Taggart Denies World Resignation Call Amid Indiana Bryan Endorsement
Thomas Taggart rejects New York World calls for his resignation as Democratic national chairman. He cites a legal dispute over gambling in a leased building near the French Lick Springs hotel and accuses Hearst papers of libel. He notes Indiana’s June 7 Democratic convention endorsed William Jennings Bryan for president, said to influence critics.
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French Lick Springs
Ind
Thomas Taggart
Democratic National Committee
Associated Press
New York World
Democratic Committee
Hearst
French Lick Springs Company
Continuance granted in French Lick hotel case amid affidavits
Fifty additional affidavits were filed by the state against eleven casino attendees, bringing total affidavits to seventy two. Judge Buskirk postponed the cases to July 13 on hotel company requests, with Attorney General Miller agreeing no gambling would occur meanwhile. Hotel firms argued leases to third parties nullified hotel control.
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Indiana
Paoli
Ind
Buskirk
French Lick
West Baden
Miller
J. W. Kern
Judge in fatal shooting of Parker in Helenwood Tenn
In Helenwood Tennessee Judge J Fulton fatally shot Sam Parker a young attorney and college athlete. Parker died after physicians from Somerset Kentucky arrived by special train and attempted to save him. Fulton surrendered to a deputy sheriff and declined to speak further.
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Parker
Hnoxville, Tenn
Sam Park
J. , Fulton
Helenwood
Tenn
Somerset
Soldiers Surprise Winter on American Uniforms
Washington July 6. George W. Winter of London, visiting on War Department invitation, praises American soldiers for superior build and bearing. He notes US troops are smarter and better set up than British, with improvements aimed at better fit while preserving existing styles. Patterns suggest minor changes only.
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Washington
George W. Winter
London
War Department
Mr. Winter
Tommy Atkins
Anarchist Rosenberg Arrested in Altona for Bomb Plot
Altona Germany July 6 An alleged anarchist Rosenberg said to have left Seattle for Germany was arrested here. Reports say his Seattle house was raided and a bomb making plant found. An alleged plan to attack President Roosevelt was noted. Authorities seized acids explosives crucibles mortars moulds furnace scrap iron.
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Prussia
Rosenberg
Seattle
Wash
Germany
Rosenburg
Roosevelt
White Fly Pest To Be Investigated In Gulf Coast
Dr A W Morrill of the agriculture department is ordered to investigate and plan eradication of white fly on orange and lemon trees in Texas coast country and Louisiana under congressional appropriations. Additional items report mutiny at Batoum ended, Norwegian consul Fossum critically ill, Spanish cabinet resigns, and political updates from Beattyville Oyster Bay London Denison and Denison.
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Agricultural Department
Washington
A. W. Morrill
Department of Agriculture
Texas
Louisiana
City of Mexico
Fossum
Denison Negro Fires at Man and Strikes In Backyard Clash
In Denison a negro fired at Will Scott as he investigated a rear yard noise. the bullet pierced a shirtsleeve and the assailant hit Scott over the head, leaving him unconscious before escaping. In Cambridge Harvard emeritus Dean Christopher Ladell died suddenly at his home of heart disease. born 1826 in Hillsborough County.
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Denison
Will Scott
Scott
Mass
Christopher Columbus Ladell
Harvard University
Hillsborough County
New Hampshire
Cambridge
First bale of cotton sells at auction in Galveston
Galveston July 6 reports the season's first bale of cotton from Starr county sold at auction for 115 dollars. The bale weighs 475 pounds and is described as good middling quality.
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Galveston
Starr County
Customs seize smuggled goods on Rio Grande border
San Antonio authorities seized 1,6000 cigars a large amount of cigarettes drawnwork and liquor being smuggled across the Rio Grande in a canoe Thursday authorities announced the seizure reflects ongoing border enforcement efforts and involved items including cigars cigarettes and alcohol.
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San Antonio
Rio Grande
Tragedy in Los Angeles Claims Two Sisters
Miss Eleanor Brown from a prominent Southern California family was killed in a runaway accident in Los Angeles. Her sister Miss Adelaide Brown was seriously injured in the same incident.
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Los Angeles
Eleanor Brown
California
Adelaide
Mrs Maud Deasso Shoots Husband in Self Defense
In St Louis July 6 Mrs Maud Deasso mortally wounds her husband Peter Deasso claiming he threatened her with a hatchet. Police report notes the alleged threat as the basis for the shooting.
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Fast
St. Louis
Maud Deasso
Peter Deasso
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