Deneen Wins Illinois Primary With Narrow Lead
Telegraph reports late results showing Governor S Deneen leading ex Governor Richard Yates for the Republican nomination by about 17 700 votes as the final counties come in. Adlai Stevenson wins the Democratic nomination for governor. Hopkins leads the Republican US Senate vote while Stringer leads Democrats.
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Tribune
Chicago
Co. S. Deneen
Richard Yates
Deneen
Tates
Adlai E. Stevenson
United States
Hopkins
Foss
Mason
Webster
Lawrence B. Stringer
Stringer
Blakeley
Cook County
Prohibition
Yates
Illinois Primary Ticket Picks Show GOP and Dem Nominees
Illinois returns indicate the Republican and Democratic state tickets set by Saturday primaries. GOP choices include Hopkins or Fuss for U S Senator and Deneen for Governor, with many district Congress nominees named. Democratic picks list Tringer for Senate and Stevenson for Governor along with multiple district nominees.
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United States
Albert J. Hopkins
George E Fuss
Charles Deneen
J. G. Oglesby
F. L. Smith
James A. Roee
Auaiter
J. . McUllough
Andrew Russell
William H. Stead
Democrats after Coin. Bryan campaign financing discussed
Chicago reports a meeting of national committee leaders including Mack and Governor Haskell on funding a vigorous Bryan campaign. No final plan. sub-committee heads to meet again. Haskell noted receipt of unsolicited 12.0 dollars, while pledges and fundraising goals remain unsettled.
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Chicago
Mack
National Committee
Charles N. Haskell
Oklahoma
Moses ©. Wetmore
St. Louis
Millard F. Dunlap
Minoels
Haskell
Bryan
Hisgen Gives Up Oil Business to Focus on Politics
Thomas L. Hisgen, Independence party presidential candidate, asks brother Henry A. Hisgen to run the Independent Oil Company of which Thomas is the head. He will devote full time to campaigning and fight Standard Oil in New England. Mrs. Hisgen may join him.
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Tribune
Springfield
Mass
Thomas L. Hisgen
Independence Party
Henry A. Hisgen
Albany
O11 Company
Hisgen
Standard Oil Company
New England
Progress Club Outing at Zeltner's Casino
Two thousand members and friends of the Progress Republican Club in the 10th Assembly District attended a group outing yesterday at Zeltner's Casino on Third avenue and 17th street. Ferdinand Eidman, Collector of Internal Revenue, led the district, with Herbert Parsons Job E Hedges Assemblyman Anthony A McCabe Frederick A Marshall and Frank Roth man among the attendees.
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The
Progress Republican Club
10Th Assembly District
Zeltner’s
Third Avenue
17Th Street
Ferdinand Eidman
Internal Revenue
Herbert Parsons
Republican County Committee
Job E. Hedges
Anthony A. McCabe
Frederick A. Marshall
Frank Rothman
New York Post Office
Independence League Local Ticket Blocked by Ballot Decision
Buffalo reports Election Commissioner George D. Emerson refuses to accept a certificate filed by Chairman Jerome for the Independence party local convention. Only the local ticket is affected and cannot appear on the official ballot without a court order. state and national tickets are not impacted.
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Buffalo
George D. Emerson
Independence League
Jerome
Independence Party
Rabbi Freed in Chicken Killing Case at Essex Market
Jacob Braunstein of 7 Jefferson Street was arrested for killing a chicken on Sunday in violation of the Sunday law. Magistrate Wahle of the Essex Market police court discharged him, ruling that killing chickens can be a religious rite and not a Sunday law violation.
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Jacob Braunstein
Jefferson Street
Wahle
Essex Market
Kern Praises President at Iowa Chautauqua
John W. Kern Democratic Vice Presidential candidate spoke at the Chautauqua Assembly in Charles City Iowa on August 9. He praised President Roosevelt and William Jennings Bryan for shared views on self-government taxes and the influence of the horde school and church and urged voters to act from patriotism.
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Charles City
Iowa
John W. Kern
Chautauqua Assembly
Allison
Roosevelt
Bryan
Opposes Gompers View as Anthracite Workers Rally
About five thousand miners gathered at Manila Park in Tamaqua to hear T. L. Lewis rebuke President Gompers and advocate solid organization. He urged non political ballots, a closed shop, and union leadership over employer rules while calling for united action to win concessions next April.
