New Yorkers Plan a Waiting Game
New York State delegates at the Denver caucus plan to defer major decisions leaving platform, presidency stance, and vice presidency to subcommittees. Murphy-led Tammany favors his leadership while Parker is named to the resolutions committee. Bryan support and no New York vice presidential candidate are noted amid cautious noncommittal statements. The scene includes Conners arrival and speculation on national committee roles.
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Denver
New York State
Murphy
Tammany Hall
Alton B. Parker
Herman E. Mack
New York
William J. Conner
Buffalo
Mack
William J. Gaynor
Brooklyn
Mr. Bryan
Bryan
Tammany
Tiger
New York City
Manhattan
Brown Palace Hotel
Edward C. Coatsworth
Erie County
Conners
W. R. Hearst
Hearst
Samuel T. Seabury
New York Sime Court
Mr. Murphy
Harvey Named President of National Education Group
Lorenzo D. Harvey of Madison, elected president of the National Educational Association at Cleveland, has long served Wisconsin as State Superintendent of Schools. Born in 1848 in New Hampshire, he has 58 years in Wisconsin and a career steeped in educational work and leadership in state and national associations.
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Commercial Tribune
Madison
Wis
Lorenzo D. Harvey
National Educational Association
Cleveland
Wisconsin
New Hampshire
Wisconsin Teachers’ Association
Woman Severely Burned by Blazing Match Incident
In Omaha Nebraska on July 5 Mrs Ralph Sisson was badly burned when a match fell into her hair as she fainted near lighting the stove. Her clothes caught fire and her head suffered severe burns before the blaze was put out.
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Commercial Tribune
Omaha
Neb
Ralph Sisson
Japan Eyes July 7 Meeting After Cabinet Resignation
Tokyo reports elder statesmen summoned for July 7 to discuss the cabinet crisis after a resignation. Seiyukai split seen as non fatal to Marquis Katsura forming a new government. Saiionji illness risks shifting leadership and the Yamagata Ito contest intensifies.
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Tokyo
Seiyuki Party
Marquis Salonji
Marquis Katsura
Saiionji
Yamagata
Prince Ito
Seiyuki
Socialist Labor party nominates Preston for President
National convention in New York selects Martin R. Preston of Nevada for President and Donald Munro of Virginia for Vice President. De Leon touts Preston as an honest working man while noting his 25 year prison sentence for shooting a restaurant keeper in Goldfield during a strike.
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Socialist Labor Party
New York
United States
Martin R. Preston
Nevada
Donald Munro
Virginia
Preston
Daniel de Leon
Goldfield
New
de Leon
de le
Silver
de Leo Id
Duel Death of Count Sumarakoff Elston on Neva Island
St Petersburg July 5 Count Sumarakoff Elston eldest son of Prince Yussupoff was killed by Count Manteuffel an officer of the Horse Guards in a pistol duel. The meeting on Krestovsky Island followed a family quarrel prompted by the challenger.
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ST. Petersburg
Sumarakoff-Elston
Yussupoff
Count Manteuffel
Horse Guards
Krestovsky
Neva
Sherman Western Campaign Plan for Vice Presidential Nominee
James Schoolcraft Sherman will tour the Far and Middle West by special train for three weeks to a month, speaking from the rear platform with three to four fellow orators. Potential associates include Ro denburg Olcott Mondell and Bonynge, as Republicans push to build support in the West while Sherman remains largely in the background in the East. The tour aims to showcase his stump speech appeal and broad humor to Western voters.
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Commercial Tribune
Washington
James Schoolcraft Sherman
Middle West
Rodenburg
Illinois
Olcott
New York
Mondell
Wyoming
Bohynge
Colorado
Oyster Bay
Sherman
Congress
West
East
Bonynge
Rodenberg
House of Representatives
Tobacco Men to Gather Rally in Hopkinsville
Tomorrow a large rally in Hopkinsville Kentucky will be held by the American Society of Equity. The group has established a salesroom and reports good tobacco business with ready sales for most of the leaf received. National President Cicero M Barnes State President Campbell Cantrill and Tobacco Department Superintendent E L Davenport will speak.
