Contested Senate Race Prompts Delta State GOP Scrutiny
Jackson Mississippi August 8 The Democratic state executive committee will meet in the senate chamber to canvass the returns of the recent primary for US senator and state offices. Both senatorial candidates and top gubernatorial contenders will be represented amid rumors of destroyed ballots later proven unfounded.
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Jackson
Miss
Democratic State Executive Committee
United States
Senate
Lah
James K. Vardeman
John Sharp
Secretary of County Commission
Rail strike grips Colorado as talks stall in Denver
Martin A Knapp and Charles P Neil expected in Denver to mediate the Colorado and Southern strike. Grievance committees of the Rio Grande and other roads demand 2 cents per hour or yardmen. Widened conflict risks shutting mines near Trinidad and leaving about 3,000 unemployed as progress stalls.
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Denver
Aug. S
Martin A Knapp
Iterstate Commerce Commission
Charles P. Neil
Golorado and Southern Railroad
Thade
Neyver and
Rio Grande
Trinidad
Clorado
Capture in El Paso Eleven Chinamen Crossed Rio Grande
Aug. 8 report from ag Tek details eleven Chinese men who crossed the Rio Grande four miles north of El Paso, near a Chinese restaurant rear area. One is named Mar Mei proprietor of the restaurant and another man described as the wealthiest Chinaman in the state.
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Ag Tek
Rio Nde
FA Paso
Mar Mei
Bouthy
Immigrant group shuffled toward city under scrutiny
Immigration officers report that seven Japanese swimmers from Ponquillas were brought to town and jailed. A hack carried Chinamen aided by a railroad watchman is implicated with a box car filled with bedding and provisions ready for reception. Thirteen more Chinamen in the area face deportation.
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Rio Grande
Ponquillas
Here
Archbold denies Standard Oil deception claims
New York asserts the bureau of corporations charged deception in Standard Oil reviews. Archbold counters that no such conference occurred and that his statements were exact truth. He criticizes the unnamed official for withholding name, saying all his words were true.
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New York
Aug
Washington
Bureau of Corporations
Standard Ol
John D. Archbold
Standard Oil
Archbold
Presence of Troops in Belfast Restores Confidence
Belfast Aug 8 The first day of the military policy in Belfast passed quietly. No incidents occurred. The presence of troops revived business as mills and factories reopened or planned to reopen. Dock workers moved more goods than since the dockers strike began and carters' strike threats appeared to collapse. Troops were withdrawn at 1 pm and merchants praised the improved situation.
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Belfast
Carters
Helena man charged with murder in Arkansas case
Helena Ark Aug 8 Former policeman Ben Carruth has been arrested here charged with the murder of
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Helena
Ark
Ben Carruth
Curruth Denied Charge. Helena Police Face Circumstantial Evidence
J M Scntt reports Curruth denies the charge but police claim strong circumstantial evidence. Curruth was a police member when the entire force resigned after a citizens meeting amid graft charges reported by the World.
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J. M. Scntt
Helena World
Curruth
World
Storm Floods Turtle Creek After Bank Hearing
In Turtle Creek a fierce storm flooded the town as a hearing for Thomas Jordan, the bank janitor charged with disorderly conduct in a $4,750 disappearance, was halted. Thunder, lightning, and rising waters forced officials to flee. damage hit rail lines, refineries, and trolley routes nearby.
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Pittsburg
Aug
Thomas Jordan
First National Bank of
Turtle Creek
Irwin
Tinker Run
Yough
Pennsylvania Railroad
Atlantic Refining Company
Larimer
Irwin Trafford
Wilmerding
Four Killed At Corliss Crossing New Jersey
Four Norwood House employees were killed when a Pennsylvania Bankers Special train struck their carriage at the Corliss avenue crossing in Allenhurst New Jersey. Victims include driver Thomas Edwards and waitresses Toretta Grace Jennies McDonald and Hannah Mushy. Spectators at the station platform saw the tragedy as the excursion halted the road.
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Allenhurst
N. J
Aug
Norwood House
Pennsylvania
Bankers
Corliss Avenue
Thoms Edwards
Toretta Grace
Jennies McDonald
Hannah Mushy
Corliss Crossing
New and Long Branch
Edwards
Train disaster wrecks Edwards carriage and horse team
A train draw out Edwards, his horses and a carriage on the rails. The approaching flyer, obscured by a moving special, collided across the roadway tearing the carriage and occupants to pieces. The catastrophe left wreckage scattered and survivors uncertain.
