Taft Woodruff talk signals primaries compromise in New York
Timothy L Woodruff Republican State chairman of New York met President Taft in Beverly with optimism on party unity and a possible direct primary compromise. He named Whitman and Stimson as gubernatorial prospects, predicted convention loyalty would stand, and noted Taft and Roosevelt share a cautious stance on forcing views.
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Beverly
Mase
Timothy L. Woodruff
New York
Taft
Woodruff
Charlex S Whitman
New York County
Henry L Stimson
United States District Attorney
Willams
Hughes
Woodruff Kala
Gov. Hughes
Theodore Roosevelt
Republican Party
Mr. Woodruff
Gor Hughes
Col Roosevelt
Cobb
United States
Woodruffs
Col. Roosevelt
Woodsuka
Yale
State Knox
Liberia loan debate shapes multi nation participation
Spain weighs in on the Liberian loan matter while the United States expects no restriction on participation by interested powers. France England and Germany are noted as potential participants due to trade and interests. The President plans a Bever ly stay through October with a trip to St Paul for the September 5 National Conservation Congress, then Washington for a week before returning to Beverly for October.
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United States
Liberia
France
England
Germany
Beverly
St. Paul
National Conservation Congress
Washington
Democrats Plan Harmony Conference in Albany
Thirteen representatives from the Democratic State committee the Democratic League and the Progressive Democrats met at the Ten Eyck Hotel Albany to discuss harmony. The session chaired by Edward M Shephard aimed to gather opinions for the state convention with no attendance by John I Dix or J Francis Condon.
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Albany
Democratic State Committee
Democratic League
Progressive Democrats
Ten Eyck
John I. Dix
J. Francis Condon
Utica
Income Tax and
Progressive Democratic League
Edward M Shephard
Harmony Committees
Shephard
Thomas M Osborne
William FR. Hearst
Harmony Committee
Bradford Suicide After Love Rejection at Framingham
Gamaliel Bradford 34 of Wellesley Hills, Harvard graduate and banker descendant of Plymouth Colony founder, shot himself at a Framingham hotel after Elizabeth Corcoran refused him. He had pleaded at the railroad station, then locked in a room and fired four shots, dying a few hours later. His father and a Harvard classmate John Brooks, who died by suicide years earlier under similar circumstances, are noted in this tragic case.
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South Framingham
Mass
Byron
Gamaliel Bradford
Wellesley Hitts
William Bradford
Plymouth Colony
Harvard
Elizabeth Corcoran
Great Barrington
Bradford
Gamaliel Bradford 2d
Young Bradford
Boston
John Brooks
Brookline
Massachusetts
Bridget Corcoran
Great Bartington
Prince Teruhmna Resigns Imperial Rank In Japan
Japanese newspapers report the resignation of Prince Teruhmna son of Prince Kitashirakawa. He was formally divested of his rank on July 20 and will enter the navy as a midshipman. This marks the only such case in modern Japan.
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Victoria
Orrisa
Columbia
Aug
Teruhmna
Kitashirakawa
Japan
Creager Denied Amid Oklahoma Indian land deal probe
Oklahoma Aug 8 A House inquiry into the McMurray Indian land contracts turns on charges that Rep C E B Creager solicited money from J M McMurray to aid a convicting sale bill. Witnesses claim Creager sought loans tied to a proposed 10 percent attorney fee and urged action by President Taft. Indian witnesses describe signing 10 percent contracts to secure promised funds as government wards.
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Creager
McAlester
Okla
Ceb Creager
Oklahoma
J. M. McMurray
Jake L Hamon
Republican Committee
House of Representatives
T. P Gore
Congress
McMurray
M Mc Murray
Gorerald Hamon
Hamon
Taft
Hannon
Creage
Washington
Charles H. Burke
United States
McMurry
Joker in land bill delays misused to strip Indian lands
Beverly Mass Aug A Justice Department plan aims to reclaim title to Oklahoma Indian lands fought through a Supreme Court appeal delay created by a provision in an Indian appropriation bill. Officials say the tactic sought longer delay for coal and oil districts, with receivership and citizenship questions shaping the case as government officials prepare to answer tribal status arguments.
