Missouri Taft forces routed by Roosevelt at state convention
In St Louis and hotel meetings on April 26 Taft delegates at large were chosen but Roosevelt forces won a decisive victory. Eight Roosevelt delegates at large with one half vote each were elected, and Charles Nagel’s successor Thomas K. Miedlinghaus became national committeeman. The event followed four dramatic fights over seating, chairmanship, resolutions, and eight at large delegates.
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Taft
Eads
Stifel
Roosevelt
St. Louis
Herert
Hadley
Missouri
Frederick H. Kreisman
St.outs
Charles D. Morris
St. Joseph
Herbert S. Hadley
Jesse Tolerton
Bronson
Walter S. Dickey
Kansas City
Fred Essen
Clayton
John D. McNeeley
Hugh McIndon
Joplin
John W. Tippin
Springfield
Alfred H. Spear
Chamois
Charlies Nagel
Commerce and Labor
Thomas K. Miedlinghaus
St. Loui
Gov
Col
Krelaman
Morris
Chicago
Pujo money trust committee expanded by House vote
The House approved a Pujo resolution enlarging the powers of the money trust investigating committee by 237 to 15. The measure authorizes banking currency committees to hire two attorneys and launch a wide inquiry into the ties among financial interests and industrial, commercial, and transportation sectors.
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Washington
Pujo
Money Trust
Taft Denies Reported Roosevelt Dictator Claim
President Taft refutes dispatches claiming he said Theodore Roosevelt would be a dictator and cling to the White House if Roosevelts runs for a third term. He states the language was not his and denies using it in Springfield remarks.
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New York
Henry W. Taft
Frederick D. Grant
Governor's Island
Taft
Springfield
Mass
Theodore Roosevelt
White House
Roosevelt
Father O'Dowd Dies Suddenly in Independence
Father Peter O'Dowd, a widely known Catholic priest in the region, died suddenly at his home in Independence after a week of illness from erysipelas that affected his heart. He was about 60 and renowned for his eloquent pulpit power and devoted parish work.
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Independence
Peter O'Dowd
Waterloo paving firm gains ex-city engineer as manager
C T Wilson buys half of Dearborn Construction to run paving operations in Waterloo. The new firm Dearborn & Wilson plans brick and cement pavements and creosote block work with W N Dearborn joining from the Cedar Rapids office. Wilson brings nine years as city engineer and vast paving experience to the venture.
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T. Wilson
Dearborn Construction Company
W. N. Dearborn
Waterloo Savings Bank
Wilson
Waterloo
Ihia
Hne
Dearborn & Jackson
Cedar Rapids
rWil
Taft Attacks Roosevelt in Presidential Campaign Speech
President Taft delivered a forceful attack on Col. Roosevelt during a national address in Boston, defending his own record and challenging Roosevelt’s claim to a third term. He accused Roosevelt of misrepresentation, altering policy, and abandoning the square deal. Taft argued constitutional limits and criticized Roosevelt's Columbus speech as steering toward factionalism.
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Boston
Taft
Col. Roosevelt
Mr. Taft
White House
Roosevelt
Noted Men At Grant Funeral
Military figures and prominent leaders gathered in New York on April 26 to honor Major General Frederick Dent Grant who died April 11. A five mile funeral procession preceded a West Point interment after services at the Cornelius the Centurion chapel on Governor's Island.
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New York
Frederick Dent Grant
Cornelius the Centurion
Governor’s Island
Forty-second Street
West Point
Taft
Sherman
Leonard Wood
Grant
Capt
A. §. Grant
Cantacuzene
Nellie Grant Sartoris
Judge Honore of
Chicago
Potter-Palmer
Senator Root
Andrew Carnegie
Henry W. Taft
Tasker H. Bliss
Horace Porter
William Crozier
T. H. Barry
H. G. Sharpe
Hamilton Fish
H. H. Kohlsaar
Robert Abbe
Daniel B. Sickels
Horatio C. King
Samuel Fallows
E. B. Smith
Governor's Island
Learned Jurists Attend Illinois Bar Association Meeting
Chicago April 26 prominent jurists and lawyers from 3 dozen states gathered for the Illinois State Bar Association annual meeting. Topics include recall of judges and judicial decisions with debate pro and con featuring R M Wanamaker and Albert Martin Kales against and James H Wilkerson and Charles H Harpill in opposition. President Horace Kent Tenny opened with an address on Procedural Reform and other remarks followed. The session will continue through tomorrow.
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Chicago
Illinois State Bar Association
R. M. Wanamaker
Akron
Albert Martin Kales
United States District
James H. Wilkerson
Charles H. Harpill
Horace Kent Tenney
Henry M. Armistead
Arkansas
Horace G. Lunt
Colorado
Charles G. Saunders
Town
John G. Schaich
Missouri
Alfred C. Wilick
Nebraska
John Knauf
North Dakota
W. R. Gano
Texas
Sudden Advance in Wheat Figures
Chicago April 26 Exciting buying lifted wheat prices 23 8 cents above yesterday’s close. The market closed strong near session highs with July at 1 12 4 8 to 3 4 per bushel, up from the day’s low on Kansas crop prospects.
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Chicago
Kansas
Titanic Dead Bodies Recovered and Identified
News from New York and Halifax report the recovery of Titanic victims including Col John Jacob Astor and Isidor Straus aboard the Mackay-Bennett and Minia. Identifications of 49 dead were sent ashore plus M Hays of Grand Trunk. A California officer testifies that ships nearby could have aided Titanic.
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New York
John Jacob Astor
Isidor
Thia City
Mackay-Bennett
White Star Line
Mackay-Dennett
Col
Isidor Straus
Mackay- Bennett
Haye
Halifax
M. Hays
Grand Trunk Railway
A. G. Jones & Co
Agenta
White Star Linn
Minia
Striking Convicts Shut Three Sing Sing Shops
Convicts in three Sing Sing prison shops went on strike led by wagon shop workers demanding more food and the release of a subordinate kept in a dark cell. The success sparked similar action in the shoe shop and knitting factory, with the warden locking many inmates in their cells and ordering precautions for tomorrow’s work restart.
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Evans
Senator Smith
Smith
P. A. S. Franklin
White Star Line
Stanley Lord
California
Ernest Gill
New York
Sing Sing
Mutiny Strike Disrupts White Star Olympic Voyage
The White Star liner Olympic halted its New York trip after a firemen strike left 54 crew members under arrest for mutiny. Sailors deserted to avoid non union replacements, passengers were moved to the Baltic, and mail to New York was diverted to Cunard’s Lusitania.
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Southampton
England
Olympic
Ryde
Isle of Wight
New York
Queenstown
Baltic
Cunard
Liverpool
White Star
Portsmouth
National Sailors’ and Firemen’s ‘Union
Seafarers’ Organization
Bucks
Sheffield
Haddock
Cochrane
Ryda
Jury Hesitates in Boot-Legging Case in Ottumwa
In Ottumwa April 26 the jury in the bootlegging case brought by the law and order league against Night Captain Matt Mier has deliberated over two days without a verdict. Judge Hunter allowed sessions to proceed with sleep and morning recesses as deliberations continued amid defense claims of a frame-up and Mier denying wrongdoing.
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Ottumwa
Law and Order League
Matt Mier
Hunter
Miler
Oth Dete Ra
Mid
Trieada
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