Contested Delegates Debate Shapes Ohio Republican Plan
Secretary Elmer Dover of the Republican National Committee says delegates chosen before the committee's call have no status and may face contests if a summer convention is held in Ohio. He notes future seating depends on the call and committee rules, with Alaska and a Louisiana district cited as past examples.
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Republican National Committee
Ohio
Elmer Dover
National Committee
Opimmion
Alaska
Lousiana
Roosevelt
Nere
Oftien Flarty
Ecomnultes
Manygrzeis
Smith
Mie
Joseph Ro Keal
Keating
Fairhiolhs
Indiana
Pearing
Paul
Warnel
White House
Joseph L Stickney Dead War Correspondent Dies
Joseph T Stickney former naval academy graduate and war correspondent died at home in Michigan last Saturday at fifty one. He stood on the Olympia bridge with Dewey during Manila Bay and supplied the first published precise data of the battle. Admiral Dewey credited him as a volunteer aid who rendered valuable service.
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Chicago
Joseph T. Stickney
Olympia
Dewey
Manila Bay
Michigan
Gridney
Mr. Stickney
Admiral Newey
Navy Department
Stickney
United States Navy
Assaults on Japanese in San Francisco blamed on uncertain conditions
Telegram from Governor J. N. Gillett notes assaults on Japanese due to labor trouble and street car strike. Cabinet discussion supports no premeditation, calls for protection. investigation to report to Washington. United States Marshals interview restaurant staff as case moves to federal level.
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Root
California
San Francisco
J. N. Gillett
Bonaparte
Department of Justice
United States District Attorney
Sanfrancisco
Gov. Aillett
Washington
State Department
United States Marshallsdiett
Folsom Street
United States
Devlin
Cummins Seeks Toga for Senate Run
Des Moines May 23 Gov Cummins announced he will be a candidate for the United States Senate subject to endorsement at next year’s primary election.
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Iowa
Senate
Des Moines
Gov. Cummins
United States Senate
Rosy teachers show food can restore health and vigor
A Latin and mathematics instructor in a young ladies seminary fell to nervous prostration from overwork and improper diet. After eight months bedridden, she recovered with Grape-Nuts and Postum, gaining weight from 95 to 133 pounds and reporting improved mind, energy, and complexion. There's a Reason. Read The Road to Wellville in pkgs.
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Wellville
Churchill declines statewide run for New Hampshire governor
Winston Churchill, longtime Lincoln Republican Club candidate, states he will not seek the Republican nomination for governor of New Hampshire in the next biennial election. He cites a desire to pursue principles of American government and opposition to political machine influence, saying candidacy would hinder his usefulness.
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Concord
N. H
Winston Churchill
Lincoln Repubican Club
New Hampshire
Publc
Churchill
Intimate Slight To Duke At New York Banquet
The Duke d Abruzzi, visiting Italian nobleman, fends off army navy ranking disputes over his status. General Grant orders seventeen gun salute at Governor's Island reception, though Italian consulate says he has no army rank. Duke, Peary, and Brainard meet at Hotel Astor dinner hosted by the American Alpine Club with Appalachian members and Miss Annie Peck present.
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Washington Fort
New York
Navy
d’Abruzzi
Fred D. Grant
Department of the Host
Governor’s Island
Alpine Club
Mount St. Hillas
Annie Peck
Appalachian Mountain Club
Charles E. Fay
Tufts College
Bay burglar 11 year old on Staten Island arraigned
Albert Skywerte 11 of 177 Richmond road Staten Island was arraigned before Magistrate Marsh at Stapleton on charges of robbing William Beinett’s butcher shop on Water Street of about two dozen pencils and other thefts. His father Henry Skyweile, a paper factory worker, plans to seek reform school placement. The boy admitted stealing a sealskin coat from a school teacher on February 1 and said he sold it for six cents to an unknown man.
