Washington News Digest of Senate Battles and Policy Moves
Senators Cummins Borah and Bristow denounce reciprocity in bitter Senate speeches. Fur seal talks foresee stopping pelagic sealing and poaching. Taft plans a broad parcels post in next message. Wickersham blocks new Cigar Stores in Cleveland after Tobacco Trust ruling. Edward Hines swears Lorimer favored by business interests. Aldrich says perjury prosecutions are needed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cummins
Borah
Bristow
Reci- Procity
Taft
Senate
Canada
Congress
Wickersham
United Cigar Stores Company
Cleveland
Supreme Court
Tobacco Trust
Edward Hines
Aldrich
Lorimer
Rank
Kenyon
Notable Americans Abroad and European Figures in Transit
John D. Rockefeller returns to Cleveland. John W. Gates tours Paris by car. Edwin A Abbey improves after liver surgery in London. President Fallieres visits Holland with a stop at Carnegie's peace palace. Gatti Casazza in Paris engages Tetrazzini for next season. Diaz arrives in Frankfurt en route to Wiesbaden for a cure. Carnegie sends $500 to S R Guggenheim for New York Public Schools Athletic League. Pilgrims Society hosts dinner for John Hays Hammond. Senator Warren of Wyoming marries Clara Le Barron Morgan in New York. J Pierpont Morgan receives Kaiser decoration for aiding Luther’s letter to Charles V.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John D. Rockefeller
Cleveland
John W. Gates
Paris
Edwin
A. Abbey
R. A
London
Mexico
Frankfort
Wiesbaden
Andrew Carnegie
S. R. Guggenheim
Public Schools Athletic League of New York
Pilgrims’ Society of London
John Hays Hammond
United States
Warren
Wyoming
New York City
Clara le Barron Morgan
J. S. Morgan
Groton
Conn
J. Pierpont Morgan
Kaiser
Order of the Red Eagle
Martin Luther
Charles V
Notable Early 20th Century News Highlights
History items include Arthur E. Smith a Harvard student who died after a cyanide dose tied to failing to obtain a degree. Lincoln Beachey performed a stunt from 2000 feet flying under the Niagara Falls bridge and into the gorge. Mona Rees faces trial in Chicago for abducting a child while invoking the Absolute Life cult to dodge questions. The Greater New York Waterfront Federation forms a 100000 strong permanent body of unions including seamen and longshoremen. Bayonne plants seek waivers absolving firms from liability for workplace accidents. A Long Island Rail Train hits a spring wagon in Queens killing five and injuring three. About 6000 Masons gather in Utica for the dedication of a chapel at the Masonic Home.
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Arthur E. Smith
Harvard
Catholic .Educational Association
Chicago
Carnegie Foundation For Education
Lincoln Beachey
California
Niagara Falls
Mona Rees
E. A. Lee
Greater
Long Island
Alemate
Queens
N.Y
New York State
Utica
Legislature Aims at 1908 Session and War News Across July
The piece reports on the Georgia Legislature opening its biennial session, aviator Beachey crossing Niagara in a 40 mile gale, weather forecaster Scarr predicting heavy July and August rain, and a range of incidents from court appearances, rescues, frost in Wisconsin, and heat deaths in Chicago. It notes Oregon Governor West leading a posse, a bungled parole case, a heavy ground frost, and various judicial and political developments including a Utah dam scandal and Zionist land plans. The report blends political, weather, crime, sport, and social notes from multiple locales with several named figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beachey
Niagara
Scarr
New “York
Charles Newlin
South Bend
Henry Billiter
Maumee
Toledo
Oswald West
Oregon
Jess Hall
Wisconsin
Massachusetts House
Arapahoes
Hardwick
J. F. Smith
Henry C. Havemeyer
James Conroy
Kingston
Penn
Chicago
Mercury
Eugene E. Ware
Pensions
Roosevelt
Irdmill
Colorado Springs
Bob Burman
Grand Rapids
Mich
Mount Washington
Berkshires
Milton Whitler
Laura Reid Schutt
Madison C. Peters
Brooklyn
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Daniel Guggenheim
United States Supreme Court
Department of Commerce
Palestine
Federation of American Zionists
Tannersville
N. Y
Ole Bull
Boston
Olea Bull Vaughan
Global unrest and political shifts sparkle in reports
Ten Austrians die as troops quell election riots. King George hosts a Buckingham Palace garden party for three thousand guests. A London court awards 250000 to Horatio Bottomley for stock fraud. Morocco tensions rise as Germany eyes the region. U S Admiral Capps flies in France. Caillaux forms a ministry in Paris as de Selves takes Foreign Office. Bogota US consulate closes. Jayne Hill lauded in Berlin.
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Badger Leftiel
George
London
Horatio Bottomley
M. P
Liverpool
Buckingham Palace
His Majesty's
Germany
Netherlands
Morocco
Capps U. S
Joseph Caillaux
Paris
Jean Cruppi
Ministry of Justice
Foreign Office
Justin ‘de Selves
Department of the Seine
Bogota
Colombia
Br—David
Jayne Hill
Chamber of Commerce
Berlin
Safe and Sane Fourth Rules Cities Across Nation
The nation reports a growing safe and sane Fourth with fewer accidents. Chicago tallies fifteen deaths nationwide. injuries total 294 versus 1,785 last year. Washington and Baltimore enforce strict bans. Cincinnati marks first safe observance. Cleveland features a baby-themed parade float.
