Hearing on Pact Knox to Explain Root Amendment Today
Senate hearings on the Canadian reciprocity bill wrapped with testimony from Herman Ridder and Melville Stone. Knox will explain whether the Root amendment aligns with treaty understandings as officials from both nations prepare for executive session on action tomorrow.
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Lorimer Committee Chosen for Lorimer Inquiry
The Betate committee on privileges and elections adopted a bipartisan subcommittee lineup to probe the Lorimer case. Dillingham Jones Gamble Kenyon Republicans and Fletcher Johnston Kern Lea Democrats form eight members. The panel plans hearings mainly in this city with at least one trip to Hingis and aims to conclude during the current session.
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Senate Advances Willam H. Lew Nomination Report
A favorable report was ordered to be made to the Senate Judiciary committee on Willam H. Lews nomination as assistant attorney general. Southern Democrats opposed, citing a past AG statement. Lews confirmation may go to the Senate floor. The committee also slated Schofield Elliott and Smith to higher district positions. A woman was hospitalized with suspected cholera amid bacteriological tests.
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First Judicial Circuit
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District of
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Henry A. M. Smith
South Carolina
Senate adjourns after informal vote at meeting
With the Vice President absent the Senate voted for a president pro tempore. Two inconclusive ballots were taken and no business was transacted. The Quance committee finished six hearings on the re profits agreement. A favorable report was ordered on the nomination of William HO Lewis to be Assistant Attorney General.
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Senate adjourns without action on presiding officer
The Senate adjourned without selecting a president pro tempore or electing a vice president, as ballots showed no change. On the second ballot F M Bacon and C L Clapp each gained one vote, while M tialinger held 27 votes and third candidates remained scattered. An adjournment was taken to reconvene at 2 o clock today with no business conducted.
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Tialinger
Mi Bacon
Clapp
Labor will host invitations for Gompers banquet
Invitations go out to over 300 organized labor members and friends in Washington for a June 11 testimonial banquet at the Mayflower to honor Samuel Gompers John Mitchell and Frank Morrison of the AFL. Guests include Speaker Champ Clark Senators Poindexter La Follette Cummins and many Congress members. Chief Justice Walter Clarke will toast.
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Persident
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Miles Poindexter
Robert M. la Folletta
Albert B Cummins
W. B. Wilson
John A. Macun
W. J. Cary
Willam Hughes
James T. McDermott
Isaac Sherwood
Frank Buchanan
Victor Berger
David J. Lewis
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Charles B. Smith
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J.C. Cantrell
Walter Clarke
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James O'Connell
D. A. Hayes
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Joseph ¥. Valentine
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H. B. Perham
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Mitchell
Mr. Morrison
Chauffeur on Trial in Fatal Mount Royal Collision
George J. Neilson, chauffeur for Dr. R. Tunstall Taylor, faced trial for manslaughter after his car struck a buggy carrying the Rev. J. Houston Eccleston near Mount Royal avenue and St. Paul street on March 27. Opening arguments only today as State's Attorney Owens leads the prosecution. Eccleston, a wealthy and prominent Episcopal rector, had previously been exonerated by a coroner's jury but indicted by a grand jury.
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Brother of envoy poisoned in Estes Park incident
Newark New Jersey June 5 Charles H Jackson brother of John B Jackson United States Minister to Cuba dies at Horse Shoe Park home of A D March from poison Friends say it was accidental Jackson a Princeton law graduate son of Walcott Jackson longtime head of the Pennsylvania Railroad traffic department He had moved west about two years ago to settle on a ranch
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Nistake
John B. Jackson
United States
Cuba
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Pennsylvania Railroad
New Yorker Hurt Abroad In France Auto Crash
Chartres June 5 A Living stone Beeckman of New York was severely injured in an automobile accident near Tours The car overturned when the chauffeur avoided a workman in the road The workman was killed Mr Beeckman sustained a fracture of the right arm and severe contusions Mrs Beeckman and the chauffeur were unhurt
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France
Livingston Beeckman
New York
Tours
Beeckman
Murdered by Black Hand in Bellaire incident
In Bellaire across the Ohio River a dead unidentified Italian man lay in the road with three wounds. Authorities say he was murdered by the Black Hand for revealing secrets of the organization before a doctor could be summoned.
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Lutherans In Session As Synod Opens In Washington
Washington Lutherans organized a federal council branch at Luther Place Memorial Church to meet this morning with Dr A S Waltz leading. The forty fifth biennial meeting of the general synod opens tonight with Rev Harlan K Fenner to preach and President Taft expected to speak. Delegates travel to Baltimore Saturday for the deaconess mother house dedication.
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Loutaville
Taft
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Charles 8. Albert
Philadelphia
H. A Getz
Los Angeles
Lloyd Douglas
Harry T. Domer
Mr. Waltz
Contradictory ruling blocks Annapolis voter enrollment
In Annapolis Maryland on June 6 a unique registration situation arose for a municipal election next month. Grandfather and property qualifications in the last law aimed to disfranchise black voters. The US district court ruled the law unconstitutional and damages may follow. Registration days opened with registrars absent and no registrations recorded.
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Annapolia
United States District Court
Hope for Cancer Patients From New Experimental Therapy
Special to The Washington Post from Boston reports Dr. Timothy Leary of Tufts Medical School and Dr. Edward Risley of Massachusetts General Hospital trialing a fluid from cancer patients injected into other cancer patients. In 63 cases, pain decreased or stopped, cancer growth slowed for two to five months, and general health remained good.
