States' Rights Fight at National Conservation Congress
At St Paul delegates kickoff the second national conservation congress with a split over states control versus federal management of natural resources. Pinchot leads a state control faction opposing Taft and Roosevelt backed plans, while James J Hill and others push for centralized national oversight. Taft and Roosevelt speak, two thousand delegates expected as debates unfold on public lands and water power.
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Minn
Resolutions Committee
Blaze Control
J. J. Hull
Pinthot
National Control
Reid
State Control
Lake Michigan
Pinchot
Rochester
Tawney
D. Anderson
Taft
Col. Roosevelt
James J. Hull
Beveridge
Gifford Pinchot
National Forester
National Conservation Association
Henry S. Graves
Forest
White House
BN. Baker
Baltimore
National Conservation Congress
Loot Dropped by Murderers of Atlas Paymaster
Special to The Washington Post from Hudson North Carolina describes bandits who killed Denton Fowler assistant treasurer of Atlas Building Material Company. They dropped a cash case totaling 5600 and weapons as they fled. Police recovered money caps masks and torn letters hinting Italian brickmakers aided the crime. The envelope bears a name and address of an Italian resident in Hudson.
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Washington Post
Hudson, N. C
Denton Fowler
Atlas Building Material Company
Negro Dartver
George Ragsdale
James J. Lane
Jerry Leonard
Atlas Brick Yards
Lane
Leonard
Fowler
Atlas
Mr. Fowler
Young Fowler
Atlas Company
Hudson
Taft Quiet in Ohio as Crowds Flock to Stations
President Taft travels through Ohio Indiana and Illinois on the way to St Paul for the national conservation congress and a Minnesota State fair Labor Day address. He declines public speeches during dash travel but chats with supporters at Erie Ashtabula Cleveland and Toledo. Governor Hughes faces a Supreme Court post and will not campaign while Rep McKinley and party leaders press a Republican House majority.
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Welock
Ireland
Eberhardt
Herbert Keller
Taft
Knute Nelson
Minnesota
Pardes
California
Judge Short
Salt Lake City
St. Paul
Chicago
National Conservation Congress
Minneapolis
Ohio
Indiana
Heverly
Gov. Hughes
United States Supreme Court
Poltics
Washington
Cleveland
Juolm A. Caa~ Sidy
United States
St Davis
Tuledo
Lewis v. Laytin
McKinley
Republican Congressional Campaign Committee
National League of Republican Clubs
New York
Laporte
Ind
McKinsey
Duncan McKinley
Old pistol kills wife and man later dies in jail
In Philadelphia Minnie Rhodes dies after a husband’s pistol misfire meant to scare her. He was released then rearrested after her condition worsened. In New York Alexander Badowsky, accused of beating his wife to death and hiding her body, hanged himself in Queens jail before trial. Matinee listed: The Marriage of Kitty at the Columbia Theater.
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Philadelphia
Minnie Rhodes
New York
Alexander Badowsky
Long Island
Queens County
Mrs. A. E. Plant is Killed In Branford Rail Accident
The body of Mrs. Albert E. Plant, 63, a cousin of Henry B. Plant, was found beside the New York, New Haven and Hartford tracks in Branford. She likely was struck by the Shore Line Express train. the circumstances remain mysterious. She had lived on the family farm for many years and was not missed until after breakfast.
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Washington
Branford
Conn
Albert E. Plant
Henry B. Plant
Millonaire
New York, New Haven and Hartford
Shore Line
Boston
New York
Card Party Tragedy Sparks Fatal Shootout in Christie Street
In New York a family quarrel at a Christie Street grocery ends with an old woman dead, Maria Lambadosi mortally wounded, and a bystander injured. Desperate fugitive Vincenzo Saragusa fires on pursuers near Delancey and Bowery, killing Special Deputy Sheriff Hyman Hoffman and injuring two others before being subdued by a police club.
