Cummins on Reciprocity in Senate Drama
Washington June 28 Senator Cummins Iowa described the Canadian reciprocity debate as a senate drama and offered amendments to the agricultural provision. He warned the president will not accept amendments and criticized a Republican Democrat coalition to pass the bill. Bristow of Kansas charged Taft does not represent the GOP majority in either chamber.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
United States
Cummins
Iowa
Solons
Canada
Bristow
Senator Bristow
Kansas
Taft
House
SFIRT TENANTS IN NEW BUILDING
The First National bank's new building at Fourth and Sycamore streets nears completion with tenants moving in. Gates & Liffring will occupy the third floor with others including Dr. T. R. McCoy and Dr. A. J. Mueller. Store rooms on the first floor will house McConnell & Potter and the U. T. K. shoe store among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First National Bank
Fourth
Sycamore Streets
Gates & Liffring
T. R. McCoy
NM. B. Cleveland
A. J. Mueller
Pr. W. H. Taylor
M. J. Costello
E. B. Magee
Otta
McConnell & Potter
Barbers
Century
Bank
Orin W. Rogers Jewelry Company
James Gardiner Land Company
Largest Ship Afloat Carries 2 265 Passengers
The White Star liner Olympic sailed from New York for England with 2 205 cabin passengers and 60 maids and valets aboard. The voyage cost 176 000 dollars to depart and back and is expected to yield 325 000 dollars in passenger fares.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Olympic
England
Southampton
State Musicians at Davenport Iowa Convention
E B Schere of Grinnell College told the Iowa Music Teachers convention that church music except Catholic Episcopal and Lutheran participation offers poor training due to weak harmonic structure. About 100 members attended as the convention opened last night and runs through tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davenport
E. B. Schere
Grinnell College
Iowa Music Teachers’ Convention
County Attorneys Convention Opens in Oskaloosa
Oskaloosa Iowa June 28 The annual convention of the Iowa County Attorneys association opened this afternoon with President W C Edson of Storm Lake presiding Fifty counties were represented.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oskaloosa
Iowa County Attorneys’ Association
W. C. Edson
Storm Lake
Remarkable Early Morning Low Temperature in Iowa
The minimum temperature in the last 24 hours hit a record low for this time of year in the Iowa section. Forecasters expect warmer and unsettled weather over the next 24 hours. The note ends with an ad for Gentlemen San Felice cigars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buchanan Optical Co
Syndicate Block
Iowa
San Felice
Cigar
Farmer Loses 1090 Rhode Island Reds to Henhouse Robbery
J W Slaughter of Cedar Falls road reports 1090 valuable Rhode Island Reds stolen from his hen house. Sheriff Shores to probe. each chicken carries up to one year in jail. Authorities seek witnesses who saw anything on the evening of the theft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Slaughter
Cedar Falls Road
Rhode Island
Shores
Dismissal for Portrait Fraud Stirs State Department
Washington reports a recommended dismissal of United States Consul General William H. Michael at Calcutta and disbursing clerk Thomas Morrison after an investigation into a portrait voucher. The sub-committee of the House Expenditures Committee will present the findings to investigators. Michael previously served as chief clerk of the department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
William H. Michael
Calcutta
Thomas Morrizon
State Department
Michael
Heroic save prevents fall from nineteenth floor beam
Chicago authorities report a fall from the twentieth story of the Hessen building. Patrick Eustice dropped from a beam as John Murray lunged and grabbed him, swinging him toward an opening on the eighteenth floor. Eustice survived with only a sore thigh and returned to work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Patrick Eustice
Claresmont Avenue
John Murray
Murray
Hustice
Eustice
Fire Insurance Agents Elect Officers at Iowa Convention
Sioux City news reports Cedar Rapids defeated Davenport for the 1912 convention at the Iowa Association of Local Fire Insurance Agents meeting. Officers elected include President W. R. Weir Davenport Vice president John S. Lutz Council Bluffs and Secretary-treasurer Lew Benedict Cedar Rapids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux City
Iowa Association of Local Fire Insurance Agents
Cedar Rapids
Davenport
W. R. Weir
John S. Lutz
Council Bluffs
Lew Benedict
Visit to Dr Crouse in Citronelle Alabama
Dr W B Small and Dr E J Waddel traveled to Citronelle Alabama to visit Dr D W Crouse at his home. Crouse is reported in poor health. He was an early Waterlon physician whose friends regret his illness and note the south climate helped his health previously.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. B. Small
E. J. Waddel
Citronelle
Ala
D. W. Crouse
Crouse
Waterlon
Improvements in New Factory Addition Headed by James Maine & Sons
James Maine & Sons broke ground for a 160 by 8 construction factory for Star Foundry & Machine, recently moved from Albert Lea Minnesota. W F N grades for a side track, curbing and walks extend along Fourth Street through Enterprise Place. Alfred Longley and Burr Lichty, at Des Moines for the olf tournament, plan to return tonight.
