Weakened Military and Township Election Threaten Rock Island Crisis
Report of the grand jury looms over Rock Island riots as indictments for MecCaskrin and Wells arise amid incendiary speeches. Mayor Schriver under scrutiny for a Peoria trip while guards swell and deputies sworn in. Violent demonstrations flare with 30 arrests. troops fire only in the air.
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Rock Island, Ill
Rock Island
Harry M. MecCaskrin
Phillip M. Wells
Schriver
Harry Schriver
Peoria
Rufus Phoenix
Lincoln Club
Phoenix
McCashrin
John Looney
Freeport
Galesburg
Morrison
Dr Sun Yat Sen Leaves National Assembly
Dr Sun Yat Sen formerly provisional president takes leave of the national assembly in Nanking. The ceremony featured speeches by the speaker and several assemblymen before Dr Sun spoke briefly urging unity for a strong republic and a united China.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nanking
Sun Yat Sen
National Assembly
Doctor Sen
China
UAN Shih-Kail
Republic of China
Yuan
Supreme Court Reverses Commerce Court on Water Line Reporting
The Supreme Court ruled the Interstate Commerce Commission has power to compel water lines to report on intrastate and interstate business. It marked the commerce court's first case reviewed by the high court, and the commerce court was reversed.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Supreme Court of the United States
Commission
Commerce Court
Supreme Court
Ecommerce Court
Wool Bill Passed In House On Tariff Revision
In Washington on April 2 the House approved the Underwood bill by 189 to 92 revising the wool schedule of the Payne Aldrich tariff law. Twenty Republican insurgents joined Democrats. one Democrat Francis of Ohio voted against his party. The bill imposes a 20 percent ad valorem duty on raw wool and lowers manufactured wool duties from 80 to 50 percent with an average reduction.
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Washington
House
Francis
Ohio
Payne
Tariff Board
Randell
Texas
Kitchin
North Carolina
Ways and Means Committee
Kent
California
Governor Aldrich Rescued From Flooded Trail
Lincoln Nebraska April 2 Governor Aldrich found a route to safety by traversing a swaying ladder of ties and rails from a former railroad fridge at South Bend after being marooned by high waters for over a day and reaching Lincoln to continue his visit.
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Lincoln, Neb
South Bend
Aldrich
Lincoln
Rebels Driven Back As Orozco Retreats Toward Jiminez
Federal forces reinforced near Vorreón clash with Orozco’s advance guard on the Béremej ilie front. About 20 federals killed and 30 wounded. Orozco leaves 12 dead. Rebels retreat toward Jiménez as 1,000 federals mobilize from Ojinaga toward Chihuahua and Juárez.
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el Paso
Tex
Aubert
Vorreon
Orozco
Béremejilie
Torreon
Madero
Jiminez
Ojinaga
Chihuahua
Bloodhounds on trail in Allen Edwards case chase
In Hillsville Virginia April 2 blood hounds track Sidna Allen and Wesley Edwards sought for the Carroll county court officer killings. Dogs moved the Beattie case bounds by rail to Mount Airy North Carolina then northward toward Sugar Loaf and Buzzard's Rock while detectives patrol the area near where Sidna Allen held up Lafayette Ayers.
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Hillsville
Sidna Allen
Wesley Edwards
Carroll County
Buzzard’s Rock
Lafayette Ayers
Seek Mills to Combine in Paterson Silk Co op Movement
In Paterson New Jersey April 2 a cooperative silk mill movement formed by striking silk workers aims to revolutionize the US silk industry. The Royal Silk company has bought the Essex mill from Magnus and Faber and plans to begin soon with hundreds more weavers joining a planned chain of cooperatives.
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Paterson
N. J
Broad
Royal Silk Company
Essex
Magnus & Faber
General Grant Resting in New York Four Month Leave
Gen Frederick Dent Grant commander of the department of the east has left Governor's Island for a rest with family. He is expected to be away about four months. Rumors of serious illness are denied at Governor's Island.
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New York
Frederick Dent Grant
Department of the East
Governor's Island
Powder Mill Blast Kills Two in Wayne New Jersey
An explosion in the finishing room of the Du Pont powder mills at Wayne New Jersey five miles west of Paterson killed two workers and wounded three others. The blast was felt within fifty miles and prompted widespread disaster reports across the metropolitan area.
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du Pont
New York
Wayne
N. J
Paterson
Tobacco men lose suit in anti-trust case
New Orleans April 2 Total damages of 26000 were awarded against the American Tobacco company by a jury in the United States district court in the anti trust suit brought by the People's Tobacco company of New Orleans for alleged conspiracy to destroy competition.
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New Orleans
American Tobacco Company
United States District Court
People’s Tobacco Company of
Hard Coal Mines Idle as Operators Consider Pay Increase
Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania reports a general coal mining shutdown with only engineers and pumpers at work. Troopers patrol towns but no clashes occur while smaller companies bring in imported workers behind stockades. Operators may offer a ten percent wage rise after a Philadelphia conference. miners will vote on acceptance.
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Wilkesbarre
State Constabulary
Mack
Scranton
Dempsey
Philadelphia
Hospital Conditions in Washington Tuberculosis Institute Examined
Mrs Medill McCormick charged the DC tuberculosis hospital is dirty and poorly run. Congressman Martin D Foster, a physician, conducted a secret probe and will push Congress to fund reforms addressing the appalling conditions identified.
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Washington
Medill McCormick
Chicago
District of Columbia
Martin D. Foster
Illinois
Congress
Otter Lake Farmer Hangs Self After Note Warns Wife
Henry Juninson, a prosperous Otter Lake farmer, wrote a grim note to his wife promising not to talk him to death if she marries again. He then hanged himself in a shed with a revolver shot to the brain. The body was found after his wife had remarried. several children survive him.
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Houghton, Mich
Henry Juninson
Otter Lake
Juninson
Taft Receives Cubs Pass From President Murphy
Chicago April 2 President Taft known as a loyal Cubs fan has been sent pass No 1 by Cubs president Murphy. The gesture links the White House and Chicago club in a note of sports camaraderie.
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Chicago
Taft
Murphy
Chicago Cubs
Mississippi River Floods and Relief Efforts Across States
April reports describe record Mississippi and Ohio river highs, levee breaches near Hickman Kentucky and Davenport Iowa, train washouts near Omaha, and widespread flood damage. President Taft orders 200 army tents for Hickman Sufferers. Congress seeks $350,000 for relief and levee reconstruction.
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War Department
Kentucky
Congress
Kankakee
Hammond
Ind
Hack
Schneider
Chicago & Indiana Southern Railroad
Shelby
Water Valley
Washington
Taft
Hickinen
Mississippi Valley
Ransdell
Louisiana
Supreme Court Upholds Missouri Oil Company Removals
The U.S. Supreme Court upholds Missouri action ejecting the Oil Company of Indiana and the Public Oil Company of New York from the state and fining each $60,000 under anti trust laws.
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Washington
Missouri
Supreme Court of
Oil Company of
Indiana
Public Oil Company of
New York
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