Italian killer Guiseppe Alla dies for church murder
Canon City Colo July 15 Guiseppe Alla the man who shot Father Leo Heinrich during mass at St Elizabeths church Denver on February 23 died at 8 30 tonight on the death trap after being found sane by a jury He had cursed the Roman priesthood and shouted Vive Italia and was captured after the crime He was executed after a lengthy legal struggle and had worked as a shoemaker and laborer in America.
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Colo
Italia
Italy
Guiseppe Alla
Leo Heindrich
Leo Heinrich
Father Leo
St. Elizabeth's Catholic Church
Denver
Alia
Daniel Cronin
Alla
Slefly
St. Elizabeth's Catho
Bnd
Canon City
America
Huge Oil Tanks Burn in California Oil Field
Two men die and about 100000 dollars in property is destroyed at the Orcutz pumping station of Union Oil and Standard Oil in Santa Maria. Four large tanks holding 35000 barrels of oil each are burned. one tank exploded killing a worker. The blaze began at midnight from a shack touched off by crossed electric wires.
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Santa Barbara
Cal
Santa Maria
Orcutz
Union Oil Company
Standard Oil Company
Oead
Kings County Democrats BackNational Platform and McCarren
The Kings County Democratic General Committee adopted a resolution endorsing the Denver platform and pledging support to the national ticket. Senator McCarren, who failed to seat his delegation, urged unity praising the convention for nominating a twice defeated candidate and calling for full support.
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New York
Kings County Democratic General Committee
National Democracy
Denver
McCarren
Republican Politician J M Green Found Dead at Home
J M Green former republican national committeeman was found dead in bed in Chamberlain on July 15 with heart disease suspected as the cause. He was 8 years old.
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Chamberlain
J. M. Green
Elected Imperial Potentate Named
St Paul Minn July 15 The imperial council today elected Edwin airman as imperial potentate in a ceremony marking leadership change for the order in St Paul and Ming.
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Imperial
St. Paul
Ming
Erla
Edwin
Rman Ag
Olympic finals yield medals for Britain France and Sweden
London reports gold medals to Great Britain France and Sweden in today’s Olympic finals. Great Britain earned a double win while France and Sweden each took one first place. The United States won a silver in the three mile team race and had limited participation overall.
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London
Great Britain
France
Sweden
United States
United States Seeks Priority in Jamestown Exposition Loan
The United States government filed a petition in the Jamestown Exposition federal court asking protection as a creditor of the exposition on its $1,000,000 loan. It claims priority of payment over all assets of the exposition company, with a balance due reported at $897,963.
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Jamestown Money
Norfolk
United States
Protection Os
Exposition Company
Fine new sidewalk around Smith store corner Seventeenth and Eddy
Percy Smith the furniture dealer has laid a cement sidewalk twelve feet wide around his store at the corner of Seventeenth and Eddy streets.
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SMITH
Percy Smith
Seventeenth and
Eddy Streets
Alice Roosevelt Faces Prohibition Convention Spat
Kentucky delegates refused to invite Alice Roosevelt Longworth to the national prohibition convention citing past tobacco use and a chair-tacking incident. Denver friend Mrs Crawford Hill says she has quit smoking and does not smoke publicly anymore.
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Columbus
Kentucky
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Tucky
Denver
Colo
Crawford Hill
Longworth
United States
Elks Hold Memorial Day Session In Dallas
In Dallas Texas the Elks grand lodge conducted an annual session devoted to lodge sorrow with impressive services for deceased members. Prominent Elks paid tribute to those who died in the past year and no final action was taken on the Philadelphia lodge’s proposed elk destruction topic.
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Dallas
Tex
Elks’ Grand Lodge
Philadelphia
Amalgamated Copper Declares 50 Cent Dividend
The directors of Amalgamated Copper Company in New York on July 15 declared a regular dividend of 50 cents per share.
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Amalgamated Copper
New York
Amalgamated Copper Company
Steve Adams at Liberty Jury Returns Verdict on First Ballot
In Grand Junction Colorado on July 15 ex defendant Steve Adams was found not guilty of murder in the case over Arthur Collins the Smuggler Union mine superintendent. The 12 jurors reached a unanimous verdict after a brief informal ballot and Adams thanked them before leaving. He was later reported to have disappeared from the hotel and boarded a train toward Oregon.
