Verifies Word Against Hines and Lorimer Talk
Washington July 28 Testifying before the senate Lorimer committee Alfred B McCordic Chicago attorney said Wirt H Cook repeated the day it is alleged to have occurred the long distance telephone conversation in which Edward Hines stated Lorimer must be elected and he would furnish all necessary funds Cook overheard the Springfield end of the line was Governor Deneen The conversation is alleged to have occurred the day Lorimer was elected McCordic said Cook told him Hines had told the governor he had just come from Washington and that Taft and Aldrich favored Lorimer and Hopkins defeated and that funds would be supplied Lorimer indictments and White confession were also discussed with Detective Thomas McGuire describing cases and the Glavis Keeley book affair noting Keeley paid 650000 for a book whose existence was uncertain
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Washington
Senate
Lorimer Committee
Toftay
Alfred BE. McCordic
Chicago
Deneen
Lorimer
Cook
McCordic
McCordie
Hines
Taft
Aldrich
Hopkins
Mr. Hancey
McCordilec
Nes
Thomas McGuire
McGuire
Glavis
George O. Glavis
James Keeley
The
Chicago Tribune
Keeley
Electrical Trust Willing to Quit in Government Suit
Attorneys for the electrical trust inform Attorney General Wickersham they will consent to a decree dissolving the alleged combination in the government’s suit. The move signals a willingness to dissolve without prolonged litigation, with possible modifications acceptable to the Justice Department.
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Washington
Electrical Trust
Wickersham
Department of Justice
Minister returns 3.00 check for senate prayer
Madison Wisconsin July 28 Rev A J Tull a retired Methodist minister living in the city returns 3 00 for delivering a prayer in the senate. He mails a letter to State Treasurer Dahl saying the fee would be commercialism to keep and asserts the $672 paid for prayer this session funded temperance failures. He laments politics and breweries and notes personal debt.
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Madison
Wis
A. J. Tull
Wisconsin
Senate
Dahl
Delirious Man Hacks Wrist Near Cedar Township Farm
Clay Barneclo of Indianapolis, acting strangely and claiming detectives would shoot him, was captured by Deputy Sheriff E A Leighton at John Myers farm Cedar township. He resisted, suffered a wrist wound, and was placed in custody after being found soaked and agitated. Barneclo, a photographer about 27, says his father runs a tea and coffee business in Indianapolis. Police suspect intoxication or drug effects.
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E. A. Leighton
John Myers
Cedar Township
Indianapolis
T He Grove
Barneclo
Leighton
Wash Myers
Barnecko
Weah Myere
Myere
Sears
Barnecio
Myers Farm
Cedar River
Waterloo
Indianapols
Brother of Mark Hanna Quizzed in Steel Trust Probe
E. I. C. Hanna of Cleveland, brother of the late Mark A. Hanna, testified before the House committee on the U S Steel absorption of the Tennessee Coal and Iron merger in 1907. Other witness E W Oglebay of Cleveland, a Tennessee Coal and Iron syndicate director, followed him in the aldermanic chamber hearing as the inquiry continues in Washington and here for several days.
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Mark Hanna
Steel Trust Probe
New York
I. C. Hanna
Cleveland
Mark A. Hanna
House of Representatives
United States Steel Corporation
Hia
Tennesses Coal and Iron Company
The
Steel Corporation
Washington
Ogiebay
Hanna
Tennesses Company
E. W. Oglebay
Tennesees Coal and Iron Syndicate
Republic Tron and Steel Company
Aldermania
Turkish priest in Waterloo seeks funds for Turkish school
Rev. Simon Daniel, a Turkish church minister, was in Waterloo today soliciting funds for a church school in Turkey. He has spent time in England and speaks English well, though when excited he lapses into Turkish, which locals find incomprehensible.
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Simon Daniel
Waterloo
Turkey
England
Boy Bellboy Confesses Brutal Banker's Murder
New York July 28 Paul Geldel a 17 year old bellboy was arrested for the murder of William Henry Jackson a Wall Street broker found dead in his Forty fourth street hotel apartment A typed confession dictated after arrest says robbery was motive Geldel had just been discharged from the Iroquois hotel and used chloroform he had found to subdue the victim and steal cash and a gold watch later pawned for cash
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New York
Paul Gealdel
William Henry Jackson
Wall Street
Forty-fourth Street
Dougherty
Whitman
Geidel
Geldel
Waterloo firms win $50,000 contract for hotel build
The James Maine & Sons company has secured a $50,000 contract to demolish Fosters opera house in Des Moines and erect a brick three story hotel 66 by 132 feet on the Foster's Realty property. H A Maine of Waterloo will supervise the project, slated for completion by December 1.
