Missouri Boldlery Grand Jury Probes Beer Scandal
Jefferson City Aug. T. Grand jury investigations focus on a beer compromise scheme to bribe brewers to drop fines and fund the state treasury. Testimony cited Tony Stuever C. J. Lemp Philip Stock and legislator J. W. Hensley with other witnesses including Speaker Whitecotton Lieutenant Governor John A. Lee and Elmer E. Whipps. The case also touches on alleged prison contractor intimidation and text book bill boodle signals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jefferson City
Aug. T
Tate Treasury
Tony Stuever
C. J. Lemp
Philip Stock
St. Louis
J. W. Hensley
Sconade County
Hensley
Speaker Whitecotton
Elmer E. Whipps
Kansas City
House of Representatives
Ser
A. G. Hildreth
Adair County
Whitecotton
Explosion Injures Eight At Monongahela Mine No 2
A powder explosion at Monongahela Mine No 2 in Fairmont West Virginia injures eight miners. Three are not expected to survive and two more may die. The accident occurred when a miner on a mine car accidentally touched a trolley wire with an auger carrying powder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairmont
W. Va
Monongahela Mine No. 2
Tony Tusch
Joe Monse
Frank Fazzee
Nick Fazzeo
Albert Paddall
Pat Monger
Angelo Dusento
United
Fire destroys main block at Hidalgo village
An incendiary blaze swept Hidalgo near Newton destroying seven buildings and causing heavy losses. Bowers & Co hardware and furniture, Bowers & Vannatta general merchandise, Ed Vannatta, and lodge property were among the principal items burned with thousands of dollars in damage reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newton
Hidalgo
Bowers & Co
Bowers & Vannatta
Ed Vannatta
Odd Fellows
Rebekan Lodges
Secretary Root Leaves for Washington After Roosevelt Conference
Oyster Bay N Y August 7 Secretary of War Root after a long conference with the president has left for Washington This probably was the last visit of Secretary Root to President Roosevelt before the secretary leaves for England to attend the session of the joint commission appointed to determine the Alaskan boundary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oyster Bay
N. Y
Root
Washington
Roosevelt
England
Joint Commission
Lipton's Boat Beats Shamrock I in 20-Mile Race
Atlantic Highlands New Jersey August 7 Lipton's new cup candidate finished the twenty mile race in about three hours and twenty two and a half minutes ahead of Shamrock I. The race saw no wind shift nor calm advantage for either boat and Lipton's craft won in a clear victory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lipton
Fair Teast
Atlantic Highlands
N. J
Shamrock I
Jomas Lipton
National convention elects officers and plans salon
The national convention of photographers elected C. R. Reeves of Anderson as president and G. G. Holloway of Terre Haute as secretary. The group will meet next in Louisville and has begun a drive to建立 a national photographic art salon in Winona.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
C. R. Reeves
Anderson
Ind
G. G. Holloway
Terre Haute
Louisville
Winona
Mrs Aurora Hodge Linked to Murray Murder Confession
Salt Lake City August 7 Mrs Aurora Hodge who confessed in Grand Rapids Michigan that she was implicated in the murder of William G Ryan an aged spectacle peddler near Murray Utah a few weeks ago and who has been taken into custody faces further questioning in the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salt Lake City
Utah
Aurora Hodge
Grand Rapids
Mich
William G. Ryan
Murray
Finance subcommittee meets informally at Warwick
The United States Senate Finance Committee subcommittee led by Senator Aldrich gathers at Warwick to discuss the financial bill ahead of the next session. Members Allison Spooner and Platt of Connecticut are noted attendees with Spooner arriving late and no formal meeting planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Providence
United States
Senate Committee On Finance
Senator Aldrich
Warwick
Congress
Allison
Aldrich
Spooner
Platt
Connecticut
Lincoln Attorneys lodge exceptions in Lillie murder case
Lincoln Neb Aug 7 Attorneys for Mrs Lena Margaret Lillie who was convicted of murdering her husband in David City last March and sentenced to life in the penitentiary have filed exceptions to the lower court findings with the Supreme Court clerk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln, Neb
Lena Margaret Lillie
David City
Supreme Court
Local Fire Crew Overcome by Gas in Storage Plant
Fire Chief Wetmer, Captain Gregg, and several firefighters were overcome by carbonic gas while inspecting a suspected fire at Wilsons cold storage plant in Tiffin. All are in serious condition. Spenders may die.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tiffin
Wetmer
Gregg
Joseph Fratley
Charles Souders
Frank Steurnl
Albert Harris
Wilson
Lydia Klotz Missing in Adrian After Mother's Death
In Adrian Michigan on August 7 friends fear Lydia Klotz has drowned. Grief over her mother's death left her despondent. she slipped from her daughter's McCollum street home after leaving a note saying it would be useless to pursue her.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adrian, Mich
Lydia Klotz
