Delay Foiled Law Committee Inquires Into Alaska Syndicate Fraud
Delegate Wickersham presents sworn evidence claiming government losses of 50000 through perjury tied to the Alaska syndicate. He asserts the Attorney General allowed the statute of limitations to bar prosecutions, while photographs and affidavits are produced for a committee inquiry. The case ties Pierpont Morgan and the Guggenheims to the syndicate with names like Kuhn, Loeb & Co and John J. Lesnor Coal Co. Nome and Seattle figures appear in a broader fraud narrative.
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Wickersham
Masha
Alaska
House Committee On Judiciary
House
H. J. Douglas
D. H. Jarvis
Alaska Syndicate
Government Revenue Cutter Service
Seattle
John E. Bullock
John J. Lesnor
Wickershaw
Hazey
M. B. Morrisey
Attorney General
Judiciary Committee
Douglas
Northwestern Commercial Company
Seanor Coal Company
Mamta
Treasury
Webb
North Carolina
Territorial
Clayton
Pierpont Morgan
Guggenheim Brothers
Kuhn, Loeb & Co
Jacob H. Schiff
Graves
Norris
Nebraska
Simon Guggenheim
Goose Split Ends Dispute In Courtroom Dividing Goose
In Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania alderman John F Donohue settled a goose ownership dispute between Mrs Alice Krieger and Mrs Louis Pelinus by a novel plan. Each woman would fetch a gand er from her flock and the goose would choose its flock, else the goose would be killed and divided.
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Washington Post
Wilkes-Barre
John F.donohue
Alice Krieger
Shickshinny
Louis Pelinus
House Balks Senate Vote On Tariff Bills
Congress battles over timing for votes on pending tariff measures as House Democrats push revision of key schedules. Speaker Clark signals continued work through September with a timetable for July and August votes on reciprocity, wool tariff, free list, and statehood bills.
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Clark
Senate
Washington
House of Representatives
Insurgenta
Cummins
Arizona
New Mexico
Taft
Penrose
Martin
Kenyon
Bristow
Mars Fallgin Aero Air Pocket Cause Shocks Thousands
A dramatic aerial incident over Mars shows pilot Mars Fallgin losing control after an air pocket. Wife witnesses the tumble as onlookers report him plunging several hundred feet in a vertigo fright, with rescue crews rushing to the scene.
Victims of foreign thieves through Berlin con men
Berlin reports three Americans fall prey to confidence tricks as a San Francisco man Garnass loses 1700 in Berlin after a meeting with a Boston impostor. Other travelers Galie and Bodlein claim thefts in Brussels Prague Carlsbad with pocketbooks and travel checks seized. Mars injured in Erie air crash during aviation meet.
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Washington Post
New York
New York World
Ber- Scratches
Birdman
Henry Granass
San Francisco
Berlin
Garnass
Bris
Grant Allan
Boston
Mr. Garnass
Allan
Paul Galie
Brussels
Bud's perilous flight ends in crash at field
Mrs Mars recalls Bud's second ascent when a dangerous atmospheric condition at the field's lower end caused trouble. He reportedly fought the controller as the craft plunged toward the earth, and observers feared for his safety before the machine darted down.
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Mre
Mars
Bud
Man Arrested For Not Stopping Mother-In-Law Poisoning
Indianapolis July 14 Robert Sherlock was arrested after he refused to stop his mother in law Margaret Mote from killing herself by consuming cartolic acid. Sherlock allegedly instructed her to proceed as others tried to intervene. Police will decide what action to take regarding his involvement.
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Washington Post
Indianapolis
Robert Sherlock
Margaret Mote
Sherlock
Sbe
American Lost in the Alps Seeks Boston Man on Dent du Midi
Reports from Geneva state guides and others search the Alps for Homer Tidman of Boston who disappeared after setting out alone to comb the Dent du Midi on the Valais Savoy frontier. The only trace found is Tidman’s name carved on a mountain hut, raising fears he fell from a precipice.
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Switzerland
Homer Tidman
Boston
Dent-du-Midi
Alps
Valais
Savoy
Stockbridge Chimes to Ring Again After Protest
Stockbridge selectmen announce the David Dudley Field chimes will be played every evening from dusk until 6 30. The bells, silent all season, were resumed after Miss Emily Tuckerman of Washington protested last year. The practice will continue through future summers, a 43 year tradition ending this summer.
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Selectmen
Stockbridge
Mass
Tuckerman
Washington Post
Lenox
David Dudley Field
Emily Tuckerman
Washington
Anarchy Reigns as Cabinet Resigns in Persia
Teheran dispatch reports a cabinet resignation and widespread anarchy in Ardabil Province. Rebels sack forty villages in Ardabil district and control grows in Shiras Ker manshah and Sehma. Roads are unsafe and strict censorship on outgoing news is in place.
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Ardabil
London
The
Standard
Teheran
Shiras
Fara
Kermanshah
Sehma
Kurdistan
Anglo Japanese treaty revised to allow arbitration with America
London announced modification of the 1905 Anglo Japanese alliance extending the term by nearly six years and excluding the United States from potential enemies. The change lets either nation avoid war if an arbitration treaty exists with a third power, signaling progress toward a broader arbitration pact led by President Taft. Page continuation promised on the third page. $2.00 Luray Va. and Return Sunday July 16 special train.
