Grover Cleveland dies at Princeton home in 1908
Grover Cleveland, twice president of the United States, dies at 8:40 am at his Princeton Westland home after a sudden heart failure aggravated by long standing stomach and kidney ailments. Mrs. Cleveland and family physicians sign the official statement. funeral is private tomorrow, with burial in the Princeton cemetery. Numerous dignitaries, including Vice President Fairbanks and Governor Hughes, send condolences.
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Princeton
N. J
Grover Eveland
United States
Westland
Theatien
Cleveland
Joseph D.D. Bryant
New York
George R. Lockwood
John M. Carnehan
Roosevel
President Roosevelt Halts New London Trip After Cleveland Death
News of Grover Cleveland's death shocks President Roosevelt at his summer home. He abandons a planned trip to New London for the Yale Harvard boat races, orders flags at half mast for 30 days, and directs military honors at the funeral. Roosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt will attend. Secretary Taft mourns Cleveland as a great American.
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Grover Cleveland
Roosevelt
New London
Conn
Starvard-Yale
New Haven
Yale
Taft
Cleveland
Funeral Tomorrow Marks Sudden Death in Princeton
News of Cleveland's death shocked Princeton residents and the world. Flags flew at half mast as friends and university circles mourned. Police guarded the Cleveland home to limit visitors while relatives and funeral organizers made arrangements. Condolences poured in from distant places as the community reflected on his virtues.
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Cleveland
Princeton
University
Sherman Improves in Cleveland After Illness
Representative Sherman shows steady progress at the Cleveland hospital with tempurature dropping and doctors hopeful no immediate operation is needed. He remains under care and is not expected to leave before next Sunday as Mrs. Sherman recovers from exhaustion after travel.
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Cleveland
Sherman
Edward P. Carter
Dudley TP. Allen
W. Stone
Grover Cleveland
Iowa Republicans Endorse Cummins Progres sives at Waterloo Convention
At Waterloo Iowa June 25 progressives controlled the Republican state convention endorsing Governor Cummins and progressive railroad and corporation reform. They backed the Iowa delegation in Congress and Senator Allison for re election. The stand patter W S Hart triggered jeers while Cummins pledged Republican unity and a platform urging 2 cent fares abolition of railway pays campaign finance transparency and loyalty to Taft and Sherman. The convention mourned ex President Cleveland in a formal resolution.
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Waterloo
Cummins
Iowa
Congress
Allison
Progressives” Secured Control of the New State Campaign Committee
Scott M. Ladd
Silas M. Weaver
W. 8. Hart
Dolliver
Taft
Sherman
National
Iowa Democrats In Council at Sioux City Convention
The Democratic state convention opened at 11 a.m. with temporary chair T. C. Clary presiding. Rev. J. L. Kerby delivered an invocation. Clary gave the keynote amid applause as committees were named and the session recessed until 2 p.m. for permanent organization and work.
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Sioux City
C. W. Miller
T. C. Clary
J. L. Kerby
Clary
Explosion at Pennsylvania railroad injures men at Thirty first and Ninth
An explosion at the Pennsylvania railroad site near Thirty first and Ninth injured several men who escaped. Two of the injured were transported to a hospital for treatment.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Lightning Strikes Oil Tank Near Olean
A severe electrical storm hit Bradford Ia and nearby Olean N Y as lightning struck a 55 000 barrel oil tank near Olean causing about 25 000 barrels of oil to burn.
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Bradford
Olean
N. Y
Weather forecast for Midwest regions today
The official forecast predicts fair skies across Illinois Indiana and Wisconsin with cooler conditions in eastern Lower Michigan. Iowa also remains fair with moderate temperatures overall.
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Illinois
Indiana
Wisconsin— Fair
Michigan
Iowa—Fair
Alaska Political Scene Shapes Up After Delegate Cale Succession
Friends running as opponents in Fairbanks Alaska discuss Judge Wickersham's bid to succeed Thomas Cale as delegate to Congress. Cale and Wickersham are allies. Ronan and Carson are former Cale supporters and are aligned with Democratic and Governor Hoggatt's campaigns.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Wckersham
Thomas Cale
Congress
Cale
Judge Wickersham
Ronan
Carson
Hoggatt
Twins and Triplets Reported Around Local Homes in Virginia
In Albemarle County near President Roosevelt’s Virginia home, no race death by own action is noted. In nearby households, twins and triplets have arrived at James and John Mewberry’s homes. A local woman also gave birth to twins around the same time.
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Richmond
President Roosevelt
Virginia
Albemarle County
James
John Mewberry
Mexico to Be Exclusive Too
The Mexican Herald reports railroad workers across Mexico planning a union to block United States citizens from any role with the railroads, aiming for exclusive local control.
