Delegates cheer Roosevelt at Republican convention
Chicago January 17 The Republican national convention opened with Julius C Burrows of Michigan elected temporary chairman amid cheers for Theodore Roosevelt. A Louisiana seating dispute was resolved, and temporary officers were announced as delegates prepared for the first full day of work.
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Lorenzo D. Chase
Charles Brooks Smith
Parkersburg
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Hartford
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United States
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Theo-o-rose
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Bodies of Gunness family ordered for burial in Chicago
To Bury Gunness Bodies Laporte Indiana June 17 The bodies of Mrs Bella Gunness and four children who died in the Gunness house disaster on April 28 were ordered by Coroner Mack turned over to the public executor who has arranged shipment of the bodies to Chicago for burial Tuesday in Forest Home cemetery
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Laporte
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Bella Gunness
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Chicago
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Forest Home Cemetery
Hepburn Act Suit Tests Coal Transport Rights
In Philadelphia the United States court heard arguments in a government case against seven coal carrying railroads including Pennsylvania, Reading, and Lehigh Valley. The suits seek to restrain interstate coal transport from mines in which the companies are financially interested, under the commodity clause of the Hepburn act. The railroads admit mining interests but challenge the clause as confiscatory and unconstitutional.
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Bonaparte
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Gray
United States Circuit Court
Pennsylvania
Reading
Lehigh Valley
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
Central Railroad
New Jersey
Erie
Delaware & Hudson
L. Allison Wilmer
T. C. Spelling
John G. Johnson
President Baer
Reading Company
Johnson
Philadelphia & Reading
Wilmer
Spelling
Drowning After Kagoshima Coastline Disaster
Tokyo reports 350 sailors drowned as 50 fishing boats wrecked off Kagoshima coast. Governor seeks navy aid from Sasebo. Also noted: Eugene P. Murphy, former Alaska purchase official, dies at 63 in San Francisco. In Missouri, Assistant Attorney General H T Gentry resigns per Hadley request. In Huntington, West Virginia, Charles Rothwell shoots wife then dies. jealousy cited.
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Sasebo
Jefferson City
Hadley
H. T. Gentry
Columbia, Mo
Gentry
Georgia Sets World Coaling Record
A navy department report states the battleship Georgia coal loaded 1 779 tons in five hours and 12 minutes, the world coaling record.
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Washington
Navy Department
Georgia
Decide Running Mate Soon Inference On Vice Presidential Nominee
White House says no VP choice developments until platform is settled and a presidential nominee named. Iowa’s Foley and others weigh renomination of Fairbanks, with discussion of strong Western or Pacific states candidates. New Republican national committee listed with many state delegates and territorial reps.
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Arkansas
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California
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Colorado
Charles Cavender
Connecticut
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Delaware
T. Coleman du Pont
Florida
James N. Coom
Wyoming
George
Paxton
Alaska
L. P. Shackelford
Arizona
Sturgis
District of Columbia
Sidney Liebert
Hawaii
A. G. M. Robertson
New Mexico
Solomon Luna
Re-elected. English Eaten by Cannibals. Villa de Bruges sinking
Madrid June 17 reports from the west coast of Africa confirm the steamboat Villa de Bruges sank on the upper Congo river after a tornado. Among the six Europeans who died four were killed and eaten by cannibals. Seventy negroes drowned.
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Two Shot by Burglar in Paris Home
Mr and Mrs George H Elliott were shot and badly wounded at their Paris Illinois home by a burglar. Mrs Elliott went to the kitchen and was shot in the forehead as she passed the door. Her husband rushed to aid her and was shot while bending over her body.
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George Hwlliott
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Alleged Desperadoes Returned From Europe Case
Claude J. Heritier and William Wilson, charged with stealing jewelry worth $7,000 from Mrs. David P. Morgan in March, were brought back to New York from Europe aboard the Zeeland, which arrived Tuesday from Antwerp.
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Claude J. Heritier
William Wilson
David P. Morgan
Europe
Zeeland
Antwerp
Morse Pleads Not Guilty in Grand Larceny Indictments
New York June 17 Charles W Morse appeared in the criminal branch of the supreme court Tuesday and pleaded not guilty to the three indictments pending against him. Two of the indictments charge him with grand larceny and the third with perjury.
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New York
Charles W. Morse
Criminal
Supreme Court
Republicans Back Tariff Reform and Currency Plan
The platform declares support for tariff revision via a special session and protectionist duties, with maximum and minimum rates to balance home costs. It backs free exchange with the Philippines, approves emergency currency measures, and supports postal savings banks while praising the Aldrich Vreeland approach. Congress adjourns in Mexico City after a busy session with no action on anti foreign proposals.
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Republican Party
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Mexico City
Telegraphic Briefities Highlight Elections and Crime
Brief, scattered items report James J. Hill en route to Labrador for hunting and fishing, heavy rains in New York amid good crops, the death of Jackson County MI’s Eugene Pringle, George N. Bliss seized his daughter in Kenosha, Cornelius F. Shea of Cambridge faces a federal mail fraud charge, and related notes on labor and politics.
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Labrador
New York
Eugene Pringle
Jackson County
Michigan
Jackson, Mich
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Columbus
Jeffery Maufacturing Company
Gerald
Robert EB. Wilson
Kenosha
Wis
Cornelius F. Shea
Cambrided
Mass
Teamsters’ Union
Contr
Boston
I Ad
Outsider Sought as Cooper Family Tragedy Examined
Cadillac Michigan coroner's jury probes deaths of Daniel Cooper, wife, and five children found dead in their home. Mrs Cooper reportedly killed husband and children before taking her own life, relatives say she was insane. Jury suggests possible outsider killer, but no suspect identified. Only son Fred, 17, survived with brain damage.
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Daniel Cooper
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Mine Plant Dynamited at Royal Coal Mines Argentine
Butler June 17. The Royal Coal mines plant at Argentine near Butler was destroyed by dynamite Tuesday. Loss exceeds 20000 dollars. The plant tipple and railroad track segments were wrecked and 46 residences had windows shattered. Labor trouble had troubled the mines recently and arrests were anticipated as investigation proceeds. Foreign miners refused to return to work.
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Markets in grain and livestock price report
Chicago and New York market notes show grain and flour futures with weak to steady tones. Wheat climbs on wet harvest districts, corn and oats active, butter and eggs with varied dairy prices, live poultry and pig values listed. Regional quotes from Omaha include cattle steady to higher, hogs firm, and sheep soft.
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