Thaw in a Cell Awaits Judge's Decision at Matteawan
In White Plains New York on August 7 Harry K. Thaw remains in a jail cell awaiting Justice Isaac Mills's ruling on his sanity or insanity. The habeas corpus hearing featured sharp exchanges between District Attorney Jerome and Thaw attorney Charles Morschauser. The defense argued for Thaw's release while the district attorney accused Thaw's wife Evelyn of deception and asserted Thaw's threat to shoot was real.
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White Plains
N. Y
Harry K. Thaw
Supreme Court
State of
New York
Charles Morschauser
Jerome
Morschauser
Isaac N. Mills
Mary Copley Thaw
Alice
Yarmouth
Josiah Thaw
Harry Thaw
Justice Mills
Thaw
Mary de Thaw
Thaw Elf
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
Britton D. Evans
Dr. Evans
Evelyn ‘Thaw
Matteawan
Mills
Soldier Eastmond Shot at National Soldiers Home in Ohio
Captain Oscar Eastmond of barracks No 6 Central Branch National Soldiers home was shot and killed this morning by veteran Edward Leonard who then fired on others. Leonard, driven by jealousy over recent appointments, wounded George W. Arnold and Warren Wright before escaping.
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Dayton
Oscar Eastmond
Central Branch
National Soldiers’ Home
Edward Leonard
Eastmond
Leonard
George W. Arnold
Warren Wright
Wright
Russian Woman Writer Killed Fighting Robbers
In Dorutch near Kiev Madame Nie govskaia a respected Russian writer was killed after defending her estate from two robbers. She seized her husband’s revolver and fired, wounding herself and causing the attackers to flee before dying from blood loss.
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Kiev
Russia
Madame Niegovskaia
Dorutch
Madame Njegovskaia
Rich St. Louis brewer ill in Germany
Adolphus Busch of St. Louis, returning from Carlsbad, lies in bed at his Lange Schwalbach villa with a severe cold. Doctors say his condition is not seriously alarming, though he is confined to bed. The report comes from Mayence Germany on August 7.
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St. Louis
Germany
Mayence
Adolphus Busch of
Carlsbad
Lange Schwalbach
Gen Corbin's Grand Child To Marry Jap Merchant
Detroit August 7 Aline M Corbin granddaughter of General Henry C Corbin U S A retired plans to marry Daihiro Wooyene a 29 year old Japanese art merchant of Detroit Wooyene has taken out a license to wed after meeting Miss Corbin at a fete in Cincinnati Miss Corbin resides in Corbin Kentucky
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Detroit
Mich
Daihiro Wooyene
Aline M. Corbin
Henry C. Corbin
S. A
Wooyene
Miss Corbin
Cincinnati
Japan begins Antung Mukden railroad construction
In defiance of Chinese protests Japan started building the Antung Mukden railroad today. Japanese engineers and constructors, under Tokyo's orders, initiated work at both ends of the line after months of awaited negotiations.
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Pekin
China
Japan
Antung- Mukden
Tokyo
Swedish Troops Mutiny In Northern Barracks
Swedish troops in Falun and Solleftea have mutinied and been confined to their barracks. The mutiny comes amid northern labor disturbances in the timber industry, sparking government concern over soldiers' sympathies with strikers.
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Stockholm
Falun
Solleflen
Pastor Prompts More Sensations In Westchester Church Row
The Rev J Spencer Smith of Westchester Methodist Episcopal Church accuses trustees of withholding salary and plans a Sunday sermon on why the church has failed. He says the board discussed suing him and sought his church key to lock him out before a planned address.
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J. Spencer Smith
Westchester Methodist Episcopal Church
The
Commercial Tribune
Board of Trustees
Westchester Church
Methodistiscopal Church
Smith
Westchester
Taft Diaz to Meet Across Border in El Paso Banquet
Presidents Taft of the United States and Diaz of Mexico will shake hands across the Juarez El Paso boundary on October 15 at a bridge banquet. A flower canopy, shared table, and troops from both nations will frame the event with music from two bands and a bilingual menu.
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Commercial Tribune
EL Paso
Tex
Juarez
Mexico
William Howard Taft
United States
Porfirio Diaz
Mexico City
Enrique Creel
Chihuahua
Ahumada
Jalisco
Torres
Oerlenis
Escardon
E Mange Ee
Saehcan
Governor Sloane
Seaten
R. H. Sloane
Arizona
George Curry
New Mexico
T. M. Campbell
Texas
Joseph F. Huston
Fort Bliss
Nineteenth Infantry
Diaz
Joseph A. Sweeney
Fort Huachuca
Southwest
Taft
Sloane
Santa Fe
San Antonio
Corpus Christi
Campbell
Isaac Alderete
Frank Alderete
William McKinley
Harrison
McKinley
Feast International Bridge
Ex Representative Kimball Urges Single Burley Pool
Former Congressman William Prestom Kimball calls for Kentucky Burley tobacco growers to keep a unified organization led by President Le Bus of the Burley Tobacco Society. He notes past financial distributions to politicians and warns against creating two separate pools, urging a permanent, modern business‑like structure to safeguard the 1906–1908 victories and the gains from the 1909 crop.
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Commercial Tribune
Lexington
Burley Tobacco Growers
le Bus
Burley Tobacco Society
William Prestom Kimball
Burley Tobacco Growers of
Kentucky
Kimball
Congress
Ashland
J. Campbell Cantrill
Georgetown
Tobacco Trust
American Tobacco Company
French aviator sets endurance flight record
Roger Sommer, the French aviator, by Aug 7 in Mourmelon le Grand, broke the world record for prolonged flight in an airplane. His aircraft stayed aloft for two hours 27 minutes 15 seconds.