McCollum Street
Local Forecast Says Generally Fair Across Midwest
The forecast covers Illinois Indiana and Michigan with generally fair skies and light to moderate northwest or west to northwest winds. Wisconsin and Iowa are expected to be cool and fair with prevailing northwest winds through the night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illnois
Indiana
Michigan
Wisconsin
Iowa
Mixed Stock Market Quotations Across Hogs Cattle and Sheep
Chicago markets report estimated daily receipts for hogs at 25 000 with price bands from 5.60 to 6 65 for various classes and cattle receipts near 3 000 with steers priced 5 20 to 6 65, cows and bulls listed, and sheep and lambs at 10 000 receipts with lambs 4 65 to 6 00. East Buffalo NY reports slumped hog and cattle prices as well as sheep and calf listings, while St Louis notes higher wheat and corn futures and various grain quotes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Texas
East Buffalo
N. Y
Dunning & Stevens
C Commission
Paroled man returns to city after nine months reform
A man who had served nine months in reform appears to have been released on parole but later drifted back to the city seeking a new start.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reformatory
Tore
Nealy
Suspected Murder Trial Shifts Mood Over Mrs. Galler
In Banker Hill on August 7 the crowd raises doubt about Mrs. Ida Galler’s guilt in the Ewart Check case. Defense claims the boy ingested poison via a pink milk tablet and the death stemmed from the child’s own temperance and his father’s carelessness. Supporters expect chemical analysis to show poisons align with dairy milk tablet composition. Mrs. Galler remains in a precarious condition.
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Banker Hill
Lik
Ida Galler
Littl Ewart
Ware Courts Investigation Sparks Civil Service Question
Topeka United States Pension Commission official Ware visits for a twenty four hour stop en route to a reunion in San Francisco. He denies promoting a coachman in the bureau and vows a rigid civil service commission inquiry. Separate reports note storm damage near LaCrosse totaling about 25000 dollars including unroofed farm buildings and fires. In Yucatan Minn a Terr ier general store is demolished causing five thousand dollar loss. Whitehall Wis lightning scorches two barns, hay and cattle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kan
United States Pension Commissions
Ware
San Francisco
Albert Mertin
Civil Service
LaCrosse
Wis
Yucatan
Minn
Whitehall
Militia Service Costs Indiana Guardsmen Their Jobs
Terre Haute August 7 two members of Company HK First Regiment Indiana National Guard lost employment due to militia service. Jacob Dailey was discharged after joining the Evansville riot cleanup with foreman claiming militiamen are no good. Freeh was told to abandon the camp or lose his job.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Tndiana National Guard
Jacob Dailey
Evansville
Freeh
Belvidere Woman Offers $25,000 Memorial Library
Mrs Katharine Rhinehart of Belvidere offers to build a Drary building costing about 25000 dollars as a city memorial to her late father General Allen C Fuller adjutant general of Illinois in the Civil War. The proposal was read and accepted by the city council and library board.
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Belvidere
Mrne
Katherine Rhinehart
City of
Library Board
Allen C. Fuller
Illinois
Baseball scores from Chicago and around the leagues
Chicago and national scores list results across leagues including St Louis Cincinnati 5 to 3, Washington 3 Philadelphia 4 in eight innings, Cleveland 7 Detroit 6, and multiple Association and Western games with scores and delays noted by darkness and extra innings.
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Chicago
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Washington
New York
Philadelphia
Boston
Cleveland
Detroit
Toledo
Milwaukee
Columbus
Kansas City
Jealous husband beats wife in Mount Clemens hotel
In Mount Clemens at the Glenwood hotel Mrs. Frank Case of Chicago was beaten by her husband after a jealous letter aroused his anger. Rescuers found her with bloodied night clothes and bruises on her neck. Sheriff Metis arrested the husband who arrived at 5 pm.
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Detroit
Glenwood
Mount Clemens
Frank Case
Chicago
Paroled man surrenders to return to prison
Charles J. Davis, a forgery offender from Pontiac Illinois, who violated his parole, gave himself up in New York saying he cannot live honestly without a job as a stone cutter and has no union work. He had been sentenced in 1907 to an indeterminate one to fourteen year term at the Illinois state reformatory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Charles J. Davis
Ilinois State Reformatory
Davis
Illinois State Reformatory
Pontiac
Chicago and Northwestern
Five men drowned as barge Florrie sinks off Massachusetts
A storm off the Massachusetts coast causes the barge Florrie to sink, leaving five men dead. Meanwhile the French bark Grand Duchesse Olga arrives in Portland Oregon after a year at sea from Antwerp. The House of Lords has adopted a measure.
