Hearst Backers Plan Bryan Reception Around August First
Reported by Hearst allies to honor William J Bryan on his Europe return around August 1. William R Hearst likely to chair the reception committee with speeches planned. Contention arises over competing committees led by William Hoge and the Democratic Commercial Travellers Anti-Trust League as Bryan supporters push for a unified demo party display.
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Bryan
W. R. Hearst
William J
Europe
William R. Hearst
Hearst
William Hoge
Democratic Commercial Travellers’ Anti-Trust League
Hoge
National Democratic Club
John H. Girdner
Hoge Committee
Block Island
Belmont
Democatic Club
Girdner
Samuel Seabury
City Court
Gold Democrats Explain Endorsement of Bryan in Indiana
Indiana Gold Democrats defend their Bryan endorsement while maintaining opposition to free silver. They say agreement with tariff reform and curbing trusts will dominate the national platform, and note leaders urged participation to curb Hearst influence in labor centers and fix Indiana’s convention stance.
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the Tribune
Indianapolis
Bryan
Indiana
Hearst
Bryar
Griggs Opens Democratic Campaign HQ in Georgia
Representative James M Griggs of Georgia and chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee secured two rooms at the Hoffmen House for headquarters. He said the tide has turned and expects a Democratic majority in the next Congress. Missouri and Indiana reports suggest Democrats will overwhelm Republicans, matching or exceeding 1892 House seats. He cited corporate corruption exposures as boosting democracy against Republican governance.
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James M. Griggs
Georgia
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
Hoffmen House
Griggs
Missouri
Indiana
Bryan returns to America in September report says
A Lincoln dispatch reports William J Bryan will return to America in September rather than August. Charles W Bryan, manager of The Commoner, says New York committee plans an earlier reception by almost a month.
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Tribune
Siouxnty
Iowa
Lincoln
Neb
William J. Bryan
America
Charles W. Bryan
the Commoner
New York
Dolphin Returns with Yukon Treasure Shipment
The Alaskan Steamship Company boat Dolphin arrived in Seattle today bringing about $20,000 in treasure. It was the first shipment since navigation opened on the Yukon River. Fifty three passengers were aboard, twenty five from Dawson Atlin and other interior points.
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Seattle
Alaskan Steamship Company
Dolphin
Yukon River
Dawson
Atlin
Negro Hanged for Assault at King George Courthouse
Fredericksburg details: Gabriel Battaile a sixteen year old colored defendant, was hanged in the jail yard at King George Courthouse at 6 this morning for criminal assault on Lena Rodgers, a young white girl. He was taken from Fredericksburg jail under military escort amid fears of protest. Prior to execution he handed the jailer a written confession witnessed by two colored ministers.
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Tribune
Fredericksburg
Gabriel Battaile
King George Courthouse
Lena Rodgers
Frederickshure
Battaile
Gunners set U S Coast Artillery fire accuracy record
Portland Me June announced today that mortar battery target practice at Fort McKinley produced the highest average in U S Coast Artillery history. The 23d and 24th companies posted an average of 75 percent, surpassing the previous 43 percent record.
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Portland
United States Coast Artillery
Fort McKinley
Princeton Train Advertisement for June Schedule
Advertisement notes Saturday June 9 departure from New York via Pennsylvania Railroad at 9 25 am with principal intermediate stops. Train fare listed as 26 dollars. Schedule shows departure thirty minutes after game end from Princeton area.
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Princeton
New York
Pennsylvania Raile
Atrinceton
Whyte Made Senator After Gorman Death
Baltimore June 8 Governor Warfield named William Pinckney Whyte to fill the vacancy created by Senator Gorman’s death. Whyte, 82, will serve until the 1908 legislature elects a successor and a new senator to cover the remainder of Gorman’s term through March 1909. Whyte has been Baltimore mayor, governor, and attorney general, and his appointment honors his long service to Maryland.
