Roosevelt Policies Spark Taft Driven Platform Forthcoming
Washington reports reveal no lukewarm endorsement for Roosevelt by the Republican platform as Taft and allies push for a tariff plank aligned with Ohio lines. Attorney General Wade Ellis, a leading Ohio figure, meets Taft to press anti trust and Hepburn style restraint, with further White House talks continuing past midnight.
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Roosevelt
Taft
Chicago
McKinley
Wade Ellis
Ohio
Resolutions Committee
Secretary of War
Sixty-first Congress
United States
Ellis
House Judiciary Committee
White House
Garfield
Wade H. Ellis
Hopkins
Illinois
Republican committee faces strenuous contest duties
Chicago June 2 Chairman Harry New of the Republican national committee says the body will have strenuous work ahead in considering the contests brought before it for settlement before the Republican national convention opens.
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Chicago
Harry New
Republican National Committee
New
National committee plans hearings on 229 contests
The committee expects 114 hours to hear and weigh the evidence across 229 contested seats. Some contests may not reach the committee, but most are anticipated to come before it. Hearings start at 11 Friday morning and will run each afternoon and evening, likely not finishing before the convention.
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Nces
National Committee
Witness for defense Gaston Philip testifies in murder trial
Gaston Philip, civil engineer and clubman, testifies for hours in his own defense in Washington. He claims he shot cab driver Frank Macaboy in self defense after Macaboy demanded $150 and threatened him during a revelry night. Philip says he feared for his life and only fired after Macaboy attempted bodily harm.
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Washington
Gastonilip
Frank Macabby
Philip
Macaboy
Pioneer Chicago wire maker dies by self-inflicted act
In Chicago on June 2 Harman KE Schna vel, a pioneer wire manufacturer, shot himself at his boarding place, ending his life after losing more than $50,000 in an advance in corn prices. He was sixty years old.
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Chicago
Harman KE. Schnavel
Himm
Sargent Denies Dead Smuggling Tale as Fake
Washington June 2 Commissioner Frank P Sargent of the immigration bureau returned from New York and Boston and denounced last week’s report that twelve Chamathes smuggled into the country had been received dead in New York as the rankest kind of fake.
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Washington
Frank P. Sargent
B Nll of Immigration
New York
Boston
Presbyterian general assembly sessions open with reports read
In Pittsburg on June 2 the United Presbyterian general assembly spent most of the session reading and considering committee reports. A memorial service was held with an evening address by Rev. J A Renwick.
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Pittsburg
United Presbyterian General Assembly
J. A. Renwick
Mud fence saying? Did anyone see such a fence?
In the Atchison Globe readers ponder the old saying that people are as homely as a mud fence and ask if anyone has actually seen or knows of such a mud fence.
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Atchison Globe
Baseball Scores From Major Leagues Behind Weekend Play
American Association games in Louisville Columbus Indianapolis Toledo Milwaukee Kansas City St Paul Minneapolis with scores 6 9 2 3 7 2 7 8 in twelve innings. American League at New York Boston 2 0 St Louis Chicago 6 9 Detroit Cleveland 1 9 Philadelphia Washington 6 1. National League Boston New York 4 0 Chicago Pittsburg 8 Brooklyn Philadelphia 2 Cincinnati St Louis 3 2 Cincinnati 0 St Louis 1.
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Columbus
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Toledo
Milwaukee
Kansas City
St. Paul
Minneapolis
New York
Boston
St. Louis
Chicago
Detroit
Cleveland
Philadelphia
Washington
Pittsburg
Brooklyn
Cincinnati
Market Quotations from Minneapolis and Chicago
Minneapolis wheat prices for July and September trade shown with No. 1 hard and Northern grades, plus arrivals. St Paul cattle and hogs ranges. Chicago quotes list wheat Corn Oats Pork and dairy prices. eggs poultry and turkeys also noted.
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Northern
Duluth
Chicago
Market quotations for cattle hogs and sheep
Chicago June 1 cattle prices for various classes list Beef cattle Texans Western cattle stockers and feeders cows and heifers calves with values per hundredweight. Hogs by class light mixed heavy rough good to choice heavy and pigs shown with price ranges. Sheep yearlings and lambs priced. data includes percentages and ranges.
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St. Paul
Chicago
James K Jones Dead Ex-Senator Led Bryan Campaigns
Former United States Senator James Kimbrough Jones of Arkansas died at his Washington residence after a brief illness at age sixty nine. A Confederate veteran turned lawyer he served in the Arkansas State Senate and the U S Senate, led the Democratic caucus, and chaired the Democratic National Committee conducting Bryan campaigns in 1896 and 1900. He is survived by his wife and three children and will be buried in Washington.
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United States
James K. Jones
Arkansas
Senate
William Jennings Pryan
Democratic National Committee
Jones
Leonora Carrigan
Mississippi
James Kimbrough Jones
Dallas County
State Senate
Jamess. Walker
United States Senate
Bryan
National Democratic Committee
Senator Jones
Carrigan
Miss Sue Jones
James K. Jones, Jr
Congress
Floods Hit Northern Pacific, Montana Traffic Demoralized
Flood conditions in Montana are described as the worst in Northern Pacific history. Traffic is demoralized with trains stranded in Eastern and western Montana. Through trains from the West to Butte were moved to Great Northern routes to St Paul. Mountains hold heavy snow after the recent storm.
