Bigelow on Bryan Tariff Beliefs Highlighted at Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall hosted a Bryan and Kern Committee meeting praising Bigelow's tariff stance. Mayor McClellan chaired with Nathan Straus presiding. speakers included David R. Francis Hilary A. Herbert Judson Harmon, and a letter from Bigelow arguing for tariff reform. The event emphasized opposition to Taft and support for Bryan.
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Carnegie Hall
Nathan Straus
Brior
McClellan
Giory
Hearst
John Biglow
Martin van Buren
Abraham Lincoln
France
Cleveland
David R. Francis
Missouri
Hilary A. Herbert
Alabama
Judson Harmon
Ohio
Richard Olney
Mr. Straus
Bryan
Bigelow
Charles F. Murphy
Bryan Tour in Indiana Sparks Labor Alignments
In Louisville on October 2 W. J. Bryan led a Midwest swing with wife by his side as crowds greeted him in Hammond at 7:30. He attacked Taft as labor’s foe and Roosevelt’s campaign role, urged firm bank deposits guarantees, and pressed the Democratic call for campaign finance transparency. He warned the Republican Congressional Committee and demanded disclosure of contributors.
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Aeign
Taft
Bos
United States
Republican Party
Congress
Friends of the
Teriff
Roosevelt
New York Free Trade Club
Jadson Harmon
Ohio
Grover Cleveland
Francis
Missouri Socety
Bryan
Mr. Francis
Jafison Harmon
Louisville
W. 2
Indiana
Rf Bryan
Hammond
Ind
Mr. Taft
Chicago
Republican
Republican National Committee
Eané
Republican Congressional Committee
Congressional Fund
Aldrich Confident In Monetary Commission Progress
Senator Aldrich, chairman of the National Monetary Commission, returned from Europe aboard the Kronprinzessin Cecilie and said the commission’s work is progressing satisfactorily. He noted broad interest in its findings and that inquiries received full cooperation from financial and speaking circles. He dismissed rumors about compromising letters from Hearst and stated he is not afraid of anything they publish.
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Nelson W. Aldrich
Naonal Monetary Commission
Europe
Kronprinzessin
Cecilie
Commiss Broad
Commission
Migdon
Washington
R Hearst
Ofner
Standard Oil Company
Dillingham Re-Elected In Vermont Legislature
The Vermont House and Senate elected United States Senator William P Dillingham of Montpelier for six more years and chose ex Governor Carroll Page of Hyde Park to fill the late Redfield Proctor term. Republicans won with 28 to 36 37 votes in House and 27 votes in Senate for the Democrats. Joint session will ratify tomorrow.
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Montpelier
Vermont
United States
William P. Dillingham
Carroll
Page
Hyde Park
Redfield Proctor
Dillingham
Mr. Page
Vernon A. Bullard
Burlington
Elisha May
St. Johnsbury
Senate
Clews on the Tariff and Bank Deposits
Henry Clews spoke in Detroit before the American Institute of Banking, opposing government bank deposit guarantees and urging bank led guarantees. He criticized the tariff as favoring wholesale monopoly and political corruption, arguing trusts deserve protection if honestly managed and warning against moving articles to the free list.
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Detroit
American Institute of Banking
Henry Clews
New York
Refuse to Advance Haskell Case
The Supreme Court declined to advance the Noble State Bank of Oklahoma v Governor Haskell case on the Oklahoma bank deposit guarantee law. A motion to advance Reid v. United States, involving a 25th Infantry member tied to the Brownsville riot, was filed, with the case likely to be argued in December.
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Washington
Supreme Court of the United States
Noble State Bank of Oklahoma
Haskell
Oklahoma
Oscar W. Reid
Reid
25Th Infantry
Brownsville
Bar Association Endorses Judicial Candidates
The Bar Association endorsed Justice M. Linn Bruce and Irving Lehman for Supreme Court and Tammany’s Charles H. Beckett for Surrogate. Cohalan and Palmieri were rejected for lacking experience or feasibility. City Court backs Edward B. La Ferra Isidor Wasservogel Douglas Mathewson James A. Allen. Richard T. Lynch lacks sufficient experience.
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The
Bar Association
M. Linn Bruce
Supreme Court
Irving Lehman
Tammany
Charles H. Beckett
John P. Cohalan
John Palmieri
Independence League
William McFarlane
Henry DeForest Baldwin
William C. Cammann
William N. Cohen
John Henry Hammond
John H. Iselin
Payson Merrill
Thomas Thatcher
David B. Ogden
Samuel H. Ordway
Judiciary
George W. Wickersham
Mr. Baldwin
Edward
Narrow Escape For 250 Girls In Hanover Street Fire
A fire in the Odd Fellows Block Hanover Street Manchester New Hampshire damaged the building for about 60 000. Two hundred fifty girls attending a reception escaped through smoke filled stairs without panic. Firemen F A Marston and George H Hammond were badly hurt jumping from the roof to a lower building but are expected to recover.
