Zola Remains Placed in Pantheon Amid Protests
In Paris on June 4 Emile Zola was honored as a Pantheon figure in a state ceremony akin to Victor Hugo’s tribute. The event stirred anti-Dreyfus opponents who denounced the glorification, while thousands cheered as the procession passed. The rabid La Libre Parole attacked the government, calling the act an insult to the country.
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Paris
Emile Zola
Pantheon
Victor Hugo
Zola
Dreyfus
France
la Libre Parole
Man Ready to Die Proclaims Innocence at Gallows
William Jeffreys, informed that Governor Folk denied a third respite, vowed to die on the gallows at St Charles for the murder of dairyman William Wussler on April 5 1905. He claimed others in the plot against him will follow and said he is ready to meet his Maker.
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St. Louis
William Jeffreys
Folk
St. Charles
William Wussler
Battle ships Maine and Alabama plan voyage to Hampton Roads
San Francisco June 4 The Maine and Alabama fire ships, part of a special service squadron, will sail Monday morning via Honolulu toward Hampton Roads, becoming the first detached vessels from the Atlantic fleet. They will precede the flagship Connecticut and others, arriving at Hampton Roads October 22.
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San Francisco
Maine
Alabama
Hampton Roads
Honolulu
Connecticut
Gypsies Ordered to Leave Battle Creek
A caravan of seventeen wagons and fifty horses arrived in Battle Creek Michigan. Police gathered fortune tellers and held them in jail before ordering the group to depart the city at once.
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Battle Creek
Mich
Fire destroys Attica poultry house and three outbuildings
Mrs. Gus Lief of Attica Indiana attempted to burn straw with coal oil to kill chicken lice. The blaze grew beyond control, destroying the poultry house and three outbuildings.
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Attica
Ind
Gus Lief
Allison Surey Wins His Majority and Iowa Results
Baltimore dispatch reports Democratic Maryland convention elected national delegates and adopted a platform. Des Moines returns show William B. Allison leading in the Iowa Senate race with about 10,000 margin, B F Carroll about 20,000 for governor, Clarke 20,000 for lieutenant governor, Briggs sweeping schools. Hull district contest tight. Cummins gracefully accepts. seven districts back Allison in statewide GOP primaries.
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Des Moines
William B. Allison
United States Senate
B. F. Carroll
Warren Garst
George W. Clarke
B. Murphy
J. F. Briggs
Railroad Commission
Hull
Cummins
Allison
Dubuque
Frank P. Woods
Conner
Hubbard
Hardin County
Browns Corners Odd Fellows Goat Sparks Probe
Huntington Ind June 4 A Browns Corners Odd Fellows lodge drew up a committee to confer with Prosecuting Attorney Eberhart to seek a more suitable exercise ground for their popular goat amid incidents of curious boys and women spying on lodge rooms and ladders being used to peek inside.
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Thiuntington
Ind
Odd Fellows
Odd Fellows of
Browns Corners
Eberhart
Odd Fellows’ Lodge
Bryan tour closes with rear platform speech in Columbus
Omaha June 4 The Bryan tour through northern and western Nebraska ends with a rear platform speech at Columbus as he arrives in Omaha. He has delivered about forty two set speeches and similar informal replies since leaving home last Thursday, mixing home tone with national policy critique and opposition to the current financial system. He cited what he calls weaknesses in the currency measure passed by Congress, with closing day talks at North Platte and Lexington where business was nearly suspended. He says he is delighted with his efforts.
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Omaha
Bryan
Nebraska
Columbus
Congress
North Platte
Lexington
Defendants Acquitted In Gold Leaf Mail Fraud Trial
Denver officers of the Gold Leaf Consolidated Mining company were cleared by Judge Lewis who instructed the jury to return not guilty verdicts. They were charged with using the mails to defraud by misrepresenting property values and deceiving stockholders out of $20,000.
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Denver
Colo
Jay F. Hanning
John J. Hobin
J. J. Williamson
Lewis
Gold Leaf Consolidated Mining Company
Miller children drown in river near Leeper Park island
South Bend on June 4 reports Elsie Miller age thirteen and Robert Miller age eight drowned off Leeper Park island while on a family outing with their father. It is believed the boy fell into the St Joseph River or tried to wade, and the sister attempted to rescue him.
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South Bend
Ind
Elsie
Robert Miller
Leeper Park Island
St. Joseph River
Oldfield Plans Summer Rides In Cleveland Motors
Barney Oldfield, famed racing automobilist, is in Cleveland negotiating for two machines to resume track racing this summer. He states he has not quit racing and has not taken a chauffeur job, countering a Lowell dispatch claim.
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Oldfield
Cleveland
Barney Oldfield
Racing Automobilist
Lowell
Mass
Dispatch
Whisky Defined by Court Reaffirms Distinct Substances
The District of Columbia court of appeals ruled that whisky and neutral spirits are not like substances, upholding Roosevelt and Bonaparte’s stance after distillers appealed. It also held bourbon whiskey can be made only in Kentucky using a mash primarily corn, in the Levy Uri Uri case affecting the two whisky test cases initiated by the Justice Department.
