Taft Insurgents Battle in Iowa Convention
In Des Moines Iowa Wednesday insurgents clash with standpattters as progressives seek control of the Republican convention. Dolliver Cummins back a Taft endorsed plank while regulars push for a tariff stance and a nonpartisan tariff commission to inform Congress. Cannon’s Kansas visit fuels the fight as delegates head toward a pro Taft outcome with ongoing rivalries shaping the platform.
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DES _MOINES
Iowa
Taft
Carrol
Resolutions Committee
Dolliver
Cummins
Cannon
J. P. Dolliver
Kansas
Murdock and Cummins
Aldrich
Lodge
Hare
Payne
Dalzell
Nelson
Clapp
Beveridge
Lafollette
Bristow
Congress
Improvement of City Car Lines is Aim of Club
Commercial club directors adopt cross town street car line plan to connect Brightwood North Indianapolis and Riverside park. A general committee will lead the project as the club expands its push to improve Indianapolis streetcar service. The group also eyes a hotel employes training school costing about 300000 with International Stewards association and Charles A Bookwalter involved. Delegates to the international prison congress, 225 attendees, will visit Indianapolis September 26 en route to Washington with Gov Marshall escorting them through Michigan City.
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Brightwood
Indianapolis
Riverside Park
Commercial Club
International Stewards’ Association
Charles A. Bookwalter
Bookwalter
George W. June
Association
Pittsburg
International Prison Congress
T Indianapolis
Washington
Marshall
Michigan City
Claypool
Louisville
Col Frank L. Denny Faces Marine Corps Transfer
Col Frank L. Denny of the United States Marine Corps, known in Indianapolis, prepares to go to Mare Island heavy yard as a board tests his fitness for active service. A retirement recommendation by Secretary Meyer was disapproved. His transfer follows a board inquiry into alleged insubordination among general staff officers in Washington.
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Washington
Frank L. Denny
United States Marine Corps
Indianapolis
Caleb Denny
Mare Island Heavy Yard
Meyer
Denny
San Francisco
General Staff
Marine Corps
Taft to Attend Conservative Congress Address in Saint Paul
President Taft will attend and address the National conservative congress at St. Paul on September 5. The announcement was made Wednesday at the executive offices in Beverly Massachusetts.
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National Conservation Congress
St. Paul
Beverly
Mass
Taft
National Conservative Congress
Aldrich Likely to Run in Spite of Promise
Providence dispatch reports growing speculation that Senator Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich may seek a sixth term. Despite retirement claims he has not ruled out re election, with rivals noting absence of a solid campaign and potential allies Col. Henry F. Lippit and Robert Ives Gammell tied to his political circle amid tariff and finance debates.
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Aldrich
Providence
Will Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich
United
Senate
Bristow
Kansas
Togo
Warwick Neck
Senator Aldrich
Rhode Island
Denry F. Lippit
Robert Ives Gammell
Lonsdale
Berkley
Indianapolis Business Slogan Sought for Citywide Ad
The Commercial club seeks a slogan to print on every businessman's stationery. A $25 prize will go to the best idea chosen by a committee of city newspaper judges. The aim is to gain worldwide recognition and signal concerted local cooperation.
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Indianapolis
Whlch
Bual‘ness
Stock broker found dead in St Clair Pennsylvanian streets
William W. Fisher, a stock broker with John Wocher and Company, was found dead in his room at Syl via apartments, St. Clair and Pennsylvania streets. A penciled note stated he suffered for about an hour and believed it an angina pectoris. Mrs Moody, who housed him three weeks, knew little of his health or background.
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William W. Fisher
Sylvia Apartments
St. Clair
Pennsylvania
Charles Moody
Fisher
East Michigan Street
John Wocher and Company
Six Die in Kronstadt Torpedo Boat Disaster
Six men killed and four injured in a Kronstadt torpedo boat incident as a boiler tube defect or torpedo explosion triggered a major fire and chaos. Sailors risked their lives to rescue comrades. an official probe began amid warnings this ranks among Russia’s worst naval accidents since the Japan war.
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ST. Petersburg
Kronstadt
Naval Hospital
Japan
Delfin
Neva
Rueslana
Joseph Mends
Baltimore
Indiana Forecast Braces for Cooler Thursday Showers
The weatherman reports showers and thunderstorms tonight and again Thursday with cooler conditions on Thursday especially in the northern portion. Sun rises and sets noted. The hourly temperatures trend unclear due to truncated text.
