Inland revenue prosecutions and river commission renewals
The article notes an impending start of prosecutions under federal revenue laws and reports the president’s reappointment of inland waterways commission members. It also covers naval orders for the gunboat Yorktown, appointments and resignations of military aids, land withdrawals restored for irrigation projects, and a list of notable deaths and an engagement in Bermuda with a wedding planned in London or Paris.
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Internal Revenue Department
Inland Waterways Commission
Congress
Yorktown
Puget Sound
Beringea
Fitzhugh Tee
Roosevelt
War Department
French School of Equitation
Saumur
France
Archibald W. Butt
Havana
White House
Lower
Yellowstone
Secretary of the Interior
Nine Arrests in Galesburg Under Inca Option Law
Nine persons were arrested at Galesburg Michigan on charges of violating the Inca option law. Among the accused are prominent figures including Mixa Anna Erickson of Tacoma an artist famed beyond local circles who hanged herself at her bedpost. In Russia thirteen people were executed in various cities including five in Ufs four in Lodz and four in Odessa. Edward Whalan was sentenced to ten years for stealing a straw hat and a screwdriver from a church tower in Easton Pennsylvania. Anthony Colligan once a Chicago police member killed his wife then wounded himself after drinking. Frank Irvine in the Saphol conspiracy case has been moved to a state hospital for the insane as others await trial. In Bicenter California a mob overturned a wagon of Japanese laborers and stoned others. Funds noted as several requests have been made amid tapping overall. Cor Vittas, head of Cor Fi aer aera at ae eg ees i society referenced in the report.
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Galesburg
Mixa Anna Erickson
Tacoma
Russia
Ufs
Lodz
Odessa
Easton
Edward Whalan
Frank Irvine
Saphol
Sharies P Corvitt
Aera
Ae Eg Ees i Society
A. J. McCormick
Watertown
N. Y
J. W. Pilkington
Mobile
Ala
Iton
Sedalia
American Piano Company
John B. Moran
Boston
Paul Bourget
Bourget
Newton
Edward Schiriman
Ida Potter
Danbury
Conn
R. A. Gromley
Netroit, Mich
Riis
Auditorium Annex
Chicago
Line and Sinners in a Crime Tangle Across Nations
The report details a series of violent incidents including the alleged murder of Louis M. Koch in Niledo, the discovery of Anna Luebrnght's body in Standard, Pennsylvania after a choking death, and the capture of Charles Williams for the crime. It also notes bandit activity near Balas, Guerrero, a fatal altercation in New York, a manslaughter case in Winnipar, and a street fight in Hufaula Oklahoma ending with multiple gunshots and injuries.
Prize for aeroplanist flight set at four thousand dollars
Abroad notes a $4,000 prize offered by Marmengande of Paris for the first aeroplanist to stay aloft thirty minutes. Reports cover diverse international items from the Victorian cabinet to Lisbon, Paris, and Rome, including treaties, mining nationalization, and political trials.
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Marmengande
Paris
Lloyd C. Griscom
Rome
State Department
San Marino
United States
International Miners’ Congress
Paria
Chamber of Deputies
Manuel
Snarsk
Fire and Explosions Ravage Kansas City Packing Plant
A Morris & Co packing plant near the Kansas River in Kansas City Kansas suffered two explosions and a subsequent fire. The floodwaters impeded firefighting for five hours, destroying the cold storage section and causing estimated losses approaching a half million dollars.
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Morris Packing Establishment
Rivers in Kansas and Missouri Threaten Flood Rise
Unusually heavy rains sweep Kansas Nebraska Missouri and Iowa with the Weather Bureau predicting the Kansas and Missouri rivers will reach high stages by Wednesday night. The Missouri River at St Joseph is rising while Topeka Kaw rises rapidly and may exceed Tuesday’s flood. Tributaries of the Kaw are very high and more rain is expected.
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Kaw
Missouri
Kansas City
Kansas
Nebraska
Iowa
Weather Bureau
St. Joseph
Toneka
Topeka
Crazed by hunger man locked in freight car seven days
Ghester A. O'Connell a Bath Beach machinist was locked in a freight car loaded with potatoes in Harlem yards for seven days and nights. He had been working in Jacksonville Florida and, unemployed, crawled into the car to travel back to New York. He was rescued and taken to Lincoln Hospital where his condition was described as critical.
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New York
Ghester A. O'Connell
Bath Beach
Harlem
Lincoln Hospital
O'Connell
Jacksonville
Fla
Thaw Remains in Jail Pending Transfer Bid
New York judge and counsel spar over Thaw move to Matteawan. Harry K Thaw will stay in the Poughkeepsie jail while an application to Justice Dowling for a change of order committing him to Matteawan is considered. Justice Morschhauser ruled on the transfer motion after arguments in New York yesterday.
