Cabinet Discusses Minab Charges and McReynolds Resignations
Washington April 24 The cabinet discussed United States Attorney McNab's resignation and charges that Attorney General McReynolds ordered delays in prosecutions in San Francisco. Prosecutions cited include Drew Caminetti and Western Fuel Company officials. Secretary Bryan and Secretary Lane participated. McReynolds did not speak. President Wilson asked for a full report and will issue a statement later.
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Washington
United States
MecNab
Wilson
McReynolds
San Francisco
Drew Caminetti
Anthony Caminetti
Commissioner General of Immigration
Western Fuel Company
Bryan
Caminetti
Lane
California
House Judiciary to probe delays in San Francisco prosecutions
The House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing Thursday to investigate the delay ordered by Attorney General McReynolds in federal cases in San Francisco. Maury Diggs and Drew Co. Caminetti are indicted under the white slave law, and Western Fuel Company officers are charged with conspiracy to defraud customs.
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House Judiciary Committee
Associated’ Press
Washington
House Judiciary
McReynolds
San Francisco
Maury Diggs and
Drew Co
Caminetti
Western Fuel Company
Another Victim of Bankruptcy Drowns in Scotland
Peter Donaldson, a partner in James Watson & Co which suspended payment June 11, drowned himself at Kilcreggan on the Clyde. He was president and managing director of Dayton Coal and Iron Company in Dayton Tennessee and the largest holder of its stock, with his death raising concern for the firm’s financial troubles after Watson and Co failed.
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Associated Press
Glasgow
Scotland
Peter Donaldson
James Watson & Co
Kilecreggan
Clyde
Dayton
Chattanooga
Tenn
Kilcreggan
Dayton Coal and Iron Company
Dayton, Tenn
James Watson and Co
Donaldson
New Chapter in L and N Litigation
Numerous affidavits submitted to three federal judges by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad prompt a new chapter in the case seeking an injunction against a railroad commission rate order. A Montgomery conference with President Charles Henderson and Special Attorney Samuel D. Weakley prepared rebuttal affidavits, focusing on valuations and expenses.
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Merry
Ala
Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company
Railroad Commission
Montgomery
Charles Henderson
Samuel D. Weakley
S. J. Bowie
Fitzgerald Pushes Plan to Centralize Supply Bills
Representative Fitzgerald urged radical reform to place the government supply bills under the sole control of the House Appropriations Committee. He argued for centralization to replace the current distribution among eight committees. The speech signaled the budget debate ahead in the Democratic caucus.
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Washington
House Committee On Appropriations
House
Representative Fitzgerald
Democratic Caucus
Fitzgerald
Burglars Battle Citizens at White Bluffs Store
At White Bluffs Tennessee 30 miles west of Nashville citizens at midnight fought burglars detected in C H Williams general store. The fusillade lasted until ammunition ran out and the robbers fled using a patent medicine case for a shield. A bloody shirt lay along their chosen escape route. The store was badly shot up.
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Associated Press
Nashville
Ten
White Bluffs
Here
C. H. Williams
Poincare Welcomed by Britain Upon London Visit
President Raymond Poincare arrived in London with a cordial reception from King George and the nation. He was greeted by the Prince of Wales at Portsmouth and escorted to York House, signaling strengthened Franco British ties during his stay through June 27.
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Associated Press
London
France
Great Britain
Raymond Poincare
George
Poincare
Portsmouth
Prince of Wales
King George
Victoria Station
York House
Brigade of Guards
Horse Guards
Thousands Saved by Supreme Court Rule in Alabama
The Alabama Supreme Court adopted a no injury no error rule with claims that 25 percent of technically appealed cases will not reach the high court and 15 to 20 percent reversal rates may drop, saving litigants thousands in costs. Justices continue drafting accompanying rules and expect positive influence with future opinions.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Supreme Court
Paroled Convict Richard Johnson Dies of Tuberculosis
Montgomery Alabama June 24 Governor O Nea l paroled Richard Johnson a Black convict from Mobile County because he is dying of tuberculosis. Johnsons release followed medical judgment and is noted in the dispatch from the state capital.
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Montgomery
Ala
Richard Johnson
Mobile County
O'Neal
Couple Kills Wife Then Shoots Self in Alabama Tragedy
H C Mills 37 living twelve miles north of Atmore Alabama killed his wife and wounded himself in a 4 AM shooting. Three shotgun shells tore through his wife during a presumed momentary insanity. The couple left behind three children ages four six and eight.
