Taft Sherman Ticket Endorsed at Chicago Convention
At the Republican National Convention in Chicago the ticket was solidified with William Howard Taft for president and James Sherman for vice president. The session featured lively speeches, roll calls, and confirmations as delegates showed strong support for Sherman and the party platform.
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Taft
Sherman
William Howard Taft
Ohio
James §. Sherman
New York
Coliseum
Chicago
James Schoolcraft Sherman
Utica
N. Y
Congress
William Howard
James$. Sherman
Taft Nomination Demonstration Before 20,000 Delegates
A large Taft rally at the Republican convention hall draws about 20,000 attendees as delegates cheer Taft amid calls for Cannon and Foraker nominations. The speech by George A. Knight reinforces Taft support while Lodge manages order and voting totals.
Mother Cuts Babes Throats Then Kills Herself
According to Sandy Creek information in Jackson County West Virginia Mia A L Stairsy, temporarily insane, cut the throats of her two children aged six months and two years and then killed herself.
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Sandy Creek
Jackson County
W. Vi
Mia
A. L. Stairsy
Korean Emperor Loses Domains
Seoul dispatch reports a new arrangement transferring all property formerly held by the imperial household to the State.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seoul
Korea
Representative Wiley Dead After Prolonged Illness
Representative A A Wiley of Alabama, long noted as General Lawton's chief of staff during the Spanish War, died at a hotel in Kut Springs Virginia at about sixty. He suffered weeks with inflammatory rheumatism and general breakdown, becoming rational only late in his illness. His son Lieutenant Noble J Wiley of the Army was with him.
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Lawton
Kut Springs
A.A. Wiley
Alabama
Hs Son
Lleutounes Noble J. Wiley
Army
Aberdeen Bank President Fawcett Shoots Self During Arrest
D. H. Fawcett, president of the Aberdeen Banking Company, killed himself with a pistol as officers moved to arrest him on a warrant charging misappropriation. The tragedy followed his designation as receiver of the bank by M. A. List.
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Breuk
Hous
Mim
Aberdeen
Ohio
D. H. Fawcett
Aberdeen Banking Company
Fawcett
M. A. List
Taft Learns Nominations in War Department Visit
Secretary Taft received the nomination news at the War Department while President Roosevelt learned the Udings during a White House tennis session.
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Washington, D. C
Taft
War Department
Roosevelt
White House
Chandler Aims to Regulate Life Following Tolstol Plan
Former United States Senator William E. Chandler declares intent to live by a Tolstoyan path and follow the Naca advocated by Count Leo Tolstol as a guiding life regulation.
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United States
William E. Chandler
Leo Tolstol
Baseball Rumors And Claims From Major Leagues
Notes from the era cite Mamond pitcher Rucker as Brooklyns champion hard luck pitcher. Pittsburgs Jimmy Kane praised as a painful boxer. Stanley Robison touts St. Louis best pitching. Slagle eyed for St. Louis transfer. Roy Martzell not released to Newark. McCarthy mourns elster death after joining Pittsburg from Cincinnati. Minn and Schipka rise in Washington. Navin says Malloy sold to Indianapolis. Elberfeld praised by Griffith after week. Cincinnati squad has four productive pitchers.
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Rucker
Brooklyn
Jimmy Kane
Pittsburgs
Stanley Robison
St. Louis
Einmy Slagle
Roy Martzell
St. Louis Browns
Newark
McCarthy
Pittsburg
Cincinnati
Clyde Minn
Schipka
Washington
Navin
Detroit
Herman Malloy
Indianapolis
Kid Elberfeld
Griffith
Cincinnatis
Nominating Ball at Convention Echoes Taft Hughes Wells
The report describes a political convention in which Taft's supporters gain momentum as Henry Cabot Lodge closes the roll call with Taft receiving 703 votes. Governor Hughes is nominated by Woodford and a large New York delegation unfurls a banner in his honor. The session ends with a unanimous nomination and adjournment.
