Democratic State Convention Endorses Bi Metalism Amid Harsh Tariff Debate
Harmony marked the Democratic state convention as Gorman steered the platform toward bi metalism while remaining silent on the ratio. The platform denounces the Dingley tariff as odious and pledges reforms to Cuba amid calls to protect Americans. State ticket nominees include Comptroller Thomas Smith of Carolina and Clerk J Frank Ford of St. Marys.
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Barmiere
United States
Adamandia
Cuba
Thomas Amith
Carolina County
Court of Appeals
J. Frank Ford
Bt. Mary's County
Waller Heads to London to Push Madagascar Grant
John L. Waller of Kansas City Kansas plans a London trip in October to pursue a 144000 acre concession grant from Madagascar prior to French annexation. A state department decision supports honoring conquered governments obligations. Waller cites prospect of rich minerals rubber forests and timber with Mauritius colonization backing from a London agent Jeremiah Lyon.
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State Department
Willam R. Day
Waller
Abraham Hall
London
Mauritius
Jeremiah Lyon
Arserta
Senatorial Deadlock Breaks With Wallace Victor
A broken deadlock at the Thirty-seventh district senatorial convention ends after 3,467 ballots with Wallace 16 from Hardin, Bowen 16 from Wright, and Richards 19 from Hamilton. On the 4,468th ballot Hamilton casts its vote for Wallace, making him the nominee. Rowen currently holds the seat.
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Beddiock
Broken
Weesten City
Joseph Wallace
Hardin County
J. E. Bowen
Wright
J. H. Richards
Hamilton
Wallace
Rowen
Wreck on Central Pacific leaves Indians dead near Reno
A severe Central Pacific wreck near Twenty-five Mile Hill six miles west of Reno results in six of fifteen Indian passengers dead. Fireman and engineer injured, mail clerks and messenger bruised, cars overturned, track torn up for 300 yards. Wreck likely caused by rail spread, survivors brought to Reno by seaboose.
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Central
Reno
Nev
Central-Pacific Railroad
Mile Hill
Rawling
Thwin
George VW
O’brien
A. Ross
Walls Fargo
J.J. Burke
Seaboose
Fifty Locomotives for Japan and Other News
Baldwin Locomotive Works booked an order for 40 locomotives for Japan. With earlier orders total is 50 for Japan, 30 shipped with 18 to government roads and 12 to a private railroad. A separate note cites strong American competition and lower prices in overseas markets. Also reported: Dr. J. D. Porter’s death by self-administered substances and gas in Kansas City after a morphine and other substances incident. A Parker elopement and a related confidence game involving Haight & Co. is described in Omaha. A new 69 mile railway survey from Skagwa bay to the Hootalingna river foresees a route expansion with river steamers, bypassing dangerous rapids.
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Baldwin Locomotive Works
Orient
Prina de Spnta
Japan
Bald ~Win
China
Porter
Lutella
Kansas City
J. D. Porter
Miss Blandy
Zane
B. P. Parker
Parker
Beatles
George W. Garside
Skagwa Bay
White Pasa
Lake Tagis
Hootalingna River
Winera
Yukon
Dyea
Hootalingua
Dawson City
White Horse
Miles Canyon
Raise Minera Wages in Kentucky Strike District
The Middleboro district operators raise wages by 10 cents per ton for miners who have resolved not to join the strikers. The July 29 report from Mrippiezoro, Kentucky, notes this concession amid labor tensions and a pledge to avoid participation in the strike.
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Minera
Mrippiezoro
Middleboro
Edison Illuminating mortgage foreclosed plant sale set
Mortgage bondholders of the Edison Illuminating company foreclose on the plant in St Louis and will sell September 11 to satisfy unpaid interest on 4 million dollars of 6 percent bonds. Sale to be conducted under a deed of trust to Knickerbockers Trust Company of New York City.
