Governor Dunne Signs Illinois Woman Suffrage Bill
The Illinois governor signed the limited suffrage act in the capitol with leaders of the suffrage movement present. The ceremony included a moving picture record and flowers as the governor thanked the activists and pledged to defend the law in court against anticipated legal challenges.
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Springfield
Dunne
Capitol
Forty-Eighth General Assembly
Edward F. Dunne
Grace Wilbur Trout
Elizabeth K. Booth
Antonette Funk
Illinois Equal Suffrage Association
Mra. Trout
Trout
Supreme Bench
Lucey
Explosion on Mohawk oil ship kills five in New York Harbor
An explosion and ensuing fire aboard the oil tank steamship Mohawk in New York Harbor killed five men and seriously injured several others. Spectators reported a massive blast as the vessel burned from stem to stern and a small lifeboat carried about ten crewmen toward Staten Island.
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New York
Ofl
Mohawk
New ‘York
Staten Island
Parcel post stamps broaden use on all mail classes
Washington June 30 a Postmaster General order permits parcel post stamps to be valid on all classes of mail from July 1. Ordinary and commemorative stamps will be usable for postage on parcel post packages, easing prior stiffness cited as an inconvenience by the public.
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Washington
Jane
Sal
Burlegon
Tncla
Wilson Abandons Trip Delays Departure Plans
President Wilson postponed a planned trip to Cornish N E and will not depart until early next week. He faced dissolution of the Union Pacific merger and other decisions to be made before his departure while the family will leave as scheduled tonight.
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Wilson
Washington
Union Pacific
Representative Townsend Takes Lead in Search for Brother
Kansas City June 28 Representative Townsend arrived to lead the search for his brother George Townsend of Chicago. He believes his brother was attacked and robbed based on preliminary information.
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Beoke
Kansas City
Townsend
George Townsend
Ciicago
Wilson nominates numerous diplomats and officials
President Wilson sent a broad slate to the Senate including Albert G. Schmedemann and Benton McMillan as ministers to Norway, Nathaniel B. Stewart as Milan consul, J Butler Wright as secretary of embassy in Rio, Fred Dearing as secretary of legation in Brussels, and Richard Metcalfe to the Isthmian canal Commission. Summers Burkhart would be U S attorney for New Mexico, Lawson Evans commissioner of immigration in San Juan Porto Rico. Industrial relations officers named: Walsh Commons Harriman Delano Weinstock Ballard Lennon OConnell Garretson. Meredith Nicholson withdrew as minister to Portugal after refusing the post. Justice Gerard named ambassador to Germany, penfield named ambassador to Austria, McCombs remaining ambassador to France.
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Washington
Wilson
Senate
Albert G. Schmedemann
Wisconsin
Norway
Benton McMillan
Tennessee
Nathaniel B. Stewart
Georgia
Milan
Italy
J. Butler Wright
Wyoming
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Fred Morris Dearing
Missouri
Brussels
Richard Lee Metcalfe
Nebraska
Isthmian Canal Commission
Summers Burkhart
New Mexico
U. S
District of New Mexico
Lawson H. Evans
San Juan
Porto Rico
Commission In
Industrial Relations
Frank P. Walsh
John R. Commons
J. Borden Harriman
New York
Frederick A. Delano
Illinois
Harry Weinstock
California
Thurston Ballard
Kentucky
John B. Lennon
James O'Connell
D. C
August D. Garretson
Iowa
Meredith Nicholson
Indiana
Portugal
James W. Gerard
New York State Supreme Court
Germany
Gerard
Spain
France
William F. McCombs
Frederick Courtland Penfield
Germantown
Austria
Johnson Safe From Arrest
Chicago report states efforts to compel Jack Johnson to return to the U S circuit court of appeals will be dropped. Charles DeWoody of the justice department says Washington believes nothing can be done to enforce the case and notes Canadian replies about the undesirables law.
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Chicago
Jack” Johnson
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Charles ¥. de Woody
Department of Justice
Washington
DeWoody
Trial of Pomare in Ohio hinges on handwriting clash
In Cleveland on June 28, the Giuseppi Pomare case centers on a threatening letter to President Wilson. handwriting experts testify only Pomare's signature matches the letter, while the body is claimed to be written by another person, suggesting he may have signed without understanding the content.
