Taft Arrives in Philadelphia amid Cabinet Talks
President elect Taft spent a busy day in Philadelphia visiting Dr. S Weir Mitchell and Bryn Mawr with plans for a future Cabinet. Reports said J M Dickinson would become Secretary of War and George W Wickersham Attorney General, with Charles Nagel to head Commerce and Labor. Treasury remains the only open post as banker E T Stotesbury’s name surfaces in rumor.
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St. Louis
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George W. Wickersham
New York
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Mississippi
University of Tennessee
Germany
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Cleveland
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Texas
Academy of Music
Uni
Carnegie Steel books vast merchant steel orders in 1897 price war
Pittsburgh Feb 21 Carnegie Steel Company booked more orders for merchant steel Saturday than in all of last year. An order from St Louis for 10 000 tons at 24 per ton marked a cut of 4 from former prices. Several orders from Buffalo and the West followed as price cutting swept the market. Steel rail makers joined to hold at 28 per ton, while pipes and tubes also faced cuts. Anxious meetings across districts discussed the rapid price war.
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Buffalo
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Pennsylvania Steel Company
Bethlehem Steel Company
Cambria Steel Company
Lackawanna Steel Company
Andrew Carnegie
Auto Kills Man Speeding On In Williamsburg
A car containing two men and two women struck a bystander near Christ Episcopal Church on Bedford Avenue and drove away. The victim, about 25, wore a dark brown suit, tan gloves, and a black derby, and died at Williamsburg Hospital after an ambulance was summoned. Police chased the runaway vehicle, which crossed into Manhattan after speeding through Eighth Street and Barry Street.
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New York
Desperate Plea as Wife Demands Pardon for Man Sentenced
Mrs Elsie Scharff told a meeting in Little Hungary that she will plead with Gov Hughes to pardon Joseph Scharf jailed in Sing Sing after a four year and six month suspended sentence for abducting the 19 year old Elsie. She threatens to harm herself if the pardon is not granted. A petition seeks 5000 signatures to push the governor for clemency.
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Fleet of American battleships nears Cape Henry salute to Roosevelt
The American battleship fleet, about thirty ships including the Connecticut and Mayflower, nears Cape Henry after rough weather and delays. Admiral Sperry restricts wireless messages while crews prepare for a 2,000 gun salute and planned review at Chesapeake Bay with the President aboard the Mayflower.
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Virginia Beach
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Nelson
Government Pier
Chesapeake Bay
Ld Point
South Omaha Mob Attacks Greek Quarter After Patrolman Slaying
About 3 000 mobs wrecked 30 Greek quarter buildings in South Omaha in riotous attacks sparked by Patrolman Lowery’s murder. Two boys were wounded by birdshot, dozens injured, and police struggled to curb the destruction for hours as dwellings and stores were burned and shattered.
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Omaha
Edward Lowery
Frank Sweeney
Joseph Gamble
Robbers dynamite Califon bank in Hunterdon County
A band of cracksmen blew open the vault of the First National Bank at Califon early today wrecking the outer vault and damaging the interior. They escaped after a second explosion未 but left about $5,000 and securities behind in a magazine safe. No blood found. town alerted. deposits said intact.
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New York Times
High Bridge
N. J
First National Bank
Califon
Here
Hunterdon County
Sec
Central Railroad of
New Jersey
Frank Pill
Neack
William Neigh
Neigh
Board of Directors
Portrait of Taft Highlighted for Sunday Times
Next Sunday's Times will feature an excellent Taft portrait. the piece is praised as worthy to be saved alongside Lincoln's image published two weeks earlier. Early ordering with the newsdealer is advised to ensure a copy.
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Times
Taft
Abraham Lincoln
Sunday Times
Roosevelts Tribute Interrupted at Madison Avenue Service
An interruption arose during a St Bartholomew's Church service in Madison Avenue as a man objected to calling Roosevelt one of four great U S presidents. The scene drew quick responses from attendees while the church and patriotic groups observed the annual Sons of the Revolution service. The objector remained seated as cries of be quiet and sit down echoed through the edifice. The ceremony featured draped National colors and a march by veterans and patriotic societies to their reserved seats.
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Grant
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Roosevelt
Wireless progress shown in Navy using rapid signals
Washington reports great progress in wireless telegraphy with Admiral Sperry's fleet. Four instruments at the government station clattered simultaneously without interference. The second squadron kept signals tuned low to maintain uninterrupted communication with the flagship and other squadrons. High power messages to Washington flowed without interruption.
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Admiral Sperry
Washington
Earthquakes Hit Elche District in Spain
Seismic shocks rocked the Elche district with the first quake at 4 AM. In Crevillente, about eighteen miles from Alicante, two strong tremors between 8 and 8:30 AM forced residents to flee to open fields, homes unroofed, and casualties feared as crowds fled a church during mass.
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Bronx Woman Accidental Shooting Kills Visitor
In the Bronx, Mrs. Schmeidheim removed a revolver from two playing boys at 912 Forest Avenue. She accidentally fired, wounding Edward Staub at 4 PM and later dying at Lebanon Hospital. She was held as a witness for the coroner.
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Bronx
Edward Staub
Courtlandt Avenue
De Segurola Injured After Slip on City Crossing
Basso M de Segurola of the Manhattan Opera House was injured when he slipped on a loose stone at Thirty eighth Street and Seventh Avenue after Friday rain. Confined to Hotel Navarra rooms with a kneecap injury, he missed the La Sonnambula matinée and will miss tonight's performance unless complications arise. doctors expect possible discharge in three to four days.
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Boy 13 Injured in Roller Skating Crash. Collie Missing
Robert Blackall of 217 West Forty-second Street was hit by a car driven by Joseph Howard of 1662 Broadway while roller skating at Broadway and Fifty second Street. He was taken to Roosevelt Hospital with a fractured left thigh as two boys reportedly disappeared with his collie Fellow after the incident.
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Omaha
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Thirtieth
Robert Blackall
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Roosevelt Hospital
Broadway
Blackall
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Thomas Kerrigan
German Societies Plan Hudson Fulton Parade Ambition
About 600 German societies in New York met at Arion Society Hall on Fifty ninth Street to discuss the Hudson Fulton celebration. Herman Ridder, presiding, hoped the Crown Prince of Germany would attend next fall though no correspondence was reported. The group focused on a parade for Saturday night Oct. 2 with each society to have a float costing about $600, to be built largely of papier.
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Ridder
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A. H. Stoddard
President's Nephew Stewart Robinson Dies in Harvard Window Fall
Stewart Douglas Robinson, Harvard sophomore and President's Roosevelt’s nephew, died after a sixth floor fall from Hampden Hall Cambridge. Police called medical examiner ruled accidental. friends had opened the window for air after a late dinner at the A. D. Club. He was 19, to be 20 next month, a hockey player and Sphinx member with family plans for New York burial.
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Sphinx
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Delta Kappa Epsilon
St. Paul's School
Squam Lake
President Notified Delayed on Robinson Death
Secretary Loeb stated that news of Stewart D. Robinson's death, the President's nephew, reached the White House too late to be communicated tonight. The report details the delayed notification from Washington.
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