Labor case conference set over Gompers contempt charge
Justice Wright names a committee to probe the AFL leaders Samuel Gompers John Mitchell and Frank Morrison with Daniel Davenport T J Darlington and James M Beck to meet informally in Washington They aim to schedule the first conference and obtain Becks agreement to proposals Gompers ready for trial and the key issues center on the injunction against the boycott and its alleged disobedience The panel plans to file formal charges in Equity Court No 2 once the record is complete Arlington Church dedication in Virginia marks a different item with the new Presbyterian church opening at Arlington costing about 5000
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Daniel Davenport
Bridgeport ‘'Own
T J Darlington
Washington
James M Beck
New York
Dan Thew Wright
District Supreme Court
Sanuel Gompers
John Mitchell
Frank Morrison
American Federation of Labor
Gompers
National Labor
Equity Court No 2
Gomperz
Sudden death of John Br Adams at 19 Fifth Street Southeast
Obituary notes the death of John Br Adams aged 64 at his residence 19 Fifth Street Southeast on a Wednesday night. Funeral details to be announced later, with MoE Adams (nee Thorn) named as widow. Relatives and friends invited to attend future services.
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Adams
Fifth Street
John BR
Moe Adams
Wyatt Hoom
Thirteenth Street Northwest
Chambers
Eighteenth Street Northwest
Vrs
Fappeirsett
Mel JC G Happersett
Philadelphia
Ladd
Fort Worth
Tex
William F Ladd
John van Rensselaer
Galveston
Adam
York Pa
Marjorie Smith
Matthew Trobe Jr
New York
Oppose Time Extension For Baltimore and Washington Transit
Brightwood Park Citizens Association protested in Van Dorn Hall against a further extension of the time for the Baltimore and Washington Transit Company to commence operations. The group instructed the secretary to send letters to District commissioners and to the House and Senate voicing the association’s stance.
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Congress
Baltimore and Washington Transit
Brightwood Park
Capital Traction Company
Nurse Never Wed Duryea Ends Engagement Rumor
Eleanor Peregrine, once nurse and later fiancée of Walter H Duryea, speaks to deny marriage rumors after his death. She says she never consented to a wedding, clarifies she is not engaged, and explains any bequest was a deliberate decision under counsel.
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Washington
New York
Eleanor Peregrine
Walter HE Duryea
Duryea
Mr Duryea
Cardinal Gibbons Narrowly Escapes Auto Collision on St Paul
Special to The Washington Port BaltimoreMd May 17 Cardinal Gibbons and a companion were chased along St Paul street by two cars. A car ignored the pedestrians as it turned west near Mount Royal avenue forcing the cardinal and his companion to run to avoid a crash. The cardinal blamed the chauffeur for the confusion and close call.
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Washington Port
Baltimore
Cardinal Gibbons
St Paul Street
Mount Royal Avenue
Swindled in prize fights suit filed in Pa courts
Fritz Holznagle of Scranton sues William J Keenan for 1400 alleging Keenan led a fake prize fight gang. Keenan held on 2000 bail with case postponed as authorities cannot locate him. Holznagle says he was duped twice in two weeks by the gang, including bets on fights in Bridgeport and Boston in June 1909.
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Washington Post
Wilkes-Barre
Fritz Holznagié
Scranton
William J Keenan
Keenan
Holanagle
Bridgeport
Conn
Boston
Knitting Moves to Congress as Borland Sits in Gallery
New York dispatch notes Representative Borland of Missouri set to speak on New Mexico and Arizona constitutions while the Henry resolution pursued sugar trust investigation. Mrs Borland wore pink and white, crocheting in the gallery during the proceedings. Also, New York teachers win equal pay in elementary schools with high school pay pending future action. In London, King George grants Dr Jowett a Westminster Abbey seat of personal disposal.
