Croker predicts Bryan will be president
Cairo report notes Richard Croker praising William Jennings Bryan as a reformer and honest leader who would make a great president. He contrasts Bryan with Taft and Roosevelt, saying Bryan could win the Democratic nomination and be elected, while Roosevelt enjoys broad support at home.
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Cairo
Egypt
New York
Bryan
Jalil
America
Taft
Roosevelt
Mr. Croker
Lincoln
Wall Street
Alia, Slayer of Priest, Tries Second Murder
In Denver on March 14 Giuseppe Alia, condemned for killing Father Leo Heinrichs, wounded a jailer during a botched escape attempt. White Baron Tosti argues the act proves Alia is insane while attorney Widdicomb defends him as sane though dangerous. The razor blade mystery remains unsolved.
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Alia
Denver
Colo
Giuseppe Alia
Leo Heinrichs
Tosti
Alla
Widdicomb
Ders
Primoner
Prairie Fire Sweeps Range Near Pearce Farm
A prairie fire near the Pearce farm in Carpenter Wyoming on March 14 burned about four strips two miles wide and ten miles long before being halted by plowed strips. The fire destroyed only range grass with dry farms spared.
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Carpenter
Wyo
Pearce Farm
Richard M Auliff Found Insane by Jury
In district court yesterday a jury determined painter Richard McAuliff of the Union Pacific shops is of unsound mind and he will be sent to the state hospital for the insane at Evanston.
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Richard M'Auliff
Richard McAwit
Union Pacific
McAuliff
State Hospital
Evanston
Weather Forecast for Washington D C March 14 1908
Forecast for Wyomiey calls for fair and sunny weather Sunday and Monday with rain in the northern area. Local data show a 24 hour period to 6 pm March 14 with a high of 59 and a low of 44 degrees and no precipitation. Winds peaked at 48 miles per hour from the west at 6:00 pm.
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Washington
D. C
Woot
Three Robbers Defy Pursuers Near Wann Oklo
Three bandits who held up Bank of Tyre at Tyre yesterday are surrounded seven metres south of Wann Oklo tonight. The posse surrounds them and a break through is expected as a battle looms between pursuers and robbers.
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Wann
Oklo
Bank of Tyre
Tyre
Vast Sioux Reserve Lands Set for Opening to Settlement
Major McLaughlin reports a treaty with Standing Rock Sioux that frees 1,100,000 acres in North and South Dakota for settlement, amounting to nearly half of the Standing Rock reservation. The move follows the veteran inspector's negotiations with the tribal authorities.
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Wakpaloss
Major McLaughlin
Standing Rock Reservation
North
South Dakota
Prairie Fire Burns 25000 Acres Near Sidney Neb
A large prairie fire swept 25 000 acres of Cheyenne county grazing land twelve miles west of Sidney caused by a Union Pacific engine. High winds aided spread. only the Girlington railroad protection kept the blaze from reaching North Platte. Damage estimated at 26900 dollars.
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Sidney
Neb
Union Pacific
Cheyenne County
Girlington
North Platte
Third of a Century Car Race Through Mud and Snow
In the New York to Paris race the Italian car and the American car battle heavy mud and snow across Wyoming and Utah. The Italian crept 35 miles while the American covered 36. both teams faced rough roads and delays. The American reached Echo Utah for the night, ahead of the Italian near Dana Wyoming, as both prepare for further leg toward Ogden and Paria. A Japanese labor crew assists stuck Italian near Hanna.
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Wyoming
New York
Paris
Utah
Dana
Wyo
Beho
Paria
Evanston
Ccsk
Echo
Ogden
Medicine Row
Hanna
Italian Car Stuck in Snow Near Dana Wyoming
The Italian Zust car is stuck fast in snow and mud one and a half miles east of Dana, thirty five miles east of Rawlins. Union Pacific section men from Dana are digging it out slowly amid twenty miles of bad roads between Dana and Fort Steele. After Platte crossing at Fort Steele the route improves toward Rawlins with a banquet planned for the crew and racing contestants.
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Rawlins
Wyo
Zust
Dana
Union Pacific Section
Fort Steel
Platte
Ft. Steele
American car pauses at Hoho Utah overnight
Peden Utah March 14. The American car will not try to reach Ogden tonight and will stay at Hoho Utah forty-five miles east of here until morning.
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Peden
Utah
Ogden
Hoho
Here
Harriman Appeals to U S Supreme Court
Washington March 14 The first appeal of E R Harriman to the Supreme Court has been docketed in the case arising from the Interstate Commerce Commission inquiry into Chicago and Alton deals and Harriman stock in Santa Fe and Union Pacific. Arguments unlikely before next fall.
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Washington, D. C
ER. H. Harriman
Supreme Court of the United States
Federal
New York
Interstate Commerce Commission
Harriman
Chicago & Alton
Santa Fe
Union Pacific
Six Orientals Die in Chinatown Fire in Pirat Street
Fire in Chinatown at Pirat and Oak Streets in Marysville, California, early today killed six Chinese people and left two others badly injured. One building was partly destroyed, with the blaze believed to be the work of an incendiary.
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Chinatown
Marysville
Cal
Pirat
Oak Streets
Thin City
Train Wreck near Bristow Oklahoma Kills Two
Two people died and several injured when the Frisco passenger train plunged forty feet from a high trestle over Spring Creek eight miles west of Bristow Oklahoma. An iron bolt on the track is blamed. investigators consider whether boys nearby placed it or if racial tensions after a new Jim Crow law influenced the act.
