Long Island Sound voyage ends in hail and drama
Seventeen boys from the Boys' Club of St. George's Church at Flushing camped at Bayville and endured a two hour, storm battered trip home in Captain Boyle's launch Vid. Hail hammered the group as they fought the spray, the engine failed, and the boat nearly overturned before they reached Flushing drenched and exhausted.
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Lyn
St. George’s Church
Flushing
Benjamin Mottram
John Swenson
James Boyle
Harry
Long Island Sound
Mottram
Bayville
Long Island
Swenson
Captain Boyle
Sands Point
Great Neck
Boyle
Vici
Lightning Kills Man In Boat At Tarrytown
George M Atall aged 30 a No 166 West 36th Street was struck by lightning during a thunder shower while on a launch at Tarrytown with Richard Foy and William Hooper. Atall died instantly with no marks on body or boat witnesses saw a flash envelop him before he fell. He worked for National Metal Furniture Co and was on vacation with friends Hooper and Foy.
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George M. Atall
West 36Th Street
Tarrytown
Atall
Richard Foy
Broadway
William Hooper
Wifo
Foy
T. V. Roe
J. H. Borden
National Metal Furniture Company
Hooper and
Hooper
Flood in Hudson Tube Forces Shutdown from Christopher to 23d
Flooding in the Hudson tunnel halted service from Christopher Street north to the 23d Street terminal. Superintendent Hedley ordered power cut north of Christopher Street at 5 25 p m to allow pumping and repairs, with work progressing on the new th Street station as water filled sections from 14th to 1$th Street. Power was restored to all but the north section by 6 15 p m while 14th, 19th and 23d Street stations remained closed overnight.
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Hudson
Christopher Street
23D Street
Hedley
Th Street
Sixth Avenue
14Th Street
14Th
Drouth Ravages Eastern New England as Rain Fails
Telegraph dispatch from Boston July 14 reports persistent drought across Eastern New England despite scattered showers. June rainfall was far below normal in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, with reservoirs safe but lawns and crops suffering. central New Hampshire saw the worst deficits while Rhode Island and Vermont fared better. A cloudburst near Heppner, Oregon, flooded Pendleton, destroying the power plant and injuring several residents.
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The
Tribune
Boston
New England
Maine
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Meine
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Vermont
Concord
Merrimack County
Grafton
McCarren Wields Support for Bryan in Brooklyn Meeting
Kings County Democratic General Committee met at the Jefferson Building Brooklyn to endorse the Denver platform and nominate William J. Bryan for president with John W. Kern as vice president. The session drew a slow attendance but featured seven minutes of cheering for Bryan and a strong backing of the ticket and platform by Senator McCarren and Colonel Bell.
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P. H. McCarren
Kings County
Democratic General Committee
Jefferson Building
Brooklyn
Bryan
Denver
United States
William J. Bryan
Nebraska
John W. Kern
Indiana
National Democracy
William Jennings Bryan
Bell
America
McCarren
Kern
Hitchcock A Hustler On Fast Political Schedule
Frank H Hitchcock chairman of the Republican National Committee traveled by Empire State Express and local trains from Manhattan to Utica and back to coordinate gains with Representative Sherman. They planned closer ties between the national committee and the Congressional campaign committee including consolidating literary bureaus. Sherman will relinquish congressional chairmanship to run as vice presidential candidate. successor to Sherman to be chosen by the committee.
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Frank H. Hitchcock
Republican National Committee
Manhattan
Empire State Express
Utica
Representative Sherman
Grand Central Station
National
Washington
Pennsylvania Railroad
Hitchcock
New York
Metropolitan Tower
National Committee
Congressional Campaign Committee
Literary Bureau
Congressional Committee
Sherman
Socialist Labor party nominates Preston for president
The Socialist Labor party declares its national ticket with Martin R. Preston for president and Donald L. Munro for vice president despite Preston's private telegram decline. Leander Armstrong stands for governor of New York with Frank E. Passano as lieutenant governor as the party asserts resolve amid national scrutiny and hostile commentary.
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Socialist Labor Party
Martin R. Preston
Daniel de Leon
United States
Preston
Donald L. Munro
New York State
Leander Armstrong
Frank E. Passano
Munro
Taft
Bryan
National Committee
Lightning shocks 100 workers in Butler mill
During a severe electrical storm last night about one hundred men at the Pittsburg Hickson Bed Company in Butler were struck by lightning. Three men were seriously injured as the electric current surged through the factory and shocked every worker at the machines.