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Sane Fourth
Calumet
Rochelle
Albany
Mendon
Iowa City
Arcola
Ind
New York
Chicago
Bridgeport
Danville, Il
St. Louis
Atlanta
Birmingham
Ala
Cleveland
Columbus
Ohio
Kansas City
Los Angeles
Minneapolis
San Francisco
Washington
Cincinnati
Drowning Toll Rises Across Cities on Fourth of July
A Fourth of July drowning toll reached twenty in waters near Philadelphia with six in Manhattan and the Bronx, four off Queens shore, three in New Jersey, two near Staten Island, and two in Brooklyn and Coney Island. Philadelphia logged seven deaths and New England six, totaling twenty three drownings across the East.
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Philadelphia
New England
New York
Manhattan
Bronx
Long Island
Queens
Jersey
Staten Island
Brooklyn
Coney Island
Atlantic Highland
Port Jefferson
L. J. Philadelphia
Floods Devastate Southern Bulgaria Causing Major Losses
Southern Bulgaria suffers widespread flood damage centered on Philippopolis. Crops and homes destroyed with estimated losses reaching twenty million dollars amid continuing high waters.
Fire Kills Nurse and Baby in Summer Home Blaze
Greta Stehr a nurse and eight month old Federico Lage perished in a fire at H P McKenny summer home near Bere Suspected cause unclear both victims were burned beyond recognition despite a hand extinguisher later reports cite the victims as Mrs Frederick Lage's child and a Rio Janeiro and New York based family member in Suffern New York.
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Suffern
N. Y
Greta Stehr
Federico Lage
Frederick Lage
Rio Janeiro
New York
H. P. McKenny
Bere
Victory in commission government race reshapes Trenton
Special Trenton correspondence reports an overwhelming election victory for the commission form of government. The result ends machine domination, boosts taxpayers’ confidence, and prompts continued effort to prevent a return to old regimes amid upcoming commissioner elections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trenton
Commission
John H Lines Becomes Part Owner of Evening Times
John H Lines a longtime Trenton newspaper man becomes part owner of the Evening Times, where he has been connected since 1897 starting as a correspondent while a carpenter at Yardley Pa. He will succeed Walter Fox Allen as news editor who resigns to pursue literary work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John H. Lines
Trenton
Evening Times
Yardley
Walter Fox Allen
Allen
Mr. Lines
Frelinghuysen Auto Tax Upheld as Constitutional
The 1908 Frelinghuysen automobile tax remains constitutional. New Jersey gains about 300000 yearly. The case involved Frank J. Kane testing nonresident travel with no license, leading to fine and appeal arguing interstate commerce issues. The court upheld state revenue purposes and warned on future attorney embezzlement cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Jersey
Court of Errors and Appeals
Frank J. Kane
New York City
Pennsylvania
Gummere
Farmers Pushing Work Across New Jersey News
Across New Jersey farmers report good potato prospects in South Jersey with prices around $1.50 per basket and strong demand as crops come in late due to drought. Other items note rail service to Cape May, graft probe activity in Ocean City, a bridge collapse near Allen's Corners injuring Jacob R. Johnson and Lewis Updike, and various local civic updates.
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South Jersey
Bridgeton
Cumberland County
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White House
Georgia
Chicago Tribune
Baltimore
Bulgaria
Philippopolis
Perley Spaulding
United States Department of Agriculture
George G. Hedgecock
Civil Service
State Board of Agriculture
Cresse
Champion
E. A. Carson
Ocean City
Hand
Randolph Marshall
Tuckahoe
May’s Landing
Stevens
Meeker
State Board of Health
State Capitol
State House Commission
Wilson
John P. Gill
Princeton
The
Board of Health
Josephine Schnetzka
Carolyn Stamek
Fanny Kodelek
Newspaper Man’s Progress
Court of Errors
P. DeWitt Jones
Jersey City
Lakewood
State Board of Education
State School For
Helen Reedy
Newark
Clara Tindall
Clamer Allen
J. P. Walker
Thomas F. Hearnen
Colners
Bellstab
Grand
Vincenzo Palucco
Camden
Lugi Varnall
Palucci
Guisseppe Fairfar
Elizabeth
Adamo D'Agostino
Louis Coutier
Delaware Bay
Isaac Beakley
Camden County
Camden County Board of Freeholders
East State Street
Warren H. Stover
Goodwin
Emma Darrah
Mercer Hospital
Jacob R. Johnson
Lewis A. Updike
Flemington
Allen's Corners
Stacy W. Wilson
Board of Education
Bleakley
Fred J. Shoyer
Reading
Cape May
George H. Snyder
Hainesport
Collingswood Board of Health
State Water Supply Commission
General Water Supply Company
Pensauken’Creek
Thomas W. Trenchard
Mercer County
May's Landing
William Brown
Abe Freeman
Atlantic City
Freeman
Brown
Woodbury
Alle Vyots
Jones
Millville
John Kotsonito
Maurice River
Alfred R. Smith
Eugene Shoemaker
Mantua
Harry H. Hawkins & Bro
Stoy
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