Lincoln Memorial Drive For World’s Grand Memorial
Former President heads the Lincoln Memorial Committee as Hannis Taylor appoints a 50 member board to outline the plan. The effort, backed by Senator Cullom, aims to place a monumental tribute in Washington, with Congress expected to vote next December.
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Lincoln Memorial Committee
Hannis Taylor
Cullom
Taylor
Senator Culom
Dnnots
Springfield
Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Senator Cullom
Congress
Europe
Paris
London
Nelson
Rome
Victor Emmanuel
Italy
Capua
Appius Claudius
Train Wreck In St Louis Bursts Through Factory Wall
A Texas bound St Louis Kven Mountain and Southern fast mail derailed near the city limits striking the Muler Manufacturing wall. Three men died including engineer Walter A. Douglas and fireman Robert D. Shephard. Jasper L. Laster mail clerk. Several injured, aged brakeman Thomas A. Coughan and postal clerk T. J. Wiggins among the hurt. Engine jumped the track on a curve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Kven Mountain
Southern
Texas
Muler Manufacturing Company
Walter A. Douglas
Robert D. Shephard
Jasper L. Laster
Alleged Gun Man Freed In Chinatown Killing Trial
New York June 9 Chu Hen known as gun man of the Four Brothers society was acquitted by a jury of murdering Dun Fook Yuen in Chinatown on April 25. Yuen fell to shots as Chu Ten calmly left the courtroom after verdict. Harrisburg June 9 a resolution condemning a Robert E. Lee statue in the National Capital was tabled at the forty fourth annual Grand Army of the Republic encampment meeting.
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New York
Chu Hen
Four Brothers’ Society
Dun Fook Yuen
Leon Tong
Yuen
Chinatown
Chu Ten
Harrisburg
Robert E. Lee
National Capital
Pennsylvania
Grand Army of the Republic
Bandit Guerriero Seizes Planter's Son for Ransom
Havana reports Innocento Sells, a notorious bandit, captured Manuel Lopes, a Camaguey planter, and his son and nephew seeking 4000 in ransom. Lopes paid. Guerriero, a veteran of revolutions, heads four to ten men and is pursued by rural guards. Separately, Clarence Davis of Virginia was robbed at the Raleigh Hotel by three strangers after a false job offer. Detectives Vermillion and Barbee aim to arrest them. Davis arrived in Washington Wednesday and details a staged meeting at the Raleigh with a plan to lure him to a bank and a casino-style game.
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Havana
Innocento Sells
Manuel Lopes
Camaguey Price
Par
Lopes
Guerriero
Camaguey
Hite
Clarence Davis
Glen Allen
Raleigh
Vermillion
Barbee
Central Office
Davis
Washington
Pennsylvania Avenue
Seventh Street
Virginia
New York
New York City
Mr. Lawrence
Smith
Richmond
Virginia City
Lawrence
Hopkins
Police
Inspector Boardman
Traveling Men Meet at 14th Annual Convention
The fourteenth annual convention of the grand council of United Commercial Travelers of America for Kentucky Virginia West Virginia Maryland and DC met in Baltimore at the Auditorium. Welcome addresses were given by Gov Crothers and Mayor Mahool. Reports by Senior Grand Councilor Phelps and others noted three new councils and jurisdiction membership rising to 40 percent and total 57 250. Tomorrow focuses on constitutional changes and legislation committee report with a post session reception in Annapolis.
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Baltimore
Grand Council
Kentucky
Virginia
West Virginia
Maryland
District of Columbia
Order of United Commercial Travelers of America
Uov. Crothers
Mahool
Phelps
George F. F. Brown
Annapolis
Crothers
Scott Wins in Thirteenth Primary in West Virginia
Elkins June 9 United States Senator N B Scott defeated Congressman Hubbard by about 1000 votes in the Thirteenth district primary. Fred A Blue won the State senate seat over W B Nutter. In Upshur county the Avis Gaines congressional result was in doubt with 3 of 24 precincts reported. In Parkersburg Kingsley and Gregory clashed for the State senate with mandamus sought to compel ballot turnover.
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Sturgiss
Randolph
Avis
Washington Post
Elkins
W. Va
United States
N. B. Scott
Hubbard
United States Senate
Fred A. Blue
State Senate
W. B. Nutter
Upshur County
Sturglas
Congress
Weed County Committee
Hotels Listed by City Guests at St James and Willard
A condensed hotel guest ledger lists travelers at the St James and Willard hotels in Boston Chicago New York Philadelphia Pittsburgh Connecticut Georgia Illinois Kentucky Massachusetts Maryland Missouri Michigan New York Ohio and Tennessee. Names include Hoda Bradley Livingston W E McCready Drucker Janney Harmann W Woolf C J Wessel Hartigan Kioisz Klots Helana Wiley Harr and many others with assignments to St James Willard or Raleigh and various cities.
