Rule Is Charged In Taft Delegates Contested Seats
National committee meeting tailed and debated rules for 229 contested seats at the Republican convention. Protests over excluding Hitchcock and other proxies sparked indignation, with the panel set to decide contested claims under a stern star chamber procedure. The committee moved to six pm sessions with limited lunchtime breaks as tense protests gathered outside.
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Taft
F. H. Hitchcock
Chas
Hitchcock
Jude
Reid Hitchcock
New Mex
Alexander McKen- Dakota
Star Chamber
Phillips
J. W. Babcock
Wisconsin
Victor Rosewater
Chas. &. Morrill
Nebraska
Elmer R
J. W. Greer
South Dakota
Coliseum
Auditorium Hotel
South
State Street
Foraker
Republican Committee
Local banker Louis Gilbertson sentenced at Leavenworth
Louis Gilbertson, a local banker, is sentenced to 20 months in Leavenworth after a U.S. court finding. Adjacent items note that Higbee's motion was denied and Judge Sanborn refused to quash the indictment in Eau Claire.
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Louis Gilbertson
Leavenworth
Higbee
Gilbertson Convicted For Concealing Funds In Bankruptcy
Louis Gilbertson, a La Crosse shoe merchant, was sentenced in Eau Claire to twenty months in Leavenworth for concealing between four and five thousand dollars from creditors by depositing the funds in a Chicago bank under a relative’s name and for uttering false testimony at the bankruptcy hearing. Judge Sanborn rejected a motion to quash the indictment. The trial involved C S Van Auken, C L Balawsh, and Commissioner Alfred Harrison.
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Louis Gilbertson
la Crosse
Leavenworth
Kansas
Sanborn
Eau Claire
E. C Higbee
Gilbertson
Chicago
Higbee
C. S. van Auken
C. L. Balawsh
United States Court
Alfred Harrison
Esch to Address Bankers on Financial Legislation
Congressman J. J. Esch accepts invitation to speak before Wisconsin and Minnesota bankers meeting here next Tuesday on Financial Legislation of the 60th Congress in the afternoon session.
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J. J Esch
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Mr. Esch
Thousands Held by Heavy Floods in Montana Rail Lines
Helena Montana June 5 A thousand passengers are held up in this city and along the Northern Pacific and Great Northern lines after the heaviest rainfall in 28 years. Seven people are reported drowned. Tracks washed out or covered by landslides. Rivers rising. Nine Northern Pacific trains freed from eastern Montana but stalled again north and west. Great Northern hit harder with slides near Kalispell.
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Helena
Mont
Northern Pacific
Great Northern
Montana
Kalispell
PLAN STAMPEDE FOR ROOSEVELT
Boston June Lawson claims the Republican National Convention will stampede for Theodore Roosevelt at Chicago. Thomas W. Lawson argues Taft loyalists are secretly spreading Roosevelt sentiment nationwide without Roosevelt’s knowledge.
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Boston
Taft
Roosevelt
Thomas W. Lawson
Lawson
Chicago
Band of conspirators hunted over Glendale opera house dynamite plot
Portland police pursue a Glendale conspirator group after a monster dynamite bomb was placed in the opera house vestibule last night. A defective fuse spared massive loss of life though the five gallon oil can held 24 sticks of dynamite. No motive is known.
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Portland
Ore
Glendale
Oregon
Japan Slaying the Koreans in Daily Engagements
Seoul reports Japan has engaged Koreans nearly eight times daily with heavy casualties. In nine days 69 engagements occurred, 372 Koreans killed, over a thousand wounded, and 55 captured. Japanese losses not disclosed.
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Seoul
Japan
Wisconsin Supreme Court Upholds Railroad Commission Act
The Wisconsin Supreme Court sustained the validity of the railroad commission act empowering the board to regulate rates. It ruled the court reviews orders only if unlawful or unreasonable and that "unreasonable" and "confiscatory" are synonymous. Justice Dodge dissented. The decision affects cases against Milwaukee Street Car Co and the Bonnet tenement law deemed unconstitutional. Montgomery Warren murder case received a new trial after prior conviction.
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Madiron
Wis
Supreme Court
Railroad Commission Act
Dodge
Milwaukee Street Car Company
Montgomery
Warrens
Sparta
Warren
Monroe County
King Edward’s visit to Nicholas criticized in Commons
The king’s plan to visit Nicholas for a realignment of powers is met with sharp criticism in the house of commons. A St Petersburg dispatch warns against new alliances and blames Russian public opinion for hostility toward Germany. The king and queen depart tonight for Reval.
