Allies Protest as Taft Wins Ballots at Convention
The Republican national committee hears protests from five states led by Kealing and Humphrey claiming Roosevelt Taft influence ignores them. They assert 126 electoral votes and threaten formal challenges before credentials and on the convention floor. Taft delegates are seated in Florida and Georgia districts amid clashes over forged tickets and seating decisions.
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Chicago
Ohio
Tutve
United States
Republican Party
Messrs. Kealing
Fairbanks
Himphrey
Gov. Hughes
WeKinley
Ilinois
Cannon
Penrose
Burke
Pennsylvania
Hemenaway
Indiana
G. O. P. Machine
National Committee
Committee On Credentials
Republican National Committee
Florida
Coombs
Taft
Joseph B. Lee
Jacksonville
M. B. Macfarlane
Tampa
J. N. Stripling
J. H. Dickerson
Georgia
Combs
Stripling
Butler Ames
Massachusetts
Scott
Alabama
Crane
Theommittee
Mystic Workers Choose St Paul as Next Meeting Place
Mystic Workers of the World select St Paul Minnesota as the next meeting site for the order in 1910. W Brill of Hampshire Illinois is elected editor of the Mystic Worker monthly paper. a proposed per capita tax of 16 cents per month is defeated.
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Mystic Workers
St. Paul
Jinn
Elgin
Mystic Workers of the World
Order
W. ©. Brill
Hampshire
Mystic Worker
Gas blast injures eleven in Indianapolis factory
An explosion at the Prest-O-Lite Company on Soul Street injured eleven workers and damaged St Vincent's hospital and the city fire department engine house. Three plant employees, two firemen, four hospital employees, a patient, and a hospital staff sister were hurt. The blast caused extensive destruction and was heard citywide.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Prest-O-Lite
Soul Street
St. Vincent's Hospital
St. Vincent’s Hospital
Chemical
Aobert Lemrod
Otto Hoffmeister
Ralston Avenue
John Vangarden
Winter Avenue
William Hutchison
Hazel Street
Wdaward
Ibis
Reutenant
William Steinlaur
William Quinlan
East South Street
Vienna
Ottakring
Flames Wreck Two Mines at Gladstone Silverton Col
Fire destroyed all buildings at the Gold King mine nine miles from Silverton causing $150,000 in losses. All workers were rescued. Henry Sanger was badly hurt leaping from the bunkhouse second story. Fire blamed on incendiarism. Durango reports Porter mine fire caused extensive damage with no injuries.
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Silverton
Col
Gold King
Gladstone
Henry Sanger
Durango
Porter Mine
Enid Flood Destroys Homes and Floods Main Street
Enid Oklahoma on June eight faced its worst flood as Boggy Creek swelled from 20 feet to 2000 feet within the city. Water over twelve feet covered Main Street, two blocks of the business district. fifty houses swept away with occupants rescued at daylight. No fatalities reported as water receded slowly.
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Enid
Okla
Prominent Detroiter Marvin H. Stanton Dead
Marvin H. Stanton a prominent Detroit manufacturer wholesaler and city lighting commission member died after months of illness. He formerly served on the police commission and is survived by a widow and one son. In Minneapolis James Flood the demented boy charged with murder in the first degree was arraigned in police court and held to the grand jury in a formal action.
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Detroit
Mich
Marvin H. Stanton
City Lighting Commission
Stanton
Police Commission
Minneapolis
Minn
James Flood
A. P. Camden
Cat Runs Wild in Brooklyn Attacks Five People
In Brooklyn on a June day a large gray cat attacked passersby injuring five. Police clubbed the animal to death to stop the spree and all bitten individuals were advised to seek Pasteur treatment.
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New York
Brooklyn
Pasteur
Bandit slain after siege near Elizabeth Pennsylvania
In a sequel to recent wild west robberies, County Detective John Englart shot and killed one of four bandits barricaded in John Patterson’s farmhouse near Elizabeth. Englart was wounded as three accomplices and the dead man’s associates held a posse at bay amid a gun battle. Investigators link the gang to the Monongahela Coal and Coke store robbery and earlier Boston street car hold up. Patterson arrested. Engels remains hospitalized in critical condition.