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Coliseum
Chase Osborne
Michigan
Rabbi Schontaber
Lodge
Massachusetts
Guild
Mississippi
Sherman
T. N. McCarter
New Jersey
Franklin Murphy
Connecticut
Murphy
New Yorker
Fairbanks
Indiana
OBIS
Bookwalter
Indianapolis
New York
Stewart L. Woodford
Hughes
Ohio
John R. Marble
Gland
Representative Burton
Tor
Pennsylvania
Philander C. Knox
Murs Jphy
James Scarlet
Danville
Knox
Rhode Island
Wisconsin
Henry F. Cochems
Milwaukee
Senator la Follette
Isa Follette
C. A. A. McGee
Taft
Malloy
William K. Taft
Penrose
Beveridge
William O. Emery
Georgia
Foraker
Phosphate Works Gas Tragedy Kills Three in Raleigh
Three men Daniel Jones Frank Spikes and Haywood Lee were killed at the Carnleigh Phosphate Works in Raleigh D C by sulfuric acid gas escaping in a room. Three others were overcome but recovered.
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Daniel Jones
Frank Spikes
Haywood Lee
White
Carnleigh Phosphate Works
Raleigh
D. C
Georgia Sets World Coaling Record on Battleship Run
The battleship Georgia established a world coal loading record by taking aboard 1779 tons in five hours and twelve minutes. The peak rate reached 459 tons in a single hour during the operation.
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Georgia
Foelker Rejected Bribe Over Anti Track Vote
Dr James Cool assistant State superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League said Foelker refused a bribe to stay in bed and miss the Albany vote on the Agnew Hart anti race track gambling bill He claimed the race rack contingent offered him money to abstain from voting.
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Allcn
N. Y
James Cool
Anti-Saloon League
Foelker
Albany
Agnew-Hart
Arbitration Resolution At Miners Congress Endorsed
At the international Miners Congress the delegates except the Austrian voted for a resolution demanding war denounced and urging submission of all international disputes to arbitration for final settlement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
International Miners’Congress
Schoolteacher Agnew Mills Dies By Own Hand in Hartford
Miss Agnew HH Mills, a West Haven born schoolteacher living in Hartford, died by self inflicted gunshot in her room. Neighbors say unrequited love or disappointment contributed to the tragedy.
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Hartford
Cond
Agnew HH. Mills
West Haven
Jove
Caugo
Taft Resigns as Secretary of War for July 1
Secretary William H. Taft personally handed his resignation to President Roosevelt in Washington D C. The President accepted it and announced General Luke B. Wright of Tennessee will be the new Secretary of War, with the change to take effect July 1.
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Roosevelt
Washington, D. C
William H. Taft
Cincinnati
Luke B. Wright
Tennessee
Notable Inventions and Social Notes Across Cities
A series of short items details feminine inventors Mary Brush of Davenport curving a boneless corset and Mrs Kendall, an actress, creating an ornate lamp shade. London hosts perceived good form for women smoking in restaurants, while various society figures and a widow receive mentions on awards, survivals, and deaths.
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Mary Brush
Davenport
Iowa
London
Kendall
Sang Souet
W. HH. Eaton
Amyong
Ives
Carnegie
Owen Jonod Wioter
Owen Mister
Invero
Philadelphia
Republican tariff platform calls for revision and safeguards
The platform pledges tariff revision by a special session after the next president’s inauguration. It supports maximum and minimum duties, a wage-earning standard, and protection against foreign competition. It endorses courts, anti injunction reform, federal and state authority, and measures for national health, forests, pensions, and foreign policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Republican Party
Congress
United States
Philippines
Ee ~ Ti
Roonavelt
Interstate Commerce Commission
White Mountain
Appalachian
Army
National Health Department
Cuba
New Mexico
Arizona
Bureau of Mines and Mining
Lincoln Savings and Trust Company Fails in Philadelphia
The Lincoln Savings and Trust Company, a prominent Philadelphia institution, failed to continue business and Samuel N. Hyneman was named receiver. The bank had closed about a year earlier, resumed after three months following reorganization, and now faces receiver action.
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Philadelphia
Lincoln Savings and Trust Company
Samuel N. Hyneman
Union Activity and Labor News Across Regions
The report notes Tallers in San Francisco forming a chauffeur union and a Union Label branch to be organized in Memphis Vancouver and Washington DC. It mentions 1000 trade unionists in Lethbridge Canada and a Tabor piper start for Lexington Frankfort and Covington workers. Also New Zealand enforces a weekly half holiday by law. Minneapolis hosts the 1909 Internationals Musicians' Association convention and discusses upholstery workers in Boston. The International Miners' Congress backs an eight hour day with six hours under adverse conditions.