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Atmore
Ala
H. C. Mills
Mills
Lottie
Tragic Atmore murders tied to mobile family dispute
Mobile reports detail the murders of Mrs Gussie Laurendine Mills and the suicide of her husband H Clay Mills near Atmore. The couple, natives of Mobile County, were in Mobile visiting relatives before tragedy struck after a Windsor Hotel disturbance. Authorities cite a quarrel with Mills’s brother W T Mills, who threatened to kill the family. Mills reportedly drank, then killed his wife and killed himself.
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Mobile
Atmore
C. C. Laurendine
Ala
Gussie-Mills
H. Clay Mills
John Langham
Mobile County
Mississippi
Henry Brannan
W. T. Mills
Wilmer
Louisville and Nashville
John Lincoln
Windsor Hotel
H. C. Mills
Clay Mills
Jumps to His Death in Court Prosecution Escape
John Bantlinger, charged with larceny, leaped from the third floor courthouse office as the prosecutor prepared an information against him. He had hidden in a saloon the night before, robbed it after closing, and was caught while spending the money.
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Terre Haute
Ind
John Bantlinger
Brantlinger
Federal law aims at crimes of pasted currency fraud
A federal statute now treats placing together parts of multiple notes to forge a new instrument as forgery. The case before U S Marshal Deans involves two five dollar bills pasted to look like twenty dollar notes. The source notes pasting figures from Confederate or other worthless bills.
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United States
Marshall G. B. Deans
Tennessee
Alabama
Huntsville
Ala
Gov
General Sickles Free to Attend Gettysburg Celebration
Albany June 23 Attorney General Carmody said New York will not block General Daniel E. Sickles from taking part in the Gettysburg battlefield celebration the first week of July. The state had recently won a judgment against Sickles for misusing about $23000 of state funds while chairman of the New York monuments commission.
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Albany
N. Y
Carmody
New York
Daniel E. Sickles
Sickles
New York Monuments Commission
Ownership changes for the New Orleans Mobile and Chicago line
Bondholders met at Macartney and Schley to form a protective committee led by John W. Platen and others from New York London Baltimore Richmond and set to deposit bonds under a unitary agreement. The action follows the Frisco receivership and aims to safeguard bondholder interests.
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New Orleans, Mobile and Chicago Railroad
Mobile
Jackson
Kansas City
Macartney & Schley
John W. Platen
James G. Cannon
Post
New York
Robert Flemings
London
T. Nelson Strother
Baltimore
F. M. Scott
Richmond
J. T. Schley
Protective Committee
Frisco
Krisco
Macartney, & Schley
M and M Contest Nears Close and Prize Pool
The Item Merchants and Manufacturers Prize Selling Contest ends tomorrow. Votes must be turned in by midnight Wednesday and winners announced soon after. The top contenders are tightly bunched. a final day of effort could decide the $4000 in prizes, including $1000 to the winner.
Weather Update General Fair Tonight and Wednesday
Weather bulletin notes generally fair conditions for the region with light to moderate south winds. Alabama and Mississippi follow the same pattern of fair conditions tonight and Wednesday. Recording stations report temperatures near Royal and Dauphin streets with early morning readings and afternoon highs.
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Mobile
Mississippi
Royal and
Dauphin Streets
Ilva
Despairing Husband Testifies Amid Divorce Case
In Patterson New Jersey Peter K Hicks seeks a divorce on desertion grounds. He recounted becoming so desolate that he took a job at a powder plant hoping it would explode. An ensuing accident hospitalized him with others, after which he claimed life became worth living again.
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Associated Press
Patterson
N. J
Peter K. Hicks
Chancery Court
Butcher charged in chain torture of daughter in Augusta
J. J. Johnson is charged with disorderly conduct cruelty to a child and assault with intent to murder after police say he tied a chain around his fifteen year old daughter's neck and suspended her from a meat hook in his shop. Nellie Johnson suffered severe wounds and bleeding from beatings with a buggy whip. The hearing was continued to Friday.
