Old guard fight over New York convention chairmanship and roll call
New York reports factions within the Republican ranks move to the resolutions committee. Progressives push for an official roll call to record delegates while Col Roosevelt seeks decisive action. Taft endorsement implied as Barnes hints at intra party turmoil and strategic oratory at the convention.
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New York
Old Guard
New York State
Committee On Resolutions
Col
Roosevelt
Committee On
Taft
Barnes
Republican Party of
Albany County
Payne Aldrich tariff defended by Sereno Payne in Lyons speech
Sereno J. Payne, author of the Payne Aldrich tariff bill, arrived in Lyons New York and was renominated by Republicans of the Thirty first district. In his acceptance speech he defended the tariff from criticism that it raises living costs, arguing wage differences drive costs and that the law overall lowered rates and produced reasonable results. He claimed that price increases tied to tariff items are unproven and that many items kept or reduced kept prices steady or fell.
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Congress
Roosevelt set to address packed Saratoga audience
Albany N Y Sept 23 Col Roosevelt is promised a novelty next week at the Saratoga convention when prospects are that for once he will address an audience purposely packed to prevent a favorable demonstration. Plans were completed Friday for a special train to carry followers of William Barnes Jr to Saratoga. These tooters will be scattered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alhany
Roosevelt
Saratoga
William Barhes, Jr
T Hese ‘Tooters
White House Prepares for Taft Cabinet Visit
Washington notes Friday preparations at the White House as President Taft and his cabinet plan a house party and meetings next week. Taft expected Sunday morning with cabinet members arriving from summer homes, except Secretary of War Dickinson who is in China. Executive Clerk Latta and Chief Telegrapher Smithers lead the advance party from Beverly.
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Washington
White House
Taft
War Dickinson
China
Latta
William Smithers
Beverly
Eight Die asRock Island Train Plunges From Trestle
Bulletin from Oberlin Kansas reports engineer fireman and eighteen passengers killed with about twenty injured when Chicago Rock Island Pacific train No 27 from St Louis to Denver plunged through a forty foot trestle into a creek near Clayton Kansas. Four bodies recovered, four others seen beneath wreckage. The trestle failure followed a Thursday night cloudburst flooding the creek. Relief trains dispatched as news reached Norton and Colby.
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Oberlin, Kas
Rock Island
Norton
Kas
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
St. Louis
Denver
Clayton
Kus
Frank Pickabaugh
Good- Jand
J. W. Csher
Kansas City
Huffman
Baggageman
Jand
Flynn
Chhyton
Colby
International prison congress guests visit Indianapolis
Twenty five city, county and state institutes will be toured by sociologists invited to an all day program in Indianapolis. The schedule includes arrival at Union Station at 6 30 a m and a morning of site visits ending with a tea at the home of Mrs Charles Layman. The formal reception and addresses unfold through the evening at the Claypool hotel and Indiana legislative chamber with notable speakers from Indiana and abroad.
