Dismissal of Bowen from U S diplomatic service cites misconduct
President Roosevelt orders Herbert W. Bowen removed as minister to Venezuela after a prolonged Loomis Bowen controversy. The letter accuses Bowen of seeking to obtain incriminating documents and hinting at scandal while praising Loomis as unfairly slandered. Bowen responds by calling the Venezuela affair a national disgrace and demanding full inquiry.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Aft
Bowen
Bowen-Loomis
Herbert W. Bowen
United States
Venezuela
Francis B. Loomis
Missonduer
Loomis
Nin
Powell
Taft
Taff
Mare
New York
Vencznela
Poowen
Francis J. Loomis
Caracas
Department of State
Washingon
Loom
Department
Thorevr
Tolstoi Criticizes Movement in Interview
Count Polstol in Stass interview praises U S leadership and Russia’s consent to negotiate but denounces the reform movement. He argues land redistribution to peasants is Russia’s sole cure for political ills, likening past remedies to China’s opium habit treatment.
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Tolstoi
St. Petersburg
Polstol
Stass
United States
Aeader
Rusgia
Ruseia
Armistice Hopes Dim as August 1 Talks Considered
June 21 St. Petersburg bulletin reports slim chance of an armistice before the peace conference. Roosevelt faces pressure amid Japan’s reluctant stance and a potential six week truce to bolster Linovitch at Vladivostok. British and American officials view front threats, while Russia approves August 1 as the plenipotentiaries meeting date.
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St. Petersburg
Roosevelt
Japan
Marshial Oyama
Linovitch
Vladivostok
Oyama
Russia
Washington
Associated Press
Great Britain
Larry
Cassini
Equitable Report Attacks Management and Proposes Mutualization
Albany June 22. State insurance chief Francis Hendricks released a preliminary report on the Equitable Life Assurance Society to Governor Higgins. It harshly criticizes president James W. Alexander and first vice president James H. Hyde for fund manipulation, exonerates second vice president Gage B. Tarbell, and calls out Henry B. Hyde’s Mercantile Safe Deposit Company as an unwarranted drain. It urges complete mutualization with elimination of stock and notes only ten of fifty two directors own stock personally.
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Albany
N. Y
Francis Hendricks
State Insurance Department
Higgins
Equitable Life Assurance Society
New York
Thomas TI. Ryarn
James W. Alexander
James H. Hyde
Gage B. Tarbell
Mercantile Safe Deposit Company
Henry B. Hyde
Equitable
Jerome Starts After Equitable Investigation
New York June 238 District Attorney Jerome of New York has entered into an investigation of the Equitable Life Assurance society and yesterday telegraphed the Superintendent of Insurance Henricks asking him to forward official copies of his report. He would make no statement about his intentions.
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Jerome
Equitable
New York
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Insurance
Henricks
Knicker What Became of Chauf fen
A brief remark from the New York Sun notes Becker's quip as Chauf fen disappeared from memory after an absent minded crawl under a mule to inspect why the speaker did not proceed.
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Becker
New York Sun
Negro Shot to Death Near Riverside in mob action
Nashville June 21 Simon Ford, a negro, who assaulted a white woman near Riverside, was taken from jail at Hohenwild by a mob of fifty men and shot to death. After his arrest he admitted guilt and was identified by his victim. Ford was hauled to the scene ten miles away, suffering wounds, and asked for the quickest death with no plea for his life.
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Nashville
Tenn
Simon Ford
Riverside
Hohenwild
Ford
Oregon Senator Faces Testimony On Seventieth Birthday
On his seventieth birthday Oregon Senator John H. Mitchell faced intense testimony from lifelong friend Judge Tanner in a land fraud case. The judge described efforts to destroy books detailing bribe transactions and disputed partnership agreements, with Mitchell showing deep concern and possible complicity.
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Oregon
Portland
Ore
John Th. Mitchell
United States
Judge Tanner
Tanner
Heney
Judea Tanener
Mitshell
Tanver
Kalama
Washington
Binger Terann
Frank C. Baker
Republcan State Central Committee
Mitchell
Kiids
Afice
Hiw
Maximo Gomez Dead Cuban Hero Dies in Havana
General Maximo Gomez, a hero of Cuba, died last evening after a May operation for gangrene in an abscess on his hand. He had been moved from Santiago to Havana on June 7, with family, guards, and officials present. Despite initial improvement after arrival, his condition worsened and he passed away at his Havana home.
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Wavana
Maximo Gomez
Gomes
Santiago
Cuba
Havana
Gomez
Matangas
Palma
Cane
New 20 Hour Schedule Restored for Century Limited
President Newman of the New York Central and Lake Shore railroads announced the twenty hour schedule for the Twentieth Century Limited will be restored immediately, replacing the eighteen hour run that had lasted only a few days. The change applies to the New York Central Lake Shore line with the streamlined service resuming its faster pace.
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New York
Newman
New York Central and
Lake Shore
Secretary Flay Returns to Washington Desk
Secretary Flay resumed duties at the State Department in Washington after a prolonged overseas absence. He held a conference with the president and began addressing a large backlog of correspondence. He planned to depart soon for his New Hampshire home.
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Washington
Flay
State Department
New Hampshire
Wreck of Twentieth Century Limited Destroys Mentor Stay
The Twentieth Century Limited derailed at Mentor Ohio after a switch opened by an unknown party sent the engine and cars into a depot. The disaster left nineteen dead and many injured, with the wreck witnessed by Cleveland and surrounding areas. Officials blamed malice and speed, and a large medical response followed.
