Bryan on First Ballot Leads Democratic Convention
Bryan garners the majority on the first ballot with 89214 votes while Judge Gray of Delaware and Governor Johnson of Minnesota trail. States like Connecticut and Georgia split support, with Minnesota giving 22 votes to Johnson and Gray receiving several regional tallies across Delaware, Georgia, Maine, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
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Connecticut
Delaware
Georgia
Maine
Maryland
Minnesota
New Jersey
New Hampshire
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Nenver
William Jlenings Dryan
George Gray
John A. Johnson
Bryan TM
Gray
Johnson
Ohio West
Virginna
Bryan
New Frampshire
Whadealand
Kern for Vice President Overwhelming Acclamation at Convention
At the Denver convention, Indiana's John Worth Kern was nominated for vice president by acclamation as other candidates withdrew. The session adjourned after Kern's victory with a rousing show of support, while the platform addressed tariff reform labor rights and federal oversight, signaling strong Democratic aims.
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Indiana
Denver
Col
John Worth Kern
Kern
Bryan
Todiana
Colorado
Thomas
Charles A. Towne
New York
Connecticut
Archibald McNeill
Georgia Clark Howell
George Gray
Delaware
John Mitchell
Tilbolg
Towne
Howell
McNeill
Ion
Courts of Justice
Democratic Party
Congress
Department of Labor
Second Day at Denver Convention Brings Bitter Strife
The second day featured two sessions, a long Bryan demonstration and a clash over Pennsylvania credentials led by Colonel J. M. Gutfey. Early meetings yielded little progress as key committees were not ready to report.
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Denver
Bryan
Tle
Pennsylvania
J. M. Qgutfey
Former Army Captain Sentenced for Government Fraud
Daniel I. Kelser, once a U S army captain, was sentenced by Judge K M Landis to two years at hard labor in Fort Leavenworth Kansas for defrauding the government with stolen quartermaster checks totaling seven thousand dollars. A Duma representative warned of possible famine in Russia next winter.
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Chicago
Daniel I. Kelser
United States Army
K. M. Landis
Fort Leavenworth
Kan
Russia
Ministry of the Interior
Duma
Democratic Platform Calls for People’s Rule and Graft Probe
The platform voices rising awakenings against predatory interests and corruption in government. It urges voters to support a return to Jeffersonian equality and no special privileges, arguing Congress spent over a billion dollars in the recent session, far exceeding last year’s expenditures.
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al U
Republican Congress
President appoints Purdy to Minnesota judge vacancy
The President accepts Judge William Lochren's resignation from the U S district court for Minnesota at St Paul and names Milton D Purdy, assistant to the attorney general, to the vacancy. The nomination was sent to the Senate last March but was stalled by Senator Nelson who backed W E B Hale.
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Appoius Purdy
Washington
William Lochren
United States District Court For
District of Minnesota
St. Paul
Milton D. Purdy
Senate
Nelson
W. E B. Hale
Minneapolis
Senate Judiciary Committee
Bishop Potter Improves After Illness Crisis
In Cooperstown New York Bishop Henry C Potter remains in recovery from liver and stomach trouble despite intense heat. Doctors report the crisis has passed and there is every reason to believe he will recover.
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Cooperstown
N. Y
Henry C. Potter
Alabama Miners Strike Amid Tension in Birmingham
Coal miners in the Birmingham district declare a strike as the sheriff appoints deputies in anticipation of trouble amid rising labor unrest. Local authorities prepare for potential clashes while the work stoppage unfolds.
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Alabama
Birmingham
Ala
Sherif
Guffey Unseated by Credentials Committee at Convention
Denver Colonel J M Guffey, national committeeman from Pennsylvania, and his faction were unseated by the Credentials Committee after a strenuous battle led by the influence of William Jennings Bryan. The unseating vote stood 30 to 14, with the convention tally showing 387 affirmations for the minority report against Guffey’s supporters.
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Bryan
Gore
Nebraska
Dubois
Ohio
Tom Jomson
Cleveland
National Committee
Minority Report
Guffey
Pennsylvania
Central American War Averted Reported by Washington
Honduran minister Senor Ugarte received arms indicating that planned hostilities by Guatemala and El Salvador against Honduras have been stopped. The projected movement was to begin yesterday, but no confirmation arrived. A construction roof near the Duma building collapsed, killing ten workers and injuring four.
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Washington
Senor Ugarte
Guatemala
Salvador
John W. Kern Early Life and Political Rise in Indiana
John W. Kern born December 20 1849 in Alto Howard County Indiana. He studied at Kokomo Indiana Normal School and Michigan University Law, practicing in Kokomo before moving to Indianapolis. Kern held city attorney posts in Kokomo and led Republicans in the state senate, later becoming reporter of the supreme court and considered for vice president before 1904.
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John W. Kern
Alto
Howard County
Indiana
Jacob Kern
Shelby County
Northern
John Kern
Nancy Liggett
Danville
John
Indiana Normal School
Kokomo
Kern
Ann Arbor
Law Department
Michigan University
Ern
Ind
Howard
Kokomon
Supreme Court
Indianapolis
Senate
Thomas Taggart
St. Louis
Charge Leaves His Post Ends U S Venezuela Ties
Washington reports that diplomatic relations between the United States and Venezuela were completely severed on July 9. Venezuelan charge d affaires Veioz-Gollicoa was recalled to quit his post, close the legation, and report to Caracas.
