Alien bill tamed in adoption as California acts
California senate passes anti alien land holding bill drawn by Attorney General Webb after a long debate. The measure would let aliens eligible to citizenship hold land like citizens, restrict those ineligible, bar land inheritance, and permit three year agricultural leases while preserving state power to regulate future property acquisitions. Secretary Bryan’s mission ends as Governor Johnson delays signing for hearings. An identical Bloodgood bill awaits assembly action. A separate fatal accident in Oakland reports an aviator killed by a propeller during a test.
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Weather summary for Rock Island area tomorrow
Showers this afternoon and tonight with cooler conditions tomorrow. Temperature at 7 a m was 63, high 83 yesterday, low 62 last night. Wind 8 mph, precipitation .10 inch. Humidity 36 percent at 7 p m rising to 67 percent by 7 a m. Astronomical notes include Saturn at Evening Star and planets Mercury Jupiter Mars Venus with Cassiopeia due north in early evening.
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Moline
J. M. Sherier
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Mars
Venus
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Milky Way
Hayti President Tancrede Auguste Dies in Office
Port au Prince Hayti May 3 General Tancrede Auguste president of the Republic of Hayti died at 9 o'clock last night after a brief illness. The national assembly was convoked to elect a successor. Four candidates prepared to present claims. General Boitevin, commander in chief, ordered precautions and troops to readiness as the country braces for a transition. Auguste had held the office since Aug 9 of last year following the death of Leconte in a palace fire.
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Hayti
Republic of Hayti
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National Assembly
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Wilson Pleased With Jersey Trip
President Wilson returns to the White House after a two day speaking tour in New Jersey and says he is pleased with the reception and confident reforms will be achieved. He met with National Chairman McCombs and Secretary McAdoo at Colonel E. M. House's home in New York, their first meeting since the campaign days. McCombs plans to sail for Europe today, fuelling talk he may be offered the France post later. Wilson will press a Chicago exhibition button at 7 PM and visited the Washington Monument, where he gave up his seat in a crowded elevator for a woman passenger. Also, Otis Skinner's mastoiditis operation leaves physicians worried but hopeful.
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Washington Monument
Countess Killed While On A Hunt In England
Henley England May 3 Death by the accidental discharge of her own gun ends the life of Countess Cottenham wife of the Earl of Cottenham She was an avid huntswoman and often rode alone through the preserves It is believed she stumbled over a tree stump and her gun fired Her twin sister a daughter of the Marquis of Abergavenny died in 1900 from a gunshot wound at the family estate
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Earl of Cottenham
Jay
Marquis of Abergavenny
Peace congress backs repeal of canal toll exemption
In St Louis today the national peace congress urged repeal of the Panama canal act clause exempting American coastwise vessels from tolls. It also appealed for fair land ownership policy and restraint in international relations, urging civilized progress through science and social reform.
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California
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Supreme Court
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Great Britain
Fire cutrales in England keep on fire cutrales in England keep on
Bradford May 3 extensive sheds of the Midland railroad containing freight were burned last night causing a loss of $500000. Nineteen freight cars loaded with dry goods and carpets burned. Arson suspected with fires started simultaneously in multiple parts of the yard to misdirect. Firemen saved adjacent buildings after intense effort. Earlier a separate fire in straw cars aimed to distract from the main blaze. London May 3 Dorothy Evans minister in the Women’s Social and Political Union was arrested at Dover while boarding a steamer to France.
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France
Independent Owl Body Wins Asuit in Keokuk
Keokuk Iowa May 3 Judge Mc Pherson ruled in an injunction suit brought by John W Talbot and the Order of Owls of Indiana against the Independent Order of Owls of Keokuk for one of the defendants Expelled from the parent organization the Keokuk group formed an independent fraternity
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Mitchell Denied Post as Labor Commissioner
Albany May 3 The state senate rejected Governor Sulzer's nomination of labor union leader John Mitchell for state labor commissioner by party vote after three weeks of consideration. The motion cited political grounds citing Mitchell's name in progressive party literature. The senate also defeated Governor Sulzer's nomination of John B Riley to be state superintendent of prisons.
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Springfield Boy Contest Winner in Illinois Oratorical
Springfield, Illinois May 3 Donald Shumway Rockwell of Springfield won first prize in the corn belt high school oratorical contest. His subject was The New Chinese Flag. Hester Allen of Delavan, subject Modern Martyr, and Harlan Mills of Decatur, subject The Worth of the Child, tied for second prize. Beloit Wisconsin May 3 E Lysle Smith of Kenilworth Kansas won first place in an interscholastic declamation contest here today.
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Hester Allen
Delavan
Harlan Mills
Decatur
Beloit
Wis
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Kenilworth
Trainmen Review Onlaws Rail Labor Lobby Report
Springfield May 3 rail labor lobby reports rising interest in railroad legislation this year with Republicans and Democrats pledging friendliness. International officers head to Illinois to urge action. The headlight bill tests on Rock Island tonight. full crew act in senate sub committee due Tuesday. Brotherhood of Trainmen has over a thousand members in the state and a semi monthly pay day bill prompts debate over costs.
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Weather contrasts across regions raise heat and cold fears
The Weather Bureau reports a hot spell across the Atlantic coast states with temperatures near 90 degrees expected today or tomorrow. In contrast, Wyoming, the Dakotas, Arizona, and the Pacific coast face freezing conditions and sharp temperature splits.
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Officers Foiled by Train Bandit Near Kansas City
Kansas City May 3 Jesse M Short mining man of Joplin Mo shot three times yesterday by a robber who held up a Kansas City Southern passenger train. Short’s sturdy physique and mine labor saved him. one bullet grazed the left lung. Police seek the robber who was wounded in a duel and fled. Bloodstains and an empty purse found in an onion patch form the only clues.
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Wool tariff debate peaks in House as Underwood speaks
Washington May 3 The wool tariff fight sharpens with Democrats split and Republicans criticized for a fall from power. Underwood urged avoidance of political speeches. The same day Boston saw a playgoer kill himself. Lothrop, 35, assistant manager, shot himself after joking with friends. Other items report Jock Soutar winning the world racquet title, a Green Bay drowning of a 7 year old, and Brigadier General Charles W Raymond’s death.
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Princess Indira Calls Off Baroda Wedding
Bombay reports a sudden halt to the marriage of Princess Indira, daughter of the Gaekwad of Baroda, to Priste Jitendra of Coeh Behar. The ceremony was to be held next Monday, with caste cited as a probable factor. The princess’s mother, author of The Position of Women in Indian Life, is noted for progressive views.
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Baroda
10000 March in New York in Biggest Suffrage Parade
New York May 8 hundreds of women from across the country converged on Fifth Avenue to back the votes for women march. The muster lists show about 30 000 marchers with 2000 male sympathizers. Forty bands played as the procession moved eight abreast to Fifty-ninth Street with mass meetings planned at the plaza and Carnegie Hall.
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Josephine Beiderhasse
National Woman's Suffrage Association
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Richard C. Burleson
Anna Howard Shaw
Jane Addams
Europe
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Budapest
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Washington
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Lucy Burns
Alaska
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Oswald Garrison-Villard
Beatrice Forbes-Robinson-Hale
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