Lobbyist Secrets Spark Subpoenas In Senate Probe
Washington June 27 Subpoenas will be issued for Lewis Case Ledyard Paul Cravath and David Lamar as the senate lobby investigating committee airs claims names of congressmen were used to gain influence with financiers. Testimony tied to telephone calls alleged to be from a congressman. Lauterbach denied claiming Washington influence. The committee resumes hearings next week as new details surface from A Mitchell Palmer and others.
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Washington, D. C
Senate Lobby
Lewis Case Ledyard
Paul D. Cravath
New York
David Lamar
Wall Street
Ledyard
Cravath
Lovett
Union Pacific
Overman
A. Mitchell Palmer
Palmer
Lewis Cass Ledyard
Pennsylvania
Louterbach
Edward Lautanghier
Lauterbach
Washington
Riordan
Union Pacific Railroad
Mr. Ledyard
Weather Bulletin for Rock Island Area Tomorrow
General forecast for Rock Island Davenport Moline and vicinity. Tonight and Saturday expect fair skies and warm temperatures with light to moderate southerly winds. 7 am temp 79 high 90 low 76. Humidity 61 percent at 7 pm 70 at 1 am. No precipitation. J M Sherier local forecaster. Astronomical notes list Mercury Venus Saturn Mars Jupiter along with star positions.
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J. M. Sherier
Mercury
Venus
Saturn
Mars
Jupiter
Cyenus
Bad Kentuckian Is Sent to Chair
Eddyville Kentucky June 27 General May known as General was executed in the state penitentiary for the murder of Mrs Belle Meredith of Clay county. May had killed her husband earlier and was paroled before the second murder. He was a former deputy sheriff and survived a fight with 12 bullet wounds. He was 43.
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Eddyville
May
Belle Meredith
Clay County
Meridith
Merideth
Foulquier
Chalone-Sur-Marne
France
Maurice L. Foulquier
Newport suffrage militant jailed for mailbox explosives
Mrs. Margaret Haigh Mackworth daughter of coal king Davis A. Thomas was brought before a magistrate in Newport England and fined after an explosives incident in a mailbox. She is secretary of the Newport branch of the Women’s Social and Political Union, with her mother also prominent in the movement. Her husband is Captain Humphrey Mackworth of the Royal Monmouthshire Engineers and heir to a baronetcy.
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Newport
Eng
Margaret Haigh Mackworth
Davis A. Thomas
Canada
Mackworth
Women’s Social and Political Union
Thomas
Humphrey Mackworth
The
Royal Monmouthshire Engineers
Geneva Women First 10 Ballot in Illinois Suffrage Step
Geneva, Illinois residents will be the first in the state to vote on a suffrage measure July 12, with Chicago area women awaiting ballots for a free kindergarten proposal as Illinois grants 1,600,000 women voting rights.
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Aurora
Ill
Geneva
Illinois
Springfield
Edward F. Dunne
Woman Freed as Husband Slayer in Slaying Case
Margaret Schreiber was found not guilty of second degree murder in the death of her husband Augustus Schreiber, a wealthy lumberman. He was shot in the apartments of Mrs. Lillian Howell, a acquaintance, last February in Memphis.
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Memphis
Tenn
Margaret Schreiber
Augustus Schreiber
Lillian Howell
Jack Johnson Fugitives Reach Canada and Flee to Paris
Johnson, the black boxing champion, travels on a tourist ticket to Canada and plans to sail for Europe to fight in St Petersburg. U.S. officials seek his extradition, but Canada cites immigration law and cannot deport a transient alien.
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Ottawa
Ontario
Jack Johnson
Montreal
France
St. Petersburg
Chicago
Canadian Immigration Department
United States
Washington
D. C
Canada
Johnson
Ill
Jack” Johnson
Aroma
Wabash, Avenue
Europe
Jonson
Toronto
Canadian Pacific Railroad
Tom Flanagan
John
Las Vegas
Flanagan
Jack
Paris
Carpenter
Matthew
Baldwin
Evanston
Bribery Confession Hits East St. Louis Franchising
Joseph Earpet and six council members accused of taking bribes to pass a public utilities franchise for East St. Louis Interurban Railway. Confession details a 1912 agreement to vote only after receiving 3000 dollars per councilman through John Beaird Jr. and a return of 500 dollars in each envelope.
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East
Tariff Debates to Be Cut Short by Senate Democrats
Senate Democrats push cloture limits on tariff speeches and set full consideration for Underwood and Simmons bills with a plan to report next week. The caucus approves a wheat and flour countervailing duty and all agricultural amendments from the Senate Finance Committee. House rules panel backs deficieny appropriations carrying a provision to abolish the commerce court and transfer its jurisdiction to district courts.
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Washington, D. C
Senate
Finance Committee
Senate Finance Committee
House Rules Committee
Commerce Court
United States District Courts
Galloway Taken In By The House
Washington D. C. June 27 Representative Galloway of Texas, who repeatedly blocked the appropriation to send District of Columbia veterans to the Gettysburg celebration, was called out of the house chamber and returned to find the house in roars of laughter as the resolution unanimously passed. Roosevelt Carries Gun. New York June 27 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and District Attorney Charles S. Whitman have been granted permission to carry pistols.
