Armor Trust agitated by price talks over armor plate contracts
Representatives led by Charles M Schwab warn that if they fail to secure work thousands of workers will be idle. They allege government promised favorable shares in armor plate business when plants were erected. Independent firms claim the Navy department pledged portions of the contract to them, while a move to underbid rivals is alleged to sideline the Bethlehem Carnegie group. Talks with Secretary Bonaparte continue as pressure mounts for a formal allocation.
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Bethlehem Seel Company
Aois
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Schuab
United States
Midvale
Midvale Gomeans
Widsals Company
Gepretment
Mfant
Bethie Im Ant
Carnegie
Bonaparte
Thessan
Mason
Bureau of Ordnance
Hun
SLAIN WHILE THEY SLEPT IN COLUMBIA FARM FAMILY
Special to The Washington Post reports a Timoran man named Irnegan killed his wife and four children with an ax while they slept. He then told neighbor Isaac Sibbs he did not know who killed the family and that he loved them. He is about 42, a Swedish immigrant who worked as a bookkeeper. He attempted suicide two years ago with a razor.
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Washington Post
Columbia & C
Collewan
Isaac Sibburs
Sweden
QODELL VISITS PLATT IN NEW YORK SUMMER HOME
Former Goodell Odell visits Senator Platt at Highlands Mills summer residence near Newburg. Odell dines with Platt, then returns to Newburg. The luncheon follows ongoing rumors of renewed friendly relations between them in New York.
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The
Evening Post
Newburg
Goodell
Senator Platt
Senator
Highland Mills
Odell
Taft Not A Candidate Denied In Detroit Stop
Special to The Washington Post from Detroit July 11 Secretary of War William Howard Taft was in Detroit briefly this morning on his way to Put-in-Bay aboard A L Stephens private yacht. He emphatically denied he was a Presidential candidate. He arrived at Put-in-Bay shortly before noon.
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Washington Post
Detroit
Mich
Wiliam
Put in-Bay
Put-n-Bay
A L Stephens
Brownlow control shapes Tennessee GOP convention
July 11 in Nashville Brownlow faction controls the Republican State committee deciding contests for rival delegations to the state convention. Glay Evans will be nominated for governor but likely cannot wrestle control of the party from Congressman Brownlow.
Nebraska Democrats Plan Special Train to Honor Bryan
Nebraska leaders arrange a Pullman sleeper special from Lincoln to New York for a Bryan reception. About 30 residents will travel to greet William Jennings Bryan and host him on arrival or during the visit, aiming to reach New York by August 31.
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New York
Lincoln
Nebr
Nebraska
William Jennings Braney
Bryan
Mrs Longworth Tireless Sightseeing Tour Fatigues Congressman
Special Cable Dispatch reports Mrs Longworth's tireless sightseeing with Congressman Longworth during visits to Ambassador McCormick and the Count and Countess de Chambrin. The wife appears energetic while Mr Longworth shows signs of fatigue during the engagements in Paris on July 1.
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Paul
Waatington Post
Paris
Longworth
McCormick
Morros
Countess de Chambrin
Long
Assault at Vermont Woman’s Home Endangers Guest
Prominent Vermont woman Mrs Jules L Chapin near Athen was attacked around 2 o clock Monday by Isaac Knight, a Black man staying at her house. Sheriff probes with no trace yet, neighbor warnings ignored, no lynching fears stated, victim treated attacker as gentleman before assault.
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L. Chapin
Wanchester
Isaac Knight
Athen
Chapin
Newhbors
Vicinlty
Wao
Ines
Regro
Ste
Knight
Virs Chapin
Murder charge and suicide in jail over North Dakota case
Abner Martin charged with killing Conrad Pfister near Anumoose North Dakota on July 4. Martin reportedly committed suicide in jail yesterday by poisoning a handkerchief knot. evidence circumstantial but strong. Pfister, said to be twenty and of noble lineage, whose parents resided in Leipzig Germany, motive robbery.
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Martin
Conrad Pfister
Anumoose
Vwartm
Pfister
Leipzig
Germany
State objects to rates for guarding guardsmen transport
Railroads demand 134 cents per mile for carrying Michigan National Guard to an August encampment at Indianap olis. Government budget shows 2000 allocated vs 32000 projected transport cost. State military board appeals to Central Passenger Association in Chicago for rate modification and informs War Department. Also notes schedules to Atlantic City Cape May area and Wildwood Ocean City with weekly trips.
