Republican National Convention Second Session Opens
The Republican National Convention met for a second session in Chicago with routine business. The credentials report was adopted, Lodge named permanent chairman, and rules set for seating delegates and limiting speeches as platform debates continue.
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Associated P Coliseum
Chicago
National Committee
Margaret Hill McCarter
Kansas
National Convent 100
Holt
Theopore Roosevelt
Charles Warren Fairbanks
K. Depew
Depew
Ledge
Margaret Bill McCarter
Credentials Committee
Duffield
New Jersey
Robert R. Church
Memphis
Church
Tennessee
Committee
Morrow
Kentucky
Senator Lodge
Paul Howland
Cleveland
Committee On Rules and Order of
Lodge
Resolutions Committee
Chauncy
Butch Williams And Thomas Hall Sentenced For Train Theft
Joe Butch Williams and Thomas Hall were indicted by a federal grand jury yesterday and today sentenced by Judge Sater. Williams received three years in Atlanta federal prison and Hall twelve months. They were arrested in Columbus for stealing several hundred pairs of shoes from American Railways Express.
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Joe
Butch” Williams
Thomas Hall
Sater
Columbus
Williams
Atlanta
Hall
American Railways Express Company
League of Nations plank under study by Republican committee
In Chicago on June 9 the Republican platform committee split into a thirteen member sub panel to draft the League of Nations plank while the full resolutions panel heard last minute suggestions. The group includes two anti treaty senators, two pro with reservations, and nine others with unclear stances. Samuel Gompers appeared with AFL suggestions as hearings continued.
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Mr. Depew
Senator Lodge
South
League
Chicago
League of Nations
Watson
Indiana
Elients
Borah
Idaho
McCormick
Ilinois
Associated Press
Republican National Platform Bgan
Bakers
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Irish Delegates Clash Over League of Nations Ratification
Montreal June 9 delegates at the American Federation of Labor convention oppose the executive council plan to ask Congress to ratify the League of Nations without reservations. Dan MacKillop of Los Angeles leads Irish delegates calling for self determination and opposing any covenant that binds the U S to Britain’s territorial integrity. The gathering also weighs a steel workers input criticizing Western Pennsylvania authorities over free speech and pressing for President Wilson to speak on free press and assembly at Duquesne. Six organizers jailed for addressing a steel workers meeting face Supreme Court review.
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Associated Press
Montreal
Hugh
American Federation of Labor
League of Nations
Executive Council
Great Britain
Dan MacKillop
Los Angeles
Federation
Congress
League
Ireland
McKilop
National Committee For Organizing
Iron and Steel Workers
Pennsylvania
Wilson
Duquesne
Steel Workers
Supreme Court
Madame Stanley Forgery Case Delayed in Wellsburg Court
Mrs Sareva J Ellis known as Madame Stanley Follawsbee fortune teller was brought from Lorain Ohio to Wellsburg to face forgery charges. The Brooke county court postponed the case until the October term with bond set at eight hundred dollars.
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Sareva
J. Ellis
Madame Stanley
Follawsbee
Lorain
Brooke County
Wellsburg
Resolute Wins Again in America's Cup Trials
Resolute defeats Vanitie in official tryouts for the cup defense. The sloop chased Vanitie over the 30 mile triangular course and prevailed by her offset allowance, securing another victory in Newport.
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Resolute
Associated Preas
Newport
R. L
Vanitie
Eleven Killed As Train Collides Near Schenectady
Eleven people die and twenty one are injured when an express car train crashes into a stalled passenger train between Glenville and Scotia. Engineer Martin Doyle dies at his post, others include Mrs. Watson H. Bowne of Utica and her grandchildren, with many others unidentified. Rescuers report Doyle pinned under wreckage after the rear Pullman is ripped apart.
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Associated Preas
Schenectady
N Y
Eelven
Schnectady
Martin Doyle
Albany
Watson H. Bowne
Utica
Daniel Crouse
Marion Crouse
Nellis M. Crouse
New York Central
Buffalo
New York
Michigan Central
American Railway Express Company
Glenville
Scotia
Robinson
No. 34
Doyle
Up River Road to Be Viewed Friday Work Begins Soon
A Toronto and Steubenville road delegation met Columbus officials to announce start of the up river main market road with rapid completion. Friday plans will be finalized when department representatives meet county commissioners and Toronto businessmen. An investigation into a 1916 land trade with the Pennsylvania railroad shows county land widths and grade crossings. officials plan to seek options to widen and improve the road during Friday’s inspection tour.
