Taft Signals Early Tariff Revision Plan
Taft declares if elected he would call Congress together in an extra session to revise the tariff at the earliest moment as part of his Republican platform. He plans a brief stop in Athens, Ohio, and will brief Civil War and Spanish American War veterans during a courtesy visit. Postmaster General Meyer and others accompany Taft, with discussions touching on Hughes’s renomination and broader political currents.
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Morning Journal
Hot Springs
Taft
Bryan
Cam Piank
Athens
Ohio
Middle Mass
Kosvener
Mr. Taft
Putin
Meyer
Hughes
Oyster Bay
New York
Roosevelt
Gifford Pinechot
Government Forestry Bureau
Virginia
Theodore P. Shonts
Interborough Metropolitan Railway System
Toledo
St. Lews
Sthonts
Alton Road
Longworth and Smith Speak at Cuyahoga Republican Picnic
Nicholas Longworth and Senator William Allen Smith addressed the Cuyahoga County League of Republican Clubs during its annual picnic. Smith attacked Bryan and tariff policies while praising the GOP platform and candidate William McKinley.
McKinley arrives to take duties as GOP congressman chair
New York August a Congress main W B McKinley of Wisconsin arrived to assume duties as chairman of the Republican congressional committees. He plans conferences with Sherman and expects to stay until September 1. He forecasts gains of two seats in the west and one each in Illinois Iowa Minnesota, with hopes for gains in the middle western states. He lauded Governor Hughes and spoke of the western political outlook.
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New York
W. B. MckKinley
Uwliness
James S. Sherman
Sherman
Mckinley
Hughs
West
Itowa
Minnesota
Middle Western States
Ilinois
Massachusetts Republicans Form State Organization Plan
A conference led by John Hays Flam mond Arthur Vorys and Snett Smith at Hot Springs reached an agreement to form the Massachusetts league of Republican clubs. John Titus Hammond of Gloucester was elected president and delegates to the national league convention in Cincinnati were to be sent. A resolution urged Taft clubs in every city and town.
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Moston
John Hays Flammond
Arthur Vorys
Ohio
Snett Smith
Taii
Hot Springs
National
Tobacco Trust Pulls Kentucky Buying Agents
Louisville Kentucky August twenty second A story published here says the American Tobacco company has withdrawn its twenty two country buying agents from Kentucky. The move shocks local tobacco men and may push headquarters to Cincinnati amid rumors the company will quit Kentucky. Officials decline comment as unrest grows over past night rider tensions and local hostility toward the firm.
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Louisville
American Tobacco Company
Kentucky
Cincinnaii
Big Gold Shipment Brought to Denver
Gold bullion valued at 5 million dollars arrived at the Denver mint from San Francisco. The shipment, described as the largest ever, was transported via the San Francisco line with six armed guards and strict secrecy to prevent robbery.
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Denver
United States Mint
San Francisco
Pom Han Pranchice
Stockton
Lorstow
Cal
Santa Fe
Treasury Department
Two Cuban contracts total nearly sixteen million dollars
New York reports two signed contracts totaling nearly sixteen million dollars. The Moetilloney and Rokeby Construction company and the Cuban Engineering and Contracting company with Uvalde Asphalt Paving will hire engineers to Havana within two weeks to begin work on sewer improvements and paving projects.
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New York
Moetilloney and Rokeby, Construction Company
Cuban Engineering and Contracting Company
Uvalde Asphalt Paving Company
Havana
Southern girl to debut on New York stage
New York will see Miss Kate Mc Laurin niece of the late Senator MeLaurin of Mississippi make her first appearance on the New York stage as a member of the company with Henrietta Crossman in As You Like It at the Anadermy of Murloc meat Monday night. She will accompany Miss Crossman on a southern tour this fall.
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New York
Kate McLaurin
Iate
United States
MeLaurin
Mississippi
Henrietta Crossman
Bridegroom Missing On Wedding Day In Milwaukee
Milwaukee August 22 A traveling salesman Ralph Wolds vanished on his wedding day just before the ceremony. Miss Lacey Warren of Wooster Ohio awaited the groom. Cousin Dr J B Barrett joined the search and believes Wolds may be dead. Father Robert Eddy plans to pursue the case.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Ralph W.olds
Chicago
New York
Lacey Warren
Wooster
Ohio
J. BE. Barrett
Bhebonygan
Eddy
Robert Eddy
Columbus
Maddy
Miss Warren
Hains brothers to face trial in November Bayside murder case
Morning Journal reports no speedy trial for the Hains brothers in the W. E. Annis Bayside Yacht Club killing. Trial likely mid November with no bail or venue change planned. Defense aims to use a confession Mrs. Hains is said to have signed, though she disputes signing under duress.