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Washington Post
New York
New York World
Washington
Borland
Missouri
New Mexico
Arizona
Henry
Sugar Trust
Board of Education
King
Jowett
Walington Post
London
King George
Dr Jowett
Wespminster Abbey
End Boycotts Eight-Hour Law Condemned By Manufacturers
New York May 17 Taft urged to end boycott by dissolving organizations enforcing it. National Association of Manufacturers and American Federation of Labor target actions. open shop pledge. Resolutions call for state compensation for work injuries and global arbitration court, plus American merchant marine growth. John Kirby Jr reelected president. F H Stillman treasurer. Kirby criticizes Civic Federation. Eliot distancing from Civic Federation executive body.
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New York
Taft
National Association of Manufacturers
American Federation of Labor
Department of Justice
International Court of Arbitral Justice
John Kirby, Jr
Dayton
Ohio
F H. Stillman
Kirby
Civic Federation
Charles W .Rshot
Eliot
National Civic Federation
Shot With Indian Bride in Mystery Honeymoon Attack
Special to The Washington Post from May 17 reports a shooting at Zieglersville as an unknown assailant fired into the backs of Howard Quay and his bride Daphne Waggonner. Both are seriously injured after a Norristown wedding. Quay is a traveling salesman, Waggonner a Carlisle School graduate and direct descendant of Sitting Bull.
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Washington Post
Phoenixville
Zieglersville
Howard Quay
Norristown
Daphne Waggonner
Carlisle
Sitting Bull
Quay
Youth Key to Social Election and Wealth Focus
Mrs. Harold McCormick explains Chicago society’s new social alignment prioritizing youth vivacity wealth and family at Lincoln Park refectory. She rejects social dictatorship and notes hostesses’ personal preferences plus changes from One Hundred to Two Hundred Club as dances unfold.
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Harold McCormick
Chicago
Parachute performer survives 1000 foot fall in city
Fioretta Lorenz, a visiting parachute artist, slipped and cut the wrong rope. She plunged about a thousand feet before her parachute snagged on streetcar wires and lights, saving her from likely death. She hung by a cord during descent and was carried into a store in a faint but escaped serious injury.
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Asheville
Nyc
Fioretta Lorenz
Miss Lorenz
Good Roads Delegates Seek National Highway Aid
Good Roads delegates from several States aboard the Saq Pauly at night plan to organize county, state, and national groups to improve highways nationwide. Michigan leader P T Colgrose, secretary-treasurer Thomas M Sattler, and W W Todd of Jackson were prominent. They decided to ask Congress for a national appropriation, urging good roads for the country’s welfare.
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Good Roads
P T Colgrose
Michigan State Good Roads Association
Thomas M Sattler
W W .Todd
Jackson Mich
Congress
Banquet Plans for International Property Conference Delegates
Delegates to the fourth International conference for the protection of industrial property at the New Willard received a recess until Monday after selecting committees. Preparations are underway for a May 27 banquet at the hotel with likely invitations extended to President Taft and ambassadors and ministers from many foreign nations.
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New Willard
New Willard Toft
Taft Ang
Contracts for roads bonds signed in Paris via US consul
Thorman of New York announces completion of negotiations for underwriting major road bond issues. Contracts were signed this week at the American consulate in Paris.
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Washington Post
L E Thorman
New
YOK
Mr Thorman
Parle
Cropsey to Retire At Once In Police Shakeup
NY press previews a rapid police leadership change as Cropsey expected to resign within 43 hours or be ousted by Mayor Gaynor. Flynn and McCullagh named as likely successors with Flynn possibly returning as first deputy.
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Flynn
McCullagh
New York
Appniel
Washington Post
New York American
Cropsey
City Hall
Gaynor
New York World
John McCullagh
Driscoll Flynn
Mysterious Van Buren Fortune Vanishes in Washington
Eccentric financier Rudolph Van Buren, once seen with Charles D Hilles and the Netherlands minister, disappears with bonds and stocks valued at about 1,000,000. Investigators in New York and Philadelphia search banks and private detectives to locate the missing fortune, while officials recall his secretive habits and trust issues.
