CZAR OUSTS GRAND DUKE AND ADMIRALS IN RUSSIAN RESIGNATIONS
In St Petersburg on June 16 Emperor Nicholas accepted the resignations of Grand Duke Alexis high admiral of the Russian navy and Admiral Avellan minister of marine. Their administration faced a string of naval scandals since the war began including the dispatch to the Mediterranean of disguised merchant ships later armed as men of war. The duo ordered actions that provoked British ire and involved controversial patrols, seizures, and a prize case on the Malacca. Their tenure also saw weak ships, aiding Togo’s actions, and controversial orders leading to patrols and gunfire in the North Sea. A sensational rejection followed the notice of their resignations.
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St. Petersburg
Grand Duke Alexis
Admiral Avellan
Smolensk
Dardanelles
Mediterranean
Great Britain
Red Sea
Malacca
Baltic
Russia
Avellan
Rojestvensky
North Sea
Togo
Nicholas
Alexis
Olantizi
Tara River
Vanloungon
Nanshantchenai
Bishop Spalding to Return to Hot Springs for Recovery
Bishop John L. Spalding, recovering from a paralytic stroke, plans to return to Hot Springs for a second time to aid his recovery. He will first spend a short period in northern Michigan after a month in a Peoria hospital where he has shown slight improvement and can use his left hand a little.
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Peoria
John L. Spalding
Hot Springs
Michigan
Thery Wins Bennett Cup Auto Race in Fast Time
Paris June 16 Twenty four contestants began the French trials for the James Gordon Bennett international auto cup at 6 am over the Auvergne course Thery last year’s winner started first and the race ended with Thery leading after covering 55 kilometers in seven hours and 42 minutes Lirst was second Caillois third
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Paris
Auvergne
Thery
Lirst
Caillois
Conspiracy Indictment Sealed Against Storey Cotton Figures
United States grand jury returns a true bill charging conspiracy against Frank C Marrin Oliver Quinlin Stanley Francis Arthur O Howard Walter B Riggs Thomas H Quinland and Estelle Graham. Indicted figures linked to Storey Cotton and Provident Investment bureau, closed by authorities. All but Stanley Francis are fugitives.
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Philadelphia
United States Grand Jury
Frank C. Marrin
Oliver Quinlin
Stanley Francis
Arthur O. Howard
Walter B. Riggs
Thomas H. Quinland
Estelle Graham
Storey Cotton Company
Provident Investment Bureau
Chinese at West Point First Chinese Cadets Admitted
West Point announces the admission of Chinese cadets Ting Chia and Ying Haing Wen under a special act of Congress. They join 145 candidates as part of the class, with Luis Bagran from Honduras and F Tomas Plaza from Ecuador among those receiving cadet instruction in the first such historic instance.
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Flowery Kingdom
West Point
N. Y
Military Academy
Ting Chia
Ying Haing Wen
Luis Bagran
Honduras
F. Tomas Plaza
Ecuador
Congress
New Professional Teachers Association Formed in Columbus
In Columbus on June 16 the United Professional Teachers were formed following a dispute between two national dancing bodies. Officers named include President G. R. Puckett of San Francisco, Secretary P. Morgan of Washington, Pa, and Treasurer A. J. Goaconia of Thaimpeonvilig, Conn.
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Columbus
Ohio
United Professional Teachers
G. R. Puckett
San Francisco
P. Morgan
Washington, Pa
Treaster
A. J. Goaconia
Thaimpeonvilig Conn
Wendell Ordained as Emmanuel Pastor in Rockford
C A Wendell, former Augustus College and Rock Island High School history teacher and Rockford weekly editor, has been ordained and serves as pastor of Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Rockford. He recently led church affairs for over a year. a reception will be held this evening. Kansas Needs 25000 Harvesters for 60 day harvest period. wages $1.75 to $2.50. 2240 teams required. shipping workers from Kansas City will start Sunday.