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iBy Morning Journal
New York
Hains Brothers
W. EL Annis
Bayside Yacht Club
Hains
Melmyre
Thrilling experience of young girl aeronaut at picnic
Miss May Ostumeer of Springfield Ohio climbed a balloon tether during a picnic near Dayton Ohio. She descended after three hours aloft when she lost nerve at the intended descent point and drifted miles east before landing exhausted in a field.
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Dayton
Dolan and Garrett Granted Parole After Fraud Case
John Dolan and Frank Garrett, St. Louis politicians convicted of fraudulently naturalizing foreigners for political gain, have served five years in federal prison and will be released tomorrow. They plan to depart at daybreak and head for St. Louis. Mire frolan and a husband’s brother are awaiting them. John Barrett, a former district court clerk and accomplice, was released earlier today. Both Dolan and Garrett are described as model prisoners.
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Morning Journal Special
Leavenworth
Kas
John Delan
Frank Garrett
St. Louis
Lavyiight
St. Loui
Mire Frolan
John Barrett
Dolan
Garrett
Missouriate
Pirate steamer to be sold under hammer
New York. The steamer Gattlehoro, once a buster for Expert Shipping, will be auctioned in Mohike after the receiver decided to sell the vessel and cargo. The Goldsboro from Puerta Cortier Honduras arrives leaky and will not complete the voyage. The cargo of arms machinery and equipment valued at 750 400 will be brought to New York for public sale.
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New York
Gattlehoro
Mo- Hike
Aly
Bankrept Expert Shipping Company
Alfred
Prenelt
Hablley
Tus
MoHite
Puerta Courier
Honduras
Pauper's Grave Reveals Lost Youth in Union Cemetery
Aug 22 Kantar report identifies 16 year old George Pickle as a missing youth. A pauper’s grave in Union Cemetery bears his head, found with a lettered badge and river evidence near Janeous City. Police suspect murder after a robbery. Karl Hamilton, last seen with Pickle, is arrested for desertion and sent to Port Leavenworth, then escapes a month later.
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Ue Dettokers
Karl Hamilton
Unitial
Grey
le Belite
Focal Pation
Hamilton
Port Leavenworth
Kas
Naval War College Concludes Battleship Discussion
Newport Aug 22. The five week bat leiship discussion at the naval war college ends today and the report will be sent to the navy department. The conferences, paused to allow officers to join the battleship plans debate, will resume.
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Newport
Naval War College
Navy Department
Federal receivers named for coal firms in Indiana
A U S circuit court in Goshen Indiana placed approximately 5 million dollars in debt under federal control via receiver John Is. Aeiert as creditors seek separate handling from the Southern Indiana Railway case. The action, led by First National Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago, targets Southern Indiana Coal and Indiana Southern Coal properties.
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Indianapolis
Int
Southern Indiana Coal Company
Indiana Southern Coal Company
United States
Goshen
Ind
First National Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago
John Is. Aeiert
Prank J. Pater
Chicago Clearing House Association
Southern Indiana Company
John KR. Walsh
Emdiaca
Dobnm KR
Zacifert
Indians Southern Coal Company
DID
Southern Indiana Railway Company
M. J. Carpenter
O. B.B. Jameson
Southern Indiana Ailway Company
Chicago
Indiana
Waleh
Southern Indiana Railway
Disorderly riot defendants named in county jury findings
A second county jury returned accusations against Thomas Marshal and twelve others for leading a murderous assault on WH Ham B. Howe, chief clerk, during the Pridey debt riot. Charges include assault with intent to murder and assault with a deadly weapon against white citizen John Wattling amid whites looting Loaper's restaurant.
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Bapeamen County
Thomas Marshal
Rowe
John Wattling
Loaper's
Cubans Protest Court Martial Verdict
Cuban newspapers condemn the Kilpatrick verdict as a gross miscarriage of justice after Corporal Cooper and Private Gwynanelt of the Eterventh cavalry were found guilty of murdering two Cuban boatmen and sent to the transport Kilpatrick.
