Enthusiastic Reading Prompts Democratic Campaign Clash
Reading residents fill the Opera House as exGovernor Pattison tones home rule honest government and clean politics. W A Hensel accuses Senator Delamater of violating the Constitution in a lively convention with Chauncey Black reelected as president of the Democratic Societies.
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Pattison
W. A. Hensel
Delamater
Black
Democratic Societies
Tron
Reading
Robert E. Pattison
Opera
Pennsylvania
Guvanee
Responsibility for Tax and Reform in Pennsylvania
A speech by Mr. Pattison criticizes decades of boss-dominated legislature for blocking tax relief for land, anti-discrimination laws, and reform measures. He cites failed attempts to curb monopolies, abolish costly offices, and restore citizen control, urging voters to judge by record and elect a government for the people.
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Pattison
Bing
Pennsylvania
Enthusiastic Democratic Meeting Draws 1400 Delegates
Chauncey F. Black opened the session with Hensel and Oscar Beis ley in Penn square. Congressman Sowden and others entertained a crowd as 1400 delegates from across the state reported highly favorable but confidential notes to party managers.
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Reading
Chauncey F. Black
Rink
Hensel
Oscar Beisley
Philadelphia
Sowden
Penn Square
Hensel Attacks Delamater Over State Constitution Violations
William A. Hensel denounces Senator Delamater for alleged violations of the Pennsylvania Constitution while a General Assembly member. He cites misuses of public funds, a private bank’s profits from state moneys, and calls for disqualification and legal accountability. The Reading speech also references Quay and political finances amid Republican debates.
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Crawford
William A. Hensel
Pattison
Opera House
George F. Baer
Reading Tron Works
Reorganized
South Penn Railroad Company
Mr. Hensel
Pittsburg
Kansas
Commonwealth
Hastings
Delamater
Pennsylvania
Hhis
General Assembly
Quay
United States
Lokenga
Eaene
State Treasury
Delamater & Co
Meadville
Denner Takures
Delawater
Jamater
Quay National Committee
New York
Senate
Iisidie
Ce - Ate Legiah
Statewide canvass planned to verify party worker estimates
The article notes estimates of party workers from nearly every precinct and outlines a plan for later careful canvassing to verify or refute these reports. It observes that practical politicians and reformers alike should understand the current condition of affairs.
Tarifff Talks Stir House and Senate Delegations
The piece reviews Republican leaders McKinley Bayne Burrows and Dingley on the House conference committee with Mills McMillen and Flower in the mix, aiming to secure protectionist tariffs while Starters debate steel rates and sugar schedules. Pennsylvania’s interests surface as clashing factions strategize to push or resist Senate figures.
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McKinley
Bayne
Burrows
Dingley
Pennsylvania
Senate
Kennedy
House
House Conference Committee
Mills
McMillen
Flower
West
Northwest
Reed
Gear
Iowa
Commonwealth
New England
Sherman
Hiscock
Aldrich
Allison
Lightner
Boothman bids district redraw to curb gerrymander
Representative Boothman of Ohio introduces in the House a joint resolution to define congressional districts in Ohio and ensure electors vote by districts. The bill cites failure of the state legislature to include Storrs township within any district and asserts that any plan omitting part of the state is null. It follows prior districting terms while adjusting for Stor gts area in the Second district.
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Washington
Boothman
Ohio
House
Storrs Township
Hawilton County
Stor
Sremsilton
Mizner Telegram on Salvador Situation
Washington reports on a telegram from Minister Mizner to the Department of State regarding the Salvador situation. The message dated September 16 outlines concerns and requests guidance or action. Further dispatches are awaited from the diplomatic mission in the region.
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Mizner
Salvador
Washington
Department of State
Ezeta Elected Provisional President of El Salvador
From Minister Mizner in Guatemala the Old National Assembly of Salvador elected Carlos Ezeta Provisional President until March 1. The telegram arrived via Minister Ryan in Mexico City.
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Mizner
Guatemala
National Assembly
Salvador
Carlos Ezeta
Ryan
Exico
Expurgation Debate Centers on House Honor in Kennedy Case
The House debated expunging Bob Kennedy's Senate speech amid a plan by Col Bayne to purge the Record. Dalzell asserted the issue is the House's honor, not Senate or truth, with Judiciary to report a resolution marking objectionable portions for expurgation. The episode hangs on dignity and timing, not facts.
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Judiciary Committee
Dalzell Gays
Congress
PROM
Wasnixcox
House
Bob
Kennedy
Senate
Bayne
Committee On Judiciary
Enloe
Code of Legislative Honor
Dalzell
Dalell
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Tennessee
Pittsburg Glass Makers Debate Fair Price Pact
Chicago September 16 special dispatch reports Pittsburg and Western glass manufacturers debating a price keeping combine. Old established firms resist admitting new players on equal terms. Plan would require stock per furnace pot and tie profits to pots operated, risking break up if terms fail. Tomorrow night discussions resume to push organization.
