Bryan Urges Independent Voters to Choose Reform Ties
Nebraskan leader W J Bryan addresses Independence Party members after reading the Chicago platform. He argues voters must weigh how to gain the most reforms, urging support for direct senatorial elections and other Democratic-aligned reforms while noting Labor Day speech plans and limited campaign touring through August.
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Democratic Party
Republican Party
Independence Party
Watt
Plank
Mr. Taft
Mr. Bryan
Topeka
Chicago
Yatt
Amnesty for American Turks Proclaimed in United States
The sultan of Tukey via the Turkish consul general Mundil Dey in New York proclaimed general amnesty to all political fugitives in the United States. The move covers about 200,000 Armenians and others. Discontent grows in Constantinople over delays in cabinet reconstruction and liberal reforms. Young Turks now dominate the capital and European provinces, while disloyal cries were heard amid street demonstrations.
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United States
New York
Constantinople
Sultan of Tukey
Mundil Dey
World's Record Set in Fire Meet in Clinton Iowa
Paddy and Prince of Sioux City broke the world's record in the free-for-all race at the state tournament in Clinton. Time 1 15 flat. The Iowa State Firemen's association tournament opened with ten teams, Paddy and Prince winning the state championship in 1 16 3 5 with Jack and Jack of Des Moines second and Benny and Beauty of Clinton third.
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Sioux City
Clinton
Iowa
Paddy
Prince
Iowa State Firemen’s Association
Bank
Hitch
Jack
Des Moines
Benny and
Beauty
Last Sections of Market Street Subway Inspected
Philadelphia reports the final sections of the Market street subway from city hall to the Delaware river were inspected and declared among the world finest. The project cost about 20 million dollars.
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Philadelphia
Market Street
City Hall
Delaware River
Florida Mob Storms Jail In Lynching Attempt
In Pensacola on July 30 a mob of about 1000 attacked the jail to extract Leander Shaw a Black man who had wounded Mrs William Davis. Two killed H C Nelson and Bud Nichols and several injured. Shaw was lynched by hanging from an electric pole after robbery of the jail.
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Pensacola
Fla
William Davis
Leander Shaw
Shaw
H. C. Nelson
Bud Nichols
A H. Knowles
Charles Turner
Raton
New Plan to Aid Peace in World
London July 30 the universal peace conference passed a resolution calling for a permanent practical method to halt armament growth. It proposes a short term agreement not to exceed each country s average army and navy expenditure between the first and second Hague peace conferences.
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London
Universal Peace Conference
Hague
General Strike Called in France Over Worker's Deaths
Paris reports 24 hour strike by General Federation of Labor to protest troops killing workers at Vigneux. About 50,000 building and allied trades halted work. Paris expects no trouble but Vigneux plans a giant demonstration. an extra cavalry regiment is sent there. Taft and party arrived in Hot Springs from Cincinnati at 10 35 today without incident.
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Paris
General Federation of Labor
Vigneux
Taft
Hot Springs
Judge Taft
Cincinnati
Join Forces to Stop Hand of Lumber Co
In Emporia Kansas on July 30, the district court heard ouster quo warranto injunctions filed by Attorney General Jackson against the Yellow Pine association of St. Louis. Missouri Texas and Oklahoma AGs filed similar suits to break up an alleged illegal lumber price fixing cartel. In St Louis a separate suit sought to enjoin a dozen lumber companies from entering into an unlawful agreement.
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Emporia
Kan
Jackson
Yellow Pine Association of
St. Louis
Missouri
Texas
Oklahoma
Hadley
Circuit Court
Dutch Ready for Trouble Warship Sails to Caribbean
The battleship Jacob Van Heemskerk is ordered to proceed to the Caribbean Sea from The Hague on July 20. It is expected to depart immediately and head for the region without delay.