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Indiana
Ballinger May Kick Himself From Cabinet Denies He Will Resign
Chicago reports Secretary Ballinger traveled to the city with an implied invitation to resign for republican gains next fall but publicly denied any intention to leave the cabinet. He repeated the charge that Pinchot and Roosevelt supporters seek to drive a rift between Taft and Roosevelt, complicating his position amid Beverly telegrams and rising political pressure.
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Chicago
Balinger
Crane
Taft
Col. Roosevelt
Gifford Pinchot
Beverly
Mr. Ballinger
Minneapolis
Ballinger
Pinchot
Garfield
Roosevelt
Ballinger woes unsettle Taft administration push
Beverly Mass August 3 Ballinger resists stepping down as interior secretary stirring unease among politicians who fear he may stay until Taft removes him. Executives doubt Ballingers quoted remarks against Roosevelt backers and view it as a potential lever against the present administration while Taft maintains strict non interference with his predecessor.
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Beverly
Mass
Richard A. Ballinger
Interior
West
Ballinger
Taft
Roosevelt
Elevator Collapse Triggers $10,000 Judgment Claim
In a Pearl street factory between Illinois and Meridian, W Genry S Dautrich stepped into an elevator owned by William B Burford. The machinery collapsed, Dautrich fell to the first floor and a $10,000 judgment was sought.
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Dautrich
Pearl Street
Ilinois
Meridian Streets
William B. Burford
Father Sentenced in Lead Theft Case Shocks Family
In police court William Evans is fined fifty dollars and given sixty days in the workhouse for stealing one hundred pounds of white lead. His wife died years ago. he lives with his mother at 2226 Kenwood Avenue. The aged mother and his two children, a blue eyed girl and a brown eyed boy, wept as he was led back to the cellhouse after the sentence.
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William Evans
Evans
Kenwood Avenue
Charles G. Davis
Davis
Kitzmiller
Barrows
Costa
Papa
Fear of Race Riots Led Shank to Bar Fight Pictures
Detroit August 3 Mayor S L Shank said he barred the Jeffries Johnson fight pictures in Indianapolis to prevent a possible race riot. He added he would arrest exhibitors and let a judge decide. Despite the stance he expressed no personal animus and would attend to view them. The plan followed police consultation amid a 250000 city with 40000 Black residents.
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Detroit
S. L. Shank
Alfonso's Trip Seen Serious as King Seeks Spain Advice
London reports British foreign office members acknowledge King Alfonso's England visit may aim to seek guidance on Spain's political crisis after the rupture between the government and the Vatican. Madrid dispatch notes Garcia Prieto, minister of foreign affairs, met Premier Canalejas to discuss plans for San Sebastian as clericals vow a 100,000 strong parade.
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Spain
Vatican
Insurgents Sweep Kansas GOP Primary Victory
Kansas Republicans renominated Victor Murdock Edmund Madison and Governor Stubbs in a major insurgent win that shifts the congressional delegation to seven to one in favor of insurgents. Widespread opposition centered on Cannonism and old guard standpatters.
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Topeka
Kas
Kansas
Victor Murdock
Edmund Madison
Gor. Stubbs
Murdock
Madison
William Roscoe Stubbs
Railroads
Thomas Wagstaff
J. M. Dolley
Republican State Committee
Stubbs
Republians
Cannon
Senator Cummins
Wichita
William Allen White
Emporia
Cumming
D. R. Anthony
A. C. Mitchell
P. J. Campbell
Fred Jackson
R. R. Rees
I. D. Young
W. R. Stubbs
R. J. Hopkins
Charles Sessions
J. H. Dawson
Republican Party
Severnal
Republican Congressional Committee
James E. Watson
Indiana
McKinlay
California
Fordney
Michigan
Ways and Means
United States
Bristow
Payne Tariff
Congress
Curtis
Repudiated Cannon Victory In Kansas Insurgent Rally
Victor Mure dock, insurgent house leader, won renomination in Kansas Eighth district. He praised the insurgent win, saying Kansans repudiated Cannon and his house rules and that Kansas Republicans are fighting to eject special interests from politics.
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Wichita
Kas
Victor Muredock
House
Congress
Kansas
Cannon
Kadesas
Missouri second primary sets record for offices on ballot
ST. LOUIS August 3. Missouri's second primary election drew unusual interest with a large slate of offices up for grabs. Minority Leader renews statement as renewed for the ninth time amid broadly contested races and heightened voter turnout across the state.
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Champ Clerk
ST. Louis
Missouri
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