Bryan Notification Program Issued in Lincoln Rally Tone
Nonpartisan notification ceremonies for William J. Bryan's presidential nomination unfold in Lincoln Nebraska Aug 1 with a 46 gun salute band concerts a capitol procession and a noon luncheon at the Lincoln hotel invitations extend to state and city officials and citizens. Gompers denounces false reports about labor voting and asserts organized labor will back the party best representing its interests. a parachute jumper dies in Jackson Michigan while a riot report from New Orleans notes Italian citizens shot and a post office raid suspect arrest in Becanaba Michigan.
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Fairview
Lincoln
Neb
William J. Bryan
Maj. Brown
National
Hall
Sheldon
Nebraska
Malone
Capitol Grounds
Government Square
Bryan
Kern
Lincoln Hotel
Capitol
Nebraska State Band
State Capitol
Secon
Minnesota
Mr. Bryan
Gompers
Washington
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Organized Labor
Demurrer Filed by New Haven Railroad in Government Case
In Boston on Friday the New York New Haven Hartford Railroad Company filed a three part demurrer in the United States district court challenging the government petition. In Hartford Connecticut the same railroad filed a complaint in the US circuit court against the Interstate Commerce Commission over the Act to Promote the Safety of Employes and Travelers by limiting Hours of Service on railroads.
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Boston
Aug J
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company
United States
United Protncl District Court
New Haven Road
Consolidated Railroad Company
Connecticut
Providence Securities Company
Hartford, Conn
Interstate Commerce Commission
Powder Blast Wrecks Stafford Town In West Virginia
A powder house blast at Stafford Raleigh County wv on August 1 wrecked nearly every building. Postmaster Frank Munroe is badly injured with several others hurt. The explosion's cause is unknown and total damage is estimated at $200000.
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Huntington
W. Va
Stafford
Raleigh County
Frank Munroe
Explosion damages building at 2 Higgins avenue
A dynamite bomb exploded Friday in the basement of a three story brick building under construction at 2 Higgins avenue in Chicago. The blast wrecked the basement, shattered about a score of nearby windows, and caused residents to flood into the street while police, led by Lieut. Samuel Collins, searched the area for the dynamiter with no results.
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Chicago
Higgins Avenue
Samuel Collins
Attrill Street
Fatally Hurt in Auto Crash In Chicago
Carl Burton, 22, recent University of Chicago graduate, residing at the Beta Theta Pi house 5837 Washington avenue and heir to $200,000 property in Aurora, was fatally injured in a car crash at Washington street and Michigag ievenue Friday.
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Chicago
Carl Burton
University of Chicago
Beta Theta Pi
Washington Avenue
Aurora
Washington Street
Attempt to Blow Up a Newark Bank Stuns City
Bomb throwers tried to wreck the Salvator D. Auria banking house in Newark New Jersey. They failed to blow the bank but shattered the stone stoop and blew out plate glass windows at the saloon of Dominick Dillone in the basement beneath it.
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New York
Salvator D. Auria
Newark
Dominick Dillone
Gaspipe Thugs Executed After 1908 San Francisco Crimes
John Sjelmsen and Louis Dabner, dubbed the gaspipe thugs, were executed at San Quentin on Friday morning for a spree of robberies and killings that followed the 1908 earthquake and fire in San Francisco.
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Gaspipe
San Quentin Prison
Cal
John Sjelmsen
Louis Dabner
San Francisco
Rioting in French City Sparks Government Action
In Vigneux France clashes between strikers and troops leave many dead as authorities consider suppressing the General Federation of Labor. Paris reports say leaders may be arrested and the organization possibly disbanded to restore public order. The unrest follows a 24 hour general strike and prior attempts to arrest a striker.
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Vigneux
France
General Federation of Labor
Ricordean
Paris
General Federation of Labor and Revolutionary Organization
Bribery Trial Details in Indianapolis County Case
In Indianapolis Aug 1 sensational testimony in the state versus John McGregor county commissioner shows he accepted a bribe connected with boilers at the county powerhouse. Emmett S. Huggins testified he paid McGregor 1000 of 3800 he received from Atlas Engine Works, with a 21801 contract price. He confessed to over 50 forgeries and embezzling 5000, stealing and burning county records. Atlas salesman Arthur W Wilcutts confirmed the 3800 payment to fund commissions.
