Taft Forces Sweep Alabama Arkansas Contests at N C Meet
The Republican national committee without roll calls awarded the Alabama and Arkansas contests to Taft aligned delegates. Protests were filed by anti Taft factions alleging proxies held by Hitchcock and Statter invalid. efforts to seat them provoked objections from Kealing and Burke.
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Chicago
Republican National Committee
Alabama
Arkansas
Taft
Florida
Ceorgia
Kentucky
Frank H. Hitchcock
Arthur F. Statter
the Treasury
Charles G. Shelps
Washington
Hitchcock
National Committee
New Mexico
Alaska
North Dakota
Joseph B. Kealing
United States
District of Indiana
Fairbanks
James Francis Burke
Pennsylvania
Knox
Protest Prompt Ruled Out In Committee Debate
Aldrich presented the protest and argued it improper to compel arguments before members with an interest in the outcome. O. D. Street replied with a brief, decisive statement: All I care to say in reply.
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Aldrich
O. D. Street
Taft Delegation Contests Flank Alabama Split, Lodge Proxies
In a heated Alabama contest, Chas H. Scott opposed the protest over Taft delegates while the panel weighed twenty two Alabama delegates and four at large. Asa Stratton argued anti Taft influence by federal officeholders, Sheet defended Taft’s regular party line. Only Scott voted for contestants. Lodge acted as proxy for a Filipino member amid broader committee proceedings.
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Alabama
Thompson
Taft
Chas Hr. Scott
Scott
Ohio
Asa Fr. Stratton
Montgomery
Ala
Sheet
C. H. Scott
Arkansas
Delaware
Vermont
Senator Lodge
Massachusetts
Does Marriage Naturalize Opera Singer Faces Hearing
New York June 6 Judge Eyck and Essex county court officers are puzzled by Mme Schumann Leink an opera singer applying for final citizenship papers set for June 16. If denied it may be because she is married to Rapp born in Chicago who gained U S citizenship through that marriage making further action unnecessary.
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New York
Fen Eyck
Court of Common Pleas
Essex County
New Jersey
Mme. Schumann Leink
Rapp
Chicago
United States
Hitchcock to Prison and Gillette Perjury Reversal in New York
In New York on June 6 the Hitchcock trial paused as Justice Goff adjourned until Monday and ordered Hitchcock held in the Tombs without bail. Separately, Supreme Court reverses Walter R. Gillette’s perjury conviction citing violations of constitutional rights and improper indictment.
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New York
Raymond Hitchcock
Supreme Court
Max KE. Steuer
Hitchcock
Justice Goff
Goff
Steuer
John B. Stanchfield
Flora Wiston
Stever
Garvan
Tombs
Gillette
The
Mutual
Dobbs Ferry
New York Life
Equitable
Justice McLaughlin
Backed Into the Shaft at Union Mine
Sullivan Ind June 6 Shelby Johnson fifty five? Thirty five year old man Shelby Johnson was killed instantly at the Union mine. He backed toward the shaft with an empty ear not realizing the cage had gone down and fell into the shaft.
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Sullivan
Ind
Shelby Johnson
Union
Illinois Man Hit Abroad in Paris
Elie Madgaides of Aurora Illinois has lived in Paris for years and has become demented. He has been found necessary to be sent to an asylum for treatment.
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Paris
Elie Madgaides
Aurora, TV
Japanese envoy appointments announced in Tokyo
Tokio June 6 official announcements name Baron Chinda as ambassador to Germany Viscount Hayashi as ambassador to Italy Baron Ijuin as minister to China and Baron Ishii as successor to Baron Chinda in the foreign office postings
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Tokio
Baron Chinda
Foreign Office
Germany
Viscount Hayashi
Peking
Italy
Baron Ijuin
China
Baron Ishii
Woman attacked. former suitor sought after throat cut
In St Louis on June 6 Mrs Elizabeth Gerling was assaulted as she undressed for bed. A man jumped from under the bed and slashed her throat. She is unconscious and not expected to recover. The assailant, described as a former suitor, fled into the street and remains at large.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Elizabeth Gerling
President Roosevelt thanked by grocers for pure food act help
Atlantic City June 6 The National Wholesale Grocers association closed its session by adopting a resolution thanking President Roosevelt for his help in securing national pure food legislation.
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Atlantic City
National Wholesale Grocers’ Association
Roosevelt
His Heirs Disappointed In Nine Decades Old Hermit Gun Smith
Alexandria Indiana June 6 Proceedings in the circuit court show the estate of Micajah Chamness, long a reclusive gunsmith near the city, is worth under $1000. He lived as a hermit for a quarter century in a woodland cabin filled with colonial relics. Despite reports of hidden money, the estate reveals a modest value and little wealth for heirs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexandria
Ind
Micajah Chamness
Chamness
Gillette Perjury Conviction Overturned by Appellate Court
New York June 6 The appellate division of the supreme court set aside the verdict against Walter R. Gillette former vice president of the Mutual Life Insurance Company who had been convicted of perjury in the life insurance investigation.