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International Prison Congress
Indianapolis
Chicago
Statehouse
National Guard
Union Station
Big Four Railroad
Claypool Hotel
Indiana Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument
Marion County
Marion County Criminal Court
Wanual — Training High School
Shortridge High School
Indiana
Girls’ School
Clermont
Boys
Plainfield
Woman's Prison
Central Hospital For Insane
Indiana School For the Blind
Indiana State School For the Deaf
Indianapolis Orphan's Asylum
Marion County Board Children’s Guardians’ Home
Butler College
House of the Good Shepherd
German General Protestant Orphans’ Home
Marion County Workhouse
German Evangelical Lutheran Orphans’ ’Home
National Trades School and Technical Institute of Indianapolis
Indianapolis City Hospital
Protestant Deaconess
St. Vincent Hospital
Methodist Episcopal Hospital
Free Kindergarten Association
Charles Layman
North
Delaware Street
Benjamin Harrison
United States
Claypool
Charles W. Fairbanks
Thoras R. Marshall
Oscar W. Montgomery
Supreme Court of Indiana
Amos W. Hutler
American Prison Association
Indiana Boys’ School
Charles KR. ‘Henderson
International Prison Commission
Evelyn Ruggies-Brise
Prison Commission
London
England
Count Wenzel Gleispach
Univerasity
Prague
Bohemia
Austria
Ernest Rosenfeld
International Criminalistic Association
Berlin
Germany
John E. Hollett
Robert G. McClure
William J. Allison
Demarchus C. Brown
Amos W. Butler
George F. Edenharter
W. H. Eichorn
John TW. Furnas
William Halfenberger
John N. Holliday
Frank C. Jordan
Lot &. Kiser
John Kolmer
T. B. Laycock
J. K. Lilly
Joseph A. McGowan
Thomas R. Marshall
J. George Mueller
Meredith Nicholson
G. A. Schnull
Mayor Shank
Frank D. Stalnaker
J. H. Taylor
Franklin Vonnegut
Ross H. Wallace
Harry J. Milligan
Ladies’ Committee
John B. Elam
Hugh Dougherty
J. Irving Holcomb
Man Killed Carrying Babe in Moonshine War
In Albany Kentucky on September 23 Doc Moses carrying his nine month old baby in his arms tried to testify against moonshine neighbors. An assassin shot him through the heart as he walked toward court, bullet piercing the infant’s dress. The feud code failed to shield him.
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Albany
Kentucky
Doc Moses
Moses
Uber
Representatives of Fifty Foreign Countries Inspect Reformatory
Delegates to the international prison congress representing fifty foreign countries arrived in Chicago on a 2,000 mile tour to inspect American reformatories. The group includes seventeen women and will remain in the city until Sunday night.
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Chicago
International Prison Congress
Inspectio
Embezzler Bound Over to Grand Jury
Carlos Jordan bookkeeper for Merchants heat and light company was examined in police court and bound over to the grand jury in a 55000 bond. He confessed to embezzling funds and said he had a “great time” while it lasted and alcohol led to the theft. He claimed neither he nor the company know the exact amount missing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carlos Jordan
Merchants’ Heat and Light Company
Jordan
Illinois GOP Convention Signals Progressive Push at Springfield
Gov. Deneen presided as temporary and permanent chairman at the Springfield Illinois Republican convention opening the proceedings. The platform condemns grafting legislation linked to Lorimer and calls for a corrupt practices act and civil service for state workers while urging tariff reform and broader conservation. Deneen’s speech focused on tariff issues and party unity as progressives gain influence.
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Neen
Joseph G. Cannon
Cannon
Deneen
Lorimer
Tariff Commission
Will Boom Clark At Democratic State Convention
EAST ST. LOUIS Ill Sept 23 Champ Clark's presidential boom leads the Democratic state convention with a speech planned against Taft tariff and standpatters Roger Sullivan objects to endorsing any candidate Henry T Rainey opens the meeting fights loom over personal liberty Lorimer election planks local option debated Kellerman and Carmack push a strong anti local option plank delegates from southern Illinois oppose the plank platform favors graft anti trust Sherman amendment.
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East ST. Louis
Ill
Champ Clark
National House of Representatives
Taft
Tariff
Roger Sullivan
Chicago
Clark
Folk
Henry T. Rainey
Charles Kellerman
The
United Societies
Alton Carmack
Southern Illinois
State Committee
Chavez and Pallette Fly Over Alps For Prize
Rome Sept 23 Two aviators Chavez and Pallette attempted a Brigue to Milan crossing of the Alps for a £20,000 prize. Chavez crashed near Domodossola suffering serious injuries. Pallette reached Stresa then Milan in a safer flight. Weymann later abandoned due to engine trouble after brief ascent.
