Populists Nominate Keefer and Wright for State Posts
At the Kansas populist convention in Topeka Horace Keefer of Leavenworth County was named for governor and J A Wright of Smith County for lieutenant governor. Other state officers named include Robert Heisman secretary of state D C Kay treasurer George H Bailey attorney general D O Kemphill superintendent of public instruction H C Fowler auditor C H W Mingenbacker insurance commissioner and long term supreme court Justices H C Root and W A Eyster. The convention adjourned with under 100 delegates present and George W Hanna elected chairman.
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Topeka
Kan
Horace Keefer
Leavenworth County
J. A. Wright
Smith County
Robert Heiserman
Riley County
D.C. Kay
Graham Coun
George H. Bailey
Jewell
D. O. Kemphill
Norton County
EH. C. Fowler
Shawnee County
C. H W. Mingenbacker
McPherson County
Supreme Court
H. C. Root
W. A. Eyster
State Central Committee
G. R Sellyard
Greenwood County
Charles A Southwick
Clay County
George W. Hanna
Central Committee
E. C. Fowler
Shawnee
W. J. Babb
Hanna
New York
Kansas
Jerry Simpson
Mr. Hanna
Dead in Omaha Lake Manawa accident toll rises
Five more bodies recovered from Lake Manawa after fireworks display fall into 16 feet of water near a floating dock. The dead include four Omaha women Wena Rosenblom Mary Sheehan Bessie Hyland and an unidentified man. Eight injured. five missing. Other survivors describe the chaos and cold water.
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Omaha
Neb
Lake Manawa
Wena Rosenbloom
Mary Sheehan
Bessie Hyland
Mary West
Roosevelt asked to preside at Bryan reception in New York
Williams Hoge, president of the Commercial Travelers Anti-Trust league, invites President Roosevelt to preside at the reception for William J. Bryan in New York on his arrival from Europe. Hoge says the league is nonpartisan and opposes trusts as much as Bryan.
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Roosevelt
New York
Williams ‘Hoge
The
Commercial “Travelers
Anti-Trust League
William J. Bryan
Europe
Hoge
Commercial Travelers
Anti-Trust League H
Mr. Bryan
Arkansas Attorney General Sues Ice Companies for Trust Violations
The attorney general of Arkansas filed anti trust suits against Consumers Ice Co Krafts Ice Co and Retail Grocers Ice Co alleging a combination to restrain competition. Penalties set at 5000 daily since March 25 totaling 65000 per company. Also suits Morris Co of New Jersey seeks 1915000 and costs for alleged complicity.
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Little. Rock, Ark
Rogers
Consumers’ Ice Company, Co. L. Kraft’s’ Ice Company
Ice Company
Morris‘ & Co
New Jersey
Warrant Issued for Carrie Nation in Oklahoma
A federal warrant was issued Thursday by the U S Attorney for Carrie Nation charging her with sending obscene matter through the mails in her temperance publication The Hatchet Mrs Nation lecturing in Texas federal couriers notified to arrest her A recent Hatchet issue contained a lecture to young men and boys in which she used plain language.
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Carrie Nation
Guthrie_ Okla
United States
Hatchet
The Killed and Injured on the Glorious Fourth
Chicago reports fifty one dead and many maimed as the Fourth of July celebrations cause widespread injuries. Cor respondents note deaths may rise in coming days with toy pistols responsible for a large share of harm and tetanus infections possible among the injured.
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Chicago
Tribune
The
Canteen at Soldiers' Home Reopens for Limited Liquor Sales
The Old Soldiers Home canteen south of Leavenworth reopens Wednesday morning and will sell liquor through March 4, 1907. The house amended the Bowersock measure delaying the act until 1907. The canteen clears about $15,000 annually.
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Leavenworth
Kansas
Murphy
Board of Managers
Bowersock
Washington
Decision Against Ticket Scalpers Restraining Utah Brokers
In a federal court Judge John A. Marshal issued a permanent injunction blocking eleven Salt Lake City and Ogden ticket brokers from selling railroad tickets issued by Rio Grande Western and Southern Pacific. The sweeping order bans scalping of railroad tickets anywhere in Utah after days of hearings.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
John A. Marshal
Ogden
Rio Grande Western Railway
Southern Pacific Railroad Company
Marshal
Omaha Grain Exchange Chief Receives ICC Rejection
President Wattles of the Omaha Grain Exchange received a telegram from Interstate Commerce Commission Chairman Knapp announcing the commission has ruled the grain rate between Kansas City and Memphis set by the St. Louis & San Francisco is illegal. The four cent discrimination favored Kansas City over Omaha.
