Judge Hanford Resigns Amid Impeachment Proceedings
United States District Judge Cornelius H. Hanford resigns to Taft as impeachment hearings pause. The committee was ready to hear charges of misconduct when the resignation was accepted, signaling no further action. Additional items note a sanatorium demolition near Dublin and Park guards breaking up canoe flirting in Philadelphia.
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Seattle
Wash
United States
Cornelius H.hanford
Washington
Statehood
Taft
House Judiciary Committee
Hanford
Graham
Clayton
House
Victor Berger
Judiciary Committee of the House
Beattie
Philadelphia
Fairmount Park
Schuylkill River
Snowy chill hits northern Michigan crops in July
A dispatch from Carp lake twenty eight miles northeast of Petoskey reports a light snow shower last night with crop damage from the cold. Elsewhere hop growers on the Pacific coast threaten to halt planting if freight rates remain high and Denver passes a half fare rule for straphangers amid street car transfer measures.
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P Etoskey
Grand Rapids
Mich
Carp Lake
Petoskey
Chicago
Pacific Coast
Four Children Burned Playing With Blasting Powder
Four children suffered serious burns while playing with blasting powder at a Washington Pa home. Their parents were away from the house when the accident happened. Also reported Mrs Hetty Green aged seventy eight was baptized in New York to prepare for Episcopal church membership.
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Washington
New York
Hetty Green
Church
Lightning Fire Destroys Fort Wayne Lightning Co Warehouse
A July 22 report states a lightning strike ignited a warehouse belonging to the Lightning Co in Fort Wayne Indiana. The fire damaged stock and building valued around 999000 and caused estimated losses near 20000.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Ans Lightning Co
Atock
Woman's error blamed for wreck at Western Springs
Chicago July 20. Mrs. Julia A. Wilcox a former Dunning Hospital inmate and block signals operator at Western Springs testified at a La Grange coroner inquest into last Sunday's Chicago Burlington & Quincy wreck. She admitted a mistaken telephone order stopped two trains, causing the collision that killed thirteen. The fourfold inquiry included the interstate commerce commission Illinois railroad and ware house commissioners and railroad officials.
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Chicago
Julia A. Wilcox
Hospital For the Insane
Dunning
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
la Grange
Ill
Thure
Interstate Commerce Commission
Illinois Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners
Hoffman
Namara Refuses to Conform in San Quentin Solitary
J B Mc Namara one of the Los Angeles Times building dynamiters has spent a week in solitary confinement and is ordered kept in the dungeon indefinitely by Warden Hoyle for repeated acts of insubordination.
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Los Angeles
San Quentin
Cal
J. B. McNamara
Los Angeles Times
Hoyle
McNamara
Washburn Sr. Dies in Homecoming Battle with Death
William D. Washburn Sr., former Minnesota senator and northwest pioneer, won a long race with death and reached his home Fair Oaks from Europe. Doctors say death is hours away at eighty one.
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Grim Reaper
Minneapolis
Minn
Willam D. Washburn
Minnesota
Northwest
Fair Oaks
Europe
Waabburp Ia
Archbald Faces Senate Impeachment Answer Date Set
Judge Robert W. Archbald appeared before the Senate impeachment court to answer high crimes and misdemeanors charges. The court adjourned without ruling on trial timing and set July 29 as a possible answer date after time for preparation was requested by Archbald’s attorney.
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Robert W. Archbald
United States Commerce Court
House of Representatives
Senate
Archbald
A. 8. Worthington
Robert W. Archbald, Jr
Philadelphia
House
Henry D. Clayton
Ramsdell
Worthington
Clark
Wyoming
Eight Women Arrested in Dublin Over Asquith Outrage
Eight English suffragettes were arrested in Dublin for alleged involvement in attacks linked to Premier Asquiths visit. Police say a blazing chair was thrown into the orchestra, box curtains set aflame, and a hatchet aimed at Asquiths carriage amid panicked theatergoers.
