Taft preaches amity at Salt Lake City tabernacle
President Taft addressed a large Salt Lake City audience at the Mormon tabernacle urging amity among the people. He reviewed troops at Fort Douglas and was hosted by the Commercial and Alta clubs and the Yale Alumni association during his Salt Lake City stay. He also spoke in Denver calling the Payne tariff corpora tion tax superior to an income tax and urged states to adopt it.
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Taft
Mormon Tabernacle
Salt Lake City
Fort Douglas
Yale Alumni Association
Denver
Prominent Americans in Transition and Public Notes
Mrs John D Rockefeller suffers a cold at her Cleveland home whileDr Cook faces political scrutiny and Edward Burrill joins a New York trip from Hamilton to Mt McKinley. Yale treasurer Lee McClurg is chosen by Taft to succeed Charles Treat as U S treasurer. Kansas City M F Ryan elected grand chief of Brotherhood of Railway Carmen At lanta Paquin of Chicago elected first vice president. Peary declines public honors until North Pole decision. He remains at Eagle Island Fri ny.
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John D. Rockefeller
Cleveland
Aériong
Cook
Plorer
Edward Burrill
Hamilton
Mont
Mount McKinley
New York
Lee McClurg
Yale University
Taft
Charles H. Treat
United States
M. F. Ryan
Kansas City
Brotherhood of Railway Carmen of America
Atlanta
Frank Paquin
Chicago
North Pole
Robert B. Peary
Eagle Island
Friny
Tropical hurricane destroys Louisiana and kills eleven
Eleven lives lost and more than a million dollars in property damage in Louisiana from Monday's tropical hurricane. Gulf states suffered, while over 400 miners escaped a burning Ellsworth mine in Pennsylvania. Vanderbilt separation, state funeral, Cook pole claim, post office stamp change, court martial acquittals, and streetcar strikes cited in brief notes.
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Louisiana
Gulf States
Ellsworth
W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr
New York
Vanderbilt
Virginia Fair
San Francisco
Johnson
Minnes
St. Paul
Presbyterian Church
St. Peter
Frederick BE. Cook
America
North Pole
Post-Office Department
Hazelburnt
Blam
Seventeenth Infantry
Coulter
Atlanta
Atrike
National and local headlines mix in late dispatches
A broad set of 1908 era items include fire damage at Sterling Stamp Co in Pittsburg with $50,000 loss, a Des Moines trolley crash killing a conductor and a motorman with 20 injured, and a murder conviction in Greenville Illinois. Other notes cover Spain Morocco tensions, a New York lawsuit against Theodore P. Shonts, rescues earning life saving medals, and Taft attending the Gunnison river tunnel ceremony.
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League
Burlington
Newpoint
Ind
William L. Keiser
Peter McCourty
Des Moines
Sterling Stamp Company
Pittsburg
John.m. Willeford
Greenville
George Willeford
Ruby O. File
Reno
Ill
John Moran
West
Duluth
Minn
Buring
Spain
Morocco
New York
Theodore P. Shonts
Frederick P. Hipsch
Kentucky
Hipsch
Bhonta
F. J. Dodge
Harold Dodge
Wilbur L. Dodge
Peter Peterson
Mackinac
Mich
Interstate Commerce Commission
Act of Congress
District of Columbia
Judge Maloney
Washington
Anna Gelish
Shre
Indianapolis
Milton McClure
Illinois Supreme Court
G. A. Cooke
Edward McCann
Chicago
Red Light
Bentence
Wilson
Duke of the
Abruzzi
Katherine Elkina
Geneva
Switzerland
Rome
Peary
Portland
Mfe
Louisiana
Clermont
United States
Netherlands
Great Britain
France
Germany
Prohibition Party
Japanese Commercial Commission
Gary
Gunnison River
Taft
Gunnison
Claus Spreckels
San Francisco
Montreal Express
Boston
Quebec Express
Quebec
Pattee
N. H
John P. Callahan
George Parmenter
National Women's Trade Union League
Europa
As & Teaalt
Murdock Inc Plans Purchase of Air Line Section
The Chicago South Bend and Northern Indiana Railway Co known as the Murdock Inc has arranged to buy the completed portion of the Chicago and New York Air Line from La Porte to Wearville a 12 mile segment now extending to Gary Indiana The move aims to gain access to Chicago and challenge the Chicago South Bend and Lake Shore railway with an hourly South Bend Chicago schedule.
