Pension Agencies Reform Passes House for 150 Million
Washington March 19 the house approved a pension appropriation bill totaling 150 869 000 the largest sum for the measure to date by an 86 to 129 vote after proposals to abolish seven of fifteen pension agencies and consolidate disbursements in Washington were debated. Senate discussion centered on railroad valuation and omni bus claims. labor groups urged action on an employers stability act in a national conference led by Samuel Gompers and others.
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Washington, D. C
United States
Washington
House
Committee On Appropriations
Fitzgerald
New York
Taft
Harrison
Williams
Mississippi
Panama Canal Zone
Gortelyou
Wisconsin
Senate
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Congress
Cannon
Fairbanks
Supreme Court of the United States
Samuel Gompers
American
International Trade
House of Representatives
Labor
New York Democrats Back Uninstructed Delegation to National Convention
The New York state committee voted almost unanimously for an uninstructed delegation to the national convention, with Charles P. Williams voting in opposition in support of Bryan. The resolution urged selecting the strongest available delegates unfettered by instructions or pledges. Chairman Connors had said Bryan support had waned, with only about three of fifty-one members favoring him.
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New York
W. J. Connors
Democratic State Committee
Charles P. Williams
Lyons
Bryan
Williams
Connor
New York State
State Committee
Wreck on Texas Road Kills One in Pearsall Derailment
An excursion train carrying homeseekers from Kansas and Oklahoma to Las Palomas, Mexico derailed near Pearsall, thirty-two miles south of San Antonio. One man, W. H. Myers Sigeman of San Antonio, was killed and eight others injured when the engine baggage car and four day coaches left the track due to a broken axle.
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San Antonio
Tex
International & Great Northern Railway
Kansas
Oklahoma
Las Pallenas
Mex
Pearall
Weather forecast for Wyoming and Washington report
Weather report from Washington March 19 1908 lists forecast for Wyoming fair Friday warmer in the east Saturday fair. Includes 24 hour data from 8 p m March 19 with 36 degree reading and minimum 20 degrees plus precipitation .01 inch. Section Director W P Palmer notes.
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Washington
D. C
Wyoming
Palmer
Germans Battle Hottentots in Kalabry Desert
A German expeditionary force clashed with Hottentots in the Kalabry desert while seeking the last Hottenot chief Simon Koppers. The fight left the Germans heavy casualties including Captain Von Erckert and Lieutenant Ebinger, with 12 privates killed and 17 wounded. Fifty eight Hottentots were killed and several captured before Koppers escaped.
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Berlin
South Africa
Kalabry
Simon Koppers
Koppers
von Erckert
Ebinger
Russian generals in duel leave Smirnoff mortally wounded
At Reterdburg on March 19 General Smirnoff, a Russian general wounded in a duel with General Fook, commander of Port Arthur, is not expected to recover. An investigation will be held though combatants claim the meeting had the czar's sanction.
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Reterdburg
Smirnoff
Fook
Port Arthur
Tragic Death of Stanley on Union Pacific Train
Charles G. Stanley 38, son of Mr. and Mrs. G W Stanley, was killed by a Union Pacific train near Sidney Nebraska while en route to Potter after his wife Lulu Henry Stanley died in Ogden Utah. The body was found beside the track and identified by papers. sheriff and relatives notified.
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G. W. Stanley
Union Pacific
Sidney
Neb
Stanley
Sheriff Smalley
Mr. Stanley
Ogden
Utah
Cheyenne
Potter
Onivaaite
Charlie Stanley
California
Charles G Stanley
Roy Stanley
Laramie
C. B. Richardson
Old Mexico
Death Brings Union With First Loves In Death
Louis and Mary Larson whose eight year marriage was shadowed by devotion to their first loves both die within days of each other. Mrs. Larson aged 49 dies of pneumonia. Mr. Larson 79 dies next day from the same illness. Mrs Larson will be buried Thursday beside her first husband Charles Cohan at Forest Home. Mr Larson to be interred Friday beside his first wife Amela Erickson Larson at Graceland.
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Chicago
Louis
Mary Larson
Leap Year Stunt Aims to Make Miss Crawford's Son Her Heir
Miss Wilhelmina Crawford, 29, adopted yesterday in Lowell Massachusetts, sues for guardianship of her son James Butler, 40, claiming Butler was raised in her father’s family after his parents died. She seeks to formalize him as her son through the superior court.
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Lowell, Mann
Wilelmina Crawford
James Butler
Miss Crawford
Butler
Bold Bandits Rob A Bank
Two masked men believed to be from the Tyro, Kansas gang robbed the Davis bank in Hoffman Oklahoma, taking about $900 in currency. They mounted horses and fled, with a posse forming but no trace found. Tyro robbers were traced forty miles north of Hoffman.
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Muskogee, Okliv
Tyro
Kan
Davis
Hoffman
Here
Supreme Officer Is Embezzler in Port Huron
Port Huron Mich March 19 Attor ned for the United Home Protector Fraternity of this city a building and loan company with banking features made an announcement this afternoon that Supreme Secretary W L Wilson last night confessed that he had misused 75000 of the funds of the institution Banking Commissioner Zimmerman has taken charge of the institution Zimmerman made a statement in which he says that Wilson lost the money in speculation in mining ventures and in promoting electric railroads His peculations extended over a period of ten years They were covered up by falsifying the records.