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Mexico
City of Mexico
The
Mexican Herald
Republic of Mexico
United States
Hogs and cattle markets in Chicago June 25 1908
Market reports show receipts estimated 20 000 hogs with prices 570 to 6 32 for heavy and 570 to 6 30 for mixed packers. Cattle and sheep receipts estimated 6 000 and 15 000 respectively with prices ranging 2 40 to 6 25 for cows and heifers and 4 75 to 6 90 for stockers. Market tones: hogs steady to steady, cattle steady, sheep weak.
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Texas
Ex-Express Clerk O Connor Jailed for Embezzling 6000
Belleville June 25 Tom OConnor a former American Express clerk at East St Louis is in jail awaiting trial on embezzlement charges totaling 6000 from the express company a year ago He fled to Mexico after the shortage was found and later was extradited back to the United States to face the case.
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Belleville, J
Tom O’connor
American Express Company
East St. Louis
Express Company
O’connor
Mexico
Taft Orders a Postponement of Meeting
New Haven Conn June 25 Secretary Taft directs postponement of the Republican national committee meeting to choose a national chairman from July 1 to July 8 due to the illness of Representative Sherman the vice presidential nominee.
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Taft
New Haven
Conn
Committee
The
Republican National Committee
Sherman
Algoma Steel plant resumes operations in Sault Ste. Marie
The Algoma Steel plant on the Canadian Sea, a branch of Lake Superior Corporation, restarts with plans and work projected for two years. About fifteen hundred men return to work as the company restocks its line. Leon Delagrange flies for nearly eighteen minutes in Milan, Italy, marking a notable aero achievement. Emperor William sails into Neiel Bay aboard the Imperial yacht Hohengalern for yacht races.
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Sault Ste. Marie
Mich
Algoma Steel Company
Canadian Sea
Lake Superior Corporation
Leon Delagrange
Milan
Italy
Emperor William
Niel Bay
Correction on Finley cement plant report issued
Washington reports President We W Finley of the Southern railway denies any connection with the Mobile Portland Cement and Coal company. He says he avoids private enterprise within the railroad territory to prevent shippers' suspicions of rate discrimination.
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Washington
We W. Finley
Southern Railway
Associated Press
Chattanooga
Finley
Mobile Portland Cement and Coal Company
Mayor Shumway Announces Candidacy for Lieutenant Governor
Galesburg June 25. Mayor George Shumway of this city declared his bid for the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor. He will launch an aggressive statewide campaign and has named Andree O. Lindstrom of Galesburg as his manager.
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Shumway
Galesburg
George Shumway
Andree O. Lindstrom
Judge Sets Two Year Courtship Rule in South Bend Case
Judge George G. Feldman in the city court declares opposition to marriages formed without a courtship of at least two years. He specifies two years as the minimum in a case where a woman was deceived by a man.
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South Bend
Ind
George G. Feldman
Four Hurt by an Explosion in New York Work Site
Four workmen were injured in an explosion at a New York construction site on June 25. Details of casualties and extent of injuries were not immediately available. Police and investigators arrived to secure the area as emergency crews treated the injured on the scene.
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New York
Castro Faces Quiet Washington Standoff Over Venezuela
Washington reports Senor Veloz-Goiticoa met Acting Secretary Adee but no passport demand was issued as Jacob Sleeper’s recall signals a de facto end to U S relations with Venezuela. President Castro reacted to Washington’s move with surprise while officials weigh the next step and potential publication of state correspondence.
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Velo Goiticoa
State Department
Adee
Veloz-Goiticoa
Jacob Sleeper
United States
Caracas
Sleeper
Venezuela
Senor Velozuciticoa
France
Castro
Legation
Root
Bacon
Department of State
Photographs of rulers arrive for Sailors' Institute wall
New York June 25 The Sailors Institute in construction will display autographed portraits of world rulers. Theodore Roosevelt is first to arrive with a note of congratulations, King Edward VII Victoria Emmanuel III and other monarchs follow. The Russian emperor's portrait is en route and eight more portraits are expected.
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New York
Theodore Roosevelt
Sailors’ Institute
American Seamen's Friend Society
Edward
Victor Emmanuel III
Denmark
Russia
Murderous Deed of Mulholland in Springfield Hotel
William Mulholland, a laborer estranged from his wife, shot five times at his wife and her sister Mrs. McClelland Sappington in a Springfield hotel. He killed Mrs. Sappington's husband and seriously wounded her. Mulholland fled and remains at large.
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Springfield
William Mulholland
Mrs. McClelland
Sappington
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