Navy lieutenant commander dismissed by court martial
Washington reports that the president has approved the court martial finding for Lieutenant Commander R. H. Osborne United States Navy and he will be dismissed from the service. The Interstate Commerce Commission upholds laws requiring shippers of lumber on open cars to use stakes for securing safe transport. Secretary Wright protests British khaki cloth for Philippines uniforms and orders preference for American manufacturers where possible. Government agencies seek evidence of neutrality law violations on the Mexican border at Las Vacas Coahuila but face reluctance from those who know.
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R. H. Osborne
United States Navy
Interstate Commerce Commission
Wright
New England
Philippines
Las Vacas
Coahuila
Notable Society and World News Highlights
The London Mail reports the Earl of Clancarty engaged to marry a wealthy New York widow. Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr. births a third son at Bar Harbor. John C. Curry, famed Kentucky trotter driver, dies in Kansas City. Algernon Sartoris named secretary of legations at Guatemala. Miss Georgie Eliot Porter marries in Brookline. Lieut. Jones dies of cholera in the Philippines. Lieut. Muldoon recovers. Chicago sees the marriage of Mary Josephine Crane and Prof. H. C. Bradley, linking Helen Keller-like wealth and Wisconsin academia.
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Earl of Clancarty
London Mail
New York
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Rockefeller
Bar Harbor
John C. Curry
Lexington
United States
Kansas City
Algernon Sartoris
President Grant
Guatemala
William F. Sands
Robert Edeson
Georgie Eliot Porter
Linn Boyd Porter
Charles Mackay
Brookline
Mass
Chicago
Mary Josephine Crane
Helen Keller
Charles R. Crane
H. C. Bradley
University of Wisconsin
Multiple Fatalities Mark Tragedies Across Regions
A stream of disaster reports details deaths from a railroad collision near Boonville New York and a bridge gang accident in Kansas City. Other incidents include a Chicago fall from a scaffold and a Colorado cremation death. A monitor explosion injures crew members and a Nebraska flood claims several lives. A California streetcar collision near Watts kills five children.
British bill limits miners to eight hour workday
The British House of Commons passed a bill to require miners to work only eight hours daily five years hence. The London Daily Mail fund for Olympic visitors has reached $60,000 in London. Across Apulia intense heat harms crops. Russian wheat is 25 to 50 percent below average, signaling possible famine. Chang Chih-tung notes Americans study English more than in England. Russia allows a US consular agency at Omsk, with an exequatur requested for Adolph Reinecke. The Omsk post will be the sole link between Moscow and Vladivostok for US representation.
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House of Commons
United Kingdom
London Daily Mail
London
Apulia
Italy
Russia
St. Petersburg
Chang Chih-tung
Ministry of Education
United States
England
Omsk
Adolph Reiniecke
Moscow
Vladivostok
Multiple Local Homicide and Legal Notices Spark Police Activity
A string of crime reports includes Edward H. Evans arrested in Boston for murder in Cincinnati in 1907, Albert McVey shot in Pine Bluff, Pa Archibald dynamite incident, J T Code dead after a spine injury during a postoffice robbery, I Chang trial date set for July 27 for the Durham Stevens murder, Ada Reichars found murdered in Hot Springs, a Columbus engineer pleads guilty to a bribe, Missouri Pacific telegrapher Charles Taylor charged with manslaughter after a Knobnoster crash, Convict Preston declines Socialist nomination while in Carson prison.
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Albert McVey
Pine Bluff
Ark
Father Karparski
Archibald
J. T. Code
Nyack
N. Y
Postoffice
Cook
San Francisco
I. Chang
Durham Stevens
Korea
Chang
Stevens
Ada Reichars
Dallas
Tex
Hot Springs
St. Louis
Arthur A. Beck
Columbus
Ohio
Nelson Cannon
Trindad Paving Company
Charles Taylor
Missouri Pacific
Lamont
Knobnoster
Strang
Preston
Carson
Nevada
Socialist Labor Party
Potts anti future bill killed by Louisiana Legislature
The Louisiana legislature has killed the Potts anti future bill. The Erie road dispute looms with a looming rate war between Chicago and New York if demands are unmet. Adam Strubel, the heaviest man in Iowa, was buried at Eagle Center weighing 500 pounds. mourners required the undertakers to remove part of a bedroom wall to reach the body.
