Cleveland Prisonside Power Shifts in Central Committee Fight
The state central committee battle over legality and control continues with factions led by the Foraker group and Taft supporters. A proposal for a new Cuyahoga County Cleveland Central Committee elected at the presidential primaries faces opposition from the Foraker side as legal questions loom. Clifford Neff of Cleveland spoke for Foraker, while James H Cassidy and John H Price argued for Taft.
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Biican State Central Committee
Foraker
Walter Brown
Toledo
Cuyahoga County
Cleveland Central Committee
Taft
Clifford Neff
Cleveland
Foraker Committee
James H. Cassidy
John H. Price
Wayne County GOP to Hold Mass Primary Feb 11
The Wayne County Republican Executive Committee voted to hold a mass primary convention February 11 to elect delegates to the State convention, replacing a Bronson law primary. State Committee instructions will guide other actions.
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Wayne County Committee
Commercial Tribune
Wooster
Wayne County Republican Executive Committee
Daugherty Backed by Local Republican Committee
The Republican Central Committee of Jette County approved the State Committee’s primary call set for February 11. Fayette County Record-Republican endorses Harry M. Daugherty of Columbus as U S Senator to succeed Fulton Foraker. Daugherty previously lived in this area.
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Commercial Tribune
Washington C. H
Republican Central Committee
Jette County
Republican State Committee
State Committee
Fayette County
Columbus
United States
Senator Foraker
Mr. Daugherty
Indiana Indorses Fairbanks State Committee Chosen
Republicans of Indiana in district conventions today selected the State Committee to manage the presidential campaign in Indiana. The committee will handle the bid for Charles W. Fairbanks. Each district endorsed Roosevelt and Hanly administrations and Senator Beveridge and Hemenway.
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Commercial Tribune
Indianapolis
Indiana
Charles W. Fairbanks
Roosevelt
Hanly
Beveridge
Hemenway
Governor Hughes Indorsed at Republican Meeting
At the Buffalo Republican County Committee meeting on January 14, resolutions praised Governor Hughes and urged delegates to back his presidential nomination at the National convention. A Roosevelt support substitute failed, opposing a vice presidential bid.
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Commercial Tribune
Buffalo
Republican County Committee
Roosevelt
Hughes
Republican Party
Van Wert Republicans Order Primary and Delegate Committees
The Van Wert Republican Central Committee voted to hold a primary after an executive session. It named one panel to select delegates and alternates and another to pick delegates for the Congressional convention. George N. Leasure of Delphos pushed Dailey as the county’s National delegate candidate from the Fifth District, a Taft and Foraker supporter.
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Jtaft
Commercial Tribune
van Wert
Republican Central Committee
George N. Leasure
Delphos
Foraker
W. H. Dailey
Dailey
Taft
Republicans Dissatisfaction Over Richland County Delegates
Mansfield Ohio January 14 There is considerable dissatisfaction over the action of the Richland County Central Committee in naming nine delegates and nine alternates to the State Republican Convention from their own numbers and instructing the delegates for Taft. Several hundred Republicans signed a petition urging a mass Republican convention to decide on representation at the state convention and secure presidential sentiment from each precinct.
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Commercial Tribune
Mansfield
Richland County Central Committee
Taft
Barber Favors Taft and Clears Roosevelt in Panic
Special Dispatch to Commercial Tribune from Akron Ohio reports Barbour Barber the Match Trust millionaire says he favors Taft for the Presidency and that Roosevelt bears no blame for the financial panic.
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Match Trust
Roosevelt
Dispatch
Commercial Tribune
Akron
Barber
Taft
Hungry men march on city hall for work aid
About 800 men in snow clad attire marched to City Hall in St. Louis led by James Eads Howe founder of the Welfare Association seeking Mayor Wells to secure employment. Mayor Wells said he cannot provide charity work but will try to find city tasks to share the burden if possible.
