Taft Defends Southern Hospitality in Letter to Tawney
President Taft rebukes Democrats for attributing criticism of traveling expenses to Southern hospitality. He says no reflection on hospitality occurred and cites his cordial reception in the South. Tawney says the floor remarks were distorted and denies accusing Southern hosts of charging board.
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Washington
Taft
Tawney
Committee On Appropriations
House
United States
White House
South
WM. Taft
Bartlett
Georgia
Representative Hammer
Idaho
Decline in Wheat Prices Hits Chicago Market
The Waterman private settlement in May wheat triggered a sharp price drop at the Chicago Board of Trade. An 8,000,000 bushel unload by James A. and George H. Patten coincided with their brokerage firm’s withdrawal from business, sending prices down about 4.5 to over 5 cents per bushel. Patten left his office smiling, while headlines estimated losses from $640,000 to $1,200,000 for the day.
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Chicago
Theodore H. Waterman
James A
George H. Patten
Chicago Board of Trade
James A. Patten
France
Great Britain
Russia
Italy
Crete
Mussulman
Glennon
Ironton
St. Louie
Frederick Kohler
Cleveland
Ohio
Baehr
United Traction Company
Albany
N. Y
John Bell
John Chapman
Rouse
Mobile
Ala
Catherine
Selma
James Gordon Bennett
Herald Office
Broadway
Fulton
John Leech
London
Mr. Dana
The
Tribune
Ter
Ministry
Law
Farmer Murdered Leader in Night Riders Fight
Princeton Kentucky farmer Caldwell county Lincoln Oliver was shot in his yard while watching a comet. A well known leader in the dark tobacco association he was involved in suits at Paducah and had testified against alleged night riders at Hopkinsville weeks earlier.
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Princeton
Lincoln Oliver
Caldwell County
Oliver
Dark Tobacco Association
Paducah
Hopkinsville
Woman Defends Home in Fatal Burglary Case
New York police report Louis Gratch a 25 year old painter died after breaking neck from a fall when Mrs George Gleteman woke to find him burglarizing her apartment She attacked him with an iron cuspidor and rolling pin drove him toward the parlor window and toppled him to the yard a fatal plunge confirmed by ambulance surgeon
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New York
Louis Gratch
George Gleteman
Gratch
Gleteman
La Follette Opposes Railroad Bill Speech in Congress
Wisconsin Senator La Follette charged railroads could lower rates and earned 60 percent more per mile in 1908 than 1897 while wages rose only about 20 percent. He said the public bore the cost of industrial progress, with railroads using surpluses to fund new lines and over capitalized expansions.
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Wisconsin
Washington
la Follette
Debate Over Tafts Traveling Expenses Surfaces
Washington reports a heated House debate over Tafts travel costs exceeding the $25,000 annual allotment. Chairman Tawney faced Democratic ire for alleging Democratic pressure drove the Western and Southern trip. The panel removed immediately available language, delaying access until after July 1.
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Washington
Congress
Committee On Appropriations
House
Tawney
Gas fumes kill banker's chemist in search of gold
New York banker C C Dickinson died after inhaling fumes from a furnace in a Scranton chemist's lab. Dr F W Lange says a process to enlarge silver atoms led Dickinson to the dangerous experiment. Dickinson reportedly pursued large scale use of the work, but pneumonia from the gas proved fatal.
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New York
C. C. Dickinson
F. W. Lange
Scranton
Lange
Dickinson
National Capital Notes on Ministers Salaries
Washington reports the census of religious bodies for 1906 shows ministers average $663 annually across denominations. Data cover U S cities with 25 000 plus population in 1900. Highest averages are Unitarians 1658 Episcopalians 1242 General Convention of the New Jerusalem 1233 Jewish congregations 1222 Presbyterians 1177.
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Washington
Durand
Nagel
Department of Commerce and Labor
United States
Unitarians
Protestant Episcopals
General Convention of the
New Jerusalem
Presbyterians
Mysterious Killing in Dallas Claims Marietta Man
A man believed to be G. Cleve Buchanan of Marietta Oklahoma was shot dead in Dallas by Ernest Brown, a clerk at the Oriental Hotel drug store. An explosion at the De Lores mine in Chihuahua, Mexico killed one and injured several, triggering a fire that destroyed 100 homes and left about 500 homeless.
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Dallas
Tex
G. Cleve Buchanan
Marietta
Okla
Ernest Brown
Oriental Hotel
Mexico
el Paso
de Lores
Chihuahua
Washington Happenings of the Week Briefly
The Republican caucus failed to agree on the postal bank bill. President Taft entertained the Louisiana Legislature at the White House. The Ballinger Pinchot inquiry heard prosecution and defense arguments. The Senate passed a naval bill of about 134 million and rejected the Dolliver amendment. Telecommunication under the interstate act gained support while the Panama Exposition location debate continued.