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Rome
Alps
Brigue
Italy
Chavez
Domodoscla
Pallette
Stresa
Milan
Wergmann
Damodossola
Paulette
Domodossola
Wermann
Pailette
Weymann
Rhone
Domodosola
Irigue
Domedosola
Napoleon Bonaparte
Paliette
Milian
Woman Braves Winds in Santos-Dumont Monoplane
Mile Thel ene Dutrine the French aviatrix noted for fearlessness flew her Santos-Dumont monoplane in a gusty windstorm at Doncaster England. The flight followed her Sept 2 record from Ostend to Bruges with a 1000 foot circuit around Les Halles tower and return to Ostend without landing.
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Doncaster
Eng
Thelene Dutrine
Mlle
Dutrieu
Ostend
Belgium
Bruges
Les Halles
Beveridge Meeting In Marion County Campaign Kickoff
Republican organizers plan a Beveridge meeting at Tomlinson hall next Tuesday night to energize prep for the big opening assembly. About two thousand letters are being sent from the county committee to ward precinct and executive committeemen in Marion County.
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Beveridge
Tomlinson Hall
Republican County Committee
Marion County
Gun Explodes on War Vessel Georgia Turret
A forward turret 18 inch gun on the battleship Georgia burst during battle practice off Virginia Capes. No injuries reported. The incident damaged only the gun area, not the ship, and a replacement 12 inch gun is to be cast and installed by November 1 to allow Georgia to join the Atlantic fleet's Mediterranean cruise.
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Washington
Georgia
Navy Department
Schroeder
Atlantic
Virginia Capes
Department
Mortgages in State Double in Single Year
Indiana mortgage activity surged in 1909 with 113 860 filings totaling 156 054 1240 dollars, nearly doubling 1908 figures. Deeds filed reached 114 910 with total consideration of 187 561 158, while cancellations remained minimal at 2 412 mortgages. Automobiles, rising prices, and investment growth are cited as partial causes.
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Indiana
Indiana Bureau of Statistics Frisiy
Wlon
Denny
J. L. Peetz
State Bureau
Friend of People Fights Lard Shortage in Police Court
Henry Bills, owner of Bills and Boeteher wholesale grocers, fined 810 and costs for selling lard at short weight after Inspector Wulfson investigated. The lard sold to James Campus, proprietor of the National restaurant, weighed five pounds short when last checked. Bills appealed, bond set at 2Q, with driver blamed for mixing cans.
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Henry Bills
Tuage Collins
Bills
Boeteher
Washington Street
Wulfson
James Campus
National Restaurant
East
Campas
Gills
Isadore Wulfson
Unsettled Friday Night Weather Across Indiana
The weather writer notes an unsettled pattern for Friday night with showers and colder air moving in. Saturday features continued unsettled conditions with varying sunrises and sunsets noted, alongside ongoing hourly forecasts.
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Indiana
Traction Officials Weigh Blame After Kingsland Wreck
Ft Wayne and Wabash Valley traction directors meet amid a disastrous Kingsland trolley crash. Motorman Corkwell and Conductor Wilson face blame while an unsigned order and missing documents complicate injury and death toll figures. Coroner and grand jury prep as Bluffton mourns forty dead and nine injured.
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FT. Wayne
Ind
Ft. Wayne & Wabash Valley Traction Company
Kingsland
J. Levering Jones
B. L. Corkwell
del Wilson
Ossian
Frelmier
Switch No. 7
Wilson
A. A. Shane
Indiana Railroad Commission
Benjamin T. Corkwell
Shane
Thomas
C. EB. Sturgis
Wells
Herman Thomas
F. A. Parkhurst
Bluffton
Margaret Tribolet
Neecka
Ft Wayne & Wabash Valley Traction Company
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Windy City
Joe
Gov. Deneen
Illinois
Springfield
Gov. de
Will Boom Clark
Harmony
Mile
Enate
Traction
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J. Levring Jones
Philadelphia
Samuel T. Murdock
Lafayette
Mr. Emmons
Henry C. Paul
James M. Barrett
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