Roosevelt Predicted to End Cannon Bid for 1908
An Oyster Bay conference between President Roosevelt and Speaker Cannon signals a shift in 1908 politics. Roosevelt reportedly favors Taft and Root, yet hints Cannon may become the next president, a move that would reshape Republican leadership and boost Cannon's apparent certainty and dignity in the race.
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Dickinson
Oyster Bay
Cannon
Republican Congressional Committee
House of Representa
Joe
Cis
Psuay
Roosevelt
New York
Fatt
Taft
Insfest
Choine
Elihu Root
Root
Messer
Whyte Fasors
Cannes
Roosevel
White House
Aft
Theodore Roosevelt
United States
Richelieu
Europe
Cannon Fairbanks Face Off Looms In Midwest Delegates Bout
A midwestern contest for delegates intensifies as Speaker Cannon and Vice President Fairbanks near a head to head showdown. Iowa’s Cummins victory weakens Secretary Shaw’s prospects, reshaping the 1908 ticket landscape with Root as a potential second on the ticket.
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Cannon
Fairbanks
Middle West
Guv Cummins
Iowa
Shaw
Cummins
Taft
Tell 08
House of Representatives
Elihu Root
Root
South America
Uncle Joe Cannon Renominated and Endorsed for President
Danville August 16 The Republican convention renominated Joseph G Cannon for the eighteenth consecutive time and endorsed him for U S President. Cannon praised party unity, warned of crossing the stream to victory in November, and urged support for a strong national administration and law enforcement. He defended the Dingley tariff against labor leader Gompers and advocated Republican policies for 1908.
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Danville
Highteenth Nhnos
Joseph G. Cannon
Cannon
United States
National
House of Representatives
United States Senate
Republican Party
Powe
National Congress
Republic
Gompers
Governor Preaches Law as Greenwood Lynching Occurs
In Columbia and Greenwood South Carolina a mob lynched Bob Davis after capturing him near Miss Jennie Broges home. Governor Heyward appealed for law and restraint, stating the state would pursue a lawful trial, while the crowd cheered and driven by passion. The victim, a fourteen year old, had been assaulted earlier, and the scene drew a vast, tense assembly as militia readiness rose in the region.
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Bob” Davis
Jennie Broges
Negress
Columbia
D. C
Riles Tynnie Brooks
Haying
Heyward
Eitiezas
Ben
Chickamauga
Richland
Miss Brooks
Greeswood County
South Carolina
Sam
Hayward
Brooks
South Carola
South Carolin
Ajiowa
Ming
Virginia
C. ‘Ry
Rampant Terror in Eastern Europe as Rebels Kill Dozens
Reports from Warsaw Plotsk and surrounding regions describe widespread revolts by terrorists and bandits. Police are overwhelmed as killings injuries and robberies surge across Poland and Tiflis. Authorities warn of further violence amid a climate of fear and public demonstrations.
Plot to raid villas ends in bomb fatality at Yalta
Aug 16 Yalta police shadowed two men plotting villa raids. One conspirator was shot by a police commissary. The other drew a bomb, lit the fuse, and fled but blew himself up, declaring "You see we know how to die."
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St Petersburg
Krasnoe-Selo
Warsaw
Cholodna Street
Tles
Yalta
Deputy under Arrest in Penza Murder Case
Dispatches from Penza report M Vragoff, a late Parliament member, seized on charges of complicity in the murder of Lieut Petroff and wounding of a sergeant. Agrarian unrest followed his return, with the governor arresting Vragoff and other ringleaders and removing the village priest to a monastery.
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Penza
St. Petersburg
Sura
Volga
M. Vragoff
Vregoff
Petroff
Vragoff
Kamenko
Not MLE Helka Smirnoff Niece of Wadsworth Prominent in Washington
Aug 16 St. Petersburg dispatch reports Anna Smirnoff, accused after a sarcastic remark during a parade on Nevsky, subjected to indignities in front of regiment officers. Initially thought to be Mile Nelka de Smirnoff linked to Rep James Wadsworth and Speaker Wadsworth. Nelka Smirnoff left Russia last Sept, prompting inquiries by relatives. Official Messenger notes Ropp commission indictments against Port Arthur commanders Stosssel and Fock and others.
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Warsaw
Plock
Russia
Poland
London
Odessa
Eadh
Jewish Chronicle
Solliery
Keulbars
Mile, Nelka Smirnoff
James W. Wadsworth
Washington
St. Petersburg
Nevski Prospect
Anna Smirnoff
Mile
Smirnoff
Mule Neika de Smirnoff
Wadsworth
New York Assembly
Promient
Mile Nelka Smirnoff
State Department
Ropp
Stosssel
Port Arthur
Fock
Huchart Mutual Life placed in receivership at Elkhart
In Elkhart Indiana on August 16 the Huchart Mutual Life Association was placed in the hands of receiver Arthur B Darling with assets totaling under 1000 dollars. Belle Shinberg of Syracuse requested the receivership. At Marquette Company offices several hundred policy holders volunteered to reinstate with Marquette but the company took over none of the assets or liabilities.
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Elkhart
Ind
Huchart Mutual Life Association
Arthur B. Darling
Belle Shinberg
Syracuse
Chicago
Marquette Company
Hikhart Mutual
Indiana
Paris Press Singles Out Bryan Vanity Seeks Public Notice
The Temps accuses William J. Bryan of courting Yankee vanity as the presidential race centers on personality. His world tour is viewed as self promotion from Turkey to England, Paris, and Madrid. Bryan’s stops include St Petersburg coronation day, London Interparliamentary Congress, and planning trips through Cordova, Granada, and Gibraltar.
