Taft Signs Tariff Bill After Senate Passes It
Taft signed the tariff measure in the Capitol's President’s room at 6 07 p m declaring it a sincere effort at downward revision though not a perfect bill He noted wide latitude for agents to study cost and production data and outlined key dates for the maximum and minimum provisions The vote showed 54 in favor 38 against with 14 abstentions and 7 Republicans opposed in the final roll call A thunderstorm followed the signing and Taft spoke of the bill as a substantial downward revision and a fulfillment of Republican platform promises The document also provides a chronology from 1903 to 1905 detailing legislative steps and the law's effective date
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Washington, D. C
Taft
Senate
Capitol
Con Bresa
Mr. McEnery
Louisiana
Davis
Bulkeley
Connecticut
Beveridge
Indiana
Bristow
Kansas
Clapp
Minnesota
Cumming
Iowa
Dolliver
la Follette
Wisconsin
Nelson
Payne
William H. Taft
Langley
Kentucky
Filiping Assembly
Captain Butt
Ballinger
Dickinson
Meyer
Secret Service
Moon
Tennessee
Senator Tallaferro
Florida
Mr. Payne
Boon
Republican Party
Philippines
Customs Court
Ofcinla
Congress
House
Ways and Means Committee
Conference Committee
Prospects for cheaper bread as wheat drops below a dollar
Chicago reports wheat on the Board of Trade slipping below one dollar amid bumper crop hopes. The December option fell to 99% cents a bushel as the market closed with declines from percent to 4% across options. Corn also declined from 74 to 114 cents amid optimistic crop news.
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Chicago
Board of Trade
Northwest
British plans naval modernisation and Crete incident
Stub ends of news note pressure on Hong Kong Shanghai Bank to disassociate from German intrigue. Crete flags of four protecting powers lowered amid rejoicing as British troops embarked. Reginald McKenna announced April start for four improved Dreadnoughts in House of Commons. Madrid seeks treaties to move surplus products. Samuel Leach of Williamsburg dies after removal to North Brother Island. Barcelona proclaims siege amid Moroccan war protests. NYC officials honor the Tenth Cavalry returned from the Philippines.
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China
Hong Kong- Shanghai
Crete
Reginald McKenna
Admiralty
House of Commons
Madrid
Samuel Leach
Williamsburg
North Brother Island
Barcelona
New York City
Tenth Cavalry
Philippines
Kentucky Troops Rescue Man From Lynching Mob
A man named J. M. Stuart was removed from a Bowling Green mob by state troops and brought to Louisville jail to avert lynching after he allegedly assaulted Mrs. Charles Steinburg near Bowling Green. The capture followed a struggle with the mob before troops intervened.
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Kentucky
J. M. Stuart
Louisvillea
Bowling Green
Charles Steinburg
Crowds Await Millennium as Cooneyites Hold Ireland Meetings
In Ballinamallard County Fermanagh more than 2000 Cooneyites attend continuous prayer meetings as pilgrims come from across Ireland. Public baptisms are performed daily in the river, with hundreds reportedly being baptized each day.
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Cooneyites
Ireland
Dublin
Ballinamallard
County Fermanagh
Colombia names cabinet under new president Valencia
Bogota announces the new administration headed by President Gonzalez Valencia naming key ministers. Alejandro Bolero is Secretary of State, Marco Fidel Suarez is Minister of Foreign Relations, Joaquin Samper is Minister of Finance, Luis Enrique Bonilla is Minister of War, Davila Morez is Minister of Public Instruction, and Benjamin Herrera is Minister of the Interior.
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Bogota
Colombia
Gonzalez Valencia
Alejandro Bolero
Marco Fidel Suarez
Joaquin Samper
Luis Enrique Bonilla
Davila Morez
Benjamin Herrera
Widow Mary Thelin Dies in Mount Washington
Mrs. Mary E. Thelin widow of William J. Thelin dies in Mount Washington Maryland. Her Civil War memory centers on carrying the last Confederate flag out of Columbia Washington D C during Sherman’s 1864 campaign. the flag was said to be entrusted to her by General Johnson.
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Baltimore
Mary E. the In
William J. Thelin
Mount Washington
Thelin
Bilas Griswold
Richmond
Sherman
Columbia
D. C
Grain crop report shows huge corn yield forecast
The Department of Agriculture August 1 crop report indicates a corn yield of about 3,030,000,000 bushels with a total grain picture of over 3,000,000,000 bushels of corn and 723,000,000 bushels of wheat. Prices moved lower for wheat as markets weighed the bumper production prospects amid heat and drought in parts of the country.
