Big Warren County Democrats Reject Goebel Stand
A large Louisville area mass convention of Warren County Democrats opposed to Senator Goebel met at the Courthouse with about 1,200 attendees. The assembly denounced Goebel and adopted resolutions pledging loyalty to Bryan and demanding fair elections and reform, appointing a provisional executive committee and planning a Lexington meeting August 2 to coordinate the anti Goebel movement.
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Bowling Green
Warren County
oGebel
Goebel
Wm. Irvine
First Presbyterian Church
Moss
Géebel
T. P. Smith
Tim Chandler
Ed L. Hines
T. G. Galloway
Ben L. Cullin
J. A. Read
Harvey Myers
Covington
Elk Lodge
W. H. Phillips
Mr. Phillips
Mr. Myers
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Phillips
Chicago
William Jennings Bryan
Democratic Party
Wall Street
Louisville
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A. T. Chenault
J. c. Gillespie
A. W. Bascom
C. W. Metcalf
V. L. Dunlap
Theodore Hallam
Thos. H. Hays
Dewey Accepts New York Visit Invitation
Admiral Dewey responds to Mayor Van Wyck by cable from Trieste that he accepts the invitation and expects to arrive around October 1. He will cable from Gibraltar with further arrangements and has written on the program for his reception in New York.
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Trieste
Settlement Filed in Centennial Bond Case in Toledo
At 2 20 this afternoon Attorney Charles Chitten filed a journal entry with the County Clerk announcing that the parties to the centennial bond muddle had agreed upon a settlement and noted the dissolving of the injunction. This ends the trouble.
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Commercial Tribune
Toledo
Charles Chittenden
Key From A Jew's Harp Helps Prisoner Escape
Will McCarty jailed for larceny escaped from the Shoals county jail by opening corridor doors with a key fashioned from a jews harp. He remains at large with no clue to his direction.
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Commercial Tribune
Shoals
Ind
Will McCarty
In Garments of Flame: One Dead in Palestine Accident
In Palestine near Greenville Ohio Mrs. Clapp and granddaughter Miss May Tucker suffered severe burns when a gasoline stove explosion ignited their clothing. Mrs. Clapp died early today, while Miss Tucker remains critically burn wounded and unrecovering.
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Greenville
Jacob Clapp
Palestine
Tucker
Mrs. Wolf Die in Akron Gasoline Stove Explosion
In Akron Ohio this afternoon Mrs William E Wolf was burned to death when a gasoline stove exploded in her home.
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Commercial Tribune
Akron
William E. Wolf
Coffin Trick Sparks Insurance Fraud Probe in Knoxville
The Mutual Life Insurance Co of New York sues Thomas Chase and wife in Milligan Tenn alleging Chase faked death to claim a $20,000 policy paid to Mrs Chase. Banks are enjoined from releasing funds. a grave search order is granted after claims the coffin held rocks instead of the insured man.
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Knoxville
Tenn
The
Mutual Life Insurance Company
New York
Thomas Chase
Milligan, Tenn
Chase
Strikers Riot Fire as Troop A Bombarded by Cracker
Rioting flared in Cleveland after a car attack fails and nitro glycerin explodes near a Pearl Street streetcar. Troop A is struck by giant firecrackers while police arrest several suspects and a man is wounded. A mass meeting in Newburg urges continued action against the big consolidated.
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Newburg
Cleveland
Big Consolidated
Regiment Ordered to Cleveland on Special Train
Adjutant General Axline relayed Mayor Farleys telegram directing a nine company regiment be assembled at Central Armory Lake Street and moved to Cleveland at the earliest moment. General Axline to accompany the train and command the force, with preparations to assemble tonight and depart likely at 10 oclock.
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Columbus
Axline
Farley
Sena
Central Armory
Lake Street
Bushnell
Springfield
Cleveland
Martial law looming as Cleveland streetcar strikes turn violent
Authorities mass troops after dynamiting attempts on Euclid avenue and a Painesville suburban line. A nonunion motorman shot and killed Louis Cornzweil amid mob violence. police detain him as investigations link to another blast.
