Roosevelt and Fairbanks Are Nominated for President and Vice President
At the Republican National Convention in Chicago Roosevelt and Fairbanks won every vote for their respective tickets. The crowd cheered as robed banners and tri colored flags waved, with bellows of approval after each nomination. Speakers highlighted Roosevelt’s qualities while the convention also set forth a plank for electoral reform and potential disfranchisement investigations.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Charles W. Fairbanks
Fairbanks
Cannon
Alabama
New York
Black
Republican Party
Democratic Party
Democratic
Death by electric chair for Burness in Sing Sing case
New York June 298 Frank Henry Burness among Sing Sing prisoners went to his death in the electric chair after four shocks. He aided the execution team as straps were applied. Burness was convicted for killing Capt. George B Townsend of the schooner Charles Buckley last November.
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New York
Frank Henry Burness
Sing Sing
Burness
George B Townsend
Charles Buckley
Slocum
Knickerbocker Steamboat Co
van Schaick
Pease
Grand Republic
Flapaagan
Lundberg
Berry
Mate Flannagan
Barnaby
Atkinson
Knickerbocker Co
Lebanon Hospital
Republican Platform in Full
The platform lauds Republican rule since 1897, praising protective tariffs, the gold standard, and expansion of the navy. It credits McKinley and Roosevelt for foreign and domestic successes, defends civil service, and calls for strong enforcement of laws and arbitration in international disputes.
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China
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McKinley
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Cast iron condemned for structural use by experts
Franklin Institute lecture by Prof Alexander E Outerbridge shows cast iron expands 0.45 percent after heating and cooling, unlike steel which returns to shape. Baltimore fire photos reveal steel skeletons surviving while cast iron buildings lie ruined. experts urge steel for fireproof construction.
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Franklin Institute
Philadelphia
Alexander E. Outerbridge
Baltimore
American Society of Civil Engineers
New York
Hawaiian magnate to hunt elephants in Africa with twenty five guests
W H Ellis of Hawaii plans a major Africa hunting trip with 25 friends, calling it the biggest of his life. He says revenue from sugar estates, coffee plantations, copper and diamond mines funds lavish gifts for companions and cigars, and he hopes to kill more elephants than his first Africa expedition.
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Lil
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Ellis
Islands
Cuba
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Mexico
Russia Prepares Massive Mobilization After War Says Record-Herald
The Chicago Record-Herald reports Russia plans to mobilize two million men after the war, indicating the czar lacks intent to fight to the last ditch and signaling a future strategic shift.
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Russia
Chicago Record-Herald
Postum helps coffee drinkers quit and recover health
A Georgian’s testimonial promotes Postum Food Coffee as the remedy to coffee dependency. The narrator stopped coffee, drank Postum, and within five months gained weight and relief from headaches, urging others to try the switch and citing local verification in Carrollton.
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Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Navy to buy five long wireless telegraph circuits
Admiral Manney and Abraham White pact to supply five of the world's longest wireless circuits for navy use to link Guantanamo Culebra and Key West with ranges up to 1,000 miles. Circuits include Key West Panama Porto Rico Key West 1000 miles and Pensacola Key West 450 miles.
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Naval Equipment Bureau
Abraham White
American de Forest Wireless Telegraph Co
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Culebra
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Porto Rico
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South Cuba
Syracuse crews dethrone Cornell in two of three races
In Poughkeepsie on June 29 Syracuse University crews beat Cornell in two of three events on the four mile eight oar and freshmen two mile eight oar. Cornell claimed the four oared varsity race with ease. The Syracuse supporters cheered as their rowers prevailed in two major events.
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Cornell
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Syracuse University
Sons of
Convicted Ex-Delegate Confesses to St Louis Bribery Case
In St Louis on June 29 Charles A. Gutke, once a house of delegates member, confessed to Circuit Attorney Joseph W. Folk that ex-Delegate Charles F. Kelley admitted receiving $50,000 for a European trip when his St Louis ties risked prominent figures. Kelley faces one conviction and a second trial forthcoming.
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Charles A. Gutke
House of Delegates
Circuit
Joseph W. Folk
Charles F. Kelley
Europe
Kelley
Two Men Drowned In Allegheny River
In Pittsburg on June 29 a rowboat capsized in the Allegheny River killing Henry Hillston and Ernest Halbrey. Halbrey's body was recovered. two other companions escaped with narrow losses.
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Fittsburg
Allegheny River
Henry Hillston
Ernest Halbrey
Halbrey
Jury Acquits Katie Ludwick of Murder Charge
Coldwater Michigan June 29 a jury with ten minutes of deliberation found Katie Ludwick not guilty of murdering her husband John Ludwick whom she had married only months earlier. The trial was sensational in the extreme.
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Coldwater
Mich
Katie Ludwick
John
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