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Indianapolis
Ind
John McGregor
Emmett S. Huggins
McGregor
Atlas Engine Works
Huggins
Marion County
Arthur W. Wilcutts
Kills Daughters and Self in Hartford Tragedy
Leonore Hendricks 31, left in Hartford, killed himself and two daughters Ann five and Lillie three by gas. Bodies found after a broken lock, a note to Mrs Kendrick said goodbye. Odor from tenement led to discovery. note signed Leon. Temporary insanity listed as cause.
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Cranston
Leonore Hendricks
Hartford
Conn
Ann
Lillie
Kendrick
Hendricks
Lizzie
Leon
Robbery at Douglas Park Elevated Station in Chicago
Three masked robbers invaded the Marshall boulevard station of the Metropolitan West Side Elevated road in Chicago Friday. They held up ticket agent F. A. Bowman at gunpoint, took $15.06 and the agent's revolver, then fled.
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Chicago
Marshall Boulevard
Douglas Park
Metropolitan West Side
F. A. Bowman
Marshfield Avenue
Verdict on Hazel Drew death by dura mater hemorrhage
Coroner M. H Strope announced the inquest findings into Hazel I. Drew whose body was found in Teal pond on June 11. The death is attributed to extravasation of blood in the dura mater caused by a flow from some blunt instrument in an unknown manner.
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Hazel Drew
Troy
N. Y
M. H Strope
Hazel I. Drew
Teal Pond
Thieves and Watchman Duel at Converse Manor Estate
In Greenwich Connecticut on August 1 a pistol duel occurred on the 1,200 acre Converse Manor estate. Three burglars confronted the night watchman but were driven off. The scene involved a wealthy New Yorker and US Steel director I CG Converse.
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Greenwich
Conn
Converse
Steals His Leper Wife Across Border
Brig. Gen. David K. Wardwell, a two war veteran, abducted his leper wife from a county hospital in Los Angeles and rushed her to the Mexican border where he vows to live with her until death. In Charleston, W Va, the state convention named E. H Morton for attorney general and elected Howard Llewellyn Swisher and Bruce McDonald as presidential electors after completing its ticket. In Berlin the Berliner Zeitung cites a dispatch that the sultan of Turkey plans to declare himself emperor of the Moslem world, assuming the title.
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Los Angeles
Cal
David K. Wardwell
Charleston
W. Va
E. H Morton
Webster County
Howard Llewellyn Swisher
Monongahela
Bruet McDonald
Logan
Berlin
Berliner Zeitung
Constantinople
Turkey
Arkansas Governor in Sanitarium News Item
Arkansas Governor John Little has been placed in a sanitarium in St. Joseph Missouri, on August 1, after suffering a nervous breakdown since his election and developing acute melancholia. his condition is described as not encouraging.
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Arkansas
St. Joseph
John
Little
Robbers Wreck Chillicothe Freight House for 700 Loot
In Chillicothe Missouri robbers blew open the safe at the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul freight house and escaped with 700 dollars. The incident occurred in the early hours of August 1 in St Joseph Missouri with reporting from local dispatches.
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St. Joseph
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Chillicothe
Grand Jury Targets Racing Tracks in Kings County
A Kings county grand jury presentment urges Gov. Hughes to act on alleged violations of anti gambling laws at Brighton Beach and Sheepshead Bay tracks. It calls for repeal of special policemen provisions and notes evidence from investigations by grand jury committees. It states racing grounds were run with lawless conduct and gambling opportunities used to attract patrons.
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New York
Grand Jury
Indictments Hit Brighton Beach Racing Officials
A Kings County grand jury indicted the Brighton Beach Racing Association after a meet for aiding gamblers to violate new antigambling laws. Indicted with the association were president Christopher Fitzgerald stockholder William Engeman and former betting ring superintendent John G. Cavanaugh.