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Norfolk murder case shocks calm town in onion patch discovery
A white man identified as Harry Davis for Harding was found dead with a back wound in a Willoughby Beach area onion patch. Minnie Murdock and Charles Merkle, involved in a love rivalry, were arrested after allegedly burying the body and attempting a deeper grave. Police say the motive was jealousy and the victim was killed in his sleep or from behind.
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Gnonton
Willoughby Beach
Minnie Murdock
Charles Merkle
Harry Davis
Harding
Merkle
Davis
Dynamite Attack On Colliers Mine Officials
In Cumberland Maryland on June 5 dynamite was exploded at the residence of Lewis Finley general manager of Lewis Ma Ley Coal Co Colliers West Virginia. The house shared with pit boss Thomas McFes family was damaged but no injuries occurred. Bloodhounds pursued suspects amid claims the act stemmed from past labor troubles though no strike exists at the mine.
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Colliers
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Hts
Thomas McFes
Mrs Hammerstein Freed in Divorce Case
New York reports Mrs Malvina Hammerstein obtained a divorce from Oscar Hammerstein. The interlocutory decree was signed by Justice Tompkins in Nyack where she lives. Her attorney seeks sealed papers due to sensitive testimony and health concerns. The couple had lived apart for years.
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New York
Malvina Hammerstein
Oscar Hammerstein
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Nyack
Hammerstein
South Right Honors Davis as Confederate Veterans Gather
Senator Bailey told Confederate veterans at Mount Vernon Place M B Church that reconciliation with the Union requires recognizing black inferiority. He praised Jefferson Davis as last to abandon hope of peace, noted Davis’s birthday observance, and honored Davis’ former body servant James A. Jones, who holds Davis’ cane.
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Challenge to Fairbanks in national horseshoe event
Indianapolis June 5 Former Vice President Fairbanks is challenged by John M Studebaker head of the Studebaker Corporation South Bend for the national championship of horseshoe pitching If accepted the contest will occur in Indianapolis June 24 during the visit of the Indiana Society of Chicago Last year the society held its picnic at George Ade's Kentland home Fairbanks defeated all comers but critics claimed opponents were handicapped by his height and reach Each contestant provides their own horseshoes and selects a teammate
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Ind
Fairbanks
John M. Studebaker
Studebaker Corporation
South Bend
Indiana Society of Chicago
George Ade
Kentland
Virginia Adjutant General W. W. Sale Injured in Collision
Special to The Washington Post from Richmond Virginia reports that W W Sale adjutant general of Virginia was hurled 20 feet from a trap he was driving this afternoon after a collision with an automobile. He suffered serious injuries and internal trouble may develop.
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White House Callers Monday June 5
Secretary Stimson Nagel and a roster of senators and representatives visit the White House on Monday June 5 including Senator Stone of Missouri Jones of Washington Curtis of Kansas Briggs of New Jersey Lea of Tennessee Gray of Indians Austin of Tennessee De Forrest of New York Calder of New York Hardwick of Georgia Flood of Virginia NY delegate Andrews of New Mexico and former Gov Curry of New Mexico.
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New York
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Georgia
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Bank of La Grange Closed by State Authority
The Bank of La Grange in La Grange Lenoir County was closed today by order of the State corporation commissioner after bank examiners found the bank in an unsafe condition. Unsecured paper and overdrafts reportedly top $12,000 against a $10,000 capital.
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Grandson brings $100000 gift from rail magnate
Frederick Sturgess, a Philadelphia financier and J. P. Morgan’s brother in law, sent $109.06 to Frederick Sturgess 3d on learning of his grandson's birth in Philadelphia. Theoctogenarian railroad magnate marked the event with a celebratory gesture, the child arriving on his own birthday.
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Conn
Frederick Sturgess
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Stork
Philadelphia
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J.P., Morgan
Dickinson College elects Dr. Eugene Allan Noble president
In Carlisle five trustees elected Dr. Eugene Allan Noble of Goucher College Baltimore to serve a five year term as president succeeding Dr. George Edward Reed who resigned. Noble will assume duties around September 1 the trustees announced.
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Former priest Verdési jailed ten months for crime case
Rome reports Verdési, once a priest who accused church officials of violating the confessional and faced suit from Jesuit priest Bricarelli, was found guilty and sentenced to ten months in jail plus all trial costs.
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Polaire Takes aerial trip in Paris flight
MuUe Polaire the actress rode in an aeroplane in Paris and asked after landing when air travel to America might be possible. Special to The Washington Post reports a new counsel for Southern Railway. Harlan files dissent in Parco. also notes anti-impeachment suit by Spencer Bean against Baltimore and Ohio Railroad for damages from a car ejection.
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Mrs. Gerard suffers serious illness amid sensational divorce suit
Mrs. Robert H. Gerard writing as Erene Osgood is seriously ill with nervous prostration and brain fever, shadowing a sensational divorce case in which her husband, also a writer, figures prominently.
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Cold Storage Offers Safe Fur Preservation At Stinemele
Your furs will be absolutely safe and kept in perfect condition in our improved cold storage compartments Reasonable charges located at Stinemele F Street Corner Twelfth.
Carnovan and Other Tales in The Monthly Magazine Section
Contents from The Monthly Magazine Section praise for Carnovan by June Gouverneur Morris and other works. Maxwell’s Guess excites readers with a witty puzzle, Litle’s illustrations capture humor, Grace Sartwell Mason contributes April a motorboat romance, and Halifax offers A Call in the Night army tale. Stoner’s Chinese style art, Mary Shaw reminiscences Some Animals of the Stage, and The Stigma of the Stiletto nears its finale. Judges reveal The Eyes of Regret prize, with nearly 600 entries and a $50 award.
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