Eight Die in Villisca Axe Murders Shrouded in Mystery
In Villisca Iowa on June 11 eight people including Joseph B. Moore his wife Catherine and children Herman eleven Lena fourteen Ina nine plus Spillinger daughters were found dead in their beds with their heads smashed by an axe. Bloodstains fingerprints and bloodhounds are noted as investigators pursue clues including a suspect seen in town and a divorced husband connected to the Moore family.
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Villisca
Joseph B. Moore
Josep B. Moore
Herman Moore
Catherine Moore
Boyd Moore
Paul Moore
Lena Spillinger
Ina Spillinger
Spillinger
Joseph Spillinger
Moore
Harding Sues Landis for Five Hundred Thousand Dollars
William J. Ammen, attorney for George F. Harding, sues Judge Landis in superior court for $500,000 citing remarks by Landis to Ammen in federal court. The action follows a deflected hearing in Harding v Standard Oil, with Judge Landis denounced in a brief to the U S circuit court of appeals and criticism directed at Judge Sanborn over connection to interests.
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William J. Ammen
George F. Harding
Landis
Judge Landis
Ammen
Harding
Standard Oil Company
Kenesaw M. Landis
Car Plunges into Charles River With Six Men
An automobile carrying six men plunged over a riverbank into the Charles River in Boston. Only Gerald Whalen of Roxbury is accounted for, claiming the others jumped before the car vanished. Police drag the river to locate the missing men.
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Boston
Charles River
Gerald Whalen
Roxbury
Army Regiment Marches to Sparta Wisconsin
The provisional regulars under Colonel Getty broke camp here and began a march to Sparta Wisconsin to meet an imaginary army. The trip is expected to take about a month.
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Wisconsin
Dubuque
Iowa
United States Regulars
Getty
Sparta
Wis
Senate approves army bill amid Wood opposition vote
Washington reports after hours of debate the senate adopted conference on the army appropriation bill by 27 to 24. The Wood issue pitted Lodge and Root against Warren. in the house the Canadian reciprocity treaty dispute failed to concur with the senate metal schedule by 144 to 101.
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Washington
Leonard Wood
Senate
Wood
Lodge
Root
Warren
House
Mann
Sulloway
Moon
Pennsylvania
Madden
McCall
Hill
Heald
Gillett
Webb
Whitacre
Sweet
Sharp
Page
Hammond
Goodwin
Russian pardon frees Englishwoman under exile condition
Miss Kate Malecka, an Englishwoman sentenced to four years penal servitude for supporting Polish revolutionists, has been pardoned by the Russian emperor after British intervention. The pardon requires her to quit Russia forever.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Warsaw
Kate Malecka
Supreme Court Allows Commerce Court Review of I C C Order
Washington June 11 The Supreme Court ruled the commerce court may enjoin an I C C affirmative order to review it and sent the Federal Sugar Refining lighterage case back to the commerce court for further determination.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Commerce Court
Interstate Commerce Commission
Federal Sugar Refining Company
Indiana Delegates Seated as Taft Forces Lead At Convention
At Chicago June 11 the Republican national committee seated ten Taft delegates from Indiana after a stormy session. The four delegates-at-large were awarded Taft by 62 to 0 with Roosevelt members voting with Taft. Indiana now has 82 Taft seated delegates.
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Chicago
Taft
Indiana
Republican National Committee
Roosevelt
Col
California
Francis J. Heney
Senator Borah
Thomas J. Devine
Colorado
Rosewater Halls
Rosewater
Heney
Borah
William H. Taft
Friends of
National Committee
T. R
Committee On Credentials
Coliseum Annex
Uptown
Fairbanks
Beveridge
Ornsby McHaig
Bainbridge Colby
New York
Colby
Mr. Colby
Merrill Moores
Indianapolis
Yale
Harrys. New
James A. Hemenway
Queen in airship voyage over Baden Baden
The Schwaben airship carried royal guests including the queen of Sweden and a Siamese prince on a two hour cruise from Baden Baden. Passing the palace, the queen dropped roses to her mother the grand duchess of Baden, greeting her from the air.
