Republican leaders announce advisory panel and campaign plans
Chairman Frank H. Hitchcock names Richard A. Ballinger Cornelius N Bliss Powell Clayton W Murray Crane William Nelson Cromwell John Hayes Hammond Franklin Murphy Charles P Taft Arthur J Vorys to the national committee advisory group. Hughes renominated in New York and Taft campaign remarks emphasize people ruling through the Republican party. Chafin accepts Prohibition nomination in Chicago. Minnesota Democrats renominate John A Johnson by acclamation. Bryan launches tariff focused campaign in Des Moines Iowa. Platt opposes Hughes renomination for New York governor.
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Hitchcock
Republican National Committee
Richard A. Ballinger
State of Washington
Cornelius N. Bliss
New York
Powell Clayton
Arkansas
W. Murray Crane
Massachusetts
William Nelson Cromwell
John Hayes Hammond
Franklin Murphy
New Jersey
Charles P. Taft
Ohio
Arthur J. Vorys
Chicago
Taft
Sherman
Frank H. Hitchcock
Sagamore Hill
Roosevelt
Hughes
General Dupont
Republican National Headquarters
Hugheshes
West
Hot Springs
William H. Taft
Mr. Bryan
Music Hall
Eugene W. Chafin
Prohibition Party
John A. Johnson
Minnesota
Minneapolis
William J. Bryan
Des Moines
Thomas C. Platt
Charles E. Hughes
Morocco names Mulai Majid sultan after palace revolt
Abdulaziz defeated by his brother Mulai Wadd and Mulai Majid is proclaimed sultan at Tangier. News also notes a Norwegian steamer wreck with many feared drowned, and various international events from Curacao to Vienna and Congo treaties.
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Morocco
Abdulaziz
Mulai Wadd
Guitari
Mulai Majid
Tan- Bier
Folge Fonden
Bergen
Haugesund
Norway
Skoneviks
Amsterdam
Holland
Willemstad
Curacao
Unfortunate disasters from dynamite blast to fatal wrecks
A series of tragedies reported across the country includes two expert tunnel drivers killed by a lightning triggered dynamite explosion deep underground in Valley View Pennsylvania, a Minneapolis brewer John Gluck and wife dead in a Lake Minnetonka auto train collision, injuries to Mrs. Gluck’s sister and child, plus earthquakes in Eureka California damaging homes and windows. Fire kills and injures in North Carolina and Washington state, deaths on Vancouver Island forest fires, and London Ontario firemen killed by collapsing floors.
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John Gluck
Minneapolis
Cottagewood
Lake Minnetonka
Minneapolis and St. Louis
Gluck
Murray Tweed
H. W. Schultz
Colfax
Palouse
Wash
Vancouver Island
London
Ont
Chafin Attacks Chicago Mayor Over Sunday Open Law
Eugene W. Chafin a Prohibition candidate for the presidency in Petersburg Alabama accuses Chicago Mayor Bussa of being the country’s biggest anarchist and says the city permits defiance of the Sunday closing law by saloonkeepers, linking crime and debauchery to the mayor. Belgium anxious over King Leopold health as court inquiries show no alarm at his seaside home. Bryan receives a long expected trick mule from Minnesota Agricultural Society to be party mascot. Rear Admiral Evans retires from the navy at age sixty-two.
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Eugene W. Chafin
Petersburg
Bussa
Chicago
Chafin
Leopold
Belgium
W. J. Bryan
Minnesota State Agricultural Society
Evans
Navy
Mystery theft at Chicago sub-treasury linked to Fitzgerald arrest
Report details a 173000 dollar sub-treasury heist in Chicago believed solved by the arrest of George W. Fitzgerald. The piece also mentions related fugitive cases, a suicided suspect in England, a mass poisoning attempt in Poughkeepsie, a Hartford employee killing, a Springfield mob fatality, a Bourne mansion jewelry theft, and a Chicago widow who killed her husband and herself.
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United States Sub-Treasury
Chicago
George W. Fitzgerald
John P. Reid
England
Columbus
Ida Spooner
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
D. Kissel
Hartford
Wis
Hartford Plow Company
John Gerbier
Kissel Company
Springfield
J. W. Scott
Scott
Frederick G. Bourne
Oakdale
L. I
Mary Cassidy
John Cassidy
Immigration Drops Sharply in July United Stateswide
Washington reports a July immigration total of 27,570, down from 97,132 a year earlier, a 72 per cent fall across all countries. Other items note Dutch free hand on Venezuela, pension vouchers by mail, West Point hazing penalties, Panama Canal cost and schedule claims, a DOJ inquiry into theatrical trust charges, and Major Beecher B. Ray promoted within the Army.
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United States
Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization
Washington
Netherlands
Castro
Venezuela
Meyer
West Point
Academy
Goethals
Panama Canal
Department of Justice
Beecher B. Ray
Gt Paymacnt
Department of the Leieas
Bids Sought for Big Timber Grey Cliff Highway Project
The Board of County Commissioners of Sweet Grass County Montana invites sealed bids by September 9 1908 for grading the Big Timber to Grey Cliff highway and installing culverts. Details available at the County Clerk in Big Timber. The board may reject any or all bids. Dated August 18 1908. Il Allen Clerk.
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Board of County Commissioners
Sweet Grass County
Montana
Big Timber
Grey Cliff
Allen
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