Taft Delegates Win First Contests at National Committee
Chicago June 5 The Republican National Committee awarded contests from Alabama and Arkansas totaling 24 seats to Taft instructed delegates. Florida Georgia Kentucky contests totaling 34 seats will be heard tomorrow. A protest challenged Hitchcock Statter and Phelps proxies as taft backed and as not legal representatives. The tabled protest ends the dispute for now.
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Republican National Committee
Alabama
Arkansas
Chicago
Taft
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
Frank H. Hitchcock
Arthur F. Statter
the Treasury
Charles G. Phelps
Washington
Hitchcock
National Committee
New Mexico
Alaska
North Dakota
A. M. Stevenson
Colorado
Farmer to Noah on raft as flood floods Missouri river farm
On J W Appleton's Missouri farm near St Louis a huge raft floats with his family twelve pigs three cows two horses and poultry all secured by a long cable as floodwaters rise and threaten crops and wheat fields. Neighbors laughed at the makeshift ark but the raft remains in Appleton's dooryard amid rising Mississippi levels.
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Missouri
St. Louis
J. W. Appleton
Appleton
Noah
Mississippi
Kinkaid
Degogna Bluffs
Illnois
Missouri Bluffs
Roosevelt plans African trip with son Kermit
Washington reports after Congress adjourns President Roosevelt will tour British East Africa next summer. He plans to hunt and collect specimens for study and a possible future book, likely joined by his son Kermit.
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Roosevelt
British East Africa
Kermit
National holidays listed for army rations
The War Department defines national holidays for dressed chicken or turkey in army garrison rations. They are New Year's, Washington's Birthday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas.
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War Department
Washington's
Immense Fighter to Mount New 20,000-Ton Battleship
Construction work on the new 20,000 ton battleship at the New York Navy Yard will begin shortly as part of a major shipbuilding program.
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Washington, D. C
New York Navy Yard
Change in Postmaster at Edgemont
Washington June 5 President Roosevelt appoints J B Calder as postmaster at Edgemont D D June 5 Roosevelt administration announces the new posting in the federal personnel roster.
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Roosevelt
J. B. Calder
Edgemont
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Show and Rain Stop City Traffic in Butte Mont
Eight inches of snow on a level, turned to slush by rain, isolated Butte, Mont., from the outside world. Telegraph service failed until noon, lines down, streetcars off, power out, many mines shut as trains east and west were stalled. no heavy damage reported.
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Butte
Mont
Here
Damming Disaster Drowns Two Women in Guanajuato
A dam break on a Guanajuato river caused a flood late today. Two women are confirmed drowned, about twenty missing, and property worth 20000 dollars destroyed after a bolt of lightning toppled a smaller dam above the main structure.
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Guanajuato
Mexico
Six Minutes to Convict in Des Moines Trial
The Des Moines jury convicted Frank Brown of attempted criminal assault on Mary Man, a white woman, after retiring at 6:26 p.m. and delivering a guilty verdict at 6:21 p.m. The rapid deliberation produced a swift judgment in the criminal court.
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Des Moines
Frank Brown
Mary Man Ao
Fatal impulse ends life over ship date dispute
Felix Palmeri a 23 year old from Williamsburg purchased a Naples steamship ticket and feared sailing on June 13 after a friend warned of a sinking. He begged for a date change or refund but the clerk refused. He shot himself in the head in the ticket office and died before help arrived.
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New York
Felix Palmeri
Williamsburg
Naples
Palmeri
Man Buried Alive in Abandoned Vault at Post Office
Conover Thompson a steam fitter was sealed inside the reserve vault in the Trenton New Jersey post office while making connections for a new building. He bored a wall hole and was suffocating until fellow workers outside and Postmaster Alexander C Yard freed him by enlarging the opening.
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New York
Trenton
N. J
Conover Thompson
Thompson
Alexander C. Yard
Collision on electric railroad kills eight in Annapolis
In Annapolis on June 6 a head on crash on the Washington Baltimore and Annapolis Electric line killed eight people outright and left many others seriously hurt. The accident followed confusion of orders as extra cars ran during naval academy graduation festivities. The two trains wrecked with one car thrown off the rails.
