Kansas Solons Push Flood Relief Drive in Special Session
The Kansas legislature convened in a special session called by Governor Bailey to enact flood relief measures. Lawmakers debate prioritizing a general relief bill or local statutes, with enabling bridge acts and charity legislation seen as likely outcomes. The governor cited extraordinary devastation in Wyandotte and other counties, urging rapid action to finance repairs while courts resolve legality later.
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Kansas
W. J. Bailey
North Topeka
Commercial Club
Bailey
Oir Fair State
Kaw
Wyandotte County
Kansas City
Kan
Wyandotte
Pressure for Trade Treaty With China in Deadlock
Negotiations on a vn trade treaty with China reach a critical phase as the United States and Japan push for opening ports in Manchuria. China proposes delaying port openings at Houkden Taku Shan and Harbin while waiting on trade needs, but the U S and Japan reject this, leaving negotiations stalled and awaiting external pressure from major powers.
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China
United States
Japan
Manchuria
Houkden
Taku
Shan
Harbin
Children ride in airship during Paris fete
Santos Dumont piloted a steerable airship at the Paris Polo Club during a children's fete. Mothers initially refused rides for their children, but Clarkson Potter, a 10 year old American, secured permission and rode the balloon with Dumont. Dumont then carried two more children before returning to the Boield Boulogne grounds.
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Paris
Santos Dumont
Polo Club
Clarkson Potter
Boid de Boulogne
President requests special attorneys for postal indictments
The president writes to the attorney general urging heightened pursuit of post office graft prosecutions. He notes indictments already found and suggests detailing staff or appointing special assistants to examine charges and pursue removal and punishment of guilty officials, including those beyond the service. Charles Bonepart and Holmes Conrad are named for duties.
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Washington
Post Office Department
Bristow
Robb
Department of Justice
Tyner
District of Columbia
Knox
Charles Bonepart
Baltimore
Holmes Conrad
League of Press Clubs reelects Curran president
The international league of press clubs meets in Atlantic City New Jersey and reelects M P Curran of Boston as president for the coming year New officers include J A Hennessy New York WI PR Story Atlantic City Charles Emory Smith Philadelphia P C Boyle Oil City PA Mrs C Westover Alden NY Starr Richardson Philadelphia treasurer Col John Hobbs New York and an executive slate featuring Mrs Marion Foster Mae De Young Sam Francisco and McKenzie Salt Lake City
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International League of Press Clubs
Atlantic City
N. J
M. P. Curran
Boston
J. A. Hennessy
New York
PR. Story
Charles Emory Smith
Philadelphia
P. C. Boyle
Oil City
Engineer Killed as Fast Train Collides Near Cherryvale
Train No. 302 running between St. Louis and Wichita crashed into two loaded coal cars near Cherryvale Kansas. Engineer John McKeey was killed and Fireman Feist of Fort Scott was seriously injured. Several passengers were bruised as the engine and two baggage cars were telescoped. Coaches remained on the track.
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St. Louis
San Francisco
Wichita
Monett
Cherryvale
Kas
John McKeey
Feist
Fort Scott
Cassatt Re-Elected As Pennsylvania Company Directors
The Pennsylvania company re elected officers and A J Cassatt as president. Directors met and declared a semi annual dividend of 2 44 percent on the preferred payable July 16 and 1 144 percent on the common payable August 15.
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Cassatt
Organaees
A. J. Cassatt
Not Wilful Guilt In Baltimore Election Court Case
In Baltimore Maryland Michael A. Manson and Edward M. Deems election judges were discharged after being charged with neglect of duty for improperly sealing ballot boxes. The court ruled the neglect was not wilful but due to ignorance of the new election law.
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the Criminal Court
Baltimore, Md
Michael A. Manson
Edward M. Deems
Callaway reports ALCO gains in earnings for year end June
President Callaway announced in New York that American Locomotive Company gross earnings for the year ending June were 32,863,730 dollars, up 6,465,227 dollars from the previous year.
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Callaway
American Locomotive Company
New York
Carrie Nation Follower Sentenced for Vandalism
Miss Blanche Boies former saloon window smasher in Topeka was sentenced by District Judge Hazel to thirty days in the county jail and fined 100 dollars. She is identified as a follower of Mrs Carrie Nation the temperance reformer.
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Carrie
Blanche Boies
Topeka
Hazen
Miss Boies
Carrie Nation
General Manning Reaches Damot Without Opposition
A flying column from Berbera reached General Manning at Damot in Somaliland, East Africa, signaling his arrival with no encountered resistance. News arrived at Aden, Arabia, easing central anxieties about his force's movements.
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Manning
Somaliland
East Africa
Aden
Arabia
Berbera
Damot
Promotion of Alfred M Gottschalk to Calleo Peru consul
Alfred M Gottschalk of New York, previously consul at San Juan del Norte Nicaragua for the past year, is promoted to be consul at Calleo Peru to fill a vacancy. The change elevates his post within the consular service.