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Port
Huron
Mich
United Home Protector Fraternity
Supreme
W. L. Wilson
Zimmerman
Wilson
Republican State Convention at Lander Held May 7
The Republican State Central Committee chose Lander as the convention site to select delegates for the national Chicago meeting. The May 7 date was set and Taft support was adopted in resolutions. Delegates by county were Albany 11 Big Horn 15 Carbon 15 Converse 8 Creek 6 Fremont 0 Johnson 6 Laramie 20 Natrona 5 Sheridan 12 Sweetwater 8 Uinta 17 Weston 5 total 134.
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Republican State Central Committee
Lander
Deelgates
Chicago
Taft
Albany
Big Horn
Carbon
Converse
Creek
Fremont
Johnson
Laramie
Natrona
Sheridan
Sweetwater
Uinta
Weston
Tolstoy Near Death Rumors Rise In Moscow Dossier
Reports from Moscow say Count Leo Tolstoy fell ill with influenza and was unconscious for a period. Two doctors were sent to Yasnaya Polyana, while Tolstoy’s daughter in St Petersburg denied any notification of illness and called the reports exaggerated.
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St. Petersburg
Leo Tolstoy
Moscow
Yasnaya Poliana
Railroads Propose New Political Party Movement
Chicago March 1 The idea of forming a new political party backed by about a million and a half railroad employees was urged by John H. Clarke for the Nickel Plate system. He spoke at the annual banquet of the American engineering association.
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Chicago
John HH. Clarke
Aiviera i Engineering Association
Igst Ni
Prairie Schooner Captain Dies in Missouri
Linneus Missouri reports the death of Joseph Combs a freighter who crossed the plains during the 1849 California gold rush He was 28 and had traveled to Kentucky then to the west reaching what is now Colorado earlier in life The obituary notes his long experience as a pioneer of western freighting services.
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Linneus, Mo
Joseph Combs
Plains
California
Kentucky
Colorado
French and German cars gain on Italian in New York to Paris race
In the New York to Paris auto race, the Italian car leads while the French and German entries close the gap across Nebraska and Wyoming. The first French car is near Cheyenne, expected tonight, as the German car nears Ogallala and Cheyenne tomorrow. the second French car is shipped to San Francisco after an earlier delay.
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Ogallala
Nebraska
Cheyenne
Nevada
New York
Paris
Iowa
Plains
Wyoming
Italy
Darling_tays
San Francisco
Italian car missing after getting stuck near Carter Wyoming
The Italian car, last heard at 4 40 this afternoon, is believed trapped between Carter and the next west telegraph station as roads are nearly impassable. It had covered twenty six miles since freeing from mud, three miles west of Granger this morning.
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Carter, Wyo
Cheyenne
Carter
Granger
Wyo
Bridger
French car Dion pusses Th here in snow storm
North Platte March 19 Special to The Leader reports a French car Dion pusses Th started from here at 3 60 p m and left at 4 10 p m. Driver Stchoffery said quote We are now fixed for a good run unquote. The car encountered a blinding snow storm about thirty minutes after departure and is described as being in fair shape.
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North Platte
Neb
Dion
Stchoffery
Route of New York to Paris race to pass through Los Angeles
EB L. Thomas announced in Los Angeles that the New York to Paris automobile race route has been changed and the competing cars will come through the city. He is on site to arrange finish details for the transcontinental portion of the round the world event.
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Los Angeles
Cal
New York
Paris
EB. L. Thomas
Car Stranded North of Ely on Goldfield Run
The American car is reported stranded tonight nine miles west of Ely Nevada. It left Ely this morning aiming for Goldfield before night.
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Ely
Nev
Cheyenne
Italian's Hard Luck Headline
Bridger and Carter report say an Italian car failed to progress amid snow and mud on the Bridger to Carter route after passing this point.
Flood Causes Enormous Losses at Pittsburg
Pittsburg Pa March 19 Officials of the United States weather bureau warned of a flood crest around daylight possibly near thirty feet but below the danger line of twenty two feet The lower Allegheny and Monongahela rivers still rise while the Otto rapidly climbs Many cellars and first floors flood and thousands of workers about 25 000 will be unable to report for work tomorrow
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Pittsburg
United States Weather Bureau
Allegheny
Monongahela
Otto Ly
Suffragists Riot Hits Berlin Streets Spark Arrests
Berlin reports 47 arrests after suffrage demonstrations yesterday. Nine policemen were injured in clashes with demonstrators. About fifty demonstrators were wounded, with many more likely hurt as some left before records.
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Berlin
Two Die in Dynamite Explosion at Low Tatos New Mexico
A dynamite blast at Low Tatos near Banta Pe New Mexico killed two people outright and seriously injured three others as seven sticks thawing in a stove detonated. The blast wrecked the house and caused extensive damage.
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Banta Pe
N. M
Low Tatos
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