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Commercial Tribune
Hopkinsville
American Society of Equity
Cicero M. Barnett
Campbell Cantrill
Tobacco
E. L. Davenport
Printing funds dry up delaying state reports
No funds remain in the state printing fund so the biennial reports of the State Auditor Secretary of State and Commissioner of Agriculture will not be published this fall as is customary before the January legislative session. The cost would be about 6000 dollars.
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Commercial Tribune
Little Rock
State Printing Fund
Secretary of State
Commissioner of Agriculture
White Wings On Tricycle Clean Streets In New York
New York monitors a new tricycle street cleaner in Herald Square. The rider on a painted tricycle deposits trash in a sheet steel receptacle while roaming 15 to 20 miles of streets. Uniformed guides may soon accompany visitors along Fifth Avenue to point out stores and landmarks.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
Herald Square
Fifth Avenue
Simon Brentano
Brentano
Manhattan
Fourteenth
Fifty-ninth
Mr. Brentano
Panama Crisis Eases as Arias Resigns Presidential Bid
Panama July 6 The resignation of Senor Arias as a presidential candidate removes threat and war clouds. A South American backed campaign is seen as defeated by Obaldia led factions. Arias cites preventing U S occupation and uniting parties as motives. talks with Obaldia failed to unify a third candidate.
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Panama
Senor Arias
Senor Obaldia
United States
Arias
Republic
Man Clings To Tree In Swamp For Pole Length
Edward Godwin of Georgetown Del spent about an hour hanging from a fifty foot gum tree in a swamp three miles away. His spur jammed high on the trunk and after a lengthy struggle he freed it and slid down bruised and exhausted.
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Commercial Tribune
Georgetown
Del
Edward Godwin
Godwin
Statehood for Alaska Urged by Yukon Official
R J Eilbeck High Sheriff of Yukon Territory urged Alaska statehood in Seattle praising a future star in the flag. He spoke to Judge Silas Reid noting Canada granted Yukon self-government and wondered why Alaska, with a larger population, remains under a republic.
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Commercial Tribune
Seattle
Wash
Alaska
R. J. Eilbeck
Yukon Territory
Eilbeck
Silas H. Reid
Yukon
Canada
Gies Taken in Murder Case at Curtis Publishing
Frederick Gies foreman at Curtis Publishing in Philadelphia was arrested as a suspect in the murder of Dr. William H. Wilson who died June 26 after drinking poisoned ale sent via local express. Police say circumstantial links in Gies and family history match key points in the Wilson case.
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Philadelphia
Frederick Gies
Curtis Publishing Company
William H. Wilson
Giesr
Gies
Wilson
Notification Day Committee Named
Members of the Committee on Illumination and Decoration for the Notification Day celebration have been decided. The roster includes Samuel W. Trost as Chairman and thirty more members such as Loring Andrews Howard Hollister Charles Culbertson A W Macbriar A H Chatfield Andreas Burkhardt Louis E Miller Georges Newstedt and others.
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Samuel W. Trost
Loring Andrews
Howard C. Hollister
Charles Culbertson
A. W. Macbriar
A. H. Chatfield
Andreas Burkhardt
Louis E. Miller
Georges Newstedt
A. J. Becht
Robert Pogus
Luke Smith
R. P. Bellsmith
Cornelius Burkhardt
Fred Tuke
Louis Zeiglen Merry E. Merrihew
E. C. Poage
Edward N. Roth
A. W. Sommerfield
Dawson Blackmore
George Rendigs
Monte J. Goble
Frank Herschede
R. J. Patton
A. H. Pugh
William C. Johnston
Theo Claus
John E. Devere
Howard Wurlitzer
W. A. Julian
Robert J. McCombs
Lewis
Hillhouse
Rudolph Tietig
Lynching Feared After Engineer Slaying in Springfield
C A Ballard an engineer was stabbed to death at his home in Springfield. Joseph James a Negro was arrested on murder charges. Ballard awakened by his daughter the intruder slit through the house and inflicted eleven wounds before escaping.