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Commercial Tribune
ST. Louis
Wells
James Eads Howe
Welfare Association
W. J. Millard
Cincinnati
Thaw Family Evidence Blocked by Privilege Claim
Prosecutor invokes physician patient privilege to bar testimony as the insanity case against the Thaw family continues. Jerome blocks evidence by arguing confidential communications are protected.
Theater Fire Panics Boyertown as 167 Die
At the Rhoades Opera House a calcium light caused a blaze that killed 167 people with as many as 170 possible. Rescue crews corralled bodies into four morgues while townsfolk mourn and saloons close.
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Commercial Tribune
Boyertown
Rhoades Opera House
Berks ‘County
Robbery at Frederick Pinney Earle Estate
A caretaker found burglars had entered artist Frederick Pinney Earle's Monroe New York residence. Valuables stolen or damaged include pictures china rugs and bric a brac valued over 25000. Mrs Earle departed for Italy about three months ago amid domestic troubles that drew public attention.
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Tribune
New York
Frederick Pinney Earle
Monroe
Orange County
Guests arrive from abroad for Vanderbilt wedding
A party of Austrian guests arrives on the Kronprinzesgin Cecilie to attend the wedding of Miss Gladys Vanderbilt and Count Laszlo Szechenyi. Included are Count Denez Szechenyi, his wife, Count Stefan Szcheny, Count Anton Sigray, Count Steralhi, and Mr and Mrs Nelson O'Shaughnessy from the American Embassy in Vienna.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
Gladys Vanderbilt
Laszlo Szechenyi
Denez Szechenyi
Berlin
Szchenyi
Carmen Chimay
Belgium
Rockefeller Admits Large Loan Tied to Standard Oil Control
In a government anti trust hearing, William G. Rockefeller Jr. testified about a 2 million dollar loan to Barnsdale, secured by mortgages on Kansas Natural Gas and Pittsburg Oil and Gas, plus real estate and coal lands. He noted limited knowledge and directed questions to other officers as the day’s session ends with the hearing to continue tomorrow.
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Young Rockefeller
S. G. Bain
Seaboard National Bank
Security Oil Company of Texas
Security Company
Standard Oil Company
William G Rockefeller, Jr
Barnsdale
Pennsylvania
Kansas Natural Gas Company
Pittsburg Oil and Gas Company
Rockefeller
Frank B. Kellogg
Washington owner to revive ill fated show in WilkesBarre
Mrs H B Monroe of Washington DC, owner of the ill fated show produced at Boyertown last night, arrived in WilkesBarre to plan a new production under Lutheran church auspices. She fainted upon learning her sister Mrs Della Myers, left in charge, is dead and valued the property at 10000 dollars before leaving for Boyertown.
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Commercial Tribune
Wilkesbarre
H. HB. Monroe
Washington, D. C
Boyertown
Della Myers
Monroe
Drake Committee Report Calls For New Body To Finish Inquiry
The Drake Committee report filed in Columbus on January 14 urges appointing a new committee to continue and enlarge the Hamilton investigations as required by a Supreme Court decision. It notes about $3,700 in obligations, a $3,000 personal note, and seeks immediate payment of counsel and sergeant at arms remuneration by the General Assembly.
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Commercial Tribune
Columbus, CO
Senate
Hamilton County
Supreme Court
General Assembly
Columbus
Democratic Senate
Harris
Tax Commission
Drake
Cincinnati
Kespy
Clerkis
Ohio
Hafner
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
Guyman
Petition signatures limited to Fayette and Owen Counties
The Caleb Powers Petition Committee said signers were not solicited in Owen County or Fayette County to avoid affecting a fifth trial jury. If Powers is pardoned, the potential jury for Governor Taylor’s case may be drawn from Fayette or Owen. Women may sign in both counties.
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Commercial Tribune
Lexington
Caleb Powers
Owen County
Fayette County
Powers
Fayette
W.S. Taylor
Kentucky
Goebel
Laxative Brom o Quinine Ends The Cause
Advertisement notes that LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE removes the cause and calls attention to a signature of B W GROVE. The brief item highlights a singular product name and hints at brand attribution.
