Senator-Elect Warner Endorses Rate Regulation and Roosevelt
Kansas City November 9 United States Senator-Elect Warner the first Republican to win Missouri's senate seat since 1860 was honored at a farewell banquet. He voiced support for interstate rate regulation to ensure a square deal between carriers and shippers and urged enforcement against rebates while praising Roosevelt and Lincoln era principles. He pledged to enter the senate as a friend of the president and to uphold intellectual honesty in public life.
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Kansas City
United States
Warner
Senate
Missouri
Carl Schurz
Midland
Kansas
Gardiner Lathrop
Chicago
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
Senators Discuss Tariff and Finance Underlining Policy
A Washington gathering features Senator Warner urging tighter life insurance supervision and felonious misappropriation penalties. He backs no fixed tariff schedule but upholds protective principles while endorsing a strong navy. Kansas Governor Hech warns that unchecked trusts risk a socialistic tidal wave unless remedies are found. Missouri Republican Akins asserts the party’s firm stance in a changing field. In Princeton, Illinois, George Brown, an early Bureau County settler, dies after being run over by a passenger train on a main street crossing.
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Warner
Warper
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
Kr. W. Hech
Kansas
Missouri
Thomas J. Akins
Princeton
George Brown
Bureau County
Lamoille
Main Street
Strike Against Piece Work In Montreal Factories
Leather cutters in nearly all boot and shoe factories in Montreal have walked out demanding a time scale instead of piece work. Only three shops remain operating while the strike continues.
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Montreal
Pneumonia Kills Doctor in Half Hour
Janesville Wisconsin November 9 a half hour illness claimed the life of Dr Warren Mc Manus of Edgerton a prominent physician. He died of pneumonia after a brief illness.
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Janesville
Wis
Warren McManus
Edgerton
Mutiny and Massacre in Cronstadt Firestrewn Streets
Cronstadt soldiers mutinied and pillaged the city as firing broke out in the streets. Panic-stricken inhabitants fled to suburbs and refuges as Cronstadt burned in chaos. The massacre and machine gun use were reported from St Petersburg to The Evening Journal.
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Cronstadt
Russia
A New Picture of Bishop Potter
A portrait of Bishop Henry Potter of New York, aged seventy, noted for courage and wit, scholar of capital and labor, and Civic Federation member. The piece touches on his entertainments with Andrew Carnegie and political notes from multiple states, including party tallies and local races.
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Bishop Potter
Henry
Potter
America
New York
The
Civic Federation
Andrew Carnegie
Skibo Castle
Catches Em Goin Declares Duty On Empty Wine Bottles
United States general appraisers rule that duty must be paid on empty wine bottles tested for adulteration, affecting C I D Bunker & Co of San Francisco. The ruling follows a larger shipment and tests by the department of agriculture. A separate DC suit seeks ownership of 373000 dollars in bonds left by Caleb C Willard found in a basket marked for his wife and daughter. Stuyvesant Fish agrees to serve on a three member committee at Mutual Life Insurance with William H Truesdale and John W Auchinclosa.
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New York
Board 5
United States General Appraisers
C. 1D. Bunker & Co
San Francisco
Department of Agriculture
Washington
Supreme Court of the District of Columbia
Caleb C. Willard
Willard
Stuyvesant Fish
Illinois Central Railroad
Mutual Life Insurance Company
William H. Truesdale
John W. Auchiclosa
Justice McKenna's Daughter Engaged to New York Son
Associate Justice and Mrs McKenna announce the engagement of their youngest daughter Hildegrade to John Leggett Pultz of New York. Pultz is son of John L Pultz and Harvard 1901 graduate.
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Justice McKenna
Washington
The
Supreme Court
McKenna
Hildegrade
John Leggett Pultz
New York
John L. Pultz
Harvard
President Roosevelt backs single statehood for Oklahoma
President Roosevelt told a delegation of Oklahoma residents that he would recommend single statehood for Oklahoma and Indian Territory in his forthcoming message to Congress.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Oklahoma
Congress
Indian Territory
Mystery Man Temple Linked Suicide in Indiana
Detroit man identified as M C Temple reportedly used a laundry label reading M Thompson on his clothes before killing himself in Elkhart Indiana. Austria railroad strike widens raising general threat. Mexican millionaire Pedro Alvarado offers to pay national debt. Canton reports show rising anti American sentiment.
