Delegates in Clark and Taft Camps at Party Conventions
Democratic delegates in Iowa and Maryland were instructed to vote for Champ Clark and Taft at the upcoming national conventions. Iowa and Montana sent delegates bound or urged to back Clark and Taft respectively with several named delegates. North Carolina Republicans named four delegates at large split between Taft and Roosevelt.
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Nathan D. Ely
Davenport
Frank O'Connor
Chicasaw
Claude R. Porter
Centerville
Nicholas F. Reed
Ottumwa
Parley Sheldon
Ames
Emmett Tinley
Council Bluffs
Michael F. Healy
Fort Dodge
Wilbur W. March
Waterloo
Taft
Montana
Helena
Mont
Chicago
Roosevelt
D. M. Lunstrum
Edward Donlan
Missoula
D. J. Charles
Butte
G. T. Baggs
Hamilton
Sam Stephenson
Great Falls
George W. Clay
Valley
J. C. Kinney
Dawson County
A. J. Wilcomb
Madison County
Thomas A. Marlow
Maryland
Clark
Baltimore
Champ Clark
Raleigh
N. C
North Carolina
Meat Quiz Postponed by House Committee in Washington
Washington May 17 The house committee on expenditures in the agricultural department postponed indefinitely action on the Nelson resolution to investigate the meat inspection service. At the hearing on the resolution various charges were made against the service.
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Washington
House
Nelson
Meat Inspection Service
Wiley Father of Boy Signals Possible Wiley Succession
Washington May 17 with the bureau of chemistry still without a chief a possible hereditary successor to Dr Harvey W Wiley arrived in Washington as the former chief chemist became the father of a boy his first born The Wiley household expressed unalloyed joy though he is sixty seven and had married Anna G Kelton a year ago
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Washington
Bureau of Chemistry
Harvey W. Wiley
United States
Wiley
Anna G. Kelton
Sugar Refineries firm accused of surviving old trust
United States District Attorney Wise testified before Special Examiner Brice that the present sugar trust is the remains of the old Sugar Refineries company, allegedly dissolved in 1891 to comply with the law.
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New York
United States
Wise
Brice
American Sugar Refineries Company
Taft Stakes Political Future on Ohio Primaries
Cleveland May 17 William Howard Taft campaigns in Ohio denouncing Roosevelt as he stakes his political future on the Ohio primary. He cites delegate counts and dismisses Roosevelt’s Chicago convention prospects while addressing workers at the Central Armory. Roosevelt replies in Greenville urging reciprocity bill skepticism and defending his position against the beef and millers trusts.
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Cleveland, O
William Howard Taft
Ohico
Central Armory
Roosevelt
Chicago
Taft
Montana
Texas
Arkansas
Ohido
Greenville
Beef Trust
Millers’ Trust
Fire fatal to two in Somerville home blaze
A lamp overturning in a Somerville house caused a fire that killed Mrs. William Liston, 40, and fatally injured Mrs. Ellen O’Hare. Miss Dela Long suffered burns. The loss was under $50.
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Somerville
Mass
William Liston
Ellen O'Hare
Leaps From Ferry to Death on Lackawanna Boat
A well dressed man of foreign appearance jumped from the upper deck of a Lackawanna ferryboat on the North River, causing great excitement aboard the vessel. Police and bystanders investigated the incident and recovered no identification at first.
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New York
Lackawanna Railroad
North River
To Strew the Sea With Flowers Tradition Returns
In New York on May 17 a boatload of flowers will be towed to the Hudson midstream next Sunday and sunk to scatter petals on the water in memory of Civil War soldiers. The Daughters of Veterans initiated the custom last year.
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New York
Hudson
Daughters of Veterans of the
Lynch Re-elected President of International Typographical Union
James M. Lynch of Syracuse New York has been re elected president of the International Typographical Union according to returns at national headquarters in Indianapolis Indiana George A Tracy of San Francisco was re elected vice president and John Hays of Minneapolis was re elected secretary and treasurer all by the same majority as Lynch
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Indianapolis
Ind
James M. Lynch
Syracuse
N. Y
International Typographical Union
George A. Tracy
San Francisco
John Hays
Minneapolis
Lynch
Louis H Ayme Dies in Lisbon Agent and Journalist
Consul General Louis Henry Ayme has died in Lisbon Portugal at fifty seven. He was a former Chicago newspaper man and long serving diplomat who reported via cable on the Martinique disaster. Mrs Ayme, visiting her daughter in Oshkosh, confirms the death.
