Diaz Reaches Shore of Spain on Ypiranga
General Porfirio Diaz former president of Mexico arrived at Vigo Spain on the steamer Ypiranga after sailing from Vera Cruz May 31. Authorities guarded the vessel with marines and a gunboat to prevent protests while Diaz reported poor health from jawbone abscess. Mexican envoys greeted him aboard as he remained ashore briefly and did not land.
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Vigo
Spain
Porfirio Diaz
Mexico
Ypirsnga
Vera Cruz
Mex
Corunna
Ypiranga
Hernando Cortez
Diaz
Balpina Cavillos
Lisbon
Senor Gauden
John D Rockefeller Visits Forest Hill Estate in Cleveland
John D Rockefeller arrives in Cleveland for his annual summer stay at Forest Hill estate. He is accompanied by Mrs Rockefeller and Lucy Stillman. Reporters swarm the private car as he pleads to be treated as an ordinary traveler. G A Rudd and H M Adams meet the party at the station and drive them to Forest Hill.
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Cleveland
John
Rockefeller
Forest Hall
Hig Estate
Lucy Stillman
G. A. Rudd
Death After 26 Foot Silo Fall In Plainfield
George Fox injured Monday evening by falling from a silo near Plainfield died at Mercy hospital at 3 am. He worked for W F Woodring Contracting Co and fell 26 feet, breaking his right leg. Gangrene followed the wound. funeral plans await word from relatives. Rae Hanchett elected department president at the Woman’s Relief corps convention in Muscatine.
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Cresbard
Robert Edeland
Centuria
Wis
Emily
DeWitt
N. J
Miss Hanchett
Rae Hanchett
Woman's Relief Corp
Muscatine
Miss Manchett
Louis Hanchett
Bankers Favor Cedar Rapids to Host Iowa Convention
Mason City IA June 16 The second day of the Iowa State Bankers association session opens with more members present and Cedar Rapids and Des Moines bidding for the next convention. E J Curtin Decorah likely elected president with William Hauer Davenport expected to be next president.
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Mason City
Iowa State Bankers’ Association
Cedar Rapids
Des Moines
E. J. Curtin
Decorah
William Hauer
Davenport
Physician crushed by automobile at depot in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids July 16. Dr W S King aged 40 a well known physician and county coroner died this morning from injuries after being crushed between an automobile and the depot brick wall. He was returning from a coroner's case Tuesday night when someone tampered with the levers and the car moved forward while he cranked it.
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Cedar Rapids
Juma
King
Hing
Milwaukee
Runaway Grand Trunk Engine Chased to Capture
Great excitement spread along the Grand Trunk line at Battle Creek Michigan as a runaway engine, taken by a hostler and driven east at full speed, was pursued. Engineer James Condon commandeered another engine and with line operators redirecting traffic, the engine was captured near Bellaire fourteen miles from Battle Creek after exhausting its steam.
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Battle Creek
Mich
Grand Trunk
Hostler
James Condon
Belleriew
Batele Creek
Condon
Wireless aid saves Detroit bankers at sea near Buffalo
About 200 Michigan Bankers association members traveling from Detroit to Buffalo on the Western State were transferred to the City of Cleveland after the Western State steamed itself and split a cylinder. Wireless telegraphy enabled rapid rescue marking a first Great Lakes practical test. The Western State was expected to reach Detroit under her own steam by about 2 PM.
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Cleveland
Michigan Bankers’ Association
Detroit
Buffalo
City of
Mid-Lake
Great Lakes
Mich
State Takes Over Missouri Bank in Macon City
Jefferson City Mo June 16 The state banking department took charge of Citizens Bank of Macon Mo with capital 40000 and surplus 8000 The last report showed deposits totaling 155627 The department was advised cashier property was turned over to the bank
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Jefferson City
State Banking Department
Citizens Bank of
Macon
Taft to Begin Summer Next Month at Beverly Mass
Washington June 16 The president and Mrs Taft plan to move to the summer White House at Beverly Massachusetts on July 3 with their children due to Congress adjournment uncertainty. Taft accepted membership and honorary vice presidency in the American Flag Association of New York.
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Washington
Taft
Congress
White House
Beverly
Mass
American Flag Association of
New York
Secretary of Lumber Trust Questioned In Ouster Suit
Kansas City June 16 Harry A Gorszth secretary of the Southwestern Lumbermen s association had been questioned by the state s attorney for three days and was further examined today by the attorney for the defendant company in the hearing of the state s ouster suit against the alleged lumber trust.