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Washington
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Roosevelt
Bonaparte
Department of Agriculture
Kentucky
Department of Justice
Baltimore
Fire Near a Sanatorium in Des Moines
A blaze at the Adventist church in Des Moines forced thirty or more patients from a town sanatorium to safety as smoke filled their rooms. Fire Chief Burnett and driver W M Van Horn were injured in a crash with an express wagon while racing to the fire. Burnett suffered a concussion and facial bruising, Van Horn escaped with minor injuries.
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Des Moines
Adventist Church
Burnett
W. M. van Horn
van Horn
Outsider Wins Derby on Undress-Uniform Ride
London June 4 An outsider 100 to 1 Signorinetta won the Derby at Epson Downs ridden by a jockey in stable clothes and a weatherbeaten straw hat. Primer placed second and Liangwin finished third. Perrier, Norman LIL, Seasick IT, and others did not place. The win marks the first Derby success for a horse ridden in such attire owned by E. Ginistrelli.
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London
Signorinetta
Epson Downs
Perrier
Belmont
Norman Lil
Vanderbilt
E. Ginistrelli
Duke of Portland
Primer
Barclay Walker
Liangwin
St. John Hotel Sold to Annie St. John and Daughter
In Muncie Indiana Mrs Annie St John and her daughter Minnie bought the St John hotel from Frank St John the divorced husband. They will run the hotel going forward while Frank spends the summer in Michigan and plans hotel work in a western state.
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Muncie
Ind
Annie St. John
Minnie St. John
St. John Hotel
Frank St. John
Lackawan a Railroad to Replace Telegraph with Telephone
New York based Lackawan a railroad plans to replace its telegraphic train dispatch system with the telephone. Officials expect the complete switch to be in use along the entire road within a year. The telephone has proven more satisfactory than the telegraph.
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New York
Lackawanna Railroad
Muskegon girl sets 11 second 100 yard dash mark
Miss Ella Christianson of Muskegon credited with an 11 second 100 yard dash record in a New York City meet last week featuring physical culture normal students.
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Muskegon, Mich
Ella Christianson
Muskegon
New York City
Dreyfus shot after Zola transfer in Paris
Paris reports Captain Alfred Dreyfus was shot in the arm by Gaulois editor M Gregori after the Emile Zola funeral rites. The transfer of Zola’s body from Montmartre cemetery to the Panthéon sparked citywide excitement and fears of further anti Dreyfus unrest.
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Paris
Evening Journal
Alfred Dreyfus
M. Gregori
Gaulois
Emile Zola
Dreyfus
Montmarte
Panthon
Governor Deneen Signs Bills in Illinois
Springfield June 4 The bill enabling Chicago to fix aldermen salaries at up to 3500 a year has been signed by Governor Deneen along with a 10000 printing appropriation for evidence from the house investigative committee. The governor called the latter measure a Bill to Assist the Democratic party.
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Springfield
General Assembly
Chicago
Deneen
Special Investigating Committee of
House
Nebraska Woman Fears Rabies After Cat Bite
Mrs. John Knox of Palmyra Nebraska was bitten on the hand by her pet cat while it lay on her lap. The bite caused swelling, and she traveled to Chicago with the cat to seek Pasteur Institute treatment as a rabies precaution.
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Chicago
John Knox
Palwyra
Neb
Pasteur Institute
Markets Chicago Hogs and cattle prices June 4 1908
Chicago markets show steady to lower hogs with light and mixed lots moving between 5.10 and 5.55. Cattle and sheep receipts strong with cattle strong and sheep weak. estimated receipts for tomorrow around 24 000 hogs and 17 000 sheep. Beves and cattle prices range from 4.90 to 7.50 for beef cattle and 2.40 to 6.40 for cows and heifers. Western cattle and stockers noted.
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Texas
Pratee
New York Families Feed Hope As Relief Kitchens Open
Amid a business downturn in New York City the East Side School Board committee launches two kitchens to feed hungry children. Isidore Levy reports many students faced 48 hours without meals as destitution widens. Associations and charities mobilize with tickets for lunches and milk. Relief expected in hundreds of homes soon.
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New York
East Side
Lower East Side
Isidore M. Levy
Levy
Association For
United Hebrew Charities
Children's Relief Society
Greater
Association For Improving the
Mass of Oil Suit Testimony Tops Records
New York June 4 More than two million words of testimony have been taken in the government suit to dissolve Standard Oil before Special Examiner Franklin Ferrisa. Before hearings end another million words likely will be added to the record. The mass may total over 3,000,000 words plus thousands of pages of exhibits for reading by the three judges in what is said to be the largest contract of the kind for a tribunal of three.
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New York
Standard Oil Company
Franklin Ferrisa
President Roosevelt declines aid for veteran in smuggling case
New York June 4 President Roosevelt refused to intercede for Austin F. Montagne an old Union veteran serving a sentence for a part he took recently in smuggling articles from France into the country. Montagne was until recently connected with a firm of importers.
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New York
Roosevelt
France
Austin F. Montagne
Sleep on Duty Leads Police Officer to Admit Violation
St Louis June 4 Patrolman W Pohlman surrendered to a lieutenant and preferred charges of violating the police manual after admitting he slept for two hours while on duty. He will stand trial before the board.
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St. Louis
W. Pohlman
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James Whitcomb Riley
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Imp
Maryland
Lackawanna
Gov. Deneen
Billa
Beach-Wickham Grain Company
John A. Babcock
Witt
The
North American Commission ‘Company
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