Secretary of State rules on mid-road populists in Nebraska
Secretary Porter rules against branding Deaverites as populists and denies mid-road candidates a place under that label. He finds Grand Island convention questionable, with signatures tied to alleged misrepresentation. Outcome may shift ballot design and prompt education campaigns to prevent voter deception.
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Bézcoin
Neb
Wiate Porter
Els
Wrs
Proes Independent
Lincoln
Republican Party
Mets
Grand Island
People's Independent
Deaverites
Garder
Midng
Ecker
Eler Wom
Bryan urges nationwide Democratic club organization
Chicago August 20 The Democrats of the United States call for organizing Democratic clubs in every community September 1 1900. Local clubs should elect officers and report details to W R Hearst and national leaders. Signed by Bryan Stevenson Jones and others.
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Chicago
United States
Fas
Aisha
Thietes
W. R. Hearst
National Organization of Remi- Aratic Clubs
Broadway
New York City
Rusger
Aganizatioun
William J. Bryan
Adlai FE. Stevenson
James K. Jones
Democratic National Committee
Indian battalion returns as Pekin falls in siege
Washington cable reports Brigadier General Barry announces Indians departure and Pekin secured with delegations safe. Indiana regiment moves from Nagasaki. three men arrested in Seward on suspicion in Staplehurst bank robbery. earlier tramps seen, later vanished.
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Fiptferth
Washington, D. C
Qe Ar Department
Barry
Generil Thaflee
Che
Taku
Ratsport
Wil
Fndiana Carrie
Fifteenth Infantry
Nagasaki
Seward
Neb
Staplehurst
Sewaxa
Weight of Trusts Tells a Steel Wage Row Across Cities
Eastern Workmen in the Republic Steel mills of Youngstown and Detroit attended wage scale meetings. Nutt claims no foundation for reports of a proposed concession to scale cuts. If unions insist on the new scale, conferences end and mills idle awaiting concessions. In Wilmington Delaware 1000 to 1590 workers at Diamond Steel are laid off indefinitely until mills resume, with rehiring names to foremen.
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Youngstown
Amalgamated Association
Wilmingtoon
Del
Puddiers
Diamond Steel Company
Boundary dispute fuels Alaska land claim statement
Senator Mason of Illinois returns from Alaska and asserts the United States will secure North American land by purchase or force. He cites 1867 and 1866 deals, notes irritation in Canada and the United States, and praises the Pauncefote Hay modus vivendi while claiming English bulldozing and a need to retaliate.
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San Francisco
Mason
Illinois
Alaska
North America
America
Russia
Wells Fargo executive endorses Bryan for president
John J. Valentine of Wells Fargo Express, a prominent Pacific coast Republican, declares support for Bryan and Stevenson in a letter to Indianaapolis Liberty Congress chair Charles Ehricks. He argues there is no middle ground between equal rights and tyranny and endorses Democratic nominees regardless of Independents.
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Chicago
Ill
John J. Valentine
Wells Fargo Express Company
Pacific Coast
Bryan
Valentine
Charles H. Ehricks
Colorado
Liberty Congress
Indianaapolis
Stevenson
Insurgent Cuba talks with Washington visitors
Salvador Cisneros, General Lunt y Marat, and Rev. Dr. Lewis Mustelier, delegates from Havana, met with President in Washington to learn the administration’s stance on Cuba’s independence and to gauge timing. They also met Secretary of War to discuss Cuba’s constitutional convention. Credits note their optimism after the talks.
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Ashington
D. C
Salvador Cisneros
Cuba
Lunt Y Marat
Lewis Mustelier
Havana
New York
Frey
Charles Currier
Baltimore
White House
Anti Imperialist League backs Bryan at Indianapolis convention
About 400 delegates attend the National Anti Imperialistic League session in Indianapolis where George S. Boutwell declares he will support Bryan for president. Edwin Burritt Smith opens, with speeches by Edwin Smith and others praising Bryan and criticizing McKinley over Philippine policy. The gathering features banners from Lincoln and Bryan and ends with Bourbon-Beatty style bipartisan appeals.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Liberty Congress
National Anti-Imperialistic League
Edwin Burritt Smith
George S. Boutwell
Bourke Cochran
George 8. Boutwell
Massachusetts
Republican Party
Bryan
Tomlinson Hall
Washington
Linsai
Jefferson
Thomas A. Hendricks
Oliver P. Morton
Abraham Lincoln
Republic
Mr. Bryan
William Jennings Bryan
George D. Mercer
Philadelphia
Chicago
A. H. Tollman
University of Chicago
Herbert 8. Bigelow
Cincinnati
Smith
W. A. Croffut
John Beatty
Moses Hallett
Denver
Edgar A. Bancroft
Gamaliel Bradford
Boston
Croffut
Cleveland
Reed
Philippines
Hallett
Colorado
Dives
Mr. Bancroft
McKinley
William J. Bryan
Lincoln
Poutwhll
D. C. Tillotson
Kanset
George A. Boutwell
Winslow
Wise
Boutwall
Judea
M'Kinley
Boutwell
Committee On Regutiations
Moorfield Storey
Ora Williams
South Dakota
George & Mercer
Patrick O’ferrall
Washington, D. C
Charles B. Spahr
New York
Activity in the Visayas escalates insurgent actions
Reports from the Visayas show intensified insurgent activity over six weeks. In Panay American losses in the last month exceed those since January. Generals Mojica in Leyte and Luchan in Samar harass garrisons, conduct night sniping and ambushes, while insurgents amass ammunition and maintain organization.
