19 Aug 1907
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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1907
Page
1
President Taft will deliver a key address to the Columbus Republican Club and campaign across Kentucky Ohio Missouri and Oklahoma. He plans to urge Southern Democrats to join the Republican fold as the tour emphasizes the party’s southern gains and national strategy.
The article outlines President Taft’s planned European trip as part of a campaign tour. It notes likely receptions with the Emperor of Japan in Tokio, the Czar in Russia, and Emperor William in Berlin, with possible stops in Paris and other capitals before returning to the United States.
Postcard survey from Taft headquarters in Columbus Ohio shows Taft as the leading favorite among readers of Independent newspapers in 26 districts. Roosevelt is second in interest with 18 votes, Fairbanks 22, Knox 10, and scattered support for Hughes Cannon La Follette and others. A separate question asked who will be the next U.S. president, with Taft leading among Independents and Roosevelt next.
Ohio speaker Joseph B Foraker told a 5000 strong Western Pioneers gathering that Roosevelt should stay in the White House and mind his own business. He challenged the president over the Brownsville matter Stutebor question and railroad rate bill and criticized Theodore Burton for a low $4 million river appropriation.
Georgetown reports a British Guiana transfer force under Capt Calder crossed into Venezuela by the Vari River and seized 4,000 pounds of balata gum. The Venezuelan commissioner surrendered the balata under duress, prompting protests to President Castro and the British consul. Fears of retaliation rise as frontier tensions grow amid balata trade disputes.
The unidentified teen about seventeen was found dead in Pearl River at the mouth of Matday's Canal after entering a watermelon patch where poison was used to trap trespassers. He drank water from the river and collapsed, dying from the poison.
A Bristol Connecticut party of five touring by automobile collided with the New York Pittsburgh express near Ashley Falls Massachusetts. Charles J Root a 45 year old manufacturer and his mother and aunt died. His daughter Mary Root was critically injured and his niece Katherine Root survived. The group, all deaf or hard of hearing, had left Bristol for a Berkshire tour.
A July blaze at Steeplechase Island amusement park near Bridgeport, Connecticut, sparked by a cigarette in bleachers, caused a chaotic rush to exits as flames spread to the grandstand and toppled safety netting. Firefighters and park staff, led by Capt. Paul Boyton, fought the blaze with dynamite to prevent total destruction. 400 spectators fled the area with only minor injuries reported amid the chaos at the baseball game.
Atlantic City August reports a car crash near the city injuring John H Hook and two sons from Lancaster Pa along with two others. The auto fell twenty feet over an embankment catching fire. driver Charles Young disappeared and was rescued later by farmer Chris Hilasbrandt. Hook and his son are injured. the vehicle and baggage were destroyed.
Winchester Ky Aug 1 An elderly man James Sutherland age eighty five asked to be jailed for killing his father sixty years ago. He claimed self defense but aging impaired memory and speech. County judge Fudie Evans explained no charge remained and Sutherland was sent back to his family.
Two people from Washington Pa and Bradford were seriously hurt when their car overturned on a hillside road near Runnyaide Kinderhook in Columbia County. One rider suffered a concussion and broken ribs while the other had multiple fractures. They were brought by trolley to a hospital with family members in another vehicle. The steering gear allegedly failed, causing the crash during a downhill turn.
Cape May New Jersey August 1 A car collision with a telegraph pole near here left Prof Howard Z Maratelier principal of Pleasantville NJ Schools severely injured and the vehicle occupants beyond injured. Dr Jean Charcot announces plans to organize another French Antarctic expedition aiming to start in July 2008 to seek the South Pole.
Mrs Bonnie Tucker aged thirty five wife of a veteran Republican politician attempted suicide at the Gibson House by swallowing potassium cyanide. She eloped with John Owens a noted newspaper man about six months ago in Mexico. Owens then died by poison in his room after their quarrel. Frank A Tucker her husband vows he will not forgive her.