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Edwards
Prominent Pennsylvanian George Delamater Dies by Suicide
George Wallace Delamater a former Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate and Crawford County state senator 1887 to 1890 shot himself in his Diamond National Bank building office. Grief over his father’s death on May 6 at Meadville and the June passing of his son at Connellsville is cited as the motive. Born March 18, 1849 Meadville educated at Allegheny College and Harvard Law School.
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Pittsburg
Aug
George Wallace Delamater
Pennsylvania
Crawford County
Diamond National Bank
George B. Delamater
Meadville
James Scott Delamater
Connelsville
Delamater
Prudential Iife Insurance Company
Mr. Delamater
Allegheny College
Harvard Law School
Connecticut Class Battleship Shows Speed in Trials
Rockland Me Aug 8 The Connecticut the first 4 class battleship built for the government completed fourteen runs over a 4 mile course outside the harbor with an average of 1 The trial board and Rear Admiral Robly D Evans found the showing highly satisfactory A fireman L M Turner borrowed from the Ohio was killed when a 200 pound bucket fell on him during hoisting in the fireroom He died an hour later.
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Rockland
Connecticut
Robly D. Evans
L. M. Turner
Ohio
Turner
Wisconsin rail road cuts live stock rates to Milwaukee
The Wisconsin railroad rate commission lowered charges on cattle and other livestock from multiple points to Milwaukee. In Massachusetts Mrs. Louisa M Taft secretary Tafts mother has slight relapse after nearly three weeks ill in Milbury. In Cleveland Wednesday night Lord Louis Armitage Rivers and Mrs Laura B Glenn married. William L Qualey of St Paul Marble and Granite shot himself while cleaning a revolver and died an hour later. Gans Burns bout in Los Angeles postponed due to Burns unfitness. Ground for Minneapolis pro cathedral broken with Archbishop Ireland leading first shovel in front of 5000 people.
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Wisconsin Railroad Rate Commission
Milwaukee
Louisa M. Taft
Taft
Milbury
Mass
Louis Armitage Rivers
Durham
Eng
Laura B. Glenn
Isaac Arbuckle
Cleveland
William L. Qualey
St. Paul
City
Joe Gans
Jimmy Burns
Los Angeles
Burns
Minneapolis
Ireland
Milwaukee to Okauches Race Ends in Fatal Crash
A Milwaukee to Okauches auto race covering about twenty five miles with a $25 prize ended in a wreck near Elm creek at Brookfield Junction. Two occupants were killed and two others injured. Alderman Koerner owned wrecked cars, Frank Mulkern owned the safe one. Killed were Joseph Kusehbreert and George Post. injured were Horace Greeley Sloan and Paddy Dorrell. An anarchist bomb factory explosion in Lisbon left four seriously wounded.
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Milwaukee
Okauches
Elm Creek
Brookfield Junction
John Koerner
Frank Mulkern
Joseph Kusehbreert
George Post
Horace Greeley Sloan
Paddy Dorrell
Storm Toll Grows From Midwest Destruction Across Iowa and Minnesota
Four people dead and nine injured as storms lashed Iowa and Minnesota. Property losses in Minnesota exceed $100,000 with extensive telegraph and telephone damage crippling business. In Illinois counties damage nears $1,000,000, agricultural losses include 25 000 acres of corn. Locally, Ole Tweed and family died in Hanlontown Iowa. E Eichenhausen and Fuller among the injured. Weather wreckage includes collapsed barns, destroyed church, and stock losses. Train wrecks and cracked lines worsened the impact.
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St. Paul
Minnesota
Ilinois
Tornado Toll in Northern Iowa District
Des Moines reports from storm stricken Northern Iowa say four people died in Hanlontown including Ole Tweed and Ashland Tweed and their son. Injuries include Mrs. Harrison and Mrs. Quinby. Rockwell barns and livestock were destroyed, Clear Lake suffered, and crops harmed in Winnebago County with rumors of a Joice death. wire service cut off.
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Hanlontown
Ole Tweed
Ashland Tweed
E. Eichenhausen
Sparta
Winona
Andrew Nelson
Forest City
H. Fuller
Harrison
Des Moines
Clear Lake
Quinby
Elma
Gladys Verny
Mason City
Wren Gumatt
Lake Mills
Iowa
Winnebago County
Rockwell
Minnesota
Green Bay
Marshland
Fuller
Ang
L. O. Varney
Winnebago
Joice
Storm in Illinois with fierce winds and hail damages
Peoria Illinois August 8 a Tuesday night storm brought a fifty mile an hour wind. Hailstones the size of a hen's egg damaged crops with 26 000 acres of corn laid waste farm buildings toppled and telephone wires down. Peoria and Knox counties suffer about 1 000 000 in damage.