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Rudolph van Buren
New York
Charles D Hilles
Jonkheer Louder
Netherlands
Hillen
van Beren
Treasury
van Buren
Riges National Bank
Philadelphia
Washington
Charles A. Campbell
Chicago
van Bare
Treasury Department
Campbell
Fifteenth Street
Pennsylvania Avenue
Death of Hollins McKim in Baltimore at 79
Hollins McKim longtime Maryland financier and head of McKim & Co until it passed to a receiver died in Baltimore on May 17 at age 79. He was son of founder William McKim and left four surviving children from his first marriage and a daughter from his second wife Lydia Morris.
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Baltimore
Hollins McKim
Maryland
McKim & Co
Wiliam McKim
Eliza F. Voorhees
Annapolis
Henry M. Steele
M. W Pope
Smith Hollis McKim
Louis McKim
McKim
Lydia H. Morris
Mary Camila McKin
William H. Baker Dead Republican Leader of Maryland
William H. Baker former U S representative and Maryland state senator died in Aberdeen Maryland at age 71. A Republican political leader, he helped promote rural free delivery in Congress and held multiple terms in the state house and senate before serving three terms in Congress from 1894 to 1900. He returned to politics in 1905 and won another Senate seat in 1907 before a narrow defeat.
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Washington Post
Aberdeen
Willamb. Baker
Maryland
Congress
Baker
Maryland House of Delegates
State Senate
Oflote
Senate votes to burn governor message over judicial reform
In Tallahassee on May 14 the senate denounced Gov Gilchrist message urging passage of a measure on judicial procedure. Senator Flourney moved to have sergeant-at-arms light a match and burn the message. The motion carried but was followed by a reconsideration. The senate then voted not to receive the message and ordered it returned to the governor.
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Tallahassee
Uia
Gilchrist
Senate
Senator Flourney
Demicio da Gama Named Brazilian Ambassador to the United States
The Brazilian senate unanimously confirms Demicio da Gama, former minister to Argentina, as ambassador to the United States. The senate session was without discussion. The president will host a farewell luncheon in Rio today as diplomats and Brazilian officials honor Mr da Gama before his sailing today on the Sao Pablo.
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Demicio da Gama
United States
Senate
Brazil
Mr. da Gama
Rio de Janiero
Dudley
Mr da Gama
Cable
Sao Pablo
Michigan Governor Osborn backs Taft and Smith in 1912
Governor Chase Osborn of Michigan declares the state will back Taft for the Republican nomination and endorses Senator William Alden Smith. He criticizes what he calls professional progressives and calls for more business leaders in politics, stressing Michigan’s historic poised stance.
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Gov. Osborn
Michigan
Congress
Taft
William Alden Smith
Senate
Osborn
Washington
Inquiry into Wheat Deal Leads to Board Sanctions
Chicago May 1 The Chicago Board of Trade ordered an inquiry into the Meg wheat deal. President J C Morrill said if manipulation is shown, severe punishment will be given to responsible board members. The announcement shocked members as major commission houses are believed involved.
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Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
J. C. Morrill
Board of Trade
Amateur aviator killed near Dominguez field
Special to The Washington Post Los Angeles May W A Hartle 26 of Cleveland said to be related to Gov Harmon of Chioc died at Dominguez field after his first flight yesterday a three mile hop then aileron failure left him unable to control the craft witnesses urged him to land but he fell to the ground within sight of where another fatality occurred on December 31
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Washington Post
Los Angeles
Cal
W—A. V. Hartle
Cleveland
Gov. Harmon
Chioc
Dominguez Field
Hartle
Hoxsey
Aldrich Not Ill. Absent Speech Address Sparks Rumor
Former U S Senator Nelson W Aldrich intended to address the National Association of Manufacturers in New York but did not attend. Rumors of illness spread before being denied by his son that Aldrich felt unwell but not seriously ill and remained as a guest at his son’s home.
