Republicans Endorse Progressives Meet For Harmony
Chicago June 8 The Republican convention accepted an invitation to a harmony conference with the Progressive convention. A conference committee was named including Senator Smoot and Senator Borah. The day featured Lodge announcing the woman suffrage plank with a qualification. Harding signaled plans to proceed with nominating speeches tomorrow with no time limit, pending the conference report. Rainy, damp conditions persisted at the Coliseum.
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Smoot
Utah
Borah
Idaho
Murray Crane
Massachusetts
Nicholas Murray Butler
New York
A. R. Johnson
Ironton
Roosevelt
Justice Hughes
Resolutions Committee
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Colonel Roosevelt
McKinley
Republican Party
Lodge
Edwin J. Gross
Milwaukee
Harding
National Committee
Coliseum
Leaders gather as Harding opens convention with prayer
The convention begins with Chairman Harding presiding as Monsignor Kelley offers a prayer. Early arrivals include Uncle Joe Cannon who faced some crowding at the Illinois delegation. Senator Smoot, chairing the credentials committee, is met with cheers as the report is called.
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Francis G. Kelley
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German naval losses estimated by officer after fleet visit
A high ranking naval officer returning from the battle cruiser fleet told the Associated Press that the tally of German losses includes two battle cruisers three battleships five light cruisers eight or nine destroyers and one submarine. He believes the unidentified battle cruiser sunk was the Hindenburg.
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London
Associated Press Today
Roosevelt radicals clash as Progressive convention debates fate
Chicago June 8. After three hours the Progressive convention recessed to allow two committees to seek peace with Republicans over Roosevelt nomination. The platform favors Americanism preparedness protection and woman suffrage and will likely be adopted with little change. The conference committee includes Perkins Johnson Wilkinson Bonaparte and Parker as radicals seek to avert a split.
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Hiram Johnson
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Charles J. Bonaparte
John M. Parker
Washington
Lincoln
Roosevelt Urges Democratic Unity to Face Crisis
Theodore Roosevelt urges Chicago Republicans and Progressives to nominate a president who restores national dignity and preparedness. He accuses President Wilson of dulling national conscience and warns against German-American influence while pledging to speak if the convention requests.
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Lincoln
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Germany
Robinson Leads With Many Precincts Missing
Wheeling West Virginia June returns from 1080 of 1750 precincts show Judge Tra b Robinson leading the Republican governor race with 2 568 votes and A A Lilly 28789. Similar returns give 18328 for Congressman toward Suth erland and W F Wit 12999. John J Cornwell is conceded the Democratic gubernatorial nominee by 18000 majority.
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A. A. Lilly
Sutherland
W. F. Wit
John J. Cornwell
Senate and House Schedule and Legislation Actions
The Senate met at noon and adjourned at 12 25 p m to noon Saturday. The House opened at 11 a m and passed bills penalizing threats against the president and prohibiting liquor sales to minors on excursions, boats and other vessels, and authorizing bridge construction over streams. Resolutions praised foreign governments for participation in the San Francisco exposition and designated a special day to raise Armenian relief funds. Adjourned at 4 30 p m to 11 a m Friday.
Twenty-One Arrested in Raleigh County Mall Riot
Twenty-one men, all described as negroes, were arrested in connection with the riot at a Raleigh County mall Tuesday night that left three dead and two injured. They are to be held until the Raleigh criminal court term this month, with no special grand jury planned. Wyatt Funeral set for Boones Mills.
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Winding Gulf Colliery Company
Henry Phipps
Clark Bragg
Thomas McClennon
Sam Marlin
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Goodwill
Daily Telegraph
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Phipps
Boones Mill
Local Thunder Showers Forecast for WV and VA
A weather forecast calls for localized thunder showers in West Virginia and Virginia on Friday and likely Saturday. The outlook suggests scattered storms, with possible brief downpours and gusty winds in affected areas. Temperature trends are expected to remain warm with humidity high across the region.
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Peace conference opens between Republicans and Progressives
The Republican and Progressive conference committees met in Chicago to discuss peace plans but adjourned at 12:30 am after a two hour session without an agreement. Hughes supporters remain confident, while Progressives weigh Roosevelt as a likely nominee.
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Borah
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Justice Hughes
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Robins
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Resolutions Committee
Republican Platform Endorses Woman Suffrage in Principle
The resolutions committee voted 26 to 21 to include a plank endorsing woman suffrage in the platform. The panel also rejected adding a prohibition plank.
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Coliseum
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Elevated Trains Collide on Third Avenue Line
Two elevated trains on the Third avenue line collided this afternoon in New York. Fire broke out in the wreckage and several passengers were reported killed.
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New York
Third Avenue Line
German naval losses at Jutland and onward stated
Berlin reports official losses of the German sea forces from the battle off Jutland to date as one battle cruiser one older line ship four small cruisers and five torpedo boats. The battleship Pommern launched in 1905 is among the losses and the four cruisers Weisbaden Flbing Frauenlob and the five torpedo boats have already been accounted for.
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Jutland
Pommern
Weisbaden
Flbing
Public delays reveal laws of Lutvow and Rostock battle cruisers
Official statements indicate a military rationale for withholding public release of the laws governing the battle cruisers Lutvow and Rostock. The decision was described as deliberate and tied to strategic concerns.
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Lutvow
Rostock
Capture of Liutsk and Austrian positions announced
An official communication from Petrograd reports the capture of Liutsk in Volhynia and a sequence of strong Austrian positions. It states fifty eight officers and 11,000 men were taken yesterday along with substantial war materiel.
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Volhynia
Count and Countess Plunkett Released from Custody
London report states Count and Countess Plumkett, arrested after the suppression of the Irish rebellion, were released from custody and ordered to depart Dublin by next Saturday. Three friends were implicated. one was executed while the other two received ten year penal servitude.
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Count Plumkett
Russians Press On After Recapturing Lutsk In Volhynia
After recapturing Lutsk the Russians push westward across Ikva and Styr rivers and strike near Koevel and Rovno as they intensify actions against Austria-Hungary in Galicia. German and Austro attacks are repulsed in Verdun area. British and German duels near Hooge continue. Italians hinder Austrian advances near Trent and Lagarina valley while coal exports to Greece are banned.
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Hampshire
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Greece
Gubernatorial nominations claimed by two candidates
Friends of Senator French say he has won the Democratic nomination while late returns show General Lilly leading for governor. Robinson and Lilly claim margins in key counties and list varied tallies for Fayette Logan Mingo Raleigh Summers Wood Wyoming McDowell and Kanawha. Figures cited differ, with incomplete data from many counties.
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