Hughes Renominated for New York Governor by Republicans
New York Republicans renominate Charles E. Hughes on the first ballot at the session in Oyster Bay and adopt a platform endorsing Taft Sherman and Hughes. The platform emphasizes sound money protective tariff and public-service integrity. Democratic session in Rochester opens with Justice Morgan J. O'Brien addressing Bryan and Cleveland as cheers echo.
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Saratoga
Guayo
Charles E. Hughes
New York
Revputienn
Taft
Sherman
Dr. Hill
Oyster Bay
Congressman Cocks
Roosevelt
Loeb
Gov. Hughes
Republican Party
Chicago
William H. Taft
James 8. Sherman
Hughes
Rochester
Morgan J. O'Brien
Justice O'Brien
Willian J. Bryan
Grover Cleveland
Forest fires threaten communities along Lake Superior shore
Dispatches from Duluth and Grand Marais report fires burning along the north shore with mills, settlers, and militia on alert. Indications of destruction of villages and heavy timber losses spread as crews battle blazes near Hymers Westfort Flint and the international boundary, with supplies and men returning from Grand Marais.
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Duluth
Minn
Dulurh
Grand Marais
Fort William
Ont
Hymers
Westfort
Nipegon
Mackenzie
Hymerg
Here
DEALS DEFEAT TO RECTIFIERS IN RULING ON IMITATION LIQUOR LABELS
In Springheld NL on Sept 16 Judge Humphrey ruled against Wollner & Co. distillers and rectifiers Peoria Ill in a case over labeling of whisky and other liquors. The ruling requires age and natural color or label imitation. The decision impacts distillers and rectifiers nationwide as to whether products sold as genuine are clearly distinguished from imitation.
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Springheld
Humphrey
United States District Court
Wollner & Co
Peoria
Ill
P. G. Rennick
Internal Revenue
United States
Road strikers' effort fails at railway yards
Winnipeg strikers gathered to terrorize strike breakers at the Canadian Pacific railway shops on Tuesday. Police reenforcements halted the attempt to break into the yards, shutting the gates to prevent a clash and averting a larger conflict. Big fire loss in mines reported in Biddeford and Saco. Fire destroyed lumber yards, tenement buildings, factories, and railroad property, with Crossman & Sons suffering substantial lumber losses and flames reaching 18 tenements.
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Winnipeg
Man
Canadian Pacific Railway
Biddeford
Saco River
Saco
George A. Crossman & Sons
Bullock Plans Hunt With Kermit Roosevelt at Standing Rock
Capt. Seth Bullock leaves Deadwood for Avon to join Kermit Roosevelt on a three week hunt across Standing Rock and Cheyenne River reservations. This marks the captain’s consecutive year hunting with Roosevelt on the reservations.
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Kermit Roosevelt
Deadwood
5. D
Seth Bullock
Duvon
S. D
Standing Rock
Cheyenne River
Bullock
Cholera Toll Rises in St Petersburg Record
Cholera reports from St Petersburg show 210 cases and 0 deaths by Tuesday noon, nearly double Monday’s tally. Included in the list is Lieut Abramoff of the Cossack regiment, identified among the victims and sufferers in the developing outbreak.
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St. Petersburg
Abramoff
Lire Ghurids
Triple Drowning In Rainy River Rapids
Dispatch reports three men drowned in Rainy River rapids near Fort Frances Ontario. Victims are Capt. H. H. Sissons, J. F. P. Sissons, John Lockhart, and P. L. A. Atchinson. Cause credited to the upset of Capt. Sissons gasoline launch.
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Tiple
Rainy River
Wisnipes, Man
Fort Frances
Onl
J. FP
Sissons
John Lockhart
PL A. Atchinson
Maine results show Democratic gains in rural areas
Portland Maine September 16 revised returns keep Bert M Fernard ahead of Obadiah Gardner by 7529 votes as 25 towns and 26 plantations await report. Democratic gains across all four congressional districts boost rural support while Republicans gain in cities and maintain heavier overall vote.
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Portland
Maine
Bert M. Fernard
Obadiah Gardner
Gardner
Congress
Arkansas
sLittle Rock
Ark
Guy B. Tucker
Taft
Linton Hotel
Leslie M. Shaw
Secretary of the Treasury
Louisville
Burton
Cleveland
Two Die In Great Tunnel Mishap At Detroit River
Detroit sept 16 two men died and two others fainted in shaft No 4 of the Canadian approach to the Michigan Central tunnel when smoke from burning timbers and tar paper suffocated workers. W R Kimball superintendent and Bert Johnson carpenter were killed. Bert Schuman shaft superintendent and Charles Oake bread Windsor fireman were hospitalized. Fire was fought as air pressure for the tunnel work was sacrificed to vent fumes.
