Russia weighs recognizing China's sovereignty in Manchuria
St. Petersburg April 4 Russia weighs issuing a statement recognizing China's sovereignty in Manchuria to resolve the Harbin dispute while preserving Russia's administrative rights in the railroad zone. The move aims to avert an international incident led by American Consul Fisher and to maintain the status quo with China and Japan.
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ST. Petersburg
China
Manchuria
Russia
Harbin
Fred D. Fisher
Charler
United States
Night Riders ruin Nip-Tobacco beds in Clark County
A small band of Night Riders tore up tobacco beds on Aquilla Thomas’s farm near Winchester Kentucky cutting telephone lines and warning tenants to stop growing tobacco. Ten Marshall County men indicted for the Birmingham raid are arrested as part of ongoing tobacco era clashes.
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Commercial Tribune
Winchester
Clark County
Aquilla Thomas
Lizzie Gay
Will Keene
James Terry
Will Sphar
Winchester Bank
Society OF Equity Night Riders
Paducah
Pete Eley
Benton
Birmingham
Marshall County
Sam Colley
Fren Holden
Amos Stringer
Wallace Stringer
Louis Chaudet
Nick Terry
Tom McClain
Burnett Phelps
R. M. McAfee
Awakening awareness of U S role in Russia Japan Manchuria position
In Peking on April 4 a shift in U S policy emerges as the American Special Consular Service builds a yearlong activity. The change follows Consul Fisher of Harbin refusing to recognize Russia’s administration and backing Chinese protests against Russian municipal control in the Harbin railroad zone.
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Novoe Vremya
South
Manchuria
Japan
Russia
Peking
United States
American Special Consular Service
Fred JD. Fisher
Harbin
Har
Burley Tobacco Planting Low In 30 Counties
Frankfort Kentucky April 4 monthly crop statistics from the State Department of Agriculture show only 11 percent of the average Burley tobacco crop planted across thirty Burley district counties this season. The drop is linked to Equity Society efforts to trim the 1908 crop.
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Frankfort
State
State Department of Agriculture
Burley
Equity Society
Evans declares he soon will recover at Paso Robles
Admiral Evans reports a calm night and sulfur bath treatment in Paso Robles California. Physicians find no organic illness though he suffers inflammatory rheumatism and weight loss from 178 to 122 pounds. He says he will be walking soon and currently uses a chair and crutches.
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Evans
Admiral
Paso Robles Hot Springs
Cal
Admiral Evans
House Majority Tightens Grip on Democrats
A tense political scene unfolds as the House majority asserts control, pressing Democrats on key votes and oversight. The move signals tighter leadership and heightened friction within the party.
Old Timers Bid Farewell to Fifth Avenue Hotel Amen Corner
New York April 4 At midnight the Fifth Avenue Hotel closed after 50 years. Senator Platt, once secretive, spoke to the crowd about the Amen Corner’s fame. Louis Seibold, president, said the plush benches would serve Republican and Democratic events alike as the building is torn down for an office tower. The hotel once stood as the city’s premier hostelry, rivaling the Astor House.
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New York
Fifth Avenue Hotel
Tom Platt
Chauncey Depew
Platt
Louis Seibold
German Language Made Compulsory
Berlin April 4 The Reichstag adopted Section VII of the government’s association bill by 200 to 179. The rule makes German compulsory in all public meetings empire wide except international congresses or election meetings. Over the next twenty years exceptions may apply where 60 percent speak another language, with notice to authorities and a police reporter required for meetings and language spoken.
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Berlin
Reichstag
Heflin Sued by Wounded Negro in Alabama Dispute
Representative Thomas Heflin of Alabama is defendant in a $20,000 damages suit filed in the District Supreme Court by Louis Lundy, a Black man, alleging Heflin kicked him slapped him and forced him from a street car on March 27 amid a dispute over women drinking on street cars. The suit claims a head wound and bruises.
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Washington
Thomas Heflin
Alabama
District Supreme Court
Louis Lundy
Lundy
Mr. Heflin
Bryan withdraws acceptance of Jefferson Day dinner
In Washington on April 4 Representative Sulzer announced a telegram from William J. Bryan withdrawing acceptance to attend the Jefferson Day banquet in New York. Bryan preferred to be the last speaker with the topic The Art of Government, amid club splits and counter moves. Sulzer criticized conflicting statements surrounding the invitation and Bryan’s position.
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Washington
Sulzer
New York
William J. Bryan
National Democratic Club
Bryan
Committee On Invitations
John Fox
Johnson
Minnesota
Judge Harmon
Gray
Mr. Bryan
Ethel Roosevelt Drives Locomotive Thirty Six Miles
Miss Ethel Roosevelt daughter of the President took the throttle of the Atlanta and West Point limited from Newman thirty six miles to Atlanta guiding the engine to a six minute early arrival. She watched by her four children and praised by engineer Still for catching on quickly.
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Ethel Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Atlanta & West Point Limited
Terminal Station
Newman
John T. Atill
Miss Roosevelt
Atlanta
Sti
Shot in Lung by Mother-in-Law in Portsmouth
Albert Gibbs 27, a shoeworker, was shot through the right lung by his mother-in-law Mrs Mary Bunner in Portsmouth Ohio. Gibbs had been drinking as his wife and her mother tried to take him home. Gibbs turned on them with a knife and she fired a pistol killing no one.
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Portsmouth
Albert Gibbs
Mary Bunner
Gibbs
Runner
Taft Gains Momentum Across States as Support Rivers In
A Taft campaign bulletin reports Massachusetts caucus results indicating 18 to 23 votes for Taft from the Bay State delegation and hints that Senator Crane may back the majority. Idaho Maine New York California Illinois Indiana and Colorado show growing Taft alignment with delegates pledged or likely to back Taft. Kentucky and New England supporters push for Taft as decisive momentum builds toward the convention.
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Washington, D. C
Commercial Tribune
Washington
Taft
Massachusetts
Idaho
Maine
New York
Empire State
Ohio
Hughes
California
Illinois
Cannon
Indiana
Fairbanks
Hoosier
Hughegs
Virginia
New England
Bay Station
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