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Washington Post
Paris
The
Temps
Wiliam J. Bryan
Témps
Brian
Roosevelt
Bryan
Turkey
St Petersburg
Douma
Count Tolstoy
Trondshem
Germany
England
Fallere
Europe
Soversigna
Cordova
Madrid
Willam J. Bryan
Maddin Summers
Wiliam M. Collier
Mg Bryan
Grenada
Gibraltar
Treasury Shortfall Sparks Akron County Probe
Ex-Summit County Ohio treasurer Smith faces charges over a 765.38 shortage found in vaults after judges ordered an exam by Pardee appointees. Prosecutor Hagenbarger says two demands will be made for repayment as the case proceeds. Also reports mountaineering feats by Dr William Hunter Workman and Fanny Bullock Workman climbing peaks near 23 000 feet and camping at 21 000 feet, amid travel notes.
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Summit County
Ohio
Akron
Oho
Pardee
Smith
Hagenbarger
Bombey
William Hunter ‘Workman
Fanny Bullock Workman
Bribery Charge Puts Carlisle Man in Extradition Bid
Gov Harris of Ohio asks Pennsylvania for John Pischatta extradition to Cleveland to face a bribery charge related to an attempted juror bribery in a 1903 murder case. Pischatta, in Carlisle prison, fled after forfeiting $3600 bail.
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Carlisle
Cleveland
Berrinburg
Gov. Harris
Ohio
Gov. Pennypacker
John P. Pischatta
Pischatta
Two Wounded in Fight In Birmingham Gas Works Headline
In a personal altercation, M. James superintendent of the Birmingham Railway, Light, and Power gas works was shot and severely wounded by W H Rogers, a prominent factory owner. James struck Rogers on the head with an iron wrench. Both men are hospitalized.
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Birmingham
Ala
M. James
Birmingham Railway, Light, and Power Company
W H. Rogers
James Int Rogers
Rangers Guard Brownsville Amid Negro Troop Tensions
Brownsville, Texas Aug 16 reports say 150 armed citizens guard the road between the city and Fort Brown as fears of trouble with Negro troops grow. Four hundred rifles were sold to locals, and Gov Santam is urged to deploy state troops. Rangers have been sent under federal accord to preserve order amid conflicting rumors of violence and a riot earlier last week.
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Brownsville
Tex
Fort Brown
Santam
Houston
Texas National Guard
Camp Mabry
Texas
United States
Hulin
Austin
Lanhem
War Department
Penrose
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Maj. Penrose
Ma. Penrose
Citizens’ Committee
Garrizon
Rio Grande
Gulf
Naval officers found guilty of exam cheating in navy court martial
Assistant Surgeon Theodore Normand Pease U S N was dismissed for cheating in a promotion examination. Assistant Surgeon Harry Lee Brown U S N was reduced fifteen ranks. The trial, held at the navy yard, involved oaths and identical answer patterns. Pease, Brown, both New York born, served aboard the Columbia and Texas.
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Theodore Normand Pease
Bonaparte
Harry Lee Brown
USN
sTie Navy Department
Pease
Brown
Gatewood
Navy
Annapolis
Naval Academy
New York
Columbia
Texas
Prisoners Break Jail At Astley Junction Stockade
Three convicts Alonzo Goodwin Hammond Wilson and George Kenny escaped from the sanitary and drainage commission work stockade near Astley Junction by overpowering guard H C Stelle and slitting his throat with a butcher knife at about 2 pm They donned civilian clothes and fled into nearby swamps two trusties were locked in as alarms spread a sheriff's posse and bloodhounds scoured the woods.
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Charleston
D. C
Alonzo Goodwin
Hammond Wilson
George Kenny
Sanitary and Drainage Commission
Astley Junction
H. C. Stelle
Kermit Roosevelt Plans Overland Trip to Old Ranch
Kermit Roosevelt and friend John Steard arrived in Deadwood to visit Capt Seth Bullock. The party will travel overland via Belle Fourche to Theodore Roosevelt’s old ranch near Medora on the Little Missouri. Accompanying Bullock are his son Stanley Paul Martin Con gressman Martin’s son John Beard and the camping outfit for a week to ten days.
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Deadwood
B. C
Kermit Roosevelt
John Steard
Seth Bullock
United States
Belle Fourche
President Roosevelt
Medora
Little Missouri River
Capt Bullock
Stanley
Paul Martin
Martin
John Beard
Fatally Hurt by Auto in Atlantic City and New York
Two traffic accidents leave several injured in New Jersey and New York. In Atlantic City Barrett and Moody, both from Jersey City, are dying after a steering gear failure caused their car to overturn. Barrett suffers internal injuries while Moody endures a broken leg and broken ribs. In Central Park, Harry A. Weston, 25, son of pedestrian Edward Weston, is gravely hurt after a Panhard touring car overturns. four others are missing or injured as the driver is trapped and unconscious. Both events unfold with limited details.
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Atlantic City
N. J
John Ge . Barrett
William Moody
Tersey City
Hammonton
Barrett
Moody
Washington
New York
West Drive
Central Park
Gve
Harry A. Weston
Edward Weston
Weston
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Tiflis
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Mle, Helka Smirnoff
Stoesses
Elkhart Mutual Life Association
Banking Dept of Union ‘Trust Co
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Berkeley Springs
Cumberland
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Eaiser
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Presidents Old Ranch
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