Debaters Clash Over Silver and Gold Finance Plan
On July 16 at the Dynos Club two speakers, Roswell G Horr and W H Harvey, argued the silver standard versus gold monometallism. The mixed audience included J C Sibley and A B Hull as advocates. rules allotted 140,000 words in two sides with eight minute speeches per turn.
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Iill Wwub
Han
H. G. Miller
Ham A. Vincent
Chiwho
Tie Seid
Miller
Iuversary
Horr
Harvey
Mts
Marble Heart Frustrates Sound Money Rally in Jacksonville
In Jacksonville Florida July 16 special dispatch reports a Wall Street goldbug effort to form a sound money club at the board of trade rooms failed. Only seven attendees, one confirmed goldbug, four silver men, and two courteous officials remained as a lone parade by a yellow clad negro band collapsed. The scene contrasted with a prior silver meeting that drew prominent business leaders eager to join a bimetallic club. Florida democrats resist John Sherman’s financial program.
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Jacksonville
Wall Street
Cuckoos
John Sherman
Eben Bean
Board of Trade
Cooley
First National Bank
Baldwin
Smith
Bean
Cooper
Florida
First Blood for Blackburn in Lexington Primary
Moses Kaufman defeated John J. Riley by 24 votes in Lexington as he backs Blackburn for senator. The Gwens Breckinridge race shifted with Gorman Breckinridge supporting McCreary and Phelps favoring Blackburn. Phelps won by 14. The county shows early activity with Blackburn favored in the column.
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Moses Kaufman
Grame
Gorman A. Breckinridge
McCreary
Phelps
Ovens
Blackburn
Mackburn
Nebraska 18 Moving Free Silver Nomination Nettle
Omaha July 18 Special The Democratic state central committee met with full membership and voted to call a state convention in Omaha on August 22 to nominate a state ticket. Committeemen allied with Holt were declared vacant and vacancies ordered filled. The meeting was unified with free silver support.
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Omaha
Neb
Democratic State Central Committee
Holtere
Ex Speaker Crisp to sail for England after brief Washington stay
Ex Speaker Crisp, health improved, plans a voyage to New York then England for his health. He will be joined by his son Charles Crisp, recently graduated in law, and will stay a day or two in Washington before departure.
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New York
England
Charles Crisp
Congress
Coal Operator Charged With Stealing Coal In Idlewood
Secretary Warner of the miners organization pressed charges against Coal Operator F. Stein of the Phoenix mines at Idlewood for coal theft. The weighmaster T. R. Marshall was made a party to the suit as warrants issued. Fraudulent weights allegedly caused miners to dig far more coal per ton. The information is under the check weighman law, a first of its kind, with civil suits possible if convicted.
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Warner
Miners’ Organization
Alderman Madden
Stein
Phoenix
Idlewood
T. R. Marshall
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Stein’s
Preacher urges West Virginia Negroes to emigrate to Liberia
In Jacksonville Kentucky July 16 Rev A J Warner a Birmingham Alabama preacher urges Negroes to emigrate to Liberia claiming better living with little work and no white lynching. In Washington County 50 heads of families have agreed to go. Labor is described as demoralized. Legion of Honor members Resigna Paris July 16 council resigns after deputies interpellation over Br Eiffel Panama Canal scandal links.
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Liberia
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Panama Canal
Baron von Hammerstein Flees Berlin Sealed Home
The Tageblatt reports Baron von Hammerstein former editor in chief of the Kreuz Zeitung has fled Berlin taking his belongings. Official seals have been placed on his residence as authorities pursue the situation.
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Austin pastors urge Texans to oppose Corbett Irittsimmons fight
Austin ministers issue a 1000 word appeal condemning the planned Dallas October prize fight. They call on every Texas voter to write to governor and officials, warning vice and barbarism will invade state borders and diminish law, virtue, and scholarship. A mass meeting in Austin may precede a state convention to protest.
