President Roosevelts Claim To Command Power Provokes Senate Debate
President Roosevelt asserts supreme command over the army and navy in letters to three senators, defending his decisions in the Brownsville incident and the discharge of officers. He argues the president's role limits court inquiries and cites the Thaw case as context, prompting Senate anger and potential congressional action.
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Washington
United States Senate
Roosevelt
Army
Navy
Senate
Brownsville
Tex
William F. Stewart
Arizona
Rayner
Willian Alden Smith
Smith
Stewart
United States
Likely to Complicate Matters in Brownsville Affair
Several senators warned that the letters would complicate the situation regarding legislation in the interest of the innocent members of the battalion of Negroes discharged after the Brownsville affray. Two bills are before the senate addressing this issue.
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Brownsville
Senate
Dry Men and Legislations Clash Over Littlefield Bill
A Methodist Episcopal bishops committee in Baltimore urged Speaker Cannon to bring the Littlefield interstate liquor shipment bill to a vote. Governors Hanly and Hoch joined the exchange, noting constitutional questions and state police powers. Cannon warned that states risk federal overreach, while Hanly and the group pressed for enforcement against liquor shipments into prohibition states.
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Washington
Board of Bishops
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Baltimore
Cannon
Littlefield
Judiciary Committee
Th House
Hanly
Indiana
Hoch
Kansas
Supreme Court
Senate Committee On the Judiciary
Knox Declarin
Congress
Cannes
House
Gathering of Grocers Convention in Atlantic City
The National Wholesale Grocers' association plans its annual convention in Atlantic City on June 5 and 6. Delegates from nearly all states will attend as the largest gathering of food purveyors in the country. After opening sessions, members will be hosted by regional wholesale grocers groups with a band concert, luncheon, and sea foods aboard the Rudolph Grotto.
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New York
National Wholesale Grocers’ Association
Atlantic City
A. H. Reckmann
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Debtware Wholesale Grocers’ Association
Steel Pier
Rudolph “Grotto
Bank embezzlement cases span Pittsburgh area
Pittsburg May 9 officials seek new facts on alleged thefts from the Allegheny National Bank after cashier William Montgomery was arrested on a 469000 embezzlement charge. Bank examiner William L. Folds leads further inquiry as the bank remains solvent and a full restitution is rumored. A grand jury indicted Ernest W. Bowman ex cashier of Citizens National Bank Tionesta and two lumber dealers Joseph W. Landers and William G. Wyman on thirteen counts for misappropriation and aiding and abetting. Trial slated for next week.
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Pittsburg
Allegheny National Bank
William Montgomery
National Bank
William L. Folds
Montgomery
United States Grand Jury
Ernest W. Bowman
Citizens’ National Bank
Tionesta
Joseph W. Landers
William G. Wyman
Roosevelt and Burroughs Take Morning Woods Stroll
In Charlottesville on May 9 President Roosevelt and Professor Burroughs walked through Pine Knot woods after a rainy night. They were accompanied by Joseph Wilmer as Mrs Roosevelt also took a morning drive.
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Charlottesville
President Roosevelt
Professor Burroughs
Pine Knot
Joseph Wilmer
Roosevelt
Soldiers to get hot biscuits at posts under war order
Washington May 9 The secretary of war announces that soldiers will not be deprived of hot biscuits and baked goods. The decision says army regulations on baking by posts apply only to bakery bread and allow organizations to bake for their own use.
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Washington
Secretary of War
Army
Scores on the Ball Fields May Baseball Standings and Results
Chicago May standings and daily scores across leagues list results from Philadelphia Brooklyn St Louis Cincinnati and Pittsburgh Chicago New York Boston and Washington show varied outcomes with several games postponed due to rain. Batting totals hits and errors are noted for select matchups and team matchups span several cities.
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Iladelphia
Owen
Philadelphia
Brooklyn
McIntyre
Bergen
McQuillin
Doolin
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Tozer
Coakley
McLean
Raymond
Marshall
Pittsburg
Chicago
New York
Boston
Asd
von Couche
Betis
Poets Kae
Comoros
Ectsaneas
Washington
S&s
Washingon
Bender
Smith
Hughes
Street
Boston- Newart
Manning
Kleinow
Burchell
Winter
Carrigan
Louisville
St. Paul
Des Moines
Sioux City
Attorney General Loses Bid to Vacate Interborough Charter
New York May 9 The appellate division of the supreme court sustains a lower court ruling that the attorney general cannot bring suit to vacate the Interborough Metropolitan Company's charter and annul its corporate existence. The justices concur.