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B. W. Grove
Planter G Washington Smith Shot Dead in Tennessee Duel
G Washington Smith, a prominent planter of Rosemark Tennessee, was shot and killed in a pistol duel with his tenant M W Yarbrough as they rode toward Memphis to arbitrate a money dispute. Yarbrough escaped.
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Commercial Tribune
Rosemark
Tenn
G. Washington Smith
M. W. Yarbrough
Smith
Memphis
Yarbrough
Seventy Seven New Measures in Ohio Legislature
State lawmakers flood the House with 77 new bills, including a licensing amendment for liquor, a banking inspection bill, a telephone regulation measure, and a plan to empower the Public Service Boards over street railways. Notable proposals target milk quality, mining taxation, and gas rate regulation amid a busy opening week.
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Carter
Meek
Committee On Schools
Board of Examiners
Howe
Senate
Espy
Thomas Bank
Trumbul
House
Ore
President Urged to Name Board Over Emergency Currency
Senate Finance Committee discussed ecurrency plans and the Aldrich bill. Hansbrough urged placing issuance supervision under a President appointed board rather than the existing Treasury and Comptroller setup. Culberson pressed for an inquiry into Panama bond notes issued with new bond awards.
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Hansbrough
Commercial Tribune
Washington
Senate Committee On Finance
Currency
United States
Secretary of the Treasury
Culberson
Senate
Act of Congress
Guard Association Re Elects DIGE Leaders
The National Guard Association Convention re elected General Charles Dick of Ohio as President. Vice Presidents named include Thomas J. Stewart Pennsylvania Nelson Henrick New York B F Wood Minnesota J C R Foster Florida J B Lauch California Lawrason Riggs Maryland G M Cole Connecticut R D Williams Kentucky W H Thrift Iowa Joseph Armfield North Carolina and Otis Hamilton Washington D C J W Hughes Kansas named Secretary and Charles J Anderson Treasurer to replace sick John D Frost. Next convention set for Los Angeles California.
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Commercial Tribune
Boston
Mass
National Guard Association
Charles Dick
Ohio
Thomas J. Stewart
Pennsylvania
Nelson H. Henrick
New York
B. F. Wood
Minnesota
J. C. R. Foster
Florida
J. B. Lauch
California
Lawrason Riggs
Maryland
G. M. Cole
Connecticut
R. D. Williams
Kentucky
W.H Thrift
Iowa
Joseph T.armfield
North Carolina
Otis Hamilton
Washington, D.C
J. W. Hughes
Kansas
Charles J. Anderson
John D. Frost
Columbia
D. C
Los Angeles
Cal
Government Critics At Wool Growers Convention
Helena Montana January 14 The first day of the National Wool Growers Association annual convention featured a bitter attack on government range regulation led by Thomas J Walsh a Helena stockman lawyer and former Democratic congressional candidate Walsh denounced the administrations license grazing system on forest reserves.
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Commercial Tribune
Helena
Mont
National
Wool Growers’ Association
Thomas J. Walsh
Congress
Colonel Goethals Tells Congressmen What Is Being Done
Colonel Goethals, chairman of the Isthmian Canal Commission and chief engineer, testifies before the House committee on Panama Canal progress. He states no definite construction method for Gatun dam has been adopted, notes Wachusett dam visit, and predicts progress is more satisfactory than expected.
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Goethals
Commercial Tribune
Washington
Panama Canal
House Committee On Interstate and Foreign Commerce
United States Army
Isthmian Canal
Wachusett
Hull says government prepares for war in peacetime
In Washington on January 14, the House resumed debate on codifying penal laws as Mr Wilson sought to strike section 45 prohibiting luring arsenals workers away. Chairman Hall argued that in peacetime the government still readies for war and the amendment to cripple defense was defeated 78 to 104.
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Commercial Tribune
Washington
House
Wilson
Pennsylvania
Hall
Iowa
Goal Cars Raid In Railway Yards
A mob of about fifty men and boys raided Pennsylvania Railroad coal cars in Xenia Ohio early Tuesday and stole many tons of coal before railroad detectives arrived. A separate raid by youths saw another large quantity dumped from a passing train. No arrests reported.
