Ohio Boss Cox Faces Defeat as Republican Convention Nears
In Columbus Ohio July 24 indications point to the likely defeat of George B Cox of Cincinnati at the Republican State Convention this week delegates arriving from across Ohio intensify the drive to crush Coxism. Harding and Longworth loom large as potential dark horses while talks with Burton Dick and Ellis shape strategic alignments for a Roosevelt platform and tariff reform.
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the Tribune
Columbus
Ohio
George B. Cox
Cincinnati
Hamilton County
Theodore Burton
Charlies F. Dick
Cox
Granville W Moomey
Morven T. Herrick
Nicholas Longmorth
Roosevelt
Ir-Law
Po v
Longworth
Burton
Wade Ellis
Taft
James R. Garfield
Harding
Carmi Thompson
Joseph B. Foraker
Ellis
Mooney
Garfield
Ells
Payne
Tarif Commission
Congress
Tariff Commission
Ohio Misses Guiding Hand
From a Special Correspondent Ohio Republicans face a unsettled race as President Taft refuses to name a governor candidate or dictate platform. He denounces any spokesman for his administration and preserves neutrality while Ohio party leaders prepare for the state convention next Tuesday.
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Glumbus
Ohio
William H. Taft
Washington
Beverly
Maine
United States
Cleveland
Wade H. Ells
Two Hundred Missing After Steamer Sinks Off Corea
The steamer Tetsurei carrying 246 passengers sank off Chindo in fog. Forty were saved and six lifeboats carried passengers ashore. Captain and most crew remained aboard. Among the saved were W Cunningham, British Vice-Consul at Osaka, and thirteen second class passengers. About 105 third class passengers and 59 soldiers were rescued by boats or ships. Warships were sent to aid in the rescue.
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Tokio
Tetsurei
Kobé
Tairen
Danny
Chindo
Corea
W. Cunningham
Osaka
Cyclone Claims Sixty Lives Near Milan
The Milan district cyclone has killed sixty people with injuries in the hundreds and millions in losses. Aid has been sent to the hardest hit villages as many remain homeless.
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Italy
Milan
Minister's Parting Shot Scores Congregation in Poughkeepsie
The Rev. William H. Hubbard pastor of the Fashionable Mill Street Baptist Church in Poughkeepsie preaches his last sermon before a church meeting to decide his possible dismissal. He explains he could not find a substitute and urges Christ to bring peace to hearts and to the congregation. Prayer meetings are set for this week as guidance is sought for Friday night vote.
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Poughkeepsie
the Tribune
N. Y
William H. Hubbard
Mill Street Baptist Church
Christ
Mr. Hubbard
Vanished Minister Returns After Mysterious Abduction
Reverend Frederick E. Mieran of the New Apostolic Church was found unconscious at his West Chester home after two men rang the bell and left him on the steps. His watch and $100 were missing, and police and family had searched for two days. He had earlier been seen boarding a trolley near Third Avenue and 28th Street after leaving the church building on 120th Street.
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Poplar Street
West Chester
Frederick E. Mieran
New Apostolic Church
126Th Street
Ance
Third Avenue
28Th Street
120Th Street
Peter Senbt
BADLY BEATEN SAVING GIRL AT EAST 52d STREET ROOFTOP
A deranged group of young men attacked to rescue a girl who fell into their clutches on the roof of 201 East 52d Street. Eleven year old Ethel Anderson cried for help as Mrs. Anderson, the janitor, and Bertha Cruger were assaulted. One youth named Terence McGowan was jailed for felonious assault.
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East 52d Street
Ethel Anderson
Mrs. Anderson
Mamma
Herman
Bertha Cruger
Terence McGowan
Chance for ambitious man at Rushton postmastership
Ford City Pennsylvania notes a civil service examination set for August 13 to select a postmaster for Rushton. The wage last year was 25 cents a day, and the item invites qualified local residents to apply.
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Ford City
Penn
Rushton
Keene Faces Another Big Hocking Pool Suit
A new lawsuit seeks $750000 in damages from James R. Keene and partners over the Hocking pool collapse of January 19. Henry D. Hotchkiss, trustee, and partners Henry S. Haskins and Henry S. Leverich accuse Keene of conspiring with brokers Popper & Sternbach to crash Hocking stock after boosting it. The case, filed with the County Clerk by Abram S. Elkus and William S. McGuire, outlines the alleged scheme to dump stock, ruin rivals, and profit from later repurchases, with further testimony on short sales and broker-led actions before bankruptcy proceedings.
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James R. Keene
Hocking Pools
Stock Exchange
Henry D. Hotchkiss
Lathrop, Haskins & Co
Mr. Keene
Supreme Court
Henry S. Haskins
Henry S. Leverich
Gray Fox
Wall Street
Popper & Sternbach
Keene
Mr. Hotchkiss
Abram S. Elkus
William S. McGuire
Columbus
Hocking
Haskins Firm
Jtathrop, Haskins & Co
Hugh F. Criss
Roberts
Hall & Criss
Exchange
J. M. Fiske & Co
Edward Popper
Popper
Lathrop-Haskins
New York broker kills rich Italian at West Park bungalow colony
Louis Victor Seydel a New York broker shot and killed Clement Demorand an Italian hotel owner at West Park near John Burroughs estate after a dispute over lumber access. Seydel turned himself in with attorney then was jailed in Kingston awaiting an inquest. Mrs Seydel and children left the country home after the incident.
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Louis V. Seydel
West Park Bungalow Colony
Demorond
Slabsides
John Burroughs
Seydel
Kingston
West Park
Martin Sherwood
Demorand
Demerend
Heat Wave Shatters Records Across City as Crowds Flee to Water
The city endured a 94 degree day far above the prior high, with heat and humidity driving masses to beaches and rooftops. Transit ferries overflowed, nights spent on roofs and sidewalks, while Harlem and the Bronx sought breezes by the Hudson. Three deaths and multiple prostrations were attributed to the heat amid widespread vigilance by police.