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Springfield
Ill
C. A. Ballard
Joseph James
Ballard
James
Pearl Harrington Announces Candidacy for Midland Clerk
Miss Pearl Harrington a Midland society girl who has just reached her majority announces her bid for Midland County and District Clerk. She runs as a Democrat and promotes good looks and personality as part of her platform. She is the first woman to seek an elective county office. Midland County sits in West Texas cattle country with Midland city noted for high wealth relative to its population.
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Commercial Tribune
Midland
Tex
Pearl Harrington
Midland County
West Texas
United States
Bride of 19 and 2000 Disappear in Oklahoma City
Perry Oklahoma July 5 Captain John F Gordell 69 a Grand Army of the Republic member and capitalist married two days to a 19 year old named Florence. They left with his mother in law aboard a coach to Kansas City then Fort Dodge Iowa. Gordell had earlier married multiple young brides and reportedly spent about 2000 on the last wife before this one. He is reputed to be worth 70000 in Oklahoma City Perry and Missouri property.
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Commercial Tribune
Perry
John F. Gordell
Grand Army of the Republic
Florence
Cordell
Good-By
Rosa Caloria
Oklahoma City
Missouri
Will drawn as a joke probate case in Port Huron
A will created in 1897 as a joke by Thomas Kennedy was probated after his death on April 27. It appointed brother in law John Kavanaugh as sole heir, though Kennedy claimed the document was destroyed. Attorney Black testified the will was shown to Kavanaugh but not destroyed and Kennedy died too weak to make a new will.
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Commercial Tribune
Port Huron
Mich
Thomas Kennedy
John Kavanaugh
John L. Black
Kennedy
Kavanaugh
Black
Wounded Sea Lion Turns Aggressor in Alaskan Waters
In Bellingham on July 5 a large sea lion attacked crew trying to kill it. Captain Finley fired, wounding the animal, which then charged the scow. Four more bullets killed the lion, whose carcass weighed about a half ton and stretched nine feet.
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Commercial Tribune
Bellingham
Wash
Finley
Cyclone damages barn in Armour County
A cyclonic storm moved the large new barn of H. W. Henderson of Iowa Township fifty feet from its foundation. Insurance agent George Culver in Corsica approved $50 for labor to reset the barn. A second storm later occurred but the barn was not damaged after being reset.
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Commercial Tribune
Armour, S. D
H. W. Henderson
Iowa Township
Aetna Insurance Company
George Culver
Corsica
Pommern to Be Used in Balloon Engine Flight Experiment
New York July 5. Dr Julius P Thomas plans a daring ascent at Astoria using the Pommern, Gordon Bennett winner, with a forty horsepower automobile engine suspended from the gas bag. He will astride the engine, operate a steering system, and land at Battery Park. He claims control and speed of up to forty miles per hour, trusting luck to avoid bag explosion and wind dangers.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
Julius P. Thomas
Astoria
Battery Park
Manhattan
Bull Treed by Charge in Thunderstorm Near Lafayette Farm
George Warnock aged 17 and Harry Pickett 30, both from Manayunk, were chased by a bull at Henry Forbes’s Lafayette farm. They fled over a fence and took refuge in a tree for two hours as a thunderstorm raged and lightning struck nearby.
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Henry Forbes
Lafayette
George Warnock
Harry Pickett
Manayunk
Debris Burns for a Year at New Brunswick Factory
Ruins of the Janeway and Carpenter wallpaper factory in New Brunswick remain burning a year after a March 13 1907 blaze. A large paper mass buried in debris keeps flaring up at intervals throughout the year.
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Commercial Tribune
New Brunswick
N. J
Janeway & Carpenter Wall
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