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Annapolis
Washington, Baltimore & Annapolis Electric Railroad
Naval Academy
Weather forecast for Wyoming region
June 5 1908 report notes generally fair weather for Saturday and Sunday. Local data show a 24 hour maximum of 68 degrees and a minimum of 13 degrees with no precipitation. W. & Palmer, Section Director.
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Wyoming
W. & Palmer
Beotion
Paris Turmoil After Dreyfus Attempt Sparks 400 Arrests
Four hundred arrests were made in connection with the Dreyfus assassination attempt at the Pantheon. Louis An thenhene Gregori, a noted military writer, is the principal prisoner. Parisian unrest grows with rumors of royalist plots and a Zola Pantheon ceremony cited as a spark for revolution.
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Dreyfus
Pantheon
Louis Anthehene Gregori
Zola
Gregori
Flood Situation Serious in Montana Severs Rail Links
Missoula, June 5. The flood situation in Montana grows more serious as communications east of Missoula halt by rail and telegraph. The Northern Pacific lost miles of track east of town, Garrison residents flee to hills, roadbed damage on the St Paul line between Missoula and Butte nears 1 million dollars, and Butte and Helena are isolated with ore shipments at risk.
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Mont
Montana
Here
Garrison
St. Paul
Butte
Helena
Tornado near Geneva Nebraska Claims Lives and Wrecks Farm
A tornado near Geneva Nebraska on June 5 killed two people and fatally injured another. The Shiveley farmhouse was demolished. four year old Shiveley daughter and a woman named Smith were killed. John H. Shiveley was badly injured along with his wife and others, including a farm hand Russell.
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Neb
John H. Shiveley
Smith
Shiveley
Boiler Explodes Aboard Tennessee Kills Four, Wounds Ten
Four men died and ten were injured aboard the USS Tennessee after a boiler tube burst amid a nine teen knot speed trial off California. The explosion sent scalding steam through the engine room as Admiral Sebree and others toured the area. An official investigation was ordered.
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Cal
Tennessee
Santa Barbara
Admiral Sebree
George Wood
Karl Boggs
Adolph Reinghold
George Meek
S. 5
Tenattis
Norfolk
F. D. Maxfield
Toughkena
Uriel Sebree
F. B. Howard
Robertson
Reinhold
Meek
Boggs
Sheriff Killed in Clash With Negroes Near Hitchcock
Oklahoma City Sheriff George W. Garrison was fatally shot near Hitchcock while attempting to arrest a suspect in a May murder. His deputy was wounded and seven Negro assailants opened fire. A 50‑man posse pursued the fugitives, with 100 armed men leaving by special train toward Hitchcock.
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Oklahoma
Okla
Hitchcock
Garrison
Roosevelt Says He Will Quit March 4
Governor R B Glenn of North Carolina, a Bryan supporter and advocate of governors, told President Roosevelt he would gladly accept him if a Republican wins. Roosevelt thanked Glenn and reaffirmed his plan to become a private citizen on Inauguration Day. Glenn is to speak at Arlington next Sunday for the Confederate Veterans association.
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Bryan
Roosevelt
White House
North Carolina
Arlington
Confederate Veterans’ Association
Russia Against New National Alliances
An article from Nevbed in official Russia supports the meeting between King Edward and Emperor Nicholas at Reval and states that any new grouping of powers is impossible at present. It criticizes several Russian newspapers for their anti German tone ahead of Edward's visit.
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Russia
Petersburg
Edward
Nicholas
Reval
Boys Steal Letters From Garbage Boxes in Business District
Postmaster G W Hoyt seized a score of letters taken by several boys from trash receptacles in Cheyenne’s business district. The youths opened some letters before Hoyt recovered the rest and returned them to the mail. He warns residents the large metal garbage boxes are not mailboxes and advises ignoring boxes with ads on them.
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G. W. Hoyt
Hoyt
Senator Gore Hopes for Sight Restoration in Treatment
Washington June reporters say Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, who is blind, is undergoing treatment at Episcopal Hospital. He believes the therapy may restore his sight as it feeds the retina of his left eye, which is detached from the optic nerve.
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Washington, D. C
Thomas P. Gore
Oklahoma
Episcopal Hospital
Tammany Date Changed for Denver Convention
New York June 6. It was decided today that the Tammany delegation to the Denver convention will leave New York July 3.
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New York
Denver
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