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Beverly
Mass
Oklahoma
Department of Justice
Taft
Bowers
Congress
Soxker
United
States Supreme Court
Court of Appéals
Eigtith
Circuit Court
Supréme Court
United States
Court of Appeals
Indiana
McMurray accused of bribery in 1906 Washington lobby scene
Choctaw attorney D C McCurtain testifies that McMurray offered a $25,000 bribe in the Raleigh Hotel to withdraw tribal opposition to contracts Roosevelt disapproved. He explains he believed a telegram to attorney Adams implied Indian approval and urged Taft to push land sales without delay. The testimony continues on the fourth page.
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McMurray
Richard
Adams
Washington
Taft
Congress
Tragedy at Emlenton As Train Kills Three Boys
Franklin Pa Aug 3 three boys Rapp 13 Jacobs 11 Sloan 9 died when a fast messenger train on the Allegheny Valley division struck their wagon at a railroad crossing. The horse dragged the wagon onto the track as the train approached, causing the fatalities. Totney and Weller, who had been on the wagon, escaped prior to impact. The National Metropolitan Bank invites inspection of its Wolfe deposit vault equal to any in the country.
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Frain
Shachat
Wastiifigter
Franklin
Emlenton
Allégheny Valley Division
Pennsylvania Railroad
Leo Rapp
Emil Jacobs
Walter Sloan
Guy Torney
Harry Weller
The
National Metropolitan Bank
Wolfe
Fiancée Accused After Memphis Shooting of Boyeson
Special to The Washington Post Memphis Tenn Aug 8 Edwin Boyeson treasurer of Weinar Rice Mills Weinar Ark was shot and killed with his own pistol by his fiancee Edna Goldberg The couple lived on the same floor of a Memphis flat The maid heard a single shot and the exchange of pleas for forgiveness Edna’s mother calls it an accident Police hold Edna while investigators seek details Jealousy is suspected as a motive after an unsigned love letter was found The Goldbergs are described as a wealthy family
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Washington Pos
Memphis
Tenn
Edwin Boyeson
Weinar
Goldberg
Boyeson
Dng Goldberg
Edna
Goldbergs
Lascar fireman battles shark after leaping overboard
Special to The Washington Post from Boston Aug 8 The Kebinga arrived from Calcutta and Colombo with Syed Moham met a Lascar fireman who jumped into the Red Sea after crazed by Kasheesh. He swam all night and fought a man eating shark for hours until a passing steamer picked him up. He rejoined his ship at Suez after the shark fled as rescue boats approached. He was later landed at Suez.
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Washington Post
Boston
Mass
Kebinga
Mystic Wharf
Calcutta
Colombo
Syed Mohammet
Lascar
Kasheesh
Red Sea
Suez
Kabinga
Trafford Hall
Syed
Rich Man Refused Landing and Forced to Post Bond
Manuel C Payro plantation owner from Tabasco Mexico was detained at Ellis Island after a medical concern deemed him unfit to land aboard the Ward Liner Merida. He filed a $1,000 bond to leave the United States within six months and was allowed to stay pending the bond and an inquiry. The case tied his Tabasco estate valued at $600,000 to business ties with Thomas F Ryan.
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New York
Mérida
Manuel C. Payro
Mexico
Ellis Island
Payro
Tabasco
Thomas F Ryan
Washington
Steel men graft victims exposed in Gary fraud ring
Spectal despatch from Gary Indiana on August 8 reports a months long patronage scheme at Indiana Steel Company. Foremen and Chicago bosses allegedly piloted a system cheating foreign workers and the firm for as much as 100000 dollars annually. Police have pursued the ringleader but so far failed to capture him. Recent arrests of two timekeepers a foreman and a carpenters superintendent implicate mass fraud against both the company and foreign workers.
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Washington
Gary
Ind
Indiana Steel Company
Chicago
Carpenters’ Department
Indiana Sthel Company
Milia
CURES INFANTILE PARALYSIS IN SIX BURLINGTON CASES
In Burlington New Jersey physicians report six infantile paralysis cases once deemed hopeless now showing major gains. Four children can walk and the others are near recovery after Miss Lillian Balz directed massage and external treatments with no drugs. The success will be presented to the State Medical Society.
