Dynamite Attacks Target Prohibition Leaders in Girard
Dynamite bombs exploded in front of the homes of C Z Gifford president of the Law and Order league and two Girard ministers active in the group. No one was hurt though fears rose after the arrests of six violators of the prohibition laws. Officers defended the league amid claims the blasts aimed to intimidate.
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Prohi League
Law and Order League
Girard
Ala
C. Z. Gifford
League
MAKE STOCKHOLDERS LIABLE is Purport of Petition Filed In Neal Bank Case
R C Bosche a Neal Bank depositor obtained a temporary restraining order from Judge Ellis in Atlanta to prevent B H Thornton W F Manry H C Caldwell Arthur C Kee ly and Mrs L N Pittman from selling or transferring any property and to bar the Central Bank and Trust Corporation as receiver from disposing of collateral securing Neal Bank loans The petition asserts stockholders are responsible for the bank indebtedness and Bosche seeks to join in demurrers and other interventions.
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Neal Bank
R. C. Bosche
Ellis
Atlanta
B. H. Thornton
W. F. Manry
H. C. Caldwell
Arthur C. Keely
Cold Wave Damages Gulf Coast Crops and Gardens
A cold wave swept the Gulf Coast causing widespread damage to early crops and gardens. Pensacola reported its coldest temperature since December 1906 at 28 degrees on Friday as the event hit multiple points along the coast.
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Gulf Coast
Pensacola
Walker Fights Extradition From Mexico
William F Walker, an absconding cashier from New Britain Savings Bank in Connecticut, will resist extradition to the United States in Mexican courts and plans to use all available defenses before returning.
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Mexico
William F. Walker
New Britain
Bank declines to pay state interest in New Orleans
State money deposited with State National Bank of New Orleans for 1907 totals just over $10,000 in interest. Governor Blanchard said the bank refused to pay the interest after a large withdrawal of about $200,000. Directors had recommended the bank go out of business.
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State National Bank
New Orleans
Louisiana
Blanchard
State National Bank of
Florida Labor Federation Meets in Gainesville
The Florida State Federation of Labor held a noon Tuesday convention in Gainesville. Delegates from every region of the state and all branches of organized labor attended, filling the opera house to capacity for one of the largest gatherings in the federation's history.
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Gainesville
Florida State Federation of Labor
Opera House
Organized Labor
American Fleet Sails From Rio For Magellan Passage
The American battleship fleet departed Rio de Janeiro on a 14 000 mile cruise to San Francisco bound for Punta Arenas. Sailors were feted by Brazilians as six Brazilian ships and many support craft accompanied the voyage toward Magellan Straits.
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Rio Janeiro
Brazil
Punta Arenas
Magellan Straits
San Francisco
Rio
Pacific
Straits of Magellan
Ferdinand Magellan
Discovery
Charles V
Spain
Evans
Cape Horn
Magellan Strait
Crooked Beach
Receiver heads to Cuba to inspect Neal Bank loan properties
Asa Candler, president of the Central Bank and Trust Corporation and receiver for the Neal Bank, departed Atlanta on Thursday bound for Cuba to examine properties securing loans totaling about 120000 dollars.
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Asa Candler
Central Bank and Trust Corporation
Neal Bank
Atlanta
Cuba
North Carolina mob kills stranger at Pine Level railroad tracks
A Selma message reports a Black resident mob in Johnston county Pine Level killed a stranger who pretended to be an advance agent for a big show. The suspect executed a lone performance. body found at daylight on the Southern railroad tracks.
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North Carolina
Selma
N. C
Pine Level
Johnston County
Darkey
Southern
Tillman on Negro Question at South Carolina Assembly
Senator Tillman urged repeal of the fifteenth amendment and support for desirable immigration in a Thursday night address before the South Carolina General Assembly, arguing it would offset what he called inevitable negro domination in states with black majorities.
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South Carolina General Assembly
Benator Tillman
Idle Army Clubbed in Chicago Unemployed March Clash
Socialist leader Dr. Benjamin L. Reitman organized a two hundred strong march through downtown Chicago to stage a parade of hoboes and unemployed. Police, warned but defiant, broke up the procession with clubs after brief confrontations on Adams Madison State and Jackson boulevards. Reitman and two followers were arrested amid the disorder.
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Chicago
Benjamin L. Reitman
Reitman
Shipp
Lake Front
Michigan Avenue
Art Institute
Reltman
Adams Street
Roitman
Madison Street
State Street
Jackson Boulevard
Clark Street
Union League Club
Wetmore Wins Senate Seat On 85th Ballot In Rhode Island
Former U S Senator Geo Peabody Wetmore was elected to the United States Senate by first ballot in both Rhode Island General Assembly chambers at Providence on Tuesday. The voting continued a deadlocked balloting that began last session and stretched through much of the time. Tuesday’s first ballot was the 85th in the contest.