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Bristow
Okla
Frisco
Spring Creek
Here
Flrat
Thompson
Igome
Monitor Wyoming Oil Burner Ready for Spring Dispatch
Mare Island March 14. Navy orders require rushing repairs on the cruisers West Virginia and Mare Island oven three weeks of work to finish by April 28. The monitor Wyoming is being converted to an oil burning vessel and repairs are to be pushed for departure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wyoming
Mare Island
Navy Department
West Virginia
Amateur breaks world billiard high run record
Calvin Demarest of Chicago shattered the world amateur high run mark with 168 in his seventeenth inning during the national amateur 14.2 billiard tournament at the Chicago Athletic Association. He defeated Clarence Jackson 400 to 16 as Demarest posted an average of 21.110.
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Chicago
Calvin Demarest
Chicago Athletic Association
Demarest
Clarence Jackson
Jackson
Tricks of the Standard Oil in ouster suit hearing
The hearing before Special Examiner Ferris in Cleveland on March 14 focused on Standard Oil absorbtion of rivals dismantling rival plants and gathering customer information. It cited methods used to obtain data from railways as part of the government suit against Standard Oil.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland, O
Standard Oil Company
Standard of
Steamer Sylvia Stranded on Reef at Vineyard Sound
The Red Cross liner Sylvia bound for Halifax struck a reef at Vineyard Sound entrance and remained stuck. Passengers were rescued by the revenue cutter Mohawk and taken to New Bedford for the night.
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Woodshore
Mass
Red Cross Line
Sylvia
Halifax
Vineyard Sound
Mohawk
New Bedford
Lightning Victim Dies in Wyoming Asylum
Special to The Leader Wheatland Wyoming March 14 A message from the state asylum at Evanston reports the death of John Bisel of this place who became demented a year after being struck by lightning The bolt also killed KH Hamilton destroying his pine tree.
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Wheatland
Wyo
Psylum For
Evanston
John Bisel
Tng
Hamilton
Htael
First Japanese Navy Squadron Sails on Secret Service
Information from Formosa reports the first Japanese naval squadron will set sail today on secret service in Hong Kong waters. Cruisers Yakumo Akitsushima Avama and a flotilla of smaller vessels are ready to depart at a moment's notice since March 7.
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Aarp
Hong Kong
Formoega
Yakumo
Akitsushima
Avama
Vienoln
Submarine Scandal Probers Hear Witnesses Monday
The Spencer committee chaired by Speaker Cannon resumes hearings Monday on charges by Rep. Ley of Connecticut about Electric Boat influencing legislation. House debated topics include the panic, tariff, Sherman act, and pension funding while speakers named Bannon Hamblin Carter Langley Hughes Hall urged various reforms. A White House conference with Garf ield and bureau leaders discussed revising the Sherman act to curb anti union impact and allow pooling by railroads.
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Washington, D. C
Spcral
Cannon
Lilley
Connecticut
Electric Boat Company
House
Bannon
Ohio
Hamblin
Missouri
Carter
Oklahoma
Langley
Kentucky
Hughes
New Jersey
Hall
South Dakota
Mare
White House
Garfield
Interior Department
Smith
Bureau of Corporations
Niel
Bureau of Labor
Mystery of two deaths at Sheridan duel or suicide pact
Sheridan Wyoming March 14 Myster y surrounds the deaths of W S Buncker and Herman Hanken who arrived from Iowa and registered at the Depot hotel They were well dressed and said they came to work at the McShanelle camp Guests heard loud talk and shots Then Buncker lay dead with a .22 revolver in his hand and a bullet through his head Hanken lay on the floor with a bullet through his head holding a .38 revolver Both men were rich money and a $250 certificate of deposit found on Hanken A coroner s inquest will be held Monday The cause whether duel or self destruction remains unclear
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Cairo
Egypt
Shepheard's
Richard Croker
Tammany
Croker
Nile
Khartoum
Pyramids
Capitol
Washington
Bryan
Sheridan
Wyo
Buncker
Herman Hanken
Lowa
Ranchester
Depot Hotel
MsShanetle
Hanken
West Side Bank
Ruef Under Fire As Judge Orders Fresh Grand Jury
In San Francisco on March 14 Judge Dunne dismissed four of five indictments against Abe Ruef. The district attorney must resubmit the facts to another grand jury. Ruef’s plea to extortion was not withdrawn, and arrest of judgment was granted. Bail of about $60,000 remains for release from county jail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Cal
Abe Ruef
Dunne
Ruef
F. J. Murphy
Ruel
Fire damages coal shed at 416 East Nineteenth Street
At 9 16 yesterday afternoon the fire department responded to the residence of Mrs BF J Jones at 416 East Nineteenth Street where a coal shed was in flames. The blaze was extinguished after the shed and contents were partially destroyed.
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Mra. BF
Post clerk William Dixon called to Kansas for mother’s sickness
William Dixon, a well known postal clerk, received a telegram yesterday about his mother's illness in Lawrence Kansas. He left for Lawrence on the first train.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Dixon
Yowtenday
Lawrence, Kaw
Lawrence
Gas Explosion Fatal in Natchez Five-Story Building
Eight people are dead and another injured after a gas explosion in the basement of a Natchez Drug Co. building. Fire and heat spread as sparks ignited eighteen nearby structures, with recovery delayed until tomorrow due to dangerous conditions.
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Natchez, Miss
Natcehez Drug Company
Rulas
Chicago suit against Colorado promoter details
Dennis Ryan of St Paul files an accounting suit in federal court against Samuel Martin of Eureka Colorado over Tom Moore Gold Mining Company assets. Judge Walker issues a temporary injunction restraining stock transfers amid allegations of misused funds and breach of mining contract in San Juan and Hinsdale counties Colorado.
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Chicago
Elfense
Dennis Ryan
St. Paul
Colorado
Lso
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Associated Press
Lightning
Committee of Inquiry
Kansas
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