New York Sees Slow Year Ahead in 1908 Politics
An Express opinion from March 18 discusses New York business leaders fearing upheaval as national politics turn toward Roosevelt’s government control and Bryan’s ownership platform. It notes unrest across classes, concerns over the third term, and a possible money tightness despite a busy city economy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bryan
Roosevelt
Washington Post
New York
National Congress
Washington
Hoosevelt
Ireland Turning Corner Redmond Speech in Manchester
John Redmond told a St Patrick’s Day crowd in Manchester that Ireland had turned the corner and the last election would not be reversed. He expected the English government to fulfill the King’s pledges, while Nationalists would not rise against the current government.
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Redmond
Erin
London
John Redmand
Manchester
Ireland
England
Kings
American School Burned in Van Turkey Complaint to Board
Officials of the American school at Van in Eastern Turkey report plunder and arson by Kurds in the presence of Turkish officials and soldiers. Breadstuffs for the orphanage have been held for four months, raising costs, while a livestock herd valued at 1500 dollars was seized. Secretary Barton of the American Board questions redress for Americans and subjects lacking courts.
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Boston
Van
Turkey
American Board of Commissioners For Foreign Missions
Barton
American Board
Display Ghastly Picture in Chinese Press Stirs Anti-Foreigner Feeling
The Times Shanghai correspondent reports native papers printed the Nanchang magistrate's head image after death, a premeditated move to inflame anti foreigner passions. Chinese officials accept the vernacular press hostility, urging diplomatic intervention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
London
Times
Sianghai
Nanchang
Formosan Earthquake Casualties Seen Varying Widely
London reports from Tokyo on the Formosa quake near Kagi Island with railway damage and many destroyed houses. Casualty figures range from 60 to 800, with Nichi Shimbun listing 400 plus, and Ji Shimpo noting up to 400, plus 200 houses burned or destroyed. An official dispatch cites 60 deaths and many injured.
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London
Daily Telegraph
Tokyo
Kagi
Formosa
Nichi Smmbun
Ji Shimpo
Karl
Taiwan
Kiay
Berlin Socialists Meet in Commemoration Across City
Berlin authorities reported 104 Socialist meetings held in Berlin and suburbs to mark the 1818 19 revolts and to protest Prussia three class suffrage. Demonstrations passed quietly as speakers including Reichstag leader Herr Rebel and Herr Pernstein addressed crowds, with several women Socialists also taking part.
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Berlin
Prussia
Herr Rebel
Reichstag
Herr’ Pernstein
Miners Seek New Conference After Wage Dispute
President Mitchell mails reply to George Baer rejecting miners demands over anthracite wage scale. He urges another conference before April first as conditions in the field are cited. Pittsburg reports a 50 cent per ton price rise if no wage agreement follows the 5,000,000 bushel coal stock in harbor.
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Indianapolis
John Mitchell
United Mine Workers of America
Loag
Anthracite Coal Operators’ Committee
Tolows
George F. Baer
Philadelphia
Anthracite Coal Strike Commission
Lyverty Street
New York City
Mitchell
Pittsburg
Monongahela River
Venezuelan cable suspended amid irregularities claim
Caracas reports government suspends cable service from Venezuela via Trinidad over alleged irregularities in English line operations. Treasures must be sent by boat to Curacao or Trinidad for forwarding. President Castro travels to Maracaibo as other maritime incidents and emigration news appear.
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Venezuela
Caracas
Trinidad
Curacao
Castro
Maracaibo
Bite of Man Proves Fatal in Scranton Miner Dies
Wilam J James, a well known miner, died in Scranton today from blood poisoning after a fight with Alfred Dodway who knocked him down and bit him on the lips. Dodway, held on murder charges, will be rearrested. In Ashabad a pest panic spreads from Seistan, Eastern Persia, driving many to flee. In Cincinnati Herr Johann Most dies of erguipelas and his body will be cremated next Tuesday. Mrs Most arrives from New York.