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Washington Post
New York
Staten Island
Bay
Albert Skyvweite
Richmond Road
Stapleton
Marsh
William Beinett
Water Street
Henry Skyweile
Foraker Confuses Witness in Brownsville Hearing
Senate Military Affairs panel heard three witnesses in Brownsville, with Capt. Ely testifying as army rifle expert. Ice wagon driver William Adams testified that corral boss Voschel warned that "negroes would shoot up" Brownsville after pay day. The committee adjourned to June 4 and postponed recalling Maj. Blocksom and Lieut. Leckie.
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Senate
Hanson EK Hly
Twenty-sixth Infantry
Senator Foraker
Maj
Blocksom
Foraker
Tillman
Leckie
Ely
Penrose
Springfeld
Capt
Maj. Blocksom
Krag
William Henry Adams
Voschel
Lieut
Plan for Hague Court to Meet in Berlin in 1908
Representative Bartholdt of Missouri reported at the White House on cable messages from Lord Weardale and Prime Minister Beer naert confirming the next International Parliamentary Union meeting in Berlin for September 1908. The union aims to create a permanent Hague body with automatic meetings and an arbitration treaty binding major nations, plus preliminary inquiries by impartial powers.
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International Parliamentary Union
Berlin
Bartholdt
Missouri
White House
Lord Weardale
London
Union
Beernaert
Belgium
International Union
Hague
Burt's Greater Stores Sales Ad For Boys Suits
It is the duty of parents to dress their children well. Boys' $2.00 Wash Suits, very nobby, reduced to $1.25. Boys' $5.00 and $5.50 Wool Suits, reduced to $4.00. Arthur Burt, 1343 F St. Burt's Greater Stores.
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Arthur Burt
F St
Campaign plot targets Cannon in bid for Roosevelt third term
A Chicago report claims Roy O. West and Gov. Deneen allies back a covert push to nominate Theodore Roosevelt again while Charles H. Dawes acts as Illinois liaison for Charles W. Fairbanks. Dawes is said to be coordinating with Fairbanks and advocating Cannon for delegation as a cover while Fairbanks runs.
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Fairbanks
Roy 0. West
Roosevelt
Apenlal
Washington Post
Chicago
Illinois
Cannon
Charles H. Dawes
The
Central Trust Company
Deneen and
West
Charles W. Fairbanks
Dawes
Price's Charges Denied By New York Cotton Exchange
New York May 28 President Walter C Hubbard defends the New York Cotton Exchange classification system in an official statement denying charges of over classification. The exchange cites affidavits from leading cotton merchants showing deliveries met standards and classification errors total less than one twentieth of 1 percent of bases inspected.
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New York
Walter C. Hubbard
New York Cotton Exchange
Theodore H Price
Southern Cotton Association
Henry W. Taft
Roosevelt needs a cabinet official for transportation
Seaboard Air Line president Garrett urges a new cabinet post to oversee transportation, ensure road service at reasonable rates, and warn railroads when overstepping rights while public confidence remains essential. He argues rate cuts won’t preserve or improve service and favors strong federal oversight and transparency.
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Washington Post
Savannah
Roosevelt
Garrett
Seaboard Air Line System
Inventor Claims Perpetual Motion Motor in Naples
Naples on May 28. Giovanni Dileo of Andria, age twenty two, has unveiled a motor operated by compressed air. He asserts he has solved perpetual motion and will conduct further experiments to prove the principle.
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Naples
Giovanni Dileo
Andria
Fifty-Five Pictures Stolen From Royal Academy Gallery
Thieves stole fifty five water color canvases from a Bond Street gallery near Burlington House during the night. The works belonged to artist Herbert J Finn who planned to open an exhibition today. Police guarding the Royal Academy pictures were nearby but the theft occurred with no trail left by the culprits.
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Royal Academy
London
Burlington House
Bond Street
Herbert J. Finn
Von Sternburg in Berlin on way to Dresden for decoration
Berlin May 2 Baron Speck von Sternburg German Ambassador to the United States pauses in Berlin en route from the Italian Tyrol to Dresden where King Frederick will personally confer the Grand Cross of Albrecht Saxony’s highest order on him He will later return to Berlin for an audience with Emperor William Boni case postponed again Paris May 28 Count Boni de Castellano appeals divorce ruling from November 14 last and the hearing likely not until December
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Dresden
Frederick
Berlin
Baron Speck von Sternburg
United States
Tyrol
Amajesty
Saxony
Albrecht
Ife
Emperor Wiliam
Boni
Paris
Boni de Castellano
Wreck Victims' Jewels Located In California Train Crash
Allentown resident Charles Andrews returned home from the Msyth Shriners train wreck near Honda California with jewels belonging to Mr and Mrs Louis Elienbogen, reported lost and thought stolen. The Post invites readers to telephone lost and found articles.