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Florrie
Massachusetts
Portland
Ore
Antwerp
Aex Pouse of Lords
Spectatorium saga at Chicago World Fair ends in legal wind up
Judge Tulley issues a lengthy ruling in the case of the Columbian Celebration company winding up affairs after the unfinished Steele Mackaye Spectatorium near the fairgrounds. Stockholders face liability for unpaid stock as creditors pursue debts. Mackaye Benjamin Butlerworth and Lowell Crosley are named among the principals in the failed 1882 incorporation seeking a $2,000,000 capital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Tuley
Buda Foundry and Manufacturing Company
Columbian Celebration Company
Og Chpitalists
Lable
Steele Mackaye
Paul Kanvar
Mackaye
Chicaro
America
Columbus
Benjamin Butterworth
Lowell Crosley
Cincinnati
The
Financed Bonds Spark Stock Bonus Plan Scandal
Board of directors raised 80 000 and issued 80 bonds at 1000 each secured by a trust deed. Mackaye added 8000 shares for a bonus and every bond buyer received stock equal to the bond value. The plan sold over 500000 of bonds with stock bonuses. Judge Tuley labeled the deal fraudulent in law and fact and said the stock exchange was a sham to claim full payment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mackaye
George M. Pullman
Lyman J. Gage
Murry Nelson
Pranklin Hi. Head
Arthur Dixon
Henry EB. Weaver
B. A. Eckhart
Milton Kirk
P. FE. Studebaker
George A. Fuller
Benjamin Butterworth
John Cudahy
Wiliam J. Hynes
Charles B. Shedd
Tuley
Barnum & Batley
Butterworth
Very Bold Safe Adrift In Seattle Hotel Heist
Two or three men stole a hotel safe from the Wantington hotel and dragged it to Stewart Street where it rolled off a Mill slope into the street. Police and bystanders gathered as the thieves cracked the safe with dynamite, then fled when crowds advanced. the safe reportedly contained 800.
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Seattle
Wael
Ave
Reicbers
Wantington
Denny
Stewart Street
Etpeet Gar
Bet
Will
Lok
Washington Hotel
Obituary of John G. Shanklin Former Indiana Democrat Leader
Evansville mourns John Gib bert Shanklin longtime Democrat leader and former editor of the Evansville Courier after a long illness. He served as secretary of state and was Democratic nominee for governor. He chaired Indiana campaigns, was a national committeeman, and a pioneer in the free silver movement. Survived by a widow and two daughters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evansville
John Gibbert Shanklin
Detmoert
Todinna
Evaneville Courier
Indiana
Bia State
Death of Captain George F Hollis former consul at Cape Town
Captain George Fearing Hollis former United States consul at Cape Town South Africa dies in Medden Massachusetts at age 85 A Chicago constable interrupted a wedding to serve eviction papers for the bride Secret service stopped a group of boys from an orphan asylum in Charleston from serenading President Roosevelt at Oyster Bay Mme Calye telegraphs from London she cannot keep her engagement due to heart disease Wifty Ladrones connected with Mindanao raids sentenced to prison Russia bans Zionist meetings in Kherson Andrew Murray denied hotel admission due to cancer and seeks lodging in the poorhouse
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George Fearing Hollis
United States
Cape Town
South Africa
Madden
Mass
Chicago
William Kresser
Secret Service
Charleston
D. C
President Loosevelt
Oyster Bay
Mme. Calye
London
Vergas
Mindanao
Russia
Kherson
Andrew Murray
Brooklyn
Binghampton
N. Y
Russia Blackouts Mail and a Dolly Madison Wisdom
A Russian post office system uses a "black cabinet" to inspect letters for disfavor and monitor private correspondence, opening samples from sorted heaps to curb free intercourse. The piece also recalls Dolly Madison's view on life's unimportance of trials and a humorous exchange about an article on The Impending Crisis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
New Cook Suggested After Review
Mrs McCall-Iave informs Mrs Hiram that the new girl lacks experience as a cook and recommends she seek an expert if needed next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McCall
Blas
Hiram Offen
Trial in Kentucky murder case targets reputation of key witness
In a Kentucky trial of Commonwealth v Jett and White, defense witnesses question the morality and truthfulness of Captain Mwen the prosecution’s star witness. Beech and Noble face potential fake swearing charges as Curtis Jett and Thomas White are placed side by side to challenge identification.