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Clatzas
Dispatch
ChicaGo
Pittsburg
West
Ohio
Indiana
Te Disratch
Pittsburgers
Lindsay
Consolidation Talks Advance for Western Tobacco Warehouse Co
Million strong backing as Cincinnati and Louisville tobacco warehouses move toward merger. A meeting with city reps and attorneys yielded substantial agreement on charter and contract. Cincinnati and Louisville houses will sign after Louisville signee approvals. President to be H Glover of Louisville. L H Brooks of Cincinnati may join as vice president. About 3 million dollars needed to buy property, with 2 million for working capital.
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Cincinnati
Louisville
Western Tobacco Warehouse Company
Esnt
Wee Ben Cout
H. Glover
Atr
L. H. Brooks
English Iron Institute members sail to plan American shipyard
The Cunard steamer Servia will depart Liverpool for New York carrying Sir James Kitson and other Iron and Steel Institute officers and 166 members to attend an October meeting in America. A. D. Bryce Douglas, MD of Naval Construction Company Barrow in Furness, also sails to select a site for large shipyards in the United States.
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Naval Construction Company
Barrow-in- Furness
America
Iron and Steel Institute
Southampton Dock
DY Dunlap
Cunard
Servis
Liverpool
New York
James Kitson
Lothian Bell
John Alleyne
Edward Martin
Windsor Richards
G. J. Snelus
Wm. Whitehall
Institute
A. D. Bryce Douglas
Barrow-in-Marness
Danube Improvement Opens New International Route
The Danube near Semlin Belgrade becomes navigable after blasts by Hungary to remove Iron Gate obstruction. The plan adopts Trajan era canal design blasting rocks and cutting channels to bypass the gate, promising substantial benefit to European and eastern commerce.
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Danube
Servia
Hungary
Semlin
Belgrade
Austria
Berlin
Trajan
Europe
East
Narrow Escape on Voyage Aboard Stevensons Ship
A private letter from Robert Louis Stevenson recalls a Samoa to Auckland voyage where a cabin fire endangered his belongings. Crew hurled a burning box overboard but Mrs Stevenson stopped them, saving manuscripts of his unpublished work and a magazine commission worth 24,000 sterling.
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Lowpox
Robert Louis Stevenson
Samoa
Auckland
Stevenson
Samos
Elopement Attempt Foiled by Irish Officer’s Daughter
In Dublin on September 16 a daughter of a Curragh camp officer eloped with a 23 year old shopman. The father traced them to a southern city, confronted them at a hotel, and forced the girl, aged 18, onto a train back to her home after a tense scene.
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Dunlap
Dublin
Curragh
Dock Strike Declared Over In Southampton
The dock workers of the Union Steamship Company will resume work tomorrow after an official end to the strike in Southampton. The city mayor is critically ill with nervous prostration and brain congestion.
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Jap's Cable Company
Southampton
Union Steamship Company
Against Some of the More Recent Features of American Legislation
Ey Dunlaps Cable Company reports in London that The Standard attacks the meat inspection clause giving the President power to penalize foreign governments. It argues tariff measures will bar European and Canadian goods, risking retaliation by France and others. The piece claims American manufacturers would endure harm to shield national interests.
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Dessian
EY Dunlap
Cable Company
Loxpon
Congress
United States
France
Washington
Meeting of Monarchs to Meet in German Austrian Tour
Vienna reports the approaching meeting of Emperor Francis Joseph and Emperor William. Francis Joseph will depart at 6 pm from Szekelyhid for Oldenburg to join Count Kalucky and travel with William to Breslau, then to Schloss Rombstock for entertainments through the week.
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Germany
Dunlar
Vienna
Francis Joseph
William
Prussian Silesia
Szekelyhid
Oldenburg
Vieens
Count Kalucky
Prince Henry
Prussia
Bresanau
Augusta Victoria
Schloss Robnstock
Viexxa to appear in holiday attire for German Emperor visit
Graphic dispatches report foreign occurrences in condensed form. Viexxa plans festive dress for the imperial visit while Sid ney area employers avoid labor leaders sparking threats of extreme measures. An explosion at the Maybach mine in Sanet Wendel, Rhenish Prussia kills five miners and rescues 223. The Orient, a ship from Swansea to San Francisco, arrived at Ancud Chile with a cargo ablaze. A Berne battalion was sent to Tesserde to disperse armed bands gathered there.
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Viexxa
Sidney
Maybach
Sanet Wendel
Rhenish
Prussia
Orient
Swansea
Jane
San Francisco
Ancud
Chill
Berne
Tesserde
Clapp Receives Blaine Letter on Reciprocal Trade Policy
Boston dispatch reports Secretary Blaine replying to an invitation from the Boot and Shoe Club banquet about reciprocal trade with Latin America. Blaine argues reciprocity helps Western interests and counters pro free trade views, urging Spain’s colonies like Cuba and Porto Rico to have market access while protecting U S producers.