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Tallers
San Francisco
Sensely
Memphis
Vancouver
D. C
Building Trades Council
Lethbridge
Canada
Lexington
Frankfort
Covington
New Zealand
Minneapolis
Internationals Musicians’ Association
Boston
Mass
International Miners’ Congress
Fatal Irish quarrel and drownings shock Montclair area
A knife attack after a game of fingers on Glen Ridge avenue Montclair left Donata Lungarello dead and Patito Farallo injured while Michael Currie suffered neck and shoulder wounds. Lungarello fled and was later found in Newark. In Trenton two men, Cheater Hart and John Gengal, drowned near Cochran's Park on the Delaware River amid unrelated events. Hart, to wed soon, and Gengal, married just a month, were longtime friends.
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Glen Ridge Avenue
Montclair
Nicola Scola
Glen Ridge Line
Donata Lungarello
Patito Farallo
Michaely Currie
Lungarello
Farello
Currio
Arly
Henry Gallagher
Gallagher
Newark
Cheater Hart
Delaware
Cochran's Park
Trenton
Hart
Joseph Sutts
National Guard
Multiple Global Events Dominate Congress and Panama Posts
National Congress debate on a foreigners ban stalls until September session. Marines to Isthmus of Panama increased to 800 for anticipated elections. Tycoon Thomas I Roese commits suicide in Maflanoy City. Over 6600 tons of dynamite planned for Isthmian Canal work next fiscal year. Col Ham Young of Western Union dies at 70. Burton declines Panama Land Claims umpire role. President approves Cuba church stands purchase for $360,000. Auto collision kills fireman in Trenton. Henry M Flagler resigns as Standard Oil VP after 30 million in dividends. 2500 coal miners quit in Northern Colorado for wage gains. Benjamin H Richardson dies in Somerville at 76. NC Prohibition becomes effective January 1 1909. Kentucky racetracks bar bookmakers in favor of pari mutuel machines.
Paterson boy theft ends with river chase and arrest
Miss Maggie Huldek loss $10 at Second and Hudson in Passaic as Michael Shedulski, 14, grabbed the money and fled toward the Passaic River. Officer Owen Cunningham pursued by boat to Dundee Island where the boy surrendered. He had discarded trousers and knickerbockers along the way. money was found in a pocket. The youth, of 108 Third Street Passaic, was locked up.
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Maggie Huldek
Ward Street
Paterson
Second
Hudson Streets
Passaic
Michael Shedulski
Owen Cunningham
Dundee Island
Third Street
Woman Leads Posse in Nighttime Burglar Duel
Mrs. Riley organized a posse after her sons Albert and Charles Riley fought an alleged burglar at their Hillsdate home. Albert was shot in the left arm, leg and body. Charles fired next, and the intruder was wounded. The man vanished, thought to be awaiting companions near a barn. Nearby, Mrs. James Smith Jr. was rescued after a railroad crossing accident left her pinned and injured.
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Albert G. Riley
John Riley
Hillsdate Wis
Charles
Riley Barn
James Smith, Jr
Smith
Red Bank
French Railway Expert For China Appointed Adviser
Pekin China names M. Charignon a French engineer as technical adviser to the Ministry of Communications. He is a noted railway surveyor with long experience in China.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Pekin
M. Charignon
Ministry of Communications
Tragic Farm Accident Fatally Wounds Woman Near Ogdensburg
Mrs. Noah Talmage of Brock Farm near Ogdensburg dies from a stray bullet when her seventeen year old son Benjamin accidentally discharges a gun intended to shoot two stray cats. police report says the weapon went off as he handed it to himself.
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Benjamin
Noah Talmage
Brock
Ogdensburg
South Jersey News Briefs Highlight Local Incidents
An seven year old boy fell into Rancocas Creek at Mount Holly and was rescued after a third plunge. Bayonne’s first market founder William Freyer, born in Manchester England, died at 70. Ocean City Hotel Proprietors’ Assoc. elected officers led by H A W Smith and S H Mayberry. Beers fetch strong prices in South Jersey. Bloomsburg region strawberry record set by J L John of Milleville. Vineland Poultry and Pet Stock Assoc. offers 100 reward for arrest of thieves.