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Manila
Visayas Islands
Panay
Mojica
Leyte
Luchan
Samar
Cebu
United States
MacArthur
National Democratic
Philippine
Allies Enter Pekin Without Fighting Amid Relief
A flurry of dispatches reports allied forces entering Pekin on August 16 with no resistance. Foreign legations are relieved and foreigners are safe as powers discuss armistice terms. Separate note from Michigan records 11 year old Frank Delhatsen killed by accidental rifle discharge in Benton Harbor.
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London
Pekin
Shanghai
Li Hung Chang
Yang Tse
Vienna
Hong Kong
Taku
Rome
Claude McDonald
Tung Chow
Daily Express
Kobe
Japan
Seymour
Creach
Lord Salisbury
Ho-Si-Wu
United States
John Goodnow
Canton Customs Department
Robert Hart
Chinese Maritime Customs
Benton Harbor
Mich
Frank Delhatsen
Diplomatic Dispatch From Pekin Describes Siege and Losses
Acting secretary of state releases a dispatch from Mr. Conger relayed via Shangha i to Washington. It reports Belief in cipher authenticity, says legations in Pekin destroyed, siege since June 23 with daily fighting, and growing hope as allied forces near. One line notes August dates and that the message left Pekin between August 5 and 11.
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New York
Herald
Thai Tsun
Chee Foo
Chuen Chang
Ho Si Wu
Pekin
Tien Tsin
Conger
Chaffee
Washington
D. C
Conwaty
Adee
Tactal
Shanghai
Alta
Ryan
National Association of the Army of the Philippines Formed
Gen Francis Greene of New York is elected president of the new National Association of the Army of the Philippines formed at the Brown Palace hotel in Denver. Other officers include Irving Hale of Colorado as first vice president Owen Summers of Oregon and H J Lippincott of the US Army as others with a Salt Lake City reunion planned for the next gathering.
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Denver
Colo
Army of the Philippines
Brown Palace
Association
National Association of the Army of the Philippines
Francis ¥. Greene
New York
Irving Hala
Colorado
Owen Summers
Oregon
H. J. Lippincott
United States Army
William H. Boyle
Grant
Utah
Donald McCrae
Iowa
David Fairchild
B. F. Stapleton
P. James Cosgrove
Nebraska
Hunter
Tenth
Pennsylvania
Salt Lake City
Hard Blow to Poor Miners in Alaska Coast Case
United States Commissioner Stevens rules that a sixty foot shoreline roadway along the Bering Sea does not exist and that if it ever did it was nullified by the Alaska code adopted by Congress last June. Frank Sieger refused to move his rocker at Ohplr Beach Nome and was bound over for the next term. The decision grants land to large corporations and sparks miner protests and likely appeals.
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Seattle
Wash
United States
Stevens
Bering Sea
Congress
Frank Sleger
Capa Nome
George W. Beardsley
8. B. Galdon
Ohplr
Sieger
President Steyn Reported Dead From Wound
Lorenzo Marques dispatch says former President Steyn died of a wound while trying to reach Mr Skruger. A British correspondent freed from Nooitgedacht says Kruger seeks peace but fighting commandants push for continuation of war. Transvaalers hold ninety guns at Machadae dorp with ample provisions.
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Lorenzo Marques
Steyn
London
Daily
Mass
Lourenzo
Samna
Rains Prevail in India Amid Famine Relief Efforts
London dispatch reports from Lord Curzon of Kedleston, the viceroy of India, noting continuing favorable conditions with widespread rainfall. Despite crop backwardness, labor demand remains restricted and prices high as relief is extended to about 6,149,000 people across famine provinces.
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England
London
United States
Ngland
India
Lord Curzon of
Kedleston
Lord George Hamilton
New York Population Figures From Census Office
The census office announced Greater New York population at 2,060,600 for Manhattan and the Bronx. Manhattan is listed at 1,950,003 and the Bronx at 200,507, detailing the urban area's growth.
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Washington, D. C
Big
Greater
New York
Manhattan
Bronx
Borough of
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National Organization of Democratic Clubs
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Alaska Boundry
Wells Fargo
Ames
John Craig
Jews State Agricultural College
Cornell University
Juin J. Bechulte
Ames College
Schulte
Paris
McKinly
William M'Kinley
Tadtimany
W. 3
Convertion
Carl Schura
Visayas
Pacifica
Berlin
Tz Ig
Yuen Si Kai
Shen Si
Tuan
Hsian
Oben Usmes
Gen. Green
The
Society of Army of the Philippines
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