La Follette Holds Senate in Tariff Debate
Wisconsin senator La Follette remains in the Senate tariff discussion despite calls for rest. Colleagues fear delays, while Republicans worry insurgent and Democratic blocs may push tariff bills over the president’s veto as others rush back to Washington. Senate debates Arizona and New Mexico statehood amid the stalemate.
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New Mexico
I.u Follette
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Wisconsin Lakes
Sam
Wisconsin
Mr. la Fullette
Congress
Mr. la Follette
Conference Committee
Senator Guggenheim
Europe
New York
Senator Lodge
Mrs. Lodge
Mr. Lodge
Clark
Wyoming
Evanston
la Follette
Weather Forecast Fragments From New York to New Orleans
Fragments show weather notes for New York and New Orleans with terms like clear cloudy and partly cloudy. Numerical items 54 10 60 86 74 appear without clear context.
Englishman to wed rich American girl
Lord Camoys is set to marry a wealthy American heiress in a high society match reported by the local press. The engagement links a titled British figure with a prominent American family, highlighting cross Atlantic social ties.
Courageous sixteen year old foils burglars in Frankfort
Miss Maud Combs of Frankfort aged sixteen kept her nerve and shouted as she chased two burglars from the residence of Robert Polsgrove. They fled after realizing they had been spotted, throwing bottles as they escaped while Combs went to the back porch for water.
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Frankfort
Maud Combs
Robert Polsgrove
Miss Combs
National League scores from St Louis to Washington
Baseball results from St Louis Cincinnati Chicago Pittsburgh Philadelphia Boston and related games. Box scores show R H E tallies with pitchers and fielders named, including Scharudt Scanlon Bergen Bresnahan Mattern Perdue Kling Smith Clarke Mathewson Meyers Archer Chalmers Moran Gibson Walsh Sullivan Livingston Gregg Fisher Ward Carrigan Scott Payne Bender Danforth Thomas Summers Stanage Caldwell Sweeney Petty Stephens Groome Street Krichell Gray Cashion Alnsmith and others. American Association results note Minneapolis Kansas City Columbus Indianapolis Toledo Louisville.
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Cincinnati
R.H.E. Be Dite
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Chicago
Mathewson
Meyers
Brown and Archer
Pittsburg
R.h.le
Philadelphia
Chalmers
Moran
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Gibson
American League
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Payne
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Danforth
Thomas
Walsh
Sullivan
Morgan
Livingston
Hoston
R.H.E. Cleveland
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Groome
Street
R.H.E. St. Louis
Washington
George
Krichell
Gray
Cashion
Alnsmith
American Association
Minneapolis
Kansas City
Columbus
Indianapolis
Toledo
Louisville
Overcome by His Own Plan Ends in Burning of Books
Samuel Brown the cashier of Long Dock Milling in Jersey City confessed after a police grilling that he stole about 2500 dollars from the firm and hired Frank Walsh to burn the ledgers to hide the thefts. Accountant Patrick J Timmins aided the scheme. Walsh died from severe burns after the arson. Brown and Timmins are detained as detectives pursue details of the case.
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Samuel Brown
Jersey City
New York
Long Dock Milling Company
Captain Richards
Seventh Street
Frank Walsh
Newark
St. Francis Hospital
Patrick J. Timmins
Brown
Walsh
Timming
Timmins
Brinkerhoff
Taft Appeals for Public Backing on Treaties
President Taft spoke at a Chautauqua in Mountain View Maryland urging public support to back pending senate treaties. He warned hesitation could halt the move toward general peace and pressed for backing of debts settlement treaties with Honduras and Nicaragua as a priority over arbitration pacts.
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Mountain View
Chautauqua
Taft
Senate
Senate of the
United States
Honduras
Nicaragua
Will Marry a Lord
Newport August engagement reports Miss Mildred Sherman daughter of Mr and Mrs William Watts Sherman to Ralph Francis Julian Stoner Lord Camoys of England. Miss Sherman is twenty three and Lord Camoys is twenty seven. he heads the Stoner family and holds a peerage dating to Richard IV. She previously served as usher at the Lord Decies and Miss Gould wedding in New York.
