Rate Bill Considers and Conferees Named in Congress
Congress moves the rate bill to conference with 144 yeas 105 nays and 14 present as 25 Republicans break with the minority. Conferees named Hepburn Sherman Richardson. Hepburn resolution favored to send bill to conference. Senate acts on Panama canal unfinished business and postal subsidy debates continue with major amendments and cost estimates.
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Washington
Yeas
House
Hepburn
Iowa
Sherman
New York
Richardson
Alabama
House Committee On Rules
Senate
Girl Escapes Home In Trousers For Cigarette Habit
Victim of habit, Hilda Trimble aged 18, escaped from the Home of the Good Shepherd in Peoria Illinois wearing trousers. She confessed to smoking 240 cigarets in 24 hours and will be sent to the Geneva industrial home after wandering to Pekin where she was arrested. Two convicts shot during an attempted escape near Greensboro, Raleigh area. Jesse Thompson, a Negro, was killed. J B McMillan, white, wounded. others escaped. McMillan admits false name, with unknown family address in a western state.
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Peoria
the Good Shepherd
Hilda Trimble
Pekin
Geneva
Raleigh
N. C
Greensboro
Jesse Thompson
J. B. McMillan
Warsaw
Industrial Savings Bank
Jelinski
Kielce
Okoulina
Railway Car Shortage Hurts Coal Firms Testimony
F A Von Boyneburg, GM of Renkitt Brothers & Co., testifies before the interstate commerce commission that coal business collapsed due to car shortages. From 4100 cars in 1901 to 522 in 1905, prices dropped to keep miners at work. He pins blame on A J Cassatt and a favored policy aiding Berwind-White, Keystone Coal & Coke. Other firms report similar losses. President Cassatt reportedly aboard ship home, due June 2.
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Philadelphia
F. A. von Boyneburg
Renkitt Brothers & Co
Interstate Commerce Commission
Pennsylvania Railroad
Cassatt
A. J. Cassatt
Berwind- White Company
Keystone Coal & Coke Company
Cherbourg
France
Photographers End Meet Illinois Association Selects Chicago
Illinois Photographers association adjourned in Springfield after choosing Chicago as the next meeting place. Officers elected include President S W Stout of Paxton First Vice President W M Henshal of Chicago Second Vice President Charles C Day Secretary H C Lines Evanston Treasurer R H Mann Virginia. Lines won a gold medal for cabinet photographs and Towles of Washington took the grand portrait prize.
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Illinois Association
Chicago
Springfield
Illinois Photographers
S. W. Stout
Paxton
W. M
Henshal
Charles C. Day
H. C. Lines
Evanston
R. H. Mann
Virginia
Still Unable to Agree Illinois Miners and Operators Face Collapse
Springfield May 25. The Illinois miners and operators joint conference nears collapse as a three miner and three operator subcommittee reports disagreement. Operators enter executive session to decide concessions after the stalemate.
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Illinois
Springfield
Alfonso Meets His Bride at Trun Spain in Royal Reception
In Trun Spain on May 25 King Alfonso received Princess Ena at 4 45 a m The event drew a tremendous popular reception The royal train then departed for Madrid half an hour later In Clinton Iowa on May 25 W G Fou pel 26 a former Milwaukeean was arrested for embezzling 1000 from Kelly Sorensen Manufacturing where he worked as bookkeeper He admits the charge and has a prior Milwaukee conviction.
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Spain
Trun
Alfonso
Ena
Madrid
Clinton
Iowa
W. G. Foupel
False lynching story triggered mob deaths in Springfield
May 25 Springfield special grand jury reports the April mob lynched three negroes after a domestic worker’s false claim. It found no assault occurred by Duncan and Croker and blamed police negligence. The woman could not identify the men but witnessed the lynching.
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Springfield
Mina Edwards
Duncan
Croker
Perkins Freed by Court In Campaign Contribution Case
New York May 25 The appellate division of the supreme court discharged George W Perkins from custody. He had been held to await grand jury action on a technical charge of grand larceny related to the New York Life Insurance company campaign contribution to the Republican national committee.