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Commercial Tribune
Xenia, O
Pennsylvania
Obituary notices honor several notable figures across states
Danish poet Holger Hendik Herholdt Drachmann died in Hornback Sweden at age 78 after nerve illness. Captain Leroy D. House, Civil War veteran from Oxford Ohio, died age 73 from apoplexy. S. W. Cooper, 62, a roads inspector, died in Cleves. George Harpst, Arcadia California millionaire with Hancock County roots, left $25 000 to two brothers. Julius T. Melchers, 78, sculptor in Detroit, linked to Prussian masters and Carl Schurz, expatriated after 1848. James Ryder Randall of Augusta Georgia, war poet author of Maryland My Maryland, died yesterday.
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Holger Hendik Herholdt Drachmann
Hornback
Sweden
United States
Leroy D. House
Ohio
Oxford
Glastonbury
Conn
Sixteenth
Connecticut Infantry
United States Colored Cavalry
House
Amelia, O
W. Cooper
Cléves
George Harpst
Arcadia
Cal
Findlay
Hancock County
Harpst
California
Julius T. Melchers
Mistermann
Detroit
Mich
Melchers
Carl Melchers
Carl Schurz
Germany
James Ryder Randall
Augusta
Maryland
Ohio Supreme Court verdicts convict Emerson and Austin
The Ohio Supreme Court found both Lawsory E. Emerson and J. H. H. Austin guilty of contempt. Emerson to ten days in Franklin County Jail and half costs, Austin same plus a $100 fine paid before release. Both showed no visible emotion, having long since decided on conviction. They were jailed in Franklin County under marshal custody.
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Commercial Tribune
Columbus
Ohio Supreme Court
Lawsory
Emerson
J. H. H. Austin
Cyrus Huling
Huling
Bs-Gennise Kasilin
Austin
Shauck
Franklin County
Gilkey and
McAllister
Woman Widow Kitchener Takes Own Life at Sea
On January 14 in Colon a woman identified as Mrs. Kitchener widow of a Khartoum-born brother of Viscount Kitchener died by suicide on the steamer Magdalena. She, troubled by insomnia, threw herself from a cabin porthole during dinner and drowned. search for her body was unsuccessful. Her husband is believed to be the late Arthur Buck Kitchener.
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Boyertown
Strasser
Burgess Kohler
Viscount Kitchener
Colon
Jan
Kitchener
Viscount. Kitchener
Khartoum
Magdalena
Arthur Buck Kitchener
Hartley Woolen Merchant Ends Life in Boston Hospital
Fred Hartley a 51 year old woolen merchant cut his throat with a razor at Marshall's Homeopathic Hospital in Boston today. He had been in ill health and brooding over the financial depression. The Hailey firm, said to be in good condition, cited Hartley's worry over the economy as a likely cause.
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Harry Thaw
Thaw
Jerome
Merchant
Commercial Tribune
Boston
Fred Hartley
Marshall's Homeopathic Hospital
Hartley
O’brien
Hailey
Oneiall Hartley
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Norfolk
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Geiger
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U. S
the County Auditor Et al
P., C., C. & St. L. Railway Company
Greene County
A. A. North
John A. Smith
Darke County
Joseph Schott
The
Ohio Farmers’ Insurance Company
Anna M. Andress
Eliza Greenfelter
Guardian
Crawford County
Railroad Company
Ambach
O. S
Anna S. Hall
T. B. Paxton
Charles A. Mitchell
State of Ohio
Neal
Muskingum County Agricultural Society
Cincinnati Et al
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Sarah McCallip
Hayden Co
Lima Locomotive and Machine Company
Champlon Iron Company
G. R. Wilkins
Board of Education of
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Mary S. Hayes
W. V. McMakin
Guarakee
Crooks
Ebenezer Jones
A. T. Pronfield
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Peter Pakker
J. C. Carland Et al
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