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Alfred
M.gottschalk
New
York
Nebraska Supreme Court Limits Legislator Pay After Forty Days
Robert Ryan, ex Nebraska Supreme Court commissioner, sued to halt further pay to lawmakers beyond forty days and at $3 per day. The court found the 1887 sixty day at $5 rate illegal and invalidated canvassing acts that tried to count a constitutional amendment. The ruling prevents further pay beyond the forty days and guards against improper special legislation.
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E. P. Holmes
Lancaster County
Neb
Supreme Court
Nebraska
Robert Ryan
Lincoln
Ryan
Holmes
Board of State
Yale Class of 1903 Finances Revealed In Expense Table
A Yale class of 1903 publication presents a four year expense table for individuals. The cheapest annual cost was 100 dollars for a student who spent 550 dollars in total. The top single year expense reached 11 000 dollars and the four year maximum stood at 25 000 dollars. The data show an average rise of 452 dollars per man over 1902 when costs were higher than previous years.
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Yale
Parliament rejects government demand to keep eighty religious orders
In Paris the chamber of deputies narrowly voted against government pressure to permit eighty female congregations to remain in France. The vote follows ongoing church-state tensions affecting ecclesiastical institutions across the country.
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Paris
Chamber of Deputies
France
Seven year old boy killed by freight train in Fremont
Holdia Brown son of Mr and Mrs Edward Brown living on the south side of Fremont Neb was instantly killed Thursday afternoon by a Union Pacific freight train near the station. The flagman warned three boys who were near the cars as they tried to crawl beneath them Eddie Brown ran between cars the train backed and the wheels passed diagonally across his body before a brakeman removed him and he gasped for his mother and died.
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Holdia Brown
Edward Brown
Fremont
Neb
Union Pacific
Main Street
Eddie
Lipton and Morgan Travel Aboard Oceanic For America's Cup Quest
Sir Thomas Lipton and J. P. Morgan were among Oceanic passengers on Wednesday. General Corbin with General Chaffee and Major Bird boarded at quarantine. Lipton accepted Roosevelt's invitation to dine Friday and expressed resolve to win the cup, praising his boat and skipper and challenging any defeat as a call to try again.
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Thomas Lipton
J. P. Morgan
General Corbin
Chaffee
Major Bird
Odell
Roosevelt
Sir Thomas
Thomas
Britain
House kills million dollar flood repair bill
Kansas House rejects a bill by Representative B P Waggener to appropriate 1 million dollars from the state treasury to repair and reconstruct bridges along the Kaw River damaged by the flood. Waggener argues state funding helps needy families and preserves Kansas credit and moral standing rather than begging abroad.
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Kansas House
B. P. Waggener
Kaw
Waggener
Kansas
Bishop A J Hardy rejects lynching resolutions in New York meeting
At the annual meeting of the African Methodist Episcopal church home and foreign mission department in New York a request to entertain resolutions denouncing racial burning was refused by Bishop A J Hardy. An officer drafted anti lynching language but the bishop said resolutions will do no good and urged letting events take their course.
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A. J. Hardy
Home and Foreign Mission Department
African Methodist: Episcopal Church
New York
Delaware
Flooding Hits Topeka After Midnight Rainstorm
A severe rainstorm flood swept Topeka Kansas after midnight Wednesday forcing several South Topeka residents to evacuate to higher ground. Homes lacked foundations as floodwaters rose on Soldier Creek and the Kaw River near Kansas Avenue and the bridge.
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Topeka
Kansas
Soldier Creek
North Topeka
Avenue Bridge
Message Sent From Sagamore Hill For Taft
A morning dispatch from Oyster Bay near Sagamore Hill signals a formal opening of the Pacific cable to the Philippine islands. The message, to be transmitted, will greet Governor Taft and congratulate him, with a reply expected from Governor Taft.
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Manila
Sagamore Hill
Oyster Bay
Philippine Islands
Taft
Child Died After Drinking Horse Medicine in Nebraska
The 18 month old child of County Treasurer J G Begher of Columbus Nebraska drank horse medicine from a bottle. The child died about twenty minutes after the accident. Begher was in Omaha at his aged mother's bedside at the time.
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J.G. Begher
Columbus
Neb
Begher
Omaha
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Dayhawker Legisature
League of Press Clubs
Braska Supreme Court
the World's News
Lafayette
Ind
Ash Grove
W. H. Smith
Ashland
Ill
Knights of Pythias
Madison
Fred Driscol
Brooksville
Springfield
McCullough
State
Fred Busse
State Bar Association
San Juan
Porto Rico
Nike
Rice
Bishop Seabury
Wynne
Paul Herman
Fell ‘Cross
Mr. Waggen
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