Populists Meet at Abilene Rally on Electors and Ticket
Delegates gather in Abilene as Populists weigh fusion with Democrats and the Bryan Watson ticket. RE Little of Abilene is named as a potential at large congressman with Free Silver Republicans backing him. Debate centers on electors, ticket distribution, and southern Populist influence. Also reports the death of pioneer Emily Boomhoyer at Sloan, aged around 80, noting her Minne sota New Ulm and Sioux City ties.
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Ramage
Kay
Alabama
Sewall
South
RE. C. Little
Abilene
Watson
Democratic Conference Committee
Sioux Cry
Emily Boomhoyer
Northwest
Sloan
Shea
Waterville
Canada
Minnesota
New Ulm
Boomhover
Sioux City
Lighth district Democrats and Populists plan fusion convention
Oruston August 8. Democrats and Populists in the Lighth district have decided to hold their congressional conventions at Oruston on August 27. A fusion candidate is expected to face Hepburn. A Brewster editor of the Advertiser and W H Bubb editor of the American of Creston are leading contenders for the nomination.
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Oruston
Hepburn
A. Brewster
The
Advertiser
W. H. Bubb
the American
Creston
Wife Murderer Hanged in Utah Execution Ends Case
Charles Thiede was hanged here in Sant Lang August 8 witnessed by a large crowd. It was Utahs second execution. Thiede, a saloon keeper, killed his wife on the night of April 30 1694 nearly severing her head with a knife. He maintained his innocence to the end.
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Sant Lang
Charles Thiede
Utah
Thiede
Risctric Railway Sold at Public Auction
The North east Street railway electric line was sold at public auction in Kansas City for 60 000 to Roland R. Conklin of New York, representing first mortgage bondholders of 292 000. Westinghouse Electrical and McGuire Manufacturing bid 58 000, with Westinghouse first to be paid 17 000 from the sale proceeds.
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Risctric Railway
Kansas City
Northeast Street Railway
Sheriff O'Neill
Roland R. Conklin
New York
Conklin
Grant I. Rosenzweig
Westinghouse Electrical Company
Pittsburg
McGuire Manufacturing Company
Chicago
Westinghouse Company
Fusion tone at Minnesota and Kansas party conventions
The Minnesota Democratic fusion convention adopted a silverist line amid a riot over seats for three gold men, naming Lind for governor and Heinrichs and McKinnon for secretary of state and treasurer, with Populists to fill other posts. Kansas ex senator Ingalls opened his Republican campaign in Rice county as Democrats debated aiming for McKinley, while New York announced Bryan's nomination event would allow free admission.
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Minn
Committee On Credentials
Riumeoy
Daniel W. Lawler
Minnesota
J. G. McCasferty
Frand W. M. Cutcheon
St. Paul
Chicago
Cutcheon
Phillippi
John Lind
Julius J. Heinrichs
Alek McKinnon
Des Moiins
L. M. Martin
State Gold Standard Conference of
Savery House
McKinley
Edward H. Hunter
Hobart
United States
New Yorks
Bartholdi Hotel
Sewall
Madison Square Garden
William J. Bryan
W. P. St. John
Bryan
Desperate Bandits Recaptured Near Loco by Marshals
Two Christian brothers escaped from Oklahoma City jail after a murder charge and the killing of a officer during their escape. They were tracked by two deputy U S marshals following a recent robbery. The outlaws surrendered without resistance when confronted near Loco territory.
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Vicurra
The
Christian Brothers
Oklahoma City
Loco
United States
Shooters Face The Traps At Dupont World Championship
At Burnside the Dupont world championship third tournament saw only one race finished due to a 178 entry list and darkness. Over 500 shooters attended with 2,000 spectators. John Kleinman and Captain A H Bogardus, both over ten years old, dueled in the B traps with Bogardus hitting nine straight birds.
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Dupont
Curoaco
Burnside
John Kleinman
A. H. Bogardus
Bugardus
Pullman
Bogardus
Louisville
Sioux City
Council Bluff's
Complete Democratic Victory In Alabama Governor Race
Johnston led a sweeping victory with a predicted margin around 45 000 to 60 000 as Democrats swept 45 of 66 counties and gained large majorities in both houses. The legislature appears silver friendly, boosting Pugh for the U S Senate.
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Johnston
Alabama
Birmincham
Goodwyn
Pugh
United States Senate
Statistics on Labor in Iowa Law Passes Last Legislature
Des Moines August 5 The new law enabling the state labor commissioner to secure statistics on labor subjects is a great success. No employer or employee has refused information. Many have completed returns and request copies of the report and to be placed on the mailing list of the bureau. The bureau covers all departments of labor not just manufacture. The forthcoming report will detail business kind, hands employed, for 1895 and 1896, wages, weeks in operation, strikes, and wage losses with strike outcomes.