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Butler
Gale Street
Mary Ida
H. Butler
Church of the Good Shepherd
Baltimore
Goodman
St Fifth Street
Simon Goodman
Henrietta Goodman
Norfolk
Eeen
Nanchang
M. Greenbaum
Atspatch
Nanoeloe Jleane
Feng
Repruar
Elizabeth C Gummel
Edward G Gummel
Halley
Lebanon Lodge
William Halley
Wow Ludlow
Murphy
David Murphy
Mary Murphy
Mounty Down
Ireland
Virgina Avenue
St Dommit's
Ath and i
NFHR
John W. Drew
H Street
Frederick J Newyahr
Frederick
Bridgett Newyahr
Pittsburg
Cheago
Stat Ganjuty
Scranton
Wilam J. James
Alfred Dodway
James
Rodway
Maghem
Anarchist rally in Chicago funds for Haywood and Moyer
Special to The Washington Poet reports a crowd of industrial workers gathering at Ulrich's Hall to raise defense funds for Charles H. Moyer and William D. Haywood charged in the murder case of former Gov. Steunenberg. Police monitored the event as speakers warned of further hangings if those men are executed. In Boise, Idaho, Detective Thiele reports L. J. Simpking’s release as the suspect in the Steunenberg murder case.
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Chicago
Oscar Nesbe
Hay Market
Industrial Workers of the World
Ulrich's Hall
Charles H. Moyer
William D. Haywood
Forrher Gi Blemenberg
Idaho
Johann Moat
Red
William E. Trautman
Boise
Dad
Thiele Jas
Oakley
L. J. Simpking
Frank Steunenberg
Washington mass meeting protests Moyer and Haywood arrest
A Washington workingmen mass meeting at Pythian Temple denounced the Idaho arrest of Western Federation of Miners leaders Moyer and Haywood on alleged conspiracy charges. Similar meetings occurred in New York and other cities, with funds raised for the imprisoned officials and resolutions sent to authorities and the federation urging justice and solidarity.
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Moyer
Haywood
Washington
Pythian Temple
Charles H. Moyer
William D. Haywood
Western Federation of Miners
Idaho
Gary. Steunenberg
C. A. Pettibone
West
City of
Prega
Gov. Gooding
Blackburn Affidavit Alleges $5,000 Plan to Defeat Holton
A Casper affidavit before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee claims North Carolina Republican Rep. E Spencer Blackburn offered to raise funds to defeat United States district attorney nominee A Be Holton in the Asheville district. Casper, a Winston distiller, says the idea followed Blackburn asking about backers and a purge to block Holton.
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Senate Committee On the Judiciary
E. Spencer Blackburn
North Carolina
John J. Casper
Winston
N. C
A. BE. Halton
United States
Agheville
Blackleur
Helton
Br. Holton
Holton
Blackburn
Asheville
Judiciary Committee
Casper
Greensboro
Foraker
Kittridge
Trobb
Halton
Hays
Internal Revenue Bureau
Representative Blackburn
Congress
Hig
Turmoil Across Russia Sparking Strikes and Riots
March reports from Rostoff-on-Don Moscow Warsaw and Trans Caucasia describe clashes between troops and civilians. Cossacks fired on a meeting killing two and wounding eight. Prison raid freed a political prisoner. Martial law and mass executions cited. Antisemitic pamphlets spread in Poltava provoking unrest.
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Trans. Caucasia
St. Petersburg
Rostoff-on-Don
Moscow
AlUrikosoff
Warsaw
Poland
Pawla Street
Zareski
Letlish
Baltic
Sukhum
Trans-Caucasia
Alikhanoff
Kutais
Aifkhanoft
Hartsof
Russia
Poltava
Police disperse meeting of political knowledge league
In St Petersburg on March 18 six thousand people joined the inaugural meeting of the League of Haucatian organized by the Constitutional Democrats to spread political instruction. A Liberal former mayor of Baku, M Novikeft, urged abolishing the death penalty before police halted the assembly. Workers at factories and mills selected delegates for a municipal congress and national assembly, while elections at Putiloff works passed quietly with almost full participation.
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St. Petersburg
League of Haucatian
Constitutional Democrats
M. Novikeft
Baku
National Assembly
Putiloft Works
Lieutenant Schmidt Must Die Mutiny Verdict at Sebastopol
Vice Admiral Coukpin rejects Lieut Schmidt’s appeal to overturn a court martial death verdict in Sebastopol. He grants the option to be shot instead of hanged, allowing execution by firing squad rather than hanging.
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Sebastopol
Rdmirat Coukpin
Lieut. Schmidt
Feud and unrest rock Canadian coal town
Fear grips Lethbridge as miners strike stretches across 600 workers and 100 stay under police guard. Dominion forces imposed martial law to quell turmoil after a dynamite blast near the town, with residents fearing grave disorder amid ongoing protests and snowball attacks on workers. Mrs. Strasburger dies in Washington. funeral plans pending. Russian sergeants monitor women students in Turin as Moscow radicals seek a Nagasaki newspaper permit.
