Many and Shrewd Party Leaders Meet in New York
A July 29 meeting at Mr. Hanna's hotel gathered national committee men from Ohio New York Pennsylvania West Virginia Vermont Massachusetts Rhode Island Delaware Maryland New Hampshire and Virginia along with non committee members. They adjourned to the new National headquarters and discussed campaign prospects tariff policy and state support.
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New York
Hanna
National
Mark Hanna
Ohio
Fred’k 8. Gibbs
Matthew S. Quay
Pennsylvania
N. B. Scott
West Virginia
Redfield Proctor
Vermont
George H. Lyman
Massachusetts
R. C. Boynton
Rhode Island
J. 8
Mr. Witherbee
Cheney
New Hampshire
Powell G. Taylor
Chas. L. Kurtz
Joseph B. Foraker
Matthew Quay
N. B. Sqcott
Platt
Gibbs
McKinley
John Anamaker
Philoscenis
Benj. Harrison
Fifth Avenue Hotel
Harrison
Tammany Hall Leaders Gauge Chicago Ticket At July Meeting
Chairman Hanna questions press access as campaign plans delay. Hobart offers service from Paterson and notes confusion over an Advisory Committee. Indorsement debates loom amid Greater New York plans while Western rail rates dispute moves to arbitration.
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Tammany Hall
Chicago
Tammany
Greater
New York
Tammany Hal
Western Line
Traffic’ Association
J. W. McDougall
Cincinnati
J. H. Hoyt
Cleveland
Holland, Co
Holland, Co TT , of Cincinnati, and J. O’ Blick
Covington
Grand
Gibbs backs McKinley campaign efforts in New York
Frederick S. Gibbs of the New York organization and the National Republican Committee showed that Chairman Hanna would not ignore New York politicians in the preliminary organization of McKinley’s campaign. The dispatch notes Gibbs’s active role in coordinating party activities during July.
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New York
Hanna
Nework
Major McKinley
Frederick S. Gibbs
New York Organization
National Republican Comere Ee Naetag Ie
Grand Army general orders outline encampment plans
Col. I. N. Walker issues orders for the Thirteenth National Encampment at St. Paul beginning September 3. A uniform one cent per mile rate is secured with the Southern States Passenger Association. National HQ moves from Indianapolis to the Hotel Ryan on September 1. department commanders to meet at 4 p.m. The Credentials Committee includes B. N. Foster Indiana Washington Gardner Michigan A. W. Barrett California and H. H. Cummings Pennsylvania.
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Commercial Tribune
Indianapolis
St. Paul
B. N. Foster
Indiana
Washington Gardner
Michigan
A. W. Barrett
California
H. H. Cummings
Pennsylvania
University of Chicago Delegation Honors McKinley with Marble Bust
A University of Chicago delegation presented a life sized American Parian marble bust of Maj. McKinley in Canton Ohio. The committee led by H L Ickes praised college Republicans while McKinley commended young educated voters for supporting Republican principles. Major and Mrs McKinley arrived in Canton with Hanna to welcome guests and a Knoxville party计划 to travel by special train later that day.
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Canton
University of Chicago
Maj. McKinley
H. L. Ickes
G. W. Axelman
University of Chicago Weekly
Wilber Kelso
Ickes
Bex
J. M. Thayer
Nebraska
McKinley
Bryan
Gen. Grant
Cleveland
Hanna
Knoxville
McKee Identifies Bomb Stock Pump in Church Cellar
PORTSMOUTH O July 29 Henry McKee 10 year old son of Thomas McKee the alleged dynamiter identified the pump stock bomb found in the Second Presbyterian Church cellar McKee was questioned about the device and named the parts he recognized as the one used in the device authorities said.
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Commercial Tribune
Portsmouth
Henry McKee
Thomas McKee
Second Presbyterian Church
McKee
Decree Grants Judicial Separation in Yarde-Buller Case
In London on July 29 the High Court heard the Yarde-Buller divorce suit. The verdict found the respondent not guilty of cruelty or adultery while Buller was guilty of cruelty. The respondent received a decree of judicial separation with costs. desden’s case was dismissed with costs.