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New York
Walter R. Gillette
The
Mutual Life Insurance Company
Supreme Court
Gillette
Victims of the Devil Wagon in Kiel area crash
On a June outing near a Kiel village, Lieutenant Couuttather Assmann and First Lieutenant Johannes Prussel were killed when a car turned a double somersault after the chauffeur halted to avoid a girl. Injured were First Lieutenant El Wianhorst and the chauffeur Kicke. The crew and driver were Kiel residents. Fritzsche, a noted sportsman and aeronautic inventor, planned to race for the Prince Henry cup and to test a seventy horsepower plane before the emperor.
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Becanswick
Germany
Jane
Couuttather Assmann
Johannes Prussel
Here
Kiel
Fritzsche
William
Weather forecast for Illinois Indiana Michigan and Wisconsin
The forecast shows increasing cloudiness across Illinois with showers and warmer temperatures in the extreme north. Indiana and Lower Michigan will see rising clouds with showers. Iowa may experience showers and likely thunderstorms. Wisconsin will have increasing clouds with probable showers.
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Illinois
Indiana
Lower
Michigan
Iowa
Wisconsin
Parson's Experience In Gale Doomed Launch Crew Lost
Escanaba Michigan June 6 six Garden Michigan men perished after their disabled launch broke on a rocky reef in Big Bay de Noc. They walked through woods and swamps all night to reach Garden, exhausted. Wisconsin Supreme Court June 6 upholds Railroad Rate Commission act as constitutional and voids tenement house law of 1906. A tax on stock shares of trust companies is ruled personal property.
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Parsons
Escanaba
Mich
Big Bay de Noe
Garden Mich
Garden
Badger Supreme Court
Deciatona
Madison
Wis
State Supreme Court
Wisconsin Railroad Rate Commission
Chicago Hogs and Cattle Market Report June 6 1908
Market news from Chicago shows hog receipts yesterday at 13 000 with mixed packers and shipping grades ranging 5 05 to 6 55 and light hogs 5 10 to 6 24. Cattle and sheep receipts were 800 and 1 500 with demand steady. official yesterday receipts 22 116 and shipments 4 404. Estimated receipts today 13 000, market expected steady to strong with bulk 5 40 to 5 60 for porkers and 5 05 to 5 55 for heavy shipping hogs. Furnished by Beach Wickham Grain Company.
John A. Babcock Seeks Square Deal Promise
John A. Babcock pledges to provide a square deal, stating plainly that fair treatment is his goal and that readers can expect straightforward, dependable service in all dealings. The message reinforces his commitment to integrity.
Annapolis Area Rail Crash Kills Eight on Electric Line
A head on collision on the Washington Baltimore and Annapolis Electric railway near Camp Parole kills eight and injures many more as extra cars ran for naval academy festivities. Among the dead are Richard Norton, A H Schultz, and Ruth Slaughter. General Traffic Manager William E Slaughter among the injured.
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Annapolis
Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Electric Railroad
Naval Academy
Richard Norton
A. H. Schultz
Baltimore
Shhreiber
Academy Junction
Zach O'Neal
New York
Ruth Slaughter
William K. Slaughter
J. W. McDaniel
George White
Camp Parole
William E. Slaughter
Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis
Death on a Warship Tennessee Disaster Kills Six
Six men died and eight injured when a boiler tube failed on the armored cruiser Tennessee at sea after departing Santa Barbara with Pacific fleet vessels. Five of the injured are believed fatally hurt. no officers were hurt. Local surgeon Dr. Weldon prepared to treat the sailors.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Tennessee
Santa Barbara
W. A. Weldon
San Pedro
George Wood
Earl C. Boggs
Adolph Reinghold
Geo. W. Meek
Shocking Croquet Tragedy Rocks Franklin County
J B Austin of Franklin La La shot his wife in her father s yard during a croquet game. Separated for three weeks the couple s marriage ends in a fatal shooting. Three bullets struck the woman including heart and brain hits and she leaves four daughters. Austin remains at large.
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Jacksonville
J. B. Austin
Franklin
Lil
Austin
Sunday by and by in Morocco Indiana farming kinship
Sunday and Day are names of two farmers near Martinton Indiana. Sunday has five sons and Day five daughters. Three Sunday boys already married Day girls. With the rest courting the remaining sisters, it seems every Day may be Sunday by and by.
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Morocco
Ind
Martinton
Doukhobos Still Troublesome in Yorkton District
One hundred recalcitrant Doukhobors will be moved thirteen miles west of Yorkton to a fenced compound guarded day and night by mounted police. The children will be kept apart from their parents to prevent association.
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Yorktown
Saks
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W. F. Aldrich
Congress
Scott-Davilson
Sittler
Phelps
Anti-Taft
Mme. Kapp
Schumann Heink
James Whitcomb
Riley
James Whitcomb Riley
Supreme Court of New York
Royal
Beach-Wickham Grain Company
John A. Babcock
North American Commission Company
Chicago, Ill
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