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Butler
Penn
Pittsburg-Hickson Bed Company
Major Ray Denies Taft Ties Over Labor Injunctions
Major Beecher B. Ray, who issued a Chicago statement claiming Taft views on injunctions and labor matters, visited the city and denied acting for Taft or the Republican National Committee. He said the document misrepresented Taft and that he has no official Taft ties beyond the Order of Railway Conductors.
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Major Beecher B. Ray
Chicago
Major Ray
Taft
Judge Taft
War Department
Stadler Bolts Bryan Denounces National Ticket
Charles A Stadler ex State Senator and businessman declares he remains a Democrat but will bolt Bryan and Kern at the Denver convention. He bets 10000 to 5000 Bryan cannot win or carry the state and urges Taft support. Stadler is head of several companies and a Democratic organizer in Nassau. No bet has been accepted.
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Charles A. Stadler
Bryan
Kern
State Senate
Senator Stadler
American Malt Corporation
American Malting Company
Germania Bank
Sicilian Asphalt Paving Company
Sebastian Wagon Company
Denver
Thomas Taggart
National Democratic Committee
Stadler
William Loeb
Taft
Mr. Stadier
Railway Men May Declare for Taft
The Nebraska State Railway Employes Protective Association of about fifteen thousand members plans to enter both state and national campaigns. Its executive committee met in Omaha to discuss politics and will convene again on July 25 to decide on support for Bryan or Taft, with prevailing belief favoring Taft.
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Taft
The
Tribune
Omaha
Nebraska State Railway
Prohibition boomlets at national convention rise in 1900s
Columbus July 14 Following Seaborn Wrights declination several new Prohibition boomlets surfaced at the national convention. Joshua Levering from Cumberland Md Clinton N Howard of Rochester Dr J B Cranfill F W Wheeler of Los Angeles Joseph P Tracey and others circulated platforms attacking liquor ties to government and praising Roosevelt conservation efforts. Robert H Patton chosen temporary chairman as Ohio named a state ticket Aaron S Watkins for Governor and J B Martin for Lieutenant Governor Woman suffrage sidelined by a large vote. Carrie Nation addressed the Woman Prohibition Club event at Board of Trade Auditorium.
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Columbus
Ohio
Seaborn Wright
Joshua Levering
Cumberland
Clinton N. Howard
Rochester
J. B. Cranfill
Texas
California
F. W. Wheeler
Los Angeles
Michigan
Joseph P. Tracey
Republican Party
Hawaii
Alaska
War Department
Roosevelt
Robert H. Patton
Springfield
Ill
Illinois
William H. Ferguson
Chicago
National Prohibitionist
Aaron S. Watkins
Ada
J. B
Republican Club Festival at Manhattan Casino Night
The Republican Club of the 25th Assembly District held a summer night festival at the Manhattan Casino on 155th Street and Eighth Avenue. No speeches due to heat. a vaudeville show and dancing entertained attendees led by Congressmen and local leaders including Ezra P. Prentice and William H. Wadhams.
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Republican Club
25Th Assembly District
Manhattan Casino
155Th Street
Eighth Avenue
Ezra P. Prentice
William H. Wadhams
George B. Agnew
Abe” Gruber
Jobn F. Hedges
William 5. Bennet
Herbert Parsons
Parsons
Prentice
Republican Union Mourns Members
The Republican Union of the 20th Assembly District met at its headquarters to hear talk on vote getting by president William C. Hecht and executive member John H. Gunner. In honor of Townsend Wandell, a fellow member killed June 8 in a Bologna railroad accident, the meeting adjourned by rising vote.
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Republican Union
20Th Assembly District
East List Street
William C. Hecht
John H. Gunner
Townsend Wandell
Bologna
Italy
Arrest of Ex-Official in Washington on Warant
J Barton Miller former secretary treasurer of First Cooperative Building Association of Georgetown was arrested on a warrant charging him with criminally destroying papers affecting citizens or public rights. A receiver seeks missing company records and bonds worth $50,000. A search of the premises failed. a rule to show cause for contempt of court was served while Miller lay ill at home.
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Washington
J. Barton Miller
First Co-operative Building Association of
Georgetown
Ambrose
The
Building Association
Miller
Hil Home
Bryan Plan Adoption Asks Public Campaign Funding Limits
Lincoln Neb July 14 The national committee met with W J Bryan and J W Kern at Fairview to appoint an eleven member sub committee in Chicago to name a chairman of the Democratic National Committee and to adopt a resolution for campaign contributions. They urged clubs nationwide to aid the campaign and discussed a plan to prohibit corporate contributions and cap individual gifts with pre election publication of all contributions above a minimum.