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Louisiana
Potts
Erie Road
Chicago
New York
Adam Strubel
Iowa
Eagle Center
Minneapolis
National
Young People’s Christian Union
the Universalist Church
St. Paul
William H. Taft
S. M. Fitch
California
United States
San Francisco
John C. Pollock
Kansas City
Great Western Life Insurance Company
Bryan Secures Nomination on First Ballot
W J Bryan wins the nomination on the first ballot amid an uproarious 25 minute demonstration following Hammond's speech. Johnson is wildly cheered as the rally credits Bryan's victory and momentum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnson
Hammond
Bryan Nominated for President by Democratic National Convention
Denver July 11 William Jennings Bryan was chosen for president by the Democratic national convention on the first ballot with 8921 2 votes. The nominating scene sparked pandemonium as supporters cheered and a Georgia dissenting vote stood apart. The convention adjourned to reconvene at 1 PM for the vice presidential nomination.
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Denver
Colo
William Jennings Bryan
United States
Bryan
Gray
Johnson
Georgia
William J. Bryan
Ignatius J. Dunn
Nebraska
America
Wiliam J. Bryan
Clayton
Alabama
Sesso
Roosevelt
Democratic convention in uproar over Johnson and Bryan
The Dakota convention hall erupted as delegates cheered for Johnson and Minnesota roared in response to the Johnson boom. Chairman Clayton struggled to restore order while the band played and lights dimmed the crowd. Gov. Haskell of Oklahoma presented the platform praising bank deposit guarantees and direct election of senators with broad support.
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Hammond
North Star
Massachusetts
Oklahoma
Georgia
Minnesota
Clayton
Johnson
Bryan
House
L. I. Handy
Delaware
Gray
Gov. Haskell
The
Philippines
Circus Train Wreck Claims Life in Dickinson Yard
Jack Grant died in Dickinson hospital from internal injuries after the Miller Bros. 101 Ranch show wreck in the railroad yards at midnight. He suffered a crushed leg and foot. Several others were seriously injured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dickinson
N. D
Jack Grant
Miller Bros
Steel rail accident injures North-Western foreman
John Brown of Cole, steel gang foreman for the North Western, was knocked down a rail being unloaded from a car in Marshalltown Iowa and suffered fractures to both legs.
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Marshalltown
Iowa
John Brown
Cole
Democratic nomination of Kern completes Bryan ticket
Denver July 12 The Democratic national convention nominated John Worth Kern of Indiana by acclamation for vice president, completing the ticket with William Jennings Bryan nominated for president. The assembly adjourned after Kern’s naming and Bryan’s nomination. The platform calls for tariff reform, anti monopoly measures, campaign finance publicity, federal remedies for interstate commerce, and other progressive planks.
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Denver
Colo
John Worth Kern
Indiana
William Jennings Bryan
Kern
Bryan
Colorado
Thomas
Charles A. Towne
New York
Connecticut
Archibald McNeill
Georgia Clark Howell
George Gray
Delaware
John Mitchell
Wiinefs
Towne
Howe
Georgia
McNeill
Interstate Commerce Commission
Philippines
Arizona
New Mexico
Alaska
Porto Rico
House of Representatives
People's Representatives
Matches Set Tot on Fire Injury in Deadwood Girl
In Deadwood South Dakota on July 12 little Alice daughter of H Bishop sustained severe burns to her hips and lower limbs while playing with matches. The injuries threaten her life as medical aid is rushed to her.