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Congress
Representative Palmer
Pennsylvania
Ledyard
House
Money Trust
New York City
Washington
Mr. Ledyard
Charles DeWoody
Department of Justice
Johnson
Chicago
Canada
Europe
Ben Bachrach
Bachrach
Cedar Lake
Ind
Robert Loeffel
Germany
Washington, D. C
Galloway
Texas
District of Columbia
Chicagoan Dies in Tango at Dance Academy
Charles Werner, 40, collapsed unconscious during a tango at a Chicago dance academy early this morning. He died in a police ambulance en route to a hospital.
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Chicago
Charles Werner
Dancing Academy
Toledo Holding to Perry's Flag in Navy Dispute
Secretary Daniels orders Ensign Lowry to seize Commodore Perry's flag from the Toledo Museum of Art declaring it part of a national display for the Perry victory centennial. The flag had been loaned to Toledo for three months and a countermanded loan to Erie was also directed. The Navy promises to return the flag after the celebration if Toledo yields.
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Washington, D. C
Daniels
Ensign Lowry
Danman
Toledo
Ohio
Commodore Perry
Lowry
Erie
Perry
Niagara
Misery Bay
Navy Department
Toledo Museum
Poincare Leaves London After Farewell Visit
President Poincare bids farewell at Victoria station after a visit hosted by King George. Crowds line streets while a royal train carries him to Dover where a French warship transports him home amid joint British and French naval escort. In Chicago Edwin F. Young admits embezzling 35000 dollars and faces 1 to 10 years imprisonment.
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London
Poincare
George
France
King George
Prince of Wales
Duke of Connaught
Victoria Station
York House
Dover
Mayors veto utilities bill as association plans reorg
In Rockford Illinois on June 27 the Minnots Mayors association voted 14 to 10 against asking Governor Dunne to veto a public utilities bill. W W Bennett of Rockford was elected president. A 12 member committee will draft a constitution to reorganize the group into the Illinois Municipal association.
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Rockford
Minnots Mayors’ Association
Dunne
W. W. Bennett
Mayors’ Association
Lellinois Municipal Association
Hayden Named to Succeed McNab in California Post
Washington June 27 The nominations of Judge M T Dooling to be federal circuit judge for the northern district of California and Thomas E Hayden to be district attorney to succeed McNab who resigned will go to the Senate next week Matt L Sullivan will be special prosecutor in the Caminetti Diggs and Western Fuel company cases Dooling now on the superior court bench will fill the vacancy and cases will be tried before him The house judiciary committee today failed to get a quorum to take up the McNab Caminetti case
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Washington, D. C
M. T. Dooling
Pea
California
Thomas E. Hayden
McNab
Senate
Matt L. Sullivan
Caminetti-Diggs
Western Fuel Company
Dooling
House Judiciary Committee
McNab-Caminutti
Third attempt to kidnap a girl ends in arrest
Three Italians are jailed after an auto chase on the Chicago north side. Angelina di Maggio, 20, was targeted three times in a year with the purpose of forcing marriage. Philip Tortoriolo, 32, allegedly planned the kidnapping. The pursuit included shots fired and police arrests. In Kiel, Margharite won the class A yacht race, with Meteor second and Hamburg II third.
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Chicago
Angelina di Maggio
Poice
Philip Tortoriolo
Kiel
Emperor
William
Sixty Mongolian lamas die in pagoda blaze in China
St. Petersburg dispatch reports sixty Mongolian lamas burned to death in a pagoda at Kwei Hwacheng Shansi Province China. The monks barricaded themselves inside the building against pursuing Chinese forces.
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St. Petersburg
Kwei Hwacheng
Shansi
Koreans Driven From Hemet in Labor Conflict
A group of Korean apricot pickers from Riverside were driven from Hemet by white laborers and locals angry at Asian competition. Officials pledge investigation, with the State Department preparing action and potential congressional indemnity discussions.
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State Department
Hemet
Cal
Hermet
Riverside
Shaw
Washington
Washington, D. C
Bryan
Johnson
United States
Congress
Harvester Suit Evidence Concluded in Chicago Trial
The government finished presenting testimony in the anti trust suit against International Harvester. Special Examiner Taylor heard 85 government witnesses and 1,200 from the defense. Arguments set for St Paul on Oct 12 before Federal Judges Sanborn Hook Adams and Smith. The hearing began in September and ran on weekdays with few interruptions.
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Chicago
International Harvester Company
Taylor
St. Paul
Sanborn, Hook, Adams
Smith
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Ward
St. Louis
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Missouri
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Sarrt Ryle
Dancer
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Young
Edwin F. Young
Chicago, Terre Haute & Southeastern Railroad Company
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Los Angeles
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Japanese Association of
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H. Wakabayashi
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