Burke says he secured the proof in Holts law case
Springfield reports State's Attorney Burke arrived from Chicago and signaled success in finding additional evidence. He touts a deposit slip showing Senator Holstlaw placed 2500 dollars in a Chicago bank last June, linking to Broderick and Lorimer bribery allegations amid a grand jury inquiry into Illinois politics.
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Burke
Chicago
Holtslaw
Holstlaw
Broderick
McCollum
Representative McCollum
Louisville
Lorimer
United States
Illinois
Stay- Mates
Clinton
McMackin
Salem
D. W. Holstlaw
Iuka
State Bank of
John Broderick
Chicaxy
Sangamon County
William Lorimer
Wayman
Emanuel M. Abrahams
Cross
Louis Frank
McCann
Deneen
Weather Report and Astronomical Events Summary
Fair and cool tonight and Thursday with no precipitation. Temperature 7 am 51, high 70, low 47. Humidity 34% at 7 pm and 76% at 7 am. Mississippi near Dubuque to Muscatine remains nearly stationary. Halley’s comet fading after sunset. Jupiter stationary at 6 am. June planets and constellations listed with brightest stars and rising times. Mercury and Venus visibility noted. Saturn and Uranus times given.
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Corona Borealis
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Bomb Hurling Incident Shocks Berlin Royal Party
Berlin June 1 a disorderly scene marred a royal procession returning from the annual joint review at Tempelhof as a man who tailed the party threw a missile toward a prince the assailant seized by police is believed insane and the incident sparked a frantic melee amid the wartime patrols and crowd.
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Berlin
Potsdam
Tempelhof Field
Senate slows push for Lorimer bribery inquiry
The senate delays a formal probe into Illinois senator Lorimer. The privileges and elections committee, lacking charges, plans to wait for definite filings in Washington while Lorimer’s delegation moves forward with a resolution seeking an investigation.
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Washington
Senate
Lorimer
Illinois
Committee On Privileges and Elections
Committee
Injunction Bars Rates in Rail Road Case
Attorney General Wickersham says he first learned of alleged conditions in the railroad case from the administration move, as the government seeks to bar rate increases. He notes the step by step actions leading to the injunction and that the general public would have been little affected. Arguments on the injunction are to be heard at a later date.
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Washington
Wickersham
Day in Congress June 1 Senate and House actions
Senate consider railroad bill with amendments and a Cummins amendment on rate reasonableness. rejection of Brown amendment on railroad line consolidation. Owens urges direct election of senators. House spends most session on appropriations to establish a bureau of mines and mining with $488,000 spent by adjournment.
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Houses
Congress
Senate
Cummins
Owens
Bureau of Mines and Mining
General Law Favored Over Alaska Railroad Aid
President Taft stated he will not approve legislation granting government aid to specific railroad interests in Alaska. He supports a general law applying to all railroad competitors, modeled after the Philippine policy. The action followed Ballinger’s adverse report on a bill aiding the Alaska Great Northern. Also, Santa Fe railroad workers earning under $80 monthly receive a 10 percent wage rise.
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U. S
Alaska
Washington
Taft
Philippine Islands
Congress
Secretary of the Interior
Ballinger
Rail rate case spurs senate committee action in Illinois
The privileges and elections committee faces grand jury records and Chicago Tribune charges as possible catalysts for action. Chairman Burrows will wait for official material or concluded court cases before meeting. Separately, a government restraining order against 25 western railroads to block rate hikes was certified to the circuit court, with rail officials declining comment. Missouri and Illinois manufacturers oppose the increases, while some cities remain neutral.
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Privileges and Elections Committee
Grand Jury
Illinois
Senate
Chicago Tribune
Burrows
McPherson Not Anxious To Act On Bleached Flour Case
Kansas City June 1 Pierce Butler special assistant attorney general has asked Washington for a special commissioner to hear the evidence in the bleached flour case. This is said to be the most important hearing under the federal food law. The Lexington Mill & Elevator Co. of Lexington Neb. shipped the flour but other millers in Nebraska Kansas Oklahoma and Missouri may share the legal costs.
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Pierce Butler
St. Paul
Department of Justice
Washington
Smith McPherson
Lexington Mill & Elevator Company
Lexington
Neb
Nebraska
Kangay
Oklahoma
Missouri
Weakens on Cut in Freight Rates
Washington, June 1. The interstate commerce commission began a rehearing in the Northwestern Millers v railroads case from Minneapolis eastward. The panel had reduced wheat rate to 21 2 3 cents per 100 pounds from St Paul Minneapolis and to 25 cents from Buffalo earlier. Protests prompted the rehearing with signals the commission may restore old Minneapolis and Buffalo rates.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Northwestern
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Buffalo
Maybray aid case man to be removed for federal trial
Seattle June 1 A federal district court ordered the removal of W D Godefroy to Council Bluffs Iowa where he will face federal indictments charging complicity with the Maybray gang in arrangements for a fake prize fight.
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Washington
Council Bluffs
Seattle
Wash
Federal District Court
W. D. Godefroy
Iowa
Maybray
Roosevelt no longer idol in British reaction to Egypt policy
London reports show Roosevelt's Guildhall speech sparks intense editorial reaction with conservatives backing his Egypt stance while liberals oppose it. Outside opinion questions a foreign guest criticizing imperial policy. Roosevelt then toured the national gallery and dined with Irish nationalist figures amid the national debate. In San Francisco, a heat wave caused four heat deaths including Alfred M Meyers who collapsed climbing Mount Tamalpais.