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Deadwood
S. D
Little Alice
H. Bishop
Deer Killing Is Charged In Wisconsin Territory
William Merril, an old trapper living fifteen miles northeast of Couderay, Wis, was brought to Hayward by Sheriff Clark. He is accused of killing deer out of season.
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Couderay
Wis
William Merril
Here
Hayward
Clark
Seven Are Killed In Wreck Near Medicine Hat
A head on collision eastern Saskatchewan crossing near Pruitt brickyard killed seven people including five railroad men and two passengers. The Spokane flyer en route to Moose Jaw collided with a Crow's Nest passenger train. three more railroad men were seriously injured. Engineer James Nicholson had orders to meet at Coleridge. The inquest blamed a faulty train order issued by Operator Ritchie who drove toward Montana after the wreck.
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Medicine Hat
Sask
Pruitt
Spokane Flyer
Coleridge
Moose Jaw
Crow's Nest
James Nicholson
Spokane
Crow's Nest Division
Ritchie
Montana
300 Victims of Negligence in Russian Mine Disaster
An inquest into last week’s fatal coal mine blast at Yusovo, Russia, exposes archaic mining methods and lack of inspection. About 300 men died, mostly from burns or afterdamp, with about an hour lost before rescue efforts began, condemning many to death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yusovo
Russia
Nine-Year-Old Placed Pipe on Track in Train Wreck Attempt
Nine-year-old John Sovick of Morea near Pottsville planned to wreck the Pennsylvania flyer by placing iron pipe and stones on the track. He was caught before the train arrived, arrested, and committed to prison in Pottsville.
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Pottsville
John Sovick
Morea
Pennsylvania Railroad
Robbery Hits Haugen Post Office for $200
Postoffice Inspector E. E. Fraser was alerted to a Haugen Wisconsin post office robbery. About two hundred dollars was stolen and no clues left for investigators as Fraser begins work on the case.
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Haugen
Wis
la Crosse
E. E. Fraser
Gregmen
Markets Echo Grain and Livestock Quotations Across Cities
The St Paul Minneapolis Duluth Chicago Sioux City and South St Paul markets report corn wheat oats flax barley cattle hogs sheep and lamb prices. Notable ranges include St Paul wheat No 1 hard around 1.15 to 1.16 and corn near 70 cents, Chicago cattle about 4.85 to 8.40 per hundredweight, hogs near 6.46 to 6.65, and South St Paul grain fed steers from 6.0 to 6.75 with hogs around 6.15 to 6.20.
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St. Paul
Northern
Minneapolis
Duluth
Milwaukee
Cuty
Chicago
Jay
Sioux City
Iowa
South St. Paul
Indianapolis Celebrates Kern Nomination
Indianapolis Democrats celebrated the nomination of John W. Kern for vice president with flags banners fireworks cheers and a large brass band in an enthusiastic city gathering.
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Indianapolis
Ind
John W. Kern
United States
Counterfeiting charges filed against local attorney
Danville July 12 Charles E Brown thirty five an attorney prominent in society was arrested yesterday afternoon on the charge of counterfeiting and is held in bonds of five thousand dollars.
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Danville
Charles E. Brown
Doctor Counterman Charged With Counterfeiting
United States officers arrived in Coffeyville Kansas with Dr G J Counterman seventy years old a prominent physician from New Albany Kansas who is charged with counterfeiting.
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Coffeyville
Kan
United States
G. J. Counterman
New Albany
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Frege
Marquette
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Portland Cement Company
Reynold Donnan
Independence
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Neb
Rome
Watertown & Ogdensburg
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Utica
Acacia
William Simmons
Kingston
Bull Rock Point
Sackett’s Harbor
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H. P. McIntosh
Gilchrist Company of
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M. A. Hanna
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Santa Ana
Pacific Electric Railway Company
Watts
Cal
Fred C. Singleton
Cincinnati
Edward H. Evans
Boston
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William J. Brown
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