Dual Tariff Debate Opens as Chicago Calls for Change
Prominent speakers push radical customs reform at Chicago conference. Senator Cullom favors maximum and minimum tariffs if reciprocity treaties fail. Eugene N. Fosa urges a national economic plan. John Kasson stresses conference importance. Six hundred delegates from across the U S attend, backed by foreign consuls. The event marks a shift from reciprocity to a dual tariff framework as the likely policy path.
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Cultom Indorses
Eugene N. Fosa
Commission
John A. Kasson
Germany
Committee On Foreign Relations Moe
Congress
France
Illinois Theater
Chicago
A D Sanders
Sanders
New Havana Mayor Installed After Pact
In Havana a decree by President Palma proclaims Senor Bona as mayor, ending a long dispute after a Moderate Nationalist accord. Nodarse, aligned with Palma’s party, yielded to the decree, while Bonachea had vetoed his own election under a military order.
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Havana
Nunez
Palma
Senor Bonathea
Bonachea
Senor Nodarse
Nodarse
Cfarrill
Senate
Army fraud inquiry report to be made today
Strong of the quartermaster general's department completes an investigation into alleged government contract fraud at the Schuylkill arsenal Philadelphia August 116 May 8 Bow men former secretary to Congressman Burk testifies against fur goods contractor Morris Busch who allegedly bribed inspectors Bowman says Busch offered $500 to obtain bidder figures Burk orders trap and says Burk urged it Major Strong says he will report to the War Department Inspector Gladding recalls a $25 bribe attempt from Rossenwasser & Bros and notes muslin shirt contracts were canceled Suspensions of Inspector Charlton Quinlan and Beckett follow the exposure of irregularities at the arsenal
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Congressman Burk
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Strong
Quartermaster General's Department
United States Army
Schuylkill Arsenal
War Department
Charles A. Bowmen
Burk
Morris Busch
Busch
Bowman
Busth
Quartermaster’s Department
Washington
Sam Maloney
Maj Strong
Charles H Gladding
Col Furey
Gladding
Rossenwasser
Arsenal
Robert Charlton
Francis T Quinlan
Edwin ¥. Beckett
Maj
Light of murder mystery in Pennsylvania arrest details
Washington August 16 18 year old Clair Bain Hamilton son of a wealthy Chartiers farmer was killed August 7. A girl named Fdla Neely arrested at Canonsburg confessed Florenzo Gianotti an Italian fired the fatal shot. Gianotti arrested charged with the crime. Hamilton was fleeing to catch a streetcar when shot, with Gianotti allegedly firing at the approaching runner in a confrontation involving another man.
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Washington, Pa
Clair Bain Hamilton
Chartiers Township
Meadow Lands
Fdla Neely
Canonsburg
Florenzo Gianotti
Dover Says Cortelyou to Resign as National Chair
Cleveland Ohio August 14 Elmer Dover secretary of the National Republican Committee passes through on route to Buffalo with Mrs Dover for a vacation down the St Lawrence River Dover states Cortelyou will resign as chairman within the next month and the threat chairmen be performed by the August Floor Covering Sale at Moses store offering carpets rugs and mattings
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Cleveland, C
Elmer Dover
National Republican Committee
Buffalo
Peace prospects improve as Russia cedes Manchuria links
The report details Russia yielding all but a commercial railway link to China, ceding the Sakhalin question and the Pacific corridor while Moscow and Tokyo approach a Monday crisis. Witte claims major concessions and hints at imperial consultation as plenipotentiaries near final bargaining. Article 7 transfers Harbin to Port Arthur Dalny route to China. Article 8 keeps Northern Manchuria lines for Russia’s Trans-Siberian link, with outcomes tied to indemnity and Sakhalin.
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Portsmouth
N. H. Atte
M. Witte
Russia
Sakhalin
Far East
Japan
Httoral
Vladivostok Toal
M Witte
Port Arthur
Dalny
Nieuchwang
Manchuria
Danny
Maritime
Pacific
Fta
China
Harbin
Amur
Pogranitchnaia
Usurri
Witte
Chinese Eastern Railroad Company
Chinese Eastern Company
Russov Chinese Bank
Berlin
Faris
Russian Board of Finance
Federal Debate on Interstate Insurance Control at Sagamore Hill
At Sagamore Hill a conference on federal supervision of interstate insurance drew President Roosevelt, Senator Dryden, and James M. Beck special counsel for Mutual Life. Dryden urged national regulation for uniform rules across states, while Beck backed constitutional foreseen authorization. both foresee a Supreme Court ruling.
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Ee Dryden
Beck
Come For the Mutual Life
Oyster Bay
Sagamore Hill
James M. Beck
United States
Mutual Ife Insurance Company
New York
Long Island City
Senator Dryden
New Jersey
Prudential Insurance Company
Hengelmulier
Austria-Hungary
Dryden
Charles H. Keep
the Treasury
Robert Bridges
Hauitable Life Assurance Society
Congress
Bureau of Corporations
Ganfield
Iife Insurance
Senate
Supreme Court of the United States
Benater Dryden
Fabri Wedis
Fede
Judiciary Committee
Waupervision
Wes
Paul Va
Virginia
United States Supreme Court
Justice Field
Supreme Court
Army Contract Scandal and Twelve Killed in Quarry Accident
The issue lists topics including an Army Contract Scandal and a report of twelve workers killed in a quarry incident. Other items cover peace prospects, insurance leaders meeting with the president, the commission's report, and various societal notices.
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Keep Commission
Florists
New Orleans
Fairbanks
Vermont
Virginia
Maryland
Washington
Army
Navy
Reland
Altenburg
Loomis to resign State post eyeing diplomatic berth
Springfield dispatch reports Francis B Loomis Assistant Secretary of State will resign to take a diplomatic position. Loomis notes he has no definite assignment but hints Col William Cary Sanger may be chosen to succeed him under Secretary Root. Loomis praises Sanger as an excellent and trusted official.