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New York
Supreme Court
George W. Perkins
Grand Jury
New York Life Insurance Company
Republican National Committee
Eldredge
Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Company
England
Peoria
Robert 8. Waddell
The
Buckeye Powder Company
Powder
Edward F. Addicks
Delaware
Addicks
Pastor with Razors Forces Resignation in Geneva
In Geneva Aurora May 25 Rev Edward H Shepley pastor of First Congregational church threatened Edith Wilson with murder and suicide urging marriage to save her life. Shepley vanished prompting his resignation amid potential further charges. A lightning bolt struck the church steeple as he drafted his notice.
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Aurora
Edward H. Shepley
First Congregational Church
Geneva
Edith Wilson
Shepley
Pekin Bankers Indicted in Embes zlement Case
Tazewell county grand jury returned 125 indictments against D. C. Smith Sr. and partners D. Smith Jr. Conrad Luppen E Finland and Henry Block for receiving deposits after Pekin bank insolvent. Bail set at 35000 per defendant. Bank closed April 2 1906 with liabilities 482209 nominal assets 554968.Assets dwindled. depositors may recover about 15 cents on the dollar.
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Pekin, Jr
Tazewell County
Smith & Co. Partners
D. C
Worthington
Peoria
Sea Level Canal Slows Panama Project Says Stevens
New York May 25 Chief Engineer Stevens, who arrived here, said in an interview he knew nothing about favoring sea level design until today and that building a sea level canal would take 15 to 20 years while a lock canal could be completed in about eight years. He called for a definite decision on the canal type and noted the Isthmus workforce totals about ten thousand with delays caused by lack of equipment.
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Stevens
New York
Panama Canal
American Athletes Return From Athens Games
The liner Republic arrived at quarantine in New York with the victorious American athletes from the Athens Olympic Games aboard. A steerage passenger was found to have smallpox, causing detention at quarantine. In Lafayette Indiana Veterans elect leaders for the Grand Army post, with E. R. Brown chosen as department commander and A. S. McCormick as senior vice, George W. Coward as junior vice.
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New York
N. Y
Republic
Athens
Indiana
Lafayette
Ind
Indiana Grand Army
E. R. Brown
Thello
Sunior
A. S. McCormick
George W. CoWard
Jeffersonville
Congressional Epitome: Senate Passes Alcohol Tax Relief and Farm Bill
May 25 report notes the Senate moving to relieve denatured alcohol from Internal Revenue tax and starting debate on the agricultural appropriation bill. In the House, Towne of New York and Dalzell of Pennsylvania led a day of oratory with no substantive action on the diplomatic and consular bill before a 5:15 p.m. adjournment.
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Washington, D. C
Congress
Senate
HOUSE
Charles A. Towne
New York
John Dalzell
Pennsylvania
Cornell Varsity Beats Harvard in Charles River Regatta
Cornell varsity rowing crew defeated Harvard by three lengths on the Charles river. Time: Cornell 10 41 3 8 Harvard 10 52.
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Boston
Cornell
Harvard
Charles River
Conspiracy Not Proved in Burlington Case in Missouri
Judge McPherson sustained the demurrer to the Crosby indictment for alleged conspiracy in grant rebates on freight. Thomas and Taggart indictments overruled, jury to hear Crosby case. witnesses admitted receiving commissions from unknown sources, with payments in New York and no records kept.
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Kansas City, Mo
McPherson
United States District Court
George H. Crosby
Burlington Railway
Missouri
George L. Thomas
L. B. Taggart
New York City
Kansas City
Burlington
New York
Thomas
Atlantic Seaboard
St. Louis
W. E. Emery
E. B. Thayer Drygoods Company
Spencer
Crosby
Illinois Pharmaceutical Association drafts bill on drug regulation
Members of the Illinois Pharmaceutical Association have prepared a bill to regulate the sale of narcotics and habit forming drugs. The draft was completed by a special committee and will be offered for adoption at the association’s annual Peoria meeting.
