Minnesota Democrats Back Governor Johnson for Presidential Nomination
Minnesota state Democratic leaders vote 68 to 23 to endorse Governor Johnson for the presidential nom. Bryan adherents vow to tour the state, form the Bryan Volunteers of Minnesota, and push a Bryan-backed delegation at the Denver convention. The May 14 state convention will choose delegates.
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Minnesota
Johnson
State Committee
Bryan
St. Paul
State Committee of
Johson
Denver
Frank C. Day
Ryan Hotel
Democratic Party
Martin O’brien
Crookston
John Dewan
Two Harbors
Bryan Volunteers of
No Panic in This Case at Central High Fire
Grand Rapids Michigan March 7 1200 pupils were in the Central high school when a lab fire broke out. The fire drill was fired and the building emptied in two and a half minutes with no panic. A photographer's flash safety warnings likely helped keep calm during evacuation.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
Cleveland
Central High School
Bribery Claims Prompt Naval Scandal Investigation
Lilley alleges Electric Boat company bribed naval affairs committee members and sought to influence submarine contracts. A House committee and six members are named to lead probes. Lilley promises to name culprits after inquiry. He criticizes press subsidies and vows to expose campaign fund payments and favors.
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Electric Boat Company
Lilley
Naval Committee
Exorbitant Expenditures Lead to Detention Hospital Commitment
Oliver W. Barnes, famed for extravagant spending in New York last summer, has been committed to a detention hospital upon the petition of his father Edward H. Barnes, chief engineer of the Grand Rapids and Indiana railroad. A separate item notes a major fire at Noda Soy near Tokio, destroying four hundred of a thousand houses and causing about two and a half million dollars in damage.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
Mareh
Oliver W. Barnes
New York City
Edward H. Barnes
Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad
Tokio
Noda Soy
Lilley accuses Boat Co of 15 years suppressing competition
Lilley charges the Boat company has long curtailed rivals in submarine boat building by questionable efforts to sway members of Congress and Navy officials in favor of the boats and related appropriations.
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Lilley
Lessler
Holland Company
Electric Boat Company
Washington
Holland Boat Company
C. G. Creeceey
Eppa Hunton
United States
M. C. Butler
McNeil
W. R. Kerr
Elihu B. Frost
Congress
Senate
Secretary of the Navy
Navy Department
Market lines for hogs cattle sheep and poultry
Hogs receipts 26 000 with prices for choice heavy to light and mixed pigs. Cattle receipts 2 000 with quotes for feeders steers cows calves and primes. Sheep receipts 6 000 with native wethers ewes lambs and shorn lambs priced. Also hay prices and prairie feed ranges noted from East Buffalo March 6.
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Illinois
Indiana
Wisconsin
Buffalo commission market report from East Buffalo
Commission Merchants in East Buffalo report cattle receipts of three cars with steady market, hog receipts of thirty cars with steady to heavy demand at 85, Yorkers at 4.00, pigs at 50 above, sheep and lambs receipts forty cars with slow market and best at 7.40, yearlings at 6.00 to 5.00, calves at 0.50 to 9.50 Aggregate reflects mixed demand across cattle hogs sheep lambs with various price points per type.
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East Buffalo
N. Y
Favorable signs grow in trade outlook report
R G Dun weekly review notes more favorable commercial signals with rising confidence. Jobbers push to replenish staples for next fall while spring goods distribution boosts building trades. Industrial activity increases as pig iron output improves. credits remain scrutinized though collections improve and business volume thickens.
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New York
R. G. Dun & Co
Hero of Custer's Fight Thomas J Callan Dies in Yonkers
Thomas J Callan, the officer who carried General Custer's dispatch for reinforcements at the Little Bighorn, has died at his Yonkers home. He earlier earned a congressional medal for bravery in the dash to reach Custer's trap, though the relief party arrived after the battle ended.
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Yonkers
Thomas J. Callan
Custer
Montana
Callan
Congress
Market snapshot for hogs and cattle at Chicago March 7 1908
Chicago markets report hogs estimated receipts 14 000 with prices 430 to 470 for shipping grades and roughs. mixed and light packs 435 to 465. cattle 200 prospects steady. sheep 3 000 strong. Official yesterday receipts 23 842, shipments 8 866. tomorrow's receipts estimated 15 000 feet. market tone mixed with higher bids for porkers and pigs and steady cattle and sheep. Furnished by Beach Wickham Grain Co and Postal Telegraph Bidg Chicago.
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Ars
Beach-Wickham Grain Company
Chicago
John A. Babcock Promise of a Square Deal
A note pledges a fair arrangement for John A. Babcock, asserting a reliable square deal and mutual confidence in future dealings.
Working Girls Probe Aids Labor Reform Backed by Morgan Kin
New York March 7. Social leaders including Anna Morgan and Mrs. J Borden Harriman plan to form a group to enter factories and work with laborers. They aim to influence factory owners and offer reforms based on direct observations of workrooms and conditions.
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New York
Anna Morgan
J. Pierpont Morgan
J. Borden Harriman
National Civic Federation
Colony Club
Chicago
Joseph Medill McCormick
Hartman
Quarreled Over Children Ends in Fatal Shooting
In St Louis on South Broadway a saloon keeper Charles Eickinger shot and killed his wife after a domestic quarrel about their eight children. He failed to shoot himself. she lay dead, he unconscious with powder burns, revived at a dispensary with no bullet wound found. Both had prior marriages and were released on bond before the fatal confrontation.
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St. Louis
Charles Elchieger
South Broadway
Thief Arrested Quickly After Crossed Wires
In St Louis on March 27 a crossed telephone line let Patrolman Churchill hear Patrolman Henderson report a robbery of an overcoat with a $2,575 certificate of deposit. Churchill saw a poorly dressed man with a heavy overcoat enter a pawnshop and arrest followed within a minute.
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St. Louis
Churchill
Henderson
C. Schelle
One Hundred Molders Walk Out at Peck Williamson Foundry
A strike begins at the Peck Williamson foundry in Welleston Ohio as about 100 molders quit work after refusing to cut sand and remove castings demanded by management. The walkout starts March 7 with the large plant affected.
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Welleston
Big Peck-Wil-lamson Foundry
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Conn
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Daizell
Committee On Rules
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Boutellifla
Stevens
Minna
Olmated
Howard
Broussard
Durance
Royal
Bo Lilley
Dunning & Stevens
Chicago Board of Trade
Dun & Co
Mch
John A. Babcock
IS Witt
The
North American,Commission Company
Chicago, Ill
Pierpont Morgan
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