Sheriff Ordered Exhumation in Lou French Slaying Case
In Vincennes Indiana on July 24 the coroner ordered the body of Lou French exhumed after a post mortem found he was killed by a bullet near the head from a revolver. Jonas Noelting is exonerated while Noelting earlier had used a shotgun in the Freelansville mob killing investigation.
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Noeking
French
Commercial Tribune
Vincennes
Ind
Lou French
Freelandsville
Jonas Noelting
Noelting
Collision at Georgia trestle downs trains and injures crew
A northbound Central of Georgia passenger train collided with a construction train on a trestle near Covington Georgia. Both locomotives and several cars plunged thirty feet into a ravine. Engineer Griffin and Fireman Teasley were badly injured. No passengers hurt. Three African American tramps believed trapped in wreckage.
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Covington
Central of Georgia Railway
Griffin
Teasley
Lords Pass Tithe Rent Charges Bill in Second Reading
The House of Lords approved the tithe rent charges bill by 113 to 23, and completed the third reading of a bill to create an agricultural technical instruction department for Ireland.
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London
House of Lords
House
Ireland
Advertising Puzzles Barred From Mails by Postoffice Ruling
Circulars offering prizes through counting dots in circles or arranging letters were barred by Acting A G Barrett in a Postoffice decision. The ruling targets schemes that mislead readers into subscriptions or sales by promising valuable prizes, deeming them deceptive to credulous or uneducated patrons.
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Washington
Barrett
Postoffice
Boston
Alliance in the Orient News of Japan China Pact
Reports emerging from Shanghai indicate a Japanese Chinese alliance may be forming with terms expected to address mutual interests. The prospect has stirred significant interest in Russian circles and rumors persist about the potential implications for regional power dynamics.
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Japan
China
Shanghai
Mother and Son in Jail Over Arsenic Death
Mrs Hassenfuss and her son Otto were arrested in Fort Wayne on suspicion of murder in the death of Carl Westenfeldt. A chemist found the body to be arsenic poisoned and notes totaling $5,000 were in Mrs Hassenfuss’s possession. The son served in the Fifteenth Regular Infantry which fought at Santiago.
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Tribune
Lly
Gorsline
HaSsenfuss
FT. Wayne
Indy Melching
Suday
Witness Confesses Saw Canton Tragedy in Juvenile Court
A 15 year old boy testified he witnessed Mrs Anna George shoot George Saxton on Lincoln avenue last October. Judge Tuthill continued the case to July 26 and ordered contact with the boy's claimed father R M Hogan, superintendent at Aultrian Manufacturing, regarding the matter.
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Chicago
Anna George
Canton
George Saxton
President McKinley
Russell Hogan
Richard McKnight
Lincoln Avenue
Aultrian Manufacturing Company
Tuthill
Kelsey
Hogan
Hogan Boy Witness Averts Postponement In Saxon Murder Case
In Canton Ohio Martin J Hogan recalls his son Russell who fled before the Sax ton murder trial. Russell was summoned by both sides as a witness with a coroner testimony claiming darkness prevented identification. The State admitted his presence would not alter the outcome if he testified.
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Martin J. Hogan
Russell Hogan
Saxton
Young Hogan
Wealthy Indiana farmer John Woolf found dead by hanging
John Woolf 52 was found dead in his barn in Jackson Township Brazil ind last night. He hanged himself with a halter strap tied to a pole, ten feet high. A wealthy farmer and recently named superintendent of the Jackson Township gravel road project, the motive remains a mystery.
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Commercial Tribune
Brazil
Ind
John Woolf
Jackson Township
Woolf
American sent to fourteen years for murder in Colombia
Minister Hart in Bogota reports Randolph, the American charged with murder, has been sentenced to fourteen years in prison. The sentence matches the prior trial and an appeal will be filed.