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the Tribune
Baltimore
Warfield
William Pinckney Whyte
United States
Gorman
Whyte
Senate
Maryland
Auto Wrecks Brougham In Street Collision
Otto Miller driving the New York Hospital ambulance on 21st street and Fifth avenue collided with a Jersey City brougham owned by Judge Broadlow and driven by W J Broadbend after attempting to avoid a brewery wagon The chauffeur John Dwyer of 709 Ninth Avenue was arrested for careless driving Miller said the brewery wagon cut diagonally across the ambulance path and he swerved right to avoid it.
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Otto Miller
New York Hospital
21St Street
Fifth Avenue
Judge Broadlow
Jersey City
W. J. Broadbend
John Dwyer
Ninth Avenue
Miller
Break With Rumania Shakes Greece in Diplomatic Rift
In Bucharest the Greek minister was ordered to announce the rupture of relations with Rumania as Greek officials quit the country. The clash stems from a May 1905 Turkish sultanate trade recognition of Vlach Rumanians in Macedonia provoking Greek boycotts and reprisals. The two nations face an economic war when treaties expire next month.
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Athens
Bucharest
Rumania
Greece
Turkey
Macedonia
Friend Cassie's Friend Case Reveals Bankers In Suit
In Columbus Ohio June Mrs Chadwick’s deposition, read in Pittsburgh court, shows she met Friend in 1901 and later in Atlantic City Pittsburgh and New York. She claimed $5,000,000 in securities with Ira Reynolds of Wade Park Bank Cleveland and described a scheme with Friend to dispose of them. He allegedly lent about $281,000 and took notes totaling $784,000.
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Tribune
Columbus
Ohio
Chadwick
Pittsburg
Jutte
Friend & Hotstott
Friend
Atlantic City
New York
Ira Reynolds
Wade Park Bank
Cleveland
Unwritten Law Frees Woman in Berea College Shooting
Kentucky's unwritten law spares Mrs Nannie Nuckols who killed Mrs Vivian Black during Berea College commencement exercises in Richmond ten thousand spectators. Judge D Gray Falconer once posited a husband who kills an despoiler goes free and the Richmond court adopted the same rationale for a woman.
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the Tribune
Lexington
Kentucky
D. Gray Falconer
Richmond
Nannie Nuckols
Vivian Black
Nuckols
Berea College
Breach of Treaty of Paris Claims on Aland Islands
Stockholm reports the Stockholm Bladet says Russia sent a military detachment to the Aland Islands in the Gulf of Bothnia to patrol against Finland, allegedly breaching the Treaty of Paris which forbids fortification or occupation. The Aland Archipelago, near Finland, has about eighty islands and a 25 000 Swedish population.
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Russia
Aland Islands
Gulf of Bothnia
Stockholm
Finland
Paris
Aland Archipelago
Sweden
Representative Fuller Overcome by Heat in Washington
On a hot day in Washington D C Representative Charles E Fuller of Illinois collapsed at the intersection of H Street and Pennsylvania Avenue and was taken to the Emergency Hospital where doctors said he was out of danger by night.
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Washington
Charles E. Fuller
Illinois
Lte Street
Pennsylvania Avenue
America’s Greatest Railroad Twentieth Century Limited Ad
The Twentieth Century Limited, an 18 hour New York Central Lines train from New York to Chicago, advertises as America’s greatest railroad. It leaves New York at 3 30 p m and arrives Chicago at 8 30 next morning.
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New York
Chicago
New York Central Lines
America
Advt
Mysterious Doorway Killing in Fordham Hospital Area
Mrs. Alice Kinnan of 2464 Washington Avenue Bronx, a 40 year old widow, died after being struck in the vestibule by an unknown man at her home. The blow fractured her skull and she died at Fordham Hospital. The assailant fled unseen amid darkness and investigations by Tremont and Bronx detectives yield no leads. The motive suspected is robbery, with neighbors reporting several suspicious men nearby recently. the house sits back from the street and light is poor. Mrs. Kinnan lived with her elderly mother Mrs. Louisa M. Stanton, once connected to Commodore Vanderbilt, who is distraught by the tragedy and denies any known enemies.
