New York Delegation Adopts Labor Platform Anti-Injunction plank
The New York delegation adopts a platform favoring parcels post postal savings banks and publication of campaign expenditures. It supports modifying the Sherman act to protect wage earners farmers and labor organizations and demands stronger court independence from executive or legislative intrusion. It calls for banning injunctions in labor disputes where adequate legal remedy exists and trial by jury for contempt not in court’s presence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
New York
American Federation of Labor
New Jersey Delegates Back Gray for President
Denver July 8 The New Jersey delegates decide to vote for George Gray of Delaware for president after a heated caucus. They also adopt the unit rule. Robert Hudspeth is elected national committee member and James Smith Jr chosen for the resolutions committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
New Jersey
George Gray
Delaware
Robert Hudspeth
James Smith, Jr
Northwestern members named to democratic national committee
Denver dispatch lists Northwestern members of the new Democratic national committee with selections from Iowa Martin J Wade Iowa City Michigan Edwin O Wood Flint Minnesota Frederick B Lynch St Paul North Dakota William Collins South Dakota Ed S Johnson Pierre and Wisconsin yet to be chosen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
New Democratic National Committee
Iowa
Martin J. Wade
Iowa City
Michigan
Edwin O. Wood
Flint
Minnesota
Frederick B. Lynch
St. Paul
North Dakota
William Collins
South Dakota
Ed S. Johnson
Pierre
Wisconsin
Cleveland Mayor Loses Fight for National Committee Seat
Denver July 8. Mayor Tom L. Johnson of Cleveland was defeated for membership on the national committee at the Ohio delegation caucus. H. C. Garber of Columbus was to succeed him. Johnson fought a hard campaign for about an hour but Garber won 27 to 0.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Tom L. Johnson
Cleveland
National Committee
Ohio
H. C. Garber
Columbus
Johnson
Garber
Crossing Stream In Basket Drowns Five Men
Melrose Montana July 8 D Pisinti his brother an eleven year old son and G Cutone and Rinaldo Poltoni Greek railroad laborers were drowned in the Big Hole river at Browns Station below Melrose. They started across the river on a basket suspended from a cable. The current or weight may have caused the capsize as the men were carried end over end downstream.
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Melrose
Mont
D. Pisinti
G. Cutone
Rinaldo Poltoni
Big Hole
Browns Station
Fighting Ends At Tabriz In Persian Revolution
In Tabriz fighting between revolutionists and shah supporters ends with peace talks aided by Russian consul general M. Pohitonoff. A Teheran dispatch notes rising Russian influence as the Cossack brigade gains guns and artillery, with Russian advisers consolidating power before a new parliament. The Persian public shows annoyance at the situation.
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Tabriz
Persia
M. Pohitonoff
Berlin
Lokal Anzeiger
Teheran
Anna Gould Weds Prince Helie de Sagan in London
Madame Anna Gould and Prince Helie de Sagan married at a registry office in Henrietta Street London and later at the French Protestant church in Soho Square. The civil ceremony was small with few witnesses outside a Covent Garden crowd.
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London
Anna Gould
Prince Helie de Sagan
Henrietta Street
Covent Garden
Soho Square
Prince Helie
Madame Gould
Madame Gouldard
Paris
Entire family drowned in Nemaha river flood near Unadilla
Five members of the Doyle family perished when a cloudburst flood lifted their Nemaha bottoms house from its foundation and swept it into the swollen Nemaha river near Unadilla Nebraska. John Doyle his wife and their three children died in the disaster.
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Unadilla
Neb
Nemaha River
John Doyle
Doyles
Nemaha
Interstate Commerce Commission Upholds Lumber Stakes Rule
Washington July 8 The Interstate Commerce Commission upholds laws requiring shippers of lumber on open cars to use stakes for safe transport. Lumbermen argued the practice imposes undue expense on shipments.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Sinking of freighters in St Clair River collision
Port Huron Michigan on July 8 a collision sank the 520 foot steel freighter H. P. McIntosh owned by Gilchrist of Cleveland in the St Clair river just below Port Huron. All crew members survived with no injuries.
