Governor appoints Democratic majority to prison board
Edward W. Crayton of Newark is named to the Board of Penitentiary Managers, giving the Democrats three of five seats and enabling a shakeup of Warden Gould's administration. Lima State Hospital trustees are named, including McKee of Belle Valley, with Athens State Hospital getting a new trustee, changing the board’s partisan balance.
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Commercial Tribune
Outlook
Columbus
Houck
Cincinnati
Pattison
Edward W. Crayton
Newark
Board of Penitentiary Managers
Cole Gilliland
Scioto County
Harry Griffith
Morrow
Demas P. Rowland
Hamilton
Senate
Crayton
Gould
Lima State Hospital
Samuel A. Hoskins
Wapakoneta
Martin J. Burke
Marion
M. F. Hussey
Sidney
John E. Russell
Mt. Vernon
Frank W. Parmot
van Wert
Chris McKee
Belle Valley
Noble County
Athens State Hospital
M. E. Rathburn
Meigs
Senator Rathburn
Herrick
Rathburn
Magnes Receives Unanimous Call From Temple Emanuel
The Temple Emanuel congregation in New York unanimously extended a call to Rev. Dr. Judah Leon Magnes, rabbi of Temple Israel, to serve as associate rabbi with Rev. Dr. Joseph Silverman. Magnes, born in San Francisco in 1877, studied in Oakland and Cincinnati and graduated from Hebrew Union College in 1900.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
Temple Emanuel
Judah Leon Magnes
Temple Israel
Joseph Silverman
Magnes
San Francisco
Oakland
University of Cincinnati
Hebrew Union College
Cincinnati
Zion City to be run by three judges chosen committee
In Zion City a three member committee proposed to govern affairs during the injunction battle between John Alexander Dowie and Venture Voliva. Judges Wright and Donnelly heard the case and a temporary settlement was proposed with one member named by each side and one by the circuit court judges. Dowie’s counsel to report in Chicago whether Dowie accepts.
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Zion
Dowie
Voliva
Circuit Court
John Alexander Dowie
Wibur Glenn Voliva
Zion City
Wright
Chicago
Telegraphers Convention Advances Plans for Insurance
Delegates at the Commercial Telegraphers' Convention appointed standing committees and planned next steps. Discussions focus on a national home for disabled operators and creating an internal insurance branch under President Lemuel Gompers. A San Francisco delegation sent greetings by telegram as talks continue.
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Ggqauest
Lemuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Gompers
Don” Murphy
Cincinnati
San Francisco
Senators Ratify Or Sections Of Hate Amendment
Washington May 8 Confer ences in the Senate reached six positive agreements to shape the Alison amendment to the railroad bill. Additional conferences among Republican factions ratified the understandings to avoid further misinterpretation and to define the basis of the agreement as prepared and exchanged. The six propositions include striking out fairly remunerative in Section 4 while retaining in its judgment, vesting jurisdiction in U S Circuit Courts for suits against the commission, requiring a hearing and notice before any injunction, directing preliminary injunctions to be heard by three judges, and providing a direct appeal from interlocutory decrees.
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Commercial Tribune
Washington
Senate
Alison
United States Circuit
Roosevelt asks Congress for extra 500000 for San Francisco relief
President Roosevelt transmitted Secretary Taft's letter urging immediate appropriation of 500000 to cover army supplies and relief costs for San Francisco. The note details prior 2500000 appropriation and expenditures across Quartermaster, Subsistence, Medical, and Signal components, plus troop return and transport estimates. Toronto telegram notes Canada's 100000 relief offer declined by Roosevelt.
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Commercial Tribune
Washington
Congress
Taft
San Francisco
Senate
House
Secretary of War
Theodore Roosevelt
Quartermaster’s Department
Subsistence Department
Medical Department
Seteen Sogaad Signal Corps
California
Schmitz
Reconstruction Committee
Toronto
Roosevelt
Toronto Daily Star
Phelan
Deputies Fire On Rioting Pueblo Strikers
At the Pueblo smelter a crowd of about 100 strikers clashed with strike breakers over an eight hour day. Deputy sheriffs fired into the crowd killing Mike Merino and wounding two others, as deputies and sheriff’s officers faced attacks after orders to disperse. Several fights occurred and women in the crowd attacked deputies.
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Commercial Tribune
Pueblo
Col
Mike Merino
Harriman Makes Record Journey
E. H. Harriman arrived in New York at 10 oclock aboard the Empire State express after a San Francisco to New York trip in seventy one hours and twenty seven minutes setting a new record.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
E. H. Harriman
Empire State Express
New York Central
San Francisco
Postoffice Chief Clerk Tries Suicide Over Missing Bank Funds
Jacob Luckstone, longtime chief clerk in the New York Post Office registry department, attempted suicide in the Post Office building amid an inquiry into $2000 sent to the First National Bank of Tallahassee Florida. Inspectors detained nine postal clerks for eight hours seeking information. Luckstone, weakened by hunger, injured himself minimally and was placed under arrest as the Chemical National Bank suffered a loss from the alleged theft.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
Jacob Luck- Stone
Registry Department
General Postoffice
Postoffice
First National Bank of
Tallahassee, Fla
Kent
Luckstone
Federal Building
Chemical National Bank
Night Caucus of Russian Lawmakers Disrupted
In St Petersburg May 8, reports claim General Ignatieff was assassinated in Kiev. official notes say he is in St Petersburg. Parliament becomes tense as a new Premier negotiates with government, while conservatives rebuke a modified fundamental law and police disperse a cross assembly.
