Deneen Victory in Illinois Primary Seals GOP Edge
Chicago dispatch reports Republican Charles S. Deneen likely won Illinois governor nomination, with Albert J. Hopkins leading for U S senator though margins vary by county. Stevenson and Stringer secure Democratic tickets, with broad state wins noted. district races list multiple incumbents and nominees across both parties.
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Chicago
Charles S. Deneen
United States
Albert J. Hopkins
Deneen
Yates
Hopkins
Foss
Iinois
Lawrence B. Stringer
Adlai E. Stevenson
E. A. Parry
X. F. Beidler
Ralph Jeffris
J. B. Mount
R. C. Hall
Indorsed
J. G. Oglesby
F. L. Smith
James A. Rosa
J. 8
McCullough
Andrew Russell
William H. Stead
Supreme Court
Christopher D. Mamer
Cook County
Mason
Stringer
Congress Democrats
M. L. Mandable
J. T. Donahoe
B J. Crowley
James T. McDermott
Adolph J. Sabath
Frank G. Wood
Frank Buchanan
Thomas Gallagher
Western
Starr
C. McNaughton
Ww. N. Armstrong
M. J. Mckinry
W. E. Lincaster
James W. Hill
C. Schneider
Kenry C. Bell
Charles A. Karch
J. Q. A. Ledbetter
THREE DIE SCORES NABBED IN TRAIN SHOOTING NEAR BLOCTON
Birmingham reports show more than three dozen arrests after a train carrying strike-breakers and saliers was shot at near Blocton. Three men killed, 15 wounded, including laborer Robert Sismon likely to die. National Guard units on duty. deputies continue arrests in Jefferson and Shelby counties.
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Birmingham
Ala
Arresia
Saliers
Blocton
Centerville
Bibb County
Minis
St. Vincent’s Hospital
Robert Sismon
Colling
Washington, D. C
Obama National Guards
W. H. Long
Hisdons
Jefferson County
Shelby County
$50 000 Gift For A Museum At Harvard
Berlin reports at the International Historical Congress that Adolphus Busch of St. Louis will donate $50,000 toward the Germanic Museum Building at Harvard University. The Harvard collection began on November 10, 1908, Schiller's birth anniversary, and has grown into a leading exhibit of German art and culture with support from the German emperor and other dignitaries.
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Berlin
International Historical Congress
David Jayne Hill
Germany
Adolphus Busch
St. Louis
Harvard University
Johann Schiller
Harvard Museum
United States
Four Children Die in East One Hundred Twelfth Street Fire
A blaze in a crowded East One Hundred Twelfth Street tenement killed four children of Vincenzo Sausto, ages eight months to ten years, and left ten others seriously burned or injured. Firemen carried many residents to safety as panic spread and a man leaped from a second story window suffering a dislocated hip amid widespread burns and injuries.
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New York
East One Hundred and Twelfth Street
Vincenzo Sausto
Frank Sausto
Sausto
Salvatore Logeforn
Chafin Near Death in Pool Incident
Eugene W. Chafin Prohibition presidential candidate narrowly escaped drowning at the YMCA pool in Lincoln Nebraska. Three youths pulled him from deep water as he sank before surfacing and quickly recovering to deliver a chautauqua address. He had been guest of A G Wolfenbarger, who nominated him at the Columbus convention.
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Lincoln
Neb
Eugene W. Chafin
Prohibition
Dr. Chafin
Maurice Hyland
Chafin
A. G. Wolfenbarger
Columbus
Danish Press Suffers Indefinite Suspension in Strike
Copenhagen August 11 reports that aside from several social democratic papers all Denmark newspapers halted publication indefinitely as printers strike and lockout continues, disrupting news delivery across the country.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Two Die In Explosion Near Cope Land Tennessee
An explosion near Cope land in Sevier county Knoxville Tenn Aug 11 killed Walter Mathis and Will Dorsey instantly and left three others injured. Authorities investigated the blast and named the deceased and survivors.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Copeland
Sevier County
Walter Mathis
Will Dorsey
Roosevelt to Study Farm Life Conditions and Reforms
President Roosevelt plans a nationwide investigation by five experts headed by Prof. L. H. Bailey to improve social sanitary and economic conditions on American farms. The commission will report to Congress next year and emphasize farm families, especially farmers wives, as pivotal to national well being.
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Oyster Bay
N. Y
Roosevelt
Congress
L. H. Bailey
New York College of Agriculture
Henry Wallace
Wallace
Farmer
Des Moines
Kenyon L. Butterfield
Massachusetts Agricultural College
Gifford Pinchot
United States Forest Reserve
Walter H. Page
World’s Work
New York
Bailey
Prof. Bailey
United States
Department of Agriculture
Dr. Knapp
Auto Crash Toll Rises Across Several States
A string of automobile accidents near Painesville Ohio Toledo Ohio and San Francisco California results in multiple deaths and serious injuries. Mrs Mary Bowden and Mrs Rosa Beckwith die in an eight mile from Painesville crash. Fred Beckwith and Bessie Beckwith are among the injured. In Ohio a Cleveland importer and a Cleveland pastor die in a plunge west of Sylvania. In California Mrs Anna Kiemme is killed and her son Harry slightly hurt. Levi Weaver dies at Logansport Indiana while his wife and son suffer serious injuries.