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New York
Harry K. Thaw
Poughkeep. Ale
Justice Dowling
Supreme Court
State Hospital For
Matteawan
Morschauser
Poughkeepsie
AF L Leaders Seek Anti-Injunction Plank in GOP Platform
Labor figures led by Samuel Gompers James Morrison John Mitchell and other AF of L executives arrived in Chicago with a tentative anti injunction plank aiming for inclusion in the Republican platform. Gompers voiced confidence of success in securing the insertion.
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Chicago
Samuel Gompers
James Morrison
John Mitchell
American Federation of Labor
Republican Party
Presient Gompers
Artist Is Drowned in Huon River Accident
John McGreer a 69 year old landscape artist formerly of Chicago was drowned in the Huon river yesterday as a result of an accident. He resided in New York.
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New York
John McGreer
Chicago
Huon River
Explosion Fatal to Three at Kentucky Railroad Site
In Lexington near Paragon, three men were involved in a railroad explosion yesterday. Noah Fugate and Chan fon Parry were killed, Yolman Triplett fatally injured.
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Lexington
Paragon
Noah Fugate
Chanfon Parry
Yolman Triplett
Chicago Convention Opens Amid Noisy Crowds and Busy Talks
Chicago June 11 Amid flags and crowds the national party convention opened with delegates arriving for business sessions. Private conferences in hotel upper rooms focused on the platform with Taft and his supporters shaping a draft likely to be presented in its current form. The vice presidency remains the era’s most enigmatic issue as Dolliver gains ground and others prepare decisive moves.
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Chicago
Stte
Tnd
Bros Hinds
Bram
Jung Shonters
Taft
Dolliver
Insane Woman Slays Eight Then Kills Herself in Cadillac
In Cadillac Michigan on June 16 an insane wife and mother killed seven members of the Cooper family and herself after shooting a son in Mercy hospital Fred Cooper, the lone survivor of eight, lies in critical condition. The bodies lie in the morgue as townspeople seek answers. The mother had been confined in an asylum and had long planned to end it all.
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Cadillac
Mich
Jame
Fred Cooper
Mercy Hospital
Cooper
Trix
Fred
Deportation plan targets 1000 Orientals in British Columbia
Seattle reports a proposal by W. T. McKenzie King deputy labor commissioner to deport 1000 Oriental residents from British Columbia to India if approved by Ottawa. About 1000 East Indians in Vancouver New Westminster and nearby areas face worklessness and begging with 300 willing to be deported while the minister of labor could order 700 more.
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British Columbia
Seattle
India
W. T. McKenzie King
Dominion
Vancouver
New Weathminster
Automobile Ducked on Dewey Lake Road Vault
In Marshalltown Iowa on June 19 a motorist driving along the bullt dike road near Dewey lake on the soldiers home grounds the road edge caved in and the car plunged into about three feet of water. The driver Dr N E Mighell was thrown from the vehicle but escaped unharmed though wetted. The car was only partly submerged and suffered no injury.
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Marshalltown
Iowa
Dewey Lake
N. E. Mighell
Mighell
Miraculous Escapes as Fire Ravages Home for Children and Aged
In Minneapolis on June 17 a fire threatened a home for children and aged women. A teacher Miss Elizabeth Taylor and staff evacuated twenty small children and many elderly residents from the second and third floors. The blaze started on the third floor from straw and caused widespread damage. one wing and most of the building were destroyed. Estimated losses reach $5,000, largely covered by insurance, with all inmates accounted for.
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Minneapolis
Wligibeth ‘Taylor
Ned Nan
Dilliiing Was Destroyed. the Home Sheltered On Hundred Children Aid ‘Ity Aked
Micco
Temperance convention marks 100th anniversary in Saratoga
A world temperance convention met in Saratoga New York to celebrate the centenary of the first temperance society. Delegates adopted a resolution urging the International Sunday School convention to keep quarterly temperance lessons in endy schools and pressed Democratic and Republican parties to include local option planks for the District of Columbia and territories.
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Saratoga
N.Y
First
Temperance Society
International Sunday School
Thein
District of Columbia
Territories
Patrick cries foul as Rice estate plot claimed
Albert H. Patrick, serving a life term in Sing Sing for the murder of William M Rice, sought a writ of habeas corpus in a U S circuit court arguing a conspiracy to plunder the Rice fortune. Judge Lacombe rejected the petition yesterday, leaving Patrick’s conviction and sentence intact.
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Rice Estate
New York
Albert H. Patrick
Sine Sing
William Mirgh Rice
Millionaire's Son Demands Workhouse Food in St Louis
William T. Elwen, claiming Vienna University training and millionaire pedigree, entered the police station in St Louis yesterday seeking confinement in the workhouse to obtain meals. He had waited in a long line of applicants for a dishwasher position at a restaurant and failed to secure work.
