Ohio Democratic Convention Nominates Johnson by Acclamation
In Columbus the Ohio state Democratic convention lauded Johnson and nominated him for governor by acclamation amid wild scenes. The platform renews Kansas City principles, condemns trusts, imperialism, and monopoly while urging state control over home rule and municipal affairs. Bryan is invited to speak in Ohio.
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John“clarke
Cleveland
Johnson
Hanna
Clarke
Hagin
Clarke County
Zimmerman
John H. Clarke
United States
M. A. Hanna
Columbus
Democrats
Ohio
Sandusky
Democratic Party of the Nation
Kansas City
William Jennings Bryan
Sam Parks Sentenced for Extortion to Sing Sing
Sam Parks business agent for the Housesmiths and Bridgemen's union received a prison term of two years six months to three years six months in Sing Sing on a charge of extortion.
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New York
Sam Parks
Housesmiths and Bridgemen’s Union
Sing Sing
Fireman Fatally Hurt In Collision Of City Car And Truck
A supply car of the street railway company led by Lewis Hoffman collided with hook and ladder truck No 1 at Sixth and Seventh streets in St Paul. Patrick Fleming was fatally injured while Henry Langevin J Pedersen and John Co8teile were seriously hurt. The $5 000 truck was wrecked and its heavy ladders broken. Motorman Hoffman was arrested and taken to the central police station.
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St. Paul
The
Street Railway Company
Lewis Hoffman
Sixth
Seventh Streets
Patrick Flemming
Henry Langevin
J. Pedersen
John
Pleasure boat sinks in Indianapolis canal disaster
The pleasure steamer Indiana of the water company sank in the city to Ripple Park canal at Fairview Park due to defective machinery and overloading. Two passengers sighted a woman and a baby sink. Rescue efforts dragged the canal for the two bodies as fifty people barely escaped death with numerous rescues reported.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Water Company
Ripple Park
Fairview Park
European Conference Sought on Balkan Turmoil
London reports a general European conference on the Balkan situation with Turkey’s suppression of the revolution in Macedonia. The Sultan seeks to quell unrest while monarchs discuss the matter at Vienna and Rome to restore order and avoid international action.
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London
Turkey
Balkan
Macedonia
Edward
Francis Joseph
George
Greece
Vienna
Lamsdorf
Rome
Terrible Atrocities Reported in Macedonia
A Sofia telegram to the Times claims Turkish repressive measures in Macedonia have reached bar-barism with plans for total extirpation of Bulgarians. Twelve Christian villages burned, women and children massacred, prisoners en route to Monastir killed by escorts, and Italians reported murdered at Ismid near Constantinople.
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London
Sofia
The
Times
Macedonia
Monastir
Ismid
Asia Minor
Constantinople
Turkey to call reserves in Macedonia to 350 battalions
Constantinople reports the government will mobilize all remaining European reserves of the Second and Third army corps plus additional reserves, nearly doubling Turkish forces in Macedonia to about 350 battalions. Ibrahim Pasha leads the troops, with seven battalions dispatched to Florina and orders to maintain order in Monastir and Salonica.
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Constantinople
Macedonia
Turkey
Ibraham Pasha
Florina
Monastir
Salonica
Bulgarian Officers Lead Insurgents Through Turkish Post
From Sofia a private telegram reports 150 insurgents led by Bulgarian officers forced a Turkish post at Fekia and seized a strong position. Rumors speak of massacres at Vasiliko and Kirk Kilis seh with about 300 people dead.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Dubnitza
Fekia
Vasiliko
Kirk-Kilisseh
Turkish Reserves Decline to Serve Owing to Pay Shortage
Dispatch from London notes Turkish reserves refuse to join the color due to lack of pay. The czar faces pressure to name arbiters for the Venezuelan tribunal, with Professor Matzen and Dr. Lardy among proposed jurists though their nations have interests.
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Diate
Punkey
Natusinty
Vigee
Venezuela
Seven Die As Schooner Capsizes Off Norwalk
In a night storm off Norwalk light the schooner Willie L. Newton from Bangor capsized. The crew of seven men are believed drowned and one body has been recovered in South Norwalk, Connecticut.
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South Norwalk
Conn
Willie L. Newton
Bangor
Norwalk
Explosion at Carthage powder works kills three
A blast at the Independent Powder company works four miles southwest of Carthage Missouri wrecked the mixing room and killed superintendent W O Roll Ernest Pearman and Jerry Haworth while injuring three others, one fatally. Thirty workers escaped harm as the mill, recently rebuilt, resumed dynamite production for local mines. The explosion followed another blast at the same works within a month.
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Kansas City
Star
Carthage
Independent Powder Company
Center Creek
W. O. Roll
Ernest Pearman
Jerry Haworth
Independent Company
Roll
Pearman
Haworth
Yachts Erin and Reliance Fare Unharmed After Squall
An alleged wireless report from the Erin claiming Shamrock Ill was damaged during a storm led to excitement in yachting circles but investigators found the claim unfounded. Shamrock Ill rode out the squall with no damage, though its anchor was dropped as precaution. Reliance sustained no damage either.
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New York
Erin
Shamrock
Thomas Lipton
Reliance
Passenger Train Crash Kills Fireman in Missouri
One killed and several injured in a collision between Missouri Kansas and Texas passenger No 3 and a freight train at Rhine lands. The fireman Fred Daniels died, engineer J M Birch and tramp Sam White were seriously hurt. no passengers harmed.
