Bleakley Leads in 28th District Republican Nomination
O D Bleakley of Franklin appears to win the Republican nomination for Congress in the Twenty eighth District over E R Allen of Warren with about 1 000 plurality. Mercer Venango and Warren counties push Bleakley while Allen carries three smaller counties. Final results await complete counts but Bleakley leads in most key precincts.
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Pennsylvania
Penrose
Ware
Vare
Brumbaugh
Woodrow Wilson
Alton Benton
Roosevelt
Henry Ford
Wilson
Michael Liebel
Eric
Mitchell Palmer
Republican State Committee
Warren
Congress
O. D. Bleakley
Franklin
E. R. Allen
Willis D. Hulings
Oil City
Mede Lininger
Sharon
Twenty
Bleakley
Mercer County
Venango County
Allen
Warren, Elk
Forest
Senator Penrose
W. E. Rice
Chicago
Sumner A. Orr
S. A. Cramer
Cramer
W. H. Houghtling
28Th
Edward R. Allen
Venango
I. Mercer
Hulings
Lininger
Lininger Ll
New Thompson House in Kane Destroyed by Fire
The New Thompson hotel in Kane Pennsylvania burned Sunday evening causing about 100 000 in damage with insurance around 105 000 Built in 1907 the six story hotel housed 150 rooms Firefighters from Kane Warren and Pennsylvania Railroad aided by a high number of volunteers battled the blaze for five hours Five people were injured two firefighters two guests and two locals were treated for smoke inhalation and injuries, guests escaped safely.
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Kane
Warren
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Big City
John Fleming
Thompson
Oil report shows April gains despite lower total production
The April oil report notes 178 wells completed across Allegheny New York and McKean Elk Warren Forest Clarion Butler counties, up 57 from March. Production reached 351 barrels, up 61 from March, with Butler Venango Clarion reporting dry holes totaling two more than in March.
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Allegheny County
New York
McKeain, Elk, Warren, Forest
Butler
Venango
Clarion
Bradford
Allegheny
Peeling of Bark Begins in Elk and Forest Counties
Woodmen start this week to peel hemlock bark in Elk and Forest counties for tanning material. Camps are ready between Hallton and Sheffield Junction along the Tionesta Valley Railway. Jobs pay by the cord with good returns for seasoned bark peelers over two to three months as peeling is set to begin in full by early next week.
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Elk
Forest
Hall‘ton
Sheffield Junction
Tionesta Valley Railway
Jonathan McDonald dies at 85 in Joliet
The Joliet resident and veteran journalist, publisher and author Jonathan McDonald, age 85, died at his home. He had previously written his own funeral sermon, read at his services seven years earlier.
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Jonathan McDonald
Illinois
Joliet
War Department to grant wage rise for Rock Island Arsenal workers
The War Department announced a wage increase for workers at the government arsenal in Rock Island Illinois with the exact amount to be determined at a later date.
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War Department
Rock Island, Ill
Double Love Rivalry Ends in Tragedy at Dayton Home
Burnet Knepepe, 24, shot and killed rival Fred Kistner in a love feud, wounded Miss Henrietta Mackey at her Dayton Ohio home, and then shot himself. Knepepe is expected to recover.
Love Letters Flood Prisoner Cell In Murder Case
Scores of letters from girls protest Orpet’s innocence in the murder of Marion H Lambert a Lake Forest High School girl flooding the Waukegan Illinois jail cell of Wisconsin University youth William H Orpet Trial began Monday with 135 subpoenas issued andk might require many venires to complete the jury
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Dove
Marion H. Lambert
Pretty Lake Forest
William H. Orpet
Wisconsin University
Waukegan
Ill
Orpet
French to Send Verdun Relics to New York Exhibition
The French Government announced it would ship to New York more than 1000 Verdun relics for exhibition. The collection includes the aeroplane in which Pegoud was shot down by German flyers, other aircraft damaged by German fire, and planes used by the American flying corps in the French army.
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New York
Verdun
Pegoud
Mexico Seizes Priests Property In New Decree
The Mexican government plans a decree denouncing church property held privately and valued above 1 billion pesos. Proceeds will pay public debt and back 500 million pesos in new currency. Unused church grounds and buildings valued at about 4 million dollars will be sold to fund the plan.