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Pittsburg
Elizabeth
Here
John Englart
John Patterson
McKeesport
Versailles
Englart
Patterson
John Trevers
Monongahela Consolidated Coal and Coke Company
Boston
Pittsburg Railway Company
Eight Die In Annapolis Train Wreck
Eight people are dead and nearly a score badly injured in the second serious accident on the Annapolis branch of the Washington Baltimore and Annapolis electric railway within two months. The wreck occurred between Camp Parole and Best's Gate, about two to three miles from Annapolis.
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Annapolis
Washington, Baltimore & Annapolis Electric Railway
Camp Parole
Best's Gate
Cabinet reshuffle in Korea announced in June
Changes in the Korean cabinet document transfers among top posts. The home minister moves to finance, the commerce minister becomes home minister, and the justice minister shifts to commerce with the current finance minister taking the new post.
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Seoul
Department of Fiance
Commerce
Justice
Finance
Bank official seeks 350000 claim against estate
C H McNider head banker of Mason City and Modern Woodmen of America files a 350000 claim against the F R Crocker estate. Guilford Crocker as administrator handles the case alleging a deposit by the Woodmen official in the defunct first National Bank.
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Chariton
C. H. McNider
Mason City
Woodmen of America
F. R. Crocker
Guilford Crocker
Woodmen
Mrs Lennora Pearce Convicted of $16,000 Theft
The jury found Mrs Lennora Pearce guilty of robbing Mrs Harriet Crowe, an aged and blind woman, of $16,000, using spiritualism as the method. After being out 24 hours, the jury returned the verdict in Denver in June.
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Denver
June
Lennora Pearce
Harriet Crowe
Four Die As Tennessee Speeds On Trial Off California
A steam pipe burst in the Tennessee’s starboard engine room during a speed trial at 19 knots off Point Runnenene California. Four men were killed and ten injured as scalding steam coal dust and ashes swept the area. Admiral Sebree narrowly escaped harm as the blast occurred minutes after he left the room.
Embezzlers Get Ten Years in Western Pennsylvania Penitentiary
Henry Reiber and John Young former paying teller and auditor at Farmers' Deposit National Bank were arraigned and sentenced to ten years each in the western Pennsylvania penitentiary after admitting the charges. Reiber 49, married with three children. Young 45, married.
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Pittsburg
Henry Reiber
John Young
Farmers’ Deposit National Bank
James
Young
United States District Court
Western Pennsylania
Reiber
Centenarian Boyakin Dies at 101 in Kentucky
Marysville Kentucky June 8 Dr Williamson F Boyakin renowned centenarian dies in his hundred and second year. Reared in Tennessee he gained a college education with aid from General Andrew Jackson. He studied law, later practiced medicine until 1854, and then became a Baptist minister.
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Boyakin
Marysville
Williamson F. Boyakin
Tennessee
Andrew Jackson
National Education Association to Convene in Cleveland
Thirty-one thousand members plan to attend the association convention in Cleveland from June 29 to July 3. The turnout may reach 60,000 or more, underscoring the event’s scale and significance for the city.
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Cleveland
National Educational Association
Bandits Loot Three Stations on Big Four Line
Bandits looted three railway stations after stopping at Dorchester Bunker Hill and Tathalte on the Big Four railroad. A handcar was searched in East Alton NL on Saturday during the spree.
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East Alton
Big Four
Dorchester
Bunker Hill
Tathalte
Four ARS Killed on Tennessee During Speed Trial near San Pedro
Rear Admiral Sebree and others escaped narrow disaster as a steam burst at 2385 pounds on the armored cruiser Tennessee during a speed trial near San Pedro California. Fire room deaths included Boggs Wood and others. Reinhold Meek among the injured survivors aided mates amid ash and steam. The ship, en route with Pennsylvania Washington Colorado and West Virginia, had just hit 18 to 19 knots when the explosion occurred after a note of 235 pounds was recorded.