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The
Tribune
Tamaqua
Penn
Manila Park
T. L. Lewis
John Mitchell
Lewis
Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Bryan
Ohio
Leper Colony Rules Out Deportation of Wardwell Wife
Washington reports the Molokai leper colony cannot accept or deport patients from the mainland. The elderly wife of General Wardwell, ill with leprosy, cannot be sent from Tombstone Arizona due to lack of jurisdiction and a transportation ban.
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Washington
United States
Molokai
Arizona
Wardwell
H. D. Geddings
Bureau of Public Health and Marine Hospital Service
Hawaiian Islands
Geddings
Hawaiian Heart
Honolulu
Molokeit
Cochise County
Tombstone
Ariz
Free for all fight on the Babylon ferryboat
A midstream melee on the East 34th street ferry left fruit pedler John Bell's pushcart overturned and his wares trampled. Passengers aided him as twenty to thirty men clashed. three alleged ring leaders were arrested at East 34th Street station and fined ten dollars each.
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Babylon
East 34Th Street
Celtic Park
Long Island
John Bell
East 324 Street
Manhattan
East 2Th Street
John Rooney
West 57Th Street
George Eggers
West 524
Thomas Evans
West 59Th Street
Shot Dead in Sight of Crowd on Brooklyn Street
James Paivia was killed instantly while standing with hundreds awaiting a Culver Line train near 28th Street and Thirteenth Avenue Brooklyn. Bruno Paivia, his nephew, was arrested about an hour later at 45th Street and Thirteenth Avenue. Detective Lieutenant Graciano led the arrest.
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28Th Street
Thirteenth Avenue
Brooklyn
James Paivia
38Th Street
Graciano
Bruno Paivia
Sth Street
45Th Street
Paivia
Murphy
Parkville
Danish printer strike leads to general lockout threat
Copenhagen reports a strike by typographers and other printing staff, excluding Socialistic papers. Employers plan a general lockout across departments tomorrow. If no settlement occurs, newspapers may suspend publication for at least a fortnight.
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Copenhagen
In Favor of Hughes Mass Meeting in New Rochelle
Strong sentiment favoring Governor Hughes renomination surfaces at a New Rochelle Republican Club gathering with Frank Tucker presiding. Speakers condemn Ward and pressure state leaders to back Hughes while timing conventions and potential booms for the governorship unfold.
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Hughes
New Rochelle
Republican Club
Frank Tucker
The
Provident Loan Society
William L. Ward
Westchester County
Timothy L. Woodruff
Republican State Committee
State
West 39Th Street
Friends of
Adirondack
Woodruff
Saratoga
Syracuse
Democratic State Committee
Hotel Victoria
William J. Conners
Buffalo
Rochester
Conners
Chanler
Clayton Confident on Bryan Kern Victory
Lincoln Aug 9 Representative Henry D Clayton Alabama chairman of the committee to inform William J Bryan of his nomination arrived in Lincoln with Dr J W McClure of Sedalia Mo He voiced confidence in Bryan and Kern saying new supporters are enthusiastic and Tafts acceptance speech showed Republicans retreat Bryan rested today and looked forward to Mack's visit for a politically charged conference
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Lincoln
Neb
Henry D. Clayton
Alabama
William J. Bryan
St. Louis
J. W. McClure
Sedalia
Bryan
Kern
Clayton
Taft
Chicago
Mr. Bryan
Mack
Dover Accepts Role in Hitchcock Campaign Advisory Body
Elmer Dover says he is perfectly satisfied with national chairman William Hayward and Frank H. Hitchcock harmony. Dover will rest in Ohio before joining an advisory committee to help raise campaign funds. Hitchcock spends a quiet day at Hotel Manhattan and plans trips to Washington Hot Springs and Chicago.
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Elmer Dover
Republican National Committee
William Hayward
Nebraska
Frank H. Hitchcock
Dover
Ohio
Hanna
Hitchcock
Manhattan
Washington
Hot Springs
Chicago
Bartholdt Arrives in Washington for Berlin Arbitration Conference
Representative Richard Bartholdt of St. Louis arrived in Washington for the Interparliamentary Union conference to meet in Berlin. He will confer with State Department officials on American arbitration propositions and said more than twenty delegates intend to attend Berlin.