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Great Walls
Mont
Lethbridge
Alberta
Canada
Northwest Mounted Po
Hotels and guests listed in travel notices across cities
A long list shows guests and their hotels in Baltimore Boston Chicago New York Philadelphia and other cities. Names include J B Boswell Dorner Simmons Summers Parker Mclvoy Macdougall Alexander Hastings and many more with hotels St James Raleigh New Willard etc. The notice reads like a directory of travelers staying at major hotels and mentions United States Navy personnel P J Arvins and wife.
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Washington Post
NEW York Tines
Boston Clore
Fruffalo Courter
Chicago Record-Herald
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Pittsburg Dispatch
Providence Journal
Rochester Herald
ST Louis Republic
Pracuse Post-Standard
ST Paul Pioneer-Fress
Minneapolis Tribune
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Cincinnate Enquirer
Baltimore
J. B. Boswell
G. ©. Dorner
P. C. Simmons
F. Clifford
L. O. Coorars
St. James
J. S. Summers
National
J. H. Parker
Rimes
Boston
T. F. Mclvoy
O. B. Alten
Bt. Janes
Jack Macdougall
Watinnal
A. C. Alexander
A.B. Hastings
Raleigh
R. Wlaser
C. T. Cohen
J. Bermett
Robert Hartes
F. & Fowler
J. E. Bendick
J. B. Huay
Wie
R. T. Lynch
Miss Doodgley
J. DB. Caldwell
William G. Mightman
New Willard
L. W. Vanderhoost
W. N. Hallgarten
Shoreham
Puorcell
Marion Rodgers
E. A Stevens
Thomas L. Mount
T. Tell
D. T. Kelsey
J. A. Wilson
A. M. Hozenfipl
D. & Carver
St James
W. H. Davin
J Rosenbaum
A. D. Purvis
H. G. Herold
National. ©. Reynold and Wife, Thed. Yanors, Juiia ,West, Risse
Lord
E. Cc. Rigen
W. W. Smith
Warner Miller
Arlington
Philadelphia
A. L. Putman
Wite
J. V. Lawton
P. Failer
J. D. Angeny
J. ©. Hershey
M. H. Farr
Mess
H. Pratt
W. WH. Bupatrick
F. A. Qu Riso
H. Page
Wits
Jesale Allen Page
L. Ridly
Mia
Amanda Nef
W. TD. Crommie
Ebitt
A. C. Harvey
Rigel
Sptsburg
E. BH. Johns
E. W. Barnet
Boyd Chambers
W. T. Tredway
C. Bliss
San Francisco
New Wilard
Connecticut
E. Kelley and Wite
Bridgeport
P. FL Ryan
J.T. Kay
Meriden
Bt. James
C. T. Cobb
Martford
Edward Sterling
Mary F. Nichola
Florina
A. W. Vigal
Jacksonvile
Webber
Waterville
Riggs
Massachusetts
E. P. Barnes
Wf. Athol
Guy Cunningham
Gloucester
J. C Hyde
Somerville
W. G. McKerhats
HM. Morgan
G. J, Warner
Springfield
HH. M. Schofield
Fitchburg
Jamal Duncan
Quincy
Ebbitt
H. H. Whiting
J. B Teel
Medford
Michigan
Bertram Smith
Owomo
D. J. Keele
Detroit
Ebpitt
Isabel Pamps
Richman Phipps
Saginaw
Colonial
George Z.wisner
Minnesota
A. H. Moore
R. B. Hall
Foul
Miss Foley
Helen Foley
St. Paul
Sargent
Stillwater
Mibsouri
Halley
Princeton
Nelson Thomas
St. Louis
New Jersey
H. H. Stevens
Roselle
G. Adler
Jersey City
Ralefeh
P. P. Bean
Mount Cleir
D. T. Campbell
Max L. A. Campbell
Glen Ridge
New York State
G. A. Gearhart
Buffalo
Edna Dean Jones
Caroline ‘Holee
Waterford
Leonard Audl
Rochester
Walton
Schenectady
Faled
C. E. Newman
C. F. van Benhuynen
Albany
J. M. Wile
A. J. Kats
W. Thayer
Rochster
G. A. Laportes
Saratoga
New Wind
W. J. Quinn
Utter
North Carolina
G. P. Wadsworth
Charlotte
O. W. Loving
Charlotta
A. L. Brooke
Greensboro
Joe. Frank
A. S. Smith
Cineinnati
Wade
Toledo
St. James C
Werver
Lima
Smith
Cleveland
W. Nawcot- Uhley
Cincionati New Wlard
Qregon
M. Eastham
Portland
Misa B. Whitediube
Pennsylvania
A. Healey
Scranton
A. J. Smith
Jeanette
A. Hawerd Fleming
Fateman
Ross Bilgard
Parkersburg
Alston G. Dayton
Philippi
A. ©. Sohen
Charleston
L. Parson
E. A. Burnside
Poitt Pleasant
Rises
Wisconsin
John Pauteman
Milwanker
Norfolk and Washington Steamboat Guests Enjoy Newport News Trip
A party of 100 invited guests from Washington accompanied Norfolk and Washington Steamboat Company officers to Newport News to witness the Jamestown lawn thring. The steamer, the most palatial excursion vessel in the United States, sailed Friday night at 8 and returned yesterday morning, delivering a continuous round of pleasure.
