Democratic Convention Fights Bryan Delegates At Carnegie Hall
New York April 11 14 Justice Crane eases restraining order on McCarren delegates paving floor fight. Bryan followers push to secure Bryan endorsement while Tammany led committee aims to squelch minority report and urge an uninstructed delegation to Denver. Anticipated clashes over credentials loom as Bryan league backs Thomas and Carmody prepares to open the session.
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New York
Carnegie Hall
William Jennings Bryan
Bryan Mena
Denver
Tammany
Charles F. Murphy
W. J. Conners
Bryan
Augustus Thomas
Bryan Democratic Progressive League
Thomas
Tammany Organization
McCarren
Supreme Court
Brooklyn
State Committee
Committee On Credentials
Patrick McCabe
Albany County
John N. Carlisle
Jefferson County
Bryan League
Conners
Thomas Carmody
Red Lights Guide Night Patrols Under Chief Long
Chief John A. Long, since his promotion, improves city protection after 10 PM by using red electric lights connected to Bell and Home telephone exchanges. Three lights on Wheeling Avenue enable officers to be directed to requests via central offices, with a council appropriation planned for next July to expand the system.
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John A. Long
Leutenant
Long
Wheeling Avenue
Central
Tory
Long Tory
Council
Police disperse Columbus mob blocking government building work
Columbus police stopped a crowd of about five hundred foreigners and negroes who halted work on a new government building by demanding two dollars for an eight hour day. They dispersed the mob and allowed contractors to continue.
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Columbus
Campbell in pulpit decries wealth worship and golden calf
Ex Governor James J. Campbell spoke at the First Congregational church in Columbus on The Golden Calf lamenting the rush for wealth and heirs. He attacked the daughter of a wealthy man for leaving her husband and planning to marry his cousin calling her the golden calf. He claimed Moses would not favor abolishing capital punishment.
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Columbus
James J. Campbell
First Congregational Church
Moses
General Assembly
Supreme Court rules Union Central must pay back taxes
Columbus April 14 The supreme court decides today that the Union Central Insurance Company formerly led by Governor Pattison must pay one hundred eighty two thousand dollars in omitted taxes and penalties.
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Columbus
Supreme Court
Union Central Insurance Company
Pattison
Vice President Lewis Addresses Lodge
The Guernsey Lodge No. 47 A A J S T W held a special meeting at Foresters Hall Taylor building with a large attendance. Vice President Lewis delivered an address on local and national matters for the organization, followed by a discussion before an early adjournment for his train home.
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Guernsey Lodge No. 47
Foresters’ Hall
Taylor Building
Lewis
Rioting Over Chester Traction Strike Ends in Martial Law
Rioting continues after conductors and strikebreakers clash in Chester Pennsylvania as 3000 march, tracks torn up, cars halted, and state police arrive to guard property. Officers and civilians injured but no serious harm reported amid curfew and closed saloons.
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Chester
Chester Traction Company
State Constabulary
Traction Company
Philadelphia
Edgewood Avenue
Groome
Charles Feurstein
Columbus debates Grist Bill and state school inquiry
In Columbus a Senate skirmish over the Grist house bill references second offense liquor penalties by abating premises or branding offenders as nuisances. The measure moves to county measures. The House sends the Stockwell information demand to banking. A joint committee finds Meck’s charges against the state board of school examiners partially sustained, noting illegal certificate grants and school-book company influence. the majority report was not filed.
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Columbus
Itera
Temperance
Senate
Crist House
House
Committee On Banking
Stockwell
McKinnon
Meck
State Board of School Examiners
Camping on Taft's Trail New Hampshire Labor Leader Opposes Candidacy
Concord April 14 Charles J French president of the New Hampshire AFL circularizes Taft and Labor Unions opposing Secretary Taft for the presidential nomination. He attacks Tafts labor decisions on the bench and his Wall Street stance calling his political methods alarming and incompatible with workers interests. The circular will be sent to all AFL branches.
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New Hampshire
Concord
N. H
Charles J. French
American Federation of Labor
Taft
Labor Unions
French
Wall Street
Rev Dr James R Mills Dies at 76 in Battle Creek
Rev Dr James R Mills retired Methodist minister and father of Wilbur T Mills died after a weeks long illness in Battle Creek Michigan. He was 76 and had long served Pittsburg Brownsville Cambridge and Cleveland congregations and as Cambridge district presiding elder. Survived by widow four sons two daughters. He was valedictorian of 1862 and studied in Europe before a lifelong ministry.
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James R. Mills
Wilbur T. Mills
Battle Creek
Mich
Mills
Pittsburg
Allegheny College
Brownsville
Cleveland
Cambridge
Ohio
Europe
Cambridge Board of Education Hears Committee Report
A special Cambridge Board of Education meeting reviewed a committee report after tours of high school buildings in several cities. Architect Orr presented rough plans and the committee report. the board asked Orr to prepare final plans but made no site decision for the new building.
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Cambridge Board of Education
Orr
Senecaville Note Tour and Local Socials
Senecaville reports H F Gordon touring the South and now in Florida. Local visits include Mrs J W Frame and Mrs Lum Baird with family at Love City, and Mrs Lyman Moore of Columbus visiting her mother Mrs Mattie Houseman. Cambridge visitors and re employed staff are listed, with teaching appointments for next year and several local families hosting Cambridge guests.