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Boston
W. L. Haynes
St. James
G. M. Hodadon
Raleigh
Cameroun Bradley
Willard
Ghicago
R. J. Janney
EW. McCready
J. J. Wendt
V. M. Harmann
F. J. Drucker
New York City
H. M. Livingston
Julius Fowle
T. F. Ternard
Lb. E. Kinner
F. M. Hovey
Murphy
F. E. Johnson
Ernest Hanning
F. Williams
Alfred H. Benjamin
William Horn
Adolf Menbeck
M. Woolf
J. E. Cassidy
J. H. Legton
Morris Wilson
H. G. Newman
John J. McGann
B. Wolfe
D. R. Johnston
W. Jackson
F.C. Lackland
T. Jor- Aanigh
M. A. Smith
W. B. McVicker
Leeting
J. F. Wessel
London
Chariton
Nine
Jute Hartigan
N. Dorth
Antoinette Metz
Misa Therese James
Harald Harr
H. D. Kioisz
George Klots
Edith Helana
F.C. Wiley
Philadelphia
Alexander Deves
St. J
W. G. Bashee
Henry C. Bini
E. H. Charles L. Flood
W. Milliken
Charles Windsor
D. F. Dwiken
B. S. Walah
A. A. Hirsh
William L. Craven
J. W. Jennings
Minnich
G. C. Fogwett
R. M. Ballay
Cambridge
T. J. Cobiin
Northampton
Maryland
M. C. Stewart
C. F. Richards
M. J. Mullin
Baltimore
Missouri
J. E.o'neil
Kansas City
Willy ©. Cox
Michigan
T. F. Giddings
Detroit
New York State
J. L. Hart
Jamestown
Ohio
W. H. Beam
Canton
George F. Buskee
Cincinnati
J. Whiting
Miss Whiting
Pennsylvania
F. Y. Spriger
Uniontown
J. L. Pink
Lancaster
J. A. Meffarland
Milton
Tennessee
F. J. Ongersol
Nashville
Royal Visitors Entertained at Luncheon and Capitol Visit
Prince Fushimi and Princess Pushimi of Japan met Secretary Knox and Mrs. Knox at lunch and viewed Senate proceedings with Baron Uchida. The prince praised Mrs. Taft, discussed disarmament as impractical for their era, and dismissed war rumors while noting US Japan ties remain strong. They planned a Mount Vernon visit today.
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Mrs. Knox
Prince Susan Rostrum
Senate
Princess Pushimi
Japan
Bron Uchida
Knox
House
Prince Fushimi
Capitol
Frye
Legislativ
Baron Uchida
Jo" Cannon
Mount Vernon
New Willard
Taft
Mrs Taft
Gaynor Finds New Graft In Naturalization Process
Mayor Gaynor reports graft in the naturalization office at the Federal Building in New York. A detective testified that Jacob Goldstein demanded payment to speed naturalization papers, collecting 14 dollars before his arrest. The suspect was discharged when the case could not proceed, and Gaynor will submit the findings to the federal grand jury.
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New York
Gaynor
Federal
Wickersham
Iie
Jacob Goldstein
Goldstein
United States
United States District Attorney
Walton
Madrid cabinet demands religious liberty across public services
At a cabinet meeting presided by King Alfonso Premier Canalejas urged the government to inaugurate a religious program by recognizing absolute freedom of conscience through the abolition of imperial decrees inhibiting public services for non Catholics.
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Madrid
Alfonso
Canalejas
Riows Bodies
CAPT R C DEAN DIES AFTER Forty Years Naval Service
Medical Director Richard C. Dean U S N (retired) died at his Washington home after a brief illness. A native of Harrisburg born May 21 183, he served ashore and at sea, rising to captain and leading naval medical efforts in the North Atlantic and at Chelsea and Brooklyn. He lived in Washington twenty three years, made his home a literary center, and will be buried with military honors at Arlington Cemetery after services at St Pauls Church.
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Washington
Richard C. Dean
Old Navy
I Street
Metropolitan Club
Navy
Medical Examining Board of the Navy
Teta
Navy Department
Capt
Dean
Harrisburg
North Atlantic Fleet
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
Naval Hospitals
Brooklyn
N. Y
Chelsea
Mass
Naval and Marine Hospital
Chelaea
Boston
Africa
North Atlantic
Appomattox
Great Lakes
Congress
Naval Home
Philadelphia
Naval Hospital
New York
Naval and Marine Hospitals
Historic Home
Capt. Dean
Jefferson Davis
Confederacy
St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church
Arlington Cemetery
Weather Bulletin Reports Broad Western Depression and Rain Eastwards
Weather conditions note a low pressure system tracking from the western plains toward the Atlantic, bringing heavy rains from the middle Mississippi to the Ohio valleys and unsettled weather along the east coast while the West remains fair. Temperatures rise in the mid Atlantic and Ohio valleys with variable winds on regional coasts and 48 hour outlooks predicting showers in the Atlantic States and the Ohio valley. Local measurements show temperatures in the 60s with a high near 66 and a rainfall of .74 inches from Friday evening to 8 PM.
