Near Delegates Back McCarren Men Arrive in Brooklyn
About 75 to 80 of McCarren’s near-delegates reached Brooklyn from Denver yesterday, some on a special train. The full delegation won’t be home until tomorrow night for a county committee meeting to ratify the platform and ticket. Anti-McCarren delegates will reach Brooklyn Tuesday morning.
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McCarren
Brooklyn
Denver
Thomas ¥R
Wogan
Tth
New York State
James PD. Bell
P. H. McCarren
Isaac M.kapper
Appellate Division
The
Supreme Court
Justice Kelly
Kapper
Geome
anti-McCarren
Tammany Delegation Returns From Denver in Poor Humor
Tammany leaders travel hot weather back from the Denver convention as rumors circulate of urgent appeals for funds. Charlies F Murphy Lewis Nixon ex Judge Alton B Parker and others are expected to arrive this morning on listed trains with relief in coin. Murphy plans quick ratification meetings to show Bryan a firm platform support.
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Tammany
Denver
Charlies F. Murphy
Lewis Nixon
Alton B. Parker
Pennsylvania
New York Central
Sullivan Clan
Bowery
Erie
Murphy
William J. Bryan
Lincoln
Labor Shies at Bryan in Labor Union Response
Labor leaders express cautious stance on the Democratic anti injunction plank. Ex-President Michael Brayer of the Central Federated Union says they will wait for Gompers report before endorsing Bryan. Henry Meisel notes Bryan's shift and says Democrats adopt radical planks to win labor votes.
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Democratic Party
Michael Brayer
Central Federated Union
Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Bryan
Labor
Henry Meisel
Republican Party
Mills in Augusta to lay off 1200 workers
In Augusta Maine on July 20 notices announce full-time layoff for about 1200 mill workers. Edwards Cotton resumes full production after halting since March 1, as mills reduce staffing due to overproduction.
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Augusta. Me
New England
Edwards
Taft Ig nores Platform sparks labor support plan
The Inter Ocean reports Taft issued an anti injunction plank from his personal platform to gain labor backing. Taft denounces injunction use, says he opposes it in current form, and notes he has not approved any statement since Chicago. Hitchcock says he never saw such authorized Taft statement.
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William H. Taft
Taft
Judge Taft
Hot Springs
Chicago
Inter Ocean
Washington
Frank H. Hitchcock
Republican National Committee
Taft Visits Hot Springs Saintly Sermon and Photo Op
Senator Warner of Missouri arrived in Hot Springs Missouri to join Presidential candidate William H. Taft for a brief chat about Missouri campaign issues. They discussed farming trends with land sales from Illinois and Iowa driving migration north to Missouri and aiding Republican prospects.
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Hot Springs
William H. Taft
Taft
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church
John G. Scott
Senator Warner
Missouri
Mr. Taft
Illinois
Iowa
Republican Party Plans August 1 Headquarters Move
George R. Sheldon and Frank H. Hitchcock map the campaign from New York, aiming to open party headquarters near Madison Square by August 1. Timothy L. Woodruff returns to east 30th street to lead the state committee from No 43 West 29th street, a brown stone four story building near the Republican Club.
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George R. Sheldon
Republican National Committee
Hot Springs
Frank H. Hitchcock
Washington
Sheldon
Madison Square
Metropolitan Building
Hitchcock
Utica
Sherman
Timothy L. Woodruff
Republican State Committee
East 30Th Street
State Committee
West 29Th Street
Republican Club
West 49Th Street
Woodruff
Lafayette L. Gleason
Bryan Readies Campaign Plans At Fairview Neb
A telegraph from Herman Ridder to W. J. Bryan at Fairview Neb reports Bryan’s buoyant reception of Ridder’s message endorsing Bryan. Officials discuss national committee leadership, with Dr. Hall guiding talks on chairmanship and campaign setup. Johnson forces surrender signaled by Lester Elwood with a Johnson banner. Bryan’s running mate Kern controversy noted.
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Mr. Ridder
Denver
Bryan
Ridder
Lincoln
Fairview
O. K
P. L. Hall
Nebraska
National Committee
Mr. Bryan
Dr. Hall
Hall
Governor Johnson
Minnesota
Johnson
Minneapolis
Lester Elwood
Hammond
Cleveland
Charles Bryar
White House
Mr. Kern
Kern
North Carolina
Tom Watson
D. J. Campau
Michigan
J. E. Lamb
Indiana
Ollie James
Kentucky
J. H. Atwood
Kansas
Tigers Attack Trainer at Dreamland Show
Heinrich Falkendorph, a Dreamland trainer at Coney Island, was attacked by two tigers Moki and Rajah for a second time this week. The beasts leapt at him as the act ended at 9 30 pm causing panic and injuries to his left leg and hand. Doctors Frank E. Smith and Charles H. Hall treated him. his condition was critical with a risk of death.