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Grand Junction
Colo
Steven Adams
Arthur Collins
Telluride
Adams
Shakleford
Western Federation of Miners
Colorado
Oregon
Laborer Kills Two in Railroad Camp Escape
Marysville California July 15 A railroad laborer Gus Adolph sought revenge for being driven from a Western Pacific railroad camp twenty five miles east of Oroville in March He killed two former comrades and tried to shoot three others who fled to the hills He escaped and is in hiding as two posses pursue him led by Sheriff Chubbuck
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Marysville
Cal
Western Pacific
Oroville
Gus Adolph
Chubbuck
Boy Walks Eight Miles for Help After Accident
Buena Vista Colorado July 15. Word reached here that the 10 year old son of Mr and Mrs O M Wimmer Buena Vista was thrown from a horse in the mountains fifteen miles west of town and badly injured A playmate ran eight miles to the nearest telephone to report the accident
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Buena Vista
Colo
O. M. Wimmer
Here
Bryan Spends Quiet Day at Fairview as Politicians Absent
Lincoln Neb July 15 Politicians were conspicuously absent from Fairview the home of W J Bryan and he spent a quiet day. He has not begun preparing his acceptance speech and likely will not start until Taft's address is delivered.
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Bryan
Lincoln
Neb
Fairview
W. J. Bryan
Taft
Weather Outlook and Local Data For Wyoming
Weather report from Washington D C July 1 1908 forecasts showers Thursday cool and fall vervolg Friday. Local data show 24 hour period ending July 16 maximum 80 minimum 64 precipitation .02 inches reported by W8 Palmer Section Director.
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Washington, D. CC
Wyominy
Palmer
Leading Democrats Confer at Fairview in Lincoln Nebraska
National Democratic Committee adopts a no corporate contributions rule and a 10000 dollar individual cap with publication requirements. Bryan and Kern push for transparency while selecting a chairman by a subcommittee. Top candidates Dahlman James Campau exit, leaving Atwood Lamb Kerr as contenders. Bryan signals a quieter campaign pace for 1900.
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Lincoln, Neb
National Democratic Committee
William J. Bryan
John W. Kern
Denver
Chi
James
Dahlman
Ollie James
D. J. Campau
Bryan
Nebraska
Campau
John H. Atwood
Kansas
John E. Lamb
Indiana
James Kerr
Pennsylvania
Coal Mine Explosion Kills Seven in Pottsville
Seven miners are dead and seven injured after a gas explosion at the Williamstown colliery of Summit Branch Mining in Pottsville Pennsylvania. The mine was wrecked and set afire. investigators blame a lamp gauze lift after a shot triggered the blast. Rescue efforts began immediately and crews rushed into the burning mine.
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Pottsville
Williamstown
Summit Branch Mining Company
Col
Liery
National Prohibition Convention Opens in Columbus
The prohibition national convention met in Columbus Ohio and adjourned after two sessions without the committee report on permanent officers. Members of various committees were named and reports on rules and credentials were received.
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Columbus
American envoy says Japan sincere on peace and goodwill
Thomas J. O'Brien, the American ambassador to Japan, arrived in San Francisco and stated in an interview that there is no ground for suspicion in the United States regarding Japan's sincerity in maintaining peace and expressing unity and goodwill.
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San Francisco
Cal
Thomas J. O'Brien
Japan
United States
Western Republicans to Confer in Colorado Springs
A conference of Republican national committeemen and Western state chairmen will meet in Colorado Springs on Monday and Tuesday. The call for the gathering was sent from Washington by Chairman Hitchcock of the Republican National Committee.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
Republican National
Miners Leaders Seek Closer Ties At Denver Convention
President Thomas H. Lewis of the United Mine Workers with board members and national organizer James Moony met the Western Federation of Miners in Denver to seek closer relations. The federation’s executive board was to convene Saturday to work toward a joint agreement. The convention adjourned honoring Adams's acquittal.
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Denver
Colo
Thomas H. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
J. L. Lawson
Duncan McDonald
James Moony
United Mine Workers
Western Federation of Miners
In Attempet
Adams
Wealthy Manufacturer Albert Plats Found Shot
LaCrosse Wisconsin July 15. Albert Plats a wealthy manufacturer and general manager of Davis Medary and Plats company was found shot dead. District attorney says investigation shows death was accidental and clears up doubt about the manner of death. He held large interests in the west and Mexico.
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LaCrosse
Wis
Albert Plats
General manaKer
Davis, Medary & Plats Company
West
Mexico
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