Midwestern Rally Amid Roosevelt Roar At National Convention
Delegates and spectators in Chicago's Coliseum cheered Roosevelt for 46 minutes as a Taft-dominated credentials vote kept southern representation intact. The platform fight loomed with bid for vice president still unsettled, Cummins leading Iowa hopes while Fairbanks and Dolliver drew support. The scene included arrests, shootings, fires, and a wave of international and local events threaded through the day.
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Roosevelt
Lodae
Resolutions Committee
Guv. Cummins
Iowa
Fairbanks
Chicago
New
Burrong
Michigan
Dolliver
Sherman
New York
Taft
Cannon
Thunderstorm Ravages Creston and Surrounding Areas
A recent rain and windstorm caused extensive damage in Creston and nearby towns. Trees uprooted, houses damaged, crops ruined but no lives lost. lightning killed farmer Theodore Crowe at Arnold's Park.
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Creaton
Theodore Crowe
Inn
Arnold's Park
Mr. Crowe
Hamery
Robert O. Brennan
Des Moines
Brennan
Paul O. Koto
Sioux City
Koto
Towa
Cerro Gordo County
Edwin Ebersole
Willam Jennings
Jennings
A. Mardis
Ben Jackson
T. A. Canterberry
Sam Denin
W. Clouse
Ebers
Rose Grove Township
Webster City
Pearl Ruadcliffe
Wiams
G. J. Knickesbocker Hone
Miartin
Mountain Hone
Idaho
Ouuiwa
Mountain Home
Knittle
Siater
New London
N. Y
Belmont heiress named executrix in will
Oliver N P Belmont's will leaves all real and personal property to Mrs Belmont who is named executrix. The estate's value is not stated. The report notes assorted unrelated items including bribery pleas, a church election, and other political and civic items.
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Oliver N, P. Belmont
Taft
Pennsylvania
Brys Mawr
Roosevelt
Restrict of Columbia Comumissionerm
Westmersee
H. C. Taylor
Seattle
Wash
Union Station
St. Paul Minn
Mary Grill
McCormick International Harvester
Chicago
Ernest P. Dicknell
Chicago Bureau of Charities
American National Red Cross
Tov. Hughes
Indictments in New York include Morse case and bank misuses
A federal grand jury in New York indicted Stredott and Curtis, president and vice president of the National Bank of North America, for false currency reports and approx 1.25 million dollars misused for speculative aims. Other items note a Russian revolutionary leader’s 15 year sentence, a heart surgery in Roosevelt Hospital, a regional suicide, an assassination attempt on French War Minister Piquart, a locust plague in Zulia, Venezuela, and Ambassador Hill’s reception by Emperor William.
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New Orleans
New York
Wadsworth
Hamilton
Mississippi
William J. Bryan
W. F. King
Cornell College
Mount Vernon
James Harlan
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway
St. Charles County
Missouri River
Miriam Frances Bloomer
James II
Cincinnnati
Imperial Hotel
Petoskey
Mich
W. WW. Stewart
Salisbury
N. C
Frank Smith
Stewart
Saaengerbund
Indianapolis
Ind
Philadelphia
Enid
Okla
J. D. Tuthill
Brooklyn
N. Y
J. S. Pomeroy
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Glens Falls
William J. Clark
Pine Plains
National Guardsmen
Tawa
North River
Grand Army
Oshining
N.Y
Capt. Roberts
Southampton
Marion St. Hilford
Louisiana House of Representatives
Federal Grand Jury
Stredott
Cutis
Charles W. Morse
National Bank of North America
Russian Revolutionary Republic
Roosevelt Hospital
Darius Hicks
Aticida
Blandinville
Piquart
Bellanger
Zulia
Venezuela
Emperor Willam
Dr. Hill
Germany
Des Moines Test of Primary Law and Local Officials
The Des Moines executive council hears Spurrier and Pearsons for Thomas Stapleton in a tie vote dispute over senatorial selection. Stapleton carried Johnson county. White tied with him overall. Secretary Wrightman named to Iowa State Manufacturers’ association. Des Moines to host headquarters. Iowa tax data shows education receives about half of state levies. 1906 figures cited. Ketchum leads republican renomination prospects in 83 counties. final tally favors Ketchum 60,291 to 44,213 and 40,245. Modern Woodmen head banker election elevates F. R. Korns of Des Moines to national leadership, boosting local banking activity. Church debt for First Methodist in Des Moines cleared before dedication. a recount in First ward raises protest from Charles Fraud in the Hull race.
