Big Fight Predicted Over Draft of Anti-Injunction Plank
Reports from Denver indicate Democratic leaders debate an anti-injunction plank without a drafted text or firm substance. Bryan seeks wide input from many Democrats before pledging any stance. Illinois committeeman Roger C Sullivan opposes class-based distinctions in courts and champions equal justice before the law.
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Denver
Bryan
Roger C. Sullivan
Illinois
Art. Sullivan
National Committee
Sullivan
Lincoln
White
Democratic Party
Bryan confidant predicts strong anti injunction plank
After meeting with William J. Bryan, Judge W. W. Black of Everett, Washington, says the national platform will include a strong anti injunction plank. He notes the Republican plank is weak to both corporations and laborers, while the Democratic platform will be explicit. John W. Kern of Indiana is the only vice presidential candidate mentioned, with preference for a Bryan man and Kern acceptable to Bryan supporters.
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Linegin
Junge
William J. Bryan
W. W. Black
Everett
Wash
Judge Black
John W. Kem
Indiana
Few Contests To Settle Denver Convention July 6
Denver June 30 Contests for seats on the temporary roll call of the convention will be heard by a sub committee of the national committee. The sub committee will meet July 6 with possible protests due that day. Findings will be turned over to the full committee for presentation when the convention opens the next day.
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Denver
Democratic Party
Natonal Committee
Auy
National Committee
Walker Extradition Ordered in New Britain Case
Word from Washington says Mexico’s Supreme Court denied William K. Walker’s appeal. He, the Savings Bank of New Britain treasurer, had been fighting extradition. The court orders his surrender to U S authorities.
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Walker
New Britain
Conn
State Department
Washington
Supreme Court of Mexico
William K. Walker
Savings Bank of
United States
Four Die in Grocery Fire at Sweeney Store
In San Francisco on June 20 a devastating arson and blaze at John Sweeney’s grocery store killed four people and injured three others. Victims listed as John Sweeney, his wife, ten year old Hilla Sweeney, and two year old Anton Dismieyer.
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San Francisco
John Sweeney
Hilla Sweeney
Anton Dismieyer
One Meat Pill A Day at Fort Logan
After a two day forty mile hike soldiers from the Third battalion Twenty first infantry at Fort Logan survived on two condensed meat pills per man. Major Burfitt on arch presents rations saying another pill tomorrow. Men allowed water only.
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Denver
Twenty-first Infantry
Fort Logan
Bur Finton
Cooke
Sleeping Woman Walks Off Train Near Dubuque
Miss Jessie Shilling twenty years old rode a Burlington passenger train from Chicago to Washington state. In a sleepwalk she fell from a rapidly moving car near Dubuque and sustained serious injuries but is expected to survive. Her companion alerted the crew and she was taken to a nearby hospital.
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Waterloo
Jessie Shilling
Chicago
Washington ‘State
Burlington
Dubuque
Miss Shilline
Brief Bits of News From Osborne to Washington
Os born town marshal Matthew Ford killed a robber in a gunfight. Queen Amelie of Portugal suffers a mild diphtheria attack. Fifteen thousand attend the Sons of Nor Way festival at the St Paul state fairgrounds. General David Vickers, Civil and Spanish-American Wars veteran and Idaho adjutant general, dies in Boise at sixty-eight. Meat to 1,500 men. Bishop Henry C Potter of New York seriously ill at Cooperstown. Secretary Thurlow Root begins physical training at White Plains to prepare for another year of work. Ambassador Phomag J. O'Brien sails from Japan to San Francisco for a three-month vacation incl home visits.
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Matthew Ford
Osborne
Amelie
Portugal
Manuel
Sons of Nor
St. .Paul
David Vickers
Idahonational Guard
Boise
Ida
Henry C Potter
New York
Cooperstown
N.Y
Tithy Root
Muldoon
White Plains
N. Y
Washington
Phomag J. O'Brien
Japan
Korea
San Francisco
Michigan
Market Quotations: Wheat and stock prices across cities
Minneapolis and Duluth markets show wheat on track with futures in the 1.06 to 1.11 range and flax near 1.13. St Paul yards report cattle, hogs, and sheep prices with steers up to 6.75 and hogs around 5.90 to 6.15, while Chicago grains list wheat around 6.40 to 6.50 and pork near 14.00 to 15.00 per barrel.
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Duluth
Northern
St. Paul Union
St Paul
Chicago
HAPPENINGS I IOWA OVER THE LIQUOR PLANK
The Democratic state convention at Sioux City closed amid cheers for W. J. Bryan and the Iowa ticket after a heated fight over the liquor plank. Four junior candidates vied for supreme court judges, with Higbee and House winning by clear margins. Resolutions praised Bryan’s prospects, urged popular senatorial elections, and endorsed roads, waterways, rail regulation, and a state insurance commission.
