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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1912
Page
3
The report notes Taft's nomination by a Republican convention committee led by Root and his acceptance speech. It also covers U S protests to Mexico against attacks on American citizens and property, amid other national affairs from 1912. It mentions sugar fraud settling for nearly 250000 and debates over coal costs and antitrust policies.
Foreign Mre James E Bridgman wife of a New York Life cashier is shot and killed by Mme Bloch in Bridgman’s Paris apartment amid alleged ties between Bloch’s husband and the victim. Titanic inquiry blames excessive speed for the disaster. An elegant woman falls from the Eiffel Tower platform in Paris, limbs severed, body crushed. Nicaragua roils as revolution breaks out near Managua with gunship action in San Juan del Sur.
President Taft addresses Senator Root and the Republican committee in Washington, accepting the party nomination. He argues against socialism and recalls Republican achievements, warning against demagoguery and calls for preservation of constitutional government and judicial independence.
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Atlanta, Aug 3 Daisy Opte Grace testifies she did not shoot her husband, who she says attacked her during a quarrel about his spending on another woman. She describes him drowning or stabbing her previously, but says he seized a pistol in the final struggle and wounded himself, while she insists on her innocence and that they took an oath not to reveal how the trouble began.
The Progressive state convention in Indianapolis on August 3 named a full ticket headed by Governor Albert J. Beveridge. Frederick Landis, L. H. Mace, Harvey Cushman, Clifford F. Jackman, Charles E. Spaulding, Thaddeus M. Moore, Frank R. Miller, J. B. Wilson, William A. Bond, and Miner F. Pate filled key offices including lieutenant governor, secretary of state, auditor, attorney general, superintendent of public instruction, state statistician, reporter of the supreme court, and judges on the supreme and appellate courts. The platform pledges to continue the long-running Progressive program.
Frank Cioloft described by three witnesses as part of the gun crew in the Rosenthal killing near the Metropole hotel. He admitted participation but claimed he did not fire. implicated potential shooters Lefty Lottie or Whitey Lewis. Alibi for Harlem bond bid exposed as Dougherty and Mesa undermine.
Philadelphia on August 8 two men died and a ten year old boy was seriously injured when a 10 000 gallon water tank toppled into the Stead and Miller upholstery plant dye house Thursday after a fatal accident in the factory disaster injuries and fatalities were reported from the scene in Philadelphia.
Tenor Francis co Alblach collapsed unconscious on the stage in Newton Newton County Aug 8 as he began the Miserere from Il Trovatore before a large audience. He died shortly after, leaving the opera world in shock.
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