In Memory of Minor Man William Wirt Henry and Virginia Bar Session
Old Point Va July 15 Special The State Bar Association met on the second day with larger attendance. Officers elected include President William Wins Weary of Richmond and Vice Presidents J Allen Watts George Sipes Eppa Hunton and George Hundley. E Eugene Massie was named Secretary Treasurer after serving in that role. The vast gathering adopted committee reports naming eighteen new members and appointed delegates to the American Bar Association. A memorial sketch of John B Miner was ordered published. The convention will reconvene for a 1 pm address by Judge A M Rose and a banquet in the evening with distinguished guests including Justice Harlan.
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State Par Associacion
Ine
Willa Wins Weary
Richmond
J. Allen Watts
Roanoke
Sipes
Morrisonbure
Eppa Hunton
Warrenton
George J
W. 0. McRae
Petersburg
Thomas D. Kuansom
Launton
D.G. Tyler
W. G. Dabney
University of Virginia
OG. E. Keane
Lynchburg
Alexander Hamilton
E. E. Stickley
Woodstock
Charles M. Blackford
L. L. Lewis
John J. Ming University
John Randolph Tucker
Thomas 3
RT. W. Duke
Charlottesville
Miner
John B. Miner
James C. Lamb
Virginia Law Register
Lewis
William Wirt Henry
A. R. Long
Hyce
Virginia
Long
General Assembly
Association
A. M. Rose
Little Rock
Ark
Justice Harlan
Supreme Cort of the United Bietes
Justice Murlan
Chene Anne Vin Pibtan
Irish land bill debate in House of Commons
In the British House of Commons today Mr. Gerald Balfour announced the government will withdraw sections of the Irish land bill concerning land court procedures and landlord or tenant improvements. Leaders from Irish nationalist and unionist sides debated timing and support, with assurances the bill will proceed tomorrow.
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London
House of Commons
Gerald Balfour
Ireland
Labouchere
John Morley
Balfour
William Morcourt
John Millen
Joseph Chamberlain
Dillon
A. dv
Thaltour
M Chamberlain
Englind
Timothy Narrington
Timothy M. Healy
Petersburg Cyclone: Whit Wilson Wins Multiple Races
One thousand spectators in Prince George County watched the Cockade City Cycle Club event at the old Nowe market racecourse. Whit Wilson won the half mile, one mile scratch, and five mile handicap events, taking aster silver and gold prizes plus a championship medal. J W Hawkins Jr and R B Morton also claimed top finishes. After racing, a banquet at the club-room distributed prizes.
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Petersburg
Nowe Market
Prince George County
Cockade City Cycle Club
Whit Wison
Hoys
J. W. Hawkins
Whit Wisson
R. SB. Morton
Whit Wilson
Cockade City
Silver Coinage Totals and Treasury Redemptions
On March 1 1804 the Treasury held 29 240 461 standard silver dollars for redeeming war notes. The Treasury held 10 689 582 dollars for redeeming Treasury notes. Since March 1 1593 silver dollar coinage totaled 11 989 056 with 2 911 877 as seigniorage leaving 9 871 19 for note redemption. Redeemed and cancelled Treasury notes in silver dollars from November 1 1893 to July 14 1898 reached 23 402 258 dollars.
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Washington
Treasury
Postmaster General Denies Privileges to Several Firms
Washington reports Postmaster General Wilson denied privileges of the mails to Rothschild Sons Company and others including Lee & Co and Harris & Co of New York and Pontiac. The action targets conducting lotteries and other violations of postal laws. Official notice follows gold withdrawals posted today, with export withdrawals noted. Hood's Sarsaparilla ad urges readers to seek remedy while mentioning illness.
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Washington
Wilson
Rothschirds Son's
Lee & Co
TAT Broadway
Harris & Co
Lurk & Co
Fourth Avenue
New York
Ll. J. Saxton
West Sumter
Mich
Souldhink
Leonard Robin
John Hebrenel
W. P. Wall Ane
New Orleans
FM. Smith
Marion
Aln
Bryan at his old home in Salem for farewell address
Salem held a grand farewell to William Jennings Bryan as he prepared to depart for Lincoln. The town decorated with national flags, bands performed, crowds filled streets, and many planned impromptu speeches. Governor Altgeld had been expected to speak, with railroads aiding travel for visitors from surrounding areas.
