First Step Toward Local Option Election Roosevelt Proposes Mail Suppression
President Roosevelt urges Congress to curb anarchist influence by using postal powers to block dissemination of anarchistic literature. He cites Justice Department opinion that current statutes permit mail restrictions and calls for further legislation while warning against immigrant entry and foreign publications promoting anarchism.
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Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
Department of Justice
Post Office Department
Avdas
Leases for Oil Territory in This County Taken in Large Numbers
Oil leases recorded across multiple townships indicate a lively summer for operations. Names include Adam Burkier W G Decker J E Donaldson N Risden and others with transfers to Crawford McLain and Whitehill among Knox and Wells townships. Read as a regional property activity note with numerous parties and close ties to Steubenville Knox Springfield and Jefferson counties.
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Adam Burkier
W. G. Decker
Springfield Township
I. E. Burge
N. Risden
J. E. Donaldson
E. J. Bickerstaff
Heeter & Reese
Steubenville Township
Jas
C. Smith
C. M. Crawford
Knox Township
Henry Schuette
Insland Creek
Hi. E. Bell
H. L. Borman
Wells Township
J. R. Cole
State Liquor Laws Amendment Passes House
The Wood liquor search and seizure bill to curb clubs selling or giving liquor in dry territory passed the Ohio House Thursday by 75 to 10. The measure allows local option petition signers to append their addresses to petitions, strengthening enforcement of liquor laws.
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Columbus
House
Kentucky Lottery to Quit After Guilty Plea
In Covington Kentucky the Kentucky Lottery pleaded guilty to federal charges and was fined 28700 dollars with a vow to cease operations permanently.
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Cincinnati
Covington
Governor to Intervene After Perjurer Claim in Murder Case
Springfield April 9 The State Supreme Court denied a rehearing in Herman Billek’s case the Chicago killer convicted of slaying Versal family members for life insurance. An appeal to the governor for a pardon will be pursued based on the main witness's alleged perjury.
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Springfield
State Supreme Court
Herman Billek
Chicago
Versal
Billek
Ohio fair tonight. Friday warmer outlook
Washington reports indicate Ohio will have fair conditions tonight with a warmer Friday ahead. The brief weather note confirms clear skies and increasing temperatures, helping plans for outdoor activity.
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Washington
Ohio
Wholesale assassinations rock Lisbon politics
Rioting subsides in Lisbon as political killings surge. Police and municipal guards suffer three deaths and four serious injuries in a coordinated campaign. One high police official found with knife still in his back, signaling deep unrest after earlier strikes against rioters.
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Paris
Lisbon
Actress Sues Hurtig and Seamon Over Tights Contract
Steubenville actress Miss Lee Morrison sues Hurtig and Seamon for 8950 claiming breach of contract after she refused to wear tights as ordered. Nellie Wallace of Steubenville testified, and the case questions a married vaudeville star’s right to decline costume demands. Jury awards Morrison four thousand seven hundred dollars.
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Hurtig & Seamon
New York
Nellie Wallace
Selma LaSalle
Miss Lee
New York World of Wednesday
Gerarde
Supreme Court
Henrietta Lee Morrison
Charles P. Morrison
Lee Morrison
Gerard
Blandy
Justice Gerard
Boy Arrested After Four Day Freight Ride From Wheeling
Elmer Weeks, a 11 year old boy, was lured from his Wheeling home by a gang of tramps. He rode a freight train for four days with no food and was arrested in Cincinnati on Wednesday. He said the tramps persuaded him to see more of the world.
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Wheeling
Elmer Weeks
Cincinnati
Hughes Stirs Legislature With Special Message to Albany
Governor Hughes issues a special message urging passage of anti race track gambling bills and direct nominations. He also proposes a commission to probe Wall Street methods while senators clash, Grady condemning the executive and McCarren calling the message a personal insult to the Senate.
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Albany
N. Y
Hughes
Wall Street
Grady
McCarren
Senate
Bank Closed After Cashier Found Short in Accounts
Olive Street Bank in St. Louis, a State institution, was closed by the State Bank Examiner this morning. A notice on the door said the bank is in the hands of the Secretary of State. Depositors were startled, some panicked, as police kept the crowd from storming the doors amid reports an employee was short in his accounts.
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St. Louis
Olive Street Bank
Thomas French
Steel chief denies price cuts despite demand shifts
E H Gary chairman of United States Steel Corporation in New York on April 9 issued a statement saying there will be no reduction in steel prices. He warned that higher demand beyond supply does not justify price increases and a demand shortfall does not justify price cuts.
