Five States Protest Roosevelt Taft Machine at Convention
Representatives from five non Ohio states with Republican presidential contenders announce a formal protest to the national convention. They claim 126 electoral votes and say they are being ignored by party leaders in favor of Southern states. The group lists Kealing Humphrey Kinley Penrose Burke and Hemenway as participants and vows to press the issue with credentials and on the convention floor.
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Chicago
Ohio
United States
Republican Party
Messrs. Kealing
Fairbanks
Humphrey
Hughes
Mel Kinley
Milnois
Cannon
Penrose
Burke
Pennsylvania
Hemenway
Indiana
National Committee
Committee On
CORTELYOU OR SHERMAN Second Place on Republican Ticket Favored
Chicago June 8 The Republican national committee opened with limited outsiders and focused on Florida defections. J N Stripling protested Taft aides Hitchcock Statter Phelps but the protest was tabled. Amid jockeying for vice presidential picks New York figures Cortelyou and James F Sherman led discussion. Taft delegates from Florida Georgia were seated by default in contested elections.
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Cortelyou
Sherman
Chicago
TheRepublican National Committee
Florida
J. N. Stripling
Frank H. Hitchcock
Arthur F. Statter
Charlies G. Phelps
Taft
Stripling
New York
James F. Sherman
Congressional Committee
Georgia
Control Over One Third in Chicago Aims at Johnson
Campaign managers for Governor John A. Johnson in Chicago say Bryan is defeated on the first ballot. They plan an aggressive campaign to secure the Denver convention for Johnson, noting Louisiana Maryland and Georgia shows of anti Bryan sentiment and that one third of delegates are now opposed to Bryan. They will urge delegates to defy Bryan after the first ballot and back Johnson.
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John A. Johnson
William J. Bryan
Louisiana
Georgia
Maryland
Johnson
Thedore Knappen
Grand Pacific Hotel
Denver
Bryan
Knappen
Gray
Flood Damage Heavy In Montana Skies Open Butte
Floods devastate Montana with crop losses from two thirds to total in rich valleys. Rail lines total damage exceeds $1,000,000 as systems struggle to resume after two weeks. 8,000 to 10,000 passengers stalled statewide. Butte without streetcars, lights or power. Bridges washed out on Great Northern line. St Paul roadbed damage near $500,000.
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Boston
Great Falls
Roosevelt Reappoints Inland Waterways Commission Members
President Roosevelt reappoints the inland waterways commission after Congress failed to act. Those designated last year return, except General Alexander Mackenzie who retires. Senator William B. Allison Representative Joseph J. Ransdell and George F. Swaine are named new members, with the chief of engineers to join once chosen.
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Congress
Inland Waterways Commission
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Inland Water- Ways Commission
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War Department
William B. Allison
Joseph J. Ransdell
George F. Swaine
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MacKenzie
Tornado in Nebraska Leaves Five Dead in Geneva Area
A destructive double tornado swept Fillmore County Nebraska causing at least five deaths and multiple injuries. Names include John and Irene Shively, four year old Luin Smith, Elijah Argenbricht, and John Merriam among others. The storms leveled farmhouses, destroyed crops, and harmed several residents near Schickley and Geneva.
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Neb
Fill More
Luin Smith
John Shively
Irene Shively
Elijah Argenbricht
Schickney
Mr. Small
North Branch
Kan
John Argenbricht
John Merriam
Here
Ross Shively
Ohio Attorney General Wade Ellis drafts GOP platform in Virginia
Wade Ellis, Ohio attorney general, has been in Virginia Beach drafting the first outline of the Republican national platform. He will travel to Washington and then Chicago. He notes no prewritten platform exists and that work is limited to preparing concrete suggestions for the resolutions committee. Attendees in Washington discussed the matter with President Roosevelt, Secretary Taft, and others.
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Norfolk
Wade Ellis
Ohio
Virginia Beach
Washington
Chicago
Iis
Roosevelt
Taft
Explosion on Tennessee cruiser kills four at sea
On a speed trial off Point Hueneme the U S cruiser Tennessee suffered a steam pipe burst in the starboard engine room at 225 pounds pressure. Four men died instantly and two more died after reaching port. ten were injured. The tube broke inside the four inch diameter boiler, showering workers with scalding steam and debris after Admiral Sebree and other officers had just left. In a separate item, thirteen year old Mary Bat was killed in Minot, North Dakota, when a heavy window fell during church services under a closing door.
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Cal
United States
Tennessee
Point Huenene
Uriel Sebree
F. B. Howard
Robertson
Minot
N. D
Mary Bat
King Edward Sails for Reval on Baltic Mission
King Edward sails with Queen Alexandra and Princess Victoria aboard the royal yacht Victoria and Albert from Port Victoria to Reval Russia via the Kiel Canal. The new yacht Alexandra will join at Brunswatteil and serve the royal party in the Baltic.
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Victoria and Albert
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Reval
Russia
Kiel Canal
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Brunswatteél
Prussia
Baltic
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