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Neb
Auditorium
Chicago
Democratic National Committee
National Committee
W. J. Bryan
J. W. Kern
Fairview
John H. Atwood
Leavenworth
Kan
Denver
Atwood
Mr. Bryan
Josephus Daniels
North Carolina
Taggart
Indiana
Hall
Nebraska
Mack
New York
Osborne
Wyoming
Green
Rhode Island
Ryan
Wisconsin
Daniels
Wade
Iowa
Tomlinson
Alabama
Cole
California
Brady
Oklahoma
Mr. Daniels
National Committee of Our Party
Democratic Party
Kern
Moyer Comments on Democratic Platform and Labor Plank
President Charles H. Moyer addressing the Western Federation of Miners discusses an anti injunction plank added to the Democratic platform after labor representatives urged it. He questions whether federal law interpretations will favor labor and notes statements by Mr. Mitchell on workers' organizing rights while warning about executive power and Supreme Court interpretations impacting labor.
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Denver
Charles H. Moyer
Western Federation of Miners
United States
Mr. Mitchell
Mitchell
Supreme Court of the Land
Parker May Stump for Bryan in National Campaign
Helena Mont July 14 In an Associated Press interview Judge Alton B Parker outlined plans to offer his services to the Democratic National Committee as a campaign speaker dedicating as much time as possible to travel and speeches He expects to speak outside New York but gave no specific venues He predicted strong odds for Democrats to carry New York while pledging support to Bryan and Kern Parker will travel from Helena to Livingston to meet De Lancey Nicoll of New York for about three weeks in Yellowstone National Park and has been staying with Thomas J Walsh during his visit
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Atwood
D. J. Campau
Michigan
Tom L. Johnson
Urey Woodson
Ollie James
Mr. Atwood
Mr. Bryan
Taft
Cincinnati
Bryan
Kern
Indianapolis
Rock Island Road
Chicago
Rock Island
Fairview
Taggart
Helena
Mont
Associated Press
Alton B. Parker
Democratic National Committee
New York
Judge Parker
Livingston
de Lancey Nicoll
Yellowstone National Park
Thomas J. Walsh
Watson May Name Sayan Electors in Georgia
In Atlanta on July 14 the Tribune reports Thomas E Watson plans to name Georgia electors who already hold Democratic nominations. The electors would vote for Watson if not needed by Bryan. The Democratic State Executive Committee is slated to meet on July 25 to discuss the arrangement.
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Uy Telegraph
the Tribune
Atlanta
Thomas E. Watson
Georgia
Watson
Bryan
Democratic State Executive Committee
Tennessee Democratic Ticket Renominated at Nashville Convention
Nashville July 4 The Democratic State Convention ratified the June 27 primary results renominating Governor Malcolm R Patterson Justice Benjamin I Bell Civil Appeals judge A M Lamb and Railroad Commissioner Frank Avent The platform backs the Denver Democrats and pledges support to the nominees.
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Nashville
Tenn
Malcolm R. Patterson
Supreme Court
Benjamin I. Bell
Court of Civil Appeals
A. M. Lamb
Frank Avent
Denver
Hearst to go it alone in Independence party bid
Independence party leaders in the city push for a separate ticket at the Chicago national convention on July 27 with Hearst backing their plan. Names like Thomas L. Hisgen and Charles A. Walsh are considered for the presidential nomination as Hearst returns from the Mauretania voyage to spur organization and votes. Delegates from New York will depart by train on July 26 for Chicago.
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New York
Independence Party
Chicago
William Randolph Hearst
Hearst
Thomas L. Hisgen
Springfield
Mass
M W. Howard
Alabama
Howards S. Taylor
Titenois
Charles A. Walsh
Iowa
Walsh
Democratic National Committee
Independence Party National Committee
Middle West
Mauretania
Clarence J. Shear
Melvin G. Palliser
New York State
Moening
Grand Central Station
Maximilian Thmsem
South
State convention moved to September 15 in New York
The New York State Fair opens at Syracuse on September 14 but the Republican State Convention will meet on September 15 as planned. Hotel concerns at Saratoga prevented a later date, and leaders fear delaying to September 22 would slow the campaign. Chairman Woodruff expressed stubborn optimism and vowed relentless campaigning for a Victory in the state.
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