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Allentown
Charles
Andrews
Msyth Shriners
Honda
Cal
Louis Elienbogen
The
Washington Post
Art Treasure Stolen in Perugia American Suspected
In Perugia a theft involves twenty two illuminated volumes from the Church of San Pietro dating to the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The finest piece is a Caporali work. A physician who copied the Caporali volume for a rich American took it home two years ago and never returned it. The abbot has died and the physician left for Florence.
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Perugia
Italy
France reassures America on Franco-Japanese accord
Paris reports the Franco-Japanese convention is complete with terms formally communicated to prevent misinterpretation. M Kurino and Foreign Minister Pichon will sign by weekend, while the United States says it has no objection after review. Diplomatic circles sense possible U.S. treaty talks with Japan under Monroe doctrine.
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Paris
M. Kurino
Pichon
France
United States
Japan
Woman thrashes duke in Paris civil court action
Paria May 28 A woman Mme Guggenheim was fined 20 in civil court for assaulting the Duke of Galleria husband of Infanta Eulalie aunt to the king of Spain. She attacked him with a parasol outside a Rue de la Paix store, saying she left her husband for love and that he neglected her.
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Paria
Mme
Guggenheim
Duke of
Galleria
Infanta Eulalie
Spain
Mme. Guggenheim
Rue de la Paix
Question of acquiring Danish West Indies reopened
Copenhagen May 28 The question of the acquisition of the Danish West Indian Islands by the United States has been informally broached again by American Minister O Brien in talks with Danish foreign minister Capmt Levetzart. Denmark is unlikely to consent and Parliament may not support the sale.
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Danish West Indies
Copenhagen
Pension for clergymen funded in Rochester plan
London May 28 The Bishop of Rochester urged faster reform in church staffing noting aged clergy hinder parish work and cannot resign. He announced the ecclesiastical commissioners have set aside 1 230 000 to pension impoverished clergymen, easing their livelihood and aiding retirement.
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London
Rochester
Paris entertains rulers in royal Norwegian visit
May 28 Paris hosts King Haakon and Queen Maud of Norway with a luncheon at the Norwegian Legation a reception for the diplomatic corps at the foreign ministers house and a large reception at the Hotel de Ville The sovereigns appearance on busy streets drew strong popular enthusiasm with a mounted escort adding to the pageantry.
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Haakon
Queen Maud
Norway
Foreign Ministers
Quay
Hotel de Ville
Moroccan Forces Routed In Moroccan Rebellion
Dispatches from Melilla report that rebels under the pretender recently attacked the Sultan’s troops in a severe battle and routed them. The Sultan’s forces are said to be in full retreat as the pretender’s partisans pursue.
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Madrid
Melilla
Morocco
Gen Methuen in Command South Africa
London May 8 Among new military appointments announced tonight is the unusual appointment of Gen Methuen to command British forces in South Africa. Methuen previously commanded during the campaign with a defeat at Mafeking and recall from Kimberley after unsuccessful operations before Warrenton in March 1900. Bordeaux May 28 The French battleship Verite, 14 635 tons and 18 000 indicated horsepower, launched with four 12 inch guns, ten 7 6 inch guns, and twenty six 18 inch guns. Armor ranges from teen three quarters to twelve inches.
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London
Methuen
South Africa
Magersfontein
Kimberley
Warrenton
Bordeaux
France
Verite
Thomson
Hecht & Co Window Display Wins Commendations
A baseball game scene front window at Hecht & Co showcases a highly praised display arranged by Henry J Breslaw, the firm's window dresser. The set features players in full uniform amid a vivid game atmosphere, drawing favorable notices for its exceptional presentation.
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