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Brighton Beach Racing Association
Brighton Beach Race Track
Kings County Grand Jury
Association
Christopher Fitzgerald
William Engeman
John G. Cavanaugh
Storms Kill Many in Austrian Tyrol near Vienna
Reports from Austria describe devastating storms in the Tyrol with heavy loss of life in Bukowina and Ziller valley. corpses drift in swollen streams while homes and livestock are washed away, signaling widespread destruction across the region.
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Vienna
Austrian Tyrol
Bukowina
Ziller Valley
Wreck and shootings mark scattered nation news
Robbers wrecked the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul freighthouse at Chillicothe Missouri blowing the safe and escaping with 700 dollars. John Mole of Philadelphia fatally shot neighbor Mrs Susan Stevenson and shot himself after a property quarrel Mole expected to recover. Los Angeles County voters approved 3.5 million dollars in highway bonds. F Be Bills a Washington contractor was tarred by a husband and two friends over an alleged mashing incident. Rex Beach the novelist hospitalized in Seattle from injuries in Alaska bear hunt feared to lose sight. State militiamen clashed with blacks near Rehoboth Delaware after a brick struck a soldier. A dog on negroes were visited by enraged troops. the shooter not captured.
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Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Chillicothe
John Mole
Philadelphia
Susan Stevenson
Mole
Los Angeles County
California
F. BE
Bills
Washington, D. C
Rex Beach
Seattle
Wash
Alaska
Rehoboth
Det
Road Employes To Strike In Scranton
In Scranton Pennsylvania on August 1 President Truesdale refused a conference with switchmen over the Buffalo division troubles on the Delaware Lackawanna and Western line. Grand Master Hawley says a strike declaration is inevitable after the refusal. The grievance board met in executive session to seek outside influences to avert a strike. This is the first time Truesdale has refused to meet the committee, casting gloom over the group.
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Scranton
Truesdale
Buffalo
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad
Hawley
Switchmen’s Union
Tragic murders and self infliction reported in Seattle
In Seattle a gripman Jesse Fifer killed his eight year old daughter Hazel and wounded his wife and sister in law in a private maternity hospital on Twelfth avenue near Madison Street before killing himself. In Lexington Henry Thrap, a Breathitt county feudist deemed insane, was captured and placed in an asylum after terrorizing the area.
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Seattle
Wash
Aus
Jesse Ifer
Hazel
Dennis
Nicoul
L. Fifer
Ethel Warren
Tiwelfth Avenue
Madison
Lexington
Henry Thrap
Breathitt County
Condition of cotton shows slight rise in July report
Washington August 1 The average condition of cotton was 83 per cent on July 25 up from 81.8 a month earlier and 75 a year ago, according to the Agriculture Department report released Friday.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Markets Report Mixed Wheat and Flour Prices in July Trade
Chicago and New York market notes show flour firm with July values near 6.25 for spring wheat and patent grades around 4.00 to 4.10 for various wheats. WHEAT steady to bullish with September around 94, corn and oats active, butter and eggs quoted in creameries and firsts, while New York reports quiet but firm flour demand and rust-talk influencing late July session.
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Cnicngo
Minnesota
New York
Live Stock Prices From Chicago and Omaha Markets
Market reports from Chicago and Omaha show cattle prices with steers ranging from 4.00 to 7.60, cows and heifers from 2.00 to 6.40, hogs mostly 5.50 to 6.95, and sheep showing strength with yearlings and wethers priced around 4.26 to 5.76. Notable entries include prime heavy steers at Chicago 7.60 and mixed hogs around 6.40 to 6.45, with calves up to 7.25 in the Chicago listing.
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Chicago
Cholea
Omaha
Neb
Texas
Semple Selatan
Iic
Wethers
Ewes
James
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Tangipahoa Parish
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Daggett
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Benjamin Hart
Isabel Lucchesi Hart Guillemin
Jean Guillemin
Virginia
Wen
Isabel Luechest
Gabrielle Juliette Antoinette de Lie
Efart
Michael Hart
Benjamin Tlart
Guillemin
Eastern Railway
Roosevelt Bryan
Workers’ Federation
John MecGregor
R. 1
Hughes
Racing Club
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Edward H. Harriman
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