Bryan in New York crowds cheer at Madison Square Garden
A New York dispatch reports the largest Democratic demonstration in city history at Madison Square Garden with William Jennings Bryan addressing the audience after a gala opening marked by flags and fireworks. Thousands filled the venue as Bryan spoke for nearly two hours, greeted by cheers and a reception committee led by Mr. Croker. Adlai Stevenson followed with remarks as the crowd applauded.
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New York City
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Mortgage Filed For 900000 Bond Issue In Alabama
A mortgage securing 900000 dollars of 14 percent bonds was filed in Birmingham probate. Ensley Southern Railroad Company pledges the loan with Standard Trust Company of New York as trustee. Funds will build a railroad segment from Ensley and Bessemer toward Parrish in Walker county.
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Ensley Southern Railroad Company
Standard Trust Company of New York
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Bessemer
Parrish
Walker County
Boundary survey puts Mount Baker mines in American area
Vancouver dispatch reports Provisional Surveyor Dean has finished the Mount Baker boundary line survey. All mines of importance in the district fall on the American side, though Britain gains an extra mile of territory. The result favors the United States in the disputed area.
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Mount Baker
Dean
British Columbia
Police Chief Wounded in Fitzgerald Raid by Henry
Chief of Police Herman Smith was dangerously wounded in Fitzgerald Georgia by a man known as Kid Henry, a Black suspect, during an arrest of a dozen or more drunken Black individuals. The courtroom drama in Georgetown Kentucky resumed Monday as the Youlsey trial progressed with the defendant's room door opened and bed exposed to the jury while witnesses testified. Arthur Goebel provided the day's standout testimony.
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Fitzgerald, Ga
Kid Henry
Yourney
Campaign day in Bryan Ohio pauses amid brisk statewide tour
A Bryan Ohio campaign swing drew crowds from Chillicothe Circleville and Mansfield with dozens of speeches. Mansfield reportedly drew the largest audience yet, while Lexington Louisville and nearby towns greeted the governor with mixed enthusiasm and occasional jeers.
Ex President Cleveland Replies On Financial Question
Lawleville Indiana special to the Chicago Tribune reports ex President Grover Cleveland answered a Chicago man by letter regarding whether his financial views had shifted since his April 18 1885 missive to Chicago business leaders He states he has not changed his opinion in the least and cites reissuing his earlier letter rather than altering it.
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Chicago
Cleveland
Watch Meeting Called by Methodist Bishop for Year’s End
Bishop Galloway of Tack ton Mississippi, president of the general board of education for the Episcopal church south, will issue a call to Methodist congregations in the South to assemble in their churches on the last night of the year for an old fashioned watch meeting. The fund for the century drive totals 1,100,000 dollars.
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Chas
Tackton
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General Board of Education
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Dow
Todge Gray Takes Cleveland's Mines
President picks Judge George Gray of Delaware to represent the United States with ex-President Benjamin Harrison on the Hague permanent arbitration tribunal. Gray, a former Delaware senator and Democrat, formerly served on the Paris police commission and now sits as U S judge for the third judicial circuit. Selection will not require surrender of current position.
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Delaware
United States
Benjamin Harrison
Hague
Hague Tr ibusal May Be Called Tx
The Russian suggestion that The Hague international court of arbitration handle divergences over Chinese indemnities was submitted to Secretary Huy by M DeWollant, the Russian chargé d affaires in Washington. It has the backing of the United States, France and Russia, signaling broad support for the proposal.
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Li Hung Chang at American Legation in Pekin
A special dispatch from Pekin says Li Hung Chang at the American legation expressed regret for recent events and thanked Americans for their hospitality. He promised to seek negotiations at the Tsing Li Yamenn in two days and to exclude Yung Lu from them.
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Pekin
Tsing Li Yamenn
Yung Lu
Open Letter to General Wheeler and Alabama Campaign News
An open letter mentions General Wheeler, Gov-Elect Bamford plans, and campaign activity. It notes a brakeman, Joseph Rodgers, killed in Mobile by a railroad accident, and Max Baum, of Meridian, who committed suicide. Edna Hamilton, a young white girl, shot herself amid parental objections. John H. Wallace Jr. proposes a Capitol Hill mansion project with $100,000 for a state executive residence.
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Meridian
Miss
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General Assembly
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Madison County
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Alabama
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Open Letter to Gen Wheeler Denounces Roosevelt Claim
The Montgomery Journal prints an open letter to Gen Joseph Wheeler from Gonvox McDoxatn president of the Bryan and Stevenson Club Montgomery County. The letter asks for a prompt denial of Governor Roosevelt’s Indianapolis remark implying Wheeler stands with the Republicans and against the Democrats. Florence supporters of Wheeler repudiated the statement.
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Montgomery Journal
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To Prevent Criminals Marrying Across Three States
The Tri-State Medical Society meeting in Chattanooga advocates medical legislation in Tennessee Alabama and Georgia to regulate or prohibit marriage by habitual criminals persons with incurable diseases drunkards and victims of harmful drugs.
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Tennessee
Alabama
Chattanooga
Alabama Finances and State Treasurer Report
State Treasurer George W. Ellis sent to Governor Johnston a final-year natal report ending September 1900. Net deficiency listed at 160,001.04 dollars after charges. balance in treasury near 620,601.44 dollars with outstanding warrants and various fund dues. Also reports improvements to save transport costs for state funds and outlines receipts and disbursements across the fiscal year.