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Washington
Norfolk and Washington Steamboat Company
Newport News
Jamestown
United States
Seventh Street
The Jamestown excursion boat party celebration
President Woodbury and executives led a lavish trip with Incheon buffet breakfast luncheon and dinner aboard the Jamestown. Young Tudith Norment toasted with champagne as the boat sailed. Jurors praised plans for a new fireproof excursion boat built by Harlan Hollingsworth for summer river trips and earnings prospects.
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Woodbury
John Callahan
Norment
Will
Dan Callahan
the Warwick
Tudith Norment
James
Jamestown
Dt . Bhonse 2 Bank
Sr Emall
Ing
Wimington
Del
Callahan
Ager
Harlan & Hollingaworth Company
Wiliam Griscom Coxe
Coxe
Washington
Newport News
Le Nard's Uric Acid Solvent for Rheumatism Cure
An old patent remedy claim asserts Le Nard's Uric Acid Solvent cures rheumatism gout and dyspepsia by removing uric acid via boosted gastric juices and kidney function. It cites numerous personal endorsements and notes long standing cases improved or cured with continued use.
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le Nard
E. P. Carlin
Washington, D. C
E. BR. Merry
Falls Church
Virginia
Alexandria
A. B. Austin
Emery D
Tathron
South Acton
Mass
Thomas_Boyle
Riggs Market
For Sale at All Drug Stores Prepared at Dr Nicholson Lab
A fragment notes sale at all drug stores and credits preparation to the Laboratory of Dr L S Nicholson in Washington DC. It mentions ongoing discussions and hopes placed on Paris and Berlin to steer the conference, with no side ready to concede.
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DR. L. 5. Nicholson
Street
Washington, D. C
Moroccan Knot Still Tied at Algeciras Conference
Paris and Algeciras reports show French Foreign Minister Bourgeois resisting further concessions to Germany over Morocco. Cabinet meeting signals caution as journals oppose compromise and interventions by Radolin. Delegates remain optimistic yet no decisive move on reform points. neutrals hold talks with French and German sides.
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Paris
Algeciras
Bourgeois
France
Germany
M. Bourgeois
Prince von Radolin
Temps
Spain
Trench
G Man
Striv
Chicago playgrounds library plan informs Washington committee
The Chicago Public Library reports opening three branch reading rooms with free delivery in South Side field houses. Each room holds about 600 books, staffed by attendants, with twice daily book exchanges from a delivery wagon. Open hours run 12 45 to 9 48 weekdays and 12 to 5 Sundays. The project attracts women supporters and calls for further rooms as funds allow. Congressman Fitzgerald is urged to back legislation.
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Chicago Playgrounds
Washington Public Playgrounds Committee
Chicago Public Library
South Side
South Parka
Fitzgerald
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J. William Lee
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George P. Zarhorst
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Jaffray
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Servia
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Great Britain
Reave
Persia
Ashabad
Seistan
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Steunenberg
A.E. Holton
Lieut
Schmidt
H. L. Strasburger
H. J. Strasburger
M. L. Hireh
Florida Avenue Northwest
Strasburger
Joseph Strasburger
Turin
University of
Japan
Nagasaki
F. Woolcott
W. M. Wetkine
Hamilton
J. J. McArthur
Ottawa
W. BE. Russell
Mle Munro
Toronto
Frank Wigglesworth
Mies Goldschmidt
Hamburg
New Zealand
W. J. Napier
Auckland
United States Navy
P. J. Arvins
R. A. Guthrie
People’s Savings Bank
14Th St. N. W
Treasury Dept
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Columbus Dispatch
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Cogger
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Runkel
Timnel Brothers
Cocos
Choate Mira
Yar Socolata
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