Platform Gossip on Republican Convention Draft Becomes Policy
Republicans in confidence reveal a Chicago convention draft endorsing President Roosevelts policies, tariff revision, Aldrich Vreeland currency reform, and trust regulation. The platform supports civil liberties, navy growth, and preserving forest lands while favoring national control over national ownership.
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Republican Party
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Party of Progress
Cuba
Philippines
Porto Rico
Congress
Aldrich- Vreeland
Bose Perston
Death Toll Rises After Tennessee Shipboard Explosion Off California
Six men lose lives and ten are injured in a sudden blast aboard the U S armored cruiser Tennessee during a nine teen knot speed trial off Point Puenene California. Four died instantly and two later in San Pedro. survivors describe a horrific blast as steel doors sealed adjoining compartments. The dead include George Wood E C Boggs A Reinhold George W Meek S S Temmattis F S Maxfield. Admiral Sebree Captain Howard and Chief Engineer Robertson had just left the engine room moments before.
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Point Puenene
Cal
Uriel Sebree
F. T. Howard
Robertson
Norfolk, Va
F. S. Maxfield
Toughkena
Chester County
Pennsylvania
Trade mood mixed as weather eyes retail slip yet wholesale cheer
Bradstreet reports irregular weather bringing heavy rainfall across the Northwest Southwest and South and giving an uneven look to retail trade. Wholesale lines and leading industries show more cheer with light fall goods sales but better orders from traveling salesmen. Industrial resumption runs full time in cotton and allied textiles with more iron furnaces and coke ovens back to work, while pig iron buying slows as prices rise. Collections remain weak with backward payments. Money is easy yet rural inflows to cities are thinning.
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Bradstreet
Ohio and Kentucky generals seek night riders arrest
Adjutant General Critchfield of Ohio met Adjutant General Rogers Williams of Kentucky in Berlin Ky with state officers to push for arrests in the night rider case. A farmer’s confession names five Kentuckians tied to the burning of Boudes ferry last month. Ohio troops have not yet arrested them under the fire marshal subpenas. Kentucky promises cooperation for their extradition.
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Ripley
Berlin
Rogers Williams
Kentucky
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Boudes Ferry
Williams
Tornado Strikes Charles City Iowa Wrecking Homes
A tornado hit Charles City Iowa Sunday evening about 5 o clock destroying about 200 residences and barns. W R Beck and a child were killed, three children reported missing. The storm burned a path ten miles long and ten rods wide, felling stock, cutting telegraph lines, and damaging farms before ending a few miles from town.
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Charles City
W. R. Beck
Marines to Guard Panama Election Amid Revolutionary Worries
The Panama presidential race between Obaldia and Arias faces turmoil as revolution fears prompt plans to deploy 500 U S Marines across 106 polling places to ensure a fair vote. Royalist and Liberal factions clash as officials purge allies and curb electors in Colon province ahead of the July poll.
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Party of the Negro and Indian
Taft
Colon
Conviction in Brunaugh Case Spurs New Indictments
Indianapolis June 8 1907 The Brunaugh conviction for false claim against Indianapolis over asphalt patching by Western Construction in April 1907 paves the way for grand jury indictments against other parties. Former targets Henry W Marshall George W Waxter Thomas Shifedton and John Rosasco may face renewed charges as prosecutors seek further testimony and action.
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Brunauch
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Armaugh
Hooton
Brunineh
Brimaugh
Bronaugh
Indiana Democratic Editorial Association Plans July Meeting
The Indiana Democratic Editorial association will hold its mid summer meeting in Indianapolis July 30 and 31 at the Grand hotel serving as headquarters. A reception to Hon. Thomas R. Marshall is set for July 20 followed by an informal gathering. On July 31 editors depart by special cars for Broad Ripple where Marshall will speak at a mass meeting and luncheon is arranged at the White City restaurant.
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Indiana Democratic Editorial Association
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Broad Ripple
White City
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R. C. Light
Prohibition Convention July in Columbus Ohio
Brief dispatches list events including a Prohibition convention set for July 15 and 16 in Columbus Ohio, a new US Honduras extradition treaty being negotiated, and other national items such as rail strikes in Atlanta and political results in Oregon and Kansas.
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Western & Atlantic Railroad
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Knoxville, Tenn
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Mrs Beck Freed After Five-Day Trial In Jeffersonville
In Jeffersonville Indiana on June 8 a jury found Mrs Elizabeth Beck of Sellersburg not guilty of shooting her son in law Daniel Scheller on December 28. The defense claimed insanity. Scheller married Becks daughter Hallie and then refused to live with her. The case drew wide attention due to prominent local figures and connections to earlier murder trials.
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Jeffersonville
Ind
Elizabeth Beck
Sellersburg
Daniel Scheller
Scheller
Hallie Beck
Clark County
Beck
Paris Faces New Mystery After Remy Murder at Mansion
In Paris the murder of Auguste Remy a 77 year old retired banker is reported with valuables missing. A wine carafe and three used glasses found at the scene suggest possible links to suspects in the Steinheil case as investigators weigh motives and timing from Saturday night.
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Paris
Adolphe Steinheil
Mme. Japy
Auguste Remy
Rue de la Peppiniere
Steinheil
Excursionists Caught In Wreck Near City Limits
A Creve Coeur Lake line open car carrying excursionists left the track at a sharp curve about 10:30 pm, overturned over a ten foot embankment and killed one man while seriously injuring a score of others, three of whom are critically hurt.