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Sions City
W. J. Bryan
Iowa
Supreme Court
D. AV. Higbee
Creston
C. J. House
Maquoketa
W. H. Jacques
Ottumwa
Theodore Bradford
Marshalltown
Bryan
Claude R. Porter
Fred. E. White
United States
Towa
State Railway Commission
Yowa
State Board of Health
Ots
Democratic Party
Progressives Strengthen Unity at Iowa Republican Convention
At Waterloo the progressive faction guided a calm convention endorsing Governor Cummins and reform measures on railroads and corporations. They praised the Iowa congressional delegation led by Senator Allison, pledged his reelection, approved primaries’ nominations, and backed Taft and Sherman nationally while supporting stricter campaign funding rules.
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Waterloo
Cummins
Iowa
William B. Allison
John
Scott Ladd
Silas J. Weaver
Allison
Delliver
Woman Slays Son and Wounds Daughter Then Self
A northeast of Red Oak woman, Mrs Milo Wilcox, seized a butcher knife and stabbed her nine or eleven-year-old son, attacked her daughter, and then injured herself. The boy died, the daughter and mother are in critical condition. The piece also notes a political race in the Seventh Town district with independents, including Captain and Judge Prouty.
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Milo Wilcox
Red Oak
Father shoots his son after drunken brawl in Iowa
A drunken brawl between father Hans Buelkas and son Antone ends with Antone shot in the legs and groin after a quarrel en route home from Waverly. Antone is seriously injured. the father is under arrest. Also reported are results from Iowa Democratic primaries with Claire Porter and Fred White winning statewide nominations, and a bank receiver petition in Des Moines alleging impending insolvency plus a grand jury appearance of Senator Thomas C. Platt in New York.
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Antone Buelkas
Hans Buelkas
Waverly
Towa
Claire R. Porter
United States
Fred White
OTS
Jacob Bayless
First National Bank of
Harvey
Des Moines
Platt
New York
Thomas C. Platt
Grand Jury
Mae C. Wood
Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition Subscription Move
In Seattle on June HMA tele frame sent to Secretary Cartelyou stating Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition has met the congressional requirement to raise 1,000,000 by subscriptions before a 600,000 federal appropriation. Secretary urged to designate Treasury official to review exposition securities.
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Seattle
Wash
HMA Telefram
Secretary of the Treasury Cartelyou
Treasury Department
Woman Drowns Four Children Then Rescued
Mrs. August P. Johnson, temporarily insane, drowned her four children in a cistern at the family farm half a mile south of Ida Grove. The eldest child was about six. She attempted suicide but was saved by neighbors. An alleged embezzler, J. C. Gould, was arrested in Birmingham on instructions from Muscatine, accused of stealing 33,200 from Huttig Manufacturing.
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August P. Johnson
Ida Grove
J.C. Gould
Birmingham
Als
Muscatine
Huttig Manufacturing Company
First Settler James Dickerson Dies at Ninety
James Dickerson, the first settler on the Clear Lake site, died at Britt at age ninety and was buried on the homestead he secured in 1854. He came here in 785 with his wife and child, crossing from Decorah by team, and learned of the lake from local Indians. He built a home under a burr oak and chose to stay the rest of his life.
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James Dickerson
Clear Lake
Clear Joe
Britt
Stamis
Dickerson
Babe
Strawberry Point
Decorah
Ross
Jeet
Boy 9 Held on Manslaughter Charge in Playmate Death
Kenneth Reeves, nine, is held at Des Moines on a manslaughter charge after a quarrel with playmate Cecil Jenkins. Reeves allegedly snatched a broomstick from a nearby girl and struck Jenkins on the head, leaving him unconscious and fatally injured.
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Kenneth Reeves
Des Moines
Cecil Jenkins
Kenneth
Cecil
Widow’s Jealous Fit Ends in Double Tragedy at Decorah
Wealthy retired farmer Harry Crawford traveled to Mrs. Edward Ottaway’s Decorah home after she refused his marriage proposal. He shot her three times then killed himself in a nearby barn after attempting to pursue a new marriage with Mrs. Ottaway. Ottaway may recover. Crawford died at the scene.
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Harry Crawford
Decorah
Edward Ottaway
DuMet
Otway
Crawford
Orlaway
Elin
Orta
Way
Anarchy Book Tells of Plot to Kidnap Queen Victoria
Perr Latonebe recounts a scheme to abduct Queen Victoria and crown Bucland a republic. The plan aimed to unfold during a London dock strike era but failed due to worker support and aid from the Towered classes, which dampened revolutionary hopes.
Capital Punishment exchange in a bridegroom scene
A brief Victorian style exchange shows Brile threatening to restrain the bridegroom with a rope about the neck and declaring him a prisoner for life, while the bridegroom retorts that it is capital punishment rather than imprisonment for life. The dialogue reflects melodramatic themes of crime and punishment.
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Brile
Sydney Town and Country Journal
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