge, Shurtleff declines comment.
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Tallin
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Chicago & Alton
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Roger Sullivan
Weather forecast and astronomical events
Thunder showers are expected tonight and Friday with little temperature change. Morning low 69, high 91, precipitation 0.28 inches, humidity 89 percent at 7 a.m. and 36 percent at 7 p.m. Mississippi will show nearly stationary stages from below Dubuque to Muscatine. Astronomical events include sunset at 7:15, moonrise around 11 p.m., last quarter in Aries, and Saturn close to the moon in the eastern sky.
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Militias Called as Street Car Strike Sparks Riots in Columbus
Columbus braces for martial order as 2 000 troops arrive to enforce stoppage of street car service and protect property amid continuous rioting sparked by the street railway workers strike. Governor Harmon heads toward the city as Battery D guards the arsenal.
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Michigan
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Iowa Alarmed by Infant Paralysis
Des Moines July 28 Dr. Fred H Frost past assistant surgeon United States marine hospital Washington arrived and with Iowa board of health members will go to Mason City to investigate 30 cases of infantile paralysis.
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Fred H. Frost
United States Marine Hospital
Washington
Iowa Board of Health
Mason City
Vatican emits ultimatum over Spanish concordat breach
Madrid dispatch to Temps reports the Vatican refuses to resume concordat talks unless Spain withdraws the June 11 decree allowing non religious societies to display insignia in public worship. Premier Canalejas will not yield and may recall ambassador De Ojeda and suspend relations with the Holy See.
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Cholera Epidemic Expands Across 42 Provinces
Government figures show 16,651 deaths as cholera spreads through St. Petersburg and European Russia. The epidemic now covers 42 provinces with hospitals overwhelmed and the health system strained.
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Rock Island in New Control in Transcontinental Group Plan
Kuhn, Loeb held back official comment as a syndicate’s Rock Island Lehigh Valley and Missouri Pacific stocks were acquired to curb liquidation. An English-led group headed by Sir Ernest Cassell secured the largest single holding of Rock Island common and preferred stock, fueling talk of a new transcontinental alliance.
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Rock Island
Lehigh Valley
Missouri Pacific
Ernest Cassell
Rail Graft A Startler
One of the crowd relates how the Illinois Central Railroad supplied road materials for repairs and then paid for them, alleging the company acted like its own highwayman by furnishing the weapon and pocketing the loot.
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Roswell B. Mason
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Guthrie Is Capital Haskell Is Beaten
Oklahoma Supreme Court rules Guthrie remains capital until final ruling on capital controversy. Governor Haskell may move offices, but official acts must appear from Guthrie. Others must return to Guthrie. Governor likely to stay in Oklahoma City. Morning golf scores and a corruption hearing follow.
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Russia Sees Sharp Cholera Rise With 13 374 Cases In Week
Since last May Russia reports 37 652 infections and 16 651 deaths. The week ending July 23 logged 13 374 new cases with 5 979 deaths. In the capital a daily average of 40 cases and 12 deaths has persisted, with 54 cases and 14 deaths yesterday and 514 cholera suspects in hospitals, including 38 children.
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Minnesota Democratic Convention Opens With Tariff Clash
In Minneapolis on July 28 the Minnesota state Democratic convention convened to nominate a full ticket and set a platform. The key fight centers on the gubernatorial race and the county option plank while temporary chair W S Hammond denounces the tariff bill as burdensome and mocks the tariff commission. Committees are named and Gov Folk of Missouri is invited to speak as the session adjourns to 2 30.
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Missouri
Roosevelt declines further comment on Ohio platform
In Oyster Bay on July 28, Roosevelt read the platform adopted by Ohio Republicans. He exclaimed “Indeed” at the tariff prank and again at the conservation plank, then declined to make any further comment.
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Oyster Bay
Roosevelt
Shakeup in Management Over Trans continental Plan
The plan and necessitated turnover of the stocks preferred prompt a management shakeup. Unsettled factors will decide if the trans continental plan is carried out by new Rock Island controllers or altered by new interests. Banking interests here favor the plan and may move to execute it soon.
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Rock Island
Bryan Keeps Up Battle for County Option in 1900
Lincoln Neb July 28 William J Bryan presses county option and the initiative and referendum as party lines align. He urges county option candidates in all senatorial and representative districts and asks Democrats and Republicans to nominate favorable candidates in each district. A separate item notes the Memphis Car Company graft case with Sims turning state’s evidence after disputes with the manager.
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Neb
William J. Bryan
Memphis Car Company
Henry C. Ostermann
Illinois Central
Sims
Kansas City
Body found fragments of Kenneth Archibald in King's River canyon
Fragments of bones hair a watch notebook clothing and a tin cup identified Kenneth Archibald 29 of San Francisco lost since June 1908 in the King's river mountains about 12 000 feet high. Officials believe death from a fall and note his $75 000 eastern estate and Dartmouth graduate background.
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Sierra Club
King’s River Canon
Fresno County
Kenneth Archibald
Archibald
Kanawyer
Dartmouth
Andrew Archibald
Newtonville
Mass
Alma Kellner Murderer Located in San Francisco
San Francisco July 28 reports Joseph Wendling, wanted in Louisville Kentucky for the murder of five year old Alma Kellner whose mutilated body was found buried in the cellar of St Johns parochial school, has been located by a Louisville detective. Local authorities say a man believed to be Wendling was watched but publication may have allowed the suspect to escape.
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Joseph Wendling
Louisville
Alma Kellner
St. John's Parochial School
Wendling
Germany Refuses to Intervene in Nicaragua Crisis
Berlin declines Madrid request to use German mediation over U.S. interference claims in Nicaragua. Washington reports say American nationals in northeastern Nicaragua are safe, with the Madriz faction in control along most of the east coast except select ports. Dr. Barrios and Dr. Salinas arrive in New York seeking U.S. guidance to restore peace and deny harsh treatment rumors.
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Telegraphers union gains $50,000 wage increase
St. Louis July 28 H B Perham president of the Order of Railway Telegraphers announced the board of mediators award will raise wages for telegraphers on the Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain systems. The increase amounts to a $50,000 boost in earnings for telegraphers and station personnel.
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H. B. Perham
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