Washington News in Brief from the Nation’s Capital
A condensed summary notes Lieutenant Commander R H Osbine's dismissal after court martial findings. Reports on ICC upholding railroad safety rules for lumber transport by ship. War Secretary Wright favors American Khaki cloth. weight directs preferring US manufacturers. Agencies seek evidence of neutrality law violations on the Mexican border around Las Vacas. evidence remains hard to obtain. Marital news includes Earl of Clancarty's engagement to a New York widow. birth of John D Rockefeller Jr's son at Bar Harbor. politician and entertainer obituaries and marriages. Casualties include multiple deaths from accidents, combat zones in the Philippines, and a deadly Hood storm in Lincoln Nebraska. A list of shipwrecks and collisions with substantial losses is provided, including the steam monitor Nevada and freight collisions on the Great Lakes and rivers. A deadly collision near Boonville New York leaves several dead and many injured. a schooner runs ashore near Sackett's Harbor. a large steel freighter sinks in the St Clair river with no casualties. An electric car crash in Watts California kills several including five children.
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Washington
R. H. Osbine
United States Navy
Interstate Commerce Commission
Wright
New England
Philippines
Weight
Las Vacas
Coahula
Earl of Clancarty
London Mail
New York
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Rockefeller
Bar Harbor
John C. Curry
Lexington
United States
Kansas City
Algernon Sartoris
President Grant
Guatemala
William F. Landa
Robert Edeson
Georgie Eliot Porter
Linn Boyd Porter
Charles Mackay
Brookline
Mass
Lieut
Jones
First Cavalry
Muldoon
Lieut. Jones
Camp Gregg
Chicago
Mary Josephine Jahe
Helen Keller
Charles R. Crane
H. ©. Bradley
University of Wisconsin
Britain’s Commons backs eight hour miner workday law
The British House of Commons passes a bill limiting miners to an eight hour day after five years. The London Daily Mall reports the Olympic fund reaching 60000 dollars in London. Heat harms Apulia, Russia wheat falls short raising famine fears. China and Russia moves touch US consular aims and Omsk post becomes key Moscow to Vladivostok link.
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House of Commons
United Kingdom
London Daily Mall
London
Apulia
Italy
Russia
St Petersburg
Cheng Chibutung
Ministry of Education
United States
England
Omsk
St. Petersburg
Adolph Helmecke
Moscow
Vladivostok
Chronicle of crimes and legal moves across the nation
A broad bundle reports arrests murders and trials from Cincinnati to Boston Archibald Pa to San Francisco and Missouri. It notes a feud linked murder in Pine Bluff Ark a dynamited church residence injuries in various incidents including a post office robbery attempt and a bribery plea in Columbus Ohio.
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Fred C. Singleton
Cincinnati
Edward H. Evans
Boston
Albert McVey
Pine Bluff
Ark
Father Karaparski
Archibald
J. T. Code
Nyack
N. Y
Post Office
Judge Cook
San Francisco
Chang
Durham Stevens
Korea
Stevena
Ada Reichars
Dallas
Tex
Hot Springs
St. Louis
Arthur A. Beck
Columbus
Ohio
Nelson Cannon
Trindad Paving Company
City Hall
Bryan Nominated for President on First Ballot at Democratic Convention
William J. Bryan received the Democratic nomination on the first ballot at the Denver convention, with 8921 2 votes. George Gray and John A. Johnson were also nominated amid uproar and cheers as the party prepared to adopt the platform and select a vice presidential candidate.
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Denver
Colo
William Jennings Bryan
United States
Bryan
Gray
Johnson
Georgia
William J. Bryan
George Gray
Delaware
Gov. Johnson
Minnesota
Ignatius J. Dunn
Nebraska
America
Hammond
Jenneen
Connecticut
Winter S. Hammond
John A. Johnson
Johnean
Johnset
North Star
Massachusetts
Oklahoma
Clayton
House
Stnp
L. I. Handy
Gay
Haskell
Philippines
Rock
Alabama
Roosevelt
Platform Committee
Wreck at Milner Bros 101 Ranchabow injures several
Circle Train wreck in Dickinson North Dakota leaves Jack Grant dead from internal injuries after a crash in the Dickinson railroad yards at midnight. He suffered a crushed foot and several others are seriously injured.
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Dickinson
N. D
Jack Grant
Milier Bros
Stee Ball Breake Both Lege
Marshalltown July 11. John Brown of Cole gang foreman for the North Western suffered fractures of both legs when knocked down by a rail being hoisted from a car. The accident occurred as crews were unloading at the yard.