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Cynthiana
Commonwealth of Kemucky
Jett
White
J. 1
Marcum
Inez
Fade
Mwen
Hie
Withomeer
Toewell
Jackeen
Tick
James Beech
Witnew Russell
Cyrus Holand
Beech
The
Commonwealth
John L. Noble
Curtis Jett
Thomas White
Court House
Coronation in Rome and three regional notes
Rome prepares for Pius X coronation with a canopy over the throne and a five hour service. About 60 000 tickets are issued amid high demand as bells ring for the election. In Michigan, G B R and T L Trailway seek extra time to testify in a Grand Traverse county land suit six years after filing. In Washington State, a coroner's jury verdict cites death by strangulation from a hanging over a wire in Asotin County, tied to a lynching case.
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Rome
Aug. T
St. Peter
Pius X
Vatican
Grand Rapids
Mich
G. BR
Tl. Trailway Company
United States
Grand Traverse County
Railway
Spokane
Wash
Birst
Fillmore Streets
Asotin
Will Hamilton
Mattel Richards
Postoffice Clerk Arrested for Opening Auditor Letters
John F. Carnell, 68, a longtime clerk in the auditor's office, is arrested by postoffice inspectors on charges of opening letters addressed to the auditor and taking contents. Decoy letters found on him. In Sumner, Iowa a change in control occurs as Victor Stevenson gains majority stock in Sumner Telephone Co, capital 380000, with lines to New Hampton and West Union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
John F. Carnell
Office of the Auditor
Postoffice Department
Iowa
Postoffice
Hit
Telephone Company
Summer
Sumner Telephone Company
Capital
New Hampton
West Union
Victor Stevenson
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I’rison
Kea
Lee
John A. Lee
Payne
Postal Telegraph Company
Hazell
J. Kelley
Hyan
Ryan
Mra. Hodge
Bre
Hodge
Senate
Neat. Dence
Mrs. Lillie
Chicago Grain
Bunker 111
Mrs. Galler
Ware Courts Investigation
Pension Commissioner
Dadda Library
Western
St. Joseph
Des Moines
Omaha
Colorado Springs
Peoria
Denver
Hrain
Elma
Chicago Great Westren Road
Devon
Mans Nelson
Nelson
Burlington
Ogden
Charles Sullivan
Hooper
American School Furniture Company
Piqua, C
General Gillespie
Miles
Pittsburg
United Tos
Philippine
John G. Shanklin
Soecemie
Mie Evaneville
ARGUS
Dolly Madison
Bay Witnowes
Tata
Creathitt County
Powell County
Ewen
Plas X
Uncle Sam
Brownstown
Otto Allman
Etta Broek
Citizens’ Savings Bank
Washington, Iowa
Ona Tl Keon
Ant M. Keon
Prank Lane
Citizens National Bank
Min
Shaw Jentina & Wim. H Jenkine
State Bank of Low
Piret National Bank
OlUeeo's National
P. J. Manleey
Schuyler W. Livingston
Oryce
Gery ‘Eet
Wealington County Savings Bank
Lowa
Marsin W. Bailey
Keron
Otty
Eng Tural
Courie
W. A. Butterfield
Crall
Ficner
K. Dewey
A. Dewey
Dewey
Lawyers
Alber
R. Lar
R. R
Memphig
Peoria ST
Josep Kangase
Wasahinorors
Colorado
BPGB
Fort Worth
ST. Paul
Minneapoligg
Veo
Kapress Vassenger Mall Se Reems Accommodation Freight
Weatbound
Bryreseall and Kapri
P Accommodatio
Davenport
California
Padtorth
West Epoints
Pullman
General Paw Lines
Hi. W. Rousbel
Agen
Missouri River
Ontoneo
Tit
W. A. White
Pollard
Aparna
Crail
New Set Abstract Books
Relate Lee
J. L. Brookmart
Lewye
Rice
Opera House
Office
W. Scopield
Praysictana
Osteopathy
CG. S. Harper
Osteopathic Pmysician
Washington, Ilowa
Over Kiein & Co
Arthaud, Osteopath
American School of Osteopony
Kirksville, MO
Same
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Washington National Bank
J. A. Cunningham
Anderso
A. Abe
J.T. Anderson
Oashler
Asa’t Cashier
Anon McCuny
B. F. Brown
A. Harvey
W. A. Moore
W. W. Wilson
A. Anderson
D. J. Palmer
Washington County Savings Bank
State Bank
Chas, Ohngemach
DM McLaughlin
A. White
G. Wilson
Henry Knecht
Tabor
Akes
UsArantees & Good
C.B
Burlraina East
Iowa Central
Hrighton
Mason Alty Mall
Paul
South
Nae
Tae
Pooria
Peoria Mall
Exc Sun
ercBfun
Marshalltown
Titemore
Gro
Barry Traci
Means & Stichter
East Side Restaurant
Casey
Alisa
T. J. Dempsey
Sonare
McKeone & Shields
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