Politicians Busy Ahead of Chicago Republican Convention
On the eve of the Republican national convention in Chicago the political world presses on with work for delegates and committees while Boomers arrive with banners. General Woodford seeks a unanimous Taft nomination with Hughes support, and Speaker Cannon returns to Chicago to discuss platform planks including anti injunctions with Representative McKinley.
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Chicago
Democratic National Committee
Denver
Cannon
Danville
Union League Club
Representative McKinley
Abok Plane in the Platform Likely Taft Fight
Taft forces push for a hard platform at the convention with a prepared Taft plank backed by Ellis and Taft. The platform includes federal court injunction reforms, arbitration on stocks and bonds, and postal savings banks, with supporters like Gompers and Secretary Taft endorsing parts while opponents seek changes. The vice presidential race remains unsettled, highlighted by New York caucuses and competing factions.
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van Cleave
National Manufacturers’ Association
Ellis
Senator Long
Kansas
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Taft
Philippines
Far Eastern
United States
Carter
Tolliver
New York
Sherman
Woodruff
Cortelyou
Low
Fairbanks
Guild
Hammond
Dolliver
Legal Test Aims at Antiriace Gambling Law
New York reports immediate legal action to test the Agnew Hart antirace betting statute. Three test cases will argue whether posting odds constitutes a bet and the extent of private wagering. Police arrest ten bookmakers at Gravesend as authorities seek a general construction of the law.
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New York
Agnew-Hart
Gravesend
Tighe
Herbert Barry
Davies, Stone & Auerbach
Mr. Watson
Nicoll, Anable, Lindsay & Fuller
Elder
Fatal Kentucky Quarrel Forces Tiny Race Riot
In Cattletoburg Kentucky a small race clash left Harry Scott dead and James Shockey a fatally wounded with Bruce Lee. John Galloway was wounded as Lee confronted a rival crowd near a shoe shine stand while discussing pardons. The jury ruled Scott died from a bullet fired by an unknown party.
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Cattletoburg
Bruce Lee
Warfield Lee
Harry Scott
James Shockey
John Galloway
Lee
Galloway
Powers
Howard
Scott
Surprise wedding in Petersburg ties postmistress to druggist
Petersburg June 14 A surprise wedding joined Miss Carrie West deputy postmistress to Joe Rames a young druggist from Pauls Valley Oklahoma The bride and groom will depart for Oklahoma postmaster Houchin has seen three deputy weddings during his three year term including Miss Sarah Miley to William Sharper and Miss Jodie Veeck to Frank Bolman speculation runs on how long Miss Gertrude Brady will hold the job before Cupid strikes again.
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Petersburg
Ind
Carrie West
Joe Rames
Pauls Valley
Oklo
Oklahoma
Houvchin
Sarah Miley
William Sharper
Jodie Veeck
Frank Bolman
Tulsa
Ohls
Miss West
Houchin
Gertrude Brady
Cupid
Governors pardons Powers and Howard in Goebel case
Kentucky Governor Willson pardons Caleb Powers and James B. Howard who were accused of the 1900 Goebel murder. The action clears two figures linked to a landmark political case many decades past.
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Willson
Kentucky
Caleb Powers
James B. Howard
Goebel
Blind Tom
Hoboken
N. J
Whitehead
Florida
Vanderbilt
Northeast
George Siler
Chicago
Chicago Market Report Hogs Cattle Sheep Prices June 15 1908
Chicago market update dated June 15 1908 lists hogs with receipts and price ranges from light to heavy shipping grades, cattle and sheep values, and estimated receipts for today and tomorrow. It notes overall market tone as slow to steady with mixed packers and official figures from yesterday and last week, supplied by Beach-Wickham Grain Co and Postal Telegraph Bidg.