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Caribbean Sea
the Hague
Jacob van Heemskerk
Remedy Errors Case Pushed to Speedy Trial
Lenox Mass July 30 The United States government will seek a revision of the Seventh Circuit decision in the Standard Oil Indiana case and press all related rebates prosecutions to trial. Attorney General Bonaparte says the government will pursue reargument or modification and accelerate actions to punish evaders of the law. He denies rumors that W Parmelee Prentice planned any dinner with him Rockefeller or Judge Grosscup.
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Lenox
Mass
United States
United States Court of Appeals
Standard Oil Company of
Indiana
Bonaparte
Standard Oil Company
Circuit Court of Appeals
Seventh Circuit
Court of Appeals
Supreme Court of the United States
Prentice
W. Parmelee Prentice
John OD. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Grosscup
Bobaparte
Cambridge crew loses to Belgium at Henley regatta heat
Henley July 30 Cambridge eight, relied on to win for the UK, was defeated in the fourth heat by Nautique de Grand Belgium. The Belgian crew now faces Leander in the final as British hopes fade. Also from Washington July 20 a report on transcontinental railroads’ export trade to China, Japan, New Zealand and Australia and potential ICc rulings. In New York July 30 a Kuhn Loeb Blair plan would fund Wabash notes, signaling a shift in control among Harriman Gould interests and possible ties with Erie and Western Maryland, with Pennsylvania approval implied.
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Henley
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Belgium
Nautique de Grand
Leander
Washington
James J. Hill
Edward H. Harriman
Berwynd Syndicate
China
Japan
New Zealand
Australia
Inter State Commerce Commission
New York
Kuhn, Loeb & Co
E. H. Harriman
George J. Gould
Jacob H. Schiff
Blair & Co
Wabash Railroad
Wheeling & Lake Erie
Wabash
George Gould
Western Pacific
Denver & Rio Grande
Missouri Pacific
Wabash-Pittsburg
Western
Gould
Wheeling
Lorain Steel
Lorain
Ohio
United States Steel Corporation
Pennsylvania
Harriman
Pennsylvania Railroad
Western Maryland
Gould Properties
Kohlsaat Again Hits Government
Chicago July 30 Judge Kohlsaat in the United States circuit court upheld a federal restraining order from Cincinnati in a pure food law case. The order bars government interference with labeling distiller products as alcohol rather than spirits, as previously practiced.
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Chicago
Cincinnati
Kohlsaat
United States
Open market proposed for newspaper print paper
Open market for newspaper print paper proposed in New York by the Publishers' Association. An auction sale of 100 tons in carload lots is announced for August 5 by John Norris. Frequent similar auctions to follow to fix prices and stop secret rates.
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Newspaper Publishers’ Association
New York
iIt
John Norris
American Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Former Governor Budd Dies At 58 In California
James H. Budd former governor of California and longtime Democrat died at his Stockton residence after a two week illness of uraemia aged 58. He had been a prominent figure in the party and state politics for many years.
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James H. Budd
California
Stockton
Cal
Poison Found in Stomachs of Gunness Victims
Coroner Mack reports Chicago chemist Dr. Walter Gaines found arsenic and strychnine in the stomachs of Mrs Belle Gunness two children in amounts enough to kill. The finding rivals earlier theories and suggests the children may have died as the killer did.
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Laporte
Ind
Mack
Walter Gaines
Chicago
Andrew Helgelien
Belle Gunness
War Secretary's Son Hurt in Alley Fight
Semmes Wright youngest son of General Luke F Wright is hospitalized with a broken leg after a fight with an unidentified man in a narrow alley in Memphis. The clash began from a bump in the passageway and Wright fell, his opponent escaping.
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Semmes Wright
Memphis
Tenn
Luke F. Wright
Wright
Shooting reported on Ohio steamer near Cumberland River
Cincinnati July 30 Charles Hawks 16 was shot by an unknown person as the steamer Island Queen ascended the river near where shots earlier hit Mrs Russell on the same vessel. Police believe an irresponsible local may be involved as they press to solve both mysteries.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Charles Hawks
Russell
Taft Innsbruck
Australia
Mebr-les-Bamns
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Wis
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W. Va
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Attell
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