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Boston
W. W. Clapp
Journal
Blaine
Boot and Shoe Club
Latin America
New England
Washington
Cuba
Congress
Cula
Porto Rico
South America
United States
Argentine Republic
Senate
Strikes Face New Phase as Swedes Enter Industry
In the Moroovo strike, five hundred Swedish workers arrived last week and many manufacturers hire them. Applicants come from Canada and Germany as firms add seasoning machines, diminishing workers' chances. In Ashland, Wisconsin, the steamer Charles Hebard reports the schooner Ben Brink lost with five crew aboard near Eagle Harbor, Lake Superior, believed drowned.
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Lys
Canada
Germany
Ashland
Wis
Charles Hebard
Ben Brink
Riga
Eagle Harbor
Lakeuperior
Bribery inquiry ends for Lawrence and Mercer counties
Special telegram reports the Lawrence and Mercer county committees meeting at the St. Cloud Hotel to review bribery charges in Major McDowell's nomination. A unanimous report finds no proof of bribery or unlawful conduct and declares McDowell fairly nominated. Costs in conspiracy suits discussed as sheriff is ordered to compel payment.
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Lawrence
Mercer County
Major McDowell
New Caste
Briba
Alexander
St. Cloud
Afernoon
A. D
T. Court
Ereer
Grand Jury
New Castle
Congress
Gee
Alexander McDowel
S. L. McC
G. W. McCracken
J. M. Wonders
S. H. Miller
Thomas Perry
Henry Robinson
Mercer
B. A. Winterwitz
McMichael
Tate, Wallace
Shaffer
Downing
David McKinney
Balloting Ends With No Nomination In Twentieth District
The Twentieth district Congressional conference met at 2 PM with two ballots plus a later vote yielding Bedford for Cessna Blair for Hicks Altoona and Cambria for Somersett Scull represented by his son after a 5 PM ballot the result remained unchanged and the conference adjourned until 9 AM tomorrow morning Hicks and Cessna attended while Scull was present via his son.
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Twentierd
Difpat
Twentieth
Bedford County
Cessna
Blair County
Hicks
Altoona
Cambria
Somerset
Seull
Scull
Politicians Back a Preacher in Thirty-Sixth District Race
Somerset Bedford and Fulton counties hold a senatorial conference at Bedford to back Rev. N. B. Critchfield. Somerset delegates Noah S. Miller J. J. Shaver and H. D. Moore endorse the preacher noted as a shrewd political operator who seeks the nomination. The conference will remain in session for several days.
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Somerset
Bedford
Fulton
Somerset County
Noah S. Miller
Jenzer
H. D. Moore
New Lexington
J. J. Shaver
N. B. Critchfield
Critchfield
Neck of the Woods
Republican conference maintains deadlock in Forty seventh district
In Franklin on September 11 the Republican Senatorial conference of the Forty seventh district held ballots to break a stalemate. Warren county delegates backed D. C. Allen while Venango county supported William B. Crawford on each ballot. Bradford notes McKean County convened at Smethport on September 16 with B. W. Smith of Port Allegheny unanimously nominated for Congress, honoring late Colonel Watson with resolutions.
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S Franklis
Warren County
D. C. Allen
Venango County
William B. Crawford
Bradford
McKean County
Smethport
W. Smith
Port Allegheny
Congress
Colonel Watson
O14 Delegation Chosen in September Primaries
Boutien September 16 Republicans held primaries to select 15 delegates to the Congressional Convention at Harmony next Tuesday. The old delegation is expected to be returned with only one contest.
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Boutien
Harmony
Butler County Delayed Representation At Conference
Owing to a date misunderstanding Butler county was not represented at the Democratic Congressional conference in New Castle today. The conferees adjourned to meet in this city on September 23.
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Bower
New Castle
Butler County
Nominations for Congress Across States
Nomination notes list candidates including Kentucky Illinois Indiana Missouri and Kansas. Dems Paynter Foreman Moonlight and Hillis appear with various party affiliations. The fragment cites Thomas and Foreman positions, with several districts and a Union Labor tag.
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Kentucky
Thomas
Paynter
Illinois
W_S& Foreman
Kansas
Thomas Moonlight
Missouri
D. S
Prison doors ajar in Cincinnati smoking crackdown
Cincinnati police chief orders arrest of any child found smoking across the city for violation of the cigarette sale law to minors. He will detain youths until they name the seller of contraband cigarettes.
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Cincinnati
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Ezeta
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Iron Institute
Iy Duslap
BT Dunlap's Cable Company
Love
Meeting OF Monarchs
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