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S. Dept. of Agriculture
Weether
Bureby
Washington
Miselsaippi
Atlantic ‘Coast
Generg
Rocky Mountains
Lake
West Gulf States
Mississippi
Ohio
Atlanta
Edina
Middle Atlantic
Missinaippi
Middis Plains
Plateau
Rio Grande Valley
Arizons
Atlantic States
East Gulf States
Oio Valley
South Coast
Lake Region
Mississippi River
Tennessee
Ohio Valley
Missouri
Mississippi Valley
Plains States
New England
South Atlantic Coast
East- Gulf Coast
West Gulf Coast
Lower Lakes
Grand Bankak
Faust Ever Popular Despite Rainy Night Attendance
The Aborn Grand Opera Company drew a large audience to the National despite rain, praising Gounod’s Faust. Clara Lane, Eugenie Battain, Achille Alberti, J. K. Murray, Fritzi von Busing, Mildred Rogers, and Fred Chipman led a strong cast with Battain’s tenor highlighted, while staging and costumes received favorable notes.
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Faust
Gounod
Aborn Grand Opera Company
National
Marguerite
Clara Lane
Eugenie Battein
Mephistopheles
Achille Alberti
Valentine
J. K. Murray
Seibel
Frital von Busing
Martha
Mildred Rogers
Wagner
Fred Chipman
Eames
Spembrich
Garden
Plancon
de Reszke
Mephisto
Dippel
Scotth
Battain
Clare Lane
Alberti
Fritzi von Busing
Murray
Rogers
Nicosia
John Edwards Dies in Keyser Legacy of B&O Yardmaster
John Edwards aged eight died early this morning in Keyser West Virginia He was a native of Hampshire County and longtime Baltimore and Ohio yardmaster here He won a silver medal for faithful services during the 1867 strike He is survived by his wife two daughters two sisters and one brother
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John Edwards
Keyser
Washington Post
Kayser
W. Va
Hampshire County
Baltimore and Ohio
Wardlaw murder case seeks injunction over search evidence
Franklin W. Fort counsel for Miss Virginia Wardlaw has filed a bill in the U S Court seeking an injunction to bar Prosecutor Wilbur A. Mott and agents from using as evidence any property obtained by alleged illegal search and seizure. The move aims to curb police entry without a warrant in the Ocean Snead death case.
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Trenton
N. J
Franklin W. Fort
Gov. Fort
Virginia Wardlaw
Ocey W. Snead
United States Aircust
Wilbur A. Mott
Newark
Ilegal
Fort
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B. Will Aid Fund
Flan Hamal Menardal Sions
W “Taylor
Spain
Te Dincoin Nagiiation
Come Aon
A Oimetiernat
Seyler
Roosevelt
Faylor
T. Walliam J. Gaynor
Waaraf
Pinander GC
Af J. Dickuisen
Se WoSsan
Selby
Julson Harmon
Mechisetts
Imbana
Seta
Edwin § Stuart
Johor
Midgar EL Mirrar
A Draper
Ea Willian
Kitenin
Aretina
William Ar
Ataut Flussett
Alababorat Viewteis
FT Carter
Vicars
Hae Lacrey
Dhone Sethagorkin
Peele Tarter
Ole
Johna Hopkins University
Francis Preston Venable
University of North Carolina
Mgr. T. J. Shahan
Catholic University of America
Alfred Harding
Cuno H. Rudolph
H. B. Macfarland
John B. Larner
Charles C. Glover
Walter Stilson Hutchings
Alpheus Kh. Snow
Ira @. Bennett
Seth Shepard
Harry BM. Clabaugh
Stanton J. Peelle
Thomas H
Wall
Tong
Selinger
Cor
I Jeffries-Johnson
Fodas
Bandit
Scott
Prince and Princess
Fushimi Dine
Mrs. Taft
Allens
Lawa
Notary Milk Trust
Horlick
R.C. Dean
Long
The
N. Asheville
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Davenport
Low
Denver
Colo
Des Moines
Town
Galveston
Tex
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Mont
Indianapolis
Ind
Jacksonville
Fla
A Little Rock
Ark
Los Angeles
Mich
Marquitte
Memphis
New Orleans
North Platte
Springheld
Tit
Tacoma
Wash
Toledo
Vicksburg
Mise
Lansburgh & Bro
Cleveland
Washington, D. C
Harpere Ferry
Potomac
Shenandoah Rivers
Young Mems
Steinway
DR. White
Isis
7Th St. N. W
McCray
Refrigerators the Best Made
Nelson Refrigerator CO
F Street Northwest
Peter Grogan
Lang
Wittis
St.n.w
Ansay
Christian Xander
7Th St. Roe Orn
Lanston Mond Tyne, Machine Company
Gin. J. Sellers Bancroft
McElachlen Banking Corporation
Capital
Sts
Byron ST. Adams
11Th St
Ernest Gichner
Phot
Shor
Odaks
Pex Egyptian Diamond Co
Ste St. 4
Milburn, Heister & CO
Ashington, G. C
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