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Augusta
J. J. Johnson
Recorder’s Court
Johnson
R. M. Moore
Nellie
Moore
Harvester Co Officers to Resign Amid DOJ Probe
Officers and directors of the Independent Harvester Company a $10 600 000 corporation under DOJ investigation will resign this afternoon said attorney Stephen S Gregory The officers include W M Thompson of Chicago president and Ning Eley Des Plaines secretary The 1996 formed firm faced claims of inflated stock prices and a civil suit with stock sold partly by mail awaiting resignation to relief DOJ scrutiny
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Associated Press
Chicago
Independent Harvester Company
Department of Justice
Stephen S. Gregory
Thompson
Department
Largely contested possession of a dead man’s viscera
In Baltimore, D. Abbott and former Judge A. J. Stewart, both of Jacksonville, Fla., as representatives of the Painter family, join the United States Fidelity and Guaranty Co. in a three party dispute over the dead chemist B. E. Painter’s organs. The insurer seeks a court receiver and an independent organ analysis. Stewart argues the analysis is complete and organs belong to the family. Painter had life insurance exceeding $1.1 million.
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Associated Press
Baltimore
D. Abbott
Jacksonville
Fla
A. J. Stewart
BE. O. Painter
St. John’s
United States
United States ‘Fidelity and Guaranty Company of
Painter
Stewart
Wilsonians say no new Russia treaty talks underway
Washington officials stated no negotiations with Russia are in progress and that any new commercial treaty would have to be initiated by Washington. They noted Russia’s view that the 1832 treaty ended and that relations should continue on the current basis with no passport provision linked to American Jews.
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Washington
State Department
St. Petersburg
Wilson
Russia
Taft
United States
Cincinnati Boss Denies Belcher Burns Herzog Trade
President August Herrmann of the Cincinnati National League club says there is no truth to rumors that Belcher would be traded to the New York Nationals for Burns and Herzog.
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Associated Press
Cincinnati
August Herrmann
Belcher
Burns
Herzog
New York Nationals
Panamanian Celebration Set On Mobile School Meeting
A Panama Canal celebration meeting at Leinkauf School 8 p m outlines mass gathering prizes and honor rolls. Director General Irvine and committee members promise tickets and district honors with trips to Panama and other prizes for youths and adults. Follow up meetings are scheduled at Oakdale and Semmes schools this week.
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Panama Canal
Herbert Fetberman
L. C. Irvine
Irvine
Morgan
Nh Canal
Panama
Government Street
General Committee
Mobile
Southern Commercial Congress
Lienkauf
Oakdale
Semmes
Tobacco Takes Place of Sugar Before Caucus
Washington June 24 Senator Walsh of Montana resumed his anti free sugar speech as the Democratic caucus met to consider the tariff bill. The caucus set sugar aside temporarily to approve the tobacco schedule and committee amendments on livestock and grains. Wheat and flour remained on the free list with a countervailing duty, livestock and meats stayed on the unrestricted free list, oats 6 cents per bushel, oatmeal 33 cents per hundred pounds, and barley 15 cents per bushel. The income tax provision was revised to exempt portions of mutual life premiums returned as dividends.
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Associated Press
Washington
Walsh
Montana
Newlands
Ransdell
Thornton
Williams
James
Senate
Senate Committee
Mutualife
Health Officers Monthly Report for May 1913
City Health Officer Dr. Charles A. Mohr presented the May 1913 report to the Board of Commissioners. It records 94 deaths and 59 births, with strong anti mosquito efforts and effective larvacide. Woolfe focused on milk and dairies inspections. several arrests were made to enforce ordinances. Typhoid totals seven with two deaths, smallpox two cases, tuberculosis five.
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Charles A. Mohr
Board of Commissioners
Woolfe
Health Department
President Wilson to Stay at Work Through Session
President Wilson plans no vacation while Congress is in session and will depart Friday for Cornish New Hampshire with his family returning the following Monday unless Congress adjourns after July 4. He notes the ice plant under his office is out and the heat remains the same around his work room as in Washington.
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Associated Press
Washington
Wilson
Congress
Cornish
N. H
Free Wood Pulp and Paper Now Assured
Washington announces the treasury department will not appeal a customs court ruling. Free pulp and paper will be imported under favored nation treaties, with Canada already granted the privilege. Imports will come from France Germany Norway Sweden Denmark and other European nations.
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Associated Press
Washington
United States
Treasury Department
Supreme Court
Customs Court
Canada
France
Germany
Norway
Sweden
Denmark
Campi Favored In Bantamweight Bout With Ledoux
In Los Angeles on June 24 Eddie Campi of San Francisco led as favorite to defeat French bantamweight Charles Ledoux in a scheduled twenty round world title bout tonight.
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Campi
Ledoux
Los Angeles
Eddie Campi
San Francisco
Charles Ledoux
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