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Heinrich Falkendorph
Bostock
Dreamland
Coney Island
Falkendorph
Moki
Rajah
Falkendo
Police Still Hold 23 Chinamen After Strathyre Case
Yu Ya Shing, leader of 25 Chinamen aboard the British steamer Strathyre, faced arraignment in the Tombs Court as authorities weigh charges. Magistrate Breen refused jurisdiction and sent the prisoner to the station. Immigrant officials arranged a meal for the detainees as they await decisions with British and Chinese authorities. Ship agents have until tonight to arrange repatriation. if not, bonds may be forfeited and the men sent to an English port.
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Yu Ya Shing
Strathyre
Tombs Court
Breen
Martin
D’alessandro
England
Shields
United States
Missionary Week Opens at Gospel Tent Broadway and Sith
Rev. George W. McPherson of Yonkers spoke at the Gospel Tent Evangel on Broadway and Sith street ushering Missionary Week. He recounted early Rocky Mountain work in Grant Col where Union Pacific shops workers mocked his abstinence and life as a preacher. He described a wild meeting with drunken miners, loud heckling, and a sobering effect as attendees toppled from seats. He recalled threats in Como and hostile men at the station bidding him farewell.
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Evangel
Broadway
Sith Street
George W. McPherson
Yonkers
Rocky Mountains
Union Pacific
Grant
Col
McPherson
Tragic Lightning Strike Kills Youth Aboard Boat in Susquehanna
In Harrisburg on July 12 Roy Spencer aged nineteen of Steelton and Earl Paxton about the same age were rowing across the Susquehanna River when a bolt of lightning struck Spencer killing him instantly. Paxton was knocked to the bottom of the boat but escaped serious injury.
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Harrisburg
Penn
Roy Spencer
Steelton
Earl Paxton
Susquehanna River
Spencer
Paxton
Airship transport plan faces ocean crossing challenge
St Louis syndicate races to move Henri Farman's aeroplane across the Atlantic for Belmont Park trials. Steamship limitations, oversized crates, and fragile equipment complicate shipping. Aero Club of America and MacMechan press lines in New York to secure a viable route ahead of July 29 previews.
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St. Louis
Henri Farman
Belmont Park
Atlantic
F. 5
Lahm
Paris
Aero Club of America
MacMechan
Hotel Astor
Havre
France
Farman
Hudson
Park
Oceanic
la Touraine
Aero Club
Steamship Lines
Prohibition National and State Conventions Open in Columbus
Delegates arrive in Columbus for the prohibition national convention on Wednesday and the state convention opening tomorrow. Mass meetings begin at Memorial Hall with speakers including ex-presidential nominees and leaders weighing an open ticket. The platform vows a brief, direct stance denouncing major parties over illegal shipments of alcohol into prohibition states.
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Columbus
Ohio
Union Station
Memorial Hall
J. P. St. John
Kansas
Joshua Levering
Maryland
John G. Woolley
Chicago
Silas S. Swallow
Pennsylvania
Seaborn Wright
Georgia
Samuel R. Artman
Indiana
Fred F. Wheelock
Los Angeles
Daniel P. Sheen
Peoria, Ill
Joseph P. Tracey
Detroit
W. P. Palmer
St. Louis Christian Advocate
Alfred L. Mannierre
New York
J. B. Cranfill
Dallas
Tex
Charles R. Jones
National Committee
Congress
Jealous Husband Uses Revolver in Tragedy
Anthony Hassler of Flint Michigan shot and wounded his wife then fatally wounded her sister and injured his mother-in-law at her father's home over divorce rumors. He fired at her father and two men, then killed himself with a self-inflicted wound, not expected to live.
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Cleveland
Anthony Hassler
Flint
Mich
Hassler
George Kilger
Rose Herrman
Kilger
Shot Kills Escaping Prisoner Near Clayton Del
Smyrna Del July 12 Columbus Jackson a 30 year old black man was shot and killed by a posse of citizens near Clayton Del He had been arrested on a railroad train for running a speak easy He broke away as the train arrived and was pursued into a cornfield where several shots were fired hitting him in the abdomen He died within minutes No one is known to have fired the fatal shot and no arrest has been made.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smyrna
Del
Columbus Jackson
Clayton
Boyer
Prospect Park Arrests Add to Police Drive
Brooklyn police reported sixty arrests at Prospect Park yesterday as they intensify a Sunday crackdown on East Siders from Manhattan. Inspector O'Reilly Park Commissioner Kennedy lead the effort with Magistrate Steers aiding in processing complaints.
