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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1908
Page
12
Roosevelt drives a 10 point plank to back all of President Wilson's tariff rail policy and currency aims with injunctive power and government control of critical industries. The Chicago convention will adopt declarations on tariff revision railroad control and currency reform.
Fragmented text references platform declarations on tariffs and currency legislation, with mentions of labor relief, railroad regulation, trusts, and taxation. The garbled source lists policy areas, committees, and general debates without clear events or outcomes.
A preparatory step will endorse a general pronouncement supporting changes in tariff schedules. The aim is to ensure American prices remain favorable while protecting domestic industries and labor, with no shift that allows American workers to be undercut by foreign labor. The duty would equal the cost gap plus a reasonable American profit, endorsing protection in broad terms and hinting at a possible max and min tariff. CONTINUED ON THIRD PAGE.
Allies press their case on contested seats as Taft forces resist concessions. The group plans to bring disputed cases before the national committee, with potential appeals after a rival camp signals caution. An Ohio contingent hints at hearings ahead as positions harden amid intra party maneuvering.
A Washington Post story details startling allegations in a Pittsburgh post office site case. Promoter Armstrong and others allegedly paid $54,945 to influence the government to secure the site for $94,236,40, with whispers of a higher figure paid to unnamed Washington figures. The suit, led by Wise & Minor, targets Armstrong and others over options on parcels on Thirteenth Street. Armstrong denies wrongdoing and says payments were for legitimate expenses.
Special to The Washington Post Boston June 7 Grand Army veteran John H Bartlett formerly on National Commander James Tanner’s staff will marry Susie J Reese of Cambridge. The couple recount how a luscious mince pie sparked their meeting and blossomed into a lasting romance. Bartlett and Reese describe fate guiding their union through a shared pie and a fortuitous introduction.
The watch committee in Manchester England bans Maud Allen's planned appearances after previously forbidding Milo the statue impersonator. Allen is renowned for her Salome dance, praised by high society including the King and Queen and many aristocrats, artists, and journalists.
Three miners trapped since a Thursday fire were rescued after a two day effort by rescue crews. A total of thirty three men had been entombed following the blaze at the Gold Kir mine near Gledstone. Officials say the survivors are in stable condition and being treated at a local hospital.
James Duncan aged fifty two, formerly a Louisville racing stable owner, was found dead by hanging in the harness room of an Inver stable near St Paul. Described as having lost his fortune years ago, his financial reverses and domestic troubles are cited as probable factors in the tragedy.
A man identified as a former postmaster shot and killed his wife Saturday night then fatally wounded himself. He died early today. His brother in Washington heads to the scene as authorities await the body and formalities.
Washington woman Mrs Margaret Davidson of DC is among injured after Chesapeake and Ohio trains wreck twice within hours near Huntington West Virginia. Engineer James Mutone leaped from a smoking sleeper window and was badly hurt. four sleepers and a diner derailed later. Mrs Davidson, wife of US Post Office clerk Charles L. Davidson, was en route to Birmingham Alabama for a Confederate Veterans encampment.
June incident in New York reports nurse Sarah Kanet shot and killed Dr William Austitz in a apartment vestibule after waiting near his home. The nurse surrendered to police claiming a wronged relationship. The doctor, married and a sanitarium patient, died from a second bullet after a dramatic sequence on the stoop.
Miss Talla Woute Osgood of Boston announces engagement to William Mather Crocker a local artist. Osgood, daughter of Esgood prominent in business, has studied at exclusive Washington schools Castle Clinton and Beeton. She is athletic and an admired figure in Boston society.
At midnight Capt Deakyne ran the Yacht Viva onto sand shoals near the harbor entrance. A volunteer crew in a lifeboat battled breakers to rescue Deakyne and four crewmen. The yacht sank on the bar and was pounded by breakers as rescuers returned to shore with the exhausted men while others helped drag the boat to its davits.
In Pittsburg on June 7 a panther escaped from a circus train triggering a district wide hunt. Crowds hunted the beast as it moved through Harwich coal mine surroundings, Mount Royal Cemetery area and Keystone Park, frightening families and forcing church closures while farmers reported livestock losses and residents armed for protection.
Newport June 7 Representative Richmond Pearson Hobson warns that removing battleships from the Pacific could invite inevitable war if another power, especially Japan, enters Pacific waters. He argues Britain and Germany’s naval shift threatens balance, while Japan’s growing navy risks dominance with forceful implications for U S sovereignty and immigration policy.
Two battleships Maine and Alabama depart San Francisco at dawn for a weeks voyage to New York, with Secretary Garfield aboard for migration queries. The vessels, in good trim, will reach Guam on July 7 before continuing toward the Atlantic.
A June 7 tornado ripped through Charles City Iowa demolishing about 200 structures. It killed W oR Beck and a child, with three children missing. The storm plowed a ten rod wide path three miles southeast of town and blew barns, trees, and stock across the area. Water rose from the river channel as it passed. Also reported in Mauston Wisconsin a separate tornado struck John Dalton's farm killing him and his twelve year old son Philip.
Joseph Pos piesil, believed connected with local fraternal groups, barricaded his home at 63 Seventh Street Northeast and shot himself after a six hour stand off with police. He had fired on officers and residents, forced evacuations, and caused widespread terror before dying en route to Casualty Hospital.
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