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Swedish Synod
Rock Island
C. A. Wendell
Augustana College
Emmanuel Church
Wendell
Rockford
Kansas
Kansas City
State Labor Department
Kansas Fields
Samuel Greason Is Acquitted in Reading Murder Trial
Samuel Greason, colored, was today acquitted of the murder of John Edwards in Reading. Mrs. Kate Edwards, wife of the slain man, testified against him over three years ago, then exonerated him. Edwards was murdered nearly four years ago. Greason faced a death warrant issued ten times as his case became a notable state murder trial. Edwards’s mother, Mrs. Edwards, is under death sentence and expected to have her execution date set soon, postponed earlier to serve as a witness.
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Reading
Samuel Greason
John Edwards
Kate Edwards
Greason
Tom
Edwards
C Hild
Otis Botts Executed in Peoria for Wife's Murder
Otis Botts aged 21 was executed at the county jail in Peoria for murdering his wife on January 5. He displayed bravado during trial but collapsed in tears at execution, having strangled her with a hair ribbon. Authorities suspect another murder but insufficient evidence exists.
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Peoria
Ill
Otis Botts
Botts
Judge Blocks Missouri Rail Rate Law In Junction Case
Judge Smith McPherson of the Red Oak Iowa federal court granted a temporary injunction halting enforcement of Missouri state maximum straight rate law. He also barred three Kansas City shippers from penalties, ruling the new rates prohibitive and confiscatory to railroad property.
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Kansas City
Indictments for Five Meat Firms Reported
Chicago June 16. Proposed indictments against officials of at least five packing firms were presented to federal grand jury members by District Attorney Morrison for consideration. The report says the indictments had practically been voted by the grand jury.
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Chicago
Federal Grand Jury
Morrison
Farmer killed in field by lightning near Prospect Park
Otto Andren, about 45, a farmer on the Will Smith farm a mile east of Prospect park on Coaltown road, was struck in the back of the head while plowing corn yesterday afternoon between 4 and 5. The bolt shattered a plow handle. his horses were unharmed. He left a wife and children, and had lived in Moline before moving to the Smith farm four years ago.
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Otto Andren
Will Smith
Prospect Park
Coaltown
Andrew
Moline
Smith Farm
Bank report postponed in Edgar county wreck case
Paris Illinois June 16 the grand jury has deferred its report on the Edgar county bank wrecking mystery and expects two or more indictments. A court order compelled the American Express company to produce its books before the grand jury regarding remittances to a St Louis commission house through Bookkeeper Junigen.
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Paris
Grand Jury
Edgar County
American Express Company
Junigen
St Louis
Coal Operators Favor Shutdown Vote Planned for July 1
Springfield coal operators, meeting yesterday, endorsed holding a convention on June 20 to vote on a mine shutdown starting July 1 unless miners agree to compensate operators for the extra costs of additional shot firers.
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Springfield
Augustana Jubilee to be Held in Rockford
Rockford will host the Augustana synod golden jubilee in 1910, expected to draw about 600 pastors and as many delegates plus numerous visitors. Three churches First Zion and Emmanuel Lutheran will extend the invitation. The synod organized in 1860 near the Illinois Wisconsin line and united Swedish and Norwegian Lutheran churches.
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Rockford
Augustana Synod
Zion
Emmanuel Lutheran
Wisconsin
Clinton
Synod
Five Sierra Nevada Tunnels Contract Let by Southern Rail
Reno June 16. Announcement that a contract for five tunnels through the Sierra Nevada has been awarded by the Southern Railway. Work to start within a month. The project calls for an expenditure of 25 million dollars.
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Reno
Nevada
Sierra Nevada Mountains
The
Southern Railway
Incorporation Granted for Rock Island Auditorium
The secretary of state issued a license to incorporate the Rock Island Auditorium association without capital stock in Springfield Illinois. The aim is to provide an entertainment hall. Incorporators are C. J. Larkin Louis Eckhart Jr and W. J. French.
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Springfield
Specterly
Secretary of State
Rock Island Auditorium Association
C. J. Larkin
Louis Eckhart, Jr
W. J. French
Startling facts and arrests linked to city officials in Caven case
Philadelphia June 16 Additional arrests are expected after disclosures at a hearing on Select Councilman Frank H. Caven who faces charges of unlawful interest in city contracts. Names mentioned include Insurance Commissioner J W Durham State Senator James P McNichol former Public Works director Peter E Costello and others tied to filtration contracts. Evidence cites secret pacts between Caven and his son and limits on contracting with McNichol or rivals without written consent.