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James Maine & Sons Company
Star Foundry & Machine Company
Albert Lea
Minn
Fourth Street
Enterprise Place
Alfred Longley
Burr G. Lichty
Des Moines
Pass Ordinance to Curb Sunday's Hot Vocabulary
Wheeling, June 28. The Wheeling city council passed an ordinance imposing a fine on any person in a public address who uses vile or vulgar language. Councilman P F Haberselck proposed the measure to curb the vocabulary of Billy Sunday, the evangelist hired by local churches for a religious campaign next year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wheeling
W. Va
Counc
P. F. Haberselck
Billy” Sunday
Frost Touches Wisconsin and Kansas Crops
Frost covers the ground in Corduroy Wisconsin with frost and ice forming on water. Garden trucks damaged. In Kansas Topeka reports a break in heat as showers sweep the corn belt, easing crop fears with general rainfall and little damage to corn so far.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Topeka
Kan
Abe
Gas Explosion Blows Out Bank Cellar in Riverside
Jake Crliz, a clerk at Citizens' Savings Bank of Riverside Louisiana, is hospitalized in Iowa City with severe burns after a gas explosion damaged the bank building yesterday afternoon. His brother Leo Critz suffered burns on his hand during the effort to locate a gas leak with a lighted candle in the cellar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Riverside, _ La Jae
Jake Crliz
Citizens’ Savings Bank of Riverside
Iowa City
Leo C. Critz
Leo Critz
Four Thousand Dock Hands Strike At Liverpool
Liverpool reports four thousand more dock workers joined the strike, demanding union recognition and non employment of non unionists. In London, Hull supply disruptions raise prices as seamen strike halts continental shipments affecting bacon eggs and flour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liverpool
London
Hull
England
State board meets on Ames ISU president choice
Cedar Falls June 28 special says the state board of education has not yet decided the future president of the Iowa State college at Ames by 2 30 pm. The board also prepares to take over the state school for the blind at Winton July 1. Attending members include Murphy Trewin Schotengen Holbroom Brenton Foster Baker and Funk with Leavitt absent. President Bowman visits the board as Mrs Buehner 69 undergoes goitre surgery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Falls
State Board of Education
Iowa State College
Ames
College For the Blind
Winton
Rescent
D. D. Murphy
Elkader
James T. Trewin
Cedar Rapids
E. D. Schotengen
Council Bluffs
P. K. Holbroom
Onawa
Charles Brenton
Dallas Center
Thomas D. Foster
Ottumwa
George T. Baker
Davenport
A. B. Funk
Spirit Lake
Roger Leavitt
West
John G. Bowman
University of Iowa
Exclude Hines From Inquiry In Lorimer Election Probe
Washington June 28 Edward Hines Chicago lumberman million aire was excluded from the room during the senate committee investigation of Lorimer's election. The action followed testimony that Hines said he put Lorimer over at Springfield. Rush Culver testified regarding business relations with Hines and said he had not seen Hines since Lorimer's election to the Senate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Edward Hines
Chicago Lumberman-Mllonaire
Lorimer
Springflela
Senate Committee
Wines
Clarence S. Vink
Chicago
Hines
Rush Culver
L’anse
Mich
Mlinois
Shelley B. Jonca
Marquette
Mtch
Culver
United States
Springfield
Larimer
Senate
Man on trial for counterfeiting steals watch
Frank Jackson accused of passing counterfeit money at a Kansas hearing. During the session United States Commissioner Clackney noted the thief’s coat pocket contained a Cooksey fold watch. Jackson seized the watch and hid it in his shoe, and officers recovered it from his cell about an hour later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Banana City
Frank Jackson
United States
Clackney
Kansas City
Kanunday
Ston Cook- Bey
Jackson
Cooksey
Catier P N Gerhousal Fatally Injured in Runaway
Cedar Rapids Iowa June 28 P N Gerhousal a well known carrier was probably fatally injured in a runaway accident. His skull was crushed this morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
P. N
Gerhousal
Vedrine Wins New Aviation Prize at Roubaix Expo
At Roubaix France on June 28 Vedrine led the field in the international aviation race stage from Brussels to Roubaix earning the largest share of a $30 000 prize from the exposition aviation department as crowds watched from the aerodrome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roubaix
France
Erowde
Vedrine
Aviation Department
Brussels
Sheehan and McKee Headline Iowa State Golf Event
In Des Moines on June 28 interest focused on the Sheehan McKee match as a city champion clashed with an ex city champion. The feature of yesterday’s round was the Carr Brown match which required two extra holes to decide. Carr won the twentieth hole with four strokes to Brown’s five.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Carr
Brown
Fight Over See Case Evidence
In Chicago on June 28 the prosecution in the Fivelyn Arthur Lee abduction trial decided not to call May Kleinhaus a witness. The girl 12, linked to Mona Rees Mildred Bridges and See, was sent home to Miles Michigan and unwilling to testify. The prosecutor sought to admit police admissions by Rees Bridges and See while defense argued the captain Danner remark was a threat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Fivelyn Arthur Lee
May Kleinhaus
Mona Rees
Mildred Bridges
Miles
Mich
See
Burnham
Fou
Danner
Lee
Dannet
Waterway Bill Passes Senate as Conservation Measure
Springfield June 2 The waterway bill was transformed by amendment into a conservation focused measure and passed the upper house by a 3 to 7 vote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Senate committee votes to report reapportionment bill