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Washington
Richard Bartholdt
St. Louis
Interparlamentary Union
Berlin
Bartholdt
State Department
Congress
Boy Drowns Off Nassau Beach As Parents Look On
Eunice Carman fifteen year old son of Wallace Carman of North Lynbrook drowned in the ocean at Nassau-by-the-Sea Long Island Aug 9. His mother hysterical as he cried for help and rescuers brought him ashore dead after fifteen minutes.
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Nassau-by-the-Sea
Long Island
Eunice Carman
Wallace Carman
North Lynbrook
Man Kills Brooklyn Woman Then Slays Infant and Shoots Self
Ernest Seitz a 24 year old Brooklyn engineer returned to 382 Bergen Street and killed Mrs Bertha Hood as she greeted him then shot her two year old daughter Alice and shot himself. He died later while the child and he were at Brooklyn Hospital with the child in critical condition. Neighbors described Seitz as a former lodger who had sought reconciliation but was rejected.
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Ernest Selita
Bergen Street
Brooklyn
Seitz
Seltz
Bertha Hood
Mrs. Hood
William J. McCahill
Eliot on Socialism from Harvard President
Harvard President Charles W. Eliot states socialism cannot succeed in the United States due to diffuse wealth and self interest. He argues Americans will adopt practical institutions but won’t embrace sweeping ideas, and asserts humanity would need fundamental change for true socialist society. He denies the college as a recruiting ground for socialism, publishing his views in response to a recent article.
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Telegraph
the Tribune
Boston
Eliot
Harvard
Violation on Board Sparking a Columbus Anchor Tale
Deputy surveyor Matt Coneys, aboard the tug Timmins near Rockaway, finds a supposed violation on the fishing boat Avalon. The crew reveals a rusty four-fluke anchor claimed to be Columbus’s lost anchor, triggering bets among officials and a lively shipboard incident.
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Coneys
Columbus
Matt Coneys
Timmins
Avalon
Rockaway
Clarkson
Bishop
America
Aldrich Sues For Absolute Divorce In Tennessee
Charles B. Aldrich, nephew of Senator Nelson W. Aldrich, files for absolute divorce in Chattanooga Circuit Court from Mona Aldrich. He alleges they wed February 4 in St. Louis and, after marriage, moved to Philadelphia where she reportedly attempted to kill him on March 23. He says she beat him and police protection was needed. current whereabouts of Mona Aldrich unknown. Aldrich is said to own mineral properties near Chattanooga.
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Tribune
Chattanooga
Tenn
Charles B. Aldrich
Nelson W. Aldrich
Rhode Island
Mona Aldrich
Tn St. Louis
Philadelphia
Aldrich
Trolley Crash Kills Motorman in Unionville
John Walsh motorman killed instantly in a head on collision on the Farmington Street Railway. Mrs. John Conlin of Hartford injured with a broken leg as a passenger car and a work car collided at a sharp curve. The work car was wrecked and Walsh head crushed. crew and passengers mostly uninjured.
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Unionville
Conn
John Walsh
John Conlin
Hartford
Farmington Street Railway
Walsh
Steamer Goldsboro Arrives at Mobile Harbor Under Guard
The steamer Goldsboro, tied to a late voyage linked to the Baileys and valued at nearly a quarter of a million dollars, reached Mobile at 8:30 PM under strict port controls. Officers were barred from shore and the vessel, under Marietta gunboat command, showed leakage and a waiting cargo.
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Tribune
Mobile
Ala
Goldsboro
Baileys
Puerto Cortez
Honduras
United States
Marietta
Fervent Missionary Meeting Raises Large Offerings
At Old Orchard Maine a Christian Alliance meeting led by Rev. Dr. A D Simpson drew about five thousand attendees who stripped possessions and dropped valuables into collection baskets. Dr Simpson announced roughly $20,000 in money and pledges and $40,000 in additional valuables were given.