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South Bend
Ind
Chicago, South Bend
Northern
Indiana Railway. Co
Murdock Inc
Chicago and New York Air Line
Laporte
Wearville
Gary
Murdock
Chicago
Chicago, South Bend and Lake Shore Railway
Watchman Starts Great Fire at McDougall Plant
Indianapolis report says Otte Truhon night watchman at G P McDougall Son kitchen furniture plant started a fierce blaze destroying the plant and several nearby homes. He admitted setting an oil soaked rag in the drying dept, claiming insanity and prior hospital treatment. Loss estimated at 115000 to 130000 with 87750 insured through Marton Trust Co.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Otte Truhon
G.P
McDougall & Son
South Meridian
Arizona
Palmer
Charles Streets
Trudan
Central Hospital
McDougall
Marton Trust Co
McDougall Co
Crusade Against Gambling Targets South Bend Proprieties
In St. Joseph circuit court grand jury findings prosecutor Cyrus E. Pattee filed indictments against all known downtown gambling house proprietors and several face multiple charges. The drive reached into one dry ward and surrounding dry townships with eleven blind tiger indictments reported.
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South Bend
Ind
Cyrus E. Pattee
St. Joseph
St. Joseph County
Dry
Silver Jubilee Convention of Indiana Labor Federation Held
South Bend hosts the Indiana Federation of Labor annual silver jubilee convention with speakers including Senators Beveridge and Shively Congressman Barnhart Notre Dame President Cavanaugh AFL leaders Mitchell Morrison Lynch Belhorn and other union officials.
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South Bend
Ind
Indiana Federation of Labor
A. J. Beveridge
B. F. Shively
Indiana
H. A. Barnhart
Rochester
John Cavanaugh
Notre Dame University
John Mitchell
American Federation of Labor
Frank Morrison
A. F. of L
James M. Lynch
International Typographical Union
Belhorn
International Painters’, Decorators' and Wall Paper Hangers’ Union
Rescue Saves House After Fall as Mrs Gelish Falls
In Indianapolis an incident left Mrs Gelish with broken legs after a fall from a window while attempting to reach a baby unharmed. The baby escaped injury as the house was saved.
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Indianapolis
Aung
Gelish
Ft. Belerat
Dows
Prohibition Condemned by German Catholic Verein
The Indianapolis convention of the German Roman Catholic National Verein condemned Prohibition as a remedy for liquor. It also opposed divorce and adopted a resolution to encourage free parochial schools. Secretaries will be appointed in major cities to monitor boarding houses and hotels and inform Catholics about questionable establishments.
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Indianapolis
Ind
National Verein
Verein
Miners Strike Over Cage Braces Halt Work in Clinton
About 250 miners at Dering mine No. 8 in Clinton quit work claiming batter braces supporting the cage were not solid after a cage accident. A supervisor fixed the tipple but the check weighman ruled the cage unsafe and the workers refused to continue. Secretary Penna of the operators' association orders no repairs until men return, deeming the stoppage a contractual violation.
Gauss Opens Campaign For Mayor In Indianapolis
Democratic candidate Charles A. Gauss launched his mayoral campaign before a large crowd at the R of P building. Speaker Charles Clarke, once Gauss’s nomination rival, joined him as Gauss pledged impartial law enforcement and high standards for fire and police departments. He also vowed to protect public interests in future contracts with the Indianapolis Gas Co.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Charles A. Gauss
R. of P
Charles Clarke
Gauss
Board of Safety
Indianapolis Gas Co
Earthquakes and finds reported across Indiana towns
Minor tremors rattled Madison Princeton and nearby areas with no damage. In Evansville a bachelor’s attic yielded over 3000 dollars in cash found after a recent death. Indianapolis reports August receipts and disbursements from the Chicago Cincinnati Louisville railroad receiver. Former Gov Hanly loses bond case challenge on Vincennes University debt claim.
