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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1912
Page
8
Fragmented dispatches report Taft and Roosevelt factions contending for delegates across New Mexico Illinois Ohio and Wisconsin. Notes include Roosevelt pressure on delegates, Dewey letters on presidential primaries, and Clark club efforts in Kansas and Maryland as Taft seeks unified support for the Chicago convention.
Obituary fragment notes the March 1812 death of a widow living in Lacestone, with references to a renter, a church, and a pall bearing in a local public notice. The item mentions dates around March and a printed record at a local office, with unclear names and places due to damaged OCR.
W R Speare operates as undertaker and embalmer from 940 F Street N W, serving the local community with funeral planning and burial services. The listing notes business location and professional service in the area.
Gov Osborn calls for another extra session after today’s adjournment as lawmakers despite quitting to work on Friday adopt a regulation to end the current session. The assembly faces a large budget and major measures including presidential primaries prohibition of liquor sales, constitutional amendments, woman suffrage, and reforms like an open primary and recall.
In St Paul Minn Maren Callahan, reputedly the only woman in Winnenota with deep political skill, assumes charge of the Taft headquarters after over a decade retired. She previously campaigned with Tama Rizby state leaders and John Goodnow, then minister to China, alongside Senator Knute Nelson and others, signaling a strong political influence.
Cal Roosevelt returns to Oyster Bay and confronts peremptory challenges at the county courthouse. He expresses readiness to serve but questions the need to appear daily, while planning limited campaign speeches in the West and East ahead of the Chicago convention. The recall and justice issues are cited as he weighs his role in Carmody v. New York Central and opposition to Campbell’s stance.
A report from March 12 details Republican district delegates in Virginia South Carolina and Iowa aligning for Taft at the Chicago national convention. Delegates and unpledged picks include R O Tolbert Jr Ernest F Cochran and others instructed or un instructed as the party moves toward the convention.
In Columbus on March 12 crowds filled the convention hall as William Jennings Bryan urged the initiative and referendum backed by recall as a way to place decision making in the hands of the people. He contrasted recall with impeachment and argued executive term limits protect public energies from personal ambition. Bryan visited the executive office but did not meet Harmon, before attending a reception with state officials.
George W Perkins, once with J P Morgan & Co, has acquired a large interest in the Mail and Express Company of New York, publishers of the New York Evening Mail. Henry L Stoddard confirms, noting his own substantial stake, while Blair & Co previously owned shares but liquidated a year ago.
Dr William R Brooks director of Smith Observatory and astronomy professor at Hobart College received the comet medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific in Geneva on March 12 for discovering the Brooks comet in 1911.
A marriage license appears to have been issued in Amelia County Virginia with multiple parties named. The record lists Gustave Ho Franke and others including McKeo, Ally, and Pluhford, along with several reverends and associated towns in Maryland and Baltimore. It notes individuals paired for wedlock under church authorities and law.
Governor Foss says he will sign the presidential preference bill enabling direct primaries for all delegates. Georgia sets a May 1 presidential preference primary with a May 10 state committee meeting to tally results in Atlanta. In Louisiana a state convention will choose delegates to the Baltimore convention due to lack of legislative provision for primaries. Roosevelt delegates named in Louisiana and California ballots indicate changes in presidential preferences.
Roosevelt supporters in South Dakota plan a March 2 meeting in Aberdeen to endorse ten delegates and ten alternates for the national convention in Chicago. The move follows a Mitchell gathering where the ten member committee was named to select delegates.
The Tennessee Republican State Convention unanimously endorsed Taft for renomination and renominated two state officers. Guy Ben W Hooper was renominated as judge of the Court of Civil Appeals, with Newport’s I I I L Cate as the other official nominated. Taft was endorsed for reelection in decisive terms, and the convention adjourned sine die after no dissent was recorded.
On March 12 near Kesce Station a passenger train on the Pittsburgh Monongahela and Southern branch left the track. Samuel Davis, a fireman, was killed and several passengers were slightly bruised as wreckage caught fire. The river packet Greendale, passing on the Monongahela, pulled in and helped extinguish the blaze with its hoses and fire apparatus.
In a jealous rage James Campbell shot and killed Samuel and James Gibbons at the home of a young woman in Wax, tearing through a remote county area yesterday afternoon. He wounded Susie Gibbons, and threatened to kill everyone in the room if more cartridges were available. Campbell then disappeared and remained at large this morning. Alleged intimacy between Campbells wife and Samuel Gibbons is named as the motive.
Grace case postponed due to Eugene Grace critical condition after a bullet lodged near his spine. Doctors expect only after a delicate operation to know if his injuries are fatal or crippling. Attorneys request bond consideration for Mrs Grace while doctors monitor his status. The court postponement and pending bail action follow a dying declaration ruling in a separate Georgia murder appeal.
Court adjourned as three jurors were chosen from a 64 member panel for the trial of Miss Annis Crawford indicted for poisoning her sister Eliza last September. A 200-member jury panel was drawn for tomorrow as defense opposes conviction on circumstantial evidence and seeks to avoid capital punishment. One juror was excused and another threatened out of the panel during today’s proceedings.
The Reichstag adopted a resolution urging the government to prepare a comprehensive production costs study. The inquiry should cover production costs, raw materials and land, wages, and the cost of social reforms and taxation burdens in Germany and rival countries.
A joint meeting of anthracite coal operators and miners representatives is planned for tomorrow to draft the formal reply to wage and hour demands. Operators plan to deny a 2 1/2 percent wage rise stating automatic increases under a sliding scale apply. Eight hour day and pay by ton issues face detailed replies, while a strike could disrupt supply and industry and hinder the public.
Reports from St Petersburg indicate Russia is mobilizing on the Turkish frontier at Alexandroupoli near the Dardanelles. The recall of Ambassador Tcharykatt to Constantinople and his replacement has alarmed observers, signaling a shift in Russia’s approach to peace and the Danube region.
Italian artillery held back a Turkish and Arab assault on Tobruk works outside the town. After five hours of fierce attacks the enemy retired. Italians report 13 men killed and 73 wounded. The clash occurred near Tobruk Tripoli and reflects ongoing operations along the Tobruk frontier.
Jewelry valued at over 200 dollars disappeared from the apartments of Mrs Helen D Roseboom at a local hotel a week ago. Detectives have pursued the mystery but no arrests have been made as they seek the missing items including family heirlooms.
A fog bound night in El Salvador features a grand reception for Secretary Knox. President Taft telegrams praise Central American friendship, while a separate New York voyage disaster reports the steamers Savannah and Navaho damaged with passengers thrown about, captains recounting efforts to save lives.
A garbled report notes a man facing bankruptcy amid gambling losses. The text references New York, March, and court actions tied to debts and a statue or title issue. Several names and specifics are unreadable, but the core claim links gambling to financial ruin and a bankruptcy petition.
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