Rosewater Dies in Court After Long Public Career
Edward Rosewater, founder and editor of the Omaha Bee, dies in district court No. 6 after a rest. The 1841 Bohemian born journalist and politician had been a prominent U.S. senator candidate and Transmississippi exposition promoter. He had been active in Omaha since 1871.
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Omaha
Edward Rosewater
Bee
Rosewater
Waterloo
Neb
Charles Rosewater
United States
Omaha Bee
Bukovan
Bohemia
United States Military Telegraph Corps
Pacific Telegraph Company
United States Mint Commission
Universal Postal Congress
Lincoln
Important Hearing On Cotton Rates Sept. 12
The Interstate Commerce Commission will hold a hearing on September 12 in Washington on a petition to change rates and require thirty days notice to the commission under the new act. Cotton producing states and rail carriers expect the ruling to affect freight charges to cotton shippers and how quickly rates can be adjusted. The commission will hear all sides before issuing any order.
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Geo. A. Adams
Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
Interstate Commission
Sutherland to arrange Philippine student farm placements
C W Sutherland of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, overseeing Filipino students educated in the United States, leaves Washington for New Orleans to place agricultural students. He will arrange sites for learning sugar, tobacco, rice crop methods, choosing schools or plantations based on local conditions as eight students near arrival.
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Washington
C. W. Sutherland
Bureau of Insular Affairs
New Orleans
Philippine Islands
Enticed Girl in Denison Attempted Assault
A nine year old girl was enticed from home in Denison on August 31 and assaulted in an alley. The child screamed, the man fled, and police arrested him. A charge of attempted rape was filed. The child is the daughter of a well known local grocer. In Cuero two carloads of cotton burned on August 31.
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Denison
Bryan's New York Homecoming Sparks Raucous Ovations
Mr. Bryan arrived at the Battery then the Victoria hotel amid thousands of cheering supporters. Police cleared a path to the lobby as he thanked the crowd and spoke of home and future plans, joking about Nebraska Missouri and Washington.
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New York
Mr. Bryan
the Battery
Victoria Hotel
Twenty-seventh
Broadway
Bryan
Washington
White House
Nebraska
Missouri
London
Westerners Fill New York City for Bryan Landing
On August 31 crowds of westerners and their families swarmed trains and Broadway for the arrival of Mr. Bryan. Hotels along Manhattan’s core were packed as streets from Twenty third to Forty second streets filled with eager onlookers. Madison Avenue and nearby blocks were roped off to keep crowds from Madison Square Garden where preparations by workers and security detail intensified. Chief Inspector Cartwright led a force including inspectors captains sergeants and 600 patrolmen to manage the gathering.
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Bryan
New York
Broadway
Twenty-third Street
Forty-second Street
Mr. Bryan
Fourth
Madison Avenues
Madison Square Garden
Cartwright
Democratic National Committee Joins Bryan Parade
In New York on August 31 members of the Democratic national committee participated in Bryan’s procession from the Battery to the Hotel Victoria riding in carriages. Seven Nebraskan mayors were in Bryan’s escort alongside arriving delegates from several states including governors Blanchard Swanson Folk Warfield and Prairie delegation sizes noted.
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National Democratic Committee
New York
Democratic National Committee
Bryan
The
Battery
Hotel Victoria
Blanchard
Louisiana
Dunn
Chicao
Rierson Jennings
Philadelphia
Swanson
Martin and
Daniel
Flood
Virginia
Folk
Missouri
Warfield
Maryland
New Hampshire
Minnesota
Man Dies After Wagon Dragging At Willow Grove
A male team belonging to W. B. Cosgrove of Willow Grove ran away near Alvarado. Mr. Cosgrove's feet tangled in the harness as he attempted to dismount and he was dragged about 200 yards. He suffered severe head and shoulder injuries and died.
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Bly
Alvarado
W. B. Cosgrove
Willow Grove
Fairbanks Speaks at Ossawatomie Fifty Year Battle Anniversary
Vice President Fairbanks addressed about 6000 people in Ossawatomie Kansas on the fiftieth anniversary of the Battle of Ossawatomie where John Brown played a central role. In Muskogee Oklahoma the city announces a new theater presence.
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Ossawatomie
Kan
Fairbanks
Battle of
John Brown
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Silas B. Johnson
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Cuero
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F. M. Law
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ST. Louis
G. N. Agente
D. J. Price
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GEO
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A.G.P
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E. J. Jenkins
Bryan Steam Laundry
Hearne & Dansby
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