Taft Moves To Urge Repeal Of Reciprocity Pact
President Taft signals support for repealing the Canadian reciprocity agreement. Western senators pressing for repeal hope to attach an amendment to the steel tariff bill. If vetoed, Taft would likely state approval of repeal in a veto message.
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Taft
Washington, D. C
Congress
Chicago
Senate
Finance Committee
United States
Canada
McCumber
Weyburn
Grenna
Senate Extends Tariff Board For One Year In Washington
In Washington Taft tariff board won a Senate vote 84 to 20 to fund another year of work with 225000 dollars. House resistance may block final approval as talks on the sundry civil bill continue. Democrats opposing except three. Stone Bacon plan for a congressional tariff commission defeated. Bristow amendment makes board report to Congress annually. Other changes include private counsel limits and 800000 extra for the pension office to process 400000 claims.
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Washington, D. C
Taft
Tariff Board
Senate
House
Chamberlain
Newlands
Thornton
Stone and
Bacon
Congressional Tariff Commission
Presidential Tariff Board
Congress
Senator Bristow
Stone
Federal Department of Justice
Pension Office
Mexican Rebels Attack American Homes at Dolores Camp
In El Paso Texas the Campos rebel force tightens control around the Dolores camp of the Mining Company of America about 40 miles west of Madero. Efforts to evacuate 100 women and children have failed as rebels seize horses and continue mobbing American homes. Residents resist amid heightened danger.
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el Paso
Texas
Campos
Dolores
Mining Company of America
Madero
Moy er Vindicated as IWW Charges Rejected by Western Fed
Charles H Moy er president of the Western Federation of Miners announces his vindication from charges of misuses of funds and corruption. The convention endorses his policies over those of the IWW and expels Thomas Campbell of Butte who made the allegations.
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Cripple Creek
Colo
Western Federation of Miners
Charles H. Moyer
Socialist Party
Thomas Campbell
Buttee
New Jersey Launches Separate Progressive Ticket
Ashbury Park New Jersey mass convention forms a distinct Progressive Party organization and nominates a full state ticket for November. Delegates pledge the electors to Theodore Roosevelt and send delegates to the Chicago convention. A state committee will handle party setup. no party name chosen yet. Roosevelt publicly praised, though he cannot attend.
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Ashbury Park
N. J
New Jersey
Theodore Roosevelt
Chicago
Col. Roosevelt
Roosevelt State Committee
Committee
Call Issued For Third Party Convention In Nebraska
Lincoln Nebraska July 31 call issued by Arthur Wray York County judge Republican to select eight delegates to Roosevelt national convention in Chicago. Wray argues third party is needed to meet public interests as Taft supporters fail to represent the people.
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Nebr
Lincoln
Chicago
Arthur Wray
York County
Wray
Taft
Progressives eye Nebraska convention clash in Lincoln
Nebraska delegates once hoped to settle differences at the regular Republican state convention in Lincoln on the same date. Judge Wray, provisional committee man for Nebraska, is tied to the Roosevelt faction and the Chicago Orchestra hall meeting. New York’s William C. McAdoo to be named vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee by Governor Wilson.
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Ents
Nebraska
Lincoln
Judge Wray
National Progressive Party
Roosevelt
Chicago
New York City
William C., McAdoo
Democratic National Committee
Wilson
Turkish Premier Rows With Army
Constantinople, Turkey. Mouhkh, far Pasha, says he does not defy the army and will stay premier as long as the sultan wishes. Soldiers demand Kismil Pasha take the post, but Kismil refuses, preferring to remain minister of foreign affairs.
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Constantinople
Turkey
Mouhkhfar Pasha
Kismil Pasha
Kismil
Dams Break Causing Million Dollar Loss North of Wausau
Damage estimated at one million dollars followed the break of two dams on the Wisconsin River north of Wausau early today. No lives were lost but several farmhouses were swept away, making casualty reports uncertain.
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Wausau
Wis
Wisconsin River
Here
Admiral Murdock Retires Surrenders Command in Shanghai
Rear Admiral Murdock retires and surrenders command of the American Asiatic Fleet to Rear Admiral Nicholson in Shanghai. He will depart on the first available steamer for home, marking the end of his tenure.
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Shanghai
China
Murdock
Asiatic
Nicholson
Republicans Debate Next Steps from Huron Convention
The Capital asks readers to mail in views on the republican state convention at Huron. It emphasizes the party belongs to voters and urges each reader to submit a response to the editor.
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Huron
Huron convention rejects Taft endorse. backs Roosevelt electors
Question asks if I approve the Huron convention’s refusal to endorse Taft and its nomination of Roosevelt men as electors. It also asks whom I voted for in the June presidential primaries, Taft or La Follette.
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Huron
Taft
Roosevelt
Republican Party
Taft, LaFollette
Ayers Formally Seeks U S Senate Seat in South Dakota
Tom Ayers of Pierre, a leading Wilson Democrat, announced his candidacy for the U S Senate on the Democratic ticket. He pledged a fearless campaign, radical program, and sought a clear expression of South Dakota voters’ choice before the legislature convenes.
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Huron
Tom Ayers
Pierre
Tcket
United States
South Dakota
Ayers
United States Senate
Baltimore
Aberdeen
Wilson
Johnson
Pray Publicly for Aristocrat's Death Riots Rock London Dockyards
In London the Clyde shipyard clashes between striking dock workers and strike breakers left many injured as police dispersed crowds. Benn Tillet urged public prayers for the death of Lord Davenport, venerated by strikers as their chief foe, while mass meetings echoed calls of vengeance.
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London
England
Clyde
James O’grady
House of Commons
Lord Davenport
Benn Tillet
Tower Hill
Tillet
Mrs Alcock Sings at Vesper Service for Mitchell Band
Mrs Merle Tillotson Alcock, a renowned New York contralto, sang at a vesper service at the Second Reformed church in Hackensack New Jersey to benefit the Mitchell band. The service drew a large crowd despite a storm with the junior choir and Mrs Alcock delivering a moving rendition of I Think When I Read that Sweet Story of Old. A 15 minute sermon by Rev Dr Johnson followed the music.
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Hackensack
New Jersey
Merle ‘Tillotson Alcock
Mitchell Band
Second Reformed Church
DROWNS ON TOP OF BUILDING AS FOUR MEN TRY TO SAVE HIM
On the roof of a twenty story building at 120 Hast Sixteenth Street porter Robert Kinsella was sucked into a drain vent by a powerful water surge. Four men struggled to free him but the strong current and suction proved fatal. An engineer Thomas Halley aided but Kinsella died on the roof as rescuers finally pulled him free. The incident followed by a note on Rosenthal murder theory being explored by District Attorney Whitman who doubts the gray car escape tale.
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New York City
Sixteenth Street
Robert Dsinsela
Kinsela
Thomas Halley
Halley
Kinsella
Morris
Iast Twenty-second Street
Rosenthal
Atorney Whitman
State Immigration Commission Seeks Harvest Helpers
Pierre South Dakota reports the State Immigration Commission is flooded with inquiries from eastern counties about where harvest hands can be found. Commissioned official says hundreds of men can be placed during the harvest and threshing season and opportunities await in most eastern counties.
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Pierre
S. D
State Immigration Commissioned
Deeds
R Eason
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People’s Organization
Champ Clark
Sea Girt
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McAdoo
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Democratic Party
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Pettigrew
Mrs. Alcock
Mitchell
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