Taft on the First Ballot Taft Wins 702 of 702 Delegates
The 1908 Republican National Convention opened with Taft secured a dominant first ballot nomination after Ohio’s call showed 702 votes, with Knox, Hughes, Cannon, Fairbanks and La Follette also receiving support as allies urged unity. The gathering featured dramatic scenes including Roosevelt cheers and speeches by Burrows Lodge Cannon and others shaping the platform and rules for the new administration.
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Chicago
William H. Taft
Ohio
Taft
Knox
Hughes
Cannon
Fairbanks
la Foliette
Foraker
Roosevelt
Michigan
Julius Caesar Burrows
United States
Harry 8. New
Indiana
Burrows
Committee On Rules and Order of
Warren
Wyoming
Arizona
New Mexico
Hawaii
James Francis Burke
Pittsburg
Henry Baker
Minnesota
James D. Connor
Whiteheaded
Boutell
Ilinois
Uncle Joe
Fordney
J. Frank Hanley
Fairbank
New York
Stewart L. Woodford
Theodore ©. Burton
Cleveland
George A. Knight
California
Pennsylvania
Robert
Murphy
Philander C. Knox
Yaqui Delegation Refuses to Disarm at Hermosillo
Yaqui Indians gathered at Hermosillo refused to surrender their arms, ending negotiations with the Mexican government for now. In Mississippi, the Democratic state convention directed delegates to support William J. Bryan at the national convention.
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Nogales
Ariz
Hermosillo
Jackson
Miss
Mississippi
Fortune in Lumber Plant Fire at Hollins Alabama
Fire at the Kaul Lumber Company sawmill in Hollins near Birmingham caused 350000 to 690000 dollars in damage. The entire plant and over six million feet of lumber were burned in the blaze that shook the area. A gas explosion on the fishing schooner Alert caused the Gloucester Mass incident killing Valentine Villava and injuring ten others. James McShuard was seriously hurt while attempting to recover the body.
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Birmingham
Ala
Kaul Lumber Company
Hollins
Gloucester
Mass
Valentine Leadvilla
Alert
James McShuard
Platform Chicago Adopts Republican Convention Agenda
The Chicago convention outlines the Republican platform endorsing the era of American advancement. The substance emphasizes progress, national growth, and party priorities guiding policy directions.
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Chicago
Nine workers killed in dynamite blast east of Winnipeg
Nine workmen died when a premature dynamite explosion rocked Chamber Bros camp near Winnipeg Manitoba along the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. Ruth Bryan Leavitt daughter of William Jennings Bryan is named Nebraska delegate-at-large to the Democratic convention in Denver. The House of Commons advances the old age pension bill to its second reading with no opposition. The measure faces major changes in committee.
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Chamber Bros
Winnipeg
Man
Grand Trunk Pacific
Ruth Bryan Leavitt
William Jennings Bryan
Nebraska
Denver
London
House of Commons
Monument to Civil War Negroes in Arlington Site Debate
Secretary Taft met with a delegation representing the Negro posts of the Grand Army of the Republic in Washington. They asked for a site in Arlington National Cemetery for a monument to honor Negro dead of the Civil War. Determination was postponed. The text notes standing timber estimated between fourteen and two thousand billion feet.
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Washington, D. C
Taft
Grand Army of the Republic of the
District of Columbia
National Cemetery
Arlington
Blackmailing tragedy ends in multiple deaths in New Orleans
Four men arrived at Pietro Giacona's Chartres street home intending extortion at gunpoint. Giacona fired from a rifle killing one, wounding another as the others fled. A fourth Italian was found fatally shot and a wounded man identified as Francisco Vatalli of St. Louis, while the remaining guest escaped.
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New Orleans
General Beauregard
Pietro Giacona
Giovanni Barreca
Ciro Cusimano
Francisco Vatalli
St. Louis
Vatalli
Giacona
Petro Glacona
Chartres Street
Glacona
Coal field survey uncovers thick Bering river beds near Controller Bay
A geological bulletin reports eighty measured sections in the Bering river coal field near Controller Bay, Alaska, with beds from 20 inches to over 30 feet across 47 square miles. Field tests suggest semi bituminous coal can yield coke of good quality with proper treatment. The Wesleyan Missionary Society of England has drawn 50,000 dollars from its reserve to build a plant in China.
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Washington, D. C
Bering River
Geological Survey
Controller Bay
Wesleyan Missionary Society of England
China
Sherman Nominated for Vice President at National Convention
At Chicago June 19 James S Sherman of New York secured the Republican nomination for second on the ticket. Delegates from New York and other states backed Sherman as the convention adjourned at 11:50. Official vote totals showed Fairbanks 1 Shelton 10 Guild 75 Murphy 77 Sherman 816, with Sherman’s nomination made unanimous.
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Chicago
James
Sherman
New York
Pennsylvania
Oho
Wisconsin
Uaois
Indiana
Michigan
Oregon
Idaho
Wyoming
Washington
Utah
Colorado
Kansas
Texas
Louisiana
Timothy L
Woodruff
James 8. Sherman
Cannon
Massachusetts
Lodge
Curtis Guild
Thomas N. McCarter
New Jersey
Franklin J. Murphy
Fairbanks
Sheldon
Nebraska
Guild
Murphy
James Sherman One of New York's Notable Congressmen
James Schoolcraft Sherman born in Utica on October 24, 1855 rose to prominence as a lawyer and Republican leader. He graduated Hamilton College in 1878, joined Cookinham and Sherman, and won repeated congressional elections from the Fiftieth to the Sixtieth Congress, shaping New York politics as Utica Trust Company head and New Hartford Canning Company president.
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James Schoolcraft Sherman
James’ Schoolcraft ‘Sharman “Avas
Utica
Hamilton College
Cookinham
Sherman
Saratoga
John D.henderson
W. F. Curtis
New York State
Utica Trust Company
New Hartford Can’ning Company
New York
New Crescent Coal Plant to Start Up Soon
A new Crescent coal plant, located a mile below California Pennsylvania in Washington County, will open 3 000 to 4 000 acres of virgin coal land. It will have a daily capacity of 6 000 tons and employ about 2 000 workers, dwarfing the current Alice mine operation which employs 500 miners. Over $500 000 has been spent to equip the new works, expected to be in full operation within 90 days.
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New Crescent
California
Yington County
Ming Company
Roscoe
Postal ban on anarchist papers and Williams resigns leadership
Bare Red Literature and all Washington publications with anarchist tendencies are barred from mail distribution under a Post Office order enforcing amended postal rules. Congressman John Sharp Williams of Mississippi resigns the minority leadership of the House effective December 1.
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Washington
United States
Myer Han
John Sharp Williams
Mississippi
House
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