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Toronto
Steubenville
Highway Department
Columbus
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Railroad
Traction Companies
Storm Wrecks Foxhome Area Killing and Injuries
Reports from Paul Minnesota say a severe wind and electrical storm swept northern Minnesota and eastern North Dakota last night. At least two dead and about 30 injured with heavy property damage. Wire service lines were cut with initial word that Foxhome was wiped out, later revised to several buildings including a grain elevator damaged and people hurt but no deaths.
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Associated Press
Paul
Minn
Minnesota
North Dakota
Foxhome
Weather forecast card not clear
Fragmentary weather note: reads Generally fair tonight and warm with some portion unclear.
Fernwood farmer wins Argonne Post tour car prize
John T. Martin of Fernwood won the Overland touring car in Argonne Post No. 33 annual Wild West frolic Sappery Gulch event. He held ticket number 5884 and collected the prize after presenting the ticket and ticket holder details were verified by Legion officers and the play manager Ray. Martin bought six tickets during a city visit and promptly sold the car for 850 dollars to raise cash.
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John T. Martin
Fernwood
Argonne Post
American Legion
Sappery Gulch
Martin
the Legion
Ray
Legion
Credentials committee finalizes Republican convention roll
Chicago June 9 work through the night to complete the permanent roll. After 103 appeals, two Lowden delegates moved to Wood in Georgia and Tennessee, while in Missouri the committee seated two Lowden men. Several state delegations, including South Carolina Texas and Virginia, were seated as required, with further battles anticipated but unlikely to alter the report.
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Eas
Charles 3B
Warren
Michigan
Joe Cannon
Lodge
Alr
Wadsworth
Wm. Hale Thompson
Illinois Steel Company
Chicago
Consuttees
Senator Lodge
Credentials Committee
Missouri
Credentials ’Committee
National Committee
Kansas City
Tennessee
Robt. R. Church
Memphris
South
Church
Lowden
Memphis
Coliseum
Chairman Lodge
National
Hays
John Timothy Stone
Georgia
General Wood
Ntional
Robert R. Church
Pennausee
Charles B. Quinn
Wood
Quinn
South Carolina
Texas
H. F. MacGregory
Johnson
Harding
Virginia
C. B. Slemp
Frome
Wentz Trial Set For June 15th In Fatality Case
Frank Wentz 18 of Followsbee faces two counts felony and misdemeanor after Brooke County grand jury indictment. He pled not guilty before the court as Florence Barton 16 of Followsbee was struck and killed on Sinclair boulevard recently, with trial scheduled for June 16.
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Frank Wentz
Follawsbee
Brooke County Grand Jury
Young Wentz
Florence Barton
Sinclair Boulevard
Eastern Ohio Men Under Indictment
Federal grand jury reports indictments against Eastern Ohioans James Foy of Yorkville for passing counterfeit money and Oscar Ren ter of Stewartsville for raising two dollar bills to twenty dollars.
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Herald-Star
Columbus, .C
Fastern
James Foy
Yorkville
Oscear
Stewartsville
Lightning destroys Coun try Club House in Ohio valley blaze
A heavy storm struck north of the city Tuesday at 6:20 PM causing a direct lightning hit on an exterior electric box and igniting the wooden Coun try Club House. Fire destroyed the building with an estimated loss of 12000 and members lost personal belongings. insurance covers 10000.
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Country Club House
Club House
Golf Club
Edwards
William Franser
Ohio Valley
Harry D Wintringer
W. 2
Johnson
Roy McClare
Weirton
Toronto
Stewart
Crawford
One Year Sentence On Bigamy Charge In Brooke County
Mra Fannie Margaret Weekly received a minimum one year penitentiary term for bigamy from Judge Addleman in Brooke County Circuit Court. She testified she married in 1912, separated in 1915, and believed her first husband dead in France before remarrying in 1917. After armistice her first husband returned, pressed charges, and Prosecuting Attorney Ramsay urged leniency.
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Fannie Margaret Weekly
Addleman
Brooke County
R. L. Ramsay
Protest Sent Over Education Plank At Republican Meet
James A. Flaherty supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus telegraphed New Haven June 9 to Chicago a protest against adopting a Republican platform plank calling for federalization of education.
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New Haven
Conn
Chicago
James A. Flaherty
the Knights of Columbus
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