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Newport
R. J
Aug. S
Mildred Sherman
Willam Watts Sherman
Ralph Francis Julian Stoner
Lord Camoys
England
Shermans
Miss Sherman
Lord Campys
Stoner
Richard IV
Lord Decies
Miss Gould
New York
Illinois May Have a Laborite Party
Springfield reports that returns from Illinois unions to a July 10 circular show strong support for forming a labor party at the State Federation convention on October 17. Secretary J. F. Morris says plans are mature and a majority favors a labor party likely to be a major force next year.
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Springfield
State Federation of Labor
Illinois
State Federation
Hinois
J. F. Morris
Seventeen Families Return from Kansas Beet Fields
Gave it up in Kewanee Illinois after drought in western Kansas ruined crops. About 100 people faced losses of household goods as the company cited contract violations for leaving land before one year.
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Kewanee
Ill
Kansas
Drouth
Gates Eyes Recovery Amid Brief Sugar Trust Probe
John W. Gates shows an excellent chance of recovery. House special committee investigation into the sugar trust has closed. Buffalo Jones offers to relocate 1 000 elk for a Denver park plan.
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John W. Gates
House Special Committee
Buffalo Jones
Denver
Coleman Carnegie
Pittsburg
Andrew Carnegie
General Leconte
Haytt
Lafferty Involved Over Letter To Miss Kubel
Representative A W Lafferty of Oregon writes to Miss Florence Kubel daughter of S J Kubel chief clerk of the geological survey expressing a wish to meet her The letter becomes a congressional controversy as Kubel’s photograph in a local paper brought attention Lafferty is 36 and a bachelor he blames political enemies for the disclosure
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Washington
Florence Kubel
J. Kubel
Geological Survey
A. W. Lafferty
Oregon
Fatal Auto Accident Claims Carl Dexheimer Life
Mt. Vernon Indiana August 8 Carl Dexheimer twenty two died from injuries after a rear tire came off the automobile he rode in.
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Mt. Vernon
Ind
Carl Dexheimer
Judge Hints At Workhouse Over Speeding Plea
Indianapolis police court judge vents frustration after Rapley Merriman of Memphis pleads guilty to driving forty mph on Washington boulevard. The judge notes the 1907 law allows only a fine and warns he would send the offender to the Marion county workhouse if empowered, but Merriman pays the $25 fine and costs.
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Rapley Merriman
Memphis
Tenn
Collins
Meriman
Washington Boulevard
Merriman
Marion County
King Caucus Dominates House But Brings Bad Legislation
Washington dispatch notes that while party caucus methods keep Democrats united, they enable a few leaders to dictate policy and may yield harmful tariff provisions. The piece cites tariff jokers, the Five Civilized Tribes committee, naval arms growth, and Sherwood’s pension bill dilemma as examples.
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Washington
King
House
Senate
Ten Days of Prayer at St Mary of the Woods
Terre Haute Ind August 8 The annual ten days retreat is under way at St Mary of the Woods where over a thousand Sisters of Providence engage in silent prayer and meditation in preparation for the next year of parochial school work in northern states and Canada The convocation precedes vows of novices and is the only cloister observance though visitors are gently discouraged by simple request not to call.
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Terre Haute
Ind
St. Mary-of-the-Woods
Sisters of Providence
States
Canada
St. Mary-of-the Woods
Angerer Arrested in Washington on Marion Larceny Charge
Angerer a Spanish War veteran and assistant clerk at the Marion Soldiers' home store is accused of stealing 450 dollars seven months ago and was arrested in Washington D C He confessed his identity and agreed to return to Marion without requisition papers Sheriff George proceeded to take him back to face a grand larceny charge.
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Clarksburg
W. Va
Stephen Shields
North View
Harry King
Shields
Jesse Harris
King
Thornton
Marion
Ind
Charles Angerer
Washington, D. C
Angerer
Sherif George
Washington
Marshland fires raise watch on Hammond bridges
Railroads crossing the Calumet and Kankakee marshes have posted watchmen on their bridges as fires burn through the dry marsh grass for a month. Farmers guard the areas day and night to protect cattle from possible blazes.
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Hammond
Ind
Calumet
Kankakee
Muncie Man Dies in Apparent Suicide at Home
M M Schlenker, 45, hanged himself in an outbuilding on his western Muncie county home. No note or explanation was left. Coroner unable to determine motive. He leaves a widow and children.