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Old Ocean
Brighton Beach
Coney Island
Staten Island
Rockaways
Manhattan
Oriental
Long Beach
New York
Lower East Side
Harlem
Washington Heights
Bronx
Hudson
Catskills
Death of Dr Chessing Hatred Chase Jordan in Kansas City
Dr Chessing Hatred Chase Jordan known as the South American specialist, linked to the Swope poison case, died in his Kansas City office from bronchitis. A recent complaint by the Kansas State Board of Medical Registration accused him of practicing medicine without a license.
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Kansas City, Mo
Chessing
Chase Jordan
Kansas City
Kan
Kansas State Board of Medical Registration
Chained Together 10 Die In Mississippi River Attempt
Brice Wommack of Troy Missouri and Mrs Mollie Anderson leaped from a skiff into the Mississippi River tied with two steel chains and rope weighted by a sand filled valise. James Landers rescued them half a mile downstream. Wommack, held on theft charges, and Anderson hospitalized after the failed plan carried out as an agreed personal crisis.
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St. Louis
Brice Wommack
Troy
Mollie Anderson
Mississippi River
James Landers
Landers
Wommack
Crippen Rumor Shifts To Montrose Montrel Voyage
London reports say Dr Hawley H Crippen and Ethel Leneve may have boarded the steamer Montrose at Antwerp bound for Montreal July 20, with earlier claims of Sardinian travel cast into doubt. Officials note unverified sightings and pending confirmations as ships approach Montreal July 30.
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London
Scotland Yard
Hawley H. Crippen
Ethel Leneve
Liverpool
Montrose
Montreal
Havre
Crippen
Father Point Light
Dr. Crippen
Allan Line
Boys Sing Trouble Away at Park Arrests
Patrolman Woodbridge of Kingsbridge station arrested twenty eight boys in Van Cortlandt Park for peddling candy lemonade chewing gum and peanuts without licenses. Eleven under sixteen were sent to the Children’s Society six to night court eleven released by Captain Madden. The youths sang for hours in the cell disturbing sleeping reserves.
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Woodbridge
Kingsbridge
van Cortlandt Park
Children’s Society
Madden
Bite by Pet Rattler Leaves Bookkeeper in Serious Condition
Charles Ranich a city bookkeeper brought a 64 inch rattlesnake from West Virginia ten months ago. The venom glands were removed but the snake bit his right index finger when he dangled a mouse nearby. He was treated at Bellevue Hospital and Rockefeller Institute with serums and potash injections. Doctors say his condition remains serious but hopeful for recovery.
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Charles Ranich
West Virginia
Ranich
No. 89
First Avenue
Bellevue Hospital
Leroy Smith
Rockefeller Institute
Fire on Momus Extinguished At Sea
Wireless dispatches from Savannah Tampa and Key West report the steamship Momus extinguished a shipboard fire by 12:15 PM and proceeded toward New Orleans after transferring passengers to the Comus. The Mallory liner Alamo aided by offering to take off passengers as Comus stood by.
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Savannah
Momus
New Orleans
Tampa
Key West
Fla
Comus
Cape Canaverel
Rusk
Mallory
Alamo
U S to pay after 45 years for West Point service
Brigadier General Harry R. Anderson, retired artillery officer, will receive 240 from the government after the Treasury Department accounting officers ruled his cadet time at West Point counted as army service. He attended West Point from July 184 to January 1965, totaling fifty years and a half years.
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Washington
Harry R. Anderson
Treasury Department
Anderson
West Point
the Treasury
Army
Seven Die In New York Waters Amid Rescue Efforts
A sequence of drownings across the North, East, and Harlem Rivers left seven dead and multiple rescues as a party of ten capsized near 79th Street. Victims include Gaetano Bova Peter Brown and Julius Schlautter among others, with two brothers, Thomas and Peter, involved in a Harlem tragedy. Rescuers aided survivors and recovered some bodies while others remained missing.
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East River
Harlem
West 212Th Street
Far Rockaway
Bova
Gaetano
68Th Street
Brown
Peter
4Th
Kane
George C
West End Avenue
Klatt
Fred
135Th Street
Schlauter
Julius
84Th Street
Steinberg
Frederick
80Th Street
Weissner
Otto
West 104Th Street
Carey
79Th Street
Jersey Shore
Columbia Yacht Club
87Th Street
James R. Torrance
Robert
No. 52
Broadway
Tormary
Peter Brown
Thomas
Royal B. Rotherme
212Th Street
Young Brown
Rothermel
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Mrs. Seydel
Louis Victor
No. 29
Clement Demorond
Ulster County
Twoen
Crescent Court
Claremont Avenue
Mr. Seydel
Hudson’s Banks
Father Knickerbocker
Sol
Weather Bureau
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City Hall Park
Long Island
SWOPE
Park Warble
U. S
General Anderson
Hudson, Harlem
East Rivers
Little Brother
J. Bradshaw
West 67Th Street
Antone Lave
West 69Th Street
John Kutch
Yacht Club
Otto Weissner
Granite State
Clement Garson
William Strohning
Dr Goldberg
J. Hood Wright Hospital
Fred” Klatt
135D Street
August Miller
East 136Th Street
Lloyd Johnson
East 148Th Street
Julius Schlanter
Ostend Beach
Yonkers
Hudson River
Daniel Gorman
Bartholomew Kavanagh
St John’s Hospital
William Frangom
Gorman
Kavanagh
Joseph Housick
Centre Street
Joseph Ackerley
Walnut Street
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