Gompers backs Bryan as labor weighs in
Samuel Gompers, head of the AFL, will support William J. Bryan in the coming campaign. He says he has no plan to speak publicly for Bryan and will focus labor’s efforts as defined by the Denver Democratic platform. Bryan greets Gompers at Bryan Station with Kern and other party figures, while Indiana pledges Bryan 10,000 votes.
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Fairview
Lincoln
Neb
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
William J. Bryan
John W. Kern
Bryan
Gompers
Denver
Kern
Frank Morrison
Federation
James Duncan
Organized Labor
Abram Simmons
John F. Osbourne
State Central Committee of
Indiana
A. 8. Jackson
Jackson
Chicago
National Committee
Hall
Nebraska
James
Kentucky
Campau
Michigan
Lamb
Atwood
Kansas
Albany
N. Y
Democratic State Committee
Conners
General Committee
Dollison Faces Court Plea of Not Guilty in Shocking Shooting
Walter Dollison is arraigned in police court on charges of shooting his sister in law Mrs. Thos Franey with intent to injure. Attorneys waive examination and enter a not guilty plea. bail set at 2000 dollars as he is remanded to county jail awaiting grand jury action. The 20 year old suspect claimed he wanted to show he had the sand to shoot, then planned to shoot himself. He remained calm, while his father Lindsey Collison wept.
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E. N. Walters
Walter Dollison
Thos
Franey
Chief Long
Lindsey Collison
Dugan
Stevens
Churchman
Americans Make a Good Start at International Olympiad
Rain hindered the opening at Shepherds Bush but the 1500 meters produced fast times. Melvin W. Sheppard of Irish-American AC NY won the heat in 4 05, beating J P Halstead and the 1904 St Louis Olympic mark by 2 5 seconds. Sullivan and Lightbody also posted solid showings for the Americans.
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London
Shepherds Bush
Melvin W. Sheppard
G. Butterfield
J. P. Sullivan
Keefe denounces injunctions in labor report at convention
Keefe denounced court injunctions as tools used against unions and urged federal limits on injunctions and contempt jury trials. He defended boycotts child labor laws and urged union federation ties while calling open shop and individual contract betrayals. Credentials report passed.
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Erre
Keefe
Judas
Prohibition Convention Eyes Outsider Presidential Nominee
In Columbus the Ohio Prohibition convention advances a one plank platform on prohibition and debates possible national nominations. Delegates hear H L Peeke attack suffrage and churches, praise Cox of Cincinnati, and consider Watkins for governor and Martin for lieutenant governor. National talks include Hanly, Glenn, and Littlefield as potential presidential picks. The party reports a $30,000 war chest and notes 1892 was its peak vote with 209,469.
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H. L. Peeke
Sandusky
Peeke
Prohibition Party
Colorado
Idaho
Utah
Wyoming
Anti Saloon League
George B. Cox
Cincinnati
Prohibition
John P. St. John
Committee On
B. J. Pinney
Cleveland
E. E. Frazier
Wellsville
Samuel Dickie
Albion
Mich
Joshua Levering
Maryland
Watkins
Ada
J. B. Martin
Hamilton
H. J. Haskell
Muskingum
Indiana
Hanly
Glenn
North Carolina
Charles E. Littlefield
Maine
National Committee
South
Bryan to Receive Presidential Nomination Notice
Lincoln Neb July 14 William Jennings Bryan will be officially notified of his nomination for the presidency on August 12. The national committee adopted a resolution banning campaign contributions from corporations.
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Lincoln
Neb
William Jennings Bryan
National Committee
Heartless desertion leaves mother seeking home for child
A Byesville mother, Rose Barnett, abandoned by her husband, sought aid for her four children. She left a fourteen month old with Rebecca Enos in West Turner Ave, promising work at Cambridge Glass Plant. Trustees placed the infant in Guernsey County Children's Home after authorities investigated. The mother has not since visited the child.
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Guernsey County
Rose Barnett
Byesville
Rebecca Enos
Turner Avenue
Cambridge
Fairbanks 10 Call on Prince in Quebec Visit
Vice President Fairbanks will call on the Prince of Wales on July 22 the day the prince arrives at Quebec aboard the battleship Indomitable. Earl Grey the governor general of Canada will host a dinner for American and French guests that evening. Attending Americans include Major Mott Rear Admiral Cowles and Lt Commander Sellers.
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Washington
Jwwy
Fairbanks
Prince of Wales
Prince
Quebec
Earl Grey
Canada
Mott
Cowles
Sellers
Baby Born On Street Car In Cimengo
A street car traveling on Washington street halted for about thirty minutes as Mrs. John Ruloff gave birth to a girl aboard the Armitage avenue car. Dr. I G Rawlins from the city health department assisted and the mother and baby were later taken by police ambulance to a hospital.
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Cimengo
Washington Street
John Ruloff
Armitage Avenue
I. G. Rawlins
Widow Inherits £50,000 Estate From English Relatives
Pittsburg reports Mrs. Dora Bullus, widow of Charles Bullus murdered near Seattle in 1904, has learned Hopper and Taylor of Birmingham England confirm she is sole heir to a £50,000 estate. Since her husband’s death she has supported herself by washing. Also in brief, a Detroit agreement ends a wage settlement for 10,000 workers across several states with pay raises for puddlers and finishers, and a Lackawanna County coal land assessment dispute is reduced to about $60 per foot acre, with potential appeals to the state supreme court.
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Pittsburg
Dora Bullus
Charles
Seattle
Wash
Hopper & Taylor
Birmingham
England
Youngstown, O
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Wisconsin
Michigan
Missouri
Illinois
Detroit
Western Bar Iron Association
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tinworkers
Scranton
Lackawanna County
Lackawanna
State Supreme Court
Tragic Sequel to Accidental Shooting at Horner Home
Northport New York July 14 a second tragedy unfolds as Dr James Weddell Simpson is shot and wounded by his mother in law Mrs Bartley Horner at the Horner residence He was wounded in the liver and rushed to Roosevelt hospital for surgery His wife present but not at the scene offers no aid as Horner is held on five thousand dollars bail and the case widens a long history of domestic turmoil between the Simpsons and Horner family Each side offers a varying account of the incident and motives leave the outcome uncertain
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Northport
N. Y
Jas. Weddell Simpson
New York
Bartley T. Horner
Dr. Simpson
Horner
Negro lynched in Tennessee over assault attempt
Middleton Tennessee July 14 Hugh Jones a Negro was lynched today for the attempted assault of Miss Ora Yapps a pretty 17 year old girl.
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Middleton
Tenn
Hugh, Jones
Ora Yapps
Hazel Drew Murder Mystery Identified Body in Pond
The body found in Tea's pond is Hazel I. Drew daughter of John Drew of Troy New York. Autopsy shows no water in the lungs and a skull fracture from a blow to the head. Officials suspect the murder occurred elsewhere and the body dumped in the pond to mimic suicide.
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Troy, N
Tea's Pond
Hazel I. Drew
John Drew
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