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Indianapolis
Ind
James P. Goodrich
Chicago
Cincinnati
Louieville
Federal Court
Bia
Hanly
Vincennes University
Carter
Superior Court
Supreme Court
Earthquake Sends Evansville Residents Awake at Night
An Evansville earthquake shook the city with houses rocking and creaking and pictures swaying. A rumbling sound accompanied the disturbance as the movement appeared to travel southeast to northwest.
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Evansville
Ind
Night Crash Kills Ten on Panhandle Stock Train in Chicago
Ten men died and twenty or more were injured when a Panhandle stock train collided with a Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul passenger flyer at Fourteenth and Rockwell in Chicago at 12:30 AM. Most victims were asleep in the caboose. eight bodies were pulled from the wreck as fires burned. Among the dead were Charles Bond and H. W. Potter. injured include Edward R. Armon and John A. Dixon. The incident prompts questions about track signals and clearance as officials review the accident.
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Chicago
Til
Xollen
Col Haion
Pan‘handle Railroad
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
Charles Bond
Milwaukee
Mandan
N. C
William Stephens
Livingston
Montana
Edward 9
Armon
H. F. Black
Dayton
Edward Clark
Logansport
Ind
New York
Frederick Hackett
B. N. Hamilton
Mont
Patrick Jobson
Vivian
Peter Johnson
John McAuliffe
H. D. Maize
Springfield
M. McDonald
Mark Wallace
Panhandle
Northwest
Bowman
Wallace
Panhandie
Murphy
Foster
Three Shocks Felt Across Four States
A sequence of three tremors was reported across Missouri Illinois Indiana and Kentucky Monday morning. Minor damages included chimney collapses and startled sleepers in western St Louis with little impact downtown.
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St. Louis
Missouri
Illinois
Indiana
Kentucky
Market Reports From Cincinnati and Chicago Grain and LIVESTOCK
Market notes list cattle calves hogs and sheep prices in Cincinnati with hogs at 8.25 8.40 and cattle extras. includes flour spring patent 6.40 to 6.65 wheat No 2 red 1.15 to 1.17 corn No 3 67 cents oats mixed 40 to 42 cents rye No 3 choice near 0. TARO TEMGC and assorted commodities such as butter 23 cents apples 1.50 to 2.58 per box burley tobacco 12.75 to 10.50. Chicago figures show wheat No 2 red around 1.15 1.16 and oats prime around 24 12.86.
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Cincinnati
Pobacou—Burley
Mayor Declares Pigeons A Nuisance In City Hall
A Philadelphia mayor scoffs at animal cruelty groups while pigeons flutter around the city hall during a news briefing. He jokes that saving citizens’ property should not interfere with the peace of the pigeons as engines sound outside.
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Reyburn
City
County Commissioners Choose Leaders in Indiana Association
Terre Haute Indiana The County Commissioners Association of Indiana elected officers Louis Seeberger of Vigo County as president and George Wyss of Fort Wayne as a top officer.
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Terre Haute
Ind
County Commissioners’ Association of
Indiana
Louis Seeberger
Vigo County
George Wyss
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Mir
Wanstville
B.B. and
W. Ind. Railway. Co
Watchman
Crusade
of Indiana Federation of Labor
Prohibition
Clinton
Charles A. Gauce
Hoosierdam
Madison, Ind
Whnam Kremling
Mariah Hill
Spencer County
Kremling
Princeton
Consumers’ Gas Trust Co
Anderson
Weashington
Hiere
J. 8. Ward
J. W. Vancware
Robert Runsell
J. My Stebell
Middle West
Market Reports
Nie
Soengthenan
Milburn Co
Buttalo
Nete
Philadelphia
Inter
Quaker Data Company
Yale
Quaker Oats Company
China
Roebottom
F. W. Ayer
Camden
Mickle Street
Philadelphia Record
Daylife
Atlanta Constitution
Rey
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