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Michigan National Guard
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State Military Board
Central Passenger Association
Sesmon
Chicago
War ‘Department
Five Die In Grash Open Switch Collision Near Martinsville
A westbound Buffalo line passenger train crashed into a standing trolley freight train near Martinsville after an open switch. Five passengers were killed and many injured as the two cars were wrecked, with the foremost passenger car demolished and the rear car wedged on the track. Motorman Johnson among the injured faced potential death. Rescue teams rushed victims to hospitals as the toll mounted.
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International Company
Jane
Martinsville
Buffalo
Lockport
Iite
International Railway Company
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Martineville
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Main Street
Jefferson Street
Johnson
Carter Invites Roosevelt for Hawaii Panama Trip
Gov Carter writes to President Roosevelt inviting a visit to Hawaii in connection with plans to travel to Panama. He proposes a triangular itinerary from the isthmus to Honolulu and then to San Francisco.
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Panama
Roosevelt
Honolulu
San Francisco
Fairbanks In Auto Crash Near Danville
Vice President Charles W Fairbanks and party were in Danville for a luncheon with Speaker Cannon when their auto collided with a buggy driven by Joseph M Dougherty. Dougherty was injured and Fairbanks aided him. injuries described as serious. The incident occurred as the parties traveled from Indianapolis to Wanewellill where they planned a stay.
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Charles W Fairbanks
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Frederick
Ferg
Indianapolis
Farbanks Tomig
Speicher Cannon
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Joseph M Dougherty
Dougherty
Doughert
Rumors Spark Jewish Flight From Warsaw
Sensational rumors spread panic in Warsaw with thousands fleeing the city. Similar scenes reported in Lodz as authorities impose measures amid rising tensions after numerous attacks on soldiers and police by assailants.
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Warsaw
Lodz
Two Nations at War Peace Talks Collapse Amid Moves
Minister Leslie M Combs, headed for Washington to aid settlements between Salvador and Guatemala, is ordered back to Guatemala City. Salvador names a special envoy to press representations to the United States as border hostilities flare and a fragile armistice is threatened by revolts and foreign interference.
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Speaal
Guatemala
Leslie M Combs
United States
Champertco Guatemala
Mr Combs
J KH Paews
John Jen King
San Salvador
Paeus
Salvadors
Cabrera
Mexico
United , States
Pacus
State Department
Caprera
Bride Witnesses Husband Slain in Arkansas Tragedy
Britheville Ark July 11 Returning to the home of Joseph Woods who had married his daughter just hours before without parental consent the groom Joseph Vaugha was shot and killed Tuesday evening by his father in law The Woods fled to Dell ten miles west of Blytheville where Deputy Sheriff James Wills attempted arrest and was shot dead
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Sreelay
Washington
14 Year Old Loretta Rosengrant Weds Lumberman
Special to The Washington Era reports fourteen year old Loretta Rosengrant married at Tunkhannock to Claude Rose a lumberman after parental consent. The story recalls a 1903 sale of Loretta's mother for eight dollars with the note to throw in the little girl. Loretta met Rose in the Wyoming County lumbering district where her mother and Raymond Palmer had lived since the sale. Pennsylvania Railroad promotes ten day excursions July 20 to August 10 September 7 and October 12 with a special tram and dining cars from Washington.
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Ucket
Longstreet's son sentenced for drunken attack in Atlanta
Special to The Washington Fus Atlanta July 11 Judge Broyles fined the eldest son of the late Gen James B Longstreet 675 or eleven days in the workhouse for being drunk and assaulting a restaurant keeper. The defendant’s father’s Civil War service drew strong clemency appeals. The case elicited emotional pleas as the man sobbed and cried.
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Atlanta
Broyles
James B Longstreet
Tuaigsinest
Gainesville
Fryer
Hushies
Boy Dead Not Kidnapped Clayton Bishop Found
Guilford Conn July 11 The body of six year old Clayton Bishop son of Mr and Mrs Frank Bishop was found wedged in wreckage of West River about a mile below the Old Bridge He left home at 1 30 Sunday afternoon and was last seen on the bridge tossing pebbles into the river Townspeople believed either kidnapping or drowning sparked church bells to toll into Monday Searching parties and a long vigil preceded the discovery by fishermen this morning.
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Little Clayton Bishop
Frank Bishop
Weat River
West River
Once Rich Man Dies in Barn in Washington Tale
James Manning, who claimed to be marshal of the District of Columbia, died at 77 in a barn loft at Andrew Street. He said horses wine and cards ruined him after admitting involvement in the Garfield assassination. Manning alleged his family lived in Washington and once owned a $50,003 estate while weaving tales of scandals and gambling as the cause of his downfall.
