Ohio fight for harmony in states reshapes GOP
In Washington, Ohio Republicans split between Secretary Taft and Senator Foraker, with Taft favored by most Ohioans for the presidential nomination while Foraker resists, aiming to protect his Senate seat. The dispute delays Taft’s campaign as Ohio’s delegation shape remains uncertain, influencing prospects in Indiana Illinois Pennsylvania and New England as Knox Fairbanks and Cannon seek solid support.
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Buckeye
Washington
Taft
Forake
Tait
Foraker
Senate
Roosevelt
Woraker
Indiana
Iino
Pennsylvania
Fairbanks
Hoosier
Cannon
Illinois
Uncle Joe
Stricken in Sunday School in York
Mrs Kate Fitzgerald a primary department teacher at Trinity Evangelical Sunday school York Pa died at 3 pm while dismissing her class. She paused to tie a bow on a student and collapsed striking her head on a chair. Death caused by heart and kidney trouble.
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York
Kate Fitzgerald
Trinity Evangelical Sunday-school
Zoodby
Norfolk Dry Dock Still Unserviceable in Norfolk Yard
The battleship Louisiana sailed from the Norfolk Navy Yard to the Brooklyn Navy Yard for repairs as the new dry dock at Norfolk remains unusable. Constructed six months ago at significant cost, it lacks water pumping provisions, making any use unlikely for the foreseeable future.
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Washington Sea
Norfolk
Louisiana
Norfolk Navy Yard
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Hampton Roads
San Francisco Mayor Seeks New Trial Judge Over Bias Claim
San Francisco officials file a motion to substitute Judge Frank H. Dunne citing bias and prejudice. Langdon and Ruef accuse Dunne and associates of using graft prosecutions to gain control of the city, with a committee planning a clean city agenda as indictments loom.
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San Francisco
Langdon
Schmitz
Metson, Campbell & Drew
John J. Barrett
C. H. Fairhall
Frank H. Dunne
Rudolph Spreckels
Dunge
Abraham Ruef
Ruef
Bruning Convicted for Lese Majeste in Berlin
Berlin reports Bruning, a laborer, convicted of lese majeste for showing his tongue to Emperor William as the monarch passed by in a car. He is sentenced to nine months in prison after the state attorney had offered to drop the charge for disorderly conduct, which would yield a two week imprisonment.
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Washington Post
Berlin
Bruning
William
Duke Lost His Gold Toilet Set Aboard Flagship Varese
Norfolk reports indiscreet souvenir thieves aboard the Italian flagship Varese plundered the duke of Abruzzi’s cabin after a banquet. Gold toilet set, brushes, combs, pins, and many uniform buttons vanished, leaving uniforms bare and officers joking of safety pins and improvised dress.
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Italy
Cers
Varese
Washington Post
Norfolk
Abruzzi
Moses
America
Victor Emanuel
Bonilla to Be Broker Former Honduran Leader Plans Belize Venture
Former Honduran president Manuel Bonilla announced in New Orleans that he will enter business in Belize British Honduras as a general broker for tropical forest products and will operate his own plantation. He arrived slightly indisposed. The Stockton collection sale at Sloan's 1407 G street opens today with books furniture a Moran painting Sevres wares and other items offered at public auction starting Wednesday at 11 o'clock.
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Belize
New Orleans
Manuel Bonilla
Honduras
British Honduras
Bonilla
Frank & Stockton
Stockton
Sloan's
G Street
Thos. Moran
G St
Panic on Steerage Fire Drill Aboard Etruria
Passengers aboard Cunard Line steamer Etruria arriving from Liverpool reported a dramatic fire drill caused by a fuse blowing and smoke in a steerage cabin. Captain Potter and Purser Wall provided differing explanations as crews extinguished a brief blaze. Nine hundred steerage passengers were briefly alarmed as the ship faced rough seas with two steerage passengers injured in the weather.
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Cunarder Etruria
New York
Cunard Line
Etruria
Liverpool
Wall
Potter
Hondurans Still Fight to Retain Control of Country
Mobile, May 19. Reports from Spanish Honduras say the Hondurans have not given up the struggle to hold the country. They expect to retake Ampala soon. Gen Estrada of Nicaraguan forces reports that Gen Sierra, opposing Davila, was driven back and may have boarded a U S war vessel. Nicaraguans on the Atlantic side grow nervous. San Pedro salons closed. Capt Falk says extra gun and troops sent to San Pedro to safeguard foreign interests as hundreds more Nicaraguans arrive at Puerto Cortego.
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Washington Post
Mobile
Ala
Spanish Honduras
Puerto Cortez
Ampala
Estrada
Tegucigalpa
Sierra
Davila
Pacific
San Pedro Cortex
Falk
Bana
Fullman
Marietta
San Pedro
Puerto Cortego
Cuba's Debut at The Hague Calls for Peace Policy
Special to The Washington Post Cuba will present its first voice in The Hague at the peace conference on debt collections and disarmament issues. Gen Ferrara decries forceful debt enforcement and says Cuba backs U S arbitration and a broader authority for the Hague commission while aligning on peace. Delegation members depart for Europe aboard the William on Tuesday.