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St Louis
Willam T. Elwen
University of Vienna
Askes
Elwen
Hopkins Hospital Receives Major Gift for Psychiatric Clinic
Prof William H. Welsh Announces Henry Phipps of Pittsburgh and New York Has Given over 50000 dollars to Johns Hopkins Hospital and University for the creation of a new psychiatric clinic. The gift was announced last night at Johns Hopkins.
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Baltimore
William H. Welsh
Johns Hopkins
Henry Phipps
Pittsburg
New York
Johns Hopkins Hospital
University
Supreme Court Upholds Betting Law at Jattle Rock
The Arkansas Supreme Court on June 17 ruled the Anile race track betting act constitutional, upholding against defendants Blaze and Simon Snyder who faced charges for betting on a race at Anthbetting track.
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Anthbetting Law
Jattle Rock. Ark
Supreme Court
the Blaze
Simon and Snyder
West Virginia Governor Diagnosed with Tuberculosis
Gov. Dawson of West Virginia has tuberculous condition confirmed by physicians. He departed for Asheville, North Carolina, to spend three or four months for treatment.
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Dawson
Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
Agheville
N. C
Carpenter suicides after finances in Minneapolis
August Hanson fifty one year old carpenter formerly employed at the Soo railroad shops drank carbolic acid last night ending his life. Financial matters are thought to have driven the act.
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Minneapolis
Hanson
Soo Railroad
Ball Player's Leg Broken in Wisconsin Game
Osceola player Mariatt Heald broke the left leg below the knee during a game with Star Prairie in Osceola Wisconsin on Sunday June 17.
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Osceola
Wis
Star Prairie
Star Prairie Aines
Mariatt Heald
Murderer Sought in Cadac Cooper Family Tragedy
In Massachusetts at This Place Hi Saily- WAY a family, including Mel Cadac Hime VT, was found dead at home. Daniel Cooper woman and three children were killed. she later died by suicide. One survivor, Fred Cooper, age 15, was wounded and may have lifelong brain damage. Coroner notes possible outsider perpetrator but no solid clues. Local relatives say Mrs Cooper had threatened her family and herself in prior times.
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Cadac
Mel
Daniel Cooper
Saily- Way
Aix
Cooper
Joslin
Coopey
Vo Ji
Fred Son
Farmer Hicks Ends Life Over Alleged Operation
Macomb County farmer Dariin Hicks aged fifty, owner of stock and land worth about 100 dollars, killed himself yesterday near Blandinville by shooting through the temple with a life rifle. In a letter he stated he had learned of a criminal operation on a housekeeper, which he claimed he could not be responsible for, though fearing blame. His wife is deceased. the housekeeper is now in critical condition at Keokuk, Iowa.
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Macomb
Dariin Hicks
Blandinville
Lever
Nad
Bee
Indian Kills Himself After Shootout With Policeman
A Stony Indian on the Rosebud reservation shot and killed himself after exchanging gunfire with an Indian policeman pursuing a warrant for horse stealing. The incident occurred Saturday afternoon as the fugitive, who had served a penitentiary term for horse stealing, was cornered after his horse was shot from under him.
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Self
Valentine
Thompson
Rosebud
Bee Farmer cremated after mysterious house fire
Clark Monette a bachelor beekeeper from Chatherd Minnesota was cremated in his four mile from the village home after a fire burned the house. His brother found only a few bones and a watch in the ashes. No witness to the fire and no clues to its cause.
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Chatherd
Minn
Clark Monette
Hai
Thaws End Separation Talks Evelyn Visits Husband
Evelyn Thaw visited her husband in jail yesterday and they dined together in the sheriff’s room. A statement by her counsel Daniel O’Rly says the couple have reconciled and will not be separated.
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Evelyn
Harry
Ponuhheopsle
N. Y
Sherif Chun
New York
Evelyn Thaw
Hersband
Daniel O'Rly
Soldier Arrested After Merry Chase for 1904 Embezzlement
Knox County paper reports Union soldier Boynton captured after a long pursuit by Manitowoc authorities. He is charged with embezzling about 19,000 in United States bonds and grand larceny alleged to have occurred in 1904. The case follows a months long manhunt.
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Knoxville
Penn
Sune
Prascott
Womans Husband in Family Shootout Near Elizabeth Pa
Chippewa Falls June 17 Mrs John Waglart learned her husband, acting as a detective, was killed in a confrontation with armed robbers at a woodchopper’s house in Elizabeth Pennsylvania. He wounded one robber and was then struck by gunfire.
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Chippewa Falla
Chippewa Falls
Wik
John 8 Waglart
Elizabeth
Bani
Attempt on War Minister Picquart in Paris
A man named Bellanger, claiming to present a petition, fired shots at War Minister Picquart at the ministry in Paris. He wounded his arm with a bullet while two others struck an upholstered chair. Bellanger was arrested and is believed demented.
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Picquard
Paris
Bel- Tanger
Picquart
War Ministry
Bellanger
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