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la Folette
Laskan
Senate Judiciary Committee
Taft
Louisiana
White House
House
Fred W. Carpenter
Morocco
Ballinger-Pinchot
Ballinger
Congressional Committee
Tawney
Senate Joint Committee On
Senate
Bluefields
Senator la Follette
Senate Committee On Military Affairs
New Orleans
Shreveport
C. R. Connolly
Supreme Court of the District of Columbia
Oscar Lawler
Interior Department
Lawler
Sanders
Louisiana Legislature
House Committee On Foreign Affairs
Mount Vernon
Missouri
United States
Senate Committee On Judiciary
Clark
Hoggatt
Louis Shackleford
Alaska
Wicker
Global flare of events as Roosevelt visits England
Reports from London and abroad note the Earl of Stamford’s death, Roosevelt’s England visit, Kitchener tipped as India Viceroy, and a wave of unrest from China to Nicaragua. Sizable coal strikes in Pennsylvania, ship collisions with loss of life, and political moves in New York and Crete shape a tense world stage.
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Agde
France
China
Roosevelt
England
J. P. Morgan
Paris
London
Robert Koch
Berlin
Kiev
Russia
Madrid
Bluff
Bluefields
Nicaragua
William Seyler
Jane Adams
Atlantic City
Pennsylvania
Venus
Lord Kitchener
India
United States Grand Jury
Montgomery
Ala
Cambridge University
Interparliamentary Union
Pluviose
Pas de Calais
English Channel
Frank H. Goodyear
James B. Wood
Lake Huron
Watterson at New York Press Club Dinner
Henry Watterson of the Louisville Courier Journal was honored at a New York Press Club dinner attended by notable editors and public figures. He urged journalists to uphold integrity, avoid sensationalism, protect private life, and act as guardians of the public conscience while stressing the professional manhood of the guild.
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The
Press Club of
New York
Henry Watterson
Louisville Courier-Journal
New York Press Club
Walter Howe
Department of the East
William Sulzer
Col. Watterson
Courier-Journal
Watterson
Bride Elect Killed In Auto Crash At Logan
Miss Lillian Wright and Miss Flossie Herman were killed when their car turned turtle near Logan Columbus Ohio. Several others were severely injured. Miss Wright had been slated to marry Wednesday. In Paris Count Ismael de Lessepps and Count Just de Poligny fought their third duel. one received a bullet wound.
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Columbus
Ohio
Lillian Wright
Flossie Herman
Logan
Miss Wright
Ismael de Lessepps
Just de Poligny
Paris
Leach
Daytime and nighttime conduct praised in archaic verse
The quoted line proclaims being good to girls and fair to boys, invoking a biblical phrase about such as the kingdom of Heaven. It reflects a moral exhortation on proper behavior at work and leisure.
Augusta Mortified by Taft Travel Expense Stand
Augusta expresses protest over Democratic opposition to retroactive $25,000 travel fund for Taft's last Southern trip. Local chambers offer $5,000 to cover the deficit, state officials note Taft plans to pay remaining costs himself, estimated at $7,000 to $8,000.
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Washington
Augusta
Taft
Congress
Chamber of Commerce
Merchants and Manufacturers Association, Cotton Exchange and Board of Trade
Georgia-Carolina Fair Association
United States
Costa Rica Still Shaking Aftershocks Hit Cartago
Port Limon dispatch reports ongoing earthquakes in Costa Rica with about twelve per day. Search for the wounded and dead continues in Cartago amid decomposing bodies. Coffins removed from tomb niches number four hundred as aid flows to about a thousand residents. Cecil Lindo of Lindo Brothers ships milk to San Jose for sufferers and provides food shelter for one thousand on La Gloria and Juan Vinas farms. He also bought one thousand blankets, while the president thanks him.
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Port Limon
Costa Rica
New Orleans
Cartago
Cecil Lindo
Lindo, Bros
la Florida
San Jose
la Gloria
Juan Vinas
Lindo
Peach Rates Attacked by Georgia Fruit Exchange
In Atlanta Georgia the Georgia Fruit Exchange files a complaint with the interstate commerce commission asserting peach rates are unreasonably discriminatory. The complaint highlights refrigerating charges and seeks to lower the minimum car load weight from 22 500 pounds to 19 000 pounds, arguing 20 000 pounds is the feasible limit for peaches per car.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Georgia Fruit Exchange
Costly governor race outlined in Mallory sworn statement
Montgomery, Alabama. The expense of running for governor is detailed in the sworn statement of H. B. Mallory, defeated prohibitionist, before the May 2 democratic primary. He cites costs at $10,991.03, more than two years' pay by $991.03, excluding time, volunteer services, and potential contributions from any source.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
P. Mallory
South Carolina Sets Perfect 16 for 16 Broadside Record
The battleship South Carolina established a new world mark for big gun shooting with twelve inch forward turret guns. It scored 16 bullseye hits in 16 shots across four minutes 51 seconds, underscoring United States naval marksmanship supremacy.
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Norfolk
United States
South Carolina
Professor Robert Koch dies of heart disease
Baden Baden reports the death of Prof. Robert Koch, famed bacteriologist born December 11, 1843 at Klausthal Hanover. He roses to prominence for micro-organism research and is noted as the discoverer of tuberculosis and cholera.
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Baden Baden
Robert Koch
Klausthal
Hanover
Koch
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