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Alice Kinnan
Washington Avenue
Bronx
Fordham Hospital
Commodore Vanderbilt
Mrs. Kinnan
Tremont Station
Stanton
Burke
Tremont
Mrs. Stanton
Poison Kills Snowden at Frankford Asylum
Autopsy in Philadelphia found Llewellyn Randolph Snowden died from cyanide or potassium poisoning at the Friends Asylum for the Insane in Frankford. He had sought treatment after collapsing during a bath. A small amount of cyanide was found in his pocket. Snowden had been ill for weeks and had previously attempted suicide with a razor, hospitalised until recently.
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Philadelphia
Llewellyn Randolph Snowden
Friends Asylum For the
Frankford
Chase
Snowden
First Man To Be Elected a Member of Bachelor Maids Club
William D. McNeil of Brooklyn visited Syracuse for his niece Ethel McNeil’s wedding to John H. Milne of London Ontario. He was elected an honorary Bachelor Maids Club member for kissing sixteen girls, becoming the first man admitted. He paid the party’s fares to New York Central Station after the farewell.
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Tribune
Syracuse
William D. McNeil
Brooklyn
Ethel McNeil
John H. Milne
London
Ont
Bachelor Maids’ Club
Billy
McNeil
Miss McNeil
New York Central
Calgary
Alberta
Wadsworth Defends Report on Livestock Inspection
Washington June The Tribune Bureau reports Representative Wadsworth of New York defended the Neill and Reynolds report saying its publication harmed agricultural interests and that Beveridge inspection legislation is needed to restore consumer confidence. The President and Senate leaders urge quick enactment to curb beef industry losses and prevent further damage to stockgrowers.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Wadsworth
New York
Neill
Packers for inspection reply to Beveridge meat scandal
Armour & Co. replies to Chicago press offer for space to comment on the meat scandal. The firm says it supports sanitary regulation and government inspection, notes forty years of openness, and asserts all meat is inspected by U S government agents. It declines to speak until its position can be clearly presented.
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The
Tribune
Cleveland
Chicago Packers
Armour & Co
United States
B. J. Mullaney
Sinclair Requests Hearing on Chicago Packing System
Upton Sinclair sent a telegram to the House Committee on Agriculture requesting a hearing after weeks of study in Chicago packing houses. The committee, via Wadsworth, declined, saying no hearing was deemed necessary. Sinclair countered that his Chicago stockyards testimony is valuable evidence and demanded a hearing.
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Upton Sinclair
House Committee On Agriculture
Chicago
Washington
Mr. Sinclair
Committee On Agriculture
House of Representatives
Wadsworth
Sweden Declines Crown Attendance at Haakon VII Coronation
Christiania June 8 Sweden will not be represented at King Haakon VII's June 22 coronation. The government says the move honors King Oscar's feelings and avoids implying discord with Norway, noting the absence does not reflect a desire to sever cordial relations.
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Christiania
Sweden
Haakon VII
Oscar
Verdans Gang
Norway
Troops Expel Nuns From Ursuline Convent in France
In Flavigny, Céte d Or, France, on June 8 gendarmes expelled the Ursuline nuns from the convent after forcing entry. About one hundred villagers and the delegate bishop were in the chapel when the major excommunication was pronounced against those who participated.
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Flavigny
Department
Céte d'Or
France
Three Burned to Death in Walpack Center Fire
Middletown New York reports a Walpack Center New Jersey farmhouse blaze killed grandmother Mrs. Jacob Emory age 72 daughter Mrs. Matilda Garrison 42 and granddaughter Elijah Garrison 12. Husband Mrs. Emory awake to smoke but three women died in a back room before a ladder arrived. Jacob Garrison escaped from a second story window. Bodies found later in the cellar. cause of fire unknown.