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James Maine & Sons Company
Fosters Opera House
Des Moines
Foster’s Realty Company
H. A. Maine
Waterloo
Wreck injures fifty on excursion train to Atlantic City
New York July 28 The Lehigh Valley railroad received word from Burdette on Lake Seneca that fifty passengers were injured when an excursion train from western points to Atlantic City derailed near Burdette. Most injuries are slight. no deaths reported. A broken rail caused the 2:40 a.m. accident as three Pullmans left the track, rolling down a ten-foot embankment. The rest of the train stayed on track. most injured resumed trip in another train. One woman with a broken spine was hospitalized at Fayre and likely to die.
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New York
Lehigh Valley Railroad
Burdette
Lake Seneca
Western Points
Atlantic City
Lehigh
Buffalo
Lake Shore Railroad
Chicago
Fayre
President Simon's Hometown Rumored Fallen in Haiti
In Port au Prince on July 28 a rumor swirled that Anx Cayes, President Simon's hometown, has fallen to revolutionists. The capital shows military activity and palace unrest as the American cruiser Chester sails toward Port de Paix amid growing speculation on who will control the government if Simon is overthrown.
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Port Au Prince
Hayti
Anx
Young physician is known here
Dr. P. W. Van Metre of Tipton who lived in Waterloo two years and studied medicine locates at Atkins near Cedar Rapids for practice. He graduated from the University of Iowa medical department in 1910 and has been an interne at Methodist hospital in Des Moines. He had considered Manchester but chose Atkins. Waterloo friends wish him success.
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P. W. van Metre
Tipton
Waterloo
Loag
Atkins
Cedar Rapids
van Metre
Medical Department
The
University, of Iowa
Methodist
Des Moines
Manchester
Readable fragments of July weather data and marks
Fragmentary temperature notes dated July 28 with markings from Buchanan Optical Co and Syndicate block. The readable lines show night temperatures around 12 and daytime readings near 46, plus scattered letters and numbers without clear context. Not enough to determine a full report.
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Buchanan Optical Co
Optimism and Tensions in European Morocco Talks
Paris reports July 25 optimism in talks with Germany over the Moroccan affair, though difficulties persist. Caillaux counsels calm as Asquith’s Commons remarks echo in Britain. Fallieres announces army reorganization as France and Germany seek direct negotiations, while Berlin doubts a swift peace and foresees cautious prospects.
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Paris
Germany
Asquith
House of Commons
Caillaux
The Lyric Theater to Open Monday
The Lyric formerly The Jewel will reopen next Monday after interior remodeling and a new front. Under manager J W Marcellus the house aims to be among the finest west of the Mississippi with a new balcony for singers. Mrs G S Popejoy will sing illustrated songs, offering top market selections.
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Lyric” Theater
the Jewel
Lttle Playhouse
Mississippi River
J. W. Marcellus
G. 5. Popejoy
Wright files bankruptcy petition in local court
Warren R. Wright of this city filed for bankruptcy today with referee F. S. Merrian. Debts total 3099 with modest assets and several local and out of town creditors. Wright, formerly in the Balcolm & Wright meat firm, has a creditors meeting set for August 9. A second meeting in the Charles C. Wiles case is scheduled August 15 to receive the bankrupts testimony on discharge objection.
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F. S. Merrian
Warren R. Wright
Wright
Balcolm & Wright
Charles C. Wiles
Steamer John Irvin Sinks. One Survivor Found
Halifax reports the steamer John Irvin struck a rock and sank off Beaver Harbor last Tuesday morning. Willis McLeod of Halifax was washed ashore at Liscomb, 90 miles east, believed the sole survivor among a dozen or more crew members.