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Tex
Dallas
Texas
Mexico
Eir
Christiana
Constitution
Hotel Richelieu Put Under Receiver by Judge Payne
In Chicago the Hotel Richelieu was placed into receivership this afternoon by Judge Payne upon H. Bemis’s application. William C. Hugunin was named receiver with a $25,000 bond. The noted high class hostelry, opened about ten years ago by H. V. Bemis, had become a favored stop for foreigners and wealthy Americans. The receiver attributes the action to hotel business conditions and says operation will continue.
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Chicago
Richeleu
Payne
H. ¥. Bemis
William C. Hugunin
Richelieu Hotel
H. V. Bemis
Spalding County Goes Dry After Heated Prohibition Vote
In Grif, Georgia on July 16 the prohibition race was fiercely fought. Although the final tally was not completed, officials expect a dry county by a margin of about seventy to ninety. Several clashes occurred without serious injuries.
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Grif
Spalding
Negro Arrested in Baltimore Believed Murder Suspect
Abe Small also known as Will Thompson, colored, arrested in Baltimore on charges of murdering two Savannah officers. Samuel Brown, a former Savannah clerk, identified him. Brown says Small killed Constable Humphrey during a house breaking arrest last August and wounded Mounted Officer Neve, who later died. A posse searches the region for the fugitive.
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Abe Small
Will Thompson
Savannah
Samuel Brown
Dempsey
Brown
Small
Humphrey
Neve
Georgia
Grand Jury Censures Officials Over Jail Escape
New York July 16 The grand jury presented a report on the Ludlow Street jail escape by Russell, AHen, and Killoran. It severely criticised Sheriff Tamsen, Warden Radbe, and Keepers Schoen and Schneer, noting the law allows censure but not indictment unless voluntary action is shown.
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New York
United States
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Ahen
Killoran
Ludlow Street
Tamsen
Radbe
Schoen
Schneer
Had a husband living she married again and honeymoon
James Pocher of Asbury Park seeks annulment of his marriage to Emma Taylor after learning she had a living first husband. Pocher, a Hoboken bookkeeper, married her in March after meeting at a social event. They honeymooned in Atlanta before a man claiming to be her husband appeared, revealing a prior wedding four years earlier. Emma Taylor also filed for divorce. The couple plans remarriage once divorce is granted.
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New York
New Jersey Court of Chancery
James Pocher
Asbury Park
Emma Taylor
Pocher
Hoboken
Taylor
West
Madame Stambuloff Accuses Police in Assassination Attempt
In Sofia the ex premier Stambuloff survives an assassination attempt. Madame Stambuloff accuses police of complicity and orders arrests. Gendarmes are blamed by witnesses who say they fled before the attack and later appeared to blow whistles. Several arrests noted as officials probe the case.
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Turkey
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Sombranje
M. Stambuloff
Sofia
Ex Catholic Lecturers Denounced by A P A Executive Board
Chicago July 18 The supreme executive board of the American Protective Association adjourned after two days to be recalled by the supreme president. It endorsed a new insurance plan proposed by J H Stevens of Tinos and adopted a resolution urging local councils to bar ex priests ex-Romanists and ex-nuns from lecturing under the association’s banners while denying hostility to Catholicism or politics. H Traynor of Detroit presided.
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Chicago
Supreme Executive Board
American Protective Association of the United States
J. H. JD. Stevens
Tinos
Supreme Judiciary Boar
Supreme Council
Stevens
Orginal
American Protective Assetion
Bulldog witness in trial over burning suburb home
Knoxville July 16 preliminaries in the Mrs Viola Hecking arson case hear fifteen witnesses with alibi attempts. A large bulldog owned by the defendant accompanies her and is cited by prosecutors as a damaging witness, while the defense doubts conviction.
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Tenn
Viola Hecking
Thorping
Bibb County Silver Rally Supports Free Coinage
In Macon Bibb County Democrats rally for bimetallism to back free coinage at 16 to 1. Delegates are chosen to Griffin silver convention, rebuking the May 10 gold meeting. Major Tharpe elected chairman, John R. Burke secretary, with resolutions urging Congress to coin gold and silver and restore the old standard.
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Haden Eran
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