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Burlington, N. J
Lillian Balz
Widener Dinner Show Features Fight Films in Newport
Mr and Mrs Joseph E Widener of Philadelphia hosted a Newport dinner with fight pictures as the main attraction. A minstrel troupe entertained about seventy guests who gathered mainly to view the reels, which drew much interest despite mixed reception.
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Newport
R. I
o—vanniva-Jeffring
Joseph E. Widener
Philadelphia
Narragansett Pier Gambling Raid Touches High Society
Narragansett Pier Rhode Island August raid on the Narragansett Pier Club disrupts summer society as Constable John G Cross seeks names of prominent visitors from New York and Boston. Mrs J H Hanan denounces the action while asserting the ladies fled to safety and that many attendees used fictitious names. Witnesses include Mrs Robert Obling Mrs Arthur Morris and Mrs Emerson Morris among others. More arrests expected as investigations continue.
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R. I
John G. Cross
Narragansett Pier Club
Constable Cross
Willis
William Iving
New York
Brander Mathews
Columbia, University
R. G. Dun
Iving
Swell Club
Narsggansett
Marragensett Pier
Auto
Mr. Cross
Cape
John H. Hanan
Cross
Emerson Morria
Harrison Bullis
Vanderbilts
Oelrichs
Cannon
Parcs 1 Wosedruff Talks Harmony to Taft Kills Himself for Love
Parcs Wosedruff urges harmony with Taft while a lover’s suicide is reported amid accusations by Hamon against Creager. Taft pledges protection for Indians as Narragansett Pier raid and Spanish conflict unfold alongside a ducal visitor murder scene.
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Lee
T Sociaty
Ozark
Carlists meet in secret amid Basque Catholic uprising
In San Sebastian and Basque provinces Catholic juntas plan broad anti government campaigns to defend Catholicism. Six thousand rifles seized at Bilbao destined for San Sebastian. Carlist leaders meet behind closed doors amid suspicions of clerical collaboration. Pope blesses efforts, officials wary of unrest.
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San Sebastian
Balboa
Basque
Spain
Bilboa
Merry del ‘Val
Canalejas
Duke Sees Murder at Hell's Kitchen in Wild West Show
Duke Ferdinand de Montpensier uncle to the King of Portugal and brother to the French pretender witnessed a gang fight in Hell's Kitchen after arriving in New York. About 30 shots fired, two wounded, one dead. A second gunman fled. the duke left with his party after police arriving too late for arrests. Two victims identified, one killed Harry Cohen. The duke described the event as a “pretty good wild West show.”
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Ferdinand
House of Orleans
Gogg
Vistor
New York
Ferdinand de Montpensier
Portugal
Hell’s Kitchen
Knickerbocker
Dave Wilbur
Ea Talt
Police Headquarters
Fred
Wilbur
Tait
Bourbon
Charles Dedwith
Seventh Avenue
Bellevue
Harry Cohen
Duke
Bluebeard Arrives As Immigrant Dyes Beard Blue
A 70 year old Russian immigrant at Ellis Island dyed his beard with indelible pencil lead to gain entry. He later found his beard turned blue and ultramarine, while his head remained white. He faces likely deportation after a failed attempt to deceive the Board of Special Inquiry.
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New York
Ellis Island
Morris Lubowsky
Ocean
United States
Board of
Lubowsky
Society Flocks To Court In New Rochelle
Spectators fill North Pelham court as Mrs Alice Crownin shield Pierce known socially as Mie Tom Pierce faces charges of driving without a license resisting arrest and assaulting an officer and Miss Adele Ritchie pleads on a charge of interfering with an officer A adjournment is granted to next Monday due to absent principal witnesses Judge Samuel F Swinburne presiding Henry L Rupert for the town of Pelham and Miss Ritchie’s counsel consent to the delay.
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New Rochelle
N. Y
North Pelham Court
Alice Crowninshield Pierce
Mie
Tom” Pierce
Adele Ritchie
Samuel F. Swinburne
Swinburne
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