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London
Edward
Nicholas
Germany
House of Commons
St. Petersburg
Reval
Delaware boy swims two miles to save sisters and cousin
Selby M. Harrington, 14, braved a raging sea off Georgetown Delaware to reach help after a small boat overturned in Chincoteague bay. He swam two miles through storm tossed water to summon aid. with fishermen they returned to rescue Florence 18 Ruth 16 and Clarice Harrington, his cousin, who clung to the craft until saved.
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Georgetown
Del
Selby M. Harrington
Chincoteague Bay
Harrington
Florence
Ruth
Clarice Harrington
Selby
Bryan Denies Paid Support for Parker Crowd
Omaha dispatch reports T. H. Tibbles, populist vice presidential nominee in 1904, denying claims that William Jennings Bryan received $20,000 from Thomas Ryan to back Parker. Tibbles says $50,000 funded a special Independent edition for George W. Berge’s governorship bid, and that Bryan announced support for Parker after the St Louis convention. He challenges proof of any payoff and asserts his Parker endorsement was declared at once.
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Omaha
Bryan
Ryan
Parker
T. H. Tibbles
Nebraska
Taggart
Tibbles
Independent
Lincoln
George W. Berge
Mr. Sheehan
Mr. Bryan
Sheehan
National Committee
Judge Parker
St. Louis
Hitchcock Trial Ordered for Attempted Assault in New York
Justice Goff set Raymond Hitchcock to stand trial for attempted assault on Helen Von Hagan after the defense failed to delay proceedings to the fall term.
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Raymond Hitchcock
New York
Goff
Helen von Hagan
Anti Race Bills to Fail Albany
Chairman James Wadsworth of the state racing commission predicts defeat of the Agnew Hart anti race track gambling bills next week. His forecast aligns with comments from Senator McCarren Big Tim Sullivan and others who are in Albany as the governor revisits the fight to pass the measure.
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Albany
N. Y
James W. Wadsworth
State Racing Commission
Agnew-Hart
McCarren
Tim” Sullivan
Princess Bertha von Bismarck Engaged to Tutor
Berlin society discusses a secret engagement involving 16 year old Countess Bertha von Bismarck daughter of the iron chancellor to a young theologian who recently served as a tutor in her family.
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Berlin
Bertha von Bismarck
Chinamen Found Alive in Sealed Box Car
In San Francisco six teenage Chinese immigrants, starving and near death, were discovered in a sealed freight car in Southern Pacific yards. They had been illegally brought from Mexico after being shipped from El Paso, Texas, and endured nearly seven days of mistreatment due to a failure to release them in Los Angeles.
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San Francisco
Southern Pacific
Mexico
el Paso
Texas
Los Angeles
Shah Quits His Country In Persian Political Turmoil
London dispatch reports the shah of Persia quitting his dominion amid a quarrel with the government supporting the populace. He left on tour with a large escort and dismissed his clique. Motives are unclear and rumors persist he may leave the country, causing great excitement.
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London
Contry
Rhodora Falls at Epsom Croker Entry Fails
At Epsom Downs Rhodora, Croker's entry, stumbled over the leading French Partridge near the mile, taking her out of contention as Signorinetta repeated her victory by three fourths of a length over Courtesy with Santere third. The loss casts a shadow over Croker's hopes in the Oakes stake.
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London
Epsom Downs
Rhodora
Croker
Partridge
Signorinetta
Santere
Milk rate cuts across Wisconsin rail commission order
The Wisconsin railroad commission ordered a general milk rate reduction statewide and raised cream rates proportionately. A five gallon can traveling five miles now costs one cent less for milk while cream rates increase by one cent. Previously milk and cream shared the same rate, a change seen as a hit to Chicago central izers.
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Madison
Wis
Railroad Commission
Chicago
Weather and Water Report from La Crosse and Midwest
Weather forecasts indicate La Crosse is cool with 6 dollars value water conditions, warm as extremes rise. The upper river remains stationary while the lower section rises slowly. stage at 11.2 feet with a rise expected. Wisconsin faces increasing clouds, possible showers Saturday. Minnesota and Iowa expect showers and likely thunderstorms tonight and Saturday.
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la Crosse
U. S
Denver
Dodge
Wiscasin
Minnesota
Tlowa
Esch Back Home From Washington After Session
Hon John J Esch returns to his McMillan building office after a strenuous six tieth congress session in Washington. He visits Chicago before the national convention and says the session enacted substantial laws despite being labeled a do nothing year. He notes the employer liability and government liability bills would mark the session as noteworthy if fully enacted.
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Washington
John J. Esch
Winter & Esch
McMillan
St. Paul
Esch
Chicago
National Committee
Congress
Aldrich Bill
Aldrich-Vreeland
District of Columbia
Mr. Esch
Panama Canal
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