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Oshkosh
Wis
Louis Henry Ayme
Lisbon
Portugal
Body of King Frederick VIII Sailed Toward Copenhagen
The Danish king's body began its journey from Hamburg to Copenhagen after a funeral in a hotel. Queen Louise and the royal children accompanied the cortege as crowds cheered in rain and a naval salute from warships Olfert Fischer and Beder Skram accompanied the royal yacht Dannebrog to Copenhagen.
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Hamburg
Germany
Frederick VIII
Denmark
Copenhagen
Louisa
Harald
Gustav
Thyra
Dagmar
Nice
Wamburg
Lubeck
Dannebrog
Travemuende
Frederick
Louise
Olfert Fischer
Beder Skram
Vigilantes Torture Man Near San Diego Claims Brutal Assault
Dr. Reitman testifies that he was abducted by San Diego vigilantes, stripped, tarred and feathered, beaten, and forced to endure degrading acts while being driven into the desert. He alleges police were present but ineffective, an investigation has begun, and Emma Goldman plans a public statement in Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles
Grant Hotel
Ben Bettman
Emma Goldman
Reitman
San Diego
Miss Goldman
Bernardo
Johnson
Federal Grand Jury
United States District Attorney's Office
Lamy Coln Hall
Walker Theater
Richeson Must Die Executive Deems He Is Sane
Boston May 17 Clarence V T Richeson faces the electric chair for the Hyannis killing of Avis Linnell Governors Foss rejects commutation after alienists report Richeson sane The decision cites his confession lack of trial and public good outweighing clemency despite family insanity and Richeson neurotic and hysterical episodes
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Clarence V. T. Richeson
Charleswwich
Avis Linnell
Hyannis
Foss
Richeson
Executive Council
Clarence
T. Richeson
Dr Mark A Matthews chosen moderator of the Presbyterian general assembly
In Louisville on May 17 Rev Dr Mark Allison Matthews pastor of the First Presbyterian Church Seattle was elected moderator on the first ballot. His closest rival was President James 46 McClure of McCormick Theological Seminary Chicago with 157 votes to Matthews 418.
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Louisville
Mark Allison Matthews
First Presbyterian Church
Seattle
Wash
General Assembly
The
Presbyterian Church
James 46
McClure
McCormick Theological Seminary of
Chicago
Matthews
Doctor McClure
Independent ticket selects Dayton's woman mayor Susie Wissler
Mrs Susie Wissler a widow has been elected mayor of Dayton Wyoming on the Independent ticket A majority of votes were cast by women and reflect a notable civic milestone for the town
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sheridan
Wyo
Susie Wissler
Dayton
Italians Defeat Woman Suffrage Bill in Chamber
In Rome on May 17 the Italian chamber of deputies voted down the women’s suffrage bill by a wide margin as Premier Giolitti opposed the measure.
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Rome
Chamber of Deputies
Giolitti
Canadian grain stock dwindles in Duluth elevators
In Duluth Minnesota on May 17 a report states 15 million bushels of bonded Canadian grain were handled by local elevators this spring and only 3 million bushels remain. The document notes the Canadian grain is well cleared.
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Duluth
Minn
United States cruiser Isle De Luzon arrives at Cairo
The Isle De Luzon cruiser has arrived from New Orleans at Cairo and will depart for St Louis in the morning.
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U. S
Cairo
United States
Isle de Luzon
New Orleans
St. Louis
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Doctor Boyd
Panama
Pennsylvania
Paris
DR. Wiley
WAS Old Refineries CO
Ohio
Buckeye
Col. Roosevelt
Rae
Steel Trust
New York Custom House
United States Steel Corporation
B. A. Reed
Henry J. Colton
Jacob M. Dickinson
Henry P. Brown
United States Circuit Court
RK. V
J. M. Lynch
Louis H. Ayme
SAN Iegg
Malcolm D. Whitman
Emma
Goldman
Malcolm Douglas Whitman
Jennie Adeline Crocker
New York City
Gov. Foss
DR. Matthews
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