Wreck of 18-hour Pennsylvania Flyer injures fifty nine
Lima Ohio August 19 fifty nine injured when five Pullmans of the 18 hour Pennsylvania flyer from New York to Chicago derailed near Middle Point. Most were passengers. George Bernard of Chicago likely fatally injured. track damaged for three miles. Cause blamed on spreading rails and a prior freight train axle fault.
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Lima
Pennsylvania Railroad
New York
Chicago
Middlepoint
George Bernard
Fort Wayne
John H. Graves
Middle Point
Tnion
Taft vows to fight Congress over commerce court
President Taft said he will oppose any move to abolish the commerce court and would veto the regressive executive and judicial appropriations bill if it includes abolition provisions. He warned against Democratic retaliation in funding state department adjuncts vital to foreign trade, while Republicans Smoot and Sanders voiced cautious support in the Senate.
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Washington, Ave
Taft
Congress
Commerce Court
Washington
House
Democratic House
State Department
Bureau of Trade Relations
Department
Smoot
Sanders
Senate
White House
Knox to Attend Japanese Emperor Funeral in Tokyo
Special ambassador Philander C. Knox accompanied by Mrs. Knox and Ransford S. Miller, chief of the state department’s far eastern division, travels by rail and sea to Tokyo for Emperor Yoshihito’s funeral on September 13. They depart via Chicago, St Paul, Banff, Seattle, sail aboard the armored cruiser Maryland, with Navy and military aides joining at Seattle and Yokohama. The Maryland will then cross to Honolulu before returning to Washington, expected early October.
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Washington
Philander C. Knox
Taft
Yoshihito
Japan
Jeff Washington
Knox
Ransford
Miller
State Department
Matsuhito
Tokyo
Chicago
St. Paul
Banff
Seattle
Maryland
Admiral Reynolds
Yokohama
Gen. Pershing
Honolulu
Pacific
War on Flies Renewed by New York Health Board
New York city health authorities renew their drive against flies and mosquitoes calling them hygienic out laws. The latest monthly bulletin links Brooklyn typhoid fever to the spread of germs by flies and notes the epidemic may be largely due to this transmission.
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New York
New York Board of Health
Brooklyn
Fies
Britain Appealed on Canal Bill Over Shipping Treaty
Washington Aug 16 British objections to the Panama canal bill centered on discrimination against British shipping. The conference committee reported a plan denying free passage to American ships in foreign trade while admitting foreign shipbuilding materials. The interstate commerce commission would have power to break up rail and water line combinations not for the public good. Senator Wrandeesee and Rep Stevens did not sign the report.
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Washington, D. C
Great Britain
Conference Committee
Canada
State Department
House and
Senate
United States
Interstate Commerce Commission
Wrandesee
Frederick C. Stevens
Minnesota
Pomerene Resolution Seeks Prosecutions of Oil and Tobacco Firms
Washington August 16 The Pomerene resolution directing Attorney General Wickersham to prosecute officers of Standard Oil and American Tobacco faced a short filibuster and sharp debate. Pomerene argued duties were not enforced, while Sutherland and Kenyon disagreed on congressional power and duty. The measure was moved to the calendar over reference.
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Washington
Pomerene
Wickersham
Standard Oil
American Tobacco Companies
Sutherland
Utah
Congress
House
Ohio
Labor Inquiry Bill Passed by Senate in Aug 16 Session
Washington reports the senate passed a bill creating a nine member commission on industrial relations to investigate labor conditions and employer employee relations. The measure allocates 100000 for year one and requires a report after two years with the president appointing the nine members. Smuggling of Asiatic labor is added as a commission topic.
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Washington
Senate
House
Commission
Has New Campaign Bill Pressing Corporate Donations Limit
Washington August 16 Senator Culberson of Texas served notice that next Saturday he will press the consideration of his bill to prohibit corporations from making campaign contributions and to limit the amount of all gifts to political parties.
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Washington
Culberson
Texas
Kern Lawyer in Bomb Case
United States Senator John W. Kern will be one of the defense attorneys in the dynamite conspiracy trials in October at Indianapolis. Negotiations also with J. H. Hamilton Lewis of Chicago.