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Gooseberriea
Plentiu
South Jersey
Rassell Egley
Rancocas Creek
Mount Holly
Budd Warmon
Sin
William Freyer
Bayonne
Broadway
Manchester
England
Ocean City Hotel Proprietors’ Association
H. A. W. Smith
H. Mayberry
K. EB. Lews
Charles Is. Haug
L. Bakers
Bloomsburg
J. L. John
Milleville
Vineland Pouley and Pet Stock Association
Mu Volcano Eruption Threatens Samoan Farmland
Reports from San Francisco describe Mu, a Samoan volcano, erupting violently and destroying a large area of valuable farmland. Native residents in Matatauta are advised to flee, with lava flow approaching Sgleuula and inhabitants preparing to evacuate. Meanwhile London and New York taxicab services are described as a success as streets become crowded.
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San Francisco
Cal
Matatauta
Thie
Sgleuula
London
New York
Ex President Grover Cleveland Dies in Princeton Home
Former U S president Grover Cleveland died at 8 40 am at his Princeton New Jersey home after heart, kidney and gastric problems. Mrs Cleveland was with him. children in Tamworth New Hampshire. Born Caldwell New Jersey March 18 1837, he rose from teacher to lawyer to Buffalo mayor, New York governor, and two term president. He retired to Princeton and served as trustee of Equitable Life. known for domestic life and love of sport.
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James Scroolcraft Sherman
Utica
Hamilton College
Ilowas
Princeton
N. J
Grover, Cleveland
Joseph D. Bryant
George RR. Lockwood
J. M. Carfochan
Cleveland
Tamworth, N. H
Perrine
Lakewood
Grover Cleveland
United States
Democratic Party
Caldwell
Newark
Fayetteville
Syracuse
N. Y
Clinton
New York
New York Institution For the
Hoe
Buffalo
Erie County
Charles J. Folger
Thomas F. Ryan
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Statesman
Three Die as Locomotive Explosion Rips Wrecking Crew
In New Brunswick on Track 2 near Stelton the ballast locomotive 363 exploded shortly after 1 pm killing three crew members William Roberts John Holman and Robert Donnelly. Holman’s body was thrown into a field with overalls found in telegraph wires. The blast recalls a past tragedy that killed Mr and Mrs Isaac P Dunn two years earlier.
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Rodica
Isaac P2 Dunn
New Brunswick
Pennsylvia
Brelton
William Roberts
New Street
John Holman
Huntington Street
Robert Donnelly
Albany Street
Stelton
Metuchen
Roberts
Holman
Donnelly
Stelton Lane
Bay the Cut
Isaac P. Dunn
Stelton Crossing
Toledo Ice and Coal Co Pleads Guilty to Rebating
The Toledo Ice and Coal Company pleaded guilty to three counts of receiving rebates from Ann Arbor Railroad Company. Judge Taylor fined $1250 per count, totaling $3750, with 162 counts dismissed under the Hepburn law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo Tee and Coal Company
Toledo
Ohio
Toledo Ice and Coal Company
Ann Arbor
Taylor
Melon engraving leads to marriage near Owensville Indiana
Alva C Montgomery a melon grower near Owensville Indiana had his name carved on a watermelon which was kept by a party of young women in Fairfield Illinois. Miss Arena Hardy among them later married Montgomery and they plan to live on his Owensville farm. They vow no more melons will be engraved. Opium issue prompts British plans to curb use in Ceylon. Opium imports and illicit gin manufacturing cited. Committees urge closing all opium shops. Rev Dr Hoggson resigns Tramont Temple pastorate to Boston.
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Alva C. Montgomery
Benedict
Montgomery
Owensville
Ind
Fairfield
Arena Hardy
Ceylon
British Colonial Office
Lord Elain
Woman Is Sentenced to Death in New Jersey Murder Trial
Mary Farmer and husband were jointly indicted for the murder of Mrs. Sarah Brennan in Jefferson County. A jury found Farmer guilty in three hours in the first degree and Justice Watson M. Rogers scheduled execution by electric chair at Auburn Prison during the week of August 2.
