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Newspaper
Prescott Daily News
Location
Prescott, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1908
Page
3
The News requests democratic newspapers to help raise campaign funds for William J. Bryan. Readers are invited to send contributions to The News Bryan Campaign Fund in Prescott Arkansas with checks payable to the fund. Remittances will be acknowledged promptly upon receipt.
Fire nearly wiped Graham Oklahoma. Austria withdraws troops from Macedonia. Mexico to spend millions on port improvements. Wichita Falls to host a 75000 furniture company. Miss Trulie Richmond to Brazil as SMU missionary. Oklahoma City safe blown. no cash taken. Denison coroner cites heart failure. Frank Teague loses three fingers. Barado woods death. Texas and Pacific railway worker Thomas Carroll dies after 35 years. Foster child killed by revolver discharge. Roving panic at Terrell fandango as race riot fears rise.
Will H. Mayes of Brownwood Texas was elected president at the National Editorial Association convention held in St Paul Minnesota. Seattle Washington was chosen for the next meeting with other candidate cities Cincinnati Toledo Buffalo Brownsville Atlantic City and Put in Bay. The group endorsed current postal laws and praised Third Assistant Postmaster General Lawshe for enforcing them.
Chicago reports the Timpson Texas mayor agreed to give his year's salary to the campaign fund. Democratic leaders anticipated amounts from fifty dollars to two thousand dollars but found the mayor earns only one dollar per year.
Denton Texas reports Henry Tate injured when a bolt head shattered on a farm tool near C. C. Yeatts. He was taken to Denton sanitarium where doctors removed the damaged eye. The article also notes land bids in Yoakum and Terry counties and an update on ex Senator Roger Mills able to walk.
Viga Russia August twenty second reports confirm seventy six miners died in the Maypole mine explosion and ensuing fire. Directors decided to flood the pit as body recoveries proved impossible due to the uncontrollable blaze.
At the end of a banquet for a new theology hall Bishop McQuaid suddenly collapsed in Rochester New York August 22. He regained consciousness within minutes and slowly revived after the incident.
A mob of about 1500 men in Lynn Massachusetts attacked Henry Taylor a 30 year old African American after a store break in. Police subdued the crowd and Taylor was taken to the station house after sustaining a head wound from a chisel. Taylor had been released from state prison recently. The accompanying text also includes political remarks by Senator Fora ker about invitations to speak at Youngstown and other venues.
Senator Foraker arrived in Youngstown after a Maine vacation. A dispatch from Republican chair Frank Hitchcock regretted not meeting in New York and hoped for a future encounter. Reporters pressed Foraker for remarks on his nonparticipation in the campaign opening, but he avoided rehashing the issue, smiling at the unavoidable questions.
At the corner of Chicago and Milton avenues a quarrel between whites and Negroes left several people slightly hurt. Bricks and stones were used as weapons until a patrol wagon and police arrived, at which point the combatants dispersed.
A fine coal vein near Graham Texas was discovered twelve miles northwest of World For Bryan and Kern. In New York on August 22 the World declared for the Democratic national ticket.
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