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Washington, D. C
Department of Agriculture
New York City
Wall Street
Northwest
Minnesota
Dakotas
Minneapolis
Minn
North
South Dakota
Girl Guards Jail Against Two Negro Murderers
Denison Iowa. Lillie Cummings seventeen daughter of Sheriff Cummings prevented a jail delivery. Two African American murderers overpowered the sheriff in the cell corridor, choking him until the girl appeared with her father's revolver. She drove them back to their cells and kept them contained until the sheriff recovered enough to lock them in.
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Denison
Iowa
Lillie Cummings
Sheriff Cummings
Man and Wife in Pistol Duel Ends in Death
In Chicago Michigan Territory a man and his wife fought with revolvers. Mrs Philip Stitzena was killed and her husband fatally wounded. Both bodies rushed to People's Hospital by ambulance. The woman fired first and multiple shots were exchanged. Two small children hid nearby in a crib. Also noted, Filla Gingles departed for Ireland with Grace Van Dusen Cook after a larceny acquittal, taking $1500 from sympathizers.
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Chicago
Philip Stitzena
People’s Hospital
Filla Gingles
Ireland
Ella Graeles
Larne
Grace van Dusen Cook
Miss Gingles
Governor signs prohibition bill banning locker clubs in Alabama
Governor Carmichael signed the prohibition measure in Montgomery with Mrs. J B Mell of the W C T U present. The act prohibits storing or serving squid containing more than one half of one percent alcohol. Locker clubs become illegal as Fuller and Ballard bills linger in the House.
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Montgomery
Aln
Comer
Carmichael
J. B. Mell
Alabama
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Fuller
Ballard
Hauge
Four Weeks Campaign for Votes by Massachusetts Women
A summary of diverse telegraphic items notes Massachusetts women planning a four weeks trolley campaign for votes by women. Other items include a Sino-Japanese stance, a Volain biplane breaking flight records, legal delays in Sugar Trust cases, Cuban Congress delays, a ship voyage to carry explorer supplies, a Fordham retreat for men, and Count Witte’s imperial dinner presence signaling political sway.
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United States
Massaachusetts
Hochi
Tokio
Japan
China
M. Pelot Gandart
Volain
Wilbur Wright
Judge Hand
Sugar Trust
Gomez
Penry—rebef
Jeanie
St. Johns
N. F
Utah
Greenland
Fordham University
New York
Count Witte
Denmark
Prosperity Seen Across U S Industries In Early Fall
Telegraphs from manufacturing and agricultural centers depict a revival of activity in steel and iron, cotton and woolen mills, railroads, and Great Lakes trade. New England and Rhode Island mills plan multi million investments with many new plants and expansions. New York rail and steel markets anticipate record spending and a billion dollars in capital for 12 months. Lake shipping shows shipments up vs last year and rising traffic across Great Lakes ports.
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Washington, D.C
United States
Great Lakes
New England
Providence
R. I
Rhode Island
R. H. S. Goddard
Lonsdale Company
New York City
James J. Hill
Boston
Penn Grove Campera Hear About Good Old Days
Rev. Mr. Kendall of Cleveland urged a return to old fashioned church ideals at Penn Grove Assembly Bible study. He criticized opera singers in choirs and wealth influence in officer selection, urging wider church participation.
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York
Mr. Kendall
Cleveland
Penn Grove
Oklahoma Treasurer Deposits State Money in Kansas Bank
State treasurer James Menefee placed $110000 in a Kansas City bank despite Oklahoma bank guaranty law aims. An official report by State Examiner and Inspector Taylor notes the funds lack protection of the Oklahoma guarantee.
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Oklahoma
Kansas Bank
Guthrie
Okla
Oklahoma Bank
Taylor
James Menefee
Am Kansas City Bank
Field of Inbor and Labor Unions Across Regions
The report notes unions forming among window cleaners in Ila qualia Washington and craftspeople in Vancouver British Columbia, plus calls for an eight hour day for leather workers and a 54 hour week for women in Missouri. Sailors and firemen on England’s northeast coast seek higher weekly pay, while overall union membership reaches about 2.41 million with a recent three year gain of over 400 thousand. The National Union of Foot and Shoe Operatives agrees to a 52.5 hour week.
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Ilaqualia
Wash
New York City
Vancouver
B.C
Missouri
Belfast
Deeland
England
Eag Ush
National Union of Foot and Shoe Operatives of
Released convict kills juror in revenge in Middletown
John McSorley a former Sing Sing inmate shot Daniel A. Fenton hotel proprietor in Middletown after being released. The two had prior ties with a jurors conviction triggering McSorley’s vow to kill Fenton. Fenton died after a street chase and McSorley turned the pistol on himself.
