Taft Defends Aburrstration and Tariff Policy at Convention
President Taft formally accepted the Republican nomination and defended the tariff as essential to prosperity and constitutional safeguards. He attacked Democrats and Roosevelt progressives, warned against recall and other reforms, and urged support from Republicans and like minded Democrats opposed to radical change. He noted Mrs Taft by his side and referred to trust regulation as secondary to tariff issues.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Tat Atikehie House
Rgdt
Chicago
Taft
Charles
Reot
Comig
Democratic Party
Tall Dide
Colonel Roosevelt
Wilson
Impeachment Demands Swirl Over Justice Wright Case
Washington reports Speaker Clark received a petition to impeach Justice Wright of the Columbia supreme court after a contempt conviction involving Samuel Gompers Frank Morrison and John Mitchel tied to Bucks Store and Range injunctions. The petition was sent to the house judiciary committee for action.
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Gompers
Washington
Clark
Francia T. Jtamecl
Thaw Wright
Pole of Columbia Supreme Court
Samudel Gompers
Frank Morrison
John Mitchel
Bucks Store
House Judiciary Committee
BASEBALL SCORES FROM YESTERDAY'S GAMES IN AMERICAN AND NATIONAL LEAGUES
Scores from American League games show Chicago at York and Detroit winning with strong pitching. standings list Boston, Cleveland, and New York near top. National League results include Philadelphia, New York, Cincinnati, Chicago, Brooklyn, and Boston with varied game outcomes. Tri-State League reports long games in Atlantic City and standings for Reading, Harrisburg, Allentown, York, and Wilmington.
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Allison
Obrien
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Detroit
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Gieveland
Athlett
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Waahtr
Clevelad
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Philadelphia
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Alexenderalice
Wingo
New York
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Reutbach
Archer
Yingling
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Ham Hitched
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Reading
Raub
Russell
Therre
International League Scores And Schedule Update
Yesterday Buffalo defeated Baltimore 7 to 3 while Rochester beat Providence 4 to 3 and Newark topped Jersey City 7 to 3 Montreal was shutout 0. Today's slate includes Baltimore at Toronto Providence at Buffalo Jersey City at Rochester with several teams idle.
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Baltimore
Rochester
Providence
Toronto
Newark
Jersey City
Montreal
Rocester
Eens
Glubsi
Tariff Conferees Named As Senate Moves To End Disputes
The article details a Senate move to control conference committees on wool tariff sugar tariff and excise tax bills. Conferees include LaFollette Bailey Simmons Penrose Lodge Bristow and others with Bailey as excise tax chairman. The aim is to end tariff differences between houses.
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Ruier
Senate
House
LaFollette
Bailey
Simmons
Penrose
Lodge
Bristow
Two Die as Tank Drops Through Upholstery Plant Roof
In Philadelphia on August second a floor collapse at Stead Miller & Co. upholstery on Bodine Street caused a 20,000 gallon water tank to crash through the roof. Two men were crushed to death and a man and a boy were injured as walls bulged and the eighty foot smokestack toppled. Building inspectors blame an overloaded second floor with bales of goods. A separate Pottsville item reports a supposed intoxicated woman murdered and allegedly beaten and poisoned, with authorities investigating. An advertisement notes Chamberlain’s Colic Remedy recommended by a farmer near Fleming.
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Philadelphia
of Stead &. Miller
Bodine Street
Huntingdon
Pottsville
A. H. Wilson
Hudson Coal Company
Silverton
Kansas case over rules electors in presidential vote
The Kansas case involves eight presidential electors who pledged to Roosevelt and a potential referendum on the national party convention decision. Justices Pitney and Van Devanter noted they would not block ballots, allowing Roosevelt electors to remain on the primary ticket as the full court determines the issue.
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Kansas
New York
Pitney
van. Devanier
United States Supreme Court
Roosevelt
United States
Ostices
Congress Extends Last Year’s Appropriations to Aug 15
Congress agrees to extend last year’s funding to August 15 after delays in passing new appropriation bills. Emergency funds are needed to pay clerks officers and ordinary government expenses until a full slate of bills becomes law by mid August.
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Washington
Aus
Dream Wins Race to Bermuda in 105 Hours
Dream, the smaller of two forty-foot motor boats, reached St David's Head Bermuda after 105 hours 10 minutes in the Bermuda challenge for the trophy and $1000. Philadelphia, Aug 2. Also note a Minnesota Dakotas wheat yield forecast of 265,000,000 bushels, the largest on record, with 198,000,000 in 1905 the previous high.
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Dream
Bermuda
Philadelphia
St. David's Head
Minneapolis
Minn
Minnesota
Dakotas
Beheads man who testified money note reform plan
A man who testified in a justice court was killed as others plot revenge. Coroner Luyster searches Anilty ville for murderers while a government note reform plan proposes altering currency with new engraved portraits and two note sizes to ease transition.
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York
Ains
Justice's Court
Blackwell's Land
Luysterthas
Aniltyville
Broddhounds
Benjamin ‘Bolder
Rui
Ning Ig
Naesau
Germany's richest woman Bertha Krupp von Bohlen fortune soars
Berlin reports a new directory lists Bertha Krupp von Bohlen as Germany's wealthiest woman, her fortune rising from 45,000,000 to 70,000,000 dollars in three years. It also notes Prince Gido Henkel von Dommersmark's estate valued at 63,000,000 in 1911. In New York, Louise Biepgestia, 27, dies by her own hand after dreaming of deceased parents, following recent arrival with her husband.
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Bertha Krupp von Bohlen
Berlin
Hamburg
Bremen
Lubeck
Germany
Gido Henkel von Dommersmark
New York
Louise Biepgestia
Grathan -Street
Williamsburg
Biepgestia
America
Italy
Train wreck in Rio Janeiro claims 100 lives and many injured
In a collision on the Central railroad between two trains near Rio Janeiro on August 2, 100 people were killed and many injured. The accident disrupted service as investigators seek cause and survivors are treated at local hospitals.
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