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Springfield
Ohio
Francis B Loomis
Lenox, Maes
W . Sanger
Root
Loomis
State Department
Col
William Cary Sanger
Reot
Col. Sanger
Ceate
Jary
Gol Sanger
Administration of Foreign Affairs
Found Father's Murderer Located After Decades of Search
Antonio Carraccio, an Italian born man, spent years chasing his father’s murderer across the Western Hemisphere. He identified Giorgio Marchette, jailed in New York’s Blackwell's Island, after a decades long pursuit that began in Italy following his father, a provincial politician,’s 1996 death.
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New York
Western Hemisphere
Antonio Carraccolo
Blackwells Island Penitentiary
Antonio
Benavento
Italy
Potitics
Giorgio Marchette
South America
Buenos Ayres
Canada
Ialy
United States
Turnerer
Allentown
Keep Commission Reports Flaws In Printing Office Purchases
Assistant Secretary Charles H. Keep led a government inquiry into the proposed seventy two Lanston typesetting machines for the Government Printing Office. The Roosevelt approved report cites unfortunate conditions at the printing office, but recommends no public recommen dations on the machine contract.
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Oyster Bay, i
Charles H. Keep
The
Treasury
Keep Commission
Oyster Bay
Government Printing Office
Washington
Mr. Keep
James R Garfield
Corporationay
Lawrence O. Murray
Department of Commerce and Laper
Frank H Ffitchcock
Hirst
Gifford Pinchot
Bureau of Forestry
Commission
Gen. Palmer
Lanston
Government
Lanaton
Mergenthaler
Roosevelt
Keep
MISS ROOSEVELTS PLANS AND TAFT VISIT DELAYS
Manila Aug 16 The governor general invites Secretary Taft and party to banquet but Miss Alice Roosevelt has not decided on Peking visit. She may await her father's reply. Reports say she will not accompany Taft back to Manila on Korea around Oct 1 and may visit Minister Frockhill's family in Peking before returning to Japan or Shanghai. Included travel ads show Baltimore round trip fares and Pennsylvania Railroad weekend tickets.
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Atlantic City
Cape May
Wildwood
Ocean City
Sea Isle City
Delaware River
Manila
Blonelong
Taft
Hongkong
Canton
Alice Roosevelt
Peking
San Francisco
Pacific ‘Matt Steamship Company
Alice Roogevelt
Korea
Rodgevelt
Eaid
W. W. Frockhill
Japan
Mies McMillan
Miss Boardgown
Shanghai
Mob In Mississippi Lynches Black Suspect After Capture
A Black man named He Young accused of fatally wounding Howard H B Perry at Bass plantation near Lake Cormorant is seized by an armed mob after Sheriff Withers and deputies lost control at a station. Young dies in the ensuing turmoil as the mob tears away the prisoner and targets the scene of the crime.
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Memphis
Tenn
Lake Cormorant
Miss
Young
Withers
Tenton
Hernando
Stabin
Baas Plantation
Hint
Taggart Angry on Stand in Graft Trial
Wooster Ohio August 16 The Taggart graft trial featured Judge Smyser’s cross questions about aliver service in Manila and a Manila racket, sparking Taggart’s demand that his character be probed while his lawyers defend his clean army record. His attorneys issued a statement denying graft charges and asserting his innocence and sympathy of fellow officers.
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Wooster
Ohio
Taggart
Smyser
Smiyser
Manila
Farnum Boyd Shipbuilding Company
Sterling
Bryser
Hason
Maj. Taggart
Washington
Shenere
Maj. T
Mire
Mass Rock Slide Kills Eight at Ormrod Quarry Near Allentown
A limestone slide at Lehigh Portland Cement Company’s Ormrod quarry traps eighteen workers, nine escape, twelve die, six injured. Misunderstood warning leads to tragedy as rescuers rush to aid victims, with authorities expecting more deaths. Most workers Slavonian, families left in foreign country, emergency crews use block and tackle and jacks to recover bodies.
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Ormond
Allentown
Mill A
Lehigh Portland Cement Company
Ormrod
Rgeing
Hye
Wagona
Allentown Hospital
Poarda
Stock House
Old Country
Nominate Judge Stewart for State Supreme Court
Harrisburg August 1 Judge John Stewart of Chambersburg was nominated by the recalled Democratic convention for associate justice of the State Supreme Court. The move marks the first Democratic nomination of a Republican for a state office in Pennsylvania. Stewart, appointed by Gov Pennypacker to fill a vacancy, is the Republican nominee for a full 21 year term and former presiding judge of Franklin County. The convention also adopted resolutions urging independent support for Berry, the Democratic candidate for state treasurer, as party leaders sought cross voter appeal.
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Harrisburg
John Stewart
Chambersburg
Wre
State Supreme Court
Stewart
Pennsylvania
Berry
Supremes Bench
Pennypacker
John Dean
Hollidrysburg
Franklin County
Judge Stewart
Fuoldings
Elisiadelphie
Aged Woman Walks 875 Miles Toward Ottawa
Mrs Martha Rafe aged sixty travels fifteen miles daily and has reached New York after a zigzag from Creston West Virginia over the Allegheny Mountains bound for Ottawa Ontario to spend the rest of her life. The New York Department of Outdoor Poor offers temporary shelter and transport aid though she insists she can finish the journey on foot. She previously left Canada four years ago seeking a pension as a soldier's widow which she did not obtain.
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New York
Martha Rafe
Allegheny Mountains
Creston
W. Va
Ottawa
Ontario
New York Department of Outdoor Poor
Mra Rafe
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