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Premier Asquith
Asquith
Gladys Evans
England
Plana
Mr. Asquith
Wilson Chooses Campaign Committee of Fourteen
Democratic nominee Wilson selects a fourteen member national campaign committee. William F. McCombs of New York chairs. members include Josephus Daniels, Hudspeth, Saulsbury, Ewing, A Mitchell Palmer, Jos B Davies, Will R King, Thomas Gore, James O Gorman, James Reed, Daniel McGillicuddy, Albert Burleson, and William McAdoo. Headquarters planned in New York and Chicago with western site to follow.
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Ben Girt
N. J
Torm
Wilson
William F. McCombs
New York
Josephus Daniels
North Carolina
Robert S. Hudspeth
New Jersey
Willard Saulsbury
Delaware
Col. Robt. Ewing
Louisiana
A. Mitchell Palmer
Pennsylvania
McCombs
Bis
Delays in Sentence for John Mitchell and Gompers Case
In Washington on July 19 the district court again postponed John Mitchells sentence for contempt of court in the Buck's Stove and Range injunction case with Samuel Gompers and Frank Morrison of the AFL. Mitchell waives presence. prosecutors request sentencing in his absence. Sentence to be taken up after receipt of waiver. Lorimer injured in auto crash near Pittsburg while traveling from Washington to Chicago.
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Washington
John Mitchell
Samuel Gompers
Frank Morrison
American Federation of Labor
District Supreme Court
Mitchell
Oregon
Committee of
Postmaster General Hitchcock Reports Mall Fraud Losses
Hitchcock announces arrests for defrauding the public through malls up to June 30 last fiscal year reached 1,083 with losses totaling 120 million dollars. The figures cover nationwide cases and reflect extensive effort to curb the scheme.
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Thoft
Washington
Hitchcock
Turkish Forts Sink Italy Fleet in Dardanelles Night Attack
Dispatches from Constantinople report eight Italian torpedo boats attacked the Dardanelles under darkness on Friday. Turkish forts and fortresses fired as two Italian ships were sunk and the remaining four were damaged. Italy later said its flotilla did not suffer sunk vessels.
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London
Constantinople
Anx
Dardanelles
Aegean
Rome
Chanak-Kales
Emperor Mutuhito Gains Restful Sleep After Illness
Tokyo reports the imperial household says Emperor Mutuhito's condition has improved and doctors are hopeful for recovery. He slept from midnight with largely undisturbed rest and his morning temperature dropped to 100 degrees, down three percent from earlier. The 60-year-old monarch suffers from acute nephritis after a sudden collapse last Friday while conversing with the empress.
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Mikado
Tokyo
Japan
Imperial Household
Mutauhito
Norman E Mack Turns Over Democratic Committee to McCombs
Norman E Mack hands over all Democratic national committee business to William F McCombs who will succeed him as chairman He returns home to Buffalo and plans active campaign work in the state while not joining the advisory committee.
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Democratic Committee
McCombs
New York
Norman
EB. Mack
Democratic National Committee
William F. McCombs
Mack
Buffalo
National Committee
Nine Dead in Mazuma Cloudburst Disaster
Rescue parties sweep Mazuma Nevada ruins after a cloudburst drowning nine and injuring nine. Property losses reach about 200000 dollars as searchers probe canyons and debris for additional victims.
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Mazuma Ruine
Reno
Neyv
Mazuma
Nev
Indicted for Towel Plot Involving Laundry Workers
Five local laundrymen were indicted by a federal grand jury on July 22 for conspiracy to defraud the government by shutting off competition in laundering towels used by the government. The report describes a fraud scheme among service providers and federal interests.
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Washington
Federal Grand Jury
Campaign fund totals cited for 1904 and 1908 splits
Senate hearing reveals the Democratic fund in 1904 was about one million dollars with claims no trust or big business money. Frank Hitchcock testifies 1908 contributions to Taft totaled 1,055,518.27 with no corporate gifts, noting a $20,000 near miss from Gen. T. Coleman Du Pont and small bank contributions of about 5,000 each.