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H. F. Gordon
South
Florida
J. W. Frame
Lum Baird
Love City
Lyman Moore
Columbus
Mattie Houseman
Ford Sears
Cambridge
C. T. Warrick
J. C. Parry
Eyesville
Guy G. Moorhead
Pomeroy
Brown
J.S. Moorhead
J. W. Daniel
C. A. Lepage
George Moorhead
J. W. Brown
Lloyd Kirkbride
Aldrich Bill 13 Faces Firm Senate Critique in House
Washington April 14 Congress reviews the Aldrich financial bill with most speakers opposing immediate passage. The LaFollette amendment faces sharp criticism for potentially barring capable bankers from directorates. Asset currency and a congressional study emerge as favored paths. The naval appropriation bill gains slow progress as pay raises are struck down on a point of order.
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Washington
Aldrich Financial
Senate
House Committee On Banking and Currency
Charles C. Glover
Riggs National Bank
LaFollette
National Banking Association
Congress
House
Navy
Marine Corps
Madden
Illinois
Mudd
Maryland
Bartholdt
Missouri
PHOGHAM Program At Center-Jeffer son Sunday School
The Center-Jeffer son township Sunday School convention meets at Center Baptist Church on April 23. Afternoon session includes devotional by D E Braden and talks by Rev McKibben Yeager Mawhorr Pattison Wood Wilson. Evening session covers praise, spiritual results, teacher’s equipment, missions and offerings. J C Rolingson serves as president.
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Center-Jefferson Township
Center Baptist Church
D. E. Braden
E. G. McKibben
E. A. Yeager
Amanda Mawhorr
J. M. Wood
W. H. Wilson
J. CC. Rolingson
Grand Ridge Births and Local News Roundup
Grand Ridge born to Obe Bonnell and wife April a daughter. Miss Maggie Nichols and Mrs Nora Decker are quite sick. Several from the Ridge attended the Winterset entertainment and report a splendid time. Mrs Margaret Hunt of Cambridge visits her daughter Mrs S A Decker. Farmers busy planting oats and potatoes before the next rain.
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Obe Bonnell
April
Maggie Nichols
Nora Decker
Winterset
Margaret Hunt
Cambridge
S. A. Decker
Willoughby Man Leaves $5000 to Ohio Baptists Society
George Durban recently died leaving five thousand dollars to the Ohio Baptist Educational Society at Granville. He and his wife previously donated about thirteen thousand dollars to Denison University over the last five years.
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George Durban
Willoughby
Ohio Baptist Educational Society
Granville
Baseball season opens with NL and AL games listed
The major leagues launch today with National League games in Brooklyn Philadelphia Cincinnati and St. Louis plus American League games in Chicago New York Cleveland and Boston. Tomorrow’s schedule includes Chicago at Cincinnati New York at Philadelphia Pittsburgh at St. Louis and Detroit at Chicago Philadelphia at New York and St. Louis at Cleveland.
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Brooklyn
Philadelphia
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Chicago
New York
Cleveland
Boston
Pittsburg
Detroit
Washington
Miners Gate to Work as Talks Advance Across Regions
In Wheeling and Bay City reports, United Mineworkers president Thomas L. Lewis predicts about 94 000 miners will return to work in Ohio and Western Pennsylvania by Monday, with a hopeful nationwide return by May 1. He travels to Toledo for an interstate talks session while Michigan miners and operators agree to a new yearly wage scale and working conditions, with voting underway and a constitutional clause proposing a daily fine for violators.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Thomas L. Lewis
United Mineworkers of America
Bridgeport
Lewis
United States
Toledo
Indiana
Bay City
Mich
Michigan
Woman Drops Arrest Warrant After Agreement
In police court a woman sought a warrant for her husband’s arrest after a dispute. The warrant was issued, but she later asked for it to be withdrawn claiming they had reconciled. Costs paid, the case was dropped and Mrs. Ford reportedly went to West Virginia while Mr. Ford returned home.
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Clint
Ford
West Virginia
Mr. Ford
Gov Harris nominates Col Sarchet to national charities session
Gov Harris appoints Col C P B Sarchet as delegate to the Thirty fifth annual conference of charities and corrections in Richmond Virginia from May 6 to 18 1908. He is described as a lifelong student of humanitarian problems and his attendance is hoped for.
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C. P. B. Sarchet
Harris
National Conference of Charities and Corrections
Richmond
Virginia
Col. Sarchet
Relief Efforts Swift After Chelsea Fire devastates Chelsea homes and structures
In Boston on April 14 reports put total losses at about 5.6 million for churches schools factories business blocks and dwellings with 3.5 million insured. About ten thousand homeless received rapid relief from Massachusetts funds and local agencies. Chelsea city officials pledged rebuild and state lawmakers considered a 1000000 allocation while President Roosevelt offered sympathy and army navy aid.
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Boston
Chelsea
Massachusetts Fund
Beck
Draper
House of Representatives
Roosevelt
Army
Navy
Associated Charities
The
Salvation Army
Fire Alarm Heads Off Destructive House Blaze
A lace curtain blown against a burning gas jet sparked a fire in a bedroom on the second floor of a North Fourth Street home shared by the Roush and Frazee families. Firemen from Hose Company No. 8 arrived quickly across the street, preventing larger damage as the blaze spread to carpet and bed before being contained.
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Warren Roush
Ed. Frazee
North Fourth Street
Jim Hose Co. No. 8
Surgeon Bradford Performs Operation in Byresville
Dr. W. N. Bradford operated on Mrs. Clayton Price in Byresville this morning assisted by Dr. Fred Lane of this city and Dr. T. W. Long of Byesville.
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W. N. Bradford
Byresville
Clayton Price
Fred Lane
City
T. W. Long
Byesville
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