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Indianapolis
Ind
United States
John W. Kern
J. H. Hamilton Lewis
Chicago
Darrow Not Guilty After 34 Minute Jury Verdict
Clarence Darrow Chicago lawyer is found not guilty of bribing a juror in the McNamara case in Los Angeles. The jury deliberated 34 minutes, with one ballot for not guilty. Court instructs jurors on corroboration and proper evaluation of collateral evidence as Darrow’s character is cited as a factor in his favor.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Clarence
Darrow
Chicago
McNamara
Freeman M. R. Williams
Clarence S. Darrow
George Hutton
Hutton
M. R. Williams
Taft Signs Pension Bill for $160 Million Payment Start
President Taft signed the $160,000,000 pension appropriation bill. The pension office was notified and orders were sent to eighteen outlying agencies to begin payments immediately. Every pensioner in the United States is to be paid by Tuesday at the latest.
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Washington
Taft
United States
Police Raids on Vice Roasted by Grand Jury
Philadelphia August grand jury condemns police raids on vice as a failure that harms business and devalues property. It calls for reform and alleges a hidden partnership between criminals and police, urging overhaul of weights and measures to curb public cheats costing $5 million annually. Mayor Blankenburg supports keeping Councilman Burke amid his confession.
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Philadelphia
Grand Jury
Samuel Hudson
Rudolph Blankenburg
Poccono Pines
William Burke
Burke
Charlestown
Relief fund approved for Mexican refugees
Washington reports the house approved a senate joint resolution granting 20000 dollars for the relief of Mexican refugees on American soil. The aid is expanded to cover all border states, with War Secretary Stimson noting prior funds were exhausted and the new appropriation needed for care. The measure moves to the president for signature.
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Washington
House
Senate
Mexico
Amercan
Stimson
Senate Passes Amendment to Campaign Publicity Bill
Washington Aug 19 The senate approved the house bill amendment to the campaign contribution publicity act of 1910 1911 The measure requires all candidate statements to be attested under oath and provides that filing statements with a post office satisfies the law, constituting compliance.
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Senate
Washington
Haughen Maintains Iowa Fourth District Seat
Representative Gilbert N. Haughen, Republican, was declared entitled to sit in the house despite M. T. Murphy’s contest. The house adopted a resolution from the elections committee unanimously, confirming Haughen as the rightful representative.
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Washington
Gilbert N. Haughen
House
M.T. Murphy
Iowa
Elections Committee
French Lose Fighters in Battle Near Mouley Bounda
Paris reports that the French lobot suffered eight killed and forty wounded in a clash near Mou ley Bounda. The enemy incurred heavier losses, per A Fezcable dispatch.
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Paris
A. Fezcable
Mouley
Bounda
New York Graft Probe to Include Police and Gamen Bank
Excerpt: An extraordinary session of the supreme court led by Justice Goff will conduct a grand jury inquisition into police graft tied to gambling and disorderly houses. District Attorney Whitman holds evidence that bribes of over 1 million dollars were paid for police protection, reaching inspectors and higher officials. Waldo says proof exists of laxity and bad work, promising punishment or dismissal for those found corrupt or careless.
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New York
Supreme Court
Goff
Dix
Becker
Herman Rosenthal
Justice Goff
Rosenthal
John Doe
Whitman
Waldo
Court rules Harvester answers not true
In St Paul on Aug 16 the Justice Department’s replication in the government suit against the Harvester trust was filed in U S district court by Charles Houpt. It declares the defendant’s answers denying dissolution untrue and supports the original petition’s allegations. The filing marks the final step before testimony on alleged violations, with government evidence set to begin October 1 before an examiner.
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St. Paul, Minn
Department of Justice
The
Harvester Trust
United States District Court
Federal
Charles Houpt
Taft appoints 28 to new diplomatic posts in reform wave
President Taft acting on Secretary Knox's recommendation fills posts in the diplomatic service with former state department employees displaced by Congress budget cuts. Notable picks include Hoffman Philip as secretary of the embassy at Constantinople and John Ball Osborn as consul to Havre, along with a slate of newly named secretaries and consuls in cities from Lisbon to Bangkok and Madrid to Amoy.