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Washington Post
New York
Cuba
Council of Nations
The
Hague
United States
Antonio S. de Bustamente
University of Havana
Orestes Ferrari
Fernando Sanchez
Merida
Havana
Paris
Gonzalo de Quesada
Washington
Senate
Manuel Sanguily
Cubs
Russia
Central
South America
Ferrera
Commission of Arbitration
the Hague
McCrea Returns Home Faces Fares Question
James McCrea president of the Pennsylvania Railroad returns to Philadelphia after a month in Europe. Reporters ask about the 2-cent fare law set to take effect September 30. McCrea says he does not know what action will be taken and notes commuters fear real estate values in suburbs may fall. He criticizes the law as neither wise nor fair and says decisions will be made before the September start date.
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Washington
Philadelphia
James Mec- Crea
Pennsylvania Railroad
Europe
Mr. McCreanas
Mr. McCrea
Redmond to Fight Bill at Irish Nationalist Convention
London dispatch says John Redmond will move a resolution at the Irish Nationalist convention next Tuesday opposing Chief Secretary Birrell's Irish bill. The move is seen as a victory for priests who influence education targeted by the bill.
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London
Dublin
Morning Post
John Redmond
Ireland
Birrell
Y W C A in Pittsburg Raises Funds for Permanent Home
After a 10 day drive Pittsburg YWCA members raised more than 300000 toward an endowment of 200000 from H C Frick to fund a large permanent home. A late surge included a 4000 gift from an anonymous donor and a 2500 pledge kept secret by the donor.
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Pittsburg
Young Women’s Christian Association
H. C. Frick
Ine
M. 8. Dunn
New York
Economic Board of the
New York Y. W. Co. A
Folk May Cause Shake-Up In Kansas City Police Ties
Gov Folk left for Jefferson City after a long conference with Kansas City police commissioners about graft charges. Authorities say a strong alliance exists between the Metropolitan Street Railroad and the police force, with two years of alleged collusion under heads of the department. Mayor Beardsley has charged police overzealousness in aiding the street car company, delaying help to injured passengers and assisting in avoiding damaged suits. John Harpin, chief of detectives, named for possible dismissal, is a nephew of Bernard Corrigan, president of the Metropolitan Street Railway Company.
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Kansas City
Folk
Jefferson City
Metropolitan Street Railroad Company
Beardsley
John Harpin
Bernard Corrigan
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
Satanic air ship sparks panic in Maryland Seaford revival follows
In a stretch along Maryland's Eastern Shore residents report a low flying air ship with port and starboard lights, believed bound for the Jamestown Exposition, prompting fears of Satan’s visitation. Panic faded by morning as religious meetings multiplied and crowds filled churches across Kings Creek area.
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Washington Post
Seaford
Maryland
Little Joe
Satan
Kills Her Husband in Rooming House Shooting
Cincinnati May 19 Henry Kne Mullers husband was shot and killed at midnight by Bauer D Dudley in a rooming house after Kneimuller followed his wife to safety. Dudley, a longtime friend, was arrested on murder charges.
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Washington Post
Cincinnati
Ohio
Henry Kneimuller
West Street
Bauer D. Dudiey
Kneimuller
Dud-ley
Knesmutler
Crack Trotters May Meet in Lexington Fall Match
Special to The Washington Post from Lexington Kentucky on May 19 reports Horace W Wiley secretary of the Kentucky Trotting Horse Breeders Association has begun negotiations for a fall match race at the breeders meeting between Sweet Marie and Major Delmar. William Bradley new Major Delmar owner is willing while consent of Stotesbury Sweet Marie's owner is the only holdout.
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Sweet Marie
Major Delmar
Lexington
Horace W. Wileya
Kentucky Trotting Horse Breeders’ Association
Sweet Marle
William Bradley
Mr. Stotesbury
Sailors Endure Six Days On Biscuit In Atlantic Shipwreck
Captain Clarendon Maxwell and six crewmen of the three master schooner Everett Webster survived six days afloat after a leak swept away their deck load off Cape Hatteras. With a biscuit fragment and spoonful of water daily, they were rescued by the French bark Quevilly and later returned to Philadelphia via Southampton. Maxwell had set fire to the derelict vessel before abandoning it.
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New York
Clarendon Maxwell
Everett Webster
Philadelphia
Webster
Hallit and Cummins
Wilmington
N. C
Hatteras
Maxwell
Quevilly
Ladonne
Rouen
France
Quevily
Southampton
Fights Storm Two Days Aboard Philadelphia Liner
The American liner Philadelphia, arriving from Southampton, battled a westerly gale for days. A heavy sea smashed a door to the saloon on the promenade deck, flooding the library and drenching passengers. Capt. Mills escaped injury as splinters flew. The ship later aided by rescuing crew of the Everett Webster after its prior wreck off Cape Hatteras.