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Mourmelon-Le-Grand
France
Roger Sommer
Cantrill Addresses Tobacco Growers at Georgetown Meeting
Congressmen Cantrill spoke to tobacco growers and Equity society members in Georgetown on August 7. Delegates from Adams Brown Clermont and Scioto counties formed a district organization to create a branch of the Equity society to pool the 1909 crop of tobacco, with no compromise with the Burley Tobacco society.
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Ing
Cantrill
General Tribune
Georgetown
Equity Society
Adams
Brown
Clermont
Iscioto
Burley Tobacco Society
Falmouth contract text adopts pooling pledge by growers
Nearly 1,000 Pendleton county tobacco growers approve a pooling contract with the American Society of Equity Tobacco Growers Union. The measure requires two-thirds voting approval and sets a 15 cent minimum price, with penalties for breach and a 70 percent signing threshold for barley tobacco. The full text details rights, penalties, and signatures.
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Falmouth
Pendleton County
Burley Tobacco
The
American Society of Equity
American Society of Equity Tobacco
Esse
Woman GetS Place at White Oak Post Office
Myrtle Cisco appointed postmistress of White Oak Morgan County Kentucky replacing C Cisco who resigned in Washington on August 7.
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Myrtle Cisco
White Oak
Morgan County
Commercial Tribune
Washington
C. Cisco
South Carolina Ready for Official Trial Off Maine
The new battleship South Carolina will undergo her official trial on August 24, likely on the standard course near Rockland Maine, the start of anticipated naval testing.
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Maine
Tle
South Carolina
Rockland
Cedar Rapids Mayor Dies After Burglar Shot
Mayor John T. Carmody of Cedar Rapids Iowa died at St Luke s hospital from a gunshot wound suffered during a May 23 burglary incident. The shooting occurred when a burglar attacked the mayor at his home. Carmody’s death marks the culmination of injuries from the attack.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
John T. Carmody
St. Luke’s Hospital
Harmon Salen alliance talk shocks Cedar Point crowd
News from Cedar Point Ohio notes Governor Harmon and Charles P Salen were seen together on the Olive H Perry aboard. Rumors suggest a Harmon Salen alliance affecting Cleveland Democracy after Mayor Johnson loss. Separate items report income tax debate, treasury balance projections, and Tim Ansberry’s unopposed renomination.
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Charles P. Salen
Cedar Point
Harmon
Ohio
Olive H. Perry
Salen
Cleveland
Johnson
Fidoes
Traction tangle straightened up in Ohio receivership fight
In Columbus Ohio Judge E B Kinkead and Judge Boston G Young resolved a jurisdiction dispute over the C D M Electric line. Whysall and West were named as receivers representing rival factions led by John G Webb and N J Catrow. The line remained operating but workers went unpaid during the deadlock.
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Commercial Tribune
Columbus
Marion
E. B. Kinkead
Boston G. Young
Kinkead
Young
Whysall Coreceiver
West
Johng. Webb
Springfield
N. J. Catrow
Miamisburg
Whysall
Webb
Counterfeiters Arrested With 25000 In Fake Coins
A gang including Joe Batley John Porter Jack Willis and James and John Phelps was arrested near Milwood with 25000 in counterfeit dollars and half dollars. They appeared before U S Commissioner Douglas at Point Pleasant and were bound over to the grand jury on bonds of 5000 each.
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Parkersburg
W. Va
Joe Batley
John Porter
Jack
Willis
James
John Phelps
Milwood
United States
Douglas
Point Pleasant
Taft Faces Three Major Proposals at I C C Push
President Taft seeks three key policy proposals to pass through the Interstate Commerce Commission, aiming to reshape regulation and advance his administration's reform agenda.
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TAFT
President outlines three major reform plans for interstate commerce
The President seeks next winter three key measures. Overhaul of interstate commerce administration with powers removed from the ICC. Sherman act amended to permit nonobjectionable capital aggregations. ICC empowered to regulate capitalization of all interstate corporations. Additional steps to strengthen enforcement and address federal state relations.
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Commercial Tribune
Burway
Munuzy
Europina
Washinoton
D.C
Wastington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Taft Begins Restful Beverly Vacation With Golf and Family
President Taft arrived in Beverly Mass from Washington for a lengthy summer break. He golfed on Myopia Hunt Club course and enjoyed a ten mile sunset motor ride with Mrs Taft and Helen Taft. He plans to limit engagements to rest and attend the First Unitarian Church on Sundays.
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Taft
Beverly
Mass
Washington
Helen Taft
Old
North Shore
First Unitarian Church
Chevy Chase
Hugo O. Johnstone
F. Oden Horstmann
Robert
Hamilton
Congress
West
Night Watchman Shot by Two Men Near Coal Plant
Lindsay Lyghtel, 38, night watchman for the Queen City Coal Co., was shot in the abdomen and arms near Fifth and Freeman. Taken to City Hospital at 3 am, doctors say recovery possible but uncertain. Two Black men he encountered along the railroad tracks fled. police had not located them by late hours. Patrolmen Mitchell and Deghan assisted after a passerby notified authorities.
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Queen City Coal Company
Fifth and Freeman
Lindsay Lyghtel
Poplar Street
Coal Company
Lyghtel
Mitchell
Deghan
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Gen. Corbin
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Dominic
Mexican Societies Act
Mr. Kimball
Burley Society
Oalen
Harmon Alliance
Tom L. Johnson
Cedar Point. O
Clevenger
Ritter
House Finance Committee
Tim Ansberry
Fifth
Camp Perry
Gang of Five
West Virginia
Merce Commission
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