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M. C. Temple
Detroit
M. ©. Thompson
Elkhart
Ind
Austria
Pedro Alvarado
Parral
Mexico
Canton
China
United States
New York Election Battle Moves to Courts Over Mayor Race
A heated contest erupts as Hearst demands a citywide ballot recount after claims of extensive fraud. Advocates from Hearst and allied groups push for legal action, while McClellan supporters urge court scrutiny of returned votes and officials warn of limited remedy once ballots are cast.
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New York
George B. McClellan
William Randolph Hearst
McClellan
Election returns show Democratic gains across cities and states
Chicago reports slow growth in Tuesday election returns with McClellan and Hearst close for New York mayor. Ohio sees Pattison win governor, Tom Johnson elected mayor of Cleveland, Dempsey carries Cincinnati. Democrats win both houses and the state ticket. Philadelphia reformers beat Republicans by 43,333 in city contest.
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Bookwalter Repo
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Welchis Republigin
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Marsh
McKinney Repay
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Virginia
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Jerome
Ohio
Pattison
Tom Johnson
Cleveland
Judge Dempsey
Cincinnati
Hamilton County
Pennsylvania
Berry
Philadelphia
Trial date set for Pat Crowe in officer shooting case
Omaha reports the trial of Pat Crowe is scheduled for December 4. He faces a charge of intent to kill Officer Jackson, who attempted to arrest him on South Sixteenth Street and sustained a serious thigh wound.
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Omaha, Noy
Pat Crowe
Jackson
South Sixteenth
Standish Vet Dubois Invents $50000 Via Cousin's Death
Standish Michigan November 9 George Dubois a veterinary surgeon widely known here and in other towns inherits fifty thousand dollars from the death of his cousin a shareholder in the St. Louis Globe Democrat.
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Standish
Mich
George Dubois
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Fatal blaze claims Tanzey Burkhardt and others
A fire left Charles Tanzey burned to death and Mrs. Mess Burkhardt along with an unknown man fatally burned in a room. Investigators probe cause and details of the deadly incident.
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Charles ‘Tanzey
Mess Burkhardt
Markets Echo Mixed Receipts In Chicago Cattle Sheep Hogs
Chicago market notes for November 9 1908 and 1906 show heavy receipts and mixed activity. Cattle and hogs see steady to weak demand with prices ranging from 3 20 to 6 00 per hundredweight. hogs at 4 70 to 5 05 for lighter grades. Sheep and lambs remain steady to strong in late trading.
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Aontz
Rouge
Asu
US Notes On Russian Jewish Relief
Secretary Root replies to Simeon Wolf that intervention is not favorable now but US may help later. He cites hope for liberal government and better protection for Jews in Russia and signals possible aid when conditions improve. Rothschild of London and Nehiff of New York each send 5000 dollars for relief in St. Petersburg after recent disturbances.
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Washington
Root
Simeon Wolf
Srd Iist
Department
Union of American Hebrew Congregations
Russia
Wolf
Root Ward
St. Petersburg
Loa Rothschild
London
Jocal Nehiff
New York
Innocent Convict Seeks Pardon Hearing in Michigan Case
In Niles Michigan Mrs Mary Bromley was murdered in 1893 and her nephew George B Taylor was jailed for life. A wealthy relative hires detectives claiming Taylor did not commit the crime. Ex judge O Hara says Taylor was convicted on circumstantial evidence and seeks an early pardon board hearing with evidence of doubt. The jurors who convicted him ask commutation. Howard La Claterre who swore the warrant committed suicide four years ago.
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Niles
Mich
Mary Bromley
George B. Taylor
Jackson
Taylor
O'Hara
Detroit
Howard la Claterre
King Endowment Would Create World’s Largest Home for Old Men
Chicago lines up a $38.5 million estate after debts and bequests. The balance funds a home for old men in Chicago, after $600,000 to relatives and $90,000 to eight Chicago charities and a Pasadena hospital.
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Chicago
James Co. King
Pasadena
Cal
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