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Sedalia
Missouri
Kansas
Texas
St. Louis
Rhinelands
Fred Daniels
J. M. Birch
Sam White
Flood Devastates Chefoo After Cloudburst Losses Mount
Mail reports from Shanghai indicate several hundred lives lost in Chefoo after a thunder storm caused a cloudburst. Torrential rains flooded stores and warehouses, sweeping away houses and trees, with property losses in the millions and 400 tons of coal carried into the sea.
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Victoria
B. C
Shanghai
Chefoo
Cable
Four workmen drowned in Jamaica Bay tragedy
A storm battered a bridge gate area as four workmen died and several were injured when a catboat capsized off shore near Jamaica Bay. In New Philadelphia a northbound train collision with a freight near the station left five trainmen seriously hurt and many passengers with minor injuries.
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New’ York
Central Railroad
Ser
NeWarf
Jamaica Bay
Thaiddies
New Philadelphia
Cleveland, Lorain
Wheeling
Consolidated Lake Superior Company to be Reorganized
Philadelphia Aug 27 The Consolidated Lake Superior company unable to raise funds will be reorganized after stockholders failed to subscribe to a 15 6 million bond issue.
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Philadelphia
Consolidated Lake Superior Company
Turmoil and Massacres Reported Across Balkan Fronts
Dispatches from Sofia and Vienna describe Turkish massacres in twenty two villages in Florina and Monastir districts. Krushevo streets filled with dead and survivors fear burial amid Turkish suspicions. Insurgent actions disrupt telegraph lines after Adrianople revolts. An Urgas attack near Iniada allegedly claims about 200 lives.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Florina
Monastir
Krushevo
Vilayet
Adrianople
Insurgents Threaten Coastal Towns Near Adrianople
Turkish dispatches report insurgents capturing areas near Adrianople kill fifty soldiers and about a hundred civilians. They threaten Midia and Kirk-Kiliosch, while refugees flee toward the Bosphorus and are sheltered at Aradoli Kavak. The Kurun Burun lighthouse is abandoned and the Italian consul in Monastir faces insults prompting a protest from Rome.
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Constantinople
Midia
Aradoli-Kavak
Kurun-Burun
Indiana Bay
Porte
Italy
Monastir
Giaour
Massacres Reported in Monastir Region Amid Turko Atrocities
Reports authenticated by Russian and Austrian consuls describe brutal massacres in Monastir district. At Armensko village Turks burned 150 of 157 houses and killed all residents. Women faced extreme abuses as soldiers brutalized civilians. Eight revolutionaries from Krushevo were allegedly slaughtered en route to Monastir.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Monastir
Armensko
Krushevo
Monastir In
Fatal ferry duel over a girl ends in death
In Mount Vernon Indiana on August 25 Ed Robinson and Samuel Lusk fought aboard a ferryboat over a girl. Robinson stabbed Lusk through the heart and severed the jugular vein. Lusk died soon after. Robinson surrendered to authorities while the girl fainted at the scene.
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Mount Vernon
Ind
Ed Robinson
Samuel Lusk
Robinson
Lusk
Pan American railroad project inked with $250 million capital
Guthrie Oklahoma August 25 plans disclose a Pan American Railroad Co filing with capital stock $250000000. The proposal envisions a 10000 mile trunk line from Port Nelson Hudson Bay to Buenos Ayres with branches through Peru Brazil Chile to Rio de Janeiro Valparaiso and a southern Peru to Chile link.
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Winnipeg
Man
Dakotas
Nebraska
Kansas
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
Galveston
Tex
Republic of Mexico
Central America
Panama
United States of Colombia
Ecuador
Republic of Peru
Buenos Ayres
Atlantic Ocean
Brazil
Rio de Janeiro
Chile
Valparaiso
South Pacific Ocean
Pan- American Railway
Achins Subdue After Long Dutch War in Sumatra
Achin leaders Panglima Polem and Rajah Kemala are expected to submit to Dutch authority in days, ending a struggle dating to 1873. The Dutch Indies war cost over 200 million dollars and thousands of soldiers, with repeated uprisings despite expeditions and negotiations.
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New York
Achin
Brussels
The
Times
Panglima Polem
Rajah Keumala
Netherlands
Achins
United States
Singapore
Great Britain
Sumatra
Dutch Indies
Zionist offer of East Africa colonization gains backing
London reports that Theodore Herzl announced at Basel that Britain offers a large East African tract for Jewish colonization under autonomous government and British suzerainty. Proposals split on Palestine and Sinai, with some opposition expected though broad support for the plan.
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London
Theodore Herzl
Zionist Congress
Basel
Switzerland
Great Britain
Sinai Peninsula
East Africa
Congress
Palestine
Embezzlement Charge Against Church Treasurer
Henry T. Elby, treasurer of Olivet Baptist Church in Chicago, was arrested and arraigned before Justice Bradwell on a charge of embezzling church funds totaling $21,000.
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Chicago
Henry T. Elby
The
Olivet. Baptist Church
Bradwell
Delay in Signing Scale At Continental Mill Pittsburg
About 400 workers at the Continental mill of the National Tube company, part of United States Steel, are idle as the annual wage scale remains unsigned. The delay is blamed on the absence of the general manager.
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Pittsburg
Continental
National Tube Company
United States Steel Corporation
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Bhio Democratic Convention
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W. J. Frey
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John Hewitt
Bheers
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J. H. Gooke
Wapakoneta
Phason
Convention Goes Wild
Tom B Johnson
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Sultan
the Revolution
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Iniada
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