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Muncie
Ind
M. M. Schlenker
Mrs Wallace Critical After Camden Auto Fall
Mrs D F Wallace of Camden is in critical condition and D A Wallace suffers a broken shoulder after the auto fell over an embankment. Mrs Wallace has internal injuries and broken wrists.
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Logansport
Ind
D. F. Wallace
Camden
D. A. Wallace
Jubilee fills Lafayette hotels for Uniform Bank encampment
Lafayette Indiana hosts a large week long gathering as the Uniform Bank Knights of Pythias event attracts visitors. Hotels and boarding houses reach capacity while private homes open to guests for the jubilee and encampment.
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Pythiana
Lafayette
Ind
Uniform Bank
Knights of Pythias
Drowned in Gravel Pit in Shelbyville
Clyde Taylor drowned while swimming with companions at the Nading gravel pit in Shelbyville Ind during a trip with the John Robinson Shows on August 8. Local authorities reported the accident and begun investigations into the incident.
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Shelbyville
Ind
Clyde Taylor
John Robinson
Nading
Boy smothered under grain at Syracuse elevator
Fort Wayne Aug 8 Junior Buhelt thirteen of Syracuse fell into a grain pit at a Syracuse elevator and was buried beneath about fifteen feet of loose grain while playing.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Junior Buhelt
Syracuse
Mayor and sheriff cited for prairie chicken theft in Laporte
Indianapolis Aug 8. Mayor Lem uel Darrow of Laporte and Sheriff J F Tilden paid 58 70 each into the state fish and game fund for shooting prairie chickens in Laporte county. Deputies Jared Mecum and Frank Graham also of Laporte were fined 43 70 each for a fire offense. The wardens tracked them who had hunting dogs and two prairie chickens in their bags. Tilden protested his arrest, claiming only the county coroner could arrest him, but the deputies proceeded.
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Indianapolis
Lemuel Darrow
Laporte
J. F. Tilden
Laporte County
State Fish and Game Fund
Harry Walker
F. G. Lapham
Jared Mecum
Frank Graham
Darrow
Tilden
Electric Bitters claimed to purify blood and strengthen health
The piece extols Electric Bitters as regulating the stomach liver and kidneys and expelling poison from the blood. It quotes O T Budahn of Tracy California praising the tonic as the best blood purifier and a builder of rich red blood and strong nerves. It advertises 60 cents a bottle at Knoefel's Chase.
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O. T. Budahn
Tracy
Calif
Knoefel
Job Printing Services Highlighted by Tribune Company
In the city the Tribune Company promotes its job printing line noting its equipment is the most complete and ready for orders. It invites customers to contact to fulfill printing needs.
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Tribune Company
Series of fatalities in Clarksburg area raise concern
Clarksburg West Virginia reports a alarming thirty day death toll from accident or violence. Thirteen deaths are listed: three personal crisis reports one murder three railroad worker deaths two automobile deaths two mine accidents one child killed by a frightened horse and one railroad crossing accident.
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Clarksburg
W. Va
Night Rider Case Advances in Kentucky Suit
Deputy U S Marshal Elwood Neel served summonses on five more defendants in the Oliver night riders damages suit. Defendants named include J M Cash T L Cash S J Hodge Edgar Graysham and Jim Bradshaw. The case will be heard at the November term in Paducah Kentucky.
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Paducah
United States
Elwood Neel
Lyon County
Milton Oliver
J. M. Cash
T L. Cash
S. J. Hodge
Edgar Graysham
Jim Bradshaw
Market Quotations Indianapolis Grain and Livestock
Quotations from Indianapolis show wheat at 83 to 86 cents, corn around 63 to 70 cents, oats near 40 to 44 cents, and various hay prices. Cattle and hogs range from three to seven dollars, with receipts listed. Cincinnati Chicago St Louis East Buffalo and Toledo markets report mixed grain and livestock prices and futures figures.
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Indianapolis
Cincinnati
Chicago
St. Louis
Dr King’s New Discovery Cited By Michigan Writer
A reader from Cord, Michigan, Thomas Ariss, extols Dr King’s New Discovery for coughs and colds noting it as the best remedy after forty years of use. He claims it enters the throat and lungs easily and has helped with asthma, hay fever, and croup.
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Thos. Ariss, Cord
Mich
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