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Kansas City
Harry A. Gorszth
Southwestern Lumbermen’s Association
Prosa
Lumber Trust
Gambling crackdown on Isthmus linked to canal project
Advices state a decree against Baker games in Panama issued by President Arrosemena follows Col. Goethals demand to suppress gambling on the isthmus. Panama and Colon gambling rooms have caused canal employees to lose savings and grow discontent.
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Orleans
Arrosemena
Panama
Col. Goethals
Panama Canal
Colon
Canal
Wrecked Ocean Liner Asia Maroons Passengers
Photographs show the steamship Asia running aground between Shanghai and Hong Kong on April 22. Passengers, many bound for San Francisco, clung to food and clothing and waited on the Chinese shore until a coastwise vessel rescued them.
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Asia
Shanghai
Iong Kong
San Francisco
Winga
Waterloo Pastor Highly Honored at Purgo n College
Rev. and Mrs. Herbert W. Rederd returned from Fairfield where Purgo ns College awarded Doctor of Divinity to Waterloo pastor Prof. Gage presiding. Rederd’s long church and mission work noted as Willis Parsons presented the degree. The couple celebrated their 13th wedding anniversary at the alumni reunion and banquet.
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Herbert WI Rinlerd
First Presbyterian Church
Parsons College
Herbert W. Renerd
Fairfield
Purgons College
Waterloo
Gage
Rederd
McCormick Seminary
Chicago
Geneseo
Milan
Jil
Detroit
Mich
Mr. Reherd
Iowa Synod
Willis
Parsons
Lfe
REBFIS REPULSE NINE HUNDRED SOLDIERS
Cape Harden Haiti June 16 Nine hundred soldiers taken from Fort Liberte on the steamer Caledonia to reinforce government troops were repulsed when they attacked the rebels Jules Deve a French citizen and Max Herman a Belgian connected with General Laponte’s family boarded the French steamer Quebec for St Thomas today
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Cape Harden
Haiti
Fort Liberte
Caledonia
Jules Deve
France
Max Herman
General Leconte
Quebec
St. Thomas
Explosion in Chicago blamed on labor agitators
A third explosion in a month hit a Commonwealth Edison cable conduit under Chicago’s subway line. The blast shattered windows and displaced several families. Police say a bomb set by labor agitators caused the blast, while Edison officials report no recent trouble or clear cause.
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Chicago
Commonwealth Edison Company
Edison Company
Automobile Crash Kills Louis Orr in Bloomington
Louis Orr of Dwight Indiana died and Arthur Kern injured when a car traveling at high speed left a bridge and overturned into a creek near Bloomington on June 16.
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Bloomington
Louis , Orr
Dwight
Arthur Kern
High School Building Destroyed by Fire in Mason City
The 1907 high school building in Mason City, Iowa, costing $80,000, was totally destroyed by fire early today. Estimated loss near $100,000 after a lightning strike started the blaze.
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Mason City
Kingsley Builds Pinehurst: Suburban Home on Kingbard Hill
C L Kingsley completes a seven room bungalow on Fingbard Hill in Waterloo Black Hawk county Iowa. The house features a no steps front approach inclined walk for an invalid, a steam plant and a grand fireplace. Pine and cedar trees shade wide porches and a grove forms the name Pinehurst. Mr and Mrs Kingsley plan to move in soon.
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C. L. Kingsley
Iowa
Fingbard Hill
Waterloo
Black Hawk County
Bingalow
Fiuntel Feete
George Ordway
Kingbard Fill
Pinehurst
Black Hawk Valley
School boards eyes emergency bond vote for new building
A fire linked to electrical wiring caused insulation burn and low water pressure at ignition. Insurance coverage stands at 18.4 thousand dollars. The school board proposes an immediate special election to authorize bonds for a larger building.
Temperature June 18 reading note
Fragmentary OCR shows a temperature reading for June 18 with times listed as night 12 and morning hours 7 6 a m 10 a m and an optical company attribution. Content is largely unreadable and lacks clear entities.
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Muchanan Optical Co
Runaway victim Samuel Liller dies at home in Garrison
Vinton Iowa June 16 Samuel Liller an elderly man injured in a runaway a week ago died yesterday at his home in Garrison State: Iowa. He sustained injuries when his horse and buggy ran away.
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Vinton
Samuel Liller
Garrison
Arms Seized at Spanish Rail Station Supplying Portuguese Monarchists
Villafraca Spain June 16 reports from Pants Vegra say Spanish authorities halted two railroad cars loaded with arms and ammunition intended for Portuguese monarchists.