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Washington Post
Chisago
James Manning
Guiteau
Andrew Staau
Thorty-ftta
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Saable
Hs Family Lved
Washington
Garfield
Murder in midair on flimsy scaffold attack at hotel site
About a hundred union iron workers attacked three special officers on a loosley planked scaffold eight stories high at the Plaza site. Officers were trapped on the eighth floor. Michael Butler was thrown to the seventh and died. Four union men were arrested on felonious assault charges as police guard nonunion workers.
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New York
Fifty-ninth Street
Fifth Avenue
Michael Butler
Union
Butler
Two Seized With Bends Near East River Tunnel
In New York two laborers James Haycock and Alexander Verger were overcome by the bends while emerging from the Pennsylvania tunnel at Thirty third street. Haycock died soon after and Verger was hospitalized at Bellevue in grave condition. Autopsy hoped for Haycock. doctors warned Verger may die at any moment.
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New York
James Haycock
Pennsylvania Tunnel
Thirty Third Street
East River
Haycock
Phillips
Bellevue Hospital
Alexander Verger
Raomertt
Falls 165 Feet to Death in Smokestack Fall
Chicago July 1 James H Glenns a veteran steeplejack died after the scaffold at a smokestack 36th and Butter streets failed. He was forty and had more than twenty falls in his twenty year career. In Columbus a coal strike began over a fraction of a cent a ton but negotiations led to a settlement and 10 000 miners were ordered back to work.
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Chicago
James H Glenn
Thirty Sixth
Butter Streets
Glenn
Columbus
Ohto
Hocking Valley
Rogue 18 A Veteran Crook Arraigned In Jefferson Market
Charles Ward a 79 year old alias rich in confidence schemes was arraigned in Jefferson Market Court after being arrested at the Fifth Avenue Hotel Ward had previously been convicted in 1889 for forgery and sentenced to Auburn He had a notable defense by former President Grover Cleveland who was then practicing law in Buffalo Ward had a string of aliases and a violent past including a stabbing conviction in Cincinnati with sentence served in June
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Washington Post
New York
Charles Ward
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Jefferson Market Court
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Cincinnati
Helen Knotege
Crew Rescued at Sea Off Atlantic City
The schooner Judge Pennell from New York to Charleston rescued four officers and nine sailors from the burning bark Margarita. Abandoned Monday, the Margarita was carrying anthracite coal from Philadelphia to Halifax. Rescued crew to be sent to Philadelphia by steamboat.
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Philadelphia
Halifax
Nova Scotia
Mob Kills Black Man Ed Pearson in Swansboro Georgia
In Swansboro Georgia around 2 am a mob of about one hundred heavily armed men abducted Ed Pearson, a Black man, from Deputy Sheriff Fields three miles from town. They took him to Canoochen Swamp and fatally harmed him. Earlier that night Pearson had been hiding under a bed found by Maude and Ida Durnen. Their father, an elderly man, entered the room with a public safety item and was knocked senseless. Pearson escaped briefly but was later captured by the deputy and identified.
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Respite Granted in Murder Case as Witnesses Get Stay
In Lowndes County two men sentenced to death for the same crime receive respite. Moore and Regro, both under sentence, were delayed after motions for a new trial. The stay cited their roles as important defense witnesses in the case involving Ran- Ings, Jesse Milton, and Leonard in Atlanta.
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Lownles
Moore & Regro
Supreme Court
Jesse Milton
Leonard
Atlanta
Charged With Gem Theft Across Oceans
European and American police hunt daring jewel thieves after a yearlong chase. Detectives Vallely Collins arrest Joseph Stellman as an alleged accomplice in a Birmingham England diamond robbery. Others, including Samuel Lockhart, face warrants. jewels recovered in New York and Milwaukee as investigations widen.
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Collins
Joseph Stellman
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England
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London
Wallena
Samuel Lockhart
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Rafter
Europe
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Caledonia
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United
Howard Lockhart
Milwaukee
Wis
Summers
Nassau Street
Eighth Avenue
Death by own action shocks Omaha figure Hennings
A. H. Hennings former city treasurer and Republican mayoral candidate in Omaha died at his home today from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. No motive or cause was stated for the act and the date is given as July 11 to August.
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H. Henings
Omaha
Thaw threats debated as witnesses questioned in Newark case
Prosecution focuses on alleged threats by Harry Thaw against White and his wife, with Mrs Mayme Schwarz and William Sturgis subpoenaed to Grand Jury hearings. Schwarz defends Thaw, vows to answer questions only in court, while Sturgis denies threats and remains loyal to Thaw, signaling a prolonged legal fight.
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M Spoena
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