Five States Protest Roosevelt Taft Machine At GOP Convention
Representatives from five states with potential Republican nominees meet in Chicago to protest what they call the Roosevelt Taft machine ignoring their votes. They claim 136 electoral votes and vow to press the issue before the national committee credentials and on the convention floor.
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Chicago
Ohio
United States
Republican Party
Messrs
Kealing
Patt Banks
Humphrey
Hughes
McKinley
Ilinois
Cannon
Penrose
Burke
Pennsylvania
Hemenway
Indiana
National Committee
Committee On
Taft Delegates Seated as Protests Narrow at Republican Meeting
The Republican national committee opened with reduced outside attendance. Florida at large delegates faced protest from anti Taft camp while Hitchcock and Statter were cited. New York figures Cortelyou and Sherman were highlighted as possible vice presidential choices as Georgia and Florida contests proceeded.
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Chicago
Republican National Committee
Florida
J. N. Stripling
Frank H. Hitchcock
Arthur F. Statter
Charles G. Phelps
Taft
Stripling
New York
Cortelyou
James E. Sherman
Congressional Committee
National Committee
Georgia
Barricaded in Farmhouse Shooting Near Elizabeth
County Detective John Englart shot and killed one of four men barricaded in John Patterson’s farmhouse near Elizabeth. Englart was wounded and in critical condition. Patterson is under arrest with three armed companions holding off a large posse. The dead man is named John Trevers, linked to recent holdups at Monongahela Coal and Coke and a Pittsburg Railway street car robbery in Boston.
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Pittsburg
Elizabeth
Here
John Englart
John Patterson
Elisabeth
Ehglart
Patterson
John Trevers
Monongahela Consolidated Coal and Coke Company
Boston
Pittsburg Railway Company
Claim Against Estate Involving Woodmen Funds
Head Banker C H McNider of the Modern Woodmen of America files a claim for 550000 against the estate of F R Crocker. The claim cites a forgery attached to a 400000 bond, with Crocker and nine others named as signers. Crocker admits signing on July 25, 1805, while the other signers deny it. The claim notes deposits at First National Bank of Chariton and bank failure on October 1, 1907.
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Chariton, Ta
C. H. McNider
Modern
Woodmen of America
F. R. Crocker
ATC Nider
First National Bank of Chariton
Crocker
Woodmen
McNider
Embezzlers Sentenced in Farm ers' Deposit Case
Henry Reiber and John Young former paying teller and auditor were sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary for embezzling 1 105 million from the Farm ers' Deposit National bank. Reiber, 49, married with three children, and Young, 45, married, expressed remorse and explained the loss began small and grew as they tried to cover deficits.
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Pittsburg
Farmers’ Deposit National Bank
Henry Reiber
John Young
Young
Reiber
Mr. Young
Mother seeks son believed missing in Gunness case
Mrs. RE Marie Svenkerud of Oslo Norway, via Acting Consul C E Faye Chicago, asks Sheriff Smutzer about Olaf Jensen of Capron Illinois who disappeared after leaving Chicago in 1906 to marry a Norwegian widow near Laporte. She suspects he fell victim to Mrs Gunness. Jensen’s sister Jennie Svenkerud Haltorp lives in Chicago.
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Laporte
Ind
RE. Marie Svenkerud
Toffts Garden
Christiania
Norway
C. E. Faye
Chicago
Smutzer
Olaf Jensen
Capron
Ill
Jensen
Contested Delegates Debated by Republican National Committee
The Republican National Committee met at the Coliseum annex to hear contests awarding convention seats on the temporary roll. Taft managers Hitchcock Statter and Phelps caused protests over proxies while Alabama's contested delegation prepared for a four hour hearing.
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Chicago
Republican National Committee
National Committee
Charles G. Phelps
McKenzie
Phelps
Taft
Washington
James Francis Burke
Pittsburg
Knox
Mitchcock
Statter
Dover
Hitchcock
Alabama
Senator Dolliver declines Taft VP bid in June interview
Fort Dodge Iowa June 6 Senator Dolliver said he knows nothing of a Taft VP bid and would not refuse an offer if made but does not seek the role. He prefers his senate seat through 1913 and wants rest this summer. He comments on a wave of reaction and 600,000 freight cars idle, noting Roosevelts measures likely slow but not repeal.