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Philadelphia
New York
Southampton
Mills
Clarendon Maxwell
Everett Webster
Cape Hatteras
Questlemy
Rouen
France
Women May Smoke, Says National Spiritualists Leader
Special to The Washington from Chicago May 19. Harrison D. Barrett, president of the National Spiritualists Association, argues women have a right to smoke, claiming equal rights with men. He cites a lecture at Hygeia Hall on higher spiritualism, and notes applause from women. He jokes of possible extra smoking cars after a railroad president hinted at such requests.
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Washington Rose
Chicago
Harrison D. Barrett
National Spiritualists’ Association
State Street
Barrett
Washington
Hygeia Hall
Two Children Perish In Greensburg Fire
Two children of John Goodlin aged fifteen months and four years died in a house fire at Scott Haven near Greensburg Pennsylvania. A lamp in the room exploded igniting furnishings and smoke suffocated the youngsters before the blaze was found.
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Greensburg
John Goodlin
Scott Haven
Corey to resign from United States Steel Corp
Special to The Washington Pew reports that William Elis Corey will not return as president of United States Steel Corp. The resignation, said to be in Judge Gary's hands, was reportedly agreed to after Corey goes to France with his bride. Dinkey seen as likely successor.
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Steel Trust
Seid
Gary
Washington
Pittsburg
William Elis Corey
United States Steel Cor Bborsation
Corey
Steel Corporation
France
A C. Dinkey
Carnegie Steel Company
Dinkey
New York
Dinkeya
Demand on the Douma Ends Session Threat Felt at St Petersburg
In St Petersburg on May 1% Stolypin prepares to address the Douma to demand a vote of abhorrence of revolution. President Golovin declares he will resign if Constitutional Democrats fail to win a majority. Arrests of 38 men linked to a Social Democratic group stir party tensions. Octoberists congratulate the czar as details of a failed regicide plot surface. The emperor’s birthday observances and court discussions follow.
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Czar
St. Petersburg
Stolypin
Social Democrats
Stolymin
Social Democratic
Douma
Moscow
St Petersburg
Russia
M. Stolypin
Mods
Tsarkoe- Selo
Tower House
M. Golovin
M. Zuraboff
Constitutional Democrats
GIEL AND TWO BOYS DROWN IN LAKE WASHINGTON
Three Stanford students and Edith Vogt a University of Washington junior drowned when a squall capsized their canoe on Lake Washington. Eugene White survived after being pulled from the water by companions in a sailboat. The incident occurred amid ms waves as the group struggled to reach safety. The Navy notes Chilean warships believed to have arrived off Annapolis amid a storm.
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Seattle
Wash
Lake Washington
J P Goshorn
Robert Geshorn
White
Washington Post
Annapolis
Naval Academy
Bank President Victim of Daring Stock Swindle Case
A New York stock exchange insider named Leonard J. Mosness led banker James Spear of St. Lawrence County National Bank into a Colorado Gold Temple-Cripple Creek scam. The plot involved McBride and Halter manipulating stock values, promising profits for a share, with Spear defrauded of 348000 as investigators pursue the gang across multiple cities.
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Washington Post
New York
Larry Summerfield
Leonard J. Mosness
Stock Exchange
Atwood Violett & Co
Wall Street
New Street
James Spear
St. Lawrence County National Bank
Canton
Mosness
Walter McBrid
Crech
Colorado
McBride
Speer
Spear
Philadelphia Exchange
Mosness Spear
Gold Temple-Cripple Creek
Quaker City
Philadelphia
Alexander Halter
Halter
Hayden
The
Exchange
Hear 114 Baptist Sermons in Richmond May 19
Richmond May 19 most city pulpits were occupied by ministers attending the Southern Baptist convention. An estimated 114 Baptist sermons were preached in Richmond and nearby areas. Two large men’s meetings were held at First and Grove Avenue Baptist churches with notable speakers. A 3 pm mass meeting for the Woman’s Missionary Union at Second Baptist raised $10,000 for the Southern Theological Training School for Women Missionaries.
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Richmond
Southern Baptist Convention
The
Baptist Convention
First Baptist Church
Grove Avenue Baptist Church
Morney Willams
New York
Joshua Levering
Baltimore
Northen
Georgia
J E Write
Atlanta
H. H. Hulton
Charlotte
N. C
Len G Broughton
W. W. Landrum
Woman's Missionary Union
Second Baptist Church
Carrie. Bostick
Aliee Parker
BE. F. Tetum
W .B. Crocker
Jea Pruitt
China
W. H. Clark
Japan
Katherine Hansen
Oklahoma
Southern Theological Training School For Women
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Ferrara
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Frick
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