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New York
Washington Post
Christie Street
Christie
Delancey Streets
Bowery
Sabastiano Saragusa
Maria
Maria Lambodusi
Vincenzio
Saraguse
Giuseppe
Ailare
Fiore Lambadosi
Fincenzio
Sabastiano
Hurley
Sigsmund Schwartz
Fusheart Peddlers’ Association
Nathan Levine
Broome
Vincenglo
Bernard Mallonad
Vincenzia
Delancey Street
Hyman Hoffman
Bell Patrol Company
Hoffman
Christien Street
Delancey
Otto Grupp
Military Camp on Campus as Ohio State Faces Fair
Columbus September 4 Six companies of the Fifth regiment Ohio National Guard arrived from Cleveland and encamped on campus to back security for the State Fair opening tomorrow. The rest of the unit has camped for a week at the Deaf Institute. Officials refused to say how troops will be used to protect streetcars amid strike riots while the fair is in progress. Picket duty around stations ends per court orders, but workers continue distributing pills urging car avoidance. Attorneys clash over whether circulars violate injunctions as newspaper sales near stations proceed.
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Columbus
Ohio State University
Fifth Regiment
Ohio National Guard
Cleveland
State Institution For the Deaf
Adjt
Weybrecht
Columbus Railway and Light Company
Union Today
Tragic Auto Crash Injures Merchant and Wife in Jamaica
Thomas V. Patterson a Brooklyn coal merchant and his wife Nana were fatally or severely injured when their car crashed into the Soldiers and Sailors monument on Bergen Avenue Jamaica Long Island early today. The monument, long a site of accidents, stands in the avenue center despite efforts to move it. the U A R declines to sanction relocation though other sites have been offered.
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New York
Thomas V. Patterson
Brooklyn
Nana
Soldiers and Watlers’ Monument
Bergen Avenue
Jamaica
Long Island
Father Wounds Son in Brentwood Rifle Incident
William C. Drury, intoxicated, fired a rifle through a bedroom wall striking eight year old William Bernard Drury in Brentwood. The father is jailed in Brentwood Firemen's Hall basement awaiting arraignment as doctors warn infection risks. Drury, a 45 year old postal clerk from Leonardtown, says he remembers nothing.
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William Bernard Drury
Brentwood
Wiliam C. Drury
Drury
Post Office Department
Wiliam
Ohiendorf
Leonardtown
St. Mary County
Excited by Enox Letter in Panama Election Controversy
Panama explains controversy in conservative paper as the national assembly nears choosing a vice president. A denial of an alleged US intervention statement by Mr. Marsh, American chargé d affaires, circulates amid public curiosity. The Palabra publishes a letter from Panama’s attorney general to Secretary of State Linos on the election’s unconstitutionality and the US role.
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Panama
Washington Post
National Assembly
Republic
Marsh
United States
Palabra
Linos
Mendoza
United Votes
Harvard Psychologist William James Reported Communicating From Beyond
Boston dispatch says Prof William James the Harvard psychologist who died August 2 has reportedly achieved his wish to communicate after death. Rev Frederic A Wiggin recalls James expressing a desire for a psychic demonstration and describes a sequence of nightly phenomena and messages via Wiggin's spiritualist control while noting the need for a stronger contact before public statements.
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Clergyman
James
Washington Post
New York
Boston
New York Herald
William James
Frederic A. Wiggin
Brookline
Unity Church
Choco- Tua
N. H
Wiggin
Madison
Meteor Lands in Oregon Seen Across Willamette Valley
A meteor estimated to be at least 100 feet in diameter swept the Willamette valley today and is believed to have struck west of McMinnville in Yamhill County. It was sighted by residents in Portland and Salem, with reports of a long tail and smoke trail.
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Portland
Oreg
Willamette Valley
McMinnville
Yama Hill County
Salem
J. W. Daniels
Hill Miliary Academy
Howard Homestead to Go in Vermont for Widow
A Boston New York American dispatch reports Elizabeth Ann Howard widow of Maj. Gen. Howard must sell her Burlington Vermont homestead. Her income under $1,000 yearly and she is 78 years old.