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Peoria
Knox
Tangier siege and Fez region unrest amid bombardment
Paris report says Khiot tribesmen surround Fez Araish after Casa Blanca bombardment and gate closure. Consuls demand a warship as new disturbances erupt at Alcazar Fez region. In Beloit Wisconsin Clarence Searles and Kenneth Andre, both ten, drowned in Rock River after falling from an embankment.
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Paris
Tangier
Petit Parisien
Araish
Casa Blanca
Alcazar
Fez
Teneler
Beloit
Wis
Clarence Searles
Kenneth Andre
Rock River
Prominent Men Likely to Be Prosecuted for Antitrust Violations
New York dispatch reports Attorney General Bonaparte says criminal prosecutions against trust leaders may follow the Interstate Commerce Commission inquiry into the Harriman railroad system. He notes a preference for imprisoning some executives rather than pursuing corporations alone and vows action against superiors if a reasonable case exists.
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New York
New York Times
Lenox
Mass
Interstate Commerce Commission
Harriman
Bonaparte
Washington
Department of Justice
Bears Raid Stocks On Wall Street Slump Reversal
New York August 8 bears attacked the stock market at noon driving prices lower amid heavy selling and rapid short covering. After initial weakness a rally followed as buyers entered allowing some recovery though big blocks of Union Pacific and United States Steel were dumped. Sellers focused on agitation against corporations.
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New York
Bears
Sugar
Interborough
Union Pacific
United States Steel
Building Trades Workmen Strike Looms in City
Washington Aug. A general strike of building trades workmen will begin within hours after the local bricklayers union voted to join other trades already striking. About 700 men will be affected, halting work on the Metropolitan Club and other buildings, with government projects largely spared. The bricklayers also voted to affiliate with the American Federation of Labor.
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Washington
New Metropolitan Club
Bricklayers’ Organization
American Federation of Labor
Murder and suicide follow divorce suit in Owosso
In Owosso Michigan on August 8 Edward Halsted a 36 year old laborer from Mount Pleasant shot his estranged wife who had filed for divorce then killed himself after pursuing her to Owosso. In Hammond Indiana on the same day Daniel Hester and Thomas Thayer were fatally burned and Janes Daughter seriously injured when a ladle of molten metal overturned at Inland Steel’s plant.
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Owosso, Mich
Edward Halsted
Mount Pleasant
Mich
Hammond
Ind
Daniel Hester
Thomas Thayer
Janes
Inland Steel Company
Iron Ore Shipments From Hibbing District Rise After Strike
Duluth reports Great Northern lines hauling 232 trainloads of 70 steel cars each in the 24 hours to midnight Wednesday, up from pre strike averages. Duluth Missabe and Northern sent 30 trains of 48 cars. All Hibbing district mines tapped by the road operate except Winnifred shaft of United States Steel. About 95 percent of normal ore flow from Mesaba and Vermillion ranges resumes.
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Duluth
Great Northern
Mesaba Range
Kelly Lake
Hibbing
Missabe
Hibbing District
Winnifred
United States Steel Corporation
Mesaba
Vermillion Ranges
Rail union talks in session at Cambridge Springs
Representatives of about 41 000 eastern railroad workers met in secret at Cambridge Springs Pennsylvania for ten days to discuss wage readjustment. Participants include conductors firemen brakemen yardmen switchmen and telegraphers from lines such as Pennsylvania New York Central New Haven Hartford Central of New Jersey Lake Erie and Western and Baltimore Ohio. No strikes or radical actions are planned, and many grievances relate to 12 hour shifts and rising living costs.
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New York
the Times
Cambridge Springs
Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers
Eschtchhman
Telegraph Workers Walkout Over Reinstatement Clash
Los Angeles telegraphers walked out after the discharge of a junior operator, with about fifty operators meeting nearby to decide action. Five resumed work at 6:30 p.m. and officials warned there is no immediate prospect of a return. District Superintendent Lamb claimed no negotiations were requested and no link to the walkout.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Westy
Union Cot America
the Keys
F. H. Lamb
Moyer Arrives in Denver After Quiet Home Return
Charles H. Moyer president of the Western Federation of Miners reaches Denver with Mrs. Moyer and her sister. They go directly to their home to avoid any demonstrations following a period of high strain and public scrutiny.
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Denver
Charles H. Moyer
Western Federation of Miners
Morri son of Firewood Partner of Grant Dies at 83
St. Louis obituary notes the death of Thomas Morri son formerly a partner with General U S Grant in peddling firewood. He died Wednesday at age eighty three.
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St. Louis
Thomas Morrison
U. S. Grant
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