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Halifax
Nova Scotia
John Irvin
Beaver Harbor
Willis Mcleod
Hatch
Liscomb
Here
Monthly Board Meeting of the American Nobles
The directors held a meeting yesterday on the sixth floor of the Commercial building with all out of town trustees present including R. T. Hite C. R. Gaylord M. F. Leroy H. F. Arnold G. W. Von Berg and James A. Fergusson. S. L. Kern was absent. The death rate has fallen recently, pleasing the company. Mrs Ada K Terrell of Independence is visiting at Attorney Loren Risk's home.
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Commercial
R. T. Hite
C. R. Gaylord
Lincoln
Neb
M. F. Leroy
H. F. Arnold
Manchester
G. W. von Berg
James A. Fergusson
Charles City
S. L. Kern
Waterloo
Ada K. Terrell
Independence
Attorney Loren Risk
Standpatters Urge Taft to Veto Wool Revision Bill
Washington July 28 standpat Republican leaders in Congress urged Taft to veto any wool revision bill likely to reach the conference on the La Follette compromise. They argued a veto would not hurt Taft, while a veto could expose a political trap by insurgents and Democrats. The House received a new compromise wool bill but took no action as the cotton tariff debate continued.
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Washington
Trattnday
Senate
Houses
House
Crane
Massachusetts
Weeks
Atate
Bartholdt
Miagouni
Taft
Tariff Board
Runaway wagon injures child in La Porte City
In La Porte City Iowa on July 24 five year old Darrell Hummel was struck by a runaway horse while playing near his grandfather's house. The wagon pulled free and the horse's hooves struck his head causing a forehead and back wound. A doctor sewed three stitches in each gash. The boy, though frightened, was able to return home the same evening.
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la Porte City
Hummel
Boy killed by umbrella rib in Norwich accident
Norwich July 25 a boy fell while playing with an umbrella. A steel rib pierced his mouth and spine, killing him. The accident occurred when the rib stabbed through his mouth after he stubbed his toe while handling the umbrella.
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Norwich
Conn
Sigmund Gomberts
Senator Kern Attacks Spoils System in Senate
Washington July 28 Senator Kern of Indiana denounced a snails system of patronage in the senate saying Republicans divided employment to give “half a man” to members as he spoke on a resolution to add several employees to payrolls. Senator Dixon rebutted that the Democratic house had discharged all Republican staff.
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Washington
Kern
Indiana
Senate
Dixon
Wreck At Edgewater Junction Kills Engineer
Rail officials and detectives probe a deliberate wreck of Chicago Great Western train No. 5 at Edgewater Junction Ram last night. Engineer William Rose of Dea Boathern was killed and Fireman Hugo Smith of Des Moines probably fatally injured. several others injured, including Mrs. G. W. Gilvert of Des Moines, A. A. Gehrke of Oelwein, Thomas O'Grady of Des Moines, and Robert Jones, a wounded cook. An open switch and pried lock indicate wreckers caused the collision.
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Kansas City
Chicago Great Western
Edgewater Junction
Ram
William Rose
Dea Boathern
Hugo Smith
Des Moines
Mae
Rose
Smith
G. W. Gilvert
A. A. Gehrke
Oelwein
Thomas O'Grady
Robert Jones
Nine Passengers Hurt In Wreck At Donahue Ia
Davenport Iowa July 28 nine people injured when a Milwaukee railroad wreck at Donahue left a passenger coach overturned after a refrigerator car derailed it. Injuries include Des Moines man George W Girdlestone with a crushed collar bone and internal injuries and Mrs Davis Lunden of Monticello with a badly wrenched back and nervous breakdown. Others listed are A C Perkins and Leon Perkins Vermillion S D Clara Lunden Monticello Ia John H Harndorf Massillon Ia and Dr W F Speers Davenport all bruised or with broken bones. A second incident in Des Moines involved Frank S Stringer engineer hurt in a head on collision between a work train and a switch engine at Hast Twentieth street and Dean avenue.
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Davenport
Ila
Donahue
George W. Girdlestone
Des Moines
Davis Lunden
Monticello
A. C. Perkins
Leon Perkins
Vermillion
S. D
Clara Lunden
Montice
St. Paul
Mayor seeks public market place for Waterloo farms
Mayor John R. Rector urges definite steps this fall to establish a public market place in Waterloo to boost track farming next year. He argues it will attract rich and poor, provide employment, raise land values, and benefit producers and consumers alike. Other cities like Des Moines already show the value of such markets.
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John R. Rector
Council
Waterloo
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Berlin
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de Selves
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