Keystone Delegation Chooses Warren as Chairman at Pennsylvania Caucus
Major Everett Warren of Scranton leads the Keystone delegation with Robin son of Media on resolutions and Parshall of Warren on credentials. Other committee members include Lind say of Pittsburgh and Snodgrass of Harrisburg as the group plans a nine member sub committee to shape platforms amid debate over monetary policy and the Minneapolis plank.
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Everett Warren
Scranton
Keystone
Scranton Tribune
Eveland
National League
Lincoln
Penneylvania
Hollenden
Scramton
Congressman Robinson
Media
R. B. Robinson
Wilkes Butte
OW. Parshall
Warren
Hubert Snodgrass
Marrisburg
RE. A. Lindsay
Pittsburg
State League
Lackawanna Boys
Tomorroow
Forest City Park
M. T. Dale
Pryor
Thomas
Chorstons
Thurston
Nebraska
Thurston Ald
Milwaukee
Meeting at Music Hall in Cleveland Shapes GOP Convention
Convention in Music Hall draws large crowd with focus on silver issue and money question. Key figures include Chairman Tom Carter and Senator Dubais as silver champions. Robinson wins committee chair amid tight vote.
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Cleveland
League of Republican Clube
Music Hall
Musle Hall
Tom Carter
Dubais
Idaho
Quay Rumored Candidacy for State GOP Chair
Reports from Philadelphia say United States Senator Quay may seek the Republican state committee chair. Friends decline confirmation while noting Quay would run to avoid a bitter contest. a compromise candidate, ex Lieutenant Governor Watres, is floated by conservatives but a truce seems unlikely. Quay may enter the state convention as a delegate and aim for permanent chairman.
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Philadelphia
United States
Quay
Republican State Committee
Ie Friends
Brigantine Beach
Gilkeson
Watres
Friends
Mir. Quay
Pension decision requires wives prove death for pension
Washington June 19 Assistant Secretary John M. Hey molds today ruled a pension case forcing wives of missing or deserted soldiers to prove death beyond doubt before benefits are granted. The decision concerns Linda J Crider alleged wife of a soldier who deserted in 1868 amid claims the husband left her for another woman.
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Washington
John M. Heymolds
Melinda J. Crider
Whgow
Dounselwider
Judge Reeder Put Forward for Superior Court Seat
In Easton, Northampton county bar backs Thon Fr. J. Reeder of Mantua as a Superior Court judge. A lawyers’ committee will go to Harrisburg to urge Governor Hastings to appoint Reeder to the court, believed eminently qualified for the position.
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Easten
Northampton County
J. Reeder
Manten
Superior Court of
Penneyivania
Tarrisburg
Hastings
Feeder
Ten Per Cent Wage Increase Reported in Lebanon Mills
Notices posted in Lebanon Pennsylvania announce a ten percent increase in wages for workers in the puddling and rolling mills beginning July 10. The measure likely affects about 800 men at the Pennylvania belt and Nut works in the city.
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Lebanon
Uile City
Pennsylvania railroad shop strike ends with promise of raise
About 200 freight shop workers in Altoona Pennsylvania returned to work today after striking yesterday for higher pay. The railroad company promised to grant the requested increase, easing the labor dispute.
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Altoona
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pardons Board Hears Cases in Harrisburg
The board of pardons met in Harrisburg on June 19 and heard arguments in several cases. Decisions may be announced tomorrow.
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Harrisburg
Board of Pardons
Disorder and fires cloud Bradford region and Potlatown protests
Reports note Gromhoppers eating cabbage in Behuyiki county and tires forest blazes near Bradford. A seventh anniversary fire in Potlatown sparks park restraints on Sunday. A Reading man ordered wine worth 3100 before arrest, claiming it to be a misintent. Altoona Produce Company failed yesterday morning as executions for $0000 surface. liabilities exceed $15,000.
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Behuyiki
Bradford
Dubois
Reading
Altoona Produce Company
Imited
Altoona
Pennsylvania
Banquet at Hamburg Sparks Imperial Toast and Storm
A grand banquet in Hamburg ends amid a long speech by Dr Lehmann praising the opening of a canal as a peace project uniting Europe. The emperor and princes stand with raised white napkins as thunderstorm interrupts the event. Deputies clash in Rome chamber over amnesty. A storm hits Bonny? Ness Inverness-shire with a lightning strike hits the telegraph observatory.
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Tramburg
Lehmann
Homburg
United Europe
Kiel Harbor
Tome
Chamber of Deputies
Crisps
Slenor Crispt
Bon Nevis
Inverness-Shire
Great Britain
Telegraph Observatory
Don
Mysterious murder shocks Kutztown area
Reading, June last night, Daniel W. Stitzel, 30, was found shot to death near Jonas Hoeh's farm between Kutstown and Lyons. Suspect George Verger, a boarder at Theodore Schwanger's home, was arrested after an intense search. jealousy and alibi gaps linked him to the crime.