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Berlin
Schwaben
Baden Baden
Sweden
Baden
Zeppelin II Returns Home With Mail Wireless Gear
The Zeppelin II has returned from Hamburg after 42 hours air time. The airship will be fitted with mail carrying capacity and wireless equipment for future flights.
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Zeppelin Ill
Friedrichshafen
Germany
Hamburg
Pankhurst Sentence Reduced for Pethick Lawrences
London June 11 Emmeline Pankhurst and Mr and Mrs Pethick Lawrence are to finish nine months imprisonment as first class misdemeanants rather than ordinary criminals after a change by Reginald McKenna home secretary. Washington June 11 The US Supreme Court set aside Georgia’s decree barring negro men from forming a Knights of Pythias lodge in that state. Chief Justice White announced the opinion with Justice Holmes dissenting.
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London
Emmeline Pankhurst
Washington
Supreme Court of the United States
Supreme Court of Georgia
Knights of Pythias
White
Holmes
Marines Guard El Cuero Mines Attack Despite No Casualties
A U S Marines company under Capt Edward B Manwaring guarding El Cuero mines repulsed an insurgent attack with no Marine casualties and unknown insurgent losses. In Havana the armored cruiser Washington and battleship Rhode Island entered harbor exchanging salutes, while Rear Admiral Osterhaus remained aboard the Washington. Washington contended the dispatch showed no change in policy of nonintervention, simply protection for Americans and foreigners.
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Santiago
Cuba
Edward B. Manwaring
el Cuero
Havana
United States
Washington
Fortress of
Cabana
Rhode Island
Osterhaus
Key West
San Francisco
Annapolis
London Debris of a General Strike Threatens Food Supply
London reports a general strike ordered by the Transport Workers Federation, threatening London food supply as dockers' action spreads across England. Armed guards guard shipments, with fears of trans Atlantic shipping disruption if the stoppage continues. Havre notes a mass vote for a general strike among shipping workers.
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London
Transport Workers’ Federation
England
France
Havre
Exoneration of Magnates Blames New York Paper for Run
Oakleigh Thorne testifies that J. P. Morgan, George Perkins and others did not cause the 1907 Trust Company of America run. He attributes blame to a New York newspaper for reporting the weakest spot in the financial scene. Thorne notes the bank withstood the panic after paying out over 15 million dollars the first day.
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Morgan
Perkins
N. Y
New York
Oakleigh Thorne
Trust Company of America
J. P. Morgan
George W. Perkins
Tennesee Coal & Iron Company
Thorne
Trust Company
J M. Dickinson
Steel Trust
R. V. Lindabury
Big Combination
Steel Trust Syndicate
Morgan Banks
Land fraud case ends as Supreme Court upholds Hyde and Schneider
The Supreme Court refused to overturn the convictions of Frederick A. Hyde and J. H. Schneider in the long running land fraud case. Hyde received a $10,000 fine and two years in prison while Schneider was fined and sentenced to one year and two months.
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Washington
Frederick A. Hyde
J. H. Schneider
California
Oregon
Supreme Court
District of Columbia
Hyde
Schneider
Investigating C A Wreck at Bloomington by I C C
James E Jones of the Interstate Commerce Commission arrived to probe the Chicago and Alton Limited derailment near Bloomington. The inquiry results will not be released publicly. In Joliet an eight year old boy named John Bankroff drowned in a quarry while showing peers he could swim.
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Olbrich
Senator la Follette
Harvard
University of Wisconsin
Lfaw
Madison
la Follette
R. M. Pollock
Fargo, N. D
Bloomington
James E. Jones
Interstate Commerce Commission
Chicago & Alton Limited
Young Way
Joliet
Lll
John Bankroff
William Bankroff
The
Illinois Improvement Company
Child Of New York Plays With 45000 Diamond Hoard
A four year old child of Charles Meyer from New York caused a purse of black diamonds valued at 45000 dollars to be played with in a Duluth Minnesota hotel room on the fourth floor with the window open. No losses reported.