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Villafrarcia
Spain
Adviers
Pants Vegra
Oldest County Resident Reported Dead at 129
Anna Lang, born in Baltimore in 1798, died of pneumonia at age 129 years and 26 months. She lived at 3117 Cottage Grove Avenue and died near 32126 Rhodes Avenue, with the death recorded by the county clerk's office.
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Cieweo
Ars
Anna Lang
Cottage Grove Avenue
Rhodes Avenue
Baltimore
First Legal Move Made in Behalf of Cox
Cincinnati June 18 Judges in Ohio follow a second circuit ruling on which of two perjury indictments against George W Cox to try. County Prosecutor Henry T Hunt files affidavits of bias against Presiding Judge Hunt and Judge Dickson to secure an impartial trial ruling. Hunt will proceed on the first indictment per the court decision.
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Cincinnati
Second Circuit
Ohi
George W. Cox
Henry T. Hunt
Hunt
W. M. Dickson
Cox
Plant
Dude Dickson
Munt
Hungry Wolf Attacks Calf Near Littleton Island
A hungry wolf attacked a calf on the Meythaler farm east of Littleton, Is. The calf’s bleats drew cows that chased the wolf away. A nearby worker frightened the animal back, and local hopes rest on capturing wolves for the bounty.
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Littleton
Meythaler Farm
Here
Evij Dently
Courtroom Drama Over Big Four Embezzlement Trial
Cincinnati June 16 Mrs Jeannette Stewart Ford dominated a courtroom as Edgar E Cooke faced embezzlement charges of 24000 from the Big Four Railway. Ford sobbed and collapsed when she admitted her daughter is illegitimate and Cooke is the father, amid tears from judge jury and spectators. Witness Mattie McDermott testified about a scheme that cost Frank M Couden his cashier job, linking Warriner's shortage to the case.
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Cincinnati
Jeannette Stewart-Pord
Ford
Edgar
Cooke
Big Four Railway Company
Charles U. Warriner
Jeannette Stewart-Ford
Mattie McDermott
Morrow, O
Frank M. Couden
Couden
Warriner
Shipping Strike Narrows to Wages Squabble
London June 16 the shipping strike has become a wage dispute with limited impact on owners who report few sailors out. Deck hands make up the strike, totaling 308 men, while Amsterdam reports 200 seamen on strike though the Rotterdam tank steamer lacks a crew for its morning departure.
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London
Amsterdam
Rotterdam
American Petroleum Company
Oxnard Brothers profited from sugar trust deal
Henry T. Oxnard testified before the House sugar trust committee that the Oxnard Brothers earned about 500000 in profits by putting their Brooklyn Sugar Refinery into the 1887 sugar trust. They sold the trust certificates for 750000 after two years and later opposed the trust after studying European beet sugar.
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Washington
Oxnard Brothers
Brooklyn
Sugar Trust
Henry T. Oxnard
American Beet Sugar Company
House “Sugar Trust
Oxnards
Oxnard
Arrest of General Price for Neutrality Law Violation
San Francisco June 14 General C Aprhys Price former commander of the army of liberation in Lower California was arrested early this morning by United States marshals on a warrant charging violation of the neutrality laws.
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San Francisco
Cal
C. Aprhys Price
Army of Lberation
Lower
California
United States
Lews
Waterloo merchants speak against city billboard ordinance
A Waterloo citizen denounces the city billboard ordinance arguing that boards are used by powerful trusts to flood the town with gaudy posters of liquor tobacco and oil products. He says local advertisers fuel a social and moral decline and that the town does not need such advertising.
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Waterloo
Greater Theater Trust
Tobacco Trust
Whisky Trust
Standard Oil Trust
Horrified Engineer Sees Beheading on Tracks Near Pickering
Engineer George McCarl of an extra Iowa Central freight witnessed a man’s head severed from his body as the train passed over him near Pickering on Wednesday night at 8 30. The victim was Gus Jensen, a 30 year old farmer, found lying prostrate on the tracks with no clear motive.
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Marshalltown
George McCarl
Iowa Central
Pickering
McCarl
Gus Jensen
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San Felice
W. W. Renerd
Kingbard Hill
Negress
B. Dickson
G. B. Cox
Dickson
Godee
Mrs. Ford
Adaiussion
Big Trust
Henry Oxnard
Hardwick
Thomas
Wera
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