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New York
E. H. Gary
United States Steel Corporation
Gary
Local option election under the role law two men charged
Dick Garrison, 24, a Wellsville brakeman, is jailed after being arrested for forging two checks totaling 20.85 at Silver Banking Co. in Wellsville. In East Liverpool, Toronto Officer George Biddle pursued similar forgery charges against Garrison and sought Crowley, owner of a shanty boat, for passing a worthless check in a Toronto saloon. A dispute over arrest authority arose. Crowley claimed illness and was left behind as efforts failed to move him.
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Silver Banking Co
Wellsville
Dick Garrison
McDermott
McTlvaine and Thorne
John Crowley
East Liverpool
George Biddle
Toronto
Garrison
Biddle
Crowley
Caiming
Feronto d
Ohio Mines Likely to Resume Work Next Week
A. E. Watkins, president of the Eastern Ohio miners sub district, returned from Indianapolis praising a quick resumption of mining. He expects miners to restart after talks in Toledo with operators next Tuesday and foresees interstate agreement among Indiana Ohio and Western Pennsylvania. Illinois miners and operators may also attend. The miners remain optimistic about a swift restart and settlement.
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Indianapolis
Ohio
Toledo
Watkins
Intelligencer
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Illinois
Local option election planned in Jefferson county
A private meeting of about a hundred county citizens formed a committee to call a local option election under Rose law this fall. Ministers business leaders and farmers from across the county signed on with names from Steubenville Island Creek Mingo Junction and other towns. Discussions focused on date options November 15 or 30 with earlier or later placements debated. The afternoon session was to decide the final date and Reverend Regnemer predicted a large majority in favor.
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Jefferson County
First Presbyterian Church
S Milligan
S Milligan, Steubenville, Sean Z. Swickard, Knoxafter
J. D. Anderson
Richmond
J. F. Rankin
East Springfield
J. Q. A. Miller
Toronto
J. G. Crabb
Island Creek
Py. B. Smith
Steubenville
I V. Tarr
Mingo Junction
G. H. Miller
J. M. Robinson
M. J. Grable
Jas. Lee
Costonia
E. A. Hodil
H. Hilsinger
J. T. McClain
Jas. George
Bergholz
W. J. Engle
F. W. Cropp
W. P. McConkey
Brilliant
T. W. Hine
W. A. Cox
W. H. George
Fernwood
J. R. Keyes
Warren
F. Speidel
W. J. Scott
Geo
L. O. Eldredge
Bloomingdale
J. A. Ulman
T. C. Clark
B. R. Dance
Cross Creek
Jas. Wherry
Creswell
Richard Gilson
Clyde Sixsmith
W. P. Baxter
B. W. Wilkinson
Empire
George P. Miller
S. W. Rosenberger
A. W. Ekey
F. W. Evans
D. S. Carr
A. N. Fell
D. M. Scott
New Alexandria
J. H. McCullough
J. F. Flood
Geo. Swan
Steuben
Fetch
B. M. Wilkinson
Rev
Regnemer
Mingo
NOT GUILTY Lieutenant Hastings and Walton Arrive in Wheeling
Lieutenant Hastings arrived this morning from Columbus with French D Walton to answer embezzlement charges against Walton for $2,200 at Wheeling & Lake Erie. Walton declined to discuss details beyond claiming innocence and intent to fully explain at the preliminary hearing before the justice. He made no resistance to being brought to Wheeling and waived requisition papers, a move seen as confidence in his innocence shared by friends.
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Hastings
Wheeling
Columbus
French D. Walton
Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad Company
Walton
Charge inquiry opens into Rev Humble at Leetonia church
A special East Ohio Conference committee arrived in Alliance on April 8 to investigate charges against Rev. FE Humble pastor of Leetonia Methodist Episcopal Church. Women from his charge allege improper conduct during pastoral calls. Humble denies the charges and claims a conspiracy. committee will exonerate or recommend trial.
Wealthy broker kneels to crisis with suicide in Chicago
Chicago April 9 L D Kneekand a wealthy stock broker shot himself through the head at a fashionable apartment building this morning. The shooting followed a stock market slump believed to have triggered the crisis.
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Chicago
L. D. Kneekand
Republicans Nominate Sherman S. Deaton for State Senator
Republicans of the 11th Senatorial district met in Springfield and chose Sherman S. Deaton of Urbana as their candidate for State Senator. Resolutions endorsing Taft for president and the state ticket and platform were adopted.
Wealthy Economy resident shoots wife then self
William P. Reiss, prosperous owner of the Old Economy hotel in Economy Pennsylvania, killed his wife with a revolver at dawn and then shot himself, suffering self-inflicted wounds that may prove fatal.
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Economy
P. Reiss
Proposed League Targets Liquor Gambling in City
Residents from Ross and Springfield townships forming a law and order league to pursue liquor and gambling activities and other flagrant disturbances within the city.
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Ross
Springfield Townships
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