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within two hours yesterday afternoon when fire destroyed Elevator B of the Northern Elevator Company and the dock of the Western Pacific Railroad Company, and imperiled surrounding property valued at another million.

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 * REPUBLICAN STATE PLATFORM               |
 * Repudiation of Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act.      |
 * Non-Partisan Tariff Commission.               |
 * Government Regulation of Monopolies.          |
 * Taxation of Water Powers.                     |
 * Conservation of Natural Resources.            |
 * National Income Tax.                          |
 * Limited Hours of Labor for Women and Children. |
 * Popular Election of U. S. Senators.           |
 * Employers' Liability Laws.                    |
 * Workingmen's Compensation Acts.               |
 * Workingmen's Compensation Acts.               |

With the adoption of a strong platform on state and national issues, the Republican State Convention came to a close late last night.

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 * TAFT ON THE IRISH               |
 * They have accentuated American wit.         |
 * They have added to American tenderness.     |
 * They have perhaps instilled in the          |
 * American a little additional pugnacity.   |
 * They have increased his poetic imagination. |
 * They have made him more of an               |
 * optimist.                                 |
 * They have suffused his whole existence      |
 * with the spirit of kindly humor.          |

Eight hundred members of the Charitable Irish Society gave President Taft a notable ovation at their 175th annual dinner held at the Hotel Somerset last night.