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Manchester
N. H
Odd Fellows
Hanover Street
F. A. Marston
George H. Hammond
Collusion in Divorce in White Plains Supreme Court
Justice Tompkins denounces collusion in the Warner divorce case and refuses to confirm referee Manning’s report. He rejects a final judgment form for an interlocutory decree and cautions that the evidence shows prearranged arrangements with hotel proximity in Hoboken.
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Justice Tompkins
Supreme Court
White Plains
Mattie 1 Warner
Walter H. Warner
Robert F. Manning
Tompkins
Hoboken
Congress to seek 35 million for Isthmian Canal work
Washington report states Congress will be asked to appropriate 35.1 million dollars for Isthmian Canal work in fiscal year 1919 if War Department approves the commission's estimates. The current year’s appropriation totals 27 million, including 1.59 million for three vessels. 1910 estimates plan about seven months on Gatun locks.
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Washington
Congress
Isthmian Canal
Commission
War Department
Gatun
City Court Rules Powers To Regulate Auto Speed
Boston Oct 20 Supreme Judicial Court upholds authority of city and town officials to regulate automobile speed and ban vehicles from certain streets. Decision comes on appeal by Arthur Kingsbury who was fined for overspeeding in Ashneld.
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Boston
Supreme Judicial Court
Arthur Kingsbury
Ashneld
Volunteers Patrol To Guard Forest From Fires In Saranac Lake
Saranac Lake residents meeting today formed a private fire patrol after learning state pay limits hinder fire prevention. Twenty five volunteers were placed on duty to curb blazes spreading across six thousand acres of state land and nearby areas. Destruction reported at Ragged Lake cottages and Ragged Lake Club plant, with Ashbel P. Fitch of New York state club president among affected residents.
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Tribune
Saranac Lake
N. Y
Latour
Cold Brook
Half Way Brook
Roger Mountain
Malone
Ragged Lake
Ragged Lake Club
Ashbel P. Fitch
New York
Brooklyn
Adirondack fires near control as crews battle vast blazes
Albany reports forest fires in the Adirondacks are under control for now with about four thousand five hundred firefighters and favorable weather. Officials seek $25,000 more to secure manpower while railroads pledge cooperation. Fires near Lake Kushaqua threaten Stony Wold Sanitarium and hundreds of tuberculosis workers, and new blazes spread across forty miles with key sites along Indian Lake, Barber Hill, Slide and Peaked Mountains near the North River Garnet Company mills.
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Albany
Adirondacks
State Forest, Fish and Game Commission
Whipple
Inspector King
Lake Kushaqua
Stony Wold Sanitarium
New York
North Creek
N. Y
Indian Lake District
Barber Hill
Chain Lakes
Dunbrook
Slide
Thirteenth Lake
Big Garnet Mills
North River Garnet Company
End of East forest fires in sight says weather bureau
Washington reports that fires raging in the East may be extinguished soon as a storm moves from the southern Rocky Mountain region toward the Northeast. The forecast calls for heavy rains in central valleys on Thursday and Atlantic states by Friday or Saturday, with a temperature rise beforehand.
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Washington
Weather Bureau
Rocky Mountain States
Central States
Atlantic States
Alleghany
Adirondack Mountains
Disastrous forest fires threaten Berlin New Hampshire area
Two major fires raged near Berlin for four days costing an estimated 50 000 to 75 000 in timber losses. Hayes Mountain fires spread into Success Shelburne and toward the Maine line, burning ten by five miles with key losers including W K Aston of New York and local lumber firms. A second blaze west of the city scorched about two thousand acres, nearing Berlin and prompting remote firefighting efforts from Gorham. Firefighters warned of continued danger as flames crossed the Maine line into Grafton Notch near Bethel Maine.
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Berlin
N. H
Hayes Mountain
Success
Shelburne
Maine State Line
W. K. Aston
New York
Berlin Mills Company
George W. Blanchard & Sons Company
Portland
Mount Forest
Black Mountain
Gorham
Maine Line
Grafton Notch
Bethel
House Blown Up in Waterbury Fireworks Explosion
In Waterbury Connecticut on October 20 a storage house containing giant powder and dynamite for Hotchkiss Templeton exploded after fires nearby. The blast lifted a house from its foundation and shattered two hundred nearby windows. Fireworks and heavy stones were hurled long distances, causing about $12,000 in damage including a $2,000 loss to the building and its contents.
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Waterbury
Conn
Hotchkiss & Templeton
Patrick Cassidy
Plight of Once Wealthy Woman in Washington
Rebecca FE Mitchell daughter of Hobart College’s second president Dr Richard S Mason was found starving behind ashes in Brightwood Washington and arraigned for vagary. Widow of a businessman in debt she had surrendered her fortune to pay creditors. A former translator of patent claims, she sought work after office abolition. the court dismissed the case to allow further employment.
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Washington
Rebecca FE. Mitchell
Richard S. Mason
Hobart College
Brightwood
Mitchell
Army and Navy News on Taft Election Influence
Washington reports wide military and naval support for Republican Taft, with officers hoping for better treatment under a Republican administration. Notes small Democratic dissenters like Lt. Col. Glassford and lists Army and Navy orders, duty moves, retirements, leaves, and warship movements dated October 1908.