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Cleveland
Mentor
New York
Churgo
Lmited
Meveland
Twentieth Century Limited
Lake Shore Road
D.C. Moon
Lake Shore
Chicago
Wateh
Collinwood
Asatiubula
MinnesyiNe
Vna
Explosion Kills Five Hundred at Khartsisk Colliery
Five hundred persons were killed in an explosion at the Ivan colliery in Khartisk, part of the Russian Donetz company, in southern Russia on June 19.
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Ekaternoslav
Russia
Khartsisk
Donetz Company
Fatal Fight With Socialists in Lodz Sparks Casualties
In Lodz, Warsaw, on June 20 two people were killed and 86 wounded as troops clashed with socialists. A procession of about two thousand socialists bearing red flags was halted by Cossacks who then fired, charged with drawn swords, and disrupted the march. Disturbances continued at a factory near Baluty as troops blockaded the area.
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Socialista
Warsaw
Poland
Lodz
Baluty
Equitable Life Report Warns of Deep Ties to Wall Street
The five page preliminary report by New York state insurance superintendent Weiss Hendricks accuses Equitable Life officers of diverting policyholder funds for personal gain. Attorney General Mayer aims to recover every dollar misused and remove implicated directors. The plan of mutualization with stock elimination is urged as the only cure.
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New York
Wranets Hendricks
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Secredy
Aclion
Mayer
Bnvitable
Siveu
Leimlicks
Thomas VF
Ryan
Bennett
Wall Street
Galtorney Bkeneral
Frick
Moehoof
Alexander
Tryde Same
Girl Tries to Poison Couple In Geneva Institution Sentence
Bloomington England June 22. Nanny Piper of Milwaukee for dependent children was sentenced by Judge Russell to the girls institution at Geneva after foster parents Zeartuss Randolph township complained she had on several occasions attempted to poison them by placing carbolic acid in food and feeding chickens corn mixed with kerosene. The girl admitted the attempt and said she could not explain why but that she loved them and they treated her kindly.
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Bloomington
Nanny Piper
Pretty Hide Edoof
Milwaukee Tleme
Russell
Geneva
Zeartuss
Randolph Township
Ptr
Women Crowding Ohio Prison From Across Counties
On June 22 in Columbus Ohio Mrs Harriet Forsythe from Fayette county arrives for bigamy charges and Sarah Lemmon from Cuyahoga county for forgery. The inmate count reaches fifty eight with the department overcrowded.
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Ohio Prison
Columbus
Ohio
Harriet Forsythe
Ifayette County
Coursctoud
Bigamy
Sarah Lemmon
Cuyahoga County
Ohio Pentten- Mary
Teachers Reject Nude Statue in School Action
Women teachers at a Clay public school refuse a cast of a statue showing a boy removing a thorn from his foot. The action draws attention to a dispute over art within the school community and measures taken on June 22.
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Kurt Wayne
Tveles
Pwub
Indictment in Wheaton Murder Case Names 14 Year Old
A grand jury in Wheaton Minnesota returned an indictment against Antoinette Lidenstecker fourteen charged with first degree murder for the May twenty six shooting of Ferman Shipp.
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Wheaton
Minn
Srand
Antoinette Lidenstecker
Ferman Shipp
Probe Army Scandal Promises Royal Commission
London report says Premier Balfour announced a royal commission will probe the British army store scandal. The development follows exposure of irregularities in army stores and procurement.
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London
Noted Iowa ruling bars blind man from medical exam
Notes from the capital report Attorney General Mullin holds blind persons cannot become physicians under Iowa law. J R R Shike, a Sall College of Osteopathy student blind for four years, will not be allowed to sit the state board exam. The assessment reports show mixed changes in farm land values across 44 counties, with some increases and decreases nearly balancing. The State Board will not allow substitutes for butter and buttering margarine in institutions, amid a Marshalltown Soldiers Home controversy. A Des Moines stabbing nearly fatally injures Tierb Martin, tied to a prior penitentiary term, as domestic quarrels flare between families. Des Moines Woodmen drill teams post wins in Milwaukee contests, with Evening Star camp placing second and Des Moines battalion third, each earning $250 prizes.
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Des Moines
Mullin
Dy J. R. Kennedy
State Board
J. RR. Shike
Sall College of Osteopathy
Shike
Law P
Bund
Tron
Crese
Washington County
Tan
Warren County
St. O'Brien
Madison
Ployd
Iowa
Vale
Horton
Marshalltown
Howd
Batterds
Marshalltowards
Tierb Martin
Whitechapel
Martin
Ole Cimmingham
O the
Dio
Chohan
Choye
Cunmingham
Cummingghia
Ce Lana Hatel
Des Moines Motern Woodmen
Milwaukee
Ivening Star
East Des Moines
Des Maoines
Des Moines Avio
Moeniog Stuer
Burt Bennett
Contatnd
Grant
Lincoln
Evening Star
Marshalltown Foresters
Worthington
Fire devastates Bowman livery and losses near five thousand
Fire gutted the FF Bowman livery born at Muscatine causing about 5000 in damage. Murtry led horses out through the Draze. Supposed origin traced to a hobo in the hayloft. Also notes on galvanizing iron, Brussels grave digger school, sexton candidates, and London's 7000 sandwich men driven by drink.
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FF. Bowman
Muscatine
Brussels
London
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