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J Gentry
Corning
Waterloo
Des Moines
Coal Dealers’ Association of
Iowa
Nebraska
Sioux City
Centerville
Lincoln
Neb
W W. McCarlane
Towa
Executive Council
Sunt Krammann
Woodbury County
Krummenn
Krummann
Union Cheese Company
Cheese Robbers of
Marshalltown
Chcago Great Western Railway
Marion
Yale
Henry Goss
Drake
Chicago
T. P. Shonta
Indaw
F. M. Drake
Drake Homestead
Prenneman
Mason City
Wy 7
Ehndsean Fred Marsh
George van Nate
K. S
Booth Joseph Maddy
W. H. Gleason
Flndson
van Note
Des Molinos
State House
Spurrier & Pearsons
Thomas Stapleton
Iowa-Johnson
James A. White
Stapleton
Johnson County
Town
Ketchum
N. S. Ketchum
J. S. Cockfield
Cedar Rapids
J. H. Keys
Council Bluffs
Cockfield
Keys
Korns
Woodmen of America
F. R. Korns
I. R. Korns
Populists Nominate Ticket for Iowa Officeholders
J R Norman of Albia Stephen Harvey of Altoona and L H Weller of Nashua led a populist ticket in Iowa nominating a platform endorsing St Louis resolutions direct taxation local option and free trade. The ticket lists governors secretaries and attorneys general among others with many candidates from Des Moines Dubuque and Davenport and a fort site marker dedication noted alongside minimal campaign spending reports from Polk County committees.
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J. R. Norman
Albia
Stephen Harvey
Altoona
L. H. Weller
Nashua
Iowa
Iowa Hotel
St. Louis
M. Harvey
Des Moines
I. McDaniel
Davis City
Thomas N. McClean
Washington
Randolph
Davenport
N. Smith
Dubuque
J. Prudham
E. J. Lamb
Grundy Center
James A. Woodcock
August W. Potthoffé
W. T. Macumber
Lorimer
John Wilson
Louis
A. Novellus
Kiron
Charles Wall
Ida Grove
D. €. Cowles
Altoonist
J. N. Martin
Griswold
Warner Starr
Conneil Bluffs
Luke McDowell
Kirkman
C. A. Gaylord
Charles City
A. J. Willard
Clark
Supreme Court
M. Addings
Danbury
Irl Gean
Harlow
Howard Rose
Chariton
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William M. O. Dawson
West Virginia
Hall
Lawrence
Daniel Matthews
Arkansas
Kan
University of Kansas At
Albert FL. Patrick
Sing Sing
William Marsh Rice
United States
Colorado
Bryan
South Dakota
Crawford
Progress Ya
Kittredge
Stalwart
United States Senate
London
Guy, Willson
Kentucky
Caleb Powers
James Howard
William Goebel
Capitol Heights
Montgomery
Ala
Robert B. Lee
Iowa News
Abigail Adams
Daughters of the American Revolution
W. D. Skinner
General News
George A. Wrightman
Illinois Manufacturers’ Association
Iowa State Manufacturers’ Association
A. C. Hutching
Des Mott
Crocker Build
Wrightman
Ilinois
A. C. Hutchins
Iowa Educational Commission
University
State College and Normal School
Finning
First Methodist
Tenth and Pleasant Streets
W. F. McDowell
David H. Moore
Charles Fraud
Bremner
Capt
Hull
Board of Supervisors
First Ward
Old Fort
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