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Washington
Hart
Bogota
Department of State
Randolph
Track repairer overcome by heat in Delaware
John Van Meter of the Big Four was overcome by heat this afternoon at 5 o clock in Delaware. It took six men to hold him as he collapsed and is in critical condition.
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Painesville
Wickliffe
Willoughby
Euclid Avenue
Commercial Tribune
Delaware, O
John van Meter
Iisling
Street riot in Korea over trolley cars shocks crowd
Two Americans kept calm amid a mob of fanatics as a street disturbance in Korea escalated around trolley cars. The graphic scene describes the chaos and the coolness of the U.S. observers.
Bold Americans Stop Seoul Rioters At Power Plant
In Colorado Springs a letter describes H. R. Bostwick and H. Raymond Krumm as unarmed but calm, dispersing a 3,000 to 4,000 mob at the Seoul Electric Company power house by raising a hand and ordering the crowd to disperse, averting massacre and safeguarding workers.
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Col
Seoul
Korea
E. E. Rittenhouse
America
H. R. Bostwick
San Francisco
Seoul Electric Company
H. Raymond Krumm
Columbus, C
Imperial Engineering Department
Bostwick
New York
United States of America
Roosevelts Push for Harmony in Assembly Nominations
Governor Roosevelt met with Senator Platt and other Republicans in New York to discuss uniting all anti Tammany groups for fall elections. He urged early alliance, toured a quarantine station, and talked with Quigg on Legislature nominations. Platt offered no objections.
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New York
Roosevelt
Platt
Tammany
Quigg
Assembly
Four Caldwell Girls Drown at Kansas Bathing Resort
In Wellington Kansas on July 2 4 Edna Curtis Millie Detrick Inez Neal and Mabel Neal daughters of Caldwell citizens drowned at Drury fishing and bathing resort six miles east of Wellington. Four girls aged 6 to 19 were unable to swim after going beyond their depth while others nearby tried to help. Edith Batlin narrowly escaped drowning with strenuous rescue efforts.
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Wellington
Kan
Edna Curtis
Millie Detrick
Inez
Mabel Neal
Caldwell
Drury
Edith Batlin
Coast defenses make rapid fortification progress
General Wilson reports engineer officers have completed fortifications along the Atlantic Gulf and Pacific coasts. Funds from the national defense appropriation of 60 million dollars, available before the Spanish American War, enabled rapid progress and new contracts. The coast defense of the United States is now in strong protection.
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Washington
Wilson
Atlantic
Gulf of Mexico
Pacific Coast
Spain
Engineer Corps
United States
Postal Telegraph messenger strike in New York
About 20 messenger boys for the Postal Telegraph Company struck in New York on July 24 demanding 2 percent per message, compensation for undelivered returns, clothing costs stopped, and option to buy own clothing. At the American District Telegraph main office, a separate issue of hours was settled. pay and uniforms to be reconsidered. In Louisville, around 100 messenger boys from Western Union and related firms planned a strike for three cents per message, which was refused.
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New York
Postal Telegraph Company
Financial District
American District Telegraph Company
Commercial Tribune
Louisville
Western Union, Postal and District
Three Black Robbers Shoot White Man Near Mt Pleasant
In Mt Pleasant Indiana this morning three Negro hold-up men resisted an attempt to loot a railroad camp. Fred Bennett a white man was shot and will die. The sheriff and a posse are pursuing the assailants.
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MT. Pleasant
Fred Bennett
Epworth League Board Ends Session With Recommendations
INDIANAPOLIS July 24 The Board of Control of the Epworth League closed its morning session after reviewing officer reports led by Secretary Rev Edward A Schell The league lists 26450 chapters and more than 1750000 members The Secretary proposed ten recommendations including an Intermediate Epworth League and a hospital work election while addressing Junior League and cabinet matters The board also considered a dispute with Western Publishing House over alleged discriminatory practice and its lack of Book Concern jurisdiction
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Commercial Tribune
Indianapolis
The
Epworth League
Edward A. Schell
Book Concern
Kruger Denies Resignation Amid Rift With Volksraad
Dispatches from Pretoria report Kruger absent from the Executive Council meeting fueling rumors of his resignation over a dispute with Volksraad members. He denied the rumors tonight, calling them unfounded.