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Middletown
N. Y
John McSorley
Coney Island
Sing Sing
Daniel A. Fenton
Elberton
Fenton
McSorley
Phoenixville
MecSorley
MacSorley
Arthur W. Lesiie
Bowery
Thompson's Walk Les
McWorley
Colonel A A Pope Dead Pioneer bicycle maker dies at Cohasset
Boston born Albert Arquatus Pope aged 81 died at his Cohasset summer home after months of ill health following financial troubles of his Hartford based bicycle company. A Civil War veteran, Pope rose to lieutenant colonel and helped promote the nation’s early good roads movement through his manufacturing and automotive interests.
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Boston
Mass
Albert A. Pope
United States
Cohasset
Pope
Hartford
Conn
Albert Arquatus Pope
Salignac
Zouaves
Home Guards
Brookline
Injunction Bars Teacher From Contact With Son
Detroit court restrains Lily Burden a Flat Rock teacher from pursuing any romantic or sexual relationship with Ernest D Shove's seventeen year old son. Shove alleges the instructor mentored the boy after hours claiming to aid his studies, but believes this was a ruse to gain access to the pupil.
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Detroit
Mich
Ernest D Shove
Cirreuit
Lily” Burden
Flat Rock
Jt 13
Ecuador Observes 100th Independence Anniversary
Ecuador marks the centennial celebration of its people’s first movement toward independence from Spain with widespread observances across the republic and notable enthusiasm.
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Ecuador
Gold Discoverer a Pauper Robert Womack sold at Cripple Creek
The article reports Robert Womack, once a reputed gold discoverer, living in poverty after his assets faded. It notes his sale at Cripple Creek and details his dire financial condition and obsolescence in the mining frontier.
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Robert Womack
Nuns Leap to Death in Bridge Tragedy
Two nuns walking from Montreal Convent to visit Park Laval were overtaken on a bridge by a train. Terrified, they leaped into rapids forty feet below and drowned. One body was recovered, as the train carried a group of pilgrims en route to the shrine of St. Anne Beaupre near Quebec.
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Montreal
Cau
Alabama Senate approves income tax amendment for state
The Alabama Senate unanimously approves the income tax constitutional amendment recently sent by Congress. The House also passes the measure, and Governor Comer has promised to sign, completing Alabama's approval.
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Senate
Montgomery
United States
Congress
Alabama House
Alabama
Comer
Death by Own Action Shocks Keystone Inn Scene
Mrs Genevieve Ramagey wife of coal operator K L Ramsey is said to have shot herself in the Keystone Inn parlors at Williamson West Virginia. The incident followed a stormy scene with her husband reported as a coal operator. A Bristol Virginia resident Mrs WHine Hughes was present during the events.
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K. J. Ramsey
Buds Lite
Keystone
W. Va
Genevieve Ramagey
K. L. Ramsey
Milionaire
Williamson
W Va
Keystone Inn
Rumogy Tod Whine Hughes
Ball ‘Player
Bristol
Mr. Ramsey
Girl Killed at Grave Side in Cemetery Attack
Seventeen year old Anna Schumacher, living at 192 Cady Street Rochester, was murdered while leaving home to place flowers on her father’s grave in Greece town cemetery. Her body was dragged to a lonely spot, covered with earth, and found with evidence of struggle and a shell hairpin. A grain sack and a torn dress fragment tied to the crime scene. Police plan a roundup, questioning cemetery staff and examining farms for clues. Schumacher, five feet six, 130 pounds, youngest of eight sisters with two brothers, looked younger than her age.
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Rochester
Anna Schumacher
Cady Street
Greece
Schumscher
Schumacher
Train loss reported by Mrs. Childs in Washington
Mrs. Anna Childs of Washington D C reported a 5000 dollar loss on a Pennsylvania train while en route to her home. The incident prompted police inquiries into the cash transfer and its purpose, with no further details of recovery disclosed.
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Chicago
Anna Childs
Washington, D. C
Pennsylvania
Bandit Kinard Shot After Hold Up in Harrisburg Area
Alfred Kinard, a Perry County outlaw, was badly wounded in a gunfight after attempting to rob Lewis Myers store in a northern mountain settlement. Oscar Hessely fired, Kinard fled wounded into woods, later hauled to Harrisburg Hospital where doctors said recovery unlikely. Kinard long noted for lawlessness.
