Opponents of Bryan Plan To Make New Rules To Carry Out Ends
Denver July 4 A Denver report describes anti Bryan forces scheming to use the unit rule to block Bryan on the first ballot. Cites James Hamilton Lewis backing Bryan and outlines possible caucus moves and the questions of delegation authority and convention votes. Tickets scarce as Denver prepares for the convention.
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Denver
Calo
James Hamilton Lewis
Chicago
Georgia
Virginia
Washington
Idaho
Lewis
Guffey
Pennsylvania
Confidence Men Nabbed In Wisconsin Fake Race Plot
Detectives Egan and Norton arrested Joseph Weil the yellow kid and Rudolph Levin in Waukesha Wisconsin. They posed as wealthy mine owners and horses owners to lure a real estate dealer into a fake Latonia race winning scheme. They sought an initial 1500 dollars to bet before detectives halted the con.
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Wze
Edward Goodman
Chicago Tribune
Egan
Norton
Yellow Kid
Rudolph
Levin
Waukesha
Wis
Weil
Schlitz
Latonia
Well
Chicago
Russian Mine Disaster Deepens as Fire Worsens Havoc
In Yusovo European Russia July 4 a gas explosion at the Rikovsky mine killed and maimed many. Rescue efforts faced delays as fire spread through inner galleries trapping 150 men. Ninety five bodies were recovered, with fifty three yesterday, and seventy five wounded transported to hospitals, ten of whom died. Three women collapse from shock upon recognizing their husbands.
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Yusovo
European Russia
Rikovsky
Big Yacht Race in Pacific Starts From San Pedro
One hundred thousand people are expected to witness the start of a major ocean yacht race from San Pedro to Honolulu. The lineup includes Hawaii, Lady Maud, Gwendoline II, and Lurline with Lurline as scratch boat. Gwendoline II and Lady Maud are expected to lead, followed by Hawaii about eight hours later and Lady Maud and Hawaii within roughly eight to nine hours of each other.
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San Pedro
Cal
Honolulu
Hawaii
Hawaiian Yacht Club
Lady Maud
San Diego Yacht Club
Gwendoline II
Seattle
Lurline
South Coast Club
Gwendoline
Death Defyer Has a Fall in Pittsburg
Mile. Novi Stella Parker, 19, known publicly as Mile. Novi, looping the loop in an automobile at Luna Park yesterday afternoon was fatally injured. She lies in St. Francis hospital with a concussion of the brain. Charles Merk and William Schultz, manager and property man for the performer, are held at the central police station pending her condition.
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Pittsburg
Stella Parker
Mile
Novi
Luna Park
St. Francis Hospital
Charles Merk
William Schultz
Central Police Station
Bishop Potter’s Illness Quiets Cooperstown Firecrackers
In Cooperstown New York on July 4 Bishop Potter enjoyed a mostly comfortable night though unrest lingered due to humidity. The town observed unusual quiet as firecrackers were scarcely discharged and the air felt nearly like Sunday.
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Cooperstown
N. Y
Bishop Potter
Bryan in Spite of Money Declares Wellman
Denver based writer William J. Bryan is praised as victorious over wealth and the plutocracy in the Chicago Record Herald dispatch. The piece credits nationwide Democratic support, Tammany Hall, and Standard Oil with failing to derail Bryan’s rise, declaring the people behind him have conquered money and power.
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Bryan
Wellman
Chicago
Chicago Record Herald
Waller Wellman
Denver
William J. Bryan
East
Tammany
Standard Oil
Pennsylvania
Tom Ryan
Eld
Wal Street
Platte
Denver Sees Unified Civic Decor For July 4
Denver transformed into a patriotic display as flags and red white and blue bunting festoon downtown streets. The city enforces a single general design, barring private decorations or political organizations from altering the coordinated scheme.
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Denver
Denver Committee
Supreme Justices to Quit and Pritchard May Join Court
Asheville July 4 An authoritative source says Judge J C Pritchard of the U S circuit court is to be made a United States supreme court justice by President Roosevelt with appointment in the fall upon retirement of three associate justices Chief Justice Fuller is also said to be near retirement
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Pritchard
Asheville
N. C
J. C. Pritchard
United States Circuit Court
United States Supreme Court
Roosevelt
Fuller
Four Days Session Planned for Democratic Convention
Denver July 4 The national committee on arrangements has set a four day convention schedule starting Tuesday through Friday with temporary officers named and plan to adjourn after Cleveland's memory. Opening day includes call to order prayers, nominations, committee appointments, and temporary chair Theodore Bell. Contests from five states and DC will be heard by six subcommittees, then reports to full committee for immediate adoption.