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Louis Dispatch
Creve Cover Lake
Lamphere Lawyers Demand Expert Examination in Gunness Case
Lamphere's attorneys in seven murder indictments demand coroner Mack appoint a physician commission to examine the presumed Gunness body found in the ruins. They seek measurement weighing photographing and a report for the defense. The move signals a challenge to the body's identity as Mrs Gunness, suggesting it may be a cadaver.
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Laporte
Ray Lamphere
Mack
Costly Fire Ravages Fort Branch Grain Complex
A $20,000 blaze in Fort Branch Princeton Ind June 8 started from a railway engine spark alighting in a bird nest under the Melrose grain warehouse eaves. The fire swept the town’s business section for two hours as the volunteer brigade fought to save it. Melrose Milling company suffered the chief loss with two elevators and grain fully insured for about $15,000.
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Fort Branch
Princeton
Ind
Melrose
Melrose Milling Company
Blind Woman Fatally Burned in Gasoline Iron Explosion
Mrs Florence Carver, blind wife of Charles Carver of Alexandria Indiana, was fatally burned when a gasoline iron exploded as she tried to ignite it with a match. Flames enveloped her face and upper body. flesh was burned and she inhaled the flame.
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Alexandria
Ind
Florence Carver
Charles Carver
Carver
Editors Elect Officers of Northern Indiana Association
In Logansport on June 8 the Northern Indiana Editorial association elected officers for the coming term. President is James McDonald of the Ligonier Banner, vice president W. H. Zimmerman of the Peru Sentinel, and secretary treasurer Clay Metzger of the Plymouth Democrat. Next meeting set for Plymouth.
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Ind
Northern Indiana Editorial Association
James ©. McDonald
Ligonier Banner
W. H. Zimmerman
Peru Sentinel
Clay Metzger
Plymouth Democrat
Plymouth
Banker-Horse Thief Bound Over in Indiana Court
Robert Green of Waynetown Ind appeared in police court, waived examination, and was sent to the grand jury under a $4,000 bond. No one signed the bond, and he was jailed. The report also notes that thirty six participants in the 1906 pogrom began a trial in Bialystok Russia.
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Indianapolis
Robert Green
Waynetown
Ind
Green
Bialystok
Russia
White list of merchants to enforce pure food law
Terre Haute women form a plan to publish a white list of merchants whose stores display the pure food card June 15. Club members sign pledges to avoid noncompliant shops and seek signatures from nonmembers. Dr. John Owens aids in preparing the list.
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Ind
Mra
W. W. Parsons
Committee On Pure Food
State Federation of Clubs
John Owens
Webb found guilty of murder in second degree
Frank Webb of South Bend, after more than twelve hours of deliberation, is convicted of second degree murder in the killing of Sheriff Oglesby in Winamac. Webb, who did not fire a shot, is sentenced to life imprisonment at Michigan City for a crime tied to the October incident that also involved Patrick Shea. He was serving a burglary sentence when brought to trial.
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Logansport
Ind
Frank Webb
South Bend
Michigan City
Oglesby
Populists Name Ticket In Indiana Nominating Convention
June 8 in Indianapolis adherents of the People's Party gathered at the English hotel and nominated a full slate for the fall campaign. Governor F. J. S. Robinson from Cloverland would lead the ticket with O. L. Ross of Selma as lieutenant governor, Richard Bonewitz of Wheatland as secretary of state, James S. Reeves of Plymouth as auditor, and Aaron McDonald of Galveston as treasurer.
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People’s Party
Indiana
Billheimer Closes Kosciusko County Bank
State Auditor John O C Billheimer ordered the Kosciusko County Bank of Warsaw closed after a conference with officers and directors. Cashier Abe Brubaker is out of the city. Liabilities and assets were not made public. Officers plan to reorganize the bank as a national institution.
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Warsaw
Ind
Kosciusko County Bank of
John OC. Billheimer
Abe Brubaker
Brunaugh Convicted in Fraud Claim Case
Indianapolis June 8 a jury found Harry P Brunaugh guilty of presenting a fraudulent claim. The verdict carries a sentence of two to four teen years in the state prison and a fine of 10 to 1000. The jury deliberated sixteen minutes.
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Brunaugh
Indianapolis
Harry P. Brunaugh
Dairies Bar Milk Sale Without TB Certificate
Terre Haute Indiana June 8 at a conference state food and drug commissioner H B Barnard and city officials agreed to pass an ordinance requiring dairymen to produce certificates showing their cows have been inspected for tuberculosis before selling milk in the city.
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Terre Haute
Ind
H. B. Barnard
State Food and Drug Commissioner
County to fund Belle Gunness mystery probe
Laporte Indiana June money will be supplied by the county commissioners to support Sheriff Smutser in completing the Belle Gunness investigation. They will provide funds as needed to pursue all clues and carry the inquiry to its conclusion.
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Laporte
Ind
Smutser
Belle Gunness
Life Sentence for Negro in Rushville Killing
Leane Bundrant, a Black man, pleaded guilty in Shelbyville circuit court to killing Charles Coleman near Rushville in March and was sentenced to life imprisonment.
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Shelbyville
Ind
Leane Bundrant
Charles Colemen
Rushville
Annual convention of America Brewers' Association set
The annual convention of the America Brewers Association is scheduled to be held in Milwaukee with sessions planned and officials detailing program lines and attendance goals.
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The
Americae Brewers’ Association
Fe Sessies
Milwaukee
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