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Paris
Pretoria
South African Republic
Kruger
Executive Council
Volksraad
Volksraad Affirms Confidence in Kruger Amid Monopoly Tussle
Pretoria July 24. President Kruger faced possible resignation after a clash with the Volksraad and Executive Council over the Johannesburg fort and the dynamite monopoly. A deputation led by General Joubert and the Volksraad chairman urged him to a secret session. by nightfall the Raad declared full confidence in Kruger though most members still disagree on the dynamite issue.
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Kruger
Executive Council
Volksraad
Johannesburg
Joubert
Herren Schalk
Burger
Volksraarad
The
Raad
Beveridge Held in Nagasaki Quarantine Over Plague Case
Indianapolis July 4 A letter from Senator Beveridge says he is detained in quarantine at Nagasaki Japan after a bubonic plague case was found aboard the ship he traveled on.
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Commercial Tribune
Indianapolis
Ind
A. J. Beveridge
Nagasaki
Japan
Lightning Hits Crowthersville Schoolhouse Burns Down
A severe electrical storm struck Crowthersville, Seymour, causing a seven room schoolhouse to burn. The blaze destroyed the building with an estimated loss of 12000 dollars, of which only 5000 dollars is insured. A new addition was nearly finished.
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Commercial Tribune
Seymour
Ind
Crowthersville
Feud Ends After Governor's Messenger Visits Clay County
The Governor's special messenger met leaders in Clay County as part of a feud resolution effort. Talks focused on restoring order and addressing local tensions with state involvement likely imminent.
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Clay County
Philpots May Be Acquitted In Manchester Feud Outlook
In Manchester Kentucky on July 4 the Philpots are expected to be acquitted if Griffins fail to appear for subpoenas amid feudal rivalries. Judge Lester and Inspector Ester report no immediate danger of renewed clashes as Philpots arrive to support those to be tried. Jim Baker’s trial for the killing of William White also opens at Barboursville.
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Commercial Tribune
Manchester
Philpots
Aaron Morris
Clay County
Ester
Bradley
Judge Lester
White
Howard
Bakers
Tom Baker
Theodore Garrard
Howards
Judge White
Garrard
Lester
Banner
Griffins
Jim Baker
William White
Barboursville
Baker
Alleged Bakers Arraigned for Double Slaying in Barboursville
James and Wiley Baker were arraigned before Judge Eversole on charges of assassinating Wilson Howard and Butch Storr. The town of Middlesboro saw many Bakers in town, but proceedings passed quietly as Jim Baker, in poor health, is not expected to survive much longer.
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Commercial Tribune
Middlesboro
James
Wiley Baker
Wilson Howard
Butch Storr
Eversole
Barboursville
Jim Baker
Electric wire kills Marion youth on city street
In Marion Indiana eighteen year old William Crites son of John Crites died instantly when a live wire touched him while he was resetting poles on the Union Traction Company's line in Washington Street. An electrician on a pole also touched the live wire during the accident and another worker named White held the other end of the line.
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Commercial Tribune
Marion
Ind
William Crites
John Crites
Union Traction Company
Washington Street
Crites
White
President Diaz May Tour the United States in October
City of Mexico July 24 President Porfirio Diaz may undertake a month long tour of the United States beginning early October He hopes to reach New York in time for the Admiral Dewey welcome and has long wished to visit the States a cabinet member says his mind is now made up.
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Commercial Tribune
City OF Mexico
Porfirio Diaz
United States
New York
Admiral Dewey
British flag lowered as Crete gains independence
Special Cable reports from Candia Crete on July 21 that the British authorities surrender the protectorate to natives. The British flag was lowered at ceremonies and marines returned to ships amid Muslim fears and continued departure from the island.
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Commercial Tribune
Candia
Crete
Créte
Mussulmans
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