Fleet of 16 battleships prepares for Roosevelt voyage
Old Point Comfort Va December 14 large ships swing at anchor in Hampton Roads fog and rain awaiting President Roosevelts visit. The fleet will depart Monday for a 14000 mile voyage showing the Pacific coast their power and training in squadron maneuvers under Admiral Robley Evans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commercial Tribune
Old Point Comfort
Hampton Roads
Roosevelt
Chamberlain
Admiral Evans
President Roosevelt
Connecticut
Virginia Capes
West Indies
Trinidad
Pacific Coast
Congress
Robley D. Evans
Navy Department
Desiren
Troop request and tobacco war tensions in Hopkinsville
Adjutant General P. P. Johnston asked Governor Willson for more troops as Hopkinsville and Trigg County brace for possible night rider activity. Fire Marshal Ayers says he has enough evidence to indict masked attackers who burned tobacco factories, while Governor Willson seeks a peace conference with growers and buyers on December 20 and 21.
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Ayers
Commercial Tribune
Hopkinsville
P. P. Johnston
Willson
Louisville
Johnston
Trigg County
Callwell
Tobacco District
Subcommittee Signals No Immediate Financial Relief Legislation
Washington December 14. A House Banking and Currency subcommittee reportedly will push general laws to preclude circulation shrinkage rather than remedial measures. Elasticity through credit currency or similar options may be considered, but specific fixes are unlikely.
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Commercial Tribune
Washinton
House Committee On Banking and Currency
Congress
Mock Lynching Fatal to Negro in Memphis Factory
Special Dispatch to Commercial Tribune Memphis Tenn December 14. Willie Gordon a sixteen year old Negro was raised on a shafting at a local manufacturing concern in a mock lynching. His head and arms were severed when clothing caught in a belt before he could be released. Several participants all Negroes were arrested on charges of involuntary manslaughter.
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Commercial Tribune
Memphis
Tenn
Willie Gordon
Stamina Elects Blue Ticket In Landslide for League
Norman G Kenan wins the presidency as Stamina Republican League votes 519 to 0. Guido Cores and Louis Bardles also lead in vice president posts with large Blue majorities. New members boost rolls to 830 ahead of continued coverage.
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Norman G. Kenan
Guido Cores
J. M. Riddell
J. J. McLeish
William Jerome Kuertz
Louis Bardles
A. H. King
Frank A. McGee
Edward P. Durr
Albert Rummel
Harry T. Stagman
Stamina League
Stamina
Sheriff Hume Quells Mob To Save Meeks From Florence
Sheriff B B Hume of Boone County Kentucky drove from Burlington to Florence and defused a mob blocking the jail. He escorted John Meeks, accused of shooting farmer Albert Clutterbuck, to the county jail amid threats of lynching. Clutterbuck, 40, lay critically wounded from three gunshots.
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B. B. Hime
Boone County
Kentucky
Burlington
Florence
Stringtown
John Meeks
Albert Clutterbuck
Burlington Pike
Odd Fellows’ Hall
Ers
Meeks
Springer Carpenter
John Finch
Hume
Sheriff Hume
Clutterbuck
Miners End Strike With Ten Day Wage Truce In Goldfield
In Goldfield Nevada electrical workers engineers and carpenters from Nevada- California Power Co return to work under a ten day wage truce agreed by the Mineowners Association and federation officers. Union pickets beat the wife of a deserter miner, no arrests reported, as strikebreakers may arrive.
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Commercial Tribune
Goldfield
Nev
Nevada-California Power Company
American Federation of Labor
Mineowners’ Association
Western Federation of Miners
Western Federation
Storm Sweeps Atlantic Coast Delays Ships and Heads to Ports
New York reports a sixty mile gale from Hatteras to Maine with wind hail and rain hampering transport and communication. The bark Edmund Phinney foundered off Sandy Hook after crew were rescued. Eleven trans Atlantic steamers bound for New York unreported at Sandy Hook. Six coastwise steamers returning from southern ports seek shelter in Sandy Hook Bay.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
Atlantic
Hatteras
Maine
Sandy
Edmund Phinney
Sandy Hook
Sandy ‘Hook Bay
Two Big Flats Fire Tears Through Central Building
A five story Mains Street building housing Skinner Co. and adjacent premises suffered a blaze starting on the second floor, with damage pegged at 12000 dollars insured. Lieutenant Bresnan and Fireman Schwengel were injured. the fire ran through the shaft and lit up the block despite alarms from Box 83 and quick department action.
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Main Street
William Skinner & Co
John Dooley
C. L. Greene Company
Skinner Store
P. B. Wright
Edward Bresnan
Ladder Company
City Hospital
East Third Street
Gaff Estate
Tobacco Dealers in Peril in War for High Prices
Cincinnati tobacco men appeal to Governor Willson of Kentucky after Hopkinsville clashes with night riders. Meetings planned in Frankfort December 20 21 to ease tensions as Society of Equity and American Tobacco Company clash over direct grower marketing and warehouse losses. Kentucky growers vow no 1908 crop to strike at the combine. Bourbon County and Cincinnati barns linked to tobacco fires raise fears of more arson. Brokers report high prices but fewer orders amid supply disruption and potential cutbacks by factories.
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Cincinnati
Willson
Kentucky
American Tobacco Company
Trust
Hopkinsville
Commonwealth
Society of Equity
Frankfort
Queen City
Alexandria
M. L. Kirkpatrick
Farmers and Shippers’ Warehouse
BE. W. Loudon
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Kansas
Vermont
Gen. Johnston
Ernor Willson
Association and Equity Houses
House
Norman G. Renan
Aots
Stamina Republican League
Guido Gores
Dr .J. Lewin McLeish
Louis Bartles
Jesse Wozencraft
Robert J. Schledorn
A. E. B. Stephens
Thomas G.melish
John D. Burgess
Charles T. Dumont
Salmon Jones
Thomas J. Peale
G. W.platt
D. Judson Starr
Clifford Woods
Jesse Waxencraft
Blue
H. W. McCandless
T. J. Peale
L. G. Melish
G. W. Platt
Charles H. Urban
Judson Starr
Red
J. D. Burgess
Frank R. Gusweiler
D. E. Holmes
Charles P. Forbus
John C. Heywood
Dr. S. B. Marvin
Dan Murphy
John C. Rogers
Charles L. Timberlake
Commander—R. J. Schledorn
Earle R. Passel
Squire Charles T. Dumont
Hils
Dr. Marvin
Odd Fellows’ Lodge
Carpenter
Marshal Carpenter
ENO Guagt
Skinner
Lincoln Inn Court
Lieutenant Falls
Reading Road
Archibald
William Skinner
Hunt Street
Montgomery Road
Charles Schwengel
Engine Company No. 7
Sycamore Street
Franklin
James Malloy
Patrol No
Government Place
Sixth
Main
Walnut Streets
Frank Nedler
Charles E. Hoffman
Hoffman & Bare Dental Laboratory
American Society of Equity
Europe
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