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Newspaper
Columbia Herald
Location
Columbia, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1908
Page
3
Maury County Republicans divided when Hopkins faction organized a white man’s convention after a split at the county meeting. Delegates to Dickson and Nashville conventions named. resolutions praised Roosevelt Taft Evans Tillman and Hopkins. Controversy over control of state convention and delegates highlighted the dispute.
About 160 white Republicans met in the County Court room with H. D. Ruhm as temporary chairman and 8. Young as temporary secretary. A delegate committee was named led by John W. Jackson and Ruhm to attend State and Congressional conventions. Resolutions were offered and adopted endorsing the party action.
The senate judiciary committee urged President Roosevelt to withdraw Grosvenor Porter as U S marshal for the eastern district of Oklahoma. Porter, a cousin of the President, faced charges and prior objections from Senators Gore and Owens who promised a fight to block his confirmation if reported.
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Railroads must observe the new statute after tomorrow as officials publish a peonage report denouncing the nine hour law. The measure takes effect March 4 and directs compliance by railroad operators nationwide.
Florida Congressman Clark directed sharp attacks at the Department of Justice over peonage prosecutions while Mississippi and other colleagues urged impartial inquiry. Separately ICC denied extensions to hours of service law compliance for railroad telegraphers, signaling possible station closures. In Tennessee, Democrat meetings denounced a bogus primary and echoed demand for direct primaries.
Springfield Tenn March 2 a large crowd gathered as politicians and farmers discussed the tobacco market. Hon Jos B Washington urged association members to join a law and colleague network to counsel against violence and keep politics out of the business noting prices from 8 to 10 per lug and 17 for good tobacco versus 4 per hundred in 1903.
Washington March 2 Senator Frader's Hermitage bill passed the senate without amendment. It carries an appropriation of 25000 dollars with 6000 for immediate needs and the balance secured by the Tabies Hermitage Association. Col Alex Troup said New England will send a solid delegation to the national convention.
Washington March 2 Captain J A Penn of the War Department general staff and long time War College associate has been assigned to oversee the annual inspection of Tennessee and other southern military schools. Penn will begin his inspection tour in April.
Evansville Indiana March 2 a meeting of timbermen from Southern Indiana Southern Illinois and Western Kentucky will form the Tri Lumber Dealers Association. About 200 delegates will attend the sessions and banquet at the Elks Home with plans to adopt a constitution and press forest reserve legislation favorably before Congress. Presidents and secretaries of the Indiana Illinois and Kentucky lumber associations will join to aid formation.
Notice declares a Democratic Primary for Sheriff Trustee and Tax Assessor in Maury County to be held Saturday April 4 1908 from 9 am to 4 pm at listed precincts including Fiy's Store Santa Fe Water Valley and more. Officials J W Kann on chairman and Jas A Smiser secretary. 28-2
An avalanche near Noppenstein in Berne on March 2 killed thirteen people and injured fifteen as a temporary hotel at Lochburg tunnel mouth collapsed after the disaster. Survivors include diners who cried warnings as the dining room roof gave way. A second item notes Hall's Catarrh Cure advertisements from 1886 with a sworn testimonial by Frank J. Cheney.
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