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Port Huron
Mich
H. P. McIntosh
Gilchrist Company of
Cleveland
M. A. Hanna
St. Clair River
Judge orders disposal and reinsurance of Great Western Life policies
In federal court Judge John C Pollock orders the property of Great Western Life Insurance company disposed of and its policies totaling 2 000 000 dollars to be re insured in a reliable company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
John C Pollock
Great Western Life Insurance Company
Drowned Boys at Wahamingo Mill Dam in Red Wing
John O Rigan fourteen and Joseph Swanson nine drowned bathing at Wahamingo mill dam. Swift current carried them under. bodies recovered.
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Red Wing
Minn
John O Rigan
Joseph Swanson
Wahamingo
Bishop Potter Improves and Pope Health Rumors Denied
Brief notes report Bishop Henry C Potter improving and the pope in good health with no illness claims. It states Potter is recovering well and notes Senator Llewellyn Powers of Maine resigns candidacy for re election citing ill health while remaining in his current term through March.
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Henry C. Potter
Llewellyn Powers
Maine
Congress
Powers
Market Quotations Wheat Prices From Minneapolis
Market quotes from Minneapolis on July 8 show wheat futures and cash prices. July wheat at 1.09 and September at 1.193 1/2 cents, with various grades listed including No 1 hard 1.14 1/2 dollars, No 1 Northern 1.12, No 2 Northern 1.10, and 8 Northern 1.07 to 1.08 1/2 dollars.
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Minneapolis
Northern
Live stock prices from St. Paul market report
St Paul July 7 cattle prices range from good to choice steers six to six dollars seventy five cents per hundredweight. Cows and heifers five to five fifty. Veals three eighty five to five. Hogs six thirty to six forty five. Sheep wethers three seventy five to four thirty five. Lambs good to choice four eighty to six twenty five. Springs six to six seventy five.
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St. Paul
Wheat and flax futures figures from Duluth market
Wheat to arrive on track with No. 1 hard at 1.12 percent, No. 1 Northern 1.11, No. 4 Northern 1.08, July 1.08, Sept 92 cents. Flax to arrive on track with July 1.22, Sept 1.20, Oct 1.20, Nov 1.19, Dec 1.18.
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Duluth
Northern
One Effective Way to Stop Indigestion with Kodol
An advertisement argues pepsin alone cannot digest all foods and promotes Kodol as a complete digestive aid. It claims Kodol digests all foods in liquid form, relieves stomach rest, and supports full nourishment, with a money back guarantee from E. C. DeWitt & Co. Chicago.
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E. C. DeWitt & Co
Chicago
Atlantic fleet sails on longest voyage to world tour
The sixteen battleships of the Atlantic fleet led by the Connecticut depart San Francisco on a record voyage circling the globe from Hampton Roads to Hampton Roads. They will reach Manila by October 1908 and Honolulu in mid July before continuing to Australia Japan and back to the United States with stops at Sydney Auckland Yokohama and Manila. The voyage includes a welcome at Sydney funded by Australia and Sydney officials and a courtly welcome in Yokohama with Japanese imperial invitation. The fleet aims to arrive in Hampton Roads again by February 1909, with President Roosevelt to review it.
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San Francisco
America
Connecticut
Charles 8. Sperry
Golden Gate
Pacific
Hampton Roads
United States
Atlantic Coast
San Francisco Bay
Roosevelt
Honolulu
Auckland
N. Z
New Zealand
South America
Sydney
Australia
Melbourne
Albany
Manila
Japan
Yokohama
Amoy
China
Aden
Suez
Rebels Capture Town in Honduras Revolution
Washington reports a revolutionary movement against Honduras government. Gracias, about twenty miles from the Salvadorean border, has fallen to a force likely from El Salvador. The town garrison numbers forty to fifty, and the population is around three thousand.
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Washington
Honduras
Senor Ugarte
Gracias
Salvador
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Samuel
Gompers
Federa
Labor
Gray
NEW National Committee
Northwestern
Democratic Organization
Tom Johnson
Battleship Fleet
Rear Admiral Sperry
FLEET
Frisco
Orient
Huron
Huron Light & Power CO
Moulton & Paulson
FORD
Detroit
First Street
Dakota Ave
Jackson
Lreat Factory
Costain Bros
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