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Painesville
Mary Bowden
Rosa Beckwith
Fred Beckwith
Bessie Beckwith
Stickey Hill
Beckwith
Windsor
Toledo
Sylvania
Charles W. Pohlmann
Cleveland
George Vahey
Columbill’s
Florence
F. ©. Dietzel
San Francisco
Anna Kiemme
Harry
Logansport
Ind
Levi Weaver
Eight Die in York Rolling Mill Explosion
Eight men killed and many injured when a boiler exploded at the York rolling mill late Monday afternoon. Five bodies recovered, mill demolished, six victims residents of Columbia. All dead believed recovered after search.
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York
Columbia
Trains Stoned in Winnipeg Strike Sparks Violence
Winnipeg Aug 11 the first violence since the Canadian Pacific strike occurred when windows in passenger coaches and other cars were shattered by stones hurled from the St Boniface yards. Trains were in motion as crews reported sharp clashes with strikers and several men arrested then released with warnings. Americans brought in as strike breakers and Japanese porters pressed into service marked a tense response.
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Winnipeg
Man
St. Boniface
Red River
St. Paul
Grant Hall
Western Lines
Montreal
Canadian Pacific Railway
Canadian Pacific Railroad
J. H. McVety
Self-Defense Killings Reported in Mississippi
Clar ence Herrin, manager of the Hast Over plantation, shot and killed one negro and fatally wounded another on the Allen plantation in Bolivar county. He claimed self defense and was released after promising to appear in court. Nine killed in train collision in Eckernfoerde Germany. several injured when a passenger train collided with empty cars on the Flensburg Kiel branch line.
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Clarksdale
Miss
Clarence Herrin
Allen
Bolivar County
Herrin
Pond
Eckernfoerde
Germany
Flensburg
Kiel
Swim feat at Duluth Superior Bay sets two mile mark
In Superior on August 11 Edward Thompson swam from White City to Connor's Point, a distance over two miles, completing the feat in 1 hour 28 minutes. Also in New York Bianca C. Watterson, formerly married to Henry Watterson Jr of Louisville, wed Ramon Banus in city hall.
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Superior
Wis
Duluth-Superior Bay
Edward Thompson
White City
Connor
Watterson
New York
Bianca C. Watterson
Henry Watterson, Jr
Louisville
Ramon Banus
Fire ruins Jonesville Knitting Quits in D C Loss
Fire destroyed the Jonesville Knitting Quits in Jonesville D C causing about 160 000 in losses with insurance coverage. The Brotherhood of Glockmakers plans wage restoration in New York and threatens a strike. A Texas rail freight rate proposal faces opposition at the Interstate Commerce Commission in Washington. Five thousand people contributed 70 000 and ten bushels of jewelry at a Old Orchard Maine Christian Missionary Alliance meeting led by A J Simpson of New York. Superintendents ridicule a White Star Line claim of two 1000 foot vessels. The North German Lloyd pier at Hoboken is 900 feet long.
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Jonesville
D. C
FIHO
UVO
Brotherhood of Glockmakers
New York
Railroud Commission of Texas
Interstate Commission
Washington
Old Orchard
Confer On Venezuela Plans At The Hague
The Hague Aug 11 The Dutch foreign office held a long interview with American minister Arthur M Beaupre regarding the Venezuela Netherlands dispute following President Castro's expulsion of Dutch minister de Reus at Caracas The Netherlands seeks American views while the United States shows no stated plan or theory on its future course in the matter.
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Hague
Netherlands
Arthur M. Beaupre
Venezuela
Castro
M. de Reus
Caracas
Holland
Beaupre
United States
State Department
Japanese Soldier Refused U S Citizenship
Seattle Aug 11 Buntaro Kamaegal a Japanese national who served three years in the United States army in the Philippines and received an honorable discharge has had his application for naturalization denied by Judge O H Hanford of the federal court in Seattle under United States law.
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Seattle
Wash
United States
Philippines
Buntaro Kamaegal
O. H. Hanford
Brooklyn Woman Murdered In Domestic Shooting
Mrs Bertha Hood a 22 year old Brooklyn resident was shot and killed at home Sunday night by Ernest Seitz a 24 year old Manhattan man He also seriously wounded Hood’s year and a half old daughter and then shot himself inflicting a likely fatal wound in the incident authorities report from New York dated August 11
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Brooklyn
New York
Bertha Hood
Ernest Seitz
Manhattan
Seitz
Kaiser to Welcome Edward VII
Cronberg August 11 Emperor William arrived here Monday in preparation for his meeting with King Edward who will arrive here on his way to Marienbad
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Kaiser
Edward VII
Cronberg
Emperor William
Edward
Marienbad
Grain and livestock markets report from Chicago and New York
Chicago markets show flour firm with various wheat grades and prices for spring, Minnesota, and winter patents, export bags, and high grade rye flour. Corn and oats trading slow. butter barn and egg prices listed. New York wheat dips then recovers as cables ease, with September near 1.02 to 1.026.
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Chicago
Minnesota
Prica Ta
Asc
Virginia
Oi Springs
Konstant
Ile
New York
Western
Nomlny al
Live Stock Prices Across Markets in Chicago and Omaha
Cattle ranges from good to prime with steers and cows in varied prices, calves and yearlings notes. hogs show steady to higher trade with heavy packers around 6.10 to 6.60. sheep hold steady with yearlings near 9.80 to 4.40 and lambs 5.6 to 6.1. Omaha figures mirror steady to stronger cattle, higher hogs, and stable sheep markets.
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Cuhicago
Omaha
Neb
Texas
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