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Mexico
Charged with Bomb Plot Involving Ohio Factory
John Swierz was arrested in Cleveland Ohio on a charge of participating in a plot to destroy the William Tod Company shell factory in Youngstown Ohio. He allegedly offered to dynamite the building for 25000 dollars to the Austria-Hungarian vice consul at Cleveland who alerted authorities.
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John Swierz
Cleveland
Ohio
William Tod Company
Youngstown
Swierz
Aeroplanes Fail In Bombing At Guantanamo Test
US naval officers returning from Guantanamo report that aircraft used in the Southern drill grounds could fly but could not drop bombs nor direct battleship fire. The evaluation casts doubt on the effectiveness of the aeroplanes in combat roles.
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United States
Guantanamo
Veterans Reunion Planned at Vicksburg in October
The Veterans reunion for Civil War veterans from the North and South is set for October at Vicksburg Mississippi. The House Military Affairs Committee will report favorably a Sherwood of Ohio bill authorizing a $150000 appropriation for the encampment.
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Vicksburg
Miss
House
Sherwood
Ohio
Fined for Wounding Son in St. Louis Case
Antone Skrivan a 50 year old laborer of St. Louis was jailed for six months and fined $100 after he cut the skin between the index and middle fingers of his 12 year old son to keep him from playing marbles.
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Antone Skrivan
St. Louis
Bull Moose Vanguard Chooses Chicago HQ Leader
F. P. Carrick of Omaha selected to head the Bull Moose Convention activities in Chicago. Permanent headquarters to open at the Auditorium Hotel as the Progressive National Convention moves forward.
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Bull Moose Vanguard
Chicago
F. P. Carrick
Omaha
Bull Moosers
Auditorium Hotel
Deacon's Wife Sues Husband in City Court
Mrs Clara T Guild of Houston files an divorce suit against her husband Dr Ellis B Guild a deacon and Sunday school teacher at Mount Morris Baptist Church Upper Fifth Avenue naming Dr Guild’s secretary widow Mrs Sarah T Hastie as a party in the action.
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Clara T. Guild
Hoston
Ivolice
Ellis B. Guild
Mount Morris Baptist Church
Upper Fifth Avenue
Sarah T. Hastie
Guild
Authors to Train for Army
In Indianapolis on Friday Meredith Nicholson and Booth Tarkington joined the enlistment roll for summer military training at Fort Benjamin Harrison.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Meredith Nicholson
Booth Tarkington
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Capt Boy-Ed Decorated With Red Eagle Order
Capt Boy Ed formerly naval attache at the German embassy in Washington has been decorated with the Order of the Red Eagle third class with swords according to a Berlin dispatch.
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Boy-Ed
Washington
United States
Order of the Red Eagle
Tofj
Berlin
Motor Boats Called to Join San Diego Maneuvers
War maneuvers off San Diego Harbor scheduled from August 15 to November 12 require full cooperation from motor boat owners. Commander Ward Winchell, U S Navy port commandant, issued the call Saturday urging participation.
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San Diego Harbor
Ward Winchell
United States Navy
Iowa School Girls Drown in Dam Boat Incident
Twenty five high school girls and a teacher witnessed five companions go over the dam at Mawarden near the Big Sioux on Thursday. Three girls drown and the teacher plus one girl cling to the dam as rescue efforts begin. Continued on Page 8.
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Iowa
Big Sioux
Mawarden
Winners Named In State Legislative Nominations On Tuesday
Readers learn the list of nominees for twenty five state senate seats and full house membership with candidates from Republican Democratic and Washington parties. Names include incumbents and new contenders across districts 1 through 49 and city wards with district allocations for Philadelphia Allegheny and others. The report notes incomplete returns as presses proceed and lists numerous contestants by district.
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Senate
House of Representatives
Publican
Democratic
Washington
Pardon Request Planned for Charles E Weeks
An application for a pardon for Charles E Weeks of Jamestown New York will be made to the pardon board at Harrisburg on the third Monday in June. Weeks was convicted of second degree murder for shooting Leo Ganey at Weeks home on the night of May 31 1914 and was sentenced by Judge Hinckley to an indefinite term in the Western penitentiary with a minimum of five years and a maximum of ten.