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J. Konenkamp
Pittsburg
M. J. Reidy
Boston
T. A. Finson
Atlanta
C. E. Hill
Toronto
Ont
Orville A. Glenn
Winnipeg
Man
E. B. Gill
F. M. Jones
Seattle
Wash
W. D. Crenshaw
Memphis
Tenn
F. A. Marcy
Dallas
Tex
O. H. Lincoln
Chicago
E. W. Ratigan
D. B. Jones
G. H. McElreath
H. W. Lynch
St. Louis
W. P. Staylor
Baltimore
Maryland
W. M. Patton
Washington
PD. C
Augusta
M. B. McKittrick
H. P. Phillips
E. J. McCarthy
Albany
N. Y
R. C. Servat
New Orleans
Conrad Murphy
Cincinnati
Edw. McGough
Minneapolis
S.S. Ulerich
A. Watson
Columbia
Ss. C
G. A. McBain
ST. Petersburg
Kieff
Alexis Pavelich Ignatieff
Ignatieff
Roosevelt Invitation Sought for Washington Statue Unveiling
Premier Wekerle informed a deputation that Hungary should honor the United States by a worthy unveiling of the Washington statue in Budapest. He asked Emperor Francis Joseph to invite President Roosevelt to attend the ceremony.
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Budapest
Wekerele
Washington
United States
Francis Joseph
Roosevelt
Strikers Hurt Loading Bomb in Paris Garret
In Paris a striking carpenter Habert and another man were wounded when a bomb they were loading exploded in a garret in a working class district. Prefect Lepine searched the garret, finding more bombs. Prisoners denied anarchist ties but admitted being striker partisans.
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Paris
May
Habert
Lepine
Itigs
Flood Devastates Hunan Province in China Cable
The State Department received a Hankow consulate cable reporting immense flood in Hunan Province with great loss of life and property. It notes all foreigners are safe.
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Commercial Tribune
Washington
The
State Department
Hankow
China
Hunan
Local Owners Complete Big Traction Deal
A Louisville and Indianapolis backed syndicate completes a deal worth over 750000 for the Louisville & Eastern interurban line to Pewee Valley. Financing includes about 2 million for extending the road into Frankfort via Shelbyville, with F M Fauvre to head the new company and Cincinnati investors anticipated.
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Louisville
Cincinnati Trust Company
Indianapolis
Boston
Frankfort
Fauvre
Anchorage
Pewce
Shelbyville
Chinese Boycott Diminishes Amid Mixed Opinions
Peking reports show the anti American goods boycott waning despite US fears. 1905 customs data reveal American imports rose to 77 million taels from 29 million in 1904. Officials say the boycott caused limited harm to American merchants while friction at ports reduced southern China imports by about 1.25 million taels and oil shipments by half.
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Peking
United States
Lay
Canton
China
Standard Oil Company
Court declines to balk Cupid
Victor Freeman and Rufus A Evans partners in a rubber concern in New York were arrested after a Chicago police telegram charged them with larceny of 13000. They were arraigned and held on 5000 bail. Freeman said he was to be married that afternoon and posted bail to keep the appointment. The alleged larceny details were not disclosed.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
Victor Freeman
Rufus A. Evans
Chicago
Baltic
Freeman
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Burroughs & Beam
E. W. Crayton
Suc
Cessor
Warden Gould
Lima
Athens State Infirmary
Democrats
McEldin Dun
Logan County
Thompson Burton
Mahoning
Pointee
McKee
State Board of Fputije
James C. Wonder
Miami and Erie Canal
George D. Baker
W. E. McElree
Bellefontaine
John Schneller
Ohio and Erie Canal
John Hanlon
Coshocton
A. H. Johnston
Samuel Hibbs
A. H. Sawyer
Canal Commission
Wheeler C. Wikoff
E. L. Booten
C. W. Diehl
Northern
Ohio Canal
Charles Hatch
Akron
Charles H. Geidel
South Division
H. R. Morris
Portsmouth
Charles Cooper
Reading
John O'Connor
Dayton
H. W. Meacham
Toledo
Charles Wittich
D. H. Hancock
Napoleon
F. C. Davis
Piqua
Elmer Wombold
E. C. Booth
Middletown
J. H. Sullivan
Lockland
Fred Maag
Defiance
Delphos
St. Mary's
James H. Jones
Cleveland
J. H. Morrison
David Atwater
Massillon
Margaret S. Harvey
Canal Dover
W. H. Wilson
Roscoe
W. J. Kirkendall
Circleville
Quimby Climer
Chillicothe
Magnes Receves
Bplvidere, Ill
Donnelly
Knight OF the Ney
Ft. Thomas
George Weidemann Brewing Company
Newport
Frisco
Allison
San
Francisco
Colorado
Mens
Harriman
Russ Lawmakers
Czar
Count Ignatieff
Bl Traction
Kentucky Road
Terurban
Louisville & Eastern
Pewee Valley
H. H. Bechtel
American Oak Leather Compu
F. M. Fauvre
C. Edgar Elliott
Harry B. Gates
Percival Moore
Gates
Queen City Home Telephone Company
Court
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