Taft Frames Issue Call for Wise Dealing in Campaign
President Taft, in a Jackson Michigan speech, urges Republicans to meet great issues with an organized party. He cites civil war, reconstruction, money, Cuba, and the Philippines as tests showing the party’s ability to govern. Taft also attends unveiling of the George A. Custer monument in Monroe and reviews veterans, praising military service and the army.
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Custer Monument
Hson
Taft
Mio
Sodelmoun
Gnie Yvester
Crison
Lciss
Republican Party
Townsend
Charles & Townsend
Burrows
Smith
Senate
Michi- Gen
Eyher
Washington
Toledo
Buffalo
Lake Shore
Mengistrate
Canada
Jackson
Michigan Central Railroad
Detroit
White House
Custer
Monroe
President Tart
Michigan
George Armstrong Custer
Elizabeth B Custer
Cil
Little Big Horn
Wiliam Aldensmith
Custer Brgade
St Mars 4 College and Academy
McTart
Grant Lincoln
Roosevelt
Countie i
Brent
William O Lee
Michigan Cavalry Brigade
Mich
Taft praised for radical reforms by Senator Smoot
Senator Smoot of Utah, in Boston, declares Taft has accomplished more radical reforms than Roosevelt suggested. He hails the railroad bill as progressive, regrets section 7’s removal, and notes traffic agreements will persist. Smoot urges reelection of Lodge and criticizes tariff contrasts between New England and the middle West.
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Mass
Taft
Roosevelt
United States
Smoot
Utah
Henry Howard
Brookline
Thursday Club
Massachusetts
Senator Lodge
Senate
Senator Smoot
Ilegally
Middle West
New England
Jackpot Bribe Fund Ties Blink into Illinois Senate
Springfield reports a grand jury probe into a $100000 jackpot style fund linked to fish bills and lakefront land transfers to Chicago interests. Witnesses John Dixon of Peoria and Henry Lemm of Pekin testified as Gov. Deneen and officials face sweeping inquiries while Browne of Ottawa is released on habeas corpus amid expected legal complications.
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John Dixon
Peoria
Henry Lemm
Pekin
Sangamon County
Lemm
Dixon
Burke
I~nois
Plana
A H Foster
House Fish and Game Committee
Hsh
Bégkemeyer
Beckemeyer
Chicago
Lee O'Neill Browne
Ottawa
Wiliam Lorimer
United States Senate
Browne
Alderman Powers
C W Peters
Scanlan
McSurely
Criminal Court
Court rejects baking bread in trial over bleached flour
In a Kansas City federal court Judge Smith McPherson halted plans to bake bread before the jury during the bleached versus unbleached flour trial. Dr. A L Winton testified about acidity levels in bleached Alsop process flour, noting mixed results.
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Kansas City
Smith McPherson
Red Cook
Iowa
McPherson
A L. Winton
Chicago
E. P Smith
Winton
Pittman Captured as Estrada Forces Control Bluefields
News from San Juan del Sur and Bluefields reports William P Pittman, a Bostonian known as Phil, captured by Madriz troops while wiring mines around Bluefields during Estrada’s campaign. State Department seeks humane treatment and possible prisoner exchange, amid fears of reprisals and a looming court martial.
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Nicaragua
San Juan del Sur
William P Pittman
Phil
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Estrada
Lara
Pittman
Madriz
Knox
Gilmer
Paducah
San Juan Dé
Department
Grace
Cannon
Zelaya
Rotire
Nad
United States
Madiz
Washington
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Mena
Bluefields Bluff
Wareless
Colon
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Chavarria
Managua
Here
Greytown
Phil” Pittman
Farrada
Bellat
Moffatt
Irlas
Provisional
Mardiz
Tara
Gudoy
Central America
Signal Corps
Mardriz
Madrizs
New York
Thomas W. Pittman
William P .Pittman
Boston
Dearagua
Robert Pittman
Massachusetts Superior Court
United Fruit Company
Canal Zone
Canal
White
Worcester
Starch Barrels Loaded With Whisky Curbs Arrests
In East Liverpool Ohio on June 4 a barrel labeled starch was unloaded at a restaurant arousing police suspicion. Officers watched the place and found 271 half pint bottles of whisky and 165 pint flasks of liquor. Charles Walker, Robert Bushhalt, and Andrew McKeever, a restaurant employee, were arrested and held on $200 bonds each.
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Liverpool
Ohio
Charles Walker Robert Bushhalt
Andrew McKeever
Mines Fill With Water as Coal Strike Tightens
Springfield June 4 No agreement reached at Gov Deneen’s office conference with Hinds Coal Operators’ Association and United Mine Workers of America. Disputes over gubernatorial intervention persist as workers strike. Over 4,200 miners deserted, causing many mines to flood. pumps manned to prevent total collapse. Operators threaten federal injunction and possible Taft intervention. State industry losses cited at 1.5 million dollars monthly due to higher imported coal cost and interstate disruption. 1000000 acres Wyoming land opened under enlarged homestead act for entry.