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Des Mores
Department of Labor
Hastings Ready for the Populate Convention in Nebraska
In Hastings Nebraska on August 5 preparations are complete for the Populist state nominating convention at the Bostwick hotel. Leading Populist politicians have rooms booked and Secretary Edgerton has arrived to set up shop, with business groups adorning storefronts in anticipation.
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Hastings
Bostwick Hotel
Nebraska
Edgerton
Bostwick
Investigative Hearing on Grain Rate Manipulation
Interstate Commerce Commission convened in Chicago to probe Kansas City reconsigning practices that cut grain rates. Witnesses included Biddle of Santa Fe and Courtright of Alton. Maegley of Kansas City may be compelled to testify. railroads threaten association withdrawal over non joining roads.
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Cnscago
Aug. C
Interstate Commerce Commission
Kansas City
Biddle
Santa Fe
Courtright
Alton
A. . Bartlett
Trazer, Bartlett & Co
Morrison, Clements, Knapp and Yeomans
Day
Washington
Maegley
St. Louis & San Francisco
Western Passenger Association
Missouri, Kansas & Texas
Fort Scott
Pittsburg & Gulf
Li Hung Chang Visited House of Commons in Aug
Li Hung Chang the Chinese envoy visited the house of commons in August dressed in yellow, listened to the Scotch agricultural bill debate, and spoke with George N. Curzon and Joseph Chamberlain. He then had a three quarters of an hour audience with the Marquis of Salisbury at the foreign office, carried in on a chair to avoid stairs.
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House of Commons
Loupon
Li Hung Chang
Foreign Office
George N. Curzon
Li Hong Chang
Joseph Chamberlain
Marquis of Salisbury
Bryan Spends Quiet Sunday as Bryan Attends Church
W J Bryan and wife visited Englewood Presbyterian Church where pastor Rev Dr John Clark Hill preached. Thousands of free silver Democrats flocked to Clifton House to see the candidate, who after a long day greeted supporters with handshakes and baby kisses before departing for Pittsburgh.
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Ohicago
Clifton House
W. J. Bryan
Englewood
John Clark Hill
Bryan
Hill
First Presbyterian Church
Lincoln
Presbyterian Church
Pennsylvania
Here
Pittsburg
Race War Kills Three Negro Laborers in Arkansas
A clash in Polk county near Horatio pits white and black laborers on the Kansas City Pittsburg and Gulf railway project. Three Black workers are dead, others wounded, and many flee as whites, backed by locals, drive out Black laborers. Leaders arrested. contractors plan to bring in more Black laborers amid rising tensions.
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Arkansas
Arkana
Ark
Polk County
Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf
Horatio
Galveston Port Plan Ties Immigrant Traffic to Rail Lines
Aug 10 Ontcaco The North German Lloyd and Hamburg American lines will make Galveston Tex a port while agreeing with western railroads not to ticket immigrants for points west of Louisiana and Texas. Lines seek to withdraw immigrant agents from Europe and abolish the New York clearing house, letting steamship firms handle traffic in Europe and New York. Western roads consent if agents are withdrawn west of Chicago. A meeting of railroad and steamship agents in New York next month will settle the plan.
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Galveston
Ontcaco
North German
Lloyd
Hamburg-American Steamship Companies
Tex
Western Railroads
Louisiana
Texas
trans-Atlantic Steamship Lines
Western Roads
Europe
New York
Western
Chicago
Men killed in a stock train wreck near Des Moines
Des Moines reports six men killed when a mixed stock and meat train on the Rock Island Keokuk division wrecked one and a half miles west of Leighton. The journal broke at 50 miles per hour, nine cars destroyed, bodies among dead stock. The dead listed include Thomas Leyden Edward Garey Rogent Garey William Kremer William Shea and an unnamed man. The incident occurred yesterday morning in Aug. 8 dispatches.
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Rock Island
Des Moines
Keokuk
Leighton
Thomas Leyden
Edward Garey
Rogent Garey
William Kremer
William Shea
Prof Mayne Arnold Credited With Superior Optical Skill
The Telegraph endorses Prof Mayne Arnold an optician now in Atlantic after a strict review of his background and many letters from senators judges and professors praising his accuracy and trustworthiness. Cass county residents Mr. and Mrs. E S Hamill also vouch for his decades of service and success in Perry Indiana before his Atlantic move.
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Mayne Arnold
Atlantic
Tur Telegraph
Arnold
United States
Cass County
E. S. Hamill
Perry
Prof Arnold
The
Telegraph
Prof. Arnold
Hamill
S. E. Hamill
Cass
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