Washington June 28 The senate committee on census agreed to report without amendment the congressional reapportionment bill providing for 433 representatives despite almost all members opposing increased representation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Committee On Census
Priest Timothy Sullivan Found Dead in New York Hotel
Fort Dodge Iowa June 28 Special. The body of Father Timothy Sullivan 26 assistant to Monsignor Saunders of Fort Dodge has been identified. He recently left Fort Dodge for a five to six month visit in Limerick Ireland for health reasons. The body found in an overflowing bath tub at a New York hotel on Waverly Place. Death believed due to heart failure or apoplexy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Dodge
New York
Timothy Sullivan
Monsignor Saunders
Father Sullivan
Limerick
Ireland
Waverly Place
Interstate Retail Coal Dealers Convene Over Coal Weighing
The first annual convention of the Interstate Retail Coal Dealers Association opened in Kansas City with about one thousand delegates from Iowa Nebraska Kansas Oklahoma and Missouri. They plan to seek legislation requiring railroads to weigh coal shipments at destination to prevent losses from each car.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Interstate Retail Coal Dealers’ Association
Iowa
Nebraska
Kansas
Oklahoma
Missouri
Application of Morse Denied
Federal Judge Newman denied the application of Charles W. Morse for release from the federal prison in Atlanta on a writ of habeas corpus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Newman
Charles W. Morse
Niagara Falls preservation act extended debated
Washington June 28 The house will not consider at this session Senator Burton's resolution for a two year extension of the Niagara Falls preservation act which expires by limitation tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Burton
Niagara Falls
Harvard 275th commencement fills Cambridge with alumni
Thousands of graduates faculty and alumni gathered in Cambridge for Harvard college’s 275th annual commencement. The exercises began at 10 16 a m in Sanders theatre with many alumni having returned for the event only those with more than 25 years' standing were admitted to the theatre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cambridge
Masa
Harvard College Yard
Sanders
Terms of treaty agreed upon
Washington June 28 after a conference between President Taft and Ambassador Bryce of Great Britain, it was announced at the White House that the arbitration treaty between the United States and Great Britain was practically complete, with only a few comparatively unimportant details left to settle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Taft
Bryce
Great Britain
White House
United States
Arbuckle Brothers Battle Sugar Trust in 1890s Fight
William G. Gilmore testified in the house sugar trust inquiry about Arbuckle Brothers of Brooklyn taking on the American Sugar Refining Co. in 1898 and 1899. They cut prices in West Virginia and Ohio to steal wholesale gain, suffered losses of about 1.26 million, and later the Arbuckles moved into coffee to strike at the trust, to discredit package coffee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Willam G. Gilmore
Arbuckle Brothers
Brooklyn
House Sugar Trust
American Sugar Refining Company
Arbuckles
Trust
West Virginia
Ohio
Gilmore
Rtrm
Arbucklea
Somnambulist Hurt After Window Fall In Plymouth
Mrs. John Dorsey aged forty of Plymouth Indiana suffered a broken hip and several fractured ribs after walking in her sleep and falling from a second story window. Doctors fear she will not recover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plymouth
Junia
John Dorsey
Missing Venus tug and dredge alert from Key West
Government wireless station issued a general alarm for all vessels to search for the tug Venus and the dredge George W. Allen in tow. The pair left Havana for Knight Key last Monday noon and have not been heard from since, last sighted two hours out from Havana by the steamer Miami.
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Key West
Fla
Venus
George W. Allen
Havana
Knight's Key
Haryana
Miami
Official Guests Leave London After Coronation Week
European royal guests and ambassadors bid farewell to King George and Queen Mary as trains head to the coast. The Duke of Connaught attended departures on behalf of the king while embassies said goodbye to their envoys. Mrs. M Beehner underwent successful neck tumor surgery at Pine Street Hospital and recovered well from anesthesia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Europe
George
Mary
Duke of Conslaught
M. Beehner
Lafayette Istreet
Pine Street Hospital
Let Hand Indian War Chief Dies at 83
Darlington Oklahoma June 26 News of the death of Let Hand longtime chief of the Arra hea tribe at his home near here reaches this place. He was 83 years old. Hand became a warrior at 15 and fought in every southwest campaign after that. He was famed for his role in the massacre of Major Deel Filiote and nineteen men during the battle near Wachita, close to Chepenaa, Oklahoma.
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Darlington
Okla
Newa
Let Hand
Arrahea
Hae
Deel Filiote
Coster
Wachita Sear
Chepenaa
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J. Ss. Marshal
Adam Simmons
George Bidwell
Bidwell
Simmons
Tristi
Gubernia
Russia
U.S
Morrison
DR. Crouse
Make
Martin
Frost
Wisconsin
Jake Critz
Citizens’ Savings
Bank of Riverside
Buehner
Lafayette Street
Ping Street
NEW Aviation Prize
FT. Dodge
Old Ireland
MORSE
Niagara
Harvard
Arbuckle Bros
the Sugar CO
Somnambulist
Famots
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