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Fort Dodge
Dolliver
Taft
Senate
Roosvelt
Noted Watertown Lawyer Arrested on Forgery Charge
H J McCormick a prominent attorney and former claim agent for the Rome Watertown and Ogdensburg railroad was arrested on a second degree forgery charge. Railroad officials estimate his alleged embezzlements from twenty thousand to one hundred thousand dollars.
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Watertown
N. Y
H. J. McCormick
Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg Railroad
McCormick
Floods Hit Bilbao Shipping Damaging Several Vessels
Floods in the Nerva river at Bilbao cause heavy damage to port shipping. Steamers Utal and Antonio were driven from moorings and collided with two other boats. four vessels beached and many small craft swept to sea. No lives reported lost.
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Bilbao
Spain
Nerva
Utal
Antonio
Belmont in Critical Condition Amid Illness at Hempstead
Oliver H. P. Belmont remains critically ill with appendicitis at his Hempstead summer home, though slight improvement is reported after several days of dangerous illness. Physicians say his condition is still serious.
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New York
Oliver H. P. Belmont
Hempstead
L. I
Sixteen Workmen Killed in Vienna Suburb Factory Blast
A celluloid factory explosion in Ottakring, a Vienna suburb, killed sixteen workers and left seventeen others injured to varying degrees. Rescue operations and investigations followed as authorities assessed the accident’s cause and safety lapses.
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Vienna
Ottakring
Receivers of Knickerbocker Trust Cut Fees
The appellate division of the supreme court in Brooklyn reduced receivers fees from 75 000 to 20 000 each and also lowered the attorneys fees. Justice Gaynor ruled the 75 000 allowance was grossly excessive and a spoliation of assets.
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New York
Knickerbocker Trust Company
Supreme Court
Brooklyn
Gaynor
Three Die and Twenty Hurt in Rail Car Collision
In Joliet Illinois on June 6 a freight train of the Elgin Joliet and Eastern collided with an Aurora and Joliet electric car at Big Slough. Three people were killed W Walfeld of Aurora C H Wittington of Plainfield and F W Beale of Chicago. Twentywere seriously injured. The crash was caused by misplaced signals.
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Joliet, Ill
Elgin
Nationalist and Republican responses to Dreyfus shooting
Paris reports diverging reactions after Major Alfred Dreyfus is shot. Republican papers urge restraint and aim to bury the issue, while nationalist outlets rage, citing a supposed plot and urging redress from the Duke of Orléans.
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Paris
Alfred Dreyfus
Emile Zola
Pantheon
Dreyfus
Louis Gregori
L’action Francaise
Boulanger
Charles Maurras
Brooklyn Police Captain Described as Violating Court Order
The appellate division of the supreme court affirmed a 30 day jail sentence and 250 dollar fine against Police Captain Kahne of Brooklyn for photographing Frank Jenkins for police records in defiance of a court order. Jenkins led Williamsburg Trust Company before its fall and arrest on related charges.
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New York
Kahne
Brooklyn
Frank Jenkins
Supreme Court
Jenkins
Williamsburg Trust Company
Trust Company
Kuhne
Pearling Fleet Destroyed in Australian Typhoon
The Canadian-Australian liner Manuka arrived in Victoria B C with word that a typhoon off West Australia sank or wrecked the pearling fleet near Thursday Island. Forty luggers were lost with 270 lives, twenty of them white, as vessels were scattered and driven ashore while preparing to sail for pearling grounds.
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Victoria
B. C
Manuka
West Australia
Thursday Island
King Edward Sails for Russia from Victoria Port
The royal yacht Victoria and Albert carries King Edward Queen Alexandra and Princess Victoria sailing from Victoria to Reval via Kiel canal. The king will be joined at Brunswattel by the Alexandra which will serve the royal party in the Baltic waters.
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Victoria
Eng
Victoria and Albert
King Edward
Queen Alexandra
Princess Victoria
Reval
Russia
Kiel Canal
Alexandra
Brunswattel
Prussia
Baltic
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