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Brooklyn
Prospect Park
O'Reilly
Park
Kennedy
East
Yonkers Man Held in Infant Fire Attempt
Mundie Dehanoc 33 of 7 Seymour Street Yonkers is jailed on suspicion of trying to burn his two month old baby Pasatqua while the mother was away. Police say he first denied then admitted and then denied the act while the child remains injured awaiting treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mundie Dehanoc
Seymour Street
Yonkers
Pasatqua
Elks Gather for Dallas Convention Opening
Ten thousand Elks assemble in Dallas ahead of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks convention with an expected twenty five thousand more arriving by tomorrow night. Grand lodge officers are present as lavish lights adorn the city. The event opens with a dinner for Grand Lodge members and wives, followed by ceremonies and addresses by John K Tener Governor Campbell and Senator Culberson.
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Dallas
Tex
Elks
The
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
Grand Lodge
John K. Tener
of the Elks
Campbell
Texas
Charles A. Culberson
Isthmian Commissioner Returns With Panama Line Crew
The Panama Railroad steamer Esperanza arrived from Colon carrying J. J. Alexander a city engineer who died last week in Cristobal hospital and Mrs Alexander. H H Rousseau Isthmian Commission member also traveled on the Esperanza. Lt Rosseau reportedly wed Miss Glad Squiers daughter of US Minister Herbert Squiers after a Tivoli Club ball in April.
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Panama Railroad Company
Colon
J. J. Alexander
Canal
Cristobal
Alexander
H. H. Rousseau
Rosseau
Glad Squiers
United States
Panama
Herbert G. Squiers
Tivoli Club
Man Attempts Suicide As Wife Is Out Visiting
Louis Schriver a 27 year old bookbinder living with his wife on a street tried to kill himself by inhaling illuminating gas in his bedroom last night while his wife was visiting a friend. He was taken to a hospital in a critical condition. The article notes inconsistent details and a possible financial offer from a local firm.
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Louis Schriver
Ieeeee Street
Schriver
Guffey Delegation Train Attacked Near St Louis
Telegraph dispatch from Effingham Ill reports a Missouri Pacific train carrying Pennsylvania anti Bryan delegates attacked as it entered St Louis. Rocks and bullets shattered windows. William Schultz O E Maxwell and J F Curran escaped injury. Colonel Guffey fell ill after Denver but is not seriously harmed. Train halted at Sedalia for medical aid.
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Tribune
Pittsburg
Effingham
Denver
St. Louis
Missouri Pacific
Pelham
Pennsylvania
Guffeyries
Bryan
Sedalia
Thaw Case Up Today Before White Plains Justice Mills
Harry K Thaw's bid for jury review of his mental condition goes to Justice Mills in White Plains tomorrow. New counsel Charles Morschauser will file affidavits and argue for a jury trial while District Attorney Jerome opposes. If denied, Thaw may be held until September with adjournment to Poughkeepsie jail. Matteawan custody could be restored if the judge orders.
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Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Harry K. Thaw
Supreme Court
Mills
White Plains
Charles Morschauser
Morschauser
Thaw
Justice Mills
Franklin Bartlett
Jerome
Dutchess County
Jerome Will
Matteawan
Marschauser
Matteawan Asylum
Justice Dowling
Stanford White
Justice Marschauser
Townsend
Quigg Implicated In Murray Hill Franchise Meeting
Final graft committee report to the Central Federated Union says mass meeting was engineered by Lemuel Eli Quigg under Metropolitan Street Railway Company auspices. It cites false statements and vested interests among an officer and several delegates, with bitter factionalism and potential fistfights. Further discussion postponed.
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Murray Hill
Central Federated Union
Lemuel Eli Quigg
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
Heat Kills Prisoner in Newark During Heat Wave
Newark heat wave causes one death and another prostration. Prisoner Martin Farley, 32, of 61 Frelinghuysen avenue, collapsed in a cell at the 1st precinct. He died after being moved to City Hospital. Farley had been arrested for intoxication. Mrs. Mary Graham, 162 Warren street, was stricken near Warren and Orleans streets and taken to City Hospital, revived and sent home.
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Newark
Martin Farley
Frelinghuysen Avenue
1St Precinct
City Hospital
Mary Graham
Warren Street
Warren
Orleans Streets
Unloading the Goldsboro at Puerto Cortez
Machinery valued at 199000 dollars, alleged to be stolen from U S firms, is being unloaded from the steamer Goldsboro at Puerto Cortez with Francis G. Bailey at large. The machinery will be held pending Honduran court action to recover for Export Shipping Company creditors. Lighter machinery and police seized firearms were found as the crew, after initial dock resistance, secured wages and passage to New York.