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London
Yarde-Buller
High Court of Justice
Francis Henry Jeune
Ralph Blair
Devonshire Artillery Volunteers
Mr. Yarde-Buller
Blair
Churston
Valentine Gadesden
England
Buller
Desden
Young Man Captured Trying to Burglarize County Infirmary
Portsmouth Colorado reports Henry Josephs, a young man, captured last night while attempting to burglarize the county infirmary. He was caught inside the building after breaking into the men's ward and taken into custody.
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Commercial Tribune
Portsmouth
Henry Josephs
Jn the
Worden Must Hang in Sacramento Bridge Murder
Supreme Court upholds murder conviction of S D Worden for wrecking a railway bridge near Sacramento two years ago. Engineer Clark and three U S soldiers died. Worden’s sentence of death is affirmed.
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San Francisco
S. D. Worden
Sacramento
Clark
U. S
Supreme Court
Superior Court
Worden
Beta Theta Pi Convention Opens in White Sulphur Springs
The fifty seventh annual Beta Theta Pi convention gathers in White Sulphur Springs West Virginia with a large alumni attendance. Hon John B Wise of New York City delivers the annual address on the duties of a fraternity man after leaving college. Founding member John Kelly Knox and others arrive from Washington for events including a convention hop and Friday banquet.
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Commercial Tribune
White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
Beta Theta Pi
John 8. Wise
New York City
John Kelly Knox
Miami University
Washington
Lyons murders wife then kills self in Germany
Word from Cologne District reports Henry Lyons, who killed his wife yesterday, went to his mother’s home last night and shot himself after confessing the crime. A posse of outraged citizens planned to confront Lyons’s mother’s household in a potential lynching.
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Commercial Tribune
Point Pleasant
W. Va
Cologne
Henry Lyons
Lyons
Henry
Rival Republicans reportedly clash at Flat Lick
Congressmen D G Colston and former Congressman John D White rival for the Republican nomination, were reported to have an encounter at Flat Lick with both drawing revolvers. White accused Colston of misusing franking privilege and attacked his private character.
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Commercial Tribune
Middlesboro
D. G. Colston
John D. White
Flat Lick
White
Colston
Col Lloyd’s Illness Ties to Daughter’s Wedding Tale
Col Harlan Page Lloyd of Cincinnati and Mrs Lloyd stopped in Buffalo on the way home from New York where Col Lloyd’s daughter Miss Marguerite Lloyd wed on July 21. Wild stories circulated about his conduct while ill at a Buffalo hotel and doctors said rest would cure him.
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Commercial Tribune
Buffalo
N. Y
Harlan Page Lloyd
Cincinnati
Lloyd
New York
Col. Lloyd
Marguerite Lloyd
the Falls
Prisoners tied to dynamite plot face hearings and escape drama
Formal charges filed against Tom McKee and Mrs Basham for unlawful use of dynamite as a brewing plot unfolds. McKee repeatedly escaped city prison prompting special guards while a decoy letter prompts further police action.
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Tom McKee
Lancaster Music Festival Opens Amid Fine Weather
Lancaster Ohio hosts the Assembly Music Festival Day with an estimated crowd at the camp grounds. The storm damaged the auditorium cornice but did not dampen the event as performers from England and local groups provided a robust program featuring hand bells, the Ladies Euterpean Orchestra, readings by Byron W. Ex, and a male quartet among others.
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Commercial Tribune
Lancaster
Lancaster Assembly
Lancaster Camp
Restaig
Byron W
King’s Schoel
Oratory
Pttsb
Prof Ie
Lanand
Russian Count Zubof Hangs Himself in New York Police Cell
Roman J. Zubof a Boston journalist and Dublin Trinity College graduate claimed Russian noble status and took his own life in a New York police station cell after being arrested on a hotel debt of 500 dollars. He had sought to sail for Europe on the New York line and had paid 250 earlier. He was engaged to marry a New York banker’s daughter worth about 20 million dollars and had written two novels Mrs Harry St. John and After the Manner of Man.