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Tribune
Middletown
N. Y
Walpack Center
N. J
Jacob Emory
Matilda Garrison
Elijah Garrison
Emory
Jacob Garrison
Ontario Storm Swept Across Hamilton And Detroit
A severe June storm battered Ontario and Detroit with 85 mph winds and torrential rain. In Hamilton there was widespread destruction including downed poles, shattered windows, and damaged roofs. streetcar service halted for hours and several buildings collapsed. In Detroit a 1.36 inch downpour and 40 mph gusts felled trees and damaged wires, with reports of possible fatalities near Wolfs and on the Belle Isle bridge.
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Hamilton
Ontario
Inemen
Dundas
Here
Deering Agricultural Implement Company
King Street
Hamilton Vinegar Works
Hamilton Club
St. Paul's
Detroit
Wolfs
Belle Isle
Ballooning Dare Ends With 4000 Foot Ascent Rescue
Miss Maggie Dailey attempted a second balloon ascent in Middletown on a dare from companions. She rose nearly four thousand feet, vanished behind clouds, and landed safely in a swamp two miles from the takeoff. Rescued by aeronaut Kelly, she hopes to pursue ballooning as a profession.
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the Tribune
Middletown
N. Y
Maggie Dailey
Kelly
Miss Dailey
Packing Row in Congress Delays Beveridge Amendment
In Washington yesterday a split in the House Committee on Agriculture over the Beveridge amendment surfaced as critics blamed the delay for harming the live stock industry. Democrats hoped to use the issue politically while President Roosevelt forwarded the Department of Agriculture packing report to Chairman Wadsworth with a call for urgent legislation. Reynolds and Neill have reinforced the report’s claims at the hearing, and Rep Ellis testified that packers and stockmen in his district favor federal supervision.
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Washington
House Committee On Agriculture
Beveridge
Neill-Reynolds
Roosevelt
Wadsworth
Agricultural Committee
Department of Agriculture
Reynolds
Neill
Ellis
Kansas City
Demand for New Law on Government Meat Inspection
Washington reports show livestock and packing interests favoring prompt federal meat inspection to calm public fear. Rep Edgar Co Ellis testified before the House Agriculture Committee that government inspection is the only satisfactory service, while Crumpacker questioned Congress's federal inspection right. A telegram from the Washington State Grange endorsed efforts to reform meat packing conditions.
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Ellis
House Committee
Representative Crumpacker
Congress
Crumpacker
Neill-Reynolds
President Roosevelt Sends Packing House Report To Congress
Washington June 8 1906 President Roosevelt forwards to Representative Wadsworth the Department of Agriculture report on Chicago packing houses. He notes no substantive conflict with Neill Reynolds findings and urges immediate expansion of federal meat inspection powers. He cites witnesses praising reform and describes ongoing investigations and broader oversight plans.
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Washington
House Committee On Agriculture
Roosevelt
Wadsworth
Department of Agriculture
Chicago
Neill-Reynolds
Agricultural Department
Mr. Wadsworth
White House
T of Agriculture
Neill
Mr. Reynolds
Congress
Messrs. Neill
Reynolds
Messrs
18 Hours to Chicago Pennsylvania Special Ad
Train advertisement notes an 18 hour journey to Chicago via Pennsylvania and St. Louis with rock ballast mention and multinational garbled text. Includes miscellaneous lines about rail components and routing. The readable items imply a railway promotion with limited legible details.
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Brougham
Cassie
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Bache
Lor Maids Club
Capitol
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Day
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Franklin
Rochester
Avon
Erie
Canandaigua
Main Street
Palmyra
Utica
P. Mongehan & Co
Long Lake West
John Long
John Burns
West
Edgar Co. Ellis
Spokane
Wash
Washington State Grange
B. Kegley
E. D. Campbell
Pennsylvania
Mia
del Lake
Celeca M
St. Louis
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