Taft and Foraker vie as Ohio holds popular primaries
In Columbus Ohio tomorrow Ohio Republicans in eighty eight counties will vote to choose delegates and alternates to the State convention. The primary tests Taft versus Foraker for control of Ohio's Chicago delegation and shapes the 1908 presidential contest. Taft backers expect four delegates at large and a Taft victory while Foraker part predicts gains among district delegates despite court defeats.
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Columbus
Ohio
Taft
Foraker
Chicago
Republican State Committee
Eall
Race to sail historic Palos to Teneriffe course
An international yacht race on the Columbus historic route from Palos Spain to Santa Cruz Teneriffe is planned for next summer. The contest would leave August 23, marking the 416th anniversary of Columbus first sailed to the New World. Finish lies about 600 miles away.
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Boston
Palos
Spain
Canary Islands
Christopher Columbus
New World
Eastern Yacht Club
Columbus
Santa Cruz
Island
Teneriffe
North
South America
Queenie the Pretty Woman Shot On Second Avenue Car
A young woman known as Queenie was shot and killed on a northbound Second Avenue car at Eighth Street in Manhattan. The shooter sat opposite her, fled the car and escaped. witnesses include two young women from Lyndhurst New Jersey and New York, plus the car’s motor man and conductor. Police report the suspect wore a light gray overcoat.
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New York
Queenie
Second Avenue
Eighth Street
Mabel Cousins
Lyndhurst
N. J
Helen Bullivan
Seven Men Held Up by Lone Highwayman
In Pueblo Colorado on February 10 Joseph Russ and six companions were held up by a solitary highwayman. During the confrontation Russ was killed by the bandit leaving seven men as victims of the attempted robbery.
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Pueblo
Colo
Joseph Russ
Russ
Trains Collide at Central Avenue Station Injure Several
At Central avenue station two Metropolitan railroad trains collided injuring several passengers. Charles Fremont suffered a jaw fracture and Miss Jennie Lew was injured along the spine. passengers panicked and rushed to escape.
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Chicago
Metropolitan Railroad
Central Avenue Station
Charles Fremont
Jennie Lew
Signature of Washington on Barber certificate found
A document bearing George Washingtons signature was found among Essex county courthouse records. It is a certificate of Colonel Francis Barber, commander of the Second New Jersey regiment in the Revolutionary War, said to have been killed on February 10, 1788. Washingtons signature is in perfect condition.
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New York
Georgs Washington
Essex County
Francis Barber
New Jersey
Washington
Indian government to send two brigades into Bazar alley
Calcutta February 10 The government orders immediate dispatch of two brigades to the Bazar alley on the northwestern frontier to punish the Zakkakhels Afridi tribe for raids on villages and ambushes of mounted police.
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Calcutta
Bazar Alley
Texas Ministerial Institute Opens at TCU in Waco
The Texas Ministerial Institute opened today at Texas Christian University in Waco for ten days. Speakers include J J Morgan Fort Worth J H Fuller Sherman Colby I Hall Waco Frank McPherson Waxahachie and W P Jennings Taylor A foreign missionary rally will close the meeting with President McLean of the Foreign Missionary Society and W R Warren of Pittsburgh guiding the event assisted by returning missionaries from Japan.
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Waco
Texas
Texas Ministerial Institute
Texas Christian University
J. J. Morgan
Fort Worth
J. H. Fuller
Sherman
Colby I. Hall
Frank McPherson
Waxahachie
W. P. Jennings
Taylor
McLean
The
Foreign Missionary Society
W R. Warren
Pittsburg
Brookhaven Lynching Ends Eli Pigot's Life Near Courthouse
In Brookhaven Mississippi on February 10 a mob overpowered a Jackson military company and deputies to seize Eli Pigot who had been jailed for assaulting Miss Williams. They dragged him from a train near the courthouse and hanged him from a telegraph pole after fierce fighting, then fired shots that left two mob members wounded and Pigot riddled with bullets.
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Brookhaven
Miss
Eli Pigot
Miss Williams
Jackson
Pigot
Greer
Capital Light Guards
Noel
Governor Seeks Earlier Encampment For Texas Troops
Governor Campbell forwarded a War Department note about the Leon Springs encampment planned for October. The Texas National Guard may attend, but weather and scheduling likely limit attendance to two regiments. Adjutant General Newton suggests a June to August date to allow full guard participation, with total costs around 85 thousand dollars and two regiments costing about 25 thousand. The camp would last nineteen days.
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Austin
Campbell
War Department
Washington
Leon Springs
Texas National Guard
Newton
Mae
Mandamus Petition Seeks Tax Ruling Reevaluation
In Austin on February 10 a motion was filed in the supreme court by the Fire Association of Philadelphia against Insurance Commissioner Love. They seek a writ of mandamus to compel acceptance of taxes due under the old law, challenging the commissioner's ruling that insurers pay tax on gross receipts without deductions. The filing argues the ruling significantly raises the tax.
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Austin
Supreme Court
The
Fire Association of Philadelphia
Love
Fie Insurance Companie
Hangs Henry Thaxton for Old Murder Smiling on Scaffold
In Birmingham on Monday Henry Thaxton, a Black man convicted of killing W. M. Hunslucker, was executed after three gubernatorial respites. He mounted the scaffold smiling as the noose did its work, death announced fifteen and a half minutes later.
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Birmingham
Henry Thaxton
Hunslucker
Freight train wreck near Wiles a miracle escape
Fort Worth reports a Texas and Pacific freight train derailed after crossing a ninety foot viaduct at speed. The crew, unaware of the peril, barely avoided tumbling into the canyon below, a near miss deemed miraculous.
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Fort Worth
Texas and Pacific
Wiles
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