Taft Delegates Dominant In Ohio Primaries
Ohio Republican primaries yield four Taft at large and twenty-two district delegates to Chicago. Taft gains in most counties, with only Foraker opposition in Cuyahoga dampening total. Knox shows Taft four to one as independents align with Foraker. Vorys proclaims universal Taft support and unanimous convention slate.
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Chicago
Foraker
Columbus
Ohio
William H. Taft
Hicaro
Hardin County
Supreme Court
Cuyaholga County
Taft County
Hardin
Cuyahoga County
Taft
Congress
Arthur I. Vorys
Acquittal for Mrs Dora McDonald in Chicago murder trial
Mrs Dora McDonald was acquitted by a Chicago criminal court jury after six and a half hours of deliberation in the Webster Guerin murder case. The verdict, reached with jurors vowing not to reveal deliberations, followed extensive testimony and dramatic testimony by physicians.
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Chicago
Dora’ Mc Donald
Webster Guerin
Michael McDonald
Webster S. Guerin
Omaha
la Salle
van Buren
McDonall
Leopold Freeman
Champion Chemical Works
McDonald
Guerin
Fireman Crushed. Panic Narrowly Averted in Building Blaze
A five story building at 315 West Fourth Street housed several firms, including two wholesale millinery firms, when a blaze caused nearly 90 000 in loss. Fireman Harvey Lowery was fatally or gravely injured, crushed under a truck, while two others were lightly hurt. Several hundred women workers faced a potential panic that was quickly contained.
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Cincinnati
West Fourth Street
Harvey Lowery
Train wreck near Forest Grove kills three passengers
A Southern Pacific passenger train derailed near Forest Grove Oregon, twenty miles from Portland. Three people died John McDonald of McMinnville, Ore Mrs J E Bates and her baby of Forest Grove were among the eighteen injured.
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Portland
Ore
Southern Pacific
Forest Grove
John McDonald
McMinnville
J. E. Bates
Baby
Count Boni Fined Twenty Dollars in Paris Case
Count Boni de Castellar de Cas tellane, divorced husband of Anna Gould of New York, was found guilty by the Paris correctional court of criminal assault and battery on his cousin Prince Helie de Sagah. He was fined 20 dollars. the prince received 20 cents in damages.
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Count Boni
Paris
Count Boni de Castellane
Anna Gould
New York
Prince Helie de Sagah
Detroit Fireman Killed In Wall Collapse
A Detroit fireman died and two firefighters were seriously hurt when a wall fell during a blaze that destroyed sixteen cars and caused damage to the United Railway car barns on Michigan Avenue. Loss pegged at $18,000.
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Detroit
United Railway
Michigan Avenue
Climax in Graft Trial as Lewis Testifies in Harrisburg Case
In Harrisburg on February 12, Stanford B. Lewis testified in the state capitol conspiracy trial that contractor John H. Sanderson objected to cutting bills to fund others. He said a letter, signed by Lewis, claimed he certified a $187,735.29 Pennsylvania Construction Co. payment and tied to former Auditor General Snyder, a defendant. The proceedings included evidence of large payments for capital furnishings made months before delivery, despite legal receipts requirements.
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Harrisburg
State Capitol
Commonwealth
Stanford B. Lewis
Josep M. Houston
John H. Sanderson
Snyder
Lewis
Pennsylvania Construction Company
Sanderson
Sister in custody after shooting injures brother in suburb
Detroit February 12 Mrs Nettie Moffett twenty seven is jailed at central police HQ while her brother Harvey Price nineteen is reported dying at Solvay hospital from a shooting at her Deray suburb home. She says a struggle over a revolver she hid under her apron followed abusive language by the boy.
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Detroit
Nettie Moffett
Central Police
Harvey Price
Solvay Hospital
Deray
Waiters Die by Gas In West Thirty-Eighth Street Room
Peter Toomey and George Molloy both thirty, waiters, died by inhaling gas in Toomey’s room on West Thirty-eighth Street New York. Doors and windows were tightly closed and gas jets left wide open. Molloy had recently come to New York from Des Moines Iowa.
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New York
Peter Toomey
George Molloy
Toomey
West Thirty-eighth Street
Molloy
Des Moines
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Solon Wood
Exalted Ruler
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