Diplomatic Slate-Making Continues for European Posts
Washington June 27 Justice W Gerard of New York has been selected to be ambassador design to Spain though not immediately. President Wilson aims to fill crucial posts with Benton McMillin Augustus Thomas Maurice Egan and others. France embass y remains open for McCombs and Crane may head Russia within a year.
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My Prueciated Press
Washington
W. Gerard
New York Sn Court
Augustus Thomas
Maurice Francis Egan
Denmark
Spain
France
William F. McCombs
Charles R. Crane
Chicago
Russia
Lisbon
Constantinople
Balkan States
Joseph FB. Willard
Virginia
Madrid
Belgium
Brussels
Graney to referee July 4 title bout
Eddie Graney has accepted an invitation from Lightweight Champion Willie Ritchie and Joe Rivers to referee their twenty round bout set for July 4 in San Francisco.
Printing Press King's Son Sued for Breach of Promise
Arthur Ingersoll Hoe, heir to the Hoe fortune and head of the Inner Tube Company, is sued in New York Supreme Court by Mae Sullivan for 150000 dollars breach of promise and 75000 for support from 1912 to present. Sullivan,18 when met Hoe, says he pledged marriage and exploited her status as an orphan.
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Associated Press
New York
Arthur Ingersoll Hoe
Robert Hoe
Supreme Court
Mae Sullivan
St. Bridget's Academy
Patrick H. Sullivan
Hoe
Inner Tube Company
Washington, D. C
Evelyn Perry
Rogers Brothers
Ireland
Mme. Charcot
Eugene Perry
Perry
United States Army
Sullivan
Best Laxative for the Aged Ad
An Antwerp Drug Corporation recommends Dr King s New Life Pills as a safe gentle laxative for the aged. They act promptly and easily with no pain. Price 25 cents. Advertisement notes suitability for older customers and endorses the product.
Ungle Sam makes novel contracts
The United States public health service set contracts nationwide for seamen costs. Funerals range from 50 cents in Cairo Illinois to 50 dollars in Ketlecikan Alaska, with Bridgeport Connecticut at 76 cents per day for medical care. Lower costs occur where relief stations operate and the contract undertaker hands the body to the relief group for burial.
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Associated Press
Washington
Cairo
United States Public Health Service
Bridgeport
Conn
Superior
Wis
San Francisco
Chicago
Philadelphia
Ketcecikan
Alaska
Youth seeks arrest in New Orleans over forgery
Frank Rogers, a youth claiming to be wanted in Waycross, Georgia for forgery, walked into New Orleans police headquarters and asked to be placed under arrest. He said he wanted punishment and a fresh start in life and is being detained pending investigation.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
Frank Rogers
Waycross
McCarthy Daughter Rescued After Hotel Disappearance
Helen McCarthy, 16, daughter of John A. McCarthy, who vanished from a New York hotel after a family argument Tuesday morning, was found yesterday afternoon in a Bronx Police station.
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Associated Press
New York
Helen McCarthy
John A. McCarthy
Bronx
Woman's Vigilance Leads to Suspect Capture
Salt Lake City, June 27. A woman's vigilance helped capture Giovanni Anselmo after he slashed Peter Masci with a razor and killed Policeman Thomas H. Griffiths as he tried to arrest him. Anselmo fled to a shed, was felled by a gunshot from an officer, and is in serious condition in hospital.
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Associated Press
Salt Lake City
Utah
Giovanni Anselmo
Peter Masci
Thomas H. Griffiths
Griffiths
Anselmo
D. L. Cook
Plan Proposed to Elect Alabama Supreme Court Justices
A proposed method suggests nominating Alabama supreme court justices by popular vote in a primary and convention. The plan links county election results to convention votes, but a convention may still be required to finalize nominations under the 1996 platform.
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Montgomery
Ala
Supreme Court
Voice of the People
State Committee
Convict Lessees Targeted Over State Funds Plan
Montgomery governor O Nea l says he will sue lessees of state convicts who refused to refund homeward fare paid by the state after discharge. He estimates about thirty thousand dollars involved and urges lessees to cover costs for a new set of shoes and a hat.