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Charles E. Weeks
Jamestown
N. Y
Leo Ganey
Harrisburg
Hinckley
Weeks
Western Penitentiary
Akeley
Ganey
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Assembly
Elmer M. Hodges
New Thompson House
Alton Kebler
William Burkhart
Unique Barber Shop
Loop
Thi
Taft
Cannon
Arsenal
STATE
Republican
Richard T. McSorley
Richard V. Farley
Elmer W. Nittinger
John H. Benner
F. W. Baltaser
James B. Jefferies
George D. Herbert
Newton Jackson
William H. H. Davis
Sterling R. Catlin
Frank G. van Dyke
H. N. Sherwood
W. C. McConnell
P. J. Graham
Scott S. Leiby
Thomas J. Brereton
Horace A. Tompkins
A. H. Braughter
Edward M. Clifford
Hill Burgwin
W. P. McGervey
William Irwin
John M. Anwey
Joseph H. Long
William N. Yateson W. Smith
C. W. Beales
Adams
Samuel Bream
Armstrong
Milton S. Jack
Miles A. Millicon
Beaver
John C. Cato
James R. Gormley
Bedford
S. Howard Gump
Berks
W. F. Plowfield
C. H. Pugh
Blair
J E. Rininger
Samuel McCurdy
H. A. Brumbaugh
W. W. Jennings
C. P. Dewey
Bucks
Daniel G. Fretz
Henry Y. Pickering
James O. Campbell
James M. McCullough
Cameron—C
Jay Goodnough
Carbon
Harry Henders
Chester
Charles P. Greenwood
Maris M. Hollingsworth
Samuel A. Whitaker
Harry H. Arnold
Learfield
Harvey Boulton
J. E. Phillips
Columbia
Chas
A. Schaeffer
Crawford
Fredrick J. Shattuck
John P. Williams
Cumberland
John R. Brandit
Murray E. Goodyear
Delaware
William T. Ramsey
Richard J. Baldwin
Harry H. Hevburn
John M. Flynn
Erie
William C. Walker
Fayette
D. Harry Horton
Duncan Sinclair
Lee Smith
Fulton
Edward D. Shimer
Greene
E. E. Morris
Huntingdon
Philadelphia
Leopold C. Glass
John Mehring
Chas. C. A. Baldi, Jr
James V. Lafferty
Edwin R. Cox
Edward W. Wells
Byron A. Milner
Thomas F. McNichol
Henry Gransback
Curry
John E. Arthur
Matthew Patterson
Max Aron
Jos
Eph H.mcardle
Theodore Campbell
Herman L. Hecht
John Reynolds
James Franklin
Snyder
James W. Sampsel
Tioga
Frank H. Marvin
George W. Williams
Daniel B. Goodwin
John Siggins,Jr
Wayne
Harry R. Samson
York
Robert Spangler
Samuel J. Barrett
D. Calvin Rudisill
J. D. Zimmerman
John Innes
Martin B. Foley
Lorenzo F. Riott
P. J. Vetter
C. J. Estes
B. W. Sever
John J. Daley
Joseph M. Mohr
James C. Miller
John A. Feidt
Richard L. Morrisey
Samuel S. Blyholder
W. Carl Miller
John S. Crego
Arthur B. Griffith
Albert EB. Holl
Frank J. Leary
William Kerrick
William Manning Rhodes
Forest—W
H. Hood
Clem Chestnut
John A. Remaley
Juniata
Isaiah D. Musser
Lackawanna
William Luzenburger
James F. Conner
Lancaster
Harry M. Tolbrook
H. M. Furlow
Amos C. Habecker
J. Irwin Huber
John W. Whiteside
Lawrence
George R. Andrews
John G. Cibler
Lebanon
James Bohn
Ezra B. Early
Lehigh
Ira T. Erdman
Ralph E. Diffenderfer
William L. Rooney
George P. Bickerton
John M. Ormsby
Frank J. McDonnell
Thomas Hickey
James Scollon, Jr
Edward Weiss
James J. Cafferty
Thomas Martin
Lei. M. Redmond
John F. Larkins
Simon B. Bransky
Isaac S. Grossman
Pike
Frank I
Will
Chales
E. Weeks
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