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Havana
Ave
Cooper
Gwynanelt
Eterventh Cavalry
Sola
Kilpatrick
United States
Forest Fire Burns 1300 Acres in Montana Reserve
Helene Montana August 22 fires ravage the Little Pelts reserve in central Montana destroying valuable timber. More than 1300 acres burned and foresters struggle to control the blaze while aid comes from nearby towns and districts.
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Pires
Montana
Helene
Mount
Little Pelt
Denial of Camp Crawford maltreatment report
Cheyenne Aug 22 officers at Camp Crawford dismissed the claim that a Denver woman was abused by thirty-two artillerymen and left unconscious at the long distance telephoto event. The story, based on private statements, said many men were confined in a stockade and harmed.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Camp Crawfod
United States Army
Denver
Underbush
Laraile
Dixie T Wins Third Race For Gold Cup Title
In Chippewa Bay Ogdensburg New York on August 2 Dixie T champion motor boat racer won the third and final contest for the gold challenge cup defeating Chip TH the defending entrant from Chippewa Yacht Club in fifty nine minutes for thirty miles. Dixie recently won the international cup at Huntington Illinois and gains the undisputed title of champion motor boat racer. The Dixie is owned by EJ Schroeder of New York.
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Ogdensburg
Chippeewa Bay
Dixie T
Chip TH
Chippewa Yucht Club
Dixie
Huntington
IL. I
The
Ej, Schroeder
New York
Thaw Replies to Detectors in Public Bankruptcy Case
Morning Journal report notes Harry K Thaw denies rumors of malfeasance in his bankruptcy case. He asserts he never drew on his mother and clarifies a June loan obtained by his attorney, claiming no ulterior motives. Thaw accuses overcharges and says his lawyers handled the case while he protected creditors.
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Morning Journal
Poughkeepsie
Harry K. Thaw
Thaw
Semple
Lyon
S&s
Cototel
Hartlett
Morehauser
Wellbeady
Japanese Shipyards Rushed With Work
New York reports Kashira Shiba a mounger of Mitzupiah dockyard in Nug peak Japan says shipyards are expanding to increase auxiliary cruisers. He notes three 14 000 ton turbine steamships under construction and plans for three large freighters to run from Japan to Belgium via the Suez. Kobe and other yards are at full capacity.
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New York
Kashira Shiba
Mitzupiah
Nugpeakt
Japan
Aovenue
Shilu
San Francisco
Mong Kong
Bue Land
Mie
Kobe
Douglas Fairbanks Stars in New Rupert Hughes Comedy
New York August 22 Douglas Fairbanks appeared at the Hiram theater as the star in a four act comedy by Rupert Hughes titled All for a Girl The actor known for his marriage to the daughter of Sully the Cotton King appeared in a leading role alongside Mise Adelaide Manola daughter of Rupert Hughes and others in the cast
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New York
Douglas Fairbanks
Coton King
Playwright Hugh Delivers Whimsical Heiress Ruse
Hugh, author of the play AL Tor a Girl, guides an heiress who fears suitors love her money. She impersonates a stenographer to test their affection and is wooed under the disguise, with a victory as the outcome.
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Hugh
Independence Leaguers Nominate Ten Electors in California
Oakland Aug 22 The state convention of the independence league nominated ten presidential electors: Mark L. MeDonald Sonoma county Frank Wehe Sierra J. D. Me Goughey San Joaquin T. A. Amblin Alameda Ko Lambie San Francisco RN Norton Los Angeles Raymond B. Fair Fresno F. W. Craig Los Angeles Henry K Mills San Diego Delegates from 43 counties attended the 294 delegate appointment meeting Hearst was expected to address but sent a telegram stating he could not be present.
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Oakland
Sal
The
Independence League
Markl. MeDonald
Sonoma County
Frank & Wehe
Sierra
J. D. Me Goughey
San Joaquin
T. A. Amblin
Alameda
Ko Lambie
San Francisco
Norton
Los Angeles
Raymond B. Fair
Fresno
F. W. Craig
Henry K. Mills
San Diego
W. OR. Hearst
Lightships Prepare for Perilous Pacific Voyage
Three lightships Relief Numbers 58 and 727 lie off Tompkinsville Staten Island as the government plans a 140 day voyage around Cape Horn to the Pacific coast. The mosquito fleet will include about 200 sailors and firemen with crews sailing in daylight through the Straits of Magellan. Wives and families plan a farewell celebration the day before departure.