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Reading
Kutztown
Henry Stitzel
Maxitawney
George Verger
Theodore Seehwanger
Stitzel
Denhart
Thie City
Mra. Schwanger
Yerger
Lafayette College Confers Honorary Degrees At Commencement
The sixtieth annual Lafayette College commencement at Pardee Hall in Easton, Pennsylvania, featured a benediction and procession to the gymnasium. Trustees awarded honorary Doctor of Divinity to Rev. Thomas Dale Logan of Springfield, Ohio, pastor of the Presbyterian church, Lincoln era context noted.
Clergy and educators honored in Philadelphia and Towanda
Worshipped figures include Charles Wadeworth and Henry D Lindsey of Philadelphia and Allegheny. Honors conferred on Rev Henry C McCook Doctor of Science and D M Irwin of Oswego with others from New York Towanda high school leader W H Putnam.
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Charles Wadeworth
North Broad Street Presbyterian Church
Philadelphia
Henry D. Lindsey
North Presbyterian Church
Allegheny
Henry C. McCook
Tabernacle Presbyterian Church
D. M. Irwin
Oswego
N. Y
Charles N. Wells
New York
W. H. Putnam
Towanda, Pa
Descendants of Veterans Hold First Meeting in Philadelphia
Members descended from veterans of the war form the General Society of the War of 1812 meet at Carpenter's Hall to inaugurate their first annual season. John Cadwallader presides as the group moves to Independence Hall to view the Liberty Bell and greet Mayor Warwick.
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Descendants of Veterans
Philadelphia
General Society of the War
Bom
Carpenter's Hall
Continental Congress
John Cadwallader
Shiladelphim
Kites
Independence Hall
Warwick
MAXIMA MORA'S CLAIM AND U S ACTION
Secretary Olney weighs aggressive steps to settle the Maxima Mora claim after Congress directed action Spain awaits a decisive move. Havania Taylor, U S minister to Spain, instructed to press speedy engagement by Madrid in line with congressional resolve.
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Washington
Maxima Mora
State Department
Olney
Megoures
Mora
Spain
Havania Taylor
Pressmen’s Union Adopts Protest Over Civil Service Rule
At the annual convention in Philadelphia on June 19 the International Printing Pressmen’s Union condemned Civil Service tests requiring applicants for government pressman jobs to be under 40. First Vice-President Frederick M. Youngs of Omaha presented the annual report and the convention supported a strike-related article.
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Philadelphia
Civil Service
Government Printing Office
Frederick M. Youngs
Omaha
Neb
Eleven Cadets Graduate at Penn Military College
Chester Pennsylvania June 1 Eleven cadets graduate at the thirty third annual commencement of the Penn eyhumta Military College. Recipients include Brooke M. Baker Wayne Smith Charles R Adams Horace P Wooster William R Morley Alfred Auerell James W Furness James T Brunot Willan N Cummins Philly R Bond Leonard C Holstein. Ex Governor Robert B Pattison speaks and eight receive civil engineer degrees while Smith Pur enese and Austell gain bachelor of science.
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Chester
Penneyhumta Military College
Brooke M. Baker
Wayne Smith
District of Columbia
Charles R. Adams
New Jersey
Horace P. Wooster
Connecticut
William R. Morley
New Mexico
Alfred Auerell
Georgia
James W. Furness
James T. Brunot
Pennsylvania
Willan N. Cummins
Philly R. Bond
Maryland
Leonard C. Holstein
Marine
Robert B. Pattison
Smith, Purenese and Austell
Henry Is Acquitted In Father Murder Case
The coroner's jury in the Henry murder case acquitted William Henry after testimony. He is the son of the murdered man and was brought to the courtroom by Sheriff Bottling. The verdict drew cheers from the crowd.
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Henry
Brooklynn
Casi
William Henry
Uurreal
Bottling
Treasure fund sparks Stockton interest on Coves Island
Realdenta of Stockton report a fund totaling 1,000,000 dollars in Spanish treasure on the Island of Coves. The coroner’s jury censured the Williama port Passenger Railway company for the death of Mrs Nelson Byers and her grandson, Johanna Sibhannahan, at Norwich Connecticut.
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Realdenta
Stockton
Cal
Coves
Williamaport Passenger Railway Company
Nelson Byers
Johanna Bsbhannahan
William Young
Norwich
Conn
Lehman shoots his wife in Wilkes Barre suburb
Samuel Lehman, a 30s man from 146 Parrish Street Wilkes Barre, shot Carrie Lehman three times at their Ashley area home with intent to murder. A crowd pursued Lehman through Parrish and Hazle streets before police captured him. he was held without bail for a hearing next Wednesday.