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Washington
W. T. Sheehan
New York
United States Senate
Democratic
Alton S. Parker
Congress
T. Coleman du Pont
Delaware
Republican Executive Committee
Hitchcock
Third Party in Michigan Indorses Roosevelt at State Convention
Michigan Progressive Republicans at Jackson split from the state GOP and favored a full ticket for state and national offices. They recommended L Whitney Watkins for governor and Theodore M Jostin for U S senator, denouncing the Chicago convention as a fraud and endorsing Theodore Roosevelt.
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Roosevelt
Jackson
Mich
Michigan
State Central Committee
L. Whitney Watkins
United States
Theodore M. Jostin
Adrian
Osborn
Chicago
Theodore Roose
Taft to Publish Roosevelt Fraud Charge Reply
President Taft's reply to Roosevelt's fraud charge on the 1920 nominating victory will be printed as a campaign document and distributed in two months. Ex-Senator Dick of Ohio prepared the reply, with a summary to be released to the press in a few days.
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Taft
Washington
Roosevelt
Ohio
Chicago
Presa
Hilles Names Executive Committee To Back Taft
New York July 23 The national Republican committee announced the executive committee roster chosen by Chairman Hilles at headquarters. Members include J P Adams Dubuque IA Charles F Brooker Ansonia Conn Fred W Estabrook Nashua NH James P Goodrich Winchester IN Alvah H Martin Norfolk VA T H Niedringhaus St Louis MO A Perkins Tacoma WA Alfred T Rogers Madison WI Newell Sanders Chattanooga TN Charles B Warren Detroit MI Roy O West Chicago IL Ralph Williams Dallas OR.
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Taft
New York
National Republican Committee
Hilles
National Republican
J. P. Adams
Dubuque
Charles F. Brooker
Ansonia
Conn
Fred W
Estabrook
Nashua
N. H
James P. Goodrich
Winchester
Ind
Alvah H. Martin
Norfolk
Norfolk, Va.; T. H. Niedring
Haus
St. Louia
A. Perkins
Tacoma
Wash
Alfred T. Rogers
Madison
Wis
Newell Sanders
Chattanooga
Three Suspects Arrested in Rosenthal Murder Probe
New York men arrested and taken to police headquarters in the Rosenthal homicide case. Louis Webber Sam Paul and Jack Sullivan charged or held as material witnesses amid graft revelations.
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Rosenthal
New York
Herman Rosenthal
Louis
Bridgy
Southern Hotel to Close in St Louis August First
The Southern hotel, oldest of its kind in St Louis and famed nationwide, will shut its doors August 1, as announced last Sunday. Rear Admiral Reginald F Nichols ordered to relieve Rear Admiral Joseph B Murdock as commander in chief of the Atlantic fleet and assumes command immediately.
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Southern Hotel
St. Louis
America
Nicholson
Murdoch Washington
Reginald F. Nichols
Joseph B. Murdock
Atlantic Fleet
Ones
Splendid Outlook for Crops in Western Canada
A northern agricultural advance awaits harvest as Central Canada with 16 million acres of wheat oats barley and flax drives world grain markets. Alberta Saskatchewan Manitoba report favorable conditions with heavy rain and crops forging ahead. officials cite potential record yields and an estimate of 250 million bushels of wheat for the growing crop.
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Canada
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
West
Baltimore Suffragette Debate On Attracting Youth Doings
A Baltimore suffragette discusses how to draw young girls to meetings, weighing whether refreshments or meat would be more appealing. The exchange highlights practical outreach ideas within the movement.
Stella and Bella Discuss Summer Resort Views
Stella asks about a summer resort view and Bella replies there are none but notes its proximity to the moonlit scene at night.
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Stella
Bella
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