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Butte
Mont
Montana
Northern Pacific Railroad
Northern Pacific
Great Northern
St. Paul
Wipes Out His Family in Missouri Tragedy
Bert McMillin foreman on Whitmore Thomas ranch near La Belle killed his wife Mamie and two children Opal and Frank then burned his clothes and shot himself. No witnesses. The family had moved from Springfield five months ago. little is known of their past.
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Bert McMillin
Whitmore Thomas
Here
Mamie McMillin
Opal
Frank
McMillin
Springfield
Lusitania Sets Eastbound Record to Queenstown
Queenstown reports the Cunard liner Lusitania broke the New York to Queenstown eastbound record by 2 hours 43 minutes completing 2,982 knots in 5 days 4 hours 80 minutes. The achievement highlights the ship’s speed and endurance on the long course.
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Queenstown
Lusitania
Cunard Line
New York
Mysterious murder puzzles Paris police inquiring
Paris on June 2 police face a slow investigation into the murder of noted painter Adolphe Stein bert and his mother in law Madame Japy at the Rue de Baugirard residence. Evidence includes jewels found in a concealed safe and fingerprints on a crystal clock sent for Bertillon testing. The examining magistrate spent the afternoon at the Steinheim house pursuing clues and questioning witnesses.
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Paris
Adolphe Steinbert
Madame Japy
Dahlman Says He Received 15000 For Nebraska Campaign
Omaha mayor James C Dahlman claims funds reported as contributed to Nebraska's 1904 Democratic campaign by Thomas F Ryan through W Sheehan were received and spent by him. He states $15,000 was sent in three payments, used entirely in the state race for Parker and Gorge, with no money to the national campaign or Mr Bryan. Bryan neither saw nor knew of the money.
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Omaha
James C Dahlman
Nebraska
New York
Thomas F. Ryan
W. F. Sheehan
Sheehan
Parker
T. S. Allen
G. W. Gorge
Mr. Dahlman
Bryan
Mauretania Sets Transatlantic Record Over Long Course
The Cunard liner Mauretania shattered the long course record from Queenstown to New York, doing 4 days 20 hours 15 minutes at 24.86 knots. It bettered Lusitania’s mark by seven minutes despite three of four propellers in use, logging 2,890 knots for the voyage. The ship’s log also notes a record 635 knots in a single day.
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New York
Cunard
Queenstown
Cunard Line Company
Tornado near Hoxie ruins barns and stock in Sheridan County
A tornado passed within half a mile of Hoxie Sheridan county damaging property and destroying much live stock. The 100 yard wide two mile long path carried away barns fences and trees. Wind then brought hail and widespread crop destruction across Salina region and western Kansas. The region endures one of the state's heaviest rains with continuous rainfall for forty eight hours.
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Kan
Hoxie
Sheridan County
Here
Kansas
Colorado
Oklahoma
Kingston Ends 250th Anniversary Celebration
Kingston New York wrapped up its 250th founding anniversary with outdoor events a military civic parade a Roosevelt guided signal and a fireworks display at Kingston Point park Governor Hughes spoke praising home rule and attended a luncheon then watched an Indian attack reenactment on Esopus stockade a Kingston club reception followed with congratulatory messages from President Roosevelt and Vice President Fairbanks.
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N. Y
Roosevelt
Washington
Hughes
Kingston Point Park
Esopus Stockade
Esopus
Kingston Club
Fairbanks
Boy Horace Thompson Drowns in Mississippi River
In Minneapolis on June 2 Horace Thompson eleven years old son of grocer E L Thompson slipped on the river bank while fishing with a companion and sank to death just south of the St Paul road bridge near the Twin City boundary. The body has not been recovered.
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Minneapolis
Horace Thompson
E. L. Thompson
St. Paul Road
St. Paul
Twin City
Fire in Keith's Theater Leaves Actor Dead
Eugene Jepson a New York leading man in a vaudeville sketch at Keith's theater died in his dressing room from heart disease as a fire alarm sounded. Audience evacuated calmly while the orchestra and cast continued. Fire caused about 5600 dollars in damage. Jepson had a history of heart disease and once performed with Maude Adams.
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Cleveland, O
Eugene Jepven
New York
Keith
Daniels
Jepson
Maude Adams
Methodist conference ends with omissions on amusement and pastorate limits
Baltimore June 2 The Methodist Episcopal general conference on its final day did many things but will be noted for what it did not do. Two hoped for actions were an amusement question and a time limit on pastorates, neither of which were adopted.
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W. J. Urbatch & Bro
Baltimore
Methodist Episcopal General Conference
Paragraph 248 Stirs Debate Over Episcopal Address
A fragile conference debate preserves paragraph 248 as is, allowing dancing and other words to remain in the Episcopal address. Pastors may be returned to their charges year after year, as has been customary in recent years.
Fairbanks in Race to Stay
Indianapolis reports many false statements about Vice President Fairbanks candidacy. Senator Hemenway authorized a statement that Fairbanks will be presented at the Chicago convention for the presidential nomination. Any report of variation from Fairbanks current position before the convention is untrue.
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Indianapolis
Fairbanks
Hemenway
Airbanke
Fair
Chicago
Barge Capsizes on Amur River Drowning 89 Prisoners
In Asiatic Russia at Kanbarovsk on June 2 a large barge carrying Chinese prisoners capsized in the Amur river, resulting in the drowning of 89 people. The tragedy underscores harsh conditions and the peril faced by detainees during transport.
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Kanbarovsk
Asiatic
Russia
Amur River
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