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Muulnating
St. Louis
Edison Iluminating Company
Knickerbockers Trust Company
New York City
Charter for New Road From Superior to Little Rock Halted
Secretary of State Bush grants a charter to the Superior Hutchinson and Little Rock Railroad with a $10,000,000 capital to build a 600 mile standard gauge line from Superior Nebraska through Kansas and Indian Territory to Little Rock Arkansas. Directors include Camden Parkersburg, Allen Boston, Clark New York, Clayton Eureka Springs, La Follette Madison, Bradford Illinois, Walker, Collins, White law, Groves Hutchinson, Sherman Hutchinson.
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Toreka
Ekan
Bush
Superior
Hutchinson and Little Rock
Hutchinson
Neb
Kansas
P. P. Camden
Parkersburg
W. Va
RB. N. Allen
Boston
Jefferson Clark
New York
Powell Clayton
Eureka Springs
Ack
E. M. la Follette
Madison
Wis
W. A. Bradford
E. Walker
Charles Collins
W. M. Whitelaw
John A. 8. Groves
E. B. Sherman
Hutchingon
Foreclosure sale decrees for Union Pacific expected this week
United States in Omaha prepared to enter the decrees of sale in the Union Pacific foreclosure suit this week before Judge Walter Sanborn. General John O. Cowin reported the decrees signed, with best belief the sale may occur in fall. Other items note Southwestern Lines meeting, tobacco importers facing Dingley duties, a fugitive cashier seen in Sedalia, and European financial control discussions.
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Omaha
Union Pacific Railway
United States
Walter Sanborn
John O. Cowin
Union Facific Railway
Kelly
Ganis
Des Moines Auditors Form Auditorium Association
About fifty businessmen formed an auditorium association in Des Moines on July 28 to raise forty thousand dollars for a modern hall with seating for at least six thousand. The group aims to fund construction and secure a suitable venue for public events.
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Alan Grace Allen
Gurnee
Miss Grace Allen
Kansas
Chandler
Phronia Eckes
Waote An Auditoriua. Des Moises
Formad
Double Killing at Waco in Brokerage Office
In Waco Texas this forenoon B F Kivett and W W Kivett were shot and killed in the stock brokerage office of OCE Trice Co by William Lambden a fellow firm member. Long standing bad feeling arose from disputes raised by Lambden relatives and a sister of the Kivetts. The incident follows prior tensions within the firm. Also noted is a Washington update listing recess appointments including J W Powderly Robert J Tracewell Hugh Rodman and Moses P Handy with Handy not previously sent to the Senate.
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Waco
Tex
OCE Trice & Co
B. F. Kivett
W. W .Kivett
William Lambden
Kivett Brothers
Lambden
Kivetts
Ened
Waassingion
J. W. Powderly
Immigration
Robert J. Tracewell
The
Treasury
Hugh Rodman
Moses P. Hany
United States
Paria Exposition
Handy
Senate
Timber sale authorized for Red Cliff lands in Wisconsin
The president authorizes a timber sale of the Red Cliff allotment in the La Pointe agency Wisconsin with an estimated 100 million feet. Bids will set the cut at 10 to 20 million feet annually. Also notes the Mar sha llstown Driving Association meeting with a pacing horse dead and Captain Merry declared person non grata in Central America per Costa Rica Nicaragua and El Salvador postings.
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Red Cliff
la Pointe
Wisconsin
Marinautrows
Marshalltown Driving Association
Dr. B
G. W. Bowman
Galena
Kan
Merry Perseus
Grata
Managua
Nicaragua
Republic of Central America
W L. Merry
San Francisco
United States
Costa Rica
Salvador
Gage Dinner in Boston Debates Tariff and Money Policy
Secretary of the treasury Lyman J. Gage spoke at a Boston banquet where Gold Democrats and business leaders debated the tariff bill and the country’s financial future. Governors and mayors welcomed him as reform voices pressed for honest money and stable currency amid a period of economic strain.