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Cleveland
Giuseppi Pomare
Youngstown
Wilson
Pomare
Ponifre
Fire Threat Hovers Over Tanabakee Institute Buildings
A fire at the Tanabakee Military Institute in Sweetwater endangers the college structures. Firefighters fought flames as the campus buildings stood at the mercy of the blaze and authorities sought to contain the spread.
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College
Knoxville
Tenn
Tanabakee Military Institute
Sweetwater
Heat Invasion Sweeps Midwest With Death Toll Rising
Chicago reports nine heat deaths as a vast heat invasion drives temperatures to around 100 degrees. Across Ohio to Nebraska prostrations, crop threats, and business disruption accompany the swelter. Cities from Cincinnati to Milwaukee tally rapid cases while forecasters warn relief is not in sight.
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Chicago
Ohio
Nebraska
Henry J. Cox
Middle West
Duluth
Minn
Cincinnati
Kansas City
Missouri
Kansas
South Bend
Ind
Gary
St. Louis
Mercury
Newark
William Cramer
Main Street
Ottawa
Ont
Abraham Maloof
Boston
Bank of Ottawa
St. Paul
Patrick Whalen
Milwaukee
William Teerick
Cotton crop value near a billion dollars in 1912
Washington reports the 1912 cotton crop reached 14,813,016 bales weighing 500 pounds each, valued at 920,630,000 dollars. Despite a 11.9 percent drop from 1911, the value rose 60,790,000 dollars over 1911, with 1910 still the highest value year at 963,180,000 dollars.
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Washington
Durand
Bureau of Census
Commerce
United States
Vale
Caminetti Arrest Ties Elope to National Affair
F Draw Caminetti son of Tim Caminetti commissioner appears in Sacramento on June 27 after indictment for deserting his minor children. He is arrested on a bench warrant and posts bond of 2500 dollars.
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Sacramento
Cal
F. Draw Caminetti
Tim Aid
A. Caminet
Carranza asks U S to rule in Mexico
El Paso June 26 Carranza proposes that the United States establish a protectorate over Mexico until peace is restored. Villa’s army concentrates near Juarez within two days. US border reports say Mexican federals are starving as insurgent state troops cut supply lines. Mexico City June 26 the government concentrates forces in the north to restore railway traffic and guard Vera Cruz access. Huerta seeks permission for US troops to move through Arizona for operations against Ojeda rebels in Guaymas and Hermosillo.
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el Paso
Tex
el Paso Constitutionalist Junta
Carranza
Coahuila
United States
Republic of Mexico
Vera Cruz
Durango
Matamoros
Two Die In Night Auto Ride In Lincoln Park Crash
A touring car carrying four people careened through an ornamental iron railing on the Jack Knife Bridge over the lagoon in Lincoln Park at 2:30 am. Harvey A. Gregory and Mrs Minnie Bristol died, while Myrtle Peters and Charles Summers were injured. Gregory was a husband and father of three. Bristol was divorced.
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Chicago
Lagoon
Lincoln Park
Harvey A. Gregory
Minnie Bristol
Hved
Waukegan
Ill
Mise Myrtle Peters
Charles Summers
Gregory
Summers
Bristol
French Aviator Brindejono Des Moulinats Flies Baltic
Marcel Brindejono de Moulinats, famed for a Paris to St. Petersburg flight, crossed the Baltic from Revel to Stockholm in four hours. He descended on the Swedish coast to confirm his whereabouts and plans to continue tomorrow to Copenhagen en route to Paris.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Marcel G. Brindejono Dea Moulinats
Paris
St. Petersburg
Baltic
Revel
Bis
Copenhagen
Carbon Hill Fire Destroys Remaining Village in Suspected Arson
A fire believed to be incendiary destroyed the remaining structures of Carbon Hill in JoMet Ohio on June 27. Earlier blaze two weeks prior leveled most of the village, also suspected arson. Losses from both fires total about $60,000, effectively wiping out the town.