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Philadelphia
Frank H. Caven
Ramer
J. W. Durham
James P. McNichol
Peter E. Costello
John W. Hill
Tenness
Caven
Republican
McNichol
City Contractors
Connellman Caven
James Caven & Son
Bates Named Next Army Chief Of Staff In Shift
Washington June 16 Maj Gen George L Gillespie after fifty years active service is placed on the retired list by his own request He is succeeded as assistant chief of staff by Maj Gen John T Bates Bates recently relieved from command of the Northern Military division and is expected to be made lieutenant general and chief of staff upon Lieut Gen Chaffee's statutory retirement next April
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Washington, D. C
George L. Gillespie
United States Army
Gillespie
John T. Bates
Northern Military Division
Bates
Chaffee
Secretary Hay Far From Well After European Trip
New York dispatch reports Secretary of State Hay, though improved, remains unwell after returning from Europe. A long presidential document was delivered at quarantine. Hay declined to reveal its contents while reporters say Russo Japanese peace errors are to be addressed in Washington. He stated no plans to leave the cabinet. In Chicago, Rev. Joseph M Feeley, a noted theologian and philosopher, has died.
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Hay
Europe
Roosevelt
White House
Bay
Washington
Dubuque Mother Kills Five Children Then Takes Own Life
In Dubuque Iowa Mrs Paul Klass killed her four young children with a heavy butcher knife at her Kieler Wisconsin home eight miles east of Dubuque and then died by suicide. The eldest was six and the youngest a baby. The mother had been in ill health.
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Iowa
June Ti
Paul
Klass
Kieler
Wis
Yates Stirrs Campaign Amid Chicago Political Spark
In Chicago on June 11, the Yates campaign for senator stirred activity as plans formed to launch the effort. Lowden visited Senator Cullom in the federal building and pledged support, clarifying he would not run and would back Cullom.
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Chicago
Richard Yates
Shelby Cullom
Springfield
Frank O. Lowden
Cullom
Federal
Yates
Ian Vea
Cullom Lowden
Kansas City stabbing linked to real estate man
Howard Vrooman real estate man and brother of Walter Vrooman who promoted a defunct cooperative was arrested after stabbing Harry Stoops and J. F. Stoops at their home in Kansas City. Vrooman demanded seventy dollars and followed with assault. Other items note Roman character advocates and a Vatican audience with Archbishop Keane.
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Kansas City
Howard Vrooman
Walter Vrooman
Western Co-operative Asociation
Harry Stoops
J. F. Stoops
Harry J. Stoops
Vrooman
Stoops
Chicago grand jury probes teamsters strike bribery
Grand jury hearings reveal alleged bribery and conspiracy involving Chicago Teamsters leaders and employers. Driscoll testified about checks and secret dealings while State's Attorney Healy called the probe the city's greatest scandal. Shea was said to have accepted 5000 to prevent a sympathetic strike and to keep workers at yard jobs.
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Chicago
Healy
Jobe
Driscall
Associated Building ‘Trades and Coal Team Owners’ Association
Chcago Teamsters’ Union
Shea
Driscoll
Teamsters
Unio
Insurgent Band Destroyed Near Palanka
In Salonica European Turkey on June 13 Turkish troops fought seven hours and annihilated a band of 86 Macedonian insurgents near Palanka. Turkish losses were nine killed including nine officers and 11 wounded.
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Salonica
Turkey
Palanka
Nive
Peace conference at Chicago proposed for Russo Japanese talks
June 16 Chicago voices a peace conference plan if Washington change is desired. The Illinois Manufacturers' Association, representing a billion in capital and half a million workers, asked the Illinois governor and Chicago mayor to invite the option to hold the meeting in Chicago. In Paris Premier Rouvier said he would permanently retain foreign affairs and give up the finance portfolio.
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Russia
Japan
Ake
Washington
Billios
Ilinois Manufacturers’ Association
Ofllinois
Rouvier
Paris
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