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the Tribune
Old Orchard
Christian Alliance
A. D. Simpson
New York
Rate decision near on southern freight increases
The Interstate Commerce Commission is likely to decide within six weeks on the reasonableness of proposed freight rate increases in Alabama Georgia Tennessee Florida and parts of the Carolinas Texas and the southwest. The Georgia shippers and Texas Railway Commission filings prompt swift inquiries as railroads defend higher charges citing wages costs and intrastate cuts. President Roosevelt has been asked to intervene with the matter referred to the Attorney General as Texas and Oklahoma rail commissions prepare their own complaints.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Alabama
Georgia
Tennessee
Florida
South
North Carolina
Texas
Southwestern
Texas Railway Commission
Knapp
Arkansas
St. Louis
Chicago
Boston
New York
Middle West
East
Ohio
Atlanta
Neill
Bureau of Labor
Southern Railway
Virginia
Georgia Shippers
State Railroad Commission of Texas
Roosevelt
Culberson
Oklahoma State Railway Commissions
Ly Cal
Freight rate hike debated by Johns Hopkins expert
Professor Logan G. McPherson disputes broad freight increases, arguing if railroads raise only finished product rates by up to 10 percent manufacturers and wholesalers bear the burden. He cites raw material charges as negligible for shoes and wool goods and notes higher returns for manufacturing vs railroad profits.
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Logan G. McPherson
Johns Hopkins University
Cloakmakers Threaten Strike Over Wages
The Brotherhood of Cloakmakers says 1500 Freedman Brothers workers will send a committee to demand restoration of former wages and warn of a strike if refused. Herman Grossman reports many small firms already granted the demands, with workers earning a fraction of last year. The Knee Breeches Makers' Union pauses action for a month.
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Brotherhood of Cloakmakers
Freedman Brothers
Herman Grossman
Knee Breeches Makers' Union
Red Cross Day Camp Opens for Tuberculosis Patients
The New York County Red Cross launches a roof camp atop Vanderbiltlimic with space for forty patients, initially by day and later at night. The program provides food, rest, fresh air, supervision, and health education, funded by voluntary contributions and led by Robert C. Ogden and others.
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Gay Street
Amsterdam Avenue
American National Red Rose
Coopera
New York County
Branch of
the Red Cross
Red Cross
United States
Schenectady
Albany
Washington
Wilmington
Del
London
American Rag Cross
New York State
Redroom
Germany
Russia
Redross
New York‘county
The
Robert C. Ogden
Schuyler N. Warren
Douglas Robinson
John W. Brannan
Charles H. Fenn
Jacob H. Schiff
Priest Declares Divine Curse on State's Attorney After Primary Loss
Father Peter J Callaghan at St Mary's Church denounces State's Attorney Healy, saying God curses him for prosecuting Herman Billik, the poisoner of seven Vraal family members, and hopes the curse will extend to Healy's children. Healy lost renomination in the recent primary election after canvassing against Billik's conviction.
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Tribune
Chicago
Peter J.callaghan
Herman Billik
Vraal
God
Healy
St Mary's Church
Billik
Swedish pool player charged with theft at ferry
Gustave Sutherland dogs a Swedish pool player Wallmar bers age twenty eight of Terafly as he left Fort Lee ferry. M J was arrested for grand larceny after allegedly stealing a diamond pin and cash from Sutherland on July 2 at East 61st Street. Oberg denies theft claiming he merely repaid losses by pawning the pin after a card game. Oberg kept at police HQ.
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Gustave Sutherland
East 6Th Street
Wallmar Bers
Terafly
M. J
New York
Fort Lee Ferry
Sutherland
Ubers
East 61St Street
Oberg
Roe Place
Obers
Art Files
Central Office
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Ch. C. Hall
Ilinois
William H. Wilson
Wharton
Anthony Michalek
William Lorimer
Fred Lundin
P. S. Klycki
Howard M. Snapp
John H. Danskin
Pleasant T. Chapman
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J. T. Donahoe
F. J. Crowley
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Frank C. Wood
Frank Buchanan
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C. McNaughton
W. N. Armstrong
M. J. McEnirm
W. FE. Lancaster
James W. Hill
C. S. Schneider
Henry C. Bell
Charles A. Karsch
J. Q. A. Ledbetter
Independence
Progress Club
Iowa Chautauqua
Mine Workers
Molokail
Pedler
Italian
MR. Bartholdt
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