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Auburn
Watertown
Jefferson County
Mary Farmer
Sarah Brennan
Watson M. Rogers
Auburn Prison
Fire Wrecks Large Part of Three Rivers Business District
Fire swept a major portion of the business section in Three Rivers Quebec, Canada, causing an estimated loss exceeding 1 million dollars. Local officials battled the flames as shops and offices suffered extensive damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Three Rivers
Quebec
Canada
Death Toll Tops Fourteen in Chicago Heat Wave
Scorching heat and humidity caused extensive suffering with fourteen fatal cases reported in one day. Among the victims is Edwin Palmer of Well Known Fancy, nephew of the late Potter Palmer, with additional prostrations in the downtown district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwin Palmer
Chicago
Potter Palmer
Paper Trusts Fined for Restraint of Trade in New York
Twenty four companies, members of the Manila Paper and Fibre Association, were fined $1000 each by Judge Hough in the Federal Court in New York City for illegally combining in restraint of trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paper Trust
Manila Paper and Fibre Association
Hough
Fedaro Court
New York City
Six Negroes Lynched in Hemp Hill Texas
Six Black men accused of killing a white man were lynched at Hemp Hill Texas. Three additional Black men were found dead under indications of murder. Local authorities provided few details about the incidents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hemphill
Texas
Modest French President and Confederate Veterans Leader
The article notes MM Fallieres, France’s president, and A Clark of Montana undergoing neck surgery in Los Angeles. It also mentions Brigadier General Godfrey, a Civil War veteran, and General Clement A. Evans of Georgia elected Commander in Chief of the United Confederate Veterans at Birmingham Alabama.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MM. Fallieres
United States
William A. Clark
Montana
Los Angeles
Godfrey
Birmingham
Aln
Clement A. Evans
Georgia
United Confederate Veterans
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James Srenwan
Sheldon
Nebraska
Senator Lodge
Burrows
William Warner
Missouri
Grand Army of the Republic
Jet Faithie
John Wesley HN
Metropolitan Temple
Fulton
Oregon
George H. Williama
Grant
Hopkins
Ilinois
Committee On Resolutions
Apt
Berit
Alphonso Taft
Yale
Web
Helen Herron
Hamilton County
Internal Revenue
Oho
Superior Court of
Gixtl
United States Philine Commission
Philippine, Islands
TLA
Tenois
I. S. Boutell
Uncle Joe" Cannon
Boutell
J. W. Fordney
Fordoney
J. Frank Hanly
Hoosier
Henry
George A. Knight
California
C. B. McCoy
Coshocton
Joseph B. Foraker
W. O. Emery
Macon
Cannon
la Folletta
South Carolina
Taft State Aestate
North Calabra
Rhanaan
Northelie
Colorado
Florida
Rhode Jeland Beakles
South Caroline
Idaho
Mixsont
AOI
Representative
Wiley Dead
BANK
Chandler
Tolstol
James
Sierman
House OF Representatives
Lincoln
Mexico City
National Congress
Metco
Panama
Washington,d. C
Marine Corps
Thomas I. Roese
Maflanoy City
Kirkbride Asylum
Col. Ham" Young
William Hamilton Young
Western Union Telegraph Company
Col iam"Young
Barton
Theodore P. Burton
Panama Land Claims Commission
Mgr. Aversa
Island
Edward J. Gordon
Francis McCardle
Henry M. Pingler
Henry M. Flagler
Flagler
Great Corporation
Denver
Harvard
Benjamin H. Richardson
Harvard Square
Somerville
N. C
Glenn
North Carolina
State Racing Commission
Kentucky
CABLE
Dijon
Poneaux
St. Petersburg
Teheran
Tabriz
Kasvin
Ispahon
Turkey
Germany
National Council
Federal Council
Countess of Warwick
America
Casablidica
Mulal Hafid
Morocco
Hong Kong
Home Office
Filiptyo
Manila
Berlin
Sydney
New Sound
Wales
McWourne
P. 3. Hoggson
Tramont Temple
Heath
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