Taft Seeks Open Markets in Fourth Annual Message
Washington notes warn European powers against trade discrimination and urges joint congressional action to expand American exports. Taft praises diplomacy as dollars versus bullets, touts favored nation treatment, and backs Knox’s proposed graduated duties up to 25 percent while demanding modern economic negotiation tools.
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Washington
Congress
America
Taft
Audi
United States
State Department
Knox
Signs of War Dropping Out Signs of War Dropping Out
Senate confronts Taft recess appointments as Democrats plan to block confirmations. Gore and others considered to lead the obstruction while new senators Jackson and Perkye are sworn in. Captain Robert Dollar cites cheaper operation under the British flag and a congressional probe of a post office raid.
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Washington
Taft
Senate
Gore
Wm. P. Jackson
Maryland
Isadore Rayner
Kirtland I. Perkye
Idaho
Weldon BR. Herburn
Robert Dollar
San Francisco
England
Post Office Department
Cowboy Sneed acquitted in Fort Worth murder case
J Beal Sneed found not guilty of murdering Captain A L G Boyce Sr in Fort Worth on January 13 after returning from Winnipeg with his wife Al Boyce Jr had eloped with. Sneed claimed self defense and conspiracy by the Boyces to rob his wife. He faces trial for Al Boyce Jr’s death in Amarillo on September 14.
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Sneed
Captain Boyce
Fort Worth
Winnipeg
Canada
al Boyce, Jr
Boyces
Amarillo
Vernon
Tenyas
Walter Scott
W. H. Mclean
Eight Die In Pennsylvanian Wreck Near Dresden
In Zanesville Ohio on December 4 four people were killed outright and eleven injured in a Pennsylvania railroad wreck near Dresden Ohio. Four more victims died later at the hospital raising the death toll to eight. Victims include Henry J Haskell and Mrs B F Emerson of Zanesville and others from Cleveland Lodi Albion Mich. A Cincinnati and Muskingum Valley train failed to stop after a flag was raised and plowed into the rear of a preceding engine, wrecking the coach and scalding the dead and injured by escaping steam.
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Zanesville
Dresden
Henry J. Haskell
Emerson
Henry Balbain
Cleveland
Max Harris
Lodi
Ohio
L. H. Blainey
Cincinnati and Muskingum Valley
Henry Bartles
Albion
Mich
Cincinnati and
Muskingum Valley
Trinway
Cincinnati
Balkans and Turkey fail to sign armistice pact
In Constantinople on December 3 representatives of Turkey and the Balkan allies negotiating outside the Tchatalja fortifications had not yet attached their signatures to an armistice agreement by 6 p.m.
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Constantinople
Turkey
Tchatalja
First witnesses for defense in dynamite conspiracy trial
Indianapolis December 2 four of the forty five defendants in the dynamite conspiracy case were discharged by the government for lack of sustained charges. Charles W Miller United States district attorney announced that the government's evidence was presented and rested its case.
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Indianapolis
Charles W. Miller
United States District Attorney
Detroit Federation of Labor
Maniton H. Davis
Westchester
International Board of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers
John R. Carroll
Syracuse
Iron Workers’ Union
Spurgeon P. Meadows
International Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners
Court reports doubts on conspirators in explosives case
District Attorney Miller rebutts hostile press claims and states that while Carroll Benson and Meadows had guilty knowledge of a conspiracy to transport explosives the evidence is not conclusive Davis is found not guilty Benson led the Detroit union and is now on a farm, with Davis formerly from Philadelphia.
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Olaf A. Tinetmoe
Miller
Carroll
Benson
Meadows
Detroit
Davis
Philadelphia
Steam Fitters’ Union
Archbold defense admits acts in high crime case
In Archbold court proceedings the defense acknowledges the defendant engaged in alleged acts but denies any were improper or criminal in nature, arguing context and intent weaken charges. The prosecution counters with specifics, seeking to prove impropriety and accountability under law.
Early Senate Impeachment Trials and Notable Acquittals
The article lists early U S impeachments and trials including William Blount 1797 98 for conspiring to transfer New Orleans from Spain to Britain acquitted John Pickering 1803 drunkenness and profanity convicted and removed Samuel Chase 1804 95 acquitted James H Perk 1830 arbitrary conduct acquitted West H K Humphreys 1862 rebellion convicted Andrew Johnson 1868 high crimes and misdemeanors acquitted W W Belknap 1876 receiving money from post traders among the Indians and Charles Swayne 1905 high crime and misdemeanor in office and abuse of judicial power acquitted.
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William Blount
Tennessee
New Orleans
Spain
Great Britain
John Pickering
United States
Samuel Chase
James H. Perk
West HK. Humphreys
Andrew Johnson
W. W. Belknap
Charles Swayne
Indianapolis Officer Resigns From Iron Workers Union
Herbert S. Hockin, linked by witnesses to the McNamara dynamite group and later a spy within the union against Ortie E. McManigal and others, resigns as secretary treasurer of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers. John E. McClory of Cleveland is named his successor.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Herbert S. Hockin
McNamara
Ortie E
Archbald Impeachment Trial Opens in Senate
The senate convened as a high court to try Judge Robert W. Archbald on thirteen charges of high crimes and misdemeanors. House managers from seven states will prosecute, while A S Worthington and Alexander Simpson Jr. will represent the judge. The proceedings began with opening statements and preparation for the trial in Washington.
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Washington
Senate
Robert W. Archbald
Ecommerce Court
House
Clayton
Alabama
Webb
Carolina
Floyd
Arkansas
Davis
West Virginia
Sterling
Illinois
Howland
Ohio
Norris
Nebraska
Capitol
Archhbald
Archbald
A. S. Worthington
Alexander Simpson, Jr
Philadelphia
Dog Tax Fines Imminent as City Clamps Down
The city will send officers to homes of dog owners who have not paid the privilege tax for keeping pointers setters rabbits and coon dogs French poodles and common dogs. Judge J Frank Mungovan will chair a formal gathering with fines not less than five dollars plus costs for willful nonpayment. A thirty day note won’t suffice pay or view.
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J. Frank Mungovan
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St. Louis
James F. Roy
Peoria
Murray le Pennell
Springfield
Indiana School
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Joseph M. Cravens
Madison
J. J. Metterville
Anderson
Jesse Eschbach
War Saw
RICHY
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Fort Wayne
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Hockin
UNION
U. S. Senate
R. W. Archbald
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