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Washington
Taft
War
Navy
Army
Congress
War Department
Philippines
Cuba
Panama
Alaska
Bryan
West
J. H. Dayton
G. R. Slocum
Navy Yard
Puget Sound
W. H. Allen
Dolphin
Atlantic Fleet
R. F. Zogbaum, Jr
New Hampshire
P. E Dampman
I. F. Dortch
Scoopion
G. 8S. Bryan
Mississippi
Orville Wright Expected to Leave Hospital Soon
Orville Wright is rapidly recovering in Fort Myer hospital after the September 17 aeroplane accident that claimed Lieutenant Thomas E. Selfridge. He will likely move with crutches in a few days, and sister Catharine plans to bring him home to Dayton late next week.
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Washington
Orville Wright
Fort Myer
Thomas E. Selfridge
Catherine Wright
Dayton
Wilbur
France
Wilbur Wright
Army Board
Champion Typist Miss Fritz Hurt. Championship May Be Lost
Miss Rose Fritz of Brooklyn, holder of the world 108 words per minute typing record, may lose the title after pricking her finger with a hatpin at the Hotel Astor during the business show. A typewriter firm had offered her 3500 to defend the title and 1590 to beat her record.
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Rose Fritz
Brooklyn
Hotel Astor
Miss Fritz
Arkansas Rates Enjoined By Federal Court Action
Judge Trieber in Little Rock issues a temporary injunction for nine Iron Mountain auxiliary lines against the Railroad Commission 2 cent passenger rate and freight tariff set last winter.
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Little Rock
Ark
Trieber
Iron Mountain
Railroad Commission
Broadway Tailors Invade Battleship Alabama at Brooklyn Yard
The Alabama completed a 35000 mile cruise and returned with 25 officers who served three years on the Asiatic station. A throng of Broadway clothing agents swarmed the ship to fit out the officers disused hats caused a fashion stir and 73 sailors left the ship with full pay. The repair bill for a damaged cylinder tops $657000.
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Brooklyn Navy Yard
Alabama
United States
Tribune
Tompkinsville
Asiatic
Hong Kong
Far East
Orient
Bowery
Manila Bay
Yangtse-Kiang
Royal Savage hulk to be raised amid new treasure legends
Plattsburg reports a projected raise of the Royal Savage hulk Benedict Arnold's 1776 flagship amid unusually low water. Divers found shot, a spoon, and musket balls. gold or silver pieces remain elusive. Project led by J E Cushman under a New York Champlain Tercentenary Commission committee.
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Plattsburg
Royal Savage
Benedict Arnold
Burlington
Frank Stimi
J. E. Cushman
J. B. Riley
J. H. Booth
W. ©. Wetherbee
New York State
Gates
Pingle
Valcour Island
Suffragists Elect in Buffalo and Seattle Convention Notes
The National American Woman Suffrage Association approved one amendment authorizing membership expansion while rejecting two on convention representation. Officers mostly re-elected, with Miss Eleanor Stewart chosen as second auditor. Seattle to host the next convention. Montreal may host the International Council of Women meeting en route. Harriette M. Johnston Wood urged juror reforms and universal civil rights. Mary T. L. Gannett announced a $9,085 memorial balance toward a $75,000 Susan B. Anthony Memorial Building at the University of Rochester.
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Buffalo
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Kate Gordon
New Orleans
National Association
Harriet Taylor Upton
Mary S. Sperry
California
Eleanor Stewart
Ilinois
Seattle
International Couuscill of
Canada
Montreal
Harriette M. Johnston- Wood
New York
United States
Mary T. L. Gannett
Rochester
Susan B. Anthony Memorial Building Association
University of Rochester
Gannett
Guy Rasor Held for Ohio Murder
In Medina Ohio Guy Rasor was bound over to the grand jury on a first degree murder charge in the slaying of his sweetheart Orie Lee on a road near Wadsworth October 19 20. The strongest evidence cited was tire tracks and horse shoeing matching Rasor's rig from the scene.
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Medina
Ohio
Guy Rasor
Orie Lee
Wadsworth
Justice van Deusen
Rasor
Miss Lee
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Aldrich
U. S
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Warner
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Richard Sharp Mason
Geneva) College
Geneva
Ek One
Army and Navy News
Tribune Bureau
Davis M’c. M'Kell
Coast Artillery Corps
Francis J. Koester
Army War College
Orin B. Mitcham
Ordnance Department
National Guard of
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Field Artillery
New Jersey
East Orange
Robert O. van Horn
17Th Infantry
Howard S. Wilkinson
Maurice Buchsbaim
Medical Reserve Corps
Fort D. A. Russell
Lefsves
Frederick Perkins
Winfield 9. Edgerly
Navy Department
Norfolk
Chester
Bradford
Thornton
Tangier Sound
Maine
Portsmouth
Davis
Goldsborough
Rowan
San Hego
Newport
Ericsson
Charleston
Annapolis
Fingey
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Tangier
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