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Washington
Taft
Knox
State Department
Congress
Hoffman Philip
Constantinople
John Ball Osborn
Scranton
Penn
Bureau of Trade Relations
Havre
Senate
Tokio
Ralph B. Strassburger
New York
Bucharest
Craig Wadsworth
Teheran
Persia
F. B. Furniss
Pennsylvania
St. Petersburg
Henry F. Tennant
Mexico City
Heaton W. Haris
Alliance
Frankfort
Alexandria
Egypt
C. L. Hoover
Missouri
Carlsbad
F. T. F. Dumont
Lancaster
Madrid
C. A. Holder
Colorado Springs
Colo
Christina
P. E. Kerson Taylor
Kapamah
Neb
Trinidad
S. H. Shank
Marion County
Ind
Fiume
Austria
Divers pinned under scow wreck in Lake Erie salvage attempt
In Port Burwell Ontario on August 17 two divers sank with a scow in 40 feet of Lake Erie when the vessel suddenly toppled. One diver was rescued, Edward West of Port Huron Michigan remains missing under the scow, another diver was badly crushed but overall recovery hope remains.
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Port Burwell
Ont
Lake Erie
Edward West
Port Huron
Mich
Shot at Dixie Hotel Explodes Family Tragedy
Miss Willis Yielding of Oneonta Ala was shot at a Birmingham Dixie Hotel by her brother in law R S Couch while in a room with John Beveridge. Couch says accidental shot. Beveridge accuses Couch of deliberate firing after pledging to kill her. Yielding likely fatally wounded.
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Birmingham
Ala
Miss Willis Yielding
Oneonta
R. S.S. Couch
John Beveridge
Miss Yielding
Couch
Beveridge
Train robber takes $3000 from Express Messenger
A lone masked robber boarded Southern Railroad train No 13 from Spartanburg to Asheville near Biltmore, held up Express Messenger Ef F Carr with a revolver, and seized a package containing 3090 dollars in bills before binding Carr and locking him in the express chest.
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Ashville
N. C
Southern Railroad
Spartanburg
Asheville
Biltmore
Ef. F. Carr
Carr
Battle at Tilbury Dock Between Unions and Non-Union Workers
A thousand men clashed at Tilbury dock in London as unions fought non union laborers. Police restored order and hundreds were wounded. Twenty arrests were reported.
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London
Tilbury Dock
Wanted Relief In West Philadelphia Ward Patient Suffered
A patient in a Philadelphia hospital ward groaned in pain and pleaded with a nurse for relief crying for an epidemic a strong call for care amid a tense hospital scene. The report notes the distressing moment and the nurse's response.
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West
Philadelphia Aspitals
Memorial Day Observance Campaign Aims for Sunday Parade
A committee from the state commandery of the Sons of Veterans plans an active campaign starting next month to secure passage of a law that would set Memorial Day observances on a Sunday with no sports or amusements. The initiative seeks to align observances with a solemn, festival free from recreational distractions.
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Batavia
Sons of Veterans
Taft Vetoes Bill Over Commerce Court Tenure Clause
Washington Aug 16 Taft vetoed the $34 million annual appropriation bill over two objections. He censured the seven year tenure provision for classified government clerks and the repeal of the commerce court. The action threatens salaries for clerks judges and officials and delays the president’s own pay until the bill is resolved. The senate later passed the army appropriation bill and the pension bill funding Pace agencies abolition.
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Washington
Commerce Court
Taft
Congress
Interstate Commerce Commission
Civil Service
Senate
Leonard Wood
House
U S to Await Colombia Action Over Consul Murder
Washington reports Consul Kemper at Cartagena confirms evidence supports murder charge against the assailant of Vice Deputy Consul MacMaster. The Colombian government will be given a chance to punish before any U S action.
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U.S
Colombia
Washington
Kemper
Cartagena
MacMaster
United States
Big Elevator Contract in Ottawa for Fort William
The firm Barnett McQueen and Co of Minneapolis will construct a grain elevator at Fort William for the Dominion government. The project price is 1,179,602 dollars after a government appropriation of about 1.5 million.
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Ottawa
Ont
Barnett, McQueen &Co
Minneapolis
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Kenyon
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Clarence Darrow
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Gotham
Witl
Hoffman Philip of
Erie
Dixie Hotel
Pace
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