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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1908
Page
3
The opening session opens with strong energy as participants gather. Leaders and attendees engage in remarks and organizational steps, setting a purpose for the meeting and outlining initial motions.
Denver July 7 12 000 attend opening of the Democratic national convention in the Convention Hall. Theodore A Bell elected temporary chairman as Bryan support grows. Guarded entrances and police cordons line the approach while snow on streets adds a July oddity. Bell's speech expected. Parker revised Cleveland resolution possible. Georgia signals tomorrow stance. opening musical interlude entertains delegates.
Denver July 7 list of temporary convention officers includes Theodore A. Bell as Temporary Chairman Urey Woodson General Secretary Edwin Sefton Assistant General Secretary and several Secretaries Reading Clerks and other posts assigned to numerous city and state figures across Illinois Kentucky Indiana Iowa Missouri and Wyoming with religious chaplains scheduled by day of opening week including James J. Keane C F Reimer Samuel Kerch and P T Rameey.
Fairview Nebraska July 7 William J Bryan awaits the Denver convention opening He shows great interest in committees especially the resolutions committee and the platform He communicates by wire with the Denver auditorium and follows inside information Closely he attends to delegates and national committee selections while the meadow lark sings outside.
Mayor Tom L. Johnson of Cleveland was defeated for membership on the national committee at a Denver caucus. The report notes the July date and indicates contention over the committee seat in a fragmented Chicago style recap.
Temporary Chairman Theodore Bell reached Denver by Rock Island train at 8 AM and stayed at the Brown Palace before conferring with Charles Bryan. They discussed his speech and California conditions, while plans to move Bell toward Rokeby Neb. relied on a handcar ride through a flood, with photographers chasing flash pictures as residents watched.
The Atlantic fleet of sixteen battleships led by Rear Admiral Sperry with the Connecticut sails from San Francisco toward the Atlantic home port. Alabama and Maine miss the South American voyage and are replaced by Wisconsin and Nebraska, strengthening the fleet.
London on July 7 Madame Anna Gould and Prince Helle de Sagan married at a registry office on Henrietta Street near Covent Garden followed by a ceremony at the French Protestant church on Soho Square. The couple sought privacy, slipping out with three friends in cabs after a motor car waited at the hotel entrance.
The American Automobile Association and the National Grange convene in Buffalo on July 7 uniting 24 associations and about 200000 motorists with 18 million Grange members represented. Representatives from the American Road Makers association also take part as the conference aims to discuss road progress and public policy.
New York reports a brutal heat wave with a sleepless night across the city. By morning 21 deaths in the greater city were attributed to the heat, and hospitals saw many prostrations as humidity eased slightly but temperatures climbed.
Four deaths and over fifty prostrations occurred in Philadelphia from the heat between noon yesterday and ten this morning. The government thermometer atop the post office reached 85 degrees at ten, with street readings higher. Humidity stood officially at 83 percent, creating severe discomfort.
Boston weather records show 89 degrees at 1 30 AM as the heat wave that began eight days earlier continued. No deaths reported since yesterday and three prostrations noted up to that hour.
In Pittsburg on July 7, rains ended a heat wave but left two deaths and multiple prostrations reported early today as officials warned residents to seek shade and hydrate amid continuing high temperatures.
A plan to build a modern stag hotel in Fort Wayne with an estimated cost near 100000 was presented to the Federal Securities and Investment company. Directors debated the proposal at a Monday meeting, with the Calhoun and Montgomery streets lot favored for the site and several outside cities involved in the proposed stock company to lease and operate the hotel for men.
A nine year old girl, daughter of Albert Fogwell, Lafayette township, was struck by a mowing machine Tuesday afternoon. Her right leg was completely severed in the incident.
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