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Vermont
Spontal
Washington Post
New York
Boston
New York American
Burlington
Elizabeth Ann Howard
Howard
Contest in Conservation Congress headline montage
Life Guard Gets His Rich Bride Throngs Greet President Taft Shoots Seven As He Flees Father Shoots His Son Prof James Spirit Returns Typhoid in Army Barracks Bride Visits Frank in Asylum Sculptor Wounds Intruder Saengerbund Hosts Monkeys Driven Crazy Premature Pulpita Prelates in Montreal Sunday Talks by Roosevelt Forts for the Canal Republican Campaign Book Out Sixteen Rescued in Mid ocean Financial Reviews News of Alexandria Sporting Events Editorial Comment Winter Plans at the Zoo Influx of Homecomers Saint Patrick parish work Pastor Russell sermons clergymen back from vacations
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Conservation Congress
Taft
James
Frank
Saengerbund
Montreal
Roosevelt
Forts
Canal
Midocean
News of Alexandria
i-Society
St. Patrick's
Russell
Rich Bride Elopement Ends In Family Forgiveness
Miss Helen O'Brien, heiress to a fortune of 700000 to 1000000, eloped with John Howland, a Spring Lake lifeguard. A stormy scene followed a failed Catholic ceremony, but maternal forgiveness prevailed. Howland plans to move to St Louis in a month to start a business, with a church wedding to follow.
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Spring Lake
St. Louis
Washington
Asbury Park
N. J
Helen O’brien
Rosie O'Brien
St. Lows
O’brien
Thomas RB. Taylor
Avon
John Howland
Rumson Road
Helen
Father Lyons
St. Catherine’s Church
Matin Maroney
Keng
Howland
Threats to Kill Metz After Gaynor Shooting Link
A letter filled with abuse and threats was mailed from Manhattan on the day of the Hoboken Gaynor shooting. It warned former Controller Herman A. Metz to prepare to meet his God within ten days and was reported to the police. The unsigned note referenced his possible past actions and claimed danger to Metz.
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New York
Herman A. Metz
Europe
Manhatan
Gaynor
Hoboken
Finest Bulldog Dead in London After Sudden Collapse
Special Cable reports Dick Stone the finest bulldog, once valued at $6,000 by owner Walter Jeffries, died suddenly in London. A grandson of Rodney Stone related to Croker’s famous price, he was linked to Lord Beresford’s celebrated battleship strain. Death likely from a heart clot after a fall. post mortem to be conducted with King George's veterinary overseeing.
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Washington
London
Dick Stone
Walter Jeffries
Rodney Stone
Richard Croker
Charles Beresford
King George's Veterinary
Singer and husband drown at Lake Quinsigamond
Worcester report says Louis and Kittie Perle drowned when changing seats in a flat-bottom boat. Mrs Perle, leading lady of the Manhattan Opera Company, fell overboard and her husband leapt in to save her but no help arrived in time. Mrs Perle was daughter of Eugene Nice, New York artist. Mr Perle directed the opera company orchestra.
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Worcester
Mass
Louis
Kittie Perle
Manhattan Opera Company
Lake Quinsigamond
Fever Strikes Barracks Six Typhoid Cases In Company A
Typhoid fever spreads among First Battalion, Company A, corps of engineers at Washington barracks after Gettysburg maneuvers. Six cases treated at Walter Reed Hospital and an isolation ward set up. Chemists test drinking water as city health officials tally 174 city cases.
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Gettysboro
Corps of Engineers
Washington Barracks
Walter Reed Hospital
Gettysburg
Yoakum
Hospital Corps
Fort Foote
Dynamiters wreck Lucas Bridge and Iron plant at Peoria
Peoria, Sept. 4 Lucas Bridge and Iron Company's plant wrecked by dynamiters. Fires and explosions leveled the plant and six nearby buildings including three saloons. Night watchman Robert Gebhardt seriously injured, hospitalized. Open shop criticized. no motive found. Second steel works attack in Peoria in weeks. recent targets included large bridge spans for the Peoria and Pekin Railway. Also a Baltimore and Ohio excursion to Harpers Ferry Berkeley Springs and Cumberland on Sept 11.
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Peoria
Ill
Lucas Bridge and Iron Company
Robert Gebhardt
Lucas Company
Peoria and
Pekin
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