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Illinois Pharmaceutical Association
Springfield
General Assembly
Peoria
Smoot Seat Battle Stirs Des Moines Assembly
Laws limiting agent commissions spark Mutual Reserve Life Insurance concerns in London and New York. Des Moines Presbyterians push to unseat Reed Smoot, urging Senate action while Cumberland Presbyterian delegates join northern church assembly in a joyful union ceremony.
Moline Mayor Honored as Elks Officers Elected
Decatur Alabama May 25. The state convention of the Elks chose Bloomington as the next meeting place and elected state officers including President F A Schlick Rockford First Vice President W M Snell Litchfield Second Vice President Mayor Andrew Olson Moline Third Vice President E M Brown Monmouth Secretary J V E Marsh Alton Treasurer C L Lynder Freeport Sergeant at Arms S M Smalley Streator Trustees J M Knox Canton C M Boswick Centralia W B McMahon Dixon. The convention closed with a banquet.
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Elks
Bloomington
Decatur
The
F. A. Schlick
Rockford
W. M. Snell
Litchfield
Andrew Olson
Moline
E. M. Brown
Monmouth
J. V. E. Marsh
Alton
C. L. Lynder
Freeport
S. M. Smalley
Streator
J. M. Knox
Canton
C. M. Boswick
Centralia
W. B McMahon
Dixon
Cold rain worsens shelter conditions for San Francisco refugees
A heavy cold rain and windstorm last night intensified suffering among thousands of refugees in San Francisco living in tents and improvised shelters in public parks, the Presidio, and vacant lots, as relief officials warned of continuing exposure risks.
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San Francisco
Presidio
Banker Admits Killing After Fire Escalation
Ernest Denicke an engineer and son of banker E A Denicke was arrested in San Francisco on manslaughter charges. He wore his old military uniform during the blaze and says he shot an unidentified refugee tied to a marine. The body was weighted and dumped into the bay with no military headquarters report. Profess or Wentworth Dead in Exeter. Fertilizer Trust Indictments in Nashville involve about eighty individuals. The president nominated George H Pickerell of Iowa as consul at Para Brazil.
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San Francisco
Ernest Denicke
Philippines
E. A. Denicke
Washington
Senate
Para
Brazil
George H. Pickerell
Iowa
Presbyterian Ministers Bar Negro From Alumni Banquet
Des Moines May 26. Dr Matthew Anderson pastor of Berean Presbyterian Philadelphia and Princeton graduate was refused entry to a Princeton ministerial alumni banquet over racial prejudice. About sixty five attended. the incident sparks debate among delegates and may prompt action by the general assembly. A Springfield Missouri case reports a woman identifying lynching perpetrators aiding indictments in the noose murders.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Matthew Anderson
Berean Presbyterian Church
Philadelphia
Princeton Theological Seminary
Princeton University
Princeton
Presbyterian General Assembly
Diaturba Assembly
General Assembly
Lkely
G.S. Brown
Easton
Anderson
Mormon Country Quakes Near Ogden Utah
Earthquake shock felt yesterday afternoon at West Weber four miles west of Ogden Utah. Buildings shook and public excitement rose but no damage occurred. Also reported a political threat from Buckeye Powder chief Wad dell vowing action if Edward Addicks wins Delaware Senate seat.
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Ogden
Utah
West Weber
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Kittredge
Penrose
Committee On
Post Ofice
Oceanic
Senate Committee On Military Affairs
West Point
Mississippi River Commission
Secretary of War
Ohio River
Cape Girardeau
Mississippi River
Morris County
Minnesota
Casgatt
St. Petrsburg
Goremykin
M. Shipoff
Moscow
Peterhof
Urusoff
Prince Urusoff
Old Council of the Empire
Kaluga
St. Petersburg
Razor
Pekin Bankers
Mutual Life
London
Cumberland
Samuel Wisherd
D. D
United States Senate
Reed Smoot
Timims
United States
General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church
United States of America
Cumberland Presbyterian Assembly
Corbett
Professor Wentworth
Exeter
N. H
George A. Wentworth
Fertilizer Trust
Nashville, Tenn
Federal
Brown
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