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Puerto Cortez
New Orleans
United States
Goldsboro
Francis G. Bailey
Tela Ter
New York
General Erastus Blakeslee Dies at 86 in Brookline
Boston July 12 General Erastus Blakeslee soldier clergyman author and editor prominent in Sunday school circles as author editor and publisher of Graded Sunday School Lessons died at his Brookline home after a brief illness He was commended for Civil War bravery and brevet brigadier general promotion He turned to ministry afterward aiding Bible study in Sunday schools Born Plymouth Conn September 2 1838 He graduated Williston Seminary 1859 Yale 1863 MA 1864 Andover Theological Seminary 1870 He held pastorates in Greenfield and Spencer Mass Fairhaven Conn He was president of Bible Study Publishing Company associate member of Victoria Institute London and member of the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis
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Boston
Erastus Blakeslee
Brookline
Plymouth
Conn
Williston Seminary
Yale
Andover Theological Seminary
Greenfield and Spencer
Mass
Fairhaven
Bible Study Pubishing Company
Victoria Institute, London
Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis
Consul Haskins Dies in Swatow Appointment
Thomas W. Haskins, the American Consul at Swatow, died suddenly at Pei-Tat-Ho seaside resort. A California native, he began as a student interpreter in China in 1902 and served as assistant secretary to the legation in 1904 before his Swatow appointment announced in July.
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Peking
Thomas W. Haskins
Swatow
Pei-Tat-Ho
California
China
Legation
State Department
Washington
Machinists Protest Navy Yard Political Notices
Officers of the International Association of Machinists complained at the Central Federated Union meeting that notices in the Brooklyn navy yard warned mechanics not to participate in politics. An agent said a protest would be sent to President Roosevelt.
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International Association of Machinists
Central Federated Union
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Roosevelt
Quebecs Tercentenary Pageant To Feature Global Naval Parade
Historic Quebec celebrates its 300th anniversary with a grand pageant depicting Canada’s founding eras. The event features a naval salute by a multinational fleet, military displays, and performances in Old Quebec. Royal, British, French, American, and other forces will participate, with the Prince of Wales and Rear Admiral Cowles anticipated as key figures.
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Quebec
Canada
Joe Champlain
America
England
France
United States
Germany
Spain
Taly
Japan
Argentine Republic
Parliament House
Victoria Park
Prince of Wales Fm
Champlain
National Battlefield Commission
Ontario
Evey
Prince of Wales
Edward
Cowles
New Hampshire
Old Pennsylvania Railroad Emploees Long Service Highlight
A Carnegie-era study shows Pennsylvania Railroad has 1 35 active workers with forty or more years on the payroll and 103 pensioners with over forty years of service. Among officials, many began as youths, average age 51, average service 26 years, with Durm on the payroll longest since 1890s. Oldest is David E. Brice born 1818, retired from Sunbury division. others born before 1820 include James Cullen, William Bottomstone, and Andrew Nebginer.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Civil Service of the
United States
Pennsylvania
William Durham
Delaware & Raritan Canal
Jersey City
David E. Brice
Sunbury
James Cullen
Middle
William Bottomstone
Susquehanna
Andrew Nebginer
Philadelphia
May Desert Wife to Seek Heaven by Torrey Sermon
Broadway crowd hears Rev. R. A. Torrey claim a man may desert his wife and a wife may desert her husband to seek spiritual life and Heaven. He asserts Christ is the Son of God and the Bible the Word of God. Acceptance of God is a state of mind and can come to anyone who seeks it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Broadway
87Th Street
R. A. Torrey
Christ
Richard Alexander Funeral Held in Dover Me
Richard Alexander, a New York broker, died by his own hand. His funeral was held in Dover, Maine, with the body buried beside that of his wife who died two years earlier. A letter found under his pillow contained funeral directions and stated his will would be with his New York attorney. He asked friends in New York not be informed until after burial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dover
Richard Alexander
New York
Union Man Makes Complaint Over Trade Union Bias
Matthew McConville business agent of the Safety Bo ncers' Union filed a complaint yesterday claiming the Building Trades Employers' Association and unions exclude his members. He alleges employers discriminate by discharging workers to admit members of an independent engineers union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Matthew McConville
Safety Boncers’ Union
Building Trades
Union of Engineers
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the Tribune
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Herman Ridder
Kansas Town
W. J. Bryan
Staats
Tigers
Steamer
Tent Evangel Missionary Week
West
Jonah
Dominie
Hic
Elks Gathering
Culberson
Isthmian Commissioner
St. K
K. E. Palmer
Guffey
Quigg
Heat
Consul Haskins
Navy Yard
Celebratior
Old Pennsylvania
R. R. Employes
Mr. Torrey
Telephore CO
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