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United States
Venezuela
Washington
América
Senor Veioz-Gollicoa
State Department
Bacon
Venezquela
Nearly 1 000 Koreans murdered by insurgents and patriots
A San Francisco report notes nearly 1,000 Koreans killed in two months by insur gents and so called patriots. The victims, members of the pro Japanese Il-Ching-Hoi, were peaceful workers opposing disturbance and Japanese influence, with additional reports of cruelty and hardship.
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San Francisco
Il-Ching- Hoi
Virginia Railways Sued Over Mechanics Lien suit
The Bates Rogers Construction Company of Illinois filed suit in the United States circuit court in Norfolk Virginia to enforce a mechanics lien for 80086 against Virginia Railway for railroad construction work performed under contract.
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Virginia Railways
Norfolk
Bates Rogers Construction Company of
Illinois
United States
Virginia Railway
Mechanics’ Lens
Fire hits East Boston harbor front causing heavy loss
A blaze swept about a quarter mile of East Boston harbor front inflicting property damage estimated at 31,400,000 much of it borne by the Boston and Albany Railroad.
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Bioston
Boston
Boston & Albany Railroad
STARTS FOR NORTH POLE Commander Peary and Grew Roosevelt S41
The Roosevelt crew left Manhattan on July 6 bound for the frozen seas. Officers and crew bid farewell from New York as the three masted schooner began the voyage, first leg to Oyster Bay. President Roosevelt sent godspeed to the expedition. Preparations included 400 cases of provisions for the crew.
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Peary
Roosevelt
New York
Robert E. Peary
Manhattan
Oyster Bay
Roose
Teeberg Avenue
Circle
Rebels Run Government Formed in Paraguay
Advices from Buenos Aires report the revolutionaries have overthrown the Paraguayan government and formed a new regime. Argentine legation at Ascuncion confirms the dispatch naming Dr. Emuliano Gonzales Navarro as president after ministers sought refuge in the legation.
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Legations
Buenos Ayrea
Paraguay
Legation
Ascuncion
Revolutionary Party
Emuliano Gonzales Naverro
Japs Seek American Ideas for Tokyo Parliament Buildings
Kametaro Hayashida, representing the Mikado, arrives in Chicago to confer with architects on the plan to build parliament buildings in Tokyo with a $12,000,000 appropriation. He praises American workmanship and ideas, denies any Japan with hostile intent, and deems war talk foolish.
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Tokyo
Chicago
Japan
United States
Kametaro Hayashida
America
Celebration Fatal to 72 on Fourth of July in U S
Chicago reports seventy two deaths and two thousand seven hundred thirty six injuries on the second day of Fourth of July celebrations in the United States. The deaths exceed last year by thirteen and set a record since 1899. Fire losses reach five hundred thirty five thousand four hundred thirty five dollars.
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United States
Chicago
Firebugs Visit Village Fire destroys Cardinal area buildings
Ogdensburg New York reports a village blaze at Cardinal Ontario where butcher B McKnight found his cattle slain and his slaughterhouse alight. The market, three stores, Dillon Hotel and several barns burned. alarm box was broken and key missing. Loss near thirty thousand dollars. Also in St Petersburg Count Sumarakoff died in a duel prompting Russian calls to amend dueling rules to avoid fatalities.
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Ogdensburg
N. Y
Cardinal
Ontario
B. McKnight
Dillon
McKnight
St. Petersburg
Count Sumarakoff
Prince Yousoupoff
Count Manteuffel
Sumarakoff
Countess Manteuffel
Count Hayden
Steel Trust Buys Wheel Plant in McKees Rocks
United States Steel Corporation acquires Schoen Steel Wheel Company for about 3 million dollars. The deal includes the three year old plant at McKees Rocks with capacity of 800 wheels daily, plus 21 acres of adjacent ground and a four steel plant about half completed near the Pressed Steel Car Company site.
Anna and Helle De Sagan Tie The Knot In London
Anna Gould and Prince Helle De Sagan wed on July 7 in a Strand registry office civil ceremony officiated by Registrar Cyradnock. A subsequent journey by cab led to the French Protestant church in Soho Square for a religious ceremony.
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Anna
Helle
London
Mme, Anna Gould
Prince Helle de Sagan
Strand
Cyradnock
Soho Square
Oil Fire Visible 180 Miles From Tampico Blaze
U S Consul in Tampico reports oil fields between Tampico and Tuxpen burning with a blaze visible for 100 miles along the gulf. Night is intermittent and dangerous to mariners in the area.
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Washington, D. C
United States
Tampico
Mexico
Gulf of Mexico
Tuxpen
Gulf
Merinera
Mrs Hasriet W Brand Passes Away in Evanston Hospital
Mrs Hasriet W Brand, treasurer of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union, died at a hospital in Evanston. The obituary notes her long advocacy for temperance and leadership within the organization.
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James J. Keatie
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Ignatius J. Dunn
William Jennings Bryan
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Winfield S. Hammond
William J. Bryan
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Inet
Ft Ds Ulas
Inter-State Commerce Commission
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New Mexico
Hawaii
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Latin America
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Charge Leaves
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