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Duluth
Minn
Charles Meyer
New York
Olympic selection list for United States track and field runners
The New York committee named ten marathon runners to represent the United States at Stockholm. Notable selections include Louis Tewanima of Carlisle and Michael J. Ryan of Irish-American A. C. Supplementary names were added for those who would cover their own expenses. A large group of 100 meter sprinters and additional qualifiers followed, with many university and club affiliations cited.
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United States
Sweden
New York
Stockholm
Louis Tewanina
Carlisle Indian School
Michael J. Ryan
Clarence H. Demar
North Dorchester
Mass
Joseph Erxleben
Missouri A. C
St. Louis
Joseph Forsham, Jr
A. C
John J. Gallagher, Jr
Philadelphia
Yale
Thomas H. Lilley
Richard F. Pignott
Andrew Sockalexis
Bangor
John J. Bernolds
Hatch
Sidney Hatch
Chicago
Gaston Strebino
Paterson
N. J
F. W. Belote
Chicago A. A
J. Ita Courtney
Seattle
Ralph C. Craig
Detroit
Howard P. Drew
Springfeld
P. Gerhardt
Olympic A. C
San Francisco
Charles A. Rice
Powder Point
Rupert B. Thomas
Princeton
Clement P. Wilson
Coe College
Iowa
Herold W. Helland
Xavier A. A
Donald F. Lippincott
University of Pennsylvania
R. C. Lang
Rhodes Scholar
Oxford
Alva T. Meyer
Ralph ¢Oe
J. Len Courtney
Oylyme Aus Francisco
Howard Held
Reidpath
Syracuse University
P ‘Neen
Nell B. Young
Boston
Harola Wy
Canadian Lippincott
University of Nos
Charles Pes Point
Coole
Laud A. CL
Ralph ¢. Crate
Detroit F. M. Cc
Iran
N. Davenport
U of Chicago
Clarence _S. tteimunsen
Battle A. C
Harold B. Hag
Michigan
Edward F. Lind -Chiengn
James EF. Meredith
S-Meter
David B Caldweller
Lachusetts Articultural College
Tra
Davenport
Olversit
Chiesaence S. Edmuneon
Jonea
Mercersburg Academy
H.E. New York
Themae
J. Haton
A. A. Harland W. Holden
Batesversity
Howart H. Snyder
Cornell
Heam R. Anderson
University of Neoeeet
F. Hedlund
Bostom
A. A. Cornell
A. R. Kiviat
Wah Abarricana
Walter McClure
K. Francisco
James C. Ceres
A. A
Herbert N. Piltnam
Corase W. Shleppard
A.C Man
S&s Tabor
Brown University
Mets
Newport
Caede On Tit
Walace H. Curdy
University of Fenny van Vyania
Anderson
University B
Berna
Coreen
Edward Kit
William J Bianons Teiand
Henry L. Scott
King George to abdicate in 1913 after 50 years on throne
King George of Greece will abdicate in 1913 in favor of the crown prince after a fifty year reign. The announcement was made at the Acropolis upon the king's return from Copenhagen where he attended the funeral of his brother King Frederick of Denmark.
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Athens
George
Acropolis
Copenhagen
Frederick of
Densmark
English Chancellor Resigns in English Government Change
London June 11 Earl Loreburn resigns as lord high chancellor of England and is replaced by Viscount Haldane who had been secretary of state for war. The shift marks a major cabinet reorganization as Haldane takes the helm in the judicial branch.
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London
Earl Loreburn
England
Viscount Haldane
Var
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Hoosier State
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U. 5. Marines
Havana Harbor
Prince Kalanianaole
J. Kuhio Kalanalanole
Congress
Hawaii
Prince Cupid
Trust Company of America’s Story
U. S. Supreme Court
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