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Til
Salem Pala
Bryan
Brean
Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern
St. Louis
Kansas City
Kansas
Baltimore
Ohio
Southwestern
Memphis
Ryan
Altgeld
Jed
Double Headquarters and Tense Session Mark Republican Committee
The Republican National Executive Committee plans dual headquarters in New York and Chicago as eight members meet at Linn is rooms with Marshal Haskell as sergeant at arms. Talks suggest Rh. C. Kerins of Missouri may replace a ninth member if Senator Thurston declines. Hopkins resigns from the Democratic State Central Committee to aid Bryan and Altgeld's campaign.
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Republican Committee
Chicago
New York
Cleveland
Republican National Executive Committee
Chiktagee
Linnna
Haskell
Thurston
Rh. C. Kerins
Missouri
Hanna
Democratic State Central Committee
Pooria
Des Moines Convention Watches Hepburn Lead Debate
Des Moines reports Hepburn presiding as chairman of the Republican State Convention. He supports silver and warns against a Democratic plan, urging possible multilateral bimetallism. A resolutions committee rejects Cummings platform and forms a five member sub committee to draft a brief declaration. No dissention in principles observed.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Rollin G. Wilson
Hepburn
Flo
A. J. Cummings
Hong
People's Party Convention Nears Endorsement of Bryan
St Louis July 16 The People's Party Convention will meet next Wednesday in the Auditorium to decide on displacing chairman Taubeneck and possibly endorsing Bryan. Taubeneck faces defeat for re election and a new National Committee may be elected. J H McDowell seeks Congress in Tennessee and backs Teller, with Republicans counted on for support if Bryan endorsement occurs. Silver party may align with Democratic platform and endorse Bryans wing, meeting July 22 with 1200 delegates from all states including Alaska.
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People's Party
Taubeneck
Omaha
Ca Min
Stainda
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Tanbeneck
KR. Roselle
State Central Committee
J. H. McDowell
National Committee
Congress
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Teller
McDowell
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Popullars
Sliver Party
Silver Party
Union
Alaski
Bryan Visit Urged in Baltimore by Local Leader
Congressman Harry Welles Rusk, chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee, invites William Jennings Bryan to Baltimore promising a rousing reception. Rusk notes Maryland’s silver sentiment has grown rapidly and expects the state to back Bryan and Sewall by a large margin in November.
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Harry Welles Rusk
Democratic Executive Committee
William Jennings Bryan
Cty Committee
Maryland
Bryan
Sewall
Paris press condemns Frnols act on Faure escape
Paris papers denounce the failed assassination attempt on President Faure as the work of a lunatic while some editors suggest it may be insanity. The Matin calls for calm, and Emperor William of Germany sends a congratulatory message to Faure. In Wisconsin Latrosse hosts a delegates meeting to coordinate gold standard strategy for the Milwaukee convention. Senator Vilas schedules talks with other states to plan unified action.
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Frnols
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Germany
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Bolt
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Vilag
Wisconsin
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Vilas
Brags
O'Sullivan Plans Free Silver Democratic Newspaper
Dan O'Sullivan editor of the Sunday Critic announces starting August 15 a free silver Democratic newspaper to be called the Democrat. The four Democratic factions of Louisville refuse to support the Chicago ticket.
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Louisville
Dan O'Sullivan
Ciitlc
The
Chicago
Plumb brothers bolt party to back Bryan in Kansas
Have Bolted to Drynan Topeka Kan July 15 George Plumb brother and Arthur Plumb son of the late United States Senator Plumb have bolted the Republican party and will vote for Bryan. they say that the Senator if he had lived would have followed Teller and the We
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Drynan
Topeka
Kan
George Plumb
Arthur Plumb
United States
Plumb
Republican Party
Bryan
Teller
Important decision ends Kansas divorce law after two decades
Fort Sevast, Kan. July 16 The Kansas Court of Appeals with all justices concurring declares the law that has governed divorces in the state for twenty years ineffective. It is estimated that from 35 000 to 40 000 divorcees are affected. The decision concerns property rights and child custody.
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Fort Sevatt
Kan
Kant
Court of Appeals
Naval notes from Washington July reports fleet commissions
The Oregon battleship on the Pacific coast was placed in commission today. The battleship Texas, under repairs at Norfolk after a dry dock collapse, will be commissioned on the 28th with her former officers. The Dolphin has been ordered to Washington to transport Secretary Herbert on his annual inspection tour of the New England coast.
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Oreron
Paedttic
Battleehip
Texas
Norfolk
New York Navy Yard
Dolphin
Herbert
New England
Clothier Abram Levy Takes His Own Life by River Jump
In Asheville North Carolina on July 15 Abram Levy a 45 year old clothier leapt from a bridge into Swannanoa River. He had been despondent over business affairs for some time according to reports.