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New York
Sen
United States
Nelson W Aldrich
National Association of Manufacturers
Mrs Lee Malone Weds Baltimore Man In Buffalo
Mrs Les L Malone widow of Consolidation Coal Co chief, married yesterday in Buffalo N Y to M M Foster a Baltimore native and head of Fairmont Ice Co Both residents of this city Bride mother of Blanche Malone who wed chauffeur A L Saunders last October Foster previously worked in the B and O Railroad office and is now head of Fairmont Ice Co They will reside in a new residence completed by Mrs Foster in this city
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Mam Reeds
Fairmont
Les L. Malone
Consolidation Coal Company
Buffalo
N.Y
M. M. Foster
Blanche Malone
Mount Vernon Seminary
Washington
A. L Saunders
Mr. Foster
Baltimore
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Fairmont Ice Company
Lawmakers Assail Judge Over Lorimer Bribery Inquiry
Springfield May 17 The state senate bribery investigation report charges that William Lorimer’s U S Senate election was tainted by bribery and corruption The committee criticizes Judge Petit Chicago for curtailing the inquiry by ruling the panel had no power to subpoena witnesses and for freeing witnesses on habeas corpus claims, calling it unlawful judicial interference with the legislature
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Springfield
William Lorimer
United States Senate
Petit
Chicago
State Senate
Senate
Judge Petit
House
Todge Petit
Fierce Fighting Near Fez Reported By Courier
A Tangier courier returning from Fez said he could not reach Fez within 10 miles as rebels blocked the route. He described a fierce battle surrounding the southern capital with both sides fighting hard. Rebels acknowledged heavy losses.
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Tangier
Morocco
Fez
Justice Gould Sells Montgomery County Property
Justice Ashley M. Gould of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia sells his home and sixteen acres near Silver Spring in Rockville Maryland to Mrs. C Blanche Harvey of Washington for 12000 dollars. It is understood he does not intend to leave Montgomery county.
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Washington Post
Rockville
Ashley M. Gould
Supreme Court of the District of Columbia
Silver Spring
Licensed to Marry in Virginia Amid Pairings and Officiants
The clipped item lists multiple marriage licenses and proposed unions with ages and officiants across Virginia towns including Sherman W Frazier and Mary G Tolson, Chase City, and others such as William E O Reghn with Pearl A Walsh, and Danvers A Christie with Elsie E Purkis.
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Sherman W Frazier
Mary G Tolson
S W. Griffin William N, Farrer
Chase City
Mamie Bradbury
Clarence W Whitemore
William E. O'Reghn
Pearl A Walsh
Eugene A Hanzan Lewis H Machen
Alexandria
Jalhe P McGowan
George F Dutley Danvers A
Christie
Elsie E Purkis
Charles Lb Bunty
George R Davis
Etta H Wilson
Walter Willams Charles Besrd
Florence Harrison
Patrick Murphy Page Hale
Anna Brown
Richmond
G J S$ Hunnicutt
Grover C Jones
Gertrude E Powell
Charlottesville
J Howard Fella
Health Office Record of Deaths and Ship Departures
Health office notes list numerous deaths at Providence Hospital and other facilities with ages and addresses, followed by a maritime passenger list including origins, destinations, and several ship names sailing from New York to Liverpool Southampton Hamburg and other ports. The entry names individuals by name and residence, and records ships such as Carpathia Plymouth Majestic Campania and the Adriatic.
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Arhi
New York
Oceanie
Southampton
Barbarossa
Bremen
Pennsylvania
Hamburg
Copenhagen
C F Tletgen
Fiame
Carpathia
Plymouth
Majestic
Campania
Liverpool
Adriatic
Lincoln
St Paul
Cleveland
Joy of victory may kill Phillies owner Elliott
Philadelphia May 17 Frank Elliott a Philadelphia National League Baseball Club owner collapsed unconscious in his private box after Cincinnati’s home run drive by Ludernus in the eleventh inning. He was hospitalized with cerebral hemorrhage and remained unconscious late tonight. Elliott, a well known lawyer, is reported in critical condition.
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Philadelphia
Wey
Frank
Elliott
Philadelphia Naional League
Ball Park
Cincinnati
Ludernus
Eliott
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