Patterson Wins Tennessee Governor Nomination After Bitter Campaign
Nashville results show M. R. Patterson securing the Democratic gubernatorial nomination on the county unit plan after a televised, hard fought contest with E. W. Carmack. BD Lansden won supreme court, Frank Avent edged Wy Whitthorne for railroad commissioner, with 1,818 delegates to the convention and Patterson likely holding 700 plus delegates. Carmack campaigned on nationwide prohibition against Patterson local option stance. Local politics, personal rivalry, and the county unit plan dominated the dramatic primary battle across Tennessee.
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Nashville
Tenn
Tennessee
M. R. Patterson
E. W. Carmack
Fa Lansden
D. Bell
Frank Avent
Wy Whitthorne
Ofnese Pattergton
Carmack
Patterson
Womans Christian Temperance Union
Anti-Saloon League
Memphis
Chattanooga
la Follette
Binghamton
Shelby County
Josiah Patterson
Requession
Congress
First Bale of New Cotton Sells High in New York and Liverpool
The first bale of this year's cotton sold at the New York Cotton Exchange for 35 cents per pound. It traveled from Houston to New York by June 20, then to Houston again and on to Liverpool by noon aboard the Mauretanian for auction. This rapid handling sets a record for the first bale's movement within ten days.
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New York
Liverpool
New York City
New York Cotton Exchange
Houston
Texas
Five Die As Freight Train Hits Chadron Washout
A double header freight train traveling eastbound struck a washout near Chadron Nebraska during a severe rain storm. Five men died including engineer Willis Graham fireman O C Weyers and brakeman Fred Ebener two unidentified riders were also killed as the wreck occurred on the Chicago and Nebraska Western road.
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Neb
Chicago and
Nebraska Western Road
Willis Graham
O. C. Weyers
Fred Ebener
Salary Cut Restored at Southern Railway
Washington announces restoration of salaries to levels before February 1 for all Southern railroad employees except the president and vice presidents. The move, relayed via telegram to J B Thompson in Atlanta, follows prior signals of restored confidence and a postponement of a 10 percent cut. The order says wage reductions in Washington offices end July 1 while the 10 percent cuts for top executives continue.
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Washington, D. C
Southern Railroad
Washington
B. Thompson
The
Southern
Atlanta
Finley
Southern Railway
Coal rates reasonable says Interstate Commerce Commission
The Interstate Commerce Commission upheld higher Jelico to Augusta coal charges, finding dissimilar transport conditions justify the rate. It ruled water competition at Charleston relieves the line from long and short haul violations and ordered coal weighing methods corrected for 1 percent variance with 500 pounds minimum. It also sided with Southern Railway on through Bristol traffic, but banned lower through rates to Morristown via Johnson City.
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Georgia R. R
Southern
Washington, D. C
Rice
Georgia Railroad Company
Jelico
Tenn
Augusta
Alabama
Charleston
Bristol
Johnson City
Southern Railway
Morristown
Jonson Ty
Pittsburg Postoffice Embezzlement Case Shocks City
Frank T. McCabe, superintendent of the Pittsburg postoffice money order department, is jailed on embezzlement charges after a $7,851 shortage is found. He admits a $10,000 moving cash robbery years ago and says he repaid over $2,000 before discovery. Bond set at $2,500 for further hearing.
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Postoffice
Pittsburg
McCabe
Grover Cleveland Dies At His Princeton Home At 71
Former U S president Grover Cleveland died at his Princeton New Jersey home Westland at 8 40 am after heart failure and digestive illness. He was 71, had suffered long, and his death prompted a national outpouring as Roosevelt proclaimed flags at half staff and a full funeral honors plan.
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N. J
Grover Cleveland
United States
Westland
Cleveland
Tamworth
New Hampshire
Perrine
Lakewood
Equitable Life Assurance Society of
New York City
Conneccion
Joseph D. Bryant
George R. Lockwood
Bryant
Mr. Cleveland
Lakewood Hotel
Roosevelt
White House
The
Spectacular oil fire ravages Western Pennsylvania refineries
Electric storms across western and northern Pennsylvania ignited over 100 600 barrels of oil, destroying three refineries in Bradford, Warren, and Washington. The fires were brought under control but left a wide area of scorched earth and charred vegetation, with an estimated loss around 400 000 dollars.
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Bradford
Warren
Washington
First Mallory steamer Rio Grande enters Tampa Channel
The Rio Grande a 2700 ton Mallory line steamer under Captain Risk arrived in Tampa on its first trip from New York to Tampa and Mobile. It is the first large vessel to use Tampa Bay’s twenty foot channel. A grand celebration marked the event in Tampa.