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Asheville
Abram Levy
Swannanca River
Riotous strike drives workers from Crown Holst Works in Cleveland
In Cleveland July 1 strikers attack non union men at Crown Holst Works as mobs haunt the area with clubs and stones. Mayor orders militia after injuries multiply. police struggle to quell roughly twenty block rioting while engineers from Case School of Applied Science flee to safety.
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Stritters
Crown Holst Works
Sony Wis
Canada
Cincinnati
Leroi
SCV
Ubon
Meltetrol
Alnee
Case School of Applied Science
Brown Holst
Haif
Prince Lourbide fails in writ to rescind club expulsion
Prince Augustin de Lourbide of Fairfax County seeks a writ of mandamus to force the Metropolitan Club of Washington to reverse its expulsion. He alleges unfair treatment and unspecified charges, noting a lack of specifications and explanations from club officials. A Houston Virginia dispatch also reports ex deputy clerk J G Grubbs missing after alleged irregularities in warrants.
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Fairfax County
Clik
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Mesit
Dimus
Oltie Lads
Board of
Povernora
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Houston
Richmond Dispatch
Rex
J. G. Grubbs
Grubb Warrrants
Grubbs
West Point Military Academy
West
Bellevue
P. A. Kirk
Roanoke
Washington, D. C
William L. English
Washington, DC
Henry BK. Mitchell
Washington, D.C
William Pwunis
James Walton
Richmond
Walton
Francis Mallory
Norfolk
Virginia Military Institute
Tnstitute
Board of Visitors
Ife
Captain Mallory
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore Seaboard and Steam Packet War Escalates
Baltimore July 15 The Baltimore Steam Packet Company and Seaboard Air Line join to fight Baltimore Chesapeake with Richmond Steamboat and Southern Railway as steamers push into each other’s exclusive zones. The Steam Packet Company and its ally announce large rate cuts and will run Baltimore to Richmond steamers via Chesapeake Bay and James River, challenging Southern Railway. Stockholders vow to drive Southern Railway from the territory or force them to reduce fares. Some cuts approach forty percent.
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Baltimore Steam Packet Company
Seaboard Air Line
Baltimore, Chesapeake
Richmond Steamboat Company
Southern Railway Company
Tattamore
Norfolk
Counpany
Oil Bay Line
Mtes
Steam Packet Company
Seaboura Alp
Othe
Rtichmond
Cheapeake Bay
James River
Ailway Company
Photographs in Color From New Color Process Revealed
A New York to Pitts Dispatch special reports a breakthrough color photography method. James McDonough in Chicago and Dr Joly in Dublin independently pursued color capture. a joint venture backed by Spencer Schuyler and B M Dickerson plans to commercialize the McDonough process with 5 million capital, aiming to print color images via a ruled multie color screen and orthochromatic plates, transforming portrait and commercial photography.
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Pittslire Dispatch
James 10. McDonough
Chicago
Dublin
Tre
Joly
London
Washington
McDonough
Evon
Kecrel
Spencer D. Sehuy_ler
Maxim Powder and Torpedo Company
Wall Street
B. M. Dickerson
Broadway
McDonotype
Misunderstood Orders Cause Fatal Railroad Collision
A. July 15 quarrel on the Chicago Burlington and Quincy main line seven miles from Ahlyckty. Switch engine driven by William Von Steinberg and Fred Smith collided with a freight engine. Engineer Fred Hammer aged 50 was killed. Fireman Frank Athoy died at hospital. Fireman Snitch severely injured. Von Steinberg injured but expected to recover. Passengers in the way-car were shaken but unharmed. Collision attributed to mis understanding of orders.
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Quincy
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Ahlyckty
William von Steinberg
Enelmeer
Fred Smith
Eubanks
Fred Hammer
Wee
Thiat Post
Prank Athoy
Snitch
Atte
von Steinberg
Wolf Ch
Bryan Ticket Dominates Virginia Campaign Visit
Visitors in Tidewater town discuss Democratic alignments as ex Attorney General Ayres backs free silver opponents and J F Epes endorses Bryan. Tucker and Flood clash over district delegates while Labor Day plans and gubernatorial clemency moves unfold in Richmond and Norfolk.
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J. F. Epes
Bryan
Congress
Lieber's brewery fire devastates Indianapolis plant
A massive blaze last night nearly destroyed Lieber's monte brewery, a leading Syndicate member with $2,000,000 capitalization. The loss is estimated at $500,000. The incident occurred in Indianapolis, with references dating July. Additional items include political nominations in Atlanta and assorted local adverts on price cuts and summer bargains.
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Indianapolis
Lieber’s
Monte
Lieber's Brewery
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