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Montgomery
Ala
O'Neal
Two Special Prosecutors Named for Frisco Cases
San Francisco reports that Thomas E Hayden and Matt I Sullivan were named as special prosecutors in the Diggs Caminetti and Western Fuel cases. Hayden traveled with James D Phelan to seek the United States district attorney post, while Sullivan had not received official notice. The federal grand jury adjournment was delayed to July 8 as talks continued on leadership and a report on the McNab affair. Benjamin L McKinley was named U S district attorney for northern California to hold the office until McNab's successor is named.
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Associated Press
San Francisco
Washington
Thomas E. Hayden
Matt Sullivan
Diggs-Caminetti
Hayden
National Capital
James D. Phelan
United States District
Phelan
Wilson
Franks J. Heney
Hayden and Sullivan
United States
McNab
Department of Justice
BE. van Fleet
United States District Court
Benj. L. McKinley
Daylight Jewelry Heist In Paris At Drouout House
Paris on June 27 reports audacious thieves used a ruse to steal a large cache of jewels from Drouout House public sales rooms in broad daylight. A porter was distracted while another thief snatched keys and fled with a bag of gems from a Parisian woman’s collection including a necklace of sixty large pearls.
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Associated Press
Paris
Drouout House
Kills Former Employer Then Ends His Life Near Quincy
A man believed to be J W Benning of Gregory Missouri shot and killed Theodore Pogue a 75 year old bachelor and Confederate veteran on the Pogue farm near West Quincy Missouri then killed himself after a witness saw the shooter flee the scene. Benning had worked for Pogue a year earlier and had threatened to kill his employer.
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Associated Press
Quincy
J. W. Benning
Gregory
Theodore Pogue
West Quincy
Pogue
Missouri
Benning
Four Vandalia coaches overturn near Caseyville injuring woman
In Caseyville Illinois near St Louis one woman, Mrs A C Jewell of Port Arthur Texas, was injured about the head when four Vandalia train coaches overturned westbound from New York. Three of the derailed cars were sleeping cars.
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Associated Press
ST. Louis
A. C. Jewell
Port Arthur
Texas
New York
Caseyville
Itls
Guaranteed Eczema Remedy Promises Quick Cure
Dr Hobson's Eczema Ointment is advertised as a cure for eczema and related skin eruptions. A Bath resident reports twenty five years of trial with all methods failing until using the ointment. The formula is claimed to be physician designed and widely available through Pfeiffer Chemical Co and Van Antwerp Drug Corp.
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Pfeiffer Chemical Co
Philadelphia
St. Louis
van Antwerp Drug Corporation
Former Colorado legislator James Bacon found unconscious in cell
James L. Bacon, ex representative in the Colorado legislature, jailed on a wife and step-daughter murder charge, was found unconscious in his Cripple Creek cell with deep abdominal wounds after attempting suicide with a pocket knife borrowed supposedly to trim his nails.
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Associated Press
Cripple Creek
Col
James L. Bacon
Colorado
Death of Jacob Schoen at 65 in New York
Jacob Schoen grand secretary of the Independent Order of B Rith Abraham in the United States died late last night at age 65. The news comes from New York where the organization conducts its affairs. His tenure spanned many years and he was a prominent figure in the fraternal lodge.
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Associated Press
New York
Jacob Schoen
The
Independent Order of B’rith Abraham
United States
Hartford Woman Dies of Heart Attack in Clergyman's Home
Mrs. Morris Older aged 72 a leading Hartford woman died suddenly yesterday at Rev. Israel Spivack's home while visiting about his illness. Upon learning he was dying she collapsed and died of heart disease. The clergyman died a few moments later.
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Associated Press
Hartford
Conn
Morris Older
Israel Spivack
Plymouth Writer Guilty of Manslaughter in Midnight Shooting
David B. Farnsworth, a short story writer formerly of Chicago, found guilty of manslaughter for shooting Thomas Hagen near a chicken coop in Plymouth. He was sentenced to six months in the house of correction and began serving immediately.
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Associated Press
Plymouth
Mass
David B. Farnsworth
Chicago
Thomas Hagen
House of Correction
Farnsworth
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