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Rhode Island
United States
Geo. Peabody Wetmore
United States Senate
Rhode Island General Assembly
Providence
General Assembly
North Carolina Panels Introduce Prohibition Election Bills
Bills introduced in the North Carolina senate and house in Raleigh set an August statewide election on prohibition. If approved by voters, the measure would take effect January 1, 1909.
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North Carolina
Senate
House
Raleigh
Roosevelt Seeks Amendment to Customs Act on German Tariff
President Roosevelt transmitted to the Senate and House copies of tariff regulations negotiated with Germany along with a proposed amendment to the customs act. The message sparked executive session debate over executive authority and the need for constitutional origin of tariff legislation, with calls for open discussion and referral to the finance committee. The president urged early enactment to strengthen customs administration and parallel harmonize relations between the contracting parties.
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Roosevelt
Senate
House
United States
Germany
House of Representatives
Reichstag
Boards of Trade
Hepburn
McLaurin
Teller
Gallinger
Committee On Finance
Congress
Rockefeller at Augusta Arrives for Winter Stay
John D. Rockefeller and his family with servants reached Augusta Georgia on Wednesday to spend the winter. Harold F. McCormick and his family will join them shortly, Mrs McCormick being Rockefeller's daughter.
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Oll Croesus
John D. Rockefeller
Augusta
Harold F. McCormick
Mrs. McCormick
Mr. Rockefelter
Aged banker Morris K. Jessup dies in New York
Morris K. Jessup, retired banker and long prominent in civic affairs, died at his New York home from heart disease after a two year illness. He was 78 years old.
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Morris K. Jessup
New York
Governor Noel Inaugurated In Mississippi
In Jackson at noon Tuesday Mississippi’s new governor Edmund F Noel was sworn in to office. Bishop Charles B Galloway gave the opening prayer and Noel delivered his inaugural address. An impressive inaugural parade followed the ceremony.
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Eecutive
Mississippi
Jackson
Miss
Edmund F. Noel
Charles B. Galloway
Methodist Church
Noel
Roosevelt Faces Senate Move on Patronage Delegates
President Roosevelt pressed cabinet to draft a public statement denying use of executive patronage for Republican delegates to Taft's nomination. He cited Senate delays on postmasters and other appointments, pledging a square deal while threatening a reply. Georgia changes cited as incompetency.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Taft
Senate
Cortelyou
White House
Congress
Toccoa and Conyers
Postoffice
Pensacola
Fla
New Hampshire
Georgia
Hughes
Republican Club
Government cash repaid to strengthen treasury balance
New York banks paid the first installment of ten million dollars in public deposits to the government on Thursday. The city’s banks now hold seventy two million twenty seven thousand dollars, with forty one million of that sum placed during the October disturbances.
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New York
Cortelyou
Treasury
United Mine Workers Meet in Indianapolis
The United Mine Workers of America held its annual session in Indianapolis on Tuesday. Retiring President John Mitchell gave perhaps his most eloquent speech, declining a $2,700 personal gift from Montana and Wyoming miners as thanks for his efforts to improve their condition.
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United Mine Workers of America
Indianapolis
John Mitchell
Montana
Wyoming
Virginia Society banquet in Atlanta stirs precedence concerns
At the Virginia Society banquet in Atlanta celebrating Gen Lee’s birthday wine bought by the society was served. The absence of Governor Smith, who was to speak, was attributed to that feature, raising questions about precedent.
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Virginia Society
Atlanta
Virginia Sobiety
Gen. Lee
Smith
Monument plaque sparks G A R and Daughters clash
Washington dispatch reports bitter reaction as the Georgia division of the Daughters of the Confederacy selects inscriptions for a Wirz monument near Andersonville. G A R leaders condemn the memorial, calling it an insult to Union prisoners and accusing the effort of reviving sectional strife.
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Wirz
Washington Dispatch
James Tanner
Georgia Division
Daughters of the Confederacy
Appomattox
Henry Wirz
Confederate States of America
Andersonville
Isabel Worrello Ball
G. A. R. Woman’s Relief Corps
South
Grand Army of the Republic
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Mr. Tanner
Jeff Davis
Zurich
Switzerland
Llegal
Washington, D. C
United States
Davis
William V. Dawson
Union Veterans’ Alliance
Grand Army
John McElroy
Richmond
Sherman
What Constitutes Booze Test Case Under Pure Food Law
District Attorney Baker filed a suit in Washington to decide what constitutes whiskey under the pure food law. He seeks against James Clark Distilling Co. and the U S marshal seized thirty barrels of whiskey valued at four thousand dollars, alleging misbranding under the act.
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Washington
Baker
James Clark Distilling Company
United States
Reward Offered by Mayor in Girard Bombings
Mayor Foster of Girard Alabama offers a cash reward for information leading to the arrest of the bomb throwers who exploded dynamite in front of Law and Order League officers homes. No new developments have been reported.
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Girard
Alabama
Foster
Ala
Law and Order League
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Florida
Walker
Florida Labor Federation
FLEET
Bob Evans
Wetmore
Teddy
Kaiser Bill
United Mine Workers
Mitchell
Captain Wirz
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