Beet Men Fight On Tariff Battle Over Cuban Reciprocity
Washington June 13 The president asks Congress to act immediately on Cuban reciprocity to ease Cuba from impending financial ruin. He favors a 20 percent tariff reduction on Cuban goods, with other countries unchanged, rejecting rebate plans. A Senate conference of Republicans signals continued opposition to the measure while weighing alternatives.
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Minnesota farmer killer kills family then suicide
Elbow Lake Minnesota June 13 John Fox a farmer near here shot and killed his brother Peter and his mother this morning then shot himself dead. He was probably de mented. The piece also notes a German gallery restorer in Philadelphia and a brief note on Nobbs Scribbies and Numshall Supposed in unrelated items.
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Passengers Endure Storm On Diamond Special
Passengers on the Diamond Special over the Illinois Central, about 250 aboard, faced a severe storm from Kankakee to Gilman. The train was halted twice, a box car wedged the St. Louis switch, and Conductor Dawson waded to a telegraph station to learn trains on the St. Louis line were stalled. The Springfield leg arrived late, Union Station arrival delayed.
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Gilman
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Aged Suitor Fights for License to Wed Younger Belle
In Omaha on June 13, a 64 year old Ne Renard of Oakland Neb seeks marriage to 22 year old Nellie Craig. Relatives fear motives and seek guardianship papers. The old man and younger Renards race Nebraska courthouses to secure a license before guardianship halts the match.
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Benerice Renard
Oakland
Nellie Craig
Renard
Miss Craig
Knox County
Training Ship Chesapeake Breaks Off Off Taylors Island
The training ship Chesapeake with naval cadets aboard ran aground off Taylors Island in Chesapeake Bay and freed after four hours. It then proceeded to Annapolis amid a string of other brief news briefs from across the Midwest and Chicago.
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Fatal Philadelphia Fire Claims Several Lives at Rosenblatt Plant
Fire swept Rosenblatt & Co leather goods mill at Second and Oxford streets, destroying the factory and adjacent properties including the Third Reformed Presbyterian church. Eight bodies were found in the ruins and over twenty injured from jumping or collapsing walls. Firemen report at least a dozen dead in the Hames area.
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Important Ruling on Oleo Tax Increase
Washington June 13 Commissioner Yerkes of the internal revenue bureau settles the question of whether artificial coloring in oleomargarine affects the tax. The regulation holds that no artificial coloring matter may be used in any way in the manufacture of oleomargarine without increasing the tax from one quarter of a cent to 10 cents per pound.
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Yerkes
Internal Revenue Bureau
Locusts Not Dangerous Says Michigan Expert
Michigan residents are told not to fear the 17 year locusts as experts explain they cause little harm to crops. N A Wood of the university museum notes they stay in place, emerge from the ground this year, and damage is minimal to forests rather than farms.
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University Museum
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India
Head on collision on curv e story of water cure five in the death roll
Chattanooga June 18 Three men killed and about fifteen injured in a collision between fast mail train No 1 from Nashville and the Jasper accommodation train on the Nashville Chattanooga and St Louis railway near Tooker and Summit. Killed: L A Rankin fireman accommodation James Bernard fireman fast mail Webb express messenger fast mail. Fatally injured: George Rollins engineer accommodation George J Ray engineer fast mail. Passengers escaped with bruises. Wreck caused by one engineer overlooking orders.
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Nashville
Nashvill
George J. Ray
Fast Mail
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L. A. Rankin
James Bernard
Express
Webb
Evans testifies on water cure in Philippines inquiry
Washington June 13 Mark H Evans of Des Moines formerly a sergeant in the Thirty-second U S infantry testified before the senate committee on the Philippines about water cure practices in 1900 in Batan Luzon near Grano and in nearby islands He described several cases including ducking and water poured from a canteen to force confessions and noted a tooth knocked out during one incident He also recalled burning four or five native villages and said orders demanded humane treatment though natives showed little appreciation and some acts were severe Norton of Los Angeles testified that generally treatment was humane but isolated cases violated laws of war He recounted water curing a native and said burning villages was a military necessity in campaigns across Panay and other islands The testimony touched on the overall policy of kindness contrasted with insurgent resistance and the military actions in 1900.
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Des Moines
Thirty-second Volunteer Infantry
Senate Committee On the Philippines
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Luzon
Grano
United States
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Evans
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Los Angeles
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Miguel
Hughes
Culberson
Prison Plot Suspected by Jail Inmates in Indiana
Sheriff Houston in Anderson Indiana investigates a jail plot by prisoners to fake insanity to escape punishment. A youth named William Hare wrote to his mother suggesting parents could file to have him declared insane to avoid prison time. Hare claimed accomplices would testify he is insane and referenced a recent Indianapolis escape via lunacy.
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Ind
Houston
William Hare
Hare
Thomas Smock
Indianapolis
Smock
Turmoil in Panther Creek as miners pressure non-union workers
Panthers Creek valley faced a tense night as delegations of striking miners toured homes of non-union men warning them not to work. Nine collieries reportedly idle while strikers seek to pull in tradesmen, leaving residents fearful and uneasy. Tod Sloan jailed in France for speeding with fines, and a Milwaukee embezzlement case highlights shortages. A University of Wisconsin graduate and a Madison student drowned on Lake Mendota. The nurserymen urge Congress to act on interstate nursery stock shipments.
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Tamaqua
Panther Creek Valley
Rival Glucose Firm Plans World’s Largest Plant Near Chicago
Imperial Glucose and Starch company heads Charles M. Warner of Syracuse at the helm with Chicago as headquarters. The $5,000,000 plant, designed to be the largest in the world, will be built near Chicago and challenge the Glucose Trust.
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Troops Subdue Rioters in Pawtucket as Riots Erupt
In Pawtucket on June 13 Governor Kimball ordered out the militia after a surge of lawless acts against the United Traction company strikes began June 2. About 1,000 watching as Adjutant General Sackett read the riot act, with more than twenty injured and one dead.
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River and Harbor Bill Signed by President
Washington June 13 The president signed the river and harbor bill. Story of a Chicago Man. Omaha Neb June 13 John Larson formerly wealthy and said to have been alderman in Chicago has been taken to the county poor farm here violently insane. He and his wife lived in a miserable hovel on North Ninth street making a precarious living by picking up and wood about the railroad and the woman taking in washing. Larson is said to have had property in Halsted street Chicago in his palmy days that valued nearly $1 000 000. This fortune he dissipated it is said.
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Neb
John Larson
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