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Detroit
Mich
Michigan Central
Detroit River
W. R. Kimball
Bert Johnson
Bert Schuman
Charles Oakebread
Windsor City
Utah Republicans Convene in Salt Lake City Convention
Utah Republicans meet in Salt Lake City with United States Senator George Sutherland as temporary chairman. William Spry, U S marshal and gubernatorial candidate, has convention support.
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Utah
Salt Lake City
United States
George Sutherland
William Spry
Car of dynamite explodes killing eight at Windsor Missouri
A dynamite car exploded at Windsor Missouri injuring 16 to 20 and killing eight, with Frederick Yakes depot agent and Dee Hall among the dead. The blast destroyed the platform, shook the town, and cut telegraph lines. Reports also mention separate blasts in Ashland Wisconsin Heerlen near the Dutch border and Galena Kansas with multiple fatalities.
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Kansas City
Windsor
Frederick Yakes
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway
Dee Hall
Yakes
Wisconsin
Ashland
Wis
Beera
Atlantic Dynamite Company
D. BR
Webber
France
Aix-La-Chapelle
Laura
Heerlen
Galena
Kan
James Mitchell
William Murphy
Ing
Trouble in Tennessee Mines Sparks Strikes in Jellico
Jellico Tennessee September 16 reports say trouble flared in the Blue Gem coal mines as workers resist union organization by the United Mine Workers of America. A number of men are also on strike at the Wooldridge mines amid labor tensions in the Jellico coal district.
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Tennessee
Jellico,Tenn
Blue Gem
Jellico Coal District
Wooldridge
United Ming Workers of America
Night riders alarm Arkansas cotton regions amid price dispute
In Jonesboro and Lake City areas farmers report bands of night riders forming to enforce a minimum price for cotton and reduce next year’s acreage. Beebe official R H McCulloch denies union endorsement of any such action and says the Arkansas Farmers Union has not authorized violence or property damage.
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Jonesboro
Ark
Arkansas
International Farmers’ Union
Fort Worth
Craighead County
Poinsett County
Lake City
Little Rock
Arkansas Farmers’ Union
R. H. McCulloch
Beebe
Arkansas Farmers’ Union and Secretary of the Rational Organization of the Union
Mississippi
State Not In Liquor Traffic Case Upheld
Richmond Va Sept 16 The United States circuit court of appeals sustained Judge J C Pritchard in Flieschmann Company and others v South Carolina dispensary commission holding that a state cannot conduct liquor traffic as a private business The opinion by Judge James E Boyd with Judges Waddill and Chief Justice Fuller concurring spans over 40 pages detailing two main points eleventh amendment jurisdiction and whether the dispensary commission can be enjoined by federal court
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Richmond
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
J. C Pritchard
Flieschmann Company
South Carolina
Boyd
Big Fire Near Sturgis Meant All But Out
Galena area on the military wood reservation saw a timber fire burn for about two weeks but is now practically extinguished after a heavy general rain across the Black Hills provided crucial aid.
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Sturgis
S. D
Galena
Military Wood Reservation
Black Hills
Baton Rouge City Auditor Dies by Own Action
Baton Rouge city auditor L. J. Granary killed himself with a heavy caliber revolver near the heart, Sept. 16, in Baton Rouge Louisiana. The death occurred in the city, investigation noted as a suicide.
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Baton Rouge
L. J Granary
Hell IV
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William J. Bryan
Minnesota
Hyniers
Bert M. Fernald
GO. P
Indiana
Bryan
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Arkansas Night Riders
Famous Fleischmann Company
Chas, A. Grubb
Attorney AT Law
4Th & Chestnut Streets
Atlantic
Towa
G. R. Miller
Central
Gillespie Building
Musson
C. G. Clark
Interne Hospital
State University of Iowa
R. A. Gamble
Osteopathia
Opera House Block
Calla
Phone
T. B. Swan
DR. C. L, Campbell
Ben A. Wood
C. W. Savery Abstractes
U.S. Mullins
Has. D. Finley
D. O
Neaphine Cook
Finlay
D.O
Finley & Finley
The
Atlantic Infirmary of Osteopathy
Masson
Bell
Chestnut St
Nels Brown
Iowa
Butler
M. H. Butler
G. J. Litterst
Walnut Street
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