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New Line
Tampa
Fla
Rio Grande
Risk
Mallory Line
New York
Mobile
Louisiana Rice Mills Form United Irrigation and Rice Mill
Louisiana rice interests form a merger titled United Irrigation and Rice Milling Co. The La Palana Hechinger Jumbie Lichtenstein and others join with Independent Rice Mill Crowley Abbeville Mill Donaldsonville Eureke Mill and Gueydan Mill to consolidate control of plants in Crowley Vermilion parish Abbeville and Estherwood with a half million capital New Orleans La.
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New Orleans
Big Rice Mills
Louisiana
United Irrigation and Rice, Milling Company
la Palana
Hechinger
Jumbie
Lichtenstein
Independent Rice
Crowley
Abbeville
Donaldsonville
Eureke
Estherwood
Gueydan
Vermillion Parish
Rockefeller to publish own life story as serialized memoir
John D. Rockefeller plans a self history to be published as serial chapters in a New York magazine starting in October. The autobiography will be titled Some Random Reminiscences of Men and Events, offering a personal account of his life and experiences.
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John D. Rockefeller
York City
New York
Mr. Rockefeller
Simple private rites mark Cleveland funeral at Princeton
In Princeton New Jersey a simple private funeral for Grover Cleveland was held in the family plot. A distinguished attendance including President Roosevelt and governors witnessed the rites after a house service. William Wordsworth poem read by Dr Henry Van Dyke concluded the house service.
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N. J
Grover Cleveland
United States
Cleveland
Old Princeton
Leveland
Roosevelt
Governors Fort
New Jersey
Hughes
New York
Hoke Smith
Georgia
Clveland
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Princeton University
Sylvester W. Beach
First Presbyterian Church of
Maitland V. Partlett
West Farms Presbyterian Church of
Henry van Dyke
William Wordsworth
House House
Grover Cleveland Career Highlights and Timeline
Born in Caldwell New Jersey on March 18 1837 Grover Cleveland moved to Fayetteville as a child. He held posts as clerk teacher assistant district attorney sheriff of Erie County mayor of Buffalo governor of New York and president of the United States. He vetoed 115 of 897 bills and settled the Venezuelan boundary dispute in 1895. He married Frances Folsom in 1886 and established a home in Princeton after leaving the White House.
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Theodore Roosevelt
A. A. Adeb
Grover Cleveland
New York
James G. Blaine
Benjamin Harrison
Harrison
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Cleveland
Venezuela
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Europe
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South
Princeton
N. J
Woman's Mission
Woman's Clubs
Fathers of the Republic
Caldwell
Essex County
Stephen Grover Cleveland
Fayetteville
New York Institution For the Blind
Buffalo
Erie County
Frances Folsom
Chinese immigration proposal in Honolulu sparks debate
Honolulu committee seeking a limited Chinese influx reports to Minister Wu Ting Fang. They propose 5,000 immigrants per year for seven years plus families, estimating a total of about 50,000 Chinese in the territory after ten years.
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Wu Ting Fang
Washington
Spanish ship Nautilus enters Havana harbor amid Cuban delight
The schoolship Nautilus, first Spanish naval vessel to dock in Cuban ports since sovereignty was relinquished, entered Havana harbor to widespread cheers from the Spanish colony. Thousands of Cubans joined in the demonstration expressing enthusiasm.
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Havana
Cuba
Cuban
Late News Notes from Paris and Beyond
A jumble of brief items reports Lawrence Friend, a brakeman, saved many lives by diverting the Knickerbocker Special at Paris but was decapitated. Other notes include English German cotton talks, New Orleans rats plan, a bribery sentence for William Sif ford, bank misbalance arrests in Pittsburgh, Brooklyn Ferry sale to New York Terminal, Jackie Clark’s track record, and various international and domestic incidents involving ships, pensions, drownings, a shipwreck near Muros, a Texas tax law ruling, a Paris will dispute, burns at Babst Chemical, Manchuria negotiations, and pending arbitration treaties with Spain and the United States.
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Jja Knickerbocker
Paris
Friend
Richard Guenther
Frankfort
Germany
England
Board of Health of
New Orleans
William S.ifford
New York City
Clifford
National Bank Examiner Folds
Pittsburg
J. W. Tiers
First National Bank of Pittsburg
Brooklyn Ferry Company
New York Terminal Company
Jackie” Clark
Salt Lake City
Hamilton Fisk Hlegar
John D. Rockefeller
Kansasity
Mra
August P. Johnson
Ida Grove
Iowa
Corunna
Spain
Muros
Texas
Benjamin Hart
New York
United States National Museum
Washington
J. N. Leger
United States
Adet
Godoy
Admiral Capps
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Pearl Harbor
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H. A. Agricola, Jr
Atlanta
Martha W. Murford
Hawkinsville
J. al. Downey
Gainesville
W. A. Flowers
Tifton
Secretary Root
Roosevelt
Dr. J. ©. Barbosa
Porto Rico
Dr. Barbosa
Republican Party
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