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Marshalltown
Laws
John Brown
Cole
North-Western
Democratic Convention Nominates Kern For Vice President
The Democratic national convention completed its work by nominating John Worth Kern of Indiana for vice president by acclamation, joining William Jennings Bryan for president. The convention adjourned after Kern’s nomination at 4 23 p m with a plank laden platform calling for tariff reform, anti monopoly measures, and broader national scope.
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Kern
Towne
Bryan
Howell
Georgia
McNeill
Connecticut
Withdawal
Interstate Commerce Commission
Philippines
Arizona
New Mexico
Alaska
Porto Rico
House of Representatives
People's Representatives
Dear Killing t¢ Charged. Casdoray Arrests Deer Killing Suspect
William Merrill and trapper Irving were brought to Hayward by Sheriff Clark after being accused of killing a deer fifteen miles northeast of here. The charge raises questions about local hunting practices and wildlife protection.
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Casdoray
Wig
William Merrill
Trapper Iving
Here
Hayward
Gherit Clark
Seven Are Killed in Wreck Near Medicine Hat
A wreck near Medicine Hat on the crossing to the Pruitt brickyard after the Spokane flyer met a Crow's Nest train head on. Five railroad men and two passengers were killed instantly. three more railroad men injured and several passengers hurt. Engineer James Nicholson had orders to meet the east-bound flyer at Coleridge.
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Medicine Hat
Sask
Pruitt
Spokate Flyer
Coleridge
Moose Jaw
Crow's Nest
James Nicholson
Spokane
Moore Jaw
Crow's Nest Division
Colerid
Ritchie
Montana
300 Victims of Negligence in Russian Mine Disaster
In Yusovo Russia officials report the coal mine explosion last week killed 300 men with many burned or suffocated afterdamp. The inquiry blames archaic mining methods and lack of inspection. flames began an hour after the blast as rescuers waited for directions.
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Yusovo
Russia
Boy Placed Iron Pipe to Wreck Pennsylvania Flyer
Nine year old John Sovick of Morea near Pottsville was arrested in Pottsville for placing iron pipe and stones on the track to derail a Pennsylvania railroad flyer to see the locomotive fan. He was caught before the train arrived and committed to prison.
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Potteville
John Sovick
Morea
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pottsville
Postoffice Robbery at Haugen Leaves No Clues Found
Postoffice Inspector E. E. Fraser was notified of the Haugen Wisconsin post office robbery by villagers. About two hundred dollars was taken and no clues were left. The inspector is investigating the case.
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Haugen
Wis
la Crouse
E. E. Fraser
Vegemen
Markets Report From Grain and Live Stock Centers
The report compiles prices from St Paul Minneapolis Duluth Cols Milwaukee Chicago Sioux City and South St Paul for wheat corn oats and barley across several exchanges with noted bids for cattle hogs sheep and lambs. Indianapolis celebrates Kern’s vice presidential nomination with flags banners and a large brass band tribute.
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St. Paul
Northern
Minneapolia
Duluth
Milwickee
Chicago
Sioux City
South St. Paul
Indianapolis
Ind
John W. Kern
United States
Counterfeiting Charged in Danyilie Illinois
Charlie E. Brown a 35 year old attorney, prominent locally, was arrested yesterday afternoon on counterfeit charges and held on $5,000 bond. U S officers also dispatched to Coffeyyne Kansas with Dr G J Counterman a 70 year old physician of New Albany for arrest on similar charges.
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Danyilie
Chariea E. Brown
Cofeyyne
Kan
United States
G. J. Counterman
New Albany
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Wiain
Joseph Allward
Postal Telegraph
Antonio Avenich
Florence
Portland Cement Company
Reynold Dounan
Independence
Iowa
Nevada
Little
Lincoln
Neb
Northtown
Rome, Watertown
Acacia
William Simmons
Kingston
Bull Rock Point
Sackett’s Harbor
Gibble
Sackett's Harbor
H. P. McIntosh
Gilchrist Company of
Cleveland
M. A. Hanna
St. Clair River
Port Huron
Santa Ana
Pacific Electric Railway Company
Watts
Cal
Charles Taylor
Missouri Pacific
Lamont
Raomester
Strong
Preston
Carson
Socialist Labor Party
Louisiana
Erié Road
Adam Strubel
Eagle Center
Minneapolis
National
Young People’s Christian Union
The
Universalist Church
St Paul
William H. Taft
9. M. Fitch
California
John C. Pollock
Great Western Life Isurance Company
Knapp
Iowa Falls
Iowa Supreme Court
Des Moines
W.J. Bryan
Witun
Indiana
John Worth Kern
Kernie
Colorado
Thomas
Charles A. Towne
Archibald McNeill
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