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JoMet
Carbon Hill
Currency Bill Reinfused for Retirement of Bank Notes
Washington June 27 The Glass senate bill to retire present bank notes within twenty years and refund with three percent bonds moves to the banking and currency committees. It broadens regional bank powers, sets reserve requirements, and authorizes printing 25 000 copies plus 65000 for expert staff as House advances fast track amid hearings delays.
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Washington
Glass Senate
Owen
House
Representative Glass
Banking and Currency Commission
Loase
Banking and Currency Committee
Wilson
House Committee On Banking and Currency
Senate
Federal Reserve
Federal Reserve Board
Regional Reserve Bank
Glass
Six Persons Drown in Mississippi River Near Cassville
A camping party from Lancaster Pennsylvania lost four members Dr A R Kinney Nora Reynolds Helen Godfrey and Myrtle Judd when they drowned bathing in the Mississippi near Cassville Wisconsin. Doctor Kinney tried to save the others and is believed to have perished. Three bodies recovered all from prominent families. Lancaster mourns. Also two children Leta and Lawrence Nehr of Isaac Nehr’s farm south of New Berlin drowned in a pond their bodies found by W B Huffaker.
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Dubuque
A. R. Kinney
Nora Reynolds
Helen Godfrey
Myrtle Judd
Lancaster
Cassville
Wis
Doctor Kinney
Springfield
Leta
Lawrence Nehr
Isaac Nehr
New Berlin
W. B. Huffaker
End of Harvester Co Quiz in Sherman Antitrust Case
Chicago hearing on whether the International Harvester Co is a violation of the Sherman antitrust law concluded for the day. The testimony has run since September 16, 1912, with arguments set to start in St. Paul, Minnesota the week of October 13 before Circuit Judges Sanborn Hook Adams and Smith.
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Chicago
Internation Harvester Company
St. Paul
Minn
Sanborn, Hook, Adam and Smith
Bishop Gabine Stricken By Apoplexy In New York
Bishop William T. Gabine of the Reformed Episcopal church was stricken with apoplexy in New York. Aging leader, who served as bishop in the New York and Philadelphia synod since 1892, is not expected to recover.
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Reformed Episcopal Church
New York
William T. Gabine
New York and Philadelphia
Prisoners Escape From Leavenworth By Sawing Bars
R P Murphy alias Richard Osborne and accomplice Layman escaped from the federal prison at Leavenworth Kansas after sawing bars in their cell. They crawled through a window to the corridor and climbed a three story wall using a rope ladder tied to a window sill. An automobile nearby suggests confederates aided the escape before guards discovered the breach. Murphy, serving 18 years for grand larceny, had prior escape attempts and once was a Columbus Ohio convict.
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Western
Union News Service
Leavenworth
Kan
R. P. Murphy
Richard Osborne
Murphy
Layman
Osborne
District of Columbia
Ohio
Columbus
McNeill
Gettysburg 50th anniversary reuniting blue and gray
In Gettysburg Pennsylvania the town welcomed veterans from both sides for a semi centennial commemoration. More than 30 special trains arrived and thousands of veterans traveled from the Shenandoah and bigger cities to revisit the historic fields and honor the shared memory of the Civil War.
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Gettysburg
Hall of History
Army of Blue
Army of Gray
Lee
Meade
Shenandoah
Harrisburg
Baltimore
Washington
Cincinnati Market Prices for Grains and Livestock
Market listing shows corn, oats, wheat, and hay prices by grade, with white yellow and mixed corn values, timothy and clover hay with various grades, eggs poultry and meat prices for cattle hogs sheep and dairy. Notable figures include corn No 2 white around 65 cents, oats No 2 white about 45 cents, wheat No 2 red near 90 cents, eggs prime firsts around 18.5 cents, hogs at 8.6 dollars per hundred pounds, cattle shippers up to 8.15 dollars, and calves near 9.50 dollars.
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Young
Ohio penitentiary tightens rules on visitors
Columbus, O. Warden P. B. Thomas imposes stricter measures to stop importing opiates. Since a no lunch basket rule, visitors may be searched and any attempt to enter without proper authorization will require a warden issued order.
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Columbus
P. B. Thomas
Ohio
Lince
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