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Beach-Wickham Grain Company
Chicago
Prouty Narrowly Tops Hull in Seventh Iowa GOP Race
Des Moines June 15 Judge H. F. Prouty is the Republican nominee for representative from the Seventh Iowa district by the latest official count of June 2 returns. His majority over Captain Hull is only one vote, and the contest will likely go to the courts.
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Des Moines
F. Prouty
Captain Hull
Insane Woman Slays Family Then Kills Self in Cadillac
Seven members of the Cooper family are slain by a wife and mother in Cadillac Michigan. Fred Cooper, the surviving nine year old, lies in Mercy hospital with life still in doubt after a night of gunfire. The bodies of Daniel Cooper, Mrs Cooper, and children Harry Inez Samuel Georgiana Florence and a one and a half year old lie in the morgue. A shot heard in the night is believed to be the fatal bullet that killed Fred's brother and preceded the mother's suicide.
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Cadillac Mich
Fred Cooper
Mercy Hospital
Fred
Daniel Cooper
Mrs. Cooper
Harry
Inez
Samuel
Georgiana
Florence
Bryan Claims the Delegates to Denver Convention
William J. Bryan returned to Lincoln Nebraska from York and announced 697 delegates pledged to vote for Bryan at the Denver Democratic convention, surpassing the two-thirds requirement by twenty-five votes.
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Bryan
Lincoln
Neb
William J. Bryan
York
Denver
Ex-Iowa State Senator McIntire Dies at 59
Ottumwa Iowa June 15 Hon M A McIntire fifty nine years old dies of Brights disease He was an ex state senator president of the South Ottumwa bank and involved in various business ventures.
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Iowa
Ottumwa
M. A. McIntire
Bright
McIntire
South Ottumwa Bank
Fainting Bertha Escapes From Asylum Show Tent
Bertha Lei Beck known as Fainting Bertha escaped Bartonville asylum for the incurable insane by a ruse. Confined in the tent colony for tuberculosis she swapped beds with a feeble woman from a distant place and slipped away while nurses conducted routine inspections.
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Bertha
Peoria
Bertha Leibeck
Bartonville Asylum
Woman in Passaic Again Denies Death Forecast
Mrs. Anna Kiselein, who predicted she would die at 6 a.m. yesterday, remains alive under hospital observation. The Passaic case drew police attention after a self styled death prophecy and subsequent hospital confinement for sanity review.
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N. J
Anna Kiseleia
General Hospital
Kisebia
Passaic
Runaway horses pull blazing van through Minneapolis traffic
In Minneapolis on Washington avenue two runaway horses hitched to a moving company van sparked by a discarded match set a blazing load of excelsior and furniture. Fire trucks and many firefighters chased the frightened pair as pedestrians helped to stop the runaway until they could be captured.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Washington Avenue
North
Attempt on Honolulu Chief of Detectives Taylor
A dynamite bomb exploded outside the bedroom window of Chief Taylor and his wife in Honolulu on June 15. The blast damaged the house but did not injure the intended victims. Taylor has faced frequent threats from Chinese gamblers.
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Honolulu
Taylor
Man killed by highwaymen identified as Albert L Nowell
New York June 15 The man beaten to death on West Twenty seventh Street was initially thought to be Albert Crosby of Boston but has been identified as Albert L Nowell. He came to New York from Canada nine years ago.
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New York
West Twenty- -Seventh Street
Albert Crosby
Boston
Albert L. Nowell
Canada
Loeb Expected to Join Taft Cabinet as Secretary of Navy
Washington rumor notes William Loeb Jr. slated for secretary of the navy in Taft's cabinet. When asked, Loeb smiled and offered no comment.
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Washington
William Loeb Jr
Taft
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Stewart L. Woodford
New York State
Hughes
ABOK
Resolutions Committee
Wade H. Ellis
Ohio
Auditorium Annex
Elim
Harding
Brooklyn Eagle
Greenfield
John Collins
Cattie
Texas
Prouty
Mrs. Kiselein
John A. Babcock
The
North American Commission Company
Crosby
Loeb
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