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New York
Roman J. Zubof
Boston
Zubof
Europe
Hope
Trinity College
Dublin
United States
Harry St. John
Manner of Man
George Co. Harris
Philadelphia
Hoosier Crop Bulletin Reports Indiana Wheat Yields
Indiana crop bulletin summarizes harvest data from 574 threshers across all counties. 1896 wheat acreage reaches 2,862,236 with 24,574,853 bushels harvested at 8.5 bushels per acre, not counting 8 percent abandoned land. much wheat is inferior at 65 to 68 pounds.
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Commercial Tribune
Indianapolis
Ind
State Bureau of Statistics
Pennsylvania Lines Official Claims Illinois Tax Board Offer
J T Brooks second vice president of the Pennsylvania Lines testified before Indiana's State Board of Tax Commissioners. He stated an Illinois commissioner offered to reduce valuations for compensation, alleging an out and out proposition for favorable assessments.
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J. T. Brooks
Pennsylvania
Illinois
Commercial Tribune
Indianapolis
State Board of Tax Commissioners
Pennsylvania Lines
Indiana
Indiana farmer accused of forgery in Princeton case
Princeton Indiana July 29 C W Binkley a prominent young farmer and stock raiser is alleged to have forged the names of his father Lewis Binkley and his father in law Lewis Watkins to notes in an alleged money scheme involving relatives
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Indiana
Commercial Tribune
Princeton
Ind
C. W. Binkley
Lewis Binkley
Lewis Watkins
Career of the Famous President of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Robert Garrett former president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railway died at his Deer Park cottage near Baltimore after a period of mental decline. Born in 1847, he rose from banker training to lead the B and O, expanding routes to New York and aiding the Telegraph Company’s growth before resigning in 1887 due to mental incapacity.
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Baltimore
Robert Garrett
Baltimore and Ohio Railway
Deer Park
Garrett
Uplands
John Work Garrett
Baltimore and Ohio Express Company
Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph Company
Princeton
Europe
Valley Railroad
Virginia
Baltimore and Ohio
Firstice
New York
Mitt
Victim Conductor and Crew Die as Bridge Fails
In Crawfordsville Indiana July 29 a Vandalia test engine derailed after a washout collapsed a center bridge over Walnut Creek two miles north of town. Conductor Fowler Brakeman McKenzie Fireman John Herbert were killed while Roadmaster J B Brother and Engineer Bowman survived serious injuries.
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Commercial Tribune
Crawfordsville
Ind
Fowler
McKenzie
John Herbert
Bowman
Walnut Creek
Here
Akron Judge Hears Case Over The Wires
Akron judge A. W. Hail, via telephone, fines five young men arrested for disorderly conduct at Turkey Foot Lake last Sunday. Costs taxed to defendants.
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Akron
Commercial Tribune
A. W. Hail
Massillon
Turkey Foot Lake
March of miners to Hymera ends with return home
Sullivan Ind July 29. After ten days of inaction striking miners marching from Star City to Hymera with aim to close mines. About five hundred men reached Jackson Hill and persuaded non union workers to halt, then returned to Hymera. Ord confirms most strikers abandoned effort and returned home.
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Commercial Tribune
Sullivan
Ind
Taylorville
Star City
Hymera
Jackson Hill
Jackson
Ord
Married pair travel from Lexington to Cincinnati
A shoe merchant from Lexington travels to Cincinnati with Rauck daughter of historian George W. on a city visit dated July.
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Commercial Tribune
Lexington
Roas
Cincinnati
Rauck
George Ww
Indiana National Guard camp sick list after storm march
In Indianapolis Indiana on July 29 the sick list at the camp of instruction at Fairview Park tallied 200 men. Exposure during an eight mile march through a driving storm yesterday afternoon caused most of the illnesses. The night flood followed by intense heat today worsens conditions at the camp.
