Taft Defends Roosevelt Policies Amid Sandusky Campaign
The Cincinnati crowd cheered Taft as he ridiculed Bryan's claim to Roosevelt policy authorship. He urged Congress to pass laws to enforce Roosevelt policies, explained anti trust and anti rebate enforcement, and outlined plans to curb railroad overissues while praising Roosevelt. He spoke from Sandusky to Cincinnati to Energized audiences along the route.
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Cleveland
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Constitution Island Gift to West Point by Mrs Sage and Miss Warner
Oyster Bay Sept. Constitution Island near West Point is donated to the United States for the Military Academy. President Roosevelt accepts and directs War Secretary Wright to arrange transfer. The gift preserves the island from resort or factory use and includes lifetime residence rights for Miss Anna Bartlett Warner.
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West Point
United States
Russell Sage
Anna Bartlett Warner
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Military Academy
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New York
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Mrs. Sage
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Hudson
Washington
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William H. Taft
Board of Visitors
Senate
Warner
N. Y
Margaret Olivia Sage
Mr. de Forest
Secretary of War
Theodore Roosevelt
Danish ex minister Alberti surrenders to police in fraud case
M Alberti former Minister of Justice and friend of the King confessed to frauds against Bondestandens Sparkasse, of which he led as president. Losses reportedly exceed 2 550 000 dollars with funds lost in U S stock speculation. Bondestandens Bank halted payments and Alberti was sent back to prison after a brief examination.
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Copenhagen
M. Alberti
Bondestandens Sparkasse
United States
Bondestandens Bank
TWO AIRSHIP FLIGHTS NEW AMERICAN RECORD
Orville Wright at Fort Myer makes two long public flights, staying aloft eleven minutes ten seconds and eight minutes, continuing demonstrations despite dusk. He reports improved control, goggles aid, and plans more flights to extend distance and time.
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Washington
Fort Myer
Orville Wright
Wright
Mr. Wright
Cassidy Turned Down Upset At Convention In Ithaca
Elmira Sept 8 The 41st Senate District Republican convention in Ithaca rejected Senator Owen Cassidy and nominated former Assemblyman Benjamin Conger after a county by county split Cassidy carried only Tompkins Chemung Tioga. Fassett warned delegates and delegates from Chemung sided with Conger. Cassidy vowed an independent bid to test district opinion over racial betting and gubernatorial influence. Cassidy and O Brian had backed a bucket shop law enacted Sept 1 making bucket shops felonies.
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Elmira
N. Y
Ithaca
Owen Cassidy
Benjamin Conger
Groton
Cassidy
Tompkins County
Dwight
Tioga County
Chemung
Tioga
Tompkins
Fassett
Mr. Fassett
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John Dwight
J. S. Fassett
Hughes
Republican State Platform Committee
McCarren Gains in Brooklyn Democratic Primary
Senator Patrick H. McCarren won a decisive Brooklyn primary, taking 18 of 23 districts after defeating three insurgent leaders. Police reported 40 arrests for illegal voting but minimal disorder while Governor Hughes test results showed mixed Republican support in New York County districts amid low turnout.
SIX FORT TOTTEN SOLDIERS ARRESTED AFTER PARK ROW SHOOTING
A night of drinking and fighting near Chatham Square ended with a shooting in front of Diamond Dan’s saloon at 180 Park Row. Two wounded men, one a private named John D. King from Fort Totten, were hospitalized but not fatally hurt. Six Fort Totten soldiers and four local youths were detained as suspicious persons and police notified Fort Totten authorities.
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Long Island
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Edward L. McCready
Park Row
Fort Tetten
Harriman Says Nation Returns to Calm and Sense
San Francisco, Sept. 0 Harriman guest of honor at a Fairmont reception attended by about 400 merchants and business leaders. He left for the East after the event and rejected reports he would buy Oceanic Line steamers or San Francisco street railway system.
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Sept
E. H. Harriman
Fairmont Hotel
Bay Cities
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Harriman
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River's Rush Claims Woman at Niagara Falls
Niagara Falls reports a woman about twenty five leaped from Prospect Point into the American falls as crowds watched. Harry Schafer of Hoboken, New Jersey, attempted a rescue but his reach fell short. the woman, described with dark hair and brown attire, weighed about 110 pounds.
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N. Y
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American Falls
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Harry Schafer
Hoboken
N. J
Twenty Men Fall With Scaffold At Opera House
An overloaded platform collapsed from a scaffold at the new Hammerstein Opera House in Philadelphia this afternoon sending twenty laborers about thirty feet to the wreck. A ton of brick collapsed with them but most escaped death. several sustained injuries and three were taken to St Josephs Hospital where they are expected to recover.
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Philadelphia
Sept
New Hammerstein Opera House
St. Joseph's Hospital
Death by Own Action Ends School Struggle in Lancaster
In Lancaster Pennsylvania fourteen year old William Sheetz, son of Leander Sheetz, a hotel keeper, killed himself at his home today after his parents forced him to attend school. The report notes the tragedy occurred in his residence and attributes the motive to school pressure.
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Penn
William
Leander Sheetz
Hughes Victory Shapes Manhattans Political Split
Hughes carried six of nine Manhattan Assembly districts, while five Brooklyn districts showed strong anti Hughes sentiment. The division points to a likely split delegation to the Republican State Convention. McCarren held three of seven deserter districts, winning eighteen states and losing five. Disorder marked several polling sites, notably a police action at No 1141 Madison Avenue. Republican Kings County leaders prevailed, with William Schnitzpan winning the vacant 20th Assembly district leadership.
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W. E. Melody
Thomas Drennan
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F. H. Thompson
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Charles F. Murphy
Tammany Hall
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Doyle
E. F. Moran
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Kane
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Flood
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Manhattan
Paul Kacke
No. 169
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Hughes
New York County
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Assembly
Lower East Side
Independence League
New York
East Side
Joseph Levenson
Levenson
Queens
Madison Avenue
William Schnitzpan
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