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New York
Tominsville
Staten Island
Straits of Magellan
Porto Rien
Harbadoes
Pernambues
Beauzil Monte Viedo
Uruguay
Callo
Ord
aPacite
Straits of Maxellan
Mob After White Wife Murderer Near Conway
James Cartwright, a white man, who shot his wife at their Conway home days ago, was moved from Conway jail and rushed to Little Rock to avert summary punishment by a farmers mob reportedly preparing to storm the jail.
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Little Rock
Ark
James Cartwright
Conway
One Killed Two Hurt In Automobile Wreck
In Buffalo Delaware park a speeding car went off an embankment into an abandoned quarry. James Wayland the chauffeur died instantly. John Wakefield was fatally injured and James Morrison seriously hurt as the car was reduced to splinters.
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Buffalo
Delaware Park
James Wayland
John Wakefield
James Morrison
Aged Parson Stopped From Wed To Ten-Year-Old
Baltimore August 22 The intended marriage of Rev George S Fitzbush aged 67 and ten year old Lulu Virginia Frazier will not take place The license issued at Ellicott City Md is held by a Fitzhughs son and will be returned to the issuing office Little Miss Frazier will be taken back to her Albemarle County Virginia home.
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Baltimore
George S Fitzbush
Lulu Virginia Frazier
Ellicott City
Riot at Mereland capmakers strike ends with police fire
In Mereland Ohio on August 22 a clash between striking capmakers and strike breakers employed by Edward Levy and Company escalated as missiles flew and a man was badly beaten. Police fired on the mob to break up the riot as workers pursued the departing strike breakers.
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Mereland
Ohio
Edward Levy and Company
Costly Railroad Line Budgets in Idaho Taft to Bt. Jo
G P O'Neil, right of way agent for the Chicago Milwaukee and Puget railroad, fixes this segment Taft to Bt Jo as sixty miles with estimated construction cost of 13 400 000 dollars. There will be thirty five tens on this piece of line.
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Wallace
Idaho
G. P. O'Neil
Chicago, Milwaukee & Bt
Tragic drowning in Berwind district cloudburst
A cloudburst in the Berwind mining district sixteen miles north of Trinidad ColoGMT caused the drownings of two boys, Hormer Martin aged five and Jimmies Vineings aged seven, this afternoon.
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Trinidad
Colo
Berwind Mitting
Here
Hormer Martin
Jimmies Vineings
Indigne Coal strike ends in Ditumnons field
The Ditumnons coal field strike ends as operators meet district 11 miners demands. Workers return to work today after the operators association agreed to the conditions set by the union. Local reports place Terre Haute as a key scene in the disrupted coal production.
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Indigne
Terre Haute
Tod
Ditumnons
District 11
Twenty-Two Mile Bievete Pace At Revere
Hugh Melean of helmet defeats Fatdie Root of New York in the twenty-five mile handi ap paced event at Revere Hill night. Time 27 minutes 14 2-5 seconds.
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Harten
Hugh Melean
Helmet
Fatdie Root
New York
Handiap
Evere
Revere
Tony Pastor Relapses at Elmburet Summer Retreat
Tony Pastor theatrical manager, longtime New Yorker, suffered a severe relapse today at his summer home in Elmburet Los Angeles area. His condition is reported as grave by associates amid ongoing health concerns from his recent illness.
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Tony Pastor
Neardheath
New York
Elmburet
de Gsteve
Notable City Official Tauae A Bryuer Dies in St Louis
Tauae A Bryuer yon former city comptroller and one line assistant postmaster and internal revenue collector died in St Louis today at age 57. He served in local government and federal posts during his career.
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St. Louis
Tauae A. Bryueryon
Internal Revenue
Bryan to Make Fight for New York
William J Bryan plans to place New York in the Democratic column with speeches in New York City Syracuse and Rochester September 16 to 26 and again in October in New York City and Buffalo. Kern would tour the Pacific Northwest while West Virginia Maryland and Delaware show Democratic leanings. The campaign aims to organize in every precinct as Democratic clubs distribute literature and campaign contributions.
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Chicago
William J. Bryan
New York State
Democratic
Bryan
Mack
National Committee
Uryan
Des Moines
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Syracuse
Rochester
Uckel
Thomas Taggart
Indiana
Haskell
Oklahoma
Beyon
Middle West
Culberson
Maryland
Ryan
West Virginia
Delaware
New Jersey
Mr. Bryan
New York
Democratic Party
Campain
Bryvan
Cellera
Congress Street
Auditorium
United States
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