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Harrisburg
Alfred Kinard
Perry County
Lewis Myers
Kinard
Oscar Hessely
Amos Kinird
Grand Army Encampment Draws Thousands to Salt Lake City
The forty third national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic brought about 30,000 veterans and visitors to Salt Lake City with hopes of reaching 50,000. Fourteen past commanders attended, including Generals Burdett Torrance King Tanner and Burton. A reception for Commander-in-Chief Nevius and staff was hosted by the Woman's Relief Corps, drawing about three thousand guests.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Grand Army of the Republic
Snelles
S. Burdett
Washington
EN Torrance
Minneapolis
John R. King
Baltimore
James Tanner
Charles G. Burton
Nevada
Nevius
Woman's Belief Corps
Japanese use electric barb wire to head hunt Formosa
Tokyo reports new defense tactic as Japan stretches electrified barbed wire across districts with trochas to deter head-hunters in Formosa. Paris notes Fallieres to review aviation week. Panama libel testimony completes. Lisbon reports daily quakes. Porto Rico soldier drowns in swim drill. Paris honors American veterinary chief. Portugal invites Manuel to England. Dougherty honored in San Francisco. German prince renounces Weimar succession.
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Teklo
Japan
Formosa
Our Best Educators and a Honolulu Health Inspector
Professor Richard Burton of the University of Michigan denounces cheap literature and says newspapers are our best educators if they meet high standards. He predicts a future for women in public affairs and voting. Robert Scott, former actor and divorced husband of Patt Wiosa, has died in Honolulu after recent work as an Inspector for the Honolulu Board of Health.
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Chautauqua
N. Y
Richard Burton
University of Michigan
Burton
Robert Scott
Patt Wiosa
Honolulu
Scott
Engineer John Conklin Dies After Loco Accident
John Conklin of New York City, engineer of the American Express Special of the New York Central, died in Peekskill hospital after both legs were amputated following injuries from his locomotive.
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Mosterly
John Conklin
New York City
American Express
New York Central
Peekskill, XN Y
Cincinnati Salesman Killed at Moorehead Ballgame
William Bailey Altman a traveling salesman from Cincinnati Ohio died after being struck in the chest by a foul tip during a ball game at Moorehead Kentucky.
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William Bailey Altman
Cincinnati
Ohio
Moorehead Ky
Women in Day's News and Reading Rooms Opened
In Copenhagen women have opened reading rooms for children. Mme Nordsen and George W Young of New York City grew more tied in London. Heten Bauer of Chicago, age twenty, combed Mont Blanc. The last Chinatown missionary in New York quit amid Celestial hostility after Kelsie Sigel’s murder. Mrs. Nicholas Longworth has become enthusiastic about serenades. Parliament discusses women’s legal roles in Scotland, German women study boxing, and self defense classes rise. Wham Euelish Walling, a wealthy socialist, was sued for 100000 dollars for breach of promise by Anna Derthe Granspan met in Paris in 1905.
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Copenhagen
Mme. Nordsen
George W Young
New York City
London
Heten Bauer
Chicago
Mont Blanc
Chinatown
Kelsie Sigel
Nicholas Longworth
Roosevelt
Womer
Scotland
Euelish Walling
Anna Derthe Granspan
Paris
Woman Captures a Burglar in Harrison Home
Mrs. Marie Wenzel of 760 Harrison Avenue Harrison woke to a noise, spotted a man crouched behind her bed, and pinned him to the floor with help from her husband and three boarders. The intruder, Alexander Seiboldtz of Rahway, was bound and held for the Grand Jury. she was struck but unharmed, and the household alerted police.
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Marie Wenzel
Harrison Avenue
Harrison
Alexander Seiboldtz
Rahway
Mules Die in Fire at Cincinnati Reduction Company Stable
A large Cincinnati Reduction Company stable housing garbage mules burned in blistering heat. Fifty mules perished and garbage collection paused. Two drivers asleep in the hay loft were rescued by police.
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Cincinnati Reduction Company
Cincinnati
Ohio
Another German Loan Reported by German Exchequer
Despite higher taxes, the Imperial German Exchequer plans to issue a loan early next year to finance government needs. The move signals continued reliance on debt funding as fiscal pressures rise amid tax increases.
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Rutherford
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Kngsland Poormaster
Salem County
Baem
Philadelphia
Frederick Reuss
Mercer Hospital
Renss
Charles Hong
West Side Park
Paterson
Charlie
Margaret Fithian
Dora Morgan
Daretown
Samuel Fithian
N. J
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Schubart
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Wiliam Armstrong
Walter Asay
Island Heights
Claves
St. Mary’s Convent
Bordentown
Supreme Court
W. A. Logue
Herbert Bartlett
Benjamin Blaycock
Millville
Thomas 5. Bimmons
Messenger Glove Company
Flemington
Samuel D. Bennett
Milleville
Edward Stokes
Mechanics” National Bank
Carlsbatt
John G. M. Carter
Gnichtel
Mercer County
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