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Cnah
Opelika Autumn Carnival to Open Week of October 28
Opelika hosts a grand autumn carnival described as the region’s top entertainment. Governor and staff, General Jos Wheeler, Senator John T. Morgan, and Lieutenant Hobson head a list of thirty prominent figures attending. Over a thousand dollars is spent on music and fireworks.
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Alabama
Georgia
Jos Wheeler
John T. Morgan
Hobson
Overthrow of Manchu Rule Across Southern China
A large rebel column moves toward British frontier from Kowloon as 3,000 combatants press from north while 1,000 of Admiral Ho’s troops pursue and 2,000 more head overland from Canton. Rebels aim to conciliate villagers and foreigners amid widespread unrest in Kwang Lug and Kwang Shi. Foreign powers react as French launch is captured by pirates near Mung Chow and Russian indemnity arbitration proposals draw limited support.
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Captain Shields Rescued by U S Forces in Manila
Information from Manila reports Captain Shields and forty eight men of Company I Twenty-ninth Infantry, two corporals of Company A, one civilian American and an enslaved man were captured by insurgents and handed over to General Luther R. Hare. The War Department awaits fuller details including names of killed and wounded.
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Captain Shields
War Department
Manila
Marindique
Dallas faces famine like plight of northern Texas Negroes
Alarm grows in Dallas as thousands of refugees from hurricane stricken southern Texas lack work and food. About 4000 in Navarro county and similar numbers in Ellia county plus many more across a dozen counties need relief. Public appeals planned to aid the displaced.
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Texas
Navarro
Ellla
Fifth Week of Strike Opens Quietly in Hazie Ton
The fifth week of the coal mineral strike opened quietly at Hazie ton Pennsylvania with few collieries still operating. Those working continue with the same manpower as the strike week, and none are at full force. Cranberry mines report the most men at work among remaining operations.
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Saya
Young Man Shot at Work in Cotton Field Case
Thomas Kolb was shot and perhaps fatally wounded at New Hope by Anderson Hamer several days ago. Kolb was in his cotton field when Hamer approached and fired a buckshot laden shotgun. The motive is said to stem from a remark about Hamer's slater.
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New Hope
Anderson Hamer
Kolb
Hamer
Slater
Boer Forces Fight Across Kroonstad Region
Dispatches report Boers active in the Kroonstad district as General Dowet declares that Burgery deserters will be prisoners of war. British scouts from Lindley suffer a fatal misidentification with Captain Wiltehiro killed. Boer commanders harass the column while moving toward Kroonstad and seize a Cheshire regiment detachment guarding a commissary wagon near Frankfort after releasing the driver.
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Frankfort
Choy
Two Men Killed In Chicago Train Wreck After Open Switch
A forceful open switch at Eighty fifth Street South Chicago caused a wreck on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern line Sunday night. Two men were killed, three others seriously injured, and engine and front cars wrecked. Five baggage cars stayed on track while the five following passenger coaches escaped damage. Train was traveling about forty five miles per hour when impact occurred. In Anniston a deadly shooting at Southern Car and Foundry left Nat Mila wounded in the chest and foreman WI Repustiv shot in the head. two other shots fired, with Mille badly wounded and Beguskie in jail.
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Southern Car and Foundry Company
Anniston
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Ehota
Beztskie
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Beguskie
Train wreck injures four in Purcell Indiana disaster
Evansville and Terre Haute southbound freight train derailed at Purcell Indiana near Sunday. Four men severely injured and one missing. Train struck a cow, engine driven into a ditch, eighteen cars piled up, four cars left with tanks igniting and burning in a heap.
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Purcell
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Nicaragua Grants Five Year Cotton Manufacture Rights to Mexican Citizen
The Nicaragua government concedes to Senor Pedro Mas the decisive right for five years to manufacture cotton articles with English machinery. Imports of cotton into Nicaragua will be duty free, while the state imposes high duties on manufactured goods.
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Nicaragua
Senor Pedro Mas
Mexico
Cotton Growers to Moots in Georgia Convention
Georgia Cotton Growers Protective Association will hold an interstate convention of cotton growers in Macon on November 20. The meeting aims to devise heat ways and means to secure producers a fair price for the cotton crop each year.
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Georgia Cotton Growers’ Protective Association
Macon
Deputy Marshal Slain in Oklahoma Shooting
Deputy Marshal Thomas Taylor, a longtime Osage Nation lawman, was shot and killed by Deloss, whom he had arrested near Pawnee. The desperado was recaptured. In Bristol Tennessee, Senator John Slack, state senator from the second district and longtime Bristol Courier editor, has died.
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Oklahoma
Deloss
Pawnee
Bristol, Tenn
John Slack
Bristol Courier
Slack
Steamer Joel Cook Strikes Snag and Sinks
The steamer Joel Cook of the Augusta line struck a river snag above Savannah on Friday and sank with forty passengers aboard. All were rescued by a tug, and the cargo is reported practically lost though the wreck may be raised.
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Joel Cook
Augusta Line
Savannah
Largest cargo ever from Galveston sails out
The British steamer soda cleared Saturday with the largest cargo yet from Galveston. It carries 24,000 square bales of cotton, 24,000 bushels of wheat, and 2,000 barrels of flour valued at 1,851,912 dollars.
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Galveston
Tex
Gulf
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