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Commercial Tribune
Indianapolis
Ind
Indiana National Guard
Fairview Park
Broad Ripple
Clowdburst
Butler County Infirmary Charged With Causing Death
Miss Becky Bird of Middletown died at the County Poorhouse near Hamilton. Her sister Mrs. Sarah Beecher says the infirmary mistreated Becky, alleging confinement in a dark room for five months and merciless beating and near starvation. A potential suit seeks accountability by infirmary officials.
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Commercial Tribune
Middletown
Becky Bird
Hamilton
Sarah Beecher
John Beecher
Frank Kemp
Elopement Ends in Fatal Shot in Indiana Farm Country
Thomas E. Prather and Maud Delay eloped from Sandborn to Vincennes and wed, then back home where a quarrel with Clyde Delay, the bride’s brother, led Prather to fire. Delay was shot in the stomach and may die. a bystander lost a thumb and a bass drum was damaged. The bride urged her husband to fight. The Delay family will press charges.
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Commercial Tribune
Vincennes
Ind
Thomas E. Prather
Maud Delay
Sandborn
Squire Fowce
Prather
Clyde Delay
Delay
Miss Delay
Miss Maud Delay
Pinckney Delay
Morgan County
Game Warden on a Wheel
Marion Ohio July 29 Marcus V Payne a game warden and ex justice of the peace tours the countryside by bicycle arresting sportsmen found with a gun. He asserts any sight of a squirrel can be an offense under his authority and confronts resistant hunters.
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Commercial Tribune
Marion
Marcus V. Payne
Tragedy on the Track Ends Joe Greibler’s Race
In Lima Ohio on July 29 bicycle racer Joe Greibler lost control and crashed into a fence during the half mile event. He survived an hour after the impact. Remains will go to Minnesota. riders donate earnings and citizens raise funds.
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Commercial Tribune
Lima
Joe Greibler
Cooper
Bald
Zeigler
Gardiner
Sanger
Greibler
Griebler
Minnesota
Springfield
Miners Convent Called to Enforce Wage Scale in Ohio
A state convention of miners was called in Columbus to meet August 11 for three days with about one thousand delegates to act on enforcing the wage scale, which is being ignored in many parts of the state.
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Commercial Tribune
Columbus
Ex President Harrison to Address Larue County Citizens
Elizabethtown Ky July 29 Ex President Harrison plans to travel to Hodgenville to speak at Lincoln s old home for Larue County residents The date is to be announced with a morning address in Hodgenville and an evening talk in Elizabethtown by General Harrison
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Commercial Tribune
Elizabethtown
Harrison
Hodgenville
Larue County
Lincoln
Gen
Heat wave continues with rising temps and deaths reported
Yesterday's high reached 95, higher than the same date in three prior years. July 29 189? marked 83, 88, and 91 degrees in 1894 and 1893. The low also stayed high and officials warn the hot spell will persist. Sunstroke deaths occur and children in tenements suffer illness as heat pains the city.
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Dal
Weather Bureau
Heat Forces Shortened Postal Carrier Routes
Extreme temperatures reduce downtown postal routes with four trips for typical five-trip carriers. Those on four trips will run two forenoon and one afternoon, while three-trip carriers will work one forenoon and one afternoon. The changes apply only during the heat wave.
Heat deaths and prostrations flood city streets
Dozens of individuals suffered heat prostration across Camp Washington, McMicken Avenue, and city wards. Hoffner's Tannery worker John Schuppe died after hours exposed to the heat. Others including Fred Selm, Matte Ryan, George Backus, Michael Taylor, John Brown, and John Thamann were treated. several returned home or to work, with coroner and hospital attendance recorded.
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John Schuppe
Hoffner’s
Camp Washington
Lafayette
Canal Streets
Schuppe
Akin
Haerr
Fred Selm
Allison Street
McMicken Avenue
Patrol 3
Matte Ryan
Miller, Kohlhepp & Hise
Sycamore Street
Ylor
John Brown
West Ninth Street
Lawrence
Fifth
John Thamann
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Hoosier Crop Bulletin
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