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Denver
National Committee
Cleveland
Taggart
Urey Woodson
James J. Keane
Theodore A. Bell
California
Thurasay
District of Columbia
New York
Pennsylvania
Idaho
Ohio
Bloodied uprising reported in Paraguay with hundreds killed
Reported revolution in Paraguay erupts in brutal battles as banners mark political centers. City streets glow with multicolored arches and lighting as officers and candidates’ offices are identified by banners along hotel walls. Visitors are greeted at Union Station by a sweeping color vista down Seventeenth Street.
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Union Station
Seventeenth Street
Fifteenth
Sixteenth Streets
Americans In City Report Cut Wires Asuncion Crisis
Reports from Formosa say san guinary fighting in Asuncion Paraguay. A revolution is said to have broken out with hundreds killed or wounded. U S minister Edward C. OBrien and secretary Harry B Owsley Jr are in Asuncion. Telegraph and telephone lines to Asuncion are cut causing conflicting rumors.
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Buenos Ayres
Formosa
Argentina
Asuncion
Paraguay
Edward C. O’brien
United States
Uruguay
Harry B. Owsley, Jr
Legation
Notable Tribute Paid to Bryan in Lincoln Banquet
Lincoln Neb July 4 Few political affairs have shown Bryan’s popularity as much as a banquet honoring him by the Nebraska Traveling Men’s Bryan club at the Auditorium. The gala event drew several hundred in the gallery and about 700 guests at tables, with women in handsome attire and attendees from outside states.
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Lincoln
Neb
Bryan
Nebraska Traveling Men’s
Bryan Club
Five Dead in Storm Sweeps New Mexico Towns
Five persons were killed and forty severely injured as a powerful storm struck Sunnyside and Fort Sumner in Guadalupe county on Thursday night. The damage wrecked most homes and businesses in Sunnyside, a 500 resident town, with no tornado reported.
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Albuquerque
N. M
Sunnyside
Fort Sumner
Santa Fe
Guadalupe County
New Mexico
Mayor Schaffer to address League convention on liquor problem
Mayor H C Schaffer accepted an invitation to speak at the League of American Municipalities annual convention in Omaha September 30 to October 2. The topic is The Liquor Problem in our Cities. His remarks will cover his experience in Rock Island, Louisiana.
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H. C. Schaffer
League of American Municipalities
Omaha
Schaffer
United States
Rock
Isiana Wil
Uncle Remus author Joe Harris dies in Atlanta
Joe Chandler Harris, famed writer of Uncle Remus and stories in Negro dialect, dies in Atlanta. The longtime Georgia author and editor passed away leaving a legacy of folklore and children’s literature that shaped 19th century Southern storytelling.
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Joe Chandler Harris
Atlanta
Succeeds Sam Smail on Constitution for 20 Famous Books
Joel Chandler Harris, famed for Uncle Remus tales, died in Atlanta at 60 after a brief illness. Born on a Georgia plantation, he rose from small-town papers to editorials, later leaving the Constitution in 1901 to write full time. He authored twenty books and is remembered for his dialect stories. Harris collected sociology interest and cherished Snapa Farm with its roses.
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Atlanta
Joel Chandler Harris
Remus
Harris
Georgia
Savannah
New Orleans
Cee Tavovf
Amu Small
Atlanta Constitution
Mr. Harris
Sam Small
Constitution
Captain Howell
Tion
Knothout
Snapa
Isthmian Canal June excavation rises sharply
Reports to the Isthmian canal commission indicate June excavation reached 3,075,000 cubic yards, up from 2,704,000 in May, reflecting a marked increase in activity. A second item from South Haven notes Max Greeman, a several year old boy, lost both thumbs and possibly an eye while handling a firecracker, with injuries sustained last night.
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Isthmian Canal
Washington
Isthmian Canal Commission
South Haven
Mich
Max Greeman
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