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Springfield. Tit
Gov
Illinois Coal Operators’ Association
Taft
Roosevelt
Interior Department
Wyoming
Cn Entermirers
Dalzell Wins and Sibley Nominated in Pennsylvanian Primaries
Philadelphia reports tight party contests across Pennsylvania with John Dalzell and R D Heaton holding early leads in key races. Sibley appears likely to win the Twenty-eighth district GOP nomination, while Huey challenges Wanger in a renomination bid. Independent candidates in Philadelphia fail to secure nominations.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Congress
State Senate
House of Representatives
Weer
John Dalzell
R. J Black
Pittsburg
A J Hardffeld
Carl Cappel
H H Negley
James Francis Burke
William H Graham
Stephen G Porter
John K. Tener
Arthur L. Bates
J L. Langham
Sibley
Twenty
Joseph H OC Sibley
Franklin
Nelson P. Wheeler
Venango
Mercer County
Wheeler
Warren, Elk
Forest
R. D Heaton
Alfred B Garner
Garner
Speaker Cannon
Irving P. Wanger
William G Huey
Wanger
William Penn
Chinese Migrant Protests over Angel Island Conditions
Chinese merchants in San Francisco forward to Washington a detailed arraignment of Angel Island immigration station conditions. The protest follows claims of intolerable mistreatment and insulting conduct toward Chinese women detained there, as described by the Chinese League of Justice of America.
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Angel Island
San Francisco
Wah deemed man without a country by commissioner
San Francisco June 4 United States Commissioner Heacock ruled that Wilie Wah a recent acquittee in a border smuggling conspiracy case is a man without a country He refused deportation to China Wah claimed Malay descent and unknown birthplaces but authorities found no Chinese nativity evidence This decision ends his attempt to establish Chinese citizenship status
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Cal
Wilfie Wah
Mexico
United States
Heacock
Ching
Wah
China
Bridegrooms and Passion Plays in Pittsburg Tragedy
An unknown man jumped under a fast interurban car in downtown Pittsburg and was ground to pieces. Frank Stalder a prominent constructor at his North Side home shot himself in the right temple and survived. John Boyle a bridegroom of one week sang hymns at a relative’s home then drank carbolic acid and died moments later.
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Pittsburg
Frank Stalder
John Boyle
Fast Blue Express Wreck Kills Fireman in Delaware Embankment Crash
Royal Blue express train 506 from Washington to New York derailed at Elsmere Junction after missing a switch, plunging the engine down a 23 foot embankment. Fireman A J Rubetsch of Baltimore died after being trapped beneath the locomotive. engineer Charles Smith, 56, of Baltimore, sustained a broken rib and facial injuries. Baggage master Grayson and express messenger George Rittenberg escaped from the overturned baggage car, and passengers were tossed about but none seriously hurt. Washington priest Father Kearney gave the last rites to Rubetsch aboard the scene. The delay to complete the journey lasted several hours.
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Washington
Express
Washington Post
Wilmington
Del
New York
Philadelphia
Baltimore and Ohio
J Rubetsch
Baltimore
Delaware Hospital
Charles Smith
Holland Street
Vear Grayson
George Rittenberg
Elsmere Junction
Baltmore
Ohio
Smith
Ruberseh
Father Kearney
Rubetsch
Leroy Quickel
Drowning of Maurice H Joyce at Quantico
Maurice H Joyce, stock broker of Washington, drowned in the Potomac off Quantico Va while returning from a yachting trip. The body was recovered hours later and to be brought to his home at 2023 Massachusetts avenue NW. He left Washington with friends on the yacht Quantico and reportedly capsized while attempting to land at Quantico. Joyce’s offices were at 765 Fourteenth Street NW.
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Maurice H Joyce
Potomac River
Quastico
Massachusetts Avenue
Quantico
Fourteenth Street
Norman Restor Stricken Dies Suddenly in Washington
Well known Washington financier Norman Restor aged 66 and assistant manager at International Banking Corporation died suddenly this morning in his rooms at the Woodle apartment house on Columbia road and Windwood place. Dr Sotheron Key cited heart disease as the cause. Restor, married and with family in Asheville, North Carolina, was a member of the Metropolitan and Cosmos clubs and had appeared in good health yesterday.
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Washington
Norman Restor
International Banking Corporation
Woodle
Columbia Road
Windwood Place
Sotheron ‘Key
Bester
Asheville
WN. C
Metropolitan and Cosmos
Beveridge Popular Yet Reelection Doubtful For Indiana
Indiana survey of 1,506 leaders shows General disapproval of the Payne Aldrich tariff and rising living costs hurt Republican prospects. Beveridge is broadly popular but a majority doubt his bid for another term, while Gov Marshall earns praise and Taft faces mixed support.
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Marshall
Taft
Washington Post
Indianapolis
Albert J Beveridge
Thomas Marshall
Indiana
Beveridge
Republican Party
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