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Bostox
Lyman
J. Gage
the Treasury
Boston
Tuileries
M. Gage
Gage
Will Iam
Lavering
Massachusetts
T. Jefferson Coolidge
Mingie
Congress
Senate
Old Bay Atate
Walcott
Josiah Quincy
Henry L. Higginson
Secretary of the Treasury
New England
Charles 8. Hamlin
Cleveland
Carlisle
Condemned Hope and a Doctor's Golden Medical Discovery
A reader from Adington recounts faith in Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery for lung and bronchial diseases. The column explains how medicine aids circulation and nerve strength, praises Dr. Pierce, notes his People’s Common Sense Medical Adviser, and offers free or mail-order copies from the World’s Dispensary Medical Association in Buffalo.
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Duncan
Adington
Pierce
People's Common Sense
World's Diapensary Medical Association
Buffalo
Proposed Iowa constitutional amendment and county road notice
The record summarizes a joint resolution proposing amendments to Iowa's constitution Sections 34 35 and related provisions establishing legislative representation by census based districts and setting a regular session following enrollment The notice also covers a road widening project in Atlantic Iowa including road width 66 feet sections lines and condemnation procedures plus a corporate notice for White Clover Creamery Company and a civil action regarding quiet title in Atlantic Cass County with deadlines in September 1897
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Iowa
Saine
Epch
Jaw
Atlantic
Avantic
Orth Pomber
Homer H. Hetz
Sarah E. Hate
Homer H
Jessie W
State
Irin
Cass County
Fee -Shapley
South Forty
Homer H. Hate
Sarah ‘'E
Sai
Tari
Qyatt
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Ratto
Dee Mores
Dr. EL. Eaton
Des Moines
M. W. Atwond
Estherville
M. H. Dunham
M. T. Helyper
Guthrie Center
Perry
Jowarroniukinnlath
Des Mores
Prohibition
Fusionlata
Antigabooti League
League
Union of Forces
Samuel Phelps Leland
Charles Clty
Francis Bacoy
Wilton Junction
Thieve
Schlegel
Orry
John Schlegel
L. A Barger
Ibis
Superior, Neb
Little Rock
Ark
Union Pacific
Sanborn
United’ States
Benator Doolittle
Windon
Edgewood
Bright
James R. Doolittle
Hamp
Goneva
York
Wyoming County
First Judicial Circuit
Henry Dogge
Judge Doolittle
Johnson
William Pitt Fessenden
Maine
Lyman Trombnill
Itingia
Setnte
Doolittle
Chicago
New Yor
United Brotherhood of Cloakmakers
Jacob Silverman
Watson
John Morrow
Here
John Good
Morrow
Good Morrow
Spreckels
Oakland
Claus Spreckels
Stanford and Crocker
Southern Pacific
W. H. Crocker
Ary
Rainer
Lonnos
Hay Hays
Whitelaw Reid
Bay
Washington
Bishop Potter
Losnos
John W. Foster
United Satin
Southwestern Linea
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Texas
Sean
Bryart
John Mulcahey
Marie Simonie Or Simon
Cedar Rapids
Bellevne Hospital
Paris
Constantinople
Germany
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Athens
Aly
Garret A i Obach
Paterson
Tie
Mrs. Hobart
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Lispenard Steart
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Hawkeye
Evora
Mannahan
Ackley
Marshalltown
Delivera
Tarif Dili
Joan Roerer
Wi Garrin
Jas
Wishart
White Clove Creamery Company
Casa County
Treamery
Massena Township
Said County
Alate
Ita
Pri N
Gees D. Forst
AseBroos
M. M. Surri
O. Ston
M. Talty
Sege Aus
HLM
Bookman—Atton
Caen County
Towa
Ong Bell Barlow
Barlow
Wen
Pansengrah 2, Limited
Rloorkot
Pansenger
Arriva
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