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Omaha, Neb
Wattles
Omaha Grain Exchange
Martin A. Knapp
Interstate Commerce Commission
St. Louis
San Francisco
Kansas City
Memphis
Omaha
Missouri Native Promoted to U S Court in China
Washington appoints Lebbeus R Wilfley born in Saint Louis to a U S court judgeship in China replacing the consular court He had served as judge of the court of the first instance in the Philippines in 1901 and soon after as attorney general of the islands The move reflects a broader restructuring of colonial legal offices.
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Washington, D. C
Lebbeus R. Wilfley
Philippine Islands
United States Court
China
Wilfley
St. Louis
Court of the First Instance
Philippines
Islands
No Review for Mrs. Myers in Missouri Supreme Court
The Missouri supreme court in Jefferson City overruled Tuesday morning the motion to have Mrs Aggie Myers case reviewed by the court in banc. Myers is under a death sentence to be hanged September 3 for the murder of her husband. Her only hope now is a commutation by Gov Folk or a writ of error to appeal to the United States supreme court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jefferson City
State Supreme Court
Aggie Myers
Deadlocked Thirty-seventh district GOP convention adjourns
Des Moines Iowa July date not specified. The Thirty-seventh district Republican senatorial convention adjourned in deadlock after 2,479 ballots with no result. For 2,450 ballots there was no change, and in the last 29 ballots only two or three votes shifted. A new nomination effort will be attempted at Iowa Falls on July 19.
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Des Moines
Towa
Iowa Falls
Birth of Heir to German Throne Prince Frederick William
Wednesday morning a son was born to the Crown Princess Frederick William, the oldest son of Emperor William and heir to the throne. The ceremony of marriage for Prince Frederick William occurred on June 6 at Schwerin.
New Jersey Advances Toward Municipal Utilities
Governor Stokes signed Assemblyman Jones to permit cities to construct acquire and operate electric light and gas plants. Though aimed at Camden the measure is general and seen as a step toward municipal ownership in New Jersey.
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New Jersey
Trenton
N J
Stokes
Assemblyman
Jones
Camden
Dropsy Relief Promises Kidney Aid Says Mrs Maxwell
Mrs Elizabeth Maxwell of Olympia Washington reports three years of kidney related dropsy with swelling backache breathlessness and heart flutter. After using four boxes of Deans Kidney Pills the bloating and distress disappeared. Sold by all dealers 60 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
All Fond of Peanuts At The Central Park Zoo
A New York animal lover notes that many animals at the Central Park Zoo enjoy peanuts. She recalls feeding peanuts to camels peacocks hippos kangaroos elephants deer ostriches and even a lion, despite a feeding rule.
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New York
Central Park Zoo
Boy in Malden Sunday School Declares No Improvement
In a Malden Massachusetts Sunday school a teacher questioned a class of young boys about who had improved during the year. One eight year old boy stood out for silence and answered with earnestness that he was “as bad as I ever was.”
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Malden
Mass
Hrach
And He Needs No Schooling
A fragment describes a young man using bold methods to locate a girl’s waist line, noting that formal schooling and civil engineer paraphenalia aren’t needed for the task.
Doctor's Shift Highlights Grape-Nuts Breakfast Benefit
A physician credits Grape-Nuts with ending his meat breakfast indiges tion and aiding weight gain. He says patients with indigestion or recovery from illness improved after using the cereal and notes the starch processing provides easy blood sugar absorption. The ad promotes Postum Co. and The Road to Wellville book.
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Postum’ Co
Battle Creek
Mick
Wellville
Scriptures in Russia Report Banner Year in Circulation
The British and Foreign Bible Society reports a remarkable year in distributing scriptures in European Russia and Siberia with over 500000 copies circulated amid troubled conditions.
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Russia
British and Foreign Bible Society
European
Siberia
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Lewis
Lewis’ Factory
Peoria
N. Y. Press
Hiedren
Samuel
Hhihis
Libby
McNeill
Invenetor
Alus
Ch. P . Stington
Ghizazo
PENS
Detroit
Salzer
Red Cross
Salzer Seed CO
Box
W.e.la Crosse
Wis
Bears
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