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Wilkes-Barre
Simuel Lehman
Iomansh
Parrish Street
Samuel Lehman
Carrie Myelin
Pirrat Street
Mra
Lehman
Eveland
Carrie
Jupnina
Lehmen
Tag Street
Hazle Street
Newtown Bridge
John Flannery
Ashley
P.M. Gilligan
Ruddy
Jones
Gaynor
Drake
Binlive
Oto
Bowen
Squire Fenner
Clark
Hill
Walker
Kirkendall
Nichols
Charles Lehman
Weat Market Street
Neighbors Condemn Lehman After Brutal Treatment
Neighbors on Parrish street praise the wife while condemning Lehman for domestic violence during their brief union. A mob pursuing Lehman was prevented by police. Burgess Fenner of Ash ley swore warrants for officers Ruddy Jones Drake Gaynor and Blaine for trespass in removing the suspect from Ashley jail to Wilkes-arre.
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Parrish Street
Lehman
Burgess Fenner
Ashley
Ruddy
Jones
Drake
Gaynor
Blaine
Lehanan
Wilkes-arre
Serious Crimes Charged Couple Worth In Toronto Arson Murder
A Toronto report states David Gray and his wife Bessie are charged with murder and arson in connection with the 1814 grisly destruction of the Gray house and the discovery of a missing man’s head in the ruins. Detective Murray secured warrants after investigating a long fraud of the elderly victim, with extradition plans from Ocala Florida.
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Toronto
Ont
David Seville
David Gray
Bessie
Gray House
Grays
Frays
Tates
Murray
Leon
Gray
Ocala
Fld
Dynamite suspects brought before alderman for hearing
Frank Shaver and associates were brought from jail to face Alderman Thomas as District Attorney Fell led the examination. The inquiry tied Shoefer Nelada Miller Jim Miller and others to the boarding house explosion and theft from dead Hungarians trunks. Jim and Nelson Miller were sent back to await grand jury action.
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Wilker-Harre
Pan
Frank Shaver
George Jordan
George Bird
Bnd
Alderman Thomas
Fell
Shoefer
Nelada Miller
Jim Miller
Jim
Nelson Miller
Murder Darkens Jasper County in Brutal Attack
The murder of Mrs Finnigan of Jasper County is reported after the killing last Saturday morning. Mr Finnigan found his wife deceased at the back door after breakfast. The victim was a prominent local woman and a baby, with the house robbed, as residents hunt the offender with intent to burn him.
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Jackson
Mise
Stabbing of Captain Affects Ravensdale Crew in Chester
Captain Matthew Brown of the Ravensdale is critically wounded in a stabbing aboard the vessel unloading logwood from Port au Prince for Sharpless & Co. Edward Rodgers, 18, a sailor who shipped at Mobile and served at Londonderry, is in custody after the assault. Brown's home is Liverpool, England.
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Chester
Matthew Brown
Ravensdale
Edward Rodgers
Port Au Prince
Sharpless & Co
Main
Liverpool
England
Rogers
Mobile
Siven
Londonderry
Treasury Reserve Near One Hundred Million Mark
The treasury reserve sits within 110,000 of 100,000,000. Sugar bounty payments voted by the last Congress have just been completed at the treasury. The civil service commission reports that by January 18 percent, about a quarter of the 200,000 US civil service employees had been classified. Henry Smythe, US minister to Malta, is in Washington on leave and recuperating from West Indian fever. A West Virginia Upshur county postmaster who lost 1,100 by fire asks the president and cabinet to contribute to reimburse him.
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Treasury
Civil Service Commission
United States Civil Service
Henry Smythe
United States
Maytl Ie
Washington
Smythe
West Virginia
Upshur County
Wilson
Turkish troops cross Bulgarian frontier in three places
Reports indicate Turkish forces have crossed into Bulgarian territory at three locations. Gladstone on a Hamburg steamer is said to deliver his last public speech. The Russian government supposedly offers reniure to Armenian Catholics in the Caucasus. The King of Greece creates Major Huntington, once aid to General Halleck in the U S Civil War. Fourth of July in London includes Chauncey Depew Seth Low and Wayne MacVeagh among guests.
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Gladstone
Hamburg
Reniure
Caucasus
Greece
Major Huntington
Halleck
Chevalles
Order of Our Saviour
London
New American Society
Chauncey M. Depew
Seth Low
Wayne MacVeagh
Italy
Weather Forecast for New York and Regions
Herald's Weather Forecast notes increasing cloudiness and showers in eastern Pennsylvania with cooler air. Western portions expect similar conditions. Across the middle states today, partly cloudy skies with light northerly and westerly winds and local rain in northern districts. By Friday fair and gradually warmer conditions predicted with variable winds.
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Herald
New York
Middle States
Finley’s Great Silk Sales At Lackawanna Avenue
A week of special silk bargains offered by Finley’s in the Lackawanna Avenue store. Cheney Bros printed china and cashmere Shanghai silks join the sale with new stock, featuring dark and light grounds at reduced prices, 37 to 50 cent ranges, 28 inch black Jap silk at 49 cents, and 50 pieces of swivel silks priced at 10 and 12 dollars.
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Sik
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