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New York
Jackson
Interborough Metropolitan Company
Appellate Division
Supreme Court
Gasoline launch sinks on Ohio river with nine aboard
A gasoline launch on the Ohio River carrying nine men became disabled today and was towed under a flotilla of empty coal barges. Five men were drowned Thomas Nagle Donald Munday James Dawson Carson Finch and a Mr Murphy all residents of East Liverpool.
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East Liverpool
Ohio
The
Evening Journal
Thomas Nagle
Donald Munday
James Dawson
Carson Finch
Mr. Murphy
Mrs Sage Offers Half a Million for Endowment
New York May 9 The American Bible society has received from Mrs Linssell Sage an offer to contribute fifty thousand toward a permanent endowment for the society on condition that an additional five hundred thousand shall be contributed for the same purpose before year end.
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New York
American Bille Society
Linssell Sage
Transvaal to Get Delagoa Bay
The Economist reports that Delagoa Bay in Portuguese East Africa will probably be leased to the Transvaal after a Pretoria conference. The move would ease Portugal's colonial budget but papers deem it unwise.
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Transvaal
Delagoa Bay
Lisbon
The
Economist
Portuguese East Africa
Pretoria
Portugal
Milwaukee Trust Company Receiver Appointed in Bank Practice
Judge Quarles appoints the Milwaukee Trust Company as receiver for the allegedly bankrupt Rock & Leeber Co dealers in woodenware, paper and grocers supplies, following creditor requests.
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Milwaukee Company
Milwaukee
Quarle S
Milwaukee ‘Truat Company
Bankropt Kock & Leeber Co
Massive Atlanta Fire Causes 1.25 Million Loss
Two blocks of business property in Atlanta, Georgia burned, triggering an estimated loss of 1.25 million dollars. A convict, Patrick Rwane, at Fort Ethan Allen in Vermont, was shot and killed by a guard while attempting to escape. In Britain, a bill repealing the Irish coercion act passed its second reading in the House of Commons by a vote of 201. The Euclid Avenue Trust Company of Cleveland, Ohio, has made an assignment.
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Atlanta
Patrick Rwane
Fort Ethan Allen
Vto
House of Commons
Euclid Avenue Trust Company
Cleveland
Chicago Markets May 9 1908 Hogs and Cattle
Market report from Chicago notes official receipts yesterday and estimated receipts today and tomorrow. Hogs show varying prices across light mixed and heavy grades with steady to strong movement. Cattle and sheep numbers are listed as unchanged or steady, with extensive price ranges for hogs and shipping grades. Furnished by Beach Wickham Grain Co. and Postal Telegraph Bidg. Chicago.
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Beach-Wickham Grain Company
Chicago
John A. Babcock Witt The North American Commission Company
An unclear note references John A. Babcock and the North American Commission Company. The message promises a square deal and urges contact, but the exact purpose or context is not stated.
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The
North American Commission Company
Rescue of Seventy-Two Aboard Bar-Wreaked Rickmers
A fierce May storm battered the Peter Rickmers off Fire Island and left the ship a wreck. Seventy-two men faced death for over a day before lifeboat lines and the breeches buoy finally brought them ashore. Not a single fatality reported.
Is Legally Dead At Last
New York May 9 By the appointment of Charles J Naething a wealthy restaurant owner as administrator of the estate of his brother John Philip Naething who disappeared from his New York home in 1873 official recognition was taken of the death of a wanderer whose whereabouts had not been known to his family for thirty five years Brothers and sisters in New York have continued their efforts to find him but no trace has been discovered since the day in 1873 Two brothers and two sisters will share in the estate Naething had no funds when he left home in 1873 His brother calls him reckless roving fearless and unafraid of hazardous occupations and risks He was always on friendly terms with the family and whenever he asked for financial help he received it.
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New York
Charles J. Naething
John Philip Naething
Sine
Three year old Wilfred Stevens travels solo to New York
A three year old boy named Wilfred Stevens arrives in New York aboard the Teutonic after a 11,000 mile voyage from South Africa. His mother died two months earlier and his father, living in Southampton, greets him at the dock with a stewardess in charge. The voyage took six weeks and the child had not seen a familiar face until the reunion.
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New York
South Africa
Seo
Wilfred Stevens
Southampton
Teutonic
Ples
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