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San Pedro
Cal
United States
Tennessee
Point Runenene
Uriel Sebree
F. B. Howard
Robertson
George Wood
Scranton
H. C. Boggs
Woodlawn
Ala
A. Reinhold
Germany
George W. Meek
Skidmore
Kan
S. Stematis
Norfolk
F. 5. Maxfield
Toughkenamon
E. J. Burns
New York
Walter S. Burns
Brooklyn
N. Y
J. P. A. Carroll
Hartford
Conn
R. W. Watson
East St. Louis
F. Rutledge
S. 8
Robinson
Sebree
Howard
Point Ruenene
CGC
Boggs
Maxfield
Kenanjon
S. Robinson
Reinhold
Meek
Santa Barbara
Pennsylvania
Washington
Colorado
West Virginia
City of Cleveland Makes First Run Toward Sault Ste. Marie
The 444 foot Detroit and Cleveland steamer City of Cleveland, largest passenger craft on fresh water, left Detroit on its first trip amid whistles and cannon salute. Four days’ excursion carries 500 Detroit board of commerce members to Sault Ste. Marie.
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Detroit
Mich
Detroit & Cleveland Line
City of
Black Hawk Veteran Daniel Ritchey Dies at 90 in Corning
Preston Iowa. Daniel Ritchey aged 90 years is dead at Corning. He was a veteran of the Black Hawk war and kept a hotel in Adams county in 1855. His inn served as a rendezvous for John Brown and Jim Lane as they aided fugitives north toward Canada. Ritchey was a Mason and perhaps the oldest Mason in the state at his death.
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Preston
Daniel Ritchey
Corning
Adams County
John Brown
Jim Lane
Canada
Bubonic Plague Deaths in Port of Spain Trinidad
In Port of Spain Trinidad two bubonic plague cases were fatal. No new cases reported and authorities take precautions to prevent further recurrence.
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Trinidad
Port of Spain
Pawnee Chief to Wed in Carlisle Pennsylvania
Pawnee chief Stacy Matlock of the Pawnee tribe and Miss Blancha Bill will marry in Carlisle Pennsylvania where the bride elect attends the government school. The event links Pawnee leadership with a government education setting in an interstate union.
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Guthrie, Okla
Stacy Matlock
Miss Blancha Bill
Carlisle
Mixed News From Des Moines To New York
Bits of news report a Chicago secretary of the Iowa Manufacturers association at a Des Moines meeting. Mexico Senate passes Limantoni irrigation appropriation of 2 100,000. Du Chailly’s Arctic sledges given to the American Museum. Mme. Gould secures months extension on 24000 debt in Paris courts. Colorado miners debate wage scale amid potential strike. New York court rules photograph use may be forbidden in ads. Helen Wyatt wins verdicts totaling 10000 against two stores for unauthorized sale of her photos.
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George A. Wrightman
Chicago
Chasey
Iowa Manufacturers’ Association
Des Moines
Tinanece
Limantoni
Mexico
Senate
Paul du Chailly
Lapland
American Museum of Natural History
Mme
Anna Gould
Paris
Count Boni de Castellane
Con
Colorado
Suprema Court of New York
Helen Wyatt
Verdtet
Prominent Wolverine Peter White Dies in Detroit
Hon Peter White of Marquette a state university regent and pioneer in Michigan’s iron and copper development collapsed in Detroit Saturday likely from heart disease while walking from City Hall to the Pontchartrain Hotel. He had felt indigestion moments earlier and died before aid could be rendered.
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Detroit
Mich
Peter White
Marquette
The
State University
Upper Peninsula
Michigan
City Hall
Pontchartrain
American Meat Returns to America from Britain
British ports London Glasgow and Liverpool shipped 210000 pounds of American meat by fast steamer to New York on Friday to ease the ongoing U S meat shortage.
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London
Glasgow
Liverpool
New York
America
Poisoned milk kills farmer and sickens daughters
Columbia Missouri, June 8. George Tay for a farmer near the city is dead and his daughters are critically ill after drinking suspected poisoned milk. Local authorities pursue clues as the community reels from the incident.
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Columbia
George Tay For
Markets Report Grain and Wheat Prices Across Chicago and New York
Chicago and New York market notes June 6 show flour prices soft in Chicago with variety of wheat and rye figures. butter eggs and potatoes listed with ranges. New York opens lower on wheat then firm on demand. corn moves under weather outlook, September around 144 76e.
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Chicago
Minnesota
New York
Gredes
Western
Shorts
Live Stock Prices From Chicago and Omaha Markets
Live stock quotes from Chicago dated June 6 show cattle and hogs with varied grades and prices. Omaha market notes June 8 report steady cattle and hog prices with ranges for native steers cows and calves and packing hogs reflected in the day’s market sweep.
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Uicago
Omaha
Neb
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ARS
Wolverine
Marquette, Mich
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