A government freight tug carrying 15 000 pounds of ammunition burned near the New York Navy Yard. Fire teams and naval vessels fought the blaze for two hours, dumping most of the cargo into the water to avert a catastrophic explosion. Damage totaled about 5 000 dollars as the Pawnee was moored at the ordnance dock after a Hudson River voyage.
Special to The Waxhbreaton Poet Atlanta Aug 18 Almost in a riot the Georgia General Assembly adjourned after twenty hours in session. Fury centered on the plan to enlarge the railroad commission from four to five members giving the governor power to appoint two more. The measure passed the House but stalled in the Senate amid charges of lobbying and threats of resignation by opponents. The governor won passage of two reform bills, including disfranchisement and a stronger railroad commission, but anti lobby and anti-pass measures fared poorly and an income tax on railroads failed to clear.
Special to The Washington Post reports a twelve year old girl Florence Kimball abducted from a Delaware County summer resort en route to Montclair New Jersey. Police in two states search the West Shore line between Cortright and Weehawken with no trace of the child or kidnapper. An aunt received a mysterious telephone message claiming Florence would be returned from a Manhattan address, but investigators find no match for the caller. The aunt refuses to identify Florence's biological parents, who reportedly knew of her location for years.
A violent cloud burst and fierce electrical storm cause extensive damage in Minneapolis and Duluth. The Ebenezer Lutheran Church and a German village tent at East Side carnival were struck by lightning. several injuries reported, including Frank Montgomery and Peter Jenson. Downtown streets and basements flooded. Osseo telegraph service crippled and streetcar service suspended. In Duluth, Anna Botander was killed and seven others injured as lightning struck a residence. churches toured, and the Hike Hotel also struck.
Early morning train near East St Louis escaped disaster as engine crew found tires piled on the main track from New York bound service on the Pennsylvania Railroad. Switch engine men acted quickly to remove the hazard and avert a wreck.
A chaotic issue page reports a train auto collision killing three, a fire with twenty thousand in damage, and a motor boat explosion. Gov Hoke Smith and Gov Glenn face political friction as Roosevelt doubts arise. Major resignations, Hague plan, and Virginia race tensions headline a broad national and foreign affairs summary.
In Aug, during boundary delimitation after the Russo-Japanese War, Japanese explorers report new Siva islands near Walrus Talend, North Saghalien, rich in coal. The islands, now core to Japan, are guarded by Japanese gunboats and are the only non-served island with a wintering Robben Bank presence in Okbob Sex.
A thirty-foot motor boat on the Beaconnet river exploded due to a gasoline tank fire injuring fourteen youths traveling from Fall River to Newport. George Antuys and Lydia Mercier were killed, others suffered severe burns as rescuers ferried them to Fall River hospitals. Jozeph Chouinard, in charge of the vessel, saved several young women despite his own injuries. Ambulances rushed the injured to Fall River for treatment. most are expected to recover.
A meteor plunges from the sky over the Atlantic near Amagansett Long Island weighing about twenty tons and twenty feet across. It crashes into the ocean triggering a water upheaval and damaging bathhouses nets and other beach property with many dead fish washing ashore.
Special to The Washington Port Chicago reports a husband charged his wife with involvement with neighbor Felipe Ferro. Tonight she shot Ferro at his command to save her life, leaving Ferro dead in an alley with four bullet wounds. Police say they earned stories from neighbors as they search for both the woman and the husband, who fled after the shooting.
Shawnee Oklahoma Aug. 18 Alexander Jester, once indicted and acquitted in the murder of William Gates, brother of John W. Gates, has died at his sister’s home at age ninety. Jester’s long pursuit by John W. Gates is noted.
Admiral Evans hosts a state dinner aboard the Connecticut for Prince Wilhelm of Sweden who sails from Bermuda aboard the Fyfige. The prince, grandson of King Oscar, will attend Swedish Week at Jamestown Exposition, visit President Roosevelt at Oyster Bay, and be entertained with a series of official events in Newport and Norfolk through late August.
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