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Japan
London
England
United States
Taft
Edward Grey
Count Kato
Korea
Russia
Australia
Kure
India
Sir Edward Grey
Luray
Baltimore & Ohio
Union Station
50 Crown in Crash Diamante Rams the Irma
A night collision in a tropical storm near Port Limon Costa Rica sinks the steamship Irma with 32 passengers and crew. Only eight survive through daring rescues as lifeboats fail in heavy seas and a Coast Guard effort saves several from the shore. Two Nicaraguan coffee growers and their wives are among the victims.
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Europe
Washington Post
Port Limon
Costa Rica
Irma
Bluefields
San Juan River
Greytown
Diaante
Castillo
Tme
Black Sea
Colorado
Canada commutes execution for Italian woman in Sault Ste. Marie
Angelino Neapolitano, sentenced to death for murdering her husband Peter Neapolitano, learns Ottawa commutes the sentence to life imprisonment. While jailed in Ontario, she faints upon hearing the news from a convict below, then pleads against hanging and expresses relief, later kissing the matron. Train notes follow.
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Ontario
Angelino Neapolitano
Sault Ste. Marie
Neapolitano
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Angelina Neapolitano
Hearst Jand
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Gomez Nips Plot in Cuba Amid Talk of U S Intervention
sensational Havana dispatch claims President Gomez holds documents proving plots by Vice President Zayas San Miguel Juan Gualberto Gomez and others to impeach Gomez seek intervention and install Zayas as governor. San Miguel New York capitalists and Maj James E Reuncie Consul General Rodgers named in alleged conspiracy. U S Secretary Knox denied intervention.
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Washington
Havana
Gomez
Documenta
Zayag
San Miguel
Juan Gualberto Gomez
Knox
Cuba
Washinston
Attorney General Accused in House Opposition
A multi item page itemizes disputes including Attorney General accused and House opposition to a Marly adjournment. Other notes cover aviation crash, forest fires, Puebla apprehension, and political inquiries with varied regional updates.
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Marly
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Dr. Wiley
Atwood
Taft League
Heid
Puebla
Mexico
Deneen
Carey Girl
News of Alexandria
Hutchins
Emil Kuhn
Georgia Author Blames Sherman for Columbia Fire in History
Gov. Cole L. Blease protested a state history text for neutrality on who burned Columbia in 1865. Atlanta author Waddy O Thompson agreed to place blame on Gen. Sherman, altering phrasing to say the army marked its route by destruction of property and laid Columbia in ashes. Thompson is son of former South Carolina governor Hugh Thompson.
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Columbia
Gen. Sherman
Washington Post
State Board of Education
Thompson
United States
Cole L. Blease
Waddy O Thompson
Atlanta
Sherman
Hugh Thompson
South Carolina
the Treasury
Cleveland
Hazard Council Bans Hogs From City Streets
Hazard Kentucky town council issues an order to confine all hogs to a town pen by marshal after July 17 and to no longer allow hogs on streets. The move aims to curb municipal nuisance and preserve Hazard Spirit and pride.
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Hazard
Washington Post
Wit
Kent
Porter A J Berry Leaves $100000 From Tips In 35 Years
In Alexandria Bay Thousand Islands on July 14 A J Berry a colored hotel porter for 35 years at the Thousand Islands House died. He was a familiar figure at the dock with arriving steamers and left an estate near $100000 saved from tips and investments.
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New York
Washington Post
Alexandria Bay
Thousand Islands
A. J. Berry
Thousand Islands House
Berry
Aurae of Models Shown In Chicago Aura Experiments
Four Chicago Art Institute girls allowed 35 physicians and six nuns at Mercy Hospital to observe their bodies as aurae emanating from them. Under Dr PatrickS O Connell, the team tested light revealing human atmospheres, following Dr Walter J Kitners London claims. A control test failed until a nun detected glow between finger tips and body.
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Washington Post
Chicago
Chicago Art Institute
Mercy Hospital
Patricks. O'Connell
O'Connell
Walter J. Kitner
St. Thomas’ Hospital
London
Sister de Lourdes
Dr. O'Donnell
Investigation into Wiley-Wickersham ousting efforts begins
The House committee on expenditures in the Department of Agriculture orders a full inquiry into efforts to oust Dr. Harvey W. Wiley and subordinates. Hearings will begin once papers from Secretary James Wilson arrive, with Secretary Wilson, Dr. Wiley, Dr. Busby, Dr. Kebner, Dr. Bigelow, Assistant Secretary Hays, Solicitor McCabe and others expected to testify.
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House Committee On
Committee On
Wickersham
Harvey W. Wiley
Bureau of Chemistry
Bureau
H. H. Busby
Wiley
Moss
Secretary of Agriculture
James Wilson
Washington
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Br. Busby
Kebner
Bigelow
Hays
McCabe
Clark
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Busby
Department of Justice
Dr. Wiley
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Bud) Mars
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