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London
Roosevelt
Guildhall
Egypt
American Statesman
National Gallery
San Francisco
Cal
Alfred M. Mayers
Zamalpais
Mill
Llev
Russian man seizes moment throws can at crown Prince
A tin can filled with uncooked beans was hurled at Crown Prince Frederick William but fell at a policeman’s feet. Police detained Abraham Esterweiss, a local Russian resident, who appeared not responsible for the act as the palace entry neared.
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Frederick William
Abraham Esterweiss
Arrests Expected in Albany Grain Firm Shortage
Warrants will be sought by creditors of Durant and Elmore for the arrest of those responsible for a suspected shortage in the Albany grain dealer's accounts. The grand jury will hear the matter on Monday after talks between creditors and the district attorney.
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Albany
N. Y
Durant & Elmore
Insurgents defeat Lara's forces at Bluefields
Washington dispatch from Commander Gilmer of the U S gun boat Paducah at Bluefields reports General Lara's army of about 300 men defeated and in retreat. Estrada's insurgents killed hundreds of Lara's troops and captured over 200 government soldiers after weeks outside Bluefields.
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Lara
Bluefields
State Department
Gilmer
U. S
Paducah
Estrada
Unloading Stocks in Market Open Amid Rate Fight
New York June 1 active unloading of stocks marked the market open with violent declines. Western and Pacific railroad shares led losses, St. Paul down 3, Atchison Denver and Rio Grande and Iowa Central down 2, Northern Pacific 2 1 2, Union Pacific and Canadian Pacific 3 3 8, with Baltimore & Ohio New York Central Great Northern and others down a point or more.
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Western and Pacific Railroad
St. Paul
Atchison, Denver & Rio Grande
Iowa Central
Northern Pacific
Union Pacific
Canadian Pacific
Baltimore & Ohio
New York Central
Great Northern
Missouri
Kansas & Texas
Rock Island
Norfolk & Western
25 Workmen Die in Utah Quarry Explosion
Ogden Utah June 1 Twenty five workmen were killed by an explosion today in the quarry of the Union Portland cement works at Devils Slide Utah thirty miles east of Ogden.
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Utah
Ogden
Union Portland Cement Works
Devil's Slide
Three Rail Employes Die in Collinsville Locomotive Explosion
Three men were killed when a railroad locomotive exploded near Collinsville Junction on the St. Louis, Troy & Eastern railroad. The engineers named are Thomas Durrell, Richard Lewis, and Charles Murphy, all of East St. Louis.
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Collinsville Junction
Ill
St. Louis
St. Louis, Troy & Eastern Railroad
Thomas Durrell
Richard Lewis
Charles Murphy
East St. Louis
Valuation of Roads Loses Out in Senate
Washington June 1 The La Follette amendment to the railroad bill seeking physical valuation of railroads to fix rates was rejected by the senate 25 to 3. Of the 25 affirmative votes 15 were Democrats and 18 Republicans. Republicans for the amendment were Borah Bristow Brown Clapp Crawford Dixon Dolliver Gamble Jones and La Follette. Democrats in support were Bacon Bailey Clay Fletcher Frazier Gore Newlands Overman Owen Paynter Purnell Rayner Simmons Stone and Taylor. Simmons’ alternative requiring valuation of property before the interstate commerce commission was defeated 28 to 30. The Simmons amendment to prevent lower long haul charges to destroy water competition was adopted. The Burton amendment authorizing the commission to fix minimum rates against water routes was adopted 53 to 1 Frye voting no.
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Washington
LaFollette
Senate
Borah
Bristow
Brown
Clapp
Crawford
Dixon
Dolliver
Gamble
Jones
Bacon
Bailey
Clay
Fletcher
Frazier
Gore
Newlands
Overman
Owen
Paynter
Purnell
Rayner
Simmons
Stone and
Taylor
la Follette
Interstate Commerce Commission
Burton
Frye
Indictment in Browne bribery case upheld to trial
Chicago judges refused to quash the Browne indictment charging bribery in the vote for Lorimer as senator. The court ruled the crime includes promising and paying money for legislative votes and set June 6 for Browne’s trial, with Browne pleading not guilty and no postponement granted.
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Chicago
McSurely
Lee O'Neill Browne
Browne
White
Lorimer
Constitution
United States
McLurely
Cook
Cook County
Details of Death of Girl Revealed in Kellner Case
Louisville police in the Kellner murder case reveal finds in St. John's Church basement. A missing foot, a bloodstained undervest, and a gauntlet glove buried near the sacristy support a theory that Alma Kellner was murdered and her body burned in the church furnace before being dumped in a cistern.
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Louisville
Kellner
St. John's Catholic Church
Alma Kellner
Joseph Wendling
Wendling
Victor in fatal ring bout guilty
Fresno California June 1 jury finds William G King pugilist guilty of manslaughter in the death of opponent A Russell after a ring fall left Russell with a fractured skull and dying several hours later in the hospital King was declared guilty after the bout outcome and ensuing investigation.
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Fresno
Cal
William G. King
Russell
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